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Teatro e danza in Cambogia
No full textPrimo testo esaustivo pubblicato in Italia sull’argomento, Teatro e danza in Cambogia guida il lettore alla scoperta di una delle più intriganti e complesse tradizioni artistiche del lontano Oriente. Con un approccio allo stesso tempo antropologico e storiografico, l’autore passa da un esauriente excursus nella storia cambogiana a un’analisi dettagliata e approfondita delle storie, dei generi, dei linguaggi, dei particolari dei costumi dell’arte performativa della Cambogia; il tutto corredato da disegni e fotografie esplicative. La prefazione di Nicola Savarese impreziosisce un libro che senza dubbio diventerà un passaggio obbligato per tutti gli studiosi e gli appassionati di arte e teatro orientali
Towards New Forms of Visual Narrative: AIneid, Virgil’s Aeneid in the Age of AI
No full textThe exponential development of artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly affected the creative sector, inaugurating a new age of generative culture and providing artists, filmmakers and other professionals with innovative tools. This paradigm shift engenders a
need to re-evaluate the techniques employed to construct visual narratives. In this context,
this paper examines the AIneid, Virgil’s Aeneid in the Age of AI, a video project that reimagines Virgil’s classic Latin poem Aeneid using text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-video (I2V) generative processes.
The video invites viewers to reconsider the possibilities of storytelling in the age of AI and the profound effects that AI software and platforms can have on our understanding of literary texts. Furthermore, it provides an opportunity to reflect on the – perhaps temporary – constraints of AI in terms of videography, where, as in this case, it must
currently be tailored to the precise requirements of archaeological accuracy
Cambodian Performing Arts in the Era of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
Full text linkUNESCO’s protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has been a topic of ongoing debate inthe field of Cambodian performing arts. UNESCO’s recognition as ICH means that international attention and renewed economic opportunities arise for the selected performing arts and thus can help to preserve cultural practices that are at risk of being lost. In Cambodia, only a handful of teachers and performers survived the brutalities of Pol Pot’s regime (1975-79), and the incorporation of the artistic traditions into a global scenario, also thanks to the UNESCO cultural strategy, has led to the possibility of revitalizing and rebuilding both old and new repertoires. This is certainly the case regarding the musical tradition of Chapei Dang Veng and the dance-drama Lkhon Khol Wat Svay Andet, registered in the “List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding” in 2016 and 2018 respectively. However, considering the “branding” effect of listing and heritage-making, ICH seems to open the doors to mass tourism and in general favors over-commercialization and folklorization of cultural practices, leading to the erosion of their religious significance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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