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‘Living the Dream’: Surfing as Cultural Heritage on Australia’s Gold Coast
No full textIn the rapidly growing context of the Gold Coast, Queensland, residents are now trying to affirm a cultural identity that overcomes the view of the city as just a touristic resort. Surfing is playing a significant role in this process. In fact, it has served not only to promote tourism–supporting the image of ‘paradise on Earth’–but also to characterize the local landscape, define a particular ‘lifestyle’, and delineate the cultural identity of the city as a ‘surfing place’. This is clearly exemplified by the recent inclusion of the Gold Coast in the World Surfing Reserve list, which is the outcome of a longer and ongoing process of ‘heritagization’ of surfing in the region. The region’s inclusion on the list is a defining act, which has helped determine the value of surfing for the local community at a social, economic, and political level. For example, this act has stimulated environmental awareness among surfers, legitimized infrastructural interventions and promoted institutional actions. However, these heritage policies and practices also tend to reassert a predominantly white- and male-oriented rhetoric in surfing culture, despite the challenges it has been–and continues to be–subjected to by the participation among relatively ‘new’ devotees, such as women and Aboriginal surfers
Gestione multi-client e multi-commodity per la flessibilità
No full textL’esigenza di ogni impresa impegnata in processi di material handling è la razionalizzazione delle risorse da destinare alla logistica. La difficoltà nello snellimento delle procedure, nella semplificazione delle pratiche amministrative e la generale necessità di liberare risorse da focalizzare sul core business, inducono le aziende ad adottare soluzioni di 3PL (Third Part Logistics).
Veri e propri operatori logistici, gli attori 3PL offrono la capacità di handling, di stoccaggio dei propri hub distributivi ad aziende partner che terziarizzano la gestione operativa e dei flussi fisici e informativi verso il cliente finale. Motori che guidano tali soggetti nell'agire quotidiano sono principalmente obiettivi inerenti la qualità, la sicurezza ed l'efficienza, che insieme impatto direttamente sul livello di servizio offerto al consumatore finale
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
Mare e Sport: un connubio tra ambiente, cultura e sviluppo territoriale
No full textI contesti in cui si praticano sport acquatici, anche sulle coste italiane, possono diventare spazi informali di educazione e di conoscenza, tracciando orizzonti condivisi in cui il mare diventa il luogo in cui recuperare un contatto percepito come autentico con se stessi e con la natura. Lo sport inoltre può definirsi come veicolo di valori di sostenibilità ambientale integrando mare e costa come risorsa naturale da utilizzare per lo sviluppo dei settori sportivi che portano alla promozione territoriale (Fontana et al. 2014; Bernard 2016). Allo stesso tempo, il cittadino sportivo si diletta all’aperto e può diventare pertanto attore della conservazione del mondo in cui si muove.
Gli ultimi avvenimenti della recente pandemia di COVID- 19 hanno, peraltro, fatto riscoprire la partecipazione negli sport outdoor che, di conseguenza, è risultata in aumento tra 2020 e 2021 (Singleton et al. 2021). Per questo offrire la possibilità di integrare l’attività sportiva all’aperto nella vita dei cittadini, compresa la riscoperta degli sport marini, è prioritario nelle politiche comunitarie, come previsto dal Decennio del Mare indetto dalle Nazioni Unite e dalla Next Generation Europe
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
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