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Characterization of the surface aquifer in the coastal flat zone of Cervia Municipality
No full textThe territory of Cervia municipality represents a coastal flat zone and a strong rate subsidence area, often attributable to the winning uncontrolled gas and groundwater extractions. The increase of the urbanized areas, exploded in 1950 and that brought to 50% coverage of the land by buildings and paved surfaces, today it is still increased by the tourist activity.The monitoring data collection, implemented in GIS, allows the construction of maps of water table depth and of surface and deep salinity distribution. The freatimetric maps evidence a water talbe depth located a few centimetres above the mean sea level; the only areas placed above sea level are placed along the coastline and along the present canals, because of their influence on the water table. Consequently, most of the aquifer does not have a hydraulic head able to contrast the salt water intrusion at its base. Most of the aquifer is salt; the presence of fresh water in the aquifer in the form of bubbles floating over the salt water, placet along the coast line and along the dreinage canals
Monitoring of recent area and volume changes of the Aral Sea and development of an optimised land and water use model for the Amu-Darja-Delta.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
"Intelligent fusion of visual, radio and heterogeneous embedded sensors' information within cooperative and distributed smart spaces"
No full textVariations on the Author
Get PDF“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
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