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Procurement, exploitation and circulation of raw material: analysis of the Early and Middle Holocene lithic complexes from the Fezzan, Southern Libya (Tadrart Acacus and Messak Settafet).
No full textDiritto d'autore: la ex scuola elementare di Sala a Calolziocorte (1969-1972)
No full textThe author retraces the process that led to the recognition of copyright protection (Law 633/1941) for the former elementary school in Sala, Calolziocorte (Province of Lecco), a paradigmatic work by the group of Bergamo-based architects Walter Barbero, Baran Ciagà, Giuseppe Gambirasio, and Giorgio Zenoni. A key prerequisite for this recognition was the building’s inclusion in the National Census of Italian Architecture from 1945 to the Present.
This is a noteworthy case involving the designers and their heirs, the Office for the Protection of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Como, Lecco, Monza Brianza, Pavia, and Sondrio, as well as the local community, which launched a public petition to prevent the building’s potential demolition. In collaboration with the municipal administration, a preliminary feasibility study was also drafted for the adaptive reuse of the school as a social housing facility for vulnerable individuals. The author conducted historical research, drawing on bibliographic and archival sources, in support of the application for copyright recognition. In the context of 1960s and 1970s school architecture, the study highlighted the original spatial and typological qualities of the Sala elementary school. The school complex stands as a valuable example of Italian architecture from the second half of the 20th century, and as one of the most significant works by a prominent group of post-war Italian architects. It is representative of a broader body of architectural research that intersects with both national and international architectural culture, notable for its originality and high quality
Il censimento dei quartieri: metodologia, esiti e strumenti di tutela
No full textThis contribution addresses the selection and description of residential districts within the research project Architecture in Lombardy from 1945 to the Present. Selection of Works of Significant Historical and Artistic Interest, coordinated by the author and forming part of the national survey of post-war architecture in Italy. Out of a total of 730 surveyed works, 31 districts were selected based on criteria established at the national level (critical reception, prominence of the designers, formal quality, construction and typological innovation, and urban context).
A general data sheet was developed for each district, indicating its location, authors (designers and clients), chronology, bibliographic and archival sources (with photographs and project documents attached), and summarizing the main features of each settlement in terms of morphological layout, construction techniques, and materials. The author reflects on the most appropriate tools for their protection, considering that these are large-scale architectural complexes not easily subject to conventional heritage listing. Case-by-case solutions may include landscape protection status (already applied in three of the cases described), copyright protection (when the designer is still living), and, above all, the inclusion of such districts in municipal urban planning instruments with specific regulatory provisions aimed at guiding urban regeneration in a way that is consistent with their value, projecting them into a new dimension of use and collective well-being
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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