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Cultural Heritage in Albania. The management of the relationship between historic Centers and Modern Cities
No full textAntipatrea (Berat), Arnavutluk’tan iki yeni mozaik
Get PDFAncient Antipatreia today known as Berat (from Belligrad meaning ‘white city’) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed for its urban center reflecting a vernacular housing tradition of the Balkans, examples of which date mainly from the late 18th and the 19th centuries. Berat is a testimony of several thousand years of history and archaeology. The earliest archaeological evidence in its territory dates back to the Bronze age. Although, limited excavations have hindered our understanding of the various development phases of the city. In fact, fragments of two structures with floor decorations with geometric motifs and Greek-language inscriptions were brought to light at two different locations in the city during works inside the castle in 2012 and in the lower city in 2018. According to the opinion of several researchers, these are two late antique basilicas. Such findings are not so well-known outside the realm of Albanian research publications. Therefore, the principal goal of the research is to present to the international scientific community these late antique churches, partially excavated, inside and outside the medieval castle of Berat. The second goal is to make an analysis of the two structures, the fragmented mosaic motifs and their contextualization in the Balkan and Adriatic area and to possibly attempt the identification of the donors and the craftsmen who build them.Antik Antipatreia – günümüzde “beyaz şehir” anlamına gelen Belligrad’dan türemiş adıyla Berat – Balkanlar’ın geleneksel konut dokusunu yansıtan kentsel merkezleriyle UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesi’nde yer almaktadır. Bu kent, başlıca 18. yüzyılın sonları ile 19. yüzyıldan kalan mimari örnekleri barındırır. Berat, birkaç bin yıllık tarih ve arkeoloji birikiminin somut bir tanığıdır; bölgedeki en erken arkeolojik bulgular Tunç Çağı’na kadar uzanmaktadır. Bununla birlikte, sınırlı kazı çalışmaları kentin gelişim evrelerini bütünüyle anlamamızı güçleştirmiştir. Nitekim, 2012 yılında kalenin iç kesimlerinde ve 2018’de aşağı şehirde yürütülen çalışmalar sırasında, geometrik bezemeli ve Yunanca yazıtlı taban döşemeleriyle ilişkili iki farklı yapıya ait kalıntılar ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Araştırmacıların büyük kısmı bu yapıların Geç Antik Çağ’a ait iki bazilika olduğunu düşünmektedir. Söz konusu buluntular, Arnavutluk’taki bilimsel yayınlar dışında henüz uluslararası ölçekte pek bilinmemektedir. Bu nedenle araştırmanın temel amacı, kısmen kazılmış bu Geç Antik Çağ kiliselerini – hem Berat Ortaçağ kalesi içinde hem de dışında – uluslararası bilim camiasına tanıtmaktır. İkinci amaç ise bu iki yapının, parçalı mozaik motiflerinin ve bağlamlarının Balkanlar ve Adriyatik bölgesi kapsamında analizi; ayrıca bu yapıların olası bağışçılarını ve ustalarını tanımlamak şeklindedir
The Shala Valley Project
No full textThe Shala Valley Project (SVP) is an Albanian-American collaboration, led by Michael Galaty of Millsaps College in Jackson, MS and Albanian archaeologists Ols Lafe of the Albanian Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports and Zamir Tafilica of the Shkodra Historical Museum. The project was launched in 2004 and conducted fieldwork during the summers of 2005-2008. The SVP integrates interdisciplinary programs of intensive and extensive archaeological survey and excavation with geo-scientific, ethnographic, and (ethno) historical surveys, including archival historical research, in order to study the Shala fis (''tribe''), one of many northern Albanian fisi that survived intact into the 20th century and, to some extent, down to the present day. The goals of the project are twofold: (1) to produce a diachronic record of the valley''s cultural resources, including both prehistoric and historic resources, that might help local administrators create a viable management plan, and (2) to study the effects of ''isolation'' on people who have always lived in a frontier zone at the edge of larger polities such as the Ottoman Empire and Albanian nation state
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
Variations 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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