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The Coda della Cometa. Project for the city of Rome: a multidisciplinary experiment for sustainable and resilient urban and landscape planning of the Tiber river coastal area
No full textRe-Cycling Water Architecture. L'ingegneria idraulica incontra il paesaggio. La rigenerazione paesaggistica e urbana nei territori della Coda della Cometa di Roma per un intelligente e sostenibile ridisegno del territorio
Il rilievo architettonico-ambientale del castello di Solfagnano
No full textL’indagine conoscitiva incentrata sulla villa-castello di Solfagnano è stata finalizzata a restituire in maniera coerente l’identità multiforme di tale insediamento, esprimendone compiutamente le valenze storico-artistiche e la singolare relazione che esso instaura con il paesaggio in cui è inserito, che testimonia le fasi consequenziali di un rapporto di mutuo scambio che perdura da oltre seicento anni. Le attività di rilievo sono state avviate attraverso il reperimento e la raccolta della documentazione, sia cartacea sia digitale, già disponibile sul complesso. Il rilievo architettonico redatto nel 2008 in occasione della recente ristrutturazione (qualificata da pregevoli interventi di interior design) consisteva di una serie omogenea di elaborati grafici bidimensionali integrati in elevazione da porzioni di fotopiani. I dati materiali desunti dall’edificio in corpore vili e gli esiti dell’intensa ricerca archivistica dedicata hanno rappresentato ulteriori elementi determinanti per la corretta definizione della sua identità. La fase successiva del rilievo è consistita nel raccordo e nell’uniformazione grafica dei dati acquisiti ed è stata fondata sulla cartografia tecnica esistente nonché supportata da rilievi integrativi, effettuati sia alla scala ambientale che alla scala di dettaglio mediante tecniche e metodi di volta in volta relazionati alle specificità occasionali. La rappresentazione è stata orientata verso la restituzione geometrica dei caratteri architettonici e formali del complesso, così da consentire una visione d’insieme della villa-castello e della sua interfaccia con il contesto ambientale. Per alcuni elementi architettonici, inoltre, è stata svolta una campagna di rilievo dedicata, successivamente restituita attraverso la caratterizzazione materica di superfici e tessiture. Ulteriori elaborati grafici hanno consentito di evidenziare la salda relazione che la villa-castello instaura con il contesto paesaggistico. L’esito conclusivo del rilievo è in tal senso un corpus di elaborati grafici di sintesi, omogenei riguardo ai codici rappresentativi e declinati in relazione al grado di dettaglio, capaci di restituire in maniera articolata la percezione dell’organismo architettonico e di rivelarne caratteri altrimenti nascosti.
The survey centred on the castle of Solfagnano wanted to give that settlement back a consistent multiform identity. Stating its historical-artistic validity and the singular relations it has with its landscape; evidence of the consequential stages of a mutual exchange relationship that has lasted over six hundred years. Survey activities started by finding and collecting the documents, on paper and digital, available on the complex. The architectural survey drafted in 2008, at the time of its recent renovation (qualified by excellent interior design), consisted in a homogeneous series of bi-dimensional graphs integrated in elevation by parts of photo-maps. The material data obtained from the building in corpore vili and results from research in the archives provided further elements to correctly define its identity. The next stage of the survey connected and uniformed data acquired graphically, and was based on the existing technical orthography. Then supported by additional evaluations, performed on an environmental scale and on a detailed one using techniques and methods related to specific aspects each time. The presentation was a geometrical restitution of the complex’s architectural and formal characteristics; enabling an overview of the villa-castle and its interface with the environmental context. Furthermore, a specific evaluation was performed on some elements, and was then restored through matter characterisation of surfaces and textures. Further graphics allowed us to highlight the strong relationship the villa-castle has with its landscape. The survey conclusion is, in that sense, a corpus of graphic summaries, homogeneous with representative codes and applied related to the level of detail; to return the perception of architectural body and reveal otherwise hidden features in a structured way
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
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