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Multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar approach to the study of a medieval occupation deposit from Montegrotto Terme (Padova, northern Italy)
No full textMulti-disciplinary and multi-scalar approach to the study of a medieval occupation deposit from Montegrotto Terme (Padova, northern Italy
Rituals of resilience. The interpretative archaeology of post-seismic recovery in medieval Europe
No full textThroughout the later Middle Ages (AD 1000–1500), seismic catastrophes in Europe led to considerable losses of life as well as inevitable structural, infrastructural and economic damage. This paper provides an overview of the archaeological evidence for the reactions of medieval people to seismic disasters—tackling, in particular, the role of interpretation, belief and ideology in post-event counter-measures which can be glimpsed through the archaeological record. Three specific aspects are considered in detail: the rescue of earthquake victims in the ‘golden hours’ after a seismic disaster, the interpretation of the seismic event in the adoption of mitigative responses, and the use of symbols in pre- disaster protective technology. Ultimately, the paper reflects on how the archaeologist might analyse archaeological sites affected by natural disasters, emphasising the adop- tion of a more critical, interpretative and contextual approach in order to investigate relevant cognitive elements which contribute to the shaping of so-called local ‘seismic cultures
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
Conclusions. Medieval archaeology and natural disasters: what’s next?
No full textReflecting on the contents of this volume, the authors stress the following observations for making medieval archaeology relevant in disaster studies.
• Medieval archaeology should seek to make a more active contribution to contemporary debates around resilience by providing evidence for how people have adapted to environmental risk in the past.
• The application of archaeological theory to environmental hazards is not well developed. The impact of post-processual archaeology, for example, is not yet fully evident, although this volume does include several theoretically informed contributions.
• Any study of resilience of medieval societies should consider an analysis of the vulnerability which caused a natural hazard to become a disaster.
• Regional syntheses are required which summarise case studies of disasters at the landscape scale.
• The adoption of a landscape archaeology approach should contribute towards assessments of the risk posed by natural disasters in the fu tu re. A holistic archaeological assessment of environmental disasters can generate valuable knowledge applicable to disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes.
Special emphasis must be placed on the dissemination and communication of
results to the wider public.
Catalogue of medieval disasters
No full textCatalogue of major disasters occurred in medieval Europe. It describes twenty natural disasters including, among the others, the volcanic eruptions of AD 536 and 540 363, the 1117 earthquake in northern Italy, the 1222 Cyprus earthquake, the 1248 Mont Granier landslide, the 1348 Carinthia and Friuli earthquake, the 1356 Basel earthquake, the 1382 Straits of Dover earthquake, Excavating the 1522 earthquake and landslide on the island of São Miguel, Azores, The 1531 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami. These entries were written by Paolo Forlin
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
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