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Il Politecnico di Napoli di Luigi Cosenza. Una "versione" cólta del mediterraneo
No full textLa lunga e complessa vicenda del Politecnico, dalla approvazione del progetto 1955 alla posa della prima pietra del 12 maggio 1956, sino alla tormentata realizzazione conclusasi solo nel 1965, danno conto della rilevanza dell'opera non solo dal punto di vista dimensionale ma soprattutto sul piano dell'impegno progettuale e costruttivo. La riflessione di Cosenza preliminare al progetto si sofferma sul chiarimento tematico e sul ruolo che tale edificio doveva assumere. Il tema della Università e delle Facoltà scientifiche oltre ad avere le sue peculiarità in termini di programma con le numerose funzioni da allocare investe un problema di significato e valore che tale istituzione deve poter rappresentare. Un luogo della trasmissione delle conoscenze, di saperi teorici e tecnico-pratici, di sperimentazione e ricerca in grado di incidere notevolmente sulla realtà fisica, sociale ed economica in cui si inscrive. Un luogo che renda possibile questa trasmissione nel modo più autentico, in grado di definire al suo interno altrettanti luoghi distintivi: quelli per l'incontro, per il trasferimento delle conoscenze, per la riflessione, per la meditazione, luoghi per lo studio e l'approfondimento, luoghi per la ricerca e la direzione delle attività di una così rilevante istituzione civile. La scuola politecnica erede della gloriosa Scuola di Ponti e Strade fondata da Gioacchino Murat nel 1811 doveva essere una scuola in grado «di insegnare a pensare correttamente da scienziato e da artista, a ricordare in ogni momento quale contributo la società si aspetta dal tecnico per la soluzione dei problemi e delle sue aspirazioni» . Un ambizioso progetto illuminista in cui alla enunciazione tematica doveva poi corrispondere una assunzione tipologica determinata che riuscisse a contemperare le esigenze quantitative e funzionali con quelle espressive e di valore che ne dovevano definire l'identità ed il carattere
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
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