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Quick survey system
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The quick survey method starts with an initial phase by mean of file cards and ends up with a final data handling by a software developed on purpose. The term “quick” describes the survey technique that enables to record the existing situation of the object under study. Information collected through these file cards concern the structure and the material of the building with relative measures that together with other data enable to quantify with good exactness the intervention cost. The form lay out consists of four section, independent and complementary between each other.
SECTION A – Building unit: general data. The analysis of the built-up parts can be related to the single building unit, to the whole unities forming a block or to a complete historical centre. Actual norms do not foresee guidelines for the survey phase so that collected information and their management often undergo important imprecision and insufficiencies. SECTION B - Building unit: morphology. This section faces the subject of elements external to buildings. As a matter of fact minor buildings pose concept and technical difficulties diversified in respect to single monuments; they present a higher typicality and consequently minor freedom. The reclamation of urban centres can not have recourse in investigations made case by case: proportioned techniques of decay analysis are needed. SECTION C – Living unit: description. The system works on all interior details. Building techniques, construction systems for vaults, floors, roofs and stairs are often unknown and one can not generalize. SECTION D – Installations supplied to each room. In this phase the system directly analyzes all equipment supplied to single living units in order to check their reversibility or the possibility to substitute them with new equipments.
La prima indispensabile operazione da prevedere nell'allestire un progetto d’intervento che interessa un qualsiasi manufatto architettonico è la predisposizione di un progetto di indagine conoscitiva. La puntuale identificazione della natura dei meccanismi di modifica e degrado della materia, il suo riconoscimento, l'analisi delle caratteristiche generali del manufatto, del suo stato di salute in relazione a fattori genetici e ambientali, non può che sfociare, in una restituzione grafico-materica il più possibile aderente alla realtà fisico-patologica dell'oggetto in "osservazione". In una operazione in grado di identificare, quantificare, rappresentare, tutti quei manufatti che denunciano problemi di degrado e di aggressione da agenti patogeni, di fornire, in seconda analisi, soluzioni adeguate e puntuali a tutte le problematiche legate al loro cattivo stato di conservazione. I dati qualitativi e quantitativi raccolti troveranno la giusta finalizzazione operativa, avendo ovviamente ben chiara la filosofia di intervento che vuole restituire la materia alla fruizione e all'utilizzo (anche parziale) tramite un progetto globale esecutivo. Il “restauro” di un edificio non può quindi limitarsi alle sole operazioni di pulitura, consolidamento e protezione, al puro mantenimento dello stato materiale, ma andare ben oltre garantendo la vita del "monumento" per mezzo dell'utilizzo. L'intervento sul costruito non può dirsi, per la maggior parte dei casi, concluso se non con il riuso del manufatto. Un riuso compatibile in grado di confrontarsi con una normativa tecnica a volte troppo rigida legata alla sicurezza, alla percorribilità, al benessere ambientale, all'igiene, alla tutela dell'immobile sul quale si interviene. Ancora una volta il rilievo e la conoscenza globale dell'oggetto diventano base irrinunciabile per predisporre tutti i progetti utili alla fruizione
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
Fattori rilevanti nella prevenzione dell'infezioni della ferita chirurgica in ambito ostetrico
No full textIncidenti con esposizione a materiale biologico in operatori sanitari: uno studio case cross over
No full textVariations 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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