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    Perrone M. S., Cardellini L.,

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    Education in our society is a complex process, and different stakeholders have high expectations towards the world of education. Teachers should be able to teach not only their subject but also to foster autonomous critical thinking, in order to enable students to play an active, and constructive role in the society. Teaching requires a lot of human and professional skills because among students we can have both those who have difficulties to learn, and gifted students. A university teaching method is presented that allows to achieve excellent results, both as student motivation, and as skill acquisition in problem solving. Students are required to solve both logic and chemical problems, easy and difficult, with the aim of not discourage anyone. The emphasis is placed on visible reasoning and students are asked to explain, illustrate, argue, and demonstrate the various steps in problem solving. Appropriate strategies that facilitate the acquisition of cognitive skills and problem solving are suggested. Particular attention is being given to help students with difficulties in the course. Many students are able to deliver original and creative solutions. They pass the exam with excellent grades even though the course requests are substantial

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Durandi de Sancto Porciano Scriptum super IV libros Sententiarum, Buch I, dd. 4-17

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    Il volume offre l'edizione critica del Commento alle Sentenze di Durando di San Porciano, libro I, dist. 4-17, dedicato alla Trinità. Una sezione speciale (dist. 17) è dedicata ad affrontare la dottrina della carità. Nell'introduzione allegata all'edizione (pp. 15-75) gli editori, dopo attenta disamina della tradizione manoscritta, si confrontano con l'annosa questione dell'attribuzione dell'opera in questione al periodo giovanile dell'autore (prima redazione), o all'attività dell'autore come maestro in teologia a Parigi (seconda redazione), avanzando e documentando ampiamente l'ipotesi che il testo trasmesso dai manoscritti superstiti rappresenti una forma rivista ed ampliata di un testo precedente, e sia quindi da identificare con la seconda redazione. Nell'apparato delle fonti, tramite l'identificazione puntuale non solo delle fonti esplicite, ma anche di quelle implicite, è stato documentato il background filosofico e teologico dell'autore

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

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    We 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
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