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Non ammainate le Vele
No full textSono profondamente convinto che Restart Scampia sia una terapia inadatta dopo una diagnosi sbagliata. Si vuole far cominciare la rinascita di un luogo da una tabula rasa quasi completa. Mi chiedo perché demolire dove si può riqualificare? Perché generare tonnellate di rifiuti da demolizioni per poi realizzare delle abitazioni temporanee che diverranno anch’esse rifiuti una volta edificati i nuovi edifici per abitazioni? Forse sarebbe stata una scelta più oculata ridurre gli scarti al minimo e recuperare le Vele, che hanno dimostrato la loro eroica resistenza persino alle cariche esplosive del ’97. È così che, da queste considerazioni, ha preso corpo
la proposta progettuale che state guardando in queste pagine. L’idea è quella di mantenere intatte le ziqqurat parallele che costituiscono ciascun corpo di fabbrica, rimodulando gli alloggi minimi disposti nello scheletro portante. L’azione progettuale si concentra soprattutto negli spazi interstiziali. Il vuoto al centro dei blocchi residenziali e l’attacco a terra divengono l’occasione per inserire dei poliedri in vetro all’interno dei quali possono essere collocate funzioni collettive e può essere rimodulato il sistema di accesso agli alloggi.I am deeply convinced that Restart Scampia is an unsuitable therapy after a wrong diagnosis. They want to start the rebirth of a place from an almost complete tabula rasa. I wonder why demolishing where it can be requalified. Why to generate tonnes of waste from demolitions, to build then temporary housings that will also become wastes once the new buildings have been constructed? Perhaps reducing and minimising the wastes and recovering the Sails, demonstrating their heroic resistance even against the explosive charges
of ’97, would have been a wiser choice. So, these considerations led to the design proposal you are looking at in these pages. The idea is to maintain the parallel ziqqurats constituting each building intact, remodelling the small flats situated in the supporting skeleton. The design work is focused above all on the interstitial spaces. The void at the centre of the residential blocks and the basement allow the insertion of glass polyhedrons destined to host collective functions and the access system to the flats can be remodelled
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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