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CAN TEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IMPROVE OUTDOOR CONDITIONS IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS?
No full textThe life quality and the livability level of a city are strictly related to how public
urban spaces are used and maintained, and to the type and number of outdoor activities.
The absence of recreational and optional activities may create poor outdoor conditions:
many public spaces are currently used in ineffective ways, often in uncomfortable and
unsafe conditions. Seasonal and weather conditions are also a potential limit to the use of
spaces between buildings.
The paper stems from several investigations that demonstrate how the request for urban
quality is a pressing need of residential areas inhabitants, and how collective outdoor
spaces have great unexplored potentiality.
With sustainable models, capable of adapting to outdoor climate conditions, this research
will try to respond to the request of a livable outdoors, in order to introduce effective
programming in comfortable conditions, and give back strength and identity to
neighborhoods. Through the analysis of several case studies, classified on the basis of
their use and through recurring features and keywords, the project aims at identifying a
transferable model based on sustainable and multipurpose structural units for temporary
outdoor architectures. These elements will be the base to introduce urban “acupuncture
intervention” as a support for the growing need for recreational and cultural activities, in
order to provide a tool capable of improving the urban outdoor conditions.
The background purpose is to come to a conscious use of the city’s potentialities with the
aim of improving the citizen’s modus vivendi
CUSTOMIZED PREFABRICATION: A NEW EXPERIENCE OF LIVING
No full textThe research will explore the use of precast concrete based on great size components, in order to dispel the stereotype that this construction method and material cannot contain qualitative factors such as flexibility and environmental sustainability.
For many years the prefabricated construction method was considered to be of poor quality and had little appeal; this view is related primarily to cultural reticence and to the habit of seeing this technology as applicable only to industrial or commercial structures.
Furthermore, the concrete is still considered negatively for the impact it generates during the production process.
The intention is to develop a modular housing system, starting from new concrete off-site prefabricated modules. This construction method will be prepared for many possible connections for insertable components, technology and systems, able to ensure: endless configurations of interior spaces, easy future transformations, excellent energy performance and high thermal comfort.
Users might be involved during the preliminary design stages selecting additional catalogue options in order to highlight their choices. Through the new possibilities of material composition, customization and assembly of prefabricated parts and through the use of parametric tools capable of monitoring performances, we can examine a number of industrial control processes, materials, construction costs and environmental sustainability, in order to support a research with measurable obtainable advantages
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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