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Informazione qualitativa e dati quantitativi nei processi di monitoraggio
No full textLa peculiarità del setting formativo e l'eterogeneità dell'utenza (studenti stranieri di scambio) in termini di fattori linguistici e socioculturali, nonché il differente grado di esperienze pregresse sullo studio in autoapprendimento sono alla base della scelta di intraprendere analisi di tipo qualitativo sul prodotto (percorsi multimediali) collegato al processo formativo. Il monitoraggio è stato condotto grazie a quattro incontri con gli studenti in modalità focus-group
La comunicazione istituzionale per i cittadini stranieri: pratiche di facilitazione e accesso all'informazione
No full textIn today’s globalized world, the need for an evolution of institutional communication
in Italian that could enhance its intelligibility and translatability into other languages
is a pressing one. This is particularly true for the language of administration and
bureaucracy, which plays a crucial role in the current process of internationalization.
Of particular significance is the positive impact that this linguistic evolution may have
for Italy’s integration into the new European socio-political environment, and for the
social inclusion of a growing percentage of non-native people coming to Italy with
long-term life plans. It is a crucial evolution which is also needed to fill the enormous
gap that still exists between everyday spoken language and the language used in
written institutional communication. In this paper, we present research on the
readability and intelligibility of Italian and foreign language texts issued by Italian
institutions. In this respect, we consider the connection between language simplifi-
cation, complexity of content and personalization of public communication addressed
to immigrants. Our study points out that many problematic aspects, emphasized in the
literature on Italian bureaucratic language, also feature in institutional texts
addressed to foreigners. The analysis indicates that institutions show a low degree of
awareness in addressing immigrants’ communicative needs and expectations. This
also applies to their scarce awareness of the social functions that the Italian language
should play in a multilingual and multicultural society
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
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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