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    Il senso medico di 'pestilentia' in Agostino

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    In questo contributo si sviluppa un'analisi del termine 'pestilentia' nelle opere di Agostino. In primo luogo, vengono elencati tutti i luoghi testuali in cui il termine ricorre, specificandone il tipo di significato. Si distingue tra un senso proprio, di tipo medico, e un senso metaforico, di tipo morale. In secondo luogo, vengono esaminati in dettaglio i passi in cui la parola 'pestilentia' è usata in senso chiaramente medico

    Georadar investigations and monitoring of the wall structures and vault system of the Sala delle Asse, in Leonardo da Vinci - The Sala delle Asse of the Sforza Castle

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    In 2011, the engineer Giuseppe Albano studied the geometry and state of conservation of the structures of the vault system of the Sala delle Asse to assess any damage and instabilities in the room and proposed a series of studies and monitoring for the cracks that had been detected on the extrados of the lower vault and on the vertical structures, with the aim of identifying any movement that might be un­der way. Currently, a diagnostic campaign is in progress, targeted towards understanding the build­ ing technique and structural behaviour of the vault system. Radar studies were conducted to reconstruct the stratigraphy of the system comprising the lunetted cloister vault, the depressed arch cloister vault above and the floor of the room on the upper floor. Other radar studies were conducted to characterize the raised wall structures, which are of notable thickness (even as much as aver 2.5 m) and to identify cavities and a flue that runs along the full height of the north-east wall. A topographical/diagnostic laser scanner survey will make it possible to reveal the critical points of the structures and types of instability and provide understanding of the dynamics of the crack pattern. The stratigraphic reading will make it possible to codify the archaeological sequence of the built structure, the deterioration and state of damage (the contribution The Diagnostic Survey: The Sala delle Asse and its Context in the present volume).The need to speed Up the time spent collecting information that would be useful for safeguarding and protecting the room forced the immediate installation of a system far monitoring cracks based on the information available at the time, which derived from a preliminary survey and the results of thermographic studies (see the contribution The Preliminary Thermo-Hygrometric Research and Environmental Monitoring of the Sala delle Asse in this volume), which revealed a few structural cracks. It will be possible to review or integrate the arrangement of the transducers based on the results of the above-described survey

    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

    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

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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
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