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Sociologia e Ingegneria gestionale di fronte alla valutazione. Convergenze parallele?
No full textIn this paper I draw parallels between the development of these two disciplines, with the aim of highlighting how they might contribute to assessment, from an inter- and cross-disciplinary perspective. I then explore the subject of university assessment, examining how this is performed and whether the criteria adopted are consistent with universities’ missions. Sociology is more interested in exploring the aims and uses of evaluation, while management engineering is more focused on processes, shifting the attention to the technical aspects of evaluation, and thus risk overlooking its specific effects on the Italian university system
Application of rainfall/runoff methods in mountain catchments: a case study from the southern Apennines.
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Of magic bullets, multiple targets, and artificial intelligence. Are we all set to defeat cancer?
Full text linkPersonalized medicine applied to patients with complex diseases, like cancer, grants a better quality of life and longer survival. However, in most instances it is not curative, due to the onset of two main obstacles represented by undesired toxicity and/or drug resistance, which contribute to a different extent depending upon the inhibition mechanism. In this short commentary, we try to combine the idea of multi-targeting agents with an Artificial Intelligence platform to further improve patients’ treatment and allowing them to be cured or live essentially disease-free. (Figure presented
Phase diagrams and glass formation in metallic systems
No full textThe basic thermodynamic aspects of glass‐formation in metallic systems are reviewed. In particular, the specific features of a phase diagram with respect to glass‐formation are evidenced. On the basis of the regular solution model, the effect of various thermodynamic quantities on the free energy difference between undercooled liquid and crystal phases are outlined. In order to describe the amorphous phase, a specific heat difference between liquid and solid phases in the undercooling regime is introduced in the CALPHAD assessment of various binary systems. The glass‐transition is described as a second order transition. Examples are given for different systems, including Fe‐B and Cu‐Mg. From the description of the free energy of various phases as a function of composition and temperature, the driving forces for nucleation of crystal phases and the T0 curves are estimated
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
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