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Studi sul repubblicanesimo. In onore di Maurizio Viroli
No full textMaurizio Viroli è Professor Emeritus of Politics alla Princeton University e Professor of Government alla University of Texas at Austin. Nel suo lungo e prolifico percorso di ricerca, sviluppatosi in diversi ambiti di studio pur gravitando sempre intorno alla tradizione politica del repubblicanesimo e alla figura di Machiavelli, ha costantemente dialogato con studiose e studiosi europei e americani. Questo volume, curato da Marcello Gisondi e Giorgio Volpe, vuole rendere omaggio a quel percorso intellettuale ravvivando quel dialogo grazie ai contributi di Gennaro Maria Barbuto, Gianfranco Borrelli, Thomas Casadei, Hilary Gatti, Robert P. George, Tommaso Greco, Jorge Islas López, Giacomo Jori, Fabrizio Lomonaco, Harvey C. Mansfield, Jean-Jacques Marchand, Sauro Mattarelli, Dino Mengozzi, Thomas L. Pangle, Nicola Panichi, Gianfranco Pasquino, Quentin Skinner, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Pasquale Stoppelli, David L. Tubbs, Jeffrey K. Tulis e Gianfrancesco Zanetti. Il volume contiene inoltre una bibliografia degli scritti di Viroli, utile a chi voglia accostarsi o approfondire la sua opera
Book review: The Spirit of Modem Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke. By Thomas L. Pangle.
No full textBook review: The Spirit of Modem Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke. By Thomas L. Pangle. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago
Press. 1988. Pp. 344. Reviewed by: Robert Faulkner.Faulkner, Robert. (1990). Book review: The Spirit of Modem Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke. By Thomas L. Pangle.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/165300
The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders
No full textLorraine Smith Pangle is professor of government and Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author or coauthor of four books, including Virtue Is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy.
Thomas L. Pangle holds the Joe R. Long Endowed Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than a dozen books, including Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace.
With a New Preface by the Authors.This Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.American schools are in a state of crisis.
At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test scores, festers a serious uncertainty as to what the focus and goals of education should be. We are increasingly haunted by the suspicion that our educational theories and institutions have lost sight of the need to perpetuate a core of moral and civic knowledge that is essential for any citizen's education, and indeed for any individual's happiness. Mining the Founders' rich reflections on education, the Pangles suggest, can help us recover a clearer sense of perspective and purpose.
With a commanding knowledge of the history of political philosophy, the authors illustrate how the Founders both drew upon and transformed the ideas of earlier philosophers of education such as Plato, Xenophon, Milton, Bacon, and Locke. They trace the emergence of a new American ideal of public education that puts civic instruction at its core to sustain a high quality of leadership and public discourse while producing resourceful, self-reliant members of a uniquely fluid society.
The Pangles also explore the wisdom and the weaknesses inherent in Jefferson's attempt to create a comprehensive system of schooling that would educate parents and children and offer unprecedented freedom of choice to university students. An original closing section examines the Founders' ideas for bringing all aspects of society to bear on education. It also shows how Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin presented their own lives as models for the education of others and analyzes the subtle, provocative moral philosophy implicit in the self-depiction of each.
The Learning of Liberty is historical and scholarly yet relentlessly practical, seeking from the Founders useful insights into the human soul and the character of good education. Even if the Founders do not provide us with ready-made solutions to many of our problems, the Pangles suggest, a study of their writings can give us a more realistic perspective, by teaching that our bewilderment is in some measure an outgrowth of unresolved tensions embedded in the Founders' own conceptions of republicanism, religion, education, and human nature
Transpiration and canopy conductance of mixed species conifer stands in an inland Pacific Northwest forest /by Robert Earl Pangle.
No full textDuring 2004 and 2005, we examined the influence of increasing tree height on canopy level stomatal conductance and transpiration in five tree species growing in mixed coniferous forests located in northern Idaho, USA. In a replicated study involving nine stands of varying height, we measured stem sap-flux rates in 50 trees that ranged in height from 4.8 to 42.7 m. Across the 2-year sampling period, we observed significant decreases in leaf-level canopy conductance (GS) with increasing tree height for the Larix occidentalis, Pinus monticola, and Tsuga heterophylla trees in our study. We also observed decreases in canopy conductance (GS) with increasing height in Thuja plicata, but the rate of decline was not statistically significant. We did not observe a decline in canopy GS across the 2-year sampling period in the Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca trees that we measured. Specifically, across all species and years, daily mean GS averaged 28.9 (3.0), 21.9 (1.9), and 19.1 (1.5) mmol m{esc}p-2{esc}ss{esc}p-1{esc}s respectively for the short, intermediate, and tall height class trees in our study. Our observations of declining GS with increasing tree height are in agreement with a central tenet of the hydraulic limits hypothesis, which predicts decreased leaf level stomatal conductance as hydraulic resistance in the xylem pathway increases with tree height.;In a second portion of the study, we estimated stand-level water flux and canopy gas exchange rates using sap-flux measurements of tree water flux (JS) scaled to the canopy level. Across the 2-year sampling period, mean daily stand transpiration (EC) averaged 1.25 (0.35), 1.57 (0.10), and 1.45 (0.32) mm day{esc}p-1{esc}s respectively for short, intermediate, and tall height class stands. We observed no significant decrease in average stand level canopy transpiration as stand height increased. Daily mean canopy conductance (GC) across the 2-year study averaged 3.31 (0.87), 3.29 (0.12), and 3.07 (0.47) mm s{esc}p-1{esc}s respectively for the short, intermediate, and tall height class stands. Similar to stand EC, we did not observe a significant decline in average stand level canopy conductance (GC) as stand height increased. However, there was a site specific trend of decreasing GC with canopy height increase, and this trend was observed to be even stronger when a short class stand with low stem density and low LAI was removed from the analysis. Total stand sapwood area and LAI varied considerably across the stands in our study, and along with changes in species composition, these variables had a strong impact on estimates of stand EC and GC. In conclusion, we observed significant decreases in leaf-level transpiration and stomatal conductance with increasing tree height. However, these decreases at the leaf level were not always observed when sap-flux rates were scaled to the ground and canopy level due to site specific variations in species composition, total stand sapwood area, and LAI.Thesis (Ph. D., Natural Resources)--University of Idaho, October 2008
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age
No full textReview of the book by Thomas L. Pangle
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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