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Storia hic et nunc. La formazione dello storico del design in Italia e all'estero
Full text linkQual è il ruolo della storia nei corsi di studi in design? Come si forma lo storico del design in Italia e all'estero? Come mai si registra un calo, sempre maggiore, dell'interesse verso le discipline umanistiche in generale e della storia in particolare? A queste e ad altre domande rispondono i membri dell'Ais/Design, l'Associazione Italiana degli Storici del Design, riunitisi il 28 e il 29 novembre 2013 in occasione del secondo convegno nazionale dell'associazione intitolato «Storia del design: una disciplina in formazione»
Fish Box in EPS : zero impact
No full textThe object of the study is to demonstrate that an enterprise can be efficient also when it concerns the protection of the environment and that this is the key in order to obtain a sustainable development.
In order to obtain this, a company is held to reduce the impact of the products during the entire life cycle of the product (from production to disposal) and to use adequate strategies that aim to reduce the impacts on the environment.
The analysis will regard the field of packaging, considering a Sicilian company, that produces packaging made by Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) and in particular boxes for fish
La storia del design in Italia: formazione e sbocchi
No full textNonostante la storia sia un insegnamento basilare dei corsi di studi in design (e non solo) - com’è stato evidenziato nel primo convegno nazionale dell’Ais/Design del 20111 - la formazione di chi lo tiene è ancora oggi alquanto incerta: una figura accademica lontana dall’aver assunto una propria autonomia disciplinare. È per questo che, avvertendo tale anomalia, due anni dopo l’Ais/Design ha istituito una Commissione sulla Formazione col compito di approfondire, in un secondo convegno nazionale, i due temi fondamentali sui quali s’è già dibattuto: la formazione dello storico del design e il ruolo della storia nei corsi di studi in design; in seguito, la Commissione ha individuato un terzo tema, altrettanto strategico: gli sbocchi occupazionali di chi sviluppa questa competenza
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
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