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La vita che ti diedi di Luigi Pirandello e L’attesa di Piero Messina
No full textQuesto articolo esamina in primo luogo il dramma di Pirandello La vita che ti diedi del 1923 e in secondo luogo il film L’attesa, del 2015, in cui il regista Piero Messina, ispirandosi al lavoro di Pirandello, ha creato un’opera profondamente originale. Sia il dramma sia il film svolgono il tema di una madre che non riesce ad accettare la morte del suo unico figlio e cerca di mantenere l’illusione che sia ancora vivo nascondendo la notizia della sua morte alla donna che lo ama e che viene a trovarlo. Nel dramma la madre trova sollievo al suo stato d’animo attraverso il suo bisogno costante di comunicare i suoi sentimenti con vari personaggi e si difende dall’angoscia della perdita negando che sia avvenuta, anche se alla fine deve accettare la realtà. Nel film L’attesa, il regista Piero Messina, pur mantenendo intatto il tema principale del dramma, trasforma l’esperienza dello spettatore sostituendo ai lunghi discorsi di Pirandello la forza delle immagini e portando la vicenda ai giorni nostri. I protagonisti comunicano tramite messaggi telefonici e sono le musiche di Ben Lukas Boysen, Alexander Knaifel e Arvo Pärt che sottolineano i momenti più tristi della storia. Ma sono soprattutto i paesaggi, gli interni e il folclore siciliani che segnano l’originalità del film e ci comunicano i sentimenti dei protagonisti. Mentre il dramma di Pirandello si svolge in una villa solitaria della campagna toscana, il film ha luogo in vari luoghi della Sicilia orientale e le riprese vanno dalla villa ottocentesca della madre vicino a Ragusa, all’areoporto di Comiso, ai crateri Silvestri ricoperti di lava ai piedi dell’Etna, al lago artificiale vicino a Ragusa, agli antichi mosaici romani di Piazza Armerina e infine alle cerimonie di Pasqua a Caltagirone. La vicenda del film si svolge poco prima di Pasqua e termina con le cerimonie pasquali, quando la madre cerca invano di rintracciare suo figlio scrutando i volti spettrali degli incappucciati, crede in una impossibile resurrezione, ma alla fine deve accettare la realtà della sua perdita e della propria solitudine
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
Microbiological and physicochemical profile of sugar added ewe’s Ricotta during storage
No full textThe microbiological and physicochemical traits of fresh ewe’s Ricotta made with (40% w/w) and without sucrose were investigated. Sugar added Ricotta (SAR) andcontrol Ricotta (CTR) were packaged and stored at 4°C for 90 d. Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes,Escherichia coli, coagulase positive staphylococci, Enterobacteriaceae, total coliforms, Pseudomonas, yeasts, moulds and clostridia were undetectable during the entire monitoring. Total mesophilic and psychrotrophic microorganisms and mesophilic cocci lactic acid bacteria increased over time,but their development was limited in SAR production. The acidificationwas observed only for CTR.
Water activity was consistently low(0.897 on average) in SAR that were also characterized by the highest percentage of dry matter (45.27 – 47.36%). Fat, protein and salt contents were in the range
typical for ewe’s Ricotta. The results provided evidences on a 40-d shelf life for SAR product
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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