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Pietro Ferraro. Dalla scoperta di quello che c’è sul confine delle possibilità dell’uomo all’esplorazione del come scegliere i colori del mondo nuovo
Full text linkThe author offers a “portrait” of Pietro Ferraro, founder of “Futuribili”. The purpose is to describe the journal’s leading light and to define the characterstics of a generation which, in the 1960s and ‘70s, felt the need to “invent” the future of society and take the responsibility of changing a world in crisis, a world which needed more democracy and a new relationship with an environment otherwise doomed to die. More than university professors, Pietro Ferraro, Aurelio Peccei, Alexander King and Bertrand de Jouvenel were entrepreneurs, directors of international organisations and intellectuals sensitive to the future. Born in Venice in 1908, Ferraro was the owner of dolomite mining companies, the San Giusto cotton mill in Trieste and the Timavo paper mill in Duino, but was also a leading figure in the Resistance to the Republic of Salò, an enthusiastic sportsman and a critic of Keynesian economics (on which he wrote a number of books from 1947 to 1970). Above all he believed in the idea of The construction of the future as a moral duty (his last book), which lay behind his foundation of the journal “Futuribili”. Pietro Ferraro had a complex character, combining a projection towards the future, an almost aesthetic sense of adventure and intellectual curiosity, an absorption in the practice of knowledge, an infusion of deep moral values in the everyday conduct of his businesses, and the pleasure of building a utopian society in which utopia is more of a movement towards perfection than the achievement of perfection itself.L’autore presenta una “medaglia” di Pietro Ferraro, il fondatore di Futuribili. Ciò viene fatto sia per descrivere il primo protagonista della rivista, e sia anche per delineare i caratteri di una generazione, che a cavallo degli anni sessanta/settanta sente il bisogno di “inventare” il futuro di una società che si assume l’onere di cambiare un mondo in crisi, perché ha bisogno di maggiore democrazia e di un nuovo rapporto con l’ambiente perché altrimenti questo muore. Pietro Ferraro, ma anche Aurelio Peccei, Alexander King, Bertrand de Jouvenel, sono imprenditori, dirigenti di organizzazioni internazionali, intellettuali con sensibilità per il futuro, ma molto meno professori universitari. Ferraro nasce a Venezia nel 1908, è imprenditore di ditte per l’estrazione della dolomite, del cotonificio San Giusto (a Trieste), della cartiera del Timavo a Duino, ma è anche un avventuroso protagonista della Resistenza nella Repubblica Sociale di Salò, è un esteta dello sport (cui si dà con vero entusiasmo), è anche un critico delle concezioni keynesiane cui dedica alcuni libri (dal 1947 al 1970); ma è soprattutto convinto de “La costruzione del futuro come impegno morale” (l’ultimo libro), sta alla base dell’idea di fondare la rivista “Futuribili”. Pietro Ferraro sviluppa una complessa personalità, che unisce in sé proiezione al futuro, senso quasi estetico dell’avventura e della curiosità intellettuale, riversamento nel pratico della conoscenza, infusione della propria azione quotidiana da imprenditore nei valori profondi e ultimi, piacere di costruire una società utopica in cui però l’utopia è più movimento verso la perfezione che stabilità della perfezione
Nanomedicine and tourism in the post-pandemic era: smart “mobility & health” through wearable design for lab-on-chips
No full textThe tourism is the globalization's weakest link because travelling has become one of the most risky activity due to the COVID-19. Therefore we must prepare well in advance to make travel safer in the post-pandemic step. The paper addresses the definition of furnished space model for traveler-tourist, designed of within the user-centered design philosophy. This allows the individual to fully experience the journey, monitoring with respect for privacy his state of health, thanks to the lab-on-a-chip, the microfluidic device that is revolutionizing the field of clinical diagnostics. The LOC technology could have an extremely interesting field of application in tourism and contribute to improve many services provided to passengers, as in air travel as in Hyperloop. The LOC thanks to its intrinsic advantages in terms of portability, accessibility, and technology, will allow the realization of intelligent mobility systems that combine the future expected perspectives of personalized preventive medicine during "journey"
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
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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