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Conoscenze integrate e strategie di manutenzione programmata per il patrimonio culturale/ Integrated knowledge and planned maintenance strategies for cultural heritage
No full textIn the recent decades, scientific research has considered heritage buildings as a resource, whose values should be protected and increased over time. Since the 1970s, the growing interest in environmental protection powered studies on maintenance as a sustainable strategy to narrow the consumption of land, energy and materials, to reduce transports and pollution, extending the life cycle of the real estate. In the field of maintenance and with regard to SNECS project, Social Network of Entities in the Historic Centres, the peculiarity of assets to be preserved and enhanced, and the need to process a large amount of data, required a synergy between expert knowledge. The integration of the skills, involved in knowledge, design and planning phases, improves the
quality of the project through the development of a multidimensional and a multi-scale information system. The designer is required today to develop strategies for planning and management of interventions, as part of a technological culture that aims to predict the effects over time and based on the active participation of users, to build shared choices on a sufficiently broad basis.
Indeed, the research has been carried out thanks to the collaboration between research certified laboratories: Laboratory of Reuse, Rehabilitation and Maintenance of the Department of Architecture and the Laboratories of the Department of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Naples Federico II
Pianificare la manutenzione per il patrimonio culturale/ Maintenance planning for Cultural Heritage
No full textLa costante disattenzione nei confronti delle problematiche connesse alla gestione del costruito, l’assenza di prassi manutentiva ed una concezione della manutenzione intesa come attività riparatoria hanno contribuito all'attuale condizione di diffuso degrado del patrimonio edilizio italiano. La conseguenza è il decremento delle prestazioni offerte all’utenza, della qualità ambientale e dei “valori” di cui esso è portatore.
A partire da tali problematiche, il contributo affronta il tema della pianificazione della manutenzione per il patrimonio culturale nell'ambito del progetto SNECS "Social Network delle Entità dei Centri Storici". Nel caso del patrimonio culturale, infatti, la manutenzione, in quanto servizio offerto per programmare e garantire nel tempo il mantenimento dei “valori” del costruito, deve mirare ad un progressivo miglioramento della capacità di previsione e controllo del ciclo di vita dei manufatti architettonici, attraverso attività di monitoraggio e diagnosi.
Il risultato è stato la redazione di strumenti di supporto al Piano di Manutenzione, necessari a governare le pressioni trasformative indotte da processi di sviluppo sociali, economici, ambientali, in coerenza con gli obiettivi di conservazione e valorizzazione dei valori espressi dal Patrimonio Culturale
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
Heritage Community Resilience for sustainable and resilient human settlements
No full textThe value of cultural heritage for sustainable and resilient human settlements is recognized in international documents and agendas. These documents underline the importance of protecting and enhancing the identity values of the places to contribute both to the creation of a heritage community and to the strengthening of the community resilience.
Small and medium-sized cities are today subjected to global and local challenges. The contribution of cultural heritage in facing these challenges is limited by its state of abandonment and degradation, the lack of investments in recovery and maintenance, the lack of often emigrated skills. The recovery of the built environment can be strategy aimed at preserving and enhancing the cultural heritage and improving the quality of life and at the same time privileged action for community involvement and for implementing new cooperative management models.
The paper investigates the relationship between the increase in regeneration actions on cultural heritage, conducted by activating a network of multi-level partnerships, and the increase in social cohesion, awareness, innovation, reaction and recovery capacity. The research hypothesizes heritage community resilience indicators, i.e. performance indicators capable of gathering the link between the increase in relations between the local actors and the quality of urban regeneration actions
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
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