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SIGN ME IN - accessibility and usability of MUST (University Museum of Earth Sciences) explanatory panels for deaf visitors: an analysis
No full textThe art of Geoscience communication is also the art of choosing the right words for the public you want to engage. This is particularly true when considering publics with special needs. In order to promote in everyone the basic knowledge and understanding of the principles of Earth Sciences crucial to make conscious choices about environmental sustainability, climate change and the exploitation of energy resources, any obstacle preventing the widest participation in science education, especially in non-formal and informal settings, must be removed. To foster public engagement, active citizenship and cultural democracy, and in compliance with objectives 4, 10 and 11 of the Agenda 2030, any action towards accessibility of scientific contents must be taken with the involvement of the interested parties.
SIGN ME IN is a Sapienza Earth Science PhD project in Environment and cultural Heritage that aims to:
improve deaf people visiting experience of the MUST (Museo Universitario di scienze della Terra) by
adapting and translating into LIS ( Lingua dei Segni Italiana - Italian Sign Language) the texts of some of the explanatory panels; make the museum’s cultural offering more available also to people with low education levels and/or a low literacy in the italian language, according to the principles of UDL (Universal Design for Learning).
This project investigates the challenges deaf people may face in understanding scientific communication inside the MUST and tries multiple strategies to adapt the existing texts to suit the needs of different audiences with the involvement of a group of deaf (and hearing) students from ISISS Magarotto in Rome and a group of deaf adults. A two-year PCTO (Path for transversal skills and career counseling) involving 3 classes of senior students was carried out to work on the adaptation of 7 of the panels’ texts and a LIS translation of a panel chosen by the students. This project will act as a guideline for the design and implementation of the MUST, that’s currently under renovation, and for the activities that the museum will promote in its spaces
Organizzazione, funzioni e governance delle società di sperimentazione gestionale
No full textIl saggio analizza l'istituto delle sperimentazioni gestionali nel quadro del fenomeno dell'aziendalizzazione del servizio sanitario nazional
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
European Museums’ Night 2024: understanding radiometric dating through a scavenger hunt inside the MUST (Museo Universitario di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza)
No full textHands-on activities are experiential learning opportunities that allow students to engage with a topic
through direct interaction. These “learning by doing” activities achieve, through the active involvement of the participants, an improved understanding and a long term retention of the studied topics. Hands-on activities allow to see, touch, manipulate, hear and even smell or taste aspects of the learning material, in a process that caters to the needs of students with different learning styles. When involving collaboration and teamwork, hands-on activities are also powerful tools to improve students’ soft skills. Such tools, if introduced in dissemination and outreach activities, can have an effective impact in enhancing the understanding of difficult topics (e.g. the concept of deep time) by the general public. For this reason, during the European night of Museums 2024, at the Sapienza University Museum of Earth Sciences in Rome (MUST), children and young adults were offered the opportunity to join a scavenger hunt and to date their geological find. This activity used recycled materials such as bottle caps and paper clips to build specimens that explain the basic concepts of radioactive decay and half-life. The participants witnessed radioactive decay “in real time” by manipulating the specimens and watching the caps “decaying” into paperclips and then proceeded to the radiometric dating of their own sample based on its caps to paper clips ratio
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
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