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Comparative study of the skeletal remains of San Felice (Italy, Sardegna, Sassari) using both multislice computed tomography and conventional techniques of human identification
No full textObjective
The Archbishop of Sassari requested the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Legal Medicine, University of Sassari, to coordinate an investigation identifying the human skeletal remains of Felice Martyr, patron saint of Sennori, preserved in an urn wooden reliquary. The purpose of this research was to determine, as accurately as possible, the biologic profile from the recovered remains. We proceeded involving multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) and conventional techniques for reconstructive human identification.
Materials and methods
The research, leaded by legal medicine, required a specialized team of forensic scientists (anthropologist, odontologist, radiologist, paleontologist, and geneticist). First of all, conventional X-ray and multislice computed tomography MSCT allowed the morphological study and an image-guided virtual autopsy from two and three-dimensional bone reconstructions. Then, we performed biological samplings (DNA, dental and skeletal sample, radiocarbon dating) and anthropological analysis.
Results and conclusions
The findings of this investigation leaded to assess the valuable role of the MSCT images along with conventional techniques for human identification and these also validated the essential role of MSCT when skeletal remains must be preserved
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
Storytelling & Worldmaking: The World-building Activity as a Design Practice
No full textLiving in a highly mediated world, we are witnessing the rise of new consumption behaviour and the spread of multichannel narrative forms. A scenario in which audiences enter vicariously imaginary worlds, exploring the fictional spaces conveyed through multiple channels. Starting with the recognition of the difference between story and storyworld, this article aims to describe the worldbuilding activity, the process of creating imaginary worlds, as a design practice
Games telling stories of and for social innovation
No full textGames for Social Change are about opportunities and choices.
They are about meaningful storytelling and significative interactions. More than that, they are experiences of specific perspectives. As such, they embed, convey and transfer meanings to suggest critical reflection and change.
In particular, some of them, which I consider remarkably interesting, involve us into experiences of embodiment and empathy: presenting us original and fresh points of view, they have the ability to move us and affect our mindsets.
This intervention explores such games as communication systems telling stories with civic or/and political intents. It considers involvement and participation two fundamental features of games, and also constitutive aspects of the processes of individual as well as communitarian social change
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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