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Le ville di Falconarossa
No full textIl saggio spiega come l’esperienza di Falconarossa, località posta alle falde dei colli che circondano Palermo a nord-ovest del nucleo antico, sia stata per Giuseppe Samonà un’occasione
straordinaria per una riflessione sul linguaggio moderno dell’architettura. Attraverso il progetto di cinque ville “speciali”, le uniche costruite, previste da una serie di piani di lottizzazione mai attuati, Samonà dà vita a composizioni originali nelle quali si fondono, in modo inedito, alcune delle più significative ricerche architettoniche del XX secolo. Interessante e utile è anche il confronto fra i progetti che precedono e seguono cronologicamente le ville speciali e soprattutto fra queste e la
proposta per gli Uffici della Camera dei Deputati sviluppando un ragionamento unico fra
architettura e urbanistica.Falconarossa, located on the foot of the hills surrounding Palermo, north-west of the ancient core,
was for Giuseppe Samonà an extraordinary experience to reflect on architecture’s modern
language.
Through five “special” villas, the only that were built of those provided by a series of development
plans never carried out, Samonà creates original compositions where some of the most significant
architectural experiences of the XX century mingle together in a new form.
It is also interesting and instructive the comparison between the projects that come before and after the special villas and, above all, between the latter and the project for the Offices of the House of Representatives, as it generates a common reflection between architecture and town
planning
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
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