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Identity of a historic garden: The view of the international literature and committies on the role of the botanical elements
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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
Volume 101
, November 2024, 128501
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
Identity of a historic garden: The view of the international literature and committies on the role of the botanical elements
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Z. Hosseini a
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F. Bartoli a b
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M.A. Pontrandolfi a
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G. Caneva a
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Abstract
Historic gardens are conceptualized within various cultural and legal frameworks. This research aims to unravel the complexities of the historic garden identity through the lens of international regulations, national laws, and scientific literature to reveal differences in the perception of their botanical elements. We employed a combined analytical approach, using recommendations from related international institutions (i.e. UNESCO, ICCROM, and ICOMOS), national legislation, and a review of scientific literature. The analysis identified 25 documents related to the keywords: nature, landscape, site, and garden; however, only six mentioned gardens, and just one (The Florence Charter., 1982) explicitly addressed historic gardens. Only 7 % of UNESCO member countries (197) have specific provisions for historic gardens. Within them, a diverse range of definitions and standards has resulted in discrepancies in how historic gardens are recognized and conserved across different jurisdictions. Some countries have well-defined categories for garden heritage, while others offer limited or broad categorizations that may obscure garden identities. The findings underscore the necessity for more coherent international regulations that adequately reflect historic gardens' cultural and botanical significance. The study also highlighted the overlooked role of botanical elements, since only four countries included botanical value as an explicit criterion in their legal designations, suggesting that the botanical aspect is often considered within a larger ecological and geographical context. The imperative to preserve these living legacies within the broader context of cultural heritage also became apparent
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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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
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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
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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
Enhancing bonding of fresh concrete to steel through Laser Surface Texturing
No full textIn this work, we investigated the adhesion between surface-treated stainless-steel samples and a standard cement mixture. Laser surface treatments such as Direct Laser Writing (DLW) and Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSS) were employed, which resulted effective to reach up to 16-fold increase of adhesion compared to the untextured. A comparison with mechanical surface treatments, i.e., sandblasting, revealed that, although an increase of adhesion was achieved probably ascribable to the higher surface roughness, such improvement in terms of bonding strength was significantly lower than the one obtained with the laser surface texturing
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