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Considerations Over the Perception of Venetian Prostitution Between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries According To Morality
No full textThesis (B.A. in History and Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2018.This thesis discusses the different perceptions that the Venetian state, local citizens, and foreign travelers had towards prostitutes between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The purpose is to demonstrate how the consideration of prostitutes over those centuries shifted from toleration and respect to commiseration and negative judgements, according to the change of religious morality. The thesis is divided in three chapters, each one analyzing a specific type of source. Also, there is an introduction describing the historical context of Venice over the years taken in consideration and the emergence of the figure of the courtesan. The first chapter is dedicated to the study of laws, in particular to the three recurring sets of laws on residency, clothing, and health. The second chapter focuses on the reading of travel diaries, which give information over the relation between prostitution with families, protectors, and the Senate. The third and last chapter discusses the representation of prostitutes in paintings and prints, showing the progressive passage from celebrating and mythological subjects to moralistic messages. Finally the conclusion revises all that is said in the chapters and highlights the coincidence of religious moralistic messages with phases of struggle of the Republic, such as the economic crisis and the outbreak of diseases. For the methodology, the sources used are almost all primary, as they enable to make specific analysis and reach several conclusions
Dissensio in Two Opposite Latin Literary Genres: How Historiographers and Satirists Condemned The Decay Of The Mos Maiorum In Politics and Society
No full textThesis (B.A. in Classical Studies and History)--John Cabot University, Fall 2018.This thesis takes into analysis the sentiment of dissent, dissensio, in Latin literature. In particular, it focuses on the critique over the decay of the traditional Roman customs and virtuous behavior, the mos maiorum, between the 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.D., the two centuries corresponding to the end of the Republic, with the outbreak of the political parties’ struggles, and the first century of the principate. The purpose of the research is to understand and describe what exactly such decay of morals was. In order to do so, this research focuses on two opposite literary genres, which, however, discussed the same themes and issues: historiography and satire. The correspondence of themes confirms the actual existence of specific problems affecting the society of those times. For historiography, I studied Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. For satire, I studies Seneca, Petronius, Persius, and Juvenal. The method applied consists principally in the use of primary sources in the original language, then translated by myself with the consultation of Latin dictionaries, in order to insert numerous citations as proofs. Secondary sources provide accurate guides to read the original texts and explain the themes in relation to their various sections
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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