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The Emergence of Autonomist Politics: European Radicalism after the Extreme Left, 1976-1985: reading notes
No full textThis transnational and comparative work studies the European autonomist and protest movements of the late Seventies and early Eighties in major European cities (Rome, Milan, Zürich, West Berlin, Frankfurt).
It aims at analysing:
-what their contributions to political culture, youth identity formation, and governance institutions were.
- to what extent the concepts, practices, and organizational forms of militants identifying as autonomists actually converged
- to what extent autonomists generated convergent responses from institutions, officials, New Left political parties, trade unions, media institutions, and the police
- why the events in Italy generate the highest transnational resonances in Switzerland and West Germany and less impact in France
- how these aspects generate scholarly revisions to our understandings of the dynamics and impacts of youth subcultures and radical politics after 1968
Embodiment and the Self: using Virtual Reality and Full Body Illusion to change bodily self-representation, perception and behaviour
Full text linkVirtual Reality (VR) is an important tool for researchers of many different fields, from cognitive neuroscience to social psychology. The present work will explore the use of VR, and in particular of immersive virtual reality (IVR), in the study of some key aspects of our bodily self and bodily related behaviour and perception. In the first part of the present work we will discuss the combined used of IVR and full body illusion (FBI) in the study of body image distortion (BID) in anorexia nervosa (AN). The first chapter will serve as a general introduction to AN and its most prominent clinical characteristics, as well as introducing some key concepts like the malleability of the bodily-self through multisensory bodily illusions and a brief overview of a series of studies that applied both IVR and embodiment illusions to manipulate participants’ body representation. The second chapter will present a study in which we used the embodiment illusion of different sized avatars to characterize and reduce both the perceptual (body overestimation) and cognitive-emotional (body dissatisfaction) components of BID in AN. For this study we built personalized avatars for each participants (healthy controls (HC) and AN patients) and applied synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal multisensory stimulation (IMS) to three different virtual bodies (the perceived one, a +15% fatter one and a -15% thinner one). The different components of BID were measured by asking participants to choose the body that best resembled their real and ideal body before and after the embodiment illusion was induced. The results of this study showed a higher body dissatisfaction in AN patients, who also reported stronger negative emotions after being exposed to the largest avatar. However, the embodiment procedure did not affect BID in AN patients. Based on the results of the previous study, in the study presented in the third chapter we decided to shift our focus from somatorepresentation, i.e. the explicit representation of the body which comprise both cognitive and emotional components of body image, to somatoperception, i.e. the implicit representation of the body which comprise both body perception and body schema. In this study we applied a FBI over an underweight (BMI = 15) and normal weight (BMI = 19) avatar and measured the effect of the embodiment illusion on participants’ (AN and HC) body perception and body schema estimations. To measure body perception, we asked participants to estimate the width of their hips while their vision was blocked, whereas for the body schema estimation participants had to estimate the minimum door’s aperture width in order to pass through it inside an IVR scenario. The results showed that AN patients reported an overestimation in both body perception and body schema estimations. Furthermore, in AN patients we saw a change in the body schema estimation accordingly to the size of the embodied avatar, thus showing a higher bodily self-plasticity compared to HC. In the fourth chapter of the present work we will go over the results of the two aforementioned studies and will briefly discuss some possible future directions. Finally, the last two chapters of the thesis will present two research projects that will respectively utilize IVR and the embodiment illusion for the study of individual dishonest behaviour in digital interactions (chapter 5) and for the modulation of acute and chronic pain (chapter 6). As the COVID-19 pandemic deeply affected the work on both these studies, these two final chapters will only present a general introduction and the methods/technical implementation for both research projects
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
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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