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    Prossimità e lavoro di campo: quando e come il “dove” conta...

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    In questo breve contributo proveremo ad applicare in via sperimentale la chiave interpretativa della prossimità all’analisi del lavoro di campo cercando di capire come noi ricercatori abbiamo vissuto l’avvicinamento ad altri territori, quali opportunità e problemi ne sono derivati e le conseguenti ricadute nella costruzione della conoscenza. Il lavoro sul campo si configura come “prossimità geografica temporanea” (Torre e Rallet, 2005) in cui si condividono uno spazio e un tempo definiti con gli attori e i territori della propria ricerca. Esso rappresenta un “potenziale di prossimità” (Torre, 2014) che, a seconda delle modalità di interazione tra il ricercatore e il territorio, può o meno essere attivato per l’acquisizione delle conoscenze

    Il limite al centro. Riflessioni ed esperienze nel paesaggio di una valle prealpina

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    Il presente contributo intende raccogliere alcune riflessioni sul concetto di li-mite intrecciandolo con quello di paesaggio. È l’occasione per approfondire quanto è emerso durante la seconda giornata del Workshop nazionale AIIG (10 maggio 2014), da un lato attorno al rapporto tra rispetto del limite e tutela, dall’altro con riferimento alla meta dell’escursione, il Canale di Brenta, e delle esperienze ivi condotte con il locale Osservatorio del Paesaggio. Questo tratto di valle viene dunque utilizzato come un laboratorio: qui il concetto di limite, nella pluralità di significati che possiamo attribuire al termine, trova infatti numerose applicazioni

    "Riconoscere, rispettare, trasgredire": una riflessione sul limite dal 3° Workshop nazionale AIIG

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    The third national workshop of the Italian Association of Geography Teachers focused on the concept of limit defined as a “context of sense”. Starting from the geographical and anthropological representation, the reflections were oriented towards the complexity of the reconnaissance of the limit. Field works in Canale di Brenta have shown how natural and social limits of a valley could became resources for new opportunity of local development. At the end, the “trip back of a pearl” represented the metaphor of contemporary migration journeys from Africa to Europe characterized by transgression of many limits for building bridges for new life projects

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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