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Results from the 2009–2016 excavation seasons in the historical centre of Dūmat al-Jandal, ancient Adummatu
No full textIn 2011 a preliminary chronology of Dūmat al-Jandal was presented at the Seminar for Arabian Studies by the Saudi-Italian-French
project. Based on two excavation seasons carried out at the eastern foot of the acropolis, the first archaeological data for the ancient
Adummatu — quoted in the Assyrian annals as the capital of the northern Arab people — came to light. After eight archaeological
campaigns in the historical centre of Dūmat al-Jandal, it is now possible to define a more complex picture of the ancient oasis,
by defining the urban topography and trade contacts related to the centuries dated between the early Islamic and Nabataean eras.
In addition, a first fragmentary inscription and artefacts related to the pre-Nabataean period, as well as 14C dates, could testify to
an occupation during the second half of the first millennium BC, apparently a dark period from both textual and archaeological
standpoints. The archaeological activities were carried out in the acropolis, where the Byzantine sixth- to seventh-century AD Mārid
Castle stands; in the lower city, where the ancient Nabataean urbanization was identified and where pre-Nabataean artefacts were
collected; and outside the western side of the early Islamic ΚUmar b. al-KhaΓΓāb mosque, where records from the Byzantine to the
pre-Nabataean period were detected
Dall’oasi alla città. Paesaggi urbani nell’Arabia preislamica
No full textAlla luce delle più recenti missioni archeologiche ed epigrafiche operanti nelle diverse aree della Penisola arabica, questo contributo intende presentare le problematiche formative delle complesse realtà insediative sviluppatesi nelle regioni dell’Arabia antica a partire dalla fine dell’Età del Bronzo e per tutta l’Età del Ferro (XIII sec. a.C. - VI sec. d.C.). Mediante un approccio di tipo geo-archeologico si vuol porre l’accento sulle strategie insediative elaborate per la nascita e lo sviluppo delle oasi urbane dell’Arabia antica
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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