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In gloria 1515-2015. Osanna Andreasi da Mantova
No full textIl volume è dedicato a celebrare il quinto centenario (1515-2015) della "beatificazione" della mistica mantovana Osanna Andreasi (1449-1505). Una parte rilevante del lavoro consiste nella pubblicazione e nello studio delle testimonianze del "processo informativo" (1505-1515), conservate in copia in un archivio privato mantovano, e del seicentesco "processus compulsorialis", appena rinvenuto nell'Archivio Segreto Vaticano. Un'altra sezione del volume, particolarmente ricca e significativa, è dedicata all'arte (iconografia della beata negli affreschi, nelle stampe, nelle miniature e nella pittura, tracce della diffusione del suo culto a Ferrara e nel Monferrato, rapporti con altre "sante vive", come Caterina Vigri e Illuminata Bembo...). Altre due sezioni sono dedicate alla valorizzazione dell'abito-reliquia della beata e alla rivisitazione di documenti sulla famiglia degli Andreasi Cappa, cui appartenne la beata
Why Demand Uncertainty Curbs Investment: evidence from a panel of Italian Firms
No full textTheoretically, the effect on investment of uncertainty over the demand for a firm’s
product may be unclear because of the influence of several factors, such as the production
technology and the amount of competition in the product market. It has not been possible,
until now, to investigate more closely the interplay of different factors in the time dimension
because the empirical research has been based on cross-section analysis. This omission
makes biased estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship likely. The aim of this
paper is to extend the findings of the empirical literature using a panel of Italian firms in the
period 1996-2004, covering a complete business cycle. The availability of panel survey data
on companies’ investment plans, expected future sales and demand uncertainty allows us to
account for unobservable individual differences between firms, macroeconomic shocks and
the evolution of the investment-uncertainty relationship. A key finding of our paper
concerns the role of the competition encountered by Italian firms in 1996-2004. The gradual
loss of market power over time of Italian manufacturing firms, along with the increasing
flexibility of labour input may have weakened the negative effect of uncertainty on
investment decisions. We show that, in repeated cross-section estimates, the omission of
firm-specific effects together with the dynamic interplay described above, would have lead
to misleading conclusions about the relevance of demand uncertainty in explaining
investment decisions
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
Nel segreto dell'urna: gli argenti con le "insigniora gesta sive miracula" della beata Osanna
No full textSi esaminano per la prima volta gli argenti che decorano l’interno dell’urna della Beata Osanna Andreasi di Mantova. Il rivestimento d’argento dell’urna comprende cinque quadretti di forma ovale inseriti in una decorazione floreale a traforo. Mai studiati, gli argenti sono solo ricordati in una lettera del 1699 del gesuita mantovano Ludovico Pagelli, indirizzata ai Padri Bollandisti di Anversa. Se ne studia l’interessante iconografia, che esalta le gesta della beata mantovana, e si propone di attribuirli a maestri argentieri del Monferrato, attivi tra il 1640 e il 1650
Gli anni di Maria Gonzaga : squarci su un contesto culturale barocco fra Mantova e il Monferrato
No full textVariations 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
Vedere l'invisibile: un'inedita beata osanna a carbonara di po
Full text linkLa riscoperta del volto della beata Osanna Andreasi dipinto in una pala secentesca della parrocchiale di Carbonara Po (Mn) è stata resa possibile grazie all'impiego degli strumenti diagnostici in dotazione al Laniac dell'Università di Verona. Il volto era stato ridipinto e la beata aveva assunto le fattezze di San Vincenzo Ferrer. La riflettografia all'infrarosso ha svelato il volto soggiacente della mistica mantovana
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
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