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Storia e gioco
No full textThe article introduces and reflects on the concept of the "Ludic Century," proposed by Eric Zimmermann in 2015, highlighting how gamification has become a structural component of contemporary society, from everyday life to consumer mechanisms. However, it focuses on the "healthier" and more educational forms of play, particularly board games and certain video games, capable of developing transversal skills and fostering social interaction. The contribution presents the outcomes of the "Play History" Conference, held in Modena in May 2023 during the Play Festival, dedicated to the relationship between play and the teaching of history. It emphasizes how historical games – from board games to role-playing games, and even video games – can serve as effective tools for historical dissemination and learning, stimulating curiosity and critical thinking beyond academic contexts. The article also documents the growing academic interest in play as a cultural and educational medium, evidenced by the establishment of university research centers in Italy and the recent opening of the first University Game Library at the University of Genoa. It concludes with the hope that games will increasingly become an ally of education in schools and universities
Introduzione a JOLY M., Dialogo agli Inferi tra Machiavelli e Montesquieu, a cura di R. Repetti («Polis», collana diretta da R. Repetti)
No full textFATTIBILITÀ E PROSPETTIVE PER IL LANDFILL MINING IN ITALIA
No full textla tecnica del landfill mining (LFM) consiste nella movimentazione del rifiuto
depositato in discarica e nel successivo trattamento finalizzato alla separazione delle frazioni
riutilizzabili. Studiato ed adottato in alcuni interventi pilota a partire dagli anni ’90 in Germania,
Italia, Stati Uniti e Svezia, non ha trovato un immediato sviluppo a causa degli elevati costi di
intervento. Negli ultimi anni tuttavia il LFM ha acquisito un interesse via via crescente sia come
sistema per il reperimento di nuovi volumi per lo smaltimento dei rifiuti sia come strumento di
bonifica e ripristino ambientale delle vecchie discariche. Quest’ultimo aspetto inizia ad avere
una certa rilevanza anche in Italia, a causa degli elevati costi di post-gestione di impianti con
inefficienti sistemi di contenimento delle emissioni, spesso non economicamente sostenibili per
gestori e Pubbliche Amministrazioni. Nel presente studio vengono presentati criteri e linee guida
per la progettazione di un intervento di LFM su scala reale
[Ultrasonography, urinary estrogens and fatty acids in the amniotic fluid for evaluation of fetal conditions]
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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
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