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Catacomba di Villagrazia di Carini. I reperti provenienti dallo scavo della galleria VII
No full textThis research presents the catalog of the finds from the excavations of the gallery VII in the catacombs of Villagrazia di Carini. There are ceramics and various objects of glass, bone and metal, only partially related to the ritual and functional kit of the tombs. Other objects come from floods that affected the monument from the 14th to the 20th centuries. The study proves to be useful for a reconstruction of the life of the cemetery, from the 4th to the 8th century, but also for the understanding of the settlements dynamics of the territory in which it is located. African imports of lamps, red slip ware and coarse ware were recognized; regional pottery productions and imports from the Tyrrhenian areas, witch intensified from the 7th century, testify the survival of the trade between the Church of Rome and its possessions in southern Italy.
The presence of painted pitchers, amphorae and rare examples of Palermitan-style glassware are related to the Islamic presence in the territory during 10th -11th centuries.
In general, the outlined framework confirms and clarifies what has already been observed in other areas of the cemetery, with respect to which the GVII is distinguished by the greatest number of findings and the rich presence of glass objects
Demography in the plain of Carini in Late Antique and Byzantine age. Case study of the catacomb of Villagrazia di Carini. Data and methodological considerations
No full textThe catacomb of Villagrazia di Carini was the early Christian collective cemetery used by the late antique settlement of San Nicola, which became the site of the Byzantine diocese of Hykkara / Carines. The catacomb was located along the ancient Via Valeria, and was continuously frequented from the Constantinian age up to the eighth century. As it contains the remains of the inhabitants of main settlement of Hykkara and those of secondary sites scattered in the Carini plain. The study of the trend of burials within the cemetery could be useful for studying the dynamics of population of this rural area of North Western Sicily
Le matrici culturali della ceramica comune medievale dallo scavo dell’Ipogeo P di Agrigento
No full textThe contribution is the occasion for some reflections on the cultural origins of the ceramic productions coming from excavations at the christian cemetery of Agrigento and on the recognizable contacts with other centers active in Sicily in the late antique and medieval age. The ceramic types, new compared to the excavation editions, which emerged from the study of the stratigraphic sequences present in the Ipogeo P and related to the activity of the medieval pottery workshop located there, were presented for the first time by Giuseppe Falzone in the publication of the excavation data of the aforesaid Ipogeo P. Here we intend to pay particular attention to the open and closed shapes of the table ware, including the amphorae, that for the significant similarities of the fabric deserve a univocal speech; the characteristics common with the morphologies of the late antique age are also underlined to follow the evolutionary lines in the pottery of the medieval age
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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