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The Representation of the Via Latina and the Via Appia Antica in the Agro Romano Cartographic Evolution
No full textThis research proposes as a topic of analysis the representation of the Via Latina and the Via Appia Antica in the cartographic evolution of the Ager Romanus (Lazio - Italy). In this case, the attention will initially focus on the historical, archival and cartographic research of the roads under study, to then focus on both the graphic interpretation of the territory as a whole complex system of interacting elements, both above all towards the ancient methods of graphic representation of the landscape that have evolved through the centuries.
In particular, this analysis will focus on the Via Latina and the Via Appia Antica, which can be considered the main infrastructural arteries used by the Romans in the conquest of both Lazio itself and Southern Italy. The investigation will make use of the comparison between the oldest and most modern cartographic representations.
At present, in fact, both the graphic evolution and the development of the topographical accuracy of the territory of the Agro Romano have never been compared in such a wide span of time; the purpose of this investigation is
to shed light on these aspects that have progressed thanks to the increasingly advanced technical-scientific knowledge of the topographical discipline and the adoption of instruments for surveying and measuring the territory with an increasingly high degree of accuracy
Treatises and Ars construendi: Teaching’s Method Theory and Practice of Critical History’s Application Based on Teacher-Student Relationships
No full textThe topic of this lecture is the results’ description obtained during many years of teaching. We shall illustrate how students use the same analytical techniques to study two different aspects: 1) Architectural Treatises are first studied separately and then in a comparative way. The purpose of this graphic analysis is to reach a new interpretation of them through the realization of original graphics; 2) The Roman Ars construendi: architectural techniques and buildings’ typologies used by the Romans are investigated in the archaeological sites, where the reading of buildings’ stratification in different historical periods becomes an important teaching tool
Ritorno alla tempera: indagini scientifiche sui materiali dell’atelier di Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo nel contesto italiano del primo Novecento
No full text“La cittá di Arg-e-bam (Iran). Tecniche costruttive tradizionalli, innovazione e conservazione nell’uso della terra cruda”
No full textLa ricerca vuole occuparsi, in occasione del XIII Congresso Internazionale di architettura in terra cruda,
dei metodi costruttivi tradizionali e della conservazione nella città antica di Arg-e-Bam in Iran, visionata
per gli autori in situ: quasi completamente distrutta da un terremoto nel 2003, è stata in seguito ricostruita
utilizzando le antiche tecniche locali.
Il riconoscimento di Patrimonio dell’umanità nel 2004 ha fortemente contribuito al processo di rinascita,
che è stato particolarmente partecipato non solo dalle forze locali ma anche dai paesi della comunità
europea ed internazionale dal momento che il sito può essere considerato uno dei pochi esempi di
architettura in argilla rossa al mondo.
La realizzazione di edifici in mattone crudo ha infatti interessato ogni epoca storica ed anche numerose
civiltà, poiché con estrema facilità la terra era raccolta, lavorata, fatta diventare argilla ed usata per costruire.
In generale questa tecnica costruttiva riguarda la maggior parte dell’edilizia sia nei villaggi che nelle grandi
città, ma soprattutto nelle zone con poca pioggia e con clima secco e desertico, apparendo sotto forma di
tipi architettonici quali bazar e moschee.
Tra i grandi complessi architettonici questo lavoro si vuole occupare, data la fondamentale importanza architettonica che riveste, della Cittadella di Arg-e-Bam, estesa quasi 200.000 mq e munita di diverse
cerchia di mura e torri, le cui architetture sono raggruppate in tre zone: una per il ceto medio, una per il governatore e una militare.
Oltre ad un’indagine storica, sociale ed economica del sito, lo studio si estenderà anche alla ricostruzione
post sisma senza trascurare i metodi di conservazione della terra cruda e la attuale salvaguardia del
patrimonio storico architettonico.
Verranno inoltre descritte le diverse tipologie architettoniche come quella semplice con eivan davanti e
quella a quattro parti, i materiali costruttivi impiegati sia all’epoca che nell’attuale restauro ed infine le
tecniche costruttive locali
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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