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TOWARDS BEST RESTORATION PRACTICES: THE RESTORATION BY RISING DAMP OF SAN BASILIO’S CASTLE OF PISTICCI (ITALY)
No full textFounded in the 7th century by the Basilian monks, the fortified farm of San Basilio of Pisticci in the province of Matera (Italy), also known as San Basilio’s castle, had a central role over the centuries both as grange and as coastal watchtower in Basilicata's fertile Ionian coastline. Since 1989, the San Basilio’s castle has been listed as an architectural asset of cultural interest. Today it hosts social events and houses an important collection of artworks and installations of contemporary art. This latter one dates back to the 1960s when the Berlingieri marquises, patrons and lovers of contemporary art, reused some spaces of this ancient and unique building to house the family's important collection of paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations.
The entire building complex, characterized by several construction phases, was affected by significant deterioration over the time, due to environmental and construction factors and capillary rising damp. Therefore, various restoration and renovation works have been carried out to preserve the construction itself and the inside collection of artworks.
In 2015, six CNT-Domodry devices based on the so-called “Charge Neutralization Technology” were installed to stop rising damp. Nonetheless, despite the stopping of rising damp assured by this effective and not-invasive technology, many rooms, including the exhibition hall areas, are still affected by an advanced state of deterioration due to efflorescence and sub-efflorescence.
For this reason and because of its historical importance in the panorama of fortified farms in the Mediterranean, San Basilio’s Castle was chosen as case study of the research activity that aims to critically analyze restoration work, in all the phases that have taken place over the years, with particular attention to the interventions carried out to remove the phenomenon of capillary rising and its effects. The preliminary results obtained allow us to understand the reliability of thermographic analysis as a strategic diagnostic tool to verify effectiveness and durability of restoration interventions and to define good practices aimed at minimum intervention and preventive and predictive maintenance
Towards a Heritage Digital Guidelines in Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM)
No full textThe requirements of building sustainability and the use of information technologies have led to the new vision of continuum building design that considers each stage of a building’s life cycle, including the recovery and up-cycling of materials and building components according to the circular economy models. Continuum building design promotes planned preventive maintenance (PPM) and moves away from the current emergency acting on assets compromised by serious pathologies. It allows the optimisation of time and resources and the durability of interventions through sustainable and effective practices. The paper presents the preliminary results of a research activity aimed at identifying and validating guidelines for architectural heritage conservation through the development of an open knowledge platform to dissemination of the best practices currently available. The main goals are promoting preventive and planned maintenance as the main strategy of conservation of the building heritage and overcoming the fragmentation and scarcity of reliable information of scientific and technical literature for diagnostics, interventions and durability monitoring. The guidelines will cover all stages of the conservation process, from the preliminary phase of knowledge of the building. Moreover, type, extent and cause of degradation will be identified, including their resolution or at least their decrease according to the criterion of minimum intervention and maximum effectiveness with the lowest cost and the lowest environmental impact using sustainable and compatible products. The guidelines of the open digital platform will be identified through the study and critical analysis of interventions on monuments belonging to Italian historical heritage. The monuments chosen as case studies have been affected by various forms of degradation, in many cases triggered by the presence of rising damp. This latter one has been stopped using an already verified economical and sustainable device that uses charge neutralization technology CNT-Domodry®. The research provides for the initial activity of identification of digital standardization protocol, information cataloguing and metadata in order to achieve the final comparison of interventions and the consequent identification of best practices. The cataloguing rules of the ICCD and the digital platform for risk assessment of heritage of the ICR have been taken as a reference. Future developments of the research project will consist in the acquisition and critical processing of information on relevant number of case studies in order to have scientific evidence to proceed toward a Heritage Digital Guidelines in PPM
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
Inhibition of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) soluble ICAM-1 and Interleukin-4 by Nitric Oxide expression in migraine patients
No full textSistemi tecnologici e costruttivi del “movimento moderno”
No full textSistemi tecnologici e costruttivi del "movimento moderno" in Quaderni di Tecnologia dell'Architettura, 1° edizione; Università degli Studi della Basilicata (UniBAS), Dipartimento delle Culture Europee e del Mediterraneo (DICEM), CdS in Architettur
Towards a Heritage Digital Guidelines in Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM)
No full textThe requirements of building sustainability and the use of information technologies have led to the new vision of continuum building design that considers each stage of a building’s life cycle, including the recovery and up-cycling of materials and building components according to the circular economy models. Continuum building design promotes planned preventive maintenance (PPM) and moves away from the current emergency acting on assets compromised by serious pathologies. It allows the optimisation of time and resources and the durability of interventions through sustainable and effective practices. The paper presents the preliminary results of a research activity aimed at identifying and validating guidelines for architectural heritage conservation through the development of an open knowledge platform to dissemination of the best practices currently available. The main goals are promoting preventive and planned maintenance as the main strategy of conservation of the building heritage and overcoming the fragmentation and scarcity of reliable information of scientific and technical literature for diagnostics, interventions and durability monitoring. The guidelines will cover all stagesof the conservation process, from the preliminary phase of knowledge of the building. Moreover, type, extent and cause of degradation will be identified, including their resolution or at least their decrease according to the criterion of minimum intervention and maximum effectiveness with the lowest cost and the lowest environmental impact using sustainable and compatible products. The guidelines of the open digital platform will be identified through the study and critical analysis of interventions on monuments belonging to Italian historical heritage. The monuments chosen as case studies have been affected by various forms of degradation, in many cases triggered by the presence of rising damp. This latter one has been stopped using an already verified economical and sustainable device that uses charge neutralization technology CNT-Domodry®. The research provides for the initial activity of identification of digital standardization protocol, information cataloguing and metadata in order to achieve the final comparison of interventions and the consequent identification of best practices. The cataloguing rules of the ICCD and the digital platform for risk assessment of heritage of the ICR have been taken as a reference. Future developments of the research project will consist in the acquisition and critical processing of information on relevant number of case studies in order to have scientific evidence to proceed toward a Heritage Digital Guidelines in PPM
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