1,720,965 research outputs found
A temporary atlas: changes of the coastal landscape. Transformation scenarios of an Eastern Mediterranean Territory
No full textSince the last century, the seafront has become more and more a self-representational place for the middle-class society and for its notion of sea as ‘leisure’, by depriving at the meantime the potential interpretations of the relations between the city and its natural context. The coastal cities have been replaced by a permanent settling model not distinct from the living.
This study wants to build the different coastal changing landscape through the understanding of some significant moments during the transformation and enlargement of the cities, proposing a critical consideration on the results of modern cities, of architectures and the shapes that built it, apart from the consequences the city itself has on the modern one
The typological Analysis of Mamluk Public Building in Al-Quds/Jerusalem: The Ribat and the Madrasa, A Work in Progress
No full text
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
- …
