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Satellite-Derived Shoreline Analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Coast (Italy) from 1984 to 2023
No full textTemporal and spatial analysis of relative sea-level changes across the Emilia-Romagna coastal plain (northern Adriatic Sea)
Full text linkSea-level rise coupled with subsidence, namely relative sea level, currently represents the greatest threat to low-lying coastal areas worldwide, leading to a constant increase in flooding risks and shoreline erosion. The Emilia-Romagna coastal plain in northern Italy, facing the Adriatic Sea, is highly urbanized and critically important to the national economy. However, the entire area is prone to high flooding risks due to its low altitude and the limited resilience of the shoreline, which also results from anthropogenic modifications mainly started from the 1950s. In this study, a refined local geocentric sea-level time series for the period 1993–2020 has been reconstructed by processing data from tide gauges and satellite altimetry. Additionally, to assess the influence of vertical land movements on the relative sea level, InSAR datasets available from 2006 to 2020 have been incorporated into the analysis. After signal processing, time series representing relative sea-level changes across the entire coastal plain were produced on a spatial grid with a resolution of 500x500 meters. A relative sea level rise, ranging from 55% to 640% stronger than the geocentric one, is observed across the entire domain, with critical spots due to localized subsidence related to underground fluid exploitation, leading to severe flooding threats
Volcanic Landforms and Landscapes of the Aeolian Islands (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Sicily): Implications for Hazard Evaluation
No full textThe Aeolian Islands are a Quaternary active volcanic structure in Southern Italy. These volcanic islands are
characterized by an outstanding display of volcanic landforms (stratocones, lava flows, domes, fissures,
dykes, calderas, lateral collapses) derived from repeated episodes of volcanic activity and volcano-tectonic
collapse under the control of regional tectonic trends. Stromboli and Vulcano are particularly characterized
by ongoing eruptive and gravity-driven instability processes. Geomorphic evolution there plays a
fundamental role on the localization of eruptive vents and conduits and the distribution of volcanogenic
flows, with important insights on volcanic hazard and risk assessment
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
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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