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Introduzione
No full textIntroduzione alla riedizione anastatica degli emblemi delle regioni italiane dalla Iconologia di Cesare Ripa (sec. XVII)
Multi-scale reading of a city’s Resilience
No full textIntroduction to the fifth book of the OMB series, aimed at addresing the topic ‘city and its image’ a highly-debated topic that remains a relevant argument in several Eastern European cities. Our example is the new Kosova capital—Prishtina— which presents the opportunity for a paradigmatic case study. A new cycle of 33 PhD students has focused on developing research strategies around the concept of ‘Images of a city to be rediscovered
Drawings as a form of knowledge. Re-presenting Gjirokastra
No full textThis paper introduces the relevance of using drawings, notations, and diagrams in analysing, observing, and reinterpreting shrinking cities. The chapter illustrates the methodology adopted during the 35th cycle PhD workshop centred on the case of Gjirokastra, one of the main cities in south Albania with a high risk of
depopulation
Dietary phytochemicals and drugs: potential consequences of a common metabolism.
No full textDietary phytochemicals and prescription drugs are xenobiotics to
human cells and are substrates of the same enzymes and transporters dedicated
to biotransformation, detoxification and elimination. The interactions between
phytochemicals and phase I and II biotransformation enzymes, as well as their
systems of regulation, can often explain their known anticarcinogenic or
antioxidant actions. However, for the same reason the contemporaneous intake
of phytochemicals and drugs may result in the alteration of drug biodisposition
and efficacy. In the present chapter the principal routes of biotransformation are
described, as well as the mechanisms underlying their concerted regulation, and
the biotransformation of the most significant phytochemicals is reported.
Examples of phytochemicals/drugs interaction are illustrated and the importance
of this issue for phytochemical supplementation is pointed out
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
Final Project Report: Deliverable D1.14
No full textBarachetti, A: CERN
Rossi, L: CERN
Szeberenyi, A: CER
E-portfolio and Teacher Training. Building a Culture of Trust in School Contexts
No full textThis paper presents some thoughts concerning the use of an ePortfolio in teacher training and aims to bring out the complexity and usefulness of this tool in order to promote meaningful and authentic teacher training expertise. The use of an ePortfolio as a tool for assessing teachers’ expertise nevertheless evidences a number of critical issues that have been highlighted by the research, since many factors may affect its creation and, consequently, the assessment of the portfolio itself, such as cultural elements and the language and expressive skills of the teacher, author of the ePortfolio. Despite these criticisms, the ePortfolio appears to maintain a valid and fundamental importance in teacher training and shows how a culture of trust and mutual recognition represents the necessary substrate implementing personal and professional growth processes within the school
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
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