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Introductory notes to algebraic statistics
No full textThese are the notes of a short course on algebraic
statistics, a new discipline across the fields of statistical modeling
and computational commutativa algebra. The basics of the
theory are provided together with brief reference to applications to
design of experiments, to exponential and graphical models, and
to computational biology
Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations Afghanistan and Lebanon
No full textChiara Ruffa argues that civil-military relations and societal beliefs about the use of force shape the military culture of an army in its home country and has an impact on soldiers' behavior overseas and their ability to keep the peace.Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Force Employment, Unit Peace Operation Effectiveness, and Military Cultures -- 2. French and Italian Military Cultures -- 3. French and Italian Units in Lebanon -- 4. French and Italian Units in Afghanistan -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- AcknowledgmentsChiara Ruffa argues that civil-military relations and societal beliefs about the use of force shape the military culture of an army in its home country and has an impact on soldiers' behavior overseas and their ability to keep the peace.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Assessing measurement uncertainty in CMM measurements: Comparison of different approaches
No full textManufactured parts are affected by size and form errors, which need to be assessed
against geometrical and dimensional tolerances in order to meet the functional
requirements they have been conceived for. The compliance assessment of workpieces with
specifications depends on measurements and is unavoidably affected by several uncertainty
contributions. According to the geometrical product specifications and verification (GPS),
measurement uncertainty consists of method and implementation uncertainty. Literature
proposes different approaches for the evaluation of implementation uncertainty, however a
standardized method has not been yet achieved. This paper makes an analysis of the various
elements to be considered when choosing a specific approach: in the implementation
uncertainty of circular features. The most common manufacturing signatures affecting
circular profiles were considered, together with the number of points necessary for a
reliable estimation of implementation uncertainty
La domus tardoantica di via Olmetto/vicolo S. Fermo a Milano: una revisione dei dati d’archivio e nuove considerazioni sul tessellato con amorini pescatori
No full textMULP: a Multi-Layer Perceptron application to long-term, out-of-sample time series prediction.
No full textDiffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Expanding Interior Design through Social Sciences
No full textDesigning a home that is not a home but would aspire to be so for a short time, answering to different andlots of cultural calls related to multi-ethnical living, are hard challenges which design could take
up with humanities essential contributions. The paper would explain the first results of a research led by a multi-disciplinary group of designers, social workers and environmental psychologists. The research is focused on the quality of the Italian centres for refugees. The ephemeral nature of the settlement in the centres and the variety of identities of the tenants because of the multi-ethnical and multi-identity turn over, require tools, processes and knowledge from wide disciplinary contexts.
How could design and humanities answer to the cultural diversities implied in this state of living? How could design comprehend the environmental psychological concept of place-identity [Proshansky,
1978] into temporary places? How could design, from a social condition of dis-location and displacement [Papadopoulus, 2002], offer a new location, a new place?
Starting from the three main elements of living [Canter, 1974; Vitta, 2008] – bodies, spaces, objects – the study aims to explore how space’s physical qualities could enhance the cultural integration that is promoted in reception centres. The 3 places’ basic elements are expanded into a wider concept of hospitable capability, with the contribution of social and psychological sciences: bodies & privacy vs collective spaces + spaces & attachment vs temporariness + object & personalization vs standardization. This approach aims to answer to the call of places able to comprehend and opento cultural diversities that have to live together. The quality of space is not neutral in the process
towards a social integration.
The paper maps a wide range of case studies of hospitable and open-cultural places, in order to outline addresses for an extended interior design characterized by a humanities centred approach
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