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A mosque overlooking the sea
No full textA mosque, before being a sacred worship building, is a place. Faith is, by definition, professed
within a community and, by extension, will find expression in people's attitude to life. Its
multifunctional character, very different from a Christian church but similar to a synagogue,
not only contemplates a religious function for personal/individual praying but also a space
where meetings and debates take place. The project is an integration of typical forms of Islamic
architecture with traditional architecture, avoiding any type of axiality, at least as regards the
direction of orientation toward qibla with existing urban fabric in Via Nuova Marina in Naples
already well compromised in the design of the plan.
The building adopts the type to the Aula for the prayer room. On the sides of the room,
according to a progression that relates to the Islamic rite of catharsis are collocated the
service areas divided by gender, and turned with a portico towards the shan, the reception
courtyard, which is also an outdoor praying place. At the entrance are located the pool of
ablutions for the purification of the spirit. A minaret, almost echoing a beacon to the sea recalls
the spiritual gathering and openness towards other cultures and religions in the Mediterranean.
As a bell tower has a strong symbolic character: it signals the presence of Islam in a city as
diverse and cosmopolitan as Naples.
Surely we believe that realizing a mosque to Naples would give this city a great chance, an
opportunity to boast, at last, a place of cultural exchange, and, above all, of confrontation
and dialogue challenging unacceptable segregation, isolation or exclusion and witnessing his
condescension to peaceful coexistence
The aim of the space in between in Naples
No full textThe paper proposes the study of a part of Naples, the Spanish Quarter, advancing spatial
considerations that have taken advantage from the analysis methodology and representation by Uwe
Schröder, Professor of RWTH at University of Aachen in Germany. This methods approach, using red
and blue colors, applied an interpretative classification of the urban space where red defines the
'hot' spaces, while the blue the 'cold' ones.
This method supposes different levels on different scales: the wide scale identifies the relationship
with the territorial systems of the study area; the intermediate scale defines urban ‘inclusive’ spaces
and ‘exclusive’ individual ones; the urban typological scale, finally, proposes a further classification of
the spaces deepening and specifying the ‘inclusive’ and the ‘exclusive’ character of the space.
The analitical operation, in general, intend to reflect on the quality of the space in between scale that is the
relationship between“built and unbuilt objects, territory and settlements, settlements and communal
built environment, public and private places and spaces, and private and intimate spaces” as requested and on the
capability that the same space has in terms of new relations and new possible arrangements
La cinta muraria di Chiaramonte Gulfi: la torre, il bastione, lo spalto
No full textIl saggio "Piccole città italiane" di Marco Mannino descrive l'esperienza progettuale del 10° Laboratorio Internazionale di Architettura tenutosi a Chiaramonte Gulfi. Il progetto sviluppato alla scala urbana e in rapporto alla estremità paesaggistica della Piana di Comiso ha riguardato la "cinta muraria" di Chiaramonte, realizzata a partire dagli anni '70. Il progetto si articola in tre interventi collocati luogo lo sviluppo lineare della recente murazione a sottolineare i cambi di giacitura, le testate, gli iati secondo la sequenza: la torre (Marco Mannino); il bastione (Carlo Moccia); lo spalto (Renato Capozzi e Federica Visconti)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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