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Increasing resilience of Cultural Heritage Assets: the “BIMtoB Academy” project
No full textCultural Heritage is increasingly threatened with destruction not only by traumatic events, but also by rapidly changing social and economic scenarios, which consider the reuse of existing buildings in the same way as building preservation. Thanks to both the technological maturity and increased accessibility of ICT tools, the current digitalization of the building sector has brought about a way to increase the resilience capacity of cultural heritage. Moreover, the interoperability of systems and the new ways of sharing competences, among all the players involved, has lead to awareness of existing cultural heritage assets and risk factors related to transformation processes in the built environment. Consequently, it is possible to identify sustainable maintenance and enhancement strategies to make the preservation effective. The current “BIMtoB Academy” research project focuses on an impact assessment of BIM-based digitization in the construction sector for existing building project management. The study is based on
the application of Integrated Project Delivery Methods (IPD) in order to define, among the Universities, enterprises, real estate asset managers and Public Administrations involved, tailor-made information with different levels of detail and representation according to the type of intervention. Diagnostic analysis, safety, maintenance and an inclusive approach for the project are certainly emerging as key findings in order to drive more effective results
3D City modelling toward conservation and management. The digital documentation of Museu do Ipiranga - USP, San Paulo, Brazil
No full textThe present paper illustrates the survey and documentation activities for the 3D city modelling and visualization undertaken since 2016 on complex monumental buildings of the city of São Paulo in Brazil by the DIAPReM research centre and the TekneHub Laboratory of the University of Ferrara in collaboration with FAU-USP Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of Universidade de São San Paolo and funded by the Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo- FUSP for the definition of interdisciplinary collaboration protocols and the development of integrated digital databases of Brazilian cultural heritage. Starting from a wider joint international research collaboration dated more than five years ago, the project is aimed at the definition of interdisciplinary protocols for the digital documentation of the built heritage in order to support the knowledge, restoration, maintenance, management and enhancement of Museu do Ipiranga - USP and it involves both academic and research competencies, as well as professional and technical skills. The definition of the first integrated digital database of the Museu do Ipiranga took into account the documentation needs of complex architecture for restoration and the project for new accessibility and the extension of the Museum itself and a wider digitization project for the urban planning and a new Smart Cultural Heritage accessibility as well
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
Built environment and cultural heritage identity and preservation. Safety solutions, mitigation strategies and prevention before and after the damages
No full textNatural and anthropic hazards on heritage and built environment, their consequences, and, most of all, their impact on society in terms of damage cannot mostly be removed. However, the limits of tolerance to their effects should be increased, reducing the level of potential disaster. Pursuing this aim, the international project “After the Damages - Prevention and safety solutions through design and practice on existing built environment. The Italian experience” was launched, starting as an advanced training project and now an International Academy focused on disaster management. Starting from the experience gained in postdisaster
reconstruction by the involved partners and the experience of disaster management, the project brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of experts. The overall project aim is to highlight recent innovations and advancements in the post-disaster management by providing the most up-to-date expertise to enable participants to play an active role in disaster risk management and respond more effectively through mitigation strategies. The two editions of the After the Damages project focused on a comparison between different procedures adopted in crises situations’ management, explained by experts from all over the world, who shared their knowledge and experiences on calamitous events and risk management. Earthquakes and flooding mitigation strategies, governance actions, socio-economic aspects, and the most advanced technologies for survey, documentation, monitoring and assessment on built environment are among the main topics of the project. This wide international participation allowed the comparison among different contexts, different kinds of risk and different approaches to mitigation, assessing specific case studies to achieve a real understanding on practical crisis conditions, research and application methods. Concluded and ongoing construction sites were presented as best practices by the project partners to demonstrate the commitment and complexity of the intervention on the existing built environment when a disastrous event occurs. The topic is extremely broad, since many aspects must be addressed starting from the emergency phase, to post-emergency assessment and monitoring actions, up to the recovery of the built environment and the adaptation of the communities to a new condition of sociality and accessibility
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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