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Integrated process of Ecosystem Services evaluation and urban planning. The experience of LIFE SAM4CP project towards sustainable and smart communities.
Full text linkEvaluation of Ecosystem Services (ES) and related mapping tools and techniques can be used in urban
planning and design to define sustainable land use strategies aimed to achieve resilience in urban
planning.
The analysis of ES improves the ability of politicians, administrators, planners and stakeholders to
define strategies of regeneration, ecologically and energy efficient oriented. Furthermore, it allows to
reflect about the sustainability of urbanization and related environmental issues, bringing attention to
social and economic aspects, too. The soil, as measurable value common good, is a source of energy,
requires a strong reduction of its consumption and a good use of it.
The paper experienced the recent research innovations made by DIST for LIFE program SAM4CP,
which integrates the process of planning and decision making with analysis and assessments of ES in
order to support Municipalities to define policies and monitoring procedures oriented to limit the
consumption of high quality soil. The process of evaluation and planning can also be adopted for urban
resilient projects aimed at define successful methods for improving energy efficiency in communities
and urban areas. The paper aims to present partial results of the project. A strong integration of
evaluation and planning actions, providing multicriteria analysis techniques and adopting software (like
InVEST) able to map the outcomes of the evaluation process and the inputs for the planning process
will be discussed.
An indicator based approach is presented as the innovative tool to achieve land use efficiency, and
resilience as the main paradigm to steer Co-planning Conference
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
Juvenile hallux valgus. Aetiopathogenetic aspects and surgical techniques.
No full textDefinitions, ethiology and surgical treatment of juvenile hallux valgus. Surgical technique by soft tissues procedures, clinical results, literature review and experts' opinion
Video in Operating Room: GoPro HERO3 Camera on Surgeon's Head to Film Operations--A Test
No full textThe GoPro HERO3 Silver Edition was tested during orthopaedic surgery and general surgery at the University of Verona in percutaneous surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and open surgery. The camera was located on the surgeon’s head to film from the surgeon’s point of view (Figure 1).
Because of the device’s characteristics, we tested the following:
•• The field of view consecutively with “wide,” “medium,” and “narrow” settings
•• The “Protune” setting (a special option for high- quality images) with the associated “white balance”
•• The “Taking Photo” option controlled via the iPad application
The camera and the recording system were controlled remotely by the op nurse with an Apple iPad using the GoPro app. Simple video-editing software was used to correct the color balance, brightness, and contrast
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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