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Modena, loc. Marzaglia, Cava Corpus Domini. Le analisi archeobotaniche di una piccola necropoli rurale di età romana
No full textLe analisi archeobotaniche condotte per la necropoli di Marzaglia (I sec. d.C.) sono state svolte per verificare se vi fossero tracce delle pratiche del rituale funebre legate a risorse vegetali che potevano accompagnare il viaggio del defunto dalla vita terrena a quella ultraterrena. Queste analisi s’inseriscono in un progetto di dottorato in corso e in un quadro più ampio di ricerche che negli ultimi anni hanno riguardato numerosi siti romani del territorio modenese con caratteristiche molto diverse fra lor
Archaeobotanical evidence of funerary rituals in roman necropolis of Mutina (Northern Italy): a multidisciplinary approach
No full textAn interdisciplinary method involving different disciplines of archeology was carried out on the necropolis of Mutina, in order to have a complete view of the funerary rituals.
Cremation graves coming from Mutina necropolis have been analysed (1st – 2th century AD). In addition to traditional methods, new technologies helped to study offerings presence. For what concerns Via Cesana necropolis, a computed tomography has been performed on 8 urns thanks to TEC-EUROLAB (Modena), in order to carry out a systematic microexcavation. Then soil has been sieved and then archaeobotanical (seeds/fruit) and archaeological findings were collected. Seeds/fruits found mostly belong to cultivated plants or, anyway, plants that can be used as food, as Cereals, Pulses and Fruit plants, even if the analysis are still an ongoing research. These remains of meals left on the graves and of the objects involved in the ceremonies, are evidence resulting from the attendance of the funeral space.
It has been also decided to analyse the dust inside the balsamari found among the grave goods of the urns. Raman and XRF analysis have been carried out in order to verify the presence of cosme- tic dusts: hematite, cinnambar, malachite marks have been found.
In tomb 15 a grape flower has been found and it could be a residue of the preparation of oenanthe or it could also be the evidence of omphacio, prepared with unripe grapes
Le offerte vegetali nei contesti funerari
No full textNello studio delle civiltà passate è di fondamentale importanza l’interpretazione ideologica e simbolica delle cerimonie funebri, al fine di comprendere il rapporto metaforico tra morte, fertilità e rinascita. Per il periodo romano, tra gli altri aspetti, è imprescindibile indagare sia il banchetto, atto simbolico che racchiude la speranza di vittoria della fertilità sulla morte, che le feste di commemorazione dei defunti, compiute per mantenere forte e viva la loro memoria . I rituali legati alla morte, una delle esperienze più profonde per gli uomini, riservavano un ruolo di rilievo alle offerte vegetali e animali, che, oltre a espletare la funzione sacra e religiosa, se erano ricche ed abbondanti potevano aiutare a stabilizzare o addirittura ad accrescere lo status dei discendenti del defunto.
Sono 7 i siti di Mutina e del suo territorio che presentano tombe oggetto di studi archeobotanici, molti dei quali ancora in corso
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
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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