1,721,021 research outputs found

    The Time of Intersection - Time dynamics in the relationship between architecture and artworks in public space

    No full text
    Il tempo ha sempre affascinato gli uomini per la sua struttura (apparentemente) inviolabile e per la dimensione poetica che questo concetto porta con sé; nel corso della storia della civiltà, il tempo è stato un concetto cruciale per la comprensione della realtà. All’inizio del XX secolo, grazie alle scoperte scientifiche, prima fra tutte la teoria della relatività generale di Albert Einstein, la nozione di tempo è diventata un elemento importante anche per la scienza per comprendere la struttura dell’universo. Le continue e sempre più rapide scoperte scientifiche hanno dissolto anche la linearità del tempo e la sua stessa natura, offrendo nuove possibilità di ripensare lo spazio-tempo, come una serie di eventi collegati, ma non necessariamente lineari. Qualcosa che oggi sperimentiamo attraverso la multitemporalità del mondo digitale, ma che allo stesso tempo sposta anche il nostro modo di percepire la realtà fisica. Una realtà fatta di oggetti naturali ma anche di oggetti creati dall’uomo, dagli utensili agli oggetti simbolici e artistici, dal più semplice rifugio alla città. Tutto ciò che facciamo e produciamo fa inevitabilmente parte di una dimensione spazio-temporale. In questa realtà pluritemporale in cui viviamo, possiamo quindi interpretare il tempo - anche - come un elemento strutturale distintivo delle cose che gli esseri umani costruiscono, siano esse piccole o grandi, dagli utensili alle metropoli. In questo contesto, è molto interessante capire come funziona il tempo in due delle categorie più simboliche di oggetti di creazione umana, l’architettura e l’arte, in particolare l’arte nello spazio pubblico. Come il tempo influenzi la loro realizzazione, pensandolo come categoria costruttiva e fondamentale del progetto stesso. Il tempo che opera nell’opera d’arte è naturalmente diverso dal tempo che opera nell’architettura, ma la sovrapposizione di questi due tempi diversi, per struttura e percezione, crea inevitabilmente un terzo tempo, che chiameremo “Tempo di Intersezione”, che diventa l’oggetto di questa tesi.Time has always fascinated men for its (apparently) inviolable structure and for the poetic dimension that this concept brings with it, during the history of civilization, time has been a crucial concept to understanding reality. At the beginning of the Twentieth century, thanks to the scientific discoveries, above all, Albert Einstein’s general relativity theory, the notion of time became an important element also for science for understanding the structure of the universe. The continuous and ever-faster scientific discoveries have also dissolved the linearity of time and its very nature, offering new possibilities to rethink space-time, as a series of connected, but not necessarily linear, events. Something we are experiencing today through the multi-temporality of the digital world, but which at the same time also shifts our way of perceiving physical reality. A reality made of natural objects but also objects crafted by man, from utensils to symbolic and artistic objects, from the simplest refuge to the city. Everything we do and produce is inevitably part of a space-time dimension. In this many temporal reality in which we live, we can therefore interpret time - also - as a distinctive structural element of the things that human beings build, whether small or large, from tools to metropolises. In this background, it is very interesting to understand how time works in two of the most symbolic categories of objects of human creation, architecture and art, specifically, art in public space. How time influences their realization, thinking of it as a constructive and fundamental category of the project itself. The time that works into the artwork is naturally different from the time that works into architecture, but the overlapping of these two different times, by structure and perception, inevitably creates a third time, that we will call a “Time of Intersection”, which becomes the subject of this thesis

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

    Full text link
    The 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 link
    We 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 link
    We 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

    Author Index

    No full text
    Nao informado

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

    No full text
    We 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

    Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

    No full text
    In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.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
    corecore