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The Intersectional Counter-Gaze of Geneviève Makaping in Traiettorie di sguardi
No full textTraiettorie di sguardi is a hybrid text–partly memoir, partly anthropological essay–in which for the first time in Italian literature the author as a Black woman reverses the colonial gaze and records the racist attitude of the Italian population toward Black people. Makaping thus rewrites a long ethnographic tradition in which Africans have constituted the object of observation rather than the subjects of epistemology and produces the first theoretical reflection elaborated by a Black Italian (woman) intellectual in the Italian language on structural racism in Italy as a legacy of colonialism
Simplified tool for the energy performance assessment of residential buildings
No full textBuilding sector is responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in the EU. For more than a decade the Energy Performance Certification (EPC) revealed to be an effective tool to create demand for energy efficiency in buildings providing recommendations for the cost-effective upgrading of the energy performance. The EPC process is founded on a standard calculation, based on conventional climate, use, surroundings and occupant-related input data, as defined by the Technical Standard EN 15603:2008. Even if the EPC is substantially mandatory in the European Countries, differences can be found along the process in particular in terms of methodology and tools. In Italy the national regulation provides simplified methodologies that can generate results assuring a maximum deviation between + 20% and - 5% of the final non-renewable primary energy compared to the same parameters determined with the application of the national reference tool. The aim of the present article is to describe the salient features of the methodology and the technical choices necessary to guarantee the range of acceptability of the results. A case study tested the procedure and the results were compared to those of an extended calculation procedure. © 2018 AMSE Press. All rights reserved
On the implementation of an innovative energy/financial optimization tool and its application for technology screening within the EU-project School of the Future
No full textA tool for the energy & financial optimization of the renovation of school buildings was developed based on an existing tool - ASCOT. The tool combines an energy calculation with a LCC-analysis, which are calculated simultaneously. The tool was then used for the screening of energy saving measures in school buildings in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Italy and Norway. For Italy, the screening was carried out for three climates. © 2015 The Authors
Retrofitting under protection constraints according to the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) target: The case of an Italian cultural heritage's school building.
No full textThe subject of this study was the definition of criteria for intervention on school buildings, protected by the Italian Cultural Heritage Code, with the aim of upgrading according to the target nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB). The tasks required to carry out the study have foreseen the identification of a case-study representative of a common historical school building typology. Than the definition of retrofit measures has been set to meet the nZEB requirements as defined by the National implementation of the EPBD Recast, while complying with the protection constraints. Finally, the cost-effectiveness of the various interventions was also evaluated. © 2017 The Authors
“Amplifying Black Italian voices”. An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo
No full textThis interview with writer and activist Leaticia Ouedraogo was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Ouedraogo discusses what the concept of intersectionality means to her on a personal, political, and theoretical level, and how it is necessary to adopt an intersectional perspective, along with a decolonial practice, to fight sexism and racism. Starting from her short story “Nassan Tenga” (published in the anthology Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi [Future: Tomorrow Narrated by the Voices of Today]), the author also discusses the consequences of racism from a psychological and inter-generational perspective. The themes of structural racism, white privilege, decolonization, and intersectionality are articulated by Ouedraogo within the Italian postcolonial context, where they take on specific meanings in light of Italy’s (often removed) colonial history
Surgical anatomy of the mediastinum
No full textAfter a short description of mediastinal anatomy and embryology, the authors illustrate the division of the mediastinum, based on criteria of either surgical anatomy or radiological anatomy. Lastly, they discuss the topographical distribution of the mediastinal masses in anterior, visceral, and posterior compartments of the mediastinum
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
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