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Route Familiarity in Road Safety: Theory and Applications
Full text linkHuman factors are closely related to the causation of road accidents. Among them, the route familiarity plays an important role, since it can influence the driving task. The relationships between route familiarity and road safety are explored in this thesis from both a theoretical and an application point of view.
A general background section is devoted to the explanation of all those possible relationships, as reported in literature. They concern the influence on the driving task, the driver behaviour, the perceived risk, the performances, the travel utility. A specific section is devoted to the practical involvements in road design and traffic engineering.
The research work was focused on four different but parallel aspects connected to the main topic. The evolution of speeds and trajectories was inquired through the use of experimental data. The same data were used to investigate the possible changes in drivers’ perception. The potential impact of route familiarity on road accidents was firstly analyzed from a theoretical point of view based on exisiting frameworks. Thereafter, it was analyzed based on a traffic and accident database acquired in Norway, through different research steps.
The highlighted relationships between route familiarity and road safety were used to draw conclusions and propose potential developments related to the road safety practice. Moreover, given the several measures of familiarity found in previous literature, a more detailed and unified definition for measuring familiarity was proposed. It is based on both time and distance scales, according to previous theories and findings
DM 5.2.92, Tabella indicativa delle percentuali d’invalidità per le minorazioni e malattie invalidanti: immota manet?
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LA MORTE NEI PROCESSI DI EMARGINAZIONE SOCIALE E FAMILIARE. ANALISI DELLA CASISTICA DELL'OBITORIO COMUNALE DI ROMA
No full textParaplegia flaccida da somministrazione endovenosa di baralgina: considerazioni medico-legali.
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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
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