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Solid speciation and selective extraction procedures: trace metal distribution and speciation in coastal sediments of Adriatic Sea as an example of study.
No full textComparison between two historical timber framed solutions representing both tradition and pre-modern earthquake resistance concepts
No full textThe consciousness of the need to resist seismic actions has been present in the building tradition for long, well before the scientific approach to the problem was started and earthquake engineering methods were introduced. Since the beginning, earthquake-proof solutions have been developed empirically, learning from the behaviour of buildings, as highlighted by post- earthquake damage surveys. The need to develop strategies to resist earthquakes is a constant problem and, since ancient times, learning from the past has been a good way to improve the quality of buildings. Remarkable cases of refined solutions are offered by the traditional building system which is still in use in Lefkada, one of the Greek islands in the Ionian sea and by the so called “Borbone system” in Southern Italy. These examples refer to construction systems which were constantly improved after each earthquake and are still effective, also offering interesting suggestions for new design. Both systems are based on the wood traditional architecture developed in the geographical areas to which they belong. The sophistication level they reached deserves special consideration, as it represents the best of the seismic design criteria in use in the 18th and 19th centuries, also anticipating some leading concepts present in modern codes. Examples of this are given by the interlocking of orthogonal walls as the premise to the box behaviour, regularity in plan and elevation, the reduction of dead loads. This work proposes a comparison of the two earthquake resistant systems, emphasizing the most meaningful aspects of the Lefkada and Borbone technologies, which are clearly in line with modern seismic design concepts.
These aspects deserve special attention, as they might provide inspiration for new constructive strategies which, in line with the current sustainability requirements, would result both effective and environment compatible
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
Evaluation and comparison of two selective extraction procedures for heavy metal speciation in sediments
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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
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