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A labbra nude. Racconti dall'ultima Cuba
No full textIl volume comprende ventuno racconti inediti di autori cubani relativamente giovani e sconosciuti in Italia all’epoca della pubblicazione (1995), pur avendo alcuni una fama già solida in patria: Arturo Arango, Marilyn Bobes, Abilio Estévez, José Ramón Fajardo, Jorge Fernández Era, Luis Manuel García, Alberto Garrido, Eduardo Heras León, Francisco López Sacha, Miguel Mejides, David Mitrani Arenal, Reinaldo Montero, Leonardo Padura, Abel Prieto, Jorge Félix Rodríguez, Manuel Antonio Rodríguez, Alberto Rodríguez Tosca, José Miguel Sánchez, Rolando Sánchez Mejías, Jesús Vega, Félix Luis Viera. Si trattava di testi recenti, spesso usciti solo su riviste e volumi collettivi o addirittura non ancora pubblicati nella stessa Cuba, che toccavano temi taciuti in epoche di maggior benessere materiale, ma di minore apertura culturale. L’antologia ha fatto così conoscere per prima in Italia una motivata schiera di narratori che affrontano con coraggio e talento, nonostante la penuria di mezzi, la dura realtà di una crisi socioeconomica che sgretola le conquiste rivoluzionarie e accentua l'atmosfera surreale della vita sull'isola, culla di miti e sogni. Sono tutti tradotti da Danilo Manera, salvo "Il cacciatore", di Leonardo Padura, tradotto da Silvia Meucci
Vedi Cuba e poi muori. Fine secolo all’Avana
No full textIl libro contiene racconti di Arturo Arango (Manzanillo 1955), Alexis Díaz Pimienta (L'Avana 1966), Michel Encinosa Fú (L'Avana 1974), Adelaida Fernández de Juan (L'Avana 1961; il suo racconto "Clemenza sotto il sole" è l'unico tradotto da Silvia Meucci), Miguel Mejides (Nuevitas 1950), David Mitrani Arenal (L'Avana 1966), e una narrazione finale scritta a quattro mani da José Miguel Sánchez "Yoss" (L'Avana 1969) con il curatore Danilo Manera
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Quarry plans in the management of water resources: case study of the River Serio
No full textThis work investigates the possibility of rehabilitating and using volumes made available by the creation of quarries of inert materials in watercourse flood plains for the regulation of floods and for the maintenance of supplies in times of water scarcity. Such activities offer technical and economic synergies between the need for production of inert materials and the benefits that such excavations, given appropriate expedients, can provide both in reducing the flood risk and in mitigating shortages. The work in question fully complies with the terms of the Catchment Area and Water Conservation Plan, demonstrating moreover that the required rehabilitation operations are of low impact and are fully sustainable. The case study concerns the last stretch of the River Serio in the province of Cremona
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Indirect estimation of design flood in urbanized river basins using a distributed hydrological model
Get PDFA method for indirect estimation of design flood in poorly gauged urbanized river basins by using distributed hydrological modelling is presented. It is based on the critical flood design criterion that maximizes peak flow for a given return period by transforming precipitation of depth duration frequency curve into runoff. Indirect method is compared against direct method based on regional approach and index flood estimation. The paper shows that direct method significantly underestimates design flood in case discharge measurements are strongly affected by artificial alteration of water courses with possible catastrophic consequences in terms of loss of life and damage to property when cause of alteration would be removed. Moreover, the use of a spatially distributed model allows to take into account heterogeneity that generally characterizes river basins with an high degree of urbanization. The presented indirect method, provides design hydrograph that is useful for those cases where design discharge only is not sufficient for designing or planning purposes
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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