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The impact of different voluntary travel behaviour change programs on sustainable policies
No full textAn experimental design of a personalized travel plan (PTP) to encourage behavioral change
No full textThis paper describes the experimental design of a voluntary travel behavior change program implemented in Cagliari, Italy. The objective of the work is to contribute to understand the fundamentals of travel behavioral process by identifying the factors underlying behavioral change. More specifically, the PTP program proposed in this work involved 109 participants, from February 2011 to June 2012, in two steps: a first one-week activity-travel data collection to observe current behaviors and a second one-week activity-travel data collection to monitor behavior, after the provision of personalized travel plans. The program has been evaluated observing the behavioral change during the second week of the program (monitoring week) and three months after the end of the program. Further, the factors underlying behavioral change have been analyzed comparing the quantitative feedback provided to participants showing a behavioral change vs. participants who did not change. Results seem to have important policy implications. Indeed, they indicate that providing car users with detailed feedback about current behavior and existing alternatives have a general positive effect on behavioral change
Un'analisi esplorativa delle variabili coinvolte nel cambio comportamentale attraverso strumenti modellistici
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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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