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Grassroots initiatives for sustainability transitions: Community-wide impacts and economic functioning
No full textCommunity-based initiatives (CBIs) are increasingly being advanced as promoters of a systemic transition towards increased sustainability, and as leading the degrowth transformation. Prior studies have typically dealt with the potential impacts of CBIs on individuals, without necessarily reflecting on their community-wide impacts.
This article aims to do both: it develops a set of indicators aimed at estimating the economic and financial impacts of a wide range of CBIs across six European countries, at both individual and community levels. The results provide insights into commonalities between CBIs, and suggest that they deliver essential services, often contribute to creating jobs within their communities, and thereby contribute positively towards community development
Therapeutic Potential of Targeted Nanoparticles and Perspective on Nanotherapies
No full textEngineered nanoparticles (NPs) to specifically deliver payload therapeutics to target cells involved in pathophysiological processes seem to offer a powerful strategy to overcome intrinsic limitations of drugs. In this Viewpoint we disclose the synergistic potential between medicinal chemistry and nanomedicine to exploit the "targeting concept"in developing effective nanotherapeutics, as well as the challenges and limitations that should be considered in pursuing their clinical translation, especially toward precision medicine
Identità territoriali del Centro Italia: la componente migratoria fenomeno decisivo nei caratteri sociodemografici e nelle tendenze in atto
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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
Microincapsulazione di Bacillus Thringiensis e valutazione dell'attività insetticida su larve di lepidotteri
No full textLa politica di coesione riformata. Un approccio territorializzato alla politica regionale europea.
No full textLe politiche territoriali dell’Unione Europea hanno subito nel corso degli anni numerose riforme. Si è passati da forme di intervento di tipo settoriale a politiche rivolte al territorio e alla dimensione locale dello sviluppo. L’originario approccio compensativo e settoriale è stato surclassato da una strategia di intervento di tipo place-based, sinergico, integrato e multisettoriale che mira oggi all’implementazione di strategie di sviluppo rispondenti ad obiettivi e bisogni locali. Il connubio tra integrazione e territorialità, l’attenzione rivolta ai bisogni e alle potenzialità locali ed endogene e alle strategie territoriali di sviluppo locale, rappresentano solo alcune delle caratteristiche della nuova politica di coesione.The territorial policies of the European Union have undergone numerous reforms over the years. They have changed from sectoral policy assistance to policies directed at territorial and local development. The original compensatory and sectoral approach has been outclassed by a strategy of intervention, while increasingly adding place-based, synergistic, integrated, and multi-sectoral forms, which today aim at development strategies to meet local objectives and needs. Combining integration and territoriality, and the attention given to the needs and potential of local and endogenous spatial strategies and local development, are just some of the features of the new Cohesion Policy for Europe
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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