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Votive altars: domestic signals to inhabit the Sacred
Full text link“Sacred” is an Indo-European word meaning “separate”. The Sacred, therefore, [. . . is] a quality that is inherent in
that which has relation and contact with powers that man, not being able to dominate, perceives as superior to himself,
and as such attributable to a dimension [. . . ] thought however as ”separate” and ”other” with respect to the human
world » Galimberti, (2000). The so-called votive altar, autonomous or attached to a major building often present in
the Mediterranean countries, belong to the dimension of the Sacred.
Votive altars - present in an old neighborhood of peasant origin in the suburbs of Naples called Ponticelli - are almost
always placed in the interstices between street and courtyard (a self-built residential typology modeled over time by
the inhabitants and which often forms the matrix of many neighborhoods popular Neapolitan). They keep and exhibit
little sculptures and drawings of Jesus, Madonnas, and Saints of the Catholic religion, mixed with ancestors portraits
and photos of relatives dead of the inhabitants, drawing on the ancient domestic cult of the Romans of Lari and Penati;
it is certainly not a consciously cultured reference, but a mysterious ”feeling” that is common among primitive and
popular cultures and that unravels through the centuries unscathed. Placed at the entrance of the living space, the altar
expresses the sign of a difference, of a territorial change, separates ”ours” from ”yours”, welcomes, does not reject,
but marks an open and inclusive threshold.
With the paper, we want to study this phenomenon of ”primitive” culture and not regulated by laws, a mix of diffuse
sacredness and popular magic, deepening the ”design” aspects of it, building an abacus in which to highlight potential
and free referencesto the visual arts of these ”design works without designers”, and finding out new signs of the Sacred
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Sustainability in the 3D printing of housing and settlements co- design processes.
No full textThe current narration of the world's events recalls us, once more, that the phenomenon of migration is one of the ones earmarked to change regularly human geography under the weight of human communities' (re-) placement and (re-)distribution on the territories, repeatedly, due to continuous globally spread "emergency states". Earthquakes, tsunamis, pandemics, poverty, lack of basic need provisions, and wars - with the related humanitarian crisis and consequential refugee migrations - raise their common topic once more: the need for effective answers for emergency housing to this old and never-ending happening. In such conditions, one of the first and urgent issues to answer is the housing emergency, in pair with the need for cheapness and rapidity (in implementations) and flexibility and co- designing (in adaptations). Apart from the relevance of the reasons that drive these global complex movements, it is undoubted there is a matter to consider the effects it is having on the designing codes and their innovation, at all design scales. The actual fourth industrial revolution is widening our potentialities in that. The improvement of the 3D printing tools and supplies, together with the growing opportunities to print even bigger "objects" - until the printing of entire houses fully furnished - is opening interesting new rooms, never thinkable prior. These opportunities mark an innovative track for design, as well as a suitable pathway in case of different emergencies, from natural to human-made ones. Starting by analyzing the current state of the art in 3D printing and a real Pilot case in Italy, this paper aims to show nowadays we are allowed in thinking of cheaper, faster, local-based, flexible, cyclical, and real-time implementable processes, through real sustainable participatory co-designing actions
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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