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L’‘equivoco’ della geografia amministrativa: ripensare le dinamiche del découpage a partire da Lucio Gambi
No full textFloriana Galluccio and Maria Luisa Sturani, The ambiguities of 'Administrative Geography': some remarks on the dynamics of administrative units starting from the contribution of Lucio Gambi
The study starts with a concise outline ol the contributions given by Italian geographers on the theme of the geographical feature of administrative units. It is shown that this topic has been intermittently discussed and it has been analyzed from a great variety of approaches, in a way that hardly defines a true tradition and a specific field of research to which the definition of «Administrative Geography» is associated, as it happens in other countries. In relation to this background, the contribution offered by Lucio Gambi stands out for its consistency and originality. His research activity of a lifetime has been constantly caractherized by a perspective combining social and scientific commitment. The main legacy of his works is identified in the attention paid to the historical dimension of administrative areas and to the problem of their reform. In particular Gambi's studies have focused the Italian situation marked by the persistence of boundaries generated in historical contexts and for purposes which are very different from those they would serve today. On the basis of a critical appraisal of both Gambi's works and the researches developed from his teaching, some remarks for the renewal of the studies of political geography about the spaces of Public Administration are proposed. The reference is to three points: the adoption of an approach looking at these spaces as processes; the analysis of the role of both practices and representations and the analysis of their interweaving in the building of administrative units; and, finally, the choice of multiscalar approach.
L'”equivoco” della geografia amministrativa: ripensare le dinamiche del découpage a partire da Lucio Gambi
Il lavoro ricostruisce per linee essenziali i contributi dei geografi italiani dedicati al problema delle articolazioni territoriali della maglia amministrativa. E mostra come questo tema sia stato affrontato dal dibattito geografico italiano con alterne pulsazioni e con una grande varietà di approcci. Pertanto, non riesce possibile individuare una vera e propria tradizione di ricerca - se confrontato ad analoghe esperienze maturate in altri paesi - ed uno specifico ambito disciplinare degli studi di “geografia amministrativa”. All'interno del contesto geografico italiano, i contributi di Lucio Gambi si distinguono per originalità e consistenza e per la pervicace attenzione nei confronti di tali tematiche. Le sue ricerche, sviluppate con continuità nell'arco di tutta la sua vita di studio, sono state costantemente caratterizzate da una prospettiva che coniugava interesse scientifico ed impegno civile. Tra le principali eredità dei suoi lavori vi è l'attenzione costante alla dimensione storica delle circoscrizioni amministrative ed il problema di una loro revisione nel tempo. In particolare, gli studi di Gambi hanno messo a fuoco le dinamiche territoriali italiane caratterizzate dalla staticità del mosaico politico-amministrativo, frutto della persistenza di confini originati in contesti storici e per funzioni profondamente differenti rispetto alle esigenze attuali.
A partire da un bilancio critico dei suoi lavori e delle ricerche sviluppate nel solco dei suoi insegnamenti, vengono proposte alcune considerazioni critiche per un rinnovamento degli studi della geografia politica degli spazi amministrativi. Si fa riferimento, in particolare, a tre questioni metodologiche: l'adozione di un approccio che guardi alla formazione di tali spazi come esito di processi; l'analisi dei processi territoriali delle unità amministrative come pratiche e come rappresentazioni, guardando al tempo stesso all'intreccio tra questi due aspetti; infine privilegiare in tali analisi l'approccio multiscalare
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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