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Um actor e o seu autor: Sacchi e Goldoni
Full text linkArtigo sobre o actor Antonio Sacchi e o dramaturgo Carlo Goldoni, com incidência sobre a contratação da companhia italiana pelo rei D. José I
Contemporary roles of Italian controllers in small and medium-sized enterprises
No full textThe role of the controller in small and medium-sized companies is a topic under researched. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyze controller’s role in Italian small and medium-sized companies through a quantitative study. A questionnaire was distributed in order to understand if controllers are more similar to the traditional bean counter profile or the business partner role. The considered variables are: 1.) activities or management accounting practices performed, 2.) main recipients of the produced information, 3.) the controllers’ organizational position, 4.) personal characteristics, 5) professional skills and 6) educational qualification. Moreover, the study analyzes the influence of situational variables, such as company size, tension for growth and the presence of structured advanced control systems
SINGULAR THOUGHTS. PERCEPTUAL-DEMONSTRATIVE THOUGHTS AND I-THOUGHTS
No full textA defense of a neo-Fregean account of peceptual demonstrative and I-thoughts
Against phenomenal externalism
No full textIn this paper, we maintain that no extant argument in favor of so-called phenomenal externalism (PE) is really convincing. (PE) is the thesis that the phenomenal properties of our experiences must be individuated widely, that is, in extrinsic terms, insofar as they are constituted by worldly properties the experience puts its bearer in relation with. We will consider what we take to be the five best arguments for phenomenal externalism: the ‘irrelevance of indistinguishability’- argument, the transparency argument, the error argument, the individuation argument, and the weirdness argument. We will try to show that none of them really proves what it aims at proving. As things stand, unless better arguments in favor of phenomenal externalism will show up in the debate, we presently see no reason to relinquish an idea that sounds intuitive and has attracted many cognitive scientists. This is the idea that phenomenology is narrow, i.e., that phenomenal properties are intrinsic, hence monadic aka non-relational, properties of our experiences. Such an idea grounds the opposite philosophical position, phenomenal internalism (PI)
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
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