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In Viaggio. Sara Basso intervista Giorgia Serughetti
No full textIntervista alla filosofa Giorgia Serughetti nella rubrica dedicata a esplorare biblioteche private raccontate attraverso le voci dei loro proprietari, per provare a costruire o individuare traiettorie di ricerca, innovative o consolidate, sullo spazio e su ciò che lo riguarda, e per individuare tra gli stessi percorsi potenziali intrecci, influenze, tangenze e/o discordanze
Biofilia, tra cura e abitare, per una manutenzione del vivente
No full textIl recente interesse per la biophilia spinge a rimettere in discussione i nostri modi di abitare la Terra, riappropriandoci del senso più profondo di questa pratica come costruzione di sistemi relazionali e di comunità che danno forma al mondo. Per “abitare con cura” è necessario ridiscutere, intrecciando prospettive disciplinari diverse, il tema della coesistenza tra esseri viventi nello spazio terrestre, in un’ottica evolutiva ed etica. Tra le tante matrici teoriche e culturali utili ad esplorare questa ipotesi, in questo contributo ne vengono proposte due in particolare. La prima ripercorre il pensiero di chi ha letto nella sfera domestica lo spazio dove radicarsi stanzialmente in armonia con la natura e gli ecosistemi; la seconda, invece, propone un’idea di abitare ispirata alla condivisione e alla cura. Ritornare sulle eredità culturali di queste matrici mi sembra un’importante occasione per provare a tradurre l’idea di biofilia in nuove forme di convivenza aperte all’alterità
Functional near infrared optical imaging in cognitive neuroscience: an introductory review
No full textCognitive neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field focused on the exploration of the neural substrates underlying cognitive functions; the most remarkable progress in understanding the relationship between brain and cognition has been made with functional brain imaging. Functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy is a non-invasive brain imaging technique that measures the variation of oxygenated and deoxygenated haemoglobin at high temporal resolution. Stemming from the first pioneering experiments, the use of fNIR spectroscopy in cognitive neuroscience has constantly increased. Here, we present a brief review of the fNIR spectroscopy investigations in the cognitive neuroscience field. The topics discussed encompass the classical issues in cognitive neuroscience, such as the exploration of the neural correlates of vision, language, memory, attention and executive functions. Other relevant research topics are introduced in order to show the strengths and the limitations of fNIR spectroscopy, as well as its potential in the biomedical field. This review is intended to provide a general view of the wide variety of optical imaging applications in the field of cognitive neuroscience. The increasing body of studies and the constant technical improvement suggest that fNIR spectroscopy is a versatile and promising instrument to investigate the neural correlates of human cognition
Are the neural correlates of subitizing and estimation dissociable? An fNIRS investigation
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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
Questioni di accessibilità: gli standard per un progetto di formazioni urbane più sane e inclusive
No full textTra gli standard del decreto del 1968, quelli riconducibili alle questioni della mobilità mostrano una palese inattualità. L’urgenza di tornare a lavorare su questi temi oggi si impone però con evidenza. Non è ancora il momento di una lucida valutazione dei lasciti della pandemia da Covid-19, è però difficile ignorare come le misure di distanziamento abbiano colpito soprattutto gli individui più fragili (con disabilità, anziani, bambini ecc.), rendendo difficile l’accesso
a spazi pubblici e servizi fondamentali. Gli standard sono dispositivi tecnici di governo delle trasformazioni territoriali, ma anche materiali urbani connotati da specifici caratteri fisici e, in quanto tali, supporti attivi e reattivi che possono dare luogo alle pratiche delle persone e contribuire a conformarle. Queste tre dimensioni – particolarmente evidenti quando si parla di accessibilità – offrono altrettante chiavi di lettura delle relazioni complesse tra politiche urbane, processi e strumenti urbanistici, fatti spaziali, usi e comportamenti sociali. Relazioni il saggio indaga in rapporto all’emergere di nuovi assetti territoriali e bisogni rispetto a quelli cui il decreto del 1968 rinviava
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
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