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Valutazione genotipica per caratteri bioagronomici e biochimici rilevati in frumento duro (Triticum durum L. var. durum) allevato in condizioni simulanti stress idrico in post-antesi
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Spheres and Strolls: The Experience of Immanence in Buongiorno, Michelangelo
No full textIn the film of 1968 Buongiorno, Michelangelo, Ugo Nespolo shows us the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto who, after shaving looking at one of his mirror paintings, walks through the streets of Turin bringing with him a big sphere made of newspapers. This senseless object creates scandal, entertains, produces unexpected reactions and relationships, transforming the artist's walk into a small ode to gratuity, ironic and playful. At the end of the film, the protagonist becomes a giant rose (another Pistoletto’s work) that -thanks to the editing- sometimes even seems to be her own life. Stressing the aimless and frantic movements in the film, a movement whose gratuity is enhanced by the mysterious objects that are protagonists, the article wants to interpret this work by Nespolo focusing on the theme of the walk. Starting from the figure of the flâneur, passing through Dadaist’ visits, Surrealism, to Situationist International, strolling without a goal in the city often constituted in the history of art and thought a radical and meaningful gesture. The work of Nespolo is part of this line, possessing its playfulness, but also a breaking aspect against ordinary experience conditioned by the usefulness. The sphere’s life shown in the film becomes an example of "unprogrammed life", as a life "invented and recorded at the moment", as the artist himself stated. Starting from this theoretical core, I would like to link the "plotless narrative" at the center of this film to the idea of immanence proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
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
Process art as an aesthetic alternative: Martin Creed’s Glasgow connection
No full textThe present chapter examines Creed’s early career, particularly the artistic connection to his hometown as well as his peculiar conception of creativeness, for which Douglas Gordon emerges as an influential point of reference. This link to Glasgow has been widely overlooked by critics so far, who rather analyse Creed from a London-centred perspective. Hence, the principal aim of this chapter is to broaden the research scope and possibly detect some strains of early philosophical reasoning and artistic ontogenesis that gradually shaped Creed’s early production. My investigation covers roughly a decade from the late 1980s – Creed’s art school years in London – to the end of the century, shortly before his Turner Prize victory, and makes use of a variety of sources from this period, including exhibition catalogues and specialized magazines, reviews and interviews, a rich art-historical bibliography as well as artist papers. The aim is thus to track Creed’s career progress in relation to his Glasgow connections, and several of Creed’s works will be analysed in connection with his contemporaries, particularly his friend and 1996 Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon, as well as in relation to its aesthetic outcome and philosophical consequences. The analysis will draw a few conclusions on the philosophical and procedural reasons that led Creed and many of his Glaswegian peers to similar aesthetic solutions
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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