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Embodying citizenship. Children’s spatial and bodily experience in a football club academy
No full textHistorically, children’s identities have been constructed through their bodies and the different meanings attached to them. Children’s bodies are central to defining their social and spatial position in the city. They are in fact, more than any other group, subjected to a set of spatial bans and prohibitions that confine them within places specifically targeted at them during their free time (i.e. recreational, ludic and sports organizations). One of the recreational activities most commonly engaged in by Italian children is sport. However, little is known about children’s approach to sporting activities. What is proposed here is that the site of children’s involvement in sport is a valuable key for the observation of the ambiguous construction of children’s citizenship through spatial borders and body training. Based on a long-term
ethnographic study of one football club academy for children, and informed by the new sociology of childhood approach, this article investigates the role of organized sport contexts in the urban generational order. The conclusions stress the contradiction detectable in a structured football club academy as a site that, on the one hand, promotes children’s rights to play and, on the other, restricts their substantive
citizenship within the public space
New Insights on Phytoplankton Morpho-Functional Traits
No full text: The pelagic environment is characterized by a great spatial and temporal heterogeneity [...]
Feeling the future: an exploration into studying youth futures
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to offer a contribution in the search for appropriate ways to disentangle the intangibility of the future – especially amongst young people, who have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. It draws on a large research project which investigates how young people in several Italian cities look at their futures ([Mapping youth futures]). Theoretically, we refer to one of the possible ‘modes of engagement’ with the future that we address via the idea of feeling the future, thereby bringing elements of affectivity into the discussion. We analyse narratives generated through visual elicitation interviews conducted with young, mobile Italian people, in a close dialogue between youth studies and sociology of the future. We pay particular attention to reflexivity enacted by young people in constructing their narratives of their futures. To draw out our findings in some depth, we focus on two interviewees whose insights on the future we characterise as ‘a felt experience in the present’ and ‘a shared imaginary’
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
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