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Una scuola necessaria: Quintino Sella e la R. Scuola di applicazione per Ingegneri in Torino
Il saggio affronta alcuni aspetti inediti dell'operato di Quintino Sella per la fondazione e organizzazione della nuova scuola per gli Ingegneri nata nel 1859 a Torino. Si indica il ruolo del mentore Carlo Ignazio Giulio e i primi esperimenti del 1846 per l'istruzione pratica degli ingegneri scaturiti nell'Istituto Tecnico di Torino del 1852. In seguito si analizzano i primi corsi e gli attori protagonisti della Scuola per Ingegneri, la scelta del castello del Valentino come sede, la distribuzione degli spazi e delle collezioni didattiche. Si affrontano i diversi e poliedrici ruoli di Sella e in particolare il doppio ruolo in qualità di membro del consiglio direttivo della Scuola per Ingegneri e del Museo Industriale Nazionale, i due enti che nel 1908 si uniranno formando il Politecnico di Torino
Il Metacognitions Questionnaire-Insomnia (MCQ-I) e il Thought Control Questionnaire Insomnia-Revised (TCQI-R): adattamento italiano di due questionari metacognitivi per la valutazione dei disturbi del sonno
Secondo l’approccio metacognitivo di Wells (2012), nell’insonnia si verificano fenomeni di rimuginio e ruminazione, causati dalla Sindrome Cognitiva-Attentiva (CAS), responsabile del disagio che provoca le difficoltà nel sonno. Con questo lavoro proponiamo l’adattamento in italiano di due questionari che indagano gli aspetti metacognitivi associati al sonno: il Thought Control Questionnaire Insomnia-Revised, TCQI-R (Ree et al., 2005) e il Metacognitions Questionnaire Insomnia, MCQI (Waine, Broomfield, Banham e Espie, 2009). I questionari sono stati tradotti dall’inglese all’italiano e somministrati a 200 studenti dell’Università degli Studi di Padova, unitamente ad altri strumenti self-report che valutano la presenza d’insonnia, la qualità del sonno, l’ansia, la depressione e l’arousability. Inoltre, è stata valutata la capacità dei due questionari metacognitivi nel discriminare le persone con problemi di sonno e i buoni dormitori. Per quanto concerne il TCQI-R è emersa una struttura fattoriale a 5 componenti rispetto alle 6 della versione originale di Ree et al. (2005) e sono stati eliminati 7 item, mentre per l’MCQ-I sono emerse una struttura fattoriale a due componenti rispetto alla monofattoriale ottenuta da Waine et al. nel 2009 e una riduzione da 60 a 41 item. I due fattori dell’MCQ-I e i tre del TCQI-R hanno discriminato gli insonni dai buoni dormitori. Dal presente studio possiamo evincere che gli strumenti discriminano bene gli insonni dai buoni dormitori, ma la loro struttura concorda solo parzialmente con quella originale
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
Come migliorare la comprensione del testo? Risultati preliminari di una rassegna degli interventi in studenti con scarsa capacità di comprensione del testo
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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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