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L’oplitismo e le guerre persiane. Erodoto e il tardo arcaismo
Full text linkL’oplitismo è al centro di un lungo dibattito storiografico riguardante sia la sua origine ed evoluzione che il suo ruolo nella civiltà greca. La presente ricerca mette alla prova le diverse teorie moderne confrontandole con le fonti antiche, in particolare la storiografia, e focalizzandosi sul periodo a cavallo tra sesto e quinto secolo a.C., periodo critico in cui l’oplitismo emerge nelle fonti letterarie. Ne risulta un’immagine di combattimento oplitico fluida e mutevole nel tempo e nello spazio, ma anche nettamente definita, sul piano ideologico, anche a seguito delle guerre persiane.Hoplite warfare has since long been the subject of a debate pertaining both to its birth and development and to its role in Greek civilization. This research puts several historiographical models to the test, compares them with ancient sources, putting first ancient historiography. It focuses on the age between the 6th and 5th centuries BCE as a critical stage in which hoplite warfare surfaces in literary sources. Hoplite warfare turns out to a quite variable way of war, both in time and space, although a unity can be grasped, on ideological level, in the aftermath of the Persian Wars
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
Gorgos hoplites. Immagini spaventose dell’oplita
No full textHoplite warfare has been characterised, in the traditional views, as a somewhat civilised form of warfare, characteristic of the Greek poleis, limited in its cruelty by common customs. Part of the literary images of those bronze-clad warriors shows, however, connections with a more obscure, frightening aspect of warfare. A connection between hoplites and monstrous figures is given by the presence in the myth of some “almost-human” people – such as the Gigantes or the Spartoi – as violent “men of bronze” born in armour.
A subset of the men of bronze is that of the heroes. The warriors of Greek myth embody the grim face of war as bronze-clad men, whose mere sight causes fear. Such depiction is present both in the epos – the very core of Patroclus’ deeds is based on his wearing the frightening armour of Achilles – and in the tragedy: for instance, the depiction of the Seven Argive heroes moving against Thebes in Aeschylus’ play compares the armed warriors to superhuman beings. The frightful sight of the men of bronze can be found also in historical accounts of apparitions of armed ghosts in battle. These spectres are oftentimes the heroes of myth, returning to earth to defend their sacred place; but sometimes, as shown by Herodotus’ account of Epizelus’
ghost of Marathon, they reflect the grim face of hoplite warfare
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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