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The Italian way to deconcentration. Rome the appeal of the historic centre. Chieti-Pescara the strength of the periphery
No full textThe phenomena of residential deconcentration started in Italy during the 1970s following the creation of physical infrastructures and a national policy of welfare. In the meanwhile the non residential deconcentration process was partly either the result of market dynamism and of the decisions concerning the location of physical infrastructures. We have also to consider that the historical identity of Italian cities has contributed to slow the process of deconcentration both for residents and for local SME. The two case studies, Rome and Pescara-Chieti, are both in central Italy. The municipality of Rome dominates its monocentric MA; there are, indeed, two major municipalities, Pescara and Chieti, dominating the second polycentric MA. These characteristics influence the process of deconcentration. The two MA are historically connected through the Tiburtina Roman Consular Road, which was, since the 1970’s substituted in its functions, by the highway. The two deconcentration phenomena along this axis are not connected, at the moment, but there is some evidence of possible developments in the future. The two case studies offer an example of small scale deconcentration. In the case of Rome MA, the deconcentrated activities are diffused, especially for the commercial sector, on the city edge and they are strongly influenced by the presence of the Great Ring Road. The deconcentration of the industrial sector mainly concerns the suburban rings. In the case of Pescara-Chieti MA, there is not a trend of deconcentration centre-periphery, but it occurs along the highway and in specific individual locations. The process is guided by the commercial sector, continuously looking for new spaces for new openings and restructuring. Both the cases still show a strong dominance of the centre (s)
Coping strategies and perception of the after-pandemic future of Italians
No full textIn this paper, we aim to understand how Italians perceive their after Covid-19 future and if and how this perception can be strengthened so to make their future as effective as possible. To this purpose, we analysed the data collected at a sample of Italian adults. The survey was conducted from May 2021 to May 2022, using mainly computer-assisted web-based interviews (CAWI) and social media participation. A total of 1,192 respondents completed the electronic questionnaire. Since significant differences were found according to age, two analyses were performed, the first on the whole sample and the other on two age groups (18-34 and 35-90 years). To model the hypothesised relations, we used statistical multivariate techniques (segmentation analysis and artificial neural networks). The results show that gender, age, occupational status, health experience with Covid-19, physical and psychological damages caused by the pandemic and some indicators of psychological disorders, daily lifestyle and proactivity play an important role to detect the variability of future perception. Though, some of the significant relationships between Italians’ perception of their future and the personal and social variables selected as predictors show an unexpected direction
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
Convergence of Experts’ Opinions on the Territory: The Spatial Delphi and the Spatial Shang
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