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Alcuni indicatori della fecondità del momento nella recente esperienza italiana. SAGGI E RICERCHE, Quaderno n. 19. Dipartimento Economico,Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università "La Sapienza"
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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
Fashion Disputes and Alternatives to Court
No full textThis contribution aims at investigating the different ways of protecting the injured party in fashion disputes over appropriation, particularly considering the unequal positions of well‐established fashion houses and local designers, emerging brands, indigenous groups
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
Spectral phase shift interferometry for refractive index monitoring in micro-capillaries
No full textIn this work, we demonstrate spectral phase-shift interferometry operating in the near-infrared wavelength range for refractive index (RI) monitoring of fluidic samples in micro-capillaries. A detailed theoretical model was developed to calculate the phase-sensitive spectral reflectivity when low-cost rectangular glass micro-capillaries, filled with samples with different refractive indices, are placed at the end of the measurment arm of a Michelson interferometer. From the phase-sensitive spectral reflectivity, we recovered the cosine-shaped interferometric signal as a function of the wavelength, as well as its dependence on the sample RI. Using the readout radiation provided by a 40-nm wideband light source with a flat emission spectrum centered at 1.55 μm and a 2 × 1 fiberoptic coupler on the common input-output optical path, experimental results were found to be in good agreement with the expected theoretical behavior. The shift of the micro-capillary optical resonances, induced by RI variations in the filling fluids (comparing saline solution with respect to distilled water, and isopropanol with respect to ethanol) were clearly detected by monitoring the positions of steep phase jumps in the cosine-shaped interferometric signal recorded as a function of the wavelength. By adding a few optical components to the instrumental configuration previously demonstrated for the spectral amplitude detection of resonances, we achieved phase-sensitive detection of the wavelength positions of the resonances as a function of the filling fluid RI. The main advantage consists of recovering RI variations by detecting the wavelength shift of “sharp peaks”, with any amplitude above a threshold in the interferometric signal derivative, instead of “wide minima” in the reflected power spectra, which are more easily affected by uncertainties due to amplitude fluctuations
Late Quaternary uplift and valley evolution in the Northern Apennines: Lamone catchment
No full textThe topographic evolution of mountain chains is fundamentally dictated by the balance of erosional and tectonic processes. In the Northern Apennines, several questions about the late Holocene to present deformation style and uplift rates are still open. We consider a typical NE facing drainage basin, focusing on all the geomorphic markers capable of supplying direct or indirect information regarding tectonic forcing on the landscape. Characteristics of altitude and relief, drainage pattern, river profile and fluvial response expressions were found to be in good agreement, indicating that the most recent tectonic activity consists of a general persistent uplift of the chain, associated with an extensional regime, where different sectors are distinguished through differential uplift. Such differences have been found to act both along and transverse to the chain, causing similar coherent patterns of response in erosional processes. The geomorphology of the catchment displays several features, which together with the long sustained tectonic forcing indicate the near-attainment of a dynamic equilibrium between the rates of tectonic forcing and erosional processes, creating steady-state topography. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved
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