1,721,015 research outputs found
Integrated and advanced techniques of survey for the definition of lost facies of the monumental architecture
Full text linkThe analysis of an architecture characterized by geometrical, functional and historical complexity requires the fundamental and crucial acquisition of metrics data, iconographic and archival documents, followed by a correct comparison and interpretation of the collected information. The aim of this process is to give a precise critical interpretation of the building - or some of its specific areas - as close as possible to reality such as to allow a reliable reconstruction of those aspects that got possibly lost over time.
In the specific case, this approach wants to offer a vital support to the study of those aspects of the monumental architecture that have been heavily altered by inappropriate interventions.
In this paper, the methodological process is related to a quite large number of interventions on Villa Mondragone in Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), the largest among the princely houses of the Tuscolan Complex. The task, here, is to get an accurate reconstruction of the facades facing Piazzale Maggiore, a large inner courtyard of the vast complex, focusing in particular on the latest large process of transformation, started nearly a century ago.
We based our study on bibliographical sources, on recent years’ historical data researches and on the analysis of the iconographic documentation, as well as on surveys of the state of fact by using different techniques. A considerable support to the research came from the use of the new survey technologies, which the main object of this article. These technologies have been managed in an integrated manner on the areas of interest. They have helped to obtain considerably accurate surveys such as to guarantee a high degree of reliability to the reconstructive hypotheses subsequently processed.
On one hand, the survey has relied on the capabilities of the laser-scanner, and of the other hand on the aerial photogrammetry with operations done with different types of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) and digital cameras. A series of different reasons required the use of various tools for indirect survey, as shown in the text. The most important one is due to the relevant dimensional characteristics of the building and the surrounding context.
This work is part of a broader line of research on the Ville Tuscolane and here it mainly refers to the applications of the most advanced systems for surveying and modeling of monumental architecture of historical interest. It has provided interesting food for thought and technological and methodological comparison on the theme of philological reconstruction of the lost internal fronts of Piazzale Maggiore of Villa Mondragone. This was possible thanks to some similar elements on the facade facing the outside of the Manica Lunga (the longest eastern side of of the building enclosing the court) emerged during the surveys of this front
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
Fotogrammetria digitale aerea e laser scanning terrestre per ipotesi ricostruttive di fronti perduti dell’edilizia monumentale: il caso di Villa Mondragone
No full textL’analisi di un manufatto architettonico complesso dal punto di vista geometrico, funzionale e storico comporta la preventiva e indispensabile acquisizione dei dati metrici, delle testimonianze iconografiche, dei documenti d’archivio e quindi un corretto confronto e interpretazione delle informazioni ottenute. Un processo finalizzato ad affrontare una lettura critica della fabbrica – o di alcuni suoi ambiti specifici – quanto più possibile vicina alla realtà e tale da consentire una ricostruzione attendibile di quegli aspetti di quest’ultima che, nel tempo, siano eventualmente andati perduti. Questo approccio si pone dunque, nello specifico caso, l’obiettivo di offrire un fondamentale supporto allo studio di quelle facies dell’architettura monumentale pesantemente alterate da interventi inopportuni. Tale processo metodologico è presentato, in questo contributo, relativamente a una consistente serie di interventi su Villa Mondragone a Monte Porzio Catone (Roma), la più grande fra le principesche dimore del Complesso delle Ville Tuscolane. L’iter è stato qui finalizzato alla ricostruzione filologica dei fronti rivolti verso il cosiddetto Piazzale Maggiore, ampia corte interna del vasto complesso, con particolare riguardo alle ultime ingenti operazioni di trasformazione, avviate quasi un secolo fa. A tal fine ci si è basati sulle nutrite fonti bibliografiche, sui dati storici emersi dalle intense attività di ricerca condotte negli ultimi anni, sull’analisi della copiosa documentazione iconografica reperita, nonché sui rilievi dello stato di fatto effettuati con l’impiego di diverse tecniche. Di notevole supporto all’attività di ricerca è stato l’impiego delle nuove tecnologie di rilevamento, oggetto principale del presente articolo, gestite in maniera integrata sulle zone di interesse. Esse hanno consentito di ottenere rilievi notevolmente accurati e tali da poter garantire un elevato grado di affidabilità alle ipotesi ricostruttive successivamente elaborate. Il rilievo si è dunque avvalso, da un lato, delle potenzialità offerte dal laser-scanner, dall’altro, della fotogrammetria aerea attraverso operazioni condotte con differenti tipologie di droni e di fotocamere digitali. L’impiego dei diversi strumenti per il rilievo indiretto, come illustra il testo, è stato richiesto da una serie di cause, la principale delle quali è insita nelle rilevanti caratteristiche dimensionali sia della fabbrica che del contesto circostante. Il lavoro svolto, che si inserisce all’interno di un più ampio filone di ricerca sulle Ville Tuscolane – qui maggiormente riferito alle applicazioni dei sistemi più evoluti per il rilievo e la modellazione di architetture monumentali a carattere storico – ha fornito interessanti spunti di riflessione e di confronto metodologico e tecnologico sul tema della ricostruzione filologica dei perduti fronti interni del Piazzale Maggiore di Villa Mondragone, resa possibile anche grazie ad alcuni elementi affini presenti sulla facciata rivolta verso l’esterno della Manica Lunga (l’ala orientale più estesa del corpo di fabbrica che racchiude la corte) ed emersi grazie ai rilievi effettuati su tale fronte.The analysis of an architecture characterized by geometrical, functional and historical complexity, requires the fundamental and crucial acquisition of metrics data, iconographic e and archival documents, followed by a correct comparison and interpretation of the collected information. The scope of this process is to give a precise critical interpretation of the building - or some of its specific areas - as close as possible to reality and such as to allow a reliable reconstruction of those aspects of it that got possibly lost over time. In the specific case, this approach wants to offer a vital support to the study of those aspects of the monumental architec-ture that have been heavily altered by inappropriate interventions. In this paper, the methodological process is relating to a quite large number of interventions on Villa Mondragone in Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), the largest among the princely houses of the Tuscolan Complex. The task, here, is to get an accurate reconstruc-tion of the facades facing towards the so called Piazzale Maggiore, a large inner courtyard of the vast com-plex and it will focus in particularly on the latest large process of transformation, started nearly a century ago. For this reason, we based our study on bibliographical sources, on recent years’ historical data researches and on the analysis of the ample iconographic documentation, as well as on surveys of the state of fact by using different techniques. A considerable support to the research came from the use of the new survey technolo-gies, which the main object of this article. These technologies have been managed in an integrated manner on the areas of interest. They have helped to obtain considerably accurate surveys and such as to guarantee a highdegree of reliability to the reconstructive hypotheses subsequently processed. On one hand, the survey has relied on the capabilities of the laser-scanner, and of the other hand on the aerial photogrammetry with operations done with different types of UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) and digital cameras. A series of differ-ent reasons required the use of various tools for indirect survey, as shown in the text. The most important one is due to the relevant dimensional characteristics of the building and the surrounding context. This work is part of a broader line of research on the Ville Tuscolane and here it mainly refers to the applications of the most advanced systems for surveying and modeling of monumental architecture of historical interest. It has provid-ed interesting food for thought and technological and methodological comparison on the theme of philologi-cal reconstruction of the lost internal fronts of Piazzale Maggiore of Villa Mondragone. This was possible thanks to some similar elements on the facade facing the outside of the Manica Lunga (the longest eastern side of of the building enclosing the court) emerged during the surveys of this front
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
- …
