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Quitopia. Collective city-making, participation and autonomy in Quito's urban future.
Full text linkLo scopo di questa tesi di dottorato è immaginare un modo in cui le città possano essere pianificate tramite un approccio inclusivo. Scegliendo lEcuador come caso studio, vengono presi in esame una serie di concetti e articoli appartenenti alla Costituzione Ecuadoriana e al Piano Nazionale del 2008, focalizzandosi su argomenti come la città, la partecipazione e lautonomia. In questo modo, la ricerca tenta di rilevare le potenzialità di tale quadro istituzionale al fine di soddisfare il diritto alla città in Ecuador. In un secondo momento, la ricerca evidenzia come, nonostante la presenza di partecipazione e autonomia in questo panorama giuridico, tali principi finora sono stati attuati se non in minima parte. Per tentare di colmare questa lacuna tra teoria e pratica, la tesi esamina la storia culturale di partecipazione e autogestione del territorio ecuadoriano e sceglie di portare alla luce unantica pratica andina, tuttora esercitata, chiamata minga. Dopo averne studiato levoluzione e le cooptazioni attraverso i secoli, lattenzione si concentra sugli impatti delle mingas in diversi momenti storici nelle periferie urbane di Quito. Questa analisi è perseguita attraverso lo studio degli attori, gli eventi, i processi decisionali e gli impatti spaziali delle mingas nel modellare il territorio di tre quartieri autogestiti di Quito. Lultimo capitolo chiamato Quitopia, come il titolo della tesi, immagina infine uno scenario in cui la recente costituzione ecuadoriana ed il sostrato culturale legato alla minga, si fondono in unutopia in cui gli spazi collettivi metropolitani di Quito sono interamente rimodellati e co-gestiti. Seppur concentrandosi su un caso specifico, lEcuador, linterpretazione del background normativo e lo studio della cultura locale relativa alla creazione di spazi collettivi, vengono visti come un potente binomio utilizzabile ovunque si voglia sperimentare alternative future in contesti urbani
Chapter 1 - STRATEGIC DIMENSION
Full text linkStrategic Dimension. A strategic approach entails a transformative and integrative socio-spatial
process supporting the development of a vision of the future of a place, coherent actions and means for implementation. This chapter explores how to enhance strategic capacity; promote stronger strategic orientation by applying innovative policy-making methods; foster coordination between territorial strategies; and link territorial strategies with EU and global policy agendas
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
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
Handbook of Territorial and Local Development Strategies
Full text linkAll places are important to the future wellbeing of Europe. The European Union (EU) is committed to ensuring that the development potential of places is uncovered and valorised. Integrated territorial and local develop- ment strategies promoted by EU cohesion policy are relevant tools to sustain this process.
The ‘Handbook of Territorial and Local Development Strategies’ provides valuable knowledge on how to design and implement integrated strategies in areas other than urban areas. It aims to serve managing authorities of operational programmes, local strategy owners as well as other stakeholders involved in the process.
The Handbook is a joint initiative by the European Commission’s Directorates-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), and it benefits from the active contribution of policy-makers, practitioners and scholars
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
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