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Acque termali. Medicina, religione, ecologia nell'Italia di età moderna
No full textThis thesis investigates the attitudes towards hot mineral water in early modern Italy, by defining how different groups and actors perceived this element. This analysis deepens our understanding on different aspects of the early modern medical, religious and cultural field. During this period, medical and religious discourses normatively guided the practices of individuals and groups in the use of thermal waters, showing both continuities and caesuras in the thinking about the relationship with this element. The mid-sixteenth century was a central period for the medicalisation of spas and the development of medical knowledge. While the representation of baths and thermal waters was linked to literary and historical-antiquarian interests during the Renaissance, the publication of two important printed treatises marked a significant turning point in medical reflection on thermal waters. However, the early modern approach to hot mineral waters was not exclusively limited to the medical aspect. Some waters, such as those of Monteortone, were conceived as sacred elements, in which religious and medical practices were intertwined, due to the multi-layered concept of healing. Some hot mineral waters became the focus of local devotion during the Counter-Reformation, and were intrinsically part of local identity. The relationship between thermal waters to individuals and communities is well documented, while their interaction with other actors is underrepresented in the historiographical literature. The presence of animals at baths reflects their status in the early modern society, as guides and mediators for people, or as inferior beings separated from humans by material and symbolic walls. At the same time, the analysis of these natural elements and their perception reveals the role of human intervention in the environment. By reclaiming wetlands, the Republic of Venice profoundly altered ecosystems and, consequently, the balance between centre and periphery, a factor that was mirrored in the use of hot springs. Local elites benefited from the new management of the landscape, as hot mineral springs, and the associated investment in leisure infrastructures, became particularly profitable.
Overall, the relationship between humans and thermal waters reveals a number of overlapping and intertwined layers, such as the advancement of medical knowledge, healing purposes, economic interests, social practices, self-representation, identity construction and the relationship with the sacred, which involved both humans and non-humans. In this sense, the analysis of hot mineral springs sheds light on the impact of nature and the element of hot mineral water on the early modern culture and society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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