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Archeologia della lana in età romana. Dati preliminari dalla provincia di Rovigo
Full text linkThis paper presents the preliminary results of the census of archeological data for the province of Rovigo related to the textile industry in roman times. This research comes from a Phd project that is still ongoing and is a part of a larger research focused on the Roman textiles in Northern Italy started a few years ago by the Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali, University of Padua. Whilst weaving and spinning activities are quite frequent, evidence for shearing is quite rare. The paper also divides the specific characteristics of each class of objects studied in two separate geographic contexts, the urban context of the city of Adria and the rural context of the rest of the Rovigo province
Archeologia tessile nella Venetia romana tra storia e archeologia: i casi di Altino, Padova e Verona
No full textIn this paper are presented some results of two recent scientific projects about Roman textile archaeology carried out by scholars and students of Padua University: the “Pondera” project (2009-2014) and the “TRAMA Textiles in Roman Archaeology. Methods and analysis” project (still in progress).
After a brief methodological introduction, the attention is focused on literary sources and archaeological evidences concerning the wool production in three of the most important cities of the ancient Venetia region, in the North East of Italy: Altino, Padua and Verona.
Firstly, the analysis of some ancient authors’ quotations about the quality of the raw material (wool) and fabrics is provided, then functional and morphometric parameters of loom weights are discussed.
Considering the possibility of identifying the fabrics from the physical characteristics of the loom weights,
the goal is to verify the existence of a correlation between morphometric parameters of loom weights found in the three cities and their countryside and the information provided by the literary sources. This combined approach reveals different production dynamics and sheds new light on the textile economy of the area
Textiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean economy and society, VI Purpureae Vestes International Symposium. Textiles and Dyes in Antiquity
No full textTextiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean Economy and Society. Proceedings of the VI International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Padova - Este - Altino, Italy 17 - 20 October 2016)
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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
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
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