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Il ruolo del comportamento meccanico degli RSU nella valutazione complessiva della stabilità delle discariche su pendio.
No full textNumerical study of debris flows in presence of obstacles and retaining structures: A case study in the Italian Alps
Full text linkDebris flows are one of the most frequent mass movement processes and occur in all regions with steep relief and at least occasional rainfall. Their high flow velocity, impact forces, and long runout, combined with poor temporal predictability, cause debris flows to be one of the most hazardous landslide types. An essential aspect of debris-flow risk management is the design of mitigation measures, which reduce the existing risk to an accepted level of residual risk, by reducing the potential damage that the moving mass can produce in terms of loss of human life and destruction of structures and infrastructures. Among these mitigation measures, transverse retention structures are used to delimit storage basins and prevent dangerous debris flows from reaching high-consequence areas. Due to the enormous impact forces that debris flows can exert on obstacles in their path, a reasonable planning requires that dynamic stresses are taken into account during the structural designing process, regardless of the complete (solid body barrier) or partial (open barrier) retention function that the type of selected structure can exert on the flowing mass. Since the village of Cancia, close to Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italian Dolomites), is hit by destructive debris flows for a long time, a storage basin delimited by natural and gabion barriers was built in 2000. In 2009 a severe event caused the partial collapse of the gabions and the overflow of the flowing mass. The present paper analyses through numerical modelling the dynamics of the flow and the influence of an abandoned building, existing inside the storage basin, on the occurred event
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
Large storage capacity cement silos and clinker deposit on a near-shore sandy fill using piles for soil improvement and settlement reduction.
No full textAppropriate 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
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