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The Berber handicraft : longevity of the materials, symbolization of the shapes : anthropological and historical survey from the antiquity till nowadays
No full textLa culture berbère trouve ses origines dans la lointaine protohistorique, elle se voit dans le lien indéfectible à la terre, le sens de la communauté, le rapport au sacré, et l’hospitalité. L’artisanat est aussi l’un des modes d’expression de cette culture traditionnelle. Cet art authentique a longtemps été souvent méprisé tout au moins minorisé, devant une industrialisation très avancée. C’est le temps de faire connaitre à tous les codes d’un savoir-faire ancestral en voie de disparition.L’art berbère est à proprement parler un art abstrait, un art primitif, une pure création de l’esprit guidé par un instinct profond et des traditions sans âge. Cet art reproduit des formes et des techniques qui remontaient à l’âge du bronze, ce que l’histoire et l’anthropologie ont prouvé. À partir des matériaux frustes : pierre, terre, bois… et des gestes ancestraux appris de mères en filles, ces dernières modèlent l’argile, sculptent le cèdre, ou tissent la soie ; les artisanes respectent un langage esthétique codifié séculaire, en utilisant des signes géométriques qui symbolisent les rites de la civilisation. Avec le temps, le sens de ces images a sans doute évolué, mais elles restent un témoignage de permanence berbère.Berber culture finds its origins in the remote proto-historic, its seen in the unbreakable bond to the earth ,the sense of community, the relationship with the sacred, and hospitality. The craft is also one of the ways of the expression in this traditional culture; this authentic art has long been mistaken and even marginalized in front of a very advanced industrialization. It’s time to inform everybody about all the codes of an endangered ancestral knowledge.The Berber art itself is an abstract art, it is a primitive art, a pure creation of the mind guided by deep instinct and ageless traditions. This reproduces forms and techniques dating back to the Bronze Age, proven by history and anthropology. Starting from the rough materials: stone, clay, wood ... and ancestral gestures learned from mothers to daughters, they shape the clay, sculpts (carve) cedar, or weave silk. The craftswomen/men follow a secular codified aesthetic language using geometric signs witch symbolize the rites of civilization. Over time the meaning of these images has probably changed, but it remains a testament (witness)
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
The Numerical, Calculative, and Codification System in the Maghreb: A Historical and Documentary Study
Full text linkركَّزت هذه الدراسةُ على موضوع الأرقام والأعداد والحروف بنظام حساب الجُمَل في التواصل ونقل المعلومات، وطريقة التشفير عند المسلمين في بلاد الغرب الإسلامي؛ حيث كانوا يستخدمون هذا النظام في تدوينهم للعقود والوثائق الرسميَّة، إضافةً إلى دوره الفعّال في العلوم الرياضيَّة والفلكيَّة. وتسلِّطُ الدراسةُ الضَّوءَ على كيفيَّة استخدام التشفير لحماية المعلومات السريَّة والحسَّاسة، وكيفيَّة تطوير أنظمة معقَّدة لتبادل الرسائل بطرائق مشفَّرة باستخدام منهجيَّة تحليليَّة شاملة؛ مما يعكس تقدُّم المسلمين في مجال علم الرياضة والتشفير. وتقدِّمُ الدراسةُ نظرةً شاملةً لتطوُّر هذه النظم الرياضيّة تاريخيًّا في المنطقة المغاربيَّة والعربيَّة، ولكيفية تأثيرها في الثقافة والمجتمع، ولكيفيَّة تطبيقها في مجالات مختلفة كالتجارة والاقتصاد والسياسة وفنون الأدب واللغة والشِّعر. كما تُفَكِّكُ هذه الدراسةُنماذجَ وثائقيَّةً مشفَّرةً بُغيَةَ تبيين أهميَّة الأرقام والحروف باستخدام النظام العربي الأبجدي وحساب الجُمَّل ونظام التشفير، وأهميتها في ثقافة المسلمين وحياتهم الاجتماعيَّة في البلاد المغاربية، ورجاةَ الوقوف على دورها الحيوي في تنقل المعرفة بين الأفراد والجماعات السريَّة وكيفيَّة حماية المعلومات وصيانتها.This study delves into the intriguing interplay between numbers and letters, with a focus on their role in letter calculation and encoding among Muslims in the Western Islamic world. It traces the historical evolution of Arabic numerals, originating from the Indian numeral system known as Ghubār numerals, and their lasting impact in the Maghreb region until the 19th century AD. The research meticulously examines the sophisticated system of obfuscation and encryption, essential for safeguarding sensitive information during confidential exchanges, thus leaving a profound imprint on numerical practices in the Islamic West. These cryptographic techniques not only ensured information security but also significantly influenced the cultural and socio-economic landscape of the region, fostering trust in commercial transactions and potentially affecting diplomatic exchanges and the preservation of religious texts. This intricate symbiosis between numbers and letters showcases the intellectual ingenuity of Muslim scholars, who utilized mathematics and encryption methodologies to navigate and shape the complexities of their society
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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