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Innovation Strategies and Cities. Insights from the Boston Area
No full textInnovation is gaining increasing attention in the contemporary European policy making and research arena. RIS3 (Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisations) translate into a policy the concept of entrepreneurial discovery, incorporating the process of co-creation across multiple stakeholders within the development and implementation of regional strategies for growth. The paper aims to provide planners and policy makers with a fresh view on the current innovation strategies at the forefront of the European debate, in particular by focussing on how RIS3 could be successfully implemented in cities. At this goal, the authors draw insights from paradigmatic international best practices, such as the innovative clusters in the Boston area, by assuming that a close similarity exists between innovative clusters and Smart Specialisation
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
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Targets: A Possible Harmonisation? Insights from the European Perspective
Full text linkThe Agenda 2030 includes a set of targets that need to be achieved by 2030. Although none of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses exclusively on cultural heritage, the resulting Agenda includes explicit reference to heritage in SDG 11.4 and indirect reference to other Goals. Achievement of international targets shall happen at local and national level, and therefore, it is crucial to understand how interventions on local heritage are monitored nationally, therefore feeding into the sustainable development framework. This paper is focused on gauging the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals with reference to cultural heritage, by interrogating the current way of classifying it (and consequently monitoring). In fact, there is no common dataset associated with monitoring SDGs, and the field of heritage is extremely complex and diversified. The purpose for the paper is to understand if the taxonomy used by different national databases allows consistency in the classification and valuing of the different assets categories. The European case study has been chosen as field of investigation, in order to pilot a methodology that can be expanded in further research. A cross-comparison of a selected sample of publicly accessible national cultural heritage databases has been conducted. As a result, this study confirms the existence of general harmonisation of data towards the achievement of the SDGs with a broad agreement of the conceptualisation of cultural heritage with international frameworks, thus confirming that consistency exists in the classification and valuing of the different assets categories. However, diverse challenges of achieving a consistent and coherent approach to integrating culture in sustainability remains problematic. The findings allow concluding that it could be possible to mainstream across different databases those indicators, which could lead to depicting the overall level of attainment of the Agenda 2030 targets on heritage. However, more research is needed in developing a robust correlation between national datasets and international targets
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
Il vuoto come occasione di sviluppo della città contemporanea
No full textA fronte dei grandi cambiamenti dello spazio urbano con particolare riferimento ai meccanismi di trasformazione e crescita della città nel territorio, le politiche urbanistiche ed ambientali per le città necessitano anch'esse di un momento di riflessione critica, essendo stati messi in discussione i paradigmi che avevamo indirizzato la trasformazione e la crescita urbana.
La ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio tra la disponibilità e l’uso delle risorse ambientali e le prospettive di crescita fisiologica della città, suggerisce la possibilità di introdurre nel controllo dei meccanismi di crescita e trasformazione del tessuto urbano dei dispositivi formativi che contengano decisamente il consumo di suolo, non solo dei suoli periurbani o agricoli, ma anche suoli inedificati interni alla città o di quelli edificati, occupati da edifici ormai in dismessi. In quest’ultimo caso entra in gioco la questione della durata di un edificio è fondamentale per operare scelte coerenti dal punto di vista ambientale: nella maggior parte dei casi i manufatti sono pensati per durare nel tempo, e la loro vita finisce spesso più che per il deperimento o per la dismissione degli elementi costruttivi che lo compongono, per il mutare delle condizioni di necessità che ne hanno garantito l’uso o per il trasformarsi delle condizioni antropologiche, sociali ed urbane a contorno. Un edificio, che per sua natura comporta un consumo di suolo, di materie prime e di energia, sopravvive ad i suoi ideatori, ai suoi fruitori, alle condizioni storiche e sociali che ne hanno determinato la costruzione. La durata di un edificio, più o meno lunga a seconda dell'attenzione manutentiva ripostagli, risponde, in ogni caso, a tempi più lunghi rispetto alla velocità con cui si evolvono le città contemporanee. Lo scarto temporale tra le dinamiche sociali che determinano la domanda di architettura ed il “tempo lungo” della vita di un edificio, implica una riflessione sul tema del riuso e della dismissione dell’architettura, in un’ottica che si potrebbe definire di “rottamazione del costruito”.
Negli ultimi decenni le città si sono trasformate e sono cresciute a dismisura, prefigurando scenari di sviluppo che nel corso degli anni sono mutati profondamente, spesso esaurendo la funzione urbana di intere parti di città, lasciandosi alle spalle i “resti” di architetture appartenenti a processi di sviluppo ormai superati. Di fronte a tutto questo è naturale chiedersi se è proprio necessario conservare tutto e se no, cosa fare di quello che resta
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
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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