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Movilidad religiosa en los cultos de la Arcadia suroccidental, Monte Liceo y Megalópolis
No full textSeveral sanctuaries, whether of ancestral origin, newly founded or occasionally reinterpreted and revitalized, have played an important role in the life of the Arkadian communities, in political and social projects and in the evolutionary process of the cults themselves. Ancient cults have often been enriched through innovations that altered the original substrate, overcoming possible obstacles of religious resistance. Thus, the mobility, adaptability and capacity for renewal of the Arkadian cultic system is revealed in the context of the religious and socio-political imperatives of each historical moment. Indeed, to the reasons that made some sanctuaries focuses of popular and institutional attention, since archaic times, non-strictly religious motivations can be added, such as those of ethnic-identitary nature and those derived from political intentionality. The responses given to these challenges within the sacred precincts exalted and strengthened their role as reference spots. Important political projects, such as the founding of the Arkadian League or the synoecism and founding of Megalopolis, in the 4th century BCE, they made use of the religious substratum of the territory, revitalizing the ancient cult of Zeus Lykaios on the homonymous mountain or transplanting into the interior of the newly founded city, although expanding and updating them, the main cults of the pre-synecistic centers. Ancient religious traditions helped legitimize and consolidate this type of political projects. On the other hand, other initiatives, such as the Eleusinization of the cult of the Great Goddesses of Megalopolis, carried out in the Hellenistic era, sought to transmit a message of a social nature, in accordance with the point of view of the land-owning elites, replacing a popular, traditional agrarian cult for an elaborate Eleusinian version.Varios santuarios, bien de origen ancestral, bien de nueva fundación o puntualmente reinterpretados y revitalizados, han desempeñado un importante papel en la vida de las comunidades arcadias, en los proyectos políticos y sociales y en el proceso evolutivo de los cultos mismos. Con frecuencia los antiguos cultos se han enriquecido por medio de reelaboraciones e innovaciones que alteraban el sustrato original, superando eventuales obstáculos de resistencia religiosa. Se pone, así, de manifiesto la movilidad, adaptabilidad y capacidad de renovación del sistema cultual arcadio ante los imperativos religiosos y sociopolíticos de cada momento histórico. En efecto, a las razones que hicieron de algunos santuarios focos de atención popular e institucional, ya desde época arcaica, se pueden sumar motivaciones no estrictamente religiosas, tales como las de índole étnico-identitaria y las derivadas de la intencionalidad política. Las respuestas dadas a estos retos en el interior de los recintos sagrados ensalzaron y fortalecieron su papel como santuarios de referencia. Importantes proyectos políticos, caso de la fundación de la Liga arcadia o el sinecismo y fundación de Megalópolis, en el siglo IV a.C., se sirvieron del sustrato religioso del territorio, revitalizando el antiguo culto de Zeus Lykaios en el monte homónimo o trasplantando en el interior de la ciudad recién fundada, aunque ampliándolos y actualizándolos, los principales cultos de los centros presinecísticos. Las antiguas tradiciones religiosas contribuyeron a legitimar y consolidar este tipo de proyectos; en cambio, otras iniciativas, caso de la eleusinización del culto de las Grandes Diosas de Megalópolis, llevada a cabo en época helenística, pretendían transmitir un mensaje de carácter social, acorde al punto de vista de las élites terratenientes, sustituyendo un culto agrario tradicional y popular por una elaborada versión eleusina
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
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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