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Diffondere la conoscenza e la consapevolezza dei rischi geologici nelle scuole tramite l’informazione, l’innovazione e l’educazione
No full textIl progetto promosso da Inail Direzione regionale per la Toscana e condiviso e sottoscritto da Regione Toscana, dall’Ufficio scolastico regionale del Miur e dal Dipartimento di scien- ze della terra dell’Università degli studi di Firenze è attivo dal 2013 ed ha visto il coinvol- gimento di 52 plessi scolastici di ogni ordine e grado distribuiti in tutto il territorio della Toscana. L’obiettivo è quello di valutare il grado di sicurezza geologica dell’edificio scola- stico, valutare le conoscenze e quindi la resilienza degli occupanti (docenti, personale ata e alunni) e creare i presupposti affinché siano integrati i documenti di valutazione dei rischi e i piani di emergenza con una valutazione dei rischi di natura geologica e le adeguate rispo- ste alle emergenze. La resilienza è considerata come la capacità che ogni comunità consape- vole di convivere con rischi ha di reagire in modo attivo alla presenza di un pericolo, predi- sponendo strategie di prevenzione integrate con le Autorità locali. In caso di rischi poten- zialmente molto lesivi e che possono coinvolgere la totalità delle persone presenti in un luogo di lavoro è di estrema importanza che la risposta alle emergenze sia pronta, adeguata e ben organizzata
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
Assessing the safety of schools affected by geo-hydrologic hazards: the geohazard safety class (GSC)
No full textThree-quarters of the world population suffered natural disasters at least once between 1980 and 2000. Furthermore, last years’ chronicles showed us several geological events that repededly affected urban landscapes. As a consequence beside the loss of human lives and environmental degradation, lots of students were excluded from school, many of whom never to return. Natural hazards have physical, educational, economic and psychosocial impacts. Nowadays it is well ascertained that to decrease this impact by means of structural interventions requires considerable economic resources. Nevertheless, the comparision consequences of similar events in different contexts, it emerges that risk awareness of the population and education to emergency procedures have a positive impact on the occurrence of victims. It follows that the ability of school occupants exposed to hazards to resist and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner plays a key role to reduce risk, moreover resulting in a cheaper and faster strategy of intervention. This paper presents a new cost-effective methodology and procedure to rapidly assess the geohazard safety class (GSC) of schools and provides useful information to local decision makers. The GSC, based on the concepts of hazard, vulnerability and resilience, can be calculated integrating ancillary data by means of rapid and not invasive field surveys and questionnaires distributed to the schools employees. Moreover, it can be easily read and understand since it uses the same type of scale as energy efficiency, to indicate the occupants’ safety in case of adverse events related to geo-hydrologic hazards. This new rapid assessment methodology have been tested on 10 schools in Tuscany (Italy) and the present paper shows how the GSC can be strongly affected by the lack of ancillary information or the incompleteness of the Risk Assessment Document as well as the school occupants poor perception of geo-hydrologic risk. However, this limitation is at the same time one of the strengths of the GSC: investing in education is a cost-effective way to increase substantially the GSC
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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