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Henri Deneux e le charpentes della Francia del Nord: una lezione di metodo fra conoscenza e restauro
No full textIn 1927 Henri Deneux published a research on L’evolution des charpentes du XI au XVIII siecle, whose aim to fill a serious gap in the storic architecture studies focused only on masonry construcion. The data that Deneux collected year by year (about 500 roofs in the north of France, brought together only in part in his essay of 1927) are mostly unpublished up to now and nowadays they represent the unique valuable evidence of costrucions destroyed during the World War I bombing raids. The knwoledge developed throught his surveys was at the rout of Deneux’s reconstrucion projects suggested for the monuments in Reims where the study of historic technologies combined with the use of more modern techniques. A lesson with merges together history, knowledge an project in a inseparable way
Henri Deneux e la ricostruzione in c.a. della copertura della cattedrale di Reims, 1914-1938
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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
Chapels with domes on squinches in Sicily (XV-XVI century). Constructive systems and structural vulnerability
No full text"A series of chapels with an architectural solution of great constructive meaning. arose in Sicily (Italy) between the 15th and 16th century; the so called chapels. with domes on squinches.. This kind of attachment between the square shape of the lower structure and. the upper dome circumference is clearly distinguished from the commonly used. pendentives. It represents continuity in the local constructive tradition, deriving. from the Islamic and Norman heritage. Thus, we find a lot of structures with. such constant elements as the squinches delimitated by recessed arches.. A few remains, situated in the western part of the island and in the Val di. Noto, show masonry constructive details and structural elements, which often. differ from each other, both in arrangement and materials. This circumstance,. also in the light of the seismic history of this territory, draws our attention to the. relation between the constructive techniques and the local context in order to. assess the vulnerability level.. Therefore, this research aims:. - at analyzing these structures from the points of view of geometry, construction,. materials, resistance and damage phenomena;. - at considering these buildings in the light of seismic hazard assessment;. - at defining the vulnerability of these structures in relation to conservation aims.
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