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Military quarters 'Caserma Principe Amedeo' in Nola, Italy: damage assessment and reconstruction of a partially collapsed XVIII century complex
No full textA methodological approach is presented for the structural restoration of a highly damaged XVIII century building complex, the former military quarters, called Caserma Principe Amedeo, in view of their reutilization as House of Justice in the city of Nola, near Naples, Italy. The complex was designed by one of the most important architects that operated in Naples at that time: Ferdinando Fuga. Today the structure is extremely damaged with many parts being collapsed. In the reconstruction phase of the vaults, particular attention was paid to the formwork for the vault timbering matching the specific geometry of the existing vaults. This implied extensive and in-depth historical investigations on the construction techniques of that period to reconstruct the vaults following the design rules, the manufacturing techniques, and the materials of XVIII century in that area. A non-linear finite element analysis of the vault was performed with reference to the effective geometric and mechanical properties. The numerical modeling was validated by means of a real scale pilot vault tested on-site, and two tests on existing vaults. This investigation made possible the redesign of an architectural layout that appears to be neat and functional for the future building utilization. It was possible to restore construction techniques applicable to materials and geometries perfectly correlated to the original design. This restoration allows the reconstructed part of the building smoothly fading into the architectural equilibrium of the original structure
Structural restoration of an XVIII century building: the floor vaults of the Caserma "Principe Amedeo" in Nola
No full textThis paper presents the methodological approach for structurally restoring a highly damaged XVIIIth century building, the former military compound Caserma Principe Amedeo, in view of its reutilization as House of Justice of the city of Nola, near Naples. The building was designed by one of the most important architects who operated in Naples at that time: Ferdinando Fuga. Today, its structure appears extremely damaged with many structural parts having collapsed and many others either statically unstable or close to collapse. In practice, this required reconstruction of the main faade, which was completely destroyed during WWII, and the rationale was to reproduce the same architecture as the original one, which implied an extensive and an in-depth historical investigation into the construction techniques of that period. This was particularly true for one of the main features of that construction, the building floor vaults, which were reconstructed following the design rules and the manufacturing techniques of the XVIIIth century in that area. This investigation made possible the re-design of an architectural layout that appears to be neat and functional to the future building utilization. It was possible to restore construction techniques applicable to materials and geometries perfectly correlated to the original design. This allows the reconstructed part of the building to smoothly fade into the architectural equilibrium of the original manufacture
Historical, architectural and structural assessment of the Bell Tower of Santa Maria del Carmine
No full textAn in-depth survey was carried out in situ on the masonry bell tower of the Santa Maria del
Carmine Church in the city of Naples, Italy. The analyses followed a multidisciplinary
approach to identify its architectural and structural features, to identify the materials used
and the state of damage and interventions made in various periods, to assess the stress state in
the masonry under gravity loads, and to define its dynamic behavior. The information
gathered represents the starting point for designing a seismic upgrade to meet the standards
applied to historic monuments
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
Historical, architectonic and structural investigations of the Bell Tower of Santa Maria del Carmine
No full textDetailed historical and architectonical investigation was performed on the Bell
Tower of Santa Maria del Carmine Church in Naples. Geometrical and material
surveys and destructive and nondestructive tests were performed in situ to
evaluate the level of damage, the sequence of changes in the structures and the
stress distribution due to static loads. Experimental dynamic characterisation of
the Bell Tower was conducted and the environmental effects of vibrations due to
wind, traffi c and the ringing of the Towers ’ bells were considered. Linear static
and dynamic analyses were developed to compare experimental with analytical
results in terms of stress level for vertical loads and dynamic behaviour
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
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