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Architettura nel paesaggio. Studi e proposte per la conservazione e la valorizzazione del patrimonio architettonico di Anacapri
No full textArchitectural values and landscape of Capri motivate particular attention to be given to the preservation of local historical and artistic heritage, intended as a factor of development of productive and cultural activities. The island has a particularly complex geo- morphological structure, with vast plateauxin which Anacapri emerges. The castle of Barbarossa, dating back the tenth century, despite the layers and mutilations suffered, is a historical key factor, in harmony with the surrounding landscape of monte Solaro. At the foot of the castle, the first small centres developed, while the farmland with rural buildings arranged towards the coast. The contribution analyzes the possibilities relating to new devel- opment and exploitation of cultural and environmental systems linked to small agricultural structures that mark the coastal territory for the promotion of responsible tourism; the strengthening and enhancement of local systems and the consequences on the agricultural peculiarities; the Consortium reorganization of services related to tourism. While important for the local economy tourism cannot take a single item of revival of these structures, being known as an inter- mittent and seasonal activities, subject to constraints arising from external dynamics. It seems a crucial development possibilities, which combining together experiment conversion models of rural comfortable and various functions. Think back to a diffuse and polycentric network offering dif- ferentiated services in each of the facilities analyzed, reconstituting this way the variety and complexity of the offer of a medium- sized city. The networks can differentiate even for themes: the energy; the already mentioned environmental tourism; the agri- cultural production. Rural scenario is relevant and the formation of networks of cooperation looks more critical than ever if you want to achieve an effective enhancement of production and their social and cultural context
A forgotten religious heritage in the north of Apulia
No full textThe presence of historical itineraries of worship on the Italian territory gives
attention to a very rich architectural and landscape heritage, mostly decommissioned or even
completely neglected. Among the examples to be mentioned is the system of buildings linked to
the cult of St. Michele Arcangelo and widespread in the Gargano since the 6th century AD to
support the pilgrimage routes. What remains nowadays of that system is very little. The ancient
routes have fallen into oblivion or have been used otherwise. Few buildings are still active and
well-preserved, but many other are reduced to ruins due to the distance from the inhabited
centers and to the traffic and communication flows. This work aims to trace the articulated
history of these structures not only to network buildings but also to verify large-scale restoration
projects, emancipated from the confusion between conservation and speculation and coinciding
with actions of enhancement and virtuous recovery
Endangered heritage. The preservation of industrial artefacts in Abruzzo, through research and projects
No full textWhat remains of old water mills, paper mills, icehouses and country kilns is the ever more meagre residue of an industria! proto-history that was supplanted at the turn of the 20th century in Abruzzo by more modern, precise production equipment, which itself has become outdated and obsolete in the span of a few decades, by passing time and circumstance. Indeed, the route of the Adriatic railway, built soon after the Unification of Italy, shifted the axis of interest of a local economy that was once connected by rivers and drove roads, towards the coast, and started a new chapter of the region's history that would be decisive for the reorganisation of the territory and the redistribution of its resources.
This contribution aims to provide an account of the historical heritage that sustained Abruzzo's industry for a long peri od of time, f ocusing in particular on assets in a state of preservati on that promises them a future, which is as possible as it is desirable for the assets themselves and the communities they belong to
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
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