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Applicazione dei metodi avanzati al fronte appenninico apulo-lucano: analisi di I livello
No full textLandslide damage assessment at the intermediate to small scale
No full textThis paper presents an original methodology that has been developed for the landslide damage assessment of either masonry or reinforced concrete ordinary buildings at the intermediate to small scale. After a brief introduction of the Load Path Method used for the analysis of the crack patterns, new survey damage forms are introduced. The forms are completed when a damage grade is assigned to each building within the region under study. Moreover, the analysis of the crack patterns makes it possible to select those buildings that are likely damaged by foundation settlements in order to create a landslide damage geotechnical chart. This chart includes the geomorphological map of the town under study, the damage grade of the buildings and the direction of the possible settlements. The application of the methodology to a territorial cell from the south of Italy is also reported
Applicazione dei metodi avanzati al fronte appenninico apulo-lucano: analisi di II livello della metodologia multiscalare
No full textApplicazione dei metodi avanzati del fronte appenninico apulo-lucano secondo l'approccio multiscalare: analisi d III livello
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Slow landslides in urbanised clayey slopes: An emblematic case from the south of Italy
No full textThe paper presents the emblematic case of the Pianello slope, that is a complex landslide basin located in the town centre of Bovino, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. The low gradient slope is formed of highly tectonised and heterogeneous clays and it is affected by very slow and deep landsliding. The failure mechanisms are representative of many others not only in the Daunia area in the south of Italy, but also in the slopes of the Italian Apennines. The analysis resulted from field surveys, investigations and monitoring data as well as from the laboratory test results of the geotechnical investigation. The phenomenological interpretation of the landslide mechanism, along with the identification of the predisposing and triggering factors has been validated by both limit equilibrium and numerical analyses
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
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