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3.5D Printing.
No full textThe research investigates a new construction process for design called “3.5 printing”. The system is related to research on programmable materials and matches FDM technology with the properties of planar substrates in sheet form. The process uses thermoforming of the resulting material and uses limited amounts of energy and resources.
The results achieved show the application benefits of the process, particularly the optimization of the characteristics of the materials used and the efficient transportation of the two-dimensional objects put into shape at the final location
Distanze relazionanti
No full textLa mostra D/STANZE, allestita a Milano nel maggio 2024 nell’ambito di BIG – Biennale Internazionale di Grafica, invita a riflettere sul concetto di distanza nelle sue sfumature fisiche, emotive, culturali e relazionali. Gli studenti e gli insegnanti dei Corsi di Design della Comunicazione dell’Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino hanno indagato questa tematica attraverso gli strumenti statici e dinamici della comunicazione visiva, creando un dialogo tra segno grafico, significato e spettatore
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
AtelieRwanda, design e fibre vegetali. Bilancio di un’esperienza
No full textIl contributo ripercorre le tappe di avvio del progetto di ricerca AtelierRwanda per verificarne a posteriori gli aspetti metodologici e le ricadute socio-economiche sulle comunità locali. AtelierRwanda, Tradition and Innovation in Vegetable Fiber’s Design nasce con l’intenzione di sperimentare nuovi modelli di sviluppo sostenibile attraverso la formazione, la ricerca e l’individuazione di processi innovativi da applicare localmente. Grazie alla creazione di un laboratorio di ricerca permanente a Kigali in Ruanda, e al coinvolgimento diretto delle Istituzioni e delle associazioni locali, il progetto ha verificato le potenzialità dell’approccio sistemico a un’innovazione che consideri gli aspetti sociali, ambientali, etici, culturali ed economici di una comunità.The contribution retrace the research project AtelierRwanda starting phases to verify ex post the methodological aspect and socio- economic impacts on local communities. AtelierRwanda, Tradition and Innovation in Vegetable Fiber’s Design has born with the intention to experiment new sustainable developing models through education, research and identification of innovative processes to be applied locally. Through the creation of a permanent research lab in Kigali, Rwanda, and the direct involvement of local institutions and associations, the project tested the potential of the systemic approach to an innovation that takes into account the social, environmental, ethical, cultural and economic aspects of a community
La farmacia di comunità. Uno spazio in cerca di identità tra obiettivi di vendita e vocazione all’assistenza sanitaria
No full textLe farmacie italiane come quelle europee hanno vissuto negli ultimi decenni un processo di trasformazione e ridefinizione del proprio ruolo dovuto principalmente alla riprogettazione dei servizi sanitari nazionali da parte delle istituzioni. La capillarità sui territori le identifica a tutti gli effetti come un partner strategico del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN) per l’erogazione di un nuovo modello di assistenza basata sul concetto di prossimità. Acquisendo nuovi ruoli, il luogo farmacia, i suoi spazi, gli arredi, il layout interno, si trovano dunque a dover rispondere a più scopi contemporaneamente, a volte contrastanti. La vendita di prodotti, la dispensazione di farmaci, la consulenza, l’erogazione di servizi sanitari richiedono spazi e dinamiche differenti e possono creare fraintendimenti nelle aspettative e nelle relazioni tra il farmacista/negoziante e il paziente/cliente. Il contributo si propone di comprendere le logiche che hanno strutturato storicamente lo spazio farmacia nel tempo, analizzare e sistematizzare, attraverso una selezione di progetti internazionali, alcune possibili pratiche nella progettazione degli interni che favoriscano una migliore convivenza tra le varie anime della farmacia di comunità.Italian as well as european pharmacies have undergone a process of transformation and redefinition of their role in recent decades, mainly due to the redesign of national health services by the institutions. The capillarity throughout the territories identifies them to all intents and purposes as a strategic partner of the national health service for the provision of a new model of care based on the concept of proximity. By acquiring new roles, the pharmacy site, its spaces, furnishings, and interior layout, thus find themselves having to respond to several, sometimes conflicting, purposes at once. Saling of products, dispensing of medicines, consultancy, and the supply of health services require different spaces and dynamics and can create misunderstandings in the expectations and relations between the pharmacist/retailer and the patient/customer. The contribution aims to understand the logics that have historically structured the pharmacy space over time, to analyse and systematise, through a selection of international projects, some possible practices in interior design that favour a better coexistence between the various souls of the contemporary pharmacy
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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