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Italiani in Sudan : le storie
No full textIn un viaggio che prende le mosse dal tempo dei Romani, questo volume per la prima volta racconta la presenza italiana in Sudan. I protagonisti di questo viaggio verso un paese per lungo tempo rimasto sconosciuto al mondo occidentale sono uomini e donne, esploratori, missionari, mercanti, pellegrini, soldati, diplomatici, condottieri, etc.
Questo volume, che vuole riconsegnare un nome e un volto a molti di loro, il cui ricordo si era disperso nel tempo, nasca da una tenace, paziente e accurata ricerca di tracce sommerse, e ci restituisce una saga infinita di storie, di vite umili, semplici e laboriose, di imprese straordinarie, sublimi e commoventi, ma anche avventure impossibili, eroiche e a volte insensate
SHARI'A, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE IN THE POST-MILITARY NORTHERN NIGERIA Sottotitolo: Nature, causes and effects of the implementation of Islamic law
No full textThe revitalized implementation of a “full” Shari’ah and its expansion like a wildfire to twelve northern states, at the wake of the return to a civilian administration after fifteen years of military rule, represent the most controversial example of intergroup relations for access to political power. This religious revival was set in progress by the Governor of Zamfara State, Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura on 27 October, 1999, when he put in place a stringent Islamic Penal Code with the corporal punishments in accordance with the Qur’anic prescriptions. Hereafter, other eleven states reformed, in the first instance, the judiciary in accordance with the constitutional framework. A multiple system of courts, where Shari’ah Courts, Common Law Courts and Customary Courts stay side-by-side, replaced the so-called “Area Courts.” In addition, institutions of different nature, such as the Shari’ah Implementation Committee and the State Council of Ulama, were built up in each state with the purpose of implementing and enforcing the application of a new set of laws to sanitize the society from social vices, such as prostitution and consumption of alcohol. In effect the call for the implementation of Islamic law depended partially from the popular dissatisfaction toward an unequal administration of justice and the collapse of the social and political institutions of the Nigerian society. According to Muslims, the prevalent cause of their decadence was the existence of a judicial system which was prevalently western in origin and orientation. None of the twelve pro-Shari’ah states did all the reforms above mentioned concomitantly and in the same manner. Actually, each governor modeled the application of Islamic law on a “flexible discourse” in relation to the territory he administers. Using documentary materials and interviews carried out in Kaduna, Kano and Katsina States during a fieldwork of seven months, this research asks: why has been Shari’ah implemented differently by the twelve states, which had reintroduced the Islamic Penal Code
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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