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In this paper, we challenged the traditional way of information retrieval and proposed information cartography in scientific research domain which generates an information map for users to mitigate information overload in current systems. A legible information map embodies not only the results retrieved by a fine-designed mechanism, but also the complex relationships between them. Our framework of information cartography consists of three parts: document representation, network reconstruction and network compression. A novel syncretic representation learning method(SR) was proposed to learn a low-dimensional representation for each document, where a double-layer Skip- Gram model was leveraged to absorb heterogeneous information simultaneously. We carried out a series of experiments on CORA dataset to demonstrate the satisfying performance of SR for tasks such as text classification and link prediction. We also showed the effectiveness of our network compression method in preserving connectivity while optimizing legibility. Finally, pilot user studies manifested that our information map indeed improved the experience of information retrieval.

28 páginas En el marco de una investigación mayor, que busca vincular el cambio cultural en Chile en los últimos 40 años con la evolución de la publicidad del retail, se analiza exploratoriamente una muestra de piezas gráficas de 1997. El objetivo es caracterizar la publicidad de la época mediante una descripción cuantitativa de los personajes presentes en los avisos y de un análisis cualitativo de los mensajes lingüísticos y de casos desviados. Aunque Chile vivía entonces importantes cambios económicos y socioculturales, que promovieron un desarrollo explosivo del consumo, la publicidad analizada presenta un estilo simple y denotativo, donde predominan los textos y la promoción de ofertas asociada a precios bajos y variedad de productos. La minoritaria representación de personajes tiende a mostrarlos en actitudes pasivas, en especial a las mujeres. No obstante, se visualiza, asimismo, una tendencia emergente hacia la individuación del sujeto femenino. As part of a larger investigation, which seeks to link the cultural change in Chile in the last 40 years with the evolution of retail advertising; in which an exploratory analysis of a sample of graphic pieces from 1997 took place. The aim is to characterize the advertising time using a quantitative description of the characters present in the advertisements and a qualitative analysis of linguistic messages and deviant cases. Although Chile was living important economic and socio-cultural changes, which promoted an explosive development of consumption, the advertising analyzed presents a simple and denotative style, where texts and associated promotion offers low prices and a variety of predominate products. Minority representation of characters tends to display passive attitudes, especially women. However, it also displays an emerging trend toward individuation of the female subject.

Current desktop technology is largely mouse-driven, but many analysts predict that in less than five years we will have a professional workforce that have only experienced learning in a touchscreen environment. Midland Valley have developed a digital mapping tool for smartphones called FieldMove Clino, which has been downloaded more than 20 000 times over the past year. The free version offers an effective way of introducing students to digital field mapping. However, many geoscience departments and teachers of field mapping have yet to make the switch from traditional paper-based methods to digital technology. This article aims to answer some of the frequently asked questions about digital field mapping and outlines some of the advantages for improving field skills and geological thinking in students.

Este artículo presenta el estado de la cuestión sobre la prevención y resolución de conflictos desde el Área de Educación Física tomando como referencia las principales aportaciones de la comunidad científica internacional. El análisis se ha realizado mediante la explotación de las principales bases de datos, tanto nacionales como internacionales, a saber, ISOC, TESEO, ISI y ERIC, con el objetivo de acceder a las publicaciones que permiten identificar los tipos de conflictos más frecuentes que se dan en el área de educación física, las diferentes estrategias que se adoptan para abordarlos, así como, los modelos que se pueden establecer a partir de las diferentes formas de aproximarse al conflicto. La investigación que ha generado este estado de la cuestión, se centra en la necesidad de abordar, desde la educación física, formas para la prevención y resolución de la conflictividad en los centros escolares cuyo incremento es hoy en día una realidad. Palabras clave: educación física, prevención del conflicto y resolución del conflicto, estado de la cuestión.Abstract: This review paper offers the current international scientific status of the prevention and conflict resolution issue in physical education. The analysis has being made through the examination of the most important national and international databases, as, ISOC, TESEO, ISI and ERIC database, with the aim of identify the most frequent conflicts in physical education, the different ways of dealing with them, as well as, to identify the models found behind each way of conflict approach. The increment of the disputes in the schools communities and the need to find new approach of prevention and conflict resolution, justifies the research in which we develop this scientific status of this issue.Key words: physical education, conflict prevention and conflict resolution, review.

Anche se Steinberg parlava raramente in pubblico degli anni trascorsi a Milano (1933-1941), questa sua esperienza ha gettato le fondamenta della sua futura carriera in America. Non ha mai praticato da architetto, ma e rimasto un architecton- paper, usando l’architettura come veicolo per dichiarazioni estetiche e socioculturali. Allo stesso tempo, la precisione nell’arte del disegno che aveva imparato al Politecnico non smise mai di influenzare il suo modo di disegnare. Uguale influenza ebbe la sua breve carriera da vignettista per il Bertoldo e il Settebello

This paper describes the development and current use of GIS in the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). As the national body of survey and record for Scotland, many areas of RCAHMS work make extensive use of GIS, from coordinating field recording and desk-based mapping, to management of extensive datasets. The impact of digital technologies on both recording and presenting the field archaeology of Scotland are explored. Examples of current practice are presented, concluding with a discussion of challenges, including INSPIRE, and the need to develop spatial data standards for cultural heritage, in the present and for the future.

From our current vantage point, Michael Goodchild's 1992 game-changing ‘Geographical Information Science’ paper roughly bisects the history of our field from its beginnings in the1960s to the present. This makes it an appropriate landmark around which to organize some reflections on the evolution of geographic information science, and more particularly on Goodchild's role in the developments that have defined it these past 20 years. The focus here is on intellectual leadership rather than on any direct scholarly contributions, though scholarship provides the backbone of the narrative. The clearly spelled out research agenda that lies at the core of the 1992 paper and a handful of subsequent essays greatly facilitate that task. This paper explores different facets of Goodchild's leadership in sections titled ‘Naming’, ‘Adapting’, ‘Accepting’, ‘Persevering’, ‘Educating’, and finally, ‘Leading’, and provides evidence that, like any other science, geographic information science is a social as well as an intellectual enterprise. An aspect of the social function of intellectual leadership is that Goodchild's continuing role as agenda-setter for the diverse field of geographic information science goes well beyond generating disciples and followers; it also stimulates dialectic responses from researchers coming from quite different perspectives, thus contributing to the broadening and deepening of the field.

The infrared (IR) spectra of different white copy paper types tend to appear indifferent. Discrimination between white copy papers could lead to the solution of forgery cases. In this preliminary study, three varieties of white paper were purchased from local stationery shops in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The papers were classified according to their manufacturers using Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) and sparse PLS-DA (sPLS-DA) models. The error rate for the two models on the training and the test data sets were estimated and compared. Results show that the performance of the two models are comparable. By including the first six latent variables in both models, classification accuracy as high as 100% can be achieved.

This essay considers how maps became implicated in historical inquiry, with particular reference to the city of Paris. Three interrelated episodes are discussed, from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, each associated with specific mapmakers and collectors whose activities shaped the early development of map history. These episodes reveal how maps were historicized in different ways in this period, initially as images created in the present to reveal the past and eventually as objects of historical interest in their own right. It is further argued that this intellectual shift was associated with a growing awareness, especially among state officials, that the study and collection of historic maps had important geopolitical implications. In tracing this story across three episodes in a single urban setting, the essay seeks to make larger observations about the relationship between the map as a visual representation, the map collection as an urban ‘assemblage’ of geographical...

Contents: List of maps and illustrations List of abbreviations 1743-6: Senior Captain: the Battle of Toulon and after July 1747-July 1748: the second Battle of Cape Finisterre July 1748-January 1754: Admiral between the Wars February 1755-May 1756: Prelude to the Seven Years War June 1756-January 1757: Minorca July-December 1757: Rochefort and after March-May 1758: the Basque Roads and a rash step May 1759-February 1760: the blockade of Brest and Battle of Quiberon Bay August 1760-August 1762: Hawke's last campaigns: November 1766-January 1771: First Lord Notes List of documents and sources.

Existe una abundante bibliografía acerca de en qué consiste la comunicación académica, cómo se debe investigar y el protocolo para comunicar lo investigado. Sin embargo, no es inusual encontrarte como editor o como revisor, trabajos que, independientemente de su valía como investigación, están pobremente presentados. En este artículo me gustaría resumir algunos de los errores comunes que cometen los investigadores que no están habituados a escribir artículos científicos y mostrar algunas pautas de solución a esos errores. (As editor or reviewer is common to find work, regardless of their value as research, are poorly presented. This is true even though there is abundant literature on what constitutes scholarly communication, how to investigate and the protocol to communicate research. In this article, I summarize some of the common mistakes that researchers who are not used to write papers do. And I show some guidelines to fix these errors.)

Resumen del libro "Paper cadavers: the archives of dictatorshio in Guatemala", de Kirsten Weld

Fecha limite de presentacion de originales para todas las secciones: 1 de abril de 2016 Fecha de publicacion: otono de 2016 Agora (seccion monografica de la revista) dedicada a: Miradas educativas a la ciudad: experiencia, cotidianidad y participacion. Coord. M. Mar Estrela Cervero

On his way from Rome to Paris in February 1642, Gabriel Naude visited the cabinet of curiosities of Gaspard de Monconys in Lyon, which the contemporary sources described as one of the richest in Europe. Impressed by its magnificence, he advised De Monconys to draft a catalogue of all his medals, to be sent to their mutual friend, the Roman collector Cassiano dal Pozzo, patron of the Museum Cartaceum. Eight months later, De Monconys launched an editorial project which intended to immortalize a part of his collection through a ‘paper gallery’ of forty copper-engraved portraits of cardinals. This recently rediscovered project typifies his position in a scholarly network and illuminates the importance he attached to visual imagery.

WHILE HIS CLASSMATES REMAINED AT CAMBRIDGE DURING THE SUMMER of 1790 to prepare for final examinations, Wordsworth was not to be found within the precincts of his university. Instead, he was traveling by boat and foot through Europe and the Alps with his friend Robert Jones. "Nature," Wordsworth explains in The Prelude, was "sovereign in my heart, / And mighty forms seizing a youthful Fancy / Had given a charter to irregular hopes." (1) After landing in Calais on the eve of the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, the college friends journeyed over 2,000 miles through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. (2) Much of what we know about Wordsworth and Jones's 179o tour of the continent comes from a letter Wordsworth wrote to his sister during the trip and from the account he gives in The Prelude, Book 6, over seven-hundred lines of blank verse composed primarily in 18o4 and revised periodically throughout his life. (3) From these and other sources, biographers and critics have substantially reconstructed the Alpine portion of the tour, motivated by the powerful yet enigmatic account of the crossing of the Simplon Pass. (4) Introduced as an event of "deep and genuine sadness" (6.492), but interrupted by a rejoicing paean to the human Imagination, the Simplon crossing has long captivated scholars, and criticism of the episode has come to define generations of Romantic scholarship. (5) Despite the scholarly fascination with the crossing of the Pass, relatively little attention has been paid to one of the most fundamental and at the same time richest contexts informing both the event and its reinscription in The Prelude--cartography. And yet the letter to Dorothy composed over ten September days of that 179o tour provides a clue to cartography's significance for Wordsworth, from his very outset. Maps, the letter shows, were vital figures in Wordsworth's literary representation of his European tour. They were vital, I shall argue, not just in the 1790s when he wrote to Dorothy, but also, in a more complex and conflicted way, in 18o4 when he again put the tour on paper. Maps, as figures in Wordsworth's verse--and as representational pages that themselves bear figures on their surfaces-shed light on Wordsworth's rendering of journeying on the two-dimensional pages of The Prelude. Maps, both as artifacts produced by a cultural practice (cartography) with scientific, touristic, and military functions, and as figures in written discourse--letters, journals, and poems--had multiple effects on Wordsworth's representations of his journey. Few critics, however, have investigated their importance. In his Prelude annotations, Raymond Havens only provides the sparest of maps of France and Switzerland traced by a student from an undated London Times Atlas (first edition, 1895) (6) Similarly, in separate works Max Wildi and Donald Hayden reproduce modern-day sketch-maps and photographs of the region in order to plot the tour and to situate the pivotal missed-turn at the Pass: "One would like to know which were the three unforgettable hours [of Wordsworth's 'walk among the Alps']," Wildi claims. "Where did Wordsworth spend them? What was it that impressed him so deeply that he returned to this experience again and again as to one of those 'spots of time' in connection with which the deepest revelations were vouchsafed to him?" (7) Assuming the significance of geo-temporal fact to the Simplon episode, these studies neglect to regard the map as an historical representational form in its own right--a form conditioned by particular representational imperatives and dilemmas--and as an object shaped by historically specific practices. Thus they leave unquestioned the relevance of the visual language of maps to Wordsworth's charting of his poetic and affective development in Book 6. Even Michael Wiley's cartographically informed reading of the Simplon episode omits local maps in its pursuit of an analogy between Wordsworth's "blanking" of the landscape in the apostrophe to the imagination and the lingering blank spaces on African and West-English maps of the period (signifying the limits of cartographers' geographic knowledge). …

In their paper on the last glaciation of Shetland, Golledge et al. (2008) concluded on the basis of a remote sensing study that during that period Shetland had been overrun by ice from Scandinavia. Since the method of study they used does not reveal the sense of the direction in which the ice flowed and since they ignored earlier ground-based work involving striations which do reveal the sense of direction of ice flow their conclusions have no scientific basis.

Bilgi ve iletişim teknolojisindeki hızlı gelişmeler okuma alanında önemli değişikliklere neden olmaktadır. Basılı ürünlere dayalı olarak geliştirilen okuma becerileri değişmekte, yerini “ekran okuma”, “ekranik düşünme” gibi yeni beceriler almaktadır. Önümüzdeki yıllarda bilgisayarların giderek yayılacağı, öğrencilerin kağıt kitapları tamamen bırakacakları ve ekran okumaya yönelecekleri iddia edilmektedir. Bunların olumlu ve olumsuz yönleri incelenmektedir. Araştırmalar, kâğıttan okuma ile ekran okuma arasındaki önemli farklılıkların olduğunu göstermektedir. Bunlar göz hareketleri, dikkat, anlama, düşünme ve zihinsel becerilerde yoğunlaşmaktadır. Ekran metinlerinin sürekli hareket etmesi, sayfaların peş peşe gelmesi, okuyucunun göz ve zihnini etkilemekte, bilginin yerini bulmayı ve hatırlamayı güçleştirmektedir. Ekran metninin parça parça görünmesi metindeki bilgileri birleştirmeyi ve anlamayı güçleştirmektedir. Zihnimiz ekrandan görülen bölümlerle kaybolan bölümlerdeki bilgileri birleştirmek ve anlamak için daha fazla çalışmaktadır. Ekran okumanın bu tür sıkıntıları yanında önemli yararları da bulunmaktadır. Bunların başında dil, zihinsel ve sosyal becerileri geliştirmesi gelmektedir. Ekran okuma beynimizin çeşitli bölgelerini harekete geçirmekte, karmaşık düşünceleri izleme, kontrol etme, çok yönlü düşünme, hızlı karar verme gibi becerileri geliştirmektedir. Böylece alanda yıllardır uygulanan kâğıttan okuma öğretimi, metin, ortam ve okuyucu tipi değişmektedir. Bu durum okuma kültürü ile alışkanlığını da etkilemekte ve değiştirmektedir. Eğitim sürecinde basılı ürünleri okuma kadar ekran ve e-kitap okuma öğretimine de önem verilmeli, öğrencilerimizin geleceğin daha karmaşık teknolojilerine hazırlıklı olmaları sağlanmalıdır. Anahtar kelimeler: Ekran okuma, okuma öğretimi,okuma becerileri

Maps have always been tools that have fascinated men, for their ability to make us see the world that surrounds us. They were and are the outcome of models and methods applied to the observation of the world, starting from geodesy, surveying photogrammetry and remote sensing. All these disciplines, which we now group under the new name of geomatics, have had a tremendous boost in recent years. However, the synergy with information computer technology is probably the aspect that is revolutionizing more cartography. Earlier computers and after the Internet have brought us to new concepts and tools that will have profound effects not only in the world of niche of cartographers, but also more generally in the life of all human beings. The Digital Earth, proposed in 1998 by Al Gore, has been enriched in just twenty years of a set of new demands, which make even more interesting and challenging being cartographers today. The paper, without claiming to be comprehensive, aims at providing a concise overview of the state of art and of the advancement in this area. Moreover, it urges the community of geomatics to be protagonist and promoter of a new cartography, largely to be reinvented, and that would put us at the center of processes of knowledge and management of the Earth. The map makers in the past helped discovering new worlds, now the challenge is to rediscover our common world with new eyes of environmental, social, economic equity, sustainability and participation.