1,197 research outputs found
Built-form, mass and energy: Urban fabric performance
No full textThe link between urban form and building energy demand is a complex balance of morphological, constructive, utilization and climatic factor. Especially in the European compact city, where existing areas prevail on much more energy-efficient new settlements, it is evident that operative ways to transform efficiently the building stock have to be found. This paper explores the existence of a relation between built mass and energy demand depending on urban form. Focusing on the compact city of Mediterranean climate, tests on different case studies simulations are carried out. Results presented and discussed, point out that mass has strong relevance on energy demand and plays an important role in reducing energy consumptions. This paper is a preliminary report of an ongoing research study about one possible way to comprehend "metabolic rate" scaling law - The relationship between power and mass of a complex system in its process - concerning urban fabric. This knowledge-base could help verify the accordance with this rule on urban scale and give hints to conscious and effective built environment transformations towards more efficient conditions
Narrative support for technical documents: Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory
No full textBusiness Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetorical Structure Theory to enhance the narrative of a document. From this narrative, the tool generates questions to prompt the author for the content of the document. CANS also allows the author to explore alternative narratives for a document. A catalogue of predefined narrative structures for popular types of documents is provided too. Our tool is still in its rudimentary stages but sufficiently complete to be demonstrated
Ramon Margalef López
No full text4 pages, 3 figuresMargalef’s father moved from an impoverished countryside to the city seeking better chances in life. Ramon was born in Barcelona on May 16, 1919. De-spite the move to the city, his father remained faithful to his roots, keeping a piece of land with a vegetable garden where Ramon and his sister Vicenta received their first lessons in naturePeer reviewe
A propos des travaux sur le charbon du médecin Casimir DAVAINE et du vétérinaire Philibert CHABERT
No full textRamon Gaston. Pages d’histoire scientifique. À propos des travaux sur le charbon du Médecin Casimir Davaine et du Vétérinaire Philibert Chabert. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France tome 115 n°1, 1962. pp. 25-29
Ramon Muntaner, Crònica (Valencia, ca. 1325-1328)
No full text8 pages, English and Spanish translation availableThis is a pedagogical edition of a section of Ramon Muntaner’s Crònica (Valencia, ca. 1330) relating the events leading up to the so-called ‘Catalan vengeance,’ in which the Catalan company who had been invited by the Byzantine Emperor to defend Constantinople were deceived, massacred, and then launched a bloody counterattack that earned them control of a large territory in the Eastern Mediterranean. Edition of Catalan text, introduction, and translations into English and Spanish by Vicente Lledó-Guillem (2019
Inductive queries for a drug designing robot scientist
No full textIt is increasingly clear that machine learning algorithms need to be integrated in an iterative scientific discovery loop, in which data is queried repeatedly by means of inductive queries and where the computer provides guidance to the experiments that are being performed. In this chapter, we summarise several key challenges in achieving this integration of machine learning and data mining algorithms in methods for the discovery of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSARs). We introduce the concept of a robot scientist, in which all steps of the discovery process are automated; we discuss the representation of molecular data such that knowledge discovery tools can analyse it, and we discuss the adaptation of machine learning and data mining algorithms to guide QSAR experiments
Effect of hardwood leaf litter on water quality and treatment in a western Oregon municipal watershed
No full textby R. Lynn Taylor and Paul W. Adams (Department of Forest Engineering, O.S.U.), Peter O. Nelson (Department of Civil Engineering, O.S.U.), and Ramon J. Seidler (Department of Microbiology, O.S.U.)"Final technical completion report for project no. A-058-ORE to United States Department of the Interior."Based on Taylor's thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 1983 entitled, The effects of red alder leaf fall on the water color and other water quality characteristics of a small watershed in northwest Oregon.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).Financed in part by the U.S. Department of the Interior; project sponsored by Water Resources Research Institute, Oregon State University.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Ramon D'ABADAL I DE VINYALS. Catalunya carolingia. Volum II : Els diploms carolingis a Catalunya. Primera part. Barcelona, 1926-1950. In-4°, xxxix-301 pages. (Institut ď Estudis catalans.)
No full textTessier Georges. Ramon D'ABADAL I DE VINYALS. Catalunya carolingia. Volum II : Els diploms carolingis a Catalunya. Primera part. Barcelona, 1926-1950. In-4°, xxxix-301 pages. (Institut ď Estudis catalans.). In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 1951, tome 109, livraison 2. p. 318
Ramon Margalef i López (1919-2004), Nobel en Oceanografia
No full text5 pages, 3 figures[EN] In 1980, the Government of Canada established the Huntsman Award - best known as the “Nobel Prize in Oceanography” - in order to recognise out-standing contributions to marine sciences. The first laureate in biological oceanography was Ramon Margalef. During the award ceremony at the Bed-ford Institute of Oceanography, a host of biographical, personal and scientific notes about Margalef were revealed. Ramon Margalef would go on to be-come arguably the most internationally acknowledged Catalan scientist[CAT] 1980: el govern canadenc crea el Premi Huntsman, conegut com el Nobel en Oceanografia, per reconèixer les aportacions més significatives en ciències marines. El seu primer guardonat en oceanografia biològica és Ramon Marga-lef. Durant la cerimònia d’entrega del premi al Bedford Institute of Oceano-graphy es despleguen alguns apunts biogràfics, personals i científics de Mar-galef. Ramon Margalef esdevindria, segurament, el científic català més reconegut internacionalmentPeer reviewe
Buildingmass and energy demand in conventional housing typologies of the Mediterranean city
No full textThe causal relation among building typology and building energy demand is a complex balance of climate, morphology, technology and use. The assessment of the relation between mass of building elements and energy demand in different housing typologies is the main goal of this study. A novel indicator, namely the Buildingmass, is introduced and tested in the Mediterranean climate region. Explorations on nine conventional housing typologies in Barcelona and Rome are carried out. Buildingmass evaluation is based on the calculation of the mass of building elements. Energy demand is assessed by modelling on multi-space dynamic thermal analysis tool. Our results point out that the Buildingmass has a strong relevance on energy, playing an important role in reducing heating and cooling demand in the Mediterranean city, as described by the proposed correlation (R2 = 0.88). Moreover, this indicator gives a more detailed characterisation of the housing stock of the Mediterranean city. The study aims at bridging the gap between urban physics and urban metabolism studies and fostering energy conservation measures for the built environment
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