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La valutazione del ciclo di vita e gli altri strumenti per l’ecogestione di imprese e servizi
No full textDESIGN FOR WELL-LIVING
No full textHuman behaviour, dictated by activities, culture, society and attitudes, influences
the different responses to social environment onto both the individual and collective plane
and the resilient liveability is a most important point of force for innovative housing
architecture. The city we need is socially inclusive and regenerative; it is designed to be
resilient by being energy efficient, low carbon, but also it recognizes culture as key to
human dignity and well-being. Unlike a "traditional" approach to design, the architectural
advice is the identification of performing solutions aimed at the twin objectives of improving
energy performance and to present itself as an opportunity for redevelopment of the urban
habitat: it is, therefore, to interpret a "engineering data plant" using its technical content
in order to obtain formal autonomy as an element able to dialogue with urban landscape.
Primary objective is the centrality of the user and his tangible and intangible needs. The
challenge is to transform technological solutions into wellness tools. This paper focuses
particularly to natural ventilation systems in Mediterranean area, not merely satisfied by
shielding the transparent envelope; the need for a sun-screening cannot be an non-
integrated addition, but it could be designed as a double skin (in the case of existing
buildings) or a corrugation of the facade (in the case of new buildings). The alternating
wise protrusion of solid with voids selectively determines its own shadows (if the projections
were sized according to the solar geometry) which satisfy the requirement of shade in the
summer and they are not an obstacle to direct solar radiation in the winter season,
constituting free gains of heat and light. This design approach has the added value to confer
design harmony to the facade and to have respected the metabolism of the building system.
Maintaining a state of well-being and comfort inside a building, the influential thermal
loads in two seasons (summer and winter), generated within the building or passed through
the envelope, and the air quality (health , humidity and speed) must be checked in heating,
cooling and ventilation (the action of humidification and dehumidification and correlates
them). The evaluation of the heat load of each room to be conditioned are the starting point
not only for the correct dimensioning of air conditioning units, but especially for efficient
technological envelope design that, if effectively fulfilling its role, minimizes the use the
plants and related energy and environmental costs
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
La gestione energetica delle discariche controllate
No full textQuando in Italia non erano ancora in vigore norme sistematiche per lo smaltimento dei rifiuti solidi venivano realizzate discaricbe incontrollate senza alcuna attenzione ai problemi di impatto ambientalwe che esse potevano determinare. A rendere ancora più grave il problema ha contribuito il fatto che spesso sono state ubicate in prossimità di siti vulnerabili per la presenza di acquiferi a rischio, lungo linee di costa, a diretto contatto con recapiti fluviali e lacustri, su versanti in frana o con processi erosivi in atto, in cave esaurite, in prossimità di aree protette, nelle vicinanze di centri abitati. Il recuparo ambientale spesso non riguarda soltanto le ree occupate da discariche incontrollate di rifuti, ma anche quelle in cui si trovano le "discariche controllate", cioè quelle realizzate successivamente all'entrata in vigore delle normative specifiche. Tali discariche, pur essendo state concepite con opportuni accorgimenti tecnici per limitare l'impatto ambientale, spesso sono state realizzate senza un progetto architettonico organico e senza configurare il riuso successivo dei suoli alla dismissione.
Il lavoro affronta in particolare le problematiche ambientali delle discariche con particolare riguardo soprattutto alla bonifica del biogas prodotto e agli eventuali usi energetici con applicazione di sistema di cogenerazione
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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