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The Evaluation of Indoor Comfort. Analysis of the Literature and Methodological Proposal
No full textIn recent years, indoor comfort has gained more and more importance among researchers and actors in the building sector, and the side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (especially smart working) have accelerated this process. Its evaluation considers aspects related to air quality, thermal, visual, and acoustic comfort. This work proposes a literature analysis of some existing methods for assessing indoor comfort both from a non-monetary point of view, with reference also to the green building rating system, and from a monetary point of view. As regards the non-monetary evaluation, some works were analyzed. In particular, the method is based on the evaluation of uncomfortable hours, the energy performance and occupant productivity method (EP-OP method), the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) technique, the multi-attribute analysis, and the ELECTRE (ELimination Et Choice Translating Reality) method. Among the rating systems, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), ITACA (Istituto per l’innovazione e Trasparenza degli Appalti e la Compatibilità Ambientale), WELL, and BREAAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) were considered. As regards monetary valuation, the hedonic pricing method and global cost criterion were considered. The contribution also offers a methodological proposal of the application of the conjoint analysis using the discrete choice experiment technique for evaluating the economic value of indoor comfort. Using this technique, a questionnaire is prepared and the respondents choose among different alternatives (a combination of the different technological solutions and related additional cost compared to the basic solution of reference), proposed each time in pairs. For each of the attributes (thermal, visual, acoustic, air quality, and cost), the levels have been identified, which are related to the technological solutions as regards the aspects of comfort and related to the additional cost compared to the basic solutions that can be adopted as regards the attribute of the cost. The results of the analysis represent the estimate of the willingness to pay for the improvement of indoor comfort, thus attributing a monetary value to it. It is believed that attention to comfort in buildings, especially in residential and office buildings, is today an increasingly central need and the development of existing methodologies represents an important prospect for research in the immediate future
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
Application of Almond Shell-Based Materials for Aquatic Pollutants Removal: A Mini-Review
No full textkoamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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