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Conception of a new test cell facility for characterizing building envelope components
Full text linkOutdoor test cells have been extensively used for analyzing the thermo-physical properties of building envelope components under real climate conditions. The paper presents a new test cell facility, under development at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du Bâtiment et de l'Industrie (ESTP Paris) within the framework of a collaboration between the end-use Efficiency Research Group of Politecnico di Milano and ESTP. The facility will allow to obtain reliable estimates of thermal performance indicators of transparent and opaque building elements. A particular care has been taken in the design phase in order to minimize or to accurately evaluate all sources of uncertainty, such as (i) conductive heat losses through the test cell envelope, (ii) time lag of response to transient solar conditions, (iii) levels of airtightness and of resistance to vapour or water penetration.
Data for: Towards climate robust buildings: an innovative method for designing buildings with robust energy performance under climate change
No full textThis file contains the robust design optimization workflow that was created for this study in modeFRONTIER software
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
Prosjektering av energibesparende tiltak for Spilkas fabrikkbygg på Emblem
No full textDenne oppgaven tok for seg energiforbruket til Spilkas fabrikkbygg på Emblem, Ålesund Kommune. Det ble undersøkt ulike tiltak som kan redusere hvor mye kraft fabrikken trenger å kjøpe
fra strømnettet.
Arbeidsmetoden diskuteres, og resultatene presenteres fra energibesparingsperspektiv, i tillegg til
et kostnadseffektivitetsperspektiv. Installering av varmepumpe, etterisolering, tetting av porter
og solenergi er tiltakene som undersøkes. Tilbakebetalingstid og økonomisk profitt beregnes ved
hjelp av netto nåverdi.
Til slutt, konkluderer teksten med å vise til energiløsninger som vil gi en profitt, og størst energibesparelse. Tiltak som er gunstig økonomisk er, i rekkefølge fra kortest til lengst nedbetalingstid,
installasjon av plastlameller, installasjon av buffersone, installasjon av varmepumpe, og installasjon av solceller på tak og vegg. De tre mest energibesparende løsningene er solceller på tak,
installasjon av varmepumpe, og etterisolering av bygget.This thesis deals with the energy consumption of Spilka’s factory building at Emblem, ˚Alesund.
Various measures were investigated that could reduce the amount of power the factory needs to
buy from the local power grid.
The working method is discussed, and the results are presented from an energy saving perspective, in addition to a cost effectiveness perspective. The meassures that was investigated were:
installation of a ground source heat pump, additional insulation, sealing of doors and solar power
generation. Payback period and financial profit are calculated using net present value.
Finally, the text concludes by pointing to energy solutions that will yield a profit and the greatest
energy savings. Measures that are economically beneficial are, in order from shortest to longest
repayment period, installation of plastic slats, installation of a buffer zone, installation of a
heat pump, and installation of solar cells on the roof and wall. The three most energy-saving
solutions are solar cells on the roof, installation of a heat pump, and subsequent insulation of
the building
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
koamabayili/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
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