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Life Cycle Analysis of a Freestanding Gas Range
No full textThe environmental consciousness of energy-related products that are necessary for everyday life is increasing due to the needs and requests for these products. This paper investigates the environmental load of a freestanding gas range, using the life cycle assessment (LCA) method. The work provided data collected (life cycle inventory) for this specific model of the freestanding cooker manufactured in the European market. The impact assessment specified in this paper was elaborated using a dedicated software tool (i.e., SimaPro) to evaluate the impact of the different modules of the freestanding kitchen during the life cycle phases excluding the use phase and end-of-life. The environmental impact results show that the most critical aspect is related to the use of metal materials in the production of large items such as the cavity and body of the freestanding kitchen, on top of these materials are stainless steel and carbon steel. In addition to the manufacturing process used for these modules. The outcome of this work allows to compare this cooking appliance to other cooking appliances present on the market, providing interesting data for the development of future eco-design actions
LCA analysis of a freestanding cooker: Environmental assessment and comparison with other cooking appliances
No full textIn this paper a detailed life cycle analysis of a freestanding cooking appliance is presented. The work provided data collection (life cycle inventory) for a specific model of a freestanding cooker manufactured and used in the US market. Impact assessment was done using a dedicated software tool (i.e., SimaPro) to identify the most impacting life cycle phases as well as critical items that characterize each phase. Environmental impact results highlighted how the most critical aspect is related to product use due to the large consumption of electric energy, especially in a market characterized by a grid mix with a low percentage of renewable energy. The large volumes of the oven cavity and the adoption of traditional technology (e.g., electric radiant resistance) are also relevant contributions to the environmental impacts of the use phase. With respect to the manufacturing phase, the use of some specific materials in all the cooking appliances was the main reason for the highest impact, on top of these materials are the electronic components followed by metallic components which can be either made from stainless steel or carbon steel. In addition, the outcome of this work allows comparing this appliance to other cooking appliances available in the market, providing interesting insights in the development of eco-design actions
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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