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Estimation of Construction Costs: From Technological Solutions to the Settlement Scale
No full textThe problem of construction cost control together with the availability of land is the most important issue in the realization of affordable housing within the Mogadishu area: high construction costs and lack of land represent a limit to the development of the entire zone. The research carries out an estimation of construction costs, overcoming information inaccuracy, ranging from building to settlement scale. The scarcity of data regarding the construction of housing settlements has represented one of the main hurdles for the research: the bill of quantities (BoQ) methodology was adopted as a tool to appraise the overall costs and propose a cost estimate for the three different housing typologies investigated by BECOMe
Settlement Strategy Towards New Business Ecosystems
No full textThis chapter introduces the concept of modular settlements for new business ecosystems, based on a set of incremental housing typologies to meet the high rate of low-medium income population housing demand. The limitation caused by circumstances around the project didn’t allow the implementation of the proposal in a specific area. Therefore, the housing model planned is based on a theoretical scenario. The study of the city, of its tissue and elements provided the instruments to propose a solution that began by the dimension of its urban block. All the proposed typologies result from an optimization process to ensure good internal comfort
The Fragmented and Heterogeneous Nature of Manufacturing and Construction Sectors in Mogadishu
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Traceability system to support sustainable reuse and re-manufacturing process
No full textCustomer satisfaction has always depended on supply chains. Yet now they must do more than simply deliver the product that customers want, when they want it. Today’s supply chains must also deliver on a brand promise: sustainability. The World Economic Forum published the below article with examples from the automotive remanufacturing industry.
Across business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries, customers, investors, employees and regulators are demanding more sustainable products and production (see figure below). Bain & Company’s Elements of Value research shows that companies that successfully match customers’ sustainability expectations are rewarded with higher revenue growth and customer loyalty. As Ilham Kadri, CEO of chemicals provider Solvay, puts it: “sustainability is profitability
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
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