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Analysis of building energy consumption through panel data: the role played by the economic drivers
No full textPolicy makers have realized that without significant increases in the energy efficiency and notable reductions
in the energy use of the household sector, it will be impossible to lower carbon dioxide emissions
and mitigate the risks of climate change at the global level. The energy demand in residential buildings is
influenced by several parameters, such as national economic growth, climate and weather, demographic
structure, and technological development. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of electricity and
natural gas consumptions in Italy during the period from 2004 to 2013. We provide estimates of price and
income elasticities of the demand for both the energy sources in the residential sector. The role played by
both energy price and household income is worth attention because it provides evidence for the occurrence
of the direct rebound effect. Therefore, the economic drivers of the energy demand are important
to improve the policies meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contrast the global warming
Challenges for Public-Private Partnership in improving energy efficiency of building sector
No full textThe provision of private capitals to build and operate of works bringing benefit to the
community received a major boost during the last three decades, by the spread of public
private partnership schemes all over Europe. Both project financing (contractual PPP)
and public-private partnerships with shared capital (PPPI) were mainly used to build
infrastructures able to generate income through revenues from users, recovering by this
means at least a share of the investment costs. Some changes that have occurred over
the last five years make it difficult in the near future the implementation of the cooperation
models used in the past. The economic and financial crisis has dramatically
worsened the supply of capital necessary to complete the projects, while the needs to
which the public administrations are facing are rapidly changing. Over the most tried
and tested field of big infrastructure and urban facilities, new priorities are emerging,
such as the refurbishment of social housing stock and the supply of new homes at
affordable prices or rents for low income households, as well as the rehabilitation of
public school buildings. As for environmental reasons, the achievement of high
standards of energy efficiency is also an important variable for the feasibility of PPP
scheme, in particular in retrofit and refurbishment of existing buildings. A reliable
prediction of the achievable energy efficiency levels and their impact on operating costs
of the buildings affects the structuring of public private partnership, and in some cases
it may represent a main driver of its economic and financial sustainability. In this
context, significant benefits can be derived from the use of several tools - mandatory,
incentive, voluntary – made available to support energy efficiency by different levels
of regulations - European, national, local. This paper investigates innovative business
models for energy retrofitting actions and several available tools to subsidize their
adoption. The paper comprises a case study selection, based on a detailed analysis of
eco-innovations collected in Italy, and a focus on a significant case
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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