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Cereals Straw Resources for Bioenergy in the European Union
Get PDFThis document contains the Proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Cereals straw for
bioenergy in the European Union held in Pamplona (CENER Headquarters) on 18-19 October 2006. This Workshop was jointly organised by the JRC and CENER and was attended by 25 experts from 10 European countries. The main sessions dealt with 1) Agro-Environmental impact of straw harvesting 2) Use of cereals straw for bioenergy and competitive uses 3) Costs and practical problems of implementation to be faced when developing the industrial use of straw from cereals.JRC.H.8 - Renewable energie
Status of the Implementation of Biofuels and Bioenergy Certification Systems
Get PDFBiofuels certification is a response to the concerns related to the biofuels sustainability. There are several existing certification schemes related to sustainability in other fields, varying considerably in scope, as were developed for a wide range of products as a result of various concerns (Van Dam et al., 2007, BTG, 2008). Some systems cover one of the areas in biomass production, such as agriculture, forest and fair trade. They provide insight into the structures of certification systems (design, implementation constraints, cost-benefits�) as well as operational experience and effectiveness. Some schemes include sustainability criteria that could be adapted for bioenergy and biofuels certification, and provide a useful experience for the development of a biofuels certification scheme, or for benchmarking.
The report analyses the status of implementation of several European and Non-European certification schemes in connection with the EU current legislative framework. Several of these schemes are undergoing the recognition process, but none of them has been already recognized at the moment.JRC.F.7 - Renewable Energ
Proceedings of the Final Workshop "Ecosites, Ecocentres and the Implementation of European Union Environment and Sustainable Development Policies"
No full textAbstract not availableJRC.H - Institute for environment and sustainability (Ispra
Bioenergy & Bioeconomy, Status and Perspectives
Get PDFThis Report presents a Summary of the content of the Workshop on Bioenergy & Bioeconomy, Status & perspectives which took place at Hagoshrim, Israel (16-17 December 2015).
The JRC Institute for Energy and Transport (Renewable Energies & Energy Efficiency Unit) and MIGAL Galilee Research Institute (Biotechnology and Regional Development Department) organised this Workshop in order to address international cooperation in the field of bioenergy and bioeconomy. The Workshop focussed on green biotechnology and bioeconomy in Israel, as well as on the status of bioenergy and bioeconomy in Europe. Two days of technical exchange & discussions were followed by a day of site visits which included an overview of the partial restoration of the drained wetlands of the Hula Valley, visits to AMIAD filtration systems factory, to Dalton winery's wastewater treatment plant and Israel's major wastewater treatment plant (MEKOROT-SHAFDAN) near Tel Aviv.
The Proceedings (Digital presentations) of this meeting are available on: http://www.cereha.eu/JRC_Workshop_on_Bioenergy_and_Bioeconomy
This event was part of the 2015 activities of the JRC Enlargement/Integration/Neighbourhood Countries Programme through which the JRC develops scientific and technical cooperation with non EU countries. In addition to Israel and the European Commission participants (about 30 in total) came from research institutions or companies from Albania (Tirana University), the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Skopje University), Italy (ENEA), the Netherlands (Twente University), Portugal (Lisbon & Aveiro Universities), Serbia (Novi Sad University) and Turkey (Ege University). This Workshop benefited from the support & participation of the EU Delegation in Tel Aviv and of Israel-Europe Research & Development Directorate (ISERD).
This Workshop included Sessions on Water, Bioenergy, Bioeconomy and two Round Tables on project identification in the field of Water & Bioeconomy.JRC.C.2 - Energy Efficiency and Renewable
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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