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Criteri progettuali e sistemi gestionali dell’eco-quartiere. La valenza energetica nella progettazione urbana.
No full textThis research focuses on the ecological neighborhood. It is analyzed not as an independent element but as a related part of the urban system.
The main issue of this research is the interpretation of the planning elements, of the technological solutions and of the managing, economical and social processes which are at the basis of the urban transformation.
Beyond the scale of individual building, the local dimension of the neighborhood is the most suitable for the analysis. It represents the ideal dimension to manage easily the energetic consumption and to foster functional integration strategies related to urban structure. The local dimension also allows to manage the settlement schemes, the collective transportation strategies and the economical and social thematic.
The main aim of this research is the definition of the fundamental elements for the realization (or the transformation) of urban portions characterized by energy efficiency, environmental resource value and by the creation of new urban, social and economical networks. The attention focuses on governance system at the basis of the urban transformation processes, mainly referring to the economic, social and managing themes.
The economic and managing solutions are the “key elements” to determine the success or the inefficacy of the planning strategies.
The first part of the research refers to the theoretical definition of the sustainable urban planning through the study of the historical planning movements and of implemented policies (Smart Growth, New Urbanism, Green Urbanism, Transition Town, European and Italian strategies).
From this theoretical analysis result some criteria for the best practices selection, analyzed in the following section.
The second part of the research deals with the general description of main elements of the ecological neighborhood. It is structured in three main subjects:
- Settlement organization;
- Energy saving technology;
- Managing and economic themes.
The third part of the research deals with the different planning solution for urban transformation. Furthermore it deals with the more precise description of specific intervention instruments and the relations between the local and urban dimension.
Conclusions deals with reflections on the main paths for urban transformation that leads to the creation of new dynamics and urban synergies from the environmental and energetic aspects and the social-economics ones.
The study concentrates on the elements of the whole planning process and the main actors and developers involved to understand what kind of development derived from the urban transformation.
The different planning practices are only about urban retrofitting operations or have became places of new urban synergies and economies at local level
L’energia nelle trasformazioni del territorio. Ricerche su tecnologie e governance dell’energia nella pianificazione territoriale
No full textIn ambito nazionale il settore della pianificazione del territorio ha mostrato solo in tempi recenti una certa attenzione per i rapporti tra energia, ambiente ed insediamenti. Durante tutto il lungo periodo che va dall'insorgere della problematica energetica dei primi anni '70 fino al decennio scorso, la considerazione dei fattori legati all'organizzazione insediativa è entrata in modo marginale nel dibattito sulle politiche energetiche, come pure la componente energetica ha trovato scarsa considerazione nel campo della pianificazione.
L’avvio dell’interesse suddetto è strettamente legato al processo di liberalizzazione in corso che muove il cambiamento del vecchio modello centralistico e determina con ciò l’emergere di nuove rilevanti potenzialità per l’azione energetica locale nel quadro sistemico del progetto di trasformazione della città e del territorio.
Tra i fattori che rallentano tale processo gioca un ruolo importante la disattenzione rivolta al territorialismo energetico durante il lungo periodo di supremazia del vecchio modello centralizzato, che ha disincentivato l’attività di ricerca applicata, di sperimentazione e trasferimento dell’innovazione al territorio.
Questo volume intende fornire un parziale contributo alla copertura di tale divario con le sintesi di alcuni studi condotti in forma coordinata da un gruppo di ricercatori della Sezione Ambiente e Paesaggio del Dipartimento PDTA dell’Università Sapienza di Roma.
Si tratta di risultati di studi essenzialmente di tipo ricognitivo-interpretativo utili alla costruzione del ponte suddetto, da cui però emergono anche valutazioni critiche e indirizzi propositivi per lo sviluppo dell’attività di ricerca
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
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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