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An Evolutionary Approach to Single-sided Ventilated Façade Design
No full textA significant portion of the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions of residential buildings in Australia is associated with energy consumption for comfort and health. This study aims to reduce the carbon emissions of residential buildings by optimizing façade design. Targeting to minimize thermal loads, mechanical ventilation will be substituted by natural ventilation, meanwhile indoor environments and appropriate visual comfort will be improved. An evolutionary approach based on a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is developed to determine a set of optimal solutions of façade design for the performance targets of ventilation efficiency, energy consumption, and visual comfort. The proposed approach comprises: an evolutionary process model; the genetic representation of single-sided façade design; genetic operation methods; and fitness functions of multi-objective performance targets as well as Pareto evaluations. The process model enables mapping of façade design options and performance targets to evolve over time. Ventilation, energy and comfort analysis of single-sided ventilation are conducted for the evaluation of the resulting performance of façade design. The expected research outcomes will improve low carbon façade design of residential buildings while reducing cooling and heating costs for the construction industry and the consumer
The Study of Lan Ding- yuan's Pragmatistic Thoughts for Oceans
Full text link蓝鼎元是清代前期著名学者,他的著述中蕴含着丰富的海洋经世思想。他主张加强海防,肃清海盗;开放海禁,足民裕国;开发和治理宝岛台湾,增强国家的海洋防卫力量;实行海运,发展海洋贸易等。蓝鼎元的海洋经世思想是从海洋寻求发展国计民生的方法,他以海洋思维来考察中国面临的问题和挑战,并从海洋视角来寻求中国发展的方向,符合时代发展的客观要求。Lan Ding- yuan is a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty,there have abundant pragmatistic thoughts for oceans in his writings.Therefore,he advocated strengthen maritime defense to round up pirates,open the maritime embargo in order to develop national economy and increase national income,and to construct navy division,promote the development of shipping and maritime trade.Lan Ding- yuan's pragmatistic thoughts for oceans are founded on the way to seek the development of the national economy and livelihood from top to bottom with oceans perspective.From the point of oceans thought he observes the encountered problems and challenges in china,finding out the leeway or orientation for national development,which could meet the zeitgeist of objective requirements.国家社科基金重大项目“清代海疆政策与开发研究”(13&ZD093)的阶段性成
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
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