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UnicamTools
No full textUnicamTools is a comprehensive software suite developed to streamline climate analysis and urban comfort studies. Built upon the Ladybug Tools framework, it provides an accessible interface that simplifies complex environmental analysis workflows. The suite comprises four integrated tools: a statistical analyzer for identifying representative climate scenarios (White Tool), a weather data integrator (Green Tool), an urban heat island effect simulator utilizing MIT's Urban Weather Generator (Orange Tool), and a thermal comfort calculator incorporating shadow analysis, radiation studies, and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) assessments (Blue Tool). This toolset addresses the growing need for user-friendly environmental analysis software in urban planning and climate studies, reducing the technical barriers typically associated with such analyses. Developed within the CLICCHE Erasmus+ Project framework, UnicamTools represents a significant step towards democratizing access to sophisticated climate analysis tools while maintaining scientific rigour through established methodologies and validated calculation engines.
Keywords: climate analysis, urban comfort, thermal comfort, UTCI, urban heat island, environmental analysis, Ladybug Tool
Combinative Study of Urban Heat Island in Ascoli Piceno City with Remote Sensing and CFD Simulation—Climate Change and Urban Health Resilience—CCUHRE Project. (Rivista Classe A)
Full text linkThis paper presents a new methodological approach for analysing the impacts of climate change on the urban habitat and improving the quality of life for citizens. The study falls within the diagnostic phase of the Climate Change and Urban Health Resilience (CCUHRE) research project applied to the rationalist neighbourhood of Monticelli, a suburb of Ascoli Piceno (Italy). The methodological approach tests innovative and multidisciplinary cognitive tools to quantify the impacts of climate change and create refined risk maps combining remote sensing, spatial data, satellite images, and thermal fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations. These tools created an atlas of green areas and surfaces using scientific indexes that describe the relationship between the urban form and heat and between the type of ground and materials. The information yielded by geoprocessing will allow critical aspects in the context to be addressed with site-specific strategies. In fact, through downscaling, it is possible to analyse the thermal fluid dynamics characteristics of the most significant urban areas and identify the related weather/climate characteristics, perceptual scenarios, and thermal stressed regions. The results have provided a dataset that defines the degree of vulnerability of the neighbourhood and identifies the areas exposed to thermal risk
Energy efficiency improvements in italian historical buildings: The case study of Ascoli Piceno
No full textEvaluating the energy efficiency of historical buildings is an important theme nowadays, with European directives that fix a strong reduction in energy use and impose an increase in the amount of energy produced by renewable sources. Within restoration and other related disciplines, it is therefore necessary that a specific method of investigation for historical buildings be developed. The methodological approach of energy efficiency in historical buildings, from the building scale to the urban scale, must account for the particular characteristics of historical buildings. Each operation should be carefully examined in each case and defined within a grid of possible interventions that can combine conservation and innovation. Public administrations have also recently addressed these themes to evaluate medium and long-term strategies useful in more effectively managing the heritage. These objectives form the basis for recent research involving the city of Ascoli Piceno. The aim is to provide the entities that manage the cultural heritage with criteria and methods to completely and critically assess historical buildings while also duly considering aspects related to their energy performance
Multilevel governance approach to adaptation. The construction of the Italian mid- Adriatic green infrastructure
No full textThere is a persistent discrepancy between the climate adaptation measures advocated by European and international bodies and the actual implementation of such measures. While implementation frequently
occurs at the municipal level, which makes municipalities pivotal actors, this is insufficient. Indeed, the involvement of other levels of governance and the private sector is essential, as are adaptation actions that permeate all plans, programs, and projects of a public entity. An approach to adaptation that refers to
multilevel governance and mainstreaming strategies for implementation is pioneered in the Life+ A_GreeNet Project, which envisages the construction of the green infrastructure of the Italian mid-Adriatic city. This approach integrates adaptation actions into existing decision-making and policy processes, innovates the
processes of construction of urban plans, and promotes the management and care of green with innovative and flexible tools
URBAN MICRO-FORESTRY FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN THE SMALLER PORTS OF THE MID-ADRIATIC SEA
Full text linkThe paper describes a research work aimed at identifying tools to support the activation and environmental regeneration of the open space of the ports in the mid-Adriatic area, an area with untapped potential, though there are significant criticalities. Starting from a set of data taken from the INTERREG Italy-Croatia Joint_SECAP project and, in particular, from the risks and climatic vulnerabilities of the Italian mid-Adriatic city, the contribution presents hypotheses for the light transformation of a part of the port infrastructure through urban micro-forestry interventions. The methodological approach uses simulation tools with a parametric platform that generates proprietary algorithms and allows recursive control over every aspect of the process
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
Energy efficiency improvements in italian historical buildings: The case study of Ascoli Piceno
No full textEvaluating the energy efficiency of historical buildings is an important theme nowadays, with European directives that fix a strong reduction in energy use and impose an increase in the amount of energy produced by renewable sources. Within restoration and other related disciplines, it is therefore necessary that a specific method of investigation for historical buildings be developed. The methodological approach of energy efficiency in historical buildings, from the building scale to the urban scale, must account for the particular characteristics of historical buildings. Each operation should be carefully examined in each case and defined within a grid of possible interventions that can combine conservation and innovation. Public administrations have also recently addressed these themes to evaluate medium and long-term strategies useful in more effectively managing the heritage. These objectives form the basis for recent research involving the city of Ascoli Piceno. The aim is to provide the entities that manage the cultural heritage with criteria and methods to completely and critically assess historical buildings while also duly considering aspects related to their energy performance
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
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