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Assessment of offshore wind energy potential in the Middle East: Case studies Egypt, Arabian Peninsula
No full textOffshore wind energy is highlighted as one of the most important resources to be exploited for electrical power production. This is due to the higher wind speed availability and minimal visual impacts compared with onshore wind energy sites. Currently, there is a lack of clear systematic assessment methodology for offshore wind energy potential. A methodology is proposed here addressing this gap and providing global applicability for offshore wind energy exploitation. It is based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and pairwise comparison methods linked to site spatial assessment in a Geographical Information System (GIS). The method is applied to Egypt and then extended to the Arabian Peninsula countries. In 2014, Egypt had plans to scale renewable energy capacity from 1 GW to 7.5 GW by 2020, which was likely to be through solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind energies. Hence, this work will contribute to the proposed Egyptian target and provide seminal outcomes to quantify the offshore wind energy potential and its contribution to the Arabian Peninsula’s countries renewable energy ambitions. The applicability of spatial analysis based on multi-criteria decision analysis was introduced to provide accurate estimates of the offshore wind energy from suitable locations in Egypt where in-depth further analysis of these sites where also carried out. Three suitable high wind areas around the Red Sea in Egypt were identified with minimum restrictions that can provide around 33 GW of installed wind power capacity. The results for Arabian Peninsula countries indicate that by installing 35GW of offshore wind capacity, 25.7 of their electrical demands can be met. Suitability maps are also included providing a blueprint for the development of wind farms at these sites. Sensitivity analyses was undertaken for the Egypt case study to support the robustness of the proposed methodology assumptions and data quality. An economic analysis of sites, defined as the Representative Cost Ratio RCR approach was undertaken was validated using UK site data. The overall results presented for both case studies indicate that the proposed methodology is applicable for local and regional scales. The developed methodology is generalised and is applicable globally to produce offshore wind energy suitability maps for appropriate offshore wind farm locations. The second phase of this research is to provide full wind farm turbine layout and piling design of the sites in Egypt. This included the choice of the appropriate foundations and farm (array) planning for the chosen sites. From a review and analysis of the different available foundation technologies and their suitability in terms soil conditions and of available infrastructure needed for deployment, it was found that a monopile foundation system is most appropriate for the sites. The final monopile dimensions are with 8 cm wall thickness, 6 m diameter, and insertion depth of either 20 m or 24 m. This size will support a 5 MW offshore wind turbine for the identified soil types of the three different proposed locations in Egypt. The final analysis undertaken covers overall cost reductions for the Egyptian sites through optimising the farm layout. This included a study of the port feasibility and environmental impacts of deploying offshore wind turbines in these locations. The layout optimisation designs showed that the optimum layout has a spacing of five times the turbine rotor diameter in both directions. The port feasibility analysis showed that “Distance between port and wind farm location” was the highest weighting factor. In addition, (East Port Said port) is highly recommended to install the first 500MW offshore farm in Egypt for three different locations, predominantly due to proximity to farm site. Finally, the environmental investigation confirmed that deploying offshore wind farms in Egypt is predicted to have minimum impacts on the surrounding ecosystems and other minor impacts are easily mitigated with proper measure
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
The 5 -10 - 20 - 30 Rules : TRM and5 Qs Approaches for Reducing Medical Errors & Increasing Patent Safety
No full textC&C Established in 2000 by Professor Mosad Zineldin at Växjö University-Sweden in cooperation with eminent academics from different countries such as Professor David Walters, Australia, Professor Duglas Hensler, USA and Dr. John Peters, UK. C&C SCOPE The management of Health and Social Care constitutes an important area for the application of concepts and techniques from the disciplines of Management, quality, medicine, mathematics, operational research and statistics. Problems such as health care quality managmement, outsourcing, management of waiting lists and bed capacity, hospital redesign, workforce planning and scheduling, patient flow modelling, performance management, disease monitoring, ethics and health care technology assessment have been tackled using both qualitative and quantitative techniques. The purpose of the 7th International Conference/workshop on cooperation, competition and Health care reform (CCHR) is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the health care advances, reform and reengineering. The aim of my paper presented in this conference is to: •Present a new Quality Assurance Model (5Qs) based on Total Relationship Management (a holistic) Approach (TRM). The expected outcomes are to: •Reduce the medical errors •Increase patient safety & •to achieve higher doctors and patients level of satisfaction</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
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