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Ventilative Cooling in Combination with Other Natural Cooling Solutions: Direct Evaporative Cooling—DEC
No full textThis chapter analyses the potential combination of ventilative cooling solutions with direct evaporative cooling (DEC) systems. The focus is on passive downdraught evaporative cooling (PDEC) towers, whose performance is described based on the analysis of monitored results. The main design aspects of PDEC towers are explained, including basic relationships and support tools for system optimization. A series of case studies is reported, illustrating different integration strategies and providing a series of examples for designers. Finally, a simulation-based approach to analysing the local potential of PDEC to reduce thermal discomfort in naturally ventilated buildings is introduced, providing a method by which DEC systems can be integrated in building projects from the early-design phases
Usage of urban green space and related feelings of deprivation during the COVID-19 lockdown: Lessons learned from an Italian case study
Full text linkThis study investigated perceptions and behavioral patterns related to urban green space (UGS) in Italian cities, during the period of national lockdown imposed due to the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in the spring of 2020. A survey was used to examine the responses of population groups in different municipal areas, comparing those in government-defined ?red zones?, mostly in the northern regions of the country, with ?non-red zones? in the rest of the country, where the rate of infection was much lower. A total of 2100 respondents participated in the survey. The majority of respondents declared themselves to be habitual users of UGS, especially of parks or green areas outside the town ? mainly visiting for relaxation and physical exercise, but also for observing nature. In the northern regions people more commonly reported the adoption of sustainable practices, in terms of the utilization of tools for "green mobility". During the lockdown, habits changed significantly: only one third of respondents reported visiting UGS, with frequent visits made mainly for the purpose of walking the dog. Other motivations included the need for relaxing, mostly in the red zones, and for physical exercise in non-red zones. The reduction in travel to urban parks was accompanied by increased visitation of gardens and other green spaces in close proximity, as social distancing and other regulations imposed restrictions on movement. In all regions, respondents who could not physically access UGS expressed a feeling of deprivation which was exacerbated by living in towns located in red zones, being a usual visitor of UGS and having no green view from the window. The extent to which these visitors missed UGS depended on the frequency of visitation before the pandemic and the UGS distance, as well as the type of previous activity. In fact, those activities that were most common before the pandemic were missed the most, reinforcing the importance of green areas for social gathering, sports, and observing nature ? but simply ?spending time outdoors? was also mentioned, even by those who visited UGS during the lockdown, as the time outdoors was not enough or not fully enjoyed. The feeling of missing UGS was only partially alleviated by the green view from the window ? only a more open view to a natural landscape or adaptation to a view with little greenery reduced such feeling
ALPONE VALLEY: FAUNAS, FLORAS AND ROCKS FROM THE CENOZIC
No full textIn the Alpone Valley there are outcrops of volcanic and sedimentary marine rocks that contain many Eocene palaeontological deposits including those of Bolca. The fossils of Bolca have been known for a long time: the earliest sure records date back to a document dated 1550. Dates back to 1571 the important collection of the chemist Francesco Calzolari of Verona who in his museum, the first naturalistic museum known to the world, also exposed some fish from Bolca. The great biodiversity and exceptional conservation, particularly of fish discovered in the two most representative localities of Bolca, Pesciara and Monte Postale, makes it the richest deposit in the world. In fact, the fish Actinopterygii known in the fauna of Bolca belong to 19 orders, 91 families, 192 genera (of which 32 are of uncertain family) and at least 220 species. In addition, Pesciara and Monte Postale, protected since 1990 by the Regional Natural Park of Lessinia, and other deposits in the Alpone Valley recently reported, are famous even for the rich flora of the Eocene (170 genera, 137 species of which 54 types), certainly one of the most important and various worldwide and for the well preserved rests of reptiles, birds, scorpions, insects, jellyfish, crustacea, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, corals, brachiopods, annelids, foraminifers, ostracods and bryozoa. The palaeontological heritage of the Valley, which is preserved in some small local museums and in the main Italian, European and extra-European museums, has an important role in the History of Science and it offers a large window of knowledge about ancient landscapes of the Earth and their evolution. All this makes the territory of the Alpone Valley a reference point for those interested in Palaeontology, thanks to fossiliferous localities known worldwide, in particular as regards the marine and continental Eocene
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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