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IoT – lösning för vattenbesparing / Realtidsflödesmätares påverkan på vattenförbrukningsvanor
No full textVattenbrist, dvs. låga vattenflöden och låga grundvattennivåer, kan på många vis ge negativa effekter i samhället, exempelvis inom vattenförsörjning, samhällsekonomi och ekosystem. Enligt tidigare forskning kan man bidra till att undvika vattenbrist i många områden genom att hushålla med jordens vattenresurser. Således kan man hjälpa till att lösa problemet med vattenbrist, vilket i sin tur även får positiv effekt på både natur, energi och privatekonomi.Sveriges genomsnittliga vattenförbrukning för hushållen är ca 150 liter per person och dygn. Motsvarande för Danmark är det ca 104 liter per person och dygn. Det innebär att vattenförbrukningen i Danmark är ca 30% lägre än i Sverige och insinuerar att det, i Sverige, också finns potential att minska vattenförbrukningen. En realtidsmätare av vattenförbrukningen skulle kunna vara ett sätt att minska hushållens vattenförbrukning. Möjligheten undersöktes med hjälp av en enkätundersökning och med en fokusgrupp.Resultatet visade att det finns möjlighet att minska vattenförbrukningen, individuellt i hushållen, till 71 liter per person och dygn, vilket ungefär motsvarar hälften av dagens genomsnittliga vattenförbrukning per person och dygn i Sverige. De flesta av studiens deltagare uppvisade en gynnsam och positiv inställning till vattenbesparande och visade intresse för information om vattenkonsumtion och eventuella följdproblem av oansvarig vattenförbrukning. Därmed visade deltagarna en positiv inställning till realtidsmätare av vattenförbrukning. Slutsatsen drogs att installerade realtidsflödesmätare i varje hushåll kan bidra till vattenbesparing och därmed påverka naturen och samhället på ett positivt sätt.Water shortage, meaning low water flows and low groundwater levels, can in many ways have negative effects in society, for example on the water supply, social economy and ecosystems. According to previous research, water shortages in many areas can be avoided by managing the water resources of the earth. Saving water resources solves the problem of water scarcity in many areas as well as, benefits the nature, energy and the private economy.Sweden's average water consumption in households is about 150 liters per day per person and the equivalent for Denmark is about 104 liters. This means that in Denmark, water consumption per capita is about 30% lower than in Sweden and indicates that we, in Sweden, also can lower water consumption.A real-time meter of water consumption could be a way to reduce the household water consumption. The possibility was investigated by means of a survey and a focus group.The results showed that it is possible to reduce water consumption, individually in households, to 71 liters per day, which means about half of today's average water consumption per person and day in Sweden.Most of the study participants showed a favourable and positive attitude towards water conservation and showed an interest in information on water consumption and possible problem areas related to irresponsible water consumption. Thus, the participants showed a positive perception of real-time water consumption meters.The conclusion is that installed real-time flow meters in each household can contribute to saving water and thus have a positive impact on nature and society
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
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
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