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Integrerad geospatial och långsiktig elplanering för universell tillgång och avkarbonisering i Burkina Faso
No full textThis thesis develops comprehensive, geospatial, long-term electricity planning pathways for Burkina Faso, a country striving toward sustainable growth and including universal electricity access in that growth. By integrating the Open Source Energy Modelling System (OSeMOSYS) and the Open Source Spatial Electrification Tool (OnSSET), to create the Open Source Geospatial Energy Modeller (OSGEM), the study analyzes three electrification scenarios: Businessas-Usual (BAU), Balanced (BAL), and Ambitious (AMB). Results show that while the BAU scenario leads to incremental progress, it falls short of universal access and sustainability goals. The BAL scenario achieves a more optimal balance between expanding access, managing costs, and reducing emissions, whereas the AMB scenario, though requiring the highest investments, delivers rapid electrification and the greatest emission reductions. Sensitivity analyses reveal that earlier net-zero targets and lower photovoltaic (PV) capital costs can accelerate renewable adoption and lower overall system costs. The study highlights the importance of integrated, spatially explicit planning and strong policy support for renewable energy deployment. Limitations include data uncertainties and the need for more granular modeling of demand and system reliability. The findings offer actionable insights for policymakers and provide a foundation for future research on sustainable electricity planning in Burkina Faso.Denna avhandling utvecklar omfattande, geospatiala, långsiktiga elplaneringsvägar för Burkina Faso, ett land som strävar mot hållbar tillväxt och inkluderar universell tillgång till elektricitet i denna tillväxt. Genom att integrera Open Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS) och Open Source Spatial Electrification Tool (OnSSET), för att skapa Open Source Geo-spatial Energy Modeller (OSGEM), analyserar studien tre elektrifieringsscenarier: Business-as-Usual (BAU), Balanced (BAL) och Ambitious (AMB). Resultaten visar att även om BAU-scenariot leder till stegvisa framsteg, så är det kortare än universella åtkomst- och hållbarhetsmål. BALscenariot uppnår en mer optimal balans mellan att utöka tillgången, hantera kostnader och minska utsläppen, medan AMB-scenariot, även om det kräver de högsta investeringarna, ger snabb elektrifiering och de största utsläppsminskningarna. Känslighetsanalyser visar att tidigare nettonollmål och lägre solceller (PV) kapitalkostnader kan påskynda användningen av förnybar energi och sänka de totala systemkostnaderna. Studien belyser vikten av integrerad, fysiskt explicit planering och starkt politiskt stöd för utbyggnad av förnybar energi. Begränsningar inkluderar dataosäkerheter och behovet av mer detaljerad modellering av efterfrågan och systemtillförlitlighet. Resultaten ger handlingskraftiga insikter för beslutsfattare och ger en grund för framtida forskning om hållbar elplanering i Burkina Faso
Integrerad geospatial och långsiktig elplanering för universell tillgång och avkarbonisering i Burkina Faso
No full textThis thesis develops comprehensive, geospatial, long-term electricity planning pathways for Burkina Faso, a country striving toward sustainable growth and including universal electricity access in that growth. By integrating the Open Source Energy Modelling System (OSeMOSYS) and the Open Source Spatial Electrification Tool (OnSSET), to create the Open Source Geospatial Energy Modeller (OSGEM), the study analyzes three electrification scenarios: Businessas-Usual (BAU), Balanced (BAL), and Ambitious (AMB). Results show that while the BAU scenario leads to incremental progress, it falls short of universal access and sustainability goals. The BAL scenario achieves a more optimal balance between expanding access, managing costs, and reducing emissions, whereas the AMB scenario, though requiring the highest investments, delivers rapid electrification and the greatest emission reductions. Sensitivity analyses reveal that earlier net-zero targets and lower photovoltaic (PV) capital costs can accelerate renewable adoption and lower overall system costs. The study highlights the importance of integrated, spatially explicit planning and strong policy support for renewable energy deployment. Limitations include data uncertainties and the need for more granular modeling of demand and system reliability. The findings offer actionable insights for policymakers and provide a foundation for future research on sustainable electricity planning in Burkina Faso.Denna avhandling utvecklar omfattande, geospatiala, långsiktiga elplaneringsvägar för Burkina Faso, ett land som strävar mot hållbar tillväxt och inkluderar universell tillgång till elektricitet i denna tillväxt. Genom att integrera Open Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS) och Open Source Spatial Electrification Tool (OnSSET), för att skapa Open Source Geo-spatial Energy Modeller (OSGEM), analyserar studien tre elektrifieringsscenarier: Business-as-Usual (BAU), Balanced (BAL) och Ambitious (AMB). Resultaten visar att även om BAU-scenariot leder till stegvisa framsteg, så är det kortare än universella åtkomst- och hållbarhetsmål. BALscenariot uppnår en mer optimal balans mellan att utöka tillgången, hantera kostnader och minska utsläppen, medan AMB-scenariot, även om det kräver de högsta investeringarna, ger snabb elektrifiering och de största utsläppsminskningarna. Känslighetsanalyser visar att tidigare nettonollmål och lägre solceller (PV) kapitalkostnader kan påskynda användningen av förnybar energi och sänka de totala systemkostnaderna. Studien belyser vikten av integrerad, fysiskt explicit planering och starkt politiskt stöd för utbyggnad av förnybar energi. Begränsningar inkluderar dataosäkerheter och behovet av mer detaljerad modellering av efterfrågan och systemtillförlitlighet. Resultaten ger handlingskraftiga insikter för beslutsfattare och ger en grund för framtida forskning om hållbar elplanering i Burkina Faso
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
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