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Análise do uso de estratégias para a melhoria de eficiência energética e do conforto térmico em edificações com sistemas de automação predial-residencial
Get PDFO presente trabalho apresenta uma proposta para melhoria da eficiência energética e do conforto térmico em edificações com sistemas de automação predial-residencial. O desenvolvimento da proposta do trabalho foi dividido em três etapas: na primeira etapa foi realizada uma análise inicial do desempenho de uma sala de aula automatizada, com relação ao consumo de energia elétrica do sistema de climatização e o conforto térmico dos usuários, em 4 cenários típicos de uso da sala. Esta análise indicou claras possibilidades de melhorias no sistema de automação, de forma a aumentar o conforto térmico e reduzir-se o consumo de energia. Numa segunda etapa da proposta foi aplicada uma estratégia de alteração dos horários de funcionamento do sistema de climatização com o objetivo de melhorar o conforto térmico dos usuários. Para validação das estratégias propostas foi desenvolvido, utilizando-se o software EnergyPlus, um modelo computacional para simulação da variação de temperatura da sala. Com a análise comparativa de simulações observou-se que alterando o horário de funcionamento do sistema de climatização foi possível manter a sala 100% do tempo na faixa de conforto térmico durante as aulas, porém com um aumento no consumo de energia. Em função disto, numa terceira etapa da proposta foi aplicada uma estratégia para ajustar o valor de setpoint de resfriamento do sistema de climatização integrado ao sistema de automação da sala com o objetivo de melhorar a eficiência energética. O algoritmo foi inicialmente desenvolvido com o software Matlab e foi co-simulado com o modelo computacional utilizando a ferramenta MLE+. Com a análise comparativa de simulações e co-simulações observou-se que houve uma redução no consumo de energia de cerca de17% na sala numa comparação com os cenários validados na primeira etapa. Os conceitos desenvolvidos foram então aplicados no projeto de uma nova edificação, no qual uma redução no consumo de energia em torno de 6%.The present paper presents a proposal of improvement of energy efficiency and thermal comfort in buildings with home and building automation. The development of the proposal of the paper was divided into three stages: At the first stage it was realized an initial analysis of the performance of an automated room in relation to the consumption of electrical energy by the air conditioning system and the thermal comfort of the users in four typical scenarios of the room use. This analysis indicated clear possibilities of improvement on the automation system in terms of improving thermal comfort and decreasing energy consumption. At the second stage of the proposal it was applied a strategy of alteration of the operation times of the air conditioning system with the objective of improving the thermal comfort of the users. To validate the strategies proposed it was developed, using the EnergyPlus software, a computational model to simulate the variations in temperature in the room. With the comparative analysis of the simulations it was observed that altering the operation times of the air conditioning system it was possible to maintain the room in the thermal comfort zone 100% of the time, however, with an increase in energy consumption. Therefore, at the third stage of the proposal it was applied a strategy to adjust the cooling set point of the air conditioning system integrated to the automation system with the objective of improving energy efficiency. The algorithm was developed initially with the Matlab software and it was co-simulated with the computational model utilizing the MLE+ tool. With the comparative analysis of simulations and co-simulations it was observed that there was a reduction of around 17% in the consumption of energy in the room compared with the scenarios validated at the first stage. The concepts developed were then applied on the project of a new building, in which the reduction of energy consumption was around 6%
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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