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Legislation
No full textThis chapter collects standing legislation and financial incentives provided by EU member states, represented in this COST action, in order to take a close look at the salient aspects considered when building or refurbishing suburban housing. The countries represented include Denmark, Finland, Germa-ny, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey.
The chapter highlights different approaches and strategies taken by different European govern-ments and municipalities towards improving the overall quality of the built environment, par-ticularly in the suburban building stock, namely private and public social housing
Assessment Tools for Building Refurbishment
No full textThis book is the one of the final outputs of the COST Action TU0701 (2008-2012). The aim of the Action is to investigate methods and technologies used in the reabilitation and renovation of suburban building settlements, intended to increase their value and to improve safety and the quality of life of inhabitants.
The Chapter 3 collectes software tools and methods existing in EU member states, represented in this COST action for the refurbishment and upgrading of existing building stock evaluation. The countries represented include Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, United Kingdom and Turkey.
The aim of the chapter is to present different approaches and strategies taken by different Countries towards the methodologies to assess a building refurbishment, particularly in the suburban building stock, namely private and public social housing
Building legislation and financial incentives matrix
No full textThis is a common matrix that highlights different approaches and strategies taken by different European governments and municipalities towards improving the overall quality of the built environment, particularly in the suburban building stock, namely private and public social housing. In order to collect the data each country (workgroup member/s) was asked two fundamental questions: In your country,
1. Is there a Funding Programme or some form of Financial Support for the listed key areas?
2. Is there a Law, Regulation or Standard in place for Functional and Architectural characteristics or Quality Control of processes in the same listed areas?
These seminal questions were answered by each country, guided by the listed subject area, compiled by the same workgroup members themselves. (These are listed in LHS column or top heading in the matrix). Apart from confirming whether such measures are in place for the re-spective item on the list, members also commented on each item accordingly, as deemed appro-priate. (Such comments are listed briefly as footnotes to the table, classified under each subject heading for easy reference. This paper compares what is happening in these EU member states under the respective topic in the prescribed list. Further details may be elaborated under each country’s comment
Quality assessment methodology and tools
No full textThe paper introduced the work done by Working Group 3 in the field of the research COST TU0701 "Improving the Quality of Suburban Building Stock".
The main aim of Task 6 of the Action “Quality assessment models and protocols” developed by Working Group 3 in the two last years of the TU0701 COST Action, was to analyse the suitability of existing and available models for assessing the quality and value of suburban housing estates to be refurbished. The suitability of the models was checked taking into consideration their compatibility with the legislation (i.e. fire protection, earth quake prevention, emission thresholds), and the relevant standards of participating countries.
The strategic aim of this Task was the definition of criteria, strategies and actions (procedures,
technical tools, economic analysis) for receiving information about the actual degradation state of the buildings and the possibility to develop renovation plans, taking into account the appli-cability and availability of existing systems. The main objective of the Action is the development and dissemination of knowledge and tools to assess and promote the refurbishment of existing suburban building stocks” (Memorandum of Understanding COST ACTION TU0701).The main aim of this work is to compare systems and learn from each other the potentials of each methodology
An inventory of building legislation and financial incentives: a multi – facted, state of the art overview
No full textThis paper takes a close look at the salient aspects considered when building or refurbishing suburban housing. Although very often there is no fine-cutting line between the urban and suburban context, the architectural design, its scale, height and form of each development often indicate the suburb or its boundaries where such a project has taken place. This paper reviews standing legislation and financial incentives provided by EU member states, represented in this COST action. The countries represented include Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey.The paper highlights different approaches and strategies taken by different European govern-ments and municipalities towards improving the overall quality of the built environment, par-ticularly in the suburban building stock, namely private and public social housing.Since TU 0701 is scheduled to last for the standard four year duration for a COST action (2007-2011), this paper is being presented as the work output of WG3 at the milestone Mid-Term Conference held in May 2010 in Malta. Although the scientific programme was based on a se-quence of six specific tasks, three of these were completed on time by this date. These are re-ported in the mid-term publication, with each workgroup’s output detailed though technical papers in respective chapters
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
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