scholarly journals Selection of the Optimal Window Type and Orientation for the Two Cities in Serbia and One in Slovakia

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Jelena M. Djoković ◽  
Ružica R. Nikolić ◽  
Jan Bujnak ◽  
Branislav Hadzima ◽  
Filip Pastorek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Conduction ◽  
Thermal Loading ◽  
City Region ◽  
Window Frame ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Climatic Classification ◽  
Optimal Window ◽  
Selection Of

The necessity of having windows on any building’s façade is not questionable. However, not every window is suitable for any building. The selection of an adequate window must include the analysis of various factors—the most important ones are the type of window (e.g., single or double glazing); filling gas in cavities (e.g., air, argon or some other gas); and placing, i.e., orientation of a window on a façade (facing north, south, or east, etc.). The research presented in this paper is dealing with the calculation of the window thermal loading for the cities of Kragujevac and Bor in Serbia and Žilina in Slovakia. These three cities were selected because they belong to different climate regions, according to the Köppen–Geiger climatic classification. The first two cities in Serbia belong to the same region Cf with difference only in the category of summer—Kragujevac Cfa and Bor Cfb—while the third city—Žilina in Slovakia—belongs to the Dfb region. The calculated thermal loading through the window was obtained as a sum of the thermal loading due to the heat conduction and thermal loading due to the solar radiation. The objective was to find the optimal window construction and orientation of a building’s façade for each of these cities, by varying the type of the window, its frame material and the filling gas. The results show that for the first two cities in Serbia, there is a difference in the window frame material in the optimal window construction, while for the third city (Žilina in Slovakia), the results are the same as for the second city (Bor in Serbia) despite the fact that they belong to different climate regions (Cfb and Dfb, respectively). These results support the fact that the climate affects the optimal window construction for any city/region in the world.

scholarly journals Mixed and Mixing Systems Worldwide: A Preface

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Seán Patrick Donlan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
Selection Of

 This issue of the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (South Africa) sees the publication of a selection of articles derived from the Third International Congress of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists (WSMJJ). That Congress was held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in the summer of 2011. It reflected a thriving Society consolidating its core scholarship on classical mixed jurisdictions (Israel, Louisiana, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Scotland, and South Africa) while reaching to new horizons (including Cyprus, Hong Kong and Macau, Malta, Nepal, etc). This publication reflects in microcosm the complexity of contemporary scholarship on mixed and plural legal systems. This complexity is, of course, well-understood by South African jurists whose system is derived both from the dominant European traditions as well as from African customary systems, including both those that make up part of the official law of the state as well as those non-state norms that continue to be important in the daily lives of many South Africans.

Grasses: Systematics and Evolution

2000 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Comparative Biology ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Sydney Australia

Grasses: Systematics and Evolution is a selection of the very best papers from the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution held in Sydney, Australia in 1998. The papers represent some of the leading work from around the world on grasses and include reviews and current research into the comparative biology and classification. All 41 papers have been peer-reviewed and edited.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Performance History ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy ◽  
Selection Of

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The collection is organized in five sections. The opening section places the plays in a variety of illuminating contexts, exploring questions of genre, and examining ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of ‘Shakespearean’ tragedy. The second section is devoted to current textual issues; while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The book’s final section seeks to expand readers’ awareness of Shakespeare’s global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across the world. Offering the richest and most diverse collection of approaches to Shakespearean tragedy currently available, the Handbook will be an indispensable resource for students, both undergraduate and graduate levels, while the lively and provocative character of its essays will make it a required reading for teachers of Shakespeare everywhere.

scholarly journals A critical reading of The National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship : What are youth saying and what is missing?

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeela Arshad-Ayaz ◽  
Vanessa Andreotti ◽  
Ali Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
White Paper ◽  
The Third ◽  
Canadian Youth ◽  
The World ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Youth Perceptions ◽  
Selection Of

In the recent National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship (2015), a selection of Canadian youth identified their vision for global citizenship education (GCE). The document articulates the Canadian youths' vision for global citizenship and outlines changes that need to be implemented in order for that vision to be achieved. Drawing on critiques of modernity and of liberal multiculturalism coming from postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist anti-racist scholarship, this article explores how young people imagine their positionalities as Canadian citizens and agents of change in the world. We aim to describe how the White Paper can be used both as a call for deepening critical engagements in education as well as a bridge for discussions of GCE in ways that move conversations into new realms. This paper is divided into four sections. In the first section, we analyse the 2015 White Paper, written collaboratively by Canadian students. It is the first document to focus exclusively on youth perceptions of what action is needed and what problems need to be addressed. We summarize the Canadian youths' articulation and understanding of GCE and identify the major themes addressed. The second section articulates the calls for action that the Canadian youth deem necessary for their vision of global citizenship. As they demand an emphasis on criticality in their formal education, we consider how we can listen to and respond to these calls. The third section presents a critical analysis of the document with a view to paving the way for collaborations to push discussions even further. The fourth section highlights how we can build on the White Paper to move discussions about GCE in new and different directions. We aim to address how the White Paper can be used to further the conversations in ways that explore how the youths' calls for actions can open up the possibilities for critical GCE.

An Inverted Paradigm: A Reply to Elisabeth Gidengil

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Paul Kellogg
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dependency Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThrough a critique of the “internationalist” arguments outlined and defended by Paul Kellogg, Elisabeth Gidengil has mounted a defence of dependency theory as it has been applied to Canadian political economy. She argues that dependency theory, far from being discarded as Kellogg has suggested, must be part of any new synthesis that is developed in Canadian political economy. She argues that Bukharin's Marxism, defended by Kellogg, is too abstract to be of any real guide in this new synthesis. This reply first situates where a “Bukharinist” approach is in agreement with dependency theory. Both recognize the existence of a rigid hierarchy of nations that impedes development in the Third World. But in Canada, it is argued, this insight has been stood on its head, Canada being theorized as “dependent” and suffering dependency-induced “structural weaknesses.” A selection of empirical examples is introduced to indicate the weak factual ground on which this claim is based. If there are aspects of the dependency paradigm to be retained, in the Canadian case this requires inverting the way in which this paradigm has usually been applied and insisting on Canada's entrenched position, alongside the other G7 powers, at the top of the hierarchy of nations in the world system.

Study on the Different Dynamic Models and its Simplified Standards of the PWR Neutron

2014 ◽  
Vol 541-542 ◽  
pp. 880-886
Author(s):  
Ping Wu ◽  
Qiang Yu ◽  
Hao Chen ◽  
Jun Yi ◽  
Guang Quan Pu
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Nuclear Power Generation ◽  
Single Group ◽  
World Average ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Selection Of

According to the world average generation levels, the nuclear power generation is the third-largest energy generation form following the thermal and hydroelectric ones. Among all the operating nuclear generation, the type of the PWR has occupied more than 50%. The paper constructed three most commonly used dynamic PWR neutron models, which are six-groups delayed, single-group delayed and linearized neutron model, and made a detail analysis of those different models. An investigation of the different errors among the models under different perturbations is taken by simulation and a standard for the simplification of the models had been proposed, which can provide a reference for the selection of the future PWR neutron dynamic model.

scholarly journals Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze VOL. 1 LE COLLEZIONI DELLA SPECOLA

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Important Research ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. Firenze University Press opens the series dealing with the six sections of the Museum with this book on La Specola, situated in Palazzo Torrigiani, which represented the original nucleus. The articles in the first section reconstruct the historic background, the foundation of La Specola and the genesis and development of the collections. The second part considers the anatomical waxes, the entomological collections, and those of the vertebrates and the invertebrates, with a view to providing a description of the precious specimens that is at once precise and accessible. Finally, the third section completes the picture, retracing the important research activity that has accompanied the history of La Specola and reporting on the scientific projects in which the personnel are engaged. The largest collection in the world of anatomical wax models and the vast zoological collection are illustrated by the people directly involved in the related research, and by a superb selection of original photos produced specially for this publication.

scholarly journals Children with grand Imaginaries: Bringing them closer to the world of science

Comunicar ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (60) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Sandra-M. Villareal-Romero ◽  
Erika-S. Olaya-Escobar ◽  
Estefanía Leal-Peña ◽  
Janneth-A. Palacios-Chaparro
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Selection Of

Although at present there are academic strategies for scientific dissemination, it is still a challenge for the general population to access quality information that is reliable, easy to understand and motivational towards science. This article proposes an image-based educational scientific dissemination tool with the goal of bringing children closer to science, through the recognition of relevant characters and their contributions. The study was developed along three stages. The first and second were conducted through a qualitative analytical approach with an interpretative perspective, using a documental method, with a review and analysis technique. During the first stage, a review and selection of studies related to scientific dissemination for children was conducted. The second one focused on the identification and selection of scientific characters, through the establishment of categories and criteria. The third stage relates to the design of outstanding characters’ biographical cards. The main contribution of this proposal is the assembly of a semantic network to portray a completed character profile, time context, place of origin, contributions, impacts, acknowledgements or prizes, as well as limitations or difficulties in context. Therefore, a mean of disclosure was devised through cards with a highly graphic and animated content regarding scientific characters sized in a gaming strategy called ‘Sapiencia’, a ludic and motivational learning tool. Actualmente existen estrategias académicas de divulgación científica, aunque sigue siendo un reto para la población en general acceder a información de calidad, fiable, fácil de entender y que genere motivación hacia la ciencia. Este artículo propone una herramienta educativa para la divulgación científica basada en imágenes con el objetivo de acercar a los niños a la ciencia, mediante el reconocimiento de personajes relevantes y sus contribuciones. Esta investigación se desarrolló en tres fases. La primera y segunda mediante un enfoque cualitativo de tipo analítico interpretativo, en donde el método es documental y las técnicas utilizadas son la revisión y el análisis de información. La primera fase corresponde a la revisión y selección de documentos relacionados con divulgación científica para niños. La segunda, se enfoca en la identificación y selección de personajes científicos mediante la construcción de categorías y criterios. La tercera corresponde al diseño de tarjetas biográficas acerca de personajes destacados del ámbito científico. Un aporte fundamental de este trabajo es la construcción de una red semántica para la caracterización del personaje según el perfil, el contexto de la época y del lugar de origen, sus aportes e impactos, reconocimientos o premios, barreras y limitaciones contextuales. A partir del cual se propuso una estrategia de divulgación mediante tarjetas biográficas con un alto contenido gráfico de personajes animados del ámbito científico y el juego «Sapiencia» como herramienta lúdica y motivacional.

Optimum Structure of the Banking Market: How Many Banks Are Necessary for Russia?

2006 ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Moiseev
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Optimum Structure ◽  
Population Number ◽  
The Third ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Equilibrium Number

The number of classical banks in the world has reduced. In the majority of countries the number of banks does not exceed 200. The uniqueness of the Russian banking sector is that in this respect it takes the third place in the world after the USA and Germany. The paper reviews the conclusions of the economic theory about the optimum structure of the banking market. The empirical analysis shows that the number of banks in a country is influenced by the size of its territory, population number and GDP per capita. Our econometric estimate is that the equilibrium number of banks in Russia should be in a range of 180-220 units.

Overcoming “The Third Way” Concept

2006 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
L. Evstigneeva ◽  
R. Evstigneev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Linear

“The Third Way” concept is still widespread all over the world. Growing socio-economic uncertainty makes the authors revise the concept. In the course of discussion with other authors they introduce a synergetic vision of the problem. That means in the first place changing a linear approach to the economic research for a non-linear one.

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