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Journal articles on the topic "Family size Buildings"
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Trčka, Martin, Jan Ondruch, Adam Thomitzek, and Štěpán Kavan. "Fire Safety of Buildings in the Protection Zone of the Electric Power Transmission System of the Czech Republic." Applied Mechanics and Materials 820 (January 2016): 385–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.820.385.
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The article presents possible procedure for determining parameters of a building representing a finite group of buildings of the same properties characterized in particular by their size and amount of combustible material (family house furnishings, manufacturing facilities, etc.) that are potentially threatened by overhead electric power transmission lines. Detailed statistical processing was used to find dimensions of these buildings such as length, width, and height and their distance from transmission line conductors, which the first step is preceding subsequent mathematical modeling of a representative building and simulation of a fire in it.
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Jeong, Young Sun. "Selection of Insulation Materials and Insulation Performance with Consideration of Building Energy when Designing a Building." Applied Mechanics and Materials 752-753 (April 2015): 724–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.752-753.724.
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Building designs should be reviewed from the aspects of both design aesthetics and energy performance. The installation of insulation materials in external walls, roofs, and floors is a basic method that could reduce energy losses from buildings. The purpose of this study is to investigate the types of insulation materials selected as building materials and the insulation performance of each building elements when designing new buildings in South Korea. The insulation performance of the external walls, roofs, and floors of buildings were compared with the insulation criteria of the Energy Saving Design Standards of Buildings in building energy code. The design documents, as well as drawings and building energy saving plan sheets, which are required to be submitted for buildings larger than a certain size in South Korea, were collected. The most widely used insulation material in multi-family housings and non-residential buildings was extruded polystyrene (XPS). The insulation performance of external walls, roofs, and floors were higher than that established by design criteria of building energy code. In particular, the external walls had roughly a 25.5% better insulation performance than the insulation criteria.
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Koke, Johannes, André Schippmann, Jingchun Shen, Xingxing Zhang, Peter Kaufmann, and Stefan Krause. "Strategies of Design Concepts and Energy Systems for Nearly Zero-Energy Container Buildings (NZECBs) in Different Climates." Buildings 11, no. 8 (August 18, 2021): 364. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11080364.
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Container-based lightweight buildings offer a high ecologic and economic potential when they are designed as nearly zero-energy container buildings (NZECBs). Thus, they are relevant to energy transition in achieving an almost climate-neutral building stock. This paper describes and applies design strategies for suitable building concepts and energy systems to be used in NZECBs for different climates. Therefore, different applications in representative climatic zones were selected. Initially, the global climate zones were characterized and analyzed with regard to their potential for self-sufficiency and renewable energies in buildings. The design strategies were further developed and demonstrated for three cases: a single-family house in Sweden, a multi-family house in Germany, and a small school building in rural Ethiopia. For each case, design guidelines were derived and building concepts were developed. On the basis of these input data, various energy concepts were developed in which solar and wind energy, as well as biomass, were integrated as renewable energy sources. All the concepts were simulated and analyzed with the Polysun® software. The various approaches were compared and evaluated, particularly with regard to energy self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency rates up to 80% were achieved. Finally, the influence of different climate zones on the energy efficiency of the single-family house was studied as well as the influence of the size of battery storage and insulation.
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Bičák, Tomáš, and Helena Kolomazníková. "Smart Power Generation & Storage TEDOM." TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 7, no. 2 (March 30, 2020): 42–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.14311/tee.2018.2.042.
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<span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; -ms-layout-grid-mode: line; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-GB">The contribution describes the project implemented in the production plant of TEDOM. It defines the part of the premises where the buildings are supplied with electric power from the photovoltaic power plant in collaboration with a CHP unit. A battery system is employed to compensate for the imbalances between the power generation and consumption. Yet the buildings are completely independent of the connection to the distribution network. Thus, it is a so-called </span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: CS; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">"</span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; -ms-layout-grid-mode: line; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-GB">off-grid</span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: CS; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">"</span><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; -ms-layout-grid-mode: line; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-GB"> operation.</span>
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Huh, Jung-Ho, and Sun-Hye Mun. "Energy demand analysis according to window size and performance for Korean multi-family buildings." Architectural research 15, no. 4 (December 30, 2013): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5659/aikar.2013.15.4.201.
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Homaei, Shabnam, and Mohamed Hamdy. "Quantification of Energy Flexibility and Survivability of All-Electric Buildings with Cost-Effective Battery Size: Methodology and Indexes." Energies 14, no. 10 (May 12, 2021): 2787. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14102787.
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All-electric buildings are playing an important role in the electrification plan towards energy-neutral smart cities. Batteries are key components in all-electric buildings that can help the demand-side energy management as a flexibility asset and improve the building survivability in the case of power outages as an active survivability asset. This paper introduces a novel methodology and indexes for determining cost-effective battery sizes. It also explores the possible trade-off between energy flexibility and the survivability of all-electric buildings. The introduced methodology uses IDA-ICE 4.8 as a building performance simulation tool and MATLAB® 2017 as a post-processing calculation tool for quantifying building energy flexibility and survivability indexes. The proposed methodology is applied to a case study of a Norwegian single-family house, where 10 competitive designs, 16 uncertainty scenarios, and 3 dynamic pricing tariffs suggested by the Norwegian regulators are investigated. The methodology provides informative support for different stakeholders to compare various building designs and dynamic pricing tariffs from the flexibility and survivability points of view. Overall, the results indicate that larger cost-effective batteries usually have higher active survivability and lower energy flexibility from cost- effectiveness perspective. For instance, when the time of use tariff is applied, the cost-effective battery size varies between 40 and 65 kWh (daily storage). This is associated with a cost-effective flexibility index of 0.4–0.55%/kWh and an active survivability index of 63–80%.
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Machniak, Łukasz. "The Consumption Ratios for Aggregates to Concrete in Single-Family Houses." Gospodarka Surowcami Mineralnymi 32, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gospo-2016-0022.
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Abstract Natural aggregates are widely used both in ribbon and volumetric construction. In respect of quantitative demand, ribbon construction has been definitely much more receptive in recent years. After completion of implementation of large infrastructural investments, co-financed by EU funds, volumetric construction will become one of major directions of sale of aggregates. Due to a lack of accurate information about consumption of aggregates in this construction segment, it is important to estimate the unit consumption ratios in different types of volumetric structures. The thesis presents the statistical image of demand for aggregates depending on selected features of single-family buildings. The basis assumed for determining unit consumption of aggregates is the amount of concrete juxtaposed in design documentations and average content of aggregates in concrete mix. Consumption of aggregates has been defined in respect of such features of a building as: building area, total area, usable area, volume. Also, consumption was assessed depending on structural solutions of ceilings and major architectonic features: the number of storeys above ground and underground. The conducted analyses imply that consumption of aggregates varies according to not only the size of a house under construction, but also the architectural-constructional type of the building. In most cases, the consumption of aggregates to concrete correlates most favourably with the volume of the buildings. The average value of the aggregates consumption ratio is 0.21 Mg per 1 m3 of building volume, with the standard error of the mean equalling 0.003. As regards particular building types, the obtained mean values have a have a lower coefficient of variation, and similar values standard error, especially for the index calculated relative to the usable area. Therefore, it is justified to use these ratios interchangeably. It is possible to prepare regional demand scenarios for aggregates, especially gravel-sand aggregates which are the primary type used to produce concrete, using statistics of the residential construction market, including detached single-family construction, which have been kept for years, supplemented with the identified aggregate consumption ratios.
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Arbel, Yuval, Chaim Fialkoff, and Amichai Kerner. "Does the Housing Unit's Type and Size Affect Health?" Business and Economic Research 9, no. 1 (December 26, 2018): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ber.v9i1.14125.
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Recent medical studies have examined ways to offer more spatial planning opportunities to increase a person's level of physical activity. These studies demonstrate a decreasing prevalence of obesity in denser and less car-oriented communities with mixed land uses. Yet, apart from these environmental effects, the impact of characteristics of the housing unit itself (e.g., type and size), combined with socio-demographic variables (e.g., the number of children, marital status, place of birth, country of origin, and gender) on the body mass index (BMI) has not been examined previously. Based on a two-year longitudinal survey of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the current study examines this potential implication based on the BMI measure. Stratification by gender indicates opposite effects of suburbanization on projected BMI of women and men, who move from smaller condominiums in multi-family buildings to single family units and to larger apartments.
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Bowley, W., and P. Mukhopadhyaya. "A sustainable design for an off-grid passive container house." International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering 8, no. 2 (December 2017): 145–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/1848.2017.8.2.7.
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Buildings are the largest consumers of energy, accounting for nearly 40% of all energy used. Therefore, an effective method of reducing energy consumption is to create and design more efficient buildings. In this paper details of a sustainable and green building design for a small residential home are presented. This design is unique in that it is built to Passive house standards, and using shipping containers. The structure will use four 20 ft. (6.1 m) high and one 40 ft. (12.2 m) high cube containers, with the four 20 ft. (6.1 m) making up the main floor and the 40 ft. (12.2 m) forming the second floor. The size is a modest 820 sq. ft. (76.2 m2) designed for a family with one or two children. The goal for the building is to be as self-sufficient as possible which makes it ideally suited to an ‘off-grid’ rural setting. However, it can be adapted to be ‘on-grid’ as well. Solar energy will provide all the electricity needs through a photovoltaic battery system, and warm water with a solar water heater. The site will be water neutral by utilising rainwater harvesting and on site waste water treatment. The results from energy modelling, using HOT2000, are presented, as well as an in-depth analysis on different insulation types and strategies. Finally, a cost estimate exercise is conducted and results compared to other passive houses and traditional code compliance buildings.
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Alfirevic, Djordje, and Simonovic Alfirevic. "Spatial organisation concept of two-entrance apartment." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 17, no. 3 (2019): 327–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace190523019a.
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The location of the entrance and its relation to the main functional apartment groups in multi-storey, multi-family buildings, is to a great extent determined by the organizational concept of the apartment. The apartments with auxiliary entrances are less present in practice, majority of apartments fit the spatial frame of the building itself. The apartments can border with the next apartment on the same floor, be oriented towards one or more facades, but what is of key importance in determining the number of apartment entrances and their positioning is the size of contact zone between the apartment and common communication areas, as well as the configuration of the apartment. The aims of this paper include the analysis of the main positions of the entrance and the concepts of apartment organization that they determine, analysis of characteristic concepts of two-entrance apartments in multi-storey, multi-family buildings and re-examination of the relation between the introduction of the additional entrance and the necessity of having constant or occasional segregation of certain activities in them.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Family size Buildings"
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Fung, Chi-keung. "The change of household size in Hong Kong, 1973-1983 : projection and implication for private housing development /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12316684.
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Fung, Chi-keung, and 馮志強. "The change of household size in Hong Kong, 1973-1983: projection and implication for private housingdevelopment." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31263173.
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Oehme, Sabina. "Demand flexibility potential from heat pumps in multi-family residential buildings." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fasta tillståndets fysik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355135.
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The Swedish energy power system is in the middle of a paradigm shift where the increased share of intermittent energy sources place higher demand on the ability to regulate and balance the generation and consumption of electricity. Demand flexibility, which means that consumers can adjust their energy consumption, is a promising solution to manage the imbalance in the power system. Electric heat pumps in residential buildings are recognized to have potential to serve as a flexible load. In this thesis, an aggregated multi-family residential building model is developed to generate heat load profiles for a larger number of buildings which facilitate an assessment of the heat pump flexibility. The flexibility assessment is performed for a local distribution grid area with 174 buildings and an electricity price region in Sweden with 10 146 buildings with heat pumps. The flexibility assessment analyses the heat pump load deviation between a base load case and a case where the heat pumps receive an off-signal. The assessment takes into consideration seven flexibility parameters and is conducted for ambient temperatures between -20°C and 15°C. The thermal inertia of multi-family residential buildings facilitates a load shift with a duration of 4.4 to 9.8 hours depending on the ambient temperature. The maximal average power reduction for one hour of 10 MW in a distribution grid and 169 MW in an electricity price region illustrates the potential of using heat pumps as a demand flexibility solution in the electricity grid.
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Kanson-Benanav, Jesse. "Designing density : building form and site design for contextually appropriate multi-family housing in Boston's inner-ring suburbs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55144.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This research focuses on multi-family residential development in the inner-ring suburbs around Boston in order to understand how dense housing can be designed in ways that are contextually appropriate for these existing urban settings. The particular design elements include: building form and massing, architectural details, open space and landscaping, and parking/transportation/access. The main body of research is drawn from three cases of multi-family development that have been built in the Boston inner-ring, including: the Linden Street Development in Somerville, Commonwealth Residences in Newton, and Station Crossing in Melrose. The research presented includes extensive coverage of the public process that informed the development of each project, and how the building form and site design changed in response to the concerns of local residents and municipal regulators. The final chapters include analysis of the common factors drawn from each case to inform the creation of ideal design elements as well a number of questions for further research.
by Jesse Kanson-Benanav.
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Azad, Mohammad. "Evaluation of an Energy System for multi-family houses with Combination of Exhaust Air Heat Pump and PV : Case Study: Demonstration Building of The EU Energy Matching Project, Sweden-Ludvika." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Energiteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28650.
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This thesis investigated application of the heat recovery ventilation using an exhaust air heat pump and a roof top photovoltaic (PV) system for a group of three multi-family houses located in Ludvika, Sunnansjö. The buildings in the existing condition have mechanical ventilation and a centralized heating system consists of a pellet boiler as the main source and an oil boiler as back up. Exhaust air heat pump (EAHP) has been known by the previous relevant researches as an effective solution to promote the energy efficiency in the buildings. Furthermore, reduction in PV cost has made the PV as a financially viable option to be contributed in supplying electricity demand. In this respect, this thesis aimed to calculate the potential of energy saving in the case study using the combination of EAHP and PV. For this purpose, the buildings and the proposed energy system were simulated to enable the comparison of energy demand before and after the renovation. The simulation was gradually progressed through several phases and each stage created the prerequisites of the next. Since the buildings were relatively similar in terms of boundary conditions, one of the buildings were initially modeled and the concluded space heating (SH) demand was extrapolated to the three buildings scope. The simulation of the building was done using 3dimensional thermal model offered by Trnsys3d. The primary results were also calibrated against the available annual fuel consumption data. In the second phase, a pre-developed TRNSYS model of the energy system was completed using the result of previous step as the total SH demand as well as the estimated domestic hot water (DHW) consumption from a stochastic model. This simulation produced the electricity demand profile of the heat pump when the heat pump provided the total heat demand. Subsequently, the electricity consumption of the flats and operational equipment were estimated using stochastic model and available monthly measurement, respectively. Since the feasibility and optimal placement of 74 𝑘𝑊 PV modules offered for these buildings had been already examined by the author in another study, the final simulation were performed in an hourly basis considering PV production and total electricity demand; i.e. EAHP, flats consumption and operational equipment. The results of the simulation showed that 21 % of total electricity demand during a year could be supplied by the proposed PV system even without any electrical storage, whereas 74 % of total yearly PV production is consumed by the local loads. The results also proved that removing old inefficient oil boiler and supplementing the pellet boiler with the combination of EAHP and PV could mitigate the annual purchased energy (including electricity and pellet) by approximately 40 % compared to the current condition.
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Silva, Isabel Maria Rodrigues da. "Prédios de rendimento das avenidas de Ressano Garcia 1889-1926-caracterização construtiva." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- IST-Instituto Superior Técnico, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29207.
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Ježowiczová, Barbora. "Nadstandardní rodinný dům v Křelově - stavebně technologický projekt." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227833.
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Subject of this work is pursuance technology of above-standard family house. This diploma thesis contains construction and technology report, technological prescriptions for important parts of buildings, technology report of plant building site, concepts of mechanical assembly, inspection and test plan, technology report of health and safety on the construction site. Budget, calculation and time planning, a drawing of the facilities of the construction site, description of transport relations is included in addendum. Work also contains part about use of Calcium silicate masonry and its comparation.
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Daly, Marwa El. "Challenges and potentials of channeling local philanthropy towards development and aocial justice and the role of waqf (Islamic and Arab-civic endowments) in building community foundations." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16511.
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Diese Arbeit bietet eine solide theoretische Grundlage zu Philanthropie und religiös motivierten Spendenaktivitäten und deren Einfluss auf Wohltätigkeitstrends, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und einer auf dem Gedanken der sozialen Gerechtigkeit beruhenden Philanthropie. Untersucht werden dafür die Strukturen religiös motivierte Spenden, für die in der islamischen Tradition die Begriffe „zakat“, „Waqf“ oder im Plural auch „awqaf-“ oder „Sadaqa“ verwendet werden, der christliche Begriff dafür lautet „tithes“ oder „ushour“. Aufbauend auf diesem theoretischen Rahmenwerk analysiert die qualitative und quantitative Feldstudie auf nationaler Ebene, wie die ägyptische Öffentlichkeit Philanthropie, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Menschenrechte, Spenden, Freiwilligenarbeit und andere Konzepte des zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements wahrnimmt. Um eine umfassende und repräsentative Datengrundlage zu erhalten, wurden 2000 Haushalte, 200 zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen erfasst, sowie Spender, Empfänger, religiöse Wohltäter und andere Akteure interviewt. Die so gewonnen Erkenntnisse lassen aussagekräftige Aufschlüsse über philanthropische Trends zu. Erstmals wird so auch eine finanzielle Einschätzung und Bewertung der Aktivitäten im lokalen Wohltätigkeitsbereich möglich, die sich auf mehr als eine Billion US-Dollar beziffern lassen. Die Erhebung weist nach, dass gemessen an den Pro-Kopf-Aufwendungen die privaten Spendenaktivitäten weitaus wichtiger sind als auswärtige wirtschaftliche Hilfe für Ägypten. Das wiederum lässt Rückschlüsse zu, welche Bedeutung lokale Wohltätigkeit erlangen kann, wenn sie richtig gesteuert wird und nicht wie bislang oft im Teufelskreis von ad-hoc-Spenden oder Hilfen von Privatperson an Privatperson gefangen ist. Die Studie stellt außerdem eine Verbindung her zwischen lokalen Wohltätigkeits-Mechanismen, die meist auf religiösen und kulturellen Werten beruhen, und modernen Strukturen, wie etwa Gemeinde-Stiftungen oder Gemeinde-„waqf“, innerhalb derer die Spenden eine nachhaltige Veränderung bewirken können. Daher bietet diese Arbeit also eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Grundlage, die nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis, sondern auch den nachhaltiger Aus- und Aufbau lokaler Wohltätigkeitsstrukturen in Ägypten ermöglicht. Zentral ist dabei vor allem die Rolle lokaler, individueller Spenden, die beispielsweise für Stiftungen auf der Gemeindeebene eingesetzt, wesentlich zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen könnten – und das nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern in der gesamten arabischen Region. Als konkretes Ergebnis dieser Arbeit, wurde ein innovatives Modell entwickelt, dass neben den wissenschaftlichen Daten das Konzept der „waqf“ berücksichtigt. Der Wissenschaftlerin und einem engagierten Vorstand ist es auf dieser Grundlage gelungen, die Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) zu gründen, die nicht nur ein Modell für eine Bürgerstiftung ist, sondern auch das tradierte Konzept der „waqf“ als praktikable und verbürgte Wohlstätigkeitsstruktur sinnvoll weiterentwickelt.This work provides a solid theoretical base on philanthropy, religious giving (Islamic zakat, ‘ushour, Waqf -plural: awqaf-, Sadaqa and Christian tithes or ‘ushour), and their implications on giving trends, development work, social justice philanthropy. The field study (quantitative and qualitative) that supports the theoretical framework reflects at a national level the Egyptian public’s perceptions on philanthropy, social justice, human rights, giving and volunteering and other concepts that determine the peoples’ civic engagement. The statistics cover 2000 households, 200 Civil Society Organizations distributed all over Egypt and interviews donors, recipients, religious people and other stakeholders. The numbers reflect philanthropic trends and for the first time provide a monetary estimate of local philanthropy of over USD 1 Billion annually. The survey proves that the per capita share of philanthropy outweighs the per capita share of foreign economic assistance to Egypt, which implies the significance of local giving if properly channeled, and not as it is actually consumed in the vicious circle of ad-hoc, person to person charity. In addition, the study relates local giving mechanisms derived from religion and culture to modern actual structures, like community foundations or community waqf that could bring about sustainable change in the communities. In sum, the work provides a comprehensive scientific base to help understand- and build on local philanthropy in Egypt. It explores the role that local individual giving could play in achieving sustainable development and building a new wave of community foundations not only in Egypt but in the Arab region at large. As a tangible result of this thesis, an innovative model that revives the concept of waqf and builds on the study’s results was created by the researcher and a dedicated board of trustees who succeeded in establishing Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) that not only introduces the community foundation model to Egypt, but revives and modernizes the waqf as a practical authentic philanthropic structure.
Books on the topic "Family size Buildings"
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United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division. Family-building and family planning evaluation. New York: United Nations, 1997.
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Cockrell, Ron. The Trumans of Independence: Historic resource study : Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Independence, Missouri. Omaha, Neb: Midwest Regional Office, Office of Planning and Resource Preservation, Division of Cultural Resources Management, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1985.
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DeNormandie, Laura M. The Olmsted House "Fairsted" and office: Frederick Law Olmsted, National Historic Site. [Charlestown, Mass.]: United States Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Museum Services Center, 2003.
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U.S. National Park Service. Harry S Truman National Historic Site, Truman Farm: Cultural landscape report : historic structure report & environmental assessment. United States: National Park Service, 2013.
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United Nations. Dept. of International Economic and Social Affairs., ed. Family building by fate or design: A study of relationships between child survival and fertility. New York: United Nations, 1987.
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Howe, Justine. Building the Webb Community. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190258870.003.0002.
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This chapter explores the suburban religious landscape, educational networks, and narratives of the American Muslim past out of which the Webb community emerged. It demonstrates how the suburbs are a vital site to study broader dynamics in the American Muslim community. At its heart, the Webb Foundation is built on the idea that the Chicago suburbs can be the ideal place to practice Islam. Its core membership consists of young parents who are very committed to upper-middle-class norms of intensive parenting, such as supervising homework, shuttling kids between after-school activities, and maintaining an active presence in their social lives. The American Islam they seek to create fits into these constructions of family life, enabling children and adults alike to become American Muslims in ways they believe earlier generations were either unable or unwilling to be.
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Stone, Rachel. Carolingian Domesticities. Edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.004.
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Carolingian ideas of "home" and "family" encompassed a wide range of meanings from physical buildings to kin and free and unfree dependents. Kinship ties played a vital role, both socially and politically, and marriage practices reflected that; Carolingian reforms respected parents' strategies concerning their children's marriages. The Frankish economy was structured around nuclear households, from peasant tenancies to the huge estates presided over by noble men and women. Male and female activities in both production and consumption were partially, but not completely gender-specific. Dowries provided some economic independence for women, but female wealth often depended on contingent factors such as family size and the attitudes of male relatives. The ordered conjugal household was an important image in Carolingian moral thought, with married women holding a subordinate, but honored position. Frankish ideology focused more on elite women's role in the management of dependents and social networks than on purely "housewifely" activities.
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M, McLellon Waldron, and Commonwealth Engineering Associates, eds. Site evaluation guide for land development projects: A guide to the preliminary analysis and selection of sites for single-family, multi-family, commercial, retail, and industrial building developments. 2nd ed. Longwood, Fla. (2180 W. State Rd. 434, Suite 3100, Longwood 32779-5010): The Associates, 1989.
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Site evaluation guide for land development projects: A guide to the preliminary analysis and selection of sites for single-family, multi-family, commercial, retail, and industrial building developments. 3rd ed. Longwood, Fla. (2180 W. State Road 434, Suite 3100, Longwood 32779-5010): The Associates, 1990.
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Goldberg, Pablo H., Prerna Martin, Carolina Biernacki, and Moira A. Rynn. Treatments for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199342211.003.0009.
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The past two decades have seen significant advances in the development of evidence-based treatments for pediatric bipolar disorder. Practice guidelines recommend pharmacotherapy with mood stabilizers or second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) as the first-line treatment. Lithium, risperidone, aripiprazole, quetiapine, and olanzapine are approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for treating bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The pharmacological literature suggests that SGAs are faster and more effective than mood stabilizers in treating acute manic or mixed episodes, but they have significant side effects and require careful monitoring. While mild to moderate bipolar disorder can be treated with monotherapy, combination pharmacotherapy with an SGA and a mood stabilizer is recommended for youth with severe bipolar disorder. A growing body of literature also suggests the efficacy of psychosocial interventions, with family psychoeducation and skills building as adjunct treatments to pharmacotherapy. More type 1 studies of pharmacotherapy and psychosocial treatments are needed.
Book chapters on the topic "Family size Buildings"
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Raharilaza, Nathalie Viviane. "Degraded Landscape Transformed into Foodland and Woodland by Village Agroforestry." In Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), 37–60. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6761-6_3.
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AbstractThis case study shares the results and lessons learned from agroforestry practices to restore a degraded and abandoned landscape, the production of seedlings of native and endemic tree species for forest restoration, and a trial of autochthones species transplantation at the village level in Madagascar. Awareness-raising and facilitation carried out by the NGO team on landscape changes and their effects on local people’s lives, food and natural resources, were the initial drivers of this process. A farmer led the landscape restoration experimentation by taking part of his poor, degraded land that had been long abandoned, and giving the green light to use it as a ‘farmer field school’. The community decided to keep the other side of the field untouched to enable comparison. Community members learned from each other by periodically sharing experiences. Community capacity-building on family accounting, production and harvest management helped community members to make decisions regarding the choice of crops and landscaping types suited to their needs. The community started to see results from the third year and increased the landscaped areas to boost future production. Some native trees like Harina (Bridelia tuleasneana), a highly preferred tree usually harvested from the rainforest for building materials, adapted very well to the village. The villagers learned to plant them rather than harvest them from the natural forest. The commitment, patience and courage of the community, and their immense pride in what they have achieved, created a cascading effect leading to sustainability.
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"7. The Dark Side." In Building Family Business Champions, 147–70. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780804798020-009.
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Rogers, Susan Fox. "Introduction." In When Birds Are Near, 1–4. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter recounts how E. B. White's essay titled “Mr. Forbush's Friends” opened a new bird world to the author. The essay introduced the author to Edward Howe Forbush, who is best known for writing Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States, a three-volume set published in 1928. Within the pages of Forbush's work, the author found the expected information — breeding and feeding, size and color — and a bit of the unexpected in his reports on the “Economic Status” of each bird. In this section, he offers how the birds are perceived in the human economy, like the Black-crowned Night Heron, which “is accused of being injurious to the fishery interests.” Forbush was an inspiration for this collection of reports from the field, which expand with reflections on love, family, life, and death and engage a range of emotions from wonder to humor. And because birds magnify our relationship to the natural world, this collection include stories about habitat loss, declining species, birds that collide with buildings, or birds now extinct.
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Weddle, Saundra. "Domus humilis: the conversion of Venetian convent architecture and identity." In Conversions. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099151.003.0008.
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Although the monastic principle of poverty had, for centuries, been intended to guide the architectural development of monasteries and convents, the 1260 Franciscan General Chapter of Narbonne took the radical step of recommending that communities of friars adapt existing buildings rather than build complexes ex novo. This chapter examines the adaptive and accretive practice of converting buildings of various functions to accommodate communities of women religious in Renaissance Venice. Convent archives, site and urban plans, building chronologies, patron family histories, civic building statutes all offer evidence for the patchwork and partial conversions of buildings designed to convert. Comparisons with complexes for male monastics inform this study of how patterns of patronage and urban development inflected the ways in which convent architecture publicly redefined and re-presented the identity of the communities it enclosed.
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Yorel Noriega Aquise, Guillermo. "Low-Cost Single-Family House through The Use of Precast Reinforced Concrete Elements." In Sustainable Housing [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98430.
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A technical design is developed to attend and assist populations in need of single-family housing and for populations in post-emergency situations. It exposes a production process of precast reinforced concrete elements, to be produced in a small production plant or at the site, with a minimum of equipment and tools. It is intended to establish a low-cost single-family house construction system with pre-fabricated reinforced concrete elements, which will become a technological alternative to traditional confined masonry construction. It presents a production line of six types of houses. For the comparison, a methodological process is followed, the comparison is made between the process of building houses with precast concrete elements and with the building process by confined masonry, the traditional process most used in Peru. The dominant principle of comparison is the equality of the useful surface of the rooms. The outstanding and visual difference is in the thickness of the walls, in the prefabricated house it is 0.10 meters and in the houses with confined masonry it is 0.15 m. The costs, production times and assembly, of the building with prefabricated elements, is low, compared to the building process by confined masonry. An in-line production process is established, of prefabricated elements with minimal equipment. The basic criterion is to manufacture that does not exceed the capacity of the size of the manufacturing, transport and assembly equipment. A simple process for the assembly was examined, a minimum period of construction of a prefabricated house of 2 hours was determined at any time of the year. The lowest cost, the direct cost has been achieved in VUF 04 at $ 264.50 US dollars per square meter and in total costs of $ 374.54 US dollars per square meter.
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Friedlander, Myrna L., Valentín Escudero, Marianne J. Welmers-van de Poll, and Laurie Heatherington. "Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy." In Psychotherapy Relationships that Work, 117–66. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190843953.003.0004.
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This chapter reviews meta-analytic evidence for the alliance-outcome relation in couple and family therapy (CFT). The authors describe the unique features of CFT alliances and their measurement, followed by case descriptions. A meta-analysis of 48 studies (Ns = 2,568 families, 1,545 couples, and 491 effect sizes) found r = .297. In another analysis with 7 independent samples and 31 effect sizes, the split alliance–outcome association was also significant, r = .316, indicating that the more split or unbalanced the alliance, the poorer the outcome. Moderator analyses showed that alliance–outcome associations did not differ for couple versus family therapy, but correlations were significantly stronger in samples with younger problem children, older adults, proportionally more male youth and adults, and when the families voluntarily sought help (as compared to involuntary or mandated families). The chapter concludes with research-informed strategies for building and sustaining strong alliances in CFT.
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Mehta, Samira K. "Family Planning Is a Christian Duty." In Devotions and Desires. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636269.003.0009.
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Throughout the 1960s, the Protestant mainline developed a theology of “responsible parenthood,” grounded in scripture and Christian thought that turned the use of contraception within marriage into a site of Christian moral agency. Responsible parenthood language offered religious responses to scientific advances and scientifically articulated social problems like population explosion. Protestant clergy, nationally and locally, deployed it to encourage birth control among married couples. These leaders were often members of what is called “mainline” Protestantism, encompassing such moderate, non-evangelical denominations such as the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the American Baptist Church, and the Episcopal Church. They eschewed fundamentalism and valued ecumenical cooperation, particularly among liberal white Protestants, building alliances through groups such as the National Council of Churches (NCC). While the number of mainline Protestants has declined since the middle of the twentieth century, in the 1960s mainline Protestants constituted a prominent voice in public conversations. Their influence was so great that much of what historians tend to see as secular was actually deeply inflected with liberal Protestant values.
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Thomson, Peter. "Righteousness, Uncertainty, and the Point of No Return." In Sacred Sea. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170511.003.0026.
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Life in Russia is littered with small humiliations and labyrinthine obstacles to everyday tasks, and seems to have always been. And when you notice this, which is pretty much right away, you begin to understand the fatalism and stoicism that permeates this country. To get to the offices of the Baikal Environmental Wave, you have to squeeze into a cramped and rattletrap city bus, which hurtles along a dusty avenue through Irkutsk’s drab Akademgorodok, or university district, on the western bank of the Angara. Above the kerchiefs and caps bobbing around you, you might notice a color-coded route map, and you might initially be surprised at this little flash of consideration for the rider—we don’t even have route maps on the buses in Boston. But as the crowd shifts and you move closer, you discover that this speck of civility is merely an illusion. Instead of Russian, the names on the map are in German, and instead of Irkutsk, the bus system depicted is that of Potsdam. The bus is second hand, a castoff from Russia’s former satellite state of East Germany, no less, and local officials didn’t even bother to try to disguise the fact. Getting off the bus, you spot your destination—a new building that’s not yet finished but already looks old, sprouting up amid a scattering of other older structures that look as if they were never completed. You’ve been told that the office you’re looking for is toward the front of the building, right next to the street, but to get to it you have to take a circuitous path up the side and around the back, through the courtyards of neighboring buildings, under a darkened archway and through a construction site to an unmarked side door. You feel like little Billy Whatshisname from that insipid Sunday comic strip The Family Circus, forever taking the most roundabout route home through whatever trouble and mess he can get into, except that here you’re certainly not looking to get into trouble, but there is no short, straight line to your destination, and you’re pretty sure there never will be.
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Mac Ginty, Roger. "Gender and Everyday Peace." In Everyday Peace, 161–89. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197563397.003.0007.
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This chapter explores the gendered nature of everyday peace. It recognises that many aspects of peace, particularly formal peace processes, are dominated by male elites and are shaped by power relationships. The focus of the chapter is on the family as a site of the incubation of civility and everyday peace, helping to tamp down violence and tension, and steering those in their ambit towards sociality and tolerance. Through a mix of examples and concept-building, the chapter investigates mentoring, restraint, and avoidance as ways that families help processes of moderation. There is no intention to romanticise the family as an always benign environment. Families might also be the site of a negative pedagogy that reinforces and normalises conflict and exclusion. The chapter also emphasises the connectedness or intersectionality of the multiple aspects of peace and conflict.
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Alessandrini, Megan, and Romy Winter. "Systemic Gender Barriers in the Building and Construction Industry." In Architecture and Design, 1175–92. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7314-2.ch044.
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This chapter examines structural gender-based disadvantage experienced by women in the building industry. This is found in trade and technical occupations, but is much more prevalent in administrative and management roles in small and micro businesses where female family members and spouses carry out work often for little or no remuneration or recognition. Nor does this group have any protection in income support, injury or sickness cover or retirement benefits. This also contributes to inefficiency in the industry as there is minimal opportunity for professional development or skill enhancement. Using a non-positivist methodology, the authors found that this phenomenon is particularly prevalent in the building and construction and that many were unpaid and were employed in other occupations. This disadvantage contributed to status driven tensions between these women, often called co-preneurs, and those women working on site in trade and technical roles.
Conference papers on the topic "Family size Buildings"
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Martins, Lui´s B., Ana C. M. Ferreira, Manuel L. Nunes, Celina P. Lea˜o, Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira, Francisco Marques, and Jose´ C. F. Teixeira. "Optimal Design of Micro-Turbine Cogeneration Systems for the Portuguese Buildings Sector." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-64470.
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The use of combined heat and power (CHP) systems to produce both electric and thermal energies for medium-size buildings is on the increase, due to their high overall efficiency, high energy prices and political and social awareness. In this paper, an energy-economic study is presented. The main objective is to implement an analysis that will lead to the optimal design of a small cogeneration system, given the thermal power duration curve of a multi-family residential building. A methodology was developed to obtain this curve for a reference B-class building located in the North of Portugal. The CHP unit is based on a micro gas-turbine and includes an Internal Pre-Heater (IPH), typical of these types of small-scale units, and an external Water Heater (WH). A numerical optimization method was applied to solve the thermo-economic model. The mathematical model yields an objective function defined as the maximization of the annual worth of the cogeneration system. A purchase cost equation was used for each major plant component that takes into account size and performance variables. Seven decision variables were selected for the optimization algorithm, including performance of internal gas-turbine components and electrical and thermal powers. The results show that, the revenue from selling electricity to the grid and fuel costs have the greatest impact on the annual worth of the system. The optimal solution for the small CHP is sensitive to fuel price, electricity feed-in-tariff, capital cost and to the thermal load profile of the building. High European energy prices point towards future micro gas-turbines with better electrical efficiencies, achieved via a higher pressure-ratio compressor and turbine inlet temperature.
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Ros, Marcos, and Fernando Miguel García. "Stages of territorial configuration in the non-planned occupation of the Huerta de Murcia, 1929-2015." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6281.
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The “Huerta de Murcia” is an agricultural area of about 10,000 Ha in size, originated in the ninth century, and linked to an extensive network of canals dependent from Segura River. Such system provides a much divided and fragmented agrarian morphology, around the city of Murcia, in the southeast of Spain, basically dedicated to the agriculture. The city of Murcia has experimented an important growth in the last five decades, substituting hundreds of hectares of agrarian land, into urban. But even more important than this, the periurban area has suffered along the past 90 years a periurbanization process, caused by the unscheduled appearance of buildings. Most of them have emerged in the last 4 decades, whose use is mainly family housing and holyday homes, and have not been planned by standard planning procedures. This causes a spontaneous phenomenon of dispersed territory occupation. The paper shows, through an analysis methodology based on orto-photographical series and cadastral data, the existence of different stages along the studied period (1929-2015). These stages are substantially different each other in two ways: the patterns and zones affected by this process, on one hand, and the intensity of this process, which vary along each studied period, on the other hand. The analyses of these patterns, as well as a proposed classification, and the quantification of the process in each period, are the subjects of the paper, which allows authors to set appropriate relations between the city of Murcia and its periurban territory, to afford the globalization age.
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Kim, Dongsu, Heejin Cho, Rogelio Luck, and Pedro Mago. "Potential Aggregate Effects of Net-Zero Energy Homes (NZEHs) With Distributed Energy Generation on the U.S. Electrical Grid." In ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2018-88359.
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This study evaluates potential aggregate effects of net-zero energy home (NZEH) implementations on the U.S. electrical grid in a simulation-based analysis. The aggregate impact of large-scale NZEH implementations on the U.S. electrical grid is evaluated through a simulation-based study of prototype residential building models with distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation systems. An EnergyPlus residential prototype building model (i.e., a multi-family low-rise apartment building) is used to determine the detailed electricity consumption of each residential building model using U.S. climate weather files. This study assumes that net-metering is available on the electrical grid so that the surplus on-site electricity generation can be fed to the electrical grid. This study also considers the impact of electrical energy storage (EES) within NZEHs to effectively use on-site generated electricity on the electrical grid. Finally, surveyed residential building permits in 2017 are used to estimate net-electricity demand profiles of NZEHs on a national scale. Results indicate that adding distributed PV systems to enable annual multi-family NZEH performance can significantly increase changes in imported and exported electricity demand from and to the electrical grid during the daytime. However, using the EES within NZEHs helps reduce the peak electricity demand during the daytime. The stored electricity in the EES can also be used during the evening time. The peak net-electricity differences on the U.S. electrical grid-level could potentially be reduced during the daytime and shifted to the evening. Comparison of hourly electricity demand profiles for the actual U.S. demand versus the calculated net-demand on a national scale indicates that the percentage differences of U.S. net-electricity demand include about 4.5% and 4.8% for the multi-family NZEH without the EES on representative winter and summer days, respectively, at a maximum point. In addition, when the EES is added within the multi-family NZEH, the peak percentage differences could be reduced to about 3.4% and 4.3% on representative winter and summer days, respectively, at a maximum point.
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Wowo, Ding, and Guo Pengyu. "The role of original plots and building types in the morphological research of Chinese traditional village tissues." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5279.
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In Chinese traditional village, the morphological transformation of village tissue was embedded in the changing of co-existing morphological elements contains original plots, that recorded the geographical evidence of social structural changing from traditional private ownership economy to rural collective economy. The internal relationships of original plots, derivative plots and building types require investigation in detail as theoretical praxis in the morphological research of village. Several questions need to be clarified: is that the plot restricted to the block, or the plots constitute the block? Is that plot limits building types or building type decides the size of the plot? Whether the plot can be re-divided when the building belong to its kept unchanging? And how the building type transited when the plots size reducing or extending? Focusing on a village in north of China this paper will investigate how the morphological elements worked and acted during the village transformation, based on the field survey, village records and the family documents. Our results will indicate that the role of the street, plots and building types were different between villages and urban, which were interacted each other differently. The concepts derivative plots and the co-relation between the plots, the derivative plots and building types of the village are developed.
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Ahmadov, Vusal. "Successes and failures in Hungarian family businesses." In The European Union’s Contention in the Reshaping Global Economy. Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem Gazdaságtudományi Kar, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/eucrge.2020.proc.11.
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The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are a necessary element of the social and economic development of the national economy from the perspective of their significant contribution to employment, innovative capacity, and flexibility. Innovative SMEs are necessary building block in the restructuring of transition economies. The successful reformers of the Central and Eastern Europe countries can promote policies conducive to the development of innovative SMEs, and consequently benefit from the economic advantages of SMEs. However, the majority of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries are lagging behind significantly. This paper gives the analytical description of the development of SMEs in post-socialist countries during the transition process within the framework of the market reforms. The main barriers to growth of SMEs with innovation capacity are the institutional environment, and the inadequate attitude of the government towards small companies. The countries which integrated to European Union been able to overcome these barriers considerably, while the CIS countries do not have a record of significant achievement in this area.
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RAŠKAUSKAITĖ, Monika, and Kastytis ŠIMKEVIČIUS. "EURASIAN BEAVER (CASTOR FIBER L.) POPULATION IN ASU SCIENCE AND TEACHING HUNTING AREA AND BEAVER DAMS REBUILD INTENSITY." In RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2017.171.
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Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber L.) was reintroduced in Lithuania on 1947. Population growth was quite rapid ant there were about 6000 beavers on 1970. Nowadays beavers population in Lithuania is about 40 000. Beavers have a possibility to affect the environment where they live by building dams, lodges, making burrows systems, changing water level. Because of being such an active environmental former beaver has a huge indirect impact for forest and agricultural fields – higher water level usually causes damage for forest trees or crops. There are different studies about this beaver’s ability to change environment and to build dams, lodges. Explanations why it is needed for this species now is clear, but still there are question how can these animal plan, organize and improve their ability to build. The aim of this research is to find out if dams rebuilt activity intensity differs during different year seasons and is it affected by the beaver’s family size in current place. According to our findings, the beginning of dam rebuilt and total dam rebuild depends on year season – on fall season it takes 4 times less time. In addition to this, family size has an effect – bigger families rebuilt dams faster. Usually beavers do this job from midnight to 2 a.m. on fall season.
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Casey, Sean, Moncef Krarti, Marcus Bianchi, and David Roberts. "Identifying Inefficient Single-Family Homes With Utility Bill Analysis." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90431.
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Differentiating between energy-efficient and inefficient single-family homes on a community scale helps identify and prioritize candidates for energy-efficiency upgrades. Prescreening diagnostic procedures can further retrofit efforts by providing efficiency information before a site-visit is conducted. We applied the prescreening diagnostic is applied to a simulated community of homes in Boulder, Colorado and analyzed energy consumption data to identify energy-inefficient homes. A home is defined as efficient if it is compliant with the prescriptive measures of the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC-2009) for Boulder, Colorado. Previous research indicates a correlation between building operational efficiency and the Heating Slope (HS) regression parameter resulting from the variable-base degree day method. We compared the HS values across a community of houses and those of an IECC-2009-compliant home to identify energy-inefficient homes on a community-scale. To simulate community-wide HS identification, we used DOE-2 energy simulation software for defined home archetypes and corresponding occupant behavior to artificially generate 567 sets of monthly natural gas consumption data Home archetypes were either compliant or incompliant at three conditioned areas; occupant effects were also simulated. Each simulation produced twelve months of natural gas use data. We used monthly energy consumption datasets to estimate the HS values with regression analysis and sorted the homes based on HS values.
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Gharib, Mohamed, and Mansour Karkoub. "Passive Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Structural Control Using LPC Impact Dampers." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-51376.
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Excessive vibration is one of the main reasons leading to partial damage and in some cases collapse of tall buildings and structures. Impact dampers provide an effective, economical, and easy to install solution to the vibration problem in several applications. The latest developed type in the impact dampers family is the Linear Particle Chain (LPC) impact damper. It consists of a linear arrangement of two sizes of freely moving masses, constrained by two stops. This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation on the effectiveness of the LPC impact damper in damping the vibrations of a multi-degree-of-freedom system under different types of excitations. A prototype of the LPC impact dampers is fabricated and tested in our lab using a three-story frame structure. The experimental outcomes clearly show that the LPC impact damper can effectively attenuate the free and forced vibrations of flexible structures.
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Yang, L., M. A. Douglas, J. Gusdorf, F. Szadkowski, E. Limouse, M. Manning, and M. Swinton. "Residential Total Energy System Testing at the Canadian Centre for Housing Technology." In ASME 2007 Power Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2007-22137.
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This paper outlines a demonstration project planned and implemented at the Canadian Centre for Housing Technology (CCHT) in 2006. The CCHT, located on the campus of the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada maintains two identical, detached, single-family houses that have the capacity to assess energy and building technologies in side by side comparisons with daily simulated occupancy effects. The paper describes the residential integrated total energy system being installed in one of the homes at the CCHT for this demonstration, consisting of two one-ton ground source heat pumps, an air handler with supplemental/back-up hydronic heating capability, a natural gas fired storage type water tank, an indirect domestic hot water storage tank and a multistage thermostat capable of controlling the system. There is also a description of the bore-field, consisting of three vertical wells arranged to suit a typical suburban landscape. Two of the wells serve the heat pumps; the third well is arranged between the other two to sink the waste heat from a cogeneration unit. The 6 kWe cogeneration unit to be installed in May 2007 is also described. The heat pump system was deliberately sized to satisfy the cooling load in Canada’s heat dominated climate, leaving room in the operation of the system to accept waste heat from the cogeneration unit, either directly or indirectly through recycling the heat through the ground to the heat pumps. This paper presents and discusses preliminary testing results during the fall of 2006 and modeling work of the ground heat exchanger component of the system and therefore sets the stage for performance modeling work that is currently underway at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
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Schembri, Antoinette. "Students’ Learning and Satisfaction In An Alternative Learning Centre In Malta." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.8145.
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This paper is a small-scale research study done by the author. It seeks to find the perceptions of students attending an alternative learning centre,with an emphasis on vocational education, with regards to their learning. This study is situated on the island of Malta and the five students interviewed currently attend this school, which opened in 2014, and is the only one of its kind on the island. The main results obtained are that, on the whole, the students are happy to attend this school. They drew comparisons between their school life in the previous four years of secondary education in the mainstream college and in the alternative learning centre. They enjoyed the lessons because they were learning the subjects that they wanted to learn, they enjoyed the small class size,and the individual attention. They felt part of a big family and appreciated the fact that the teachers genuinely cared for them. They also mentioned things that should be improved, like more resources for the classrooms and a major renovation of the school building. The conclusion drawn here is that while the students are happy, care must be taken so that the concerns raised are addressed.