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Application of Building Typologies for Modelling the Energy Balance of the Residential Building Stock [PDF]

, 2012
Building typologies can serve as a basis for analysing the national housing sector. During the TABULA project which was introducing or further developing building typologies in thirteen EU countries, six of the European partners have carried out model ...
Balaras, C., Ballarini, Ilaria, Corgnati, Stefano Paolo, Corrado, Vincenzo, Dascalaki, E., Diefenbach, N., Kragh, J., Loga, T., Rakušček, A., Renders, N., Vimmr, T., Wittchen, K.B., Šijanec Zavrl, M.   +12 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Solar-assisted radiant heating system with nano-B4C enhanced PCM for nearly zero energy buildings

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
This investigation centers on the design and performance of a solar-assisted domestic radiator optimized for nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs), combining experimental and numerical approaches.
Muhammed Gür, Ezgi Gürgenç, Hakan Coşanay, Hakan F. Öztop   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy use and indoor environment in a sample of monitored domestic buildings in the UK [PDF]

, 2015
This paper is based on the low-cost approaches and transferable techniques that were applied in a PhD reserch project on energy-related occupancy activities. The strengths of qualitative and quantitative research strategies were combined for the study of
Cui, J
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The Impacts of Health and Environmental Information Nudges on Meat Choices: Where Does Goat Meat Fit?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal, Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbiological and Physicochemical Parameters Related to Legionella spp. Colonisation in Hot Water Distribution Systems in Madrid: Case Study in Sports Centres

Applied Sciences
Domestic hot water systems are one of the most important reservoirs of Legionella. It is thought that physicochemical and microbiological water quality influences bacterial development.
María Concepción Almonacid Garrido, Alejandra García-Alonso, María José Villanueva-Suárez, María Dolores Tenorio-Sanz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real estate investment in global financial centers: risk, return and contagion [PDF]

, 2009
Global financial activity is heavily concentrated in a small number of world cities –international financial centers. The office markets in those cities receive significant flows of investment capital.
Lizieri, C.
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buildings for low energy air conditioning [PDF]

, 1998
Over half of global warming is thought to be attributable to the burning of fossil fuelsand slightly less than half of this is due to conditioning the environment withinbuildings.
Oreszczyn, T
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source