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Analysis on Energy Efficiency of Water Chiller and Water Source Heat Pump Systems with Thermodynamic Perfectibility

open access: yesZhileng xuebao, 2012
To set up a platform for evaluating energy efficiency of water chiller and water source heat pump systems with EER or COP, the method of the second thermodynamic perfectibility was introduced.
Ma Yitai   +4 more
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Analysis on Thermodynamic Perfectibility of Room Air Conditioners

open access: yesZhileng xuebao, 2013
According to analysis on the energy efficiency standards of the constant speed room air conditioner and the variable speed type, differences between the two kinds of air conditioners exist in division standard, grades of energy efficiency and outdoor ...
Li Xiaofeng, Ma Yitai, Yan Qiuhui
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Externalities, scarcity, and abundance [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2023
IntroductionDo externalities work and matter differently in a world of scarcity vs. a world of abundance? In this article, we critically examine the economic phenomena of externalities.
Brett M. Frischmann, Giovanni B. Ramello
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Environmental Performance Evaluation of Refrigeration and Heat Pump on the Basis of Nature Degree and Thermodynamic Perfectibility

open access: yesZhileng xuebao, 2012
Based on sustainable development concept, consideration of natural quality of refrigeration system, a new evaluation methodology has been proposed for the environmental performance of refrigeration and heat pump system with conjunction of the natural ...
Ma Yitai   +3 more
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Human Perfectibility. Kant and Fichte as Prophets of Moral Progress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Este artículo presenta inicialmente algunas referencias en torno a la noción de progreso moral, las cuales habitualmente apuntan a la idea según la cual este, en efecto, se da gracias a un mejoramiento paulatino en la humanidad.
Carrillo-Ardila, Yerson Y.
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The concept of perfectibility on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pedagogy.

open access: yes, 2018
On the current research, it is intended to enlarge the theme related to the concept of perfectibility on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pedagogy. Beyond the epistemological meanings on the concept of perfectibility, the attempt was identifying what the ...
Koga, Ana Lúcia
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The Birth of the Idea of Perfectibility: From the Enlightenment to Transhumanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Starting from the Age of Enlightenment, a person’s ability of self-improvement, or perfectibility, is usually seen as a fundamental human feature. However, this term, introduced into the philosophical vocabulary by J.-J.
Ugleva, Anastasia, Vinogradova, Olga
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Reframing philosophical views on freedom, choice, perfectibility and self-realisation in selected contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
From 18th century onwards, due to the advancement of social consciousness and individual choice, the issues of freedom, choice and self-realisation have become the main topic for a great number of novelist and philosophers who attempt to criticise ...
Zahra, Rezaei
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Sociotechnical Eudaimonia in a Digital Future:Transhumanistic Virtues and Imaginaries of Human Perfectibility in the Danish Technology Education Discourse

open access: yes, 2022
Through a discourse analysis of core documents related to the development of a new primary school subject titled technology comprehension (TC), this article explores how sociotechnical imaginaries of (trans)human perfectibility are promoted in technology
Tafdrup, Oliver Alexander
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Perfect Matchings and Perfect Powers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 2003
In the last decade there have been many results about special families of graphs whose number of perfect matchings is given by perfect or near perfect powers. In this paper we present an approach that allows proving them in a unified way. We use this approach to prove a conjecture of James Propp stating that the number of tilings of the so-called Aztec
openaire   +3 more sources

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