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The use of social media for improving energy consumption awareness and efficiency: An overview of existing tools
Raising consumersâ awareness of energy consumption is one of the first steps in encouraging the adoption of energy saving behaviours that result in energy efficiency. Green information systems are becoming recognised as a solution to many environmental problems although information technology (e.g. disposal of IT devices) has also been associated with causing detrimental effects on the environment. Researchers and practitioners have begun to focus on Green ICT but there is little scholarly research on the use of ICT tools such as social media from an energy efficiency context to raise consumer awareness and improve their engagement in tackling environmental issues. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the use of social media and existing tools for the interaction of people on energy saving discussions and for generating awareness and engagement (which thereby leads to energy efficiency behaviour). In this paper the authors provide a state of the art review around the concept of energy awareness, models of consumer engagement, and more importantly the use of social media in the energy efficiency context. This research is based on a desk-based normative review and seeks to provide a better understanding to both scholars and practitioners involved in the use of ICT for driving energy consumer awareness and engagement for energy efficiency.This work evolved in the context of the project DAREED (Decision support Advisor for innovative business models and useR engagement for smart Energy Efficient Districts), www.dareed.eu, a project co-funded by the EC within FP7, Grant agreement no: 609082
Photoemission Spectroscopy of Magnetic and Non-magnetic Impurities on the Surface of the BiSe Topological Insulator
Dirac-like surface states on surfaces of topological insulators have a chiral
spin structure that suppresses back-scattering and protects the coherence of
these states in the presence of non-magnetic scatterers. In contrast, magnetic
scatterers should open the back- scattering channel via the spin-flip processes
and degrade the state's coherence. We present angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy studies of the electronic structure and the scattering rates upon
adsorption of various magnetic and non-magnetic impurities on the surface of
BiSe, a model topological insulator. We reveal a remarkable
insensitivity of the topological surface state to both non-magnetic and
magnetic impurities in the low impurity concentration regime. Scattering
channels open up with the emergence of hexagonal warping in the high-doping
regime, irrespective of the impurity's magnetic moment.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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Evaluating e-Government services from a citizens' prespective: A reference process model
Evaluating and optimizing e-government services is imperative for governments especially due to the capacity of e-services to transform public administrations and assist the interactions of governments with citizens, businesses and other government agencies. Existing widely applied evaluation approaches neglect to incorporate citizensâ satisfaction measures. Several citizen satisfaction models and indicators have been suggested in academia; however a reference process model that can assist practitioners to apply these performance measures is missing. In this paper we draw upon the evaluation approach proposed by the EU funded project CEES and propose a reference process model that captures re-usable practices for e-government evaluation from a citizensâ perspective. The novelty of the proposed approach is that using DEA for evaluating the e-services the assessment results in suggestions for strategic improvement of the e-services.EU FP7 Marie Curie People Project âCEES - Citizen oriented Evaluation of E-Government Systemsâ (reference IAPP-2008-230658
Superconducting energy gap in MgCNi3 single crystals: Point-contact spectroscopy and specific-heat measurements
Specific heat has been measured down to 600 mK and up to 8 Tesla by the
highly sensitive AC microcalorimetry on the MgCNi3 single crystals with Tc ~ 7
K. Exponential decay of the electronic specific heat at low temperatures proved
that a superconducting energy gap is fully open on the whole Fermi surface, in
agreement with our previous magnetic penetration depth measurements on the same
crystals. The specific-heat data analysis shows consistently the strong
coupling strength 2D/kTc ~ 4. This scenario is supported by the direct gap
measurements via the point-contact spectroscopy. Moreover, the spectroscopy
measurements show a decrease in the critical temperature at the sample surface
accounting for the observed differences of the superfluid density deduced from
the measurements by different techniques
Influence of Al doping on the critical fields and gap values in magnesium diboride single crystals
The lower () and upper () critical fields of
MgAlB single crystals (for , 0.1 and )
have been deduced from specific heat and local magnetization measurements,
respectively. We show that and are both decreasing with
increasing doping content. The corresponding anisotropy parameter
value also decreases from
in pure MgB samples down to for whereas
remains on the order of 1 in
all samples. The small and large gap values have been obtained by fitting the
temperature dependence of the zero field electronic contribution to the
specific heat to the two gap model for the three Al concentrations. Very
similar values have also been obtained by point contact spectroscopy
measurements. The evolution of those gaps with Al concentration suggests that
both band filling and interband scattering effects are present
Soliton Resonances for MKP-II
Using the second flow - the Derivative Reaction-Diffusion system, and the
third one of the dissipative SL(2,R) Kaup-Newell hierarchy, we show that the
product of two functions, satisfying those systems is a solution of the
modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation in 2+1 dimension with negative
dispersion (MKP-II). We construct Hirota's bilinear representation for both
flows and combine them together as the bilinear system for MKP-II. Using this
bilinear form we find one and two soliton solutions for the MKP-II. For special
values of parameters our solution shows resonance behaviour with creation of
four virtual solitons. Our approach allows one to interpret the resonance
soliton as a composite object of two dissipative solitons in 1+1 dimensions.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, Talk on International Conference "Nonlinear
Physics. Theory and Experiment. III", 24 June-3 July, 2004, Gallipoli(Lecce),
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Integrable model of interacting XX and Fateev-Zamolodchikov chains
We consider the exact solution of a model of correlated particles, which is
presented as a system of interacting XX and Fateev-Zamolodchikov chains. This
model can also be considered as a generalization of the multiband anisotropic
model in the case we restrict the site occupations to at most two
electrons. The exact solution is obtained for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors
using the Bethe-ansatz method.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
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