Utilization of Automatic Meter Reading in the Improvement of a District Heating System

A district heating system comprises production facilities, a distribution network, and heat consumers. The utilization of new energy metering and reading system (AMR) is increasing constantly in district heating systems. This heuristic study shows how the AMR system can be exploited in finding optimization opportunities in district heating system. In this study, the district heating system is mainly considered from the viewpoint of operational optimization. The focus is on the core processes, heat production and distribution. Three objectives were set to this study. The first one was to examine general optimization opportunities in district heating systems. Second, to figure out the benefits of AMR for general optimization opportunities. Finally, to define a methodology for process improvement endeavors. This study shows, through a case study, the usefulness of AMR in specifying current deficiencies in a district heating system. Based on a literature review, the methodology for the improvement of business processes is presented. Additionally, some issues related to future competitiveness of district heating are concerned. As a conclusion, some optimization objectives are considered more desirable than others. Study shows that AMR is useful in the specification of optimization targets in the district heating system. Further steps in optimization process were not examined in detail. That would seem to be interesting topic for further studies.

Extensive reading in the second language classroom.

Desarrolla una actitud positiva hacia la lectura a menudo perdida en el aula de segundo idioma. Los autores proporcionan una base teórica para este enfoque mediante el examen de la naturaleza afectiva y cognitiva de la lectura. También ofrecen sugerencias prácticas para la aplicación de una lectura amplia, incluida su integración en el plan de estudios, el establecimiento de una biblioteca, la selección de material de lectura, y el mantenimiento de registros de evaluación. Contiene una amplia variedad de actividades en la clase para complementar la lectura silenciosa, y un apéndice con una valiosa bibliografía, organizada por niveles, de los mejores libros escritos en inglés para estudiantes de idiomas.

Close Enough to One Another and Far Apart as Well´: The Intersection of Literature and History in Seamus Deane´s Reading in the Dark

This article analyses the intersection of narrative and history in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark (1996). It uses the Benjaminian notions of memory, narration and experience to investigate how this novel creates a self through a language characterized by the absence of what it refers to. The analysis will eventually demonstrate that the tension between recollection and obliteration makes Literature and History converge as products of a narrative act.

A intersecção entre literatura, memória e história em Reading in the dark, de Seamus Deane

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Effects of Dialogic Reading in the Improvement of Reading Comprehension in Students of Primary Education

Reading is an essential factor for success at school that requires certain skills and strategies of great complexity rarely taught in schools. Verbalization of comprehension strategies can be considered an effective measure in learning to read. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a program of teaching reading strategies implemented through interactive dialogic reading groups in the learning of reading comprehension. A quasi-experimental comparison with pretest and posttest design between groups was used. A sample of 355 participants aged between 8 and 9 years aged was used. The results weigh the potential value of the program and support the development of teaching models that integrate dialogic reading practices as they facilitate learning of reading comprehension.

A grammar of the Hindūstānī language, in the Oriental and roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanāgarī systems of alphabetic writing. To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanāgarī characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes.

Mode of access: Internet.

A grammar of the Hindūstānī language, in the Oriental and roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanāgarī systems of alphabetic writing. To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanāgarī characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

New Testament studies V. Bible reading in the early church,

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A grammar of the Hindustani language in the Oriental and roman character : with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanágari systems of alphabetic writing, to which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic and Devanágarí characters, forming a complete introduction to the Totá-kaháni and Bágh-o-bahár, together with a vocabulary of all the words, and various explanatory notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

Developmental reading in the junior high school,

Mode of access: Internet.

Mechanical problems, adapted to the course of reading in the university of Cambridge.

Mode of access: Internet.

Construction print reading in the field.

Includes index.

The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks /

Includes index.

The elocutionist : a collection of pieces in prose and verse, peculiarly adapted to display the art of reading, in the most comprehensive sense of the term ... /

Mode of access: Internet.