bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Assessment of necessity for implementing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in churches of Armenia
Authors: Karamyan Anna 
Published: August 2024

In continental climatic conditions, ensuring the thermal comfort of buildings of historical, architectural, and cultural heritage is associated with several difficulties. Buildings and churches that stood for thousands of years, were not cooled or heated but had design features that ensure constant thermal comfort inside, regardless of fluctuations in external climatic conditions. Passive heating was also used in such buildings, for example, in the hot season, massive buildings accumulated heat gain and then gave off heat in the cold season. When restoring historical buildings and churches, we often encounter the need to introduce air conditioning, ventilation, and heating systems, which must provide the microclimate of the premises that meets modern requirements for thermal comfort and energy efficiency. However, such interventions can also have negative consequences since the requirements for the thermal comfort of parishioners and the architectural and historical conceptual integrity of a given building often contradict each other. To solve this problem, collaborative interdisciplinary research is needed to minimize the impact of mechanical heating and air conditioning systems. An evaluation of the suitability of the heating and cooling systems of existing and renovated churches in Armenia was carried out by monitoring the temperature and humidity of the indoor and outdoor air, analyzing the factors that provide comfortable conditions for the people there. It has been proven that conditions providing thermal comfort to people can be achieved without the introduction of HVAC systems. For this purpose, factors providing passive heating or cooling, such as existing natural ventilation opportunities, prevailing wind direction and speed, building materials and thermal mass, etc., were evaluated. An example of the implementation of HVAC systems is described, in which the invasive effect on the originality of the historic building is minimized.
Community perceptions toward herpetofauna along the ridge-to-reef megatransect in Bicol region, Philippines: Conservation implications of ethnoherpetological research
Authors: Clores Michael A. , Pesimo Diana Rose R. , Sindo Eljenmer L. , Bigcas Elluna Jane J. , Candelaria Patricia M. , Lanciso Luisa M. , Bradecina Raul G. , Brown Rafe M. 
Published: August 2024

Reptiles and amphibians are among the least appreciated of animals and are victims of many negative perceptions and erroneous ideas. In this ethnoherpetological research, we uncover the perceptions of the residents using 20 focus group discussions participated by a total of 339 residents and community surveys to a total of 1464 residents in 29 barangays in five municipalities along our Ridge-to-Reef Megatransect which commences from Mt. Isarog National Part to Caramoan National Park, Bicol Region, Philippines. Many residents do simply dislike reptiles and amphibians while others do not have any understanding of the life history and ecological roles these animals play in the environment. They created folklore narratives and tales, superstitions, and myths depicting these animals as demonic and evil. Their phobia-inducing aversion toward herpetofauna are reflected in their stories and interpretation of their experiences of encounter with these animals. They believe that although there are medicinal, cultural, and some economic values brought by these animals, the harm that they can cause outweighs their ecological importance. The findings are of potential conservation concern because these imply the need for more intensive and extensive measures to transmit and disseminate knowledge about the ecological functions of herpetofauna and correct the misconceptions about reptiles and amphibians. Furthermore, the success of future conservation plans in the area with the local community’s participation will be dependent not only on the species account but also on unraveling of community perceptions through ethnoherpetology.
The contribution of west java research and development institutions in post-COVID-19 regional economic recovery through the use of foreign sources
Authors: Dermawan Windy , Azmi Fuad , Darmawan Ivan , Djuyandi Yusa 
Published: August 2024

West Java is a region with a diversity of natural resources and regional human resources which is an attraction for international investors. Post-Covid-19 regional economic recovery is a challenge for a number of regional officials in West Java, especially for research and development institutions. With the limitation of capacity and capability it has, this institution is demanded to optimize the use of foreign resources for post-Covid-19 regional economic recovery needs through region diplomacy. The West Java Provincial Government has carried out numbers of collaboration with various stakeholders both in the governmental and social spheres. As an effort to optimize regional potential, West Java endeavors to refer to careful planning with research and development results-based to catch up with the necessities and conditions of the community of the pitch. This article aims to identify what efforts have these regional research and development institutions-both in the governmental and social sectors, by foreign investment planning in West Java after Covid-19. This article uses qualitative methods by referring to literature studies and interviews with several relevant informants. This paper finds that there is collaboration carried out by the West Java Provincial Government together with research and development institutions in creating a safe investment environment for investors amidst the institutional limitations of these institutions in West Java, especially when the region diplomacy becomes an instrument to attract foreign investors to invest in West Java where capacity and capability of regional apparatus in West Java is still limited to carry out these activities.