Economy Usage Research Articles

Analysis of the Impact of Residential Property and Equipment on Building Energy Efficiency and Consumption—A Data Mining Approach

Human living could become very difficult due to a lack of energy. The household sector plays a significant role in energy consumption. Trying to optimize and achieve efficient energy consumption can lead to large-scale energy savings. The aim of this paper is to identify the equipment and property affecting energy efficiency and consumption in residential homes. For this purpose, a hybrid data-mining approach based on K-means algorithms and decision trees is presented. To analyze the approach, data is modeled once using the approach and then without it. A data set of residential homes of England and Wales is arranged in low, medium and high consumption clusters. The C5.0 algorithm is run on each cluster to extract factors affecting energy efficiency. The comparison of the modeling results, and also their accuracy, prove that the approach employed has the ability to extract the findings with greater accuracy and detail than in other cases. The installation of boilers, using cavity walls, and installing insulation could improve energy efficiency. Old homes and the usage of economy 7 electricity have an unfavorable effect on energy efficiency, but the approach shows that each cluster behaved differently in these factors related to energy efficiency and has unique results.

A Review on Geopolymer RCC Beams made with Recycled Coarse Aggregate

In present day scenario, concrete construction is rapidly increasing for different uses and aspects irrespective of the economy and its usage. Due to this imbalanced usage of economy, scarcity of raw materials increasing day by day and environment is getting affected due to manufacturing of cement. This study has been done how to reduce environmental pollution by using different kind of bi product materials in replacement to conventional concrete, which is made up of OPC. The cement can be replaced with fly ash; GGBS, rice husk ash etc, aggregates are being partially replaced with recycled aggregates which come from demolished structures and alkaline liquids such as sodium silicates and sodium hydroxide can be used in concrete, which is called geopolymer concrete. Literature review has been carried out to find the optimum content of aggregates to be replaced and the flexure behavior of the beams is being evaluated. From the literature study, it has been identified that the optimum compressive strength is achieved at 30% replacement of recycled aggregate and ductility natures of both Geopolymer and conventional concrete beams are almost similar.

From General Economy to the Concept of Value: Toward an Aneconomic Marxism

Economy has become a preferred figure for material and conceptual totalities in contemporary theoretical discourse. This usage of economy can be traced less to classical or Marxian political economy than to developments in twentieth-century French social theory, including Marcel Mauss's anthropology of the gift and Georges Bataille's theory of general economy. Jacques Derrida, for one, draws on Mauss, Bataille, and others to deploy economy as a textual figure closely articulated with his deconstruction of the modern philosophical concept. In this essay, I argue that Derrida's usage of economy manifests a kind of Kantian philosophical formalism, and I contrast Derrida's theoretical strategy on this count with Marx's approach to theory by way of concepts. Marx's concept of value, I argue, manifests a very different relationship to totality and philosophical formalism than is presupposed by the Derridean critique of conceptuality.