Search results for " Enviroment"
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Challenges in Energy Systems for the Smart-Cities of the Future
2012
In the last years the European Union has actively promoted the renewable energies and the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) also for residential and tertiary buildings. The exploitation of renewable sources and cogeneration seems hampered by the regulatory wall that prohibit for residential, tertiary and commercial buildings the constitution of users clusters. In fact, the unification up to a threshold value of some tens of kVA, at least, can facilitate the installation of renewable energy power plants as solar PV modules or CHP systems (cogeneration) or CCHP systems (tri-generation), overcoming technical and economical barriers and combining several load profiles. The actual distribution syste…
Neoanthropocene Raising and Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study in Southern Italy
2020
Analyzing the human history on the planet, a conflictual relation was raised when humankind had started destroying the natural ecosystem and biota, and consequently, a capacity to induce environmental change has increased throughout human history in the so-called Anthropocene age. A 'noosphere'-centered civilization could produce a non-disruptive new kind of anthropocentrism. This is becoming a new context to define Neoanthropocene based on a renewed homeostatic relationship between Earth and mankind. The potential application of this theoretical approach has been tested in drafting steps of Plan of Lucania Apennines, Valdagri, and Lagonegrese National Park, in southern Italy. Drafting the …
General Overview
2016
Il capitolo introduce alla tematica smart city attraverso un exscursus storico che ne traccia i passaggi salienti: la nascita delle politiche globali ambientali sino al livello della maturità raggiunto con il Protocollo di Kyoto (1997); poi ancora il Pacchetto Clima 20-20-20 redatto dalla Commissione Europea nel 2008 che traccia un'altro punto cruciale che prelude ai progetti e alle iniziative in ambito smart cities. La Strategia Energetica Europea al 2050 rappresenta il quadro di riferimento a cui tendere. Il capitolo si conclude con una rassegna dei sistemi di ranking più popolari e con una proposta di analisi. The chapter introduces to smart city issue through a historical excursus, whic…
Danno all'ambiente e tutela della persona
2012
Il libro propone una riflessione sul danno ambientale, inquadrandola nella più ampia prospettiva della tutela della persona, alla quale la figura del danno ambientale sembra potersi ascrivere. Delineata la disciplina in tema di danno all'ambiente, quale emergente dal lungo iter normativo, dottrinale e giurisprudenziale, che ne ha segnato la sua evoluzione, emerge l'idea di un danno ambientale, che potrebbe definirsi esistenziale, in grado di suggerire riflessioni interessanti, tanto in tema di responsabilità ambientale, quanto riguardo all'area del danno alla persona. La parabola del danno ambientale, se continua forse oggi ad evocare pericolosi "mostriciattoli", è figlia della storia di un…
Bioengineering Materials for Environment Protection in a Changing Climate
2019
Climate change is one of the biggest problems of our times and passing the time climate extremes tend to increase both in magnitude and in frequency. Because the severity of the extreme climate events has increased, the interaction of these events with vulnerable human and natural systems has more frequently lead to disasters. Recent climate models projections have also shown a further substantial warming in temperature extremes by the end of the 21st century. The prevision models’ results also indicate that the global warming and the increase in frequency of temperature extremes could be strictly related to the anthropogenic forcing. The present special issue collects contributions represe…
Advanced microscopy analysis of the micro-nanoscale architecture of human menisci
2019
AbstractThe complex inhomogeneous architecture of the human meniscal tissue at the micro and nano scale in the absence of artefacts introduced by sample treatments has not yet been fully revealed. The knowledge of the internal structure organization is essential to understand the mechanical functionality of the meniscus and its relationship with the tissue’s complex structure. In this work, we investigated human meniscal tissue structure using up-to-date non-invasive imaging techniques, based on multiphoton fluorescence and quantitative second harmonic generation microscopy complemented with Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy measurements. Observations on 50 meniscal samples extract…
A Multimodal People Recognition System for an Intelligent Environment
2011
In this paper, a multimodal system for recognizing people in intelligent environments is presented. Users are identified and tracked by detecting and recognizing voices and faces through cameras and microphones spread around the environment. This multimodal approach has been chosen to develop a flexible and cheap though reliable system, implemented through consumer electronics. Voice features are extracted through a short time spectrum analysis, while face features are extracted using the eigenfaces technique. The recognition task is achieved through the use of some Support Vector Machines, one per modality, that learn and classify the features of each person, while bindings between modalit…
Pacientu drošas vides organizēšana intensīvās terapijas nodaļā
2017
Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Pacientu drošas vides organizēšana intensīvās terapijas nodaļā“. Darba mērķis bija noskaidrot, kā pacientiem tiek organizēta droša vide intensīvās terapijas nodaļās. Darbs sastāv no teorētiskās un pētnieciskās daļas. Teorētiskajā daļā iekļauts pacientiem drošas vides apraksts, intensīvās terapijas nodaļā. Intensīvās terapijas nodaļas vides apraksts. Pētniecības daļā iekļauta pētījuma metodoloģija, pētījumā iegūtie rezultāti, analīze un secinājumi. Pētījuma veikšanā tika izmantota kvalitatīvā metode. Pētījuma instrumenti: intervija un novērojumu protokols. Darbs sastāv no 66 lapaspusēm un 6 pielikumiem. Darbā tika izmantoti 37 literatūras avoti, no kuriem 22 bija lat…
A survey on the microclimate in Palermo city using the public transport system
2006
This work presentes the results of an extensive survey on the microclimate in Palermo city using the public transport system