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#Io resto a casa, Nuove forme dell’abitare domestico

2020

Le regolamentazioni igienico-sanitarie hanno influenzato da sempre le teorie urbanistiche, le trasformazioni delle città e le forme dell’abitare. Nell’attesa della soluzione medica, la risposta al Covid19 passa da considerazioni sugli spazi. I cambiamenti più immediati possono avviarsi dalla casa, con un pensiero poietico e in opposizione all’idea che tutto dipenda unicamente dalla tecnologia. Il ragionamento sullo spazio domestico implica la riflessione sui nuovi bisogni (che l’emergenza ha acuito) e sulla ricerca della qualità, con una revisione dei minimi dell’abitare. L’isolamento ha aperto lo sguardo a possibili paesaggi domestici e, se la casa è ancora principio dell’abitare, da essa …

Innovative control logics for a rational utilization of electric loads and air-conditioning systems in a residential building

2015

The paper focuses on the evaluation of the impact on residential buildings of innovative control logics defined for a rational utilization of the electric loads and air-conditioning systems. The control logics are implementable thanks to a Decision Support and Energy Management Systems developed by the same authors and easily installable in new and still-existing houses. The paper shows how a significant reduction of the primary energy consumption can be obtained by controlling the air-conditioning units together with the other electric loads of the house. After having explained how the control logics operate, a simulation tool is described, developed for a preliminary evaluation of their e…

Integration of distributed on site control actions via combined photovoltaic and solar panels system

2009

A systematic evaluation of the potential energy saving and CO2 emissions reduction on buildings was carried out, when a renewable energy system is locally installed. The exploitation of a combined solar and photovoltaic system and the integration of suitable energy management actions were deeply investigated. A model of these solar and photovoltaic components has been developed and included within a complete house simulator, capable to precisely figure out the daily electric energy consumptions of typical apartments and to measure the positive actions induced by the added renewable energy. Saving up to 40% on the energy consumptions and even more savings on wiring losses seems to be easily …

Application of distributed expert systems to the advanced control of smart houses

2003

Abstract A distributed expert system has been proposed for the smart house control. Its configuration is mainly based on the use of distributed nodes connected by means of a CAN network. This kind of systems allow the implementation of highly flexible control systems capable of adapting themselves to different situations. The expert system used is based on Rule Nets (RN), which are a formalism that seeks to express an automatism in a similar way to as would make it a human being: "IF antecedents THEN consequents". But at the same time Rule nets are a tool for the design, analysis and implementation of rule based systems (RBS), and consist on a mathematic-logical structure which analytically…

Estonian Community Houses as Local Tools for the Development of Estonian Cultural Policy

2013

The sovietization of Estonian community houses (Rahvamaja): Soviet guidelines

2014

Estonian Community houses were built in towns and the countryside by local people, who joined cultural and other societies since the second half of the 19th century. These cultural centers supported the process of Estonian state building. During the years of the first Estonian independent state (1918–1940), the network of community houses was set up by the state. After the invasion of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union in 1940, extensive restructuring or sovietization of the Estonian public administration, economy and culture, began. The article examines the sovietization process of Estonian community houses, i.e., how they were turned into the ideological tools of Soviet totalitarian pr…

The Senate Territorial Groups

2013

Since the adoption of the Senate Rules in 1982 alongside the traditional parliamentary Groups (where Senators are associated by ideological affinity), there exist territorial Groups that try to reflect the autonomous organization of the State. The purpose of this work is to make a concise study of these Groups, which are undoubtedly one of the effects of the expression that the Upper House is the House of territorial representation, as contained in article 69 of the Constitution.

How Does the Romanian State Support the Increase of Energy Efficiency of Buildings by Using Public Funds?

2020

Abstract The issue of improving the energy efficiency of buildings in Romania is one of interest, both for the state authorities and for the population. The general purpose is to encourage the production of thermal energy and domestic hot water through the use of renewable energy sources. This is part of the EU's long-term objective of decarbonising the existing and inefficient European real estate park. In order to start renovating the existing buildings on the national territory, considerable financial resources are needed which the owners should have. The Romanian state, through the Agency for Environmental Protection, comes to the support the interested persons by granting financial sup…

Responsabilità degli organi sociali di società in house: la giurisdizione della Corte dei conti secondo le sezioni unite.

2014

L’articolo affronta il delicato tema della giurisdizione in materia di azioni di responsabilità verso gli organi sociali delle società in house.

Instruments, rules, and household debt: the effects of fiscal policy

2015

In this paper, we look at the interplay between the level of household leverage in the economy and fiscal policy, the latter characterised by different combinations of instruments and rules. When the fiscal rule is defined on lump-sum transfers, government spending or consumption taxes, the impact multipliers of transitory fiscal shocks become substantially amplified in an environment of easy access to credit by impatient consumers, regardless of the primary instruments used. However, when the government reacts to debt deviations by raising distortionary taxes on income, labour or capital, the effects of household debt on the size of the impact output multipliers vanish or even reverse, no …