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A bottom-up harmonized energy-environmental models for europe (BOHEEME): A case study on the thermal insulation of the EU-28 building stock
2021
Abstract The paper presents a methodological approach, called “BOttom-up Harmonized Energy-Environmental Models for Europe” (BOHEEME), that combines bottom-up modeling, energy dynamic simulation, and life cycle assessment for evaluating and comparing the energy and environmental effects of different renovation strategies of the residential EU building stocks, from micro to the macro level. The study defines 672 building models representative of the residential EU-28 building stocks built before 2010, called archetypes, and the improvement of their envelope, applying different insulation materials from a traditional one to bio-based materials and studying their environmental effects via LCA.…
An innovative approach to manage uncertainties and stock diversity in the EPBD cost-optimal methodology
2018
The EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) 2010/31/EU is a step in the right direction to promote near zero energy buildings (NZEB) in a step-wise manner, starting with minimum energy performance and cost optimal thresholds for “reference buildings” (RBs) for each category. Nevertheless, a standard method for defining RBs does not exist, which led to a great divergence between MS in the level of detail used to define RBs for the EPBD cost-optimal analysis. Such lack of harmonisation between MS is further evident given the resulting large discrepancies in energy performance indicators even between countries having similar climate. Furthermore, discrepancies of 30% or higher betw…
Giovan Battista Filippo Basile e Gottfried Semper. Tangenze e confluenze nella cultura architettonica europea della seconda metà del XIX secolo
2009
Con questo saggio si cerca di dare un contributo di conoscenza su Giovan Battista Filippo Basile, architetto che ha rappresentato la figura centrale e di maggiore risonanza europea prodotta negli anni a cavallo dell’Unità d’Italia dalla cultura architettonica palermitana. Il tentativo di avvicinare l’opera teorica di Giovan Battista Filippo Basile a quella di Gottfried Semper, oltre ad evidenziare la dimensione europea del suo pensiero, consente di sottolineare l'importanza del ruolo svolto dal fondamento razionale e teorico, congiuntamente all’esame critico della società, dei suoi valori e dei suoi costumi nell'azione degli architetti; tale approccio alla disciplina fa apparire ai nostri o…
What is Europe…?
2013
The article contains the report and the drawings of the project for the International ideas competition “The Europe's Become”. The European history, since the ancient roman’s time, shows us how the birth of any kind of “identity” is strictly related to the diffusion of the common culture. Many National identities are born and grown from a strong solid “shared culture”. According to that, the ideas of the design proposal is to give shape to a place that can be simultaneously “attractor and diffuser” of this cultural identity and to promote the European integration process. The concept becomes a material object trough the architecture’s instruments and it is transformed in a small temporary a…
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN CONSTRUCTION: JUST FASHION OR REAL POTENTIALITIES?
2017
Developments of technology and advances in materials science and engineering are leading to a new generation of products that may represent a competitive route to achieve a real sustainable growth in construction. Currently many nano-based products are available on the global market: smart-materials, nano- composite materials, nano-devices, etc.. Further nanotechnologies enable new developments: materials and products are fast emerging or exist in bulky and expensive forms in other industrial sectors. Anyway, a great deal of research, directly focused in construction’s applications, should be done. This paper is aimed to discuss such an increasing trend and analyses the global market. A gen…
Retos para la educación y profesión contable derivados de una armonización mundial liderada por el IASC: la nueva estrategia europea de armonización …
2001
En este trabajo presentamos un juicio crítico de las importantes decisiones que la Comisión Europea ha adoptado a lo largo del pasado año 2000, con miras a implantar definitivamente una estrategia sobre armonización contable. Consideramos que este trabajo es de especial importancia en el contexto de esta Conferencia Internacional, dado que muchos organismos mundiales a favor de la armonización contable, han puesto sus ojos en el modelo de la Unión Europea y en cierto sentido el área económica europea es un peso fundamental para contrarrestar la fuerza de los Estados Unidos, respaldados por sus mercados de capitales, de cara al debate de armonización contable internacional. Dada la actualida…
I nuovi modelli di incriminazione delle organizzazioni criminali all'interno dell'Unione Europea
2013
Il lavoro analizza il percorso di armonizzazione delle incriminazioni in materia di organizzazione criminale nei Paesi dell'Unione Europea. L'impegno ormai risalente degli organi dell'Unione nel contrasto alla criminalità organizzata, come tipica manifestazione di criminalità transnazionale, si è dovuto confrontare con una varietà di risposte nazionali, indicando alcuni modelli comuni da adottare nei singoli ordinamenti per consentire una migliore azione di contrasto. Nonostante le perduranti differenze nelle soluzioni nazionali in materia, lo studio mette in evidenza che gli interventi europei hanno comunque prodotto una serie di modifiche normative in numerosi ordinamenti nazionali degli …
Il principio di non discriminazione nel diritto dell'Unione.L'articolo 19 del Trattato sul funzionamento dell'Unione europea, ovvero la rivoluzione s…
2011
This article focuses on the transformation of EU law through the anti-discrimination provision, article 19 of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union.
Presence of Naraoia Walcott, 1912 in the middle Cambrian of Europe (Murero, NE Spain).
2018
Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la página web de la revista en la siguiente URL: http://sepaleontologia.es/revista/anteriores/SJP%20(2018)%20vol.%2033/vol.%201/04.pdf The genus Naraoia Walcott, 1912, a Burgess Shale-type fossil known from the lower and middle Cambrian of British Columbia (Canada), Idaho and Utah (USA), as well as from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces (China), is now reported from the middle Cambrian of Murero (Zaragoza, Spain), which is the first record in the Acadobaltic province. The only fragmented specimen found is determined as Naraoia sp., its age being Pardailhania multispinosa Zone (Drumian Stage). This new datum reinforces the hypothesis of the existence of a …
Vector-borne and zoonotic infections and their relationships with regional and socioeconomic statuses: An ID-IRI survey in 24 countries of Europe, Af…
2021
Background: In this cross-sectional, international study, we aimed to analyze vector-borne and zoonotic infections (VBZI), which are significant global threats. Method: VBZIs’ data between May 20–28, 2018 was collected. The 24 Participatingcountries were classified as lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income. Results: 382 patients were included. 175(45.8%) were hospitalized, most commonly in Croatia, Egypt, and Romania(P = 0.001). There was a significant difference between distributions of VBZIs according to geographical regions(P < 0.001). Amebiasis, Ancylostomiasis, Blastocystosis, Cryptosporidiosis, Giardiasis, Toxoplasmosis were significantly more common in the Middle-East while B…