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Preliminary Evaluation of Plasmix Compound from Plastics Packaging Waste for Reuse in Bituminous Pavements

2021

Finding an appropriate technical solution for reusing waste plastics is crucial for creating a circular plastic economy. Although mechanical recycling is the best option for recycling post-consumer plastics, some heterogeneous mixed plastics cannot be recycled to produce secondary material due to their very low properties. In this case, alternative routes should be considered in order to limit their disposal as much as possible. Therefore, in order to solve the environmental problems in the landfills of plastic waste recycling, and to improve the mechanical performance of bitumen for road pavement, the reuse of these post-consumer plastic wastes are preliminarily evaluated for the modificat…

Brief an Garlieb H. Merkel

1797

Ms. 930a, Nr. 5, Bl. 11r-14v Recke, Charlotte Elisabeth (Elisa) Constantia v. der. Brief an Garlieb H. Merkel, Pyrmont (?), d[en] 8. May 1797 Autora rokraksts / Autograph, vācu un franču val. / Deutsch und Französisch [8] lpp. / S. Attēlu numuri / Bildnummern: 930a-005-1 – 930a-005-8 Der Brief von Elisabeth von der Recke wurde wahrscheinlich in Pyrmont verfasst. Die Autorin bezieht sich auf einen Brief Merkels, auf den sie antwortet. Sie äußert ihre grundsätzliche Zustimmung zur Idee einer Befreiung der Bauern in Liv- und Kurland und kann als Besitzerin zweier Güter, die ihr von der Kaiserin Katharina II. übereignet wurden, als Adressatin von Merkels Forderungen, die er in „Die Letten“ form…

Contratos de permuta financiera ante el impuesto sobre el valor añadido

2021

El estudio de la tributación en el impuesto sobre el valor añadido de los contratos de permuta financiera, exige el previo conocimiento de estos derivados financieros. Para ello acudimos a la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión europea y a las nociones de la Contabilidad internacional

[Optimization of systemic treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis. Recommendations for switching and transitioning.]

2014

The aim of this study was to provide practical recommendations for optimizing the use of conventional and biological systemic treatments for moderate-severe chronic plaque psoriasis, particularly in case of transitioning and switching.A total number of 147 dermatologists from 33 different countries including Italy achieved consensus in providing practical recommendations for the use of conventional and biological treatments for moderate to severe psoriasis based on systematic literature review and/or expert opinion.In general, the continuous treatment regimen should be preferred in order to achieve a complete and long-term control of psoriasis. However, the treatment could be stopped or the…

Comparison results for a linear elliptic equation with mixed boundary conditions

2003

In this paper we study a linear elliptic equation having mixed boundary conditions, defined in a connected open set $\Omega $ of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We prove a comparison result with a suitable ``symmetrized'' Dirichlet problem which cannot be uniformly elliptic depending on the regularity of $ \partial \Omega $. Regularity results for non-uniformly elliptic equations are also given.

Modelling and assessing public health policies to counteract Italian measles outbreaks

2021

This study aims to understand, through explanatory research, the key factors that led to the 2017 measles outbreak in Italy, the causes of the low level of immunisation and the causes of possible cyclical phenomena of measles epidemics. This topic's comprehension has required a holistic approach, merging epidemiological aspects, socioeconomic aspects (including the evolution of mistrust in vaccinations, infodemy and fake news) and health law constraints. A specific SIR System Dynamics (SD) model was built to reproduce the relevant cause-and-effect relationships between social interactions, the public institutions behaviour and the measles outbreaks. SD results permit the assessment of the h…

Assessing the Reduction Strategies of the Italian Measles Outbreaks through Dynamic Performance Management (DPM) approach

Numerical Recovery of Source Singularities via the Radiative Transfer Equation with Partial Data

2013

The inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation is considered, with partial data. Here we demonstrate numerical computation of the normal operator $X_{V}^{*}X_{V}$ where $X_{V}$ is the partial data solution operator to the radiative transfer equation. The numerical scheme is based in part on a forward solver designed by F. Monard and G. Bal. We will see that one can detect quite well the visible singularities of an internal optical source $f$ for generic anisotropic $k$ and $\sigma$, with or without noise added to the accessible data $X_{V}f$. In particular, we use a truncated Neumann series to estimate $X_{V}$ and $X_{V}^{*}$, which provides a good approximation of $X_{V}^{*…

Hydro-mechanical modelling of MX-80 bentonite: one dimensional study

2016

As a first step towards modelling the coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) behaviour of bentonite, the Barcelona Basic Model (BBM) has been implemented into Numerrin finite element code. This model has been fully coupled with the single phase flow equation for unsaturated soils which models liquid water transport. Suction obtained from solving the flow equation is used as an input for the BBM model and the volumetric deformations from the mechanical analysis are used to update the pore water pressure field. As an alternative, BBM is used alongside the Kröhn’s model which assumes that bentonite re-saturation is mainly driven by water vapour diffusion. The paper simulates one dimen…

Dynamic Sustainability. Sustainability Window Analysis of Chinese Poverty-Environment Nexus Development

2015

Sustainability Window is a new analysis tool for assessing the sustainability of development simultaneously in all of its three dimensions (environmental, economic, and social). The analysis method provides information of the maximum and minimum economic development that is required to maintain the direction of social and environmental development towards more sustainable targets. With the Sustainability Window method it is possible to easily analyze the sustainability using different indicators and different time periods making comparative analyses easy. The new method makes it also possible to analyze the dynamics of the sustainability and the changes over time in the width of the window.…