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Relevance and Role of Contemporary Architecture Preservation—Assessing and Evaluating Architectural Heritage as a Contemporary Landscape: A Study Cas…
2023
Since WWII to the 2000s, numerous masters of contemporary architecture have contributed to the construction of new landscapes with their works; therefore, these places have become part of a changing landscape and of the multifaceted process of landscape generation. Nevertheless, during this fifty-year period, capitalism has led to the destruction of many existing landscapes, and the policies of protection and preservation have often entailed a process of musealization. In 2000, the European Landscape Convention adopted a new common-grounded definition of landscape, integrating a wide set of cultural approaches and disciplinary topics. Starting from the assumption that contemporary architect…
Environmental profile of building materials. Field analysis of a brickwork in Sicily
2005
Brickmaking process is a highly energy-intensive operation, where a considerable amount of energy is spent in the drying and firing processes of bricks. Moreover, most of the Sicilian brick industries utilise electricity, fuel oil and gas oil. On the other hand, the conservation of energy becomes important in the aim of limiting greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere and reducing costs of materials. In this work, an experimental analysis of the energy utilised in a Sicilian brickwork for the realization of some typical bricks has been carried out. From this study, the embodied energy of the unity of product has been deduced. Finally, by means of an indirect method, the pollutants relea…
Modelowanie potęgi państwa - wybrane zagadnienia
2018
W artykule przedstawiono zagadnienia związane z modelowaniem potęgi państwa. Dokonano przeglądu najważniejszych modeli potęgi państwa, wraz z charakterystyką poszczególnych składowych. Opisano rożne ujęcia potęgi, w ramach wybranych teorii stosunków międzynarodowych
Analiza rozwoju wybranych czynników potęgotwórczych państw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej w obszarze społeczno-gospodarczym
2018
W artykule przedstawiono zagadnienia dotyczące istoty określania potęgi państwa i jej kluczowych komponentów. Wskazano szczegółowe wskaźniki, mieszczące się w ramach poszczególnych wymiarów potęgi państwa. Opisano rozwój wskaźnika wolności gospodarczej i demokracji w państwach Grupy Wyszehradzkiej, na przestrzeni ostatniej dekady. Wyniki analizy porównawczej zobrazowano w formie graficznej.
Students' school‐level symptoms mediate the relationship between a school's observed moisture problems and students’ subjective perceptions of indoor…
2020
Moisture damage can influence the subjective assessment of indoor air quality (subjective IAQ) in various ways. We studied whether the frequency of symptoms reported across students at school level mediates the relationship between observed mold and dampness in a school building and students' subjective IAQ. To answer this research question, we tested a multilevel path model. The analyzed data were created by merging two nationwide data sets: (a) survey data from students, including information on subjective IAQ (N = 24,786 students); (b) data from schools, including information on mold and dampness in a school building (N = 222). After the background variables were adjusted, schools' obser…
Data Compensation with Gaussian Processes Regression: Application in Smart Building's Sensor Network
2022
Data play an essential role in the optimal control of smart buildings’ operation, especially in building energy-management for the target of nearly zero buildings. The building monitoring system is in charge of collecting and managing building data. However, device imperfections and failures of the monitoring system are likely to produce low-quality data, such as data loss and inconsistent data, which then seriously affect the control quality of the buildings. This paper proposes a new approach based on Gaussian process regression for data-quality monitoring and sensor network data compensation in smart buildings. The proposed method is proven to effectively detect and compensate for low-qu…
Fontaines (Saône-et-Loire). Place de l’Église [notice archéologique]
2019
Le village actuel de Fontaines, situé à environ 8 km au N.-O. de Chalon-sur-Saône, se développe sur 1,5 km de long selon un unique axe E-O, depuis la montagne Saint-Hilaire à l’ouest, occupée au Néolithique puis durant l’Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen Âge, jusqu’à l’église paroissiale Saint-Just, à l’est. Malgré une emprise limitée et contrainte par de nombreux réseaux existants, l’opération a permis de documenter l’environnement immédiat de l’église, occupé depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.
La intervención posconflicto en el Derecho internacional: una auditoría de género
2013
Que el conflicto armado tiene un impacto diferenciado de género es harto conocido. Demostrar además que la intervención posconflicto también lo tiene, constituye el objetivo de esta tesis. Por ello, partiendo de la potencialidad del gender mainstreaming o perspectiva transversal de género como herramienta fundamental para la gestión internacional de conflictos y, en línea con los postulados de la resolución 1325 del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas sobre mujeres, paz y seguridad de 31 de octubre del año 2000, esta investigación adopta la forma de auditoría de género para trazar, mediante un análisis contextual (primera parte), jurídico (segunda parte) y clínico (tercera parte), la ev…
A Noxious Weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. (Ragweed) as Sustainable Feedstock for Methane Production and Metals Immobilization
2023
Plants of the Ambrosia genus are invasive and cause many ecological problems, including the oppression of the growth of agricultural crops and native plants, land depletion, and the production of strong allergens. The use of weeds as a sustainable feedstock for biogas production, either methane or hydrogen, is a promising way to fulfill the energy needs of the current generation, eliminate the depletion of non-renewable carbon resources, and preserve the ecosystem degradation caused by invasive species impacts. A diversified microbial community was used as inoculum and Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. biomass as a substrate for anaerobic degradation and methane production. In this regard, the dev…
Historical building dating: refinement of established sample preparation protocol
2010
Abstract: The application of thermal (TL) and optical (OSL) stimulated luminescence on pottery and building materials has allowed to resolve numer-ous problems in both the fields of retrospective do-simetry and dating. Routine measurements request the registration of TL signals obtained on polymineral fine-grained frac-tion (FG) extracted from pottery sherds and bricks used as building material with the Added Dose (AD) technique. One of the reasons of the dispersion of the lumi-nescence measurements when using this fraction is the variability of relative contents of quartz and feld-spars, which due to their differing behaviour influ-encing the equivalent dose (ED) and therefore its uncertai…