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Theoretics and Methodology
2016
Since 2000 in Europe an integrated management framework has been developed to innovate exploitation and safeguard of water resources. In this context the EU Water Framework Directive has identified the hydrographic basin as the optimal territorial unit for promoting new participatory policies, based both on the interaction of stakeholders and the coordination of sectorial instruments. In this scenario, river contracts assumed a strategic role both in addressing these purposes and supporting the dialogue and integration between interests of public and private stakeholders. This chapter illustrates the theoretical and methodological framework, and the comparative approach on which the researc…
Environmental Benefits of Wastewater Treatment: An Economic Valuation
2009
The need of economic research into the design and implementation of policies for the efficient management of water resources has been emphasized by the European Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/UE). The efficient implementation of policies to prevent the degradation and depletion of water resources requires determining their value in social and economic terms and incorporating this information into the decision-making process. A process of wastewater treatment has many associated environmental benefits. However, these benefits are often not calculated because they are not set by the market. Nevertheless, the valuation of these benefits is necessary to justify a suitable investme…
Characterisation of nonoriented electric alloys under nonconventional conditions
1996
The variations of magnetic and loss characteristics of nonoriented cobalt-iron and silicon-iron sheets have been investigated using an Epstein frame. Cobalt-iron alloys have been tested under sinusoidal magnetic flux density with respect to frequency and temperature. Both kinds of alloys have also been investigated with respect to frequency, time constant wavefront and temperature under trapezoidal flux density. The qualitative behaviour is identical under both flux density conditions for all these alloys. These investigations have made it possible to model the variations of iron losses with experimental parameters, except the temperature. These quantitative evolutions differ with alloy and…
Semantic Web Services for Smart Devices in a “Global Understanding Environment”
2003
Various Web resources and services are usually assumed to be used and accessed by human users (current Web) or by software agents on behalf of human users (emerging Semantic Web). However industry emerges also a new group of “users”, which are smart industrial devices, robots or any other objects, which can be adapted to the (Semantic) Web environment. They would need special services for e.g. online condition monitoring, information provisioning, remote diagnostics, maintenance support, etc. The goal of this paper is to specify main requirements to Web services that automatically follow up and predict the performance and maintenance needs of field devices. Semantic Web enabled services for…
Nonlinear evolution of cosmological inhomogeneities
2008
The nonlinear evolution of a cosmologically significant fluid is studied up to shell crossing. The magnetic part of the Weyl tensor, the pressure and the vorticity vanish. A suitable spatial grid is chosen. The relativistic Ellis equations are particularized on the world lines defined by the nodes of the grid and, then, the resulting equations are numerically solved. The integrations are performed in suitable Lagrangian inertial coordinates, in which the differential equations become ordinary. After the integration, a method to change from Lagrangian to Eulerian coordinates is applied. This approach has been outlined with the essential aim of studying the evolution of large scale cosmologic…
Complete Genome Sequence of the Enterobacter cancerogenus Bacteriophage Enc34
2012
ABSTRACT Enterobacter cancerogenus is widely distributed in nature and is generally recovered from environmental or vegetal sources. In some cases, it has also been associated with human infections. In this study, the complete genomic sequence of virulent E. cancerogenus bacteriophage Enc34 was determined. The Enc34 genome is 60,364 bp in length and contains 80 open reading frames. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a bacteriophage infecting E. cancerogenus .
Technological and legislative status point of stationary energy storages in the EU
2019
Abstract European renewable generation has been supported through several policy instruments in the last decades, and this has caused a significant growth of the renewable energy sector, spurred by the ambitious climate and energy policy targets. Despite this impetuous growth, the electricity infrastructure is not yet ready to accept increasing shares of variable renewable energy sources (RES) generation, and this is causing grid balance challenges, due to the inherently variable nature of the PV and wind energy. In order to overcome this issue, allowing higher shares of renewable generation in the energy sector, energy storage (ES) systems are becoming increasingly competitive in the globa…
La cultura ci salverà? Processi di touristification a base culturale nel centro storico di Palermo
2023
Negli ultimi tre decenni la cultura ha avuto un ruolo chiave nella costruzione delle politiche urbane, divenendo uno strumento decisivo nella definizione delle strategie di sviluppo economico e nell’accesso alla competizione globale che caratterizzano l’attuale regime di neoliberismo urbano (Miles e Paddison 2005). Anche nel sud Europa la cosiddetta rigenerazione a base culturale ha rappresentato e continua ancora oggi a rappresentare una vera e propria ortodossia urbana, che trova nel turismo tanto una ragione di esistenza quanto un campo di attuazione. In particolare, negli ultimi anni i centri storici di molte città sudeuropee sono stati oggetto di trasformazioni profonde in cui pratiche…
Gráficos interactivos y la nueva metodología docente en el EEES
2010
En este artículo mostramos la posibilidad de utilizar los gráficos interactivos disponibles en Internet para la docencia en la universidad acorde con la nueva metodología docente que implica la convergencia de España hacia el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. Mostramos un ejemplo concreto de utilización de esta tecnología en la enseñanza de Microeconomía en la Universidad. En particular explicaremos la noción de Equilibrio Walrasiano en el caso de una economía sencilla de intercambio simple representable en la caja de Edgeworth mediante el gráfico interactivo: Walrasian Equilibrium or Disequilibrium.
Su un caso di sindrome di Wolfram
2011
To aim of this paper was to offer a further contribution to the knowledge af the Wolfram Syndrome within the Italian population about hypotheses of its genetic trasmission and diagnostic problems.The study comprised the genetic investigation and the clinical ophthalmological examination of all the family members. Genetic investigation of family members showed the presence of a genetic disorder,consisting in a mutation of the gene wfs1, located on the short arm of chromosome 4, and which codifies for the protein Wolfranin. The gene wfs1 presents high penetrance and expression,since the mutation is recessive, it can only be clinicallly detected when it is present in the homozygous form. It sh…