Search results for "OBSOLESCENCE"
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La obsolescencia programada : un supuesto de práctica comercial desleal con consumidores
2021
El presente artículo analiza la estrategia comercial desarrollada por la empresa multinacional estadounidense Apple basada en la obsolescencia programada de sus ?smartphones? y su posible consideración como práctica comercial desleal con consumidores y usuarios en el sentido de la Directiva 2005/29/CE.
IL RUOLO DEL PATRIMONIO NEL PROGETTO URBANO MARSIGLIA E TUNISI, CITTÁ DEL MEDITERRANEO
La ricerca si occupa del rapporto tra le nuove modalità di trasformazione della città mediterranea e le nuove strategie di rigenerazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio materiale e immateriale. Comprendere qual è il ruolo del patrimonio nel processo di trasformazione e crescita della città mediterranea, attraverso la pratica del progetto urbano, è la questione principale della tesi, che si inserisce nel campo delle ricerche sulle modalità di trasformazione della città contemporanea. La ricerca si interroga, inoltre, su quale sia il rapporto che oggi lega il patrimonio e la sviluppo sostenibile, ambiti non più antitetici ma complementari, in una costruzione reciproca di simbologie e differen…
Does Obsolescence Matter? The Real Questions of Genetic Enhancement
2019
In his article, Robert Sparrow (2019) builds his arguments on a precondition of rapid technical progress in gene-editing technologies on one hand and on the implication that that gene-editing techn...
Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Com…
2015
Abstract Existing street lighting systems, in most of South Italy cities, are often inefficient due to the obsolescence of lamps and luminaires and of ineffective light control systems unable to implement efficient on-off and dimming strategies. Energy efficiency improvement, in street lighting systems, is often one of the key actions to be adopted by Public Administration in their Sustainable Energy Action Plan in the framework of the “Covenant of Majors” activities. As a task of FACTOR 20 project, a set of planning options has been analysed and proposed. Particularly, street lighting efficiency projects have been studied for representative case studies. A detailed survey of the public lig…
Introducing exergy analysis in life cycle assessment: A case study
2018
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology for assessing the potential environmental aspects associated with a product or service along its life cycle. However, in the case of energy technologies, it is suggested that the LCA of a product encompasses also further aspects other than environmental aspects and primary energy calculations. In particular, to optimize the reduction of raw materials during the whole life cycle, it is important to introduce the assessment of the irreversibility, applying the exergy analysis. In this paper, an integrated approach of exergy analysis and LCA is proposed, developing the Life-cycle quality index able to suggest potential exergy inefficiencies and the …
L’high Line Elevated Parkway : metamorfosi di un’infrastruttura in riconversione
2013
The reuse of the abandoned High Line Elevated Parkway, claimed and partnered by the association Friends of the High Line, is based on certain features of the former, obsolete, viaduct which runs trough the urban tissue nearly 30 feet in the air. Inspired by the unexpected beauty of the lush wilderness that has converted the High Line’s tracks into a spontaneous greenway since 1980s, the design team has been led by James Corner – Field Operation, with Diller & Scofi dio + Renfro and Piet Oudolf. Sublimating the old traces of over 20 years of abandon, the project is founded on a holistic approach that embodies the new dominant paradigm marked by the growing importance of recycling, slowness a…
Obsolescence and intervention: on synthetic-biological entities.
2014
Oftentimes, topics that might fall outside of science’s remit seem to end up becoming a part of it, sooner or later. This appears to be the case of synthetic biology, a new biological science (although some maintain that it is a form of engineering, or treat it as such; Endy, 2005), which seems to have become essential to the understanding of living beings and their extreme manipulation. I believe it to be a new form of biology. In truth, synthetic biology has a long history and, conceptually speaking, may well have formed part of the interests and research efforts of our illustrious predecessors throughout the first half of the twentieth century and even earlier. In any event, and broadly …
Tecnologías de información y contabilidad de gestión: evidencia empírica de la autoridad portuaria de Valencia
2008
Ports that have good geographical location, efficient management and value-added services have potential for international leadership, as is the case with the Valencia Port Authority, which figures prominently in the international ranking of container ports. Information systems should stimulate the curiosity of organizations, facilitate the process of participatory decision-making and enhance the ability of the organization to cope with changes in the environment. Changes occurring in the environment fully affect the organization and therefore its computer systems. Through the study of the Business Intelligence Systems at the Valencia Port Authority, we seek to reaffirm the assumptions of t…
Sine cura. Verso il ri-ciclo dell'architettura del secondo Novecento
2019
Gli argomenti discussi nel saggio interrogano il destino che il Codice dei Beni Culturali (2004- 2011) determina per le opere del secondo Novecento. Nella costruzione del futuro di questi manufatti, che per funzione, tecnologia e cicli d’uso sono spesso segnati dall’obsolescenza e dall’abbandono, le ambiguità e le incongruenze delle attuali procedure legislative sollecitano profondamente il ruolo culturale delle esperienze di ricerca che usano metodologie meta progettuali. Il confronto fra alcuni casi italiani ed altri europei rimarca il ruolo del progetto nella costruzione di una prospettiva di tutela trasformativa per il costruito del secondo Novecento. Nel quadro di azione marcato dall’o…
Le rôle du patrimoine dans le projet urbain et d’architecture Marseille et Tunis, villes de la Méditerranée
2014
Cette travail de recherche porte sur la mise en valeur et la transformation du patrimoine urbain et architectural à travers la pratique du projet urbain dans la ville méditerranéenne. La recherche étudie également la relation qui existe de nos jours entre le patrimoine et la durabilité environnementale, notions qui ne sont plus opposées mais complémentaires, dans une construction réciproque des identités et des différences conduisant à leur redéfinition. Certains projets durables réalisés en Méditerranée, ces dernières années, révèlent une façon inédite de comprendre le développement de la métropole à partir du patrimoine de la ville consolidée, en tant que vecteur mobilisateur de changemen…