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Un amico ha fatto questo. Simone Weil e l'amicizia eretica

2019

Pure friendship as an implicit form of God’s love is the one in which we observe the freedom of man to choose bonds that do not have the defective character of need and necessity. The reflection of God’s love in a man capable of such freedom puts man himself in a position to be master of his own field and to keep the tares so as not to damage wheat until the time of harvest. Until the moment in which love is recognized the search for a good that coincides with that of the other and that does not know restrictions and limitations of freedom.

Rapid Catalytic Water Disinfection from Earth Abundant Ca 2 Fe 2 O 5 Brownmillerite

2021

Water disinfection is a crucial challenge for humanity. Approaches that are effective, cheap, environmentally friendly, and do not promote gene exchange between bacteria are urgently required. Strongly oxidizing radicals are highly promising to achieve this as they lead to bacterial activation at high efficiencies. However, sources to consistently generate these radicals are limited to high energy UV/H2O2 treatments requiring a large energy input. Here the use of abundant, cheap, brownmillerite (Ca2Fe2O5) is demonstrated as an efficient radical generation material under dark conditions, showing a seven order of magnitude decrease in bacterial concentration over 10 min. This decrease is attr…

On the Influence of the Evaluation Methods in Conjoint Design — Some Empirical Results

2000

It is the goal of conjoint analysis to explain and predict preferences of customers (Schweikl 1985). Variants of predefined manifestations of attributes of various product concepts (both real and hypothetical) are created, and these are presented to test persons for evaluation. The contributions (partial benefits) the various attributes make to overall preference (overall benefit) are estimated on the basis of overall preference judgments (Green and Srinivasan 1978).

Les visages de l'amitié dans "Les Rougon-Macquart" d'Émile Zola

2017

Within the twenty volumes of Emile Zolas Les Rougon-Macąuart series, a number of various examples of friendship can be found. This relationship, which may be true or false, is based on diverse principles and is likely to appear as well inside a group of people as between two persons - two men, two women or a man and a woman. Sometimes it turns into a love alliance, and sometimes it disappears completely, but it is always considered as a crucial part of the diegesis.

Glucose as an Eco‐Friendly Reductant in a One‐Pot Synthesis of 2,3‐Dihydroquinazolin‐4(1 H )‐ones

2020

Performance Evaluation of a new Adaptive Packet Marking Scheme for TCP over DiffServ Networks

2004

In differentiated services (DiffServ) networks, packets may receive a different treatment according to their differentiated services code point (DSCP) label. As a consequence, packet marking schemes can be devised to differentiate packets belonging to the same TCP flow, with the goal of improving the experienced performance. The paper presents an extensive performance evaluation of a new adaptive packet marking scheme, applied to a traffic scenario composed of TCP flows with different lengths. The proposed marking scheme is most efficient when applied to a scenario composed of all long-lived flows. In a realistic mixed traffic scenario, composed of both long-lived and short-lived TCP flows,…

Insulating Building Components Made from a Mixture of Waste and Vegetal Materials: Thermal Characterization of Nine New Products

2021

Nowadays, energy efficiency and sustainability are the fulcra of building policies. These policies promote the use of new technologies and materials that can reduce the primary energy involved and the environmental costs of construction, guarantying at the same time a high level of comfort for the building’s occupants. Synergy between previous construction techniques and the use of new materials should be pursued by employing materials with a low environmental impact and optimal thermal insulation properties. Within this framework, new materials derived from the agriculture sector, and waste or recycling products from the industrial/agricultural sectors have been studied. The aim of this pa…

Towards the implementation of circular economy in the water softening industry: A technical, economic and environmental analysis

2020

Abstract To reduce the environmental impact of the industrial sectors, circular strategies should be implemented to purify the effluents and recover raw materials. In this context, a novel integrated methodological approach is proposed to identify the most suitable strategy to improve the sustainability of the water softening industry via the treatment and recycling of the produced wastewater. Different concentration technologies and energy supply systems are compared to find economically feasible and environmentally friendly treatment systems. The investigated chains present the same pre-treatment step (nanofiltration and crystallization) and different concentration technologies: Multi-Eff…

A User-Friendly Interface for Fingerprint Recognition Systems Based on Natural Language Processing

2009

Biometric recognition systems represent a valid solution to the safety problem of internet accessibility, even if they do not always provide an environment easily comprehensible by users and operators with a mid-level of competence. This gap can be partially filled if, instead of using the conventional access routines to the authentication system, the user could simply write to the system through the interface and using high level sentences and requests be able to use its own natural language to reach the intended goal. On the other hand, biometrics features are widely used for recognition and identification all over the world, generating large databases. In this paper a user-friendly inter…

Riflessioni a margine dell’ordinanza cautelare del 26 novembre 2021 del Tribunale di Gorizia: greenwashing tra concorrenza sleale e diritto del consu…

2022

La pubblicizzazione sul mercato di prodotti ecofriendly non di rado si è rivelata frutto di pratiche scorrette di c.d. greenwashing, ciò consistendo in ipotesi di concorrenza sleale capaci di alterare i sistemi competitivi del libero mercato e ledere il diritto dei consumatori all’acquisto consapevole. Simili atti sono oggi sanzionati ricorrendo ad inibitorie e a comunicazioni pubbliche in cui l’impresa infedele informa i propri consumatori circa l’ingannevolezza dei comportamenti posti in essere. In tale ambito, che in primo luogo interessa il settore agroalimentare, si inserisce l’ordinanza cautelare del 26 novembre 2021 del Tribunale di Gorizia. Il ricorso a disciplinari di produzione ba…