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Organy w kościele Świętego Krzyża w Bytomiu-Miechowicach. Historia i koncepcja rekonstrukcji
2018
Th article describes the history of organs in the noble Church of the Holy Cross in BytomMiechowice. Th largest amount of information has been preserved about the instrument built in 1905 by the Schlag und Söhne company from Świdnica. Ths organ was dismantled in the 1960s due to heavy mining damage and was later replaced by a temporary instrument. However, work is currently underway on the renovation of the temple. A proposal to recreate the historical organ is among the plans and is included in the ongoing design work.
Scope-Oriented Thermoeconomic analysis of energy systems. Part I: Looking for a non-postulated cost accounting for the dissipative devices of a vapou…
2010
Abstract The authors of the main thermoeconomic methodologies developed in the last two decades have recently focused their efforts on the analysis of dissipative devices, i.e. those components whose productive purpose is neither intuitive nor easy to define. Coherent and unanimously accepted cost structures have been identified for dissipative components, while ambiguities still exist as concerns the cost allocation principles to be adopted. Being this aspect evidently cost-influencing, accurate analyses focused on the subjectivity of results are needed. This paper is structured in two parts. In the Part I an in-depth study of some critical issues arising from the thermoeconomic analysis o…
Olleros, alfareros y fabricantes de loza en Ribesalbes, entre 1742 y 1817
2012
El desarrollo de la tradición alfarera en Ribesalbes, y el posterior establecimiento de las primeras fábricas de loza, a finales del siglo XVIII, viene determinado por los condicionantes naturales e históricos de la villa; así como por la influencia decisiva de la Real Manufactura del conde de Aranda, en la vecina población de L’Alcora. En este trabajo, a partir de diversas fuentes documentales primarias, entre las que cabe destacar los libros sacramentales del Archivo Parroquial de Ribesalbes, y la Contribución general de 1817, se constata la presencia de olleros en la Baronía, a principios del siglo XVIII. Se determinan también los nombres de algunos alfareros, registrados en los albores …
Optimistic NAUTILUS navigator for multiobjective optimization with costly function evaluations
2022
AbstractWe introduce novel concepts to solve multiobjective optimization problems involving (computationally) expensive function evaluations and propose a new interactive method called O-NAUTILUS. It combines ideas of trade-off free search and navigation (where a decision maker sees changes in objective function values in real time) and extends the NAUTILUS Navigator method to surrogate-assisted optimization. Importantly, it utilizes uncertainty quantification from surrogate models like Kriging or properties like Lipschitz continuity to approximate a so-called optimistic Pareto optimal set. This enables the decision maker to search in unexplored parts of the Pareto optimal set and requires …
Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes
2022
Background Vaccination against the coronavirus disease (SARS-CoV-2) is understood to be the key way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Limited evidence exists on the determinants of vaccine rollouts and their health effects at the country level. Objective Examine the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. Methods Ordinary least squares regressions with standard errors clustered at the country level for Cross-section and Panel daily data of vaccinations and various health outcomes (new COVID-19 cases, fatalities, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions) for an unbalanced sample of about 200 countries during the period 16 December 2020 to 20 June 2021. Results…
Recommendations for ecotoxicity testing with stygobiotic species in the framework of groundwater environmental risk assessment.
2019
As a consequence of the growing global dependence on groundwater resources, environmental risk assessments (ERA) for groundwater are increasingly required and, with that, ecotoxicological studies with groundwater fauna (stygofauna). However, the literature on the ecotoxicological studies with stygobiotic species (i.e. species that complete their life cycle exclusively in groundwater) has not expanded significantly since the first paper published in this field. The limitations regarding the use of stygobiotic species for ecotoxicological testing are clear and consistent across the globe; stygobiotic species are often 1) naturally present in low numbers, 2) difficult to collect, and 3) diffic…
Assessing the Performance of Interactive Multiobjective Optimization Methods
2021
Interactive methods are useful decision-making tools for multiobjective optimization problems, because they allow a decision-maker to provide her/his preference information iteratively in a comfortable way at the same time as (s)he learns about all different aspects of the problem. A wide variety of interactive methods is nowadays available, and they differ from each other in both technical aspects and type of preference information employed. Therefore, assessing the performance of interactive methods can help users to choose the most appropriate one for a given problem. This is a challenging task, which has been tackled from different perspectives in the published literature. We present a …
Artigianato e Design. Antiche tradizioni e nuove opportunità
2018
Il forte interesse intorno alle arti applicate, che si registra in continua crescita, testimoniato da una rinnovata attenzione di alcune istituzioni e il fiorire di associazioni, di gruppi di lavoro, cooperative e varie aggregazioni finalizzate a ridare valore ed importanza alla cultura del fare, fanno ben sperare per il futuro. Questo rinnovato interesse verso la cultura del fare conferma che siamo di fronte ad un vero fenomeno nuovo e ad una attenzione da parte del designer verso l’arte, verso le nuove materie, verso le nuove tecniche -povere o ricche che siano - verso i sistemi di autoproduzione. Se prima il design doveva rispondere alla necessità sociale di avere prodotti di serie, este…
Open design. Pratiche di progetto e processi di conoscenza
2013
In un momento caratterizzato da una profonda crisi di sistema, che investe l’economia e gli assetti produttivi ma anche identità e valori, si moltiplicano le riflessioni e le posizioni che indicano nel ritorno ad una rinnovata dimensione del fare una via possibile per riavviare processi economici innovativi, che ridiano centralità alle persone e alle comunità. Recuperare il “saper fare” artigianale, al tempo dell’intelligenza collettiva e connettiva, dell’internet delle cose, dell’open source e dei fablab, può essere occasione di rinascita economica e sociale, individuale e collettiva, di più generazioni di progettisti e innovatori, minacciati negli ultimi anni dallo “spettro dell’inutilità…
I Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa di Palermo. Strategie e azioni per un modello di innovazione culturale
2016
Il saggio descrive gli esiti di una ricerca su una area strategica della città di Palermo - un tempo importante area industriale dei mobilieri Ducrot e del design di Basile - oggi adibita a cittadella della cultura. La ricerca affronta i temi della trasformazione architettonica dei padiglioni industriali in spazi per la produzione artistica e culturale, nonché quelli delle nuove relazioni che l'area può istituire con la città. Il saggio esplora gli aspetti della cultura materiale ed immateriale come un unico patrimonio che nutre e istruisce il progetto di architettura e di design e riflette sulle pratiche innovative e sul ruolo della partecipazione attiva degli artisti e degli attori cultur…