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Tectonic Sustainable Building Design for the Development of Renovation Scenarios – Analysis of ten European renovation research projects

2018

The investigation of 10 European building renovation research projects presented in this paper demonstrates that recent research in this field is currently centralized around quantifiable objectives i.e. development of energy efficient renovation scenarios, whereas the more qualitative objectives in renovation projects such as aesthetics, identity and/or social dimensions are rarely addressed. Furthermore, the result of this investigation together with the recent researches about the current practice of building renovation indicates that many of renovated buildings, which now are claimed to be sustainable are not addressing all aspects of a conventional definition of sustainability. Lastly,…

Tectonics; Sustainability; Design methodology; Building renovation; Renovation scenarios Tectonic Sustainable Building Design (TSBD)Renovation scenarios Tectonic Sustainable Building Design (TSBD)SustainabilityDesign methodologySettore ICAR/10 - Architettura TecnicaTectonicBuilding renovation
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Sähköä ja alkemiaa: Tekoälydiskurssit Yleisradion verkkoartikkeleissa

2021

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelemme sitä, millaisena ja miten tekoäly esitetään suomalaisessa julkisessa keskustelussa, ja ketkä tekoälystä suurelle yleisölle kertovat. Aineistona olemme käyttäneet Yleisradion verkkosivujen tekoälyä käsitteleviä artikkeleja. Tulosten perusteella tekoälystä pääsevät kertomaan useimmin talouden ja teollisuuden aloilla työskentelevät miehet. Aineistossa esiintyneet tekoälytulevaisuuskuvaukset pitäytyvät pitkälti nykyisen länsikeskeisen kapitalistisen maailmankuvan sisällä. Toisin sanoen, ne eivät haastaneet tai ylittäneet vallitsevaa status quoa, vaan näkivät tulevaisuuden pikemminkin lineaarisena kehityksenä nykytilasta. Aiemman tutkimuksen perusteella yleinen k…

The Finnish Public Service Media CompanyuutisointiH1-99julkinen keskustelufuture scenariosCommunication. Mass mediatekoälyartificial intelligenceYleskenaariotdiskurssintutkimusP87-96Journalism. The periodical press etc.PN4699-5650Teemanumero: Tiedon politiikatSocial sciences (General)Yleisradiomachine learningpublic discussionkoneoppiminennewstulevaisuusdiscourse researchMedia & viestintä
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Abitare nel reale. Dalla crisi della periferia alla tessitura di nuove relazioni contestuali

2019

I progetti redatti per “Palermo Sud-Est” sono il risultato di un Laboratorio di Laurea strutturatosi attraverso incontri, seminari, comunicazioni specialistiche, esposizioni critiche, che – in una strategia condivisa – ha visto ogni studente elaborare il proprio lavoro nel confronto con gli altri attori del Laboratorio stesso. La ricerca sui “progetti urbani” è stata impostata di modo che ogni laureando fosse messo a conoscenza dei progetti svolti nello stesso ambito territoriale dai colleghi che l’avevano preceduto, così da poter operare in continuità e contribuire a formulare un ragionamento unitario, nel quale ogni progetto costituisse continuazione, verifica o anche variante dei precede…

The projects prepared for "Palermo South-East" are the result of a Graduate Laboratory structured through meetings seminars specialist communications critical exhibitions which - in a shared strategy - saw each student elaborate their work in comparison with others actors of the same Laboratory. The research on "urban projects" was set so that each graduating student was made aware of the projects carried out in the same geographical area by the colleagues who had preceded it so as to be able to operate in continuity and contribute to formulating a unitary reasoning in which each project constituted continuation verification or even variant of the previous ones. These coordinated works have pursued two fundamental objectives: the strengthening of infrastructures and the establishment of specialized public buildings with superior functions aimed at requalifying and regenerating various critical situations with particular attention to the relationship between context and life scenarios. Thus each designer while dealing with a main functional program simultaneously deals with various issues such as the rationalization of the road system the redevelopment of existing buildings the design and refunctionalization of urban services (for example the transformed Central Station in the hotel or the project of a great Mosque)several degree theses have addressed as the main theme or as a question in the background the design of a new bed for the Oreto river and the relative establishment of a park facing it. In this desire to "patch up the wounds" in the different areas of "Palermo South-East" in close relationship with the vicissitudes of the place there is a continuous reference to architectures of all time and some questions involving the functional program are suggested - that identifies the character (or perhaps "type") of what is to be inserted in a given context - and the qualities of living reality as a pivotal material in the design process.Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
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Effects of simulated environmental changes on growth and growth form in a late snowbed population of pohlia wahlenbergii (Web. et Mohr) Andr

2003

In a factorial field experiment we increased the temperature (Open Top Chambers) and nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium [NPK]) to simulate predicted future climate changes and studied the growth response of the acrocarpous bryophyte Pohlia wahlenbergii (Bryaceae) in a wet snowbed environment. The species shows a positive growth-length response to added nutrients and increased temperature. The stronger response to nutrients indicates a strong limitation of nutrients in the snowbed environment. There was an immediate response to nutrient treatment, whereas the temperature response was delayed. The growth response shows a clear interaction between temperature and nutrients. The imm…

VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Ecology: 488Global and Planetary Changeeducation.field_of_studyEcologyVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Plant physiology: 492Field experimentPhosphorusPopulationchemistry.chemical_element:Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 [VDP]NutrientchemistryClimate change scenarioEnvironmental scienceBryophytePrecipitationeducationMeltwaterEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsEarth-Surface Processes
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Visualizations for Decision Support in Scenario-based Multiobjective Optimization

2021

Reproducibility artifacts for: Babooshka Shavazipour, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Kaisa Miettinen. Visualizations for Decision Support in Scenario-based Multiobjective Optimization. Information Sciences, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2021.07.025. Abstract: We address challenges of decision problems when managers need to optimize several conflicting objectives simultaneously under uncertainty. We propose visualization tools to support the solution of such scenario-based multiobjective optimization problems. Suitable graphical visualizations are necessary to support managers in understanding, evaluating, and comparing the performances of management decisions according to all objec…

Visualization methodshaasteet (ongelmat)Decision support systemInformation Systems and ManagementComputer sciencevisualisointipäätöksentekoEmpirical attainment functionMachine learningcomputer.software_genreMulti-objective optimizationScenario planningTheoretical Computer ScienceConflicting objectivesoptimointiArtificial IntelligenceScenario-based multi-criteria optimizationMulti-dimensional visualizationMCDMScenario basedbusiness.industryUncertaintyExtension (predicate logic)Decision problemskenaariotmonitavoiteoptimointiComputer Science ApplicationsVisualizationControl and Systems EngineeringArtificial intelligencemallit (mallintaminen)businesscomputerSoftware
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Stochastic debt sustainability analysis for sovereigns and the scope for optimization modeling

2017

We argue that sovereign debt sustainability analysis must be augmented by stochastic correlated risk factors and a risk measure to capture tail effects. Crisis situations can thus be adequately specified and analyzed with sufficient accuracy to warrant the relevance of policy decisions. In this context there is significant scope for optimization modeling for both strategic planning and operational management. We discuss diverse aspects of the problem of debt sustainability and highlight modeling approaches that can be brought to bear on the problem. Results with the fictitious, but nor unrealistic, Kingdom of Atlantis, which is sinking under excessive debt, illustrate the proposed models.

WarrantStrategic planningControl and OptimizationActuarial scienceScope (project management)050204 development studiesMechanical Engineeringmedia_common.quotation_subjectRisk measure05 social sciencesAerospace EngineeringContext (language use)Financial engineeringRisk analysis (engineering)Settore SECS-S/06 -Metodi Mat. dell'Economia e d. Scienze Attuariali e Finanz.Sovereign debtDebt restructuringRestructuringSustainabilityScenariosPortfolio optimizationCVaRDebt0502 economics and businessSustainabilityEconomics050207 economicsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSoftwareCivil and Structural Engineeringmedia_commonOptimization and Engineering
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Energy, water and environmental balance of a complex water supply system

2015

The present paper describes the analysis of water and energy balance in a complex urban water supply system. The analysis was carried out employing Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodologies. The LCA approach was integrated with the analysis of the system energy and water balance. For a real size water supply system, based on the results of the individual LCAs, the current baseline was constructed highlighting the water, energy and environmental (in terms of CO2eq emissions in the atmosphere) costs of supplied water. Then, three different mitigation measures have been evaluated: the first is based on energy production by installation of photovoltaic systems; the second is based on energy recov…

Water resourcesEnergy recoveryWater conservationWater balancelife cycle assessment scenario analysis potable water supply sanitation urban water systemsbusiness.industryPhotovoltaic systemEnergy balanceEnvironmental engineeringWater supplyEnvironmental sciencebusinessLife-cycle assessmentWIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
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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…

Within this framework Palermo and its historic center are no exception. The epicenter of these processes is represented here by the Kalsa district which since the early 2000s has been placed at the center of a precise strategy of culturally-based renewal called to drive the city's tourist renaissance (Vinci 2008). The culmination of this path came in 2018 when Palermo was named the Italian capital of culture and chosen as the venue for Manifesta one of the most prestigious traveling biennales of contemporary art. However the exponential increase in tourist arrivals in the last three years came to a halt with the outbreak of the pandemic which showed with unprecedented evidence the contradictions of the development strategies pursued in the historic center and the marks they leave on the territories. While this sudden interruption seems to offer an opportunity to radically rethink urban and cultural policies and find new curbs to the conditions of overtourism in which the historic centers of South European cities and beyond find themselves it could also prove to be an accelerator of the dynamics of commodification of these spaces representing the revival of tourism an easy escape route in times of crisis. The objective of this contribution is to critically explore the urban and social transformations that have crossed the Kalsa district of Palermo from the 2000s to the present using qualitative and quantitative techniques (analysis of statistical data in-depth interviews critical discourse analysis ...) with particular reference to the role that culture has played in these processes. While it is impossible to prefigure post-pandemic scenarios we will examine documents and discourses that trace possible development directions for South European cities and their historic centers.Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
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How could hydro-climatic conditions evolve in the long term in West Africa? The case study of the Bani River catchment

2011

International audience; This paper assesses the future variability of water resources in the long term over a large Sudano- Sahelian catchment in West Africa. Flow simulations were performed with a daily conceptual model. The climate models HadCM3 and MPI-M (based on SRES-A2) were used to provide future climate scenarios over the catchment. Outputs from these models were used to generate daily rainfall and temperature series for the 21st century according to: (i) application of the unbias and delta methods, and (ii) spatial and temporal downscaling. A temperature-based formula was used to calculate present and future potential evapotranspiration (PE). The daily rainfall and PE series were i…

[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes[ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes[SDU.STU.CL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global ChangesWest Africahydro-climatic variabilityRiver Baniclimatic scenarios[ SDU.STU.CL ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatologyhydrological modelling
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Ex Ante evaluation of gene flow in oilseed rape with cropping system models

2013

Chapitre 4; Oilseed rape (OSR) genes can escape fields in space via pollen and seeds, and in time via volunteers resulting from seeds lost before or during oilseed rape harvest. When varieties co-exist, e.g. genetically-modified (GM) and non-GM varieties, this spatio-temporal gene flow can lead to the adventitious presence of GM seeds in non-GM harvests and thus cause financial losses for farmers and cooperatives. Gene flow depends on crop locations, succession, and management, as well as the location and management of semi-natural areas such as roadverges. The objective of this investigation was to present a simulation methodology using the spatially-explicit cropping system model GENESYS …

[SDE] Environmental Sciencesmodelcropping system modeloilseed rapegenesysrisk analysis[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]interactionlandscapecropping systemlabelling threshold[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]prospective scenariosvolunteers[SDE]Environmental Sciencesex ante evaluation[SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology[SDV.BV] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biologygene flow
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