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Smart renewable generation for an islanded system. Technical and economic issues of future scenarios

2012

The subject addressed in this paper is the analytical study of the transition of an energy generation system for a real MV/LV distribution system from one that is “fuel-based” to a distributed and smart “renewables-based” system. The paper outlines both the technical and the economic issues related to such a transition from one type of system to the other. The study is carried out for a real islanded network located in the Island of Pantelleria (Mediterranean Sea). The results obtained are presented and discussed, putting into evidence the technical, environmental and economic benefits of using smart technologies and renewable energy sources.

Engineeringbusiness.industryMechanical EngineeringEnvironmental resource managementBuilding and ConstructionEnvironmental economicsSmart grids Distributed generation Renewable energy Energy scenarios Distribution systemsPollutionEconomic benefitsIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringRenewable energySettore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaDistribution systemGeneral EnergyElectricity generationSmart gridDistributed generationRenewable generationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringbusinessSettore ING-INF/07 - Misure Elettriche E ElettronicheCivil and Structural EngineeringEnergy
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El cuerpo materno en la red: entre el orden de lo ?deseable? y el de lo real

2019

El estilo de vida fitness se realiza en, y a través de, un entramado subjetivo y de poder en el que circulan y se ensamblan dispositivos empresariales, terapéuticos, sanitarios y de espectacularización de los cuerpos, tendientes a inscribir la vida de la población en las tramas conflictivas de un capitalismo heterosexista, neoliberal e informacional. En dicho marco, la temporalidad, metamorfosis y plasticidad del cuerpo materno irrumpe como problema y objeto de intervención de tecnologías diversas orientadas a ajustar su tamaño, forma y devenir a los parámetros de la vida activa y saludable. En escenarios digitales, dicha tensión se materializa, por un lado, a través de dispositivos visuale…

fitmomsanitaryproductivitythis tension is performedmaternidadesentre el orden de lo ?deseable? y el de lo real Landa [1137-7038 8537 Arxius de sociologia 558787 2019 41 7605686 El cuerpo materno en la red]tending to inscribe the life of the population in the conflictive plots of a heterosexistdispositive 135 156focusing mainly on the differences between a body that is presented as a fictional adaptation to the order of the ?desirable? and another that intends to make visible the constitutive vulnerability of the maternal process. The analysis shows how the management and exhibition of the maternal body in the net is marked by the imperatives of healthNúria The fitness lifestyle is carried out in and through a subjective and power framework in which businessMaría Inésembodied hyperbolically in the figure of the fit mom. And on the other handdispositivoUNESCO::SOCIOLOGÍAmaternidadmothers who question the hegemonic ?desirable? maternal figures in the digital scenario through exhibition of the realness of ther bodies and images of and ?self-acceptance?. The paper explores images and narratives in these two positions1137-7038 8537 Arxius de sociologia 558787 2019 41 7605686 El cuerpo materno en la red: entre el orden de lo ?deseable? y el de lo real Landa//purl.org/becyt/ford/5 [https]cuerpos realeshealth:SOCIOLOGÍA [UNESCO]bodymaternityand body spectacularization dispositifs circulate and are assembledas well as those of authenticity and extimacy cuerpofitnessCalafell Salatherapeuticand plasticity of the mother?s body arises as a problem and the object of the intervention of diverse technologies aimed at adjusting its size and shape to the parameters of an active and healthy life. In digital scenariossaludthrough visual and discursive dispositifs that promote the ideal of fitnessneoliberal and informational capitalism. Within this frameworkredes socialesthe temporalityand performance//purl.org/becyt/ford/5.8 [https]mutationon the one hand
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Recent climate change affecting rainstorm occurrences? A case study in East China

2008

The paper aims to investigate the occurrences of rainstorms and their relationship with the climate change scenario. The study period under investigation refers to the period of greatest recent warming between 1976–2000 whereas the study area covers China east of 105 E longitude. This region is commonly considered to be controlled by the monsoon type of climate over East Asia. <br><br> Positive (increasing) trends of rainstorm occurrences, both in annual and summer respects, have been shown for subtropical China whereas a non-uniform picture is associated with temperate China. The increase of rainstorms in subtropical China corresponds with an increasing trend of precipitation. …

lcsh:GE1-350Global and Planetary Changelcsh:Environmental protectionStratigraphyPaleontologyClimate changeMonsoon[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environmentExtreme weatherGeographylcsh:Environmental pollutionClimatologylcsh:TD172-193.5Climate change scenarioTemperate climate[SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Scienceslcsh:TD169-171.8East AsiaPrecipitationChinalcsh:Environmental sciences
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Energy Performance and Indoor Comfort of a 1930s Italian School Building: A case study

2021

Reducing energy consumption in the building tertiary sector, which accounts for a big share of the total energy use (and related CO 2 emissions) at European and Italian level, represent a strong element of safety for the EU-28. On the other hand, it is important to improve the, often overlooked, indoor comfort conditions of Italian schools since they have a significant impact on the well-being, productivity, health and safety of their occupants. Thus, it is appropriate to take into account the combination of both needs, also in light of the climate change scenario, in order to identify adequate improvement measures and justify such economic investment. This paper brings a contribution to th…

SchoolBuilding Simulationbusiness.industryEnergy EfficiencyEnergy consumptionEnvironmental economicsInvestment (macroeconomics)language.human_languageOccupational safety and healthIndoor Environmental QualityThermal ComfortOrder (exchange)Climate change scenariolanguageBuilding RetrofitbusinessSicilianProductivityTertiary sector of the economy
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A Risk Scenario for Small Businesses in Hurricane Sandy Type Disasters

2017

Risk scenario060106 history of social sciencesbusiness.industryComputer scienceEnvironmental resource management0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering020201 artificial intelligence & image processing0601 history and archaeologyCross impact analysis06 humanities and the arts02 engineering and technologyBusiness continuity planningbusinessProceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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Convivere con le emergenze. Design e nuovi scenari domestici

2023

The contribution leads a reflection around the physical-relational processes that have always characterized the domestic interior and that the recent state of health emergency Covid-19 (and the even more recent Russian-Ukrainian war conflict) has catalysed and accentuated, if not exasperated, offering new complex and sometimes contradictory visions. The contribution points to focus on new meanings and new projections, in terms of interactions and relationships, assumed by the consolidated physical-cultural criteria of proximity/remoteness, familiarity/foreignness, inside/outside. Within these profound transformations, an opportunity and a new role are looming for the disciplines of design. …

Flexible design domestic scenarios emergencies object systems environmental devicesSettore ICAR/13 - Disegno Industriale
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Environmental Modelling of Forest Vegetation Zones as A Support Tool for Sustainable Management of Central European Spruce Forests

2018

Abstract The impact of climate change on forest ecosystems may manifest itself by a shift in forest vegetation zones in the landscape northward and into higher elevations. Studies of climate change-induced vegetation zone shifts in forest ecosystems have been relatively rare in the context of European temperate zone (apart from Alpine regions). The presented paper outlines the results of a biogeographic model of climatic conditions in forest vegetation zones applied in the Central European landscape. The objective of the study is a prediction of future silvicultural conditions for the Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.), which is one of the principal tree species within European forests. …

0106 biological sciencesbiogeographic modelEnvironmental modelling010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesEcologyAgroforestryforest vegetation zonesEcology (disciplines)regional scenario of changes in climatic conditionsManagement Monitoring Policy and Law01 natural sciencesGeographySustainable managementForest vegetationAdaptive managementQH540-549.5010606 plant biology & botany0105 earth and related environmental sciencesNature and Landscape ConservationJournal of Landscape Ecology(Czech Republic)
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Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants.

2020

Abstract This paper presents the sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of a plant-wide mathematical model for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The mathematical model assesses direct and indirect (due to the energy consumption) greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from a WWTP employing a whole-plant approach. The model includes: i) the kinetic/mass-balance based model regarding nitrogen; ii) two-step nitrification process; iii) N2O formation both during nitrification and denitrification (as dissolved and off-gas concentration). Important model factors have been selected by using the Extended-Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Testing (FAST) global sensitivity analysis method. A scenario analysis h…

Environmental EngineeringNitrogen0208 environmental biotechnology02 engineering and technology010501 environmental sciencesWastewater01 natural sciencesWaste Disposal FluidGreenhouse gas emissionModellingGreenhouse GasesWaste WaterScenario analysisEffluentUncertainty analysis0105 earth and related environmental sciencesWater Science and TechnologyBiological Oxygen Demand AnalysisEnergy demandSettore ICAR/03 - Ingegneria Sanitaria-AmbientaleChemical oxygen demandEnvironmental engineeringUncertainty020801 environmental engineeringWastewaterGreenhouse gasEnvironmental scienceNitrificationPlant-wide assessmentWaste disposalWater science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
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HR scenario game : Learning human resource management in a virtual environment

2021

This paper introduces a computer-based online scenario game that was developed to enhance the learning of human resource management (HRM) in an undergraduate course at a business school in Finland. What makes this game unique is that students played an important and active role in developing the game in collaboration with lecturers. Our findings show that the game enhances learning, interaction, and collaboration among students. We discuss how computer-based games and their development in collaboration with students can be used as a means for learning and improving working-life skills in higher education.

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