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THE ESCO APPROACH FOR BIOMASS HEATING IN INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL MARKET SEGMENTS: CASE STUDIES IN ITALY
No full textThis paper draws upon work done under the IEE project Biosol-ESCO (2008-11), which investigated ESCO approaches and business models to implement renewable heating projects in the EU. Main technical and non technical barriers towards the implementation of biomass heating schemes by means of the ESCO approach at Italian level are investigated. Moreover, representative case studies in the residential and industrial market segments are compared and discussed. All the case studies are referred to a 6 MWt wood chips fired thermal plant, which is an average size for biomass heating projects. The case study of the industrial sector is based on the quite constant heat demand of a diary firm, while in the residential sector the options to serve a concentrated heat load (hospital) and a number of flats by a district heating network are explored. The further option of coupling an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for the combined production of heat and power is also explored, for each case study. The relevance of the research relies on the assessment of the main bottlenecks towards the development of ESCO business models, and the set up of guidelines for ESCO operators in order to penetrate the markets and boost the diffusion of biomass heating schemes for the most promising end-user categories
An Alternative Implementation Schema for ASSIST parmod
No full textASSIST is a structured parallel programming environment targeting networks/clusters of workstations and grids. It introduced the parmod parallel construct, supporting a variety of parallelism exploitation patterns, including classical ones. The original implementation of parmod relies on static assignment of parallel activities to the processing elements at hand. In this work we discuss an alternative implementation of the parmod construct that implements completely dynamic assignment of parallel activities to the processing elements. We show that the new implementation introduces very limited overhead in case of regular computations, whereas it performs much better than the original one in case of irregular applications. The whole implementation of parmod is available as a C++/MPI library
To be or not to be (a terrorist). Understanding the interplay between EU anti-terrorism legislation and international humanitarian law in light of recent EU case law
No full textThe relationship between International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and European Union legislation on anti-terrorism remains to be fully settled by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In particular, the application of EU anti-terrorism measures to non-State actors that are involved in an armed conflict has given rise to controversy. According to a strict interpretation of the principle of lex specialis, IHL should be regarded as the only set of rules governing the conduct of hostilities. The imposition of economic sanctions against a party to an armed conflict would therefore be incompatible with the said principle. In its LTTE judgment issued in 2014, the General Court rejected this interpretation and decided to uphold the sanctions despite finding that the entity subject to them was involved in an armed conflict. In its recent ruling, A. and Others, the CJEU confirmed the findings of the General Court. This article welcomes the CJEU’s decision insofar as it reaffirmed the distinct purpose of Framework Decisions and Common Positions as separate legal instruments, and the lex specialis relationship of the latter with IHL. Although the CJEU affirms - albeit only indirectly - that IHL is indeed lex specialis in the context of armed conflict, it qualifies that position. The author analyses such qualification, concluding that IHL can only be applied as lex specialis to situations of armed conflict if there is a conflict of norms between anti-terrorism sanctions prescribed by European Union law and IHL itself
La sicurezza nelle piccole industrie di lavorazione del legno. Analisi del rumore nella produzione di imballaggi in legno
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Case C-376/10 P, Pye Phyo Tay Za v. Council, Judgment of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 13 March 2012.
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Sul S. Pantaleo 8 della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma: una miscellanea dantesca di metà Trecento
No full textThe article discusses the MS S. Pantaleo 8, a remarkable collection of Dante’s works now kept at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome. By investigating how the manuscript was prepared, and on the basis of the eight different writings of the scribes who copied the texts, as well as of the work of the three illuminators involved in the decoration of the book, the author suggests that the manuscript might have been copied around the mid-14th century either in eastern Tuscany or in Umbria
Sul S. Pantaleo 8 della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma: una miscellanea dantesca di metà Trecento
No full textThe article discusses the MS S. Pantaleo 8, a remarkable collection of Dante’s works now
kept at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome. By investigating how the manuscript
was prepared, and on the basis of the eight different writings of the scribes who copied
the texts, as well as of the work of the three illuminators involved in the decoration of the
book, the author suggests that the manuscript might have been copied around the mid-14th
century either in eastern Tuscany or in Umbria
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