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Product Environmental Footprint Pilot Study - Parmigiano Reggiano stagionato grattugiato fresco in buste da 500 g
No full textQuesto studio rappresenta un output richiesto dall’azione B2 del progetto LIFE EFFIGE (Environmental Footprint For Improving and Growing Eco-efficiency), finanziato dal Programma LIFE, e finalizzato a sperimentare in 4 settori produttivi (fonderie, legno arredo, agroalimentare e servizio di ristorazione) l’adozione della PEF (Product Environmental Footprint), un metodo di calcolo dell’impronta ambientale di prodotti e servizi promosso dalla Commissione Europea con la Raccomandazione 179/2013. Il presente rapporto contiene lo studio pilota di Product Environmental Footprint sulla produzione di Parmigiano Reggiano stagionato grattugiato fresco, confezionato in buste di poliaccoppiato da 500 g, condotto dal Laboratorio RISE (SSPT-USER-RISE) in collaborazione con Parmareggio S.p.A e seguendo le indicazioni riportate nella PEFCR for Dairy Products – versione 1.0, nella guida sulla PEF (allegato II della Raccomandazione 213/179/UE) e nella PEFCR Guidance – versione 6.3
A bridge between CAD and LCA to optimise the life cycle inventory phase
No full textHaving environmental indications such as those provided by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), while designing a product would reduce the time required by the trial-and-error approach resulting from environmental checks only at the end of the process, directing the development towards more sustainable solutions from the beginning. To achieve this, the design and environmental analysis should be more integrated, as well as the respective tools. The project idea discussed in this paper aims to overcome this barrier by defining an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) structure designed to carry Life Cycle Inventory data from Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools to Life Cycle Assessment tool. The idea is to exploit overlapping data between the CAD system and LCA instruments, which are currently not being considered. This process will contribute to the reduction of time required for data input and the amount of mistakes. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) study of contracted supply service for school meals
No full textLo studio di Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) presentato in questo documento è stato svolto nell’ambito del progetto LIFE EFFIGE. Oggetto dello studio è un prodotto virtuale definito a partire dal caso studio CAMST e rappresentativo, per gli aspetti tecnologici e organizzativi, della fornitura pasti scolastici in Italia. Questo studio è alla base delle PEF Category Rules (PEFCR) relative ai servizi mensa scolastica appaltati, documento prodotto da ENEA nell’ambito del progetto. Il documento contiene una descrizione dettagliata dell’inventario e i risultati di valutazione di impatto relativi alla fornitura di 200 pasti scolastici
Analysis and exploitation of resource efficiency potentials in industrial small and medium-sized enterprises – Experiences with the EDIT Value Tool in Central Europe
No full textMaterial and energy costs represent about 50% of the operating costs incurred by European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although the potential for resource efficiency improvements is high, the necessary awareness and human resource capacities to explore this potential are limited. Existing tools for exploration of resource efficiency improvement potentials have several shortcomings: they are either tool-driven, of a solely qualitative nature or do not address all levels of a business. Users of such tools therefore miss important improvement opportunities. In order to overcome these limitations and to systematically identify, quantify and fully explore resource efficiency improvement potentials, an international team developed and tested a new comprehensive, needs-driven and quantitative diagnosis tool named the ‘EDIT Value Tool.’ This tool can be used to perform initial diagnoses for companies. The EDIT Value Tool was piloted in eighteen manufacturing SMEs in six Central European countries. Evaluation of the test results showed that the tool is effective in helping company personnel to identify the main weaknesses and the potentials for company improvements. The tool achieves this by evaluating a business's characteristics: its stakeholder values, the corporate strategy to implement its mission and vision, assessment of the effectivity of the company's management systems, processes and products. The benefits of using the EDIT Value Tool that were of most benefit to the companies were the proposed changes to corporate technology and management. The collection of quantitative and qualitative data helped company personnel to develop new perspectives on how to monitor and to improve resource efficiency and to increase awareness of and commitment to more sustainable manufacturing systems. © 2017 Elsevier Lt
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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