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Pathologies Related to Fuel Poverty
No full textForeword
Lucia Ruggeri
The effective enforcement of energy transition is one of the keys to the successful
fight to climate change. The interplay between the sustainable UN Agenda 2030 goals
is a new interesting ground for the development of intersectorial and
multidisciplinary studies.
Thanks to University of Camerino which is focused on the contamination between
different scientific areas and really engaged in strengthening international research, a
group composed by more than forty researchers of ten different nationalities is
studying the energy policies and the new phenomenon of energy prosumerism. This
book is the first direct result of the research activities granted by University of
Camerino under the Programme FAR 2019 in the ECPE Project ‘Enabling Consumer to
become Prosumer in the Energy transition era’ (more details about the project ECPE
are available at https://ecpe.unicam.it/).
The object of this book is to collect and analyze the main barriers to self-consumption
and prosumerism. Difficult as it is to discuss all obstacles in a single volume, the book
focuses on selected barriers which impede the development of new types of fossil free
energy production and consuption.
The energy communities could play a central role in the implementation of the energy
transition strategies, but legal, social, economic, political and cultural barriers can
hinder their spread.
To analyze the barriers and to find how to eliminate the obstacles to energy transition
policies is pivotal to enhance research activities focused on the new EU Regulatory
framework. Most in general it is crucial a multidisciplinary approach focused on the
fight to climate change and the implementation of sustainable development. In this
book are collected several articles which offer a different perspective on the energy
transition barriers form different points of view and under different methodologies.
The book is composed of four parties. The first one is dedicated to the analysis of the
methodology and the results offered by questionnaires supplied online in two
languages (Italian/English). The survey is the basis of the Working Paper which is the
deliverable of the ECPE Work Programme n. 2 and which constitutes the ground for a
discussion into the research group. The second part of the volume collects the
contributions focused on the social and economic barriers to prosumerism, while the
third one is dedicated to a description of failure cases of self consumption
Determination of the muon spectral index between 10 and 150 GeV by end-of-range measurements
No full textThe transparency of the Universe to Very High Energy Photons.
No full textThe detection of the blazar 3C279 at a record distance z=0.54 by
MAGIC, and of other distant blazars by H.E.S.S. and VERITAS, indicate
that the Universe is more transparent to very-high-energy gamma rays
than previously thought on the basis of the estimates of the density
of Extragalactic Background Light.
The physical implications of these measurements will be discussed
Sensitive and reliable gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry assay for ethyl glucuronide in neonatal meconium
No full textPrenatal exposure to maternal ethanol leads to serious physical and mental irreversible disabilities. Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is a direct metabolite of alcohol and its measurement in neonatal meconium has been established as the best biomarker to assess prenatal exposure to social and excessive gestational ethanol. We developed and validated the first gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method to quantify EtG extracted from meconium by a simple solid phase extraction pretreatment. The method was linear from limit of quantification (2 ng/g) to 200 ng/g matrix with good determination coefficient (r2 = 0.99). Recovery of EtG from meconium was always higher than 70% and intra-assay and inter-assay precision and accuracy were always better than 10%. Robustness of the developed GC–MS/MS method was tested by analysing 150 real samples coming from a previous national epidemiological project pre-screened through an ultra-chromatography tandem mass spectrometry assay obtaining a good comparability of results obtained by the two methods
Determination of nine new fentanyl analogues and metabolites in consumers' urine by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
No full textOBJECTIVE: New fentanyl analogues have been constantly emerging into the illegal drug market as cheap substitutes of heroin posing a serious health threat for consumers because of their high toxicity. Analytical methods to disclose the presence of these compounds in biological fluids of intoxicated individuals need to be updated to keep up with the new trends. In this study, we updated an ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography- tandem mass spectrometry method previously developed, for detecting some new fentanyl analogues and metabolites (sufentanil and norsufentanil, cis-3-methylnorfentanyl, trans-3-methylnorfentanyl, metabolites of cis and transmethylfentanyl, beta-phenylfentanyl, phenylfentanyl, para-fluoro furanyl fentanyl, isobutyryl fentanyl and ocfentanil) in urine sample. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Urine samples were simply diluted before injection in the chromatograph equipped with a reversed phase microcolumn. Detection was achieved with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with an electrospray ionization source in positive ion mode and operated in multiple reaction monitoring. RESULTS: The chromatographic separation was short (5 min) and the method was fully validated with a high sensitivity being limits of quantifications from 0.003 to 0.066 μg/L urine for the analytes under investigation. CONCLUSIONS: The suitability of the method was tested with urine specimens from former heroin addicts, which resulted positive by immunological screening to the class of fentanyl analogues. This method represents a valid tool to document recent exposure to the above-reported compounds for clinical and forensic purposes
LISA pathfinder: first step toward a gravitational wave space observatory
No full textWe briefly review the concept of a space-based gravitational wave interferome- ter, and the science it can explore in the milliHertz frequency region. Then we discuss the LISA Pathfinder technology demostrator mission that is currently flying and will soon deliver the first results
The gamma-ray binaries LS 5039, LS I +61 303 and PSR B1259-63
No full text10 pages, 3 figures, proceedings Vulcano workshop (22nd - 27th May, 2006), Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, F. Giovannelli & G. Mannocchi (eds.), Italian Physical Society, Editrice Compositori, Bologna, ItalyThree binaries are now established sources of emission at very high energies (>1e11 eV). They are composed of a massive star and a compact object. The emission can be due to the interaction of the relativistic wind from a young ms pulsar with the stellar wind of the companion, by which rotation-power ends up as non-thermal flux. Variations at VHE energies are explained as due to gamma-gamma absorption and/or changes in shock location along the orbit. Resolved radio emission is due to cooling particles trailing the pulsar
Optimization of a rapid sample pretreatment for the quantification of COC and its main metabolites in hair through a new and validated GC-MS/MS method
No full textWe developed and validated a new rapid and sensitive gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of cocaine and its metabolites benzoylecgonine, norcocaine, ecgonine methyl esther and cocaethylene in hair of consumers. Hair samples were firstly decontaminated with three subsequent dichloromethane washes, then incubated for one hour with M3® buffer to promote analytes solubilization and stabilization and finally solid phase extracted. All extracts were derivatized and injected into GC–MS/MS with electron impact ionization. Multiple Reaction Monitoring was used for the acquisition of characteristic analytes ion transitions reaching a high sensitivity 0.01 ng/mg COC and metabolites limit of quantification. The method was linear in the COC and metabolites calibration ranges (LLOQ-10 ng/mg and LLOQ-1 ng/mg, respectively). Intra-assay and inter-assay precision were always lower than 15 %, accuracy never exceeded ± 6.6 %. The main advantages of the presented method are the fast, simple and innovative pretreatment procedure together with the instrumental sensitivity that allowed to measure also less concentrated metabolites
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