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City-zen: New Urban Energy: Nicosia 'City-zen Roadshow' REPORT
No full textThe City-zen Roadshow travels with a team of internationally recognized experts, in the field of energy planning and design to help develop a sustainable agenda for cities and their neighbourhoods. The Roadshow visited 9 cities in total over a 5-year period who sort expert guidance on how to become more sustainable and wish to move towards energy neutrality. The overall aim of the Roadshow team was to work closely with people from the hosting city, whether they be city leaders, energy planners, local architect, professionals, academics, students and citizens. In Nicosia, the Roadshow spent 8 days delivering energy and urban design fun-shops to local stakeholders in order to encourage city participation and to take ownership of the final outcomes. Outcomes that will allow the cities resources, both people and energy, to be directed effectively, by highlighting the energy challenges and potentials to be found in their neighbourhoods, and to finally present a sustainable ‘City Vision’. The following report describes the activities and outcomes of the City-zen Nicosia Roadshow that took place in Cyprus between the 8th to 15th of May 2019.The Nicosia Roadshow would not have been possible without the commitments and passion of three individuals. Phidias Pilides (Former President, Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Fikri Toros (Republican Turkish Party) and Dr. Markella Menikou (Head of Architecture, University of Nicosia). Three highly influential stakeholders that came together across political and geographical boundaries to begin a process within the only divided city in Europe, to co-create a shared sustainable city vision for Nicosia. The Roadshow team would like to take this opportunity to highlight the impactful contributions of the Dutch Embassy in Cyprus. A special mention must go to Marios Touvanas (Policy Officer, Dutch Embassy). Marios’ daily efforts during the preparation period in the months leading up to the Roadshow were vital for success. Marios’ unique knowledge of Nicosia and its ongoing efforts to become sustainable gave greater reach to the project. In addition, the roles that Ambassador Nathalie Jaarsma and Mark Rutger (Deputy Head of Mission at Embassy) took were pivotal in encouraging all stakeholders to participate to connect with their wider networks. The Roadshow networking event held at the Ambassador’s Residence on the second day of the Roadshow was an outstanding effort and is sure to influence sustainability stakeholder initiatives in the future. Special thanks must go to the University of Nicosia and their Department of Architecture (ARC) for hosting TU Delft’s SWAT Studio for two weeks in February and the later Roadshow. The collaborations made between students, staff and alumni gave a strong foundation for the later Roadshow. For this we thank Dr. Markella Menikou for giving her time, commitment, knowledge and extensive network during some challenging periods during the preparations. Further we appreciate the hospitality given by Nicosia’s ‘Home for Cooperation’ for being exactly that, ‘a home’ to the Roadshow in those days within the UN buffer zone in May 2019. The venues for the Nicosia Roadshow were selected to optimise participation. They were also unique and challenging in nature being located in the UN Buffer itself. This didn’t come without many challenges. Challenges that were made extremely worthwhile and easier thanks to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) who donated rooms within their Ledra Palace HQ for the Roadshow design studios and the Go2zero serious game. Further, the final event would be extremely well hosted by director and founder Rita Severis the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR). Final thanks must go to Prof. Panikkos Poutziouris (Rector, UCLan Cyprus) for showing the team such hospitality during a field trip to the Buffer zone. Prof. Poutziouris’ extensive insight of the island history, customs and etiquette helped tremendously in the strategic planning of the Roadshow.Climate Design and Sustainabilit
Omero. Odissea, traduzione e riscrittura di G. Monti, illustrazioni di E. Diliberto, prefazione di S. Nicosia, Nuova Ipsa, Palermo 2010, pp. 7-8.
No full textLOWER EFFICACY - INTERACTION WITH AN INHIBITORY RECEPTOR OR PARTIAL AGONISM
No full textIt is very common in practice to find that some concentration-response curves are 'bell shaped', and this phenomenon also applies to partial agonist curves. On the basis of these considerations, a mathematical model has been developed for the interaction of a ligand with two different receptors that mediate opposite effects (one stimulatory and one inhibitory), and is discussed in this article by Enrico Rovati and Simonetta Nicosia. This model can account for both an apparent reduction in efficacy and the curvature of the upper plateau of some concentration-response curves. Therefore, under certain conditions, an agonist that also interacts with an inhibitory receptor might be mistaken for a partial agonist, unless the concentration-response curves are performed over the widest possible range of concentrations
Nicosia-Concerted Retailing and Tourism Strategies to Awaken a Neglekted and Sleeping Beauty
No full textNicosia, the last divided European city, is only able to skim a small portion of the tourist purchasing power compared to the other tourism strongholds of the island and, at the same time, does not utilize the existing cultural potential in an efficient way. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to the valorisation of the existing potential in a customer oriented manner. Concerted international (UN Nicosia Master Plan) and national (Strategic Plan 2010) strategies reflect the intended revival endeavours. For this new orientation to be successful the paper hypothesizes an effective interplay between tourism and retailing to happen and, for this reason, analyses the motives and satisfaction levels of tourists to Nicosia with regards to both, tourism and retailing offers. The paper focuses on the tourist segment with higher educational levels (and implicitly higher financial potential) as the communication objectives foresee to position the island mainly in the mind of this segment. The paper concludes, in line with recent developments with regard to tourist consumer profiles, that the concept of authenticity plays an increasing role when explaining the satisfaction levels of this specific segment and provides practical recommendations.Retail, Tourism, Culture, Authenticty, Nicosia, Cyprus
Architectural styles and ethnic identity in medieval to modern Cyprus
No full textArchaeologists and art historians have often attempted to identify ethnic groups by means of specific stylistic traits in their art and architecture. Close contextual examination, however, reveals that different groups in different contexts can use the same styles. This article reviews some examples of architectural styles and features which were borrowed and transformed during the Medieval, Ottoman and British colonial periods in Cyprus (1191-1960). One building, the British colonial governor’s residence in Nicosia built in the 1930s, is particularly revealing in its deliberate use of styles normally associated with all the other ethnic groups of Cyprus
On-line scheduling with setup costs
No full textThis paper deals with an on-line scheduling problem where tasks belong to a given set of c task types and are to be assigned to one of the m machines in order to minimize the maximum completion time. If a task of a certain type is assigned to a machine that has just completed the execution of a task of the same type, then it can be processed immediately. Otherwise, there is a setup time associated with switching the machine to a different task type. A suitable version of the classical List Scheduling algorithm is analyzed. A new algorithm is also proposed and an upper bound on its competitive ratio is introduced. Finally, lower bound on the competitive ratio for any on-line algorithm is derived
Exact Algorithms for a discrete metric labeling problem
No full textAbstractWe are given a edge-weighted undirected graph G=(V,E) and a set of labels/colors C={1,2,…,p}. A non-empty subset Cv⊆C is associated with each vertex v∈V. A coloring of the vertices is feasible if each vertex v is colored with a color of Cv. A coloring uniquely defines a subset E′⊆E of edges having different colored endpoints. The problem of finding a feasible coloring which defines a minimum weight E′ is, in general, NP-hard. In this work we first propose polynomial time algorithms for some special cases, namely when the input graph is a tree, a cactus or with bounded tree-width. Then, an implicit enumeration scheme for finding an optimal coloring in the general case is described and computational results are presented
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