763 research outputs found
Wedding portrait of Catherine Theofilopoulou and Christos Galanopoulos
No full textCatherine Theofilopoulou and Christos Galanopoulos, May 22, 1911. Courtesy of Helen Galanopoulo
Galanopoulos Family
No full textFamily of Christos and Catherine Galanopoulos. Children (l-r) Eugenia, Ruth (on lap), John, Anastasios and George (seated), c. 1930's. Courtesy of Helen Galanoplo
Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia — The Outsider Artist
No full textChristos Tsiolkas is regularly acknowledged as one of the most important writers working in Australia—indeed, the world—today. However, his proclivity for the public essay (in venues such as The Monthly), as well as his willingness to speak out on important social and political issues (such as refugees and marriage equality), casts him not only as an important writer, but also as a critical public figure in contemporary Australia. This collection of articles takes the range of Tsiolkas’s works (both fiction and non-fiction, as well as their television and cinematic adaptations) as their impetus, using these as a model to explore the significance of Tsiolkas’s intellectual contribution to Australian public life. As such, these articles work across genre, across theories, across national and international borders, and across disciplines in order to make clear Tsiolkas’s contemporary significance. Building on recent book-length studies on the author, including Andrew McCann’s Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity (2015) and my own Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), what these articles hold in common is an assertion that Tsiolkas’s fiction and non-fiction always and everywhere serve a political and social purpose. As I have argued elsewhere, Tsiolkas’s writing ultimately suggests the ways in which we can shape a better future for Australia
Economic Development and Pesticide Use in EU Agriculture: A Nonlinear Panel Data Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach
No full textWithin the regime established by the Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUDP); the present work explores the relationship between pesticides’ agricultural use per hectare of cropland and the GDP per capita of the rural population for twenty-five EU countries to unveil the efficiency of the current EU strategy. With the econometric tool of panel nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) cointegration technique; we try to capture potential asymmetries in the agricultural use of pesticides concerning positive and negative variations in agricultural income. The findings validate the existence of a long-run relationship that supports an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC); i.e., an inverted U-shaped relationship between the variables; since increasing agricultural income is related to reductions in the use of pesticides after the turning point. Even though this result is not validated in the short run; our findings confirm the existence of a steady-state situation with asymmetric responses to pesticides. In terms of policy implications; more measures need to be taken; along with the education of farmers; aiming to enhance their consciousness towards environmental issues and; in consequence; for them to prefer environmentally friendly plant protection methods over chemical ones
A decision support platform for a bio-based supply chain: Application to the region of Lower Saxony and Bremen (Germany)
No full textIn this work, a biomass supply chain model, for the region of Lower Saxony and Bremen in northern Germany, has been developed. Because of Germany's high demand for biofuels, the production and distribution of levulinic acid and bioethanol by wheat straw is studied. An illustrative bio-based supply chain model is developed and implemented in the Advanced Interactive Multidimensional Modeling (AIMMS) software. Then, this model is used to study the logistics, network optimization, transportation and inventory management, and the resulting environmental and economic impacts. In the end, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to evaluate the influence of key model parameters on these impacts. The results showed that a wheat straw supply chain network is profitable in the area of Bremen and Lower Saxony even though the bioproducts demand is not fully covered and that the transportation costs did not have a strong impact on the supply chain network
The early development of the thought of Christos Yannaras
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Design of a wheat straw supply chain network in Lower Saxony, Germany through optimization
No full textIn this work, a biomass supply chain model for the region of Lower Saxony in northern Germany has been developed. Because of Germany's high demand for biofuels, the production and distribution of levulinic acid and bioethanol is studied by using the Advanced Interactive Multidimensional Modeling (AIMMS) software. The economic benefits that this supply chain provides show to what extent Lower Saxony can become fossil fuel independent. These results are used to answer the following question: has biomass the potential to successfully take up the torch from fossil fuels?a
An integrated methodology for the economic and environmental assessment of a biorefinery supply chain
No full textA supply chain network MILP model, developed by means of AIMMS software, and a pro-cess plant simulation model, developed by means of Aspen Plus, are combined for theoptimization of a biorefinery network. Optimization of the supply chain network is initiallyaddressed using literature process and economic data. The results are used as input in theAspen Plus model where the technical and economic performance of the biorefineries iscalculated rigorously. The two computational tools are iteratively executed until convergence on number, locations and size of the biorefineries and on process yield to productsand total costs is achieved. The final results are used to perform the Economic Value and Environmental Impact (EVEI) analysis of the overall biorefinery network. The methodologyis applied to a case study concerning the deployment of cereal straw in Germany to pro-duce ethanol, ethyl levulinate and electricity. Optimization results reveal that the wheatstraw supply network with four biorefineries is economically feasible and determines anenvironmental margin in terms of equivalent emissions savings of about 4 Mt of CO2peryear
Christos Tsiolkas: the utopian vision
No full textMore than two decades ago, Christos Tsiolkas’s his first novel Loaded was published and he had achieved a cult following in the short-lived grunge fiction scene of Australian writing. The novel was quickly adapted as the film Head On (1998), directed by Ana Kokkinos, and starring popular young Greek actor, Alex Dimitriades; like the novel, it was well-received by critics, if not by mainstream literary and cinematic culture. For the next few years, Tsiolkas worked on Jump Cuts, an experimental collaborative autobiography, with Sasha Soldatow (1996), as well as a number of theatre productions – Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (1999, co-written with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, and adapted to film as Blessed, also directed by Kokkinos [2009]), Thug (1998, written with Spiro Economopolous), and Elektra AD (1999) – but when The Jesus Man (1999) was published, its violent depiction of depression and suicide received critical attention as offensive and unnecessary. Partly because of the reception of The Jesus Man, and partly because of the density of its subject matter, his next novel, Dead Europe (2005) took six years to write. In the interim, he published a critical study of the film The Devil’s Playground (2002), and several more plays and screenplays: Viewing Blue Poles (2000), Saturn’s Return (2000), Fever (2002, co-written with Bovell, Reeves and Cornelius), Dead Caucasians (2002), Non Parlo di Salo (2005, written with Economopoulous), and The Hit (2006, written with Netta Yashin). Dead Europe was a triumphant return: it won the Age Book of the Year and the Melbourne Best Writing Award in 2006.
But it was the extraordinary critical and commercial success of The Slap (2008) which entirely changed Tsiolkas’s personal and professional circumstances. It was the fourth-highest selling book by an Australian author in 2009, won the ALS Gold Medal, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was Book of the Year for both the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Award. The Slap was also adapted as a popular television series for the ABC in 2011, and for NBC in the United States in 2015. For the first time in his career, Tsiolkas was able to dedicate himself to writing full-time, but the attention paid to the novel also meant that Tsiolkas was now a household name – no longer a cult writer, his opinions are now courted and offered in popular and political publications. Barracuda (2013) follows the social realism of The Slap, and sold similarly well, riding on the back of its extraordinary predecessor. Merciless Gods (2014), a collection of short stories, some new, some previously published, is only recently being taken up by popular critics.
Tsiolkas’s work has become increasingly popular and appealing to readers outside of the academy. Tsiolkas’s works adopt a Modernist attitude to the concept of a utopia – a negative politics which simultaneously draws attention to the insufficiency of the present, a pastoral nostalgia for the past, and a longing for the impossible future to come. This first in-depth study of his entire corpus provides an understanding of Tsiolkas’s position in relation to Modernism, thereby drawing out his points about character, setting and politics, thereby helping us to think about what place his ideas about the individual and the community might have in our reading of contemporary Australia and contemporary world literature
An optimization model for a biorefinery system based on process design and logistics
No full textDesign of biorefineries has been often addressed by process flowsheet optimization tools without adequately considering the relevant supply chain network. In this work, an integrated optimization algorithm including the biorefinery process flowsheet structure and biobased supply chain network was developed. A superstructure of different process pathways for a biorefinery co-producing ethanol, ethyl levulinate and electricity is built on the base of up-to-date technologies. The bio-based supply chain model was implemented to address the transportation, the inventory management and the size of the biorefinery. Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) was used as a modeling approach. The efficiency of the algorithm was demonstrated by applying it to a case study consisting of a wheat straw supply chain network for bioproducts demand in Germany. The algorithm reached convergence after three iterations providing a final optimal number of biorefineries distributed in different regions of the country corresponding to a maximum Net Present Value
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