51 research outputs found
Active House: Smart Nearly Zero Energy Buildings
No full textThe book provides an overview of the Active House (AH) vision, intended as a building design method “beyond” the passive approach for buildings of the future that will be more and more connected, smart and innovative. It offers a novel philosophical design approach in which buildings, new or renovated, are in balance with natural, renewable energies and become “concentrators-distributors” of energies instead of being consumers of resources. The book is composed of five chapters, providing information on fundamental aspects of innovations toward resource-efficient buildings, as well as case studies presenting the concept in practice. It demonstrates that a completely new design approach is possible, and that a turning point has been reached. Lastly, it shows how the AH Alliance, along with designers, institutions, industries and academies, is bringing a breath of fresh air to the world of construction
Australia's antidumping experience
No full textOne side of the debate about anti-dumping argues that dumping is not a problem in international trade - that it is a normal business practice which benefits the importing country's consumers and user industries - and that anti-dumping is inherently protectionist. The other side argues that an anti-dumping system has a legitimate role to play in maintaining a liberal trading order, but that the process is being abused for protectionist ends. Three sets of conclusions about reforms to anti-dumping have emerged from this dual debate: (a) tighten anti-dumping procedures to reduce scope for abuse; (b) broaden their focus, to take into account wider economic interests; and (c) abandon anti-dumping altogether. The purpose of this paper is to use the Australian experience over the past decade to shine some light on the issues raised internationally. The paper begins by briefly outlining the varied history of Australia's anti-dumping arrangements and activity since the late 1970s. It then looks at the Australian experience from the perspectives of the debate just referred to and ends with some conclusions relevant to that debate.Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,Trade Policy,Engineering,Economic Theory&Research
UT Tyler Patriot Vol. 21 no. 2
No full textThe official newspaper for the University of Texas at Tyler from 1979 to 1993. Articles in this issue include: We Must Never Stop Trying to Find Peaceful Solutions -Eban; Caddy Shack Home for Graduate Student; Safe-D Promotes Safety, Auto Accidents Curbed; Highest Fall Enrollment Totals 4101 at UT Tyler; Stones Tickets Still Available; Campus Organizations Co-Sponsor Student/Faculty Reception Oct. 17; Think Again; There\u27s No Such Thing as a Little Freedom; Poll Reflects Optimism; The SA Beat; Registration Deadline Nears for Nov. 7 City, State Elections; UTT Drama Production Dining Room Opens Oct. 27; Dr. George Feifer Noted Author Explains Russian Life; Professor, Son Spend Year in Sister City ; Counseling Center Offers a Variety of Services; Kidd, Fitzgerald Win; SIFE Students Meet Saturday; Tennis Team Wins Championshiphttps://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/uttylerpatriot/1131/thumbnail.jp
The concept of developing the activities of inter-municipal resource centers and supporting socially oriented non-profit organisations: The case of Tatarstan
No full text© 2020 National Research University Higher School of Economics. All rights reserved. Taking the Republic of Tatarstan as a case study, this article discusses the main aspects of the development of inter-municipal resource centers (IRCs), which support socially oriented non-profit organizations (SO NPOs). We analyse the place and role of the IRC in the system of social development of the region, main areas of activity, coordination capabilities of the IRC within the region. We highlight the objectives of IRC activities that contribute to the development of existing SO NPOs and the active transformation of private or public initiatives into newly created NPOs with their subsequent withdrawal to stable project activities. Any non-profit organization, regardless of the geography of their presence, should have equal opportunities to access high-quality educational and methodological content, as well as the consultative services of the IRC. Quality content largely depends on the practical relevance and relevance of the information. This is achieved through the development of specialized educational programs at the request of the target audience, as well as state and municipal authorities. The main approaches of the IRCs to the moderation of processes are revealed, showing that IRCs act as an information hub between the SO NPOs and professional organizations or individual specialists. In most cases, this activity develops into successful partnership projects. According to the authors of the article, the result of the development of the IRC should be the formation of effective mechanisms for solving the socio-economic development problems of the regions, by increasing the business and social activity of non-profit organizations. We develop a concept for the development of the IRC at the regional level, which allows an increase in the effectiveness of the activities of SO NPOs, transforming them into leaders of social changes in society
Selected World Bank poverty studies : a summary of approaches, coverage, and findings
No full textSince the establishment in 1987 of the Task Forces on Poverty and Food Security, a good deal of country economic and sector work has analyzed poverty issues. The author identifies the main policy issues it raises; describes how the Bank approaches the study of poverty issues; summarizes the main findings and lessons learned from the country economic and sector work reviewed; assesses the extent to which country economic and sector work has identified strategies, policy reforms, and programs to reduce poverty that could be supported by the Bank's policy or project lending; raises additional issues that could be addressed in future poverty-related country economic and sector work. This report reviews mainly cross-sectoral studies with a primary and direct poverty focus, which were completed between mid-1987 and mid-1989, though some work in progress was included.Poverty Assessment,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Safety Nets and Transfers,Rural Poverty Reduction
Firms'responses to relative price changes in Cote d'Ivoire : the implications for export subsidies and devaluations
No full textSince the early 1980s, export subsidies have been proposed as a way to counteract the adverse effects of an exchange rate overvaluation among member countries of the West African Monetary Union. It was felt that one way to alter the relative price of traded to nontraded goods was to attempt to mimic devaluation by raising import tariffs and export subsidies by the same proportion. This paper models the short-run response of firms to exogenous changes in export and import prices, taking into account the possibility that firms may sell to both domestic and foreign markets. The results suggest that firms in Cote d'Ivoire do sell more to the foreign market when it is more profitable to do so. Exports respond positively to increases in export prices and negatively to increases in import prices. But the fact that exports would be lower if an export subsidy were combined with an import tariff is not an argument for introducing an export subsidy alone because it would be insufficient to increase output in the tradable goods sector. The combination of an export subsidy with an import tariff, which comes closer to mimicking the effects of devaluation, would serve to counteract some of the adverse effects on output of an overvalued exchange rate.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Consumption
Changing visitor perceptions of Malaga (Spain) and its development as a winter health resort in the nineteenth century
No full textDuring the early nineteenth century Spain became an increasingly popular destination for a growing number of northern European and American ‘romantic’ tourists. Malaga was initially a popular tourist gateway for those exploring southern Spain but also parts of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean and by the end of the nineteenth century it had established itself as a winter health resort of some repute. This study explores the changing visitor perceptions of the city during this period of development. The published accounts of over forty men and women travellers who visited Malaga in the nineteenth century have been examined using discourse analysis. Our analysis reveals not only the changing nature of Malaga as an emerging tourist destination but moreover we demonstrate the plural and contested nature of visitor perceptions of this tourist place and what these potentially reveal about the predilections and attitudes of the visitors themselves and how they reflect broader northern European social discourses towards southern Spain and its people at this time
A critical appraisal of WinEcon and its use in a first‐year undergraduate Economics programme
No full textThis is an extended review of WinEcon, a CAL package for introductory economics. Our comments are based on a survey of staff and students involved in the first large‐scale (n = 300+) attempt to integrate WinEcon into a teaching and assessment programme
Pengaruh Jumlah Lapisan dan Bentuk Sambungan Terhadap Sifat-Sifat Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) Kayu Sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria L. Nielsen)
No full textLaminated Veneer Lumher (LVL) adalah salah satu jenis produk panil-panil kayu yang terbuat dad lcmbaran-lembaran venir yang direkat dengan arah serat venir dibuat sejajar satu dengan yang lainnya menurut arah memanjang panil (Bakar, 1996). LVL dapat dipergunakan sebagai bahan bangunan (konstruksi) atau untuk pembuatan furniture, molding dan lain-lain. Untuk memperoleh L VL dengan ukuran atatl penampang yang diinginkan, dapat dibuat sambungall antal' venir. Lembaran-Icmbal'an venir dapat disambung menurut arah lebar atau panjang. Menurut Feifer (1984) bentuk sambungan dalam pembuatan LVL, dapat bempa: endjoinl, bUll joinl, edge joint, rabbe/joint, dadojoinl. lllpjoinl, milerjoinl, mortise and lenonjoin/ selia dovefailjoinl. . ''Sambungan yang tel'dapat pada bahan-bahan konstruksi merupakan sllatu titik lemah terhadap daya tahan memikul beban sehingga harus dirancang sebaik-baiknya untuk memperkecii kelemahan terse but (Sinaga, 1994; Ttdal' dan ldris, 1981 dalam Yanti, 1998). Hasil penelitian Hidayat (1996) menunjukkan bahw3 bentuk sambungan (lmlf joint, plain semI joint, serrated joint serta longue and groove joint) tidak berpengaruh terhadap sifat tisis mekanis papan sambung keeuali sifat modulus elastisitas (MOE). Sambungan bUll joinl dengan kombinasi perekat PVAe dan PF menghasilkan modulus elastisitas (MOE) papan sambung yang lebih tinggi dibanding bentuk sambungan lainnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempeiajari pengaruh jumiah iapisan dan bentuk sambungan venir iapisan tengah terhadap sifat-sifat fisis mekanis L VL yang terbllat dad kaYlI sengon (Paraserianthes falcataria L. Nielsen). Sistem sambungan venir iapisan tengah masing-masing LVL ada tiga macam yaitll: bUll joint, plain scmfioint dan tongue wul groove joint. Lembaran-Iembaran venir tersambung dirakit menjadi lapisan pemhentllk LVL, dengan eara meletakkannya berselangseling terhadap lembaran venir utuh. LVL yang dibuat terdiri dari tiga mneam ukuran ketebalan yaitu 2,70 em (9 lapis); 3,30 em (11 lapis) dan 3.90 em (13 lapis), sedangkan ukuran panjang masing-masing adalah 100 em dan Iebar 20 em. Perekat yang digunakan sebagai pengikat lembar::m venir bel'upa Urea Fonnaldehida cair sebanyak 161,35 grim', (ekanan kempa 10 kg/em' sclama 24 jam. Pani! yang tcrbentuk selanjutnyn dikondisikan selama 7 had pada sulm kamaI'. Untuk mcngetahui pengarllh jllmlah iapisan dan bentuk sambungan venir tengah terhadap sifat L VL data penelitien dianalisis menggunakan nmeangan faktorial 3 x 4 dalam pola aeak lcngkap. Apabila hasil analisis yang membcl'ikan pengaruh nyata dilanjlltkan dengan uji Wilayah Berganda Duncan. Sifat-sifat LVL yang diuji terdiri dari sifat I1sis (kerapatan, kadar air dan delaminasi) dan mekanis (MOR, MOE dan keteguhan geser horizontal). Pengujian sifat fisis LVL mengaeu pada standar JAS 1639-1986, sedangkan silat mekanis pada standar JAS 1494-1991. I-Iasil pengujian sifat fisis LVL 111enunjukknn bnhwajutnlah iapisnn berpengaruh sangat nyata terhadap sifat fisis, scdangkan bentuk sambungan dan interaksi antara jumlah iapisan dan bentuk sambungan tidak bell)Cngaruh terhadap sifat tcrsebut. Nilai kerapatan LVL tC'l'tinggi (0,50 g/em3) terdapat pada balok (billel) LVL yang konstruksinya terdiri dari 9 dan II lapis pacta setiap sistem sambungan (bull joint, plain sCaJ:/joint serla tongue (fnd groove joint). Nilai kadar air LVL terendah (13,43%) terdapat pada balok (billel) LVL yang konstrllksinya terdifi dari 9 lapis dengan sistem sambungan bUll jOinl. Nilai delaminasi LVL terendah (0%) terdapat pada balok (billei) LVL yang konstruksinya terdiri dal'i 9 dan 11 lapis pada setiap sistem sambungan. Hasil pengttiian sifat mekanis LVL menunjukkan bahwa jumlah iapisan dan bentllk sambungan berpengaruh sangat nyata terhadap sitat mekanis. sedangkan interaksi antm'a jllmiah lapisan dan bentllk sambllngan berpangaruh nyata lcrhadap sifat tersebut. Nilai modulus patah LVL tertinggi (664,36 kg/em') terdapat pada balok (billet) LVL yang konstruksinya terdiri dari 13 lapis dengan sistem sambungan plain scm/joint. Nilai modulus elastisitas LVL tertinggi (J 20.452,23 kg/em') terdap~t pacta balok (billet) LVL yang konstl'llksinya terdiri dari 13 lapis dengan sistem sambungan plain scmjjoint. Nilai keteguhan geser horizontal LVL teltinggi (53,59 kg/em') terdapat pada balok (billet) LVL yang konstruksinya terdiri dari 13 lapis ctengan sistem sambungan plain scatl joint, Nilai sifat !isis dan mekanis LVL pada masing-masing konstruksi lapisan balok (billet) dcngan sistem sambungan buft joint, plain scm/joint serta tongue and groove joint lebih tinggi dibanding L VL tanpa sambungan (control), kecuali sifat kadar air dan delaminasi. Nilai sifat fisis dan mekanis L VL yang dihasilkan memenuhi persyaratan seperti ditelapkan oleh standar lAS 1639-1986 dan lAS 1494-1991 keeuali sifat keteguhan geser horizontal L VL pada bentuk sambungan butt joint. PerIu dilakukan penelitian lebih lanjut untuk mcmpclajari pengaruh bentuk sambungan bUll joint untuk memperbaiki sifat keteguhan geser horizontal yang belum memenuhi Standar lAS 1494- 1991
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