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Living Labs and Partnerships for Progress: How Universities can Drive the Process towards the Sustainable City
No full textUniversities can play an active role in facilitating the deployment at a wide scale of the sustainability concept, strictly cooperating with public-private institutions and civil society. Following this path, the University of Genoa, Italy, decided to transform its Savona Campus into a Living Lab aimed at creating a model of a sustainable urban district, to be replicated at the city level with specific implementation projects. Different actions on sustainable energy, smart environment and social health & wellbeing have been deployed: energy efficiency interventions, smart grid connected to a zero-emission building, electrical mobility and outdoor sport activities. All the projects have been developed with the active involvement and the empowerment of the Campus community (students and faculty) and thanks to important collaborations with local public institutions and industrial companies. The main partnerships towards the achievements of sustainability goals are with the Italian Electricity company, Enel S.p.A. and with the Savona Municipality, which enabled the extension of the Smart City experimentation to Savona population. These projects are constantly promoted and disseminated to university students during lessons, to visiting schools and civil society during specific events on sustainability topics inside the city
An intramural hematoma of the ascending aorta. The radiological trap [Ematoma intramurale dell'aorta ascendente. Insidia radiologica.]
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The University of Genoa Savona Campus Sustainability Projects
No full textThis paper aims at describing the activities and projects carried out at the Savona Campus of the University of Genoa to transform the Campus into an 'open-Air' laboratory, called 'Living Lab Smart City', in which experimenting the most innovative and sustainable technologies for the production, distribution and management of energy in the cities of the future (Smart City). In this context, two important Research Infrastructures (RI) were built: The first is an intelligent energy microgrid, the 'Smart Polygeneration Microgrid' (SPM) capable of producing and distributing electrical and thermal energy within the Savona Campus; the second is a fully automated building, the 'Smart Energy Building' (SEB), with zero CO2 emissions. These RIs have allowed the Savona Campus to become part of two important global networks of Sustainable Campus Networks (International Sustainable Campus Network-ISCN and UI Greenmetric), Other activities have been developed to improve environmental sustainability and the wellbeing of Campus visitors
Evaluating LCOE in sustainable microgrids for smart city applications
No full textA microgrid can be considered a profitable solution to be adopted in smart cities if it is marketable, i.e. more, or at least equally convenient than other traditional energy supply sources. Different economic parameters can be defined to determine its affordability. In particular, the LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity) is the most popular indicator adopted in the energy sector, widely used both for conventional and renewable power sources. However, the use of this metric still disregards important aspects that concerns microgrid applications. After providing a state-of-the-art of the use of LCOE, the present paper proposes a new methodology for sustainable microgrids in smart city, taking into account benefits due to cogeneration and trigeneration, integration costs as well as positive and negative side effects
Phenotypic similarity in sympatric crow species: Evidence of social convergence?
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8. Modelling Large-Scale Patterns in Mountain Bird Diversity and Distributions
No full textThis material has been published in revised form in BRAMBILLA, M., MATTHEW, G., BETTS, U. B., KIM, H., LAIOLO, P., & SATTLER, T. (2023). 8· Modelling Large-Scale Patterns in Mountain Bird Diversity and Distributions. Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Birds, 296. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938570.009. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © copyright holder.Modelling distributions of species and communities is a key task for modern ecological research and conservation planning. Modelling mountain birds has specific challenges: mountain environments are characterized by steep gradients, where conditions in terms of climate, topography and habitat change markedly over relatively small scales. Moreover, mountain bird species are often less comprehensively monitored than lowland species, resulting in a general paucity of information for many species. We review the approaches to deal with these challenges in order to increase model accuracy to enhance ecological research and to improve conservation planning in mountain environments. We discuss how consistency between species occurrence and climate is tested, and what approaches help to assess distribution dynamics. We assess the current strategies to model microclimate and microhabitat, and how they could be incorporated in distribution modelling over increasingly larger extents. We discuss the pros and cons of (and the potential options for) modelling multiple species vs. community traits to get broad scale multi-species projections which are useful to evaluate the general persistence and resilience of mountain bird communities. Finally, the opportunities presented by Citizen Science data to contribute to monitoring and modelling mountain bird populations are assessed.Peer reviewe
The University of Genoa Smart City Demo Site
No full textThe present contribution is devoted to describe in detail the Smart City Sustainable Energy Living Lab (LL) that the University of Genoa has conceived and positioned inside its Savona Campus research and teaching facilities. Such LL relies on the research and demonstration activities related to the use of special infrastructures as the Smart Polygeneration Microgrid (SPM) and Smart Energy Building (SEB), built with the fundamental contribution of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection. The LL is jointly operated with the Italian DSO Enel S.p.A. as an 'open air' demo site for the testing of on grid/off grid electrical transitions (Sustainable Urban Energy Island) and of potentially new services strictly related to the wide deployment of 'e-city' technological solutions (V2G, V2H, e-home and smart appliances). The present paper is mainly focused on the model developed to study a portion of the SPM in islanded configuration; the main results of the analysis are here reported and discussed in order to highlight stability and load sharing issues
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
The diet of the chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) and the alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) in the Alps : Seasonality, resource partitioning and population density
Get PDFLes régimes alimentaires en hiver et au printemps du Crave à bec rouge (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) et du Chocard des Alpes (Pyrrhocorax graculus) dans l'ouest des Alpes italiennes ont été étudiés par analyse des fèces. Des études
antérieures, conduites dans la même zone de syntopie en été et automne ((Rolando & Laiolo, 1997; Rolando et al., 1997a), ont montré que les régimes et les modalités de la recherche alimentaire de ces espèces peuvent souvent diverger mais c'est essentiellement durant les mois d'hiver que
les différences interspécifiques sont les plus grandes. De décembre à mai, le régime du Crave est essentiellement basé sur les larves et pupes de Diptères alors que celui du Chocard s'avère plus variable, consistant principalement en fruits en hiver et, au printemps, en arthropodes et
feuilles de Sempervirum arachnoideum. Le Crave et le Chocard différent aussi dans l'organisation de leurs temps de recherche alimentaire, le premier restant plus longtemps sur ses sites de prospection. La plus grande flexibilité trophique du Chocard paraît résulter d'un comportement
opportuniste qui lui permet d'exploiter chaque mois la ressource la plus profitable. Les largeurs de niches globales sont virtuellement identiques, les deux espèces exploitant sensiblement le même nombre de catégories de ressources. Toutefois, les ressources étant souvent différentes, le
recouvrement des régimes est quasi nul en hiver, augmentant à partir de mars. Les régimes alimentaires sont discutés en fonction du statut de ces espèces dans les Alpes. Il est en particulier suggéré que le régime essentiellement végétarien du Chocard serait associé à ses fortes densités de
population alors que le régime insectivore du Crave serait lié à ses faibles densités
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