46 research outputs found
Regaining public space in modern Greece: The case of Chania
No full textTaking into consideration that ancient Greece is highly correlated to the democratic public space, the aim of the present thesis is to regain public space in modern Greece, by having as a testing location a medium-sized city, Chania. Public space was an important part of Greek people’s lives in the different chronological periods of its history. Starting from antiquity, the ancient agora and the Greek polis were considered as prototypes of democratic public spaces. In more modern years though, the relationship between Greek people and public space was gradually lost, leading to the present-day function of the Greek public spaces. Nowadays, most Greek people spend their free time in cafeterias and bars, neglecting so public spaces, such as squares, parks etc. Even though it is undeniable that cafeterias play an important role in the sociability, liveability and the economic vitality of an area, the way they function in Greece leads to the extreme privatization of public space due to coffee tables, the absence of people in areas where there are no cafes or the occupation of the empty public spaces by marginalized groups. Hence, the present thesis is dealing with the problematic use and the poor quality of public space in the Greek context, and especially in the city of Chania, as a case study. Many of the public spaces are extreme privatized, causing problems of accessibility and walkability, while others are not used at all or used by specific social groups developing urban voids or ghettos in the city. This existing defective Greek reality results in social exclusion and poor social interaction among different demographics, questioning the serving of needs of the different users. Taking into consideration the above-mentioned problem statement and the results by the different research methods used, it is concluded that the enhancement of sense of security, social interaction and inclusion are the main goals to be achieved in the project. Since these three concepts are more social than spatial related, design patterns are used as a method for their translation into space and urban environment. Moreover, they function as a bridge between research and design. In the end, to avoid generic solutions the definition of the patterns is a forth and backwards procedure between research and design
IFLA satellite pre-conference: open access to science information: trends, models and strategies for libraries
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to disseminate information about the IFLA pre-conference in Chania, Crete, Greece on the subject of open access in libraries.This is a post-print version of an article published in Library Hi Tech News. The published version of the article is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0741-9058&volume=27&issue=6/7&articleid=1891644&show=abstrac
Open Access and Academic Library Public Services: Roles for Reference and Instruction
No full textPaper presented at the IFLA Satellite Preconference: Open Access to Science Information; Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries, Chania, Crete, Greece. Aug. 6-8, 2010. This paper is published as a chapter in the DeGruyter monograph entitled: Open Access to STM Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries. Edited by Anthi Katsirikou, Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2011, pp. 29-38.(IFLA Publications; Nr. 153)The published version of the chapter is available in the DeGruyter published monograph available from: http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-publications-series-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110263749.2
Decoupling and prices: determinant of dairy farmers’ choices? A model to analyse impacts of the 2003 CAP reform
Get PDFThe reform of European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003 has resulted in substantial changes to the attribution of subsidies to dairy farmers. Moreover, dairy farmers are in also facing an unprecedented situation on the markets with the soaring prices of agricultural raw materials: they sell their products at a higher price (milk, meat and cereals), but must also cope with the increasing prices of concentrates. In this paper1, we discuss cross effects, on the productive strategy of French dairy farms, of the Luxemburg Agreement and the prices variations. A model based on mathematical programming has been privileged to determine how dairy farmers might re-evaluate their systems to identify optimal production plan. While respecting the principle of agent rationality (maximization of profit), the model incorporates the economic risk related to the volatility of the inputs and outputs prices. Thus the model maximises the expected utility of the income while taking into account a set of constraints: regulatory, structural, zootechnical, agronomic and environmental. The model is applied to four types of dairy farms to cope with the diversity of production systems in the west of France (“grazier” type, “semi intensive” type, “milk + cereals” type and “milk + young bulls” type). The model is used to produce quantitative estimations and support reflection through the simulation of the setting up of the Single payment scheme. The sensitivity of the results is discussed by taking into account several options of prices for cereals and livestock products. These may have a strong influence on the structure of the diet and, therefore, on the level of intensification of the forage area. The results show that the implementation of the CAP reform encourages farmers to substitute a part of corn silage by grass in the diet. However, the rising price of agricultural production encourages, on the contrary, farmers to intensify their system in order to free up land for growing cereals. We also observe that a decrease of the young bulls fattening activity to develop cereal crops is also economically profitable.dairy farm, single payment, price variation, Agricultural and Food Policy, Livestock Production/Industries,
Traffic-responsive signals combined with perimeter control: investigating the benefits
No full textEmpirical and research evidence suggests that traffic-responsive signal control strategies are generally not as efficient in over-saturated traffic conditions characterized by queue spillbacks. Recent studies on (MFD/NFD) have identified a destabilizing gridlock process that arises in congested networks which precludes efficient operation. The MFD has also been used to develop urban traffic control solutions (e.g. perimeter or gating control) to avoid congestion. The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits of combining gating with locally adaptive traffic signals through micro-simulation of the Chania, Greece traffic network. Two adaptive traffic signal strategies are considered with the perimeter control strategy. The results of the combined gating/adaptive signal control scheme are compared to gating under fixed traffic signals and the implementation of adaptive signals only. The convincing outcome of this simulation study motivates the real-field implementation of gating/perimeter control in the cities, without even changing the existing adaptive control strategies.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Transport and Plannin
Prosedur Pemberian Kredit Pemilikan Rumah (KPR) pada PT. Bank Pembangunan Daerah Nusa Tenggara Timur Kantor Cabang SOE
Get PDFThe type of research method that the author uses in this study is a qualitative descriptive method, in order to obtain information that describes the existing reality regarding the procedure for granting Kredit Pemilikan Rumah (KPR) at PT. Bank Pembangunan Daerah Nusa Tenggara Timur Kantor Cabang SoE.From the results of the study, it can be seen that the procedures for granting Kredit Pemilikan Rumah at PT. Bank Pembangunan Daerah Nusa Tenggara Timur Kantor Cabang SoE includes seven stages. In the first stage, the customer meets with the developer and then explains its intent and purpose. The second stage is that the developer collects the customer files. The third stage the developer sends all customer files to the bank. The fourth stage, the bank checks all the files and completeness of the customer. In the fifth stage, the bank conducts an analysis. The sixth stage, the bank checks the house as collateral. And the seventh stage is the disbursement of funds after realization, namely the distribution of funds from banks to developers. The method of payment for the Kredit Pemilikan Rumah installments can be through Bank NTT or through monthly salary deductions according to the installment schedule. The problem faced in the process of granting Kredit Pemilikan Rumah is that the certificate has not been resolved or is still in one master certificate, so the solution to overcome these obstacles is that the developer and the bank make an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or joint agreement with the National Land Agency of Timor Tengah Selatan Regency to immediately process the resolution of the house certificate.
Keyword : Home Ownership Loans, Procedures for Providing Home Ownership Loan
Diffusion, social structure and functioning of scientific rural networks: comparison of European and Finnish examples
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The program of his foreign policy
No full textTitle: Tó πpóypaμμa τῆς ἐξωτεp ῆς αủτoũ πoλιτιĸῆς (The program of his foreign policy) Originally published: Appendix to the newspaper Πατpíς (Motherland), Athens, 1915 Language: GreekThe excerpts used are from the original. About the author Eleftherios Venizelos: [1864, Mournies (the island of Crete) – 1936, Paris]: the most prominent Greek politician of the twentieth century. He was born to a well-off merchant family. He completed his secondary education in Chania (Tur. Hanya) in Crete. His ..
The program of his foreign policy
No full textTitle: Tó πpóypaμμa τῆς ἐξωτεp ῆς αủτoũ πoλιτιĸῆς (The program of his foreign policy) Originally published: Appendix to the newspaper Πατpíς (Motherland), Athens, 1915 Language: GreekThe excerpts used are from the original. About the author Eleftherios Venizelos: [1864, Mournies (the island of Crete) – 1936, Paris]: the most prominent Greek politician of the twentieth century. He was born to a well-off merchant family. He completed his secondary education in Chania (Tur. Hanya) in Crete. His ..
Econometric analysis of the performance of cooperatives and investor owned firms in the European dairy industry
No full textKeywords: Cooperatives, IOFs, European dairy industry, logistic regression, stochastic frontier analysis, inter- and intra-firm efficiency, catch-up component, data envelopment analysis, hyperbolic technical efficiency, overall efficiency, scale efficiency, bootstrapping. In this study we measure the performance of cooperatives and investor-owned firms in the European dairy processing industry. Comparing the performance between cooperatives and investor-owned firms requires accounting for differences in their mission and objectives. Traditionally, cooperatives were established by farmers to gain access to markets, balance market powers and have a secured and sustainable income. Generally, there is a consensus in the economic literature that a cooperative can be defined as a (members)user-owned and (members)user-controlled organization that aims to benefit its (members)user. Cooperatives are transaction oriented, the members provide themselves with services they could not secure otherwise. In addition member are owners and determine the mission and strategy of cooperatives equally as the owners of the cooperative enterprise. Our study takes into account the consequences of members’ strategies for the cooperatives’ organizational structure and subsequently the significance of structure on (technical and economical) efficiencies. Although the theoretical literature emphasizes the difference in economic behavior between cooperatives and IOFs, the empirical studies have failed to follow up with theoretical approaches. The failure of the empirical studies to apply the models proposed by the theoretical literature seems to be due to either the inaccessibility of data, the inability to take into account the interests of all the various types of members and stakeholders of the cooperative, or the difficulty in testing the various hypotheses in practice. An empirical analysis of differences in financial indicators between IOFs and cooperatives in six European countries shows that cooperatives are less profitable but operationally more efficient, they have higher material costs and lower debts than IOFs. Furthermore, cooperatives display a substantially greater variation in financial indicators than IOFs. Stochastic Frontier Analysis is used to measure and compare the efficiency and production technology of cooperatives and IOFs. Cooperatives are found to have a more productive technology than IOFs, but they use their production potential less efficiently. A further empirical analysis of technical efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis shows that explicit accounting for the objectives of cooperatives generates different outcomes compared with treating cooperatives as if they were IOFs. The results of the empirical analyses in this study promote the conclusion that measuring the performance of cooperatives as if they were IOFs produces misleading insights about the cooperatives’ performance suggesting performance suggesting that cooperatives’ performance is influenced by their organizational characteristics and members objectives. <br/
