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Towards reflexive land and water management in Iran : linking technology, governance and culture
No full textKey words: Qanat, land and water, sustainability, Industrial and reflexive modernity This PhD thesis is concerned with the causes and consequences of the environmental crisis and explores possible trajectories towards sustainable land and water management in Iran and other countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The basic assumption underlying the conceptual framework of this thesis is that soil and water technologies, social institutions and environmental mentalities are strongly interconnected; they co-evolve, shaping and reshaping one another in the process. The main research question concerns the changes within this network of technologies, institutions and mentalities that are required for a successful transition from industrial modernity to what sociologists like Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash have called ‘reflexive’ modernity. In order to examine the possibilities and problems of a reflexive turn in land and water management in Iran and other MENA-countries, large-scale empirical studies were conducted among farmers and village informants, soil and water experts, and policymakers. </p
Muconic acid isomers as platform chemicals and monomers in the biobased economy
No full textsponsorship: The authors thank the SPICY (Sugar-based chemicals and Polymers through Innovative Chemocatalysis and engineered Yeast) project of VLAIO Catalisti for funding. (SPICY (Sugar-based chemicals and Polymers through Innovative Chemocatalysis and engineered Yeast) project of VLAIO Catalisti)status: Publishe
ETHICS FOR LIFE SCIENTISTS
No full textPreface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Ethical challenges for the life sciences / Michiel Korthals -- Researchers in organizations -- Ch. 2a. Moral complexity in organizations / Ronald Jeurissen -- Ch. 2b. Comments on Jeurissen: organization and moral complexity / Hugo Letiche -- Ch. 3a. The social role of businesses and the role of the professional / Johan Wempe -- Ch. 3b. Comments on Wempe: conditions for ethical business / Henk Zandvoort -- Responsible authorship and communication -- Ch. 4a. The responsible conduct of research, including responsible authorship and publication practices / Ruth Ellen Bulger -- Ch. 4b. Comments on Bulger: The responsible conduct of research, including responsible authorship and publication practices / Henk van den Belt -- Ch. 5a. Professional ethics and scholarly communication / Hub Zwart -- Ch. 5b. Comments on Zwart: professional ethics and scholarly communication / Tjard de Cock Buning -- Ch. 6a. Some recent challenges to openness and freedom in scientific publication / David B. Resnik -- Ch. 6b. Comments on Resnik: some recent challenges to openness and freedom in scientific publication / Tiny van Boekel -- Ethics of animal research -- Ch. 7a. Research ethics for animal biotechnology / Paul B. Thompson -- Ch. 7b. Comments on Thompson: research ethics for animal biotechnology / Mieke Boon -- Ethics for life scientists as a challenge for ethics -- Ch. 8a. How common morality relates to business and the professions / Bernard Gert -- Ch. 8b. Comments on Gert: Gert's common morality: old-fashioned or untimely? / Jozef Keulartz -- Ch. 9a. Research as a challenge for ethical reflection / Marcus Düwell -- Ch. 9b. Comments on Düwell: research as a challenge for ethical reflection / Akke van der Zijpp -- Scientists in society -- Ch. 10a. New public responsibilities for life scientists / Michiel Korthals -- Ch. 10b. Comments on Korthals: new public responsibilities for life scientists / Jan H. Koeman -- Ch. 11. Science, context and professional ethics / Ruth Chadwick -- Ch. 12a. Bioscientists as ethical decision-makers / Matti Häyry -- Ch. 12b. Comments on Häyry: assessing bioscientific work from a moral point of view / Robert Heeger -- New developments -- Ch. 13. The human genome: common resource but not common heritage / David B. Resnik -- Conclusions -- Ch. 14. Towards ethically sound life sciences / Michiel Korthals -- List of author
The cross-sectional and time-series prediction of cryptocurrency returns - A comprehensive study
No full textVenetian cardinals at the Papal Court during the pontificates of Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII : 1471-1492
No full textThe histories of particular cities and states within that myriad-faceted
slice of civilisation, the Renaissance in Italy, have received
more scholarly attention than have the diplomatic, ecclesiastical and
cultural connections between them. This study is part of a balance-redressing
process. Senior clerics traversed frontiers, owing
allegiance to their native state, their benefices and, above all, to
the Papacy. The purpose of this exploration of the curial careers of
four later quattrocento Venetian cardinals is essentially twofold : to
account for relations between Venice and the Papacy with reference to
individuals who were at once Venetian patricians and princes of the
Church; and to examine the cardinals' responses to this situation in
terms of political, ecclesiastical and cultural patronage. Where did
their loyalty lie? To Venice, with its perennial suspicion of the
Church and peculiar notion of the characteristics of a Venetian
cardinal? Or to the Pope, expressing overt hostility towards the
Republic in the War of Ferrara and placing it under an interdict?
Chapter one sets Merco Barbo, Pietro Foscari, Giovanni Michiel and
Giovanni Battista Zeno in a Venetian context. Chapters two and three
chart relations between the two powers, from the exposure of Cardinal
Zeno's involvement in a scheme to transmit Venetian state secrets to
Rome in exchange for ecclesiastical preferment, through to Ermolao
Barbaro's controversial appointment to the patriarchate of Aquileia,
via the short-lived Papal-Venetian league negotiated by Cardinal
Foscari in 1480. The fourth chapter considers their proximity to the
Supreme Pontiff and how their material fortunes varied under popes
Sixtus and Innocent, after which an assessment of the nature, extent
and effectiveness of their patronage is divided between chapters five
and six, focussing pa.rticularly on Venetian connections. Despite
diverging careers, it is concluded that all were bound by variations
of the Venetian inheritance
Energy Potential Mapping: Open Data in Support of Urban Transition Planning
No full textCities play a key role in driving the transition to sustainable energy. Urban areas represent between 60% and 80% of global energy consumption and are a significant source of CO2 emissions, making energy management at the urban scale an important area of research. Urban energy systems have a strong influence on the environment, economy, social dimensions and urban spatial planning. Energy consumption affects the urban microclimate, urban comfort, human health, and conversely, urban physical, economic and social characteristics affect the energy urban profile. In order to improve the quality of energy strategies, policies, and plans, local authorities need decision support tools, like energy potential mapping, which have risen significance in the last decades. Energy data are crucial for those tools. They can increase the quality and effectiveness of energy planning but also support the integration between energy and spatial planning. Energy data can also stimulate citizen engagement as well as encourage sustainable behaviours and CO2 emission reduction. This paper aims to increase the practice of data-aware planning, through the study of problems in energy data acquisition and processing observed in European projects focused on developing energy mapping tools. The problems observed attend to two main areas: technical and socio-economic issues. Those were derived from a comparison of energy mapping tools, and the work conducted for the PLANHEAT development. The scope of the research is to understand the main recurring issues in energy data acquisition and processing, in order to overcome the barriers in data availability. Increasing awareness of the relevance of energy data can foster the use of energy mapping tools, increasing the quality of energy policies and planning.Climate Design and Sustainabilit
Sebastian Castellio, Annotationes in Pauli Epistulam ad Romanos ex Cap. IX. Critical edition and English translation by Michiel Op de Coul and Mirjam van Veen, 2020
No full textIn this little book, Mirjam van Veen (Church Historian) and Michiel Op de Coul (Classical Scholar) publish the Latin text (together with an English translation) of a lengthy annotation on Romans 9, addressing the biblical foundation of the doctrine of predestination, clearly criticising the vision promoted by Jean Calvin. The author of the text, Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563), added this annotation to the second edition (1554) of his Latin Bible (first edition 1551), published by the Basel p..
Trading rights to consume wind in presence of farm-farm interactions
No full textMichiel Kenis is a PhD researcher at the Energy Systems Integration & Modeling Group at the University of Leuven with a doctoral mandate from the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO). He was a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on cross-border electricity markets. He holds a MSc in energy engineering and a MSc in policy economics, both from the University of Leuven. Luca Lanzilao completed his MSc degree in mathematical engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2018. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven. His research focuses on studying the response of the atmospheric boundary layer to wind farm forcing, with particular emphasis on meso-scale phenomena, such as gravity waves. Kenneth Bruninx received a MSc degree in energy engineering in 2011, a MSc in management, and a PhD degree in mechanical engineering in 2016, all from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management of TU Delft, Netherlands and a research fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include market design, policies, and regulation for integrated energy systems. Johan Meyers is a professor of mechanical engineering at KU Leuven since 2009. His research focuses on the simulation of turbulent flows and the atmospheric boundary layer with applications in wind energy. In 2012, he obtained an ERC grant on wind farm control and has been involved in various European projects on wind energy since. He served as the vice president of the European Academy of Wind Energy from 2017 to 2019 and as its president from 2019 to end of 2021. He has been active as an associate editor for Computers & Fluids and is currently an associate editor for Wind Energy Science. Erik Delarue received MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an associate professor with the University of Leuven, TME Branch (energy conversion) and active with EnergyVille. His research focus and expertise are on quantitative tools, supporting an efficient operation of, and transition toward, a low-carbon energy system (mathematical modeling of energy systems). Applications relate to flexibility through energy systems integration, market design, and energy policies.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.Energie and Industri
New Cross-Faculty, University-Industry, and University- Society Educational Encounters
No full textRondetafelsessie met Remon Rooij, Olaf Oosting Michiel Susebeek, Hans Wamelink, Emma de Wijs, Indy van de Sande, Helmut Thoele.Spatial Planning and Strateg
A Debate on Responsible Research and Innovation
No full textIn the space of just a few years the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), or in Dutch Maatschappelijk verantwoord innoveren (MVI), has gained considerable ground: NWO has an MVI-program that has so far funded three rounds of research proposals; Horizon 2020 regularly refers to RRI; and there is now a new journal devoted to RRI. In this panel we focus on the following questions:
• How could the concept become so popular in such a relatively short time?
• What, if anything, is new in RRI, when we compare it to e.g. CTA, participatory TA, Public Engagement, etc?
• If we want to make research and innovation more responsible and responsive to society’s needs, what are the opportunities and obstacles?
• What are the conditions for successful mainstreaming of RRI?
Panel members Frank Kupper (Athena Institute) Hub Zwart (Centre for Society and the Life Scences), Michiel van Oudheusden (author of a dissertation on Flemish RRI initiatives), and Tsjalling Swierstra (co-founder of the Journal for RI) share their thoughts with colleagues in the audience
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