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Smart waste management system as a sustainable social enterprise model
No full textSmart and sustainable solid waste management in metropolises with systemic methods and other environmental issues are important factors in the development of urban management and circular economy. Extensive progress has been made towards reducing the environmental and human health impact of the generated solid waste in households. Under such a context, the major challenges are to reduce waste generation and optimize waste collection process in a way that lies within the circular economy. A Norwegian municipality has been investigated as a case study for this research. In this regard, a sustainable social enterprise model for solid waste management has been proposed. It has two key points; one is optimal waste collection and other is to observe effects of optimal route planning for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). Furthermore, the data analysis has been done to observe the waste generation patterns in different areas of the investigated municipality and how can this be used for future placement and sizes of waste bins. The proposed solution is profitable for a circular economy as the optimal route planning will help to reduce fuel consumption, cost, and time used for waste collection. The social enterprise model (SEM) accomplishes the revenue and achieves the key performance indicators (KPIs) for sustainable development goals
'Get off your knees’: print media public intellectuals and Muslims in Britain
No full textThis article examines perceptions of British-Muslims deployed by ‘‘print media public intellectuals’’(PMPI). It argues that PMPI embody a particular type of ‘‘mediatized intellectual’’ whose public discourse on Muslims is crucial in determining how issues emerging from the politics of
multiculturalism are understood. Adopting a ‘‘theory of argumentation’’ (Richardson, 2001) derived from a critical discourse analysis methodology (CDA), it investigates the political content of messages disseminated by (1) conservative nationalist and (2) secular liberal PMPI through their newspaper opinion columns. The findings suggest that PMPI argumentation ranges from an overt
hostility to a qualified discrimination (the former through exclusive accounts of belonging and the latter through a combative/civilising liberalism), and that*/moreover*/there is a convergence between these two positions in their anti-Muslim sentiment and desire to regulate the lives of
ethnic Others (Hage, 1998). There are four parts to this article: the first part outlines what a public
intellectual is and where PMPI stand in relation to this; the second part discusses some Muslim attempts to elicit forms of recognition from the state under a rubric of multiculturalism; the third part outlines the chosen CDA schema of analyses and PMPI output; and the fourth part concludes by encouraging us to recognise and examine further the importance of PMPI argumentation in
public discours
Tre brevi scale per misurare Restorativeness, Livability, Liveliness degli ambienti fisici: un confronto italia usa
No full textIntroduzione: In US Nasar e coll. hanno verificato le buone caratteristiche psicometriche di tre brevi scale che misurano aspetti chiave nella valutazione emotiva degli ambienti, secondo il modello circomplesso delle emozioni (Russell, 1980): Restorativeness (la capacità rigenerativa, legata alla calma), Livability (la piacevolezza che suscita comportamenti come quello di andare, fermarsi, incontrare gente in un luogo) e Liveliness (una dimensione legata all’eccitazione). Questo studio vuole confrontare i risultati ottenuti in US con dati raccolti in Italia, per verificare se tali risultati sono replicati anche in un’altra cultura.
Metodo: A 23 partecipanti di età compresa tra i 19 e i 52 anni sono state mostrate 32 immagini di luoghi naturali e skyline, diurni e notturni (le stesse utilizzate in US), chiedendo loro di valutare su una scala da 0 a 10 il livello di Restorativeness, Livability e Liveliness, rispettivamente su 5, 4 e 3 item. Per ogni immagine, gli item delle scale erano presentati in modo randomizzato, e anche le immagini erano presentate in modo casuale. Sono state condotte varie analisi per verificare attendibilità e validità.
Risultati: Tutte le scale mostrano un alto livello di attendibilità. Le valutazioni sono state confrontate con quelle ottenute dal campione US: la correlazione tra le stesse scale, nelle versioni italiane e US, è elevata e sempre maggiore di quella tra due scale diverse. Inoltre attraverso un ANOVA a misure ripetute si è potuto osservare che la valutazione data ai diversi ambienti (naturali e costruiti, notturni e diurni) è significativamente diversa per le tre scale, e segue lo stesso andamento delle valutazioni date dai partecipanti US.
Conclusioni: Nonostante l’esiguità del campione, si confermano, anche nella versione italiana, le buone caratteristiche psicometriche delle tre scale brevi. La capacità di discriminare tra diversi ambienti conferma che le tre misure, pur correlate, valutano aspetti diversi
Centre A | International Speaker, Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes, Asia Art Archives
No full textPresented by Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art) with the support of SFU Woodwards Cultural Unit, Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver
A sociological comparison of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment
No full textComparisons of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim sentiment (the latter also known as ‘Islamophobia’) are noticeably absent in British accounts of race and racism. This article critically examines some public and media discourse on Jewish and Muslim minorities to draw out the similarities and differences contained within anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim sentiment. It provides a rationale for focusing upon the period of greatest saliency for Jewish migrants prior to the Second World War, compared with the contemporary representation of Muslims, and identifies certain discursive tendencies operating within the representations of each minority. The article begins with a discussion of multiculturalism, cultural racism and racialization, followed by a brief exploration of the socio-historical dimensions of Jewish and Muslim groups, before turning to the public representation of each within their respective time frames. The article concludes that there are both hitherto unnoticed similarities and important differences to be found in such a comparison, and that these findings
invite further inquir
Citizenship, identity & the politics of multiculturalism: the rise of Muslim consciousness
No full textThe emergence of public Muslim identities is widely considered to be one of the most interesting and pressing sociological and political concerns of the day. With cases of Muslim identity claims-making in European nation-states, and a global geo-political context that is marked by issues of international terrorism and Muslim radicalism, the interest in Muslim identities, and their interaction with nation-state governance, has assumed a profound significance in research and policy agendas across European politics and society.
In order to understand current trends in the adoption and espousal of Muslim identities in Britain, not only is it necessary to obtain a historical understanding of their development through British approaches to minority integration. It is also necessary to look at forms of 'consciousness' that are informing and shaping the assertion of Muslim identities in Britain, and what this can tell us about their future orientation. This book develops a novel sociological and political understanding of Muslim identities in Britain, which is elaborated through case studies of Muslim mobilizations over issues of education, discrimination legislation, media representation, as well as a consideration of the local impact of global concerns surrounding issues of terrorism and Muslim radicalism
2008+ solved problems in electromagnetics
No full textSciTech Publishing is reissuing this extremely valuable learning resource, originally published in 1992 in the Schaum's Problem-Solving Series for students of electromagnetics and those who wish to refresh and solidify their understanding of its challenging applications. Problem-solving drill helps develop confidence, but few textbooks offer the answers, never mind the complete solutions, to their chapter exercises. Here noted author Professor Syed Nasar has divided the book's problems into topic areas similar to a textbook and presented a wide array of problems, followed immediately by thei
È più restorative un ambiente naturale o costruito? Uno studio sugli skyline urbani notturni
No full textIntroduzione: In letteratura si riscontra un maggiore capacità rigenerativa (Restorativeness) degli ambienti naturali rispetto a quelli costruiti. Nasar e Terzano (2009) hanno rilevato una preferenza per gli skyline urbani notturni pari a quella degli ambienti naturali diurni, su costrutti chiave nella valutazione emotiva degli ambienti: Livability (la piacevolezza che suscita comportamenti come quello di andare, fermarsi, incontrare gente in un luogo) e Liveliness (una dimensione legata all’eccitazione) e Restorativeness (una dimensione legata all rilassamento e alla calma). Lo studio qui presentato vuole replicare tali risultati, con un insieme più controllato di immagini.
Metodo: 23 partecipanti tra i 19 e i 52 anni hanno valutato 32 immagini su tre scale: Restorativeness (5 item), Livability (4 item), Liveliness (3 item). Le immagini sono state scelte considerando due fattori, ciascuno a due livelli: Ambiente (naturale o costruito), Luce (diurna o notturna). Gli ambienti costruiti erano skyline urbani, e gli stessi ambienti erano ripresi di giorno e di notte.
Risultati: Un’ANOVA sulle immagini, considerando le tre scale come fattore entro i gruppi, e ambiente e luce come fattori tra i gruppi, ha evidenziato che gli ambienti naturali sono valutati come più restorative di giorno che di notte, situazione in cui sono valutati meno restorative degli skyline urbani notturni. La differenza tra ambienti naturali e skyline urbani, se valutata di giorno, è molto elevata. Per le altre due scale si accentuano le differenze tra natura e skyline urbano se valutati di notte, mentre si attenuano quelle delle stesse immagini, se valutate di giorno.
Conclusioni: Lo studio contribuisce a colmare una lacuna relativa alla valutazione della restarativeness anche in situazioni notturne, confrontando ambienti naturali, che risultano decisamente poco restorative, e skyline urbani, per i quali, al contrario, il livello di restorativeness risulta più elevato
Identity articulations, mobilisation and autonomy in the movement for Muslim schools in Britain
No full textMuslim schools in Britain have emerged as a highly salient issue that at times reinforces, and at other times cuts across, political and philosophical divides. It therefore comes as some surprise to learn that despite a general proliferation of literature on Muslims in Britain very little research has explicitly investigated how increasingly salient articulations of Muslim identities connect with the issue of Muslim schooling. To be sure, and notwithstanding sustained Muslim mobilizations for Muslim schools within and across diverse Muslim communities,
surprisingly little is known of how these mobilizations are being undertaken, what is being sought, and, more generally, why Muslim schools are deemed to be an important issue for different Muslim communities. By drawing upon two years of fieldwork, this article addresses these questions through the use of primary interviews with Muslim educators and stakeholders concerned with voluntary aided schooling, including teachers and Muslim educational associations,
alongside other case study instruments including field notes, and documentary and policy analysis. The article concludes that through an engagement with a range of
established educational conventions, norms, regulations and precedents, the testimonies of Muslim educators betray emerging syntheses between faith requirements and citizenship commitments that are seeking out negotiated, and
reciprocal, British Muslim identities<br/
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