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Restorative Justice as Social Innovation
No full textThe essay explains the relevance of the “restorative paradigm” in the context of the debate on “social innovation”, particularly addressing the topic of the management of conflicts. A “restorative approach” to wrongdoing in ordinary relationships could mean a new way to reduce the paralyzing effects of “evil” in human experience and to facilitate the return to cooperation between people. The essay also briefly presents the studies collected in the book
Spent coffee grounds as heat source for coffee roasting plants: Experimental validation and case study
No full textThe aim of this work is to validate a new sustainable economic circle where coffee roasting companies recycle spent coffee grounds as a source of thermal energy to produce roasted coffee. The green coffee beans need a significant quantity of heat in the roasting process and this energy could be obtained from the spent coffee grounds discarded by espresso bars. According to the concept of circular economy, a coffee company collects the coffee disposed by the bars where it was brewed, and uses it in a heat generator for the roasting process. This paper presents the feasibility of SCG-wood sawdust pelletization and combustion in a 29 kWthair furnace. Results of the tests report a thermal efficiency of 41.2% instead of 37.7% obtained with only wood pellet. In addition, the case study of a small Italian roasting company is discussed. The company produces about 5 tons of roasted coffee per day and it uses 400 Nm3/day of natural gas as heat source. The company totally satisfies its energy demand through wood-coffee pellet combustion instead of natural gas. According to the business plan, the pay-back period of the investment is four years after which company CO2emissions significantly decrease
La "malattia sacra" di Cambise: una diagnosi erodotea?
No full textThe author analyses Herodotus' choice of his sources in order to strike a balance between two recent publications which define Herodotus' text as almost exclusively 'religious' or 'scientific'. The case study is the description of the figure of Cambyses in the third book of the 'Histories'. There are historical grounds for the narrative of Cambyses' infamous deeds in Egypt. The traditional thesis of the deprivation of economic privileges for the Egyptian temples by Cambyses as the only cause of his negative fame in ancient historiography should be rejected. It is likely that at least the first part of Cambyses' reign in Egypt was marked by violent and dramatic changes – which anyway do not include Cambyses' alleged murder of the bull-god Apis. The influence of Hippocratic medicine on Herodotus' depiction of Cambyses' madness should not be overestimated. Although Herodotus is familiar with some ideas and notions shared by contemporary physicians, his narrative of Cambyses' actions is not strongly conditioned by them, and certainly has no connection with the main thesis of the author of the Hippocratic work named 'On the sacred disease'. The sources and opinions collected by Herodotus do not aim at a 'scientific' narrative of a madman's deeds, but rather at a moral vision of the Persian monarchic power
Production of biofuel from used coffee grounds
No full textBrenda Addison-Jones' explores the effectiveness of energy alternatives using used coffee grounds and a Bomb Clarinometer, a standard apparatus that measures the total heat content of substances. This PowerPoint presentation is in lieu of a live recording as part of the DC Research Café (November, 2020).biofuelheatcoffee groundsbomb calorimeterenerg
Potential neuroprotective effect of spent coffee grounds extracts against neurodegeneration
No full textSpent Coffee Grounds (SCG), a waste product of the coffee industry, are a renewable source of a wide range of nutraceutical compounds. Coffee wastes are particularly rich in phenols like phenolic acids such as chlorogenic, ellagic, caffeic, gallic, trans-ferulic, p-coumaric,
p-hydroxybenzoic, tannic, and protocatechuic acids; flavonoids such as rutin, catechin,
epicatechin, and quercetin. The positive effects of polyphenols in counteracting neurodegeneration have been highlighted by several studies. Although neurodegenerative diseases have a multifactorial aetiology, oxidative stress and neuroinflammation play a key role in their onset
The darker side of conflict: the case of Simone Gbagbo
No full textThe paper analyses the other, and darker, side of gender and conflict through a critical discussion of women who are accused of orchestrating and/or perpetrating crimes defined within the Rome Statute 1998. Focus is centred on the International Criminal Court (ICC) case of Simone Gbagbo in relation to the internal political violence that occurred within the Côte d’Ivoire following the 2010 general election result. The ICC unsealed an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo on the 22nd of November 2012, alleging responsibility as indirect co-perpetrator for four counts of crimes against humanity which includes, but is not limited to, murder, rape and other sexual violence, persecution and other inhumane acts. The paper critically examines the situation in Côte d’Ivoire within the context of Simone Gbagbo’s involvement. Furthermore, the paper outlines what role the ICC believe she played within the post-electoral violence and discuss why, and under what grounds, the ICC has sought her extradition to the Hague which has not, as of yet, occurred.</p
The darker side of conflict: the case of Simone Gbagbo
No full textThe paper analyses the other, and darker, side of gender and conflict through a critical discussion of women who are accused of orchestrating and/or perpetrating crimes defined within the Rome Statute 1998. Focus is centred on the International Criminal Court (ICC) case of Simone Gbagbo in relation to the internal political violence that occurred within the Côte d’Ivoire following the 2010 general election result. The ICC unsealed an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo on the 22nd of November 2012, alleging responsibility as indirect co-perpetrator for four counts of crimes against humanity which includes, but is not limited to, murder, rape and other sexual violence, persecution and other inhumane acts. The paper critically examines the situation in Côte d’Ivoire within the context of Simone Gbagbo’s involvement. Furthermore, the paper outlines what role the ICC believe she played within the post-electoral violence and discuss why, and under what grounds, the ICC has sought her extradition to the Hague which has not, as of yet, occurred.</p
The Role of National Parliaments in the EU: Thoughts on Its Ambiguities and Shortcomings
No full textThe Lisbon Treaty provides national parliaments (NPs) with a formal role in the European
Union in order to overcome the democratic deficit. Yet, this role rests upon ambiguous grounds
and has major shortcomings. After situating the democratic deficit from the perspective of
representative democracy, this paper discusses the conceptual, historical and empirical
ambiguities of the role of NP
Standing Firm, on Forbidden Grounds
No full textThis introductory Article to the Title VII Symposium contained in this issue of the San Diego Law Review addresses the critiques leveled at the book Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws. Richard Epstein, the author of the book, recognizes the disagreement expressed in the Articles in the Symposium, and attempts to defend his thesis in this Article. He argued in Forbidden Grounds that the best set of overall social outcomes would come from eliminating antidiscrimination laws which prohibit employer discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, sex, age, handicap, or anything else. In this Article, he addresses several issues raised by other Articles and concludes that his thesis is only made stronger when all objections to Forbidden Grounds are taken into account
Cultural traditions across a migratory network shape the genetic structure of southern right whales around Australia and New Zealand
No full textELC was supported by the AMMC and a Newton Fellowship from the Royal Society and RH in part by a Sitka Sound Science Centre Scientist in Residency Fellowship. OEG acknowledges support from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland).Fidelity to migratory destinations is an important driver of connectivity in marine and avian species. Here we assess the role of maternally directed learning of migratory habitats, or migratory culture, on the population structure of the endangered Australian and New Zealand southern right whale. Using DNA profiles, comprising mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes (500 bp), microsatellite genotypes (17 loci) and sex from 128 individually-identified whales, we find significant differentiation among winter calving grounds based on both mtDNA haplotype (FST = 0.048, ΦST = 0.109, p < 0.01) and microsatellite allele frequencies (FST=0.008, p<0.01), consistent with long-term fidelity to calving areas. However, most genetic comparisons of calving grounds and migratory corridors were not significant, supporting the idea that whales from different calving grounds mix in migratory corridors. Furthermore, we find a significant relationship between δ13C stable isotope profiles of 66 Australian southern right whales, a proxy for feeding ground location, and both mtDNA haplotypes and kinship inferred from microsatellite-based estimators of relatedness. This indicates migratory culture may influence genetic structure on feeding grounds. This fidelity to migratory destinations is likely to influence population recovery, as long-term estimates of historical abundance derived from estimates of genetic diversity indicate the South Pacific calving grounds remain at <10% of pre- whaling abundance.Peer reviewe
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