168 research outputs found
The role of the renewable resources in local development: the case of geothermal water energy exploitation in Oradea, Romania
No full textEconomic development in the new century faces the challenge of declining geological resources. While there continues to be a direct link between the per capita energy use and the living standard, the concerm now is for enhanced consumer safety and environmental protection. In this process, alternative renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy, offer both an affordable and sustainable solution. This is because renewable energy technologies generate a small amount of pollutant emissions and waste, decreasing significantly the chemical and physical (thermal, radioactive) pollution. This paper analyses the exploitation of geothermal water in Oradea, Bihor County, Romania as a sustainable solution for a local development. Results of the analysis indicate that the advantages of using this type of energy include a clean and renewable resource, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, saving of fossil fuels, prices below those of conventional sources, minimal risk of external market fluctuations, widespread usability, psychological comfort of the user, and, the possibility of improved health
The conception of inter-communal structures in the urban-rural relations of Bihor County, Romania
No full textUrbanisation or urban drift often results in imbalanced regional development where the urban thrives and the rural becomes deprived. Efforts to correct this imbalance in the form of growth pole models rarely met with success because of many factors, not least, political. There are nevertheless growth pole models of polycentric development which can foster harmonious relationships between urban and rural areas. This paper illustrates this point with special reference to the conception of eleven Territorial Planning Units (TPU) in the Romanian county of Bihor. The hallmark of the TPU is the establishment of inter-communal structures which manage to circumvent the unhealthy polarisation of conventional urbanisation, reduce regional disparities and strengthen rural- urban relationships because they pay due attention to the needs and interests of local communities
The role of the renewable resources in local development: The case of geothermal water energy exploitation in Oradea, Romania
No full textEconomic development in the new century faces the challenge of declining geological resources. While there continues to be a direct link between the per capita energy use and the living standard, the concerm now is for enhanced consumer safety and environmental protection. In this process, alternative renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy, offer both an affordable and sustainable solution. This is because renewable energy technologies generate a small amount of pollutant emissions and waste, decreasing
significantly the chemical and physical (thermal, radioactive) pollution. This paper analyses the exploitation of geothermal water in Oradea, Bihor County, Romania as a sustainable solution for a local development.
Results of the analysis indicate that the advantages of using this type of energy include a clean and renewable resource, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, saving of fossil fuels, prices below those of conventional sources, minimal risk of external market fluctuations, widespread usability, psychological comfort of the user, and, the possibility of improved health
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No full textA csodálatos kék orvosság megszerzéséről szóló történetnek, melytől a halálosan beteg Mami gyógyulása függ, emberek és állatok a szereplői. Valentin, a regény nyolcéves hőse, védelmére kel egy bányafolyosóba zuhant lónak, s ezzel megszerzi a képességet, melynek birtokában megérti az állatok beszédét, s eljut az állatok szigetére, ahol fontos állást tölt be a kóbor kutyának nézett Harisnyás, sőt saját macskájuk, Kandurka is. A kisfiú segít megmenteni a sérült lovat; a sziget polgára lesz, mert vállalja az állatok közösségének jóra intő, emberséges törvényeit. A Sziget-kék meséjét nemes humanizmusa, izgalmas cselekménye, kedves humora korosztálytól függetlenné teszi
The Smiling Pharaoh of Budapest
No full textInternational audiencePublication of the head and upper torso of a granodiorite statue of a king wearing a nemes (inv. no. 51.2049, acquired in 1934) that the author suggests may have depicted a figure kneeling and presenting small offering pots, of which 23 cm survive from an estimated roughly 85 cm height. He dates the statue to the late Middle Kingdom. The treatment includes comparisons of types of nemes and uraeus, as well as of the treatment of torsos. On p. 58-62 is a list of all late Middle Kingdom statues of kings known to the author
When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances
No full textThe author investigates the political determinants of government decisions that benefit special interest groups - especially government decisions to deal with banking crises. He finds that the better informed the voters, the more proximate elections, and the larger the number of political veto players ( conditional on the costs to voters of relevant policy decision), the smaller the government's fiscal transfer are to the financial sector and the less likely the government is to exercise forbearance in dealing with insolvent financial institutions. The results suggest that policies thatmight be appropriate for mitigating banking crises in the United States might be less effective in settings where voters are less informed, where elections are less competitive, and where there are fewer veto players, because in these settings checks and balances are missing. These policies include: a) Disseminating information about the costs of inefficient government decisions. b) Improving the structure of legislative regulatory oversight. c) Intervening early in insolvent banks. The author concludes that the more veto players there are, the less likely policies are to favor special interest groups (contrary to previous views). Moreover, the closer the elections, the less likely policies are to favor special interest groups.
Modular Verification of Communicating Sequential Processes
No full textThe semantics of communication in a distributed computing environment without shared objects are investigated from the viewpoint of modularity and hierarchical system structure. Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), Hoare's language for parallel programming, is modified and expanded to support process modularity and hierarchical structure using a port construction. A formal axiomatic 'verification methodology for partial correctness is developed that extends the Hoare axiomatic proof methodology for sequential (nonparallel) programs to CSP-like programs, without resort to global invariants. Hierarchical structure and modularity are fully supported within the proof system. Processes are verified against an abstract entity, the interface, thereby achieving a formal notion of process specification and plug-compatibility. Alongside maintenance to a system is maintenance to its correctness proof, the two evolving side by side in an isomorphic fashion. The formalism is broadened further to include shared ports by the introduction of a universal assertion termed Kirchhoff's Law. Several examples are provided that demonstrate the methodology, including a modular proof of the generic single-entry, multiple-user CSP subroutine process.Technical report DCS-TR-15
Eco-industrial parks: global standardization and institutionalization of the concept
No full textThe present paper aims to give an overview of the role of international organizations in the development of eco-industrial parks (EIP) worldwide. The study introduces the term of EIP and explains why and how an international framework and an institutionalized background could contribute to the harmonization of the currently present diverse logic and thinking behind the concept. The author reviewed the publications of the selected international organizations which are actively seeking ways to improve the existing eco-industrial parks, as well as trying to spread the practice globally
Reconsidering Theoretical Approaches to New Religious Movements and their Surrounding Phenomena
No full textIn his dissertation, the author aims to refresh and revise the Scottish phenomenologist Ninian Smart's 1996 morphology of religion. In doing so, the author extends Smart's multidimensional framework to contemporary emergent, new, alternative, quasi-, and para-religious phenomena, which he treats collectively under the umbrella term 'new religiosity.'
Taking the social processes of the 1960s in the West as a point of departure, the author analyses them from philosophical, historical, social-psychological, and phenomenological perspectives and points out the factors which - in his opinion - could have led to the fundamental transformation of contemporary postmodern religiosity. The author also draws on the contexts and critiques of theories of religion, such as the secularization paradigm, the religious market model, pluralism, the culture of individualism in opposition to collectivism, and the crisis of meaning and identity of spiritual statelessness to support his argument. He also outlines five strategies that have emerged in the sphere of the new religiosity to address this crisis. Using elements of Foucault's discourse theory, the author also points to unresolved questions concerning the terminology of New Religions Studies (NRS) and takes a stand on the methodologies as well as conceptual tools he considers appropriate, thereby also defining his own - inter- or even transdisciplinary - viewpoint.
Applying the seven-dimensional model to new religiosity - interpreting each dimension as a pair of interacting "lenses" - the author highlights the basic morphological features of the phenomenon under discussion and, on the basis of these, refines Smart's otherwise outstanding framework. He illustrates the validity of his observations with brief case studies and concludes by pointing to the inherently religious character of the cultural anthropological construct of homo religiosus. Defining religiosity as an anthropological constant, he concludes his dissertation with the thesis that, for the disciplines dealing with religiosity, new religious phenomena are just as essential subjects as their 'historical' counterparts and the two seemingly separated fields shall be examined as a whole
RANDOM MATRIX STATISTICAL MEASURES AS APPLIED TO THE VIBRATION-ROTATION SPECTRA OF A FEW SIMPLE MOLECULES
No full textAuthor Institution: Research Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungar
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