117 research outputs found
What is this Philosophia Anyway?
No full textThis chapter explores contemporary understandings of philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as both a repository of final truth and a practical, life-changing discipline, demanding life-long commitment to a project of self-formation. Drawing attention to the curious position of philosophy as both an insider and a self-conscious outsider to conventional educated culture (paideia), it suggests that greater unease and greater potential for anxiety attended philosophia and philosophoi in the world of the novel than is often acknowledged. Michael Trapp is Professor of Greek Literature and Thought at King\u27s College London. He is the author of Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society, and the editor of Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (all Ashgate, 2007)
European Union efforts to fight judicial corruption: the Romanian case
No full textThis Master’s thesis addresses the EU efforts to fight judicial corruption in Romania. I argue that EU membership conditionality was relatively effective to lower the level of judicial corruption before Romania entered the EU in 2007. In addition, the EU socialization
and the domestic factors – legacy of communism, objective-material factors, and public opinion and levels of public trust – are quite influential regarding the implementation of EU initiatives and show the complexity of the Romanian case. Rather than using
merely the top-down logic of corruption indices or governance indicators, I also apply a bottom-up perspective and therefore particularly draw attention on disregarded measurement. This approach bears the benefit of capturing a range of informal practices that
are misinterpreted by the recent conceptualization of corruption. The before-after case study design and the process-tracing method allowed the analysis of pre-accession and post-accession conditionality in the context of judicial corruption. By assessing the EU
progress reports, the NIT scores and reports, the CPI and the GRECO reports, I found several remarkable developments regarding the fight against judicial corruption.Two of the key elements of EU conditionality – conditions and monitoring – have evolved significantly.
Thus, the introduction of post-accession benchmarks and the strengthening of the monitoring process represent important steps in the evolution of EU efforts to fight judicial corruption in Romania. However, the analysis shows that it is difficult to compensate
the pre-accession conditionality through post-accession monitoring mechanisms.
Although the analysis confirms that EU efforts had a significant impact to fight judicial corruption in Romania before accession, there is still room for improvements for the post-accession phase. Regarding the incentive structure, the analysis of the key documents finds evidence that this element of EU conditionality may be the main weakness. After Romania entered the EU, the EU lost its attractive accession advancement rewards
and was merely able to rely on explicit threats to induce compliance. However, the limited penalizing power of the remedial and preventive sanctions set up in the
framework of the CVM causes a fairly weak incentive structure which negatively influenced the effectiveness of post-accession conditionality.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Marius Benjamin Trap
Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man /
No full textMode of access: Internet.Library copy bound as 2 v. Bound with v. 2: The school of the heart, or, The heart (of itself gone away from God) brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him / by the author of The synagogue ..
Advances in Model-Based Design of Flexible and Prompt Energy Systems -- The CO2 Capture Plant at the Buggenum IGCC Power Station as a Test Case
No full textPre-combustion CO2 capture applied to integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants is a promising technical solution to reduce CO2 emissions due to fossil-fuelled electricity generation in order to meet environmental targets in a carbon-constrained future. The pre-combustion capture process allows to effectively remove CO2 from synthetic gas prior its combustion at high partial pressures. In addition, the net energy efficiency of decarbonised IGCC plants is estimated to be higher than that of conventional pulverized coal steam power plants integrating carbon capture. However, the removal of CO2 leads to a high efficiency penalty for the thermal power plant and an increase in system complexity. Moreover, the integration of carbon capture into the very complex gasification process and combined cycle power plant leads to technical problems as far as dynamic operation is concerned. Transient performance of future IGCC power plants becomes extremely relevant in order to balance the rapidly growing share of electricity converted from inherently intermittent renewable sources, such as wind and solar energy. The work documented in this thesis was part of a larger research project involving the utility company Vattenfall, the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and the Delft University of Technology aimed at the development of pre-combustion CO2 capture technology to be applied in a future commercial-scale IGCC power plant. A unique, fully instrumented CO2 capture pilot plant was realized at the Buggenum IGCC power station in the Netherlands in order to demonstrate the technology, to investigate its performance and to generate data for model validation. The most relevant research objectives of this thesis are to improve and develop general tools and methodologies which i) facilitate detailed steady-state performance analysis and sophisticated optimization of process design and operating conditions and ii) enable studies on process dynamics already during the early design phase in order to support the choice of equipment and control strategies aiming at the improvement of transient performance. The tools and methods are developed for the case-specific analysis of the pre-combustion CO2 capture plant at the Buggenum IGCC power station. With respect to generalization, it is worth to highlight that the adopted system engineering techniques and tools are applicable to the design of a larger class of chemical and energy conversion systems with minor changes.Aerodynamics, Wind Energy, Flight Performance and PropulsionAerospace Engineerin
Analysis of the dynamic performance of a MEA-based carbon capture unit for coal-fired power plants
No full textOne of the possibilities to reduce our carbon footprint is carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, whereby CO? is captured and kept for long-term storage in empty gas or oil fields. In this study the constraints and flexibility during transient operation of a post-combustion capture unit are assessed using an equilibrium-based dynamic model of the capture unit. The dynamic models are developed in Modelica, an open-source, object-oriented and equation-based language for the modeling of physical systems. Where possible, existing model libraries are used or modified in order to obtain a complete model of the capture unit. The plant utilizes monoethanolamine (MEA) as the absorption fluid. The dynamic model is validated with open-loop step response tests performed at the TNO pilot plant. Based on the performed validation, it can be concluded that the transient responses in terms of trend and time constant of the capture rate, absorber temperatures and solvent CO? loading are in good agreement with the experiments. In order to assess the operational flexibility of a capture unit, three test cases were defined and simulated with the validated capture unit model.Energy TechnologyProcess and EnergyMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
A kontaktreagálásokat befolyásoló tényezők az intézkedések során, valamint azok integrálása képzési rendszerekbe = Factors affecting contact reactions during measures and their integration into training systems
No full textCél: A közrend, közbiztonság megteremtéséért, valamint annak fenntartásáért felelős szereplők intézkedéstaktikai képzéseinek megreformálása, egységesítése az azonos intézkedési kultúra kialakításának elősegítése érdekében.
Módszertan: A tanulmány szerzője gyakorló rendészeti szakemberként vizsgálja az elkülönült szekció eszközrendszerét, szereplőinek képességét, valamint intézkedéseik során fellépő hatások vizsgálatát. Realisztikus helyzetgyakorlatok elemzésével vizsgálja a döntéshozatali mechanizmusok körének fázisait, illetve az azokat befolyásoló pszichológiai tényezőket.
Megállapítások: A szerző az intézkedéstaktikai képzésekben rejlő lehetőségekre irányítja a figyelmet, valamint arra, hogy a tanulmányban szereplő ismeretek hogyan segíthetik elő az egyénre kivetített felkészítést.
Érték: A tanulmány szerzője az állami rendvédelmi szervek, valamint a magánszektor képzési rendszerének fejlesztési lehetőségeit kívánja elősegíteni, melynek eredményeként fókuszba kerül az oktatók specifikus felkészítésének hiányossága, valamint annak megreformálási időszerűsége is. A szerző a rendészeti szereplők viselkedési aspektusainak vizsgálatával támogatni kívánja mindazon jó gyakorlatokat, amelyek a kontaktreagálások oktatási tematikába integrált hatékonyságát és ezzel párhuzamban a kiválasztási rendszer együttműködését segítik elő. | Aim: To reform and unify the measures tactical training of actors responsible for creating and maintaining public order and security in order to promote the development of a uniform culture of measures.Methodology: As a practicing police officer, the author of the study examines the equipment system of the isolated section, the capabilities of its actors, and the effects of their actions. By analysing realistic situation exercises, it examines the phases of the range of decision making mechanisms and the psychological factors influencing them.Findings: The author directs attention to the possibilities inherent inaction tactics training, as well as to how the knowledge included int he study can help prepare the individual.Value: The author of the study wants to promote the development possibilities of the training system of the state law enforcement agencies and the private sector, as a result of which the deficiency of the specific training of the instructors is brought into focus, as well as the timeliness of its reformation. By examining the behavioural aspects of law enforcement officers, the author wishes to support all the good practices that promote the effectiveness of contact responses integrated into the educational theme and, in parallel, the cooperation of the selection system
Analytical solutions and criteria for the quantum discord of two-qubit X-states
No full textExcept for a few special states, computing quantum discord remains a complicated optimization
process. In this paper we present analytical solutions for computing quantum discord of the most
general class of X-states and the criteria for each analytical solution to be valid. We discuss parameter
regions that correspond to different analytical solutions and explain the underlying reasons for
such structure to exist. We apply our formalism to study both arbitrary X-states and X-states with
certain symmetries. We find that our analytical formalism is in excellent agreement with numerical
calculation of quantum discord in both cases
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