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Features of the Higher Education for the Circular Economy: The Case of Italy
The higher education system plays a critical role in supporting the transition towards a circular economy (CE). It helps create business leaders and policymakers having appropriate skills, competences, and consciousness referring to the CE challenges. Nevertheless, few studies have specifically investigated how the higher education system is addressing the CE, how the current academic offering is integrating the CE principles, and which skills and competences are currently provided. This paper overcomes these limitations by investigating the current offering of the higher education for the CE in Italy. We analyze the academic programs, courses, and modules at different levels of 49 Italian universities and, by means of a detailed classification of the learning outcomes, provide a clear picture of the knowledge, skills, and competences offered by the CE education. We finally discuss implications of our findings concerning the development of CE education and CE jobs
A project based approach to learning for first year engineering students
Support for transition from Leaving Certificate and entry to college for 1st year engineering students
can be difficult to achieve. This new course offers an innovative project based approach to learning for
1st years with an introduction to design to build confidence in student ability and give motivation in
research and discovery skills. The project takes place in small groups and relies heavily on
presentation, group and individual skills. The Mechanical and Manufacturing and the Electronic
Engineering Schools at Dublin City University offered this new module for all first year Engineering
Students in 2006. The course entitled, âProject and Laboratory Skillsâ was an immediate success with
increased participation and retention rates and a high level of academic success in assessment. This
paper highlights the overall module concepts, teaching and learning outcomes and the resources
required for such a module
Energy levels and their correlations in quasicrystals
Quasicrystals can be considered, from the point of view of their electronic
properties, as being intermediate between metals and insulators. For example,
experiments show that quasicrystalline alloys such as AlCuFe or AlPdMn have
conductivities far smaller than those of the metals that these alloys are
composed from. Wave functions in a quasicrystal are typically intermediate in
character between the extended states of a crystal and the exponentially
localized states in the insulating phase, and this is also reflected in the
energy spectrum and the density of states. In the theoretical studies we
consider in this review, the quasicrystals are described by a pure hopping
tight binding model on simple tilings. We focus on spectral properties, which
we compare with those of other complex systems, in particular, the Anderson
model of a disordered metal.Comment: 15 pages including 19 figures. Review article, submitted to Phil. Ma
Interactions in Quasicrystals
Although the effects of interactions in solid state systems still remains a
widely open subject, some limiting cases such as the three dimensional Fermi
liquid or the one-dimensional Luttinger liquid are by now well understood when
one is dealing with interacting electrons in {\it periodic} crystalline
structures. This problem is much more fascinating when periodicity is lacking
as it is the case in {\it quasicrystalline} structures. Here, we discuss the
influence of the interactions in quasicrystals and show, on a controlled
one-dimensional model, that they lead to anomalous transport properties,
intermediate between those of an interacting electron gas in a periodic and in
a disordered potential.Comment: Proceedings of the Many Body X conference (Seattle, Sept. 99); 9
pages; uses epsfi
Spectrum and diffusion for a class of tight-binding models on hypercubes
We propose a class of exactly solvable anisotropic tight-binding models on an
infinite-dimensional hypercube. The energy spectrum is analytically computed
and is shown to be fractal and/or absolutely continuous according to the value
hopping parameters. In both cases, the spectral and diffusion exponents are
derived. The main result is that, even if the spectrum is absolutely
continuous, the diffusion exponent for the wave packet may be anything between
0 and 1 depending upon the class of models.Comment: 5 pages Late
The wage curve revisited: estimates from a UK panel
Panel data from the United Kingdom are used to estimate a wage curve that allows simultaneously for time, individual, and spatial effects and which thus finesses the problem of grouped data bias. Once allowance is made for the multilevel and cross-classified nature of the data, estimates of the unemployment elasticity of the wage are seen to be volatile and imprecise.
The growth and development of metropolitan planning strategies in Istanbul
Beside it?s historical, cultural and natural values in the international level, Istanbul is a world wide city which leads to national and regional development from socio-economic point of view. However, there are some obstacles to become an international metropolis. The two properties which have determined the growth dynamics negatively up to now are: ? Turkey?s industrialisation occurs mainly in Istanbul and the development of the city as an Industrial City, ? In a rapid and unhealthy developed city, the pressure of economic process base on speculations on real estates and other urban areas over business and political decision mechanism. Istanbul, with it?s approximately 9 million inhabitant, pulls a great amount of migrant every year. However, inadequacy in present infrastructure, housing stock and natural life sources which answer to migrants, leads to a complex structure in the city. There are some obstacles to become an international metropolis. The two properties which have determined the growth dynamics negatively up to now are: Istanbul Metropolitan Area Sub Region Master Plan done by Greater Municipality of Istanbul in 1995, aimed Istanbul to be a historical, cultural, scientific, artistic and service city integrated with regional countries and to take part in the hierarchy of world metropolitan cities in the current economic development process. According to this aim, Greater Municipality of Istanbul developed a strategic plan as a result of planning studies which direct city development. With this plan, ? Planning decisions in the metropolitan area that supply balanced land use for the protection of natural sources, cultural heritage and sustainable environment are formed. ? Transportation schema that ideally organises relations among the most convenient centre and sub-centres of Istanbul?s linear development, We are aimed to explain Istanbul Metropolitan Area Sub Region Master Plan.
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