31 research outputs found
9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Driven Systems
The 9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Driven Systems (EEMODS'15) was be held in Helsinki (Finland) on 15-17 September, 2015. The EEMODS'15 conferences have been very successful in attracting distinguished and international presenters and attendees. The wide variety of stakeholders has included professionals involved in manufacturing, marketing, and promotion of energy efficient motors and motor driven systems and representatives from research labs, academia, and public policy.
EEMODSâ15 provided a forum to discuss and debate the latest developments in the impacts of electrical motor systems (advanced motors and drives, compressors, pumps, and fans) on energy and the environment, the policies and programmes adopted and planned, and the technical and commercial advances made in the dissemination and penetration of energy-efficient motor systems. In addition EEMODS covered also energy management in organizations, international harmonization of test method and financing of energy efficiency in motor systems. The Book of Proceedings contains the peer reviewed paper that have been presented at the conference.JRC.F.7-Renewables and Energy Efficienc
Advanced Automation for Space Missions
The feasibility of using machine intelligence, including automation and robotics, in future space missions was studied
Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design
This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer
role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse
engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social
activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. It is an
engaged and collective process of enablement, creative resistance and DIY practice,
where a community share methods and experiences on how to expand action spaces
and develop new forms of craftsmanship. In this practice, the designer engages participants
to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective
experience of empowerment, in other words, to make them become fashion-able.
As its point of departure, the research takes the practice of hands-on exploration in the
DIY upcycling of clothes through âopen sourceâ fashion âcookbooksâ. By means of
hands-on processes, the projects endeavour to create a complementary understanding
of the modes of production within the field of fashion design. The artistic research
projects have ranged from DIY-kits released at an international fashion week, fashion
experiments in galleries, collaborative âhackingâ at a shoe factory, engaged design at a
rehabilitation centre as well as combined efforts with established fashion brands.
Using parallels from hacking, heresy, fan fiction, small change and professional-amateurs,
the thesis builds a non-linear framework by which the reader can draw diagonal
interpretations through the artistic research projects presented. By means of this alternative
reading new understandings may emerge that can expand the action spaces
available for fashion design. This approach is not about subverting fashion as much as
hacking and tuning it, and making its sub-routines run in new ways, or in other words,
bending the current while still keeping the power on
Creating Through Mind and Emotions
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind and Emotions were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. This platform also aims to foster the awareness and discussion on Creating Through Mind and Emotions, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Creating Through Mind and Emotions has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts
Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming: The Semeiotic Fabric of Life
Walker Percy thought a paradigm for the modern age, human beings, and life does not exist, and no paradigm vying for supremacy (religion, scientism, new age physics and philosophies) succeeds. He sought to create a âradical anthropologyâ to describe human beings and life. His anthropology has existential roots and culminates in the philosophy and semeiotic of American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. Unlike any other creature, humans have symbolic capacity, first manifested in a childâs naming and demonstrated in human beingâs unique language ability, the ability to communicate through symbol and not just sign. Percy conveyed his anthropology in his last three novels through a number symbolism corresponding to the theme of each novel based on Peirceâs Cenopythagoreanism, viewing the world through the paradigm of number. In Lancelot, Percy uses the symbol of the inverted three to illustrate Lancelotâs inverted search for evil. In The Second Coming, he uses diamonds and squares and fours to illustrate community and authentic communication in the novel. In The Thanatos Syndrome, he uses twos and sixes to represent the search for dyadic solutions to triadic problems. Percy sees a synechistic and synchronistic interconnected âfabric of lifeâ to the universe, enabled by human symbolic capacity, or Peirceâs concept of relations
Globalistics and globalization studies big history and global history
This yearbook is the fourth in the series with the title Globalistics and Globalization Studies.
The subtitle of the present volume is Global History & Big History. The point is that today our
global world really demands global knowledge. Thus, there are a few actively developing
multidisciplinary approaches and integral disciplines among which one can name Global Studies,
Global History and Big History. They all provide a connection between the past, present, and
future. Big History with its vast and extremely heterogeneous field of research encompasses all
the forms of existence and all timescales and brings together constantly updated information from
the scientific disciplines and the humanities. Global History is transnational or world history
which examines history from a global perspective, making a wide use of comparative history and
of the history of multiple cultures and nations. Global Studies express the view of systemic
and epistemological unity of global processes. Thus, one may argue that Global Studies and
Globalistics can well be combined with Global History and Big History and such a multidisciplinary
approach can open wide horizons for the modern university education as it helps to
form a global view of various processes
Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Big History & Global History. Yearbook
This yearbook is the fourth in the series with the title Globalistics and Globalization Studies. The subtitle of the present volume is Global History & Big History. The point is that today our global world really demands global knowledge. Thus, there are a few actively developingmultidisciplinary approaches and integral disciplines among which one can name Global Studies,Global History and Big History. They all provide a connection between the past, present, andfuture. Big History with its vast and extremely heterogeneous field of research encompasses allthe forms of existence and all timescales and brings together constantly updated information fromthe scientific disciplines and the humanities. Global History is transnational or world historywhich examines history from a global perspective, making a wide use of comparative history andof the history of multiple cultures and nations. Global Studies express the view of systemicand epistemological unity of global processes. Thus, one may argue that Global Studies and Globalistics can well be combined with Global History and Big History and such a multidisciplinary approach can open wide horizons for the modern university education as it helps to form a global view of various processes
Towards a Legal end Ethical Framework for Personal Care Robots. Analysis of Person Carrier, Physical Assistant and Mobile Servant Robots.
Technology is rapidly developing, and regulators and robot creators inevitably have to come to terms with new and unexpected scenarios. A thorough analysis of this new and continuosuly evolving reality could be useful to better understand the current situation and pave the way to the future creation of a legal and ethical framework. This is clearly a wide and complex goal, considering the variety of new technologies available today and those under development. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the evaluation of the impacts of personal care robots. In particular, it analyzes how roboticists adjust their creations to the existing regulatory framework for legal compliance purposes.
By carrying out an impact assessment analysis, existing regulatory gaps and lack of regulatory clarity can be highlighted. These gaps should of course be considered further on by lawmakers for a future legal framework for personal care robot.
This assessment should be made first against regulations. If the creators of the robot do not encounter any limitations, they can then proceed with its development. On the contrary, if there are some limitations, robot creators will either (1) adjust the robot to comply with the existing regulatory framework; (2) start a negotiation with the regulators to change the law; or (3) carry out the original plan and risk to be non-compliant.
The regulator can discuss existing (or lacking) regulations with robot developers and give a legal response accordingly. In an ideal world, robots are clear of impacts and therefore threats can be responded in terms of prevention and opportunities in form of facilitation. In reality, the impacts of robots are often uncertain and less clear, especially when they are inserted in care applications. Therefore, regulators will have to address uncertain risks, ambiguous impacts and yet unkown effects
Tripping the light fantastic: exploring the imaginative geographies of Lord of the Rings âfilm tourismâ in New Zealand
From screen image to imagined spaces, the Lord of the Rings film-tourism experience â that is, tourism to New Zealand apparently motivated by the popular film trilogy which was filmed there â has received much anecdotal attention, yet little scholarly examination. In particular, how tourists are affected by the âyouâve seen the movie, now visit the set!â adage, remains under-examined. Whilst sociologies of tourism tend to emphasize the visual, spectatorial and passive nature of mediated forms of tourism, actual experiences of visiting the former film sets tend to challenge such theorizations of the phenomenon. In fact, what we find in New Zealand is a touristic landscape marked only by its absences and virtualities- little remains to show of âMiddle-earth on earthâ, leaving us with the question of what it is that, as tourists, we actually consume, and on what basis the apparently visual causality of cinematic tourism can be sustained. This research thus employs recent scholarship in cultural geography attuned to the more-than-representational and affective realms, in order to build a conceptually novel approach to thinking through âthe film-touristâ. Rather than starting out from a position of critique, such an approach seeks to explore the âoperational logicsâ of tourist experience, how meaning is made through practices of popular culture consumption and tourism. Through a consideration of how tourists navigate these complex cinematic spaces, we find that visitors â both those who are fans or enthusiasts of The Lord of the Rings, and those who are simply âdoing a rings thingâ as part of a broader touristic itinerary â engage in a range of animated practices, that demonstrate both an awareness of these multiply-mediated spaces, and an interest not only in âwalking in the footstepsâ of Frodo and the fellowship, but also in the âbackstageâ of the filmsâ production, and the very creation of âMiddle earth- on earthâ in New Zealand