Η Ορθόδοξη θρησκευτικότητα ως παράγων πρόληψης του καπνίσματος στους μαθητές/τριες του Αμερικανικού Κολλεγίου Ελλάδoς ηλικίας 13-18 ετών

Η παρούσα πολυεπίπεδη εμπειρική έρευνα, που διενεργήθηκε σε ένα δείγμα 500 μαθητών και μαθητριών Γυμνασίου και Λυκείου τού Αμερικανικού Κολέγιου Ελλάδας, ερευνά τον ρόλο τής θρησκευτικότητας στην πρόληψη της χρήσης προϊόντων καπνού μεταξύ τών έφηβων, ηλικίας 13 έως 18 ετών. Η έρευνα κατέδειξε ότι η θρησκευτικότητα στην εφηβεία μπορεί, αν και έμμεσα, να δημιουργήσει «προστατευτική ασπίδα» στην προσωπικότητα των νέων ανθρώπων και να τους κρατήσει μακριά από τα «δεσμά» τής καπνιστικής συνήθειας και συμπεριφοράς, λειτουργώντας προληπτικά και ταυτόχρονα αποτρεπτικά. Παράλληλα, οι παρεμβάσεις πρόληψης του καπνίσματος στο οικογενειακό, το σχολικό και το ευρύτερο κοινωνικό περιβάλλον —αν μάλιστα είναι φορτισμένες με θρησκευτικές, ηθικές και γενικότερα πνευματικές αξίες— είναι καταλυτικής σημασίας και σπουδαιότητας για την προστασία τών έφηβων από τις βλαβερές εξαρτησιογόνες ουσίες τού τσιγάρου.This multi-level empirical research, conducted on a sample of 500 pupils attending the Gymnasium and Lyceum of the American College of Greece, investigates the role of religiosity in preventing the use of tobacco products among adolescents aged 13-18 years. The research showed that religiosity in adolescence can, albeit indirectly, create "a protective shield" in the personality of young people and keep them away from the "shackles" of smoking habits and behavior by acting proactively and at the same time as a deterrent. Meanwhile, smoking prevention interventions in the family, the school and the wider social environment is of great importance and significance - however charged with religious moral and general spiritual axes- towards protecting teenagers from harmful addictive substances

SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION OF OLIVE TREES BY REUSING OLIVE MILL WASTES AFTER EFFECTIVE CO-COMPOSTING TREATMENT PROCESSES

All olives’ treatment processes (olives, olive oil, olive wooden residue) produce liquid and solid wastes, which are considered toxic. The treatment of these wastes by using conventional technologies (aerobic/anaerobic biological treatment, incineration, gasification ect) proved to be neither technically nor cost effective. This fact treats the olive oil production by complete cease due to the serious environmental problems caused. The proposed technology includes the detoxification of wastewater by Fenton oxidation reactions and following their utilization by biological treatment methods. The latter is achieved by the implementation of anaerobic digestion process on the oxidized wastewater and the consequent methane production and by co-composting the oxidized or/and anaerobic digested wastewater with solid wastes (olive mill wooden residue, leaves, branches ect.), leading to the production of a high quality soil conditioner. The biogas produced could be utilized for in situ thermal and electrical energy production. The two biological processes used (anaerobic digestion and composting) are ideal combined, since the anaerobic digested wastewaters are totally used in composting process, while the excess thermal energy produced by biogas utilization can accelerate the aerobic biological processes resulting in a high quality biological fertilizer. The proposed technology is effective and simple to be implemented. Wastewaters derive either from two or three phase olive mill could be treated. This technology can be implemented either in one olive mill scale or in central wastewater treatment plants. The proposed technology can not only effectively face the serious environmental problems caused by olive mill wastewater disposal, but it poses new perspectives in olive trees cultivation and olive oil and its by-products market