728 research outputs found

    Pengarusutamaan Gender dan Optimalisasi Peran Serikat Pekerja Sebagai Upaya Perlindungan Berbasis Gender Bagi Perempuan Buruh Pabrik di Kabupaten Karanganyar

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    This research aims to find strategies of gender-based protection for women worker in Karanganyar. The emergence of Legal Law (Istruksi Presiden No. 9 Tahun 2000) about gender mainstreaming making every stakeholders should integrate gender as perspective in every policy. The aim is to involve Gender Equality. One of the phenomena obeyed by government is women workers problem. Many situations have described how the marginalization of women workers. Their accses getting legal protection from government was limited. One of efforts to protect women worker based on gender perspective could be done by implemented gender mainstreaming. This research used case study in two textile industry in Karanganyar. The collecting data were from FGD, indepth interview and non participant observation. Based on the research, strategy of gender-based protection for women worker could be run through worker union. Every company should have union worker and make contractual worker (perjanjian kerja bersama). The protection of women worker could be done by integrating gender perspective on contractual worker arrangement. Therefore every department in Karanganyar should implemented gender mainstreaming so monitoring and evaluation could be done by Department of Labor and Transmigration. This department should be ensure that the contractual worker in every company has a specific protection for women worker. Key Words: Women Workers, Gender Mainstreaming, Union Worke

    Tracking atmospheric and riverine terrigenous supplies variability during the last glacial and the Holocene in central Mediterranean

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    International audienceA multiproxy study coupling mineralogical, grain size and geochemical approaches was used to tentatively retrace eolian and fluvial contributions to sedimentation in the Sicilian Tunisian Strait since the last glacial. The eolian supply is dominant over the whole interval, excepted during the sapropel Si when riverine contribution apparently became significant. Saharan contribution increased during the B011ing Allerod, evidencing the persistence of aridity over North Africa although the northern Mediterranean already experienced moister and warmer conditions. The Younger Dryas is marked by proximal dust inputs, highlighting intense regional eolian activity. A southward migration of dust provenance toward Sahel occurred at the onset of the Holocene, likely resulting from a southward position of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone that was probably associated with a large-scale atmospheric reorganization. Finally, a peculiar high terrigenous flux associated with drastic modifications of the mineralogical and geochemical sediment signature occurred during the sapropel 51, suggesting the propagation of fine particles derived from major floodings of the Nile River resulting from enhanced rainfall on northeastern Africa and their transportation across the Sicilian Tunisian Strait by intermediate water masses

    Climate-induced conservation risks of historic reinforced concrete buildings: Preliminary results from literature review

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    Environmental conditions can favour different kinds of deterioration in historic reinforced concrete structures. This preliminary results from literature review are focused on the climate-induced risks affecting reinforced concrete buildings with respect to mechanical, chemical, and biological deterioration. To this purpose, a three-step process defined by the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) flow diagram, was used leading to the inclusion of 45 documents identified via the search engines Scopus and Web of Science. The outcomes highlight that chemical and mechanical decays are the most investigated ones, being mainly triggered by salt weathering and freezing-thawing cycles. It was found that experimental and theoretical approaches are often coupled to estimate climate-induced deterioration mechanisms, also considering environmental parameters. Finally, the literature search provides some milestones which can be used to evaluate gaps and research needs in the field of climate-induced conservative risks affecting reinforced concrete structures

    Preliminary study of the mechanical and hygrothermal performance of concrete reinforced with fibrillated cellulose

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    Cement, being the most widely used building material, is the responsible for a large share of greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce the environmental impact of its production, natural fibres can be used as eco-friendly additives. Moreover, their potential use in traditional lime-based mortars makes them an ideal choice for green buildings as well as for the retrofit of historical buildings. An innovative cementitious composite reinforced with fibrillated cellulose (hereafter called «green concrete») was tested to assess its mechanical and physical properties. Samples were casted using Portland cement and natural hydraulic lime and varying the ratios among the constituents. Viscosity and setting time of the fresh pastes were determined with a viscosimeter and a Vicat apparatus, while their hydration was studied by thermal analysis. The influence of the fibres on the flexural strength of the final composite was determined through mechanical tests. The expected hygrothermal performance of the «green concrete» was explored through dynamic hygrothermal simulation to investigate its potential use as a retrofit material. A sensitivity analysis (SA), based on the hygrothermal properties of natural-based building materials similar to the «green concrete», was conducted to identify the parameters influencing more the simulation of annual internal temperature and moisture variations. The preliminary assessment of the mechanical properties of the «green concrete» showed that at higher percentages the cellulose fibres can negatively affect the workability/setting time of the fresh pastes and the flexural strength. The most promising samples were identified and will undergo further investigation. The SA results outlined that the «green concrete» might not be effective for thermal insulation, although it might be used as a moisture-buffering layer by adjusting the values of the free water saturation moisture content, the equilibrium moisture content at RH=80% and the dry vapour diffusion resistance factor of the final composite

    Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs IV: The Steiner Forest Problem

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    We study Steiner Forest on HH-subgraph-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some fixed graph HH as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. We are motivated by a recent framework that completely characterizes the complexity of many problems on HH-subgraph-free graphs. However, in contrast to e.g. the related Steiner Tree problem, Steiner Forest falls outside this framework. Hence, the complexity of Steiner Forest on HH-subgraph-free graphs remained tantalizingly open. In this paper, we make significant progress towards determining the complexity of Steiner Forest on HH-subgraph-free graphs. Our main results are four novel polynomial-time algorithms for different excluded graphs HH that are central to further understand its complexity. Along the way, we study the complexity of Steiner Forest for graphs with a small cc-deletion set, that is, a small set SS of vertices such that each component of G−SG-S has size at most cc. Using this parameter, we give two noteworthy algorithms that we later employ as subroutines. First, we prove Steiner Forest is FPT parameterized by ∣S∣|S| when c=1c=1 (i.e. the vertex cover number). Second, we prove Steiner Forest is polynomial-time solvable for graphs with a 2-deletion set of size at most 2. The latter result is tight, as the problem is NP-complete for graphs with a 3-deletion set of size 2

    Salt Contamination of Wooden Materials: the Case of Trondheim (Norway) Warehouses

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    Warehouses are big architectonical structures mostly made of spruce wood and utilized as storage buildings principally by food traders in Northern Countries. Trondheim’s warehouses currently observable along the river Nidelva, date back between the 17th and half of the 19th century were mostly used to stock and process fish. Therefore, where the food goods were stored, residuals are expected to be still present and/or to be responsible for the formation of alteration products on the wooden surfaces as well as inside the wooden structure. Here we propose a characterization of residual and neo-formed compounds inside and on the surface of wooden logs by means of vacuum microbalance that allowed both to individuate the type of salts, as well as, to estimate the maximum water film thickness adsorbed on the wooden samples at 93% of RH. These data have been related to variations in the acoustic emission (AE) intensity detected at the log surface and to the wood moisture content measured with capacitive and resistance operating moisture meters. The application of three independent techniques have allowed obtaining interestingly information indicating their potentiality as decay assessment techniques in the field of historical materials and specifically in the study of salts weathering on wood. The methodology allowed identifying a clear relationship between the amount of water in logs as a function of their distance from the ground and variations in the amplitude of the acoustic emission signals

    Energy poverty in Portugal, Italy, and Norway: awareness, short-term driving forces, and barriers in the built environment

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    Portugal, Italy, and Norway differ by energy performance of buildings and gross domestic product (GDP). Portugal has significantly highest thermal discomfort with harsher winters. In 2021, 80% of Portuguese buildings had a low energy rating, with 75% of buildings without thermal insulation, highly contributing to the energy poverty (EP) of the country. In Italy, despite a generally mild climate, the building stock has low thermal performance. The most affected areas are the suburban and peri-urban ones, with an EP rate in southern regions between 13% and 20% compared to 8.8% at national level. Moreover, 65% of buildings were constructed before the first law on energy saving criteria and a 25% of it has never undergone any work of maintenance or improvement. Norway, despite the limited studies performs well respect to other European Economic Area and European Union countries, in investing and using indicators to enhance and monitor the green energies’ use. Because of energy price growth, seasonal price fluctuations, and different energy tariffs, energy inequality is increasing. EP risk is underestimated, masked by Norway's high GDP and regional price disparity. Energy inequality is increasing due to energy price growth, seasonal price fluctuations, and energy prices’ geographical inequality. The barriers in reducing EP are the underestimation of risk masked by the high GDP, and the need of homogenized prices in Norway. This study provides an overview to discuss EP awareness and it assesses the drivers and barriers that influence building's energy efficiency renovatio

    Deglacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean from a direct land–sea correlation

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    International audienceDespite a large number of studies, the long-term and millennial to centennial-scale climatic variability in the Mediterranean region during the last deglaciation and the Holocene is still debated, including in the southern Central Mediterranean. In this paper, we present a new marine pollen sequence (core MD04-2797CQ) from the Siculo-Tunisian Strait documenting the regional vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean during the last deglaciation and the Holocene. The MD04-2797CQ marine pollen sequence shows that semi-desert plants dominated the vegetal cover in the southern Central Mediterranean between 18.2 and 12.3 ka cal BP, indicating prevailing dry conditions during the deglaciation, even during the Greenland Interstadial (GI)-1. Across the transition Greenland Stadial (GS)-1 -Holocene, Asteraceae-Poaceae steppe became dominant till 10.1 ka cal BP. This record underlines with no chronological ambiguity that even though temperatures increased, deficiency in moisture availability persisted into the early Holocene. Temperate trees and shrubs with heath underbrush or maquis expanded between 10.1 and 6.6 ka, corresponding to Sapropel 1 (S1) interval, while Mediterranean plants only developed from 6.6 ka onwards. These changes in vegetal cover show that the regional climate in southern Central Mediterranean was wetter during S1 and became drier during the mid-to late Holocene. Wetter conditions during S1 were likely due to increased winter precipitation while summers remained dry. We suggest, in agreement with published modeling experiments, that the early Holocene increased melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in conjunction with weak winter insolation played a major role in the development of winter precipitation maxima in the Mediterranean region in controlling the strength and position of the North Atlantic storm track. Finally, our data provide evidence for centennial-scale vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean. During the wet early Holocene, alkenone-derived cooling episodes are synchronous with herbaceous composition changes that indicate muted changes in precipitation. In contrast, enhanced aridity episodes, as detected by strong reduction in trees and shrubs, are recorded during the mid-to late Holocene. We show that the impact of the Holocene cooling events on the Mediterranean hydroclimate depend on baseline climate states, i.e. insolation and ice sheet extent, shaping the response of the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation
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