EU Environmental Policy and Competitiveness

Protection of the environment was not a specific importance to the Community although the Treaty of Rome expressly specified that "health, safety, environmental protection" shall be based on "a high level of protection". In deciding upon a framework for a European environmental policy, the Community was also responding to increased public awareness of the problem and concerns about the state of the natural and man-made environment. During the past years, competitiveness concerns have dominated the EU policy debate, in the course of which a growing consensus is being developed on the importance of eco-innovations and resource efficiency for EU competitiveness and on the market opportunities they offer. There is increasing evidence that environmental policy and eco-innovations can promote economic growth, as well as maintain and create jobs, contributing both to competitiveness and employment. Environmental constraints to rapid economic growth are increasingly recognized by countries, leading to a rising awareness of the need for sustainable development. Implementation of an environmental policy, however, generates significant implications for competition among countries.EU Environmental policy, Competitiveness, Pollution control, Sustainable development, Resource efficiency

BIG MOBILITY DATA ANALYTICS FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING AND CONTROL

With the overpopulation of large cities, the problems with citizens’ mobility, transport inefficiency, traffic congestions and environmental pollution caused by the heavy traffic require advanced ITS solutions to be overcome. Recent advances and wide proliferation of mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, carried by people, built in vehicles and integrated in a road infrastructure, enable collection of large scale data related to mobility and traffic in smart cities, still with a limited use in real world applications. In this paper, we propose the traffic monitoring, control and adaptation platform, named TrafficSense, based on Big Mobility Data processing and analytics. It provides a continuous monitoring of a traffic situation and detection of important traffic parameters, conditions and events, such as travel times along the street segments and traffic congestions in real time. Upon detecting a traffic congestion on an intersection, the TrafficSense application leverages the feedback control loop mechanism to provide a traffic adaptation based on the dynamic configuration of traffic lights duration in order to increase the traffic flows in critical directions at the intersections. We tested and evaluated the developed application on the distributed cloud computing infrastructure. By varying the streaming workload and the cluster parameters we show the feasibility and applicability of our approach and the platform

Supplementary material for the article: Stojanović, M.; Baranac-Stojanović, M. Aromaticity of Diazaborines and Their Protonated Forms. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81 (1), 197–205. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.5b02499

Supplementary material for: [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.5b02499]Related to published version: [http://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2022

Supplementary data for article: Baranac-Stojanović, M.; Stojanović, M. Does Aromaticity Account for an Enhanced Thermodynamic Stability? The Case of Monosubstituted Azaborines and the Stereoelectronic Chameleonism of the NH2 Group. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2019, 21 (18), 9465–9476. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp01011d

Supplementary material for: [https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/CP/C9CP01011D#!divAbstract]Related to published version: [http://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3128]Related to accepted version: [http://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3130

Does aromaticity account for an enhanced thermodynamic stability? The case of monosubstituted azaborines and the stereoelectronic chameleonism of the NH2 group

This work was initiated by the increasing interest in BN/CC isosterism and by the long-lasting interest in the concepts of aromaticity and substituent effects. We have theoretically examined the aromaticity and stability of monosubstituted BN isosters of benzene, the three isomeric azaborines. The results provide insight into the effect of substitution on two basic molecular properties, which are influenced, here, by the substituent effects and by the B/N relationship in the ring. The results, along with other examples in the literature, also warn chemists that the general belief that aromaticity accounts for enhanced thermodynamic stability is not always true. The stability of cyclic, conjugated compounds depends on several effects, and only one of them is aromaticity. In addition, our calculations predict a switching of electronic properties of the NH 2 group from the usual p-electron donor to a π-electron acceptor when it is moved from the B/C atoms to the nitrogen atom in all isomers, or C6 in 1,3-azaborine. This is the result of the conformational change that places the N LP in the plane of the ring and the NH bonds in a favourable spatial position to act as acceptors of π-electron density.Supplementary material: [http://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3131]This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: Baranac-Stojanović, M.; Stojanović, M. Does Aromaticity Account for an Enhanced Thermodynamic Stability? The Case of Monosubstituted Azaborines and the Stereoelectronic Chameleonism of the NH2 Group. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2019, 21 (18), 9465–9476. [https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp01011d

Performance indicators for monitoring Safety Management Systems in chemical industry

The development of the Safety Management System (SMS) in chemical industry appears as one of the important requirements introduced by the EU 'Seveso II' Directive on the control of major-accident hazards. This paper aims to provide a contribution regarding the SMS structure and the definition of the tools for assessing the effectiveness of this system by means of safety performance indicators. The performance indicators are linked to a reference values or policy targets, illustrating how far the SMS is from the desired level. We developed a system of performance indicators for SMS in chemical industry by using the concept of environmental performance indicators defined in standard ISO 14031. A set of three types of safety system performance indicators was proposed: management performance indicators, operational performance indicators and safety status indicators. These indicators represent the most important factors in the linkage between a possible cause of an accident and its effects

Supplementary data for article: Baranac-Stojanović, M.; Stojanović, M. H-1 NMR Chemical Shifts of Cyclopropane and Cyclobutane: A Theoretical Study. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013, 78 (4), 1504–1507. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo3025863

Supporting information for: [https://doi.org/10.1021/jo3025863]Related to published version: [http://cherry.chem.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1604