“Cleanliness is Half of Nobility”: Proverbs as Means of Persuasion for Citizen’s Awareness. The City of Athens Cleaning Program Example

The aim of this paper is to stress the use of proverbs as a process of communication strategy and means of persuasion in the context of the City of Athens cleaning program. The use of proverbs as an element of collective experience that makes them generally accepted in conjunction with their underlying message, makes them a promotional tool of this initiative

“Blood is Thicker than Water.” When The Folk Talks About its Lore: Interpretations of the Proverb in the Balkans

Folkloristics as a discipline is interested in all folklore genres, and of course also in the proverb. However, it is often attempted by the folklorists to collect as many variants as possible, giving thus particular emphasis to quantity. But this seems to ignore the folk. In this article we aim to attempt a metafolkloristic approach for the proverb “blood is thicker than water.” We will try to see how this proverb is interpreted from informants from the Balkan Peninsula in an attempt to bring together the folk with the lore

“Blood is Thicker than Water.” When The Folk Talks About its Lore: Interpretations of the Proverb in the Balkans

Folkloristics as a discipline is interested in all folklore genres, and of course also in the proverb. However, it is often attempted by the folklorists to collect as many variants as possible, giving thus particular emphasis to quantity. But this seems to ignore the folk. In this article we aim to attempt a metafolkloristic approach for the proverb “blood is thicker than water.” We will try to see how this proverb is interpreted from informants from the Balkan Peninsula in an attempt to bring together the folk with the lore

A note on conservative measures on semigroups

Consider (S,B,μ) the measure space where S is a topological metric semigroup and μ a countably additive bounded Borel measure. Call μ conservative if all right translations tx:s→sx, x∈S (which are assumed closed mappings) are conservative with respect (S,B,μ) in the ergodic theory sense. It is shown that the semigroup generated by the support of μ is a left group. An extension of this result is obtained for σ-finite μ

ECO-COMPASS

Today, mainly man-made materials, such as carbon and glass fibers, are used to produce composite parts in aviation. Renewable materials, such as natural fibers or bio-sourced resin systems, have not yet found their way into aviation. The project ECO-COMPASS aims to evaluate the potential applications of ecologically improved composite materials in the aviation sector in an international collaboration of Chinese and European partners. Natural fibers such as flax and ramie will be used for different types of reinforcements and sandwich cores. Furthermore, bio-based epoxy resins to substitute bisphenol-A based epoxy resins in secondary structures are under investigation. Adapted material protection technologies to reduce environmental influence and to improve fire resistance are needed to fulfil the demanding safety requirements in aviation. Modelling and simulation of chosen eco-composites aims for an optimized use of materials while a Life Cycle Assessment aims to prove the ecological advantages compared to synthetic state-of-the-art materials. This Special Issue provides selected papers from the project consortium partners