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Reasoning By Contradiction in Dynamic Geometry
This paper addresses contributions that dynamic geometry systems (DGSs) may give in reasoning by contradiction in geometry. We present analyses of three excerpts of students’ work and use the notion of pseudo object, elaborated from previous research, to show some specificities of DGS in constructing proof by contradiction. In particular, we support the claim that a DGS can offer “guidance” in the solver’s development of an indirect argument thanks to the potential it offers of both constructing certain properties robustly, and of helping the solver perceive pseudo objects
La Medida de la sostenibilidad de la ciudad histórico-turística
Urban sustainability is a key issue in our world.
The aim of the thesis is to decline this issue in relation to tourist-historic cities,
analyzing the impacts of tourism on urban sustainability and defining a set of indicators
for sustainability evaluation and monitoring in these cities.
The thesis proposes a new classification of tourism impacts in this context
identifying three basic ambits, direct tourism impacts, Public Administration Activities
impacts and Carrying Capacity impacts, and two city categories, differentiated and
undifferentiated cities depending on urban structure and tourism spatial organization.
Indicators are used both to classify cities and to identify unsustainable dynamics.
The main aspects of direct tourism impact are also aggregate in a tourism
unsustainability index, which measures the aggressiveness of tourism towards historic
city, according to the previous considerations.
Once identified problems, the thesis suggests some possible policies to cope
with unsustainable dynamics.
In order to validate this new evaluation methodology, indicators are applied to a
specific city, Alghero, to classify the city, calculate tourism unsustainability index, identify
negative dynamics and suggest possible policies to Local Administration
Detergency and its implications for oil emulsion sieving and separation
Separating petroleum hydrocarbons from water is an important problem to
address in order to mitigate the disastrous effects of hydrocarbons on aquatic
ecosystems. A rational approach to address the problem of marine oil water
separation is to disperse the oil with the aid of surfactants in order to
minimize the formation of large slicks at the water surface and to maximize the
oil-water interfacial area. Here we investigate the fundamental wetting and
transport behavior of such surfactant-stabilized droplets and the flow
conditions necessary to perform sieving and separation of these stabilized
emulsions. We show that, for water soluble surfactants, such droplets are
completely repelled by a range of materials (intrinsically underwater
superoleophobic) due to the detergency effect; therefore, there is no need for
surface micro/nanotexturing or chemical treatment to repel the oil and prevent
fouling of the filter. We then simulate and experimentally investigate the
effect of emulsion flow rate on the transport and impact behavior of such
droplets on rigid meshes to identify the minimum pore opening (w) necessary to
filter a droplet with a given diameter (d) in order to minimize the pressure
drop across the mesh and therefore maximize the filtering efficiency, which is
strongly dependent on w. We define a range of flow conditions and droplet sizes
where minimum droplet deformation is to be expected and therefore find that the
condition of is sufficient for efficient separation. With this new
understanding, we demonstrate the use of a commercially available
filter--without any additional surface engineering or functionalization--to
separate oil droplets from a surfactant stabilized emulsion with a flux of
11,000 L m hr bar. We believe these findings can inform
the design of future oil separation materials
Energy Communities: energy and economic development laboratories in the Tortona valleys
Clean Energy for All Europeans, Green Deal and Fit for 55 at European level and the Piano Nazionale Integrato per l’Energia e il Clima have identified essential decarbonisation goals that are achievable by broadening the audience of actors involved and the ability to innovate in terms of the evolution of products/services and production processes. In this sense, decentralised energy production
technologies together with Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) and bottomup initiatives play a strategic role in the establishment of local energy systems. The objective of the paper is to illustrate these dynamisms within the territorial system, and the characteristics of local initiatives and RECs as means of energy transition and economic development
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