Towards Better Territorial Governance in Europe. A guide for practitioners, policy and decision makers based on contributions from the ESPON TANGO Project

Guides help you do things. You turn to them when you need to find out how to solve a problem. They are a form of knowledge transfer, written by experts but in a way that is accessible and helpful to a wide group of users. This Guide was written by the researchers on the ESPON applied research study of Territorial Approaches to New Governance (TANGO). It aims to help those persons and institutions that are delivering territorial governance across Europ

Towards Better Territorial Governance in Europe. A guide for practitioners, policy and decision makers based on contributions from the ESPON TANGO Project

Guides help you do things. You turn to them when you need to find out how to solve a problem. They are a form of knowledge transfer, written by experts but in a way that is accessible and helpful to a wide group of users. This Guide was written by the researchers on the ESPON applied research study of Territorial Approaches to New Governance (TANGO). It aims to help those persons and institutions that are delivering territorial governance across Europe

Mathematical analogies in physics. Thin-layer wave theory

Field theory applies to elastodynamics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, gravitation and other similar fields of physics, where the basic equations describing the phenomenon are based on constitutive relations and balance equations. For instance, in elastodynamics, these are the stress-strain relations and the equations of momentum conservation (Euler-Newton law). In these cases, the same mathematical theory can be used, by establishing appropriate mathematical equivalences (or analogies) between material properties and field variables. For instance, the wave equation and the related mathematical developments can be used to describe anelastic and electromagnetic wave propagation, and are extensively used in quantum mechanics. In this work, we obtain the mathematical analogy for the reflection/refraction (transmission) problem of a thin layer embedded between dissimilar media, considering the presence of anisotropy and attenuation/viscosity in the viscoelastic case, conductivity in the electromagnetic case and a potential barrier in quantum physics (the tunnel effect). The analogy is mainly illustrated with geophysical examples of propagation of S (shear), P (compressional), TM (transverse-magnetic) and TE (transverse-electric) waves. The tunnel effect is obtained as a special case of viscoelastic waves at normal incidence

Sensitivity analysis from single-well ERT simulations to image CO2 migrations along wellbores

CO2 plume imaging is a required step in CO2 geological storage for both performance assessment and risk management purposes. This work has been performed in the frame of the CO2CARE project, its aim is to develop tools and methodologies to monitor CO2 migration and verify the long-term well integrity after site abandonment. The timely detection of an anomaly is essential to perform a suitable remediation. For this purpose, downhole tools are permanently installed, but it is important to check the resolution and efficiency of the adopted techniques. In particular, this study investigates the possibility of using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to image CO2 migrations around observation boreholes through a sensitivity study. © 2013 by The Society of Exploration Geophysicists.Fil: Picotti, Stefano. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale; ItaliaFil: Gei, Davide. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale; ItaliaFil: Carcione, Jose M.. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale; ItaliaFil: Grünhut Duenyas, Vivian. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Osella, Ana Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentin

Confocal Raman spectroscopy assisted by chemometric tools:A green approach for classification and quantification of octyl p-methoxycinnamate in oil-in-water microemulsions

This work proposes a green analytical method based on confocal Raman spectrometry and chemometrics tools for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of oil in water microemulsions loaded with the UVB filter octyl p-methoxycinnamate (OMC). The method does not use reagents and only 10 µL of sample are needed. The analyzed microemulsion samples were synthetized in the laboratory using decaethylene glycol mono-dodecyl ether (21.9 %) as non-ionic surfactant, ethyl alcohol (7.3 %) as co-surfactant, oleic acid (1.5 %) as oil phase and water (69.3 %). A physicochemical characterization of the samples was carried out obtaining expected values for droplet size (<20 nm), polydispersity index (<0.290) and conductivity (0.04–0.07 mS cm−1), among others. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) after selection of variables using the successive projections algorithm (SPA) and soft independent modelling of class analogy (SIMCA) were employed to classify microemulsions with different concentrations of OMC (1.0 to 10.0 %). In the case of LDA, seven Raman spectral variables were previously selected by SPA and after this SPA-LDA model resulted in one error in the prediction set achieving an accuracy of 97.8 %. The SIMCA model (α = 0.05) presented an explained variance higher 97 % using four principal components and it allowed the correct classification of 100 % of the samples (N = 15). In the quantitative analysis, partial least squares (PLS) was used to determine OMC in a range according to international legislation. The model presented optimal statistical parameters (R2 = 0.9699; RMSEP = 0.54 %) and the prediction of samples were in close agreement with HPLC method. Moreover, the greenery of the method was estimated using the AGREE metric and an optimal value of 0.85 was obtained demonstrating the proposed analytical method results environmentally friendly

History, Criminology and the 'Use' of the Past

This article considers why, despite an apparent congruence of subject matter and methodologies, the disciplines of sociological criminology and criminal justice history are not more closely aligned. It contends that intellectual traffic between the two fields is not usually limited by institutional barriers, nor is it a legacy of the disciplinary antipathy which existed between history and sociology in Britain during the mid-twentieth century. Rather, it is due to the different ‘purposes’ with which sociological criminologists and criminal justice historians imbue their work and to the differing disciplinary perceptions of the relationship between the past, present and future which result from this. These different ‘purposes’ are traced via a consideration of the paths of development of the two disciplines from the 1940s. The article concludes by proposing an arena for future collaboration between criminal justice historians and sociological criminologists

Towards Better Territorial Governance in Europe; A guide for practitioners, policy and decision makers; Applied Research 2013/1/21 ESPON TANGO WP 3.1 | Version 30/11/2013

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