scholarly journals The value of biomass energy: The case study of "Crni Vrh-Deževski" in the Gornjeibarsko forest area

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Sabahudin Hadrović ◽  
Ljubinko Rakonjac ◽  
Tatjana Ćirković-Mitrović ◽  
Miroslava Marković ◽  
Đorđe Jović
Keyword(s):  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Current State ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Energy Forest ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Biomass For Energy

Of all terrestrial ecosystems, forests are the most important carbon reservoirs. Therefore they deserve special care and protection. They are also an irreplaceable source of biomass for energy. Forest biomass has been used as a fuel since the earliest times, and since the late twentieth century, there has been a renewed interest in its use for the production of heat and electricity. Forest biomass has become interesting as a source of energy due to some of its characteristics, above all its availability and uniformity around the world, which implies that both developing and less developed countries can use biomass as a renewable source of energy. Furthermore, biomass fuel is considered to be CO2 neutral. However, its use is not risk-free. The risks are mainly related to the sustainability of forest systems and their productivity. Therefore, the forestry profession must be extremely cautious in using forest biomass and follow the prescribed allowable cut. This paper deals with the current state of biomass for energy, its estimates and properties as fuel. It studies the sustainability of biomass through the preservation of forest ecosystems and all multipurpose benefits of forests.

Chakras and Endocrine Glands

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Andrea Jain
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Endocrine Glands ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
Unique System ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This paper is an exploration of preksha dhyana as a case study of modern yoga. Preksha is a system of yoga and meditation introduced by Acarya Mahaprajna of the Jain Svetambara Terapanth in the late twentieth century. I argue that preksha is an attempt to join the newly emerging transnational yoga market whereby yoga has become a practice oriented around the attainment of physical health and psychological well-being. I will evaluate the ways in which Mahaprajna appropriates scientific discourse and in so doing constructs a new and unique system of Jain modern yoga. In particular, I evaluate the appropriation of physical and meditative techniques from ancient yoga systems in addition to the explanation of yoga metaphysics by means of biomedical discourse. I will demonstrate how, in Mahaprajna’s preksha system, the metaphysical subtle body becomes somaticized. In other words, Mahaprajna uses the bio-medical understanding of physiology to locate and identify the functions of metaphysical subtle body parts and processes in the physiological body.

Opportunities and barriers to forest biomass energy: A case study of four U.S. states

2021 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 106035
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Galik ◽  
Michelle E. Benedum ◽  
Marcus Kauffman ◽  
Dennis R. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Biomass Energy

Sustainability Study of In-situ Hydroponic Vetiver System for Urban Wastewater Management in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Kaushik Ghosh ◽  
Arup Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Urban Wastewater ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cost Effective Alternative ◽  
Urban Wastewater Treatment

Urban wastewater management is a crucial challenge in the small and medium towns situated in the developing countries worldwide. These towns are also facing an increasing gap between infrastructure and population growth. A conventional approach to curb these problems is the application of cost-intensive electro-mechanical sewerage technologies, as adopted in developed countries. The first part of this paper derives a set of indicators to framework a sustainable urban wastewater treatment system by reviewing the current state of wastewater management in developing countries, for example, the sample case study being India. The second part evaluates the potential performance of the proposed alternative in-situ hydroponic vetiver system (HVS) against those set of sustainability indicators by reviewing the worldwide performance of the HVS. The objective of this paper is to assess the potential viability of the HVS as a sustainable and cost-effective alternative for developing countries. The current analysis can aid in mainstreaming the use of HVS in policy making and urban planning.

Availability, supply technology and costs of residual forest biomass for energy – A case study in northern China

2015 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 224-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perttu Anttila ◽  
Lu-Min Vaario ◽  
Pertti Pulkkinen ◽  
Antti Asikainen ◽  
Jie Duan
Keyword(s):  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Biomass For Energy

The Ends of Music History, or: The Old Masters in the Supermarket of Cultures

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-198
Author(s):  
Karol Berger
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
New Products ◽  
Music History ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article begins with a description of the essential features and current state of the social practice called art music, concluding that as recently as the late twentieth century it was in excellent shape, as documented by a series of canonic masterpieces. I continue with an outline of the principal questions pursued by, and the current state of, music history, demonstrating that it too was flourishing in the same period, producing work of enduring worth. In conclusion, I consider the main dangers that currently threaten a successful cultivation of music history. These include our inability to notice historical developments that really matter when we are blinded by thinking in terms of group identities, and the unfortunate confluence of two recent cultural trends: the flood of ever new products of the music (or entertainment) industry, combined with our inability and unwillingness to discriminate.

Petitions to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from Local Governments, 1867–1877: A Case Study in Legislative Participation

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-180
Author(s):  
Mary M. P. Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Marginal Mode ◽  
Western Democracies ◽  
Constitutional Changes

In late twentieth-century English-speaking western democracies, the petition is almost exclusively a sporadic, exceptional, and marginal mode of political expression, its legitimacy as an instrument and indicator of public opinion superceded by elected professionals and ubiquitous polls; a tenuous survival from its origin as the universal form of civic supplication. Part and parcel of the democratic revolution that reached its apogee in the nineteenth century, this transition may not have been neatly contemporaneous with the constitutional changes to which it seems collateral. In a recent article in this review, David C. Frederick posited that petitioning effectively disappeared in the United States after the imposition of a “gag-rule” by Congress, imposed in the 1830s as a response to anti-slavery agitation by petition.

Governing Global Aeromobility

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Bret Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global South ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Regulatory Response ◽  
National Space ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article surveys Canada’s regulatory response to global aeromobility in the late twentieth century. It examines the Canadian state’s strategies to restrict the movement of refugee claimants landing at airports during the 1980s and the national discourse around this process. Mass air travel enabled more refugees, particularly from the Global South, to travel to Canada and, in the process, challenged how the country governed aerial and cosmopolitan populations. In response, Canadian authorities erected an enforcement regime at the country’s international airports, which transformed them into contested entry points to national space and normative citizenship where links between mobility, borders, and nation were simultaneously reinforced and contested. This article thus provides an integral case study of national ambivalence toward global aeromobility in the late twentieth century.

The Truth Society

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelle Molé Liston
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Political Spectacle ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi

This book seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. The book scrutinizes Italy's late-twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, the book examines how this truth-bending political era made science, logic, and rationality into ideas that needed saving. With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in the “post-truth” world, many people struggle to figure out where this new normal came from. The book argues that seemingly disparate events and practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing. Politics, then, is always sutured to how knowledge is structured, circulated, and processed. This book offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.

Collaboration

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-191
Author(s):  
Natalie Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Ted Hughes ◽  
American Artist ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter examines a particular instance of canonical late-twentieth-century poetry that shows close collaboration with the visual arts. It takes as a case study the work of Ted Hughes, who is often considered central to the development of the English poetic canon, in his collaboration with the American artist and publisher Leonard Baskin in producing the 1973 book, Cave Birds. The trade volume initially contained over ten of Baskin’s pen-and-ink images (which had inspired Hughes to pen his poems). Why, then, are Baskin’s artworks no longer published alongside Hughes’s poems? This chapter puts drawing and text back into dialogue, offering a sustained intra-artistic reading of an image-poem pair as it resonates with the vision of Michelangelo, Michael Ayrton, Giacometti, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney. Artwork and literary text interact before our viewing-reading eyes, performing an eloquent expression of the complexity of aesthetic co-constitution, across media and history.

scholarly journals Phenotype, Genotype and Environment in Architecture Case Study: Traditional Malay House, West Borneo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indah Kartika Sari ◽  
Wiendu Nuryanti ◽  
Ikaputra Ikaputra
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Relational Models ◽  
Unique Site ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Repetition Pattern ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Phenotype variation is produced through a complex of interactions between genotype and environment. Phenotype, genotype, and environment are addresses the relationship between architecture and identity. The term genotype biology and phenotype have been adopted into architecture in the late twentieth century. Genotypes are abstract relational models that govern the arrangement of space, and the principle of organizing space and phenotypes is the real realization of genotypes in the physical environment. The genotype is a reflection that is not only about the spatial organization but also the nature of social and cultural patterns. Then this study purpose to an understanding of the connectedness variant phenotype from a genotype and environment. The repetition pattern being stable structure in variation phenotype uses as a database to finding an identity in architecture. The method used in this research was Levi Strauss's structuralism and multi-layer of a biological system. This research samples traditional Malay houses in West Borneo, Indonesia. These houses have a unique site and existing environment. The houses can be found mainly along the river. The results found from the phenotype, genotype, and environment have value and meaning as a traditional Malay house rule in West Borneo which was always handed down from generation to generation.

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