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1, Volume 8, January 2012
Title of the Paper:
Design and implementation of methodologies for transport (CIVITAS SUCCESS)
project(s) impact measurements
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Authors:
Cătălin Popescu, Augustin Mitu, Daniela Uta
Abstract: In order to assess the impact a European project has at the European
Community level, specific methodologies should be developed and implemented
according to the specifics of the evaluated project. A framework for this
methodology is available within the projects’ sector but every program and
every project through its implementation team has to build its own instruments
and adapt the European guidelines into a new methodology. In CIVITAS SUCCESS
project, by definition, a transport and mobility project, a European organism
(GUARD) was assigned to monitor the design, implementation and actual
evaluation of the developed methodology. The evaluation and dissemination of
the projects is based on how well the methodology is realized. In the case of
CIVITAS SUCCESS project the methodological instruments used, led to results
that changed the partners cities life.
Keywords:
methodological instruments, evaluation, transport and mobility project,
transport indicators, city life, framework, impact, specific results
Title of the Paper:
Entrepreneurship in the Environmentally Friendly and Economically Sound
Renewable Energy Conversion System
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Authors:
Bhagwan Shree Ram, M. Selvaraj
Abstract: Energy is the prime mover of economic growth and is vital to the
sustenance of a modern economy. Future economic growth crucially depends on
the long-term availability of energy from sources that are affordable,
accessible and environmentally friendly. During the last few decades a number
of governments have started to increase their focus on clean and renewable
energy sources. Wind energy is one of the vital inputs for the social and
economic development of India. It supplies affordable, inexhaustible energy to
the economy. The growth of renewable energy has been fuelled by increased
awareness of both public and private entrepreneurship in wind energy
conversion system. This technical research paper deals with a mission to
combat unemployment and improve urban environment with the help of
entrepreneurship in wind energy conversion systems in India.
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Economic growth, Green energy, Wind energy conversion system
Title of the Paper:
Assessing Quality of an Irrigation Canal Ecosystem, Through Water and Sediment
Environmental Parameters. A Case Study in Thessaly Region, Greece
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Authors:
Augoustinos Augoustis, Marianthi Hatziioannou, Savas Papadopoulos, Dimitrios
Kateris, Christos Neofytou, Dimitrios Vafidis
Abstract: This study aimed to record and evaluates the physicochemical
parameters (Na^+, K^+, Cℓ^-, Ca^2+, Mg^2+, electrical conductivity, SO4^2-,
total alkalinity, CO3^2- and HCO^3-) and give heavy metals (Cr, Pd, Ni, Cu,
and Cd) in sediment Asmaki canal in order to assess the quality of irrigation
water used and the nature of pollution along the canal in relation the Sodium
Absorption Radio (SAR), the percentage Sodium (Na %) with the help of the
Piper diagram. Samples were collected and analyzed bimonthly in May, July and
September, at twelve sampling sites along the irrigation-drainage Asmaki canal
for two consecutive years (2008 – 2009). We observed increased concentrations
of nutrients due to anthropogenic inputs, mainly because of the discharged
contaminating waters from the large industrial and agricultural activity.
Keywords:
Water quality, Sodium Absorption Radio, Sodium percentage, Piper diagramme
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