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Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil

In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life. In this article, we study the origins of this pervasive petroculture through the lens of the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program (ERP), its Refinery Expan ...

2023

A 3D printed bio-composite removable connection system for bamboo spatial structures

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Romain Pascal T van Wassenhove

A 3D printed bio-composite removable connection system for bamboo space structures is introduced in this paper. The system consists of a removable clipping connection for raw bamboo structures, adapted to the European market. The use of parametric design a ...

2021

Skin lightening products' violations in Europe: An analysis of the rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products 2005-2018

Florentino Luciano Caetano Dos Santos

Background: Skin lightening products containing dangerous levels of chemicals pose a serious health concern for consumers. However, to date, the extent of these products in Europe has not been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to determine whe ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

The emission benefits of European integration

Vincent Moreau, Luís Costa Borges, Luis Costa

Simulating the implications of Brexit on the UK's emissions embodied in trade with a multi-region input-output table exposes the benefits of European integration. Under 2014 trade volumes, technologies and energy mixes, a hard Brexit-reverting to a trade p ...

2019

The Multiscenario Multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)

Andrzej Drygajlo, Norman Hoon Thian Poh, Jonas Richiardi, Jean Hennebert

A new multimodal biometric database designed and acquired within the framework of the European BioSecure Network of Excellence is presented. It is comprised of more than 600 individuals acquired simultaneously in three scenarios: 1) over the Internet, 2) i ...

2010

Science 2.0: Supporting a Doctoral Community of Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning using Social Software

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram

The STELLAR European network of Excellence (NoE) (http://www.stellarnet.eu) represents the effort of leading European institutions and projects in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify their diverse and sometimes fragmented community. The Network is ...

2009

CEN Standards for Implementing the European Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings

Claude-Alain Roulet

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires EU member states to establish a methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings within a framework that includes the effect of active and passive solar systems as well as other c ...

2006

Comfort and well-being in solar buildings - Results from a European Audit

Claude-Alain Roulet

Within the European research project HOPE, 97 apartment buildings and 67 office buildings - a large part of which designed to be energy-efficient - were investigated using checklists regarding building characteristics and guestionnaires addressed to the oc ...

2006