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Academia Green Energy, 2024

The current study is dedicated to the production and comparison of the calorific power of biomass briquets produced from corn cob, by adding two residual binders, from commercial and industrial sources. A comprehensive literature review was carried out on the production of those biomass briquettes and the calorific power of different materials, focusing on the mentioned residue. Representative samples of corn cob were collected and then analyzed in laboratory, in order determine the characteristics of this biomass, including moisture and specific mass. The production of biomass briquets was carried out following standardized procedures and using adequate compaction techniques. The experimental tests were conducted to determine the calorific power of the briquets, using calorimeter pump, model C 200 from the IKA brand. The analyzes took place following established norms and guidelines. The results obtained demonstrated the feasibility of this agro-industrial residue, for energy purposes, as well as the role of enhancing the burning power of the applied residual binders. The power of the analyzed biomass was satisfactory from the point of view of energy efficiency. The final result of the study allowed demonstrating the feasibility of applying corn cob, as a valuable source of renewable energy, providing concrete data on the calorific value of the briquets produced from this material.

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2013

Hesychasm: Theology and Praxis from Late Byzantium to Modernity (= special issue of Theologia Orthodoxa 67.2 [2022]: 365-75). , 2022

The rise of digital culture has created both tremendous human possibilities as well as tremendous challenges and problems. Powerful corporate and commercial interests compete for our attention, which has become a valuable commodity in the online world. Living in a culture of organized distractions, human awareness is fragmented, causing us to lose touch with ourselves, our neighbors, the world around us, and God. This paper explores the traditional ascetic practices of attention and watchfulness, which are recommended as counterweights to modern cultural, psychological, and spiritual fragmentation. The principal sources under consideration are drawn from the Philokalia, a collection of writings devoted to the practice of "attending to oneself."

1997

Listen to the AI-generated podcast based on Ewa's reflection of the shared perspectives between Hayden White and Vine Deloria Jr: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xF-R0FURkV_vcfP_ZLzRu9fnt7Xo7n3C/view?usp=drive_link This article is a collaborative commentary on the first volume of a two-part anthology of works by Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative, edited by Robert Doran. Informed by the collection and inspired by the co-authors, in this paper we discuss White's writing. Herman Paul compares White's constructivism with that of Berger and Luckmann, and discusses the extent to which the tools of historical narrative criticism developed by White are expeditious in analyzing stories about the climate crisis. Kalle Pihlainen captures White's writing in a three-stage process of emancipatory politics of history, to further reconfigure it using the concept of fidelity. Jakub Muchowski writes about the relationship between the titular ethics and politics, asking to what extent White regarded them as separate spheres of practice, and whether in choosing the former White was apolitical. Ewa Domańska considers how White's critical approach to history might help to explore possibilities of bridging Indigenous and Western approaches to the past as well as reflects on White's attitude toward metaphysics. Finally, Miguel Valderrama considers the ways in which White uses the concept of event. The exchange closes with Robert Doran's response to all the commentaries.