Environmental threats are triggered by the overconsumption of raw materials. It is therefore necessary to move towards a society that both reduces extraction and keeps majority extracted materials in socio-economic system. Circular economy key strategy reach these goals. To implement it effectively, understand monitor material flows define hotspots, i.e. need be tackled with highest priority. T...

The increased diversity and complexity of plastics used in modern devices, such as electrical electronic equipment (EEE), can have negative impacts on their recyclability. Today, the main economic driver for waste (WEEE) recycling stems from metal recovery. WEEE recycling, other hand, still represents a major challenge. Strategies like design ‘for’, but also much younger concept ‘from’ play key...

HE striking degree of clustering of genes (i.e., cistrons) governing similar characters in T-even phages (and in the Enterobacteriaciae) has been repeatedly remarked upon (e.g., EDGAR and EPSTEIN 1965a, b; DEMEREC 1965). The operon concept (JACOB and MONOD 1961) provides a rationale for those gene clusters in which coordinated gene expression has been established. However, it sometimes appears ...

In this work we investigate the feasibility of the project of showing that a certain kind of generalisations that philosophers call ‘Epistemic Principles’, which state conditions for the achievement of epistemic goods such as justifications and entitlements, fulfil general conditions for their correctness. First, we identify the veritistic commitments underlying the project; it is argued that s...

Backpropagation neural networks and their simulations can be useful for composers and theorists. Yet, their usefulness and general applicability depends mainly on the nature of the training data presented to the network. Certain musical parameters are easier to formalize than others, and in the case of parameters that exhibit a circular characteristic like pitch or key space--which have been re...

John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in the linguistic apparatuses termed status functions, collective intentionality, and collective recognition, all of which, he argues, make the social world. In this paper, I argue that these building blocks of Searle’s social ontology are caught in a petitio of constitutive circularity. Mo...

A comprehensive understanding of how resources are utilized is required to support a circular bioeconomy. This article presents the first systematic assessment forest biomass flows and stocks in Portugal analyzes circularity resource efficiency through set indicators, while providing recommendations for their use improvement different contexts. Material Flow Analysis was developed 2015, includi...