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3742466 | Upgrading the fuzzy dark matter model | The project will illuminate implications for cosmic structure formation of the hypothesis that dark matter consists of ultra-light scalar particles, generically labeled as Axion-like particles (ALPs). Described as a continuous field, dark matter in this picture can be described as a self-gravitating superfluid on cosmological scales with distinct phenomenology from standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) due to its coherent nature. The research will extend this new model of Dark Matter to include non-gravitational self-interactions and the effects of a non-condensed corpuscular component and examine their effects on the formation of gravitationally bound cosmological structures as well as the creation of quantum vorticity through numerical simulations. The project will, therefore, merge concepts from Cosmology and Cold Atom Physics to explore a most topical question in modern science.
The experienced researcher, Dr I-Kang Liu will move from Taiwan to the UK to join the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at the University of Newcastle as a member of a team of cosmologists with strong links to a team of cold atom physicists. A cold atom physicist by training, with an extended network of European and international collaborators in his research field, he will extend his knowledge to a new field, cosmological structure formation, while bringing in his considerable numerical skills to the existing groups to perform the demanding simulations required to fully understand the process of structure formation in this cosmological model. | project/european |
622934 | Modes of genome evolution during major metazoan transitions | Our understanding of how genomic changes translate into organismal novelties is often confounded by the complexity of the underlying genome architecture. My previous studies revealed a complex interplay between several levels of genomic organization during major metazoan evolutionary transitions, ranging from modifications of regulatory elements to the gene order on the chromosomal scale. A major gap in our understanding is the extent to which those different genomic scales are evolutionarily linked and reflect an inherent functional property or mode of genome evolution. In this proposal, I focus on the emerging model system within the highly advanced clade of cephalopod molluscs, the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes, to study how changes in the mode of metazoan genome evolution have yielded unique cephalopod innovations (e.g., the largest invertebrate brain). To address this question, I will (1) take a novel global pan-metazoan comparative genomics approach to test and reveal the extent of genomic character co-evolution, identifying, for the first time, modes of genome evolution. I will then (2) test whether co-evolving characters form inherent regulatory units in metazoan genomes by an in-depth characterization using emerging and available regulatory genomic data. Finally, using latest molecular approaches, I will (3) study the regulatory composition of co-evolving character units associated with cephalopod brain development and functionally test their organismal impact. This proposal will develop a novel and holistic approach to study genome evolution, constituting a departure from the previous analyses based on individual genomic characters. It will link genomic evolutionary units to their function, revealing the genomic changes behind major innovations (cephalopod brain). Finally, this project will develop predictive models that use evolutionary data to identify novel regulatory units aiding both biological and biomedical applications. | project/european |
EP 2007064211 W | STEERING WHEEL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | A steering wheel for a motor vehicle is described, with a gripping force sensor, with an optical fibre (3), which is arranged along the periphery of the steering wheel rim (2), as part of a fibre optic sensor, and with an optoelectronic device which detects a deformation of the optical fibre (3) that is caused by an application of force, wherein at least one profiled groove (4) which runs in the peripheral direction and in which an optical fibre (3) is guided is formed in the steering wheel rim (2), and wherein a profiled body (9) is arranged in the profiled groove (4), the profiled body having a ribbed profile which acts on the optical fibre (3) when force is applied to the steering wheel rim (2). | patent |
IB 2010052142 W | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A DEVICE IN A WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | A method of detecting a receiver (214) by a transmitter and a transmitter for detecting a receiver are provided. The transmitter is intended to transmit power inductively to the receiver (214). The transmitter comprising a first transmission coil as a first electrode (204) and a second electrode (206). The first electrode (204) and the second electrode (206) form a capacitor (202). The method comprises the steps of applying a voltage (216) to any one of the electrodes (204, 206) and detecting a capacitance change of the capacitor (202). | patent |
W1109310542 | Switching error concealment algorithm based on optimal decisions for performance and complexity | The proposed paper discusses two switching error concealment algorithms: SECA (Switching Error Concealment Algorithm) and OSECA (Optimal Switching Error Concealment Algorithm) to efficiently switch among three existing error concealment methods for optimal performance and complexity tradeoff. SECA uses the motion vector statistics in the neighborhood of the lost MB (Macro Block) to make the switching decision. SECA is better than the best-PSNR method by 0.14 dB in PSNR and better than the best-win-rate method by 1.49 % in win rate, with 63 % time complexity reduction. OSECA further considers the correlation between surrounding pixels of the lost MB and the pixels in the reference frame. An optimization problem is formulated to derive the optimal decision thresholds. For OSECA, the PSNR performance is further improved by 0.24 dB from SECA and the time complexity reduction from the existing work can increase to 69 %. On different testing sets of the lost MBs, the proposed SECA and OSECA perform consistently against existing methods. Compared to SECA in the testing sets, OSECA has larger PSNR improvement (by up to 0.23 dB) against the best-PSNR method, and has larger time complexity reduction (by up to 71 %) against existing method. | publication |
W2272142993 | The aggregation of multiple three-way decision spaces | Based on the theory of three-way decisions proposed by Yao, Hu established three-way decision spaces on fuzzy lattices and partially ordered sets. At the same time, multiple three-way decision spaces and its corresponding three-way decisions were also established. How to choose a method for the transformation from multiple three-way decision spaces to a single three-way decision space? This is one of the main problems on multiple three-way decision spaces. In connection with the transformation question on multiple three-way decision spaces, this paper gives out an aggregation method from multiple three-way decision spaces to a single three-way decision space through an axiomatic complement-preserving aggregation function. These aggregation methods in the partially set 0,1 contain the weighted average three-way decisions, max-min average three-way decisions and median three-way decisions etc. These methods are generalized to three-way decisions over two groups of multiple three-way decision spaces. At last we illustrate aggregation methods of multiple three-way decision spaces through a practical example. | publication |
176154 | Institut pasteur international docotal program | PASTEURDOC is an advanced educational and research program, hosted by the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Its goal is to train junior investigators possessing medical and/or scientific educational backgrounds to become future leaders in academic education and research institutions, international organizations, private companies, or administration. PASTEURDOC is intended to co-fund and advance the already well-established and very successful Pasteur Paris University International Doctoral Program, in operation since 2009 in partnership with three renowned Parisian universities. PASTEURDOC will enhance the host capacity to train young researchers, while strengthening the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions recommendations for professional development of early-stage researchers.
The PASTEURDOC objectives are the following:
1) To provide the highest scientific education by proposing a large panoply of multidisciplinary research projects and scientific approaches. These will encompass an array of biomedical research fields crucial for human health, and lead to an internationally recognized Doctorate diploma.
2) To provide an exceptional nurturing environment combining practical research, scientific and transferrable skills training and educational follow up, by a well established Teaching Department running and International Doctoral Program.
3) To provide the early-stage researchers with a large international and multicultural network of fellows and institutions, in both developed and developing countries, and within the academic and the private sectors.
4) Two calls will be launched during the 60 months program, in order to train 30 early-stage researchers, recruited for 36 months. PASTEURDOC will significantly enhance the international visibility and the training capacity of the Pasteur International Doctoral program. | project/european |
W4226145837 | Honourable Businessmen: Respectability and ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism’ in Spain, 1840–1880 | Abstract Revolution can lead to the complete political and social reconfiguration of a society. Such readjustment is often especially significant amongst the society's elites, as when ancient aristocrats had to converge with a newly emerging bourgeoisie. This article argues that over the course of the nineteenth century there was a steady process of negotiation that saw the evolution of a new form of elite, one defined by a new characteristic: respectability. This change saw successful businessmen, particularly magnates or tycoons, climbing to the top of the social ladder, as the culmination of a process that began in the eighteenth century. To illustrate this thesis, I discuss the case of Spain. I draw upon the lives of a large and diverse range of great Spanish bankers, industrialists, and businessmen. Traditionally, historiography has studied such men individually and from an economic history perspective. Here, a global, cultural approach is adopted. The chronology of the events described is not straightforward. Although the men studied are not all from a single birth cohort or even the same generation, I consider that they lived through the same social processes. The years between 1840 and 1880 were a period of intense industrial and business development in Spain during which modern economic practices were introduced. For the purposes of this article, I first situate the concept of respectability within the Spanish historiographical context, before analysing the discursive strategies that Spanish business magnates used to turn themselves into legitimate members of the county's new social elite. Finally, I study the three main symbolic tools that they employed to demonstrate their respectability and prove their status. | publication |
interreg_3598 | Transnational Action to advance SKills and competences FOR COmmunity engagement and social Migrants Entrepreneurship initiatives in the Central Europe | TASKFORCOME tackles 2 of the major CHALLENGES of Europe today: the labour and social integration of an unprecedented presence of Migrants and the systematic realisation of Social Innovation as a powerful engine for social and economic development. A further defy is to develop Ecosystems for Inclusion and Social Innovation, where key actors work in new ways to provide services for citizens and possibilities for entrepreneurial business, together with universities, NGOs, public bodies and citizens, to create the conditions for innovation and development.
Main OBJECTIVE is to develop Local Action Plans and Transnational Blueprint to growth the Migrant and Social Entrepreneurship as channel of Social Innovation in involved regions, through: engagement and commitment of key actors, improvement of skills of migrant and social entrepreneurs, development of a one-stop-shop of targeted support for migrant and social entrepreneurs, elaboration of policy frameworks and related funding instruments, able to sustain the co-creation/co-management of local Ecosystems for Inclusion and Social Innovation, changing the bottom-up perspective of cohesive and economic development in CE regions.
OUTPUTS are learning tools, training packages, one-stop-shops piloted and strategies targeting migrants and entrepreneurs, enabling them to act as drivers of social innovation in CE.
Its INNOVATIVE APPROACH relies in the creation of Community and Social Hubs where bottom-up initiatives of Inclusive Entrepreneurship are co-developed (e.g. Community Social Business); it relies also in the commitment of a partnership representing the main operating arms of an ecosystem: policy-making, migrants, business, education.
The TRANSNATIONAL ADDED VALUE is achieved with policy schemes targeted to migrant entrepreneurs, acting at country level and able to support the development of a unitary framework in CE in which different regional micro-programs can be aggregated and capitalise. | project/regional |
ES 97914048 T | DISPOSITIVO PARA TRATAR CON LIQUIDO UNA BANDA DE GENERO TEXTIL. | EL DISPOSITIVO (100) PARA EL TRATAMIENTO LIQUIDO DE UNA BANDA DE GENERO TEXTIL COMPRENDE POR LO MENOS UN CILINDRO DE ENROLLADO MOTORIZADO (10, 20) SOBRE EL CUAL SE PUEDE ENROLLAR LA BANDA DE GENERO (11), Y UNA CUBETA (13, 14) SITUADA DEBAJO DEL CILINDRO DE ENROLLADO (10, 20) Y QUE SE EXTIENDE EN TODA SU LONGITUD, QUE PUEDE LLENARSE CON LIQUIDO DE TRATAMIENTO, DONDE ESTA SITUADO POR LO MENOS UN CILINDRO DE REENVIO (15, 16) PARA LA BANDA DE GENERO (11). ESTA PREVISTO ADEMAS UN CILINDRO CONDUCTOR (50, 50'') PARA LA BANDA DE GENERO (11), SITUADO PARALELO AL EJE DEL CILINDRO DE ENROLLADO (10, 20) EN TODO EL ANCHO DE LA BANDA DE GENERO (11), Y APOYANDOSE POR DEBAJO SOBRE EL ROLLO (10'') QUE SE VA FORMANDO SOBRE EL CILINDRO DE ENROLLADO, Y QUE EN TODO SU PERIMETRO CILINDRICO (55'') PRESENTA UNOS ORIFICIOS (60, 60'', 60"), QUE ESTAN UNIFORMEMENTE DISTRIBUIDOS EN EL PERIMETRO (55''), EVITANDO LAS ZONAS SIN ORIFICIOS QUE SE EXTIENDEN EN DIRECCION PERIFERICA. | patent |
979352 | Illuminating neural microcircuitry underlying flicker resonance in the visual cortex | Almost 200 years ago, Jan Purkinje examined the visual illusions induced by flickering light. Since then, scientists, clinicians, and artists have been fascinated by the effects of flicker on brain rhythms. When entrained with rhythmic light of ~10, ~20, ~40 Hz, visual cortex responds more strongly, or resonates. In the visual and cognitive neurosciences, resonance flicker is used to study perception and attention; in clinical domain, aberrant resonance responses to flicker are used as a diagnostic tool and potential treatment. However, the neural mechanisms by which flicker engages resonant properties of local cortical circuits and entrains brain rhythms at the level they are generated remain unknown. Over the past decade, this level became accessible to neuroscientists due to the rapid development of new neurobiological tools such as cell-type-specific optical stimulation (optogenetics). In this project, using recordings that span multiple spatial scales (from neurons and local field potentials across cortical layers to EEG), I will characterize the neural mechanisms by which flicker stimuli engage resonant properties of brain rhythms. I will use optogenetic tools to identify and manipulate genetically targeted cell types, and will combine it with simultaneous EEG and high-density laminar recordings in primary visual cortex of awake mice. I will determine the laminar profile of neural activity underlying flicker resonance observed at the EEG level (Study 1). By recording from distinct GABAergic interneuron classes and optogenetically silencing them, I will test the novel hypothesis that distinct classes of interneurons mediate flicker resonance to low (theta, alpha) and high (beta, gamma) frequencies (Study 2). This research will allow me to uncover the neurophysiological basis of resonance responses to flicker in unprecedented detail, and provide means to exploit the untapped potential of flicker as a tool to study and modulate brain rhythms in a targeted way. | project/european |
GB 2010000159 W | METHOD FOR ATTACHMENT OF SILICON-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS TO A SURFACE AND FOR SYNTHESIS OF HYPERVALENT SILICON-COMPOUNDS | A method for functionalising a surface of a substrate, the method comprising: (a) providing (i) a silicon-containing compound having two or more leaving groups, and (ii) a first functional compound comprising at least one nucleophilic group; (b) contacting the silicon-containing compound and the functional compound with a surface of a substrate having nucleophilic sites thereon; and (c) exposing the silicon-containing compound, the functional compound and the surface of the substrate to microwave radiation. | patent |
US 200913260360 A | MEDIA FOR INKJET WEB PRESS PRINTING | A media suitable for inkjet web press printing is disclosed herein. The media includes a paper substrate and an ink receptive layer coated onto at least one surface of the paper substrate. The ink receptive layer includes: inorganic pigments; at least one water-based binder; a water-soluble metallic salt; a colorant durability enhancer selected from the group consisting of boric acid, borax, sodium tetraborate, phenyl boronic acid, butyl boronic acid and combinations thereof; and a coefficient of friction (COF) reducer selected from the group consisting of polyethylene wax, paraffin wax, carnauba wax, polypropylene wax, polytetrafluoroethylene wax, and combinations thereof. | patent |
W4312224642 | A política mineral do governo Bolsonaro para a Amazônia Legal: Um balanço a partir dos processos minerários ativos | O descompromisso de Jair Bolsonaro com a pauta ambiental e com os povos tradicionais da Amazônia pode ser evidenciado antes mesmo da sua posse. Este trabalho tem como objetivo geral apresentar e debater as políticas minerais implementadas durante o governo Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) para a Amazônia Legal, com foco no avanço da atividade para seus territórios especialmente protegidos. Além disso, como objetivos específicos, serão levantadas questões ligadas aos impactos (socio)ambientais da atividade de mineração, aos seus principais atores e às substâncias que despertam o interesse. Durante o governo, que, nas palavras de Wanderley et al. (2020), pode ser classificado como neoextrativista liberal marginal, o desmatamento foi elevado a níveis que não eram vistos desde o ano de 2008. A mineração tem a sua parcela de culpa neste cenário, pois, segundo os dados de alertas do sistema de Detecção de Desmatamento em Tempo Real (DETER), o desmatamento por mineração alcançou recorde histórico na Amazônia Legal, destruindo 125 km² da floresta. Com isso, tivemos um aumento de 42% de desmatamento, do ano anterior à posse de Bolsonaro, de 2018 para 2021. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, a operacionalização do trabalho usou da base disponibilizada pela Agência Nacional de Mineração (ANM), o Sistema de Informações Geográficas da Mineração (SIGMINE). Os dados assim obtidos foram sistematizados em tabelas, gráficos e mapas, relacionando as variáveis disponíveis e buscando a ocorrência de padrões espaciais e temporais, bem como de rupturas. A análise será subsidiada pela revisão bibliográfica e complementada pelo levantamento documental e de notícias da mídia impressa por meios digitais. Dessa forma, os resultados preliminares apontam para a presença de 51.350 processos minerários ativos na Amazônia Legal, sendo 11.551 protocolados durante o atual governo. Estes mais de 11 mil processos estão distribuídos entre 6.550 requerimentos e 4.011 títulos autorizativos. Além disso, envolvido em 38% dos processos minerários ativos, o ouro desponta como a principal substância requerida. Palavras-chave: Amazônia; Neoextrativismo; Processos Minerários. The Bolsonaro government’s mineral policy for the Legal Amazon: A balance based on active mining processes Abstract Jair Bolsonaro’s lack of commitment to the ‘environmental agenda’ and to the traditional peoples of the Amazon can be evidenced even before his inauguration. This work has as general objective to present and debate the mineral policies implemented during the Jair Bolsonaro government (2019-2022) for the Legal Amazon, focusing on the progress of the activity towards its ‘specially protected territories.’ In addition, as specific objectives, issues related to the (socio)environmental impacts of the mining activity, its main actors and the substances that arouse interest will be raised. During the government, which in the words of Wanderley et al. (2020) can be classified as ‘marginal liberal neo-extractivist,’ deforestation has increased to levels not seen since 2008. Mining is partly to blame in this scenario. According to Real-time Deforestation Detection system (DETER) alert data, mining deforestation reached a historic record in the Legal Amazon, destroying 125 km² of forest. As a result, we had a 42% increase in deforestation, from the year before Bolsonaro took office, 2018 to 2021. To achieve the suggested objectives, the operationalization of the work used the base made available by the National Mining Agency (ANM), the System of Geographic Information on Mining (SIGMINE). The data thus obtained were systematized in tables, graphs and maps, relating the available variables and looking for the occurrence of spatial and temporal patterns, as well as ruptures. The analysis will be supported by the bibliographic review and complemented by the documentary survey and news from the printed media by digital means. Thus, the preliminary results point to the presence of 51,350 active mining processes in the Legal Amazon, 11,551 of which were filed during the current government. These more than 11 thousand processes are distributed among 6,550 applications and 4,011 authorization titles. Furthermore, involved in 38% of active mining processes, gold emerges as the main required substance. Keywords: Amazon; Neoexcrativism; Mining Process. La política minera del gobierno de Bolsonaro para la Amazonía Legal: Un equilibrio basado en procesos mineros activos Resumen La falta de compromiso de Jair Bolsonaro con la agenda ambiental y con los pueblos tradicionales de la Amazonía se puede evidenciar incluso antes de su toma de inauguración. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo general presentar y debatir las políticas mineras implementadas durante el gobierno de Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) para la Amazonía Legal, centrándose en el avance de la actividad a sus territorios especialmente protegidos. Además, como objetivos específicos, se plantearán temas relacionados con los impactos (socio)ambientales de la actividad minera, sus principales actores y las sustancias que suscitan interés. Durante el gobierno, que en palabras de Wanderley et al. (2020), puede clasificarse como neo-extractivista liberal marginal, la deforestación ha aumentado a niveles no vistos desde 2008. La minería tiene parte de culpa en este escenario. Según datos de alerta de sistema de Detección de Deforestación en Tiempo Real (DETER), la deforestación minera alcanzó un récord histórico en la Amazonía Legal, destruyendo 125 km² de bosque. Como resultado, tuvimos un aumento del 42% en la deforestación, desde el año anterior a la toma de inauguración de Bolsonaro, 2018 hasta 2021. Para lograr los objetivos propuestos, la operacionalización del trabajo utilizó la base puesta a disposición por la Agencia Nacional de Minería (ANM), el Sistema de Información Geográfica sobre Minería (SIGMINE). Los datos así obtenidos fueron sistematizados en tablas, gráficos y mapas, relacionando las variables disponibles y buscando la ocurrencia de patrones espaciales y temporales, así como rupturas. El análisis se apoyará en la revisión bibliográfica y se complementará con el levantamiento documental y las noticias de los medios impresos por medios digitales. Así, los resultados preliminares apuntan a la presencia de 51.350 procesos mineros activos en la Amazonía Legal, de los cuales 11.551 fueron archivados durante el actual gobierno. Estos más de 11 mil procesos se distribuyen en 6.550 solicitudes y 4.011 títulos de autorización. Además, involucrado en el 38% de los procesos mineros activos, el oro emerge como la principal sustancia requerida. Palabras clave: Amazonía; Neoextractivismo; Procesos Minerarios. | publication |
AU 2012/202772 A | Form-fill-seal machine | A form-fill-seal machine 100 has a pull-down belt mechanism 23, a vertical sealing mechanism 2, and a controller 29. The pull-down belt mechanism conveys a cylindrical film Fm. The vertical sealing mechanism applies pressure and ultrasonic oscillation to the 5 cylindrical film which is conveyed by the pull-down belt mechanism, and seals the cylindrical film. The controller controls the pull-down belt mechanism, and the pressure and the amplitude of the ultrasonic oscillation applied to the cylindrical film by the vertical sealing mechanism. The controller applies pressure and ultrasonic oscillation to the cylindrical film immediately before reaching a first point in time when the cylindrical film [0 begins to be conveyed. The controller changes at least one of the pressure and the amplitude of the ultrasonic oscillation applied to the film according to the speed of the film in a time period after reaching the first point in time. co O c 2- Fm LEFT SIDE REAR SIDE FRONT SIDE RIGHT SIDE 0o 4 C z z 0J _ 0 : zz | patent |
US 2015/0066819 W | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO, MONITORING AND CONTROLLING BODILY WASTE RECEPTACLES | An apparatus, system and method for a receptacle suitable for control, data collection, and remote management. An exemplary receptacle may include a basin for receiving at least one viscous element; at least one sensor physically associated with the basin; and at least one actuator responsive to the at least one sensor, wherein actuation of the actuator outputs the viscous element to the basin. The receptacle may further include a controller at least partially physically proximate to the basin and capable of controlling the actuation of the at least one actuator; and a control system communicative with the local controller over at least open data path, wherein the control system imposes a plurality of rules to the controller. | patent |
3735211 | Directed evolution of metalloenzymes through electrochemical droplet microarrays | The goal of this Marie Curie Individual fellowship proposal is to establish directed evolution of redox enzymes by means of electrochemical microarrays (DEMED) to enable the direct screening of the enzyme properties desired for their application in electrochemical devices. An O2 reducing metalloenzyme for implementation in biocathodes of H2/O2 enzymatic fuel cells will serve as model system to demonstrate that directed evolution of such redox enzymes screened by electrochemical droplet microarray is advantageous to specifically improve biofuel cell performances. The selected metalloenzyme is rubredoxin: oxygen oxidoreductase (ROO), which has never been applied to H2/O2 enzymatic fuel cells so far. First, ROO gene will be cloned and its random mutagenesis library will be synthesized. Second, the electrochemical droplet microarray will be adapted to enable the screening of the desired properties of the metalloenzyme. Third, electrochemical directed evolution of ROO will be carried out. Finally, the interface of ROO and electrode based on redox active polymers will be co-evolved with ROO to achieve high electron transfer rates to the enzyme and thus enable the fabrication of a high performance biocathode. It is expected that this project will have a groundbreaking on directed evolution of metalloenzymes for their practical implementation in electrochemical devices. | project/european |
EP 2005012886 W | DEVICE FOR HOLDING OBJECTS | Disclosed is a device for holding objects near a ground into which a peg (1) can be inserted. According to the invention, a clamping mechanism (2) for the object is assigned to the peg (1). | patent |
W4210339786 | ‘Guariqueña FL’: Nuevo cultivar de arroz de riego para Venezuela | La variedad de arroz GUARIQUEÑA FL es un nuevo producto tecnológico obtenido en el marco del convenio INIA-FUNDARROZ, Venezuela. Fue derivada de un cruce triple realizado por el Fondo Latinoamericano y del Caribe para Arroz de Riego (FLAR) en el año 2004, utilizando como progenitores a FL01028-8P-3-2P-1P-M-2X-3P-1P / FL03188-7P-5-3P-3P-M-1P // FL02764-3P-3-4P-2P-M-1P-M-M-1P. La primera etapa de evaluación y selección del material (hasta la etapa F5), fue realizada en Colombia utilizando el método genealógico o pedigree. En Venezuela llega en el Vivero de introducciones del FLAR en el año 2007, siendo evaluada por el equipo técnico de arroz del INIA en diferentes localidades de Barinas, Portuguesa y Guárico hasta el año 2015. En paralelo, se llevó a cabo las actividades tendientes a la obtención de semilla genética a partir de la semilla original recibida del FLAR, mediante los ensayos de purificación y estabilización. El cultivar fue inscrito en SENASEM en el año 2016, siendo evaluado en los EVACs de los ciclos seco 2016-2017, lluvioso 2017, seco 2017-2018 y seco 2018-2019. Fue liberada en el mercado nacional de Venezuela en el año 2020. La variedad Guariqueña FL se caracteriza por presentar alta resistencia a escaldado (Monographella albescens), helminstosporium (Cochiobolus miyabeanus), manchado de grano (Complejo de hongos) y sogata (Tagosodes orizicolus); resistencia a piricularia (Magnaporthe grisea) de hoja y cuello y resistencia intermedia al virus de la hoja blanca. Posee un potencial de rendimiento superior a los 11.000 kg/ha, el cual debido a una alta capacidad de macollamiento, panículas densas que pueden superar los 200 granos por panícula, con fertilidad superior al 89 %, no aristados, con peso de mil semillas secas de 29,5 g. Este material presenta tolerancia al vuelco, desgrane y retraso de cosecha. | publication |
894335 | Digital encyclopedia of european sociability | The Digital Encyclopaedia of European Sociability (DIGITENS) project will produce the first open-access digital encyclopaedia and anthology of sociability in Europe throughout the long-eighteenth century. The purpose of the DIGITENS project is to build an original framework for understanding the interactions, tensions, limits and paradoxes underlying European models of sociability and to reflect on the following question: Can the emergence and formation of European models of sociability be traced throughout the long eighteenth century (1650-1850)? Drawing upon the expertise of international members from different disciplines and national traditions, the project will create a toplevel interdisciplinary network and facilitate intersectoral communication between its academic and non-academic partners.
The nine international universities will work together with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée Cognacq-Jay in France, and The National Archives in Great Britain, allowing members to explore how understandings of sociability might be enhanced through dialogue, international collaboration, and digital technology, developing a broader contextualisation of the research into European sociability. As the first digital encyclopaedia of its kind, the expected impact of the resource will not only benefit researchers, but anyone interested in the history of European models of sociability.
The project is not, however, of purely historical or academic interest. Through the implementation of outreach events, workshops and the production of the accessible digital platforms, the DIGITENS team will promote a wide investigation of the value of eighteenth century principles in twenty-first-century private and public lives throughout Europe. The interdisciplinary and international aspects of the DIGITENS project, and coherent methodology, are innovative, and the scope broad and ambitious. | project/european |
216265 | Bond activation and catalysis with low-valent aluminium | This project will develop the principles required to enable bond-modifying redox catalysis based on aluminium by preparing and studying new Al(I) compounds capable of reversible oxidative addition.
Catalytic processes are involved in the synthesis of 75 % of all industrially produced chemicals, but most catalysts involved are based on precious metals such as rhodium, palladium or platinum. These metals are expensive and their supply limited and unstable; there is a significant need to develop the chemistry of non-precious metals as alternatives. On toxicity and abundance alone, aluminium is an attractive candidate. Furthermore, recent work, including in our group, has demonstrated that Al(I) compounds can perform a key step in catalytic cycles - the oxidative addition of E-H bonds.
In order to realise the significant potential of Al(I) for transition-metal style catalysis we urgently need to:
- establish the principles governing oxidative addition and reductive elimination reactivity in aluminium systems.
- know how the reactivity of Al(I) compounds can be controlled by varying properties of ligand frameworks.
- understand the onward reactivity of oxidative addition products of Al(I) to enable applications in catalysis.
In this project we will:
- Study mechanisms of oxidative addition and reductive elimination of a range of synthetically relevant bonds at Al(I) centres, establishing the principles governing this fundamental reactivity.
- Develop new ligand frameworks to support of Al(I) centres and evaluate the effect of the ligand on oxidative addition/reductive elimination at Al centres.
- Investigate methods for Al-mediated functionalisation of organic compounds by exploring the reactivity of E-H oxidative addition products with unsaturated organic compounds. | project/european |
EP 2013052488 W | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-PURITY SIO2 | The invention relates to a method for producing high-purity SiO2, comprising steps a. producing a precursor from an acidifying agent having a pH value of less than 2; b. providing a silicate solution; c. adding the silicate solution from step b. to the precursor from step a. such that the pH value of the obtained precipitation suspension remains below 2 at all times; and d. separating and washing the obtained silicon dioxide, the silicon dioxide obtained in the precipitation process being continuously or semi-continuously separated from the precipitation zone and being washed in a washing zone that is separated from the precipitation zone. The invention further relates to a system for carrying out said method. | patent |
W2136528789 | Early term infants are at increased risk of requiring neonatal intensive care | Increasing evidence is demonstrating that infants born early on during the term period are at increased risk of morbidity compared with infants born closer to a complete 40 week gestational pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to compare early term [gestation age (GA): 37-37 6/7 weeks] neonatal outcomes with those of other full term neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions.Retrospective chart review of all term infants admitted to the NICU at New York University Langone Medical Center over a 17 month period. Subjects were grouped and analyzed according to their GA at birth: 1) early term infants (GA between 37 0/7 to 37 6/7 weeks) and 2) other term infants (38 0/7 weeks and older).Early term infants were more likely to require NICU care than other term infants [relative risk: 1.42, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.07-1.88), P=0.01]. In the NICU, they are more likely to manifest respiratory distress syndrome [odds ratio (OR)=5.7, 95% CI=1.6-19.8, P<0.01] and hypoglycemia (OR=4.6, 95% CI=2.0-10.4, P<0.001). In addition, early term neonates were more likely to be born via elective cesarean section than other term neonates (OR=4.1, 95% CI=2.0-8.5, P<0.001).Being born at early term is associated with increased risk of respiratory disease and hypoglycemia requiring neonatal intensive care. Further efforts directed at decreasing early term deliveries may be warranted. | publication |
W2358810943 | Electronic Structure Analysis of C:Si Codoping AlN Crystals | The band structure and electronic properties of 32-atom wurtzite AlN supercell system with C∶Si codoping is investigated by the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method( FP-LAPW)based on the Density Functional theory( DFT). If the concentration of doped C atoms is equal with that of Si atoms,C-Si complexes will be formed,but for the compensation effects,the concentration of free carriers will be very low; as the concentration of C atoms is increased,other complexes,such as C2-Si,C3-Si etc.,will be formed. The existence of these complexes can increase the solubility of acceptor impurities as well as reducing their activation energy. It is found that C∶ Si codoping is a promising way to gain p-type AlN crystals. | publication |
W2077552010 | A spatial decision support system for the Portuguese public transportation sector | SIGGESC is a spatial decision support system (SDSS), based on a Geographic Information System (GIS), directed towards the public transportation sector. This SDSS contributes to a paradigm shift at the Portuguese Transportation Authority (IMTT) in terms of the process of registering and granting concessions to the bus companies, and also increases IMTT's ability in other supervision tasks. It allows a better coordination and planning of bus lines, and contributes to the dematerialization of the licensing processes.This project not only brought an added value to IMTT, but also to the Portuguese passenger transportation companies; by setting up an integrated information system that offers an opportunity to automate work processes and routines, greater efficiency in inspection and licensing processes, and the organization of a database on the public passenger road transport service. Such a database allows the compilation of useful references, indicators and parameters for the regulatory process, leading to faster and better decisions in terms of planning. | publication |
US 0211390 W | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING INTERNET CONSUMERS AND FOR CERTIFYING, IDENTIFYING, SEGREGATING AND LOCATING TRADITIONAL "BRICK AND MORTAR" MERCHANT BUSINESSES ON THE INTERNET | A system and related methods for providing verifiable certification regarding the identity and legitimacy of the web sites of brick-and-mortar merchants are disclosed herein. The systems and related methods disclosed utilize a certification network that implemets various computer and software implemented methods to help consumers, businesses and others to differentiate between the commercial internet web sites of traditional brick-and-mortar merchants and those web sites of less-trusted Internet-only enterprises. Merchants that meet a predetermined set of criteria representative of physical location, permanence, business practices and other indicia of overall consumer trustworthiness are certified by storing details of that certified merchant in a centralized merchant database in the certification network, granted a verifiable certification seal for display on their web site, and assigned a unique identifier. The predetermined set of criteria is measured by the completion of an on-site field survey at the merchant's traditio nal place of business, and upon the trusted third party's conclusion that the certification requirements have been met. | patent |
DE 9701011 W | DOOR, IN PARTICULAR A FIRE-PROOF DOOR, WHICH CAN OPTIONALLY BE USED TO ABUT ON THE RIGHT-HAND OR ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE | The invention relates to a door with a frame (3) and a door leaf (2) optionally fitted to abut on the right-hand or the left-hand side, and provided on the longitudinal side regions and at least in one of the flank regions with a fold which covers when closed the gap to the frame (3), when viewed from the flank pointing in the opening direction. Said door leaf (2) is connected to the frame via hinges (5), each having at least three hinge blades (8, 9) which a hinge bolt (4) traverses. Sliding rings (12) are preferably arranged in particular to rotate in unison with those end surfaces of the hinge blades which face each other. The design of said door is such that for the purpose of particularly simple manipulation for the required height displacement of the door leaf (2) in the frame (3), the door leaf (2) is formed to be displaceable in relation to the frame (3) by approximately up to the height of one flank fold of the door leaf in the region of the hinges (5) in the longitudinal direction of the bolt, and can be fastened, optionally in one of the displacement end positions, to pivot about the hinge bolts (4) without dismantling or altering the hinge parts (4, 8, 9). | patent |
648216 | Sino-Iranica: investigating relations between medieval china and sasanian iran | An investigation of Sino-Iranian connections from the third to tenth centuries, with a particular focus on political, religious and material exchanges between China and Sassanian Iran. The aim will be to build a bridge between modern Sinology and Iranology and to further build our understanding of the history of Sino-Iranian relations in close coordination with Iranologists in Italy and Europe. The project will aim to highlight Sino-Iranian relations as having been significantly more important than is normally recognized, and to provide new knowledge that will be useful to both Sinology and Iranology. This two-year project will excavate primary and archaeological sources in Chinese while documenting modern scholarship on Sino-Iranian relations, especially in Modern Chinese and Japanese. The project will make great use of the digitized and searchable corpus of classical Chinese, and reevaluate the roles of Iranian religions in medieval China. The findings and data from this study will be digested and presented as a single monograph. The proposed project will be actively interdisciplinary. It will involve the research, a Canadian Sinologist trained in Japan and the Netherlands, being hosted by Iranologists in Italy. Such an arrangement will allow for gainful two-way exchanges of knowledge and skills. | project/european |
218720 | Emotional machines: the technological transformation of intimacy in japan | EMTECH analyzes the relationship between aesthetic works on human-robot interaction in Japan and cutting-edge advances in robotics and artificial intelligence. Its central hypothesis argues that a tradition of literary, artistic, and other media forms of cultural production on human-robot relationships particular to Japan is currently being built into emotionally-intelligent companion robots with the ability to understand, record, and elicit emotions in its users, consequently expanding the capacities for humans to create affective bonds with machines and transforming structures of intimacy that sustain traditional social institutions. In its most ambitious claim, EMTECH argues that this cultural tradition has played a primary role in inspiring the recently-emerging mass production of domestic robots with technology that can register and record facial expressions, heart rate, skin conductance, and other signs of affect not consciously recognized by humans, thus generating new kinds of scientific data on human affect that fundamentally challenges previous understandings of emotion. Through the textual analysis of literary work on robot imaginaries and ethnographic fieldwork on human-robot interaction in homes, palliative care centers, and engineering laboratories, EMTECH’s purpose is to collect qualitative data on new technologies of emotion management in order to advance literary and cultural theory’s contributions to the affective sciences, as well as to inform public discussions on issues of data collection, privacy, and other ethical concerns raised by the adoption of emotionally-intelligent robots in the home. Leveraging research in the humanities to critique emotional models employed by robotics engineers and designers, and implementing novel research methods such as the use of robots in both literary critique and ethnographic fieldwork, EMTECH promises to yield groundbreaking data of both theoretical and methodological application across the human sciences. | project/european |
NL 0300911 W | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DIGITAL INFORMATION USING TIME-AND-FREQUENCY-BOUNDED BASE FUNCTIONS | Systems and methods for efficiently conveying one or more broadband communication channels over a transmission medium. Communication is effected by transforming an incoming digital bit stream into a Time-and-Frequency-Bounded (TFB) information stream that includes a plurality of TFB packets. This transformation is accomplished through the use of a plurality of TFB basis functions. The TFB information stream is then transmitted over the transmission medium. More particularly, digital bit streams carried on one or more incoming channels are in the form of binary "on" and "off" bits. These digital bits are converted into a plurality of TFB waveform components which together comprise a TFB packet. The conversion process maps each of respective incoming digital bits to a corresponding one of a group of TFB functions, such that a first group of n bits is mapped to a first TFB function, a second group is mapped to a second TFB function, and so on, until the Nth TFB function is reached, whereupon the process cycles back to the first TFB function. In any case, the value or status of a group of bits is represented by a corresponding weighing factor for the corresponding TFB function. When weighed, each respective TFB function specifies the transmission of a corresponding TFB waveform component. Each waveform component is substantially confined within a range of values in both the frequency and time domains. | patent |
W2591937436 | Partisan politics, welfare states, and environmental policy outputs in the OECD countries, 1975-2005 | Building on the burgeoning literature on the association between the welfare state and the environmental state, this study empirically examines how the politics of the former has affected the development of the latter. We suggest that the size of the welfare state shapes the calculus of environmental policy costs by partisan governments. A generous welfare state lowers the costs perceived by the left-wing government, as large redistributive spending allows the government to mitigate the adverse impact of the new environmental policy on its core supporters, industrial workers. A generous welfare state also implies diminished marginal political returns from additional welfare commitment by the left-wing government, which lowers the opportunity costs of environmental policy expansion. To the contrary, because of lower overall regulatory and taxation pressure, a small welfare state reduces the costs of environmental policy expansion as perceived by a right-wing government. Our theoretical narrative is supported in a dynamic panel data analysis of environmental policy outputs in 25 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member states during the period 1975–2005. | publication |
interreg_327 | Investing in Renewable Energies for Agriculture | THE CHALLENGE
The agricultural sector accounts for almost 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU, mainly for food production and transport. While there is an enormous potential to produce renewable energy on farms due to the availability of wind, sun, biomass and agricultural waste, important barriers and challenges still remain.
Recent studies have proven that the main barriers identified by farmers to produce renewable energy are: complex permits and subsidies’ procedures, high investment costs, limited access to credit and doubts about profitability. Subsidies and feed-in tariffs are a key factor in encouraging farmers to shift towards a more environmentally friendly production and use of energy.
The EU’s rural development policy helps the rural areas meet economic, environmental and social challenges, and it shares objectives with other ESIF funds. MS and regions draw up their rural development programmes based on the needs of their territories, and addressing some of the common EU priorities. At least 30% of funding for each RDP must be dedicated to measures relevant for the environment and climate change.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE:
The main objective is to develop measures that encourage the production and use of RE in the agricultural and rural sector. AgroREs will support this sector by solving its energy needs in a sustainable, economic viable and socially responsible way.
OUTPUTS
- 5 SF improved with more than 3,8 M€ influenced
- 2 reginal Funds improved with 1,4 M€ influenced
- More than 100 people with increased professional capacity
- 41 policy learning events
- 1 guide on good practices to promote investments of RE in agricultural areas
- 7 self-assessment documents to analyze the situation of RE in agriculture and define the best solutions and technologies for implementation
- 7 action plans to improve 7 policy instruments | project/regional |
FR 2021051815 W | DEVICE FOR FASTENING A POSITION-ADJUSTABLE LOCK, AND ASSEMBLY COMPRISING THE DEVICE AND THE LOCK | Lock-fastening device (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising a support member (2) having an interface portion (21) comprising through-holes, characterised in that it comprises a plate (3) arranged on a first face of the interface portion (21), a means (31, 24) for holding the plate (21) on the support member (2), the means being capable of allowing the plate (3) to be moved for adjustment relative to the interface portion (21) at least in a direction parallel to the plane (P), the plate (3) comprising a fastening means (4) for fastening the lock (5) to the fastening device by passing through the through-holes (23). | patent |
interreg_3689 | Establishment of " TRANSnational Civil Protection EARLY WARNING System" to improve the resilience of Adrion territories to natural and man-made risks | The project addresses the challenges of enhancing level of uniformity, homogeneity and similarity of existing CP Early Warning, efficiently integrating them to predict risks, present alert levels and improve exchange of information with EU CP Mechanism.This approach is built on 3 pillars:Participatory process with the establishment of a networking structure as stable cooperation relationship between project partners, civil protection organizations and main stakeholders with long term perspective.It relates to its activation to change from traditional "vulnerable element" to "active sensor" of emergencies to obtain their contribution to Civil Protection emergency activities. Innovative Transnational network relates to the development of an innovative Warning System, a web platform able to integrate heterogeneous data. Establishment of a strategy as an integrated framework defined by all partners and drafting of an Action Plan providing a common vision enhancing level of uniformity and similarity to make available to National/Regional Authorities a transnational uniform emergency basis.The overall objective is to increase cooperation level among National CP institutions in addressing natural and man-made risks right from the early warning stage and better ensuring EU CP Mechanism intervention. It pursues the above target through an innovative and holistic networking approach with a lever effect also after the end of the project activities supporting the whole system of Civil Protection; keep open a real-time update channel on risk occurrences by collecting and using information provided; implement a Raising Awareness intervention of emergencies. Expected change to the current situation is promotion of homogenization among early warning legislation and processes, reinforcement of coordination and cooperation of ADRION CP chains of command, and convergence of IPA CP operation to EU CP standards by transfer of experiences and lessons learnt. | project/regional |
W2018252962 | Differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells seeded on mineralized electrospun co-axial poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/gelatin nanofibers | Mineralized poly(ε-caprolactone)/gelatin core-shell nanofibers were prepared via co-axial electrospinning and subsequent incubation in biomimetic simulated body fluid containing ten times the calcium and phosphate ion concentrations found in human blood plasma. The deposition of calcium phosphate on the nanofiber surfaces was investigated through scanning electronic microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Energy dispersive spectroscopy results indicated that calcium-deficient hydroxyapatite had grown on the fibers. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis suggested the presence of hydroxyl-carbonate-apatite. The results of a viability assay (MTT) and alkaline phosphatase activity analysis suggested that these mineralized matrices promote osteogenic differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells (hASCs) when cultured in an osteogenic medium and have the potential to be used as a scaffold in bone tissue engineering. hASCs cultured in the presence of nanofibers in endothelial differentiation medium showed lower rates of proliferation than cells cultured without the nanofibers. However, endothelial cell markers were detected in cells cultured in the presence of nanofibers in endothelial differentiation medium. | publication |
W2745078727 | Do Mutual Fund Investors Care About Auditor Quality? | We study the influence of perceived auditor quality on investment decisions by bond mutual fund investors. Audits of bond mutual funds require significant auditor expertise. Fund managers estimate daily the fair market values of holdings that are often opaque and illiquid. Managers can use their discretion to manipulate their fund's performance results. While it is known that investment flows into funds that report good past performance, little evidence exists about whether investors’ confidence in the reliability of fund financial reports is influenced by auditor quality. Using hand-collected data from SEC filings, we find that the positive association between reported performance and investment flows is stronger for funds with auditors who are industry specialists and are longer-tenured, as well as for funds that pay higher audit fees. We do not find that auditor office size strengthens the association. We also find that the presence of industry-specialist auditors, long-tenured auditors, and higher audit fees lead to additional disclosure in the form of emphasis-of-matter. This study contributes to the streams of research investigating perceived audit quality, fund investment decisions, and auditing for financial services.
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. | publication |
EP 16157461 A | CONTROLLER | A secondary side controller for a power converter configured to provide a control signal to an emitter element of an opto-coupler for control of a primary side controller of the power converter, the secondary side controller configured to operate with the primary side controller for controlling the voltage output of the power converter, the secondary side controller configured to, based on; a first control value configured to instruct the power converter to output its present voltage output; and a second control value configured to instruct the power converter to provide a requested target voltage output; provide said control signal in accordance with a transition profile over a predetermined transition time period to effect a change between the first control value and the second control value, the transition profile comprising at least a first rate of change in the control signal followed by an end time period leading to the end of the transition time period during which the rate of change in the control signal is less than a threshold rate based on a characteristic of the opto-coupler and/or the power converter with which the controller is rated to operate, the first rate of change greater than the threshold rate of change. | patent |
185778 | Incomaker - intelligent marketing management automation for sme | NetCampaigner was established as a Czech SME company by the group of experts with about 50 years of combined experience in marketing, small-business, and statistical data analysis. It develops Incomaker, an innovative marketing automation tool for SMEs that uses our artificial intelligence technology to suggest, plan and perform marketing management activities.
Just 34% of SMEs use CRM, 14% use acquisition marketing, and 56% don’t measure their marketing performance. The quality of marketing processes and abilities among SMEs is typically far behind large corporations. The problem is that state-of-the-art marketing software is based on principles reflecting the needs of corporations. They usually have skilled marketing experts to plan marketing actions and the idea behind their information systems is to alleviate the workload and automate tasks. SMEs, on the other hand, are often lacking the advanced marketing expertise and hence conventional marketing information systems solve different problems and often can hardly help SMEs as they expect.
Our Incomaker, a unique intelligent marketing system solves the problem the following way. The marketing must be information driven. Incomaker collects data from various sources, both internal and external and performs advanced analysis of it using marketing best practices and former knowledge gained by autolearning. The results are suggestions for marketing decision making and actions that could be directly confirmed and executed.
As Facebook changed the way how people e.g. quickly publish their photos on the internet, Incomaker has the ambition to establish a new category of marketing software and to modify the way how SMEs perform their marketing. Incomaker can replace most of the work of marketing manager In SME. This way it could save considerable costs and bring nearly the same maturity of marketing management as if a marketing professional would perform it. It will help SMEs grow and create new job positions. | project/european |
W1536709531 | A fast pruning technique for low-power inexact Circuit design | Inexact Circuits are circuits in which the accuracy of the output can be traded for cost savings (energy, area and/or delay). In the context of advanced technology scaling and power density increase, inexact circuits appear to be very promising as a solution. In this paper, we present a novel pruning technique developed as a logic level method to select and prune parts of a digital circuit. The error is computed at each pruning step using probabilistic error propagation and Hamming distance computation, making the evaluation possible at runtime. The technique was validated on several parallel adder architectures. Experimental results proved the efficiency of the technique with Energy-Delay-Area product reduction of 1.8× for less than 10−4% of relative error on the considered benchmarks at 45-nm technology node. | publication |
W1947948633 | Lalo Alcaraz: political humour across borders | Lalo Alcaraz’s work centres on the life of Latinos in the United States. The son of Mexican immigrants to the United States, he is well aware of the conflicts between Latinos and Anglos, the dominant English-speaking group, particularly in the domain of politics. Alcaraz is a Latino spokesperson, presenting the point of view of this segment of the American population and denouncing the incongruities and absurdities that it faces. His main target is politicians, even if others can also feel his barbs. Alcaraz is relentless in his criticism and has exposed the political motives for decades. His critiques are timeless, evident in the recent resurgence of his older cartoons and strips, highlighting the continued marginalisation suffered by Latinos. This paper looks at how Alcaraz uses bilingual and bicultural punning to present his case. Alcaraz is a master at double entendre and has an uncanny ability to encapsulate the problems while straddling two languages. | publication |
Q4584237 | Entwicklung einer neuen Technologie des Präzisionsgusses No.O.B SLÉVÁRNA | Gegenstand des Projekts ist die Entwicklung einer neuen Technologie des Präzisionsgießens auf einem schmelzbaren Modell für Laufrad-Gussteile für Kreiselpumpen für den Flüssigkeitstransport. Der angebotene Service umfasst auch die Überprüfung der vorgeschlagenen Technologie mittels numerischer Simulation und Betriebsprüfung für ausgewählte Prüfgussteile. | project/regional |
W62908148 | Trade and Transport Corridor Management Toolkit | A trade and transport corridor is a coordinated bundle of transport and logistics infrastructure and services that facilitates trade and transport flows between major centers of economic activity. Providing a comprehensive guide to tools and techniques for corridor projects is important, as the volume of such projects is likely to increase. Corridors remain very important, especially to landlocked countries and post-conflict countries and regions. This toolkit provides a comprehensive and holistic compilation of approaches and techniques on corridor diagnostics, performance assessment, management, operations improvement, and impact evaluation. The toolkit identifies mechanisms for improving the performance of the corridor through initiatives by the public and private sectors. These initiatives include investments in infrastructure and modification of policies and regulations, especially related to trade facilitation. It also considers the government's capacity to maintain the infrastructure and regulate the flow of goods along the corridor and the private sector's ability to provide a variety of levels and quality of services, as measured in terms of time and cost. It provides tools to answer four main questions: what are the approaches to identifying the main issues and constraints to movement of trade and transport along a corridor?; how well is the corridor performing, and where are the weaknesses?; what are the options for improving the performance of the corridor?; and what are the likely impacts of investments or improvements to the corridor? The toolkit groups the four main questions into three parts, which comprise 13 modules. Part one includes four modules on how to carry out a corridor diagnostic. These modules focus on the infrastructure, regulatory, and institutional framework for a corridor. It also includes a critical module on corridor performance indicators. Part two comprises eight modules on specific corridor components. It explains how performance can be improved through targeted interventions. Part three consists of a single module, on assessing the impact of a corridor. | publication |
W1036387046 | Las ferias de comercio como herramienta de mercadeo para la promoción de exportaciones | TRADE FAIRS IN MARKETING AS A TOOL FOR THE PROMOTION OF EXPORTS This research work is our concept of what should be a process of comprehensive and systematic creation in marketing and export promotion, coupled with the detection of the need for institutions involved in the production, marketing and promotional support den actual daily feeding the altruistic spirit of entrepreneurs about to penetrate new markets with their products and services without thinking exclusively about economics, but in terms of search and use of own or external tools available, aimed at achieving sustained growth through successful participation in international trade fairs. The concepts presented for participation in International Trade Fairs analyzed and suggested to be adopted, given that many initiatives are valuable if they are applied, but if in the process of carrying them out do not take into account the suggested methodology are doomed to fail because the initiative itself killing her, as we will be very conscious about the great care must be taken in marketing, design strategy, marketing plan and monitoring and evaluation of participation. When we point out the advantages of selecting the market and product display to claim market, we believe that the new companies they should not be left alone. Many of them do not yet have sufficient financial capacity to compete with large companies and sworn in potential markets and further, noted the particular need for support from government and private sector external advisory level. The adoption of participation in trade fairs and as a strategy for export promotion is a direct function of export businessman, obviously counting on the commitment and dedication of commercial assessment process. We must also consider that every effort is made in relation to export, is to bring a new source of enrichment for our country and its economic systems: hence its great value. Quito, Metropolitan District, March 8, 2010 ING. JULIO MAURICIO VIZUETE M. ING. PATRICIO ESTRADA H. | publication |
US 2011/0041064 W | LOCKER FOR USE WITH CHAIR | A locker (200) configured for releasable attachment to a rail is disclosed. The locker (200) includes a plurality of walls (201 - 206) that define a storage compartment (230). A first locking mechanism (210) is accessible from an exterior of the compartment and has a locked position that secures a moveable member (201) in a closed position across an opening to the storage compartment (230). A mating member (290) is configured to engage a securing member that is configured to be secured to the rail. A second locking mechanism is adjacent to one of the walls, is aligned with the mating member, and has a locked position that locks the mating member to the securing member to lock the securing member to the rail. Optionally, a housing is adjacent to one of the walls, wherein the second locking mechanism is positioned in the housing. Second locking mechanism cannot be accessed unless first locking mechanism is unlocked. | patent |
interreg_816 | Carbon Smart Communities | Increasing material flows along processing chains in timber industry considerably contribute to climate change. However, there is a great but unexploited potential for reduction of CO2-emissions. The project makes these potentials accessible to decision makers and actors. Based on proved innovative cross border working assessment and monitoring tools, HVH developed and provides to the project for testing in the AS, it intially visualizes the impact of low carbon material flows in timber products on the climate (integrated carbon footprint system). It develops and establishes policy guidelines in participating communities (bundled by the different partners) and provides decision makers with steering instruments to actively trigger climate friendly timber products. _x000D_
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Through the project an important but unregarded sustainability aspect will be considered in public construction and procurement. Legal opinions from experts of EU and communal law as well as first activities from public bodies in D to implement the existing tools into procurement indicates the feasibility of the approach. Current lacks of specific informations among decision makers will be filled up. The implementation of developed policies starts within the project duration in several communities and public bodies via partners or observers. To support the setting up and exchange between low carbon model areas an innovative smart places network will be established. By using new communication technologies it extends the sphere of influence of such places by order of magnitude. Strategies and instruments for low carbon and resource saving products and processes are a paneuropean issue but need to be developed in a transnational approach to get results which are applicable across borders and avoid insulated solutions to reach a broad european acceptance in politics and market. The project provides a technical innovation, as no such trans national instruments are in place up to now. | project/regional |
W2943241318 | Optimizing many-body atomic descriptors for enhanced computational performance of machine learning based interatomic potentials | We explore different ways to simplify the evaluation of the smooth overlap of atomic positions (SOAP) many-body atomic descriptor [Bart\'{o}k et al., Phys. Rev. B 87, 184115 (2013)]. Our aim is to improve the computational efficiency of SOAP-based similarity kernel construction. While these improved atomic descriptors can be used for general characterization and interpolation of atomic properties, their main target application is accelerated evaluation of machine-learning-based interatomic potentials within the Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) framework [Bart\'{o}k et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136403 (2010)]. We achieve this objective by expressing the atomic densities in an approximate separable form, which decouples the radial and angular channels. We then express the elements of the SOAP descriptor (i.e., the expansion coefficients for the atomic densities) in analytical form given a particular choice of radial basis set. Finally, we derive recursion formulas for the expansion coefficients. This new SOAP-based descriptor allows for tenfold speedups compared to previous implementations, while improving the stability of the radial expansion for distant atomic neighbors, without degradation of the interpolation power of GAP models. | publication |
W2095870387 | Study on the Technology of Resources Utilization of Oilfield Heavy Oil Sewage Sludge | The paper introduces the whole process ideas of pyrolysis and resources utilization of the heavy oil sewage sludge. Experiments of pyrolysis temperature optimization, the yields and composition analysis of pyrolysis products, the conditions optimization experiment of recycling aluminum salt from pyrolysis residue and the analysis of pyrolysis residue adsorptivity were carried out. These experiments shown that: when pyrolysis temperature was 600°C, oil content of pyrolysis residue could be controlled within 3.0‰, oil recovery rate could hit 10%, and C1-C3 hydrocarbons components of pyrolysis gas could reach 90%; gasoline, kerosene, diesel and other light components in pyrolysis oil could be amounted to 60%. When the following conditions were chosen: decarburization temperature of pyrolysis residue was 700-750°C, calcination time was 0.5-1h, acid dissolution time at normal temperature was 2-5h, concentration of HCl was 25-30%, molar ratio of Al and HCl was 1:1.0-1:1.2, aluminum dissolution rate could hit 90%, aluminum concentration of dissolved liquid could hit 10%. When pyrolysis final temperature was 600°C, residue with adsorption properties on the removal effect of COD and oil from oilfield oil sewage could be better than activated carbon. | publication |
W1976436781 | Kinetic study of photoinduced quasi-simultaneous interpenetrating polymer networks | Abstract Interpenetrating Polymer Networks (IPNs) based on a dimethacrylate and an epoxide are synthesized by photopolymerization. By varying the relative amount of radical photoinitiator with respect to the cationic one, and by changing the exposure conditions, it was found possible to delay or accelerate the photopolymerization of the methacrylate monomer compared to the epoxide one. The effect of the relative rate of photopolymerization on the final conversion, glass transition, and morphology is discussed. Finally, the increase in shear modulus as a function of irradiation time was investigated by real time ultrasonic reflectometry. An increase in the mechanical properties after the exposure was evidenced as a consequence of the living character of the cationic polymerization. | publication |
651046 | Habitable air: urban inequality in the time of climate change | The project examines how the urban poor, living in the shadows of jointly-owned petrochemical companies, manage the cultural and corporeal effects of chemical air pollution. A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship will allow me to complete the research for my full-length book project, Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Climate Change. The project asks: What political life is possible for – and created by – the world’s most environmentally precarious communities in emerging orders of climate governance? Modern democratic theory rests on the foundational principle that all citizens have an equal share in political life. In contemporary South Africa, the United States, and Germany, legacies of colonialism and racial segregation, along with neoliberalism and climate change, test that very foundation. I approach political life as not merely defined by the laws, policies, and decisions of state-sanctioned agents, but by everyday practices among ordinary citizens and their interactions with the environment. Drawing from over a decade of ethnographic research in interconnected petrochemical hubs of South Africa and Louisiana’s “cancer alley,” and expanding to a new field site in Germany, my project offers a critical examination of how the urban poor, living on the precarious margins, come to inhabit political roles and practice climate politics in twenty-first century liberal democracies, especially as climate science becomes increasingly integral to contemporary governance. The project’s innovation is to examine the under-analyzed relationship between three interrelated phenomena: the amplification of political divisions in major democracies; the rapid growth of urban inequality; and the increasing impact of pollution and global warming. By studying in interconnected global petrochemical hotspots, ""Habitable Air"" will contribute new knowledge about U.N. SDG #11 on sustainable cities and #13 on climate action.
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W333626033 | Cardiac Interventions in Pregnant Patients without Fluoroscopy | Cardiac interventions with fluoroscopy during pregnancy carry significant risks for the fetus. This report reviews three pregnant patients: two of them requiring pacemaker implantation and one underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization without fluoroscopy.The cases were performed using EnSite system (St. Jude Medical Inc., MN, USA) guidance. The necessary cardiac structure geometries were reconstructed with a deflectable quadripolar electrophysiology catheter without fluoroscopy. In two cases, pacemaker leads were connected to the EnSite system for navigation and fixation of leads. In the third case, long sheaths and electrophysiology catheters were used to access the right ventricle and pulmonary artery. Transthoracic echocardiography was also used in all three cases.A 31-year-old woman at 8-week pregnancy was admitted with ventricular septal defect and significant pulmonary hypertension. The patient underwent catheterization to assess for the risk of continuation of pregnancy. There was partial reactivity, it was decided not to terminate the pregnancy, and an uneventful delivery was succeeded at 35 weeks of gestation without complications. The rest of the two pregnant patients were a 28-year-old pregnant woman at 14 weeks of gestation and a 40-year-old woman at 12-week gestation. Both of them presented with symptomatic complete AV block. A single-chamber pacemaker was implanted in the first one, and a dual-chamber pacemaker was implanted in the latter. Pregnancy continued in both without complications.Successful cardiac catheterization and pacemaker implantation can be performed safely in selected pregnant patients using an electroanatomic mapping system guidance without fluoroscopy. | publication |
US 2021/0054009 W | ANTI-NGF ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | The present disclosure encompasses novel anti-NGF antibodies, antigen binding proteins and polynucleotides encoding the same. The disclosure further provides use of the novel antibodies, antigen binding proteins and/or nucleotide of the invention for the treatment and/or prevention of NGF related disorders, particularly in for the management of pain. | patent |
Q6878794 | Construction of the “The Resort” Scheiblhofer in Andau | Construction of a 4* resort (approx. Categories), Reception/lobby, Restaurants, Kitchen, Bar/Vinotheque, Wellness, SPA and fitness areas, Water worlds, Children’s play areas, Seminar/event area, Additional rooms, Outdoor areas | project/regional |
US 2004/0004056 W | Optical waveguide grating coupler | An optical waveguide grating coupler (102) for coupling light between a planar waveguide (100) and an optical element such as an optical fiber (106). The optical waveguide grating coupler (102) includes a grating comprising a plurality of elongate scattering elements (103). The optical waveguide grating coupler (102) is preferably flared, and in various embodiments has hyperbolically shaped sidewalls (212). The elongate scattering elements (103) are preferably curved, and in some embodiments, the scattering elements have elliptically curved shapes (216). Preferably, the elongated scattering elements have grating widths selected to accommodate the desired optical intensity distribution. | patent |
W1980583196 | Algorithms for direct L2 support vector machines | Paper introduces a novel Direct L2 Support Vector Machine (DL2 SVM) and compares the performances of its three learning algorithms on 12 `small' and 4 `medium' real binary and multi-class datasets. The DL2 SVM model is posed as solving a NonNegative (NN) Least Squares (LS) problem. This leads to a solution in much less CPU time than what the SVMs based on quadratic programming (QP) problem need. Three techniques for solving DL2 SVM's problem are the NNLS using Cholesky decomposition with an update, NN Conjugate Gradient method and a new NN Iterative Single Data Algorithm (ISDA). All 3 methods produce both high and similar classification accuracy within the very strict nested crossvalidation (a.k.a. double resampling) experimental environment, but they do significantly differ in terms of speed. Paper presents the performances of three different algorithms in terms of accuracy, model size (percentage of support vectors obtained) and CPU time used. | publication |
FR 2016051367 W | TUBULAR HEAT EXCHANGER COMPRISING GRAPHITE TUBES, INCLUDING A FOULING CONTROL MEMBER, METHOD FOR USING SAME AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREOF | The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising: a chamber (3, 4, 16); a plurality of graphite tubes (2) disposed in the chamber, each tube having a peripheral wall; inlet means through which phosphoric acid can enter the tubes; outlet tubes through which phosphoric acid can leave the tubes; inlet means through which a second fluid can enter the chamber; and outlet means through which a second fluid can leave the chamber. The exchanger is characterised in that at least one graphite tube (2) is equipped with at least one member (5) for controlling the fouling on its peripheral wall, said control member comprising: a body (51) disposed on the external face (2') of said wall; an electrical resistor (52) extending in the body (51); and measurement means (53) for measuring the temperature of the electrical resistor (52). | patent |
W2040304112 | A Parallel Code for Time-Dependent acoustic Scattering Involving Passive or Smart Obstacles | A highly parallelizable numerical method to solve three-dimensional time-dependent acoustic obstacle scattering problems involving passive or smart, furtive, realistic obstacles is presented. ‘‘Realistic’’ obstacles have complex geometries, ‘‘passive’’ obstacles do not react by taking an action to pursue a goal when hit by an incoming wave, and ‘‘smart furtive’’ obstacles, when hit by an incoming wave, pursue the goal of being undetectable by circulating a suitable pressure current on their boundaries. Incoming wave packets containing time-harmonic waves of small wavelengths when compared with the characteristic dimension of the obstacles are considered. The features of the computational method proposed to solve these scattering problems that can be exploited in a parallel and/or distributed computing environment are presented. Numerical experiments involving a simplified version of the NASA space shuttle are discussed. The websites: http://www.econ.univpm.it/ recchioni/scattering/w12, http://www.econ.univpm.it/recchioni/scattering/w14 contain animations and virtual reality applications showing some numerical experiments relative to the problems studied. A more general reference to the work of some of the authors and of their coworkers in acoustic and electromagnetic scattering is the website: http://www.econ. univpm.it/recchioni/scattering. | publication |
172377 | Flexible hyperspectral infrared detectors | One of the major driving forces for current research in electronics is the desire to realize the so-called internet of things, an autonomous information network that enables communication between objects without external human intervention. To this end, much of the research effort in device physics is currently directed into sensors technology, and specifically, to photodetectors. The infrared (IR) region of the spectrum is of particular interest as it can carry information about an object’s temperature, and its chemical composition. IR waves are also used for long-range waveguided communication, as well as short-range free space signaling. In IR systems, the readout noise is reduced by exploiting multicolor IR detection, so-called hyperspectral IR, thus lowering false positive detection.
Nowadays, IR detectors are not transparent in the visible wavelength and they are made of brittle materials. Hence their potential in technology such as food and drug packaging, textile fabrics-embedded devices for health care and homeland security systems, has yet to be realized. In this proposal we will harvest the unique potential of emerging atomically thin materials to pioneer a new class of flexible hyperspectral infrared detectors (FLAIR) which are imperceptible to the human eyes and yet highly efficient. These FLAIR detectors will consist of a layered structure with an active graphene bilayer, sandwiched between two dielectric h-BN layers and two outer gates made of heavily doped graphene. The top gate will be patterned as a continuous array of anti-discs to enhance the light absorption at the plasmon excitation frequency. A perpendicular electric field applied to bilayer graphene will be used to open a tuneable energy gap unique to this material and cut off the absorption of the lower frequencies to ensure a superior signal-to-noise ratio. Arrays of detectors with different plasmon absorption frequencies will enable the hyperspectral response of the device. | project/european |
Q114660 | Implementierung moderner ICT-Lösungen im Bereich Messeservice bei Loyal Solutions Sp. z o.o. | Im Rahmen des Projekts wird eine universelle virtuelle Plattform für die Durchführung von Veranstaltungen geschaffen und umgesetzt (Ziele, Konferenzen, Symposien). Das grundlegende Unterscheidungsmerkmal (in Bezug auf die auf dem Markt verfügbaren Lösungen) ist der universelle Charakter und die modernen Lösungen, die in der Kommunikation virtueller Aussteller und Besucher zum Einsatz kommen. Zu diesem Zweck hat das Unternehmen eine neue Niederlassung eröffnet, um dieses Projekt umzusetzen. Die Implementierung des Systems wird zu einer radikalen Änderung der Methode der Bereitstellung bestehender Dienstleistungen für die Organisation von Veranstaltungen beitragen, einschließlich der Verbesserung der Aktivitäten des Unternehmens in 4 Geschäftsbereichen. | project/regional |
W4289838382 | Association between trunk muscle endurance with change of direction, lower limb endurance and power performance in the special military police force of Rio de Janeiro (BOPE) | The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between trunk muscle endurance with change of direction (T test), single leg squat and power performance in the Special Military Police Force (BOPE) of Rio de Janeiro. One hundred and three military men specialized in Special Operation and Tactical Actions were volunteers. Tests were randomly assigned with a minimum ten minutes rest interval in between. Weak associations were found between the single leg squat and trunk extension ( r =0.268; p = 0.006) as well as right side bridge/trunk extensors (RSB/EXT) ( r =0.284; p = 0.004) and left side bridge/trunk extensors (LSB/EXT) ratios ( r = -0.242; p = 0.014). The medicine ball throw had a weak association with the left side bridge/extension (LSB/EXT) ratio ( r = 0.217; p = 0.28). A weak negative association was found between the T test performance and the right side bridge/left side bridge (RSB/LSB) ratio ( r = -0.022; p = .822). Despite the discreet result, hip flexion endurance was the only predictor of performance on the single leg squat (R 2 = 0.063). Le but de cette étude a été de rechercher s’il y aurait une corrélation entre l’endurance musculaire du tronc avec changement de direction (T test), le squat sur une jambe et les performances de puissance chez les membres de la Force de Police Militaire Spéciale (BOPE) de Rio de Janeiro. Cent trois militaires spécialisés en opérations spéciales et actions tactiques ont été les volontaires. Les tests ont été attribués au hasard avec un intervalle minimum de dix minutes entre eux. Des associations faibles ont été trouvées entre le squat à une jambe et l’extension du tronc (r =0,268 ; p = 0,006) ainsi que les rapports pont latéral droit/extenseurs du tronc (RSB/EXT) (r =0,284 ; p = 0,004) et pont latéral gauche/extenseurs du tronc (LSB/EXT) (r = -0,242 ; p = 0,014). Le lancer du médecine-ball a été faiblement associé au ratio pont/extension du côté gauche (LSB/EXT) (r = 0,217 ; p = 0,28). Une association négative faible a été trouvée entre la performance du test T et le ratio pont latéral droit/pont latéral gauche (RSB/LSB) (r = -0.022 ; p = 0.822). Malgré ce résultat discret, l’endurance à la flexion de la hanche était le seul facteur prédictif de la performance au squat à une jambe (R2 = 0,063). | publication |
W2325789576 | Games that Enlist Collective Intelligence to Solve Complex Scientific Problems | There is great value in employing the collective problem-solving power of large groups of people. Technological advances have allowed computer games to be utilized by a diverse population to solve problems. Science games are becoming more popular and cover various areas such as sequence alignments, DNA base-pairing, and protein and RNA folding. While these tools have been developed for the general population, they can also be used effectively in the classroom to teach students about various topics. Many games also employ a social component that entices students to continue playing and thereby to continue learning. The basic functions of game play and the potential of game play as a tool in the classroom are discussed in this article. | publication |
W1637106354 | Role of penA polymorphisms for penicillin susceptibility in Neisseria lactamica and Neisseria meningitidis | In meningococci, reduced penicillin susceptibility is associated with five specific mutations in the transpeptidase region of penicillin binding protein 2 (PBP2). We showed that the same set of mutations was present in 64 of 123 Neisseria lactamica strains obtained from a carriage study (MIC range: 0.125-2.0mg/L). The PBP2 encoding penA alleles in these strains were genetically similar to those found in intermediate resistant meningococci suggesting frequent interspecies genetic exchange. Fifty-six N. lactamica isolates with mostly lower penicillin MICs (range: 0.064-0.38mg/L) exhibited only three of the five mutations. The corresponding penA alleles were unique to N. lactamica and formed a distinct genetic clade. PenA alleles with no mutations on the other hand were unique to meningococci. Under penicillin selective pressure, genetic transformation of N. lactamica penA alleles in meningococci was only possible for alleles encoding five mutations, but not for those encoding three mutations; the transfer resulted in MICs comparable to those of meningococci harboring penA alleles that encoded PBP2 with five mutations, but considerably lower than those of the corresponding N. lactamica donor strains. Due to a transformation barrier the complete N. lactamica penA could not be transformed into N. meningitidis. In summary, penicillin MICs in N. lactamica were associated with the number of mutations in the transpeptidase region of PBP2. Evidence for interspecific genetic transfer was only observed for penA alleles associated with higher MICs, suggesting that alleles encoding only three mutations in the transpeptidase region are biologically not effective in N. meningitidis. Factors other than PBP2 seem to be responsible for the high levels of penicillin resistance in N. lactamica. A reduction of penicillin susceptibility in N. meningitidis by horizontal gene transfer from N. lactamica is unlikely to happen. | publication |
US 8700377 W | RAPID-DRYING RECORDING ELEMENT FOR LIQUID INK MARKING | A rapid-drying image-recording element adapted for water-based liquid ink marking, in devices such as pen plotters, ink jet printers and the like, comprises a support having thereon a hydrophilic ink-receiving layer which is cross-linked to a degree sufficient to render it non-blocking and waterfast while permitting it to rapidly absorb a water-based liquid ink. The element is utilized in combination with a water-based liquid ink that comprises a water-dispersible cross-linkable colorant/resin composition and the ink-receiving layer contains a cross-linking agent which cross-links the colorant/resin composition to thereby render the ink markings smear-resistant, abrasion-resistant and waterfast. | patent |
W1969750820 | Idiopathic internal resorption: Report of a case with unusual features | Tooth resorption can occur from the internal surface of a tooth or from the external surface of a tooth. Internal resorption is commonly termed to be idiopathic because of unknown cause. The aim is to report a case of idiopathic internal resorption showing unusual features. A 25-year-old female patient complains of mobility of tooth in right lower back tooth region since 2 months. Clinically, there was slight mobility in 48. Radiographically a resorptive area was seen in crown region of 48. The crown part was removed with gentle pressure using probe. A hollow crown with resorbed dentin and intact thin enamel was seen in gross specimen. A final diagnosis of idiopathic internal resorption was given. Early detection is essential for successful management of idiopathic internal resorption. This prevents further weakening of remaining tooth structure leading to crown or root perforations. | publication |
169417 | Do plants cooperate in reproduction? the effect of sharing pollination services on plant reproductive strategies | Although social interactions in non-sentient beings such as plants might seem unlikely, there are good reasons to expect them to be important. Because plant populations are very often strongly genetically structured, with neighbouring plants frequently being relatives, their behaviour is expected to have been shaped by natural selection within this social context. Plants interact very strongly with their neighbours, and there is an increasing body of evidence showing kin recognition and cooperation with relatives, e.g., warning against herbivore attacks and reducing resource competition. However, little is known about how plants behave in a social context in terms of their reproductive strategies. This is surprising, because reproduction is a key life-history trait defining gene transfer, and thus is closely linked to fitness and to the evolutionary potential that will eventually determine the functioning and dynamics of plant populations and communities.
Neighbouring plants commonly facilitate pollination. Therefore, the resources invested in floral attractive structures for one individual can positively impact individual fitness, but also the fitness of neighbours, increasing both individual and group benefits. Thus, natural selection should be expected to favour plastic adjustments of the resources allocated to pollinator attraction to the surrounding social environment. I will test this hypothesis, assessing how different social environments might influence optimal allocation strategies and the effect this will have on mating patterns and plant fitness. To address this objective, I will use an interdisciplinary approach that combines theoretical modelling and empirical testing, bringing tools from the sociological sciences to the study plant ecology and evolution. My project will contribute to our understanding of how plants cooperate during reproduction to alter plant population dynamics, with potentially useful outcomes for crop efficiency. | project/european |
interreg_994 | Digital Destination Evolution System | The project, describing the global and cross-border context of Tourism (global market competition, digitalization of purchases by tourists), aims to foster cooperation between Tourist Destinations (DMO), in order to cope with a structural evolution of the sector and redesign its role in the Tourism market. The proposed actions intend to develop the ability to analyze the habits and behaviors of tourists who visit the Insubric region, through the activation of last-generation tools, able to interact in real time with the guest, proposing targeted and real time services. The project will open new channels and design innovative services. | project/regional |
2725375 | Boosting innovation in organic fruit production through strong knowledge networks | The EU is the leading region for the production of organic fruits, with a rapidly expanding production and a demand for organic products which grows every year. However, at the same time, the amount and value of organic imports from outside the EU is increasing. For organic fruit farmers in the EU this poses a challenge to succeed in an increasingly competitive market. In addition, organic fruit growing is a very demanding farming activity. This is because, the sector faces specific problems that cannot be solved using conventional approaches based on the use of synthetics substances. As organic fruit growers cannot rely on synthetic inputs, many of them have, on a local level, developed competitive strategies to improve plant health. Moreover, there is considerable research on improving organic fruit growing systems. The problem, however, is that this knowledge is not easily accessible to farmers all over Europe and remains either locally known or only available in the scientific sphere.
The sector is in need of a network focused on organic fruit production that bridges the gap between science and practice and makes locally found solutions available to other fruit growers in Europe. Therefore, the specific objectives of BioFruitNet are: 1) Collect and synthesize existing knowledge ready for practise, 2) Create a stable European innovation network, 3) Strengthen established networks, 4) Widely distribute solutions, 5) Extend the Organic Farm Knowledge Platform. To achieve these objectives, we will first carry a thorough mapping exercise to find relevant networks at national level in partner countries and beyond (WP1). Then, compile all existing practical and scientific knowledge relevant to organic fruit farmers (WP2) and select the best practices (WP3). We will then focus on adapting and translating all best practices in an easy-to-understand format like practice abstracts (WP4) and disseminate the information through high impact channels (WP5). | project/european |
W2015359174 | Occurrence of bacteria and polymorphonuclear leukocytes in fetal compartments at parturition; relationships with foal and mare health in the peripartum period | This study investigated the relationship of the health of the newborn foal and (1) number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) in the amniotic fluid, (2) bacteria present in the amniotic fluid and the venous umbilical blood, and (3) bacteria present in the uterus of the newly foaled mare. A further aim was to investigate relationships between the bacteriologic findings in the amniotic fluid, umbilical blood, and uterus postpartum. Samples were taken from 50 Standardbred trotter foaling mares from a well-managed stud in Sweden. Parturition was spontaneous in all cases. Length of pregnancy, parturition and postpartum complications, health status of the foal, the time between foaling and the expulsion of the placenta, and the number of postfoaling mares becoming pregnant after insemination were recorded. Amniotic fluid was collected when the amniotic vesicle was clearly visible; it was analyzed for bacteriology and occurrence of PMNLs. Umbilical blood was analyzed for the presence of bacteria and the concentration of serum amyloid A. The uterus of the mare was swabbed for bacteriology 6 to 17 hours postpartum. A blood sample was taken from the foal before administering plasma. The foals were divided into two groups: group 1 required up to 2 hours to rise after birth (≤2 hours; 31 foals) and group 2 required more than two hours (>2 hours; 19 foals). The length of gestation varied between 332 and 356 days; there was no significant difference in gestation length between the two foal groups. Partus and postpartum complications occurred in a significantly higher proportion of mares giving birth to group 2 foals than group 1 foals (P = 0.02), although uterine culture postpartum and the subsequent pregnancy rate per season were not different between the groups. Compromised health status was significantly higher among foals belonging to group 2 than group 1 (P = 0.001). Most of the amniotic samples contained 5% or less PMNLs. Only three samples contained more than 30% PMNLs; group 2 foals had the highest percentage of PMNLs. Bacterial growth was found in both amniotic fluid (57%) and umbilical blood (35%) in mares irrespective of whether their foals were healthy or compromised. Coagulase-negative staphylococci were the most frequent bacteria. There were no differences in bacterial occurrence in amniotic fluid or in umbilical blood between the two foal groups. | publication |
628376 | Genetically encoded sensors for imaging neurochemical dynamics in vivo | How specific neurochemicals (neurotransmitters, neuropeptides and hormones) influence our mental states and behaviors remains one of the biggest questions in biology. So far, we largely lack tools to precisely monitor the temporal and spatial profile of neurochemical signaling in behaving animals. The ability to do this is a prerequisite for understanding the critical functions of these molecules in both health and disease.
OPTONEUROCHEM is a bold and transformative project that will develop a new breed of genetically encoded sensors to enable real-time and highly-specific functional imaging of neurochemicals at unprecedented resolution in awake behaving animals. This project is geared towards creating innovative tools that will transform the current biotechnological landscape.
I will first engineer novel red-shifted sensors for monoamines and apply them in multiplex and optoacoustic imaging experiments (Objective 1). I will then develop sensors for neuropeptides based on previously unexplored receptor subtypes. These will be validated in increasingly complex biological systems and utilized for monitoring the task-specific dynamics of endogenous neuropeptides in multiple brain regions of awake behaving mice (Objective 2). Finally, I will leverage on novel protein scaffolds to engineer the first ultrasensitive probes for steroid hormones and explore their application to in vivo imaging (Objective 3). This high-risk high-reward project combines state-of-the-art cross-disciplinary techniques, ranging from protein engineering and optogenetics, to animal behavior, and in vivo fluorescence and optoacoustic imaging. Together, the next generation tools I plan to develop will revolutionize our approach to study neurochemical activity in living animals. Ultimately, these tools will advance our understanding of brain function in health and disease. | project/european |
W2051143859 | Microalbuminuria is associated with cardiovascular risk in prediabetes and prehypertension | Abstract Background According to ICMR estimates about 30–40% Indians are prehypertensives and 11% are prediabetics. Majority of these people develop overt hypertension and diabetes over a period of time. A number of studies have shown Microalbuminuria as a sensitive marker for predicting cardiovascular (CV) risk in prediabetics and prehypertensives. Microalbuminuria is now seen as an independent predictor of CV mortality irrespective of its association with other cardiovascular risk factors. Despite the fact that the Framingham study also established in 1984 that proteinuria is an important risk marker of cardiovascular mortality, this was not added to the list of CV risk factors. Objective The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of Microalbuminuria in prediabetes, prehypertension and coexistent prediabetes and prehypertension and to see its association with ECG and Echocardiographic parameters Indicative of CV risk. Methods In this cross sectional study spot urine micro albumin was estimated in 200 subjects with prehypertension, prediabetes and coexistent prehypertension and prediabetes, who satisfied the inclusion criteria. Albumin creatinine ratio (ACR) was measured by immunoturbidimetry. All the study subjects were evaluated with ECG and Echocardiography for cardiac changes. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software trial version-16 to see the association of Microalbuminuria with cardiac changes. Results Microalbuminuria was seen 22.2% of isolated prediabetics, 25% of isolated prehypertensives and 58% of subjects with both prehypertension and prediabetes. Significant associations were seen between Microalbuminuria and cardiac changes in the study population. Conclusions Microalbuminuria was found to be associated with cardiovascular risk in prediabetes and prehypertension. | publication |
W3102051116 | EVOLUTION OF THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OVER 3 <z< 5 IN THE COSMOS SURVEY FIELD | We investigate the high-redshift quasar luminosity function (QLF) down to an apparent magnitude of I(AB) = 25 in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). Careful analysis of the extensive COSMOS photometry and imaging data allows us to identify and remove stellar and low-redshift contaminants, enabling a selection that is nearly complete for type-1 quasars at the redshifts of interest. We find 155 likely quasars at z > 3.1, 39 of which have prior spectroscopic confirmation. We present our sample in detail and use these confirmed and likely quasars to compute the rest-frame UV QLF in the redshift bins 3.1 < z < 3.5 and 3.5 < z < 5. The space density of faint quasars decreases by roughly a factor of four from z \sim 3.2 to z \sim 4, with faint-end slopes of {\beta} \sim -1.7 at both redshifts. The decline in space density of faint optical quasars at z > 3 is similar to what has been found for more luminous optical and X-ray quasars. We compare the rest-frame UV luminosity functions found here with the X-ray luminosity function at z > 3, and find that they evolve similarly between z \sim 3.2 and z \sim 4; however, the different normalizations imply that roughly 75% of X-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) at z \sim 3 - 4 are optically obscured. This fraction is higher than found at lower redshift and may imply that the obscured, type-2 fraction continues to increase with redshift at least to z \sim 4. Finally, the implications of the results derived here for the contribution of quasars to cosmic reionization are discussed. | publication |
W406024958 | The constitutional rights of children: in re Gault and juvenile justice | When fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault of Globe, Arizona, allegedly made an obscene phone call to a neighbour, he was arrested by the local police, who failed to inform his parents. After a hearing in which the neighbour didn't even testify, Gault was promptly sentenced to six years in a juvenile boot camp--for an offence that would have cost an adult only two months. Even in a nation fed up with juvenile delinquency, that sentence seemed over the top and inspired a spirited defence on Gault's behalf. Led by Norman Dorsen, the ACLU ultimately took Gault's case to the Supreme Court and in 1967 won a landmark decision authored by Justice Abe Fortas. Widely celebrated as the most important children's rights case of the twentieth century, In re Gault affirmed that children have some of the same rights as adults and formally incorporated the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections into the administration of the nation's juvenile courts. Placing this case within the context of its changing times, David Tanenhaus shows how the ACLU litigated Gault by questioning the Progressive Era assumption that juvenile courts should not follow criminal procedure. He then takes readers to the Supreme Court to fully explore the oral arguments and examine how the Court came to decide Gault , focusing on Justice Fortas's majority opinion, concurring opinions, Justice Potter Stewart's lone dissent, and initial responses to the decision. The book explores the contested legacy of Gault , charting changes and continuity in juvenile justice within the contexts of the ascendancy of conservative constitutionalism and Americans' embrace of mass incarceration as a penal strategy. An epilogue about Redding v. Safford --a 2009 decision involving a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl, also from Arizona, who was forced to undress because she was suspected of hiding drugs in her underwear--reminds us why Gault is of lasting consequence. Gault is a story of revolutionary constitutionalism that also reveals the tenacity of localism in American legal history. Tanenhaus's meticulous explication raises troubling questions about how local communities treat their children as it confirms the importance of the Supreme Court's decisions about the constitutional rights of minors. | publication |
W2117165947 | Rigorous development of prompting dialogues | Objectives : The aim was to support people with cognitive impairment through speech-based dialogues that guide them through everyday tasks such as activities of daily living. The research objectives were to simplify the design of prompting dialogues, to automate the checking of prompting dialogues for syntactic and semantic errors, and to automate the translation of dialogue designs into a form that allows their ready deployment. Approach : Prompting dialogues are described using cress (Communication Representation Employing Systematic Specification). This is a notation and toolset that allows the flow in a service (such as a dialogue) to be defined in an understandable and graphical way. A dialogue diagram is automatically translated into a formal specification for rigorous verification and validation. Once confidence has been built in the dialogue design, the dialogue diagram is automatically translated into VoiceXML and deployed on a voice platform. Results : All key objectives of the work have been achieved. A variety of significant dialogues have been successfully represented using the cress notation. These dialogues have been automatically analysed through formal verification and validation in order to detect anomalies. Finally, the dialogues have been automatically realised on a VoiceXML platform and have been evaluated with volunteer users. | publication |
651311 | Artificial intelligence threat reporting and incident response system | Uptake of IoT and AI driven ICT systems in Europe is crucial for our common future, but it is dependent on our strategic ability to protect these systems from cyber threats and attacks on their privacy. IRIS addresses this challenge with a collaborative-first approach centered around CERTs/CSIRTs. From a technological perspective, it deploys (i) autonomous detection of IoT and AI threats, enriched with (ii) privacy-aware intelligence sharing and collaboration, and (iii) advanced data protection and accountability. Crucially, IRIS introduces (iv) the first dedicated online training and cyber exercises to prepare CERTs/CSIRTs to collaboratively protect critical infrastructures and systems against cross-border AI and IoT threats. IRIS will be validated in three pilot demonstrators, focussing in the IoT, AI and cross-border dimensions, across three existing smart city environments (in Helsinki, Tallinn and Barcelona), involving the associated national/governmental CERTs/CSIRTs, cybersecurity authorities and municipalities. The scenarios will contain real-life inspired cyber incidents that will build up into pilots at all levels (from local to national and to cross-border) to showcase the versatility of the IRIS solution. With 19 key partners from around Europe and 5 CERTs/CSIRTs as Associated Partners, IRIS’s solid consortium composition and work plan prioritises the effectiveness needed for quick real-world adoption and impact. Moreover, integration will be carried out on the EU’s existing MeliCERTes platform, with the support of INTRASOFT, while training will build upon THALES’s existing cyber range, and ECSO will ensure the contribution to standards and policymaking. With the formal support of the four H2020 Cybersecurity Competence Network Pilot Projects, IRIS will also actively engage with the full scope of the cybersecurity ecosystem in Europe. | project/european |
221616 | Well-Being, ecology, gender, and community | WEGO (Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity) is a trans-national network aims to develop a shared research and training agenda to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary social-environmental scientists on feminist political ecology in Europe. WeGO’s research examines gender relations in community organizing from a feminist-informed political ecology (FPE) framework. From an international and interdisciplinary perspective, WEGO looks at gender and power relations in community responses to the current climate, economic and environmental crises in different socio-ecological contexts. WEGO aims to provide insightful and compelling analysis about the importance of gendered community response to climate, economic and environmental change as well as more detailed knowledge about what changes are required for greater resilience and sustainability. Gender is understood as a critical variable in shaping resource access and control, interacting with class, caste, race, culture, and ethnicity to shape processes of ecological change and the prospects of any community for sustainable development. WEGO research will look at resilience and sustainability by examining the gendered role of women in care work for the community and for the environment. The cases chosen – from in and outside of Europe are sites that can feed into innovative European Policy on sustainable development. | project/european |
169419 | Functions of non-coding rnas in protein synthesis and homeostasis during aging | Because old age is the largest risk factor for many human diseases, it is one of the key challenges of our time to find ways to increase healthy lifespan and reduce the loss of health in later life. Inhibition of protein synthesis is capable of extending the lifespan of a number of organisms and has been shown to ameliorate symptoms in models of several age related diseases.
Recent studies have shown that non-coding (nc) RNAs frequently interact with translating ribosomes, although little is known about their function there. In previous work, I discovered a ribosome-bound ncRNA to be required for both the inhibition of translation and the increase in lifespan seen in insulin signaling (IIS) mutant worms. However, due to a nematode-specific RNA trans-splicing mechanism, affecting post-transcriptional gene regulation, the relevance of these results to others organisms remains unclear.
Given the crucial role protein synthesis plays in lifespan determination and the unexplored functions of ncRNAs in this process, I propose to systematically investigate the role of ncRNAs in translation and longevity. My goal is to identify ncRNAs that interact with ribosomes that have an effect on proteostasis or post-transcriptional gene regulation and consequently on lifespan extension and understanding their function. | project/european |
W2279631498 | Agent-Based Privacy Aware Feedback System | In the field of information technology, a feedback system is a computer program that receives information from the users and guides the target audiences in order to achieve the desired outcomes. The Feedback systems can be used as a part of an intervention in organizations to increase awareness and improve performance. However, due to many factors such as possibility of losing jobs and facing social problems, people of the organizations are not interested to disclose their identities while providing feedbacks about their organizations. This is the most significant problem of current feedback systems. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce a framework to provide feedbacks without disclosing individuals’ record’s values. In our approach, we introduce an agent-based parallel computation technique that can collect feedbacks from the users in a secure environment. We provide an extensive experimental evaluation to show the effectiveness of our approach.KeywordsFeedback systemsprivacy aware systemsagent-based computation | publication |
W2159337754 | A Study on Performance of Processes in Migrating Virtual Machines | In a cloud computing environment, virtual machines are migrated with two kind of methods. One is non-live migration, and the other is live migration. In case of non-live migration, a virtual machine stops their processes during migrations. In case of live migration, a virtual machine and its processes keep running during migration, but their performance may severely decrease. In order to obtain better performance, the suitable migration method should be chosen. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of both migration methods, and demonstrate that performance of processes on a migrating virtual machine severely declines. The analysis for this degradation is presented, and it is revealed that a host OS communication and memory writing are important reasons for the decline. | publication |
W2069036848 | Precise measurements of the thick target neutron yields of the 7Li(p,n) reaction | Abstract Thick target neutron yield of the 7 Li(p,n) 7 Be reaction was measured in the proton energy range from 1.95 to 2.3 MeV by determining induced activity of the 7 Be. A HPGe detector was used to detect the 478 keV gamma-rays emitted through 7 Be decay. A series of irradiations with nominal proton energies of 1.95, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 MeV were carried out. In an independent experiment, raw neutron spectra were collected by a 3 He ion chamber for the same series of proton energies. From the raw neutron spectra, it was noted, that the effective proton energies were lower than the nominal by 50–58 keV. After corrections for the proton energy offsets were applied, the measured neutron yields matched the analytically calculated yields within 20%. Long term stability of neutron yield was tested at two nominal proton energies, 2.1 and 1.95 MeV over an experimental period of one year. The results show that the yield at 2.1 MeV was stable within rmse variation coefficient of 4.7% and remained consistent even when the lithium target was replaced, whereas at 1.95 MeV, the maximum fluctuations reached a factor of 10. | publication |
219214 | Towards a unified mechanistic model of oceanic island biogeography | Understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes shape patterns of biodiversity remains a central challenge for ecological and biogeographic theory. Oceanic islands, because of their spatiotemporal properties, provide the most promising arena to address this challenge. UNISLAND will advance general theory by applying novel ecological, evolutionary and genomics approaches to explicitly test mechanistic predictions derived from the recently developed General Dynamic Model (GDM). The GDM, while an island focused model, is of broad ecological relevance, because it encompasses generally held ecological relationships, such as the species area relationship (SAR) and the species abundance distribution (SAD). Two key mechanistic predictions derived from the GDM have so far been untested, and are the focus of UNISLAND. The first is that the older an island is, the more old are the single island endemic species (SIEs) that evolved on that island. The second is that single island endemic species (SIEs) have higher extinction probabilities that other species. UNISLAND is embedded in a multidisciplinary framework involving: comparative phylogenetics; community-level modeling; ‘museum’ genomics; and spatially-explicit coalescent-based analysis. Data generated by UNISLAND will evaluate the range shift and extinction risk (species-level and ecosystem-level), thus addressing international and European-level research priorities. Through the collaborative phase between the ER and OPS, UNISLAND will provide the ER with state of the art skills in historical DNA genomics and ecological modelling that will be transferred to the CSIC during the return phase. The complementary research profiles of the OPS, RPS and ER, their mutual interests in the spatial structuring of biodiversity, and the application of modern fit for purpose methodology, underpin the strength of UNISLAND. | project/european |
990713 | Efficient mixing method at the microscale for time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography | X-MIXING is an interdisciplinary project aimed at conceiving an efficient mixing method at the microscale suitable for triggering not-light sensitive biochemical reactions in the application of Time-Resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography. Nowadays, the temporal resolution of this type of dynamic structural biology analysis with X-ray Free-Electron Lasers is limited by the minimum mixing time that current methods can produce. As it is shown in a proof-of-concept, an exciting combination of electrohydrodynamic fields and momentum transfer lead to a significant variation of the spatiotemporal scales within the convection-diffusion mechanism. So, this configuration can potentially generate mixing from 100 to 1000 faster than current means do. Besides, its versatility would enable not only to reduce the mixing time substantially, but also to induce jumps in PH and temperature that would additionally open horizons concerning new types of triggering reactions in the field. These critical features have the potential to become this original configuration in a key to take full advantage of the recent significant investment, over 1,22 billion euro (2005 value), paid by European Union and partners for the construction of the European XFEL (Germany), whose user operation started in September 2017. To explore and elucidate the underlying physical limits of the proposed method, the research methodology of this project will embrace different approaches such as micro-PIV experiments, numerical simulations, and scaling analysis. | project/european |
EP 0004628 W | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR REMOVING SOLID PARTICLES FROM GASES | An apparatus for removing solid particles from a gas containing solid particles, comprising a filter container, a plate provided with openings across the filter container such that the plate divides the container in an upper and lower space and a number of filter elements extending under the openings, wherein a plurality of outlet conduits are present which are in fluid communication with one or more filter elements, said outlet conduits having an outlet opening which is in fluid communication with the upper space and wherein around said outlet conduit a cap is present, which cap is provided with means for supplying a backflushing fluid for removing solid particles from said filter elements and wherein the volume between the cap and the outlet conduit is sufficiently large to ensure that predominately only the clean gas between cap and outlet conduit is entrained by the backflushing fluid into the filter element when removing solid particles. | patent |
224257 | European support to social innovation | The four Regional Development Agencies, ERVET, ADA, KAINUUN ETU, IVACE operating in the North and in the South European Regions (Italy, Turkey, Finland, Spain), dealing with innovation support programmes, implementation of Structural Funds Regional Operative Programmes (ROP ESF, ERDF 2020) and experienced in social innovation policies and programs want to deepen their knowledge and find joint solutions to challenges hindering the development of social economy. Thus, they want to promote new approaches able to overcome a fragmented approach to policies supporting social economy and the innovation and competitiveness of social enterprises. A new policy mix, taking into consideration social, economic and environmental aspects (Agenda 2030), would be able to overcome “silos policies” and to create a favorable ecosystem for social enterprises. They will work together with regional public and private social economy stakeholders to analyze beneficiaries’ needs and promote new policies and actions. Already existing approaches and best practices will be shared in a mutual learning process among Regional Development Agencies, and related regions, that will be enlarged through EURADA and ERRIN networks for more effective and targeted regional and European innovation programs for social enterprises. Moreover, partners, accordingly with INNOSUP general scope, choose to focus on social innovation as it is “required at the interface between public services and private enterprises” with a view to jointly learn and discuss about public and private partnership and co-design approach | project/european |
W2768810169 | Assessing LakeSmart, a community-based lake protection program | Anthropogenic impacts, particularly shoreline development and related nutrient runoff, threaten Maine lakes. The LakeSmart program was created in response to these threats to promote the use of lake-friendly landscaping practices. We used 237 surveys and 8 stakeholder interviews to investigate motivations that drive conservation behavior among lakeshore residents, to explore the effectiveness of criteria used for LakeSmart evaluations and to identify potential areas for improvement of its structural design and marketing strategies. LakeSmart participants were more likely than non-participants to recognize the threat of declining water quality, to adopt or enhance existing lake-friendly landscaping best management practices, and to help foster a strong sense of community. We conclude that the LakeSmart program could be strengthened with enhanced training for inspectors through increased “job-shadowing” opportunities with experienced inspectors, expanded mentoring for owners whose properties do not pass the initial LakeSmart evaluation, and by eliminating ambiguous wording in the property evaluation form. Partnerships with member-rich groups and identifying ways to reduce costs of recommended mitigation actions could increase program participation. The defined parameters of the property evaluation, along with recommendations to strengthen the evaluation process, can result in greater citizen participation and ultimately improved lake ecosystem health measured by fewer algal blooms and greater water clarity. LakeSmart could serve as a model for other conservation programs attempting to transform knowledge to action. | publication |
W1537923159 | Camellia sinensis (green tea) extract attenuate acrylamide induced testicular damage in albino rats | Acrylamide is a proved toxin for testicular function, found in food when heated for long period of time. Green tea (Camellia sinensis) is a potent antioxidant; the aim of this study was to investigate the protective effect of green tea extract against the toxic effects of acrylamide in rat testes.acrylamide was administered orally to rats in different doses and also the extract of green tea was administered orally to different groups of animals in combination with the acrylamide. The weight of animals, testosterone hormone level and histopathological effect upon testicles were evaluated.Testosterone hormone level in serum, and histopathological findings were significantly improved with the co-administration of green tea extract with the acrylamide. Green tea extract reversed all the toxic effects of acrylamide even in high dose for long period (90 days).Green tea extract is a potent antioxidant antidote for the acrylamide toxic effects upon testicular function. | publication |
W141717047 | A new design of multi-mesh survey gillnets to sample fish community in the Adriatic Sea | Three types of multi-mesh benthic survey gillnets were tested for their performance in the uniform muddy bottom habitat of the Bay of Piran. We describe the compared methods, present their positive and negative aspects and suggest a sampling design that could be used with different research goals. The research sampling was performed in winter in the years from 2010 to 2012. The sampling site is situated close to a sea bass rearing fish farm in the Northern Adriatic Sea. With the Nordic 1.5 type nets 5 species were detected compared to the 23 and 20 species detected with the Adriatic 2.5 and 5.0 nets. In the Nordic 1.5 type nets only demersal species were caught and even for those a much greater sampling effort would be required to reach a representative sample. On the other hand, both the Adriatic type nets also caught benthopelagic and pelagic species, and a correlation between net height and size of fish in these two nets was detected. While both the Adriatic type nets proved successful in achieving a representative sample of fish assemblage, the Adriatic 2.5 nets performed better in terms of CPUE and as such also reached a better cost-benefit ratio. ISSN: 0001-5113 - AADRAY ACTA ADRIAT., 54(2): 169 - 182, 2013 | publication |
894213 | Beasts to craft: biocodicology as a new approach to the study of parchment manuscripts | The intention of Beasts to Craft (B2C) is to document the biological and craft records in parchment in order to reveal the entangled histories of animal improvement and parchment production in Europe from 500-1900 AD.
B2C will lay the foundations for a new approach to the the study of parchment manuscripts —biocodicology— which draws evidence from the overlooked first stages in production, the raising of livestock and the preparation of the skins.
1. Parchment is an extraordinary but overlooked high resolution zooarchaeological record and a molecular archive. Livestock genetics is revealing breed diversity and markers of character traits such as fleece quality. B2C will exploit this new-found knowledge, using progressively older dated archival (sheep) parchments to study the history of improvement 1300 - 1900. Visual examination of the skins will search for direct evidence of disease and fleece quality.
2. Craft skills can be read from parchment and, when combined with chemical data and comparison with modern analogues, will produce the first European wide record of the craft from 500-1900. The size and scope of this the parchment archive means it is one of the largest and most highly resolved records of a specialist medieval craft. We will explore how these skills develop and when and where regional patterns appear and decline.
These two remarkable records requires a large interdisciplinary team. However biocodicology draws from and informs upon a wide and diverse spectrum of existing scholarship in conservation, the arts and sciences. A third strand of the project will (i) furnish manuscript scholars with some of the information available to the scribe at time of production (ii) inform and shape attitudes to parchment conservation (iii) provide high resolution biological data on animal management, movement and health and (iv) explore methods to link datasets and promote data reuse. | project/european |
FR 9400583 W | PLASTIC PROJECTILE FOR PRACTICE SHOOTING | A soft plastic or elastomeric projectile for practice shooting, comprising a front portion (1a) with a sealing lip, two or more peripheral guide rings (4a and 4b) and a central rear recess (5). | patent |
W2008854521 | Sensitivity and False Alarm Rate of a Fall Sensor in Long-Term Fall Detection in the Elderly | <b><i>Background:</i></b> About a third of home-dwelling older people fall each year, and institutionalized older people even report a two- or threefold higher rate for falling. Automatic fall detection systems have been developed to support the independent and secure living of the elderly. Even though good fall detection sensitivity and specificity in laboratory settings have been reported, knowledge about the sensitivity and specificity of these systems in real-life conditions is still lacking. <b><i>Objective:</i></b> The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term fall detection sensitivity and false alarm rate of a fall detection prototype in real-life use. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> A total of 15,500 h of real-life data from 16 older people, including both fallers and nonfallers, were monitored using an accelerometry-based sensor system with an implemented fall detection algorithm. <b><i>Results:</i></b> The fall detection system detected 12 out of 15 real-life falls, having a sensitivity of 80.0%, with a false alarm rate of 0.049 alarms per usage hour with the implemented real-time system. With minor modification of data analysis the false alarm rate was reduced to 0.025 false alarms per hour, equating to 1 false fall alarm per 40 usage hours. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> These data suggest that automatic accelerometric fall detection systems might offer a tool for improving safety among older people. | publication |
W2041121475 | Preparation of spherical caged superparamagnetic nanocomposites with completed inorganic shell via a modified miniemulsion technology | Abstract A one-pot facile method is developed to synthesize spherical caged polystyrene/Fe3O4@SiO2 nanocomposites (SCNs) microspheres with intact inorganic shells in a high yield via a combining process of miniemulsion polymerization and sol–gel reaction. It is revealed that St to TEOS ratio, the controlled hydrolysis and condensation rate of TEOS both play important roles in the structure formation. Control experiments are performed to understand the possible mechanism. With iron oxide nanoparticles as inorganic seeds, this one-pot synthetic method shows apparent advantage over multi-step layer-by-layer coating and selective etching regarding the simpleness and efficiency. Regular hollow magnetic mesoporous silica composites could easily be prepared using the caged magnetic microspheres as the template. The novel and facile method for preparing the magnetic composites with intrinsic space and intact shell could promote the development of drug carrier or photocatalysis system. | publication |
W1134269045 | Association Scheme with Traffic Control for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs | In wireless LANs, wireless clients are associated with one of access points (APs) to obtain network connectivity, and the AP performs network traffic relay between the wired infrastructure and wireless clients. If a client with a low transmission rate is associated with an AP, the throughput performance of all the clients that are associated with the AP is significantly degraded because of the long channel usage time of the low-rate client. Therefore, it is important to select an appropriate AP when a new client joins the wireless LAN to prevent the performance degradation. In this paper, we propose a traffic control that determines the feasible data traffic from an AP to the clients on the basis of the trade-off relationship between the equal-throughput and equal-airtime traffic allocation policies. We then propose a network-wide association algorithm that allows a client to be associated with the AP that can provide the highest throughput improvement. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm achieves the better aggregate throughput and throughput fairness performances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. | publication |
Q3276118 | JPTT20-COVID19-LX-CONFIG | Configurador on-line de placa de instrumentos em aeronaves — Atividade c) Fazer ferramentas digitais para configurar a solução de produtos selecionados por um potencial cliente em pelo menos uma língua estrangeira, incluindo tradução | project/regional |
1262587 | Evaluation of dyadic psychoeducational interventions for people with advanced cancer and their informal caregivers (diadic): an international randomized controlled trial | Background: Advanced cancer affects millions of Europeans each year. The provision of adequate and cost-effective psychosocial and educational support for both patients and their frequently overburdened family caregivers is highly relevant from an economic, a healthcare and a prevention perspective. Aims: The DIAdIC project is an interdisciplinary, cross-national project to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of two psycho-educational dyadic interventions, i.e. interventions that target the patient and family caregiver together. One intervention is a web-based e-health intervention, one is nurse-led face-to-face intervention. Secondary aims are to assess the interventions' effects on vulnerable subgroups (e.g. people with a lower socioeconomic position), their effectiveness in different healthcare systems, and their suitability as perceived by end-users. Concept and methods: The two interventions are tailored to dyads' needs and have 5 core components: (1) supporting family involvement, (2) reducing hopelessness, (3) increasing coping effectiveness, (4) reducing uncertainty and (5) teaching symptom management. They are based on existing interventions, developed in the USA, that have been shown to improve quality of life of both patient and family caregiver. The effectiveness of each of the interventions (compared to care as usual) will be assessed by way of an international randomized controlled trial in people with advanced cancer and their primary informal carers. The project includes a full health-economic evaluation and a thorough process evaluation. Impact: The project advances the state of the art in several ways, e.g. by providing innovative healthcare interventions (including a eHealth solution) that embrace the philosophy and principles of early palliative care. The interventions will be suitable for implementation across diverse healthcare systems. Public involvement methods ensure the input of stakeholders throughout the project. | project/european |
W647403979 | Reversible solid–gas and solid–solid transformation of lead(II)–phenylalanine coordination polymers | Abstract A reversible crystal to crystal structural transformation of lead(II) complex; [Pb(OH2)2(Phe)2(NO3)]n[NO3] (1), (Phe:L-phenylalanine), to coordination polymer 2D [Pb(phe)2]n (2); has been observed upon solid–gas and solid–solid reactions of compound 1 to compound 2 and then 2 to 1. A lead(II) supramolecular (1), polymerizes on grinding the solid with 1 mmol NaOH and also with NH3 vapors to form the 2D coordination polymer (2). Solid–gas reaction has been verified by PXRD and IR spectroscopy. Pb3O4 and mixture phase of PbO nanoparticles were obtained by thermal decomposition of compounds 1 and 2 by direct calcinations at 400 °C for 4 h. These nanoparticles were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). | publication |
interreg_4008 | Promotion of the Mobility of Youth and Young Adults in rural areas through better access to European and national passenger transport networks | YOUMOBIL aims at enhancing the passenger transport system for young people living in rural areas and their access to the European and national transport networks. Poor mobility options other than the own car is among the most frequent reasons why young people choose to leave their native rural area and to migrate to larger cities or even beyond, intensifying the demographic change troubling most rural areas in Central Europe. A number of tools including shared mobility and demand-oriented flexible collective transport services have emerged across Europe but only few have been introduced in rural areas of Central Europe. This led to a lack of knowledge among the programme area's transport stakeholders. Moreover, public transport and related infrastructures suffer from a rather poor image among Central European youth. YOUMOBIL partners therefore network with rural areas' local youth in piloting demand-driven novel service features, exploit the potentials of transport management through interfaces for mobile devices, and to explore how youth initiatives can revitalise disused rail infrastructure to enhance the attractiveness and image of public transport. Five technology-driven pilots will demonstrate the use of modern ICT solutions for a smart youth-orientied transport in rural areas while one investment showcases the role of young people to revitalise rail infrastructure. Further investments are prepared by YOUMOBIL.
Lessons learnt and knowledge from existing good practices will be shared among transport stakeholders in two summer schools and disseminated in the form of a tool-box that includes details about the financial feasibility of necessary investments complemented by policy recommendations. These outputs address public transport managers from rural areas of CE. Accompanying communication activities include three annual campaigns sending groups of local youth by Interrail to all partner territories and producing daily social media footage. | project/regional |
3735958 | Conditions and duration of high temperature metamorphism in large hot orogens assessed through petrochronology : insights from grenville tectonics | Deciphering duration and conditions of metamorphism in orogenic systems is crucial to understand large-scale tectonic processes. In the last decades, the development of thermodynamic modeling and instrumental advances in elemental and isotopic analysis have open new avenues to unravel the Pressure-Temperature-time paths of rocks, to assess the rates and duration of large-scale orogenic processes. However, orogenic roots in Large Hot Orogens (LHOs) that can attain and maintain temperatures higher than 800°C over several tens of million years still challenge our ability to decode the timing of events, and our understanding of tectonic processes and crustal evolution.
CHRONOTEC proposes an innovative multi-approach strategy using state-of-the-art instrumentation, to link the chronometers garnet and zircon through their isotopic (U-Pb in zircon; Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd in garnet, O in garnet and zircon) and elemental (trace element) record, combined to a detailed petrological investigation, including phase diagram modeling. This approach will be systematically used on selected mafic granulites from distinct crustal levels (mid and high pressure) of the Central Grenville Province in Canada, one of the first LHOs on Earth. CHRONOTEC will bring a complete portfolio of new fundamental results from natural samples to assess the link between zircon and garnet in high-T mafic rocks. Integration of the results will provide an unparalleled framework to assess the metamorphic evolution of the central Grenville province, and by comparison to other LHOs, will refine our understanding of large-scale high-T orogenic processes. | project/european |
US 9209473 W | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR TREATING TUMORS HAVING HIGH TYROSINASE ACTIVITY | Tumor cells which have beta -glucuronidase and tyrosinase activity are selectively treated by administration of a conjugate of a cytotoxic compound which is a substrate for tyrosinase and glucuronic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, particularly the triacetylated form of glucuronic acid. Among the cytotoxic phenolic compounds which are substrates for tyrosinase which can be used are tyrosine, 4-hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxyanisole, L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, dopamine (3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine), terbutylcatechol, hydroquinone, resorcinol, 6-hydroxydopa (3,4,6-trihydeoxyphenylalanine) and methyl gallate. | patent |
interreg_1568 | STRENGTHENING CROSS-BORDER GOVERNANCE THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT MODELS | The GovernaTIVA project will involve a highly interconnected geographical area in terms of history, culture and economy: the Varese area and the Canton Ticino. The current context highlights some critical aspects: limited mutual knowledge between public and private actors on both sides of the border, the predominance of small and fragmented local administrations, a lack of full assimilation of governance competences by political decision makers and public personnel. The project aims to increase the capacity of inter-institutional and territorial governance of the Municipalities as an indispensable condition for fostering cooperation actions and benefit the economic and social development of local communities. | project/regional |
W1972650971 | THE VERTICAL MOTIONS OF MONO-ABUNDANCE SUB-POPULATIONS IN THE MILKY WAY DISK | We present the vertical kinematics of stars in the Milky Way's stellar disk inferred from SDSS/SEGUE G-dwarf data, deriving the vertical velocity dispersion, \sigma_z, as a function of vertical height |z| and Galactocentric radius R for a set of 'mono-abundance' sub-populations of stars with very similar elemental abundances [\alpha/Fe] and [Fe/H]. We find that all components exhibit nearly isothermal kinematics in |z|, and a slow outward decrease of the vertical velocity dispersion: \sigma_z (z,R|[\alpha/Fe],[Fe/H]) ~ \sigma_z ([\alpha/Fe],[Fe/H]) x \exp (-(R-R_0)/7 kpc}). The characteristic velocity dispersions of these components vary from ~ 15 km/s for chemically young, metal-rich stars, to >~ 50 km/s for metal poor stars. The mean \sigma_z gradient away from the mid plane is only 0.3 +/- 0.2 km/s/kpc. We find a continuum of vertical kinetic temperatures (~\sigma^2_z) as function of ([\alpha/Fe],[Fe/H]), which contribute to the stellar surface mass density as \Sigma_{R_0}(\sigma^2_z) ~ \exp(-\sigma^2_z). The existence of isothermal mono-abundance populations with intermediate dispersions reject the notion of a thin-thick disk dichotomy. This continuum of disks argues against models where the thicker disk portions arise from massive satellite infall or heating; scenarios where either the oldest disk portion was born hot, or where internal evolution plays a major role, seem the most viable. The wide range of \sigma_z ([\alpha/Fe],[Fe/H]) combined with a constant \sigma_z(z) for each abundance bin provides an independent check on the precision of the SEGUE abundances: \delta_[\alpha/Fe] ~ 0.07 dex and \delta_[Fe/H] ~ 0.15 dex. The radial decline of the vertical dispersion presumably reflects the decrease in disk surface-mass density. This measurement constitutes a first step toward a purely dynamical estimate of the mass profile the disk in our Galaxy. [abridged] | publication |
W26089511 | Kuiper Belt | The name Kuiper Belt refers to a population of objects located beyond Neptune. Well before the first discoveries of its actual bodies, the existence of the Kuiper Belt had been predicted from theoretical considerations and deduced from the analysis of the orbits of short-period comets. The observations, however, have revealed that the Kuiper Belt has a structure much more complex than originally envisioned. The Kuiper Belt is made of several sub-populations, with distinct orbital distributions. Intriguingly, some of these sub-populations also have distinct physical properties, suggesting that they formed in different environments. How the Kuiper Belt acquired its current structure is an active topic of research. The properties of the Kuiper Belt provide a rich set of clues that help scientists reconstruct the primordial evolution of the outer Solar System. | publication |
W2088605480 | Ocean model open boundary conditions with volume, heat and salinity conservation constraints | Open boundary conditions (OBCs) for a regional ocean model that can be integrated stably over a long timeframe, as well as satisfy the volume, heat and salinity conservation constraints, were developed. First, the idea that the inward and outward flux information can be treated separately in the OBCs was adopted. Second, in order to maintain the property that the volume, heat and salinity remains conserved in the simulation domain, conservation constraints were added to the OBCs, and an inverse method utilized to solve the constraint equations. Ideal experiments were designed to investigate the conservation property, and the OBCs were found to work efficiently to maintain the volume, heat and salinity conservation. It was found that simulations were comparable to observations when the OBCs were applied to a regional ocean model. | publication |
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