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DEDEL SDEC - Développement équilibré et développement local : application du SDEC

The main objectives are as follows: To make up for the lack of qualified personnel for managing and setting up operations in the framework of structural funds. The solution proposed is the organisation of a post-graduate master’s course on land planning and local development; to publish the concepts of the ESDP and disseminate the guidelines to be followed for good land and local development through communication and information measures so that the ESDP concepts can be applied directly and projects proposed for EU funding. Overall objective / Objectif général The main objectives are as follows: To make up for the lack of qualified personnel for managing and setting up operations in the framework of structural funds. The solution proposed is the organisation of a post-graduate master’s course on land planning and local development; to publish the concepts of the ESDP and disseminate the guidelines to be followed for good land and local development through communication and information measures so that the ESDP concepts can be applied directly and projects proposed for EU funding. Expected results / Résultats attendus • Close collaboration among the regions involved, with sharing of experiences • Definition of a new professional profile that is essential for good development in Europe • Definition of common projects on a European level in the field of land planning.
EUROPEAN SCREEN DESTINATIONS

The overall purpose of EuroScreen is to maximise the economic synergies between the screen and tourism leading to the sectors’ increased innovation, competitiveness and growth in 8 regions across the EU.  It has been demonstrated that the representation of cities and regions in audiovisual media (films, tv series, adverts, internet, etc) is both important in strengthening and sustaining the diversity of different EU states’ culture, and increasingly, having a substantial economic impact on tourism.  This is evidenced in a number of case studies and is increasingly recognised in the marketing campaigns of tourist boards around the world. The longest running example in the EU is The Sound of Music. 40 years after the film's release, an estimated 300,000 fans visit Salzburg to see locations from the film. Recent similar successes include Notting Hill, which attracted a huge influx of tourists to London’s Notting Hill & has resulted in the area becoming established as a new ‘must-see’
destination on tourist itineraries.  The TV series and film Wallander had a substantial economic effect upon Ystad (Sweden) where it was shot. The number of visitors increased 34% from 08 to 09, tourism turnover increased 50% over 6 years, and a positive impact was experienced upon job creation. This project will address relevant policy makers’ knowledge gap in understanding the screen sector’s economic benefits and positive impact on tourism. It is the result of partners’ discussions on the need to develop clear linkages between the 2 sectors in order to identify potential economic gains and innovative frameworks to support cross sector collaboration between intermediary agencies and businesses. The current lack of effective networking and collaboration between the 2 sectors will be tackled by bringing together 5 regions (London, Ystad, Malaga, Apulia & La Valletta) at the forefront of screen tourism and 3 less-advanced regions (Rzeszow, Bucharest & Maribor). It will be delivered
from 2012-14 by lead partner Film London with Ystad City Council & Lund University (Sweden), ProMalaga (Spain), Apulia Film Commission(Italy), Fondazzjoni Temi Zammit(Malta), Bucharest Regional DA*(Romania), Maribor DA*(Slovenia) & Rzeszow Regional DA(Poland). * Development Agency. Collectively the partnership brings together institutions with a strong track record of delivering economic initiatives in support of the screen and tourism sectors and regions with less expertise but significant economic potential. Main activities which will be overseen by the Steering Group will be implemented via 4 Working Groups: Marketing, Promotion and Dissemination; The Baseline Study & Identification of Good Practice; Sharing & Transfer of Good Practice; Impact Measurement Tool. a. Baseline and identification of good practices, including an assessment of any existing impact measurement tools b. Exchange of experiences via a capacity building programme of 19 interregional CONTINUED -
Lossy computing of correlated sources with fractional sampling

This paper considers the problem of lossy compression for the computation of a function of two correlated sources, both of which are observed at the encoder. Due to presence of observation costs, the encoder is allowed to observe only subsets of the samples from both sources, with a fraction of such sample pairs possibly overlapping. For both Gaussian and binary sources, the distortion-rate function, or rate-distortion function, is characterized for selected functions and with quadratic and Hamming distortion metrics, respectively. Based on these results, for both examples, the optimal measurement overlap fraction is shown to depend on the function to be computed by the decoder, on the source correlation and on the link rate. Special cases are discussed in which the optimal overlap fraction is the maximum or minimum possible value given the sampling budget, illustrating non-trivial performance trade-offs in the design of the sampling strategy.
Maternal mortality: a ten year review in a tertiary care setup.

Maternal mortality ratio of a country is indicative of its health and development status. Information on maternal mortality is required to determine this status and to set priorities for policy making and programmatic and operation research strategies. This study was conducted to determine the causes of maternal mortality in a tertiary care hospital.This study was conducted in Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology B Unit, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, from January 2002 to January 2012. Data of all the pregnant patients admitted to Obs/Gyn Unit 'B' Labour Room were retrospectively collected and reviewed for the causes of direct maternal deaths.There were 21,120 deliveries during the study period. Out of these, there were 163 maternal deaths. The maternal mortality ratio was calculated as 772 per 100,000 live births. Direct maternal deaths constituted 143 (87.7%) and indirect deaths were responsible for 20 (12.3%) deaths. Haemorrhage was the leading cause of maternal death and was responsible for 43.55% of maternal deaths, while eclampsia was observed in 26.99% of maternal deaths. In 6.13% of patients rupture uterus was the cause of maternal death.Maternal mortality in our part of the world is high and most of the causes of maternal death remain haemorrhage and eclampsia. Haemorrhage which is the leading cause of maternal death is both predictable and preventable, if proper peripartum care is provided, maternal mortality can be reduced.
The evolving role of PET/CT for prognostication in patients with lung cancer

1325 Learning Objectives 1. To review and summarize the benefit of PET/CT for prediction of the prognosis and outcome in lung cancer patients 2. To discuss the value of volumetric PET parameters such as metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) for prognostication of lung cancer patients. 3. To review the prognostic value of multiple time point and delayed time points PET/CT imaging in patients with lung cancer. 4. To review the potential role of non-FDG PET tracers such as hypoxic and proliferation markers for prognostication of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and worldwide. PET/CT has an important role for diagnosis, restaging, treatment planning and evaluating treatment response. PET findings before and after treatment, quantitative PET parameters such as SUV, MTV and TLG, and the delayed time points imaging technique of PET/CT were studied for prognostic and outcome prediction. Moreover, non-FDG PET tracers can be used to determine prognostication. This review article provides the summary of PET/CT for prediction of prognosis and outcome in non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer patients. In this exhibit, we will discuss following topics: 1. PET’s role in treatment monitoring 2. PET’s role in prediction of the treatment outcome and treatment response 3. PET’s role as prognostic predictor at diagnosis, after induction therapy and for recurrent disease : a. PET parameters: SUVmax, SUVmean, MTV, TLG b. Delayed PET/CT imaging technique 4. Non-FDG PET tracers for prognostication
Wavelet feature-based modular neural network for detection and classification of power quality disturbances

Disturbances such as voltage sag, swell, interruption and harmonics are very typical in a power system. Power quality monitoring should be capable of identifying these disturbances to initiate mitigation action and protect sensitive loads. This paper presents wavelet-neural network-based detection and classification of power quality disturbances. Wavelet transform has the ability to analyse signals simultaneously in both time and frequency domains and is used to extract features of the disturbances by decomposing the signal using multi resolution analysis. These features, used to detect and localise the disturbances and are not easily separable, will reduce the performance of multilayer neural network. Improvement in the classification accuracy is suggested by employing modular neural network obtained by dividing a complex task into easier subtasks. The algorithm proposed is tested for classification of various power quality disturbances and it is found that a modular neural network has a higher classification accuracy over traditional multilayer neural network.
Mortalidade infantil em crianças menores de um ano na região noroeste do estado do Paraná

A mortalidade infantil é considerada um fator relevante para avaliar condições de saúde de uma população, uma temática bem esclarecida na literatura, no entanto, carece de informações sobre a causalidade em localidades específicas. Logo, a pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a taxa e as causas de mortalidade infantil em alguns municípios da 12a Regional de Saúde do Paraná, no período de 2015 a 2019. Trata-se de um estudo de caráter epidemiológico, transversal realizado na plataforma digital DATASUS. A amostra foi constituída por 191 óbitos, dos quais, a média da taxa de mortalidade infantil entre os anos variou de 14,92 a 26,98/mil nascidos vivos. A causa mais frequente foi identificada como afecções originadas no período perinatal (72,0%), que teve associação significativa pelo teste Wilcoxon/Mann-Whiney quando comparada a causa de anomalias congênitas (21,9%). A qualidade da assistência ofertada durante o pré-natal e puerpério pode ter relação com a causa encontrada, o que intriga na avaliação de programas e projetos na regional em questão.
Solaris energy tobacco

Solaris is a new variety of tobacco plant specifically targeted to energy applications. Depending on climate and local conditions Solaris allows 3-4 crops per year with very high productivity: 2.5 - 3.5 ton/ha and up to 45 tons of both green and woody biomass per harvest (for biogas and electricity purposes). Solaris grows in very different climate and soil conditions and can be profitable cultivated in Europe, creating a EU sustainable biofuel industry. The agronomic production of Solaris is certified since 2012 to be compliant to 2BSvs “biomass bio-fuel, sustainability voluntary scheme” which controls high standards of sustainability.

The ToboilR (tobacco oil) extracted from Solaris (about 33% of seeds), is a raw material for production of biodiesel, biojet fuel and bioplastic. The reduction of GHG emission using Toboil compared to fossil fuel is calculated to be 83%. Toboil is going to become the most productive not edible oil crop worldwide, with production of up to 3 ton of oil per ha per year (compared to 0.15 with maize and 1.6 with jatropha). The residual cake from extraction (about 60% of seeds) is usable as integrator for animal feed. The residual dried biomass obtained from the harvest of the plants (5-8 tons per ha) is usable for combustion or for pulp paper production. 

Sunchem holds the exclusive rights to exploit and develop the industrial patent for “energy tobacco”

Objectives of the overall project:
• Plan an industrially profitable seed treatment process engineering to apply production in advanced countries
• Optimization of the overall seed treatment process Engineering of an automatic harvesting machine
• Strengthen the Solaris value and supply chain

Business model: 
Create Joint Ventures with a licensing scheme where Sunchem provides the know-how and sub-licenses with exclusivity the technology, receiving a license fee and the partners provide the capital for the investment and production capacity to manage the value chain of the products.
History and philosophy of scientific thought experiments and scientific practices

The project aims at providing a novel general theory of scientific thought experiments (TEs) and lies within the fields of general history and philosophy of science (HPS). TEs are epistemic tools, are conducted in the “laboratory of the mind” and are found in nearly all intellectual fields. Scientific TEs are puzzling to most philosophers: arguably TEs aim at providing “new” knowledge about the world, but without resorting to new empirical data. There is a vast literature on TEs, however, in its majority, remains “reductive” and “restrictive”, built on a-historically analysed case studies and is disconnected from the literature on real experiments (REs), scientific models (SMs) and computer simulations (CSs). The project is driven by a main hypothesis – TEs, in different scientific fields, should be analysed as a sui generis tool – and shall be divided into two objectives (O1 and O2): Towards a general theory of TEs (O1) and TEs vs REs, CSs and SMs (O2). Work on O1 shall built on a recent epistemic account of TEs in physics defended by El Skaf and on a new historical analysis of TEs in physics, biology and mathematics. Work on O2 shall consist of a comparative analysis of TEs, REs, CSs and SMs. The project thus relies on the scientific, historical, and philosophical methodology of integrated HPS. The project shall benefit from Werndl’s expertise in general philosophy of science and SMs, Weber’s expertise in general philosophy of science and experimentation in biology, including TEs, and El Skaf’s expertise in integrated HPS and the epistemology of TEs. Furthermore, we shall develop collaborations with researchers with a wide range of expertise, organise a series of seminars and an international workshop. Finally, this study, by providing a general theory of scientific TEs which identifies their common structure (i.e. their common reasoning pattern), will be applicable to TEs in several intellectual fields beyond natural sciences, where TEs are commonly used.
What makes mathematical word problem solving challenging? Exploring the roles of word problem characteristics, text comprehension, and arithmetic skills

Abstract In this study we investigated word-problem (WP) item characteristics, individual differences in text comprehension and arithmetic skills, and their relations to mathematical WP-solving. The participants were 891 fourth-grade students from elementary schools in Finland. Analyses were conducted in two phases. In the first phase, WP characteristics concerning linguistic and numerical factors and their difficulty level were investigated. In contrast to our expectations, the results did not show a clear connection between WP difficulty level and their other characteristics regarding linguistic and numerical factors. In the second phase, text comprehension and arithmetic skills were used to classify participants into four groups: skilful in text comprehension but poor in arithmetic; poor in text comprehension but skilful in arithmetic; very poor in both skills; very skilful in both skills. The results indicated that WP-solving performance on both easy and difficult items was strongly related to text comprehension and arithmetic skills. In easy items, the students who were poor in text comprehension but skilful in arithmetic performed better than those who were skilful in text comprehension but poor in arithmetic. However, there were no differences between these two groups in WP-solving performance on difficult items, showing that more challenging WPs require both skills from students.
Speciation of lipid and humic fractions in soils under pine and eucalyptus forest in northwest Spain and its effect on water repellency

Abstract Soil organic matter characteristics in extremely water-repellent soils developed under forests of Pinus pinaster and Eucalyptus globulus in Galicia (Northwestern Spain) were analyzed with special emphasis paid in lipid and humic acid fractions. A total of sixteen soils were studied including Leptic Regosols and Leptic Umbrisols developed on granites and schists, and showing extreme water repellency: up to 6 h using water drop penetration time (WDPT) test, i.e., ranging from strongly to extremely hydrophobic (ethanol percentage test, MED). The experimental design involved the measurement of the water repellency as WDPT after the successive removal of lipid and humic fractions by: (i) direct extraction of the soil free lipid with petroleum ether (40–60 °C), (ii) extraction of the ‘fixed’ lipid from the soil residue after 2 m H 3 PO 4 treatment and further recovery from the aqueous phase with petroleum ether and (iii) final extraction of humic substances with alkaline solutions. The results showed significant decrease in the WDPT (from class 6 to classes 4 or 5) after removing free lipid. Nevertheless, removal of ‘fixed’ lipid resulted into the most substantial decrease of the WDPT, which occurred on almost all soils (to classes 0–3). This fact is to large extent associated to the simultaneous removal of hydrophobic particulate fractions (free organic matter) which — even after extraction of free lipid — resulted extremely water-repellent in laboratory conditions (>1 h WDPT). Finally, the extraction of humic and fulvic acids was required for the total disappearance of the water repellency (class 0). Regarding vegetation types, lipid removal (free + ‘fixed’ fractions) was significantly more effective in increasing wettability in the case of forest soil samples under pine than under eucalypt. Concerning geological substrate, water repellency in soils under granites remained comparatively more persistent than in soils under schists. After treatment with 2 m H 3 PO 4 , all samples from soils on granite–eucalyptus remained slightly water-repellent, whereas all samples from soils developed on schist–pine samples became wettable. Multivariate data treatments (multiple regression models, variable ordination by multidimensional scaling, and discriminant analysis) were useful to identify the soil characteristics most significantly associated to its water repellency. These treatments suggest that water repellency in the soils under study is a complex emergent property, reflected in specific patterns depending on vegetation type and geological substrate and arising from the interaction between different soil organizational levels (mainly free lipid, ‘fixed’ lipid, macroscopic particulate organic matter and the concentration and maturity of humic substances).
High-Capacity and high-performance thermal energy storage capsule for low-carbon and energy efficient heating and cooling systems

The Hi-ThermCap project offers a solution for the macro-encapsulation of phase-change materials (PCM) for use in gaseous
and aqueous systems as a heat transfer medium. The expected outcome of this innovation project is to put at the market’s
disposal a unique solution for thermal energy storage in heating and cooling systems in Europe.
The heating industry is recognized as the sector with the biggest energy-saving potential in Europe. In the low temperature
range of -20 to +100°C, most of the thermal energy amounts are required and then discarded, in particular in our buildings
and industries. PCM are recognized among the key materials to save these huge energy and – at the same time – CO2
amounts. They can run through a reproducible phase-change at a substance-specific temperature, during which the thermal
energy is either stored in very large amounts or returned at a constant temperature. Since decades, an adequate method is
being sought to transfer PCM into a user-friendly form. Both existing micro- and macro-encapsulation solutions for PCM
storage have until now revealed not industrially and economically viable enough for a broad application. The most common
solution in use in Europe is sensible heat storage (e.g. water storage tank) that has a low energy density and thermal
storage capacity.
ESDA offers an affordable, easy-of-use, high-capacity and high-performance solution in the form of a PCM-filled capsule
able to function in combination with all heat exchangers, including renewable energy technologies. The markets addressed
are the high-volume heating and cooling market for residential and service sector buildings in Europe, but also the very
promising industrial heating and cooling market. ESDA first calculations foresee a large impact in the application with solar
thermal collectors and heat pumps, with a cumulated turnover of €2,256M and additional 75 job creations at strategic
European locations within the first 6 years after project completion.
Sustainable fibre-reinforced polymer concrete (frp-rc) structures

The corrosion problem of steel reinforcement severely limits the life-cycle sustainability of conventional reinforced concrete structures. This proposal focuses on the use of corrosion-free fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcing bars in lieu of steel reinforcing bars in concrete structures. Due to the currently incomplete understanding of serviceability aspects of FRP reinforced concrete (FRP-RC) structures, the existing design guidelines are not comprehensive, and this restricts the applications of FRP-RC in real-life. The proposed project will investigate the fundamental issues of serviceability, fracture mechanics and time-dependent effects of FRP-RC to enable its practical usage. The objectives encompass experimental investigation of deformation characteristics of FRP-RC specimens, derivation of constitutive models and establishment of deformation capacity of FRP-RC members, formulation of design guidelines in serviceability and development of design aids for use by practising engineers.
A number of first-time-in-the-world techniques initiated by the applicant researcher, Dr. Pui-Lam NG and the host supervisor, Prof. Gintaris KAKLAUSKAS of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) will be employed in the project. The expertise areas of the researcher and the host are highly complementary and there will be substantial two-way transfer of knowledge. The researcher and the host propose to undertake the project with partner organisations University of Minho led by Prof. Joaquim A.O. BARROS, and University of Cambridge led by Prof. Chris BURGOYNE, in 24 months duration. Measures to disseminate the research findings to the academic and engineering communities and communicate the results to the general public have been formulated. A detailed work plan of research activities, deployment of manpower and resources, contingency plan for risk mitigation, and availability of research infrastructure have been duly addressed to enable effective delivery of the project.