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EYEWEAR FRAMES WITH MAGNETIC LENS ATTACHMENTS

The present invention illustrates various methods of attaching a pair of eyeglass lenses or a lens shield to an eyeglass frame using magnets or magnetically attractive material. The magnetic attachment methods are beneficial because they allow the user to have interchangeable lenses or shields for indoor and outdoor use, enhancing their visual acuity during work or play. The lenses may be tinted, prescription, protective eyewear, or piano. The magnetic lenses are convenient and user friendly, allowing intuitive, tool-less interchangeability with no need to twist or stress the frame. These methods of attachment require no specific instructions or tools when the user replaces lenses.
NANOPOROUS RANDOM GLASSY POLYMERS

The present invention discloses a class of random glassy polymer materials, namely nanoporous polymer materials, which contain pores with dimensions ranging from about 1nm to about 1000 nm. The present invention also discloses a method of making a nanoporous polymer material by controlling the size, shape, volume fraction, and topological features of the pores, which comprises annealing the polymer material at a temperature above its glass transition temperature. The present invention further discloses the use of the resulting nanoporous polymer material to make devices, such as optical devices. For example, the resulting nanoporous polymer can be used to make a planar waveguide that can exhibit an optical loss of less than 0.5 dB/cm.
Numerical method of crack analysis in 2D finite magnetoelectroelastic media

The present paper extends the hybrid extended displacement discontinuity fundamental solution method (HEDD-FSM) (Eng Anal Bound Elem 33:592–600, 2009) to analysis of cracks in 2D finite magnetoelectroelastic media. The solution of the crack is expressed approximately by a linear combination of fundamental solutions of the governing equations, which includes the extended point force fundamental solutions with sources placed at chosen points outside the domain of the problem under consideration, and the extended Crouch fundamental solutions with extended displacement discontinuities placed on the crack. The coefficients of the fundamental solutions are determined by letting the approximated solution satisfy the prescribed boundary conditions on the boundary of the domain and on the crack face. The Crouch fundamental solution for a parabolic element at the crack tip is derived to model the square root variations of near tip fields. The extended stress intensity factors are calculated under different electric and magnetic boundary conditions.
The evolutionary genetics of multidimensional plasticity in a wild seabird

PLASTIC TERN is an interdisciplinary project using an ecological and evolutionary framework to integrate the study of physiological, behavioural and life-history traits to elucidate multi-dimensional patterns of phenotypic plasticity in the wild. We will focus on the evolutionary genetics of plasticity in a natural population of a relatively long-lived seabird under long-term investigation, the common tern (Sterna hirundo). More specifically, we will investigate how genetic variation in, and selection on, plasticity are shaped by internal factors, such as age, and external factors, such as temperature, breeding density and food availability; we will be using multiple labile traits (annual number of fledglings, body mass and spatial colony use) and studying multiple levels of variation. The long-lived nature of our study species and the natural annual fluctuations of food availability, temperature and density that characterise the study area and population provide a unique opportunity to study plastic responses driven simultaneously by intrinsic factors, such as age, and/or ecological factors. Additionally, the exceptional dataset collected on this population allows us to study how selection (via annual survival and reproductive success, as well as Lifetime Reproductive Success) acts on the previously described plastic responses. Despite the explicit evolutionary relevance of the question, the consequences of environmental changes for the action of natural selection on plasticity have remained largely unexplored.
Facilitating elementary science teachers’ implementation of inquiry-based science teaching

Preservice science teachers generally feel that the implementation of inquiry-based science teaching is very difficult to manage. This research project aimed at facilitating the implementation of inquiry-based science teaching through the use of several classroom strategies. The evaluation of 15 classroom strategies from 80 preservice elementary science teachers was reported. Results indicated that those classroom strategies were useful for promoting preservice science teachers’ understanding and reinforcing their skills for teaching science through inquiry. In addition, findings indicated that preservice science teachers gained more sophisticated understanding of the role of these classroom strategies and their potential implications for facilitating inquiry science teaching and learning. The study provided several suggestions to facilitate the implementation of inquiry science teaching in school science classrooms.
Integrating Ethico-Cultural Derivatives for Sustainable Global SMES : A Case Study of Africa and Asia

One of the key variables in the analysis of small and medium enterprises (SME’s) is the influence of ethico-cultural derivatives and its impacts on overall global business growth and development. The paper highlights some essential ethico-cultural derivatives that have influenced small and medium enterprise (SME) operations both in Africa and Asia. The paper posits that despite the uniqueness and the importance of these ethico-cultural derivatives in SMEs activities across the two regions, the exigencies of global SMEs development has make it imperative to have an SME ethico-cultural meeting points for sustainable global SMEs. The paper identifies how ethico-cultural variances in Africa and Asia SME operations can be integrated and harnessed for effective inter-regional growth as prelude to globally sustainable SMEs.
Training network to understand and exploit mechanisms of sensory perception in bacteria

The PATHSENSE (Pathogen Sensing) ETN will bring together an interdisciplinary team of world-leading researchers from Europe to tackle a highly ambitious scientific project, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of sensory perception in bacterial pathogens. PATHSENSE will establish an innovative doctoral training programme that will deliver 13 PhD graduates and high-impact scientific outputs. The relationship between molecular structures and biological function is central to understanding any living system; however the research methodologies required to unravel these relationships are often complex and fast-changing. The team participating in this Network has the infrastructure and track-record to train ESRs in these state-of-the art methodologies, including structural biology, proteomics & protein biochemistry, molecular biology, bacterial genetics, food microbiology, mathematical modelling, cell biology, microscopy and comparative genomics. PATHSENSE will investigate the poorly understood structure-function relationships that exist within a large multi-protein complex called a “stressosome”, which acts as a sensory organelle in bacteria. The project will involve extensive inter-sectoral mobility of the ESRs across 7 EU countries to make full use of the complementary skills available at each of the hosting institutions. The inter-sectoral Network comprises 8 leading Universities, 1 public research institution, 4 companies (from spin-off to large multi-national) and 1 governmental agency. A major objective of this Network will be to exploit the fundamental research to develop novel antimicrobial treatments that have applications in the food and public health sectors. This project will deliver high-impact science, 13 highly-trained innovative researchers and will produce a long-lasting inter-sectoral network of collaborators who will continue to work together to exploit fundamental research for the socio-economic benefit of Europe.
Frequent somatic mutations of the telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter in ovarian clear cell carcinoma but not in other major types of gynaecological malignancy

Up-regulated expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and subsequent maintenance of telomere length are essential in tumour development. Recent studies have implicated somatic gain-of-function mutations at the TERT promoter as one of the mechanisms that promote transcriptional activation of TERT; however, it remains unclear whether this genetic abnormality is prevalent in gynaecological neoplasms. We performed mutational analysis in a total of 525 gynaecological cancers, and correlated TERT promoter mutations with clinicopathological features. With the exception of ovarian clear cell carcinomas, in which mutations were found in 37 (15.9%) of 233 cases, the majority of gynaecological malignancies were wild-type. TERT promoter mutation does not appear to be an early event during oncogenesis, as it was not detected in the contiguous endometriosis associated with ovarian clear cell carcinoma. Ovarian clear cell carcinoma cell lines with TERT promoter mutations exhibited higher TERT mRNA expression than those with wild-type sequences (p = 0.0238). TERT promoter mutation tended to be mutually exclusive with loss of ARID1A protein expression (p = 4.4 × 10(-9) ) and PIK3CA mutation (p = 0.0019) in ovarian clear cell carcinomas. No associations with disease-specific survival were observed for ovarian clear cell carcinoma. The above results, in conjunction with our previous report showing longer telomeres in ovarian clear cell carcinomas relative to other types of ovarian cancer, suggests that aberrations in telomere biology may play an important role in the pathogenesis of ovarian clear cell carcinoma.
Sustainable valorization of health tourism potentials in alpine winter tourism

Winter tourism is a significant economic factor and an important employer in the program area and especially in rural Alpine regions. Although, there is an urgent need for the diversification of winter tourism products to react to the already noticeable impacts of climate change and altering customer demands. Therefore, Alpine regions have to develop innovative and environmentally responsible tourism products and services to secure the economic efficiency and competitiveness of regions & SME in the program area. Evidence-based health tourism offers a variety of strategic development opportunities for a sustainable economic utilization of Alpine natural and cultural resources in the winter season. Current health tourism offers predominantly focus on summer holidays, whereas the potential of health tourism winter products have not yet been exploited. _x000D_
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The project WinHealth aims at a sustainable valorization of the health tourism potential in terms of Alpine natural & cultural resources. In cross-border cooperation, innovative economic value chains & business models will be developed, which shall not replace snow-related offers, but complement them. A broad-based cross-border qualification & know-how transfer initiative stimulates SME-& destination-driven innovation in terms of health tourism and strengthens their knowledge base. In this way, health tourism is positioned as strategic development factor for the diversification of Alpine winter tourism offers in the program area.
VEHICLE SUSPENSION

A vehicle suspension having a leaf spring (10, 30, 110) connected at its ends to the vehicle structure (15, 35, 113) and between its ends to an axle part (11, 31, 117), wherein the spring has an extension portion (20, 42, 119) beyond one of its ends, arranged to engage an abutment (21, 41, 120) to give an increased spring rate when the spring is deflected by a load exceeding a predetermined value. The extension portion may be provided at an end of the spring pivoted to a fixed part (14) of the vehicle structure, at a shackle arrangement (38), or at a slipper end (114, 115, 116).
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Development of copper catalyzed strategies for the amination of alkyl halides using halogen-atom tranfer: going beyond sn2 chemistry

The formation of carbon–nitrogen bonds is crucial to the preparation of molecules that impact almost every aspects of our lives like drugs, agrochemicals and food additives.

In text-books, creating C–N bonds is approached considering the natural nucleophilic character of N-molecules in substitution reactions with alkyl halides. In practice, these reactions are only used in the case of highly reactive substrates with low steric hinderance (e.g. primary amines + primary alkyl halides). The vast majority of substrates require forcing conditions which lead to side reactions like elimination or poly alkylation. To by-pass these issues multi-step approaches, based on extensive functional group manipulations, are still required. There is an urgent need of methods enabling to directly “plug” complex N-molecules into complex alkyl halides.

This project aims at providing a conceptually novel approach to perform substitution reactions between N-nucleophiles and alkyl halides. This will be achieved by developing a radical reactivity where alpha-aminoalkyl radicals convert alkyl halides into C-radicals by halogen-atom transfer (XAT) and a copper catalyst binds the N-nucleophiles and enables amination. 
Upon achieving this initial goal, I aim to extend and engineer this reactivity as part of complex radical cascades leading to structurally complex chemotypes.

The proposal capitalizes on recent developments of the host group that has experience in XAT and the development of catalytic reactions for the formation of C–N bonds. 

The development of this innovative project at the University of Manchester will create new tools in bio-organic chemistry and facilitate the preparation of high-value materials.  Its implementation will be facilitated by generating, transferring, sharing and disseminating knowledge, and will enhance my future career following the training plan envisioned.
Manuali e libri di testo per i maestri italiani dell’emigrazione nel primo Novecento

Sulla scia dei primi risultati di studio circa la relazione tra alfabeto, emigrazione e maestri, nella circolazione transnazionale dei saperi e dei libri di letture, un solco molto promettente per la ricerca storico-educativa riguarda le politiche migratorie dello Stato italiano specie nel primo ventennio del Novecento. Il contributo dedica un supplemento di attenzione al segmento di testi pubblicati per la preparazione “tutta speciale” - politica, culturale e didattica -, dei maestri dell’emigrazione, nei corsi aperti per la loro formazione (D’ALESSIO, 2019). L’articolo intende occuparsi della specifica manualistica loro indirizzata - di cui il vero modello è Il maestro degli emigranti di Cabrini (1912). I testi e libri destinati a preparare, con le cognizioni e gli orientamenti indispensabili, chi doveva fornire l’adeguata istruzione a chi si accingesse a partire intendevano favorire la maturazione di una cultura specifica in materia di emigrazione, fra tutti i maestri d’Italia.
Wrapper Feature Selection based on Genetic Algorithm for Recognizing Objects from Satellite Imagery

Object recognition is a research area that aims to associate objects to categories or classes. The recognition of object specific geospatial features, such as roads, buildings and rivers, from high-resolution satellite imagery is a time consuming and expensive problem in the maintenance cycle of a Geographic Information System (GIS). Feature selection is the task of selecting a small subset from original features that can achieve maximum classification accuracy and reduce data dimensionality. This subset of features has some very important benefits like, it reduces computational complexity of learning algorithms, saves time, improve accuracy and the selected features can be insightful for the people involved in problem domain. This makes feature selection as an indispensable task in classification task. In this work, the authors propose a new approach that combines Genetic Algorithms (GA) with Correlation Ranking Filter (CRF) wrapper to eliminate unimportant features and obtain better features set that can show better results with various classifiers such as Neural Networks (NN), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and Decision trees. The approach is based on GA as an optimization algorithm to search the space of all possible subsets related to object geospatial features set for the purpose of recognition. GA is wrapped with three different classifier algorithms namely neural network, k-nearest neighbor and decision tree J48 as subset evaluating mechanism. The GA-ANN, GA-KNN and GA-J48 methods are implemented using the WEKA software on dataset that contains 38 extracted features from satellite images using ENVI software. The proposed wrapper approach incorporated the Correlation Ranking Filter (CRF) for spatial features to remove unimportant features. Results suggest that GA based neural classifiers and using CRF for spatial features are robust and effective in finding optimal subsets of features from large data sets.
Integrated Management Support for Energy efficiency in Mediterranean PUblic buiLdings

IMPULSE introduces an integrated management support system for planning energy efficiency interventions in public buildings. The main challenge tackled is the insufficient capacities of public administrations to set-up reliable and affordable energy efficiency plans for their public building stock, which at local level is reflected by missing or incomplete Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs). The main problem is the lack of available energy consumption data for the building stock and of easy-to-use decision-support systems to conclude the most affordable action plans with bankable and realistic solutions. The project acknowledges the need for concrete decision-support solutions as well as the transnational approach needed to account for MED diversified conditions in buildings, energy solutions, climate, regulations, etc., towards the wider capturing of MED specificities. The project’s transnational approach foresees extensive testing in representative pilot MED Cities in 6 Countries, of previously established methods for the conclusion of MED public building typologies accompanied with cost-optimal interventions and financial and gradual renovation plans. The results are organised into a transnational purpose web and GIS-based information system being a user-friendly decision making tool for affordable SEAPs with high impact. The tool is verified through small-scale renovation projects in each pilot City and further evaluated through targeted transferring activities.
Development of engineering solution for low-temperature power generator based on low temperature fuel cells

The project will lead to the development of an innovative engineering solution for a high-tech power generator based on low-temperature hydrogen fuel cell.
A Review on the Impact of Aircraft Cabin Air Quality and Cabin Pressure on Human Wellbeing

Airliner cabins present more complicated scenario due to different design and operation challenges owing to the extreme environmental conditions, complexity of the operational systems, and the authorities that govern such environments. The scientific evaluation is rendered difficult due to lack of empirical evidence determining the airliner cabin air quality as well as consequent health effects occurring due to short or long flight exposure. Crew members and passengers report dizziness, fatigue, headaches, sinus and ear problems, dry eyes and sore throats during and after travel. There are persistent concerns about the transmission of infectious agents such as influenza, tuberculosis and measles viruses during flights. Moreover, a systematic collection of data related to airplane environmental exposures is not yet available and the effects of environmental conditions on wellbeing of travelers and their comfort level are yet to be fully ascertained. In this work, a systematic review of the air quality inside the airliner cabin are discussed. The potential pollutants and their established causes are discussed. In addition to this, major health discomforts faced by the occupants are presented.
Quantum conductance of neutral gas molecules

We propose to design a new insert with a sample-holder and investigate quantum aspects of flow (gas) conductance as a function of temperature (T) down to 4K by exploiting de Broglie wavelength for neutral helium (He) atoms through an atomically-flat rectangular graphene nanochannel in a molecular flow regime. By confining the vertical length of the transport channel and tuning the associated de Broglie wavelength (with T), the realization of the quantum limited conductance for He gas flow, similar to the observed quantum signatures of conductance for electrons, seems to be truly within the experimental reach. The behaviour of the wall switches over to more rigid (lowering atomic vibrations) from flexible one at room T which not only enhances the specular reflection but also the phase coherence of the associated de Broglie wavelength. We will investigate the transport properties using layered materials from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) family to induce ballistic transport from the diffusive transport regime at room T via Laser-irradiation and chemical roots which will heal the defects in TMDs at atomic scale. Our investigations will help in search of more materials to have the ballistic transport around room T. Our focus will not only be on the enhanced flow due to quantum effects but also the understanding from fundamental physics point of view as well as exploring in broader perspective. The strategy of the project is to design a setup for low-T, making state-of-the-art devices, investigate the quantum signatures of conductance of nanoscale channels and address various important issues. Completion of the multidisciplinary project will open up a new era where various novel intriguing physics need to be explored further, understanding of quantum gas transport will boost many biomedical and industrial applications, next generation devices using gas sensors and properties of thermal transport exploited to extract heat will be tuned with enhanced performance.