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Art / culture / economy to democratize society.  research in placemaking for alternative narratives

The project trans-making aims to establish a multilateral network of research and innovation staff active in the fields of placemaking/place-based art activities as a space to create alternative narratives for social, economic and democratic renewal.
It will investigate and experiment with placemaking to contribute actively to the democratization/well-being of society, educating and empowering individuals and disadvantaged minorities through research and production in the connection between art and new technologies.
The objective is to strengthen research capacities, through exchange of knowledge and expertise between academic and non-academic partners from Europe and Third Countries in a shared research programme focused on: collecting, documenting / Exploring, experimenting / Performing / Designing. Trough those work programme of Research and Innovation, the consortium, academic and non-academics partners, aims to foster links between art and culture, economy, democracy and innovation at EU level and beyond. To foster entrepreneurial skills, risk taking adaptability, innovation capacity (economic, social and democratic). And it will contribute actively to education and empowerment of individuals and disadvantaged minorities trough research and production between art and new technologies.
The project through its consortium will be to foster a better understanding and knowledge sharing between scientific community, stakeholders and policy-makers. Which will be achieved with the respective networks of the involved partners. The final aim of trans-making will be to establish a long term collaboration among the partners in order to have a scientific and innovative worldwide community devoted to the research, (including art-based research), innovation, education activity in the matters concerned by the project. Moreover, the proposed measures of the project will be conceived in order to have the widest possible impact of the society.
London: The Information Capital: 100 Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You View the City

This book is the British Cartographic Society WINNER; the BCS Award 2015 WINNER; the Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping 2015 WINNER; and, John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping 2015. In London: The Information Capital, geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti join forces to bring you a series of new maps and graphics charting life in London like never before. When do police helicopters catch criminals? Which borough of London is the happiest? Is 'czesc' becoming a more common greeting than 'salaam'? James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti could tell you, but they'd rather show you. By combining millions of data points with stunning design, they investigate how flights stack over Heathrow, who lives longest, and where Londoners love to tweet. The result? One hundred portraits of an old city in a very new way. Dr James Cheshire is a geographer with a passion for London and its data. His award-winning maps draw from his research as a lecturer at University College London and have appeared in the Guardian and the Financial Times, as well as on his popular blog, mappinglondon.co.uk. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Oliver Uberti is a visual journalist, designer, and the recipient of many awards for his information graphics and art direction. From 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior Design Editor. He has a design studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cost-Effective high speed production for fasteners in titanium for the automotive industry

Starting originally in 1950 with the manufacturing of titanium components for motorsports, we, POGGIPOLINI became official suppliers for the Formula One (Ferrari and McLaren) in the 80s, the aerospace industry in the 90s (Agusta helicopters) and finally the automotive industry in 2004 (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, McLaren, Porsche and Fiat). Following a change in F1 technical regulations in 2009 limiting our production, we decided to reorient our strategy towards the aerospace and automotive industries. Today, we have become a recognized specialist in technical weight reduction solutions, critical components and structural fastening systems. With over 60 years of experience with titanium, aluminium, special alloys and composite, our full service capabilities range from engineering, R&D to system integration and final turnkey packaging using the most technological equipment and processes available. Currently, aerospace represent 40% of our business (total 2015 turnover > €11.6 million). Regarding automotive, thanks to the close relationship between the industries of motorsport and automotive, we have been able to develop a robust customer base for high end products and limited series. Nonetheless, this segment occupies only 26% of our total business.
With the ProFiT project and its revolutionary manufacturing process for titanium bolts, POGGIPOLINI will move from a semi-manual production (200,000 units / €13.5 production cost) towards a mass production process (potential up to 30 million units / < €5 production cost): the subsequent price reduction (> 60%) of the titanium bolts will allow us to expand our automotive market to general cars and by doing so increase our turnover by +€27 million by 2021.
Vygotsky for Educators

Lev Vygotsky's approach to children's learning and development centers on adult mediation: adults engage children in age-appropriate activities and promote in this context the development of new motives and tools for thinking, problem solving, and self-regulation. Although this approach has earned widespread recognition in the global scientific community, English-speaking educators remain relatively unfamiliar with its contemporary elaborations for practical application. Yuriy V. Karpov offers the first comprehensive English introduction to contemporary elaborations of Vygotsky's ideas and their practical applications from birth through adolescence. He demonstrates the advantages of the Vygotskian approach over both traditional and constructivist education. This volume will prove an invaluable resource for educators and students in teacher education programs, as well as for everyone interested in educational and developmental psychology.
Centre for excellence in territorial management and cadastre

Unlike most European countries, Romania does not have yet a general cadastre. Such a deficiency represents a critical element for the economy of the country, since it makes legal contracts, such as land purchasing, very difficult to be implemented. 
Starting from such a complex scenario, CENTRIC aims –in the  long term- at the creation in Romania of the new Centre of Excellence on territorial management and cadastre.
The future Centre will focus on related domains of great relevance, such as: 3D/4D geospatial data, linked geospatial data, land classification, remotely sensed data, etc. 
In particular, the goal of phase 1 of the project (the 12 months CSA) is to prepare a very detailed business plan leading, during phase 2, to the establishment of the Centre including: a  long-term vision and the mission of the Centre, a detailed SWOT analysis of the domain of territorial management and cadastre in Romania, a long-term scientific and innovation strategy, a market analysis, the Business Concept of the Centre, the analysis of possible cooperation, strategic alliances and long-term partnerships, the operational and financial plan of the Centre, to define a strategic growth roadmap.
Furthermore the project will also aim at the creation of a suitable ecosystem at the national Romanian and EU level, through a number of capacity building and dissemination activities.
The whole project has been based on the creation of long-lasting (beyond the 5-years duration of the overall “Teaming” project) joint venture between partners from both advanced and low performing countries, including institutional cooperation among the Romanian Cadastre agency and the counterpart in Trentino Italy considered as a best practice at the EU level.
The project is aligned with the Romanian Smart Specialisation Strategy and it has received a clear commitment from the Romanian Government to provide financial resources for infrastructural and equipment costs for phase 2.
An Analysis of Causes of Readmission After Spine Surgery

Retrospective review of medical records.We reviewed all early readmissions after elective spine surgery at a single orthopedic specialty hospital to analyze the causes of unplanned readmissions.Recent advances in techniques and instrumentation have made more complex spinal surgeries possible, although sometimes with more complications. Early readmission rate is being used as a marker to evaluate quality of care. There is little data available regarding the causes of early readmissions after spine surgery.Using the hospital's administrative database of patient records from 2007 to 2009, all patients who underwent spine surgery and were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days were identified and broadly categorized as planned (a staged or rescheduled procedure or a direct transfer) or unplanned. Unplanned readmissions were defined to have occurred as a result of either a surgical or a nonsurgical complication. Analysis was focused on 12 common spine procedures based on the principle procedure International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code for the patient's initial admission. The readmission rate was calculated for each procedure.A total of 156 early readmissions were identified, of which 141 were unplanned. Of the unplanned readmissions, the most common causes were infection or a concern for an infection (45 patients, 32% of unplanned readmissions), nonsurgical complications (31 patients, 22% of readmissions), complications requiring surgical revision (21 patients, 15% of readmissions), and wound drainage (12 patients, 9% of readmissions). Fifty-seven percent of unplanned readmissions required a return to the operating room (76% of infections or concern for infection). The average length of stay for the unplanned readmissions was 6.5 days. When using the 12 most common procedures based on the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, the early readmission rate was 3.8% (141 early readmissions in 3673 procedures).Infection, medical complications after surgery, and surgical complications requiring revision of implants are the primary causes of unplanned early readmissions and spine surgery. Further studies are necessary to identify patients and procedures most associated with readmission.
Severe back pain in elite athletes: a cross-sectional study on 929 top athletes of Germany

The cross-sectional study evaluates the incidence, localization, treatment, and influencing factors of back pain (BP) in Germany's elite athletes.An online questionnaire was sent out to 3564 top athletes. We used the VAS to identify the intensity of BP and SPSS for statistical analyses.929 athletes responded. 514 (55.3%) had BP within the last 12 months, mainly located in the lumbar spine (n = 293, 56.1%). The average pain intensity was 5.75/10. Back-affecting exercise and additional burdens (e.g. at their place of work) did not increase the intensity of BP. When dividing the athletes into two groups according to the BP intensity, BP did not correlate with gender, age or BMI.At least every tenth athlete suffers temporarily from low BP at a level at which spine surgery could be the only option to relieve the pain. BP occurs independently of back-affecting training and additional stress. Further evaluation is needed to identify factors for avoiding severe BP in top athletes.
Non-invasive method for in-vivo bone-growth stimulation

A method and apparatus for preventing osteopenia, promoting bone tissue growth, ingrowth, and healing of bone tissue includes the step of and means for applying a mechanical load to the bone tissue at a relatively low level on the order of between about 50 and about 500 microstrain, peak-to-peak, and at a relatively high frequency in the range from about 10 and about 100 Hz. Mechanical loading at such strain levels and such frequencies has been found to prevent bone loss and enhance new bone formation.
Climatic and temporal control on microbial diversity-ecosystem functioning: insights from a novel conceptual model (climifun).

Despite the importance of soil microbial communities for ecosystem functioning and human welfare, little is known about the mechanisms controlling the composition and diversity of these communities, and the role of their attributes in providing multiple ecosystem functions and services such as nutrient cycling and decomposition (i.e. multifunctionality). Many studies have identified climate, stage of ecosystem development and soil characteristics as main drivers of plant and animal diversity. However, much less is known about the interactive effects of climate, soil properties and time in controlling microbial diversity and multifunctionality during ecosystem succession. This lack of knowledge hampers our ability to predict microbial community shifts and their consequences for ecosystem functioning under climate change, and limits the inclusion of soil microbes in global biogeochemical models. The main research objective of this action is to gain a deeper insight into the patterns and mechanisms that drive soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality under changing environments. We will use a novel conceptual framework combining long-term chronosequences, climate change experiments and structural equation modelling to quantitatively evaluate the role of time, climate and multiple soil drivers in controlling microbial diversity and multifunctionality. The research outlined in this proposal includes a range of state-of-the-art biochemical, molecular and genomic methods for the analysis of microbial communities and multifunctionality that ensure the maximum utility and impact of our results. Altogether, CLIMIFUN will reveal the factors that control soil microbial diversity and multiple functions linked to plant production and nutrient cycling under a changing environment. This work will thus address a key knowledge gap relevant to supporting increases in global demand for food and fibre over the next decades, and a research priority for H2020.
Laparoscopic operation for colorectal cancer

Objective:To investigate the feasibility of laparoscopic operation for colorectal cancer.Methods:The clinical data of 118 patients with colorectal cancer from Sep.2008 to Jun.2010 in our hospital was retrospectively analyzed.Of the 118 patients,there were 71 cases of rectal cancer,18 cases of descending colon carcinoma,and 19 cases of ascending colon carcinoma.Seventy-one cases accepted laparoscopic rectal cancer resection,eighteen cases accepted laparoscopic left hemicolectomy and twenty-nine cases underwent laparoscopic right colectomy.Results:All 118 patients accepted laparoscopic operation.The operating time was 2-4h.The blood loss during operation was 50-100ml.There was no damage of duodenum or ureter,no death or serious complications during operative stage.Conclusions:Laparoscopic operation for colorectal cancer is safe,feasible,minimally invasive,and of rapid postoperative recovery.It can achieve the purpose of radical cure.
CONDITIONAL PERFORMANCE OF ACTIONS BASED ON OBJECT STORY

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for conditional performance of actions based on object story.
Educational attainment in the OECD, 1960–2010. Updated series and a comparison with other sources

This paper describes the construction of updated series on the educational attainment of the adult population for a sample of 22 OECD countries covering the period 1960–2010. These series are then compared with (the OECD subsample of) the latest available version of other cross-country data sets on average years of schooling that are commonly used in the literature. Finally, statistical measures of the information content of the different series are constructed using the procedure developed by Krueger and Lindhal (K&L, 2001) and de la Fuente and Domenech (D&D, 2006). The exercise shows that there are important differences in quality across data sets and suggests that successive revisions have succeeded in increasing their signal to noise ratios.
Tracking load-time configuration options

Highly-configurable software systems are pervasive, although configuration options and their interactions raise complexity of the program and increase maintenance effort. Especially load-time configuration options, such as parameters from command-line options or configuration files, are used with standard programming constructs such as variables and if statements intermixed with the program's implementation; manually tracking configuration options from the time they are loaded to the point where they may influence control-flow decisions is tedious and error prone. We design and implement Lotrack, an extended static taint analysis to automatically track configuration options. Lotrack derives a configuration map that explains for each code fragment under which configurations it may be executed. An evaluation on Android applications shows that Lotrack yields high accuracy with reasonable performance. We use Lotrack to empirically characterize how much of the implementation of Android apps depends on the platform's configuration options or interactions of these options.
Understanding and Controlling the Aggregative Growth of Platinum Nanoparticles in Atomic Layer Deposition: An Avenue to Size Selection

We present an atomistic understanding of the evolution of the size distribution with temperature and number of cycles in atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Pt nanoparticles (NPs). Atomistic modeling of our experiments teaches us that the NPs grow mostly via NP diffusion and coalescence rather than through single-atom processes such as precursor chemisorption, atom attachment, and Ostwald ripening. In particular, our analysis shows that the NP aggregation takes place during the oxygen half-reaction and that the NP mobility exhibits a size- and temperature-dependent scaling. Finally, we show that contrary to what has been widely reported, in general, one cannot simply control the NP size by the number of cycles alone. Instead, while the amount of Pt deposited can be precisely controlled over a wide range of temperatures, ALD-like precision over the NP size requires low deposition temperatures (e.g., T < 100 °C) when growth is dominated by atom attachment.
Metabolites inducers of cross-tolerance to biotic stress

Ensuring food security and accessibility represents a global challenge since world population grows exponentially while crop quality and productivity is restricted by limitations on arable areas and increasing incidence of stress conditions due to climate change. Plant pathogens are major threats for optimal crop yield and preservation of the harvest. Although plant immune responses are well characterised in isolation, pathogen infections frequently occur in combination with other stress conditions. Importantly, the outcome of plant-pathogen interactions under combinatorial stress is unpredictable as the operating molecular mechanisms differ from those triggered under each individual stressor. Certain abiotic stressors ultimately confer resilience to subsequent pathogen infection, i.e. cross-tolerance, however the network of molecular events involved remains undeciphered. Recent studies suggested that metabolites could retain stress memory and modulate combinatorial stress responses, but their potential role in cross-tolerance has been barely investigated. Hence, this MSCA is aimed at identifying changing metabolites after abiotic stress periods that enhance plant tolerance to pathogens. To this end, comprehensive conditions and time-courses for sequential stress will be defined to cultivate Arabidopsis thaliana plants under frequent abiotic stressors, namely drought and temperature shifts, followed by pathogen challenge. Subsequently, metabolome changes will be profiled and systemically analysed to retrieve central features. The biological relevance of candidates will be assessed in planta. Finally, artificial intelligence algorithms will be applied to select species of agronomic interest that metabolically respond to sequential stress as Arabidopsis does and thus initiate translation of cross-tolerance strategies into crops. Consequently, this MSCA will contribute to the development of new strategies to ensure food security under current climate change conditions.
Global distribution of Fusarium graminearum, F. asiaticum and F. boothii from wheat in relation to climate

Species of Fusarium that have been segregated from F. graminearum have restricted geographic ranges and it has been suggested that this is due to climate, especially for F. asiaticum. Climate envelope modelling with BIOCLIM was used to quantify the differences in climatic range for F. graminearum, F. asiaticum and F. boothii on wheat. A second analysis used eight climate parameters calculated for the month in which anthesis is likely to occur. Published records were used as data, subject to criteria for precise identification and georeferencing. There were significant differences between species in the ranges of most climate parameters used in the modelling. F. graminearum was recorded from all continents except Antarctica and its predicted distribution included most major rainfed wheat-growing regions of the world, except for the hottest areas of south Asia. There appeared to be few climatic limits on the distribution of F. graminearum on wheat. The restricted distribution of F. asiaticum, principally in east Asia, was confirmed. BIOCLIM analysis indicated that F. asiaticum occurred in areas, where the warmest quarter had mean temperatures >22 °C and rainfall >320 mm, rather than areas with high mean annual temperatures as previously had been suggested. F. boothii was recorded from relatively few, widely scattered locations, mostly in Africa and Mexico, which tended to be warm, with lower seasonality of temperature, higher seasonality of precipitation and drier conditions at anthesis than the other two species. Areas of the world predicted to have suitable climate at anthesis for F. asiaticum and F. boothii were more extensive than their recorded distributions or those predicted by BIOCLIM, suggesting that climatic constraints on these species were acting principally at stages of the life cycle other than infection of wheat heads. There is a need for more comparative studies of these species over the whole disease cycle to establish at which stages climate is limiting.
Ellipsoid Based Method for Rotating the Human Retinal Fundus Image

A major imaging technique for the eye is the fundus camera, and images obtained from this camera are 2D in nature. 2D image of retina does not give a realistic effect .3D modelling of the retina helps the surgeons to design an appropriate treatment plan and procedures prior to actual retinal surgery. Fundus image is a 2D data and OCT give intraretinal layer information. Fusing the depth information of OCT in to the fundus image, requires OCT data in to it. We have illustrated an ellipsoid based method to generate 3D visualization of the retina to view retinal surface exactly as a 3D image.