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ION-SENSITIVE HARD WATER DISPERSIBLE POLYMERS AND APPLICATIONS THEREFOR

The present invention is directed to ion-sensitive, hard water dispersible polymers. The present invention is also directed to a method of making ion-sensitive, hard water dispersible polymers and their applicability as binder compositions. The present invention is further directed to fiber-containing fabrics and webs comprising ion-sensitive, hard water dispersible binder compositions and their applicability in water dispersible personal care products.
Spiders in the Sky

Drones are increasingly being used for various purposes from recording footage in inaccessible areas to delivering packages. A rise in drone usage introduces privacy and security concerns about flying boundaries, what data drones collect in public and private spaces, and how that data is stored and disseminated. However, commercial and personal drone regulations focusing on privacy and security have been fairly minimal in the USA. To inform privacy and security guidelines for drone design and regulation, we need to understand users' perceptions about drones, privacy and security. In this paper, we describe a laboratory study with 20 participants who interacted with a real or model drone to elicit user perceptions of privacy and security issues around drones. We present our results, discuss the implications of our work and make recommendations to improve drone design and regulations that enhance individual privacy and security.
Integrating Property Industry in Masters Real Estate Education in Africa: Approaches and Initiatives

Programme coordinators and their assistants within selected Masters Real Estate (MRE) programmes offered in Africa were surveyed to determine approaches and initiatives adopted to integrate the property industry in real estate curriculum and research. Results reveal that involvement of part-time lecturers from industry, inclusion of real-world project cases and practical sessions in the curriculum, appointment of lecturers with high qualifications and industrial experience and deliberate collaboration of research with the industry are some of the practices implemented by the universities to include the industry in the curriculum. Objective of the adopted approaches and initiatives is to produce students and research which are relevant to the property industry and to create other opportunities for students, educators and industry practitioners as they interact in the curriculum. The study intends to support and promote the culture of involving industry practitioners in the curriculum and research in order for the universities to meet property industry requirements in Africa and elsewhere in the world. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p340
A methacrylic resin moldings having surface micro structur and a manufacture method thereof

This invention provides a novel methacrylic resin moldings having surface microstructure, which has excellent mass-productivity and high accuracy in performing as an optical element and a manufacture method thereof. The methacrylic resin moldings of this invention is formed by injection of a resin composition comprising: (A) an unsaturated monomer mixture including 20 to 90 wt% of an unsaturated monomer based on methyl methacrylate and 10 to 80 wt% of an unsaturated monomer having at least two polymerizable double bonds in one molecule, (B) a polymer of an unsaturated monomer based on methyl methacrylate, that is, the resin particles consisting of 20 to 100 wt% of partial crosslinked resin particles and 0 to 80 wt% of non-crosslinked resin particles, and (C) polymerization initiating agent, into the gap between the cells (20, 22), one of which has a negative pattern (14b) with a surface microstructure able to provide the desired optical properties through changing its effective refractive index; and then cast polymerizing said resin composition.
Reconstituer l’activité commerciale de l’usine de Bolo

La demande porte sur l’achat d’équipements de base nécessaires à l’activité de l’entreprise, compte tenu des dommages causés par l’incendie du 17 juin 2017, qui a causé l’inopposabilité des équipements, situé à Plome Bolo 3280 Castanheira de Pera (usine d’extraction d’huile). Cet équipement est fondamental pour l’activité de l’entreprise et pour sa durabilité future.
Accelerate the commercialization of rarx technology process in the global markets of ecologically friendly silent rubber pavements

Paving industry sector faces nowadays different challenges as the need for less maintenance, more silent and more environmental friendly pavements.  The use of crumb rubber (CR) derived from end‐of‐life tires (ELTs) in bituminous mixtures replies to all these needs however its wide implementation has not been extended due mainly of the following  barriers that prevent its wide  implementation are: 
i.	A crumb rubber alone cannot be placed directly into the mixes (dry method) because it will swell and absorb the bitumen causing raveling in the roads
ii.	The wet method works well but requires that every contractor buys expensive equipment
iii.	If crumb rubber is used in terminal blends it is essentially a waste of product because over time it becomes all digested

The solution proposed in this initiative to overcome these barriers is the use of use of reacted and activated rubber that it can be used directly into the plugmill of a contractor’s plant.  The SILENT RUBBER PAVEMENTS project main goal is to market uptake and achieve a wider deployment of the RARX technology, based in a patent of CONSULALPV, that has the best of both methods:
•	Easy to apply and use as in the “dry method”
•	Performance and cost effectiveness beyond that of the “wet method”  

To enter in the global market, two large companies (Valoriza SM- Composan) have made an agreement with a specialized SME (Consulpav, a first industrial applicant) who has developed  and patented the RARX technology to exploit at European level.  SACYR, a multinational pavement construction company present in more than 20 countries, will be the responsible for the pilot construction in different climate and evaluation. Our distributor in Italy, FHL group will assist the consortia in internationalizing our commercialization strategy.
Frequency discrimination in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a highly vocal New World primate species that has emerged in recent years as a promising model system for studies of auditory and vocal processing. Our recent studies have examined perceptual mechanisms related to the pitch of harmonic complex tones in this species. However, no previous psychoacoustic work has measured marmosets' frequency discrimination abilities for pure tones across a broad frequency range. Here we systematically examined frequency difference limens (FDLs), which measure the minimum discriminable frequency difference between two pure tones, in marmosets across most of their hearing range. Results show that marmosets' FDLs are comparable to other New World primates, with lowest values in the frequency range of ∼3.5-14 kHz. This region of lowest FDLs corresponds with the region of lowest hearing thresholds in this species measured in our previous study and also with the greatest concentration of spectral energy in the major types of marmoset vocalizations. These data suggest that frequency discrimination in the common marmoset may have evolved to match the hearing sensitivity and spectral characteristics of this species' vocalizations.
Research Preview: Prioritizing Quality Requirements Based on Software Architecture Evaluation Feedback

Abstract [Context and motivation] Quality requirements are a main driver for architectural decisions of software systems. Although the need for iterative handling of requirements and architecture has been identified, current architecture design processes do not provide systematic, quantitative feedback for the prioritization and cost/benefit considerations for quality requirements. [Question/problem] Thus, in practice stakeholders still often state and prioritize quality requirements before knowing the software architecture, i.e. without knowledge about the quality dependencies, conflicts, incurred costs, and technical feasibility. However, as quality properties usually are cross-cutting architecture concerns, estimating the effects of design decisions is difficult. Thus, stakeholders cannot reliably know the appropriate required level of quality. [Principal ideas/results] In this research proposal, we suggest an approach to generate feedback from quantitative architecture evaluation to requirements engineering, in particular to requirements prioritization. We propose to use automated design space exploration techniques to generate information about available trade-offs. Final quality requirement prioritization is deferred until first feedback from architecture evaluation is available. [Contribution] In this paper, we present the process model of our approach enabling feedback to requirement prioritization and describe application scenarios and an example.
Subvention de fonds de roulement — PLANETA

Le projet concerne le soutien de l’entrepreneur à fournir des liquidités financières et à soutenir les activités en cours en raison des difficultés financières rencontrées par l’entrepreneur à la suite de la pandémie de COVID-19. Assistance financière fournie au titre du programme SA.57015 (2020/N)
Application Execution Time Prediction for Effective CPU Provisioning in Virtualization Environment

Provisioning of hardware resources through virtual machines (VMs) has been widely used for supporting server consolidation and infrastructure-as-a-cloud computing. We propose NICBLE to support accurate CPU resource provisioning for application workload running on VMs. While CPU is essential for any application workload, not every workload requires the same level of CPU resource. The VM tenants may also have different expectations of application performance and preferences. NICBLE models the execution of an application workload and employs a simulation-based algorithm to predict the impact on application execution time for a hypothetical VM configuration change on the number of CPUs. One may use NICBLE to reason about whether changing the number of CPUs will significantly affect the application performance. We built the NICBLE prototype on top of the Xen hypervisor [1] . NICBLE does not require modification to the guest systems. The performance overhead on the guest system is negligible. Our evaluation indicates that NICBLE is able to provide accurate prediction with an average error rate of less than 15 percent for non-adaptive application workload.
Ultra-Low power event-based camera

The long term goal of ULPEC is to develop advanced vision applications with ultra-low power requirements and ultra-low latency. 
The output of the ULPEC project is a demonstrator connecting a neuromorphic event-based camera to a high speed ultra-low power consumption asynchronous visual data processing system (Spiking Neural Network with memristive synapses). Although ULPEC device aims to reach TRL 4, it is a highly application-oriented project:  prospective use cases will be studied and an application roadmap will be developed, by considering interoperability for an integration in “systems of systems” as well as the definition of upper power consumption limits depending on future application. The project consortium therefore includes an industrial end-user (Bosch), which will more particularly investigate autonomous and computer assisted driving. Autonomous and computer assisted driving are indeed a major disruption in the transport and car manufacturing sector. Vision and recognition of traffic event must be computed with very low latency (to improve security) and low power (to accommodate the power limited environment in a car, such as power budget and heat dissipation).
Substantial impact on innovation capacity and creation of market opportunities is expected under the ULPEC project: four enterprises (two SMEs) participate to the project. The ULPEC project is an opportunity for European companies such as TSST to increase the competitiveness and increase the global market share in manufacturing tools for complex oxide thin film synthesis. Besides, a compact, low-power vision system based on the technology intended to be developed in this project would generate a distinct competitive advantage over conventional solutions and would clearly boost Chronocam’s market potential. ULPEC is also an opportunity for SMEs to develop stronger collaboration with the industrial leaders involved in the project, such as IBM and Bosch.
PROCESS FOR MAKING THERMALLY STABLE METAL COATED POLYMERIC MONOFILAMENT OR YARN

Monofilaments of a yarn to be coated with electroless nickel are pretreated with an acid and a surfactant to render the monofilament surfaces water wettable and not substantially mechanically degraded. The pretreated yarns is passed through an electroless nickel coating bath under little or no tension so that the electroless nickel can coat all of the monofilament surfaces substantially uniformly. The nickel coated yarn then can be coated with electrolytic metal such as copper in an electrolytic metal plating step, as desired.
ASSEMBLY OF WELDED WIRE MESH PANEL AND FRAME

An assembly (10) of a welded wire mesh panel and one or more frames (16) is particularly adapted to be tied to a wall or ceiling at one or more predetermined spots. The frames (16) are attached to the welded wire mesh panel so that said one or more frames surround the predetermined spots. The frames (16) facilitate tying of the welded wire mesh panel to the wall or ceiling and are robust so that they survive installation.
Industrial manufacturing of conductive, transparent and flexible electrodes with nanoinks fororganic electronic devices such as opv and oled lighting

This project was already submitted and has received the Seal of Excellence certificate delivered by the EU Commission. This new version is reviewed and amended based on the evaluation summary report.

Nowadays, Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) is the main material used for transparent conductive films (TCF). These films have significant drawbacks such as fragility, indium depletion and high manufacturing cost. A promising alternative is a conductive patterned grid based on silver nanoparticles covered with a protective and conductivity enhancing zinc oxide nano-layer.

To accelerate the uptake of this processing technology, the printed electronics market needs a complete solution of industrial inks and inkjet printing at large scale and high speed. This is the objective of the CLEARSILVER solution proposed by KELENN Technology (KT) - manufacturer of industrial solutions for inkjet printing - and Genes’Ink (GNK) - leader on the conductive and semi-conductive nanoinks market.

The CLEARSILVER project is led by GNK in collaboration with KT. This partnership benefits from their core technical and business expertise. Since beginning 2014, GNK and KT have successfuly developed a complete pilot solution including nanomaterials kilo-scale manufacturing and an online demonstrator printer, KSCAN-PE400 presented at LOPEC 2016. The SME Instrument funding will support our objective to bring to the market a sustainable industrial solution for TCF manufacturing.

The targeted market is the flexible TCF for OPV, OLED lighting and later on OLED displays. Driven by innovative applications, the business forecast for these two segments show an exponential growth in the next five years (+ 75 % CAGR). The OPV and OLED lighting market will reach a total size of $US 176 million in 2020. OPV and OLED lighting manufacturers will be the first to take advantage of our solution. Conventional EU industries like the printing sector will also benefit from it with new printed electronics opportunities.
Code status and resuscitation options in the electronic health record

The advance discussion and documentation of code-status is important in preventing undesired cardiopulmonary resuscitation and related end of life interventions. Code-status documentation remains infrequent and paper-based, which limits its usefulness. This study evaluates a tool to document code-status in the electronic health records at a large teaching hospital, and analyzes the corresponding data.Encounter data for patients admitted to the Medical Center were collected over a period of 12 months (01-APR-2012-31-MAR-2013) and the code-status attribute was tracked for individual patients. The code-status data were analyzed separately for adult and pediatric patient populations. We considered 131,399 encounters for 83,248 adult patients and 80,778 encounters for 55,656 pediatric patients in this study.71% of the adult patients and 30% of the pediatric patients studied had a documented code-status. Age and severity of illness influenced the decision to document code-status. Demographics such as gender, race, ethnicity, and proximity of primary residence were also associated with the documentation of code-status.Absence of a recorded code-status may result in unnecessary interventions. Code-status in paper charts may be difficult to access in cardiopulmonary arrest situations and may result in unnecessary and unwanted interventions and procedures. Documentation of code-status in electronic records creates a readily available reference for care providers.
Deconstructing national identity : character, place, and contemporary American independent cinema

This thesis achieves a deconstructive interrogation of American national identity by
analysing its representation in contemporary independent cinema. Drawing upon the poststructuralist
work of Jacques Derrida (and limited applications of his thought to film
scholarship), this project theorises a rigorous (but non-programmatic) model for conducting
deconstructive readings of cinematic texts. Engaging with a corpus of ostensibly
independent films, case-study analyses of American identity narratives are used to theorise
and enact a fruitful process of Derridean cinematic and cultural interpretation. In
undertaking this broad theoretical objective, I intervene within a range of specific filmic and
socio-political debates. Analysing texts drawn from within prevailing independent film
definitions, this project undertakes a deconstructive re-inscription of this prominent
cinematic category. Destabilising its conventional designation as Hollywood’s antonymic
“other,” the ontological solidity of independent film is fatally compromised, opening up its
constituent texts to a greater range of interpretative gestures. Furthermore, in addressing
textual representations of national identity, I elucidate a discursive area largely unexplored
in existing independent film scholarship. Characterising case-study analyses as overtly
deconstructive, this thesis also destabilises structural orthodoxies that orient American
identity discourses around dichotomous concepts of character and place. Thus, studying
representations of prominent cultural narratives (individualism, the nuclear family, the
small-town, and the wilderness), this thesis uncovers and then dismantles their restrictive
metaphysical foundations. Specifically, drawing attention to discursive slippages and
paradoxes that inhabit these forms of cultural narration, textual readings problematize their
self-coherence and ontological closure. Relating these cultural analyses to popular and
academic discourses of national identity, this thesis also expands the reach of Derridean
theory into a range of other disciplines, such as American studies. Ultimately, this thesis’
multifaceted research objectives open up American identity discourses to an unfixed
freeplay of differance, laying the foundations for a liberatory intervention into oppositional
American cultural debates.
ELECTRODE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRODES

A method is provided for creating an electrode node array device. First and second conductors are stamped from a stock sheet. Each of the conductors has a plurality of raised protrusions. The protrusions are interleaved in a manner in which in both directions of the array, a raised protrusion of one conductor alternates with a raised protrusion of the other conductor. The method includes assembling the device in stages on a vacuum apparatus having guide pins that interact with guide holes on laminate sheets that are applied to both sides of the first and second conductors.
Origin and maintenance of biodiversity: an ecological, evolutionary and developmental theory of organisms’ interactions

Ecological interactions are the backbone of ecosystems and play an essential role in the availability of the services they provide. These interactions are to a large extent dictated by the body size of the interacting organisms. Efforts to understand the origin and maintenance of networks of interacting organisms have considered ecological and evolutionary processes in communities based on species-averaged body size. However, this species-centric approach neglects the often dramatic body size changes of organisms during their development. EcoEvoDevoNetwork will for the first time explore how evolutionary, ecological and developmental processes shape the emergence and maintenance of complex networks of interacting organisms, and will investigate how these processes mediate responses to environmental change. The result will open new vistas in complex eco-evolutionary networks and provide tools to assess and monitor the impacts of human activities on ecosystems.  The research proposed here will build on recently developed ecological framework that synthesize size-structured models and trophic network models, and will extend it by incorporating evolutionary processes. This extended framework will for the first time explicitly account for processes at three different levels of biological organization: individual, population and community, in an ecological and evolutionary context. The applicant has a strong background in eco-evolutionary dynamics of size-structured populations, and will benefit from the expertise of the supervisor (Dr. C. Melián) in eco-evolutionary networks and statistical modeling during this project. The excellent supervision, infrastructure and facilities at the host institute will ensure the successful execution of this project and will provide a unique opportunity for the applicant to build a strong career in science.