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Transnational Feminism, Global Governance, and the Reimagination of the Organization-Society Relationship: A Case Study of the Women's Environment and Development Organization

This study further destabilizes the traditional view of the organization–society relationship in which organizations are largely divorced from the publics they represent. A critical case study of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), a transnational feminist organization working across national and geographic borders for inclusive global governance, reveals that its global governance discourse mediates: (a) Western liberalism's neglect of difference by centering typically peripheral voices; and (b) postmodernity's moral relativism by developing and implementing global norms. A global intermediary between powerful decision-making bodies and historically underrepresented citizens, WEDO is an exemplar of how transnational feminist organizations are reconfiguring the organization–society relationship in a postmodern era.
Endogenous time horizon and behavioral poverty trap: Theory and evidence from Mozambique

Abstract This paper provides a model where a long-term planning horizon improves economic decisions but also increases the salience of anticipated future utility. Hence, a gloomy future induces the agent to shorten her time horizon in order to reduce distress caused by the anticipation of poverty, at the cost of worsening her realized future consumption, resulting in a behavioral poverty trap where poverty and shortsightedness reinforce each other. The paper also provides primary empirical evidence of the endogenous determination of time horizon and of the existence of a behavioral poverty trap. Using a randomized controlled trial in Mozambique that provided agro-input subsidies and a Matched Savings program, I show that improvement in economic prospects resulted in a significant increase in the planning horizon of the poor beneficiaries. Moreover, the increase in horizon significantly predicts asset accumulation of beneficiaries during the two years following the intervention.
CORROSION PREDICTION FOR INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT OF METAL TUBULAR STRUCTURES

A method for assessing an integrity of metal tubular structures may comprise receiving one or more inputs, applying an algorithm to automatically select an appropriate model for a given corrosion scenario, applying a combined model including semi-empirical and multiphase flow corrosion characteristics to the one or more inputs, determining one or more corrosion parameters of either an internal pipe wall, an external pipe surface, or both, applying a corrosion correlation value to the one or more corrosion parameters to produce one or more correlated corrosion parameters, and storing the one or more correlated corrosion parameters on a computer readable medium. A system may comprise an information handling system which may comprise at least one memory operable to store computer-executable instructions, at least one communications interface to access the at least one memory, and at least one processor.
The invisible women: nameless and forgotten stories of the rubber boom (bolivian amazonia, 19-20th centuries)

Mainly limited to a male gaze, the history of the Rubber Boom in Bolivian Amazonia (1870-1920) seems to be somewhat biased. The sources of the period present us with a hyper-masculinized landscape in the Amazonian jungle, and neglect the numerous women – Creoles, Europeans or Indigenous – involved in the extractive machinery by forgetting, anonymizing or relegating rubber women as minor, transparent, and almost invisible social actors. 
By developing an innovative and multidisciplinary approach that combines ethno-history, ethnography, gender studies, digital humanities and visual anthropology, the project aims to trace, reconstruct and revalue female agency during the Bolivian rubber boom. 
The aim is to rescue testimonies of and about native women (siringueras, cooks, maids, washers, lovers, “bush wives”) neglected by the sources due to their ethnic condition, but also related to the working Creole or European women who arrived in the Amazon to be silenced by the sexist bias of regional historiography, or either those women who were rendered invisible as immigrant settlers that joined their relatives in the great rubber adventure. 
Therefore, the first objective of the project is to create a participatory and open access web archive about multiethnic women during the rubber era, making available the information gathered to a broader public: the digital archive will consist of historical documentation and above all ethnographic data, unpublished texts and little-known pictures about the extractive experience of rubber women. The second objective is a critical re-reading of the oral, documentary and visual information in order to analyze the multiple modalities of female participation in the extractive endeavor, and reconstruct an heterogeneous continuum of relations linking women and rubber that ranged from barter to wage labor, from marriage alliance to compadrazgo (fictive kinship), and from commerce to sexual violence, kidnapping and even enslavement.
Free-Propagator Reweighting Integrator for Single-Particle Dynamics in Reaction-Diffusion Models of Heterogeneous Protein-Protein Interaction Systems

We present a new algorithm for simulating reaction-diffusion equations at single-particle resolution. Our algorithm is designed to be both accurate and simple to implement, and to be applicable to large and heterogeneous systems, including those arising in systems biology applications. We combine the use of the exact Green's function for a pair of reacting particles with the approximate free-diffusion propagator for position updates to particles. Trajectory reweighting in our free-propagator reweighting (FPR) method recovers the exact association rates for a pair of interacting particles at all times. FPR simulations of many-body systems accurately reproduce the theoretically known dynamic behavior for a variety of different reaction types. FPR does not suffer from the loss of efficiency common to other path-reweighting schemes, first, because corrections apply only in the immediate vicinity of reacting particles and, second, because by construction the average weight factor equals one upon leaving this reaction zone. FPR applications include the modeling of pathways and networks of protein-driven processes where reaction rates can vary widely and thousands of proteins may participate in the formation of large assemblies. With a limited amount of bookkeeping necessary to ensure proper association rates for each reactant pair, FPR can account for changes to reaction rates or diffusion constants as a result of reaction events. Importantly, FPR can also be extended to physical descriptions of protein interactions with long-range forces, as we demonstrate here for Coulombic interactions.
Identifying new anti-cancer drugs by computational multi-target approaches targeting the gquadruplex dna

The goal of the proposed research is to develop computational methodology which can screen out small ligand molecules having potential to selectively target G-quadruplex (G4) DNA which are associated with cancer pathology. Multiple oncogenes and telomerase activity are deregulated in various types of cancers. Ligand induced stabilization of G4s associated with the oncogenes (c-myc, c-kit, k-ras, etc.) and stabilization of telomeric G4s are efficient ways in targeted cancer therapy. Here, we intend to develop multi-target QSAR models that can aid in finding potential multi-target directed ligands (MTDLs) that can stabilize multiple G4s from different oncogenes simultaneously. It is the first computational study for identifying MTDLs against multiple G4s in Cancer treatment. Different multi-target QSAR approaches will be explored including ‘multiple regression and classification’ QSAR models, multi-target QSAR using Box-Jenkins moving average approach and multi-target QSAR using Perturbation approach. Several advanced machine learning techniques will be employed. A state-of-the-art software tool will be developed where all the successful multi-target QSAR models and in-house ADMET models will be incorporated as a knowledgebase. Notably, desirability-based multi-objective optimization approach will be used for identifying drug-like molecules. The software along with in-house KNIME workflows will then be used to screen potential MTDLs against multiple G4s. The selectivity and binding characteristics of the screened MTDLs towards G4s over duplex DNA will be analysed by performing molecular docking and molecular dynamics studies. The binding capacity of the screened MTDLs with intended G4s over duplex DNAs will then be confirmed using experiments such as isothermal fluorescence, UV-Vis, CD spectroscopies and FRET melting assay. The findings will aid in identifying new leads and reducing false positive outcomes in the crucial early stages of drug discovery and development.
SPORTS AMATEUR ASSOCIATION STURLA

THE SPORTY STURLA WAS BORN ON APRIL 29, 1920 BY WILL. THE ‘PATRIOTIC’ ASSOCIATION OF GENOVA — FOURTH AND THE MEMBERS OF THE ‘STURLA SPORT CLUB’ TO PROMOTE SWIMMING, CYCLING AND FOOTBALL. SOON THE WHITE-GREEN COMPANY DEDICATED ITSELF EXCLUSIVELY TO WATER SPORTS, FIRST TO SWIMMING (IN 1922 HE WON THE ITALIAN TITLE IN 1500 S.L. WITH VALLEY PINE AND IN THE RELAY 4 200 S.L. MEN) AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WATER POLO, AND THIS DISCIPLINE IN 1923 LED TO STURLA THE FIRST TRICOLOR SHIELD TOGETHER WITH THE ITALIAN TITLE IN THE 100 S.L. CONQUERED BY LUIGINA CEVASCO. TODAY THE ASD SPORT STURLA IS ACTIVE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SWIMMING COURSES FOR EVERYONE, FROM INFANTS OF FOUR MONTHS TO ADULTS OF EVERY AGE, TO ALL HOURS OF THE DAY, IN A SWIMMING POOL THAT IS A NATURAL MEETING POINT NOT ONLY FOR ATHLETES BUT FOR LOVERS OF SWIMMING OF ALL AGES.
Hydrogen mobility europe 2

Hydrogen Mobility Europe 2 (H2ME 2) brings together action in 8 European countries to address the innovations required to make the hydrogen mobility sector truly ready for market.  The project will perform a large-scale market test of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure, passenger and commercial fuel cell electric vehicles operated in real-world customer applications and demonstrate the system benefits generated by using electrolytic hydrogen solutions in grid operations.
H2ME 2 will increase the participation of European manufacturers into the hydrogen sector, and demonstrate new vehicles across a range of platforms, with increased choice: new cars (Honda and Mercedes), new vans (range extended vehicles from Renault/Symbio and Renault/Nissan/Intelligent Energy) and a new medium sized urban delivery truck (Renault Trucks/Symbio). H2ME 2 develops an attractive proposition around range extended vehicles and supports a major roll-out of 1,000 of these vehicles to customers in France, Germany, Scandinavia and the UK.  1,123 new hydrogen fuelled vehicles will be deployed in total, trebling the existing fuel cell fleet in Europe.
H2ME 2 will establish the conditions under which electrolytic refuelling stations can play a beneficial role in the energy system, and demonstrate the acquisition of real revenues from provision of energy services for aggregated electrolyser-HRS systems at a MW scale in both the UK and France. This has the further implication of demonstrating viable opportunities for reducing the cost of hydrogen at the nozzle by providing valuable energy services without disrupting refuelling operations.
H2ME 2 will test 20 new HRS rigorously at high level of utilisation using the large vehicle deployment.  The loading of stations by the end of the project is expected to average 20% of their daily fuelling capacity, with some stations exceeding 50% or more. This will test the HRS to a much greater extent than has been the case in previous projects.
INTERMEDIATES USEFUL FOR THE PREPARATION OF N-SUBSTITUTED CARBAMOYLOXYALKYL-AZOLIUM DERIVATIVES

Intermediates useful for the preparation of n-substituted carbamoyloxyalkyl- azolium derivatives are described. Examples of such intermediates are compounds of formua IV (see formula IV)
Research and development status on fusion DEMO reactor design under the Broader Approach

Abstract The main objective of DEMO design activity under the Broader Approach is to develop pre-conceptual design of DEMO options by addressing key design issues on physics, technology and system engineering. This paper describes the latest results of the design activity, including DEMO parameter study, divertor and remote maintenance. DEMO parameter study has recently started with “pulsed” DEMO having a major radius (Rp) of 9 m, and “steady state” DEMO of Rp = 8.2 m or more. Divertor design study has focused on a computer simulation of fully detached plasma under DEMO divertor conditions and the assessment of advanced divertor configuration such as super-X. Comparative study of various maintenance schemes for DEMO and narrowing down the schemes is in progress.
Speech acts in grammar and discourse

The SPAGAD project will investigate speech acts, the basic linguistic units with communicative function. It is made possible by recent breakthroughs in our understanding of speech acts as devices to change the world by establishing new commitments and constrain the future development of a conversation. 
 The project will propose a formal model for speech acts. In the light of this model it will investigate the role of speech acts in three areas. It will elucidate their role in grammar in typologically diverse languages: how they are expressed by morphological, syntactic and prosodic means, how expressions like adverbials and clause-embedding verbs can operate on them, and how they can be integrated in a formal model of the syntax/semantics interface. It will investigate speech acts in discourse: how they are used to enrich the common ground, how they can be employed to negotiate conflicts in the development of conversation, how questions, contrastive topics and discourse particles are devices that restrict the development a discourse can take, and how the choice of one speech act out of set of alternatives creates pragmatic effects like bias in questions or politeness in commands. And it will explore speech acts in communication: What are the societal norms of different speech acts, like the prohibition against asserting falsehoods, which strategies can increase or decrease the commitments of speakers, how does the context influence the type of commitments, how do social groups within one language community differ, what are the difference across language communities, how are the societal norms that come with speech acts acquired? 
 The SPAGAD project will have a major impact on linguistic semantics and pragmatics; it will reconceive them by a model theory based on commitments, rather than truth. Due to the pivotal role of speech acts, it will offer new perspectives for syntax, discourse studies, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and the philosophy of language.
Technology portfolio, patent litigation probability and firm performance

This paper investigates if technology portfolio and patent litigation probability affect firms' short and long-term performances, which in past literature have mostly been associated with economic indicators or financial models. The patent data used in this paper are downloaded from the USPTO patent database and patent litigation probabilities are obtained from previous study. To measure firm performance, the Return on Asset (ROA) and the market value are calculated as the short-term and long-term performances, respectively. The correlation coefficient is then employed to approach the ROA and the market value to evaluate if technology portfolio and patent litigation probability correlates with the short-term and long-term performances of firms. The result of this paper sheds light for firms to make strategic decision based on their technology portfolio and to provide a novel way to identify firm performance.
Gabriella Perge. Rezeptive Mehrsprachigkeit. Eine Studie zur Untersuchung der Entwicklung der individuellen Mehrsprachigkeit im institutionellen Fremdsprachenunterricht in Ungarn. Budapest: ELTE Eötvös-József-Collegium. 2018. S. 258

Gabriella Perge. Rezeptive Mehrsprachigkeit. Eine Studie zur Untersuchung der Entwicklung der individuellen Mehrsprachigkeit im institutionellen Fremdsprachenunterricht in Ungarn. Budapest: ELTE Eötvös-József-Collegium. 2018. S. 258
Blocking the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition pathway abrogates resistance to anti-folate chemotherapy in lung cancer

Anticancer therapies currently used in the clinic often can neither eradicate the tumor nor prevent disease recurrence due to tumor resistance. In this study, we showed that chemoresistance to pemetrexed, a multi-target anti-folate (MTA) chemotherapeutic agent for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), is associated with a stem cell-like phenotype characterized by an enriched stem cell gene signature, augmented aldehyde dehydrogenase activity and greater clonogenic potential. Mechanistically, chemoresistance to MTA requires activation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) pathway in that an experimentally induced EMT per se promotes chemoresistance in NSCLC and inhibition of EMT signaling by kaempferol renders the otherwise chemoresistant cancer cells susceptible to MTA. Relevant to the clinical setting, human primary NSCLC cells with an elevated EMT signaling feature a significantly enhanced potential to resist MTA, whereas concomitant administration of kaempferol abrogates MTA chemoresistance, regardless of whether it is due to an intrinsic or induced activation of the EMT pathway. Collectively, our findings reveal that a bona fide activation of EMT pathway is required and sufficient for chemoresistance to MTA and that kaempferol potently regresses this chemotherapy refractory phenotype, highlighting the potential of EMT pathway inhibition to enhance chemotherapeutic response of lung cancer.
Enabling large-scale injection of biomethane in the european gas distribution

Gas grids have the potential to become an energy storage device for renewable energy in the form of biomethane but, at the moment, this potential is not fully exploited due to technical limitations in what are still largely manually driven grid systems. Gas grid systems are about to undergo fundamental changes, driven by the rapid growth in renewable energy production, which creates the need for a more flexible and active gas distribution system: a ""smart gas grid"", with real-time, precise monitoring and controlling of gas pressure, gas quality and the gas flow. Utonomy, a British/German SME, is developing a novel, cost-effective smart grid technology that monitors and controls gas pressure, flow & gas quality by means of cloud-based, algorithm-driven hardware that can be easily installed without the need for any changes in the gas infrastructure. Utonomy has already developed a pressure management application that helps utilities reduce gas leakage to TRL 6, with the first field pilots planned for January 2018. However, during development work and in the course of discussions with future customers, Utonomy discovered that pressure management has even more commercial potential when applied to increase the grid feed-in capacity of biomethane plants. The system provides valuable data from day 1, it has an exceptionally short payback period and the increased output enabled by the innovation could result in total CO2 mitigation of approx. 26m tonnes p.a. in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Utonomy's near-term marketing focus will be on these four countries but the technology has significant sales potential everywhere there is a gas grid. Utonomy is targeting incremental revenues of EUR 19m from this project in 2022. The focus of this Phase 1 study will be to analyse the technical adaptions required for the optimization of renewable gas injection, build a demonstrator and evaluate go-to-market and pricing options.
Integrated Management of wetlands (follow-up)

Wetlands, such as lakes, lagoons, deltas, river plains and coastal areas, belong to the most sensitive and most important ecosystems. The transition zones of land and water serve as cradles of biodiversity and are the natural habitat of thousands of rare species. From the socio-political and managerial point of view, wetlands have been controversially discussed natural spaces regarding matters of safeguarding and development. Since the end of the 19th century the extension of wetlands in Europe has been reduced by more than 50%. In the past, land owners, farmers, water and forest management bodies and local communities often had an interest in draining wetlands for agricultural use or in embanking former natural rivers for reasons of flood protection. For the WETLANDS II project these stakeholders as well as wetland management bodies and local residents have been taken on board to achieve a balanced and sustainable development and to reach a coexistence of man and wetlands. WETLANDS II is the follow-up project of the WETLANDS project that was implemented between 1998 and 2001. This first project laid down the principles and showed best practices for an integrated management of wetlands, starting with a state-of-the-art analysis. The main purpose of the new project is the improvement of the operative management of wetlands through capacity buildings and pilot projects in the partners' regions. Here the establishment of the Transnational Working Group of Wetland Managers plays an important role in exchanging experiences gathered in Integrated Wetland Management in different European regions.
Draw me a garden: ground-breaking saas / e-commerce platform that brings expert and sustainable gardening within everyone’s reach

Current world environmental issues require a reconnection of society with nature to nurture an ecologically responsible citizenship. This need is aligned with the recent behavioural change of many consumers, looking for healthy and natural activities to relax from their fast-paced lives. Among them, gardening is raising an increasing interest since it provides an enjoyable space and fun activities to share with family and friends. However, only a small percentage of households take care of their gardens, mostly due to a lack of time, resources, experience or inspiration. A few of them hire professional gardeners but their fares are often too high; others try DIY solutions, but they rarely achieve high quality results. 
We, French start-up Draw Me A Garden, offer a solution to make expert and sustainable gardening easy for everyone. Through our digital App, innovative algorithms provide 2D and 3D plans of the garden, based on its specific size, location, sun exposure, soil quality, etc. The plants and tools’ selected are directly sent to the customer, incorporating also a multifunction self-compostable cardboard scaffold for the plants’ arrangement. We also provide maintenance support through personalized and periodical expert advices and access to a gardening community. Our smart business model, inspired in IKEA, contemplates a standardized offering of plants and design gardens to reduce costs, allowing affordable prices. 
We address the huge segment of people that have a garden and would like to improve it but is not served by any of the current gardening solutions. Our surveys and market analysis have estimated this segment in 11,4 million households and around 18 billion € just in France. Having already launched a first prototype of our solution, we aim now to optimize it and organize the full market deployment in France and Europe. Through this project, we expect to reach a turnover of 35.3 M€, a ROI of 4.34 €/€ invested and hire 113 new people by 2022.