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Design of a Social Innovation Competence Framework to Educate Entrepreneurs in Developing on the International Stage
Authors: Yeratziotis Alexandros , Aadland Torgeir , Brandshaug Sigrid Westad , Mettouris Christos , Vanezi Evangelia , Papadopoulos George Angelos 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe European Commission identifies entrepreneurship as one of eight competences necessary for all members of a knowledge-based society. The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp framework) is a tool that European citizens and organisations can utilise to improve entrepreneurial capacity. Social entrepreneurship in particular, has been gaining momentum for numerous reasons. None more so than it being seen as an approach to offer solutions to worldwide social problems. Despite the increasing demand for social entrepreneurship, mainstream internationalization literature for social entrepreneurs remains underdeveloped and little is known about competences social entrepreneurs require to become successful with their internationalization efforts. In this chapter, the social innovation competence framework is presented; empirical work focusing on educating social entrepreneurs to acquire and improve upon competencies needed for going international. The framework, which uses the EntreComp framework as a foundation for its descriptions of the competences, was developed as part of the Erasmus+ project ISSA.
Higher Education Practices for Social Innovation and Sustainable Development
Authors: Dryjanska Laura , Kostalova Jana , Vidović Davorka 
Published: January 2022

AbstractSocial innovation and sustainable development should constitute learning objectives in higher education across disciplines, while encouraging collaboration among future professionals. The theoretical framework of the multidisciplinary theory of social representations applies the training model of scientist-practitioner-advocate to education aimed at social innovation. The contribution considers sustainable development in the light of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This chapter discusses some higher education practices from two different countries and fields of study. In the Czech Republic, innovative ways of involving students in practical work experience consist of participation in existing community projects, creation of publicly presented content or involvement in real-life situations. These practices and examples of activities lead towards enhanced civic engagement and responsibility; and a sustainable approach of students. In Croatia, innovative interactive practices include rural pop-up hubs and action research projects. They have been applied in both public and private higher education institutions to boost students’ engagement and critical thinking.
Fostering Research with Societal Impact in Higher Education Institutions: A Review and Conceptualization
Authors: Păunescu Carmen , Nikina-Ruohonen Anna , Stukalina Yulia 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThere is an increasing pressure on Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to produce societally relevant and impactful research, and to actively engage with non-academic stakeholders who are looking for answers to their challenges. This is a special challenge for social sciences, such as business, management, entrepreneurship, as opposed to natural sciences that rely largely on quantifiable data and statistics. The present chapter addresses this challenge and introduces the dimensions of societal impact of research produced by HEIs and describes the mechanism through which HEIs can provide impactful research needed for economic competitiveness and societal well-being. Illustrations are offered on how HEIs can boost their ability to transform the results of academic and applied research into beneficial knowledge and management practice for stakeholders, including business, industry, economy and civil society at large. The chapter sheds light on how to reinforce collaboration with non-academic stakeholders and partners within research and innovation ecosystems. To support the HEI’s work, a framework for managing research with societal impact in HEIs is proposed.
Introduction: Shipboard Literary Cultures and the Stain of the Sea
Authors: Liebich Susann , Publicover Laurence 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe introduction to the edited volume outlines the topics covered by the essays that follow and places them within historical and academic contexts. Turning for examples to several literary and non-literary texts, most notably the 1820s diaries of Edward Beck and Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’sTwo Years Before the Mast(1840), it considers the differences and the continuities that prevail in shipboard environments across time, while also discussing the ways in which the human experience of time itself is complicated by seafaring. Particular attention is paid to the role of literary practices in shaping the experience of seafaring—to how such practices construct and reshape shipboard hierarchies, and also to how they help seafarers come to terms with the shipboard environment and with the ocean itself. While thus shaping shipboard cultures, the introduction argues, literary practices are also themselves affected—or ‘stained’—by the ocean environment.
Application Specific Integrated Circuits for High Resolution X and Gamma Ray Semiconductor Detectors
Authors: Mele Filippo 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe increasing demand for performance improvements in radiation detectors, driven by cutting-edge research in nuclear physics, astrophysics and medical imaging, is causing not only a proliferation in the variety of the radiation sensors, but also a growing necessity of tailored solutions for the front-end readout electronics. Within this work, novel solutions for application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) adopted in high-resolution X and $$\upgamma $$
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ray spectroscopy applications are studied. In the first part of this work, an ultra-low noise charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) is presented, with specific focus on sub-microsecond filtering, addressing the growing interest in high-luminosity experiments. The CSA demonstrated excellent results with Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs), and with room temperature Cadmium-Telluride (CdTe) detectors, recording a state-of-the-art noise performance. The integration of the CSA within two full-custom radiation detection instruments realized for the ELETTRA (Trieste, Italy) and SESAME (Allan, Jordan) synchrotrons is also presented. In the second part of this work, an ASIC constellation designed for X-Gamma imaging spectrometer (XGIS) onboard of the THESEUS space mission is described. The presented readout ASIC has a highly customized distributed architecture, and integrates a complete on-chip signal filtering, acquisition and digitization with an ultra-low power consumption.
Beyond the Traditional Analyses and Resource Management in Real-Time Systems
Authors: Reghenzani Federico 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe difficulties in estimating the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) of applications make the use of modern computing architectures limited in real-time systems. Critical embedded systems require the tasks of hard real-time applications to meet their deadlines, and formal proofs on the validity of this condition are usually required by certification authorities. In the last decade, researchers proposed the use of probabilistic measurement-based methods to estimate the WCET instead of traditional static methods. In this chapter, we summarize recent theoretical and quantitative results on the use of probabilistic approaches to estimate the WCET presented in the PhD thesis of the author, including possible exploitation scenarios, open challenges, and future directions.
Configurable Environments in Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
Authors: Metelli Alberto Maria 
Published: January 2022

AbstractReinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as an effective approach to address a variety of complex control tasks. In a typical RL problem, an agent interacts with the environment by perceiving observations and performing actions, with the ultimate goal of maximizing the cumulative reward. In the traditional formulation, the environment is assumed to be a fixed entity that cannot be externally controlled. However, there exist several real-world scenarios in which the environment offers the opportunity toconfiguresome of its parameters, with diverse effects on the agent’s learning process. In this contribution, we provide an overview of the main aspects of environment configurability. We start by introducing the formalism of the Configurable Markov Decision Processes (Conf-MDPs) and we illustrate the solutions concepts. Then, we revise the algorithms for solving the learning problem in Conf-MDPs. Finally, we present two applications of Conf-MDPs: policy space identification and control frequency adaptation.
Hinführung und Rahmenbedingungen für die Entwicklung eines toolbasierten Beratungsansatzes für Seamless Learning Konzeptionen
Authors: Rapp Christian , Dilger Bernadette , Gommers Luci , Butz Andreas , Huff Simon , Lang Michael , Mueller Rainer , Schimkat R.-D. 
Published: January 2022

ZusammenfassungWie gestalte ich Seamless Learning Konzepte? Mit der Entwicklung eines toolbasierten Beratungsansatzes wurden die Materialien, Entwicklungsschritte und theoretischen Konzepte zu Seamless Learning aus den Erfahrungen des IBH-Lab Seamless Learning Basisprojekts aufbereitet und in ein Unterstützungssystem für Dozierende übersetzt. Der Beitrag beschreibt den Ansatz und die Funktionsweise des Beratungsansatzes, thematisiert die erkannten Probleme bei der Entwicklung und die technologischen Grundlagen. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Beschreibung der entwickelten Seamless Learning Plattform und die verschiedenen Unterstützungsfunktionen, die die Seamless Learning Plattform bietet. Verschiedene Nutzungsszenarien, ein Ausblick auf weitere Nutzungsformen sowie eine erste kritische Diskussion runden die Darstellung ab. Mit dem Beitrag steht den Leserinnen und Lesern eine strukturierte Einführung in den entwickelten toolbasierten Beratungsansatz zum Seamless Learning zur Verfügung.
Projekt im Projekt: Agiles Vorgehen, Kommunizieren und Lernen
Authors: Mueller Rainer , Schimkat Ralf-Dieter , Huff Simon , Lang Michael 
Published: January 2022

ZusammenfassungDas Lehrprinzip PIPE (Projekt-im-Projekt-Erfahrung) wurde an der Hochschule Konstanz über 7 Jahre hinweg entwickelt und dabei stetig anhand eines Masterkurses in Informatik verfeinert. PIPE setzt einen einen projektartigen Kompetenzerwerb voraus. Dies ist etwa der Fall, wenn die für das jeweilige Lehrgebiet relevanten Kompetenzen in einer projektartigen Form geübt oder trainiert werden können oder wenn die spätere Anwendung erlangter Kompetenzen im Berufsalltag ein projektartiges Tätigkeitsfeld ist.
Einzelprojekt „Wellen“
Authors: Witzig Andreas 
Published: January 2022

ZusammenfassungWellenphänomene werden in den Lehrplänen meist erst nach gründlicher Vorbereitung der formalen Grundlagen eingeführt. Die Studierenden verfügen dann über ein mathematisches Rüstzeug, dass ihnen den Zugang über analytische Formeln erlaubt. Als Alternative zu diesem mathematiklastigen Weg möchten wir in diesem Projekt das Experimentieren mit Computersimulationen ins Zentrum stellen.
Thesis Writer: Digitale Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, Schreiben und Denken
Authors: Rapp Christian , Kruse Otto , Ott Jakob 
Published: January 2022

ZusammenfassungDieser Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung der Schreibplattform „Thesis Writer“, die Studierende beim Verfassen ihrer Abschlussarbeit und Lehrende bei deren Anleitung unterstützt. Der Beitrag erläutert zunächst, vor welchen Problemen Studierende stehen, wenn sie erstmals eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit selbständig verfassen müssen und nach welcher Logik die gewählte digitale Anleitung aufgebaut ist. Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über die Vorarbeiten, auf denen das Projekt beruht und stellt einige Schritte des design-based Ansatzes dar, die zu seiner heutigen Form geführt haben. Struktur und Aufbau des Tools werden ausführlich dargestellt, ebenso wie die Hilfsfunktionen, die zusätzlich zu dem Word Editor angeboten werden. Zwei Pilotstudien, die der Evaluation und Weiterentwicklung der Plattform dienen, werden vorgestellt, ehe ein letztes Kapitel darauf eingeht, vor welche Probleme ein solches Tool die Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler stellt, nachdem es fertig ist.
Umgang mit Eltern-Kind-Konflikten aufgrund der Vermutung mediatisierter sexualisierter Gewalt: Eli
Authors: Vobbe Frederic , Kärgel Katharina 
Published: January 2022

ZusammenfassungBereits die Vermutung mediatisierter sexualisierter Gewalt führt zu Belastungen im Bezugssystem von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Dies zieht oft Konflikte innerhalb der Familie nach sich, die Interventionen erschweren und junge Menschen zusätzlich belasten. Das Kapitel diskutiert Gründe und Dynamiken von Eltern-Kind-Konflikten infolge des Verdachts auf mediatisierte sexualisierte Gewalt. Es bespricht, wie mit diesen belastungsbedingten Konflikten umgegangen werden kann. Es stellt sozialpädagogische und juristische Möglichkeiten des Schutzes junger Menschen dar, auch für den Fall, dass die Frage nach möglicher Gewalt nicht abschließend geklärt werden kann.
Ergebnisse
Authors: Wey Santina 
Published: January 2022

ZusammenfassungBei DBR-Projekten stellt sich die Frage, wie der zyklische Forschungsprozess und dessen Ergebnisse sinnvoll im linearen Buchformat dargestellt werden können. Die Ergebnisse pro Zyklus darzulegen, würde diverse Redundanzen bedeuten. Außerdem würde es dem Anspruch von DBR-Projekten, bei der Problemlösung ein Gesamtkonzept zu adressieren, nicht gerecht werden.
Nuclear Newcomer Countries—The Path of the United Arab Emirates
Authors: AlKaabi Hamad 
Published: January 2022

AbstractEmbarking on nuclear power requires high-level political decisions and commitments, considerable planning efforts, financial investments and commercial considerations, long-term sustainability for safety; as well as international and legal framework for a nuclear power programme. There are numerous challenges surrounding government decisions to introduce nuclear power into the energy mix of a country. This chapter highlights the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) experience and accomplishments in the development and regulation of its nuclear power programme. In particular, it focuses on the milestones of the UAE path, which might be of interest to nuclear newcomer countries and to a broader international community. This chapter outlines the development of the UAE comprehensive national nuclear law and regulatory framework, which started with the so-called “nuclear policy”. It also includes an overview of a strategy that was developed and set the early path for the UAE peaceful nuclear programme, including timelines for specific targets. The international conventions and UAE’s nuclear cooperation agreements, as well as the cooperation with the IAEA are also mentioned. Particular attention has been paid to the role of the UAE nuclear regulator and its mandate and the development of the UAE regulations and regulatory guides. The licensing of the nuclear power programme, as well as the licensing of other activities and practices involving radiation sources have been also described in the publication. In conclusion, the publication shares some lessons the UAE learnt and on which it will base its efforts towards the continuous enhancement of its legal framework.
Russian Vision of the Problems and Prospects of the International Legal Framework in the Context of Small Modular Reactors and Transportable Nuclear Power Units
Authors: Popov Andrey 
Published: January 2022

AbstractSmall modular reactors (SMRs) could be key to providing developing regions with clean and affordable (and cost-effective) electricity. Deployment of SMRs requires a transparent and balanced legal framework that will define the specifics and boundaries of shared responsibility between the host and supplier country, especially in the case of innovative floating SMR projects. Legal experience in nuclear-powered vessels and nuclear installations can be used in the development of regulatory approaches for floating SMRs. This chapter provides an analysis of the applicability of the existing international conventions, including the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, the IAEA safeguards agreements, and civil liability instruments, to the floating SMRs. In addition, some considerations for the future development of the legal framework for floating SMRs are proposed.
The Efficacy of the Global Nuclear Security Legal Regime and States’ Implementation Capacity in Light of the Forthcoming Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies
Authors: Jenkins Bonnie Denise 
Published: January 2022

AbstractThe forthcoming arrival of small modular reactors and other advanced nuclear reactor technologies can be an immensely beneficial development in the world’s collective pursuit of energy security and meeting climate change objectives. The key question is whether or not these new reactor technologies significantly alter the fundamental premises underlying the existing nuclear security legal regime. The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and its Amendment (A/CPPNM) are the only legally binding international instruments governing the physical protection of nuclear materials and nuclear facilities. Together the A/CPPNM and the international guidance on nuclear security comprise the current legal framework for nuclear security. This chapter examines whether the A/CPPNM adequately covers advanced reactor technologies; and whether the States that are interested in acquiring these new reactor technologies have the capacity to effectively implement the associated legal requirements, regulatory standards, and international guidance that comes along with such technologies. The analysis touches upon the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the IAEA Nuclear Security Guidance, and issues of cybersecurity.
Aeromobilities and Academic Work
Authors: Lassen Claus 
Published: January 2022

AbstractIncreasingly academic air travel in recent decades is part of a larger transformation and globalisation of modern work life away from the industrial and hierarchical work towards much more flexible, networked and mobile work where air travel often is a critical component. However, the climate crisis and COVID-19 have put such work practices under pressure. Therefore, the chapter first examines the importance of aeromobilities for late modern work, which sets the context of contemporary academic work practices. Next, the chapter particularly examines academic work, where especially physical meetings and face-to-face interaction play a central role in academic work and aeromobilities. The chapter argues here for a more diverse understanding of the meaning and role of such meetings if a lower climate footprint should be achieved. Following, it present a tool that provides a better understanding of which types of meetings particularly require co-presence and face-to-face communication, and which types of meetings that just as well—or perhaps even better and more efficiently—can be carried out as virtual meetings. However, as stressed in the conclusion, such an approach seems to require a much greater focus on ‘aeromobility management’ at academic institutions in the future.
Grapes and Pomegranate Value Chains
Authors: Phadke Manasi , Karandikar Bhushana , Gulati Ashok 
Published: January 2022

AbstractHorticulture has grown in size and importance within the agriculture landscape of the country. Horticulture production doubled from 191 million tonnes in 2006–07 to nearly 300 million tonnes in 2016–17. In fact, by 2015–16, production of horticulture crops was higher than that of food grains. Further, production of fruit crops as a proportion of horticulture crops increased from 29.5% in 2001–02 to 31.5% in 2015–16.
Matrix metalloproteinase-7 induces E-cadherin cleavage in acid-exposed primary human pharyngeal epithelial cells via the ROS/ERK/c-Jun pathway
Authors: Im Nu-Ri , Kim Byoungjae , Jung Kwang-Yoon , Baek Seung-Kuk 
Published: January 2022

Abstract
Laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD) is caused by pharyngeal mucosal damage due to the reflux of gastric contents, including acid, pepsin, and bile juice. Our previous study has demonstrated that LPRD is associated with the cleavage of E-cadherin, which is facilitated by the acid-activated matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7); however, the mechanism by which the acid activates MMP-7 remains unclear.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the mechanism by which MMP-7 is activated in the pharyngeal epithelial cells that are exposed to acid. The levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were measured in the epithelial cells exposed to acid. To investigate the signaling mechanism of ROS in the expression of MMP-7, the mechanism of action of the mitogen-activated protein kinase was examined. The expression of various signaling factors was determined, according to the presence or absence of each inhibitor in the acid-exposed pharyngeal epithelial cells. To identify changes in the cleavage of E-cadherin, the integrity of the mucosal membrane was assessed using a transepithelial permeability test. We found that acid exposure increased the levels of ROS, phosphorylated-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (p-ERK) 1/2, and phosphorylated-c-Jun (p–c-Jun) in pharyngeal epithelial cells. The ROS inhibitor reduced the expression of p-ERK and MMP-7, while the ERK inhibitor reduced the expression of p–c-Jun and MMP-7. Moreover, the c-Jun inhibitor reduced the expression of MMP-7 and blocked the degradation of E-cadherin. In addition, decrease in the levels of immunostained E-cadherin and increase in transepithelial permeability after acid exposure were collectively alleviated by the inhibitors of ROS, ERK, and c-Jun. The degradation of E-cadherin that occurs after human mucosal cells are exposed to acid appears to be caused by an increase in the expression of MMP-7 via the ROS/ERK/c-Jun pathway, which is thought to be an important mechanism associated with the development of LPRD.

Key messages
• ROS is triggered when reflux occurs.
• ROS regulates the transcription factor c-Jun via the ERK pathway.
• The increase in MMP-7 that induces LPRD is induced via the ROS/ERK/c-Jun pathway.
• This study revealed for the first time the expression mechanism of MMP-7, which is one of the causes of LPRD.