CERN positions itself as a centre for quantum technologies

Physics World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 8ii-8ii
Author(s):  
Michael Banks
Keyword(s):  
Research Plan

CERN’s first roadmap into quantum technologies outlines the lab’s long-term research plan in the field.

Romancing the Stone: Academe’s Illusive Template for African Diaspora Studies

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Melina Pappademos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
North Americans ◽  
History Of ◽  
America South ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
The Caribbean

I began graduate school in 1994 to study the history of American peoples of African descent; I saw important similarities between their cultures and their resistance struggles and sought to develop a comparative project. However, as I began casting my long term research plan— which was to compare Afro-Cubans and Afro-North Americans—I discovered and uncovered many stumbling blocks. The primary one was that academe grouped African descended people by their European and colonially derived relationships (ex: North America, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean) and not by their Black derived positions. I may have been naive but this seemed problematic to me.

Basic Experimental Study on Effectiveness of Nuclear Waste Long-Term Storage Containers With PAR for Reducing Concentration of Hydrogen Gas: Part 1 — Research Plan and Preliminary Simulation Results

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Tanaka ◽  
Y. Suzuki ◽  
K. Takase
Keyword(s):  
Natural Convection ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Hydrogen Gas ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Storage Container ◽  
Waste Storage ◽  
Experimental Apparatus ◽  
Flammable Gas ◽  
Research Plan

In the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, the long-term management of radioactive waste of fuel debris, etc. are necessary. In the process, hydrogen which is the flammable gas is generated by the decomposition of water by radiation. Therefore, it is important to ensure the safety of the waste storage container to reduce the concentration of hydrogen gas, and to keep below the explosion limit (4%). Consequently, a basic experiment to investigate the effectiveness of the waste storage container with the flammable gas concentration reduction mechanism using the passive autocatalytic recombiner (PAR) has been planned. The present study describes the research plan to use a small modeled experimental apparatus. In addition, in order to clarify quantitatively natural convection behavior of hydrogen gas due to the decay heat of radioactive materials in the long-term waste storage container, preliminary analyses were performed on the system of a small-scale experimental apparatus in which specification of the long-term radioactive waste storage container is simply simulated. From the present results, the perspective which can predict natural convection phenomena in the long-term waste storage container numerically was obtained.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Co-Design and Co-Production in a Portable Health Clinic Research Project in Jaipur District, India (2016–2018)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4148
Author(s):  
Fumihiko Yokota ◽  
Manish Biyani ◽  
Rafiqul Islam ◽  
Ashir Ahmed ◽  
Mariko Nishikitani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Research Staff ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Local Research

Co-design and co-production with non-academic stakeholders has been recognized as a key approach in transdisciplinary sustainability research. The majority of transdisciplinary studies have been conducted in Europe and North America, with a marked lack of such research in the Asian context—particularly with regard to healthcare. Utilizing a case study involving mobile health check-ups performed using a portable health clinic system in Jaipur, India, from March 2016 to March 2018, this study identifies key factors in co-design and co-production that should be considered to ensure the project’s sustainability. Thoroughly reviewing all of the documents and materials related to the case study’s co-design and co-production, this study identifies the following key factors: (1) mutual stakeholder agreement on a long-term research plan, protocol, and budget; (2) harmonizing research objectives, frames, and the scale of stakeholder expectations; (3) stakeholders’ commitment and a sense of ownership derived from their needs and priorities; (4) stakeholder trust; (5) effective coordinators; (6) personality type and characteristics of stakeholder leaders; (7) capacity building and the empowerment of local research staff and participants; and (8) continuous efforts to involve stakeholders throughout the co-design and co-production processes. Facilitating effective co-design and co-production, these factors will help ensure the future sustainability of projects.

scholarly journals Key driving forces in the Czech brewing industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (No, 7) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Žufan
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Product Regulatory ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Marketing Innovation ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Grant Agency

The paper is a part of solution of a post-doctorate grant awarded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR No. 402/02/P059) connected with the research plan of the FBE MUAF in Brno (GAMSM 431100007), and it focuses on environmental analysis of the brewing industry in the Czech Republic with a focus on the key driving forces in this industry. The basic types of analysed driving forces are the following: long-term growth rate of the industry, character of customers and how they use the product, product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation, entry/exit of major firms, diffusion of proprietary knowledge, changes in cost and efficiency, buyer preferences for a differentiated product, regulatory influences and government policy changes, changing societal priorities and lifestyles, uncertainty and business risk, and globalisation. Factors identified in the above-mentioned areas are examined also owing to their period of influence, and the possible implications on actions and strategies of breweries are discussed.

Orange County Florida Eastern Service Area Reclaimed Water Wetlands Reuse System

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry N. Schwartz ◽  
Peter M. Wallace ◽  
Paula M. Gale ◽  
Willard F. Smith ◽  
James T. Wittig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reclaimed Water ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Reclaimed Wastewater ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Receiving Waters ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Reuse System ◽  
The Impact

As part of an integrated multiple reuse program reclaimed water is discharged to a system of natural and created wetlands before ultimate discharge to a river. A research plan bas been required to determine the long-term effects of reclaimed wastewater on the wetlands, their waste recycling efficiency and the impact on downstream waters. This paper presents results from three years of this monitoring and research program which show the wetlands reuse system to function well, with no adverse impacts on wetlands or receiving waters.

scholarly journals Experimental Investigation of Optimal Particulate Sensor Location in an Aircraft Cabin

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maher F. Shehadi ◽  
Mohammad H. Hosni ◽  
Byron W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Detection Time ◽  
Lateral Direction ◽  
Aircraft Cabin ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
And Control ◽  
Detection Characteristics

The primary objective of this research was to develop a reliable method to monitor and control air quality within a wide-body aircraft cabin. To achieve this objective, a long-term systematic experimental and computational research plan is developed. This paper deals with the description and results from an experimental study conducted to determine the best sensor placement locations within the aircraft cabin to detect particulates, and identify the minimum number of sensors necessary to accurately track air quality incidents. An 11-row mockup cabin, intended to be representative of a typical wide-body aircraft, was used for the research. The mockup interior is based on the actual dimensions of the Boeing 767 aircraft cabin. Inside the mockup cabin, actual aircraft equipment including seats and air diffusers are used. Each row has seven passenger seats. Particulates were released from different locations in the second row of the mockup cabin. The transported particles were then collected at six different locations in the lateral direction. The best location to place a sensor was defined as the location having the strongest signal detection (maximum number of particles collected) and the fastest detection time. For the six locations examined, it was found that the best location for the placement of a sensor in the 11-row mockup cabin, in the lateral direction, was on the center-line near the cabin floor. Subsequently, particles were collected at the corresponding longitudinal locations from rows 1, 3, 4, and 5 to determine the signal strength and the detection time for each row. Furthermore, particles were released from row 6 and detection characteristics were examined by collecting particles from row 6 and adjacent rows, i.e., row 5 and row 7. Based on the results from above two-series of tests, it was concluded that a properly placed sensor can accurately detect particles from the corresponding release-row as well as one adjacent row ahead and behind the release-row.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

Conceptual short-term memory (CSTM) supports core claims of Christiansen and Chater

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Use Of Knowledge

AbstractRapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) of words or pictured scenes provides evidence for a large-capacity conceptual short-term memory (CSTM) that momentarily provides rich associated material from long-term memory, permitting rapid chunking (Potter 1993; 2009; 2012). In perception of scenes as well as language comprehension, we make use of knowledge that briefly exceeds the supposed limits of working memory.

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