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Al-Ali, Salah. "How successful is the Higher Institute of Energy, Kuwait, in reducing dependence on expatriates?" Technium Social Sciences Journal 22 (August 9, 2021): 227–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v22i1.4155.
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Imparting knowledge, skills and positive attitude is the core component of technical and vocational education. It is a dual system that permit students, if well organized and monitored, to transfer what they have learned in classroom, laboratories, and workshops into real work environment. It is an opportunity to overcome the shortage of skills in labour market and reduce the rate of unemployment, particularly between youth graduates. Technical and vocational education would not only contribute in reducing the level of unemployment, especially in developing countries, but also in increasing and diversifying productivity, reducing poverty level, maintaining social security and prosperity, decreasing crime rate, and maintaining a stable economic and political status. In the gulf states (e.g., Kuwait, Qatar, Oman), the shortage of indigenous skilled and semi-skilled manpower is highly marked in essential sectors of the economy (oil, electricity and water, infrastructure, health care). As a result, key figures have thoroughly realized the importance of forging technical and vocational institutions to respond to the needs of local industries and business. Kuwait, has realized and appreciate the urgent need of the health sector of highly qualified indigenous specialist and thus established the Institute of Nursing, IN, with the aim to overcome or reduce the level of dependence on expatriates in major hospitals and clinics. The research focuses on identifying and examining the perception of the head of nurses at the health sector towards the standard of the filed training program, and the quality of the Institute of Nursing, IN, graduates. The research is based on extensive field work that encompasses a review of the related literature, interviews with a sample of heads of nurses at the health sector. Finally, the research will argue that unless the IN recognize and appreciate the value of building a strong linkage with the health sector, its contribution in tackling the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled indigenous health care specialist will be below the government expectations, thus continuing relaying on expatriates for years ahead.
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Rasmussen, Karsten Boye. "As open as possible and as closed as needed." IASSIST Quarterly 43, no. 3 (September 26, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/iq965.
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Welcome to the third issue of volume 43 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 43:3, 2019).
Yes, we are open! Open data is good. Just a click away. Downloadable 24/7 for everybody. An open government would make the decisionmakers’ data open to the public and the opposition. As an example, communal data on bicycle paths could be open, so more navigation apps would flourish and embed the information in maps, which could suggest more safe bicycle routes. However, as demonstrated by all three articles in this IQ issue, very often research data include information that requires restrictions concerning data access. The second paper states that data should be ‘as open as possible and as closed as needed’. This phrase originates from a European Union Horizon 2020 project called the Open Research Data Pilot, in ‘Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020’ (July 2016). Some data need to be closed and not freely available. So once more it shows that a simple solution of total openness and one-size-fits-all is not possible. We have to deal with more complicated schemes depending on the content of data. Luckily, experienced people at data institutions are capable of producing adapted solutions.
The first article ‘Restricting data’s use: A spectrum of concerns in need of flexible approaches’ describes how data producers have legitimate needs for restricting data access for users. This understanding is quite important as some users might have an automatic objection towards all restrictions on use of data. The authors Dharma Akmon and Susan Jekielek are at ICPSR at the University of Michigan. ICPSR has been the U.S. research archive since 1962, so they have much practice in long-term storage of digital information. From a short-term perspective you might think that their primary task is to get the data in use and thus would be opposed to any kind of access restrictions. However, both producers and custodians of data are very well aware of their responsibility for determining restrictions and access. The caveat concerns the potential harm through disclosure, often exemplified by personal data of identifiable individuals. The article explains how dissemination options differ in where data are accessed and what is required for access. If you are new to IASSIST, the article also gives an excellent short introduction to ICPSR and how this institution guards itself and its users against the hazards of data sharing.
In the second article ‘Managing data in cross-institutional projects’, the reader gains insight into how FAIR data usage benefits a cross-institutional project. The starting point for the authors - Zaza Nadja Lee Hansen, Filip Kruse, and Jesper Boserup Thestrup – is the FAIR principles that data should be: findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable. The authors state that this implies that the data should be as open as possible. However, as expressed in the ICPSR article above, data should at the same time be as closed as needed. Within the EU, the mention of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will always catch the attention of the economical responsible at any institution because data breaches can now be very severely fined. The authors share their experience with implementation of the FAIR principles with data from several cross-institutional projects. The key is to ensure that from the beginning there is agreement on following the specific guidelines, standards and formats throughout the project. The issues to agree on are, among other things, storage and sharing of data and metadata, responsibilities for updating data, and deciding which data format to use. The benefits of FAIR data usage are summarized, and the article also describes the cross-institutional projects. The authors work as a senior consultant/project manager at the Danish National Archives, senior advisor at The Royal Danish Library, and communications officer at The Royal Danish Library. The cross-institutional projects mentioned here stretch from Kierkegaard’s writings to wind energy.
While this issue started by mentioning that ICPSR was founded in 1962, we end with a more recent addition to the archive world, established at Qatar University’s Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) in 2017. The paper ‘Data archiving for dissemination within a Gulf nation’ addresses the experience of this new institution in an environment of cultural and political sensitivity. With a positive view you can regard the benefits as expanding. The start is that archive staff get experience concerning policies for data selection, restrictions, security and metadata. This generates benefits and expands to the broader group of research staff where awareness and improvements relate to issues like design, collection and documentation of studies. Furthermore, data sharing can be seen as expanding in the Middle East and North Africa region and generating a general improvement in the relevance and credibility of statistics generated in the region. Again, the FAIR principles of findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-useable are gaining momentum and being adopted by government offices and data collection agencies. In the article, the story of SESRI at Qatar University is described ahead of sections concerning data sharing culture and challenges as well as issues of staff recruitment, architecture and workflow. Many of the observations and considerations in the article will be of value to staff at both older and infant archives. The authors of the paper are the senior researcher and lead archivist at the archive of the Qatar University Brian W. Mandikiana, and Lois Timms-Ferrara and Marc Maynard – CEO and director of technology at Data Independence (Connecticut, USA).
Submissions of papers for the IASSIST Quarterly are always very welcome. We welcome input from IASSIST conferences or other conferences and workshops, from local presentations or papers especially written for the IQ. When you are preparing such a presentation, give a thought to turning your one-time presentation into a lasting contribution. Doing that after the event also gives you the opportunity of improving your work after feedback. We encourage you to login or create an author login to https://www.iassistquarterly.com (our Open Journal System application). We permit authors 'deep links' into the IQ as well as deposition of the paper in your local repository. Chairing a conference session with the purpose of aggregating and integrating papers for a special issue IQ is also much appreciated as the information reaches many more people than the limited number of session participants and will be readily available on the IASSIST Quarterly website at https://www.iassistquarterly.com. Authors are very welcome to take a look at the instructions and layout:
https://www.iassistquarterly.com/index.php/iassist/about/submissions
Authors can also contact me directly via e-mail: kbr@sam.sdu.dk. Should you be interested in compiling a special issue for the IQ as guest editor(s) I will also be delighted to hear from you.
Karsten Boye Rasmussen - September 2019
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Voropai, N., and V. Stennikov. "Summary of the International Scientific Conference “Energy-21: Sustainable Development And Smart Management” September 7-11, 2020 Irkutsk, Russia." Energy Systems Research, no. 4(12) (February 1, 2021): 69–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.38028/esr.2020.04.0008.
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The International Scientific Conference “energy-21: sustainable development and smart management” was held in Irkutsk, Russia, on September 7-11, 2020. The Conference was organized by the Melentiev Energy Systems Institute SB RAS with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and with the participation of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO), the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries, and the Global Energy Association. Over 170 attendees from 18 foreign and 69 Russian organizations from 8 countries (Russia, Qatar, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Germany, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan) took part in the event. The participants presented more than 130 papers.
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Blumberga, Dagnija, Zane Indzere, Indra Muizniece, Andra Blumberga, Gatis Bazbauers, and Armands Gravelsins. "Why Bioeconomy is Actual for Latvia. Research Achievements in Institute of Energy Systems and Environment." Energy Procedia 113 (May 2017): 460–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.04.039.
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Rubinoff, Ira. "Institutions:The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 31, no. 5 (June 1989): 44–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00139157.1989.9928946.
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Beggs, J. M. "Research for the Upstream Petroleum Sector: The Crown Research Institute Concept." Energy Exploration & Exploitation 13, no. 2-3 (May 1995): 245–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0144598795013002-313.
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New Zealand's scientific institutions have been restructured so as to be more responsive to the needs of the economy. Exploration for and development of oil and gas resources depend heavily on the geological sciences. In New Zealand, these activities are favoured by a comprehensive, open-file database of the results of previous work, and by a historically publicly funded, in-depth knowledge base of the extensive sedimentary basins. This expertise is now only partially funded by government research contracts, and increasingly undertakes contract work in a range of scientific services to the upstream petroleum sector, both in New Zealand and overseas. By aligning government-funded research programmes with the industry's knowledge needs, there is maximum advantage in improving the understanding of the occurrence of oil and gas resources. A Crown Research Institute can serve as an interface between advances in fundamental geological sciences, and the practical needs of the industry. Current publicly funded programmes of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences include a series of regional basin studies, nearing completion; and multi-disciplinary team studies related to the various elements of the petroleum systems of New Zealand: source rocks and their maturation, migration and entrapment as a function of basin structure and tectonics, and the distribution and configuration of reservoir systems.
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Furlan, Raffaello, and Asmaa AL-Mohannadi. "An Urban Regeneration Planning Scheme for the Souq Waqif Heritage Site of Doha." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 24, 2020): 7927. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197927.
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Over the past decade, transit-oriented development (TOD) has been advocated as an applicable urban regeneration planning model to promote the sustainability of cities along with city dwellers’ standards of urban living. On a regional scale, under the directives of the Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV-2030), the Qatar National Development Framework (QNDF-2032), and the strategies for planned mega events, such as the FIFA World Cup 2022, the State of Qatar launched the construction of the Doha Metro, which consists of four lines. This transport system, linking the center of Doha to several transit villages around approximately 100 metro stations, aims at reducing the number of vehicles on the road networks while providing an integrated transportation and land use strategy through the urban regeneration of transit-oriented developments (TODs), providing both social and environmental economic benefits. Among the most significant transit sites within the Doha Metro lines is the Souq Waqif station. This station is a historical–heritage spot that represents a potential socio-cultural site for the creation of a distinctive urban environment. This research study investigates an approach suitable for an urban regeneration planning scheme for the Souq Waqif TOD, aiming at (i) preserving and consolidating the deeply rooted cultural heritage of the historical site and (ii) enhancing the city dwellers’ and/or the community’s standards of urban living. This study aims to explore the applicability of a TOD planning scheme for the new metro station through urban regeneration and land infill in the existing built environment of the Souq. This study contends that the efficient integration of land use with transport systems contributes to shaping an environment with enhanced standards of living for users while supporting social, economic, and environmental factors. The present research design comprises qualitative data based on theoretical studies and site-based analysis to assess (i) the principles of TODs and (ii) the extent to which their application can be employed for the Souq Waqif to become a sustainable TOD.
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FLOWERS, A., and K. KRIST. "Overview of Gas Research Institute R&D program." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 12, no. 10 (1987): 669–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0360-3199(87)90128-5.
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Li, Hong, and Qingbo Meng. "Renewable Energy Frontier Research at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences." Energy & Environmental Science 4, no. 8 (2011): 2613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1ee90029c.
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Bazzi, Hassan S. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 85, no. 3 (January 1, 2013): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20138503iv.
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The 14th International Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry (POC 2012) was held 6-9 January 2012 in Doha, capital of the State of Qatar. This conference followed the 13th edition of this series, which was held in Montreal, Canada in 2009, and is a biannual meeting that travels from one continent to another since its inception in 1982 in Lyon, France to discuss recent results in the fields of polymer and organic chemistry in order to promote their importance in our everyday lives. This was the first IUPAC-sponsored meeting ever in the State of Qatar and the first time this meeting (POC) took place in the Arab world since it was established. POC 2012 was a very successful event, attended by approximately 300 chemists from over 15 countries.The conference featured Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and 2005 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, as keynote speaker. His lecture was titled “The synthesis of large and small molecules using olefin metathesis catalysts”.The conference consisted of eight oral sessions, which focused on:- Polyolefins (Chair: Dr. Abbas Razavi, Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy)- Responsive and smart polymers (Chair: Dr. David E. Bergbreiter, Texas A&M University)- Polymers in energy (Chair: Dr. Hiroyuki Nishide, Waseda University)- Polymers as therapeutics (Chair: Dr. Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University)- Advances in polymer synthesis (Chair: Prof. Brigitte Voit, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden)- Orthogonal chemistry: organic and polymer synthesis (Chair: Dr. Craig Hawker, University of California Santa Barbara)- Macromolecular engineering with biomolecules (Chair: Dr. Hanadi F. Sleiman, McGill University)- Polymers from renewable resources (Chair: Dr. Joe Kurian, Dupont Company).In addition to the keynote lecture, the conference featured an impressive 43 invited lectures by prominent chemists from all over the globe. The oral sessions featured an additional 29 contributed talks. The poster session showcased the latest results presented by 71 faculty and students attendees.The organizers of the POC 2012 would like to thank the sponsors who generously supported this event. Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) was the premier sponsor. The organizers are also grateful to the following sponsors: Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO), Qatar University, Qatar Foundation, Texas A&M University at Qatar, and Qatar Airways.I would like finally to acknowledge all the members of the POC 2012 Organizing Committee and International Advisory Committee for their immense contributions. Special thanks are extended in particular to Hala El-Dakak and G. Benjamin Cieslinski for their outstanding efforts.Hassan S. BazziConference Chair
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SAGAI, Mito, and Natsuko SUZUKI. "ICONE19-43610 Social Contribution Activities Concerning Energy and the Environment by Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry." Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE) 2011.19 (2011): _ICONE1943. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmeicone.2011.19._icone1943_247.
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Major, Mark David, and Heba O. Tannous. "Form and Function in Two Traditional Markets of the Middle East: Souq Mutrah and Souq Waqif." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (September 2, 2020): 7154. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12177154.
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This paper presents some of the findings of a study comparing the form and function of two traditional markets on the Arabian Peninsula: Souq Mutrah in Muscat, Oman, and Souq Waqif in Doha, Qatar. Globalization and rapid urbanization characterize both Doha and Muscat, which share similar historical origins as coastal settlements despite stark differences in topography; Oman is mountainous, whereas Qatar is flat. We investigate the urban morphology, land use and function of the two souqs using several representational techniques typical of morphological research, including space syntax analysis. The purpose is to develop a deeper understanding of (1) the evolution of space and form in these marketplaces over time, and (2) the possible implications for their functioning as urban places. The analysis demonstrates the critical importance of the contextual relations at the macro- and micro-scale of the urban environment for understanding the complex nature of these souqs as places today, helping to deepen our knowledge about traditional markets in the Middle East.
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Grubor, Borislav, Dragoljub Dakic, Stevan Nemoda, Milica Mladenovic, Milijana Paprika, and Simeon Oka. "Research in the fluidized bed combustion in the Laboratory for thermal engineering and energy - Part A: Achievements in targeted fundamental research." Thermal Science 23, Suppl. 5 (2019): 1637–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tsci180725289g.
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The paper gives a review of the most important results of extensive targeted fundamental research program on fluidized bed combustion in the Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy of the VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences. The paper presents a detailed overview of research activities from the beginning in the second half of the 1970'' up to present days. Starting with the motives for initiating the investigations in this field, the paper highlights various phases of research and points out the main results of all research activities, not only the ones that are focused in this paper. Targeted fundamental research topics that are overviewed in this paper are heat and mass transfer, coal particle fragmentation, char particle combustion, sulfur self-retention by coal ash itself, as well as circulating fluidized bed modeling.
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Massel, Lyudmila V., and Alexey G. Massel. "Development Of Digital Twins And Digital Shadows Of Energy Objects And Systems Using Scientific Tools For Energy Research." E3S Web of Conferences 209 (2020): 02019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020902019.
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The article discusses an approach to the construction of digital twins and digital shadows, based on the use of scientific tools for complex energy research in Russia. It is proposed to use, as their basis, mathematical models of energy systems and software systems and databases developed at the Energy Systems Institute of SB RAS, for calculations using these models. For each area of research, an ontological model is developed, over which mathematical and information models are built and integrated, as the basis of digital twins and digital shadows of energy objects. In turn, scientific prototypes of digital twins and digital shadows can be used in complex energy studies. To support this research, a modified architecture of the multi-agent intelligent environment is proposed. It is considered as the basis of the future IT infrastructure that integrates modern information and intelligent technologies and implements a new approach to building digital twins and digital shadows using scientific tools.
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Farrow, Lisa J. "Institutions: The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 38, no. 8 (October 1996): 4–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00139157.1996.9930989.
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Rodríguez Casal, Carlos, Christine Van Wunnik, Luis Delgado Sancho, Jean Claude Burgelman, and Paul Desruelle. "How will ICTs affect our environment in 2020?" Foresight 7, no. 1 (February 1, 2005): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14636680510581330.
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PurposeThis paper aims to present the results of a research project that the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies commissioned to research the possible effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on a set of environmental indicators in 2020.Design/methodology/approachThe project adopted an innovative methodology combining qualitative scenario‐building and quantitative modelling.FindingsThe general conclusion was that the impact of ICT is roughly between −20 and +30 percent. Therefore there are significant opportunities for improving environmental sustainability through ICTs, which can rationalise energy management in housing (or facilities), make passenger and freight transport more efficient, and enable a product‐to‐service shift across the economy.Originality/valueThe impact of ICT should accordingly be taken into account by environmental policies in order to ensure that ICT applications make a positive contribution to environmental outcomes, and, at the same time, to suppress rebound effects.
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Bakirov, A. B., Rafail A. Suleymanov, T. K. Valeev, Z. B. Baktybaeva, and N. R. Rakhmatullin. "THE CONTRIBUTION OF UFA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND HUMAN ECOLOGY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND THE SOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND HYGIENIC PROBLEMS." Hygiene and sanitation 98, no. 9 (October 28, 2019): 911–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18821/0016-9900-2019-98-9-911-916.
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Federal Budgetary Institution of Science “Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology” was organized on September 15, 1955. From the first days of its existence, the Institute was focused on solving hygienic problems associated with the influence of fuel and energy enterprises on the environment and public health. One of the leading departments of the Institute is the Department of medical ecology (formerly the Department of environmental hygiene). The article presents the stages of development and the results of scientific research for the 60-years period of activity on municipal hygiene, conducted by specialists of the Department of medical ecology of the Institute. Research is carried out in the following areas: the study of Toxicological properties of new chemicals and drugs with the justification of hygienic regulations in the environment; hygienic assessment of the state of the environment in the territories of oil production and refining, mining and ore processing industries, large agrochemical complexes, etc.; risk assessment for public health due to the impact of environmental factors; development of regulatory and methodological documents to ensure the sanitary and environmental well-being of the population. The article provides information about the stages of the Department, its leaders, the first scientific developments. sanitary surveys are shown to be comprehensive. The objects of research of the Department are atmospheric air, surface, and underground water sources, soil cover, agricultural products. This material reflects the main results on the levels of pollution of the environment and the existing risks to the health of the population of certain territories of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The most significant scientific works of the staff of the Department on the problem of medical ecology are listed, the main achievements, scientific priorities, and prospects for the development of hygienic research in solving environmental problems in the territories of large industrial centers are reflected.
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Al-Ali, Salah. "How successful is the Higher Institute of Communications and Navigation, Kuwait, in reducing dependence on expatriates." Technium Social Sciences Journal 23 (September 9, 2021): 28–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v23i1.4492.
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The need for skilled and semi-skilled indigenous manpower in the gulf states (e.g., Kuwait. Qatar, United Arab Emirates) is highly noted in the related literature. Technical and vocational education is considered as a dual type of education system that allow students to transfer what they have learned in classrooms, workshops, and laboratories into real work environment. It is the ultimate solution, particularly for the gulf states, to overcome and/or reduce the rate of dependance on expatriates especially in essential sectors in their economy (e.g., oil, electricity and water, health sector). The governments of the gulf states have realized the urgent need to forge technical and vocational colleges and institutions hoping to close the gap with industries and business. Technical and vocational education is completely different from formal education and thus requires a careful design, planning, and monitoring to ensure meeting industrial and business current and future requirements. However, the success of technical and vocational education would depend, to great extent, on the type of management since it requires a specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are distinguished technical and vocational education from any other types of education. The Higher Institute of Communications and Navigation, HIC&N, was forged by the Kuwaiti Government with the aim to equipped local manpower with the know-how and know-why that are mostly needed by local industries. The research is focus on measuring the perception of a sample of heads of departments at the Ministry of Communications towards the quality of HIC&N graduates. The research is based on extensive field work that encompasses a review of the related literature, interviews with a sample of heads of departments at the Ministry Communications to assess the quality of field training program and the standard of the HIC&N graduates. Finally, the research will argue that unless the HIC&N recognize and appreciate the value of building a strong linkage with local industries, its contribution in tackling the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled indigenous in essential sectors on the economy will be below the government expectations, thus continuing relaying on expatriates for years ahead.
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Taylor, P. Craig, and John A. Turner. "Editorial: Welcome to a new, international research journal from the American Institute of Physics—Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy." Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 010401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3012387.
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Alnaser, N. W., and W. E. Alnaser. "The impact of the rise of using solar energy in GCC countries." Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability 4 (2019): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/rees/2019004.
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The research and the prototype projects in the GCC countries were in place since 1970's which first was started in Kuwait, followed by Saudi Arabia in the 1980's, United Arab Emirates in the 1990's, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar in 21 centuries. Now all GCC countries had conducted, relatively, large project in solar and wind energy, especially Kuwait (currently about 70 MW among a plan of 2000 MW by 2030), UAE (currently about 300 MW among a plan of 2500 MW by 2030) and Saudi Arabia (with an ambitious renewable energy target of 3450 MW by 2020 with a further 6000 GW envisioned by 2023 and to 200 000 MW by 2030). Such an acceleration in the use of solar and wind energy would have an impact. Major impacts are: (1) Major reduction in the solar electricity prices in the region; (2) More investors in renewable energy business; (3) Rise of innovative design of houses to utilize its structure in installation and integration of renewable energy devices; (4) Rise of many service and maintenance of solar technology companies; (5) Establishment of new academic programs and courses in solar and other renewable energy technologies in the higher education institute and technical organizations; (6) More concern and studies on disturbances to the main grid due to solar connection; (7) Major reduction in carbon footprint per capita in GCC countries; (8) Use of more efficient and low consumption household and industrial devices; (9) Boost in battery industry for solar electricity storage.
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Ferwati, Salim, Cynthia Skelhorn, Vivek Shandas, and Yasuyo Makido. "A Comparison of Neighborhood-Scale Interventions to Alleviate Urban Heat in Doha, Qatar." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (January 30, 2019): 730. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030730.
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Recent evidence suggests that many densely populated areas of the world will be uninhabitable in the coming century due to the depletion of resources, climate change, and increasing urbanization. This poses serious questions regarding the actions that require immediate attention, and opportunities to stave off massive losses of infrastructure, populations, and financial investments. The present study utilizes microclimate modeling to examine the role of landscape features as they affect ambient temperatures in one of the fastest growing regions of the world: Doha, Qatar. By modeling three study sites around Doha—one highly urbanized, one newly urbanizing, and one coastal low-density urbanized—the research indicates that at the neighborhood scale, the most effective scenario was that of adding mature trees along the sides of roads. In the coastal study area, the model results estimated a maximum hourly air temperature reduction of 1.35 °C, and in the highly urbanized inland site, surface temperature reductions were up to 15 °C at 12:00. While other scenarios were effective at reducing air and surface temperatures, the mean radiant temperature was also increased or nearly neutral for most of the other scenarios. This result highlights the need to develop improved shading measures for pedestrian pathways and outdoor recreational areas, especially for highly urbanized inland areas in Doha and cities with similar climatic conditions.
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Muley, Deepti, Mohamed Kharbeche, Lucy Downey, Wafaa Saleh, and Mohammed Al-Salem. "Road Users’ Behavior at Marked Crosswalks on Channelized Right-Turn Lanes at Intersections in the State of Qatar." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (October 15, 2019): 5699. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205699.
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At non-signalized marked crosswalks, pedestrian priority is neither well-defined nor well acknowledged by drivers. This paper presents the findings of an investigation on both driver and pedestrian behavior at non-signalized marked crosswalks located on channelized right-turn lanes at intersections in the State of Qatar. Five crosswalks in Doha city were video recorded from discrete locations on a typical working day. The results from the data analysis of 1620 pedestrians’ behavior indicated that waiting behavior, gap acceptance, and crossing speed are complex phenomena and depend upon both pedestrians’ characteristics as well as their crossing characteristics. The drivers’ yielding behavior was mainly linked to pedestrians’ gender and adjacent land use. Low driver yielding rates indicated that significant improvements are required to enhance pedestrian safety. Among pedestrian attributes, gender had the most significant effect on crossing behavior followed by distractions, crossing in a group or alone, and dressing style. Findings of this research will be useful for planners when designing crosswalks at new intersections and during simulations of pedestrian and driver behavior at marked crosswalks on exclusive right-turn lanes. The results of this study will also be directly applicable to the Arabian Gulf countries as they exhibit similar conditions as the State of Qatar.
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Virgolino, Ana, Francisco Antunes, Osvaldo Santos, Andreia Costa, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Cristina Bárbara, Manuel Bicho, et al. "Towards a Global Perspective of Environmental Health: Defining the Research Grounds of an Institute of Environmental Health." Sustainability 12, no. 21 (October 28, 2020): 8963. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12218963.
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Environmental health is at the intersection between health and the environment. However, it still has a recent (and narrow) history as a scientific area, mainly addressing human biomonitoring and toxicological issues. Only recently additional environmental ‘layers’, other than the traditional chemical, biological and physical environmental determinants, have been considered. This broader perspective of environmental health also encompasses digital, psychosocial, political, socioeconomic and cultural determinants, all of them relevant when considering human health from a planetary health paradigm. This reflects the progressive adoption of a systemic perspective regarding the impact of gains for human health and well-being towards a sustainable environment. It also implies a multi-method and participatory approach to understand the intertwined relationship between environmental changes and human health. In this paper, the broader approach to environmental health is discussed in order to ‘set the stage’ for introducing the Institute of Environmental Health (ISAMB) of the Lisbon School of Medicine, Portugal. Each of the research groups and labs that compose ISAMB are presented, as well as their main lines of research. Present and planned contributions of ISAMB to advance knowledge on environmental health and for promoting human health gains in an environmentally sustainable way are also discussed.
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Korenkov, Vladimir, Andrei Dolbilov, Valeri Mitsyn, Ivan Kashunin, Nikolay Kutovskiy, Dmitry Podgainy, Oksana Streltsova, Tatiana Strizh, Vladimir Trofimov, and Peter Zrelov. "The JINR distributed computing environment." EPJ Web of Conferences 214 (2019): 03009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921403009.
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Computing in the field of high energy physics requires usage of heterogeneous computing resources and IT, such as grid, high performance computing, cloud computing and big data analytics for data processing and analysis. The core of the distributed computing environment at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is the Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex. It includes Tier1 for CMS experiment, Tier2 site for all LHC experiments and other grid non-LHC VOs, such as BIOMED, COMPASS, NICA/MPD, NOvA, STAR and BESIII, as well as cloud and HPC infrastructures. A brief status overview of each component is presented. Particular attention is given to the development of distributed computations performed in collaboration with CERN, BNL, FNAL, FAIR, China, and JINR Member States. One of the directions for the cloud infrastructure is the development of integration methods of various cloud resources of the JINR Member State organizations in order to perform common tasks, and also to distribute a load across integrated resources. We performed cloud resources integration of scientific centers in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. Extension of the HPC component will be carried through a specialized infrastructure for HPC engineering that is being created at MICC, which makes use of the contact liquid cooling technology implemented by the Russian company JSC "RSC Technologies". Current plans are to further develop MICC as a center for scientific computing within the multidisciplinary research environment of JINR and JINR Member States, and mainly for the NICA mega-science project.
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Basha, J. Sadhik, Tahereh Jafary, Ranjit Vasudevan, Jahanzeb Khan Bahadur, Muna Al Ajmi, Aadil Al Neyadi, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, et al. "Potential of Utilization of Renewable Energy Technologies in Gulf Countries." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 14, 2021): 10261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810261.
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This critical review report highlights the enormous potentiality and availability of renewable energy sources in the Gulf region. The earth suffers from extreme air pollution, climate changes, and extreme problems due to the enormous usage of underground carbon resources applications materialized in industrial, transport, and domestic sectors. The countries under Gulf Cooperation Council, i.e., Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, mainly explore those underground carbon resources for crude oil extraction and natural gas production. As a nonrenewable resource, these are bound to be exhausted in the near future. Hence, this review discusses the importance and feasibility of renewable sources in the Gulf region to persuade the scientific community to launch and explore renewable sources to obtain the maximum benefit in electric power generation. In most parts of the Gulf region, solar and wind energy sources are abundantly available. However, attempts to harness those resources are very limited. Furthermore, in this review report, innovative areas of advanced research (such as bioenergy, biomass) were proposed for the Gulf region to extract those resources at a higher magnitude to generate surplus power generation. Overall, this report clearly depicts the current scenario, current power demand, currently installed capacities, and the future strategies of power production from renewable power sources (viz., solar, wind, tidal, biomass, and bioenergy) in each and every part of the Gulf region.
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Grubor, Borislav, Dragoljub Dakic, Stevan Nemoda, Milica Mladenovic, Milijana Paprika, and Simeon Oka. "Research in the fluidized bed combustion in the Laboratory for thermal engineering and energy - Part B: Achievements in technology implementation." Thermal Science 23, Suppl. 5 (2019): 1655–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tsci180725290g.
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Paper gives a review of the most important results of extensive and wide-ranging research program on R&D of fluidized bed combustion technology in the Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy of the VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences. Paper presents detailed overview of R&D activities from the beginning in the second half of the 1970's up to present days. These activities encompass applied research achievements in the field of characterization of limestones and bed agglomeration and sintering and modeling of overall processes during fluidized bed combustion, all of which have facilitated the R&D of the fluidized bed combustion technology. Attention is also given to steady-state combustion testing of a wide-range of fuels (coals, liquid fuels, biomass, waste solid and liquid materials, etc.) in our fluidized bed combustor and development of original methodology for testing the suitability of fuels for fluidized bed combustion, as well as specific achievements in the area of technology application in Serbia.
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Güereca, Leonor Patricia, Nathalia Torres, and Adalberto Noyola. "Carbon Footprint as a basis for a cleaner research institute in Mexico." Journal of Cleaner Production 47 (May 2013): 396–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.01.030.
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Al-Ali, Salah. "How successful is the Higher Institute of Energy, Kuwait, in reducing dependence on expatriates?" Technium Social Sciences Journal 22 (August 9, 2021): 187–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v22i1.4285.
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The role of technical and vocational education in enhancing indigenous capabilities is highly discussed by authors, observers, and academics. In fact, there is a common understanding that technical and vocational education is a dual educational system that allow students to transfer what they have been learned in classroom, laboratories and workshops into real work environment. The success of technical and vocational education would depend on the management mentality in the ability in forging and effective and fruitful linkage with industries and business. It is a management responsibility to identify and determine the level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are mostly required by the recipients of technical and vocational graduates. Kuwait, as one of the gulf states, the shortage of indigenous skilled and semi-skilled manpower in noted in essential sectors of the economy (e.g., electricity and water and the oil sector). Decision makers have realized the significant role of technical and vocational institutions in providing essential sectors of the economy with the skilled and semi-skilled national manpower in order to reduce, to great extent, the dependence on expatriates. The Higher Institute of Energy, HIE, was forged by the Kuwaiti Government with the aim to equipped local manpower with the know-how and know-why that are applied in local industries. The research is focus on measuring the perception of a sample of heads of supervisors at the Ministry of Electricity and Water and at the oil sector towards the quality of HIE graduates. The research is based on extensive field work that encompasses a review of the related literature, interviews with a sample of heads of supervisors at the Ministry of Electricity and Water and at the oil sector to assess the quality of field training program and the standard of the HIE graduates. Finally, the research will argue that unless the HIE recognize and appreciate the value of building a strong linkage with local industries, its contribution in tackling the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled indigenous in essential sectors on the economy will be below the government expectations, thus continuing relaying on expatriates for years ahead.
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Stefanovic, Predrag, Dejan Cvetinovic, Zoran Markovic, Milic Eric, Simeon Oka, and Branislav Repic. "Review of the investigations of pulverized coal combustion processes in large power plants in laboratory for thermal engineering and energy: Part B." Thermal Science 23, Suppl. 5 (2019): 1611–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tsci19s5611r.
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Paper presents short review of research problems, applied methods for solving problems and main results obtained by the researchers in Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy (LTE) of the "Vinca" Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia dealing with pulverized coal combustion processes and technologies for reduction of pollutions problems at thermal power plants in a period since 2000. The presented results were published in numerous studies realized for different users, Ph. D., Masters, and Specialist thesis, in international and domestic scientific journals and monographs, presented at numerous international and domestic scientific conferences, etc. Presented research projects and results of applied research projects realized at pulverized coal combustion thermal power plants clearly show that LTE team was involved in key activities of rehabilitation and modernization, including implementation of best available technologies for pollution reduction at thermal power plants, in the region of South East Europe.
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Kicinski, J., and G. Zywica. "Prototype of the domestic CHP ORC energy system." Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences 64, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 417–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bpasts-2016-0047.
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Abstract The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery (IMP PAN) in Gdansk pursues its own research in fields such as technologies that use renewable energy sources efficiently, including in particular the small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) systems. This article discusses the design concepts for the prototype of small CHP ORC (organic Rankine cycle) energy system, developed under the research project. The source of heat is a boiler designed for biomass combustion. Electricity was generated using specially designed oil-free vapour micro-turbine. The turbo-generator has compact structure and hermetical casing thanks to the use of gas bearings lubricated by working medium. All energy system components are controlled and continuously monitored by a coherent automation and control system. The article also discusses selected experimental results conducted under laboratory conditions. Thermal-flow tests were presented that allow for an assessment of the operation of energy system components. Additionally, energy performance results of the turbo-generator were given including power obtained at various cycle parameters. The achieved results have shown that the developed energy system operated in accordance with design solutions. Electricity derived from the energy system prototype was around 2 kW, with boiler’s thermal power of 25 kW. The research has also confirmed that this system can be used in a domestic environment.
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Kim, Dohyoung, Sojin Jang, Sungdo Jung, and Junseok Hwang. "Assessment of Research Collaborations for Improving Intellectual and Economic Performance in Public Renewable Energy R&D." Asian Journal of Technology Management (AJTM) 14, no. 1 (2021): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.12695/ajtm.2021.14.1.4.
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Abstract. Public R&D investment in renewable energy has burgeoned at the global level in a concerted effort to expedite energy transition. Unlike traditional energy sources, the renewable energy industry produces a favorable collaboration environment for small and medium enterprises, affecting traits of R&D collaboration in R&D as well. The main purpose of this study is to find relationships between R&D collaboration and intellectual & economic performances in renewable energy R&D. We have analyzed 484 projects completed between 2006 and 2014 in South Korea’s public renewable energy R&D program. We found that university-industry-government research institute collaboration is not the most effective for creating intellectual nor economic performance, interpreting as a necessity in the revision on current UIG collaboration policy. For a leader organization, we found that medium enterprises are the most positively related with economic outcomes, interpreting medium enterprises had as much technical competency and investment capacity as large enterprises. Keywords: R&D, performance measurement, collaboration, renewable energy, triple helix, r&d leader
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STAITI, P., Z. POLTARZEWSKI, V. ALDERUCCI, G. MAGGIO, and N. GIORDANO. "Solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell (SPEFC) research and development at the institute CNR-TAE of messina." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 19, no. 6 (June 1994): 523–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0360-3199(94)90007-8.
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Vidal, M. A., A. F. Faria, A. H. M. Stach, D. P. Neto, L. S. Pinto, A. G. Pinho, and E. G. Domingues. "Quantification of CO2 emission reductions from energy efficiency actions and solar photovoltaic generation at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Goiás." Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal 19 (September 2021): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24084/repqj19.209.
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In 2016, the Brazilian Agency of Electric Energy launched a public call for research and development projects to reduce barriers to implementing energy efficiency projects and own electricity generation. One objective of this public call was to encourage pilot projects at the Brazilian public higher education institutions. In this context, the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Goiás has approved the research project, entitled “Energy efficiency and mini generation at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology - IFG.” The project consists of implementing energy efficiency actions and installing photovoltaic distributed generation (mini generation) in twelve of the fourteen IFG campuses. The main objective of this work is to quantify the CO2 emission reductions from the project through the methodologies used by the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention for projects under the Clean Development Mechanism. The emission reductions over the project lifetime was estimated at approximately 37,400 tCO2 equivalent, evidencing the environmental benefit to be provided by the referred project.
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Zimmerman, D. K., and S. A. Shipley. "Mod-2 Wind Turbine Loads Test Correlations." Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 108, no. 1 (February 1, 1986): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3268058.
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The Boeing Company, under contract to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), has completed a test program on the Mod-2 wind turbines at Goodnoe Hills, Washington. The objectives were to update fatigue load spectra for different sites, to measure vortex generator effects, and to evaluate rotational sampling techniques. This paper presents the results of these tests and assesses the adequacy of prediction techniques.
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Zhou, Weijian, and Maobai Chen. "Development of Radiocarbon Dating in China Over the Past 50 Years." Radiocarbon 51, no. 1 (2009): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200033725.
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On the arrival of the 50th anniversary of Radiocarbon, we review important developments in radiocarbon dating in China during the past 50 years, especially concerning 3 aspects: sample standard and preparation, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) facilities, and 14C applications. Specifically, these events are marked by the establishment of the Chinese sucrose charcoal standard in China; the development of small-sample dating in the Xi'an Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); the progress of the AMS facilities in Beijing (China Institute of Atomic Energy and Beijing University); the innovation of the mini-cyclotron-based AMS at Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, CAS; the exploration of the Xia-Shang-Zhou chronology project in China; the establishment of the Xi'an multi-element AMS at the Xi'an-AMS Center; and the breakthrough in tracing the geomagnetic intensities and precipitation from 10Be in Chinese loess at the Institute of Earth Environment, CAS.
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Bakhtyar, S., S. S. Raza, M. Tayyab, S. Pervez, and A. Salahuddin. "Radiological Impact of the PARR-1 Operation on the Environment." Key Engineering Materials 277-279 (January 2005): 631–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.277-279.631.
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This paper presents a study related to the assessment of the radiological impact on the environment due to the operation of the Pakistan Research Reactor-1 (PARR-1) at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology (PINSTECH), Islamabad. The parameters studied include the radioactivity releases in a gaseous form and also those originating from the liquid and solid wastes produced due to the operation of this research facility. The analysis is based on the environmental monitoring data for the last 10 years (1992-2002) and the conclusions have been drawn for the impact of the PARR-1 operation on the occupational workers as well as the general public living in the vicinity of the reactor site. Further, on the basis of this data, yearly average doses and the cumulative doses for the expected life of PARR-1, due to different radiation sources have been estimated. The analysis indicated that the maximum yearly doses at ground level for the occupational workers as well as for the public are a fraction of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) defined limiting values. It is, therefore, concluded that the impact of the PARR-1 normal operation on the environment is negligible and it can be regarded as “ safe to the public as well as the occupational workers”.
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Nkomo, JC. "Testing the mitigation manual on trainers." Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 16, no. 2 (May 1, 2005): 38–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3051/2005/v16i2a3112.
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The Energy Research Centre (ERC), together with the Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND) in Sri Lanka and the Environment and Development Action (ENDA) in Senegal, are developing training manuals to train trainers under UNITAR’s Climate Change Capacity Development Programme (C3D). The rationale for this is clear. The UNFCCC seeks to strengthen non-Annex 1 countries’ effective participation in the Kyoto Protocol process, and to strengthen existing and/or establish new training and research institutions to ensure sustainability of capacity building programmes. These capacity building initiatives should be country driven, involve stakeholder participation, and address specific needs and conditions of the country. For this reason, the ERC is developing training modules on climate change mitigation. ENDA is developing modules on climate change on vulnerability and adaptation; and MIND on sustainable development.
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van Roode, M., J. R. Price, and C. Stala. "Ceramic Oxide Coatings for the Corrosion Protection of Silicon Carbide." Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 115, no. 1 (January 1, 1993): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2906668.
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Silicon carbide is currently used as a structural material for heat exchanger tubes and related applications because of its excellent thermal properties and oxidation resistance. Silicon carbide suffers corrosion degradation, however, in the aggressive furnace environments of industrial processes for aluminum remelting, advanced glass melting, and waste incineration. Adherent ceramic oxide coatings developed at Solar Turbines Incorporated, with the support of the Gas Research Institute, have been shown to afford corrosion protection to silicon carbide in a simulated aluminum remelt furnace environment as well as in laboratory-type corrosion testing. The coatings are also protective to silicon carbide-based ceramic matrix composites.
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Churakov, Sergey V., Wolfgang Hummel, and Maria Marques Fernandes. "Fundamental Research on Radiochemistry of Geological Nuclear Waste Disposal." CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry 74, no. 12 (December 23, 2020): 1000–1009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2020.1000.
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Currently, 5 · 1019 Bq of radioactive waste originating from the use of nuclear power for energy production, and medicine, industry and research, is maintained in Switzerland at intermediate storage facilities. Deep geological disposal of nuclear waste is considered as the most reliable and sustainable long-term solution worldwide. Alike the other European countries, the Swiss waste disposal concept embarks on the combination of engineered and geological barriers. The disposal cell is a complex geochemical system. The radionuclide mobility and consequently radiological impact depend not only on their chemical speciation but also on the background concentration of other stable nuclides and their behaviour in the natural environment. The safety assessment of the repository is thus a complex multidisciplinary problem requiring knowledge in chemical thermodynamics, structural chemistry, fluid dynamics, geo- and radiochemistry. Broad aspects of radionuclide thermodynamics and geochemistry are investigated in state-of-the-art radiochemical laboratories at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The research conducted over the last 30 years has resulted in a fundamental understanding of the radionuclides release, retention and transport mechanism in the repository system.
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sunarto, sunarto, and sutrisno sutrisno. "Internalisasi Civic Engagement di Perguruan Tinggi melalui Program Kuliah Kerja Nyata." Jurnal Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraaan 6, no. 1 (January 25, 2021): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24269/jpk.v6.n1.2021.pp57-67.
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This study aims to determine the internalization of student engagement through the thematic KKN program at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). This research is a qualitative research, with a special study approach at ITB at the Institute for Research and Community Service. Data collection was carried out by interviewing institution managers, implementing students as well as observing and documenting KKN activities. Data analysis was carried out by reading the entire transcript to obtain information, compiling it, then obtaining the results of the general pattern of data, grouping data, and carrying out the sequence of events, categories and typologies. The research was conducted at ITB, data collection was obtained by means of observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this study explain that civic engagement developed at the Bandung Institute of Technology is integrated in the thematic real work lecture program (KKN-T). Civic engagement is actualized in the form of four basic themes, namely the theme of water, the theme of education, the theme of infrastructure and the theme of energy. These four themes are the main issues for students to participate in the community environment in order to prepare young people who have a high sense of social humanity to live as a nation and state based on the philosophical values of the Indonesian nation.
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Memon, Tanveer, Khalid Khan, Abdul Jabbar, and Perveen Akhter. "Assessment of the ambient dose rate around research reactors by thermoluminescence dosimeters." Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection 25, no. 1 (2010): 41–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ntrp1001041m.
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Monitoring of radiation levels in and around the nuclear research reactors is essential to safe-guarding life and the environment. Background radiation monitoring at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (PINSTECH) has been carried out since the early sixties, before the criticality of the 5 MW Pakistan Research Reactor, so as to confirm the safe operation of PINSTECH nuclear facilities. In the present study, ambient dose rate levels were measured around PINSTECH by using TLD-200 (G-2 cards) installed at 15 different locations over a five year period (1998-2002). The mean dose rates for individual locations in the said period ranged from 0.14 ? 0.01 to 0.19 ? 0.03 ?Sv/h, with a mean value of 0.16 ? 0.03 ?Sv/h. The cu- mulative average annual effective dose equivalent spread over 5 years was 204.4 ? 17 ?Sv. The data were compared with the world and averages in other countries. It was concluded that, from the health hazard point of view, the operation of research reactors and other nuclear facilities at PINSTECH presents no risk to public health.
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Ambole, Amollo, Kweku Koranteng, Peris Njoroge, and Douglas Logedi Luhangala. "A Review of Energy Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Transition Pathway to Energy Democracy." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 17, 2021): 2128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042128.
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Energy communities have received considerable attention in the Global North, especially in Europe, due to their potential for achieving sustainable energy transitions. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), energy communities have received less attention partly due to the nascent energy systems in many emerging SSA states. In this paper, we argue that these nascent energy systems offer an opportunity to co-create energy communities that can tackle the energy access challenges faced by most SSA countries. To understand how such energy communities are realised in the sub-region, we undertake a systematic review of research on energy communities in 46 SSA countries. Our findings show that only a few energy projects exhibit the conventional characteristics of energy communities; In most of these projects, local communities are inadequately resourced to institute and manage their own projects. We thus look to stakeholder engagement approaches to propose co-design as a strategy for strengthening energy communities in SSA. We further embed our co-design proposal in energy democracy thinking to argue that energy communities can be a pathway towards equity and energy justice in SSA. We conclude that energy communities can indeed contribute to improving energy access in Africa, but they need an enabling policy environment to foster their growth and sustainability.
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Siddiqui, Kamaluddin. "Growing numbers and dwindling resources, Edited by Rekha Krishan Pachauri and Leena Srivastava. Tata Energy Research Institute, US$44.00 (hbk). ISBN 81 85419 08 6." Sustainable Development 3, no. 3 (1995): 159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.3460030308.
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Ali, Ruba, Jolly Bhadra, Nitha Siby, Zubair Ahmad, and Noora Jabor Al-Thani. "A STEM Model to Engage Students in Sustainable Science Education through Sports: A Case Study in Qatar." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 21, 2021): 3483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063483.
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Sports has the potential to integrate with different scientific subjects, including materials science and engineering, making it an ideal approach to enhance the students’ affinity toward sustainable education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Amid gradual educational reformations in the state of Qatar, a distinctive STEM program titled, “Science in Sports” (SIS) was launched to investigate STEM integrated learning in secondary school students. The participant students, 248 students (112 females and 136 males) from 15 different government-operated (public) secondary schools, from rural and urban areas, were given STEM workshops on one of the sports materials, during this pilot study, resultantly challenging them to engineer a sports product. The study employed a mixed-method study in which quantitative approaches were applied to analyze the program effectiveness, with a t-test statistical analysis performed over data collected from a period of five continuous years from 2012 to 2017 in five different cycles. A more dominant data collection included pre and post surveys, substantiating observations of the program facilitator and their schoolteachers were included in this research and development (R&D) study to review the student learning behavior for a qualitative approach. Moreover, the results of the strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis provided an overview of the program’s effectiveness in implicating the engagement of the students in exhibiting their prototypical skills in engineering sports products along with STEM literacy. Apart from understanding the scientific concepts/principles applied in simple sports applications, student attitudes toward STEM fields augmented, as witnessed by the student productivity.
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Chesnokov, A. V., V. G. Volkov, Y. A. Zverkov, O. P. Ivanov, A. V. Lemus, S. G. Semenov, V. E. Stepanov, and A. D. Shisha. "Remediation of the high-level radwaste repositories at Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”." Radioprotection 44, no. 5 (2009): 971–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/20095173.
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Angeloni, Maria Terezinha, Rafael Zimmermann Homma, Luiz Afonso Pereira Athayde Filho, and Aldo Cosentino. "Information and knowledge management in research and development projects – a case study." Revista Ibero-Americana de Estratégia 15, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/ijsm.v15i1.2299.
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This article aims to present the Information and Knowledge Management Plan, which aims to support the processes of creation, acquisition, sharing, storage, (re)use, protection and transfer of information and knowledge, proposed for a Research and Development Project for the sponsor enterprise/client - Celesc Distribution, company from the electricity sector in Santa Catarina and executed by the Institute of Studies and Energy Management – INERGE. The project is part of the RD program of the National Electric Energy Agency - ANEEL in accordance with the law number no 9.991/2000. The theoretical reference is based on the areas of Project Management and Knowledge Management. Methodologically it is characterized as an interorganizational, interproject research of experimental development. The results are not effective yet, due to the little time of implementation of the project. However it may be inferred that the systematization of the information and knowledge from a single environment, in addition to giving support to the development of the activities of the project teams, will support the processes of information and knowledge management and, essentially, the transfer of the information and knowledge from the executor company and its partners to the sponsor/client company.
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Hagley, E. A. C., and N. Miles. "RELEASE OF CHRYSOPERLA CARNEA STEPHENS (NEUROPTERA: CHRYSOPIDAE) FOR CONTROL OF TETRANYCHUS URTICAE KOCH (ACARINA: TETRANYCHIDAE) ON PEACH GROWN IN A PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT STRUCTURE." Canadian Entomologist 119, no. 2 (February 1987): 205–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent119205-2.
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Research into the feasibility of growing peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] in a protected environment structure (PES) was initiated in 1981 by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food at the Horticultural Research Institute, Vineland Station (Leuty and Miles 1983).The 0.2-ha PES comprised seven gutter-connected greenhouses, each 5.3 by 58.5 m, with 3.4-m gutter height fibreglass walls and a double polyethylene roof. Temperatures suitable for plant growth were obtained by capturing solar energy beneath the plastic enclosure. Diurnal temperatures ranged between 6 and 27°C. Relative humidity varied between 40 and 95% and remained above 90% within the covered structure for greater than 50% of the time period between bloom (March 20) and roof removal sometime in May.
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Mahmood, Mir Annice. "Rekha Krishnan (ed). Growing Numbers and Dwindling Resources. New Delhi: Tata Energy Research Institute, 1994. XVIII+I71 pages. Indian Rupees 440.00. US $44.00. Hardbound." Pakistan Development Review 34, no. 3 (September 1, 1995): 303–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v34i3pp.303-305.
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The issue of sustainable development, which is defined as the balancing of environmental protection with the generation of increased opportunities for employment and higher living standards, has assumed great importance in recent years. This has been due to the concern expressed by environmentalists that economic growth in developed and developing countries is having a negative impact on regional and international eco-systems. The increasing global environmental degradation has even spurred international organisations like the World Bank to provide capital and other expertise to help halt and, where possible, to reverse the process of environmental decay. This volume consists of papers presented at a two-day seminar on Population and Natural Resources organised by the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in New Delhi in the latter part of 1993. Divided in seven sections, it examines in detail the relationship of the growth of population, poverty, and economic activity with the environment, and the implications that this has for sustainable development.
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Prandecki, Konrad, Wioletta Wrzaszcz, and Marek Zieliński. "Environmental and Climate Challenges to Agriculture in Poland in the Context of Objectives Adopted in the European Green Deal Strategy." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 15, 2021): 10318. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810318.
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The European Green Deal strategy, prepared in 2019, involves a number of challenges for European agriculture. These challenges are broadly linked to a need for agriculture to undertake actions in order to improve environmental and climate protection, which will require changes in agricultural practices and the currently observed industrialization processes of agriculture that are destabilizing ecosystems and climate. In view of the diversity of agriculture and its impacts on the environment, it is important to identify the challenges faced by the EU Member States. The aim of this paper is to identify the main environmental and climate challenges that agriculture in Poland will have to face due to the current European Green Deal strategy and its objectives, taking into account the organizational changes in this sector so far and the existing forms of environmental protection in rural areas. The paper is based on empirical data from the Farm Structure Survey conducted by Statistics Poland in 2005, 2007 and 2016, data on greenhouse gas emissions of agricultural origin gathered by the National Centre for Emissions Management (KOBiZE), data from the European Commission, the General Directorate for Environmental Protection and the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation—State Research Institute concerning the delimitation of the Natura 2000 areas in Poland and the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics—National Research Institute on three national variants of High Nature Value Farmland areas delimited for the needs of the European Commission, as well as data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development regarding the delimitation of the less favoured areas with high natural value. In addition, a literature review was conducted indicating the links between agriculture, the environment and climate. The results of the study illustrate the state of Polish agriculture and the changes in this sector in the context of environmental and climate challenges. The results also identify the most difficult areas that will require practical solutions in the future to implement the European Green Deal strategy in Poland. The findings will provide an important basis for policy makers in terms of effective support of agriculture and for the scientific community with regard to agricultural research, which should be particularly developed in order to be able to adapt the agricultural sector to new challenges.
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Ma, Jinyuan. "Developing Joint R&D Institutes between Chinese Universities and International Enterprises in China’s Innovation System: A Case at Tsinghua University." Sustainability 11, no. 24 (December 12, 2019): 7133. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11247133.
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This paper examines the role of joint R&D institutes co-established by Chinese research universities and international enterprises. Guided by an analytical framework of institutional logics in the evolution of the Triple Helix model, this study aims to explore the institutionalization process of a joint R&D institute in the contexts of global and Chinese innovation systems; further, it analyzes which mingling institutional logics, respectively carried by a Chinese research university and an international enterprise, affect the collaboration between both parties moving from informal R&D collaboration toward an institutionalized organization. The case study method enabled the author to understand the complexity of the interlacing of international and national actors with regards to the joint R&D institutes. The contribution of the study to the existing literature is two-fold: on the conceptual front, it advances theoretical understandings of the interactions of institutional logics which result in varied patterns of joint R&D institute in a national context with transnational factors; on the empirical front, it examines the evolutionary path of a joint R&D institute established by a Chinese research university and an international enterprise.