2nd International Congress on Water and Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Valentina Buscio Olivera ◽  
Lluc Canals Casals ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Industrial Cooperation ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This Conference is the consequence of the conjunction of the results and progress of the ongoing research on the water treatment ENMA group at the University and the particular social and political moment that water management is facing in Catalonia and, particularly in the city of Terrassa, that locates the INTEXTER (Institute for Textile Research and Industrial Cooperation of Terrassa), venue of the Conference. This congress aims to give space for a scientific debate and reflection on water and its importance with regard to the environment and wider society. We hope that this initiative will consolidate the entire educational, scientific and professional community to respond to the prospective challenges that the development and implementation of new technologies brings together with their impacts in relation to water. Please, enjoy the presentations, posters, sessions and the whole event activities.

Geographic Proximity and Science Parks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert N. Link ◽  
John T. Scott
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Science Parks ◽  
Geographic Proximity ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The University

Science parks, also called research parks, technology parks, or technopolis infrastructures, have increased rapidly in number as many countries have adopted the approach of bringing research-based organizations together in a park. A science park’s cluster of research and technology-based organizations is often located on or near a university campus. The juxtaposition of ongoing research of both the university and the park tenants creates a two-way flow of knowledge; knowledge is transferred between the university and firms, and all parties develop knowledge more effectively because of their symbiotic relationship. Theory and evidence support the belief that the geographic proximity provided to the participating organizations by a science park creates a dynamic cluster that accelerates economic growth and international competitiveness through the innovation-enabling exchanges of knowledge and the transfer of technologies. The process of creating innovations is more efficient because of the agglomeration of research and technology-based firms on or near a university campus. The proximity of a park to multiple sources of knowledge provides greater opportunities for the creation and acquisition of knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, and the geographic proximity therefore reduces the search and acquisition costs for that knowledge. The clustering of multiple research and technology-based organizations within a park enables knowledge spillovers, and with greater productivity from research resources and lower costs, prices for new technologies can be lower, stimulating their use and regional development and growth. In addition to the clustering of the organizations within a park, the geographic proximity of universities affiliated with a park matters too. Evidence shows that a park’s employment growth is greater, other things being the same, when its affiliated university is geographically closer, although evidence suggests that effect has lessened in the 21st century because of the information and communications technology revolution. Further stimulating regional growth, university spin-off companies are more prevalent in a park when it is geographically closer to the affiliated university. The two-way flow of knowledge enabled by clusters of research and technology-based firms in science parks benefits firms located on the park and the affiliated universities. Understanding the mechanisms by which the innovative performance of research and technology-based organizations is increased by their geographic proximity in a science park is important for formulating public and private sector policies toward park formations because successful national innovation systems require the two-way knowledge flow, among firms in a park and between firms and universities, that is fostered by the science park infrastructure.

Precarious, fragile and temporary interactions between the public sculpture collection of Santo Tirso and its non-specialized audience

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Physical Relationship ◽  
The Public ◽  
Museum Displays ◽  
Online Archive ◽  
Contemporary Sculpture ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The following article depicts ongoing research from the project Quiet Dialogues, part of a Ph.D. thesis in artistic education in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Quiet Dialogues is a project that aims to map, explore and materialize the interactions that occur between the passer-by audience of the city and the International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Santo Tirso. The project’s resulting map will be in a public online archive showcasing all the interactions collected during the research. As the museum displays its artworks in the public space, this research explores three behavioural categories the audience may react towards the artwork. They are as follows: a mental relationship (a stand-off with the memory), a physical relationship (using the sculpture as shelter or support) and a playful interaction (using the sculpture as a game or in a ludic approach).

Address to the Opening Session of the XV International Congress of the History of Science, Edinburgh, 11 August 1977

1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Joseph Needham
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Opening Session

My assignment today, as I understand it, is to say something about the Second International Congress of the History of Science, the only previous one held in the United Kingdom; to mention some of the great historians of science which these islands have produced; and to direct our thoughts for a few moments to the historiography of science, technology and medicine, namely the guiding ideas in the light of which one should attempt to write it. So much has already been said in thanks to the city and the university in which we are now assembled that I could hardly add to it, except to express my personal sense of elation at coming on this occasion to the ‘Athens of the North’ where so many distinguished men have lived in the past, from mediaeval times onwards.

scholarly journals From the Sum of Near-Zero Energy Buildings to the Whole of a Near-Zero Energy Housing Settlement: The Role of Communal Spaces in Performance-Driven Design

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Artopoulos ◽  
Gloria Pignatta ◽  
Mattheos Santamouris
Keyword(s):  
Production Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Simulation Engine ◽  
The City ◽  
Zero Energy Buildings

Almost a century ago Modernism challenged the structure of the city and reshaped its physical space in order to, amongst other things, accommodate new transportation infrastructure and road networks proclaiming the, nowadays much-debated ‘scientificated’ pursuit of efficiency for the city. This transformation has had a great impact on the way humans still design, move in, occupy and experience the city. Today major cities in Europe, such as Paris and London, are considering banning vehicles from their historic centers. In parallel, significant effort is currently underway internationally by designers, architects, and engineers to integrate innovative technologies and sophisticated solutions for energy production, management, and storage, as well as for efficient energy consumption, into the architecture of buildings. In general, this effort seeks for new technologies and design methods (e.g., DesignBuilder with EnergyPlus simulation engine; Rhicoceros3D with Grasshopper plugin and Ecotect, Radiance and EnergyPlus tools) that would enable a holistic approach to the spatial design of Near-Zero Energy buildings, so that their ecological benefits are an added value to the architectural design and a building’s visual, and material, impact on its surrounding space. The paper inquires how the integration of such technological infrastructure and performance-orientated interfaces changes yet again the structure and form of cities, and to what extent it safeguards social rights and enables equal access to common resources. Drawing from preliminary results and initial considerations of ongoing research that involve the construction of four innovative NZE settlements across Europe, in the context of the EU-funded ZERO-PLUS project, this paper discusses the integration of novel infrastructure in communal spaces of these settlements. In doing so, it contributes to the debate about smart communities and their role in the sustainable management of housing developments and settlements that are designed and developed with the concept of smart territories.

scholarly journals Editorial to selected papers from the International Conference IMEKOFOODS 2016

ACTA IMEKO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Claudia Zoani
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Special Section ◽  
National Agency ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Quality And Safety ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

<p>This special section of ACTA IMEKO is dedicated to a selection of papers related to the International Conference IMEKOFOODS “Metrology Promoting Objective and Measurable Food Quality and Safety”, which took place in Benevento (Italy) on 2015, organised by the University of Sannio, ENEA (the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) and the IMEKO TC 23 “Metrology in Food and Nutrition”. The general objective is to promote the discussion, the scientific debate and the encounter between the different realities that revolve around the "world of measures", promoting the harmonization and integration and addressing the "world of research" to the emerging needs of the civil society and the productive sectors. In particular, this issue contains 2 papers representing the extended versions and advancements of selected papers presented at the 2nd IMEKOFOODS Conference.</p>

scholarly journals Recent Development in Hydro Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Hydraulic Structures ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Sewage System ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Hydro Science (HS) is a branch of science associated with engineering and technologies in hydraulics, hydrology, and water management. Its development is closely linked to the progress of human being civilization. Traditional HS has made a significant contribution to human living standard and health. The water treatment and supplying system and the city sewage system enabled people to have clean water to drink and have their wastewater removed. In addition, the irrigation hydraulic structures like channels and dams increased the product of agriculture to eliminate starvation in the world. 

Milestone solution for snow removal problem in Moscow

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Winter Period ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Snow Removal ◽  
Surface Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Deicing Agents

The main principle of the strategy for the complex improvement of the functioning of northern cities in winter, including their infrastructure development, is a comprehensive solution of the problem of industrial-scale snow-mass collection, removal and utilization at different areas of urban roadway networks. For its implementation in the capital of Russia, “MosvodokanalNIIproject” JSC developed in 2002 the Snow Removal Master Plan for the city of Moscow. The meteorological conditions in the city, which have changed considerably in the recent years, including the changes in the snow-cover depth and in the road-surface areas to be cleaned, as well as emerging of new technologies for the cleaning of urban streets, yards and sidewalks and some new types of deicing agents, resulted in the necessity to update the above-mentioned Snow Removal Master Plan developed for the city of Moscow. Efficient application of deicing agents is of special importance for its updating in the context of the environmental safety of the city in a winter period. The article considers the results of the implementation of the updated Snow Removal Master Plan and contains some proposals concerning snow removal under the conditions of extreme snowfalls.

Interdepartmental BIM-elective of the university as a basis for the implementation of the new technologies in the educational process

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Vsevolodovna Gavrilova ◽  
Liubov Leonidovna Kniazeva ◽  
Vadim Viacheslavovich Koykov ◽  
Oleg Pavlovich Fyodorov
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The University

The Role of Industry-Academia Collaborative Research in Mineral Exploration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Marlatt
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Economic Mineral

ABSTRACT Many people may not be aware of the extent of Kurt Kyser's collaboration with mineral exploration companies through applied research and the development of innovative exploration technologies, starting at the University of Saskatchewan and continuing through the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research. Applied collaborative, geoscientific, industry-academia research and development programs can yield technological innovations that can improve the mineral exploration discovery rates of economic mineral deposits. Alliances between exploration geoscientists and geoscientific researchers can benefit both parties, contributing to the pure and applied geoscientific knowledge base and the development of innovations in mineral exploration technology. Through a collaboration that spanned over three decades, we gained insight into the potential for economic uranium deposits around the world in Canada, Australia, USA, Finland, Russia, Gabon, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, and Guyana. Kurt, his research team, postdoctoral fellows, and students developed technological innovations related to holistic basin analysis for economic mineral potential, isotopes in mineral exploration, and biogeochemical exploration, among others. In this paper, the business of mineral exploration is briefly described, and some examples of industry-academic collaboration innovations brought forward through Kurt's research are identified. Kurt was a masterful and capable knowledge broker, which is a key criterion for bringing new technologies to application—a grand, curious, credible, patient, and attentive communicator—whether talking about science, business, or life and with first ministers, senior technocrats, peers, board members, first nation peoples, exploration geologists, investors, students, citizens, or friends.

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