EU-US S&T Collaborations, Challenges and Opportunities for Development. Innovation Diplomacy, Special case in point: the Hellenic-American innovation bridge and its underlying dimensions. ACES Working Papers, October 2012

Developed and developing economies alike face increased resource scarcity and competitive rivalry. Science and technology increasingly appear as a main source of competitive and sustainable advantage for nations are regions alike. However, the key determinant of their efficacy is the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship-enabled innovation that unlocks and captures the pecuniary benefits of science enterprise in the form of private, public or hybrid goods (for instance, bio-entrepreneur-millionaires, knowledge for the public good - ie: public health awareness, and new public-private research centers funded partly by bio-entrepreneur-millionaires and monies levied as taxes on bio-ventures).

Estimating the Bridge Financing Needs of the Single Resolution Fund: How expensive is it to resolve a bank? CEPS Special Report No. 122, 25 November 2015

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) will be responsible for the resolution of banks in the euro area from 1 January 2016. However, the resources of the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) at the disposal of the SRB will only gradually be built up until 2023. This paper provides estimates of the potential financing needs of the SRF, based on the euro area bank resolutions that actually occurred between 2007 and 2014. We find that the SRF would have been asked to put a total amount of about €72 billion into these failing banks, which is more than the target for the SRF (€55 billion) but less than the amount the SRF could draw on, if the ex-post levies are also taken into account. As this sum would have been required over eight years, the broad conclusion is that bridge financing, in addition to the existing alternative funding, would only have been needed in the early years of the transition.

Progetto di un convertitore full-bridge phase-shifted isolato a commutazione risonante

L'evoluzione della tecnologia allo stato solido e il fiorire di nuove applicazioni determinano una forte spinta verso la miniaturizzazione dei convertitori elettronici di potenza. Questa riduzione di pesi ed ingombri è particolarmente sentita anche in quei convertitori di media potenza che necessitano di un trasformatore d'isolamento. In quest'ambito assume importante rilievo l'utilizzo di una architettura circuitale a ponte intero e di tecniche in grado di spingere la frequenza di commutazione il più in alto possibile. Questa tesi si propone quindi di studiare a fondo il funzionamento dei convertitori DC/DC isolati di tipo Full-Bridge e pilotati con la tecnica di modulazione Phase-Shifted che ben si presta all'impiego di commutazioni risonanti del tipo Zero-Voltage-Switching. L'analisi teorica sarà corroborata da simulazioni condotte su LTspice e sarà orientata all'individuazione di una metodologia di progetto generale per questo tipo di convertitori. Al fine di formalizzare meglio il progetto si è individuata una possibile applicazione nell'alimentazione di un DC-bus per telecomunicazioni (48 Volt DC sostenuti da batterie) a partire da una fonte di energia fotovoltaica quale una stringa di pannelli operanti con tensioni variabili da 120 a 180 Volt DC. Per questo particolare tipo di applicazione in discesa può avere senso l'impiego di un rettificatore del tipo a duplicazione di corrente, che quindi si provvederà a studiare e ad implementare a secondario del trasformatore d'isolamento. Infine particolare cura sarà dedicata alla parte di controllo che si ha intenzione di integrare all'interno di LTspice così da riuscire a simulare il comportamento dinamico del convertitore e verificare quanto predetto in via teorica mediante l'impiego della procedura che utilizza il K-Factor per la realizzazione della rete compensatrice.

Fault diagnosis of an automotive suspension system

With the development of the embedded application and driving assistance systems, it becomes relevant to develop parallel mechanisms in order to check and to diagnose these new systems. In this thesis we focus our research on one of this type of parallel mechanisms and analytical redundancy for fault diagnosis of an automotive suspension system. We have considered a quarter model car passive suspension model and used a parameter estimation, ARX model, method to detect the fault happening in the damper and spring of system. Moreover, afterward we have deployed a neural network classifier to isolate the faults and identifies where the fault is happening. Then in this regard, the safety measurements and redundancies can take into the effect to prevent failure in the system. It is shown that The ARX estimator could quickly detect the fault online using the vertical acceleration and displacement sensor data which are common sensors in nowadays vehicles. Hence, the clear divergence is the ARX response make it easy to deploy a threshold to give alarm to the intelligent system of vehicle and the neural classifier can quickly show the place of fault occurrence.

Rapid carbon nanotubes suspension in organic solvents using organosilicon polymers

A strategy for a simple dispersion of commercial multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) using two organosilicones, polycarbosilane SMP10 and polysilazane Ceraset PSZ20, in organic solvents such as cyclohexane, tetrahydrofuran (THF), m-xylene and chloroform is presented. In just a few minutes the combined action of sonication and the presence of Pt(0) catalyst is sufficient to obtain a homogeneous suspension, thanks to the rapid hydrosilylation reaction between SiH groups of the polymer and the CNT sidewall. The as-produced suspensions have a particle size distribution <1μm and remain unchanged after several months. A maximum of 0.47 and 0.50mg/ml was achieved, respectively, for Ceraset in THF and SMP10 in chloroform. Possible applications as polymeric and ceramic thin films or aerogels are presented.

Alegatos que presentan ante la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación las siguentes compañías y personas, Compañía Transcontinental de Petróleo S.A., International Petroleum Company, Huasteca Petroleum Company, Tuxpan Petroleum Company, Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo S.A., Tamiahua Petroleum Company, Señores Doheny & Bridge, The Texas Company of México, La Atlántica, New England Fuel Oil Company, Pánuco-Boston Oil Company, Mexican Gulf Oil Company, Continental Mexican Petroleum Company, Gompañía [sic] de Petróleo "La Corona", Compañía Petrolera Tal Vez, Compañía Terminal de Productores, Scotish [sic] Mexican Oil Company, Charles F. de Ganahl, El Azadón Company, Soledad Oil Company, Piedras Development Company, Tancochin Oil Company, Lot Seventeen, Malcon Anderson Company, George L. Christie, Seabord Fuel Company, Tamalin Oil Company, Juanedo Oil Company, Compañía Indiana y El Tigre, Compañía Agrícola Pretrolera [sic] Mexicana, Compañía

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