pilot and demonstration projects, bringing together industrial partners, SMES, research centres and universities across the EU helping to develop knowledge and foster innovation.
The'EPMT compound is an innovative breakthrough in more ways than one. The crushing of rubber waste is more environmentally friendly
and fixed braces (or train tracks). They may be made of metal, white porcelain or clear plastic.
and recover valuable cargo a European union (EU) funded research project has developed a unique emergency-response system with vast potential.
parachute-shaped"sea anchor"to slow down a drifting ship and put it in a better position for rescue and recovery operations.
First, a helicopter drops a lasso that is fastened to the ship's bow. Next, a 200-metre chain is dropped into the water.
At the end of the chain is a 30-metre-wide sea anchor that opens under water like a parachute both slowing down the drifting ship and turning it 90 degrees.
Although reducing the amount of disposable plastic products manufactured offers the most sustainable way forward,
The way Ultravisc does this is through the use of sensors to regulate the flow and viscosity of the feedstock during the extrusion process.
Hands-free driving hits the highway Known as"road trains,"a truck driven by a specially trained driver leads a procession of cars
directly addresses the three cornerstone issues of transportation: environment, safety and congestion. With the vehicles drafting a few metres behind each other, SARTRE short for"Safe Road trains for the Environment"can cut fuel consumption by up to 20%.
And SARTRE can improve how roads are utilised, since vehicles can travel very close together or drive long distances at night
when roads are used less. For drivers, SARTRE can reduce their stress and increase their comfort.
It combines the advantages of public transportation, with someone else doing the driving, and the freedom of a privately owned car that can leave the road train at any time.
creating meaningful synergies that have led already to spin-off technologies in the rapidly growing field of intelligent transport.
Such a wide-ranging project that involves long-distance travel would fit elegantly into Europe's transportation system.
By end of 2012, the SARTRE team hopes to add a fourth vehicle to the train,
and whether dedicated routes would be established, like traditional public transportation. An EU-wide legal framework will have to be developed to allow road trains to operate throughout Europe.
a UK-based transportation technology company that is leading the project.""And there is no need to change the road infrastructure,
which would allow SARTRE vehicles to use existing highways.""Project details Participants: United kingdom (Coordinator), Sweden, Spain, Germany FP7 Proj.
In this way, the cell ensures the old protein is replaced at the right place and the right moment."
The two EU projects, PROMS and EAF-PROMS, looked at ways of producing novel ultra strong steel grades with high manganese content.
mass production of high-manganese steel grades is possible using either the blast furnace-basic oxygen converter route or the electric arc furnace route.
on the back of PROMS and EAF-PROMS, the projectsindustrial partner, Salzgitter AG steel group, decided to build the world first line for production of high-manganese steel grades based on the electric arc furnace route.
The innovation developed by the project team could pave the way for the tailoring of polymers to specific industry needs.
By combining steel and concrete in prefabricated composite structures with reinforced concrete slabs, the European union (EU)- funded Preco-Beam project found a way to shave months off construction times
Already now eight new railway bridges using Preco-Beam have been built in Germany, Austria and Poland."
"is the way the steel connects to concrete, by a structure known as the composite dowel."
"For instance, when the 140-year-old railway overpass'Simmerbach',located in Germany, was rebuilt using Preco-Beam technology,
transport only had to be interrupted for a weekend. Composite structures-in which different building materials are combined-gained prominence in Europe because of their high resource efficiency and low maintenance requirement.
and utility and transport companies, and of course insurance companies. ur evaluation of potential markets, driven by our SME partners,
#ENEA-MATS#Egypt taps into solar#Fotolia 2012a#12.5 million EU-funded project in thecountry aims at taking the first tentativesteps to fulfilling this promise by exploitingthe abundance of solar energy
and scientists to develop pioneering ways for industrial robots to be more accurate, significantly reducing the time
reliable and cost-efficient ways of building all the tools and parts that go into our aircraft, cars,
Flexpakrenew has demonstrated at pilot scale that a set of technologies can be combined to produce performing paper-based packaging materials with a demonstrated environmental gain.
by decrypting the way they involuntarily communicate through chemical language. The larvae of flies live within broomrape seed capsules
And while the biotechstory is undoubtedly an exciting one it is equally important to find an economicallyviable way of implementing its techniques and getting the resulting products totheir end-users.
Incontrast with previous designs this one wouldbe capable of handling multiple feedstock'sprocessing them in multiple ways (chemicalbiochemical thermochemical) and producingmultiple products from aviation fuels tochemicals polymers and other materials.
the decision opened the way for trials of other plant-derived medicines to treat a range of diseases.
The robot feedback is amplified to help the surgeon feel his way around the brain. So what kind of operation could be perfomed with this type of robot?
a modulator and passive waveguides on silicon paves the way of further developments on integrated transceivers that can address several application needs in metropolitan and access networks, servers, data centres,
this could really change the way we farm
#Playing for health Consider the following health problems, related by three different people:""Every day I said to myself:'
""I'm a bus driver. And now I have serious difficulties moving the steering wheel while driving.
The European-wide approach is clearly mandatory to an initiative that is aiming to change the way science is carried out in a strategic field such as clinical neurosciences.
through insecticide-treated bednets and indoor sprays, is one of the best ways to win the battle.
This opens the way for more powerful alternatives to be used insecticides that remain effective against mosquitoes.
The new processing route uses European biomass as feedstock which will help to secure and increase the internal EU energy supply.
BIOCOUP will also help to make a significant contribution to the reduction of CO2 EMISSIONS in the transportation sector through the efficient utilisation of biomass material.
This enables a seamless integration of biorefinery coprocessing products to the end consumer for products such as transport fuels and chemicals.
This will encourage the acceptance of biomass and further the technological development of biomass production routes.
European researchers and their international partners have developed a new way to purify drinking water, dubbed the amily filter'because of its ease of use and affordability for even the poorest families.
Prevention is the only way to stop it, the experts lament. Thankfully, European researchers and their international partners at UNESCO's Institute for Water Education (IHE) in Holland have perfected a simple, efficient and importantly low-cost water filtration device
And in recent years, the Chinese behemoth has expanded in ways Netflix hasn't: It sells TV settop boxes
The phones are a way of delivering video.""What's going to be critical, "Howard says,
Basically, they see their phones as a way of delivering Chinese video to Chinese speakers in the United states. Then they may do much the same for people who've immigrated to the United states from other countries."
The ruins of the USSR's secret nuclear citiesthe burn of wasabi may lead to new pain medsthe quiet revolution turning roadsides into nature reservessubscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue
"This will serve as a way of using our project to...pave the way for more humanitarian purposes that we see as the highest and best use for our technology,
"he says.""If we can build a simple pool house, I can print thousands of refugee housings.
Even though non-ionizing radiation does not seem to affect the body in the way that ionizing radiation can,
There are a number of ways to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation, if users are worried about the possibility of health risks,
supported artists in the way they currently worked. The investments from the music industry are big piece of validation,
While factory farms are an efficient way to produce large amounts of animal products in a short time frame
and product transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions intensity 20 percent by 2020, compared to 2010. It said was the first IT company to set a supply chain emissions goal.
Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.
and accelerate more sustainable ways of living. They have since been joined by more than 20 other leading multinational companies including Diageo General mills Johnson & johnson Mcdonalds Microsoft Nestl
Collectively represents a new approach to the way businesses engage consumers on sustainability according to the coalition.
They will be retrofitted by or before the year 2025, with interim goals along the way.
This will range from promoting deep energy retrofits or piloting new technologies on City-owned properties to investing in training opportunities for its workforce.
and the internet of things and combine test beds projects and activities from different sectors including smart manufacturing healthcare smart energy intelligent transportation and disaster response.
To address the escalating demands of existing and future residents cities are looking for ways to introduce more technology to become smarter about the use of limited resources The Smart cities USA pilot project will give San jos residents real-time local data that can
When there is a local air quality alert residents can choose to take public transit bicycle or carpool to get to work
or school and thus reduce emissions and improve air quality. San jos known as the Capital of Silicon valley is installing a network of sensors to create a sustainability lens that uses Intel technology to measure characteristics such as particulates in the air noise pollution and traffic flow.
Such measurement data will produce meaningful insights that will lead to improvements in air quality noise transportation efficiency environmental sustainability health and energy efficiency.
#Tiny needles could target drugs to front of eye Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on November 14 2014microneedles almost too small to be seen with the naked eye may offer the best way
and could provide a new way to deliver drugs to specific areas within the eye relevant to these diseases.
and pushing their way through the wall of an artificial vessel lined with human endothelial cells the kind that line human blood vessels.
If we can find a way to stop one of these steps in the metastatic cascade we may be able to find a new strategy to slow down
and analyze them in sophisticated labs. Now a team of biologists has created a new tool that could provide a quick cheap way to perform sophisticated lab analyses
and diagnostics in the field and may also offer a way to speed science in the lab. The tool called a paper gene circuit takes biological reactions out of cells and puts them onto a piece of paper.
and putting them together in new ways. Pardee s circuits use a device called a##toehold switch##created by coauthor Alexander Green also a postdoctoral fellow at Boston and Pardee s colleague at the Wyss Institute
##Pardee wondered if there was a way to build a gene circuit that could function outside a cell.
#Iron-rich biochar filters arsenic from water Biochar may be a fast inexpensive and easy way to remove arsenicâ one of the world s most common pollutantsâ from water.
Arsenic finds its way into drinking water supplies through natural or human-made sources affects millions of people worldwide
and cost-effective way for arsenic removal says Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at University of Florida.
Homeowners could use a small filter attached to their tap. Further research is needed to optimize the process
and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
It s a surprisingly long road from Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug or technique to doctors actually using the new drug in their practices notes Weiss whose research focuses on how to get doctors to adopt best practices.
The current way to diagnose infection is a culture but those results take 48 to 72 hours.
and we worked intensively to test the integrity of this result in many ways and we found out how robust it was.
but we are keen to seek ways to stabilize the brain in normal operating regimes
Biomedical engineers exploring ways to toughen up engineered cartilage and keep natural tissues strong outside the body report new developments in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.##
Conventional fluorescent label-based virus detection methods require expensive lab equipment significant sample preparation transport and processing times and extensive training to use.
"In electronics the different components that make up a circuit are connected always in the same way:
Knowing more about filoviruses in general could provide insight into which host species might serve as##reservoirs##that harbor undiscovered pathogens related to Ebola
One way that Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogens can become resistant to antibiotics is to change the way they generate energy
if perhaps instead there are a bunch of organisms that became resistant in different ways and that can exchange the molecules they're each individually missing.
#Drug flips cells to limit damage after heart attack University of North carolina at Chapel hill rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on October 16 2014a new way to generate more blood vessels after a heart attack can reduce damage
if people respond in the same way.####After a heart attack fibroblasts replace damaged heart muscle with scar tissue.
Now engineers are developing a way to send power safely and wirelessly to smart chips programmed to perform medical tasks and report back the results.
The goal is to produce smaller devices that could be used to create a network of electrodes to study the brains of experimental animals in ways not currently possible."
if it was possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way? They decided it would be possible.
If the hypothesis holds true for human cells it could lead to a new way to treat cancer.
which helped screen patients for tertiary care and transport them to hospitals in urban centers.####The results of this study are important to India as it makes choices on how to make progress towards universal health coverage##says Onno Ruhl World bank Group Country Director for India.##
because the only way now known to##cure##the condition involves major gastric bypass surgery.##
##Our goal in this study was to find a safe and practical way of diminishing fat content in the liver.
##Before a new building is constructed the roads have to be in place so that the materials and equipment can be brought in##says Cao.##
Evilevitch believes that researchers now have a possible new way to prevent infectionâ blocking the phase transition.
We not only found a new way in which the pathogen (dengue virus) interferes with the host response (human immune system) we also uncovered the first mechanistic insight into how this non-coding RNA works says Garcia-Blanco.
One can imagine cosmetics companies being interested in the ability to measure skin s dryness in a portable and non-intrusive way Huang says.
But metagenomics is still some way from routine diagnostic use Pallen says. We have provided proof-of-principle here
and respond in a graduated way##says Wilbur Lam assistant professor in the pediatrics department at Emory University School of medicine and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Using a two-piece prototype device the test works this way: A patient sticks a finger with a lance similar to those used by diabetics to produce a droplet of blood.
##These particles could potentially be a way to obviate the need for a transfusion. Though they don t have all the assets of natural platelets a number of intriguing experiments have shown that the particles help augment the clotting process.##
##Like many other personal health technologies that have emerged in recent years the authors see this as a way to diagnose
or rectally offer a way to slow the spread of the virus notes lead researcher Toral Zaveri postdoctoral scholar in the food science department at Penn State.
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
However the new imaging method allows us for the first time to non-invasively see how the treatment is working live on the airway surface.
and immunology at University of Washington in St louis.##Now that our map of the combined structure of these two proteins has revealed one critical way Ebola does this the information it provides will guide the development of new treatments.##
& Microbe Amarasinghe and Daisy Leung assistant professor of pathology and immunology show that VP24 tightly binds to a nuclear transporter a protein that takes molecules into
and out of the cell nucleus. Among the molecules these transporters take into the nucleus is STAT1 an important component of the interferon signaling pathway.##
##But when VP24 is attached to some of these transporters STAT1 can t get into the nucleus.##The study shows that VP24 s action specifically prevents STAT1 transport.
Potentially we could use these cells in many more ways than current transplantation strategies to treat serious blood disorders
The researchers noted abrupt changes in each gut s bacterial composition along the way to 36 weeks in gestational age but found that somehow the gut ecosystems adjusted
allowing us to see vasculature in an almost noninvasive way, says first author Guosong Hong,
and avoid breeding dogs that harbor this mutation, thus gradually eliminating the disease from the Newfoundland breed,
#This can make the organs in your body transparent Scientists have developed a way to see through tissues, organs,
#Fabric dissolves to deliver HIV drug faster Bioengineers have developed a new way to protect women from HIV medicated,
discreet way to protect themselves from HIV infection by inserting the drug-loaded materials into the vagina before sex,
and sarin gas Scientists are developing a way to prevent brain damage among people exposed to poisonous chemicals found in pesticides and chemical weapons.
public health professor and a contributing author of the paper. his work suggests a way forward to alleviate mite-induced asthma in allergy sufferers.
Goldberg says. ee a long way from getting a new drug, but in the short term we may look at screening a variety of compounds to see
or finding new ways to relax at bedtime, suggests lead author Kendra Krietsh, who earned her bachelor degree in psychology from University of Arizona
The alcohol-insensitive mutation does not disrupt these functions at all. e got pretty lucky and found a way to make the channel insensitive to alcohol without affecting its normal function,
and coming up with better coping mechanisms to help adults deal with depression in a healthy way would be key. e are always thinking of 20-year-olds with depression
but his group wanted to work out a way to ust grow the needle without growing the hay.
developed a way to isolate and cultivate individual bacterial species of interest. He and his colleagues began by looking for bacterial species that contained a set of specific genetic sequences.
he says. iang solves this in a really clever way; he grows a compartment full of his target microbe in the Slipchip,
The way Deisseroth and his team eliminated the fat was to build a gel within the intact brain that held all the structures and proteins in place.
the team devised an alternate way of pulling out the fat from the hydrogel-embedded brain technique they call passive CLARITY.
While it s impossible to entirely eliminate risks due to environmental exposures Hertz-Picciotto says that finding ways to reduce exposures to chemical pesticides particularly for the very young is important.##
and hints at an easier way to achieve longevity. Researchers have found that taking food away from C. elegans triggers a state of arrested development:
The trick is to find a way to pharmacologically manipulate this process so that we can get the antiaging benefits without the pain of diet restriction.
If it doesn t have enough it stays at the toll booth until it has built up the nutrients necessary to get it the rest of the way.
if they can find another way to force C. elegans into these development holding patterns.
The research team wanted to find an easy way to measure eye pressure for management of glaucoma,
Right now there are two ways to check eye pressure, but both require a visit to the ophthalmologist.
there no consistent way to check their effectiveness. As a result many patients with the disease aren diagnosed early enough
The technology could make screening bags and passengers at airports less intrusive. It also has the potential to inspect food and even scan for tumors.
The researchers however found a way to create a small detector that is visible to the naked eye.
and make their way to the egg and fertilize it. Studies in the laboratory also suggest that sperm with poor morphology also swim less well
The UK Health and Safety Executive, the UK Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, the UK Department of health,
Longo likens the effect to lightening a plane of excess cargo. During each cycle of fasting, this depletion of white blood cells induces changes that trigger stem cell-based regeneration of new immune system cells.
a new immune system. 72-HOUR FAST Prolonged fasting also protected against toxicity in a pilot clinical trial in
These emerging threads have Kuo hopeful researchers will eventually be able to find the way to ngage certain circuits of the brain to lead to a hardware upgrade.
He says perhaps there will be a way to combine behavioral therapy and stem cell treatments after a brain injury to rebuild some of the damage.
and punches its way into cells Researchers have discovered how the deadly Ebola virus disease that many fear may be used for bioterrorismmashes its way into healthy cells and turns them into virus factories.
Published in the Journal of Virology, the new findings offers important insight into how the virus works its way into cells
The ph level inside the vesicle triggers the surface glycoprotein on the virus to form a istthat lets the virus punch its way into the cell cytoplasm,
and create new ways to treat illness and alleviate pain, says Ada Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university.
and ways must be found to power them wirelessly, deep in the brain, many centimeters from the surface,
paving the way for new innovation in this field. FAR-FIELD VS. NEAR-FIELD The crux of the discovery, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involves a new way to control electromagnetic waves inside the body.
Electromagnetic waves pervade the universe. We use them every day when we broadcast signals from giant radio towers, cook in microwave ovens,
Either way, far-field electromagnetic waves have been ignored as a potential wireless power source for medical devices. Near-field waves can be used safely in wireless power systems.
you can hear the vibration of the wheels long before the train itself because sound waves travel faster
it changed its characteristics in a way that enabled it to propagateust like the sound waves through the train track.
The result is an integrated circuit that controls small magnetic objects much like the way electrons are controlled on computer chips.
and analyze their genetic activity. aybe then we could find a way to target the dormant cells,
adds Yellen. ut theye on their way. This research had support from the National Science Foundation, the Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
#GPS for DNA pinpoints where your ancestors lived The new Geographic Population Structure (GPS) tool works somewhat like a satellite navigation system.
It helps you to find your way home, but not the one you currently live inather, your ancestral home from 1, 000 years ago.
hat we have discovereds a way to find not where you were borns you have that information on your passportut where your DNA was formed up to 1,
complementary capabilities in engineering design, at very low cost. ur original epidermal devices exploited specialized device geometriesuper thin, structured in certain ways,
so that no matter which way the patch bends, twists or stretches, the wires can unfold in any direction to accommodate the motion.
Jianping Fu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan, says the findings raise the possibility of a more efficient way to guide stem cells to differentiate
A signaling pathway is a route through which proteins ferry chemical messages from the cell borders to deep inside it.
pave the way for an urgently needed therapy that is highly effective against the flu virus
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