Abriendo el camino a la Personalidad Jurídica de 30 millones de amigos

Tuvimos el privilegio de hacer nuestras prácticas curriculares con la maravillosa ONG francesa, “Fondation 30 millions d’Amis”. En estos tiempos de gran cambio, tuvimos la oportunidad de contribuir a proponer un cambio legislativo en el Código Francés: para cambiar el estatuto jurídico del animal, algo por lo cual la organización ha luchado durante años

Risk analysis of innovative maritime transport solutions using the extended failure mode and effects analysis fmea methodology

This paper presents a validated set of innovative maritime solutions analyzing, based on the extended"br" Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) methodology, the main risks that could potentially hinder or delay"br" their implementation, thus providing a set of appropriate strategies and measures that can be adopted for"br" mitigating those risks. Document type: Part of book or chapter of boo

Internal control and human resource management

Η εν λόγω διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζει τις έννοιες του Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου (ΕΕ) και της Ανθρώπινου Δυναμικού (ΔΑΔ) και περιγράφει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο οι παραπάνω έννοιες ωφελούν τις λειτουργίες ενός οργανισμού. Η μελέτη παρέχει ορισμούς για τις παραπάνω έννοιες και απεικονίζει τη δομή της εφαρμογής τους. Περιγράφει τον Εσωτερικό Έλεγχο (ΕΕ) και την Διοίκηση Ανθρωπίνου Δυναμικού (ΔΑΔ) και πώς αλληλοεπιδρούν προκειμένου να επιτύχουν τους στόχους ενός οργανισμού. Στο πλαίσιο της εργασίας, πραγματοποιήθηκε μία ποιοτική έρευνα για τη διερεύνηση της σχέσης μεταξύ ΕΕ και ΔΑΔ στο δημόσιο τομέα. Η έρευνα επικεντρώνεται σε ΕΕ και ΔΑΔ και αναλύει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο οι εργαζόμενοι αντιλαμβάνονται τις έννοιες αυτές στα τμήματα τους.The thesis is about providing an insight on the concepts of Internal Control (IC) and Human Resource Management (HRM) and to describe the way they benefit an organization’s functions. The study provides definitions for the above concepts and illustrates their implementation structure. It describes IC and HRM and how they interact in order to achieve an organization’s goals. In the context of the study, a qualitative research was conducted to investigate the relationship between IC and HRM at the public sector. The research focuses on IC and HRM and analyzes employee’s perception within their departments

The three R’s of scientific integrity:Replicability, reproducibility, and robustness

It has been proposed that memory retrieval can destabilize consolidated memories, after which they need to be reconsolidated in order to be retained. The presentation of relevant information during memory reconsolidation could then result in the modification of a destabilized memory trace, by allowing the memory trace to be updated before being reconsolidated. In line with this idea, Schiller et al. (2010) have demonstrated that memory retrieval shortly before extinction training can prevent the later recovery of conditioned fear responding that is observed after regular extinction training. Those findings have been the subject of considerable controversy, due in part to theoretical reasons but also due to a number of failures to obtain similar results in conceptual replication attempts. Here, we report the results of a highly powered, direct, independent replication of the critical conditions of Schiller et al. (2010, Experiment 1). Due to misrepresentation of the exclusion criteria in the original Schiller et al. (2010) report, data collection was considerably delayed. When we eventually managed to attain our pre-registered sample size, we found that we could not observe any benefit of reactivation-extinction over regular extinction training in preventing recovery of conditioned fear. The results of the present study, along with the mixed findings in the literature and the misreporting in Schiller et al. (2010), give cause to question whether there is robust evidence that reactivation-extinction prevents the return of fear in humans.status: publishe

Fabrication of ceramic hollow beads by phase inversion method

In this study ceramic hollow beads with a diameter of around 1-2mm but a uniform size were prepared by a phase inversion method and subsequent thermal treatment. During phase inversion a homogeneous polymer solution is transformed into a two-phase system in which a solidified polymer phase forms a porous structure, while a liquid phase, poor in polymer, fills the pores. In the current study a desired amount of ceramic powder e.g aluminium oxide (Al2O3), yttria-stabilized zirconia (8-YSZ) is added to a polymer solution, which consists of polymer polyethersulfone (PESf) in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). The ceramic/ polymer/ solvent system can be seen as a suspension. Once immersed into a non-solvent (water) for the polymer which is miscible with the solvent, solvent/non solvent exchange takes place, leading to the precipitation of the polymer phase. Ceramic particles are immobilized by the polymer once precipitation takes place. Thermal treatment removes the polymer, forming inorganic beads of porous ceramic structure1. The features of the as formed porous macrostructure of the beads can be largely determined by adjusting parameters of the phase inversion process. The samples were characterized using scanning electron microscope (SEM), mercury intrusion porosimetry and thermogravimetric analysis1-6. The as formed ceramic beads show high degree of porosity and a hierarchical microstructure7-8. This microstructure is maintained even after thermal treatment at elevated temperatures (>1200oC). Critical factors affecting the structure and the properties of the ceramic beads such as viscosity of the slurry, ceramic powder/polymer ratio and sintering temperature were studied

A Combined Rheological and Thermomechanical Analysis Approach for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Polymer Blends

The viscoelastic nature of polymeric formulations utilised in drug products imparts unique thermomechanical attributes during manufacturing and over the shelf life of the product. Nevertheless, it adds to the challenge of understanding the precise mechanistic behaviour of the product at the microscopic and macroscopic level during each step of the process. Current thermomechanical and rheological characterisation techniques are limited to assessing polymer performance to a single phase and are especially hindered when the polymers are undergoing thermomechanical transitions. Since pharmaceutical processing can occur at these transition conditions, this study successfully proposes a thermomechanical characterisation approach combining both mechanical and rheological data to construct a comprehensive profiling of polymeric materials spanning both glassy and rubbery phases. This approach has been used in this study to assess the mechanical and rheological behaviour of heterogenous polymer blends of hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) over a shearing rate range of 0.1-100 s(-1) and a temperature range of 30-200 degrees C. The results indicate that HPC and HPMC do not appear to interact when mixing and that their mixture exhibits the mechanistic properties of the two individual polymers in accordance with their ratio in the mixture. The ability to characterise the behaviour of the polymers and their mixtures before, throughout, and after the glassy to rubbery phase transition by application of the combined techniques provides a unique insight towards a quality-by-design approach to this and other polymer-based solid dosage forms, designed with the potential to accelerate their formulation process through obviating the need for multiple formulation trials

Business cases, potential new functions and technology implementation plan

D5.3.1: Business cases, and potential new functions has been renamed within D5.3.1 as follows: ‘Business cases, and potential new functions and Technology Implementation Plan’ - to include also the Technology Implementation Plan, planned in the DoW as the main outcome from T5.3.1 Exploitable Result Cases. This Deliverable includes references to the main activities to be performed in WP 5.3 Facilitation of Exploitation and has strong links to other Work packages and Sub Projects activities