The economic potential of small modular reactors in integrated electricity systems

This report addresses the increasingly important interactions of variable renewables and dispatchable energy technologies, such as nuclear power, in terms of their effects on electricity systems. These effects add costs to the production of electricity, which are not usually transparent. The report recommends that decision-makers should take into account such system costs and internalise them according to a “generator pays” principle, which is currently not the case. Analysing data from six OECD/NEA countries, the study finds that including the system costs of variable renewables at the level of the electricity grid increases the total costs of electricity supply by up to one-third, depending on technology, country and penetration levels. In addition, it concludes that, unless the current market subsidies for renewables are altered, dispatchable technologies will increasingly not be replaced as they reach their end of life and consequently security of supply will suffer. This implies that significant changes in management and cost allocation will be needed to generate the flexibility required for an economically viable coexistence of nuclear energy and renewables in increasingly decarbonised electricity systems

EyesWeb XMI Open Software Platform

EyesWeb refers both to the research projects of InfoMus Lab (www.infomus.org) on multimodal interactive systems and expressive gesture, and to the open software platform to support the development of real-time multimodal distributed interactive applications. The EyesWeb project started in 1997, as a natural evolution of the HARP Project (see www.infomus.org). The current release of the open software platform is EyesWeb XMI (eXtended Multimodal Interaction), developed in the EU 7FP ICT Projects SAME (www.sameproject.eu), I-SEARCH, and FET SIEMPRE. The EyesWeb XMI software platform was originated in EU IST projects in the 5th (MEGA, www.megaproject.org) and 6th Framework Programme (TAI-CHI, Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction). EyesWeb has been adopted in several other EU projects, has been licensed to more than 15,000 individual users, companies, and institutions. EyesWeb is also used in University courses and summer schools (e.g. the New York University Summer Program on "Music, dance and new technologies", eNTERFACE EU Summer Workshop, SMC Summer Schools). EyesWeb is currently used also in several museum projects, therapy & rehabilitation (independent living), artistic performances. Download and more info: www.eyesweb.or

EyesWeb XMI Open Software Platform

EyesWeb refers both to the research projects of InfoMus Lab (www.infomus.org) on multimodal interactive systems and expressive gesture, and to the open software platform to support the development of real-time multimodal distributed interactive applications. The EyesWeb project started in 1997, as a natural evolution of the HARP Project (see www.infomus.org). The current release of the open software platform is EyesWeb XMI (eXtended Multimodal Interaction), developed in the EU 7FP ICT Projects SAME (www.sameproject.eu), I-SEARCH, and FET SIEMPRE. The EyesWeb XMI software platform was originated in EU IST projects in the 5th (MEGA, www.megaproject.org) and 6th Framework Programme (TAI-CHI, Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction). EyesWeb has been adopted in several other EU projects, has been licensed to more than 15,000 individual users, companies, and institutions. EyesWeb is also used in University courses and summer schools (e.g. the New York University Summer Program on "Music, dance and new technologies", eNTERFACE EU Summer Workshop, SMC Summer Schools). EyesWeb is currently used also in several museum projects, therapy & rehabilitation (independent living), artistic performances. Download and more info: www.eyesweb.or

FET11- The European Future Technologies Conference and ExhibitionClosing Session - Performance, 6 May 2011

This contribution is a software application supporting the invited artistic performance official Closing Event of FET11, Budapest May 6: it presents the scientific research results achieved by the Casa Paganini - InfoMus research centre of Univ of Genoa in the EU-ICT-FET SIEMPRE Project (siempre.infomus.org), coordinated by A.Camurri

Tyrosine kinase inhibotr STI571 (Imatinib) cooperates with wild type p53 on k562 cell line to enhance its pro-apoptotic effets

In order to ascertain whether p53 has a role in chronic myeloid leukemia hematopoietic progenitor response to the innovative tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 (Imatinib), we overexpressed a wild type (wt) p53 construct in the K562 cell line, generated from a human blast crisis and lacking endogenous p53. Wt p53 overexpression was associated with a significant reduction of bcr-abl expression levels resulting, at least in part, from post-transcriptional events affecting the stability of p210 bcr-abl fusion protein. Moreover, we demonstrated that p53 overexpression enhances the commitment to the apoptotic death fate of K562 following its in vitro exposure to 1 \ub5M STI571. Multiple mechanisms are involved in p53 impact on K562 survival: Most importantly, we found that a greater reduction of bcr-abl transcription by STI571 was associated with the overexpression of wt p53. Further studies are required to elucidate the mechanisms involved in the transcriptional repression of bcr-abl by STI571 and p53 and in their synergic effects on the clonal hematopoiesis of chronic myeloid leukemia