Theranostic Nanoparticles and Their Spectrum in Cancer

Nanoparticles offer a lot of advantageous backgrounds for many applications due to their physical, chemical and biological properties. Their different composition (metals, lipids, polymers, peptides) and shapes (spheres, rods, pyramids, flowers and so on) are influenced by the synthesis methods and functionalization procedures. However, in the medical field, researchers focus on the biocompatibility and biodegradability of the nanoparticles in their attempts for a targeted therapy in which the nanocarriers need to bypass certain biological barriers. Moreover, the increased interest in molecular imaging has brought nanoparticles in the spotlight for their applications in two distinct directions: therapy and diagnosis. Furthermore, recent advances in nanoparticle designs have introduced novel nano-objects suitable as both detection and delivery systems at the same time, thus providing theranostic applications

Monitorisation of Medias Hydrotecnical System in Order to Optimise Requirements for Water Use

Water is part of the great triad that gives and sustains life on earth: water, air, and soil. The disappearance of any of these elements also generates the disappearance of life. In the case of water, the National Administration "Apele Române" takes care of the management of the national resources, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Knowing that the water management has to be efficient and prompt as possible, borned the idea of an integrated system that allows this to happen quickly and correctly, called the WATMAN system. This system includes, in an operational way, the entire Romanian qualitative and quantitative water management activity, giving the possibility to take urgent and necessary decisions in different moments of crisis. In order to do that data surveillance and processing must be constant. This is why quality and quantity sensors will be installed in relevant locations. This data will be sent to regional dispatch centers, where after being processed and correlated, staff will be able to make the appropriate decisions for the good management of this important resource that is water. Quantity and quality sensors will be distributed across the 51 stations spread across the national perimeter that will be connected to the 11 regional dispatch centers of the ABAs across the country. At the ABA level, the data received from sensors will be stored in a database and processed in order to take urgent water management decisions. In order to be able to go through this complex system it is necessary to have special programs for each category of data (qualitative and quantitative), water flow rate, accumulation volume, groundwater and surface water quality, which would allow the results to be correlated and the decision taken

The First Question Generation Shared Task Evaluation Challenge

The paper briefly describes the First Shared Task Evaluation Challenge on Question Generation that took place in Spring 2010. The campaign included two tasks: Task A – Question Generation from Paragraphs and Task B – Question Generation from Sentences. An overview of each of the tasks is provided