6-7 FEBRUARY 2015,PORTO, PORTUGAL

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

MCAA GENERAL ASSEMBLY POSTER SESSION

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Foreword

Dear Members,

This publication makes public abstracts presented at the second General Assembly of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (6 to 7 February 2015, Porto, Portugal).

Browsing through the 21 very different abstracts underlines the huge diversity in our Members’ areas of study.

Happy reading!

Yours,

The MCAA team

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Table of Contents

1. Implementing End-to-End Security in the Internet of Things

2. Grain Boundary Engineering of Functional Electronic Materials using Constraint Sintering

3. Towards Developing “Temporally Conscious Robots”

4. Vulnerable or Capable? First generation students’ experience in Portuguese higher education

5. In vivo engineering of oncogenic chromosomal rearrangements using the CRISPR/Cas9 system

6. Effects of climate change on Scots pine growth in the western Pyrenees depend on site-specific stand-attributes

7. WBANs with RF energy harvesting

8. Device Management in Internet of Things using OMA-LWM2M

9. On the effect of multiphase flow on acoustics in gas transport Systems

10. Design of Experiments: Exact D-optimal Designs for Multi-factor Nonlinear Models

11. The Human Knee Meniscus: Quantification of 3D Cell Density

12. Effectiveness of proton and electron beams in sarcoma cell lines

13. Electron Beam Induced Deposition: A new way to fabricate noble metals for nanoelectronics

14. Helping machines become silent, reliable and efficient

15. Meaningful Machine Translation

16. Impedimetric Measurement of the Growth of Bacteria in Microfluidic Segments

17. Motorcycle Rider Integrated Safety - MOTORIST

18. A novel chiral periodic mesoporous bis(oxazoline)-phenylenesilica as an efficient and reusable asymmetric heterogeneous catalyst

19. Testing a new measure of problematic Internet use for adults and its addictive symptomatology

20. Responsible Research and Innovation: Meeting Societal Challenges, Contributing to the Career Development

21. Forest Resources for Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery (16th - 18th centuries)

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1. Implementing End-to-End Security in the Internet of Things

Security is fast emerging as a key area of focus in the Internet of Things. Lightweight implementations of the required security features are necessary considering the resource constrained nature of the underlying nodes and networks. At the same time, it is essential that such implementations are robust, reliable and efficient. Security can be provided at different layers of the underlying protocol stack. This poster addresses these requirements by providing a end-to-end security framework for implementing a lightweight version of the DTLS protocol in the CoAP-based Internet of Things. In addition, this lightweight security approach is illustrated with a real-world application scenario and its performance analysis. It also provides an overview of the ongoing standardization activities in the IoT security domain.

Author: Dr. Vishwas LakkundiOrganisation: Altiux InnovationsPlace of residence: Bangalore/India

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2. Grain Boundary Engineering of Functional Electronic Materials using Constraint Sintering

It is well understood by the scientific community that the performance of functional materials are determined by its structure and microstructure. But the role of interface dominated materials properties such as grain boundaries (GB) and their nano scale details are still rudimentary. Complexions are considered to be key players in controlling the interfaces in materials, on them depends the performance and the reliability of the material. And there for understanding the influence of complexions on GB mobility and electrical response of a material will be very exciting. It was well established in previous works that different types of GB(corresponding to different complexions types) can be developed depending on the material and processing variables play a crucial role in controlling the electrical properties of polycrystalline ceramics. Within this content we are using the effect of pressure and temperature as variables during sintering to modify the microstructure of high Q BaLa4Ti4O15 (BLT) ceramics and their by GB, and the corresponding change in their electrical response was determined. Single phase BLT was prepared by solid state route. BLT samples were sintered conventionally in a pre-defined thermal cycle and their electrical, microstructure properties were characterized. These were compared with the properties of BLT samples prepared via uni-axial high pressure sintering (HP). The electrical studies of these samples were done.

Author: Dr. Nivas Babu Selvaraj, Manuela Fernandes, Joa C.C. Abrantes, Denneulin,T., Snoeck, E., Senos, A.M.R and Vilarinho, P.M Organisation: University of AveiroPlace of residence: Aveiro/Portugal

The grain boundary characteristics of both samples were analysed based on the concept of complexions. More over the effect of pressure on the pre sintered BLT samples (both prepared by conventional and HP) were studied by hot iso-static pressing of those samples. This provides an understanding of influence of temperature and pressure in the modification of GB and it may lead to the experimental verification of theory of complexions.

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3. Towards Developing “Temporally Conscious Robots”

Human-Robot (H-R) coordination in time is one of the challenges that limit the in-numerous practical application of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in social and industrial domain. This lack of temporal awareness is due to the lack of cognitive ability in robots. This research presents a novel method that provides a balance between synchronization and autonomy, resulting in fluent and natural behavior in an artificial system thereby resembling a human.

The method is based on the ability of chaotic neuronal networks to generate creative 2D and 3D patterns [Gontar, 2007]. It is shown that these patterns contain very rich information which could be effectively used for robot decision making. Each neuron of the proposed neuronal network is simulated by difference equations with embedded chaotic regimes under appropriate parameters. This information is then fed into the biologically inspired MLP (Multi-Level Pattern) algorithm [Madison,2009] which is then translated into real-time motor commands of the robot.

The resulting behavior is completely deterministic (as the solution of a non-linear dynamical system), and adaptive with a creative emergent behavior. This is a small step towards developing “Temporally Conscious Robots”.

Author: Dr. Roy Someshwar Organisation: Osaka UniversityPlace of residence: Osaka

References:• Gontar V. (2004) The dynamics of living and thinking systems,

biological networks and the laws of physics Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 8, No. 2, pp.126- 135

• Gontar V., Grechko, O. (2007). Mathematical imaging using chemical reactions discrete chaotic dynamics. Fractals, Vol (15), 315-322.

• Madison G. (2009) An Auditory Illusion of Infinite Tempo Change Based on Multiple Temporal Levels, PLoS ONE 4(12): e8151

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4. Vulnerable or Capable? First generation students’ experience in Portuguese higher education

First generation students are internationally underrepresented in higher education systems. However, and when considering the European context, the Portuguese higher education system stands out as one of the most inclusive, with a share of 76% first generation students, the highest in the EU, reflecting the diversity of its student body. Nevertheless, these figures only refer to what is called “equitable participation”, and not to the effective achievement of a degree of these participants, prone to drop out for reasons that range from unfamiliarity with the institutional procedures to feelings of mismatch or economic barriers. Also, the International Monetary Fund intervention led to the silent abandonment of many undergraduates, according to the press and student unions. This research targets first generation students (understood here as students whose parents have at most 9 years of education). Using a mixed methods approach using biographical narratives, I examine how is their student experience constructed, specifically uncovering how parental education and family culture influence the capabilities of first generation students and how macro level policies and micro level structures (institutions) protect or expose first generation students’ vulnerability.

The research is theoretically informed by the parity of participation conception of justice of Fraser (2007), the vulnerable subject vision of Fineman (2008), and the capabilities approach of Sen (1997). Preliminary findings point to:

• First generation student as an identity category is often overlapping with others disadvantaged target groups, such as low-income background and part-time students.

• Instability and cuts in social support schemes forces the abandonment of some students• Other students’ resilience results from seeking sources of institutional support beyond

the state, often provided by care networks.

Author: PhD Student Ana Sofia Ribeiro Santos Organisation: University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld Centre for Education and Capability ResearchPlace of residence: Lisboa, Portugal

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5. In vivo engineering of oncogenic chromosomal rearrangements using the CRISPR/Cas9 system

Chromosomal rearrangements are often detected in several types of cancer and result in expression of aberrant genes with oncogenic functions. In spite of their importance in tumor formation, modeling such rearrangements has been proven challenging and requires heavy and long germline manipulation.

We hypothesized that chromosomal rearrangements could be induced in vivo by the CRISPR/Cas9 system.

As proof of principle we designed two sgRNAs to direct the endonuclease Cas9 to the intron 19 of Alk and the intron 14 of Eml4 to induce the Eml4-Alk inversion, detected in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Co-delivery of the sgRNAs and the Cas9 resulted in the expected rearrangements, indicating that two sgRNAs and the endonuclease are sufficient to induce chromosomal rearrangements in vitro.

For in vivo delivery to the lung of adult mice, we generated an adenoviral system for the concomitant delivery of the Cas9 and the two sgRNAs (Ad-EA) or the Cas9 alone (Ad-Cas9). Within 8 weeks post-infection with Ad-EA, mice developed lung adenomas while mice infected with Ad-Cas9 were tumor free. All the tumors carried the genomic inversion Eml4-Alk and were negative for p63 and positive for TTF-1 resembling the histological feature of NSCLC.

Finally we tested the sensitivity of the tumors to the ALK/MET inhibitor crizotinib, used in therapy for the treatment of ALK+ NSCLC. Radiological and histological analysis showed in all cases tumor regression, indicating that our CRISPR-induced mouse model closely resembles human NSCLC.

Author: Dr. Danilo Maddalo Organisation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterPlace of residence: New York City/USA

In conclusion the strategy here presented expands significantly our possibility of modeling cancers driven by chromosomal rearrangements and represents an opportunity to test novel targeted therapies and thee mechanisms leading to drug resistance.

D Maddalo, E Manchado, C P Concepcion, C Bonetti, J A Vidigal, Y Han, P Ogrodowski, A Crippa, N Rekhtman, E De Stanchina, S W Lo.

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6. Effects of climate change on Scots pine growth in the western Pyrenees depend on site-specific stand-attributes

European forests, especially in the Mediterranean basin, will undergo important changes in their future growing conditions due to climate change (among other factors). However, forest management plans that will be in place for the next rotations until trees are harvested could last up to a century and should b implemented now. Therefore, providing estimations of future forest grow based in the best scientific knowledge available nowadays is of urgent need to support decision regarding adaptation of European forest management to future climate conditions. At European level, Scots pine is probably the most important species due to its wide distribution range, from Mediterranean to boreal conditions. With the aim to estimate the potential for Scots pine growth in its southern distribution range, Scots pine forest growth was estimated with the ecosystem-level model FORECAST-Climate in two different sites of the Western Pyrenees (Aspurz: 640 m.a.s.l., Mediterranean climate; Garde: 1350 m.a.s.l., continental climate), under two different future climate scenarios (for year 2100; moderate change: increase in 2ºC in summer and decrease in 20 mm in summer precipitation; severe change: increase 6ºC in summer, decrease in 60 in spring-summer precipitation). Results indicate that at the Mediterranean site forest productivity could be reduced as consequence of the increase in evapotranspiration demands and nutrient leaching out of the ecosystem (caused by an increase in mineralization rates above the ecosystem capacity to store nutrients in soils and nutrient uptake by trees). On the other hand, at the continental site, forest productivity could increase as a consequence of the expansion of the frost-free growing season and the increase in nutrient availability caused by faster litter decomposition rates. These results indicate the need to evaluate forest management plans at local level for their adaptation to climate change, and the validity of ecosystem-level modelling as decision-support tools in forestry.J.A. Blanco, J.B. Imbert, F.J. Castillo

Author: D. Juan Blanco Organisation: Universidad Publica de NavarraPlace of residence: Pamplona / Spain

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7. WBANs with RF energy harvesting

This research topic considers the inclusion of measurement based issues regarding cellular coverage, interference, and resource reuse into cellular planning and optimization, whilst addressing QoE issues, multi-service, cost/revenues, MAC and link layer protocols, hybrid mesh and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), RF energy harvesting (EH), as well as sub-channelization.

One main aspect arising from the interactions with others Universities, research centres and industry is the characterization of services supported and the validation of the spectrum aggregation algorithms in the context of actual operator networks, e.g., within ad-hoc and WSNs, one of the most innovative components of the research work.

In the WSN side, the work includes the creation of a multi-band radio frequency EH system with super-capacitor storing, for self-sustainable CR networks within health monitoring applications. Together with EH, wearable flex and piezoelectric sensor belts aims at monitoring foetal movement in the last four weeks of pregnancy. In addition, a 4G communication network employing carrier aggregation (CA) allows for the delivery of the collected data to the remote health professional.

The economic analyses methodologies and the optimization of the impact of pricing into the business models is one of the interdisciplinary added values of the associated research work.

The main tasks have been very fruitful and the most relevant achievements are discussed in this interactive presentation.Fernando J. Velez, Daniel Robalo and Luís M. Borges

Author: Assistant Prof Fernando José da Silva VelezOrganisation: Instituto de Telecomnicações, Universidade da Beira InteriorPlace of residence: Covilha, Portugal

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8. Device Management in Internet of Things using OMA-LWM2M

Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) is an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standard that provides a fast deployable client-server specification to provide machine to machine services. It provides efficient device management as well as security workflow for CoAP applications using the same protocol, making it suitable for use in the Internet of Things. In this poster, we explore the LWM2M client-side implementation framework carried out over Contiki-based IoT nodes. It includes automatic device registration, de-registration, registration update, factory bootstrapping and firmware update functionalities. It provides resource management through interfaces such as READ, WRITE, OBSERVE and NOTIFY. Our implementation is compliant to OMA LWM2M v1.0 specification, supports OMA mandatory objects, IPSO objects as well as 3rd party objects and enables low memory-footprint implementation.Suhas H S, Devaiah Chendanda, Chetan Deshpande, Vishwas Lakkundi

Author: Dr. Vishwas Lakkundi Organisation: Altiux InnovationsPlace of residence: Bangalore/India

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9. On the effect of multiphase flow on acoustics in gas transport Systems

In this study, experiments are conducted on the flow within a horizontal circular pipe with two closed side branches of equal length. Two configurations are chosen, namely “Tandem Configuration” and “Quasi-Cross configuration”. The tandem configuration is a resonator characterized by the relative distance between the two side branches with is equal to the double of the length of each closed side branch, while for the quasi-cross configuration the two branches are almost aligned. Acoustically speaking, they are the most dangerous configurations in piping layout systems so that extremely high amplitudes of pressure pulsations, i.e. Flow Induced Pulsations (FIPs), can be reached. Over the last decades, researchers have been investigating the behavior of FIPs with only dry gas. Focus in the current project is on the influence of liquids on the generation of FIPs.

A first test with only dry air is performed and pressure fluctuations are measured at the closed end of each side branch to investigate FIPs. Several tests are conducted with increasing amounts of water, in droplet form, which is injected with a nozzle positioned upstream the branches. To understand the effect of the multiphase flow pattern, tests are performed with the injector located far from and close to the side branches.

These experiments proved that water injection can have significant effects on FIPs in pipe systems. By comparing the two configurations, it seems that damping is more dominant at low injection rates, while the flow pattern becomes more important at high injection rates. Different multiphase flow parameters, such as the thickness of the liquid film at the upstream edge of the T-junction, entrainment, droplets’ size or the concentration, are expected to influence the source strength and the acoustic damping in pipes.

Author: PhD student Francesco Sanna Organisation: TNO/LAUMPlace of residence: Delft

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10. Design of Experiments: Exact D-optimal Designs for Multi-factor Nonlinear Models

Design of Experiments is the branch of Statistics concerned with the selection of settings of controllable variables or factors in an experiment in order to maximise the effectiveness of the experiment at achieving its aim. This effectiveness is usually encapsulated in a mathematical criterion.

The scientists conduct experiments to discover the unknown, to explore current phenomena, and to validate the theoretical inference. With limited resources to input, careful consideration is required in collecting reliable information and in illustrating the possible findings.

Models for experimental data can either be mechanistic or empirical. Mechanistic models are often useful in theoretical studies of the characteristics of the systems with one factor (while the rest of the experimental conditions are fixed).

In experiments closer to industrial applications, there could be several treatment factors and no convincing scientific theories to show how these factors jointly affect the response. In this situation, it is common to fit a second-order response surface model (or similar models based on such kind of linear or close-to linear relationships), which is empirical and mathematical. However, these models are approximations of the true underlying models.

Designing experiments for multi-factor nonlinear models is little studied and implies a considerable computational challenge. Hence we are interested in developing and exploiting new exchange algorithms to facilitate the iterative searches for efficient and simplified designs. We apply our method to a chemical engineering application, where both the empirical and mechanistic models were fitted to the experimental data.Kalliopi Mylona, Yuanzhi Huang, Steven G. Gilmour

Author: Dr. Kalliopi Mylona Organisation: University of SouthamptonPlace of residence: UK

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11. The Human Knee Meniscus: Quantification of 3D Cell Density

The knee meniscus has important functions in the knee articulation. Meniscus lesions are seen very frequently in the orthopedics. Healing of meniscus is not yet fully achieved in the clinics, and unfulfillment of the functions of meniscus leads degenerative changes in the knee joint. Tissue engineering strategies have been developed with the goal of adequate regeneration of meniscus. Cellularity is among the important parameters in tissue engineering. In this work, the 3D cellularity of the human knee meniscus is quantified by histomorphometry in a segmental and regional manner. Human lateral meniscus tissues (n=6) were prepared into Giemsa-stained 30 µm-thick histological slices. The cells were counted in an in-depth fashion with a microscope. Based on the cells’ roundish or elongated morphology, cells were identified as fibrochondrocytes or as fibroblast-like cells, respectively. From the number of the cells found in unit volume, 3D cell densities were calculated. The cell densities change across the human meniscus. There was an apparent difference between vascular and avascular regions that have the cell density of 12820 cells/mm3 and 27199 cells/mm3, respectively. The density of fibrochondrocytes, which was 14,705 cells/mm3, was more than the double of fibroblast-like cells that was 5,539 cells/mm3. This study provides information about segmental and regional 3D cellularity of the human meniscus with regard to the cell population type, which important for the design of a tissue engineering strategy.

Acknowledgments: The authors thank the financial support of the MultiScaleHuman project (Contract number: MRTN-CT-2011-289897) in the Marie Curie Actions—Initial Training Networks.

Ibrahim F. Cengiz, Hélder Pereira, José M. Pêgo, Nuno Sousa, João Espregueira-Mendes, Joaquim M. Oliveira, Rui Luís Reis

Author: PhD student Ibrahim Fatih CengizOrganisation: Braga/PortugalPlace of residence: 3B’s Research Group - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Univ. Minho

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12. Effectiveness of proton and electron beams in sarcoma cell lines

Sarcomas are relatively rare malignant tumors that are derived from mesenchymal tissue. They make up a higher percentage of overall cancer morbidity and mortality in children and young adults than in adults. Together with surgery and chemotherapy, X-rays and electrons with energies of a few MeV are the most common form of ionizing radiation used for cancer radiotherapy. Nowadays hadron therapy is a fast growing cancer strategy with huge potential benefits for patients. However, proton therapy requires detailed knowledge of biological response of normal and tumor cells to proton irradiation.

Our purpose is to reach a methodology from physic to biology, using highly focused proton beam (AIFIRA) and electrons broad beam (CLINAC) to define protocols and experimental set-up in order to estimate the radiation sensitivity of sarcoma cell lines. These are recovered from patients selected in a unique collection of more than 40 sarcoma cell lines highly-well characterized from a genetic/genomic and phenotypic point of view. Furthermore, two other goals of our study are to induce specific radiation damages (in situ immunostaining for quantitative analysis of DNA repair processes) and to define the early and late radiation-induced biological effects (cells proliferation, clonogenic assay, genome instability and chromosomal abnormalities).

DNA damages, survival and proliferation are determined as a function of dose in two different sarcoma cell lines (IB115 and IB106) irradiated with focused and unfocused 3 MeV proton beams at the AIFIRA facility and with a CLINAC 9 MeV electron beam. Survival curves are obtained by clonogenic assay and DNA damages by the immunodetection of phosphorylated histone H2AX (gH2AX) foci at 2h and 20h post-irradiation. Proliferation is estimated by flow cytometry counting. Chromosomal abnormalities and genome instability will be identified, respectively, with mFISH and CGH-array until two months post-irradiation.

G. Muggiolu, M. Simon, P. Barberet, F. Chibon, P. Lagarde, G. Kantor, G. Déves, H. Seznec

Author: PhD Student Giovanna Muggiolu Organisation: CENBG/CNRSPlace of residence: France

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13. Electron Beam Induced Deposition: A new way to fabricate noble metals for nanoelectronics

Focused Electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) is a mask-less, resist-less direct writing technique where electron beam of a microscope is used to fabricate nanostructures. Metals and dielectrics can be deposited in situ in a single process step with the help of precursor molecules. This technique has received much attention due to its ability to create 2D and 3D nanostructures with a nanometer precision.

This work will report on different 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional gold nanostructures for advanced nanoelectronics applications. Process parameters such as precursor temperature, substrate temperature, deposition time etc. will be optimized to deposit such structures. The impact of those parameter on the deposited structure will be explored.

In this work, FEBID will be used to deposit nanodevices such as metal oxide semiconductor capacitor (MOSCAP). The C-V characteristics of the device will be shown. Also, conductivity of the FEBID gold nanowire will be checked. To conclude, the achieved progress of the presented device will make substantial improvement for innovative nanodevices.

Mostafa Moonir Shawrav, Heinz D. Wanzenboeck, Emmerich Bertagnolli

Author: PhD Student Mostafa Moonir Shawrav Organisation: Vienna University of TechnologyPlace of residence: Vienna, Austria

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14. Helping machines become silent, reliable and efficient

One of the aims of the European Research Area (ERA) is increasing the efficiency of industrial products and processes, yet improving quality, in key fields of energy generation and usage (e.g. wind power generation, drivelines in automotive, heavy trucks and transportation industry, helicopters, gas turbines, industrial machinery). The DEMETRA IAPP project directly contributes to improving quality of mechanical transmissions, widespread across the whole machinery spectrum, thus offering a technology edge to support European industry to strengthen its competitive position in growing and globalizing markets. The main aim of the project is to establish a transfer of knowledge between complementary academic and industrial expertise in the relevant domains of design of mechanical transmissions. There are several technical challenges addressed by the project. Structures are becoming lighter and therefore more flexible; the traditional methodologies for optimization are not able to provide optimal design parameter since it is no longer possible to optimize separately the different components, due to their mutual effects in the full dynamic response. The solution of this challenging problem is to establish a simulation methodology that is capable of capturing the system non-linear dynamics in a multi-discipline integrated, detailed, yet computationally efficient way. The project DEMETRA is developing technologies to enable green, silent and reliable mechanical power transmissions, by targeting the crucial subsystems (gears and bearings) for the efficiency, noise levels and durability of industrial machinery. New methods are being developed for improved virtual prediction and optimization of the full system performance as a complete coupled dynamic system, as well as for improved strategies to incorporate test data in the process with special focus on torsional vibration.

DEMETRA Project Consortium - EU MC FP7 IAPP Grant no. 324336

Author: Dr. Antonio Palermo Organisation: SIEMENS Industry Software NVPlace of residence: Leuven/Belgium

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15. Meaningful Machine Translation

Machine Translation (MT) is increasingly more important in the globalized world. It has evolved from rule-based systems to statistical systems to the current state-of-art hybrid systems where it makes use of different language technologies components to improve translation quality. Much effort has been put into creating MT systems that can understand and produce translations that adhere to human language syntax (i.e. the principles and rules that govern grammaticality of a sentence). However ensuring that the machine translation systems translate the right semantics is often overlooked. Issues like polysemy translation, multiword expression and specialized terminology still pose as a challenge in machine translation. For example, a state-of-art MT system translates the French idiomatic expression, ‘se faire la belle’ (means ‘to escape’) as ‘be beautiful’. Another example of bad translation is ‘a school of fishes’ is translated into ‘’eine Schule des Fisches’’ (German) where it is literally translated with the polysemous ‘school’ translated wrongly as ‘Schule’ (an educational institute); the correct translation for is ‘Fischschwarm’. Under the EXPERT (Exploiting Empirical Approaches to Translation) project, one of the goal is to integrate semantic technologies such as terminologies and ontologies to make machine translation more meaningful. We have developed several semantic technologies (such as crosslingual word sense disambiguation, terminology extraction, named entity recognition, multi-word expression extraction and semantic similarity) for the purpose of incorporating them into MT systems and they show promising improvements in machine translation evaluations.

Author: Mr. Liling Tan Organisation: Universitaet des SaarlandPlace of residence: Germany

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16. Impedimetric Measurement of the Growth of Bacteria in Microfluidic Segments

Droplet-based microfluidics has emerged as a hot topic for innovation in biology and chemistry during the last decade. The inline non-contact measurement of the conductivity of aqueous droplets in segmented flow has previously been realized at our institute. When microbes, for instance, E. coli, grow under optimal conditions they metabolize non-polar molecules, such as, sugars, to ions and acids, thus changing the conductivity of the growth medium. This contribution describes how measurement of the change of the conductivity caused by these metabolic processes allows microbial growth to be assessed. To detect this conductivity change, a polycarbonate chip with incorporated electrodes was made through which fluid segments can be pumped. High-throughput impedance spectra measurement between 10 kHz and 10 MHz is achieved by the design of an impedance spectrometer based on a high-speed USB oscilloscope and a related front-end amplifier. The conductivity change of E. coli medium is tested in LB medium with and without glucose. There was an impedance change of about 22% after 6 hours of growth in both media. The pH, conductivity and optical density were measured for comparison. The application of EIS to measurement of microfluidic droplets in segmented flow helps in developing low-cost, high-throughput, microfluidic devices for applications in the food and bioprocess industries.

N. Karippai, A. Lindenbauer, S. Wiedemeier, G. Gastrock, T. Nacke, A. Barthel, B. P. Cahill

Author: Dr. Brian Cahill Organisation: Institut für Bioprozess- und Analysenmesstechnik e.V.Place of residence: Heilbad Heiligenstadt/Germany

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17. Motorcycle Rider Integrated Safety - MOTORIST

The aim of the research activities within the project is to make the use of Powered-Two-Wheelers (PTWs) safer such that fewer accidents occur and if an accident is unavoidable the consequences for the rider to sustain injuries are minimal. The project is divided in three work packages (WPs) with three separate but related goals: WP1 - Rider Training, improve the rider’s skills with training strategies derived from in-depth accident data and from a quantification of rider behavior in critical situations; WP2 - Integrated safety, developing advanced safety systems that improve the interaction between the rider and the PTW by modelling the rider, also based on the in WP1 quantified rider behavior; WP3 - Personal protective equipment, development of personal protective equipment to protect the riders in cases where the crash is unavoidable, given the input conditions from WP2 at the moment right before impact. The end result of this project will be a set of rider training guidelines that are proven to be effective, safety system concepts implemented on PTWs and improved personal protective equipment and accompanying standards. These can be used by PTW industry partners in product development processes and by stakeholders such as ACEM and the EU to educate riders. This will ultimately improve the safety of PTWs and moreover the perceived safety, which will make more people decide to use a PTW as a good alternative to other means of transport.

Author: PhD Student Marco Grottoli Organisation: Siemens Industry Software NVPlace of residence: Leuven/Belgium

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18. A novel chiral periodic mesoporous bis(oxazoline)-phenylenesilica as an efficient and reusable asymmetric heterogeneous catalyst

The design of periodic mesoporous organosilicas containing catalytic active sites is a novel strategy for the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts based on versatile and successful homogeneous catalysts [1]. These materials show high density of active sites on the pore surfaces and high recyclability. The well dispersed catalytic sites in these materials offer little resistance to the diffusion of molecules in the mesochannels and are more resistant to leaching than if they were grafted onto the ordered mesoporous silica.

We describe the preparation of an effective and reusable heterogeneous asymmetric catalyst. A novel chiral periodic mesoporous phenylene–silica containing high density of bis(oxazoline) moieties is prepared by co-condensation method with 1,4-bis(triethoxysilyl)benzene. After copper(II) coordination, the material is extremely efficient on the kinetic resolution of the 1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-diol with persistent high enantioselectivities (91 - > 99%) and yields (46–43% in maximum 50% resolution) at least for five consecutive cycles. Characterization of the material after the catalytic experiments showed that the heterogeneous catalyst was very robust keeping the integrity of the structure [2].

Author: Dr. Ana Rosa Aires Neto Da Silva Organisation: University of AveiroPlace of residence: Portugal

AcknowledgmentsAuthors are grateful to the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER), QREN-COMPETE, the European Union, and the Associate Laboratory CICECO for funding the Projects PTDC/QUI-QUI/64770/2006, FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-015644 (PTDC/QUI-QUI/113678/2009), FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037271 (PEst-C/CTM/LA0011/2013). ARS thanks FCT, FSE and POPH for the contract under the program Ciência 2008. ARS and PF acknowledge IF/01300/2012 and IF/00327/2013, respectively. MAOL thanks the PhD grant SFRH/BD/80883/2011. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement 312483 – ESTEEM2 (Integrated Infrastructure Initiative–I3).

[1] N. Mizoshita, T. Tani, S. Inagaki, Chemical Society Reviews 40 (2011) 789.[2] M.A.O. Lourenço, L. Carneiro, I. Diaz, A. Mayoral, A.R. Silva, P. Ferreira, Journal of Catalysis, 320 (2014) 63. A.R. Silva, M.A.O. Lourenço, L. Carneiro, P. Ferreira

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19. Testing a new measure of problematic Internet use for adults and its addictive symptomatology

Technologies are in citizens’ daily lives, letting them to manage part of their usual academic, labour or leisure activities through them. However, a few proportion of persons, especially during the youth period, develop an excessive use; the common usage of these electronic devices seems to facilitate the development of certain patterns of addictive behaviours characterized for presenting specific symptomatology. In two decades of intensive scientific research, this field of knowledge has arrived at some key points, such as the need to obtain validated measures to detect these technological addictions. In this line, the present research work has taken a previous scale for adolescents to be adapted and updated to adults, in order to be validated it. This new measure of Internet addiction pretends study its relation with psychological and physical symptomatology, as well as present patterns of online applications usages. Through an online survey, a convenience sample of 164 adults (77.4% women; mean age 26.53, standard deviation 13.72) participated in this pilot phase. The Problematic Internet Entertainment Use Scale for Adults has shown to be a unidimensional scale that covers (with the 51.75% of variance explained) the symptomatology usually assigned to a behavioural addiction, with an excellent reliability (Cronbach alpha: 0.94). The detailed preliminary findings in relation with the items description, the prevalent symptoms and the most common online uses will be discussed in the framework of the cyberaddictive spectrum.

Author: Dr. Olatz Lopez Fernandez Organisation: Catholic University of LouvainPlace of residence: Brussels/Belgium

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20. Responsible Research and Innovation: Meeting Societal Challenges, Contributing to the Career Development

Development of the research system in a direction which encourages researchers to build their careers and everyday practice on the principles of responsibility and research integrity can provide multiple benefits for entire science enterprise and society at large. The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in European policy is based on an inclusive and multidisciplinary approach and has a broad societal dimension which goes beyond research integrity and ethics. It is oriented toward values, needs and expectations of European societies, and fosters innovativeness to tackle societal challenges.

Two dimensions of the RRI were discussed in this work: 1) the dimension highlighting its role in tackling societal challenges and 2) the dimension oriented toward research integrity and career development issues. For this purpose relevant European policies were considered, including policies related to the Horizon 2020 EU research programme, as well as the ESF’s The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. Additionally, empirical data are presented to shed more light on the issues related to the research integrity and training of early career researchers, and the importance of the relevant practices for development of human resources and their professional growth.

Reference:1) Krstic, S.B. (2014). Research Integrity Practices from the Perspective of Early-Career Researchers. Science and Engineering Ethics, DOI 10.1007/s11948-014-9607-z2) European Science Foundation – ESF. (2010). Fostering research integrity in Europe. Executive report.

Author: Dr. Snezana Krstic Place of residence: Belgrade, Serbia

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21. Forest Resources for Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery (16th - 18th centuries)

In the Early Modern Age (16th-17th centuries) the construction of ocean-going ships was paramount to the development of cultural encounters in what became the Age of Discovery and European expansion. In the case of the Iberian Empires, the establishment of new trade routes brought up the need for armed merchantmen, galleons and smaller vessels, placing unprecedented demands on Iberian forests for the supply of construction timber. Forestry and sea power became inextricably linked, creating new geopolitical tensions, alliances and forest regulations. Key questions in this context are: could Iberian forest resources sustain the increasing demand of sound timber, or was the wood imported from elsewhere? If so, how were the trade networks organized? And did the lack of raw material force the technological changes occurred in shipbuilding in the 16th century, or were they a result of exchange between Mediterranean and Atlantic shipbuilding traditions?

This Marie Curie Initial Training Network grant (2014-2018) will address these questions through a multidisciplinary and innovative training research program to improve the understanding of our historical past, our cultural heritage, and our knowledge of the use of resources for ship-building. The prerequisite for such approach is combining knowledge derived from Humanities and Life Sciences.

ForSEAdiscovery aims to consolidate a research strand combining historical research, underwater archaeology and wood provenancing methods (tree-ring research and geo/dendrochemistry), as well as to provide new historical insights from an intersectorial and interdisciplinary perspec-tive, and train researchers through the exchange and the convergence of these scientific fields.

Ana Crespo Solana; Nigel Nayling; Ignacio García González; Ute Sass-Klassen; Aoife Daly; Tomaz Wazny; Marta Domínguez Delmás

Author: PhD Student Ana Trindade Organisation: Centro de Ciências Humanas y SocialesPlace of residence: Madrid / Spain

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ISBN: 978-2-9601724-0-9