14 slides.-- Presentation showed at the Final Workshop FLEDGED Project: flexible Sorption Enhanced processes for biomass to DME conversion, 27-28-29 October 2020. ; Assess the performance of the Sorption Enhanced Gasification process in a 30 kWth bubbling fluidized bed reactor (BFB) placed at the Instituto de Carboquímica (CSIC) (Zaragoza, Spain). ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 727600. ; Peer reviewed
[ES] El presente Trabajo Fin de Máster tiene como objetivo analizar el área de Gestión de riesgos de la dirección de proyectos considerando y comparando los principales estándares y metodologías para la Dirección y Gestión de Proyectos, como son el Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) del Project Management Institute, PRojects IN Controlled Environments 2 (PRINCE2) de la Office of Government Commerce (OGC-UK), el Open Project Management Methodology (PM2) de la Comisión Europea, la Individual Competence Baseline (ICB 4) de la International Project Management Association (IPMA) y Project Risk Analysis and Management (PRAM) de la Association for Project Management (APM-UK) Para ello se hará una revisión bibliográfica de los marcos de referencia anteriormente mencionados, centrando la atención en los procesos de gestión de riesgos, analizando las etapas de dichos procesos, las herramientas de análisis de riesgo y las estrategias de gestión de riesgo propuestas. Tras la revisión teórica es necesario realizar una comparación de la aplicación de estos enfoques. Para ello se ha decidido elegir como caso de estudio un proyecto del que se dispusiera abundante información y de envergadura suficiente para sufrir riesgos de diferente origen y tipología, seleccionando el Proyecto de Diseño y Construcción del Tercer Juego de Esclusas, perteneciente al Programa de Ampliación del Canal de Panamá. Por tanto, se ha realizado un plan de gestión del riesgo para dicho proyecto, utilizando los diferentes estándares y metodologías considerados y seguidamente se ha elaborado como conclusión un análisis comparativo de las analogías y diferencias, beneficios, carencias y limitaciones de cada uno de los enfoques. ; [EN] The main goal of the current thesis is to analyse the Risk Management of Project Management considering and comparing the main standards and methodologies in Project Management, such as Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) by Project Management Institute, PRojects IN Controlled Environments 2 (PRINCE2) by ...
Construction contract general condition clauses have a major influence on the likelihood and degree of project success. This paper is about comparison between FIDIC and PPA Conditions of Contract. To achieve the objective of the study a desk study has been conducted to identify the similarity and differences of the clauses in FIDIC (1999) and PPA-ICB (2011) conditions of contracts and due to different limitations the study focuses on few of the clauses. Consequently, interview questionnaires are prepared and distributed to Consultants, Contractors, Lawyers, concerned government bodies and individual professionals. Accordingly, from the feedback of the respondent, this paper uses qualitative method of analysis, frequency method, and I come up with my conclusions. The major findings and recommendations of the study are (1) Most of my respondents agreed that FIDIC provisions are the one which clearly indicate the rights, obligations, and remedial rights of each contracting parties.(2) our local conditions of contract are in some way adapted from FIDIC conditions of contract in such a way to keep government , public interests and also to substantiate control of the government financed projects.(3) Our condition of contract has to be upgraded with certain time, because it has some short coming and gap with FIDIC Condition of contract. Finally, I emphasis that because of the limitations faced during the study the conclusion given on this paper are not binding and it is used for educational purpose only. Hence I recommend further detailed study has to be conducted on the topic to clearly conduct holistic conclusions that all could explore a positive output.
Construction contract general condition clauses have a major influence on the likelihood and degree of project success. This paper is about comparison between FIDIC and PPA Conditions of Contract. To achieve the objective of the study a desk study has been conducted to identify the similarity and differences of the clauses in FIDIC (1999) and PPA-ICB (2011) conditions of contracts and due to different limitations the study focuses on few of the clauses. Consequently, interview questionnaires are prepared and distributed to Consultants, Contractors, Lawyers, concerned government bodies and individual professionals. Accordingly, from the feedback of the respondent, this paper uses qualitative method of analysis, frequency method, and I come up with my conclusions. The major findings and recommendations of the study are (1) Most of my respondents agreed that FIDIC provisions are the one which clearly indicate the rights, obligations, and remedial rights of each contracting parties.(2) our local conditions of contract are in some way adapted from FIDIC conditions of contract in such a way to keep government , public interests and also to substantiate control of the government financed projects.(3) Our condition of contract has to be upgraded with certain time, because it has some short coming and gap with FIDIC Condition of contract. Finally, I emphasis that because of the limitations faced during the study the conclusion given on this paper are not binding and it is used for educational purpose only. Hence I recommend further detailed study has to be conducted on the topic to clearly conduct holistic conclusions that all could explore a positive output.
The objective of this paper is to address the methodological process of a teaching strategy for training project management complexity in postgraduate programs. The proposal is made up of different methods —intuitive, comparative, deductive, case study, problem-solving Project-Based Learning— and different activities inside and outside the classroom. This integration of methods motivated the current use of the concept of "learning strategy". The strategy has two phases: firstly, the integration of the competences —technical, behavioral and contextual—in real projects; and secondly, the learning activity was oriented in upper level of knowledge, the evaluating the complexity for projects management in real situations. Both the competences in the learning strategy and the Project Complexity Evaluation are based on the ICB of IPMA. The learning strategy is applied in an international Postgraduate Program —Erasmus Mundus Master of Science— with the participation of five Universities of the European Union. This master program is fruit of a cooperative experience from one Educative Innovation Group of the UPM -GIE-Project-, two Research Groups of the UPM and the collaboration with other external agents to the university. Some reflections on the experience and the main success factors in the learning strategy were presented in the paper
The objective of this paper is to address the methodological process of a teaching strategy for training project management complexity in postgraduate programs. The proposal is made up of different methods —intuitive, comparative, deductive, case study, problem-solving Project-Based Learning— and different activities inside and outside the classroom. This integration of methods motivated the current use of the concept of ―learning strategy‖. The strategy has two phases: firstly, the integration of the competences —technical, behavioral and contextual—in real projects; and secondly, the learning activity was oriented in upper level of knowledge, the evaluating the complexity for projects management in real situations. Both the competences in the learning strategy and the Project Complexity Evaluation are based on the ICB of IPMA. The learning strategy is applied in an international Postgraduate Program —Erasmus Mundus Master of Science— with the participation of five Universities of the European Union. This master program is fruit of a cooperative experience from one Educative Innovation Group of the UPM -GIE-Project-, two Research Groups of the UPM and the collaboration with other external agents to the university. Some reflections on the experience and the main success factors in the learning strategy were presented in the paper.
6 Figuras.- 1 Tabla ; [EN] Synthetic fuel production from renewable energy sources like biomass is gaining importance driven by the ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Sorption enhanced gasification (SEG) proposes carrying out the gasification of biomass in the presence of a CO2sorbent, which allows producing a syngas with a suitable composition for a subsequent synthetic fuel production step. The Environmental Research Group of ICB-CSIC is involved in the assessment of this enhanced gasification process focused on residual biomass as a feedstock, analysing the influence of the main operating parameters (i.e. temperature, steam excess, residence time, .) in the different products obtained (gas, solids and tar). This work has been initiated in the framework of the EU H2020 Programme project FLEDGED [1] and it is going to be continued throughout the recently assigned WASYNG project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. In this work, some of the results obtained for one of the feedstocks studied are presented. ; [ES] La producción de biocombustibles sintéticos a partir de energías renovables como la biomasa constituye una de las principales soluciones para conseguir reducir de forma notable las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero a nivel mundial. En concreto, la gasificación indirecta de biomasa con vapor en presencia de un sorbente de CO2 permite producir un gas de síntesis con la composición adecuada para un proceso posterior de síntesis de un biocombustible. El grupo de Investigaciones Medioambientales del ICB-CSIC se encuentra investigando este proceso de gasificación aplicado a biomasas de origen residual, estudiando la influencia de las principales variables de operación (tales como la temperatura, exceso de vapor, tiempo de residencia.) en los principales productos del proceso (gas, sólidos y alquitranes). Esta investigación ha comenzado en el marco del proyecto Europeo FLEDGED del programa H2020 [1] y continuará en el marco del recién asignado proyecto WASYING, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. En este trabajo se muestran algunos de los resultados obtenidos para una de las biomasas analizadas hasta el momento. ; This work has been carried out as part of the European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme project FLEDGED (Grant agreement No. 727600) and the project WASYNG (No. RTI2018-095575-B-I00) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Authors thank also the Regional Aragon Government (DGA) for the economic support under the research groups' support program. ; Peer reviewed
This document describes the Israeli Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2004, developed by the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at the University of Hohenheim. The SAM is a part of a larger research project which aims to analyse several economic, trade, and labour policies in the context of economic integration of agriculture between Israel and the West Bank. Data are obtained from various sources in Israel. Sources include the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), the Central Bank of Israel (CBI), and the Israeli Tax Authority (ITA). Data from sources outside of Israel are used to fill-in some gaps in the domestic reports. External sources include the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank. The SAM provides data on 47 sectors with activities separated from commodities, 36 labour force types, 10 household groups, as well as 17 tax accounts in addition to 37 accounts reserved for taxes on production factors. A topdown approach is pursued by first building a balanced macro SAM which is consistent with 2004 national account data. Subsequently, the macro SAM is disaggregated into a micro SAM which is balanced in several steps. ; Dieser Bericht beschreibt die "Social Accounting Matrix" (SAM) für Israel für das Jahr 2004, welche am Fachgebiet für Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik der Universität Hohenheim erstellt wurde. Die israelische SAM ist Teil eines größeren Forschungsprojektes mit dem Ziel verschiedene ökonomische, Handels- und Arbeitsmarktpolitiken im Kontext der ökonomischen Integration von landwirtschaftlichen Märkten zwischen Israel und dem Westjordanland zu analysieren. Es werden Daten von verschiedenen israelischen Quellen verwandt: dem israelischen statistischem Amt (ICBS), der israelischen Zentralbank (BOI) und der israelischen Steuerbehörde (ITA). Diese werde durch nicht-israelische Quellen ergänzt, welche die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO), die Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD), sowie die Weltbank umfassen. Die SAM differenziert 47 Sektoren, wobei Aktivitäten und Güter unterschieden werden. Ferner beinhaltet die SAM 36 Klassen des Produktionsfaktors Arbeit und 10 unterschiedliche Haushaltsgruppen, die durch 54 verschiedene Steuern (davon 37 auf Produktionsfaktoren) ergänzt werden. Die Erstellung der SAM erfolgt folgendermaßen: zuerst wird eine mit den israelischen volkswirtschaftlichen Daten für 2004 konsistente Makro-SAM erstellt. Diese wird im nächsten Schritt disaggregiert in eine detaillierte Mikro-SAM, welche in mehreren Stufen ausbalanciert wird.
6 figures, 3 tables.-- Supplementary material under CC-BY license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; Fuel reformulation through the use of oxygenated compounds e.g. dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is a potential option both to reduce the harmful soot emissions and to overcome the dependence on fossil fuels since many of them are bio-derived fuels. DMC presents a relative high oxygen content as compared with other additives and suitable characteristics to be used in combustion systems. The different fundamental aspects of the DMC combustion process including its oxidation behavior its tendency to produce soot and the role of the NO presence in the reaction system were studied. Experiments were conducted under well controlled conditions using specifically designed flow reactor systems. Results demonstrated the low tendency of DMC to form soot compared to other oxygenates and its capacity to contribute to NO reduction under specific fuel-rich conditions. Modeling calculations successfully reproduce reasonably well the experimental trends observed and emphasized the sensitivity of the results to the thermodynamic data of DMC and DMC derived species. ; Authors acknowledge the Aragón Government and the European Social Fund, GPT group, and MINECO and FEDER (Project CTQ2015-65226-R) for financial support. Dr. M. Abián acknowledges the MINECO and Instituto de Carboquímica (ICB-CSIC) for the post-doctoral grant awarded (FPDI-2013-16172).
The authors would like to acknowledge the comments provided on early versions of this article by Professor Stan Siebert and Prof. Paul Edwards, comments received by attendees at ICBS 2014 and EUROMA 2015 conferences, and three anonymous referees. This research was supported by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skiodowska-Curie Actions project "MAKERS: Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity" with grant agreement number 691192, the Spanish Government under Grant ECO2014-58472-R, and the Junta de Andalusia under Grant P11-SEJ-7294. ; This study draws on literature at the intersection of servitization, digital business models and supply chain management. Work empirically explores how digital disruption has affected Business-to-Business (B2B) interdependencies. Dematerialization of physical products is transforming the way firms are positioned in the supply chain due to a reduction in production and transport costs and the different ways business engage with customers. Specifically, we propose that these new market conditions can empower downstream firms. We further propose that upstream firms can still capture additional value through digital service if their servitized offer includes difficult to imitate elements. The context of the analysis is the publishing industry. The Payment Card method employed is used to test UK and US consumer's perceptions of digital formats (eBooks) and assess their willingness to pay in relation to printed formats. The method undertaken enables us to elicit aggregated consumer demand for eBooks which in turn identifies optimal pricing strategies for the digital services. Analysis demonstrates that during digital servitization upstream firms should seek to deploy unique resources to ensure their strategic position in the supply chain is not diminished. ; European Commission under the Horizon Marie Skiodowska-Curie Actions project "MAKERS: Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity" 691192 ; Spanish Government ECO2014-58472-R ; Junta de Andalusia P11-SEJ-7294
The article is devoted to the definition of modern approaches to the identification and evaluation of quality assurance processes in local government, as a basis for the formation of appropriate local government management systems. It is noted that quality assurance in local government should begin with an intensive study of internal relationships between existing management processes – the implementation of a process approach methodology. To outline approaches to the processes' definition and description that ensure the local government activities and services quality, a relationships' scheme between the basic concepts of DSTU ISO 9000:2015 in relation to processes and results of activities. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the application of ISO 18091:2019 guidelines on adapting the process approach to local government bodies' activities is extremely important in Ukraine, given the need to form a comprehensive control system in the field of administrative services delivery and increase the civil society institutions' participation in relevant public monitoring projects. Adaptation provides by distinguishing of: three groups of processes for integral quality management (management processes; operational processes; support processes); improvement process; processes of citizen participation through Integral Citizen Observatory that facilitate cooperation between government and the community, as well as participate in monitoring processes. The tested approach to process measurement according to the CAF model, which has criterion 5 «Processes», is characterized. It is concluded that the public management mechanisms of the international standards requirements' (ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 18091:2019) and organizational excellence models' (EFQM, CAF, IPMA ICB) implementation need further study as a basis for quality assurance of administrative services provided by local governments. Priority areas include the legal and organizational mechanisms' formation through the development of a national system of administrative ...
This study draws on literature at the intersection of servitization, digital business models and supply chain management. Work empirically explores how digital disruption has affected Business-to-Business (B2B) interdependencies. Dematerialization of physical products is transforming the way firms are positioned in the supply chain due to a reduction in production and transport costs and the different ways business engage with customers. Specifically, we propose that these new market conditions can empower downstream firms. We further propose that upstream firms can still capture additional value through digital service if their servitized offer includes difficult to imitate elements. The context of the analysis is the publishing industry. The Payment Card method employed is used to test UK and US consumer's perceptions of digital formats (eBooks) and assess their willingness to pay in relation to printed formats. The method undertaken enables us to elicit aggregated consumer demand for eBooks which in turn identifies optimal pricing strategies for the digital services. Analysis demonstrates that during digital servitization upstream firms should seek to deploy unique resources to ensure their strategic position in the supply chain is not diminished. ; The authors would like to acknowledge the comments provided on early versions of this article by Professor Stan Siebert and Prof. Paul Edwards, comments received by attendees at ICBS 2014 and EUROMA 2015 conferences, and three anonymous referees. This research was supported by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project "MAKERS: Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity" with grant agreement number 691192, the Spanish Government under Grant ECO2014-58472-R, and the Junta de Andalusia under Grant P11-SEJ-7294.
Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. E. Khoury , B. Vesnicer, J. Franco-Pedroso, R. Violato, Z. Boulkenafet, L.M. Mazaira Fernández, M. Díez, J. Kosmala, H. Khemiri, T. Cipr, R. Saeidi, M. Gunther, J. Zganec-Gros, R. Zazo Candil, F. Simöes, M. Bengherabi, A. Álvarez Marquina, M. Penagarikano, A. Abad, M. Boulayemen, P. Schwarz,, D. Van Leeuwen, J. González-Domínguez, M. Uliani Neto, E. Boutellaa, P. Gómez Vilda, A. Varona, D. Petrovska-Delacretaz, P. Matejka, J. González-Rodríguez, T. Pereira, F. Harizi, L. J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, L. El Shafey, M. Angeloni, G. Bordel, G. Chollet, S. Marcel, "The 2013 speaker recognition evaluation in mobile environment" in International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), Madrid (Spain), 2013, 1-8 ; This paper evaluates the performance of the twelve primary systems submitted to the evaluation on speaker verification in the context of a mobile environment using the MOBIO database. The mobile environment provides a challenging and realistic test-bed for current state-of-the-art speaker verification techniques. Results in terms of equal error rate (EER), half total error rate (HTER) and detection error trade-off (DET) confirm that the best performing systems are based on total variability modeling, and are the fusion of several sub-systems. Nevertheless, the good old UBM-GMM based systems are still competitive. The results also show that the use of additional data for training as well as gender-dependent features can be helpful. ; This evaluation was supported by the European Union under the project BEAT contract no. FP7-284989 , as well as the Swiss National Science Foundation under the LOBI project.
The climate change challenge demands a commitment of combined strategies between global institutions, governments, companies and citizens. In order to reach 2015 Paris Agreement, greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced. Any single technology is currently able to achieve atmospheric greenhouse concentration values for the purpose of climate change mitigation. Also carbon sinks will be needed to further this cause as well as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies. In this sense, biomass represents an interesting alternative fuel for heat and power production as a carbon dioxide-neutral fuel. Moreover, if the CO2 generated during biomass combustion process was captured then negative-CO2 emissions would be reached. In this way, Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies enable energy generation while CO2 is being removed from the atmosphere. ; Among the different options, Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) is considered one of the most promising second generation CCS technologies due to its negligible energy and cost penalty for CO2 capture. In this work, three types of biomass were evaluated under CLC conditions: pine sawdust, olive stone and almond shell. Combustion experiments were performed in a continuous 500 Wth CLC unit at Instituto de Carboquímica (ICB-CSIC, Spain) using a highly-reactive low-cost iron ore as oxygen carrier (Tierga ore). During the experimental campaign, the effect of fuel reactor temperature (900-980 °C) on the combustion performance was analyzed. At the highest temperature tested (980 °C) a CO2 capture efficiency of 100% was reached with all the biomasses. However, the total oxygen demand followed no clear trend with temperature and the average value was close to 25%. The high volatile content of biomass compared to coal contributed to this effect. For a correct operation with biomass, further design measures should be taken to reduce the amount of unburned compounds at the outlet of the fuel reactor. In addition, tar and NOx measurements were done. No relevant drawbacks by the use of biomass in CLC were found related with other pollutants present in the system such as tar production or NOx emissions. ; The authors thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) for the funding received from the project ENE2014-56857-R) and by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the financial support. T. Mendiara thanks for the ''Ramón y Cajal'' pos t-doctoral contract awarded by MINECO. A. Pérez- Astray thanks MINECO for the FPI fellowship co-financ ed by the European Social Fund. The authors also thank PROMINDSA for providing the solid material used in this work. ; Peer reviewed
The Welcome Trust Case Control Consortium project was funded by the Wellcome Trust (awards 076113 and 085475). The New Zealand project was funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (08–75, 14–155). Recruitment of abdominal aortic aneurysm patients and controls in Belgium, Canada, and Pittsburgh, USA, was funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (HL064310 and HL044682). The Geisinger sample collection was funded in part by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement program, the Geisinger Clinical Research Fund, the American Heart Association, and the Ben Franklin Technology Development Fund of Pennsylvania. The Barts and the Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Units are funded by the National Institute for Health Research. The eMERGE (electronic Medical Records and Genomics) Network is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, with additional funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences through the following grants: U01HG004438 to Johns Hopkins University; U01HG004424 to The Broad Institute; U01HG004438 to CIDR; U01HG004610 and U01HG006375 to Group Health Cooperative; U01HG004608 to Marshfield Clinic; U01HG006389 to Essentia Institute of Rural Health; U01HG04599 and U01HG006379 to Mayo Clinic; U01HG004609 and U01HG006388 to Northwestern University; U01HG04603 and U01HG006378 to Vanderbilt University; U01HG006385 to the Coordinating Center; U01HG006382 to Geisinger Health System; U01HG006380 to Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai. The generation and management of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data for the Rotterdam Study (control samples for the Dutch GWAS) is supported by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO) Investments (175.010.2005.011, 911-03-012). This study is funded by the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (014-93-015; RIDE2), the Netherlands Genomics Initiative/NWO project nr. 050-060-810. The Italian sample collection were funded by grants from Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze to Fiorgen Foundation, Florence, Italy, and from the Italian Ministry of Health. Sample collections from Poland were funded in part by the National Science Centre in Poland (6P05A03921, NN403250440). The Mayo Vascular Disease Biorepository was funded by a Marriot Award for Individualized Medicine and an Award from the Mayo Center of Individualized Medicine. The Vanderbilt data set(s) were obtained from Vanderbilt University Medical Center's BioVU supported by institutional funding and by the National Center for Research Resources (UL1 RR024975-01, which is now at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, UL1 TR000445-06). The ASAP study (Advanced Study of Aortic Pathology) was supported by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, the Leducq Foundation (MIBAVA), and a donation by Fredrik Lundberg. S.E. Humphries holds a Chair funded by the British Heart Foundation, and is supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF; PG08/008) and by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. The Cardiogenics project was supported by the European Union 6th Framework Programme (LSHM-CT-2006–037593). S.C. Harrison was funded by a BHF clinical training fellowship (FS/11/16/28696). The Stockholm-Tartu Atherosclerosis Reverse Network Engineering Task biobank and the generation of the RNASeq data set was funded by Astra-Zeneca Translational Science Centre-Karolinska Institutet, the University of Tartu (SP1GVARENG), the Estonian Research Council (ETF 8853), the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the American Heart Association (A14SFRN20840000) and by the National Institute of Health (R01HL71207).