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The Red Wattle is a large, red hog with a fleshy wattle attached to each side of the neck. The wattles have no known function. They are a single gene characteristic and usually pass to crossbred offspring. The Red Wattle comes in a variety of shades of red, some with black specks or patches, and red and black hair. Some individuals are nearly black. The head and jowl are clean and lean, the nose is slim, and ears are upright with drooping tips. The body is short coupled and the back slightly arched. Mature animals weigh 600-800 pounds, but may weigh as much as 1200 pounds and measure up to four feet high and eight feet long.
Red Wattle hogs are known for hardiness, foraging activity, and rapid growth rate. They produce a lean meat that has been described as flavorful and tender. The sows are excellent mothers, farrow litters of 10 – 15 piglets, and provide good quantities of milk for their large litters. They have a mild temperament.
Red Wattles adapt to a wide range of climates. Their active foraging make them a good choice for consideration in outdoor or pasture-based swine production. Their gentle nature recommends them to the small-scale, independent producer. The origin and history of the Red Wattle breed is obscure and many hypotheses have been put forward. What is certain is that the breed, as it is known today, was derived from the large, red, wattled hogs found in a wooded area of eastern Texas in the early 1970s by Mr. H.C. Wengler. He reported breeding two red wattled sows with a Duroc boar, then breeding the wattled offspring back to the original sow. Over several generations he developed what became known as the "Wengler Red Waddle Hog."
In the early 1980s Robert Prentice located another herd of red wattled hogs. This line became known as the Timberline, named after its wooded origins of east Texas. He combined these with the Wengler Red Waddles to create the Endow Farm Wattle Hogs.
Meat quality was top on our list for what we wanted in a hog. The Red Wattle is fast gaining a reputation with top chefs and food critics for its tasty, top quality meat. Red Wattle hogs have great marbling and outstanding flavor. Red Wattle hogs are listed with Slow Foods USA on their "Ark of Taste" list, which details both plants and animals that have exceptional eating qualities not found in much/most of today's commercially available foods. We've personally taste tested Red Wattle pork against a more typical commercial crossbred hog that we raised here on the farm for meat. The two animals were raised side by side, eating the same things, living the same healthy lifestyle. They were even butchered and processed the exact same way. Without a doubt the crossbred hog was much better then store bought pork. But even better then the home raised crossbred was the home raised Red Wattle. Cooked the same way while I was out of the house (feeding animals), I can pick out the Red Wattle each and every time. It is that good!!
In addition to exceptional eating qualities, we wanted a hog that fit into our lifestyle and was easy to work around. The Red Wattles have proven to be a gentle breed of hog that is people friendly and easy to handle. We pasture raise all of our animals and they are rarely confined, and so our hogs had to be good foragers with hardy constitutions. Red Wattles fit the bill! Additionally our hogs had to be good mothers, able to birth and care of their young without a bunch of coddling and worry. Our sows have proven to be careful, attentive mothers that rarely need interventions when birthing or caring for their young.


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Blake Chandlee joined Outcome Health as EVP of Industry Solutions and Emerging Businesses.
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|Blake Chandlee joins Outcome Health as EVP of Industry Solutions and Emerging Businesses, leading industry expansion by collaborating with partners in the life sciences, payer and healthcare services industries to bring actionable information and intelligence into critical moments of healthcare decision making. He will also lead emerging commercial opportunities in areas such as clinical trials, payers, pharmacies and international expansion. Most recently, Chandlee served as Global Vice President of Facebook's Global Partnerships and Solutions Engineering Team. In this role, he led strategy, partnerships and commercial relationships across all of Facebook's strategic technology partners as well as its solutions engineering team.
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|Outcome Health delivers better health outcomes and impacts the human condition positively through technology. Founded in 2006 by Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal, the company has doubled each year in its scale of business partnerships with global life sciences and medical device companies, product innovation, team growth and technology implementation, with a presence in 20% of all outpatient facilities in the United States. Its decision technologies such as digital anatomy boards, interactive educational tablets and mobile connectivity in consultation rooms deliver measurable outcomes through actionable intelligence on conditions, treatments and lifestyle changes to improve the quality of life. To find out more about Outcome Health, visit www.OutcomeHealth.com.
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Sporting Activities
As part of out extra-curricular programme (and as well as our main sports programme) a number of sporting activities are available for the children to participate in.
These activites take place during the week either within the school day or in the evenings. Extra sporting activities include: golf, skiing, archery, judo, karate, cricket nets, riding, senior squash and mountain biking.


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Barrel Yard, Hulme, Manchester.
This is a £5Million new residential scheme comprising of 17 townhouses of 3-4 bedrooms and 25 apartments of 1-3 bedrooms. The development offers attractive, sustainable homes for those who want to live close to the city centre but desire a quiet, secure environment.
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Remington 870 Left Hand Tactical
A Remington 870 12ga Tactical Shotgun.
NOTE: If you are a left hand shooter and not interested in a left hand tactical any of my right hand models can be built with a trigger assembly that is right hand eject but left hand safety, these are factory new assemblies not modified one and come with the left hand safety, There are no issues with shooting a right hand pump shotgun left handed. The shell will not fly back at you like semi-auto rifles will. If you want a left hand eject tactical shotgun keep reading.
The only way to get this model is if you provide the gun. Purchase a Remington model 25577 which is the Express 870, the only one they make. It comes with a 26" Vent Rib Barrel which is the only Left hand 870 Barrel Remington Makes. You then have the barrel cut down and threaded for Rem Choke and for a Remington bead. Do it locally or contact Steve Rose at www.roseactionsports.com Tel: 270-348-3262
and have him do it. You pay him for that service. Tell him to send it to AI&P Tactical, he will know what to do. He will cut it off at the right support post of the vent rib. He will then drill and tap it for the Meprolight Tritium bead and will thread it for Rem Choke tubes. The weapon comes with hard wood Sport Stocks so you may want to sell them. So remove the stock set and only send me the receiver with all the internal parts. I then turn it into the below tactical build, or build it to your specification.
Another option would be to find a Remington left hand 870 barrel in 20" with Rifle sights. They made a few variations of this over the years but all have rifle sights. Older ones are chambered for 2 3/4" only. Later models come chambered for up to 3" shells and some are threaded for Rem Choke. If you find one of these I will use a Remington 3 shot extension on your build and you will have a 7+1 capacity. The Extension adds $30 to the build. Check auction sites for these barrel but be prepared to pay for it. If you see one you are interested in on line then contact me and I will take a look at it and tell you if it is a good price.
Here is the build I recommend:
Have you been wanting a Remington Tactical Shotgun or a Remington 870 police model but are a left hand shooter? Well this is the one you have been looking for. This is as close to a left hand 870 Police as you are going to see as with the parkerized finish and the internal upgrades it has the finish and function of the Police model.
The receiver was blasted and parkerized and the trigger plate assembly was upgraded with the heavy carrier dog follower spring as in the 870 Police and a Wilson Combat oversize safety. I installed a solid steel extractor as used in the 870 Police. I installed a Mesa tactical four round shell holder on the left side.
The stock is a Mesa Tactical LEO with Endine buffer with quick detach single point sling attachment. I installed an M4 slip on recoil pad, or you can upgrade to the Limbsaver M4 pad for $25. The forend will be the Remington OEM Law Enforcement forend, or forend of you choice. The Remington LE is easier on your hands after a long range day then other forends. I installed a Wilson Combat two shot extension with your choice of sling plates. The Wilson comes with a Wolf Power Spring and Wilson Tactical Follower. The Stock has a Push Button single point swivel and a slotted sling point at the rear of the stock.
A Mesa Tactical 4 round Shell carrier will be mounted on the right side of the receiver. There is no 6 round for the right side
The build you see below built on your receiver and barrel would be $665 plus shipping to your ffl transfer dealer. If you want a different stock simply contact for price.


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(Los Angeles, California – December 22, 2017) The Los Angeles Airport Police continue to bolster security at the second busiest airport in the nation. In a graduation ceremony held today at the LAPD Elysian Park Academy near Dodger Stadium, LAPD Academy Class 7-17 with 45 graduating officers, were sworn in to service and now make the transition from civilian life to a noble life of public service.
(Los Angeles, California – September 1, 2017) In a ceremony held at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Elysian Park Academy, Los Angeles Airport Police Chief David L. Maggard Jr. swore in two new officers as members of the Nation's largest aviation law enforcement agency.
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Third floor Grand Suite with views of Lake Michigan. Room 372 offers two luxury queen beds, wet bar with refrigerator, and full bath. Room 374 offers a queen murphy bed, living room area, gas fireplace, kitchenette, full bath. Both rooms offer a deck for lake viewing and relaxing. An ideal floor plan, allows for rental of one side while the owner uses the other. Great amenities on site including, 600 feet of lake Michigan waterfront, pool, restaurants, spa, etc.
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted at Breaking the Spine. The purpose is to spotlight upcoming releases that we are excited for.
The Keeper of the Mist by Rachel Neumeier
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publication date: March 8th 2016
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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A lush new fantasy about finding the will to lead against all odds, perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone.
Keri has been struggling to run her family bakery since her mother passed away. Now the father she barely knew—the Lord of Nimmira—has died, and ancient magic has decreed that she will take his place as the new Lady. The position has never been so dangerous: the mists that hide Nimmira from its vicious, land-hungry neighbors have failed, and Keri's people are visible to strangers for the first time since the mists were put in place generations ago. At the same time, three half-brothers will their own eyes on the crown make life within the House just as dangerous as the world outside.
But Keri has three people to guide her: her mysterious Timekeeper, clever Bookkeeper, and steadfast Doorkeeper. Together they must find a way to repair the boundary before her neighbors realize just how vulnerable Nimmira is.
With a spunky main character, lyrical storytelling, and hidden romance, The Keeper of the Mist is an engrossing story that is full of adventure.
Yeeaa, fantasy! I'm definitely intrigued by the blurb. I do love spunky characters, lyrical storytelling, and hidden romance, so hopefully it lives up to expectations!
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- Are all of your providers physicians? No, four of our providers are licensed physicians, and one is a certified nurse practitioner.
- What if my doctor is not available to see me? We encourage patients to see their primary care provider as this is important for continuity of care. If you have an urgent matter and your provider is not available to see you, you may be scheduled with one of our other providers.
- Do you offer same day appointments? Same day appointments are usually available for urgent matters.
- How can I reach my physician by phone? To reach your provider, you may call the office and leave a message with your doctor's medical assistant. **Please note, we do not diagnose or treat over the phone, so if you have a medical problem, please call the office to schedule an appointment.
- Do you do routine GYN care, including Pap tests? Yes, our providers do routine gynecologic exams as well as ordering of any related tests such as mammograms, bone density tests, STD screening, etc.
- Do you deliver babies? No, our providers do not deliver babies. We are happy to assist you with a referral to an Ob-Gyn if you are pregnant.
- Do you treat children? Yes, all of our providers treat infants, children and adolescents.
- Can you treat my whole family? Yes, our providers would be happy to see your whole family.
- What if I need prescription refills? Typically, your provider will provide you with enough refills to last until your next appointment. If you are due for a medication refill, you may be due for an appointment. If you are requesting a refill, we ask that you contact your pharmacy at least 48 hours before you need your medication or you may leave a message on our automated refill line.
- How do I obtain a referral? Please call the office to schedule an appointment to discuss your referral or you may leave a message on our automated referral line.
- What is your cancellation policy? We ask that you provide 24 hours notice if you must cancel your appointment. This allows us to offer that appointment time to another patient. If you must cancel your appointment with less than 24 hours notice or if you do not show up for your scheduled appointment, you may be charged a fee.
- Can I see you even if you are not contracted with my insurance plan? Yes, but you will be expected to pay for services at the time of your visit.
- How do I obtain a copy of my medical records? Click here to open our Medical Release Form. Complete the form online, then print and sign it. Mail or fax the completed form to our office (Attn: Medical Records Department). This form can also be used to request that records from outside facilities be forwarded to Smaldore Family Practice Associates.
- What insurance plans do you accept? Please see the "Insurance" section of our website.
- What if I need medical care or advice after hours? If you are in need of urgent medical care, please proceed to the nearest emergency room or urgent care center and contact our office the next business day to schedule a follow-up appointment with your provider. You may also call our answering service number which is (410)-337-7806.
- Am I allowed to eat or drink anything prior to coming in for "fasting" labs? We ask that you not eat or drink anything other than water or black coffee (no cream or sugar) for 10 hours prior to your lab appointment. It is important to be well hydrated when you are having your blood drawn. You may take your usual medications unless you have been instructed to take them with food. If you have questions about this, please consult your provider.


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We look forward to live entertainment by:
Kindred Spirits: a trio of community-involved flute players who just like to play! EFM is delighted to be having them for the December 17 winter market, where they will be playing mostly Christmas music, although some of it with a bit of a twist. "Jingled Bells" features the familiar tune in several different styles, including a funeral dirge. They also have a wonderful rendition of "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and have even added a sing-along portion to their program, featuring well-known Christmas Carols. "Kindred Spirits" are available for hire at your next party, wedding or celebration.
The "Kindred Spirits" are: Anne Stoebel, who has been playing flute since 7th grade. "Music has always been a part of my life and I have always expressed it best with my flute. I continue to enjoy playing in small ensembles and community groups such as the Emporia Municipal Band and Emporia Symphony". Sue Claridge works with children having Autism Spectrum Disorder. She recently returned to Emporia State University to pursue a master's degree in music performance. Sara Coltrane has played the flute for 18 years and loves music so much she became a music teacher. Sara currently teaches Kindermusik, music and movement classes for children from birth - 7 years. She is a member of The Emporia Symphony Orchestra, and the newest member of "Kindred Spirits".
Music at Future Markets:
Dec. 17: Kindred Spirits
Jan. 7: Jane McCoy & Bill Ihling
Feb. 4: Anton Zouplna Feb. 21: Eric Martin
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We live in a post-Pixar age. The viability and effectiveness of animated video is already well-established, and that's why many videographers also well-connected with animators.
But perhaps because animation and live video are traditionally different industries, business video tends to lean strongly towards live-action rather than animation. This could be due to a lingering prejudice against animated videos, an idea that they're "just for fun", the gimmicks of startups and sole proprietors, and that serious businesses should stick with live video for marketing. Or it could be that many businesses feel that animation just doesn't suit their marketing vision.
Whatever the case, it's hard to argue with the fact that animated videos (especially 2D) are cheaper for most purposes.
As this handy little graphic from AgentsofValue shows, animated video is just as effective as live action, but all-around cheaper. That's because when you choose animated, you're choosing to save money on actors, sets, and crew.
But if this is really the case (and it is), then why the hesitance to switch to animated for business video?
We think it has a lot to do with a lack of qualifiers and statistical evidence surrounding the actual engagement of animated business video. In other words – knowing animated cartoons are engaging to 4-10 year olds doesn't translate to automatic engagement for adult consumers, investors, or shareholders. Where are the numbers for that demographic?
Fortunately, CITE (Contemporary Issues in Technology & Teacher Education) did a fairly in-depth, albeit small study on the effectiveness of animated video compared to live action.
In the study, 55 preservice education students at a large, southwestern public university were selected to watch either a 1987 training video called "Cooperative Test", or a similar animated video. Both videos were 1 minute 26 seconds in length, and basically show a student cheating on an exam (the video is meant to be used be education instructors to generate discussion on various real-world classroom situations). The animated video took over 500 hours to produce in order to accurately mimic the eye movements and expressions of the real students in the original video.
As you can see, the 1987 video is very outdated – everything from the video quality to the students' dress is anachronistic, whereas the animated video is much smoother, higher quality, and true to the times. CITE used this basic distinction to point out an overlooked advantage of animation for training videos – animated videos have a much longer shelf-life, and can easily be adjusted to account for changes in fashion/environment, whereas a similar change to a live-action video would involve a costly reshoot.
In order to determine the effectiveness of the animated version of "Cooperative Test" versus the live-action version, a short 10-question survey was developed for viewers. Questions were attention-based and tested whether viewers noticed specific eye movements and interactions between students in the video. Of the 55 viewers, 27 watched the animated video and 28 watched the live-action video.
As it turns out, there was no noticeable difference in terms of attentiveness. It was easier to notice eye movements in the live-action video and easier to notice body movements in the animated video, but aside from these minor differences engagement rates and correct-answer responses were equally spread between the two videos.
CITE's study is too small to have wide-ranging application, but it does go to show that animated video is as good as live action video when it comes to engaging an audience for training purposes, and that animated video is actually more cost-effective on a long-term basis due to differences in "reshooting" costs.
Takeaway: Animated video is not only cost-affordable, it's also as effective for training purposes as live action.


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Expect Excellence in continuous innovation EVOLVING new and sustainable spill control products
Innovation: It's what we're all about. Lubetech culture is open to thinking outside the box, with new ideas, discovering fresh solutions to old problems and finding new ways to help you. By making it easy for you to work with us, we are making it easier for you to protect your business and the environment, a policy that reflects in everything we do.
Take `Spill Depot`: It's a versatile storage solution, solving the problem of having right product in the right place at the right time. Or our unique `Gold` range, reducing the amount of product you use through technically-efficient fluid-management technology; Or we've talked about our `Natural` products, reducing your corporate and personal carbon footprint without compromise on performance or cost, assembled from sustainable materials.
Our Spill Points loyalty reward system encourages our Distributors to make sure spill control is on your agenda - as it should be to protect the environment. As it must be to satisfy the requirements of law and business efficiency. In todays regulated and litigious markets, if you think spill control costs, try not having it..
Lubetechs' strong goal is: Lead through Innovation. A promise we fulfil. We're constantly coming up with new ideas to help you, but if you have any ideas which you think will aid us in our quest to make your life easier, protect the environment and improve compliance at the same time, email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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B'nai B'rith International is celebrating both anniversaries, organizing an event at the Knesset on the Balfour Declaration and co-sponsoring with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the U.N. and other Jewish organizations an event at the original site of the passage of resolution 181.
At B'nai B'rith, we take pride in our historical role in both events. See B'nai B'rith Magazine's latest issue for background on the role of B'nai B'rith leaders in the Balfour Declaration. B'nai B'rith was active in the U.N. from its founding, attending the 1945 San Francisco conference and gaining accreditation as an NGO in 1947. A key moment in B'nai B'rith history is the intervention of B'nai B'rith President Frank Goldman and B'nai B'rith lodge member Eddie Jacobson with U.S. President Harry Truman, which led to the U.S. decision to support partition. And, B'nai B'rith has had an active presence in Israel since 1888, helping to build the state.
As these important anniversaries arrive, it's important to celebrate and reflect on the advocacy efforts that led to these key moments in history. We also need to realize that, as important as these events were, they did not in themselves create the State of Israel. That job was done by the Zionist pioneers that settled the land, the leaders of the Yishuv (the Jewish government in waiting in pre-state Israel), the Haganah and other armed groups (and later, the IDF) that defended the nascent state, and the support of the Jewish community outside of Israel. Balfour and 181 did, however, give vital international recognition and legitimacy to Zionism at critical times to the development of the eventual State of Israel.
The Palestinians would do well to finally reckon with this history and with the fact that Israel is here to stay. Instead, the Palestinians are still battling the battles of the past — demanding that the current British government renounce the Balfour Declaration (the United Kingdom forthrightly refused to do so). At the U.N., the date of 181's passage (Nov. 29) has been turned into the "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People," whereby the U.N. delegations of countries hostile to Israel make incendiary speeches that few people outside of the U.N. building pay any attention to and resolutions are voted upon that do not bring the region closer to peace and only serve to discredit the U.N. The U.N.'s anti-Israel bureaucratic machinery also recently hosted an event attacking the Balfour Declaration.
While some delegations at the U.N. mourn, we in the Jewish community will continue to celebrate our return to sovereignty in the land of our ancestors and pledge to rededicate ourselves to the cause. Israel grows stronger economically, culturally, technologically and militarily, as a diverse democracy with flourishing diplomatic opportunities in countries throughout the world while the Palestinians play games at the U.N. When the Palestinians realize that seeking to delegitimize and isolate Israel via international institutions and/or seeking to destroy Israel with military force or terrorism will not lead to the creation of a Palestinian state, perhaps they will start to negotiate in earnest with Israel on a true, meaningful peace.


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Two bands from deep in the gut of Texas taking two songs a side. With members of the Fells and the Cryin' Out Louds in their line up the Deadly Companions make a grimy & drunk rhythm-n-blues peppered punk rock type of noise with vocals sounding like an Iggy/Jad Fair mixbreed that gargles with Old Crow for throat maintenance on "Midnight Soldiers" and a female orgasmic moans meets that's annoying kid from down the block whine on "Your House". Both songs twisted, thorny and horny enough to set them apart from some of the other bands around doing this kinda thing these days.
Steppin' Razors "Shoot Myself" starts out with the sound of an explosion. I remember ten or so years ago suggesting to, either Blaine from Nashville Pussy or Noel of the Hookers (I don't remember which one is was though now but I know it was one of the two...or possibly both) that on a upcoming record they should use such sound effects on each song. Being known as a smart ass whoever it I said it to gave me a "You are being a smart ass" look and that was that BUT the Hookers did use an explosion sound effect at the end of one on their songs on one of their singles (though I highly doubt it was because of my suggestion). Which one? I don't remember off the top of my head. Was it one of the tunes off the "12 Gauge Reaction" single? All my 45's are in a different part of the house and I don't feel like wandering over there at the moment to check and see right now. Maybe one of you can leave the info in the comment box...consider it your record geek trivia question of the day. Doused in a thick echo glaze "Shoot Myself" is a New Bombs Turks melted together with Motorhead in the deep south thud's in a while "Cut Me Deep (excerpt)" is one of those "Boy, I'm gonna have one nasty hangover tomorrow" type of blues numbers.


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Cutting Edge Technology and the Expert Guidance You Need
At Compass Consulting, our goal is to help make your job easier and your workplace more cost-effective. To do that, we use leading-edge technology including online enrollment and portals to provide you with the latest data analysis, as well as legislative, communication and human resources administration tools. Using these powerful Web-based applications, we provide our clients and staff unsurpassed efficiency and access to information.
As part of our standard services, Compass Consulting offers two powerful tools to help streamline your processes and provide you the information and resources you need to stay abreast of the latest developments in healthcare, compliance, wellness and much more.
Online Enrollment
The enrollment period can be a daunting time for both employers and employees; it's a lot of work for companies and may be a confusing process for workers. However, by using online enrollment, you can save time and money, make the process more efficient and user-friendly for your HR department and your employees.
Benefits of Online Enrollment
- Automates every step of the benefits management process, eliminating the need for paper-based processes and improving efficiency and accuracy.
- Lowers the overall cost of providing services to your employees by eliminating the costs of distributing and collecting paper enrollment packets.
- Shortens the enrollment cycle.
- Enables employees to self-enroll in benefit programs, review their benefit data and report life event changes.
- Employees can choose plans based on eligibility criteria and can compare costs and coverage of previous elections against new offerings.
- Automatically apply elections to employee records.
- Employees receive written confirmations detailing their elections.
- Employees can easily view and update their records and plans.
- HR can check the status of enrollment in real time.
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At Compass Consulting Group we're always looking for innovative products and services that will make your job easier. With this in mind, we are excited to provide MyWave as part of your platform of services.
Your MyWave Portal allows you to:
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- Access benefit plan and risk management program surveys
- Network with peers across the country to share knowledge and insights
At Compass Consulting, our goal is to make your job easier. With the power of the MyWave Portal at your fingertips, getting the information you need quickly has never been simple.
Technology Consulting
To ensure that our clients receive best-in-class solutions, Compass Consulting has retained a consultant with over 20 years experience in the HR technology industry. Our consultant can provide you the guidance and support needed to effectively evaluate your technology investment.
As part of our standard consulting process, we will meet with your team to review your existing systems and determine the best solutions for your firm's technology needs. In developing our recommendations, we take an objective approach to HR technologies and consider solutions from a variety of providers, carefully weighing your individual requirements. Technology is not a "one size fits all" proposition and we will work diligently with you to develop recommendations tailored to your unique needs.


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An HTC Android phone after the exploit is used (Photo : Bluebox Labs)
A massive hole in the security of almost all Android systems has been exposed by a small cybersecurity research firm called Bluebox Labs. The bug, if exploited, could give hackers access to almost any Android phone, let them do almost anything with it, and could go unnoticed by the app store, the phone, and the phone's user.
According to TechCrunch, the exploitable bug in the Android system affects 99 percent of Android smartphones. Apparently the bug in the Android code could allow hackers to modify the code in Android application package files, or ".apk" files, which are the files used to distribute and install application software on to Android systems. The bug allows such modifications to take place without breaking the application's cryptographic signature, which means the modifications could easily go unnoticed.
What this means is that, according to Jeff Forristal, Bluebox's CTO, writing on the Bluebox blog, hackers could use the bug "to turn any legitimate application into a malicious Trojan, completely unnoticed by the app store, the phone or the end user."
As Forristal puts it: "The implications are huge!"
The Android vulnerability has existed ever since Android 1.6 "Donut" was released in September 2009, and continues up through every new Android update to this day (although Samsung has apparently patched the Galaxy S4 already, according to TechCrunch). That means that about 900 million of the Android phones released in the past 4 years - HTCs, Samsung phones, Motorola, LG, and others - are all vulnerable to attack.
Once downloaded, malicious software can do anything from stealing data, monitoring phone use, or creating a mobile botnet of so-called "zombie" smartphones, which the hacker can take over and use for whatever end they want.
Bluebox explains that the bug exploit involves variance in how Android applications are verified as non-malicious - the so-called cryptographic signature. All Android apps have cryptographic signatures, which the Android system uses to verify that you're not downloading malicious software whenever you download an app from Google Play or elsewhere. The vulnerability allows a change in an app's code, without breaking the cryptographic signature. Basically, it makes any app a possible wolf in sheep's clothing.
Before making this massive vulnerability public, Bluebox Labs alerted Google of the problem, back in February 2013. Bluebox Labs will go into more technical detail, along with talking about how Bluebox found the bug, how it works, and other materials, at Bluebox's presentation at the Black Hat USA 2013 conference. The Black Hat USA conference involves highly technical security presentations from government agencies to corporate security officials and even hackers, which takes place at the end of July into August 1 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas Nevada.
After that talk, Bluebox will post a follow-up blog with a link to materials from the talk. Until then, Bluebox Labs suggests that Android phone owners and enterprise professionals take the following precautions:
- Device owners should be extra cautious in identifying the publisher of the app they want to download.
- Enterprises with BYOD implementations should use this news to prompt all users to update their devices, and to highlight the importance of keeping their devices updated.
- IT should see this vulnerability as another driver to move beyond just device management to focus on deep device integrity checking and securing corporate data.
Stay tuned here, as we'll provide updates to this huge cybersecurity story as they become available. In the mean time, be careful downloading Android users!
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On March 30 - April 1, the Hub joined members of the National Monitoring Committees (NMCs) on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) from the EAC Partner States and representative from the EAC Secretariat, East African Business Council (EABC) Secretariat, Trade Mark East Africa and the private sector for the 20th East African Community (EAC) Regional Forum on NTBs, held in Arusha, Tanzania.
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Keynote Forum
Masaru Matsuo
Dalian University of Technology, China
Keynote: Dynamic tensile modulus of positive temperature coefficient materials under electric field investigated in terms of low frequency earthquake counter measures
Masaru Matsuo has completed his PhD from Kyoto University in Japan and was a Professor of Nara Women's University. After his retirement, he became a full time Professor of Dalian University of Technology in China. Since September 1st 2014, he is a Visiting Professor of Dalian University of Technology. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journal articles. He is IUPAC fellow and received Certificate of Membership Award of ACS (July 2015~July 2018). He received "The Award of the Society of Fiber Science and Technology of Japan" in May 1990, "Paul Flory Polymer Research Prize" in April 2010 and "Certificate of Friendship Award of Liaoning Province in China" in September 2011.
PTC materials play important roles in promoting significant applications to floor heating and loft heating in order to get rid of snow removing by humans. To assure comfortable daily living in winter, the cost effective floor heating and loft heating must be established. Obviously, light PTC materials as heating elements have advantages for saving construction cost of building circulation rather than heavy hot water tubes in addition to the safety and cleanliness. Recently, PTC materials for floor heating and loft heating tend to be adopted on designing rooms in an apartment building. However, when earthquake with low frequency generate in winter, the residents must consider the serious damages. Certainly, since the serious damage of bank building by low frequency earthquake (0.1~2 Hz) at Mexico in 1985, the horrors of low-frequency earthquake have been investigated in terms to predominant period of ground and natural frequency of the construction materials relating to building height. Accordingly, the serious damages of recent buildings tend to decrease by the new design methods for preventing collapse of constructions. Different from such earthquake counter measures, however, there is no report on the damage of PTC materials against low-frequency earthquake, since no experimental method has been established for the frequency dependence of mechanical properties under applied electric fields. This presentation is focused on frequency dependence of the complex dynamic tensile modulus of PTC materials under applied electric field. Fine home-made attachments were fixed on a commercial visco-elastic spectrometer to measure the modulus with different frequencies at the desired temperatures. Efforts were done to determine static strain in order to place the sample in tension during axial sinusoidal oscillation. The measurements were carried out for ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)-nickel (Ni) coated carbon fiber (NiCF) composites which have been adopted as PTC materials. The drastic descent of the storage modulus was confirmed in lower frequency range (0.01~2 Hz) at surface temperature (Ts) elevated by Joule heat. That is, storage modulus by self-heating is much lower than that by external heating at the same temperature. This tendency became considerable beyond 65°C. The
composite was cut when Ts was beyond 93°C. In contrast, the cutting did not occur in higher frequency range (100~10 Hz) at Ts=105°C. The present fundamental work warns that protection of PTC materials used as floor heating must be taken into consideration in terms of low frequency earthquake in addition of the seismic intensity.
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Alain Demourgues
University of Bordeaux, France
Keynote: The world of fluorine-based nano-materials: Past, present and future
A Demourgues is working at ICMCB-CNRS-UPR9048 since October 1993 as Research Fellow. He became Research Director at CNRS in October 2008. He received IBM-France award in 1993 (Young Scientist in Materials Science) and SFC (Société Française de Chimie) award in 2003 (Solid State Chemistry division). He is Consulting Scientist since 1998 at RHODIA-SOLVAY in the field of Solid State Chemistry, Redox and Opto-electronic properties.
The aim of this presentation is to illustrate, considering various new 'nano' oxy(hydroxyl)fluorides prepared by hydrothermal routes, the key role of cationic/anionic vacancies allow relaxing the structure (bond distances and angles) which explain outstanding physical-chemical properties (reactivity, UV-Vis-NIR absorption and electrochemistry). Nanoparticles of crystallized phases have been obtained by microwave assisted solvothermal routes using HF, various solvents and precursors
leading to control the composition, the crystal structure, the nanosize particles and the surface area. The case of Ti-based oxy(hydroxy)fluorides with Ti vacancies and unexpected UV shielding properties with band gap around 3.2eV and small refractive index around 1.9 will be presented. Al fluoride hydrate also with cationic vacancies, structural water and fluorine as ligands of Al3+ ions, has been synthesized and exhibits Lewis-Brönsted acidities. The strong acidic behavior highlights
the effect of water molecules/cationic vacancies on the surface structure. Both these compounds adopt also derived ReO3 frameworks. Ti vacancies can be also stabilized in derived Hexagonal Tungsten Bronzes (HTB) and anatase form containing O2-, OH- and F- species but the cationic vacancies rate remains smaller in these last cases than in the previous ReO3 form. The more complex case of trivalent Fe-based oxyfluorides will be presented by outlining the occurrence of cationic and anionic
vacancies in this network where these compounds adopt the HTB used as cathodes in Li-ion battery. Finally, nanoparticles of tetravalent Ce-based oxyfluorides with fluorite-type structure where anions are in tetrahedral sites, have been prepared by co-precipitation in basic (pH=12) medium. The presence of Ca2+ partially substituted for Ce4+ and F- for O2- allows tuning the optical band gap at the UV-Visible frontier and obtaining new UV absorbers with low refractive index. The role played by fluorine substituting for O2-/OH- ions will be highlighted which allows creating cationic and anionic vacancies in these nanomaterials and contributes to tune the optical absorption properties as well as the acidic and redox properties.
Keynote Forum
Edward Yi Chang
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Keynote: Nano scale InGaAs FinFET for post Si CMOS application
Time : 10:00-10:30
Edward Yi Chang has received the PhD degree from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1985. In 1992, he joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is currently a Senior Vice President of National Chiao Tung University, Dean of Research and Development of NCTU, Dean of International Semiconductor School and Chair Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electronics Engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. His current research interests include III-V compounds based devices for power, electrical and optical applications. He holds more than 30 patents worldwide and has been author or co-author of more than 120 papers in the related research areas.
To meet Moore's law, the academia and industry have worked rigorously to develop advanced technologies in order to reach the ITRS roadmap standard. However, as the devices are reaching their physical limits, we are facing challenges; two most effectively ways to keep the device scaling are either using different transistor architectures or using advanced high mobility channels. Among many III-V compound semiconductors, InxGa1-xAs materials are the most promising candidates as high electron mobility channels for scaling CMOS devices to satisfy the quest of future logic applications. Besides, high-k materials, owning to its high permittivity is very critical material for integrating with III-V semiconductors in sub-nanometer technology regions. Unfortunately, inherently poor quality of high-k/III-V interfaces, which degrades the gate controllability and the channel mobility, has not been overcome yet. To achieve high efficiency and low power consumption high-k/III-V MOS devices, the MOS structures should have high interface quality in conjunction with a suitable and reliable dielectric gate stack. In addition, the gate metals must have effective work functions aligned with the band edges of the channel materials, as well as a small work function variation. This talk focuses on the metal/high-k/InGaAs interface study and several new results of the InGaAs FinFETs will be presented which can be the key technologies for next generation InGaAs channel based CMOS
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Mohammad I Younis
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Keynote: Nanoelectromechanical resonators for logic operations
Mohammad I Younis received his PhD degree in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2004. Since 2004, he has been serving as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton, NY, USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, where he has served as a Director of the MEMS and NEMS Characterization and Motion Laboratory. He is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2012, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2009, and the Paul E Torgersen Graduate Research Excellence Award in 2002. He serves as an Associate Editor of Nonlinear Dynamics, the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, and the Journal of Vibration and Control.
There has been remarkable interest in nanomechanical computing elements, which can potentially lead to a new era in computation due to their re-configurability, high integration density, and high switching speed. The last decade has witnessed increasing research interest in mechanical computing for scalable mechanical computing elements. This has been primarily driven by the need to overcome the higher leakage current and power dissipation of the transistor technology, which have become pronounced as the technology is reaching its physical limit. Downscaling MEMS devices into the nano regime offers exciting opportunities for realizing devices of ultralow power consumption, high sensitivity, and high integration density. The ongoing progress in nanofabrication technologies has enabled exploration of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) for mechanical computing for memory and logic gate devices. In this work, we present an in-plane nanomechanical beam resonator, operated in its linear regime, capable of dynamically performing NOR, NOT, XNOR, XOR, and AND logic operations. The stiffness of the nano-beam and hence its resonance frequency is modulated electro- thermally with two DC voltage sources representing the logic inputs. We also present for the first time an in-depth investigation into the performance of such electromechanical resonators under the effect of frequency fluctuations with temperature variation. The performance
of this re-configurable logic device is examined at elevated temperatures, ranging from 25°C to 85°C, demonstrating its resilience for most of the logic operations. The proposed device can potentially achieve switching rate in μ sec, switching energy in nJ, and an integration density up to 106 per cm2. The practical realization of this re-configurable device paves the way for nano-elements-based mechanical computing.
- Track 11 : Insilico nanostructure modelling Track 12 : Applications of Nanomaterials Track 13 : Characterization and properties of Nanomaterials Track 14 : Advanced Nanomaterials Track 15 : Nanotech products Track 16 : Nanodevices and Systems Track 17 : Nanomedical Devices Track 18 : Nanotechnology applications Track 19 : Biomedical Nanomaterials
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J Vidal-Gancedo
Institut of Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Spain
Nadezhda Nebogatikova
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Session Introduction
Amparo Luna
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Title: New catalytic process using palladium nanoparticles for the construction of potentially bioactive heterocycles
Amparo Luna received her Bachelor´s degree in Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz in 1996 and PhD degree in the Organic Chemistry Program in 2002 from the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, under the supervision of Prof. Vicente Gotor and Dr. Covadonga Astorga. In 2003, she joined the research group of Prof. Roland Furstoss at Faculté des Sciences de Luminy (Lab. Associé au CNRS, in Marseille (France) as a Post-doctoral fellow. In 2004, she moved to the research group of Prof. Benito Alcaide (UCM, Madrid) where, in 2006, she was appointed as Assistant Professor and in 2015 she assumed a position of Associate Professor. Her research interests are focused on beta-lactam and allene chemistry, and metal-catalyzed coupling reactions.
Allenes are a class of compounds with two cumulative carbon-carbon double bonds, which are versatile synthetic intermediates in organic synthesis. These substrates have allowed chemists to prepare a variety of compounds of chemical and biological interest. The abundance of nitrogen-containing heterocycles in biologically active molecules has occasioned many efforts for their synthesis and functionalization. In particular, the oxacycles is important because they are present in a wide range of natural products. On the other hand, in the design of eco-friendly processes, catalysts and solvents play a key factor from both an economic and environmental point of view. In the development of new chemical processes the reactions conditions should fulfill specific criteria: i) renewable feedstocks, ii) low VOC emission, iii) low flammability and iv) functional group compatibility. In our continuing efforts on the construction of potentially bioactive heterocycles, we have developed a new catalytic process using metal nanoparticles because of; NPs tend to be more reactive than their particulate metal counterparts as a result of increasing surface area with decreasing particle size. Palladium nanoparticles are one of the most used and efficient catalyst in the formation of C-C bond and other chemical transformations such as carbon-hetero atom bond formation. Herein, we described the use, for the first time, of a novel ligand-free catalytic system for obtaining the cyclization of allenols towards the preparation of dihydrofurans and carbazoles. The prepared nanomaterial (PdNPs) displayed good activity on the construction of potentially bioactive heterocycles in aqueous media, providing good to excellent yields. The recyclability of the nanocatalyst has also been established (up to four cycles) giving rise to good isolated yields in successive runs.
Nadezhda Nebogatikova
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Title: Nanostructured few-layer graphene films with edge reconstruction for electronic applications
Time : 11:45-12:10
Nadezhda Nebogatikova has her expertise in the area of graphene functionalization, graphene quantum dots, suspensions and inks for 2D-inkjet printing. She has found an approach to create different fluorinated graphene-based materials. Her investigations of graphene fluorination opened new pathways for improving graphene-based devices with a wide range of electronic and structural properties. She has 14 publications and worked at Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS in Novosibirsk since 2010.
Graphene electronics needs new materials with tunable electronic properties due to a set of excellent electronic and structural graphene properties and the zero band-gap in its electronic structure. The traditional pathways to open the bandgap in graphene layers are nanolithography. Unfortunately, there is a dramatic decrease in carrier mobility due to chemically active dangling bonds near the formed edges. The stability of graphene-based nanostructures without edge atoms has been investigated recently. One can create such materials by embedding graphene islands into a stable matrix. Such approach was realized in our previous studies of graphene layers and suspensions fluorination. Another decision is to cut holes in neighboring graphene layers and to bond the chemically active atoms from different layers forming a closed structure of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. We used high energy ions (26-167 MeV) to create perforated few-layer graphene films. Both scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy both demonstrate nanosized holes (20-40 nm in diameter) formed by ions irradiation. The initial ions energy determines the amount of electronic loss and the value of a sharp local temperature rise in the films. As a consequence, the type of the holes edge may be reconstructed in the range from the dangling bonds to connected edges. We observed the bandgap and electric active traps appearance, dependently on ions energy. We found the conditions for tuning the film electronic and structural properties. The formation of a continuous graphene surface between two perforated layers is very attractive as well as for nanoelectronic devices because of the band-gap appearance in its electronic band structure, opportunity to save the carrier mobility and capability to transmit high electric currents in contrast to nanostructured graphene and semiconducting graphene nanoribbons. Moreover, such nanostructures are promising for sensors and molecule filters.
J Vidal-Gancedo
Institut of Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Spain
Title: Au nanoparticles labeled with organic radicals
J Vidal-Gancedo is a Tenured Scientist at the Materials Science Institut of Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC and Researcher at the Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, Spain. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona in 1993. Actually also he is Scientist In-Charge of the ICMAB Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Laboratory and President of The Spanish Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Group, GERPE. His research interest focuses on molecular functional materials based on organic radicals, molecular nanoscience, and nanomedicine. He authored of more than 145 journal papers in peer reviewed journals including several book chapters and 3 patents. His work have received more than 3000 citations and his h factor actualy is 31.
A series of Au nanoparticles functionalised with high coverage of TEMPO-modified disulfide have been prepared and studied by EPR, UV-Vis, TEM microscopy, Energy Dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA). In order to increase the coverage of spin labels on the particle surface, heat-induced size evolution and ligand exchange reactions were used. A one-pot reaction at room temperature led to gold nanoparticles with a controlled large size (ca. 7 nm) and high coverage of radicals. These nanoparticles showed a |Δms| = 2 transition at half-field which gives direct evidence of the presence of a high-spin state and allows an EPR study of the nature of the magnetic coupling between the spins. The results showed dominant antiferromagnetic interactions between radicals but at lower temperatures a ferromagnetic contribution was observed. The same diradical has been studied in solution, crystal and anchored to Au (111) flat surface showing anisotropic magnetic properties. We have also synthesized gold nanoparticles functionalized with high coverage of nitronyl nitroxide radical that preserve the same thermally modulated spin exchange radical interaction observed for the diradical in solution. This result has significant importance for developing functional hybrid surfaces and opens the possibility to be used as a new class of spin markers.
Yo Tanaka
RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Japan
Title: Development of ultra-thin glass based micro/nano fluidic
Yo Tanaka received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo. He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, and has been working as a Unit Leader in the Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN, Japan, since 2011.
A microchip (also called as micro fluidic chip or micro chemical chip) is a palm sized small board with micro and nano fluidic channels fabricated by micro or nano machining techniques. It is widely utilized for the integration of complicated chemical and biochemical experimental processes. This is a spin-off technology from integrated circuit fabrication techniques in the field of electronics and information technology. Currently, it is applied to various wet processes in chemistry and biology and a number of sophisticated systems have been developed till now. There are several advantages including, saving the amount of chemical reagents and short analysis time. By exploiting these significant advantages, various kinds of chemical systems such as analysis, synthesis and cellular experiments have been integrated onto a microchip. Regarding this microchip technology, the author has developed several original technologies on fabrication, fluid control and construction of mechanical devices for bio-analysis. For example, totally glass based micro valves, pumps, filters and ultra-thin, flexible glass microchips as shown in Figure 1 have been demonstrated based on an
ultra-thin glass sheet handling techniques. In this work, these achievements are comprehensively introduced.
Marta Lara
Instituto Tecnológico del embalaje, Spain
Title: Nanoparticles in plastic materials for food contact applications
Marta Lara-Lledó is an Agricultural Engineer specialized in Food Industries from Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). She has a Master's and a PhD in Food Science and Engineering (UPV) and a Diploma in Packaging from Instituto Tecnológico del Embalaje, Transporte y Logística (ITENE). Since 2007, she is Technical
and Project Manager of New Materials and Packaging Systems department at ITENE. Nowadays, She is responsible for the Food Safety Area. She is working on several R&D projects specifically related to food packaging. She is specialized in the development, characterization and authorization of new packaging materials,
including the implementation of food contact materials legislation and verification processes for the proper performance and good manufacturing practices of the packaging materials.
Nanoparticles can be used in food contact materials to improve barrier, mechanical and thermal properties of biodegradable materials. The use of nanoparticles also allows the development of lightweight non-renewable polymers, maintaining their barrier, mechanical and thermal properties with less thickness. The use of nanoparticles is also possible for the development of active and intelligent materials with improved properties. Focusing on the improvement of biodegradable polymers properties, the formulation of organoclays and their incorporation into a PLA matrix allowed an increase of its barrier properties (↓ 25% OTR, ↓ 21% WVTR), mechanical properties (↑ 40-45% compression resistance) and an improvement of thermal properties. The reinforcement of barrier and mechanical properties of a PLA matrix was also using nanocelluloses extracted from different plants by-products (flax, hemp, oat, etc.). According to the plastic European Regulation for food contact materials (EU) Nº 10/2011, chemical and physical properties of nanoparticles could differ from those at large scale, leading to different toxicological properties. Therefore, case-by-case, risk assessment should be performed, and they can only be used if explicitly authorized and mentioned in Annex 1 of the plastic regulation. In the recent years, a notable increase in the number of authorized nanoparticles for food contact applications has been noticed in Europe, but harmonized measurement methods must be still developed to obtain consistent results over time and between laboratories. For the authorization of nanoparticles in US, a safety assessment should be also performed through a Food Contact Notification Program or alternative programs such as Threshold of Regulation (TOR) exemptions. The authorization procedures should be considered for the commercialization of these materials for food contact applications.
Krishnamurthy G has completed his MPhil and PhD from Bangalore University after his Master's in the same University. He is having a total of 16 years of teaching experience. During his tenure as Sir C V Raman Post-doctoral Fellow (2013-2014), he visited Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Berkely, CA, US. His research interests lie in nano/energy materials, electrochemisty, bio-medical materials, etc. He has published 28 papers in reputed journals and guided PhD students. He is a reviewer of several reputed international journals.
The efficient and cost effective electrocatalysts are of great interest for energy application due to the high cost and other associated problems of the existing ones. Here, in this work, the preparation of efficient electrocatalyst/substrate system by electroless deposition of non-noble metal nanoparticles, in particular the Ni/Multiwalled Carbon nanotubes(MWCNTs) has been prepared and tested for Methanol and Ethanol oxidation. The MWCNTs were synthesized by solvotehrmal procedure at a low temperature range of about 180–220°C in an autoclave system. The products were characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The Nickel nanoparticles with a size range of 5-10 nm were distributed almost uniformly on the surface of MWCNTs. The Ni/MWCNTs electrode has exhibited
remarkably higher current density of 145 mA/cm2 and a lower onset potential of -0.3 V in 0.1M CH3OH with 0.1 M H2SO4. The calculated average active surface area of MWCNTs and Ni/ MWCNTs' electrode are 0.45 x 10-3 cm2 and 0.51 x 10-3 cm2 respectively and the surface coverage of Ni/MWCNTs' electrode was 2.4409×10-7 mol/cm2. A significant electrocatalytic activity of Ni/MWCNTs for the oxidation of methanol and ethanol in acidic medium has been observed, which could be a positive result to be harnessed as a non-noble electrocatalyst/electrode system to improve the efficiency of the direct alcohol fuel cells.
Heba ElSayed ElZorkany
Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Central Lab, Egypt
Title: High efficiency of silica-coated CdSe/ZnS quantum dots for cellular imaging by time lapse confocal laser scanning microscopy
Heba ElSayed ElZorkany received her BSc in Biotechnology from Benha University in 2006. She joined the National Institution of Laser Enhanced Science, Cairo University as a Post-graduate student and she awarded a Diploma degree in Laser Applications in Biotechnology and Photobiology in 2008. She completed her MSc degree in 2013 (The photothermal effect of metallic nanoparticles on bacteria). She has enrolled in the PhD program at NILES, since 2014 to conduct her thesis titled "Efficiency of biocompatible quantum dot for cellular imaging using confocal laser scanning microscope". She has been appointed as a Researcher at Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Central Lab. (NAMCL), Agriculture Research Center (ARC) since 2010. Her research experiences include biotechnology, microbiology, photobiology, laser applications in biology, nanotechnology, spectroscopy, and microscopy. She is Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM) & Cell Culture Specialist. She has participated in several international conferences.
Owing to its intrinsic photophysical properties quantum dots (QDs) act as a new tool for imaging and drug delivery. In this study, biocompatible silica-coated QDs were synthesized in order to track their cellular uptake in cancer cells. Firstly, Trioctylphosphine oxide capped CdSe QDs were synthesized by organometallic routes and ZnS shell were grown on them by injection solution of diethylzinc (Zn (Et)2) and hexamethyldislathiane ((TMS)2S) as Zn and S precursors. CdSe/ZnS QDs were then rendered water soluble by over-coating with silica using 3-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTS) as silica precursor. The toxicological effects of silica-coated
CdSe/ZnS (Si-QDs) were investigated by exposing hep-G2 cells to different concentrations of Si-QDs then the mitochondrial activity was evaluated using WST-1 kit. The intracellular localization of Si-QDs in hep-G2 cells was investigated by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) equipped with CO2 incubator up to six hours. All stages of QDs formation were characterized by UV-Vis absorption, emission spectroscopy TEM, XRD, DLS and ζ-potential. Results showed that, high fluorescence QDs were synthesized with a size between 2 and 4 nm. Also, Silica coating process yielded final particle sizes of 6-18 nm which possessed strong luminescence
property. The cytotoxicity test results showed that Si-QDs were nontoxic even at higher concentrations as cells remained viable when exposed to Si-QDs at the highest concentration of 100 nM. The fluorescence imaging of hep-G2 cells exposed to Si-QDs by CLSM time lapse mode for 6 hours depicted the fast internalization of Si-QDs into the cells producing good fluorescence in the cytoplasmic portion. These results confirmed the effective role of these fluorescent materials in biological labeling and imaging applications.
Francesca Costanzo
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - ICN2, CSIC and BIST, Spain
Title: Thermal properties of graphene nanoflakes dispersed in DMF: a classical MD study including QM corrections
Francesca Costanzo has completed her PhD research at the University of Bologna, in 2000 with a thesis entitled: "Modified electrodes by conducting polymers". Since her PhD, she combined her experimental experience with the theoretical work at different levels of approximation in the fields of solid state physics and condensed matter. Her competence in ab initio MD simulation allowed her to model, for example, the interaction of molecules on carbon materials (graphene, single and double walled nanotubes, fullerenes), and water splitting chemistry on transition metal oxide surfaces. She acquired her computational knowledge working at prestigious universities and institutions in Cambridge, Leiden, Padua and Barcelona. Her output includes 30 scientific articles, many invited talks and oral presentations.
Ionic liquids are one of the preferred options used by the industry for the storage of thermal energy in solar energy plants. Improving their thermophysical properties is an important goal to achieve more efficient heat storage and transportation media. A promising approach for improving these properties is to introduce nanoparticles dispersed in the ionic liquid or the molten salt, the so-called nanofluids. However, how thermophysical properties such as the heat capacity, self-diffusion, or heat conductivity depend on the microstructure of the nanofluids is still rather unknown. Molecular simulation, therefore, can play a major role in this research, as producing reliable experimental data for these systems is difficult and expensive. We have calculated by classical molecular dynamic simulations, thermal properties of disk-like graphene nanoflakes dispersed in organic solvent. In my contribution, I will discuss how the heat capacity and the thermal conductivity depend on the shape, the size and the density of the dispersed carbon nanoflakes. While thermal conductivity is well simulated by our classical model, the insertion of quantum corrections (QM) is necessary to calculate the heat capacity in good agreement with experiments. With our classical model including QM corrections, we are able
to shed light and gather basic understanding on the dependence of thermal transport properties on the nature of solute-solute and solute-solvent interaction.
Romana Shahzadi
University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Title: Biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles by Bacillus thuringiensis against dengue vector larvae
Romana Shahzadi is currently pursuing her PhD from University of Punjab, Lahore. She worked as Research Associate (2014-2016) at Centre for Environmental Protection Studies, Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Labs, Lahore. She has completed her MPhil in Plant Genomics and Biotechnology from Agriculture University of Peshawar.
The metallic nanoparticles synthesis includes top-down and bottom-up method by means of chemical, physical and biological approach. The biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles is classified under bottom-up approach. Silver nanoparticles have the distinctive characteristics of anticancer, antimicrobial, catalytic and larvicidal activities. The Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) have larvicidal activities against mosquitoes. So, the bacterial spore mixture is used for biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles. Nano particles were characterized using UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy for the confirmation of nano particles. XRD and SEM were used for the analysis of size and structure. The particle sizes were measured through SEM imaging ranging from 40 to 144.9 nm. The Bt-Ag NPs have mixed cubic and hexagonal structures. Interestingly, the mortality induced by Bt-AgNPs was comparatively high than that of the control against third instar larvae of A. aegypti (LC50 0.01 ppm and LC90 0.5 ppm) in all the tested concentrations, viz. 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1 ppm. Hence, the Bti-AgNPs nanoparticles would be significantly used as larvicidal against dengue vector mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Peng-Sheng Wei
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Title: The Effects of Interfacial Properties on Pore Shape during Solidification
Peng-Sheng Wei received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. He has contributed to advancing the
understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam, plasma, and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments. Investigations also include studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity. He has published more than 80 journal papers, given keynote or invited speeches in international conferences more than 90 times. He is a Fellow of AWS (2007), and a Fellow of ASME (2000). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU
(1991, 2001 and 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from National Science Council (2008), the Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), the Warren F Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012), and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS (2014). He has been the Xi- Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.
Pore formation and its shape in solid influence not only microstructure of materials, but also contemporary issues of various sciences of biology, engineering, foods, geophysics and climate change, etc. In order to remove and control porosity, understanding its formation is important. A pore formed in solid is a consequence of a bubble nucleated by super-saturation and entrapped by a solidification front. This work accounts for realistic mass and momentum transport across a self-consistently and analytically determined shape of the bubble cap, whose surface is in physico-chemical equilibrium beyond the solidification front. Accurate determination of contact angle from a realistic shape of the cap is required to predict the relevant shape of the pore in solid. It was systematically found that there are two different solute transport models subject to thin and thick thicknesses of concentration boundary layers on the solidification front. Case 1 accounts for species transport from the pore across an emerged cap through a thin concentration boundary layer on the solidification front into surrounding liquid in the early stage, whereas Case 2 is subject to species transport from the surrounding liquid across a submerged cap within a thick concentration boundary layer into the pore. The results find increases in interfacial properties such as Henry's law constant and Bond number decrease the pore radius. The predicted pore shape agrees with experimental data. A realistic prediction and control of the growth of the pore shape has therefore been obtained.
Wilson Engelmann has obtained his PhD in Law/Unisinos (Brazil) and a Professor and Researcher of the Post-Graduate Program in Law, Master and Doctorate and Executive Coordinator of the Professional Master's in Corporate Law and Business Law both at University of the Sinos Valley – Unisinos, Brazil. He is the Leader of JUSNANO Research Group and a scholarship holder of Research Productivity CNPq/Brazil. He is developing a research project, since 2008, on regulatory issues related to nanotechnologies and analysis of their social and ethical impacts.
Statement of the Problem: The use of nanoscale is currently growing: in research, industrial production and in the consumer market. There is no state legislative regulation on the matter. There is the rise of self-regulation, as well as the creation of norms by other social actors. The system of Law needs to enter in the context of innovation, granting legal effects to this regulatory production. The temporality of the new forms of regulation and the ability to deal with future risks and damages represent other challenges for the legal area.
Purpose of this study: It is based on the 79 documents of the OECD "Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials", is to analyze the perception of risks and the way that the juridicization of the unknown future damages that might be generated from the manipulation of the nanoscale, especially in relation to human health and the preservation of the environment.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: the functionalist method will be used in a systemic-constructivist perspective, risk theory (Luhmann) and content analysis (Bardin). Comprehensive keywords were used to enable data collection in the 79 documents, which
are: "risk", "environmental safety" or "environment", "human health" and "manufactured nanomaterial".
Findings: The word "manufactured nano-material" has 4,934 repetitions; "Risk" has 4,214 repetitions; "Environment" has 2,204 repetitions and "human health" has 1,478 repetitions. This shows extreme concern about the risks which nanomaterials could pose to the environment and human health.
Conclusion & Significance: the observed keywords show that manufactured nano-materials may generate risks for the environment and human health, with little concern for the environmental safety, which has only 48 repetitions. For this reason it is important to
structure the framework as a legal risk management tool for nanotechnology companies to gather information and deal with future and uncertain damages. In this scenario is relevant an adequate evaluation of the ethical-social impacts in the structuring of selfregulation.


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Since being elected as the 51st President of The United States of America, we have been hearing a lot about Donald's Trump links to Scotland through his mother, but you may also be surprised to hear about just how many influential people in the history of the states since it's foundation that have tartan in their blood.
Even in the multi-national melting pot that is the USA it's hard to think of any other nation who's descendants have had such a big impact on the political landscape of the global superpower.
And no matter your political leanings you will find people to be proud of and people you are ashamed of giving we have offered up such differing personalities as civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks: whose great grandfather James Percival was born in Scotland 1832 and met Rosa's grandmother when he was imported to Alabama as an indentured servant and she was a slave on the same estate, to the KKK: whose 6 founding members included four Scots and two Ulstermen.
Rosa Parks was a key figure in the American Civil Rights movement after her act of defiance in refusing to give up her seat in the coloured section of a bus when the white section was full made her an icon. It sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and played a huge part in the movement for equal rights and changing segregation laws.
But her great-grandfather was a Scotsman born in Glasgow to poor Irish parents. James Percival was living on the streets from a young age and turned to a life of crime that seen him jailed for theft and sold of to an American plantation to work as an indentured servant for 7 years.
And it was when he was working on the Wright estate in Montgomery Alabama where he met African-American Mary Jane Nobels who was a slave on the estate and then worked as the families midwife. The couple would go on to marry and have 9 children and living freely in Alabama.
Parks often talked about how proud she was of her Scots-Irish roots and also of her Native American roots from the other side that along with her African side is what made her such a fierce warrior.
But if Parks is an inspiration then the founders of the KKK are from the other end of the scale altogether.
It was 1865 and the American Civil War had just ended when 6 young confederate soldiers returning home the deep south, fearful of the new human rights being allowed to blacks, decided to form an organisation that would offer defiance to the new rules.
Two of the men had come from Buchan in Aberdeenshire and told the other men with fondness about an ancient tradition of secret societies in Buchan that were shrouded in mystery, pagan ritual and devil worship and were all the members would wear outlandish outfits and cover their faces with long hoods.
Some reports suggest the potential for impressing potential partners played as big a part as racism in getting the idea of the ground.
The Scottish boys told the rest of the guys how much local girls loved the ceremonies and mystery of it all and convinced them they would be heroes and irresistible to females.
And just like that one of the most hated and bigoted groups in the history of the world, responsible for thousands of lynchings, murders and torture of black folks in the states, were first formed.
Even in their earliest forms they quickly decided it wasn't just going to be blacks on their hit-list as they gradually also decided to target Jews, Catholics, Native Americans and Asians to mixed degrees.
And the link between Aberdeen and the KKK doesn't end there as their very first national leader was General John Gordon. Gordon was the son of an Aberdonian immigrant who had risen through the ranks of volunteer soldier in Alabama to a major general and one of the most celebrated commanders in the confederate army.
Not long after the Civil War, when the KKK were growing rapidly throughout the south as opposition against black rights just got louder and more violent, John Gordon was appointed Grand Dragon in Georgia of the Klan's "Invisible Empire".
Even in modern American politics it is clear to see the massive impact such a small portion of the population has had on the history and future of the nation.
Current President Donald Trump's mother Mary Anne MaCleod immigrated to America from the village of Tong in the Isle of Lewis. Ironically the fiercely patriotic Brit who adored the Royal Family was an illegal immigrant when she arrived and would struggle to last under her son's regime.
Trump has never forgotten his Scottish bloodline making regular trips across the Atlantic to visit his mother homeland. He has opened a golf course and hotel resort in Scotland and even showed an interest in buying Rangers football club in 2012.
But what will probably be more surprising is that his predecessor Barack Obama also has ancestors hailing from this side of the pond. His grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham could both trace their ancestry back to Scots-Irish settlers.
Obama and Trump are only the latest in a VERY long list of American leaders of Scottish descent.
- James Monroe (The 5th President of The United States and great grandson of Andrew Monroe from Ross-Shire)
- James Knox Polk (The 11th President and Great Grandson of Robert Pollok from Edinburgh)
- James Buchanan (the 15th President and grandson of Katherine Blair from Stirlingshire)
- Rutherford Hayes (The 19th President and Ancestor of John Hayes who travelled from Scotland to Conneticut in 1680)
- Chester A Arthur (The 21st President and great grandson of Jane Campbell from Glasgow)
- Benjamin Harrison (The 23rd President and Great-Great grandson of David Irvine from Aberdeenshire)
- William McKinley (The 24th President and great-great-great grandson of James McKinley from Fife)
- Theodore Rossevelt (The 26th President and Great Grandson of Jean Stobo from Ross-shire)
- Woodrow Wilson (28th President and grandson of Rev. Dr Thomas Woodrow and Marion Williamson from Paisley. Throughout his career he reflected on the influence of his ancestral values on his constant quest for knowledge and his Scottish conscience)
- Warren G Harding: (29th President: His paternal great-great grandmother, Lydia Crawford, was born in Midlothian)
- Harry S Truman: (33rd President: His paternal great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Monteith, was a merchant from Glasgow)
- Gerald Ford: (38th President and great-grandson of Alexander Gardner from Kilmalcolm.)
- Jimmy Carter: (39th President whose great x 6 grandfather, Adam Clinkskaill, was Scottish.)
- Ronald Reagan: (40th President: His great-grandfather, John Wilson, emigrated to North America from Paisley in 1832)
- George H W Bush: (41st President and great grandson of Katherine Walker (nee McLelland) from Scotland)
- George W Bush: ( 43rd President and great great grandson of Katherine Walker (nee Mclelland) from Scotland)