Opportunities For Projects Research Articles

A Review of Existing Carbon Capture and Storage Cluster Projects and Future Opportunities

Abstract In this study different carbon capture and storage cluster projects have been reviewed based on their technical as well as business plan. The technical details for each cluster cover all of the key parameters relating to size, location, routing, technology choices, engineering and operation. In addition information on overall and unit costs was collected where available. Business plan for CCS cluster project evaluates not only what was in place, but also what would still be required to go commercial on a sustainable basis. Moreover, there were many potential CCS cluster projects yet to be developed, beyond the stage of initial identification of possibilities. Hence, identification of the best options in the regions for future CCS cluster projects was also considered.

Sheep veterinarians and the welfare of sheep: No simple matter

Animal welfare is about what animals experience but it has trade and political aspects. Veterinarians and animal scientists use a range of measurements to assess welfare. Sheep veterinarians have a range of roles including disease diagnosis and prevention but they may also act as consultants on production and may advise on legal issues that pertain to animal welfare. The criteria for animal welfare as defined by the European Welfare Quality Project (good housing, nutrition, health and opportunities to behave appropriately) reflect veterinary practice. Sheep veterinarians in different countries work with farmers who are under widely different economic and social pressures. Farmers use different farm management practices influenced by flock size and economics. There may be an ideal sheep farming system but veterinarians have to work within the economic constraints of their clients.

Hydrocephalus research funding from the National Institutes of Health: a 10-year perspective

Funding of hydrocephalus research is important to the advancement of the field. The goal of this paper is to describe the funding of hydrocephalus research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over a recent 10-year period. The NIH online database RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) was searched using the key word "hydrocephalus." Studies were sorted by relevance to hydrocephalus. The authors analyzed funding by institute, grant type, and scientific approach over time. Over $54 million was awarded to 59 grantees for 66 unique hydrocephalus proposals from 48 institutions from 2002 to 2011. The largest sources of funding were the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Of the total, $22 million went to clinical trials, $15 million to basic science, and $10 million to joint ventures with small business (Small Business Innovation Research or Small Business Technology Transfer). Annual funding varied from $2.3 to $8.1 million and steadily increased in the second half of the observation period. The number of new grants also went from 15 in the first 5 years to 27 in the second 5 years. A large portion of the funding has been for clinical trials. Funding for shunt-device development grew substantially. Support for training of hydrocephalus investigators has been low. Hydrocephalus research funding is low compared with that for other conditions of similar health care burden. In addition to NIH applications, researchers should pursue other funding sources. Small business collaborations appear to present an opportunity for appropriate projects.

The Door of Universities that is Open for all Ages: Continuing Education Centres

Continuing education centres that function as a bridge in order to develop the relationship more effectively between universities and cities where they exist appeal to all of Turkey's population. Educations supplied in the centres aiming at such a wide community are multifarious. When we look at the working areas of continuing education centres, the following ones can be counted; giving project services and consultancy to public and private sectors, international institutions and individuals in areas which they need, arranging educational programs, courses, seminars and conferences in the national and international standards, giving psychological counselling and guidance services and coordinating these activities, introducing every kind of legal publication regarding the conduct of services and opportunities of university in these areas. The most important requirement for Continuing Education Centres that overtake important missions for educating society to carry out this duty is to have educational halls and administrative buildings belonging to themselves, sufficient administrative staff. The notable problems that still exist for many Continuing Education Centres are inadequacy of buildings, lack of educational halls and buildings and limited number of administrative staff. In addition, Continuing Education Centres have a lot of problems as they are not regarded as academic units. Some of the problems encountered with can be counted such as the standardization and accreditation of education, cooperation with shareholders (such as MEB, business world), international relations and not being able to make use of the project opportunities of The European Union sufficiently, effectiveness in the national and international webs.

Nanomedical Research in Australia and New Zealand

Although Australia and New Zealand have a combined population of less than 30 million, they have an active and interlinked community of nanomedical researchers. This report provides a synopsis and update on this network with a view to identifying the main topics of interest and their likely future trajectories. In addition, our report may also serve to alert others to opportunities for joint projects. Australian and New Zealand researchers are engaged in most of the possible nanomedical topics, but the majority of interest is focused on drug and nucleic acid delivery using nanoparticles or nanoporous constructs. There are, however, smaller programs directed at hyperthermal therapy and radiotherapy, various kinds of diagnostic tests and regenerative technologies.

The challenges and opportunities for mega-infrastructure projects and archaeology: Response to the Respondents

When I was asked to provide a lead paper for this forum the title seemed so wide-ranging that it took a little while to decide how to approach it. After due consideration I decided to focus on what I feel is the key to better integration of archaeology into large scale projects. Simply put, the theme is perhaps analogous to earlier developments in archaeology. Archaeologists have long adopted technological solutions from other disciplines to find, record, and analyse deposits, and they have sought out social and anthropological theories to interpret their results. I am stressing here that in order to integrate archaeology successfully into complex mega-projects and to allow the discipline to grow in this environment, we should adopt and adapt again.

Response to Challenges and Opportunities for Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Archaeology

This is a very helpful and informative essay written by someone who is clearly very experienced with the complexity of urban archaeology. I would like to offer a perspective about these issues from New York City as although there are no projects that are truly analogous in both the scale and scope of the archaeology of the Crossrail Project, we do have similar projects from a construction standpoint (see New York City Department of Environment 2013 and MTA 2013).

Urban sites and the stratigraphic revolution in archaeology

The lead article in this forum, ‘The challenges and opportunities for mega-infrastructure projects and archaeology’, by J. J. Carver, brought a couple of London incidents to mind, the two separated by slightly more than a generation, but each pertaining to the challenges of ‘urban’, or rather any ‘mega-stratified’ sites, for the dense stratification in many contexts is but the result of minor and mega infrastructure projects of the Past.

The Challenges and Opportunities for Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Archaeology

Jay Carver’s paper is very useful in summarising the process that Crossrail has followed and identifing the key factors in managing the risk, and maximising the benefits, associated with archaeology on major infrastructure projects.<br />MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) has been involved in many of London’s infrastructure projects, at the consultancy, planning, and mitigation stages. Over the past 30 years we have witnessed an evolution in the approach taken when dealing with the historic environment on major projects such as the Jubilee Line Extension, and the recent rail improvements to the East London Line and Thameslink.

The survival of archaeology in the design of future cities?

Ironically, when given the opportunity to respond to J. J. Carver’s thought-provoking article ‘The Challenges and Opportunities for Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Archaeology’ and thinking I had plenty of time in which to do so, I was suddenly thrust back into two, all-consuming major Sydney infrastructure projects, which currently sit in the category of ‘confidential’, meaning not yet fit for public consumption and dare not breath a word of the detail. In short, what this means is that the timeframes are impossibly short, the budgets are even tighter, the crystal ball is working overtime and the select few staff signed to work on these projects are working around the clock to deliver succinct documents that are required to be pragmatic, avoid archaeological ‘speak’ and provide certainty about the archaeology, its extent, nature, significance, timeframes and budget estimates for managing the known and potential archaeological resource. Surely, such easy tasks to deliver on?

A Response to The Challenges and Opportunities for Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Archaeology by J. J. Carver

The Crossrail project represents perhaps the most ambitious urban archaeological project ever undertaken in a major urban area. Its director, J. J. Carver, has established a reputation for integrating the archaeological component of a complex undertaking with the maze of construction constraints that are imposed on such projects from a multiplicity of sources. Scheduling and co-ordination with the construction and development end of the undertaking is one of the most complex challenges archaeologists will have to confront, as we enter into ‘The Age of Sustainability’.

The Challenges and Opportunities for Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Archaeology

In March 2009, construction work started on the first brand new London underground railway line for a generation. As the Mayor of London pushed the button on the first pile drive in Canary Wharf at the heart of London’s Docklands financial centre, the £15 billion, 9 year construction project was formally underway. So where was archaeology on that day?

Investing in Urban Studies to Ensure Urban Archaeology’s Future: A Response to ‘The Challenges and Opportunities for Mega-infrastructure Projects and Archaeology’

In reading J. J. Carver’s excellent suggestions for how to better enable archaeology and large urban infrastructure projects to progress to mutual benefit, I found myself in enthusiastic agreement with his point that ‘professional working relationships are the most important challenge for archaeology in mega projects’ and that we must convince project directors, engineers, and site teams that archaeology ‘can enhance the value of the project they are building’ (4). This is especially crucial in cities like New York City (NYC), where government protection of cultural heritage is weaker than in London and where the city’s identity is tied more to its future than its past. In future-oriented cities, it is thus necessary to take Carver’s point even further and to engage people involved in all levels of urban planning and development, both at project sites and within the academic programs that train them, to help bring about a cultural shift in attitudes towards the value of archaeology.

Risk-based approaches to sustainability in civil engineering

Infrastructure project sustainability assessment typically entails the use of specialised assessment tools to measure and rate project performance against a set of criteria. This paper looks beyond the prevailing approaches to sustainability assessments and explores sustainability principles in terms of project risks and opportunities. Taking a risk management approach to applying sustainability concepts to projects has the potential to reconceptualise decision structures for sustainability from bespoke assessments to becoming a standard part of the project decision-making process. By integrating issues of sustainability into project risk management for project planning, design and construction, sustainability is considered within a more traditional business and engineering language. Currently, there is no widely practised approach for objectively considering the environmental and social context of projects alongside the more traditional project risk assessments of time, cost and quality. A risk-based approach would not solve all the issues associated with existing sustainability assessments but it would place sustainability concerns alongside other key risks and opportunities, integrating sustainability with other project decisions.

Book review: How to Manage Project Opportunity and Risk, 3rd edition

Book review: How to Manage Project Opportunity and Risk, 3rd edition

The Hospital Microbiome Project: Meeting report for the 2nd Hospital Microbiome Project, Chicago, USA, January 15th, 2013

This report details the outcome of the 2nd Hospital Microbiome Project workshop held on January 15th at the University of Chicago, USA. This workshop was the final planning meeting prior to the start of the Hospital Microbiome Project, an investigation to measure and characterize the development of a microbial community within a newly built hospital at the University of Chicago. The main goals of this workshop were to bring together experts in various disciplines to discuss the potential hurdles facing the implementation of the project, and to allow brainstorming of potential synergistic project opportunities.

Wind power in Croatia; Project Opportunities and Challenges

Wind power in Croatia; Project Opportunities and Challenges

The Think Project: An Approach to Addressing Racism and Far-Right Extremism in Swansea, South Wales

The Think Project is a grassroots project initiated by the Ethnic Youth Support Team in Swansea, South Wales to provide a response for preventing far-right extremism. The project was designed to offer disengaged young people the opportunity to take part in a program of workshops, where the facts about race, religion, and migration are explored. This article discusses the results and the opportunities of the initial pilot project and will give a Welsh perspective on the implications for policy and practice in terms of community cohesion and fulfilling the UK government's PREVENT agendas.

Developing Effective Mathematics Teachers through National Science Foundation Funded Math and Science Partnership Grants

Every year the National Science Foundation (NSF] gathers together leadership teams of funded Math and Science Partnership programs (MSP) at a Learning Network Conference in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the annual conference is to bring together teams of MSP leaders who represent institution higher education (IHE] faculty from STEM disciplines, IHE education faculty, school partners, and project evaluators, to give them an opportunity to learn across projects, and provide opportunities for individual projects to reflect on their progress. For the last two years, 2011 and 2012, we were part of the conference's organizing committee. During the two-day conference, project teams were invited to articulate their theories of action for preparing teachers to be effective STEM teachers and to describe in broad strokes or in fine grain detail what was happening within their projects' professional development opportunities. Projects also had the opportunity to share within a public forum the preliminary, incomplete, or final results emerging from projects' evaluations or research efforts aiming to determine whether the MSP projects were deepening teachers' content and pedagogical knowledge, changing teachers' practices, and, ultimately, positively impacting students' success.While the Learning Network Conferences are intended to be for leaders within the MSP community, what MSPs are learning about STEM teaching and learning and professional development are worth sharing to a wider community.. Thus, as follow up to 2012 Learning Network Conference, we proposed to help MSP teams publish articles focused on mathematics teaching and learning accessible to a community broader than other MSP projects. Dr. Bharath Sriraman, editor of The Mathematics Enthusiast, generously offered us the opportunity to publish this special issue.We approach the task of guest editors as empathetic solicitors and reviewers of scholarship associated with MSP projects. We are leaders, ourselves, for multiple MSP projects, and have been since 2004, first for a middle school mathematics project (Math in the Middle Institute Partnership, http://scimath.unl.edu/MIM/) and now for a K-12 mathematics project [NebraskaMATH, http://scimath.unl.edu/nebraskamath/index.php): Smith is also a leader on a Research, Evaluation, and Technical Assistance (RETA) project [Data Connections, http://scimath.unl.edu/dataconnections/index.php). We understand the time-consuming nature and inherent challenges of trying to create meaningful professional development with teams of interdisciplinary IHE faculty, and partner with school districts, to offer professional development and study its impact on teachers and their students in the dynamic life of real districts, schools, and classrooms. We have experienced the learning of teachers and their students to be neither linear nor quick, therefore, we understand that studying STEM teaching and learning is messy, long term, and anything but straightforward. We understand that, for the most part, it is the same MSP leaders who are offering professional development as who are trying to study its effectiveness and that frequently the days are not long enough to do both simultaneously. Thus, we find MSP projects with their own rhythm and life, waxing and waning their research efforts in concert with their professional development offerings, with one or the other receiving more attention at any given point in time. All MSP project leaders must balance a set of teaching and research priorities in ways that never quite feel satisfactory. These are priorities and tensions that we, indeed, understand from the inside.We sent out a call for articles to the 2012 Learning Network Conference participants following the conference, and a motivated, hard working group of authors, who double as leaders for mathematics focused MSP projects, responded, some of whom are publishing their scholarship for the first time in this special issue. They have taken their 2012 conference presentation proposals and presentations focused on the theme of effective STEM teaching and created manuscripts. …

Risk analysis and management on Public Private Partnership Projects (PPP) in Serbia

Infrastructure projects are going through a lot of difficulties, mostly connected with non standard established financing in South Eastern Europe countries. During and after transition period, undeveloped, insufficient but before all obsolete infrastructure in Serbia became a essential problem for further development of main economic resources (transportation, agriculture, mining, tourism etc.). Infrastructure network is necessity for the development of different sectors (energetic, agriculture, industry, commerce etc.). Domestic regulation is not clear in allowing project financing through Public Private Partnership (PPP) model, which is great opportunity for opening new projects and finishing many projects with on hold status. The main problem in decision making and starting financing projects in that model is too many risks on the market, which endanger projects from very beginning, especially in initiation phase so many investors decide to leave projects in very early phases. The analysis of potential risk elements, throughout the processes from bidding to operational infrastructure projects, is one of the most important elements to maximizing profit and functionality, and properly develop country infrastructure, while minimalizing potential difficulties that may arise. Much of the risk of a PPP project comes from the complexity of financing, taxation, law regulatory, aquired technical documentation and construction process involved in a major infrastructure venture. Main risks, their analyze and management on infrastructure projects are explained in this paper. After risk analyze, risk management tools are presented, together with method of managing risks on PPP projects in Serbia. DOI 10.5592/otmcj.2013.1.6 Research paper Goran Cirovic