ISCN 2015 Dialogue 3: Corporate-University Engagement, Bernd Kasemir
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3:国家专业人才认证中心颁发入库证书
4:这个认证书并且可以归档倒地方
5:凡事获得留信网入网的信息将会逐步更新到个人身份内，将在公安局网内查询个人身份证信息后，同步读取人才网入库信息
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Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
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The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
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本公司拥有海外各大学样板无数，能完美还原。
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◇面对父母的压力，希望尽快拿到；
◇不清楚认证流程以及材料该如何准备；
◇回国时间很长，忘记办理；
◇回国马上就要找工作，办给用人单位看；
◇企事业单位必须要求办理的
◇需要报考公务员、购买免税车、落转户口
◇申请留学生创业基金
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1:该专业认证可证明留学生真实身份
2:同时对留学生所学专业登记给予评定
3:国家专业人才认证中心颁发入库证书
4:这个认证书并且可以归档倒地方
5:凡事获得留信网入网的信息将会逐步更新到个人身份内，将在公安局网内查询个人身份证信息后，同步读取人才网入库信息
6:个人职称评审加20分
7:个人信誉贷款加10分
8:在国家人才网主办的国家网络招聘大会中纳入资料，供国家高端企业选择人才
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...
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Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...
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- 1. ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015 Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne André Schneider Corporate Dialogue Workforce and Skills Assessment
- 2. 2ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015Introduction The ISCN workgroup on corporate dialogues is working on a better understanding of the sustainability-related skills required for leaders to ensure that their decisions are based on integrated and holistic thinking, and support the sustainable development of their companies. It is our hypothesis that the sustainability skills needed by sustainability professionals and technical experts are rather well supported by higher education offerings. But there seem to be less resources available to develop sustainability skills necessary for a broader group of future leaders. Given that all management decisions will have an impact on the sustainable development of any organization and our society, assessing and closing this gap is a priority to ensure that employees that will be well equipped to develop into effective leaders of tomorrow. Introduction ISCN 2015
- 3. 3ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015Two Questions Two questions to answer ISCN 2015 • What skill set do managers/leaders need to have to make sustainable and hence holistic decisions? • Where are there gaps and how can we support this skill set and fill the gaps in the context of our universities’ education programs? This is not about a new education program but how to develop these skills in the context of existing programs and hence from the start deliver contextualized knowledge and skills.
- 4. 4ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015Sustainability Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: • the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and • the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs. From World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). Our common future, 1987 (Brundtland Report) Example: The tradeoffs and synergies mentioned above are highly relevant in today’s corporate environment. Companies are constantly needing to evaluate decisions against sometimes competing interests. For example, the potential conflict of the interest of the corporation and its immediate success as compared to the interests of the society as a whole and its long‐term evolution. What is Sustainability ? ISCN 2015
- 5. 5ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015Next Steps Next Steps ISCN 2015 • Defining the necessary skill set for sustainable decision‐making: • We believe that these skills will be articulated around the following four thematic pillars: 1. What is sustainability? What is systemic thinking? 2. Some sustainability literacy 3. Main issues and trends that show that we are not developing in a sustainable way 4. Personal engagement in sustainability • This will be developed and validated with businesses. Currently we are starting this with Nestlé headquarters in Switzerland, and possibly with SGS. • We have also started collaborating with the WBCSD and one first result was the introduction to the ISCN report “Developing Skills for Future Leaders. 2015 Sustainable Campus Best Practices from ISCN and GULF Schools” by Peter Bakker, the president of WBCSD.
- 6. 6ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015Next Steps Next Steps ISCN 2015 • Gap analysis and developing a list of action to facilitate the development of the skill set for sustainable decision‐making: • How these skill sets can taught and transferred, using teaching elements/sequences for existing classes, templates for Massively Open Online Courses (“MOOCs”), or, templates for interdisciplinary projects.
- 7. 7ISCN – Corporate Dialog | 2015First Feedback First feedback from business ISCN 2015 We have made a first inquiry in our business networks and have received the following encouraging feedback: our corporate dialogue partners overwhelmingly agree that 1. University graduates should have more comprehensive knowledge about sustainability 2. Universities should develop a minimum set of sustainability skills to integrate across their university curricula 3. Universities should assess sustainability skills of their students and adapt their classes to achieve a certain level of sustainability skills ?