Coal Technology
September 15, 2013
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Editorial 1
Coal Technology seminar 2
Study says Indian women
scientists lagging 2
R&D News Brief 3
Upcoming Events 3
Innovation Hero 4
Request for Write Up 4
Opportunity :Common
Wealth Scholar Ship 5
Different countries in the world are competing in research.
Academia and industry try to come up with new inventions.
Every other day we hear of a new idea introduced by an
educational institute, multinational company, industry or an
individual who has buried himself in research to find out the
solution to some pressing problem of mankind. As a result of
all this we see countless inventions and new technologies
being introduced to ever changing world of today. These
research activities have caused a great change in western
societies and other developed nations. They have introduced
a culture of dedicating oneself to find out the solution to any
acute problem. Individuals turn their backs on world to
involve themselves in research activities. They spend their
entire lives in deserts, mountains and snows to discover or
invent something that can immortalize their names and bring
ease to suffering humanity.
For example, Finland has transformed its economy in a
matter of decades to become one of the richest countries and
most stable societies in the world. In the 1950s the Finnish
economy was still largely based on primary production and
an agrarian workforce. Today Finland is leading or near the
top of most international comparisons in terms of growth and
development in the economic, technological and social
spheres. The engineering and high technology industries, led
by Nokia, have long been the leading branches of
manufacturing. The current issue of IRP is brining you the
message to come forward and involve yourself in some great
work, a work that can satisfy your burning soul and bring
any positive change into the world. Make sure that you can
become what you think about.
Regards!
Zahid Iftikhar
Editorial Contents
Institute of Research Promotion & Lahore
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI)
jointly organized seminar regarding “Coal
Technology” on 4th September,2013 at LCCI.
According to the Researchers; Currently
Pakistan Can produce 22797 MW electricity
per day. Pakistan spends almost 12 Billion $
on purchasing fuel On the other hand
,Currently Pakistan is consuming 4.2
BCF(Billion Cubic Feet) gas per day and the
Demand is 6 billion Cubic Feet. Currently cost
of Electricity from Solar Panel is about 70 Rs.
per unit Pakistan can produce 1 lakh MW
from Local Coal. An Over view of Other
Countries Producing Electricity from Coal.
South Africa 93%,Poland 87% and India 68
%.Currently Pakistan is Producing only .66%
electricity from coal. This successful coal
seminar led to next level development of coal
processing unit design. Coal stakeholders are
requested to join R&D project. Let's Join
Hands To Promote Local Coal Technology in
Pakistan.
[NEW DELHI] A gender profile of Indian
scientific output in the life sciences sees
women trailing behind men in productivity
and impact.The study, published online this
month (8 August) in Scientometrics, found
that of 9,957 life science papers published
during 2008—2009, female scientists were
sole contributors in just 3.4 per cent of them
and joint-contributors in another 47 per
cent. K. C. Garg, an author of the study and
former chief scientist, National Institute of
Science Technology and Development under
the Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, told SciDev.Net that he chose life
sciences because no such study using large
data sets exists on the contribution of women
scientists in India."Though women earned 37
per cent of all science PhDs awarded by
Indian institutions, they constituted only 15
per cent of the total R&Dmanpower in science
and technology," Garg said.According to the
study, female scientists tend to work in small
teams,publish in low-impact, domestic
journals and contribute to fewer international
collaborative papers than men.The authors say
the findings are in consonance with similar
studies in other parts of the world.
A 2009 study carried out in the US on
patenting activities in the biotechnology
industry found women’s share in applications
to be just four per cent.Questioning the
reliability of the study, Indira Nath, emeritus
professor, National Institute of Pathology
under the Indian Council of Medical Research,
Delhi, told SciDev.Net: "The window period
examined for publications is too narrow — for
a single year and only in the life
sciences." Nath said it would have been better
to start from the point where women first
began entering science fields in large numbers
and see how they have progressed since. "We
would then get a better idea of whether the
glass ceiling is self-induced (due to child
bearing gaps for example) or if it was driven
by a patriarchal society." Rohini M. Godbole,
professor at the Centre for High Energy
Physics, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, agrees with Nath’s view and says
the "conclusions are sweeping". "To say that
women were writing much less than men
and published only in domestic journals based
on just one year’s data, that too only in
biological sciences, does not seem quite
Study says Indian women scientists
lagging
Coal Technology Seminar
appropriate," Godbole told
SciDev.Net
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R&D News briefs:
we need to materialize innovations
rural health care to solve problems of
the poor people.
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/h
ow-healthcare-innovation-leaders-turn-
ideas-change/2013-08-30
Researchers are invited to test luck
and win great scholarship
http://t.co/GbTCDERgY0
There is exciting patents map
showing where is world heading.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518
991/global-patent-map-reveals-the-structure-
of-technological-progress/
South Korea’s six universities (in the
global top 400) show an average of
€74,000 income per researcher.
A team of Harvard scientists,
engineers, and clinicians announced
that they have begun a Phase I
clinical trial of an implantable
vaccine to treat melanoma, the most
lethal form of skin cancer
http://hvrd.me/168zqZg
Funding of R&D, and the Costs of
Funding Research. South Korea’s six
universities (in the global top 400)
show an average of €74,000 income
per researcher.
New brain imaging technology
allows tumors to be easily
distinguished from normal tissue
based on faint signals emitted by
tissue with different cellular
structures.
http://hvrd.me/17GR1WO
Treating wastes properly protects the
public’s health and the surrounding
environment.
Engro foods has installed waste
water treatment facilities at sites in
Sukkur and Sahiwal to ensure that
any water discharged from the
facilities is safe and does not pollute
the region's water table.
Industrialist might benefit from the
Research and Testing facilities
available at University of Agriculture
Faisalabad.
Venture in biological production
Institute of Research Promotion successfully
organized “Tech Debate on Enzyme” on
September 13,2013 at University of
Technology and Management (UMT)
Lahore. Scientists from different universities
took part in the debate with Industrialists.
Scientist discussed how to make technology
viable for local industry. Different Enzymes
using & importing industrialists also
participated in the debate and different
option were discussed to develop academia
industry linkages.
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Flower Technology Seminar at
Haripur University
Institute of Research Promotion have
planned seminar on Flower Technology at
Haripur University to promote Flower
Technology in Pakistan on 3rd October
2013.The expected seminar will be helpful
to find out the ways how to promote flower
Technology in Pakistan. Pakistan is an
agriculture country and blessed with natural
resources. We are importing different
species of flower. How strange? Seminar
will helpful to change the present scenario
and now we will export the flowers in the
future.Let us join on 3rd October at Hari Pur
University.The academia or Scientists are
requested to share their opinion and
suggestions.
Thesis Fair September 2013
Thesis Fair" is scheduled on 16th Sep. 2013
at 1pm in NUST-ISD with 50+chemical
engineers starting final year Projects.
Industry is requested to join session and
share issues related to chemicals, processes,
materials,etc to be addressed in research
theses of NUST.
Contact: 0321 491 7181 [email protected]
Innovation Hero: Farasat and the use of
Internet enabled phones to improve
health
For a long time, —management lacked timely,
authentic information from health workers visiting
health centers in the city and in rural areas. In 2009,
Farasat joined Punjab Health Sector Reforms Program
(PHSRP) as the Program Director and soon got
involved in the Punjab Model for Proactive
Governance, an initiative taken by Government of
Punjab to seek feedback from citizens, availing various
services provided by the government, through
technology. The model has been piloted for various
services, such as property registration and health
related services.
The program gives Internet enabled phones to staff
who go around rural Punjab to collect information
from medical centers. Staff are asked to visit all
facilities at least once a month and upload their
monitoring reports through these phones on a simple
application. These reports are location and time
stamped, preventing fraudulent reporting. Reports are
fed into the computer system which can generate
graphs on situations regarding absenteeism of doctors
and staff, medicine stock levels, availability and
functionality of equipment etc. Managers then access
this information through an online dashboard and
make decisions based on this timely and accurate
information. The project has already scaled to 90
handsets, covering half of Punjab. Farasat is now
planning to replicate this in other areas of public sector
such as Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock, Excise &
Taxation etc.
Source with thanks: Innovation Punjab Report 2012
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