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 uip@irp.edu.pk

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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