The aim of this research project was the development and installation of online monitoring systems for stirring plugs in steel ladles in order to determine and predict their availability and performance for stirring processes. Temperature measurement techniques were developed and adapted to the ...
Atomic clocks are a quantum technology, used in national metrology laboratories to define UTC and in various networked infrastructure. Developments in the clocks themselves, and in the distribution of precise time, can be expected to affect several application areas of importance to European pol...
The dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO with endogenous firm location incorporates multiple sources of agglomeration and dispersion. Agglomeration is driven mainly by increasing returns to scale and localised externalities; dispersion by costly trade and imperfect competition. In R...
Robotics for healthcare is an emerging field which is expected to grow in the face of demographic change (ageing), expected shortages of healthcare personnel, calls for improving quality of life for the elderly and disabled, and the need for even higher quality care, for example high precision s...
The objective of the NURESIM Integrated Project (FP6) which lasted from 2005 to 2008, with contributions of 18 organizations from 13 European countries, was to start the development of a European Reference Simulation Platform for Nuclear Reactors (so-called NURESIM) and to deliver its first vers...