Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.19506.2
Lidia Paredes, Elisa Gambuzzi, Rita Gentili, Jessica Pérez-García, Ambrogio Pigoli, Inès Verleden, Pedro Villanueva-Rey, Werner Vogt-Kaute, Wim Moerman, Lucía González-Monjardin
{"title":"Application of a practical methodology for the selection of suitable value chains to produce circular fertilisers from secondary raw materials.","authors":"Lidia Paredes, Elisa Gambuzzi, Rita Gentili, Jessica Pérez-García, Ambrogio Pigoli, Inès Verleden, Pedro Villanueva-Rey, Werner Vogt-Kaute, Wim Moerman, Lucía González-Monjardin","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.19506.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.19506.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The growing demand for food products, driven by a growing world population, has increased Europe's dependence on conventional fertilisers, which have a high impact on the environment. In the last decade, new circular fertiliser value chains have appeared as promising alternatives to conventional fertilisers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Because of the huge number of alternatives, this study aimed to develop a practical methodology that facilitates the analysis of data related to each value chain to identify and select the most promising circular fertiliser value chains to promote their wide-scale production and use in agriculture, replacing the dependence on conventional fertilisers in Europe. This methodology is based on two stages (funnelling process and scoring system) and considers the 16 criteria (e.g. technical viability, nutrient content, among others) defined in the study. The methodology was tested for 48 value chains identified during the mapping of secondary raw materials in Europe with the potential to be used as circular fertilisers, classifying them into seven different raw materials: urban wastewater (UWW), industrial wastewater (IWW), sewage sludge (SS), biowaste (BW), biological by-products (BBP), treated manure (TM), and digestate (DIG). The funnelling process is based on a GO/NO-GO approach that meets six criteria and allows the discarding of 18 value chains, from 30 to the second stage. The scoring system was a more complete analysis, including ten new scoring criteria.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This system allowed the identification of the potential of the value chains analysed, concluding that struvite from UWW, struvite from IWW, stabilized sludge from SS, composted biowaste from BW, feather meal from BBP, solid fraction from DIG, and spent mushroom substrate from TM are the most promising options for agriculture.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The develop methodology was used to evaluate 48 different value chains with the potential to generate promising circular fertlizers. Seven value chains were finally selected.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11971626/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16888.3
Vanessa Ventosinos Louzao, Denise García Murias, Miguel Ángel De Dios Álvarez, Pablo Alberto Acuña Domínguez, Esteban Paredes Barros, Raquel Ledo Bañobre
{"title":"Impact of recyclability on the tensile and Impact properties of coated plastic materials for the automotive and electronic sectors.","authors":"Vanessa Ventosinos Louzao, Denise García Murias, Miguel Ángel De Dios Álvarez, Pablo Alberto Acuña Domínguez, Esteban Paredes Barros, Raquel Ledo Bañobre","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.16888.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16888.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research focuses on the study of the tensile modulus and impact resistance) of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and its blends with polycarbonate (ABS/PC) including recycled and painted material. A comprehensive assessment was done to determine the impact of reprocessing cycles, remaining coating and their combined effect in the final properties of the recycled polymer. Post-consumer materials are in an already-aged state, lowering their initial properties. Mechanical recycling methods showed that the reprocessing cycles have a higher impact on the mechanical performance than the amount of recycling material content. Also, the material is often coated when they are about to be recycled. The remaining coating impurities play a major role in the recycling process, losing up to 42% of the impact resistance for ABS and 28% for ABS/PC. It was demonstrated that below a 10% of remaining paint, both materials retained is performance as a neat product. Impurities was declared to be the most pernicious element on the recycling process and their elimination must be a priority regarding this objective. These results provide a better knowledge of the recycling effect and can be used to decide the potential recyclability of plastic. The ascribed project of this study (DECOAT) aims to develop efficient systems to remove coatings at the end-of-life of the part, to reduce the damage and promote the use of recycled material in high-tech applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11976218/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.18695.2
K Isayev, O Rasulov, N Sadigova
{"title":"Advanced photodetector for hybrid PET-MRI systems.","authors":"K Isayev, O Rasulov, N Sadigova","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.18695.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.18695.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Currently, a wide variety of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are available, each designed for specific applications in fields such as science, medicine, and industry. Advances in production technology have led to the development of more sensitive and efficient photodiodes, which are critical for applications requiring precision, such as medical imaging.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A research group has been working on designing a highly sensitive photodiode to enhance the capabilities of next-generation of hybrid positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. This involves integrating micropixel avalanche photodiodes (MAPDs) to improve image resolution. The chosen design features deep-immersion MAPDs with a pixel size of 12 microns and a density of 1000 pixels per mm <sup>2</sup>, allowing for high-detail photon detection. The 4x4 mm <sup>2</sup> active area is optimized to balance sensitivity and size for high-resolution medical imaging. To produce these photodiodes, the group has outlined a production plan involving 300 mm silicon wafers grown using multiple techniques to enhance material properties. The Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS), renowned for its expertise in optical microelectronics, was selected as the production center. With MIMOS' state-of-the-art facilities, the project aims to meet stringent medical diagnostics standards.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The experimental results demonstrated that the MAPD-3NM (MAPD design with 12 microns pixel size) photodiode achieved an amplification factor 1.8 times greater than the MAPD-3NK (MAPD design with 10 microns pixel size) under optimal conditions. The both samples size was 4x4 square mm. Its overvoltage range increased by 100%, reaching 4 V, enhancing photon detection and amplification. The MAPD-3NM also showed a significant reduction in dark current, about 3.5 times lower than the MAPD-3NK, improving performance in low-light environments. Additionally, the MAPD-3NM had a capacitance of 200 pF compared to 176 pF for the MAPD-3NK, contributing to its superior performance. These improvements make the MAPD-3NM more efficient and sensitive for scientific and medical applications.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This project represents a major advancement in photodetector technology for medical diagnostics, aiming to develop more accurate and efficient PET-MRI scanners that enhance patient outcomes with improved imaging capabilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11973626/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143805059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-26eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.18564.2
Cristina Branquinho, Bernardo Rocha, Sami Ullah, Maria Alexandra Oliveira, Elena Vanguelova, Helena C Serrano, Alice Nunes, Adriana Principe, Pedro Pinho, Silvana Munzi, Juliana Monteiro, Rocío Alonso, Mana Gharun, Rossella Guerrieri
{"title":"Monitoring spatiotemporal changes in global change drivers and their effects on semiarid woodlands and forests - fieldwork protocol.","authors":"Cristina Branquinho, Bernardo Rocha, Sami Ullah, Maria Alexandra Oliveira, Elena Vanguelova, Helena C Serrano, Alice Nunes, Adriana Principe, Pedro Pinho, Silvana Munzi, Juliana Monteiro, Rocío Alonso, Mana Gharun, Rossella Guerrieri","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.18564.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.18564.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Training schools play a vital role in COST actions, particularly for young researchers, as they provide opportunities to visit international laboratories and learn new methodologies. In May 2024, CLEANFOREST organized its first training school, <i>Monitoring Spatiotemporal Changes in Global Change Drivers and Their Effects on Semiarid Woodlands and Forests</i>, held at the Faculty of Science of the Universidade de Lisboa. The training school included a field trip designed to explore global change drivers and their impacts on semiarid woodlands and forests. Participants engaged in hands-on activities to understand how forest ecosystems interact with key global change factors such as air quality and climate change. They were introduced to various monitoring techniques and parameters for assessing forest health, including ecosystem fluxes, tree physiology, mortality, and regeneration. Additionally, participants examined plant biodiversity and functional ecology, focusing on lichens and their connection to air quality, and soil physico-chemical properties. Participants applied these methodologies in real-world scenarios, conducting measurements (forest structure assessment, lichen diversity sampling, shrub and herbaceous diversity estimation, deadwood measurement and soil physico-chemical analysis) in different grazing management settings to assess their effects on tree growth, biodiversity, and soil properties. After the practical experience in the field using these experiences, participants were divided into groups to analyze and discuss collected data together with trainers. Key findings were summarized in presentations, together with main take home messages and suggestions on further questions to be explored and related attributes to monitor. This paper presents the field trip protocol used at Companhia das Lezírias, where simplified versions of established methodologies for sampling various ecosystem components were employed. The protocol provides a valuable reference for replicating similar studies, ensuring consistency in methodologies for future training activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11976219/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-24eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.17107.2
Dolores Resano
{"title":"Transnational readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson's <i>New York 2140</i> and Chris Beckett's <i>America City</i>.","authors":"Dolores Resano","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.17107.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17107.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses two climate fiction novels-one British, one American-that were written in the runup to two major political events on either side of the Atlantic in 2016-the Brexit referendum and the first election of Donald Trump to the US presidency-and considers how their focus on a future climate emergency serves as an apt reflection on the mutual reinforcements of neoliberalism, precarization, and far-right populism. By looking at these two novels together through the lens of the Capitalocene (Moore), the Trumpocene (Colebrook) and the \"critical utopia\" (Moylan), I consider how the future climate catastrophes that these novels imagine can also serve to highlight the deep political implications of an advancing sense of precariousness as a result of climate exposure. As Newell suggests, climate catastrophes are equally likely \"to be used as opportunities to advance and entrench socially regressive forms of politics and unsustainable trajectories […] as inspire forms of 'disaster collectivism,' where acts of community and solidarity flourish\" ( Newell, 2020: 157). As novels that are deeply concerned with the politics of the present, I consider how Robinson's and Beckett's novels are inspired by different utopian inflections that, nonetheless, lead to similar diagnoses: that the worst effects of climate change are inevitable because humanity seems bent on its current trajectory. In doing so they showcase the potential of near-future science fiction to make legible the immediate political, social and environmental implications of ongoing climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11969134/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-24eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.19347.1
Javier Martínez Llamas, Koen Vranckaert, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen
{"title":"Balancing Security and Privacy: Web Bot Detection, Privacy Challenges, and Regulatory Compliance under the GDPR and AI Act.","authors":"Javier Martínez Llamas, Koen Vranckaert, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.19347.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.19347.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of web bot activity, exploring both offensive and defensive perspectives within the context of modern web infrastructure. As bots play a dual role-enabling malicious activities like credential stuffing and scraping while also facilitating benign automation-distinguishing between humans, good bots, and bad bots has become increasingly critical. We examine the technical challenges of detecting web bots amidst large volumes of benign traffic, highlighting the privacy risks involved in monitoring users at scale. Additionally, the study dives into the use of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to strike a balance between bot detection and user privacy. These technologies provide innovative approaches to minimising data exposure while maintaining the effectiveness of bot-detection mechanisms. Furthermore, we explore the legal and ethical considerations associated with bot detection, mapping the technical solutions to the regulatory frameworks set forth by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). By analysing these regulatory constraints, we provide insights into how organisations can ensure compliance while maintaining robust bot defence strategies, fostering a responsible approach to cybersecurity in a privacy-conscious world.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11962364/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143775041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-21eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.17358.2
Viktoriia Gorbunova, Vitalii Klymchuk, Philip Santangelo
{"title":"Universal mental health training for frontline professionals (UMHT)'s feasibility analysis.","authors":"Viktoriia Gorbunova, Vitalii Klymchuk, Philip Santangelo","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.17358.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.17358.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Universal Mental Health Training for Frontline Professionals (UMHT) is an educational programme developed and piloted in Ukraine in 2021-2023. The UMHT trains frontline professionals (FLPs) to interact with, support, and refer individuals with mental health conditions for professional help.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To assess the UMHT feasibility in four focus areas (programme's demand, acceptability, adaptability, and extendability), we used statistics on the actual use of the programme, as well as data from satisfaction and usability surveying of 144 programme deliverers and 714 trained frontline professionals. A combination of Kruskal-Wallis and Post Hoc Dunn tests was used to identify statistically significant intergroup differences in the UMHT usability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Programme's demand increased through years of implementation (2021, 2022, 2023) in terms of the numbers of training events (27, 35, 90), trained frontline professionals (596, 779, 1548), involved donors and supporters (1, 4, 9) and implementers (2, 10, 18). The UMHT acceptability as satisfaction with the programme content and delivery, measured out of 5, is 4.81 (SD=0.291) for the UMHT trainers and 4.78(SD=0.434) for trained FLPs. The UMHT preparedness to use trained skills after participation in the training events, on the same scale, is 4.57 (SD=0.438) for the UMHT trainers and 4.46 (SD=0.650) for trained FLPs. The highest levels of usability of all UMHT skills on a scale from 0 to 1 were found for educators (0.68 [SD=0.118]), police officers (0.67 [SD=0.098]), and social workers (0.66 [SD=0.113]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The UMHT offers a universal frame of interaction with people with mental health conditions for frontline professionals. Assessment of the UMHT feasibility shows the programme's potential for further development and implementation. Programme trainers as its deliverers and frontline professionals as its recipients report high satisfaction with training content and delivery as well as preparedness to apply gained knowledge and skills in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11883208/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.17168.2
Paolo Ruspini, Petko Hristov
{"title":"Transnational patterns, social networks and self-help organizations for migrant women.","authors":"Paolo Ruspini, Petko Hristov","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.17168.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.17168.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research shows the importance of building up self-help structures in a transnational perspective for the inclusion of migrant women who are fleeing their home countries because of war, violence, or different forms of vulnerability. The mobilization of self-help organizations through the intersection of transnationalism and gender is, in fact, a useful direction for a practice-oriented pedagogy directed both towards (1) the most vulnerable groups of women, or (2) those already empowered either as community leaders or network facilitators, other migrants and the whole native population. For this paper, we compare two video-interviews of refugee women collected in Bulgaria and Italy, which are important receiving countries either at the South-Eastern or Southern external border of the European Union. The research questions of this comparative assessment include: 1) How do refugee women organize themselves for mutual help? 2) How do they build their social networks through transnational practices to bridge with the local people? 3) How is the community or individual empowerment of refugee women achieved across ethnic lines or through gender? The final aim of this investigation is to analyse various patterns of social networks' creation among refugee women originating from different socio-cultural contexts. The research findings might be useful to instil inclusion practices which are apt to refugee women empowerment.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747294/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143017913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-18eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.19258.2
Juan Francisco Castel Pablo, Susana Cebrián Guajardo, Theopisti Dafni, David Díez Ibáñez, Javier Galán Lacarra, Juan Antonio García Pascual, Álvaro Ezquerro Sastre, Igor García Irastorza, Gloria Luzón Marco, Cristina Margalejo Blasco, Héctor Mirallas Sánchez, Luis Obis Aparicio, Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano, Óscar Pérez Lázaro, Jorge Porrón Lafuente, María Jiménez Puyuelo
{"title":"Micromegas with GEM preamplification for enhanced energy threshold in low-background gaseous time projection chambers.","authors":"Juan Francisco Castel Pablo, Susana Cebrián Guajardo, Theopisti Dafni, David Díez Ibáñez, Javier Galán Lacarra, Juan Antonio García Pascual, Álvaro Ezquerro Sastre, Igor García Irastorza, Gloria Luzón Marco, Cristina Margalejo Blasco, Héctor Mirallas Sánchez, Luis Obis Aparicio, Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano, Óscar Pérez Lázaro, Jorge Porrón Lafuente, María Jiménez Puyuelo","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.19258.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.19258.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We develop the concept of a Micromegas readout plane with an additional GEM preamplification stage placed a few millimetres above it to increase the maximum effective gain of the combined readout.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We implement it and test it in realistic conditions for its application to low-background dark matter searches like the TREX-DM experiment. For this, we use a Micromegas of Microbulk type, built with radiopure materials.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We report on GEM effective extra gain factors of about 90, 50 and 20 in 1, 4 and 10 bar of Ar-1%iC <sub>4</sub>H <sub>10</sub>. These results are obtained in a small test chamber allowing for systematic scanning of voltages and pressures. In addition, a TREX-DM full-scale set-up has also been built and tested, featuring a replica of the fully-patterned TREX-DM Microbulk readout.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results here obtained show promise to lower the threshold of the experiment down to 50 eV <sub><i>ee</i></sub> , corresponding to substantially enhanced sensitivity to low-mass WIMPs.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11926529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2025-03-07eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.18433.1
Bénédicte Miyamoto, Maija Ojala-Fulwood, Veronika Čapská, Fiona Eva Bakas, Igor Lyman, María Amor Barros-Del Río, Maria Bostenaru Dan, Alba Comino, Pirita Frigren, Victoria Konstantinova, Heidi Martins, Lívia Prosinger, Pauliina Räsänen, Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska, Marie Ruiz
{"title":"Materiality of Memorialization: Mapping Migrant Women's Landmarks in Europe.","authors":"Bénédicte Miyamoto, Maija Ojala-Fulwood, Veronika Čapská, Fiona Eva Bakas, Igor Lyman, María Amor Barros-Del Río, Maria Bostenaru Dan, Alba Comino, Pirita Frigren, Victoria Konstantinova, Heidi Martins, Lívia Prosinger, Pauliina Räsänen, Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska, Marie Ruiz","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.18433.1","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.18433.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the memorialization of migrant women across transcultural landscapes, and analyses results from the Register of Migrant Women Landmarks in Europe (hereinafter RMWLE), central to the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action project \"Women on the Move\" (CA19112 - WEMov). It serves as reference for subsequent research based on data from this Register, for which data collection is continuing. The RMWLE registers landmarks, such as monuments, plaques, streets and other toponymic infrastructures named after women with a significant history of migration. It honours aspects rarely prioritized in memorialization agendas, which are skewed towards men's stories, and towards the more linear biographies of sedentary figures whose European, national, and regional memorialization have remained uncomplicated by migration. This Deep Data study reveals recurring patterns at the level of Europe in the memorialization of these women migrants. The diversity of stories, the richness and the prominence of landmarks devoted to men compared to women is a subject well-covered in memorialization studies. This unbalance is compounded by the data from our register which shows landmarks on women migrants that are sometime tokenized, often marginalized, and which reproduce the bias towards nurture and care that have besieged the memorialization of women in general. It further shows that the memorialization process and the political and cultural mechanisms of official commemoration often work against the recognition of cross-border careers and stories. The intersectionality of the project, highlighting both gender and migration, uncovers a political landscape of landmarks - and we reflect on how this register can help combat cultural prejudice by recovering migration episodes. The RMWLE helps us reflect on the defining impact of migration episodes, a reality rarely underlined in the biographies of famous women. This article calls for a storytelling approach, to counter dominant cultural narratives and knowledge practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"4 ","pages":"234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11809475/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143392593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}