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EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES EUAS EU ACADEMY 2020 ANNUAL REPORT EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT The President of EUAS Professor E.G. Ladopoulos & The Board Governors of EUAS 1 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT Contents 11 About an Energy World by the Theory of “Universal Mechanics”. Is That Possible ? by Prof. Evangelos Ladopoulos, President & CEO of EUAS 16 Covid-19 Evolution Analysis at Madrid and Andalusia, Spain by Differential Equation Model. by Prof. Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, Member EUAS 26 Monitoring Biodiversity & Restoring Marine Ecosystems. by Prof. Roberto Danovaro, Member EUAS 30 Type 2 Topoisomerases and Prostate Cancer. by Prof. William Nelson, Member EUAS 34 New Contributions in Biorefining. by Prof. Arthur Ragauskas, Member EUAS 39 Water Droplet Trajectories in an Irrigation Spray: the Classical and Quantum Mechanical Pictures. by Prof. Daniele De Wrachien, Member EUAS 44 Passivity: The Key to our Reactive-Metals-Based Civilization. by Prof. Digby D. Macdonald, Member EUAS 48 Investigation of the Loss of Capacity in Stretched Plates with Defects. by Prof. Nikita Morozov, Member EUAS 51 New Contributions in Atmospheric Propagation & Microwave Biophysics. by Prof. André Vander Vorst, Member EUAS 56 Further Investigations in Flat Panel Technolgies. by Prof. Vladimir Chigrinov, Member EUAS 59 Computer Aided Learning Machines. by Roger N. Anderson, Member EUAS 2 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 64 Geopolymers & Hybrid Inorganic Polymers for Ambient Temperature Synthesis. by Waltraud M. Kriven, Member EUAS 68 The Long Pathway from Immunology to Stem Cells. by Carlos Martínez, Member EUAS 72 Directed Evolution of Selective Enzymes as Catalysts in Organic Chemistry and Biotechnology. by Manfred T. Reetz, Member EUAS 76 The Self-Cleansing Capacity of Aquatic Systems (Oceans, Rivers, Lakes, Groundwater). by Peter H. Santschi, Member EUAS 81 New Developments in Ion-Solid Interactions. by Prof. William J. Weber, Member EUAS 85 Innovations in Immunology, Cell Biology - Structural Biology and specifically Cell-Cell & Cell-Matrix Interactions Mediated by Integrins. by Prof. M. Amin Arnaout, Member EUAS 90 Developments in Mathematical Analysis & Partial Differential Equations. by Prof. Vladimir Maz'ya, Member EUAS 94 Impovements in Analysis, Probability, Wavelets, Signals & Fractals. by Prof. Palle Jorgensen, Member EUAS 97 Innovations in Biomedical Materials and Clinical Biochemistry. by Prof. Pankaj Vadgama, Member EUAS 102 Functionalized Cellulose Nanocrystals for Advanced Drilling Fluids with Thermo-thickening & Salt-tolerant Performance. by Prof. Qinglin Wu, Member EUAS 106 Recent Improvements in Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry. by Prof. James Cook, Member EUAS 3 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 111 Theories and Methods of Fire Prevention for New Energies. by Prof. Jinhua Sun, Member EUAS 115 Affective Computing and Intelligent Robot, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Language Understanding - Communication & Information Retrieval. by Prof. Fuji Ren, Member EUAS 119 Asymmetric Catalysis for C-C Bond Formation by Chiral Lewis and Brønsted Acids. by Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto, Member EUAS 124 Phase II Trial of Paclitaxel, Ifosfamide & Cisplatin in Patients with Recurrent Head & Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. by Prof. Dong Moon Shin, Member EUAS 130 Dreaming of No More Renal Dialysis Kidney Graft Survival in Rats without Immunosuppressants after Intrathymic Glomerular Transplantation. by Prof. Giuseppe Remuzzi, Member EUAS 137 Mechanochemistry for Ammonia Synthesis under Mild Conditions. by Prof. Qing Jiang, Member EUAS 141 Double Wall Cooling, Augmented Surface Heat Transfer & Transonic Turbine Blade Tip Heat Transfer. by Prof. Phil Ligrani, Member EUAS 147 On the Symbiosis between our Two Interacting Brains. by Prof. Alain L. Fymat, Member EUAS 152 Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Blockers and the Risk of Covid-19. by Prof. Giuseppe Mancia, Member EUAS 157 Nanotechnology – Innovations & Applications. by Prof. Marcel Van de Voorde, Member EUAS 161 Ultrasonic Transducer for Harsh Environment Applications with Bismuth Titanate Ceramic as Piezoelectric Element. 4 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT by Prof. Bernhard R. Tittmann, Member EUAS 165 Coordinate Indexing: On the use of Eulerian and Lagrangian Laplace Stretches. by Prof. Alan D. Freed, Member EUAS 170 Geotechnical Hazards - Landslides Case Histories. by Prof. Pedro Pinto, Member EUAS 173 Advanced Materials for Energy Storage & Conversion. by Prof. Zongping Shao, Member EUAS 177 A Programmable Polymer Library that enables the Construction of Stimuli-responsive Nanocarriers Containing Logic Gates. by Prof. Weihong Tan, Member EUAS 181 Boron Nitride Nanotube/Nanosheet and In-situ Property Measurement. by Prof. Yoshio Bando, Member EUAS 186 Control of Complex Granules in Interactive Granular Computing (IGrC). by Prof. Andrzej Skowron, Member EUAS 191 Laser Precision Manufacturing and Microsphere Lens Nano- Imaging. by Prof. Lin Li, Member EUAS 194 Concrete Pavement Performance, Rehabilitation, Behavior & Design. by Prof. Dan G. Zollinger, Member EUAS 198 Recent Contributions in Materials Science and Engineering. by Prof. Derek O. Northwood, Member EUAS 203 Scalable, Low-Temperature, Low Vacuum van der Waals Epitaxy of 2D Materials Using Atomic Layer Deposition. by Prof. Markku Leskelä, Member EUAS 5 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 209 Systematic Non-dimensional Parametric Investigation for the Thermo-fluid Dynamics of Two-layered Fluid Systems. by Prof. William M. Worek, Member EUAS 213 Glacier-Related Outburst Floods. by Prof. John J. Clague, Member EUAS 218 New Aspects of Relativistic Molecular Quantum Mechanics. by Prof. Wenjian Liu, Member EUAS 223 New Research in Nanomagnetism. by Prof. Hartmut Zabel, Member EUAS 228 Processes on Surfaces Related to Catalysis, the Structure & Dynamics of Water & Aqueous Solutions. by Prof. Anders Nilsson, Member EUAS 232 Fifty Years of Bisphosphonates: What are their Mechanical Effects on Bone? by Prof. David B. 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Schaefer, Member EUAS 270 Old Remagnetizations of Carbonate Rocks. by Prof. Rob Van der Voo, Member EUAS 273New Concepts in Nanoscience: New Kinds of Materials opening the Way to New Technologies. by Prof. Herbert Gleiter, Member EUAS 277 Geo-Surveying and Mapping of Environmental Dynamics Using Remote Sensing Approaches. by Prof. Manfred F. Buchroithner, Member EUAS 282 Some New Progress on Structural Safety and Control. by Prof. Hong-Nan Li, Member EUAS 287 Improvements in Artificial Photosynthesis - Photochemical reduction of Carbon Dioxide. by Prof. Björn Åkermark, Member EUAS 291 Impact Behavior of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Concrete Beams. by Prof. Thomas Kang, Member EUAS 294 Bridging Nodal Aberration Theory to designing Optical Systems with Freeform Optics. by Prof. Jannick P. Rolland, Member EUAS 299 Drop Self-Shaping & Self-Bursting: New Approaches to obtain Regularly Shaped Micro- & Nanoparticles. by Prof. Nikolai Denkov, Member EUAS 303 Enhancing DLV for Large-Scale Reasoning. by Prof. Nicola Leone, Member EUAS 306 Tailoring Structure and Properties in Metastable Materials. by Prof. Jürgen Eckert, Member EUAS 7 EU ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 310 Improvements in Cardiovascular Simulations, Coronary Stents & Cardiovascular Robotics. by Prof. Rafael Beyar, Member EUAS 313 Numerical and Experimental Research on Risers and Pipelines. by Prof. Menglan Duan, Member EUAS 317 Energy Research at University of Stavanger. by Prof. Mohsen Assadi, Member EUAS 323 Smart High-Performance Microwave Dielectric Ceramics. by Prof. Nathan Newman, Member EUAS 330 Design of Aircraft Control Systems, Aerospace Control Applications, Engineering Automatic Feedback Controllers & Robotics. by Prof. Frank Lewis, Member EUAS 333 Evaluation of a Portable Nanopore-based Sequencer for Detection of Viruses in Water. by Prof. Joan Rose, Member EUAS 338 Drug Formulations Science Research. by Prof. Mansoor A. 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  • ISPRS Awards 2016

    ISPRS Awards 2016

    2016 Awards and Citations Awards Presented at the Opening Ceremony ISPRS Honorary Member ISPRS 3 ISPRS Fellows ISPRS 4 Brock Gold Medal Award ASPRS, US 8 Otto von Gruber Award NGC, Netherlands 9 U.V. Helava Award Elsevier, Hexagon-Geosystems 10 Awards Presented at Plenary Sessions Plenary 1 Samuel Gamble Award CIG, Canada 12 Willem Schermerhorn Award Geoinformation Netherlands 13 Plenary 2 Schwidefsky Medal DGPF, Germany 14 Eduard Doležal Award OVG, Austria 16 Plenary 3 Wang Zhizhou Award CSGPC, China 17 Karl Kraus Medal OVG, DGPF, SGPF 18 Awards Presented at the Gala Dinner Frederick J Doyle Award ISPRS 20 Giuseppe Inghilleri Award SIFET, Italy 21 Best Papers by Young Authors ISPRS 22 Awards Presented at the Closing Ceremony President’s Honorary Citations ISPRS 23 CATCON Award ISPRS 24 Best Poster Papers Congress 24 Best Papers of Youth Forum Hexagon-Geosystems 24 Further Awards, Certificates and Travel Grants IGI Africa Ambassador Award 1 TIF, IGI 24 Certificates of recognition ISPRS 25 ISPRS and Congress Travel Grants TIF, Congress 26 White Elephants’ „Kennert Torlegård Travel Grant” TIF 27 1 The IGI Africa Ambassador Award will be announced at the Exhibitor’s reception 1 XXIII ISPRS CONGRESS 2016 - PRAGUE ISPRS Awards 2 XXIII ISPRS CONGRESS 2016 - PRAGUE ISPRS Awards ISPRS Honorary Member Space Affairs to produce booklets on the value of geospatial information for disaster management. An individual is elected as an Honorary Member in recognition of distinguished services to the ISPRS and its aims. Honorary Orhan Altan has represented ISPRS on many Members shall be nominated by a committee international bodies including the International composed of members from the current and Council for Science (ICSU) and has served three previous Councils, and elected by the on the Executive board of ICSU which has Congress.