S&E_PGRS_DataAnalysis_0422

The studentship is to support the STFC science programme at Derby, in this case the work with the A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) collaboration at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN). ALICE is a data-intensive high-energy physics at the boundary of nuclear and particle physics experiment which, in this phase of operation, will take data though 2025. Working closely with UK collaborators the overall aim is to advance knowledge about the system created in the high-energy collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and to advance the state-of-the-art in data science supporting the experimental programme. The ALICE experiment is collecting data of increased precision and reach, pursuing rare signals from the quark-gluon plasma. It has expanded its capability for collecting data and established a data processing pipeline that decides which data to keep, processes it in near real time and exports a condensed form for further reconstruction. These datasets are still of order 100 PB and are distributed over a worldwide computing grid for analysis by the user community. Further developments are still required and possible areas for this in the project include; the decision over which events to retain, known as triggering; the detection of anomalous detector conditions, affecting data-taking; the efficient use of computing capacity by the users, through the development of new tools; the performance of algorithms for reconstruction and analysis, leading to final scientific results. Approaches to many of these developments are likely to involve machine learning or AI. At all stages collaboration with other members of the team or wider groups are essential.

The United Kingdom's National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights (BHRs) promotes the development of partnerships with allied countries seeking to implement the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) (UK National Action Plan 2020). The NAP also encourages UK companies to establish judicial and non-judicial operational level grievance mechanisms in their overseas operation, to enhance corporate-community nexus. This potentially encourages and empowers companies to align their activities and approaches with internationally recognised principles on human rights, environment, labour, and climate change. However, business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global environment, especially in high-risk sectors such as mining, oil and gas, telecommunications, construction, banking, and health care amongst others. Understanding human rights responsibilities, impacts and socially responsible behaviour for companies is therefore an essential component of corporate risk management in our current world. Over the last several decades, the African continent has been the epicentre of complex human rights, environmental and social impacts resulting from industrial activities, manufacturing processes, and resource production operations, particularly in extractive and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industries. Consequently, responding to current and anticipated human rights impacts of business activities and transnational investments on local communities is squarely at the forefront of the political and legislative agenda across Africa. However, despite the rise in policy formulation on BHRs in the UK and Global North generally, legal preparedness to effectively implement the UNGPs remains uneven in Africa - in terms of policy discourses, networking, education, and training. This has raised a clear and urgent need for home-grown, in-depth, and exhaustive assessment that analyses the local contexts for the implementation of the UNGPs across Africa, the key challenges that remain, and the way forward in terms of designing good-fit approaches to effectively address the drivers of adverse human rights impacts across the entire value chain of respective economic sectors and activities in Africa. To achieve these integral aspects of a human rights regime, there is need to develop, nurture and support homegrown scholars who can steer the continuous development of UK's agenda on the implementation and application of BHRs norms in Africa. However, one of the key concerns in Africa is the lack of adequate legal and policy capacity on implementing and applying BHRs needed to achieve a green economy. Currently, no institution in Africa have dedicated courses that address policy components of a green economy, and BHRs law. Even more challenging is the absence of a regional platform for scholars and researchers in environmental law and policy fields to come together to explore common issues and to exchange ideas on training, capacity development and policy reinforcement in the region. Thus, there is the need to enhance capacity, interdisciplinary training, and scholarly exchange on core principles of a BHRs regime. Understanding and improving different forms of multi-actor and multi-level governance to address BHRs challenges in Africa is an urgent challenge and warrants a coordinated research approach. The proposed Workshops will become a high-level capacity development event to connect BHRs teachers, researchers, professionals, policy makers and academics in Africa, with UN experts and development practitioners in different sectors.

Workplan: WP1: Run trial business model at Burton Hospital Orthotics Department. WP2: Finalizing material and 3d printing method [Multi Jet Fusion v/s selective laser sintering v/s cost] WP3: Compliance Documentation WP4: Market Analysis WP5: Company Launch Money will be spent on: Staff time to do further clinical trial, design and manufacturing, building commercialization plan Consumables for a bigger clinical trial (n=15) Market analysis Technical datasheet development following technical experimentations in the lab Regulatory certification [Compliance documentation] for the manufacturing process and product for the company Health Economics Evaluation - Pathway to NHS [CHEATA involvement] for the company Marketing pathway development for the company Accounting plan for the company

The majority of the visible mass of the universe is made up of atomic nuclei that lie at the centre of atoms. Nuclear physics seeks to answer fundamental questions such as: "How do the laws of physics work when driven to the extremes? What are the fundamental constituents and fabric of the universe and how do they interact? How did the universe begin and how is it evolving? What is the nature of nuclear and hadronic matter?" The aim of our research is to study and measure the properties of atomic nuclei and hot nuclear matter as a route to answering these fundamental questions. Our research is built around our expertise in instrumentation and exploits the large investments previously made into detectors, data acquisition and experimental methods. Such instruments include the ALICE inner tracker detector aimed at the study of the most exotic state of matter known, the quark-gluon plasma; the advanced gamma-ray tracking array AGATA exploring nuclei at the extremes of spin and isospin; and the solenoidal spectrometer ISOL-SRS studying the role of individual nucleons in complex exotic nuclei. We will study the evolution of nuclear shapes and structure following changes in proton and neutron numbers and their influence on the formation of atoms, right up to the heaviest man-made elements. We will study exotic nuclei that determine the composition of elements found on earth and in the universe, and what ultimately determines the limits of proton and neutron number that can be bound into an atomic nucleus. We will also study the collisions of heavy ions at nearly the speed of light where conditions close to the big bang can be replicated. Throughout this ambitious experimental programme we will continue to share our technical expertise to support all groups in the UK via our core of specialist cross-community engineers in the pursuit of their own research priorities, and play active roles in large experimental facilities around the globe, such as CERN in Switzerland and France or FAIR in Germany.