Conference Programme FULL (1)

Influence of Progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals on Inward Foreign
Investment
Aman Mdewa Nthangu
In 2015 the United Nation’s established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), setting transformative goals and
targets to be achieved by 2030. In this regard, the UN’s new policy framework for sustainable development investment
highlights core Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) relevant SDGs. In other words, SDG relevant aspects and factors seem not
only important for economic and social development but many of these can also be regarded as location aspects in
determining a country’s attractiveness as an FDI location. In the past four decades, many African countries, though having
adopted more FDI friendly policies to promote FDI inflows, are lagging behind other regions with regard to FDI inflows
performance. In connection with this, Africa provides an ideal context to investigate these issues. In light of FDI being
attached to an important role in developing countries to contribute to productive capacity building and sustainable
economic development, this research will analyse the impact of progress towards the people category of SDGs by African
countries on their inward FDI performance. The people category of SDGs includes education, poverty reduction, health,
gender equality and food security. The study will inform the host countries’ policies and UN community initiatives by
unfolding the influence of progress towards these transformative goals on FDI inflows performance, consequently impact
people’s lives through the resulting improvements in policies and systems. The statistical analysis will utilize a panel
dataset which covers African countries over the period 1995-2015.
Active Millimetre-Wave Imaging for Monitoring the Wound Healing Progress
Amani Owda, Neil Salmon
Visual inspection is the current protocol for monitoring the wound healing progress. This protocol gives an excellence
indicator about the state of the wound and the healing progress, and more importantly, it can detect signs of infections
such as exudates, redness, swelling, heat, functionality of the infected part and pus draining (Cunha, 2016). However,
visual inspection requires the removal of dressing layers, this practice consumes time, money and it could be unsafe in
serious burn and injury situation, and it can cause medical problems, be uncomfortable or painful to the patient and
increase the chance of infection (Harmer et al., 2016). Active Millimetre-wave scanner is another approach that has been
tried by (Essen et al., 2010). The scanner is designed to probe under plaster and gypsum cast and it is capable to monitor
the healing of the scars and sutured wound under cast at 94 GHz. The results obtained from the scanner are strongly
supported that millimetre-wave (MMW) can be used for monitoring the wound healing progress. Currently, there are no
tools, which could assess the state of the healing burn wound without removing the dressings. A technique that could
penetrate dressings and identify the healing status of wounds would be extremely beneficial to both patients and
healthcare professionals.
This research is aiming to assess the feasibility of the active millimetre-wave imaging system to monitor the wound healing
progress. Two types of measurements are performed on dressing materials; optical path length and surface sensing. The
results obtained show that active imaging system can penetrate dressing materials and it can provide information about
the optical path length of the sample. Furthermore, The experimental work shows that active millimetre-wave imaging
system is capable to sense different surfaces attached to the bandage such as water and cream layer.