SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Response of soil microbial communities to climate warming: from local to global scale

Climate warming represents one of the most complex issues of the present time and climate models predict further increase of temperature in the next decades. Soils worldwide represent the largest terrestrial carbon (C) pool, exceeding the amount of C stored in the atmosphere and plant biomass. Microbes are known to play key roles in both soil C stabilization and its release into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide or methane. Rising temperatures could accelerate the activity of microbial decomposers resulting in greater losses of C from soils into the atmosphere. However, the extent of microbial response to predicted climate change at global scale is unknown and the details of the structural and functional shifts in soil microbial communities under warming represent a major knowledge gap. Here, I propose to characterize the functional response of “local” soil bacterial and fungal communities to warming in Arctic tundra as northern latitudes represent one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change. This will be achieved by the analysis of in situ ecosystem manipulation experiment simulating increased summer temperatures using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches. In order to assess the global scale responses of soil microbial taxa to climate warming worldwide, I will conduct a meta-analysis of microbial responses to warming treatments utilizing the combination of sequencing and environmental data available in published literature. The validity of the modeled responses of microbial taxa will be checked using the analysis of communities from the “local” experiment. The project will give an answer on the “global” future of microbial communities as well as on the functional responses of soil microbes to climate warming on the local scale. Proposed project will allow to applicant gain the knowledge of novel methods in microbial ecology and represent important transition phase towards applicant’s professional maturity and independent future research career.
Usage of IEC 61131 and IEC 61499 standards for creating distributed control systems

This publication deals with the application of standards for industrial automation during distributed control systems design. Control systems design consists of a choice between two approaches based on the standards, IEC 61131 and IEC 61499. The question is which of the standards to use for distributed control systems design. The most commonly used standards are briefly listed in the introduction section. Then follows a more detailed description of the IEC 61131 and IEC 61499 standards, future development of the IEC 61499 standard and its usage during the creation of distributed control systems. Further on are lists and descriptions of existing commercial and research software tools, which are necessary in implementing this standard. The main section deals with the methodology for standard application comparison and criteria selection for comparing. This methodology is then verified on real control systems. The final section includes methodology generalization for suitable approach selection, resulting in recommendations for which standard to choose during creation of distributed control systems.
Exercise Hemodynamics During Extended Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support: The Response of Systemic Cardiovascular Parameters and Pump Performance

Patients on continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (cf-LVADs) are able to return to an active lifestyle and perform all sorts of physical activities. This study aims to evaluate exercise hemodynamics in patients with a HeartMate II cf-LVAD (HM II). Thirty (30) patients underwent a bicycle exercise test. Along with exercise capacity, systemic cardiovascular responses and pump performance were evaluated at 6 and 12 months after HM II implantation. From rest to maximum exercise, heart rate increased from 87 ± 14 to 140 ± 32 beats/minute (bpm) (P<0.01), while systolic arterial blood pressure increased from 93 ± 12 to 116 ± 21 mm Hg (P<0.01). Total cardiac output (TCO) increased from 4.1 ± 1.1 to 8.5 ± 2.8 L/min (P<0.01) while pump flow increased less, from 5.1 ± 0.7 to 6.4 ± 0.6 L/min (P<0.01). Systemic vascular resistance (SVR) decreased from 1776 ± 750 to 1013 ± 83 dynes.s/cm(5) (P<0.001) and showed the strongest correlation with TCO (r= -0.72; P<0.01). Exercise capacity was affected by older age, while blood pressure increased significantly in men compared with women. Exercise capacity remained consistent at 6 and 12 months after HM II implantation, 51% ± 13% and 52% ± 13% of predicted VO2 max for normal subjects corrected for age and gender. In conclusion, pump flow of the HM II may contribute partially to TCO during exercise, while SVR was the strongest determinant of TCO.
SCREEN PRINTED THICK FILM METAL HEATER WITH PROTECTIVE TOP DIELECTRIC LAYER

A thick film high temperature thermoplastic insulated resistive heating element including one or more base dielectric layers screen printed on a metal substrate having a composition one or more melt-flowable thermoplastic polymers, inorganic filler particles, a transition dielectric layer on top of the uppermost based dielectric layer containing inorganic additives in addition to one or more melt-flowable thermoplastic polymers and inorganic filler particles. A heater layer is coated on top of the top dielectric layer where the topmost dielectric layer acts as a transition layer between the uppermost dielectric to protect the adjacent resistor layer from the development of hot spots and cracking arising from the propagation of microcracks due to, amongst other things, residual stresses transmitted to the resistive layer from the sub-layers due to the thermal history of the resistive heater and substrate. The topmost transition dielectric layer is comprised of a ternary or higher mixture of the thermoplastic material such as, but not limited to, polyether ether ketone (PEEK), the inorganic filler such as alumina and other additives such as aluminum nitride.
Cloud-Enabled ir spectroscopy platform for the rapid integration and customisation of affordable, real-time chemical monitoring solutions for food and pharmaceutical industries

VISUM is an IR spectroscopy cloud-enabled platform for the rapid, easy integration and customisation of real-time monitoring systems for improved process control, product quality and safety in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Building from the successful feasibility study outputted from a Phase 1 SME Instrument project, we are applying for Phase 2 funding to accelerate the development for a market launch in 2019. 

NIR is a non-destructive, reliable and accurate technique for monitoring the chemical and physical parameters during food and pharmaceutical processing, being widely accepted as one of the most promising on/in-line process control techniques. The availability of fibre optic probes significantly improves the ability of NIR techniques to monitor and control processes especially using remote on/in line detection. However, a number of gaps prevent the mainstreaming of NIR in industry: 1) typical NIR lab analysers are expensive; 2) they often require time-consuming, costly and complex predictive models development and their further recalibration; 3) generic systems do not properly fit to each particular production line or monitoring challenge and these mismatches are the source of major errors; 4) on-line NIR optical interfaces are prone to fouling/contamination, a major limitation for accurate measurements and leading to high maintenance requirements. There is also a missed opportunity in the effective management and use of the data.  
VISUM platform provides the necessary flexible hardware, software and cloud computing infrastructure for mainstreaming the adoption of NIR-based systems in the EU and global food and pharma industries to enable the rapid, easy, and cost-effective integration in processing environments even by non-specialised engineers. VISUM offers an affordable and accessible enabler for improved product quality and safety, as well as enhanced process understanding and control for a first tier Process Analytical Technology (PAT) tool.
CYANOACRYLATE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING AN ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT

Disclosed are cyanoacrylate polymer compositions comprising a biocompatible solvent and a compatible antimicrobial agent. These compositions provide for formation of an antimicrobial polymeric cyanoacrylate film on mammalian skin.
The diffusion of heritage through the internet. The case of Castile and Leon.

For a region or a country is very important that his main municipalities are present on the Internet, and one of the most simple and effective ways to achieve this is through an institutional or official website, in which every municipality can include information about his major attractions, especially those related to tourism, one of the major industries in Spain. Therefore, and due to the development of Information and Knowledge Society, whose main tool is the Network, is essential for municipalities to be present in the Digital Sphere. Donaire and Gali (2011) comment in this regard that «from the entry of Internet into the tourism market, digital media are becoming extremely important in the construction and dissemination of the tourist image of a place». Thus, this new medium allows municipal organisms to offer updated and detailed information of their cultural and tourism products, reaching a large audience at low cost. In short, the Web is «a window to the world» (Banos and Ramirez, 2004), an excellent way of stimulating tourism as dictated by current trends: through the mass diffusion of culture and heritage.
The Schnitzler syndrome

The Schnitzler syndrome is a rare and underdiagnosed entity which is considered today as being a paradigm of an acquired/late onset auto-inflammatory disease. It associates a chronic urticarial skin rash, corresponding from the clinico-pathological viewpoint to a neutrophilic urticarial dermatosis, a monoclonal IgM component and at least 2 of the following signs: fever, joint and/or bone pain, enlarged lymph nodes, spleen and/or liver, increased ESR, increased neutrophil count, abnormal bone imaging findings. It is a chronic disease with only one known case of spontaneous remission. Except of the severe alteration of quality of life related mainly to the rash, fever and pain, complications include severe inflammatory anemia and AA amyloidosis. About 20% of patients will develop a lymphoproliferative disorder, mainly Waldenström disease and lymphoma, a percentage close to other patients with IgM MGUS. It was exceedingly difficult to treat patients with this syndrome until the IL-1 receptor antagonist anakinra became available. Anakinra allows a complete control of all signs within hours after the first injection, but patients need continuous treatment with daily injections.In many aspects, the Schnitzler syndrome resembles the genetically determined auto-inflammatory syndromes involving activating mutations of the NLRP3 inflammasome. This latter point and its consequences will be addressed.
Automatic detection of alpine rockslides in continuous seismic data using hidden Markov models

Data from continuously recording permanent seismic networks can contain information about rockslide occurrence and timing complementary to eyewitness observations and thus aid in construction of robust event catalogs. However, detecting infrequent rockslide signals within large volumes of continuous seismic waveform data remains challenging and often requires demanding manual intervention. We adapted an automatic classification method using hidden Markov models to detect rockslide signals in seismic data from two stations in central Switzerland. We first processed 21 known rockslides, with event volumes spanning 3 orders of magnitude and station event distances varying by 1 order of magnitude, which resulted in 13 and 19 successfully classified events at the two stations. Retraining the models to incorporate seismic noise from the day of the event improved the respective results to 16 and 19 successful classifications. The missed events generally had low signal-to-noise ratio and small to medium volumes. We then processed nearly 14 years of continuous seismic data from the same two stations to detect previously unknown events. After postprocessing, we classified 30 new events as rockslides, of which we could verify three through independent observation. In particular, the largest new event, with estimated volume of 500,000 m3, was not generally known within the Swiss landslide community, highlighting the importance of regional seismic data analysis even in densely populated mountainous regions. Our method can be easily implemented as part of existing earthquake monitoring systems, and with an average event detection rate of about two per month, manual verification would not significantly increase operational workload.
APPARATUS FOR EXTENDING AN ENCLOSURE

Garage extension apparatus comprising a pair of channel section guide tracks (11 and 12), one on each sidewall of the garage (10), and a movable structure (13) formed of a roof (14), depending sidewalls (15 and 16) and an up-and-over door (17). The structure is supported on a pair of ground engaging wheels (18 and 19), each mounted at the front of a respective one of the sidewalls (15 and 16) by a screw jack (27), and on a pair of upper wheels (21 and 22) which each run in the channel of a respective one of the guide tracks (11 and 12) and which are pivotally mounted at the rear of the roof (14), so that the movable structure (13) can follow the slope of the carriageway, up or down, as it is drawn out of the garage. The screw jacks (27) enable the movable structure (13) to be levelled if the ground slopes from one side to the other.
Memex: memories and experiences for inclusive digital storytelling

MEMEX promotes social cohesion through collaborative, heritage-related storytelling tools that provide access to tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage (CH) for communities at risk of exclusion. The project implements new actions for social science to: understand the NEEDS of such communities and co-design interfaces to suit their needs; DEVELOP the audience through participation strategies; while increasing the INCLUSION of communities. The fruition of this will be achieved through ground breaking ICT tools that provide a new paradigm for interaction with CH for all end user. MEMEX will create new assisted Augmented Reality (AR) experiences in the form of stories that intertwine the memories (expressed as videos, images or text) of the participating communities with the physical places / objects that surround them. To reach these objectives, MEMEX develop techniques to (semi-)automatically link images to their LOCATION and connect to a new opensource Knowledge Graph (KG). The KG will facilitate assisted storytelling by means of clustering that links consistently user data and CH assets in the KG. Finally, stories will be visualised onto smartphones by AR on top of the real world allowing to TELL an engaging narrative. MEMEX will be deployed and demonstrated on three pilots with unique communities. First, Barcelona’s Migrant Women, which raises the gender question around their inclusion in CH, giving them a voice to valorise their memories. Secondly, MEMEX will give access to the inhabitants of Paris’s XIX district, one of the largest immigrant settlements of Paris, to digital heritage repositories of over 1 million items to develop co-authored new history and memories connected to the artistic history of the district. Finally, first, second and third generation Portuguese migrants living in Lisbon will provide insights on how technology tools can enrich the lives of the participants.
Predicting design water requirement of winter paddy under climate change condition using frequency analysis in Bangladesh

Abstract The effects of climate change on the agricultural sector are tremendous. Thus, it is essential to determine its impacts on agricultural water resources and to minimize adverse effects on crop production. The present study aims to simulate climate data based on SRES A1B scenario from the outputs of three General Circulation Models (GCMs) namely, FGOAL, HADCM3 and IPCM4 and examine the design water requirement (DWR) of winter paddy using frequency analysis under climate change condition in Bangladesh. The average change rates of DWR in four climatic zones were compared to baseline and the results were −12.16% (2020s), −0.28% (2055s), and 1.25% (2090s) for the FGOAL, −4.44% (2020s), 0.57% (2055s) and 1.25% (2090s) for the HADCM3, and −1.12% (2020s), 2.22% (2055s) and 6.69% (2090s) for the IPCM4. The change rates of gross paddy water demand (GPWD) for three GCMs ranged from −3.01% to 11.16%. In both cases of the DWR and GPWD, the change rates were above 3%, indicating a warning signal to the future winter paddy water management. The outcomes of this study can be used as basic data for the development of agricultural water resource management, which will help to minimize the drought-risk and to implement future agricultural water resource policies in Bangladesh.
Spp regions

The SPP Regions project is aimed at promoting strong networking and collaboration at both the European and sub-national regional level on sustainable and innovative procurement (SPP/PPI), to help promote and embed capacity building and knowledge transfer. 

At the regional level networking will be promoted to build capacities and transfer skills in sustainable and innovative procurement implementation, and to collaborate directly on tendering for eco-innovative solutions. New networks will be established, or existing networks strengthened in 7 European regions (Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Torino, Bristol, Barcelona, West France and Gabrovo). Networking activities will include an intensive capacity building programme and collaboration on at least 6 tenders per region - 42 in total.

At the European level a Sustainable Procurement and Innovation Network will be launched, expanding on the existing Procura+ Campaign. In-depth research will be conducted into European best practice relating to a series of key SPP/PPI topics (market engagement, life cycle costing, output/performance-based specifications, circular procurement) by a series of experts in consultation with network participants. A series of European seminars and expert workshops will be organised, together with an ongoing webinar series, and the annual presentation of a PPI award for European best practice.
Societal needs analysis and emerging technologies in the public sector

It is a fact that technology in our age is offering countless solutions that could change the way we live and act and that innovation is lately directly linked with emerging technologies that are applied in various domains. However, despite the investments performed in the last decade the bitter truth is that “we are not there yet” when it comes to fully exploiting the benefits of ICT to help the public sector to meet emerging societal needs.

SONNETS will tackle this issue of empowering the public sector in becoming a core innovation driver by dedicating itself to the following core questions:
• How to identify, monitor and early detect societal trends that need to be met by specific public sector services?
• How to timely get aware of emerging technologies and assess their usability for the public sector?

To provide convincing answers to these questions SONNETS will deliver an innovative methodological framework to accelerate the transformation of the public sector through the identification and analysis of emerging technologies that hold the potential to transform the public sector into a technology leader and innovation carrier.

Thus SONNETS has committed itself to the mission to foster collaboration between all relevant stakeholders by breaking down knowledge silos towards building a more productive, responsive and innovation generating public sector.

As such SONNETS is based on the following sub-concepts, which can be witnessed as a quadruple helix:
• Needs Identification through evidence-based research approaches and methods
• Innovations Identification and Gap Analysis
• Impact generation through Community Building and Intense Networking
• Innovation Transfer through best practice identification in multidisciplinary areas and impact assessment

These activities will lead to the multidisciplinary development of a roadmap that will allow the public sector to grasp the role of the protagonist in a future of value added services which meet societal needs.
Unfathomable Journey: The Context of Dr Otto Walter's Departure from Australia

Fifty years ago, erstwhile eminent Jewish physician Dr Otto Walter abandoned life in Australia to return to Austria, leaving his crestfallen young grandson, Garry, to wonder why he had gone. In this paper, the author explores the possible reasons for his grandfather's departure, weaving in aspects of Otto's extraordinary life, including the flight from Vienna after Kristallnacht (the German Reich's coordinated night of attacks on Jewish property), and the struggles to stay one step ahead of the Nazis in Europe. Otto was to settle in the British Mandate for Palestine (later Israel), before coming to Australia in 1949 on the Cyrenia—serving as ship's doctor for Jewish refugees. In Australia, the consummate medical skills that had proven life-saving for Otto's family, were not formally recognised, marking the end of a distinguished career.
RISER CONNECTOR

A riser connector connects the upper portion of a riser (12) having a latching enlargement (32) to a receptacle (14) on a vessel (16), so the riser upper end (22) can connect to a fluid coupling (42) leading to a conduit (40) on the vessel. A double-click mechanism (88), with parts on the enlargement and on the receptacle, turns a load ring on the enlargement to latch the enlargement in place when it is lifted to an upper position and lowered to a latched position, and releases it by again lifting and lowering. A cable coupling (24) is temporarily mounted on the top of the riser to enable the riser to be lifted by a cable (26), the cable coupling being later removed to connect the riser upper end to the fluid coupling on the vessel.