SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Development of an innovative product in the form of matrix reference materials necessary to improve the quality of analyses in energy efficiency studies of solid biofuels

As part of this project, it is planned to purchase fixed assets to equip an existing research laboratory in the company. The purchased equipment will be used to carry out research on waste testing in order to develop an innovative product in the form of matrix reference materials necessary to improve the quality of analyses in energy efficiency studies of solid biofuels. The main recipients of the services resulting from the project will be landfills, waste treatment facilities and other laboratories. Implementation of the project will contribute to the specific objective Increased R & D activity of enterprises under measure 1.2 R & D in the sector of Świętokrzyskie entrepreneurship, fulfils the objectives of investment priority 9b. The project will achieve the following indicators:Number of enterprises benefiting from supported research infrastructure – 1, Number of R & D projects carried out using supported research infrastructure – 1, Number of product innovations introduced – 1, Number of enterprises receiving a grant – 1, Number of enterprises receiving support – 1, Number of enterprises supported to introduce new products for the market – 1, Private investments complementing public support to enterprises – PLN 565 388.52, Number of other B & D projects – 1 jobs + 1
Can management induced changes in the carbonate system drive soil carbon sequestration? A review with particular focus on Australia

Abstract In many important agricultural regions, soil inorganic carbon (SIC) stocks can rival the amount of carbon found in organic form. Land management practices, including irrigation, fertilization and liming, have the potential to greatly alter the soil inorganic carbon cycle thus creating an important feedback to atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, the current literature is less clear regarding the direction and magnitude of this feedback. Application of irrigation water, for example, can increase the rate of soil carbonate precipitation, but depending on the source of calcium and bicarbonate, the net reaction can be an atmospheric carbon sink, a carbon source or carbon neutral. Similarly, the accelerated dissolution of soil carbonates due to various acidifying processes can act as a net sink or source of atmospheric CO2 depending on the spatial and temporal frame of reference. While SIC stocks in agricultural soils have been found to increase or decrease by as much as 1.0 t C ha−1 yr−1, given the need to account for both the supply and fate of reactants and reaction products, ascribing these stock changes as a net sink or net source activity is difficult. This review paper provides an overview of the major inorganic carbon transformations in soils as affected by agricultural management, including the practice of liming to raise soil pH, and when these transformations should be considered a net atmospheric carbon source or sink.
Faster Time Response by the Use of Wire Electrodes in Capacitive Salinity Gradient Energy Systems

Capacitive energy extraction based on Donnan potential (CDP) and capacitive energy extraction based on double layer expansion (CDLE) are novel electroctrochemical processes to convert the potential free energy of mixing sea and river water into electric work. This is done by the use of supercapacitor electrodes with and without ion exchange membranes. Currently, these techniques rely on improved mass transport in order to become more efficient and give higher power output. In this paper we evaluate the transport phenomena by diffusion and the electrode geometry when switching between sea and river water at open circuit potential (OCP). By changing the electrode geometry from a flat plate to a cylindrical one, experiments and analytical models in combination show that mass transport by diffusion is increased. This is demonstrated without any changes in the hydrodynamic conditions. Improving mass transport without changing the hydrodynamic conditions breaks with what has been the convention in the scientific community of salinity gradient power. Moreover, in sea water the transport phenomena appear to be controlled by diffusion, and the response time for building open circuit potential in CDP and CDLE under this condition is reduced by a factor of 2 when using wire electrodes instead of flat plate electrodes. In river water, the trend is similar though the response time is generally larger.
Connecting Transport regional networks to Security and emergency Advanced Strategy Frameworks of European and Alpine regions decisional platforms.

Transnational cooperation on transport crisis management due to incidents in tunnels and rare strong natural events is an outstanding challenge for Alpine Space security and emergency authorities. TranSAFE-Alp aims at capitalizing innovative decision making tools already developped in previous ASP projects for the creation of an integrated ICT-share area for jointly support and coordinated intervention plans of Civil Protection and Transport Operators. A replicable decision-making shared area called JITES (Joint Integrated ICT-Technologies for Emergency and Security -management ) will be able to collect real-time data on critical transport segments of the Alpine Space Transport network and generate critical intervention scenarios. JITES is an innovative simulation environment that will test efficiency and timeliness of traffic, security and communication management systems with the implemented emergency plans of infrastructure operators and Civil Protection Operative Centres.
COLORED SPECKLES

This invention relates to non-bleeding and quick color releasing colored speckles for use in granular laundry detergents and other consumer products. The speckles are comprised of a porous carrier, a releasing agent, and a coloring agent.
Stochastic framework for partially degradation systems with continuous component degradation-rate-interactions

Many conventional models that characterize the reliability of multicomponent systems are developed on the premise that for a given system, the failures of its components are independent. Although this facilitates mathematical tractability, it may constitute a significant departure from what really takes place. In many real-world applications, system components exhibit various degrees of interdependencies, which present significant challenges in predicting degradation performance and the remaining lifetimes of the individual components as well as the system at large. We focus on modeling the performance of interdependent components of networked systems that exhibit interactive degradation processes. Specifically, we focus on how the performance level of one component affects the degradation rates of other dependent components. This is achieved by using stochastic models to characterize how degradation-based sensor signals associated with the components evolve over time. We consider “Continuous-Type” component interactions that occur continuously over time. This type of degradation interaction exists in many applications, in which interdependencies occur on a continuum. We use a system of stochastic differential equations to capture such “Continuous-Type” interaction. In addition, we utilize a Bayesian approach to update the proposed model using real-time sensor signals observed in the field and provide more accurate estimation of component residual lifetimes. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 286–303, 2014
Epicenter Prediction: Turbal's Principle

Abstract Turbal's principle states that each earthquake causes the appearance of one or more solitary (strain) waves that move away from the hypocenter of the earthquake. Some waves then pass through the zones of accumulation of seismic energy, causing new earthquakes, which in turn can generate new solitons. In this way, it is possible to forecast/predict unstable faults in the region in a defined time period. Additional analyses show that there exist five preferential directions of strain wave propagation in the Earth's crust. Most waves travel in a north-south direction back and forth from the equator toward the poles. Other directions are at the angles of 36 degrees, 72 degrees, 108 degrees, and 144 degrees, with respect to the north-south direction. The velocity of the strain waves in the Earth's crust ranges from ~ 0 to 6000 m s− 1. The velocity of these waves is upward limited by the velocity of the seismic waves.
Water retention and nutrient recycling in soils and streams for improved agricultural production

The WATERAGRI vision is to solve agricultural water management and soil fertilisation challenges in a sustainable manner to secure affordable food production in Europe for the 21st century. The WATERAGRI concept aims to introduce a new framework for the use of affordable small water retention approaches for managing excess and shortage of water as well as better recovery of nutrients from agricultural catchments applying a multi-actor approach. The objectives are to
(a) Co-develop (multi-actor approach) the links between agricultural land and soil-sediment-water management for improved management of water excess and shortage, maximizing crop production and improving water quality and nutrient uptake by crops;
(b) Undertake both technical and sustainability assessments of proposed measures considering tested and reviewed management options;
(c) Develop a cloud-based simulation and data assimilation system based on a physically-based terrestrial system model, which is able to assimilate in situ and remotely sensed observations of hydrological and plant variables and meteorological data in near-real time to analyse effects of structures such as drains and dams for improved farm-scale water management and retention;
(d) Identify, develop and test affordable and easy-to-implement long-term technical and operational farm solutions such as controlled drainage, regulated deficit irrigation, subsurface irrigation, groundwater recharge, farm constructed wetlands, soil management and nutrient recovery options;
(e) Assess the techniques for their potential regarding adaptation to climate change and their impact on ecosystem services for different biogeographic regions using case studies; and
(f) Disseminate the implemented innovations to farmers, advisory services and decision-makers as part of a multi-actor approach.
The key performance indicators are increased crop production, enhanced nutrient recovery from streams and a simulation and data assimilation system.
Simulation Platform of Intelligent Driving Systems of Highway Vehicles

A hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform was developed to assess the safety of intelligent driving systems of highway vehicles under limit conditions.Firstly,the real intelligent driving systems and index of safety assessment were analyzed.The framework for the simulation platform mainly includes road shapes,perception and decision making,vehicles dynamics.In order to enhance the fidelity of platform,the vehicle dynamics program veDYNA was used,and the parameters of which were based on the measured data of vehicles.Moreover,the steering wheel,gas pedal and brake pedal were embedded into the platform.Finally,the safety assessment of time delay in perception and decision making module and flat tire were simulated based on the developed platform,where the side slip angle,yaw rate and tire slip angle were used as the assessment index.
Modeling methodology for defining a priori the hydrodynamics of a dynamic suspension bioreactor. Application to human induced pluripotent stem cell culture

Three-dimensional dynamic suspension is becoming an effective cell culture method for a wide range of bioprocesses, with an increasing number of bioreactors proposed for this purpose. The complex hydrodynamics establishing within these devices affects bioprocess outcomes and efficiency, and usually expensive in vitro trial-and-error experiments are needed to properly set the working parameters. Here we propose a methodology to define a priori the hydrodynamic working parameters of a dynamic suspension bioreactor, selected as a test case because of the complex hydrodynamics characterizing its operating condition. A combination of computational and analytical approaches was applied to generate operational guideline graphs for defining a priori specific working parameters. In detail, 43 simulations were performed under pulsed flow regime to characterize advective transport within the device depending on different operative conditions, i.e., culture medium flow rate and its duty cycle, cultured particle diameter, and initial particle suspension volume. The operational guideline graphs were then used to set specific hydrodynamic working parameters for an in vitro proof-of-principle test, where human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) aggregates were cultured for 24 h within the bioreactor. The in vitro findings showed that, under the selected pulsed flow regime, sedimentation was avoided, hiPSC aggregate circularity and viability were preserved, and culture heterogeneity was reduced, thus confirming the appropriateness of the a priori method. This methodology has the potential to be adaptable to other dynamic suspension devices to support experimental studies by providing in silico -based a priori knowledge, useful to limit costs and to optimize culture bioprocesses.
Late-Stage catalytic carboxylation techniques with labelled carbon dioxide: new opportunities for radiolabelling

Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion´s studies (ADME) are essential for drug discovery and development, providing invaluable preclinical data to understand how the drug behaves in living organisms, thus allowing to make a decision on whether the drug should be terminated or advanced to the next step. At present, most of these studies are performed with a radiolabelled 14C-labelled version of the drug; unfortunately, current radiolabelling syntheses rely on lengthy-step sequences or rather expensive 14C-labelled building blocks, dramatically raising the costs for the research and development, and delaying the execution of preclinical studies. Taking into consideration that carboxylic acids are privileged motifs in a myriad of agrochemicals or pharmaceuticals, LABEL-DIOX offers the opportunity of promoting a late-stage carboxylation event with labeled CO2. The protocol is user-friendly, with components that are neither air- nor moisture sensitive, utilizes earth-abundant catalysts and operates under mild conditions. LABEL-DIOX will increase the overall efficiency of the carbon isotope incorporation, reduce the costs that would have resulted from the design of a lengthy radiolabelled synthesis, minimize the costs for waste disposal and dramatically increase the revenues, thus changing the way industrial chemists conduct radiolabelling of drugs containing carboxylic acids.
Empowering the 4 helix of MED maritime clusters through an open source/knowledge sharing and community-based approach in favour of MED blue growth

4helix+ pjt aims at stimulating, coaching and funding CROSS-SECTORAL & TRANS-BOUNDARY INNOVATION OF THE MED KEY SECTOR “BLUE GROWTH ” which deserves to be better supported being an economic driver and a potential generator of development & jobs.
Main change sought is to improve basic conditions for bridging the gap among the MED maritime clusters and within their 4helixes thanks to the collaboration with the NOT INSTITUTIONAL NEW INNOVATION AGENTS such as like fablabs, co-working spaces, makerspaces, creative hubs, etc. For sustaining innovation in Blue Growth, beside typical research facilities, it is imperative to favor its partnership with and within open spaces for exploratory interaction and creativity that may find room in this new kind of innovation agents. This innovative partnership is also empowered by the ground-breaking combination with CULTURAL&CREATIVE INDUSTRIES knowledge and expertise.
The enhanced 8 MED maritime regional clusters (LISBON REGION, ANDALUSIA, CATALUNA, PACA, MARCHE, ZADAR COUNTY, CENTRAL MACEDONIA and DURRES,VLORA,SARANDA&SHENGJIN coastal areas in ALBANIA) can, thus, be fruitfully involved in the testing, evaluation and regional/national transferring of a transnational INNOVATION PROCESS according to an open source, knowledge sharing and community-based approach. 
The project overall amount is 2.193.983,75 € (whose over 500.000,00 € dedicated to allocation of INNOVATION VOUCHERS to MED BLUE SMEs/STARTUPs).
CLIP UNIT AND EDGE MOUNTED LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A CLIP UNIT

A clip unit (42) and an edge mount light emitting diode (LED) assembly (40) comprising the clip unit. The clip unit provides a mounting structure for mounting a light source (12), such as an LED, to an edge (30) of a printed circuit board (PCB) (22). A surface mount LED, for example, can thus be easily mounted to the edge of the PCB so as to project light in a direction normal to the edge surface of the PCB, instead of the typical mounting orientation that allows for the projection of light normal to the primary surface of the PCB. The clip unit includes an anode retention clip (58) and a cathode retention clip (60) which are electrically isolated from one another within an insulative housing portion (56).
Using ontology network structure in text mining.

Statistical text mining treats documents as bags of words, with a focus on term frequencies within documents and across document collections. Unlike natural language processing (NLP) techniques that rely on an engineered vocabulary or a full-featured ontology, statistical approaches do not make use of domain-specific knowledge. The freedom from biases can be an advantage, but at the cost of ignoring potentially valuable knowledge. The approach proposed here investigates a hybrid strategy based on computing graph measures of term importance over an entire ontology and injecting the measures into the statistical text mining process. As a starting point, we adapt existing search engine algorithms such as PageRank and HITS to determine term importance within an ontology graph. The graph-theoretic approach is evaluated using a smoking data set from the i2b2 National Center for Biomedical Computing, cast as a simple binary classification task for categorizing smoking-related documents, demonstrating consistent improvements in accuracy.
DEVICE FOR SEALING A VALVE

The invention relates to a device for sealing a valve for controlling a coolant of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, said valve being mounted in a cooling system together with a valve housing (1). Said valve housing (1) contains, at the inlet side and/or at the outlet side, a sealing ring (3) which has an annular wall (4) and a spacing ring lip (5) extending away from the annular wall (4) in a contact point (6).
Critical fluctuations and slowing down of chaos

Fluids cooled to the liquid-vapor critical point develop system-spanning fluctuations in density that transform their visual appearance. Despite the rich phenomenology of this critical point, there is not currently an explanation of the underlying mechanical instability. How do structural correlations in molecular positions overcome the destabilizing force of deterministic chaos in the molecular dynamics? Here, we couple techniques from nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics to analyze the emergence of this singular state. Our numerical simulations reveal that the ordering mechanisms of critical dynamics are directly measurable through the hierarchy of spatiotemporal Lyapunov modes. A subset of unstable modes softens near the critical point, with a marked suppression in their characteristic exponents reflecting a weakened sensitivity to initial conditions. Finite-time fluctuations in these exponents, however, exhibit diverging dynamical timescales and power law signatures of critical dynamics. Collectively, these results are symptomatic of a critical slowing down of chaos that sits at the root of our statistical understanding of the singular thermodynamic responses at the liquid-vapor critical point.
Važnost eksplozivne snage u treningu nogometnih vratara

The goal of this paper is to show the importance of explosive strength in soccer training of
 goalkeepers, to explain its application and to emphasize the skills connected to specific
 goalkeeper’s tasks during a soccer game. In addition, this paper includes examples of
 exercises for developing explosive strength. Explosive strength is an ability that is nowadays
 imposed as a priority in sports because most sports and sport disciplines require a certain level
 of explosive strength which often represents an advantage in efficient sport performance.
 An explosive strength workout consists of ballistic and plyometric training while its main objective
 is improving explosive strength and preventing injuries. The characteristics of the two types of
 training correspond to the specific goalkeeper’s tasks that one does during a soccer game in
 order to successfully fulfil them. In order for a goalkeeper to achieve the desired levels of explosive
 strength, it is important to develop the strength up to an optimal level, which is a prerequisite for
 a higher level of explosive strength.The position of a goalkeeper is extremely complex and
 demanding from the perspective of technical–tactical tasks during a soccer game. There is almost
 no single specific goalkeeper’s action, in which the strength component is not represented,
 i.e., the strength, in all its forms, plays a crucial role in the efficiency and even in the quality of the
 performance.
WE TECH S.R.L.

WE ' TECH SRL, IMPRESA ATTIVA DAL 2014 NEL COMPARTO DELL'EROGAZIONE DI SERVIZI ICT (ASSISTENZA ON SITE, SVILUPPO SOFTWARE, INTERNET OF THINGS) SUL TERRITORIO ITALIANO, HA SVILUPPATO LA PROPRIA ATTIVITA' DISTRIBUENDOSI ORGANIZZATIVAMENTE FIN DALLA SUA NASCITA TRA LA LOMBARDIA E LA LIGURIA. DOPO I PRIMI ANNI DI AVVIO, L'IMPRESA HA CONDOTTO UNA RIFLESSIONE STRATEGICA CIRCA LA PROPRIA CRESCITA E LA PROPRIA COLLOCAZIONE SUL MERCATO. TALE RIFLESSIONE HA PORTATO ALLA DEFINIZIONE DEI SEGUENTI OBIETTIVI STRATEGICI: L'IMPRESA ESERCITA LA PROPRIA OPERATIVITA' IN PARTNERSHIP CON DISTRIBUTORI, RIVENDITORI, DEALER E SYSTEM INTEGRATOR DEL SETTORE IT AFFIANCANDOLI NELL'EROGAZIONE DI SERVIZI DI ASSISTENZA TECNICA. WE ' TECH SRL DISPONE DI UNA RETE DI OLTRE 180 PROFESSIONISTI DISTRIBUITA SULL'INTERO TERRITORIO NAZIONALE IN GRADO DI GARANTIRE COMPETENZE E SKILLS DIVERSE PER FORNIRE RISPOSTE PRECISE ALLE DIVERSIFICATE ESIGENZE DEI NOSTRI CLIENTI, E DI INTERVENIRE CON TEMPESTIVITA', EFFICIENZA ED AFFIDABI
Optimization of antioxidants – Extraction from Castanea sativa leaves

Abstract The extraction of Castanea sativa leaves (CsLs) with selected solvents (96% ethanol, methanol and acidified water) was assessed by means of a set of experiments following a Box–Wilson central composite circumscribed (CCC) design. CsL extraction was assessed on the basis of experimental results determined for the yield in soluble compounds, the yield in phenolics and the antioxidant activity of extracts. The in vitro antioxidant activity was measured in terms of the scavenging abilities for α,α-diphenyl-β-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical. Selected extracts were also assayed for scavenging activity against reactive oxygen species (ROSs) and reactive nitrogen species (RNSs). The highest extraction yields were obtained using methanol, whereas water allowed a selective extraction (with yields in phenolics up to 9 mg Gallic Acid Equivalent/100 mg CsL) and provided the most concentrated (54 mg GAE/100 mg solid) and active extracts. The major compounds identified in extracts were gallic acid, protocatechuic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, rutin, quercetin and apigenin.