SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Societal transformation to sustainability through the unmaking of capitalism? a comparative study of radical grassroots innovations in europe

Modern capitalist societies engage destructively with the natural environment. Societal transformation to sustainability is urged, but it implies a degree of disruption of modern, capitalist ways of being and doing. Radical grassroots innovations – those that posit a profound cultural, economic, and political transformation of dominant institutions and practices - hold the potential to lead such transformation, but may be constrained by their marginal, local, small-scale character. 
This programme aims to understand to what extent, under what conditions, and through what processes radical grassroots innovations unmake modern, capitalist institutions and practices. This research will compare Italian and German radical grassroots innovations in agriculture to: (1) identify and categorize mechanisms of unmaking that are involved in radical grassroots innovations; (2) explain whether and how unmaking creates space for alternatives from the individual to the social-ecological level; (3) understand how mechanisms of unmaking at different levels interplay; (4) explain why unmaking may result in different outcomes in different context; (5) develop a theory of unmaking in societal transformation to sustainability.This research is ground breaking as it (1) approaches societal transformation from the perspective of unmaking of dominant institutions, rather than of the introduction of innovations, (2) mobilizes theories that have so far not been considered, and innovatively integrates theories and levels of analysis, (3) originally employs mixed methods that capture trajectories of change, and enable to generalize causal mechanisms in complex social-ecological systems. This programme will push the boundaries of our understanding of transformation to sustainability. It will generate scientific knowledge that will be relevant across the social sciences, offer a theoretical lens –unmaking-, and test a process-tracing methodological approach to stimulate interdisciplinary research.
Discussion on Decoction of Raw Aconite with Different Dosage

Objective:To summarize the decoction methods of Raw Aconite in our hospital,in order to offer experience for the decoction of Raw Aconite.Methods:A retrospective analyse was used for the condition of the patients that use Raw Aconite in the last two years.Results:The total dosage of Raw Aconite for inpatients was 364.2 kg in the last two years,15.1 kg per month;the dosage determines the decoction time,all of which need to be longer than 2 hours.Conclusion:There were no moderate intoxication in the use of Raw Aconite for inpatients in the last two years,which indicates that our hospital have some clinical experience in decoction of Raw Aconite.
Motivations for and barriers to the implementation of diagnostic assessment practices - a case study

Given the importance of diagnostic assessment as a well-substantiated pedagogical strategy for use at various educational levels from kindergarten to the undergraduate level, we must consider its lack of implementation in the classroom. The implementation gap is especially severe at the tertiary level, with chemistry and other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) instruction being no exception. Yet, some tertiary instructors perform diagnostic assessment. How does this happen? What motivates, enables, and sustains these instructors in their implementation of diagnostic assessment? In this study we collect data on the practices of two tertiary chemistry instructors, including classroom observation, artifact collection, and interview. Analysis shows that these instructors employ several techniques that are consistent with the paradigm of research-based diagnostic assessment. Perceived motives behind the use of these techniques, as well as perceived barriers to further implementation of diagnostic techniques are reported and discussed.
Using recurrent neural networks with attention for detecting problematic slab shapes in steel rolling

• A neural network based classification method that predicts if a steel strip would be flawed or not. • The benefit of analysing a raw sequence instead of summary statistics is shown. • How an attention mechanism can be used to make the reasoning of a recurrent neural network interpretable. The competitiveness in the manufacturing industry raises demands for using recent data analysis algorithms for manufacturing process development. Data-driven analysis enables extraction of novel knowledge from already existing sensors and data, which is necessary for advanced manufacturing process refinement involving aged machinery. Improved data analysis enables factories to stay competitive against newer factories, but without any hefty investment. In large manufacturing operations, the dependencies between data are highly complex and therefore very difficult to analyse manually. This paper applies a deep learning approach, using a recurrent neural network with long short term memory cells together with an attention mechanism to model the dependencies between the measured product shape, as measured before the most critical manufacturing operation, and the final product quality. Our approach predicts the ratio of flawed products already before the critical operation with an AUC-ROC score of 0.85, i.e., we can detect more than 80 % of all flawed products while having less than 25 % false positive predictions (false alarms). In contrast to previous deep learning approaches, our method shows how the recurrent neural network reasons about the input shape, using the attention mechanism to point out which parts of the product shape that have the highest influence on the predictions. Such information is crucial for both process developers, in order to understand and improve the process, and for process operators who can use the information to learn how to better trust the predictions and control the process.
The asymmetry of life: towards a unified view of the emergence of biological homochirality

What is responsible for the emergence of homochirality, the almost exclusive use of one enantiomer over its mirror image? And what led to the evolution of life’s homochiral biopolymers, DNA/RNA, proteins and lipids, where all the constituent monomers exhibit the same handedness? 

Based on in-situ observations and laboratory studies, we propose that this handedness occurs when chiral biomolecules are synthesized asymmetrically through interaction with circularly polarized photons in interstellar space. The ultimate goal of this project will be to demonstrate how the diverse set of heterogeneous enantioenriched molecules, available from meteoritic impact, assembles into homochiral pre-biopolymers, by simulating the evolutionary stages on early Earth. My recent research has shown that the central chiral unit of RNA, ribose, forms readily under simulated comet conditions and this has provided valuable new insights into the accessibility of precursors of genetic material in interstellar environments. The significance of this project arises due to the current lack of experimental demonstration that amino acids, sugars and lipids can simultaneously and asymmetrically be synthesized by a universal physical selection process.

A synergistic methodology will be developed to build a unified theory for the origin of all chiral biological building blocks and their assembly into homochiral supramolecular entities. For the first time, advanced analyses of astrophysical-relevant samples, asymmetric photochemistry triggered by circularly polarized synchrotron and laser sources, and chiral amplification due to polymerization processes will be combined. Intermediates and autocatalytic reaction kinetics will be monitored and supported by quantum calculations to understand the underlying processes. A unified theory on the asymmetric formation and self-assembly of life’s biopolymers is groundbreaking and will impact the whole conceptual foundation of the origin of life.
Import-export technique

This project stems from the analysis of the current world economic context and particularly that of the crossborder area - as well as a more targeted study of the socio-economic context in the light of the changes currently afoot and of the past experiences of the project implementing partner in the sector of import-export. It was the past experiences in particular that highlighted the interest expressed by enterprises towards the figures of the Import-Export Expert, possessing a good level of technicalcommercial expertise. In this professional role, particularly appreciated skills are the knowledge of English and German, the ability to manage orders and foreign customers relations, the ability to manage foreign trading operations (fiscal, insurance, customs, transport issues), specific marketing knowledge, familiarity with new international payment methods, etc. This course aims to provide the participants with the skills required to promote and supervise trade relations with clients and suppliers across the border, from third countries within and outside the EU, managing orders, planning transport, managing deliveries, with a solid knowledge of the socio-economic context and of the changes under way. The course, consisting of didactic classroom activities and of an internship period, is open to unemployed persons, who possess a secondary education degree and reside in the eligible Programme area.
Empathy, estradiol and androgen levels in 9-year-old children

The aim of this study was to analyze the possible relationship between circulating hormone levels (testosterone, androstenedione and estradiol) and empathy, as well as to identify any possible gender differences in this relationship. The subjects were 123 9-year-old Caucasian children (57 boys and 66 girls). Bryant’s Empathy Index was used to measure empathy. Hormone levels were measured using an enzyme immunoassay technique in saliva samples. The Kruskal–Wallis test revealed the existence of interaction effects of estradiol-gender and testosterone-gender on empathy. Girls with low testosterone levels scored higher in Cognitive Empathy than girls with high testosterone levels. Boys with low estradiol levels scored higher in Affective Empathy than boys with high levels of this hormone. The results obtained open up new and interesting avenues of future research into the relationship between hormones and empathy in children.
Creative regional policies addressing economic development opportunities related to aging societies

Creative regional policies addressing economic development opportunities related to ageing societies is the goal of CREATOR. We focus on maintaining/further enhancing the competitiveness of the regional economies and at ensuring the regions long-term social cohesion, mainly through exploring further the specific challenges resulting from a further aging of the regional populations and through pro-actively addressing distinct economic development opportunities that emerge from new needs of an increasingly ageing population”. In relation to goal, two sub-objectives will be pursued: (1) To exchange regional-level experiences & to establish a joint in-depth work processes on an “Adaptation and further diversification of the regional-level care/well-being sector to meet the needs of an increasingly ageing population living in rural and/or sparsely populated areas”, leading to a design of targeted policy strategies / support tools that help establishing a more adequate proximity care service
provision structure in the future. (2) To exchange regional-level experiences & to establish a joint in-depth work processes on “Innovative/technology-intensive SMEs developing specific products / services meeting the needs of an increasingly ageing population”, leading to a design of targeted policy strategies / support tools that help stimulating a closer interaction between existing regional innovative systems and companies active on this particular market segment.
The partnership has decided to establish a strategic co-operation approach at the highest level of intensity, being the same time well-focused and cross-cutting in nature. The strategic focus of CREATOR is addressed at the two main levels of joint inter-action, i.e. a continuous exchange of regional-level experiences / a joint in-depth work process on the project’s sub-objectives and the implementation of co-operative Sub Projects. As examples three sub-topics are defined in relation to every sub-objective
CREATOR’s overall approach is innovative, as the project brings together European regions having accentuated differences with respect to their awareness about / capacities for addressing economic development opportunities emerging from new needs of a further aging society. Also the expected co-operation results will be innovative in various respects, i.e. they (1) help taking greater advantage of distinct economic development potentials geared towards meeting these new needs, (2) to initiate new learning processes in areas that still have to built up endogenous potentials / capacities and (3) to identify & transfer good practices helping to establish innovative/ technology-intensive products & new service provision approaches in areas where this did not exist before. To maintain the innovative character of CREATOR and its complementarity, contacts will be established with approved / future INTERREG projects addressing issues related to demographic change.
Fluid transport at the nano- and meso- scales : from fundamentals to applications in energy harvesting and desalination process

New models of fluid transport are expected to emerge from the confinement of liquids at the nanoscale, where the behaviour of matter strongly departs from common expectations. 
This is the field of the Nanofluidics : taking inspiration from the solution found by evolved biological systems, new functionalities will emerge from the nanometre scale, with potential applications in ultrafiltration, desalination and energy conversion.
Nevertheless, advancing our fundamental understanding of fluid transport on the smallest scales requires mass and ion dynamics to be ultimately characterized across channels with dimensions close to the molecular size. A major challenge for nanofluidics thus lies in building distinct and well-controlled nanochannels, amenable to the systematic exploration of their properties.
This project will tackle several complementary challenges. On the first hand the realization of new kind of fluidic devices allowing the study of fluid and ion transport at the nanoscale: these new experimental devices will be obtained by using nanostructures like building blocks as already shown by realising a fluidics set-up based on transmembrane nanotubes; in parallel a dedicated plateform for the characterization of fluid transport will be developed based on electrokinetics and optical detection set-ups. On the other hand, profiting of such experimental set-ups, I will look for the limit of the classical description of the fluid dynamics, focusing on new functionalities emerging from exotic behaviour of fluids at the nanometer level. This will be done by studying different kind of nanofluidics set-up such as carbon and boron-nitride nanotube, ultrathin pierced graphene and h-BN sheet and composite materials.

I aim the creation of a link between fundamental research on soft matter and nanoscience-condensed matter with a an attention on the energy production domain, assuring a fruitful transfer between the fundamental findings and new industrial applications.
ACCESSORY FOR A TRANSANAL ACCESS SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND, IN PARTICULAR, FOR A MECHANICAL CIRCULAR SUTURING DEVICE

An accessory, unusually capable of painless insertion of a transanal access surgical instrument and, in particular, a mechanical, circular suturing device, including a sleeve-shaped (90) inserter (86), said sleeve (90) having an annular section (98), designed to receive by sliding an operative extremity of said surgical instrument, and a tapered section (92), for the painless introduction of said operative extremity in an intestinal tract.
Gamma ray transmission technique applied to porous phase characterization of low-porosity ceramic samples

The aim of this study is to apply gamma ray transmission (GRT), a non destructive technique, in the structural characterization of low-porosity ceramic samples. GRT technique is based on the attenuation that photons of an incident radiation beam undergo when passing through the material. With this technique the porosity of alumina (Al2O3) and boron carbide (B4C) ceramic samples, was determined. The equipment employed comprises a 241Am (Americium) gamma ray source (59.6 keV and 100 mCi), a 50.8 mm × 50.8 mm NaI (Tl) scintillation detector coupled to a standard Gamma Ray Transmission system and a micrometric automated table for sample movement. The porosity profile of the samples shows a homogeneous porosity distribution, within the spatial resolution of the employed transmission system. The mean porosity values determined for Al2O3 and B4C were 17.8 (±1.3 %) and 3.87 (±0.43 %), respectively. Statistical treatment of these results was performed and showed that the mean porosity values determined by Gamma Ray Transmission technique are the same as those supplied by the manufacturer.
Pivot selection for metric-space indexing

Metric-space indexing abstracts various data types into universal metric spaces and prunes data only exploiting the triangle inequality of the distance function in metric spaces. Since there is no coordinates in metric space, one usually first pick a number of reference points, pivots, and consider the distances from a data point to the pivots as its coordinates. In this paper, we first survey and discuss the state of the art of pivot selection for metric-space indexing from the perspectives of importance, objective function, number of pivots, and selection algorithm. Further, we propose a new objective function, a new method to determine the number of pivots and an incremental sampling framework for pivot selection. Experimental results show that the new objective function is more consistent with the query performance, the new method to determine the number of pivots is more efficient, and the incremental sampling framework leads to better query performance.
ESSAYS ON NOWCASTING WITH HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA

Nowcasting in economics is the prediction of the present, the recent past or even the prediction of the very near future of a certain indicator.Generally, a nowcast model is useful when the value of a target variable is released with a significant delay with respect to its reference period and/or when its value gets notably revised over time and stabilizes only after a while.In this thesis, we develop and analyze several Nowcasting methods using high-dimensional (big) data in different contexts: from the forecasting of economic series to the nowcast of COVID-19.In one of our studies, we compare the performance of different Machine Learning algorithms with more naive models in predicting many economic variables in real-time and we show that, most of the time, Machine Learning beats benchmark models.Then, in the rest of our exercises, we combine several nowcasting techniques with a big dataset (including high-frequency variables, such as Google Trends) in order to track the pandemic in Brazil, showing that we were able to nowcast the true numbers of deaths and cases way before they got available to everyone.
The Effects of Rotating Magnetic Field on Growth Rate, Cell Metabolic Activity and Biofilm Formation by Staphylococcus Aureus and Escherichia Coli

This work presents results of the study which concerns the influence of the rotating magnetic field (RMF) on the growth rate, cell metabolic activity and ability to form biofilms by E. coli and S. aureus. Liquid cultures of the bacteria were exposed to the RMF (RMF frequency f = 1-50 Hz, RMF magnetic induction B = 22-34 mT, time of exposure t = 60 min, temperature of incubation 37℃). The present study indicate the exposition to the RMF, as compared to the unexposed controls causing an increase in the growth dynamics, cell metabolic activities and percentage of biofilm-forming bacteria, in both S. aureus and E. coli cultures. It was also found that the stimulating effects of the RMF exposition enhanced with its increasing frequencies and magnetic inductions.
Use of ethanol containing gasoline in aviation

Majority of piston engine powered General Aviation aircraft are running on aviation gasoline (Avgas) grades that are more expensive than Ethanol containing gasoline grades used by automobiles. In addition, most of the piston aero engines are still burning lead containing Avgas (100LL). No certified solution is available to allow operation of aircraft engines with Ethanol containing, EN 228 Standard fuel grade.
Consequently, the project aims to result in certified modifications of the common piston aero engines and small aircraft that allow use of Ethanol containing gasoline. It will reduce fuel cost (30-40%) for small aircraft, while it will not require replacement of old engines. Yet, it will involve replacement of some parts and changes to operational procedures leading to an economical solution. The project will also allow eliminating lead containing Avgas and introducing renewable energy using Ethanol. This will reduce greenhouse gas emission, combating climate change and contributing to environmental protection.
Introduction of Ethanol containing gasoline for aviation triggers safety risks that should be mitigated to reach an acceptable level of safety to gain certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the USA. Certification may be achieved if it is demonstrated that the modifications comply with the airworthiness requirements and will not lead to unsafe condition.
Technical feasibility will be verified through the analysis of the safety risks as well as the determination of the applicable airworthiness requirements and means of compliances, by means of the certification programmes accepted by EASA. Commercial feasibility will be shown through market research and analysis.
The feasibility study will pave the way to the modifications and completion of compliance demonstrations as well as certification, to allow safe operation with Ethanol containing gasoline.