SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Be better informed about fertility. giving voice to citizens towards improving assisted reproduction technologies for society

Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) plays a significant role in the reproductive health of European society and is a fast growing part of the health industry. In this context, B2-InF will seek to answer two questions: (1) How do young people perceive and think about ART? (2) How can ART clinics better align their research, services, and information with the views, concerns and expectations of citizens? By answering these questions, B2-InF aims to promote public participation in the science and provision of ART so that these become more responsive to the needs and concerns of society.  

The project will be carried out in three stages. In the first stage, data is collected about perceptions and awareness of ART in young populations and the information offered by clinics to their clients. In the second stage, this data is analysed from sociocultural, legal and gender perspectives in order to detect misalignments and other weak points and to determine ways of improving the information offered by clinics. Based on this analysis, the project will produce a set of national and international recommendation guidelines. In the third stage, these guidelines along with policy briefs and other results will be disseminated to clinics, policymakers, and other key stakeholders in scientific fields, the health industry, and the general public.

B2-InF proposes an integrated research methodology to be carried out in eight European countries, including several underrepresented countries of Eastern Europe: Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Macedonia, Albania, Slovenia and Kosovo. The project is designed to work bottom-up, moving from citizens to scientists and policymakers, and will provide much-needed empirical data about the representation of ART in society, allowing for a better fit between the provision of ART and its legal and sociocultural environments. In short, B2-InF will give voice to citizens towards improving ART for society.
Human history of marine life: extraction, knowledge, drivers & consumption of marine resources, c.100 bce to c.1860 ce

4-OCEANS aims to assess the importance of marine life for human societies during the last two millennia. We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. To bridge this gap in our understanding, the four PIs will form an interdisciplinary team combining expertise in marine environmental history, climate history, natural history, geography, historical ecology and zooarchaeology. We will examine when and where marine exploitation was of significance to human society; how selected major socio-economic, cultural, and environmental forces variously constrained and enabled marine exploitation; and identify the consequences of marine resource exploitation for societal development. Through these objectives we will discover how marine resources as novel wealth altered societies throughout history. How might marine wealth have enabled some societies to escape food shortages? How did it trigger long-term socio-economic impacts and ecological consequences? How were marine resources valued, consumed, and energetically transformed? Revealing this history will open a new window on human-nature dynamics of profound importance for understanding developmental trajectories of human societies. 4-OCEANS will transcend the binary distinctions of East and West, global-north and global-south, indigenous and colonial, resource exploitation and wildlife conservation, nature and culture. In doing so, 4-OCEANS will uncover and chart historical trajectories towards sustainable and unsustainable food security and resource extraction, identifying their complex underlying drivers.
Business cycle implications of rising household credit market participation in emerging countries

A small open emerging-economy model is extended with a household sector financial constraint to investigate business cycle implications of a rise in household access and use of financial services. Estimating the model on Mexican data and consistent with empirical findings, this paper finds that a rise in household credit market participation: (1) yields larger aggregate consumption volatility and (2) amplifies the effects of shocks in the domestic economy, particularly those transmitted through the interest rate channel. The estimated model also highlights that: (3) the lesser financial frictions are, the lower is the increase of consumption growth and trade balance volatility driven by a rise in household credit market participation and (4) trend productivity shocks become a more relevant source of business cycle fluctuations. Finally, standard measures of predictive accuracy suggest that the extended model outperforms the baseline emerging market model.
Detecting polygenic adaptation targeting gene expression regulation in humans using eqtl networks.

Polygenic adaptation, in which small changes in allele frequencies co-occur at multiple variants, has been proposed to be a major adaptive mechanism for complex phenotypes. Most approaches to detect polygenic adaptation consist in combining signatures of positive selection across functionally homogenous sets of genes or variants. However, few studies have looked at regulatory variants and none have accounted for the tissue-specificity of gene expression.
Here, we propose to combine network biology and population genetics methods in order to detect polygenic adaptation acting on complex phenotypes through gene expression regulation. First, we will identify communities of regulatory variants that coregulate groups of genes, by representing both cis- and trans-expression quantitative trait loci as bipartite graphs. We will then search for communities enriched for signatures of weak positive selection to identify regulatory variants under polygenic adaptation. After evaluating the power of our approach using simulations, we will apply it to data from several tissues from the GTEx project. This will allow us to identify and characterise biological functions evolving under polygenic adaptation, taking into account the tissue-specificity of their expression. We thus hope to better understand the extent to which polygenic adaptation shaped the human genetic diversity and susceptibility to complex diseases.
The PATTERNS project will be led by the experienced researcher (ER), who has worked on network biology during her postdoc in the USA. She will collaborate with the supervisor who is an expert in theoretical population genetics, and receive training in teaching, grant writing and management and communication. This will help the ER in her path to independence by strengthening her unique profile at the intersection of system biology and population genetics. The host institution will in turn benefit from her experience and network in the USA.
Paying the forest for electricity: a modelling framework to market forest conservation as payment for ecosystem services benefiting hydropower generation

SUMMARY The operation and longevity of hydropower dams are often negatively impacted by sedimentation. Forest conservation can reduce soil erosion, and therefore efforts to maintain upstream forest cover within a watershed contribute to the economic life span of a hydropower facility. The cost of forest conservation can be viewed as an investment in hydropower and be financed via a payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme. A novel modelling framework is used to estimate payments for forest conservation consisting of: (1) land-use change projection; (2) watershed erosion modelling; (3) reservoir sedimentation estimation; (4) power generation loss calculation; and (5) PES scheme design. The framework was applied to a proposed dam in Cambodia (Pursat 1). The estimated net present value of forest conservation was US$ 4.7 million when using average annual climate values over 100 years, or US$ 6.4 million when considering droughts every eight years. This can be remunerated with annual payments of US$ 4.26 ha −1 or US$ 5.78 ha −1 , respectively, covering forest protection costs estimated at US$ 0.9 ha −1 yr −1 . The application of this type of PES represents a rational option that allows for conservation and development of hydropower watersheds susceptible to erosion and sedimentation.
Nanosensory and quantum imaging – glass and diamond synergy for next generation biodiagnostics applications

The project concerns the study of new materials, components and photonic systems in which colour centers or crystalline diamond defects will be used, with specific magnetic and optical properties. It will enable socially important applications, such as the development of super-sensitive detection of cancer cells and nano-marking of biological substances. The synergy of four scientific teams will allow the development of technological platforms with planar glass matrices and structured fibre optics with adequately oriented quantum defects in the diamond. This will allow the use of nonlinear photonics and nano-magnetic interactions to study biological activity. This innovative combination of nano-photo-magnetic-biological methods will enable better understanding and development of the possibilities of spectroscopy, imaging and ultrafast techniques using light.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICIES PERTAINING TO CHILD AND YOUTH CARE WITHIN A TEAM CONTEXT IN CHILD AND YOUTH CARE CENTRES

The focus of this study is on youth care and education centres. These centres were previously known as “schools of industries” and are soon to be renamed “child and youth care centres”. Children and youths are currently referred to these centres via the Children‟s Court in terms of Section 14(4) of the Child Care Act 1983 (Act 74 of 1983) (RSA, 1983). In future the Children‟s Court will refer children and youths in terms of Section 50 of the Children‟s Act 38 of 2005 (RSA, 2005). They can also be referred via the youth court, if the criminal trial is converted into a children‟s court inquiry in terms of Section 254 of the Criminal Procedures Act (Act 51 of 1977) (RSA, 1977 and RSA, 1983). The trial is converted if the magistrate finds extenuating circumstances, in other words, that personal, familial and/or community influences contributed to the child‟s/youth‟s behaviour (RSA, 1977; RSA, 1983). They are referred to the youth care and education centres (YCECs) for a period of two years, but they may be discharged sooner if their progress warrants it
Implementación de nuevas soluciones en la oferta de OPAL TOUR TOMASZ WAWRZY-CZAK. con el fin de reducir los efectos negativos de la pandemia de COVID-19.

El objetivo del proyecto es adquirir nuevas herramientas/instrumentos que permitan expandir las actividades existentes de la empresa en áreas completamente nuevas. Esto conduce a una reducción del riesgo asociado a la aparición de fenómenos negativos para el solicitante, generados por la COVID-19, tanto ahora como en el futuro. El proyecto llevará a cabo las siguientes tareas: 1. Implementación en compañía de nuevos elementos que permitan la implementación de servicios relacionados con el funcionamiento de una escuela de idiomas y clases de codificación. 2. Implementación en compañía de nuevas herramientas que permitan la implementación de servicios relacionados con la organización de las colonias y campamentos temáticos (codificación, culinaria, lenguas extranjeras). 3. Implementación en compañía de nuevas herramientas que permitan la implementación de servicios dirigidos a personas con discapacidad. 4. Promoción de nuevos servicios prestados por el solicitante. La implementación del proyecto permitirá la introducción de nuevos productos y servicios en el mercado, lo que a su vez se traducirá en la extensión del negocio existente, permitiendo utilizar el conocimiento, el potencial y la experiencia del Solicitante en el nuevo área. Ampliar el surtido le permitirá llegar a nuevos grupos de clientes, que son el grupo objetivo final del proyecto. La implementación del proyecto afectará directamente a la mejora de la competitividad de la empresa en el mercado, así como a la reducción de los efectos negativos del brote de COVID-19. Las actividades previstas en el marco de este proyecto forman parte del eje prioritario II de la economía innovadora y competitiva de ROP WŁ 2014-2020.
EMO MILANO PARTICIPATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR IN MILAN

EMO MILANO IS THE MAIN EXHIBITION FOR OPERATORS OF THE GLOBAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. EMO IS THE WORLD TRADE FAIR DEDICATED TO METALWORKING. PROMOTED BY CECIMO (EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF THE MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY), THE EXHIBITION IS HOSTED ALTERNATELY BY GERMANY, IN HANOVER, AND ITALY, IN MILAN. THE FAIR OFFERS A WIDE RANGE OF MACHINE TOOLS, ROBOTS, AUTOMATION, AUXILIARY TECHNOLOGIES, DIGITAL AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; EXPRESSION OF THE MOST ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION, ATTRACTS OPERATORS FROM ALL THE MAIN USER SECTORS OF METALWORKING SYSTEMS: FROM AUTOMOTIVE, TO AEROSPACE, TO HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE TO GENERAL MECHANICS, FROM ENERGY TO BIOMEDICAL. ORGANISED BY THE OPERATING STRUCTURES OF UCIMU (ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF MACHINE TOOL MANUFACTURERS, ROBOTS AND AUTOMATION), THE NEXT EDITION OF EMO MILANO WILL BE HELD FROM 4 TO 9 OCTOBER 2021A FIERAMILANO RHO
Sustainable management and tourist promotion of natural and archaeological heritage in the Adriatic Caves PLUS

The overall aim of ADRIATICAVES PLUS project is to enhance and enlarge the impact of the ADRIATICAVES project and to introduce a pilot action to evaluate how the digital innovation can be a support to the valorization of historical and natural sites.
The most important innovation of Adriaticaves Plus is a pilot action about the potentialities of the digital innovation and, namely, the 3D reconstructions of sites as an innovative tool to overcome the travel and movements restrictions derived by the pandemic Covid

19. This concept should be also applied to other situation further the pandemic, to allow the knowledge of interesting naturalistic sites to people who cannot accede directly to those sites, for various reasons: time at disposal, costs of the travel, illness, age or simply because the location is hard to be reached due its position (i.e. in the mountains).
The 3D reconstructions will be implemented in three Caves belonging to the LP MNP territory, in Italy.
Part of this innovation was developed in the last part of Adriaticaves project and is related to the 3D reconstruction of one cave, the Grotta Nera Cave. This 3D reproductions will be the testing bed to assess how and in what measure the digital innovations (namely, in this case, a 3D reproduction) can substitute or support the visit in presence on the location. The experience of the pandemic and its impact on the tourism sector demonstrate that innovative solutions are possible to enjoy locations, although if it is not possible to stay there.
Questionnaires to users and pilot interviews with key persons (i.e. managers, experts in tourism and digital innovation, public administrators) will give a feedback on the operations.
The results of the pilot action will support the preparation of further two 3D reproductions of two more caves.
Another aspect developed in the ADRIATICAVES PLUS is the improvement and spreading of two major outputs of ADRIATICAVES and strictly linked with the promotion of the sustainable tourism: the Charter of the Caves and the Tourism Packages.
The Charter is a disciplinary already signed by 26 cave managers in which they commit themselves to observe and implement the provision of the Charter, aimed at ensure the tourism accessibility to the sites, but in compliance with the primary habitat conservation necessity.
The tourism packages are the operative tool to attract the sustainable tourism on the sites, the packages will be developed together local tourism entrepreneurs.
In ADRIATICAVES PLUS both tools will be furtherly spread among the proper audience through the implementation of meetings and workshops with the relevant stakeholders, under the direct care of each partner.
Each partner will establish a collaboration with its National Contact Point, in particular to enlarge the number and quality of the organisations involved.
Ion-Molecule processes for analytical chemical technologies

Soft chemical-ionization mass-spectrometry (SCIMS) is an exquisitely sensitive analytical technique with applications to health, the environment and security that are vital to the EU. However, the recent, rapid and widespread adoption of this technique has caught Europe unprepared. The resultant shortage in analytical chemical expertise has created an urgent need for highly skilled young researchers to be trained in the wide variety of SCIMS methods. IMPACT addresses this skills’ shortage by establishing an intersectoral and multidisciplinary SCIMS training network. IMPACT also brings cohesion to the fragmented SCIMS research and development activities within the EU. To date, most SCIMS developments have been driven not by users but by manufacturers, whose main focus has been on increased sensitivity. However, just as crucial is improved selectivity. Indeed, many users consider improved selectivity to be the key to taking SCIMS technology to a whole new level. Instead of private and public sectors working independently, we need a fresh, intersectoral approach. IMPACT will achieve this through intersectoral work packages and multidisciplinary research projects. In place of major and costly changes in instrumental design, IMPACT’s projects will focus on developing new methods for improved chemical specificity by manipulating ion chemistry. Hence, IMPACT’s fresh approach will produce a step change in SCIMS instrumentation to deliver both economic and societal benefit to the EU. Specifically, IMPACT will train 10 ESRs within an integrated partnership of commercial, governmental and academic organisations, with planned secondments, 5 Advanced Training Courses, 7 interactive Complementary Skills Workshops, and 4 ESR Centred Research Meetings. IMPACT will therefore provide Europe with both a world-class capability in SCIMS technology and a cohort of highly trained researchers who will bring the benefits of that technology to citizens across the EU.
Accelerating user-driven e-infrastructure innovation in food  agriculture

AGINFRA+ addresses the challenge of supporting user-driven design and prototyping of innovative e-infrastructure services and applications. It particularly tries to meet the needs of the scientific and technological communities that work on the multi-disciplinary and multi-domain problems related to agriculture and food. It will use, adapt and evolve existing open e-infrastructure resources and services (AGINFRA, OpenAIRE, EGI, EUDAT, D4Science), in order to demonstrate how fast prototyping and development of innovative data- and computing-intensive applications can take place.
AGINFRA+ will evolve and develop further the resources and services of the AGINFRA research data e-infrastructure, which has been developed in the context of the FP7 agINFRA project and is now being operated and evolved by key stakeholders in agriculture and food (including Agroknow, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, INRA, Wageningen UR, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and others).
Solving circular dependencies in industrial automation programs

Prevention of data loss in each scan cycle is of utmost importance in control system programming. For each variable to reflect the latest value, compilers compute the order of execution of control logic objects according to data flow. But this technique for ensuring data integrity fails when a circular dependency or a “code loop” is found. In this paper, we propose an approach to help solve this issue in 2 steps — by providing an interactive visual representation and providing a list of possible solutions. A tool is implemented based on this approach which can take either the control logic code or the dump created by the compiler as input. The tool has been validated for effectiveness with industrial use cases from different domains.
High-tuning-range CMOS band-pass IF filter based on a low-Qcascaded biquad optimization technique

A design procedure for high-order continuous-time intermediate-frequency band-pass filters based on the cascade of low-Q biquadratic cells is presented. The approach is well suited for integrated-circuit fabrication, as it takes into account the maximum capacitance spread dictated by the available technology and maximum acceptable sensitivity to component variations. A trade-off between noise and maximum linear range is also met. A novel, wide-tuning-range transconductor topology is also described. Based on these results, a 10-pole band-pass filter for a code division multiple-access satellite receiver has been designed and tested. The filter provides tunable center frequency f0 from 10 to 70MHz and exhibits a 28-MHz bandwidth around f0=70MHz with more than 39-dB attenuation at f0/2 and 2f0. Third-order harmonic rejection is higher than 60dB for a 1-Vpp 70-MHz input, and equivalent output noise is lower than 1mVrms. The circuit is fabricated in a 0.25-µm complementary metal oxide semiconductor process, and the core consumes 12mA from a 2.5-V supply, offering the best current/pole ratio figure. The die area resulted to be 0.9×1.1mm2. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
On-line control strategy of fresh air to meet the requirement of IAQ in office buildings

The energy-saving potential of the demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) has been highlighted in several literatures these years, there are still some important questions related to the implementation of CO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> -based DCV. One of the most critical issues is that low CO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> levels alone do not guarantee acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ). In this paper, a simulation model was built to study the on-line control strategy of fresh air to meet the requirement of IAQ in office buildings. The control strategy is proposed to provide reasonable guidelines to determine fresh air rate to dilute the pollutants generated by human and non-human factors. The simulation results show the strategy can maintain acceptable IAQ and improve energy efficiency apparently.