SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics experiments. a cooperative europe - united states - asia effort.

PROBES will explore elusive aspects of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the Standard Model of Cosmology (SMC) and search for new physics exploiting particle accelerators and gravitational wave (GW) interferometers. Several low-energy aspects of quark-gluon interactions still remain a challenge, like the mechanism of color confinement, which accounts for 99% of the mass of standard matter of the Universe, and the equation of state (EoS) of ultradense matter, fundamental for the study of compact stars. Astrophysical observations and particle physics anomalies point towards the existence of Dark Matter (DM). Major efforts are dedicated to the search for galactic DM or hints at particle accelerators. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a picture consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavours in three mass eigenstates and small mass differences. Experimental anomalies suggest the existence of sterile neutrino states participating in the mixing and not coupling to the SM gauge bosons. Lepton mixings and massive neutrinos offer a gateway to deviations from the SM in the lepton sector including Charged Lepton Flavour Violation. GWs provide alternative ways to study these phenomena. They could probe the existence of primordial black-holes as a possible DM candidate, test the SMC through new measurements of the Universe expansion rate, and the neutron star EoS through the “tidal” perturbations during a binary neutron star merger. Joint EM-GW-neutrino observations could probe astrophysical sources and constrain physics under extreme conditions of electromagnetic and gravitational fields. We are leading the development, commissioning and data analysis of cutting-edge experiments to answer these questions. This requires maximum knowledge sharing and technological advancements with applications also outside fundamental physics. The collaboration with world-class laboratories in US and Asia will open new career prospects for the participants.
Uptake of solid bioenergy in european commercial sectors (industry, trade, agricultural and service sectors) – bioenergy for business

A consortium led by the Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) developed the project ""Uptake of Solid Bioenergy in European Commercial Sectors (Industry, Trade, Agricultural and Service Sectors) – Bioenergy for Business"" for the EU-Programme Horizon 2020’s Call 2014 (LCE14). The project partners include a combination of energy agencies, national biomass associations and research-oriented partners with specialized knowledge on biomass from Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe (Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, European Biomass Association (AEBIOM), Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine). 
The goal of this project is  to support and promote the  (partial) substitution of fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) used for heating, by available bioenergy sources (industrial wastes, forest biomass, straw and other agricultural biomass) in the partner countries and beyond. In this context, the project will contribute to increase much-needed security of energy supply through lower dependence on fossil fuels from politically volatile sources. Target groups are, on the one hand, owners and operators of industrial heating plants (for private or district heating). On the other hand, actors who play an important role with regard to the value chain and to framework conditions crucial for the use of bioenergy heat will also be involved. 
Activities will be tailored to the needs of actors relevant to promising market segments in the industrial, commercial, services and agriculture sectors. Results of the project will include information about market potentials, capacity building/training, decision-support tools and communication activities targeted at relevant stakeholder, tools to support the careful assessment, planning and implementation of such projects, and dissemination of “best-practice” business models. Additionally, information about “best practice” support measures and policies will be made available.
Research and development of a new aeronautical gamma spectrometer

Aerial gamma spectrometry is a method for monitoring the radiation situation in large territories. As part of the cooperation of the applicant’s research and development activities (NUVIA) and partner (SÚRO), the aim of this project is to achieve new knowledge leading to a new and unique prototype of the Aerospace Gamma Spectrometer (also known as the spectrometer). Use can be found for the needs of geophysical exploration and search for anomalies in natural radiation, uranium ore deposits, oil, monitoring of environmental loads, etc.
A provenance-based solution for software selection in scientific software sharing

As a form of collaborative work, sharing plays an important role in scientific research. Scientists share their discoveries with others by the ways of publishing paper, data and software. It promotes the development of research. With the increasing number of scientific software and more and more open source communities springing up, software selection becomes an urgent issue in sharing. In this paper, from the users' perspectives, we first propose a collaborative provenance model, which is designed to record the collaborative information between users and software. Then, drawing on ethnographic method, we explore the elements influencing the choice of users, and quantify them. On that basis, an algorithm is introduced to select the software for each process in workflow. For the whole workflow, a composition selection algorithm is presented.
New enhanced acoustic damping composite materials

NEODAMP is marked in the ITD Airframe part B, oriented to highly integrated innovative structural components, for the Large Passenger Aircraft. 
NEODAMP will develop new prepreg composite materials for structural purposes in the aircraft, able to support structural loads and other additional functions. The project is focused on acoustic damping and complemented with electrical conductivity studies while using techniques related to additional embedded and/or integrated functionality. 
Composite materials will be chosen among those provided by a widely experienced manufacturer, to meet the future needs and requirements given by the topic manager. Activities are distributed along 36 months, and tasks are associated to 3 main topics: material development, screening and process ability. 
In order to find the optimal material, a series of key characteristics will be selected, such as acoustic damping, structural and mechanical properties, HSE requirements, Fire, Smoke&Toxicity resistance for fuselage applications, resistance to environmental factors, automatic manufacturing and costs. The damping material will be improved and modified to adjusts properties such as tacking or curing parameters. 
All the cited features will be deeply studied through a test campaign, at coupon level using raw damping material and the embedded damping prepreg composite material. The wide variety of tests will include from damping behavior and vibro-acoustic performance to lightning strike protection, including aging, common mechanical properties and physicochemical tests. Needed panels and embedded design will be done and manufactured by the partners. 
Results of the cited works altogether will guide to the optimal design and manufacturing of trials, which will reach to material improvements also. The production of demonstrators will be oriented to automatic fuselage production by using automatic fiber placement techniques and always considering possible solutions for industrialization.
Older Australians and physical activity levels: Do we know how many are meeting guidelines?

Current recommendations suggest that older Australians (defined here as ≥65 years of age) should, for health benefits, accumulate 30 minutes of at least moderate intensity physical activity on most days each week. The aim of this study was to determine the proportion who meets this recommendation.Systematic review of scholarly journals published between 1 January 2000 and 5 October 2010.Of 357 potentially relevant papers, 22 met the study criteria. Estimates from the 15 studies with samples >500 suggest that between 25% and 55% of Australians ≥65 years were meeting guidelines, but in these studies definitions, measures and age ranges of participants varied widely.Because of the heterogeneity of samples, measures and definitions, it is not possible to estimate with confidence the proportion of older adults in Australia who meet current physical activity recommendations.
Electrochemical oxidation in the recirculating aquaculture systems industry

ELOXIRAS is an innovative water treatment concept specially developed to improve the productivity and environmental impact of marine RAS used by the exponentially growing aquaculture industry.
Worldwide aquaculture sector is a market with an annual average growth of 10%. At European countries the aquaculture industry production is about 1.26 Mt/year. Aquaculture sector is a successful business opportunity 
The economic feasibility of inland hatchery aquaculture activities requires high biomass culture densities (kg species /m3 of water). Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) are emerging as the preferred technology to provide adequate culture water quality in hatchery activities. RAS production within EU is conservatively estimated in 0.029 Mt/year with a market value of 175 M€/year and an average growing rate of 14%/year. RAS industry is mainly established in The Netherlands and Denmark with raising interest in other European countries, for example Spain.
ELOXIRAS is an innovative treatment of the culture water from marine RAS hatcheries, which is based on electrochemical oxidation technology. The novelty respect to the main competitors is related to:
- High efficiency and removal of all key pollutants, including bacteria and virus.
- Compact and modular design. 
- Reduction of water and energy requirements.
- Easy to operate with adaptable capacity to required productivity.
The introduction of ELOXIRAS improves the annual benefits and/or the environmental impact of the marine RAS equipped with existing competitor solution (biofilter+ozone). Thus, the introduction of this process into the actual aquaculture industry constitutes an advantaged business opportunity.
The main objective of the present proposal (phase 1) is the determination of the ELOXIRAS technological and economic feasibility. After checking its feasibility a ELOXIRAS prototype will be developed in order to conduct several demonstration activities (phase 2)
Do user preferences and evaluation measures line up?

This paper presents results comparing user preference for search engine rankings with measures of effectiveness computed from a test collection. It establishes that preferences and evaluation measures correlate: systems measured as better on a test collection are preferred by users. This correlation is established for both conventional web and for retrieval that emphasizes diverse results. The nDCG measure is found to correlate best with user preferences compared to a selection of other well known measures. Unlike previous studies in this area, this examination involved a large population of users, gathered through crowd sourcing, exposed to a wide range of retrieval systems, test collections and search tasks. Reasons for user preferences were also gathered and analyzed. The work revealed a number of new results, but also showed that there is much scope for future work refining effectiveness measures to better capture user preferences.
Plate-Rate experimental deformation: aseismic, transient or seismic fault slip

Despite many advances in earthquake science, the tendency for faults to host earthquake slip, aseismic slip or slow slip events is far from well understood.  Earthquakes are not yet predictable in a meaningful way, and laboratory observations do not satisfactorily explain many general observations of fault slip.  Existing data has been gathered at slip velocities orders of magnitude faster than plate convergence rates, therefore the fundamental question addressed by the PREDATORS project is how faults slip when driven tectonic rates as they are in nature.  I suggest that laboratory friction experiments conducted at these rates may reveal widespread frictional instability that explains the occurrence of (both fast and slow) earthquakes on plate-boundary faults, and that long-term shear loading driven by slow, plate convergence rates is more representative of interseismic real faults and captures processes which intermediate- to high-velocity experiments cannot. 
The experimental research proposed here utilizes an increasing complexity approach, from existing successful techniques to more innovative measurements using equipment modified to reliably shear at appropriately slow rates and under a wide range of interior Earth conditions.  Rock and mineral standards will be used to establish a basic and widely applicable framework for frictional behaviour, while natural fault samples will be used for site-specific problems. 
This project will provide a comprehensive set of measurements and observations of fault behaviour at realistically slow plate tectonic deformation rates. Combined with existing measurements, this will provide a complete description of rock/sediment friction over the entire possible range of slip velocities.  By comparison with geophysical observations on real faults, these results will help explain current seismicity patterns and other slip phenomena, and predict fault behaviour at locations where sampling and geologic characterization is limited.
Fast and accurate enantiomeric and chemical analysis

Chiral molecules exist as two forms, called enantiomers, which are mirror images of each other but which are not superimposable. Living organisms are built upon chiral elementary blocks. Biological processes can thus be extremely sensitive to chirality. Two enantiomers can have different smells or tastes.  More critically, a chiral molecule can have healing properties while its mirror image is a poison. This makes the measurement of enantiomeric excess (EE), which quantifies the relative composition of the two images in a mixture, crucial for many industrial sectors: fragrance and food industry, pharmaceutics, agrochemistry. To improve product quality, lower health risks, and optimize processes to reduce chemical waste, it would be necessary to monitor EE continuously. Yet, this task is currently impossible because there is no fast and accurate enough EE measurement method. The FastEE project aims at solving this issue by using a new physical process which is extremely sensitive to chirality. By investigating the photoionization of chiral molecules by elliptically polarized light, we found out that the angular distribution of the ejected electrons carried rich information on the ionized molecules as well as their enantiomeric purity. Continuously modulating the ellipticity of the ionizing radiation while recording images of the photoelectron distribution enables the chemical composition and EE of mixtures to be followed in in real-time. 
FastEE aims at: 
(i) designing a demonstrator instrument using this method, optimized for an applicative environment,
(ii) optimizing the method for the accurate analysis of complex chiral mixtures in real-time,
(iii) investigating transfer and commercialization strategies. 
After completion of the three phases, we will be able to offer a new solution (instrument and methodology) for chiral analysis, enabling fast and continuous measurements with excellent accuracy - which is not possible with current technologies.
Targeting auto-reactive b-cells by vaccination to cure human auto-immune disease

Currently, most human autoimmune diseases are chronic conditions without a prospect of cure. My aim in this proposal is to meet the next major challenge, achieving cure in autoimmune disease.

Many autoimmune diseases are characterized by autoantibodies and are remarkably responsive to B-cell targeted therapies, demonstrating that the autoreactive B-cell is central to disease pathogenesis. Nonetheless, the selective and permanent elimination of the autoreactive B-cell, both memory and plasma cells alike, is not presently feasible due to a lack of specific markers and treatments. My aim is to develop a vaccine that will allow the specific and long-lasting depletion of autoreactive B-cells, thereby inducing cure. Using the unique mutated sequences of autoreactive B-cell receptors (BCR), cytotoxic T-cells that specifically eradicate autoreactive B-cells will be induced. This concept extends the remit of vaccines beyond infectious diseases and cancer, into the sphere of autoimmune disease.

Using the well-defined autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as prototype, I will study the RA-specific autoimmune response. Our recent findings show that RA is characterized by a restricted, oligoclonally-expanded autoreactive B-cell pool. Using recently developed technologies, my team will identify autoreactive B-cells and the BCR repertoire at several (pre)disease stages. We will then determine the potency of the many non-germline-encoded mutations in BCRs as “neoantigens” amenable to T-cell recognition and vaccination. Incorporating these neoantigens into multiple long peptides covering the autoreactive B-cell repertoire, we will design patient-tailored vaccines and perform a phase I trial to determine the feasibility of specifically depleting disease-causing B-cells.

This research will create the possibility for patient-tailored vaccines that can permanently eradicate auto-reactive B-cells in B-cell driven auto-immune diseases; diseases that are still incurable to date.
Assessing the social value of one health approaches

One Health is an approach to the design and implementation of health programmes, policies and research that recognises the interlinkages between public health, animal health, and their shared environment. While increasingly seen as needed, notably at the European Union (EU) level, its operationalisation remains limited owing, partly, to the lack of a substantial body of evidence on its added value. In particular, knowledge gaps exist on how a One Health approach to disease mitigation may generate or preserve health benefits in addition to those directly linked to reduced health risks, on the possible effects of its outcomes on objectives of broader policies, and on how social value can be generated. The valOH project aims at addressing these questions by investigating the social value of One Health approaches using a wide-ranging perspective of the outcomes. Research outputs will expand the current evidence base on the broader benefits of One Health and have the potential to inform decision making, ultimately impacting the policy cycle of several EU initiatives. The project is structured in interlinked research tasks: the development of a conceptual framework; its application to the example of antimicrobial resistance and the quantification of preferences on social value linked outcomes and their distribution through a discrete choice experiment; and the exploration of possible policy implications. The Researcher will emerge from the action with in-depth knowledge on the social value of One Health, new skills in health equity assessment methods, as well as in engagement and leadership and increased competence on interdisciplinary approaches to health, knowledge translation, social impact and more widely on Global Health. The knowledge and skills acquired during the action will grant her the capacity to reach independence as a researcher and re-enforce her professional maturity in the One Health field.
Impact of family ownership on idiosyncratic risk

This paper examines the role and impact of family ownership upon the idiosyncratic risk of Indian firms. The recent global financial crisis was primarily attributed to excessive risk taking, which raises pertinent questions on the effectiveness of firm-level risk management practices. As per the alignment theory, family firms with higher concentration of ownership would be able to mitigate excessive market risks during economic drifts and cycles. The impact of family/outside ownership on the risk-taking behaviour of firms has been examined using market-based risk measures. Utilising a sample of 404 firms with yearly data for 9 years from 2004 to 2013, 3,636 firm-year observations have been analysed using the panel data model. The results of this analysis confirm that family-controlled firms are associated with higher risks, especially with greater idiosyncratic risk. This finding holds true even after the data are segregated into pre-crisis and crisis-affected periods. An instrumental variable approach was adopted to control for endogeneity, which also supports and substantiates the results.
European Network of Mining Regions

The objective of the European Network of Mining Regions (ENMR) is to create a platform for mining regions on a European level driven by public organisations. The two year project involves twenty partners from ten EU Member States, including local and regional authorities, universities, research institutes, industry, NGOs, Union and development agencies from mineral and coal mining regions. The network aims to raise the regional awareness and the profile of being a mining region, to support the exchange of experience on regional and European policies, and to develop an innovative model for regional development.
Implementation of innovative solutions for use in dental implants

The subject of the project is the realisation of an investment consisting of the implementation of its own new technology including an innovative way of obtaining a unique augmentation for dental implantology (oral regeneration), consisting of a bone marrow aspirate obtained through the use of a proprietary procedure. The use of stem cells for bone reconstruction, according to the innovative solution, has not yet been used in implantology, and is a novelty on a national scale. The implemented solution is the result of own elaboration of the Applicant, defined on the basis of clinical experience, observations of cases registered in the framework of his own medical practice and on the basis of analyses of the latest industry publications. It is a solution ready to implement, which has been empirically verified during the implementation of implantological services in a patient who has performed bone regeneration using augmentate, obtained according to the assumptions of the new method. The result of the project, directly resulting from the implementation of the new technology, will be a significantly improved implantoprotetic service, including reconstruction of bone tissue based on the use of stem cells.