SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Risewise -rise women with disabilities in social engagement

Women with disabilities have more difficulties to find an employment and to integrate in social day life activities than men with disabilities.
This project focuses on the collective of women with disabilities from different perspectives, trying to identify needs and best practices in several EU countries, representing different cultural and socio-economic environments, for the integration and improvement of their quality of life in several respects. By applying a novel analysis method, based on the experience acquired by the exchange of researchers, innovation staff and practitioners in the European area among the participating institutions, the project will identify a set of multi-sectorial research lines, to enhance integration and involvement of this population in the society along several dimensions.
The delimitation of the scope of the project to this sector of the population has several advantages. First, it is the first relevant study at a global scale that is performed in Europe on this collective. Second, it allows putting into practice and validating a novel social research method, with a strong multidisciplinary approach, with such a well delimited case study. novel potential research lines can be explored in different settings to assess their opportunity and feasibility. Fourth, it will show the impact that this collective may have on a sustainable growth in economy and society, from different respects, by empowering their capacities, so far undervalued. Fifth, it will establish a platform for cooperation among research groups and associations in EU that are aware of the situation of this collective, looking for their synergies. It is worth mentioning that advances on technologies and measures towards a stronger social engagement of disabled people have finally a positive impact also in the whole population as many examples show on how solutions have been transferred to the rest of society in fields such as computer interfaces, ergonomic solutions, etc.
Probing the origin of intergalactic magnetic fields and cosmic rays with gamma-ray cascades

The existence of an intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) remains elusive and only upper limits on its strength are known from limits on the rotation of polarization angles of radio waves. Its measurement would provide crucial information about large scale structure formation, since the IGMF is thought to act as a seed field for magnetic fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters, how the Universe evolved, and how charged cosmic rays and electromagnetic waves propagate through intergalactic space. 
Here, I propose a new search for IGMF signatures using observations of a high-energy gamma-ray cascades from distant galaxies. Gamma rays interact with background radiation fields to produce electron-positron pairs. These pairs up-scatter cosmic-microwave photons to gamma-ray energies, initiating the cascade. The IGMF morphology is imprinted on the cascade through a deflection of the pairs in the IGMF. A novel combination of observations with imaging air Cherenkov telescopes and the Fermi Large Area Telescope, using both spectral and spatial information, combined with precise model predictions of the cascade, promise an unprecedented sensitivity for detection of the cascade signal and the IGMF. Strong constraints on the IGMF strength will be possible if no cascade is detected.
Furthermore, I will also search for a gamma-ray and neutrino signal from cascades initiated by cosmic rays from active galaxies. This will yield an independent probe of the IGMF and, additionally, constraints on the cosmic-ray acceleration power of such galaxies. As part of this work, I will also make predictions how the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) can further improve the detection of or constraints on the IGMF and the cosmic-ray acceleration power of active galaxies. This will result in an optimized observation strategy for the extragalactic survey and the blazar monitoring program, which are both planned with CTA.
Experimental methodology for the tappet characterization of timing system in I.C.E.

The aim of present work is the containment of the inertia forces, the stiffness components optimization and the fit tolerances of valve train in internal combustion engines (I.C.E.) 4T. The proposed methodology allows, through the development of a test machine, the evaluation of axial stiffness of tappet depending on eccentricity of the cam tappet contact, performing a functional analysis that simulate the behaviour of the system in operational condition, even if, some adjustment of tolerances of the fit between tappet and his guide, occurred. The dynamic study of the valve train, through modern computer codes, is performed by connecting lumped masses, springs and dampers that characterize each element. In numerical models the tappet is represented as constituted by the tappet and by the hydraulic element. Each of these elements is characterized by stiffness and mass. The structural rigidity of the tappet has, in fact, important effects on the dynamic behaviour of the entire valve train. The test machine makes possible the choice of the dimensional and geometrical tolerances of the fit between tappet and his guide; allows furthermore the evaluation of errors occurred during construction and integration phase. In addition, the test machine is also suitable for reverse engineering applications, makes it possible to automatically draw the cam profile in polar coordinates.
Surgical management of tuberculous small bowel obstruction.

Acute intestinal obstruction due to tuberculosis is a common surgical problem in our community. Emergency surgery is usually required and surgical procedure depends upon the location and extent of the disease. The aim of this study was to determine the commonly involved region of intestine and different surgical procedures tailored.Thirty patients operated upon for acute intestinal obstruction in emergency with operative and histopathological findings suggestive of tuberculosis were included in the study. Demographic profile, operative findings, details of surgical procedure, complications and post-op hospital stay were recorded. The patients were followed for 6 months.Intestinal tuberculosis is more common in young female, with male to female ratio of 1:1.5. Stricture of the small bowel was found in 50% of the cases. The next common finding was ileocaecal tuberculosis found in 40% of patients. Strictruplasty was performed in 11 (36.33%). The right hemicolectomy, limited ileocaecal resection and segmental bowel resection with end to end anastomosis were performed in four patients each. Other procedures were release of adhesions and bands in 4 patients, ileotransverse bypass in 1 patient and loop ileiostomy in 2 patients. Major complication in 10 patient and mortality rate was 10%.Because of non-specific clinical features, ignorance and malpractice intestinal tuberculosis presents late. Ileocecal tuberculosis is becoming less common as compared to small bowel strictures. Less radical surgery gives better results. Post operative complications and mortality are related to the perforation of the intestine at the time of surgery.
DEVICE FOR LOCKING AN AXIALLY MOVABLE COMPONENT OF A HYDRAULIC SYSTEM

The invention relates to a device for locking an axially movable component (2) of a hydraulic system, wherein the axially movable component (2) can be detachably fixed in a positively locking manner in at least one axial position by means of a detent mechanism (4) with at least one detent body (5), and with a release device (6) for releasing the respective detent body (5) from the axially movable component (2), wherein the detent mechanism (4) can be latched and released by means of a clamping piston (7) and using a force store (8), and wherein the clamping piston (7) can be moved in a working chamber (27) which can be charged with a clamping pressure, which device is characterized in that the clamping piston (7) can be adjusted at least into one switching position by a switching device (9), in that the clamping piston (7) can be acted on with the clamping pressure by means of the switching device (9) and, in said switching position, can be moved out of the latching position thereof by the force store (8) in the event of a withdrawal of the clamping pressure.
IMPROVED OIL FREE SCROLL VACUUM PUMP

The invention relates specifically to a simplified and subsequently improved method to produce a scroll type vacuum pump that is capable of achieving vacuum pressures below 1 torr through the placement of at least one dynamic orbital vacuum seal (32) between the two scroll halves (22 and 23) at the outside diameter of the scroll spirals to prevent atmospheric gas from entering. Prior to this invention, in order to achieve vacuum pressures less than 1 torr with a scroll pump it has been necessary to either seal the two scroll halves with a large diameter metal bellows (4) that accommodates the required orbital travel or to locate the orbiting scroll plate or plates and the components that convert the rotary drive to the required orbital motion inside the vacuum space with a dynamic vacuum seal (14) on the rotary drive shaft (17). Both ot these designs have been expensive to produce, limiting the application of scroll technology in the vacuum industry. The invention further relates to a method to produce an equally economical scroll type vacuum pump (Fig. 16) with a dynamic orbital vacuum seal that is capable of achieving pressures below .01 torr.
An ethnopharmacological approach to the preliminary screening of native Australian herbal medicines for anticancer activity

Five plants used traditionally by Australian Aboriginals and two edible native Australian fruits have been investigated for anticancer activity. The aim was to identify native Australian herbal medicines which displayed anticancer activity, with cytotoxicity to cancer cells but sparing or even proliferating normal immunological cells, and subsequently provide potentially new anticancer drug leads.Extracts and derived fractions were assayed for cell viability against a multiple myeloma cell line, RPMI-8226, in comparison to the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) representing normal human immunological cells.None of the crude extracts exhibited the desirable differential activity; however, following further fractionation of the Eremophila duttonii F. Muell. (Myoporaceae) extract, one fraction (termed F01) exhibited a greater cytotoxicity to the cancer cell line than to the normal cells.One fraction may potentially contain valuable compounds which may be useful for further investigation. This may focus on the identification of the bioavailable purified compounds present within these fractions or by detailed delineation of the related mechanisms of action.
PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR TREATING TEXTILE SUBSTRATES IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS

The description relates to a process for treating textile substrates in supercritical fluids. The textile substrate is arranged in at least one autoclave and brought into contact with the supercritical fluid. Once the autoclave has been filled with the textile substrate, the volume occupied for the major part by the textile substrate and partially by the supercritical fluid is reduced. This volume is then increased again and thus the textile substance is impregnated with the supercritical fluid and/or the latter flows through it. A device for implementing the process of the invention has at least one autoclave to take the textile substrate. A region of the autoclave can move within the autoclave. This region can be moved between a first position in which the volume occupied for the major part by the textile substance and partially by the supercritical fluid is unchanged and a second position in which the volume is correspondingly reduced.
Product-Service symbiotic systems

Product-service solutions are not a novelty for manufacturing domain, in particular for Europe. Services are becoming more and more not just an optional adjunct to products, but they are integral part of manufacturing industries’ offer, able to differentiate the product value proposition, to take a significant part of the revenue stream and even to substitute the traditional selling of products with more innovative service-oriented business models. There are still 5 main obstacles which are currently preventing service innovation to be pervasively adopted by all EU manufacturing industries, SMEs included:
I. Products and Services : How to preserve the specific characteristics of product and services in a value chain, without creating isolated and not interconnected walled gardens?
II. Design and Manufacturing: How to reconcile Real World and Digital World in PLM allowing multi-directional interoperability of the digital images of the same product between design-manufacturing? 
III. Knowledge and Sentiment: How to consider both professional knowledge and crowd sentiments, trying to mediate extreme product-push and market-pull positions?
IV. Service-Oriented and Event-Driven: How to create a generic conceptual and implementation framework which could identify and implement the interoperability points between SOA and EDA in PLM value chain systems?
V. Business and Innovation: How to reconcile current profitable and competitive product-oriented business models with more intangible, risky, service-oriented and Internet-based businesses?
PSYMBIOSYS aims at improving the competitiveness of European Manufacturing industries by developing an innovative product-service engineering environment, symbolized by a five-pointed symbiosis star – design-production, product-service, knowledge-sentiment, EDA-SOA, business-innovation – and able to dramatically reduce the time-to-market of more attractive and sustainable product-service solutions.
OS AFOGADOS DO PASSO REAL: IDENTIDADE E LUTA PELA TERRA (1963– 1988)

Este trabajo discute El proceso de lucha por latierra y construcción de una identidad, llevado a cabo por los desalojados por laconstrucción de la represa de Passo Real. A partir de 1963, para La construcción de la Usina Eléctrica de Passo Real, el Gobierno del Estado de Rio Grande do Sul expropió 23.000 hectáreas de tierra, desalojando a miles de familias. Sin embargo, llegó la década del 80 y diversos desalojados y sus descendientes no habían sido reassentados em La tierra, reconociéndose como los "Afogados do Passo Real". De este modo, por medio de documentos encontrados en sindicatos regionales y archivos estaduales, analizaremos como los "afogados" se movilizaron y forjaron una identidade em la lucha por La tierra.
Whole-Plant assessment of innovative, sustainable and energy-efficient future layouts of wastewater treatment plants

Whole-plant assessment of Innovative, Sustainable and Energy-efficient Future Layouts Of Wastewater treatment plants

The WISEFLOW project addresses multiple, and oftentimes conflicting, current and future challenges of wastewater treatment plants: load increases due to population growth and urbanization, stricter effluent quality limits, space-limitations for building new plants, energy-efficiency and last but not the least, sustainability.

A promising perspective to address these challenges is through the integration of existing and novel technologies, in a smart and innovative way, within wastewater treatment plant configurations. These technologies include, but are not limited to: anaerobic treatment, high-rate activated sludge units, chemically enhanced primary treatment, aerobic granular sludge systems and shortcut nitrogen removal processes. Moreover, besides description of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in biochemical processes, attention will be paid to the fate of sulfur, which has deleterious effects  and is often overlooked but is particularly present in coastal areas.

Research in this project will focus on key process engineering aspects, i.e. design and control, as the missing link to bring sustainable schemes for municipal wastewater treatment into practice. Through model-based analysis of unit processes and integrated schemes, including model calibration and validation based on experimental full- and lab-scale data, the proposed schemes will be optimized, evaluated and compared using multi-criteria objective analysis and newly-developed evaluation criteria. The overall multi-criteria evaluation and optimization of these novel wastewater treatment plant schemes is technically challenging and inherently innovative.

The developed methodology and insights gained from this project will not be only most valuable as such, but will also be transferable to additional novel treatment technologies coming up in the future.
Characterization of chia seed oils obtained by pressing and solvent extraction

Abstract The oil yield, fatty acid composition and the physicochemical and quality characteristics of chia crude seed oils obtained by pressing and solvent extraction were determined. The extraction methods assayed influenced significantly the oil yield, obtaining about 30% more oil by solvent than by pressing. The main fatty acids ranked in the following order of abundance: α-linolenic acid (α Ln) > linoleic acid (L) > oleic acid (O) ≈ palmitic acid (P) > stearic acid (S) for both extraction systems. The n-3/n-6 FA ratio of chia oils ranged from 3.18 to 4.18, being markedly higher than that reported for other vegetable oils. The main triacylglycerols were: αLnαLnαLn > αLnαLnL > αLnLL > αLnαLnP > αLnLO ∼ αLnLP, which represent about 87–95% of the total content of these compounds. The quality and composition of some minor constituents of chia seed oils were influenced by the extraction process. Oils presented a moderate content of bioactive components, such as tocopherols, polyphenols, carotenoids and phospholipids; the high unsaturation level determined their low oxidative stability.
Dental fear affects adolescent perception of interaction with dental staff

The main purpose of this study was to explore whether subjective perception of interaction with dental staff is associated with dental fear in a population-based sample of 18-yr-old adolescents (n = 773). The interaction was measured using the Patient Dental Staff Interaction Questionnaire (PDSIQ), validated with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, which yielded the factors of 'kind atmosphere and mutual communication', 'roughness', 'insecurity', 'trust and safety', and 'shame and guilt'. Dental fear was measured using the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS). Gender and sense of coherence (SOC) were included as potential confounding variables. Adolescents with high dental fear more often perceived their interaction with dental staff negatively and more often felt insecure than others. This difference persisted after adjustment for gender and SOC. In conclusion, adolescents with high dental fear may perceive their interaction with dental staff more positively if the staff succeed in creating a positive, trusting, approving, and supportive atmosphere with kindness, calmness, and patience. The communication and interaction skills of dental staff may play a particularly important role when encountering highly fearful dental patients.
Freshwater, tidal and wave influences on a small estuary

Abstract Observations are presented of water levels, currents, salinity, turbidity, sediment grain sizes and sediment transport in the Devonshire Avon Estuary, UK, in order to improve knowledge of freshwater, wave and tidal influences on small, strongly tidal ria estuaries. A large reduction in tidal range occurred progressing from the coastal zone to the upper estuary that was mainly a consequence of rising bed and river water levels. The spring-neap cycle also had an influence on the reduction in tidal range along the length of the estuary. Surface gravity waves were completely dissipated propagating into the estuarine channel from the coastal zone, and despite strong wave-induced resuspension, suspended sediment was not transported into the lower estuary in observable amounts during the ensuing flood tide, indicating that the wave-suspended material was too coarse to remain in suspension once transported away from the surf zone. Turbidity in the lower estuary was relatively low during low runoff summer conditions and had largest values over low water, when turbid waters from farther up-estuary had been transported there. Strong resuspension events occurred at peak currents in the upper estuary during summer, reflecting the presence of finer-grained sediment sources. Turbidity was similar but greater in the lower estuary during high runoff winter conditions and strong resuspension occurred at peak currents, indicating an easily erodible, nearby sediment source, due to down-estuary movement and relocation of finer sediment over the winter. A large shoal in the lower estuary exhibited a consistent pattern of accretion/erosion during the high runoff months of late autumn and winter to spring that also was qualitatively consistent with sediment transport modelling and implied: (a), erosion from the up-estuary limit of the shoal with (b), down-estuary bed-load and suspended-load transport that accreted the centre and down-estuary limit of the shoal until (c), a diminished supply led to erosion via continued down-estuary transport from the shoal centre.
Biomaterial based microwave antennas for communication and sensing applications

Design and development of biomaterial based wearable, conformable and planar microwave antenna for biomedical, communication and telemetry application is proposed in this project. The project targets a new innovative field comprising of Material science, Microwave Engineering, and Biomedical Sensing. The usage of biomaterials as a substrate in microwave application will reduce the electronic waste, thereby protecting the environment. This project aims to identify at least three biomaterials with suitable synthesis methods leading to the fabrication of microwave substrate to enable conformal biomedical sensing, radio telemetry (Transmitting antennas used to track animals and birds in the forest or other sensitive environments) applications, antennas for the Internet of Things (IoT), ISM and 5G applications. Keeping these application possibilities, I would like to extend the research horizon of biomaterial based microwave devices and to establish this prospective research area, which will be having the highest research priority in the future considering the biological and environmental aspects. High efficient conformable antennas, planar antennas and wearable antennas suitable for sensing, communication and telemetry applications using biomaterials will be developed, which is an innovative aspect of this proposal. The research area of this proposal is not only interested for the scientific community but also beneficial for the whole human and living beings, since the replacement of non-biodegradable materials with biodegradable material in electronic gadgets will tremendously reduce the e-waste content of our planet hence causing a bigger positive impact to the ecosystem in total.