SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Full scale innovative pressure bulkheads for regional aircraft fuselage barrel on-ground demonstrators

Full scale innovative pressure bulkheads for Regional Aircraft Fuselage barrel on-ground demonstrators: 

The scope of this project is to develop and validate two advanced manufacturing processes to reach a significant reduction in the overall production costs and flows to obtain composite pressure bulkheads for regional aircraft light-weight fuselage manufacturing. A final trade- off analysis will be drawn as well, including costs, advantages, implementation advances, comparison with former costs and frame. 
In order to achieve the general scope, the consortium members will divide the project in 4 work packages: 
1-	Production of 2 bulkheads using the 2 different manufacturing techniques (one bulkhead in prepreg and a second one in dry fiber material) and laboratory – NDT testing 
2-	Production of 4 bulkheads as final demonstrators for fuselage testing, using both manufacturing techniques 
3-	Trade-off analysis 
4-	Management of the project 
The innovative and lighter fuselage concept must be implemented in future aircraft models (among others, Innovative Turboprop, 130 pax, and Advanced Turboprop, 90 pax, are being developed at the moment). The EU policies are clear about the need to reduce 75% the CO2 emissions per passenger-kilometer and 90% of NOX as well. In addition to that, by 2050, aircraft movements must be emission-free when taxiing and air vehicles must be designed and manufactured to be recyclable.  
Innovative low cost and low weight technologies shall be integrated into the fuselage structural demonstrator to get weight reduction, less manufacturing recurring costs, maintenance improvement and implementation of new eco-compatible materials and processes. And the final step to enter them into use is validation through a test that needs 2 bulkheads as vital elements to close the fuselage cylinder.
Low depth cache-oblivious algorithms

In this paper we explore a simple and general approach for developing parallel algorithms that lead to good cache complexity on parallel machines with private or shared caches. The approach is to design nested-parallel algorithms that have low depth (span, critical path length) and for which the natural sequential evaluation order has low cache complexity in the cache-oblivious model. We describe several cache-oblivious algorithms with optimal work, polylogarithmic depth, and sequential cache complexities that match the best sequential algorithms, including the first such algorithms for sorting and for sparse-matrix vector multiply on matrices with good vertex separators.Using known mappings, our results lead to low cache complexities on shared-memory multiprocessors with a single level of private caches or a single shared cache. We generalize these mappings to multi-level cache hierarchies of private or shared caches, implying that our algorithms also have low cache complexities on such hierarchies. The key factor in obtaining these low parallel cache complexities is the low depth of the algorithms we propose.
Does Needling Stimulate Erythrocyte-Based Local Analgesia?

Acupuncture, a traditional healing art surviving over four millennia, has its roots in indigenous Chinese Daoism.1 Although modern acupuncturists disregard Daoist philosophy, needling itself has never lost its basis of naturalness and simplicity. Acupuncture was fostered in the oriental world and reached many Western nations as a treatment for various chronic conditions, particularly pain. Evidence from several models has shown the analgesic effect of acupuncture, and yet there is no complete picture of how the needle works locally.

Recently, it was shown that acupuncture employs adenosine as a mediator for local pain control.2 ,3 Adenosine, a purine nucleoside, is present in large amounts …
Strong piezoelectricity and multiferroicity in BiFeO3–BaTiO3–NdCoO3 lead-free piezoelectric ceramics with high Curie temperature for current sensing application

Lead-free piezoelectric and multiferroic ceramics of BiFeO3–BaTiO3–NdCoO3 were synthesized by a conventional solid-state reaction method and the structural, piezoelectric, multiferroic and magnetoelectric properties of the materials were investigated. All the ceramics can be well sintered at a low sintering temperature of 980 °C for 2 h. The introduction of NdCoO3 into BiFeO3–BaTiO3 induces a dramatic enhancement in the piezoelectricity, multiferroicity and magnetoelectric effect of the materials. After the addition of 1.0–3.0 mol% NdCoO3, the ceramics possess a morphotropic phase boundary of rhombohedral and orthorhombic phases and exhibit high Curie temperature (~486–605 °C), strong piezoelectricity, good ferroelectricity and excellent temperature stability of piezoelectricity. The greatly enhanced magnetism with M
 r = 0.4229 emu/g and M
 s = 2.7186 emu/g is obtained in the ceramic with 8.0 mol% NdCoO3, almost six times larger than that of an undoped ceramic. The ceramic with 2.0 mol% NdCoO3 shows a strong magnetoelectric effect (α
 33 = 750 mV cm−1 Oe−1). The practical application potential of the present materials has also been preliminarily demonstrated by mimicking current monitoring. Our results suggest that the present ceramics may have potential applications in advanced lead-free piezoelectric and/or multiferroic devices.
Genomics of ageing in elephants: genomic architecture of senescence in a long-lived mammal

European populations are ageing, and this has important health, economic and social consequences. Yet in order to manage these, we need to understand the complex phenomenon of ""biological age"", and in particular its genetic determinants. It is now established that longevity insurance genes such as TP53 mitigate the roles of mitochondrial function, oxidative stress and telomere shortening, and that these genes are also involved in ageing, with senescence and cancer being two faces of the cell growth balance. Thus, longevity is a trade-off between cancer and ageing, but also possibly fertility and menopause. In that respect, Asian elephants are a fascinating model: similar to humans in lifespan, senescence, and selection for grandmotherhood, they are almost exempt of cancer, contrary to predictions based on their large size. Recently, multiple retrocopies of TP53 have been identified in elephants: a strong argument to consider that cancer-avoidance and a long lifespan are the product of genetic adaptations in proboscideans. The genetic architecture of human-like ageing is impossible to study in classical short-lived models, as they lack the traits that make human life-history special, like a post-reproductive lifespan. Therefore, I propose to use a unique century-long dataset on life-history and health records for thousands of Asian elephants, currently explored by Prof. Lummaa's international-level team through behavioural ecology and ecophysiology at University of Turku. Together with my secondment host Prof. Bertorelle at University of Ferrare, I will apply my skills in cutting-edge genomic methods to disentangle the hereditary and individual determinants of ageing in long-lived mammals. By bringing these different competences together on a one-of-its-kind dataset, I will exploit this unique and exciting opportunity to explore the genomics of senescence through a multi-disciplinary approach, which may yield important insights for understanding human ageing.
New electro-mechanic access system with dematerialized keys for residential market

OKIDOKEYS is a new system to unlock your home or garage door by using a smartphone or other several devices. The system will allow the user to install it in a few minutes with no need of changing the door lock.
The system interacts with both an Okidokeys app-enabled smartphone (iOS and Android) as well as a number of different fobs. As an alternative to smartphones e-key, OpenWays also offers keyfobs, walletcard-tags and wristband-tags.
Okidokeys has recently started a market test in the USA with very good acceptance; the objective of this project is to validate and demonstrate the new system for the European requirements that will require getting over several challenges.
In the last 50 years the lock / key industry has not innovated very much:
- Using metal keys could cause problems if they are lost
- Metal keys are difficult to dispatch, remove or cancel.
- Metal keys have limited security
- Metal keys are expensive. (New securing locks have more expensive keys)
Okidokeys will eliminate all those problems by the use of smart keys “installed” in a smart-phone, cell-phone, keychain, wristband, walletcard tags integrating Bluetooth 4.0, CAC (Crypto Acoustic Credentials), RFID and NFC technologies.
Feeding in natricines: relationships among feeding morphology, behavior, performance and preferred prey type

The diversity of feeding mechanisms among predators reflects phenotypic modifications that may improve feeding performance on a preferred prey type. I compared trophic morphology, feeding performance (time and upper-jaw walks) and behavior (initial bite and ingestion directions) among three species of natricine snakes that were fed fish and frogs over a broad range of relative prey sizes. Feeding behavior was influenced by prey type but did not differ among the snake species. Both bite and ingestion directions influenced the number of upper-jaw movements (lateral excursions and protractions) required to consume fish, but only initial bite position significantly affected the number of upper-jaw movements required to ingest frogs. Within snake species, feeding performance did not differ between fish and frogs for Nerodia fasciata and Nerodia rhombifer; however, Thamnophis proximus consumed fish with fewer upper-jaw movements. Feeding time differed significantly among snake species when fed both fish and frogs. Trophic morphology did not significantly affect ingestion costs for fish but did influence ingestion when fed frogs. In general, differences in trophic morphology among the three species are not correlated to handling and ingestion performance.
Angio-Tracer for immuno-pet imaging: a stratification and monitoring tool for anti-angiogenesis treatment

AngioTarget will introduce an angiogenesis imaging agent (ANGIO-tracer) to stratify patients prior to anti-angiogenic therapy (AAT). This proposal is focussing on colorectal cancer (CRC) and will try to save 45,000 stage II/III CRC patients from undertreatment and 60,000 stage IV patients from unnecessary treatment in Europe each year. CRC is one of the most common cancers world-wide. AAT is a widely used and promising approach to restrict growth and progression of all angiogenesis-dependent malignancies. However, this expensive anti-cancer strategy is challenged by low response rates, inadequate efficacy and resistance2. Currently, there is no tool available to stratify patients prior to AAT or monitor response to therapy. The first approved and commercially most successful anti-angiogenic drug is Avastin (Bevacizumab), accounting for over €7 billion in annual sales. As a first phase towards global acceptance of ANGIO-tracer as a standard for stratification and monitoring in AAT of cancer, AngioTarget will focus on the utility of ANGIO-tracer in determining and monitoring Avastin treatment strategies in CRC. This will ensure that all CRC patients receive optimal care and responders can benefit from AAT while non-responders are spared from ineffective treatment. 

Commercial introduction in Europe of ANGIO-tracer as a stratification tool in CRC will:
- Improve patient outcome by enabling optimal treatment of over 18,700 stage II/III and 14,000 stage IV patients within 5 years, reducing healthcare costs related to ineffective Avastin administration with €1.8 billion in 2024
- Increase growth and competitiveness of AngioTarget, including cumulative sales of over 261,000 units (total revenue €78 million) within 5 years and a cumulative net profit of >€30 million
- Open up new markets for ANGIO-tracer (e.g. lung, prostate, breast cancer)
A multidimensional analysis on the joint-effect of retention forestry and landscape structure on large mammals communities

The integration of conservation into production forest management is crucial to achieve desired biodiversity goals at the EU level. Retention forestry, which was introduced as a tool to mitigate the negative impact of transformation and homogenization of forests, is now common practice in Central European forests. The design of efficient retention strategies hinges on ecological knowledge, yet research-based evidence for its effectiveness is lacking. In particular, responses of large terrestrial mammals to variable retention harvesting are unknown.  I will address this knowledge gap by using a combination of advanced techniques and statistical methods to investigate how the large mammal community changes in response to varying levels of retention forestry in multiple-use forests, and assess the interplay between retention forestry and the surrounding landscape. I will (a) quantify mammal species richness, species-specific abundance and β-diversity  across a gradient of retention forestry and landscape forest cover, and (b) determine a threshold of retention at which significant responses occur. I expect that retention will enhance mammal diversity, but not below a certain threshold or below a certain amount of forest cover. I will use the Black Forest in Southwestern Germany as a model system for multiple-use forests in Central Europe,  and conduct camera-trapping in 135 plots embedded in patches of mixed-montane forests which differ along 2 gradients of retention and landscape fragmentation. I will use multispecies hierarchical modeling in a Bayesian framework to quantify the effects of retention forestry on mammal species at different spatial grains. This multidisciplinary research combines spatial ecology, with landscape and forest ecology and will integrate for the first time ecological study of large mammals and retention forestry in Central European landscapes.
Experimental results of a compact thermally driven cooling system based on metal hydrides

Abstract In this paper a detailed experimental analysis of a metal hydride based cooling system is presented. For the high temperature side an AB 5 type alloy (LmNi 4.91 Sn 0.15 ) was chosen, whereas an AB 2 type alloy (Ti 0.99 Zr 0.01 V 0.43 Fe 0.09 Cr 0.05 Mn 1.5 ) is used for the low temperature side. Due to very good heat and also mass transfer characteristics (among others, large heat transfer surface area) of the utilized capillary tube bundle reaction bed, very short half-cycle times in the order of 100 s have been reached. Consequently, the specific cooling power of the system is up to 780 W per kg desorbing metal hydride – depending on the temperature boundary conditions. The system was experimentally analyzed for different cooling and ambient temperatures, whereas the heating temperature was fixed to 130 °C.
Aptamer-based portable biosensor for platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) with personal glucose meter readout

A novel portable biosensor for sensitive and selective detection of platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) had been developed based on the specific recognition between aptamer and protein using a personal glucose meter (PGM) as readout. In the presence of PDGF-BB, the primary aptamer of PDGF-BB which is bound to the surface of streptavidin magnespheres paramagnetic particles (SA-PMPs) reacts quantitatively with invertase-functionalized secondary aptamer of PDGF-BB to form a stable complex, resulting in the attachment of invertase on the SA-PMPs. Subsequently, the invertase catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose to produce a large amount of glucose and quantitative readout by the PGM. The enhanced signal of the PGM has a relationship with the concentration of PDGF-BB in the range of 1.0 × 10(-14) M~3.16 × 10(-12) M, and the detection limit is 2.9 fM. The proposed portable biosensor had been successfully applied to assay the PDGF-BB in saliva samples.
The dynamic impacts of child health and skills enhanced by school interventions across the life course

This project, “The Dynamic Impacts of Child Health and Skills Enhanced by School Interventions across the Life Course” (DYNAMICS), is the first ever to rigorously and comprehensively study complete short- and long-term dynamic effects of health and human capital at school ages. It combines research in the fields of economics and epidemiology to answer the overarching research question: whether and how the dynamics of a child’s health and skills, enhanced by successive nationwide school reforms, translates into various later-life outcomes. Economists have recently shown that public health interventions in early life substantially boost an individual’s earnings in the long term, albeit have not investigated how these effects emerge. Moreover, epidemiologists have found that body size, growth and disease history at school ages are strongly associated with health in adulthood. DYNAMICS investigates how the interplay of school health, nutrition, and education reforms as well as the event of WWII, which uniquely overlapped in Denmark, affected children and how it formed their health and well-being in adulthood. It combines the most recent advances in research through the University of Southern Denmark’s expertise in health dynamics and advanced econometric methods, the University of Copenhagen’s expertise in life course epidemiology, my research experience with individual data and early-life effects, and the richest data on Denmark. This project will not only create societally important cutting-edge knowledge in applied microeconomics but also immensely broaden my international network and provide important transferable skills for future success.
PRESERVATION OF GIANT ANOMALOCARIDIDS IN SILICA-CHLORITE CONCRETIONS FROM THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN OF MOROCCO

The recently discovered Fezouata Biota, from the Early Ordovician (late Tremadocian to late Floian) of Morocco, preserves a diverse soft-bodied fauna. While preservation is mostly of Burgess Shale-type, giant anomalocaridids also occur in siliceous concretions. Petrographic and geochemical analyses of these concretions reveal their growth history and the circumstances that led to the fossilization of nonbiomineralized anatomy within them. The large ( .1 m) concretions are homogeneous in composition and geochemical characteristics, suggesting rapid, pervasive growth of mineral frameworks during decay of the large animals at, or near, the sediment-water interface. Concretions are comprised of ultrafine-grained (2–20 mm) authigenic quartz, Fe chlorite, and calcite, a composition unlike other described marine concretions. Abundant pyrite, now represented by oxide pseudomorphs, grew adjacent to the anomalocaridid carcasses, but rarely within the matrix of the concretions. This distribution indicates that sulfate reduction around the carcasses was vigorous within otherwise organic-poor sediments resulting in the establishment of prominent chemical gradients around the giant anomalocaridids that led to early precipitation of mineral overgrowth around nonbiomineralized tissues. Rapid precipitation of intergrown silica and Fe chlorite required an abundant source of silica, iron, and aluminum. These ions were likely derived from dissolution of volcanic ash in the sediments. Limited intergrown calcite (d 13C avg. 212.2%o ,n 5 23) precipitated from bicarbonate that was generated largely by sulfate reduction of organic tissues of the carcasses. Whereas Burgess Shale-type preservation of fossils in the Fezouata biota required suppression of degradation, exceptional preservation of anomalocaridids within the siliceous concretions resulted from extensive microbial decomposition of a large volume of organic tissues. Rapid mineralization was facilitated by localization of microbial activity around the large carcasses and must have required an unusually reactive sediment composition.
TEMPERATURE PROBE FOR AN OVEN, OVEN AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OVEN

The invention relates to a temperature probe (11) for an oven (35), comprising a longitudinal housing (12) in the form of a spit. A temperature sensor (24) and an electronic unit (25) are arranged in a tip (13) and are connected at the other end (22) to emitting means (21). The temperature probe (11) comprises a thermogenerator (31) for producing energy (19). The thermogenerator (31) uses a temperature difference between a higher temperature inside the oven (35) and a lower core temperature in a roast (15), in which the temperature probe (11) is inserted, for producing energy (19) for operating the emitting means (21).
Formation and relaxation of quasistationary states in particle systems with power-law interactions

We explore the formation and relaxation of so-called quasi-stationary states (QSS) for particle distributions in three dimensions interacting via an attractive radial pair potential $V(r \rightarrow \infty) \sim 1/r^\gamma$ with $\gamma > 0$, and either a soft-core or hard-core regularization at small $r$. In the first part of the paper we generalize, for any spatial dimension $d \geq 2$, Chandrasekhar's approach for the case of gravity to obtain analytic estimates of the rate of collisional relaxation due to two body collisions. The resultant relaxation rates indicate an essential qualitative difference depending on the integrability of the pair force at large distances: for $\gamma >d-1$ the rate diverges in the large particle number $N$ (mean field) limit, unless a sufficiently large soft core is present; for $\gamma < d-1$, on the other hand, the rate vanishes in the same limit even in the absence of any regularization. In the second part of the paper we compare our analytical predictions with the results of extensive parallel numerical simulations in $d=3$, for a range of different exponents $\gamma$ and soft cores leading to the formation of QSS. We find, just as for the previously well studied case of gravity (which we also revisit), excellent agreement between the parametric dependence of the observed relaxation times and our analytic predictions. Further, as in the case of gravity, we find that the results indicate that, when large impact factors dominate, the appropriate cut-off is the size of the system (rather than, for example, the mean inter-particle distance). Our results provide strong evidence that the existence of QSS is robust only for long-range interactions with a large distance behavior $\gamma < d-1$; for $\gamma \geq d-1$ the existence of such states will be conditioned strongly on the short range properties of the interaction.
parafish: A parallel FE–PN neutron transport solver based on domain decomposition

A new core solver named parafish is presented for the solution of large neutron transport core calculations. The second-order even-parity form of the time-independent Boltzmann transport equation is solved using an innovative algebraic domain-decomposition method. The spatio-angular discretization is performed using non-conforming finite elements and spherical harmonic expansions ( P N method). The parafish code allows one processor to handle more than one domain. This enables proper evaluations of the speed-up. Also, this enables to show that the domain-decomposition method not only performs well in parallel calculations, but also has an inherent acceleration potential. That is, it yields acceleration even without increasing the number of processors.