SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Device for the identification of acne, micromedones, and bacteria on human skin

The invention relates to a device and a method for the identification of fluorescing follicles that can be follicular impactions and/or microcomedones (clinically non-evident acne lesions), and/or comedones (clinically evident acne lesions) and/or bacteria on the face or other skin surface area. The inventive device allows the detection of both types of follicular fluorescence (yellow/green and orange/red). For safety reasons, to prevent skin burns and erythema, the filter on the ultraviolet light source preferably removes substantially all the harmful UVB radiation (280-320nm wavelength range). The filter used in conjunction with the detection means removes reflected and scattered light emanating from the subject's skin surface, thus increasing the sensitivity and discretion of the technique and making fluorescence detection easier and clearer.
Sustainable energy investing and financing activation

The project of the Sustainable Energy Investing and Financing Activation (SEIFA) will create incentives to increase private equity investing for the industrial decarbonisation of the built environment. The SEIFA project is focusing on investing and financing of deep renovation industrial projects, energy supply facilities and energy service companies. The investors-first approach will be held with an emphasis on the environmental impact in terms of decarbonisation rate and risk-adjusted rate of return. The new financial schemes to incentivise private individual and institutional investments to sustainable energy projects will be established. Innovative financing schemes will include sustainable energy investing risks metrics and benefits. The network of regional/national project aggregators will be established. Investment pooling and proposed investment vehicles will let achieve lower transaction costs. The financial software tools will be provided for the energy efficiency measurement, quantification and evaluation of additional benefits of sustainable energy investing including decarbonisation rate, increased asset value, impact on investor reputation, and for investment rating and ranking. The detailed methodology of the sustainable energy investment securitisation and detailed roadmap for the secondary market for sustainable energy investing will be created. Initial milestones of the secondary market for sustainable energy investing will be accomplished during the project duration. The planned project duration is 30 months. At least 500 million Eur for sustainable energy projects will be provided during the SEIFA project duration and it is expected that 5 billion Eur mark will be reached during the 5 years after the project completion. The SEIFA project platform will greatly increase the attractiveness for the financial sector to sustainable energy investing across Europe and beyond.
Subsídio de fundo de maneio para Joanna French Studio Frenchwoman

O projeto destina-se a apoiar a empresa no fornecimento de liquidez e no apoio às suas operações quotidianas devido a dificuldades financeiras que ocorreram na empresa em resultado do surto de COVID-19. Assistência financeira prestada com base no regime SA.57015.
Innovation through combined applications of plasma technologies

Nowadays the success factors for companies are product innovation and efficient use of resources (energy, raw materials etc.). The surface treatments, in this contest, are strategically important because they allow to decorate, protect and give to the substrates the desired physical, chemical and mechanical properties. Many of the features required by a material depend on the characteristics of its surface: to be able to modify its properties saving resources and reducing waste and emissions is an important tool for companies of the program area. Plasma technologies allows to modify the surface characteristics with hi-tech and eco-friendly processes. There are obstacles to use those technologies given by unavailability of equipments, required know-how for their management and especially the cost of experimentation and testing. Thanks to this project it will be possible to put together the multi-disciplinary competences and hardware of each of the partners to overcome these barriers. _x000D_
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- Dissemination, information and advertising of studies and results.
A Description of the English Non-finite Verbal Group Clause

Existing studies of the English non-finite verbal group (VBG) clause are lopsidedly semantic descriptions with focus on to -x+o and x+g forms only. This paper exhaustively describes the English non-finite VBG clause, determines its frequency of occurrence, identifies its functional and positional distribution, and accounts for variations in its syntactic behaviour. Analysed using the systemic grammatical model, the data comprises 643 non-finite VBG clauses obtained from an 18 000-word corpus of five written texts. Results reveal a frequency of occurrence of 36 in 1 000 words that ranged between 46.3 and 31.7 in the individual texts. The to -x+o form was the most frequent, followed by x+g, x+n and x+o. Respectively they featured  17, 11.3, 7 and 1.33 times in 1 000 words and represent 46, 32, 18 and 4 percent of the data. The non-finite VBG clause’s most prominent syntactic position was adjunct, where its 35 percent realisation was about 2½ times more than its function as beta clause, nominal group qualifier, and prepositional group qualifier. While its realisation as catenated VBG headword was 0.93 percent and qualifier 16.2 percent, its proportion as adjectival group qualifier, subject and complement was 0.16, 0.31 and 5 percent respectively. Features inherent in the non-finite VBG clause, authors’ individualism, and theses variation explain the differences.
AIRLESS OIL LUBRICATION NOZZLE

The present invention relates to a nozzle (9) comprising a body (11) having an inlet end (13), an outlet end (14), and an outer surface(12). A first channel (16) extends through the body (11) from the inlet end (13) to the outlet end (14), the first channel (16) being defined by a channel surface (17). A second channel (18) is formed by an aperture (18) in the outlet end (14), the second channel (18) being connected to the first channel (16) and extending from the channel surface (17) to the outer surface (12). The nozzle (9) further comprises a lid (20), the lid (20) being connectable to the outlet end (14) and being arranged for at least partially covering the outlet end (14).
Method and apparatus for testing consistency of frozen beverages

A method and apparatus using a sample test container filled with beverage, a penetrator holder, a penetrator and release means is disclosed. In the method a sample, is drawn into the test container and the penetrator dropped into the sample, and a reading of the stiffness of the sample is made based on the depth of penetration of the penetrator onto the sample.
Law and Courts in Authoritarian States

Authoritarian rulers need law and courts as instruments of rule, to perform such functions as social control, legitimation, administrative accountability, and encouragement of investment and trade, but more than their democratic colleagues they find it difficult to sacrifice political power. Consequently, they fashion weak and dependent courts, opt for fragmented jurisdiction (with special tribunals for matters of regime interest), readily readjust the jurisdiction of courts and judicial discretion when they are provoked, or create formally independent courts that are undermined by informal practices. Authoritarian rulers prefer narrow positivist understandings of law to avoid constraints but may face pressures to meet international standards for the protection of business or human rights. Rule by law rather than any version of rule of law characterizes the role of law in authoritarian states.
Research infrastructures for citizens in europe

Large Research Infrastructures in the field of frontier Physics have opened new observational windows to the universe and explore the structure of matter in extreme detail. These advancements require high levels of expertise and sophistication. On the other hand, society, lacking this level of expertise, merely observes these developments through outreach activities but does not actively contribute in the development of new scientific knowledge. This fact induces a gap between frontier science and society that can spawn misconceptions about the content, context and mission of public funded frontier science.  The REINFORCE project comes to answer to the questions: a) Can citizens contribute in the development of new knowledge in frontier science? b) Can citizens apply this new knowledge to solve societal problems? c) How can we integrate citizen feedback? REINFORCE goes beyond outreach programmes and aims to minimize the gap between Society and Large Research Infrastructures in the field of Physics through the: i) development and implementation of 4 cutting-edge Citizen Science projects in the fields of Gravitational Waves, Neutrino Astronomy, Particle Physics and Cosmic Ray interplay with geoscience and archaeology with citizens: Citizens will analyze data and support the optimization of sensitive detectors in order to enhance their discovery potential. ii) implementation of a participatory design in citizen science: Communities of citizens will be developed, trained and empowered to contribute in the scientific mission of Large Research Infrastructures. iii) effective inclusion of sensitive citizen groups as well as the active interaction with secondary and tertiary education. iv) Aggregating best practices in a pan-European policy roadmap. REINFORCE aspires to engage more than 100,000 citizens across Europe and beyond, to help enhance society’s science literacy and awareness and to contribute in the production of scientific knowledge by citizens for society.
Black women/black nationalism – feminist discourses on nation-building in american and british literature and visual arts

My research aims to make a significant contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Black women artists  in the US & the UK. It will pose a polemical formulation of Black feminist literature and visual arts of the 1980s and 90s in light of postcolonial scholarship. These two decades saw a flowering of talent of Black British and American women: in the US they are described as Black Women’s Renaissance and in the UK as Black Arts Movement. Both movements came to fruition in the aftermath of civil rights and feminist struggles of black people in the US and UK. This project will investigate how the work of African American and Black British female artists reflected interaction and intersection of cultural nationalism and black feminism. It will demonstrate that feminist narratives and artworks of that period, usually not associated with black cultural nationalism, played a pivotal role in the continuation of indigenous cultural politics of Black cultural nationalism, which came to being  in the 1960s and 70s in the US.  During that period  African American art strove to validate black culture as a culture possessing its own ideas and forms of aesthetic expression. The cause of BCN was propelled through the veneration of Black values, sensibilities, symbols, and rituals, which, as this project will argue, became also central to the identity politics of the artists of Black Women Renaissance and Black Arts Movement  in the decades that followed. My project will demonstrate that this strategy of validating black culture, which was so empowering in the 1960s and 70s,  ultimately turned to be counter-productive for the goals of black feminism, as it created a limited number of positions from which black women’s subjectivity could be articulated. UCLan with its world-class researchers in transatlantic studies (i.e. Prof. Rice) and Black Arts and black feminism (i.e. Prof. Lubaina Himid, a founder of  Black Arts Movement) provides an ideal host institution.
Green infrastructures for the conservation and improvement of the condition of habitats and protected species along the rivers

The challenge is to establish long-term cross-border strategic planning to develop and protect green infrastructure, monitor water and habitat biodiversity, implement pilot activities and investments for the creation of green infrastructure in NATURA 2000 and raise awareness of the target on the sustainability of water resources, protected areas and forest and agricultural land. The objective is to develop an area of cross-border cooperation with a clear long-term, comprehensive and sustainable strategy in the area of green infrastructure, awareness raising and measures for sustainable cross-border development. This will be achieved through pilot activities and the identification of good practices that will raise awareness among local communities, farmers and visitors to protected areas of the importance and efficiency of ecosystem services. This will ensure improved results in the management of protected areas, the creation of green infrastructure and the use of ecosystem services, and contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development. Through cooperation, solutions can be found for planning and creating green infrastructure in the Isonzo area.
Integration of scientific knowledge and research methods concerning organic and extensive milk stockfarming

Community Regulation n. 2092/1999 decrees that ruminants in organic farms must have access to pasture at least for one productive stage in their lifecycle. In feeding and pasturing, account must be taken of the genetic features of milk animals (capacity to adapt to local conditions, vitality and resistance to disease, productive potential) and also of the fact that in some areas pastures are not easy to reach, owing to climate and terrain characteristics. According to organic farming rules, at least 60% of the dry matter is to consist of fodder - a percentage often higher than that adopted for milk ruminants rations. A more careful comparison between the productive and metabolic aspects of indigenous and cosmopolitan breeds fills a gap in scientific and technical knowledge; moreover, it is a highly interesting issue in the framework of organic farming, since the sector rules express a clear preference for indigenous breeds. The adoption of indigenous breeds ensures a better adaptation of the animals to organic farming methods and helps to enhance and differentiate the organic product from a qualitative point of view, thanks to the peculiar features of the milk of some breeds in terms of composition, nutritional and technological characteristics. Owing to the high costs of production, organic products need a careful qualitative characterization and a clear traceability, in order to meet the expectations both of the consumer and of the commercial sector. Hence the need to demonstrate that organic products derive from a farming system which is respectful of animal welfare and have qualitative characteristics which differ from those of conventional farming.
Bio-inspired Networking

Bio-inspired techniques are based on principles, or models, of biological systems. In general, natural systems present remarkable capabilities of resilience and adaptability. In this book, weexplore how bio-inspired methods can solve different problems linked to computer networks.Future networks are expected to be autonomous, scalable and adaptive. During millions of years of evolution, nature has developed a number of different systems that present these and other characteristics required for the next generation networks. Indeed, a series of bio-inspired methods have been successfully used to solve the most diverse problems linked to computer networks. This book presents some of these techniques from a theoretical and practical point of view.Discusses the key concepts of bio-inspired networking to aid you in finding efficient networking solutionsDelivers examples of techniques both in theoretical concepts and practical applicationsHelps you apply nature's dynamic resource and task management to your computer networks
Application of polynomial projection ensembles to hedging crude oil commodity risk

Although the rapid expansion in derivative market in previous decades has drawn research in both theory and practice of hedging against commodity risk, recent volatile fluctuations in crude oil prices in world market have renewed profound interest in examination of existing and development of new hedging models and strategies. In this paper, we propose and develop a methodological framework for applying individual and ensembles of polynomial projection models to hedge against oil commodity price risk. The study also comparatively evaluates the hedging performances of these projection models and benchmarks them against naive hedging, VEC-GARCH model, and the case of no hedging. In addition, the empirical analysis considers a trader's level of risk aversion in commodity hedging as well as the adoption of transaction cost. Our findings indicate promising out-of-sample hedging capability by polynomial projection models. Also, different forms of integrated ensembles of projections outperform individual polynomial projections, suggesting the usefulness of ensemble structure in enhancement of hedging in an uncertain environment.
PROCESS FOR PREPARING DISTAMYCIN DERIVATIVES

A process for preparing distamycin derivatives possessing antitumor activity, by starting from distamycin A itself, is described. The process involves the preparation of the novel intermediates of formula (III).
An Optimal Investment Returns with N-Step Utility Functions

In this paper, we shall validate the optimal payoff of an investment with an N-step utility function, [6, 7], such that H* is the payoff at time N in every possible state say 2n; in an N period market setting. Negative exponential, logarithm, square root and power utility functions were considered as the market structures change according to a Markov chain. These models were used to predict the performances of some selected companies in the Nigeria Capital Market. The estimates for models design parameters p, q, p', q' correspond to halving or doubling of investment. The performance of any utility function is determined by the ratio q: q' of the probability of rising to falling as well as the ratio p: p' of the risk neutral probability measure of rising to the falling.
pH-dependent structure and energetics of H2O/MgO(100)

Abstract The structure and energetics of water on MgO(100) surfaces are studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and density-functional theory (DFT). Computationally, the adsorption of water monomers, small water clusters and water monolayers on MgO(100) surfaces is considered. The calculations predict the non-dissociative adsorption for water monomers. The potential energy surface for single monomers is characterized by very low diffusion barriers. Increasing water coverage leads to the formation of structures containing alternatively dissociated and molecularly adsorbed water molecules. The magnitude of the calculated adsorption energy per water molecule increases from 0.57 eV for the water monomer to 0.79 eV for the water monolayer. The present experimental and theoretical results show furthermore that the stability of MgO(100) surfaces in the presence of water depends on its pH value. The etching of MgO(100) surfaces in aqueous medium is studied with the AFM in situ with pH value changing from basic to acidic. While the atomically flat MgO(100) surface remains stable in basic and neutral pH ranges, it is easily etched when the pH turns below a value of 6. This agrees qualitatively with the present DFT calculations showing that square pits resulting from the etching reduce the MgO(100) surface energy in acidic environments.
Inside NASA's ventilator project

Button looks inside the NASA's ventilator project Early in March, David Van Buren, a flight projects engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA was growing concerned about projections of global ventilator shortages for severely sick covid-19 patients His idea: Put the lab's engineers to work on designing prototype ventilators that manufacturers could then mass produce quickly for the hospitals that would need them as the number of their coronavirus patients climbed The US Food and Drug Administration approved the design on April 30 for emergency use About 100 manufacturers around the world have now asked to license the design at no charge from Caltech, which operates JPL for NASA As of late May, engineers from the design teams were evaluating and scoring the license applications and meeting virtually with applicants in 30-minute sessions to answer questions
A Study on Validation of Fatigue Damage Clustering Analysis Technique Based on Clustering Validation Index

This paper presents the comparative study on two types of the clustering technique for decomposing Variable Amplitude (VA) loadings signals based on its amplitude. These two techniques are used to recognize clusters or patterns of fatigue damaging events in the record which will bring aboutthe majority of fatigue damage. However, one of the problems that existswhencomparing which technique will produce better clusters is the fact thata clustering validation index isneeded. In this study, techniques that were used were theFuzzy C-means and C-means. At first, the VA data weresegmented using the Running Damage Extraction (RDE) technique. Then, each segment produced wasanalysed using the strain life approach and global statistical signal values. Finally, the accuracy of each clustering technique wasmeasured based on the OV coefficient index. From the study, the index shows that the Fuzzy C-means technique produced much better clusters rather than the C-mean clustering technique.
Development and validation of an innovative solar compact selective-water-sorbent-based heating system

The SWS-HEATING project will develop an innovative seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) unit with a novel storage material and creative configuration, i.e. a sorbent material embedded in a compact multi-modular sorption STES unit. This will allow to store and shift the harvested solar energy available abundantly during the summer to the less sunny and colder winter period thus covering a large fraction of heating and domestic hot water demand in buildings. The targeted benefit of this next generation solar heating technology is to reach and overcome a solar fraction of 60% in central/north Europe, reaching 80% in the sunnier south of Europe, with a compact and high-performing STES system at low cost, realising solar-active houses throughout EU.
The SWS-heating system is based on a multi-modular sorption seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) unit, using novel sorbent materials of Selective Water Sorbents (SWS) family characterised by superior heat storage density compared to the state of the art, making it possible to drastically decrease the storage volume with negligible thermal losses. These materials are employed in a sorption module with dedicated heat exchangers. Solar heat is provided to the storage modules by high-efficiency evacuated tube solar thermal collectors. Intensive research activities will deal with an advanced vacuum combi-storage tank, with the aim to further minimise thermal losses. A smart and adaptive control will be developed for efficiently managing heat supply and demand sides, including advanced features aiming at user-friendliness. A building prototype will be commissioned including the SWS-heating system, which will be tested and validated in Germany and Sweden and proof all challenging objectives.
The project also includes dissemination and communication activities to ensure outreach of its results. Moreover, exploitation activities include long-term deployment path development through a technology roadmap.