SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Spectral theory of non-selfadjoint markov processes with applications in self-similarity, branching processes and financial mathematics

The project contextually sets up a novel framework to study the spectral-theoretical properties of classes of non-selfadjoint (NSA) operators related to Markov processes (MP) via their intertwining to a continuous path selfadjoint (SA) MP. Conceptually, this means that the jumps of each class of NSA MP can be considered a perturbation of one SA MP realized by an intertwining kernel. This approach can have far-reaching consequences for understanding classes of MP as the reduction to SA MP leads to well-studied objects whereas the spectral theory of NSA operators is far from understood. The price of that is the non-invertability of the intertwining kernels. This framework is explored and crystallized by a challenging,
detailed spectral-theoretical study of an enormous class of NSA operators directly arising from the key phenomenon of self-similarity and in duality from branching. This is achieved by a synergy of research fields complementing each other to obtain the spectral properties of those operators culminating in the derivation of spectral expansions of the generated semigroups. As a result of this synergy, a number of tools and techniques with impact, including applications to fields beyond the scope of the project, are derived. A particular development in the area of recurrent equations and special functions will be unexpectedly exploited to the effect of a comprehensive theoretical and applied study, including numerical schemes, of
key quantities in financial and insurance mathematics such as Asian options and perpetuities. A training-through-research in line with the fellow’s affiliation to the host institution and the proposed secondment will critically contribute to the optimal completion of the proposal in terms of time, scope and quality.
PHENOL C-ALKYLATION PROCESS

A method for obtaining high purity 2, 6-diisopropylphenol comprises alkylating 4- hydroxybenzoic acid in presence of an acid followed by basification and decarboxylating 4- hydroxy-3, 5-diisopropylbenzoic acid in presence of high boiling solvents and a catalyst at high temperature.
Initial Experience of Single-Incision Thoracoscopic Surgery for 100 Patients with Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax

The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate single-incision thoracoscopic surgery (SITS) for primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP).Among 141 patients who underwent surgery for PSP from July 2009 to December 2013, a total of 100 patients underwent SITS. Their data were examined for clinical characteristics and surgical results.More patients with younger age, female sex, and who had social indications were treated by SITS than by three-port video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). The mean operative time for SITS was 48.8 min. There were no conversions from SITS to three-port VATS or thoracotomy. After SITS, the median duration of chest drainage was 1 day, and the median hospital stay was 2 days. Early complications included one surgical-site infection and one case of air leakage. Four patients (4.0%) had ipsilateral recurrence of PSP.SITS is feasible when performed for selected patients with PSP. Long-term follow-up and further examinations are required to evaluate patient selection, efficacy, and comparability of SITS with conventional open and three-port VATS approaches.
The informational role of political parties in citizens’ opinion formation

Citizens’ opinions about public policy lies at the heart of democracy. A long-standing, but little researched, claim in political science is that political parties provide a vital informational basis that citizens can use to inform their policy opinions. However, current literature shows the opposite: Parties distort citizens’ decision-making and make them dogmatic defenders of their party without caring about policy substance. Therefore, we lack a theory of how – or even if – parties can provide policy information citizens use to inform their opinions. 

This project advances a new research agenda to examine the informational role of political parties in citizens’ opinion formation. The project is not only pioneering in developing a novel theoretical model of when and how citizens use parties to inform their opinions; it also breaks new ground methodologically by combining experiments with a cross-national design. The project is unique in that it integrates macro-level party characteristics with micro-level opinion formation, helping scholars ask new questions and seek novel answers to how parties affect citizens’ opinions.

As key empirical contribution, the project will develop a new survey instrument to offer the first mapping of how citizens view parties’ “policy reputations”; develop and use new measures of citizens’ policy reasoning; conduct a series of innovative survey experiments across party systems to obtain generalizable causal estimates of when and how parties inform opinions across individuals, parties and countries in Western Europe; and implement a panel survey to track how parties inform opinions during a real-world debate.

The project will significantly improve our understanding the relationship between citizens and political parties. Timely and innovative, the project will answer how current transformations of party systems affect citizens’ ability to participate meaningfully in democracy, and if parties still play a role in that process.
A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic  Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of pressing socio-ecological issues.

Project activities
Danube:Future is a multi-year program (2013-2020). It consists of three modules: (a) core, (b) capacity building and (c) sustainability related research with a long-term socio-ecological component.  The Core will create the DRB-Sustainability Knowledge Base as main output, including the DF WIKI.

Danube:Future is a unique combination of regional, national and supra-national initiatives in interdisciplinary sustainability research with training and capacity building. It contributes to the sustainable development of the Danube River Basin (DRB) with a particular focus on the contribution of humanities.

Danube:Future was born as a Flagship Project of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). While Danube:Future is a contribution to Priority Area 7, “To develop the knowledge society:research, education and ICT”, it has strong links to other Pillars and Priority Areas.Results will be useful for the restoration and maintenance of the quality of waters, for the management of environmental risks and for the preservation of biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air and soils. Danube:Future is an investment on people and skills, with a particular contribution to culture and tourism.

The main focus areas for intervention in the DRB as identified by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) are well covered by Danube:Future. The long-term and interdisciplinary perspective will support an efficient protection of water resources as well as the reduction of eutrophication and toxic chemical releases by revealing legacies of past activities. Together with flood risk mitigation this will contribute to creating healthy and sustainable river systems
Contextualizing interventions with battered women in collectivist societies: Issues and controversies

Several models and modalities of intervention with battered women have been developed over the past three decades. The common assumptions underlying these interventions include: violence and abuse are never appropriate in intimate relationships; battered women have a non-negotiable right to safety; the women's strengths and competencies should be emphasized rather than their weaknesses and problems; and battered women should be helped to understand how the social and familial contexts in which they are considered inferior citizens and family members contribute to violence against them. These interventions, as well as the principles and philosophies that underlie them, have been developed and implemented in individualistic, Western, and post-industrial societies. Hence, their suitability for implementation among battered women from collectivist and less developed societies has been called into question. In this article, the conceptual framework proposed by Triandis, Brislin, and Hui (1988) is used as the basis for exploring the characteristics of collectivist societies and their relevance to interventions with battered women. In addition, some issues, controversies, and dilemmas that can arise in those interventions are discussed. The article concludes with an epilogue that provides suggestions for further research on these issues and controversies.
Water Management Strategies against Water Scarcity in the Alps

The main challenges of this project are to create local Early Warning Systems against Water Scarcity in the Alps based on sound and perennial monitoring and modelling and anchored strongly and actively within a Stakeholder Forum linked across comparative and contrasting regions across the Alps. The Early Warning System is based on the linkage and improvement of field monitoring and assemblage of qualitative and quantitative data derived from anthropogenic water use in selected pilot regions in France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland. The aims are to implement water management at the short term (annual) scale as well as the long term (future scenarios) scale based on modelling under climate change and anthropogenic scenarios. Future water shortages should be prognosed and prevented by innovative measures of mitigation and adaptation. Awareness raising and stakeholder interaction will form an important part of problem identification, participation in the project, dissemination of results and implementation of new approaches.
Varieties of state interventionism in financial policy in the aftermath of the 2008 global crisis

Abstract Thanks to lessons learned and reforms implemented after the financial crises of the late 1990s, most emerging market economies proved relatively resilient to the 2008 global crisis. Yet to cope with the turbulence that ensued, several interventions by monetary authorities in foreign exchange and capital markets were carried out. The literature on Latin American financial systems and central bank reform tends to emphasize international actors and pressures as key determinants of policy change. In contrast, this paper raises the hypothesis that domestic concerns were the main drivers of financial policymaking after the 2008 crisis even in countries with different institutional arrangements and macroeconomic trajectories such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Through a comparative case study analysis, it is concluded that indeed the three countries’ approaches to exchange markets and capital controls contradicted international perceptions and even the IMF’s stance on foreign exchange policies and the management of capital flows. By pursuing more autonomy and responding to domestic priorities, each of the three countries adopted different policy measures.
Cold ion chemistry - experiments within a rydberg orbit

To date no experiment has investigated ion-molecule reactions at temperatures significantly below about 20 K, for two reasons: (i) Cooling the translational and internal degrees of freedom of ions and molecules is extremely challenging. (ii) Even very weak stray electric fields accelerate the ions. A potential difference of only 1 mV across the reaction volume imparts a kinetic energy of 1 meV to ions, which corresponds to a temperature of about 12 K. Quantum mechanical effects arising from the translational and the frozen or hindered rotational motion of the reactants in the intermolecular potential are only expected to be significant below 20 K and have therefore not been observed yet in ion-molecule reactions, even for reactions involving the lightest ions and molecules. This proposal aims at developing a new experimental method to study ion-molecule reactions at temperatures down to 100 mK and to study ion-molecule reactions involving light species, with particular emphasis placed on the observation and quantification of quantum effects in low-temperature ion-molecule chemistry. To reach this goal, we will study the ion-molecule reactions within the orbit of a highly excited Rydberg electron, which will shield the reaction from stray fields without affecting its outcome. To reach very low collision energies, we will use a merged-beam approach relying on a surface-electrode Rydberg-Stark deflector. In the preparatory phase of this proposal, we have carried out a proof-of-principle measurement of the H2+ + H2 -> H3+ + H reaction below 1 K using a simplified version of the ""ideal"" instrument and demonstrated the feasibility of our method. We now plan to exploit the full potential of our new approach and study important ion-molecule reactions in a temperature range thought until now to be experimentally inaccessible.
A HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE WITH A COMPRESSOR ROOM

The present invention proposes a household appliance (100) comprising an inner liner (80), an insulation volume (70) which is adapted to receive an insulation material to at least partly surround the inner liner (80), a member (10) adapted to form an assembly (50) with a cover (20) for defining at least a first side of a compressor housing (90), thereby separating said compressor housing (90) from the insulation volume (70); said member (10) being further adapted to substantially define a fixed position to the cover (20) relative to the inner liner (80), wherein an attachment between the member (10) and the cover (20) is arranged to be over a snap fit connection.
Graphene to fight antimicrobial resistance

Today, antimicrobial resistance is emerging as a global burden, endangering our lives. Drug-resistant pathogens kill about 25,000 infected people solely in the European Union every year. In the fight against this crisis, rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) plays a crucial role. Although effective in discerning the right concentration of antibiotics required to inhibit the growth of a pathogen, conventional AST techniques are not fit for point-of-care, since they are slow and require large microbial inocula.   
The advent of graphene, and the ability to fabricate one-atom thick membranes, has made it possible to make miniaturised sensors that are extremely sensitive to nanoscale forces. During the research project ENIGMA carried out in the framework of the ERC Starting Grant no. 802093, we have developed a methodology that can probe nanomechanical motion of graphene membranes in the presence of bacterial cells.  Here, I propose to further validate this technology and realize a proof-of-concept demonstrator that offers automated high throughput AST using massively parallelized graphene membranes. By eliminating the need for culturing large number of bacterial cells, GRAPHFITI has the potential to shift the current paradigm of AST technologies towards the use of atomically thin membranes with single bacterial cell sensitivity, thus enabling diagnostic tools for fast point-of-care screening of antimicrobial resistance.
Planning sustainable regional-Urban Mobility in the Alpine Space

Alpine Space cities face common urban mobility challenges which call for innovative and cost-effective mobility solutions. PUMAS offers these solutions: It coordinates the development of the sustainable regional-urban mobility planning (SUMP) concept which the European Commission strongly promotes and, in its 2011 Transport White Paper, even suggests as a mandatory approach. The PUMAS partnership is a complementary consortium aiming to: advance SUMP – which focuses on participation, integration, evaluation, and cost internalisation – as a new paradigm in mobility planning; to develop, implement and evaluate 7 pilot actions using SUMP methods and tools; to generate best practices and lessons for others in the Alpine Space and beyond; to improve the awareness, exchange, coordination and development of regional-urban mobility plans (freight and passenger) through an innovative communication platform; and to create the ‘Alpine SUMP Community’ and the ‘Alpine Reference Point for SUMP’, thus guaranteeing sustainability beyond the lifetime of the project.
An autonomous and mobile water treatment plant powered by solar energy

Water and energy are highly interdependent and are both crucial to human well-being and sustainable socio-economic development. In 2014, the UN reports that 768 million people worldwide still do not have access to a safe source of drinking water, and more than 1.3 billion lack access to electricity.
We have developed the Watly® unit with the goal of providing a solution for fast, simple and efficient wastewater treatment and energy supply in developing and/or remote regions. Watly combines cutting-edge technologies to offer i) complete sanitation for well, surface ground, sea or recycled rain water, ii) off-grid electricity from solar energy and iii) Wi-Fi internet connectivity, all in one portable autonomous unit.
Watly embodies the ambition of a European company to address a global market. The wide range of customers worldwide that could benefit from this all-in-one solution include diverse market segments such as: Governments and public institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and foundations, mobile hospitals, military organizations, hotels/resorts/businesses in remote destinations, massive open-air events, oil platforms, gas/oil & construction sites, etc.
Scale-up beyond our current prototypes and industrialization of the production process is the key to growth and expansion of our company taking advantage of a new market opportunity. In order to do so, we are applying for SME Instrument Phase 1 funds to: (i) elaborate an exhaustive technical feasibility study focused on scale-up beyond our current prototypes, design and industrialization of the final commercial unit of Watly-L; (ii) elaborate a detailed business plan for the commercialization of Watly-L at the conclusion of the envisaged Phase 2 project. If the results of the feasibility study, both from the technical and commercial point of view, are positive, we will proceed to apply for Phase 2 funds in order to carry out the abovementioned scale-up, product refinement and industrialization tasks.
METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR RIBOSOMAL SYNTHESIS OF MACROCYCLIC PEPTIDES

Methods and compositions are provided for generating macrocyclic peptides from genetically encoded, ribosomally produced polypeptide precursors. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, and methods for generating combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic peptides. These methods can be used to produce vast libraries of conformationally constrained peptide ligands as well as facilitate the functional screening of these libraries to identify compound(s) with desired activity properties.
Hospital visits due to domestic violence from 1994 to 2011 in the Solomon Islands: a descriptive case series.

The Solomon Islands has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. This paper is a descriptive case series of all cases of domestic violence presenting to the Solomon Islands National Referral Hospital (NRH) over 18 years. Data were routinely collected from a database of all patients who were treated by NRH general surgery and orthopedic clinicians between 1994 and 2011, inclusive. The total number of cases in the injury database as a result of domestic violence was 387. The average number of cases in the database per year from 1994 to 2011 was 20. There were 6% more female patients (205 of 387; 53%) than male (182 of 387; 47%). Of the cases in which the perpetrator of the violence against a female patient was specified (111 of 205 female cases), 74% (82 of 111) were the patient's husband. Only 5% (5 of 111) of cases in females were inflicted by another female. This analysis provides the best available information on domestic violence cases requiring a visit to a tertiary hospital in a Pacific Island in the specified time period and is undoubtedly an under-estimate of the total cases of domestic violence. Preventing and treating domestic violence in the Solomon Islands and in the Pacific is an important challenge and there is a significant role for secondary and tertiary health services in screening for and preventing domestic violence.
GARELLO ANTONIO

A BATHING ESTABLISHMENT IS A TOURIST FACILITY LOCATED NEAR A BEACH, EQUIPPED WITH ROOMS AND EQUIPMENT THAT OFFER SERVICES AND WELCOME TO BATHERS, THE ESTABLISHMENT IS LOCATED IN ALASSIO. IT IS MANAGED BY THE HOLDER WITH A LIFEGUARD PATENT AND BY AN ADJUVANT ALSO WITH A LIFEGUARD PATENT. THE ESTABLISHMENT CONSISTS OF 26 LIGHT MASONRY CABINS, 3 STORAGE CABINS, 1 OFFICE USE AND IS USUALLY FURNISHED BY 66 UMBRELLAS WITH 430 SQUARE METERS OF ENSLAVED BEACH AND A TOTAL OF 548 SQUARE METERS OF PLANT.
La Hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná como corpus iuris aquarum

El interés concitado por la licitación y posterior concesión de la vía fluvial Paraná, Río de la Plata, Magdalena, genera un espacio óptimo para referirnos a la hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná desde la perspectiva jurídica y, más enfáticamente, desde la triple óptica del Derecho Internacional Público, del Derecho de Aguas y del Derecho Ambiental. Esas tres ramas de la enciclopedia jurídica forman el marco teórico sobre el que descansa el presente trabajo. La perspectiva internacional se justifica porque la hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná es parte de una cuenca transfronteriza entre cinco países que, a su vez, integran el Mercosur (con Bolivia en proceso de adhesión plena). El abordaje ambiental no puede estar ausente por cuanto se trata de uno de los derechos y garantías consagrados por la Constitución Nacional de cada uno de los ribereños. El objetivo específico de esta investigación es indagar sobre el grado de coherencia y robustez de ese conjunto normativo y, en razón de ello, colegir que componen un corpus iuris aquarum aplicable a la hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná.