SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Clustering in U.K. home price volatility

In the wake of the 2007–09 global financial crisis, there has been heightened interest in correctly gauging the probability of large losses on assets, particularly house prices. If an asset exhibits GARCH effects in its returns, there is a much higher probability of large losses during volatile periods than standard mean-variance analysis indicates. While there has been much research on regional home prices in the United Kingdom, the focus has been on the conditional mean and convergence rather than on the possibility of GARCH effects and volatility clustering. The findings of this study reveal that the majority of U.K. regions indeed exhibit GARCH effects, and these GARCH effects have heterogeneous impacts on returns across regions. The existence of these GARCH effects in the majority of the U.K. regions has many important implications, ranging from proper portfolio management to government policy.
Open Source software usage by European Public Administrations

FOSS represents a potential of significant competitiveness gains of its adopters, both for public administrations as well as citizens and companies. As a result, it is of vital importance to examine how and whether appropriate public policies can alleviate barriers and inhibitors rendering the potential benefits of FOSS actual ones and enhancing the competitiveness of European economies.

Public administrations can play a unique role as a catalyst force in demonstrating the value of FOSS and in removing legal and organisational obstacles and inhibitors by acting as early adopters. OSEPA aims to explore this potential through interregional cooperation and to cultivate a debate among public administrations in this direction with a view to:
• Analyse, promote knowledge and foster awareness on the main benefits and disadvantages, cost evidence and effectiveness resulting from FOSS adoption and use.
• Explore, identify, build consensus on the framework conditions enabling FOSS
to become a technically, financially, legally viable alternative offering of IT solutions.
• Explore, identify, build consensus on and promote European, national and regional policies and approaches that may facilitate the emergence of FOSS as a mature and viable business model.
• Promote awareness, exchange and disseminate knowledge, good practice and case studies regarding  technical, financial and legal aspects of FOSS adoption by European public administrations in order to reduce uncertainty, inertia and resistance-to-change that limit experimentation and adoption of FOSS software.
• Discuss and promote the adoption of internal policies, mission statements, methodologies and action plans facilitating European public administrations to experiment, exploit and benefit from FOSS solutions.
Piston pump

Between valve block (6) and drive mechanism of a pump, angularly movable oscillating line pipes (8) are arranged which connect the working chambers of the plunger (3) to the pump working chambers (7) arranged between intake and pressure valves. When pumping hot media to the drive mechanism (1), a temperature drop occurs inside the oscillating line pipes (8) so that the seals (5) of the plunger (3) are exposed only to relatively low temperatures. So that the valve block (6) expanding from the drive mechanism (1) under the thermal load does not transmit any inadmissible transverse forces to the cylinder parts (4) of the plunger (3), a transverse web (12) providing intermediate support for the oscillating line pipes (8) is arranged which, through interaction with the valve block (6) forces the oscillating line pipes (8) into variably separated relative positions in such a way that the ends of the oscillating line pipes (8) on the drive mechanism side have an almost constant transverse separation (S). <IMAGE>
Study on Feasibility on Flows Analysis

The general aim of the study is to deepen some analytical elements of existing ESPON projects, with regards to the use of flows data. It will try to answer the following key research questions: what are the implications of the integration of flow data? Which flows and how flows can be integrated into future ESPON analysis? Finally, it will try to assess which types of flows are possible to integrate into future ESPON applied research.

In this perspective, the study will seek to review the discussion on flows between territories and the actual state of the art of data availability and methodologies for flow analysis. It will also provide insights on the actual meaning of findings deriving from the possible flow analysis investigated, and on what this type of analysis can add to current ESPON research. The study will consider the following 7 type of flows, which are considered of key relevance for spatial analysis at European scale, i.e. trade flows, as well as financial, migration, transport, commuter, information and environmental flows. A series of case studies will be conducted to illustrate the potential of this type of analysis for the enrichment of territorial analysis in ESPON.

The study has to be seen as a "pilot project", aiming at giving deeper understanding of the complexity of the scientific questions related to the theme, and proposing possible research directions for more detailed research projects, which may be carried out within the realm of ESPON II.
Tailorfit; the integrated “made to measure” workflow automation for menswear

The project targets all luxury fashion firms that specifically manufacture classic menswear clothing (i.e. shirts, jackets, pants, coats...) and propose its personalisation. On one hand, personalisation is a great opportunity to provide the final clients with the cloths they desire, but on the other luxury fashion houses are facing the increasing need of having some automated solutions that will help them in creating ""customized product"" in a faster lead time. In fact all fashion houses manufacturing menswear are focused on providing Made to Measure products to their customers, because it increases their revenues, but at the same time this also increases their costs.  An integrated and automated management of the whole value chain will decrease the lead time, increase customization application and decrease costs.
Crea Solution Srl proposes the TailorFit solution that will dramatically accelerate the timing of the whole process, by managing every step of the cloths manufacturing: 1) Acquisition of body measures and selection of the type of clothing, collected in a store anywhere in the world or online, 2) Outfit design: data are sent to an intelligent CAD-based system that will generate the optimal person-tailored outfit design starting from the chosen cloths model, 3) Outfit manufacturing: a software will identify the optimized fabric cut according to the tissue and its physical characteristics (i.e. the deformation of the fabric) and then will cut it rapidly allowing time and fabric savings. 
TailorFit solution is innovative compared to existing ones as those do not provide the management of the entire process, but rather they separate it into parts, do not allow customers to have an integration with the web, do not handle the perfect cut of fabrics and cutting times are operational only for striped fabrics and paintings.
Study of curved wing crack path by theory and testing methods

Based on the research of the propagation paths of the wing cracks under uniaxial compression by the methods of experiments and numerical simulation. It is found that the wing crack extend along a curved path and gradually approximate to the line which passes the middle point of the main crack and is parallel to the direction of maximum principal stress. According to the geometric characteristics of the wing crack paths, a hyperbolic equation is set up to describe the curved paths of wing cracks approximately. In the equation, the unknown parameters are determined by the crack initiation angle, the crack length and the angle between the direction of the maximum principal stress and the crack surface. Then the comparative analysis of the paths by the hyperbolic equation and the experiments is made; and the results show that the paths by the hyperbolic equation are in concordance with those by experiments, so as to prove that the hyperbolic equation can be used to describe the propagation paths of wing cracks under compression. Furthermore, the stress intensity factors along the hyperbolic path are calculated by ABAQUS; then the extending loads of the wing cracks are analyzed. Through comparing with the experiment results, it is found that the extending loads by the hyperbolic wing cracks fit better with ones by the experiments so as to show validity of the results in the paper.
Artificial intelligence for lyrics comprehension

The age of machine learning and data analytics have changed the habits of entertainment. Recommendation systems have been improving in the last years, with relevant commercial purposes, and many top-level companies –such as Amazon, Google or Netflix- are investing high amounts of money in improving their algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. The case of music has been especially relevant, as the market has drastically changed in the last 10 years, moving towards a user-centric streaming model, where user preferences make the difference and dynamic playlists are the key of streaming success. Recommenders are built based on three main strategies: 
1) similarities between songs that are identified by their soundwaves; 
2) classification using conventional tags for songs, such as author, genre, period or, in some cases, mood; and 
3) collaborative tagging by users. 
In this context, song lyrics (the text of songs) are barely considered for the improvement of these strategies. Moreover, recommendations based on lyrics are done by hand with uneven criteria and filters. This Proof of Concept proposes the creation of an AI based recommendation engine (i.e. web service API) for analyzing song lyrics using POSTDATA ERC Project algorithms as its technical scaffold. Natural Language Processing tools for poetry analysis will be used to build a web service API to process lyrics and extract knowledge as additional metadata to enrich the companies´recommender systems. This approach will open an exciting opportunity to contribute to boosting the music entertainment world using artificial intelligence and language technologies.
A PROTECTIVE COVER

A multi-channel protective cover (1; 2; 15; 18; 23) is provided for lifting slings, ropes and similar elongate structures that are used in tandem. The cover (1; 2; 15; 18; 23) comprises a multi-ply woven tubular structure that is openable in use to provide at least two adjacent, woven-in sleeves (3). The sleeves (3) are each adapted to accommodate one of the elongate structures and separated from one at one or more locations A by a seam (12) formed by at least one serpentine stitcher thread (10, 11) that is woven between the plies (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) of the structure during weaving of the structure. Preferably, there are two serpentine stitcher threads (10, 11) in each seam (12) and each serpentine stitcher thread (10, 11) interlocks the plies (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) of the structure along the length of the cover (1; 2; 15; 18; 23) by being woven in an S-shaped path between picks (5) in the plies (6a, 6b) forming an upper wall part (9a) of each sleeve (3) and corresponding picks (5) in the plies (6c, 6d) forming a lower wall part (9b) of each sleeve (3).
A case study of paired interleaving for evaluating code search techniques

Source code search tools are designed to help developers locate code relevant to their task. The effectiveness of a search technique often depends on properties of user queries, the code being searched, and the specific task at hand. Thus, new code search techniques should ideally be evaluated in realistic situations that closely reflect the complexity, purpose of use, and context encountered during actual search sessions. This paper explores what can be learned from using an online paired interleaving approach, originally used for evaluating internet search engines, to comparatively observe and assess the effectiveness of code search tools in the field. We present a case study in which we implemented online paired interleaving for code search, deployed the tool in an IDE for developers at multiple companies, and analyzed results from over 300 user queries during their daily software maintenance tasks. We leveraged the results to direct further improvement of a search technique, redeployed the tool and analyzed results from over 600 queries to validate that an improvement in search was achieved in the field. We also report on the characteristics of user queries collected during the study, which are significantly different than queries currently used in evaluations.
Efficient co-electrolyser for efficient renewable energy storage - eco

The overall goal of ECo is to develop and validate a highly efficient co-electrolysis process for conversion of excess renewable electricity into distributable and storable hydrocarbons via simultaneous electrolysis of steam and CO2 through SOEC (Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells) thus moving the technology from technology readiness level (TRL) 3 to 5.
In relation to the work program, ECo will specifically:
• Develop and prove improved solid oxide cells (SOEC) based on novel cell structure including electrode backbone structures and infiltration and design of electrolyte/electrode interfaces to achieve high performances and high efficiencies at ~100 oC lower operating temperatures than state-of-the-art in order to reduce thermally activated degradation processes, to improve integration with hydrocarbon production, and to reduce overall costs.
• Investigate durability under realistic co-electrolysis operating conditions that include dynamic electricity input from fluctuating sources with the aim to achieve degradation rates below 1%/1000 h at stack level under relevant operating conditions.
• Design a plant to integrate the co-electrolysis with fluctuating electricity input and catalytic processes for hydrocarbon production, with special emphasis on methanation (considering both external and internal) and perform selected validation tests under the thus needed operating conditions.
• Test a co-electrolysis system under realistic conditions for final validation of the obtained results at larger scale.
• Demonstrate economic viability for overall process efficiencies exceeding 60% using results obtained in the project for the case of storage media such as methane and compare to traditional technologies with the aim to identify critical performance parameters that have to be improved.
Perform a life cycle assessment with CO2 from different sources (cement industry or biogas) and electricity from preferably renewable sources to prove the recycling potential of the concept
VARIABLE IMPEDANCE SCHEME FOR PROVIDING HIGH SPEED WIRED COMMUNICATION

The various embodiments herein provide a system and method to provide a high speed data transmission over a wired network. The system comprising a transmitting end, a first electrical circuitry provided at the transmitting end to generate an electrical disturbance according to an input signal received from a source network, a receiving end, a second electrical circuitry provided at the receiving end to detect a signal disturbance, to amplify the signal and to regenerate the transmitted signal data from the received signal and a wired network interconnecting the transmitting end and the receiving end. The generated disturbance is transmitted over the wired network using a single conductor as positive spikes, negative spikes or as signals closely resembling the input signal. The receiving end employs a line disturbance detection scheme without necessarily requiring a common ground connection.
Advanced materials and processes to improve performance and cost-efficiency of shallow geothermal systems and underground thermal storage

The 75% of the EU building stock is energy inefficient. Buildings hold a large untapped potential for renewables and energy efficiency in order to decarbonise the EU economy, to ensure security of supply and to provide cost savings to EU households and businesses alike. In this context, Shallow Geothermal Energy Systems (SGES) are a stable, reliable and renewable energy source with some key features compared to many other RES: being available everywhere and being capable of providing not only heating, but also cooling with unparalleled efficiency. Amongst SGES, closed loop systems with vertical Borehole Heat Exchangers enjoy the widest deployment in the EU where the total installed number of GSHP units amounts nowadays to about 1,4 million, representing an installed capacity of about 16.500 MWth. Against this background, there is still a need to remove market barriers and gain competitiveness, but also to develop the next generation of geothermal systems with new materials for penetrating further the market of building construction and renovation. Also the area of District Heating and Cooling needs improved heating and cooling storage technologies which could largely benefit from enhanced Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) technologies. By a smart combination of different material solutions under the umbrella of sophisticated engineering, optimization, testing and on-site validation, GEOCOND will develop solutions to increase the thermal performance of the different subsystems configuring an SGES and UTES. An overall cost reduction of about 25% is the overall aim, leading to a substantial gain in competitiveness. GEOCOND, with a unique consortium of Companies and leading Reseach Institutions in the area of SGES and Materials, will focus on four key development areas in a synergeic and system-wide approach: development of new pipe materials, advanced grouting additives and concepts, advanced Phase Change Materials and system-wide simulation and optimization.
Cell membrane training to advance industrial processes

All organisms, from bacteria to humans are made of cells surrounded by membranes, which define them, separating them from their environment. Membranes precisely control what enters and leaves cells and how cells interact with each other and molecules in their environment. All these processes are fundamental to life; by harnessing and understanding them, we have the potential to influence human and animal health and disease, and generate improved microorganisms for biotechnological applications in the food, chemical and drug sectors. The membrane has traditionally proven relatively intractable to study, mainly due to its hydrophobic nature. However, recent technological and methodological advances, with key inputs by Aston University, have enabled this field to progress rapidly. There is now an urgent need for increased research training in this area. There is established and emerging evidence for the involvement of the membrane in a wide variety of industrially-relevant processes, encompassed by MemTrain’s three core themes of medicines discovery, biotechnology and underpinning technology development.  MemTrain is a five-year multidisciplinary, intersectoral PhD training programme for 12 PhD researchers. This programme will train the next generation of researchers who are primed to work on developing a new understanding of how to harness the full potential of cell membranes by working the interface of industrial and academic science. To work across these traditional boundaries, researchers will require a diverse skillset enabling them not only to undertake fundamental research but to apply this knowledge to current real-world problems underpinned by excellent communication and transferable skills. Innovative, collaborative training programmes within MemTrain will equip these research leaders with these vital skills, allowing them to drive the future of intersectoral research across Europe and the world.
A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and cepheids

We propose to carry out a project which will produce a decisive step towards improving the accuracy of the Hubble constant as determined from the Cepheid-SN Ia method to 1%, by using 28 extremely rare eclipsing binary systems in the LMC which offer the potential to determine their distances to 1%. To achieve this accuracy we will reduce the main error in the binary method by interferometric angular diameter measurements of a sample of red clump stars which resemble the stars in our binary systems. We will check on our calibration with similar binary systems close enough to determine their orbits from interferometry. We already showed the feasibility of our method which yielded the best-ever distance determination to the LMC of 2.2% from 8 such binary systems. With 28 systems and the improved angular diameter calibration we will push the LMC distance uncertainty down to 1% which will allow to set the zero point of the Cepheid PL relation with the same accuracy using the large available LMC Cepheid sample. We will determine the metallicity effect on Cepheid luminosities by a) determining a 2% distance to the more metal-poor SMC with our binary method, and by b) measuring the distances to LMC and SMC with an improved Baade-Wesselink (BW) method. We will achieve this improvement by analyzing 9 unique Cepheids in eclipsing binaries in the LMC our group has discovered which allow factor- of-ten improvements in the determination of all basic physical parameters of Cepheids. These studies will also increase our confidence in the Cepheid-based H0 determination. Our project bears strong synergy to the Gaia mission by providing the best checks on possible systematic uncertainties on Gaia parallaxes with 200 binary systems whose distances we will measure to 1-2%. We will provide two unique tools for 1-3 % distance determinations to individual objects in a volume of 1 Mpc, being competitive to Gaia already at a distance of 1 kpc from the Sun.
ROBOT FOR CHANGING AND MOVING A GAS CYLINDER

The present invention describes a home robot to help persons with reduced mobility, the elderly or any person who does not wish to make an effort, to dismount, mount and move a gas cylinder. This robot comprises a body (1), a movement system (2), a power source (3), a mounting and dismounting system (4), a lifting system (5) and a control system (6).
PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL AND STRING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

One aspect of the invention relates to a photovoltaic cell (1) comprising: - an edge (3); - a conductive interconnection track (4) extending parallel to and less than 1.3 mm from the edge (3); and - a plurality of electrodes (5) referred to as "collection fingers", extending parallel to each other and electrically connected to the interconnection track (4); the conductive interconnection track (4) comprising a plurality of closed-contour conductive patterns (6) spaced apart from each other, each closed-contour conductive pattern (6) comprising a closed contour (7) surrounding a portion of the first face (2a).
Effect analysis of finasteride and metformin combination therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia in elderly diabetic

Objective To investigate the effect of finasteride and combination therapy with metformin in elderly diabetic patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Methods Seventy-five cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia patients with diabetes mellitus in this group were selected from April 2012 to September 2013 in our hospital, they used finasteride metformin therapy, the clinical results after and before treatment were compared with statistical methods. Results The international prostate symptom score, quality of life score, prostate volume, prostate-specific antigen, residual urine volume, body mass index and triglycerides after treatment were lower than before treatment, the maximum flow rate was higher than before treatment, there were significant difference between after and before treatment(P 0.05). Conclusion Finasteride combined metformin hydrochloride for benign prostatic hyperplasia patients with diabetes have better clinical results, the two drugs with synergistic effect can be used in clinical practice.