SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
The role of air modeling on the numerical investigation of coastal dynamics and wave-structure interactions

Abstract The paper presents a numerical investigation on the role of air modeling in simulations related to coastal dynamics. The implemented code, named COBRAS2, solves the Favre–Reynolds Navier–Stokes equations for two-phase flows. The k – ∊ model is adopted to define the Reynolds stress; the polytropic expression is chosen as the gas state equation to describe air compressibility; the Volume Of Fluid algorithm is implemented in order to track the interface. Simulations of dam-break wave and 1D water piston illustrate the model validity and accuracy, where air inertia and compressibility play a significant role in the reproduced dynamics. Wave breaking is analyzed in comparison with experimental data in order to focus on the influence of air flow in the wave propagation. Finally, air entrapment and compressibility are investigated during the wave impact on deck and on vertical wall and the opportunity to solve the implemented two-phase equations is discussed together with the aim to obtain accurate estimation of wave-induced loads.
Smile - small innovative launcher for europe

Current launchers (ARIANE6 and VEGA C) will guarantee Europe’s independent access to space for the high-end satellite market. These launchers however are significantly less attractive for classes of smaller satellites.
  
The SMILE initiative therefore addresses reliable, affordable, quick and frequent access to space for the emerging market of small satellites up to 50 kg, fulfilling the needs from the European space RTD community and commercial initiatives to put satellites into preferred orbits within a preferred time window. Herewith a market niche is addressed, which is projected to grow significantly in the coming decades and presently lacks availability of a European launcher. 

The project focuses on research and innovation to obtain European solutions enabling the development and realization of such a launcher system. Main objectives are to:
• develop a concept for an innovative, cost-effective European launcher system for small satellites (target price below 50.000 Euro/kg)
• design a Europe-based ground facility for these launcher systems
• increase the Technology Readiness Level of several critical technologies required for such a launcher including the development and demonstration of component prototypes
• create a roadmap defining the development plan for the launcher system from a technical operational and economical perspective

These objectives are achieved through combined research into a novel and innovative launcher system following a multidisciplinary concurrent engineering design and optimization approach. The overall design and development process encompasses technology and process advances aiming at cost reduction, such as series production, re-usability, and the applicability of European industrial grade components. 

The consortium is composed of organizations in relevant fields from eight European countries, from well-established and experienced SMEs to young and innovative start-ups.
List-learning and verbal memory profiles in childhood epilepsy syndromes

Findings of material-specific influences on memory performance in pediatric epilepsy are inconsistent and merit further investigation. This study compared 90 children (aged 6years to 16years) with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) to determine whether they displayed distinct list-learning and verbal memory profiles on the California Verbal Learning Test - Children's Version (CVLT-C). Group comparison identified greater risk of memory impairment in children with TLE and FLE syndromes but not for those with CAE. While children with TLE performed worst overall on Short Delay Free Recall, groups with TLE and FLE performed similarly on Long Delay Free Recall. Contrast indices were then employed to explore these differences. Children with TLE demonstrated a significantly greater retroactive interference (RI) effect compared with groups with FLE and CAE. Conversely, children with FLE demonstrated a significantly worse learning efficiency index (LEI), which compares verbal memory following repetition with initial recall of the same list, than both children with TLE and CAE. These findings indicated shallow encoding related to attentional control for children with FLE and retrieval deficits in children with TLE. Finally, our combined sample showed significantly higher rates of extreme contrast indices (i.e., 1.5 SD difference) compared with the CVLT-C standardization sample. These results underscore the high prevalence of memory dysfunction in pediatric epilepsy and offer support for distinct patterns of verbal memory performance based on childhood epilepsy syndrome.
Regulation of plant development and crop management through chloride nutrition: a novel tool to improve water- and nitrogen-use efficiency

Drought greatly reduces crop productivity and global food security, and is becoming more frequent and severe under climate change. Excessive nitrate fertilization is the main source of water pollution, and due to the enormous energy and carbon cost of industrial fertilizer production, is a major cause of global warming. Therefore, it is critical to understand how to optimize the use of water and nitrogen for plant production and crop yield. Chloride (Cl−), although traditionally considered a toxic ion for agriculture, has emerged as a beneficial macronutrient for plant growth due to its roles in water relations and photosynthesis, recently discovered by the host group. The current project proposes a unique integration of approaches (from molecular to ecophysiological) in tomato, a model crop of great economic value, with the aim to enhance fundamental knowledge of how Cl− modulates the effects of water management on plant development, photosynthesis, turgor maintenance, yield and drought resistance. Our major objectives are to provide new knowledge on i) the role of Cl− homeostasis on plant development, and ii) its relevance on plant improvement of water- and nitrogen-use efficiency, and iii) transfer this knowledge to the practical management of a crop. These objectives will integrate state-of-the-art process-based models of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance into a mechanistic whole-plant model that includes frontline phenotyping. This novel and multidisciplinary project will be carried out by an applicant with strong scientific expertise in plant molecular physiology and agriculture, who perfectly matches the proposed project, and it will be implemented in a laboratory with an internationally recognized excellence in the study of crop water stress and precision agriculture. This combination provides a unique scientific platform for the research training of the applicant and the development of frontline research in Plant Sciences and Agriculture.
PRELIMINARY ECOLOGOCAL STUDY OF Rhizobium : SELECTION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT MUTANTS OF Rhizobium PMA295 NODULATING Sesbania sesban

This study was designed to provide strain for studying the ecology of Rhizobium when it was used to inoculate seed sown in the soil or in the field. Naturally occurring antibiotic resistant mutant strains of Rhizobium PMA295 nodulating Sesbania sesban were selected by antibiotic selection method. The isolates should be as effective  in nitrogen fixation as the parental  wild-type strain. Authentication of mutant isolates showed that these rifampicin mutant isolates could nodulate test plant and most nodules formed by the rifampicin 50 ppm and streptomycin 500 ppm mutant isolates were red in colour. These twenty isolates can be regarded as rhizobia. The most effective mutant, isolates PMA295 selected on rifampicin 50 ppm was also resistant to rifampicin 60, 70, 80, and 90 ppm. The effectiveness of most mutant strains was not significantly different from their parent strains. The rifampicin 50 ppm mutant strain of Rhizobium PMA295 could be used as inoculant for ecological study.
Early Results from the QweakExperiment

A subset of results from the recently completed Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment are reported. This experiment, sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model, exploits the small parity-violating asymmetry in elastic ep scattering to provide the first determination of the protons weak charge Qweak(p). The experiment employed a 180 uA longitudinally polarized 1.16 GeV electron beam on a 35 cm long liquid hydrogen target. Scattered electrons corresponding to Q2 of 0.025 GeV2 were detected in eight Cerenkov detectors arrayed symmetrically around the beam axis. The goals of the experiment were to provide a measure of Qweak(p) to 4.2 percent (combined statistical and systematic error), which implies a measure of sin2(thetaw) at the level of 0.3 percent, and to help constrain the vector weak quark charges C1u and C1d. The experimental method is described, with particular focus on the challenges associated with the worlds highest power LH2 target. The new constraints on C1u and C1d provided by the subset of the experiments data analyzed to date will also be shown, together with the extracted weak charge of the neutron.
Personalised medicine trials

Scientific excellence, and acceptance by health authorities of results derived from research on personalised medicine require standards ensuring validity and reproducibility. The objective of PERMIT is to establish, with all relevant stakeholders and invited experts, recommendations ensuring the robustness of personalised medicine trials, which also requires validation of the stratification methods. In a series of workshops participants, partners and selected experts will address the various aspects of methodology, design, data management, analysis and interpretation in personalised medicine research programmes, with the objective to reach consensus and publish recommendations. A mapping of the literature will inventory methodological practice in the various steps of personalised medicine programmes (WP2) and identify needs in terms of standardised methodology. WP3 will address the design of the stratification and validation cohorts, including the issue of the statistical power and the quality of data. WP4 will focus on the use of the stratification algorithms and the robustness the stratification methods. WP5 will address the translational step needed to select treatments to be tested in each of the clusters. WP6 will be dedicated to randomized clinical trials testing treatments in each cluster (including umbrella / basket designs), or comparing the personalised vs. non-personalised approach. Recommendations and publications in scientific journals, a final meeting and webinars will foster adoption and implementation (WP7). The PERMIT consortium is composed of participants: pan-European research infrastructures (ECRIN, EATRIS, ELIXIR-LU/UNILU), funders (DLR), HTAs (KCE, ISCIII), patients (EPF), regulatory (ISS), data protection (TMF) and scientific experts, whereas partners represent stakeholders interested in the quality of evidence generated by personalised medicine research (industry, medicine agencies, ethics committees, funders, journal editors, HTAs, BBMRI).
Prosocial motivation and creativity in work, career, society: researching the role of prosocial & autonomous motivation for creatively resilient and innovative behavior in different work contexts

Interdisciplinary research shows that our lineage survived while all other human species went extinct because our ancestors used their creative capacity to reshape the threats and opportunities of their environments, in turn reshaping themselves. As our world and working environments become increasingly dynamic, uncertain, and knowledge based, organizations and social challenges depend on creative ideas and creative resilience from employees, young people and entrepreneurs. As Teressa Amabile posits “only by using multiple lenses simultaneously, looking across levels, and thinking about creativity systematically, will we be able to unlock and use its secrets. What we need now….is to tie together and make sense of the diversity of perspectives found in the literature – from the innermost neurological level to the outermost cultural level”. A growing body of empirical work suggests that giving to others and perceiving that we, as humans, have positive impact though our work is beneficial for own resilience, well-being and creative nature (Martela & Ryan, 2016, Eshel et al., 2017). MUSES is aiming to moving away from the cognitive-behavioral dichotomy and by adopting a more systemic approach focus on the rewarding/motivational effect of perceived social impact and aims at capturing patterns of proactive & creatively resilient behavior of different samples where rewards are not absolutely institutionalized and thus are of lower importance whereas motivation is the key & dominant element. Thus, MUSE aims to research the relationship between prosocial & autonomous motivation (perceived social impact & affective commitment to the welfare of the beneficiaries), and resilience creativity in different contexts (employees, students, doctors, artists & volunteers). Our research aims at offering insights and important practical implications on how  contextual factors can  boost autonomous and prosocial motivation and thus lead to a more  creatively reliant workforce/organisation
Efficient CORDIC Iteration Design of LiDAR Sensors’ Point-Cloud Map Reconstruction Technology

In this paper, we propose an efficient COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) iteration circuit design for Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors. A novel CORDIC architecture that achieves the goal of pre-selecting angles and reduces the number of iterations is presented for LiDAR sensors. The value of the trigonometric functions can be found in seven rotations regardless of the number of input N digits. The number of iterations are reduced by more than half. The experimental results show the similarity value to be all 1 and prove that the LiDAR decoded packet results are exactly the same as the ground truth. The total chip area is 1.93 mm × 1.93 mm and the core area is 1.32 mm × 1.32 mm, separately. The number of logic gates is 129,688. The designed chip only takes 0.012 ms and 0.912 ms to decode a packet and a 3D frame of LiDAR sensors, respectively. The throughput of the chip is 8.2105 &nbsp; × &nbsp; 10 8 bits/sec. The average power consumption is 237.34 mW at a maximum operating frequency of 100 MHz. This design can not only reduce the number of iterations and the computing time but also reduce the chip area. This paper provides an efficient CORDIC iteration design and solution for LiDAR sensors to reconstruct the point-cloud map for autonomous vehicles.
Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases

Feshbach resonances are the essential tool to control the interaction between atoms in ultracold quantum gases. They have found numerous experimental applications, opening up the way to important breakthroughs. This Review broadly covers the phenomenon of Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases and their main applications. This includes the theoretical background and models for the description of Feshbach resonances, the experimental methods to find and characterize the resonances, a discussion of the main properties of resonances in various atomic species and mixed atomic species systems, and an overview of key experiments with atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, degenerate Fermi gases, and ultracold molecules.
Promotion of near zero CO2 emission buildings due to energy use

It is estimated that buildings contribute as much as one third of total European Union greenhouse gas emissions, primarily through the use of fossil fuels and natural gas to cover heating, cooling and electricity needs of buildings. To address energy and climate related issues, the European Commission (EC) has set the objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 %, increasing the share of renewables in the EU's energy mix to 20 % and achieving the 20 % energy efficiency target by 2020.

With Directive 2012 / 27 / EU Energy Efficiency produces a breakthrough in European policies. The objectives and tools of intervention and verification oblige member countries to immediately adopt a clear strategy for the improvement of the performances of the buildings. The EU Directive proposes that after 2020 all new buildings must be zero energy buildings and those buildings will also be Near zero CO2 emission buildings due to energy use (NZCO2EB). Although there has been much recent focus on measures to reduce the emissions from new buildings, the existing building stock remains largely untouched and many refurbishment projects miss opportunities to reduce emissions and deliver low CO2 buildings.

The concept behind ZEROCO2 project is: 
-	to define near zero CO2 emission buildings due to energy use (NZCO2EB) and present the various benefits which result from this type of building;
-	to work on the combination of different technologies and energy efficiency sources, which can be used in order to achieve the above-mentioned target;
-	to design state-of-the art policies, which will aim at promoting NZCO2EB at the local, regional and national level;
-	to present various financial tools in order to promote these types of buildings. 

The project partnership consists of bodies which are in the position to implement regional development policies in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
Evaluating the impact of a limestone quarry on suspended and accumulated dust

Abstract Rock quarrying and processing is a source of coarse and fine particulate matter, which is transported by wind to the quarry surroundings and may have an environmental impact. The current study evaluated the possible contribution of dust from such a pollution source, a limestone quarry in north Israel, during the dry summer season. Accumulated dust and total suspended particulate matter were collected following an analysis of the prevailing synoptic conditions to evaluate the background dust, its origin and expected mineralogical and chemical properties. We performed comparative gravimetric, chemical and mineralogical analyses between sites lying upwind and downwind of the limestone quarry and defined the background dust and its origin. During the summer season under the Persian trough synoptic system, mineral dust in the research area was mostly composed of material similar to the local lithosphere, mainly carbonate rocks, and thus to the quarried rock. High concentrations of some trace metals, on the other hand, were related to remote sources, as has been documented previously for the Persian trough synoptic condition. Gravimetric analysis found 300 to 400% more accumulated dust and up to 400% more total suspended particulate matter about 1 km downwind versus upwind of the quarry. Mineralogical and chemical analyses of the dust samples, and of the quarried rock, revealed that the downwind site is enriched, relative to the upwind site, in the major component of the quarried rock–calcite, and that both sites are enriched in the major components of background dust.
Study of Forecasting Methods of Construction Land Demand:With Dongping County,Shangdong Prvoince as an Example

As traditional forecasting methods could not take into account the influence of market economy and policy on construction land demand,this paper compares the forecast of construction land demand with the predicted results derived from the unitary linear regression model,gray system GM(1,1) applying comprehensive analysis method and taking Dongping County as an example,thus evaluating the reliability and accuracy of comprehensive analysis method.It is predicted based on comprehensive analysis method that construction land demand in 2010 is 16 342.36 hmz and 17 620.79 hm2 in 2020.Research result is valuable for land use planning of Dongping Country.Comprehensive analysis method is a scientific forecasting method of construction land demand and has great referential significance in the prediction of construction land demand.
Proof of concept – arctic data management system beta version – capacity building for interpretation and data management system of the arctic-related data and knowledge (arctic data management system)

The specific objective is to design the Proof of Concept (PoC) - Arctic Data Management System (ADMS) Beta version - the first phase necessary for the implementation of the ADMS - a system of interpreting and managing Arctic-related data and knowledge. ADMS identifies and retrieves Arctic-related data and knowledge from multiple databases, adapts it to a common standard and provides interpretation, visualization and retrieval of the standardized data to an end-user. ADMS is based on state-of-the-art data intelligence tools including geographic information system (GIS), metadata catalogues, and interpretation and visualization tools. In the interpretation of data the system combines the highest level of technical and human elements to provide end-users with the highest quality and most appropriate data solutions. The Proof of Concept - ADMS Beta version - is a realization of a method to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed data management system and to technically verify that the concept has the potential of being used by customers. 
By recruiting an Innovation Associate the Arctic Portal aims at demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed data management and interpretation system of the Arctic-related data and knowledge. The Innovation Associate will help the Arctic Portal to: (i) position itself as a hub for monitoring network’s Data Management System, Arctic interlinked data, analysis models and decision support tools; (ii) strengthen and improve the existing Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) Data Management System (DMS) located in Akureyri and designed by Arctic Portal; (iii) generalize and apply similar data management tools for other Global Monitoring Networks.
DELIVERY OF A DRUG VIA SUBCONJUCTIVAL OR PERIOCULAR DELIVERY OF A PRODRUG IN A POLYMERIC MICROPARTICLE

The present invention relates to method of sustained-delivery of and active drug to a posterior part of an eye of a mammal to treat or prevent a disease or condition affecting said mammal, wherein said disease or condition can be treated or prevented by the actin of said active drug upon said posterior part of the eye, comprising administering and effective amount of an ester prodrug of the active drug subconjuntivally or periocularly. Preferably, the active drug is more than about 10 times as active as the prodrug. Other aspects of this invention deal with the treatment of certain disease by the periocular or subconjuctival delivery of an ester prodrug, and certain pharmaceutical products containing ester prodrugs for periocular or subconjuctival administration.
Method of and apparatus for making prints.

A method and an apparatus for making prints from a photographic film (18) with DX codes including start and end bits in association with frames in which the photographic film is intermittently moved in one lengthwise direction by a pulse motor (23) so as to place the photographic film in an exposure position frame by frame in an inspection process. If a frame is incorrectively placed in the exposure position, the pulse motor (23) is finely controlled to rotate for correctively positioning the frame. In the inspection process, the information marks are counted before a frame reaches the exposure position and drive pulses applied to the pulse motor after the information mark of the frame is detected are also counted. These counted values are memorized as position data for the frame in a memory. In a printing process, the photographic film is moved either in the same or the opposite direction to automatically, accurately place each frame to be printed in the exposure position by controlling the pulse motor based on the position data for the frame retrieved from the memory.