SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Efficient pathways to neutralization and radical production enabled by environment

The relaxation of electronically excited systems like atoms and molecules embedded in environment is a key question in chemistry and photobiology and the underlying physical mechanisms have been widely studied. The applicant has predicted theoretically that there are two efficient electronic processes between a system and its neighbors even if the system itself is in its electronic ground state and does not have excess energy, making clear that an important gap exists in our current understanding of systems embedded in environment. There is extensive future potential in filling this gap and we aim at exploring and exploiting it in systems of physical, chemical, and biological interest. The discovered electron-transfer mediated decay (ETMD) [several variants of ETMD have been already verified experimentally] and intermolecular Coulombic electron capture (ICEC) mechanisms give rise to a plethora of surprising electronic phenomena relevant to many fields. In radiation damage, for instance, differently charged cations and electrons are produced by ionization and Auger processes, and ETMD and ICEC continue to be operative, neutralize cations and produce radicals in the environment also after the known mechanisms of radiation damage have ceased to operate. This leads to severe additional damage. Knowing the factors influencing the impact of ETMD and ICEC most, we can exploit this knowledge to be able to suppress or enhance this impact. Such a control is invaluable in many cases, may be even in radiation therapy. We are certain that the novel and fundamental ETMD and ICEC processes can be exploited to probe and control systems embedded in an environment. Such a breakthrough necessitates the advancement of current methodologies far beyond the state-of-the-art, and can only be achieved by the close collaboration of a highly motivated strong team of scientists over a long period of time. The support by the ERC will substantially contribute to the realization of this vision.
Towards citizen-centred eGovernment in European cities and regions

In the framework of the Lisbon Agenda European cities and regions as key driving forces for regional economical development have made serious efforts to develop eGovernment. This is done to face the major demand and needs for improving openness, cost-efficiency and quality of the public administrations and provision of public services, thus contributing to the regional and national competitiveness. Nevertheless, more efforts and better collaboration are still needed to accelerate efficient uptake of eGovernment, dissemination and utilization of the achieved experiences and good practices. eCitizen II is designed to support European cities and regions in their joint efforts to accelerate eGovernment through exploiting established networks, gained experiences and good practices to improve interaction between citizens and public authorities, better involving citizens in local decision-making and contributing to change in operational culture and attitudes within public administrations.
As a follow-up project, eCitizen II brings added-value to interregional eGovernment cooperation focusing on sharing the accumulated knowledge, experiences, best practices, and transferring them between the more advanced and less experienced cities and regions throughout Europe. This cooperation aims at stimulating new approaches and understanding in city and regional administrations of engaging with citizens and developing citizen-centred eServices. The project will involve decision- and policy-makers, demonstrate benefits of the eGovernment and the best eParticipation practices in different public sectors and identify future prospects to ensure support to further acceleration of eGovernment.

The project activities are designed to enhance direct collaboration, peer learning, sharing and transfering of developed eGovernment and eParticipation tools as well as identifying future trends between project partners. Capacities and knowledge of decision- and policy-makers, officials, experts, information officers and other relevant actors in local and regional administrations on sharing and adopting accumulated experiences and good practices on eGovernment and eParticipation will be enhanced.  A Pan-European Best Practice Manual on eParticipation with recommendations for local and regional administrations will be developed to ensure dissemination and sustainability of the project results. 

This three-year project is lead by the Baltic Institute of Finland. The partnership consists of eleven public administrations, cities and regions represented by Tampere from Finland, Sheffield from UK, Odense from Denmark, Tartu from Estonia, Flevoland from the Netherlands, South West Regional Authority from Ireland, Bologna from Italy, Patras from Greece, Miskolc from Hungary, Vysocina from Czech Republic, EUDEL from Spain.
Creating Cross-disciplinary Courses.

Because of its focus on the biological underpinnings of action and behavior, neuroscience intersects with many fields of human endeavor. Some of these cross-disciplinary intersections have been long standing, while others, such as neurotheology or neuroeconomics, are more recently formed fields. Many undergraduate institutions have sought to include cross-disciplinary courses in their curriculum because this style of pedagogy is often seen as applicable to real world problems. However, it can be difficult for faculty with specialized training within their discipline to expand beyond their own fields to offer cross-disciplinary courses. I have been creating a series of multi- or cross-disciplinary courses and have found some strategies that have helped me successfully teach these classes. I will discuss general strategies and tools in developing these types of courses including: 1) creating mixed experience classrooms of students and contributing faculty 2) finding the right tools that will allow you to teach to a mixed population without prerequisites 3) examining the topic using multiple disciplinary perspectives 4) feeding off student experience and interest 5) assessing the impact of these courses on student outcomes and your neuroscience program. This last tool in particular is important in establishing the validity of this type of teaching for neuroscience students and the general student population.
Gender and Divorce Law in North Africa: Sharia, Custom and the Personal Status Code in Tunisia

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Background of the Debate in Tunisian Doctrine Chapter 2: The Divorce Procedure Chapter 3: Divorce by Mutual Consent Chapter 4: Divorce without Grounds Chapter 5: Divorce for Harm on the Grounds of Domestic Violence Chapter 6: Divorce for Harm on the Grounds of Non-Payment of Maintenance Chapter 7: Divorce for Harm on the Grounds of the Abandonment of the Marital Home Chapter 8: Divorce for Harm on the Grounds of Adultery Chapter 9: Divorce for Harm on Other Grounds Chapter 10: The Consequences of Divorce when Children are Involved: Custody and Visiting Rights Chapter 11: The Consequences of Divorce when Children are Involved: Child Maintenance and Housing Conclusion
Human Mobility Networks, Travel Restrictions, and the Global Spread of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic

After the emergence of the H1N1 influenza in 2009, some countries responded with travel-related controls during the early stage of the outbreak in an attempt to contain or slow down its international spread. These controls along with self-imposed travel limitations contributed to a decline of about 40% in international air traffic to/from Mexico following the international alert. However, no containment was achieved by such restrictions and the virus was able to reach pandemic proportions in a short time. When gauging the value and efficacy of mobility and travel restrictions it is crucial to rely on epidemic models that integrate the wide range of features characterizing human mobility and the many options available to public health organizations for responding to a pandemic. Here we present a comprehensive computational and theoretical study of the role of travel restrictions in halting and delaying pandemics by using a model that explicitly integrates air travel and short-range mobility data with high-resolution demographic data across the world and that is validated by the accumulation of data from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. We explore alternative scenarios for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic by assessing the potential impact of mobility restrictions that vary with respect to their magnitude and their position in the pandemic timeline. We provide a quantitative discussion of the delay obtained by different mobility restrictions and the likelihood of containing outbreaks of infectious diseases at their source, confirming the limited value and feasibility of international travel restrictions. These results are rationalized in the theoretical framework characterizing the invasion dynamics of the epidemics at the metapopulation level.
Planetary protection of outer solar system

While significant effort has been and is being provided to address planetary protection in the context of inner Solar System exploration, and in particular Mars, PPOSS will allow tackling the scientific, technological and policy-making specifics of Planetary Protection (biological and organic contamination) of outer solar system bodies, including small solar system bodies.  
Through an intensive three year programme, the project will nurture and catalyse discussions, analysis, exchange of knowledge and definition of strategic science and policy recommendations, therefore allowing a leap in the understanding of biological and organic contamination in the frame of outer solar system bodies’ exploration. 
PPOSS intends to consider and delineate the state of the art, identify lessons to be learnt and good practices in planetary protection. Looking forward, PPOSS will identify scientific challenges and knowledge gaps as well as define scientific requirement for outer Solar system bodies planetary protection. 
PPOSS will also involve interactions with the European industry and will develop as set of European industry roadmaps. 
Eventually PPOSS will use and integrate the information and knowledge produced through the project to provide science and policy recommendations for the definition, improvement, and implementation of an adequate planetary protection policy for outer Solar system bodies. PPOSS will also be very active on dissemination and exchange of Planetary Protection-related knowledge and know-how. 
PPOSS will bring in four international partners from three non-European countries (Japan, China and Russia) as well as one observer from US. Participating in the project implementation (they will be part of the Steering Committee) and involving their experts, these organisations will enrich and extend the scope of the project, making it a true international initiative.
PPOSS will last 3 years but COSPAR will be maintain and update its main outputs beyond its lifetime
Body Interact Academy .: Demonstrador Body Interact Academy

Demonstration in 2 national educational institutions (medicine and nursing) of the Body Interact Academy platform, which consists of an interactive clinical education simulator, weed in virtual patients and integrated with multi-touch hardware, developed within the framework of the TICE.Healthy mobilising project.
SENSORS FOR NUCLEIC ACID BIOMARKERS

Described herein are novel devices and methods for the optical detection of oligonucleotide binding events for diagnostic, point-of-care, drug screening, and theranostic applications, for example, a robust and customizable system to detect specific DNA and RNA oligonucleotides using a carbon nanotube optical signal.
Wet area for tourism envir and recreation

The project aims at enhancing a route between wet and transitional environments, to join some interesting naturalistic-environmental areas: the Laghetti di Martellago park, the Nuove Gemme di Spinea park, the former Salzano quarries, the former Luneo quarries (WWF oasis) and a new area included in the urban territory in the municipality of Spinea. Research and studies will be carried out to foster the environmental restoration of the Cimetto drain and to create a river route, educational areas for initiatives concerning water and the enhancement of local resources. The route measures about twenty-five km, for an overall are of interest of fourteen square km. The project aims at enhancing local resources and enriching the tourist offer through the creation of an integrated itinerary on the environment and culture connected to the territory. Specific areas will be set up to be used as training centres, accommodation facilities and specific connections. Also important is the promotion of the resulting synergies: in this sense the project will set up a website where to make available all project material, didactic files, planned environmental regeneration actions, and the resulting itineraries, where the points of cultural and naturalistic interest will be highlighted in the project area.
Advancing european research infrastcuture on highly pathogenic agents

One of the great challenges of the 21st century is to develop the capacity to prevent and react to outbreaks caused by highly pathogenic human and animal microorganisms, which are generally characterized by a high mortality rate, unavailability of prophylactics or effective therapeutic treatment and high human-to-human transmission.
ERINHA AISBL (European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents), a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) dedicated to the study of high-consequence pathogens of Risk Group 4 (RG4), entered into implementation phase in July 2017. It now aims to ensure its long-term sustainability to better answer societal challenges in the field of Science, Health and Security.
The overall aim of the ERINHA-Advance project is to implement actions that will contribute to the long-term sustainability of the ERINHA RI, through enlargement of its membership and partnership and strengthening the overall services offer and framework by fostering the innovation potential of the RI.
To reach these goals, the RI will focus on the following specific objectives:
1.	Enlarge ERINHA’s membership and research capacities (WP2);
2.	Improve users services (WP3);
3.	Stimulate the innovation potential of ERINHA and identify the co-innovation opportunities with industry (WP4);
4.	Strengthen the overall services framework through long-term data-management and data sharing rules, clarification of IPR regimes and definition and implementation of the quality assurance system of the RI and its national nodes (WP5);
5.	Reinforce ERINHA’s European and International cooperation with relevant countries, initiatives and networks (WP2 and WP6).
By achieving these objectives, ERINHA-Advance will largely contribute to providing access to larger number of high containment facilities to European and international scientists and foster research and innovation in the field of highly infectious diseases.
Harmonious Development of Rural and Insular Areas

The main objective of project HADRIAMED is to enhance the role of isolated, mountain and island areas in a modern socioeconomic context, through the development of a territorial planning focused on attraction of new residents in isolated areas. All the regions involved in the project present similar problems such as: • Negative demographic trends • Increasing of average age of population • Limited natural and human resources impedes the development of several activities • The productive system remains anchored to traditional sectors • Logistic difficulties and obstacles in market accessing • Lack of communication systems and of services to enterprises • Low valorisation of a tourist offer environment friendly • Reduction of available resources caused by decrease of inhabitants (contributively base) • Increase of services demand, caused by population aging • Fragile ecosystems • Risk of hydro geological disarrangement The main activities of the project can be summarised as follows: • Project management, monitoring and evaluation • Studies of ex ante situation and definition of program lines of the sustainable development model for mountain and insular areas through the attraction of new residents • Pilot actions - implementation of integrated actions in isolated and mountain areas for an endogenous and sustainable territorial development, aimed on new residents attraction • Modelling of methods • Creation of network among hosting rural areas • Dissemination and Mainstreaming
Neuronal networks from cortical human ipscs for machine learning processing- neu-chip

The EU and the rest of the world increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for everyday functioning. Applications range from decision making in areas such as health and finance, face recognition, autonomous vehicle control, speech recognition and interaction with the internet and social media platforms. Estimated annual global spend on ML and AI is $77.6B in 2022 with a business value of $3.9T. However, current deep-learning machines suffer from inherent and difficult limitations: architectures not adaptable, ineffective learning rules, long training times and computing power, making advances unsustainable.
The NeuChiP project will tackle this issue. We will use emerging stem cell technology to make human neuronal networks that self-organise developmentally using the rules that form the brain. Networks will be made of layered cortical structures and hubs, with guided directional network connections and housed in a fabricated assembly. Input will be by patterned light at cells expressing optogenetic actuators, and output recorded via high resolution 3D multielectrode arrays. Intrinsic physiological mechanisms will enable them to undergo plasticity to designated input patterns. NeuChip will surpass the abilities of conventional artificial neural networks by conducting tasks in dynamically changing environments, exploiting the adaptive, complex and exploratory nature of biological human neural systems. To achieve this we have assembled a cross-disciplinary consortium of neuroscientists, stem cell biologists, bioelectronics developers, statistical physicists, together with machine learning and neuromorphic computing experts. We expect that within 15 years NeuChiP technology, using biological learning rules and powerful human-brain-based circuits will lead to novel and widespread advances in machine learning abilities and beyond, leading to a paradigm-shift in AI technology and applications to benefit society.
Light emitting tufted carpet

The invention provides a light emitting tufted carpet (1). The carpet (1) comprises a primary backing layer (100), an optional secondary backing layer (200), an optional adhesive layer (300), a plurality of carpet integrated LEDs (40) arranged to generate carpet light (41), and a first electric conductor (10) and a second electric conductor (20). The first electric conductor (10) and the second electric conductor (20) are arranged to provide power from a power source (50) to the LEDs (40). The primary backing layer (100) comprises a first felt layer (30'), or the optional secondary backing layer (200) comprises a second felt layer (30"), or both the primary backing layer (100) and the optional secondary backing layer (200) comprise felt layers (30', 30"). One or more of the first electric conductor (10) and the second electric conductor (20) are at least partially integrated in one or more of the first felt layer (30') and the second felt layer (30").
An Eulerian finite-volume scheme for large elastoplastic deformations in solids

SUMMARY Conservative formulations of the governing laws of elastoplastic solid media have distinct advantages when solved using high-order shock capturing methods for simulating processes involving large deformations and shock waves. In this paper one such model is considered where inelastic deformations are accounted for via conservation laws for elastic strain with relaxation source terms. Plastic deformations are governed by the relaxation time of tangential stresses. Compared with alternative Eulerian conservative models, the governing system consists of fewer equations overall. A numerical scheme for the inhomogeneous system is proposed based upon the temporal splitting. In this way the reduced system of non-linear elasticity is solved explicitly, with convective fluxes evaluated using high-order approximations of Riemann problems locally throughout the computational mesh. Numerical stiffness of the relaxation terms at high strain rates is avoided by utilizing certain properties of the governing model and performing an implicit update. The methods are demonstrated using test cases involving large deformations and high strain rates in one-, two-, and three-dimensions. Copyright q 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Received 25 February 2009; Revised 27 May 2009; Accepted 29 May 2009
Strategy beyond Markets: A Step Back and a Look Forward

Abstract
This paper provides a perspective on the field of nonmarket strategy. It does not attempt to survey the literature but instead focuses on the substantive content of research in the field. The paper discusses the origins of the field and the roles of nonmarket strategy. The political economy framework is used and contrasted with the current form of the resource-based theory. The paper argues that research should focus on the firm level and argues that the strategy of self-regulation can be useful in reducing the likelihood of challenges from private and public politics. The political economy perspective is illustrated using three examples: (1) public politics: Uber, (2) private politics: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup, and (3) integrated strategy and private and public politics: The Fast Food Campaign. The paper concludes with a discussion of research issues in theory, empirics, and normative assessment.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING THE ENGINE TORQUE OF A FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE

The invention relates to a system for limiting the engine torque of a four-wheel-drive motor vehicle, including an actuator that is controlled and configured to distribute the engine torque to the drive wheels, a computer means for calculating at least one variable characteristic of the operation of the vehicle, and a module for limiting the engine torque (2). In addition, the limitation system includes a means (21) for deactivating the module for limiting the engine torque according to the variables characteristic of the operation of the engine.
Territorial Evidence Support for European Territorial Cooperation Programmes

The primary objective of this service contract is to make the ESPON territorial evidence knowledge base accessible and useful in practice for programme managers, joint technical secretariats and policymakers involved in the practical implementation of ETC programmes. 
In pursuit of this objective, this service contract shall develop an improved set of territorial indicators for ETC programmes to help support, inter alia, the setting of investment priorities, strategic programming, monitoring and evaluation. This shall be supported by enhancing the usability, functionality and relevance of ESPON evidence by integrating the territorial indicators into the Interact KEEP database.