SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Na ion materials as essential components to manufacture robust battery cells for non-automotive applications

The EU is transitioning to The EU is transitioning to a secure, sustainable and competitive energy system as laid out in the EC’s Energy Union strategy. The growing penetration of renewable energy sources in the EU energy market, go hand in hand with a high-competitiveness of the most consolidated technologies: Wind Energy and Solar Photovoltaics. The non-dispatchable renewable generation requires a higher flexibility in the energy system, where the weight of much more decentralised installations grow day-to-day. In fact, the flourishing of a wide portfolio of renewable energy installations is allowing the deployment of large to small scale industrial electricity grids, and in an increased share of electricity produced in private households. The NAIMA project will demonstrate that the new generation of high-competitive and safety Na-Ion cells developed and tested during the project, is one of the most robust and cost-effective alternatives to unseat the current and future Li-based technologies, nowadays controlled by Asian industry. The EU cannot jeopardize the future of its stronger industry to a technology already in the hands of non-European countries. Just the availability of the raw materials of Li-ion cells is almost a “miracle”. Under this scenario, the most robust non-Lithium alternative is the technology based on Sodium-ion (Na-ion). This disruptive technology is already supported by a solid European Battery value chain (industry partners of the consortium) through their solid commitment of substantial investments in the manufacturing of all components of a battery, preserving the ownership and industry strength around European countries. Within the framework of the project, 3 SIB prototypes will be tested in 3 multi-scale Business Scenarios to provide solid evidences about the competitiveness of the technology in 3 real ESS environments (renewable generation, industry and private household) through the application of an assessment and monitoring protocol.
Entrer dans l’enseignement supérieur avec un « bac pro » : une sélection biaisée

Cet article examine l’accès des bacheliers professionnels à un diplôme de l’enseignement supérieur en France à la lumière de deux évolutions récentes majeures : l’explosion du nombre de bacheliers professionnels et la hausse continue de leur taux d’inscription dans l’enseignement supérieur. Entre 2000 et 2015, la conjonction de ces deux phénomènes a conduit à multiplier quasiment par quatre le nombre de bacheliers professionnels engagés dans l’enseignement supérieur. Dans cette recherche, nous expliquons les freins et les leviers de ces nouveaux parcours éducatifs à travers les déterminants de la sélection formelle dans l’enseignement supérieur. La sélection formelle est le moment où l’institution éducative choisit les candidats autorisés à s’inscrire dans la filière demandée : la section de technicien supérieur (STS), filière essentielle de poursuite d’études des diplômés du baccalauréat professionnel, apparaît ici comme une formation hautement concurrentielle, qui mobilise à l’endroit des candidats des critères de sélection invisibles, voire illégitimes, désavantageant notamment les élèves issus de milieux populaires, les étrangers et les boursiers. Par ailleurs, bien que théoriquement favorisés par une politique publique mise en place en 2013, les bacheliers professionnels restent en 2018 pénalisés pour entrer en STS, par rapport aux autres bacheliers.
Deglaciation constraints in the Parâng Mountains, Southern Romania, using surface exposure dating

Cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure ages have been widely used to constrain glacial chronologies in the European regions. This paper brings new evidence that the Romanian Carpathians sheltered mountain glaciers in their upper valleys and cirques until the end of the last glaciation. Twenty-four 10Be surface exposure ages were obtained from boulders on moraine crests in the central area of the Parâng Mountains, Southern Carpathians. Exposure ages were used to constrain the timing of the deglaciation events during the Late Glacial. The lowest boulders yielded an age of 13.0 ± 1.1 (1766 m) and final deglaciation occurred at 10.2 ± 0.9 ka (2055 m). Timing of the Late Glacial events and complete deglaciation reported in this study are consistent with, and confirm, previously reported ages of deglaciation within the Carpathian and surrounding European region.
Characterization of a new degradation product of nifedipine formed on catalysis by atenolol: A typical case of alteration of degradation pathway of one drug by another

An increasing interest is being shown throughout the world on the use of fixed-dose combinations of drugs in the therapy of select diseases, like cardiovascular diseases, due to their multiple advantages. Though the main criterion for combining drugs in a single dosage form is the rationale, but consideration like stability of formulation is equally important, due to an added aspect of drug-drug interaction. The objective of this study was to evaluate interaction among the drugs in an antihypertensive combination of nifedipine and atenolol. Nifedipine is a known light sensitive drug, which degrades via intra-molecular mechanisms to nitro- and nitroso-pyridine analogs, along with a few minor secondary products that are formed through inter-molecular interactions amongst primary degradation products and their intermediates. Atenolol is reasonably stable weakly basic drug that is mainly hydrolyzed at acetamide terminal amide moiety to its corresponding carboxylic acid. To the best of our knowledge, there is no known information on chemical compatibility among the two drugs. The present study involved subjecting of nifedipine, atenolol and their combination to a variety of accelerated and stress conditions. HPLC studies revealed formation of a new product in the mixture of two drugs (∼2%), which was also generated from nifedipine alone, but at trace levels (<0.1%). The product was isolated by preparative chromatography and subjected to indepth studies for its characterization. Ultra-violet, FT-IR, mass spectrometric and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies highlighted that the principal photo-degradation pathway of nifedipine was modified and diverted in the presence of atenolol. To verify the same, a study was conducted employing two other β-blockers with similar structures to atenolol, and the same product was formed in relatively higher quantity therein also. The new product is postulated to be produced as a result of rearrangement of hydroxylamine intermediate, known to be involved in the generation of nitro- and nitroso-pyridine photo-degradation products of nifedipine.
REFLECTOR-SENSOR WITH PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A REFLECTOR-SENSOR

The invention concerns a reflector-sensor for receiving/transmitting electromagnetic waves respectively from and to a satellite and for collecting and converting an amount of solar energy into electric power, said reflector-sensor comprising a reflecting surface (2) equipped with a plurality of photovoltaic cells (4) and at least an electronic head (6) receiving/transmitting E.M. waves, said photovoltaic cells (4) are transparent to E.M. waves and are fixed on the greater part of the reflecting surface (2) such that the reflector-sensor operates both as receiver/transmitter antenna and solar energy collector (4). The invention is characterised in that said photovoltaic cells are integrated in the reflecting surface (2) between a first layer (10) transparent to E.M. waves and to solar radiation for protecting said cells (4) and a second layer (12) for reflecting the E.M. waves.
The impact of macro news and central bank communication on emerging European forex markets

Abstract We employ a two-stage empirical strategy to analyze the impact of macroeconomic news and central bank communication on the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate based on a monetary model. Second, we employ a high-frequency GARCH model to estimate the effects of the news and communication along with the estimated exchange rate misalignment on the exchange rate as well as its volatility. The analysis is performed during the pre-crisis (2004–2007) and crisis (2008–2009) periods. CEE currencies react to macroeconomic news during both periods in an intuitive manner that corresponds to exchange rate-related theories. However, the responsiveness of the currencies to central bank verbal interventions becomes important only during the crisis period.
PIERO CALAMANDREI REITOR

Piero Calamandrei, renomado jurista, professor universitário e político italiano, notabilizou-se também, desde os anos 1920, por sua distância intelectual do regime fascista. Seguimos sua trajetória desde o início do conflito até os primeiros anos da Itália liberada. Com a queda de Mussolini, em 25 de julho de 1943, Calamandrei é nomeado reitor da Universidade de Florença, mas logo é obrigado a afastar-se de suas funções devido à ocupação alemã. Nesse período, começam a amadurecer as ideias expostas nos Apontamentos sobre o conceito de legalidade, que consolida o abandono das teses esposadas na entusiástica resenha a A certeza do direito de Lopez de Oñate. Iniciando com uma célebre introdução a Dos delitos e das penas de Beccaria, começa a amadurecer a inflexão rumo a uma legalidade entendida em sentido substancial, que tem na liberdade a sua pré-condição. Uma legalidade constitucional como barreira ao totalitarismo, construída mediante a crítica à onipotência do legislador. Calamandrei desbrava, assim, caminhos posteriormente seguidos por outros como Paolo Barile, Giorgio La Pira e Giovanni Miele, e que marcarão profundamente o constitucionalismo italiano do pós-guerra. Em 1944, na sua Florença natal já libertada, Calamandrei reassume suas funções como reitor da universidade, conduzindo-a no difícil período das reparações às vítimas do fascismo no mundo acadêmico e das depurações de seus mais intoleráveis adeptos até anunciar, em fins de 1947, já na condição de deputado constituinte, seu desejo de não ser reconduzido ao cargo.
Simulation-As-A-Service tool for industrial furnaces innovative engineering design (saastified)

Simulations based on the numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are nowadays customarily being applied for the design of industrial products and plants, in several branches of the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), such as thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics. The improvement of the mathematical modeling tools and the availability of computing power have dramatically enhanced the accuracy of computer based simulations, and hence the support they offer to engineering design process. Yet, due to their complexity, in most cases simulations are not fully integrated into the design workflow. Operations as preprocessing, grid generation, setting up and running the simulations, and postprocessing the outputs, require specific skills and are extremely time and resources consuming. For these reasons, design engineers are sometimes resorting to simplified low fidelity models, which are often quantitatively inaccurate. More complex and accurate high fidelity models are only and occasionally considered at the very end of the design cycle, and are usually employed to optimize single components or to provide a final assessment of the overall accuracy of the standard simpler models. In this background, introducing accessible high-fidelity models in a user friendly intermediate environment would represent a strategic asset to facilitate and spread simulation-based design approaches and their benefits for industries in new industrial applications, as already happens for example in automotive or aerospace industry, towards a more efficient resources employment, energy saving and optimized products. The objective of the project is to set up a user friendly high-fidelity simulation platform, based on efficient simulation techniques and standardized automated workflows to be provided as a Simulation-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool, for the design and optimization of industrial furnaces.
SOFT-BAKED FOODSTUFFS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

A baked foodstuff comprises a generally planar bottom surface, a peripheral sidewall forming a bottom peripheral edge with the planar bottom surface, and a top surface forming a top outer peripheral edge with the side-wall. The top surface and the sidewall are unconstrained during baking and the foodstuff is dough-based and has a post-baked moisture content of at least 4%.
Searching For the Garamantian Emerald: Reconsidering the Green-Colored Stone Beads Trade In the Ancient Sahara

Abstract In the current literature, Saharan green-colored stone beads are identified with the term emeraude garamantique , while several archaeological investigations on Garamantian contexts referred to them as amazonite. Moreover, according to the hypothesis proposed by Monod, authors identify the only source of amazonite to be the pegmatite swarm at Eghei Zuma (northern Tibesti, Libya). To check this assumption, we characterized the composition of green-colored stone beads found at Fewet, a Garamantian site (2 nd century BC – 1 st century AD) in the Libyan Sahara. We performed electron microprobe analyses on stone beads from Fewet and ethnographic contexts of Mali, Mauritania, and Sudan. Furthermore, lacking a regional database on amazonite to compare the geochemical properties of archaeological beads, we analyzed amazonite crystals from several African pegmatites, including samples from Eghei Zuma. The results show that green-colored stone beads from Fewet consist of serpentinite and amazonite. The K/Rb versus Rb diagram reveals that the source of the amazonite from Fewet could not be the pegmatite at Eghei Zuma. The raw material for amazonite beads traded in Garamantian times originated from Egypt and Mauritania. We discuss the archaeological implications of our results, which concerns the directions of ancient trade routes for elite goods in Garamantian times.
SPRAY NOZZLE WITH TWO OR MORE EQUALLY SIZED ORIFICES

A nozzle for a rotary water delivery system comprising at least a pair of nozzle orifices (1) of similar size spaced apart on a face of the nozzle and having a nozzle orifice size (2) to nozzle orifice spacing distance (3) ratio of about 1:2 to about 1:10, said ratio being sufficient to produce separate nozzle streams which emerge from the nozzle face as separate streams which may join together or commingle only at a distance from said face which does not appreciably increase an overall velocity of a resultant stream or commingled stream or individual streams so that the gallonage per minute delivered by the nozzle can be increased incrementally in multiples without appreciably increasing the distance thrown by the resultant water stream.
Amide substituted thiazoles as modulators of RORyT

The present invention comprises compounds of Formula I. wherein: R
A intercompreensão como chave para a cooperação acadêmica do consórcio UNITA: Uma experiência formativa

A internacionalização do ensino superior demanda ações coletivas e colaborativas das universidades, bem como dos agentes a elas vinculados. Neste contexto, o recente consórcio Unita – Universitas Montium, formado por seis universidades de cinco países da União Europeia, tem a intercompreensão como um dos eixos estruturadores, com o objetivo de promover a formação linguística da comunidade acadêmica através dos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos dessa abordagem. Este artigo plurilíngue apresenta a formação Intercompréhension en langues romanes, realizada no evento Quinzaine des Langues promovido pela Université Savoie Mont Blanc (Chambéry, França), membro da Unita, em junho de 2021. Através do relato de experiência dos formadores, traça-se um panorama com as etapas dessa formação, direcionada a um público heterogêneo e não especializado em linguística. A sensibilização ao conceito de intercompreensão, a noção de repertório linguístico, o desenvolvimento das competências receptivas escritas e orais e a interação são os eixos expostos com respaldo na literatura científica da área (CANDELIER et al., 2012; ESCUDÉ; CALVO DEL OLMO, 2019). A legitimação da intercompreensão através de ações formativas como essa é uma importante chave de enriquecimento das competências comunicativas da comunidade acadêmica e uma ação política em prol do plurilinguismo, visando processos de internacionalização das instituições mais igualitários e democráticos.
Singular stochastic dispersive dynamics

This proposal is concerned with the study of singular stochastic dispersive partial differential equations (PDEs), broadly interpreted, with stochastic forcing and / or random initial data. This is a young emerging field, attracting more and more attention. In recent years, we have witnessed outstanding advances in the theory of singular stochastic parabolic PDEs. Our understanding of the dispersive counterpart is, however, much poorer. The main objective of this proposal is to develop novel mathematical ideas and tools and fundamentally advance our understanding of singular stochastic dispersive PDEs by working on concrete examples of challenging open problems.

Over the last ten years, there has been significant progress at the interface of dispersive PDEs and stochastic analysis and I have been one of the leading mathematicians in this development. In particular, my recent work on the three-dimensional stochastic nonlinear wave equation (NLW) with a quadratic nonlinearity has opened up new research horizons, which we will explore in this proposal.

1. We will investigate the well-posedness issue of the three-dimensional (damped) stochastic cubic NLW with an additive space-time white noise. The solution theory for the parabolic counterpart (the so-called stochastic quantisation equation) was settled by Hairer (2014). The corresponding question for the wave equation is one of the major open questions in this field. We will develop a paracontrolled approach to solve this challenging open problem. Moreover, we address other related problems of independent interest, including the two-dimensional hyperbolic sine-Gordon model, diffusive scaling limit of damped stochastic NLW and singular stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger dynamics.

2. We will also build a pathwise solution theory for stochastic dispersive PDEs with multiplicative noises by combining the Fourier restriction norm method and the rough path theory.
OLED equivalent circuit model with temperature coefficient and intrinsic capacitor

This paper presents an Organic-Light-Emitting-Diode (OLED) equivalent circuit model with temperature coefficient and intrinsic capacitor. In order to precisely describe the OLED non-linear V-I characteristics at different junction temperatures, four parameters: maximum operating point, rated operating point, knee point, and temperature coefficient, are obtained from the OLED V-I curves to establish the improved Taylor series based OLED model. Furthermore, in order to perform the transient and AC simulations of the OLED drivers, the proposed model can be used to generate the V-I look-up table for the voltage-controlled-piecewise-linear (VPWL) behavior model for the time-domain and frequency-domain circuit simulations. Besides, the intrinsic capacitor of the OLED is voltage dependent and can be modeled with the piecewise-linear (PWL) behavior model to associate with the built VPWL behavior model for the OLED circuit simulations. Finally, the measured results are provided to compare with the modeled V-I curves, transient simulations, and AC simulations of the OLED.
Thrombo-Inflammation in cardiovascular disease

The demographic change with aging populations places a heavy burden on health care systems worldwide. Despite all medical advances, age remains the major risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), one of the top two killers. The aging vasculature provides an environment in which the finely tuned interplay between diverse cell types becomes disarrayed and thus fosters both, inflammation and thrombosis. For atherosclerosis and major vascular complications, i.e. myocardial infarction and stroke, inflammation and thrombosis are central pathological processes that have commonly been investigated independently, but now need integration within the new concept of 'vascular thrombo-inflammation'. Four beneficiaries have formed a strategic alliance to unravel the multifaceted mechanisms involved in thrombo-inflammation in the setting of CVD and identified interconnected research projects that benefit from the collaboration between outstanding centres in France, Germany and The Netherlands. Using unique and complementary advanced technologies, TICARDIO will dissect the mechanistic linkages between inflammation and thrombosis, investigate the multicellular interactions in the vasculature as drivers for thrombo-inflammation, and translate new concepts by multi-omics approaches into patient populations. The programme will train the next generation of basic and translational researchers by exposing them to a multidisciplinary research environment at major academic centres and a range of entrepreneurial and business settings at small and large pharmaceutical companies in Europe. The completion of an independent project in a research area with high unmet medical need will foster the development of creative, open minded and broadly knowledgeable biomedical researchers who are competitive for successful academic and company careers all over Europe. TICARDIO’s structures and interactions will serve as a blueprint for future training programmes in emerging fields of cardiovascular medicine.
Soutien aux petites entreprises dont le chiffre d’affaires dépasse 500 000 BGN pour faire face aux conséquences économiques de la pandémie de COVID-19

Soutien aux petites entreprises dont le chiffre d’affaires dépasse 500 000 BGN pour faire face aux conséquences économiques de la pandémie de COVID-19
Enterprise grade lean ai platform

Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to be the next big thing that will contribute immensely to businesses’ growth and change the rules of competition, as demonstrated by the growing AI for enterprise applications, a market expected to reach €5.8 billion by 2024. Current AI and ML models are trained via supervised learning, in which manually labeled data is fed into AI models such as regression algorithms. Labeling huge datasets, however, need a lot of human interaction, attention, and effort, which slows down productivity, is prone to errors and, more importantly, very costly. 

Our company, BrainCreators, is well paired to address this issue. We deliver innovative AI solutions and to date have accelerated >40 companies in their root cause analysis, language interpretation, predictive maintenance, and quality control related projects. Our innovation, BrainMatter, is a unique enterprise-grade lean AI platform that will offer businesses, and their data scientist teams, a fully customizable data processing solution, that streamlines the full AI lifecycle from the creation of high quality, large data sets to the training and deployment of AI models. It is applicable for a diverse range of data - image recognition, audio, text, video, time series, sensor data. Our innovation is customizable, self-learning, and in line with lean principles, improves accuracy with continuous model training. At the management level, BrainMatter will enable companies to save costs, speed up the labeling process, give control over the process with a customizable dashboard, and improve security through on-premise usage. At the implementation level, it will support data scientists and empower them to dedicate more time towards high-value-added tasks. 
After five years of exploitation, we expect BrainMatter to boost our revenues to €17.6 million (with an ROI above 3 euro per euro invested), creating 78 direct and over 2,000 indirect jobs in the process.