SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Engaging Youth in Food Activism in New York City: Lessons Learned from a Youth Organization, Health Department, and University Partnership

Research indicates that insufficient emphasis on community collaboration and partnership can thwart innovative community-driven work on the social determinants of health by local health departments. Appreciating the importance of enhancing community participation, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) helped lead the development of the Health Equity Project (HEP), an intervention aimed at increasing the capacity of urban youth to identify and take action to reduce food-related health disparities. DOHMH partnered with the City University of New York School of Public Health and several local youth organizations to design and implement the intervention. HEP was conducted with 373 young people in 17 cohorts at 14 unique sites: six in Brooklyn, six in the Bronx, and two in Harlem. Partnered youth organizations hosted three stages of work: interactive workshops on neighborhood health disparities, food environments, and health outcomes; food-focused research projects conducted by youth; and small-scale action projects designed to change local food environments. Through these activities, HEP appears to have been successful in introducing youth to the social, economic, and political factors that shape food environments and to the influence of food on health outcomes. The intervention was also somewhat successful in providing youth with community-based participatory research skills and engaging them in documenting and then acting to change their neighborhood food environments. In the short term, we are unable to assess how successful HEP has been in building young leaders who will continue to engage in this kind of activism, but we suspect that more extended interactions would be needed to achieve this more ambitious goal. Experiences at these sites suggest that youth organizations with a demonstrated capacity to engage youth in community service or activism and a commitment to improving food or other health-promoting community resources make the most suitable and successful partners for this kind of effort.
Abstract 3867: Novel mouse models to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of metastatic osteosarcoma.

Background: Osteosarcoma (OS) is the primary bone tumor in the pediatric population with the main determinant for patient prognosis being the presence of metastatic disease. Approximately 25-30% of patients will present with metastatic osteosarcoma. Patients with metastatic disease have long-term survival rates often Objectives: We hypothesize that the molecular pathogenesis of metastatic osteosarcoma is different from localized disease. We intend this work to provide a relevant, endogenous model of metastatic OS that can be utilized to advance our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of the disease, insights into novel therapeutic targets and as a pre-clinical model for investigating the efficacy of novel therapies. Design: We have developed a tissue-specific alteration of the p53 status by using osteoblast specific Cre-recombinase expressing mice to generate progeny that spontaneously form endogenous osteosarcomas. Through the use of a mutated, gain of function form of p53, shown previously to be associated with metastatic disease, we have developed a novel immunocompetent model that significantly enhances the endogenous development of metastatic OS. Results: Tumor analysis has revealed genetic insights in the metastatic progression of osteosarcoma. These include the significant downregulation of Wnt-signaling inhibitors, such as NKD2, APCDD1 and Wnt5a in the metastatic tumors. Functional studies have determined that overexpression of NKD2, also downregulated in several human OS metastatic cell lines, in metastatic mouse OS cell lines leads to a significant decrease in metastatic lung lesions upon transplantation into immunodeficient mice. Possible NKD2-dependent functions include regulation of not only the Wnt signaling pathway, but also blood vessel formation, regulation of cell migration and cell adhesion. We have also noted the dysregulation of several critical microRNAs in metastatic OS, including the upregulation of mir-130b in the metastatic lesions. This particular microRNA has recently been shown to have clinical correlation in Ewing9s sarcoma, with higher levels of tumor mir-130b having a significantly poorer outcome. We are actively pursuing the role of this (and other) microRNA(s) in the molecular pathogenesis of metastatic osteosarcoma. Conclusion: This novel model has enabled valuable molecular insights into the development and progression of metastatic OS that can lead to the identification of novel therapeutic targets. Citation Format: Shuying Zhao, Lyazat Kurenbekova, Lawrence A. Donehower, Jason T. Yustein. Novel mouse models to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of metastatic osteosarcoma. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Tumor Invasion and Metastasis; Jan 20-23, 2013; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2013;73(3 Suppl):Abstract nr A85.
A Regional Source-Receptor Analysis for Air Pollutants in Seoul Metropolitan Area

3) , Il-Su Park Abstract This study were to simulate major criteria air pollutants and estimate regional source-receptor relationship using air quality prediction model (TAPM ; The Air Pollution Model) in the Seoul Metropolitan area. Source-receptor relationship was estimated by contribution of each region to other regions and region itself through dividing the Seoul metropolitan area into five regions. According to administrative boundary, region Ⅰ and region Ⅱ were Seoul and Incheon in order. Gyeonggi was divided into three regions by directions like southern(region Ⅲ), northern(Ⅳ) and eastern(Ⅴ) area. Gridded emissions (1km×1km) by Clean Air Pollicy Support System (CAPSS) of National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) was prepared for TAPM simulation. The operational weather prediction system, Regional Data Assimilation and Prediction System (RDAPS) operated by the Korean Meteorology Administration (KMA) was used for the regional weather forecasting with 30km grid resolution. Modeling period was 5 continuous days for each season with non-precipitation . The results showed that region Ⅰ was the most air-polluted area and it was 3~4 times more polluted region than other regions for NO2, SO2 and PM10. Contributions of SO2 NO2 and PM10 to region Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ were more than 50 percent for their own sources. However region Ⅳ and Ⅴ were mostly affected by sources of region Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ. When emissions of all regions were assumed to reduce 10 and 20 percent separately, air pollution of each region was reduced linearly and the contributions of reduction scenario were similar to those of base case. As input emissions were reduced according to different ratio - region Ⅰ 40 percent, region Ⅱ and Ⅲ 20 percent, region Ⅳ and Ⅴ 10 percent, air pollutions of region Ⅰ and Ⅲ were decreased remarkably. The contributions to regionⅠ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ were also reduced for their own sources. However, region Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ affected more regions Ⅳ and Ⅴ. Shortly, graded reduction of emission could be more effective to control air pollution in emission imbalanced area.
Embracing Socioeconomic Development in Disadvantageous Areas through Information & Knowledge Society

Disparities between disadvantageous areas (like rural, mountainous or underdeveloped urban areas) and other more favoured regions can be eliminated by facilitating access to the knowledge and information society for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in economically weaker areas. EMBRACE II aims to promote the development of SMEs located in such areas and increase their competitiveness and transnational cooperation through the following major actions: a. The enhancement of an existing successful network created under its predecessor (the EMBRACE project) with eight new local/regional nodes and new added-value services, and b. The establishment of a Pilot Observatory that will identify and quantify the impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on local/regional socio-economic development, with nine local/regional “antennas”. The concept of this virtual structure is quite innovative, since it correlates local economic growth with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to conclude on the tangible and intangible benefits brought by ICT at macro and micro level for SMEs. The ultimate goal is to increase the awareness of SMEs and policy- and decision-makers of the socio-economic benefits stemming from the Information Society and to offer specific ICT tools that will help SMEs better understand and utilise those benefits.
Cocoro advanced lingerie, the ultimate reusable absorbent underwear

Disposable menstrual products represent around 1M of the 3B tons of waste produced in the EU every year. Mostly composed by highly pollutant plastics, they have a huge impact on the environment. The pollution and greenhouse gas emissions they cause contribute to climate change, as well as material loss – a significant problem in the EU, which is highly dependent on imported raw materials. Moving towards a circular economy is an urgent need for the feminine hygiene industry to contribute to the competitiveness of the EU economy. 
Only two new companies in the US and Australia have recently started selling absorbent underwear as an alternative to pads. Yet, they cannot fully compete with pads given their insufficient absorption capacity and practicality. These products are also very expensive to get in Asian and European markets, which are the largest pads markets. 
Femmefleur has developed the ultimate alternative to disposable external menstrual hygiene management (MHM) products: a highly absorbent, breathable, practical and comfortable reusable underwear. Cocoro Advanced Lingerie uses a combination of cotton and polyester  treated with an innovative technology that absorbs corporal fluids like menstruation or slight urine loss, satisfying women’s needs in MHM and beyond.

Its unique features are highly competitive as our disruptive technology and design guarantee a cost-effective and ecological solution for MHM. Increasing their absorption capacity, these panties can be commercialized in other market segments such as urine incontinence or maternity. This translates into a high-potential users group, as only in the EU it represents around 190M people. 

The successful results gathered together with the huge business opportunity ahead allow us to establish two main goals for this SME Inst. phase 1: to finalise a techno-economic assessment of the polyester fabric technology and to corroborate the feasibility of the developed commercial strategy for the MHM market.
Optimized Logistics for ports and intermodal transport

This project pursues the improved efficiency of cross-border connections for secondary and tertiary port nodes in the cooperation area to facilitate the intermodal mobility of goods and people and connect to the TEN-T networks, coherently with the GoSmartMed, Circumvectio and GEECCTT Iles projects. The current fragmentation of the area's transport system hurts accessibility and logistics costs, resulting in less competitiveness. To face this challenge, EasyLog designs, develops and implements an innovative ICT system for optimised management of information and procedural flows among the operators of the cross-border port supply chain. The general objective is to improve the mobility of rolling stock between cross-border regions. Exploiting ICT technologies will increase the performance of the multimodal transport chain and the global quality of services rendered by the port nodes of the partner regions and make the connections to the TEN-T networks more efficient. EasyLog uses advanced and integrated technological equipment to support the needs of intermodal port transport operators and optimise communications and operations. The system will be tested on 5 ports and 5 existing lines to assess its real applicability. The beneficiaries will be carriers, port operators, freight companies, public administrations and the areas in general due to the higher possibility for growth afforded by the improved production performance of the transport system. The partnership will be working in a participatory and coordinated way to implement a shared intelligent cross-border traffic management system that will improve the logistics and maritime transport chains in the cooperation area and overcome the limits of the current fragmentation.
C2C - City to city – Identités pluriels et contextes urbains: nouvelles approches aux politiques de la migration

Migration is one of the top priorities on the political, social and economic agenda of the EU. Significant importance is attached to the problems of migration within the European area and to the inter-dependence and economic and social complementarity between Europe and other countries to the east and south of the EU. For many years, migratory flows have been a key element in the European area for economic and social complementarity and have also been a central element of opposition and tension in international relations. Moreover, the closeness of the European territory to Asia and to the Mediterranean basin, which links it with the African continent, makes Europe the natural location for trans-national mobility. The composition of the partnership indicates the varying degrees and different origins of the phenomenon. It includes northern countries where the situation is mature and Italy and Spain, which have changed from being countries of emigrants to becoming a destination for immigrants. Overall objective / Objectif général The general objective is to develop opportunities for integration “amongst Europeans” and among “Europeans and non-Community nationals” through the creation of networks for communication for migrant communities - both “long networks”, linking them with their countries of origin, and “short networks” within the new countries of residence, especially in urban contexts. INTERREG IIIC encourages an approach to this topic based on the experience of other partners and experimentation with new approaches. Expected results / Résultats attendus Creation of new tools for regional and national policies; development of new approaches for land planning and social, cultural and economic integration; development of debate and exchange of experiences amongst the European regions and countries in the field of immigration policies; inter-regional cooperation for grassroots partners in each region; strengthening of regional policies for migrants in partner regions; creation of the basis for sustainable north-south, eastwest cooperation; expansion of practices based on transnational networks for integration.
Increase public awareness of bio-based products and applications supporting the growth of the european bioeconomy

With the five broad application areas of the BBI JU Scientific Innovation and Research Agenda, which defines the key areas around which projects should be developed, at its core, the BIOWAYS action will develop excellent promotional and educational materials and design and implement pubic engagement activities, based on this material. These activities will be focused on promoting bio-based industries and the huge potential of their products. BIOWAYS intends to meet the need for better communication of bio-based products and applications and the benefits they bring. In order to attain this ambitious challenge, the BIOWAYS Consortium proposes providing a wide range of integrated, high-level activities and tools with recognised added value for communication programmes, having EU Citizens as their main target. Tools being developed to achieve this include an innovative online collaboration platform and social network, an accessible library of bio-based products, the development of training materials, social hack days, co-creation workshops, an eConference, BarCamps and thematic Charettes.
Low cost, early phytosanitary monitoring and alert service for horticultural farmers

PROBLEM
Plant pathogen diseases in horticultural crops are responsible for 35% of crop losses. Today, farmers lack information about
disease threats, as there is no way to carry out early diagnosis of the potential diseases that already exist in the soil and
surrounding environment. Without this information, the most common practice is to minimise all threats, regardless of
whether they exist, by the blanket, widespread application of “wide spectrum” chemical pesticides. However, these methods
fail to eliminate all the pathogens effectively, increases production costs and it’s environmentally harmful.

SOLUTION
Microgaia is a Spanish SME who has developed a DNA microarray tool that allows rapid and quantitative detection of
200specific plant diseases in a simultaneous way. Microgaia has also developed the associated sampling method and
sampling kits to take samples according particularities of each crop, farm plot and aspects as meteorological data, ensuring
that results are representative.
The use of the entire system, called VegAlert, brings 4 great benefits:
- cost reduction (by saving in pesticides)
- higher yield (reducing losses caused by pathogens)
- preservation of soil quality
- compliance with the EU directive No 2009/128/EC

MARKET
The utilised agricultural area for horticultural crops surpasses 836.000 thousand hectares in EU-28. Each analysis with
VegAlert will be sold at 50 €. On average, 4 samples will be taken for each hectare and per season, this means that the total
market size for VegAlert is 3.3 million of potential analysis per year (165 M€).
The feasibility study showed that EU farmers are worried by pathogens, and willing to pay for this solution, which minimises
their risks of losing production.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
This new business line is expected to generate important growth for Microgaia. The business plan predict that by 2022, 18
new jobs will be created with an annual turnover of 7.1 M€ and EBITDA of 3.1 M€.
Assessment of changes in preference ratings of auralized engine sounds caused by changes in frequency resolution of transfer functions

Abstract Auralization facilitates aural examination of contributions from different sound sources, individually and as parts of a context. Auralizations can be created by filtering sounds of perceptually salient sources through binaural transfer functions (BTFs) from source positions to a listening position. When such auralizations are used for product sound design it is essential to know that they are of sufficient quality. A basic requirement is that preference ratings are unaffected by the quality of the auralizations. The objective of this study was to measure changes in preference ratings of auralized engine sounds caused by changes in frequency resolution of used BTFs. Auralizations of engine sounds were created by filtering source sounds through BTFs measured from source positions to a driver’s position inside a truck cabin. The BTFs were altered by lowering the frequency resolution and by smoothing in the frequency domain. Preferences for the auralizations were compared using a modified version of the MUlti Stimulus test with Hidden Reference and Anchor, MUSHRA (ITU-R BS.1534-1). Since the use of a reference is only appropriate when a reference known to be most preferred exists the reference was removed, resulting in a MUlti Stimulus Test with Hidden Anchors (MUSTHA). For assessment of the differences between the auralizations a statistical method commonly used for assessing agreement between methods of clinical measurement was adopted. The lowest frequency resolutions resulting in acceptable agreement between preference ratings of auralizations made with high frequency resolution (1 Hz) BTFs and auralizations made with simplified BTFs were 32 Hz frequency resolution or smoothing with either 1/24 octave bandwidth filters or 63 Hz absolute bandwidth filters.
CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS FOR SELECTIVE TASTE MASKING

The use of cyclohexanecarboxylic acids in a consumable to provide taste specific masking effect is provided.
Recording online processes in task-oriented reading with Read&Answer

We present an application to study task-oriented reading processes called Read&Answer. The application mimics paper-and-pencil situations in which a reader interacts with one or more documents to perform a specific task, such as answering questions, writing an essay, or similar activities. Read&Answer presents documents and questions with a mask. The reader unmasks documents and questions so that only a piece of information is available at a time. This way the entire interaction between the reader and the documents on the task is recorded and can be analyzed. We describe Read&Answer and present its applications for research and assessment. Finally, we explain two studies that compare readers' performance on Read&Answer with students' reading times and comprehension levels on a paper-and-pencil task, and on a computer task recorded with eye-tracking. The use of Read&Answer produced similar comprehension scores, although it changed the pattern of reading times.
Bacterial, Plant, and Fungal Carbohydrate Structure Databases: Daily Usage

Natural carbohydrates play important roles in living systems and therefore are used as diagnostic and therapeutic targets. The main goal of glycomics is systematization of carbohydrates and elucidation of their role in human health and disease. The amount of information on natural carbohydrates accumulates rapidly, but scientists still lack databases and computer-assisted tools needed for orientation in the glycomic information space. Therefore, freely available, regularly updated, and cross-linked databases are demanded. Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure Database (Bacterial CSDB) was developed for provision of structural, bibliographic, taxonomic, NMR spectroscopic, and other related information on bacterial and archaeal carbohydrate structures. Its main features are (1) coverage above 90%, (2) high data consistence (above 90% of error-free records), and (3) presence of manually verified bibliographic, NMR spectroscopic, and taxonomic annotations. Recently, CSDB has been expanded to cover carbohydrates of plant and fungal origin. The achievement of full coverage in the plant and fungal domains is expected in the future. CSDB is freely available on the Internet as a web service at http://csdb.glycoscience.ru. This chapter aims at showing how to use CSDB in your daily scientific practice.
Sustainable development in territorial energy production

The overall objective is to develop a common strategy for the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency, strengthening cooperation platform between the two countries, Italy and Tunisia. In order to implement the use of  sustainable energy microsystems, thanks to advanced technology capable of generating and storing more energy from renewable sources, the project involves the development and the creation of 2 devices of sustainable energy microsystems (1 in Tunisia and 1 in Valderice) to generate and store electricity from various renewable sources (solar thermal, photovoltaic, mini-wind) and storage systems (hydrogen, battery-traditional and innovative).