SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Coherent diffraction for a look inside nanostructures towards atomic resolution: catalysis and interface

Heterogeneous catalysis of nanoparticles has recently emerged as highly promising way to speed up catalytic processes due to their far higher surface area compared to bulk materials. But they face significant challenges in achieving high catalytic activity and sufficient durability. A key problem has been that all existing approaches to the characterization of atomic scale phenomena in these materials either lack structural specificity or can be employed under highly unrealistic catalytic environments. As an example, operando x-ray catalysis has often been carried out under idealized conditions and averaging information from macroscopic facets. This approach suffers from the lack of transferability to nanocrystalline systems. To tackle this problem, I am developing new state-of-the-art in situ techniques based on coherent x-ray scattering and complementary chemical characterization, with which I will optimize catalyst and reactor operations simultaneously. This is the ambition of the CARINE project to study in situ and operando the structural evolution of catalytic nanoparticles in realistic conditions during reaction by using the unique capabilities of coherent diffraction Bragg imaging (CDI). My proposed work builds on my recent exciting proof-of-concept experiments using Pt nanocrystals that demonstrate the sensitivity and spatial resolution of CDI under liquid conditions. As dedicated instruments for CDI have just reached user operation, it is only now that this new imaging technique can be applied during reaction and can probe structural changes of individual nanocrystals under conditions where up to now, no other techniques could probe the relevant parameters. My project will shed light into most relevant unsolved issues (durability, activity…) that limit the efficiency of today’s industrial processes and will open new horizons with outstanding impact in catalytic research.
Design and Analysis of Absorption Type Sampler on Star Soil

Deep space detection is the result of human exploration of natural intrinsic motivation. To explore the Moon, Mars, target Asteroid soil strata information, meeting the needs of human living space is of great significance. For the mission of celestial bodies, an absorption type sampling method which uses the rotation and pound to burst rock and air flow excitation to obtain samples is put forward. It has characteristics of low reaction force, efficient rock-breaking, light body and low energy consumption. Further, it uses the principle of flywheel energy storage to achieve low energy consumption, passive vibration excitation magnetic control to achieve high efficient rock breaking, and the dense ball bearing shaft inherent function of rush and rotation to achieve structure lightweight. Through ADAMS software, dynamic simulation analysis is ascertained and sampler ground simulation experiment is consolidated according to different hard soil. The results show that the sampling method, can brake rock efficiently, achieve the microgravity sampling function, and provide an effective way for deep space detection.
Superabsorbent polymers through oxidized starch

The proposed work in this SuperAbsorbent Polymers Through Oxidized Starch [SAPTOS] initiative is aimed at the scale-up of Rodenburg’s novel SAP platform towards fully biodegradable disposable diapers, build on cheap starch side streams and a low cost continuous reactor process. Such platform will be a breakthrough in solving a major global waste problem.   Specific objectives in this feasibility study are:  - Explore promising business cases for our bio-degradable starch based polymer platforms (i.e. DiAldehyde Starch and Solanyl stretch films) with potential customers in diaper industries, evaluating required specifications for polymer derivates, and required characteristics of SAP-based applications.  - Elaborate on a detailed business plan (D1).
MEDICAL TUBING FOR CATHETERS

Tubing made of two or more polymers circumferentially arranged around the perimeter of the tubing in a single layer may be useful as medical tubing. Specifically, such tubing may be useful in catheters, sheaths, sheath introducers, implant delivery systems, and other medical devices having elongated tubular components. Selection of the two or more polymers based on the durometer and melting temperature permits optimization of axial strength and flexibility for particular applications. Such tubing may be extruded as a single layer tubing or a multi-layer tubing where the additional layers may be single material layers or more multi-polymer layers.
Assessing the transition to renewable energy in rapidly developing countries

CO2 emissions are growing extremely fast in Rapidly Developing Countries, which will account for 99% of the global emissions increase by 2035 (BP 2014). Energy demand is set to increase by 75% by 2035 and (if no change incurs) will largely depend on fossil fuels (IEA 2013). In response to these concerns, Rapidly Developing Countries are currently seeking to tap its vast renewable energy potential (IRENA 2013). This shift to renewable energy provides a unique opportunity to study socio-technical transition to low-carbon technologies. Transitioning to renewable energy requires policy reform, infrastructure investment, citizen mobilization, and smart financing mechanisms. The RE-DEV project will examine the conditions for the take-up of renewable energy in Rapidly Developing Countries and, by doing so, uncover its consequences in terms of global CO2 emissions. Drawing on a comparative study of four selected country-cases (China, India, South Africa, and Morocco), this project will offer an in-depth analysis of: (a) regulatory frameworks and existing financing mechanisms, (b) the limits and potential of multilateral climate cooperation, (c) the state of vertical/horizontal transfer of know-how. The country sample responds to a most-dissimilar-systems research design. To gather evidence, this project will employ the following methods: semi-structured interviews with policy makers, questionnaires and a participatory assessment with public/private stakeholders. As a result of this, the RE-DEV project will build knowledge on how to facilitate a sustained transition to renewable energy in Rapidly Developing Countries. I put a strong emphasis on three aspects: the interdisciplinary character of the project, its intersectoral nature, and the crucial issue of its timing – it needs to be carried out now, when domestic energy transitions and the post-Kyoto climate change deal (due at Paris COP 21) are at a crucial point of their development.
METHOD FOR SUPPLYING A VEHICLE WITH ENERGY

The invention relates to a method for supplying a first vehicle with energy. In order to design the supplying of energy to the first vehicle by means of an assisting second vehicle in case of a shortage of energy for the first vehicle to be safer for both vehicles, with low expense, the invention proposes that a minimum energy requirement of the first vehicle is determined in advance, an energy reserve of the second vehicle is determined and thereafter said energy reserve is compared to the minimum energy requirement of the first vehicle, possibly taking into account any travel paths deviating from the originally planned route in the course of the assistance. The invention further relates to a corresponding device.
Overview of Cell Synchronization

Widespread interest in cell synchronization is maintained by the studies of control mechanisms involved in cell cycle regulation. During the synchronization distinct subpopulations of cells are obtained representing different stages of the cell cycle. These subpopulations are then used to study regulatory mechanisms of the cycle at the level of macromolecular biosynthesis (DNA synthesis, gene expression, protein synthesis), protein phosphorylation, development of new drugs, etc. Although several synchronization methods have been described, it is of general interest that scientists get a compilation and an updated view of these synchronization techniques. This introductory chapter summarizes: (1) the basic concepts and principal criteria of cell cycle synchronizations, (2) the most frequently used synchronization methods, such as physical fractionation (flow cytometry, dielectrophoresis, cytofluorometric purification), chemical blockade, (3) synchronization of embryonic cells, (4) synchronization at low temperature, (5) comparison of cell synchrony techniques, (6) synchronization of unicellular organisms, and (7) the effect of synchronization on transfection.
High efficient packet aggregation scheme for multi-rate and VoIP packet transmissions in next generation MU-MIMO WLANs

In the next generation wireless local area network (WLAN), the multi-user spatial multiplexing combined with packet aggregation can increase the system performance significantly. However, the space channel time may arise due to non-uniformity in the transmission times of wireless frames on the different spatial streams during MU-MIMO transmissions. In addition, for various communication services such as voice communication, the quality of service (QoS) provision is essential in the current WLANs. In this paper, our objectives are reduction of the space channel time and QoS provision for voice communications. Then, we propose a high efficient packet aggregation scheme taking into account the multi-rate and VoIP packet transmissions. The results of computer simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme under recent WLAN environments.
Towards evidence-based tailored implementation strategies for ehealth

ImpleMentAll will develop, apply, and evaluate tailored implementation strategies in the context of on-going eHealth implementation initiatives in the EU and beyond. Common mental health disorders account for an alarming proportion of the global burden of disease. Being regarded as an evidence-based psychotherapeutic eHealth intervention, Internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT), has the potential to answer to this societal challenge by providing an efficacious and efficient treatment from which more people can benefit. As a result, various iCBT implementation projects are currently conducted across the world. We propose to use this natural laboratory to develop and evaluate a toolkit for tailored implementation strategies that is expected to make implementation trajectories more efficient.

The objectives for ImpleMentAll are:
1) To develop a generic Integrated Theory-based Framework for Intervention Tailoring Strategies (the ItFits-toolkit) for data-driven tailored implementation of evidence-based eHealth services.
2) To demonstrate the impact of the ItFits toolkit on the implementation of eHealth for common mental disorders, in 9 European countries, 2 LMIC, and Australia.
3) To disseminate the validated toolkit in various healthcare contexts across Europe.

ImpleMentAll is a true multidisciplinary international collaboration that unites key experts in clinical practice, health innovation, clinical research, and implementation science. Combined with it’s unique setup, ImpleMentAll will be able to test if tailoring implementation strategies lead to more efficient implementation. The resulting ItFits-toolkit will enable data driven evaluation of eHealth implementation projects in terms key performance indicators for process, effectiveness, and efficiency outcomes. Its methods, materials, and strategies will provide concrete guidance on tuning implementation interventions to local determinant of practice across a variety of health care systems.
Applying Logistic Regression to E-Banking Usage in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana

Purpose : The main focus of this paper is to ascertain whether customer’s decision to use e-banking is influenced by socioeconomic classifications. It further seeks to identify the kinds of e-banking services provided to customers, and also examines the most frequently patronized e-banking service. Methodology/approach : In all, 241customers of three state-owned retail banks from Kumasi Metropolis, one of the most urbanized metropolis in Ghana, were used as sample for the survey. A well-structured questionnaire was used to obtain relevant information from the customers. Responses gathered from the customers were mainly analyzed using a binary logistic regression. Findings : Internet banking, ATM, E-Zwich and mobile phone banking were the commonly identified e-banking services offered by the banks. Among such services, ATM was the most frequently patronized service whereas internet banking recorded very low patronage. From the chi-squared test of association, customer’s operational bank and occupational status were found to have significantly informed the decision to use e-banking. With respect to the logit analysis, customer’s operational bank, occupational status and monthly income were significant socioeconomic classification variables that informed customer’s decision to use e-banking. Practical implications : This paper may serve as scientific basis for banks to consider customers’ socioeconomic classifications, in designing any e-banking marketing strategies in targeting customers in urban communities in Ghana. Originality/value : With the use of a logit regression, this paper has identified occupational status, customer’s bank and monthly income as significant socioeconomic variables that inform a Ghanaian customer’s decision to use e-banking.
Networking ecologically smart territories

The principal aim of Networking Ecologically Smart Territories (NEST) will be to test the hypothesis that digital diversification, which will  be explored as noodiversification and technodiversification as the conditions of resilience of human societies, holds the key to a reinvention of contemporary, proletarianising, industrial economics. For this purpose, a large transdisciplinary research mobility project is necessary in order to articulate local territorial situations with international concerns in the context of the Anthropocene. The aims will be achieved through an international and intersectorial exchange of researchers and staff across the academic and non-academic partners of NEST. The NEST consortium is made of 11 partners, 4 EU academic partners TU Dublin (IRL), IRI (FR), Paris Lumiere (FR), SALSKI (PL) and 2 Third Country academic Partners Uartes (EC), Berkeley (US) and 5 non-academic partners, DCC (IRL), D93( FR), Factory of the Living (PL), Dissinovation (FR) and associated with the Galapagos (EC). There are 3 academic WPs.By extending the critique of digital technology already undertaken by the Digital Studies Network to reconsider the foundations of computer theory in relation to the concepts of locality, negentropy, anti-entropy, data economy and networked AI by developing the concepts of technodiversity and cosmothenchics (WP1). To experiment and introduce new forms of collective responsibility through Territorial experimentation, enabling new forms of citizen participation in local governance through contributory research (WP2). To experiment and develop a network of territorial laboratories of digital contributory research in order to study the constraints acting on life and the archipelagos of ecological niches by species inhabiting the same territoires, with a view to generating local understandings of living singularities and functional cooperations between territorial-laboratories and academics in view of the planetary threat. (WP3)
Cartesian grid method for the compressible Euler equations using simplified ghost point treatments at embedded boundaries

Abstract We introduce two new approaches called the simplified and the modified simplified ghost point treatments for solving the 2D compressible Euler equations near embedded boundaries for the Cartesian grid method. These approaches are second order accurate for second order schemes near the embedded boundaries, if the wall boundary is in the middle between fluid and ghost points. We assign values to the ghost points near embedded solid boundaries from mirror points in the fluid to reflect the presence of the solid boundaries. In the simplified ghost point treatment, we consider the closest grid points on the grid lines through the ghost points in the x- and y-directions as the mirror points of the ghost points depending on which directions are closest to the directions normal to the embedded boundaries. In the modified simplified ghost point treatment, we choose mirror points not only on the grid lines through the ghost points in the x- or y-directions, but also on the diagonals through the ghost points. The primitive variables at the mirror points are mirrored to the ghost points using local symmetry boundary conditions. The simplified ghost point treatments at embedded boundaries are tested for supersonic flow over a circular arc airfoil and a circular cylinder. Applications to supersonic flow over multiple circular cylinders and a 2D model of the F-22 fighter aircraft demonstrate the flexibility of the ghost point treatments. Another advantage of these new approaches is that they are easily extendable to higher order methods and to 3D. The Cartesian grid method requires a larger number of grid points than the standard body-fitted grid method. We found a good agreement between the results obtained with the simplified and the modified simplified ghost point treatments and the reference solutions in the literature.
From biomass to catalysts and chemicals: exploiting blood and food waste towards high-value products.

The aim of this proposal is to make universal and low-cost catalysts from industrial waste and apply them to biomass upgrading. To that end, we will make single atomic FeNx sites supported on carbon (FeNx@C) that have seen tremendous development in organic chemistry in the past 5 years. Indeed, they are active for both oxidations and reductions, and constitute promising substitutes for toxic, scarce and costly platinum-group metals (PGM). Yet major challenges remain in the field: first we need to find new routes to drastically lower the footprint of their synthesis. Here we will adopt a bio-inspired approach and use inexpensive hemoproteins as precursors: they naturally contain four pre-built FeNx sites (hemes) per unit. Hemoproteins can be extracted from blood in slaughterhouse waste. We will use the resulting catalysts for the upgrading of key biomass-derived platform molecules: 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), levulinic acid (LA), and other biomass-derived alcohols.

The reductive and oxidative potency of FeNx@C will be first explored separately, then sequentially for alcohol direct conversion to amines. Due to their heterogeneous nature, FeNx
injetor de combustìvel com atuador eletromagnético

Injetor de combustível com atuador eletromagnético onde um injetor de combustível (1) é equipado com: uma válvula de injeção (7) compreendendo um pistão móvel (15) que termina em uma cabeça de selagem (22), um corpo de suporte (4) tendo um formato tubular e compreendendo um canal de alimentação (5), e, um corpo de selagem (17) no qual está definido um assento de válvula (16) da válvula de injeção (7); a cabeça de selagem (22), tendo um formato tronco-cónico e que está disposta externamente em relação ao elemento guia (19), é forçada por uma mola (10) contra dito elemento guia (19) em uma direção contrária à direção da alimentação do combustível; e o assento de válvula (16), tendo um formato tronco-cónico que é uma reprodução em negativo do formato tronco-Cónico da cabeça de selagem (22), promove um formato cónico, oco internamente, ao combustível injetado.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE DIGITAL KEY GENERATION

Figure 1, shows a remote digital key generating system (10) according to a embodiment of the present invention. It includes an encryptor (12) and a decryptor (14). It also includes two identical chaotic systems, preferred embodiments of which are described above: a first chaotic system (16) and a second chaotic system (18). In operation, the encryptor (12) applies an initialization code (20), to the first chaotic system (16). The first chaotic system is allowed to generate an unpredictable first key bitstream (22) of desired length. The first key bitstream can be used as a digital key to encrypt a plain text message according to any number of encryption algorithms known to those skilled in the art. The encryptor (12) also sends the initialization code (20) to the second chaotic system (18). The second chaotic system (18) is then allowed to generate a second key bitstream (24), which second key bitstream (24) will be identical to the first key bitstream (22).
Helicon plasma thruster for in-space applications

The goal of  HIPATIA (HelIcon PlasmA Thruster for In-Space Applications) is to verify the function and performances of an Electric Propulsion System based on the Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT) technology, for its application in non-geostationary satellites constellations and other small spacecrafts. 

The Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT), a technology under development by SENER and UC3M, is a radiofrequency powered plasma propulsion technology that can offer a good level of performance while eliminating many of the design and manufacturability issues - electrodes, high voltage electronics, and complex fabrication - which have afflicted EP systems to date. Given the relatively simple and robust design of the HPT technology (no grids neither cathodes), the HIPATIA Project has the potential for providing a cost-effective solution for large constellation of small satellites (<500 kg, <750W of power for EP).

The impacts associated to have a disruptive thruster in high TRLs would not be achieved unless the complete EP System has proven its integration and operation consistency. HIPATIA will advance the development status of the HPT up to TRL6-7, but it will also face the integration challenges of a complete EP System, constituted by the HPT Thruster Unit, the Radiofrequency and power Unit that feeds it with power and the Propellant Flow Control Unit that controls the pressure and mass flow. The System will be integrated and verified against the requirements derived from the market needs. Development activities will be complemented with research and experimental task, in order to propose design actions to improve the HPT performances.

The Consortium, constituted by SENER, UC3M, ADS, CNRS and AST, brings to HIPATIA a solid background in the development, integration and test of Electric Propulsion Systems to succesfully achieve the defined Project goal.
ELECTROPNEUMATIC PRESSURE TRANSDUCER

When no current is flowing, known electropneumatic pressure transducers have a high air consumption, since their coaxially arranged valve seats tend to release a valve closure element when oscillations are induced externally. An electropneumatic pressure transducer is therefore proposed in which, in a position of rest when no current is flowing, a valve closure element (31) is seated on the valve seat (32) between the control pressure space (24) and the reduced-pressure connection (22) and is at a distance from the second valve seat (33) between the atmospheric-pressure connection (18) and the control space (24). This reliably prevents release through external oscillation from the reduced-pressure connection and hence minimizes air consumption.