SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Electrodeposition of Ni–ZrO2composite coatings and evaluation of particle distribution and corrosion resistance

The Ni–ZrO2 composite coatings were prepared by conventional electrodeposition method in Watts bath containing different amounts of ZrO2 to be codeposited. Pure Ni coating was also prepared as a comparison. The distribution and amount of the particles in the coatings were studied using an optical microscope, SEM, EDX, microhardness instrument and XRD. The results showed that with increasing ZrO2 concentration in the bath up to 90 g L−1, particle content in the coating increases. If concentration of ZrO2 surpasses 90 g L−1, ZrO2 content in the coating decreases, and distribution of the particles in the coating becomes non-uniform. Evaluation of corrosion behaviour showed that with increasing ZrO2 content in the coating, the corrosion potential shifted towards noble and positive values, and the corrosion resistance increased. The results revealed that the electroplated sample in the bath containing 90 g L−1 ZrO2 has the maximum particle content and the best corrosion resistance.
Ranger: radars for long distance maritime surveillance and sar operations

EU trade, transport, tourism and economic development are directly dependent on open and safe seas and oceans. EU's maritime borders are widely spread including various topologies from open sea to semi-enclosed cabins with islands and islets. This poses great challenges that affect securing maritime border areas. Failing to protect against a wide array of maritime threats and risks may result in these areas becoming arenas for international conflicts, terrorism or organized crime, where smuggling, irregular immigration and drug trafficking are the most common ones. RANGER aims at re-enforcing EU by combining innovative Radar technologies with novel technological solutions for early warning, in view of delivering a surveillance platform offering detection, recognition, identification and tracking of suspicious vessels, capabilities exceeding current radar systems. It will be a platform, consisting of 2 radar technologies, a novel Over-The-Horizon Radar combined with a Multiple Input Multiple Output one implemented exploiting the latest photonics advancements, and an Early Warning System exploiting deep and adaptable machine learning schemes able to Automatically detect radar Targets. It safeguards seamless fitting and interoperability with CISE (enhanced maritime surveillance and cross border SaR operations), through the development of a CISE translation Gateway, exporting on-demand CISE services directly to end-users, by strengthening the information exchange between national authorities and the European Agency. RANGER leverages the experience of its consortium, a balanced blend of technology providers, domain experts and end-users, delivering a cost efficient, environmental friendly solution, abiding to regulations and legislation for the protection of human lives. Two pilot exercises are foreseen to thoroughly assess RANGER’s ability to deliver on its promises, enhancing its potential to become a flagship platform for the European Maritime Surveillance industry.
Welcome to Annette Wannamaker, Editor-in-Chief for North America

Children’s Literature in Education is delighted to welcome Annette Wannamaker of Eastern Michigan University as its new Editor-in-Chief for North America. In this role, Dr. Wannamaker follows Lawrence Sipe who died suddenly last March and whose contribution to children’s literature will be celebrated in a special issue of the journal in March 2012. Annette Wannamaker brings a broad range of experience to the position of North American editor. She is an Associate Professor of Children’s Literature at EMU, and is also Coordinator of the Children’s Literature Program in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr. Wannamaker is well known as a scholar and teacher with a particular interest in gender questions. In 2008, she published Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child (Routledge), and she recently produced an edited book, Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Culture and Media (Peter Lang, 2011). She and Michelle Ann Abate are currently editing Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon, a book that will be published by Routledge in 2012. She has published an extensive list of journal articles and chapters, and made her first appearance in CLE in 2006, with an article on Holes. She has been active in the Children’s Literature Association for many years, and in 2010 she organized a highly successful annual conference for this organization, on the theme of ‘‘Children’s Literature and Media.’’ Dr. Wannamaker has already begun working on CLE with her usual energy and flair. All friends of the journal will be glad to welcome her aboard and wish her a long and successful tenure.
O&M tools integrating accurate structural health in offshore energy

Operation & Maintenance (O&M) costs are the main cost driver in offshore energy due to the difficult accessibility to the WTs, but also due to the environmental conditions. O&M costs can account for up to 30% of the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) and sensing & monitoring systems could help attain the expected fall to 70 EUR/MWh by 2030.
The highest criticality (in €/kWh) in offshore wind is caused by structural failure, that mainly occurs due to corrosion processes non-adequately neither predicted nor monitored. For that reason, it is crucial to implement new monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis and control tools into the offshore wind farms (WFs) to enable Wind Farm Operators (WFOs) to take predictive smart O&M decisions fully considering structural components real and future status.
WATEREYE aims to develop an integral solution that will allow to WFOs a 4% reduction of OPEX, accurately predicting the need for future maintenance strategy and increasing the offshore wind annual energy production. To this end, WATEREYE will:
1/ develop a monitoring system capable of remotely estimating the corrosion level in exact WT locations (tower, splash-zone, tower-platform junction) as a supporting tool for predictive maintenance to considerably reduce the O&M costs and reduce the risk for operation failures; New Ultrasound corrosion sensors (ad-hoc, low-cost, high accuracy, fast-response, non-invasive) will be developed, as well as high efficient and robust wireless communications specifically conceived for offshore WTs hard communicating environment. Besides, a novel drone-based mobile platform to move one mobile sensor inside the WT tower will be developed.
2/ develop enhanced prediction models by analysing the acquired data in novel ways (semantic models);
3/ develop WT & WF control algorithms with accurate consideration of the structural health, giving operators freedom to choose the best balance between energy production, protective control, and predictive maintenance.
Female Migrant’s Employment in the EU: Sustainable Welfare States, Sociocultural Backgrounds and Female Migrants’ Employment Status

Achieving sustainable welfare states is one of the main goals the European Union has set itself. However, the current decline of the working-age population will undermine this future aim. The financing of welfare systems becomes problematic. 

In light of these demographic challenges, it is crucial for the EU to increase its labor market participation A group of particular concern is migrants who have a low employment rate, especially migrant women. Compared to female natives, their employment rates are low. Nevertheless, not every EU member state experiences this phenomenon to a similar extent: variation exists. In this study I want to find out to what extent the employment status of female migrants can be explained by their sociocultural background. A comparison will be made with their female native counterparts.
METHOD FOR FILTERING A PRODUCT FORMED IN CAUSTICIZATION

The invention concerns a method for filtering a product formed in a causticization process, in which filtration process the product is subjected to separation of the filtrate from the solids. The product received from a causticization tank is routed to a filter, where the filtrate is separated from the product to be filtered and the solids content of the remaining solids cake is increased by drying the cake, after which the cake is washed with water and dried. The invention is characterized in that the filtrate separated from the product in the filter is combined with the washing filtrate obtained from the washing and drying steps of the filtration process, and the primary liquor thus obtained is routed into a digester for use as cooking liquor.
On notions of distortion and an almost minimum spanning tree with constant average distortion

Minimum Spanning Trees of weighted graphs are fundamental objects in numerous applications. In particular in distributed networks, the minimum spanning tree of the network is often used to route messages between network nodes. Unfortunately, while being most efficient in the total cost of connecting all nodes, minimum spanning trees fail miserably in the desired property of approximately preserving distances between pairs. While known lower bounds exclude the possibility of the worst case distortion of a tree being small, it was shown in [4] that there exists a spanning tree with constant average distortion. Yet, the weight of such a tree may be significantly larger than that of the MST. In this paper, we show that any weighted undirected graph admits a spanning tree whose weight is at most (1 + ρ) times that of the MST, providing constant average distortion O(1/ρ2).1The constant average distortion bound is implied by a stronger property of scaling distortion, i.e., improved distortion for smaller fractions of the pairs. The result is achieved by first showing the existence of a low weight spanner with small prioritized distortion, a property allowing to prioritize the nodes whose associated distortions will be improved. We show that prioritized distortion is essentially equivalent to coarse scaling distortion via a general transformation, which has further implications and may be of independent interest. In particular, we obtain an embedding for arbitrary metrics into Euclidean space with optimal prioritized distortion.
Eurogo 2004

This project involves the organization of a series of sport and recreational events, to be carried out in order to celebrate the dismantling of the borders and the enlargement of the European Union. In this regard, for several years now various sport and recreational events have been taking place on the border in the Isonzo area. Yet, considering the importance of this historical event, the idea to carry out a macro-project in a wider and more diversified context has been conceived. “Eurogo 2004” requires a suitable planning and presentation, as well as an accurate management, and is a true quality leap as regards the events organized in this field. At the same time, a major contribution to lifting the many barriers raised in Gorizia because of the State border has been given by sport and recreational activities. The project consists of four main sport events: three non competitive events and environmental preservation activities, and one competitive event. The first one took place on Sunday 18th April, 2004, with a kayak and canoe descent on the Vipacco river, from Renče to Savogna, and on Sunday 2nd May 2004 the Števerjan/San Floriano – Gonjače march was held. In May, a young soccer tournament was also held and lasted two weeks: the tournament was attended by sixteen teams from the Gorizia province and from the nearby Slovenian towns and villages. The matches were held in several soccer fields in Gorizia and nearby. On Sunday, September 12th, 2004, the kajak regatta on the Isonzo river, from Solkan to Piedimonte, was the grand finale.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AN INHALER

Disclosed is a method for selecting a suitable inhaler device to a user. The method comprises using a spirometer and a computer comprising a display. The method comprising the following steps: A) connecting the spirometer and the computer; B) the computer, or spirometer, indicating to the user to inhale through the spirometer; C) the spirometer sending flow over time data of the inhalation made to the computer; and D) the computer comparing the flow over time data with dose emission over time data for a range of inhalers and indicating the suitable inhaler from the range of inhalers as the inhaler with the largest dose emission within the flow over time data. Disclosed is also a system for establishing a suitable inhaler device. The system comprises a spirometer and a computer connectable to each other for data transfer. The spirometer or the computer is configured to indicate to the user to inhale through the spirometer. The spirometer is configured to send flow over time data of the inhalation made to the computer. The computer is configured to compare the flow over time data with dose emission over time data for a range of inhalers and indicating the suitable inhaler of the range of inhalers as the inhaler with the largest dose emission within the flow over time data.
QUALITY MADE BUSINESS ACCELERATION

General objective: To incubate/accelerate 12 start-ups in the identity-linked tourism industry working in urban areas - districts that are less attractive to tourists, face critical social-cultural issues and risk businesses leaving -, by boosting the entrepreneurial fabric of the sector and regenerating the local economy.
 There are urban areas that are being affected by de-industrialisation, where it is important to revitalise the economy and local culture. Cities such as Genoa, Livorno, Cagliari, Toulon and Bastia generate interest among tourists, but do not attract the attention of the market, especially not on an international scale; instead, they continue to be cities to pass through rather than to stay in.
 The development and promotion strategy for the start-ups begins by successfully defining the product/service identity and is based on the processes, solutions and promotional actions of the Quality Made Brand guidelines produced by the SMARTIC project.
 By capitalising on the QM experience:
 - the entrepreneurial fabric and competitiveness of businesses operating in the tourism industry, in less touristy urban areas, will be increased.
 - the foundations will be created for the development of a local economy as an element able to bring identity-linked value, also for those travelling for tourism.
 - a virtuous relationship will be developed between the economy and the local area, based on the QM brand.
 The incubation/acceleration incentives for the 12 start-ups, implemented by capitalising on SMARTIC and the QM brand, concern:  the creation of identity-linked tourism products, the brand’s business model towards which the start-ups will be guided, the sales and marketing system for the brand and certified companies which will be enhanced by including the 12 start-ups, the network and cross-selling system between certified companies.
 The project is made up of five implementation components:
 T1 Audit and QM incubation
 T2 QM Mentoring and Networking
 T3 QM consulting services
 T4 Creation of QM tourist packages
 T5 Enhancing Marketing and Promotion
CURRENT TRENDS AND SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SPENDING OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

The most important instruments of the EU’s regional development policy are the three funds made up of the GNI-pegged contributions of member states. The European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund – collectively the cohesion resources – fund all development aimed at facilitating the convergence process of the less developed regions within the EU and at retaining the competitiveness of the EU as a world region despite its being in the crossfire of internal and external challenges. This in turn means that the quantitative and qualitative considerations regarding how the funds spent are paramount. Nominal – that is the amount of the allocated funds actually accessed within the given 7+2-year timeframe – is measured by the absorption rate. However, quality spending i.e. efficient and effective usage of the resources is vital. The purpose of this study is to spotlight absorption: to determine the current access ratio of the overall 2007–2013 funding allocated a year and a half before the deadline. The author also focuses on spectacular differences in fund use in light of how the various member countries actually put them to work, together with the underlying reasons. The recently launched programme period of 2014–2020 is currently in its preliminary phase during which the EU members are working out their partnership agreements and operative programmes. The progression rates are different for each member state. For this timeframe the author explores the legislative background for a possible shift in allowed towards higher quality.
A mathematical tool for predicting thermal performance of natural draft biomass cookstoves and identification of a new operational parameter

Abstract The goal of the work was to develop a simple yet reliable and computationally inexpensive mathematical tool for the performance prediction of ‘rocket’ type natural draft direct combustion stoves with unshielded pot. The work included development of a novel heat and mass transfer model for natural draft biomass cookstoves and its integration with Excel® spreadsheet to develop a user-friendly mathematical tool. The results from the mathematical tool were validated against the experimental data set from literature. A new operational parameter named ‘Inlet area ratio’ was identified, and its effects on the stove performance were investigated. It was concluded that this newly identified parameter has a considerable effect on the performance of a natural draft stove, and the findings are likely to change the future cookstove modeling and design approach.
Crouzet next grip generation

Thanks to our expertise as designer and manufacturer of grips, wheels and electrical function (buttons, trim….) for aircrafts for over 50 years, we want to continue to offer advanced solution for grips. Working with a system integrator like SAFRAN (topic leader) will be a real advantage to efficiently integrate future needs and optimize system integration of our advanced technologies.

With 2021 Grip project, Crouzet will define, develop, test and validate technological bricks : low power buttons (switch, analog), visual indicator, hands-on/hands-off and information concentrator to reduce number of wires (space and weight optimization) and exchange information between Grip and calculator of inceptor. These will be integrated in a shipset of grip (left/right) that will be ready for certification. According to evaluation conclusion it could be a fly demonstrator.

This project will contribute to maintain and reinforce CROUZET leadership in the domain of grips for aircraft by designing new features and new services. Combined with our industrial facilities loacted in France, we’ll be able to manufacture in volume and consequently widely offer (sale) these innovative solutions to the benefit of system integrators and thus aircraft manufacturers.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING AND GAS DETECTION USING A SCANNING ILLUMINATOR AND OPTICAL SENSOR

Presented herein are systems and methods directed to a multispectral absorption-based imaging approach that provides for rapid and accurate detection, localization, and quantification of gas leaks. The imaging technology described herein utilizes a scanning optical sensor in combination with structured and scannable illumination to detect and image spectral signatures produced by absorption of light by leaking gas in a quantitative manner over wide areas, at distance, and in the presence of background such as ambient gas and vapor. Moreover, the specifically structured and scannable illumination source of the systems and methods described herein provides a consistent source of illumination for the scanning optical sensor, allowing imaging to be performed even in the absence of sufficient natural light, such as sunlight. The imaging approaches described herein can, accordingly, be used for a variety of gas leak detection, emissions monitoring, and safety applications.
GRAVITY FLOW TUBULAR PHOTOBIOREACTOR AND PHOTOBIOREACTOR FARM

A gravity flow photobioreactor core (10) comprised of a support means (3); a tube (5) that continuously runs and curls with declination about a vertical axis to form a stack (7) of levels (9) and having an inlet sparge (11); a gas exchange tank (13) and a central feed pipe (15) with a sparge (17). A gravity flow photobioreactor farm comprised of a bottom tank (19); a pump (21); a plurality of bioreactor cores (10) connected in series at decreasing elevations and a return pipe (23).
Dualities and correspondences in algebraic geometry via derived categories and noncommutative methods

In the last few years, our understanding of algebraic geometry has undergone a radical reinterpretation as many classical problems are being solved using derived categories. These are a tool to translate geometric input into algebraic notions, retaining much of the initial information but at the same time allowing extra flexibility to work in an algebraic setting.

The purpose of the proposal is to gain a deeper understanding of the behavior of derived categories and contribute to the unity of the subject, connecting several of its subfields in a clear, transparent way. In turn, we will exploit the power of derived categories and apply them to more classical fields to gain insight that would be impossible with traditional methods: applications will include classical algebraic geometry via singularity theory, but also symplectic geometry via Homological Mirror Symmetry.

Project DANCING will use a wide array of tools including algebraic geometry, noncommutative algebra, representation theory, DG and A-infinity methods. This innovative, multifaceted approach will allow us on one hand to understand better the abstract underpinnings of derived categories and their relation to other homological constructions, and on the other hand to use cutting-edge new techniques like stability conditions and a derived-categorical duality to have a concrete impact on our general knowledge of geometry.

Project DANCING will take advantage of the world-class research group at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh, and the complementary skill set of the applicant, to create high impact research.

Knowledge transfer forms a central part of DANCING and will be bi-directional. The applicant will further take advantage of training events and teaching opportunities. By the end of DANCING, it is expected that she will have gained a position of international prominence and will have a concrete track record of setting her own research agenda.