SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Light - Towards Dynamic, Intelligent and Energy Efficient Urban Lighting

The Dynamic Light project focusses on reduction of CO2-emissions and enhancement of energy efficiency in public lighting. Public lighting causes ca. 6% of the global CO2-emissions.  Many conventional lighting fixtures need to be changed to energy efficient lights. However, public authorities lack a strategic approach to convert their lighting infrastructure. Dynamic lighting has the potential for even higher energy efficiency. The current challenges of dynamic lighting are a missing legal framework for dynamic dimming of lights and higher initial costs compared to standard LED lights. Therefore municipalities hesitate to invest in dynamic lighting. But the uprising topic of light pollution and a necessary improvement of quality of public lighting brings dynamic lighting on the agenda, which can contribute to both: increase of energy efficiency AND quality of stay in city areas. The main objective of the project is to make a shift from municipal light infrastructure planning towards a modern energy efficient and demand-oriented lighting design and better light and energy management. The expected result is to get the best relation between highly energy efficient public lighting infrastructure and the quality of stay in urban areas through better light quality. This implies also to harmonize public lighting standards & norms to better meet social needs and make the application of dynamic lighting possible.  It furthermore needs capacity building and awareness-raising for dynamic lighting & energy-saving potentials. The project will demonstrate the process of how a city can implement energy efficient lighting starting from the idea&analysis, GIS data mining, strategy development until financial models, procurement rules, implementation and evaluation. This goes hand in hand with the joint implementation and testing of pilot demonstration investments to proof the benefits and increase acceptance of energy-efficient lighting among end users and town planners.
A clinical phonetics laboratory service (phonlab): diagnostics of speech impairment via the web

In line with present trends to expand eHealth in medical care, this project‘s objective is to provide a commercial web-based service for the automatic diagnosis of impaired speech, given a sample of the client’s speech transmitted over the internet. Currently, speech therapists are required to diagnose speech impairments from only a pen and paper analysis of transcriptions based on auditory impressions. The main advantage of the innovative approach of this project is to quantify the production of speech in time according to the scientific state of the art, which is well beyond the scope of presently used impressionistic, auditory techniques. 

This will be implemented by enhancing a prototype web-based system with software created during the PI’s ERC Advanced Grant for processing acoustically multilingual adult and child speech data.
The overall long-term vision is to provide a web-based resource for diagnosing speech disorders from anywhere with access to a microphone and internet connection. As a first step, the proof-of-concept (PoC) will initiate a start-up process to bring this resource, known as PhonLab, to the point of commercialisation in Germany.  The work plan of the PoC consists in (1) the development of a business plan based on PhonLab’s likely usage and associated revenue (2) technically enhance  PhonLab’s automatisation and user-friendliness (3) developing a promotion strategy towards potential users and clients.

The proximate economic benefits lie in the low costs and the rapidity of diagnosis even to remote places. In the long run, PhonLab has therefore also the potential to provide speech therapists in disadvantaged areas of the world with easy access to state-of-the-art techniques for diagnosing speech impairments
Crosspoint in-memory computing systems

Every second, our smart phones deliver a wealth of information that can be used to monitor the traffic, the financial transactions, and even the spread of a dangerous disease. The processing of these big data into a meaningful information requires specific machine learning (ML) algorithms, which essentially consist of regression techniques for inference, classification and prediction. The conventional digital computers are not designed to optimally solve these problems with efficient time and energy consumption, which is one of the reasons why the power consumption by data centers worldwide is expected to triple in the next decade. Such a poor energy efficiency is essentially due to the physical separation between the central processing unit (CPU), where data are computed, and the memory, where data are stored, according to classical von Neumann computer architecture.  In the frame of our ERC-CoG RESCUE, my group has developed a new paradigm to efficiently execute ML tasks in just one step within the memory. Instead of moving data from the memory to the digital CPU, an analogue computation is directly operated within the data, thus breaking all previous limits of time and energy consumption (10.000x reduction in the number of operations, hence time, and 1.000x in energy). Our in-memory technology is modular and universal, thus can be implemented in any existing memory and computing technology to accelerate ML tasks in future smartphones and data centers.  In the ERC-PoC CIRCUS, we aim at bringing this technology to a higher maturity level, demonstrating its scalability and technical feasibility by simulations and realization of a small-scale prototype. In the meantime, we will also perform a comprehensive market search to recognize opportunities and draft an investor-ready business plan for raising future investments to further advance the solution toward industrial exploitation.
Pesticide-free agriculture as a new paradigm for research

Abstract Reducing pesticide use has become a goal shared by several European countries and a major issue in public policies due to the negative impacts of pesticides on the environment and on human health. However, since most of the agri-food sector relies on pesticides in these countries, substantially reducing pesticide use is a complex issue. To overcome this situation, we argue that agricultural research has a major role to play and must adopt a pesticide-free paradigm to expect a deep impact on pesticide use. In this article, we explain why this new paradigm is needed and outline research fronts that it will help address. These research fronts are related to five strategies: (1) redesigning cropping systems to enhance prophylaxis, (2) diversifying biocontrol strategies and associated business models, (3) broadening the scope of plant breeding to include functional biodiversity and evolutionary ecology concepts, (4) setting new goals for agricultural machinery and digital technologies, and (5) supporting development of public policies and private initiatives for the transition toward pesticide-free agri-food systems. The corresponding research activities must be managed conjointly to develop systemic and coupled innovations, which are essential for reducing pesticide use significantly. We therefore provide examples of cross-cutting objectives that combine these fronts while also highlighting the need for interdisciplinary research projects. By doing so, we provide an overall orientation for research to achieve sustainable agriculture.
Modeling and Control of a Co-Axial Helicopter

This thesis lays the foundations for the development of a small autonomous coaxialhelicopter. This is an helicopter with two propellers mounted on the same axis andrevolving in opposite directions. To steer the helicopter, this thesis proposes a mechanismthat moves the helicopter’s centre of mass. Although such a mechanism has already beeninvestigated experimentally in the literature, it has never been rigorously modeled, anda theoretical analysis has never been performed. This thesis, for the first time, presentsan accurate mathematical model of the coaxial helicopter which takes into account thegyroscopic effects of the rotors, the reaction forces and torques exerted by the movingmass actuator on the helicopter body, and the fact that the inertia of the helicopter istime-varying. A nonlinear controller is rigorously derived which makes the helicopterhover at desired positions in three-space. A number of physical prototypes are discussed.None of them is capable of autonomous flight yet, but the experimental and simulationresults provide reassurances that the proposed methodology is viable.
DETERGENT COMPOSITION

An extrudable detergent composition comprising, i) 20 % to 80 % by weight soap; ii) 0.5 % to 5 % by weight surfactant selected from anionic, non-ionic, amphoteric, betaines or zwitter-ionic surfactants; iii) 0.1 % to 10 % by weight water soluble salt of dicarboxylic acid having the formula COOH-(CH <SUB>2</SUB>)<SUB>n</SUB>- COOH where "n" is an integer from 2 to 8; iv) 0.1 % to 10 % by weight water soluble salt of alpha-hydroxy acid.
Sovvenzione di capitale circolante per ZBIGNIEW GRAJEWSKI PPUH "TRANSPAK".

Il progetto riguarda il sostegno dell'imprenditore nel fornire liquidità finanziaria e il sostegno alle attività in corso a causa delle difficoltà finanziarie incontrate dall'imprenditore a causa dell'epidemia di COVID-19. Assistenza finanziaria erogata nell'ambito del programma n. SA.57015 (2020/N)
Local souls : novellas

Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today's face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, yet it celebrates those locals who have chosen to stay local. In doing so, Local Souls uncovers certain old habits-adultery, incest, obsession-still very much alive in our New South, a Winesburg, Ohio with high-speed Internet. Wells Tower says of Gurganus, No living writer knows more about how humans matter to each other. Such ties of love produce hilarious, if wrenching, complications: Fear Not gives us a banker's daughter seeking child she was forced to surrender when barely fifteen, only to find an adult rescuer she might have invented. In Saints Have Mothers, a beloved high school valedictorian disappears during a trip to Africa, granting her ambitious mother a postponed fame that turns against her. And in a dramatic Decoy, doctor-patient friendship between two married men breaks toward desire just as a biblical flood shatters their neighborhood and rearranges their fates. Gurganus finds fresh pathos in ancient tensions: between marriage and Eros, parenthood and personal fulfillment. He writes about erotic hunger and social embarrassment with Twain's knife-edged glee. By loving Falls, Gurganus dramatizes passing of Hawthorne's small-town nation into those Twitter-nourished lives we now expect and relish. Four decades ago, John Cheever pronounced Allan Gurganus the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation. Local Souls confirms Cheever's prescient faith. It deepens luster of Gurganus's reputation for compassion and laughter. His black comedy leaves us with lasting affection for his characters and aching aftermath of human consequences. Here is a universal work about a village.
New technology for high resistant and flexible fabric structures

The global fabric structure market has evolved at a value of €713M and 7.9M m2 of end products in 2016 due to their variety in shapes and constructions, durability in external forces and incidents, recyclability, and high strength-to-weight ratio which have enabled them to be utilised in a wide range of applications-varying from small to large, inside to outside and temporary to semi-(permanent)-in the events, business/industry and sports sectors. Nevertheless, the industry is facing continuous user’s demands for more engineered structures and solutions aiming to tackle the following needs: 1) Structural reinforcement to achieve higher resistance to adverse weather conditions such as extreme winds,storms and heavy snow, 2) Modular Structures that will enable for flexibility, ease, high secure and rapid installation and efficient space utilization, 3) High-end structures responding to the current market trend that is pushing away traditional fabric structures. 
Our novel Modules technology represents the next generation of high-end modular fabric structures as we answer in a cost-effective way to the structural musts of the fabric structures industry. Based on a ground-breaking developed add-on concept and by assembling the roof as well as claddings from the ground level we are able to provide a new standardised structure solution to satisfy the actual market needs of speed, security and total flexibility during installation process with the construction on different widths (up to 50m) and heights (up to 12 m). What is more, Modules system enables structures to be adequately reinforced to resist unpredictable climatic changes such as sudden heavy winds, rain and snow and additional roof live loads (lights, audio equipment, HVAC). We have identified a total addressable market (TAM) of around €300M by 2025. We have estimated that this will lead our company to a business opportunity of of cumulated revenues and profit of €31.5M and €6.3M respectively.
Measuring variation in cognition can be done, but it requires hard empirical work: a comment on Rowe and Healy

Rowe and Healy (2014) provide an interesting review of the potential pitfalls associated with the study of animal cognition from a behavioral ecology perspective. Their review is peppered with intriguing hypothetical examples of how studies of cognition can generate results that should be interpreted with caution. Apart from flagging up the importance of designing cognitive experiments that limit biases, something that is important for all experimental research, Rowe and Healy are very open in admitting that they cannot provide any cure to the problems with measuring variation in cognition. Inspired by Rowe and Healy, I argue that there is, if not a cure, at least a “band aid” that can be used to achieve better understanding of how cognitive ability evolves. Unfortunately for us that study these questions empirically, this “band aid” is hard work. I target 2 aspects that this necessary hard work should focus on: 1) designing cognitive tests that are of ecological relevance and 2) broadening the taxonomic scope in the study of cognition. For the first point, a recent article in Behavioral Ecology by Thornton et al. (2014) summarizes how we can use cognitive tests based on ideas from psychology and place these in an ecological context to investigate how cognition can evolve. In fact, placing tests of cognition in an ecologically relevant framework is a direction that our colleagues in psychology have been advocating
Impact of instruction on the acquisition of sequence knowledge in a sensorimotor task

We examined whether and to what extent a sequence of finger movements can be learned and transferred to the untrained hand according to the muscle homology depending on the relative salience of response locations and effectors. Participants performed a discrete sequence production task, in which they were asked to learn a sequence of either key locations or of finger movements. Each training block was followed by a transfer block in which responding with the opposite hand was required. Before the last transfer block participants received an unexpected instruction. They had to reproduce the sequence of key locations instead of the sequence of finger movements and conversely, the sequence of finger movements instead of the sequence of key locations. The results do not support the existence of a sequence representation for the order of finger movements irrespective of the hand used.
LINEAR GUIDE FOR MACHINE ELEMENTS MOVING RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER

The invention relates to a linear guide for machine elements moving relative to one another, for example a carriage guide for machine tools, said guide containing a machine bed (1) as stationary machine element and a carriage (2) as movable machine element, which is supported by rolling bodies on the tracks in the machine bed (1) in such a way that it can move longitudinally. According to the invention, several axial roller bearings (3) having two rolling rings or rolling discs and a set of rolling bodies located between the latter are arranged in the carriage (2). At least one of said rolling discs culminates in a bushing and is retained in the carriage (2) while the other rolling disc is configured in the shape of a dome and is supported with its convex dome surface on the adjacent surface of the machine bed (1), wherein the central axis of the bushing is offset at an angle relative to the normal line of the surface of the machine bed (1).
Burning on accreting compact objects

Neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs, collectively known as compact objects, are born when normal stars die. Besides being of broad interest in astronomy, compact objects offer unique tools for the study of nuclear physics and cosmology. The density in the core of neutron stars exceeds that of an atomic nucleus, which makes them the densest stable objects that we can observe in the Universe. When accreted matter falls onto the surface of a neutron star or a white dwarf, it is piled up and compressed, becoming fuel for nuclear reactions. Despite significant progress during the last decades, fundamental questions about the physics of neutron stars, white dwarfs and thermonuclear burning remain unanswered. During this Fellowship, the Researcher will compare recent burst discoveries with numerical simulations performed in collaboration with the Host Group, in order to answer crucial open questions at the crossroads between compact objects and thermonuclear burning. The multi-disciplinary approach of this project, which combines X-ray astronomy, nuclear physics and hydrodynamic simulations, will provide the Researcher with new and valuable skills.
New geochemical approach to reconstruct tropical palaeo-atmospheric dynamics

Tropical climates are changing rapidly in the most populated regions of the planet. The changes largely arise from alterations in the Hadley circulation driven by natural and anthropogenic factors, whose relative roles and temporal variability are unclear. These knowledge gaps are in part due to the shortage of methods to study the atmospheric circulation before the advent of instrumental and satellites observations, and compounded by the contradictions between models and palaeo-data.

The aim of the project is to develop an innovative palaeo-proxy approach to investigate the natural range of variability of the Hadley circulation during past episodes of extreme warmth and cold. The approach relies on the exploitation as climate proxy of an untapped but widespread material in marine sediments: windborne pyrogenic carbon (PyC) derived from savannah and grassland fires in the tropics. 

Through the geochemical and isotopic spatial characterization of PyC, along with the analysis of mineral dust in the modern tropical deep ocean, and a PyC biogeochemical model, we will build an interpretative framework of PyC deposition in deep-sea sediments. Its application in Pliocene-Pleistocene sequences from the Atlantic and the Pacific will allow the reconstruction of past meridional and zonal shifts in the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the Southern hemisphere westerlies, and provide new constraints on the natural variability of the Hadley circulation and associated hydroclimates.  

PALADYN is possible thanks to the combination of cutting-edge geochemical and satellite data, and GIS methodologies, with in-depth interdisciplinary expertise on the palaeoclimatic study of marine sediments. We will provide new important datasets of windborne deep-sea PyC for testing and refining prediction models of atmospheric circulation, carbon cycle, precipitation and wildfires, issues which are of paramount global importance from scientific as well as societal standpoints.
Endolisis de fagos con un amplio espectro de actividad antibacteriana como aditivo alimentario moderno para prevenir infecciones con cepas de L. monocytogenes.

Number_reference_aid_programa: SA.41471(2015/X) Objetivo de la ayuda pública: Artículo 25 del Reglamento (CE) n.º 651/2014, de 17 de junio de 2014, por el que se declaran determinadas categorías de ayudas compatibles con el mercado interior en la aplicación de los artículos 107 y 108 del Tratado Eso es todo. EU L 187/1 de 26.06.2014). El proyecto está sujeto a la producción de un aditivo enzimático para su uso en productos alimenticios (productos semiacabados, productos y productos listos para el consumo) que eliminan los riesgos para la salud humana y la vida de la intoxicación alimentaria con la bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. La implementación del proyecto se basa en la construcción de la cresta de producción de E.coli que transporta plásmido expresivo con gen de endolisina de fago clonado, que luego se producirá, limpiará y preparará en forma de producto alimenticio que garantice una mayor seguridad alimentaria. El proyecto también incluye la realización de todas las investigaciones y experimentos necesarios relacionados con la caracterización de la enzima, lo que permite su comercialización comercial como un nuevo aditivo alimentario. El grupo destinatario del producto serán las entidades medianas y grandes especializadas en la transformación de alimentos (por ejemplo, empresas alimentarias, cadenas de comida rápida, empresas de transformación en el ámbito de: pescados y mariscos, carnes, lácteos, verduras, así como productores de alimentos listos para comer) para quienes la posible contaminación con la bacteria L. monocytogenes constituye un importante problema financiero y de reputación debido a la creación de una amenaza real para la salud y la vida de los consumidores. El diseño en su funcionalidad se basa en el potencial genético de un bacteriófago único que forma parte de la colección de fagos del solicitante. [...]
The Global Landscape of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Incidence and Mortality in 2020 and Projections to 2040: New Estimates From GLOBOCAN 2020

The aim of this study was to provide an overview of the burden of esophageal cancer in 185 countries in 2020 and projections for the year 2040.Estimates of esophageal cancer cases and deaths were extracted from the GLOBOCAN database for 2020. Age-standardized incidence and mortality rates were calculated overall, by sex, histologic subtype (adenocarcinoma [AC] and squamous cell carcinoma [SCC]), country, and level of human development for 185 countries. The predicted burden of incidence and mortality in 2040 was calculated based on global demographic projections.Globally, there were an estimated 604,100 new cases of, and 544,100 deaths from, esophageal cancer in 2020, corresponding to age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of 6.3 and 5.6 per 100,000, respectively. Most cases were SCCs (85% [512,500 cases]) and 14% (85,700 cases) were ACs. Incidence and mortality rates were 2- to 3-fold higher in male (9.3 and 8.2, respectively) compared with female (3.6 and 3.2, respectively) individuals. Global variations in incidence and mortality were observed across countries and world regions; the highest rates occurred in Eastern Asia and Southern and Eastern Africa and the lowest occurred in Western Africa and Central America regions. If rates remain stable, 957,000 new cases (141,300 AC cases and 806,000 SCC cases) and 880,000 deaths from esophageal cancer are expected in 2040.These updated estimates of the global burden of esophageal cancer represent an important baseline for setting priorities in policy making and developing and accelerating cancer control initiatives to reduce the current and projected burden. Although primary prevention remains key, screening and early detection represent important components of esophageal cancer control in high-risk populations.