SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Cryosurgery with Pulsed Electric Fields

This study explores the hypothesis that combining the minimally invasive surgical techniques of cryosurgery and pulsed electric fields will eliminate some of the major disadvantages of these techniques while retaining their advantages. Cryosurgery, tissue ablation by freezing, is a well-established minimally invasive surgical technique. One disadvantage of cryosurgery concerns the mechanism of cell death; cells at high subzero temperature on the outer rim of the frozen lesion can survive. Pulsed electric fields (PEF) are another minimally invasive surgical technique in which high strength and very rapid electric pulses are delivered across cells to permeabilize the cell membrane for applications such as gene delivery, electrochemotherapy and irreversible electroporation. The very short time scale of the electric pulses is disadvantageous because it does not facilitate real time control over the procedure. We hypothesize that applying the electric pulses during the cryosurgical procedure in such a way that the electric field vector is parallel to the heat flux vector will have the effect of confining the electric fields to the frozen/cold region of tissue, thereby ablating the cells that survive freezing while facilitating controlled use of the PEF in the cold confined region. A finite element analysis of the electric field and heat conduction equations during simultaneous tissue treatment with cryosurgery and PEF (cryosurgery/PEF) was used to study the effect of tissue freezing on electric fields. The study yielded motivating results. Because of decreased electrical conductivity in the frozen/cooled tissue, it experienced temperature induced magnified electric fields in comparison to PEF delivered to the unfrozen tissue control. This suggests that freezing/cooling confines and magnifies the electric fields to those regions; a targeting capability unattainable in traditional PEF. This analysis shows how temperature induced magnified and focused PEFs could be used to ablate cells in the high subzero freezing region of a cryosurgical lesion.
Systemic analyzer in network threats

SAINT proposes to analyse and identify incentives to improve levels of collaboration between cooperative and regulatory approaches to information sharing. Analysis of the ecosystems of cybercriminal activity, associated markets and revenues will drive the development of a framework of business models appropriate for the fighting of cybercrime.  The role of regulatory approaches as a cost benefit in cybercrime reduction will be explored within a concept of greater collaboration in order to gain optimal attrition of cybercriminal activities. Experimental economics will aid SAINT in designing new methodologies for the development of an ongoing and searchable public database of cybersecurity indicators and open source intelligence. Comparative analysis of cybercrime victims and stakeholders within a framework of qualitative social science methodologies will deliver valuable evidences and advance knowledge on privacy issues and Deep Web practices. Equally, comparative analysis of the failures of current cybersecurity solutions, products and models will underpin a model for greater effectiveness of applications and improved cost-benefits within the information security industry. SAINT proposes to advance measurement approaches and methodologies of the metrics of cybercrime through the construct of a framework of a new empirical science that challenges traditional approaches and fuses evidence-based practices with more established disciplines for a lasting legacy. SAINT’s innovative models, algorithms and automated framework for objective metrics will benefit decision-makers, regulators, law enforcement in the EU, at national and organisational levels providing improved cost-benefit analysis and supported by tangible and intangible costs for optimal risk and investment incentives. The resulting ongoing business spin off and the potential for novel research and further studies will be attractive to academia and researchers beyond the lifetime of the project.
Integrated nanoparticle isolation and detection system for complete on-chip analysis of exosomes

The aim of Project INDEX is to isolate and characterize nanoparticles available in bodily fluids through development and integration of novel technological breakthroughs. The technology will enable the analysis of clinically valuable nanoparticles called exosomes towards new generation diagnostics. Exosomes are known to mediate communication between cells and their effective utilization holds a great promise of revolutionizing the standard of clinical care. However, their detection and molecular profiling is technically challenging. The proposed technology will isolate exosomes that are as small as 30nm in diameter from human plasma with high purity, and provide in-depth, multi-parameter characterization of the particles through digital counting, size determination, and biological phenotyping. 
Towards this goal: (1) Novel microfluidics will be developed and used for efficient magnetic enrichment; (2) Isolated particles will be detected and analyzed with a novel biological nanoparticle (BNP) sensor (3) Immune-capture and release chemistries as well as phenotyping assays will be developed; (4) Critically, complete on-chip integration of isolation, detection and analysis will be accomplished; (5) Utility of in-depth exosome characterization will be demonstrated with clinical samples for lung cancer.
 Project INDEX requires successful integration of multiple sub-units and assays that each represents technological frontiers, which is extremely challenging. However, the breadth of information on exosomes that will be available with the integrated system is unmatched. Although, the clinical utility of exosomes is still developing, the uncertainty can only be clarified through automated technologies that provide latitude of information. Once completed, Project INDEX can demonstrate a new paradigm in cancer diagnostics, and also present a potential future technology for other applications involving nanoparticles.
Geometric Morphometric Approaches to Acoustic Signal Analysis in Mammalian Biology

In the quarter century since the development of geometric morphometrics the community of practitioners has largely been occupied with training issues and anatomy-based applications research in the biological sciences. However, just as the scope of geometry transcends comparative anatomy, the potential scope of morphometric analysis transcends investigations of the form and shape of organismal bodies. An important area of opportunity for morphometricians lies in the application of geometric methods to non-traditional form/shape analysis problems. To illustrate the potential of morphometric data analysis approaches to contribute to investigations outside its traditional base in (physical) morphology we report here results of an investigation into the morphometrics of bat echolocation calls. By treating Hanning windowed spectrograms of bat search echolocation calls as complex 3D surfaces, and by using a variant of eigensurface analysis to sample and compare these surfaces, it is possible to identify bat species to very high levels of accuracy (>90% for raw cross-validated training set identifications, >80% for jackknifed training set identifications), even for species (e.g., Myotis ) whose spectrograms have resisted separation into species-specific clusters using traditional spectrogram descriptors. Moreover, the shape modeling capabilities of geometric morphometrics render the complex mathematical subspaces within which these spectrogram shape data reside - along with the discriminant functions used to separate training-set clusters - interpretable in a simple, intuitive, and biologically informative manner. These results demonstrate the rich source of species-specific information bioacoustic signal structures represent. They also illustrate the type of advances that can be made when morphometricians venture beyond the traditional confines of their field to address wider questions of significance in the biological and the physical sciences. Download the complete Yellow Book on Virtual Morphology and Evolutionary Morphometrics in the new millenium.
Anticipatory human-computer interaction

Even after three decades of research on human-computer interaction (HCI), current general-purpose user interfaces (UI) still lack the ability to attribute mental states to their users, i.e. they fail to understand users' intentions and needs and to anticipate their actions. This drastically restricts their interactive capabilities.

ANTICIPATE aims to establish the scientific foundations for a new generation of user interfaces that pro-actively adapt to users' future input actions by monitoring their attention and predicting their interaction intentions - thereby significantly improving the naturalness, efficiency, and user experience of the interactions. Realising this vision of anticipatory human-computer interaction requires groundbreaking advances in everyday sensing of user attention from eye and brain activity. We will further pioneer methods to predict entangled user intentions and forecast interactive behaviour with fine temporal granularity during interactions in everyday stationary and mobile settings. Finally, we will develop fundamental interaction paradigms that enable anticipatory UIs to pro-actively adapt to users' attention and intentions in a mindful way. The new capabilities will be demonstrated in four challenging cases: 1) mobile information retrieval, 2) intelligent notification management, 3) Autism diagnosis and monitoring, and 4) computer-based training.

Anticipatory human-computer interaction offers a strong complement to existing UI paradigms that only react to user input post-hoc. If successful, ANTICIPATE will deliver the first important building blocks for implementing Theory of Mind in general-purpose UIs. As such, the project has the potential to drastically improve the billions of interactions we perform with computers every day, to trigger a wide range of follow-up research in HCI as well as adjacent areas within and outside computer science, and to act as a key technical enabler for new applications, e.g. in healthcare and education.
Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds catalyzed by rhodium nanoparticles

Abstract Transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone and methyl benzoylformate with 2-propanol has been studied on rhodium nanoparticles obtained by the reduction of rhodium(I) complexes in the presence of optically active compounds, including chiral diamine S , S -DIODMA, (4 S ,5 S )- N 4 , N 4 , N 5 , N 5 ,2,2-hexamethyl-4,5-bis-(aminomethylene)-1,3-dioxolane, quaternary diammonium salt (4 S ,5 S )-(-)- N 1 , N 4 -dibenzyl-2,3-dihydroxy- N 1 , N 1 , N 4 , N 4 -tetramethylbutane-1,4-diammonium dichloride, and (8 S ,9 R )-(-)-cinchonidine. Increasing the modifier to Rh ratio leads to an increase in the enantiomeric excess ( ee ) of the reaction products. The greatest ee values (43.8% for ( R )-1-phenylethanol and 58.2% for the methyl ester of ( R )-mandelic acid) were achieved at (8 S ,9 R )-(-)-cinchonidine/Rh ratios of 9:1 and 3:1, respectively.
Gender asymmetry in the transmission of odissi dance in india - a case study

Gatrodi is an anthropological study of the practices of Odissi dance in India, considered by the Indian government to be the classical dance from the State of Odisha. Though the dance is practiced by male and female individuals from diverse geographical locations and status groups, it is generally male practitioners from rural areas of Odisha who are recognised as its legitimate transmitters. The women, who generally belong to urban backgrounds, are considered to be the performers of the dance. However, while they do not obtain the same recognition as the men, some women are actually transmitting Odissi. But then, how does their teaching differ from that of the men?

In order to shed light on this question, the study will investigate on the modalities of transmission of female practitioners in Odissi in India. The methods of inquiry will consist primarily of observation, and also of video and audio recordings of training situations and interviews. These will be undertaken in selective dance schools in Bhubaneswar, capital city of Odisha, and in a metropolitan city of India as well.

Through the above mentioned methodological tools, Gatrodi will produce a detailed ethnographic account of the teaching modalities of the women participating in the study. This shall clarify which methods, be they verbal or non verbal, they implement while transmitting the dance. Consequently, it will be possible to assess which processes are at work in these situations, and how they are related to the social order that prevails in Odissi dance networks. The teaching activities of the women will further be compared to those of the men. In this way, Gatrodi will shed light on the dynamics of transmission of Odissi and the processes of legitimisation of its methods, thereby documenting how, beyond the particular case that is being studied, body practice and social life are interconnected.
MAGNETIC ROTATIONAL TO LINEAR ACTUATOR FOR WELL PUMPS

A well pump includes a plunger reciprocally carried within a barrel between up stroke and down stroke positions. A tubular linear actuator housing located below the barrel has a rotatable rotor. An array of rotor magnets is mounted to the rotor, directing rotor magnetic fields in an outward direction. A cage is fixed against rotation relative to the housing and carried within the housing for axial movement relative to the rotor and the housing. The cage has a cylindrical inner sidewall surrounding the outer sidewall of the rotor. An array of cage magnets is mounted to the inner sidewall of the cage. The cage magnets direct cage magnetic fields in an inward direction relative to the axis. The cage and rotor magnetic fields interact such rotation of the rotor causes axial movement of the cage. A motor rotates the rotor.
Integration between doctorate courses in biological subjects within Italian and Slovenian academic institutions

The project represents a pilot action for the harmonisation of advanced university education offered by academic institutions in Italy and Slovenia. By defining a shared educational curriculum characterised by the mobility of the students and academic staff participating in the project, the trainees will develop knowledge that is useful to the integrated economic and cultural development of bordering areas. Furthermore, this project contributes to the development and strengthening of the scientific cooperation currently in place between the two reasearch groups across the border, the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry of Macromolecules (BBCM) of the University of Trieste and the Environmental Research Laboratory (LER) of the Polytechnic of Nova Gorica. Currently scientific activities are carried out in the laboratories of both institutions. The existence of a strong scientific interest shared by the two sides represents a catalyst for the definition of an educational course leading to the attainment of the general objectives of both the Research Doctorate in Biomolecular Sciences (BBCM) and the Doctorate in Environmental Sciences (LER). Both post-graduate courses require the students to engage in experimental and classroom activities, seminars, courses, etc. Specifically both Institutions are interested in the study of the role of vegetal polyphenols, substances that are present in fruits and in wine. The subject matter is crucial for the economic development of wine-production in the area.
IEN EUROPEAN INSTITUTE NEUROSISTEMICA

NONPROFIT INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION SPECIALISED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN ORGANISATIONS. THE MISSION OF OUR INSTITUTE IS TO SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CAPABLE OF GENERATING ORGANIZATIONAL WELLNESS ACCORDING TO THE APPROACH, METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES INDICATED BY NEUROSISTEMICA. IEN’S ACTIVITIES ARE DIVIDED INTO THREE AREAS: RESEARCH CENTER, TRAINING AND HR PARTNERS, HEALTHCARE. THE RESEARCH CENTRE DEVELOPS RESEARCH PROJECTS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: ‘ACCELERATORS OF INDIVIDUAL, TEAM AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING’ METHODOLOGIES, PROCESSES, RESULTS, QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING SYSTEMS ‘CREATING MOTIVATING WORK ENVIRONMENTS, CAPABLE OF GENERATING VALUE FOR PEOPLE, CUSTOMERS, SHAREHOLDERS’ DEVELOPMENT OF TEAMS WITHIN ORGANISATIONS ‘INNOVATIVE ORGANISATIONS OF WORK AND HUMAN RESOURCES’ MOTIVATION, CLIMATE, WELL-BEING, PERCEPTIONS, SENSE, VALUES, HABITS, ASPIRATIONS, SKILLS, PRACTICES OF THOSE WHO
Survey on Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Recent enhancement in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have employed to enormous applications in real time fields which includes environment monitoring, health monitoring, military surveillance and target tracking. There is large consumption of energy when there is communication between the nodes. Data aggregation techniques can efficiently help to reduce the consumption of energy by eliminating unnecessary data travelling back to the sink. There are several security issues which include data integrity, data confidentiality, availability, and freshness in data aggregation that become critical when WSN is deployed in a hostile environment where sensors fall prone to node failures and compromised by adversary. Thus various security issues in data aggregation will be discussed. After that, the existing secure data aggregation schemes will be surveyed which are classified based on the number of aggregator nodes.
Electronic weighing apparatus

An electronic weighing apparatus includes a switch mounted on a base surface thereof, actuated by an actuating member biased to support a portion of the base. When weight is applied to the apparatus, the actuating member is moved to a depressed position, thereby automatically energizing the apparatus. In addition, a tab is mounted to the base near the switch. Vertical forces can be applied to the tab to depress the actuating member without disturbing the zero position of the weighing apparatus. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an optical coded disc with a plurality of concentric code tracks. A light guide conducts light to a line on the disc which is parallel to but offset from a radius of the disc. Photosensors are positioned on the other side of the disc, opposed to the light guide. A mask is interposed between the photosensors and the light guide, which mask defines a plurality of apertures, each of which is oriented parallel to a radius of a respective code track such that no two of the apertures are parallel.
GLYCEROL BRANCHED POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE CONJUGATES, PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF

The present invention relates to PEGylation of human Growth Hormone (hGH) using a glycerol branched PEG. The present invention also relates to processes for the PEGylation of hGH. In addition, the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the PEGylated hGH. A further embodiment is the use of the PEGylated hGH for the treatment of growth and development disorders.
Why Political Competition Can Increase Patronage

Patronage is important in developing countries, but its relationship to political competition has received little attention. Major literatures generate opposing predictions. In the good governance and democracy literatures, robust political competition is the antidote to patronage. But for scholars studying the process of democratization, competitive politics is associated with heightened social tensions and instability. Using data from an original survey covering 88% of local governments in Ghana, I show that political competition can increase patronage: where local elections are closely fought by the two main parties, local governments provide significantly more public sector jobs. I use qualitative data from 9 months of fieldwork to show the causal channel. I find a bottom-up phenomenon in which pressures for patronage come from parties’ own volunteers. Volunteers actively use their parties’ vulnerability in competitive elections to extract rewards. I locate the root of volunteers’ power in the nature of the party system, and I demonstrate that for 19 African countries, variation in party system strength is linked to certain forms of clientelism. These findings challenge assumptions that competitive politics will reduce patronage, as well as assumptions that a decline in one form of clientelism means a decline in all forms of clientelism.
Generic Connectivity Architecture for Mobility and Multipath Flow Management in the Future Internet

With the evolution of the Internet, the vast majority of the traffic is generated by information-centric applications, which would benefit from enhanced data transport paradigms. This paper presents the development and implementation of the Generic Connectivity architecture, a new communication flow abstraction that is based on the Generic Path architecture developed within the European Research Project 4WARD. The Generic Connectivity mechanisms allow for a high degree of flexibility by covering both existing and new protocol paradigms, which are particularly beneficial for wireless access networks. This paper shows that the Generic Connectivity architecture can realize new network mechanisms beyond the features of the current Internet protocol architecture. It is thus a promising clean-slate approach for the Future Internet. The relevant aspects of the architecture are implemented with the OMNET++ 4.0 network simulation tool. Using simulations, the advantages of the Generic Connectivity architecture are shown for several new use cases, including an adaptive protocol selection, mobility, multicast and multipath connectivity over heterogeneous wireless networks. Furthermore, it is also demonstrated that the architecture inherently supports guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS) agreements and traffic distribution over dynamic channels.KeywordsFuture InternetMobilityMultipathQuality of Service
Algae for a biomass applied to the production of added value compounds

ABACUS gathers 2 large industries, 3 algae SMEs and 4 RTOs. It aims at a business-oriented and technology-driven development of a new algal biorefinery, thereby bringing to the market innovative algae-based ingredients for high-end applications, spanning from algal terpenes for fragrances to long-chain terpenoids (carotenoids) for nutraceuticals and cosmetic actives. One key objective of ABACUS is to obtain more than 10% photosynthates of targeted terpenoids. For this purpose, ABACUS selects and optimizes unique algae strains from 4 large culture collections owned by project’s partners. Moreover, ABACUS focuses on optimizing cultivation steps and mastering production of target products by online monitoring and automated control of photobioreactors with the development of specific sensors for terpenes and for the parameters relevant to terpene’s production (light, PO2, PCO2, nutrients). ABACUS investigates the fractionation steps to provide green low-cost downstream processing with a view to reduce operational expenses of the whole production line. Life cycle analysis and techno-economic analysis are fundamental guidelines of ABACUS’s developments to ensure that technologies and products are economically and environmentally sustainable. Applicability of targeted ingredients is assessed by the industrial partners (SMEs and large industries with established access to markets) considering cosmetic and nutraceutical applications. ABACUS aims to demonstrate biorefining processes allowing valorizing up to 95% of the algal biomass into high value ingredients and by-products. EU standards and market regulations associated to innovative bioprocesses and new ingredients are reviewed in order to demonstrate the acceptability of the ABACUS biorefinery. ABACUS key advantage lies in its business-oriented workplan, gathering key players along the whole product development chain and incorporating most-advanced technologies for efficient growth and fractionation of microalgae.