SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Ab-Initio calculations and machine learning for superconducting collective phenomena in novel materials

The aim of the BITMAP project ""aB-IniTio calculations and MAchine learning for suPerconducting collective phenomena in novel materials"" is to propose a workflow based on the combination of realistic Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations with the Renormalization Group (RG) approach to superconducting Fermi surface instabilities. The latter is based on the pioneering work of Kohn-Luttinger where one can integrate out the high energy degrees of freedom perturbatively, and obtain effective attractive BCS interactions in non-s-wave channels. Once the superconducting pairing is known, as encoded in the superconducting gap function, a machine learning-based diagnostic procedure of the topological properties will be performed, upon the creation of specific ad-hoc convolutional neural networks. The project will allow the experience researcher to merge his present skills in the computational modeling of complex materials with modern concepts of machine learning, a sector that nowadays is expanding fast enough to easily foresee its applications in everyday life.
A persistência do conflito industrial organizado. Greves em Portugal entre 1960 e 2008

Neste estudo procurámos fazer um levantamento, até aqui inexistente, das greves em Portugal entre 1960 e 2008, historicizá-las, analisá-las e compreendê-las, procurando contribuir para explicar historicamente, por um lado, a permanência da greve como forma de luta ao longo destes últimos 40 anos, e por outro, tentar explicar os picos grevistas, a partir de uma análise que conjuga simultaneamente factores políticos e crises económicas, no quadro daquilo que se considera ser uma mudança estrutural nas formas de organização e de luta das classes trabalhadoras portuguesas, bem como na cultura operária, a partir da industrialização da década de 60 do século XX. Salientámos as diferenças que existem nas greves sobre distintos regimes políticos (Estado Novo, Período Revolucionário, Regime Democrático).
Regional COmmon Action STrategy Against Coastal Erosion and climate change effects for a sustainable coastal planning in the Mediterranean basin

Coastal erosion and flooding represents a major threat for the well-being and prosperity of the 70mi Europeans living within 500m from the coastline and their assets of 500- 1000bi€. Lost or seriously impacted area by erosion is estimated to be 15 km2/year. The Nobel Prize laureate UN-IPCC estimates that by 2020 due to Climate Change victims of coastal erosion or flooding will reach 158,000/year, 50% of Europe’s coastal wetlands is expected to disappear as a result of sea level rise at a cost of 5,400mi€/year. According to the EC EUROSION project, the regulatory EIA framework, knowledge base, and traditional measures for erosion control have been weak or inappropriate. COASTANCE will use innovative techniques for mid-long term ICZM Master Plans capitalizing on the Good Practices developed under several European projects (INTERREGIIIB & IIIC-RFO). Its innovation is that it focuses on those practices that resulted from thorough scientific study and understanding of coastal erosion phenomena obtained by previous experience. The concrete results -Realistic Submersion Risk Forecast Systems, Specific EIA/SEA Procedures, Concrete ICZM Master Plans and Officials’ Training- will be used as Governance and Public Policy Tools for erosion control by regional, national and EU administrations. To ensure the project‘s durability, partners will form a Structural Data Infrastructure Community (SDIC) based on the INSPIRE directive and a European Group according to the EU Regulation 1082/2006.
Objective home-based eeg prediction of amci: identification of a predictive electrophysiological model of cognitive function in amnesic mild cognitive impairment.

Dementia is an umbrella term for age-related brain disease, of which Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common. Around 5-7% of adults over 60 years suffer dementia worldwide, with approx. 8.7 m people in the EU. A frequent precursor of AD is amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a clinical condition characterised by declines in memory skills. By predicting
aMCI progression, health-care services will have new opportunities to deliver early interventions that could delay AD onset. This will ultimately promote functional independence in vulnerable adults and meet the societal challenge Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing of Horizon 2020.

Clinical outcomes of aMCI patients are influenced by the severity of cognitive (dys-) function. However, these deficits may occur at an  advanced stage of neurodegeneration. This fellowship aims to identify a predictive model of cognitive function based on brain activity measured with electro-encephalography (EEG). Previous studies suggest that the capacity to learn a new task (practice effects) can help classify a person into healthy, aMCI or AD. Also, cross-sectional studies using EEG have found differences between normal controls, aMCI and AD patients during rest and cognitive tasks. The behavioural and EEG evidence combined shows the potential of using behavioural practice and EEG measures to predict cognitive function. 

This potential will be investigated and exploited in this fellowship via advanced machine learning methods on a large EEG
data sample. This fellowship will take place in BrainWaveBank (BWB), an innovative company developing the largest database of EEG data in older adults along with cutting-edge analytics. This fellowship will allow the researcher to apply her experience on neural engineering and expand her knowledge and expertise to machine learning and clinical neuroscience in BWB. This will build the researcher’s independence and build prospects for a career in the medical technology sector.
Brokering china’s extraversion: an ethnographic analysis of transnational arbitration

Chinese global engagements are deepening across sectors and geographic regions. The objective of BROKEX is to fill specific gaps in knowledge about how China’s extraversion advances. The project takes an original approach by examining brokers who mediate in transnational fields. It opens the “black box” of China’s global integration by moving beyond descriptions of input and output characteristics to elucidate underlying dynamics. The objective will be achieved in two phases. First, the PI and two postdoctoral researchers will carry out ethnographic case studies in the Pearl River Delta, South China, that yield complementary information on the common challenge of brokering across geographic scales: * Connecting low-cost Chinese manufacturing with African markets; * Integrating Chinese academic research with global scientific communities; * Transnational architecture production. The diverse cases offer insights into the mechanisms of brokerage across distinctive sectors. In the second step, we build on the empirical findings and literature to develop brokerage theory. Social scientific research on brokerage commonly uses the morphology of social networks as its starting point, and focuses on how actors positioned at the intersection between groups operate. BROKEX adopts an innovative approach by examining how actors strategically seek to shape network morphologies in order to bridge gaps between groups. By directing theoretical attention towards relationship formation that precedes acts of brokerage, this line of inquiry advances understandings of how and why brokered connections emerge. Ethnographic case studies combined with critical theorization will generate new knowledge about the processes beneath the “rise of China” ─ one of the most consequential socioeconomic developments of our times.
Topographical anatomy of the anterior cervical approach for c2-3 level

To develop a clinically relevant anterior cervical approach (ACA) to the C2-3 level.Frequently encountered nerves [hypoglossal (HyN), internal (ISLN) and external superior laryngeal nerves (ESLN)] and vessels [lingual (LiA), superior laryngeal (SLA) and superior thyroid arteries (STA)] in the field of high ACA and the anatomic spatial markers [submandibular gland (SMG); sling for digastrics muscle (SDG); hyoid bone (HyB), and thyroid cartilage (ThC)] were evaluated using 18 fresh cadavers. The vertical distance of each structure at the carotid sheath and larynx and each disc for cervical level were measured from the suprasternal notch.The cervical levels of SDG, SMG and HyB were mostly C3 and that of ThC was C5. The vertical locations of HyN and LiA were not significantly different and the levels corresponded to C2. The levels for ISLN and ESLN were C3 at carotid and C4 and C5 at larynx sides, respectively. The vertical locations of ISLN and HyN were significantly different at carotid (p = 0.001) and larynx (p < 0.001) sides. The vertical locations and cervical levels of SLA and STA at carotid and larynx sides were not significantly different with those of ISLN and ESLN, respectively. The HyN traversed C2 with accompanying LiA. The ISLN passed C3 and C4 from carotid to larynx sides and accompanied SLA.The C2-3 level can be exposed through the space between the HyN and the ISLN by retracting the LiA superiorly, the SLA inferiorly, the HyB medially, and the carotid sheath laterally.
Efecto de la industrialización en el desempleo de 83 países clasificados por niveles de ingreso, a través de técnicas de cointegración y causalidad con datos de panel, periodo 1991-2018”.

The increasing trend of industrialization throughout history makes the requirements of 
the labor force more demanding; this means that those who are not prepared to face 
these demands are more likely to fall into unemployment. That is why, through this 
research, I have set myself the objective of determining the balance and causality 
relationship between industrialization and unemployment in 102 countries classified by 
income levels, during the period 1991-2018, using cointegration and causality 
techniques with data panel. To meet this objective, I mainly used three econometric 
strategies, such as: the generalized least squares method, the four cointegration tests for 
panel data developed by Westerlund (2007) together with the FMOLS test by Phillips 
and Hansen (1990); and, finally, the Granger causality test proposed by Dumitrescu and 
Hurlin (2012). The results show that the higher the level of industrialization, the higher 
the unemployment; however, in the long term there is a negative relationship but only 
for high and upper middle income countries. Furthermore, the causality tests show that 
industrialization has a causal effect on unemployment only in upper middle-income 
countries, which is explained by the facilities that these countries have for the insertion 
of industry, such as infrastructure and possibilities of growth and economic 
development. Given this, the policies are mainly oriented to investing in the adequate 
infrastructure as well as in the training and formation of human capital with the aim of 
being able to face constant new requirements in the labor market.
DRILL CUTTING SAMPLING ASSEMBLY

A drill cutting sampling assembly for mounting to a drill rig, the sampling assembly including: (i) a sample receiving means for positioning adjacent to a drill hole to receive drill cuttings from the drill hole through an opening adjustable between an open and closed position to control the volume of received sample; (ii) a conveyor means for moving the received sample away from the opening; and (iii) a receptacle for holding the received sample.
Pop and click noise reduction

Disclosed are advances in the arts with novel and useful electronic circuitry with pop and click noise reduction. A load circuit is connected with a full or single-ended half-H bridge circuit and another circuit mechanism in a configuration by which a signal may be used to selectably bring the load circuit terminals to a selected voltage level when an externally applied signal is not present.
Phononic quantum sensors for gravity

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are extremely cold Bose gases consisting of a large number of interacting atoms. BECs have quantum properties that can be  exploited perfectly for high precision metrology. The goal of the research project Phononic Quantum Sensors for Gravity (PhoQuS-G) is an extensive analytical and numerical analysis of the use of phonons (quasi-particles of phase and density perturbations) in BECs for high precision sensing of gravitational fields. The project will be built upon a powerful numerical method employed by the host group that enables the description of condensate splitting, trap release and other (strong) changes of the BEC. This method will be combined with an elaborate description of cold Bose gases, incorporating effects of quantum noise and finite temperature and providing access to second order correlation functions of the Bose gas.

The numerical approach will enable the analysis of the most promising parameter regimes and provide a description of the full time-evolution of BECs, including probe state preparation and measurement. Measurement precision will be optimized using methods of quantum metrology.  A clear pathway will be given towards first gravimetry experiments with phonons in BECs. Such experiments can lead to the development of phononic quantum sensors, a very promising quantum technology. High precision sensing of gravitational fields offers a variety of applications - from fundamental research to technological solutions; for example, knowledge about local gravitational fields (geodesy) can be used to map underground infrastructures, find natural resources or ease navigation. As BECs exist on the micrometer scale, precise measurements of gravitational fields on short distances and of very small objects can be implemented far beyond the scales explored to date. This may offer opportunities for new exciting experiments investigating the interface of quantum mechanics and gravity.
Paleogenski karbonatni facijesi nižega dijela naslaga dinaridskoga predgorskoga bazena sjeverne Dalmacije

In the Northern Dalmatia area five outcrops of the lower Palaeogene carbonate deposits (Cikola I i II, Novigrad, Ostrovica i Grabova Glava) have been the subject of detailed sedimentological, micropaleontological and microfacies research. Furthermore, the biostratigraphic approach in combination with conventional facies analysis was used to reconstruct a range of carbonate depositional systems. Carbonate sedimentation took place in the inner, middle to outer ramp environments, where the dominant organisms were Large Benthic Foraminifera. The collision processes between the Adriatic continental microplate and Euroasia continental plate caused the formation of the Dinaridic foreland basin, developed during the Palaeogene in front of the uplifting mountain belt. Early Palaeogene transgression occurred in different times in different basins, as parts of the Outer Dinarides, firstly by the brackish lagoonal deposits known in literature as Kozina beds. Studied deposits are part of the Northern Dalmatian foreland basin and during its existence the conditions for the carbonate sedimentation were attained on two occasions. During the Early Eocene Foraminifera limestones were deposited on the vast forebulge area, and in the Middle Eocene Upper Nummulitic limestones deposited on the limbs of the wedge-top basins. During the different time intervals, spanning from the Ypresian to the Bartonian, in the NW–SE oriented foreland basin, carbonate ramps developed, controlled by synsedimentary tectonics, creating a couple hundreds of meters of deposits within environments described as Dinaridic Carbonate Ramps System.
HIGH SPEED MULTI-TOUCH TOUCH DEVICE AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR

A touch-sensitive device includes a touch panel, a drive unit, a sense unit, and a measurement unit. A touch applied to a node of the panel changes a capacitive coupling between two electrodes (a drive electrode and a sense electrode) of the touch panel. The drive unit delivers a drive signal, which may comprise one or more drive pulses, to the drive electrode. The sense unit couples to the sense electrode, and generates a response signal that includes a differentiated representation of the drive signal. The amplitude of the response signal is responsive to the capacitive coupling between the electrodes, and is measured to provide an indication of a touch at the node.
Nanoparticle biointerface mapping

The Nanoparticle Biointerface Mapping project builds on the extensive bionano interactions research in the group of Professor Kenneth Dawson at University College Dublin. In the NanoBioMap project I propose a cutting-edge interdisciplinary approach to develop a versatile tool allowing me to obtain detailed 3D maps of biomolecules at the surface of nanoparticles in complex biological media and study their importance for cell interactions. I will build on my extensive knowledge of nanomaterial science to develop this 3D mapping tool combining a tailor-made library of antibody-tagged quantum dots with electron microscopy 3D image reconstruction and X-ray elemental mapping. The resulting versatile method has multiple uses far beyond analyzing protein coronas. I envision applications of this state-of-the-art mapping tool in areas such as vaccine development, enzymatic catalysis on supported particles, cancer treatment and tracking of pollutants in water flows.  
The proposed project has 4 objective which will be reached over 24 months, within 13 work packages, including training-through-research and acquisition of transferable and complementary skills, contributing to the advancement of my career beyond this project, as a future independent researcher. The main objective is developing a tool to allow 3D mapping of protein epitopes at the surface of nanosized objects, with applications far beyond my test systems. The other objectives involve testing my tool to map epitopes in the protein corona at nanoparticles and study their interaction with cell receptors, focusing on spatial distribution of specific receptors. The proposal builds on my current extensive knowledge of nanomaterial synthesis, surface modification and characterization in complex environments adding a cell biology dimension, thus expanding my knowledge and career prospects.
The self-sufficiency of the good man against the need for friendship.A discussion concerning the importance of friendship for the good man in Cicero.

Cicero wrote in Book Three of On Duties, that the Stoic sage being absolutely good and and perfect was the only one that could be truly happy. For his happiness was based in his virtue and as he had perfect virtue, he had perfect and lasting happiness. Yet the Peripatetics saw that happiness was not a self-sufficient idea and was instead an amalgamation of external goods. Virtue for them was a factor that contributed to happiness, for the Stoics it was essential for happiness. It would appear on inital observation that the life of the Stoic sage was a solitary one, aloof from the rest of humanity. Yet the Stoics maintained that this was the best and happiest form of life, a life lived in accordance with Nature. However, the Peripatetics maintained that nature loves nothing solitary and man is not a solitary animal. In order for him to fullfill his natural end and achieve eudaimonia he would natually be drawn towards the company of others.
Cicero highlights the tension between Stoic idealism and Peripatetic pragmatism in his discussion on happiness. When he essentially he askes in Book Five of the Tusculan Disputations. Is virtue on its own, self-sufficient for happiness? Or is happiness the sum total of external goods when joined together? Friendship was a factor in this discussion, as for Cicero, friendship is closely tied to human nature and is an important source of happiness. Both the Stoics and the Peripatetics would agree that friendship was naturally part of human nature, but both would say it played different roles in relation to the achievement of happiness. Therefore, a discussion on the nature of friendship found in the Cicero’s On Friendship will take place in this thesis and, will see, if in Cicero’s own voice friendship was a natural constituent of happiness and therefore was something that was necessarily part of a life in accordance with nature.
Residential parking practice - The role of housing companies in stimulating a transition towards sustainable mobility solutions

This thesis has been conducted in an innovative educational setting, that of the Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology where students are equipped with tools and methods in order to identify 21st century sustainability challenges (Part I) and try to tackle them (Part II). The subject of mobility attracted our interest as a field with serious challenges but also great momentum. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), car-sharing initiatives and other innovative business models are disrupting the transport sector. Urban developers in Gothenburg try to face the shortage of land in order to respond to the increasing demand for housing. Parking is considered the unstudied link between transportation and land use. Therefore, this study addresses ① What are the drivers and barriers to a transition towards a parking practice with lower parking rates? and ② How can housing companies play a role in stimulating a transition towards sustainable mobility solutions? To address these questions, interviews were conducted with 12 professionals from housing companies, property developers, mobility providers, consultants and researchers. Further, a survey was run in order to identify tenants’ perception and understanding of the issues related to mobility and parking, as well as their openness to change. These methods were followed by a dialogue amongst 10 relevant stakeholders. The multi-level perspective was adopted to allow for data understanding and categorisation. The method of backcasting contributed to demonstrate a way of co-creating a strategy for approaching a desirable future. The results of this thesis illustrate a rigid sociotechnical system with inflexible policies, unfair parking prices and the lack of a common vision amongst stakeholders. To overcome these barriers some niche level activities are recommended. First, we have identified a need to create a common vision amongst relevant triple helix actors (public, private sector and academia) to be able to provide guidance for a transition. Furthermore, housing companies should experiment with innovative concepts via demonstration programs. The existence of broader networks or coalitions and the assurance of continuity in the monitoring, evaluation and assessment of these processes is essential for the success of such measures.
IMPROVED SYNTHESIS OF CYPROTERONE ACETATE

The present invention relates to improved methods for synthesising cyproterone acetate (17alpha-Acetoxy-6-chloro-1alpha, 2alpha-methylene-4,6-pregnadiene-3,20-dione) from solasodine. The methods of the invention are shorter as those of the prior art and therefore more economic.