SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM AIR BATTERY AND LITHIUM AIR BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME

An electrolyte for a lithium air battery includes a branched quaternary ammonium compound represented by Formula 1 wherein the definitions of A and R 1 -R 10 are disclosed herein. Also a lithium air battery including an anode, a cathode, and at least one selected from the herein-described electrolyte and a reaction product thereof. The lithium air battery including the electrolyte has an improved stability.
Sussidio alla manutenzione per Agne Agnieszka Mitura

Il progetto riguarda il sostegno al capitale circolante di una società in caso di diminuzione del fatturato (entrate derivanti dalle vendite) causata dagli effetti negativi dell'epidemia di COVID-19.
Application of automated weight windows to spallation neutron source shielding calculations using Geant4

We present an implementation of a general weight window generator for global variance reduction in Geant4 based applications. The implementation is flexible and can be easily adjusted to a user-defined model. In this work, the weight-window generator was applied to calculations based on an instrument shielding model of the European Spallation Source, which is currently under construction in Lund, Sweden. The results and performance of the implemented methods were evaluated through the definition of two figures of merit. It was found that the biased simulations showed an overall improvement in performance compared to the unbiased simulations. The present work demonstrates both the suitability of the generator method and Geant4 for these types of calculations. (C) 2015 Elsevier By. All rights reserved. (Less)
HALOGENIDE CONTAINING GLASSES IN METALLIZATION PASTES FOR SILICON SOLAR CELLS

In general, the invention relates to a paste comprising : i) silver particles; ii) a particulate lead-silicate glass comprising iia) at least one oxide of silicon; iib) at least one oxide of lead; iic) at least one chloride; iid) optionally at least one further oxide being different from components iia) and iib); iii) an organic vehicle. The invention also relates to a solar cell precursor, to a process for the preparation of a solar cell, to a solar cell obtainable by this process, to a module comprising such a solar cell and to the use of a particulate lead-silicate glass as a component in a silver paste that can be used for the formation of an electrode.
Deciphering the niche adaptations of a gut commensal involved in educating the host immune system

The gut microbiota plays an integral part in driving the postnatal maturation of the gut immune system and in protecting the host from pathogens. The commensal segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) plays a critical role in these processes through its intimate attachment to the ileal epithelium using a unique pointed tip structure on its unicellular ‘infectious’ particle. SFB induces a broad pro-inflammatory immune activation, and notably a striking induction of IgA and Th17 cell responses, that fosters pathogen resistance but can also exacerbate disease severity in a number of autoimmune models, making SFB an important microbe in health and disease. SFB is found in many vertebrate species, including humans, and SFB monocolonization has allowed a detail study of its immunostimulatory potential. However, the unique and complex life-cycle of SFB and SFB’s interaction with the host has remained poorly understood due to a lack of in vitro culturing techniques. We recently overcame this hurdle by establishing the first in vitro SFB-host cell co-culturing system. Using this system, unicellular SFB were discovered to be flagellated and to stimulate TLR5 signaling, revealing a missing link of immunological importance in the SFB life-cycle. This important developmental stage will now be further characterized and its immunological consequence assessed using gnotobiology. State-of-the-art microscopy techniques will be employed to characterize in detail the SFB life-cycle and novel structures discovered during in vitro growth. Unicellular SFB surface proteins will be identified using mass spectrometry, localized on the bacterium and tested for their ability to mediate host cell attachment. In addition, next generation sequencing and transcriptomics will be used to assess SFB genome evolution and SFB niche constraints. Together, this work will lead to a detailed view of the SFB life-cycle and how SFB has adapted to its unique replicative niche at the epithelial surface.
CLOSURE PLUG OR ANCHOR

The invention relates to a closure plug (10) or anchor for closing a breakthough or an opening in a concrete component, comprising an elastic sleeve (12) having a first sleeve end (18) and a second sleeve end (19), a bolt (14) which extends through the sleeve (12) and has a screw thread (16) with a nut (20) screwed thereon on one end of said bolt and a bolt head (22) or a further screw thread with a further nut screwed thereon on the other end of said bolt, a securing means (28) being provided between the bolt (20) and the sleeve (12) or between the bolt head (22) or the further nut and the sleeve (12). The invention also relates to a use of the closure plug or anchor, and to a method for closing, in a water-tight manner, a breakthrough or an opening in a concrete component.
Principles of physics : a calculus-based text

Context 5 Global Warming. 16. Temperature and the Kinetic Theory of Gases. 17. Energy in Thermal Processes: The First Law of Thermodynamics. 18. Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Context 5 Conclusion: Predicting the Earth's Surface Temperature. Context 6 Lightning. 19. Electric Forces and Electric Fields. 20. Electric Potential and Capacitance. 21. Current and Direct Current Circuits. Context 6 Conclusion: Determining the Number of Lightning Strikes. Context 7 Magnetism in Medicine. 22. Magnetic Forces and Magnetic Fields. 23. Faraday's Law and Inductance. Context 7 Conclusion: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Context 8 Lasers. 24. Electromagnetic Waves. 25. Reflection and Refraction of Light. 26. Image Formation by Mirrors and Lenses. 27. Wave Optics. Context 8 Conclusion: Using Lasers to Record and Read Digital Information. Context 9 The Cosmic Connection. 28. Quantum Physics. 29. Atomic Physics. 30. Nuclear Physics. 31. Particle Physics. Context 9 Conclusion: Problems and Perspectives. Appendix A: Tables. Appendix B: Mathematics Review. Appendix C: Periodic Table of the Elements. Appendix D: SI Units. Answers to Quick Quizzes and Odd-Numbered Problems. Index.
Demonstration of a decision support system for a novel integrated solution aimed at water reuse in the oil & gas industry

The Oil&Gas (O&G) industry is one of the 8 most water-intensive industries; indeed, it could be conceived as a water industry which delivers oil as a by-product. Specifically, by 2020 it is expected that over 500 million barrels/day of produced water (PW) and about 15 million m³/day of refinery wastewater (RW) are generated. Despite the necessity and potential beneficial impacts of reusing the water involved in extraction and refining activities,  several significant barriers are hampering this opportunity. Firstly, the existent commercial water treatment technologies cannot be used directly in the O&G sector without an extensive adaptation, and they are not flexible and reliable enough to bear the complexity and variability of PW/RW composition. Moreover, there is no expertise or experience in the O&G sector in the design and operation of water treatment systems.

The INTEGROIL project aims to develop and demonstrate a robust but flexible integrated solution for treating O&G water flows with variable compositions to different water qualities depending on the final reuse objective. This new solution will be readily designed with different modules each comprising innovative water treatment technologies that will be operated and optimized in an integrated manner through a novel Decision Support System, in line with 3 priorities of the EIP Water. The INTEGROIL approach ensures minimal design and operational efforts involved from the O&G end-user side and that the energy and chemical costs are kept to an absolute minimum for a certain target water quality. Its feasibility and long-term application will be assessed through demo activities in 2 real operational conditions, that will provide critical information for the commercialisation actions to be undertaken.

The INTEGROIL consortium brings together 10 entities (6 SMEs) covering the full value chain, including technology developers, O&G end-users, a Sustainability Assessment firm and a professional association.
Summary of Electronic Bill of Lading Legal Issues in Trucking

The use of electronic bills of lading (B/Ls) is a rapidly evolving area that faces much uncertainty. The intent of this paper is to provide a brief review of the history of motor carrier B/L legislation and to summarize some of the legal issues involving the use of electronic B/L such as issues related to contracts, evidence of affreightment, evidence of title, accident and casualty documentation, and regulatory and security compliance. The motor carrier industry, including its customers and regulatory agencies, are the primary stakeholders in the electronic B/L area. But the behavior of these primary stakeholders could affect the safety and welfare of the public at large, especially in issues involving the Department of Homeland Security and the Customs and Border Patrol. Notwithstanding the unsettled legal issues, the hope is that the use of electronic B/L will lead to improvements in efficiency, safety, and security.
Conflict and Peace in Eurasia

Introduction: Contextualizing Eurasian Conflicts and Prospects of Peace Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra 1. A Perspective on Conflict and Peace Johan Galtung 2. From the Balkans to the Caucasus: Paradoxes of the Precedents in a Post-Balkan Perspective Emanuela C. Del Re 3. Mapping Ethnic Relations: Cartography and Conflict Management in North Caucasus Andrew Foxall 4. Complexities of the Peace process in Nagorno-Karabakh Francoise Companjen 5. Subtle Line between Self-defence and War: South Ossetia 2008 Francoise Companjen and Abel Polese 6. Chechen Conflict Viewed through the Prism of National Bolshevism: Parallels and Incongruities Dmitry Shlapentokh 7. Kyrgyzstan: Conflict and Prospects of Peace Sebastien Peyrouse and Marlene Laruelle 8. Southern Kurdistan: From Conflict Zone to Subregional Integration in Greater Eurasia Jason E. Strakes 9. Prospects of Inclusive Peace, Perception of Players and Stakes Involved in the post-9/11 Afghanistan Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra 10. Resolving Uyghur Conflict through a Participatory Rights-based Approach to Development Henryk Szadziewski 11. Linking Peace and Development: An Imperative for Conflict Transformation in Kashmir Seema Shekhawat
Optical orbital angular momentum under strong scintillation

The evolution of classical optical fields propagating through atmospheric turbulence is investigated under arbitrary conditions. We use the single-phase screen (SPS) method and the infinitesimal propagation equation (IPE), a multi-phase screen (MPS) method, to compute the optical power fractions retained in an input Laguerre-Gauss (LG) mode or transferred to higher order LG modes. Although they show the same trend while the scintillation is weak, the IPE and SPS predictions deviate when the strength of scintillation passes a certain threshold. These predictions are compared with numerical simulations of optical fields propagating through turbulence. The simulations are performed using an MPS model, based on the Kolmogorov theory of turbulence, for different turbulence conditions to allow comparison in both weak and strong scintillation. The numerical results agree well with the IPE results in all conditions, but deviate from the SPS results for strong scintillation.
A LASER MARKABLE RFID TAG

The invention is directed to a laser markable RFID tag comprising a RFID transponder and a laser markable layer and to an article or packaging comprising such a laser markable RFID tag.
Data-driven modeling, control and tools for cyber-physical energy systems

Demand response (DR) is becoming important as the volatility on the grid continues to increase. Current DR approaches are either completely manual or involve deriving first principles based models which are extremely cost and time prohibitive to build. We consider the problem of data-driven DR for large buildings which involves predicting the demand response baseline, evaluating fixed DR strategies and synthesizing DR control actions. We provide a model based control with regression trees algorithm (mbCRT), which allows us to perform closed-loop control for DR strategy synthesis for large buildings. Our data-driven control synthesis algorithm outperforms rule- based DR by 17% for a large DoE commercial reference building and leads to a curtailment of 380 kW and over $45,000 in savings. Our methods have been integrated into an open source tool called DR-Advisor, which acts as a recommender system for the building's facilities manager and provides suitable control actions to meet the desired load curtailment while maintaining operations and maximizing the economic reward. DR-Advisor achieves 92.8% to 98.9% prediction accuracy for 8 buildings on Penn's campus. We compare DR-Advisor with other data driven methods and rank 2nd on ASHRAE's benchmarking data-set for energy prediction.
Brand des Stuttgarter Alten Schlosses vor 80 Jahren

Flammen ließen die Wäsche [Vorhänge, Anm.Ve rf.] der Mansardenfensterwehen.Wirflüchteten durch rauchige Gänge und Treppen mit einem feuchten Tu
Asymmetry in the IOD and ENSO Teleconnection in a CMIP5 Model Ensemble and Its Relevance to Regional Rainfall

Abstract Recent studies have shown that the impact of the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) on southern Australia occurs via equivalent barotropic Rossby wave trains triggered by convective heating in the tropical Indian Ocean. Furthermore, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influence on southern Australian climate is exerted through the same pathway during austral spring. It is also noted that positive phase [positive IOD (pIOD) and El Niño] events have a much larger impact associated with their respective skewness. These phenomena play a significant role in the region's rainfall reduction in recent decades, and it is essential that climate models used for future projections simulate these features. Here, the authors demonstrate that climate models do indeed simulate a greater climatic impact on Australia for pIOD events than for negative IOD (nIOD) events, but this asymmetric impact is distorted by an exaggerated influence of La Niña emanating from the Pacific. The distortion results from biases in the Pacific in two respects. First, the tropical and extratropical response to La Niña is situated unrealistically too far westward and hence too close to Australia, leading to an overly strong impact on southeast Australia that shows up through the nIOD–La Niña coherence. Second, the majority of models simulate a positive sea surface temperature skewness in the eastern Pacific that is too weak, overestimating the impact of La Niña relative to that of El Niño. As such, the impact of the positive asymmetry in the IOD only becomes apparent when the impact of ENSO is removed. This model bias needs to be taken into account when analyzing projections of regional Australian climate change.
Teen Lab. Laboratory of teenagers

TEEN LAB is a project aimed at reducing school drop-out and promoting the professional integration and social reintegration of young people in difficulty, who are no longer part of the training system and are unable to enter the world of work permanently (called NEET, according to the scientific definition of the phenomenon). It is developed by a cross-border partnership formed by the municipalities of Pinerolo and Chambéry and involves the respective territorial networks, in a process of exchange of experiences and sharing of knowledge, in order to experiment personal and professional guidance actions that reduce cases of marginalisation, and that effectively integrate young people into the local community.
Thermal creation of a spin current by Seebeck spin tunneling

The thermoelectric analog of spin-polarized tunneling, namely Seebeck spin tunneling, is a recently discovered phenomenon that arises from the spin-dependent Seebeck coefficient of a magnetic tunnel contact. In a tunnel junction with one ferromagnetic electrode and one non-magnetic electrode, a temperature difference between the two electrodes creates a spin current across the contact. Here, the basic principle and the observation of Seebeck spin tunneling are described. It is shown how it can be used to create a spin accumulation in silicon driven by a heat flow across a magnetic tunnel contact, without a charge tunnel current. The sign of the spin current depends on the direction of the heat flow, whereas its magnitude is anisotropic, i.e., dependent on the absolute orientation of the magnetization of the ferromagnet. The connection between Seebeck spin tunneling and the tunnel magneto-Seebeck effect, observed in metal magnetic tunnel junctions, is also clarified. Seebeck spin tunneling may be used to convert waste heat into useful thermal spin currents that aid or replace electrical spin current, and thereby improve the energy efficiency of spintronic devices and technologies. © (2013) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
The SENSHome Sensitive Home: Sensors for Special Environments. The house as normal as possible and as special as necessary

The scope of SENSHOME project is to study and develop a new smart home design and technologies to be applicable to houses “as normal as possible” to be inhabited autonomously by disable people, especially for autistic people. A smart sensor networks will be implemented to have the possibility to recognize hazardous events of disable people in need and to monitor and regulate room conditions (e.g. temperature, humidity, acoustics), improving comfort, wellbeing and especially energy saving. It will be implemented the combination of sensors such as microphones arrays, thermal and light sensors, providing a realistic identification of events sorting hazardous from common ones. New interior design solutions will be developed integrated with technology The innovative goal is to enable a self-determined and independent life and ensure a high level of privacy to disable people. SENSHOME will bridge the gap between independent living and nursing homes to support involved user groups, especially autistic people as primary end users, which are not able to live by themselves but do not require constant care either. Related to a sustainable strategy, the SENSHOME might be adapted for the personal safety of also elderly people in the context of Active and Assisted Living beyond project lifetime. More specifically, we aim to infer the persons’ status by means of centralized architectures that collect data from a set of sensors deployed in their living environment.
An additional criterion for gyrotron gun design

Summary form only given. The first prototype of the EU 170 GHz/2 MW/CW coaxial cavity gyrotron for ITER has been tested <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> in the frame of a collaboration between European Research Institutions (EGYC∗) supported by Fusion for Energy (F4E). The experiments showed that the voltage stand-off properties were strongly affected by the magnetic field configuration. Although the voltage stand-off was excellent in absence of magnetic field, problems arose at voltages higher than 60 kV in presence of the nominal magnetic field. The tube was sent back to the manufacturer (TED) and damages were found when it was inspected. An hypothesis based on the existence of populations of electrons trapped by Penning effect and/or magnetic mirroring could explain the voltage stand-off problem and some of the damages. Observations supporting this hypothesis are: (i) the damage locations, (ii) a simple experiment which was carried out on the first prototype tube in Lausanne, and (iii) the previous experience with the 165 GHz/2 MW coaxial gyrotron at FZK.
Aplicação de preparações biológicas inovadoras em tecnologias sustentáveis de produção vegetal (InoBioTeh)

O projeto InoBioTech tem por objetivo: Desenvolver novas preparações microbiológicas para preservar a fertilidade dos solos, aumentar os rendimentos, melhorar a qualidade dos produtos agrícolas e alimentares e reduzir os encargos ambientais devido à redução da utilização de pesticidas e fertilizantes, aumentando assim o nível de excelência da investigação centrada em domínios temáticos e subtemáticos prioritários da Estratégia de Especialização Inteligente e nas necessidades da economia. O parceiro: Osatina Grupa d.o.o. Duração: 36 meses Área de execução: Osijek e Semeljci, Condado de Osijek-Baranja
Exemplary actions for the resilience of cross-border communities to natural hazards in the mountains

"This project is part of the plan RISK" : The project ACT aims to apply products from the projects COM, GEST and FOR to pilot cases in cross-border territory. Land management and emergency management strategies will be implemented to address natural hazards, and innovative communication and training approaches will be tested for people and technicians. The establishment of these activities will enable the implementation of the PITEM RISK strategy directly on cross-border territories with clear benefits of improving the resilience of the population, with the aim of meeting the real needs of the territory.

ALCOTRA’s territory is subject to numerous risks. Some of them ignore borders (natural risks), some others are susceptible to be replicated on both sides of the border or to request a joint intervention (industrial, urban and technological risks). These specifics risks need an enforced cross-border cooperation. The intensity, challenge and complexity of potential crisis, in a context of high threats, impose to develop instruments of this collaboration: new interactive instruments of information, communication (warning and information) bettering risk supervision, the decision-making, the alert and risk management, involving citizens to the whole process; instruments of analyse, experience feedbacks and planning; formation and operational preparation of actors. Mutual assistance conventions exist on these territories which are organising the answer to these crises. The seriousness of these events and their scarcity make them necessary to develop new instruments allowing the facilitation of practices integrations and knowledges in natural risk prevention sector and crisis management. This PITEM is integrated in the continuity of previous experiences (RiskNat, RISKNET, FORMARISC, FORTRESS, PICRIT, PRODIGE), it promotes work and deliverable realized, pursuing their development increasing their use by a bigger public of users.