SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Cyber physical systems for europe

In recent years, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) technologies have become a game changer in strategic sectors such as Automotive, Energy and Industry Automation, where Europe is a world leader. In fact, CPS is a key driver for the innovation capacity of European industries, large and small, generating economic growth and supporting meaningful jobs for citizens. CPS4EU aims to arm Europe with extensive value chain across key sectors by:
1.  Strengthening CPS Technology providers, mainly European SMEs, to increase their market share and their competitiveness to become world leaders
2.  Improve design efficiency and productivity and enable secure certification
3.  Enabling the creation of innovative European CPS products that will strengthen the leadership and competitiveness of Europe by both large groups and SMEs
4.  Large Dissemination of CPS technologies.

To achieve these goals CPS4EU will:
1.  Develop 4 key enabling technologies (computing, connectivity, sensing, cooperative systems)
2.  Incorporate these CPS modules through pre-integrated architectures and design tools
3.  Instantiate these architectures in dedicated use cases from strategic application: automotive, smart grid and industry automation
4.  Improve CPS awareness and usage for all industrial sectors

CPS4EU  gathers  major  large  companies  (BMW,  VALEO,  THALES,  TRUMPF,  RTE,  ABENGOA, LEONARDO,  and  SCHNEIDER  ELECTRIC),  a  large  set  of  innovative  SMEs  and  world-class  research centres (FHG, CEA, DLR, INRIA, KIT, CNRS) to significantly reduce the development time and certification efforts  through  pan  European  collaboration,  knowledge  exchange  and  access  to  the  strong  value  chain  in strategic markets,

CPS4EU  builds  on  a  strong  foundation  in  European  and  national  initiatives.  It  will  enable  the  European industry to lead strategic markets thanks to high level sharing of CPS technologies across sectors all along the value chain.
The geometry of chromatic categories

This project studies the local and global structure of fundamental categories in topology, algebra, and algebraic geometry from a geometric point of view. Deep structural results have been proven in special cases, but the lack of a unified theory has prevented progress on several key conjectures, for example pertaining to local-to-global principles. 

In a first step, we introduce the concept of chromatic category, which axiomatizes certain properties found on the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves on a scheme or stack. Important examples of chromatic categories include the category of spectra in stable homotopy theory and the stable module category for a finite group. The resulting framework allows us to transfer tools and questions from one context to another, thereby shedding light on three key aspects of the geometry of a chromatic category: Its local structure, local-to-global principles, and compactifications. 

In a second step, we study these three interrelated aspects in detail. The local structure of a chromatic category is controlled by its local Picard groups, which give new and subtle invariants in modular representation theory. We then gain new insights about the structure of these groups via local duality and a profinite extension of the theory of ambidexterity due to Hopkins and Lurie. Moreover, local-to-global principles like the chromatic splitting conjecture, blueshift, or redshift are shown to be governed by a generalization of Tate cohomology, for which we introduce powerful new tools of computation with applications to various Balmer spectra. Finally, we construct compactifications of chromatic categories via a categorification of ultraproducts from mathematical logic. This solves the algebraization problem in chromatic homotopy.

In conclusion, the outcome of this project is a framework that systematically describes the geometry of chromatic categories, leading to substantial progress on outstanding conjectures in algebra and topology.
DI.GI.ELLE. INSURANCE S.R.L.

GROUND FLOOR: THE INSTALLATION OF REMOVABLE WATERTIGHT BARRIERS HAS BEEN ENVISAGED AT ALL WINDOWS; BASEMENT: IN THE BASEMENT IN ORDER TO MAKE THE PREMISES COMPLETELY WATERTIGHT FROM THE SURROUNDING AREA IT IS PLANNED: 1) THE INSTALLATION OF WATERTIGHT BARRIERS ON THE WINDOWS OVERLOOKING THE CAVITY AND THE CONDOMINIUM DETACHMENT; 2) THE WATERPROOFING OF FLOORING AND PERIMETER MASONRY WITH SYSTEMS ABLE TO WORK IN COUNTER-PUZZLE OF WATER. IN PARTICULAR, THE SYSTEM WITH REGARD TO THE FLOORING IS COMPOSED OF BENTONITIC SHEETS INTERPOSED INSIDE TWO CONCRETE INSOLES. AS FOR THE WALLS, THE SYSTEM IS COMPOSED OF A WATERPROOF REINFORCED PLASTER ABLE TO WITHSTAND HYDROSTATIC PRESSURES, FINISHED WITH THE WATERPROOFING SYSTEM BZ6RS OF GAIA CONSTRUCTION SRL.
Digital transformation in the company Geniczech-M, spol. s r.o.

The aim of the project is to realise an important phase of the applicant’s digital transformation — process automation and a shift towards modern paperless production (so-called paperless management).
UNIVERSAL BARRIER TO PREVENT INFECTIONS FROM HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus poses a significant threat to the world's population. Current strategies to treat infectious agents have not been adequate to eradicate such deadly viral infections. HIV seeks out its host, a T-Helper cell, by utilizing glycoprotein 120 probes to engage a CD4 cell-surface receptor located on the surface of a T-Helper cell. Developing devices to offer HIV virions' probes the opportunity to engage the cell-surface receptors they are seeking offers a means of neutralizing the infectious threat of HIV. A device in the form of a solution containing a filter medium comprised of sheets or strips or spheres of lipid bilayer or virus-like structures or hypoallergenic surfaces to carry cell-surface receptors, each type of medium having affixed to its surface cell-surface receptors intended to engage and neutralize the infectious nature of HIV virions provides an effective strategy to avert AIDS.
A watershed-scale goals approach to assessing and funding wastewater infrastructure

Capital needs during the next twenty years for public wastewater treatment, piping, combined sewer overflow correction, and storm-water management are estimated to be approximately $300 billion for the USA. Financing these needs is a significant challenge, as Federal funding for the Clean Water Act has been reduced by 70% during the last twenty years. There is an urgent need for new approaches to assist states and other decision makers to prioritize wastewater maintenance and improvements. We present a methodology for performing an integrated quantitative watershed-scale goals assessment for sustaining wastewater infrastructure. We applied this methodology to ten watersheds of the Hudson-Mohawk basin in New York State, USA that together are home to more than 2.7 million people, cover 3.5 million hectares, and contain more than 36,000 km of streams. We assembled data on 183 POTWs treating approximately 1.5 million m(3) of wastewater per day. For each watershed, we analyzed eight metrics: Growth Capacity, Capacity Density, Soil Suitability, Violations, Tributary Length Impacted, Tributary Capital Cost, Volume Capital Cost, and Population Capital Cost. These metrics were integrated into three goals for watershed-scale management: Tributary Protection, Urban Development, and Urban-Rural Integration. Our results demonstrate that the methodology can be implemented using widely available data, although some verification of data is required. Furthermore, we demonstrate substantial differences in character, need, and the appropriateness of different management strategies among the ten watersheds. These results suggest that it is feasible to perform watershed-scale goals assessment to augment existing approaches to wastewater infrastructure analysis and planning.
Manifestation of LiDAR-Derived Parameters in the Spatial Prediction of Landslides Using Novel Ensemble Evidential Belief Functions and Support Vector Machine Models in GIS

Landslide susceptibility mapping is indispensable for disaster management and planning development operations in mountainous regions. The potential use of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data was explored in this study for deriving landslide-conditioning factors for the spatial prediction of landslide-susceptible areas in a landslide-prone area in Ulu Klang, Malaysia. Nine landslide-conditioning factors, such as altitude, slope, aspect, curvature, stream power index (SPI), topographic wetness index (TWI), terrain roughness index (TRI), sediment transport index (STI), and slope length (SL), were directly derived from LiDAR for landslide-susceptibility mapping. The main objective of this research was to propose a novel ensemble landslide susceptibility mapping method to enhance the performance of individual methods of support vector machine (SVM) and evidential belief function (EBF). SVM is time-consuming when various data types, such as nominal, scale, and ordinal, are used. This characteristic of the individual SVM method is not optimal for hazard modeling. This drawback can be resolved by assessing the effects of the classes of each conditioning factor on landslide occurrence through a data-driven EBF method. Hence, EBF was applied in this study, and weights were acquired for the classes of each conditioning factor. The conditioning factors were reclassified based on the attained weights and entered into SVM as a scale to evaluate the correlation between landslide occurrence and each conditioning factor. Four SVM kernel types [radial basis function kernel (RBF), sigmoid kernel (SIG), linear kernel (LN), and polynomial kernel (PL)] were tested to explore the efficiency of each kernel in SVM modeling. The efficiencies of the ensemble EBF and SVM methods were examined through area under curve (AUC). The RBF kernel obtained better results than the other kernel types. The success and prediction rates obtained from the validation results of ensemble EBF and RBF-SVM method were 83.04% and 80.04%, respectively. The proposed novel ensemble method reasonably accelerated the processing and enhanced the results by combining the advantages of both methods.
BEVERAGE DISPENSER

The present invention relates to a beverage dispenser (100) to produce hot freshly brewed beverages mixed with flavor ingredients, filled with air bubbles and with a foamy topping. The beverage dispenser (100) comprises a hot water tank (101) for providing hot water to said dispenser (100); a brew basket (113) for storing any brewable substance; a sprayhead (112) for spraying hot water from said water tank (101) to said brew basket (113) in order to brew said brewable substance and hence produce a freshly brewed liquid concentrate; a container (110) for storing said freshly brewed liquid concentrate drips from said brew basket (113); a heat exchanger (108) immersed in hot water inside said water tank (101) for reheating said freshly brewed liquid concentrate when pumped from said container (110) to flow through said heat exchanger (108); a source of flavor ingredients (117) preferably packed in disposable bag-in-box; a mixer and whipper (116) for mixing and whipping simultaneously all of the following items: said reheated freshly brewed concentrate discharged from said heat exchanger (108), said flavor ingredients (117) and hot water from said hot water tank (101) to form a hot freshly brewed beverage mixed with flavored ingredients, filled with air bubbles and with a foamy topping; and a control system for activating said beverage dispenser (100).
Why Do the Nations Rage? Boundaries of Canon and Community in a Muslim’s Rewriting of Psalm 2

Numerous Arabic manuscripts of the “Psalms of David” contain not the Biblical Psalms but Muslim compositions in the form of exhortations addressed by God to David. One rewritten version of Psalm 2 manipulates the form and content of the Biblical Psalms so as to highlight a conflict between the Christian and Muslim communities, and the incompatibility of their scriptural canons. Yet it also embraces the imagined idea of the Psalms of David, and incorporates elements of the Quran, ?ad?th, Islamic sermons, and Tales of the Prophets so as to highlight a division that cuts through both the Muslim and Christian communities, separating worldly believers from those who, like the shared figure of David, repent and pursue a life of otherworldly piety. This illustrates how sacred texts can serve as symbols of religious communities, especially in situations of conflict, and how apparently interreligious arguments can turn out to be intrareligious disputes. It shows how the content, form, and imagined identity of someone else’s sacred text can be used to manipulate the boundaries of textual canons and religious communities, and it demonstrates the need for both interreligious and intrareligious frames of reference in the comparative enterprise.
Influence of robotic shoal size, configuration, and activity on zebrafish behavior in a free-swimming environment

In animal studies, robots have been recently used as a valid tool for testing a wide spectrum of hypotheses. These robots often exploit visual or auditory cues to modulate animal behavior. The propensity of zebrafish, a model organism in biological studies, toward fish with similar color patterns and shape has been leveraged to design biologically inspired robots that successfully attract zebrafish in preference tests. With an aim of extending the application of such robots to field studies, here, we investigate the response of zebrafish to multiple robotic fish swimming at different speeds and in varying arrangements. A soft real-time multi-target tracking and control system remotely steers the robots in circular trajectories during the experimental trials. Our findings indicate a complex behavioral response of zebrafish to biologically inspired robots. More robots produce a significant change in salient measures of stress, with a fast robot swimming alone causing more freezing and erratic activity than two robots swimming slowly together. In addition, fish spend more time in the proximity of a robot when they swim far apart than when the robots swim close to each other. Increase in the number of robots also significantly alters the degree of alignment of fish motion with a robot. Results from this study are expected to advance our understanding of robot perception by live animals and aid in hypothesis-driven studies in unconstrained free-swimming environments.
International doctoral training in mathematical sciences in paris

COFUND MathInParis2020 programme creates and scales up excellence networks to attract to Paris promising Doctoral students, under solid selection and mentoring practice, and ensure high-level Doctoral training and successful professional insertion. FSMP has a long-standing experience for project management and the present programme aims at significantly scaling up its present COFUND MathInParis programme which has initiated a growing success. MathInParis2020, as an internationally visible portal to Paris mathematics research, promotes the increase and dissemination of a new generation of international mathematicians trained in Paris, creating a new network of young innovating Doctors integrated in European Union who will develop novel key areas of expertise and act as scientific ambassadors worldwide. Ambition, mobility and curiosity, awareness of the impact of mathematics in economy, taste for risk taking, innovation and entrepreneurship are as many qualities that our laureates will acquire.
MathInParis2020 creates exceptional follow-up and mentoring conditions thanks to dedicated personnel and development of the scope and modes of provision in Doctoral education, offering training in mathematics and helping to catch the many academic and intersectoral opportunities. We develop new mechanisms for transition of doctoral students to the widely increasing number of new emerging careers and promote public-private mobility by specific actions, in particular with intense intersectoral exposure.
MathInParis2020 bridges academics and private sector partners, companies, banks, with the major objective of leading its laureates to successful careers. MathInParis2020 builds up innovation and new knowledge for the future in European Union.
Nurses in the park: a personal account of the Christchurch earthquake.

I once wrote that nursing at its best is eminently forgettable, because what we do is to make the intolerable tolerable, the unbearable bearable and (after Taylor 1994) the extraordinary ordinary (Chiarella 2002). Lest the ability of nurses to do this be forgotten again, please indulge me with a personal account of my experiences with a group of urology nurses following the Christchurch earthquake. I don't know the names of all of them, so I am not going to name any of them. They know who they are and they know what they did, and I am forever in their debt. So I will tell my story so you will know theirs.
Effects of stress on lithium transport in amorphous silicon electrodes for lithium-ion batteries

Abstract Silicon, as a promising electrode material for high energy density lithium ion batteries, experiences large strains and stresses during lithiation and delithation. The coupling effect between stress and lithium diffusion leads to a grand challenge to optimizing the design of Si electrodes with high capacity and high rate capability, particularly considering the amorphization of Si during initial cycles. In this study, we established a relationship between stress and the diffusion coefficients of Li in amorphous Si by ab initio molecular dynamics calculations (AIMD). The prediction from AIMD was validated by the potentiostatic intermittent titration measurements. Our results showed that two Li diffusion mechanisms can operate depending on the stress state. Specifically, the stress can increase Li diffusion either through increasing free volume under tension or by changing local structure under compression. However, within the range of stress generated during the lithiation and delithation process, diffusion coefficients are expected to vary by only one order of magnitude.
PROCESSES TO PRODUCE SHORT CUT MICROFIBERS

A process for producing a microfiber product stream, the process comprising: (A) contacting short cut multicomponent fibers having a length of less than 25 millimeters with a heated aqueous stream in a mix zone to produce a short cut multicomponent fiber slurry; (B) routing the short cut multicomponent fiber slurry and optionally, a heated aqueous stream, to a fiber opening zone to remove a portion of the water dispersible sulfopolyester to produce an opened microfiber slurry; and (C) routing the opened microfiber slurry to a primary solid liquid separation zone to produce the microfiber product stream and a first mother liquor stream.
CATALYTIC DECHLORINATION PROCESSES TO UPGRADE FEEDSTOCK CONTAINING CHLORIDE AS FUELS

Processes for the catalytic dechlorination of one or more hydrocarbon products involve contacting a mixture comprising the hydrocarbon product(s) and a carrier gas with a dechlorination catalyst under catalytic dechlorination conditions to provide a dechlorinated hydrocarbon product, HCl, and the carrier gas. The dechlorinated hydrocarbon product may be separated from the HCl and the carrier gas to provide liquid fuel or lubricating base oil.
The influence of manganese–cobalt oxide/graphene on reducing fire hazards of poly(butylene terephthalate)

By means of direct nucleation and growth on the surface of graphene and element doping of cobalt oxide (Co3O4) nano-particles, manganese-cobalt oxide/graphene hybrids (MnCo2O4-GNS) were synthesized to reduce fire hazards of poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT). The structure, elemental composition and morphology of the obtained hybrids were surveyed by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectrometer and transmission electron microscopy, respectively. Thermogravimetric analysis was applied to simulate and study the influence of MnCo2O4-GNS hybrids on thermal degradation of PBT during combustion. The fire hazards of PBT and its composites were assessed by the cone calorimeter. The cone test results had showed that peak HRR and SPR values of MnCo2O4-GNS/PBT composites were lower than that of pure PBT and Co3O4-GNS/PBT composites. Furthermore, the incorporation of MnCo2O4-GNS hybrids gave rise to apparent decrease of pyrolysis products containing aromatic compounds, carbonyl compounds, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, attributed to combined impact of physical barrier for graphene and cat O4 for organic volatiles and carbon monoxide.
Cities on Power

The challenge of the global climate change and the pressure on resources stemming from the global competition combined with the high dependency of the energy import of the European Union requires concerted strategies and innovative adaptation approaches. The EU directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (RES) from 23rd April 2010 imposes on the EU Member States the obligation to ensure that the share of the energy from renewable sources reaches the target of 20% in the Community’s gross final production of energy in 2020. It obliges the Member States to adopt the renewable energy action plans setting out the national targets. This ambitious target cannot be met without the involvement and commitment of the cities whose energy demand equals for 73% of the gross energy demand of the EU.

Better exploitation of renewable energy strengthens the competitiveness of the European cities, regions and a business, reduces the energy dependency and secures the sustainability of energy supply and reduces the vulnerability to the global competition for fossil fuels. The project “Cities on Power” (CoP) reaffirms the relevance of concerted activities aimed at the increased use of RES in the urban context under consideration of peculiarities of the cities, seeking joint approaches to better exploitation of RES and diversification of the energy supply in the urban context. The project is deeply rooted in the local activities of the involved public authorities and expert institutions aimed at the promotion of sustainable development.
A multi-resolution theory for systems and control across scales

The multi-resolution approach to science and engineering is key to tackle the complexity of systems that span across many temporal and spatial scales. This approach has revolutionized signal processing over the last two decades, most notably through wavelet theory, which builds upon the elementary concept of zooming in and out a mother signal localized in time and frequency. A similar revolution is needed in systems and control to address the most pressing engineering challenges of the 21st century, particularly in the field of medical neuroscience.

Our proposal is to lay the mathematical foundations of a multi-resolution behavioral theory. Multi-resolution behaviors are behaviors that can be modeled, analyzed, controlled, and designed at different resolutions. Our approach is based on the core novel idea that an elementary feedback principle regulates localization. Analogously to the wavelet in signal processing, we introduce the switchlet as an elementary nonlinear feedback system statically localized in range, dynamically localized in space and time. Analogously to filter banks in signal processing, our proposed interconnection theory of switchlets provides specific zooming in and out principles relying on synchronization principles. 

The theory of our proposal is entirely inspired, steered, and benchmarked by the specific application of understanding the  robustness and modulation principles of neuronal behaviors, in collaboration with experimental neuroscientists.  We propose that the multi-resolution organizing principles that we have learned by studying neuronal behaviors provide entirely novel design principles for the control of natural and artificial behaviors across scales. The objective of our proposal is to demonstrate the potential impact of such principles in the emerging age of distributed sensing and actuating technology.