SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Migration of molecules in coatings

Because of high damage caused by corrosion, polymer protective coatings are materials of great importance. There is growing interest to search for high-performance coatings with less toxic anticorrosive additives (pigments) than commonly used chromates. The main obstacle in design of novel systems is the lack of understanding of fundamental transport phenomena of pigments in the coatings. 
The project MOMIC (Migration Of Molecules In Coatings) aims at investigating the migration mechanism of anticorrosive additives through polymer coatings. Two model systems will be investigated in order to meet this goal, namely isolated particles system, in which the transport phenomena in polymer matrix will be studied and clustered particles system which is a model reflecting commercial coating formulations. In order to evaluate the migration pathways through the coatings two measurement approaches will be employed. The depletion of the pigment particles will be studied with X-ray Computational Tomography (XCT) combined with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)-based sectioning technique. The molecular migration will be followed with a combination of chemical imaging techniques such as Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM), (Confocal) Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy.
The project will result in establishing the mechanisms for model systems which are envisioned to be applied to characterise transport phenomena in commercial coatings. This will allow to design coatings with functional additives as well as improve their anticorrosive performance.
Interoperable tools for an efficient management and effective planning of the electricity grid

The transition towards a low-carbon economy is significantly transforming the power system from a unidirectional, centralised and fossil-based system towards a bidirectional, distributed and renewable-based one. In this context, DSOs and TSOs are facing more complex grid operations, including challenges like reverse power flows, additional power flows in transmission systems and grid stability issues. Available tools for grid management in this changing environment have often underperformed for several reasons (e.g. unavailability of grid models, data management restrictions, use of conventional approaches to the application algorithms, etc.).   INTERPRETER will overcome limitations of existing tools through a modular grid management solution consisting of a set of 10 software applications for an optimal design, planning, operation and maintenance of the electricity grid – with a special focus on the distribution network – that will be offered to grid operators through an open-source interoperable platform. These tools will support DSOs and TSOs to move from a traditional grid management approach to an active system management approach, considering the rapid deployment of distributed energy resources as well as growing environmental concerns.   INTERPRETER activities will be conducted by a strong and well-balanced consortium composed by 5 RTOs, 2 DSOs, 1 SW developer company leader in its sector and 1 SME specialised in communication & dissemination. The project includes an ambitious validation phase, in which the solutions will be tested in 3 pilots in Belgium, Denmark and Spain, thus ensuring a high replicability across Europe. Overall, the project aims to achieve an annual economic impact in the project pilots from investment deferrals of 36.6 M€ due to the remuneration of assets and of 28.15 M€ due to the amortisation of the capacity assets, as well as a recovery of 665,576 € from non-technical losses detection and 11,422 € from reduced outage frequency.
Intergroup contact in virtual reality: comparative effects of two contact strategies on reducing prejudice and increasing trust between catholics and protestants in northern ireland

Intergroup contact is widely recognised among social scientists as a means to overcome prejudice between social groups. However, contact is less likely to occur in highly segregated contexts such as the post-conflict society of Northern Ireland, where Catholics and Protestants grow with relatively scarce contact with members outside their own group. Faced with this scenario, scholars have examined computer-mediated contact with relatively successful outcomes. Although virtual reality (VR) technologies have been less fully explored in this respect, it offers great potential for contact by way of avatar communication in a safe environment. The scarce literature in this area has associated VR interactions with empathy and trust towards outgroups. These effects derive mainly from two strategies: perspective taking (e.g., making users to adopt an outgroup avatar), and recategorisation (e.g., inducing an inclusive-superordinate identity among ingroup/outgroup members). Conversely, the mechanisms by which VR-contact may be effective are less clear as other similar studies have obtained mixed results. A potential confusion in the effects produced by avatar customization (similarity identification, embodiment), and the relevance of the primed superordinate identity (transient or lasting) for group members, seem to affect contact outcomes. This proposal has a primary objective of testing the effectiveness of VR-contact in reducing prejudice and promoting trust between members of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. Specifically, this research will compare the relative strengths of perspective taking versus recategorisation, evaluate the mechanisms of avatar customization, and advance a research framework of contact in VR environments for successful contact effects. Hence, this research will extend the field by producing theoretical advances in an innovative area which combines communication technologies and intergroup contact.
Holistic quantum mechanics based platform to accelerate drug discovery

Drug discovery & development projects are long processes that take approximately 15 years from the moment a molecular
target is discovered to its market launch. During the past two decades, the costs of new drug development has increased
from €1 billion in 2000 to €2.58 billion in 2015.
The increase is due in part to the difficulty to find New Molecular Entities (NME) subject to be patented. Computer-aided
drug design (CADD) tools are used to perform virtual screening, design and the optimization of candidate molecules, but
they focus in single aspects of the molecule (e.g. activity or toxicity) giving a narrow view at each development stage of the
early drug discovery process, translating into expensive design cycles. The chemical space is very large and simple
therapeutic areas have already been explored, therefore, the quality of the data obtained with CADD solutions is low. Only
4% of NMEs will successfully make it from the initial discovery phase to launch.
To solve this problem, Pharamacelera has developed PharmScreen2, a unique and propiesoftware for drug discovery using novel
molecular descriptors that enables accurate predictions of molecular properties of candidate molecules, which thereby
increases the success rate of leads identification by 3x and will reduce the overall costs of drug design & development
processes by 25%. PharmScreen2 is the only software that integrates the capability of performing advanced simulations of
all the properties that are key in later drug discovery stages, such as activity, absorption, distribution, metabolism, toxicity
(ADME-Tox) giving a holistic view. PharmScreen2 can analyse behaviors of new candidate molecules, predict the
compounds’ performance in later stages and identify undesired effects early.
The main objective of this project is to finalise the development of PharmScreen2, PoC with industrial partners and prepare the
new PharmScreen2 from market. Pharmacelera estimates a total market size of 5.3 billion by 2023.
Regional Development Along Corridors and Nodes

Currently the border regions of Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia are experiencing changes regarding their economic and spatial development. A cross-border strategic information system for regional planning purposes is necessary to harmonise and adjust regional development strategies and to overcome deficits in data provision and to intensify cooperation. REDECON will develop and implement an innovative tool database and geographic information system for regional planning to support public authorities and private firms. At the centre of this tool is a grid-based database with a GIS interface. It merges socio-economic, environmental and spatial data with accessibility data. On the one hand, this tool will enable public planning departments to analyse and simulate different kinds of policy measures and their regional impacts. On the other hand, the tool should help private companies to find optimal locations for their businesses.
Sémiotique et innovation

L’article présente d’abord un bref état des lieux relatif aux potentialités de la sémiotique en tant que discipline d’aide à l’innovation. Suit la description et l’analyse d’une pratique innovante spontanée : celle d’un agent de police qu’on voit, à un grand carrefour de la ville de Manille, transformer la gestualité codée associée à sa fonction de contrôle du trafic en une véritable danse à la Michael Jackson, qui resémantise de manière parfaitement inattendue une banale scène de la vie urbaine. De cette description se dégage une série de constantes permettant d’esquisser les prémisses d’une sémiotique de l’innovation : i) l’innovation ne naît jamais de rien mais émerge d’un matériau sémiotique préexistant ; ii) elle résulte du croisement de deux ou plusieurs systèmes sémiotiques ; iii) elle révèle et exploite des affinités structurales jusqu’alors non perçues entre ces systèmes ; iv) elle perturbe les habitudes sémiotiques et pousse à reconfigurer la culture de la société ; v) elle constitue un processus toujours risqué parce que son succès dépend des rapports entre intentio auctoris, intentio operis et intentio lectoris ; vi) si réussie, elle entraîne des effets d’imitation qui la font tomber au rang de platitude.
Coherent amplification and parametric generation of euv radiation

The coherent extreme ultra violet (EUV) pulses produced via high harmonic generation (HHG) in gases are now the main workhorse for various applications of atomic physics and physical chemistry. As the generation efficiency is very low, the number of applications is limited by the low EUV photon flux. The main ambition of this project is to perform a coherent parametric amplification of the EUV pulses in order to significantly increase the EUV photon flux. 

Such an achievement would be an enabling technology causing a breakthrough in the field of atomic physics, physical chemistry, biology, material science and probably other fields as well. Applications suffering from poor signal/noise ratio will become widespread as they will not be limited anymore to research labs where the EUV sources are optimized daily.
Moreover, higher photon flux opens completely new physics, as the EUV nonlinear optics becomes widely accessible and two-EUV-photon absorption turns out to be routine.  

Very recently a theoretical study was published on high order parametric generation based on the same number of infrared photons absorbed as in “standard” HHG. However, in contrast to HHG, 3 photons are emitted. We have already obtained preliminary data that suggest the presence of EUV photons of slightly lower energies than those originating from HHG. The photon energy difference corresponds to two photons from THz part of the spectrum and is in agreement with the theory.

In the project, we identify our major objectives as work packages:
WP1: Detection and optimization of the parametric EUV signature in HHG EUV spatially-resolved spectra.
WP2: Study on detection of the THz field originating in HHG.
WP3: Injection of externally generated THz beam to boost the high parametric process leading to amplification of EUV.
Research on the stability evaluation of underwater wet manual arc welding

This paper addresses some factors affecting the stability of underwater wet manual arc welding process based on underwater characteristics to solve the problem that the stability of arc burning and droplet transition is easy to be interfered.We survey welding process stability evaluation methods before obtain a statistical graphics method to analyze the electrical parameters of the welding process and the related time parameters.It describes a welding process more intuitionisticly and accurately.It is therefore quite significant for the research on new underwater wet welding materials,stability improvement of the welding process and quality of welding seam and the generalized applications of underwater wet welding technology.
Renewable energies in the marine-coastal areas of the adriatic-ionian region

ENERCOAST aims at providing a state-of-the-art of the renewable energy sector (solar cooling systems, tidal/ current plants, heat pumps and wind turbines plants, little and medium sized). Such a result is achieved by means of a deep analysis of the available data and technologies for the exploitation of renewable energy sources (RES) in marine-coastal areas, aiming at identifying technical and non-technical solutions to increase the use of such technologies. Therefore, it aims at contributing to EU Blue Growth strategy through a transnational cooperation process in the Adriatic-Ionian sub-region
Image encryption algorithm based on high-dimensional chaotic systems

In order to protect image effectively, presented an image encryption algorithm based on wavelet function and four-dimension chaotic system. The algorithm firstly uses Wavelet function chaotic maps to scramble the image pixel location, and then use four-dimension chaotic system disturbs image pixel value. Experimental results show that the algorithm has a good properties that Shannon proposes confusion and diffusion. At the same time, It can resist a strong attack with the large key space, encryption image pixel values has a random uniform distribution and adjacent pixels value has zero correlation. These results show that the proposed scheme has good security characteristics.
WINROP Identifies Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity at an Early Stage in a Nation-Based Cohort of Extremely Preterm Infants

To evaluate the ability of a postnatal weight-gain algorithm (WINROP) to identify sight-threatening retinopathy of prematurity (ROP type 1) in a nation-based extremely preterm infant cohort.This study enrolled all 707 live-born extremely preterm (gestational age [GA] <27 weeks) infants, born 2004-2007 in Sweden; the Extremely preterm Infants in Sweden Study (EXPRESS). WINROP analysis was performed retrospectively in 407 of the infants using weekly weight gain to assess the preterm infant's risk of developing ROP type 1 requiring treatment. GA, birthweight (BW), and weekly postnatal weight measurements were entered into WINROP. WINROP signals with an alarm to indicate if the preterm infant is at risk for ROP type 1.In this extremely preterm population, WINROP correctly identified 96% (45/47) of the infants who required treatment for ROP type 1. The median time from alarm to treatment was 9 weeks (range, 4-20 weeks).WINROP, an online surveillance system using weekly weight gain, identified extremely preterm infants at risk for ROP type 1 requiring treatment at an early stage and with high sensitivity in a Swedish nation-based cohort.
Land Use Change in Buffer Zone of Chitwan National Park, Nepal between 1978 and 1999

Land use dynamics in the Buffer Zone of Chitwan National Park was assessed by integrated use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System covering 1978, 1992 and 1999. Among all land-use type, forest was the most dominating land-use in 1978 covering 45.33% of total study area. However, the agricultural land became the most dominating land-use since 1992. The study found that since 1978 to 1999 there was increase in agricultural land by 67.28 km2, built-up area by 0.81 km2 and shrub-land by 7.68 km2. Whereas, the forest decreased by 62.23 km2, grassland by 11.38 km2 and water bodies by 2.16 km2. Vegetation density analysis using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) revealed that the densely vegetated area decreased by 5.03 km2 in a time-span of less than 10 years. Despite the successful community forest management in the BZ of CNP, this study showed a decline in densely forested area. Key words: GIS, Land use types, management, Remote sensing, Vegetation. DOI: 10.3126/eco.v16i0.3478ECOPRINT 16: 79-86, 2009
Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in Obese Patients: Comparison Between the Prone and Total Supine Position

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) can be performed in the prone or in the supine position. Comparisons between the two techniques in obese patients are rare in the current literature.The records of obese patients (body mass index >30) who underwent PCNL in the prone or complete supine positions were reviewed. All patients had a noncontrast CT before and after the procedure. Stones were graded according to the Guy stone score and complications according to the Clavien grading. The stone-free rates, operative time, surgical complications, and hospital stay were analyzed.A total of 56 PCNL were performed in 42 patients. Twenty-four PCNL were performed in the prone and 32 in the total supine position. Stone-free rate on the first postoperative day was 50% in the prone and 46.9% in the supine position (P=1.0). Final stone-free rates were 83.3% and 78.1%, respectively (P=0.74). Mean operative time was 164.6 minutes in the prone and 120.3 minutes in the supine position (P=0.0017), and hospital stay was 4.38 and 2.68 days (P=0.014), respectively. The transfusion rate was 20.8% in the prone and zero in the supine position patients (P=0.01). Excluding Guy IV stones, transfusion rate was 8.3% in the prone position (P=0.1). Significant surgical complications rate was 12.5% in the prone and 3.1% in the supine position (P=0.302).PCNL performed in the prone or in the complete supine position in obese patients presents similar outcomes. The supine decubitus position has the advantages of a significantly shorter operative time and hospital stay.
CO2 geological storage in olivine rich basaltic aquifers: New insights from reactive-percolation experiments

To test the impact of fluid flow on the reactivity of porous (ultra-)mafic rocks, reactive percolation experiments were realized during which CO2-enriched water was injected at two different injection rates (Q = 0.1 and 1 mL h−1) through sintered analogues of olivine-accumulation zones in basaltic flows at temperature and fluid composition conditions (T = 180 °C; NaHCO3 buffered solution) favorable for CO2-mineralization (carbonation).

All experiments resulted in silicate dissolution, carbonate precipitation upstream and (proto-)serpentine formation downstream indicating a decrease in the fluid reactivity along flow paths. The measured bulk carbonation rates ranged from 4 to 7 × 10−8 s−1; these values were significantly lower than previously published values of olivine carbonation rate obtained on powders in closed batch and flow-through reactors. Our study show complex couplings, at pore scale, between fluid flow, localization of reaction zones, and chemical reaction kinetics which in turn control hydrodynamic properties, carbonation rate and efficiency and fluid reactivity. This results in carbonation rates being higher when injection rates are high and permeability ultimately controlling carbonation reactions by limiting fluid input. During experiments, notable changes in permeability occurred for only minor changes in porosity indicating a control by the geometry of the porous network: heterogeneities in the distribution of flow paths favored the localization of precipitated minerals which in turn resulted in the closure of flow paths. This mechanism was particularly efficient at low injection rates. These results imply that controlling the injection rate could allow enhancing/limiting the efficiency of in situ carbonation.
Vitamin D and muscle strength throughout the life course: a review of epidemiological and intervention studies

The putative role of vitamin D in muscle function and strength throughout the life course is of interest because muscle strength is required for engagement in physical activity at all ages. As vitamin D deficiency is widely reported in the population, especially in countries at high latitude, the potential importance of vitamin D in muscle function throughout life, and the potential impacts on growth and development, participation in physical activity, and effects on skeletal and cardio-metabolic health, comprise an important topic for discussion. This review provides an overview of muscle function and summarises the role of the vitamin D receptor and the proposed molecular mechanisms of action of vitamin D in muscle cells. In addition, the review provides a comprehensive assessment of the clinical evidence surrounding the association between vitamin D and muscle strength. Among adults, particularly older adults, cross-sectional and cohort studies reported a positive association between vitamin D status and muscle strength. These associations have been largely confirmed by intervention studies. Limited research has been carried out in adolescents and children; two cross-sectional studies in adolescents have suggested an association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and muscle strength. However, the two intervention studies in adolescents have yielded conflicting results. Other than a single observational study, data in young children are very limited and further investigation in under 12-year-olds is warranted.
European climate observations, modelling and services - 2

The Climateurope Action will coordinate and support Europe’s knowledge base to enable better management of climate-related risks and opportunities thereby creating greater social and economic value. Climateurope has four main objectives:
1. Develop a European framework for Earth-system modelling and climate service activities. The framework will be built around a managed network of European, national and international activities and organisations. Such a network does not yet exist but is becoming increasingly necessary.
2. Coordinate and integrate European climate modelling, climate observations and climate service infrastructure initiatives (including JPI-Climate, Climate-KIC, Copernicus C3S) and facilitate dialogue among the relevant stakeholders, including climate science communities, funding bodies, providers and users. This will improve synergies, reduce fragmentation and promote alignment between activities. The user communities will include public sector, businesses, industry and society.
3. Establish multi-disciplinary expert groups to assess the state-of-the-art in Earth-system modelling and climate services in Europe; and identify existing gaps, new challenges and emerging needs.
4. Enhance communication and dissemination activities with stakeholders, in particular through events to bring the network together and showcase progress; stakeholder-oriented reports on the state-of-the-art in Earth-system modelling and climate services in Europe; operating a website; and undertaking additional stakeholder interactions to increase awareness and maximise project impacts.

This CSA will deliver a range of highly beneficial impacts. Two key impacts are (i) to greatly enhance the transfer of information between suppliers and users to improve the resilience of European society to climate change and mitigation of the risk of dangerous climate change; and (ii) to improve coordination to increase efficiency, reduce fragmentation and create synergies with international R&I programmes.