SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Co-Ordinating and co-designing the european polar research area

With communities and ecosystems subject to multiple environmental, climatic, cultural and economic stresses, the Polar Regions truly represent the sentinel of climate change. Already now, changes in the Polar Regions are changing the lives of polar residents, and are affecting the well-being of many polar communities. Furthermore, the state of the Polar systems has far reaching effects on atmosphere, ocean and land including the change of weather pattern in Europe. Polar issues have been therefore rising up the political agenda across Europe over the past decade and the European Union and its executive body, the EC, attribute an increasing importance to science and innovation in the high latitudes and are major investors in Polar research. There is therefore an increasing need to further develop the coordination of Polar research actions in Europe to give evidence-based advice to decision makers. This must include a continued involvement of all relevant stake- and right holders to develop transdisciplinary and transnational projects to tackle societally relevant problems connected to the Polar Regions.
EU-PolarNet 2 will provide a coordination platform to co-develop strategies to advance the European Polar Research action and its contribution to the policy-making processes. It will operate as such a platform for the 4-years of the project´s lifetime. Once EU-PolarNet 2 ends, the gained experience, the established network and the developed tools to facilitate better coordination and co-design of Polar research actions will be transferred to the European Polar Coordination Office to be sustained. 
The EU-PolarNet 2 consortium consist of 25 partners representing all European and associated countries with Polar research programmes and activities. This allows EU-PolarNet 2 to significantly improve the coordination and co-design of European Polar research actions but also to provide evidence-based advice on behalf of the whole European Polar community.
Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist Interventions for Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Positive Blood Cultures Using Rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction

BACKGROUND: No studies exist regarding the value of pharmacist interventions using rapid identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) by rapid polymerase chain reaction (rPCR) from blood cultures. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of interventions by infectious diseases pharmacists (ID PharmDs) on blood cultures positive for CoNS using rPCR and assess the duration of antistaphylococcal antibiotic therapy, hospital length of stay (LOS), and related costs. METHODS: A quasi-experimental, pre- and postintervention study of patients with positive blood cultures for CoNS, identified using rPCR, was conducted. Patients were included if there was a blood culture for CoNS from January 1, 2011, to March 31, 2011 (preintervention), or October 1, 2011, to January 18, 2012 (post-intervention). Exclusion criteria included age younger than 18 years or 89 years or older, neutropenia, incomplete records, and duplicate or mixed blood cultures. The setting was a 1200-bed academic medical center. The ID PharmD intervened on blood cultures identified in the postintervention group as CoNS after notification from the microbiology laboratory. The pre- and postintervention groups were compared to analyze the effect of the intervention. The primary outcome was time to discontinuation of antistaphylococcal antibiotics by the pharmacist intervention in patients with a positive blood culture for CoNS that was determined to be a contaminant. RESULTS: We analyzed 53 patients (31 preintervention, 22 postintervention) with CoNS blood culture contaminants. In the postintervention group, antistaphylococcal antibiotics were discontinued 32.0 hours sooner from time of rPCR result (median 57.7 vs 25.7 hours; p = 0.005), total antibiotic exposure decreased 43.5 hours (97.6 vs 54.1 hours; p = 0.011), infection-related LOS decreased 4.5 days (10 vs 5.5 days; p = 0.018), and infection-related costs decreased $8338 ($28,973 vs $20,635; p = 0.144). The pharmacist initiated vancomycin in 7 (21.9%) patients with CoNS bloodstream infections. CONCLUSIONS: Timely interventions by ID PharmDs using rPCR are required to impact the outcomes of patients with positive blood cultures for CoNS.
An Intensionally Fully-abstract Sheaf Model for pi

Following previous work on CCS, we propose a compositional model for the pi-calculus in which processes are interpreted as sheaves on certain simple sites. We define an analogue of fair testing equivalence in the model and show that our interpretation is intensionally fully abstract for it. That is, the interpretation preserves and reflects fair testing equivalence; and furthermore, any strategy is fair testing equivalent to the interpretation of some process. The central part of our work is the construction of our sites, whose heart is a combinatorial presentation of pi-calculus traces in the spirit of string diagrams. As in previous work, the sheaf condition is analogous to innocence in Hyland-Ong/Nickau games.
Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta‐analyses

Abstract The available evidence on the effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has increased substantially. In this umbrella review, we summarized the current epidemiological evidence from systematic reviews and meta‐analyses linking ambient air pollution and CVDs, with a focus on geographical differences and vulnerable subpopulations. We performed a search strategy through multiple databases including articles between 2010 and 31 January 2021. We performed a quality assessment and evaluated the strength of evidence. Of the 56 included reviews, the most studied outcomes were stroke (22 reviews), all‐cause CVD mortality, and morbidity (19). The strongest evidence was found between higher short‐ and long‐term ambient air pollution exposure and all‐cause CVD mortality and morbidity, stroke, blood pressure, and ischemic heart diseases (IHD). Short‐term exposures to particulate matter &lt;2.5 μm (PM 2.5 ), &lt;10 μm (PM 10 ), and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) were consistently associated with increased risks of hypertension and triggering of myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke (fatal and nonfatal). Long‐term exposures of PM 2.5 were largely associated with increased risk of atherosclerosis, incident MI, hypertension, and incident stroke and stroke mortality. Few reviews evaluated other CVD outcomes including arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, or heart failure but they generally reported positive statistical associations. Stronger associations were found in Asian countries and vulnerable subpopulations, especially among the elderly, cardiac patients, and people with higher weight status. Consistent with experimental data, this comprehensive umbrella review found strong evidence that higher levels of ambient air pollution increase the risk of CVDs, especially all‐cause CVD mortality, stroke, and IHD. These results emphasize the importance of reducing the alarming levels of air pollution across the globe, especially in Asia, and among vulnerable subpopulations.
Modular and flexible solutions for urban-sized zero-emissions last-mile delivery and services vehicles

The steadily growing demand related to increasing urbanisation is turning the management of logistics flows in urban areas a more complex process, with higher demand for adaptability and flexibility for the new solutions to contribute to optimise the overall transport capacity, reducing operational costs and negative impacts (health, safety). URBANIZED develops and demonstrates the next generation of modular vehicle architectures for urban-sized commercial e-vehicles, satisfying design principles of optimisation and right-sizing vehicles for their mission, delivering outputs in 3 dimensions: 1) high-performance e-powertrain components and control architectures, through the use of advanced co-design approaches; 2) interchangeable, plug & play cargo modules for different urban freight transport use case scenarios and 3) integrated energy and fleet management strategies using data, connectivity and learning algorithms. URBANIZED follows a holistic design approach working at 3 levels (systems, vehicle, fleet) during the entire project: starting with the definition of specific mission profiles within 2 main pre-selected use cases (last-mile delivery of retail, e-commerce, courier and post; HoReCa and other urban on-demand services), during the optimisation loops of the design process, and until project demonstrations, to be performed both physical and in virtual environments, covering the specific requirements of operators. URBANIZED brings a complementary multi-disciplinary consortium of 9 partners from 6 EU countries, involving all relevant actors from the value chain, from academic, to industrial (TIER1, OEMs) and logistics operators. Aiming at broadening dissemination and impact, URBANIZED defines an extended partnership, involving 3 satellite cities (Groningen, Madrid and Bergen) committed to CO2-emissions free logistics in their city centres by 2030 and a high volume OEM (Ford) highly positioned in the LCV market, all interested in replicability of project results.
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association between Self-Reported Diarrheal Disease and Distance from Home to Water Source

The aim of this study was to identify whether there was a relationship between the distance that people have to carry water home and ill health. We conducted a systematic review for papers that reported on the association between diarrheal risk and distance. Six papers were identified for inclusion in the meta-analysis. These were all observational studies, and only two reported effect sizes that adjusted for possible confounding. Multiple different types of water sources supplied the study communities. The combined odds ratio (OR) showed a significant increase in illness risk in people living farther away from their water source (OR = 1.45; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.04-1.68). There is a need for better designed studies to further elucidate the health impacts on having to carry water home.
TEXTURED LAMINATE FLOORING

A decorated floor panel (10) having a core (16) with a top surface (18) and an opposite bottom surface (20); a decorative layer (14) coupled to the top surface (18) of the core (16), the decorative layer (14) having a desired aesthetic appearance; and a wear layer (12) coupled to and substantially covering the decorative layer (14) for protecting the decorative layer (14). The wear layer (12) has an exposed wear surface (26) with depressions therein of a variable depth below the wear surface, the depressions being arranged to display a desired texture pattern.
A 24/7 platform providing access to services for isolated communities and reduced mobility residents

Over the past decades, new residential areas have emerged further and further away from urban centers. This trend can be observed in all urban areas around Europe. Although this has some advantages (larger, greener and cheaper living areas) there are also carry important inconveniencies. The lack of efficient and easy transportation and logistics implies that consumers cannot access or afford their preferred services without using the car. The total annual value of car usage by consumers to access stores and services in Finland alone is estimated at €3.5 Billion. Extrapolated to the EU, this amounts over €300 Billion. Moreover, 25% of the population does not have proper access to these commercial areas because of reduced mobility (elderly, young people, families without a second car). To solve these problems, while taking advantage of a newly to be developed market segment, we have funded Community Constructor to develop  TownHall24. Community Constructor is a spin-off of Coreorient, the company behind the sustainable crowdsourced delivery service PiggyBaggy. TownHall24 is a physical shared space within walking distance, self-powered, sustainable, easy-to-be-installed and internet-connected. Members of the local community can use it for services such as deliveries, rentals, second hand sales, recycling, public services or access to locally relevant information. After some pilot trials in Finland 50-80% of the participants wanted to keep using TownHall24 and 85% wanted the piloted services to continue operating. The successful implementation of TownHall24 will create flourishing local markets in which more people can participate, while simultaneously reducing car using. TownHall24 will greatly improve access to services in local communities in a sustainable way, while allowing Community Constructor grow to achieve €46 Million of profits.
Image learning to create a new online marketing tool

Europe’s media industry lacks an effective business model for their online content, particularly in the context of falling revenues from traditional online advertising – they need new ways to effectively monetise their content.

Our aim is to allow media to generate revenue from their online images. 
We apply innovative image-analysis technology to detect clothes in online images, and match them with clothes in retailers’ online product catalogues. This creates a lucrative collaboration between online media and retailers – for every customer redirected to a retailers’ website via an online image, media publications receive a commission fee.  

An initial version of this automated technology (running in under 300 milliseconds) has already been developed. We can recognise photos of clothes in isolation (an image of an item of clothing on a plain background) and match them to the clothes sold by our 8000 partner retailers (Amazon, H&M…). We then give readers the opportunity to click to find a link to buy the same or similar item. This solution has already been commercialised to several leading magazines (including Closer, Grazia & Be), who have seen online advertising revenues increase by up to 6 times.
However, photos of clothes in isolation represent only a small proportion of online images. 

Our ambition is therefore to adapt our technology to detect clothes in photos of people – representing a much larger proportion of online images. Online readers will be able to click to “Get the Look” of a celebrity or public figure in an online photo, and will be shown links to retailers selling similar items. The aim of our feasibility study is to refine the technological specifications and validate the commercial proof of concept with a base of current and potential clients. 

With ShopStar, we are creating a non-invasive advertising solution that can be deployed to international media groups worldwide, positioning Shopedia as category leader for this disruptive new approach
Development and Characterization of SSR Markers in Proso Millet Based on Switchgrass Genomics

Proso millet (Panicummiliaceum)
has highwater use efficiency (WUE), a short growing-season, and is highly
adapted to a semi-arid climate. Genomic resources for proso millet are very limited. Large
numbers of DNA markers and other genomic tools in proso millet can readily be
developed by using genomic resources in related grasses. The objectives of the
present report were to 1) test and characterize switchgrass
SSR markers for use in proso millet, and 2) elucidate repeat-motifs in proso
millet based on new SSR marker analysis.
A total of 548 SSR markers were tested on 8 proso millet genotypes. Out of these,
339 amplified SSR markers in proso millet. This showed that 62% of the
switchgrass SSR markers were transferable to proso millet. Of these 339 markers, 254 were highly polymorphic among the
8 proso genotypes. The resolving power of these 254 polymorphic SSR markers ranged from 0.25-14.75 with an average of 2.71. The 254
polymorphic SSR markers amplified 984 alleles in the ranges of 50 bp to 1300 bp. The majority of the SSR markers (221 of
254) amplified dinucleotide repeats. Based on SSR marker analysis, AG/GA was
the most abundant repeat-motifs in proso millet. Switchgrass genomic
information seems to be the most useful for developing DNA markers in proso
millet. Markers developed in this study will be helpful for linkage map
construction, mapping agronomic traits and future molecular breeding efforts in
proso millet.
Measures for behaving safely in traffic

Navigating traffic is mostly habitual; Our behaviour neither requires a lot of elaborate conscious decision-making, nor is it purely automatic/reflexive. However, most current measures intended to get traffic users to behave safer appeal to our deliberate self (awareness campaigns, speed signs), act autonomously on our behalf (autonomous braking, traffic lights), or seek to “assist” us by presenting feedback/information (Forward Collision Warning, roadside speed displays). However, the latter category of measures is often not effective as users either switch them off or do not act on the information provided.
MeBeSafe is looking to directly change our habitual traffic behaviour using “nudging”. This concept from behavioural economics relates to subconsciously stimulating us to make a desired choice, without forcing us if we want to go a different way. Nudging measures are less invasive, give the user choice (but predispose him to make a desired choice) and can be provided earlier in the chain of events leading to a critical situation.
We plan to implement nudging feedback both for in-vehicle Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS, existing or close-to-market), and through roadside infrastructure (e.g. measures directed at cyclists). Currently no roadside equivalent of ADAS exists, and we will prototype and demonstrate one version.
We will prospectively analyse the effectiveness of suggested nudging measures first by modelling, followed by controlled experiments. We will furthermore conduct a field trial to evaluate the long-term learning effect for one proposed nudging measure.
Our consortium includes automotive OEMs and suppliers, road infrastructure and fleet owners, SME’s involved in traffic data analysis, and leading organisations in traffic safety research and modelling.
CATALYSTS FOR THE OXIDATIVE CONVERSION OF METHANE TO HIGHER HYDROCARBONS

An oxidative coupling catalyst composition for converting methane to a higher hydrocarbon comprising a mixed oxide of: a) a Group IIIB metal selected from the group consisting of yttrium, scandium and lanthanum; b) a Group IIA metal selected from the group consisting of barium, calcium and strontium; and c) a Group IVA metal selected from the group consisting of tin, lead and germanium and wherein the cationic species are present in the approximate ratio of 1:0.5-3:2-4, respectively, and an improved process employing same.
(7429.31052017.113000241) VERSUS

THE COMPLETE PROJECT DOCUMENT CONTAINING IMPORTANT FIGURES AND GRAPHS FOR UNDERSTANDING? UPLOADED AS ANNEGATO.IN TUSCANY REGION? A COMPLEX PROCESS OF REORGANISING HEALTH SERVICES IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY TO BETTER MEET HEALTH DEMAND THROUGH BETTER EXPLOITATION OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES (INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS). WITH A VIEW TO INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT, ACCORDING TO THE PARADIGM OF THE “CHRONIC CARE MODEL”, WE TRY TO MODIFY THE ORGANISATION OF THE CARE PROCESSES BY DESIGNING SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTERVENTION FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS. RELEVANT, BY SIZE, INTENSITY? OR COMPLEX?.CON THE PLATFORM VERSUS THE CONSORTIUM HAS AS A HIGH-LEVEL STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SERVICE OF EXPERIMENTAL REHABILITATION POST-STROKE ASSISTED BY ICT TECHNOLOGIES AND IN PARTICULAR BY SOLUTIONS BASED ON REALITY? VIRTUAL (VR) THAT CAN GUARANTEE THE OPTIMISATION OF REHABILITATION TREATMENT IN ACCOUNTS
WEB/MOBILE PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT FOR VALUEBIN SRL

WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEB/MOBILE PLATFORM, VALUEBIN SRL AIMS TO MOVE FROM A TECHNOLOGY VALIDATED IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF ÂLABORATORIOÂ TO A COMPLETE AND QUALIFIED SYSTEM READY TO BE USED BY OUR CUSTOMER ESSELUNGA.VALUEBIN AT THE END OF THIS PROJECT WILL HAVE DEVELOPED A PLATFORM THROUGH WHICH THE CONSUMER CAN RECEIVE A SERIES OF INCENTIVES IN DEMONSTRATING THAT HE HAS LEARNED THE RULES OF THE CORRECT DELIVERY OF HIS SEPARATE WASTE. THE CONSUMER WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS THIS PLATFORM VIA AN APP OWNED BY VALUEBIN OR THROUGH THE APP OF THE CUSTOMER OF VALUEBIN, IN THIS CASE ESSELUNGA.WE EXPECT THAT THE POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE CONSUMPTION HABITS OF OUR USERS CAN HAVE A RECOGNIZABLE FACTUAL FEEDBACK FROM ORGANISATIONS THAT CARRY OUT THE SEPARATE COLLECTION IN THE MUNICIPALITIES THAT WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF THE OPERATION AND THEREFORE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
INHIBITION OF CRIB-BITING

There is provided a method of inhibiting an animal from biting the wood structure of a stable or a wooden fence which comprises embedding in legths of the wood at a height at which the animal can bite them, a thin metal wire of from 0.5 to 2 mm thickness, connecting the embedded wire to an earthed return voltage source to produce an electric voltage of from 5 to 30 volts so that when the electrical circuit is earthed through the mouth of the animal, through the animal and to the ground or stable floor a weak electrical current flows through the circuit.
SANITARY INSERT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SANITARY INSERT, METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PRODUCT FORM OF A SANITARY INSERT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

The invention relates to a sanitary insert (1) having a housing (2), in which at least one functional unit (3) is arranged, and an outlet side (4) which is formed by an outlet structure (5), the sanitary insert (1) having at least one marker (6) via which identification of a product form of the sanitary insert (1) is possible.
Population health information research infrastructure

A structured European mechanism for COVID-19 exchange to organize and share information between countries is urgently needed, especially in the area of population health. Information on the broader impacts of COVID-19 on the health of populations is needed to facilitate multidisciplinary European research and underpin decision making. PHIRI aims to facilitate and support open, interconnected, and data-driven research through the sharing of cross-country COVID-19 population health information and exchange of best practices related to data collection, curation, processing, use and reuse following ELSI and FAIR principles. It has the objective: to provide a Health Information portal for COVID-19 with FAIR catalogues on health and health care data, to provide structured exchange between countries on COVID-19 best practices and expertise, and to promote interoperability and tackle health information inequalities. To this end, it builds with national nodes a Health Information portal (WP4) on data sources, population health studies, training material and courses, considering ethical and legal aspects. The portal is supported by WP7 that provides the technological substrate for the development of a federated research infrastructure. WP5 develops a consolidated framework to assess the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 on population wellbeing, morbidity and mortality. WP6 will look at COVID-19 impacts in specific subgroups by conducting research through use cases of immediate relevance and facilitates research by making scalable, reproducible methods available within PHIRI. WP8, the Rapid Exchange Forum, provides swift responses to research and policy questions that are raised in countries to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. WP9 gains insights in possible future health impacts of the coronavirus outbreak by modelling scenarios for national situations. This will be carried out in close collaboration with different types of actors and initiatives across Europe (WP3).