SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Online monitoring and measurements of tool wear for precision turning of stainless steel parts

Online monitoring and measurements of tool wear were carried out using cutting forces for precision turning of stainless steel parts. The best combination of features was selected from 14 features extracted from force signals by using a Sequential Forward Search algorithm. Back-propagation neural networks (BPNs) used two features for online classification. When the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was applied, seven features were needed for the classification. For online measurements, only one feature is needed for BPN. Three features are needed for ANFIS for online measurements. For online classification of turning tool conditions, a 2 × 20 × 1 BPN can achieve a success rate of higher than 86% while a 7 × 2 ANFIS can reach a success rate of higher than 96%. For online measurements of tool wear, the estimation error can be as low as 1.37% when a 1 × 20 × 1 BPN was used while the error can be as low as 0.56% using a 3 × 3 ANFIS. Therefore, the 3 × 3 ANFIS can be used first to predict the degradation of tool conditions during the turning process. It can also be used to measure the tool wear online so as to take feedback control action to enhance accuracy of the process. Once the detected tool wear is close to the worn-out threshold, the 7 × 2 ANFIS will be then applied to classify the tool conditions in order to stop the turning operation on time automatically so as to assure the quality of products and to avoid catastrophic failure.
Promoting Cross-Innovation in European Cities and Regions

ABOUT PROJECT CROSS-INNOVATION

Project Cross-Innovation focusses on experience exchange between 11 leading European cities in relation to the promotion of collaborative and user-driven innovation that happens across sectoral, organisational, technological and geographic boundaries (= cross-innovation). In this context, a specific focus rests on policies and support measures that enable cross-innovation and creative spillovers between creative sectors and other industries. The partnership consists of 11 metropolitan hotspots that have the potential to put cross-innovation on the top of local and regional policy agendas across Europe: Birmingham, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin, Tallinn, Warsaw, Vilnius, Stockholm, Linz, Lisbon, Plzen.

Cross-Innovation is a key policy priority of EU 2020 and its flagship initiative Innovation Union. Improving metropolitan cities' expertise in this field will help meet the Lisbon and Gothenbourg objectives underpinning INTERREG IVC.
The project focusses on practices in 4 sub-themes:

• Smart Incentives - innovative types of finance that enable cross-innovation
• Culture-based Innovation - schemes that unleash innovation in business and the public sector by introducing artistic and creative practices
• Brokerage - services that build bridges between sectors by connecting cross innovation enablers with beneficiaries
• Spatial Cross-Collaboration - services offered to companies in co-working spaces, incubators, fab-labs, science parks and to local clusters 

Each partner champions such practices in its respective city. To further learn about them the partnership will put in place a participative programme of experience-exchange events designed to stimulate high levels of stakeholder buy-in from diverse domains of the innovation eco-system. It will seek to improve local policies through "cross-innovation policy clinics".
Cross innovation with SMEs will run throughout the project (C3C). It will examine how local support can enable companies that operate in co-working spaces and incubators to collaborate in order to develop their products and services for other markets and overcome EU market fragmentation.

PROJECT CROSS-INNOVATION IN A NUTSHELL

• 11 leading cities that champion cross-innovation
• Linking creative sectors such as games, design, audiovisual, digital media, advertising, etc. - to "beneficiary" sectors to improve innovation capacities
• Breaking down "silo-thinking" between governmental departments as well as in business and industry
• Innovative site visits, policy events and a pilot in relation to the above policy sub-themes
• A social media strategy that triggers a bottom-up cross-innovation policy movement across the EU
• Collaboration agreements with EUROCITIES and the European Creative Business Network to increase outreach and impact
• 11 local implementation plans
Promoting the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems for the development of sustainable coastal and maritime tourism

CO-EVOLVE aims at analyzing and promoting the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems in touristic coastal areas, allowing sustainable development of touristic activities based on the principles of ICZM/MSP. CO-EVOLVE couples a presently unavailable analysis at MED scale of threats and enabling factors for sustainable tourism with local studies on representative Pilot Areas, to demonstrate through pilot actions the feasibility and effectiveness of a ICZM/MSP-based planning process. The coherence and cross-fertilization between the two analysis should produce wide and long-lasting results. On one side, they will promote the development of policies and increase the coordination of strategies between territories at interregional and transnational level, addressing the sound use of national and EU funds. On the other end, they will produce concrete actions affecting the life of coastal communities living on tourism, promoting robust and transparent decision-making processes. Such actions will be systemic, ecosystem-based and dynamic, taking into account future scenarios of natural (i.e. climate change) and anthropogenic changes. This dynamic concept and perspective is the trademark of CO-EVOLVE. CO-EVOLVE recognizes as a key challenge for sustainable coastal and maritime tourism development the strengthening of cooperation among regions and the joint development and transferring of approaches, tools, guidelines and best practices.
Model catalysts for understanding oxygen evolution reaction activity

Hydrogen is considered essential to reach the European Green Deal and Europe´s clean energy transition. Nowadays, most hydrogen is produced by reforming of fossil fuels. Electrochemical water electrolysis using renewable sources as energy input represents a cleaner way than reforming of fuels to create hydrogen. However, water electrolysis will only be feasible if stable, affordable and effective catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are discovered. The research objective of this project is to explore the catalytic activity in OER of Earth abundant transition metal oxides to gain fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites. To this effect, ordered thin films will be grown, aiming to discover the most active formulations and facets of the crystal structure. This project will be performed at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), in the department of Interface Science lead by Prof. Roldán Cuenya. MPG was ranked as the third top institution according to the Nature Index 2019. I will work with Dr. Kuhlenbeck, an expert in the surface science field. Merging of his experience in growing thin films with the my background in electrochemical processes is key for the success of the project. During the two years of the project, I will be involved in the dissemination of the results to Academia and the general public through participation in conferences, publication of articles and outreach activities. An individual Career Development Plan, outlined and reviewed by Dr. Kuhlenbeck and Prof. Roldán Cuenya, will be used to monitor the research maturity obtained during the project.
Setting up the spindle in the mammalian egg for meiosis and embryo development

An increase in the age of onset of child-bearing increases in developed countries is leading to an increased incidence of chromosome abnormalities arising in defective meiosis. Accurate chromosome segregation requires a correctly assembled meiotic spindle and so it is essential to understand this process. Here we propose to examine how the spindle forms in the oocytes and early embryos of the mouse that, like human oocytes, lack centrioles.  Nevertheless, spindle formation in these cells requires the function of Polo-like kinase 4, a protein that in somatic cells regulates centriole duplication. Plk4 localises to the acentriolar microtubule organising centres (MTOCs) where it particptates in regulating the nucleation of microtubules. We now wish to determine how Plk4 functions in these acentriolar cells to participate in spindle formation. This requires identifying the molecular partners of Plk4; the mechanisms that regulate its sub-cellular localisation to be in the vicinity of its substrates; and to identify its molecular substrates. We will also determine how it interacts with the Ran-GTP pathway, the other major pathway that regulates spindle formation in the absence of centrosomes. In the second part of the proposal we will address the behaviour of MTOCs in the oocyte and early embryo. There appear to be two distinct populations of MTOCs in the oocyte, one of which, the cytoplasmic MTOCs, appear to be essential for spindle bipolarity during metaphase by anchoring polar MTOCs. We wish to characterise these MTOCs to determine how they might differ from those at the spindle poles. The acentriolar MTOCs can also show differential behaviour at the spindle poles. This is most evident in the asymmetrical fate determining divisions at the 8-16 and 16-32 cell stage of the embryo. We wish to understand how this differential behaviour relates to cell polarity at these stages.
A reliable, effective ballast water management system through unique in situ biocide production

The transfer of invasive species via ballast water in shipping is a continuing threat to biodiversity and human health.  The International Maritime Organization (IMO) state untreated ballast water is the second biggest environmental issue after global warming, causing damage of ~$100 billion p.a globally. 

To address this, recent IMO legislation requires all vessels to fit an approved Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) by 2024. Ship builders and operators are thus seeking compliant BWMS which also meet operational needs such as high efficacy, reliability and low operating costs. 

Unfortunately, current products, mostly based on Ultraviolet and Electrochlorination, suffer from poor disinfection and low reliability. In fact, almost half of all installed systems are not operational or not performing to standard at any given time, according to The American Bureau of Shipping and major ship owners. Emerging technologies such as Boron Doped Diamond (BDD) electrochlorination can dramatically increase efficacy but suffer from delamination and clogging caused by the byproducts of electrolyzing seawater. 

Innovative wastewater treatment specialist Atana has developed XCell, a unique patent-protected electrochlorination cell to resolve issues in current state of the art systems. It uses novel, structured BDD electrodes which deliver a 40% more efficacious, non-corrosive product, Hydrus75, which is used and trusted globally.

Our objective is to transfer this technology to exploit the market opportunity in the BWMS sector. Production is currently shore-based and we need to demonstrate on board production to the marine market. This Phase 1 project will validate the market opportunity for XCell in the ballast water sector and confirm our potential to generate cumulative revenues of €90 million and cumulative net profits of €13 million over 6 years (7 x ROI on EC Phase 2 investment), creating 204 highly skilled jobs, supporting compliance and boosting Europe’s blue growth.
House Price Volatility,the Selection of Monetary Policy Instruments and the Stability of Macro-economy:Theory and Empirical Evidence

This paper applies the simulation method on the basis of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model with house sector and the test of spillover effect based on VAR GARCH(1,1)-ABEKK Model to analyze the relationship between monetary policy and house price.The results show that when monetary policy regulates and controls house market,the central bank should focus on quantity instrument of monetary policy.Meanwhile,the role of price instrument of monetary policy should not be ignored because quantity instrument may increase the effect of price on macro-economy.As to price instrument of monetary policy,the liberalized interest rate has bigger influence on house market than regulated interest rate,when it comes to quantity instrument of monetary policy,money supply is the same as credit scale;for asymmetry effect of monetary policy,the effect of quantity instrument on house price is bigger than that of price instrument.It is predictable that during the process of the interest rate liberalization,the effect of the liberalized interest rate will increase and the two instruments should be comprehensively employed.
Two-stage lexicon optimization of G2P-converted pronunciation dictionary based on statistical acoustic confusability measure

In this paper, we propose a two-stage lexicon optimization method based on a statistical acoustic confusability measure to generate an optimized lexicon for automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is usual to build a lexicon by using grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion. However, G2P is often realized by 1-to-N best mapping, which results in the increase of lexicon size. To mitigate this problem, the proposed method attempts to prune the confusable words in the lexicon by using a confusability measure (CM) defined as an acoustic model (AM) based distance between two pronunciation variants. In particular, the first stage of the proposed method coarsely prunes the lexicon by a CM defined from monophone-based hidden Markov models (HMMs), and the second stage prunes it further by a CM defined from triphone-based HMMs. It is demonstrated from ASR experiments that an ASR system employing the proposed lexicon optimization method achieves a relative word error rate reduction of 18.88% on a task of Wall Street Journal, compared to that using a G2P-converted pronunciation dictionary without any optimization.
Le sud de la Dalmatie entre Antiquité et haut Moyen Âge

Cette contribution est fondée sur les derniers résultats des fouilles albano-françaises et albano-polonaises sur cinq sites situés autour du lac de Shkodra et dans la vallée du Drin.Cette région correspond à l'extrémité sud de la province romaine de Dalmatie, et à la province de Prévalitaine constituée à la période de Dioclétien.Les sites pris en considération, répartis sur une aire géographique d'à peu près 1000 km 2 , offrent des informations importantes à partir du début de la période hellénistique jusqu'au haut Moyen Âge, créant les bases pour une étude diachronique sur des sites historiquement majeurs, comme Lissos, Scodra et Komani.Les nouveaux résultats permettent également la contextualisation de plusieurs données anciennes et une reconsidération du cadre historique et archéologique général.Dalmatie, Prévalitaine, Illyrie, Labeates, Antiquité, Antiquité tardive, haut Moyen Âge, archéologie This contribution is based on the latest results of the Albanian-French and Albanian-Polish excavations at five sites located around Shkodra Lake and the Drin Valley.The region corresponds to the southern end of the Roman province of Dalmatia and to the province of Praevalitana established in the period of Diocletian.The sites considered, spread over a geographical area of approximately 1000 km 2 , offer important information from the beginning of the Hellenistic period until the Early Middle Ages, creating the bases for a diachronic study on important historical sites, like Lissos, Scodra and Komani.The new results also allow the contextualization of several old data and a reconsideration of the general historical and archaeological framework.
Integrated Weed Management in Vegetable Production

Vegetable growing imposes a particular weed management approach. Vegetable areas are usually small, but produce high-value crops that are commercially and gastronomically appreciated. Weeds can be controlled by several methods. However, each weed control method has advantages and disadvantages. None is applicable in all crop and weed situations. Continuous use of the same method leads to build up of tolerant weeds. It is, therefore, necessary to combine or change the method of weed control. Integrated weed control is a weed population management system that uses all suitable techniques in a compatible manner to reduce weed population and maintain them at levels below those causing economic injury.
Managing uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions

Species' movements affect their response to environmental change but movement knowledge is often highly uncertain. We now have well-established methods to integrate movement knowledge into conservation practice but still lack a framework to deal with uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions. We provide a framework that distinguishes two dimensions of species' movement that are heavily influenced by uncertainty: knowledge about movement and relevance of movement to environmental decisions. Management decisions can be informed by their position in this knowledge-relevance space. We then outline a framework to support decisions around (1) increasing understanding of the relevance of movement knowledge, (2) increasing robustness of decisions to uncertainties and (3) improving knowledge on species' movement. Our decision-support framework provides guidance for managing movement-related uncertainty in systematic conservation planning, agri-environment schemes, habitat restoration and international biodiversity policy. It caters to different resource levels (time and funding) so that species' movement knowledge can be more effectively integrated into environmental decisions.
An Executional Framework for BPMN Using Orc

BPMN is widely used in Model Drive Architectures (MDA) for enterprise-scale solutions. In this paper, we shall realize an executional platform for MDA framework using BPMN. We transform BPMN into an executional framework using Orc [1]. Orc is a web orchestration language that provides uniform access to computational services, including distributed communication and data manipulation. The interesting features of Orc are its capability to specify patterns like multi-merge, discriminator, arbitrary cycles, several multiple instances etc. cleanly. It supports the realization of the map-reduce paradigm for distributed computing and thus, provides a powerful MDA approach for business analysts to express their solutions. It will enable creation/simulation of mock scenarios and the use of verification/validation/debugging in an integrated way. In this paper, we describe a transformation of BPMN core elements to Orc. We use a graph based approach where a Business Process Diagram(BPD) diagram is validated and then converted to a set of Orc computation structures. We describe the transformations along with an implementation and illustrate the process with an example.
Development of a self-driving cab with an innovative drive with an emphasis on eliminating negative dynamic effects of the machine on the operator

The project deals with the development of a self-adhesive cab with an innovative drive with an emphasis on the elimination of negative dynamic influences of the machine, where the project output will be a prototype of the operator’s self-connected cabin. The next output of the project will be a functional sample of the pinola machine tool with an innovative solution and the third main result will be the utility model of the cab drive. As part of the project, both industrial research and experimental development will be carried out.
Twinning for sustainable and visible excellence in screen media entrepreneurship scholarship

The objective of the ScreenME-Net project is to enhance excellence in screen media entrepreneurship scholarship at Tallinn University (TLU), to increase its networking position and visibility in this scholarly field, and to ensure sustainability of the impact of this project, mainly through the institutionalization of a screen media entrepreneurship research hub, the so-called ScreenME-Hub, at TLU. In terms of enhancing excellence in scholarship, the project aims at positively impacting all four pillars of scholarship (Boyer, 1990): discovery, integration, teaching and application. The objectives will be achieved through networking and collaboration activities with an interdisciplinary set of internationally-leading research institutions with strong expertise in entrepreneurship teaching and research as well as in various academic disciplines and scholarly areas of high relevance to understanding current dynamics in media industries and their wider societal effects. These partners are: Technical University Ilmenau (Germany, TUIL_IfMK), Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT University (Finland, LUT), Jönköping International Business School and its Media Management and Transformation Centre (Sweden, JIBS_MMTC), Aarhus University (Denmark, AU_CMIP), Cork Institute of Technology and its Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence (Ireland, CIT) and Vrije University Brussels (Belgium, VUB_SMIT). Not only do these partners have a high level of scientific capacity and international reputation, they are also well-integrated into the relevant international research and collaboration networks and have shown excellence in early stage researcher development as well as research management and administration skills. The experience, knowledge and authority of these leading institutions will provide a perfect guide to TLU in achieving sustainable and visible excellence in screen media entrepreneurship
Multicomponent protein cage co-crystals

The possibility to direct nanoscale structural order in complex matter is an important prerequisite for the preparation and characterisation of next-generation functional materials. Hierarchically ordered multicomponent materials are particularly interesting in this respect, since they allow controlled integration of different nanoparticle/material building blocks into periodic nanostructures with lattice constants that are much shorter than the wavelength of light. However, most of the current nanostructured materials consist of fully synthetic or biological materials since the integration of biological and synthetic building blocks in a designed manner remains a challenging task. 
Here we propose an approach based on the co-assembly of biological protein cages and synthetic materials to bridge the gap between ordered synthetic materials and biological assemblies. Protein-based nanocages, such as ferritins and virus capsids, offer a complex yet monodisperse and geometrically well-defined cage that can be used to encapsulate different materials. We will utilize ferritin and virus particles as a size constrained reaction vessels to prepare monodisperse iron oxide nanoparticles and combine these electrostatically with synthetic noble metal nanoparticles to yield diverse crystal arrangement with coupled magnetic and plasmonic properties. During the course of the project, we will address important challenges, such as how to design responsive and collectively behaving biohybrid materials and to push the research and results beyond the current state-of-the-art. We aim to achieve this by using unconventional methods in designing, synthesising and applying new functional materials whose interactions and co-crystalline packing with biomacromolecules can be controlled. Potential outcomes include magnetically tuneable plasmonic assemblies, porous materials capable of simultaneous binding of organic and inorganic guest and protein cage crystal template inorganic nanostructures.