SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Empirical strength prediction for preserved shales

Abstract Clay-rich shales form the overburden in many sedimentary basins and the seals to hydrocarbon accumulations in the subsurface. Their strength properties are not well understood and they are not often cored or carefully preserved to allow laboratory measurement of their properties. This paper presents the results of geomechanical tests carried out on a global suite of temporally and spatially diverse shales in terms of unconfined compressive strengths, cohesive strengths and friction coefficients. These shales were also extensively characterised in terms of their composition, porosity, physicochemical properties, grain size and rock physics response in order to derive empirical correlations to shale strength. The dataset was expanded using measurements published in the open literature along with some proprietary measurements. What might have been presumed to be good relationships such as strength with velocity or friction coefficient with clay content/porosity were found not to be the case. The best correlations were between strength and porosity or bulk cation exchange capacity. A correlation between friction coefficient and rigid grains was noted although the variables involved were not strictly independent. The relationship with cation exchange capacity may provide the opportunity of strength prediction from dielectric logs as dispersion of the dielectric constant is directly related to cation exchange capacity.
GER PROJECT — REVIEW OF PRODUCTIVE LAYOUT AND INNOVATIVE EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCTION PROCESSES

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT WHICH IS INTENDED TO BE CARRIED OUT IS DIVIDED INTO TWO SECTORS: ON THE ONE HAND, THE REVIEW OF THE PRODUCTION LAYOUT; FROM — OTHER L — PURCHASE AND L — INSTALLATION OF A FLAG CRANE AND A VERTICAL WAREHOUSE FACILITY.
Rezension von: Krauss, Jörg; Peschel, Patricia, „Bis wieder die Sonne kam“

Jörg Krauss / Patricia Peschel, „Bis wieder die Sonne kam“. Das Wirken von Catharina Pavlovna (1788 – 1819) als Königin von Württemberg (reg. 1816 – 1819). Regensburg: Schnell &amp; Steiner 2021. 144 S., 71 Abb. ISBN 978-3-7954-6328-5, Brosch. € 25,–
Quiebrasoles y aleros elaborados con material reciclado para contrarrestar la radiación solar en diseños arquitectónicos innovadores

In Guayaquil, several strategists are observed to avoid radiation ranging from arcades and extensive eaves, to different forms of sunblind for control and aesthetics that must meet minimum technical requirements. This research analyzed according to the national and international perspective the parameters that handle the elements of this type, making an inquiry from the technical, aesthetic and functional aspect of the components that assume the challenge of guaranteeing sun protection. 

An important part of this project was to define a regulation tactic for a building for public use, which contemplates the essential aspects of control and aesthetics, considering the current trends from the weighting of materials, mechanisms, positioning criteria and technical standards, to endorse and conform a quality prototype that meets the efficiency parameters……….
SILICON SPOUT-FLUIDIZED BED

Polysilicon is formed by pyrolytic decomposition of a silicon-bearing gas and deposition of silicon onto fluidized silicon particles. Multiple submerged spout fluidized bed reactors (10) and reactors having secondary orifices (20) are disclosed.
Somatic mutagenesis in kidney tubule is enhanced by specific metabolic pathways

An important factor favoring cancer initiation is the lifelong accumulation of somatic mutations in the genome. In agreement, somatic mutations in a specific set of driver genes has been shown to drive the transition from a healthy cell to a tumorigenic clone in the kidney. The vast majority of kidney tumors originate from a specific segment of the kidney nephron, named proximal tubule (PT). However, the rate of somatic mutation accumulation before tumorigenic transformation in the kidney PT and the causes underlying this phenomenon are unexplored. 
Somatic mutation data can be used as a footprint to track the mutational processes that occurred in a specific cell during an individual´s lifetime. I established a protocol for reliable detection of somatic mutations in non-cancer human cells. I obtained whole genome data from clonally expanded single cells from skeletal muscle, kidney, fat and skin of healthy donors. My preliminary data point to an increased rate of somatic mutation accumulation during adult life in kidney PT compared to other kidney and non-kidney cells. PT cells showed a unique mutation pattern and distribution that enhances the chances of acquiring a driver mutation and tumorigenic traits. 
The very homogeneous pattern of somatic mutations in PT cells leads me to the hypothesis that the kidney PT is exposed to genotoxic compounds that are endogenously produced during physiological cellular activities. In particular, my data point to specific metabolic pathways, including 1) ammonia production, 2) aminoacid metabolism /reabsorption from the urine and 3) response to hypoxia. I will use cellular models to perturb the metabolic homeostasis of the kidney PT and test the effect on somatic mutagenesis and underlining mechanisms. My project will shed light on a mostly unexplored topic: how cellular metabolism can damage the genome over time and may have important implications for tumor prevention.
Photogrammetric and spatial analysis of a bioeroded Early Miocene rocky shore, western Portugal

A method for systematically acquiring and analyzing images of Miocene bivalve borings (Gastrochaenolites lapidicus and Gastrochaenolitestorpedo) is applied for analysis of spatial patterns in Foz da Fonte (Sesimbra, Portugal). Space point pattern analysis is used to describe patterns of locations of fossils and to test whether there is a significant occurrence of clustering in the study area. Emphasis is placed in close-range photogrammetry methods for data acquisition and spatial statistics for data analysis. Thresholds for the occurrence of clustering at various scales of observation were computed based on a series of Monte Carlo simulations of random spatial point patterns. Goals of the analysis are focused on the statistical description of the borers population, the investigation of some spatial relationship among G. lapidicus of different dimensions and, finally, the investigation of a preferential orientation of the G. torpedo in order to draw paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental conclusions. Both G. lapidicus and G.torpedo were significantly clustered during life of the borers. The preferential cluster location of different diameter classes of G. lapidicus indicates the relative location and orientation of the paleoshore. G. torpedo populations show preferential orientations interpreted as being perpendicular to the predominant swell moving direction during a Middle Burdigalian transgression, around 18 My ago.
A Fully Integrated 5GHz Balanced SiGe HBT Power Amplifier Design

Due to their manufacture technical or work environment, some nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) routing may reveal misbehaviors which may get the performance of the WSNs dropped. For these misbehaviors are not borne by hackers, in similar cases, to deal with these issues, enhancing the security is helpless. Focus on these issues, first we put forward the concept of instant iteration probability, instant iteration probability variation, probability space mapping, and give the description of probability control algorithm and analysis. Moreover, we give the basic rule how to design performance function to make the corresponding algorithm convergent. Our related works provide a scenario, and design the corresponding routing protocol, analysis and simulation show that if some nodes in WSNs reveal misbehaviors, our routing protocol algorithm itself can automatically avoid using these nodes, and still keep the WSNs in good performance.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING VENTRICULAR COLLAPSE

A pump system (10) includes an implantable pump (12) including a motor having a rotor and a stator.
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SOLUBILIZING, SEPARATING, REMOVING AND REACTING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS IN OILS, FATS, AQUEOUS OR ORGANIC SOLUTIONS BY MEANS OF MICRO- OR NANOEMULSIFICATION

The present invention is directed to solubilizing compounds, a device and a method for solubilizing and removing carboxylic acids and especially fatty acids from oils, fats, aqueous emulsion, aqueous media and organic solutions. Devices utilizing the inventive method shall be used for separating carboxylic acids from oils, fats, aqueous emulsion, lipophilic media or organic solutions, respectively by preparing an aqueous micro- or nanoemulsion of the carboxylic acids especially the fatty acids and the solubilizing compound which contains at least one amidino and/or gianidino group. Solubilization effects of solubilizing compounds combined with the inventive use of separation methods for carboxylic acids can be used to treat persons in need of removal of fatty acids or analyze carboxylic acids from blood or process other solutions in food, pharmacy, chemistry, bio fuel industry or other industrial processings.
Knowledge complexity

One of the major terminological forces driving ICT development today is that of ‘big data.’  While the phrase may sound inclusive and integrative, in fact, ‘big data’ approaches are highly selective, excluding any input that cannot be effectively structured, represented, or, indeed, digitised.  

Data of this messy, dirty sort is precisely the kind that humanities and cultural researchers deal with best.  It will therefore be the contribution of the K-PLEX project to investigate these elements of humanities and cultural data, and the strategies researchers have developed to deal with them.  In doing so it will remain at the margins of ICT so as to better shed light on the gap between analogue or augmented digital practices and fully computational ones. As such, it will expand our awareness of the risks inherent in big data and to suggest ways in which phenomena that resist datafication can still be represented (if only by their absence) in knowledge creation approaches reliant upon the interrogation of large data corpora.  

K-PLEX approaches this challenge in a comparative, multidisciplinary and multisectoral fashion, focusing on 3 key challenges to the knowledge creation capacity of big data approaches: the manner in which data that are not digitised or shared become ‘hidden’ from aggregation systems; the fact that data is human created, and lacks the objectivity often ascribed to the term; the subtle ways in which data that are complex almost always become simplified before they can be aggregated.  It will approach these questions via a humanities research perspective, but using social science research tools to look at both the humanistic and computer science approaches to the term ‘data’ and its many possible meanings and implications.

As such, K-PLEX project defines and describes key aspects of data that are at risk of being left out of our knowledge creation processes in a system where large scale data aggregation is becoming ever more the gold standard.
Assessment of Myocardial Infarct Size by Three-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: A Comparative Study to Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

To compare three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) techniques in the assessment of left ventricular function and myocardial infarct size (MIS).Thirty-two patients diagnosed with ST elevation myocardial infarction and 18 healthy control patients underwent 2D echocardiography, 3D echocardiography, and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). 3D left ventricular global area strain (GAS), 2D and 3D global longitudinal strain (GLS), global radial strain (GRS) as well as global circumferential strain (GCS) were analyzed to correlate with myocardial infarct size detected by SPECT. 2D and 3D left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) as well as 2D and 3D wall motion score index (WMSI) also were measured using conventional echocardiography.The 2D-GLS values were significantly higher than that of 3D-GLS, while 2D-GCS and GRS were significantly lower than 3D-GCS and GRS, respectively. However, no significant differences in LVEF and WMSI could be observed between 2D and 3D echocardiography. Myocardial strain indices, LVEF, and WMSI using 2D and 3D echocardiography also had good correlations with MIS as measured by SPECT. ROC curve analysis showed that the 3D and 2D myocardial indices, LVEF, and WMSI could distinguish between small and large MIS, while 2D-GLS had the highest AUC.The 2D and 3D myocardial strain indices correlated well with MIS by SPECT. Among them, the 2D-GLS showed the highest diagnostic value, while 3D-GRS and GCS had better diagnostic value than 2D-GRS and GCS.
INVASIVE DUCTAL CARCINOMA AGGRESSIVENESS CLASSIFICATION

The present invention relates to methods of classifying subjects with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC), a type of breast cancer, into low genetic grade (LGG) or high genetic grade (HGG), categorized by an optimal composition of genetic features. In particular, a group of 22 signature genes consisting of CENPA, CENPN, FAM72A/ FAM72B/ FAM72C/ FAM72D, CAPN8, NAT1, NOSTRIN, MELK, CDCA8, MYBL2, CDC45, BUB1, KIF2C, UBE2C, ORC6, KIF14, KIF13B, SHCBP1, PIF1, CDCA5, MCM10, MTFR2 and TICRR is used in the classification. The present invention also provides a prognostic evaluation based on the selected features providing a quantitative personalized predictor of the disease outcome, facilitating therapeutic regime based on the diagnostic results. Also encompassed are kit and assays comprising probes/primers of said genes.
METHODS OF MAKING FUNCTIONALIZED NANORODS

A process for forming functionalized nanorods. The process includes providing a substrate, modifying the substrate by depositing a self-assembled monolayer of a bi-functional molecule on the substrate, wherein the monolayer is chosen such that one side of the bi-functional molecule binds to the substrate surface and the other side shows an independent affinity for binding to a nanocrystal surface, so as to form a modified substrate. The process further includes contacting the modified substrate with a solution containing nanocrystal colloids, forming a bound monolayer of nanocrystals on the substrate surface, depositing a polymer layer over the monolayer of nanocrystals to partially cover the monolayer of nanocrystals, so as to leave a layer of exposed nanocrystals, functionalizing the exposed nanocrystals, to form functionalized nanocrystals, and then releasing the functionalized nanocrystals from the substrate.
Next generation robotic surgery: robotic vision based safe endoscopic spine surgery

All surgical robotic solutions available in the market today are precise manipulators rather than robots, as none of them takes its own decisions nor does automatize any process. For surgical robotics to make the next paradigm change, the ability for the robots to take their own decisions must be developed. To take their own decisions, they need to be aware of the environment where they are working. In other words: they need to have robotic eyes. This is exactly what Deneb Medical (DM) is developing with its X Platform. This surgical robotic platform approach enables multiple market applications, for which Deneb Medical has defined a product pipeline. The first product in this pipeline is DM’s X-BoneCut.
Today the most important surgical problem, is the elimination of surgical unintended damage. DM’s X-BoneCut will be a surgical robot tailored to perform endoscopic lumbar surgeries in a safe and fast way, eliminating the risk of surgical unintended damage to duramater (incidental durotomy) and nerves, reducing overall surgery time and with an easy learning curve. X-BoneCut will add to private and public health institutions up to 7B$ in value in EU and US, as it will help reduce total average direct costs to hospitals in 7B$.
DM’s business model is based on the development, manufacturing and sale of the robot and its disposable. The revenue model includes the sale to the distributor of a) the robotic system b) the disposable needed to perform surgeries with it and c) the robot’s maintenance contract. DM’s strategy is to install a big number of robots and supply the disposables, so the revenue portion of the disposable will increase throughout the years.
X-BoneCut is based on a DM’s already patented technology and DM knows no competitor that is developing a similar device with a similar functionality. Further DM is working on 3 additional patent applications that will help create stronger competitive advantages, not only for the short but also for the longer term.
Eco-Friendly smart doors for non-residential building fire protection

There is a growing demand for building green or sustainable buildings. New building designs often feature open spaces, with less barriers such as doors and walls, and use new construction methods. There are also more combustible materials in our furniture and other content. These changes cause fires in buildings to grow faster than ever before and become more hazardous. Although the European Union (EU) has made many important strides to improve the sustainability of buildings, those strides have sidestepped one of the oldest and most menacing threats daily life: fire safety.
This project aims to put into the market connected fire rated interior doors (30 mins, 45 min and 60 minutes resistance) based on ecological materials, with no risk of toxic air emissions. Besides, the door will have the possibility to be integrated to the IoT platform of smart houses for specific market niches.
For building owners and constructors, GUARDIAN will allow accomplishing with fire safety but also building sustainability existing and upcoming regulations and trends and, doing it at an affordable price. For citiziens, this project will enforce their safety at domestic and non-domestic buildings. For the European Commission, this project will offer a new product in line with the demands of fire safety and firefighters associations and platforms. For the Consortium partners, this new product will bring an additional cumulated turnover of € 47,5 million turnover for 2024 (€43,2 million for LUALDI and €4.3 million for MELU) with a positive return of investment during the 3rd year of commercialisation.
Promoting osteogenesis through vascular endothelial cells

The skeletal system and its vasculature form a functional unit with great relevance in health, regeneration, and disease. Our recent work has provided fundamental insights into the organization of the bone vasculature in mouse, its changes during aging, the heterogeneity and functional specialization of bone capillaries and endothelial cells, the regulation of these properties by Notch and hypoxia-inducible factor signaling, and the crosstalk with osteoblast lineage cells. Most importantly, we found that the manipulation of ECs in the aging animal can trigger the expansion of osteoprogenitors and thereby induce bone formation. 
PROVEC will now systemically identify and characterize endothelial cell subpopulations, their gene expression and functional properties in the healthy, aging, diseased and regenerating skeletal system. Preclinical models will establish whether endothelial cells are involved in the response to therapeutic treatments aiming at osteoblasts or osteoclasts, or if the modulation of ECs alone is sufficient to generate beneficial effects. Finally, PROVEC will investigate whether cultured mouse and human ECs can be endowed with beneficial properties to enhance bone formation in 3D organoid cultures and after transplantation into mice, which will be monitored by imaging in living animals.
To achieve its ambitions aims, PROVEC will use a powerful combination of mouse genetics, disease models, genetic fate mapping, RNA-seq and single cell sequencing, computational biology, confocal and 2-photon microscopy, micro-CT imaging, pharmacological treatments, and cell biology methods to establish if and how vascular endothelial cells can be used to increase bone mineral density in preclinical models.
The successful completion of PROVEC would be highly relevant for diseases such as osteoporosis, which affects around 27.5 million patients in the EU, generates annual costs of about 37 billion Euros, and for which we currently lack appropriate treatments.
Obtaining patent protection for dual-fuel direct-injection engines

Reference number of the aid programme: SA.42799(2015/X), intended for public aid: Article 28 of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 This proposal focuses on obtaining industrial property protection in the form of a patent for a dual-fuel system for direct fuel injection engines. Generally known LPG fuelling systems are not effective in FSI engines, TSIs, due to the lack of cooling of petrol injectors. To prevent this, additional gasoline injection is used when operating on gas, which significantly reduces the economy of gas engines. In addition, adding additional gas phase injectors in front of the engine suction valves, causes a number of technical problems and causes high CPU conversion power to mimic the correct engine operation. These defects are deprived of the technical solution of Kael, which has been reported as an invention in Poland. The solution according to the invention means that there is no need to add additional alternative fuel injectors, and the liquid-phase gas flowing through petrol injectors does not change the working conditions of the gas. All engine operating parameters are similar to petrol, the economy of this solution is much higher, and exhaust gas tests indicate an increase in ecological parameters. The implementation of this project will allow to examine the current state of technology in terms of solutions similar to the subject of the project, examination of capabilities in the international procedure of PCT, costs related to legal services in the field of industrial protection, costs of patent attorneys, costs of advisory services preparing for the commercialisation process, preparation of translations and official fees. As a result of the project, Kael will protect itself against the appearance of competing circuits.