SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Uncovering ion-electron interactions in organic mixed conductors

Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) have risen as a promising material choice for bioelectronic devices due to their low impedance, soft mechanical properties, and ability to transduce ionic signals to electronic currents. The ion-electron interactions, which are unique to mixed conductors, have been exploited to produce high performance sensors and electrophysiological recording devices. However, the fundamental interactions between ions and electrons that determine the performance of these materials is still poorly understood, impeding their translation from a research setting to commercial use. This proposal aims to address this gap in knowledge using state-of-the-art analysis of the nanoscale electronic and chemical properties to better understand the macroscale materials performance.
The proposed project consists of three central goals: (1) direct observation of nanoscale ion-electron interactions in OMIECs, (2) identifying the relationship between these interactions to OMIEC materials properties, and (3) leverage the findings to optimise next-generation bioelectronic devices. Spectroscopic scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) techniques will be used to study the spatial distribution and electronic structure of ions in OMIEC films during operation with ultra-high spatial resolution. Optical spectroscopy and electronic characterisation will be used to study the transport properties of ionic and electronic charge carriers in OMIECs. The work will be supervised by Prof. Malliaras, an expert in both fundamental physics of OMIECs and their clinical applications, Prof. Ducati, an expert in advanced multidimensional STEM techniques, and Dr. Rao, an expert in optical characterisation of organic semiconductors. The fundamental insights drawn from investigating the ion-electron interactions in OMIECs will inform the design of next-generation bioelectronic materials and devices to advance beyond the lab into commercial and clinical applications.
The intertwined facets of membrane technology for industrial effluents

Abstract During the past half-century, membrane separation technology has emerged from an academic tool to commercial industrial product. Membrane technology is a sustainable method that could tackle and render feasible solutions for the separation of various products. Today, membrane-based separation technology is burgeoning in treating industrial effluents and desalination processes. However, this field has intertwined facets of applications in food, chemical, pharmaceutical, mining, textile, and petrochemical industries. The wide spectrum of application in multidisciplinary research is due to its low cost and energy-efficient performance to produce high-quality products. Membrane plays a vital role in the medicinal field as artificial organs and controlled-release pharmaceuticals. This chapter discusses the existing and emerging applications of the membrane and its process in various fields. The contribution also highlights the challenges and the recent researches associated with membrane technology in treating industrial effluents. Further, future research and the innovation framework spearheaded by the powerful new wave of technologic innovations are discussed.
Social responsibility and the political: studying the politics of social responsibility in institutional investment

The political aspects of social responsibility (SR) have been much debated in academia, but so far there has been little attention paid to how the political usage of SR discourse shapes everyday practices in organizations. The first purpose of this essay is to develop a framework based on post-foundational political thought and institutionalist approaches to SR in order to explain how the usage of SR discourse shapes activities in organizations. The second purpose is to demonstrate the application of this framework in order to analyse the politics of SR in institutional investment. This article first studies what kind of theoretical foci are provided by influential reviews in SR and socially responsible investment (SRI) literature. It then demonstrates, by means of a sample case study focused on Finnish pension insurance companies, how SR discourse can politically shape institutional investment practices. The findings suggest that SR discourse can politically shape investment practice by means of factors ...
Human Resources and Development Planning on both sides of Ionian Sea

The project HUREDEPIS evaluates the existing and planning regional capabilities, identifies the common problems of the involved regions related to the sustainable growth, analyzes best approaches and practices to these problems and provides specific solutions utilizing in the best way existing human resources with the important and difficult constrain of immigration movements. This project examines and proposes growth policies based on knowledge, innovation and research in agriculture, tourism, SME ‘s, services, environmental and culture sectors under the light of the realized changes in the sectoral and regional labour markets, changes to the labour force; and the structural role of immigration and the labour force movement in the development of local and sectoral policies, as also to promote knowledge, innovation and research on the areas involved. Develop and establish a permanent dialogue among all interested regional authorities and setting up permanent networks to accomplish the objectives of the project. Especially the proposed permanent network on Research and Innovation will be extensively useful to all regions of Western Greece, Epirus, Ionian Islands, South Italy and Sicily where there is a deficiency of this specific activity. Main activities of the project are the creation of networks aiming to coordinate the application of sectoral policies and for the monitoring of immigration movements and their impact, Pilot Projects for the development of cooperation in the fields of research and access to innovation and actions for dissemination, public awareness and influence central policies. As deliverables will be established networks, studies, white papers, Handbooks, diagnostic and qualitative empirical studies, survey papers, indicators and Pilot projects concerning the evaluation of existing and planning regional capabilities and practises on the designing of sectoral policies and the immigration movements and their impacts in local labor markets, Data Base, Web portal, Newsletter, Informative workshops, meetings and published Best practices/Case studies and findings. Direct beneficiaries will be the regional authorities, the local communities, the immigrants and the labour markets, and the academic and scientific communities of the regions.
Sustainable agro - fertilizers from marine plants in Pacific small island developing states (SIDS)

The effects of Climate Change are forcing farmers in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to find novel methods to maintain crop productivity and sustainability. Past practices using chemical fertilizers and poor waste management severely damaged many coastal areas, leading to an ecosystem shift towards algal dominance. A proposed approach to deal with both the loss of crop productivity and the overabundance of seaweeds in SIDS, is to devise methods that divert excess marine plant biomass into agricultural uses through the conversion of the biomass to solid and liquid fertilizers. Seaweed-based fertilizers have already been tried with much success on crops in developed nations such as the United States and in European countries, but these are very expensive to import into Pacific Islands, and beyond the means of most farmers in the region. By empowering local farming communities with the knowledge to convert locally-available marine plant biomass into sustainable, ecologically friendly agricultural fertilizers, they would be able to make economies on the purchase commercial fertilizers which are detrimental to the environment, while at the same time reducing the spread of seaweeds on their coral reefs, and boosting the production of subsistence and cash crops which will improve their food and financial security.
FILTER CIRCUITS FOR PROTECTING AGAINST TRANSIENT ELECTRICAL PULSES

An integrated circuit package having primary circuitry, an ESD protection device (14), a filter circuit (102), and a conductive lead (16) arranged to couple a point (V+) external to the integrated circuit package to a point (VF+) internal to the integrated circuit package. The ESD device, coupled in series between the conductive lead and a ground reference (20), can limit the voltage magnitude of a transient electrical pulse occurring upon the conductive lead. The filter circuit is operable such that the voltage magnitude of an electrical signal generated at the filter circuit output (VF+) is less than the voltage magnitude of the certain transient electrical pulse itself.
Discrete Element Analysis for Characterizing the Patellofemoral Pressure Distribution: Model Evaluation

The current study was performed to evaluate the accuracy of computational assessment of the influence of the orientation of the patellar tendon on the patellofemoral pressure distribution. Computational models were created to represent eight knees previously tested at 40 deg, 60 deg, and 80 deg of flexion to evaluate the influence of hamstrings loading on the patellofemoral pressure distribution. Hamstrings loading increased the lateral and posterior orientation of the patellar tendon, with the change for each test determined from experimentally measured variations in tibiofemoral alignment. The patellar tendon and the cartilage on the femur and patella were represented with springs. After loading the quadriceps, the total potential energy was minimized to determine the force within the patellar tendon. The forces applied by the quadriceps and patellar tendon produced patellar translation and rotation. The deformation of each cartilage spring was determined from overlap of the cartilage surfaces on the femur and patella and related to force using linear elastic theory. The patella was iteratively adjusted until the extension moment, tilt moment, compression, and lateral force acting on the patella were in equilibrium. For the maximum pressure applied to lateral cartilage and the ratio of the lateral compression to the total compression, paired t-tests were performed at each flexion angle to determine if the output varied significantly (p &lt; 0.05) between the two loading conditions. For both the computational and experimental data, loading the hamstrings significantly increased the lateral force ratio and the maximum lateral pressure at multiple flexion angles. For the computational data, loading the hamstrings increased the average lateral force ratio and maximum lateral pressure by approximately 0.04 and 0.3 MPa, respectively, compared to experimental increases of 0.06 and 0.4 MPa, respectively. The computational modeling technique accurately characterized variations in the patellofemoral pressure distribution caused by altering the orientation of the patellar tendon.
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR LOADS OF A LIGHTING SYSTEM

The invention relates to a device (14) which is configured to determine an energy consumption of loads (11-13) of a lighting system (10). The device (40) comprises a processing apparatus which is configured to determine an energy consumption of the load (11-13) on the basis of at least one control value of a load (11-13) of the lighting system (10).
SU-F-BRA-04: Automatic Bladder Segmentation on CBCT for Online ART of Bladder Cancer

Purpose: Large day-to-day variations in bladder—filling hamper accurate radiotherapy of bladder cancer. To allow accurate ART for bladder cancer, automatic bladder segmentation in CBCT is required. However, image quality limitations make this a challenging task. Our aim is to develop an automatic bladder segmentation method using spherical harmonics. Methods: The method includes two steps: a statistical bladder model was built from training dataset (98 bladder contours from 8 patients) and this model was then applied to automatic bladder segmentation in an independent test dataset (110 CBCT scans from another 7 patients). 3D bladder contours were converted into parametric surface descriptions using spherical harmonic expansion. Principle component analysis (PCA) was applied in the spherical harmonic based shape parameter space to calculate the major variations of bladder shape. The number of PCA modes was chosen such that 90% variation in the training dataset was described. By changing the weight of each PCA mode, an initial contour (from the first CBCT of each patient) was deformed to obtain the best fit with the bladder edge in test image. The fit was achieved by optimizing a cost function based on the image gradient using a simplex optimizer. Results: Only 5 PCA modes were needed to represent 90% of the bladder shape variation. The mean and SD of the absolute residual error over all test dataset were 4.8mm and 3.5mm, respectively. The mean volume overlap was 76%. The agreement of plan selection between automatic and manual bladder segmentation was 71%, which was similar to human observer. Conclusions: PCA on spherical harmonics space efficiently describes bladder deformation. This segmentation approach is robust to relatively poor CBCT image quality and allows fast and automatic segmentation of bladder on CBCT with moderate accuracy. This method can potentially be used to select the appropriate plan for online ART of bladder cancer. The research was funded by Dutch Cancer Society. No conflict of interest.
#ESCUTARTE: LISTENING FOR ART WITH TEENAGERS TO WORK LIFE PROJECTS IN CAPS CHILDREN

The present work refers to an experience report on the subject of Supervised Internship in Educational and Social Processes, in the Psychology Course at the University of Fortaleza, held at a Child Psychosocial Care Center, in Fortaleza/Ceará.The objective of #EscutArte was to work with psychological interventions articulating listening to adolescents with art in search of approaching their life projects.The interventions took place from March to June 2021, via remote, with weekly and individual consultations.Therefore, psychological action was possible by offering listening using art, allowing adolescents to narrate about themselves, subjective repositioning in their adolescence processes, free expression of emotions, in addition to working with demands related to their life projects.
Sharing best practices and experience on data collecting and processing and involvement of users in order to improve planning of cycling and walking as modes of transport in urban and functional urban areas

During the last decade, the acknowledgement of the social and environmental costs that are connected to transport and mobility patterns based on individual motorised traffic has been consolidated and the shift towards more sustainable mobility is reflected in the policy instruments for the current programming period. Walking and cycling, and active mobility in general, are being supported to cover shorter distances, as it is normally required in urban and functional urban areas. However, people switching to active mobility have to deal with severely inadequate conditions of walking and cycling infrastructure,  often unaccessible, unsafe, discontinuous and not ensuring connections from point A to B. Their characteristics are completely different in the various countries, but differences are also between neighbouring cities, due to a general lack of standards in approaches and requirements recognised and applied in the EU.  Local and regional administrations - taking advantage of the funds available - are now rushing in building walking and cycling facilities, but do not fully consider all factors influencing the decision on the characteristics that the infrustructure shall have and it urgent to act. CYCLEWALK will provide  an opportunity for the local and regional administrations involved to compare and share approaches and ensure more informed decision making process on walking and cycling infrastructure, with the result of increasing the share of active mobility and low carbon mobility. Through  study visits, complemented with assessment walking and cycling tours, technical working tables with stakeholders, and the Urban Cycling Institute providing trainings and full technical and scientific advise to the technical offices and the regional experts and universities, the project will ensure taking up  of quality criteria for  proper walking and cycling infrastructure in the policy instruments and projects, implemented according to share standards.
Particle pressure, inertial force, and ring current density profiles in the magnetosphere of Saturn, based on Cassini measurements

[1] We report initial results on the particle pressure distribution and its contribution to ring current density in the equatorial magnetosphere of Saturn, as measured by the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) and the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) onboard the Cassini spacecraft. Data were obtained from September 2005 to May 2006, within ±0.5 RS from the nominal magnetic equator in the range 6 to 15 RS. The analysis of particle and magnetic field measurements, the latter provided by the Cassini magnetometer (MAG), allows the calculation of average radial profiles for various pressure components in Saturn's magnetosphere. The radial gradient of the total particle pressure is compared to the inertial body force to determine their relative contribution to the Saturnian ring current, and an average radial profile of the azimuthal current intensity is deduced. The results show that: (1) Thermal pressure dominates from 6 to 9 RS, while thermal and suprathermal pressures are comparable outside 9 RS with the latter becoming larger outside 12 RS. (2) The plasma β (particle/magnetic pressure) remains ≥1 outside 8 RS, maximizing (∼3 to ∼10) between 11 and 14 RS. (3) The inertial body force and the pressure gradient are similar at 9–10 RS, but the gradient becomes larger ≥11 RS. (4) The azimuthal ring current intensity develops a maximum between approximately 8 and 12 RS, reaching values of 100–150 pA/m2. Outside this region, it drops with radial distance faster than the 1/r rate assumed by typical disk current models even though the total current is not much different to the model results.
The Effect Of Macro-Economic Variables On Performance Of Real Estate Industry In Kenya.

The real estate industry plays a very important role in the economy. The industry has increasingly attracted the attention of investors in the recent past. Kenya’s real estate industry is expected to remain strong in coming years. This has not been the case and thus this study sought to establish the effects of macroeconomic variables on the performance of real estate industry in Kenya given they are key in the growth of the country’s economy. The study was carried out through a descriptive research design. The measure performance of the real estate industry was measured against the macroeconomic variables such as inflation rate, exchange rates, interest rate, Diaspora remittances and real GDP growth. Data for a period of 15 years from 2000 to 2014 was collected from publication in Hassconsult, CBK and KNBS. The study used multiple regression and correlation analysis research design. The study employed annual secondary data which was for a period of 15years 2000 to 2014. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. The findings are important to various investors in the real estate industry and finance students etc. Gross domestic product, inflation, Diaspora remittances, and banks lending interest rates in that respective order established to be the macroeconomic factor that had the greatest positive effect on real estate industry performance, while exchange rate of the dollar against Kenya shilling showed a negative relationship albeit to a small extent, hence, these macro economic variables should be carefully be considered by all investors in the real estate industry. Therefore this study proves credence and confirms the researchers’ theory that the performance of real estate industry is affected by fundamental macroeconomic factors such as GDP, inflation, exchange rate, interest lending rates and Diaspora remittances. In summary therefore mentioned macroeconomic should closely monitored and taken to account by real estate industry managers since they have an effect on the overall performance of the industry.
Bridging integrability and chaos to decipher out-of-equilibrium quantum matter

The proposal tackles fundamental open questions about out-of-equilibrium quantum matter that have recently become of experimental and technological relevance. The main objectives are: (i) Understand how, and when equilibrium statistical mechanics emerges from the coherent dynamics of closed quantum systems. (ii) Explain the fundamental mathematical structure underlying universal dynamical features.   I will address these issues by developing an overarching description of finite-time dynamics based on integrable and chaotic systems. The idea is to characterise quantitatively the dynamics by pinpointing paradigmatic exactly solvable models. The exact solutions of these models will also help to elaborate new analytical and numerical techniques.  The proposal encompasses two main parts: WP1-2.   WP1 is devoted to integrable systems. These are systems with a macroscopic number of local conservation laws. They play a key role in understanding out-of-equilibrium quantum matter because their dynamics is  sufficiently constrained to be, to some extent, solvable. I will devise a general method for describing their large but finite time dynamics. In particular, I will characterise their approach to the asymptotic (generalized) hydrodynamic regime which I recently helped to identify.   WP2 focusses on maximally chaotic systems, i.e. systems without local conservation laws. These systems are interesting because are able to model several generic dynamical features. I will characterise the maximally-chaotic dynamics in any spatial dimension using “dual-unitary quantum circuits”, a class of solvable periodically-driven systems that my collaborators and I recently introduced.