SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Assessment of riverine litter (plastics) inputs to the marine environment

Assessing riverine litter input variability to the marine environment at large scale through field data collection: progress in
marine litter pollution science beyond the state-of-the-art. 

Marine litter is a major global environmental concern and highly relevant in the political agendas and environmental policy frameworks, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals.The fact that the patterns in dynamics and distribution of riverine litter remain unknown to date underlines that LitRivus can greatly advance the field of marine litter and the global plastics issue. The project will be focused on innovative monitoring methods to study riverine litter input, providing details on dynamics and variability of litter flux in rivers, which is the missing information necessary to validate models for assessment of riverine litter loads to the sea. Empirical data will facilitate formulation of models to reduce uncertainties and improve estimations. Moreover, the use of international data from RIMMEL project (DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission) and collaboration with experts through RiLiNet will provide the project a large scale. Publication of these results will be very welcome internationally, providing a new approach to the topic based on field data, and serving larger goals pursued by the scientific community, e.g. calculation of marine litter mass balances at different geographical and temporal scales. Furthermore, this will be the first time comprehensive data on riverine litter inputs will be evaluated in relation to policy and decision-making frameworks, such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Water Framework Directive and the EU Strategy for plastics, thus guaranteeing that science-policy knowledge transfer is achieved in order to improve plastic mitigation measures.
Resuming HE Activity

Project to adapt the establishment to the new conditions of physical and hygiene distancing in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the acquisition of personal protective equipment, hygiene materials, changes in the working layout, new methods of work organisation and relationship with customers and suppliers.
One network for europe

While the electrical grid is moving from being a fully centralized to a highly decentralized system, grid operators have to change their operative business to accommodate for faster reactions and adaptive exploitation of flexibility. The topic has been subject of several research projects in the past years and reached a maturity that allows now the consideration of a final level, proposing an integrated view on the grid operations beyond the traditional barriers. OneNet aims at performing this critical step creating the conditions for a new generation of grid services able to fully exploit demand response, storage and distributed generation while creating fair, transparent and open conditions for the consumer. As result, while creating one network of Europe, the project aims to build a customer centric approach to grid operation. This ambitious view is achieved by proposing new markets, products and services and by creating a unique IT architecture. While a single platform for Europe is not thinkable, OneNet proposes innovative mechanisms of platform federation which are the key technical enablers for the proposed vision. The project has also very ambitious exploitation goals aiming at creating consensus on the solution far beyond the limits of the consortium partners thanks to a variety of actions including a large-scale forum for discussion within the international energy community. The complete concept is also proven in 4 cluster demos creating an involvement of an unprecedented number of countries and their grid operators in a single project.  The consortium, in addition to a significant list of grid operators, includes also key IT players, leading research institutions and the two most relevant associations for grid operators, jointly providing a unique set of expertise in support to these challenging tasks.
O método de conhecimento de Paulo Freire e a intervenção comunitária em Portugal

Este artigo tem como finalidade apresentar e discutir as bases epistemológicas constituintes do método de conhecimento de Paulo Freire e sua incidência prática em políticas de educação de adultos e formas de intervenção comunitárias em Portugal. Decorrentes da aplicação deste método, estas políticas organizadas após a revolução de 25 de abril de 1974 e as intervenções comunitárias coordenadas no âmbito do programa de pós-graduação em educação da Universidade de Madeira, são exemplos práticos de que o método e os princípios educacionais de Paulo Freire têm sido profícuos na constituição de meios de transformação da realidade social. Trata-se de uma tentativa de contribuir para com a análise desmistificadora da suposta falta de praticidade do método de conhecimento de Paulo Freire e da inexistência de experiências exitosas a partir dos seus pressupostos filosófico-pedagógicos.
Research on the infiltration processes of lawn soils of the Babao River in the Qilian Mountain

Using a Guelph Permeameter, the soil water infiltration processes were analyzed in the Babao River of the Qilian Mountain in China. The results showed that the average soil initial infiltration and the steady infiltration rates in the upstream reaches of the Babao River are 1.93 and 0.99 cm/min, whereas those of the middle area are 0.48 cm/min and 0.21 cm/min, respectively. The infiltration processes can be divided into three stages: the rapidly changing stage (0–10 min), the slowly changing stage (10–30 min) and the stabilization stage (after 30 min). We used field data collected from lawn soils and evaluated the performances of the infiltration models of Philip, Kostiakov and Horton with the sum of squared error, the root mean square error, the coefficient of determination, the mean error, the model efficiency and Willmott's index of agreement. The results indicated that the Kostiakov model was most suitable for studying the infiltration process in the alpine lawn soils.
Development and characterization of an ultra-high performance mobile optical atomic clock based on lattice-trapped atoms

New types of atomic clocks, based on laser-cooled and trapped atoms interrogated by optical lasers, are changing the paradigm for precision measurement of time and frequency. Optical lattice clocks, which provide superb frequency stability, are today complex systems, able to operate only in well-controlled laboratory environments and require continuous personnel intervention. The proposed activity aims to realize the transition from today's laboratory systems into mature mobile instruments. The result of this transition opens outstanding and transformational future fields of application: world-wide accuracy comparisons of stationary clocks, high-precision tests of General Relativity, and mapping of the Earth gravitational potential via relativistic geodesy.

Towards this goal, the ER will develop a robust and mobile optical lattice clock based on strontium atoms, exhibiting ultra-high performance. He will pursue three objectives: 
1) improved subsystem for cold atomic sample preparation and improved interrogation laser;
2) demonstration of inaccuracy and instability at 1x10^-17 level;
3) demonstration of transportability and repeatability of ultra-high performance.
These objectives will be achieved, respectively, via a new approach for simplified and more robust laser cooling and trapping of the atoms, via an advanced reference cavity design, and implementing sub-systems for better control of systematic effects. 
Within a European cooperation a full characterization of the clock before and after transportation will take place during visits to metrology institutes. 

The match of the experienced researcher and the supervisor in terms of scientific background, common research and technology interests, and international networking is unique and offers the opportunity to maintain Europe at the forefront of the development and application of transportable optical clocks.
Medications between psychiatric and addictive disorders

Many epidemiological studies have revealed a frequent co-occurrence of psychiatric and substance use disorders. The term used in the literature to refer to this co-occurrence is dual diagnosis. The high prevalence of dual diagnosis has led physicians to observe the effects of medication prescribed to treat psychiatric disorders on the co-occurring substance use disorder and vice versa. The concept of medications between psychiatric and addictive disorders stems from these clinical observations, alongside which, however, it has developed from the observation that both psychiatric and substance use disorders share common neurobiological pathways and trigger common cognitive disorders. This has led researchers to develop medications on the basis of neurobiological and cognitive rationales.In our article, we review peculiar medications based on neurobiological and cognitive rationales and that have an impact in both psychiatric and addictive disorders.We highlight how interesting these new prescriptions are for clinical observation and for the treatment of patients suffering from dual diagnosis.We then go on to discuss the interest in them from the perspective of clinical practice and clinical research, in that the development of medications to treat dual diagnosis helps to further our knowledge of both psychiatric and substance use disorders.
Actividades que aumentan el reconocimiento de la marca Kamex en mercados extranjeros.

SA 42799(2015/X) El proyecto se ejecutará como parte del Programa de Promoción de la Industria de Máquinas y Equipos. El solicitante ha elegido como dirección de sus actividades: Rusia y Polonia. El proyecto abarcará las siguientes actividades: 1. Participación en ferias internacionales b2b: a) Feria Internacional de Minería, Energía y Metalurgia (Katowice, Polonia, septiembre de 2021) 2. Organización de misiones empresariales salientes individuales para: a) a Rusia durante Ugol Rossii & Mining Novokuzneck, septiembre de 2020 (b) a Rusia durante Ugol Rossii & Mining Novokuzneck en junio de 2021 (c) a Rusia durante Ugol Rossii & Mining Novokuzneck en junio de 2022 3. A) Adquisición o producción y distribución de información y materiales de promoción extranjeros o bilingües. b) Preparación de un sitio web en idioma extranjero o un módulo de idioma extranjero para un sitio web existente. El proyecto se financiará con los recursos propios del solicitante.
Hematopoietic stem cell apoptosis in bone marrow failure and myelodysplastic syndromes: friend or foe?

Deregulated apoptotic signaling in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) strongly contributes to the pathogenesis and phenotypes of congenital bone marrow failure and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and their progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). HSPCs are highly susceptible to apoptosis during bone marrow failure and early MDS, but AML evolution selects for apoptosis resistance. Little is known about the main apoptotic players and their regulators. ApoptoMDS will investigate the impact of apoptotic deregulation for pathogenesis, correlate apoptotic susceptibility with the kinetics of disease progression and characterize the mechanism by which apoptotic susceptibility turns into resistance. ApoptoMDS will draw on a large collection of patient-derived samples and genetically engineered mouse models to investigate disease progression in serially transplanted and xenotransplanted mice. How activated DNA damage checkpoint signaling contributes to syndrome phenotypes and HSPC hypersusceptibility to apoptosis will be assessed. Checkpoint activation confers a competitive disadvantage, and HSPCs undergoing malignant transformation are under high selective pressure to inactivate it. Checkpoint abrogation mitigates the hematological phenotype, but increases the risk of AML evolution. ApoptoMDS aims to analyze if inhibiting apoptosis in HSPCs from bone marrow failure and early-stage MDS can overcome the dilemma of checkpoint abrogation. Whether inhibiting apoptosis is sufficient to improve HSPC function will be tested on several levels and validated in patient-derived samples. How inhibiting apoptosis in the presence of functional checkpoint signaling influences malignant transformation kinetics will be assessed. If, as hypothesized, inhibiting apoptosis both mitigates hematological symptoms and delays AML evolution, ApoptoMDS will pave the way for novel therapeutic approaches to expand the less severe symptomatic period for patients with these syndromes.
Disruptive learning through the integration of mathematics and cognitive trainining

This project is about perfecting Smartick, a leading online math training method, to introduce into the product a major new feature, so we can help millions of kids, mainly in Europe and Latin America, to improve their math and cognitive skills for learning. As shown by international studies such as PISA and TIMSS, math skills are in short supply and are very much needed to power the high-skilled jobs required by today’s society. Those jobs are needed if we want Europe to be competitive in a digital world currently dominated by the US, with some countries in Asia moving rapidly, with millions of highly skilled graduates coming out their universities every year. To achieve it, we will integrate cognitive training with Smartick Math, which will move Smartick strategic positioning into a non-occupied market space. With this unique product and the EC support, we will be able to sustain our current growth rate to reach over 100.000 clients and generate over €40M in revenues (with a ROI over 2100%) in a period of 5 years, and fulfil our potential as one of Europe’s ‘gazelle’ companies. 
With this project we want to:
Develop the Math + Cognitive integrated product, in which math and cognitive training is customized to students’ profile with a unified algorithm.
Product is scientifically validated at three levels, including measuring changes in neural activation with Electroencephalogram and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Software is localized and international strategy is defined.
We honestly believe that, bringing together our technical capabilities and existing access to thousands of children, with the know-how and scientific grounding of two well-respected research groups, we will be able to further improve Smartick to build a learning platform second to none in the world. With this project, at the end of the day, we want to help students in Europe improve their math skills to be better prepared for the technically qualified careers which Europe increasingly need.
Unsupervised discrimination of motor unit action potentials using spectrograms

Single motor unit activity study is a major research interest because changes of MUAP morphology, MU activation, and MU recruitment provide the most informative part in diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. Intramuscular recordings often provide a more than one motor unit activities, thus MUAP discrimination is a crucial task to study single unit activities. Most neurology laboratories worldwide still need specialists who spend hours to classify MUAPs. In this study, we present a new real-time unsupervised method for MUAP discrimination. After automatically detect MUAPs, we extract features of spectrogram images from the wavelet coefficients of MUAPs. Unlike benchmark methods, we do not calculate Euclidean distances which assumes a spherical distribution of data. Instead, we measure correlation between spectrogram images. Then MUAPs are automatically discriminated without any prior knowledge of the number of clusters as in previous works. MUAP were detected on a real data set with a precision PPV of 94% (tolerance of 2 ms). We obtained a similar result in MUAP classification to the reference. The difference in percentages of MU proportions between our method and the reference were 3% for MU1, 0.4% for MU2, and 12% for MU3. In contrast, F1-score for MU3 reached the highest level at 91% (PPV at the highest of 96.64% as well).
Contributing to identify causes of gender violence among teenagers

The frequency of gender violence today is extremely high; 35% of women worldwide experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence (World Health Organization, 2013). In 2009, Miguel Carcaño, adolescent, confesses to have raped and killed his ex-girlfriend, Marta del Castillo. After entering prison, a platform started in support of the self-confessed murderer, through which his admirers declared their desire to meet and to start a relationship with him. While many studies are being conducted to understand and ameliorate this situation, further research is needed to better identify the causes and consequences and to analyze in-depth methods that can advance research on this topic. The applicant has worked for the last fourteen years on the fact that some adolescents have been socialized into a type of relationships that link attraction and violence. FREE_Teen_Desire will draw from this background and learn from host expertise and methodological approaches in order to: 1) explore the extent to which dialogue situations (based on a language of desire) can question adolescent girls’ desires that link attractiveness to violent behaviours, 2) assess whether this dialogic questioning of girls’ desire, if any, is true beyond cultures, thus breaking down cultural and racist stereotypes associated to violence against women, and 3) develop the evidence-based approaches needed to increase effectiveness in the prevention of gender violence among adolescents. The research will have a mixed methods approach, involving a quasi-experimental study with 240 adolescent girls from four different countries and a qualitative analysis of some of their stories. The project will also innovate in dissemination and outreach activities in order to achieve political and social impact, in prevention campaigns and programmes against gender based violence.
Myosin heavy chain composition of tiger (Panthera tigris) and cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) hindlimb muscles

Felids have a wide range of locomotor activity patterns and maximal running speeds, including the very fast cheetah (Acinonyx jubatas), the roaming tiger (Panthera tigris), and the relatively sedentary domestic cat (Felis catus). As previous studies have suggested a relationship between the amount and type of activity and the myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform composition of a muscle, we assessed the MHC isoform composition of selected hindlimb muscles from these three felid species with differing activity regimens. Using gel electrophoresis, western blotting, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry with MHC isoform-specific antibodies, we compared the MHC composition in the tibialis anterior, medial gastrocnemius (MG), plantaris (Plt), and soleus muscles of the tiger, cheetah, and domestic cat. The soleus muscle was absent in the cheetah. At least one slow (type I) and three fast (types IIa, IIx, and IIb) MHC isoforms were present in the muscles of each felid. The tiger had a high combined percentage of the characteristically slower isoforms (MHCs I and IIa) in the MG (62%) and the Plt (86%), whereas these percentages were relatively low in the MG (44%) and Plt (55%) of the cheetah. In general, the MHC isoform characteristics of the hindlimb muscles matched the daily activity patterns of these felids: the tiger has daily demands for covering long distances, whereas the cheetah has requirements for speed and power.
All-Electrical analytic platform for digital fluidics

Prospective biosensing technologies will need to tackle the grand challenges arising from the global demographic changes. Among the most crucial tasks is the monitoring of food and environmental quality as well as the medical diagnosis. Digital fluidics offers vast advantages in performing these tasks relying on tiny containers with reacting biochemical species and allowing massively parallelized assays and high throughput screening using optical detection approaches. 

I envision that adding not-optical detectors, which electrically probe the analyte responses, will provide a source of new but complementary information, obtained in a label-free and contactless manner. Hence, these all-electric platforms enable monitoring the kinetics of chemical reactions in lab-on-chip format, as well as take over auxiliary tasks, e.g. indexing, counting of droplets, flow monitoring.

In frame of the ERC project SMaRT, my team developed a unique detection platform -millifluidic resonance detector- that inductively couples to an analyte and assesses its physico-chemical properties. The unique selling points are (i) non-invasiveness to analyte, (ii) unnecessity of a transparent fluidic channel, (iii) cost efficiency and (iv) portability. 

Implementing the input from the partner companies, here I aim to reach the commercialization stage pursuing a number of key milestones, i.e. enhance the screening throughput, realize a platform independent of external electronic devices, provide a temperature stabilization of the response, and develop the app. 

Societal benefits: We demonstrated that the device provides an access to the metabolic activity of living organisms in droplets. This is way beyond the capabilities of the state-of-the-art optical detection. With this feature, the device can address the issue of increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria and thus help to optimize the antibiotic policy in hospitals and households and to test new drugs in a time- and cost-efficient way.
Protection and exports

Temporary trade barriers, which include anti-dumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards, are the heart of EU trade policies.  While recent literature centers on the issue of the effectiveness of such trade instruments in protecting EU firms and jobs, less attention has been given to their effects on the targeted foreign firms. This is an important omission since temporary trade barriers can affect protecting firms directly but also indirectly, through their effects on targeted firms. Trade restrictions can reduce the volume of the targeted firms' exports to the EU but also they can alter the composition and the quality of their products' portfolio, affecting the extent of market competition for the EU firms.  In a world with increasing integrated global supply chains, temporary trade barriers that aim to protect EU firms may indeed bring a negative impact on them.  Despite the importance of temporary trade barriers, the ways these trade restrictions shape the targeted firms’ export performance remains poorly understood.  The objective of this project is therefore to examine how targeted Chinese firms have restructured their export activities across products and markets in response to the EU temporary trade barriers. To this aim, the work explores three related lines of research: (i) the effect of temporary trade protections on intra-firm adjustment processes, (ii) their influence on firms' product quality; (iii) the relationship between firms' vertical production and trade protection policies. The analysis of how targeted firms respond to such trade restrictions are relevant for policy, in particular in the light of the current heated discussion on whether EU should grant China market economy status. A better understanding of the interconnections between targeted firms’ export adjustments and temporary trade protections is crucial for designing appropriate policy interventions.