SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Metrics for sustainability assessment in european process industries

The aim of the CSA MEASURE is to provide support and guidance, how to reach the H2020 SPIRE Public Private Partnership goals on reduction in fossil energy intensity, non-renewable, primary raw material intensity and greenhouse gas emissions in the most effective way. MEASURE will deliver a roadmap how to evaluate processes in a standardised, comparative way. Benefiting from the strong support of our cross-sectorial Advisory Board, the impact of the MEASURE roadmap shall outreach the H2020 SPIRE programme towards harmonised standards for sustainability assessment in the entire European process industry. MEASURE will bring together leading European process industries in chemistry, consumer goods, steel, automotive, non-ferrous metals, water and waste with well-known research centres, and academic experts with profound complementing expertise on sustainability assessment with regulators and standardisation bodies.
Lead users will be innovative companies of all sectors of European process industry and academic partners supporting their maintenance of leadership in enabling technologies and advanced materials & processes as well as public authorities and standardisation bodies. 
The phases of work will include a detailed, cross-sectorial stakeholder analysis on the use of existing sustainability metrics and decision support tools for different goals, stages and data availabilities; an in-depth dialogue between the MEASURE core team and the Advisory Board during two organised workshops and as final outcome, a harmonised roadmap towards universally accepted and standardised tools for environmental, economic and social assessment in process industries over the whole value chain. Implementation will take place by open access publication of the roadmap as well as its widespread promotion in the existing network of the MEASURE partners including UNEP/SETAC, ISO, DIN, WBCSD, FAO, CEFIC, SusChem, PlasticsEurope, FEFANA, World Steel, RSC, GDCh, IChemE, DECHEMA, JRC ISPRA.
STROKE-REGULATED LINEAR COMPRESSOR

A linear compressor having an electromagnet; an oscillating body movably guided in an oscillating fashion in the alternating field of the electromagnet; a cylinder; a piston connected to the oscillating body and movable back and forth inside the cylinder; a power supply circuit to supply the electromagnet with an alternating current; a proximity sensor to detect whether a distance between the piston and the end face of the cylinder falls below a predetermined threshold value; and a control circuit to detect a time period in which the distance between the piston and the end face of the cylinder falls below the threshold value and to regulate an amplitude and/or a phase of the alternating current if the time period deviates from a positive setpoint value.
OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE

In various embodiment examples, the invention relates to an optoelectronic component device comprising a first group of optoelectronic components (106, 410-n) having at least one first optoelectronic component, wherein the at least one first optoelectronic component is designed to provide electromagnetic radiation of a first color stimulus specification (212), a second group of optoelectronic components (102, 410-1) having at least one second optoelectronic component, wherein the at least one second optoelectronic component is designed to provide electromagnetic radiation of a second color stimulus specification (210), and a phase dimmer (406), wherein the phase dimmer (406) is designed in such a way that a first operating mode having a first degree of dimming and a second operating mode having a second degree of dimming are provided, wherein the phase dimmer (406) controls the first group of optoelectronic components (106, 410-n) and the second group of optoelectronic components (102, 410-1) in such a way that current is supplied to a first range of optoelectronic components of the optoelectronic component device in the first operating mode and current is supplied to a second range of optoelectronic components of the optoelectronic component device in the second operating mode, wherein with respect to the total intensity of the provided electromagnetic radiation of the optoelectronic component device, the share of the electromagnetic radiation of the first color stimulus specification (212) is less in the first operating mode than in the second operating mode and the share of the electromagnetic radiation of the second color stimulus specification (210) is greater in the first operating mode than in the second operating mode.
PRODUKTIONSLAGER UND QUALITÄTSKONTROLLE-KAUFSOFTWARE UND STUDIUM VON FATTIBILIT UND DESIGN IM BEREICH DER DIGITALEN FERTIGUNG

PRODUKTIONSLAGER UND QUALITÄTSKONTROLLE-KAUFSOFTWARE UND STUDIUM VON FATTIBILIT UND DESIGN IM BEREICH DER DIGITALEN FERTIGUNG
METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A LOGICAL CONNECTION IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK

A method and apparatus are provided for interconnecting endpoints in a packet switched network wherein each link and endpoint in the network appears to be merely a receiver of an incoming call. In a specific embodiment, a Conferencing Management Controller (22) is provided which subsumes the functions of a multipoint control unit and Gatekeeper (24) without requiring the allocation of resources of a Media Processor to each link. In a more specific embodiment a conferencing management controller (22) comprises a Gatekeeper (24) with an associated Media (26) and Call Controller (27) for establishing calls to at least two endpoints as call receivers and directing the endpoints to communicate via direct path media for exchanging payload while maintaining control over the link.
Strengthening the innovation processes of traditional SMEs with cross-fertilization measures for the cultural and creative industries

Alpine SMEs are rather small and with low attitude to innovation processes according to the social and technological changes, at the present required by the new users’ needs, the business model approached characterized by the mountain areas and the need to enter into foreign markets with new strategies and effectiveness. The change required by the enterprises is to be intended not only as investments for new technologies, but even the need to give new “meaning” to the traditional products and services and more attitude to meet users’ needs and expectations. These contributes can be found from one side with an effective collaboration of SMEs with Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) (digital, multimedia, graphic, creative practitioners and professionals, etc.) and from the other with the valorization of cultural (museum, theater, musical and cultural exhibition, cultural heritage, traditional events, etc.) and natural assets (Dolomite, natural parks, rivers, etc) that are the “proprium” of the are where SMEs are located and produce. CROSSINNO aims at strengthening the quality of the services offered to SMEs to increase the quantity and quality of innovation processes: setting-up a virtuous chain with traditional SMEs from agro-food, tourism, wood-chain, Cultural and Creative Industries and cultural/natural assets that can become “engines” for SMEs’ growth. CROSSINNO aims at elaborating a collaboration model to strengthen the relationship above described.
Tradition und Rezeption. Zur Entwicklung des ionischen Kapitells im kaiserzeitlichen Hierapolis (Phrygien) - S. Bozza 2020. Architettura ionica a Hierapolis di Frigia. Hierapolis di Frigia 14. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp. XXIII + 389, Illustrationen, Pläne. ISBN 978-605-7673-37-4

Tradition und Rezeption. Zur Entwicklung des ionischen Kapitells im kaiserzeitlichen Hierapolis (Phrygien) - S. Bozza 2020. Architettura ionica a Hierapolis di Frigia. Hierapolis di Frigia 14. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp. XXIII + 389, Illustrationen, Pläne. ISBN 978-605-7673-37-4 - Volume 35 Issue 1
Heavy metals in the environment: Its influence on anaerobic sewage sludge stabilisation

The work is focused on the impact of heavy metals on anaerobic sewage sludge stabilization process, thus biogas production and quality. Primary source of heavy metals in urban wastewater is industry which represents up to 50% ot the total heavy metal content in sewage sludge. Domestic sources are mainly associated with leaching from plumbing materials, gutters and roofs, galvanised materials, the use of detergents and washing powders, and the use of body care products. Anaerobic sewage sludge stabilisation is a complex microbiological process involving various types of anaerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria. This way of sludge treatment involves degradation and the stabilisation of organic matter, with reduction in odour, pathogens and the mass of solid organic material that requires further processing. This is accomplished by the biological conversion of organic matter to methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Sludge samples were collected directly from the anaerobic sewage sludge stabilisation tank located at the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Brno, Czech Republic, population equivalent (PE) 513,000. Biogas production and quality was measured using batch anaerobic fermenters with the volume of 5 dm3 at the temperature 38oC+-0.2oC. Into fermenters five different amounts of heavy metals (Cu, Zn) were added. Cumulative biogas and methane production were used as the comparative parameters of tested metals inhibitory effect. Hypothesis, which predicts presence of inhibitory effect of zinc and copper on anaerobic microorganisms, mainly on methanogenic archaea, was confirmed. The lowest concentration of zinc and copper which causes significant inhibition of biogas production is 400 mg Zn2+ l-1 and 1000 mg Cu2 l-1, which cause reduction of 10.3+-2.0% and 82.8+- 1.1 %, respectively.
Securing Recommender Systems Against Shilling Attacks Using Social-Based Clustering

Recommender systems (RS) have been found supportive and practical in e-commerce and been established as useful aiding services. Despite their great adoption in the user communities, RS are still vulnerable to unscrupulous producers who try to promote their products by shilling the systems. With the advent of social networks new sources of information have been made available which can potentially render RS more resistant to attacks. In this paper we explore the information provided in the form of social links with clustering for diminishing the impact of attacks. We propose two algorithms, CluTr and WCluTr, to combine clustering with \trust among users. We demonstrate that CluTr and WCluTr enhance the robustness of RS by experimentally evaluating them on data from a public consumer recommender system Epinions.com.
Do climate models reproduce observed solar dimming and brightening over China and Japan?

[1] Previous research indicates that clear-sky downward solar radiation measured at the surface over China significantly decreased by about −8.6 W m−2 per decade during 1961–1989 and insignificantly increased during 1990–1999. Furthermore, solar radiation over Japan remained relatively constant during 1971–1989 and significantly increased by +5.3 W m−2 per decade during 1990–1999. The present study compares observed trends with those from twentieth century simulations by 14 global climate models in the CMIP3/IPCC-AR4. Since radiative forcing by aerosols is the primary contributor to long-term variations in surface solar radiation, the simulations are expected to resemble the observed trends if the input aerosol histories are realistic. To minimize the confounding impact of different cloud realizations in the observations and models, the radiative effects of cloud cover anomalies are removed from the surface solar radiation anomalies via linear regression. Although all of the models exhibit significant dimming trends over China before 1990, the largest model trend is −3.4 W m−2 per decade, less than half the magnitude and significantly different from the observed trend. Models including black carbon aerosol produce stronger decreasing trends than those that do not. The models also fail to reproduce the trend during 1990–1999 over Japan, and the largest model trend is +2.3 W m−2 per decade, only about half of the observed trend. These results suggest that global climate models uniformly underestimate the increase in aerosol radiative forcing over China prior to 1990 and uniformly underestimate the decrease in aerosol radiative forcing over Japan after 1990.
PLURIPOTENT EMBRYONIC-LIKE STEM CELLS DERIVED FROM TEETH AND USES THEREOF

A stem cell which is obtainable from the non-embryonic tissue isolated from the dental follicle of tooth or wisdom tooth which are able to differentiate into a periodontal ligament like membrane structure.
Arctic cultures: sites of collection in the formation of the european and american northlands

The Arctic has risen to global attention in recent years, as it has been reconfigured through debates about global environmental change, resource extraction and disputes over sovereign rights. Within these discourses, little attention has been paid to the cultures of the Arctic. Indeed, it often seems as if the Circumpolar Arctic in global public understanding remains framed as a 'natural region' - that is, a place where the environment dominates the creation of culture. This framing has consequences for the region, because through this the Arctic becomes constructed as a space where people are absent. This proposal aims to discover how and why this might be so.

The proposal argues that this construction of the Arctic emerged from the exploration of the region by Europeans and North Americans and their contacts with indigenous people from the middle of the eighteenth century. Particular texts,  cartographic representations and objects were collected and returned to sites like London, Copenhagen, Berlin and Philadelphia. The construction of the Arctic thereby became entwined within the growth of colonial museum cultures and, indeed, western modernity. This project aims to delineate the networks and collecting cultures involved in this creation of Arctic Cultures. It will bring repositories in colonial metropoles into dialogue with sites of collection in the Arctic by tracing the contexts of discovery and memorialisation. In doing so, it aspires to a new understanding of the consequences of certain forms of colonial representation for debates about the Circumpolar Arctic today.

The project involves research by the Principal Investigator and four Post Doctoral Researchers at museums, archives, libraries and repositories across Europe and North America, as well as in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic.  A Project Assistant based in Oxford will help facilitate the completion of the research.
Buffer pad for underside of toilet seat - has elastic shock absorbent sleeves with bellows, flange, collars and clamps in the middle of which are stabilisers

The pad incorporates elastic, shock absorbent sleeves (9) which have a bellows (10), a matching shaped ridge (12), and a back tapering flange for fixing onto the toilet seat. The flange incorporates matching shaped pad fastenings with collars or are fixed to the collars by inserted clamps. The rigid clamps have a corrugated side structure to compensate for any differences in the size of the pad fastenings in the toilet seat. In the centre of the clamps are curved stabilisers pressing the side walls parallel against the pad fastenings. ADVANTAGE - The buffer pad does not touch the toilet bowl rim, prevents dirt on the rim touching the inside of the toilet seat, and is shock absorbent when the seat/lid falls onto the ceramic bowl.
COATED SPINNING RING

The invention relates to a spinning ring having a low friction, high durability bearing surface for supporting a traveler. At least the bearing surface of the spinning ring is coated with a layered structure. The layered structure comprises at least a diamond-like carbon layer and a diamond-like nanocomposite layer. The diamond- like nanocomposite layer is located at outer surface of the layered structure.
Controllably biodegradable conductors for robotic tactile skins

BioConTact will engineer electrical conductors with a controllable biodegradability that are flexible, lightweight, scalable, and produced with readily available materials. The tunable degradation will be finely controlled through the material formulation. Thus, this unique technology will be indispensable for applications where long-term stability is crucial, such as robotic skin, or those requiring environmental control of degradation, such as bioresorbable transient electronics. These conductors will be assembled as human mimicking robotic skin for the iCub, the flagship open-source robot developed by the beneficiary, Fondazione Istituto  Italiano di Tecnologia. The fellow will utilise his experience in the design of materials for sustainable electronics, exploit the supervisor’s and co-supervisor’s knowledge on biodegradation and robotic tactile sensors, and benefit from their excellent laboratories, Smart Materials and Humanoid Sensing and Perception, respectively.

This research is motivated by the ever-growing need for sustainable and biodegradable materials for electronics. Consumer electronics are indeed pervasive in European society, with more than 230 million users. Yet, materials for electronics are not sustainable because of their scarcity, toxicity, and recycling complexity, which are detrimental for manufacturers, governments, and society. Besides, electronic wastes are accumulating globally and will reach a production rate of 120 million metric tons per year by 2050. Simultaneously, robotics, which are vital for a thriving European economy, are becoming omnipresent. Hence, the transition to sustainable and biodegradable alternatives to current electronics will boost the progress of environmentally friendly technologies in robotics. This transformation is in line with the 2030 European Sustainable Development Goals and the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges program that promotes a greener and sustainable European society.
Gamma Irradiation and In vitro Selection Could Increase Drought Tolerance in Sugarcane

Drought is one of the problems that decrease sugarcane productivity. Therefore it needs to develop a new drought tolerant sugarcane variety. The objectives of this research were to evaluate the response of gamma irradiated calli and drought tolerant of putative mutants through in vitro and in vivo selection . Kidang Kencana (KK) variety was used as mother plant in this study. It has high productivity but susceptible to drought stress. Embryogenic calli were induced on MS media supplemented with 9 µM 2.4-D + 4.5 µM Picloram. Six levels of Gamma rays irradiation were used (0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 Gy), while two levels of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) were used for in vitro selection (0 and 10%). The plantlets derived from in vitro selection were acclimatized and selected in greenhouse. These putative mutants were treated with drought and watering condition (control). The result showed that irradiated calli at 10 and 20 Gy were more tolerant to 10% PEG selection media compared to the negative control (0 Gy). Among 42 obtained, the 17 putative mutants had higher drought tolerance than their negative and positive controls. However, only four putative mutants had higher drought tolerance level than positive control (PSJT 941). It was concluded that gamma irradiation continued with in vitro and in vivo selection could increase drought tolerance of sugarcane.
Combined CGF-PML and CGF-RFFM for efficient and uniform modal derivation of Green's function of planar layered media

A closed-form series representation for spatial Green's function of planar layered media for all distances from source, is presented. By terminating the structure by perfectly matched layer (PML) backed by perfect electric conductor (PEC), the discrete set of surface wave (SW) poles is complemented by eigenmodes of the closed structure by PML poles which construct the continuous spectrum contribution of the original structure. Then applying the characteristic Green's function (CGF) technique, a closed-form representation of spatial Green's function is derived. Very close to the source, where the large number of modes must be considered, the method is become inefficient. In very near field regions, by combining CGF technique and rational function fitting method (RFFM), Green's function would be efficiently constructed with few number of poles extracted in modified VECTFIT algorithm in similar form of CGF-PML result. In this way, an efficient modal series representation is derived by using CGF-PML and CGF-RFFM for far from and close to the source respectively. The main advantage of this representation is that for desired accuracy the number of required modes is controllable. Excellent agreements with direct numerical integration of the spectral integral are shown in several examples.
Medications and breast-feeding: Current concepts

To describe the various factors that come into play when a breast-feeding mother is taking medications, including use of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, recreational drugs, galactogogues, and herbal remedies and to provide a framework used for counseling breast-feeding women.Community and hospital pharmacy and health care settings.Consultative services provided to breast-feeding mothers who had been prescribed or were using medications.Use of pharmacokinetic factors, maternal and child factors, a list of questions to ask breast-feeding mothers, and a stepwise approach to counsel breast-feeding mothers on the compatibility of using medications while breast-feeding.By positive intervention of pharmacists and health care providers, up to 1 million breast-feeding mothers, who must use medications, can continue to breast-feed while taking medications.Objectively weighing the benefits of drugs and breast-feeding versus the risks of drugs and not breast-feeding, in most cases, allows for pharmacists to give current and practical advice to mothers and other health professionals who counsel mothers.
SUPPORT ASSEMBLY FOR SUBSTRATE BACKSIDE DISCOLORATION CONTROL

A processing chamber for processing a substrate is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the processing chamber includes a support shaft assembly. The support shaft assembly has a ring shaped susceptor, a disc shaped heat plate, and a support shaft system. The support shaft system supports the susceptor and the heat plate, such that the susceptor is supported above the heat plate defining a gap between the heat plate and the susceptor. In another embodiment, the heat plate includes a plurality of grooves and the susceptor includes a plurality of fins. The fins are configured to sit within the grooves such that the susceptor is supported above the heat plate, defining a gap between the heat plate and the susceptor. In another embodiment, a method of processing a substrate in the aforementioned embodiments is disclosed herein.