SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
An artificial visual cortex for image processing

The ERC starting grant GECOMETHODS, on which this POC is based, tackled problems of diffusion equations via geometric control methods. One of the most striking achievements of the project has been the development of an algorithm of image reconstruction based mainly on non-isotropic diffusion. This algorithm is bio-mimetic in the sense that it replicates the way in which the primary visual cortex V1 of mammals processes the signals arriving from the eyes. It has performances that are at the state of the art in image processing. These results together with others obtained in the ERC project show that image processing algorithms based on the functional architecture of V1 can go very far. However, the exceptional performances of the primary visual cortex V1  rely not only on the particular algorithm used, but also on the fact that such algorithm “runs” on a dedicated hardware having the following features: 1. an exceptional level of parallelism; 2. connections  that are well adapted to transmit information in a non-isotropic way as it is required by the algorithms of image reconstruction and recognition. 
The idea of this POC is to create a dedicated hardware (called ARTIV1) emulating the functional architecture of V1 and hence having on one hand a huge degree of parallelism and on the other hand connections among the CPUs  that reflect the non-isotropic structure of the visual cortex V1. Such a hardware that we plan to build as an integrated circuit with an industrial partner will be a veritable artificial visual cortex. It will be fully programmable and it will be able to perform many biomimetic image processing tasks that we expect to be exceptionally performant.
ARTIV1 will come to the marked accompanied by some dedicated software for image reconstruction and image recognition. However we expect that other applications will be developed by customers, as for instance softwares for optical flow estimation or for sound processing.
Promotion of vine-growing and wine-making in the Lison Pramaggiore area and in the Slovenian territory

This project aims at promoting the wine sector in the Lison-Pramaggiore area and in the suitable areas of Slovenia, through a series of actions aimed at enhancing the most valuable types of production. With a view to the integration between the Italian market (in particular the Venetian market) and the Slovenian one, all the proposed activities aim at having a bearing on Slovenia by setting up relationships with local producers and operators and by distributing the information material. Several promotional-dissemination events have been organized, such as the project-opening conference in Dobrovo, which was attended by many Slovenian wine producers, and the tasting evening in Brda, with the cross-border comparative assessment of Lison Pramaggiore and Slovenian wines. In order to ensure a more relevant presence in the territory, five wine-tasting evenings have been organized in the province of Venice (in particular the areas of Chioggia, the Eastern Veneto and San Dona di Piave). Finally, during the 57th Pramaggiore National Wine Exhibition, the competition “Prodotti tipici transfrontalieri a confronto” ( “Cross-border typical products: a comparison”) was held. During this two-day exhibition, the public tasted six cross-border typical dishes and the wines produced in the area.
Ultrafast growth of ultrahigh performance superconducting tapes

ULTRASUPERTAPE aims to demonstrate an unprecedented approach for fabrication of low cost / high throughput / high performance High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tapes, or Coated Conductors, to push the emerging HTS industry to market. The breakthrough idea is the use of Transient Liquid Assisted Growth from low cost Chemical Solution Deposition of Y, Ba, Cu metallorganic precursors to reach ultrafast growth rates. The key concept relies on the discovery of a tool to control the ignition effect of the transient liquid formation through the decomposition of barium carbonate even for thick films. The capability to modulate the transient liquid state with composition variations and low cost capital investment equipment enriches its potentiality. Innovative Additive Manufacturing and Digital Printing methodologies are identified to devise an integrated system able to address the full manufacturing process from solution deposition by ink jet printing to ultrafast epitaxial crystallization of the superconducting phase. A combinatorial chemistry strategy ensures fast screening operation. Furthermore, ULTRASUPERTAPE will boost Coated Conductor performances up to outstanding limits at high and ultrahigh fields, by smartly designing and engineering the local strain and electronic state properties of nanocomposite superconducting films. The digital-printing additive-manufacturing approach developed will be cleverly adapted to create unique superconducting nanocomposites from nanoparticle colloids with unlimited concentrations. This new instrument is foreseen to be transferable to many other functional applications of advanced nanocoatings, where long length or large area production of functional epitaxial films or multilayer structures are required. Consequently, wise ideas and technology emerged from this proposal are foreseen to penetrate the new energy paradigm beyond the clean, efficient and smart limits that Superconductivity offers.
COMPOSITION FOR USE AS REINFORCING FILLER IN POLYMER COMPOSITIONS

The invention concerns a composition for use as reinforcing filler in polymer compositions, obtained by drying, in particular by atomisation, of a suspension derived from a mixture of mineral or organic particles having a form factor less than 15 and a suspension of organic and mineral particles dispersible in a polymer medium. The invention also concerns polymer compositions comprising said filler and finished articles based on such compositions.
Two dimensional kinetic analysis of electrostatic harmonic plasma waves

Electrostatic harmonic Langmuir waves are virtual modes excited in weakly turbulent plasmas, first observed in early laboratory beam-plasma experiments as well as in rocket-borne active experiments in space. However, their unequivocal presence was confirmed through computer simulated experiments and subsequently theoretically explained. The peculiarity of harmonic Langmuir waves is that while their existence requires nonlinear response, their excitation mechanism and subsequent early time evolution are governed by essentially linear process. One of the unresolved theoretical issues regards the role of nonlinear wave-particle interaction process over longer evolution time period. Another outstanding issue is that existing theories for these modes are limited to one-dimensional space. The present paper carries out two dimensional theoretical analysis of fundamental and (first) harmonic Langmuir waves for the first time. The result shows that harmonic Langmuir wave is essentially governed by (quasi)linear process and that nonlinear wave-particle interaction plays no significant role in the time evolution of the wave spectrum. The numerical solutions of the two-dimensional wave spectra for fundamental and harmonic Langmuir waves are also found to be consistent with those obtained by direct particle-in-cell simulation method reported in the literature.
New high-performant and long-lasting ballast for sustainable railway infrastructures

NEOBALLAST is an innovative high-performance, long-lasting and eco-friendly ballast aggregate solution designed to
overcome the two most important shortcomings of railway tracks: track degradation and noise and vibration emissions, whilst
improving safety and customer service. The implementation of NEOBALLAST will improve the economic and environmental
performance of European railway tracks, bringing important socio-economic benefits to the whole European society. As a
suitable solution for both, new and existing railway lines, NEOBALLAST potential market extends to the whole European rail
network (i.e. beyond 200,000km of lines), accounting for almost 20 million tonnes of new ballast every year, and a related
turnover about 350M€.

In order to take this mature and proven technology, NEOBALLAST project joins industry partners from different sectors,
covering the whole value-chain of NEOBALLAST, into a well-balanced and multidisciplinary team. The project has a
business-driven approach, where actions are devised to solve those barriers that may difficult NEOBALLAST quick and
extensive market up-take. In this sense, the main steps to attain a successful and effective market uptake are the
development of a large-scale production technology to meet expected market demands, the demonstration and validation of
NEOBALLAST in real working environment, an effective dissemination across Expert Panel groups to achieve a wide
deployment and finally the IPR management, exploitation and commercialization of NEOBALLAST through the creation of a
NEWCO constituted by all the project parents.

The management structure joins forces with an Advisory Committee that will provide the Consortium with an independent,
end-user centric viewpoint to the direction and relevance of the work as the project. The Advisory Committee will be drawn
from three Infrastructure Managers, track contractor organisations, technological platforms and three track expert members
of the Academia.
Robotic BIOremediation for coastal debris in BLUE Flag beach and in a Maritime Protected Area Marine Protected Areas and Artisan Fishing Integrated management through environmental awareness and education

The BIOBLU project aims to make an innovative contribution to the removal of waste from beaches through an analysis of the state of the local environment and the promotion of a new management approach based on new technologies and available new knowledge. The innovative method consists of a kit with high level of technology and automation, based on a deep learning process, which will recognize waste remotely (via drones), allow its collection in a robotic way and facilitate its disposal in compacting bins in a separated way. The project will be implemented on two pocket beaches, small beaches limited by natural headlands. In addition, thanks to the physico-biological analysis of waste, its origin will be determined through an integrated current detection system, and it will be determined the impact that microplastics in particular have on the faune in order to assess its impact on the food chain. With regard to the two marine protected areas, the project has the following objectives: 
1) to quantify the negative impacts caused by the presence of plastics and microplastics on the trophic chain; 
2) to reduce plastics in protected areas with an automatic system;
3) the development of a plastic free management model and a diffusion campaign.
DYNAMIC PACKET RE-ORDERING, DISCARDING, AND FLOW SWITCHING

A radio access network node transmits a packet discard indication to configure a user equipment with indications that the node may discard packets corresponding to an indicated flow or corresponding to a flow received via an indicated resource. The packet discard indication configures the user equipment not to send a negative acknowledgement that a packet was not received via an indicated flow upon receiving an out-of-sequence packet corresponding to the indicated flow. The packet discard indication may configure the user equipment to decode a packet discarded from a flow indicated as being discarding-enabled via an indicated resource of an alternative target flow that may have a different quality-of-service, latency, or reliability than the flow to which the discarded packet belongs. The node may offload transmission of a packet discarded from a discarding-enabled flow to a flow indicated as an alternative target flow designated for offloading in the packet discard indication.
Device for monitoring the fuel pressure in the fuel supply circuit for an internal combustion engine with fuel injection

A device for monitoring the fuel pressure in the fuel feed circuit ( 7 ) of a fuel injection internal combustion engine ( 2 ), which includes at least one cylinder ( 2 ) and one exhaust line ( 6 ) for the combustion gases, characterized in that the device includes elements ( 8 ) for generating a value for measuring the fuel/air ratio of the exhaust gases in the exhaust line ( 6 ), elements ( 9 ) for generating a value for measuring the fresh air flow rate into the cylinder ( 2 ), elements ( 10 ) determining the mechanical opening time of the injector ( 4 ), and computation elements ( 1 ) for determining a reconstituted fuel pressure value from the value for measuring the fuel/air ratio of the exhaust gases, from the value for measuring the fresh air flow rate and from the mechanical opening time of the injector.
Spatial Panel Stochastic Frontier Model and Technical Efficiency Estimation

Stochastic frontier model is one of important methods for measuring technical efficiency.Generally,the model assumes that production units are independent of each other.However,spatial externalities play an important role in diffusing technical progress and points in space are co-related.By combining stochastic frontier production theory with spatial econometric analysis,we propose a spatial panel stochastic frontier model in which both of spatially lagged dependent variables and spatially autoregressive error terms are considered,at the same time,we relax the model assumptions that seem to be strong ones.Firstly,time-varying technical efficiency model is analyzed.Secondly,the consequence of heteroskedasticity in the technical inefficiency is investigated.Then,we consider some extensions that account for the latent cross unit heterogeneity.Explicit models for unmeasured cross unit heterogeneity are built into the stochastic frontier.Estimation methods for various kinds of reformulated models are presented.Finally,we focus on the estimation and comparison of technical efficiency measures.
Establishing the new een services for the enhancing the innovation management capacity of sme's in mecklenburg-vorpommern

The project relates to the design and implementation of assessments and consulting as a part of a new introduced service of the Enterprise Europe Network. The new service addresses small and midsized Enterprises (SME) with outstanding potential of innovation and internationalization.
The new service comes as a Seven-Day Assessment and Consulting Process in two varieties. Both processes have the aim to enhance the innovation and internationalization capacities of the management and of the SME as a whole.
First called KAMP. This is the ‘Key Account Management Process’ which is provided to beneficiaries who will introduced by the EEN by a special proposal and selection process in advance of the KAMP.
Second called IMEP, ‘Innovation Management Enhancement Process’, is a different process which includes additionally the evaluation and selection process as part of the assessment and consulting process. 
Tools deployed for these two processes will be proprietary, designed and implemented by Steinbeis Europa Zentrum (SEE) and price awarded which includes a manifold of modules to assist the process.
The project will be driven forward by three partners (participants) whereby each them is a specialist in implementing such assessments and consulting although in a different manner.
This project gives the opportunity to the partners to harmonize their styles of work and even to enhance their capacities by this common.
Insights from within-host dynamics on the coexistence of antibiotic resistant and sensitive pathogens

Understanding and controlling the evolution of antibiotic resistant strains is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time. Despite a vast amount of data gathered and models being developed, coexistence of antibiotic resistant and sensitive genotypes within the same bacterial pathogen is still an unresolved problem. Simple epidemiological models predict the dominance of either of the two strains while more complex models suffer from generality. Using empirical evidence, I set out to resolve this problem by coupling within-host pathogen dynamics and between-host transmission of bacteria. First, stochastically modelling the within-host system I will develop predictions for the rate of resistance emergence and abundance of sensitive and resistant individuals in hosts with or without antibiotic treatment. While resistant bacteria thrive under antibiotic treatment, the sensitive strain has an advantage in invading and colonising untreated hosts. The outcomes help to get a more detailed understanding of the within-host dynamics, e.g. identification of optimal treatment strategies to confine the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Feeding these results into the dynamics on the population level, the between-host level, will result in a within-between-host feedback. Fitting and confronting the model to empirical data on prevalence and resistance emergence in Streptococcus pneuomoniae and Escherichia coli will conclude this project. The mechanistic implementation of the dynamics can immediately be linked to data which is of great importance given the increasing amount of empirical studies in the field of epidemiology. Through the theoretical and applied results, the study will add new insights and predictions in the field of infectious disease evolution and be able to identify factors enabling the stable coexistence of antibiotic resistant and sensitive bacteria.
Design Overview of High Pressure Dense Phase CO2 Pipeline Transport in Flow Mode

Abstract In open literature, there is little information available with regards to the engineering and technological issues for material corrosion, in relation to high pressure supercritical CO2 pipeline transport from single point sources, such as the power industry. A typical CO2 pipeline is designed to operate at high pressure in the dense phase. However, it is evident that although there is considerable experience of testing materials in lower pressure gaseous CO2 in the oil and gas industry, there is little understanding of the behaviour of pipeline materials when in contact with impure CO2 captured either from power plants or the oil and gas industry. In this particular project development, a dynamic dense phase CO2 corrosion rig has been built (conditions: ∼85 bar, 40 °C and up to 5 l/min flow rate) in flow mode, to understand the effect of impurities (SO2, O2, H2, NO2 & CO) present in captured CO2 on the pipeline transport materials. This unique facility in the UK was developed via the MATTRANS project funded by the E.ON-EPSRC strategic partnership (EP/G061955/1). The test rig includes different metallic materials (X grade steel: X60, X70 and X100) to assess the corrosion of pipelines, and different geometry components (tubes, plates, charpy and tensile coupons), to assess ageing and decompression behavior of polymeric seals (Neoprene, fluorocarbon, ethylene and Buna N) under water-saturated dense phase CO2 with different impurity concentrations (0.05 mol % SO2; 4 mol % O2; 2 mol % H2; 0.05 mol % NO2; 1 mol % CO). The dynamic data generated from this dense phase CO2 corrosion rig will give vital information with regards to pipeline suitability and lifetimes, when operating with dense CO2.
Super-Eddington accretion on to a magnetized neutron star

Most of ultraluminous X-ray sources are thought to be objects accreting above their Eddington limits. In the recently identified class of ultraluminous X-ray pulsars, accretor is a neutron star and thus has a fairly small mass with a small Eddington limit. The accretion disc structure around such an object affects important observables such as equilibrium period, period derivative and the size of the magnetosphere. We propose a model of a nearly-standard accretion disc interacting with the magnetosphere only in a thin layer near the inner disc rim. Our calculations show that the size of the magnetosphere may be represented as the classical Alfv\'en radius times a dimensionless factor $\xi$ which depends on the disc thickness only. In the case of radiation-pressure-dominated disc, the size of the magnetosphere does not depend on the mass accretion rate. In general, increasing the disc thickness leads to a larger magnetosphere size in units of the Alfv\'en radius. For large enough mass accretion rates and magnetic moments, it is important to take into account not only the pressure of the magnetic field and the radiation pressure inside the disc, but also the pressure of the radiation produced close to the surface of the neutron star in accretion column. The magnetospheric size may increase by up to factor of two as a result of the effects related to the disc thickness and the irradiation from the central source. Accounting for these effects reduces the estimate of the neutron star magnetic moment by a factor of several.
Methods for treating neurological conditions (WO2011159945)

This patent application claims that inhibition of p21-activated kinases (PAK) reverses, partially reverses or delays clinical signs in neurological conditions (main claim for Huntington's disease (HD), substance abuse and addiction, Parkinson's disease, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and neurofibromatosis). Several compounds with a pyrido-[2,3-d]pyrimidine-7(8H)-one core and high affinity to the catalytic domain of PAK1-4 are described in the patent. These PAK inhibitors are hypothesized to exert beneficial effects on clinical symptoms via modulation of dendritic spine morphology and/or synaptic function. Preliminary preclinical data suggest that PAK inhibition may be an interesting approach for the treatment of HD, neurofibromatosis and fragile X syndrome, while data for other neurological conditions are missing. Current limitations call for a comprehensive characterization of the role of PAK dysfunction in neurological disorders before further testing the effect of PAK inhibitors in relevant preclinical models. If ever, it will probably take many years before the most promising compounds will head to the clinic for further assessment in patients with neurological disorders.
Novel concept of a modular shelter unit for rapid installation

Urbana de Exteriores is specialised in rehabilitation and conservation of buildings and constructions. Aligned with the use of novel innovative solutions for the constructive sector, the company has decided to focus on the development of SURI as a result of their experience in humanitarian aid after the earthquakes in Lorca and Haiti.

According to UN there were more than 11 million refugees in 2013. Provision of shelter is one of the main concerns of humanitarian agencies, but finding durable solutions is a challenge that is still not covered. Current solutions do not meet the needs that rise after a natural disaster, a war conflict or a situation of crisis or poverty.  Most refugee camps are planned to be temporary, but become long term camps without minimum life conditions. UN Agencies spent more than 100 million USD in shelter equipment and supplies in 2013.

SURI is a novel concept of a modular shelter. It is low cost, easy to transport, quick and easy to install, flexible, and energy self-sufficient, provides maximum comfort from the first moment. It introduces innovations in materials, design and manufacturing processes. The objective is to offer the best alternative to actual shelter units.

The feasibility study will determine the viability from an economic, legal and technical point of view. In particular, the identification of new potential applications and markets such as housing, sanitary, military, educational or leisure will be analysed. According to these potential new sectors, a description of the legal requirements, resources, development needs and technical specifications will be done. The business plan will be completed  with this information. Phase 2 will focus on the improvement of the materials used in SURI units in order to reinforce frames, lighten the structure and enhance its transportation so as to increase the competitiveness by improving its features and profitability. These new applications will open the market to new sectors.