SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Innovative micro-abrasive water jet for high precision machining and finishing

Founded in Legnano (Italy), in 1940, our company Vito Rimoldi S.p.A. is one of the leaders in manufacturing of gaskets for industrial applications (e.g. for aluminium radiators, compressors). Since the very beginning our policy has been to distinguish ourselves by providing the international market with new and high quality products fitting the most advanced applications. To do so, through successful collaborations with industrial leaders and university centres, we have pursued our aim for excellence, increasing our know-how and technical competences. This allows us to have a team of experts to assist our customers with their new challenging projects and identify and enter new value niche markets to increase our turnover (€7.0M in 2013).
Vito Rimoldi has been continuously challenging the current State-of-the-Art in terms of high-precision cutting of materials, both soft (rubber, plastic) and hard (carbon fibre, tungsten, quartz, titanium, ceramic). Over the years, we have acquired a leadership position in Water Jet technology.
Our NEWERA project will provide the industry with a solution to the challenge of machining small parts (<1mm) that require a high degree of accuracy (<10μm), tolerance (± 10μm) and finishing (Ra<1μm)
Based on a new Micro-Abrasive Water Jet system, NEWERA will allow high precision, finishing and control, and therefore enter niche markets for high precision mechanics, electronics, biomedical, automotive and high finishing of fashionable/luxury items (e.g. watches, jewellery), thus subsequently increasing our sales by 40% within 5 years.
108 A CRITICAL-SIZE CRANIOFACIAL BONE DEFECT MODEL IN THE YORKSHIRE PIG

Substantial and innovative developments in the field of bone tissue engineering have prompted increased demand for suitable pre-clinical large animal models. The pig has several advantages over other non-primate species, including availability, rapid growth, large litters, and similar anatomy and physiology to humans. These characteristics make them ideal models for research in diverse applications such as cardiovascular disease, pharmacological activity testing, and organ transplantation. There has been an increased interest in the use of swine as a model for bone healing and grafting techniques. Maxillofacial surgeons strive to develop the best therapy for large bone defects in the face resulting from tumour resection, congenital abnormalities, and traumatic injuries. Creating a model to study a critical-sized bone defect in the mandible, which does not spontaneously heal without clinical intervention, would be a method to test growth factors and synthetic bone graft therapies. However, the size of bone defect required to create this condition has not been ascertained. In the current study, we examined the in vivo healing response for 4, 8, and 16 weeks of surgically created bone defects in the posterior region of the pig mandible. Yorkshire barrows (n = 12) 6–7 months of age were used for the study. All animal experiments conformed to the University of Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines. Animals were maintained under general anaesthesia and transcortical, circular defects with diameters of 6, 10, 16, or 25 mm were created on both sides of the mandible. The presence and amount of calcified tissue was assessed using radiographs and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Tissue morphology was examined using hard-tissue histological methods and a light microscope. Defect diameters of 6, 10, and 16 mm had completed healing or were in the process of healing within the 16-week timeframe of the study. Compared to controls, average percent differences in bone mineral density, in order of increasing defect size, were 0.62%, 28.1%, and 54.5%, respectively. In contrast, 25 mm diameter defects displayed limited collagenous tissue ingrowth, and the presence of calcified tissue was not detected, as indicated by radiographs and histological staining. As the defect size increased, the time required to heal was prolonged until a critical size was determined and normal bone was not completely regenerated. In conclusion, circular defects in the posterior region of the pig mandible with diameters equal or greater than 25 mm will result in limited healing without additional medical intervention and can be termed critical-sized defects. This porcine model will allow for the rapid development and testing of new approaches for the repair of damaged bone, which is especially prevalent in the craniofacial area. This work was partially supported by the Carle Foundation Hospital (#2007-04072) and the Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute (IDPH #63080017).
Consumer Experiences with Credit Cards

This article examines consumers&amp;#x27; behavior, experiences, and attitudes regarding credit cards in the aftermath of the Great Recession and the implementation of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. The data for the article are primarily from a nationwide consumer survey sponsored by the Federal Reserve that was conducted in February 2012. The article discusses economic conditions in the period leading up to the survey because recent events may greatly influence survey responses. Many survey questions were identical or similar to those in earlier consumer surveys, making it possible to track changes in consumer experiences with, and attitudes about, this important financial product.
Air Pollution in Urban and Suburban Areas in Kosovo

Air pollution in cities has a major impact on human health and constitutes one of the major environmental and public-health issues human society has to address today.Contamination of water, soil, and air in many parts of the world, but also in Kosovo, is a serious environmental problem, and a permanent risk to public health. Exposure to particulate matter (PM) has been associated with a wide range of effects on health, but effects on mortality are arguably the most important and are also most amenable to global assessment. Degradation of the atmospheric environment is intensified during the last years in the major cities of Kosovo. The main current air pollution sources in Kosovo are: KEC that includes thermal power plants (Kosova A and Kosova B) and lignite mines in Obiliq, Industrial complex in Mitrovice, Ferronikeli in Gllogovc, Cement factory - SharrCem in Hani i Elezit, etc. The monitoring objectives are to determine compliance with air quality limit value to detect pollutant levels of SO2, NOx, CO, O3, PM10, in PM10, which study is focused on four different urban areas in Kosovo. Air quality is a major problem in many urban areas in the Republic of Kosovo and therefore has an impact on human health. The main serious air pollutants are Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), Sulfur Oxide (SOx), Carbon Monoxide CO, Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and different specks of dust (PM10 and PM2.5). Keywords: air pollution, Kosovo, particulate matter, NOx, O3.
Smart process optimised tool (spot), an industry 4.0 world first approach for reliable and repeatable crimping and cutting hand tool technology

There is an urgent market demand to eliminate the risk of human error and increase crimping accuracy, from the current 20-25% fail rate. This is particularly prevalent in the automotive and aviation sectors, for safety-relevant components such as airbags, brake systems and on-board electrical systems. In response, we have developed SPOT, an HMI, Industry 4.0 solution that improves process reliability to a 0% fail rate.

SPOT contains a new state-of-the-art sensor technology, a patented force distribution system as well as an advanced intelligent central unit. These features enable the tool to perform an optimal force measurement and record the accuracy and quality of the crimp.  Additionally, as we have miniaturised, a benefit is realised enabling crimping of extremely small wire diameters as well as high forces despite the manual operation.

As a new generation of tool and with our IP position protected, we intend for SPOT to become the industry standard and pave the path for us to maintain our market leadership for decades, therefore, it is key for us to plan this market entry strategy carefully to ensure success is maximised. This feasibility study will allow us to: refine our market knowledge; plan our scale-up for manufacturing; finalise Phase 2 project partners and produce a fully elaborated business plan.

As an Industry 4.0 evolution of hand tools, it is necessary for us at WEZAG to build up our internal knowledge for electrical engineering and electronics. This will be achieved via recruitment and training. However, with a legacy as an innovative company, we possess the know-how required to successfully develop, manufacture and market such world novelties and innovations.

Having already proven TRL6, at Phase 2 we shall: finalise tool development; create a varying crimping tool group; prepare the technology for serial production; prove to the market the added value of SPOT USPs and demonstrate to the market the reproducible accuracy of SPOT.
Florilegia syriaca.  the intercultural dissemination of greek christian thought in syriac and arabic in the first millennium ce

FLOS will focus on the metamorphoses of Greek Christian thought in Syriac (Aramaic) and Arabic in Late Antiquity, within the timeframe of the first millennium CE. Syriac Christianity was a pivotal mediator of culture in the Late Antique epistemic space, but is little-known today. FLOS aims to bring to light for the first time a body of highly relevant Syriac and Christian Arabic sources that have hardly ever been studied before. At the end of the millennium, in Islamic-ruled Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran, Syriac Christians strived to define their religious identity. One of their strategies was the production of florilegia, i.e. anthologies that they used to excerpt and reinvent the patristic canon, a corpus of Greek Christian works of the 2nd–6th centuries shared by European and Middle Eastern Christian cultures. A Greco-centric bias has prevented scholars from viewing these florilegia as laboratories of cultural creativity. FLOS will reverse the state of the art through two groundbreaking endeavours: 1) open-access digital editions of a set of Syriac florilegia of the 8th–10th centuries; 2) a study of many neglected writings of Syriac and Christian Arabic authors of the 8th–11th centuries. These tremendously important writings drew from Syriac patristic florilegia to pinpoint topics like incarnation and the Trinity against other Christians or Islam, showing how patristic sources were used to create new knowledge for the entangled environment of the Abbasid era. FLOS will thus dramatically improve our understanding of the cultural dynamics of Late Antiquity; patristic Christianity will emerge as a bridge between the intellectual history of Europe and of the Middle East. By studying how this shared patrimony was transformed in situations of interreligious interaction, especially with Islam, FLOS will facilitate the comprehension of Europe’s current religious discourses, and the preservation of the endangered cultural heritage of the Syriac Christians.
Electromagnetic relay

Fixed terminals 60 and 80 are mounted by being engaged with the flanges of the spools of electromagnetic blocks 1 and 31 by use of a press fitting or another method, by which the flanges are joined in parallel to each other so as to join the electromagnetic blocks 1 and 31 to each other. This arrangement allows the provision of a twin type electromagnetic relay in which two electromagnetic blocks are joined in parallel to each other, the relay has a reduced number of components and a simple structure in which the electromagnetic blocks and the fixed terminals are stably joined to each other with high accuracy. <IMAGE>
Hybrid networks for global internet access

Forsway produces a unique solution to bridge the global digital divide now.
Currently more than 45% of the world’s population, some 3.4B people, does not have access to affordable internet connectivity, a major obstacle to sustainable, equitable development. Providing economically viable broadband in the ‘problem terrain’ outside urban and suburban population concentrations is challenging. 
Forsway, a leading developer of hybrid satellite/terrestrial communications in Europe, has developed a unique hybrid communications solution which combines existing satellite and terrestrial mobile services to provide affordable digital broadband access. Our visionary team has a global perspective: to combine the best of satellite and terrestrial communications into hybrid networks, to connect the world to the internet. Our solution can bridge the digital divide now, rather than when delayed new infrastructure projects are ready. This approach is made possible by a very strong market position and close customer cooperation. 
This project is the first step in an accelerated commercialisation of our hybrid communications solution, bringing them to a successful market entry within 3 years. We anticipate, by 2023, connecting an additional 1M users to the internet, create huge economic and societal value in the underserviced markets of emerging economies in the developing world, as well as rural and remote regions in the developed world. This will generate €42M in revenue and 19 jobs for Forsway, and more than 150 jobs in our supply chain, as we address a €100B underserviced market.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FABRIC FOR A WOUND DRESSING

The disclosed technology relates to methods of manufacturing a fabric (100) for a wound dressing in which a knitting machine (500) is configured to knit a plurality of yarns to form a knitted fabric (100), and a fabric formed according to the method. The disclosed technology also relates to a system, a computer program and a non- transitory computer readable medium.
Coordination between cell identity, tissue mechanics and proportionate patterning during vertebrate eye formation

The development of an organ requires the precise coordination between pattern formation, morphogenetic movements and the final size of the system. Significant progress has been made in understanding these processes independently. The aim of this proposal is to integrate this information by analyzing coordination hubs, such as the crosstalk between YAP/TAZ and Wntβ-catenin pathways during the specification of the identity and the mechanical properties of the cell. I will use the development of the vertebrate eye as a defined paradigm. To identify intrinsic and relevant properties of this system, the two most powerful and amenable models of eye morphogenesis will be analyzed: the self-generation of 3D optic cups from mouse Embryonic Stem Cells and the in vivo development of the teleost eye. The plan is to generate a spatiotemporal activation map of the main determinants of eye identity and use them to link morphogen signaling with key morphogenetic processes in specific cells. This will be the groundwork to identify the role of retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells during optic cup folding, the context that I will use to understand both the coordination between morphogen patterning (Wnt) and mechanical properties (Yap) of the retinal precursors, and between proportionated patterning and eye size (scale-invariant mechanisms). This proposal relies on the collaboration of multiple experts from the host institute and on the use of already developed bona fide protocols, reporter lines and signaling perturbations experiments, but revisited with cutting-edge technologies, such as light sheet microscopy and computational modeling. Thus, it is an extremely innovative but feasible project to understand deep-root questions of organ formation. Moreover, this interdisciplinary project will open unprecedented opportunities in the field of organ regeneration from a comprehensive morphogenetic perspective, which will be the foundation of my future independent research.
Apparatus for virtual channel allocation via a high speed bus interface

Methods and apparatus for virtual channel allocation within an electronic device. In one exemplary embodiment, the device is a consumer electronics device having multiple camera sensors uses a modified high-speed protocol (e.g., DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (MST) protocol) to process camera data via one or more virtual channels. Unlike traditional solutions which rely on an intelligent source device to manage a network of devices, the present disclosure describes in one aspect a network of nodes internal to a consumer electronic device that is managed by the sink node (i.e., a “smart sink”). Additionally, since the full suite of protocol (e.g., DisplayPort) capabilities are unnecessary for certain design scenarios, certain further disclosed simplifications improve performance for sink nodes having very modest capabilities.
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FORMWORK ELEMENTS FOR BUILDINGS WITH A CONCRETE CASING

A process is disclosed for producing formwork elements for buildings or civil engineering works with a concrete casing. The starting material are already foamed styropor blocks with contours cut and/or milled by means of a profile cutting device and/or cutting mill using cutting wires, profile cutting and/or milling tools. The cutting wires of the profile cutting device and/or cutting mill are in particular used to cut the slots for receiving the connecting webs. The positive and negative raised patterns are milled and/or cut by means of a cutting mill or a hot cutting device.
Diameter and Height Distributions of Natural Even-Aged Pine Forests (Pinus sylvestris) in Western Khentey, Mongolia

The purpose of this study was to find a suitable probability density function (PDF) to model the diameter at breast height (dbh) and height distributions of even-aged pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests. For the study, three different age-classes (AGs) of pine forests were used. Burr, Dagum, and Johnson SB distributions were applied due to their flexible properties. Result showed that dbh distributions of the 10~15- (AG1) and 40~45-yr (AG2) stands were left-tailed, while the 60~65- yr (AG3) stand was normally skewed. Height distributions of the AG1 and AG3 stands were left-tailed, while that of the AG2 stand showed no obvious distribution shape, due to its discrete height distribution. A distribution study revealed that in left-tailed forests, dbh and height distribution shapes were best approximated by the Dagum distribution. In the case of the normal distribution shape, the Johnson SB was better than the Burr and Dagum ones. Based on these results, we concluded that dbh distributions of even-aged AG1 and AG2 forests were heavily left-tailed, and the forest structure tended to normal for the AG3 forest. The height distribution is left tailed (AG1 and AG3) if a forest's height growth is not constrained by space, while it will become discrete in a high-density stand (AG2).
Predicting self-reported violations among novice license drivers using pre-license simulator measures

Novice drivers are overrepresented in crash statistics and there is a clear need for remedial measures. Driving simulators allow for controlled and objective measurement of behavior and might therefore be a useful tool for predicting whether someone will commit deviant driving behaviors on the roads. However, little is currently known about the relationship between driving-simulator behavior and on-road driving behavior in novice drivers. In this study, 321 drivers, who on average 3.4 years earlier had completed a pre-license driver-training program in a medium-fidelity simulator, responded to a questionnaire about their on-road driving. Zero-order correlations showed that violations and speed in the simulator were predictive of self-reported on-road violations. This relationship persisted after controlling for age, gender, mileage, and education level. Respondents with a higher number of violations, faster speed, and lower number of errors in the simulator reported completing fewer hours of on-road lessons before their first on-road driving test. The results add to the literature on the predictive validity of driving simulators, and can be used to identify at-risk drivers early in a driver-training program.
Nonlinear meta-models for conceptual seakeeping design of fishing vessels

Abstract The scope of this paper is to develop the nonlinear meta-models for seakeeping behaviour, considering the fishing vessels. These models are intended to be inserted either in a multiattribute design selection process or in a comprehensive multiobjective optimization procedure. For this purpose, seakeeping data of fishing vessels in regular head waves are used to develop meta-models of transfer functions of heave, pitch and vertical acceleration by nonlinear analysis. A home-made software considers two databases; the first is composed by the ship dimensions and coefficients of fishing vessels, and the second is their ship motion data obtained by employing a strip-theory calculation. The meta-models are proposed to predict the vertical motion characteristics for given ranges of speed and wave length during the concept design stage. The independent variables are hull size ( Δ ), main dimensions ( L , B , T ), and some hydrostatic parameters ( C WP , C VP , LCB , LCF , etc.). The results estimated by the software show good correspondences with the ones achieved by direct computations. The study provides additional insight on the influence of hull form parameters on seakeeping performance of small vessels having form properties and parametric range corresponding to the investigated vessels.