SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Partnership for the prOmotion of a maRiTime cross-border Strategy

Maritime transportation of passengers and freight is an economic sector that plays a significant role for the programme countries economy and society. Ensuring a balance between the competitiveness and sustainability of these sectors needs constant research and innovation efforts. The application of disruptive technologies such as those at the basis of the 4.0 industrial revolution can give the birth to transport means and facilities that can improve competitiveness, safety, security and environmental protection for the maritime economy in the programme area. The PORTS 4.0 aims at building up a solid network of public and private stakeholders in the field of logistics and maritime transport for a sustainable and smart development in the programme area based on new technologies derived from the Industry 4.0 concept. The promotion of advanced information and communication technologies is meant to create new cross-border services to support shipping and logistic chains and new opportunities to improve ship operation, safety and security.  This challenge will be addressed through a holistic approach to put in place a cross-border ecosystem supporting the adoption of these technologies throug the promotion of business agreements and the joint cooperation of policy-makers to define a common strategy in the Programme Area. The defined approach will be implemented by achieving three main outputs: the building up of the PORTS cluster; a Memorandum of Understanding promoting sustainable cross-border connections; Business Agreement aimed at starting new business relations among logistics, freight and passengers transport operators in the Programme Area.
The outputs will be anchored to the implementation of specific activities: cross-border events open to public stakeholders, research institutes, business stakeholders in order to jointly share a common vision of a sustainable, smart and green development of the Area; and B2B meetings in order to define business agreements.
VEHICLE HAZARD NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

A hazard notification system for a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of exterior lights and a positioning system configured to identify a location of the vehicle. The system further comprises a controller. The controller is configured to identify the vehicle in an unestablished parking region based on the location and receive an indication of a parked condition of the vehicle. In response to the parked condition and the vehicle located in the unestablished parking region, the controller is configured to activate the exterior lights.
A functional reconversion project for S. Andrea and Vrtojba traffic centre (complementary works functional lot) 

The project aims at setting up a number of archaeological trails to facilitate the connection and promote visits to the main sites of Roman Concordia. Recovery interventions have been planned on the historical-cultural he ritage of Roman settlements, by enhancing the points of contact with the wider context of the Augustan X Regio. In the territory of Concordia Sagittaria in particular two lines of intervention will be developed. The first concerns the recovery of river routes that connect the most significant places; a landing will be built on the Lemene river at Cavanella (in cooperation with the Ethnographic Museum) and mooring facilities will be set up for small watercraft to be used for tourist and recreational purposes. The second concerns the historical centre of Concordia, the heart of the historical-archaeological heritage, where infrastructures are present to access and interconnect fully equipped archaeological trails. In addition to said recovery interventions, promotional initiatives have been planned, such as the publication of thematic guides on paper and multimedia supports and the organisation of special events and presentations targeting scholars, experts in the field and, in general, the beneficiaries of the cultural heritage.
The Professor Position and the Single-Stance Flexion Test May Clarify the Effect of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis or Pseudostenosis on Lower-Extremity Symptoms

The effect of lumbar spinal stenosis on lower-extremity symptoms is often hard to ascertain in patients with multiple possible causes of symptoms. A positive response to two described maneuvers performed by patients in the office involving flexion of the spine can strongly corroborate the contribution of lumbar spinal stenosis to lower-extremity symptoms, although a negative response does not negate it. The professor position involves the patient standing and leaning in a gentle flexion position, with hands held secure behind the lower back. The single-stance flexion test has the patient gently leaning on support, with only a single symptomatic extremity supporting his or her body weight. Reduction or elimination of lower-extremity symptoms otherwise experienced in an erect position suggests that spine position contributes significantly to the overall lower-extremity symptoms, in addition to or instead of weightbearing or dependent positioning. These maneuvers may be effective in either lumbar spinal stenosis or pseudostenosis, a condition in which lower-extremity mechanical dysfunction induces spinal dysfunction mimicking or exacerbating symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis. Success with either maneuver can suggest to both physician and patient the potential value of positional testing with a rolling walker as a therapeutic intervention. Further research is necessary. Clinical use may be indicated. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 103(2): 156–160, 2013)
New Output Gap Estimates for the Euro Area and Elsewhere

Output gaps (OG) identify economic cycles. A new simple method for estimating them is presented, giving results that are more transparent than those published by the leading economic policy institutions. The retroactive changes to the OGs as such do not indicate that they would have been incorrect. Instead, they depend on what happened afterwards, including changes in the policies implemented. After the Great Crunch of 2008-09, fiscal policy was tight, notably in 2011-13 in the euro area, contributing to an unexpected fall in GDP, which led to large retroactive corrections of the OG estimates for earlier years. A more nuanced interpretation is that the retroactive corrections stemmed from the unduly tight fiscal policy followed in 2011-13. The new OG estimates explicitly based on an assessment of the possible changes in the long-term growth prospects provide the rudiments for a fiscal policy that both rationally copes with short term disturbances and underlines the policy measures necessary for long-term sustainability. This could help to avoid pro-cyclicality of fiscal policy in the euro area in future.
Progress and impact of enzyme measurement standardization

Abstract International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) has established reference measurement procedures (RMPs) for the most popular enzymes. Manufacturers should assign values to commercial calibrators traceable to these RMPs to achieve equivalent results in clinical samples, independent of reagent kits, instruments, and laboratory where the measurement is carried out. The situation is, however, far from acceptable. Some manufacturers continue to market assays giving results that are not traceable to internationally accepted RMPs. Meanwhile, end-users often do not abandon assays with demonstrated insufficient quality. Of the enzyme measurements, creatine kinase (CK) is satisfactorily standardized and a substantial improvement in performance of marketed γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) assays has been demonstrated. Conversely, aminotransferase measurements often exceed the desirable analytical performance because of the lack of pyridoxal-5-phosphate addition in the commercial reagents. Measurements of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and α-amylase (AMY) still show major disagreement, suggesting the need for improvement in implementing traceability to higher-order references. This is mainly the result of using assays with different analytical selectivities for these enzymes. The definition by laboratory professionals of the clinically acceptable measurement uncertainty for each enzyme together with the adoption by EQAS of commutable materials and use of an evaluation approach based on trueness represent the way forward for reaching standardization in clinical enzymology.
Analysis of Knowledge-based Economy Development in Poland in the Light of Strategic Documents

After the European Union summit in spring 2005, the member countries were obliged to implement the Lisbon Strategy on the national level and to prepare national strategies to fulfil its goals. Due to this, the goals and tasks of building knowledge-based economy were entered into the strategic documents and operational programs included in the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 (NSRF), prepared by successive governments after 2005. However, it needs to be mentioned that also scientific institutions (e.g. the Polish Academy of Sciences, PAN) introduced various strategic documents in which issues of knowledge-based economy and its role in the social and economic development of Poland were included. However, a study of a holistic knowledgebased economy was not made. The aim of article is to present and assess the most important documents referring to the strategy of knowledge–based economy development in Poland.
Continuous blood glucose monitoring and automated therapeutic closed loop medical device for intensive care units

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) require careful monitoring of blood glucose levels and insulin infusion to keep patients within safe physiological levels. Fluctuations of blood glucose are directly related to an increased risk of death and comorbidities. However, blood glucose monitoring (BGM) is still made by intermittent and manual offline analysis of blood samples. This technique proves inefficient (need 17% caregivers time), costly (€300 per patient) and increments mortality in hospital ICUs by 40% due to irregular glucose level adjustments upon measurements. After 15+ years of experience in developing glucose monitoring sensors, we at TRACE are taking on our next big step to penetrate the medical device sector with ContiTRACE: an AI powered automated non-invasive medical device for continuous BGM. Our patented ContiTRACE is able to measure glycaemic levels every 2 minutes (automatically) and automatically infuse insulin when needed. It is also capable of self-calibrating and has standardized body accesses, enhancing safety and minimising discomfort for the ICU patient. This will allow 1) caregivers to decrease their workload, 2) doctors to take informed decisions and 3) the healthcare system to optimize their limited human, economic and material resources by providing savings of more than 50% of BGM related cost. Our business model is twofold. We will sell the medical device (5 years lifecycle), and the consumables (max. 4 days duration per set) to private and public hospital ICUs. Our draft forecast (2022-2026) estimates profits of 14.4 M€ with a Return on Investment of 10.7 by the 5th commercial year allowing us to increase x10 our company headcounts in five commercial years. Although newcomers to the medical sector we have the support of key players among regulatory companies (Profil), manufacturers (Sasse Elektronik), pharma companies (Sanofi-Aventis, Pfizer and Roche) and distributors (Care Diagnostica) to take on the BGM challenge.
Agro-energy supply chain planning: a procedure to evaluate economic, energy and environmental sustainability

The increasing demand for energy and expected shortage in the medium term, solicit innovative energy strategies to fulfill the increasing gap between demand-supply. For this purpose it is important to evaluate the potential supply of the energy crops and finding the areas of EU where it is most convenient. This paper proposes an agro-energy supply chain approach to planning the biofuel supply chain at a regional level. The proposed methodology is the result of an interdisciplinary team work and is aimed to evaluate the potential supply of land for the energy production and the efficiency of the processing plants considering simultaneously economic, energy and environmental targets. The crop simulation, on the basis of this approach, takes into account environmental and agricultural variables (soil, climate, crop, agronomic technique) that affect yields, energy and economic costs of the agricultural phase. The use of the Dijkstra’s algorithm allows minimizing the biomass transport path from farm to collecting points and the processing plant, to reduce both the transport cost and the energy consumption. Finally, a global sustainability index (ACSI, Agro-energy Chain Sustainability Index) is computed combining economic, energy and environmental aspects to evaluate the sustainability of the Agroenergy supply chain (AESC) on the territory. The empirical part consists in a pilot study applied to the whole plain of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) a region situated in the North-Eastern part of Italy covering about 161,300 ha. The simulation has been applied to the maize cultivation using three different technologies (different levels of irrigation and nitrogen fertilization: low, medium and high input). The higher input technologies allow to achieve higher crop yields, but affect negatively both the economic and energy balances. Low input levels provides, on the average, the most favourable energy and economic balances. ACSI indicates that low inputs levels ensure a more widespread sustainability of the agro-energy chain in the region. High ACSI values for high input levels are observed only for areas with very high yields or near the processing plant.
The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization: A Cross-national Analysis of Mental Health and Unemployment

In this study, we question (1) whether the relationship between unemployment and mental healthcare use, controlling for mental health status, varies across European countries and (2) whether these differences are patterned by a combination of unemployment and healthcare generosity. We hypothesize that medicalization of unemployment is stronger in countries where a low level of unemployment generosity is combined with a high level of healthcare generosity. A subsample of 36,306 working-age respondents from rounds 64.4 (2005–2006) and 73.2 (2010) of the cross-national survey Eurobarometer was used. Country-specific logistic regression and multilevel analyses, controlling for public disability spending, changes in government spending, economic capacity, and unemployment rate, were performed. We find that unemployment is medicalized, at least to some degree, in the majority of the 24 nations surveyed. Moreover, the medicalization of unemployment varies substantially across countries, corresponding to the combination of the level of unemployment and of healthcare generosity.
Study of interaction mechanisms on zirconia-based polystyrene HPLC column

Separation systems with a zirconia-based polystyrene HPLC column were characterized by different approaches, which allowed the recognition of interactions participating in the separation environments. Zirconia-based HPLC columns as an alternative to silica-based ones offer unique interaction mechanism based on Lewis acid-base theory. Besides hydrophobic interactions with the modified surface of the zirconia carrier it includes ion-exchange and ligand-exchange interactions that are helpful in the separation of many bioactive compounds. Three distinct approaches were applied for description of the complex separation mechanism. General chromatographic tests by Walters, Engelhardt and Galushko were applied to evaluate the fundamental properties of the systems - hydrophobicity and polarity. The complex model of linear free energy relationship described the interactions from the qualitative and quantitative points of view more in detail. Application of a set of basic compounds revealed the contribution of ion-exchange interactions participating in the separation systems.
Originating retrofits financing for energy efficiency

This project aims to structure a shared resource platform for third-party financing companies (Sociétés de Tiers-Financement - STF): the Office of Renovations and Financings for Energy Efficiency (ORFEE).

The ORFEE will be a resource center to consolidate the business model of STFs: to pool their developments and coordinate their operational processes, to reduce their costs, to centralize findings and better disseminate them, etc.

ORFEE aims to define a corpus of conformity and quality of the renovations, ranging from the orientation of households towards renovation programs adapted to their needs and energy efficiency objectives, until the completion of the works and the follow-up of consumption, as well as issuing quality guarantees for the owners. This operational guarantee would cover, in case of poor performance, the resumption of work. ORFEE should rely on best practices in Europe and North America, to structure and size the guarantee fund and to strengthen operational support to STF.

It should also be based on a dialogue with banks that want to attribute energy and environmental labels to the financing of renovations.

The design of ORFEE must also allow the STF to strengthen their financial structure: ORFEE will help STF to structure the dialogue they have to build with the EIB and financial investors with a view to improve their funding.

Loans granted by the STF to households would be transferred without recourse to a special purpose vehicle The objective is twofold: to remove from their assets the receivables of STF on households and multi-property buildings to master the size of their balance sheet and optimize their equity, and secondly, to feed investors with securities issued by the SPV, complying with the ""GREENFIN"" label implemented in France - or other equivalent labels in Europe.

ORFEE consortium is formed with STF which are already operative and consulting firms bringing their expertise.
Whales of power: aquatic mammals, devotional practices, and environmental change in maritime east asia

In various parts of East Asia, aquatic mammals are associated with divine power, and serve as objects of devotion. In south and central Vietnam, cetaceans are worshipped as life-saving deities. In some Japanese coastal areas, the spirits of whales are venerated during ritual ceremonies. In China, Cambodia and the Ryukyu Islands, aquatic mammals have all been associated with water deities. These animals continue to carry significant symbolic capital today – if no longer as gods, at least as local “heritage” and symbols of nature conservation, acquiring new meanings in the context of secularisation, (forced) displacement, and environmental degradation.

Whales of Power is concerned with the comparative study of human-cetacean relations in maritime East Asia, as expressed in popular worship practices and beliefs. We will examine several of these traditions in different parts of the region, through a combination of historical and ethnographic research. Our main hypothesis is that changes in local worship traditions reflect changes in human-nature relations, which are caused by wider social, economic and environmental developments. Thus, marine mammals and associated worship practices serve as a prism, through which we approach human responses to socio-economic and environmental change in Asian coastal communities.

The innovative character of Whales of Power lies in the ways in which it combines state-of-the-art theoretical approaches from different disciplinary backgrounds in order to reach new understandings of the ways in which human-nature-god relations reflect social and environmental changes. It has three important theoretical objectives: 1) apply recent theoretical developments associated with “environmental humanities” to the comparative study of popular religion; 2) reconsider the role of local worship traditions in the Asian Secular Age, examining the new meanings attributed to ritual practices; and 3) establish a new comparative paradigm in Asian studies.
MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTACTLESS DETERMINING OF THE 3-DIMENSIONAL FORM OF A PERIPHERAL GROOVE IN A SPECTACLE FRAME

The invention relates to a measuring device for the contactless determining of the 3-dimensional shape of a peripheral groove in a spectacle frame. The device has a light source, which light beam is directed onto the groove or can be deviated onto it by means of an optical deviation system. It also comprises an optical image system which images the light reflected by the groove on an optic detector unit, and which is mounted centrally to the spectacle frame groove on an optic detector unit, and which is mounted centrally to the spectacle frame groove that is to be measured. Said measuring device furthermore comprises a holding device which holds the spectacle frame and which is mounted rotationally in respect of the light source, the detector device and the optic image system around a centering axis of a surface delimited by the peripheral groove of the spectacle frame. Lastly, the measuring device comprises an evaluation unit for determining the 3-dimensional form of the groove, which functions in accordance with the triangulation principle. The invention also concerns the corresponding method.
Woher kam der Mann von Ahhiya?

Abstract Seit einem Jahrhundert arbeitet man sich an der Ahhiyawa-Frage ab. Die Antworten bleiben vage und flüchten ins allgemein Historische. Das ist kein Wunder, denn die Frage ist falsch gestellt. Das war immer bekannt, wurde aber nie ernst genommen. Es geht überhaupt nicht um Ahhiyawa, sondern zunächst einmal nur darum, die Ausgangsform, nämlich den Ortsnamen Ahhiya, auf einer Karte zu lokalisieren. Die philologische Analyse der wenn auch spärlichen Belege für diesen legt es nahe, in Ahhiya den Namen einer Insel zu vermuten, die südlich von Lesbos vor der Küste Kleinasiens liegt. Die nächste größere Insel ist Chios. Diese Annahme von Ahhiya als ältere nichtgriechische Form der späteren griechischen Form Chios läßt sich dann sprachwissenschaftlich erhärten, indem das der Gleichung entgegenstehende anlautende a - den bekannten Beispielen angereiht wird, die einen luwischen Lautwandel zeigen, bei dem dieses unterdrückt wird. Erst nach dieser Identifizierung von Ahhiya als Insel Chios kann man sinnvoll über Ahhiyawa reden. Achäer und Ahhiyawa haben sprachlich nichts miteinander zu tun. Als Nebenergebnis ergibt sich noch, daß der Name Attarissiya eines Herrschers von Ahhiya sicher nicht ein ins Hethitische eingegliederter griechischer Atreus ist, sondern wohl umgekehrt ein ins Griechische eingegliederter nichtgriechischer Teiresias.
<b /> <i>Dictionnaire historique de l’anthroponymie romane. Patronymica Romanica (PatRom)</i>, édité par Ana María Cano González, Jean Germain et Dieter Kremer, vol. III/2 : <i>Les animaux</i>, deuxième partie : <i>Les oiseaux, poissons et invertébrés</i>, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2020, XIII p. + 978 colonnes.

Article Dictionnaire historique de l’anthroponymie romane. Patronymica Romanica (PatRom), édité par Ana María Cano González, Jean Germain et Dieter Kremer, vol. III/2 : Les animaux, deuxième partie : Les oiseaux, poissons et invertébrés, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2020, XIII p. + 978 colonnes. was published on October 1, 2022 in the journal Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (volume 138, issue 3).