SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Self-Organising thermal operational resource management

In STORM a generic district heating and cooling (DHC) network controller will be development and demonstration, with the ambition to increase the use of waste heat and renewable energy sources in the DHC network.

The general applicability will be guaranteed by the following measures:
- Applying self-learning control techniques instead of model-based control approaches, will make the controller easy to implement in different configuration and generations of DHC networks.
- Three control strategies are included in the controller (peak shaving, market interaction, cell balancing). Dependent of the network, one or more of these strategies can be activated.
- The controller will be an add-on to many existing DHC network controllers and SCADA systems.

To present this general applicability, the controller will be demonstrated in two existing grids: one highly innovative low-temperature DHC network In the Netherlands and a more common medium-temperature district heating grid in Sweden.

Since additional value is created by applying the control strategies in the controller, innovative business models should be developed to distribute this value amongst the different market players (producers, transporters, consumers of energy). This will also be addressed in the project.

Also a plan will be developed on how the developed controller can be replicated to other countries than the ones of the demonstrators, taking into account different market organizations and legal framework.

With respect to dissemination two levels of dissemination will be applied. A international dissemination will address the international research community, DHN network controller suppliers, international energy companies etc… Besides that, an additional local level will  be implemented where two local dissemination platforms will be installed integrating all local stakeholders (the energy company, users, local educational institutions, local politicians…). Special attention is foreseen for education.
SILICONE BREAST IMPLANT WITH REINFORCING FIBERS

Subject of the invention is a medical implant comprising a fiber reinforced silicone comprising (A) a silicone matrix and (B) fibers embedded in the silicone matrix, wherein the fibers comprise a comb polymer having a base polymer and side chains, wherein the base polymer is an organic polymer and the side chains comprise polysiloxanes. The invention also relates to outer shells of breast implants and uses and methods.
PORTABLE PERSONAL ECO-FRIENDLY AIR COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

The present invention relates to a portable, cost-effective, eco-friendly, sustainable and energy efficient air cooling system based on the principle of evaporative cooling. The geometry of the system is designed in a way that it is a singular volume with a central vent or air passage (15) comprising air cooling units made up of a material capable of capillary action (10), the air cooling units (10) stacked in frame (12) to form air cooling pads (11), a motorized fan or blower (31) placed at the end or in between the plurality of air cooling pads (11), a coolant collection tank (60) to store coolant (20). The plurality of air cooling units (10) are of specific shape and size and arranged in a specific manner to maximize the surface area needed for evaporative cooling, thereby reducing the speed and temperature of incoming hot air (30) to optimize contact surface area and contact time of the incoming hot air (30) with the coolant (20), thereby making the system energy efficient, sustainable, eco-friendly and cost-effective. The system further comprises of sensors (40, 40a, 40b, 40c,... 40n), rotatable base control device, electronic control unit (45), filtration unit and display unit.
Numerical Simulations of the Clap-Fling-Sweep Mechanism of Hovering Insects

The Lighthill-Weis-Fogh clap-fling-sweep mechanism is a movement used by some insects to improve their flight performance. As first suggested by Lighthill (1973), this mechanism allows large circulations around the wings to be established immediately as they start to move. Initially, the wings are clapped. Then they fling open like a book, and a non-zero circulation is established around each of them. Thus one wing can be considered as the starting vortex for the other. Then they sweep apart, carrying these bound vortices and generating lift. Since the insect wings have relatively low aspect ratio and rotate, 3d effects are important, such as spanwise flow and stabilization of the leading edge vortices (Maxworthy, 2007). To explore these effects, we perform direct numerical simulations of flapping wings, using a pseudo-spectral method with volume penalization. Comparing 2d and 3d simulations for the same setup clarifies the role of the three-dimensionality of the wake. Our results show that the 2d approximation describes very well the flow during fling, when the wings are near, but 3d effects become crucial when the wings move far apart. Possible extensions of the numerical method for modeling the interaction with thin elastic wings using FSI will also be presented.
Fault Detection and Circuit Analysis of INSTRON 1603 Fatigue Testing Machine

Instron 1603 is a fatigue testing machine imported from England in 1987. This machine works on electromagnetic principle. Instron is presently supplying 8000’s series which are Hydraulic Based machines. 1603 can be used for testing up to 120 Hz load cycle where as the present machines can be used until 10Hz load cycle, this is where 1603 scores over present machines but strategically company has stopped manufacturing and service to this machine. The machine present in our institute is not in working condition from the past 2 years, the reason behind this is misalignment of circuits, and this is where we pitch in to look into the problem and fix it. The team’s objective was basically concerned with understanding the machine in depth, to make a total record of the machine and to do a strategic design of the controller and other important circuits to run the machine.
4-Dimensional printing for adaptive optoelectronic components

This project aims at developing four-dimensional printing of new adaptive systems, namely printing of complex, three-dimensional polymer objects embedding functional compounds and able to change or adapt their physical properties responding to environmental stimuli. Additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects relies on depositing or curing materials in a layer-by-layer fashion, starting from computer assisted design. These technologies have rapidly evolved from laboratory research to commercially available desktop systems, with costs decreasing continuously. Notwithstanding such astonishing progress, the potentialities of three-dimensional printing are still poorly exploited in terms of both materials and process resolution. This project will shed new light on the fundamental aspects of three-dimensional polymerization, thus establishing new process design rules and predictive tools for printing resolution. It will also specifically engineer additive manufacturing for printing materials embedding active compounds, thus leading to real four-dimensional objects, namely structures that have three-dimensional features and time-changing physical properties at the same time. An integrated approach will be pursued to this aim, where modeling and process engineering will be complemented by process monitoring, in order to establish well defined and reproducible methods for four-dimensional printing of photonic structures. The operation of the adaptive components, for optical computing and data storage, will be based on their nonlinear response to optical inputs. Leading to a new and pioneering laboratory on four-dimensional printing technologies, this project will critically consolidate scientific independence.
English Speakers’ Comprehension of Embedded Relative Clauses in L2 Japanese

This study investigated native English speakers’ comprehension of Japanese sentences in which relative clauses are embedded. Specifically, this study contrasted between (a) short-before-long sentences with center-embedded relative clauses and (b) long-before-short sentences with non-center-embedded relative clauses. Sentence-type (a) indicates a sentence that includes a short phrase before a long phrase and includes a relative clause that is embedded in the middle of the sentence, e.g., Onna-ga Ken-ga kiratteiru giin-o hometa ‘The woman praised the senator who Ken hated’. Sentence-type (b) indicates a sentence with a long phrase before a short phrase and includes a relative clause that is embedded peripherally, e.g., Ken-ga kiratteiru onna-ga giin-o hometa ‘The woman who Ken hated praised the senator’. Experiment 1 revealed that native English speakers, who are learners of Japanese, comprehended the type (b) sentences with long-before-short phrases and with non-center-embedded relative clauses more accurately than the type (a) sentences with short-before-long phrases with center-embedded relative clauses. The results indicate that the preference for the non-center-embedded clauses to center-embedded clauses is universal across languages, while the preference for short-before-long phrases is language-specific. However, Experiment 2 indicated that the different accuracy rates in comprehensions of (a) and (b) disappeared when the matrix subjects are marked by the topic-morpheme wa. The outcome indicated that the topic phrases are immediately interpreted as a part of main clauses.
Intelligent needle tracking using ultrasound imaging for improved minimally invasive interventions

Developments in medical care are driven by increasing patient care quality and reducing cost. In the field of anaesthesia, the use of regional techniques has led to improved patient outcome and reduced costs compared to general anaesthesia. However, only 60% of anaesthesiologists perform peripheral nerve block procedures regularly. A wider adoption is hindered by lack of adequate technology. Currently they are largely navigating “in the blind”, using indirect measures as well as their anatomical experience to decide where they should inject. The INTUI-VIEW solution will change this.
In the INTUI-VIEW project, Philips, B.Braun and Oslo University Hospital are partnering in order to bring an ultrasound tablet solution with needle tracking technology to the market. The solution is a revolutionary and new technique. It will speed up transition from general anesthesia to regional anesthesia. Patients will receive better, first time right regional anesthesia procedures, avoiding needle misplacements. The clinicians will receive a tool allowing them to do a safer, faster job with more predictable outcome. Finally, it will help hospital and health care systems to be more efficient by avoiding to waste expensive and limited resources.
The scope of the project is to finalize the development of the INTUI-VIEW platform towards market introduction, industrialise and validate it in clinical settings, obtain regulatory approval and prepare market launch (2017). 
The two industrial partners are targeting a turnover of EUR 110 Mio in 2024, and a cumulative sales volume of EUR 700 Mio in 2024. Market adoption is expected to be 14% globally which translates into the treatment of 4.6 mln patients with INTUI-VIEW in 2024.
In total, about 143 jobs will be created in both companies. In the R&D phase 30 FTE in Philips and 12 FTE in BBraun will be employed. After product launch 15 FTE in Philips (operations, service and support) and 86 FTE in B.Braun (production, marketing, sales).
Script Identification Based on HSV Features

Many similar shaped scripts are used all over the world today. Scripts identification with similar shaped characters is one of the difficulties in script identification field and it need to be resolved. However, there are a little report about identification of Central Asian countries and Chinese Minority scripts, which identification of similar scripts. In this paper, a multi-script database was established, which are including 2200 plain document images with different resolution in 11 scripts such as English, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Uyghur, Mongol, Tibet, Turkish, Kyrgyzstani, Uzbekistani and Tajikistani. Then, HSV features were extracted from each whole page image and they were classified by using BP neural network classifier. After experiment in our system, it is achieved 88.14 % of average identification rate and 99.0 % of highest identification rate in our experiment with the dataset. Experimental results indicated that HSV features were effective feature for identify these scripts.
When Catholics Attack. The Counter-Reformation in Fractured Regions of Europe (discussiedossier over Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635)

Pollmann, Judith, Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands 1520-1635 (Past and Present; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiv + 239 blz., ISBN 978 0 19 960991 8). This review looks at Judith Pollmann’s Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands 1520-1635 in a number of contexts, but particularly the one supplied by the British Isles’ experience of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Following the line taken in Professor Pollmann’s account of the reaction against Calvinism in this period, it argues that if one wants to see what the sharp edges of the Counter-Reformation look like, then one should look at the regions of Europe which experienced conflict over faith. The Netherlands was one such area; the British Isles was another. The latter has more often than not been ignored by accounts of the European reaction to the Reformation. I want to suggest that it is of real relevance to put the two together and see what can be made of the similarities and differences between them. This review is part of the discussion forum 'Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands 1520-1635' (Judith Pollmann).
Peer Review #1 of "Maternal self-efficacy and emotional well-being in Chilean adolescent mothers: the relationship with their children’s social-emotional development (v0.1)"

Background: Low maternal self-efficacy and high levels of anxiety, depression, and stress can be triggered in adolescent mothers due to an incomplete development process that makes them physically or psychologically unprepared for the responsibilities of motherhood and parenting.These factors may be linked to difficulties with their children's social-emotional development.The present study aims to: a) analyze the relationship between maternal self-efficacy and stress, depression, and anxiety levels in low-income adolescent mothers; b) examine the relationship between maternal self-efficacy and wellbeing with children's social-emotional development; and c) describe the effects of maternal self-efficacy on children's social-emotional development, mediated by maternal well-being.Methods: A sample of 79 dyads comprising low-income Chilean adolescent mothers aged from 15 to 21 years old (M=19.1,SD=1.66) and their children aged 10 to 24 months (M = 15.5, SD = 4.2) participated in this research.A set of psychometric scales was used to measure maternal self-efficacy (Parental Evaluation Scale, EEP), the mothers' anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS), maternal stress (Parental Stress Scale, PSS), and the children's social-emotional development (Ages and Stages Questionnaire Socio-emotional, ASQ-SE).Bivariate analyses and mediation models were employed to estimate and test the relevant relationships.Results: A bivariate analysis showed that maternal self-efficacy was negatively related to the mother's anxiety, depression, and stress.Moreover, there was a significant relationship between maternal self-efficacy and maternal stress, and children's self-regulation and social-emotional development.Maternal self-efficacy, mediated by maternal anxiety, depression, and stress scores, had a significant effect on the development of children's self-regulation.Conclusions: The results confirm the importance of adolescent mothers' emotional wellbeing and maternal self-efficacy with respect to their children's social-emotional development.This makes it necessary to have detailed information about how emotional
Brooches and Britannia

Abstract Regional and temporal patterns in brooch use in Britannia are studied, confirming and challenging ‘received wisdoms’ about ‘regionality’. The complexity of the ‘Fibula Event Horizon’ is brought into sharp focus; a similarly complex and unexplained ‘Fibula Abandonment Horizon’ is also clearly demonstrated. Conclusions are insensitive to assumptions about use-life. Detailed analysis for the family of trumpet brooches casts light on hitherto unappreciated features of ‘regionality’. Comparison with continental data suggests the British temporal patterns may be reflecting a wider north-western province pattern. Under-studied aspects of bias in metal-detected finds and their implications for studies of this kind are noted. The Supplementary Material available online ( http://journals.cambridge.org/bri ) contains tabular information on the data used in the study and additional analyses that support some of the assertions made in the main text.
An analogical distance relay for the 110kV electric lines

This article presents the basic principles of the analogical protections used for protecting the high-voltage electric lines (110 kV). A study for implementation of an analogical distance protection RD 110, for a high-voltage line is performed (a practical example). For the analogical relay the protection adjustment for an electric grid of 110 kV is presented. The distance relay is operating in association with the current-disconnecting delayed directional homopolar protection, with the automatic rapid reclosing protection and with the synchronism relay. An analysis is achieved upon these types of analogue protections for protecting the high-voltage grids, because they are still used in practice.
Technologies, Competences and Social Innovation for Work Integration Social Enterprises

SMEs in Central Europe currently face shortages of skilled labour force mainly in relation to the requirements posed by technological progress and economic innovation. This is particularly true for Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) as social SMEs working for the integration of disadvantaged groups. Even though they represent significant economic actors in Europe (engaging over 14.5 million paid employees), WISEs are in fact disadvantaged compared to traditional SMEs since they often suffer from technological gaps due to low investment levels and lack of necessary skills. The INNO-WISEs project will tackle these weaknesses by improving the capacity of WISEs to offer qualified jobs to disadvantaged groups, hence contributing to greater social cohesion. Through the implementation of an integrated approach (tackling all development needs of the sector from technology gaps to skills shortages), and through the production of specific outputs for the WISE sector (including a knowledge management framework, a flexible ICT platform, training programmes etc.), the project is expected to significantly change the entrepreneurial mind-set, skills and attitude of the sector by building and promoting a stronger culture of entrepreneurship and greater social innovation capacities. To reach this ambitious objective, INNO-WISEs has a strong and highly qualified transnational dimension, involving, as partners, key research and technological entities, a group of WISE consortia in Central Europe countries and the European Network of WISEs located in Belgium, which will be a key factor in the successful implementation of the project since it will determine the high applicability and transferability of its results. INNO-WISEs will represent a ground-breaking project for the social economy sector since it will bring, adapt and make enterprises able to use technologies and skills which are currently out of their reach and which will represent a turning point for their development.
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BENCHMARK BINARY NLTT 33370,

We report the confirmation of the binary nature of the nearby, very low-mass system NLTT 33370 with adaptive optics imaging and present resolved near-infrared photometry and integrated light optical and near-infrared spectroscopy to characterize the system. VLT-NaCo and LBTI-LMIRCam images show significant orbital motion between 2013 February and 2013 April. Optical spectra reveal weak, gravity sensitive alkali lines and strong lithium 6708 Angstrom absorption that indicate the system is younger than field age. VLT-SINFONI near-IR spectra also show weak, gravity sensitive features and spectral morphology that is consistent with other young, very low-mass dwarfs. We combine the constraints from all age diagnostics to estimate a system age of ~30-200 Myr. The 1.2-4.7 micron spectral energy distribution of the components point toward T_eff=3200 +/- 500 K and T_eff=3100 +/- 500 K for NLTT 33370 A and B, respectively. The observed spectra, derived temperatures, and estimated age combine to constrain the component spectral types to the range M6-M8. Evolutionary models predict masses of 113 +/- 8 M_Jup and 106 +/- 7 M_Jup from the estimated luminosities of the components. KPNO-Phoenix spectra allow us to estimate the systemic radial velocity of the binary. The Galactic kinematics of NLTT 33370AB are broadly consistent with other young stars in the Solar neighborhood. However, definitive membership in a young, kinematic group cannot be assigned at this time and further follow-up observations are necessary to fully constrain the system's kinematics. The proximity, age, and late-spectral type of this binary make it very novel and an ideal target for rapid, complete orbit determination. The system is one of only a few model calibration benchmarks at young ages and very low-masses.
paths and biodiversity: Enhancement of Routes and Accessibility for Transhumance

The natural and cultural heritage of the Italy-France Maritime Cooperation Programme represents a significant development opportunity made vulnerable by natural and humanmade risks, the widening inequalities between coast and inland and the effects of the economic crisis. The natural and cultural heritage is poorly used and difficult to manage; there is little coordination between institutions, not enough infrastructure and innovative technologies, loss of biodiversity and aesthetic degradation of the landscape. CAMBIO VIA aims to improve the effectiveness of public actions in protecting, promoting and developing the natural and cultural heritage represented by protected areas, parks and historic sites along the transhumance route. The physical and intellectual enjoyment of the rich cross-border and island heritage will be enhanced to test a new network model recognising the economic, historical, cultural, tourism and environmental value of the traditional products, biodiversity and rural paths of Tuscany, Liguria, Sardinia, Southern Region and Corsica. The cooperation value lies in the creation of an integrated and multidisciplinary natural and cultural offer improving the attractiveness and competitiveness of the area and islands. The outcomes will be a strategic action plan, charter of guardian communities, methodology defining high environmental quality products, transhumance label, collection of good practices and tutorials on agricultural entrepreneurship, georeferenced transboundary itinerary and actions to improve physical and intellectual heritage accessibility. The beneficiaries will be local communities, public institutions, parks, protected areas and tourists. The innovation lies in the substantial interaction between geo-environmental and cultural specificities leading to greater areal continuity and the enhancement of common values through multimedia techniques.