SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Building on the use of spatial multiplexing 5g networks infrastructures and showcasing advanced technologies and networking capabilties

BlueSpace addresses the challenges of increased capacity, scalability, manageability, resource allocation of 5G networks by adopting a pragmatic yet disruptive and future proof approach.  The core concept of this project is exploiting the added value of Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) in the Radio Access Network (RAN) with efficient optical beamforming interface for the pragmatic Ka-band wireless transmission band. Both being seamlessly integreable in next generation optical access networks infrastructures with massive beam steering capabilities and with flexible networkmanagement  control BlueSpace proposition offers unrivalled characteristics that include:

a) increased bandwidth provision by naturally enabling and supporting massive multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) in the Ka-band with seamless starting/ending interface with the fiber medium by exploiting space diversity in the RF domain with efficient beamsteering in the photonic domain,  

b) A compact infrastructure that is reconfigurable by means of Software Defined (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigms and with

c) full integration with existing approaches for access networks such as Passive Optical Networks (PONs). 
By achieving its goal BlueSpace is a  truly viable and efficient path for  5G wireless communications with a 1000-fold increase in capacity, connectivity for over 1 billion users, strict latency control, and network software programming.
A GAS BURNER FOR RADIATION HEATING

A gas burner is intended for heating a road coating or skin and is provided with a rectangular, box-shaped burner housing (1) with an inlet pipe (2) for air and gas, the pipe being fitted with a burner sock (4). The inlet pipe (2) extends with the burner sock (4) through a reflector (5) connected to the housing (1), the reflector being disposed in spaced-apart relationship from a wind shield (7) produced of mesh, such that a combustion space is formed between the reflector (5) and the wind shield (7). In order to permit replacement of such parts as may readily be heat-fatigued and burnt out, and for increasing overall efficiency, the burner is provided, between the burner housing (1) and the edges of the reflector (5) and the wind shield (7), with a skirt (6). Furthermore, the reflector (5) is cupped and is secured partly in the skirt and partly in the housing (1) in a region in the proximity of the inlet pipe (2). The reflector has a number of flutes (15) compensating for thermal expansions in the material, the flutes extending between the skirt (6) and the inlet pipe (2).
Multiphysics study of the dynamics, resistance and targeted therapy potential of deformable micro-capsules

Encapsulation consists in enclosing an internal medium in a solid semi-permeable membrane to protect it and control the exchanges with the environment. Being at the source of innovative applications in the fields of biotechnologies, pharmacology, energy storage and food industry, capsules offer tremendous potential in the process engineering world. But scientific challenges remain to be met, such as finding the optimal compromise between payload and membrane thickness, characterizing the membrane resistance and controlling the moment of rupture. 
The project explores the use of deformable liquid-core capsules of micrometric size to efficiently transport active material, with a primary focus on health-related applications. We will design innovative sophisticated numerical models and high-tech experiments, needed to determine the potential of such vectors for the protection of active substances, predict membrane breakup to control the delivery, and optimize their properties for specific industrial and biomedical applications. The project will, for the first time, study the effect of a finite wall thickness on the dynamics of elastic microcapsules, propose advanced modelling approaches and microfluidic experiments of their deformability and breakup under hydrodynamic stresses, account for the inherent size variability of given capsule populations, and introduce reduced-order models to facilitate real-time simulations. As a specific application, we will study the potential of liquid-core microcapsules to encapsulate antioxidants for food enrichment. 
The project outcomes will be (i) new advanced three-dimensional numerical models of the fluid-structure interactions and rupture of a microcapsule, taking into account a finite wall thickness, (ii) microcapsule optimization tools based on reduced-order models, (iii) microscopic techniques to measure the capsule mechanical properties, and (iv) an applied study of optimization of antioxidant encapsulation in microcapsules.
ELECTROCHEMICAL ION EXCHANGE TREATMENT OF FLUIDS

A fluid treatment apparatus (100) for treating a fluid comprises an electrochemical cell (102) having fluid orifices (124, 125) to receive and release fluid, and a fluid passageway connecting the orifices with a water-splitting ion exchange membrane (110) is exposed to the fluid in the passageway. First and second electrodes (106, 108) are positioned about the membrane (110) . The apparatus also comprises a controller (170) to control and operate a power supply (114) and valve system (118) . The power supply (114) supplies a current to the first and second electrodes (106, 108) at sufficiently high current density to result in bacteriostasis, deactivation, or a reduction in the microorganisms in the fluid. The controller (170) can also operate a set of cells to deionize fluid and regenerate the cells.
The nonlinear high energy regime of quantum chromodynamics

This proposal concentrates on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in its least well  understood "final frontier": the high energy limit. The aim is to treat the formation of quark gluon plasma in relativistic nuclear collisions together with other high energy processes in a consistent QCD framework.  This project is topical now in order to fully understand the results from the maturing LHC heavy ion program. The high energy regime is characterized by a high density of gluons, whose nonlinear interactions are beyond the reach of simple perturbative calculations. High energy particles also propagate nearly on the light cone, unaccessible to Euclidean lattice calculations. The nonlinear interactions at high density lead to the phenomenon of gluon saturation. The emergence of the "saturation scale", a semihard typical transverse momentum, enables a weak coupling expansion around a nonperturbatively large color field. This project aims to make progress both in collider phenomenology and in more conceptual aspects of nonabelian gauge field dynamics at high energy density:
1. Significant advances towards higher order accuracy will be made in cross section calculations for processes where a dilute probe collides with the strong color field of a high energy nucleus. 
2. The quantum fluctuations around the strong color fields in the initial stages of a relativistic heavy ion collision will be analyzed with a new numerical method based on an explicit linearization of the equations of motion, maintaining a well defined weak coupling limit.
3. Initial conditions for fluid dynamical descriptions of the quark gluon plasma phase in heavy ion collisions will be obtained from a constrained QCD calculation.
We propose to achieve these goals with modern analytical and numerical methods, on which the P.I. is a leading expert.  This project would represent a leap in the field towards better quantitative first principles understanding of QCD in a new kinematical domain.
Understanding contextual factors in location-aware multimedia messaging

Location-aware messages left by people can make visible some aspects of their everyday experiences at a location. To understand the contextual factors surrounding how users produce and consume location-aware multimedia messaging (LMM), we use an experience-centered framework that makes explicit the different aspects of an experience. Using this framework, we conducted an exploratory, diary study aimed at eliciting implications for the study and design of LMM systems. In an earlier pilot study, we found that subjects did not have enough time to fully capture their everyday experiences using an LMM prototype, which led us to conduct a longer study using a multimodal diary method. The diary study data (verified for reliability using a categorization task) provided a closer look at the different aspects (spatiotemporal, social, affective, and cognitive) of people's experience. From the data, we derive three main findings (predominant LMM domains and tasks, capturing experience vs. experience of capture, context-dependent personalization) to inform the study and design of future LMM systems.
The enigma of noninterest income convergence

Over the past quarter century, the great wave of financial liberalization, together with advances in information processing technology and finance theory, created severe competitive pressures on both the asset and liability sides of bank balance sheets and, on the positive side, allowed banks to offer more products and services. Responding strategically, banks shifted away from traditional intermediation activities to fee-earning and trading activities. Yet, as we document using the panel convergence methodology developed by Phillips and Sul (2007a), this shift exceeded what one could reasonably expect. Specifically, the share of Noninterest Income (NII) has been converging in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, providing a strong indication that the aforementioned common competitive pressures dominated the bank-specific and country-specific factors that affect the composition of bank income. Among the policy implications, the systemic risk on a global scale is lik...
The attenuation surface for contrast sensitivity has the form of a witch's hat within the central visual field

Over the full visual field, contrast sensitivity is fairly well described by a linear decline in log sensitivity as a function of eccentricity (expressed in grating cycles). However, many psychophysical studies of spatial visual function concentrate on the central ±4.5 deg (or so) of the visual field. As the details of the variation in sensitivity have not been well documented in this region we did so for small patches of target contrast at several spatial frequencies (0.7-4 c/deg), meridians (horizontal, vertical, and oblique), orientations (horizontal, vertical, and oblique), and eccentricities (0-18 cycles). To reduce the potential effects of stimulus uncertainty, circular markers surrounded the targets. Our analysis shows that the decline in binocular log sensitivity within the central visual field is bilinear: The initial decline is steep, whereas the later decline is shallow and much closer to the classical results. The bilinear decline was approximately symmetrical in the horizontal meridian and declined most steeply in the superior visual field. Further analyses showed our results to be scale-invariant and that this property could not be predicted from cone densities. We used the results from the cardinal meridians to radially interpolate an attenuation surface with the shape of a witch's hat that provided good predictions for the results from the oblique meridians. The witch's hat provides a convenient starting point from which to build models of contrast sensitivity, including those designed to investigate signal summation and neuronal convergence of the image contrast signal. Finally, we provide Matlab code for constructing the witch's hat.
Working capital grant for NOBILUS Ent Tomasz Koźluk

The project concerns support to the entrepreneur in providing liquidity and support to day-to-day activities due to the financial difficulties that have occurred to the entrepreneur as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Financial assistance under scheme SA.57015 (2020/N)
DEVICE FOR REDUCTION OF THE TRACTIVE RESISTANCE OF A TRANSPORT FACILITY OR FLOW AROUND THE BODY BY MEDIUM

Device for reduction of the tractive resistance of a transport facility or flow around the body by medium contains the element of the structure of the streamlined part of its housing. Device is manufactured in the form of pipes or openings, by which the area of the medium upstream of the housing is connected with the area of the medium of reduced pressure downstream of the housing.
Technology, industrialization, and the contested modernization of the Netherlands

This study offers both an account of twentieth-century technology in the Netherlands and a view of Dutch history through the lens of technology. It describes the trajectory of modernization through technology in certain characteristically Dutch contexts--including the omnipresence of water, the pervasiveness of urbanization coupled with a high-tech agricultural sector, and the legacy of colonialism--but at the same time makes it clear that Dutch struggles over technology choices, infrastructure development, mass production, and the role of government are comparable to the experience of any Western industrialized country. The book, which synthesizes findings originally presented in a series of seven volumes published in the Netherlands, uses the idea of contested modernization as an overarching concept through which to understand Dutch technological history. The modernizers of Dutch society--including engineers, management consultants, architects, and others--did not always agree on how to modernize; moreover, the unruliness of specific practices often derailed or redirected implementation. Tensions between top-down and bottom-up modernization, and between scale-enlargement and more flexible arrangements of mutual coordination and cooperation shaped Dutch history. The chapters examine such topics as attempts to create an industrial nation, materially connected through infrastructure; the conflicts that came with the arrival of mass production and the emergence of a consumer society; and land-use planning in a low-lying country.
La Monarchie adaptative. Le consensus monarchiste du libéralisme espagnol dans la crise de 1848

Les évènements de 1848 ont considérablement transformé la configuration de la société et la politique européennes. Ils ont trouvé leur écho en Espagne, où les insurrections en divers points du pays ont favorisé l’émergence des différentes conceptions que les divers courants libéraux avaient de la Monarchie. À partir de 1848, les divergences entre un libéralisme plus conservateur et immobiliste, représenté par le Parti modéré, et un autre plus transformateur, lié au Parti progressiste, dont la gauche est devenue le noyau des démocrates, sont devenues plus évidentes. Malgré ces différences, le libéralisme espagnol est parvenu à atteindre un consensus quant à la défense de la Monarchie, ce qui a favorisé sa survie jusqu'en 1868, à un contexte politique de plus en plus exclusif et autoritaire.
Unravelling Effects of Temperature and Soil Moisture Stress Response on Development of Dry Root Rot [&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Rhizoctonia bataticola&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; (Taub.)] Butler in Chickpea

Erratic rainfalls and rise in temperature have become more frequent under the changing scenario of climate particularly in semiarid tropics. As a consequence of it, a drastic shift of chickpea diseases have been recorded throughout the major chickpea growing regions in India and elsewhere. Dry root rot (DRR) caused by Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler [Pycnidial stage: Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid] was found as a potentially emerging constraint to chickpea production than wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris). Increasing incidence of DRR indicate strong influence of climate change variables such as temperature and moisture on the development of disease. The present study therefore was conducted to quantify the role of temperature and soil moisture associated with infection, colonization and development of DRR under controlled environment. The DRR incidence was significantly affected by high temperature and soil moisture deficit. Out of five temperature regimes (15?C, 20?C, 25?C, 30?C and 35?C) and four moisture levels (40%, 60%, 80% and 100%), a combination of high temperature (35?C) and soil moisture content (60%) predisposes chickpea to DRR. The study clearly demonstrates that high temperature coupled with soil moisture deficit is the climate change variables predisposing chickpea to R. bataticola infection, colonization and development.
Recording, documentation, promotion and distribution of the aromatic and therapeutic herbs, plants and plant products

The core objective of the project lies on effectively communicating the medicinal and cosmetic properties of specific plants, trees and herbs, aiming at informing the population in a more integrated and comprehensive way regarding the beneficial properties of the plants and at strengthening the demand for such products. The above aim will be achieved through the following outputs:  Detailed analysis of current situation regarding the existing production, pricing, harvesting, distribution and future opportunities,  Development of an e-platform for the utilization of e-market place, including advising services to existing and potential farmers Ø documentation regarding both product characteristics and characteristics concerning the local culture and local tourism,  Cooperation of the Local Government Authorities with educational and research institutions.
Promotion and communication initiatives on the quality and traceability of wine products from Slovenia and Eastern Veneto.

The project aims at enhancing the wine products of the cross-border area with tourist promotional initiatives involving the wine products from Slovenia and Eastern Veneto. Promotion is carried out among Venetian restaurants by setting up a promotion point at Venice Marco Polo airport. Activities are carried out thanks to the cooperation with several economic categories, such as restaurant and hotel managers. This initiative envisages a final consumer-oriented communication focusing on the quality of production and the systems of wine traceability, thus fostering the consumption of these wines in cross-border restaurants and the association of wine with other typical local products, for example cheese. Morevoer, the promotional campaign intends to support and improve marketing and distribution of quality wine products from the Eastern Veneto and Slovenian territories. Finally, the consumer’s communication and perception, even of a social nature, of the wine product can be improved, and the population can be made aware of the need to respect the environment and of topics such as sustainable growth and conservation of the territory.
High efficiency gainp/gaas tandem wafer bonded solar cell on silicon

Direct conversion of photons into electricity is a promising clean energy solution to answer the challenge of energy supply security, competitiveness of the EU industry, electricity prices and climate change. Monocrystalline silicon (c-Si), the dominant technology on the photovoltaic (PV) market, benefits from a strong industry and record power conversion efficiency of 25%, with a cost decreasing every year. However, c-Si technology, mainly limited by material properties, has very little room for efficiency improvement. Much higher efficiencies has been achieved by stacking diodes made of III-V semiconductors; but for cost and availability reasons, the III-V solar cells are restricted to specific markets (space & terrestrial concentration). A hybrid solution combining the advantages III-V multi-junction cells with the benefits of Si, the most wide-spread PV material, offers great opportunities. Indeed, efficiencies up to 35% under 1-sun AM1.5G conditions is expected for a triple junction device based on conventional c-Si cells combined with additional (Al)GaAs and GaInP pn-junctions (4 µm of III-V material on top of a c-Si wafer). However the direct epitaxial growth of (Al)GaAs & GaInP on Si is highly mismatched and sufficient material quality has not been achieved so far. The innovative approach proposed in this project bypass the mismatch and enables to combine high crystal quality III-V compounds with Si through wafer bonding: III-V layers are grown lattice matched on GaAs or Ge and then bonded to Si, followed by substrate lift-off & re-use. The validity of the approach has been proven at Fraunhofer ISE with un-optimized GaInP/GaAs//Si triple-junction solar cells with >25% efficiency. This research project, relying on modeling and experimental work to optimize the cell structure (light trapping, bond interface quality, current matching, etc.), targets the significant breakthrough of a GaInP/GaAs//Si triple junction reaching >30% efficiency on large areas (>4cm2).
Linking ecology, enzymes and ecosystems in the global nitrogen cycle

The global nitrogen cycle is of fundamental importance for our climate as well as agriculture, and both are facing significant threats due to environmental change. Anthropogenic input of synthetic ammonia-based fertilisers has a profound impact on the nitrogen cycle. Most soil ecosystems globally are nitrogen limited, necessitating ammonia-based fertiliser to achieve sufficient crop yield to feed the world’s growing population. However, circa 70% of fertiliser is lost through the activity of ammonia oxidising microorganisms, which contribute to the emission of the extremely damaging greenhouse gas nitrous oxide – a molecule with a global warming potential 300 times that of CO2, and also the most important ozone-depleting gas. 

Ammonia oxidising microorganisms are ubiquitous, highly abundant organisms. Despite their ubiquity and major environmental importance, they are some of the least well-understood microorganisms in the global nitrogen cycle. Several challenges contribute to the lack of our understanding: (1) Ammonia oxidisers are difficult to cultivate, (2) the molecular mechanisms driving their adaptation to different environments are poorly characterised, and (3) links between their cellular and physiological traits and the rates of nitrogen turnover are not understood. Consequently, it is difficult to interpret the ecological and environmental significance of many research findings. This research programme will bridge the gaps in our understanding of terrestrial nitrogen cycling using a combination of highly innovative methods. My research programme aims to reveal functions of uncultivated ammonia oxidisers and determine the important but overlooked role of cellular traits in nitrogen cycling rates in terrestrial environments. This study will provide a holistic framework of terrestrial nitrogen cycling from molecules to ecosystems and will deliver a major advance towards balancing the global nitrogen cycle.
Growth and reducing capacity of Listeria monocytogenes under different initial redox potential

To determine the reducing capacity of Listeria monocytogenes and to highlight the effect of redox potential on its growth parameters.The reducing capacity of L. monocytogenes was monitored in Brain Heart Infusion Broth media at different initial redox potential (Eh) and pH at 37 degrees C. The effect of Eh obtained by gas flushing (air, N(2) and N(2)-H(2)) or by adding potassium ferricyanide and dithiotreitol in concentration from 1 to 10 mmol l(-1)on L. monocytogenes growth parameters at pH 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 was investigated. A total change of 539 mV (+ or - 44 mV) from an initial redox value of +330 + or - 8 mV to a more negative potential in redox curves was observed resulting from L. monocytogenes growth at pH 7.0 at 37 degrees C. A significant influence of pH and redox potential on L. monocytogenes lag phase of growth was shown (P < 0.05).Listeria monocytogenes exhibited longer lag phase in reducing conditions and at pH 6.0. The method used to modify the redox potential was shown to have no effect on growth parameters at pH 7.0.The provided information on the extending lag time and the possible delayed growth of this major pathogen in reducing conditions might be useful for its control in foods.