SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Preventing hlb epidemics for ensuring citrus survival in europe

The EU citriculture is threatened by the emerging disease Huanglongbing (HLB, also known as Greening), considered the most devastating citrus disease due to its rapid dispersal, severity and fast progression of symptoms, huge losses in fruit production and quality, cost and difficulty of preventing new infections, lack of resistant citrus varieties and economically feasible treatments for infected trees, and absence of durable control mechanisms. HLB generates multimillion economic losses to citrus industry. Now it is time to start the research in the EU because the vector Trioza erytreae has been detected and is spreading in Spain and Portugal.
The overarching objective of Pre-HLB is to develop and implement a holistic contingency plan to protect the citrus sector in the EU from HLB disease drivers and to co-create new solutions to manage the disease through a multidisciplinary approach and in collaboration with experienced partners from America and Asia.
The Pre-HLB work plan includes three specific objectives to monitor progress:
a) Pre-HLB preventive actions and development of mid-term tools will limit HLB potential introduction, reducing the potential economic impact in EU (estimated in 7.7 billion euros) by 40%
b) The consortium will contribute to improve current HLB surveillance, contingency and control strategies. Up to 100,000Ha of citrus cropping area will be monitored to obtain field information on potential HLB infection and the dynamics of the vector in the subareas of highest risk, thus limiting disease/infestation spread.
c) Excellent European research centres will join forces to fill research gaps in vector biology, host/vector/pathogen interactions, Aurantioideae genetics and genomics, as well as to develop new biotechnological tools, such as new effectors, metabolites, bio-stimulants and biopesticides.Results will identify HLB-resistance traits and will allow to generate long-term resistance.This is one major milestone in the field of citriculture.
Using living labs to roll out sustainable strategies for energy poor individuals

STEP-IN will develop a global methodology for the effective analysis and tackling of energy poverty. STEP-IN has identified three highly challenging locations with diverse characteristics across Europe including: a mountainous region in Greece, a rural area in Hungary and an urban area in the UK with low quality housing. Within each of these areas there are a range of vulnerable consumers (e.g. low income households, elderly people, single-parent households). At each of these locations a living lab will be set up which will bring together local experts and stakeholders with energy poor consumers. These labs will consist of a range of approaches including energy cafes, advisor visits and ICT systems. The ICT tools provided by STEP-IN will support consumers, advisors and local stakeholder organisations to make effective decisions. To ensure the success of the living labs STEP-IN has partnered with key local stakeholders and schemes at the chosen locations. The emphasis will be on improving the participants' quality of life through maintaining or improving comfort levels while at the same time encouraging more efficient energy usage. The energy advice provided will seek to minimize rebound effects and environmental impacts. All labs will be assessed using metrics such as energy consumption & mix, types of behavior change and levels of comfort. This will ensure that the participants benefit, while at the same time the labs’ impact can be assessed and that the global methodology is validated and can be up-scaled. This will ensure that the approaches are relevant and out with the project. The project has over 35 letters of support from organisations including regulators, MEPs, charities, energy providers, housing organisations, local authorities and Government Ministries who will take part in a stakeholder network. This will lead to the results being disseminated at local, national and EU level.
SDK game development

The tower defence genre of video games is one which is very heavily populated by independent developers, however the proportion of these games which have been successful is extremely low. This project will investigate some of the most successful examples from the genre, and attempt to discern what it is that separates them from the majority. Using the results of this investigation a new game in the tower defence genre will be designed and developed. Finally, it will then be subjected to user review, and evaluated alongside the initial research in order to determine the accuracy of the investigation and reach a conclusion on what makes a game in the tower defence genre successful.
Globalization and a dual Europe: future alternative growth trajectories

The integration of world markets has increased considerably in the past 15 years. Moreover, the importance of emerging countries for trade flows is now considerably higher. The paper explores the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years under different assumptions on competitive strategies put in place by the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). In these scenarios Europe is expected to reinforce its present competitive advantages. The intention is not to identify desirable, positive, ideological or most probable scenarios; the aim is instead to combine in a strictly logical way the different trajectories that can be envisaged in the main economic, institutional and social driving forces of change and consequently to build a small number of alternative, consistent and ‘conditional’ scenarios. The approach is as neutral as possible vis-a-vis the results, leaving it to the MASST forecasting model to provide NUTS 2 growth rate patterns up to 2015, under opposite assumptions on the world strategies.
Entity-Based Access Control

Access control is an important part of security that restricts the actions that users can perform on resources. Policy models specify how these restrictions are formulated in policies. Over the last decades, we have seen several such models, including role-based access control and more recently, attribute-based access control. However, these models do not take into account the relationships between users, resources and entities and their corresponding properties. This limits the expressiveness of these models. In this work, we present Entity-Based Access Control (EBAC). EBAC introduces entities as a primary concept and takes into account both attributes and relationships to evaluate policies. In addition, we present Auctoritas. Auctoritas is a authorization system that provides a practical policy language and evaluation engine for EBAC. We find that EBAC increases the expressiveness of policies and fits the application domain well. Moreover, our evaluation shows that entity-based policies described in Auctoritas can be enforced with a low policy evaluation latency.
Ubiquitous pharmacogenomics (u-pgx): making actionable pharmacogenomic data and effective treatment optimization accessible to every european citizen

Pharmacogenomics is the study of genetic variability affecting an individual’s response to a drug. Its use allows personalized medicine and reduction in ‘trial and error’ prescribing leading to more efficacious, safer and cost-effective drug therapy.  The U-PGx consortium will investigate a pre-emptive genotyping approach (that is: multiple pharmacogenomic variants are collected prospectively and embedded into the patients’ electronic record) of a panel of important pharmacogenomic variants as a new model of personalised medicine. To meet this goal we combine existing pharmacogenomics guidelines and novel health IT solutions. Implementation will be conducted at a large scale in seven existing European health care environments and accounts for the diversity in health system organisations and settings.  Feasibility, health outcome and cost-effectiveness will be investigated. We will formulate European strategies for improving clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics based on the findings of this project.
Capacity Building Relay Race

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Young people are driving forces for the social, cultural and economic development of the Euro- Mediterranean area. Nevertheless, the current situation in terms of unemployment coupled with skills mismatch, lack of work experience and barriers to mobility are often described as the main obstacles hampering the integration of young people into the labour market. Not only can work experience help young people to develop professional skills, but also boost their soft skills (i.e. team work, communication and social competences, adaptability, critical thinking) thus contributing to mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue between people. CaBuReRa aims to reduce youth unemployment in the Mediterranean area through the promotion of mobility and vocational education of young people, building their capacities in the sector of project management. The project will provide 90 young people with the opportunity to live a 4-month period in a foreign country during which they will acquire both professional skills and intercultural competences. CaBuReRa has the ambition to become a pilot project for the development of new strategies addressing the issue of youth transition from education to work in the Mediterranean area. _x000D_
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Combining the new injury severity score with an anatomical polytrauma injury variable predicts mortality better than the new injury severity score and the injury severity score: a retrospective cohort study

Anatomy-based injury severity scores are commonly used with physiological scores for reporting severity of injury in a standardized manner. However, there is lack of consensus on choice of scoring system, with the commonly used injury severity score (ISS) performing poorly for certain sub-groups, eg head-injured patients. We hypothesized that adding a dichotomous variable for polytrauma (yes/no for Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores of 3 or more in at least two body regions) to the New Injury Severity Score (NISS) would improve the prediction of in-hospital mortality in injured patients, including head-injured patients-a subgroup that has a disproportionately high mortality. Our secondary hypothesis was that the ISS over-estimates the risk of death in polytrauma patients, while the NISS under-estimates it.Univariate and multivariable analysis was performed on retrospective cohort data of blunt injured patients aged 18 and over with an ISS over 9 from the Singapore National Trauma Registry from 2011-2013. Model diagnostics were tested using discrimination (c-statistic) and calibration (Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistic). All models included age, gender, and comorbidities.Our results showed that the polytrauma and NISS model outperformed the other models (polytrauma and ISS, NISS alone or ISS alone) in predicting 30-day and in-hospital mortality. The NISS underestimated the risk of death for patients with polytrauma, while the ISS overestimated the risk of death for these patients. When used together with the NISS and polytrauma, categorical variables for deranged physiology (systolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg or less, GCS of 8 or less) outperformed the traditional 'ISS and RTS (Revised Trauma Score)' model, with a c-statistic of greater than 0.90. This could be useful in cases when the RTS cannot be scored due to missing respiratory rate.The NISS and polytrauma model is superior to current scores for prediction of 30-day and in-hospital mortality. We propose that this score replace the ISS or NISS in institutions using AIS-based scores.Adding polytrauma to the NISS or ISS improves prediction of 30-day mortality. The superiority of the NISS or ISS depends on the proportion of polytrauma and head-injured patients in the study population.
Open Data for European Open iNnovation

ODEON project aims at supporting the growth of Clusters and SMEs linked to S3 of the areas involved (focusing on green/blue growth and CCis) through the exploitation of Open and Big Data. Starting from e-government policies, the availability and quality of open data to be processed will be assured according to the fine tuning of tools from projects and initiatives to be capitalized and involved in the project. ODEON project will then focus on supporting Public institutions to increase the quantity and quality of open data; set-up intermediary services (Digital Hubs) able to offer tailored support for the exploitation of open data by SMEs and Profit Sector in general with innovative services and products._x000D_
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a) the setting-up of National/Regional Digital Hubs (7 totally) able to support the exploitation of Linked Open Data addressing dedicated activities according to quadruple helix approach: training, research, development and innovation linked to enhance the competitiveness of Clusters, SMEs and start-ups and contribute to economic growth. A Med Open DATA Cluster will foster among them linkages in order to increase their innovation and internationalization capacities. Each Region will focus on one or more Key sectors/applications such as Tourism, Agriculture, Environment, Energy, Culture, ICT, Smart Manufacturing._x000D_
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Information added on 2020-05-27, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): Odeon is providing solutions for the activation of networks for medical and biotech research during the COVID crisis, through the development of an open data platform for open innovation which includes the health sector
Enlarge – energies for local administrations: renovate governance in europe

Co-design and co-production processes are promising horizontal governance tools to innovate public administrations and the public sector in general. In particular, co-design processes aim at improving policy effectiveness by including a wide range of viewpoints in the formulation of public policies and in the design of public services, while co-production processes are designed and managed to involve ‘responsible citizens-users’ in the implementation of the policies and in public service delivery, and aim not only at improving policy effectiveness, but also at sustaining public sector intervention in the recent austerity era, during which governments (especially local governments) must face new social needs and complex problems with decreasing public resources.
Notwithstanding the high potential of these processes as innovative and effective governance tools, practical evidence about their usefulness and sustainability for local administrators is still lacking, and local governments proceed mostly incrementally and unaware of potentials and pitfalls. 
ENLARGE project aims to shed some light on the ‘how and why’ issues of co-design and co-production processes through an intense policy dialogue between policy makers, experts in participatory governance and civil society actors. The specific focus is on sustainable energy and more in general all the solutions aiming at generating more efficiency and effectiveness in public services and public endowments. 
In detail, the project intends to: EXPLORE the existing models of co-design and co-production of public policies and services; EVALUATE – measures for the assessment of the outcomes; mechanisms and intervening factors favouring the effectiveness of participatory processes; PRODUCE - Raising awareness among public administrators about the options at their disposal and the potential consequences of these choices;  COMMUNICATE and DISSEMINATE the project results.
The Brazilian Developmentalist State in Historical Perspective: Revisiting the 1950s in Light of Today's Challenges

involved in the fast-paced industrialization Brazil embarked upon in the 1950s. Although the period was shaped by high rates of economic growth championed by charismatic nationalist leaders, disagreements pertaining to the role and configuration of the developmental state gave rise to a hybrid agenda of development which combined both liberalizing and interventionist strategies. Through precarious political compromises, persuasion, and a high degree of demiurgic ambition, the federal Brazilian state advanced a bold project of material and symbolic modernization of important sectors of the national society. In the end, however, a combination of internal disputes and a long legacy of socio-spatial inequalities prevented the achievement of a sustainable course of national development, thus bequeathing the country several unanswered issues which gain further relevance today as Brazil assumes a relevant position within the realms of an ever more complex and interdependent global economy.
The impact of intangible cultural heritage (ich) in formal, non-formal and informal education and its contribution to the key competences for lifelong learning in the eu reference framework

Europe’s Intangible Cultural Heritage – the skills, music, dance, drama, gastronomy, festivals, crafts, etc which have been passed from one generation to the next – is a hugely important economic and social resource. Yet this aspect of cultural heritage is poorly researched. ‘ICH-Bildung’ proposes to redress that balance and study the Impact of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in formal, non-formal and informal education and its contribution to the Key Competences for Lifelong Learning in the European Reference Framework.
The project will consider the wider European policy debates on Cultural Education how they can be oriented to ICH education; explore social and economic indicators to measure the impact of ICH education of both individuals and communities; and explore methods for measuring the contribution of ICH experiences to education, covering quantitative and qualitative methods, across social and economic areas.
A prestigious multi-disciplinary, international consortium has been gathered to support ICH-Bildung including: UNESCO (France) which has an ICH department; the French Centre for ICH at the World Cultures Institute (CFPCI); the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (FAU) which holds the UNESCO chair in arts and culture in education; the Tartu Environmental Education Centre, Estonia (TEEC) and the Cultural Informatics Research Group – University of Brighton (UoB) which provides considerable experience in the area of modelling the impact of cultural heritage. Each partner belongs to a different educational setting – formal, informal and non-formal.
Modelling the impact of ICH will raise awareness about the potential value of ICH to European society and allow organisations working with ICH to gain greater clarity regarding the contribution of ICH to education and society.
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Block Conjugate-Gradient Method With Multilevel Preconditioning and GPU Acceleration for FEM Problems in Electromagnetics

In this letter, a graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated block conjugate-gradient solver with multilevel preconditioning is presented for solving a large system of sparse equations with multiple right-hand sides (RHSs), which arise in the finite-element analysis of electromagnetic problems. We demonstrate that blocking reduces the time to solution significantly and allows for better utilization of the computing power of GPUs, especially when the system matrix is complex valued. We show that, for a complex-valued sparse matrix with over $\text{1.2}$ million unknowns and 16 RHSs, the block version of the preconditioned conjugate-gradient method using a single NVIDIA Tesla P100 accelerator is almost three times faster than a nonblocked version. Numerical tests have also shown that a central processing unit (CPU)-only nonblocked complex implementation is unlikely to benefit much from blocking. Compared to an optimized CPU-only solver using an Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 with 12 cores, the nonblocked GPU-accelerated version was $\text{4.5}$ times faster, while the blocked version was $\text{12.4}$ times faster.
Towards an objective and quantitative assessment of human corneal transparency

Visual acuity is dependent upon the transparency of the cornea. Corneal transparency can be compromised by various pathologies, infections, trauma, ageing, and surgery, all of which result in increased light scattering. Lack of ocular anterior segment transparency is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, with corneal causes alone affecting over 10 million people. In current clinical ophthalmology practice, corneal transparency is usually monitored subjectively and qualitatively via direct focal illumination using a slit-lamp biomicroscope. Aside from inherent subjective and qualitative drawbacks, including poor reproducibility, this method lacks the capability to register and resolve changes in opacity that may be subtle. Hence, there is a critical need for a reliable and practical tool to objectively quantify, characterize, and monitor corneal transparency towards effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The overall objective of this research programme is to address this unmet need by developing and validating advanced concepts and novel imaging modalities tailored to the needs of cornea assessment. The programme investigates (1) Quantitative Polarized Slit-lamp Biomicroscopy, (2) Multi-Wavelength Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT), and (3) Multi-Illumination Matrix FFOCT; all enabling ease of use, high resolution, and deep light-penetration characterization and imaging. The candidate will be in an excellent position to carry out the programme under the auspices of the ideal host (Institut de la Vision) and the ideal partner (Institut Langevin). The research will enhance our basic understanding of corneal transparency as well as lead to major changes and improvements in patient care and management. It will, moreover, open new avenues and spur further investigations of ocular media transparencies. The Fellowship will enable the candidate to continue innovations at the interface of physics and ophthalmology as an independent researcher.