SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Improvement of the ecological status of the Corno and the area around the mouth of the Isonzo river into the Adriatic sea

The CONA project focuses on the river basin of the Corno, which is also part of the river basin of the Idonzo and the nature conservation area of the Cona island, and discharges into the Adriatic sea. Everything planned for the basin will contribute to improve water quality and improve the preservation state of natural habitats and animal species. The action in the area of the municipality of Monfalcone is an important part of the project, as it will have a significant influence on the direct reduction of environmental pressure in the nature conservation area of Cona island.
Medically licensed mesenchymal stem cells for acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating condition, which kills 40% of sufferers, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide annually. Despite decades of intensive research efforts, there are no clinical therapeutic strategies available for this catastrophic condition. In our ERC Starter Grant, HA-NFkB-VILI, we have shown Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) to be beneficial in several relevant preclinical ARDS models. 
However, for cell therapies to be successfully used in the clinic, they will need to be sourced allogeneically, culture passaged and cryofrozen for transport to the clinical site, where they can then thawed near the bedside and administered to the patient with ARDS.
This project will therefore examine the potential of cryofrozen human MSCs, manufactured at the CCMI cell therapy facility at NUI Galway, in relevant models of ARDS.
A demonstration that the cryofrozen CCMI-hMSC exhibit therapeutic potential would be a major step towards the clinical testing of these cells in patients with this devastating disease.
Study on model compensation of aircraft magnetic interference

The aircraft magnetic field interfered the aeromagnetic precision badly, and a model compensation method is brought forward to compensating the aircraft magnetic interference. Firstly, the model of aircraft magnetic field is built based on Tolles-Lawson equations, and the model calculation is analyzed. The correlation between model parameters results in the difficulty of the precisely estimation of model parameters. Consequently, an algorithm based on FIR model is studied in this paper to estimate the parameter. The simulation and analysis shows that the parameter estimating algorithm based on FIR model is effective to high-step collinear equation, and the model compensating method compensates above 90% of aircraft magnetic interference, improving the ability of the airborne magnetic survey greatly.
Ants and the enigmatic Namibian fairy circles - cause and effect?

Parts of the Namibian landscape show extensive surface perturbation in the form of long-lived, yet dynamic 'fairy circles'. While exerting profound ecological effects on 7.3% of the land surface, the origin and nature of these large bare discs embedded in an arid grassland matrix remains unresolved. 2. We found no evidence to support the current hypothesis of a termite origin for fairy circles but instead observed a strong spatial association between fairy circles and large nests of the ant Black pugnacious ant Anoplolepis steingroeveri Forel, with much higher ant abundances on the circles compared with the matrix. 3. Aggression trials showed that different colonies of A. steingroeveri were located on different circles, and that the species was polydomous. 4. Fairy circles and Pogonomyrmex ant nests both have a bare disc surrounding the nest, are overdispersed (evenly spaced), and are associated with elevated soil moisture. Fairy circle soils exhibited a five-fold increase in soil moisture when compared with the matrix. 5. Senescent Stipagrostis obtusa (Delile) Nees seedlings were only observed on the circles and not in the matrix, and were found to have a reduction in both root length and number of roots. 6. Anoplolepis steingroeveri excavated the root system of both S. obtusa seedlings on the disc and Stipagrostis ciliata (Desf.) de Winter grasses on the perimeter of the circles, where they tended honeydew-secreting Meenoplidae bugs that fed on grass roots and culms. The bugs occurred almost exclusively on grasses associated with the circles. This ant-bug interaction is a possible mechanism for the observed reduction in root length and number of senescent grass seedlings on the circles.
Predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on community diversity

The Anthropocene, the current geological epoch, is characterised by human-induced ecological changes, which have prompted a global biodiversity crisis. Human-introduced alien plants could help to offset native species loss, augmenting diversity and maintaining the services and capital that humans derive from nature. However, alien species that become invasive are themselves a key threat to biodiversity. Alien species thus presents a huge challenge for biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: should their arrival and establishment be inhibited or disregarded as they can potentially both exacerbate and ameliorate biodiversity loss?   Coupling empirical and theoretical approaches, ALIENIMPACTS will directly address this challenge by developing an approach for accurately predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on plant community diversity and identifying the circumstances under which negative impacts will occur.   Using temperate grasslands as a model system, ALIENIMPACTS will use innovative field experiments and global observations to systematically quantify – for the first time – how often, for how long, to what extent, under what conditions and in what ways alien plants can impact plant community diversity. ALIENIMPACTS will develop mechanistic niche models, validated with empirical data from grasslands in North America, Europe and Australia, that will enable realistic scenarios of invasion biodiversity impacts to be forecast, now and in the future. Developing empirically accurate mechanistic models that predict invasions and their biodiversity impact is a highly ambitious goal. Its achievement will mark a step-change in ecological theory and understanding, will inform environmental policy and management, and address a critical research challenge of the Anthropocene: how to conserve the biodiversity of plants – the dominant life form on earth – under global environmental change.
De la casquette aux chaussures : l’habillement du cycliste en Italie de la fin du XIX e siècle à aujourd’hui

Dans les années 1880, l’invention de la bicyclette moderne fait naître une nouvelle catégorie d’adeptes : les femmes. Le cadre ouvert de la bicicletta réservée aux femmes leur permet de porter des jupons. D’amples caleçons autorisent les femmes les plus sportives de participer à leurs premières courses cyclistes. Mais l’Église puis les préfets du régime fasciste veillent. Il faut attendre les années 1950 et la diffusion d’un autre instrument de liberté, le scooter, pour que femmes et hommes revêtent le même habillement sur deux roues. Pour chausser le pied on utilise d’abord des chaussures de ville basses à talon, qui s’insèrent dans les cale-pieds auxquels on ajoute une courroie de cuir. La principale innovation intervient en 1985 avec l’apparition de la fixation Look inspirée par le ski. Le vêtement masculin connaît aussi des transformations. Pour les sportifs, s’il n’est pas attaché à la cheville, le pantalon se raccourcit au-dessus du genou, le problème principal résidant dans les frottements avec la selle. À partir des années 1970, la production d’une fibre synthétique polyuréthane élastique par DuPont ou Bayer permet de fabriquer des cuissards renforcés sous les fesses et épousant leurs formes et celles des cuisses. Les fabricants de maillots qui utilisaient auparavant la laine optent alors aussi pour les fibres synthétiques. Le maillot s’ouvre désormais sur tout le thorax. Comme au football, il a ses couleurs bien identifiables mais aujourd’hui brouillées par la publicité. Équipé d’un casque léger et d’opaques lunettes de soleil, portant un maillot bariolé, le champion cycliste est plus difficilement reconnaissable.
Millimeter wave channel modelling considering environmental factors

The Millimetre-wave (mmWave) frequency band offers wide available bandwidth for 5G and future wireless networks. However, due to the large propagation attenuation of the mmWave frequency, real-world environmental factors, including weather, foliage, humans, vehicles, have a significant impact on the channel path loss. In order to design and optimise 5G and future networks, a mmWave channel model considering the environmental factors is urgently required. In this project, we aim to equip a ray-tracing channel model with environmental factors in the mmWave band. The goal will be approached through 3 work packages (WPs). First, the ER will develop a parametric attenuation model by parameterising the environmental factors and integrate it with a ray-tracing simulation model. Second, the ER will acquire the channel data for each corresponding environment factor and extract parameters using machine-learning-based methods. Third, the developed channel model will be applied to evaluate and optimise mmWave wireless networks taking environmental factors into account. This project will be an extension of the ER’s previous work, which will develop him to be a mature researcher.
Distributed event processing for activity recognition

Stream-processing systems inevitably face unpredictable variations in incoming event loads. One way of handling this without affecting end-to-end performance metrics, will be to dynamically distribute event-processing on multiple computers and thus avail compute power for optimal performance. More precisely, data streams are processed in part or in parallel on multiple computers connected by a high bandwidth network. The number of computers being used is to be varied dynamically to cope with input load fluctuations. This paper uses data from ambient kitchen to make a preliminary assessment of performance advantages by distribution of real-time data stream processing. The motivation is to leverage cloud computing for optimal realtime event processing.
Blue technology - Developing innovative technologies for sustainability of Adriatic Sea

Innovamare project aim is to enhance framework conditions on cross-border level by jointly develop and implement strategical and operational level capacity that consist of mix of policy instruments and innovation players as a frame for development of innovative technologies for sustainability of Adriatic Sea. Project is set up on mission-oriented approach that rather than focusing on sectors – as in traditional industrial policy – mission-oriented policy focuses on problem-specific societal challenges, which many different sectors interact to solve. In this case we are focusing on using mix of policy instruments together with innovation players to increase effectiveness of innovation activities of underwater robotics and sensors in direction of sustainability of Adriatic sea as a crucial strategical societal challenge on cross-border level.
Legal system research on clean development mechanism(CDM) in China

According to the aim,establishing requirements and procedures,supervisory system of the Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) in Kyoto Protocol,this paper showed the tremendous environmental,social and economic profits China has made in running CDM.It also pointed out its problems in the aspects of project scale,potential project recognition,additional bank certification,CER legal right definition,project issue,etc.Referring to CDM's development tendency of the international world,this paper predicted that CDM,in a long term in future,will be an effective system against the global greenhouse gases discharge,and the tenets of CDM will be renewed and the detailed implementing institution of the CDM project will be perfected.In this paper,some suggestions on the legal institutions construction concerning China's CDM: a basic law of energy should be enacted urgently to offer legal bases for the measures including CDM against climatic changes;in legislation,the principle of the energy's sustained development should be established to specify CDM projects' proper standard,cancel the traditional unitary ownership pattern,explicit the CER legal authority and ownership and perfect the CDM projects' supervisory system to lower the danger the CDM projects have to face when pursuing economic profits,reinforce the CDM's profession norms and increase the CER issuing rate.
Environmental restoration of Selvote peat bog biotope

The project aims at the environmental restoration of Karst springs in the Selvote peat bog natural biotope (at Castions di Strada), in order to recreate wetlands where the flora species of greatest naturalistic interest can take root. The management plan of the biotope envisages the maintenance of the habitat naturalistic value and the conservation of biodiversity; the naturalistic restoration of lands that have been abandoned by intensive agriculture, also by experimenting and assessing various types of plans and crops; the removal and the environmental restoration of artificial ditches, drainage, and embankments; interventions on the hydrographical grid in order to restore favourable water conditions for the natural habitat. The main activity on cultivated land is the removal of the surface layer of agricultural soil - tilled and mixed by ploughing - thus favouring the removal of nutrients from cultivated land, bringing to light the deposits with a lower content of nutrients, which are suitable to the oligotrophic species of peat bogs. The removal of the earthy layer tends to bring to the surface the gravelly-sandy deposits, that guarantee a better colonization by autochthonous species. The next stage is the removal of canals and ditches that contribute to the drainage of the water bed to the detriment of the most characteristic and valuable habitats. At the end of the morphological remodelling, the herbaceous cenosis reimplantation will be carried out, after working on the land by bringing in propagation material (seeds, hayseed and chaff, sods) suitable to the specific stational conditions. Scrub-clearance will be performed in the remaining part of the peat bog and on its wooded edges.
Integrated ferroelectric oxides for energy conversion devices

The rapid development of the semiconductor-based technology has enabled today’s functionalities and convenience that seemed impossible just a generation ago. Today, we rely upon numerous electronic devices that are pervasive around us to augment, accelerate, and alleviate countless tasks. In order to maintain the current (and desired) technological progression into the future, and to make this progress sustainable for the next generation, the performance of these devices must be improved in a more energy-efficient way.
Complex oxides – a family of materials displaying a vast diversity of physical properties – are a promising alternative for creating the superior technologies that could ensure this extended progress. Despite their promise, the two main obstacles currently impeding their implementation are 1) continued lack of a complete understanding of the microscopic phenomena governing the properties and 2) the difficulty in integrating such materials with existing processes in the semiconductor industry.
This Action exploits a novel fabrication process, inspired by the manipulation of single atomic layers such as graphene, but applied in a completely new way: to produce macroscopically large freestanding oxide thin films. Such films present a system free of substrate clamping and ideal to explore and optimize the intrinsic functionalities of these materials. In the first stage of the action, freestanding ferroelectric oxide films will be studied, thereby paving the way for implementation of the second stage in which these films will be integrated with semiconductor and flexible substrates for the development of energy conversion microelectronic devices. Once the objectives of this Action are achieved, a long awaited route to improve the current semiconductor technology via prototypical integration of complex oxides will be demonstrated. This multidisciplinary experimental action will be developed at two top level research institutions in United States and Spain.
A study of the reliability of various types of the electric vehicles

The reliability Studies are done in order to determine the probability of functioning or availability of different engineering systems. These studies can also provide a basis for comparing different structures of a system and can be used as a tool to improve the system design. Also, reliability is an important consideration in the planning, design and operation of transit system. Since the issue of the reliability of electric vehicles has not been sufficiently and seriously evaluated yet, so in this paper, the reliability of the various types of these kinds of vehicles will be discussed and then the reliability indices of them will be compared with each other and with the conventional cars.
MANUFACTURE AND USE OF A COMPOSITE STRUCTURE CONTAINING PRECIPITATED CARBONATE

A method of producing a composite structure, which is formed of a polysaccharide body, on which carbonate is precipitated, by forming a carbonate ion solution; mixing polysaccharide, in a form having free hydroxyl groups on its surface, into the carbonate ion solution, whereby a carbonate polysaccharide slurry is formed; and precipitating carbonate salt from the slurry into the polysaccharide. Also a carbonated polysaccharide product is claimed.
Effects of fault condition on the performance of hybrid PV/Wind power systems

The objective of this paper is to analyze the performance of multi-input converter during fault condition at hybrid power systems. Multi-input converters are fed with several sources of energy. During fault phenomenon, the voltages of energy sources become zero. So, the output voltage of mentioned converter is affected by this change. In this paper, at the first step, one hybrid PV/Wind power system has been proposed and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink. In this part, the simulation process of the power sources and double-input DC/DC converter has been explained. The other issue which is studied at this part is introducing of a proper control strategy for the simulated double-input DC/DC converter. There are some important factors to design the controller. These factors have been studied and based on these studies; the controller is designed. The last session of this survey relates to the studying of the fault effects on multi-input converter. At this part, by inserting the fault on power sources under different conditions, the output voltage and power have been analyzed. In addition, studying the dynamic and stability of designed controller is the other part of the last session.
Producción industrial de linfocitos Tregs como producto de terapia avanzada con biorreactor

Number_reference_aid_programa: SA.41471(2015/X) Objetivo de la ayuda pública: Artículo 25 del Reglamento (CE) n.º 651/2014, de 17 de junio de 2014, por el que se declaran determinadas categorías de ayudas compatibles con el mercado interior en la aplicación de los artículos 107 y 108 del Tratado Eso es todo. EU L 187/1 de 26.6.2014). El objetivo del proyecto es mejorar el proceso de multiplicación de células T reguladoras (Treg) mediante la realización de trabajos de investigación y desarrollo industrial, lo que dará lugar a la innovación de procesos a escala mundial. Ya en esta etapa, el proceso del cual la única entidad autorizada para la comercialización y desarrollo es PolTREG es una innovación a escala global confirmada por el número de patente PL218400 «La vacuna para el tratamiento de la diabetes tipo 1 en niños, el uso de un clasificador de células y el método de multiplicación de células Treg in vitro para la producción de una vacuna para el tratamiento de la diabetes tipo 1», la solicitud de patente de EPO de fecha 4.6.2013, así como la solicitud a la PTO de los EE.UU. de 5.12.2015. El método de producción de vacunas desarrollado en GUMed por un equipo de investigación galardonado en repetidas ocasiones (que son co-fundadores de PolTREG) es el proyecto más avanzado en el mundo en el área del tratamiento DM1 utilizando terapia celular. El tratamiento, no solo mitigando los efectos de la DM1, es posible gracias al uso de la preparación de linfocitos TREG. Esta preparación se puede utilizar hoy en día en enfermedades o sus etapas, para las cuales no hay otros tratamientos hoy en día o son ineficaces. Como resultado del proyecto, se espera que PolTREG mejore el proceso de producción de la vacuna a través de líneas diseñadas utilizando biorreactores (primero uso en terapia celular para las necesidades de DM1 en todo el mundo). El resultado del proyecto será: — reducción del tiempo de producción, — menor riesgo de contaminación del preparado — circuito cerrado sin transferir preparaciones entre diferentes etapas de producción
Enhancement of Erythrosine Photodynamic Therapy against Streptococcus mutans by Chlorhexidine

이 연구의 목적은 치과 임상에서 널리 사용되는 항미생물제제인 클로르헥시딘과 할로겐을 이용한 erythrosine 광역동 치료를 병용하였을 때, 부유 상태의 Streptococcus mutans에 미치는 항균효과를 평가하기 위함이다. S. mutans 표준 균주를 Brain Heart Infusion broth medium에 첨가하여 부유 상태로 배양하였다. 치과용 할로겐 광중합 장치를 광원으로 사용하였으며 치태 착색제인 erythrosine을 광감각제로 사용하였다. 클로르헥시딘의 최소살균농도를 측정하고, erythrosine 광역동 치료에서 최소살균농도를 결정하기 위해 $1{\mu}M$ , $5{\mu}M$ , $10{\mu}M$ 의 erythrosine 농도를 사용하여 할로겐 광중합기로 15초 동안 광조사를 시행한 후 세균수를 측정하였다. 마지막으로 클로르헥시딘과 erythrosine 광역동 치료를 병용한 경우 나타나는 상승효과를 평가하기 위해, 최소살균농도 이하인 0.001% 클로르헥시딘과 최소살균농도 이하인 $1{\mu}M$ erythrosine 광역동 치료를 병용하여 항균효과를 비교하였다. 최소살균농도 이하의 클로르헥시딘만 단독으로 사용하는 경우 S. mutans의 세균수가 유의하게 감소하지 않았다(p $5{\mu}M$ , $10{\mu}M$ 의 erythrosine 농도에서 유의하게 세균수가 감소하였지만, $1{\mu}M$ erythrosine 농도에서는 세균수가 유의하게 감소하지 않았다(p $1{\mu}M$ erythrosine 광역동 치료와 0.001% 클로르헥시딘을 병용하는 경우에는, 대조군과 비교하여 세균수가 유의하게 감소하였다(p $1{\mu}M$ erythrosine 광역동 치료를 각각 단독으로 시행하는 경우에는 유의한 항균효과가 없었지만, 두 가지 치료를 병용하는 경우 61%의 S. mutans 세균수가 감소하였다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼때 S. mutans에 대해 최소살균농도 이하의 클로르헥시딘과 erythrosine 광역동 치료를 병용하는 경우 상승효과가 있음을 알 수 있다. 【The purpose of this study was to investigate the synergistic effects of erythrosine sensitized with a conventional halogen curing unit and sub-minimal bactericidal concentration(sub-MBC) of chorhexidine on bacterial viability of Streptococcus mutans in planktonic state. Sub-minimal bactericidal concentration of chlorhexidine was added into wells containing bacteria and erythrosine. The range of concentrations tested for chorhexidine was from 0.0000001% to 0.001%. The irradiation of the bacterial suspensions was performed for 15 sec with a conventional halogen curing unit light. In another set of experiment, the effects of 0.001% chlorhexidine were observed by adding chlorhexidine into wells containing the sub-minimal bactericidal concentration of erythrosine. At the concetration of 0.001% chlorhexidine, there were no antibacterial effects in the absence of erythrosine PDT(p $1{\mu}M$ erythrosine, there was no photodynamic therapy effect in the absence of chlorhexidine(p】