SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Dual fuel euro6 engine conversion feasibility study

G-Volution has been a pioneer of the use of dual fuel technology in heavy road haulage vehicles in the UK and Europe, with current operators using dual fuel on a daily basis reporting real world CO2 emissions reduction of at least 15%, with consequent reductions in NOx and particulate emissions.  The Company has invested heavily in development for more than 8 years, producing a range of patented technology.  The new Euro 6 solution has been developed from GV’s patented Euro 5 solution, itself installed on a significant number of vehicle fleets, and demonstrated as part of the  current  Innovate UK Low carbon truck and refuelling infrastructure trial.  
Commercial developments over the last year or so have led to initial sales success through the acceptance of the technology as a solution that provides the qualities demanded for future transport Worldwide
The objective of the overall project is to develop the current prototype Euro 6 prototype vehicle to provide the first commercially available retrofit solution for Euro6 engines.  The strategic intent is to accelerate growth and increase penetration across Europe, USA and Asia by reducing the cost & increasing the reliability of the system while developing strategic partners in key European and World markets.
This first part proposal intends to examine the feasibility and route to:
Refine design for components and controls in line with OEM quality standards. 
Re-engineer ancilliary items to comply with  OEM acceptable safety and other standards.
Set targets for cost reduction based on market sizes and expectations and operating cost savings.
Investigate, and set up, a suitable professional supply chain to meet cost targets and quality.
Investigate certification and homologation routes for various territories/continents.
Produce a marketing and delivery plan that addresses business model by territory.
Carry out an IP inventory, both current and arising.
Raise TRL from 5-6 to 8-9, market ready.
A new method for studying insect orientations

A new method was used in this study with respect to insect flight orientation. The equipment of flight mill was combined with video tracking method in order to observe and record the tethered flight of insect. The flight mill has more advantages of improved structure and minimized spin friction benefited from the magnetic levitation mechanism except the tiny disturbance to external magnetic fields applied. Much useful information such as heading direction angle, speed and flight distance can be achieved with insect's movement subject to circular motion in a plane on flight mill. CamShift algorithm applied in Matlab realizes video tracking. We use four moths to test the function of this system. Extensive and meaningful study about possible link between flight orientation of insects and influential factors can be conducted with the aid of the new method.
Human Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Antiinflammatory Activity Ameliorates Clinical Outcome in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Models

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy is considered one of the most promising approaches for treating different neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We previously characterized a subpopulation of human skeletal muscle-derived stem cells (SkmSCs) with MSC-like characteristics that differentiate into the neurogenic lineage in vitro. In the present study, we evaluated the SkmSC therapeutic effects in the most characterized model of spontaneous motor neuron degeneration, the Wobbler (Wr) mouse. Before evaluating the therapeutic efficacy in the Wr mouse, we followed the route of Skm-SCs at different times after intracerebroventricular injection. Two exogenous tracers, superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles and Hoechst 33258, were used for the in vivo and ex vivo tracking of SkmSCs. We found that the loading of both Hoechst and SPIO was not toxic and efficiently labeled SkmSCs. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system 7 Tesla allowed us to localize transplanted SkmSCs along the whole ventricular system up to 18 wks after injection. The ex vivo Hoechst 33258 visualization confirmed the in vivo results obtained by MRI analyses. Behavioral observations revealed a fast and sustained improvement of motor efficacy in SkmSC-treated Wr mice associated with a relevant protection of functional neuromuscular junctions. Moreover, we found that in SkmSC-treated Wr mice, a significant increase of important human antiinflammatory cytokines occurred. This evidence is in accordance with previous findings showing the bystander effect of stem cell transplantation in neurodegenerative disorders and further strengthens the hypothesis of the possible link between inflammation, cytotoxicity and ALS.
Does the Cerebellum Implement or Select Geometries? A Speculative Note

During evolution, living systems, actively interacting with their environment, developed the ability, through sensorimotor contingencies, to construct functional spaces shaping their perception and their movements. These geometries were modularly embedded in specific functional neuro-architectures. In particular, human movements were shown to obey several empirical laws, such as the 2/3 power law, isochrony, or jerk minimization principles, which constrain and adapt motor planning and execution. Outstandingly, such laws can be deduced from a combination of Euclidean, affine, and equi-affine geometries, whose neural correlates have been partly detected in several brain areas including the cerebellum and the basal ganglia. Reviving Pellionisz and Llinas general hypothesis regarding the cerebrum and the cerebellum as geometric machines, we speculate that the cerebellum should be involved in implementing and/or selecting task-specific geometries for motor and cognitive skills. More precisely, the cerebellum is assumed to compute forward internal models to help specific cortical and subcortical regions to select appropriate geometries among, at least, Euclidean and affine geometries. We emphasize that the geometrical role of the cerebellum deserves a renewal of interest, which may provide a better understanding of its specific contributions to motor and associative (cognitive) functions.
AIR HEATER

Air heater comprising a gas burner (1) and heat-exchange means (2) including at least one heat-exchange wall which separates a first passage (5) for flow of air to be heated from a second passage (6) for flow of the flue gases produced by the burner (1), the air to be heated being made to flow by blower means through the first passage (5), the hot flue gases flowing in counter-current through the second passage (6), wherein the burner (1) is of the radiation type, and the heat-exchange wall comprises a convective-exchange part and an absorption part for absorbing the radiation from the burner, the flue gases heating the air by convection mainly in the region of the convective-exchange part, the radiation from the burner (1) being mainly emitted towards the absorption part, the air flowing over this absorption part after it has flowed over the convective-exchange part.
Impact of industrialisation on CO 2 emissions in Nigeria

Abstract Developing countries, including Nigeria, aim to achieve industrialisation and sustainable development. However, there are few empirical studies that examined the impact of industrialisation-led economic transformation on carbon emissions in developing countries. This is the focus of this study. The paper investigates the impact of industrial value-added on CO2 emissions in Nigeria using the Kaya Identity framework and Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF), Johansen׳s cointegration technique and vector error correction model (VECM). The data spans from 1980 to 2011. The result of the ADF test indicates that continual long term policies that exert permanent shocks on the variables are required to achieve economic development, industrialisation and CO2 reduction. The result of the analysis shows that industrial value-added has an inverse and significant relationship with CO2 emissions, which suggests that there is no evidence that industrialisation increases carbon emissions in Nigeria. GDP per capita and population has positive and significant impacts on CO2 emission. Energy intensity and carbon intensity has positive but very weak significant impact (at 10% level) on CO2 emission. The paper recommends that policy makers in Nigeria should pursue pragmatic industrialisation policies coupled with modest decarbonisation and energy-efficiency measures in order to ensure long term industrial, economic and sustainable development.
REinforce Competitiveness of REgionAl Transport SMEs

SMEs currently employ 55% of the EU workforce in transport, and their important role in the value chain is expected to expand. The rigid value chain of the transport sector is stifling the introduction of innovation by SMEs into new vehicles and transport-related products. SMEs (usually Tier 2 suppliers) find it difficult to interact with vehicle manufacturers, as they generally have short-term supply contracts to Tier 1 companies, who are strongly linked to specific large volume OEMs. Tier 2 SMEs have no collective voice or influence at European level and the EU is not taking advantage of or supporting directly the thriving innovative companies in this sector. ( CUE, 2015, Report  on transport SMEs in regions, INTRASME project-FP7) 
RECREATE will address this market failure and focus on the opportunities that new markets offer to innovative and dynamic transport SMEs through adaption of regional support schemes. RECREATE will improve the capacity and capability of regional transport SMEs to further develop and grow: this includes support for 1. Research and Development  2. rapid development and implementation of products and services 3. Access to finance schemes. 4. Internationalisation opportunities. RECREATE adopts a holistic approach to SME support by by improving all the relevant schemes that could potentially deliver growth to the regional transport SMEs. Recognising the importance and the potential of the transport SMEs in the economies of the regions involved, RECREATE will map transport SME support measures and assess their effectiveness.  The integrated approach adopted by the RECREATE project will drive the identification and development of support mechanisms in the transport  SME sector and it will ultimately deliver Action Plans and policy recommendations for evidence -based policy improvement.
Securing sustainable dendromass production with poplar plantations in european rural areas

Dendromass4Europe (D4E) aims at establishing sustainable, Short-Rotation Coppice (SRC)-based regional cropping systems for agricultural dendromass on marginal land that feed into bio-based value chains and create additional job opportunities in rural areas. For that purpose, 2,500 ha of short rotation poplar plantations are established, including marginal or currently unused land in rural areas of the Slovak Republic and Hungary. These plantations will provide the feedstock for the establishment of four new bio-based value chains based upon products from wood and bark from poplar trees: (1) a functionally adapted lightweight fibreboard, (2) eco-fungicidal moulded fibre parts, (3) a bark-enriched wood-plastic composite and (4) a multi-purpose wood-plastic granulate. 
Besides developing attractive business opportunities, the activities of the industrial partners in D4E will generate profit for the rural economy (income for farmers, employment opportunities). A large number of farmers and rural land owners will directly benefit from the diversification and increase of revenues through their involvement into D4E. The main responsible plantation owner IKEA Industries Malacky provides a framework for land acquisition. With the plantation management, the respective farmers and land owners in rural western Slovakia and in north-western Hungary will have direct access to a new bio-based market of three industrial partners. Based on the above mentioned impact of D4E plantations for the farmers’ income, new primary agricultural jobs will be created, mainly for local people and opening possibilities for disadvantaged groups. New green jobs in rural areas will also originate from the D4E  at the production plants of the industrial partners.  
The consortium D4E unites expertise from industrial and academic partners in the relevant fields along the production, processing and utilization of products from short-rotation coppice.
A novel putative lipoprotein receptor (CasLpR) in the hemocytes of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: Cloning and up-regulated expression after the injection of LPS and LTA

The full-length cDNA encoding a putative lipoprotein receptor (CasLpR) was isolated from the hemocytes of Callinectes sapidus using 5' and 3' RACEs. The open reading frame for CasLpR contains a precursor of putative CasLpR consisting of 1710 amino acid residues including 22 amino acid residues of the signal peptide (22 amino acids). Mature CasLpR (1688 amino acids with 5.6% of phosphorylation sites) has multiple, putative functional domains: five low-density lipoprotein receptor domains in the N-terminus, and a G-protein-coupled receptor proteolysis site domain and a 7 transmembrane receptor (secretin family) domain in the C-terminus. To date, there are no proteins with a similar domain structure in the GenBank. The expression pattern of CasLpR was exclusive in hemocytes among all tested tissues obtained from a juvenile female at intermolt stage: brain, eyestalk ganglia, pericardial organs, and thoracic ganglia complex (nervous system); hepatopancreas (digestive system); heart, artery and hemocytes (circulatory system); gill and antennal gland (excretory system), hypodermis; and Y-organ (endocrine organ). There was no CasLpR expression in the ovary of an adult female. A putative function of CasLpR was examined after challenges of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and lipoteichoic acid (LTA) in vivo using qRT-PCR assays. Animals at 24 h after injection of LPS or LTA up-regulated the expression of CasLpR in hemocytes by ∼3.5 and 1.4 folds, respectively, compared to the controls that received saline injection. LPS challenge also caused the greatest increment (∼55 folds) of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) expression in these samples. These data indicate that putative CasLpR and CasHsp90 may be involved in the defense system or the stress response of C. sapidus.
Effects of the border closure Benin-Nigeria on the marketing of Clarias gariepinus

The Clarias is consumed in Africa and Benin.Despite its important role in food, its sector is subject to many constraints, including marketing in Nigeria.The objective of this study is to assess the marketing of smoked Clarias in southern Benin in the face of the Nigerian border closure.It is made in the Oueme department.Individual surveys based on structured questionnaires were conducted with 30 fish farmers and 45 processors.From the results obtained, three Nigerian markets are known for the sale of smoked Clarias, of which Badagri is the main destination.The actors in this activity are mostly adults with an average experience over 20 years.Fish farming is mainly the prerogative of men (83.33%) while processing and marketing are the only privilege of women (100%).The closure of the Nigerian border has led to a decrease in the annual fish production of the respondents from 8,960 kg to 7,491.96kg as well as a decrease in the quantity of smoked fish from 6,249.24 kg to 2,319.96kg after the border closure.The study shows a decline in the level of income of fish farmers and commercial processors, especially in the achievement of food security in their households.The marketing of smoked fish in Nigeria appears to be a profitable activity for processors.
Prudenta: electronic solution for safer drugs

Prudenta is an innovative, artificial intelligence-supported cloud-based solution that will enable pharmaceutical companies to automate local medical literature monitoring for drug safety signals (possible adverse reactions) and thus drastically improve the safety of drugs, as well as reduce the costs of drugs in the market. Safety signal searching is mandatory by law to all pharmaceutical companies and must be performed in each country, where the drug is traded. Until now - such searching was manual, in many instances not even electronic. 


If successful, Prudenta would have a three-fold impact: 1) Safer drugs due to automation of the process and exclusion of the human error; 2) Cheaper drugs due to reduction of costs of inefficient use of experienced and educated personnel in pharmaceutical companies for manual searching; 3) Increase in employment in EU for support of all Prudenta activities (software development, operations, sales & marketing, etc.).
CURVGRAV-GUI: a graphical user interface to interpret gravity data using curvature technique

CURVGRAV-GUI is an open source software that was developed to interpret gridded gravity data by using curvature technique. It was developed using C# language with Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0. This program calculates the critical and extreme points, and estimates the depths of source bodies at this points. Besides, CURVGRAV-GUI processes gravity data by using minimum curvature, one of the attributes of curvature, and detects the subsurface lineaments. It is a user-friendly application that can display obtained solutions and gravity data thanks to image and scatter maps. CURVGRAV-GUI was designed to develop both synthetic and field applications. Additionally, the β constant, a parameter related to the source geometry, was examined for different source types such as sphere, horizontal and vertical cylinder and thin vertical fault. This program was tested by using two synthetic model applications. In the first synthetic model application, it was used a complex synthetic model consisting of three sphere and a horizontal cylinder located at the different depths. In the second synthetic model application, a graben model consisting of two thin vertical fault was used. Finally, the performance of the CURVGRAV-GUI was tested with using a real gravity data belonging to Kozakli-Central Anatolia region, Turkey. Very successful results were obtained for both synthetic and field data. Earth scientist can use CURVGRAV-GUI for educational experiments.
Futures: create. imagine. explore.

FUTURES: Create. Imagine. Explore. will bring together learning from the past and visions of the future by celebrating cultural heritage and exploring innovation. We will achieve this by hosting two nights of activities across the cities of Bristol and Bath engaging the South West region in a celebration and discovery of European cutting-edge research and its place in society. 

The consortium will be led by the University of Bristol, with the University of Bath as bid partner plus Bath Spa University as a core partner. FUTURES will have a distinctive regional flavour, as we are bringing together Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows from the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter and Cardiff, and utilising the strong research connections across the West of England and south Wales that exist through the ""GW4 Alliance"" between these universities. We will also work closely with popular venues such as We The Curious and The Holburne Museum, as well as community spaces such as The Island and Barton Hill Settlement. This range of partners in both cities will ensure a diversity of citizens across the South West region will be able to participate in a range of thought-provoking and inspiring activities engaging them with research. 

We have a strong emphasis on engaging school children and families to increase awareness of careers in research and to break stereotypes about researchers. We are also aiming activities at specific groups who may not normally have access to research or researchers. For all activities, direct interaction with researchers will allow audiences to engage with the people behind the science.

We will provide a coherent story of cultural heritage and innovation that have characterised the region’s scientific and socio-economic development. With Responsible Research and Innovation in mind, working with socially engaged artists we will reflect on how current developments have the potential to influence the future of the region and beyond.
Displacing deviance: second-generation migrant youth, disciplinary return, and transnational social fields of inclusion and exclusion return

‘Displacing Deviance…’ is a state-of-the-art research project into transnational family practices. It examines ‘disciplinary return’ - young second-generation migrants sent ‘home’ to their countries of heritage by their parents as a disciplinary measure – a widespread practice which has not yet been the focus of direct research. Second-generation ties to the homeland are critical to issues of integration, yet understanding of second-generation transnationalism is thin. Examining ‘disiplinary return’ within the Nigerian diaspora will establish new, in-depth understanding of how migrants navigate transnational structures of opportunity and constraint through their family practice. This will shed light on the relationship between socio-economic challenges faced in ‘host’ countries, and how migrants build loyalties and identities in a transnational context. It will produce findings of relevance to policy concerns about societal challenges around multicultural integration and minority youth in the education and criminal justice sectors. The research approach is innovative, answering calls for youth-centric, multi-sited, and intergenerational research into transnational families, thus far mostly studied via first-generation migrant parents in single locations. Qualitative research with migrant parents and youth, and participatory research with migrant youth, will be undertaken in the USA, Nigeria and the UK. Supervision by a world expert, Dr Coe at Rutgers, in the outgoing phase will provide a unique training opportunity for the researcher and excellent means to build networks. Expertise gained will be transferred back into Europe in the incoming phase by working with Dr Dwyer, co-director of the Migration Research Unit (Geography Department) at UCL, a hub for migration research with Europe-wide networks. This will maximise output which advance theoretical debates around migration and transnationalism, speak to policy debates, and capture public audiences.
A group testing algorithm with online informational learning

An online group testing method to search for a hidden object in a discrete search space is proposed. A relevant example is a search after a nonconforming unit in a batch, while many other applications can be related. A probability mass function is defined over the search space to represent the probability of an object (e.g., a nonconforming unit) to be located at some point or subspace. The suggested method follows a stochastic local search procedure and can be viewed as a generalization of the Learning Real-Time A* (LRTA*) search algorithm, while using informational distance measures over the searched space. It is proved that the proposed Informational LRTA* (ILRTA*) algorithm converges and always terminates. Moreover, it is shown that under relevant assumptions, the proposed algorithm generalizes known optimal information-theoretic search procedures, such as the offline Huffman search or the generalized optimum testing algorithm. However, the ILRTA* can be applied to new situations, such as a search wit...