SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Tackling the environmental concerns for deploying geothermal energy in europe

The advantages of using geothermal for power production and H&C are little known. Recently, deep geothermal energy production in some regions is confronted with a negative perception, and a special attention from some decision-makers, in terms of environmental performance, which could seriously hamper its market uptake. Media reports focus more on disadvantages than advantages. As a result, decision makers and potential investors have concerns about possible environmental impacts and risks involved in implementing geothermal projects, and social resistance often results in practical obstacles - such as significant slowdowns - to the deployment of the deep geothermal resources.  The first objective of the GEOENVI project is to make sure that deep geothermal energy can play its role in Europe’s future energy supply in a sustainable way. It aims to create a robust strategy to respond environmental concerns (by environmental concerns we mean both environmental impacts and risks): • by assessing the environmental impacts and risks of geothermal projects operational or in development in Europe, and  • by providing a robust framework to propose recommendations on environmental regulations to the decision-makers, an adapted methodology for assessing environment impact to the project developers, and finally   • by communicating properly on environmental concerns with the general public.  Secondly, GEOENVI aims at engaging with both decision-makers and geothermal market actors, to have the recommendations on regulations adopted and to see the LCA methodology implemented by geothermal stakeholders. The engagement with stakeholders includes to share knowledge by adopting an open and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data approach.
NVL2, a nucleolar AAA-ATPase, is associated with the nuclear exosome and is involved in pre-rRNA processing

Nuclear VCP-like 2 (NVL2) is a member of the chaperone-like AAA-ATPase family and is involved in the biosynthesis of 60S ribosomal subunits in mammalian cells. We previously showed the interaction of NVL2 with a DExD/H-box RNA helicase MTR4/DOB1, which is a known cofactor for an exoribonuclease complex, the exosome. This finding implicated NVL2 in RNA metabolic processes during ribosome biogenesis. In the present study, we found that a series of mutations within the ATPase domain of NVL2 causes a defect in pre-rRNA processing into mature 28S and 5.8S rRNAs. Co-immunoprecipitation analysis showed that NVL2 was associated with the nuclear exosome complex, which includes RRP6 as a nucleus-specific catalytic subunit. This interaction was prevented by depleting either MTR4 or RRP6, indicating their essential role in mediating this interaction with NVL2. Additionally, knockdown of MPP6, another cofactor for the nuclear exosome, also prevented the interaction by causing MTR4 to dissociate from the nuclear exosome. These results suggest that NVL2 is involved in pre-rRNA processing by associating with the nuclear exosome complex and that MPP6 is required for maintaining the integrity of this rRNA processing complex.
Does more equitable governance lead to more equitable health care? A case study based on the implementation of health reform in Aboriginal health Australia

There is growing evidence that providing increased voice to vulnerable or disenfranchised populations is important to improving health equity. In this paper we will examine the engagement of Aboriginal community members and community controlled organisations in local governance reforms associated with the Aboriginal Health National Partnership Agreements (AHNPA) in Australia and its impact on the uptake of health assessments. The sample included qualitative and quantitative responses from 188 people involved in regional governance in Aboriginal health. The study included data on the uptake of Aboriginal health assessments from July 2008 to December 2012. The study population was 83190 in 2008/9, 856986 in 2009/10, 88256 in 2010/11 and 90903 in 2011/12. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationships between organisations within forums and the regional uptake of Aboriginal health assessments. The independent variables included before and after the AHNPA, state, remoteness, level of representation from Aboriginal organisations and links between Aboriginal and mainstream organisations. The introduction of the AHNPA was associated with a shift in power from central government to regional forums. This shift has enabled Aboriginal people a much greater voice in governance. The results of the analyses show that improvements in the uptake of health assessments were associated with stronger links between Aboriginal organisations and between mainstream organisations working with Aboriginal organisations. Higher levels of community representation were also associated with improved uptake of health assessments in the AHNPA. The findings suggest that the incorporation of Aboriginal community and community controlled organisations in regional planning plays an important role in improving health equity. This study makes an important contribution to understanding the processes through which the incorporation of disadvantaged groups into governance might contribute to health equity.
Contemporary Art in the Cross-border Regions of Greece and Italy

The aim of the project is to identify actors in the arts sector, particularly living and/or operating in the cross-border region, to promote their creations and strengthen their cooperation and to provide a unique way of market expansion through the use of innovative information technology. ADRION-ART aims to assist a particular sub-group of the cross-border enterprises, namely those involved in the arts sector, to face the challenges of embracing digital technologies with an aim to improve productivity and market reach, to adapt their internal structures to global competition and to achieve “internet speed” in their “business reaction” times. In addition, ADRION-ART assists a broader range of the community by providing access to historians, scholars, sociologists and other researchers to modern forms of art and culture and establishing a modern education community through a well-organized source of knowledge. The specific objectives are: • Publish and promote the work of artists. • Offer the opportunity to artists to promote their products by conducting on-line artistic exhibitions. • Upgrade the cross-border trade. • Incorporate innovative technologies in the day-to-day activities of art creators such as the electronic ordering, buying and selling. • Provide art creators with a cost-effective access to new national and international markets. • Disable the constraints on the access infrastructure of the users by offering a web based, user-friendly IT platform. • Improve transnational cooperation of artists and exchange of experience and knowledge • Offer the new art creators the ability to connect with the system by mapping their products with the ADRION-ART platform.
Aligned roll-to-roll shear coating of nanotubes

Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) are considered to be one of 21st century’s most promising materials and over the past decade, tremendous scientific advances have been achieved in the synthesis and processing of these materials. However, the uptake of CNTs by high-tech industry is hampered by a lack of high-throughput processes to structure CNTs into aligned and densely packed assemblies. This is key to fabricate next generation CNT devices, and to date, the CNT community is still struggling to achieve this, especially over large areas. 

As part of the ERC Starting Grant HiENA, we are pioneering a potentially disruptive strategy to control the packing of CNTs and to fabricate large area films of aligned CNT. In this process, we start from newly developed ultra-high density dispersion of CNTs which can form liquid crystal domains. These domains are aligned by controlling shear in a custom designed coating head which then continuously dispenses the CNTs on a roll-to-roll coater which was recently purchased by the host group. To quantify the performance of the proposed technology, the parameter space of the coating process will be mapped out in terms of throughput, film thickness, uniformity, and conductivity. 

Finally, we devised a two-step commercialisation plan which targets less to more demanding markets including thin film heaters, ultra-lightweight electro-magnetic shields, as well as interconnects and sensors for flexible electronics. We believe this project is timely on the one hand because of the technology push of improved CNT processing and on the other hand by the pull from several new markets including flexible electronics and the rise of the Internet of Things which will require a drastic increase in low cost electronic manufacturing technologies. The ERC Proof of Concept grant ARENA aspires to contribute to this need by taking a leap forward in the large scale processing of next generation CNT devices.
The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

This book is Winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China's story - one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world's largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world's largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word 'luxury' is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. And why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.
Highway Changing Extension Project Roadbed Broaden Synthesis Punishment Plan

The old road broaden transforms to enhances already has the category of roads and the improvement road network structure has the high technical economy value. When the highway widens the improvement project the project design must carry on the multi-plans compared to elect, to adopt the technology to be feasible, guarantee quality, control cost synthesis punishment plan. The union project practice, from the basis desilting, trades fills in with attacks the roller compaction, the roadbed padding choice, the stair excavates with the construction roadbed broaden and so on several aspects carries on the elaboration, and proposes the concrete punishment plan.
Travaux de R & D sur le développement d’une production innovante d’aliments fonctionnels dédiés à l’engraissement de la truite dans des circuits d’eau fermés

L’objet du projet est le travail de R & D sur le développement d’une recette innovante, des technologies de production et des règles alimentaires dédiées à l’engraissement de la truite dans des circuits d’eau fermés. Le résultat des travaux sera une recette innovante d’engraissement permettant la production indépendante d’aliments extrudés pour poissons à base de matières premières composées d’ingrédients innovants: GrayFish (Amaranthus cruentus) et moulin à farine de larves (Tenebrio Melitor). Grâce à leurs propriétés, les ingrédients qui suscitent les préoccupations des consommateurs (repas de poisson, OGM, certaines substances antioxydantes) seront éliminés de la recette des aliments pour animaux. La notion de production d’aliments pour animaux d’engraissement implique leur production pour la production de truites dans des circuits d’eau fermés (ci-après dénommés «RAS»). Système de recirculation de l’aquaculture: le système de recirculation, l’eau circule à travers les réservoirs et est réutilisé après traitement, c’est-à-dire après filtrage). En raison de la digestibilité attendue des composants et de l’équilibre précis de la composition des aliments pour animaux avec la demande alimentaire, la quantité d’excrétion des matières fécales et, partant, la charge de composés phosphoreux et de composés azotés introduits dans l’eau seront réduites. Une teneur calorique adéquate sera établie pour assurer une croissance rapide des poissons et réduire les effets néfastes des graisses. Pour atteindre cet objectif, la recherche servira à fournir des informations sur la digestibilité des aliments pour animaux à partir de matières premières sélectionnées et leur impact sur la santé et la qualité de la viande de truite arc-en-ciel et sur les tests nutritionnels effectués sur des étangs ouverts et dans des conditions d’élevage dans un hall fermé. Le résultat du projet sera des recettes d’aliments tenant compte de la composition biochimique stable des matières premières, caractérisée par une digestibilité élevée et une assimilation des nutriments, grâce, entre autres, aux propriétés bénéfiques du gris. Amélioration des zos
Imidazolidinethiones: underexplored organocatalysts that show promise in catalyzing prebiotic and modern organic reactions

As elements in metal-based catalysis are becoming increasingly high risk, organocatalysts represent versatile, green, and robust catalysts as effective alternatives. Imidazolidine-4-thiones are 5-membered thioamide heterocycles with a secondary amine at ring position 1, which have structural similarity to imidazolidinones, successfully used as chiral organocatalysts. However, unlike imidazolidinones and proline-based catalysts, imidazolidinethiones are underexplored and underutilized as catalysts in organic reactions, their catalytic cycle is not proven, and the relative intermediates involved in the cycle have not been isolated to date. Earlier in 2020, imidazolidinethiones have been demonstrated by the Trapp group as suitable catalysts in the alkylation of aldehydes in prebiotic media, and they show promise as organocatalysts in modern organic reactions. In this project, I will investigate the reactivity of relevant intermediates in the organocatalytic cycle, that is, the enamines and iminium ions derived from the imidazolidinethiones and enolizable and non-enolizable aldehydes, respectively. The reactivity of imidazolidine-4-thione derived enamines and iminium ions will be quantified by kinetic measurements and results will embedded in the comprehensive Mayr reactivity scales. Experimental kinetic data will be acquired by applying photometric methods, which cover different timescales from conventional UV-vis spectroscopy to follow slow reactions via stopped-flow techniques to laser flash photolysis for reactions close to diffusion control, which proceed within nanoseconds. This fellowship will shed light on the unproven catalytic cycle and provide a quantitative basis for the future exploitation of this underutilized class of catalysts. Furthermore, I will develop skills in physical organic chemistry using quantitative structure-reactivity relationships and time resolved spectroscopy, while also refining soft skills such as leadership and teaching.
Robust track-to-track association in the presence of sensor biases and missed detections

We model the structural difference between two sets by a non-rigid transformation.The robust track-to-track association is turned into the TPS-RPM framework.The SA and DA techniques are used to solve the MINLP model.The structural similarity of tracks is introduced to improve the accuracy. The paper addresses the problem of robust track-to-track association in the presence of sensor biases and missed detections. Under the condition of large range biases with sensors, it is validated that the structural difference between two sets of local tracks from different sensors can be described by a non-rigid transformation. After that, we turn the robust track-to-track association problem into the non-rigid point matching problem in the framework of TPS-RPM (Thin Plate Spline-Robust Point Matching). Further, to improve the performance of the track-to-track association, the structural feature is introduced for each local track, and the structural similarity is incorporated by regularizing the energy function of the TPS-RPM algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches compared with competing algorithms.
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea

Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) and mass mortality events (MMEs) of marine organisms are one of their main ecological impacts. Here, we show that during the 2015-2019 period, the Mediterranean Sea has experienced exceptional thermal conditions resulting in the onset of five consecutive years of widespread MMEs across the basin. These MMEs affected thousands of kilometers of coastline from the surface to 45 m, across a range of marine habitats and taxa (50 taxa across 8 phyla). Significant relationships were found between the incidence of MMEs and the heat exposure associated with MHWs observed both at the surface and across depths. Our findings reveal that the Mediterranean Sea is experiencing an acceleration of the ecological impacts of MHWs which poses an unprecedented threat to its ecosystems' health and functioning. Overall, we show that increasing the resolution of empirical observation is critical to enhancing our ability to more effectively understand and manage the consequences of climate change.
Role of Nitrogen Fertilization in Sustaining Organic Matter in Cultivated Soils

Soil organic matter (SOM) is essential for sustaining food production and maintaining ecosystem services and is a vital resource base for storing C and N. The impact of long-term use of synthetic fertilizer N on SOM, however, has been questioned recently. Here we tested the hypothesis that long-term application of N results in a decrease in SOM. We used data from 135 studies of 114 long-term experiments located at 100 sites throughout the world over time scales of decades under a range of land-management and climate regimes to quantify changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic nitrogen (SON). Published data of a total of 917 and 580 observations for SOC and SON, respectively, from control (unfertilized or zero N) and N-fertilized treatments (synthetic, organic, and combination) were analyzed using the SAS mixed model and by meta-analysis. Results demonstrate declines of 7 to 16% in SOC and 7 to 11% in SON with no N amendments. In soils receiving synthetic fertilizer N, the rate of SOM loss decreased. The time-fertilizer response ratio, which is based on changes in the paired comparisons, showed average increases of 8 and 12% for SOC and SON, respectively, following the application of synthetic fertilizer N. Addition of organic matter (i.e., manure) increased SOM, on average, by 37%. When cropping systems fluctuated between flooding and drying, SOM decreased more than in continuous dryland or flooded systems. Flooded rice ( L.) soils show net accumulations of SOC and SON. This work shows a general decline in SOM for all long-term sites, with and without synthetic fertilizer N. However, our analysis also demonstrates that in addition to its role in improving crop productivity, synthetic fertilizer N significantly reduces the rate at which SOM is declining in agricultural soils, worldwide.
The Southern Agrarians: a case study in intellectualized collection development

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study about how academic librarians can contribute to the interdisciplinary research endeavors of professors and students, especially doctoral candidates, through an intellectualized approach to collection development.Design/methodology/approach – In the wake of protest movements such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, colleges and universities have begun to develop courses about these events, and it is anticipated that there will be much research conducted about their respective histories. Academic librarians can participate in those research efforts by developing interdisciplinary collections about protest movements and by referring researchers to those collections.Findings – Through a case‐study approach, this paper provides a narrative bibliography about Southern Agrarianism that can help professors and students interested in the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street movements to see their research endeavors from a new interdisciplinary perspect...
Crystal Structure of Cruxrhodopsin-3 from Haloarcula vallismortis

Cruxrhodopsin-3 (cR3), a retinylidene protein found in the claret membrane of Haloarcula vallismortis, functions as a light-driven proton pump. In this study, the membrane fusion method was applied to crystallize cR3 into a crystal belonging to space group P321. Diffraction data at 2.1 Å resolution show that cR3 forms a trimeric assembly with bacterioruberin bound to the crevice between neighboring subunits. Although the structure of the proton-release pathway is conserved among proton-pumping archaeal rhodopsins, cR3 possesses the following peculiar structural features: 1) The DE loop is long enough to interact with a neighboring subunit, strengthening the trimeric assembly; 2) Three positive charges are distributed at the cytoplasmic end of helix F, affecting the higher order structure of cR3; 3) The cytoplasmic vicinity of retinal is more rigid in cR3 than in bacteriorhodopsin, affecting the early reaction step in the proton-pumping cycle; 4) the cytoplasmic part of helix E is greatly bent, influencing the proton uptake process. Meanwhile, it was observed that the photobleaching of retinal, which scarcely occurred in the membrane state, became significant when the trimeric assembly of cR3 was dissociated into monomers in the presence of an excess amount of detergent. On the basis of these observations, we discuss structural factors affecting the photostabilities of ion-pumping rhodopsins.
Cooperation and competition: a GIS pilot study of Taichung’s district Bookstart programme

Policy innovation and diffusion are vital for ensuring the well-being of the general public by providing the services they need. Cooperation and competition between jurisdictions are seen as important mechanisms for the diffusion of innovation. This study examines cooperation and competition in the innovation diffusion process and presents a case study of the Bookstart programme in the libraries of Taichung County, Taiwan. Using a geographic information system (GIS), it examines whether cooperation and competition are spatially dependent. The findings demonstrate that the level of cooperation is not autocorrelated with neighbouring districts, and that there are limited examples of competition. We argue the case for the use of GIS in studies of policy diffusion.