SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Harmonising Open Data in the Mediterranean through Better Access and Reuse of Public Sector Information

HOMER focuses on the theme of Open Data, a world-wide policy aiming at making available and exploitable Public Sector Information (PSI). Governments are increasingly recognising the benefits of making their data open and reusable. The first is transparency: simply opening PSI, citizens can be better informed and participate in the decision making process. The second is linked to the economic value of PSI, whose wider re-use is considered a primary content resource for the development of digital markets. Compared to Northern Europe, MED area is still facing a digital divide gap in terms of market opportunities, e-government performances and transparency, mainly due to cultural, political and legal barriers. Fully aware of PSI benefits and of specific obstacles characterising the MED space, HOMER contributes to bridge this gap, by promoting a coordinated and tailored approach in 8 Mediterranean countries in order to stimulate accessibility and re-use of PSI. In line with the EU Digital Agenda, HOMER will facilitate the wider deployment of PSI in Spain, Italy, France, Malta, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus and Montenegro, enabling their public governments to better address the legal, cultural and technological challenges linked to PSI policy. Starting from exposing 5 strategic sectors, characterising the MED political agenda of the next decades (Agriculture, Tourism, Environment, Energy and Culture), consistent with the NSRF strategies of the partners and linked to the committment of their internal departments, a dedicated Task Force composed of IT and Open data experts will be able to support HOMER institutional partners to face the legal cultural and technological obstacles of Open Data policy. In this way, during its first phase, HOMER will be able to open hundreds of public datasets, enhancing digital heritage transparency across the Mediterranean. But HOMER will go beyond this first milestone: the -opened-� PSI will be then federated, setting up the basis for a transnational Open Data Federation. This second milestone will generate a concrete MED added value, increasing the amount of datasets accessible from each institutional portal and enhancing the level of opportunities offered by the exploitation of a wider and cross-border digital heritage in a transnational market. Finally to demonstrate the Federation's tangible impact, HOMER will launch 2 pilots: one aiming to increase transparency and the level of participation of citizens in the decision making process, the second aiming to stimulate the exploitation of the federated PSI. Both pilots will be based on a tailored communication strategy, in line with the Community initiatives -Data.gov.eu-� aiming at raising awareness about the benefits of exploiting PSI at transnational level. Pilot showcase will be then presented during a final ceremony in 2014, to spread HOMER results to all Mediterranean governments interested to join the MED Open Data Federation
City Parking in Europe

The Humboldt University of Berlin in cooperation with Berlin located companies has initiated the idea for this project to help cities in Europe overcome their problems of inner-city parking. Within the project the partner cities should share knowledge and experience of developing stationary traffi c policies, strategies and projects, to learn about new, effective solutions. Local and municipal public authorities were targeted which faced similar issues caused by stationary traffi c and which were responsible for the development of stationary traffi c strategies and policies in their city. The main objective of this project is to create more effective parking-related policies and strategies to aid urban development, through the dissemination of effective, sustainable city-parking policy and good practice between regions, learning about stationary traffi c strategy development in other cities, and developing new guidelines for each city.
PURCHASE OF MACHINERY: EUROMACH 2500 SPIDER OPERATING MACHINE WITH PLIERS

PURPOSE ÃÂ Â: GREEN TRANSITION OBJECTIVES: — PROMOTE CIRCULAR TRANSFORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAINS: FUNCTIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR THE REALISATION OF CIRCULAR PRODUCTION PROCESSES, THE REUSE AND/OR USE OF RECYCLED MATERIALS, PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS OR RESIDUES DERIVING FROM PRODUCTION CYCLES AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO VIRGIN RAW MATERIALS, THE REDUCTION OF WASTE PRODUCTION, THE RECOVERY OF PROCESSING BY-PRODUCTS FOR REUSE AS SECOND RAW MATERIALS FOR OTHER PRODUCTION CHAINS, FINALITYÂ ÃÂ Â: SECURITY OBJECTIVES: — INCREASE THE SAFETY OF WORKERS, CUSTOMERS/USERS AND SUPPLIERS: FUNCTIONAL INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS IN THE WORKPLACE, WHICH REDUCE THE RISK OF ACCIDENTS, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING SOLUTIONS TO CONTAIN THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY FROM COVID-19
ACTIVATABLE MASKED ANTI-CTLA4 BINDING PROTEINS

The invention provides activatable masked anti-CTLA4 binding proteins (e.g., antibodies, bispecific antibodies, and chimeric receptors) and their use in treating and preventing cancer, as well as compositions and kits comprising the activatable masked anti-CTLA4 binding proteins.
P107 Assessing effectiveness and specificity of DLPFC rTMS using an unbiased resting-state approach

Question While the precise mechanism of action is still unclear, rTMS is an effective FDA-approved treatment in depression and shows beneficial behavioral effects in a range of pathologies. A better understanding could improve treatment success and reduce the number of non-treatment responders. This study is the first to investigate effectiveness and specificity of rTMS over left DLPFC using a large-scale (n = 60) sham-controlled cross-over design and an unbiased resting-state (RS) approach. Methods 60 healthy subjects (age: 25.01 ± 4.6 years, f/m: 31/29) underwent rTMS DLPFC and sham stimulation (see Fig. 1) Download : Download high-res image (493KB) Download : Download full-size image . Resting state (rs) fMRI scans were acquired before and twice after stimulation. We investigated BOLD signal changes in functional connectivity (fc) following 10 Hz rTMS (24  × 5 s trains, ITI 20s, 1200 pulses @ 90%MT) during a classic resting state paradigm. We examined rsfc changes using an unbiased approach based on a set of 20 well-established resting state networks derived from multicenter-data independent component analysis by Biswal et al. (2010a, http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org ). Results Comparisons between pre and post stimulation revealed that 19 out of a total of 20 IC networks remained unchanged, i.e. showed no statistically significant differences before and after rTMS irrespective of real/sham stimulation (Fig. 2 A, blue) Download : Download high-res image (1MB) Download : Download full-size image . Only one network (IC17, red dashed) which includes the ACC and PFC showed DLPFC rTMS-related connectivity changes (while staying stable throughout the whole procedure in sham session, Fig. 2 B): The ACC had increased connection strength in the post-rTMS scan within this network, particularly with the DLPFC (stimulation site), bilateral insula and striatum. Conclusion For the first time this study shows in a model-free approach that rTMS over left DLPFC modulates functional connectivity within a specific network while other networks stay stable. This network is typically associated with attention, mood, reward processing and psychiatric conditions that are linked to maladaptive changes in these domains. This could have further implications on treatment, screening and treatment response monitoring of psychiatric conditions.
Surveillance on the Sucking Insect Pests and their Natural Enemies on Tomato Crop

The experiment was conducted at the experimental area of Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam during 2013. The Roma variety was cultivated for this purpose, the all agronomic practices were carried out accordingly. The temperature 15-24oC and relative humidity 45-68% was recorded during research work. The results of the present experiment showed that sucking insect pests as well as natural enemies’ population was observed through out cropping season from 1 st week of March to 1 st week of May 2013. The results reveled that the maximum population of whitefly (5.5±0.16/leaf) was recorded followed by jassid (4.7±0.21/leaf), aphid (4.4±0.37/leaf) and thrip (2.9±0.17/leaf) on tomato crop. However, the maximum population chrysoperla carniea (1.2±0.16/plant) was recorded followed by spider (2.6±0.23/plant) and lady bird beetle (2.5±0.22/plant) was recorded on tomato crop. The results further reveled that the over all impact of relative humidity on the most of the insect pests showed negative correlation. However, the temperature showed that over all positive impact of all the insect pests and predators except whitefly and spider. Key Word: Solanum lycopersicum, Surveillance, sucking insect pest, Predators
Fannabee, a digital social marketplace for collectors

The overall EU trade of cultural good has a value of over 22B€, with a trade surplus of EUR 1.8B€. The group of cultural products itself is very heterogeneous: there will be much less interest in embroidery, maps, and architectural plans and drawings, for example, than for CDs and DVDs. These differences in consumption characteristics and the structure of industrial production and its specialisation in different Member States have an impact on patterns of imports and exports of cultural articles. This requires to address every cultural product with the right tools and platform, so to enhance user experience according to every category of cultural product. FANNABEE is addressing a specific sector of cultural goods (music collectibles and memorabilia: $10 B€ transaction worldwide every year, 30M music collectors worldwide, 60% online) and it is providing a solution able to cope with the need of ever demanding collectors: map their collection and find new opportunities to trade and exchange collectable items.
The objective of FANNABEE is to bring on the market a web platform allowing music collectors to catalogue, share and exchange the items of their collections. FANNABEE wants to address this specific business opportunity, placing itself in this area by allowing collectors to Catalog, Trade and Showcase their collection of CDs, Vinyls and Memorabilia via web and mobile. The platform is designed to offer a 360 ° service and is developed with the best technology available on the market today in the big players (Facebook, Pinterest, etc.). The objective of the feasibility study is to drive the initial market expansion of FANNABEE on EU and international markets in whatever country, enabling a community of people willing to share and exchange items of their collectables.
Synthetic biology of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases to generate new peptides

Natural products (NPs) generated by microbial non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) represent several very important and valuable clinical antibiotics, immune-suppressive and anti-cancer drugs. NPs have gone on to inspire several synthetic peptides that are used clinically, but contain amino acids (AAs) or other building blocks that are not found in nature. However, with >500 identified AAs and additional peptide modifications like glycosylation or cyclization, the chemical diversity in NRPS-derived peptides is far larger than proteins and has not yet been fully explored. The modular nature of NRPS suggests the possibility to manipulate them, subsequently leading to the production of non-natural NPs. With an eXchange Unit (XU) concept, developed in Photorhabdus, Xenorhabdus and Bacillus, we have recently identified efficient ways for NRPS manipulation enabling the de novo assembly of novel NRPS for the production of new-to-nature NPs in excellent production yields of >250 mg/L. Within SYNPEP we will expand this approach to other bacterial genera producing peptide NPs. We will identify unusual NRPS systems, analyse them bioinformatically, validate the function of novel NRPS units experimentally and combine high-throughput molecular biology, microfluidics for bioactivity screening, rapid NP identification and structure elucidation to produce potentially any peptide or a peptide library of 2-15 amino acids in <4 weeks, in a semi-automated manner. In contrast to chemical peptide synthesis this production pipeline is more economical, sustainable and scalable. The NPs are produced by bacterial cells in aqueous media using cheap energy sources and the bacterial cultures can be easily scaled up when larger NP amounts are needed. We will also develop NRPS units that accept synthetic building blocks currently not found in natural NRPS. These ‘synthetic’ NRPS units will enable the simplified chemical derivatization of the produced NPs for further compound diversification.
Widening the Thermal Solar Energy Exploitation by the Successful Models

The project idea comes from the visual observation of roofs in some Greek and Austrian cities, which show a lot of solar DHW collectors while the roofs of similar cities in Italy and Bulgaria show very few. The 7th EurObserv'ER report confirmed that efforts made by SEE countries for development of Thermal Solar were successful in limited number of them and considerable disparities between them appear. The project aims to allows the SEE countries with limited penetration to raise their Solar DHW Market, by: developing a framework of local and regional policies and financial measures; implementing installers' qualification and public awareness campaign to change household habits and stakeholder attitudes; revealing and alleviating shortcomings and constraints that inhibit the DHW market. The purpose of the project is to activate a transfer of know-how and experiences from SEE countries with significant penetration and a cooperation in order to: widen the use of Thermal Solar energy to cover the expected rise in energy demand, reduce the greenhouse gas emission, create new employement's opportunity from DHW market enlargement. The beneficiaries of project will be regional and local authorities, regional and local development agencies, scientific institutions, house owners and installer associations. Main results and tangible legacy: the National DHW Markets Status and Impact of raising DHW Solar on environment Reports; the technical and training manuals for DHW Installers; the Raise Awareness Campaigns' Multimedia Materials; about 240 new DHW Systems installed in 4 SEE Countries; new 4 skilled and qualified teams to support House Owners in acquiring, funding and installing DHW Systems; the methodologies and procedures to make effective the fiscal aids and subventions on behalf of House Owner; the DHW Methodological Guide and Green Paper distributed to competent Policy Makers all over Europe; the website of the project.
Innovative sustainable development policies and strategies for the effective safeguarding and innovative enhancement of European “UNESCO World heritage” wine growing landscapes

The VITOUR LANDSCAPE Project is a result of the first common analysis work done by 6 of the actual 10 project partners from Italy, Austria, France, Hungary, Germany and Portugal under the project VITOUR (INTERREG III C 2005-2007). At the end of that project, the partners prepared a common "International Convention on World Heritage Vineyards", where they agree on preservation and enhancement of their highly valuable cultural wine growing landscape, for a sustainable development of the whole areas, and to do is also through "capitalisation on good practices". After 2 planning meetings in 2008 (after VITOUR I) they decided together with 4 other UNESCO world heritage wine growing areas (from P - Pico island, I - Montalcino/Orcia Valley, A - Wachau and CH - Lavaux) to present a new INTERREG IVC project to improve and innovate local and regional policies for cultural landscape preservation and enhancement in these European UNESCO World Heritage wine growing areas. With this purpose the
VITOUR LANDSCAPE Project partners will focus during the first 20 months, with 11 technical seminars in each partner area on the exchange, description and analysis of good practices in various fileds of interest for the global theme "landscape preservation and enhancement". All contents of these seminars will be published online and enriched also with good practices from other wine growing areas worldwide, which want to participate to the "VITOUR AWARDS" for successful landscape preservation projects (granting in Sept. 2012 in Salone del Gusto/Turin). Then, starting from July 2011, the partners will verify locally/regionally the feasibility of transferring selected good practices to their areas, with studies, analyses and participatory planning processes, where at the end at least 5 partners will provide for the first tools for a concrete and effective good practice transfer to their areas.
Contemporarily, based on the good practices exchanged and influenced also by the results of
regional feasibility verification studies or initiatives, the partners will elaborate together (and with the help of experts) European Guidelines for wine growing cultural landscape preservation and enhancement, with special regards to endangered areas and vineyards.
All results of common exchanges and studies will also be disseminated online, through press releases, e-newsletters, in local events, as well as during the participation to 2 international events (EUROGUSTO and SALONE DEL GUSTO) and organising a Final Conference on sustainable development and landscape preservation in the in Italy, in July 2012. Additionally, an interactive web 2.0 blog for visual enhancement of the partner areas' landscape ("MY VITOUR"), will help to involve inhabitants, web-users and visitors and raise their awareness for the values to be preserved.
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ZIEL DER BEKANNTMACHUNG IST ES, INVESTITIONEN ZU ERLEICHTERN, DIE DARAUF ABZIELEN, DEN ERWERB VON KOMPETENZEN DURCH UNTERNEHMEN ZU UNTERSTÜTZEN, DIE DIE EINFÜHRUNG UND KONSOLIDIERUNG EINES INNOVATIONSPFADS ERMÖGLICHEN, DURCH INVESTITIONSPROJEKTE IN PRODUKT-/DIENSTLEISTUNGSINNOVATIONEN, PROZESSEN, ORGANISATORISCHE UND KOMMERZIELLE INNOVATIONEN, DIE AUCH DURCH NETZWERKPROJEKTE UMGESETZT WERDEN SOLLEN, DIE FINANZIERUNG DER KOSTEN FÜR DIE PATENTIERUNG INNOVATIVER IDEEN, KOSTEN IM ZUSAMMENHANG MIT PROTOTYPING UND KOSTEN IM ZUSAMMENHANG MIT DER ENTWICKLUNG DIGITALER KOMPETENZEN.
Fast, accurate, low cost and hand held nir technology to ascertain wood origin and quality during logistic operations

Roundwood production in the EU-28 amounts 425 million m³ (EU is the largest producer within the G20). In addition to internal production, EU imports 4.8B€ of timber and other wood products. All this timber has to be transported. Logistics operations and its traceability assurance are a mayor point of weakness for the European Woodworking companies because, once the timber is harvested and loaded, only experts can differentiate some species from other while its origin can only be stablished with complex laboratory analysis. This implies two mayor challenges fakes and illegal logging, which cannot be solved with current available solutions and cause penalties, claims, bad image or even the immediate suspension of authorization to trade. 
In fact, illegal logged and traded wood represents 19% of the total wood products imported in the EU, reason why the EC approved the European Timber Regulation (EUTR). This regulation aims at combating this problem and applies to all wood-related products commercialized in the EU, including internal production and imports.
GEA and SPECTRAPPLY have joined their efforts to create NIRWOOD, the first commercial system for on-site identification of quality and origin of wooden products, based in Near-Infrared Technology (NIR). NIRWOOD targets to place in the market a simple (low training or calibration required), accurate (>99% certainty with respect to wood species and 95% with respect to country of origin), fast (<5 sec measurement) and low-cost solution to ascertain wood origin and solve illegal trade and quality fakes.
This will be a strategic tool for those more than 446,000 EU woodworking companies that need to comply with EUTR regulation. The project has received the support from wood trading companies, monitoring organizations (SGS, AENOR, NEPCON), forest certification schemes FSC and PEF & NGOs involved in the fighting against illegal logging.
NIRWOOD project will obtaining a total cumulative net profit of 19M€ by 2023.
Training the next generation of experts in scalable low-code engineering platforms

Low-code development platforms (LCPD) are software development platforms on the Cloud, provided through a Platform-as a-Service model, which allow users to build completely operational applications by interacting through dynamic graphical user interfaces, visual diagrams and declarative languages. They address the need of non-programmers to develop personalised software, and focus on their domain expertise instead of implementation requirements.

Lowcomote will train a generation of experts that will upgrade the current trend of LCPDs to a new paradigm, Low-code Engineering Platforms (LCEPs). LCEPs will be open, allowing to integrate heterogeneous engineering tools, interoperable, allowing for cross-platform engineering, scalable, supporting very large engineering models and social networks of developers, smart, simplifying the development for citizen developers by machine learning and recommendation techniques. This will be achieved by injecting in LCDPs the theoretical and technical framework defined by recent research in Model Driven Engineering (MDE), augmented with Cloud Computing and Machine Learning techniques. This is possible today thanks to recent breakthroughs in scalability of MDE performed in the EC FP7 research project MONDO, lead by Lowcomote partners.

The 48-month Lowcomote project will train the first European generation of skilled  professionals in LCEPs. The 15 future scientists will benefit from an original training and research programme merging competencies and knowledge from 5 highly recognised academic institutions and 9 large and small industries of several domains. Co-supervision from both sectors is a promising process to facilitate agility of our future professionals between the academic and industrial world.
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The effects of expectation on the perception of soundscapes

This paper explores how expectations of a place and its soundscape can affect our perception of that soundscape. Previous soundscape research has included expectation as one possible element of the context in which soundscape evaluation takes place. This work aimed to focus on expectation and unpack it to improve understanding of its different components and how it works. A combination of soundwalks, interviews, focus groups and an interactive soundscape simulation were used in the investigation. A linked series of locations in Manchester and London were studied. It was found that participants’ perceptions of a soundscape, both real and simulated, were affected by expectation in several different ways. Participants expected certain types of sound to be present in a particular space. Participants distinguished between whether a sound was expected and whether it sounded pleasant. It was also possible to distinguish between the expectation of particular sound sources and the expectation of the soundscape as a whole. The latter was found to be driven significantly by prior experience of similar spaces and also by perceived loudness. Participants also had expectations about the type of activity they could undertake in a particular soundscape, the behaviour of other people as expressed in the soundscape, and the degree of control they might have over their own exposure to the sound. These findings suggest that expectations of a soundscape are based on prior experience in a way which is consistent with Truax’s notion of soundscape competence. The results have been used to produce a new model for soundscape expectation which is expressed as a flowchart.