SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
MO-A-224-01: A Review of the TG-201 Rapid Communication: QA of Data Transfer

Radiation therapy is a data intensive endeavor where multiple data transfers occur among various software applications, databases and treatment devices. Errors in data transfer or interpretation can lead to mistreatments. Hence, it is important to have recommendations for the quality assurance of data transfers for external beam radiotherapy. This is the subject of a rapid communication (RC) from the AAPM TG201. In this session, we will review the TG201 RC. An overview, rationale and administrative issues for a QA program will be described in terms of the responsibilities of the medical physicist for maintaining a systems approach to the clinical processes that require data transfers. The 14 recommendations of that section will provide the framework for the QA of treatment data, which is covered by another 14 recommendations that were deemed to be the most important issues by TG201. The remainder of the session will discuss recommendations regarding the logical consistency and integrity of the treatmentdatabase as well as imaging data that are transferred for image guided radiotherapy. We will conclude with an analysis of the manpower requirements for a data transfer QA program. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the data flow within the clinical processes for external beam radiotherapy, the errors that could occur, and the management of the QA program that is recommended for patient safety. 2. Organize the list of recommendations for treatment data transfer QA into a checklist that clinics could use to assess the state of their QA program. 3. Learn relevant database concepts within the context of information integrity and logical consistency of treatment data. 4. Determine the image data transfer recommendations that are applicable to one's clinic.
The flagship era-net — flag-era iii

FLAG-ERA, the Flagship ERA-NET, gathers national and regional funding organisation with the goal of supporting, together with the European Commission, the FET Flagship initiatives and more generally the FET Flagship programme. Most funding organisations in Europe participate, either directly or as associated members. FLAG-ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on Graphene and Human Brain research, through a range of activities such as the launch of joint calls supporting transnational projects in synergy with the Flagships, contribution to the Flagship partnering framework, identification of potential partnering projects, information on funding opportunities for the Flagships, and networking events. The activities in FLAG-ERA are organised around periodic events gathering all stakeholders and structured in sessions dedicated to the various objectives and related tasks of the project. FLAG-ERA is implemented as a sequence of ERA-NET projects. FLAG-ERA III is the third ERA-NET project, starting in December 2018 for a period of 6 years, and covering the FLAG-ERA Joint Transnational Calls (JTC) 2019 and JTC 2021.
Effect of air pressure on the characteristics of AC partial arcs over the polluted insulation surface

Flashover of contaminated insulators is one of the major problems for the power distribution, especially in high altitude area. Laboratory experiments have shown that low pressure have great influences on the flashover performance of outdoor insulators. In order to investigate the influence of low pressure on the characteristics of AC partial arc, an experimental system was designed in this paper. The V-I characteristics of AC partial arc under different air pressure were obtained by adding a measuring electrode over the polluted insulation surface. And the fitting formulas between arc constant A, n and gas pressure was given based on the obtained experimental data. It can be concluded that the arc constant parameter n stayed the same when the air pressure changed. While, the parameter A increased with the increasing air pressure. This work can enrich the investigation of the mechanism of arc propagation and calculation model of insulator flashover voltage.
Virtual energy trading it system to couple photovoltaic production and electric vehicles charging.

Solar Bank is a virtual energy trading IT platform that links the solar energy produced by photovoltaic energy plant and the electricity consumed in Electric Vehicles charging stations. Solar Bank is the basis for the issuing of Guarantees of Origin (GO), that are bought by Solar Bank from the producer and sold to the consumers. Algorithms are implemented on the platform to connect the production to the consumption in the most efficient way (proximity logic) and to dynamically assess the PV electricity and GO costs, perfectly matching the needs of both PV plant owners and EV charging station managers. Solar Bank is conceived at a ""city-scale"" and its proximity logic allows a steep reduction of Transmission and Distribution inefficiency by 50%.
The IT platform has been validated in the city of Uppsala (Sweden), where 14 production nodes and 248 charging nodes are connected to the platform, attesting its potentiality and the appreciation of the End-Users. Moreover, Solelia IT solution is covered by copyright protection as a computer programme, and the ""Solar Bank"" brand is protected.
Now, the technology owner Solelia intends to develop the final product implementing a block-chain functionality for GO trading and extending the solution validation in two medium sized European cities (> 300,000 inhabitants), in order to definitely enter in the European market.
During the SME-Instrument Phase 1 project, Solelia will deliver a complete Business Plan, confirming the yearly subscription fee for end-users (photovoltaic plants and Electric Vehicles charging equipment owners) through a Customer Validation, extending the GO mechanisms analysis in all European countries, involving private investors, key stakeholders and potential customers, closing agreements with two European cities municipalities for the final product full validation.
Does Agriculture Matter for Economic Growth of Uttar Pradesh (India)?

Twenty-five years have passed since economic reform in India. It brought about many macroeconomic policy changes in the economy. Although these policy changes helped the manufacturing and services sector to grow, agriculture did not get any direct benefits from economic reforms. It was assumed that it would get indirect benefits due to changes in exchange and trade policy, liberal industrial licensing system and reduction in industrial protection, which would benefit tradable agriculture by ending discrimination against it and by turning the terms of trade in its favour. The present study examines the transformation in agriculture and basic contributory roles i. e. product, market, and factor contribution of agriculture in the economy of Uttar Pradesh. Further, a long run association and causal relation between agriculture and other economic sectors and sub-sectors are explored. An understanding of the relationship between agriculture and overall GDP growth becomes important from a policy makerâ€™s perspective, as it would guide the decisions in allocating the scarce resources to attain growth and development. Results show that Product, market, and factor contribution has increased over the years. Empirical estimates show that agriculture is a driver of the unregistered manufacturing sector, transport storage and communication sector; and overall economy as a whole. Public investment in irrigation should be accelerated, cost-effective and yield-raising technology should be accessible to medium and small farmers. Micro and small agro-based enterprises should be established according to specific regional crops, so they can work closely with the agriculture sector and reap the benefits of easy availability of raw material.
Effects of coupled natural and anthropogenic factors on the community structure of diadromous fish and shrimp species in tropical island streams

Summary

1. Overlapping river and road networks provide a framework for studying the complex interactions between natural and human systems, with river-road intersections as focal areas of study. Roads can alter the morphology of stream channels, pose barriers to freshwater fauna, provide easy access to streams for humans and non-native species and accelerate the expansion of urban development.



2. We determined what variables control the structure of diadromous fish and shrimp communities and assessed whether particular road crossings altered community structure in north-eastern Puerto Rico. We identified 24 sites that represented a range of river and road sizes across two catchments that drain El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico.



3. The location of natural barriers and the size of stream pools were the most important variables for predicting six of fifteen fish and shrimp distributions. Predatory fishes were predicted to be limited to areas in the river network below large, steep waterfalls, whereas adult shrimp Atya lanipes (Atyidae) were predicted to be present above these waterfalls. The fish Awaous banana was predicted to be present in pools >11.6 m wide, whereas the shrimp Xiphocaris elongata was predicted to be present in pools <10.4 m wide. The distributions of nine species were predicted poorly, but three of these species were common and three were rare.



4. Although urban and agricultural land covers were among the top three predictors of five species distributions, they were probably good predictors because they were correlated with the natural gradient. Further study is necessary to disentangle natural and anthropogenic gradients.



5. Road crossings, 10 of which were culverts, were not dispersal barriers for fishes or shrimps. On average, species were present both upstream and downstream from road crossings at 68% of sites where they occurred. Absences upstream or downstream from road crossings occurred at 16% of sites each and likely resulted from a failure to detect species.



6. Several existing features of these catchments and taxa may aid in fish and shrimp conservation. The headwaters are protected by management practices of El Yunque National Forest, connectivity within the river network has been maintained, and the diadromous life history of these organisms makes them resilient to pulsed disturbances.
REFRIGERATION AND HEATING SYSTEM

A refrigeration and heating system (2) comprises a refrigeration circuit (4) which comprises in the direction of flow of a circulating refrigerant: at least one compressor (6a, 6b, 6c); a refrigeration circuit side (8a) of a coupling heat exchanger (8); at least one gas cooler (10); at least one gas cooler bypass line (18) and at least one gas cooler bypass valve assembly (25) allowing to bypass the at least one gas cooler (10); at least one expansion device (12, 14) and at least one evaporator (16). The refrigeration and heating system (2) further comprises a heating circuit (20) which comprises in the direction of flow of a circulating heating fluid: a heating circuit side (8b) of the coupling heat exchanger (8) and at least one heating device (22). The coupling heat exchanger (8) is configured for transferring heat from the circulating refrigerant to the circulating heating fluid; and the gas cooler bypass valve assembly (25) is configured for allowing to selectively direct a first flow of refrigerant either through the gas cooler (10) or through the gas cooler bypass line (18) bypassing the gas cooler (10) and to gradually or continuously regulate a second flow of refrigerant flowing through the other of the gas cooler (10) and the gas cooler bypass line (18) which mixes with the first flow downstream of the gas cooler (10).
Off-resonance saturation MRI of superparamagnetic nanoprobes: Theoretical models and experimental validations

Off-resonance saturation (ORS) is a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method that has shown greatly improved contrast sensitivity for the detection of cancer-specific biomarkers by superparamagnetic nanoprobes in vivo. However, quantitative understanding of the ORS contrast mechanism and its dependence on the structural parameters of superparamagnetic nanoprobes are still lacking. Here we propose a quantitative model of ORS contrast and its experimental validation by superparamagnetic polymeric micelles (SPPM) with precisely controlled structural properties. Size selected, monodisperse Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles (6.1 ± 0.2 nm) were used to form a series of SPPM nanoprobes with specifically controlled corona thickness using 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) (DSPE-PEG) with different PEG molecular weights. Transmission electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering showed that SPPM were uniform in size. The average hydrodynamic diameters of SPPM with PEG lengths of 0.55, 1, 2, and 5 kD were 16.6 ± 2.8, 18.4 ± 2.9, 24.1 ± 3.4, and 28.9 ± 3.4 nm, respectively. MRI experiments at 7 T determined that r₂ values of SPPM with 0.55, 1, 2, and 5 kD PEG as corona were 201 ± 3, 136 ± 8, 107 ± 5, and 108 ± 8 FemM⁻¹s⁻¹, respectively. ORS intensity from Z-spectra of SPPM showed a significant correlation with the inverse of T₂ relaxation rates (1/T₂, s⁻¹) of the SPPM nanoprobes regardless of the PEG corona thickness. These data provide the fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationships between the SPPM nanostructures and ORS sensitivity, which offers useful mechanistic insights for the future improvement of SPPM nanoprobes in cancer molecular imaging applications.
Detection of cerebral ischemia based on machine learning

Stroke is the second cause of morbidity and the leading cause of long-term disability. More than 1.1 million people in Europe suffer a stroke each year, which will increase to 1.5 million in 2025 due to an ageing population and unhealthy lifestyle. Stroke diagnosis and care is notoriously complicated. Some improvements have been made in the clinic, such as through the introduction of CT Perfusion imaging technology (CTP) to allow for quantitation. There are, however, many concerns with current implementations resulting in poor accuracy.

Nico.lab develops and markets unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology which analyzes brain imagery – such as a CT or MRI scan – and provides health professionals with treatment advice. CTP is a vastly different technology and is thus not yet supported by our AI analysis. Therefore, we want to research and develop novel algorithms to natively analyze CTP data and provide quick treatment advice.

As we have no experience at all with CTP technology – not medically nor concerning software, and barely in a research capacity - we require someone who holds all these expertises. There are, however, several barriers currently withholding us, ranging from our lacking resources to demontstrably unavailable talent in The Netherlands. 

With this Innovation Associate grant we wish to hire the right talent. In this project the innovation associate will explore the technical and practical feasibility of developing data driven CTP algorithms. The innovation associate will obtain technical, practical and soft skills. Finally, the associate will deliver an innovation programme roadmap which can be implemented after finalization of this project.
Working capital grant for PRE-MAX Piotr Rej

The project concerns support to the company to provide liquidity and to support its day-to-day operations in view of the financial difficulties that have occurred in the company as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Financial aid under scheme SA.57015.
Secure platform for ict systems rooted at the silicon manufacturing process

Our society is continuously demanding more and more intelligent devices, along with network infrastructures and distributed services that make our daily lives more comfortably. However, the frantic adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has led to widespread implementations without a deep analysis about security matters.
This project encompasses the complete design of a platform, so-called SPIRS platform, which integrates a hardware dedicated Root of Trust (RoT) and a processor core with the capability of offering a full suite of security services. Furthermore, the SPIRS platform will be able to leverage this capability to support privacy-respectful attestation mechanisms and enable trusted communication channels across 5G infrastructures.
RoT is implemented in hardware with a dedicated circuitry to extract a unique digital identifier for the SPIRS platform during its entire lifetime. To build a complete solution, the project also features a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), secure boot, and runtime integrity. Furthermore, resilience and privacy protection are major concerns in this project, and it endeavors to the design of a decentralized trust management framework targeted to minimize the impact of Single Point of Failure (SPOF) risks and achieve adequate security and privacy tradeoffs. To facilitate the tasks of validation and testing, SPIRS platform is conceived as an open platform that can easily integrate other building blocks and facilities upgrades.
The project goes beyond the construction of the SPIRS platform and it provides solutions to integrate it in the deployment of cryptographic protocols and network infrastructures in a trustworthy way, leveraging the RoT provided by the platform.
To validate SPIRS results, the project considers two different scenarios: Industry 4.0 and 5G Technologies.
Effects of psychological priming, video, and music on anaerobic exercise performance

Peak performance videos accompanied by music can help athletes to optimize their pre-competition mindset and are often used. Priming techniques can be incorporated into such videos to influence athletes' motivational state. There has been limited empirical work investigating the combined effects of such stimuli on anaerobic performance. The present study examined the psychological and psychophysiological effects of video, music, and priming when used as a pre-performance intervention for an anaerobic endurance task. Psychological measures included the main axes of the circumplex model of affect and liking scores taken pre-task, and the Exercise-induced Feeling Inventory, which was administered post-task. Physiological measures comprised heart rate variability and heart rate recorded pre-task. Fifteen males (age = 26.3 ± 2.8 years) were exposed to four conditions prior to performing the Wingate Anaerobic Test: music-only, video and music, video with music and motivational primes, and a no-video/no-music control. Results indicate that the combined video, music, and primes condition was the most effective in terms of influencing participants' pre-task affect and subsequent anaerobic performance; this was followed by the music-only condition. The findings indicate the utility of such stimuli as a pre-performance technique to enhance athletes' or exercisers' psychological states.
Enhancing the innovation management capacity of finnish smes by the enterprise europe network in 2017-2018

Lack of innovation management capacity is recognised as an important barrier to creating economic impact (competitiveness, growth and jobs) from innovation activities in SMEs. The general objective of the proposal is to achieve overall long term capacity building in (Finnish) SME’s, particularly to make the innovation system in the companies more efficient and effective and to increase and accelerate the economic returns from innovation in the SMEs. Actions will be identified to address weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the SME that hinder the realisation of growth opportunities and of the full commercial potential. Hence, the improvement of this innovation management capacity upgrades the economic performance of the most promising SMEs.

First specific objective of the project is to provide Key account management services to beneficiaries of the SME instrument. These services aim to identify bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants by Horizon2020's SME instrument. Based on the needs analysis the Key account management services identify suitable coaches to address the identified bottlenecks and also facilitates the coach-client relationship during the coaching project. 

Second specific objective is to provide services, which enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs. This service will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium sized enterprises with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European support to research and innovation but would not have effective access to consulting services for innovation management. The service includes an assessment of innovation management capacity and development actions based on the assessment.
Cancer-specific variation in emergency presentation by sex, age and deprivation across 27 common and rarer cancers

Although overall sociodemographic and cancer site variation in the risk of cancer diagnosis through emergency presentation has been previously described, relatively little is known about how this risk may vary differentially by sex, age and deprivation group between patients with a given cancer.Data from the Routes to Diagnosis project on 749,645 patients (2006-2010) with any of 27 cancers that can occur in either sex were analysed. Crude proportions and crude and adjusted odds ratios were calculated for emergency presentation, and interactions between sex, age and deprivation with cancer were examined.The overall proportion of patients diagnosed through emergency presentation varied greatly by cancer. Compared with men, women were at greater risk for emergency presentation for bladder, brain, rectal, liver, stomach, colon and lung cancer (e.g., bladder cancer-specific odds ratio for women vs men, 1.50; 95% CI 1.39-1.60), whereas the opposite was true for oral/oropharyngeal cancer, lymphomas and melanoma (e.g., oropharyngeal cancer-specific odds ratio for women vs men, 0.49; 95% CI 0.32-0.73). Similarly, younger patients were at higher risk for emergency presentation for acute leukaemia, colon, stomach and oesophageal cancer (e.g., colon cancer-specific odds ratio in 35-44- vs 65-74-year-olds, 2.01; 95% CI 1.76-2.30) and older patients for laryngeal, melanoma, thyroid, oral and Hodgkin's lymphoma (e.g., melanoma specific odds ratio in 35-44- vs 65-74-year-olds, 0.20; 95% CI 0.12-0.33). Inequalities in the risk of emergency presentation by deprivation group were greatest for oral/oropharyngeal, anal, laryngeal and small intestine cancers.Among patients with the same cancer, the risk for emergency presentation varies notably by sex, age and deprivation group. The findings suggest that, beyond tumour biology, diagnosis through an emergency route may be associated both with psychosocial processes, which can delay seeking of medical help, and with difficulties in suspecting the diagnosis of cancer after presentation.
La “Veue de la ville de Boze”. Una veduta seicentesca per rileggere le trasformazioni del paesaggio della città di Bosa (Sardegna, Italia)

veduta seicentesca per rileggere le trasformazioni del paesaggio della città di Bosa (Sardegna, Italia)