SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Disruptive cybersecurity saas for smes and freelance developers

After obtaining the Seal of Excellence from the EU (Attached), this is an improved version of the proposal.

Given the accelerating growth and importance of cybersecurity across many sectors of the economy and society, we have detected and aim to solve the lack of effective security provision in software engineering.
Our system automates the vulnerability scanning of software assets and reduces the effort required for development teams
to adopt security best practices. Further, our solution reduces costs by 80% compared to hiring consultants for like-for-like
tasks. By enabling developers to scan their code before going to production, we can save firms between 3 to 30 times the
cost of development, help firms build trust with end-users, empower and educate developers. Confirming market need, the
product has been tested and is currently being adopted by 25 companies.
The objective of our proposal is to enhance research and development into specific use cases. In particular, we shall focus
our efforts on the needs of developers active in the Internet of Things, where security is in its infancy. While our system
currently automatically scans ports, web servers, applications and containers, the goal of continued R&D is to expand this
disruptive platform to integrate with IoT technologies and platforms to offer scanning encompassing both broader and deeper
use cases than the competition, who tend to focus on providing tools to cover compliance standards.
Our market is worldwide and shall be targeted through a network of partners and direct online sales via a subscription
model. With a balanced, experienced team and carefully architected system, as well as impressive early market traction, we
are optimistic about the long term adoption of Secure Secure's services by developers who are growing ever more
conscious about the importance of security.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING A SUBSTRATE WITH SOLID PARTICLES IN A ROTATABLY MOUNTED DRUM

Apparatus for use in the treatment of substrates with a solid particulate material comprising a housing having mounted therein a rotatably mounted drum having an inner surface and an end wall and access means for introducing said substrates into said drum, wherein a partition (1) is disposed within the drum to divide the interior thereof into a storage compartment (15) for storing said solid particulate material and a treatment compartment (14) for said treatment of substrates, wherein the storage compartment (15) is adjacent the end wall and the treatment compartment (14) is adjacent the access means, wherein said partition (1) comprises one or more apertures (3,6) to allow flow of solid particulate material between the storage compartment (15) and the treatment compartment (14), wherein the flow of solid particulate material from the storage compartment towards the treatment compartment is facilitated by the rotation of said drum in a dispensing direction and the flow of solid particulate material from the treatment compartment towards the storage compartment is facilitated by the rotation of said drum in a collecting direction opposite to the dispensing direction, and wherein said partition (1) comprises a front panel (2) facing the treatment compartment and a back panel (5) facing the storage compartment, whereby the front panel (2) comprises at least one front panel aperture (3, 4) and the back panel (5) comprises at least one back panel aperture (6,7) which allows flow of solid particulate material between the storage compartment (15) and the treatment compartment (14) and at least one cavity, at least one collecting deflector surface (17a,17b,17c,27a,27b,27c), and at least one dispensing deflector surface (16a,16b,16c,23a,23b,23c) are disposed between the front and rear panels,wherein said at least one collecting deflector surface (17a,17b,17c,27a,27b,27c) is configured to deflect solid particulate material in said at least one cavity (9,10) towards the storage compartment (15) and said at least one dispensing deflector surface (16a,16b,16c,23a,23b,23c) is configured to deflect solid particulate material in said at least one cavity (9,10) towards the treatment compartment (14).
Spatiotemporal evolution of the hydrological cycle throughout the european continent during past abrupt climate changes

With global temperatures on the rise due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, one of the largest short-term threats to societies comes from a changing water cycle: changing ocean currents and atmospheric circulation patterns, increased periods of drought or extreme precipitation events directly affect the socio-economic foundation of communities. However, one of the great unknowns in state-of-the art climate models predicting future changes is the spatial distribution of changing precipitation patterns. This lack of knowledge severely limits implementation of mitigation and adaptation options to divert the most severe consequences of climate change.
I propose a fundamentally new approach to understand spatial patterns and mechanisms of hydrological changes on the European continent by reconstructing such changes during past abrupt temperature and ocean circulation changes. We will develop an innovative research program integrating ideas and methods from diverse disciplines: organic geochemistry, plant physiology, event stratigraphy and geostatistical data analysis. We will generate quantitative paleohydrological data by developing a dual biomarker approach as a novel and direct proxy for fluxes in the hydrological cycle from 10 of the most precisely dated terrestrial climate records encompassing the European continent.
STEEPclim will enter uncharted territory and establish master records of continental climate change, comparable in resolution and quality to the polar ice cores. We will identify continental-scale feedback mechanisms and particularly vulnerable regions in European hydroclimate relevant for the evaluation of the consequences of ongoing climate change. These mechanistic insights will be essential to validate future generations of climate models, ensuring more accurate predictions of regional effects of anthropogenic climate changes and as such enable a targeted mitigation and adaptation policy.
Repair capacity and genome diversity in mammals

Genome evolution is driven by the generation of diversity. In mammals, genome diversification occurs in germline during the specialised division (meiosis) in gametes, when chromosomes recombine and assort into new haploid sets as they are passed from parent to offspring. Recently, the traditional view that genome diversification occurs exclusively in the germline has been challenged by findings that mutations in early embryos may cause predisposition to childhood cancers. We are uniquely placed to explore genome diversification in the germline and early embryos due to our breakthroughs in developing single-cell genomics and reproductive technologies. 

Our strategic aim is to uncover the capacity for genetic diversity in the human genome and investigate how DNA repair capacity in adult oocytes and early embryos facilitates genome stability. This will allow us to identify the selective forces that shape the genomic landscape in humans. Based on preliminary data, we hypothesize that repair capacity determines reproductive fitness of mammalian females, and that impaired repair capacity may underlie infertility, miscarriage, and congenital disorders. In Objective 1 we focus on adult oocytes, their survival in the adult ovary and the maintenance of genetic quality as women age. Objective 2 investigates genome diversification and stability in early embryos and putative ‘self-corrective’ mechanisms that restore the genetic quality of embryos. This proposal will shed light on a poorly understood area of enormous socioeconomic and medical importance.
Rutherford international fellowship programme

The Rutherford International Fellowship Programme (RIFP) will be a new, high-quality Post-Doctoral scheme aimed at research excellence and promoting researcher mobility and training.

The Programme will be open to applications across a very diverse range of science areas, spanning the world-class expertise of facilities and departments run by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), the Daresbury Laboratory (DL) and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC). Included will be the ISIS neutron and muon source, Diamond Light Source, RAL Space, RAL Particle Physics, the Central Laser Facility, Accelerator Science and Technology, Scientific Computing and STFC Technology Department. The Fellowships will be a unique opportunity for researchers to work within high quality interdisciplinary science campuses. RAL/DL/UKATC provide excellent environments for  post-doctoral researchers: they have a wide variety of facilities and equipment for researcher use, experienced science staff to support Fellows' research, and are visited by many thousands of researchers every year who use the central facilities, ideal for networking and collaboration.

The Programme will support 36 2-year Fellows over its 5-year term. There will be three, annual calls for proposals, widely publicised to attract the highest quality researchers. Fellowships will aim for scientific excellence, with consideration also for interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral activity. Fellows will be supervised by experienced STFC and Diamond researchers, who will be concerned not just with their scientific progress but with their wider training and development. STFC provides excellent working and employment conditions which researchers will benefit from.  STFC departments will gain high-quality international researchers working within them. Because this is a new Programme it is expected to have high impact for the Fellows themselves and their host department.
Influence of Light Attenuation on Biofilm Parameters Evaluated from CLSM Image Data

Bacterial biofilms are microbial depositions growing on immersed surfaces and wetted interfaces in aqueous environments. They form when the bacterial cells attach to the surface and start producing an extracellular polymeric matrix. Bacterial biofilms play a positive role in waste water treatment, while they are a hindrance to treatment of bacterial infections in humans. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) is the method of choice widely used for studying structure formation of live biofilms in laboratory flow-cell reactors. CLSM data provide information about spatial organization in the biofilm, crucial to quantifying biofilm processes. Quantitative analysis of the CLSM data requires an accurate segmentation procedure that distinguishes biomass from the surrounding fluid. A survey of biofilm segmentation techniques in use reveals that the preferred method is (global) thresholding, which is simple but not optimal in the presence of noise and intensity attenuation (IA) artifacts inherently present in raw CLSM images. To remedy the effect of those artifacts, we propose a two-step preprocessing algorithm, which first corrects depth intensity attenuation using exact histogram specification (ERS) technique developed recently followed by a nonlinear diffusion filter which suppresses noise and homogenizes locally overenhanced image regions, thereby increasing robustness of the subsequent biofilm segmentation operation. In this study, we developed an automatic validation technique to estimate the effects of IA on various biofilm parameters and use it to demonstrate that IA is a significantly more detrimental source of error in comparison to noise and failure to take it into account may produce errors in biomass estimates of 50% or greater.
High-Resolution Simulation of Pore-Scale Reactive Transport Processes Associated with Carbon Sequestration

New investigative tools, combined with experiments and computational methods, are being developed to build a next-generation understanding of molecular-to-pore-scale processes in fluid-rock systems and to demonstrate the ability to control critical aspects of flow and transport in porous rock media, in particular, as applied to geologic sequestration of CO2. Of scientific interest is to establish the rules governing emergent behavior at the porous-continuum macroscale under far from equilibrium conditions by carefully understanding the behavior at the underlying pore microscale. To this end, the authors present a direct numerical simulation modeling capability that can resolve flow and transport processes in geometric features obtained from the image data of realistic pore space at unprecedented scale and resolution. Here, they focus on scaling a new algorithmic approach based on embedded boundary, finite-volume methods and algebraic multigrid. They demonstrate the scalability of this new capability, known as Chombo-Crunch, to more than 100,000 processor cores and show results from pore-scale flow and transport in the realistic pore space obtained from image data.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OF A FOAM-FORMED CELLULOSIC FIBRE MATERIAL, SHEET AND LAMINATED PACKAGING MATERIAL

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a new low density foam-formed cellulose material comprising dialcohol-modified celllulose, and to bulk sheets, layers, laminates or moulded articles comprising such material. Furthermore, the invention relates to a laminated packaging material comprising a layer or sheet comprising the low density cellulose material as well as to packaging containers comprising the laminated packaging material. In particular, the invention relates to packaging containers intended for liquid or semi-liquid food packaging, comprising the laminated packaging material.
Simulations of Rayleigh’s Wave on Curved Surface

Impulsive line load in a half-space (Lamb’s problem) can be solved with a closed form solution. This solution is helpful for understanding the phenomenon of Rayleigh’s waves. In this article, we use a boundary element method to simulate the solution of an elastic solid with a curved free surface under impact loading. This problem is considered difficult for numerical methods. Lamb’s problem is calculated first to verify the method. Then the method is applied on the problems with different surface curvatures. The method simulates the phenomenon of Rayleigh’s wave propagating on a curved surface very well. The results are shown in figures.
CENTRO DI ECCELLENZA PER L'OPEN SOURCE E PER I SISTEMI FLESSIBILI DI PRODUZIONE DEL SOFTWARE

CEOS vuole essere un incubatore per la conoscenza e le competenze nel settore dell’Open Source, in modo tale da rendere le aziende altoatesine e ticinesi dell’area ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) un distretto di eccellenza nell’uso e nello sfruttamento delle tecnologie Open Source. Per Open Source (OS) s’intende un modello di sviluppo, diffusione e cooperazione per la produzione di software, nel quale il codice sorgente del software stesso e disponibile gratuitamente e liberamente per chiunque (in gergo viene definito “aperto”). Le motivazioni dell’utilizzo del software OS risiedono principalmente nell’estrema versatilita e adattabilita offerta dal software OS e nel grosso risparmio sull’acquisto delle licenze d’utilizzo del software. La riduzione dei costi del software permetterebbe di abbassare le barriere per l’ingresso di nuovi attori nel mercato ICT, con evidenti benefici per la competizione, la qualita dei servizi offerti, le economie locali e l’innovazione tecnologica in generale. Inoltre, il risparmio varrebbe sia per le Pubbliche Amministrazioni sia per il cittadino, in quanto non costretto ad acquistare software proprietari per accedere alle informazioni e ai servizi erogati dalla PA stessa. Cio si traduce a sua volta in una maggiore accessibilita dei servizi pubblici, un fine consistente con gli obiettivi del programma eEurope 2005 dell’Unione Europea. Il Centro consolidera e sfruttera le competenze del settore ICT locale e cerchera sinergie con progetti esistenti. In particolare, i compiti del Centro si possono dividere in tre parti: •• Osservazione, disseminazione e formazione su OS; •• Controllo e valutazione della qualita delle tecnologie OS; •• Partecipazione attiva alla comunita OS.
Synthetic peptidic nanovesicles for targeting paediatric brain tumours

Brain tumours are the most common solid tumours in children, accounting for about 25% of all primary paediatric tumours. The situation is particularly critical for the deadliest brain tumour: glioma, being the leading cause of cancer-related death in children. The main bottleneck for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) pathologies, including brain tumours (at early stages), as well as brain metastases, lies in the difficulty to cross the blood brain barrier (BBB). In this proposal, I aim to overcome such limitation with the use of super-selective targeted and fully biodegradable polypeptide-based polymersomes, carrying relevant drug combinations for the treatment of paediatric glioma. I propose a step-wise and bottom-up approach to synthesise biodegradable polymersomes from amphiphilic block-polypeptides obtained via the scalable and reproducible methodology of Ring Opening Polymerisation (ROP) of N-Carboxyanhydrides (NCAs). The polypeptide amphiphiles are expected to self-assemble in aqueous solutions yielding nanometric vesicles. These synthetic vesicles will be functionalised with selected BBB receptor ligands in order to approach the super-selectivity concept aiming for active targeting and transcytosis to the brain acting as the so-called “Trojan Horses”. Finally, the super-selective nanovesicles will be loaded with synergistic and clinically relevant combination therapy using anticancer agents and immuno-modulators in order to approach paediatric glioma treatment. I will join for the first time, the use of fully biodegradable polymersomes based on polypeptides, super-selective binding strategies for BBB crossing and the use of chemotherapy+ immunotherapy. Overall, I will develop an innovative therapy, capable of reaching the brain in a non-invasive way, being able to diffuse and target the brain tumour, overcome chemo-resistance and activate the immune system to fight these tumours, being the future end-users, children with incurable cancers.
Unpacking the MDGs’ Indicator 3.2

This article considers why and how the Millennium Development Goals Indicator 3.2: women’s share in wage employment in the nonagricultural sector fails to provide a fuller picture on the links between women’s employment empowerment and well-being. The article explores (a) the underpinning normative assumptions of “gender equality” and “development” as notions used in the construct of the Indicator and (b) globalized neoliberal economic structures as its operating environment. Grounded in liberalism and with modernization theory and the capabilities approach as its offspring the Indicator inherits the liberalist notion of “gender difference” in which the public/private and the modern/tradition are depicted as binary opposites. Under the competitive global economic frameworks that assume and integrate gender difference the Indicator is likely to prescribe gender policies that mold women into male-centered citizenship neglecting the social reproduction needs and care work that women assume. Drawing on the evidence of care chains in Ecuador this article argues that the promotion of women’s employment as a means to achieve gender equality as pursued by many development organizations must be treated with caution given the flaws inherent in its underlying normative assumptions of gender equality and the current economic systems.
Capacitating energy efficiency in small alpine enterprises

The implementation of effective energy efficiency measures in enterprises is a key element to reach Europe's energy and climate targets 

2030. Enterprises account for approximately one third of Europe's energy consumption. Improving energy efficiency in enterprises therefore contributes significantly to the decarbonisation of the economy and the achievement of the climate goals, while at the same time increasing competitiveness and reducing costs. Large companies are already obliged to conduct energy audits to determine energy saving potentials. SMEs, and especially very small enterprises, are often put off by a lack of know-how or fears of excessive costs/concerns about the quality of the audits. CAESAR aims at addressing the potential that lies herein. The consortium will establish and maintain a network of stakeholders with the purpose of rolling out energy efficiency policies in SMEs. It will set the basis for the successful qualification of stakeholders (policy makers, enterprises, energy agencies, auditors) in the regions to set up and accompany energy efficiency measures in enterprises. It will define the benchmarks for enterprises and create and distribute a low-barrier energy efficiency auditing tool designed for the needs of all regions of the Alpine Space and the requirements of small enterprises. “Energy tutors" will be trained and will gain the competences needed to help SMEs improving energy efficiency.
Research infrastructures for the control of vector-borne diseases

The overall objective of the Infravec2 project is to integrate key specialized research facilities necessary for European excellence in insect vector biology, to open the infrastructure for European access, and to develop new vector control measures targeting the greatest threats to human health and animal industries. Infravec2 is an Advanced Community, following a four-year Starting Community lifecycle (FP7 Infravec1). Lack of access to key infrastructures limits European vector research and impedes development of vector control measures. Insect vectors transmit parasitic diseases such as malaria and leishmaniasis, and viral infections such as chikungunya, dengue, Zika, Japanese encephalitis and yellow fever. Vector-borne diseases, which have historically been a problem of tropical countries, now represent a threat for temperate regions of the world including much of Europe. The 24 consortium partners, including 4 commercial companies, hold the major European biosecure insectaries for experimental infection and containment of insect vectors under Containment Level 2 and 3 (CL2/CL3) conditions, other key insect vector facilities, and include front-line field sites in Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas. Infravec2 will implement comparable standards across the secure insectary facilities as a world first, improving exploitation of European vector infrastructures for research and public health, and will develop other innovative methodologies and technologies. Networking activities will assure that the project achieves full impact, producing a step change in European vector biology research and the product pipeline, and consolidating European global leadership in insect vectors. The goal of the Infravec2 project is to build a durable European infrastructure to control insect vector-borne disease, including with power to predict and prevent the inevitable next epidemic outbreak in advance.