SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Low-Profile/Drag electronically steerable antennas for in-flight connectivity

Abstract
The aviation industry has deployed a wide set of broadband networks and services to offer high-speed connectivity to passengers and crews. The aircraft terminal antenna is a critical item with a high impact on the total cost of ownership for the airline connectivity services. Electronically Steered Antennas (ESAs) are expected to disrupt the market thanks to their unique capacity to track two or more satellites simultaneously due to the multi-beam capability. The advantages of the ESAs over traditional mechanically steered antennas are especially valued by aviation sector customers because of their reduced size (less additional fuel burn costs due to the less additional drag) and improved reliability.
The objective of LESAF project is to propose low-profile and highly efficient ESA solution for the next generation of In-Flight Connectivity services. This will be achieved through the requirements definition, system analysis, technology assessment, prototyping and validation of this type of new generation directional antennas. It will be demonstrated that this type of antennas can meet the stringest requirements impose by the aviation market while bringing superior benefits over their alternative technological solutions. 
Two electronically steered antenna prototypes will be produced and tested (TRL 6) in order WP1.4.4 partners to perform testing in a representative test environment representative of an aircraft installation (installation on real aircrafts is not envisaged). The main characteristics and innovations of LESAR are: 1) Separated Tx and Rx apertures based on a multilevel modular concept 2) Innovative vertical assembly model maximizing the efficiency and reducing the size, number of elements, power consumption and heat dissipation 3) End-fire contactless radiating elements 4) Broadband Analogue beamforming with phase delay compensation 5) Multibeam steering and signal processing.
Ret trafficking

Protein kinases play a critical role in a number of cellular processes, including cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. The REarranged during Transfection (RET) receptor tyrosine kinase plays important roles in regulating cellular proliferation, migration, and survival in the normal development of neural crest derived tissues. Furthermore, aberrant activation of RET, through oncogenic mutations or overexpression, can contribute to tumourigenesis, regional invasion, and metastasis of several human cancers. RET relocalisation plays a role in cancer invasion and metastasis. Unfortunately, the detailed understanding of RET's dynamic function and the importance of quantitative, spatial and time-dependent parameters regarding RET trafficking is lacking. As such, the ability to manipulate RET activity using light would result in temporal control of enzymatic activity, thus serving as a valuable approach to probe the RET trafficking, further our understanding of cell movement and invasion. Cells will be exposed to photoresponsive RET inhibitors that can be turned on and off with light. Their effects on RET trafficking will be monitored by imaging. The results of these studies will provide new insights into intracellular RET trafficking and its role in cancer, ultimately leading to new therapeutic targets and improved disease management.
Challenge of eCitizen - Promoting eGovernment Actions in European Cities

The project is designed to support local eGovernment initiatives, actions and strategies through the exchange and dissemination of information, best practices and successful technical innovations acquired in the partner cities and Europe-wide. The partners aim to enhance the capacities, management skills and technical knowledge of local policy-makers, officials and experts responsible for eGovernment actions to design, manage and evaluate local technology-based public services. This goal is supported by promoting innovative approaches in establishing partnerships between public and private sectors as well as encouraging use of electronic communication in the public sector, among citizens and businesses. Furthermore, the project aims to raise public awareness on eGovernment actions as well as encourage citizens' participation in the democratic processes through Internet.
Analysing solution quality of anytime Bag of Words object classification for a service robot

Much work can be found in the literature that theoretically analyse anytime algorithms for resource aware systems. However, only a few of them focus on practical real world applications e.g. for mobile service robots with limited resources. This paper revises some theoretical assumptions according to the needs in a tangible object classification scenario and shows an application-related mechanism that facilitates a service robot to not only be aware of but also to actively manage its resources. For this purpose, an object classification example based on Bag-of-Words (resp. Bag-of-Features) is presented. First, the underlying algorithm is modified so as to setup its execution time limit. Thereto, the algorithm is combined with a task-pair. Second, the performance profile of the algorithm is determined by analysing the influence of execution time limits on resulting solution quality.
Development of competitive, next generation biofuels from municipal solid waste

The objective of BioRen is to develop techno-economical competitive drop-in biofuels for road transport from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW). A higher value fuel is targeted: glycerol tertiary butyl ether (GTBE) is a promising fuel additive to both diesel and gasoline that improves engine performance and cuts harmful exhaust emissions (i.e. fine dust). It can be blended in higher amounts than e.g. ethanol, without having to change the engine. Bio-ethanol and bio-isobutanol from OFMSW are required intermediaries in this innovation path towards GTBE. Their specific business case as second generation drop-in fuel will be compared to the bio-GTBE business case, to select the most sustainable option for building a demo plant. The project will develop a pretreatment method, industrial 2G Saccharomyces strains that produce ethanol and isobutanol respectively and chemical dehydration to convert isobutanol into isobutene. The isobutene is converted into GTBE by adding Category 1 glycerol, another problematic waste stream. The resulting fuels (ethanol, isobutanol and GTBE) will be tested in engine tests to provide feedback regarding their performance, emission results and fuel use. This ambitious project is continuously monitored by LCA, techno-economic, market and regulatory and IP analysis in order to come up with a realistic business plan. The developed processes will be integrated in a revolutionary MSW treatment plant that combines the most efficient technologies of material reuse, and is currently looking into optimising the profitability of its organic waste fraction. The project consortium has all the required players to succeed: 3 RTO’s address the research challenges, 7 SMEs either bring in their technological developments or are a scale-up partner that bring the processes to min. TRL5. The project is led by a financial consultancy that invests in the MSW demonstration treatment plant.
Gold nanoparticles supported on TiO2–Ni as catalysts for hydrogen purification via water–gas shift reaction

Gold nanoparticles deposited on TiO2–Ni prepared by sol–gel process catalyses the CO oxidation to hydrogen purification. Gold-catalysts were characterized by UV-Vis and Raman spectroscopies, X-ray diffraction, H2-TPR, N2 physisorption, HRTEM and STEM-HAADF microscopies. These catalysts were applied in the water–gas shift reaction at temperatures from 30 to 300 °C and this reaction was studied by DRIFTS to understand the catalytic surface phenomena. The best CO conversion was showed by doped Au/TiO2–Ni(1) with regard to Au/TiO2 sol–gel and Au/TiO2–P25 catalysts. DRIFTS confirm the strong and favorable effect of doping nickel ions into the reducible TiO2 framework. Nickel contents from 1 to 10% enhance the WGS reaction in contrast to the undoped catalyst. Ni-doped TiO2 support was practically inert for WGS reaction. These gold catalysts present significant activity in the water–gas shift reaction that allows purification of hydrogen from industrial sources at low-temperature.
A Agricultura Natural de Mokiti Okada: uma experimentação moral e política como fonte de inovação de ordem ecológica

Este artigo veicula uma análise das trajetórias de desenvolvimento da Agricultura Natural no Brasil. Esta última é apoiada por diferentes organizações ligadas à Igreja Messiânica Mundial do Brasil, que consideram seu desenvolvimento como necessário para o advento do “Paraíso na Terra”, ou seja um mundo “sem doença, sem pobreza e sem conflito”, tal como projetado por Mokiti Okada, fundador deste movimento filosófico religioso nos anos 1930, no Japão. Seguindo os passos da filósofa Emilie Hache, este caso é abordado como uma potencial resposta prática à crise ecológica contemporânea, concebida como sendo simultaneamente de origem moral, política e epistemológica. O artigo destaca as trajetórias evolutivas muito diferentes dos dois principais sistemas de atividade agrícola desenvolvidos pelo movimento (horticultura e avicultura). Com efeito, ambos conhecem o mesmo conjunto de tensões, entre identidade do movimento e exigências religiosas, por um lado, e imperativos de desempenho técnico e financeiro, por outro. Essas tensões são resolvidas de formas muito diferentes em virtude das especificidades da horticultura e da avicultura no seio da Agricultura Natural. A análise permite assim sublinhar as contribuições e os limites desta dinâmica, mas também seu alcance muito além de suas próprias fronteiras, revelando o interesse que uma experimentação moral e política de natureza ecológica deste tipo representa para abordar as questões de desenvolvimento sustentável.elocation-id: e2230104Recebido: 13.08.2021 • Aceito: 08.02.2022 • Publicado: 23.02.2022Artigo original / Revisão por pares cega / Acesso aberto
Rural tourism and Albergo Diffuso: A case study for sustainable land-use planning

Abstract International organisations are increasingly aware of the sustainable development, and this has also affected the tourism industry. Albergo Diffuso (known in the international literature as a “scattered or dispersed hotel”) represents an interesting interpretation of sustainable “Made in Italy” tourism. This paper investigates the Albergo Diffuso as an example of sustainable community-based entrepreneurial land use. Although Albergo Diffuso springs out of an entrepreneur’s business idea, this model cannot survive without a strong identification with the territory. Albergo Diffuso thus represents a noteworthy model of sustainable tourism and shows how reciprocity of entrepreneurship and the territory creates value for all stakeholders both through enhancement of the landscape and attractive development of tourist destinations. The Le Grotte della Civita case study of Matera (Italy) is guided by a descriptive model that provides a heuristic tool for conceptualising changes in sustainable tourism.
Use of pap as a biomarker and stratifier of pancreatic cancer to improve patient management

With an overall 3-year survival rate of only ~6% together with an increased incidence pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), which represents 90% of pancreatic cancer, figures as the solid cancer with the worst prognosis. In trying to understand “the” reason for such negative outlook, one has to consider that the fundamental and clinical research conducted during the last 30 years has focused on characterizing and understanding the properties of the PDA cancer cells, neglecting the specific cellular context of those tumors. Indeed PDA consists of 80% of non-tumor cells. In the ERC Starting grant, S-Target-in-PANR, I conducted from 2011 to 2016 we took into account this specificity and analyzed the impact of this stromal compartment on PDA physiology. The discoveries and conceptual progresses obtained throughout the S-Target-in-PANR programme opened new potent improvements of PDA patients’ management. Among them, we revealed that one of the candidates, PAP/REG3A, was secreted by acinar cells from the peri-tumoral microenvironment to enhance peri-neural invasion ability of tumor cells. Interestingly, we demonstrated that PAP/REG3A titration in serum was a potent biomarker in order to stratify PDA and could lead to patients’ management optimization and more specifically to predict resectability. 
This validation, using robust cohorts and adapted testing, constitutes the main goal of our ERC-PoC pBioStrat-for-PDA. Indeed, it will provide a powerful tool for clinicians in order to better determine the resectability of a tumor by taking into account its biological nature on top of the only clinical criteria used so far. As a consequence the use of a non-invasive PAP/REG3A serum level determination will improve patients’ managements by (1) shortening the delay to start palliative chemotherapy, (2) limiting unnecessary surgery with important mortality/morbidity and (3) improving their redirection to adapted clinical trials, as the one targeting JAK2/STAT3 signalling.
The Public Attitudes and Images of the European Union in India

This article seeks to fill a major gap in existing studies on how Asians perceive the European Union. It discusses the Union’s efforts to promote its visibility in India since the mid-1990s and provides an overview of the Indian literati’s perceptions of contemporary Europe. This article examines the perception, representation and visibility of the EU in the Indian media, among business, civil society and media ‘elite’ and in public opinion. It explores whether the Union’s self-proclaimed representation as a global actor, a normative power and a leader in environmental negotiations conforms to how it is actually perceived in Third World countries. It evaluates whether more than a decade of summitry has led to greater visibility of the EU in the Indian media. The article concludes by making a comparison of EU imagery in media, elite and public opinion discourses, and makes several recommendations on how EU can possibly improve its visibility in future.
Becoming a martyr in early modern south india: the memory of tēvacakāyam between jesuit mission and tamil popular culture.

In the TamCatHoly project, I explore ideas and practices of Catholic martyrdom and self-sanctification in early modern South India, in the context of the mission established by the Jesuits in Madurai in 1606. Unlike previous narratives centred around the missionaries, I adopt a new perspective, and focus on how Tamil converts reshaped ideas and practices of martyrdom, sanctity, and the miraculous, in order to accommodate their new faith within local social and cultural orders. How did they recognise, and relate to Catholic saintly figures and their powers? What were the tools and strategies at their disposal for becoming martyrs and saints themselves? My research addresses such questions by focusing on the little-known figure of a local convert, Tēvacakāyam (1712-1752), a high-caste Nadar soldier who converted to Catholicism in 1745, and was later imprisoned, tortured and killed by the king of Travancore. Upon his death, Tamil Catholics throughout South India immediately recognised him as a martyr and set to tell his story in songs and ballads, while missionaries begun to promote the cause of his canonisation. In the project, I analyse the biography and cultural memories of Tēvacakāyam and his martyrdom drawing upon hitherto unstudied sources such as hagiographic texts written in popular Tamil genres from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, and local historical records and Church documents produced around his canonisation process. I read these Indian and European archives in Tamil, Malayalam, Latin, Italian, French, and Portuguese at the crossroad of philology, indology, and cultural and social history, thus inaugurating a novel interdisciplinary perspective. In doing so, I endeavour to connect the history and culture of small Tamil locales to the global history of Catholic missions on the verge of modernity, and explore the complex evolution of religious and regional belonging against overly simplified received notions of Catholic and Tamil identity.
One small step for MIP towards automated metaphor identification?

The manual annotation of large corpora is time-consuming and brings about issues of consistency. This paper aims to demonstrate how general rules for determining basic meanings can be formulated in large-scale projects involving multiple analysts applying MIP(VU) to authentic data. Three sets of problematic lexical units — chemical processes, colours, and sharp objects — are discussed in relation to the question of how the basic meaning of a lexical unit can be determined when human and non-human senses compete as candidates for the basic meaning; these analyses can therefore be considered a detailed case study of problems encountered during step 3.b. of MIP(VU). The analyses show how these problematic cases were tackled in a large corpus clean-up project in order to streamline the annotations and ensure a greater consistency of the corpus. In addition, this paper will point out how the formulation of general identification rules and guidelines could provide a first step towards the automatic detection of linguistic metaphors in natural discourse.
FUEL INJECTION DEVICE FOR A DIESEL ENGINE

A fuel pump (3) comprises a piston (7) which is adjustable by rotation. The pump (3) is actuated by an axial piston system (20) on which acts a fluid pressure means, and the piston (7) of the pump can undergo rotation around the axes (8) imposed by an operating device (60). In the pressure fluid circuit, a regulating device (31) adjusts the admission and delivery of the pressure fluid for the twin-action axial piston (22) of the axial piston system (20). The pulse for the start of the piston injection travel is sent to the regulating device (31) by an electric pulse generator (40) or by a camshaft. A return piston (34) on the regulating device (31) is operated by the fuel and is linked by a pipeline (33) with the pump chamber. Towards the end of the injection travel, a control edge (12) leaves open a passageway (14), and a pressure surge acts by means of the pipeline (33) on the return piston (34).
Distortion of regional old-age mortality rates due to migration in the period prior to death in the Netherlands?

BACKGROUND Regional mortality differences are an important public health indicator and can serve as the basis for population forecasts and local planning. Health-related migration at old age may distort observed regional mortality. OBJECTIVE We assess whether or not internal migration in late life has the potential for distortion of regional old-age mortality rates and differences therein. DATA AND METHODS Using data from the Dutch population register, we analyzed migration and death rates in the population aged 80 years and above across the Dutch NUTS 2 regions, NUTS 3 regions and municipalities in the years 2002 through 2006. Observed sex-specific age-standardized death rates-and regional differences therein-are compared to hypothetical mortality rates, which disregard internal migration in the three years prior to death. RESULTS Late-life internal migration intensities were highest at municipality level, for women, and for those who died. Almost half of the municipalities showed differences of more than +/-5% between the observed and hypothetical mortality rates. Many of the municipalities, whose observed mortality rates differed significantly from the Dutch average, displayed no significant difference from the average in the hypothetical scenario. Regional mortality variation across the municipalities decreased significantly if late-life migration was disregarded. Differences were larger for women than men. Minimal differences appeared between the observed situation and hypothetical scenario at NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 levels. CONCLUSION Late-life migration can significantly distort regional old-age mortality. Mortality risk factors therefore appear to be more equally distributed than the observed rates imply. The bias depends on age, regional level, migration intensity, and the role of nursing care.
Nanobody-Targeted photodynamic therapy to kill cancer

Current cancer therapies often fail to cure patients. Ideally, therapy should locally eradicate cancer and should be capable of inducing long term protection, through activation of the immune system. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment approach in which cancer cells are killed with compounds, named photosensitizers that are activated locally through light exposure. Importantly, PDT eradication of cancers commonly involves the immune system. However, current photosensitizers lack cancer specificity, which limits therapeutic efficacy and prolongs photosensitivity in patients.
Recently, I have developed an improved version of targeted PDT that uses very small antibodies i.e. nanobodies that distribute homogenously, bind rapidly and specifically to cancer cells, and a photosensitizer that can be traced by optical imaging to guide the application of PDT.
The aims of this proposal are to better understand and to advance nanobody-targeted PDT to ensure complete cancer eradication, and to facilitate its clinical translation. This will be achieved by:
1) Exploring the increased accumulation of photosensitizer through development of novel nanobody-photosensitizer conjugates to bind to cancer cells, cancer stem cells, and endothelial cells. These combinations will be evaluated for their efficacy in mice bearing human carcinomas;
2) Investigating the immune system activation to determine if, as other PDT, nanobody-targeted PDT triggers a systemic immune response, or if additional triggers are needed;
3) Studying the effect of nanobody-targeted PDT in dogs entering the veterinary clinic with oral or colorectal cancers. Treatment efficacy will be evaluated by monitoring cancer regression or disappearance.
The outcome of this research will scientifically advance the new field of nanobody-targeted PDT, by providing essential information on its mechanism of action and the feasibility of this approach in human cancer patients, to ultimately improve current cancer treatment.
MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF QUANTUM DECISION THEORY

One of the most complex systems is the human brain whose formalized functioning is characterized by decision theory. We present a "Quantum Decision Theory" of decision making, based on the mathematical theory of separable Hilbert spaces. This mathematical structure captures the effect of superposition of composite prospects, including many incorporated intentions, which allows us to explain a variety of interesting fallacies and anomalies that have been reported to particularize the decision making of real human beings. The theory describes entangled decision making, non-commutativity of subsequent decisions, and intention interference of composite prospects. We demonstrate how the violation of the Savage's sure-thing principle (disjunction effect) can be explained as a result of the interference of intentions, when making decisions under uncertainty. The conjunction fallacy is also explained by the presence of the interference terms. We demonstrate that all known anomalies and paradoxes, documented in the context of classical decision theory, are reducible to just a few mathematical archetypes, all of which finding straightforward explanations in the frame of the developed quantum approach.