SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
The threat status of endemic atlantic forest trees

One of the most drastic impacts of man on Earth is species extinctions. We do not know how many species are extinct and how many will go extinct, but we may be experiencing a sixth mass extinction. Thus, actions to help protect species from extinction are urgently needed. These actions should be prioritized in biomes such as tropical forests that shelter enormous biodiversity but have increasingly been impacted. One example is the Atlantic Forest in South America. It shelters around 5% of world species, half of them being endemic. But 86% of its original extent has already been lost and only about 1% is effectively protected. To support the protection of the Atlantic Forest, this proposal has the following goals: (i) to assess the threat status of endemic Atlantic Forest trees (EAFT) based on all criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), (ii) to quantify the evolutionary uniqueness of globally threatened EAFT, (iii) provide guidelines to conserve threatened EAFT, including the identification of gaps of knowledge and priority areas for their conservation, and (iv) to involve the local society in species conservation through the proposal of a citizen science program. The proposed action is perfectly aligned with targets of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020 and the IUCN Global Tree Specialist Group. It is multi-disciplinary with both scientific and applied components. It combines large datasets with high-resolution maps, up-to-date modelling techniques and the expertises of researchers from four different countries. It will also provide new information that can be readily used by conservation agencies. Finally, it will engage different social actors to launch a conservation and educational program based on the involvement of local people.
A study of the influence of initial liquid volume on the capillary flow in an interior corner under microgravity

In this work the influence of initial liquid volume on the capillary flow in an interior corner is studied systematically by microgravity experiments using the drop tower, under three different conditions: the Concus-Finn condition is satisfied,close to and dissatisfied. The capillary flow is studied by discussing the movement of tip of the meniscus in the corner. Experimental results show that with the increase of initial liquid volume the tip location increases for a given microgravity time, the achievable maximum tip velocity increases and the flow reaches its maximum tip velocity earlier However, the results for the three different conditions show some difference. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Förderung von BAMAR-POL in Jełowa

Das Projekt umfasst Tätigkeiten im Zusammenhang mit der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit mit künftigen Auftragnehmern aus bestehenden und neuen Märkten im Bereich Textilien und Komponenten für Fensterschutzsysteme, die unter der eigenen Marke des Antragstellers hergestellt werden. Das Projekt bezieht sich auf Werbeaktivitäten, die darauf abzielen, den Anteil des Unternehmens auf bestehenden und neuen ausländischen Märkten zu erhöhen, insbesondere durch die Teilnahme an internationalen Messen (2 Stück), durch die Organisation von Geschäftsreisen im Ausland (6 Stück), um die Exporteinnahmen des Unternehmens zu erhöhen, die Zahl der Empfänger zu erhöhen, die Beziehungen zu ausländischen Partnern zu intensivieren und die Anerkennung der Handelsmarke auf dem ausländischen Markt zu erhöhen. Daher tragen die Ziele des Projekts zum Ziel der Maßnahme 2.4 des ROP 2014-2020 bei. Das Projekt bezieht sich auch auf die fachliche Beratung bei der Entwicklung einer neuen Strategie internationaler Aktivitäten in neuen Märkten für die Jahre 2020-2023. Die Teilnahme an der Messe kann auch dazu beitragen, mit Partnern aus anderen Auslandsmärkten als dem Land des Messeveranstalters, der Aussteller oder Besucher sein wird, zusammenzuarbeiten. Die direkten Produkte des Projekts sind: — Anzahl der im Bereich der Internationalisierung der Tätigkeiten unterstützten Unternehmen – 1 Stk. — Anzahl der Unternehmen, die organisatorische und Prozessänderungen eingeführt haben – 1 Stk. — Private Investitionen in Ergänzung der öffentlichen Unterstützung für Unternehmen (Zuschüsse) – 384 833,27 PLN – Anzahl der geförderten Informations- und Absatzförderungsprojekte internationaler Art – 8 Stk. — Anzahl der im Bereich der Fachberatung unterstützten Unternehmen – 1 Stk. Die oben nicht dargestellten Schlüssel- und Pflichtindikatoren müssen Null sein.
Rubella revisited: Where are we on the road to disease elimination in Central Europe?

Rubella is a contagious viral disease with few complications except when contracted by pregnant women. Rubella infection in pregnancy can result in miscarriage, stillbirth or an infant born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) which comprises deafness, heart disease, cataracts and other permanent congenital manifestations. Clinical diagnosis of rubella is difficult due to overlapping symptoms with many other diseases and confirmation of rubella is not possible without laboratory testing. Effective vaccination programmes are critical to the elimination of rubella and prevention of CRS. Such programmes have been successful in several countries in Europe and around the world. However, rubella outbreaks still occur due to suboptimal vaccine coverage and in the past 10 years rubella has been reported in Central European countries such as Romania and Poland. Over the past decade the elimination of rubella and prevention of congenital rubella infection in Europe has been a high priority for the WHO European Regional Office. In 2010 the WHO regional committee for Europe renewed its commitment to the elimination of rubella and prevention of CRS with a new target of 2015. This paper examines the current situation for rubella and CRS in Central Europe and describes the different rubella vaccination programmes in the region. The Central European Vaccination Advisory Group (CEVAG) recommends that two doses of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, MMR, should be given to all children. The first dose should be given between 12 and 15 months of age. The second dose can be given between the ages of 21 months and 13 years with the exact age of administration of the second dose depending on the situation specific to each country. All suspected rubella cases should be laboratory-confirmed and monitoring systems to detect and investigate cases of CRS should be strengthened.
Serviços de endoscopia gastrointestinal em Salvador, Bahia: análise à luz da segurança do paciente

RESUMO: Objetivo: Analisar a incidência de eventos adversos relacionados aos procedimentos endoscópicos gastrointestinais. Método: Estudo de casos múltiplos em serviços ambulatoriais de endoscopia gastrointestinal Tipo III, na cidade de Salvador, Bahia, analisando: Núcleos de Segurança do Paciente; eventos adversos e descontaminação dos endoscópicos. Resultados: Participaram 28,5% dos serviços ambulatoriais de endoscopia gastrointestinal da cidade estudada. Existem Núcleos de Segurança do Paciente, que atuam segundo Planos de Segurança do Paciente, mas sem profissional com dedicação exclusiva. Apenas um serviço monitora pacientes após a endoscopia, fato que dificulta a identificação dos efeitos adversos após procedimentos nessas organizações. Existem protocolos básicos de segurança do paciente na maioria dos serviços. A incidência total de efeitos adversos é 0,3%; e 0,8% para a endoscopia digestiva alta e colonoscopias. Bacteremias, dor abdominal, sangramento e perfuração intestinal são os danos mais frequentes. Todos os serviços possuem boa estrutura organofuncional para a realização dos processos de limpeza e desinfecção dos endoscópios. Conclusão: Os serviços possuem Núcleos de Segurança do Paciente, e implementam protocolos de segurança recomendados. Os efeitos adversos identificados estão em consonância com a literatura; entretanto, esses dados podem estar subnotificados, uma vez que esses serviços não dispõem de um sistema ativo de vigilância de eventos adversos após exames endoscópicos.
Apoio às pequenas empresas com um volume de negócios superior a 500 000 BGN para fazer face às consequências económicas da pandemia de COVID-19

Apoio às pequenas empresas com um volume de negócios superior a 500 000 BGN para fazer face às consequências económicas da pandemia de COVID-19
Resilience, Information, Society, Communication

"This project is part of the plan RISK" : The project aims to increase ALCOTRA’s territory resilience thorough actions of information toward population, institutions and economical actors. The information and the raise of awareness of these publics are focused on prevention and management of risky situations, protection measures and safety to take at individual scale in case of emergency according to management plans of safety and emergency. This project includes also modalities to share information and efficiency of the emergency and information linked to the progression of the events. The goal is to optimise the information exchange at cross-border level and put them together, including and developing them, various pre-existing systems in French and Italian territories, thorough ICT.

ALCOTRA’s territory is subject to numerous risks. Some of them ignore borders (natural risks), some others are susceptible to be replicated on both sides of the border or to request a joint intervention (industrial, urban and technological risks). These specifics risks need an enforced cross-border cooperation. The intensity, challenge and complexity of potential crisis, in a context of high threats, impose to develop instruments of this collaboration: new interactive instruments of information, communication (warning and information) bettering risk supervision, the decision-making, the alert and risk management, involving citizens to the whole process; instruments of analyse, experience feedbacks and planning; formation and operational preparation of actors. Mutual assistance conventions exist on these territories which are organising the answer to these crises. The seriousness of these events and their scarcity make them necessary to develop new instruments allowing the facilitation of practices integrations and knowledges in natural risk prevention sector and crisis management. This PITEM is integrated in the continuity of previous experiences (RiskNat, RISKNET, FORMARISC, FORTRESS, PICRIT, PRODIGE), it promotes work and deliverable realized, pursuing their development increasing their use by a bigger public of users.
REINFORCED MEDICAL DEVICE

An apparatus and method for a medical implant having a reinforced medical implant body. In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes a sheath, a conductive element, a distal electrode and a length limiting element. The conductive element has a proximal end and a distal end. The distal electrode can be coupled to the distal end of the conductive element. The sheath has a distal end, a proximal end and a length defined between the distal end and the proximal end. The sheath of the apparatus is configured to enclose at least a portion of the conductive element. The length limiting element has a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end of the length limiting element can be coupled to the distal end of the sheath and the proximal end of the length limiting element can be coupled to the proximal end of the sheath.
The significance of drilling date and crop cover with reference to soil erosion by water, with implications for mitigating erosion on agricultural land in South East England

Early drilling of autumn-planted cereals is strongly advised in UK government publications targeted at farmers, in part as a measure to combat soil erosion by water. However, in years when rainfall is heavy in early autumn, this strategy is ineffective. Late drilling of autumn-planted cereals also increases the risk of erosion, but for a different reason: crop cover develops more slowly in cooler weather, resulting in a longer exposure of nearly bare ground. The crucial factor affecting both strategies is the timing of autumn and early winter rainfall. We discuss a conceptual model based on the notion of a ‘window of opportunity’ for erosion, comprising the relationship between drilling date, date of attainment of a sufficiently protective crop cover and the timing of rainfall; variations are presented for different weather conditions and management choices. Of these three factors, only the date of drilling can be chosen by the farmer. The date of attaining a sufficiently protective crop cover can only be predicted approximately. The timing of rainfall cannot be predicted. Thus, erosion control advice to farmers, which is based on choice of date of drilling to minimize erosion during the ‘window of opportunity’, is both difficult to formulate and likely to be ineffective. Sites at risk of erosion need to have better thought-out mitigation measures in place, rather than relying on a fortuitous temporal pattern of autumn and winter rainfall to minimize the risk of erosion.
Perturbations in growth trajectory due to early diet affect age‐related deterioration in performance

Fluctuations in early developmental conditions can cause changes in growth trajectories that subsequently affect the adult phenotype. Here, we investigated whether compensatory growth has long‐term consequences for patterns of senescence.


Using three‐spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus), we show that a brief period of dietary manipulation in early life affected skeletal growth rate not only during the manipulation itself, but also during a subsequent compensatory phase when fish caught up in size with controls.


However, this growth acceleration influenced swimming endurance and its decline over the course of the breeding season, with a faster decline in fish that had undergone faster growth compensation.


Similarly, accelerated growth led to a more pronounced reduction in the breeding period (as indicated by the duration of sexual ornamentation) over the following two breeding seasons, suggesting faster reproductive senescence. Parallel experiments showed a heightened effect of accelerated growth on these age‐related declines in performance if the fish were under greater time stress to complete their compensation prior to the breeding season.


Compensatory growth led to a reduction in median life span of 12% compared to steadily growing controls. While life span was independent of the eventual adult size attained, it was negatively correlated with the age‐related decline in swimming endurance and sexual ornamentation.


These results, complementary to those found when growth trajectories were altered by temperature rather than dietary manipulations, show that the costs of accelerated growth can last well beyond the time over which growth rates differ and are affected by the time available until an approaching life‐history event such as reproduction.
Establishing services enhancing innovation management capacity of smes in the enterprise europe network: hessen

Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH (HTAI), representing the EEN Hessen consortium busyhessen, will implement the action „Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network“ calculating with a minimum number of thirteen seven-day-packages with the objective to support innovative SMEs with a high potential for growth and internationalisation. 
Thus, interested beneficiaries of the SME Instrument will be supported with key account management (KAM). Other enterprises, assessed as suitable by EEN Hessen, will be supported in the separate process of Enhancing Innnovation Management Capacity (EIMC). HTAI will use the „Innovation Health Check“ by Enterprise Ireland as a CEN/TS 16555-1 tool to assess the innovation management capacity of Hessian clients for both services offered. 
Five EEN Hessen innovation experts, all senior EEN staff experienced in innovation management, are foreseen for this action.
Practices of climate diplomacy and uneven policy responses on climate change on human mobility

Climate change is a concern for states both at home and abroad. However, disparities often exist between the picture painted by climate diplomacy and domestic policy measures, be it in the level of priority afforded to climate action, or the integration of climate concerns across policy silos. A key area of work for climate diplomacy is human mobility in the context of climate change, which brings into stark relief the cross-border reach of climate change impacts and is billed as one of the biggest societal challenges of climate change. Much of the focus until now has been on the vulnerabilities and resilience of individuals, communities, and states in the Global South most likely to be affected. However, little is known about the political sphere and the climate diplomatic practices of states in the Global North in relation to climate change and human mobility, and in turn how these diplomatic efforts tally with domestic climate action. This project therefore asks the following question: 

How are nation-states developing practices of international climate diplomacy in relation to climate change and human mobility and to what extent do these align or discord with their practices at the state level?
 
This question will be answered with a comparative case study of five European nation-states. In the first work package, the international climate diplomacy practices of these states will be examined, with the second work package concentrating on domestic policymaking. In the third and fourth work packages within-case and cross-case comparisons will be undertaken respectively, to ascertain whether practices at the international level align or discord with practices at the state level and to compare these findings across cases. The fifth work package will conduct a critical analysis of the findings to feed into conceptual and political debates on climate change and human mobility.
Logical foundations for the future of safe systems programming

A longstanding question in the design of programming languages is how to balance safety and control. C-like languages give programmers low-level control over resource management at the expense of safety, whereas Java-like languages give programmers safe high-level abstractions at the expense of control.

Rust is a new language developed at Mozilla Research that marries together the low-level flexibility of modern C++ with a strong ""ownership-based"" type system guaranteeing type safety, memory safety, and data race freedom. As such, Rust has the potential to revolutionize systems programming, making it possible to build software systems that are safe by construction, without having to give up low-level control over performance.

Unfortunately, none of Rust's safety claims have been formally investigated, and it is not at all clear that they hold. To rule out data races and other common programming errors, Rust's core type system prohibits the aliasing of mutable state, but this is too restrictive for implementing some low-level data structures. Consequently, Rust's standard libraries make widespread internal use of unsafe blocks, which enable them to opt out of the type system when necessary. The hope is that such unsafe code is properly encapsulated, so that Rust's language-level safety guarantees are preserved. But due to Rust's reliance on a weak memory model of concurrency, along with its bleeding-edge type system, verifying that
Rust and its libraries are actually safe will require fundamental advances to the state of the art.

In this project, we aim to equip Rust programmers with the first formal tools for verifying safe encapsulation of unsafe code. Any realistic languages targeting this domain in the future will encounter the same problem, so we expect our results to have lasting impact. To achieve this goal, we will build on recent breakthrough developments by the PI and collaborators in concurrent program logics and semantic models of type systems.
Subsídio de fundo de maneio para PIOTR ZIÓŁKOWSKI- «HOTEL PARADISO»

O projeto destina-se a apoiar a empresa no fornecimento de liquidez e no apoio às suas operações quotidianas devido a dificuldades financeiras que ocorreram na empresa em resultado do surto de COVID-19. Assistência financeira prestada com base no regime SA.57015.
An Alternative Bayesian Estimator of Small Proportion Using Binomial Group Testing

Group testing has been used for estimating proportion in certain areas. Bayes Estimator and type-II Maximum Likelihood Empirical Bayes (MLEB) Estimator have been studied in the literature. In this article, we first discuss some properties of the Bayes Estimator. Then we show the existence and uniqueness of the MLE of a hyper-parameter appearing in the prior of the proportion. Finally, we propose an Alternative Empirical Bayes (AEB) Estimator. Based on our heavy simulation work, it appears that as bias is concerned, the performance of the AEB and the Burrows estimator are about the same and both are better than the MLEB; on the other hand, the AEB has smaller MSE than both Burrows estimator and the MLEB estimator.
«NASCIDA A NÍVEL MUNDIAL: Capacitar a inovação através da colaboração global" — veículo de investimento Leonarto Alfa de apoio a projetos de I & D em fase de arranque com elevado potencial comercial através da utilização de um modelo de oferta-procura e direcionando projetos incubados para a sua internacionalização.

Number_reference_aid_programa: SA.41471(2015/X) Objetivo do auxílio público: Artigo 25.º do Regulamento (CE) n.º 651/2014, de 17 de junho de 2014, que declara certas categorias de auxílios compatíveis com o mercado interno, em aplicação dos artigos 107.º e 108.º do Tratado É isso mesmo. UE L 187/1 de 26.6.2014). O objetivo do projeto é lançar um veículo de investimento de apoio a projetos de I & D em fase de arranque que se enquadram na definição de inovação de produtos ou processos, com um elevado potencial de comercialização, aplicando um modelo de oferta-procura e direcionando projetos incubados para a sua internacionalização. A abordagem de aprovisionamento consiste em identificar projetos de I & D implementados em unidades de investigação estatais (PJB) e outros centros de criação de inovação, com elemento polaco e caracterizados por um elevado potencial de comercialização. Como parte do modelo de necessidade, prevê-se identificar problemas tecnológicos reais das empresas, selecionar questões com alto e amplo potencial comercial e, em seguida, desenvolver soluções para problemas selecionados (sob a forma de conhecimento/tecnologia codificado) em cooperação com a PJB e equipas de projeto dedicadas (as chamadas «equipas de solução») dos originadores. O perfil do setor do Fundo centrar-se-á em duas áreas temáticas do SCI: «Tecnologias e Processos Industriais Inovadores» (Espaço Líder) e «Uma Sociedade Saudável». Os parceiros estratégicos da Leonarto Alfa serão Leonarto Sp. z o.o., o Centro Fraunhofer de Gestão Internacional e Economia do Conhecimento e a Associação de Inovadores Top 500. Graças à parceria estratégica da Leonarto Alfa com o Fraunhofer Center, projetos incubados terão acesso a uma ampla rede de contatos envolvendo institutos de pesquisa e empresas de diversas indústrias de vários países, cooperando com a Sociedade Fraunhofer.