SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Windshield with improved bird-strike, erosion, de-fogging, de-icing and ir performance

Objective of this project is the development upto the production of a prototype of a new pilot windshield and other windows with the focus on using state of the art technologies and coatings. This includes the complex interface between the airframe and the windshields. Especially, the capabilities versus improved bird-strike, anti-icing, anti-fogging and IR performance are taken into consideration.
The consortium consists of 3 partners, all centred in the aeronautic industry with the expertise to develop and manufacture structural lightweight designs. Everyone is an expert on its main field. KRD Sicherheitstechnik GmbH (KRD) is a leading manufacturer of windshields and windows, so far mainly for ground transports (e.g. forestry harvesters, vessels, sport cars) but has contributed with prototypes for helicopter applications as well. Within their product portfolio you can find coated laminated car windshields with heating systems, usable for aeronautic applications for de-icing or de-fogging, too. The coating development for these applications as well as for scratch resistance is done at KRD premises.
The Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Structures and Design has the excellence in the design of structural parts as well as the ability to perform simulations and tests to optimize the engineered parts concerning the structural behaviour, particularly under crash and impact loading. The institute will assist in the definition of testing methods and will perform testing sequences and bird-strike tests to evaluate the solutions. The DLR has developed a dummy bird, which will be evaluated during this project compared to real bird.
The University of Stuttgart, Institut für Flugzeugbau (USTUTT) is the third partner and specialized in the production and development of structural fibre reinforced parts and their testing against specifications and life cycle analysis. The USTUTT has capacities and expertise in finding accurate coating solutions.
Harvesting the sun

Biological production of high-value compounds such as medicines, flavors, fragrances and food ingredients, is predicted to constitute 50% of the World market by 2025 thus representing a commercial hotspot. A competitive edge for European industry within this domain is therefore important.  Today, 40% of prescribed medicinal drugs originate or are derived from rare or difficult to cultivate medicinal plants which typically contain the compounds in very low amounts and in complex mixtures. We have demonstrated that by using synthetic biology we can build a solar powered platform for production of key high-value compounds within the diterpenoid class in green cells (cyanobacteria/moss/algae). The diterpenoids are excreted into the growth medium offering easy isolation. This provides a highly profitable and attainable opportunity to produce a large number of medicinal compounds at highly reduced costs. The production platform is easily adaptable to make structural analogs and entirely new structures. Combinatorial libraries can be developed to enable screening for desired new functionalities. The envisioned production platform includes the full chain from pathway discovery, host optimization, scale-up, extraction and final product isolation and offers entry points for industrial development and exit points for adaptation to existing pipelines. Based on the advances made within the ERC Advanced Grant the focus of this PoC is to optimize the scientific breakthroughs’ market adaptation, specifically focused on the compounds Forskolin and Ingenol-3-angelate as proof-of-concept of the market value of the production platform. The envisioned full-chain focus offers potent financial opportunities and a new vision for biobased production across Europe in a re-invigorated sustainable greenhouse industry offering new job opportunities in full harmony with the envisioned Europe2020 and Horizon2020 goals.
Comparação de Modelos para Determinação Indireta da Curva de Retenção de Água no Solo: Aplicação em Solos da Bacia do Arroio Taboão, RS

Soil capacity of retaining water is fundamentally important for physical processes studies involved with the soil-water system. Its representation is made by means of the retention curve, obtained in laboratory, with the use of specific equipments and collected samples, or indirectly in the field, employing tensiometers. The most common procedure consists in determining the retention curve in laboratory utilizing undisturbed samples and the Richards Chamber. Despite being well established, this method has the drawback of being time-consuming. In order to avoid this shortcoming, different methodologies have been proposed to permit obtaining the retention curve indirectly, being the pedotransfer functions some examples of them. The objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of two methods of this nature comparing their results to those obtained with the classic methodology. The evaluated methods were that of Arya & Paris (1981) e the two models proposed by Walczak et al. (2006). The data base was constituted of 78 undisturbed samples collected from nine soil types, being eight of them clayey soils, in the Taboao stream basin, in the region of the city of Pejucara - state of Rio Grande do Sul. The obtained results have showed that all models systematically underestimated the soil moistures when compared to those measured in laboratory. In 65 % of the analyzed samples, the models proposed by Walczak et al. (2006) provided better performances than the model of Arya & Paris (1981)
Warning and mitigation technologies for travelling ionospheric disturbances effects

Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) constitute a threat for operational systems for which the ionosphere is an essential part (i.e., radio systems) or for which the ionosphere is fundamentally a nuisance (i.e. GNSS based systems and applications). The overarching objective of TechTIDE is to design and test new viable TID impact mitigation strategies for the technologies affected by the TIDs and in close collaboration with operators of these technologies, to demonstrate the added value of the proposed mitigation techniques which are based on TechTIDE products.  To achieve this main goal, it is necessary to address the following specific objectives:
i. Improve understanding regarding the physical processes resulting in the formation of TIDs, and consequently to identify the drivers in the interplanetary medium, the magnetosphere and the atmosphere;
ii. Define the impact of the TIDs on the space based navigation systems (mainly EGNOS services and N-RTK) and on ground-based HF communication and geolocation systems;
iii. Develop improved methodologies, based on consortium partners’ algorithms, suitable to support for the first time the direct,real-time identification and tracking of TIDs over wide world regions;
iv. Establish an operational system to issue warnings of the occurrence of TIDs over the region extending from Europe to South Africa, to estimate the parameters that specify the TID characteristics and the inferred perturbation, and provide all additional geophysical information to the users to help them assess the risks and to develop mitigation techniques, tailored to their applications;
v. Work systematically with potential users to assess the functionality, reliability and efficiency of the TechTIDE services paving the way to its systematic exploitation from users and to its sustainable operation.
Ownership unbundling and investment in electricity markets — A cross country study

Abstract This paper is the first to explicitly test for the presence of a trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency and a trade-off between vertical economies and competition in a regulated industry, the electricity industry. We show for 16 European countries over the period 1998–2008 that higher electricity end-user prices in a country subsequently lead to larger aggregate investments in the capital stock, i.e. in generation, distribution and transmission assets. Moreover, there is a trade-off between vertical economies and competition. Ownership unbundling and forced access to the incumbent transmission grid increases competition but come at the cost of lost vertical economies. Generally, we find that regulation that affects only the market directly , like the establishment of a wholesale market or free choice of suppliers, increases aggregate investment. Regulation, however, that adversely affects the incumbent directly , like ownership unbundling, decreases aggregate investment spending.
Replacing the Term "Voodoo" with "Vodou": A Proposal

The anthropologist Richard Barrett noted that ethnographers hold many stereoscopic visions of the societies that they study. Such visions provide them with views of the world through two or more lenses, including what he referred to as etic or emic perspectives. The etic description of a culture is an observer's oriented approach whose goal is to analyze a society's customs and symbolic forms afar, that is, objectively as a scientist observes a chemical reaction in his or her laboratory. To describe a culture emically is to understand the customs and categories of thought from a subject's point of view. It is to look and describe a people's worldview subjectively, that is, from inside their culture, to learn their languages and use the nomenclatures that they use to designate the categories of things that are part of their universe. Voodoo is a Western term that derives from the late 19th and early 20th centuries' views of Haitian culture. It is fraught with racist categories about blacks' religious practices. Writers like Spenser St. John, a member of the British diplomatic corps in Haiti, the occultist William B. Seabrook, and world traveler and author J. Verschueren among others, described Voodoo as primitive beliefs and practices involving zombies, wax dolls, and exotic spells celebrated clandestinely by Blacks who, inebriated with blood, enter into ecstatic and frenzied states of consciousness in which their bodies are invaded by supernatural malevolent powers. The term Voodoo then is associated with the colonial (even latent) views of African and African-derived New World ritual practices perceived as untamed and uncivilized.
Space data gateway

Space Data Gateway (SDG) is an Intelligent NanoSat Communication service in Low Earth orbit (LEO), capable of transmitting on-demand space data (speeds of data transmission of 150 Mbps and above) at a fraction of the cost (as low as 5 EUR per GB). The main innovation is the capability for NanoSats to interconnect in LEO by using SDG satellite communication modules and antennas and transmit up-to 50x more data per mission.  The proposed service will enable the user to have plug & play satellite communication system and AI-based autonomous mission operations capability, as well as cloud-based Digital Mission Control. This will reduce the price of NanoSat missions by 65% on average and at the same time lower the complexity of the satellite communications and increase the volume of the space data transmitted. Having on-demand access to a given LEO satellite makes its operations much safer and redundant. The successful implementation of SDG data service will result in acquiring hundreds of terabytes of space data per year from NanoSats. This will have positive impact on educational, science and commercial space missions’ outcome while also guaranteeing stable recurrent cashflow for the service. The initial commercialisation estimates are for up-to 50 new satellite customers per year.  The service will also have strategic value to EU – enabling unique satellite data network solution for all European entities and ensuring that Europe will lead in LEO space missions on commercial and science-level. The solution will open the door for next generation of European innovators to access LEO space data faster and commercialize it directly in non-space industries. SDG service will enable NanoSats with diverse missions to connect and empower the first common satellite network in LEO.
Multifunctional luminescent and magnetic nanoparticles for advanced biomedical applications

The key goals of the “LUMIMAGNET-NANO” project are: (a) the training of a talented young researcher, Dr. Rosa Martín-Rodríguez, in the fast growing field of science, technology and industrial applications of nanomedicine, where the host and partner institutions have a critical knowledge and expertise; and, (b) the design, development and optimisation of cost-efficient magnetic nanoparticles with multifunctional recovering for biomedical applications.

The aim of the research project is to take advantage of both magnetic and optical properties for magnetic hyperthermia applications. The interdisciplinary training program includes preparation of magnetic nanomaterials, surface modification to provide luminescent functionality, characterization, spectroscopic studies including X-ray absorption spectroscopy in synchrotron radiation facilities, in-vitro study, and implementation for hyperthermia applications.

The fellow is a talented researcher who has gained much expertise in synthesis and structural and spectroscopic characterization of luminescent nanomaterials and cell biology protocols during her undergraduate and postgraduate career. To further boost her career, she needs to gain expertise in preparation of biocompatible nanoparticles, magnetic characterization techniques, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and hyperthermia applications, fields in which the University of Basque Country has a world-recognised expertise. Additionally, through two three-month secondments at academic and industrial co-hosts, University of Rome Tre and Resonant Circuits Ltd. respectively, the fellow will gain additional high-level training in X-ray spectroscopy and industrial hyperthermia applications. This multidisciplinary project will also increase her supervision experience, project and intellectual property management expertise, and research funding and proposal writing skills.
Mobilising archives: photography in southwest angola

Africanist archival photography has posed significant questions from a postcolonial perspective. This project aims to further investigate its current visual economy by studying different practices of ethnographic field photography in Lusophone countries. It explores three collections produced over different historical times by using an innovative methodology that combines postcolonial archival research, visual culture studies, ethnographic fieldwork and a collaborative photography project with contemporary villagers. It scrutinises the historicity of the ethnographic concept of the visual by looking at the archives resulting from three distinct photographic engagements with Southwest Angolan cultures, during the colonial period and after: the ethnographic photographs taken by a missionary (1930s-1970s), a museum officer (1960s) and an ethnographer (1990s). The research aims to understand the historical trajectory and contemporary uses of these collections to explore how different production and reception contexts impact on their social meanings over time – and to present its findings in a virtual exhibition. By mobilising these collections from the archive to the field and back again, the research will test through photo-elicitation and new photographic practice, the resonances of two topics among scientists and indigenous people. a) It will analyse the persisting yet changing approaches to gender carried out by the selected photographers with the perceptions of contemporary rural indigenous people. b) It will explore the resilience of rural domestic economies to the precarious ecological conditions of semi-arid highlands today, a topic which former photographers only marginally approached in their own collections. Therefore, this project will contribute to global climate issues as well as to gender studies, while overall adding value to visual anthropology studies about evolving practices of photography and to debates on archival, science and exhibition practices.
Culture labs: recipes for social innovation

The proposal’s central concept is CultureLabs, an open and evolving ICT-empowered infrastructure which comprises a rich variety of resources including guidelines, methodologies, digital tools, existing community engagement projects, as well as novel ideas and approaches that can facilitate social innovation in culture. The infrastructure is addressed to both institutional stakeholders and community members to make use of existing shared, and in many cases commonly created, resources, according to their missions and needs. Different resources, the “ingredients”, can be combined in various ways to form a “recipe” that describes how to carry out a participatory project to address the needs of a specific target audience. The primary focus will be on approaches that build positive awareness about communities’ own heritage and memories, and engage their members as bearers and producers of culture. CultureLabs’ case studies focus on different immigrants communities (e.g. refugees, second generation immigrants, female immigrants etc). CultureLabs toolkits and infrastructure are reusable and extensible, and its ingredients can be easily combined and adjusted to meet the needs of different stakeholders and target groups. At least 20 concrete recipes will be designed through the collaboration between different stakeholders, including museums, civil organisations, and policy makers. Four of these recipes will be implemented and evaluated as pilots in three different countries. Research outcomes and the empirical evidence gained from the project’s activities, including the recipes’ design and implementation, will be consolidated into general-purpose methodological guidelines and best practices that can be adopted by any stakeholder who wishes to organise participatory approaches to CH with a social impact.
Efficacy of relaxin on functional recovery of post stroke patients.

Relaxin is a peptide hormone that exerts specific effects on cardiovascular system and human brain, leading to the hypothesis that this hormone may play a protective role against CVD and integration and modulation of behavioral activation. We aimed to demonstrate the efficacy of Relaxin on functional recovery of post-stroke patients.Patients admitted within a Rehabilitation Unit suffering from stroke have been evaluated. Patients have been randomized to RLX (40 mcg/d) plus rehabilitation vs a control group that underwent only rehabilitation. A preliminary analysis of 36 patients at 20 and 40 days was made using the mRS for global function, the Functional Independent Measure (FIM) for daily activity and Trail Making Test (TMT) for cognitive function.Eighteen patients (age 72 (64-79), M 56%) randomized to RLX plus rehabilitation were compared to 18 patients (age 68 (64-78), M 50%) that underwent only rehabilitation. There was no difference between the two groups in terms of risk factors, stroke syndromes and etiology. At admission the two groups showed the same characteristics in terms of functional aspects (mRS, FIM; p ns) and cognitive function (TMT; p ns). After 20 days (T1) the treatment group (RLX+rehabilitation) showed no differences between the two groups (FIM 78 vs 69; p ns), while after 40 days (T2) patients treated with RLX+R showed an excellent recovery (FIM 96 vs 75; p0.001). In terms of cognitive function patients RLX+R revealed a better performance at T1 (TMT 3.5 vs 2; p 0.002) and still better at T2 (TMT 4 vs 2; p 0.001). These results have been confirmed in terms of global function both at T1 (mRS 2.5 vs 3; p0.001) and T2 (mRS 2 vs 3; p < 0.001).Relaxin showed in this analysis a positive effects on stroke patient's recovery, thus offering the broad therapeutic potential role of RLX as new drug in post-stroke patients.
P-Adic groups, representations, and the langlands program

My objectives consist of laying new foundations for the representation theory of p-adic groups and making significant progress on the local, global and relative Langlands program.

The Langlands program is a far-reaching collection of conjectures that relate different areas of mathematics including number theory and representation theory. Work in this area has also lead to the resolution of other major conjectures including Fermat's Last Theorem.

A fundamental problem on the representation theory side is the construction of all (irreducible, smooth, complex) representations of certain matrix groups, called p-adic groups. Despite much progress in the past 40 years, we still know surprisingly little about these representations in the general setting.  My first main objective is the construction of all (supercuspidal) representations in full generality. This will form the foundation for the future of the representation theory of p-adic groups and have a plethora of applications also beyond this area. Solving this problem will involve tackling all the complications that arise in the non-tame case compared to the tame case.

I will then demonstrate the power of this result beyond the representation theory of p-adic groups by making significant contributions to the 
- global Langlands program. This will be achieved by constructing congruences between automorphic forms based on the existence of enough suitable (omni-)supercuspidal types for p-adic groups.
- relative Langlands program. I will prove finite multiplicity of the representations occurring in the space of function on a spherical variety by combining my results about the shape of representations with properties of the moment map.

Finally, I will use my insights to advance the explicit local Langlands correspondence by proving that the most-general construction to date, which treats non-singular representations, satisfies all required properties and suggesting a correspondence beyond non-singular representations.
A new hybrid pattern recognition scheme for automatic discrimination of power quality disturbances

Abstract In this paper an intelligent method for automatic detection of Power Quality Disturbances (PQDs) is presented. The proposed automatic scheme is noticed to retaining informative features or eliminating redundant features simultaneously. This paper presents an effective method, for extracting features, so-called “integrated approach”, using integration of Discrete Wavelet Transform and Hyperbolic S Transform. Moreover, a new efficient feature selection method namely Orthogonal Forward Selection by incorporating Gram Schmidt procedure and forward selection is applied for selection of the best subset features. Some different classifiers are empirically compared in order to determine the best classifier. In this automatic scheme, the variable parameters of classifiers are optimized using a powerful method namely Particle Swarm Optimization. The sensitivity of the proposed method under noisy conditions has been investigated. The average rate of correct classification using the proposed hybrid scheme for automatic discrimination of PQDs in various noise conditions 99.55% is obtained.