SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Intelligent system for pressure networks

Management and maintenance of pipe systems present a major problem: leaks. The existence of leaks is costly, both economic and environmental terms, especially when considering finite resources. The ISPNET project proposes a new smart pipe system for early detection of leaks and preventive maintenance of networks, including a last generation of transmission system specifically tested for water distribution, but with further application in other fluids’ transportation networks (oil & gas, industrial liquids…). The new system, which has been installed and subject to public trials, will optimize the properties of existing piping systems and in turn, serve as reporter element of all incidents occurring in the pipe system and as management tool of parameters commonly used. The solution offer innovative advantages both in terms of the materials used for the pipe and due to the monitoring and traceability possibilities of the embedded sensor system. There is no other similar system in the market, and the cost per meter of the system is lower than “conventional” ones. SME INSTRUMENT Phase 1 will help to define requirements to validate the product in different configurations (dimensions, monitoring functionalities) and uses (drinking water and other fluids), as well as to automate the production process. Through a feasibility study, ABN will measure the potential of the solution in terms of efficiency, business opportunity and compliance with standards, analyze the commercial impact of the device and define the market in concrete and realistic terms, in order to attract investors. All this will reduce time to market for a very promising solution, which has received expression of interest of major water distrubution companies. It has also been recently (April 2015) awarded at first Ideas Competition (Sustainability award) launched by the Spanish network of Smart and Innovative Cities RED INNPULSO.
Biplane-Wing/Twin-Body-Fuselage Configuration for Innovative Supersonic Transport

In this paper, a biplane-wing/twin-body-fuselage configuration is discussed for advanced supersonic transport. The supersonic-biplane-wing concept has been proposed by Kusunose et al. (“Supersonic Biplane—A Review,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2011, pp. 53–87), and a remarkable drag reduction in supersonic flow conditions has been demonstrated in the literatures. Motivated by the wave reduction effect of the supersonic biplane airfoils, a twin-body-fuselage concept has also been proposed by the present authors. Wave-drag reduction was achieved by an optimal twin-body-fuselage configuration. In this research, therefore, the biplane-wing concept and the twin-body-fuselage concept are merged to propose an innovative supersonic transport configuration. The wave-drag characteristics, as well as the wave-drag reduction, are illustrated by inviscid computational fluid dynamics computations at the design Mach number of 1.7. The inviscid (wave) drag of the proposed configuration is much smaller...
REGIOCOM - Valorisation interrégionale des politiques de promotion des fruits et légumes du Sud de l'Europe

The development of regionalisation has gone hand in hand with a significant reinforcement of regional identities. Nevertheless, certain major issues require global responses with regards to the globalisation of markets, distribution, and consumer attitudes towards food,which are leading to reduced consumption of fruit and vegetables.To counteract this trend, many promotion actions have been conducted, although they have not been coordinated correctly. By deciding to cooperate, the partner regions wish to quickly establish more efficient tools that are capable of bringing together the chosen actions. Overall objective / Objectif général The objective is to create -through the analysis of good practices developed by partners- new and more efficient methods for exchanging and collaborating on fruit and vegetable promotion policies. The new approaches will reinforce efficiency, assure better cohesion of promotion actions developed with professionals from the sector, and define new communication strategies. Expected results / Résultats attendus Expected results include the dissemination of good practices among partners, and the development of new approaches to operational communication policy for promotion actions conducted by partners and professional organisations. These results are likely to produce the following impacts: • better understanding among partners and reinforced interregional cohesion; • more coherence and efficiency for regional communication policies and enhanced image for the regions; • reinforcement and better management of the fruit and vegetable sector, through better coordination with professional organisations and increased efficiency of promotional actions; • an approach that can be applied to domains other than that of fruit and vegetables and that can be undertaken by other regional authorities.
Beyond the Internet:Mētis,Techne, and the Limitations of Online Artifacts for Islamist Terrorists

This study challenges the conventional wisdom that the Internet is a reliable source of operational knowledge for terrorists, allowing them to train for terrorist attacks without access to real-world training camps and practical experience. The article distinguishes between abstract technical knowledge (what the Greeks called techne) and practical, experiential knowledge (mētis), investigating how each helps terrorists prepare for attacks. This distinction offers insight into how terrorists acquire the practical know-how they need to perform their activities as opposed to abstract know-what contained in bomb-making manuals. It also underscores the Internet's limitations as a source of operational knowledge for terrorists. While the Internet allows militants to share substantial techne, along with religious and ideological information, it is not particularly useful for disseminating the experiential and situational knowledge terrorists use to engage in acts of political violence. One likely reason why Al Q...
Por uma história transnacional da sociologia: entrevista com Gisèle Sapiro

Resumo Gisèle Sapiro é diretora de pesquisa e medalhista de prata no Centro Nacional de Pesquisa Científica (CNRS) e diretora de estudos no Centro Europeu de Sociologia e Ciência Política (EHESS) desde 2011. Defendeu sua tese em 1994 sob a orientação de Pierre Bourdieu, mobilizando o conceito de campo para compreender a história estrutural da literatura. Sua formação e contato com Bourdieu e com sua obra tornam Sapiro uma das sucessoras do legado bourdieusiano na França. Os trabalhos de Sapiro abordam temas como a autonomia dos campos, o papel político dos escritores e intelectuais e a circulação dos saberes em uma perspectiva internacional, sobretudo no que concerne às ideias de Bourdieu e notadamente nos Estados Unidos. O objetivo da entrevista com Gisèle Sapiro é colocar em perspectiva as diferentes maneiras de ler e interpretar a obra de Pierre Bourdieu, consequências das distinções de tradução e de apropriação no Brasil e no mundo, a partir do ponto de vista de uma especialista que, sem deixar de trazer suas próprias contribuições para a sociologia crítica, muito cooperou para a difusão das ideias bourdieusianas. O trabalho de Sapiro merece a atenção de todos aqueles que compartilham seu entusiasmo intelectual e estabelecem as bases para uma história transnacional da sociologia.
Development of the Adriatic Labour Market

The project deals with the main topics of development, cooperation and integration in the employment field in the cross-border Adriatic area. It aims creating an integrated labour market and at the management of migration flows among these territories. The foreseen actions concern: a system of professional training and mobility modules for operators of services for occupation, the Observatory on the cross border Labour Market, an integrated Partnership Resources Centre with the development of the institutional network among operators, the creation of an Adriatic Labour Fair containing the regional data base with potential labour demand and supply, integrated with the labour
Information system.
Diversity-inspired clustering for self-healing MANETs: Motivation, protocol, and performability evaluation

Swarm systems, which typically comprise a large number of lightweight mobile components, must be capable of self-healing. In this paper, we propose a self-organizing, self-healing framework called “superimposed” clustering for such systems. The framework makes a significant departure from traditional clustering algorithms that apply a single policy to form clusters through iterations. Specifically, our superimposed clustering protocol (SCP) selects a pair of diversified clustering polices to simultaneously build two sets of clusters, which we view as two cluster layers with one on top of the other. Via redundancy shadowing, SCP is able to extract and combine the complementary portions of the two layers to form a clustered network such that the vast majority of nodes can be organized through a single round. Moreover, SCP exploits shadow redundancy to enable gracefully degradable clustering coverage to mitigate cluster damage caused by node failure, death, or migration. We present the notion of superimposed clustering by devising a protocol and conducting a performability evaluation.
Enhancing research and innovation capacity of tubitak mrc food institute on dietary polyphenols and bioavailability/ bioefficacy

The main objective of the PhenolAcTwin project is to enhance the scientific and technological capacity of TUBITAK MRC Food Institute (FI) and to raise the research profile of the Institute and its staff in the field of dietary polyphenols and bioavailability/bioefficacy via networking with three leading European institutions such as CSIC, QIB, and INRAE.
FI is a leading research center in the area of functional foods/nutraceuticals in Turkey. Our networking and collaboration with global leaders in this research field will help us in developing an European-wide known center with increasing research and innovation contributions and achievements on dietary polyphenols and bioavailability/bioefficacy. Such achievements will increase the participation of FI in European and international projects and promote higher performance of other research institutions in Turkey. 
The partners from research-intensive institutions have high international reputation and expertise in the various aspects of polyphenols, bioavailability, and bioefficacy as well as omics. Additional advantage for the FI is that the leading research partners have complementary competences ranging from various fields: identification of dietary polyphenols, in-vivo, in-vitro analysis, and human clinical trials.
Based on the expertise and achievements of FI, PhenolAcTwin will contribute to “Vision Document” of Joint Programming Initiative (JPI): “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life” and 11th Development Plan of Turkey with relevant thematic priorities. The work program of the project is distributed in six work packages including the main activities, envisaged in the work programme of the Call. PhenolAcTwin project gives specific importance on improving the research profile of human resources especially the young researchers by enhancing the research and innovation capacity and networking, as well as improving proposal preparation and project management/administration skills.
Total Synthesis of the Phenolic Glycolipid Mycoside B and the Glycosylatedp-Hydroxybenzoic Acid Methyl Ester HBAD-I, Virulence Markers ofMycobacterium tuberculosis

The phenolic glycolipid mycoside B, present in Mycobacterium bovis and hypervirulent strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has been synthesized for the first time. Multiple methyl groups were introduced by the extensive use of catalytic asymmetric 1,4-addition reactions, asymmetric hydrogenation of a -keto ester afforded the basis for the central 1,3-diol moiety, and introduction of the 2-O-methyl--L-rhamnoside unit was achieved by stereoselective glycosylation with p-iodophenol and subsequent Sonogashira coupling, providing a basis for the generation of analogues. In addition, the related monosaccharide HBAD-I, present in the same species, has been efficiently synthesized for the first time by selective methylation of the hydroxy group at C-2 of a rhamnoside.
Reestructuración Excel Internacional — COVID 19

El objetivo del proyecto es diversificar las empresas, penetrar en el mercado con servicios de mayor valor añadido, modernizar la producción, mantener e incrementar los puestos de trabajo, relanzar la producción con nuevos productos.  Los objetivos del proyecto son aumentar los ingresos procedentes de productos de mayor valor añadido, reducir los costes, digitalizar las operaciones, aumentar el número de empleados, reducir los residuos.
Eu era chair in digital cultural heritage: mnemosyne

Cultural Heritage is a strategic resource for Europe with high cultural, social, environmental and economic value. The era of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) is now well underway and the European research resource for DCH  has grown significantly in recent years. But the visible contribution of the Widening countries to this effort remains relatively weak. The Digital Heritage Research Laboratory (DHRLab) at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) has been an exception in this respect, becoming a beacon in the Eastern Mediterranean and for Europe in general, in particular through its leadership of key initiatives in DCH research training and in policy co-ordination and support. While the Cypriot economy gradually recovers, in order to maintain and expand its leading role in DCH research, DHRLab needs further investment. The call for ERA Chairs is an ideal opportunity to ensure this by means of a well-designed and iterative process of strengthening its research capacity and restructuring of its role. Mnemosyne will proceed from the appointment of an outstanding researcher and research manager as ERA Chair holder in 2018 who will attract, direct and maintain high quality human resources and negotiate and implement the necessary structural changes to achieve excellence on a sustainable basis. The project will be carried out over a period of 5 years. Following recruitment of the ERA Chair Research Team, a three-phase research programme centred on holistic documentation of the DCH life cycle in support of existing and potential user needs will be carried out and extensively evaluated, with strong attention paid to exploitation. Communication activities, will be strategically planned and refined from the outset of the work and will last throughout the project duration.
Classification based on multi-classifier of SVM fusion for steel strip surface defects

Aiming at the existing problems in pattern recognition of surface defect images of steel strips, a new classification and recognition method based on multi-classifier of support vector machine (SVM) fusion is proposed to solve them. Firstly extracted the Hu invariant moment features, gray features and texture features, and devised SVM classifiers based on the different features and combination features to classify the defects. Then, using the majority voting procedure fused the defect classification results of these single classifiers based on three different features, compared with the results of the classifier based on combination features, if it is equal then the classification results is gotten, otherwise correcting results with the binary classifier. Experimental results demonstrated the fused features and combined classifiers are the definite improvement over non-fused features and single classifier, the classification rate is up to 98%.
Movement of Water through Ballast and Subballast for Dual-Line Railway Track

The purpose of effective track design is to ensure that load from trains can be safely supported by subgrade soils, which are likely to be affected by water. Because it is almost impossible to prevent water from entering the ballasted track and therefore affecting the underlying layers, it is vitally important that water can drain away rapidly. The study undertaken shows how water moves through a dual-railway track, which is either symmetrical about the centerline or superelevated with a continuous slope of the subgrade across both tracks. The study shows that water may be retained in the track nearest the drain for more than a week with possible consequential impact on increased deformation and therefore the need for more maintenance. It also shows that a high permeability composite may be included near the base of the subballast to effect significant improvement in track drainage.
'John and Jackey': An exploration of Aboriginal and Chinese people's associations on the Victorian goldfields

While much has been written about Chinese miners, much less has been said about Aboriginal miners and even less about Aboriginal-Chinese relations on the gold fields and elsewhere. Historians and other writers, such as Stephenson, Dunstan, Gittins, Cronin, Ramsay and Edwards and Shen, have largely ignored Aboriginal associations with Chinese people in colonial Victoria. Eric Rolls's study is representative of this absence; - when discussing Australia's colonial racial policies towards the Chinese on the Victorian gold fields, Rolls is reluctant to draw many parallels between the Chinese, one group of people largely hidden from the historical gaze, and Aborigines, another group almost expunged from memory. A similar pattern can be seen in the historiography of encounters in other nations between Indigenous and Chinese people, such as in New Zealand and British Columbia where the paucity of the records initially led Yu to note: 'Here was a world only glimpsed'.
Studies on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon Black/Halloysite Nanotube Hybrid Fillers in Nitrile Rubber Nanocomposites

Abstract Carbon black (CB)-Halloysite nanotubes(HNT) hybrid composites based on Acrylonitrile Butadiene rubber(NBR) were prepared. The Carbon black loading was kept fixed at 60 phr and Halloysite nanotube loading was varied from 0 to 10 parts per hundred rubber(phr). The nanocomposites were prepared by mixing using a two-roll open mill. The effect of CB-HNT hybrid fillers on the curing behaviour, mechanical properties and morphology of the NBR nanocomposites was investigated. The cure characteristics showed that the scorch time(ts 2 ) and cure time (t 90 ) increased with the HNT loading. The maximum torque(M H ) exhibited an increasing trend from 0 to 6 phr . The tensile properties which exhibited an increasing trend until an optimum loading of 6phr were mainly influenced by the NBR-CB-HNT interaction and the intercalation of rubber and CB into the tubules. These results were well supported by the XRD studies and cross link density determinations.
Male pregnancy – unravelling the coevolution of parental investment and immune defence

The question of how sex roles and parental investment have evolved belongs to the most controversial unresolved issues in evolutionary biology. The costliest form of reproduction regarding parental investment is viviparity. Its independent evolution in most vertebrate groups has required drastic morphological and genomic reorganisations in the sex bearing the young. Yet our knowledge is heavily biased towards mammals, where changes in the immune system and microbial composition are associated with pregnancy and placentation. Which factors have caused the selection and accompanied evolution of viviparity in other vertebrates remains severely understudied. 
As the evolution of viviparity is a textbook model of convergent evolution, I plan on using a comparative approach to identify selection and fitness benefits leading to the evolution of viviparity. 
I propose analysing mating system evolution, focusing on the unique evolution of male pregnancy in sex-role reversed syngnathids (pipefishes and seahorses) that show a gradient from external fertilisation to full viviparity and are, thus, ideal to study the evolution of viviparity. Only this genus allows the role of egg production and viviparity to be disentangled, as both traits co-occur in the female in most other species. As immunological tolerance is fundamentally associated with the evolution of pregnancy, I will investigate how male pregnancy has coevolved with adaptive immune system rearrangements and the broodpouch specific microbiota. Comparative genomics, transcriptomics and genetic engineering utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 will elucidate the genetic basis of trait loss and gain required for male pregnancy. In particular, I will assess whether new functions arose via gene duplication and neo-functionalization, via gene co-option or via de novo gene emergence. 
This proposal will pave the way for studying viviparity evolution beyond the mammalian model and will provide a fresh look at sex roles and parental investment.
Secondary Metabolites fromGlycine sojaand Their Growth Inhibitory Effect againstSpodoptera litura

The wild soybean (Glycine soja Sieb. et Zucc) has been reported to be relatively resistant to insect and pathogenic pests. However, the responsible secondary metabolites in the aerial part of this important plant are largely unknown. From the aerial part of G. soja, 13 compounds were isolated and identified, including seven isoflavonoids (1-7), a cyclitol (8), two sterol derivatives (9 and 10), and three triterpenoids (11-13). Compound 7 is a new isoflavonoid, and compounds 9 and 10 are reported as natural products for the first time. The growth inhibitory activity of 1, 3, 4, and 8 against the larvae of Spodoptera litura was investigated. The most abundant isoflavonoid in the aerial part of G. soja, daidzein (1), which could not be metabolized by S. litura, was found to inhibit the insect larvae growth significantly in 3 days after feeding diets containing the compound. Compounds 3, 4, and 8, which could be partially or completely metabolized, were inactive. Our results suggested that the isoflavonoid daidzein (1) might function as a constitutive defense component in G. soja against insect pests.
Determination of a capacitance model for inductive medium voltage transformers

To increase the linear frequency range of inductive medium voltage transformers, the calculation of its frequency response will be the first step. For this several capacitances have to be known, such as the layer, the ground and the front part capacitances. For the calculation of these three most important parasitic capacitances mathematical models based on measurements of medium voltage transformers are developed. With the resulting equations, capacitances can be determined without a complicated three-dimensional field calculation. For the modeling of layer capacitances it is possible to fall back on the equation of cylinder capacitors which is completed by two correction factors. These are determined and verified by measurement on different voltage transformers. For the ground capacitance a simple equation is introduced, inspired by established equations for capacitance calculations. By means of measurements the required initial value is determined and the model for the ground capacitances is verified. Finally, the front part capacitances are described with a theoretical model, which is based on a simple field-theoretical approach.