SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Attention and memory components in every-day cognitive problems in aging

Older individuals experience problems in many every-day tasks, due to age-related decline in cognitive functions. Cognitive frailty is a societal and economical challenge, as it affects elderly’s quality of life and need for care. To understand, and counteract, cognitive difficulties, we need to be able to measure them. Basic research has revealed essential knowledge on age-related cognitive and neuronal changes. However, the correlation between laboratory task performance, brain alterations, and experienced difficulties in daily life is imperfect. In the realms of attention and memory, the problem may lie in the tasks we use. Most laboratory tasks are made of brief trial structures, which is useful to isolate specific process components. Real world tasks, while built of smaller components, are complex and extend over time. This project presents a multi-method neuro-cognitive approach to unravel sources of older individuals’ deficit. The research is based on leading theoretical models and includes behavioral data modeling, eye-movement and EEG data analyses. At my TC host, Wolfe’s Visual Attention Lab (Harvard Medical School), we will create new extended hybrid search and foraging tasks that enable us not only to look at the small components, but also to analyze how they interact over time, and how they relate to age-specific daily problems. At Bundesen’s Center for Visual Cognition (University of Copenhagen), the new knowledge will be integrated into the computational “Theory of Visual Attention” framework and the model-based assessment procedure. Our aim is to advance the theoretical knowledge about attention and memory and improve cognitive assessment products. Commercialization of the newly developed tests will be exploited together with the industrial partner Cambridge Cognition, a company producing cognitive assessment tools. The outcome will be relevant to the development of technology, products, and strategies to meet the needs of our aging population.
Evaluating treatment of hepatitis C for hemolytic anemia management

The combination therapy of antiviral peg-interferon and ribavirin has evolved as one of the better treatments for hepatitis C. In spite of its success in controlling hepatitis C infection, it has also been associated with treatment-related adverse side effects. The most common and life threatening among them is hemolytic anemia, necessitating dose reduction or therapy cessation. The presence of this side effect leads to a trade-off between continuing the treatment and exacerbating the side effects versus decreasing dosage to relieve severe side effects while allowing the disease to progress. The drug epoietin (epoetin) is often administered to stimulate the production of red blood cells (RBC) in the bone marrow, in order to allow treatment without anemia. This paper uses mathematical models to study the effect of combination therapy in light of anemia. In order to achieve this we introduce RBC concentration and amount of drug in the body as state variables in the usual immunological virus infection model. Analysis of this model provides a quantification of the amount of drug a body can tolerate without succumbing to hemolytic anemia. Indirect estimation of parameters allow us to calculate the necessary increment in RBC production to be > or =2.3 times the patient's original RBC production rate to sustain the entire course of treatment without encountering anemia in a sensitive patient.
Evidence-Based market and policy instruments implementation across eu to increase the demand for energy skills across construction sector value chain

The European Construction sector faces unprecedented challenges to achieve ambitious energy efficiency objectives, that can be met only if successful training initiatives and supporting policy instruments are put in place, acting as a springboard to stimulate the demand for energy efficiency skills. The INSTRUCT project aims to act at a market level by providing an operational framework and set of services serving a new generation of skilled and certified workers and fitters and paving the way to legislative changes that overall will stimulate the demand for energy skills across lifecycle and supply chains. Key outputs include: (a) quantitative and qualitative evidences that corroborate and reinforce the correlation between (i) skills and education and (ii) energy performance and quality; (b) a set of tools and instruments facilitating the mutual recognition of energy skills and qualifications in the construction sector; (c) real-world demonstrations (in 5 geographical European areas) of the usefulness and ease of use of the deployed instruments for recognition of energy skills and qualifications; (d) dissemination and awareness raising actions in consortium members countries, scaled up to the wider Europe; (e) new legislative frameworks enabling reliance on skilled workers in public / private procurement. The Consortium draws on (a) the engagement of internationally leading industry best practice and vocational training, (b) the educational excellence of leading institutions in Europe, (c) the robust experience of accrediting bodies in the construction domain. It provides a Europe-wide coverage with 7 participating countries, scaled up to 5 clusters, representing a multi-expertise ensemble of stakeholders and energy value chains deploying the INSTRUCT methodology and supporting tools in country-based pilots. It is supported by a network of stakeholders, involving the Build Up Skills chapters across Europe, and a Europe wide community of interest of 200+ members.
Diversificazione dell'offerta di Complet Furniture nei mercati del Golfo.

Sa 42799(2015/X) Il progetto è coerente con il "Programma di promozione dell'industria del mobile — Informazioni per gli imprenditori" e assume l'attuazione di tutte e cinque le attività promozionali incluse in questo programma. Le attività descritte nel progetto sono rivolte ai mercati degli Stati del Golfo, in particolare ai mercati degli Emirati Arabi Uniti (EAU) e dell'Arabia Saudita. Il progetto prevede l'organizzazione di 3 fiere — 1 in Polonia, 1 negli Emirati Arabi Uniti e 1 in Arabia Saudita; 1 missione negli Emirati Arabi Uniti; 3 missioni in arrivo (1 per i rappresentanti degli Emirati Arabi Uniti e dell'Arabia Saudita durante l'organizzazione dello stand del richiedente in Polonia, 1 per i rappresentanti degli Emirati Arabi Uniti e 1 per i rappresentanti dell'Arabia Saudita), l'acquisto di un servizio di consulenza per il mercato saudita e l'attuazione di 2 attività promozionali relative all'attuazione di tutte queste attività. La ricorrente assume inoltre la presentazione dell'offerta del suo marchio di prodotti presso lo stand nazionale dell'Index International Design di Dubai nel 2020. L'attuazione del progetto prevede una vasta gamma di attività complete volte a diversificare l'offerta Complet Furniture nei mercati arabi. Il progetto è il proseguimento di una serie di azioni preparatorie intraprese dal richiedente già nel 2019, con conseguente avvio di attività di esportazione nei mercati del Golfo. Il progetto deve essere attuato con la quota di risorse proprie pari al 40 % dei costi totali del progetto. Il richiedente ha 30 anni di esperienza nel settore della produzione di mobili, è un vincitore multiplo di concorsi e classifiche, in cui ad esempio vengono valutati i risultati finanziari della società, quindi la partecipazione al progetto sarà finanziata dal richiedente con il reddito corrente della società, senza rischio di perdita di liquidità finanziaria.
A method for moisture measurement in porous media based on epithermal neutron scattering

A method for moisture measurement in porous media was proposed. A wide beam of epithermal neutrons was obtained from a Pu-Be neutron source immersed in a cylinder made of paraffin wax. (3)He detectors (four or six) arranged in the backward direction of the incident beam were used to record scattered neutrons from investigated samples. Experiments of water absorption into clay and silicate bricks, and a sand column were investigated by neutron scattering. While the samples were absorbing water, scattered neutrons were recorded from fixed positions along the water flow direction. It was observed that, at these positions scattered neutrons increase as the water uptake increases. Obtained results are discussed in terms of the theory of macroscopic flow in porous media. It was shown that, the water absorption processes were Fickian and non Fickian in the sand column and brick samples, respectively. The advantages of applying the proposed method to study fast as well as slow flow processes in porous media are discussed.
NAB – Natural space analysis for alpine mountain areas for a cooperative development of a preventive safety and risk management system for natural hazards

The increasing frequency of natural disasters in Europe is indicative of a clear need for action in the field of risk management. In the future, integrated strategies will play a central role in the sustainable protection of the Alpine region.
The goal of NAB is to achieve intensive cooperation between the various disciplines and administrative levels in order to develop an innovative land use management regime targeted at sustainable risk mitigation for natural hazards. The project will produce a transnational procedure combining the different sectoral risk assessment methods in place in the various regions. A general area assessment of the effects of site, vegetation cover,and land use on protection against flooding, erosion and mudslides will serve to develop harmonised handbooks and maps for transnational action in support of the protection-based management.
An Internet-supported information system will provide general access to project data and will also serve as the basis for a transnational knowledge network. Application of the resulting process by public administrations will constitute practical implementation of the project results for the authorities.
Information and misinformation economics: design, manipulations and coutermeasures

Informational environments are largely endogenous. They can be, and often are, chosen or designed by individuals or organizations with specific objectives in mind. As recognized by a large literature in economics, information plays a crucial role in shaping the outcome of downstream decisions by strategic players (i.e. at the receiving end of informative signals). However, the structure of information also impacts decisions by strategic agents upstream of the generation of signals, as agents mould the underlying reality differently depending on how other players will eventually be informed about it. Finally, designed information production systems are susceptible to manipulations by third party agents pursuing their own interests.

I will seek to further our understanding of socially or privately optimal information designs, how they shape upstream and downstream decisions, how they can be manipulated by private interests, and how to best anticipate and counter such manipulations. I will rely on the analysis of a largely unexplored designer-agent-receiver class of games, in which the designer picks an information generation system, the agent takes an upstream decision affecting the states of the world, or manipulates the production of information, and receivers choose downstream actions based on realized signals. 

The project is organized around the different technologies available to the agent. I will consider fake news production, which is the fabrication of signals that pass as informative but are in fact independent of the truth; state falsification, which consists in falsifying the state of the world, or feeding the information production process with falsified data; pure agency, which is the possibility for the agent to secretly deviate to a different but undistinguishable information generation technology; and state shifting, which is the upstream effort an agent can exert to actually transform the probability distribution of states of the world.
Territories with geographical specificities

Regions with specific territorial features have received increasing attention in recent years, most notably in article 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Key policy documents identify the specific types of territories in two ways: as having particular challenges, and as having particular assets, many of benefit to Europe as a whole.  Addressing the opportunities and challenges of specific types of territories implies that these territories need to be considered in context rather than ‘singled out’.In general, territorial cooperation seems to be a natural component of policies targeting geographically specific areas, in view of ensuring a sustainable development based on regional comparative advantages. The European level has an obvious role to play in promoting territorial cooperation beyond national borders.Gaining a better understanding of the territories with geographic specificities and their relevant challenges and opportunities is therefore crucial for the European policy dialogue and debate for developing Cohesion Policy post-2020 and a renewed Territorial Agenda for Europe which is due to be adopted by 2021. The following types of territories constitute the main focus for this project: sparsely populated regions; mountain regions; Islands, including island-states and coastal areas.
Addiction treatment centers' progress in preparing for health care reform

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is expected to significantly alter addiction treatment service delivery. Researchers designed the Health Reform Readiness Index (HRRI) for addiction treatment organizations to assess their readiness for the PPACA. Four-hundred twenty-seven organizations completed the HRRI throughout a 3-year period, using a four-point scale to rank their readiness on 13 conditions. HRRI results completed during two different time periods (between 10/1/2010-6/30/2011 and 9/1/2011-9/30/2012) were analyzed and compared. Most respondents self-assessed as being in the early stages of preparation for 9 of the 13 conditions. Survey results showed that organizations with annual budgets < $5 million (n=295) were less likely to be prepared for the PPACA than organizations with annual budgets > $5 million (n=132). The HRRI results suggest that the addiction field, and in particular smaller organizations, is not preparing adequately for health care reform; organizations that are making preparations are making only modest gains.
Local mechanical properties of intercritically reheated coarse grained heat affected zone in low alloy steel

Abstract Steels applied in arctic climates are subjected to low temperature. Since they undergo ductile–brittle transition with falling temperature, their fracture toughness must be addressed, particularly after welding. To predict their behaviour requires knowledge on local properties. Thus, the present study concerns nanomechanical testing of typical microstructures present in the intercritically reheated coarse grained heat affected zone of a 490 MPa forging. Such microstructures were achieved by weld thermal simulation of samples with 11 mm × 11 mm cross section and 100 mm length, using peak temperature of 1350 °C in the first cycle and 780 °C in the second cycle. Both cycles used cooling time Δ t 8/5 of 5 or 10 s. This caused formation of M–A phases along prior austenite grain boundaries and mixture of bainite/tempered martensite in the bulk. Nanomechanical testing was performed by compression of nanopillars prepared in grain boundary located M–A phases and in the bulk of the grains. The results achieved showed significant that the grain boundary phase possesses much higher strength than the grain bulk. It is also shown that there is large scatter in the stress–strain data, depending on the actual local microstructure being tested.
Imaging and detection of tumor-associated glycan structures on tumor cells

The overall objective of Glyco Imaging is to develop novel assays for detection of glycans as biomarkers associated with aggressive and metastatic cancer forms. The assays will be developed for biomarker detection in blood, urine, cells and tissue. Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs), or plastic antibodies, have been developed for targeting the human glycan sialic acid (SA), or Neu5Ac. The efficiency of the Neu5Ac specific SAMIPs targeted to the biomarker SA in different solvents (methanol, water, phosphate buffer) will be exploited. The non-human Neu5Gc, which is incorporated into human glycoconjugates through dietary sources such as red meat, and shown to be involved in malignant cell transformation in humans, will also be investigated by using highly specific Neu5Gc-SAMIPs. The imaging and detection techniques used will be based on fluorescence, 3D-viewing of cancer cells by digital holographic microscopy and magnetic separation columns.
The results in this research  consortium will lead to major technological advances having impact on 1) health care, since it will develop more accurate and reliable diagnostics of aggressive and metastatic cancers, 2) drug discovery allowing a faster and cheaper biomarker targeting and detection; and 3) biochemistry research laboratories in resulting in improved understanding of glycan expression in cancer, with emphasis on aggressive metastatic cancer. The training of researchers will be performed by a consortium consisting of 6 partners with biomedical, imaging and particle synthesis skills (4 groups, one institution, one technology company). This forms the basis for a very competent interdisciplinary training program with high quality in both education and research. 

8 early stage researchers (ESRs) working on specific tasks within 5 work packages will follow a rich training program providing a well-balanced spectrum of scientific, business and entrepreneurial skills.
Enhancing Mobility Services in Rural Regions

RegiaMobil aims at enhancing the mobility of people living in rural areas through smart public transport solutions and hence at improving their access to the European and national transport networks. It focuses on improving the accessibility of peripheral and border regions to the TEN-T and CNC. To that aim RegiaMobil capitalises on outputs resulting from four Interreg Central Europe projects (Rumobil, SubNodes, Shareplace, Connect2CE) which, enriched by results of HORIZON 2020 operations (MaaS4EU, MoTiV, SIADE) in the domain of smart public transport, are prepared for roll-out and mainstreaming in more Central European rural areas. This downstreaming approach is implemented through six pilots aiming to demonstrate the transferability and added value of smart public transport approaches for better mobility services in rural areas as well as two action plans highlighting how the Transnational Strategy provided by the Rumobil project can be applied by other regional public authorities responsible for the planning and conducting public transport.

Smart mobility solutions allowing to change the understanding of public transport rather as a demand-responsive mobilty service than as a commodity are closely linked to ICT solutions that have not yet penetrated peripheral regions. RegiaMobil therefore aims to demonstrate the transnational transferability and effectiveness of already developed approaches for a smart and demand-responsive public transport to promote and prepare their mainstreaming. The innovative character of the identified approaches is further highlighted through the integration of latest research results to better understand to what extent smart mobility services can be implemented, how investment decisions&#39; effectiveness for the quality of mobility services become measurable, and how big data helps to identify mobility demands. RegiaMobil bundles on transnational level the experiences of public authorities, research and PT operators.
A pilot study using the Gynecologic Cancer Lymphedema Questionnaire (GCLQ) as a clinical care tool to identify lower extremity lymphedema in gynecologic cancer survivors

This study aimed to determine the feasibility and efficacy of using the Gynecologic Cancer Lymphedema Questionnaire (GCLQ) as a symptom scale for lymphedema of the lower extremity (LLE).Twenty-eight gynecologic cancer survivors with documented LLE and 30 without a history or presence of lymphedema completed the GCLQ and provided feedback about their satisfaction with and feasibility of using the GCLQ at their oncology follow-ups. The study survey took approximately 5-10 min to complete, and it was easily understood by the majority of the sample.Participants had a mean age of 59.6 years (range, 28-80 years). Twenty-eight women (48%) had LLE, and 30 (52%) had no history or presence of LLE (confirmed by limb volume [LV] measurements at assessment). Type of cancer history included endometrial, 38 (66%); cervical, 13 (22%); and vulvar, 7 (12%). GCLQ scores differed significantly by lymphedema diagnosis; LLE patients had higher scores (P<0.01). The large area under the curve (AUC) of 0.95 (95% CI: 0.90-1.000) suggests that the GCLQ can distinguish between patients with and without LLE. Although all 28 (100%) of the LLE patients were aware of their LLE diagnosis, only 23 (82%) underwent treatment. The GCLQ was easily understood by most (55/58, 95%), and overall, patients showed a high willingness (56/58, 96%) to complete the questionnaire at future appointments. Twenty-five (88%) of the LLE patients found the GCLQ to be helpful in identifying symptoms of lymphedema.The GCLQ effectively distinguished between gynecologic cancer survivors with and those without LLE, with good sensitivity and specificity. The patients, particularly those with LLE, showed high confidence in the GCLQ's ability to detect LLE symptoms.
ADVANCING LONGWALL SYSTEM FOR SURFACE MINING

A surface mining system for removing material from a mining face generally includes a conveyor extending substantially parallel to the mining face, a miner supported by and moveable along the conveyor, and a conveyor translation device associated with the conveyor and operable to move the conveyor and the miner toward the mining face. A method for advancing a surface mining longwall system generally includes moving the longwall shearer along a face conveyor, operating load translation devices to move the face conveyor and the longwall shearer toward the mining face, resetting a first group of load translation devices, and then resetting a second group of load translation devices. A load translation device generally includes an actuator, a ground drilling device coupled to and moveable with a portion of the actuator, and a frame coupled to and moveable with another portion of the actuator.