SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Conductive elastomers with tuneable properties for smart wearable electronics.

Organic conductive polymers are gaining increased interest each day due to their broad applications, low cost and ease of manipulation. Their potential to develop new products that will transform the daily lives of people in Europe and around the world is significant. Among the application areas with the highest potential, smart textiles provide one of the most futuristic and innovative potential products. At present, a conducting polymeric material that can be use directly as textile does not exist primarily a consequence of the poor (brittle) materials properties of conducting polymers. Any such products are created by coating of the conductive material onto the textile or tissue. However the ability to use polymers to create wearable electronics has transformative potential to become a disruptive technology. This proposal aims to create a conductive polymer with elastomeric properties such that it has enhanced materials properties and can therefore be applied directly as scaffold for smart textile creation. To make the polymeric scaffold, the nucleophilic thiol-yne “click” reaction between an activated alkyne and thiol will be used. This pathway will enable retention of the electrical conductivity while presenting the possibility to tune the mechanical properties by choosing the stereochemistry (E/Z) of the unsaturated bond that is formed. Moreover, the elastomeric nature of the resultant materials, presents a unique opportunity to create conductive elastomers that can be easily applied to wearable electronics: able to record electrical signals such as heartbeats or muscular contractions. The project is going to combining the organic synthesis and click chemistry expertise of Mantione with that of conducting polymer synthesis and characterization of Prof. Hadziioannou. The planned secondment is aiming to allied to the expertise of Prof. Malliaras (Cambridge, UK) in wearable electronics: biotest the materials and practically create the textile.
Flagship demonstration of an integrated plant towards large scale supply and market assessment of mfc

The Exilva flagship project will consist in the upscaling of the Borregaard’s MFC process from the existing pilot plant (50-70 tons/year) to the full scale flagship plant (1000 tons/year) and demonstrate an industrial symbiosis between the biomass/forest industry (Norwegian Spruce) and application industries in a wide range of market segments by developing and commercialising added value (performances vs cost) products in a sustainable way. The ambition of the Exilva project is to make MFC commercially available on large quantities for the first time as well as develop the MFC market further in selected segments. 
The grand challenges of the Exilva flagship project are twofold:
• Technology and process: related to the start-up of the flagship plant the main tasks and challenges will be testing of the new equipment, technology transfer from the pilot plant to the flagship plant, gaining operational experience, establishing the plant organization and quality control, establishing the appropriate process parameters for a stable full scale production of MFC and gaining experience with regards to logistics and handling of the MFC material.
• Market: successful market penetration of MFC based products, product performance and cost, standards and regulation.
The decision to invest in a first of a kind commercial plant is driven by business opportunities to use MFC in a wide range of market segments and applications and demonstrate that the investment in the flagship will be profitable. Borregaard has started to establish business pipelines towards different end user companies that will develop full products based on MFC formulations.
Experimental study of pore water pressure response in sandy seabed under breaking wave action

Based on the wave flume experiments,the response pattern of excess pore water pressure is studied on a 1∶30 slope sandy seabed under the regular breaking wave action.The topographic change is observed and its causes are analyzed in the broken wave zone.The results show that the excess pore pressure changes significantly and differently before and after wave breaking.The excess pore water pressure reaches the maximum on the area away from the nearest bed surface of the breaking point in the whole process,and the vertical decay rate of excess pore water pressure is larger than the before and after wave breaking in the broken zone.The excess pore water pressure increases significantly at the breaking point.Before and after the wave breaking,the change between excess pore water pressure and wave height has positive correlation trend,and the correlation is not very well after the wave breaking.The topographic change is great in the wave breaking zone.Excess pore water pressures changing at the top are significantly higher than it is at the bottom.When the sand scours,the amplitude of the excess pore water pressure increases.And when the sand accumulates,the amplitude of the excess pore water pressure decreases.
Overcoming the limits of diffraction with superresolution lighting on a chip

The physical laws of diffraction generally limit the spatial resolution of optical systems, being about 200 nm for light in the visible range. Within ChipScope we want to overcome this limit by developing the scientific and technological basis for a completely new approach to optical superresolution, based on semiconductor nano Light Emitting Diode (nanoLED) arrays with individual pixel operation. The core idea of ChipScope is to use spatially resolved illumination instead of spatially resolved detection for achieving microscopy functionality with superresolution. This will be made possible by developing chip-based nanoLED arrays with light emitting diode (LED) dimensions and distances much smaller than the wavelength of visible light (i.e. below the Abbe's limit). Thus, ChipScope will develop the highest resolution LED arrays in the world. These new devices will enable novel science in general and superresolution in particular. Making optical superresolution ubiquitously available is expected to lead to foundational breakthroughs in virtually every field of research and technology that makes use of optical microscopes. Within the project, the first chip-sized “ChipScope microscopes” will be developed, tested, calibrated and compared with state-of-the-art microscopy systems. During the course of the project, a game changing real-time imaging device for scientific investigation of living tissue will be used to study the in-cell mechanisms in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) syndrome as a proof-of-concept of the new science and applications that will follow.
The Effect of ECB's Quantitative Easing on Credit Default Swap Instruments in Central and Eastern Europe

Abstract This paper focuses on the quantitative easing policies launched by the European Central Bank (ECB), analysing their effects on the dynamics of a series of five-year sovereign credit default swap instruments that belong to seven Central and Eastern European States. In an econometric event study setup that follows the methodology developed in Albu et al. (2014) , we calibrate an ARMA-GARCH model and analyse the abnormal and squared abnormal returns for each CDS instrument. The results indicate that the quantitative easing events issued by the European Central Bank have a significant effect on the evolution of the analysed sovereign credit default swap instruments.
ELEMENT FOR ADJUSTING THE TRANSFER OF LIGHT BETWEEN LIGHT GUIDES

Es wird ein optisches Steuerelement beschrieben zum Steuern einer Lichtübertragung zwischen einem zu- und einem fortführenden Lichtwellenleiter, bei dem die Lichtübertragung über eine Mehrkernfaser gesteuert wird. Die Mehrkernfaser wird zum Steuern bewegt.
COMPACT HAIRSPRAY

The invention relates to hairspray concentrates, which are characterised by the use of specific film-forming agents and special valves.
Nanocomposite solutions

Composite polymer materials are a rapidly growing market. These materials are also strongly driving device and product innovation by allowing creation of multifunctional, light-weight and moldable components for various products from airplanes to electronics and textiles. We have invented new methods for scalable production of inorganic nanomaterials that allow us to control their distribution and properties in polymer materials. In short, we can mask functional nano- or microparticles by a thin surface coating such that it assumes the properties of the polymer (or environment) in which it should be processed. Thereby, they can be controllably mixed and organized into the polymer, which is essential to give the polymer material better or additional e.g. mechanical and optical properties. Our methods are nearly universal and cost effective; they incorporate an innovation that allows us to modify the surface of quantum dots and other nanoparticles with very precise optic, electric and magnetic properties without deleterious effect on those properties. Industrial partners from the polymer materials industry have shown great interest in these developments. In NanoComSol we will develop industrially relevant application demonstrators that show how these innovations can further be used to create composite materials that have qualitatively new properties produced at industrial scale. Successful such demonstrations will lead to manufacturing of polymer composite materials as active instead of only passive optical, electrical and magnetic components, while reducing costs, environmental impact and materials use in production. NanoComSol thus applies ERC-funded innovations in nanomaterial synthesis to develop industrial scale production of advanced functional materials.
INNOVATION FOR GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM CEE EUROZONE CANDIDATES

This paper analyzes the European innovation framework focusing on four Eurozone candidates: Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic. In the last decades, almost two-thirds of Europe’s economic growth has been driven by innovation. This idea is supported by impressive scientific findings concerning the correlation between innovation and economic growth. We believe that better innovation performance stimulates economic convergence and in the long term, facilitates the candidates’ transition towards Euro currency adoption. The countries in the study demonstrate a low innovative performance pattern, as our SWOT analysis will show. First, the gross domestic expenditure on research and development levels are far below the Union average. Secondly, there is a lack of cooperation between the academic and business sector, leading to a decreasing number of skilled personnel in the innovation industries. Lastly, these countries are suffering from an incoherent strategy aimed at reducing the productivity gap between domestic and foreign-owned firms. In order for these CEE Eurozone candidates to improve their European Innovation Score and their competitiveness, we recommend increasing investments in R&amp;D, infrastructure, education, healthcare, clean energy and shifting towards higher value-added activities. We are also suggesting supporting digital innovation hubs, the creation of new companies, and facilitating access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses.
Self-similar cycles and their local bifurcations in the problem of two weakly coupled oscillators

Abstract A system of two non-linear differential equations is considered that simulates the dynamics of two completely identical weakly coupled oscillators both in the case of dissipative and active coupling. The system of normal modes is investigated. All the self-similar periodic solutions, including the asymmetric solutions describing the natural ascillations of oscillators with dissimilar amplitude's, are found analytically. The stability is investigated as well as the local bifurcations of the self-similar cycles when there is a change in stability. In particular, the possibility of the creation of two-dimensional invariant tori is pointed out. In the case of active coupling, it is shown that the basic version of the natural oscillations is a stable antiphase cycle that was observed in Huygens experiments.
Développement de la capacité de gestion et développement de JSD VI EOOD grâce à la mise au point et à la mise en œuvre de logiciels basés sur les TIC pour la gestion des processus/ressources opérationnels — Système uniforme de gestion des ressources (ERP) et certification ISO;

Depuis 1995, GSI AND VI Ltd. est l’une des premières entreprises à licence officielle pour la production et l’embouteillage de l’eau de table à très faible minéralisation, offrant des produits de qualité et variés pour chaque jour avec la marque imposée Savina; Sur 8 500 m² BC zone dans le district de Sofia Busmantsi, municipalité. Au fil des ans, la société a investi ses propres ressources dans de nouveaux équipements de production afin de répondre à l’évolution rapide des technologies, en s’efforçant d’être compétitive dans son secteur; à ce jour, JSI Vine a mis en place un système unifié de gestion des ressources, qui crée un certain nombre de problèmes dans la collecte, le traitement et l’analyse de l’information et de la production et conduit à une organisation interne inadéquate de l’entreprise dans une période de développement dynamique et d’incapacité à mettre en œuvre les ventes à travers le commerce d’électricité et la modernisation du travail avec les distributeurs dans le pays. Avec la mise en œuvre de ce projet, l’entreprise introduira un nouveau modèle organisationnel qui optimisera le travail des employés, améliorera la communication interne, augmentera la qualité et l’efficacité des produits proposés, ce qui conduira à une compétitivité accrue de Naji END. Les principales activités envisagées dans le cadre de ce projet are:1.Development et l’introduction de logiciels basés sur les TIC pour la gestion des processus opérationnels — Système uniforme de gestion des ressources (ERP)2.Développement et mise en œuvre d’un système de gestion de l’environnement conformément à la norme internationale ISO14001;3. Certification d’un système de gestion environnementale selon ISO14001;4.visualisation du projet. La mise en œuvre du projet conduira à l’amélioration de la compétitivité de Naji END, en améliorant le modèle de gestion et l’organisation des principaux processus de l’activité, en augmentant les recettes commerciales et en améliorant la position du marché.
Transforming the success of startups across the eu

Vestd is an innovative, disruptive, platform-based enabler of the sharing economy.  We are the first company to allow entrepreneur's to found their business with a share structure that enables them to use a portion of their equity to procure services or reward customers in a secure, regulated marketplace.  Our platform provides both the equity distribution tool that delivers this and a community of experienced Founders and Contributors to support and invest in each other.  Having achieved FCA regulatory approval in the UK (and via the passport system in the EU) in November 2015, we have moved to a proof of concept pilot in the UK during 1H 2016, which has demonstrated that the ""equity economy"" works, and we are now looking to expand our operations into the EU.  This proposal is for funding to support a research project to better understand the issues, barriers and challenges associated with implementing our platform in key european markets during the course of 2017.
O papel ativo de mulheres rappers negras e indígenas na produção de contranarrativas na América Latina

Nascido na Jamaica do século XX e migrado para os Estados Unidos nos anos 70, o rap se estabeleceu como uma contranarrativa de jovens negros, latino-americanos e caribenhos. À margem das instituições e representações políticas oficiais, os grupos de rap buscavam denunciar estereótipos aos quais estavam submetidos e criavam consciência política em seus ouvintes. Fortemente influenciados pela cultura da oralidade, propunham, por meio de suas letras, formas ativas e potentes de sobrevivência em territórios violentos e segregados. É o que fazem, hoje, mulheres negras e indígenas ao se apoderarem do gênero musical para revelar suas dores e compartilhar suas lutas diante de estruturas de poder que silenciam suas identidades e subjetividades. Deste modo, este trabalho busca estudar como artistas latino-americanas fazem uso do rap com o seu potencial emancipatório, para trazer à esfera pública problemáticas invisibilizadas, mas que afetam grande parte da população feminina indígena e negra.
Discussion of “Spatial statistics: Marks, maps and shapes”

A. Stein from the Department of Earth Observation and Geoinformation Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands discusses spatial statistics and its relationships with marks, maps and shapes. The first and foremost issue is the recent development of space-time procedures. It is a straightforward extension of spatial statistics domain, and it has currently received so much attention that its mentioning is important. Space-time point patterns have been addressed by Gabriel and Diggle in 2009. Another issue that is being debated in spatial statistics concerns integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLAs), a relatively new development that has found a place in spatial statistics.
Quantum limited atomic force microscopy

We aim to make a radical improvement in the speed of acquisition and information content of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) images by developing a new type of resonant mechanical force sensor.   By the end of the project we realize a Quantum-limited Atomic Force Microscope (Q-AFM), where the force sensor is working at the fundamental limit of action and reaction set by quantum physics. Achieving this limit will result in three orders of magnitude improvement in force sensitivity and five orders of magnitude in measurement bandwidth, beyond the current state-of-the-art. This huge gain in performance will translate to a radical increase in imaging speed and in the information content of images. Our sensor will lead to a revolution in SPM, where multi-dimensional data sets are acquired in seconds, as opposed to several days as is the current practice.  The key to reaching quantum-limited sensitivity lies in the the electro-mechanical coupling between the resonant mechanical force transducer and the readout circuit.  While our ideas are based on well-established theories and some proof-of-concept measurements, but there is still a high risk that we can not reach the desired strong-coupling regime with an appropriate SPM sensor design.  To mitigate this high risk we will pursue two different sensor designs, one based on electrostatic coupling and the other based on piezoelectric coupling.   Our work plan includes medium and low risk stages of development, each of will result in major gains in performance SPM.     The project brings together three university research groups from KTH, Uni Basel and TU Wien, with one SME  Intermodulation Products.  Together they bring the diverse and complementary expertise necessary to carry out this project such as: superconducting quantum circuits, low temperature AFM, piezoelectric MEMS, and advanced analog and digital electronic design and low-level programming.
Bioelectrochemical sensing of sexually transmitted diseases

The detection of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has become a serious medical concern around the globe, as the number of reported cases increases every year, particularly in the United Kingdom. Infection with STDs, such as Gonorrhea and Chlamydia can result in long term health issues, such as infertility, reproductive tract cancer, and poor perinatal outcome. The successful treatment of these diseases depends on a quick and reliable method of diagnosis, which will be the topic of this proposal. The overall goal of the proposed research is to develop a detection method for bacteria, associated with STDs, based on bioelectrochemical techniques.
Specific objectives of the proposed research consist of the identification of a redox couple functioning as electron donor for bacterial oxidases, the specific binding of bacteria to a macroelectrode, the electrochemical recognition of immobilized bacteria at the macroelectrode, testing for false-positive and false-negative results, the varying of target cultures to extend the scope of the proposed research, and finally, the assembly of a biosensing device using disposable screen printed electrodes.
The proposed technique will make use of a biochemical test for aerobic bacteria, the oxidase test, by adapting it for electrochemical detection. In doing so, high selectivity will be achieved by targeted binding of living bacteria to immobilized antibodies on an electrode, whereas sensitivity will be strongly increased through the localized electrochemical detection of the oxidase test product. To demonstrate the usefulness and applicability to medical diagnostics, an approach is proposed to transfer the presented proof of concept to portable screen printed electrodes, which will permit the routine use of this concept in a bioelectrochemical handheld device. The proposed research answers the European Commission’s call for the development of new technologies in the health sector and an urgent need in public health monitoring.
Optimizing the widely used nuclear protein‐coding gene primers in beetle phylogenies and their application in the genus<i>Sasajiscymnus</i>Vandenberg (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Advances in genomic biology and the increasing availability of genomic resources allow developing hundreds of nuclear protein-coding (NPC) markers, which can be used in phylogenetic research. However, for low taxonomic levels, it may be more practical to select a handful of suitable molecular loci for phylogenetic inference. Unfortunately, the presence of degenerate primers of NPC markers can be a major impediment, as the amplification success rate is low and they tend to amplify nontargeted regions. In this study, we optimized five NPC fragments widely used in beetle phylogenetics (i.e., two parts of carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase: CADXM and CADMC, Topoisomerase, Wingless and Pepck) by reducing the degenerate site of primers and the length of target genes slightly. These five NPC fragments and 6 other molecular loci were amplified to test the monophyly of the coccinellid genus Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg. The analysis of our molecular data set clearly supported the genus Sasajiscymnus may be monophyletic but confirmation with an extended sampling is required. A fossil-calibrated chronogram was generated by BEAST, indicating an origin of the genus at the end of the Cretaceous (77.87 Myr). Furthermore, a phylogenetic informativeness profile was generated to compare the phylogenetic properties of each gene more explicitly. The results showed that COI provides the strongest phylogenetic signal among all the genes, but Pepck, Topoisomerase, CADXM and CADMC are also relatively informative. Our results provide insight into the evolution of the genus Sasajiscymnus, and also enrich the molecular data resources for further study.