SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Water scarcity and droughts; coordinated actions in European regions

With agreement of their respective Ministers three of the leading regions in Europe in the field of sustainable water management, Aragon, Emilia-Romagna and Hessen initiated in 2007 in Bologna an interregional cooperation on the issue water scarcity and droughts resulting in WATER CoRe. This initiative has been consolidated in a continuous standing platform of ministers, that will meet once a year, follow the project and decide concretely on regional implementation of results.

Water CoRe intends to provide an exchange platform for water scarcity and drought issues on regional and local level for all European regions. It will function as a kind of market place for participating regions where good practice examples can be ‘bought or sold’ from one region in order to adapt these to the local/regional situation in another region. Special attention will be given to regions in central and eastern Europe by establishing a focal point on water scarcity and droughts in Hungary.
Policies and practical experiences related to management of water scarcity and droughts do already exist in Europe. Water CoRe will compile this knowledge and make it accessible for all regional and local actors in the EU in order to create their own tailor made approaches.

Topics covered in thematic working groups concern water demand-side management, handling drought periods, climate change effects and public awareness and participation. Each working group will follow the following project phases: collecting existing experiences, exchange experiences and match partners for transfer, transfer of best practices via e-learning and training sessions, evaluate 'lessons learnt' and formulate policy recommendations. 

Planned meetings and activities are an interregional kick-off event followed by opening sessions in each partner region, study visits, thematic workshops, bi-lateral contacts between 'buying-selling' partners, interregional mid-term event, >
> technical training sessions in each region, interregional evaluation and exchange meeting, interregional final event followed by closing sessions in each region.

Expected outputs are a digital exchange platform, good practice handbook, survey to specify 'buying/ selling' opportunities within the partnership, regional action plans to transfer experiences between regions, e-learning programme with thematic modules and policy recommendations.

Water CoRe leads to improved water scarcity and drought management policies and instruments in partner regions. Regional politicians of the partner regions underlined their commitment to this project in a Memorandum of Understanding. Via the project homepage the results are accessible to everybody. The good practice handbook and the e-learning course will also be spread via networks like ENCORE. The overall objective is to create tools for responsible authorities in order to improve water management in all regions of Europe.
Culture-Free strain-level population genomics to identify disappearing human-associated microbes in the westernized world

Investigating symbiotic gut microbes with large-scale comparative genomics would allow gaining crucial insights into the “epidemiology”, genetic diversity, and population structure of hundreds of scarcely characterized microorganisms. However, cultivation-based approaches are ineffective at targeting the large fraction of the gut microbial diversity that is hard be grown in vitro. They are also expensive and time consuming, as they need sampling specific bacteria from geographically separated subjects. On the other hand, cultivation-free metagenomic data is now available for thousands of stool samples collected worldwide, but they are not currently exploited for strain-level microbial population genomics because of the lack of suitable computational methods. In Aim1, we leverage our expertise in computational biology to bridge the gap between the fields of metagenomics and population genomics by developing novel and highly innovative methodologies to extract strain-level genomic and genetic profiles from metagenomic samples with the resolution needed by comparative genomics. Such paradigmatic shift will put us in the position of reusing in Aim2 the thousands of available metagenomes and unravel for the first time the population structure of hundreds of uncultivable gut microbes. Among the novel tasks enabled, we will focus in Aim3 on identifying those microbial strains that are currently disappearing in westernized populations as a consequence of urbanization, industrialization, high-fat diets. We will complement the available data with gut metagenomes from novel targeted cohorts of both westernized and non-westernized populations. Our project defines the foundation for cultivation-free strain-level population genomics, provides comparative genomics results with unprecedented resolution for hundreds of under-investigated microbes, and compiles a catalogue of strains undergoing or at risk of primary, secondary, or ecological extinction in westernized populations.
Development of CAM System for Multi-Tasking Machine Tools

Multi-tasking machine tools are very useful to manufacture complicated workpiece efficiently. However, it is very difficult to generate NC data when an operator uses multi-tasking machine tools. Currently, there are some CAM systems for multi-tasking machine tools. However, there are such problems as the manual allocation of parts to generate tool paths, the difficulty of self-interference recognition without a simulator, and so on. Therefore, this study deals with the development of CAM system which can recognize part configurations, calculate tool paths automatically for turning and milling operations, and sort them in machining order, based on 3-D CAD data of workpieces.
APPARATUS FOR ROCK HANDLING, ROCK DRILLING UNIT AND METHOD

An apparatus for handling drilling rods, a rock drilling unit and a method of handling drilling rods. The apparatus (36) comprises a rod feeder (13) and a swing device (11) which co-operate and move drilling rods (2) between a pick-up position (14) and a drill- ing center (10) defined by a rock drilling machine (7) of the drilling unit (1). The rod feeder and the swing device are separate devices which are independently controllable.
Drivers of growth in bank lending and financial crises

Banking crises are thought to be recurrent phenomena that generally come on the heels of strong credit growth. Their damaging real effects have generated a broad agreement among academics and policymakers that financial regulation needs to tighten and to obtain a macroprudential dimension that aims to lessen the negative externalities from the financial to the macro real sector.

Among the main ingredients that are often mentioned to have played a role in the explosive growth of credit in the run-up to the latest financial crisis are the financial innovations by financial institutions, in particular loan securitization, the boom in mortgage lending and prices of real estate, the lack of information about prospective borrowers, and the high leverage (and corresponding low capital ratios) of financial institutions.

Yet, despite the singling out of these ingredients by policymakers, decisive empirical evidence about their role and relevancy is lacking. However, given the magnitude and complexity of the global banking system and the lack of encompassing micro-level data, it is currently impossible to confidently study the impact of all ingredients jointly. This project therefore analyses pertinent settings where we can empirically identify the correspondence between the aforementioned individual ingredients and the credit granting by financial institutions.

The objective of the project is to advance identification and estimation of the impact of each respective factor on loan growth by combining the appropriate methodology with an exceptional set of micro-level datasets. When missing in the literature a theoretical framework will be provided. The project further aims to assess how potential combinations of these ingredients may have interacted in spurring credit growth. While the identification of the impact of each ingredient on credit growth is paramount, the individual setting of the studied datasets and employed methodologies will ensure maximum external validity.
Design and implementation of a function block-based holonic control architecture for a new generation flexible manufacturing system

In this research work a control architecture which gives response to the requirements of new generation of flexible manufacturing systems in terms of flexibility, reconfigurability, robustness and autonomy is designed and implemented. To do so the main principles of the holonic manufacturing paradigm are applied using the IEC61499 function block (FB) technology. Unlike other similar research proposals, in this work FBs are not relegated to low-level control but are used to model manufacturing execution and control high-level control tasks. This is done with the objective of evaluating the viability of using FBs to develop holonic architectures in comparison to more established technologies like multi-agent systems. Moreover, the proposed control architecture also focuses on better integrating and exploiting the products' information to enhance its flexibility and adaptability. For this STEP-NC (ISO14649) is used to model richer process plans which include manufacturing alternatives and could be easily integrated in the control itself.
HVAC&R PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION MONITOR AND RELATION BUILDER

A monitoring system for an HVAC&R system, the monitoring system comprising: a data acquisition processor operable to acquire observations about the HVAC&R system, the observations including fluid temperature measurements for a condenser and for an evaporator, the observations further including compressor input power parameter measurements corresponding to the fluid temperature measurements; a relation builder operable to learn a compressor input power parameter (CIPP) relation between fluid temperature measurements for an evaporator intake temperature and a condenser intake temperature and the compressor input power parameter measurements, and further operable to learn an evaporator temperature drop (ETD) relation between the fluid temperature measurements for the evaporator intake temperature and the condenser intake temperature and an evaporator temperature drop; and a temperature map containing a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to a temperature tuple composed of a condenser intake temperature and an evaporator intake temperature, the temperature map configured to receive and store for each cell, from the relation builder, summary statistics for a measured compressor input power parameter, or a measurement derived evaporator temperature drop, or both, corresponding to the temperature tuple for said cell; wherein the processor-executable instructions further cause the at least one processor to use the CIPP relation or the ETD relation to compute a predicted value for a compressor input power parameter and/or a predicted value for a evaporator temperature drop, respectively, and based on these predicted values declare that performance degradation is present for the HVAC&R system.
The Effect of Video Game “Warm-up” on Performance of Laparoscopic Surgery Tasks

BACKGROUND Performing laparoscopic procedures requires special training and has been documented as a significant source of surgical errors. Warming up before performing a task has been shown to enhance performance. This study investigates whether surgeons benefit from warming up using select video games immediately before performing laparoscopic partial tasks and clinical tasks. METHODS This study included 303 surgeons (249 men and 54 women). Participants were split into a control (n=180) and an experimental group (n=123). The experimental group played 3 previously validated video games for 6 minutes before task sessions. The Cobra Rope partial task and suturing exercises were performed immediately after the warm-up sessions. RESULTS Surgeons who played video games prior to the Cobra Rope drill were significantly faster on their first attempt and across all 10 trials. The experimental and control groups were significantly different in their total suturing scores (t=2.28, df=288, P<.05). The overall Top Gun score showed that the experimental group performed marginally better overall. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates that subjects completing warming-up sessions with select video games prior to performing laparoscopic partial and clinical tasks (intracorporeal suturing) were faster and had fewer errors than participants not engaging in warm-up. More study is needed to determine whether this translates into superior procedural execution in the clinical setting.
European market for climate services

The project analyses the market structures and drivers, obstacles and opportunities from scientific, technical, legal, ethical, governance and socioeconomic vantage points. The analysis is grounded in economic and political science theories on how service markets with public and private features can develop, and how innovations may succeed. The consortium offers a good cross-section of representation from various vantage points in the climate services market, complemented by expert knowledge on market research and innovation policy. The consortium has excellent connections to many climate service user types and other stakeholders. The study will engage a large diversity of stakeholders in many ways, especially through the explorative market development exercises employing different co-design approaches. Next to reporting based analysis of market functioning and solutions, the protocols developed in the explorative market development exercises are meant for replication at large scale.
Innovation in modelling placenta for maternal and fetal health

“The placenta is the least understood human organ but arguably one of the most important”-NIH Human Placenta Project .   Innovation in Modelling Placenta for Maternal and Fetal Health (iPLACENTA) is a European Training Network (ETN), and will act as a springboard for promoting international, intersectoral and multi/inter-disciplinary training, career development and collaboration of fifteen early-stage researchers (ESRs) in Maternal and Fetal Health.  iPLACENTA will improve our ability to study, model and visualise the placenta.   iPLACENTA focuses on doctoral-level training and will be delivered by eleven participating universities located in ten different European countries. It coordinates research and training collaboration among world-leading academic institutions in Europe, providing a new combination of in-depth international expertise. iPLACENTA’s unique network aims are to improve our ability to study the placenta through in vitro and mathematical modelling (WP1&2).  Whilst enhancing visualisation and assessment of the placenta in animal models and the clinic, thus enhancing investigation and prognosis of complicated pregnancies. To link the research to industrial exploitation, the network brings together three different businesses; Mimetas (MIM) (organ-on-a-chip developer) as a beneficiary, and Moor, a clinical-technology specialist, and industrial global brand FujifFilm VisualSonics (FUJ) as partners. Together they will work with academics and clinicians to develop new placenta-on-a-chip technology (WP1), in silico placenta modelling (WP2), new modalities of laser technology to visualise the placenta in vivo (WP3), improve maternal-cardiovascular assessment and validate novel ultrasound tools for diagnosis of complicated pregnancies (WP3). Cross-sectorial training delivered by Business and Law Schools, Industry, Clinical specialist and European leaders in OpenScience-OpenInnovation.
Broodstock management and hormonal manipulations of fish reproduction

Control of reproductive function in captivity is essential for the sustainability of commercial aquaculture production, and in many fishes it can be achieved by manipulating photoperiod, water temperature or spawning substrate. The fish reproductive cycle is separated in the growth (gametogenesis) and maturation phase (oocyte maturation and spermiation), both controlled by the reproductive hormones of the brain, pituitary and gonad. Although the growth phase of reproductive development is concluded in captivity in most fishes-the major exemption being the freshwater eel (Anguilla spp.), oocyte maturation (OM) and ovulation in females, and spermiation in males may require exogenous hormonal therapies. In some fishes, these hormonal manipulations are used only as a management tool to enhance the efficiency of egg production and facilitate hatchery operations, but in others exogenous hormones are the only way to produce fertilized eggs reliably. Hormonal manipulations of reproductive function in cultured fishes have focused on the use of either exogenous luteinizing hormone (LH) preparations that act directly at the level of the gonad, or synthetic agonists of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRHa) that act at the level of the pituitary to induce release of the endogenous LH stores, which, in turn act at the level of the gonad to induce steroidogenesis and the process of OM and spermiation. After hormonal induction of maturation, broodstock should spawn spontaneously in their rearing enclosures, however, the natural breeding behavior followed by spontaneous spawning may be lost in aquaculture conditions. Therefore, for many species it is also necessary to employ artificial gamete collection and fertilization. Finally, a common question in regards to hormonal therapies is their effect on gamete quality, compared to naturally maturing or spawning broodfish. The main factors that may have significant consequences on gamete quality-mainly on eggs-and should be considered when choosing a spawning induction procedure include (a) the developmental stage of the gonads at the time the hormonal therapy is applied, (b) the type of hormonal therapy, (c) the possible stress induced by the manipulation necessary for the hormone administration and (d) in the case of artificial insemination, the latency period between hormonal stimulation and stripping for in vitro fertilization.
Use of multiscale modelling to minimize coke production during the methanol-to- hydrocarbon process

The methanol-to-hydrocarbon (MTH) process is a versatile catalytic process that are gradually playing a more important role in the economy. However, an important factor that is inhibiting the profitability of MTH is accumulation of coke in the pores of the catalyst during operations. To reduce or eliminate the coke formation during MTH operations, it is necessary to have a detailed mechanistic insight into its cause of formation. In this proposal, I will achieve this insight through a computational modelling strategy. I will study the mechanism of the MTH process at various time- and length scales, using various computational methodologies. I will use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study the fluid flow at the reactor scale and the diffusion in the macropores. I will use kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) and molecular dynamics (MD) to study the diffusion in the meso- and micropores. Finally, I will use density functional theory (DFT) to study the reactions at the active sites. The processes studied at the various length scales will be coupled together through a multiscale methodology. 
Multiscale modelling has steadily evolved over the past decade, but the concept is still at the proof-of-principle stage where the methodology has been demonstrated for simple test systems such as CO oxidation. The methodologies that will provide data to the multiscale simulation, CFD, kMC, MD, and DFT have all reached a high level of maturity. Now is the right moment to use a multiscale methodology to couple these methodologies together and solve the problem of coke formation in the MTH process. 
The potential outcomes are the following: 1) an understanding of how coke is formed in the MTH process; 2) a larger acceptance in the catalysis community to use multiscale modelling in the design of new catalysts; and 3) tighter interdisciplinary collaborations.
Bivalirudin and post-cardiotomy ECMO: a word of caution

Bivalirudin has been proposed as the sole anticoagulant in patients under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or cardiopulmonary bypass. Owing to the pharmacodynamic properties of bivalirudin, areas of blood stagnation should be carefully avoided in order to limit the risk of thrombosis. The ECMO circuit has no reservoir and is usually devoid of blood stagnation areas. Conversely, under some circumstances, intracardiac blood stagnation areas may exist. In this case, there is a potential risk for the spontaneous formation of an intracardiac thrombus. We suggest that, under bivalirudin anticoagulation, a minimal degree of intracardiac blood flow with left heart valve movement is allowed.
Healthcare encounters in immigrants’ everyday lives

The main goal of HEIEL is to examine how Chinese immigrants in Italy perceive their bodies, manage their health, and experience the local healthcare system in the context of national austerity, rising anti-immigrant sentiments, and on-going political, social, and demographic transformations and how these perceptions and experiences affect their identity formation. This ethnographic study will be based on 12 months of fieldwork mainly involving in-depth interviews and participant observation in Bologna and Rome. It will provide a new bottom-up narrative of immigrant health amid ambiguous power dynamics in which immigrant subjects are simultaneously economically privileged and socially vulnerable. It is a timely research project that locates immigrant subjects' everyday healthcare practices at the intersection of their transnational migration process, dynamic political and social realities, and geopolitics. It is a comparative study that examines structural considerations and investigates how immigrants negotiate and choose among formal and informal healthcare providers in a multi-ethnic EU welfare state and why informal medical treatments are often preferred over formally legitimate and cheaper public services. It is a multi-sited ethnography of encounters that examines healthcare seekers' interactions with various types of healthcare providers, institutions, and authorities, which may affect their healthcare choices and practices. It is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of anthropology, sociology of migration, and public health. This project will inspire healthcare and immigration policymaking, as well as contributing to theoretical debates surrounding immigrant health, as well as biopolitics and identity. The HEIEL will ultimately contribute to the ER’s career development plan of becoming a leading interdisciplinary scholar of Chinese migration to Europe.
A fabric skirt.

The skirt (2) is formed by a piece of fabric having warp threads (8) and weft threads (10) which in a flat development have the shape of a sector of a circular crown, the arcuate edges of which become the upper edge (4) and the lower edge (6) of the skirt. Any two consecutive weft courses (10, 10 min ) are convergent towards the upper edge (4) and the warp threads (8) are longer the further they are away from the upper edge (4).