SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Multi-Purpose waste reducer

Ship waste management is a problem due to the on-board space restrictions. Especially regarding storage of the organic waste since there is a need of temperature control of the food waste storage room and necessary sanitation of certain foods as prescribed by Annex 13 of the MEPC 62/24 Resolution. Having to design a designated space just for the garbage storage on board has always been a pain for the ship designers who have to deal with functionality and efficiency of every square meter of the ship space. Along the years, the industry has tried to deal with this problem in several ways, but none have given a good solution, and many of them do not satisfy the strict IMO requirements 
SANITRADE S.r.l. is an Italian SME that provides solutions to the confined space waste and waste water management problems. One of their products, SANISHREDDER has a potential to solve the address some problems on the ship waste management market, but it does not solve the automatization of the entire waste storage to be able to gain in space, energy savings, labour and decrease a health hazards. This is how they came up with SANISTABILIZER. 
SANISTABILIZER is a product that incorporates shredding, dewatering, sanitation and transportation devices. SANISTABILIZER is a complex device that allows treatment of any kind of domestic waste produced on board, will the outcome product can be safely stored without temperature control, can be directly handled and disposed at the ships arrival to its destination. SANISTABILIZER main advantages are: no need of energy use for the mixed food and waste storage (70% reduction), reduction of the disposal costs (50%) due to weight (70%) and volume reduction (80-95%) and no risk of the dioxins combustion. 
SANISTABILIZER’s commercialisation will enhance SANITRADE’s growth by increasing our turnover to €12 million by the fifth year with a ROI of 3.8.
Interregional Hospital Network for Energy Sustainability

The healthcare industry belongs to the most energy intensive sectors in Europe. 6.000 kWh electricity and 29.000 kWh heat per year and bed (Viamedica (2009): “Klinergie 2020”) are consumed. That energy consumption equals two modern single-family houses. Apart from a 24/7 heating or cooling demand there are additional energy needs for sterilization, lightning, electronic infrastructure and other medical equipment of course. According to recent studies and already realized projects it is possible to reduce the electrical consumption by up to 40% and to decrease the thermal energy demand by at least 30%. Different climate and legal conditions as well as different focus in regard to health care lead to different requirement profiles from an energy perspective. Based on a common Energy Performance Indicator System the effectiveness of energy efficiency measures shall be validated and thus ease replication efforts. In order to promote energy efficiency and energy management in the health sector, a transnational network of hospital operators, research institutes and engineering offices is created. Based on shared energy indicators, building characteristics and energy management processes are compared, going to define specific efficiency measures to be applied transversally to the project partners. A software tool for the evaluation and planning of specific measures will be developed within the project.
Active managed buildings with energy performance contracting

The AmBIENCe project aims at extending the concept of Energy Performance Contracting to Active Buildings and making it available and attractive to a wider range of buildings.  AmBIENCe will provide new concepts and business models for performance guarantees of Active Buildings, combining savings from energy efficiency measures with additional savings and earnings resulting from the active control of assets leveraging for instance price based incentive contracts (Implicit Demand Response).  The willingness to invest in additional sensorisation, ICT an IoT will be increased by offering adjacent other-than-energy services, e.g. related to comfort, security or maintenance.

Within the course of AmBIENCe, we will leverage the experience of the project’s business and research partners, and extend this through regional workshops where we will bring together various stakeholders to make an assessment of best practices and learnings.  Based on this, an integrated modular concept will be proposed, and a proof-of-concept platform will be developed, to support the creation of Active Building Performance Contracts.
Patents as scientific information, 1895-2020

“History will remember Barack Obama as the great Slayer of Patent Trolls.” The headline from the 2014 March 20 issue of Wired credits POTUS with, perhaps, an unexpected feat. Referring to companies in the sole business of enforcing patents beyond their actual value, trolls are a recent installment in the history of an intellectual property whose ubiquitousness the Latin word PASSIM (“here and there, everywhere”) neatly captures. In the eye of the storm stands the patent bargain: disclosure of information in return for a limited monopoly. This contractual moment makes patents a source of information, the basis of new innovation. Or does it? By posing this simple question, PASSIM’s bold take on the legitimacy of intellectual property in the governance of informational resources follow patents as legal and informational documents during three historical “patent phases,” producing a visionary and theoretically savvy interpretation of intellectual property that stems from its humanities-based and interdisciplinary project design. PASSIM shows a way out of current analytical gridlocks that earmark the understanding of the role of intellectual property in knowledge infrastructures—most notably the enclosure/openness dichotomy—and provides a fresh take on the complexity of informational processes. A key steppingstone in the PI’s career, her own contribution to PASSIM will be a work of synthesis, highlighting major tendencies in the history of patents as scientific information from 1895 to the present. Four complementary empirical studies target specific themes that strengthen PASSIM’s validity and impact: questions of copyrights in patents, scientists’ patenting strategies both historically and today, the relationship between bibliometrics and patentometrics, and the status of the patent as a legal and informational document. Outputs include workshops, articles, monographs, policy papers and documentation of the project’s experiences with interdisciplinary self-reflexivity.
Integrating Capabilities of Associated Labs

RADICAL is a project focused on monitoring the concentration inside buildings  Radon in the air, present in high concentrations in the border and recognized as  second leading cause of death from lung cancer. The project stems from the availability of a  Radon detector with high sensitivity and low-cost, developed in the context of a project  International co-ordinated by the University of Insubria. RADICAL develops instrumental aspects  Radon and risk management on the basis of micro or macro networks remotely operated detectors.  The consortium proposing includes developers (research institutes) and local authorities to  detection, monitoring and environmental consultancy (ARPA Piemonte, ARPA Valle d'Aosta, Competence Center  Radon SUPSI), support for dissemination by local governments (provinces  concerned).
Concerns about falling in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury—validation of the Swedish version of the spinal cord injury falls concern scale

Translation of the Spinal Cord Injury Falls Concern Scale (SCI-FCS); validation and investigation of psychometric properties.Translation, adaptation and validation study.Eighty-seven wheelchair users with chronic SCI attending follow-up at Rehab Station Stockholm/Spinalis, Sweden.The SCI-FCS was translated to Swedish and culturally adapted according to guidelines. Construct validity was examined with the Mann-Whitney U-test, and psychometric properties with factor and Rasch analysis.Participants generally reported low levels of concerns about falling. Participants with higher SCI-FCS scores also reported fear of falling, had been injured for a shorter time, reported symptoms of depression, anxiety and fatigue, and were unable to get up from the ground independently. Falls with or without injury the previous year, age, level of injury, sex and sitting balance did not differentiate the level of SCI-FCS score. The median SCI-FCS score was 21 (range 16-64). Cronbachs alpha (0.95), factor and Rasch analysis showed similar results of the Swedish as of the original version.The Swedish SCI-FCS showed high internal consistency and similar measurement properties and structure as the original version. It showed discriminant ability for fear of falling, time since injury, symptoms of depression or anxiety, fatigue and ability to get up from the ground but not for age, gender or falls. Persons with shorter time since injury, psychological concerns, fatigue and decreased mobility were more concerned about falling. In a clinical setting, the SCI-FCS might help identifying issues to address to reduce the concerns about falling.
Yang–Baxter integrable dimers on a strip

The dimer model on a strip is considered as a Yang-Baxter \mbox{integrable} six vertex model at the free-fermion point with crossing parameter $\lambda=\tfrac{\pi}{2}$ and quantum group invariant boundary conditions. A one-to-many mapping of vertex onto dimer configurations allows for the solution of the free-fermion model to be applied to the anisotropic dimer model on a square lattice where the dimers are rotated by $45\degree$ compared to their usual orientation. In a suitable gauge, the dimer model is described by the Temperley-Lieb algebra with loop fugacity $\beta=2\cos\lambda=0$. It follows that the model is exactly solvable in geometries of arbitrary finite size. We establish and solve transfer matrix inversion identities on the strip with arbitrary finite width $N$. In the continuum scaling limit, in sectors with magnetization $S_z$, we obtain the conformal weights $\Delta_{s}=\big((2-s)^2-1\big)/8$ where $s=|S_z|+1=1,2,3,\ldots$. We further show that the corresponding finitized characters $\chit_s^{(N)}(q)$ decompose into sums of $q$-Narayana numbers or, equivalently, skew $q$-binomials. In the particle representation, the local face tile operators give a representation of the fermion algebra and the fermion particle trajectories play the role of nonlocal degrees of freedom. We argue that, in the continuum scaling limit, there exist nontrivial Jordan blocks of rank 2 in the Virasoro dilatation operator $L_0$. This confirms that, with quantum group invariant boundary conditions, the dimer model gives rise to a {\em logarithmic} conformal field theory with central charge $c=-2$, minimal conformal weight $\Delta_{\text{min}}=-\frac{1}{8}$ and effective central charge $c_{\text{eff}}=1$.Our analysis of the structure of the ensuing rank 2 modules indicates that the familiar staggered $c=-2$ modules appear as submodules.
Invited Commentary: Disclosure of Gender-Based Violence in Developing Countries

The evolving concept of gender-based violence (GBV) is a multifaceted issue of public health significance. Until recently, most studies examining GBV have been conducted in North America. In this issue of the Journal, Palermo et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(5):602-612) report their secondary analyses involving approximately 300,000 women from 24 developing countries who participated in Demographic and Health Surveys between 2004 and 2011. The focus of their article is on the prevalence and determinants of disclosure of GBV to formal authorities, including health care or legal professionals, police, and nongovernmental organizations. Their results indicate a wide gap between prevalence of GBV (40%) and GBV disclosure (7%), implying an underestimation of GBV that ranges from 11- to 128-fold, depending on the region and type of reporting. The extent of underreporting of GBV also varied according to personal characteristics such as age, marital status and urban or rural residence. GBV has been linked to a myriad of health problems, and it has been shown that health care utilization is considerably higher among women who have experienced GBV. Primary and secondary prevention efforts should continue to target GBV, and creative ways of addressing GBV nondisclosure should take into account regional variations and personal characteristics of affected women.
Design and implementation of adaptive inverse control algorithm for a micro‐hand control system

The Letter proposes an online tuned adaptive inverse position control algorithm for a micro-hand. First, the configuration of the micro-hand is discussed. Next, a kinematic analysis of the micro-hand is investigated and then the relationship between the rotor position of micro-permanent magnet synchronous motor and the tip of the micro-finger is derived. After that, an online tuned adaptive inverse control algorithm, which includes an adaptive inverse model and an adaptive inverse control, is designed. The online tuned adaptive inverse control algorithm has better performance than the proportional–integral control algorithm does. In addition, to avoid damaging the object during the grasping process, an online force control algorithm is proposed here as well. An embedded micro-computer, cRIO-9024, is used to realise the whole position control algorithm and the force control algorithm by using software. As a result, the hardware circuit is very simple. Experimental results show that the proposed system can provide fast transient responses, good load disturbance responses, good tracking responses and satisfactory grasping responses.
Ict policy, research and innovation for a smart society: towards new avenues in eu-us ict collaboration

The aim of the 30-months PICASSO project is (1) to reinforce EU-US collaboration in ICT research and innovation focusing on the pre-competitive research in key enabling technologies related to societal challenges - 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, and (2) to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue by contributions related to e.g. privacy, security, internet governance,  interoperability, ethics. PICASSO is oriented to industrial needs, provides a forum for ICT communities and involves 24 EU and US prominent specialists in the three technology-oriented ICT Expert Groups and an ICT Policy Expert Group,  working closely together to identify policy gaps in the technology domains and to take measures to stimulate the policy dialogue in these areas.  A synergy between experts in ICT policies and in ICT technologies is a unique feature of PICASSO. An analysis of the industrial drivers, societal needs, and priorities for EU-US ICT collaboration will be done, and policy gaps will be highlighted. An Opportunity Report will point out new avenues for EU-US research, innovation and policy collaboration. An “ICT Industry Toolkit” app will support companies and academia in exploiting collaboration opportunities. Policy briefs focusing on specific aspects of identified policy gaps will provide visibility for EU policies and propose ways forward. Strategic initiatives will be investigated and discussed, and a White Paper will be prepared. The outreach campaign will include 30+ events, success stories factsheets, info sessions and webinars. PICASSO will directly contribute to the strengthening of the European industrial leadership in ICT. PICASSO’s approach will be integrative, inclusive, industry-driven, societally responsible and beneficial for both EU and US. It is supported by NIST, National Institute of Standard and Technology, US, and the European Cluster Alliance.
Concentration and size distribution of particles in abstracted groundwater

Particle number concentrations have been counted and particle size distributions calculated in groundwater derived by abstraction wells. Both concentration and size distribution are governed by the discharge rate: the higher this rate the higher the concentration and the higher the proportion of larger particles. However, the particle concentration in groundwater derived from abstraction wells, with high groundwater flow velocities, is much lower than in groundwater from monitor wells, with minimal flow velocities. This inconsistency points to exhaustion of the particle supply in the aquifer around wells due to groundwater abstraction for many years. The particle size distribution can be described with the help of a power law or Pareto distribution. Comparing the measured particle size distribution with the Pareto distribution shows that particles with a diameter >7 microm are under-represented. As the particle size distribution is dependent on the flow velocity, so is the value of the "Pareto" slope beta.
Test of slope and intercept bias in college admissions: A response to Aguinis, Culpepper, and Pierce (2010).

Research on the predictive bias of cognitive tests has generally shown (a) no slope effects and (b) small intercept effects, typically favoring the minority group. Aguinis, Culpepper, and Pierce (2010) simulated data and demonstrated that statistical artifacts may have led to a lack of power to detect slope differences and an overestimate of the size of the intercept effect. In response to Aguinis et al.'s (2010) call for a revival of predictive bias research, we used data on over 475,000 students entering college between 2006 and 2008 to estimate slope and intercept differences in the college admissions context. Corrections for statistical artifacts were applied. Furthermore, plotting of regression lines supplemented traditional analyses of predictive bias to offer additional evidence of the form and extent to which predictive bias exists. Congruent with previous research on bias of cognitive tests, using SAT scores in conjunction with high school grade-point average to predict first-year grade-point average revealed minimal differential prediction (ΔR²intercept ranged from .004 to .032 and ΔR²slope ranged from .001 to .013 depending on the corrections applied and comparison groups examined). We found, on the basis of regression plots, that college grades were consistently overpredicted for Black and Hispanic students and underpredicted for female students.
PRINTING AND WRITING SUBSTRATE PREVENTING BACKLIGHT READING AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME

A printing and writing substrate which prevents backlight reading and a method for making same, wherein the opacity, the colouring and the surface state of the substrate can be modified in accordance with the quality required for subsequent printing thereof as desired. The method includes using one or more support sheets (1) and a multifunctional layer (2) to which a plurality of multifunctional layers (3, 4) may simultaneously be added, optionally incorporating additional tamper-preventing barrier layers (5). The invention is particularly useful for making lottery tickets and security paper.
SONICATION METHODS FOR SCREENING AND PREPARING SOLID FORMS

Methods for screening and preparing solid forms are described herein. Such methods comprise sonicating a solid paste to provide a sonicated paste. The sonicated paste may be analyzed for the presence of solid forms.
COATING METHOD

The invention relates to a coating method for sheathing material formed from paper or card for smoking materials or parts of smoking materials in order to reduce the tendency of said sheathing material to absorb and diffuse aqueous or oily substances, the sheathing material being provided on the same side with two coatings, which are applied one on top of the other and are each applied in liquid form in two successive coating steps, the liquid coating mixture in both coating steps consisting of a coating substance and a liquid volatile matrix. In the first coating step, at least one layer of a first coating substance is applied, which reduces the ability of the paper or card to absorb the liquid volatile matrix of the second coating substance; in the second coating step, at least one layer of a second coating substance is applied, which is repellent or impermeable to one or more of the following substances: oils, fats, waxes, alcohols, and water. The liquid volatile matrix used for the first coating substance is different from that used for the second coating substance.
Meteorological Overview of the Devastating 27 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak

By many metrics, the tornado outbreak on 27 April 2011 was the most significant tornado outbreak since 1950, exceeding the super outbreak of 3–4 April 1974. The number of tornadoes over a 24-h period (midnight to midnight) was 199; the tornado fatalities and injuries were 316 and more than 2,700, respectively; and the insurable loss exceeded $4 billion (U.S. dollars). In this paper, we provide a meteorological overview of this outbreak and illustrate that the event was composed of three mesoscale events: a large early morning quasi-linear convective system (QLCS), a midday QLCS, and numerous afternoon supercell storms. The main data sources include NWS and research radars, profilers, surface measurements, and photos and videos of the tornadoes. The primary motivation for this preliminary research is to document the diverse characteristics (e.g., tornado characteristics and mesoscale organization of deep convection) of this outbreak and summarize preliminary analyses that are worthy of additional research ...
ASSOCIATION OF BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS WITH PRETERM LABOUR

OBJECTIVES: To study the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis (BV) in preterm labour and to investigate its association as one of the causative factors of preterm labour. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty women who presented with preterm labour (study group) and fifty women in labour at term (control group) admitted to a teaching hospital from November 2009 to May 2011 were examined for bacterial vaginosis using Nugent score. All the statistical methods were carried out through SPSS for windows (version 16.0), STUDY DESIGN: A comparative study. RESULTS: The prevalence of bacterial vaginosis among preterm labour group was 22% and its prevalence among full term group was 4%. There was statistically significant association of BV with preterm labor when compared to term labor (p=.007). Bacterial Vaginosis was strongly associated with very preterm delivery (<34 weeks) (p=.050). Bacterial vaginosis was significantly associated with lesser gestational age at delivery and low birth weight. CONCLUSION: Bacterial vaginosis is significantly associated with preterm labour and is one of the probable causative factors of preterm labour.
HOT WATER BOILER

The invention relates generally to hot water boilers used in many areas of industry and economy in general. A water heater boiler that has sheaths, a combustion chamber, heat exchange tubes filled with water, chimney for gases of combustion, water supply and outlet tubes. According to the invention, hot water boiler's sheath is hollow, the water supply pipe is mounted to these hollow walls, and the water outlet pipe is connected to the system of heat exchange tubes. Within heat exchange tubes pairs of coaxial external and internal tubes for gases of combustion are mounted, joined from one end to the combustion chamber, and from the other - to the chimney. The one end of the heat exchange tubes has a capacity to connect with other tubes, and the other end - to tubes and hollow walls simultaneously.
Safe and active MEDRIM in covd19 context

Through adapting SMEs MEDIRM will invest in resources and technology to strengthen the security of its employees, customers and suppliers, in a context of pandemic outbreak Covid19 and the mitigation of risks of its contagion.