SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Ecological sustainable Governance of Mediterranean protected Areas via improved Scientific, Technical and Managerial Knowledge Base

EcoSUSTAIN represents joint transnational action towards maintenance of biodiversity and natural ecosystems by means of stronger management and networking of protected areas obtained through capacity building, innovative technologies and improved management knowledge base. Management and networking of protected areas will be improved by capacity building activities and pilot implementation of innovative water quality monitoring solutions in several protected wetland locations across the programme area. Water quality monitoring will be improved by means of state-of-the-art ICT technology providing live, early warning messages directly from a sensor-equipped buoy, or by means of long-term monitoring based on satellite imagery processing. The primary end uses of the monitoring systems will be management bodies of the protected areas involved in the pilot activities. However, by means of transferring actions in the project and sustainable results, secondary end users will be other management bodies of protected areas across the Mediterranean._x000D_
The overall objective of the action is to improve monitoring, management and networking of protected areas through supporting scientific, technical and management knowledge in order to tackle the problem of incoherent and segregated management of protected areas as self-sustained units, which is believed to hamper protection and promotion of Mediterranean natural resources, as well as maintenance of biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
NON-FOIL POLYMER COATED CARTON FOR PACKAGING FOOD AND NON-FOOD PRODUCTS

A non-foil composite structure is provided having a substantial barrier to the loss of moisture, oxygen, and organic vapor and which is easily sealable with a shelf-life to at least one year for food and non-food products during dry shelf storage, and which is environmentally friendly. The laminate may have, from the outer atmosphere exposed surface to the inner surface contacting the contents of the container; a first exterior layer of a low density polyethylene polymer (22); a paperboard substrate (20); a first interior layer laminate coating of nylon (24) with a tie layer (26); a second interior layer of low density polyethylene polymer (28); a third interior layer of high density polyehtylene polymer (30); and an innermost and product contacting layer of low density polyehtylene polymer (32).
El tratado De vita contemplativa de Filón de Alejandría en el marco de la pentalogía que le atribuye Eusebio de Cesarea

El texto de De vita contemplativa fue elaborado por Filón de Alejandría como un escrito encomiástico del pueblo judío, que a su vez estaba inserto en un conjunto de tratados destinados al mismo fin, la denominada Pentalogía mencionada por Eusebio de Cesarea, donde en cinco libros, como su nombre indica, se acreditaban las virtudes inherentes al pueblo hebreo. Esta serie de obras, de la que sólo han quedado tres, la escribió Filón probablemente, al menos en su mayor parte, durante su estancia en Roma con motivo de la embajada que el politeuma hebreo alejandrino realizó ante el princeps Cayo Julio César Augusto Germánico, más conocido como Calígula. En este artículo tratamos de descubrir cuáles fueron esos tratados y en qué orden se compusieron o dieron a conocer.
The power of social cues in the battle for attention: Evidence from an online platform for scholarly commentary

• Distribution of attention across communication of economic policy research is unequal. • Author status and institutional prestige foster readership and diffusion. • Visual factors influence searching, reading, and sharing behaviors. Because humans have limited resources and capacities to digest and comprehend the unprecedented amount of information bombarding today’s world, human attention is a scarce resource and the problem of information overload is becoming increasingly serious. In this study we aim to contribute to an understanding of how humans make decisions about the value of complex sources of information, specifically in the context of online scholarly platforms, online news, and social media. We thus use almost 5000 research-based VoxEU texts, together with the corresponding authors’ characteristics, to test whether, as an evolutionary approach would suggest, author success, skills, and prestige serve as strong cues in readers’ attentional decisions, by analyzing reading, sharing, and searching behaviors. In addition to finding strong support for this assumption, we also show that readers respond to such visual cues as article title, number of words in the abstract, and/or text content, with a clear favoring of figures over tables.
Lithospheric-scale centrifuge models of pull-apart basins

Abstract We present here the results of the first lithospheric-scale centrifuge models of pull-apart basins. The experiments simulate relative displacement of two lithospheric blocks along two offset master faults, with the presence of a weak zone in the offset area localising deformation during strike–slip displacement. Reproducing the entire lithosphere–asthenosphere system provides boundary conditions that are more realistic than the horizontal detachment in traditional 1 g experiments and thus provide a better approximation of the dynamic evolution of natural pull-apart basins. Model results show that local extension in the pull-apart basins is accommodated through development of oblique–slip faulting at the basin margins and cross-basin faults obliquely cutting the rift depression. As observed in previous modelling studies, our centrifuge experiments suggest that the angle of offset between the master fault segments is one of the most important parameters controlling the architecture of pull-apart basins: the basins are lozenge shaped in the case of underlapping master faults, lazy-Z shaped in case of neutral offset and rhomboidal shaped for overlapping master faults. Model cross sections show significant along-strike variations in basin morphology, with transition from narrow V- and U-shaped grabens to a more symmetric, boxlike geometry passing from the basin terminations to the basin centre; a flip in the dominance of the sidewall faults from one end of the basin to the other is observed in all models. These geometries are also typical of 1 g models and characterise several pull-apart basins worldwide. Our models show that the complex faulting in the upper brittle layer corresponds at depth to strong thinning of the ductile layer in the weak zone; a rise of the base of the lithosphere occurs beneath the basin, and maximum lithospheric thinning roughly corresponds to the areas of maximum surface subsidence (i.e., the basin depocentre).
Study on the air curtain dust control technology with a dust purifying fan for fully mechanized mining face

Abstract An air curtain dust control technology for a fully mechanized mining face was developed, using a method that combined numerical simulations with field measurements in this paper. The results show that a triangular air curtain was formed between the shearer and the footway by the high velocity airflow field generated at the outlets of two fans after the technology was applied, which can effectively prevent dust from entering the driver's working area. Before the dust control technology was applied, the dust concentration of the shearer driver's working area exceeded 2000 mg/m3. However, after the dust control technology was applied, the dust concentration of the shearer driver's working area was reduced to 300 mg/m3. After verification through field measurements, the dust control rate of each measuring point, apart from the advancing support, exceeded 40%, and that of the shearer driver's working area was over 90%.
Efficient Application of Complex Graph Analytics on Very Large Real World RDF Datasets.

RDF [1] Graph modeling is a foundational technology in the whole semantic web (SW) technology stack. Since its debut in 2004, RDF graph has enjoyed many applications in the enterprise domain. Examples of these applications include, but certainly not limited to, integration and federated query of heterogeneous data sources, flexible and extensible representation of enterprise knowledge base, adhoc query and navigation on top of schema-less graph model of enterprise data, social network representation and link analysis, and metadata processing in the context of master data management (MDM). In the past decade, many mature open source and commercial RDF platforms and solutions [6] have been developed to store and index RDF graph data (triples and quads), edit and manage OWL [2] ontologies, perform logical inference, execute pattern matching and graph navigation (SPARQL [3]), visualize RDF graph data and OWL ontologies, and link data in RDF format and also other data types including relational (RDB2RDF [4,5]). As a graph modeling language, RDF provides great flexibility for enterprise applications and it adds precision, through the use of URI and formal semantics, to enterprise data. SPARQL query and OWL inference have been two key functions for semantic web applications. A somewhat less obvious application of RDF is that such a graph model is also a great candidate for graph analytics.
Microbioreactor platforms as in vivo-like systems to probe the role of neuroblastoma-derived exosomes in cancer dissemination

Engineers can actively contribute to fields thought to be out of their “comfort zones”. We can be leaders of discoveries that translate into advances in the understanding of disease and improving human health. Engineers might use different language and tools than Life Sciences Scientists but we find a common ground, as the laws of Thermodynamics, Physics, and Mathematics also apply to biological phenomena.
The development of microbioreactors (μBRs) reconstructing biologically sound niches can revolutionize medical research.
In our bodies cells reside in a complex milieu, the microenvironment (μEnv), regulating their fate and function. Most of this complexity is lacking in standard laboratory models, leading to readouts poorly predicting the in vivo situation. This is particularly felt in cancer research, as tumors are extremely heterogeneous and capable of conditioning both the local μEnv and distant organs. Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common and difficult to cure pediatric malignant solid tumor. Secreted exosomes are means by which NBs reshape their μEnv and induce local and long-range changes in cells, regulating progression and prognosis. But the mechanisms involved are yet not completely understood. A major limitation is the difficulty to model in vitro the local in vivo dynamic μEnv.
We hypothesize that μBRs exploiting classical engineering principles will solve the limitations of existing classical culture models.
We propose to develop platforms and test their edge over classical approaches in decoding the role of exosomes and μEnv in NB. Our μBRs generate time and space-resolved concentration gradients, support fast dynamic changes and reconstruct complex interactions between cells and tissues while performing multifactorial and parallelized experiments.
We expect that our technologies will bridge the gap between in vitro techniques and in vivo biological phenomena leading to significant and novel results, shedding light on previously unexplored scenarios.
Transverse revival and fractional revival of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss bunching effect with discrete chaotic light

We studied the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) bunching effect of discrete chaotic light sources. It is found that, for periodical discrete chaotic light sources, the HBT bunching effect collapses first but then revives repeatedly at specific transverse distances between two detectors in the far-field detection plane, which is very different from the HBT bunching effect with a spatially continuous chaotic light source. Such transverse revivals of the HBT bunching effect are the result of in-phase superposition of all discrete two-photon eigen modes of the periodical discrete chaotic light sources. In addition to the integer HBT bunching revival, the fractional HBT bunching revival can also be observed with nonperiodical discrete chaotic light sources due to the in-phase constructive interference of parts of the two-photon eigen modes. Experimental verification on both the integer and the fractional HBT bunching revivals are given. The transverse revival and fractional revival of the HBT bunching effect provide an efficient way for imaging processing such as ghost image copy in the detection plane.
No direct by maternal effects interaction detected for pre-weaning growth in Romane sheep using a reaction norm model

BackgroundThe pre-weaning growth of lambs, an important component of meat production, depends on maternal and direct effects. These effects cannot be observed directly and models used to study pre-weaning growth assume that they are additive. However, it is reasonable to suggest that the influence of direct effects on growth may differ depending on the value of maternal effects i.e. an interaction may exist between the two components.MethodsTo test this hypothesis, an experiment was carried out in Romane sheep in order to obtain observations of maternal phenotypic effects (milk yield and milk quality) and pre-weaning growth of the lambs. The experiment consisted of mating ewes that had markedly different maternal genetic effects with rams that contributed very different genetic effects in four replicates of a 3 × 2 factorial plan. Milk yield was measured using the lamb suckling weight differential technique and milk composition (fat and protein contents) was determined by infrared spectroscopy at 15, 21 and 35 days after lambing. Lambs were weighed at birth and then at 15, 21 and 35 days. An interaction between genotype (of the lamb) and environment (milk yield and quality) for average daily gain was tested using a restricted likelihood ratio test, comparing a linear reaction norm model (interaction model) to a classical additive model (no interaction model).ResultsA total of 1284 weights of 442 lambs born from 166 different ewes were analysed. On average, the ewes produced 2.3 ± 0.8 L milk per day. The average protein and fat contents were 50 ± 4 g/L and 60 ± 18 g/L, respectively. The mean 0–35 day average daily gain was 207 ± 46 g/d. Results of the restricted likelihood ratio tests did not highlight any significant interactions between the genotype of the lambs and milk production of the ewe.ConclusionsOur results support the hypothesis of additivity of maternal and direct effects on growth that is currently applied in genetic evaluation models.
Ultra low emission technology innovations for mid-century aircraft turbine engines

With the ULTIMATE project five experienced research groups and four major European engine manufacturers will develop innovative propulsion systems to fulfill the SRIA 2050 key challenges. One of the most challenging targets is the 75% reduction in energy consumption and CO2-emissions. Technologies currently at TRL 3-5, cannot achieve this aim. It is estimated that around a 30% reduction must come from radical innovations now being at lower TRL. Thus, European industry needs synergetic breakthrough technologies for every part of the air transport system, including the airframe, propulsion and power. 

The ULTIMATE project singles out the major loss sources in a state of the art turbofan (combustor irreversibility, core exhaust heat, bypass exhaust kinetic energy). These are then used to categorize breakthrough technologies (e.g. piston topping, intercooling & exhaust heat exchangers, and advanced propulsor & integration concepts). This classification approach gives a structured way to combine and explore synergies between the technologies in the search for ultralow CO2, NOx and noise emissions. The most promising combinations of radical technologies will then be developed for a short range European and a long range intercontinental advanced tube and wing aircraft.

Through the EU projects VITAL, NEWAC, DREAM, LEMCOTEC, E-BREAK and ENOVAL, the ULTIMATE partners have gained the most comprehensive experience in Europe on conception and evaluation of advanced aero engine architectures. Existing tools, knowledge and models will be used to perform optimization and evaluation against the SRIA targets to mature the technologies to TRL 2. Road maps will be set up to outline the steps to develop the technologies into products and bring them onto the market. These road maps will also provide a way forward for future European propulsion and aviation research.
Extreme quantum matter in solids

Quantum stochastic processes in solids, representing many-body systems par excellence, are believed to lead to extreme forms of quantum entanglement and non-local correlations (extreme quantum matter), that offer a well-defined starting point for an understanding of a wide range of anomalous materials properties, as well as emergent electronic phases such as magnetically mediated superconductivity or partial spin and charge order. While overwhelming experimental evidence clearly suggests a breakdown of traditional concepts such as well-defined quasi-particle excitations, the striking present-day disagreement between experiment and theory may be traced to the lack of experimental information on the spectrum of quantum stochastic many-body processes in solids in the low-energy and low-temperature limit close to and far from equilibrium.

ExQuiSid will advance the understanding of the nature of extreme quantum matter in the most extensively studied model systems, notably simple magnetic materials (insulators and metals) tuned through a quantum phase transition. For the proposed studies my group has implemented a new generation of methods covering for the first time neutron spectroscopy with an unprecedented nano-eV resolution even under large magnetic fields, transverse-field vector magnetometry, calorimetry and transport down to milli-Kelvin temperatures, and, ultra-high purity single-crystal growth combined with advanced materials characterisation. 

ExQuiSid will (i) solve long-standing mysteries in model-systems of extreme quantum phase transitions, (ii) experimentally enable and permit pioneering studies on the creation, nature and classification of non-equilibrium quantum matter in solids at ultra-low energies and temperatures, and (iii) experimentally enable and permit pioneering studies of quantum matter driven periodically out of equilibrium to identify dynamical quantum instabilities and dynamical quantum phases such as many body localisation.
Diagnosis of prosthetic infections in orthopedics with innovative methods based on the use of bacteriophages

Crucial for orthopedics is a reliable and fast diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection in order to proceed with the most appropriate therapy. Starting from promising preliminary results on an innovative new dosage mediated by bacteriophages (New Microbiol. 40 (3), 2017, ISN 1121-7138), the project aims to design a diagnostic test for bacterial detection within the fluid of sonication from an infected prosthetic articulation, by using an optimized suspension of specific phages. This test will be rapid, sensitive and specific to detect only live bacteria. It will be validated on a clinical study on patients with revision arthroprosthesis (survey already approved by the Ethics Committee). In addition, the project aims to significantly reduce the time required to identify and define the most correct diagnosis.
The use of antibiotics will be made more effective, or eliminated, in order to reduce microbial resistance, a significant problem as reported in the specific European Program "EU One Health Action Plan against Anti Microbial Resistance ". Furthermore, the project shows the possible use of bacteriophages in therapy, as currently occurs in the ex-USSR. The project will also aim to create a library of phages in which the bacteriophages can be supplied on request, thus creating in this area the first European center on phages.
PROCESS FOR REFINING FIBER AND DERIVING CHEMICAL CO-PRODUCTS FROM BIOMASS

The invention herein disclosed and claimed is a process for refining fiber from lignocellulosic biomass. The process provides refined fiber and agriculturally amenable co-products, with a virtually waste-free systems design.
Experimental Synthesis and Properties of Metastable CuNbN<sub>2</sub> and Theoretical Extension to Other Ternary Copper Nitrides

Copper nitrides are defect-tolerant semiconductors with properties that are promising for solar energy conversion applications. Currently, there are few known ternary copper nitride materials. Here, we synthesized a previously unreported CuNbN2 using an ion-exchange reaction and subsequently determined its properties. CuNbN2 has a layered delafossite-type structure with NbN6 octahedra arranged in layers separated by linear N–Cu–N bonds. Experimental measurements and theoretical calculations agree that CuNbN2 has a 1.3–1.4 eV optical absorption threshold; theory also indicates that the lowest energy indirect band gap is 0.9 eV. The calculated CuNbN2 electron and hole effective masses are quite isotropic (mout /min = 1.3–2.1) and low (m = 0.3–0.7 me), as for the layered crystal structure. On the basis of these results, we propose a new lattice-matched delafossite tandem solar cell approach with Cu(Nb,Ta)N2 absorbers, p-type CuAlO2 contacts, and n-type ZnO contacts. Interestingly, first-principles calculatio...
ARRANGEMENT FOR FIXING A TUBULAR ELEMENT ON A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE BODY

The invention concerns an arrangement (10) for fixing a tubular shift cylinder (12), between two mounting and locking positions in a motor vehicle body, comprising means for blocking the cylinder (12) in axial translation including, from the front rearwards, a transverse surface of the cylinder (12), axial elastic means, a body wall (20), pierced with an orifice (18), and a transverse eye mounting (34) of the cylinder (12) passing through a cutout (40) of the orifice (18) and enabling to immobilise the cylinder (12) axially when a rotation of the cylinder (12) locks it by squeezing the wall (20) between the support surface, the axial elastic means and the eye mounting (34). The invention is characterised in that the means immobilising the body (16) in rotation comprise a ferrule (56) linked with the cylinder (16) whereof an axial pin (68) passes through the wall (20) orifice (18) to be urged to stop against the wall (20) when the body (16) is locked in rotation, and whereof the axial teeth (72) bite into the wall (20) when the cylinder rotates (12) to immobilise it.
Establishment of the Cross-border Geopark on the Karst

The main purpose is to strengthen institutional cooperation and increase coordination among the two countries in land and resources management, sustainable development and competitiveness. The project shall stimulate key players to create joint solutions for common challenges and increase the intensity of cooperation in the Karst thanks to the exchange of experiences and transfer of good practices. The strategic project CARSO-KRAS highlighted that the creation of the homogeneous area of ​​the Karst can be achieved with the establishment of a cross-border geopark for the sustainable use of resources. The innovative approach of heritage valorization through inclusion, training and networking of local stake-holders and promotion of new business will increase the identification of local actors with the area increasing its recognition. A cross-border management plan and joint solutions are the key for the sustainable development of the Karst in favor of target groups.