SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Neurorobotics platform application to traction control for automotive industry

The work proposed aims at the development of a service in Traction Control for the automotive industry, building upon innovation from the NeuroRobotics Platform (NRP, HBP-SP10). The service will use the platform’s capacity to synthesize sophisticated neural control laws. Controllers developed will be tested on a unique infrastructure, the Siemens Mobility Test Setup (SMTS), which allows physical emulation of a wide range of road conditions for any car connected. This System-in-the-Loop (SyL) setup will support machine learning processes, allowing tuning of the traction controller to a high standard of performance, and provide early control-function validation and performance assessment. The work proposed involves: A limited amount of Technical Work, to connect NRP and SMTS, and develop the required service provision tools, Market Analysis and business plan development for the envisioned service, and a heavy emphasis on Outreach and Engagement of stakeholders and potential interested end-users.
PLASTDEEP- Assessing plastic pollution in the deep sea, the ultimate sink of plastics in the oceans

The abundance of plastics in the marine environment is a reality that threatens the oceanic ecosystems and the services that depend on it. This proposal aims to collect new data to test the hypothesis that the deep sea is the main oceanic reservoir of plastics and microplastics. The geographical and bathymetric characteristics of the AAR are ideal for assessing the impacts of plastics on the deep sea at national and international level.
Deepfield- deep learning in field robotics: from conceptualization towards implementation

Robots are active agents that need to interact with the physical world, to do so, robots are equipped with different sensors, whose data is used to build models that ultimately will allow robots to plan actions and make decisions.  
Currently, there is strong focus in developing deep learning strategies “data driven” to help solve this perception problem, even though these approaches work well in dataset and benchmark scenarios. There are still strong limitations in the use of this techniques in real world robot activities, specially due to the strong dynamics in robots operational environment, that is pushing the development of new tools and methods to make these approaches feasible in the real world.
INESC TEC is strongly committed to become a centre of excellence with focus on field robotics, in particular, in the aerial and underwater robotics domain. In the last years, the centre for Robotics and Autonomous systems, of INESC TEC has advance its scientific knowledge in sensing and perception methods for robots navigation and localization in harsh operational environments. The key objective of INESC TEC is to become one of the European references in field robotics, and help to bring robot technology to solve real life problems where human intervention is still limited or non-existent.
This proposal aims at creating solid knowledge and productive links in the global field of deep learning in field robotics between INESC TEC and established leading research European institutions, capable of enhancing the scientific and technological capacity of INESC TEC and linked institutions (as well as the capacity of partnering institutions involved in the twinning action), helping raising its staff’s research profile and its recognition as an European research centre of excellence in field robotics. In particular, it takes INESC TEC and places it as the pivot of a network of excellence, involving four international leaders in deep learning technology and fied robotics.
European direction in geoss common infrastructure enhancements

As mentioned in the GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025, global environmental change is one of the primary challenges of humankind, even more so today than in 2003, when governments and international organisations committed to a vision of a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations. The establishment, in 2005, of the Group on Earth Observations, and the creation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), was a first concrete response to this challenge.

EDGE, short for European Directed GCI Enhancements, is a EU funded project that will provide a further European key contribution to GEOSS, evolving its main common infrastructure elements, the GEOSS Portal (implemented and operated by the European Space Agency - ESA-ESRIN) and the GEO Discovery and Access Broker (implemented and operated by the Italian Research Council - CNR-IIA), recognizing the user centrality – and as such the challenges these users are facing – as the leitmotiv of these evolutions.

Engaging the user communities, better understanding their needs, improving the user experience delivering solutions in response to the actual user requirements, advocating the benefits of GEOSS, raising interest and awareness amongst a comprehensive community of users are the main objectives of the project. There will be close collaboration with GEO flagships and initiatives as well as with communities identified in ESA initiatives like the Thematic Exploitation Platforms. The project will link with major international initiatives like Copernicus and CEOS and will consider the latest Ground Segment operations concept. Coordination with the GEO secretariat, the relevant foundational tasks and all relevant GEO stakeholders should guarantee the success of the project.
Study of cross referrals between ICTC & RNTCP centres in GSVM Medical College Kanpur

Background: India has over 1.982 million incident TB cases per year and world9s 3rd highest HIV burden. The estimated PLWHA is 0.34% (2.38 million) of Indian population. TB-HIV coordination activities are being implemented since 2001. Objectives: To study overall efficiency of cross referral between DMC cum DOTS centre and ICTC. Methods: All patients registered at our DMC for DOTS between 1st July 2009 to 31st July 2010 (13 months) were referred to Integrated Counseling and Testing Centre. During the same period ICTC was asked to refer all TB suspects to our DMC. Before this period no effective cross referral strategy was in vogue in our medical college DMC and ICTC. Results: During the study period, our DMC cum DOTS centre registered 1287 TB cases (664 were bacillary). They were advised to get tested at ICTC where only 1063 reached. 54 of them were HIV positive. During same period 8683 clients were registered at ICTC Centre. Out of these 424 (123 HIV positive, 301 HIV negative) were TB suspects and referred to our DMC cum DOTS centre. Out of these only 287 (121 HIV positive, 166 HIV negative) reached at our DMC cum DOTS Centre. Among 121 HIV positive there were 81 had tuberculosis of which 31 were bacillary. Among 166 HIV-negative patients 49 had tuberculosis out of which 15 were smear positive. The detailed analysis will be presented in conference. Conclusions: RNTCP and ICTC Cross referral was found highly useful strategy.
Second campaign of microclimate monitoring in the carcer tullianum: temporal and spatial correlation and gradients evidenced by multivariate analysis

This paper discusses results obtained in the second monitoring campaign of the Carcer Tullianum, a particular hypogeum environment located in the historical centre of Rome (Italy). In the first paper we stressed the need to apply chemometric tools to this kind of studies in order to obtain full and significant information; really information on sampling design, sensors (type, number, position) and instrument validation seems to be not easy to find in literature for researches dealing with monitoring of indoor environments.Also in this case three main parameters (temperature, humidity, illuminance) were monitored in the complex construction by an inexpensive self-assembled system along some horizontal and vertical vectors together with some measurements of oxygen, carbon dioxide and barometric pressure.With respect to the first campaign, we used a higher number of sensors to cover a new excavated zone; for the same reason, as well as to take into account the presence of visitors, a different experimental design was adopted.Different data treatments were applied to data coming from all the used sensors. A good view of the microclimate was obtained that also resulted coherent with the different position of the three rooms constituting the monitored site (Carcer, Tullianum, Convent). Classical time plots resulted useful to evidence the correlation of the main monitored parameters (T, RH% and illuminance) with macroclimate, as well as their delay in following macroclimate. Box-Whisker and Gain-Loss graphs evidenced at the best the microclimate differences between the three rooms; an almost hypogean microclimate was evidenced for the lower room (Tullianum) where humidity values range between 90 and 100% while lower values, but anyway higher than the external, and spread more widely were measured passing to Convent and Carcer with minimum values around 50% for the last. A scarce or very scarce correlation with macroclimate was evidenced for all the three main measured parameters. Lighting results mainly dependent on artificial light and only in few cases, but unfortunately in the most precious zone, illuminance exceeds values suggested by Normative.Box-Whisker and Gain-Loss graphs allowed us to have the best view of the microclimate for all the monitored rooms. The influence of lighting by lamps on the other monitored parameters resulted overlapped and clearly topped the solar one. The worst situation was found in the Carcer, where the presence of the main chandelier worsens the state of the frescoed walls, already subjected to wide changes in temperature and humidity. Also the lighthouse located above the Convent provokes lighting exceeding values suggested by Normative while, as expected, LEDs resulted as suitable source of light from a conservation point of view.Susanne Heidi Plattner, Patrizia Fortini and Maria Pia Sammartino contributed equally to this work.
Toner and toner binder

A toner comprising a toner binder and a colorant, composed of resin particles produced by causing an extension reaction and/or crosslinking reaction of a dispersion formed of a reactive group-containing prepolymer (α) contained in an aqueous medium with an extension agent and/or a crosslinking agent (β). The toner has a Wadell practical sphericity of 0.90 to 1.00 and is superior in fluidity, transferability, the storage stability under heat, low temperature fixing ability and hot offset resistance.
Technique for evaluating a fabrication of a semiconductor component and wafer

The fabrication of the wafer may be analyzed starting from when the wafer is in a partially fabricated state. The value of a specified performance parameter may be determined at a plurality of locations on an active area of a die of the wafer. The specified performance parameter is known to be indicative of a particular fabrication process in the fabrication. Evaluation information may then be obtained based on a variance of the value of the performance parameter at the plurality of locations. This may be done without affecting a usability of a chip that is created from the die. The evaluation information may be used to evaluate how one or more processes that include the particular fabrication process that was indicated by the performance parameter value was performed.
Nanoscale digital microscope

The NanoXim project proposes a disruptive nanoscale holographic microscope with a sensing architecture that can compensate for the lack of complexity of usual optical components (confocal) or markers (fluorescent) by use of novel theories and numerical algorithms. The technique based on digital holography allows to realize 3D movies with sub-µm resolution. 

The instrument developed CEA builds phase contrast maps of a specimen by using 3D propagation and numerical reconstruction algorithms already implemented in a user-friendly interface. We propose realize a study of the a large panel of end-users and also to validate immediate needs and requirements in health problems and bio-technology. 

First objective consists in supporting CEA to bridge the gap from research prototypes to the pre-commercial products and initiate the creation of a start-up. We will increase of the technology readiness of the instrument. TEMATYS SME will support this by bringing a market analysis and set a full business model. We will seek for valorization through patenting and licensing to put the instrument close to the market. A startup creation willbe initiated.
Unit Root Tests: The Role of the Univariate Models Implied by Multivariate Time Series

In cointegration analysis, it is customary to test the hypothesis of unit roots separately for each single time series. In this note, we point out that this procedure may imply large size distortion of the unit root tests if the DGP is a VAR. It is well-known that univariate models implied by a VAR data generating process necessarily have a finite order MA component. This feature may explain why an MA component has often been found in univariate ARIMA models for economic time series. Thereby, it has important implications for unit root tests in univariate settings given the well-known size distortion of popular unit root test in the presence of a large negative coefficient in the MA component. In a small simulation experiment, considering several popular unit root tests and the ADF sieve bootstrap unit tests, we find that, besides the well known size distortion effect, there can be substantial differences in size distortion according to which univariate time series is tested for the presence of a unit root.
Suppression of intestinal immunity through silencing of TCTP by RNAi in transgenic silkworm, Bombyx mori

Intestinal immune response is a front line of host defense. The host factors that participate in intestinal immunity response remain largely unknown. We recently reported that Translationally Controlled Tumor Protein (BmTCTP) was obtained by constructing a phage display cDNA library of the silkworm midgut and carrying out high throughput screening of pathogen binding molecules. To further address the function of BmTCTP in silkworm intestinal immunity, transgenic RNAi silkworms were constructed by microinjection piggBac plasmid to Dazao embryos. The antimicrobial capacity of transgenic silkworm decreased since the expression of gut antimicrobial peptide from transgenic silkworm was not sufficiently induced during oral microbial challenge. Moreover, dynamic ERK phosphorylation from transgenic silkworm midgut was disrupted. Taken together, the innate immunity of intestinal was suppressed through disruption of dynamic ERK phosphorylation after oral microbial infection as a result of RNAi-mediated knockdown of midgut TCTP in transgenic silkworm.
Social justice and the future of work

The aim of this project is to develop and defend a theory of justice for contemporary labour markets in the light of recent and ongoing changes in modern labour markets (in particular the rise of automation, the changing nature of the firm, and the evolution of the gig economy). These trends are receiving sustained analysis by researchers in economics, computer science, and business who tend to evaluate the labour market primarily in terms of economic efficiency. No doubt, this is one of the criteria by which we should assess labour market policies, but it is not the only one. When assessing labour markets, we must also be attentive to the distribution of the benefits and burdens of social cooperation, as well as to which rights individuals possess. I will explore these issues using the tools of normative political philosophy. 
  
In the course of this research, I will (i) develop a better understanding of how liberal egalitarian political philosophy can profitably engage with and influence the analysis of public policy, and (ii) develop my capability for engaging with findings in quantitative social science. I will do this under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Williams, who is Editor of Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and Prof. Javier Arregui, who is a specialist in European public policy. The project will be based in the Department of Law at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), which hosts an assembly of world-renowned political philosophers working on related themes. 

The project involves an ambitious dissemination and communication plan. In addition to several seminar presentations and deliverables, I will maintain a project website, organise an international conference, convene a panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, participate in workshops with Catalunya Europa and at the Bank of England, carry out an interview with the New Economics Foundation, and teach in schools.
Market uptake a innovative non-intrusive appliance load monitoring (nialm) to enlarge energy efficiency spectrum to comprise the families factor

The objective of this project is to analyze the commercial and technical feasibility of the upscale of an energy sensing disaggregation system coupled with an innovative family eco-feedback. 

Our sensing system ENERGY SPECTRUM is capable of disaggregating home energy consumption using a low-cost and effective non-intrusive approach costing less than most of our competitor solutions. The sensing system is coupled with a middleware web system that supports novel eco-feedback strategies that are meaningful and compelling for families and households. 
Our real world test beds (demonstrate a potential for improvement in energy conservation efficiency by 42% with a long-term impact (our competitors claim increases between 4-20% with known problems of relapse in conservation activities).

Our company, PRSMA (the commercial name of Bright Curiosity, LDA) is a spinoff SME created by a research team at M-ITI associated with an entrepreneur from the energy and electronics industry. Our aim is to commercialize ENERGY SPECTRUM, an energy disaggregation system coming out of a successful transnational research project involving teams in Europe (Madeira/Portugal) and the USA (Carnegie Mellon University). The ownership and IPR of this result has been transferred by the research organization to PRSMA. The research underlying this initiative was extensively published in international conferences and journals and awarded by the “IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability” 

Three potential customers have already demonstrated their interest in the project outcome, including EDP, an international Utility with more than 10 million customers and present in the markets of EU, USA and Brazil.

The aim of ENERGY SPECTRUM is to reach 1% of a specific EU niche mark (family households with 3-5 members) and achieve a yearly profit of 10,2 million Euros, five years after the ENERGY SPECTRUM commercialization starts. We forecast to enter in USA market in 2022.
STRENgthening resilience of Cultural Heritage at risk in a changing environment through proactive transnational cooperation

Natural and man-made hazards, anthropogenic effects and extreme climate change events, are persistently putting natural and cultural heritage under pressure, with an increasing frequency over time. In addition, such disasters and catastrophes impose new and continuously changing conservation challenges and urgently needs for innovative preservation and safeguarding approach, particularly during extreme climate conditions. STRENCH outcomes will strongly contribute and capitalise EU funded projects results to improve capacities of the public and private sectors to mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on cultural heritage sites, structures and buildings at risk as outlined in the priority 6 of the call. It will be specifically tailored and robustly implemented in order to propose ready-to-use solutions (WebGIS tool, hazard maps, methodology for vulnerability ranking, strategies for disaster risk reduction) for assessing climate change effects in order to define strategies for the protection of cultural heritage at risk, assisting local stakeholders in improving their know-how on the process of definition of priorities of intervention and strategies (preparedness/emergency/recovery).  According to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the European Agenda for Culture, the political development of innovative strategies will be also an asset together with the introduction of cultural heritage preservation in the main political and planning documents for the next programming period. By the achievement of the planned objectives, STRENCH is expected to proactively target the needs and requirements of stakeholders and policymakers responsible for disaster mitigation and safeguarding of cultural heritage assets and to foster the active involvement of citizens and local communities in the decision-making process.
STEAM SHOWER WITH REDUCED CONDENSATE DRIP

A steam shower to supply steam to a web passing beneath it. There is a main supply header and a preheat chamber enclosing the main supply header. The steam is proportioned between the preheat chamber and the main supply header. There are at least two chambers to receive steam in sequence from the main supply header. In a preferred embodiment the at least two chambers are divided into compartments along the length of the shower. Profiling valves control flow from the main supply header to the first chamber in this preferred embodiment. There are outlets in the last of the at least two chambers through which steam passes to the web.
Proyecto conjunto para la internacionalización de las PYME 17/18

Este proyecto conjunto prevé acciones de promoción internacional para aumentar el valor de las exportaciones en el volumen de negocios de la empresa y, en consecuencia, el volumen de negocios total de las empresas que participan principalmente en los mercados de China continental, Macao y Hong Kong.
A Tentative Study on Image-Word Definition in Multimodal English Learner's Dictionary

Based on the theory of multimodality under social semiotics,this paper makes a tentative discussion on image-word definition in English learner's dictionary.With a sampling survey of image-word entries of Collins COBUILD ADVANCED DICTIONARY of English,the study comes to the following conclusions:(1) concrete nouns of popular science indicating visible things tend to be defined by image-word modal;(2) there is a connection between types of image and head words: narrative images are usually used to define event nouns while conceptual images help define thing-nouns;(3) six types of relationship,such as exemplification,specific and general,exist between word definition and image definition,and three modes,i.e.paragraph + image,word + image and paragraph + word+ image,are used in image-word definitions.