SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
KASA - Koiné archeologia: sapiente antichità

Context:
The area involved of the project is characterized by a numerous demand of knowledge of their own roots and of a strong sense of identity, demonstrated also by the presence of two University degrees in cultural heritage in Siracusa (Syracuse).  At the same time, it is evident that the exploitation is still limited and there is an insufficient level of knowledge and awarennes by tourist of such resources.  The project therefore, intends to respond to the demands of the local culture, reinforcing the community between the areas of Siracusa (Syracuse) and that of Malta, and above-all the evaluation of cultural heritage, especially those of monuments and the areas that are less known and not documented.
 Aims:
The main aims of the project are:
•   Promoting the cooperation between Sicilian and Maltese Universities;
.  Promoting the training of personnel in the specific environment of the importance and of the archaeological documentation, and in the tourist environment;
.  Promoting the cooperation between minor Sicilian and Maltese centers;
.  Creating a series of tourist routes integrated between the Iblea and the Maltese areas.
Sustainable Mobility Information Network for the Alpine Space

Lacking information about public transport is often an obstacle for travellers to use public transport at all. This is an even bigger challenge when travelling by sustainable transport modes to and within destinations of the Alpine Space, where often cross-border information is needed. This project aims to provide travellers with comprehensive information about sustainable transport modes beyond regional and national borders and to address them through smart channels that provide information when needed. For achieving this, the project elaborates a strategy for the dissemination of public transport information and integrates existing information systems to a sustainable mobility information network (AlpInfoNet). With the involvement of technical and political key actors from transport, tourism and environment, it is guaranteed that technical and political obstacles on the way to the implementation of AlpInfoNet in several pilot regions can be solved and long-lasting results be achieved.
Leveraging personal photos to inferring friendships in social network services

Social network services have become widely used as an important tool to share rich information; in such networks, making new friends is the most basic functionality to enable users to take advantage of their social networks. In this paper we look into personal photos as an additional source for social network analysis and analyze the potential of people tags in the photos for friend recommendations. We also propose a new compact data structure, collectively called Face Co-Occurrence Networks (FCON), which stores crucial and quantitative information about people's appearance in photos. We discover strong associative relationships among people and recommend reliable social friends by utilizing FCON. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method for recommending friends in social network services.
Introduction to surgical and perioperative clinical pharmacy for third-year pharmacy students: A pilot study of an elective course

The objective of this study was to implement and assess an elective course that exposes pharmacy students to clinical pharmacy in the surgical and perioperative setting.A blended-design elective that included synchronous and asynchronous learning was developed and offered to third-year pharmacy students. Students' knowledge and perception regarding clinical topics in perioperative pharmacy was assessed using pre- and post-course assessments, online quizzes, a journal club, and course assignments. Knowledge of pharmacy operations was assessed using course assignments and reflective journal entries.Pre- and post-course assessment improvement was seen in the categories of perioperative optimization of pharmacotherapy (29.1-70.1%, p=0.006), common surgical complications (45.8-91.7%, p = 0.001), and anesthetic agents (25-71.9%, p <0.001). Overall, the course was successful in increasing clinical pharmacy knowledge and was well received by students. Course evaluations were completed by 100% of students, and all rated the course as "excellent." Students demonstrated mastery of course content, though the course may not have provided optimal exposure to operating room/post-anesthesia care unit operations.Students agreed that the course was valuable and helped them develop new skills otherwise not developed by the curriculum; this conclusion was supported by objective assessment data. A team-teaching model allowed for minimal resources to operate the course. Moving forward, an early lecture addressing perioperative operations may supplement an area the course was lacking. Additionally, a longer duration of operating room shadowing may provide requested opportunities for observation of direct patient care.
Selection on metabolic pathway function in the presence of mutation-selection-drift balance leads to rate-limiting steps that are not evolutionarily stable

While commonly assumed in the biochemistry community that the control of metabolic pathways is thought to be critical to cellular function, it is unclear if metabolic pathways generally have evolutionarily stable rate limiting (flux controlling) steps.A set of evolutionary simulations using a kinetic model of a metabolic pathway was performed under different conditions to evaluate the evolutionary stability of rate limiting steps. Simulations used combinations of selection for steady state flux, selection against the cost of molecular biosynthesis, and selection against the accumulation of high concentrations of a deleterious intermediate. Two mutational regimes were used, one with mutations that on average were neutral to molecular phenotype and a second with a preponderance of activity-destroying mutations. The evolutionary stability of rate limiting steps was low in all simulations with non-neutral mutational processes. Clustering of parameter co-evolution showed divergent inter-molecular evolutionary patterns under different evolutionary regimes.This study provides a null model for pathway evolution when compensatory processes dominate with potential applications to predicting pathway functional change. This result also suggests a possible mechanism in which studies in statistical genetics that aim to associate a genotype to a phenotype assuming independent action of variants may be mis-specified through a mis-characterization of the link between individual gene function and pathway function. A better understanding of the genotype-phenotype map has potential applications in differentiating between compensatory changes and directional selection on pathways as well as detecting SNPs and fixed differences that might have phenotypic effects.This article was reviewed by Arne Elofsson, David Ardell, and Shamil Sunyaev.
Activation of set-delayed cement compositions by retarder exchange

A variety of methods and compositions are disclosed, including, in one embodiment a method comprises providing a set-delayed cement composition comprising: a hydraulic cement, water, and a primary retarder; activating the set-delayed cement composition through a retarder exchange whereby a secondary retarder is added to the set-delayed cement composition to produce an activated cement composition; and allowing the activated cement composition to set.
Prevalence of low back pain and associated risk factors amongst adult patients presenting to a Nigerian family practice clinic, a hospital-based study

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a common health problem with concomitant disability which has assumed a public health importance in our setting.Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of LBP and associated risk factors amongst adult patients attending the General Outpatients’ Clinic of the UniversityCollege Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria.Method: This was a cross-sectional study of 485 respondents. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain information on socio-demography, lifestyle, occupation and other riskfactors associated with LBP.Results: There were 288 (59.4%) female and 197 (40.6%) male respondents. The point prevalence of LBP was 46.8%. Occupational activities, previous back injury and tobacco smoking were significant associated factors for the total population. For the female respondents, logisticregression analysis showed that a waist circumference of 88 cm or more, dysmenorrhea,previous back injury and being engaged in an occupation were the most significant factors associated with LBP. However, previous back injury was the most significant factor associatedwith LBP for the male respondents.Conclusion: The prevalence of LBP amongst adult patients in our setting is high, with preventable and treatable predisposing factors. Public health efforts should be directed at educating people on occupational activities and lifestyle habits.
Een innovation management berlin-brandenburg (innomanage bb 2019)

The overall aim of the action is to help to enhance and accelerate the economic returns from innovation in Europe, by increasing the innovation management capabilities of SMEs. The project sought to address and strengthen the area of innovation management for innovative SMEs in the region of Berlin and Brandenburg. As identified by the European Commission, innovation management is a key area for companies and the inability to manage these processes effectively is a significant barrier to SME innovation and their competitiveness. This is the context in which we attempted to enhance the innovation competence of Berlin and Brandenburg based companies.
The proposed project is an integral part of the Enterprise Europe Network activities in Berlin and Brandenburg for the year 2019. The project addresses two main objectives, which are pre-defined by the European Commission and aimed for a limited number of small and medium sized enterprises in Berlin and Brandenburg:
1. The first main objective for InnoManage BB consortium is to ensure that key SME beneficiaries of Horizon 2020 funding scheme SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open (FET-Open) will receive appropriate Key Account Management KAM services which should be complemented by coaching services. The objective of this service is to identify weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the SME beneficiaries hindering their growth opportunities and hence their full commercial potential.
2. The second main objective is to ensure that SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalization -promising SMEs with gaps in the innovation management systems - will receive high quality innovation support to address those gaps.
Whereas the first service package is reserved for beneficiaries of the Horizon 2020 funding schemes with a dedicated coaching scheme, the second is targeted at highly promising innovative enterprises, that innovate and grow.
dispositivos e métodos para obtenção de sinais de ecg viáveis usando eletrodos tricotados secos

dispositivos e métodos para obtenção de sinais de ecg viáveis usando eletrodos tricotados secos em uma peça de roupa que inclui eletrodos têxteis de ecg dos braços (110la e 110ra), como eletrodos tricotados, estando os ditos eletrodos têxteis de ecg dos braços localizados dentro da peça de roupa de modo que, quando a peça de roupa for usada, os eletrodos têxteis de ecg dos braços fiquem adjacentes à pele do corpo, cobrindo a região extrema do músculo peitoral maior, próximo ao músculo do ombro. de preferência, o posicionamento dos eletrodos têxteis de ecg dos braços dentro da peça de roupa corresponde ao tamanho da peça de roupa.
NSMET Rede Nacional de Metrologia Coordenada

O projeto é realizado em um consórcio, cujo líder é a Universidade de Tecnologia de Cracóvia. Consórcios: Universidade de Tecnologia de Poznań, Universidade de Tecnologia Świętokrzyska, Universidade de Tecnologia de Varsóvia. O principal objetivo deste projeto será criar infraestruturas de investigação especializadas e da mais elevada qualidade para o desenvolvimento da metrologia coordenada, que faz parte do Mapa da Infraestrutura de Investigação Polaca — Rede Nacional de Metrologia de Coordenação (NSMET). Os objetivos gerais decorrentes de um objetivo direto incluem: • Melhorar a competitividade das empresas polacas na dimensão internacional — especialmente com base em tecnologias de ponta; • Desenvolvimento da inovação na coordenação das tecnologias de medição e implementação de sistemas de controlo e ensaio de qualidade de ponta; • Desenvolvimentos tecnológicos em medições industriais coordenadas de micro e nano a macrodimensões; • Superar os atuais limites de precisão das medições coordenadas; • A possibilidade de calibrar máquinas e sistemas de coordenação para laboratórios de investigação e industriais nacionais de craveira mundial; • Assegurar uma supervisão constante da exatidão dos sistemas de medição como tarefa fundamental para manter uma qualidade estável da produção e dos ensaios; • Construção de uma base nacional de investigação para o desenvolvimento da metrologia coordenada através da criação de condições para a investigação de jovens trabalhadores (sistema de recrutamento) e estágios para estudantes de doutoramento no modelo de condições criado nos países mais desenvolvidos do mundo.
Critical appraisal of the role of volumetric modulated arc therapy in the radiation therapy management of breast cancer

The aim of this review is the critical appraisal of the current use of volumetric modulated arc therapy for the radiation therapy management of breast cancer. Both clinical and treatment planning studies were investigated.A Pubmed/MEDLINE search of the National Library of Medicine was performed to identify VMAT and breast related articles. After a first order rejection of the irrelevant findings, the remaining articles were grouped according to two main categories: clinical vs. planning studies and to some sub-categories (pointing to significant technical features). Main areas of application, dosimetric and clinical findings as well as areas of innovations were defined.A total of 131 articles were identified and of these, 67 passed a first order selection. Six studies reported clinical results while 61 treatment dealed with treatment planning investigations. Among the innovation lines, the use of high intensity photon beams (flattening filter free), altered fractionation schemes (simultaneous integrated boost, accelerated partial breast irradiation, single fraction), prone positioning and modification of standard VMAT (use of dynamic trajectories or hybrid VMAT methods) resulted among the main relevant fields of interest. Approximately 10% of the publications reported upon respiratory gating in conjunction with VMAT.The role of VMAT in the radiation treatment of breast cancer seems to be consolidated in the in-silico arena while still limited evidence and only one phase II trial appeared in literature from the clinical viewpoint. More clinical reports are needed to fully proove the expected dosimetric benefits demonstrated in the planning investigations.
SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY POWERED HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR

A system, in certain embodiments, includes an accumulator (12). The accumulator includes a first cylinder (58) configured to receive a fluid within an internal volume of the first cylinder. The accumulator also includes a piston (56) configured to move axially within the first cylinder. Axial movement of the piston within the first cylinder adjusts the internal volume of the first cylinder. The accumulator further includes a plurality of shape memory alloy wires (30) configured to cause the axial movement of the piston within the first cylinder.
A europe-wide interoperable virtual research environment to empower multidisciplinary research communities and accelerate innovation and collaboration

The VRE4EIC project addresses key data and software challenges in supporting multidisciplinary data driven sciences. These include:
1) understanding complex user requirements across domains by closely involving committed user communities;
2) improving the quality of VRE user experience by providing user centred, secure, privacy compliant, sustainable environments for accessing data, composing workflows and tracking data publications;
3) increasing VRE usage in multidisciplinary research domains by abstracting and reusing building blocks and workflows from existing VRE initiatives;
4) improving the interoperability of heterogeneous discovery, contextual and detailed metadata across all layers of the VRE; and
5) promoting the exploitation of VRE4EIC solutions to different research communities and commercially.

The project contributes to the Work Programme through innovations in the following areas:
• support of excellent research through improved VREs and interoperation of heterogeneous VREs leading to new multidisciplinary science;
• increased user acceptance through support for trust, security and privacy throughout the VRE architecture;
• a novel VRE architecture, prototypes and enhanced metadata that can be used for future multidisciplinary VREs;
• a semantic web, linked open data view of VRE information allowing cross-linking to open government data enabling heterogeneous discovery;
• interoperable standard software services retro-fitted to enhance existing VREs;
• solutions for societal challenges demonstrated in the environmental and earth science domains (environmental pollution, climate change, earthquakes), building on 25 real use cases;
• increased VRE adoption to other domains and research communities through a training programme and learning environment to empower researchers to utilise the full potential of VRE4EIC and to enhance collaboration.

VRE4EIC covers all EU member states and EFTA countries, and will affect 70,000 researchers all over Europe.
Accounting for metallicity, polarization of the electrolyte, and redox reactions in computational electrochemistry

Applied electrochemistry plays a key role in many technologies, such as batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors or solar cells. It is therefore at the core of many research programs all over the world. Yet, fundamental electrochemical investigations remain scarce. In particular, electrochemistry is among the fields for which the gap between theory and experiment is the largest. From the computational point of view, there is no molecular dynamics (MD) software devoted to the simulation of electrochemical systems while other fields such as biochemistry (GROMACS) or material science (LAMMPS) have dedicated tools. This is due to the difficulty of accounting for complex effects arising from (i) the degree of metallicity of the electrode (i.e. from semimetals to perfect conductors), (ii) the mutual polarization occurring at the electrode/electrolyte interface and (iii) the redox reactivity through explicit electron transfers. Current understanding therefore relies on standard theories that derive from an inaccurate molecular-scale picture. My objective is to fill this gap by introducing a whole set of new methods for simulating electrochemical systems. They will be provided to the computational electrochemistry community as a cutting-edge MD software adapted to supercomputers. First applications will aim at the discovery of new electrolytes for energy storage. Here I will focus on (1) ‘‘water-in-salts’’ to understand why these revolutionary liquids enable much higher voltage than conventional solutions (2) redox reactions inside a nanoporous electrode to support the development of future capacitive energy storage devices. These selected applications are timely and rely on collaborations with leading experimental partners. The results are expected to shed an unprecedented light on the importance of polarization effects on the structure and the reactivity of electrode/electrolyte interfaces, establishing MD as a prominent tool for solving complex electrochemistry problems.
The dynamical evolution of very low mass binaries in open clusters

Very low-mass binaries (VLMBs), with system masses <0.2 Msun appear to have very different properties to stellar binaries. This has led to the suggestion that VLMBs form a distinct and different population. As most stars are born in clusters, dynamical evolution can significantly alter any initial binary population, preferentially destroying wide binaries. In this paper we examine the dynamical evolution of initially different VLMB distributions in clusters to investigate how different the initial and final distributions can be. We find that the majority of the observed VLMB systems, which have separations <20 au, cannot be destroyed in even the densest clusters. Therefore, the distribution of VLMBs with separations <20 au now must have been the birth population (although we note that the observations of this population may be very incomplete). Most VLMBs with separations >100 au can be destroyed in high-density clusters, but are mainly unaffected in low-density clusters. Therefore, the initial VLMB population must contain many more binaries with these separations than now, or such systems must be made by capture during cluster dissolution. M-dwarf binaries are processed in the same way as VLMBs and so the difference in the current field populations either points to fundamentally different birth populations, or significant observational incompleteness in one or both samples.
Innovating hessian smes towards europe

With this proposal the coordinator of the EEN Hessen consortium, Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH (HTAI), participates as a sole partner in the Consultation of Enterprise Europe Network partners on the work programme for 2020-2021 Horizon 2020 activities. HTAI will implement the action on services enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs under the H2020 programmes for specific activities in the context of innovation support and European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot. 

SME beneficiaries of EIC Pilot will be supported with dedicated Key Account Management (KAM) services. EEN Hessen will assess their gaps and challenges in the innovation process, identify and propose a suitable coach, facilitate the interaction between the coach and the SME and respond to further needs by additional support measures. The overall aim is to enable those companies to conduct their innovation projects successfully and thus to contribute to their commercial growth. 

Other SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for international growth will be supported in the separate process of Enhancing the Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC). EEN Hessen will identify suitable companies in Hessen and motivate them to use the EIMC service, assess their gaps and needs, develop an appropriate action plan and facilitate its implementation.

With these activities, complemented by a wide range of further EEN services along the client journey, HTAI strives to increase the competitiveness of Hessian SMEs and strengthen their ability to operate successfully in the European Single Market and outside, thus contributing to the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy.

The action will be conducted by the EEN Hessen innovation experts, all senior staff experienced in innovation management. They will use the Innovation Health Check by Enterprise Ireland as a CEN/TS 16555-1 conform assessment tool.