SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Weeding robot for precision farming reducing herbicide usage by 95%

The overall vision of the Project is to prototype, pilot, and commercialise our cost-effective and environmentally friendly weeding robot, Asterix, for the global precision farming sector. Our light-weight, autonomous robot is the only solution on the market that successfully addresses weeding challenges while reducing herbicide usage by 95%. Asterix incorporates a patented, vision-based, ultra-high precision nozzle system. This is built on top of a state-or-the-art machine learning platform that is trained to differentiate the appearance of intertwined crops and their weeds. Asterix applies herbicide only to weeds, not crop or soil, enabling the use of novel, environmentally safe weeding agents in both conventional and organic agriculture. Asterix will avoid 186 million liters of herbicide usage in the global farming sector in the first 5 years after the Project. It will reduce the health and environmental impact of agricultural weeding operations and slash their cost by at least 550€ per hectare per year.

We propose prototyping, validation, and market readiness activities. Our specific objectives include 1) Technology maturation (WP1) to optimise the function of Asterix’s subsystems and integrate them into a final prototype to pilot in real-life settings; 2) Piloting and validation (WP2) to show Asterix’s technical and economic performance, functionality, and user benefits via large-scale piloting in real-life operating settings; 3) Preparation to commercialise (WP3-6), enabling us to successfully bring Asterix to market and reach sales traction after Phase 2. Through the Asterix Project, we will significantly boost the growth of our company. By year 5 after project closure, we estimate to reach accumulated revenues of €88.2m, generate at least 40 full-time internal positions and 130 more in our value chain, and accumulate profits of €44.1m. This will be roughly equal to 31-times the total pre-market investment.
Structure Analysis of Optical Internet Network and Optical Transmission Experiments Using UNI Signaling Protocol

In this paper, the structural design of optical Internet is analyzed and by using UNI (User Network Interface) signaling protocol an optical transmission experiment was performed. The hierarchical structure of the basic optical Internet consists of the backbone network, the service network and the access network. The necessary functions for each layer were described as follows: Control structure of the optical transport layer, network operation and management structure, internetworking technology of sub networks, routing and signaling technology. By using UNI signaling protocol from OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum), the optical transmission in the proposed structure of the optical Internet network was experimented. By the traffic generation of LSP (Label Switched Path) data packets along the route-configuration was delivered to UNI. Finally, by showing the value of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) packets the optical transmission was completely and successfully demonstrated.
Elaboration of a tool for the inclusion of religious-related cultural values in the planning and development processes of urban centres, systems of settlements and surrounding rural areas

The project aims to use the religious thematic cultural value within the SEE territories jointly with local assets, human resources, infrastructures and services to develop a religious tourism able to create new job positions and generate additional income. The project elaborates a tool for decision-makers and stakeholders called the SEE Religious Tourism Model, that provides step by step guidance for them to: - identify the religious cultural potential of their area, analyzing, assessing and capitalizing previous experiences; - identify synergies with other projects; - address the relevant stakeholders; - develop ideas in order to use the religious cultural assets to develop the region; - be able to better manage these assets; - find funding opportunities in order to realise their proposals; - create sustainable solutions. Offering equal opportunities for all religions of the SEE Programme Area, the project also aims to indicate interreligious communications and a better understanding and acceptance of each other?s believes. Firstly, three Working Groups will be set up to analyse and assess ongoing and previous experiences and results in order to capitalies on them. As a result, a Religious Tourism Common Model (RTCM) will be developed: a tool for local decision-makers to develop projects based on religious cultural values. From outset of the project, target groups and stakeholders identified and addressed. Pilot actions will test and evaluate the transferability and sustainability of our findings: Local Religious Tourism Development Agencies (RTDA) will be set up to: implement vocational courses to youths ; realize and experiment religious tourism offers; evaluate and tune them. International B2B Market Promotion of experimented Tourism Offers, their entrance in Tourism International Stock Exchange, and request of the award certification as European Cultural Routes. ?Communication Activities? disseminates the project?s activities and achievements to the stake
Investigation of the Wind Resource Assessment over 2D Continuous Rolling Hills Due to Tropical Cyclones in the Coastal Region of Southeastern China

The effect of tropical cyclones on the turbulent flow over 2D continuous rolling hills was numerically investigated based on a field test analysis of the coastal region of Southeast China. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method was first developed and verified using previously published experimental results. Then two typical beneficial and destructive cyclone cases were studied above different locations of the hills. Results showed that the continuous hilly flow was much more drastic and variable than previously reported normal wind; the mean and turbulent magnitudes became the strongest around the hill top, with the maximum speed-up ratio, turbulence intensity and gust-speed ratio of 1.1, 0.32 and 1.6; the flow over lower hill was greatly affected by the nearby higher hills; the mean and fluctuating quantities were mostly smaller than the corresponding single hill case. These phenomena were considered to be related with the rather strong detachment and attachment of the cyclone flow around the two hills. In addition, the mean and fluctuating wind velocities were found to be underestimated by at least 20% if the widely accepted IEC standard equations were utilized, suggesting the necessity to supplement the field test analysis in the standard for more reasonable wind resource evaluation within the Southeast China coastal area.
Connecting consumers and producers to rebalance farmers’ position through ambassadors trainings

COCOREADO is a project designed to rebalance the position of the farmer as an individual actor, as a key player in innovative food supply chains and as a supplier for public procurement. Based on the multi-actor approach and a deep understanding of agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS), the project applies a three-fold approach to maximize impact, relying on ambassadorship, good practices, and a focus on youth. COCOREADO will foster opportunities for young people in rural areas to co-create innovative solutions that overcome current hurdles for farmers and respond to consumer needs, while simultaneously improving the conditions for sustainable public procurement of local and seasonal food. The consortium connects key youth actors including young farmers, college youth, youth movements in an environment that offers support and encouragement to undertake action. A key tool for creating such environment is the COCOREADO Ambassador Training Program. Furthermore, the project involves both academic and close-to-farmers partners across Europe, recognising regional differences and barriers in terms of replicability of good practices and regional opportunities in terms of solutions. Active youth engagement in co-creating solutions remains at the core of the well balanced consortium including three EU-level youth organisations, and is embedded within COCOREADO’s methodologies, thus ensuring that innovative supply chains remain future-proof.

COCOREADO starts with the collection of innovative initiatives that enhance the position of the farmers and improve their connection with consumers. Good practices will be assessed for their replicability and translated into educational materials. Furthermore, user-friendly decision support tools with high potential will be made accessible. Communication and dissemination of good practices and tools will focus on farmers, rural communities, policy makers, actors in the food chain such as chefs and local food processors.
Nitrogen injection in progressively sealed longwall gobs and the formation of a complete and dynamic seal

Methane ignition and spontaneous combustion of coal are two common ventilation hazards associated with longwall coal mining. Methane is a coal mine gas emitted from the surrounding strata and the seams themselves as part of the mining process. Methane is diluted by the mine ventilation system used to provide fresh air to the face. Methane air mixtures become explosive between the lower explosive limit of 5.5% methane and the upper explosive limit of 14% methane. Mixtures with higher methane contents will burn as a diffusion flame. Methane ignition has been the cause of several recent mine tragedies including the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in April 2010 and the Pike River Mine explosion in November 2010. Spontaneous combustion is an exothermic reaction involving coal and oxygen. The initiation of spontaneous combustion is dependent on oxygen concentration and residence time in addition to other factors. If the heat from the reaction is not dissipated the heating can proceed to thermal runaway or a fire that may result in fatalities, equipment losses and or mine closure. Recent spontaneous combustion events have resulted in the temporary closure and loss of longwall equipment and reserves at the Elk Creek Mine from a fire that was discovered in January 2013 and the Soma Mine Disaster that resulted in over 300 fatalities from an explosion that is suspected to have initiated from a spontaneous combustion fire. The investigation is still on going. The focus of this dissertation is to investigate the use of nitrogen to both reduce explosive gas volumes and to reduce the spontaneous combustion potential by diluting oxygen ingress behind the longwall shields. This research will investigate the quantity of nitrogen injection, the injection location and the method of face ventilation to determine the effectiveness of each variable in mitigating the hazards discussed above. The hypothesis is that a back return scheme in conjunction with progressive nitrogen injection creates a safer work environment than a traditional U-Type ventilation scheme in terms of both explosive gas and spontaneous combustion hazards. Knowledge regarding the porous media distribution of the caved gob is required for modeling the gas distributions. Previous findings regarding porous media distribution of the gob and nitrogen injection are presented and discussed in a literature review. A geo-mechanical model was developed to determine the porous media distribution for an active longwall panel. A numerical fluid flow and gas dilution model was developed using the porous media distribution and utilized to study the validity of the hypothesis. Nitrogen injection amount and location was varied for both U-Type and back return face ventilation schemes to determine the effectiveness of each on the desired hazard mitigation. Important conclusions drawn from the research include the following findings. Porous media distributions are noticeably different for static panels compared to active panels simulated by utilizing a method of stepped extraction for the…
Isolation of malathion degrading chromogenic Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from insecticide impregnated soils.

Soil samples from an insecticide contaminated site were processed for isolation of malathion degrading bacteria. Selective medium containing malathion as sole carbon source was used for this purpose. Four isolates were identified as through ribotyping Pseudomonas. The bacteria, yielded water soluble greenish pigment both in nutrient broth as well as in the select media in a growth responsive fashion. These strains can be used for bioremediation of malathion contaminated soils or waters and add to the microbial diversity being conserved by workers from yet polluted environments. Chromogenic nature of these malathion degrading bacteria can make their action visible in select applied sites.
The Global Financial Crisis in Comparative Perspective: Have Policy Makers “Learnt Their Lessons”?

Have policy makers “learnt their lesson” from the global financial crisis that began in 2007? This article addresses this question by examining the regulatory responses to the global financial crisis in the European Union, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Theoretically, the article is informed by an advocacy coalition approach to policy change and learning. Methodologically, it process-traces regulatory and supervisory changes in the selected jurisdictions, identifying the main coalitions at play, their belief systems, policy learning across coalitions and within coalitions, as well as the conditions that promoted or slowed down learning. Some of the findings can be generalised to other countries and policy areas.
Grant to the company to finance current operations

The project provides for a grant to the company affected by the Covid 19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic, the company’s performance decreased significantly. The grant will ensure that the company’s activities and employment are stopped for a period of 3 months.
GLOBALPLAS – Product Innovation and Diversification to Combat COVID-19

GLOBALPLAS will invest in product innovation to reformulate its business model and produce Personal Protective Equipment internally, considered relevant products in the fight against COVID-19, namely polycarbonate visors, which will increase added value to the global market
Self-Organization of the bacterial cell

One of the most remarkable features of biological systems is their ability to self-organize in space and time. Even a relatively simple cell like the bacterium Escherichia coli has a precisely regulated cellular anatomy, which emerges from dynamic interactions between proteins and the cell membrane. Self-organization allows the cell to perform extremely challenging tasks. For example, for cell division, more than ten different proteins assemble into a complex, yet highly dynamic machine, which controls the invagination of the cell while constantly remodeling itself. Although the individual components involved have been largely identified, how they act together to accomplish this challenge is not understood. It has become clear that sophisticated biochemical networks give rise to intracellular organization, but we have yet to uncover the underlying mechanistic principles.
In this research proposal, I aim to develop a detailed mechanistic understanding of the self-organizing, emergent properties of the cell. To this end, my research group will develop novel in vitro reconstitution experiments combined with high-resolution fluorescence microscopy and theoretical modeling. Following this “bottom-up” approach, we will quantitatively analyze collective protein dynamics and emergent mechanochemical properties of the bacterial cell division machinery. I aim to answer the following fundamental questions:
1) What is the biochemical network giving rise to the dynamic assembly of the divisome?
2) How do the components of the divisome interact to generate force? 
3) How do peptidoglycan synthases build the cell wall? 
By comparing protein dynamics in vitro with those measured in vivo, we will provide a link between molecular properties and the processes found in the living cell. This project will not only improve our understanding of the bacterial cell, but also open new research avenues for eukaryotic cell biology, synthetic biology and biophysics.
Analyzing the constraints to private investment in manufacturing industry

This paper identifiesthe main impediments to investment and industrial productivity, which have ledto a decline in growth. This is done by analyzing the impediments andconstraints to productivity and investment using the World Bank’s 2007Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) data at the seven of level main industrialzones. An inadequate workforce, access to raw materials, and corruption wereranked third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. Will a market economy alwayssupply funds for profitable investment projects?The answer to this question isimportant for policy makers seeking economic efficiency at the micro level, andfor our understanding of the business cycle at the macro level. The purpose ofthis paper is to investigate the presence and the economic importance of creditmarket imperfections within a structural model of firm investment.
Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual europe

PredictAble aims to train a new generation of young scientists at the crossroads between academic research, technological development in the private sector and clinical practice to pioneer an interdisciplinary approach to language related developmental disorders, like specific language impairment (SLI) and developmental dyslexia (DD). The innovative and timely research program will enhance the understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie developmental disorders of spoken and written language by pooling international experts from academia and the private sector. For the first time, PredictAble applies a truly multidisciplinary and cross-linguistic perspective with a unique and novel combination of cutting-edge approaches and techniques for studying mono- and bilingual children. Thus, PredictAble will provide young researchers with an excellent foundation for making scientific progress in this area, in collaboration with technology development and the transfer of research outcomes to applicants in the private sector and the health sector/clinical practice. Highly recognized experts in the area of language acquisition in very young mono- and bilingual children will work together on the acquisition of spoken and written language in a cross-linguistic approach. The complementarity of the different languages in PredictAble will make it possible to identify language-specific and cross-linguistically valid effects. In cooperation with technological partners from the private sector, PredictAble will optimize recently developed technologies in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience to render them suitable for use with very young children and as diagnostic tools to detect early risks for language-related impairments.
Thermodynamic analysis of a Schwarzschild black hole fed by cosmic microwave background radiation

The analysis of black holes fed by the omnipresent Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) constitutes benchmark cases. The rate of energy and entropy variation of a Schwarzschild black hole fed by CMBR is analytically obtained. The entropy analysis revealed that there is a higher value of black hole’s critical mass than that obtained from an energy analysis, which is needed for its existence with high probability. At this minimum value of mass of the Schwarzschild black hole, the entropy generated due to its existence becomes positive. The black hole’s negentropy and the difference between its exit and inlet specific entropies are shown to more importantly correlate with its event horizon area than the black hole’s entropy.
Temporal laser cavity-solitons for micro-resonator based optical frequency combs

Precise timing has led to many advances, such as GPS and the Internet, which depend critically on frequency and time standards. The currently limited accuracy, however, is hindering the progress towards societal-changing technologies such as telecommunications beyond 5G or precise earth mapping.
Optical atomic clocks based on optical frequency combs – Nobel prize in Physics, 2005 to Hall and Hänsch – are the only technology capable of providing timing accurate up to 10^(-18) seconds, answering such a demand of time precision. The realisation of such clocks in portable scale is expected to change the technology landscape.
Micro-combs – based on miniature optical resonators – have galvanized the attention of the world over the past ten years with the promise to realise the full potential of frequency combs in a compact form. 
However, these devices still do not meet the demand of practical atomic clocks which require reliable optical sources and currently depend on bulky pulsed lasers, which are well-known for their robustness but unfit for portable applications.
Developing energy-efficient micro-combs with the reliability and versatility of control of modern pulsed lasers will require to surpass the intrinsic limitations of the nonlinear physics exploited so far for their generation.
Here we propose a high-gain/ high-risk research plan which steers from the state-of-the-art and builds on a different physics for developing micro-combs with control capabilities beyond the current miniature solutions.
Specifically, we will exploit the generation of localised waves called temporal laser cavity-solitons in complex resonators exhibiting lasing and parametric nonlinear interactions. Such a setting is mostly unexplored and this proposal will demonstrate the unique features of these waves and their general impact in broader physics. Eventually, this study will pave the way to a class of robust micro-combs which can be controlled with user-friendly machine learning approaches.
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(A19_092_2016_0920237_1316) METALCHINA

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