SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Approach: antimicrobial and save 3d-printable polymers for oral health

A major problem in dental care restorations is bacterial infiltration. Bacteria between the tooth and the restoration is a potential cause of postoperative sensitivity, pulp inflammation, and necrosis. In orthodontics, the formation of biofilms during treatment bears the risk of enamel decalcification, cavity formation, and gingival inflammation due to the fact that colonized bacteria are extremely hard to remove in presence of orthodontic appliances. Another related problem is that the current fabrication of dental restorations and braces is labor intensive, requiring highly skilled technicians. Recently, steps have been taken to change the traditional workflow and introduce 3D printing (3DP) technology in this field. 3DP enables a more patient specific way of working, increasing the quality of dental care on the one hand and reducing the costs on the other hand. To address both problems, a highly innovative 3DP antimicrobial polymer system for applications in dentistry and orthodontics will be developed in this proposal. Since the materials will be in contact to or incorporated into the body, attention needs to be paid to render these systems non-toxic and biocompatible. Second, the commercial, IPR and business opportunities of these novel materials will be investigated.
Elusive Zeros under Newton’s Method

Though
well-known for its simplicity and efficiency, Newton’s method applied to a
complex polynomial can fail quite miserably, even on a relatively large open
set of initial guesses. In this work, we present some analytic and numerical
results for Newton’s method applied to the complex quartic family where is a parameter. The
symmetric location of the roots of allows for some easy
reductions. In particular, when λ is either real or
purely imaginary, standard techniques from real dynamical systems theory can be
employed for rigorous analysis. Classifying those λ-values where Newton’s method fails on an open set leads to
complex and aesthetically intriguing geometry in the λ-parameter plane, complete with
fractal-like figures such as Mandelbrot-like sets, tricorns and swallows.
Opening synchrotron light for experimental science and applications in the middle east

The OPEN SESAME project will ensure optimal exploitation of the Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) light source. With this aim, OPEN SESAME has three key objectives: 
1. To train SESAME staff in the storage ring and beamline instrumentation technology, research techniques and administration for optimal use of a modern light source facility.
2. To build-up human capacity in Middle East researchers to optimally exploit SESAME’s infrastructure.
3. To train SESAME staff and its user community in public outreach and corporate communications, and to support SESAME and its stakeholders in building awareness and demonstrating its socio-economic impact to assure longer term exploitation.  
 
Each objective is tackled by a work package. Firstly, SESAME staff training is addressed by 65 staff exchanges planned between SESAME and the European partners. Secondly, capacity-building is targeted by five training schools, a short-term fellowship programme and an industrial workshop. Finally, a proactive communications strategy will be created, including an educational “roadshow” to all of the SESAME Members, and a training programme in research infrastructure administration and their economic role and impact for young science managers of SESAME Member stakeholders. 

The project directly addresses the INFRASUPP-2016-2017 call to support SESAME. OPEN SESAME is well aligned to the broader scope of the work programme with activities that will have a lasting impact on a reinforced European Research Area, and particularly in strengthening international cooperation for research infrastructures with a key Region located close to Europe.

The project has been developed closely with SESAME, its Directors and international Training Advisory Committee. The OPEN SESAME consortium is composed of ten European institutes (six light sources, The Cyprus Institute, CERN, CNRS and Instruct) along with SESAME itself.
Intercultural communication problems relating to translation from English into Sesotho

In this article, certain translative communication problems associated with the linguistic and stylistic differences between English and Sesotho are identified and discussed. With a view to help improve translation between the two languages where inaccurate and stilted communication frequently occurs, issues of equivalence, fidelity/faithfulness and the purpose of translation are delved into. It is furthermore argued that in South African multilingual contexts, like legal courts, criminal cases/hearings and hospitals clinics and similar health establishments, inaccurate translation and/or misinterpreting can lead to serious miscarriages of justice and poor service delivery. The reasons for such unfortunate eventualities sometimes relate to the translator-interpreter’s poor understanding of the cultural factors behind the English or Sesotho message. As such, emphasis is lain on the need for a translator-interpreter’s cultural understanding of the source language/text (SL/T) and target language/text (TL/T) to deliver an accurate version (in the target language or text – TL/T) of the original message. It is furthermore shown that one cause of social and legal injustice is closely related to the translator- interpreter’s insufficient knowledge of both the English and Sesotho culture as it exists in grammatical forms, idiomatic structures, collocation patterns and stylistic patterns of the SL/T and the TL/T.
Direct experimental probe of the lorenz invariance violation in the top-quark physics at the atlas experiment.

The Standard Model (SM) is a theory which accurately describes the elementary constituents of matter and interactions between them at the energy scales we have been able to probe in experiments up to the present day. However, since in the Nature we observe physics phenomena beyond the SM, it is expected that the SM is a low-energy effective approximation of a theory that describes the physics of particles and their interactions in a broader way. Lorentz Invariance is a fundamental symmetry of the SM, but it is not expected to be conserved necessarily at the high energy scale of quantum gravity where space-time could undergo violent fluctuations. The violation of the Lorenz invariance (LIV), which is predicted by some extensions of the SM theory, would manifests itself at energies accessible by the experiments nowadays.
I propose to preform the first search for the possible LIV in the top quark interactions at the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will pioneer the use of innovative approaches to analyse collision data taking into account detector orientation in the space-time continuum. The project will comprise phenomenological study to identify observables most sensitive to LIV, development of the novel framework for analysing data as a function of the sidereal time, study of the time-dependence of the ATLAS detector performance and state-of-the-art collision data analysis. My long-standing experience with measurements targeting the final states with top quarks and Higgs boson decays, provide me with unique expertise to perform this search and unlock the hidden potential of the LHC collision data. In addition, I plan to use my expertise in the jet flavour tagging and further improve the performance of the b-jet tagging algorithms for the upcoming LHC Run-3 data-taking period. My knowledge, skills and technical expertise gained over the course of last several years, supported by the extensive expertise in the key areas of IPB and CERN teams
Origin and evolution of the sexes and reproductive systems: novel insights from a distant eukaryotic lineage

Sexual reproduction is an extraordinarily widespread phenomenon that assures the production of new genetic combinations in nearly all eukaryotic lineages. Although the core mechanisms of sexual reproduction (meiosis and syngamy) are highly conserved, the control mechanisms that determine whether an individual is male or female are remarkably labile across eukaryotes. In genetically controlled sexual systems, gender is determined by sex chromosomes, which have emerged independently and repeatedly during evolution. Sex chromosomes have been studied in only a handful of classical model organism, and empirical knowledge on the origin and evolution of the sexes is still surprisingly incomplete. The goal of our project is to exploit the remarkable richness of sexual characteristics of the brown algae to gain novel insights into the functional and evolutionary interactions between the sex chromosomes and key eukaryotic reproductive and life cycle features. First, we will use the model brown alga Ectocarpus to reveal the fundamental genetic mechanisms by which sex chromosomes control reproductive and life cycle traits of broad importance to all eukaryotes, including sex determination and asexual reproduction through parthenogenesis but also the control of gamete size and the regulation of developmental switches during the life cycle. Secondly, we will employ a combination of experimental and computational approaches on selected brown algal species exhibiting a range of reproductive and life cycle features to understand the long term evolutionary consequences of the variations in these traits to the structure of their sex chromosomes, in a phylogenetic context. These analyses will not only reveal fundamental forces that shape sex chromosome evolution in the scope of the tree of life, but will also uncover the mechanisms underlying important evolutionary transitions between major reproductive and life cycle modes and shed new light on the origin and evolution of the sexes.
Transplant quality and patientsʼ preferences in paired kidney exchange

Paired Kidney Exchange (PKE) programs solve incompatibility problems of donor–patient pairs in living donor kidney transplantation by arranging exchanges of donors among several pairs. Further efficiency gains may emerge if the programs consider the quality of the matches between patients and donors. Limitations on the number of simultaneous required operations imply that every efficient PKE program introduces incentives for the patients to misreport how they rank the option of remaining in dialysis with respect to the available kidneys. Truthfully revealing their preferences is however, the unique protective (lexicographic maximin) strategy for patients under pairwise exchange maximizing PKE programs. ► We model Paired Kidney Exchange (PKE) under logistic feasibility constraints. ► The quality of the match between donors and recipients affects the results of PKE. ► Individually rational and efficient PKE rules are manipulable by the patients. ► Patients are extreme-risk averters and follow the protective behavior. ► Pairwise exchange maximizing rules induce truthful behavior for the patients.
DOUBLE FOLD OPTICS

An imaging assembly for the viewing, imaging, and analysis of biological, chemical, and/or biochemical samples in gels or other substrates, in which an adjustable camera and lens module, a reflex mirror, and a focal plane mirror, are configured to bend or fold an optical path in order to image a target region, and where the optical path can be reflected along non-orthogonal angles. The imaging assembly is configured to reduce the overall size of the imaging apparatus due to the angles at which the mirrors and camera and lens assembly are positioned relative to each other, which allows for the imaging of relatively larger samples in the target region.
ESPON in Integrated Territorial Strategies

The aim of this project is to encourage and facilitate the use of ESPON findings in the creation and monitoring of integrated territorial development strategies and to support transnational learning about the actual and potential contribution of ESPON to integrated policy-making. Its focus is active learning, using ESPON analysis and related data in the development of integrated territorial development strategies at all levels of decision-making. It aims to maximise transnational cooperation that recognises the importance of working with the diversity of institutional practice and regional potentials that characterises European territories.
Super-resolution imaging in remote sensing

A new effective image super resolution (SR) algorithm which is a hybrid of multiple frame Variational Bayesian (VB) reconstruction and single frame Dictionary Learning (DL) reconstruction method is developed to reconstruct a high resolution (HR) satellite image in this article. Firstly, by employing a variational Bayesian analysis, the unknown high resolution image, the acquisition process, the motion parameters and the unknown model parameters are built together in a single mathematical model with a Bayesian formula, and then the distributions of all unknowns are jointly estimated. Without any parameter adjustment, an HR image is adaptively reconstructed from multiple frame low resolution (LR) images. Secondly, by taking the above HR image as input, a higher resolution image can be rebuilt utilizing the statistical correlation between the HR and LR images which is obtained via the DL method. The VB method effectively uses non-redundant information between LR images to recover HR satellite images. Benefit from the dictionary training of magnanimity image, the DL algorithm is able to provide more high-frequency image details, which means this hybrid of VB and DL method combines the above advantages. The experiments show that this proposed algorithm can effectively increase the image resolution of remote sensing images by 0.5times at least comparing with low resolution image.
Low-Carbon Economy Regions

Sustainable European Regions Network (SERN) is a network with the goal of implementing and putting into practice sustainable development policies and strategies. One of the means in achieving this objective is to develop and implement larger projects in the participating regions. If enough SERN members prioritise a given project idea, a full proposal - as in this case - will be developed. SERN focuses its work on three overall themes: Sustainable Economy, Sustainable Territorial Development, and Governance for Sustainability.
The project addresses the EU sustainable development strategy set up in the Gothenburg Agenda making environmental considerations and climate change an integral part in achieving the overall goals of the renewed Lisbon strategy. The project focuses on the area of “Energy and sustainable transport” within the Interreg IVc “Priority 2” targets “Environment and Risk Prevention”.

The project runs for four years and starts as soon as funding is secured.
The project’s activities are designed to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies through interregional cooperation and thereby contribute to economic and environmental modernisation as well as increased competitiveness in Europe. 
The six project partners are dispersed throughout the European territory and face through their spatial location and different socio-economic characteristics a wide range of development threats and opportunities:
Southern Denmark (DK): a regional authority in southern Denmark (Lead)
Västra Götaland (S): A regional authority in the west-central part of Sweden
Asturias (E): a regional government in the northern part of Spain
Emilia Romagna (I): an administrative region in the northern part of Italy
Business Support Centre Gorenjska (SL): A non-profit limited company established by municipalities, chambers of craft, chamber of commerce and Republic of Slovenia
Province of Zeeland (NL): A province in the south-western part of the Netherlands
The activities in the project include networking and experience exchange (joint annual conferences, workshops and site-visits) and sub-projects implemented by local, public organisations. This will allow for much needed intense intra- and inter-regional collaboration. Activities on both a strategic and a tactical level are thus ensured.
The regions will focus on 3 cross-cutting themes: “New Climate”, “New Energy”, and “New leadership”. The sub-projects, in which the municipalities play an important role, will deal with “Use of Renewables in Local Energy systems”, “Carbon Sinks & Carbon Capture”, “Procurement Practices”, “Low Carbon Territorial Planning”, and “Public as a Driver for Low Carbon Economy”. These sub-projects are linked to the mentioned cross-cutting themes.
The outcomes of the project include Best practice inventories, Thematic analyses, New methodologies and guidelines, Pilot actions, Action catalogues, Policy recommendations and Policy changes
Design and Implementation of Turbo Encoder and Decoder with Variable Frame Length

For the poor flexibility and adaptability of Turbo codes with fixed frame length,an implementation of turbo encoder and decoder whose frame length can be configured is proposed based on FPGA.The interleaving depth can be changed freely by users according to the parameter request of digital communication,so that the decoding performance and data rate can achieve the best balance.The options of combining the top-down design thought and the bottom-up method are used.The Turbo encoding and decoding system adopts module design and programs down to Xilinx′s Virtex-2 Pro series after optimum debugging.Test results show that the design has good portability and versatility,and constitutes a uniform platform for the application of Turbo codes in different environments.
Neoliberalismo-Neoevangelismo-Cambios socio-demográficos: Posibles marcos epistemológicos frente a algunos desafíos actuales en el campo de las ciencias sociales (los paradigmas ambiguos)

Este trabajo busca desarrollar algunas interrogantes en torno a los desafíos que plantean el neoliberalismo, el neoevangelismo y los cambios socio-demográficos actuales, en tanto introducen realidades inéditas delante de las cuales se propone la hipótesis de que no siempre disponemos de las herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas apropiadas.Se indica la necesidad de abrir un debate en torno a estas nuevas realidades sociales, culturales y epistemológicas tratando de comprender mejor el significado de los tres procesos indicados. Se enuncia la hipótesis de que estamos así frente a realidades que �rompen� con determinados modelos de pensamiento tradicionales en ciencias sociales, aunque se siguen utilizando marcos epistemológicos y conceptuales quizás ya inapropiados para el adecuado estudio de los procesos referidos.De allí que se introduce el concepto de paradigmas ambiguos como marco epistemológico tentativo.The aim of this paper is to develop certain questions related to the challenges posed by Neoliberalism, Neoevangelism and current sociodemographical changes, which bring about new realities for which, our hypothesis claims, we do not always have suitable conceptual and methodological tools.It is our contention that it is necessary to open a debate around these new social, cultural and epistemological circumstances in order to understand the meaning of the three aforementioned processes better.Our hypothesis is that we are dealing with realities that �break away� from certain traditional currents of thought in the social sciences, even though we still continue to employ epistemological and conceptual frameworks which are by now perhaps inappropriate for the correct study of the processes we have referred to. From there, we introduce the concept of the ambiguous paradigm as a tentative epistemological framework.
Notions of justice in payments for ecosystem services: Insights from China's Sloping Land Conversion Program in Yunnan Province

China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) pays millions of farmers to convert cropland in upper watersheds to tree plantations. It is considered one of the world's largest payments for ecosystem services (PES) scheme for its reliance on financial incentives. This paper examines the outcomes of the SLCP by way of a case study from the Yangliu watershed in Yunnan province. It focuses on the notions of justice embedded in state policy and held by villagers and local state officials in order to understand the observed outcomes in terms of people's participation in the implementation of the SLCP, land use changes and livelihood effects. Villagers, local state officials, and state policy share a primary concern about distributive justice despite significant differences in their specific notions. The shared concern underlies the villagers’ positive reactions to the SLCP, which among other factors, have led to the intended expansion of tree plantations and a livelihood transition in Yangliu since 2003. The insights from Yangliu suggest the need to consider justice for a fuller understanding of the dynamics and outcomes of the SLCP and other PES schemes worldwide as the notions of justice applied by the involved actors may influence land use and livelihood dynamics in addition to the other factors considered in research this far.
Indian-Atlantic interocean exchange as modulator of global climate

Indian-Atlantic interocean exchange (IAIE), occurring through Agulhas current/leakage, is one of the return flows of global thermohaline circulation that contributes to the temperate climate in Europe. Since IAIE affects the transport of heat and salt to the zone of deep water formation, the variability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is related to IAIE as shown by instrumental observation and past reconstructions. However, the relationship between the IAIE and AMOC under different climate conditions including distinct atmospheric CO2 concentration is still to be elusive. The INDEXCLIMA (INDian-Atlantic interocean EXchange as modulator of global CLIMAte) project aims to study the deep-water IAIE, Agulhas current/leakage and AMOC evolution over the last 1000 kyr when internal feedback processes have modified climatic cyclicity from 41 kyr to 100 kyr (Mid-Pleistocene transition) and enhanced the amplitude of interglacial periods (Mid-Brunhes event ca. 430 kyr). The study area is the Mozambique Channel (Indian Ocean) and the Cape Basin (SE Atlantic Ocean) where 3 marine sediment cores were drilled and are available at CEREGE, France. The originality of this project resides on the reconstruction of deep water masses (Nd isotopic compositions, benthic foraminifera) and of surface Agulhas current (planktonic foraminifera) from the same cores across an Indian-Atlantic transect. This will allow estimating lead and lag between Agulhas current/leakage and deep water circulation changes. The study period beyond 800 kyr is also in line with the next target of glaciological community. This project is a great opportunity for me to develop new geochemical and technical skills including mastering Nd isotope geochemistry, the application of an innovative instrument that automatically sort foraminiferal tests and a new software for foraminiferal classification. These new skills will complement my previous knowledge improving my career possibilities in academia.