SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Co-Benefits and conflicts between co2 sequestration and biodiversity conservation in european forests

Intact forests harbor large amounts of carbon and unique biodiversity, suggesting that protecting forests may benefit climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation alike. Yet, forests also provide other essential services, from timber to energy to recreation. Balancing these multiple, sometimes conflicting objectives requires understanding trade-offs and synergies among them. A key question in this context is whether schemes to maintain or increase carbon stocks through forest management actually co-benefit biodiversity. Although frequently promoted, assumptions about such co-benefits have not been rigorously assessed. Forest and CO will test whether policies designed to protect either biodiversity or carbon in Europe’s temperate forests are synergistic or conflicting. Three work packages (WP) will focus on both unmanaged, old-growth forests, representing a baseline for key ecosystem functions, and managed forest, constituting the majority of Europe’s forests. WP1 will build a network of forest researchers to gather existing data on old-growth forests in Europe, and create the first map of their distribution. WP2 will use plot-level data to model the relationship between forest biodiversity and carbon storage, and assess whether this relationship differs between old-growth and managed forests. WP3 will test whether carbon/biodiversity co-benefits vary, when scaled up to broader extents, using satellite products and vegetation-plot databases. This action will provide new insight into the synergies and trade-offs between carbon and biodiversity in temperate forests and develop methods to map these trade-offs. Scientifically, this will contribute substantially to the fields of forest ecology, conservation science, and sustainability science. From a policy perspective, Forest and CO will help to tailor forest management options to jointly foster carbon and biodiversity, thereby contributing to key policy goals on curbing climate change and biodiversity loss.
Harmless respiration for intensive care patients decreasing mortality and shortening stays – including covid-19 patients

The current outbreak of COVID-19 is incisively pointing towards the importance of optimal mechanical ventilation in Intensive Care. Improved mechanical ventilation saves lives. Last year, we have seen multiple cases in which our mechanical ventilator suited only for the Operating Room (OR), was used off-label in ICU to ventilate severely lung-ill patients. Doctors claim patients would have died if our device would not have been used. These case reports are supported by more fundamental evidence published in March 2020: in-vivo studies on pigs having similar lung-illness as with the current COVID-19 outbreak (called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) have shown superior result with our disruptive ventilation method, called FCV®. 

Half of all patients on higher grade Intensive Care Units need mechanical ventilation. However, current ventilation methods are known to damage the lungs in these vulnerable patients. This significantly prolongs ICU stay and increases mortality. 
The damages relate to the passive expiratory phase during mechanical respiration, which is fast and uncontrolled resulting in shear stress and collapse of the distal lung parts. Prolonged ventilation then initiates inflammatory responses in the lungs. We have developed a new ventilation method controlling the expiration, preventing lung damage.
In 2017 our innovative OR ventilator (Evone) was brought to the market. Having performed over 1,000 OR patient cases and 5 small clinical studies till date, clear superior ventilation and improved lung mechanics has been shown. However, the largest unmet medical need related to ventilation is on ICU. The objective of this proposal is to bring this superior ventilation technology to ICUs in Europe, the Middle East and in 2nd phase the USA and by that, lower ICU mortality by 20% and ICU stay with 15%. 
This means 44,800 lives to be saved in European ICUs, each year (valued at € 90 billion) and a reduction of €2 billion in annual European healthcare costs.
MODULAR ELEMENT SYSTEM, MODULAR ELEMENTS OF A SYSTEM OF THIS TYPE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FRAMED PLANAR ELEMENTS FOR SUSPENDED FAÇADES, FAÇADE CLADDING, GLASS ROOFS, CONSERVATORIES. NOISE BARRIERS, EXHIBITION CONSTRUCTIONS, CARPORTS OR SIMILAR

The invention relates to a modular element system comprising post sections (70), retaining sections (16) and framed planar elements (20, 22), said retaining sections being square hollow sections with a rectangular cross-section and cavities (56) for receiving retaining elements (54), which can be used to fix the framed planar elements (20, 22) to the retaining sections. In a preferred embodiment, the respective post sections are configured from a number of sectional strips, have a cavity (82) with a U-shaped cross-section and a chamber (80) with a rectangular cross-section. The system is also provided with intermediate sections (84) comprising a respective cavity (44) with an essentially U-shaped cross-section. The U-shaped cross-sectional cavity (82) of the post sections is configured to receive the intermediate sections (84) and the U-shaped cross-sectional cavity of the intermediate sections is configured to receive the retaining sections (16).
PHENIX charmonia: What have we learned from d+Au collisions?

Abstract Cold nuclear matter effects are those effects which modify the production of charmonia in a nuclear target in the absence of a Quark Gluon Plasma. Understanding them is an essential part of any attempt to interpret charmonium production in heavy-ion collisions. In 2008 the PHENIX experiment recorded data for J / ψ and ψ ′ production in s N N = 200 GeV d + Au collisions. The J / ψ data span the rapidity range from −2.2 to +2.35 and, taken together with p + A collision data on charmonium modification from lower collision energies, they shed light on the time scale dependence of cold nuclear matter effects on J / ψ production in p ( d ) + A collisions. The modification of ψ ′ production is observed at mid rapidity, and is found to be much stronger than expected from existing models.
Climate change scenarios and Technology Transfer Protocols

Abstract We apply a specific version of MERGE-ETL, an integrated assessment model, to study global climate policies supported by Technology Transfer Protocols (TTPs). We model a specific formulation of such a TTP where donor countries finance via carbon tax revenues, the diffusion of carbon-free technologies in developing countries (DCs) and quantify its benefits. Industrialized countries profit from increased technology exports, global diffusion of advanced technology (leading to additional technology learning and cost reductions) and reduced climate damages through the likelihood of greater global participation in a new international agreement. DCs experience increased welfare from access to subsidized technology, and profit from the reduction of damages related to climate change and expected secondary benefits of carbon abatement (such as reduced local and regional air pollution). The analysis identifies potential candidate technologies that could be supported under a TTP, and the impact of a TTP on economic development (including the flow of transfer subsidies) and global emissions. Although a TTP may encourage additional participation, such a proposal is only likely to be successful if an increased willingness to pay to avoid climate damages is accepted, first by the present and future generations of the industrialized world and later on, when sufficient economic growth is accumulated, by today’s developing countries.
Trust: towards resilient and sustainable container supply chains

Risk research represents an important challenge for the resilience and sustainability of container supply chains (CSCs). Its foci are being expanded from classical safety, through security to climate adaptation. Addressing such risks simultaneously requires integration across disciplines and research methodologies. The research community currently lacks a critical understanding of non-classical CSC risks arising from climate change, security threats (e.g. cyber-attacks), and emerging technologies (e.g. autonomous ships) in the digital industrial era. Through ground-breaking and interdisciplinary research, TRUST aims to address the key research question regarding which kinds of risk schemes can harness science and technology most effectively to achieve long-term resilient and sustainable CSC systems. The findings will shift the traditional risk management practice paradigm and deliver a novel programme that will enable the quantification, integration and communication of risk information from different areas and facilitate the movement of risk culture from a reactive single-dimensional scheme towards a proactive multi-dimensional regime. The programme divides into three integrated domains: 1) exploring and quantifying climate risks to rationalise adaptation planning; 2) forecasting security risks to address the most commanding threats in CSCs; and 3) advancing holistic safety approaches for CSCs involving new techniques and environments (e.g. Arctic shipping). The combination of objective (from historical accidents) and subjective (from stakeholders’ perceptions) risk data will inform the exploitation of the advances in new safety and security risk models to enhance climate risk and adaptation studies in a complementary way. The work will address the significant methodological issues associated with resilience and sustainability sciences and advance the state-of-the-art to a point where robust CSCs can be developed and realised, even under deep uncertainty.
Ecotourism in Mediterranean Destinations: From Monitoring and Planning to Promotion and Policy Support

DestiMED PLUS is the next step on a journey to promote integrated planning in coastal tourism, where regional policymakers apply holistic policies that link tourism with conservation by putting in practice a concrete ICZM approach for ecotourism products in Med Protected Areas (PAs). For ecotourism to thrive, governance and legislation frameworks must be strengthened across the whole Med area. The project builds on the success of MEET and DestiMED, with the objective of supporting Med regions to strengthen the enabling conditions for ecotourism in their PAs. This includes enhancing cross-sectoral local and regional policies, improving integrated planning strategies, and providing stakeholders with effective training and tools to manage, measure, and promote ecotourism. 

DestiMED PLUS will establish a Med Ecotourism Consortium (MEC) of conservation and tourism actors from regional administrations which will work to capitalize on tools and strengthen policy frameworks for ecotourism. The MEC will allow regions to exchange best practices and develop an integrated ecotourism model for the Med that will be adopted by their territories and scaled up. Existing monitoring tools will be harmonized and an online learning platform produced, allowing local and regional authorities to measure sustainability and improve participatory governance, while also ensuring ecotourism benefits conservation in PAs located on islands and in sparsely populated areas.
TECHNIQUES FOR PREDICTING RECURRENCE OF CANCEROUS CELLS USING IMPEDANCE DETECTION

One embodiment of the present application sets forth a method for predicting recurrence of cancerous cells in a patient that includes measuring, by a first subset of electrodes included in an electrode array operating at a first frequency, a first impedance of a first section of a first sample of tissue excised from the patient, computing a first Cole relaxation frequency for the first section of the first sample based on the first impedance, and generating a first prediction relating to cancerous cells in the patient based at least in part on the first Cole relaxation frequency.
A retrospective study of oral manifestations in patients with paracoccidioidomycosis

South American blastomycosis, paracoccidioidomycosis (Pb mycosis) or Lutz disease is an endemically fungal infection in Latin America. It is caused by the dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and may cause oral mucosal lesions. The incidence of Pb mycosis oral lesions was evaluated in patients assisted at a Brazilian Dental School's Specialized Oral Diagnosis Service with special focus on the different clinical forms of these lesions, its location, patients' occupation, deleterious habits, and diagnosis methodology. Students' and professionals' initial diagnoses were compared with the definitive diagnosis. Lesions were detected 31 cases (18 patients). The results show that 88.8% of the patients were male with a mean age of 50 years and 39% work(ed) with activities related to agriculture. As much as 88.9% were smokers and 72.2% were alcohol users. Exfoliative cytology was performed in 66.6% of the patients. Oral mucosa (30%), gingiva (16.6%) and lips 16.6% were the most common sites of Pb mycosis oral lesions. Comparing the initial with the definitive diagnosis made by the professionals their accuracy was 33% (6 out of 18 patients). Students' diagnosis was more accurate demonstrating 72.5% of initial correct diagnosis (13 out of 18). Statistical analysis by ANOVA (α=0.05, SPSS WIN) demonstrated a significant difference between the diagnosis of Pb mycosis made by students and professionals when considering initial diagnosis and final diagnosis (after histopathological analysis) (p=0.25). Incisional biopsy and exfoliate cytology are efficient for an early diagnosis of this disease in mouth. Students' training in diagnosis of oral pathologies to recognize lesions is urgent to improve public health.
Financial Instruments for Innovation

In its assembly of March 2000, the European Council acknowledged the need of increasing the expenditure in innovation by implementing better policies and making a better use of public funds. To achieve this, the EC has put great emphasis on increasing the use of financial instruments (FIs) as a delivery tool for the Cohesion Policy. Besides the obvious advantages of recycling funds over the long term, financial instruments help to mobilise additional public or private co-investments to address market failures. Moreover, FIs (Guarantees, Business Angels, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, Crowdlending) have also proved to be a useful tool in helping innovative SMEs overcome the ‘valleys of death’ and reach a sustainable growth phase to become ‘stock exchange listed’ companies.

Under Innova-FI, partners are seeking to improve the design and implementation of Financial Instruments as a delivery mode of Structural Funds, so that they best meet and serve the financing needs of innovative and RTDI-driven businesses in all the stages of their start-up and growth. Innova-FI partners will do this by learning about the innovation landscape, and how it is being publicly financed, in partner regions. The consortium will examine together identified challenges, such as: designing FIs that are well adapted to the different phases of the business; moving away from a grants culture, very much established in the RTDI and innovation field; achieving a better alignment of FIs with other support measures; or creating cross-border instruments.

Our main outputs will be:
- 7 thematic workshops and 7 study visits
-1 Joint Peer Learning 
- 3 policy booklets for governments, compiling case studies and recommendations
- 7 Action Plans
- 2 dissemination events in Brussels to engage with regions outside the consortium
- 1 high-level conference in collaboration with SERN (Start-Up Europe Regions Network)
- Participation of Innova-FI partners at 16 external events (2 events per partner)
Integrated scheduling of rake and stockyard management with ship berthing: a block based evolutionary algorithm

An integrated problem of optimising the operations at a commercial bulk material port terminal is studied in this paper. We simultaneously optimise the stockyard operations and rake schedule for outbound cargo, in conjunction with the arriving vessels and the status of the stockyards at the port. A mixed integer linear programming model for the problem is developed while incorporating the inherent complexities of the integrated model. To solve the real-life instances, two heuristic methods are proposed specifically for the considered problem. Firstly, genetic algorithm coupled with a greedy heuristic and later, block-based evolutionary algorithm (BBEA) is employed. After applying both techniques, we obtain the optimised schedule for loading of rakes and allotment of stockyard space for vessels as well as rakes at the terminal. Finally, we test the results of both models in three traffic scenarios between themselves and with real-life data from a port situated along the Eastern coast of India. The study re...
Using media as involvement shields

• Uses of media as involvement shields in mobility gates and waiting areas. • Displaying availability (and non-availability) in public contexts. • Applicability of different media and different devices as involvement shields. • Role of senses for being involved with different media (old and new). • Absence and presence as a continuum, not a contrast pair. It is a core feature of old and new media to allow communication in contexts where it cannot naturally occur since the individuals are out of each other's reach. In this classic understanding, media create a connection between two or more individuals. However, media can also be used to inhibit communication. This contribution discusses systematically the various features of accessibility and non-accessibility that can be found in different media and in the uses they are put to by different participants. The analyses further show that participation in and with media cannot be described in the dichotomous terms of presence or absence. Rather, media allow various degrees of accessibility. These various ways of accessibility are better described as a continuum. The article further demonstrates how books, mobile phones, etc. can be used (in privacy and in public) as involvement shields (Goffman). By the means of a photographic ethnography it is shown how media are used as involvement shields in public contexts. These uses contribute to a “mediated behavior in public” that relies mainly on avoidance of interaction. At the same time, this avoidance can only be achieved by mutual monitoring.
Synthetic bast of linear polymeric thermoplastic material

<PICT:0864488/IV (a)/1> A synthetic bast-like material consisting of a flat, irregularly folded and at least partly agglutinated tubular filament is made by extruding a molten linear high polymeric thermoplastic material through an annular orifice in a spinneret, maintaining a slight superatmospheric gas pressure inside the tubular filament so formed, passing the filament, while still not completely hardened, through a cooling liquid and round a deflector therein, so as to flatten it, and withdrawing the filament under tension. Preferably the polymeric thermoplastic material melts between 100 DEG -300 DEG C. and is a polyamide or polyester. As shown, a spinneret 1 having an annular orifice 2 is fitted with a gas supply pipe 3 through which an inert gas, e.g. nitrogen, can be fed into the emerging tubular filament 4, which passes into cooling bath 5 and then under deflector rod 6 and over rod 7, being thereby flattened and folded by the action of the withdrawal tension exerted by the driven rollers 8. The filament is then stretched, preferably continuously with the spinning process, or subsequently as a separate process, in known manner, and wound up. The melt may be pigmented, or the final product may be dyed. The Provisional Specification refers also to the use, as a deflector, of a narrow passage exerting a squeezing and folding action on the tubular filament, or of a pair of rollers so constructed that irregular folding and creasing take place. Specification 533,307 is referred to.
Image manipulation attack resolving solutions

Though difficult to quantify, the variety of possible ID document frauds at borders is a reality that threatens politicians holding responsibility for borders as well as EU citizens. Based on the needs expressed by practitioners, the iMARS consortium has shaped a project that will:
1/ improve the operational capacity of passport application and border control operators by providing both - short-term adhoc solutions ensuring reliable passport application procedures - and mid-term solutions with no-reference and differential analysis solutions that can in particular detect manipulated and morphed passport images as well as document fraud. iMARS will provide:
• Image morphing and manipulation attack detection solutions to assess ID documents validity against document fraud, during enrolment and renewal steps, as well as at the border crossing stations
• Document verification and fraud detection solutions to support border guards in the verification process by providing mobile tools that can check document’s integrity
To reach the targeted TRL6, these technologies will be validated in laboratory conditions using operational data collected from six border control sites (with border to countries outside EU).
2/ ensure the uptake of its outcomes after the project’s end. iMARS will:
• promote usability/ergonomic aspects by providing training, guidelines and best practices to border guards and passport application officers
• contribute to the ongoing standardisation efforts in the field of Presentation Attack Detection and face image quality
• provide open access benchmarks (2 datasets with multiple enrolment morphed face images and border gate probe images) on a specific testing platform serving follow-on research activities
• ensure that the technologies developed are accepted by citizens and respect privacy and legal EU regulations.
Paulista x Augusta - percorrendo um mosaico paulistano

Este texto, escrito de forma compartilhada, traz os relatos de três pesquisadores/as que, junto com um grupo de pesquisadores/as ligados/as ao Laboratório do Núcleo de Antropologia Urbana (LabNAU-USP) fizeram uma caminhada durante uma manhã de sábado pela avenida Paulista e rua Augusta. Três olhares diferentes – únicos e complementares –, seguindo uma linha narrativa cronológica e espacial, que desvelam estilos de escrita, interesses de observação e referenciais muito particulares. Essa diversidade de olhares em um mesmo contexto etnográfico, sem dúvida, permite apreender as múltiplas camadas – modos de uso, atividades de lazer, dinâmicas de sociabilidade e construções temporais - que guardam as ruas da cidade de São Paulo, neste caso, especificamente a avenida Paulista e a rua Augusta.