SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A lab-on-chip platform for blood cell counting and identification at the point-of-care

Blood cell counting/identification is the most powerful and widespread approach throughout the world for assessing an individual’s health status. The diagnosis and monitoring of an infection (e.g. HIV, malaria, bacterial infection), the monitor of a chemotherapy outcome (e.g. in cancer patients) or even the diagnosis of rare diseases (e.g. sickle cell disease, non-Hodgkin lymphomas), relies on analysing the number and/or the morphology of different types of blood cells.  Here, we aim to validate a portable, single-cell counting/identification platform that can be used to diagnose and monitor diseases at the point-of-care. The platform consists of a low-cost, handheld, battery-operated, scanner and a disposable microfluidic biochip. The underlying technology, termed ‘Label-free Cell Identification (L-CI) technology’, is based on the integration of novel, microfabricated components that enable to simultaneously image and count thousands of cells at high spatial resolution. If successfully commercialized, the L-CI platform will be the first medical instrument to perform a blood cell counting test by the end user at home, in few minutes. The potential is enormous as the L-CI platform will replace millions of blood cell tests that routinely performed by trained personnel in clinics and hospitals in the developed world but it will also make blood cell tests available in the developing wold.
Nanotip-induced ultrahigh pressure-sensitive composites: Principles, properties and applications

Spiky spherical nickel powders with sharp nanotips on their surface are excellent fillers for developing pressure-sensitive composites. The sharp nano-tips are responsible for generating field-assisted tunneling conduction, which leads to the strong responses of electrical conductivity of the composites to external force or deformation. The nanotip-induced ultrahigh pressure-sensitive composites can be used to develop new sensors, switches and controls for a wide range of applications including electronics, transport, space, medicine, defense, textiles, oil and gas, and civil engineering. In this paper, we examine a systematical review of research progress on the nanotip-induced ultrahigh pressure-sensitive composites, with attentions to mechanism of pressure-sensitivity, sensing performances, and applications of the composites. Future challenges in the development and application of the nanotip-induced ultrahigh pressure-sensitive composites are also discussed.
Process for Improving the Purity of Quaternary Ammonium Hydroxides by Electrolysis in Two-Compartment Cell

1. Technical Result Improvement of technological process. 2. Essence A method comprises the steps of (a) providing an electrolysis cell which comprises an anolyte compartment containing an anode, a catholyte compartment containing a cathode, and a cation-selective membrane separating the anolyte and catholyte compartments, (b) charging the recycle base solution waste stream comprising the quaternary ammonium hydroxide to be purified to the anolyte compartment and charging water, optionally containing a quaternary ammonium hydroxide, to the catholyte compartment, (c) passing a current through the electrolysis cell, (d) recovering the purified aqueous quaternary ammonium hydroxide solution from the catholyte compartment, (e) washing the anolyte compartment. 3. Field of Application Electrical chemistry.
Photosynthetic energy balance, chloroplast integrity, carbon flow and epigenetic regulation of isoprenoid biosynthesis during leaf development and senescence

The methyl erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway in the chloroplast synthesizes isoprenoids (a class of hydrocarbons) by almost exclusively utilising carbon and energy supplied by photosynthesis in plant leaves. Volatile isoprenoids (antioxidant hydrocarbons), isoprenoid-type cytokinins (plant ‘youth’ hormone), carotenoids (photoprotective pigments), and abscisic acid (plant ‘stress’ hormone) are some of the active isoprenoid end-products of the MEP pathway that play a role in leaf senescence. We aim to quantify and model age-specific relationships between photosynthesis and MEP pathway during natural and abiotic-stress induced leaf senescence in three different plant systems: wheat (a crop), poplar (a plantation tree) and Arabidopsis (the model species for genomics). By combining leaf age-specific chloroplast energy balance estimation through photosynthesis modelling, quantification of carbon demands of isoprenoid biosynthesis using stable isotope tracing and advanced real-time analytical techniques, monitoring plastome and chloroplast integrity, and whole-epigenome sequencing, LEAF-OF-LIFE will (i) develop a versatile quantitative method for predicting leaf senescence trajectories based on the relationship between photosynthesis and isoprenoid biosynthesis during senescence and (ii) identify novel gene cascades involved in epigenomic regulation of the MEP pathway during natural and abiotic stress-induced leaf senescence. A thorough understanding of leaf age-specific changes in energy and carbon demands of isoprenoid biosynthesis will provide a strong mechanistic basis to phenology models of autumn senescence in deciduous trees. Discovery of novel gene regulatory cascades involved in age-specific changes in isoprenoid biosynthesis will be spearheading new research intended to target MEP pathway so as to alter leaf life span (delay stress-induced leaf senescence) in major global crops and plantations.
Bare Bones Fireworks Algorithm for the RFID Network Planning Problem

In this paper we present bare bones fireworks algorithm implemented and adjusted for solving radio frequency identification (RFID) network planning problem. Bare bones fireworks algorithm is new and simplified version of the fireworks metaheuristic. This approach for the RFID network planning problem was not implemented before according to the literature survey. RFID network planning problem is a well known hard optimization problem and it poses one of the most fundamental challenges in the process of deployment of the RFID network. We tested bare bones fireworks algorithm on one problem model found in the literature and performed comparative analysis with approaches tested on the same problem formulation. We also performed additional set of experiments where the number of readers is considered as the algorithm's parameter. Results obtained from empirical tests prove the robustness and efficiency of the bare bones fireworks metaheuristic for tackling the RFID network planning problem and categorize this new version of the fireworks algorithm as state-of-the-art method for dealing with NP-hard tasks.
STUDIO SCIANDRA ASSOCIÉ

L’ÉTUDE Sciandra & ASSOCIATE EST COMPOSÉE par DEUX PROFESSIONNELS, UN Dutter COMMERCIALE ET UN CONSULTRE DE TRAVAIL, PAR DEUX DEPENDENTS AVEC LES MANSIONS ADMINISTRATIVES ET SECRTERIES ET À L’ÉTAT, DEUX praticants. L’ACTIVITÉ EXERCÉE COMPREND: CONSEILS FISCAUX ET FISCAUX, ASSISTANCE À TOUTES LES ÉTAPES ET TOUS LES NIVEAUX DE CONTENTIEUX FISCAUX, CONSEIL ET ASSISTANCE AUX PROCESSUS DE NUMÉRISATION DES PROCÉDURES DE GESTION ET DE COMPTABILITÉ AU SEIN DE L’ENTREPRISE, MAINTIEN DE LA CONTABILITÉ ET OBLIGATIONS FISCALES PÉRIODIQUES CONNEXES, GESTION DES PROCÉDURES CONFIÉES PAR LA COUR, PRÉPARATION DES FICHES DE PAIE, CONSEILS DANS LE DOMAINE DE L’EMPLOI OU DE LA GESTION DU PERSONNEL SUBORDONNÉ ET PARASUBORDINATION. EN OUTRE, UNE ATTENTION PARTICULIÈRE EST ACCORDÉE À L’ASSISTANCE AUX STARTUPS INNOVANTES, SUIVANT TOUTES LES PHASES, DE LA NAISSANCE À LA PLANIFICATION DES STRATÉGIES DE CROISSANCE ET DE DÉVELOPPEMENT. L’ACTIVITÉ EST RÉALISÉE DANS DEUX BUREAUX, L’UN SITUÉ À CHIAVARI, L’AUTRE À GÊNES.
Engineering a Sound Assertion Semantics for the Verifying Compiler

The Verifying Compiler (VC) project is a core component of the Dependable Systems Evolution Grand Challenge. The VC offers the promise of automatically proving that a program or component is correct, where correctness is defined by program assertions. While several VC prototypes exist, all adopt a semantics for assertions that is unsound. This paper presents a consolidation of VC requirements analysis (RA) activities that, in particular, brought us to ask targeted VC customers what kind of semantics they wanted. Taking into account both practitioners' needs and current technological factors, we offer recovery of soundness through an adjusted definition of assertion validity that matches user expectations and can be implemented practically using current prover technology. For decades, there have been debates concerning the most appropriate semantics for program assertions. Our contribution here is unique in that we have applied fundamental software engineering techniques by asking primary stakeholders what they want and, based on this, proposed a means of efficiently realizing the semantics stakeholders want using standard tools and techniques. We describe how support for the new semantics has been added to ESC/Java2, one of the most fully developed VC prototypes. Case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the new semantics at uncovering previously indiscernible specification errors.
Smentorege

The objective of SMEntorEGE is to support the regional SMEs to enhance their innovation management skills by improving efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes, thus contributing to smart growth.Two groups of SMEs are targeted for the services that will be given under the project. The first group involves the SMEs who are the beneficiaries of “Horizon2020's SME instrument” or other EU Funded Schemes such as FETOpen, FTI but who need technical support in innovation management to enhance successful exploitation of the project and its contribution to the companies’ growth. The second group consists of SMEs with potential for international growth via product/process/service/business model innovation but who lack the knowledge, skills to manage innovation activities. Two different services will be provided throughout the project period. “Key account management” for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument will focus on identifying bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from EU
grants and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable Coaches and with the aid of KAM services of EEN. “Enhancing SME innovation management capacity” for innovating SME independently from a specific project will focus on increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in SMEs with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European research and innovation supports, but not have effective access to consulting
services for innovation management. As a result of the project, new types of standardised innovation support methodologies will be developed, the skills of the staff from the existing consortia will be improved, comprehensive innovation support will be given, two novel assessment
tools will be adapted at EU level, EEN will be embedded in Regional Innovation Ecosystem, closer cooperation will be established between key innovation support providers and relevant stakeholder
Pediatric sagittal alignment

There is a wide variation in the regional parameters used to describe the spine and sacro-pelvis in children and adolescents. There is a slight tendency for thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis to increase with age. Pelvic incidence and pelvic tilt also tend to increase during growth, while sacral slope remains relatively stable. Strong knowledge of the close relationships between adjacent anatomical regions of the spine and sacro-pelvis is the key when evaluating and interpreting sagittal spino-pelvic alignment. The scheme of correlations between adjacent regional parameters needs to be preserved in order to maintain a balanced posture. The net resultant from these relationships between adjacent anatomical regions is best represented by parameters of sagittal global balance. C7 plumbline tends to move backwards from childhood to adulthood, where it stabilizes or slightly moves forward secondary to degenerative changes. C7 plumbline in front of both hip axis and center of the upper sacral endplate occurs in 29% of subjects aged 3-10 years, 12% of subjects aged between 10 and 18 years, and 14% of subjects aged 18 years or older. Therefore, although most normal subjects stand with a C7 plumbline behind the hip axis, a C7 plumbline in front of both hip axis and sacrum can be seen in normal individuals. However, progressive forward displacement of C7 plumbline should raise a suspicion for the risk of developing spinal pathology.
Control strategies and cycling demands for Li-ion storage batteries in residential micro-cogeneration systems

Energy storage units have become important components in residential micro-cogeneration (MCG) systems. As MCG systems are often connected to single residences or buildings in a wide variety of settings, they are frequently unique and highly customized. Lithium-ion batteries have recently gained some profile as energy storage units of choice, because of their good capacity, high efficiency, robustness and ability to meet the demands of typical residential electrical loads. In the present work, modeled scenarios are explored which examine the performance of a MCG system with an internal combustion engine, photovoltaic input and a Li-ion storage battery. An electricity demand profile from new data collected in Ottawa, Canada is used to provide a full year energy use context for the analyses. The demands placed on the battery are examined to assess the suitability of the battery size and performance, as well as control related functionalities which reveal significantly varying battery use, and led to a quantitative expression for equivalent cycles. The energy use simulations are derived from electrochemical fundamentals adapted for a larger battery pack. Simulation output provides the basis for techno-economic commentary on how to assess large-scale Li-ion batteries for effective electrical storage purposes in MCG systems, and the impact of the nature of the control strategy on the battery service life.
Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Utility-Scale Wind Power

A systematic review and harmonization of life cycle assessment (LCA) literature of utility-scale wind power systems was performed to determine the causes of and, where possible, reduce variability in estimates of life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Screening of approximately 240 LCAs of onshore and offshore systems yielded 72 references meeting minimum thresholds for quality, transparency, and relevance. Of those, 49 references provided 126 estimates of life cycle GHG emissions. Published estimates ranged from 1.7 to 81 grams CO{sub 2}-equivalent per kilowatt-hour (g CO{sub 2}-eq/kWh), with median and interquartile range (IQR) both at 12 g CO{sub 2}-eq/kWh. After adjusting the published estimates to use consistent gross system boundaries and values for several important system parameters, the total range was reduced by 47% to 3.0 to 45 g CO{sub 2}-eq/kWh and the IQR was reduced by 14% to 10 g CO{sub 2}-eq/kWh, while the median remained relatively constant (11 g CO{sub 2}-eq/kWh). Harmonization of capacity factor resulted in the largest reduction in variability in life cycle GHG emission estimates. This study concludes that the large number of previously published life cycle GHG emission estimates of wind power systems and their tight distribution suggest that new process-based LCAs of similar wind turbinemore » technologies are unlikely to differ greatly. However, additional consequential LCAs would enhance the understanding of true life cycle GHG emissions of wind power (e.g., changes to other generators operations when wind electricity is added to the grid), although even those are unlikely to fundamentally change the comparison of wind to other electricity generation sources.« less
Innovation management capacity building of sme by the enterprise europe network baden-württemberg 2

SMEs are the driving force of economic growth and job creation in Europe: 20.7 million SMEs in the non-financial business economy make up ~99% EU enterprises. 85% of new jobs in the private sector created by SMEs provide more than two thirds of total jobs (more than 87 million). And SMEs account for more than 58% of the total gross-value added in Europe. For SMEs, the backbone of European industry, H2020 is looking into completely new funding measures and project types. The new SME instrument, which is used by the various industrial and societal programme lines in H2020, offers not only a new 3-phase project development and implementation - from idea validation to market. It also offers those SMEs which win the race and receive funding, a new form of accompanying support: key account managers and coaches, which are meant to help SMEs keep track of their target for growth through innovation.
By providing key account management and enhanced innovation services, the overall objective of the BW-KAM2 project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs in the geographical region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which is also the geographical area covered by the Enterprise Europe Network Baden-Württemberg. BW-KAM2 will target SME beneficiaries in the SME Instrument, which are located in Baden-Württemberg as well as high potential SME with strong innovation activities and high potential for internationalisation and growth. BW-KAM2 will deliver up to 120 service packages.
METHOD FOR CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A COMMUNICATING OBJECT AND A COMMUNICATION DEVICE

The invention relates to a method for communication between a communicating object (OC) and a communication device (DCj) in order to implement a transaction, characterized in that the method comprises the communicating object, located in a zone (Z) where said transaction is implemented, autonomously doing the following: receiving (S5) at least one pairing request from one or more pairing devices (DAk) associated with said zone and, when the communicating object has determined (S3) at least one item of information on the context of use of the communicating object and a location (LOCk) associated with at least one of the pairing devices (DAk) and when a pairing device identified (S6) in said at least one received pairing request corresponds (S7) to said at least one pairing device (DAk) associated with said zone and the location (LOCk) associated with said at least one pairing device (DAk) corresponds to the location of the communicating object in said zone, pairing (S9) with the communication device (DCj), said communication device being associated with the identified pairing device.
Smart room and mobile application development suite for hospitality

SMAPP is an IT hospitality platform that integrates a smart room solution and a mobile application development suite, helping hotels to offer a 360º experience to their guests, increasing repeat customers while decreasing management costs by 18%. 
Luxury, boutique hotels, upper-scale accommodation providers and resorts strive to provide 360º experiences to their guests by improving the quality of service while reducing costs. The SMAPP system overcomes these challenges with two critical services: a custom mobile guide and a comfortable smart room experience. SMAPP includes the following components: 
- A Mobile Application Development suite and Content Management System for hotels. 
- A native mobile application for Android, iOS and Microsoft platforms for travelers. 
- A mesh wireless room to control devices such as lighting, heating, humidity actuators and sensors based on the Z-Wave technology. 
- A web management console which provides hotel owners with a Hotel Management System and an interface to room's devices. 
- Room controllers acting as interfaces between the management system and room’s devices. 
SMAPP is a disrupting solution promoted by an established luxury accommodation provider, DELTAFIN21, in collaboration with ZUNA, a promising hospitality technology provider. The solution, which is already backed by important electrical engineering companies as well as hospitality providers, will be demonstrated in 4 pilot projects throughout Europe. In Phase 1 we will analyse installation requirements, select the pilot hotels and technological partners and define the business plan and Intellectual Property strategy.
COMPOUNDS OF '3-(5-SUSTITUTED OXY-2,4-DINITRO-PHENYL)-2-OXO-PROPIONIC ACID ESTER', PROCESS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF

The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) and process of obtaining the same. Said compounds of Formula (I) is employed in the syntheses of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), 4,5-dioxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-f]quinoline-2,7,9-tricarboxylic acid 2-allyl ester, 5-ethoxy-5-hydroxy-4-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-f]quinoline-2,7,9-tricarboxylic acid, 5- hydroxy-6-(1,1,4-trioxo-1 lambda* 6*-1,2, 5 -thiadiazolidin-2-yl)-1H-indole-2-carboxylic acid and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts. Said syntheses of compounds via. compounds of Formula (I) as intermediates employ minimum number of steps resulting in a shorter process and has improved efficiency along with many other advantages.
Radiocarbon constraints for models of c cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: from process understanding to global benchmarking

The overall goal of 14Constraint is to enhance the availability and use of radiocarbon data as constraints for process-based understanding of the age distribution of carbon in and respired by soils and ecosystems.  Carbon enters ecosystems by a single process, photosynthesis.  It returns by a range of processes that depend on plant allocation and turnover, the efficiency and rate of litter decomposition and the mechanisms stabilizing C in soils. Thus the age distribution of respired CO2 and the age of C residing in plants, litter and soils are diagnostic properties of ecosystems that provide key constraints for testing carbon cycle models.  Radiocarbon, especially the transit of ‘bomb’ 14C created in the 1960s, is a powerful tool for tracing C exchange on decadal to centennial timescales. 14Constraint will assemble a global database of existing radiocarbon data (WP1) and demonstrate how they can constrain and test ecosystem carbon cycle models.  WP2 will fill data gaps and add new data from sites in key biomes that have ancillary data sufficient to construct belowground C and 14C budgets.  These detailed investigations will focus on the role of time lags caused in necromass and fine roots, as well as the dynamics of deep soil C. Spatial extrapolation beyond the WP2 sites will require sampling along global gradients designed to explore the relative roles of mineralogy, vegetation and climate on the age of C in and respired from soil (WP3).  Products of this 14Constraint will include the first publicly available global synthesis of terrestrial 14C data, and will add over 5000 new measurements.  This project is urgently needed before atmospheric 14C levels decline to below 1950 levels as expected in the next decade.
Exploring intelligence of web communities

Web Intelligence is a multidisciplinary area dealing with utilizing data and services over the Web, to create new data and services using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Intelligent techniques. The link to Networking and Web Communities (WCs) is apparent: the Web is a set of nodes, providing and consuming data and services; the permanent or temporary ties and exchanges in-between these nodes build the virtual communities; and the ICT and techniques influence the modeling and the processes, and it automates (or semi-automate) communication and cooperation. In this paper, we will explore one aspect of (Web) intelligence pertinent to the Web Communities. The intelligent features may emerge in a Web community from interactions and knowledge-transmissions between the community members. We will also introduce the WI&C'14 workshop's goal and structure.