SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of essential oil from two Thymus species

Background & Aim: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the bacterial pathogens and the most important factor in hospitalized infections in human community. This bacterium is becoming resistance to chemical drugs quickly. Lots of countries are trying to find new compositions as a suitable replacement for these antibiotics. The aim of this study was antibacterial activity and chemical composition of (Thymus vulgaris L.) and (Thymus daenensis Celak) cultivated in Iran. Experimental: The aerial parts of T. vulgaris and T. daenensis were collected from stages beginning of blooming set at Estahban (Fars province) in South Iran, during 2014.The essential oil was extracted by a Clevenger approach and analyzed using GC/MS. This essential oil was examined on S. aureus with different sensitivity levels to vancomycin, methicilin and oxacillin antibiotics. Results & Discussion: In T. vulgaris and T. daenensisoil, 28, 26 compounds were identified, respectively. The major constituents of the T. vulgaris oil were thymol (63.14%), p-cymene (9.45%), -terpinene (8.67%) and carvacrol (3.14%).The major constituents of the T. daenensis oil were; thymol (71.2%), -terpinene (8.81%), p-cymene (3.8%) and carvacrol (2.4%). According to these results, MIC and MBC of T. vulgaris and T. Daenensis oil on S. aureus were estimated 0.1 to 0.5 micro l/ml respectively.
Undergraduate Chemical Technological Discipline delivered using moodle e-learning platform

This paper presents elearning instruction materials for technical undergraduates and secondary schools (with specialization: textile technician) developed on the Virtual Learning Environment http://www.moodle.tex.tuiasi.ro/. Processes of: design, development and implementation of interactive educational modules are presented, for the topic “materials and textile products chemical finishing operations” of chemical textile technology. Textile finishing can be subdivided into two distinctly different areas, chemical finishing and mechanical finishing. Chemical finishing or `wet finishing' involves the addition of chemicals to textiles to achieve a desired result. Physical properties such as dimensional stability and chemical properties such as flame retardancy can both be improved with chemical finishing. Typically, the appearance of the textile is unchanged after chemical finishing. Elearning modules provide student with information examples containing: rich multimedia elements, text, glossary, webography, bibliography, and knowledge and skills assimilation assessment. The modules are divided into a number of teaching and learning units which can be studied autonomously (or independent). Chemical Technological Discipline model is a new approach to learning chemistry-one that presents concepts in the customary logically developed order but illustrates them with exemplars that reflect the applications students are interested in. Chemical Technological Discipline resources are especially for secondary school teachers and students, with topics ranging from introductory to advanced Textiles Chemistry. Teachers will find reliable and quality resources including videos, articles, demonstrations, worksheets, assessments and activities all in one location. Resources are searchable by topic and standards. eLearning Modules are using visualization of chemistry concepts. These principles focus on a few chemistry-specific pedagogical pointers: 1. providing multiple representations and descriptions, 2. making linked referential connections visible, 3. presenting the dynamic and interactive nature of chemistry, 4. promoting the transformation between 2D and 3D, and 5. reducing cognitive load by making information explicit and integrating information for students.
Misure contro la COVID-19

Con l'attuazione di questo progetto, l'azienda migliorerà le sue condizioni di redditività e di equilibrio finanziario, migliorando così le condizioni per mantenere la propria forza lavoro in condizioni adeguate.
AMINE COMPOUNDS AND INHIBITING NEUROTRANSMITTER REUPTAKE

The invention relates to amine compounds as well as methods and materials involved in modulating neurotransmitter reuptake. For example, the invention provides amine compounds, methods for synthesizing amine compounds, and methods for inhibiting neurotransmitter reuptake.
LIPOSOME COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING LIPOSOME-LOADABLE DRUGS

A liposome composition and method of use in administering a compound having a reactive hydroxyl group to a selected in vivo site are disclosed. The composition includes a suspension of liposomes having an inside/outside pH gradient, and a conjugate of the compound with an adduct effective to maintain the compound in liposome-encapsulated form in response to the pH gradient.
Take-Off for sustainable supply of woody biomass from agrarian pruning and plantation removal

uP_running project aims to set the path for the development of the bioenergy utilisation of agrarian pruning and plantation removal (APPR) wood obtained from vineyards, olive groves and fruit tree plantations. uP_running vocation is the abatement of the current immobilism of the value chain actors for the utilization of APPR woody biomass. For that purpose uP_running incorporates a set of straight actions aimed to reshape the sectors perception, to provide evidences of real success and replicable models to follow, as well as to promote the take-off for the utilisation of APPR biomass residues. An intense communication campaign will address the varied target audience with tailored messages and materials to raise the awareness. An impact on policy barriers and on the legal framework currently setting limits for the utilisation of APPR wood will be carried out through direct advocacy and lobbying work at national and EU level. Once the awareness is raised and the sector is released of hindering barriers, a snowball effect will be triggered through multiplicative and dissemination actions. First part of uP_running multiplicative strategy is to create a permanent capacity in Europe, by empowering national and regional agrarian associations, extension services and/or private consultants with capacities to give support for decision making to farmers, cooperatives and agro-industries owing the APPR residues. A call for entrepreneurship will put into operation the newly created capacities in 7 EU countries to promote the decision making of pioneer entrepreneurs. Setting up and running new APPR biomass value chains is the key for a self-replication and to further contribute to the development of the bio-economy in Europe. The actions will be initiated in a set of 4 “demo” countries (that together account for 50% of EU potential), replicated in 3 relevant EU countries, and extended through precursor actions to 7 additional EU countries.
Fuzzy Logic Based Controller for Peak Traffic Detection in Elevator Systems

1 University of Seville Grupo Ingenieria Organizacion. Escuela Superior Ingenieros, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n. Sevilla 41092. SPAIN † E-mail: pca@esi.us.es † URL: http://io.us.es/P.Cortes/ Abstract Vertical transportation refers to the problem that arises when a passenger wishes to travel by lift between the floors of a building. Controllers are installed in lifts that aim to maximise specific criteria such as passenger waiting time, the energy consumption, or the handling capacity. However, in order to make a correct car-call allocation, a traffic analysis must be previously carried out in the building. In fact, peak traffic can lead to dramatic waiting times during busy hours in the case of no modification of the car-call allocation rules. This paper presents a fuzzy logic based controller for peak traffic detection in elevator systems. The controller is validated with the most authorised traffic patterns in the industry for office buildings, namely the CIBSE Guide, and the Strakosch and Siikonen traffic patterns. The fuzzy logic controller demonstrate a suitable performance providing adequate traffic pattern identification for all cases. The controller was proved to be robust and reliable when tested with patterns depicting sudden or smooth changes, and with high or low maximum and minimum peaks. Keywordsvertical transportation, elevator, fuzzy logic, peak traffic
Primitive chemistry in planetary atmospheres: from the upper atmosphere down to the surface

The presence of organic compounds was essential to the emergence of life on Earth 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. Such compounds may have had several different origins; amongst them the ocean-atmosphere coupled system (the primordial soup theory), or exogenous inputs by meteorites, comets and Interplanetary Dust Particles. 

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the best known observable analogue of the Early Earth. I recently identified a totally new source of prebiotic material for this system: the upper atmosphere. Nucleobases have been highlighted as components of the solid aerosols analogues produced in a reactor mimicking the chemistry that occurs in the upper atmosphere. The specificity of this external layer is that it receives harsh solar UV radiations enabling the chemical activation of molecular nitrogen N2, and involving a nitrogen rich organic chemistry with high prebiotic interest. 

As organic solid aerosols are initiated in the upper atmosphere of Titan, a new question is raised that I will address: what is the evolution of these organic prebiotic seeds when sedimenting down to the surface? Aerosols will indeed undergo the bombardment of charged particles, further UV radiation, and/or coating of condensable species at lower altitudes. I expect possible changes on the aerosols themselves, but also on the budget of the gas phase through emissions of new organic volatiles compounds. The aerosols aging may therefore impact the whole atmospheric system. 

An original methodology will be developed to address this novel issue. The successive aging sequences will be experimentally simulated in chemical reactors combining synchrotron and plasma sources. The interpretation of the experimental results will moreover be supported by a modelling of the processes. This complementary approach will enable to decipher the aerosols evolution in laboratory conditions and to extrapolate the impact on Titan atmospheric system.
Digital technologies as enabler to foster the transition to the circular economy by the SME in the Alpine Space area

The main objective of the CIRCULAR4.0 project is to strengthen digitalisation processes by SMEs to foster innovation processes and accelerate the transition to the Circular Economy (CE) in Alpine Space. _x000D_
The introduction of new technologies, notably the internet of things and big data tools, is enabling the development and introduction of new CE (circular economy) business models, often based on sharing and leasing but also reuse and remanufacturing. New technical systems and tools enable the tracking of products or materials during their life to enable extended use/life and maintaining the highest possible value. Meanwhile, design and manufacturing capabilities are evolving with advances in production, material science and manufacturing, e.g. 3D printing and artificial intelligence. Project CIRCULAR4.0 adresses specific objectives to Integrate the EU CE Action plan with specific actions addressed to the Alpine Space area and its peculiarities, focusing particularly to SMEs (eco-design and innovative business models), value-chain and clusters according to S3 and the EUSALP strategic sectors; policy makers (integrate CE into innovation policies for SMEs and 2020+ Programme). CIRCULAR4.0 will increase the knowledge and raise the attention of Entrepreneurs and Intermediaries on the CE concepts, develop and test a set of tools able to foster the contribute of Industry4.0 for the transition of SMEs to the CE economy, with particular attention to Circular Design models, Optimal Use models, Value Recovery models. The project intends to address Policy Makers, Intermediaries and SMEs to raise the importance of digitalization processes, focusing mainly on: the innovation processes,  the business models and the investments needed._x000D_
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The project will produce a CIRCULAR4.0 Action plan to contribute to the transition toward CE in AS with SMEs digitalization creating added value for stakeholders in the Alpine Space and supporting Policies and EUSALP Macro Strategy._x000D_
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Information added on 2020-06-01, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): The project CIRCULAR4.0 is an opportunity for the Alpine Space and its enterprises in recovering from the pandemic. It encourages SMEs to innovate and grow by using more digital tools and adopting circular economy business models. These models also tackle environmental challenges by fostering the transition to a sustainable manufacturing.
The Effect of Antioxidant and Delayed Bonding Time on Shear Bond Strength of Composite Restoration after Bleaching Procedure

This study determined the shear bond strength of a nanohybrid composite resin to bleached enamel immediately, after antioxidant treatment and 1 week later by using different adhesive systems and after shear bond strength test, the failure modes were observed by using steromicroscope and SEM. After 20 specimens were separated as the control group (Group 13, 14), Groups 13 were bonded with self – etch Clearfil Tri S Bond, groups 14 were bonded with total – etch Adper Single Bond 2. The remaining 120 specimens were randomly assigned to two bleaching groups (Opalescence Xtra Boost and Beyond Max) of 60 specimens each. Each bleaching group was divided into three subgroups of 10 specimens each. Groups 1, 4, 7, 10 consisted of specimens bonded immediately after bleaching. Groups 2, 5, 8, 11 specimens were treated with an antioxidant agent, %10 sodium ascorbate while groups 3, 6, 9, 12 were immersed in artificial saliva for 1 week after bleaching. They were then subjected to 10000 thermal cycles. The shear bond strength was measured Zwick Z010 (Zwick GmbH, Ulm, Germany) Universal Testing Machine. For the statistical analysis One-Way Anova, Tukey HDS, Student t Tests were used. According to the result of this study, bleaching agents affect the bond strength of composite to bleached enamel negatively and reduced bond strength effectively reversed by 1 week delayed bonding. No statistically significant differences in shear bond strength of self-etch and total-etch groups were noted. Anahtar Kelimeler :  Adhesive agents, antioxidant, artificial saliva, bleaching, shear bond strength
A New Parallel Schema for Branch-and-Bound Algorithms Using GPGPU

This work presents a new parallel procedure designed to process combinatorial B&B algorithms using GPGPU. In our schema we dispatch a number of threads that treats intelligently the massively parallel processors of NVIDIA GeForce graphical units. The strategy is to build sequentially a series of initial searches that can map a subspace of the B&B tree by starting a number of limited threads after achieving a specific level of the tree. The search is then processed massively by DFS. The whole subspace is optimized accordingly to memory and limits of threads and blocks available by the GPU. We compare our results with its OpenMP and Serial versions of the same search schema using explicitly enumeration (all possible solutions) to the Asymmetrical Travelling Salesman Problem's instances. We also show the great superiority of our GPGPU based method.
Knowledge-based software design for Defense-in-Depth risk monitor system and application for AP1000

ABSTRACTAs part of the new risk monitor system, the software for the plant Defense-in-Depth (DiD) risk monitor system was designed based on the state-transition and finite-state machine, and then the knowledge-based software was developed by object-oriented method utilizing the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Currently, there are mainly two functions in the developed plant DiD risk monitor software that are knowledge-base editor which is used to model the system in a hierarchical manner and the interaction simulator that simulates the interactions between the different actors in the model. In this paper, a model for playing its behavior is called an Actor which is modeled at the top level. The passive safety AP1000 power plant was studied and the small-break loss-of-coolant accident (SBLOCA) design basis accident transient is modeled using the plant DiD risk monitor software. Furthermore, the simulation result is shown for the interactions between the actors which are defined in the plant DiD risk monito...
Carbon nanotube quantum circuits

The aim of this proposal is to use spin qubits defined in carbon nanotube quantum dots to demonstrate measurement-based entanglement in an all-electrical and scalable solid-state architecture. The project makes use of spin-orbit interaction to drive spin rotations in the carbon nanotube host system and hyperfine interaction to store quantum information in the nuclear spin states. The proposal builds on techniques developed by the principal investigator for fast and non-invasive read-out of the electron spin qubits using radio-frequency reflectometry and spin-to-charge conversion.

Any quantum computer requires entanglement. One route to achieve entanglement between electron spin qubits in quantum dots is to use the direct interaction of neighbouring qubits due to their electron wavefunction overlap. This approach, however, becomes rapidly impractical for any large scale quantum processor, as distant qubits can only be entangled through the use of qubits in between. Here I propose an alternative strategy which makes use of an intriguing quantum mechanical effect by which two spatially separated spin qubits coupled to a single electrical resonator become entangled if a measurement cannot tell them apart.

The quantum information encoded in the entangled electron spin qubits will be transferred to carbon-13 nuclear spins which are used as a quantum memory with coherence times that exceed seconds. Entanglement with further qubits then proceeds again via projective measurements of the electron spin qubits without risk of losing the existing entanglement. When entanglement of the electron spin qubits is heralded – which might take several attempts – the quantum information is transferred again to the nuclear spin states. This allows for the coupling of large numbers of physically separated qubits, building up so-called graph or cluster states in an all-electrical and scalable solid-state architecture.
Multi-Conceptual design of fire barrier: a systemic approach

The development of science and technology provides the availability of sophisticated products but concurrently, increases the use of combustible materials, in particular organic materials. Those materials are easily flammable and must be flame retarded to make them safer. In case of fire, people must be protected by materials confining and stopping fire. It is one of the goals of the FireBar-Concept project to design materials and assembly of materials exhibiting low flammability, protecting substrates and limiting fire spread.  
The objective of FireBar-Concept is to make a fire barrier formed at the right time, at the right location and reacting accordingly against thermal constraint (fire scenario). This fire barrier can be developed in several ways according to the chemical nature of the material and/or of its formulation:

- Heat barrier formed by inherently flame retarded materials (e.g. mineral fibers, ceramic …) and exhibiting low thermal conductivity (note the assembly of those materials can also provide low thermal conductivity controlling porosity and its distribution)
- Evolution of reactive radicals poisoning the flame and forming a protective ‘umbrella’ avoiding the combustion of the material
- Additives promoting charring of the materials and forming an expanding carbonaceous protective coating or barrier (intumescence)
- Additives forming a physical barrier limiting mass transfer of the degradation products to the flame

The FireBar-Concept project is multidisciplinary and it requires expertise in material science, chemical engineering, chemistry, thermal science and physics. The approach is to make 5 actions linked together by transverse developments (3) according to this scheme: (i) fundamentals of fire barrier, (ii) multi-material and combination of concepts, (iii) modeling and numerical simulation, (iv) design and development of experimental protocols and (v) optimization of the systems.
Single molecule imaging mass spectrometry

We aim to demonstrate the disruptive commercial and societal potential of interferometric scattering microscopy for mass spectrometry of single biomolecules in solution. The PoC grant will be used to produce a near-market ready prototype and implement the required software modifications expected of a commercial device, to demonstrate that the technology is sufficiently robust to warrant venture capital funding for our spin-out company. Our early discussions with both pharma and instrument manufactueres have highlighted a need for more in-depth application of our technique. The novelty of our approach requires both demonstration and testing on a broad range of potential analytes and environments, which is why we require a portable instrument, that not only enables on-site testing, but also on-site demonstration in a non-university research environment. Similarly, there is a clear and pressing need to produce more intuitive and clearly commercially viable software to unlock the full potential of our technology. Data from these experiments will help define our final product(s) and to translate this research into a viable package for raising venture capital. The development of a novel, broadly accessible technology enables new avenues for screening potential drug candidates that could be used to further our understanding of drug interactions at the molecular level. The economic benefits will, therefore, be realised primarily through the pharmaceutical, healthcare and allied industries as well as the bioanalytical industry, through increased sales of instruments. All will have a considerable impact on the European economy. In addition to drug-discovery-related advances, our technology has the potential to transform cholesterol classification and change current approaches to cancer screening, through its intrinsic single molecule sensitivity.
Performance of textile and non-woven materials against penetration and permeation of liquid pesticides

According to Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009 on plant protection products (pesticides), when the conditions require the use of protective clothing, the effectiveness of this protection must be verified. The performance of protective clothing against penetration and permeation by pesticides was assessed according to ISO 22608:2004 and EN ISO 6529:2001, respectively. The penetration percentages for working coveralls, obtained on three replicates, varied widely and were highly dependent on the products and the dilutions. However, low penetration percentages were obtained for working coveralls that were treated with a water repellent. For coveralls that were certified according to Directive 89/686/EEC, the penetration percentages were low and depended on the products and the dilutions. For the certified coveralls (category III type 4 according to Directive 89/686/EEC), cumulative permeations were collected over a wide range and depended strongly on the products and dilutions. However, low cumulative permeations were obtained for the certified coveralls and gowns (category III type 3).