SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Photodynamic Therapy With or Without Intravitreal Triamcinolone Acetonide for Symptomatic Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy

To evaluate the outcome of verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) with or without intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) for the treatment of symptomatic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV).Retrospective analysis of PCV patients who underwent PDT with or without IVTA with follow-up of 2 or more years. Changes in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), proportion of eyes with moderate visual loss (3 or more lines), and complications were compared between patients with or without IVTA.Twenty-seven eyes of 27 patients were analyzed, with 12 eyes treated by PDT monotherapy and 15 eyes treated by combined PDT with IVTA. The baseline characteristics of both groups were similar. At 1 year, the mean logMAR BCVA for the PDT monotherapy group improved from 0.74 to 0.58 (P = 0.011), whereas the combined PDT and IVTA group improved from 0.84 to 0.74 (P = 0.17). At 2 years, the mean logMAR BCVA for the monotherapy and combined treatment groups were 0.62 and 0.84, respectively, and the changes compared with baseline were not statistically significant. No significant difference was found in the mean logMAR BCVA, the mean line of visual changes, and the mean number of PDT treatments between the 2 groups at 1 and 2 years. One (8.3%) and 4 (26.7%) eyes in the monotherapy and the combined groups lost 3 or more lines at 2 years, respectively. Patients who had combined PDT with IVTA were more likely to develop cataract requiring surgery and ocular hypertension (P = 0.043 and 0.046, respectively).PDT reduced the risks of visual loss in patients with symptomatic PCV in the short term but the effect might not be sustained after 1 year. The adjunctive use of IVTA during PDT did not appear to result in additional benefit for treating PCV.
Electrified l-category vehicles integrated into transport and electricity networks

ELVITEN will holistically tackle all issues impeding the wide market deployment of EL-Vs, by proposing replicable usage schemes to boost ownership or sharing of all categories of EL-Vs by systematic and occasional urban travellers and by light delivery companies.
Existing charge points in the ELVITEN Demonstration Cities, including private ones, will be integrated in a Brokering and Booking service and EL-V charging possibilities will be integrated in the biggest eRoaming platform in the market, to enable EL-V users to charge independently from charge point operators. Sharing services will be set up and supporting policies and incentives will be put in place. ICT tools will be deployed, including a Brokering and a Booking service for EL-Vs and charge points, an EL-V fleet monitoring tool and Eco-Drive app, a Serious Game and an Incentive Management Smart Card. 
One-year long demonstrations with 383 equipped EL-Vs of all categories in Genoa, Rome, Bari, Malaga, Berlin and Trikala, will allow the collection of a big data bank of trip data and users' experiences and opinions after the trips. 
The analysis will shed light on the real driving and charging patterns of EL-Vs, on reported problems encountered and on the users’ opinions and perceptions. A Cost Benefit Analysis will evaluate the potential market uptake of EL-Vs. Sustainable business models will be proposed for sharing, rental, parking or charge services for EL-Vs and for the deployed ICT tools. Guidelines to EL-V manufacturers and to Planning Authorities will be prepared and agreements will be signed with another 50 Follower Cities so that they transfer in their own regions the ELVITEN usage schemes.
CYCLOPYMERIZATION POLYMERS FROM NON-CONJUGATED DIENES

Novel polymer and copolymer compositions produced from the polymerization of non-conjugated dienes have been found. The novel compositions are produced by an equally novel process comprising cyclopolymerization of non-conjugated dienes employing reduced valence state Group VIB metal oxide catalyst on porous support. The preferred catalyst comprises carbon monoxide reduced chromium on silica. Copolymers are formed by copolymerization of non-conjugated dienes with 1-alkenes in contact with the activated chromium on silica catalyst. The compositions are useful as lubricants and additives.
Neuromodulation of sensory processing

Neuromodulation, such as that associated with paying attention, changes the way our brains interpret our sensory experiences. Understanding the neuromodulation of neural circuitry that integrates and processes incoming sensory input to generate a meaningful output remains a fundamental question in neuroscience. While the neuromodulator acetylcholine is shown to enhance sensory responses, the cellular mechanisms by which it mediates these effects are still poorly understood. Recent evidence suggests that the local subthreshold dendritic potentials, dendritic spikes, which are important in synaptic input integration, also play a key role in encoding feature selectivity, the ability of neurons in sensory cortices to be tuned to specific features of a stimulus.  Interestingly, ion channels, such as potassium channels that regulate dendritic spikes are also shown to be modulated by cholinergic inputs. Here, I propose that acetylcholine modulates sensory processing via modulation of dendritic spikes. I will use a combination of state-of-the-art in vivo imaging, electrophysiology, pharmacology and optogenetics to test the novel hypothesis that acetylcholine modulates sensory processing by regulating dendritic spikes and thereby feature selectivity in mouse somatosensory cortex. The project will provide new cellular insights into a long-standing question on the mechanisms of neuromodulation of sensory processing. It builds on my expertise in neuroanatomy and physiology and will give me the opportunity to master advanced in vivo techniques in a host environment that is well known for their in vivo expertise and research into neuromodulation. Given my strong background in neurodevelopmental disorders, the project will push the knowledge frontier on neuronal processing and will provide a framework for research into basic mechanisms of sensory perception and their alterations in neurological disorders.
Establishing a nanotechnology risk governance framework

The main objective of NANORIGO (NANOtechnology RIsk GOvernance) is to develop and implement a transparent, transdisciplinary and science-based Risk Governance Framework (RGF) for managing nanotechnology risks regarding social, environmental and economic benefits. A new risk management approach is formed based on available and new high-quality data and advanced scientific tools developed for industry and regulators decision-making, and on communication with all stakeholders (regulators, industries, politicians, the civil society). The RGF will use a life-cycle perspective and integrate available knowledge on ethical, social, environmental and economic concerns into a user-friendly format that can be easily adapted and transferred into regulation for hazard, exposure and risk assessment and management of nanomaterials. It will consist of: (i) risk management strategies based on reinforced tools for guidance and decision-making developed for risk assessment, (ii) validated methodologies to identify potential hazard and exposure, and (iii) a web-based information and communication platform to facilitate access to good quality data and a clear understanding of risks for all stakeholders, and their valuable feedback. The NANORIGO work plan consists of 8 work packages covering all major risk governance aspects. A self-sustained European Nanotechnology Risk Governance Council (NRGC) will be installed to implement the RGF, embedded in relevant international structures and in close cooperation with the International Risk Governance Center (IRGC). Case studies will demonstrate the sustainability of solutions and their consistent integration into regulatory applications under real conditions. Bringing all stakeholders together under a common umbrella will allow to share and integrate the most appropriate governance tools, frameworks and plans for future science and regulatory research and foster consistency of management approaches in the EU and synergies internationally.
Support to the vice-presidents of the erc scientific council 2019

The European Research Council (ERC) provides a competitive platform for investigator-driven frontier research at the European level. It is led by a Scientific Council (ScC) consisting of 21 eminent scientists and their President, and it is this council that independently establishes and oversees theERC's scientific management and the implementation of its Work Programme. This project aims to support the ERCVice-Presidents, who act on an honorary basis, in the efficient and timely achievement of the ScC's goals in 2019.

This project will provide local administrative and advisory support to the three ERC Vice-Presidents.The staff supported by this project will provide analysis of the output of the ERCand the ScC to the Vice-Presidents, preparatory work for the meetings of the ScC, support with scientific outreach and representation, as well as maintaining a clear and efficient channel of communication between the Vice-Presidents and the ERC's Executive Agency. A key duty of the Vice-Presidents is maintaining the integrity of the ERC's evaluation panels, and the staff supported by this grant will facilitate this by providing detail information and analysis of potential panel members to the Vice-Presidents to allow them to take informed decisions on recruitment.The staff will also coordinate the invitation of new panel members and communicate with them during the recruitment process.

The impact of the project will be to ensure the efficient and well-managed operation of the ScC. This support is required, as the duties of the Vice-Presidents demand a considerable portion of their time. By allowing the Vice-Presidents to effectively and efficiently perform their duties, this project will contribute significantly to the continued implementation of the ERC under Horizon 2020.
Ee-It - centre of excellence on connected digital economy

We propose a teaming partnership between Estonia and Edinburgh University (UK) in the area of IT to advance the global connected digital economy.  Edinburgh is the leading IT research School in the UK with an excellent record for innovation and economic impact. Estonian funding agency ETAg is coordinating the partnership involving also the two highest ranked universities in the Baltic States. 

Estonian IT research has grown to be interdisciplinary and competitive, succeeding in IT as well as health-IT programmes. This has been achieved through the cultivation of excellence amongst the staff and consistent government policy to utilise structural funds to develop IT research and Innovation in Estonia. Impact of the new CoE will be built on national and global scale by further developing the achievements of Estonia on IT. Estonia has developed IT solutions for e-society utilising electronic identity and signatures, and simple modular communication architecture for service provisioning that have enabled many pioneering solutions from automated tax returns and national e-health platforms to internet voting. Estonia has developed an excellent start-up culture, as reflected by the development of high growth companies in the past decade, including Skype, GrabCAD, Cybernetica etc. Last but not least, Estonia is now a host to two prominent units, the NATO Cyber Defence Centre (CCDCoE, 2008) and the EU Agency for Large-Scale IT systems (EULISA, 2012). All this shows that the environment in Estonia is capable of supporting digital companies to reach “escape velocity” from the local economy and create global impact, as well as in an excellent position to absorb the additional research and training capacity. 

The envisioned CoE has two primary aims: to synergise and build critical mass in key multidisciplinary IT research areas in Estonia to realise an internationally competitive IT research sector; and to link to the economy to develop a dynamic cluster around IT excellence.
Parâmetros produtivos e genéticos da produção in vitro de embriões Nelore no Estado do Acre

Objetivou-se avaliar dados retrospectivos da produção in vitro de embriões (PIV) em Nelore, no Estado do Acre, a fim de estabelecer parâmetros não genéticos e genéticos. Para tanto, dados de 1292 sessões de aspirações foliculares guiadas por ultra som realizadas em 571 doadoras Nelore, distribuídas em dez fazendas no Acre, entre os anos de 2015 e 2018, foram coletados e analisados para estimativa de parâmetros produtivos e não genéticos, utilizando-se o Método de Quadrados Mínimos Generalizados através do Software SAS, e efeitos genéticos pelo Método de Máxima Verossimilhança Restrita, utilizando-se o software MTDFREML. Observou-se número médio de 30,05; 9,82 e 3,03 para oócitos, embriões e gestação por aspiração/vaca, respectivamente; e porcentagens médias de 34,19; 38,39 e 10,68% de taxa de conversão de oócito/embrião, de embrião/gestação e de oócito/gestação, respectivamente. Para os efeitos genéticos, observou-se que a herdabilidade apresentou magnitude baixa a média, indicando variabilidade genética para produção de oócitos, embriões e gestação. As correlações fenotípicas e genéticas entre número total de oócitos, embriões e gestação foram positivas e de alta magnitude, indicando que a seleção para aumento na produção de oócitos resulta em aumento na produção de embriões e na taxa de gestação. Conclui-se que os efeitos não genéticos na PIV devem ser considerados nos modelos de avaliação genética para estas características, e as estimativas de herdabilidade encontradas neste estudo, apesar de serem de magnitudes baixas a moderadas, indicam que existe variabilidade genética aditiva para seleção de doadoras com melhor potencial genético para produção de oócitos, embriões e gestações.
PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR AN IMMUNE RESPONSE

Biomarkers and uses thereof, as well as methods for using same for identifying vaccine recipients who will respond to a single dose of vaccine. In addition, an integration model for identifying biomarkers is also provided, such that the biomarkers form a network of signatures associated with a vaccine responder.
Portugal twinning for innovation and excellence in marine science and earth observation

Portugal Twinning for innovation and excellence in marine science and Earth observation (PORTWIMS) will enhance the science, technology and innovation profile of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences and individual faculty staff members, through twinning with two research-intensive, internationally-leading institutes: Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. It will achieve this through a combination of activities that will benefit individuals at various levels of their career from PhD students, to post-docs, to mid-career and professorial level. PORTWIMS will focus on an area of science of high relevance to Portuguese national priorities and of Portuguese support of sustainable development. The project will benefit from existing nationally or internationally funded research activities that will feed into the project. PORTWIMS will undertake collaboration and support actions to include: 
• exchanges of personnel and expert visits including focussing on one-to-one mentoring; 
• summer schools, focussing on PhD students and post-docs; 
• on-site training, exploiting access to expensive research cruises; 
• focussed training and partnership-building for preparation of research proposals to national authorities, the EC and the European Space Agency; 
• advice on application of outputs for policy and governance and exploitation of results to support innovation in knowledge-intensive services and products.
PORTWIMS has an aim of leaving a long-term legacy of Research & Innovation enhancement beyond the end of the programme.
Terres Monviso – CoCO

"This project is part of the plan TERRES MONVISO": The PITER Terres Monviso coordination and communication project is a unique opportunity provided by the program Alcotra to set up large-scale cooperation in a region whose relevance has been validated by the diagnostic of territory and the successful experience of Véloviso.
It involves installing cross-cutting governance at the plan, establishing a common communication base with a strategy and tools that are useful to everyone and to provide the territory with a lasting mechanism for cooperation by conducting an on-going evaluation and final as well as a study on the implementation of a common body.

This PITER aims to create a permanent collaboration for a coordinated gestion of development policies in a homogeneous and well-defined area, the cross-border area of Monviso, thorough the development of new instruments of territorial concertation and the creation of a touristic cross-border destination linked to Monviso. The strategy confirm an high implication of local political institutions, Monviso territory as territorial and identarian aggregation and of a declared political will de front together common problematics of local development thorough 4 simple projects on the 4 axes of the program: Green Economy “research and innovation”, Risk “risks prevention”, ToUR “natural and cultural heritage”, and Incl “health and social services”.
Thallium group superconducting wire

In order to provide a crystal oriented high quality thallium group superconducting wire having a high critical current density, thallium group superconducting film is formed on oxide single crystal fiber having plane facets and polygonal cross section in the thallium group superconducting wire, wherein c-axis of the thallium group superconducting film is oriented perpendicularly, and a- and b-axis are oriented in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the above fiber, respectively, and resulting to obtain a high quality thallium group superconducting wire with Jc of 105 A/cm2 or more at 77K.
Daylight as a Design Strategy in the Ottoman Mosques of Tunisia and Algeria

ABSTRACTThis study investigates daylighting design in Tunisian and Algerian mosques from the Ottoman era. It aims to constitute a daylight-based architectural design knowledge which might serve the built heritage preservation as well as supports contemporary environmentally friendly mosques’ and building design. An intensive literature review and a field work research have been undertaken in Tunisia and Algeria in order to survey daylighting devices in the Ottoman mosques era. Nine Tunisian and 14 Algerian mosques, from the Ottoman era, constitute the study corpus. First, an inventory of architectural components and their associated daylighting strategies was carried out. This collected data is then examined by means of a building conformation lecture based on typological, topological, and morphological analysis. This research reveals the existence of an interrelated set of daylighting devices and structural models governing rules in the Ottoman mosque model, site conditions, and previous local architectu...
Legend, sport goes viral

We are building an ecosystem of tools and apps to key agents of the sport sector. We see it as Google does with its platform. Their core is Search but then it provides with dozens of tools like Gmail, Calendar, Youtube or Analytics so user stay in their platform. Using sport as the soul of our platform we have started building this ecosystem.
Currently, we have developed a tournament manager where league and championship organizers can manage them. We allow them to create as many tournaments as they need, create teams and assign them players. They can organize almost every league or championship that may come to your mind.
With this tool, public (local government, Universities or Schools) and private (sport facilities, individuals, federations, associations, etc) managers from all around the world can send real time alerts, manage the classifications in an easy way, generate automatic calendars, publish the rules and news, define roles as referees or team managers and many more features to come.
We have also developed mobile apps for following the league but also the users can organize their friendly matches, comment on them before and after the match, check the results of their friends and to share them in other social networks.
Not only we ease the organization of the matches but we also motivate them to report the results by adding an algorithm to calculate their skill level of every sport. We have also added gamification technics to the app so users can get badges depending on their results. Finally, users can track and check all their stats and historical results.

LEGEND project will help miLeyenda to create a feasibility plan for going international. Currently, we have acquired more than 120.000 users in 3 months and we are ready to go a step further.
Mediterranean floriculture; an interacting system to improve market positioning

This is the most significant cooperation area between Italy and France for the nursery gardening chain and is rather homogeneous. There used to be almost a monopoly in this sector, but the competing project areas are now about 100 producing countries. A narrowing range hs been developing between high-technology Northern European countries handling over 50% of the global market and the south of the world producing with small production costs.   On average, the companies are micro- and small-sized and generally located in areas that are valid as far as climate but often not from the orographic point of view. They have high production costs and no penchant for aggregation, but they are highly professional and provide specific high-value products that are internationally recognised. The challenge is to create the conditions to keep up the competition and maintain or even strengthen their market shares, especially abroad. The aim is to increase entrepreneurial capacity by strengthening the service network, creating new services where needed and facilitating access to innovations for individual cross-border area producers.   For MSMEs, individual responses are ineffective; those of organised network supply chains are necessary. It is a matter of developing a cross-border area strategy that will project the competitive ability of companies onto the outside, using a participatory approach that will systematically protect specific productions. This project also capitalises on the results of previous projects to improve the exchange of skills within the cooperation area. This way, adapting to market needs quickly and flexibly and a higher rate of entrepreneurship will compensate for the apparent diseconomies of scale against our primary competitors