SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
PEER-to-peer network of INNOvation agencies and business schools developing a novel transnational qualification programme on AdVanced Manufacturing for the needs of Central European SME

Central Europe has a strong industrial tradition which is recently offset by an urgent need for modernisation and re-industrialisation. CE companies, spec. SME, are urgently challenged to adopt innovative advanced manufacturing (AVM) processes in order to enhance their competitiveness and gain access to transnational AVM value chains. While AVM is mainly discussed as a technological issue, innovation managers and SME owners face huge organisational and strategic challenges. There is an urgent need to develop a joint qualification basis across CE with new transnational approaches for AVM-related capacity building in local SME and lead companies.
The InnoPeer AVM partnership of 11 organisations from 5 CE countries is commited to develop and pilot the 1st comprehensive, transnational AVM qualification programme shaped to the needs of CE companies, spec. SME. The multi-level programme will cover 3 knowledge dimensions (AVM technologies, human resource/organisational mgmt., business model dev.) using a mix of well-proven and novel training formats and methods for basic, advanced and practical trainings, like Living Lab webinars, practical test runs at a Model Factory and AVM strategy Camps. As an absolute novelty a compilation of "Teaching Cases" ("Harvard Business School style") based on real CE SME challenges will be developed. Participants attending the complete curriculum will write SME-related thesis to become "InnoPeer-certified AVM managers". Pilot trainings will involve target companies+innovation managers from all PP regions. The piloted programme will be made freely available for sustain. enlargement of peer networks involved in AVM qualification across CE.
PPs will elaborate regional action plans and a Roadmap on AVM capacity building in CE and establish the "InnoPeer AVM Board" of high-ranked industry/academia experts and CE inno. policymakers that will sustainable steer the impl. of project results and promote the AVM agendy of CE at EU level.
METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WEED BEETS AND OTHER WEEDS

The present invention relates to a method for controlling bolters in Beta vulgaris growing areas, comprising planting Beta vulgaris plants or sowing Beta vulgaris seed comprising an endogenous allele encoding an epsp synthase having at position 179 an amino acid different from proline and applying a glyphosate herbicide to the growing plants.
Joint species and niche evolution

Understanding the tempo and mode of species diversification and concomitant ecological divergence has been a long-sought goal in evolutionary biology. As clades diversify, disparity in niches typically increases when new lineages colonize previously unfilled zones of niche space. Despite its critical importance in understanding life’s evolution, the universality of an interdependence between species diversification and niche evolution, as well as the directionality and drivers of this association, are still poorly understood. This is presumably attributable to the inherent computational and mathematical challenges to develop process-generating models that would couple diversification and niche evolutionary dynamics and the limited availability of extensive and comparable datasets to characterize niches over large radiations integrating neontological and paleontological data. In this project, I will first develop much-needed novel flexible models that allow joint inference on coupled diversification and trait evolution dynamics by allowing joint rate-heterogeneity for radiations of considerable size. Subsequently, I will enhance biological realism by expanding to multivariate evolution of traits, better characterizing the niche concept, and by integrating paleontological data. Finally, I will allow inference on biotic and abiotic drivers of the interrelationship of species and niche diversification. These models will enable examining hitherto untestable classic evolutionary hypotheses in a formal framework on the feedback between diversification and niche evolution, at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. By applying these models to big scale curated datasets of species-level niches and recently available phylogenetic trees for thousands of species and the ability to integrate fossil information, I will substantially increase our understanding on how biodiversity, both in terms of richness and niches, is generated.
System biology, simulation, and network analysis of enzymes in waste removal from the environment

Abstract Enzymes are the key to waste removal from the environment. Different enzymes such as monooxygenase, dehydrogenase, and esterase play important roles in the biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds. Enzyme engineering is an excellent choice for direct removal of toxic metabolites from the environment. Through laboratory work, tremendous amounts of data have been generated using current omics technologies. Traditional enzyme kinetics methods are lengthy, expensive, and time-consuming. Therefore we need to focus new technologies in wet laboratories with bioinformatic tools to explore more about enzyme catalysis and kinetics. System biology is used for cutting edge research in science using different in-built algorithms. In this chapter we discuss different approaches for bioremediation.
Use of titania or zirconia in the preparation of tertiary butyl alcohol from tertiary butyl hydroperoxide

A method for preparing tertiary butyl alcohol wherein a feedstock comprising a solvent solution of tertiary butyl hydroperoxide in tertiary butyl alcohol or a mixture of tertiary butyl alcohol with isobutane is charged to a hydroperoxide decomposition reaction zone containing a catalytically effective amount of a hydroperoxide decomposition catalyst consisting essentially of titania or zirconia and is brought into contact with the catalyst in liquid phase under hydroperoxide decomposition reaction conditions to convert the tertiary butyl hydroperoxide to decomposition products, principally tertiary butyl alcohol.
A tree-based WQI modeling approach for integrating Web databases

Everyday, more and more specialized databases (car rental, hotels, airfares, etc.) are available on the Web and can be only queried by means of a Web Query Interface (WQI). Since in the Web is increasing the number of domain-specific databases, it is getting very complicated for end users to explore the information stored in them. In this context, research efforts are focused on building a single (unified) specific-domain WQI that allows user to query and integrate information available in different Web databases. The construction of such integrated WQI, for a given domain, involves several complex tasks, specially the extraction, representation, understanding and mapping of semantic content of each individual WQI associated to a web database. Previous approaches have considered hierarchical models to build integrated WQI, preserving the ancestor-descendant relationships in individual WQIs. In this work, we propose a novel tree-based approach for automatic construction of a hierarchical model of visual content of WQIs, representing their components in a clear and concise form. In the proposed approach, the Document Object Model(DOM) tree of each WQI considered in the integration process is processed by a specialized web resource to obtain relevant visual information in the WQI such as fields (UIs), groups of UIs and super-groups as well as their corresponding labels. This process is guided by a set of 8 design heuristic rules for the right identification of labels and components. Experiments to evaluate the proposed strategy were conducted on the ICQ and Tel-8 datasets of UIUC repository. Our results showed that the proposed tree-based approach for representing the visual components in a WQI has more than 94% of accuracy, improving current reported approaches and making easier the integration process of domain-specifi
Luoghi del commercio, edilizia pubblica e organizzazione dello spazio urbano. Su Bologna e la Bolognina negli anni Trenta

La Bolognina è storicamente ritenuto il più grande quartiere operaio bolognese. Negli anni Trenta la sua crescita è tale da rendere evidente la necessità, per le autorità fasciste, di una sua funzionale integrazione nella città organizzata. Le modalità privilegiate sono quelle di una nazionalizzazione piccolo-borghese fondata sull’intrusione senza precedenti del pubblico negli spazi anche privati della città, in termini di pratiche abitative, uso dello spazio urbano e logiche dei consumi. Tra questi specifici percorsi è in particolare l’ultimo quello su cui più mi concentro, quello che, finora, meno ha goduto dell’attenzione degli storici. Quello dove un ruolo significativo viene assunto dalle vie dei negozi e dagli spazi connessi al dettaglio commerciale, dai commercianti e dalle loro vetrine elevate ora a “nuovi e molto trasparenti confini tra pubblico e privato”. Bolognina is considered the largest historic working-class district in Bologna. Given its rapid growth during the 1930s, fascist authorities decided it was time to integrate it with the city at the functional level. Their preferred strategy was a petit-bourgeois nationalization based on an unprecedented intrusion of the public even into the city’s private spaces, by way of housing practices, use of urban space and consumption patterns. Among these issues, the latter is the one I will focus on the most since it is the one that has so far received the least attention from historians. Shopping streets, retail spaces, shopkeepers and their shop windows – which have now become “new and rather transparent borders between public and private” – play a crucial role dealing with this theme.
Nuclear weapons choices governing vulnerabilities between past and future

Nuclear weapons choices commit populations and societies for decades and can wipe them out in matters of minutes. How is the scope of available nuclear weapons choices decided? Direct experience cannot be the answer as no one can rely on personal experience of nuclear war. Most decision-makers no longer even have the experience of the effects of such weapons either given that North Korea has been the only country testing nuclear weapons since 1998. The populations’ wishes do not qualify either, since they are very rarely consulted and only few studies on those attitudes exist. Therefore this project offers the first in depth global investigation of the grounds on which the scope of publicly acceptable nuclear weapons choices have been based since the end of nuclear testing. To do so, this project constructs an interdisciplinary research program about responsibility in an age of nuclear vulnerabilities. It investigates four ways in which nuclear weapons choices are bounded: 1) the intellectual categories we depend on to think about those issues; 2) the governance of nuclear knowledge by nuclear-weapons related institutions; 3) specific readings of the past identifying events or trends from which lessons are expected to be learned about the scope of the possible, and 4) the imaginary of possible futures as opposed to the ones deemed utopian. Combining archival research and interviews worldwide, with large-scale polling and discourse analysis of policy officials and strategists over several decades, it assesses the blinding power of categories created several decades ago and sometimes still deemed as irreplaceable lexicon of the nuclear age as well as the way in which nuclear weapons programs modify the governance of knowledge. Based on those findings, it offers a renewed notion of responsibility in the nuclear age built on full awareness of nuclear vulnerabilities in their epistemic and political dimensions, and not only the material ones.
Novel characterisation platform for formulation industry

We propose a novel platform for particle characterisation in diverse applications making use of colloidal suspensions. These are ubiquitous in applications across many sectors: agriculture, food, household and personal care goods, paints and coatings, oil, water treatment, etc.. In other applications, the role of suspensions is less obvious, but no less vital: molten chocolate is a suspension of sugar crystals in oil, while all ceramics start as particulate pastes (of, e.g. titania) before sintering. Particle characterisation is key to research, development and manufacturing in all of these industries. Our technique is based on the fast and accurate measurement of the dynamics of particles suspended in a liquid, which we have been developing in a current ERC Advance Grant. Our platform is unique in its speed, facility of operation and range of applications.
LAND-USE CHANGE AND HILLSLOPE INSTABILITY IN THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY BIOSPHERE RESERVE, CENTRAL MEXICO

One of the most important protected areas of Mexico where payment for environmental services has been introduced is the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR) in the state of Michoacan. This paper presents a spatial and chronological portrait of land degradation in the Angangueo sector of the MBBR; land-use changes over about four decades are analysed by assessing data for the years 1971, 1994, 2009 and 2010. A significant landsliding episode occurred in February 2010, when several debris flows affected the area of the Reserve, causing 16 deaths, substantial damage to roads, electricity and the water supply system, and indirect consequences for crop production, cattle farming and tourism. Changes in land cover between 2009 and 2010 were assessed to determine the likely role of deforestation on landsliding as well as to estimate the significance of landslides in land-use change. The former was demonstrated because digital photo interpretation and field observations revealed that the debris flows began in deforested zones. The findings also indicated that 54·57 ha of forest were either degraded or destroyed as a consequence of landslides and winds.

In the Angangueo basin, the rate of land-cover change from 1971 to 1994 was 0·96 per cent, from 1994 to 2009 it had decreased to 0·91 per cent, but for the year 2010 had increased to 0·97 per cent, mainly as a result of the landsliding episode of February 2010. The MBBR has experienced a relatively significant amount of land-cover change over the past four decades, although deforestation has not increased as severely as in other areas of Mexico. This suggests that payments for environmental services can reduce the human-induced deforestation; however, mitigation of the impact caused by hazards in forest areas should be sought from a perspective that includes disaster theory and geodiversity. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Compressed heat energy storage for energy from renewable sources

The main objective of the CHESTER project is the development and validation of an innovative system that allows for energy management, storage and dispatchable supply of many different RES by combining the electricity sector with the heat sector. This is done by combining an innovative power-to-heat-to-power energy storage system, the so called CHEST (Compressed Heat Energy Storage) system with Smart District Heating thus leading to a very flexible and smart renewable energy management system that is able to store electric energy with a round trip efficiency of 100% or even higher, site-independent unlike pumped hydro, cyclically stable unlike batteries, able to convert power into heat, able to convert renewable low temperature heat into power, able to store and deliver independently from each other upon request both, heat and power, cost competitive.
CHEST is based on existing technology (heat pump, thermal storage and ORC) but ground breaking advancements are necessary to ensure a high-efficient and cost-competitive CHEST system. A smart system control strategy will be developed, including the implementation of forecasting models, that allows the system to use the energy in the most cost efficient, technically appropriate and flexible way. It will consider the interaction with the electric grid (supply and demand side), the interaction with the district heating network and the integration of other heat sources. A complete 10 kWel laboratory CHEST system will be built and validated in a relevant environment. Overall TRL will be increased from 3 to 5. All relevant exploitation and dissemination issues will be covered.
The CHEST system, a promising energy storage and management system, will be key towards the achievement of energy objectives and mitigating the energy challenges of the future energy system. Large scale plants (multi-MW range) at cost- competitive costs (130€/kWh) could reach the market by 2025.
Establishing common models of integrated sustainable monitoring, planning and management of high environmental value areas to control natural resources degradation

The project INNOVA aims at establishing common models of integrated sustainable monitoring, planning and management of high environmental value areas to control natural resources degradation.The main problem addressed by the project is the absence of common guidelines in the ARCHIMED ecoregion for monitoring, management and planning of high environmental value areas. In order to favour regional cohesion between ARCHIMED countries, the project proposes the participatory development of common regional based guidelines for monitoring, planning and management of the areas of high environmental value (IUCN protected areas). This goal can be achieved through the wide partnership involved in the project (N°14 Partner of 7 Countries) at both analytical or activity level and network level – institutional and scientific – favouring the widest consultation in developing shared guidelines and implementing them at each country in pilot areas. Results will be disseminated and used beyond the project as the networks are envisaged to become permanent consultation tools. The financial participation of 3 Third Countries and of the national or regional public administration of Apulia, Malta, Cyprus, Greece proves the importance of the objectives proposed for the ARCHIMED area. An important support derives from the involvement of Lebanon and Syria (letter of intent as cooperating member). The final objective is to improve sustainable management of high environmental value areas, through the adoption of common guidelines of monitoring, planning and management of the Mediterranean ecoregion. A basic element will be the creation of international networks of political-administrative and scientific agencies responsible for the management of areas. The project meets the following requirements: • Improving the public intervention in the sector of natural resources and biodiversity management in order to stop physical degradation of natural resources, soil and water in particular, the decrease of habitats and impoverishment of biodiversity; • Working out integrated strategies for the spatial development of protected areas, of high environmental value areas, through actions for sustainable development; • Improving the management, planning and sustainable enhancement of local developer and of local populations; • Promoting trans-national cooperation interventions for the implementation of integrated strategies in the natural resources management; • Improving technologically advanced methods and tools for monitoring, management and planning of nature areas and in support of decision-making. The final result will be the transposition of common guidelines in ARCHIMED countries, an information system to support the management of areas and a permanent institutional consulting table.
HYDRAULIC SUPPORTING DEVICE

A hydraulic supporting device for supporting a first beam (52) on a second beam (53) has a pressure cushion (54) between the two beams. The pressure in the pressure cushion is variable but uniform over the whole length of the pressure cushion. The pressure cushion (54) rests on a contact surface on the first beam (52). The cross-sectional width (b) of the contact surface is less than the total width of the pressure cushion (54). A free space (55) into which a flexible tube of the pressure cushion (54) can penetrate is provided on each side of the contact surface.
Effect of crude saponins from <i>Gaultheria trichophylla</i> extract on growth inhibition in human colorectal cancer cells

The genus Gaultheria also comprised of species with reported cytotoxic activities. Current research work  was carried out to evaluate G. trichophylla crude extract and respective saponins fraction against human colorectal cancer cell line (Caco-2) based on cell viability assays. Caco-2 cells treated with the crude extract showed significant growth  inhibition (p< 0.001) in a dose dependent manner with apparent IC 50 value of 200 μg/mL and 100 μg/mL in MTT and NRU assays respectively. The fractioned crude saponins showed an enhanced response and inhibited the growth of Caco-2 by 93.6 and 97.4% in MTT and NRU assays respectively, with compared to actinomycin-D (65%). The DAPI staining of cell treated with crude saponins observed under confocal microscope showed shrunken nuclei with apparent nuclear fragmentation and chromatin condensation indicating apoptosis mode of cell death. The study exhibited that the G. Trichophylla saponins induced apoptosis of Caco-2 cell lines. This study provides new evidences to further explore this plant for the novel targets in anticancer drug development.
Entangled interfaith identities and relations from the mediterranean to the united states: the st james association and its transnational christian-jewish network in the israeli-palestinian conflict

Mixed religious identities and interfaith relations represent one of the most crucial and debated phenomena in the 21st century. The revival of the religious dimension in the world is evident in the growing religious implications in modern and contemporary wars. The REL-NET project tackles these global issues through the analysis of a significant case study that has been overlooked in the historiography: the history of Christian–Jewish transnational networks between Israel, Palestine, the Middle East, Europe and the United States after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In particular, I will focus on the history of the St James Association (SJA) since the end of the 1940s. The SJA is a community formed by Holocaust survivors who converted to Christianity, moved to Israel and settled in the mainly Arab Jerusalem Church. Some SJA members became well-known intellectuals who developed an international network that influenced Christian–Jewish–Muslim relations during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and on a global scale. Using multiple and interdisciplinary methodologies and an unprecedented mass of unpublished archival documentation disseminated all over the world will lead me to retrace the strands that contributed to the new relations between Jews and Christians while also engaging Muslim communities. Involving an extensive programme of teaching, language, digital and project management training at Fordham and Ca’ Foscari universities and under the supervision of two leading scholars in these fields, the MSCA-GF will give me the extraordinary opportunity to outline a new framework for the historical appraisal of religious relationships in the contemporary world, delivering innovative outputs in terms of academic products and in disseminating them to a larger and non-specialist audience and significantly advancing my already solid experience within European research programmes (ERC and ERASMUS), which will decisively enhance my academic career.