SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Rais: real-time analytics for the internet of sports

Over the past few years, we have been witnessing an increasing presence and usage of wearable sensing and quantified- self devices. The rise of embedded and wearable computing is expected to bring the next revolution of the Internet of Sports, enhancing fitness, performance health, productivity and safety as well as creating new jobs and opening new markets. Nevertheless, at a European level, there is a recognized shortage of highly skilled researchers, scientists and engineers with transferable skills and entrepreneurial experience, trained in building IT platforms and service infrastructures capable of hosting innovative collective sensing services and applications. The RAIS consortium comprising 6 beneficiaries and 7 fully committed partner organizations, aspires to establish the core for a fertile multidisciplinary research and innovation community with strong entrepreneurial culture that will advance:1) wearable sport-sensing and quantified-self devices and accompanying middleware;2) technologies of Big Data mining and analytics that are needed to capture a broad range of users’ sports- and wellness-related information.The main objective of RAIS is to provide world class training for a next generation of researchers, computer scientists, and data engineers, emphasizing a strong combination of advanced understanding in both theoretical and experimental approaches, methodologies and tools that are required to develop decentralized, scalable, and secure collective sensing infrastructures and platforms. RAIS training network will fund 14 ESRs, 3 workshops, 1 Hackathlon event, 1 entrepreneurship event, 3 summer schools and a final Conference. To meet this goal, RAIS will focus on developing new technologies on Big Data Analytics on the Edge, Data Stream Processing, Distributed and Decentralized Machine Learning, Blockchain as well as Security/Privacy. These topics include important and timely research challenges with an immediate exploitation potential.
Turismo del Gusto

“Toursime du Goût” – TdG is a project of valorisation, innovation and preservation of territorial gastronomy. It’s been based on local agricultural products valorisation, and on the restaurateur’s knowledges on local products transformation. Promoting these short circuits, the project is inset within sustainable development principles. The main objective of the project is to consolidate these sectors by the increasing of practical and know-hows, consolidate knowledges and competences of professional from the sector, improving welcoming and restauration quality, create an actor network of cross-border touristic. The cross-border approach is fundamental because it’s a real shared culture shared between Savoy and Piedmont, from their common history, under Savoy’s State, and of the strong historical, geographical and sociological connotation of this Nord Alpine entity.
Association between mandibular torus and parafunctional activity

ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to assess the association between mandibular torus and its size with the presence of bruxism and other variables related to parafunctional activity (e.g. anxiety, wear facets, self-perception and family members perception of bruxism, headache and/or muscle fatigue).Materials and methodsSubjects included in the study were examined and interviewed and they completed a questionnaire on anxiety. The subjects were divided into two paired groups according to age and gender with the case group formed by 100 individuals having mandibular torus and a control group formed by individuals without. Each group had 33 men and 67 women with ages ranging from 20 to 62 years old (mean age 41 years).ResultsThe results showed that patients with bruxism are 4 times more likely to have mandibular torus compared to those patients without bruxism. The presence of wear facets increases the risk of mandibular torus by 20 times. Only the variables bruxism and wear facets had relatively strong correlations with the size of mandibular torus.ConclusionsThere was a strong association between mandibular torus and presence of both bruxism and wear facets. Such correlations were positive thus indicating an important trend in which a higher degree of bruxism is related to an increased size of the mandibular torus. The other variables, despite their statistical significance, had poor correlations and thus were not found to be clinically important.
Augmented lifetime of infiltrated solid oxide fuel cells

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are one of the most promising technologies to produce electricity in a clean and efficient way. However, their practical application is still limited by detrimental degradation during operation as a consequence of convoluted chemical, mechanical and microstructural deterioration processes, occurring especially at the anode when hydrocarbon fuels are used. This project aims to assess the electrode microstructural degradation through a combined experimental/modelling approach consisting of accelerated ageing tests, impedance spectroscopy analysis, tomographic reconstruction of samples, particle-based algorithms and electrochemical model simulations. Infiltrated cermet anodes are considered in the study, due to their well-defined microstructure that allows them to be, at the same time, a good model platform to assess the microstructural evolution and a high performing alternative for SOFC applications. The synergic integration of experimental activities, microstructural characterization and model simulations is expected to identify and quantify the underlying mechanisms of microstructural degradation (e.g., particle coarsening and agglomeration) and to suggest strategies to enhance the durability of infiltrated electrodes (for example, by adding a controlled amount of ceramic nanoparticles to limit the coarsening of metallic particles within the electrode). The project, combining the researcher's expertise in microstructural and electrochemical modelling with the competences in testing and tomographic characterization at the host institution, is expected to be a pillar in the researcher's academic career while significantly contributing to boost the European excellence in a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary topic such as the fabrication and characterization of efficient and durable solid oxide fuel cells.
Application of synthetic aperture techniques to radar echosoundings of the Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

In this PhD I have developed a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing algorithm and applied it to airborne radar sounding data collected during the 2004/05 austral summer season over Pine Island Glacier (PIG) West Antarctica. The SAR processing algorithm is one-dimensional and non-symmetrical and is applied in MATLAB® . Phase corrections are calculated and applied on a trace-by-trace basis, and are based on pre-calculated lookup tables. The section of the survey that I concentrated on was that of the main PIG glacier trunk, which was flown at a terrain clearance of between 110 m and 260 m. The flights over the trunk were sub-divided into 4 along-flow flight sections (L 1 -L4) and 13 cross-flow flight sections (X1-X13). After SAR processing the levels of surface clutter are reduced allowing for the imaging of englacial layering and the bed-interface, even in areas of heavy surface crevassing. In addition the SAR processor improves the along-track resolution from hundreds of metres to metres allowing for the imaging of small-scale subglacial and englacial features. Using SAR processed data in proximity to the grounding line I constrained the grounded ice interface material by inverting the radar equation. 0n the PIG ice shelf I observed bottom crevassing extending from the base of the ice shelf into the ice mass. By performing a stress analysis using published velocity fields I estimated the maximum height a bottom crevasse can reach and the strain rates required for their formation. I also observed undulations on the ice shelf base and using spectral analysis techniques I show these undulations to have a dominant periodicity of around a year. I therefore link the genesis of these undulations to localised melting at the grounding line forced by an annual influx of circumpolar deepwater into the ice shelf cavity. These undulations decrease in amplitude away from their grounding line formation site which I attribute to a combination of melting by modified circumpolar deep water escaping the cavity and viscous relaxation of ice operating on a decadal timescale.
Aumentar a competitividade da MM SERVICE LTD através do aumento da eficiência e eficácia do processo de produção

Mm SERVICE Ltd. foi criada em 1991 com sua principal atividade de design, produção, reciclagem, comércio e serviços com máquinas, equipamentos higiênicos e peças de reposição para a indústria de alimentos, principalmente para a indústria de processamento de carne. A empresa é uma das primeiras no país a importar equipamento especializado da Alemanha para as necessidades da indústria de transformação de carne e é um representante oficial dos produtores da Alemanha, Itália, Polónia e Espanha. A empresa é líder entre os consumidores do mercado nacional de processamento de carne, servida pela indústria de fabricantes e importadores de máquinas e assume um papel de liderança na formação de altos critérios de fornecimento e atendimento ao cliente. Desde fevereiro de 2011, a MM SERVICE Ltd. está localizada em um novo edifício que atende aos requisitos para melhorar a qualidade do processo de trabalho dentro da empresa e para expandir a capacidade de produção da empresa. Juntamente com o certificado ISO 9001 da TUV Rheiland, a empresa desenvolveu uma das principais máquinas no setor de processamento de carne de acordo com o padrão alemão. Através da proposta de projeto será comprada 1 peça de prensa CNC com controle de cinco eixos, 1 peça guilhotina eletromecânica com controle numérico, 2 guindaste de ponte, 1 peça de fresadora universal, 1 peça de torno universal e equipamento de jateamento para trabalhar com abrasivos de aço e contas de vidro, assim a empresa melhorará a eficiência de recursos e eficiência do processo de produção. A duração do projeto é de 12 e o seu valor é de 700 000 BGN.
Development of hybrid artificial skin substitute for chronic diabetic wounds

It is estimated that the incidence of diabetes in Europe will affect 43 million people by 2030. 15% of diabetic patients develop a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) with 14-24% of these patients requiring amputation. Mortality following amputation of 50–68% is comparable or worse than for most malignancies. My strategy will develop for the first time a skin substitute which combines a biopolymer and a functionalized synthetic FDA approved polymer incorporating bioactive components and AgO and ZnO nanoparticles as antibacterial agents. The cellular compatibility of the hybrid skin substitute will be assessed on fibroblast, keratinocyte and hMSC in a 3D cell culture model. The antimicrobial efficacy will be assessed in vitro and in vivo. The optimised scaffold will be assessed in an alloxan-induced diabetic rabbit ulcer model with gold standards Integra® and Alloderm® skin grafts acting as commercial controls to validate the commercial potential of the technology. Progress to completion will be reviewed by a Research and Professional Development Plan which will provide both discipline-specific and complementary technical training (molecular biology, diabetic wound healing in vivo models, and histological and stereological techniques) and generic and complementary transferable skills training (e.g. intellectual property, leadership skills, motivation skills, communication skills, leveraging non-exchequer funding, regulatory affairs, clinical trial design, reimbursement strategies, medical device evaluation and regulatory affairs). I will benefit from Prof Pandit’s and Prof Dulce Papy-Garcia (secondment) international collaborative network in the field of diabetic wound healing. This training will facilitate me to achieve my future career goals of achieving a position of professional maturity, diversity and independence by establishing my own research group at a leading European institution and enabling me to translate innovative therapeutic interventions to the clinic setting.
Distributed optimization beyond worst-case topologies

Modern systems are increasingly dezentralized and massively distributed computations play a vital role in the systems of the future. This project aims to advance the foundational aspects of distributed computing, particularly MessagePassing algorithms for optimization problems. 

The strong shift towards distributed systems also lead to a flurry of works on such algorithms -- many optimization problems now have distributed algorithms with optimal worst-case performance guarantees. Generally, these guarantees cannot be improved because they match unconditional impossibility results, which prove severe limitations on the performance of distributed algorithms in some (pathological) network topologies. Real world networks, however, are never worst-case and do not share the limiting bottleneck characteristics of these pathological topologies. In fact, there is no known barrier for ultra-fast polylogarithmic-round distributed algorithms on any network of interest. This leaves an exponential gap between current worst-case-optimal algorithms and what is likely possible in many, if not all, real-world settings.

Motivated by this, this project provides a program for a general toolbox and theory for MessagePassing optimization algorithms that go beyond worst-case topologies. The main and guiding high-risk high-gain goal is the development of universally optimal distributed algorithms, which are competitive with the best algorithm on any given topology. This would constitute the strongest possible form of algorithmically adjusting to non-worst-case topologies. A detailed program with many concrete and smaller stepping stones towards this ambitious breakthrough objective is provided. Many of the novel questions stemming from this program and proposal are highly interdisciplinary, crossing boundaries between information theory, distributed computing, topological graph theory, and other parts of theoretical computer science, and are fundamental and interesting in their own right.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially-resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median redshift of z = 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between redshifts z = 0.6 and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGN and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope at Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in July 2016.
Deep vein thrombosis; a paradigm change in treatment through drug-free clot removal

Deep Vein Thrombosis is the 3rd leading cardiovascular disease behind heart attack and stroke with 1.2M cases diagnosed each year in the EU and US.

Left untreated, one third of DVT patients will be at risk of clot breaking away causing a Pulmonary Embolism which has a 50% mortality rate. In addition, significant chronic complications often occur such as clot recurrence (30%), chronic limb swelling associated with Post Thrombotic Syndrome (50%), ulceration and amputation. 

DVT patients are usually treated with drugs. Anticoagulation therapy alone helps prevent clot extension but it does not remove the clot. Other therapies often involve long hospital stays and often require 24-72 hours in ICU due to the significant bleeding risks associated with heavier duty clot busting (Thrombolytic) drugs. The results are poor for patients with large occulsive clots and who are at risk of bleeding, and extremely expensive for healthcare providers.

Vetex Medical is an early stage medical device based in Ireland that has developed a platform technology that rapidly removes high volumes of clot form the deep veins without the use of thrombolytic drugs, and so will radically challenge the inefficiencies and economics present in the current management of deep vein thrombosis.

Deep Vein Thrombosis in the larger veins of the upper limb represents $600m market opportunity. Interventions in the treatment of DVT have been increasing steadily over the last number of years with growth rates of 15%. This market segment is increasingly ‘on trend’ and set to witness expedited growth over the coming years.

Vetex Medical is ambitious in its’ plan to bring the FreeFlow technology to market in both Europe and the US in 2021, through completion of a Clinical Trial and through securing regulatory approvals to allow market entry. The Vetex Medical Team has the skills and experience to develop and commercialise this novel medical technology and to implement a high
growth strategy.
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INCORPORATING BINDERS DURING GROUND STABILISATION

A method for incorporating binders during ground stabilisation, the method including continuously preparing ground in a mixing chamber (28) and adding binder in a substantially dry form directly to the mixing chamber. The binder may be supplied from a binder handling system which includes a continuously alternating, pressurised, multi-chamber binder-supply system having at least two supply chambers (36, 38) that are separately capable of being pressurised or placed under suction to continuously supply and maintain substantially full a binder reservoir (40). Also described is apparatus for incorporating binders during ground stabilisation, the apparatus being in the form of a machine capable of traversing the ground. The machine has a ground breaking assembly (20) with a mixing chamber (28), the ground breaking assembly being capable of co-operating with a binder handling system that is capable of continuously adding binder in a substantially dry form directly into the mixing chamber (28).
Towards a true protein movie: A perspective on the potential impact of the ensemble-based structure determination using exact NOEs

Confined by the Boltzmann distribution of the energies of the states, a multitude of structural states are inherent to biomolecules. For a detailed understanding of a protein's function, its entire structural landscape at atomic resolution and insight into the interconversion between all the structural states (i.e. dynamics) are required. Whereas dedicated trickery with NMR relaxation provides aspects of local dynamics, and 3D structure determination by NMR is well established, only recently have several attempts been made to formulate a more comprehensive description of the dynamics and the structural landscape of a protein. Here, a perspective is given on the use of exact NOEs (eNOEs) for the elucidation of structural ensembles of a protein describing the covered conformational space.
Photonic structural materials with controlled disorder

Structural colour reflected by photonic materials is typically attributed to highly ordered nanostructures with periodicities on the 100-nm length scale. When investigating structural colour in animals and plants, it is however becoming increasingly evident that brilliant photonic colour can also arise from seemingly disordered morphologies. This is surprising as uncontrolled disorder in photonic materials usually severely degrades their colour response. While some recent theories exist, the emergence of structural colour from disordered morphologies is fundamentally not understood.  It is clear however that these disordered morphologies must possess ""hidden correlations"", which enable the formation of a photonic band gap.

This project will uncover the design rules that underlie disordered photonic morphologies, thereby contributing to the fundamental understanding of photonic materials.  The project has a strong nature-inspired component, but will go beyond the examination of natural photonic materials. WP1 and WP2 will examine 3D and 2D disordered photonic morphologies in animals and plants, respectively.  The structural analysis of these materials will uncover hidden correlations in seemingly random morphologies.  WP2 and WP3 will manufacture materials that implement these correlations to recreate the optical signatures of the biological model organisms.  This will test the statistical analysis of WP1 and WP2 and shed light on the \textit{in vivo} synthesis of the disordered photonic morphologies.  WP4 ties WP1-WP3 together by performing optical experiments and computer simulations.  By analysing both the far- and near-field results of the simulations and comparing them with the structural correlations and optical experiments, the  four WPs will not only provide a fundamental understanding of the interplay of structural correlations with optical interference in disordered materials,  it will also establish design rules allowing their facile manufacture.
Innovative epigenetic markers for fish domestication

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production sector in the world, since there is an increasing demand for fish protein to feed a growing global population, which cannot be met by fisheries. In order to ensure the sustainability of this sector it is critical to domesticate and selectively improve the major commercial fish species. To date, the genetic markers used in selective breeding of fish account only for a fraction of the observed phenotypic variation. EPIFISH is a scientifically innovative and timely project that will address fish domestication and selection from a new perspective using a multidisciplinary approach. The rapid pace of substantial phenotypic changes during adaptation to new environmental conditions in fish undergoing domestication raises the original hypothesis that epigenetic mechanisms are involved in this process. Thus, the overarching aim of EPIFISH is to ascertain the importance of epigenetics in fish domestication using the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) as model species. Specific objectives are i) to determine how selection affects the miRNA transcriptome and the epigenetic landscape during domestication, ii) to perform a functional characterization of miRNA variants and epigenetic alleles associated with growth, and iii) to validate them as potential epigenetic markers for future selective breeding programmes. The identification of epigenetic markers will be a ground-breaking element of EPIFISH with major impact on aquaculture biotechnology, since they will enable the development and application of epigenomic selection as a new feature in future selective breeding programmes. Moreover, the project outcomes will provide novel mechanistic insights into the role of epigenetics in fish domestication, which will surely open new horizons for future frontier research in epigenetics, namely transgenerational inheritance and nutritional epigenetics.