SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
BioSTEAM-LCA: An Integrated Modeling Framework for Agile Life Cycle Assessment of Biorefineries under Uncertainty

Biorefineries will play a critical role in sustainable bioeconomies, but projections of their environmental impacts vary widely. A core challenge with life cycle assessments (LCAs) of biorefineries is that they are often disconnected from biorefinery design, simulation, and techno-economic analysis (TEA). This lack of integration is a barrier to early stage technology and process evaluations, reducing consistency and transparency across sustainability indicators while limiting our understanding of the relative importance of individual factors (e.g., design decisions, greenhouse gas emission accounting procedures), how these factors interact, and trade-offs or synergies with process economics. In this study, we propose a new agile LCA framework, BioSTEAM-LCA, which layers onto BioSTEAM (Biorefinery Simulation and Techno-Economic Analysis Modules, which automates biorefinery design, simulation, and TEA) to characterize the environmental impacts of biorefineries across a landscape of designs, technology performance assumptions, and contexts. Inventory databases and impact assessment methods are integrated to enable flexible user defined LCA system models, and the implications of uncertainties throughout the production system are characterized via Monte Carlo simulation. To demonstrate the capabilities of BioSTEAM-LCA, we present a case study for sugarcane ethanol production. Overall, BioSTEAM-LCA enables computationally efficient, agile gate-to-gate LCA to evaluate biorefinery processes, the production of candidate biofuels and bioproducts, and trade-offs among productivity, economics, and environmental impacts under uncertainty.
Artificial intelligence based virtual control room for the arctic (ai-arc)

The AI-ARC proposal presents a highly innovative and user-friendly artificial intelligence (AI) based platform known as the Virtual Control Room (VCR). Due to the vast amounts of information collected the potential for information overload is real. This reality can complicate the operational picture; reduce situational awareness and often results in delayed and impaired decision-making. On the other hand, areas such as the Arctic Sea suffer from a lack of communication, surveillance data and rescue assets and without action taken to address these vulnerabilities, the consequences are potentially dramatic in terms of accidents, pollution, border infringements and criminal activities.
The AI-ARC VCR supports all these challenges by applying AI, machine-learning and virtual reality (VR) technologies to filter numerous validated and statistical data streams and databases to a user-friendly interface. The VCR improves situational awareness by assisting end users to customize a “smart” operational picture. The VCR will permit users to specify their preferences in terms of threat levels, abnormal behavior, interoperability and risk management by flagging detected anomalies with confidence and providing threat or risk levels according to a predefined model based on user preferences. This means that users can create awareness for their own purposes that reflects their needs without increasing their workload.

AI-ARC‘s principal objectives align fully with the H2020 BES-SU-open, and are of crucial relevance to it. The Virtual Control Room (VCR) has the power to greatly improve maritime situational awareness, decision-making, communication, available rescue resources, and thus the safety of all maritime actors, particularly in the Arctic Sea. Furthermore, the enhanced communication and collaboration provided by AI ARC’s innovative technology encourages, and enables further development of symbiotic services and fosters much needed Arctic cooperation.
Improvements in or relating to treating wool

As an aid to felting, wool is treated with a beta-lactone in the presence of sufficient water to saturate the fibres, the lactone being present in an amount sufficient to provide a pick-up of at least 10 per cent, based on the weight of the untreated wool. The lactone, which is preferably a water-soluble lactone having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, may be of the general formula C(R)2C(R)2COO, where R is hydrogen or an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical. Beta-propiolactone is mentioned. The lactone may be applied to the wool in aqueous admixture by immersion or spraying or the wool may be saturated with water and subsequently treated with the lactone. The lactone or aqueous-lactone admixture may be applied at temperatures from 0 DEG C. to 100 DEG C. and, if applied at temperatures below 60 DEG C., the wool is given a short heat treatment at 80 DEG C. to 100 DEG C. In examples, carded batts are treated and are subsequently steamed, felted on each side, fulled with sulphuric acid, neutralized with ammonia, rinsed and dried. Reclaimed and re-used wool stocks may be treated. U.S.A. Specification 2,517,573 is referred to.
Polluted site decontamination - pcp

POSIDON gathers 5 European procurers facing similar problems in the sites they manage, affected by analogous pollutants (2 front-runners-Trieste, IT and Bilbao, ES-and 3 observers - Spaque, BE; Vitoria Gasteiz, ES; Baja do Tejo, PT), leveraging public demand to identify fit-for-purpose and cost-effective innovative and sustainable solutions to soil contamination.
The common challenge faced by the buyers’ group is identifying a new, life-cycle cost-effective technology for soil and groundwater remediation, capable of decontaminating heterogeneous anthropic soils in brownfields with a mixture of industrial waste (blast furnace slags, construction & demolition waste, filling soils polluted by petroleum hydrocarbons) and soils consisting of clays and sands of marine origin, highly polluted by petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs and PAHs) and heavy metals (arsenic and lead). Studies on the state of the art, patent analysis, foresight scanning and early market engagement meetings, show that no available technology can meet all identified needs, thus appropriate remediation technologies cannot be acquired through traditional off-the-shelf procurement.With PCP, procurers aim to achieve ambitious improvements in terms of quality and effectiveness,  efficiency and sustainability of new technology to bring to the market. 
R&D will be split into three phases: solution design, prototyping, original development and testing of 2 prototypes. Evaluations after each phase progressively identify solutions offering the best value for money. This phased approach allows successful contractors to improve their offers for the next phase based on feedback from procurers.
POSIDON intends to create a critical mass through the consolidation of a pan-European network of procurers who, sharing their needs and efforts, can enable the development - through PCP - and subsequent deployment - through a PPI - of novel technologies aimed to cover bigger market challenges in areas of common European interest
Enhancing social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies

Social Enterprises (SE) are drivers of social change that operate on the basis of viable business models, providing goods/services for the market in an entrepreneurial and innovative fashion and using profits primarily to achieve social objectives (European Commission’s Social Business Initiative (SBI) communication). The potential of SE to promote more and better jobs and generate inclusive growth, while addressing major societal challenges is widely recognised, especially after the adoption of the EC’s SBI in 2011. 

In view of the above, many European regions have in the past years rolled out initiatives to foster social entrepreneurship. The current issue at stake is, however, on how to effectively promote the competitiveness of SE already competing in the market, taking into account that their support needs differ from mainstream SMEs. In effect, SE business support policies are still rare and, when available, fragmented among public authorities. 

This challenge has motivated RaiSE partners to engage in cooperation and interregional exchange to enhance regional SE support policies to foster competitiveness, facilitating access to markets as well as finance and innovation. 6 regions, with an existing SE base but varied policy contexts, unite efforts to tackle the common challenge. 

Numerous activities have been structured in Phase 1 to promote active interregional exchange and effective regional stakeholder engagement for joint development of regional Action Plans (AP), as well as EU-wide dissemination. The plans should conduce improvements in the policy instruments selected, delivering new and enhanced services, further specialisation of training and support infrastructure, new funding for cooperation and ventures, etc. They should also conduce to better governance, engaging multiple stakeholders in policy development and implementation. The roll out of the APs will be monitored through Phase 2 over two years. All in all, the project duration is 54 months.
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONDUCTING A NEW GAME BASED ON POKER AND A LIVE OR VIRTUAL OR PRE-RECORDED EVENT

A computer-implemented system and method that includes displaying a group of numbers to a first and second player. The system and method further includes receiving a group of N numbers and a sequence of numbers for first and second players. The system and method includes receiving a wager, fold indication or raise indication from the first or second player and receiving an event result that includes N winning numbers corresponding to winning participants and a winning sequence of N winning numbers. The system and method includes receiving a wager, fold indication or raise indication from a first or second player and comparing the N winning numbers and winning sequence to the numbers and sequences for the first and second players. The system and method includes identifying a winning player matching winning criteria of a higher ranking wanning category and distributing a winning pool of wagers to the one winning player.
CURED TRANSPARENT RUBBER ARTICLE, AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME

The present disclosure provides a process for preparing a cured transparent rubber composition containing a synthetic isoprene polymer(s), a transparent polymer(s), a curing agent and additives. The process includes mixing the components at a temperature ranging from 50 to 130° C., curing the compound with peroxide and allowing the compound to mature. The maturated compound is fed to an injection moulding machine. The cured transparent rubber composition prepared using the methods described herein has a haze of less than 30% and a total light transmission of more than 80%. The disclosure further provides an article including the cured transparent rubber composition, in particular for medical applications and artificial nipples.
Sustainable Tourism In Fragile Territories

The final aim of SHIFT is to propose an IQM (Integrated Quality Management) model to experiment strategies fostering sustainable development in fragile Mediterranean coastal and island areas. The sustainability of tourism is an ethical requirement and factor of competitiveness in the Mediterranean to preserve its vulnerable economic, natural, cultural and social heritage. Not only do environmental abuses impoverish the island and coastal heritage, but as today’s tourists are increasingly demanding, the quality, diversity and specific environmental and cultural attributes of tourism supply constitute a key factor of its competitiveness. The strategy will support new local employment and economic growth redistributing existing tourism pressure over an extended season and toward different market segments drawn from local cultural and natural diversity. Opting for a sustainable approach entails institutional leadership, co-ordination with the private sector, social involvement and skilled technical backing: All stakeholders have a shared responsibility to make tourism sustainable: they will work together for a “total quality” approach, embracing ethical, strategic and commercial criteria, that will hold the key to the competitive quality of destinations,. A new type of integrated planning and management based on broad institutional, economic and social agreement will be a prerequisite for the preparation of guidelines for sustainable development.
Revitalisation of Traditional Industrial Areas in South-East Europe

ReTInA deals with the important transnational challenge of brownfield revitalisation. In the SEE area revit. is delayed and hindered because of legal, financial, organisational and image problems. Brownfields pose a challenge. They represent an underexplored economic value, are areas for investment and could be motors for job creation. Urgency is required because of bad influence on the image of affected cities. It weakens competitive investment position for the cities and for SEE as a whole. The goal of the project is to tackle these problems in an integrated way via a jointly developed revit. method consisting of a model masterplan and a strong campaign on stakeholder engagement. Three innovative transnational case studies (TCS) will be developed which focus on thematic challenges of brownfield revitalization. The TCS deal with creative imaging (design competition), legal/finance (a pilot plot ready made for investment) and urban/environment (multistakeholder involv.in cleaning up polluted brownfields). The TCS are jointly developed, monitored and implemented. Direct bottom up support via local brownfield stakeholder groups (BSG) combined with a strong focus on thematic taskforces as experienced content providers (via masterclasses, benchmarks, peer reviews and training modules for BSG) will ensure applicability and support of gained knowledge. The partnership is selected based on common problems and goals but also to find a match in partners bringing and needing knowledge. They represent a good overall picture of the SEE area and are all competent to deal with an implement the issues at stake. Main result of the project will be that all partners are ready and received the required tools to boost their brownfield revit, a start has been made to improve the image of these brownfields, investment interest has increased and a method and tools are developed and tested which can be made available to many other cities in SEE coping with similar problems and challenges.
Land of (Re)Enchantment: Tourism and Sacred Space at Roswell and Chimayó, New Mexico

By 1922, year he would turn thirty-seven years old, British author and world traveler D. H. Lawrence was exhausted spiritually and emo- tionally. While he had seen a great deal of world and appreciated some of beauty and wonder he had found, he had never experienced what he considered to be a moment of true transcendence. Lawrence was feeling crush of urbanization and industrialization, in which, as he puts it, there is no mystery left, we've been there, we've seen it, we know all about it, (and) Peking is just same as New York.1 Lawrence had witnessed all, felt absolutely nothing, and despaired of ever making a connection with any of beautiful lands he had seen, or would see. Then he traveled to New Mexico. Lawrence's sojourn in New Mexico placed him in a category of revi- talization and rebirth with many other spiritual pilgrims who have come to Land of Enchantment. He called his time in New Mexico the greatest experience of outside world I have ever had. The landscape was more than regenerative and aesthetic: it had a splendid silent ter- ror, and in a grand flourish he noted, Ah, yes, in New Mexico heart is sacrificed to sun and human being is left stark, heartless, but undauntedly religious.2 Lawrence was far from first person to equate New Mexican landscape with sacred and transcendent. Before Spanish conquest, Native Americans venerated land. In 1500s, Spanish arrived and set to work converting Indians, but they also noted beauty of desert landscape. Then United
Converged wireless access for reliable 5g mtc for factories of the future

Clear5G’s objective is to design, develop, validate, and demonstrate an integrated convergent wireless network for Machine Type and Mission Critical Communication (MTC/MCC) services for Factories of the Future (FoF). Clear5G will deliver technical solutions addressing the challenges of massive deployment of connected devices, security, ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability in FoF applications, like remote maintenance and closed loop control systems. The requirements of these complex scenarios will be met through the convergence of different wireless technologies, enabled by protocol and architecture enhancements proposed by Clear5G.
Clear5G will focus on providing PHY, MAC, and architectural enhancements to meet the strict requirements of FoF applications in terms of KPIs: latency, reliability, connection density, spectrum, and energy efficiency, thus contributing to the ITU-R objectives (e.g. 1000 fold connection density) for the next generation mobile network.
The Clear5G team comprises a combination of European and Taiwanese successful, innovative, and well known major corporations, SMEs, as well as research and academic institutions. The partners have proven know-how in architecture, resource management, protocol enhancements, standardization, prototyping, and demonstration. Proof of concepts will be tested on the 5GIC testbed in Europe, while the final system demonstration, showing the tight integration and cooperation of manufacturing and the Clear5G enhanced network, will be implemented on the III testbed in Taiwan.
Clear5G brings together a strong and diverse set of European and Taiwanese partners, including partners from the FoF sector; the complementarity of team, skills and expertise will bring added value to 5G research on both sides and will deepen international cooperation, serving as a showcase of 5G empowering vertical industries. The partners will contribute to relevant standardisation in both the communication and the manufacturing domains.
Increase in the resilience of the territories of the Italian-French Riviera and of the Lower Piedmont

"This project is part of the plan RISK": The project intends to face the geomorphological fragility and the hydrogeological risks of the cross border internal areas affected in recent decades by the socio-economic changes resulting in the desertion of the territories. The security and safeguarding of these areas are presented as essential preliminary factors to curb rural exodus, consolidate local specificities and promote forms of sustainable use. It intends to develop a model of prevention and risk management, built on the experiments done at the local level.

The PITER area comprises a long coastal segment extending over the French and Italian territories, the southern Piedmont hills system, and the last foothills of the Maritime Alps, acting as a junction. The partnership, made up of administrations working at the departmental or regional level, universities and chambers of commerce, wants to establish, on the territory, a form of public-private governance on several levels. The objective is to support competitiveness and sustainable economic development within the territory, through the enhancement of one of its strong points: the landscape, as a synthesis of identity, fruit of nature and men's work. Projects contribute to the strategy, by combining landscape and safeguarding (OS 

1.2 - energy redevelopment of built heritage), management (OS 

2.2 - building resilience and risk prevention policies), development (OS 

3.1 - creation of sustainable tourism products, intended for a responsible public, with high spending capacity) and training (OS 

4.2 - creation of specialists in project-related subjects, able to provide support to the socio-economic operators of the territory). The synergy between the coastal Liguria and PACA systems and the Langhe and Roero hills system makes it possible to jointly develop strategies with the aim of maintaining the tourist positioning of these areas on an international scale.
Watch with means for introducing electrical connection means into the watch case

A first electrical module (5) within the watch case (1) may be connected to a second electrical module located in the bracelet by a connection (3) which passes through an orifice (17) in the watch case. An entry fitting (4) made watertight by a ring joint (7,71) is located within the watch case orifice by the bracelet hinge (21) and houses the connection (3) which is sealed by a silicon joint (7)
Interactions Between Biodiversity Offsets and Protected Area Commitments: Avoiding Perverse Outcomes

Economic growth is often in conflict with environmental goals. Biodiversity offsetting attempts to resolve this conflict by requiring industries to compensate for the biodiversity loss they cause, by generating an equivalent biodiversity gain elsewhere. Offsets for environmental impacts are increasingly being seen as a way to help meet preexisting conservation targets, such as those relating to the establishment and management of protected areas. We examine how using offsets to meet a state or organization's genuine commitments, which are not contingent on the offsets, results in no additional conservation benefit. In this case, either the offset or the preexisting commitment is invalid. For example, the use of offsets to meet commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity requires an admission that those commitments would otherwise not be met. This interaction between international agreements around protected areas and offset policy can generate perverse incentives, which must be carefully managed to avoid poor conservation outcomes. We propose separate accounting for conservation gains generated using offsets, and that future conservation agreements and targets should explicitly separate commitments met using offset gains from those which are not reliant on equivalent losses.
Numerical Study of Agitation Performance in a Drilling Mud Mixing Tank to Non-Newtonian Rheological Properties

ABSTRACT Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics takes charge of an important role in the oil industries. Especially in the oil well drilling process, the drilling fluid such as mud keeps the drill bit cool and clean during drilling, with suspending drill cuttings and lubricating a drill bit. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of fluid mud rheological properties to predict different characteristics of non-Newtonian fluid in the mud mixing tank on offshore drilling platforms. In this paper, ANSYS fluent package was used for the simulation to solve the hydrodynamic force and to evaluate mud mixing time. Prediction of the power consumption and the pumping effectiveness has been presented with different operating fluid models as Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid. The comparison between Newtonain mud model and non-Newtonian mud model is confirmed by the CFD simulation method of drilling mud mixing tank. The results present useful information for the design of the drilling mud mixing tanks and provide some guidance on the use of CFD tool for such non-Newtonian fluid flow.