SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Cost-Effective combined heat and power generator for camping vans

Camper vans allow being autonomous as regards all services and comforts needed, however, the power supply is often a limitation: to overcome this problem camper vans generally dispose of supplementary batteries for services, mainly necessary when the vehicle is stationary and the engine is switched off, which unfortunately become exhausted after only a few hours of use. 
The present project aims at developing (and then commercializing) a new electricity generator for camping vans, which compensates for the drawbacks and overcomes the limitations of the state of the art solutions currently on the market, through proposing a completely silent system (19Db at 1mt) with limited CO2 emissions (30% less than gasoline generators).  The CHeaP generator will be a green,  silent, reliable, cost-effective and versatile solution for the camping vans.
With the CHeaP project activities, Mobil Tech (an IT SME) aims at optimizing and industrializing the generator prototype they have already developed in the few last years, opening a new big opportunity to expand the company business in central and northern Europe (with the support of Vadac, a well-known SME from The Netherlands).
The CHeaP proposers have the ambition of i) launching the product in the market in 24 months (at the end of the project) and ii) widening their business to geographical markets where, at the moment, they are not present, such as North and Central Europe.
The SME-Instrument will be extremely important to help MTech and Vadac to expand their business to the gensets market. The SME-instrument funding will reduce the investment that the two companies have forecasted to carry out all the activities for the implementation, the validation and the demonstration of the prototype before launching the CHeaP generator on the market. The covering of 70% of investment by the SME-instrument funding will decrease the initial economic effort from ca € 752,500 to € 225,750 completely affordable by the two small companies
CONNECTING ARRANGEMENT AT A POINT OF CARE

The invention relates to a connecting arrangement (l)for a fluid in order to provide for the supply of various types of gas at a point of care, wherein said connecting arrangement comprises a shut-off valve (18), and wherein said shut-off valve is arranged to shut-off the connecting arrangement at a preset temperature so that the supply of gas is stopped and wherein the connecting arrangement comprises a housing (4), equipped with a gas outlet point (49).
Determinant factors for community's access to safe and clean water in water shortage areas of Tanzania

For years since independence, several rural communities in Tanzania have continued to experience unabated pressure on access to safe and clean water. Consequently households in areas prone to water shortages have evolved devising different measures in revamping accessibility to water resource. However, the pattern of water accessibility in such areas is shaped by different factors. This paper narrates finding from a study conducted at Mwanza region in one of the area (Buswelu ward) proclaimed for persistent water shortages. The study investigated the socio-economic characteristics of community members, study area characteristics, water provision infrastructures and stakeholders initiatives in relation to water provision. A total of 84 head of households were involved comprising 33 males and 51 females. Both interview and observation methods were employed whereby questionnaires and focus group discussions were administered. Findings indicate that, both socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of household members emerged to shape differences in consumption pattern and accessibility to safe and clean water within households and wider in a community. While the burden of water scarcity is felt differently among households at different time intervals of the year, women and their daughters bare more burdens as compared to their men/boys counterparts because of the embedded socio-cultural set-up. However, persistence of water shortage in the area is exacerbated by prolonged drought concurrently with mismanagement of water sources and infrastructures. Finally recommendation is given to Local Authorities, Government and other Stakeholders to consider differences in households’ socio-economic and demographic characteristics as pre-factor for water development intervention in an area.
Whistler Influence on the Overall Very Low Frequency Wave Intensity in the Upper Ionosphere

We investigate the influence of lightning‐generated whistlers on the overall intensity of electromagnetic waves measured by the Detection of Electro‐Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions spacecraft (2004–2010, quasi Sun‐synchronous polar orbit with an altitude of about 700 km) at frequencies below 18 kHz. Whistler occurrence rate evaluated using an onboard neural network designed for automated whistler detection is used to distinguish periods of high and low whistler occurrence rates. It is shown that especially during the night and particularly in the frequency‐geomagnetic latitude intervals with a low average wave intensity, contribution of lightning‐generated whistlers to the overall wave intensity is significant. At frequencies below 1 kHz, where all six electromagnetic wave components were measured during specific intervals, the study is accompanied by analysis of wave propagation directions. When we limit the analysis only to fractional‐hop whistlers, which propagate away from the Earth, we find a reasonable agreement with results obtained from the whole data set. This also confirms the validity of the whistler occurrence rate analysis at higher frequencies.
Regional policies for innovation driven competitiveness and growth of rural SMEs

REGIONAL SUPPORT TO ENGAGE RURAL ECONOMY SMES IN INNOVATION:
Rural economy SMEs face challenges in adopting innovation to increase their competitiveness. Regional policies need to correspondingly support the diffusion of innovative solutions and new business models that will lead to increases in productivity and access to new markets. INNOGROW regions are called to play an important role in supporting the modernisation of their existing rural SMEs and the proliferation of innovative start-ups.  

PROJECT OBJECTIVE:
INNOGROW brings together 9 partners from 8 countries, involving the managing authorities & regional bodies influencing regional and national policy instruments, to exchange experiences & practices, and to improve their capacity on implementing policies that promote the adoption of technology and business model innovations by rural economy SMEs, to boost their competitiveness. 

EXPECTED CHANGES:
- Enhanced innovation support services for over 5% of rural economy SMEs in partners’ regions. 
- Improved horizontal & vertical cooperation among SMEs in rural areas for products commercialisation. 
- Increased capacity of 200 staff of public administrations to effectively implement policies, stimulating innovation adoption by rural economy SMEs. 
- 10+Meuros of investments unlocked to promote innovative technologies & new business models.  

MAIN OUTPUTS & BENEFITS :
3 interregional workshops, 2 study visits & 1 EU regions summit to promote experiences exchanges of partners and stakeholders.  8 action plans to improve the addressed policy instruments, benefiting managing authorities and beneficiaries. 14 policy briefs to transfer INNOGROW lessons learnt to public authorities beyond the partnership. An online benchmarking tool for all EU territorial administrations, to facilitate optimisation of policy-making in the field of rural economy SMEs competiveness. 5 thematic studies & analyses on practices and measures that improve rural economy SMEs competitiveness.
Ontogenetic and phylogenetic roots of strategic help-seeking

Human altruistic helping has deep evolutionary and developmental roots: Both human children and our closest non-human relatives - chimpanzees - often pay a cost to benefit another individual. Previous research on helping has nearly exclusively focused on the helper, i.e. the individual providing the help. However, helping also involves someone who is being helped. A helpee is not just a passive recipient of help, but someone who can actively and flexibly increase the chances of being helped, for example by being strategic in whom to ask for help.  When determining who is willing to help, two questions are of particular relevance: (a) How costly is it for the potential helper to help? (b) What is my relationship with the potential helper? Considering the costs of and one’s relationship to potential helpers is crucial when soliciting help. Although it can significantly improve an individual's fitness, it has never been studied systematically when it evolved in our evolution and how it develops over ontogeny. Thus, unraveling the phylogenetic and ontogenetic roots of human’s strategic help-seeking is the objective of the proposed project. Therefore, I would like to conduct two interdisciplinary projects with human children and chimpanzees. In Project 1, I will investigate whether considering the costs of potential helpers for providing help influences the decision whom to ask for help, with costs operationalised either as physical effort (Study 1) or material sacrifice (Study 2). In Project 2, I will study the effects of social relations to the potential helpers on the help-seeking desision, considering in particular friendship (Study 3) and dominance (Study 4). Using an innovative approach – combining observations of naturally occurring behaviors and carefully controlled experiments – this project will be the first to provide insight into the evolutionary and developmental roots of strategic help-seeking.
CAPACITIVE POSITION SENSOR

A capacitive position sensor for detecting the position of an object, typically an operator's finger (105), relative to a resistive sensing element (207), wherein the sensing element comprises a sensing path that has terminals (201, 202, 203) connected along it that subdivide the sensing path into multiple sections (204, 205, 206). Each terminal (201, 202, 203) is coupled to its own sensing channel (301-305), each of which generates a signal that is sensitive to the capacitance between its terminal and a system ground (107). The signals are fed to a processor for analysis. The processor determines over which section the object is positioned by comparing the signals from the sensing channels, and determines the position of the object within that section by comparing the signals from the terminals spanning that section. In this way, the sensing path can be formed in a closed loop, such as a circle for a scroll dial, in which the operator's finger position and movement can be uniquely determined in a straightforward manner.
Adolescents girls' experiences of being bullied in a secondary school environment

Bullying is a world-wide phenomenon that occurs within homes, schools and the community at large. To the victims, bullying can be seriously destructive element in the relationships of children of all ages with both the peers and the individuals. The overall goal of this study was to assess the adolescent girls' experiences of being bullied in a secondary school environment. The researcher used a qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual design. Semi-structured interviews, a reflective journal, field notes and observations were used to collect data. After the data was analysed. Two themes with subthemes were identified. The findings of this research study revealed that bullying lowers the academic potential of the adolescent girls as their concentration is mostly focused on what the bully will do next. The victims of bullying experienced negative emotions such as humiliation, anger, fear, anxiety, sadness and depression. They also experienced symptoms of mental discomfort which included low self-esteem, feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness and inferiority, lack of confidence and isolation and self-conscientiousness which could lead to suicide. Family-based problems tended to exacerbate the adolescent girls' experiences of being bullied. In conclusion, bullying has a detrimental effect on the mental health of the adolescent girls. Recommendations included creating awareness for the teachers and parents with regards to bullying behaviour amongst teenagers. An intervention in the form of a programme may be required to assist adolescent girls to cope with bullying behaviour.
From light-stimulated anion receptors to transmembrane carriers and pumps

The transport of anions across the cell membrane, which is mediated by transport proteins, is essential to many important biological processes. Dysregulation of this transport has been associated to various diseases and therefore, chemists endeavour  to develop artificial receptors that mimic the function of natural transporters. Despite much progress over the last decade, the current artificial systems are mostly static, while proteins are able to change their activity dynamically in response to stimuli in the environment. To integrate such stimuli-controlled behavior in synthetic systems is a key contemporary challenge. In view of this, the goal of the proposed research program is to develop anion receptors in which the binding properties can be effectively modulated by light and to apply these receptors as transmembrane carriers and pumps, in order to regulate passive transport (i.e. down a concentration gradient) and to induce active transport (i.e. against a concentration gradient). This interdisciplinary program is divided into three work packages: WP1 aims at the development of structurally rigid and visible-light-actuated photoswitches and their use as platforms for constructing anion receptors; WP2 deals with the development of mechanically interlocked structures as photoswitchable anionic hosts; WP3 is directed at utilizing these receptors for light-gated transport and light-driven pumping of anions across phospholipid bilayers, whereas also an alternative dual-responsive anion channel will be prepared. Eventually, it is expected that this work will open a new route toward light-based localized pharmacological treatment, e.g. via light-triggered cancer or bacterial cell death. Furthermore, active transport systems, that are able to build up and maintain concentration gradients across membranes, could provide a completely new view on how to convert and store light (solar) energy.
MULTILINGUAL PUBLICATION AS A LEGITIMATE TOOL TO INCREASE ACCESS TO SCIENCE (English translated version)

Duplicate publication, including the submission or publication of the same manuscript in two or more languages, is considered scientific misconduct. Meanwhile, properly conducted multilingual publication has been an exception difficult to deal with, rather than part of the normal scientific publishing process. While publication of a manuscript in a second or third language should not receive the same credit as the original publication, it should not be punished. Provided the appropriate disclosures and preliminary steps are taken, it should be highly encouraged instead, as it will enhance scientific communication and may reduce the knowledge gap around the world. Different types of multilingual publications are summarized and some basic guidelines are offered for the sanctioned publication of the same paper in multiple languages. ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE FROM THIS JOURNAL.
Characterization of the Effect of the Mitochondrial Protein Hint2 on Intracellular Ca2+ dynamics

Hint2, one of the five members of the superfamily of the histidine triad AMP-lysine hydrolase proteins, is expressed in mitochondria of various cell types. In human adrenocarcinoma cells, Hint2 modulates Ca(2+) handling by mitochondria. As Hint2 is highly expressed in hepatocytes, we investigated if this protein affects Ca(2+) dynamics in this cell type. We found that in hepatocytes isolated from Hint2(-/-) mice, the frequency of Ca(2+) oscillations induced by 1 μM noradrenaline was 150% higher than in the wild-type. Using spectrophotometry, we analyzed the rates of Ca(2+) pumping in suspensions of mitochondria prepared from hepatocytes of either wild-type or Hint2(-/-) mice; we found that Hint2 accelerates Ca(2+) pumping into mitochondria. We then resorted to computational modeling to elucidate the possible molecular target of Hint2 that could explain both observations. On the basis of a detailed model for mitochondrial metabolism proposed in another study, we identified the respiratory chain as the most probable target of Hint2. We then used the model to predict that the absence of Hint2 leads to a premature opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore in response to repetitive additions of Ca(2+) in suspensions of mitochondria. This prediction was then confirmed experimentally.
Relationship between groundwater levels and oxygen availability in fen peat soils

Abstract Groundwater levels (GWL) are a major controlling factor for aeration and organic matter turnover in wetland soils but little is known about this relationship under field conditions. This study tested how the O2 availability in fen peat soils is related to groundwater levels. The study encompassed five sites over a wide range of land use intensity. Ground water levels and soil oxygen saturation in 5 cm and 20 cm depth were measured biweekly in three replicates per site over periods of 2–3 years. The O2 levels were not linearly proportional to the GWL, but changed sharply from anoxic to nearly atmospheric levels depending on the positions of water table. Binary logistic regression analyses (LRA) were calculated for the individual sites in order to predict the threshold GWL for defined probabilities of hypoxic or oxic conditions in 5 cm depth. The GWLs for 95% probability of oxic conditions were markedly lower for the managed grasslands (−116 cm and −89 cm to surface level, respectively) than for the unmanaged pasture and the sedge fen (−60 cm and −38 cm). Hypoxic conditions required GWLs close to the surface (7 cm and −2 cm for the pasture and the restored site, respectively) while in 5 cm soil depth managed grasslands remained hypoxic even at GWLs of −8 cm and −28 cm. In 20 cm soil depth, full oxygen saturation never occurred even at GWL as low as 80 cm. Threshold GWL required for 95% probability of oxic conditions was higher with increasing porosity and rooting density. The offset between GWL and oxic conditions can be used for hydrological wetland management, especially for restoration efforts.
Vanadium Phosphate Materials as Selective Oxidation Catalysts

Abstract Vanadium phosphates have been established as selective hydrocarbon oxidation catalysts for more than 40 years. Their primary use commercially has been in the production of maleic anhydride (MA) from n -butane. During this period, improvements in the yield of MA have been sought. Strategies to achieve these improvements have included the addition of secondary metal ions to the catalyst, optimization of the catalyst precursor formation, and intensification of the selective oxidation process through improved reactor technology. The mechanism of the reaction continues to be an active subject of research, and the role of the bulk catalyst structure and an amorphous surface layer are considered here with respect to the various V–P–O phases present. The active site of the catalyst is considered to consist of V 4+ and V 5+ couples, and their respective incidence and roles are examined in detail here. The complex and extensive nature of the oxidation, which for butane oxidation to MA is a 14-electron transfer process, is of broad importance, particularly in view of the applications of vanadium phosphate catalysts to other processes. A perspective on the future use of vanadium phosphate catalysts is included in this review.
Interposer, module and electronics device including the same

An interposer with which the manufacturing steps are able to be simplified and which shows superior high frequency characteristics is provided. The interposer includes: a substrate having a front face and a rear face; a wiring that is formed on the front face side of the substrate and is electrically connected to a semiconductor chip; an electric device connected to the wiring; and a concave section that is formed from the rear face side of the substrate in a position corresponding to the electric device.
Application research of data replication in water conservancy field

Based on the brief introduction of the definition and characteristics of data replication technique,directed at the current status that the geometrically distribution of state water industry management departments results in decentralized water conservancy data,utilizing advanced replication server of Oracle 10g,a new replication model for data maintenance and management system of the branch center's database for water resources data is developed,in which multi-master replication and snapshot replication are combined organically.The results show that this new hybrid model avoids the inefficiency caused by the traditional replication model,through which databases between each department and headquarter and among them are connected to become a physically-dispersed,logically-unified integrated database.
Nutrient status, growth and proline concentration of French marigold (Tagetes patula L.) as affected by biostimulant treatment

French marigold (Tagetes patula L.) is becoming very popular decorative flowering species in city parks due to its beautiful coloured flowers and resistance on drought stress. Transplants of French marigold are usually being produced in greenhouses allowing early planting outdoors. Such early transplanting due to temperature stress negatively affects nutrient uptake and transport, plant growth, and can also cause plant death. To avoid such scenario, different growth stimulants can be used to treat plants. The aim of this investigation was to determine the effect of organic biostimulant application on French marigold growth and development after transplanting. Investigation was carried out in heated and non-heated greenhouses located in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Trial was set out in a split-plot design containing treated and untreated plants during three years of investigation. Treated plants were watered with biostimulant Radifarm® in concentration of 0.25% whilst untreated plants were watered only with water. Duration of trial was two months, where treatments with biostimulants were performed every seven days each year of investigation. At the end of the trial roots and above-ground part weight, number of leaves, flowers and buds and plant height were recorded. Additionally, concentrations of N, P, K, Ca and Mg in roots and above-ground part as well as proline concentration in leaves were measured. Obtained results showed positive influence of biostimulant treatment on plant growth and development after transplanting. French marigold roots and above-ground part weight as well as plant height were significantly higher in treated compared to non-treated plants. Also, significantly higher number of leaves, flowers and buds was recorded in treated plants comparing to control plants. Furthermore, higher concentrations of N, P and K, especially in plant above-ground part, were recorded in treated than in non-treated plants. Overall, biostimulant application facilitated the plant to overcome stress caused by transplanting and low temperatures. This ensured continuous plant growth and development which is especially important in fast-growing species such as French marigold.