SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Green lidar

Outsight has solved the root cause of current LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) limitations, which is the Laser source, by developing “Green-LIDAR”, a key enabling technology for autonomous vehicles and drones, opening the future of emissions reduction and ecosystem monitoring. Outsight new approach is based on generating powerful laser pulses using only passive components that we’ve created and that allows outstanding performance (>300 meters range instead of 70m) at a very low cost (<100€) with an embedded intelligence that provides not only Distance, Range, Localization and Object Tracking, but also the Material analysis of each object (Steel, Concrete, Skin, Plastic, Water, Ice, Different types of trees, Vegetation water content, Algae detection in water...), thanks to hyperspectral emission/analysis.   The GLIDAR expected project outcomes are:  1) bring to the market a Laser Detection and Ranging device that solves technological challenges that  autonomous vehicles manufacturers are facing,  2) bring to the market a Laser Detection and Ranging device that solves technological challenges of airborne ecosystem monitoring 3) save thousands of human lives and living species yearly.  Last but not least GLIDAR will  4) propel Outsight to become a market leader for automotive and drone LIDAR applications   Thanks to the dedication of a highly experienced team (both in Entrepreneurship and Technology) and strategic alliances with at least two key Tier1 providers (one in automotive, the other in drones) plus an already established actor in ecosystem management, GLidar will be in a position to validate each component from TRL6 to TRL8. Thus, the high-level objective of this 24-month 3,5 M€ value project, is to build in Europe the most advanced and affordable integrated LiDAR device, to generate Half a Billion € sales in 5 years and more than 500 jobs in our current locations in France (Paris) and Finland (Espoo).
Scroll type compressor

A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a movable scroll member, a plurality of compression chambers, a discharge port, a communication passage and a relief valve. The communication passage interconnects each intermediate compression chamber with the discharge port. The communication passage has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from the first intermediate compression chamber and the second portion extends from the second intermediate compression chamber. The first portion and the second portion meet at a meeting point on the way in the communication passage before reaching the discharge port. The relief valve is placed between the meeting point and the discharge port inclusive of the meeting point in the communication passage. The relief valve opens the communication passage when the pressure in the first and the second intermediate pressure chambers is higher than the pressure in the discharge port. <IMAGE>A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a movable scroll member, a plurality of compression chambers, a discharge port, a communication passage and a relief valve. The communication passage interconnects each intermediate compression chamber with the discharge port. The communication passage has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from the first intermediate compression chamber and the second portion extends from the second intermediate compression chamber. The first portion and the second portion meet at a meeting point on the way in the communication passage before reaching the discharge port. The relief valve is placed between the meeting point and the discharge port inclusive of the meeting point in the communication passage. The relief valve opens the communication passage when the pressure in the first and the second intermediate pressure chambers is higher than the pressure in the discharge port. <IMAGE>
Cross-border Critical Infrastructure Security

The project aims to increase the knowledge and information sharing on cross-border Critical Infrastructures through the implementation of joint monitoring systems and IT-CH communication procedures. The expected change concerns the strengthening of joint risk governance capacities linked to events that can damage partially or totally the continuity of service of critical transport infrastructures of cross-border interest. The tools and strategies in use in the two states involve interface differences that make the communication and the planning of shared and coordinated preventive measures less immediate and effective. The action strategy implemented by the project consists in improving the effectiveness of a common prevention system aimed at reducing the impact in the event of events involving a sort of cross-border free zone.
Women and the transmission of alternative religious knowledge in the late medieval mediterranean

ILLITTERATAE explores religious radicalisation in later medieval Europe. It deals in particular with the role of women in the process of conversion to alternative religious movements in the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Without priestly office or formal Latin education, ‘illiterate’ women have been characterised as keen followers and caregivers, but their intellectual role in these movements has been considered marginal or nonexistent. ILLITTERATAE interrogates their impact on the transmission of religious ideas and devotional knowledge in the western Mediterranean region by focusing on conversion from mainstream Christianity and redefining the metrics of religious radicalisation. ILLITTERATAE will concentrate on communities that came to be known as 'beguines/beguins', building and cataloguing an extensive corpus of archival and textual sources connected to the development of a ‘beguin’ identity across the Mediterranean. It will also map the local, regional, and transnational levels of this movement, deemed to be ‘heretic’ by the papacy in the early fourteenth century, through the combined application of Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems. Finally, an Open Access web-based application will make the digital output of the project accessible to the scientific community and the wider public, including the source catalogue, digital editions of relevant texts, historical and geographical maps, network graphs, statistical diagrams, and references to modern scholarship. These will combine to allow users to augment the original sources by juxtaposing them with different layers of information. ILLITTERATAE will develop a relational model for thinking about religious change that crosses traditional national boundaries, thus reinforcing the agenda of Horizon 2020 by including women in religious leadership narratives, taking into account the dialectic between repression and dissent and the connection between violence and extremism.
Industrial manufacturing process for a high temperature superconducting coated conductors technology

Coated conductors (CCs), known as the second generation of high temperature superconductors (2G-HTS), have triggered broad and fruitful R&D efforts to ensure industrial scalability and enable wide market adoption. Major challenges currently limit the practical use of HTS conductors. First, the high cost / performance ratio imposed by the fabrication methods of kilometre-lengths epitaxial YBCO films that work at too low growth rates limits CC manufacturing throughput. Second, the low throughput in the production of CCs leads to a severe limitation in generating drastic cost reductions for CCs, required for wide market implementation. Due to overall cost, today it remains inefficient to unlock the potential of large-scale applications such as wind turbines, highly efficient and compact industrial scale generators, Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage and advanced HTS MRI/RMN machines. The overall objective of this Proof of Concept (PoC) proposal is to demonstrate the commercial relevance and to build a business strategy for the industrial scale-up of a new manufacturing process for HTS films, which will push the emerging HTS industry to full market adoption. IMPACT combines low cost (CSD), high throughput (TLA ultrafast growth) and high performance (strained nanocomposites), by integrating additive manufacturing processes and digital printing, to deliver a commercially relevant and industry scalable manufacturing process for HTS CCs. Our value creation process is focused on several inflection points which will pave the way towards commercial implementation of our novel manufacturing process. At the end of IMPACT, we aim to capture value by having identified the commercial exploitation strategies of our technology.
Mlsystem -  heatable, integrated photovoltaics with insulated glass units

Main objective of this proposal is to launch a novel multifunctional window (MLSYSTEM), which is a glazed insulating glass unit integrated with semi-transparent photovoltaics (panels of all generations) on the EU market. It was developed by a R&D department of ML System. Current available solutions can not be full-competitive to MLSYSTEM. There are PV panels, PV mounting systems, heatable insulated glass units, radiators. The main innovative feature of our technology is a cost-effective integration of properties of all these products. Thanks to 3rd generation solar cells application, higher aesthetic, transparency and better power reduction parameter in relation to any PV technology used so far on Building-Integrated PV sector could be achieved.
We intend to contribute to solving one of the European’s main problem, as well as one of the real estate’s market problems. Buildings are the biggest primary energy consumer and Europe’s CO2 emitter. 30% of energy consumed in buildings is used unnecessarily or inefficiently. 30-50% of energy loss is attributed to air leakage and heat transfer. One of the main sources of these losses are windows. Our innovative solution allows for environmental-friendly electrical energy production and thermal energy transfer into a heated room simultaneously manner and is much cheaper than competing solutions. At least 39,000 of tons reduction of CO2 emissions will be achieved every year. Moreover the European efficiency-related construction market is expected to double to €140 billion by 2020 from €70 billion in 2011 - we are ready to exploit this business opportunity.
Feasibility study will enable us to verify the technological feasibility and economic viability of launching MLSYSTEM on different EU markets, which will contribute to solving the aforementioned problems. PHASE I is only the beginning and we believe it will lead to PHASE II. This will enable us to identify resources needed for commercial implementation of our technology.
Appréhender les vulnérabilités en santé au Brésil : Usages pluriels de la photographie

Il s’agit de rendre visibles les usages multiples possibles de la photographie dans les recherches portant sur la santé et les vulnérabilités, en s’appuyant sur trois travaux menés au Brésil. Dans le premier, la photographie est une source documentaire pour révéler des significations attribuées à la folie ou à la normalité dans le contexte de la clinique psychiatrique à différentes époques, et pour rendre compte d’expériences locales créatives plus récentes, dans le cadre de la Réforme psychiatrique brésilienne. Puis, à partir d’un récit d’images de chorégraphies de corps-qui-travaillent-dans-la-marée, la photographie permet aux lecteurs d’élargir leur compréhension du travail quotidien de cueilleuses de crustacés insulaires. Enfin, nous partageons l’expérience d’une recherche-action qui a mis en place des ateliers d’autoportrait de jeunes noirs d’un quartier populaire de Salvador, pour promouvoir des pratiques corporelles et sexuelles saines et l’empowerment ethnico-racial et de genre. Portant un regard sensible sur des groupes touchés par l’invisibilité sociale, la vulnérabilité ou un certain degré de stigmatisation, ces travaux révèlent des inégalités sociales et politiques, historiquement construites. Des expériences mises en écho qui renforcent les dimensions heuristiques et sensibles de la photographie, dont la place dans la recherche contribue à préserver les capacités d’imaginer et de créer, si nécessaires pour aller au-delà du mimétisme méthodologique qui s’est emparé de la production de la connaissance.
Journal publishing in era of economic crisis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present findings from the research of aspects of journal publishing in the field of social sciences in Croatia in changing working conditions caused by the rapid development of information and communication technology.Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on an online survey of 79 journals in the field of social sciences in Croatia.Findings – Findings indicate a dual publishing nature of the scientific journals as they exist both in the traditional paper based and in the electronic environment. In addition to slow shift towards publishing exclusively in the electronic environment, editorial teams cope with insufficient financial support for the publication of printed versions of their journals, low‐quality of article submissions, badly formatted articles, lack of help to the editor, etc. Researched journals use the internet for the improvement of the interaction with authors, reviewers and readers and digital repositories for long‐term storage of artic...
Apprendre sur la plateforme PARKUR la langue de la vie quotidienne, sur objectifs spécifiques et de spécialité à l’aune du CECRL et son Volume complémentaire

Le projet DELCYME (Developing E-Learning Capacities for Youth Mobility in Europe), financé par la Commission européenne avec des fonds du programme Erasmus+, a comme objectif principal le développement d’un programme multilingue — linguistique et interculturel — de préparation en ligne avec tutorat destiné à la formation de jeunes européens de moins de trente ans. Un autre objectif principal de DELCYME est d’aider à développer les compétences et le savoir-faire des jeunes européens dans des projets de mobilité professionnelle en contextes multilingues.DELCYME est un projet de recherche piloté par l’OFAJ (Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse) à Paris/Berlin et le CAVILAM Alliance Française de Vichy (France) et qui réunit d’autres partenaires : l’Université de Milan (Italie), l’Université de Castille-La Manche (Facultés d’Education d’Albacete et de Cuenca), en Espagne, le Carl Duisberg Centrum d’Allemagne et l’association SEMPER AVANTI de Pologne.Le projet DELCYME a construit la plateforme d’apprentissage en ligne PARKUR, qui offre des modules de formation en cinq langues (français, allemand, italien, polonais et espagnol) pour que des jeunes étudiants (formation professionnelle, universitaires, stagiaires…) préparent leur séjour dans l’un des pays parlant les langues impliquées de façon autonome, mais toujours guidés par une équipe de tuteurs formée dans le cadre du projet et qui accompagne les apprenants, les conseille dans leur parcours d’apprentissage et crée des liens entre eux, à travers un véritable réseau social d’apprentissage actif et collaboratif en ligne.Notre contribution souhaite expliciter comment PARKUR parvient à faire travailler avec une même méthode, la langue de la vie quotidienne et celle sur objectifs spécifiques et de spécialité à l’aune du CECRL et son Volume Complémentaire.
Barrier properties and structure of inorganic layers at polyaniline–steel interface

Anticorrosive properties of inorganic layers formed on the surface of steel upon deposition of polyaniline doped with hydrochloric, sulfuric, or phosphoric acid were studied. It was found that the strongest anticorrosive protection is provided by the polymer containing chloride ions. An X-ray phase analysis demonstrated that the high packing order of chains of polyaniline doped with hydrochloric acid leads to formation of an inorganic barrier layer constituted by closely packed iron oxides and hydroxides. Application to the steel surface of polyaniline doped with sulfuric and phosphoric acids results in that barrier layers with weaker anticorrosive properties are formed. It is shown that, in the course of catalytic oxidation of iron by oxygen in the presence of polyaniline, there occur transitions between the emeraldine and pernigraniline forms of the polymer. IR spectroscopy confirmed that polyaniline doped with hydrochloric acid is the most active catalyst for steel surface oxidation.
Statin use and risk of pancreatic cancer: Results from a large, clinic-based case-control study

Statins are cholesterol-lowering medications with pleiotropic effects, including alterations in growth signaling, as well as immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects that may alter cancer risk. Evidence from previous epidemiologic studies is inconsistent about whether statin use is associated with a reduced risk of pancreatic cancer (PC).Patients with confirmed diagnoses of PC (cases) were recruited from medical and surgical oncology clinics, with controls (frequency-matched by sex and age) recruited from general medicine clinics, at a high-volume academic medical center over a 6-year period (2006-2011). Direct interviews were conducted with an epidemiological risk factor questionnaire covering topics such as medical history, lifestyle factors, and medication usage. Adjusted multivariable logistic regression was used to compute odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) as estimates of the relative risk of PC.Data were obtained from 536 cases and 869 controls. Ever use of statins was associated with a 34% reduced PC risk (OR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.47-0.92). In sex-stratified analyses, risk was statistically significantly reduced in men only (OR for men, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.32-0.79; OR for women, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.52-1.43). Duration of use was inversely associated with PC risk (>10-year use: overall OR, 0.51; OR for men, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.21-0.80; P(trend) = .006).This is the largest case-control study to demonstrate an inverse association between statin use and PC risk. Risk reduction in statin users appears to be sex-specific and is more pronounced in long-term users. Further research is warranted to better characterize this association and clarify the roles of underlying biologic mechanisms.
Alcohol tax changes and the use of alcohol in Europe

Different motives in determining the level and structure of alcohol taxes lead to greatly varying alcohol excise duty levels. The aim of this paper is to look at alcohol excise duty rates in European Union (EU) and the mechanisms affecting them. Also the trends in alcohol prices and alcohol consumption will be discussed.Material concerning alcohol taxes and consumption comes from available statistics and published literature.This paper shows that despite many attempts the EU has not been able to harmonise alcohol excise duty rates in its member states. The importance of alcohol taxes as an alcohol control measure has decreased as the real value of alcohol excise duty rates has decreased in most EU countries during the last decades.In most European countries the share of alcohol taxes of the price of alcoholic beverages is quite low. Therefore, increasing alcohol excise duty rates would in most countries lead to increased alcohol tax revenues to the public sector. Consequently, increasing alcohol excise duty rates would serve both the fiscal and the health and social policy interests of the state.
Impact of MgO Thickness on the Performance of Spin-Transfer Torque Nano-Oscillators

A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack incorporating an MgO wedge was deposited over a 200 mm wafer and nanofabricated into circular nanopillars with a diameter of 200 nm. Due to the variable MgO thickness, we could obtain MTJ nanopillars with resistance $\times $ area (RA) ranging from less than $1~\Omega \mu \text{m}^{2}$ up to $15~\Omega \mu \text{m}^{2}$ and tunnel magnetoresistance ratios up to $\sim 100$ %. It was observed that the ferromagnetic coupling ( $H_{F})$ displayed by the transfer curves increases for smaller values of RA. This variation is attributed to the orange-peel coupling, which is caused by the MgO roughness, with a larger impact for thinner barriers. The RF output of the nanopillars caused by the spin-transfer torque-induced magnetic precession of the free layer was measured as a function of bias current and external magnetic fields for nanopillars with different RA values. Results concerning typical devices in the thin MgO region ( $1.3~\Omega \mu \text{m}^{2})$ and in a thicker MgO region ( $2.7~\Omega \mu \text{m}^{2})$ are shown to illustrate the dependence found. It was observed that the higher output power ( $\sim 300$ nW) and the smaller linewidth ( $\sim 90$ MHz) could be obtained with the higher RA region. These results suggest that there must be an optimum RA value for the production of nano-oscillator devices, which depends on the tradeoffs between the need for large breakdown voltages and strong spin polarization of the bias current (favored for larger RA values) and between the need of endurance under large current densities (favored for smaller RA values). Provided the breakdown voltage of the MgO barrrier can be made large enough, nanopillars based on MTJ stacks with an intermediate RA can provide a solution for the production of large output power spin-transfer nano-oscillators.
Long-term outcomes of intrastromal femtosecond laser presbyopia correction: 3-year results

To analyse visual outcomes and corneal changes 3 years after intrastromal femtosecond laser presbyopia treatment.In a prospective, unicentric clinical trial, 25 presbyopic patients received INTRACOR treatment (Technolas femtosecond laser) on their non-dominant eye. Examinations were performed preoperatively as well as 1, 24 and 36 months postoperatively and included refraction, near, intermediate and distance visual acuity tests, reading speed, corneal topography, stray light measurement, endothelial cell count and slit-lamp examination.Comparison of preoperative versus 36 months postoperative values showed in median an improvement of uncorrected near visual acuity (UNVA) from 0.70 logMAR to 0.10 logMAR (p<0.001). Corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) was reduced from -0.10 logMAR to 0.00 logMAR (p<0.001). The spherical equivalent preoperatively was 0.625 D and after an initial myopic shift after 1 month (0.125 D) and 24 months (0.25 D), the 36 months value (0.50 D) returned to resemble the preoperative value in statistical terms (p=0.123). A significant corneal steepening of 1.50 D in the treated area was measured. Pachymetry (thinnest point) revealed a statistically significant, but clinically insignificant corneal thickening from 535 to 549 µm (p=0.033). Endothelial cell count did not change. 92.86% of patients felt comfortable with the surgery result.INTRACOR treatment after 36 months improved UNVA to varying degrees. The effect can be explained by a corneal steepening. An initial myopic shift was reversible. Reductions especially in CDVA have to be taken into account and therefore careful patient selection and information is obligatory.NCT01164358 and NCT01025050, Results.