SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Smart cholesterol-mopping polymer nanoparticles in niemann-pick disease type c

Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC), also known as “childhood Alzheimer’s”, is a rare genetic disorder caused by the accumulation of cholesterol particularly in the brain with subsequent cognitive and mobility decline. In the EU NPC has an incidence of 1 per 100,000 people. Most cases are detected during childhood and progress to cause life-threatening complications by the second or third decade of life. Cyclodextrins (CDs), a family of naturally occurring sugars, have recently gained considerable attention as a potential therapeutic intervention in the treatment of the disease because of their capacity to sequester cholesterol. Although promising, the current treatment of NPC based on a chemical modification of bCD suffers from poor pharmacokinetics and bioavailability in the brain. In this project I propose a new interdisciplinary approach in which bCDs will be embedded into a novel class of smart polymer nanoparticles (NanoMops) that could overcome these limitations. The project addresses an important question that needs to be answered urgently and its successful completion will contribute to the treatment of the neglected disease in line with the Horizon2020 health goal of providing better and more effective therapies. My specific skillset in chemical modification of CDs puts me in a unique position to successfully carry out this project. This interdisciplinary proposal is designed to provide me with advanced training in macromolecular chemistry and in a range of cutting-edge biological techniques. The fellowship will significantly diversify my competences and broaden my profile – professionally and personally - enabling me to pursue a career as an internationally recognised independent researcher. The project will also create new important international and inter-sectoral partnerships with excellent academic and industrial players while reaching out to charity organisations, raising awareness and networking researchers and key stakeholders in the area of NPC.
A novel smart system for the safe management of nautical operations

Shipping is the lifeblood of the global economy, transporting approximately 90% of global trade. However, as the port traffic increases, the interaction between ships and port infrastructure (navigation channels, manoeuvring areas, docks, rivers, locks, etc.) gets more complicated, resulting in system saturation, and hence a greater likelihood of marine accidents occurring. There are very powerful meteorological forecast tools, which provide very valuable information for marine traffic management but they are incomplete and have not even been applied in the clear majority of ports. In this context, Siport21 has developed SafePort, a technology for providing port managers with the most complete and reliable decision tools to manage the operations of the vessels. This technology collects real-time information about the ship approaching the port, as well as meteorological and maritime data, determines whether the operation is viable or not and the requirements to perform the operation in the safest manner. The global marine port and service is a huge market (€ 68.5 bn in 2018) that keeps on growing at a frantic pace, hoping to reach € 78.4 bn by 2023 and hence growing at a Projected CAGR of 4.2%. In this context, SafePort will play an essential role based on its potential to manage nautical operations. 
We will target the port authorities and terminal operators of the maritime sector.  Following our business strategy, SafePort will be sell as a core product considering considered a selling price of 50,000 euros per port. We will also offer specific consulting (upfront revenue) and software updates (annual fee) services, whose prices will be based on the port complexity. Based on this price policy, our nautical operations management technology will provide a revenue of € 15.6 M by the third year, meaning a cumulative cash flow of € 9.9M. Considering a total investment of € 2.2M, we expect to get a ROI of 350% in 3 years.
A case report of acute interstitial nephritis associated with antibiotic-impregnated orthopedic bone-cement spacer.

Local antibiotics are effective adjunct therapy for the treatment of orthopedic infections and antibiotic loaded bone cement is successfully used in revision procedures of infected hip and knee arthroplasties. Different antibiotics in isolation or in combination can be added into bone cement. The theory behind the use of antibiotic loaded cement is that anti-infective drug incorporated into the cement diffuses into surrounding tissues over a period of weeks to months, thereby providing prolonged high local concentration of antibiotic while minimizing systemic drug toxicities. Although kidney toxicity due to acute tubular necrosis has been previously described, we report for the first time a case of a 58-year-old male who developed acute kidney injury clinically consistent with acute interstitial nephritis, after undergoing revision treatment for septic knee arthritis with the use of cement spacer impregnated with a combination of vancomycin and tobramycin.
PROactive Management of Water Systems to face Drought and Water Scarcity in Islands and Coastal Areas of the Mediterranean

Many areas of the Mediterranean, particularly islands and coastal zones suffer from droughts and water shortages which cause heavy impacts on economies, societies and the environment at local or regional scales. The project PRODIM aims at formulating a methodological framework to confront drought and water shortage through systematic application of principles of proactive planning. Specifically, the water shortage risk will be quantified, impacts of shortage to socioeconomic systems will be evaluated and levels of alert will be defined. Moreover, proactive plans to mitigate impacts will be addressed. To validate the methodology the project partners from Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Malta will refine the proposed framework on selected case studies. First, past research results of EU and international projects will be analysed and integrated into a comprehensive methodology for identification of drought and water shortage prone areas. Second, a knowledge based system (KBS) will be built for estimating impacts of water shortages on the economy, the society and the environment of the areas under threat. The system will integrate accumulated experience and knowledge (EU legal framework, databases, software) of a large number of EU relative projects. It will use both conventional and satellite data and will address a variety of technical measures to mitigate water shortage risk (planning and operation of hydraulic works, use of non-conventional water resources, water demand management, etc). Best practices will be evaluated through a multi-criteria approach comprising environmental, social and economic factors. Third, a methodology will be formulated for preparing a Strategic Water Shortage Preparedness Plan (SWSPP) which will assist each region of interest to improve its institutional capacity for confronting water shortage. This will address usage of KBS, formulation of guidelines for defining stakeholders, their responsibilities and courses of action during and beyond critical periods, and the decision process at the regional, national and trans-national levels. Emphasis will be given to the long term improvement of water availability-demand balance and subsequent socioeconomic impacts. Additionally, for drought phenomena under evolution, an Emergency Plan will be formulated in an attempt to integrate both conventional reactive management and modern proactive management ideas. Its main difference from SWSPP regarding scientific procedures lies in the exploitation of real-time (or near real-time) information. Finally, the above plans will be implemented to the selected case studies so as to validate the methodology proposed within a feedback loop, which will allow plan refinement. The project’s outputs (software packages, reports) will be valuable in assisting sustainable water management in Mediterranean countries while supporting fulfilment of WFD goals (protection of water resources and aquatic ecosystems) in case of water shortage periods.
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY SCREEN SYSTEM

A construction safety screen (1) has structural capacity to wall predetermined portions of or entire worker-area precipices which include apertures and edges of under-construction buildings and scaffolding against accidental falling. Included are a fastening border (7), fasteners (12,13,14, 28, 43), netting apertures (5), netting material (6), visibility coloring and size adaptors. It can be rolled up for light-weight shipping or storage and unrolled easily and conveniently for use and reuse.
The Boso slow slip events in 2007 and 2011 as a driving process for the accompanying earthquake swarm

Near the Boso Peninsula, central Japan, slow slip events (SSEs) accompanied by earthquake swarms repeatedly occur every 4 to 7 years. We apply a Network Inversion Filter to tilt change and Global Navigation Satellite Systems displacement data simultaneously in order to obtain the spatiotemporal slip evolution of the Boso Peninsula SSEs in 2007 and 2011. Slip initiates on the eastern offshore area in both of the events and propagates to the northwestward in 2007, whereas the 2011 slip propagates to the west. These slip propagations correlate well both spatially and temporally with the migration of the accompanying seismicity. This indicates that the Boso slow slip is a major driving process for earthquake swarm activities, and that monitoring of interplate slip has the potential to be used in assessing the possibility of an earthquake in near real time.
Making european research careers more attractive by developing new services and enhancing the current services of the euraxess network – euraxess topiii

The EURAXESS TOP III consortium includes partners from almost all EURAXESS countries (either as beneficiaries or associated partners, from altogether 39 countries), in order to ensure the widest possible coverage as well as increased impact. 
The project has been divided into eight work packages. Two WPs are devoted to the development, testing and pilot introduction of new services on career development within the EURAXESS network. The remaining WPs will focus on the environment of researchers including the institutional context, the integration of third country researchers and reaching out to researchers beyond the EU; researchers within and outside academia, most notably industry; the consolidation of the ongoing services portfolio, be it personal or electronic; the further capacity building of the EURAXESS network members and meeting the challenge posed by staff turnover by trainings, twinning and study visits; networking and knowledge exchange with a wide range of other networks; implementation of a consistent quality assurance and monitoring system operating on several levels on the project, and working out a future vision for EURAXESS in light of the policy goals of the EC set for the period up to 2020. 
The project will significantly contribute to matching research talents with R&I needs and capacity on a European scale and it will help the circulation of researchers within Europe and among sectors. 
As a result of the project, members of the EURAXESS network will have better and broader knowledge and more integrated good practices regarding service provision for researchers. EURAXESS national portals throughout the EURAXESS member countries will offer tailor made information in line with Horizon 2020 objectives on making science careers attractive for researchers, especially young researchers.
Development of automatic recognition technologies for objects and their characteristics based on photogrammetric and remote sensing data, and the construction of models for multi-criteria geoinformation analysis.

The applicant is the largest private domestic provider of data-based solutions for the real estate market. Solutions Applicants are used in many sectors of the Polish economy (e.g. energy, construction and financial sectors), as well as individual customers. The company has developed and maintained and continuously expands the country’s largest database of information about immobility and its surroundings. The database is the result of 7-year activity of the Applicant in the integration of property information. This project is the next step and at the same time a qualitative change in the company’s development. To date, the applicant has only integrated the information on real estate produced by third parties. A milestone in the company’s development is to go beyond the current position of the alien data aggregator and a stepwise expansion of the database based on spatial data generated and obtained directly by the Applicant. Through the implementation of this project, the Applicant will acquire a system that will collect data on real estate and space and provide users with integrated, contextual and intelligent location information. This information may in particular be used to describe a specific offer/real estate/location, and to search for locations/real estate/offers according to the required criteria. The implementation of this project will enable the Applicant to build tools for self-acquiring data on properties from sources not classified through satellite, aerial or laser measurements. Using machine learning methods will enable automatic acquisition of real estate data. Reference number of the aid programme: SA.41471(2015/X) Purpose of public aid: Article 25 of EC Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain types of aid compatible with the internal market in the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty (OJ L. I'm sorry. EU L 187/1 of 26.06.2014).
La responsabilidad del estado por error judicial en la administración de justicia: un estudio sobre la justificación y admisión del error judicial

The budget of our research and its connotation and guide, is to implement the judicial system wandering in hosting the need to compensate damages to citizens in which it is affected by the error ; where the foundations of responsibility in terms of structure , equated the exact explanation of the requirements to speak of judicial error , a concept which must be explained by the current reality of our system, with the search for examples , perfectly related to the basic concepts of responsibility and error, allow us to respond to the justification of judicial error and admission thereof in a judicial system , not as an absolute basis , however as a thematic and necessary evolution of the judicial system , towards satisfaction and preserves the rights of citizens.
Quantum versus classical query complexity of relation

This paper investigates the computability of mathematical relations in a quantum query model. The important task in complexity theory is to find examples with a large gap between classical and quantum algorithm complexity of the same computational problem. We present new results in quantum query algorithm design that allow achieving a large separation between classical and quantum query complexity of a specific relation. We demonstrate an example where quantum query algorithm for a finite relation needs more than two times fewer queries than the best possible classical analogue. We also show that relation can be extended to infinite family of relations with an input of general size N.
Detection Performance in Balanced Binary Relay Trees With Node and Link Failures

We study the distributed detection problem in the context of a balanced binary relay tree, where the leaves of the tree correspond to $N$ identical and independent sensors generating binary messages. The root of the tree is a fusion center making an overall decision. Every other node is a relay node that aggregates the messages received from its child nodes into a new message and sends it up toward the fusion center. We derive upper and lower bounds for the total error probability $P_N$ as explicit functions of $N$ in the case where nodes and links fail with certain probabilities. These characterize the asymptotic decay rate of the total error probability as $N$ goes to infinity. Naturally, this decay rate is not larger than that in the non-failure case, which is $\sqrt N$. However, we derive an explicit necessary and sufficient condition on the decay rate of the local failure probabilities $p_k$ (combination of node and link failure probabilities at each level) such that the decay rate of the total error probability in the failure case is the same as that of the non-failure case. More precisely, we show that $\log P_N^{-1}=\Theta(\sqrt N)$ if and only if $\log p_k^{-1}=\Omega(2^{k/2})$.
Sharing-Economy matching platform to revolutionize last-mile logistics

The rapid growth in e-commerce is changing the consumer behavior, increasing the logistic burden in last-mile delivery. From this fact are arisen two mayor problems. For one side, our logistic infrastructure will never be ready for the number of delivery-vehicles required to fulfill such demand. From the other, last-mile delivery entails the ≈53% of the transport costs, a figure that most of the SME cannot assume. Hence, an oligopolistic horizon of large companies like Amazon will come unless smart solutions will avoid it. 

Nimber is a decentralized delivery-company that is disrupting logistics in Norway. Our vision is to become the global leaders in the last-mile delivery sector by providing the market with a sustainable, efficient, CO2 minimal and convenient alternative to last-mile delivery for SME and individuals. 

In this regard,Nimber platform presently matches persons needing items delivered with the most optimal delivery solution: people going that way anyway. Thus, we operate for peer-to-peer deliveries (P2P). With SWIFTLY, we seek to hybridize our peer-to-peer model into the business-to-customer (B2C) or business-to-business (B2B) sectors. For such aim, we will offer two novel tools: a bundling algorithm which optimizes loads and deliveries per route to increase the profitability of the professional bringers' services and a pricing algorithm to offer the fairest pricing for both parties (bringer and sender) and speed up the time to close a deal. With this approach we solve the problems of rapidly-growing e-commerce by optimizing existing commuter pathways to deliver goods.
Process for preparing silver halide emulsions, photographic materials, and process for the production of photographic images.

Silberhalogenidemulsionen werden durch Umlösung einer leichter löslichen auf eine schwerer lösliche Emulsion in Gegenwart eines Lösungsmittels umgelöst, wobei die leichter lösliche Emulsion in Gegenwart einer das Kornwachstum hemmenden Verbindung hergestellt wird.
Discourses on Immigration in Times of Economic Crisis: A Critical Perspective

The press is generally regarded as a reliable source of information with however the capacity to propagate ideologies, social conceptions and beliefs. In this regard, it seems evident that the social role of the press can by no means be underestimated: it can influence our knowledge, values and social codes through linguistic and other semiotic means, sometimes hidden under a euphemistic lexical disguise holding up a liberal and apparently respectful discourse. The relationship between the press and society is a very complex one that requires careful conceptualisation so that it is possible to understand why texts in general and texts related to immigration in particular are created in the ways they are and not in other ways. The press offers access to all sorts of information but also has the power to create or modify attitudes. Each image and each linguistic component used to transmit a message is not predetermined or chosen at random but, on the contrary, is the outcome of a complex process, involving many phenomena, in which there is nevertheless discernable a clear purpose. The following book pays attention to the discursive and visual elements that are involved in reproducing ethnic and racial prejudices in contemporary press discourse. Our present reality is characterised by a moment of economic crisis, and it is a contention of the book that this affects the treatment of immigration, particularly in the press, which tends to refer to immigrants as a people-problem of some description or other. Therefore, the purpose of this book is to describe major aspects of discourse related to immigration within the present social context of economic crisis.
Zinc Fertilization of Cereals for Increased Production and Alleviation of Zinc Malnutrition in India

Zinc deficiency has emerged as the fourth important micronutrient deficiency in humans. Zn deficiency is responsible for diarrhoea in infants, dwarfism in adolescents and loss of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) in adults. The loss of DALYs in India is estimated at 2.8 million. Since cereals are staple food in India and other Asian countries, fortification of their grains with Zn is a simple way to overcome Zn deficiency in humans in these areas. Efforts are underway to breed cereal cultivars with grains higher in zinc, but this requires considerable time. Fertilization of cereals with Zn is a faster, quicker and certain way to increase zinc content in cereals and this practice needs to be put in place without any delay.
The Knowledge Discovery Method for Diagnosis and Treatment Experience on Diabetes of Famous TCM Doctor Based on the Theory of Structural Partial-Ordered Attribute Diagram

This paper presents a method of discovering new knowledge of clinical diagnosis from the famous TCM doctors' experience about diabetes mellitus base on the theory of Structural Partial-Ordered Attribute Diagram. First, we deal with the decision formal context of prescriptions in 200 Medical Cases about Diabetes Mellitus in professor Li Saimei's clinical working based on principle of the optimization. Then, we generate a new partial-order attribute diagram in order to present the specific character. Finally, we explain properties of partial order structure graph from TCM expert's point of view based on knowledge discovery. It was concluded that the method proposed in this paper works well in treating of the description of differentiation of syndromes and discovering new knowledge of clinical diagnosis from the known data. The method plays a great significant role for providing a scientific and advanced technological means in the heritage of Traditional Chinese Medicine.