SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Cross-Border Accelerator of Mobilities

There are currently many sustainable tourism and boating businesses in the cooperation area. However, despite a high rate of youth unemployment, quality training institutes interconnected with the economic world do not offer specialised training to support these priority supply chains. In order to develop their potential and in spite of their limited investment capacity, these businesses should be able to rely on qualified permanent workers enjoying quality jobs. The MarittimoMob project will contribute to pursuing the double challenge of improving young people’s potential for entering the workforce and increasing the competitiveness of the companies of the priority blue and green growth sectors in Corsica, Liguria and Sardinia. The 3 partners—the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ajaccio and Southern Corsica, the University of Genoa and the Special Promocamera Agency of the Sassari Chamber of Commerce—will conceive, experiment, evaluate and create the conditions for the capitalisation and transferability of a cross-border mobility accelerator specialised in priority supply chains. This Accelerator will consist of an innovative and qualifying joint training course (Master’s Degree and cross-border mobility internships) which will benefit 20 companies and 20 cross-border students. A study of the business skills needed will precede the design of the accelerator. After the experimentation, the production of a Manual will ensure the transferability/reproducibility of the Accelerator and its permanent contribution to cross-border labour market integration.
Donkeys and bicycles: capital interactions facilitating timely compost application in Northern Ghana

Organic amendments such as compost are key to sustainable soil fertility management, but their use is constrained by a lack of appropriate vehicles with which to transport them to the fields. Farmers in the Northern Ghanaian Guinea Savanna tested individually owned headpans and bicycles, group-owned wheelbarrows and donkey carts, and hired handtrucks and bullock carts. They found a combination of donkey and bicycle best for compost carriage. The large donkey cart was preferred to the very large bullock cart due to the donkey's stamina and the time conflict between bullocks carrying compost and ploughing. However, the donkey cart was harder to access as it was owned in a group, whereas individually owned bicycles were always available. Timing was therefore the mechanism through which capital acted to determine the most appropriate vehicle. Human capital was the primary requirement for timely compost carriage, and financial capital replaced it when a high-capacity vehicle was substituted. The social capital...
PROCESS FOR PREPARING BRANCHED RIBONUCLEOSIDES FROM 1, 2-ANHYDRORIBOFURANOSE INTERMEDIATES

A process is provided for the preparation of branched-chain ribonucleosides of formula (I) from the 1,2- anhydro derivatives of fomula (II). The compounds of fomula (I) are inhibitors of HCV polymerase useful in the treatment of HCV infection.
European networking for satellite telecommunication roadmap for the governmental users requiring secure, interoperable, innovative and standardised services

The ENTRUSTED consortium proposes to establish a Network of Users for governmental Satellite Communications, with the aim to achieve a reliable collaboration and coordination between them to eventually agree on common user needs and requirements, to share information about existing and planned future SatCom capabilities and to have a framework to establish symbiotic relationships when beneficial for the partners. The main project's results will be a consolidated set of institutional EU user requirements for secure SatCom services and a long-term Roadmap and Coordination plan for research and innovation activities related to the user technologies, to serve as reference guidelines for the future user related activities and pave the way for a potential future EU GOVSATCOM programme.
The nexus: an experimental system to study marine larval dispersal

Dispersal is a fundamental trait for the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of any given species. In marine systems, the primary means of connectivity among fragmented habitats is pelagic larval dispersal (LD). Due to the inherent difficulty of tracking minute larvae in the ocean, we are still lacking critical insights into the internal and external causes and consequences of LD. Here, we propose the development of an experimental infrastructure, the Nexus, composed of 25 interconnected larval rearing/settlement tanks, designed to study larval movements as a model of dispersal. We aim to use the Nexus framework to investigate central questions in LD theory that, up to this point, have been difficult to assess: (1) Do marine organisms exhibit condition-dependent dispersal strategies? (2) If so, how does the interaction of phenotype and environment affect dispersal behaviours (context-dependence)? (3) How will climate change affect condition- and context-dependent dispersal in offspring via parental effects? These are timely issues to address, as a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms regulating LD will help predict species’ responses to rapid environmental change. The intended framework will facilitate the holistic assessment and controlled manipulation of the entire LD process, from the natal environment to post-settlement selection, thereby paving the way for novel research avenues in aquatic dispersal ecology. Each tank in the network can independently be controlled for the type of habitat it provides and corridors can flexibly be opened, closed or made directionally permeable. The versatility of the Nexus offers a high degree of experimental flexibility and control to address key issues in spatial meta-population ecology.
Genomic characterisation of a lentogenic Newcastle disease virus strain HX01 isolated from sick pigs in China

This paper describes the complete genome sequence of HX01, an isolate of the Newcastle disease virus (NDV) collected from a swine disease outbreak. The genome is 15,186 nt long and consists of six genes in the order of 3'-NP-P-M-F-HN-L-5'. This genome has the same length as the old NDV genotypes (I-IV), whereas the new NDV genotypes (V-IX) are 15,192 nt long. Compared with the genomic sequences of the reference NDV strains, the HX01 genome is highly similar to the genome of other NDV strains. However, some unique features of the HN gene were found in HX01. HX01 possesses the motif (112)G-R-Q-G-R-L(117) at the fusion protein cleavage site, which is typical of lentogenic strains. Pathogenicity tests based on the mean death time and the intracerebral pathogenicity index also revealed the isolate's lentogenic character. Phylogenetic analysis based on the variable region of the F gene (nt 47-420) revealed that HX01 was clustered to genotype II within class II NDV. Genetically, HX01 has a high similarity with the La Sota vaccine strain based on the single gene or complete genomic but is far different from the prevalent genotype VIId NDV which circulates in fowls and waterfowls in mainland China.
Circular dna in diagnosis and disease models

Many human diseases, including cancers and inflammatory disorders, are associated with the production of ‘circular DNA’ from chromosomes. These molecules have potential as biomarkers, and in the case of cancers are potential drivers of disease progression. However, the technology for detecting circular DNA and for creating disease models is lacking, meaning we cannot explore their potential use in diagnostics. CIRCULAR VISIONs goal is to explore the new opportunities circular DNA creates in early diagnosis and monitoring of disease, particularly screening, and to create an experimental system to understand the link between disease and circular DNA.

CIRCULAR VISION will explore this brand new territory by creating highly sensitive whole genome screens for circular DNA that correlate with disease, using lung cancer (LC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as model examples. We develop and combine novel methods in molecular biology, microfluidics, DNA sequencing and bioinformatics in order to identify new diagnostic markers. Such markers for IBD and LC will then be adapted to clinical diagnosis and prognosis using advanced image analysis and cytometry methods. Finally, CIRCULAR VISION will show the causal link between circular DNA and cancer, by producing disease models with oncogenes on circular DNA.

CIRCULAR VISION assembles key pioneers in the emerging field of circular DNA with leading clinical experts and key commercial players in cytometry and genomics. We are convinced that our technology has broad applications in early noninvasive diagnosis of cancer and monitoring of inflammatory diseases. We believe our technology will lay the foundation for future research into circular DNA biology and spur future drug development.
Candidate Gene Association Study for Diabetic Retinopathy in Persons with Type 2 Diabetes: The Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe)

To investigate whether variants in cardiovascular candidate genes, some of which have been previously associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D), diabetic retinopathy (DR), and diabetic nephropathy (DN), are associated with DR in the Candidate gene Association Resource (CARe).Persons with T2D who were enrolled in the study (n = 2691) had fundus photography and genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 2000 candidate genes. Two case definitions were investigated: Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) grades ≥ 14 and ≥ 30. The χ² analyses for each CARe cohort were combined by Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) pooling of odds ratios (ORs) and corrected for multiple hypothesis testing. Logistic regression was performed with adjustment for other DR risk factors. Results from replication in independent cohorts were analyzed with CMH meta-analysis methods.Among 39 genes previously associated with DR, DN, or T2D, three SNPs in P-selectin (SELP) were associated with DR. The strongest association was to rs6128 (OR = 0.43, P = 0.0001, after Bonferroni correction). These associations remained significant after adjustment for DR risk factors. Among other genes examined, several variants were associated with DR with significant P values, including rs6856425 tagging α-l-iduronidase (IDUA) (P = 2.1 × 10(-5), after Bonferroni correction). However, replication in independent cohorts did not reveal study-wide significant effects. The P values after replication were 0.55 and 0.10 for rs6128 and rs6856425, respectively.Genes associated with DN, T2D, and vascular diseases do not appear to be consistently associated with DR. A few genetic variants associated with DR, particularly those in SELP and near IDUA, should be investigated in additional DR cohorts.
Multi-Religious encounters in urban settings

This comparative ethnographic project asks, how do people of different faiths coexist in cities? Questions of coexistence take on urgency in a time of increasing religiously-inflected flashpoints across the globe. How can we think about religious coexistence beyond prevailing frameworks of tolerance or conflict? MEUS will explore multi-religious encounters in non-secular urban contexts, ie. areas where there is a state religion or where religion has salience in the public sphere. Research will be organised into three complementary and contrasting sub-projects in South Asia (Karachi), East Africa (Nairobi), and Southern Europe (Palermo). The sites are similar, having served historically as encounter sites for major religions, but differ in their vantage points on religious pluralism.
 
The project has two objectives: 1)to examine what modes of religious co-habitation emerge in aspiring urban settings; and 2)to develop a cross-regional comparative framework about religious pluralism that de-centers secular-liberal ideas of tolerance and opens space for alternate modes of coexistence. MEUS will ask: How do people of different religious faiths coexist in cities? What tensions and contestations does such coexistence articulate or give rise to? Do aspirations for socioeconomic mobility engender encounters with religious ‘others’ and, if so, how do people make sense of this contact?
 
MEUS is novel in its ethnographic and comparative frame. Its interventions within debates on pluralism will challenge the monistic tendencies of studies of religion (eg. the anthropology of Islam) and counter the hegemony of secularism in ideas on coexistence. MEUS is cognizant that the current work on coexistence, outside of liberal contexts, is largely regional and interpreted as exceptions to the norm. Instead, MEUS pushes against the limits of regional comparisons to develop a cross-regional, historically sensitive understanding of coexistence with the aim of provincializing secularism.
Adriatic Danubian Clustering

Thanks to the topic on clusters put for by the EU for cohesion and innovation strategy, the Adriatic Danubian Clustering (ADC) project is particularly suitable to give momentum to public support for entrepreneurial cooperation in the strategic productive sectors of South Eastern Europe. Even if a number of quite similar productive specialisation are existing among companies in the AdriaticDanubian area, there is a low knowledge of existing potential for cross-border cooperation because of lacking visibility of SMEs. Therefore ADC objective is to strengthen the territorial marketing of the Adriatic Danubian compound in the global economy by making more of its productive skills through the establishment of sectoral cluster networks, suitable to enhance the effective integration of the more competitive transnational value chains and to reduce regional disparities, also by fostering the attractiveness of the area for FDI. This way ADC substantially contributes to the purpose of balancing attractiveness and accessibility of driving, but still fragmented, areas of SEE growth. In order to achieve this result ADC is implementing the followings: identification of strategic transnational value chains as backbones of growth & attractiveness; capitalisation of productive complementarities of existing and emerging clusters; better horizontal ties among companies of the Adriatic Danubian compound; new dynamic partnership among territorial actors dealing with clusters development; improved business environment through innovative ICT (Digital Business Ecosystem); capacity building of territorial marketing for the attractiveness of Adriatic - Danubian compound. ADC partners, leaded by Region of Veneto, are willing to prompt policy innovation, vertical inter-companies relationship, higher visibility & accessibility of Local Productive Systems and further regional growth, being international experience an added value for cluster partners.
Jean-Luc Moulène, « Photographie no 10 »

0,3 cm.Paris, Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, AM2000-32(10).Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist
Student Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty Scenarios

Instances of academic dishonesty have increased dramatically in recent years, with studies suggesting that up to 70% of students cheat at least once while in college (Keith-Spiegel, Tabahnick, Whitley, & Washburn, 1998). Colleges and universities have fought this by designing various programs to address cheating among students. The Multimedia Integrity Teaching Tool (or MITT) program is an interactive seminar consisting of 36 video modules that educate the user about academic integrity, types of academic dishonesty, risks of cheating, and how to avoid these risks (Whitley & Keith-Spiegel, 2001). Two studies were designed to test the effectiveness of the program and suggest future revisions to the program and consider its potential as a future preventative program for incoming freshmen. Study I assessed participant’s perceptions of academic cheating scenarios as a function of their reported Internet use and their performance goal structure. Study II assessed participant’s perceptions of academic cheating scenarios as a function of their degree of sensation seeking and used a randomized experimental design to compare the responses of participants who viewed excerpts of MITT videos with those of participants who viewed unrelated videos about listening skills. Results of Study I suggested that mastery goal orientation was positively correlated with seriousness ratings of cheating scenarios and that performance goal orientation was positively correlated with the belief that it was easy to cheat using the Internet and that most students cheat. Results of Study II suggested that participants who watch multimedia integrity-teaching videos are more likely to recognize cheating and consider it a more serious problem than those who watch an unrelated video. The results of these studies suggest that a preventative multimedia program would help incoming freshmen understand the importance of academic dishonesty, and also suggest that any such program include an emphasis on mastery goal orientation.
Redox polymer with synergetic electrical and ionic conducting properties for all-organic batteries. [rpob]

Designing safer, more efficient and environmentally friendly energy storage technology is of great importance for the sustainable development of our modern society. All-organic batteries have been identified as a promising, environmentally friendly alternative to the current Li-ion battery technology. However, all-organic batteries suffer several challenges, currently limiting their implementation: i) fast capacity fading due to dissolution of redox polymer in the liquid electrolyte and ii) low redox polymer loading, leading to impractical electrode loading for battery applications. RPOB proposal aims to develop redox block copolymers with synergetic properties, allowing both electronic and ionic conductivities as well as redox activity, for application in solid-state all-organic batteries. This approach will enable the design of a single component redox polymer electrode with a well-defined 3D-interconnected network, unlocking the electrode capacity to a practical level. The translation towards solid-state all-organic batteries will also eliminate the current issue related to the dissolution of redox polymers. The MSCA Fellowship will provide Dr. Goujon with a strong set of technical, professional and transferable skills, especially with the acquisition of valuable polymer synthesis, which will complete his practical expertise in solid-state battery technology. The Innovative Polymers Group directed by Prof. Mecerreyes at POLYMAT-University of the Basque Country is one of the top-class groups in the area of redox polymers. The multidisciplinary aspect of the RPOB project, along with the secondment to the group of Prof. Steiner at Adolphe Merkle Institute, will ensure that Dr. Goujon has the necessary competencies, trackrecord and scientific network required to make the RPOB project a success, and ultimately reach his career goal of becoming an independent researcher in either a leading university or a R&D batteries company, and securing his European reintegration.
Sustainable storage of grains by implementing a novel protectant and a versatile application technology

Within the novIGRain project the aim is to start from a scientific resistance assessment and develop a new type of Plant Protection Product (PPP) for larvicide treatment in combination with a versatile application technology. It has to be researched whether or not this larvicide active substance – that is assumed to be applied in ultra-low volumes (ULV) – is in line with the overall legal framework so that it can be used as grain storage Grain Production Product. The benefits of this new product are multiple, but most important are: (i) it will broaden the available active substance spectra in the field of PPPs, which is important for the prevention of the development of increased insecticide resistance in the EU, (ii) as it is a larvicide, it has a unique mode of action and allows precise targeting of insect development stages, (iii) it has improved health safety characteristics, which is important for the product users and grain consumers, (iv) as it has less hazardous residues (v) the product is highly effective, (vi) it would represent economic benefits for the EU, as there are lower export restrictions given the product’s characteristics.	
The new application technology will aim to allow the combination of multiple PPP’s (larvicides simultaneously with adulticides) which is expected to not only have a positive impact on the risk of resistance development, but will also lower the amount of adulticides required for proper management, which results in less human and environmental exposure and cost savings. The combination of the larvicide and adulticides will be tested (field trials), which will provide the up-to-date information on the area of use for integration in IPM systems. Once the tools, product and technology have been developed, a detailed impact assessment will be performed, in combination with several stakeholders’ interaction and demonstration activities, which assure the broad dissemination of the project results.
Research infrastructure on consumer health and food intake using e-science with linked data sharing

RICHFIELDS
Research Infrastructure on Consumer Health and Food Intake using E-science with Linked Data Sharing

There is growing interest in consumer health as related to food, behaviour and lifestyle determinants. However, data is fragmented, key information is lacking, and the resulting knowledge gap prohibits policy makers and companies to make effective public health nutrition strategies and reformulation of food products. Making “the healthy the easy choice” requires knowledge on the context of personal life style choices of EU-citizens. 
RICHFIELDS will design a world-class infrastructure for innovative research on healthy food choice, preparation and consumption of EU-citizens, closely linked to their behaviour and lifestyle. This unique RI will bridge the gap by linking the agri-food and nutrition-health domains and account for the regional and socio-economic diversity of the EU. The RI will be instrumental to produce a scientifically reliable, technically sound and socio-legally robust evidence-base that enables scientists to efficiently collect, unlock, connect and share research data of EU-citizens. 
Consumers are central to the design: they harbour crucial information, as they increasingly adopt mobile apps and tech-wear, get access to e-business data and even medical information. Collectively, such real-life-time data create new opportunities for research, by e.g., monitoring of food-behaviour providing personalized feedback.  For further testing, detailing and underpinning and theory-building,  interfaces will be created to distributed facilities for experimental research, e.g., virtual supermarkets. Further enrichment of data is achieved via interfaces with information systems for food and health.
The consumer-focus and the scientific evidence of RICHFIELDS will, via its services, be available to (a) EU-consumers and consumer platforms, (b) stakeholders along the food chain, and (c) policy actors in the agri-food and nutrition-health domain.
ENGINEERED CHIMERIC FUSION PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for making and using engineered phagocytic cells that express a chimeric antigen receptor having an enhanced phagocytic activity for immunotherapy in cancer or infection.