SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Heavy duty gas engines integrated into vehicles

The overall objective of HDGAS is to provide breakthroughs in LNG vehicle fuel systems, natural gas and dual fuel engine technologies as well as aftertreatment systems. The developed components and technologies will be integrated in up to three demonstration vehicles that are representative for long haul heavy duty vehicles in the 40 ton ranges. The demonstration vehicles will: 
a) Comply with the Euro VI emission regulations.
b) Meet at minimum 10% CO2 reduction compared to state of the art technology.
c) Show a range before fueling of at least 800 km on natural gas.
d) Be competitive in terms of performance, engine life, cost of ownership, safety and comfort to 2013 best in class vehicles.

Three HDGAS engine concepts/technology routes will be developed:
- A low pressure direct injection spark ignited engine with a highly efficient EGR system, variable valve timing comprising a corona ignition system. With this engine a stoichiometric as well as a lean burn combustion approach will be developed. Target is to achieve ≥ 10% higher fuel-efficiency compared with state of the art technology.
- A low pressure port injected dual fuel engine, a combination of diffusive and Partially Premixed Compression Ignition (PPCI) combustion, variable lambda close loop control and active catalyst management. Target is to achieve > 10% GHG emissions reduction compared with state of the art technology at a Euro VI emission level, with peak substitution rates that are > 80%.
- A high pressure gas direct injection diesel pilot ignition gas engine, that is based on a novel injector technology with a substitution rate > 90% of the diesel fuel. Target is to achieve same equivalent fuel consumption (< 215g/kWh) and 20% lower GHG emissions than the corresponding diesel engine.

HDGAS will develop all key technologies up to TRL6 and TRL7 and HDGAS will also prepare a plan for a credible path to deliver the innovations to the market.
Working capital subsidy for Arpol Motor Company Sp. z o.o.

The project concerns support to the entrepreneur in providing liquidity and support to day-to-day activities due to the financial difficulties that have occurred to the entrepreneur as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Financial assistance under scheme SA.57015 (2020/N)
Automata and power in the culture of machines of renaissance florence, milan and venice (1400-1600)

This interdisciplinary project aims to innovatively fill a gap in the fast-growing historiography on automata, focussing on the social, cultural and material history of these types of machines in Renaissance Italy. For the first time, AUTOREN will investigate the history of automata in the areas of Milan, Venice and Florence between 1400 and 1600. These three Northern Italian engineering traditions are among the most thriving early modern cultures of machines, and they have been researched for their seminal influences on the development of European useful machines: these are traditionally related to warfare, construction, hydraulic and industrial technologies and timekeeping. Surprisingly, the most elaborate mechanical achievements of Renaissance Italy did not belong to such a positivist idea of utility, but to those functions directed at animating a symbolic organism that conveyed a multi-layered intellectual message often undecipherable to our contemporary eye. AUTOREN will examine these other layers of the concept of mechanical utility in relation to philosophy, representation of power, knowledge-seeking activities, piety and marvel. Among these symbolic machines, for the first time, AUTOREN will comparatively explore state-funded mechanical projects such as cosmomorphic automata (planetary contrivances demonstrating the movements of all the heavenly bodies) and a surprisingly understudied group of still extant anthropomorphic automata (especially self-propelled spring-driven automata). Crafting a toolbox at the crossroads of archaeometry and the historiographies of philosophy, art, science and technology AUTOREN will be able to highlight overlooked Northern Italian contributions to technological innovation and trends in mechanical projects to European early modern culture of machines at the dawn of that long epistemological shift known as the Scientific Revolution.
Railway ground truth and digital map

RAILGARAILGAP is an essential step towards green, safe, smart mobility on rails. It focuses on developing innovative High Accuracy, High Precision Ground Truth and Digital Maps, essential elements of an EGNSS train positioning system and a V&V Environment.  The outcomes will address two show stoppers: lack of high-quality data with ground truth (needed for developing new navigation systems) and a modernized process for mapping existing train tracks cost-effectively, by deriving mapping information directly from trains in commercial operation.  This will enable positioning with unprecedented reliability and efficiency in the railway operations. The missing piece is a methodology to collect and aggregate the data without operational overheads or labour, at minimal cost in hardware while removing any need for trackside infrastructure. RAILGAP addresses these challenges with a method based on commercial trains collecting massive amounts of data. This enables characterizing even the most challenging railway environments. Results will support the GSA roadmap in adopting EGNSS in train Command & Control Systems (CCS) and trigger contributions from stakeholders. We will exploit a fusion of GNSS with data from other sensors as IMU, Lidar and Camera. Dual-Freq., Multi-Const. GNSS is key to improving map accuracy in challenging environments (urban areas, tree canopies) extending coverage of GNSS on rails. RAILGAP will make ERTMS and CCS with EGNSS sustainable, helping modernise regional and local lines, where passengers will benefit daily. It also enhances the case for ERTMS and CCS by lowering energy consumption. Project coordinator is RFI, who has been very involved in piloting GNSS-based technology for ERTMS like the Novara-Rho pilot line. The team has experts in rail and satellite navigation and includes research organizations, engineering consultants, railway operators and stakeholder representatives, forming a well-recognized consortium with long-term working experience.
Low-Energy leak-proof double seat control valve based on a water hydraulic actuator system

The HYDRACTVAL project aims to design, test and demonstrate a leak-proof double seat control valve for the brewery and dairy industries. It will be based on and fully exploits the benefits of its core technology – a patented water-based hydraulic actuator with regulation functionality. The novel technology holds a range of clear advantages over compressed air:
 Energy efficiency and reduced CO2 emission: Reducing electricity consumption and carbon emissions by more than 65%; 
 Precision: Accurate positioning of valve position allowing any valve to be used for regulation besides fully open/close position.
 Hygiene: Leak free and sterile hydraulic system prevents spread of air borne bacteria, oil, etc., reducing the risks of food and beverage contamination.
 Reliability: Reducing waste by avoiding unintended opening of valves and leaks. Avoids cavitation.
 Cost: Reduces the number of valves needed for a given process, reduces the cost of production and installation of valves, and allows smaller and more flexible plants.

The water-based hydraulic actuator system promises to offer a new level of control over valves. To exploit this control to its maximum potential – and thus pave the way for broad market impact - a new process valve would have to be designed, adapted and demonstrated. The technology will have the potential to be adapted for other markets currently using pneumatic valves. It will significantly increase KM’s competitiveness through launching a game changing product in a conservative industry, and opening vast and global market opportunities.

HYDRACTVAL will drastically decrease the energy consumption in food and beverage industries, with consequent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. It will also have a positive impact on the food security by reducing the risks of contamination. This is coherent with the challenge under the work programme topic Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (SFS-08-2014).
Big data challenges for mathematics

BIGMATH is aimed to train a group of young, creative mathematicians with strong theoretical and practical skills, needed to tackle the major challenges of the Big Data era. They will also be trained in a wide set of “soft skills” that enable them to transfer effectively their knowledge to the productive world, thus fostering the European market to create innovation.
These abilities will result from a close partnership between academy, providing the students with up-to-date training and knowledge on cutting-edge research on targeted mathematical disciplines, and a group of industries, who will complete the competences of the ESRs by exposing them to a set of Big Data-related real industrial problems.
The main domains of interest of the BIGMATH project lie in the areas of optimization, statistics, and large-scale linear algebra for Big Data, which are the most relevant mathematical topics for effective machine learning techniques and ability to build good data-driven products.
The effectiveness of the training program that we propose strongly relies on the involvement and close collaboration of universities with the non-academic sector, since Big Data challenges cannot be tackled only through theoretical studies and must be identified mostly by companies, which work daily on problems that involve big, complex or “messy” data. Specifically, BIGMATH focuses on 7 industrial Big Data problems spread across three domains: human facial data analysis, financial applications, and production systems.
Project Activities and ESRs training on communication, exploitation of scientific results, dissemination and public engagement, play also a central role in this project, since they are designed to promote dissemination of excellent research and diffusion of innovation in Europe. The creation of such international and life-long network of young researchers, trained across sectors in an innovative way, will thus help Europe to strengthen its international R&I cooperation.
Deterministic Polarization Entanglement Purification of χ-type entangled states in Multiple Degrees of Freedom

We present two deterministic entanglement purifications protocols for χ-type entangled states, resorting to multiple degrees of freedom. One protocol is implemented with the spatial entanglement to distill the maximally entangled states from the mixed states, resorting to some linear optical elements. Another one is implemented with the frequency entanglement for the purification. All the parties can jointly distill the maximally entangled states from the mixed states affected by the environmental noise during transmission. Both of the protocols can work in a deterministic way with the success probability 100 %, in principle. The derived features may make the protocols useful in the practical long-distance quantum communication.
Designing for people with dementia: designing for mindful self-empowerment and social engagement

This project aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and empathising with other people. These difficulties often pose a challenge for engaging socially, reinforcing their effects and reducing personal well-being. 

Design can offer novel ways of complementing existing care approaches to empower people with dementia in everyday social situations. Utilising the concept of mindful design, we will investigate innovative design solutions to enable self-empowerment and confidence building of people living with dementia. We will specifically focus on two areas: personal difficulties with social interaction and environmental influences on social engagement. In these two contexts, we will study how personal, wearable designs can help mediate perceptions of identity and emotion management; and how environmental aspects can reduce feelings of information overload and instill feelings of self-empowerment and control.

The outcomes and benefits of the project will include: the development of new uses of design for helping people with dementia to engage socially and improve subjective well-being; the presentation of a robust methodological co-design framework for the development and evaluation of the designs in dementia care settings; the development of a holistic mindful model of designing and of a model for mindful care for social engagement for people with dementia; policy recommendations for the inclusion of design within dementia care.

This groundbreaking project will be enabled through an innovative consortium of academic and non-academic partners that combines research in product and environmental design, ICT, and dementia care.
Development of Connections between the Key ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa

Dock-Bi is an infrastructural project aimed at upgrading port areas and cross-border ferry connectivity between the key ports of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa. Did you know that Igoumenitsa is the most important Greek port in trade with Italy? Since maritime transport plays a key role in the local economy of the two countries, DOCK-BI faces a common cross-border challenge: to improve the unsatisfactory multimodal accessibility and fill in the lack of integration and interconnection of transport modes between the two ports. How? Through implementing strategic infrastructural interventions able to boost maritime transport and improve accessibility and integration with ports’ adjacent areas.

The infrastructural interventions foreseen in the port areas of Brindisi and Igoumenitsa are the following:
- the parking area for trucks and cars in transit to and from Greece will be renovated at Costa Morena in Brindisi;
- the transit area in Costa Morena port gate will be redeveloped;
- the access roads to Brindisi ferry port area will be improved;
- the third passenger terminal of Igoumenitsa port will be completed;
- the street lighting at the main roads around Igoumenitsa port will be upgraded.

The ASI Consortium of Brindisi is the lead beneficiary of this project in cooperation with two Italian partners, the Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority and the Municipality of Brindisi– and two Greek partners- the Igoumenitsa Port Authority and the Municipality of Igoumenitsa.
Dephlegmator

A dephlegmator (refluxing condenser) includes a feed gas passage and a refrigerant passage. A feed gas introduced into the feed gas passage from the bottom is in indirect heat-exchange with a refrigerant passing through the refrigerant passage. Components having low boiling points are withdrawn as rectified gases from the top, and high boiling point components are discharged as condensates from the bottom. The refrigerant passage is divided into a first, upper section and a second, lower section. In the first section, a liquid or gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant is introduced to flow co-currently with the feed gas. In the second section, a gas fraction of the refrigerant flows. The flow in this second section is preferably counter-current. The dephlegmator is preferably formed as a plate and fin type exchanger.
Cervical/thoracotomic/thoracoscopic approaches for H-type congenital tracheo-esophageal fistula: A systematic review

Aim of this systematic review is to investigate the thoracic and cervical surgical approaches of H-type tracheo-esophageal fistula (TEF) according to the position of the fistula.The PubMed database was searched for original studies on H-type TEF treatment published between 1977 and 2012. Manuscripts finally included were divided into open and thoracoscopic surgery groups.Seventeen studies were selected for open surgery group, and most of them agree on the importance of pre-operative diagnosis of the fistula by preliminary tracheoscopy. Right cervicotomy was used in 70 cases (76.9%), left cervicotomy in 12 (13.2%), and thoracotomy only in 9 (9.9%). Five studies were included in thoracoscopic group (6 patients). Indications for the surgical approach (cervical vs thoracic) according to the position of the TEF were clearly described in 10 manuscripts, and all stated differences in surgical technique details. Complications and mortality rates were not statistically correlated to the different surgical approaches.The evidence base in regard to the treatment of H-type fistula in children is poor and the skills and preferences of the surgeons guide the choice of the procedure. Surgical division of the fistula is curative, and the key to a successful repair is the pre-operatively identification of the level of the fistula with tracheoscopy. Right cervicotomy seems to be the approach of choice in the majority of case, with the thoracic approach appropriate only for fistulae opening below T2. Further well-designed prospective studies which take into account of selection and performance bias are strongly required.
ON PERTURBATION OF α-TIMES INTEGRATED C-SEMIGROUPS

Let α ≥ 0, and C be a bounded linear injection on a complex
Banach space X. We first show that if A generates an exponentially bounded
nondegenerate α-times integrated C-semigroup Sα(·) on X, B is a bounded
linear operator on D(A) such that BC = CB on D(A) and BA ⊂ AB, then
A + B generates an exponentially bounded nondegenerate α-times integrated
C-semigroup Tα(·) on X. Moreover, Tα(·) is also exponentially Lipschitz
continuous or norm continuous if Sα(·) is. We show that the exponential
boundedness of Tα(·) can be deleted and α-times integrated C-semigroups
can be extended to the context of local α-times integrated C-semigroups when
R(C) ⊂ D(A) and BSα(·) = Sα(·)B on D(A) both are added. Moreover,
Tα(·) is also locally Lipschitz continuous or norm continuous if Sα(·) is.
We show that A + B generates a nondegenerate local α-times integrated Csemigroup
Tα(·) on X if A generates a nondegenerate local α-times integrated
C-semigroup Sα(·) on X and B is a bounded linear operator on X such
that either BC = CB, BSα = SαB on X; or BC = CB on D(A) and
BA ⊂ AB. Moreover, Tα(·) is also locally Lipschitz continuous, (norm
continuous, exponentially bounded or exponentially Lipschitz continuous) if
Sα(·) is.
KnowForAlp - Knowledge Network Forestry in the Alpine Space

In view of the various challenges affecting forests and forest ecosystem management (natural & climate change, natural hazards, econom. crisis..), the precious natural heritage of forests & the forestry sector in alpine spaces are becoming increasingly endangered. In order to deal with these challenges, the self-organised cooperation & coordination of all involved partners in the field is indispensable. The cooperation in knowledge- und know-how exchange & trans-national measures is necessary to keep the natural heritage attractive, its management economically profitable, & to guarantee its protection. A preferably broad participation of all stakeholders is required. KnowForAlp develops a joint communication platform & implements innovative measures of knowledge transfer: the networking of 19 partners from seven nations secures an effective & broad exchange of knowledge- & information as well as offering much needed decision support for the complex management of forest ecosystems.
Depositional environment, hydrocarbon generation and expulsion potential of the middle Permian Pingdiquan source rocks based on geochemical analyses in the eastern Junggar Basin, NW China

ABSTRACTAs the most important source rocks in the eastern Junggar Basin, the middle Permian Pingdiquan (P2p) source rocks have attracted increasing attention after the discovery of tight oil in the Shazhang uplift. The P2p source rocks are widely distributed (up to 7546 km2) and have an elevated thickness in the eastern Junggar Basin. To explore the P2p tight oil resource in the eastern Junggar Basin, 113 core samples from 34 exploration wells were analysed geochemically and re-examined for their organic matter abundance, type and thermal maturity, hydrocarbon potential and sedimentary environment. Geochemical analysis results indicate that the P2p source rocks are fair to good source rocks dominated by Type II kerogen, presently in a low mature–mature stage, and biomarkers and trace elements indicate deposition in a terrestrial to coastal environment under oxic to dysoxic, and fresh to brackish conditions, with possible intermittent seawater influence, implying proximity to the open sea. Based on hydroca...
Cerium (Ce) [Z = 58]

The variations are substantial within the REE class of ore deposits, and the formation of an REE ore deposit gives little information about its classification. Besides, classifying REE ore deposits on the basis of only their genetic evolution would quickly induce misinterpretations. For instance, the class of copper-gold-uranium-REE-iron (IOCG) includes the well-known Olympic Dam deposit (South Australia), the iron deposits of Kiruna (Sweden), the iron-REE deposits of Box Bixby and Pea Ridge (Missouri, United States) and possibly the REE-rich Bayan Obo (Mongolia), the Palabora carbonatite-hosted copper, and the Vergenoug iron-fluorine deposit (South Africa). When examined in detail, these deposits are remarkably different.
Essential role of the cGMP/PKG signaling pathway in regulating the proliferation and survival of human renal carcinoma cells

Phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) plays a key role in regulating the intracellular cyclic GMP (cGMP) concentration, which influences anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic mechanisms in multiple carcinomas. PDE5 inhibitors, such as exisulind and its analogs have anticancer activities. In this study, we found that suppressing PDE5 gene expression by PDE5 siRNA inhibited cell proliferation and induced apoptosis in OS-RC-2 human renal cell carcinoma cells. These effects were enhanced by 8-Br-cGMP, a cell membrane permeable cGMP derivative, and were inhibited by KT5823, a protein kinase G (PKG) inhibitor, indicating that PKG was activated by intracellular cyclic GMP. In addition, there was a reduction in both the mRNA and protein expression of cyclin D1, while p21 protein expression was increased; the reduction in cyclin D1 expression was blocked by the proteasome inhibitor, MG132, or c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) inhibitor; both β-catenin and JNK were phosphorylated by activated PKG. Furthermore, p21 protein expression was decreased in Sp1 siRNA transfected-cells treated with 8-Br-cGMP, indicating that p21 may be partly controlled by the PKG activation through Sp1. Furthermore, we found that PKG Iβ was responsible for the anticancer activities. Our findings indicate that the downregulation of PKG-activated genes, such as cyclin D1 partly accounts for the pro-apoptotic effects in PDE5 siRNA-transfected OS-RC-2 cells.