SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Towards the application of Industry 4.0 in SMEs

4STEPS project is addressing the main challenge of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) as tool towards a new, digital industrial revolution holding the promise of increased flexibility in manufacturing, mass customisation, increased speed, better quality and improved productivity and its development is supporting the RIS3 in the target regions in the different sectors. SMEs in the target regions are lagging behind in the adoption of innovative tools and solutions proposed by I

4.0 revolution and need to increase transnational collaboration in facing this challenge. Main project objective is support the successful RIS3 implementation applying the I

4.0 to all the industrial sectors identified by each region. The innovative elements of 4STPES will be the methodology applied based on the involvement of all the actors of the quadruple helix, thanks to a bottom up approach. SMEs will be the main target and they will be involved via the CE network of the Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH)– including also the relevant stakeholders of the R&D sector, governance actors,  society thanks to an holistic approach. 4STEPS will lead to an improved level of innovative productive methods and application of I

4.0 thanks to a Catalogue development of main possible services offered, a Technology Maturity Level Index development, Transnational Action plan and the creation of the Digital Innovation Hubs, tested during the pilot actions. Within this approach of networking 4STEPS will include also a solution preparing the CE citizen towards the digital future during targeted workshop for digital skills improvement. The project approach developed within the 4STPES project will consider the Industry 

4.0 plans applied in CE countries which is are linked to the digitalised production system that will result in a wide range of changes to manufacturing processes, outcomes and business models.
Leanness evaluation using IF–THEN rules

Lean manufacturing is a manufacturing system aimed at waste elimination thereby streamlining the process. Leanness is the performance measure of lean manufacturing. The measurement of leanness necessitates fuzzy logic, due of the existence of impreciseness and vagueness. The calculation of leanness using fuzzy logic manually is a time consuming and highly repetitive job. To overcome this, fuzzy logic-based inference method has been attempted in this research study. A conceptual model consisting of three levels namely enabler, criterion, and attributes has been developed. Then the linguistic variables are assigned and the membership functions are defined. Leanness level has been computed using IF–THEN rules based interface method. This is followed by gap analysis to identify the weaker criteria. Then suitable proposals have been derived to overcome these obstacles towards leanness improvement of the organization.
COMMUNICATING WITH BUSINESS CUSTOMERS

A method including providing a business with a unified communications number for all types of customer communication and mapping the unified communications number to each address for the business issued by the communication service providers of the business. The method may also include routing communications addressed to the unified communications number to the appropriate the address as a function of the type of communication.
SMARTWORKING_2020 — INCENTIVES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SMART WORKING BUSINESS PLANS

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SMART WORKING BUSINESS PLAN REQUIRES THE PURCHASE OF N 3 LAPTOPS (NOTEBOOK) TO ALLOW EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN AGILE WORK TO LEND THEIR WORK ACTIVITIES AT THEIR HOME BY CONNECTING TO THE COMPANY’S IT INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH REMOTE CONNECTION SYSTEMS
Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Neural Tissue Organization: Correlations between Radiologic and Histologic Parameters

This study examined the relationship between histological variables and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) values in a normal canine brain. We hypothesized that radial diffusivity (RD) would correlate with myelin density and fractional anisotropy (FA) would correlate with white matter fiber coherence. We acquired DTI maps of a normal canine brain post mortem on a 7T MR scanner (TR = 100 ms, TE = 18.1 ms, NEX = 1, width [d] = 4 ms, separation [D] = 8.9 ms, gradient amplitude = 600 mT/m, b=1,565 s/mm 2 ) and generated maps of FA, RD, and axial diffusivity. The brain was subsequently sectioned and stained for myelin with gold chloride, which also allowed for measurement of fiber coherence. DTI metrics were then directly compared with the optical density of the myelin stain and the coherence of stained fibers. Multivariate linear regression demonstrated that RD, but not FA, significantly correlated with both myelin stain intensity (p = 0.031) and fiber coherence (p = 0.035). The Pearson correlation coefficient between these two histological variables and FA was 0.122; and was 0.607 for the histological variables and RD. We found that RD significantly correlated with both optical density of myelinated fibers and fiber coherence, but FA correlated with neither histological finding. Factors other than degree of myelination and fiber coherence should be considered to fully account for regional variation in FA.
Buen vivir: Emergent discourse within or beyond sustainable development?

Abstract This paper sets out to review the content of Buen vivir (‘good living’) as an emergent discourse, reflecting on its genesis and contributions to the sustainability debate, as well as on incipient attempts at its institutionalization. First, we briefly revisit criticisms to the development discourse and then engage in deeper exploration of the status of its direct descendant: sustainable development (SD). Next, we consider the Latin-American position in the discursive field of SD and the situation of Buen vivir vis-a-vis SD. Drawing on the traditional repository of the continent's indigenous cultures, this discourse has been theorized in the academic sphere and translated into normative principles that have started to permeate the public, but also the political sphere, especially in Ecuador and Bolivia. In this article we refer to Buen vivir as the contemporary discursive reelaboration of the Quechua concept Sumak Kawsay and similar principles from other indigenous peoples. It includes both the idea of interdependence between society and nature and a conception of the universal as a plurality. Lastly, we outline some inbuilt tensions of the Buen vivir discourse, but also its dialogic potential with several variants of the heterogeneous discursive field around the idea of SD.
Modelling and inverting the deep marine sedimentary record to constrain atlantic passive margin landscape evolution

Passive continental margins make up many of the world’s densely populated coasts, hold 35% of the world’s largest oil reservoirs, sequester carbon, and are critical biodiversity hotspots. Human populations and infrastructure on passive margins are at risk from sea level rise, increased storm intensity, and sediment starvation. The geologic evolution of passive margins around the world is poorly understood due to a lack of models that couple terrestrial erosion with sediment deposition in the deep marine environment. The Atlantic Passive Margin (APM) of the eastern United States is exceptionally enigmatic; debate centers on how many (if any) pulses of exhumation occurred on the APM since the opening of the Atlantic Ocean 200 million years ago. Yet there has been no attempt to use mechanistic surface process models to extract APM exhumation history. I propose to build a new, coupled model of terrestrial and marine sediment transport and use it to invert the rich deep marine sedimentary record for APM exhumation history. I will develop a new model for continent-scale deep marine seascape and stratigraphy evolution over geologic time, which I will couple with existing models for terrestrial and shallow marine environments. I will validate the new model against an existing small-scale stratigraphy model as well as stratigraphy from the Bay of Biscay and the Ogooué Delta, Gabon. I will use the coupled model to invert the deep marine sedimentary record and resolve APM exhumation history over the past 200 Ma. Inversion results will provide novel constraints on the number, timing, and cause of exhumation pulses, and will be compared against thermochronologic data and geodynamic models. This approach is the first to quantitatively link the development of marine stratigraphy to APM landscape change. The proposed study will unlock the potential of deep marine deposits, the most complete sedimentary archives on Earth, to yield time-resolved records of changes to Earth’s surface.
Appraisal of Space Words and Allocation of Emotion Words in Bodily Space

The body-specificity hypothesis (BSH) predicts that right-handers and left-handers allocate positive and negative concepts differently on the horizontal plane, i.e., while left-handers allocate negative concepts on the right-hand side of their bodily space, right-handers allocate such concepts to the left-hand side. Similar research shows that people, in general, tend to allocate positive and negative concepts in upper and lower areas, respectively, in relation to the vertical plane. Further research shows a higher salience of the vertical plane over the horizontal plane in the performance of sensorimotor tasks. The aim of the paper is to examine whether there should be a dominance of the vertical plane over the horizontal plane, not only at a sensorimotor level but also at a conceptual level. In Experiment 1, various participants from diverse linguistic backgrounds were asked to rate the words "up", "down", "left", and "right". In Experiment 2, right-handed participants from two linguistic backgrounds were asked to allocate emotion words into a square grid divided into four boxes of equal areas. Results suggest that the vertical plane is more salient than the horizontal plane regarding the allocation of emotion words and positively-valenced words were placed in upper locations whereas negatively-valenced words were placed in lower locations. Together, the results lend support to the BSH while also suggesting a higher saliency of the vertical plane over the horizontal plane in the allocation of valenced words.
OPTIMAL PHASE CONFLICT REMOVAL FOR LAYOUT OF ALTERNATING PHASE-SHIFTING MASKS

Method for resolving phase conflict for dark-field and bright-field alternating phase-shifting mask technologies is disclosed. For the dark-field masks, the method consists of a new 2-coloring and compaction approach that simultaneously optimizes layout and phase assignment which is based on planar embedding of an associated phase conflict graph; optimal and fast algorithms minimizing the number of phase conflicts that must be removed to ensure 2-colorability of the phase conflict graph; and fast gadget-based algorithms solving optimally the corresponding T-join problem. For the bright-field masks, the method consists of a new 2-coloring and compaction approach that simultaneously optimizes layout and phase assignment which is based on planar embedding of an associated feature graph, wherein the feature graph incorporates two types of layout modifications: increasing spacing and changing the width of critical thin features; optimal fast algorithms minimizing the number of phase conflicts that must be removed by increasing spacing; and approximate fast algorithms minimizing the number of phase conflicts that must be removed by both types of layout modifications.
Ricerca e sviluppo sull'uso della realtà ibrida in un'applicazione di gestione aziendale

Il progetto realizzato da Predica Sp. z o.o. consisterà nella creazione di una soluzione che consenta la visualizzazione 3D dei dati come realtà ibrida (realtà mista). La realtà mista è un mondo virtualizzato visto da occhiali speciali (la cosiddetta "realtà mista"). HMD o Head-Mounted Display), in cui gli oggetti della realtà vengono virtualizzati in tempo reale in modo che altri oggetti, già tipicamente virtuali, possano interagire con loro. Finora, esiste un database modesto di problemi e soluzioni noti, che rende il lavoro sulla soluzione irto del rischio di un problema/errore precedentemente sconosciuto. La sfida progettuale è anche le implicazioni delle nuove tecnologie basate sulla realtà mista. La soluzione prevista per essere sviluppata è innovativa nel mondo, finora non sono state individuate sul mercato soluzioni simili che operano in una realtà mista. Tuttavia, il team del richiedente ha le risorse e le potenzialità giuste per realizzare il progetto di ricerca. Tutti i compiti di ricerca saranno svolti dal richiedente da soli. Il progetto effettuerà attività di ricerca e sviluppo comprendenti: — Creazione di GUI per la realtà mista, — Esame e creazione di ambiente ologramma, — Preparazione di script e strumenti per automatizzare la costruzione e l'implementazione della soluzione, — Creazione di meccanismi di interazione con l'utente dell'applicazione, — Creazione di meccanismi di integrazione con sistemi di supporto selezionati, — Esecuzione di test e ottimizzazione della soluzione creata. Nella parte di attuazione del progetto, verrà sviluppata un'applicazione nella versione destinata all'implementazione presso potenziali clienti. Le implementazioni saranno effettuate dal richiedente da solo. Un potenziale gruppo di clienti sono aziende con un team di assistenza clienti significativo sia per i propri dipendenti che per i servizi di outsourcing.
Heat-pipe Earth

The heat transport and lithospheric dynamics of early Earth are currently explained by plate tectonic and vertical tectonic models, but these do not offer a global synthesis consistent with the geologic record. Here we use numerical simulations and comparison with the geologic record to explore a heat-pipe model in which volcanism dominates surface heat transport. These simulations indicate that a cold and thick lithosphere developed as a result of frequent volcanic eruptions that advected surface materials downwards. Declining heat sources over time led to an abrupt transition to plate tectonics. Consistent with model predictions, the geologic record shows rapid volcanic resurfacing, contractional deformation, a low geothermal gradient across the bulk of the lithosphere and a rapid decrease in heat-pipe volcanism after initiation of plate tectonics. The heat-pipe Earth model therefore offers a coherent geodynamic framework in which to explore the evolution of our planet before the onset of plate tectonics.
INTEGRAZIONE DEI TEST DI PROFITTO AI MANUALI D'ITALIANO USATI IN CINA PER STUDENTI UNIVERSITARI

In questo articolo vengono presentati e discussi i risultati di una ricerca-azione fatta tra gli studenti universitari sinofoni con l’integrazione dei test di autovalutazione/valutazione sviluppati a seconda delle caratteristiche del manuale utilizzato e dei problemi principali degli apprendenti sinofoni. Dopo una presentazione sintetica del contesto dell’insegnamento d’italiano in Cina e i manuali usati, si procede con un confronto del sistema morfosintattico e fonologico tra il cinese mandarino e l’italiano per analizzare le possibili cause delle problematiche degli studenti cinesi nell’apprendimento dell’italiano. Pianificando una serie di valutazioni formative nel programma didattico sin dall’inizio del processo di apprendimento e proponendo gli appositi piani di recupero dopo la somministrazione dei test, si mira ad avere un miglior monitoraggio dell’andamento dello studio dell’italiano LS e nello stesso tempo si offre agli studenti un’occasione per riflettere sui risultati del proprio percorso di apprendimento e si chiede loro di assumersi più responsabilità nel proprio studio.&#x0D; &#x0D; Integration of self-assessment tests with Italian textbooks used in China for university students&#x0D; This article presents and discusses the results of an action research carried out among university students in China with the integration of self-assessment/evaluation tests developed according to the characteristics of the textbook in use and the main problems the students encountered while learning Italian. Following a brief presentation of the context of teaching Italian in China and the textbooks in use, a comparison of the morphosyntactic and phonological system between Mandarin Chinese and Italian analyzes the possible causes of problems faced by Chinese students learning Italian. By planning a series of formative assessments as part of the didactic program from the beginning of the learning process and proposing appropriate recovery plans afterwards, the action research aimed to better monitor of the progress of the study of Italian LS while offering students an opportunity to reflect on the results of their learning path and take more responsibility in their study.
Dominant cloud microphysical processes of a torrential rainfall event in Sichuan, China

High-resolution numerical simulation data of a rainstorm triggering debris flow in Sichuan Province of China simulated by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model were used to study the dominant cloud microphysical processes of the torrential rainfall. The results showed that: (1) In the strong precipitation period, particle sizes of all hydrometeors increased, and mean-mass diameters of graupel increased the most significantly, as compared with those in the weak precipitation period; (2) The terminal velocity of raindrops was the strongest among all hydrometeors, followed by graupel’s, which was much smaller than that of raindrops. Differences between various hydrometeors’ terminal velocities in the strong precipitation period were larger than those in the weak precipitation period, which favored relative motion, collection interaction and transformation between the particles. Absolute terminal velocity values of raindrops and graupel were significantly greater than those of air upward velocity, and the stronger the precipitation was, the greater the differences between them were; (3) The orders of magnitudes of the various hydrometeors’ sources and sinks in the strong precipitation period were larger than those in the weak precipitation period, causing a difference in the intensity of precipitation. Water vapor, cloud water, raindrops, graupel and their exchange processes played a major role in the production of the torrential rainfall, and there were two main processes via which raindrops were generated: abundant water vapor condensed into cloud water and, on the one hand, accretion of cloud water by rain water formed rain water, while on the other hand, accretion of cloud water by graupel formed graupel, and then the melting of graupel formed rain water.
Landscape in the sagas of Icelanders: The concepts oflandandlandsleg

This article presents a study of the Icelandic landscape concept, and its meaning and embedded connotations. The present-day understanding of the concept provides the point of departure to some of the oldest preserved examples of the term. The analysis thus centres upon the sagas of Icelanders that were written in the Middle Ages. The paper reveals that in the 14th century the concept referred to morphological qualities of land, and was often associated with an aesthetic appreciation thereof. The meaning of landscape as natural scenery has been explained as the outcome of artistic articulations of social relations in the wake of the Renaissance and Romanticism. Such accounts, however, do not explain the aesthetic connotations associated with the Icelandic landscape concept in the Middle Ages, described in this article. The results of the study thus indicate that there may be more to the landscape concept within the cultural domain defined by the Germanic languages than hitherto revealed, particularly in t...
Alpine Integrated GPS Network: Real-Time Monitoring and Master Model for Continental Deformation and Earthquake Hazard

The use of modern space based techniques gives us new potential to monitor and prevent natural risk, reduce economic losses, and save lives.
The aim of the ALPS-GPSQUAKENET is to build up a high-performance transnational space geodetic network of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers in the Alpine Space. This GPS array, within the millimeter-per-year precision, will represent the first ever installed transnational space geodetic network involving Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and Slovenia. This will support the use of space based techniques since it will satisfy the performance required by all the GPS applications (crustal deformation for earthquake potential, meteorology, landslide monitoring, agriculture, navigation, transportation, mapping, surveying, recreation & sports…).
The transnational structure comprising both the geoscientists and end-users will provide an excellent means for the cross-training and interaction of regional employees and young scientists.
Helping children to make the best of their transition to high school

Poor social experiences with peers, such as peer rejection or peer victimization, and with teachers, such as receiving low support or having conflictual relations with teachers during elementary school impede children’s self- and stress-regulation. The affected self- and stress-regulation places these children at risk of developing similar troublesome relations with teachers and peers after the transition to high school. 
We propose to develop a serious game named A.L.I.B.I. to help children make a successful transition from elementary school to high school. In A.L.I.B.I. children play in a virtual high school environment. The objective of A.L.I.B.I. is to uncover an alien, who is disguised as a teacher or peer. By engaging in prosocial interactions with teachers and peers, by taking the perspective of others, by learning to overthink multiple response options before acting, and by valuing long term perspectives over short term goals, children will receive clues that will help them to uncover the alien. 
The advantage of A.L.I.B.I. is that through the use of a virtual school environment, it provides children a realistic yet safe environment to learn and rehearse prosocial behaviors, to prepare them for the new social environment. In addition, A.L.I.B.I. is intuitively attractive for children, through its use of game elements and presentation on a tablet computer. The proposed ERC PoC grant has the goal to (1) develop A.L.I.B.I. into a stand-alone serious game that will be ready for implementation, (2) to test the effectiveness of A.L.I.B.I., (3) to integrate A.L.I.B.I. in ongoing school transition trainings as provided by three school counseling organizations in three regions in The Netherlands, and (4) to develop a marketing strategy for broader Dutch and European implementation.
The PAR complex controls the spatiotemporal dynamics of F-actin and the MTOC in directionally migrating leukocytes

Inflammatory cells acquire a polarized phenotype to migrate toward sites of infection or injury. A conserved polarity complex comprising PAR-3, PAR-6, and atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) relays extracellular polarizing cues to control cytoskeletal and signaling networks affecting morphological and functional polarization. Yet, there is no evidence that myeloid cells use PAR signaling to migrate vectorially in 3D environments in vivo. Using genetically-encoded bioprobes and high-resolution live imaging we revealed the existence of F-actin oscillations in the trailing edge and constant MTOC repositioning to direct leukocyte migration in wounded medaka fish larvae. Genetic manipulation in live myeloid cells demonstrated that the catalytic activity of aPKC and the regulated interaction with PAR-3/PAR-6 are required for consistent F-actin oscillations, MTOC perinuclear mobility, aPKC repositioning and wound-directed migration upstream of Rho-kinase/ROCK/ROK activation. We propose that the PAR complex coordinately controls cytoskeletal changes affecting both traction force generation and directionality of leukocyte migration to sites of injury.