SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
La industria del videojuego en México. Entre crisis económicas y prejuicios

Los videojuegos se han consolidado en México a pesar de las crisis económicas y los prejuicios de la sociedad. El valor del mercado en el país alcanzó $32,229 millones de pesos, en 2020 (Arteaga, 2021). Para analizar esta industria se propone un método basado en la Economía Política de la Comunicación y la Cultura para ver las condiciones económicas y sociales que determinaron la consolidación de la industria del videojuego en México. El presente trabajo se propone abordar el fenómeno de apropiación de videojuegos en mercados y economías emergentes.
High-Dimensional data processing: from theory to imaging applications

The unstoppable increase in the volume of data stored, transmitted and interpreted by fixed and mobile devices strongly calls for the study of efficient solutions in processing the information contained in high-dimensional signals. Such need has been reflected in the recent flourishing of research efforts from the statistics, machine learning, computer science and signal processing communities. 
Within this multidisciplinary research ground, the proposed project will address the central question that can be formulated as -- what is the maximum level of information contained in large datasets that we can process from a small number of features, and how is it possible to achieve such limit in practice?

Recent advances in information processing have demonstrated that a promising mathematical tool to tackle this question is represented by the Bayesian approach, in which statistical models inferred from training samples accurately describe the data. In fact, the Bayesian framework offers fundamental advantages in modeling high-dimensional signals in terms of mathematical tractability of performance limits as well as enhanced capabilities in information processing. 

Beyond the study of performance limits, the proposed project will involve case studies and applications in image processing. The researcher will be able to establish active collaborations with various research groups, in different department of Cambridge University, that test their research results on actual imaging devices.

This project will also form the proposer to his future independent research activity and it will provide him with new mathematical skills and practical implementation expertise with actual imaging systems. On the other hand, Cambridge University will benefit from the cross pollination of ideas brought by the researcher and his collaborators in top institutions in Europe and the US.
Testing the chinese development model under the capabilities approach: the effects of preferential policies and special economic zones on inequality and social justice

The People's Republic of China (PRC) gradually transitions from an export-led and investment-driven economy towards a service-led and consumption-driven economy. These upcoming reforms will affect firms that rely on Chinese goods and services, but also create new opportunities to sell goods and services to the emerging Chinese consumer market. Given the use of experimental and preferential policy treatments by the PRC over the last four decades to promote economic development, different sectors of the Chinese population and economy will have different capabilities and (dis)-advantages in the forthcoming transitions. This project will identify which population groups are heading towards prosperity and which are at greatest risk of remaining in poverty and development traps. While previous research have identified links between preferential policies and inequality, this research extends the existing studies by applying the Capabilities Approach, examining rights and social justice, which will help create a more prosperous consumer market. The varying levels of inequality, human capital, rights and social justice for the Chinese consumer market will be analyzed through club convergence and partial (meta) rankings methodologies from 1985 onwards. A development-capabilities index for different sectors of the Chinese population and economy will be developed to indicate policy makers, domestic and foreign firms, the public, and academics what the current state and potentials for the next market reforms will be. The results will be enable European, and international, firms to better target Chinese consumers and industries, and help academics develop a theoretical framework based on the Chinese preferential and experimental development experience.
ASSEMBLY, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR PROVISIONING COMPUTER DEVICE WITH COMPUTER DATA

An assembly, and an associated method, for provisioning a computer server, or other computer device, with operating system software and other computer data. A mobile start cart is positioned at a build area at which provisioning data is broadcast. The broadcast data is detected by a communication element of the mobile start cart. A communication element of the start cart is also placed into wireless, communication connectivity with the computer server. Provisioning data detected at the mobile start cart is forwarded on to the computer server to provision the computer server.
ENERGY HARVESTING COLD ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA GENERATOR

The invention relates to a plasma applicator (1) for applying a non thermal plasma, particularly for disinfection purposes. The plasma applicator (1) comprises an electrically driven plasma sourse (2) generating the non- thermal plasma and a electrical power source (3) provinding electrical energy, wherein the power source (3) is connected to the plasma source (2) and powers the plasma source (2).Further, the plasma source comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first and second electrodes are spaced apart by at least one dielectric layer, and wherein the first and/or the second electrode is/are arranged directly on the surface of the dielectric layer or embedded in the dielectric layer, Further, the power source (3) comprises an energy harvesting device (4), wherein the energy harvesting device (4) converts ambient energy into the electrical energy needed for the operation of the plasma source (2). For example, a piezoelectric generator can be used for powering the plasma source (2).
Characterizing image quality of autostereoscopic displays by using the maximum luminance at each viewing position

A metric of the 3D image quality of autostereoscopic displays based on optical measurements is proposed. This metric uses each view's luminance contrast, which is defined as the ratio of maximum luminance at each viewing position to total luminance at that position. Conventional metrics of the autostereoscopic display based on crosstalk, which uses “wanted” and “unwanted” lights. However, in case of the multiple-views-type autostereoscopic displays, it is difficult to distinguish exactly which lights are wanted lights and which are unwanted lights. This paper assumes that the wanted light has a maximum luminance at the good stereoscopic viewing position, and the unwanted light also has a maximum luminance at the worst pseudo-stereoscopic viewing position. By using the maximum luminance that is indexed by view number of the autostereoscopic display, the proposed method enables characterizing stereoscopic viewing conditions without using wanted/unwanted light. A 3D image quality metric called “stereo luminance contrast,” the average of both eyes' contrast, is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed metric is confirmed by the results of optical measurement analyses of different types of autostereoscopic displays, such as the two-view, scan-backlight, multi-view, and integral.
Disentangling amygdala contributions to replay-mediated, hippocampal-dependent memory consolidation

In today’s societies, adequate rest takes second place to busy professional and personal schedules. It is known that lack of rest and sleep affects mental health, emotional regulation and daytime function. Such symptoms translate to increased healthcare costs and losses in workplace productivity. How emotional regulation processes interact with sleep and associated memory consolidation functions is not well understood. In addition to increasing basic understanding of brain function, addressing this knowledge gap can help shape therapeutic approaches for mental wellbeing and contribute to EU’s H2020 goals of smart, sustainable and growth. 

VALENCE-REPLAY will provide a building block towards addressing this knowledge gap through experiments in behaving rodents. The questions to be addressed in this fellowship are: Are memory consolidation processes during sleep preferentially shaped according to the valence of prior experience? If this is so, how is this accomplished at a mechanistic level? 

The work will use modern electrophysiology and optogenetic techniques to probe functional interactions of brain areas that mediate emotion (amygdala) and memory (hippocampus) and the role of these interactions in memory replay and consolidation during sleep. The project will also lead to fabrication of a new tool, parylene-based multisite neuronal recording probes that will permit tracking single neuron activity from the ventral hippocampus for adequate lengths of time to address the outlined research goals.

The fellowship will shed light on how emotions shape memory processes during sleep, but will also afford a committed and experienced researcher the opportunity to acquire advanced training at leading European neuroscience institutes while forming a strong scientific network with leaders in the field. Through VALENCE-REPLAY, Dr Perentos will develop into an independent researcher, able to lead his own research group and achieve high impact research in systems neuroscience.
Grant for the Company Gastronomy services Kamil Mamerski to finance and ensure the day-to-day business

The project provides grants to Kamil Mamerski’s Gastronomy Services, which has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic, the company’s turnover decreased significantly. The grant will ensure the maintenance of the company’s activity and employment for a period of 3 months.
Astrochemical origins

The project ACO (AstroChemical Origins) has two main objectives: 
1) to unveil the early history of the Solar System, using the chemical composition of today forming Solar-like planetary systems and comparing it with that of the Solar System primitive bodies;
 2) to train a new generation of researchers able to tackle this highly interdisciplinary problem, providing them with a wide-range of transferable skills, including the ability to communicate Science to a large audience.
This will be obtained by setting up: 
(a) a coordinated network of PhD research projects which will be carried out by 17 ESRs under the supervision of members of the ACO Beneficiaries; 
(b) a structured secondment network, to expose ESRs to alternative research environments;
(c) a significant exposure of ESRs to the non-academic sector, via PhD co-supervision, secondment, short visits and training from non-academic ACO Beneficiaries and Partners; 
(d) specific courses at the host institutions as well as network schools with specialized interdisciplinary and transferable skills courses; 
(e) international conferences open to the scientific community; 
(f) several activities to make ACO network and its science known to the general public.
In order to achieve the ACO objectives, the proposed network is constituted by fourteen Beneficiaries, whose four from the non-academic sector, plus seven Partner Organisations, whose six from the non-academic sector.  
Each Participating Organization will provide a complementary expertise indispensable to achieve of the ACO objectives: (i) instrumental, observational, theoretical, computational, modeling, and experimental to reach the scientific goal and, (ii) on informatics, scientific presentation and management, for completing the wide-transferable training.
Support for small enterprises with a turnover of more than BGN 500 000 to overcome the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Support for small enterprises with a turnover of more than BGN 500 000 to overcome the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Facility Layout Problem By Integration of AHP and computer simulation with DEA

The facility layout problem (FLP) is concerned with finding the optimal facility arrangement in the existing layout. A layout generation and its evaluation are often challenging and time consuming due to their inherent multiple objectives in nature and their data collection process. This paper aims to propose an integrated approach of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP), computer simulation and data envelopment analysis (DEA) for facility layout design improvement and optimisation. Computer simulation is used to determine quantitative measures. AHP is used to determine first, the weight of qualitative measures for layout alternatives and second, their qualitative measures. DEA is performed by employing total cost and wait time as the input variables, accessibility and flexibility as the output variables to evaluate different layouts. Then, the alternative layouts are ranked by solving the super-efficiency DEA model for the layouts. The results imply that the proposed methodology is more reliable compared to the existing approaches.
Effects of Pancreas Transplantation on the Prevention and Reversal of Diabetic Nephropathy

Pancreas transplantation (PTx) is the only available treatment which is able to restore normoglycemia without exposing patients to the risks of severe hypoglycemia, thus allowing testing the effects of very long-term euglycemia in preventing, halting and reversing diabetic nephropathy (DN). Pancreas and islet transplantation in animal models have been shown to prevent, ameliorate or reverse the development of DN lesions. PTx, performed simultaneously or shortly after kidney transplantation in patients with type 1 diabetes prevents the recurrence of diabetic glomerulopathy lesions in the renal allograft. To test whether DN lesions are reversible in humans, we studied renal structure before and 5 and 10 years after PTx in nonuremic patients with long-term type 1 diabetes, with mild to advanced DN lesions at baseline. Diabetic glomerular lesions were not significantly changed at 5 years after PTx, but were markedly improved after 10 years. Indeed, in most patients glomerular structure had returned to normal at 10-year follow-up. These pancreas transplant studies also showed that remodeling of the tubulointerstitium and decrease in interstitial collagen was possible. Thus, the lesions of DN are reversible by long-term normoglycemia, and that it is possible in humans associated with substantial architectural remodeling and healing of glomerular, tubular, and interstitial structures.
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers

The firm is almost entirely absent from models of immigration, and yet firms play a central role for high-skilled immigration. The H-1B visa program, for example, is a firm-sponsored entry where firms are responsible for every stage: from identifying the immigrant, to employing them, to filing for permanent residency on behalf of the immigrant. This central role of firms for high-skilled immigration suggests the traditional lens for evaluating the impact of immigration on natives through local area labor markets or national age-education approaches may miss important dynamics. We analyze the employment and wage trajectories of high-skilled workers born in America when a high-skilled immigrant arrives at their work site. We use linked employer-employee data during the 1995-2008 period from the Census Bureau for this exercise, which identifies the immigration status and country-of-birth of workers. We follow the subsequent career path of workers after high-skilled immigration occurs to the employee's work site both within firms (e.g., changes in employee salary, relocation to other sites) and across firms (e.g., movements to new jobs or out of workforce, long-term salary adjustments). The richness and depth of the Census Bureau data allow for multiple comparison points: selection on observables (e.g., age, tenure, salary levels and recent growth), varying immigration treatments across different work sites for the same firm for otherwise comparable employees, and (for a subset of cases and short time period at the end of our sample) randomization in H-1B admission lotteries.
ARTICULATED BIMOTOR BOGIE FOR RAILWAY VEHICLE

The invention relates to the industry of railway vehicles. Each of the motors (M-M') of the bogie has its drive shaft (14) orientated longitudinally and is secured by its carcases (8-8') to the corresponding beam (2-2') in the central portion thereof. The carcases (8-8') of both motors are interconnected by means of an elastic articulated mounting (28) flexible about a transverse horizontal axis (30). The carcases of both motors (M-M') form the central bolster of the bogie. The invention makes possible the construction of bimotor articulated bogies shorter than those built so far.
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS OF DURATION OF WAITING TIME TO CONCEPTION

The length of waiting time to conception may be considered as the determinant of fertility. However, there is only limited empirical research investigating this subject in modern Indian societies. So, this study aims at analyzing the differentials and determinants of duration of waiting time to conception of women in Manipur, applying the survival analysis technique. In this study, a house-to-house survey of 1225 currently married women having at least one live birth is carried out through cluster sampling in Manipur, India. A mong the eight explanatory variables of interest , only four variables– use of contraceptive devices has highly significant effect (P
Community Areas of Sustainable Care And Dementia Excellence in Europe

To develop a financially sustainable approach to elderly/dementia care (EDC) that can be replicated across the 2Seas area & potentially further across Europe. Uniquely this will be tested via existing state owned buildings. The facilities created will provide short term respite & longer term care & will fully engage with the local community. They will also be the basis for a cascade of shared learning & cross border excellence in dementia care for the future. The approach will have wide applicability & play a significant role in addressing the increasing demand. The outcome will be a step change improvement in EDC in the 2Seas area allowing PLWD to stay in their homes for as long as possible. CASCADE will recognise that dementia is long term and that a person's needs on day one of diagnosis will be very different to their needs 20 years later and it will create a model that provides appropriate care at every point on the continuum.
Environmentally allowable levels of impact on river ecosystems in the arctic region

Using a case study for the river ecosystems in the Russian Arctic, the methodological approaches are presented to the selection of hydrochemical and hydrobiological parameters and to the estimation of the limits of their variability at which the ecosystem conditions can be considered stable. The research is carried out using the classifiers of water ecosystem conditions developed at the Hydrochemical Institute. Based on the statistical processing of long-term monitoring information carried out by the National Service of Observation of Environmental Conditions, the environmentally allowable ranges of variations of hydrochemical and hydrobiological parameters are separated for the river ecosystems of the Arctic region. Determined are the allowable limits of variations of concentration of priority pollutants and the upper limits are considered as the environmentally allowable levels of impact.
Between saints and celebrities. the devotion and promotion of stigmatics in europe, c.1800-1950

By far most of the historical studies on the 'golden age' of the stigmatics have focused on medical debates and religious treatises. This project wants to move beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis in at least three ways. First of all, it will focus on the popular perception of stigmatics in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and examine how they became symbolic figures of political and religious causes. Secondly, we will study the interaction of the 'victim souls' with their communities and examine how they were turned into 'living saints' through religious practices and discourse, and how some of them were eventually even beatified and canonized. Thirdly, we will address them as carefully constructed religious commodities (celebrities) and rebalance the research on the selling of religion that has adopted a top-down perspective and focused primarily on the popularization of authorized cults rather than on the impact of the commercialization from the bottom-up. Combining these three aspects in studying the stigmatics, the project will enhance our understanding of the role of (new) media and consumption practices in religious change and the construction of religious identities. As each of these emphases calls for a study that takes into account chronological and geographical differences, we will adopt a comparative approach and examine five of the countries where most of the (hundreds of) stigmatics have been attested (Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Belgium). This will allow us to trace larger trends as changes in the type of stigmatic (e.g. bedridden silent 'sign' or a socially engaged charismatic leader) and moments and locations of increased attention (e.g. political crises). However, since this was the era of an internationalized Catholicism the countries will not be studied in isolation and special attention will be given to transnational attraction (e.g. pilgrims) and the related differences in promotion and perception.
Dissecting the chromatin dynamics at telomeres during mouse pre-implantation development.

In the last decades, the progress in medicine have contributed to extend human lifespan considerably. Unfortunately, this aging of populations gives rise to the increased appearance of degenerative diseases and cancers, and therefore represents a critical problem for public health. During embryonic development, cellular proliferation is an essential process that is required to generate all the tissues and organs that contribute to the adult organism. However, alterations in the molecular mechanisms regulating this fundamental process can drive developmental defects and tumors. Cellular fail-safe systems evolved to prevent these events to happen. One of them is the natural shortening of chromosome ends, termed the telomeres. This “molecular clock” prevents cells from proliferating if their telomeres become critically short, which could lead to chromosomal alterations. This mechanism is responsible for cellular aging in Human. Unfortunately, cancer cells can bypass this process through the activation of telomere maintenance mechanism allowing for virtually unlimited proliferation. Interestingly, such maintenance mechanisms naturally occur during early embryonic development. The proposed research is aimed at understanding how telomeres are regulated in this system and under a physiological context. My expertise in mouse embryonic work associated with the competences in telomere biology of the host laboratory of Dr. Jerome Déjardin will likely be a suitable combination to answer these questions. On the long term, these researches could lead to the discovery of key factors regulating telomere maintenance. Finally, as the suppression of telomere length maintenance inhibits cell growth, the present proposal could contribute to the development of new treatments against cancer or precocious aging.