SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012

The 6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2012) showcased research on human locomotion. This book presents the proceedings of PED2012.Humans have walked for eons; our drive to settle the globe began with a walk out of Africa. However, much remains to discover. As the world moves toward sustainability while racing to assess and accommodate climate change, research must provide insight on the physical requirements of walking, the dynamics of pedestrians on the move and more. We must understand, predict and simulate pedestrian behaviour, to avoid dangerous situations, to plan for emergencies, and not least, to make walking more attractive and enjoyable.PED2012 offered 70 presentations and keynote talks as well as 70 poster presentations covering new and improved mathematical models, describing new insights on pedestrian behaviour in normal and emergency cases and presenting research based on sensors and advanced observation methods. These papers offer a starting point for innovative new research, building a strong foundation for the next conference and for future research.
Measurement of Protein 53 Diffusion Coefficient in Live HeLa Cells Using Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy (RICS)

We have applied Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy (RICS) technique to characterize the dynamics of protein 53 (p53) in living cells before and after the treatment with DNA damaging agents. HeLa cells expressing Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) tagged p53 were incubated with and without DNA damaging agents, cisplatin or eptoposide, which are widely used as chemotherapeutic drugs. Then, the diffusion coefficient of GFP-p53 was determined by RICS and it was significantly reduced after the drug treatment while that of the one without drug treatment was not. It is suggested that the drugs induced the interaction of p53 with either other proteins or DNA. Together, our results demonstrated that RICS is able to detect the protein dynamics which may be associated with protein-protein or protein-DNA interactions in living cells and it may be useful for the drug screening.
Factors influencing the rate of recycling: An analysis of Minnesota counties

This study analyzes the effects of various recycling and waste management policy variables on recycling rate by utilizing county-level panel data from Minnesota covering the period 1996–2004. The policy variables examined include variable pricing for waste disposal, expenditure on recycling education, provision of curbside recycling services and drop-off centers, and enactment of recycling ordinances. Unlike previous studies, this study accounts for the cumulative effects of the expenditure variable on recycling rate and also investigates whether different recycling programs such as curbside and drop-off recycling act as complements or substitutes in increasing recycling rates. This study also examines the effect of income and demographic characteristics on recycling rate. After accounting for random effects and endogenous variables, the results indicate that variable pricing of waste disposal increases the rate of recycling. Other policy variables such as the enactment of recycling ordinances and cumulative expenditures on recycling education are also found to be effective measures to increase recycling rate.
De “Lume Imperecível” a “Classe Sacrificada”: o magistério no quadro do funcionalismo municipal de Duque de Caxias (1947-1954)

Investiga-se a atuação da sociedade política na criação do quadro do magistério primário público do município de Duque de Caxias, a partir da pesquisa nas Atas da Câmara Municipal. O marco inicial é a instalação da Câmara Municipal (1947), que ocorreu quatro anos após a emancipação do município, estendendo-se o exame até o fim do segundo mandato da Casa Legislativa (1954). A metodologia de pesquisa documental nas Atas das sessões da Câmara Municipal possibilitou o mapeamento de iniciativas do poder executivo e do poder legislativo em matéria educacional e o exame dos interesses e disputas constituintes do processo de criação de cargos e de remuneração da categoria. O referencial teórico segue os apontamentos de Antonio Nóvoa (1991) acerca da história da profissão docente, que estimula a investigar como o Estado, enquanto poder público municipal, atuava sobre o processo de criação de cargos, lotação e remuneração do magistério. Os modos de inserção dos docentes no quadro do funcionalismo e as práticas de vigilância, fiscalização e denúncias exercidas pela população e por vereadores registram parte das expectativas sobre a função social do magistério, considerado lume imperecível que, contudo, era mantido como classe classificada quando se tratava de ser contemplado em seus direitos.
Data Location Verification in Cloud Computing

computing has pioneered the area of On-demand services. The customer can choose the resources according to the current needs with the facility of incrementing and decrementing the resources in the future. It generally follows a pay-as-you-use model which has proven beneficial for enterprises and individual users alike. Since the services are hosted over the internet, one of the recent concerns that are rising among the users is about the location of their data. Sometimes it is necessary for the data to stay in a particular jurisdiction. Therefore, it may be required for the organization to verify the location of their data from time to time. Here in this paper we propose a mechanism based on remote attestation technology of trusted platform module. Remote attestation technique is used to validate the current location of the data, and the generated result is passed to the user/verifier. The very fact that the trusted platform module is tamper proof provides the basis for the accuracy of the result.
Disentangling cross-scale drivers of coral reef fish community structure for ecosystem-based management

Ecosystem-based management is the dominant paradigm for species-rich, but data-poor coral reef fisheries. But its operationalisation is hindered by a lack of information on the natural organisation of coral reefs as determined by distinct biophysical processes operating across scales in space and time, and therefore how that organisation is affected by local human impacts. Understanding how natural and human drivers interact to determine ecological organisation is critical to the local, context specific and spatially explicit application of ecosystem assessments for management, such as prioritizing management areas based on recovery potential and degree of depletion from an unimpacted baseline state. FISHSCALES not only addresses that knowledge gap, but for the first time proposes a unique natural experiment of unprecedented scale with a novel combination of trait-based approaches and high-resolution oceanographic modelling to reveal the relative influence of interacting biophysical environmental drivers and local human impacts on the functional structure of reef-fish communities across scales (from reefs to regional). Using existing multidisciplinary data spanning 45° of latitude and 65° of longitude across 39 central western Pacific islands, this project will use predictive models to identify the natural biophysical mechanisms that best explain the spatial variation of reef-fish functional diversity across scales. It will then model how local human impacts disrupt those biophysical relationships, and explicitly quantify the relative impact of different human disturbances (from fishing to coastal development). Collectively, the results of FISHSCALES will advance our capacity to predict spatial patterns of functional diversity and structure of reef-fish communities, providing insight into relative ecosystem health and stability, and therefore advance the science underpinning ecosystem-based management of data poor coral reef systems.
Rurality as a Root or Fundamental Social Determinant of Health

lace matters; it contextualizes health. When examining the influence of ommunity, neighborhood, and social space, researchers from multiple isciplines found that geography matters when assessing health status, ealth service use, health service deficits, adequacy of health care, and ealth-related behaviors. Where people live, work, and play protects and romotes their health and/or contributes to the health risks they experince. Koh et al advocate that all individuals should have an equal pportunity to maximize their health. However, some might experience a ealth disparity because of where they live. Such disparities, though, are ot fixed. Once identified, changes to improve health outcomes and educe disparities are possible. A health disparity or health inequity refers to differences in health or ealth outcomes related to factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, ocioeconomic status, or sexual orientation. As government reports such s Healthy People 2020 advocate for the fundamental human justice of ddressing avoidable health-related inequities, it is important to recognize he extensive body of public health-related research associating place or eographic locale as a significant factor in identifying populations ulnerable to health disparities. Although there is long-standing awareess of the health inequities for people living in the inner city, there is an merging body of research acknowledging the importance of rurality in ocial epidemiology, as well as the vulnerability of this specific opulation.
Dynamic attitude fixing: a novel theory of opinion dynamics in social networks and its implications for computational propaganda in hybrid social networks (containing humans and bots)

Understanding the coordination of attitudes in societies is vitally important for many disciplines and global social challenges. Network opinion dynamics are poorly understood, especially in hybrid networks where automated (bot) agents seek to influence economic or political processes (e.g. USA: Trump vs Clinton; UK: Brexit). A dynamic fixing theory of attitudes is proposed, premised on three features of attitudes demonstrated in ethnomethodology and social psychology; that people: 1) simultaneously hold a repertoire of multiple (sometimes ambivalent) attitudes, 2) express attitudes to enact social identity; and 3) are accountable for attitude expression in interaction. It is proposed that interactions between agents generate symbolic links between attitudes with the emergent social-symbolic structure generating perceived ingroup similarity and outgroup difference in a multilayer network. Thus attitudes can become dynamically fixed when constellations of attitudes are locked-in to identities via multilayer networks of attitude agreement and disagreement; a process intensified by conflict, threat or zero-sum partisan processes (e.g. elections/referenda). Agent-based simulations will validate the theory and explore the hypothesized channels of bot influence. Network experiments with human and hybrid networks will test theoretically derived hypotheses. Observational network studies will assess model fit using historical Twitter data. Results will provide a social-psychological-network theory for attitude dynamics and vulnerability to computational propaganda in hybrid networks. 
The theory will explain:
(a) when and how consensus can propagate rapidly through networks (since identity processes fix attitudes already contained within repertoires); 
(b) limits of identity-related attitude propagation (since attitudes outside of repertoires will not be easily adopted); and 
(c) how attitudes can often ‘roll back’ after events (since contextual changes ‘unfix’ attitudes).
Exploiting light coherence in photoacoustic imaging

Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging multi-wave imaging modality that couples light excitation to acoustic detection, via the photoacoustic effect (sound generation via light absorption). Photoacoustic imaging provides images of optical absorption (as opposed to optical scattering). In addition, as photoacoustic imaging relies on detecting ultrasound waves that are very weakly scattered in biological tissue, it provides acoustic-resolution images of optical absorption non-invasively at large depths (up to several cm), where purely optical techniques have a poor resolution because of multiple scattering. As for conventional purely optical approaches, optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy can also be performed non-invasively for shallow depth (< 1 mm), or invasively at depth by endoscopic approaches.  However, photoacoustic imaging suffers several limitations. For imaging at greater depths, non-invasive photoacoustic imaging in the acoustic-resolution regime is limited by a depth-to-resolution ratio of about 100, because ultrasound attenuation increases with frequency. Optical-resolution photoacoustic endoscopy has very recently been introduced as a complementary approach, but is currently limited in terms of resolution (> 6 µm) and footprint (diameter > 2 mm).
The overall objective of COHERENCE is to break the above limitations and reach diffraction-limited optical-resolution photoacoustic imaging at depth in tissue in vivo. To do so, the core concept of COHERENCE is to use and manipulate coherent light in photoacoustic imaging. Specifically, COHERENCE will develop novel methods based on speckle illumination, wavefront shaping and super-resolution imaging. COHERENCE will result in two prototypes for tissue imaging, an optical-resolution photoacoustic endoscope for minimally-invasive any-depth tissue imaging, and a non-invasive photoacoustic microscope with enhanced depth-to-resolution ratio, up to optical resolution in the multiply-scattered light regime.
Democratizing a cyber security toolkit for smes and mes

CyberKit4SME aims to democratize a kit of cyber security tools and methods enabling SMEs/MEs to: Increase awareness of cybersecurity risks, vulnerabilities and attacks; Monitor and forecast risks; Manage risks using organisational, human and technical security measures with greater confidence; and Collaborate and share information in a collective security and data protection effort. 
Tools developed in the project are: Semi-automated ISO 27005 threat identification and risk mitigation analysis, using a knowledge base of technical and human/organisational risk factors; Encryption and isolation tools to protect data being stored, processed or exchanged; Security information and event management, using multiple data sources for threat detection and diagnosis, Blockchain tools for SMEs/MEs to share intelligence and incident reports with supply chain partners and with CERTs.
CyberKit4SME will make its tools cheaper and more usable by SME/ME, by 1) Exploiting synergies between tools in the kit to simplify the use of each; 2) Sharing information to increase the data available for threat detection and diagnosis at each SME/ME; 3) Embedding intelligence (e.g. machine reasoning and data analytics), to fill gaps in inputs and automate tasks such as risk analysis and security configuration. 
The project will also use its tools and cyber range demos to train SMEs/MEs to identify their top threats and recognise and address them with greater confidence. Results will be validated by SME/ME in four critical sectors: Finance, Health Care, Energy and Transport. Outcomes include reducing the time/cost of cyber security awareness and protection, simplifying meeting and demonstrating compliance with NIS Directive and GDPR, protecting distributed assets from cloud services to edge devices, and engaging in secure supply chains with larger organisations. The project will also collaborate with related research projects and disseminate widely in the scientific community and in SME networks.
Use of cortical bone screws in maxillofacial surgery - a prospective study.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the various applications of cortical bone screws in oral and maxillofacial surgery.The study was conducted in a teaching hospital located in, Bangalore, India, on 20 patients. These patients were categorized into three groups depending on the applications of these screws like, for achieving intermaxillary fixation in Group-1, for treatment of simple, undisplaced fractures by "Tension wire" method in Group-2, and further application of these screws were evaluated in Group-3. Different parameters were used to evaluate the efficacy of these screws.In Group-1(n=12) there was satisfactory occlusion in all the patients with minimal incidence of complications. In Group-2 (n=4) post-operative reduction and fixation was satisfactory and in Group-3 (n=4) the function of these screws was satisfactory when it was used for vestibuloplasty and also as a suspension wiring in treatment of comminuted fracture of zygoma with minimal incidence of complications.Use of cortical bone screws is a valid alternative for achieving intermaxillary fixation, reduction and fixation of simple, undisplaced or minimally displaced fractures through Tension wire method owing to its simplicity, economy and ease of use, and as a fixation method for apically positioned flap in vestibuloplasty procedure. How to cite the article: Satish M, Rahman NM, Reddy VS, Yuvaraj A, Muliyar S, Razak PA. Use of Cortical Bone Screws in Maxillofacial Surgery - A Prospective Study. J Int Oral Health 2014;6(2):62-7.
Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) on tomato : evaluation of pathogen population structure in Britain and development of resistant tomato cultivars for growing outdoors

Phytophthora infestans is an Oomycete plant pathogen, and causes late blight disease on tomatoes and potatoes. This is arguably the most serious disease of these crops in temperate climates such as Britain’s. An SSR genotyping study was undertaken to assess the extent to which P. infestans populations on tomato and potato in Britain are host-specialised. No evidence of host specialisation was found, although very high levels of genetic diversity were found in the P. infestans populations sampled from gardens and allotments, suggesting that these settings could be a source of new P. infestans genotypes, possibly arising from sexual recombination. Additionally, field trials and associated marker-assisted selection work were carried out in conjunction with Burpee Europe Ltd., Pro-Veg Seeds Ltd., and the Sarvari Research Trust, with the aim of developing blight-resistant tomato cultivars for commercial release. A wide range of germplasm was screened, identifying promising material for breeding work. A line developed in this project, carrying the Ph-2 and Ph-3 genes for P. infestans resistance, has been released by Burpee Europe Ltd. under the name “Crimson Crush”. Additionally, detached leaflet studies were conducted to investigate how different resistance genes in combination interact with common P. infestans isolates. Findings included an indication of some residual effect of the “defeated” Ph-1 gene, the potential of some aggressive P. infestans isolates recovered from British gardens to overcome combined Ph-2 and Ph-3 resistance, and an insight into how the Ph- genes affect components of resistance (i.e., infection efficiency, latent period, rate of lesion expansion, and sporulation intensity), and may be complementary to each other. Finally, a genetic mapping study was carried out to investigate the genetic basis of resistance seen in tomato cultivar Koralik. Resistance QTLs were not reliably identified in Koralik, but the study did indicate the presence of resistance QTLs on Chromosomes 4 and 7 of the other parent in the cross, NC2-CELBR. Potentially useful QTLs affecting soluble solids content of fruit were identified in Koralik. Taken as a whole, the findings of these studies indicated that novel tomato cultivars with P. infestans resistance from a broad range of genes are needed to combat the threat from a highly diverse and evolving P. infestans population. The breeding and mapping work undertaken in this project makes some contribution to addressing this challenge, although further work is needed to fully capitalise on this.
Fast minimal triangulation algorithm using minimum degree criterion

We propose an algorithm for minimal triangulation which, using simple and efficient strategy, subdivides the input graph in different, almost non-overlapping, subgraphs. Using the technique of matrix multiplication for saturating the minimal separators, we show that the partition of the graph can be computed in time O ( n α ) where n α is the time required by the binary matrix multiplication. After saturating the minimal separators, the same procedure is recursively applied on each subgraphs. We also present a variant of the algorithm in which the minimum degree criterion is used. In this way, we obtain an algorithm that uses minimum degree criterion and at the same time produces a minimal triangulation, thus shedding new light on the effectiveness of the minimum degree heuristics.
Sla-Ready: making cloud slas readily usable in the eu private sector

Today, whilst many organisations are reliant on cloud resources, contracts for cloud services often contain Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with technical & legal provisions that are inappropriate, difficult to understand &/or illegal. Similarly, the application of established data protection concepts can be problematic, with uncertainties as to what is regulated, who is responsible & which laws apply. 
Building on the work conducted by EC SIG SLA, Certification & Code of Conduct, ETSI CSC, CSA WGs, ECP Steering Board, NIST, Gartner, SLA-Ready, delivers a reference model for Cloud SLAs & a set of best-practices & services to support cloud customers in the use of cloud SLAs through their life cycle. The latter will improve the uptake of cloud computing  by private sector, while procuring services across the cloud market. 
Other Outputs: 
• support cloud customers via a dedicated, social repository of Cloud SLAs and supporting services to ensure the acquisition, operation and termination of cloud services fulfilling specified requirements;
• provide an active contribution to relevant SDOs like: ISO/IEC 19086.
• engage & ensure coordinated, global collaborations with e.g., NIST RATAX and the CSA SLA WG for a collaborative, international approach;
• Provide 4 engaging practical user friendly tutorials to end-users, 
• Showcase real efforts of the common reference model implementation in Europe. 
The consortium is lean, complementary & strong: TRUST-IT, a prime mover in cloud computing landscape ensures effective coordination, digital marketing & SDO liaisons; CSA a leading, global player in the arena of cloud security; TUDA, brings direct expertise on techniques & frameworks to operate with cloud SLAs; Arthur’s Legal represents IT, ISP, software, CSP, IoT & IT service vendors, end-users in their legal life cycle. Numergy  offers cloud services to public & private organizations. SLA-READY has a pragmatic & actionable Advisory Board (AB) made up of key opinion leaders.