SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Significant Learning and Civic Education: Shifting Frameworks for Teaching in Light of Learning about the Financial Crisis

The recent financial crisis has motivated economic educators to rethink what economics should be taught, acknowledging disconnects between classroom content and real world events. We introduce a learning theory approach that is broader, one that goes beyond such context specific discussions of foundational knowledge and application (i.e., teaching about this specific crisis) and provide a framework to address the broader issue of how teaching practices can, by their very nature, minimize such disconnects and provide more effective processes for teaching about current economic conditions. The theory of significant learning (Fink 2003) is presented as a model of how experiences can be used to develop a deep approach to learning, learning that lasts. Experiential learning pedagogies are timeless in that they can be readily modified to promote deeper understanding over a wide range of economic environments. Focusing on one category of significant learning, the human dimension, and one component of the financial crisis, unemployment, examples which modify existing experiential learning practices are described to demonstrate how such pedagogic practices can be readily adapted to teaching and learning about current economic conditions. In short, we demonstrate that incorporating student experiences into pedagogic practice provides a natural alignment of teaching content and real world events, regardless of how those change over time.
Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events

PART I: INVESTIGATING MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHIES, IDEAS, AND PRINCIPLES IN THE CONTEXT OF FESTIVALS, EVENTS, AND COMMUNITIES 1. An Introduction to Planning, design, and management of community festivals and events Allan Jepson & Alan Clarke 2. Rising to the Challenge of Sustainable - Community Events by the Community, For the Community James Bostock, Richard Cooper & Gareth Roberts 3. Co-creating Places through Events. The Case of a Tourism Community Event in Finnish Lapland Minni Haanpaa, Jose-Carlos Garcia-Rosell, & Seija Tuulentie 4. The motivations of event volunteers at local events David Lamb & Alfred Ogle 5. Museum events as a tool for community and organisational development Valery Gordin & Mariya Dedova 6. The  Performance of an Easter festival on an island community: Bringing communities together or entertaining tourists? Nigel Morpeth 7. Community Development through Public Art Event in Ratchaburi, Thailand Sompong Amnuay-ngerntra 8. Understanding Stakeholder Status and Legitimate Power Exertion within Community Sport Events: A Case Study of the Christchurch (New Zealand) City to Surf Rachel J. Batty 9. Events: cause or consequence of community involvement Egbert van der Zee & Pepijn Olders PART II: PLANNING AND MANAGING THE IMPACTS OF FESTIVALS, EVENTS, AND COMMUNITIES 10. The rediscovery of an ancient community event in a language minority village: the case of Bova (Italy) Sonia Ferrari & Pasquale Faenza 11. Indulgence feasts: manifestation of religious and communal identity Darius Liutikas 12. Developing a Community Festival Amidst Civil Unrest Adrian Devine, Frances Devine, & Clare Carruthers 13. Community Food Festivals and Events In The South West Of England, UK Paul Cleave 14. Creating Joy Association: A Social Imperative Neil Cameron & Steve Brown 15. Girona and its culinary events Silvia Aulet and Joaquim Majo 16. Conclusions and future research agenda  s in managing and developing communities, festivals, and events Allan Jepson & Alan Clarke
Ανάκτηση εικόνας βάσει υφής με χρήση Eye tracker

The rapid increase of images, combined with the weakness of the Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems to extract semantic features, led to the introduction of the human factor into the experimental procedure. A very common and successful way of using the human vision system is through the record of eye movements. In the retrieval system which is proposed in the present thesis, the fixation points that arose from viewing the database images are recorded. From these points, the texture features are extracted using two methods, Gabor filters and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), producing multidimensional vectors. These vectors are compared through the non parametric WW test, creating a distance matrix. By producing a query image in the system, its’ texture features are compared to those of the database, adding an extra dimension to the distance matrix. 
The visual representation of the relation among all the images (query image included), is depicted in a three dimensional map using multidimensional scaling (MDS algorithm). The results obtained from Gabor filters are characterized by higher robustness, making the expansion of the system possible, by using a bigger image database.
An experimental study of distributed consensus protocol in AUTOSAR based system

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System Architecture) is a layered and modular software architecture which simplifies the complexity of automotive system design. Currently, this standard has no support for fault tolerance. Fault tolerance will be required in the design for future automotive systems to avoid catastrophic system failures and hazardous events. In this paper, we present an experimental study of fault tolerance by means of software in AUTOSAR based system. The aim of the experiment is to investigate how fault tolerance mechanism can be implemented in AUTOSAR based system. We implement distributed consensus protocol to investigate the impact of fault tolerance in distributed scenario. In addition, we measure the timing overhead of consensus protocol in which we observe that execution time declines with the increasing number of joining nodes.
An International Capstone Experience for Pharmacy Students

This report describes the experiences of the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy over 20 years with an international capstone educational experience for students. Although the university provides reciprocal opportunities to international students, this report focuses on the experiences of the college's pharmacy students who have participated in the program. This capstone course is offered as an elective course in the advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) component of the college's experiential program. Goals of the program and a brief description of its organizational structure are provided. Results of a structured student satisfaction survey and a survey covering the most recent 3 years of the program are presented. This program has greatly broadened participants' cultural horizons and expanded their global view and understanding of the contributions of pharmacy to health care.
Taxonomic Evaluation of the Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in Iran Inferred from the Mitochondrial D-Loop Gene

To examine the level of genetic differentiation in the sequences of the mitochondrial D-loop gene of Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, and to evaluate the current taxonomic status of this species, 50 tissue samples of greater horseshoe bats were collected in 2011-2015 from 21 different localities in northwest, northeast, west, central, and south regions of Iran. Twenty-two published D-loop sequences from Europe (Switzerland, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Tunisia), and Anatolia (south, west, and east Turkey) were downloaded from GenBank. Molecular genetic analyses revealed remarkable variation among populations of R. ferrumequinum. Two major clades with strong support were identified within the greater horseshoe bat. One of these clades consists of individuals of R. ferrumequinum from Iran and eastern Turkey, and is further subdivided into two subclades. A second clade includes samples from western Turkey and Europe. The two subclades from Iran and Turkey and the second clade from western Turkey and Europe represent three diagnosable categories, which most probably warrant three subspecies for the species. Thus, based on genetic differences, it is clear that two subspecific populations are found in Iran: R. f. irani (southern Iran) and R. f. proximus (northern Iran).
The Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on the Efficiency of Local Governments in China

There are different views in related literature as to whether fiscal decentralization can improve local government efficiency or not.Therefore the author made an empirical study of it by using the provincial panel data of our country.First the author used the method of DEA to measured the efficiency of thirty-one provincial local governments and then measured the degree of fiscal decentralization by using fiscal revenue autonomy.After that the author made a Tobit regression analysis of fiscal decentralization and local government efficiency.The results show that the relationship between fiscal decentralization and local government efficiency is not a simple linear one,but a U type.On the other hand,the population density and GDP per capita of each province and city have significant positive effect on local government efficiency.However,the effect of time trend variable on local government efficiency is negative.
Embracing leadership: a multi-faceted model of leader identity development

Purpose – Leadership development has been replete with a skill-based focus. However, learning and development can be constrained by the deeper level, hidden self-knowledge that influences how people process information and construct meaning. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of how people construct and develop their leader identity. The authors intend to shed light on the critical facets of identity changes that occur as individuals grapple with existing understanding of the self and of leadership, transform them, and absorb new personalized notions of leadership into their identity, resulting in a higher level of confidence acting in the leadership domain. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a grounded theory study of participants and their mentors in a lay leadership development program in a Catholic diocese. The authors inductively drew a conceptual model describing how leader identity evolves. Findings – The findings suggested that leader identity development was not a uni-dimensional event. Rather, it was a multi-faceted process that encompassed three key facets of identity development: expanding boundaries, recognizing interdependences, and discerning purpose. Further, it is the co-evolvement of these three facets and people’s broadening understanding of leadership that led to a more salient leader identity. Research limitations/implications – The model addresses the gap in literature on how leader identity develops specifically. It enriches and expands existing knowledge on leader identity development by answering the question of what specific changes are entailed when an individual constructs his or her identity as a leader. Practical implications – The findings could be used to guide leadership development professionals to build targeted learning activities around key components of leader identity development, diagnose where people are in their leadership journey, set personalized goals with them, and provide pointed feedback to learners in the process of developing their leader identity. Originality/value – The authors provide an in-depth and integrative account of the contents and mechanisms involved in the construction of the leader identity. The authors zero in on the critical transformations entailed in the process to establish and develop a leader identity.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A FIBER WEB

The invention relates to a method and to a system for preparing a finished fiber suspension for the production of a web of paper, cardboard, tissue or any other fiber by mixing at least one high consistency flow (1) constituted of freshly prepared fiber and filler material with at least one rejects flow (3) constituted of remnants and fragments of the fiber web and at least one low consistency flow (2) constituted of fresh water, white water or the like, the flows (1, 2, 3) being guided towards a headbox (7) of a machine for producing the web of fiber. In order to reduce the costs and/or effort required, the rejects flow (3) is processed separately before it is mixed with the high consistency flow (1) and is not subjected to a cleaning step in the approach flow system (6) of the machine.
Conflicts in James Joyce's on Encounter

Three aspects are mainly discussed in the paper:the author thinks that Joe Dillon is the prerequisite of the adventure and the encounter.He plays a very important role in the story though he just appears in the first three paragraphs and never in the left parts.Father Butler,who is also matting for the later development of the plot,reflects the repressed and stultifying environment of the society of Dublin.The conflict comes to a climax as the narrator-protagonist and Mahoney encountered the pervert and found his true face.In this story the protagonist I,the narrator himself,falls into several kinds of conflicts,such as the conflict between him and his comates,between him and his society——Dublin,and between him and himself-self-conflict.
Highly Flexible Final Production Stages - Taking Advantages of Scale Effects by Reducing Internal Component Variants

The rapid manufacturing of a great variety of variant products is gaining importance in global competition. Customers are increasingly demanding products which are matched to their specific demands. The production of these customized variants gives a competitive advantage, but also affords a high inner variance which leads to high production costs. Almost every step in the process of making a product is capable of generating variants. A key element in variant management is to make the variants as late as possible in order to exploit economies of scale in the earlier stages of production and to minimize the complexity of production. The technique of the highly flexible final production stage consists in achieving a late emergence of variants by integrating the variant-specific manufacturing processes into the assembly stage and enabling a mass production within a preliminary production stage at the same time. This means abandoning the conventional distinction between manufacturing and assembly in favour of a division into the preliminary, variant-neutral production stage and a final production stage where the variants take shape. The final production stage includes all the processes that determine variants. The complete manufacture of variant-neutral parts and subassemblies takes place in the preliminary production stage, as does the pre-manufacturing of those parts and sub-assemblies which are to undergo final manufacturing as variants in the final production stage. In order to apply the technique of the highly flexible final production stage successfully an integrated approach is necessary which is presented in this paper.
OXYGEN BOTTLE CARRIER FOR USE WITH X-FRAME AMBULANCE COTS

A device is disclosed for detachably coupling an oxygen bottle to an ambulance cot such that they are transportable together as a unit. The device fits between a pair of support legs of the cot, and is adjustable to accommodate oxygen bottles of various sizes.
Lignin as a feedstock for renewable marine fuels

The overall goal of IDEALFUEL is to enable the utilization of lignin from lignocellulosic biomass as maritime fuel in a sustainable manner. IDEALFUEL aims to develop an efficient and low-cost chemical pathway to convert lignocellulosic biomass into a Bio Heavy Fuel Oil (Bio-HFO) with ultra-low sulphur levels that can be used as drop-in fuel in the existing maritime fleet. 
This will be achieved by the strategy to first extract lignin from lignocellulosic biomass as a Crude Lignin Oil (CLO) and to convert the CLO - in a second chemical step - into a Bio-HFO. The solid cellulose fraction, which will be separated from the CLO via simple filtration, can be used in the pulp and paper industry or converted into ethanol. Hemicellulose will either be separated from the CLO or end up in the Bio-HFO. 
IDEALFUEL’s ambition is to develop new technologies, solutions and processes from the current lab-scale (TRL3) via bench-scale (TRL4) to pilot scale (TRL5) and to prove the performance and compatibility of the Bio-HFO over the whole blending range in maritime fuel systems and marine engines. This includes a safety evaluation, which is necessary for the approval by the relevant regulatory bodies.
Further, IDEALFUEL will prove the techno-economic potential to reach a cost level of 700 € per tonne in 2025, 600 € per tonne in 2030 and < 500 € per tonne beyond 2030 resulting from optimisation, scaling effects of larger plant sizes and repetitive installations. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is 450-550 €/ton. IDEALFUEL will also carry out a Well to Propeller impact assessment and Life Cycle Analysis to check and proof the soundness of the environmental, society and sustainability aspects of the to be developed technologies, processes, products and logistics.
Efficient Redistribution of Lifetime Income through Welfare Accounts*

Compared with a conventional tax–transfer system, individual welfare accounts can redistribute lifetime incomes at a lower efficiency cost. These welfare accounts employ mandatory contributions rather than taxes to finance social transfers to people of working age. We describe a design for welfare accounts that guarantees a Pareto improvement if behavioural responses to the accounts improve the public budget. We also develop a formula for quantifying the impact of welfare accounts on the government budget and economic efficiency. Applying the formula to Danish data, we find that the proposed welfare accounts would generate a Pareto improvement, thus improving the trade-off between equity and efficiency. We discuss how the gains from welfare accounts can be distributed in an equitable manner.
Control of the ebola oubreak by both innovative ultrasensitive detection of ebov and therapy

IF-EBOLA has been strategically designed to efficiently respond to critical needs required to control Ebola outbreak from spreading and prepare a therapeutic approach to save lives. The work involves two of the main EVD outbreak sites, Sierra Leone and Liberia. MDs, public health authorities and virus experts working on site, under ethical regulatory rules, will extend their collaboration to companies and institutions to form a consortium of outstanding complementary partners, sharing their innovative technological approaches for a common goal.
The main goal of our project is to contribute to provide innovative ultrasensitive diagnostics and therapeutic approaches for an early and accurate diagnostic for an early therapeutic treatment to control the epidemic and safe lives. 

We have been obligated to modify and extend for one year our initial two-year period IF-EBOLA action program due to both major foreseen and unforeseen changes produced during this “non-emergency” period: consisting mainly now in 3 main actions: (i) Preclinical validation of the therapeutic equine anti-Ebola antibodies; (ii) Clinical validation of the ultrasensitive detection (iii) homeostasis (“pathology”) profiling of patients and survivors. 
Originally (“emergency period”) IF-EBOLA included 2 phases: (I) a phase of preparation including, ethical authorizations, antibody production, technical and field organization as well as the beginning a follow-up of the homeostatic profile of contacts early-EBOV diagnosed and self-cured convalescent individuals in the absence of existing treatment, (with an ultrasensitive detection method of pernicious microorganisms, from the EC USDEP project qualified as a European success story “USDEP” project in 2010 by the EC-Project Officer) and (II) phase of a clinical study using a wide validated approach revisited with an innovative concept (strongly supported EC/EMA-WHO), we propose to carry out an experimental passive-immune therapy based on neutralizing capacity of horse anti-EBOV polyclonal F(ab’)2 on early-diagnosed patients to impact and reduce their pre-existing viremia, their mortality, the evolution of their homeostasis profile, during and after this treatment (once patients become convalescents). The homeostasis status evolution will help to generate high quality scientific data to understand the EVD, the effect of this therapy and cure parameters characterized at 3 different levels: immune (transcriptomes, NGS, metagenomics); infectious (other than EBOV, DNA arrays), and EBOV diversity (sequencing and metagenomics).
Decameter-scale pedestal craters in the tropics of Mars: Evidence for the recent presence of very young regional ice deposits in Tharsis

Abstract Global climate models predict that ice will be deposited in tropical regions during obliquity excursions from the current mean obliquity of ~ 25° to ~ 35°, but no geological evidence for such deposits has been reported. We document the presence of very small (decameter scale) pedestal craters in the tropics of Mars (the Daedalia Planum–Tharsis region) that are superposed on an impact crater dated to ~ 12.5 Ma ago. The characteristics, abundance, and distribution of these small pedestal craters provide geological evidence that meters-thick ice accumulations existed in the tropical Tharsis region of Mars in the last few million years when mean obliquity was ~ 35° (~ 5–15 Ma) before it transitioned to a mean of ~ 25° (~ 0–3 Ma). A reconnaissance survey reveals similar small pedestal crater examples superposed on the older Amazonian Arsia Mons tropical mountain glacier deposit, suggesting that ice can accumulate in these tropical regions without initiating large-scale glacial conditions. These results support the predictions of general circulation models that ice can migrate to the equatorial regions during periods of moderate obliquity and then serve as a source for mid-latitude deposits.
Historical extreme rainfall events in southeastern Australia

Abstract The cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide are home to almost half of the Australian population, and are often exposed to extreme rainfall events and high year-to-year rainfall variability. However the majority of studies into rainfall in these cities, and southeastern Australia in general, are limited to the 20th century due to data availability. In this study we use rainfall data from a range of sources to examine four rainfall indices for Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide for 1839–2017. We derive the total rainfall, number of raindays, wettest day of the month and the simple daily intensity index for each city over the past 178 years, and find relatively consistent relationships between all indices despite potential data quality issues associated with the historical data. We identify several extreme daily rainfall events in the pre-1900 period in Sydney and Melbourne that warrant further examination as they appear to be more extreme than anything in the modern record. We find a moderate and relatively stable relationship between El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and annual variations of total rainfall and the number of raindays at all three cities over the research period, but no relationship between ENSO and the annual wettest day, in agreement with other studies using shorter time series.