SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Risk, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Resilience

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O ensino de Geografia na formação dos estudantes de Pedagogia

A pesquisa exposta neste texto, tem o intuito de apresentar como tem-se dado à formação geográfica dos alunos que cursam a Licenciatura em Pedagogia na UFPB, nos possibilitando encontrar respostas que nos permitiram ter uma compreensão sobre o Ensino de Geografia. O interesse de analisar as práticas pedagógicas do componente curricular Ensino de Geografia se deu porque esse curso é a base para a formação inicial de docentes que irão atuar na educação básica, eles serão os responsáveis pela formação espacial de crianças, jovens e adultos. São esses licenciandos em Pedagogia que estão adquirindo as bases de diversos conhecimentos, dentre esses, os geográficos, que irão introduzir na escola os primeiros saberes sistematizados pela Geografia. A escolha desta universidade para a pesquisa se deu, porque ela é responsável por formar o maior número de pedagogos do estado da Paraíba. A graduação ocorre em modo presencial e em regime seriado semestral, com carga horária de 3.000 horas-aula e com duração mínima de 04 anos e 06 meses no turno diurno e 05 anos e 06 meses no noturno. O Curso de Pedagogia conta atualmente com 1.202 alunos e 112 professores lotados no Centro de Educação. Palavras-chave Educação, Pedagogos, Professor, Saber. La enseñanza de la Geografía en la formación de los estudiantes de Pedagogía Resumen La investigación expuesta en este texto tiene la intención de presentar como se ha dado la formación geográfica de los estudiantes que cursan la Licenciatura en Pedagogía en la UFPB. La investigación proporcionó respuestas que nos permitieron tener una comprensión sobre la Enseñanza de la Geografía en la Licenciatura en Pedagogía. El interés por analizar las prácticas pedagógicas del componente curricular Enseñanza de la Geografía se hizo porque este curso es la base para la formación de muchos profesores que trabajarán en la educación y serán responsables del aprendizaje de un número importante de niños y jóvenes. Son estos estudiantes de grado en Pedagogía los que están adquiriendo las bases de diversos conocimientos, y entre estos los geográficos que iniciarán en la escuela los primeros conocimientos vinculados a la enseñanza de la geografía. La universidad fue elegida porque es la responsable de graduar el mayor número de Pedagogos en el Estado de Paraíba, el curso funciona en la modalidad semestral, con carga lectiva de 3.000 horas y duración mínima de cuatro años y medio en turno de día, y cinco años y medio por la noche. El curso tiene 1.202 alumnos y 112 profesores asignados al Centro de Educación. Palabras-clave Educación, Pedagogos, Profesor, Conocimiento.
Using a student response system in CS1 and CS2

Professors are continually exploring ways to increase the engagement of their students, but are sometimes concerned that doing fun things in class could adversely affect student learning. Over the course of several semesters, we had the same professor teach several CS1 and CS2 courses for computer science and game development majors. As part of his classroom approach, the professor used a student response system to engage the students in the flow of the lecture. In this paper, we examine the relationships between student participation using the student response system and student performance in the course assessments. We also explore the relationship between each student's perceived mastery of course topics and their demonstrated mastery of those topics on the Final Exam. Finally, we explore several differences between the multiple courses included in the study.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DESALINATION

A water desalination system comprising an evaporator for evaporating saline water to produce water vapor; an adsorption means in selective vapor communication with the evaporator for reversibly adsorbing the water vapor from the evaporator; said adsorption means in selective vapor communication with a condenser, and; desorbing means for desorbing the adsorbed water vapor from the adsorption means for collection by the condenser; said condenser adapted to condense the water vapor to desalinated water.
MPTENS AS MODIFIERS OF THE PTEN/IGF PATHWAY AND METHODS OF USE

Human MPTEN genes are identified as modulators of the PTEN/IGF pathway, and thus are therapeutic targets for disorders associated with defective PTEN/IGF function. Methods for identifying modulators of PTEN/IGF, comprising screening for agents that modulate the activity of MPTEN are provided.
Social wearable sensors to support engagement and learning in children with autism + learning difficulties.

Children with autism and learning difficulties often need substantial support in schools and in later life with communication, emotion regulation and daily living skills.  Teaching these children and measuring their progress in education is challenging.  Our recent work (ERC grant INTERACT 313398) showed that tracking body motion in children and adults can give a real-world measure of how much people are engaged in a social interaction.  In this project, we develop this result into a wearable sensor system to quantify and support children’s learning.  In the SocSensor system, each child and teacher wears a sensor on their wrist (like a FitBit) and we track how they move in relation to each other, that is, their social engagement.   This continuous monitoring is unobtrusive and is particularly valuable in understanding the behaviour of children with minimal verbal skills who cannot easily express themselves.  Teachers and/or researchers can receive a report at the end of the lesson showing how often children were engaged and who interacted with who, which will allow them to monitor the effectiveness of lessons and compare different educational approaches.  This will allow them to optimise learning opportunities for these-hard-to-reach children.  The domains of educational technology and wearables are growing rapidly but no other product addresses the needs of children with autism and learning difficulties, so the SocSensors system can make a big impact.
In this project, we will develop the interface for the SocSensors sensor system, collect validation data in a large autism school and build connections with business partners.    This will move SocSensors from a lab prototype to a viable product, as well as showcasing the product to schools, teachers and the autism community.  Thus, SocSensors will lead the way in using psychology and wearable computing to support engagement and learning in children with autism + learning difficulties.
Controlling light-matter interactions by quantum designed 2d materials

Progress within many contemporary or emergent technologies, including photovoltaics, single-photon light sources, and plasmonics, depends crucially on our ability to control the interactions between light and matter. The complexity of the light-matter interactions has made the development of photonic materials a slow, expensive, and empirical-based science. Of particular importance are the detrimental non-radiative processes mediated by defects and phonons that lead to efficiency losses in photovoltaics, reduce the quantum efficiency of single-photon emitters, and cause Ohmic losses in the metallic components of plasmonic devices. LIMA will develop ground breaking methods for calculating non-radiative relaxation rates in real materials from first principles. These will be used to evaluate key performance parameters such as photo-carrier lifetimes and plasmon propagation lengths and thus facilitate a realistic computational assessment of the application potential of photonic materials. In terms of materials, LIMA will focus on the emergent class of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials. The possibility of combining different 2D materials into van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) provides a unique platform for controlling light-matter interactions with atomic scale precision. Multi-scale methods for predicting quasiparticle band structures of general, incommensurable vdWHs will be developed and used to design novel photonic materials with tailored light dispersion and multi-junction solar cells with high absorption and low thermalization losses. High-throughput computational screening will be used to identify novel color centers in 2D materials with potential to act as single-photon sources with high quantum yield and narrow linewidths, which are urgently needed by leading quantum technologies. The possibilities of controlling the color centers via strain engineering and light management will be explored in close collaboration with experimentalists.
EMERGÊNCIA EPIDEMIOLÓGICA DA COVID-19

MEDIDAS DE CONFINAMENTO PARA FAZER FACE À EMERGÊNCIA SANITÁRIA DA COVID-19 COM EQUIPAMENTO DE PROTEÇÃO INDIVIDUAL E SANEAMENTO DOS CLICHÉS
Quantification of the role of mechanical stresses in plant cell morphogenesis.

Specific cell and tissue form is essential to support many biological functions of living organisms. During development, the creation of different shapes fundamentally requires the integration of genetic, biochemical and physical mechanisms.
In plant, a stiff pecto-cellulosic network encapsulates cells and counterbalances stress created by turgor pressure inside the cell, thereby controlling cell shape. It is well established that the cytoskeletal microtubules network play a key role in the morphogenesis of the plant cell wall by guiding the organisation of new cell wall material. Moreover, it has been suggested that mechanical stresses orient the microtubules along their principal direction, thereby controlling wall architecture and plant cell shape. Nevertheless, to fully understand how plant cells are shaped and how mechanical stresses influence this process, a quantitative approach needs to be established.
In this project, we aim to provide new fundamental knowledge on the role of mechanics in plant development at the cellular scale. New experimental and imaging methods are now available to achieve this aim. We will combine experimental approaches and mechanical modeling to study quantitatively how single plant cells respond to mechanical signals and how they are integrated by the cell into changes in genetic expression. The outgoing host at Caltech, and the candidate have had success developing a custom-made micro-wells device to mechanically disrupt single plant cells. By coupling this approach with mechanical modeling and using a novel software developed by the returning host at the Sainsbury Laboratory, this project will lead to fully develop a computational model of plant cells and tissues morphogenesis, as they respond biologically to changes in directions and amounts of physical stress. The success of this project will have a significant societal impact on improving our understanding of how plants grow, and can grow in agricultural settings.
Forest ecosystem management for forest fire risk reduction

The partner areas affected by the programme are highly exposed to the risk of fires and have a lot of tourists and plant fuel. The general abandonment of farming and animal husbandry has made the situation much worse; the forest area increased considerably and so did combustible material, while discontinuous areas and the resilience of ecosystems to the passage of fire decreased. New prevention actions need to focus on making forests safer and less susceptible to catching fire. Leading public choices in this direction will, therefore, be fundamental, hence the general objective of MED FORESTE to improve the capacity of public institutions to prevent and manage forest fire risk through experimentation, implementation and cross-border comparison of prevention interventions. The project plans for two types of pilot trials: 1) Cross-border comparison of fuel reduction strategies and socio-economic, environmental and financial sustainability 2) Forest fire prevention interventions carried out in strategic points, in connection with the strategic MED STAR project. The results of the first trial will produce a manual to support future fire prevention decisions, while the results of the second will be the prevention works carried out for the benefit of the population. The project’s scientific approach to the causes of forest fires and ways to handle them will be shared across borders, thus facing a common challenge with local experiments. Standardised systems will monitor and compare their effectiveness. Knowledge and dialogue will promote a new culture of fire prevention for the benefit of the population.
QAestro – Semantic-Based Composition of Question Answering Pipelines

The demand for interfaces that allow users to interact with computers in an intuitive, effective, and efficient way is increasing. Question Answering (QA) systems address this need by answering questions posed by humans using knowledge bases. In recent years, many QA systems and related components have been developed both by practitioners and the research community. Since QA involves a vast number of (partially overlapping) subtasks, existing QA components can be combined in various ways to build tailored QA systems that perform better in terms of scalability and accuracy in specific domains and use cases. However, to the best of our knowledge, no systematic way exists to formally describe and automatically compose such components. Thus, in this work, we introduce QAestro, a framework for semantically describing both QA components and developer requirements for QA component composition. QAestro relies on a controlled vocabulary and the Local-as-View (LAV) approach to model QA tasks and components, respectively. Furthermore, the problem of QA component composition is mapped to the problem of LAV query rewriting, and state-of-the-art SAT solvers are utilized to efficiently enumerate the solutions. We have formalized 51 existing QA components implemented in 20 QA systems using QAestro. Our empirical results suggest that QAestro enumerates the combinations of QA components that effectively implement QA developer requirements.
Mesopic visual acuity is less crowded

The decrease in visual acuity under low luminance conditions is well known. Recent laboratory evidence showed that crowding under low luminance (mesopic) light levels is less robust than under photopic conditions. The present study examines whether such differences in crowding influence clinical measurements of mesopic visual acuity, including test-retest repeatability.Twenty adult subjects with normal or corrected to normal visual acuity were recruited for the study. Monocular visual acuity was measured under photopic (228 cd/m2) and mesopic (0.164 cd/m2) luminance conditions using a letter chart, similar in principle to the ETDRS logMAR chart, presented on a computer monitor. Three rows of five letters, each row differing in size by 0.05 logMAR from largest to smallest were displayed at the center of the monitor. The level of crowding was varied by varying the separation between horizontally adjacent letters from 100% optotype size to 50, 20, and 10% optotype size. Inter-row spacing was proportional to optotype size. Observers read the letters on the middle row only. Measurements continued by reducing the size of the letters, until three or more errors on the middle row were made. Each correctly identified letter contributed 0.01 to the recorded logMAR score. All measurements were repeated for each subject on two separate days.Visual acuity (logMAR) was significantly better under photopic than mesopic luminance conditions with a mean difference of 0.48 logMAR. Visual acuity also decreased with decreasing letter separation (i.e. increase in crowding). However, the decrease in visual acuity for the smallest letter separation was less under the mesopic luminance condition, even after accounting for the increased size of threshold acuity letters. Test-retest repeatability for mesopic and photopic conditions was not significantly different.Crowding under mesopic luminance conditions has less impact on visual acuity than under photopic luminance.
An Examination of the Replicability of Angoff Standard Setting Results Within a Generalizability Theory Framework

Evidence of stable standard setting results over panels or occasions is an important part of the validity argument for an established cut score. Unfortunately, due to the high cost of convening multiple panels of content experts, standards often are based on the recommendation from a single panel of judges. This approach implicitly assumes that the variability across panels will be modest, but little evidence is available to support this assertion. This article examines the stability of Angoff standard setting results across panels. Data were collected for six independent standard setting exercises, with three panels participating in each exercise. The results show that although in some cases the panel effect is negligible, for four of the six data sets the panel facet represented a large portion of the overall error variance. Ignoring the often hidden panel/occasion facet can result in artificially optimistic estimates of the cut score stability. Results based on a single panel should not be viewed as a reasonable estimate of the results that would be found over multiple panels. Instead, the variability seen in a single panel can best be viewed as a lower bound of the expected variability when the exercise is replicated.
The hand grasps the center, while the eyes saccade to the top of novel objects

In the present study, we investigated whether indenting the sides of novel objects (e.g., product packaging) would influence where people grasp, and hence focus their gaze, under the assumption that gaze precedes grasping. In Experiment 1, the participants grasped a selection of custom-made objects designed to resemble typical packaging forms with an indentation in the upper, middle, or lower part. In Experiment 2, eye movements were recorded while the participants viewed differently-sized (small, medium, and large) objects with the same three indentation positions tested in Experiment 1, together with a control object lacking any indentation. The results revealed that irrespective of the location of the indentation, the participants tended to grasp the mid-region of the object, with their index finger always positioned slightly above its midpoint. Importantly, the first visual fixation tended to fall in the cap region of the novel object. The participants also fixated for longer in this region. Furthermore, participants saccaded more often, as well saccading more rapidly when directing their gaze to the upper region of the objects that they were required to inspect visually. Taken together, these results therefore suggest that different spatial locations on target objects are of interest to our eyes and hands.
Heritage in the Atlantic Area: sustainability of the urban world heritage sites

The urban World Heritage sites (WHS) represent an important cultural value in the context of the Atlantic Area. The AtlaS.WH project intends to create a network of urban WHS, by addressing common challenges related to the protection of their identity, while enhancing their cultural assets, in order to stimulate heritage-led economic and cultural development.
AtlaS.WH will be an important step for their preservation, enhancement and sustainability. The main objectives are:
i) To address, within a common methodology, the main challenges that each WHS is facing, including tourism, gentrification, risk management, climate change, energy efficiency, among others;
ii) To develop strategies and public policies for the sustainability of urban WHS;
iii) To create governance models, open to the community, integrated and participative;
iv) To develop management tools, recommendation guides, assessment and measurement models;
v) To create a long-lasting network of WHS, in order to disseminate best practices and to reinforce cooperation.
The main result will be the Sustainability Plans for each WHS, by implementing an integrated and participative management and monitoring model, which arises from the common construction of a methodology and the exchange of know-how and best practices.
Further development of the Company’s export — promoting the Effiki brand on international markets.

SA 42799(2015/X) The project will consist of the implementation by the Company of promotional activities, which were provided for in the program of promotion of the MODA POLSKA industry. The aim of participating in promotional activities is to promote the Effiki brand and to promote the Polish Economy Brand on foreign markets. The subject of the project concerns the type of activity specified by code PKD 13.92.Z — Manufacture of finished textile products. Activities in the project will be carried out in the following markets: Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Italy. Of these countries, the project’s forward-looking markets are: Russia and Ukraine. The implementation of the project is scheduled for 01.08.2020-31.03.2022. Scope of the project — type and nature of the planned tasks: —External mission to visit KYIV FASHION (autumn edition), Kiev Ukraine, 10.2020 -Participation in PITTI IMMAGINE BIMBO, Florence Italy, 01.2021 -Participation in Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg Germany, 01.2021 -Participation in KID’S TIME, Kielce Poland, 02.2021 -Participation in COLLECTION PREMIÈRE MOSCOW (CPM), Moscow Russia, 02.2021 -Participation in PITTI IMMAGINE BIMBO, Florence Italy, 06.2021 -Participation in KIND UND JUGEND, Cologne Germany, 09.2021 -Participation in PITTI IMMAGINE BIMBO, Florence Italy, 01.2022 -Participation in Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg Germany, 01.2022 -Participation in COLLECTION PREMIÈRE MOSCOW (CPM), Moscow Russia, 02.2022. The company will participate in 9 trade fair and exhibition events as an exhibitor and in 1 mission to visit the fair, where the organisation of a national information and promotion stand is foreseen. The three planned actions will take place in non-EU forward-looking markets: Russia and Ukraine. The company is financially liquid. The implementation of the planned tasks will be fully secured financially. The project will be financed from its own resources.