SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Traffic noise limitation in commercial ports

The challenge of this project is to improve the acoustic climate quality of port cities by using integrated ITS traffic management systems. Its general objective is to evaluate how these systems affect the reduction of traffic volumes and sound pressure levels in ports and urban areas. First, it will monitor traffic and noise levels in ports and on the main roads. Next, it will model road networks to be able to simulate new network scenarios. After assessing the critical issues and comparing them with sound capacity levels already calibrated, it will identify alternative port travel and/or access solutions. ITS systems will introduce these solutions based on info-mobility platforms (PMV or APP) providing real-time information to drivers. An ex-post evaluation action will measure the decrease in traffic and sound pressure following the introduction of these ITS systems and, if needed, identify corrective measures. The final beneficiaries will be the residents and visitors of port cities. Port operators, who will be able to count on optimal port access and more effective internal traffic management, will be the second level beneficiaries. The project's cross-border approach will evaluate the results obtained from the experiments carried out in the four pilot cities and compare them to the different urban, orographic and land conformations. This approach will define a standardised methodology modelling replicable in other contexts. The contents and method of the project are both innovative. The contents deal with the issue of traffic management through integrated and connected ITS systems. The method deals with this issue both with regard to ports and urban areas.
El agresor del delito de violencia intrafamiliar y su tratamiento psicológico como medida alternativa de solución de conflictos

In the present research project prior to obtain the Lawyer degree, named “The aggressor of the crime of intrafamily violence and its psychological treatment as an alternative measure of conflicts resolutions” carried out in the south of Guayaquil, Guayas province, articularly in the Valdivia Sur area, where it was possible to clearly demonstrate the intrafamily violence problems that arise daily and how it is yet not possible to reduce this serious social problem. It is necessary to emphasize that there is joint work among the authorities to reduce the rate of intrafamily violence cases; however, the results are not favorable, since there is an increase and recidivism of these cases. We can find in this investigation that the types of violence that are the most demanded are psychological violence and physical violence, which is one of the most quiet and dangerous aggression that affects our society. 

In Ecuador, since 2014, was established for the first time the aggressor who commits psychological violence within the Organic Penal Code (COIP), the penalty is administered depending on three levels of affectation, which can be mild, moderate and severe, where the aggressor can be sentenced from 30 days to 36 months in prison. Domestic violence is a permanent problem that affects families, regardless of economic capacity, age and place of residence…………
Prospective associations between a dietary index based on the British Food Standard Agency nutrient profiling system and 13-year weight gain in the SU.VI.MAX cohort

The scoring of the nutritional quality of individual foods using nutrient profiling systems (NPS) has been suggested as a basis for public health preventive measures. Used for front-of-package labeling, such scoring would help consumers in making healthier food choices. An individual dietary score based on the Food Standards Agency NPS has been developed (FSA-NPS-DI), but its long term association with weight gain has not been investigated. Our objectives were to investigate long-term associations between the FSA-NPS DI and weight gain and overweight/obesity onset in a middle-aged French population.Subjects included in the French SU.VI.MAX cohort with at least three dietary records at baseline and available anthropometric measurements at baseline and at a 13-year follow-up examination were included in the study. FSA-NPS DI at baseline was computed for each subject. Association between FSA-NPS DI and weight and BMI gain were investigated with ANCOVA and associations with overweight/obesity onset with logistic regression models.Higher baseline FSA-NPS DI (reflecting a poorer diet) was associated with higher weight and BMI gain (beta Q4 versus Q1=0.70; (95%CI 0.01; 1.38), P for trend=0.04). A 16% higher risk of obesity for a 1 point increase of FSA-NPS DI was observed only in men.Our results suggest that a shift in nutritional quality of the foods and beverages within an individual's diet, as expressed by the FSA-NPS DI would be associated with lower weight gain in the long term. Using the FSA-NPS as a basis for food labeling might therefore contribute to tackle obesity.
Quantum electronic states in delafossite oxides

One of the most active challenges of modern solid state physics and chemistry is harnessing the unique and varied physical properties of transition-metal oxides.  From improved electrodes for solar cells to loss-less transmission of power, these compounds hold the potential to transform our daily lives.  Subtle collective quantum states underpin their diverse properties.  These complicate their physical understanding but render them extremely sensitive to their local crystalline environment, offering enormous potential to tune their functional behaviour.  To date, the vast majority of work has focussed on transition-metal oxides based around cubic “perovskite” building blocks.  In contrast, exploiting the layered traingular network of the delafossite structure, the QUESTDO project aims to establish delafossite oxides as a completely novel class of interacting electron system with properties and potential not known in more established systems.  

Its scope bridges three of the most important current themes in condensed matter, investigating and controlling the delicate interplay of (i) frustrated triangular and honeycomb lattice geometries, (ii) interacting electrons, and (iii) effects of strong spin-orbit interactions.  It brings together advanced spectroscopic measurement with precise materials fabrication.  Through these studies, QUESTDO promises critical new insight on the quantum many-body problem in solids, and will advance our understanding and demonstrate atomic-scale control of the physical properties of delafossites.  Ultimately, it seeks to establish new design methodologies for the targeted creation of emergent and topological phases in this little-studied family of transition-metal oxides, paving the route for their further study and ultimate application.
The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia

Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela, protest in the streets has been at least as important as elections in bringing about political change. The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes builds on previously unpublished data and extensive fieldwork in Russia to show how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets. More generally, the book develops a theory of how the nature of organizations in society, state strategies for mobilizing supporters, and elite competition shape political protest in hybrid regimes.
Insoles for neuropathy and balance issues

An aging population and diseases related to aging (Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, neuropathy) increase feet numbness, balance and mobility issues. Affected people stop feeling the ground properly, which makes them lose balance and increases the risk of falls and injuries, which in turn lead to devastating consequences. Patients and families lose their independence and public healthcare costs are rising as a result – now the European population aged 65+ uses 60% of healthcare resources. One of the ways to reduce the costs of care for the elderly and chronic patients relates to fall prevention.
At Walk With Path we invented Path Feel – an insole that provides vibrational feedback to the feet in real time to help people feel the ground again. It increased the balance and mobility of 92% of users and reduces their risk of falls by 50%. We have proven that it works in number of pre-clinical studies.  By bringing mobility back, Path Feel gives more freedom to the patient and the family.
Within the project we will finish our existing prototype, validate it, certify, and introduce it to the market after the project ends.
The elderly population in the EU is projected to increase, reaching 75 million in 2020 and 88 million in 2030. Over 220 million people worldwide suffer from balance and sensory issues, and the global walking aids market is estimated to surpass €1 billion by 2023, growing at an estimated CAGR of 4.3% from 2018 to 2023.
We work with patient organizations and key opinion leaders to introduce the product to the market. We have multiple distribution agreements across the world (EU, Asia, America) and work with global shoe and insole manufacturers. We have already commercialized our first innovative product in the mobility sector – for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
DRAM errors in the wild

Errors in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are a common form of hardware failure in modern compute clusters. Failures are costly both in terms of hardware replacement costs and service disruption. While a large body of work exists on DRAM in laboratory conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze measurements of memory errors in a large fleet of commodity servers over a period of 2.5 years. The collected data covers multiple vendors, DRAM capacities and technologies, and comprises many millions of dual in-line memory module (DIMM) days. The goal of this paper is to answer questions such as the following: How common are memory errors in practice? What are their statistical properties? How are they affected by external factors, such as temperature and utilization, and by chip-specific factors, such as chip density, memory technology, and DIMM age? We find that DRAM error behavior in the field differs in many key aspects from commonly held assumptions. For example, we observe DRAM error rates that are orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with 25,000--70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mb and more than 8% of DIMMs affected by errors per year. We provide strong evidence that memory errors are dominated by hard errors, rather than soft errors, which previous work suspects to be the dominant error mode. We find that temperature, known to strongly impact DIMM error rates in lab conditions, has a surprisingly small effect on error behavior in the field, when taking all other factors into account. Finally, unlike commonly feared, we do not observe any indication that newer generations of DIMMs have worse error behavior.
STEP FOR MODULAR STAIRCASE

The step for modular staircases comprises a portion of tread (2) associated with a support body (3) suitable for permitting the reciprocal assembly of the adjacent steps (1). The support body (3) comprises a pair of beams extending substantially vertically, suitable for being arranged facing one another in mounting position so as to define respective sides (40) of the step (1). Protruding perpendicular from the sides (40) are a respective upper bracket (5) and a respective lower bracket (6), suitable one for supporting in support said portion of tread (2) and the other for being secured to an opposite bracket (5) of an adjacent step (1).
Voicing, devoicing, and noise measures in Shanghainese voiced and voiceless glottal fricatives

Shanghainese has a rather rare voicing distinction between the glottal fricatives /h/ and /ɦ/. We evaluate the acoustic characteristics of this contrast in ten male and ten female speakers of urban Shanghainese dialect. Participants produced 20 CV words with a mid/low central vowel in a short carrier phrase. All legal consonant-tone combinations were used: /h/ preceded high, low, and short tones whereas /ɦ/ preceded low and short tones. Preliminary analyses suggested that the traditional “voiced” and “voiceless” labels for these sounds are not always phonetically accurate; hence we measure the duration of any voicing break relative to the entire phrase, as well as the harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR) over the time. We expect longer relative voiceless durations and lower HNR measures for /h/ compared to /ɦ/. A question of interest is whether any gender differences emerge. A previous study on American English [Koenig, 2000, JSLHR 43, 1211–1228] found that men phonated through their productions of /h/ more often than women, and interpreted that finding in terms of male-female differences in vocal fold characteristics. A language that contrasts /h/ and /ɦ/ might minimize any such gender variation. Alternatively, the contrast might be realized in slightly different ways in men and women.
Zuschuss für Betriebskapital für die Gesellschaft Gajewski Podłogi Woodniane Kommanditgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung.

Das Projekt betrifft die Unterstützung des Unternehmers bei der Bereitstellung finanzieller Liquidität und die Unterstützung laufender Tätigkeiten aufgrund finanzieller Schwierigkeiten, die der Unternehmer infolge des COVID-19-Ausbruchs erlebt hat. Finanzielle Unterstützung im Rahmen des Programms SA.57015 (2020/N)
Efficient conversion of quantum information resources

This proposal explores the power of quantum information in two respects. The first is the technological power of quantum information in a communication infrastructure, and the second is its descriptive power in many-particle quantum systems. My point of departure is to view quantum information as a resource that can be processed and converted.
In quantum communication, a famous resource conversion is provided by the quantum teleportation protocol, which allows us to send one quantum bit (1 qubit) through the transmission of two classical bits (2 cbits) and the use of one entangled pair of quantum bits (1 ebit):
  1 ebit + 2 cbits > 1 qubit.
Casting quantum protocols in such resource inequalities has proven useful, since the algebraic manipulation of inequalities results in new protocols, but this approach has hitherto largely been limited to point-to-point communication. It is the first goal of this project to overcome this limitation and characterise resource conversion in larger quantum networks. This will result in more efficient communication protocols that will have an impact on the use and design of quantum communication networks, which are currently being built around the globe.
A quantum network involving distant communicating labs is mirrored at the small scale by a set of interacting quantum particles. The quantum state arising from pairwise interactions can be strongly entangled, with an underlying entanglement structure given by a graph with entangled pairs along the edges. There is a surprising and close connection between such entanglement structures and tensor research in the context of algebraic complexity theory. The second goal of the project is to exploit this connection and characterise the resource conversion of entanglement structures. The research will lead to more efficient tensor network representations of many-particle quantum states, and to progress on the computational complexity of matrix multiplication, a long-standing unsolved problem.
Estimation of the total effective dose from low-dose CT scans and radiopharmaceutical administrations delivered to patients undergoing SPECT/CT explorations

Hybrid imaging, such as SPECT/CT, is used in routine clinical practice, allowing coregistered images of the functional and structural information provided by the two imaging modalities. However, this multimodality imaging may mean that patients are exposed to a higher radiation dose than those receiving SPECT alone.The study aimed to determine the radiation exposure of patients who had undergone SPECT/CT examinations and to relate this to the Background Equivalent Radiation Time (BERT).145 SPECT/CT studies were used to estimate the total effective dose to patients due to both radiopharmaceutical administrations and low-dose CT scans. The CT contribution was estimated by the Dose-Length Product method. Specific conversion coefficients were calculated for SPECT explorations.The radiation dose from low-dose CTs ranged between 0.6 mSv for head and neck CT and 2.6 mSv for whole body CT scan, representing a maximum of 1 year of background radiation exposure. These values represent a decrease of 80-85% with respect to the radiation dose from diagnostic CT. The radiation exposure from radiopharmaceutical administration varied from 2.1 mSv for stress myocardial perfusion SPECT to 26 mSv for gallium SPECT in patients with lymphoma. The BERT ranged from 1 to 11 years.The contribution of low-dose CT scans to the total radiation dose to patients undergoing SPECT/CT examinations is relatively low compared with the effective dose from radiopharmaceutical administration. When a CT scan is only acquired for anatomical localization and attenuation correction, low-dose CT scan is justified on the basis of its lower dose.
IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ENVIRONMENT DETECTION SYSTEM THROUGH 3D LASER EQUIPMENT AND RETURN OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELABORATES FOR POINT CLOUDS RATHER THAN TWO-DIMENSIONAL VECTORISED ELABORATES.

PURCHASE OF ELECTRONIC 3D LASER INSTRUMENT, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR POST-PROCESSING DATA ACQUIRED WITH LASER INSTRUMENT AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY BY DRONE IN ORDER TO RETURN THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND/OR TWO-DIMENSIONAL VECTORISED SURVEY FOR STAT ACQUISITION
Brain-Inspired ArchitecturesBrain-Inspired Architectures for Nanoelectronics

Mapping brain-like structures and processes into electronic substrates has recently seen a revival with the availability of deep-submicron CMOS technology. The basic idea is to exploit the massive parallelism of such circuits and to create low-power and fault-tolerant information-processing systems. Aiming at overcoming the big challenges of deep-submicron CMOS technology (power wall, reliability, design complexity), bio-inspiration offers alternative ways to (embedded) artificial intelligence. The challenge is to understand, design, build, and use new architectures for nanoelectronic systems, which unify the best of brain-inspired information processing concepts and of nanotechnology hardware, including both algorithms and architectures. Obviously, the brain could serve as an inspiration at several different levels, when investigating architectures spanning from innovative system-on-chip to biologically neural inspired. This chapter introduces basic properties of biological brains and general approaches to realize them in nanoelectronics. Modern implementations are able to reach the complexity-scale of large functional units of biological brains, and they feature the ability to learn by plasticity mechanisms found in neuroscience. Combined with high-performance programmable logic and elaborate software tools, such systems are currently evolving into user-configurable non-von-Neumann computing systems, which can be used to implement and test novel computational paradigms. Hence, big brain research programs started world-wide. Four projects from the largest programs on brain-like electronic systems in Europe (Human Brain Project) and in the US (SyNAPSE) will be outlined in this chapter.
Nonlinear regression techniques for analysis of onion (Allium cepa) production in India

India occupies second position in the production of onion in the world. Keeping in view the importance of this crop, the present study has been undertaken to find out the growth in production of onion and discusses the application of nonlinear models, viz. Gompertz, Logistic, MMF, Richards and Weibull models, which measure the growth. Time series data on onion production in major growing states; viz. Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and all India from 1990–91 to 2009–10 has been utilized for the present study. From a realistic point of view, the relationships among variables in agricultural and horticultural sciences are non-linear in nature. Non-linear models are very popularly used to estimate the trend in various fields such as population studies and animal growth where growth is not symmetrical about the point of inflection. The results showed that Logistic and Gompertz models faired marginally better than Weibull and MMF models
Phytochemical screening and biological activity studies of five South African indigenous medicinal plants

Different extracts and fractions of five selected indigenous South African medicinal plants, namely, Cissampelos capensis, Geranium incanum and three Gethyllisspecies, were subjected to phytochemical screening and testing for cytotoxicity using the brine shrimp lethality bioassay, and antimicrobial activity assays against nine microbes, which included three fungal species, three Gram negative and three Gram positive bacteria. The majority of the extracts tested positive for the presence of tannins, phenolics and flavonoids, while in selected cases, phytochemical tests suggested the presence of essential oils, glycosides or alkaloids. The methanol extract of Gethyllis gregoriana displayed the highest cytotoxicity levels. Generally, the highest levels of biological activity were shown to reside in the methanolic extracts, while hexane extracts revealed very low to zero activity. The total tertiary alkaloid (TTA) of C. capensis was mostly active against Bacillus subtilis, a Gram +ve bacteria. The trends observed for the cytotoxicity assay were in agreement with those observed for the antimicrobial assay.

	 

	Key words: Brine shrimp, lethality, medicinal plants, cytotoxicity, antimicrobial activity.
Molecular Characterization of Coccidia Associated with an Epizootic in Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in South East Queensland, Australia

In the spring of 2014, mass mortalities among wild green sea turtles occurred off the coast of south-east Queensland, Australia. The suspected causative agent was Caryospora cheloniae, an eimeriid coccidian implicated in previous epizootics. Necropsies were undertaken on a subset of 11 dead turtles, with subsequent histopathology and molecular analyses. All turtles returned positive PCR results for coccidial infection in various tissues; these included the brain, gastrointestinal tract, lung, kidney and thyroid. Granulomatous encephalitis was consistently observed, as well as enteritis and, less frequently, thyroiditis and nephritis. Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses indicated the presence of two distinct coccidian genotypes, presumably separate species-one associated with the brain, gastrointestinal tract and lung, and the second with the thyroid and kidney. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses placed the first genotype closest to the lankesterellid genus Schellackia, rather than in the Eimeriidae, while the second was paraphyletic to the eimeriids. Presence of coccidial stages in extra-intestinal tissues of the primary host raises questions about the potential presence of intermediate or paratenic hosts within the life cycles, as well as their current placement relative to the genus Caryospora. This study represents the first genetic characterization of this emerging disease agent in green sea turtles, an endangered species, and has relevance for life-cycle elucidation and future development of diagnostics.