SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Are Parrots CRAVED? An Analysis of Parrot Poaching in Mexico

Poaching significantly contributes to the endangerment of protected wildlife but has rarely been studied by criminologists. This study examines whether CRAVED, a general model of theft choices drawn from routine activity and rational choice theory, can help to explain parrot poaching. It correlates estimates of the numbers poached for the 22 species of Mexican parrots with measures of CRAVED components (concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable, and disposable). Widely available species and those whose chicks are easily removable from the nest are more commonly poached, a pattern suggesting that most poachers are opportunistic villagers. More valuable/disposable and more enjoyable species are rarely taken because few remain in the wild after being heavily poached for export in the 1980s. Apart from helping to explain parrot poaching and consider conservation options, the application of CRAVED suggested a possible contribution to understanding theft choices. This was that “abundant” and “acces...
La Maison des esclaves de Gorée : à l’intersection entre histoire, mémoires et émotions – ADDENDUM

Resumo A ilha de Gorée é um símbolo e um lugar de memória do tráfico atlântico de escravos e da escravatura na Senegâmbia. A 27 de dezembro de 1996, o jornalista francês Emmanuel de Roux publicou, no jornal diário Le Monde , um artigo intitulado “Le mythe de la maison des esclaves résiste à la réalité” (“O mito da casa dos escravos resiste à realidade”). Este artigo punha em causa a Casa dos Escravos de Gorée, a qual, de acordo com o autor, nunca tinha albergado escravos do tráfico negreiro. O artigo deu origem a um debate público envolvendo história, memória e emoções. Em 1997, os investigadores e as autoridades políticas senegalesas organizaram um encontro científico destinado a contrariar todas as “tentativas de anestesiar a memória coletiva”.
A neighborhood statistics model for predicting stream pathogen indicator levels

Because elevated levels of water-borne Escherichia coli in streams are a leading cause of water quality impairments in the U.S., water-quality managers need tools for predicting aqueous E. coli levels. Presently, E. coli levels may be predicted using complex mechanistic models that have a high degree of unchecked uncertainty or simpler statistical models. To assess spatio-temporal patterns of instream E. coli levels, herein we measured E. coli, a pathogen indicator, at 16 sites (at four different times) within the Squaw Creek watershed, Iowa, and subsequently, the Markov Random Field model was exploited to develop a neighborhood statistics model for predicting instream E. coli levels. Two observed covariates, local water temperature (degrees Celsius) and mean cross-sectional depth (meters), were used as inputs to the model. Predictions of E. coli levels in the water column were compared with independent observational data collected from 16 in-stream locations. The results revealed that spatio-temporal averages of predicted and observed E. coli levels were extremely close. Approximately 66 % of individual predicted E. coli concentrations were within a factor of 2 of the observed values. In only one event, the difference between prediction and observation was beyond one order of magnitude. The mean of all predicted values at 16 locations was approximately 1 % higher than the mean of the observed values. The approach presented here will be useful while assessing instream contaminations such as pathogen/pathogen indicator levels at the watershed scale.
Optimizing container load for parcel and pallet transport networks

EU trucks are driving around with an average of 43% empty space due to poor linehaul capacity utilization in groupage parcel and pallet networks. This leads to important CO2 emissions, congestions, traffic jams, noise levels and low margins for logistics companies. The underlying problem is a data quality issue as shipments are planned based on weight whilst they actually fill up based on volume and dimension. 
PrEDICTS is a cargo optimization software based on AI and machine learning. It takes a logistics company’s historical data, cleanses and enriches it and optimizes logistics based on predictions for shipping behaviour weeks. It also identifies future excess capacity and suggests strategies on how to achieve full capacity. Our beta client recorded a 10% increase in capacity utilization and 7-9% cost savings (French Post / DPD).
Transmetrics is a Bulgarian company whose mission is to improve the efficiency within the cargo transport industry using big data and artificial intelligence. DHL has identified us twice as a future leader in  anticipatory/predictive logistics and big data and featured in the Business Insider report on AI Supply Chain and Logistics (more info). We have 22 employees and had €150,000 in revenue in 2017. For 2018, we have already secured €30,000 in monthly revenue (€20,000 licenses and €10,000 in services). 
With PrEDICTS, Transmetrics targets the top 20,000 transporters (€20+M in revenues) that account for 40% of the total industry. They will need advanced technology to thrive. PrEDICTS competes with two major incumbents and another innovator. But it is the only solution that integrates prediction and optimization in the process and features AI-driven data cleansing and enrichment.
PrEDICTS will follow a SaaS subscription-based business model priced at €10k/country/month depending on the business with a potential of 200-300% increase in the price based on the achieved benefits for the companies.
Inverse Modeling in Geoenvironmental Engineering Using a Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

AbstractAlgorithms derived by mimicking the nature are extremely useful for solving many real world problems in different engineering disciplines. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) especially has been greatly acknowledged for its simplicity and efficiency in obtaining good solutions for complex problems. However, premature convergence of the standard PSO and many of its variants is a downside particularly for its application to the inverse problems. This aspect encourages further research in developing efficient algorithms for such problems. In this work, a novel PSO algorithm is proposed by introducing fitness of a new location in the search space into the standard PSO which enables to enhance the success rate of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm uses center of mass of the population to compare the fitness of global best particle in each iteration. The proposed algorithm is applied to solve contaminant transport inverse problem. The performance of different PSO algorithms is compared on synthetic test data and it is shown that the proposed algorithm outperforms its counterparts. Further, accurate design parameters are estimated using the proposed inverse model from the experimental data.Keywordsparticle swarm optimizationinverse modelcontaminant transport
METHODS OF IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY COMPOSITIONS

Methods of preparing compositions for preferential distribution of active agents to injury sites are provided. The compositions may comprise a polymer with hydrophilic properties and one or more active agents, such as compounds comprising hydrophilic metal ions. Because the delivery ligand and the active agent are specifically selected so the interactions between them are mainly of an ionic nature. Methods of identifying suitable components for such compositions are also disclosed.
Cross Border Energy Training

The Energy sector is in constant growth, especially in the field of renewable energies. This will conduct to the creation of new working opportunities, in various sectors related, that young could use if they know form themselves in the best conditions, choosing studies in adequacy, putting their passions and their availability to be involve to grow and learn. 
For this, is born ALCOTRA CBET, which is addressed to French and Italian students, graduated, unoccupied/unemployed, in order that they could develop their formal and unformal technical skills in the Bio-Building sector, to set up Renewable Energies within buildings. 
The learning comes with the experimentation of innovative actions of formation; theoretical lessons, but also experiences on the ground, using platform and advanced technologic models thorough an efficient teaching, not expensive and allowing an easy fructification, close to students.
The project uses numerous experiences made before by partners, but also by the regrouping of innovation poles, technological parks and innovative industries specialized in energetic thematic having participated to the definition process of didactic contains and formative model. All this constitute an experience leading to a qualification on the avant-garde thematic in the optic of sustainable development. The challenge for the development of sustainable economy is also in the creation of new professions t innovate in traditional activities with competences always ore specifics.
Dynamics of the durable. a history of making things last in the visual and decorative arts.

Our cultural heritage comprises many art objects that are hundreds, some thousands of years old. How did they survive this long? While many factors determine if and how art can be preserved, one has fundamentally impacted its long-term survival: the desire to make and own artefacts that withstand the test of time. This project—DURARE—will undertake the first comprehensive study of the impact of the artisan and patron’s ambitions to craft, own and theorize durable objects on the long-term development of the visual and decorative arts. To achieve durability, artisans have worked stone and metal, created dyes and pigments thought never to fade, made surface coatings ensuring the protection of more brittle materials, and transformed soft clay into long-lasting ceramics. Patrons coveted physically stable objects; yet stability does not always ensure durability: culturally fragile gold can be melted and re-used. Beyond how the durable was made, DURARE will map the social practices influencing durability. We will also establish how, through artistic and social pursuits for durable art, humans acquired knowledge of the stability and behavior of materials over time, thus impacting knowledge traditions outside art history. Finally, we will elucidate the created practices and institutions facilitating durability, such as cultural heritage conservation and museums. Studying the history of durability in art requires hands-on experience with the materials and processes used to make and explore permanence. This project therefore uses an innovative methodology, combining historical research into art objects and textual sources with hands-on reconstructions of materials and techniques. DURARE will achieve a fundamental understanding of durability in art by charting: 1. Variations and concepts of durability in art and patronage; 2. The role of durability in the development of art and craftsmanship; 3. The impact of artistic expertise in durable materials on the history of knowledge.
El Consenso de Washington, vulnerabilidad externa y sobreexplotación del trabajo en América Latina: un análisis a la luz de la Teoría Marxista de la Dependencia

Este artículo analiza las consecuencias reales del consenso de Washington para el capitalismo dependiente latinoamericano, a partir de la década de los noventa, con el fin de dilucidar y esclarecer los aspectos restrictivos en términos sociales y económicos para los países de la región, especialmente en relación con vulnerabilidad externa y relaciones laborales, a la luz de la teoría marxista de la dependencia. Utilizamos una interpretación materialista histórica de esta relación basada en datos cualitativos y cuantitativos. Así, el desarrollo del artículo se estructura en tres secciones. El primero analiza las bases conceptuales del Consenso de Washington en América Latina. El segundo se centra en el tema del capitalismo dependiente en los países latinoamericanos bajo la teoría marxista de la dependencia, y el tercero se centra en evaluar los efectos del Consenso de Washington sobre la intensificación del capitalismo dependiente en América Latina. A lo largo del argumento, demostramos cómo el Consenso de Washington fue el detonante necesario para el proceso de dependencia y sobreexplotación del trabajo en este continente.
Development of background and research support for research-oriented educational programme Fire protection of forest, wood materials and wood-based materials

The aim of the project is to develop a quality infrastructure of a new research programme Fire protection of forest, wood and wood-based materials (PO) at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology ČZU in connection with the CZU strategy. The project is aimed at providing instrumentation in order to ensure quality research in relation to the labour market. This project is factually closely linked to the project from Call 18 Establishment of new research study programmes at FLD. a.
The ways of the traveler 2.0

The project implements a product / service innovation: the diversification of the tourism offer and the promo-marketing on the international markets of the cross-border tourist itinerary "Le vie del Viandante", built in the 2007-2013 INTERREG Programming. The objective of the project is the coordination of a companies network and the creation of stable methods of public-private collaboration. So, two tourism industry typical competitiveness problems will bw faced: towards the market, small companies cannot access the most modern promotional and marketing tools, inland there is no route manager who proposes it as a tourist package.
Fostering industrial symbiosis for a sustainable resource intensive industry across the extended construction value chain

The overall objective of FISSAC project is to develop and demonstrate a new paradigm built on an innovative industrial symbiosis model towards a zero waste approach in the resource intensive industries of the construction value chain, tackling harmonized technological and non technological requirements, leading to material closed-loop processes and moving to a circular economy.
A methodology and a software platform will be developed in order to implement the innovative industrial symbiosis model in a feasible scenario of industrial symbiosis synergies between industries (steel, aluminium, natural stone, chemical and demolition and construction sectors) and stakeholders in the extended construction value chain. It will guide how to overcome technical barriers and non technical barriers, as well as standardisation concerns to implement and replicate industrial symbiosis in a local/regional dimension. The ambition of the model will be to be replicated in other regions and other value chains symbiosis scenarios. The model will be applied based on the three sustainability pillars. 
FISSAC will demonstrate the applicability of the model as well as the effectiveness of the innovative processes, services and products at different levels: 
- Manufacturing processes: with demonstration of closed loop recycling processes to transform waste into valuable secondary raw materials, and manufacturing processes of the novel products at industrial scale 
- Product validation: with demonstration of the eco-design of eco-innovative construction products (new Eco-Cement and Green Concrete, innovative ceramic tiles and Rubber Wood Plastic Composites) in pre-industrial processes under a life cycle approach, and demonstration at real scale in different case studies of the application and the technical performance of the products 
- FISSAC model, with the demonstration of the software platform and replicability assessment of the model through living lab concept
Late Cenozoic seismic stratigraphy of the Andaman Forearc Basin, Indian Ocean

Interpretation of new multichannel seismic reflection data from the Andaman Forearc Basin (AFB) in the northern Indian Ocean is presented here. The high-quality multichannel seismic data from the Andaman Forearc region enable us to examine the seismic characters and to demarcate seismic sequences bounded by distinct unconformities. Ages of marked seismic horizons have been calibrated with available litholog data from nearby industry boreholes. Seismic interpretation of new data shows that the AFB is filled with ~ 4.5-s-two way travel time (TWT) thick Neogene to Recent sediments. The entire basin assemblage exhibits two distinct major sequences pertaining to the Neogene and Quaternary times. A large part of the basin is filled with intermittent mass transport deposits (MTD). We infer that the episodic uplift of the Invisible Bank, protuberance of the outerarc and regular deformation through reactivation of preexisting normal faults since the Pleistocene could be attributed as causal mechanisms for the MTDs. Strong bottom simulating reflectors are identified in the Late Miocene and younger sediments of the outerarc and AFB at a depth of ~ 0.6 s TWT and correspond to the presence of gas hydrates in this region. Our interpretations have significant implications for geodynamic as well as resource exploration in the AFB.
Space-Time structure of climate change

I will determine and use the space-time structure of climate change from years to millennia to test climate models, fundamentally improve the understanding of climate variability and provide a stronger basis for the quantitative use of paleoclimate records.
The instrumental record is only a snapshot of our climate record. Two recent advances allow a deeper use of the paleo-record: 1.increased availability and number of paleoclimate records, 2.major advances in the understanding of climate proxies. In a recent PNAS paper, we showed that consistent estimates of regional temperature variability across instruments and proxies can now be obtained by inverting the process by which nature is sampled by proxies. Empirical evidence and physics suggest an intrinsic link between time scale and the associated spatial scale of climate variations: While fast variations such as weather are regional, glacial-interglacial cycles appear to be globally coherent. I will quantify this presumed tendency of the climate system to reduce its degrees of freedom on longer time scales and use it to constrain the sparse, noisy and at times contradictory evidence of past climate changes. By systematically analyzing instrumental and paleo-records, I will
1. determine the space-time structure of climate changes on annual to millennial time scales. This provides the prerequisite for mapping past climate changes and will allow me to confront climate models with robust estimates of climate variability across spatial scales;
2. provide a clearer separation of internal and external forced climate variability, by leveraging their distinct space-time structures;
3. examine the past relationship between mean-state and climate variability to predict how variability will change in a warmer future.
This will provide a key step forward to transform paleoclimate science from describing data to using the data as a quantitative test for models and system understanding in order to see more clearly into the future
Las Normas de Quito, 1977: Acerca de la Preservación de los Centros Históricos ante el Empobrecimiento de las Ciudades

&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Las Normas de Quito” es un documento elaborado con un contenido de directrices en el ámbito de carácter internacional donde se desarrolla una serie de múltiples consideraciones relacionadas básicamente con recomendaciones dirigidas para la protección y conservación del Patrimonio urbano. El área geográfica enfocada es el contexto de América Latina que posee acervos demasiado vulnerables y expuestos al acelerado deterioro por las condiciones sociales y económicas predominantes de la región. Esto es por así decirlo un llamado para la conciencia de una participación conjunta entre diferentes sectores involucrados. El principal propósito de este consenso entre diferentes países de la región con un interés en común es reunir y exponer criterios para la preservación de los elementos culturales y sobre todo de las representaciones arquitectónicas que destacan por las características históricas especiales, así como por su combinación con las condiciones naturales destacables de su entorno en dirección de un objetivo en combinación de estos espacios en aprovechamiento como atracciones turísticas y uso habitacional. Este texto es así mismo un esfuerzo conciliatorio con los sectores privados productivos de prestadores de servicios y el sector social de estas ciudades que interaccionan. En su momento “Las Normas de Quito” articuló un primigenio instrumento para vincular diferentes organismos internacionales con la participación de España en las mencionadas Medidas legales y Medidas técnicas. En sus conclusiones se formula una decisión de Centro históricos y un somero diagnóstico de las condiciones del patrimonio histórico de América Latina finalizando con un llamado para una política de conservación integral de los centros históricos.&lt;/p&gt;
Immersive cabin

Exponential technologies  are emerging on the market that, when placed in the context of air transport aircraft, enables new functionalities and business models with the potential to enrich the (both mental and physical) passenger well-being, improve the in-flight experience and contribute to an increase of operational efficiency for the airline and airline cabin staff.

Although most attention is naturally drawn to the individual application that creates the new business values, a thorough understanding of the underlying infrastructure building blocks, the way these technologies can be used on board transport aircraft, and understanding how these technologies would impact both passenger and cabin crew during flight operations is as important.

This project aims to evaluate the use of immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality in relation to exponential technologies within a cabin environment, to enable them to be used by passengers and cabin crew during (revenue) flight operation.
 
The fundamental question to be answered in this project is how suitable these immersive technologies are for:
 
1. Increasing well-being of passengers and cabin crew (human factors);
2. Generating ancillary revenue; and
3. Improving operational efficiency.
 
Focus areas within the project are formulated around:

1. Enrichment of the stay of passengers in the cabin space by influencing the field of view.
2. Coordination and cooperation between passenger and cabin crew.
3. Interaction between cabin crew members and cabin crew member with passengers.
4. How the aircraft technology eco-system for hosting exponential technologies inside an aircraft should look like (Architectural point of view)
5. Possibility to extent the aircraft technology eco-system from within the aircraft into the daily life of the passenger/crew member.
SEGMENTATION FOR COORDINATION AMONG MULTIPLE NODES IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY

A method performed by a first node (111). The method is for handling a message to a third node (113). The message comprises content from at least a first second node (114) of one or more second nodes (112). The first node (111) handles a radio communication with the third node (113) in coordination with the one or more second nodes (112). The first node (111) sends (809) the message to the third node (113), segmented or not segmented. Whether the message is sent segmented or not segmented is based on: i) whether or not a size of the message exceeds a size limit, ii) whether or not the third node (113) supports segmentation of messages, iii) whether or not the first node (111) supports segmentation of messages, and iv) whether or not at least the first second node (114) of the one or more second nodes (112) supports segmentation of messages.