SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
How the brain creates mutual understanding during social interaction

How can we understand one another? Our everyday conversations appear to revolve around our linguistic abilities. But creating mutual understanding involves more than formulating grammatically correct sentences. Recently, cognitive science has shown that mutual understanding relies on shared knowledge and beliefs, conceptual knowledge that is continuously adjusted as we interact. Yet, social neuroscience has mainly focused on how individuals respond to social stimuli without a social context. Consequently, the neural mechanism that underlies our ability to create mutual understanding with another person remains largely elusive. The proposed project addresses this interdisciplinary gap, testing the hypothesis that creating mutual understanding requires a neural mechanism that supports a continuous adjustment of conceptual knowledge. That hypothesis will be tested by sampling and interfering with neuronal activity in humans during live social interaction, at the University of California. First, I will investigate the neuronal implementation of mutual understanding through intracranial recordings from the human brain. The exquisite spatiotemporal precision of these recordings offers the unprecedented possibility to characterize how conceptual knowledge is mechanistically adjusted during social interaction. Second, I will investigate frontotemporal dementia, a neurological disorder known to disrupt access to conceptual knowledge. This unfortunate experiment of nature offers the unique opportunity to understand how progressive alteration in brain tissue and connectivity affects the ability to create mutual understanding. These studies will offer a neural- and system-level mechanism of human mutual understanding, which I will translate into testable accounts of communicative alterations in a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, during the return phase at the Donders Institute and King’s College London.
A computer-aided study of the luwian (morpho-)syntax

The present project aims at analysing the morpho-syntactical  features of the Luwian language working on the available texts and combining a standard linguistic analysis with the implementation of a statistical analysis of the annotated corpus. By glossing the morpho-syntactical structure of a large selection of both cuneiform and hieroglyphic inscriptions using a protocol derived from and compatible with the Penn Treebank Project and the Leiden Glossing Rules, the research will proceed by isolating, mapping and modelling the regular as well as the anomalous features of the morpho-syntax of one of the most important and still largely unexplored languages of the ancient Anatolian branch of Indo-European. The analysis will also identify and focus on the co-dependant syntactical, morphological, semantic and stylistic phenomena present in the corpus (e.g. syntactic triggering of stylistic features, dislocations, topicalisations). The results of the present research will provide the world of the Indo-European studies with the first comprehensive study ever dedicated to morpho-syntax of the Luwian language.
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD

A distributed system is provided that includes member nodes and a leader node. Each member node stores a database and updates the database by performing common ones of a plurality of transactions. The leader node generates a batch, to be executed by each member node, which includes two or more transactions lacking an access conflict from among the plurality of transactions. The leader node includes: a section that generates an access set as a set of database entries to be accessed by each transaction to be executed; a section that generates the batch, based on the access set of each transaction to be executed; and a leader-side section that performs a consensus process for the batch among the leader and member nodes. Each member node includes the database; a member-side section that performs a consensus process for the batch; and a section that performs parallel execution of batch transactions.
Rentabilidad de los Fondos de Pensiones en España. 2006-2021. (Return of Pension Funds in Spain. 2006-2021)

Spanish Abstract: La rentabilidad media de los fondos de pensiones en España en los últimos 15 años (1,83%) fue inferior a la inversión en bonos del estado español a 15 años (4%). La rentabilidad media del IBEX 35 fue 1,35%, la del EuroStoxx 50 fue 4,2% y la del S&P500 fue 10,7%. 22 fondos de los 408 con 15 años de historia tuvieron una rentabilidad superior a la de los bonos del estado a 15 años, 253 a la del IBEX 35, y 1 a la del S&P500. 20 fondos tuvieron rentabilidad negativa. Los 903 fondos de pensiones del sistema individual tenían (diciembre 2021) 7,5 millones de partícipes y un patrimonio de €89.323 millones. English Abstract: During the last 15 year period (2006-2021), the average return of the pension funds in Spain (1.83%) was lower than the return of Government Bonds (4%). Only 22 funds (out of 408) had a higher return than the 15-year Government Bonds. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2021, 7.5 million investors had 89.3 billion euros invested in pension funds.
IMPROVED PIPE FOR CONVEYING FLUIDS SUCH AS PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

A flexible secondarily-contained pipe of unitary or one-piece construction characterised in that it comprises the following combination of features: an inner supply pipe (1); an inner barrier layer (6) which forms an internal surface of the supply pipe (1) and which is formed from a first polymeric plastics material, an outer containment pipe (2); a plurality of passages associated with the secondary containment pipe, said passages being adapted to receive any fluid which has leaked from the inner supply pipe and to convey said fluid to a remote leak detector.
Ferrisepiolite: a new mineral from Saishitang copper skarn deposit in Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China

Ferrisepiolite was discovered in the Saishitang copper skarn deposit in Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China, as late- stage veinlets in copper-sulphide ores hosted in layered hedenbergite-andradite-actinolite skarn related to Indo-Sinian quartz diorite and Lower Permian metamorphosed clastic and carbonate rocks. Ferrisepiolite was formed in a highly oxidizing environment from low-temperature Fe-rich fluids and crystallized in cavities and fractures within the skarn-ore deposit. The mineral occurs in brown earthy and fibrous aggregates and shows brown to red-brown colour with strong pleochroism and 2nd order interference colours in a petrographic microscope. The measured refraction indices in white light for fibrous ferrisepiolite are: g 0 ¼ 1.628(8), a 0 ¼ 1.592-1.620. The thermal analysis of ferrisepiolite reveals a lower dehydration temperature of structural hydroxyl than sepiolite and a small weight loss (0.1-0.9%) in the range 500-700 � C. The average chemical composition from wet chemistry, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is (Fe 3þ
Abstract 17101: Low-intensity Anticoagulant Treatment in Chinese Patients with Mechanical Heart Valve Prostheses: Early Outcomes of a Prospective, Multicenter Registry in China

Background: Current guidelines recommend vitamin K antagonist treatment with relatively higher international normalized ratio (INR) targets for patients with mechanical heart valve prostheses. However, there is lack of data from large clinical trials about the outcomes of low-intensity anticoagulant treatment in Chinese patients with mechanical heart valves. Methods: The Low-intensity Anticoagulation Therapy after Heart Valve Replacement is an ongoing multicenter, prospective, observational cohort study (ChiCTR-OCH-10001185). Between January 2011 and August 2013, qualified patients from 34 cardiac centers in China mainland were recruited in the Anticoagulation Therapy Database of Chinese Patients after Heart Valve Replacement. Baseline characteristics were collected and patients were followed up for anticoagulant treatment, INRs and adverse events till March 2014. Results: The database recruited 11,769 patients, and 11,040 patients (93.8%) undergoing mechanical heart valve replacement were analyzed in this study. The mean age was 48.9±11.5 years and 6,227 patients (56.4%) were female. A total of 9,870 patients (89.4%) of the baseline population completed at least 6 months follow-up. The median follow-up time was 1.2 years (range 0.5-2.2). For all 9,870 patients, 143,115 measurements of the INR were obtained. The average warfarin dosage was 2.98±1.16mg/d and the mean INR was 1.81±0.46, and 88.7% patients had an INR level≤2.5 during the follow-up period. The incidence of hemorrhagic events was the lowest in patients with an INR≤2.0, whereas the risk of thromboembolic complications in this group of patients was not significantly increased (Table 1). Conclusions: Low-intensity anticoagulation with an INR of 1.5 to 2.5 is safe and effective for Chinese patients with mechanical heart valves in short-term. The optimal INR targets for mechanical valve recipients with different implanting positions and risk factors require further investigation.
Determinants of Unemployment in Namibia

This study investigates the causes of unemployment in Namibia for the period 1971 to 2007. The analysis is carried out through an extensive review of the relevant literature, microeconomic and macroeconomic models of unemployment. The unemployment model (with macroeconomic variables) is estimated using the Engle-Granger two-step econometric procedure. The results revealed that there is a negative relationship between unemployment and inflation in Namibia. Unemployment responds positively if actual output is below potential output, and if wages increase. An increase in investment causes unemployment to decrease significantly. The results provide evidence that the Phillips curve holds for Namibia and unemployment can be reduced by increasing aggregate demand. It is important to increase output up to the country’s potential, and there is a need for wage flexibility (workers need to reduce their wage demands) in order to decrease unemployment in Namibia. Increasing investment will reduce unemployment significantly.
Long-Term land use and water management strategies in arid margin landscapes

MarginScapes aims to bring together large-scale, multi-temporal and multi-source geospatial analysis to identify long-term sustainable land use strategies in arid regions, with a special focus on investigating the dynamics between past desert populations, climate change and the availability of water. Many populations inhabiting drylands maintain traditional strategies, the origin of which can be traced to distinct socio-ecological contexts. However, in recent decades, intensification of anthropogenic influence has caused a rapid transformation of the landscape and an alarming intensification of the processes has led to desertification, increasing the sensitivity and vulnerability of these regions to climate influences and, ultimately, endangering the preservation of archaeological and cultural landscapes.
MarginScapes will explore the nature of human occupation of arid margins by re-evaluating the socio-ecological dynamics that have shaped the cultural landscapes of South Asia. The present extent of the Cholistan desert and the northern margins of the Thar desert were core areas for the development of the Indus Civilisation (ca. 3300-2500 BC). These regions have been the subject of considerable historical interest due to the presence of extensive network of relict riverbeds that are thought to have supported several ancient sites in what is today an extreme arid ecotone. By using a novel combination of Earth Observation data and analysis in a petabyte-scale cloud computing environment, machine learning geostatitics, GIS-based topographic analysis and Network Analysis, MarginScapes will provide new methodological tools and quantifiable open access data to: 1) understand the relationships between past hydrological systems, relict palaeosoils and the distribution of ancient sites; 2) identify historical and modern landscape transformations; and 3) foresee the mechanisms of how populations coped and adapted to climate change, water scarcity and desertification.
Quantum field theory with gaussian multiplicative chaos

The proposed goal for our research program is to attack some mathematical problems arising in constructive two dimensional Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and two dimensional Quantum Gravity (QG) using probabilistic methods. 

The physical theory of Quantum Gravity has the aim of providing a unified framework which encompasses the two descriptions of nature provided by quantum mechanics and general relativity.
The two dimensional version of the theory is more tractable than the one corresponding to the four dimensional space-time and thus is used as a testing workbench  to understand higher dimensional physics.

In order to reinforce the rigourous mathematical understanding of this theory, we wish to explore two particular aspects of QFT which are based on a probabilistic construction called Gaussian Multiplicative chaos. The objectives of QuantGMC are:

A- To obtain an explicit construction of canonical random surfaces equipped with a structure of Kähler manifold. In technical terms this corresponds to the construction of a path integral corresponding to the coupling of Liouville functional and the Mabuchi K-energy on 2D manifold of arbitrary genus. 

B- To enhance the current understanding of the Quantum Sine-Gordon model, which can be interpreted as a random version of the Sine-Gordon equation. This model is conjectured to undergo an infinite sequence of collapse transitions when the inverse temperature increases. However up to now, rigorous renormalization theory of the model can only allow to witness the three first of these transitions. We plan to use Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos to provide a more efficient renormalization scheme which would allow to account for all the transitions.
Mounting frame and coupling arrangement

A mounting frame, for example a UPVC door or window panel, has its hollow frame members secured together at the corners by a coupling member 205. The coupling member has legs, which carry resilient fingers which are pushed into the cavities of the respective frame members and the fingers sprag against the inside walls, so that the legs are firmly retained within the frame members. Use of the coupling member means that the mounting frame can be constructed on-site with ease and accuracy. <IMAGE>
Adaptive control of robot manipulators including actuator dynamics and without joint torque measurement

Ignoring actuator dynamics in control of rigid manipulators can in practice result in performance degradation or loss of system stability. However, consideration of actuator dynamics usually requires measurement of robot joint torques. This paper addresses motion tracking control of an n-DOF rigid robot by taking into account its actuator dynamics. Joint torque measurement is avoided by using an adaptive observer. The backstepping technique is adopted to develop a dynamically smooth adaptive nonlinear controller dealing with uncertainties in manipulator and actuator dynamics. Semi-global convergence of motion tracking errors as well as torque estimation error are proven without any persistency of excitation condition. Simulation examples demonstrate low noise sensitivity of the proposed method in comparison with those using torque measurement.
Spatio-angular minimum-variance tomographic controller for multi-object adaptive-optics systems

Multi-object astronomical adaptive optics (MOAO) is now a mature wide-field observation mode to enlarge the adaptive-optics-corrected field in a few specific locations over tens of arcminutes. The work-scope provided by open-loop tomography and pupil conjugation is amenable to a spatio-angular linear-quadratic-Gaussian (SA-LQG) formulation aiming to provide enhanced correction across the field with improved performance over static reconstruction methods and less stringent computational complexity scaling laws. Starting from our previous work [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A31, 101 (2014)10.1364/JOSAA.31.000101JOAOD61084-7529], we use stochastic time-progression models coupled to approximate sparse measurement operators to outline a suitable SA-LQG formulation capable of delivering near optimal correction. Under the spatio-angular framework the wavefronts are never explicitly estimated in the volume, providing considerable computational savings on 10-m-class telescopes and beyond. We find that for Raven, a 10-m-class MOAO system with two science channels, the SA-LQG improves the limiting magnitude by two stellar magnitudes when both the Strehl ratio and the ensquared energy are used as figures of merit. The sky coverage is therefore improved by a factor of ~5.
The use of organic biostimulants in hot pepper plants to help low input sustainable agriculture

World demand for agricultural products is increasing. New insights are required in order to achieve sufficient and sustainable yields to meet global food request. Chemical fertilizers have been studied for almost 200 years, and it is unlikely that they could be improved. However, to produce food for a growing world population, various methods to increase the efficiency of chemical fertilizers are investigated. One approach to increasing crop productivity is the development of environment-friendly organic products named biostimulants which stimulate plant growth by enhancing the efficiency of chemical fertilizers. Most studies have tested these products in short-term experiments, but little information is available on their effect on plants at the maturity stage of growth. On this account, this paper focuses on the effects of two biostimulants, red grape skin extract (RG) and alfalfa hydrolyzate (AH), throughout the entire plant development. The findings obtained in the present investigation demonstrate the effectiveness of RG and AH in improving growth and the nutritional value of peppers. Specifically, the two biostimulants increased the phenol concentration, antioxidant activity, and ascorbic acid concentration in fruits, as well as the capsaicin concentration in plants. Differences in effectiveness between RG and AH were likely related to the characteristics of the starting matrixes as well as to the industrial processes used for their production. The efficiency of RG and AH in promoting plant growth and yield could also be due to their content in indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), isopentenyladenosine (IPA), phenols, and amino acids. In the light of these results, the application of biostimulants could be considered as a good strategy for obtaining high yields of nutritionally valuable vegetables with lower environmental impact.
EXCESS AIR CONTROL

EXCESS AIR CONTROL Method and apparatus for maintaining excess air control in a gas furnace. A pressure switch is placed across a heat exchanger to indicate when, while accelerating the inducer motor speed during purging operation, the pressure drop reaches a predetermined level. When that occurs, the motor speed is sensed and recorded. When the furnace is subsequently fired, the desired inducer motor speed is obtained by modifying the recorded motor speed by a correction factor derived from empirical data obtained from a gas furnace operating under selective variable conditions. Further, in a two stage gas furnace system, low and high pressure switches are placed across the heat exchanger and are successively closed, as the inducer motor accelerates during purging, when the pressure drop reaches the respective theoretically desired low and high firing pressure drop levels. As the switches are closed, the inducer motor speeds are sensed and recorded, with a ratio of the two then being calculated. After firing, the ratio is then directly applied to a desired high firing motor speed to obtain the desired low firing motor speed.
COMPOSITE MEDIA FOR WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES AND METHODS OF USING SAME

Systems and methods for treating a stream comprising a hydrocarbon liquid and an aqueous-based liquid are provided. The systems and methods may utilize a media composite comprising a mixture of a cellulose-based material and a polymer. In certain systems and methods, the media composite is capable of being backwashed. The stream comprising the hydrocarbon liquid and aqueous-based liquid may be separated by contacting the stream with the media composite. In certain system and methods, the stream comprising the hydrocarbon liquid and aqueous-based liquid may be coalesced by contacting the stream with the media composite.
ПОЛИЭФИРЫ, СОДЕРЖАЩИЕ АЛЮМИНИЙ/ЩЕЛОЧНОЙ МЕТАЛЛ ИЛИ ЩЕЛОЧЬ/ТИТАН, КОТОРЫЕ ОБЛАДАЮТ ЛУЧШЕЙ СПОСОБНОСТЬЮ К ПОВТОРНОМУ НАГРЕВУ, ЛУЧШИМ ЦВЕТОМ И ПРОЗРАЧНОСТЬЮ

1. Полиэфирная композиция, которая включает полиэфирные полимеры и: ! а) атомы алюминия; и ! b) атомы щелочноземельного металла, или атомы щелочного металла, или остатки щелочного соединения; и ! с) частицы, которые содержат атомы титана, циркония, ванадия, ниобия, гафния, тантала, хрома, вольфрама, молибдена, железа или никеля или их комбинации. ! 2. Композиция по п.1, где частицы включают соединения переходных металлов, которые содержат атомы бора, углерода и азота; переходные металлы в элементарной форме и сплавы переходных металлов, где атомы переходных металлов представляют собой атомы титана, циркония, ванадия, ниобия, гафния, тантала, хрома, вольфрама, молибдена, железа или никеля, или их комбинации. ! 3. Композиция по п.2, где средний размер частиц составляет в диапазоне от приблизительно 1 до приблизительно 500 нм, и где частицы присутствуют в количестве, составляющем от приблизительно 1 до приблизительно 50 ч./млн от общей массы полиэфирной композиции. ! 4. Композиция по п.1, где указанные частицы содержат нитрид титана. ! 5. Композиция по п.1, где полиэфирный полимер получают взаимодействием кислотного компонента, содержащего, по крайней мере, 85 мол.% терефталевой кислоты, нафталиновой кислоты или их С1-С4 диалкиловых эфиров, с диольным компонентом, содержащим, по крайней мере, 90 мол.% этиленгликоля по отношению к мольному проценту для всех кислотных компонентов, составляющему 100 мол.%, и мольному проценту для всех диольных компонентов, составляющему 100 мол.%. ! 6. Композиция по п.5, где кислотный компонент модифицируют изофталевой кислотой, циклогександикарбоновой кислотой, нафталин-2,6-дикарбоновой кислотой, или их комбинациями, �