SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Human exoskeleton

The objective of HUMEXE is to develop all the necessary stages to introduce in the market a new exoskeleton able toprovide full autonomy to patients suffering from paraplegia and improving current exoeskeletons available on market or atresearch stage. This new exoskeleton follows an entirely different approach for the movements control strategy. HUMEXE,as contrast to the rest of exoskeletons, bases the movement control of the lower limbs on the movement of the upper limbsof the individual, thus providing the user the full control of his movements, instead of being a control unit in control of themovements and their trajectories. This new approach will allow the user to control the lower limbs’ movements without theaid of crutches or the supervision of another person, and these movements will be performed more accurately thancompetitors’, thanks to the increase of freedom degrees of the exoskeleton (13, in contrast of a maximum of 10 and anaverage of 4 in other competitors). Besides it will reduce dramatically the computing requirements of the control unit,resulting in a simpler device, fail-safer and cheaper, easing the access to the exoskeleton to the general public.This new exoskeleton has been developed by Tecnimusa, a leading company on providing innovative engineering solutionsto their clients who can not find a satisfying one among the current solutions in the market. Tecnimusa is an engineeringSME, based on Murcia (southeast of Spain) and founded in 2011. Its main line of business is the providing and developmentof solutions consisting on the combination of different technologies to perform accurately their objective.
Comparative Study of Different Tobacco Loading Ways in Longyan,Fujian

[Objective] To compare similarities and differences of the high-density with conventional tobacco baking process,the reasons why high-denity way have more better quality and efficient,and why reduce labor and costs were analyzed. [Method]According to the current Loose Leaf Bulk Curing Barn Baking Technical of Longyan City Standards( Trial) and Three Long and Two Short Way baking process,combined with the local climate and environment,tobacco quality,experiments were conducted. Though the way of harvesting tobacco,artificial energy consumption,baking process and so on,loose leaf curing process and conventional tobacco baking process were compared. [Result]Loose leaf baking process reflects the theory of moisturizing baking,the baking process the quality of high-denity way is better than other,the details were orange somke proportion increased,chroma and oil increased,and have a good baking maturity; under the same conditions of employment consuming loose leaf bake loading large amount of tobacco,and have less energy. [Conclusion]The study can provide theoretical support for development and extension of leaf baking technology.
Secure, private, efficient multiparty computation

MPC is a cryptographic technique that allows a set of mutually distrusting parties to compute any joint function of their private inputs in a way that preserves the confidentiality of the inputs and the correctness of the result. Examples of MPC applications include secure auctions, benchmarking, privacy-preserving data mining, etc.

In the last decade, the efficiency of MPC has improved significantly, especially with respect to evaluating functions expressed as Boolean and arithmetic circuits. These advances have allowed several companies worldwide to implement and include MPC solutions in their products.

Unfortunately, it now appears (and it’s partially confirmed by theoretical lower bounds) that we have reached a wall with respect to possible optimizations of current building blocks of MPC, which prevents MPC to be used in critical large-scale applications. I therefore believe that a radical paradigm-shift in MPC research is needed in order to make MPC truly practical. 

With this project, I intend to take a step back, challenge current assumptions in MPC research and design novel MPC solutions. My hypothesis is that taking MPC to the next level requires more realistic modelling of the way that security, privacy and efficiency are defined and measured. By combining classic MPC techniques with research in neighbouring areas of computer science I will fulfill the aim of the project and in particular:
1) Understand the limitations of current abstract models for MPC and refine them to more precisely capture real world requirements in terms of security, privacy and efficiency.
2) Use the new models to guide the developments of the next generation of MPC protocols, going beyond current performances and therefore enabling large-scale applications.
3) Investigate the necessary privacy-utility trade-offs that parties undertake when participating in distributed computations and define MPC functionalities that encourage cooperation for rational parties.
Rainfall-runoff Modeling in a Watershed Scale Using an Object Oriented Approach Based on the Concepts of System Dynamics

Relying on a linear causal thinking, most of the hydrological models fail to incorporate socio-economic characteristics of a watershed with hydrological and environmental attributes. Based on a systems thinking philosophy, the paper aims to adopt an Object-Oriented (OO) approach based on the concepts of System Dynamics (SD) such as stocks and flows to analyze the dynamics in a hydrological system in a watershed scale. Object-Oriented modeling is a way to organize data into discrete, recognizable entities called objects. These objects could be concrete (such as a river reach) or conceptual (such as a policy decision). In the present paper, VENSIM PLE has been used for the modeling purpose. The application was illustrated in an Iranian watershed. The model was examined using validity and verifying tests. The results showed that the model is capable of generating the monthly runoff quite well. The values of R2 are 0.69 and 0.61 for generated discharge values at Polchehr and Doab stations respectively. Also the values of NSE are 0.66 and 0.64 for estimated discharge values at the same stations. The capability of model was more clarified comparing R2 and NSE coefficients obtained by a SWAT model with those obtained by Watershed Hydrological Model developed in this study.
Statistical Modeling of Surface Roughness and its Estimation using Neural Network

Surface roughness, is a measure of surface quality is one of the specified requirements in a machining process. The machine vision applications have been carried out many researches in industries, as they have the benefit of being non-contact and speedy process than contact methods. In machine vision, is possible to analyze and determine the area of the surface, in which machine vision information will assist sensors to make intelligent decision on the applications. In this work, surface roughness estimation has been done by machine vision system. The extraction of features for the enhanced images is in spatial frequency domain done with the facilitate of Fourier Transform and Wavelet Transform. A neural network (NN) is trained with feature extracted values as input acquired from wavelet transform and examined to obtain Rt as output. The estimated surface roughness parameter (Rt) based on NN, which is compared with the Rt values from Stylus method is obtained as results.
“SE O CEMITÉRIO NÃO EXISTISSE, TUDO SERIA O BAIRRO”

Este trabalho aborda, a partir de outros autores, a questão do território, e da territorialidade, sob uma perspectiva que visa à autonomia. A discussão sobre essa categoria, nos auxilia na valorização da fala de uma moradora do bairro Euzébio Beltrão de Queiroz, na cidade de Caxias do Sul, que carrega a ousadia de imaginar um território, e, portanto, uma territorialidade outra, avessa ao discurso standardizado do planejamento urbano praticado pelo estado. Considera-se a importância do ousado exercício de imaginar outras dinâmicas espaciais, outras dinâmicas de vida. A fala da moradora nos chama para a construção de espacialidades outras.
Animation League for Increased Cooperation in Europe

ALICE intends to seize the opportunity presented by the current boom in the animation sector in a bid to build up its capacity to contribute to growth and job creation in Europe. This fits in perfectly with the Animation Plan for Europe published by the European Commission in September 2017 as part of preparations for the next Creative Europe Media programme.

While some European films such as ‘Ma vie de courgette’ and ‘Tortue rouge’, supported by regional funds, were nominated for Oscars, others like ‘Sammy’s Adventures 1 & 2’, Paddington’ and ‘Tarzan’ have each been seen by over 5 million people. TV series like Mouk, Peppa Pig, spin-off series from films like Shaun the Sheep have not been left out of the picture either – over the last 5 years we have witnessed the emergence of animation studios capable of providing stiff competition on the world stage. Thanks to digitisation and changing consumption habits (tablets, smartphones, internet, applications), their product catalogues are today being consumed on the many different platforms available by a young audience and one that is always looking for something new. We are seeing the emergence of European SMEs holding high added-value intellectual rights.

Given this opportunity, ALICE plans to make the partner regions drivers of this growth. 
To achieve this objective, ALICE will study options available in order to:
- Adapt the current policy instruments so as to enable the development or creation of financial instruments capable of generating scale-up change in the activities of SMEs in the sector.
- Discuss ways to both train (through public/private partnerships) and retain talented animators by changing the eligibility rules of existing or soon to be created support fund rules. 
- Identify innovative methods for distributing animated content.
- Examine the possibility of grouping together into clusters in order to help internationalise the SMEs concerned.
Oxidation of ethylbenzene using some recyclable cobalt nanocatalysts: The role of linker and electrochemical study

Co(II)–Schiff base complexes covalently linked on the organo-functionalized SiO 2 –Al 2 O 3 mixed-oxides. The catalytic activities of the heterogenized cobalt nanocatalysts in the oxidation of ethylbenzene were studied without the need of any solvent . In addition, the electrochemical data about oxidation of cobalt nanocatalysts at the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes was also studied. ► The cobalt complexes supported on functionalized SiO 2 –Al 2 O 3 used as nanocatalysts. ► Nanocatalysts were studied in the oxidation of ethylbenzene to acetophenone. ► Without the need of any solvent. ► The selectivity of acetophenone reached to 99% at TBHP/ethylbenzene molar ratio (1:1). ► Electrochemical behavior of the Co nanoparticles was studied. In this paper some Co(II)–Schiff base complexes were immobilized on SiO 2 –Al 2 O 3 mixed-oxide using two linkers with different flexibilities (3-aminopropyl and 2-aminoethyl-3-aminopropyl). The synthesized materials were characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy, UV–Vis, CHN elemental analysis, ICP-MS, EPR, SEM, TEM, cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The catalytic activity of the heterogenized Co(II)–Schiff base complexes in the oxidation of ethylbenzene was studied without the need of any solvent, at 353 K, using tert -butyl hydroperoxide as oxygen source. The best catalyst has a higher catalytic activity (86%) and selectivity to acetophenone (99%) at TBHP/ethylbenzene molar ratio (1:1), and could be reused at least 4 times without significant loss in acetophenone yield, suggesting that no complex leaching took place under the reaction conditions. The electrochemical data about oxidation of the immobilized Co(II)–Schiff base complexes at the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes was also studied. The results indicate that the Co-complexes anchored on the modified SiO 2 –Al 2 O 3 mixed-oxide have an easily oxidizable environment, which led to higher catalytic activity and selectivity.
The role of the family in childhood and adolescent binge eating. A systematic review.

The family has been deemed central in the development and maintenance of childhood and adolescent eating disorders. While family factors in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity are well-documented and were often reviewed before, less is known about these influences on binge eating. Because family plays an important role especially in childhood and adolescence, the aims of this systematic review are to give an overview on family factors and to describe the parental role in the development and maintenance of binge eating. We searched four major databases for studies on associations between binge eating, loss of control eating and family outcomes published up to April, 2013 in German and English language. Among the 278 non-duplicate citations, 26 studies met inclusion criteria for this study. Consistent evidence for the influence on binge eating was found in lower frequency of family meals, insecure attachment of the child, lower family functioning and more critical comments about weight or shape by parents. Rather inconsistent findings referred to the influence of family structures, a family history of eating disorders, family dieting and parental knowledge about their child’s eating behavior. Gender differences in associations with family relationships and parental weight stigmatization were identified. These findings underline the importance and the specificity of familial factors in binge eating as compared to other eating disorders and obesity. Therefore, family assessment and family based interventions might be helpful in the treatment of childhood and adolescent binge eating. Further research should clarify inconsistent findings using prospective designs.
Binocular Low-Contrast Acuity and the Symbol Digit Modalities Test Improve the Ability of the Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite to Predict Disease in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (P4.022)

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the three-component Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite (MSFC) or a modified MSFC with low-contrast letter acuity (LCLA) and the symbol digit modalities test (SDMT) captures disability in pediatric MS. BACKGROUND: Outcome measures to capture disability, such as the MSFC, were developed for adult MS clinical trials. The addition of binocular LCLA or substitution of the SDMT for the paced auditory serial addition task (PASAT) to the MSFC in adults improved the capacity to capture neurologic impairment. Outcome metrics for pediatric MS have not yet been established. DESIGN/METHODS: The MSFC (25-foot timed walk [25FTW], 9-hole peg test [9HPT], children’s PASAT [ChiPASAT]) as well as the SDMT and binocular LCLA (Sloan charts, 1.25[percnt] contrast), were administered to children with MS (disease onset RESULTS: Nineteen pediatric MS subjects and seventeen healthy controls were enrolled. The MSFC composite score for the traditional 3 components did not differ between the groups (p=0.199). Replacing the ChiPASAT with binocular 1.25[percnt] LCLA (OR 13.9, p=0.036) or the SDMT (OR 16.5, p=0.041) distinguished the two groups. A modified MSFC-4 with the SDMT replacing the ChiPASAT and including binocular 1.25[percnt] LCLA had the greatest capacity to distinguish pediatric MS from controls (OR 123.5, p=0.016). CONCLUSIONS: A modified MSFC (25FTW, 9HPT, SMDT, and binocular 1.25[percnt] LCLA) is more sensitive than the traditional MSFC to capture the subtle impairments that characterize pediatric MS and should be considered for future pediatric MS trials. Study Supported by: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, American Brain Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. Disclosure: Dr. Waldman has received royalty payments from UpToDate. Dr. Chahin has nothing to disclose. Dr. Banwell has received personal compensation for activities with Novartis as an MRI reviewer. Dr. Banwell has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. Dr. Liu has received personal compensation for activities with Ipsen as a consultant. Dr Balcer received personal compensation from Biogen Idec and consulting for Biogen Idec, Vaccinex and Genzyme. She is on a clinical trial advisory board for Biogen-Idec.,
High sensitivity, portable photonic device for pervasive water quality analysis

Pervasive and on-line water quality monitoring data is critical for detecting environmental pollution. However, it’s not easy to gather such data, at least not for all contaminants. Currently, water utilities rely heavily on frequent sampling and laboratory analysis in order to acquire this information.
For this situation to be improved, portable and high-performance devices for pervasive water quality monitoring are required. Towards this end, there has been growing interest in expanding spectroscopic methods beyond the 2μm range of the infrared spectrum. That region of the spectrum is home to many vibrational & rotational absorptions of compounds related to water quality. Unfortunately, water itself is a strong absorber of infrared light. Thus, such methods were restricted to laboratory settings until now.
WaterSpy addresses this challenge by developing water quality detection photonics technology suitable for inline, field measurements, operating in the 6-10 μm region. The solution is based on the combined use of advanced, tuneable Quantum Cascade Lasers and fibre-coupled, fast & sensitive Higher Operation Temperature photodetectors. Together with these new components, optimized laser driving and detector electronics as well as laser modulation concepts will be developed. Attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy will be used to give rise to the biochemical profile of the surface chemistry of the sample. Targeted analytes will be specific heterotrophic bacterial cells. Several novel techniques are employed in order to increase the SNR, including antibodies capable of binding the targeted analytes and a novel pre-concentration method. WaterSpy technology will be integrated, for validation purposes, to a commercially successful water quality monitoring platform, in the form of a portable device add-on. WaterSpy will be used in the field for the analysis of critical points of water distribution networks. This will be demonstrated in two different demo sites in Italy
PARTICULATE FILTER FOR PURIFYING EXHAUST GASES OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES COMPRISING HOT SPOT CERAMIC IGNITORS

The invention concerns a particulate filter for purifying exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, in particular of a diesel engine, comprising a filtering body and heating means for initiating combustion of soot particles accumulated on and in the filtering body. The invention is characterised in that said means comprise at least a hot spot ceramic ignitor (3). The invention is applicable in the automotive industry.
Développement d’un lait UHT innovant avec une durabilité accrue et une qualité accrue

Number_reference_aid_programme: SA.41471(2015/X) Objet de l’aide publique: Article 25 du règlement (CE) no 651/2014 du 17 juin 2014 déclarant certaines catégories d’aides compatibles avec le marché intérieur dans l’application des articles 107 et 108 du traité C’est tout. UE L 187/1 du 26.06.2014).Coopérative laitière & bdquo;MLEKPOL &rdquo; à Grajewo, elle présente un projet de R & D dont l’objectif principal est de développer du lait UHT innovant avec une durée de conservation prolongée de 6 à 12 mois dans le commerce, en particulier la résistance aux conditions prévalant pendant le transport maritime à long terme, et l’amélioration de la qualité sensorielle. Actuellement, aucune usine laitière en Pologne ne dispose d’une telle technologie, et dans le monde, elle n’a été mise en œuvre que par quelques usines. SM Mlekpol a demandé un brevet d’invention le 06/11/2020: Méthode de production du lait UHT. La demande est marquée d’un numéro: P.435906. En plus de la caractéristique principale de l’innovation &ndash; durabilité, le produit aura un avantage concurrentiel: le lait produit selon la nouvelle technologie aura un arrière-goût réduit de lait bouilli dans la recherche sensorielle; et une couleur plus claire, qui aura une qualité similaire au lait frais. Le lait sera principalement utilisé pour les exportations vers les marchés éloignés, en particulier vers la Chine. Le projet comprend 2 étapes de recherche industrielle et 1 étape de développement. Les travaux seront réalisés par un sous-traitant &ndash; Institut d’innovation de l’industrie laitière de Mągowo et de la requérante. La mise en œuvre des résultats du projet prévu pour 2023 et se déroulera sous forme de production sur le territoire de la République de Pologne, et la valeur des recettes dans un délai de 5 ans à compter de la fin du projet est estimée à 1 milliard 159 millions de PLN.
Envisioning the reward: neuronal circuits for goal-directed learning

Our ability to learn relies on the potential of neuronal circuits to change through experience. The overall theme of this project is to understand how sensory cortical circuits are modified by experience and learning. Recent results have shown that learning the association of a visual stimulus with a reward modifies neuronal responses in primary visual cortex (V1). However, the cellular mechanisms underlying these experience-dependent changes remain largely unknown. Computational and experimental studies suggest that feedback pathways are crucial for adapting sensory processing by task demands, together with local interneurons that gate feedback through dendritic inhibition. I will test the hypothesis that feedback projections from higher level areas selectively enhance task-relevant information in V1 and that this process depends on dorsomedial striatal (DMS) output.
Toward this aim, I am using chronic two-photon calcium imaging to monitor the activity of neuronal sub-populations in mouse V1, before, during and after two types of visual experience: a passive exposure to a visual stimulus and a rewarded visually-guided task. Published and preliminary results indicate that the representation of task-relevant features is enhanced and stabilised in V1 during learning while responses to non-relevant stimuli are suppressed.
This project is organized around 3 aims:

1. To characterize top-down inputs to V1 neurons during passive and rewarded visual experience. 
2. To characterize local circuits and single-neuron computation of task-relevant features within V1
3. To characterize the output of V1 neurons to higher cortical areas and DMS, during goal-directed learning.

The expected results will show how behavioural training changes the neocortex to improve the encoding of behaviourally relevant visual objects. This project will uncover the circuits that are changed by and in turn dynamically gate relevant sensory information when an animal is learning a goal-directed task.