SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
What do we learn from dialogues in fiction?

FictDial investigates the function and processing of dialogue in literary fiction in exchange with what we know about real-world conversational dialogue and, thereby, aims to bridge a gap between the current psycholinguistic and neuroscientific knowledge of verbal interactions (conversations) and literary research. Its starting point is the suggestion that reading literary fiction can augment our capacity for social inference and empathy. The project aims to understand 1) what could be learned from fictional (literary) dialogues about every day social interactions (objective 1), 2) how fictional dialogues are processed (objective 2) and 3) how these dialogues affect the knowledge of adults and adolescents about real-life social interactions (objective 3). It applies methods from different disciplines from qualitative, literary analysis to behavioral experiments and measurements of eye-movements. Fictional dialogues are studied with special attention to gender-specific ways of verbal interactions, and mechanisms of social learning are examined in relation to embodied experiences and immersion during reading. The project is hosted by the Norwegian Reading Centre, with a secondment at the University of Oslo, involving experts from education, empirical reading research, narratology and cognitive science. The proposed project includes activities of dissemination and communication to the academic sector but also to teachers, pupils, and policy makers. The research, training and publication activities of the project will enable me to enhance my profile as an independent researcher.
Feasibility and Infrastructures for Adriatic Crossborder Sea Link

The project turns to the study of feasibility and the realisation of some primary works that encourage and stimulate the installation of linked activities to a fast maritime connection. The study wants to determine the exact measure of the necessary investments and the preliminary and concrete evaluation of every new activity. Moreover, there must be created the first necessary infrastructures to measure the capacity of the port of Termoli and its immediate use. The maritime connection promoted, should have a day-to-day basis and interest the Croatian Coast and its islands overlooking the Molise Region.
On-Site, on-demand hydrogen peroxide generation for a cost-effective, eco-friendly and safe biocide and oxygenator

Biocides are extensively used across the agriculture and livestock sectors to prevent the proliferation of bacteria, algae, fungi and viruses. With sharpening regulations, environmental concerns, and the need for sustainable practices to ensure continued agriculture and food supply, the market is witnessing increased demand for safe and sustainable biocidal agents, while maintaining demanding requirements in cost, scalability, and availability. HPGen is a disruptive technology product, enabling for the first time on-demand, cost-effective production of hydrogen peroxide - an eco-friendly biocide and oxygenator, directly at the point of use, using only water, air and electricity as feedstock ! HPGen is set to displace presently used, increasingly regulated toxic chemical products in agriculture, and in turn in livestock sectors. By doing so, HPNow will address EU objectives in improved food and water safety, increased crop yields, and reduction of environmental impact, transport and handling of toxic agri-chemical agents. Implementing HPGen at agriculture and livestock farms in the EU and globally will substantially reduce direct and indirect biocide costs, and create a > EUR 2 billion market opportunity across the value chain. HPGen is being developed, and will be brought to market, by HPNow ApS, a Danish SME. The company has already attracted the attention and collaboration of multinational industry players, including an EU-based global leader in hydrogen peroxide production, three of the world’s leading micro irrigation companies, and one of the EU's largest specialty meat producers. These global firms will be contributing resources and knowhow to the project at their own cost, with their interest in later serving as HPGen channel partners - a key to our company's scalable go-to-market strategy. In Phase I commercial, technical, and production activities related to HPGen market introduction will be analyzed, and a comprehensive business plan will result.
MULTI-CORE DEVICE WITH OPTIMIZED MEMORY CONFIGURATION

A multi-core device (D), for an electronic equipment (UE), comprises at least two cores (C1, C2) arranged to execute different softwares stored into storing means. At least one (C2) of these cores (C1, C2) is associated with i) a primary memory (PM2) of the RAM type, which is part of the memory means and arranged for durably storing, without power consumption, a software to be executed once it has been transferred and data associated with this software when it is executed, and ii) a memory interface (MI2) coupled to the primary memory (PM2) and arranged to allow this core (C2) to execute this software durably stored into the primary memory (PM2) and to access to the data associated with this software when it is executed.
Miglioramento della capacità produttiva di Koattech Ltd. attraverso l'ottimizzazione del processo produttivo con attrezzature tecnologiche ad alta produzione

Koattech Ltd. è un'azienda specializzata nella produzione di attrezzature tecnologiche e nella costruzione di linee e impianti tecnologici meccanizzati e automatizzati per verniciatura a polvere e smaltatura, forni ed essiccatori elettrici e a gas, unità di precondizionamento (apparecchiature di incandescenza, attrezzature per la lavorazione del getto). L'azienda dispone di macchine universali, abcant, plasma, attrezzature per saldatura. La proposta di progetto è legata allo sviluppo dei vantaggi competitivi di Koattech Ltd. e alla creazione di condizioni per aumentare il potenziale di esportazione attraverso una maggiore capacità produttiva, basata su una maggiore efficienza ed efficienza dei processi produttivi, compreso il miglioramento dell'efficienza delle risorse e il miglioramento della qualità dei prodotti fabbricati. La proposta di progetto è legata all'attuazione della seguente attività: Attività:  "Miglioramento della capacità produttiva di "KOATTECH" Ltd. L'attività è volta a migliorare la capacità produttiva di un impianto commerciale esistente, in questo caso "KOATTECH" Ltd. ed è connessa ad investimenti in attrezzature tecnologiche ad alte prestazioni per la lavorazione di lastre e pannelli metallici e polimerici, apparecchiature per la saldatura di altezze e attrezzature per il trasporto interno di fabbrica. La lavorazione delle parti (di lastre e pannelli metallici e polimerici) necessarie per la produzione delle attrezzature tecnologiche per il rivestimento a polvere con le macchine universali a basse prestazioni e la lavorazione con lavoro manuale, dopo il completamento del progetto sarà effettuata automatizzata con saldatura ad alte prestazioni/per lamiere e pannelli/unit di metallo e polimeri. L'attuazione dell'attività è legata agli investimenti nell'acquisto di macchine ad alte prestazioni per la produzione automatizzata di lastre e pannelli metallici e polimerici. Per realizzare l'investimento, si prevede di selezionare un contraente per la fornitura e la visualizzazione delle attività del progetto (con risorse proprie).
Capital Flight and Bitcoin Regulation

This paper studies the risk of Bitcoin being used for the purpose of capital flight. We propose a new indicator, the bitcoin-implied exchange rate discount, to identify empirically capital flight via Bitcoin. Using data from the two largest bitcoin exchanges in the world during our sample period, BTC China and Bitstamp, we find strong evidence of capital flight from the Chinese Renminbi to the US Dollar via Bitcoin before the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, announced its regulatory policy on December 5, 2013, while the evidence displays no trace of capital flight after the announcement. The People's Bank of China's Bitcoin restriction policy successfully halts the illicit capital outflow via Bitcoin, thereby providing valuable policy implications for government regulation on Bitcoin, as well as on other virtual currencies.
Revealing unseen text with thz waves

Safely stored in archives’ storages across the world, ancient handwritten books (codices) that are too fragile to be opened, page-turned, or unfolded, are not open to consultation nor accessible, their content hidden from both experts and public. The main goal of the proposed project is to uncover their content and Reveal Unseen Text (RUTE) by reading through them without opening them. Current approaches for facilitating this task are mostly based on techniques that expose fragile manuscripts to ionizing radiation (e.g., X-ray computed tomography) potentially causing damage to ancient inks or support. To prevent damage of valuable manuscripts or written text, RUTE will exploit a non-ionizing technique, terahertz (THz) time-domain imaging, that can penetrate highly absorbing materials (e.g., paper, papyrus, or parchment) and detect paper-air gaps in the sample. Detected paper-air gaps lead to retrieving images that represent a single page of closed books often corrupted by severe system-induced blurring and noise effects. Until now, only limited attempts have been made to reduce these degradation effects (i.e., blur and noise) with none of them tailored to THz images that contain text. To fill this gap, RUTE will facilitate a unique approach to data creation and collection and introduce a highly interdisciplinary methodological process for reading through closed books. The proposed methodology will facilitate detection of paper-air gaps and pages separation, text enhancement, and document images restoration. RUTE will have a tremendous impact on analysis, preservation, and digitisation of valuable European and World cultural heritage assets by enabling the possibility to access knowledge that would otherwise remain undiscovered.
Developing Local Order Parameters for Order–Disorder Transitions From Particles to Block Copolymers: Methodological Framework

Block copolymers self-assemble to form a variety of phases with highly regular patterns, depending on the microscopic ordering of molecules. Paramount to understanding and controlling this “order” is to have good “order parameters”—variables that can be used to track the changes occurring in the system as it transitions from disorder to order. In this paper, molecular dynamics are used to simulate the growth of lamella, cylinder, and gyroid phases from an isotropic liquid using as testbed a binary nanoparticle mixture model. The chosen model produces minimalistic versions of the basic repeat units of the phases of interest so that the formation of numerous such units can be efficiently simulated. Because phase domains are typically one- or two-particle-thick, local order parameters are developed based on the correlation of symmetries between a particle and its neighbors and used to identify and track the formation and growth of specific geometric motifs along the transition pathway. The proposed order par...
Sterility as a ground for nullifying the marriage : can Venter and Van Niekerk be reconciled? : case note

For a marriage to be valid, all statutory and common law requirements must be satisfied. In a case where all requirements of marriage are prima facie present, but one or more of requirements is defective because of, relevant to this work, material misrepresentation, such marriage is regarded as voidable. With material misrepresentation, question is whether a person in position of innocent party would not have entered into marriage had s/he been aware of true nature of things. Of course, not every aspect of misrepresentation can lead to material misrepresentation; misrepresentation must relate to material aspect of marriage, and those include serious diseases, impotence and others, but this paper deals only with sterility. Sterility has thus been defined as infertility, that is, the ability to have sexual intercourse but unable to procreate children.
Capturing non-amplified tumor circulating dna with ultrasound hydrodynamics

The project suggests replacing the labor-intensive, occasionally biased and costly PCR method currently used for the detection of genetic markers with a simple, non-PCR based DNA quantification method. The suggested system will exploit the ability of acoustic waves to probe the hydrodynamic shape of surface-bound molecules, rather than mass. The scientific challenge to be addressed is to push the limit of detection to the zM range obviating the need to use a polymerase for DNA amplification. The technological challenge is to fabricate ultra sensitive acoustic devices and after capturing with high efficiency very low numbers of DNA present in a complex medium detecting them on the device surface. These ambitious goals will be achieved by developing novel probes and nanoparticles of tailor-made sizes and shapes for enhanced acoustic response; exploiting high frequency acoustic devices up to the GHz range; and, employing magnetic beads with microfluidics for specific target-capturing and enrichment. The proof-of-principle will be demonstrated during the detection of circulating-tumor DNA (ctDNA), currently an area perceived by cancer researchers as the “Holy Grail” of future cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. We intend to validate our integrated acoustic platform towards the detection of common mutations occurring in colorectal and lung cancers, i.e., KRAS, EGFR and BRAF in serum. We anticipate that the “CATCH-U-DNA” concept will set the foundations for a simpler, more sensitive and affordable diagnostic method, from which patients in both the developed and developing countries will greatly benefit.
BK polyomavirus genotyping at inter- and intra-patient level in Spain

BK polyomavirus (BKV) is classified into four subtypes based on nucleotide variation of a 287 bp typing region in the VP1 protein. Most studies show that subtype I is predominant in different geographic settings, followed by subtype IV. However, BKV subtypes II and III are detected at low rates. In Spain, the prevalence of each subtype is not well known. The aim of this study was to identify the BKV subtypes from a selection of different types of patients and to determine whether different subtypes could be infecting the same patient. A hundred and twenty nine BKV-positive urine samples were selected to amplify and sequence the typing region. Plasma specimens collected at the same time as the urine samples were also studied in 34 patients. A phylogenetic analysis and a study of substitutions in the VP1 protein were carried out with the sequences obtained. Subtype I was the predominant subtype detected in urine (61.2%) and plasma (38.2%) samples followed by subtype II. The analysis of paired samples showed that the subtype found in urine was different from that found in plasma in 10 patients. Fourteen BKV variants based on substitutions in VP1 were identified. The finding of compartmentalized infections involving different subtypes at different sites in some patients might mean specific and different selective pressure in each tissue. The potential involvement in the viral cycle of the different BKV variants found should be analyzed.
ZERO FALL-THROUGH TIME ASYNCHRONOUS FIFO BUFFER WITH NONAMBIGUOUS EMPTY/FULL RESOLUTION

A First In First Out shift register memory system (10) with a plurality of memory word registers (50) having data inputs connected to a common data-in bus (16), and a plurality of data outputs connected to a common data-out bus (22). A read address ring counter (36) and write address ring counter (32) are responsive to respective read and write pulses to sequentially perform memory read and write operations. A comparator (40) compares the address outputs of the ring counters (36, 32) for equality. A read and a write signal generator (80, 60) are provided for producing respective read and write pulses in response to input transitions of read and write commands. A last operation R/W flip-flop (70) maintains an account of the last read and write memory operation processed by the system. Read and write enable latches (90, 66) are responsive to the comparator (40) output indication of address equality, and responsive to the last operation R/W flip-flop (70) output indication of the last memory operation to prevent the reading of the memory (48) by read pulses when empty, and the writing of the memory (48) by write pulses when full.
“I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up,” a Basic Primer for Caregivers to Understand Falls in Persons With Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Cognitive Impairment

This article seeks to demystify the complexity of what constitutes dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and cognitive impairment as it relates to identifying the basic contexts of these diseases in relationship with falls and fall prevention. It further will identify the new changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5) that replaces the term dementia and provides the new diagnostic framework for major and mild neurocognitive functioning. This article additionally provides some practical strategies for caregivers to equip themselves to understand some of the difficulties and challenges that they face when dealing with loved ones or patients who become afflicted by these diseases.
ADAPTACIÓN DE LA SALA DE CONSUMO A UNA PIZZERÍA, COMPRA DE SUS EQUIPOS Y DESARROLLO DE TERRENOS FRENTE AL JARDÍN EXTERIOR EN EL RESTAURANTE PODKOWA EN RUMI PARA CONTRARRESTAR LOS EFECTOS NEGATIVOS DEL BROTE DE COVID-19

El proyecto incluye: 1. Renovación para adaptar la sala de pizzería con una entrada independiente y un nodo sanitario separado para los clientes 2. Compra de equipos de pizzería 3. El proyecto también proporcionará un nuevo servicio adicional, es decir, la prestación de servicios de comida y entrega.
WARP KNITTING MACHINE, ESPECIALLY CROCHETING MACHINE

The invention relates to a warp knitting machine, especially a crocheting machine, comprising knitting needles (34) guided on a knock-over sinker(38) with warp thread layers (38) which are fitted upstream with warp thread guides (36) and weft thread layer rods (44) assigned to weft thread guides (48). The invention provides an improvement to a warp knitting machine, characterized in that the weft thread guides (48) of the weft thread layer rods (44) do not cross the knitting needles(34) and the weft thread guides (48) of the weft thread layer rods (44) are assigned feeding means relative to the knitting needles (34), which can be guided and driven upwards and downwards between the weft thread guides (48) and the knitting needles (34) in such a way that the feeding means (62) place staggered weft threads (50) underneath the assigned knitting needles (34).
PORTABLE ILLUMINATION DEVICE

The present invention relates to a portable illumination device (100) for illuminating an object (200) through a medium having an absorption coefficient, the illumination device (100) comprising a lighting unit (101) including at least two differently colored light sources (Li - L3) for emitting light having a color distribution, and a control unit (105) for adjusting the color distribution. The control unit (105) is adapted to receive a distance estimate corresponding to the distance between the illumination device (100) and the object (200), and adjust the color distribution depending on the distance estimate, such that light reflected from the object is perceived to have substantially correct color reproduction. An advantage with the invention is that an object (200) illuminated through a medium will be perceived by a user using the portable illumination device (100) as having a substantially correct color reproduction.
Revealing dendritic cell-cd4+ t cell communication by using synthetic biology in vivo

CD4+ T cells are crucial component of our immune system: they support distinct types of proinflammatory responses key for pathogen clearance, maintain tolerance and suppress harmful inflammation. To perform this multitude of functions, naïve CD4+ T cells first undergo activation through direct contact with dendritic cells (DCs), a highly heterogeneous compartment including several populations of migratory and resident cells. These interactions lead to selection of antigen specific T cell clones, followed by their proliferation and differentiation into distinct subsets showing specialized effector programs or polarizations. Despite the essential role of dendritic cells in the activation and polarization of naïve CD4+ T cells, we have limited information available on both the identity of DC involved in priming and the molecular messages exchanged upon DC-CD4+ T cell interaction in different types of response. Recently, I developed an innovative technology that allows us for the first time to label interactions between immune cells in vivo. This method, which we called LIPSTIC, relies on the labeling of genetically engineered receptor–ligand pairs mediated by the enzyme Sortase A. After the enzymatic reaction takes place in vivo, the history of ligand–receptor interactions is revealed by the presence of reporter tags easily detected by flow cytometry. This proposal aims to determine how interactions between dendritic cells and T cells instruct CD4+ T cells toward distinct fates using LIPSTIC and by implementing other technologies designed ad hoc to measure and understand the biological consequences of relevant cell-cell interactions on T cell fate decision. The combined approaches described here will contribute to the characterization of the molecular signals governing CD4+ T cell response in vivo.
Indigenous activism in Bangladesh: translocal spaces and shifting constellations of belonging

Taking the movement for the rights of indigenous people in Bangladesh as an example, this article elucidates how recent attempts to institutionalise the concept of indigenous people at the global level relate to local claims. These attempts are intrinsically interlinked to identity politics targeting the national political arena, and by adopting the conceptual offerings provided by the UN system as well as those from other parts of the world, activists seek to promote more inclusive approaches. Contemporary translocal indigenous activism, however, is prone to contradictions. On the one hand, identity politics rely upon old-established images of indigenous people with essentialist connotations. On the other hand, it can be observed that the activist configuration, thought in ethnic terms, becomes increasingly porous, for a variety of reasons. After providing an overview of the way indigenous activism in Bangladesh has unfolded recently, the conditions under which the boundaries of belonging to the activist...
COMUNICAÇÃO VIRTUAL E ENSINO: DIÁLOGOS E EXPERIÊNCIAS DOCENTES NO CONTEXTO EDUCACIONAL REMOTO

Este artigo apresenta as experiências de professores no Ensino Remoto Emergencial (ERE), em meio ao cenário pandêmico, por causa da Covid-19. O objetivo do estudo é analisar as vivências dos docentes nos anos de 2020 e 2021 na comunicação virtual com finalidade pedagógica no contexto educacional remoto na rede municipal de ensino no Fundamental I em Macapá/AP e Palmas/TO. A metodologia pauta-se no esboço teórico em torno dos conceitos comunicação/comunicação virtual, da pesquisa bibliográfica sobre ensino remoto emergencial, e das fontes escritas e orais – normativas e entrevista com os docentes. Os resultados apontam, ainda que novas tecnologias digitais emergentes na contemporaneidade, em tempos que deflagram uma sociedade em rede, os docentes se viram tendo que adaptar pedagogicamente à comunicação virtual, que já tinham as funções de mediação, sociabilidade e interação à distância, contudo, pouca funcionalidade na rede básica de ensino até a implementação do ERE. As vivências mostram a importância da comunicação virtual, como meio interativo e participativo nesse momento, contudo a ausência de recursos como as tecnologias digitais, tornaram o processo de ensino-aprendizagem difícil, mas não um obstáculo à suspensão das aulas.