SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Spin-Resolved strong field ionisation

Molecular movies depicting chemical reactions via attosecond (10^-18 s) snapshots, which vastly improve our understanding of molecular dynamics is within our grasp. Strong-field imaging techniques under development, such as photoelectron holography, promise just this. However, up until very recently all strong-field theoretical models have neglected spin and spin-orbit coupling. Initial work including spin in the initial state, along with recent experiments, has shown that spin in strong-field processes is vitally important, leading to different ionisation probabilities which in turn may alter the all important electron dynamics. In this project, I will utilise and develop cutting edge theoretical frameworks to fully include electron spin for strong-field processes in atoms and molecules. I will develop a semi-analytic model, which fully includes spin and spin-orbit coupling for single active electron and two active electron cases. This is motivated by the long history of semi-analytic methods that have been developed in this field, which have enabled unprecedented access into the electron dynamics for strong-field processes. As such, developing a model for spin will reveal deep new physical insight. I will validate the methodology by exploiting my supervisors expertise and contacts, collaborating with theorists employing complementary cutting-edge numerical models and with the only group of experimentalists to have performed spin measurements on strong-field processes. A proper treatment will allow more advanced and robust imaging techniques. I will explore the use of spin to enhance existing imaging processes such as photoelectron holography. Furthermore, I will develop the semi-analytic model for two electrons and explore spin entanglement and correlation with momentum in two-electron ionisation processes, to design entirely new imaging procedures. This analysis will also open up the possibility of exploiting this system for quantum information purposes.
Continuum Modeling of van der Waals Interaction Force Between Carbon Nanocones and Carbon Nanotubes

Using the Lennard–Jones potential, continuum modeling of the van der Waals potential energy and interaction force distributions are investigated for the eccentric and concentric single-walled carbon nanocones inside the single-walled carbon nanotubes. Furthermore, a new semi-analytical solution is presented to evaluate the van der Waals interaction of the nanocone located on the axis of the nanotube. Eccentric and concentric configurations of these nanostructures are also investigated to obtain the preferred position of the nanocone inside the nanotubes. Finally, the optimum radius of a carbon nanotube for which the preferred location of carbon nanocones is along the tube axis is found.
Next-Generation theranostics of brain pathologies with autonomous externally controllable nanonetworks: a trans-disciplinary approach with bio-nanodevice interfaces

Brain pathologies are highly complex disorders. Despite recent progress, their prognosis is grim, defining a high societal challenge. Bridging life sciences, bio-nanotechnology, engineering and ICT, GLADIATOR promises a vanguard and comprehensive theranostic (therapeutic+diagnostic) solution for brain malignancies. Through a multi-faceted breakthrough, GLADIATOR will provide, for the first time, a working prototype of a complete, autonomous and clinically applicable, nanonetwork-based, Molecular Communications system based on the conceptual framework of Externally Controllable Molecular Communications (ECMC). Using Glioblastoma Multiforme tumours, the most detrimental brain pathologies, as a proof-of-concept case, GLADIATOR will implement a platform of cell-based and electronic components. Implantable autologous organoids of engineered neural stem cells (iNSCs) will release rationally designed exosomal bio-nanomachines, delivering reprogramming (therapeutic) miRNAs and building nanonetworks. Interfering with the underlying biological environment, the nanonetworks will define a revolutionary intervention. A hybrid bio-electronic interface, consisting of coupled external and implantable devices, will enable communication channels with host-derived fluorescent bio-nanomachines via micro-optoelectronic sensors. The cellular, sub-cellular and electronic components will be integrated into a wireless ECMC network. This system will autonomously monitor the spatiotemporal tumour evolution and recurrence and generate, on demand, appropriate reprogramming interventions, by radiofrequency stimulation of iNSC renewal. A paradigm shift in Oncology Research is anticipated via the supra-discipline of “bio-nanomachine diagnostics”. GLADIATOR establishes a radical long-term vision leading to a drastic change in cancer therapy, also ushering the emergence of the ECMC field and transforming the burgeoning industry of Internet of Nano-bio-things, with high socioeconomic impact.
Urban anthrpogenic heat flux from earth observation satellites

The main goal of the proposed project URBANFLUXES (URBan ANthrpogenic heat FLUX from Earth observation Satellites) is to investigate the potential of Earth Observation (EO) to retrieve anthropogenic heat fluxes. The main research question addresses whether EO is able to provide reliable estimates of anthropogenic heat flux spatiotemporal distribution, at local and city scales. URBANFLUXES will investigate the potential of EO to retrieve the anthropogenic heat flux, as a key component in the urban energy budget and by developing a method capable of deriving it from space. The objective is to develop a method that could be used operationally in the near future, when observations with adequate temporal resolution become available. URBANFLUXES EO-based approach will be easily transferable to any urban area and capable of providing anthropogenic heat flux benchmark data for different applications, including climate models to assess the implication of the anthropogenic heat on the Earth system; building energy models to characterize buildings-to-atmosphere/soil/water heat exchange pathways; and decision support systems for urban sustainable planning and mapping of emissions related to energy consumption. URBANFLUXES is therefore expected to prepare the ground for further innovative exploitation of European space data in scientific activities (Earth system modelling and climate change studies in cities) and future and emerging applications (sustainable urban planning) by exploiting the improved data quality, coverage and revisit times of the Copernicus Sentinels data. The Copernicus observations have the potential to reveal novel scientific insights, related to monitoring the anthropogenic heat flux in cities, at both local and regional scales, generating new EO opportunities. The URBANFLUXES products will therefore support both sustainable planning strategies to improve the quality of life in cities and Earth system models to provide more robust climate simulations.
Cubbit -  the first distributed data-center recycling the internet resources we waste into the most competitive cloud provider.

All companies using cloud services look for excellent performances, competitive prices, and the highest standards of privacy. Yet, no cloud provider is currently able to provide all these three benefit together. This pain point arises because the current standard of centralized cloud (i.e., one proprietary web farm serving millions of users) has huge operating costs and recurring weaknesses concerning data security.
Cubbit develops a technology able to disrupt the global cloud industry by replacing the root cause of its problems, i.e., centralized server farms, with a distributed data center based on a peer-to-peer network free from infrastructural costs, highly scalable, and secure by design.
Cubbit turns the storage, CPU, and bandwidth provided by its users - who access the first ever forever-free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service - into professional web services sold to SMEs customers - who finally get a secure, efficient, and inexpensive cloud.
While around 70% of the revenues made by traditional cloud providers are burnt into direct operating costs, Cubbit is the first provider that turns the costs into a revenue stream as it gains a margin on every domestic server activated.
Cubbit is also environmentally sustainable, using up to 10 times less energy than centralized cloud. For every TB you store on Cubbit, you save the gross equivalent to 100 kgCO2/year.
Founded in July 2016 and based in Bologna, Italy, the company is the first Italian startup ever invested by Techstars & Barclays’ accelerator in Tel Aviv, Israel, a world-class program focused on cybersecurity. It is now backed by 2 VC funds and private investors.
In March 2019, Cubbit run a successful product-crowdfunding that hit +821% overfunding and entered the top 1% of most funded Kickstarter campaigns of all times.
Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04

Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition is filled with unique and advanced information for everyone who wants to make the most of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by a long-time Ubuntu community leader to reflect the exciting new Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and the forthcoming Ubuntu 13.04. Former Ubuntu Forum administrator Matthew Helmke covers all you need to know about Ubuntu 12.10/13.04 installation, configuration, productivity, multimedia, development, system administration, server operations, networking, virtualization, security, DevOps, and moreincluding intermediate-to-advanced techniques you wont find in any other book. Helmke presents up-to-the-minute introductions to Ubuntus key productivity and Web development tools, programming languages, hardware support, and more. Youll find new or improved coverage of navigation via Unity Dash, wireless networking, VPNs, software repositories, new NoSQL database options, virtualization and cloud services, new programming languages and development tools, monitoring, troubleshooting, and more. Configure and customize the Unity desktop and make the most of the Dash Get started with multimedia and productivity applications, including LibreOffice Manage Linux services, users, and software packages Administer and run Ubuntu from the command line (with added coverage of stdin, stdout, sdterr, redirection, and file comparison) Automate tasks and use shell scripting Provide secure remote access and configure a secure VPN Manage kernels and modules Administer file, print, email, proxy, LDAP, and HTTP servers (Apache or alternatives) Learn about new options for managing large numbers of servers Work with databases (both SQL and the newest NoSQL alternatives) Get started with virtualization Build a private cloud with Juju and Charms Learn the basics about popular programming languages including Python, PHP, Perl, and new alternatives such as Go and Rust
Migration ethics

Over the last three years, millions have attempted to cross the EU frontier. Some are fleeing war and persecution; others poverty. The EU has struggled to find an acceptable response. It is aware that the denial of legal entry encourages risky crossings and that many of those migrating are refugees. Yet it is also keen to limit immigration. It has therefore responded by insisting on a sharp distinction between refugees and economic migrants, making some exceptions for the former, while seeking to exclude the latter. It has also obtained an agreement with Turkey that permits the EU to return migrants in exchange for various benefits. This response seems to have been effective in limiting migration along the Turkey-Greece route. Nevertheless, the large numbers migrating along other routes, the lack of sufficient protection for many refugees and the high death toll at sea, all cast doubt on the adequacy of the EU response.  This research project will be the first within ethical theory to address the ethics of migration in the context of the Mediterranean crisis. It will assess how EU states should respond to such large waves of migration. It focusses on three questions. First, which migrants are entitled to protection? International law and EU policy single out refugees, but the research project will investigate whether states have duties towards other migrants as well. Second, of those who are entitled to protection, where should they be protected? The EU-Turkey agreement effectively involves the outsourcing of protection to Turkey. Such “safe third country” agreements are ethically controversial. Third, if it is permissible to exclude some migrants, how should they be excluded? Given the numbers that are currently dying while trying to evade migration restrictions, it is important to explore the various methods of restriction to see which, if any, are ethically defensible and, given the current regulatory framework, legally feasible.
[Harper, Stalker, Palmer & Gadbois] Response to Commentary on Experiences of Adults Abused as Children After Discharge From Inpatient Treatment

We appreciate Mrs. Pelan's letter indicating that she found our study useful in terms of providing evidence for the effectiveness of occupational therapy practice. Our study certainly indicated that the multidisciplinary team that delivers the inpatient treatment for traumatic stress we studied was generally very helpful to the individuals who participated in it. It is our impression that the combined expertise of this multidisciplinary team (addiction medicine, creative arts therapy, horticultural therapy, nursing, occupational therapy, pastoral care, psychiatry, psychology, recreation therapy, and social work) made significant contributions to the overall effectiveness of the program. Our study was not designed to assess the contribution of any particular discipline, but Mrs. Pelan will be interested to know that the co-ordinator of the inpatient trauma treatment program is an occupational therapist. She, along with members of other disciplines, provides training and supervision to the team and particip...
Why a True Account of Human Development Requires Exemplar Research

This chapter uses moral psychology to illustrate why exemplar methods are essential for building a valid, complete understanding of key domains of human development. Social psychological, economic, and biological-evolutionary paradigms for studying morality rely on samples drawn from the general population. This research reveals a bleak picture of morality, highlighting its irrational, self-interested, externally controlled aspects. If the subjects in these studies are confused, pliable, or profit-maximizing, these studies conclude that people in general are morally irrational and self-interested. In contrast, studies that investigate morally exceptional individuals reveal a more thoughtful, ideal-driven, self-reflective, creative version of moral functioning. Any account that neglects this high-functioning segment of the range is seriously misleading and cannot provide the basis for aspiration or education.
How self-generated experience contributes to the development of speech and language in human infants?

Everyday experience plays a central role in the development of perceptual and cognitive abilities. Our latest studies have been exploring the non-obvious and obvious effects of perceptual experience on the development of audiovisual speech and language perception in human infants. Using eye tracking technology, we have discovered that when infants begin babbling and, thus, start learning to speak their native language, they begin to shift their attention to the interlocutor’s mouth to access redundant, audiovisual speech cues. This shift is self-generated and, thus, is evidence of the non-obvious effects of experience. We have also found that once infants start to master their native speech forms and begin to acquire native-language expertise, they begin to shift their attention to the interlocutor’s eyes to access social cues. They only make this shift, however, in response to their native language reflecting the specific effects of native-language experience. In this talk, I will present the latest findings from several new studies in which we have explored bilingual infants’ shifting patterns of audiovisual attention, the separate contribution of the audible and visible attributes of audiovisual speech information to the developmental shift in selective attention, and the importance of the temporal synchrony of the audible & visible attributes of audiovisual speech to the observed changing developmental pattern of selective attention. Together, these findings provide new insights into the mechanisms underlying the developmental acquisition of audiovisual speech & language skills in human infancy.
Nutrient dynamics in water and sediment of Mediterranean ponds across a wide hydroperiod gradient

In Mediterranean ponds, summer drought enhances seasonality whose intensity varies along topographic and climatic gradients. The alternation of wet and dry periods in rain dependent ponds affects their biogeochemistry and differentiates them from ponds fed by more stable water sources, such as groundwater springs. Superimposed onto this, land use is also a very strong factor of variability. In this study we compared nutrients and organic matter concentrations, in water and in sediment, among different types of Mediterranean ponds based on the source of water, hydroperiod and land use. Forty-three ponds were sampled in Eastern Spain corresponding to five pond types: (1) permanent spring ponds in lowlands, (2) permanent spring ponds in mountains, (3) semi-permanent rain ponds, (4) temporary rain ponds with long hydroperiod and (5) temporary rain ponds with short hydroperiod. The results of this study indicate relevant differences among these pond types. The temporary rain ponds with short hydroperiod are characterized by high turbidity due to suspension of sediment particles rich in phosphorous adsorbed onto them (argillotrophic aquatic systems). They are used for watering domestic sheep that enhance sediment suspension by trampling. Total phosphorous (TP) concentrations in the water are high (like those of hypertrophic lakes), but planktonic chlorophyll a is very low and not correlated with TP, because of the low P-bioavailavility in the water. At the other extreme, we have permanent ponds in lowlands fed by groundwater springs. They are heavily loaded with nitrates due to the surrounding intensive agriculture. In these and other permanent/semipermanent ponds chlorophyll is highly correlated with TP. Sediment characteristics provide a good indication of the hydroperiod, since desiccation has important effects on biogeochemical transformations. A threshold of 5% organic matter (OM) in the sediment separates temporary ponds with a short hydroperiod from those with a long hydroperiod, and a threshold of 8% separates the later from the semi-permanent and permanent ponds. Besides OM reduction, important loss of N occurs during desiccation through mineralization, ammonia volatization and the sequential nitrification/denitrification pathway. On the other hand, the increase of organic P mineralization in dry sediments does not represent a loss of P from the system, since o-P remains adsorbed or bound onto the soil. This leads to a low TN/TP ratio in sediments in temporary ponds with short hydroperiod. These characteristics have to be taken into account when establishing pond typologies and ecological thresholds to assess water quality in these unique aquatic habitats.
SOUTIEN AUX PME DU SECTEUR DU TOURISME EXERÇANT DES ACTIVITÉS D’AGENCES DE VOYAGES ET DE TOURISME TOUCHÉS PAR L’URGENCE ÉPIDÉMIOLOGIQUE LIÉE À LA COVID-19

SOUTIEN AUX PME DU SECTEUR DU TOURISME EXERÇANT DES ACTIVITÉS D’AGENCES DE VOYAGES ET DE TOURISME TOUCHÉS PAR L’URGENCE ÉPIDÉMIOLOGIQUE LIÉE À LA COVID-19
U.S. Air Force Telehealth Initiative to Assist Primary Care Providers in the Management of Diabetes

M ore than 50,000 active-duty U.S. Air Force (USAF) service members, retirees, and family members with diabetes receive care at more than 50 military treatment facilities (MTFs) throughout the continental United States.1 Although many of these patients are referred to civilian network diabetes specialists because of a scarcity of military endocrinologists, most are managed by USAF primary care providers (PCPs). In an effort to assist PCPs in managing complex diabetes cases, a team from the USAF Diabetes Center of Excellence (DCOE) in San Antonio, Tex., adopted the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model of care.

The ECHO model of health care delivery was developed and implemented originally by Dr. Sanjeev Aurora and his team at the University of New Mexico2 to treat underserved patient populations with hepatitis C. The model uses technology, specifically video teleconferencing, to provide support to PCPs in remote areas who may lack the experience, knowledge, or confidence needed to manage this complex condition. Results demonstrated that patients treated remotely through ECHO experienced similar clinical improvement with fewer adverse events than those treated at the university specialty clinic. The University of New Mexico has adapted the ECHO model for ~ 20 other chronic illnesses, including diabetes.

After training with the New Mexico team, DCOE endocrinologists and support personnel adapted the ECHO model to address the unique needs of military PCPs and their patients with diabetes. The USAF ECHO initiative was designed such that sessions, open to all military …
Musicbricks: musical building blocks for digital makers and content creators

Immersive and engaging participatory and collaborative modes of production are characteristic of the emerging creative economies of music media and require novel ICT solutions. The most innovative ICT solutions in this sector come from the top EU research centres. The MusicBricks project exploits the creative and commercial possibilities of music technologies by piloting innovative musical tools with the new generation of SME digital makers and content creators, and leverages the state-of-the-art European research, by providing a compendium of physical, virtual and programming interfaces, thus allowing creative developers easy access to the core building blocks of music. MusicBricks thus provides a pathway for research to reach a wider community of Creative SME innovators, thereby contributing to cultural and economic output right across the creative sector.
Our aim is to transfer state-of-the-art ICT to Creative SMEs in order to develop novel business models. We will wrap and deliver the data and tools developed through research via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) and Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs). 
We will: 1) catalyse innovation from research centres via seamless interaction; 2) incentivise the seeding of multiple new product, service and performance ideas by leveraging the growing ecosystem of creative developers and artists from the music technology community; 3) incubate and grow these ideas into demonstrators at the level of readiness where they can be prototyped; and 4) channel the prototypes to global markets by facilitating industry partnerships, investment or arts funding. This 4-step process closes the current gaps in the music technology value chain and creates a seamless transfer of knowledge and novel ICT technology to EU Creative SMEs in order to boost their business potential, with a built-in feedback loop to guide future research, as well as generating new knowledge and statistics to inform future policy.