SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A face recognition system that simulates perception impairments of autistic children

We use a face recognition algorithm to model differences in perception between autistic and non autistic children. With our model it is possible to reproduce several phenomena of autism by assuming that autistic children lack the ability to abstract from horizontal invariants. In particular, we can explain why autistic children are able to better recognize faces from parts of the face while the overall recognition of faces is worse than in non-autistic children. We would like to consider whether ASD may be the result of a version of a sophisticated perceptual system that makes less explicit use of invariants in the real world environment than the typically-developing brain. Some of these invariants may be hard-coded into the system rather than learned. The key point of our system is not the face recognition but the model which can mimic the autistic brain. In the discussion we extend the model by suggesting a general reduced ability to abstract from many different types of invariants and relate these as explanations to typical behavioral issues. In this way we hope to give a complementary insight into autism and ASD.
Literary and visual cultures in the shaping of female monastic life (iberian peninsula, c. 1350-1550)

This project aims to assess the existence of interrelations between the nuns’ literary and visual cultures in the shaping of female monastic life in the Iberian nunneries (c. 1350-1550), since the rising suggestions on the mutual influences between the use and development of texts and artworks in conventual context demand that these phenomena be analysed as part of the same equation in order to be fully understood. By addressing these communities' visual and literary cultures and their religious praxis from a joined perspective, LITVIS will contribute for the further comprehension of artworks, texts and rituals that shaped monastic life, unveiling information about their development, functionality and reception that could not be obtain when inquiring those phenomena individually as has been happening until now, not only in Iberia, but also at an European level. The surviving of important elements of material culture in the Iberian Peninsula - such as conventual inventories, books and artworks -,  can enable a study that will further analyse what informed the nuns’ choice and use of artworks and texts and if and how both media were interconnected in monastic life. This entails a change of focus from the isolated object (an artwork or text) and its formal characteristics, to its functionality and reception, acknowledging it as part of the religious praxis to which it bears witness. Such a task demands an interdisciplinary study that brings together the fields of Art History, Literature, and Religious History, borrowing notions born within the Cultural Studies, such as Visual Culture and Literary Culture.
String matching with inversions and translocations in linear average time (most of the time)

We present an efficient algorithm for finding all approximate occurrences of a given pattern $p$ of length $m$ in a text $t$ of length $n$ allowing for translocations of equal length adjacent factors and inversions of factors. The algorithm is based on an efficient filtering method and has an $\bigO(nm\max(\alpha, \beta))$-time complexity in the worst case and $\bigO(\max(\alpha, \beta))$-space complexity, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are respectively the maximum length of the factors involved in any translocation and inversion. Moreover we show that under the assumptions of equiprobability and independence of characters our algorithm has a $\bigO(n)$ average time complexity, whenever $\sigma = \Omega(\log m / \log\log^{1-\epsilon} m)$, where $\epsilon > 0$ and $\sigma$ is the dimension of the alphabet. Experiments show that the new proposed algorithm achieves very good results in practical cases.
Le Grand Écrivain et sa première Vie. «L’illusion biographique» (xvie-xviiie

inaugurata nella Grecia antica che sin dagli esordi la collocò a cavallo tra il resoconto di gesta esemplari e l'invenzione di imprese ineguagliabili spesso infarcite di tratti meravigliosi.
Biorefinery Developments for Advanced Biofuels from a Sustainable Array of Biomass Feedstocks: Survey of Recent Biomass Conversion Research from Agricultural Research Service

When the USA passed the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) of 2007 into law, it mandated that, by the year 2022, 36 billion gallons of biofuels be produced annually in the USA to displace petroleum. This targeted quota, which required that at least half of domestic transportation fuel be “advanced biofuels” either produced from lignocellulosic feedstocks or be a sustainable liquid fuel other than corn ethanol or biodiesel from vegetable oils, will not likely be met due to the difficulty in commercializing alternative biofuels. The number one cost to a biorefinery is the biomass feedstock cost. Thus, it is important that research into biorefinery strategies be closely coupled to advances in crop science that account for crop yield and crop quality. To reach the RFS targets, stepwise progress in biorefinery technology is needed, as the industry moves from corn ethanol toward utilizing a wider array of lignocellulose-based biomass feedstocks. In 2010, the US Department of Agriculture created five Regional Biomass Research Centers to optimize production, collection, and conversion of crops to bioenergy, thus building a network that fosters collaboration among researchers to improve the biorefinery industry. An important component of the five Regional Biomass Research Centers is the four USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) regional utilization laboratories located across the country. These USDA ARS labs were originally set up by their commodities, whereby, in broad terms, the Northern Lab, now NCAUR, focused on corn and soy; the Eastern Lab on oils, leather, dairy, and meats; the Southern Lab on cotton, sugars, and fibers; and the Western Lab on other grains, including wheat and specialty crops. Each lab’s traditional expertise in these respective core commodity crops has been maintained as biofuel research came to the fore, but with the addition of new crops and biotechnological expertise, these labs often collaborate with each other, as will be revealed below. This review outlines some of the recent advances from the ARS labs in developing new bioprocessing strategies required to develop bioenergy from new crop sources.
ANTIBIOTIC ACTIVITY AND SUSCEPTIBILITY OF NOVEL PONTIBACTER SPS., ISOLATED FROM LABEO ROHITA

Article history Aim: The present investigation was to explore the unexploited application of novel fish gut bacteria Pontibacter sps as an antibacterial and antifungal drug. Methods and Results: The isolate is a gram negative, non motile, red pigmented, rod shaped bacterium, designated as strain PROLR15 T . The strain PROLR15 T produces a distinct red color pigmentation which makes it different from the other Pontibacters. The 16S rRNA sequence analysis showed 92% similarity with an existing existing Pontibacter korlensis strain. The major cellular fatty acids were Iso-c15:0 and Iso c17:0 3OH. Predominant menaquinone of the strain is MK-7. It produces extracellular polymeric substances under anaerobic condition which portraits its facultative anaerobic nature. Phylogenetic studies and the phenotypic characterizations strongly support the idea that the isolated bacterium belongs to the genus Pontibacter. (HQ005734). Pontibacter sps possess antimicrobial activity. Conclusion: Among the pathogenic species Salmonella typhii, Klebsiella pneumonia and Staphylococcus aureus were most susceptible at minimum concentration. Most of the pathogenic fungi were susceptible to the isolated bacteria Pontibacter sps., with the MIC90 below 5000 µg/mL. Significance: Antimicrobial activity against most serious disease causing pathogens and susceptibility to most of the antibiotics paves way to utilize them for treatment of diseases and as a probiotic supplement.
Javier Espejo Surós y Carlos Mata Induráin, eds., «Preludio a "La dama boba" de Lope de Vega (historia y crítica)»

Reseña de Javier Espejo Surós y Carlos Mata Induráin, eds., Preludio a «La dama boba» de Lope de Vega (historia y crítica), Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra (Colección BIADIG -Biblioteca Áurea Digital, 54-Publicaciones Digitales del GRISO), Pamplona, 2020, 290 pp. ISBN: 9788480816700.
Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians

BIOREGIO Carpathians is aimed at enhancing the integrated management of the Carpathians protected areas and natural assets in a transnational context and thereby increase the attractiveness of the region. The Carpathians, the largest mountain range of Europe, harbour a unique natural heritage and act as a major ecological link within Europe. Experiences e.g. from the Alpine Space demonstrate that the exceptional natural assets of mountain areas offer considerable potential for a sustainable regional development by maintaining the biological and landscape diversity as well as their ecological connectivity. The project promotes the harmonized management of natural assets and protected areas including NATURA 2000 sites in the Carpathians by involving all relevant stakeholders and by building on the existing framework of cooperation of the Carpathian Convention, its Biodiversity Protocol and other related transnational networks and initiatives. BIOREGIO provides the identification of common standards for integrated management plans and therewith the elaboration of common integrated management measures in particular transboundary areas and their implementation in pilot projects. These measures will be mainly identified in the meetings of stakeholders involved in the management of natural assets and protected areas from all the Carpathian countries. Further outputs are the identification of the main natural, legal, social and economic barriers and the elaboration of recommendations for the elimination of these barriers to improve the connectivity and continuity of the Region. In addition to that, the project develops a Joint Biodiversity Information System and a Red List of the most endangered habitats and species in the Carpathians based on the already established databases. The establishment of an intergovernmental platform will further ensure the follow up of the project activities. The project results are transferred to other mountain region in the Programme Area.
Sustainable Development of Nautical Tourism and Enhancement of Small Ports of the Ionian Sea

“Portolanes – Sustainable Development of Nautical Tourism and Enhancement of Small Ports of the Ionian Sea” aims to increase the nautical tourism that is an industry of high added value with strong growth trend in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. In general, nautical tourism is more popular during summertime, but if it is properly combined with other tourism activities it will have a positive impact for local economies and for regional economic growth.

The main objective is the preservation of marine and coastal environment that includes the natural resources which potentially interact with targeted nautical tourism activities and the protection of inland’s natural and cultural assets which are foreseen to be exploited by the cross-border tourism

Regional Union of the Provinces of Puglia-UPI PUGLIA is the Lead Partner of the project. The Italian partner is Confcommercio Puglia, while the three Greek partners are the Ministry of Tourism, Regional Union of Municipalities of Epirus and Network Of European Cities For Sustainable Development.
FromTimeis brain toPhysiologyis brain: a case for reflection in acute stroke treatment decisions: Figure 1

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Perfusion computed tomography to assist decision making for stroke thrombolysis’, by Bivard et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/awv071). 

The ischaemic penumbra, defined as severely hypoperfused, functionally impaired yet salvageable tissue, has been established as the key target for acute stroke therapy for more than three decades (Muir et al. , 2006). However, the penumbra has a limited lifespan and, unless reperfused early, it progresses to become part of the irreversibly damaged tissue referred to as the ‘core’. The core therefore grows over time, incorporating first the most hypoperfused portions of the penumbra, and then progressively less hypoperfused portions, until none remains. How fast this process occurs varies greatly from subject to subject, mainly because of variable pial collaterals and the occurrence of spontaneous reperfusion (Fig. 1). On a mechanistic basis, reperfusion therapy—such as with intravenous thrombolysis using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA)—would be expected to be of no benefit, and potentially harmful, in cases with large core or no penumbra (Marchal et al. , 1993). 



Figure 1 
The three main pathophysiological profiles used by Bivard et al. to categorize acute stroke patients, as originally defined using PET with 15oxygen-labelled compounds to generate quantitative maps of cerebral blood flow (CBF, left column ) and the cerebral oxygen metabolic rate (CMRO2, right ). Validated tissue compartments including penumbra (reduced cerebral blood flow but relatively preserved CMRO2) and core (markedly reduced CMRO2) were used to characterize the three profiles of ‘target mismatch', ‘large core' and ‘no mismatch' (Muir et al. , 2006). Consistent with the strikingly distinct spontaneous outcomes associated with these profiles (Marchal et al. , 1993), Bivard et al. provide evidence from their cohort that the target mismatch group, i.e. patients with significant penumbral tissue and a small core, benefit the most from intravenous …
Rule-based multi-scale simulation for drug effect pathway analysis

Abstract Background Biological systems are robust and complex to maintain stable phenotypes under various conditions. In these systems, drugs reported the limited efficacy and unexpected side-effects. To remedy this situation, many pharmaceutical laboratories have begun to research combination drugs and some of them have shown successful clinical results. Complementary action of multiple compounds could increase efficacy as well as reduce side-effects through pharmacological interactions. However, experimental approach requires vast cost of preclinical experiments and tests as the number of possible combinations of compound dosages increases exponentially. Computer model-based experiments have been emerging as one of the most promising solutions to cope with such complexity. Though there have been many efforts to model specific molecular pathways using qualitative and quantitative formalisms, they suffer from unexpected results caused by distant interactions beyond their localized models. Results In this work, we propose a rule-based multi-scale modelling platform. We have tested this platform with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) model, which involves the malfunction of numerous organs such as pancreas, circulation system, liver, and adipocyte. We have extracted T2D-related 190 rules by manual curation from literature, pathway databases and converting from different types of existing models. We have simulated twenty-two T2D drugs. The results of our simulation show drug effect pathways of T2D drugs and whether combination drugs have efficacy or not and how combination drugs work on the multi-scale model. Conclusions We believe that our simulation would help to understand drug mechanism for the drug development and provide a new way to effectively apply existing drugs for new target. It also would give insight for identifying effective combination drugs.
Standardisation and communication of sustainable energy asset evaluation framework

The main barriers to finance of Sustainable Energy Assets (SEA) projects – namely energy efficiency, demand response, distributed renewable energy generation and electricity storage – are: 1) project valuation difficulties; 2) difficulties in project optimisation; 3) a communication gap between contractors and investors leading to a lack of trust. 
Today, protocols and tools exist for project valuation, but they are used separately, in different ways by different investors or contractors. Therefore, SEA projects are valuated on a one-off basis, without any standardisation. The SEAF project will significantly lower the entry barriers to finance for small to medium projects, through combining existing tools and protocols, namely Joule Assets’ market valuation tool, the risk assessment methodology from insurance company HSB and the Investor Confidence Project’s energy performance protocols. 
These three service tools will be integrated into an all-in-one, easy to use, single source valuation and risk assessment framework, which aims to: 1) Facilitate and support an intensive stakeholder engagement process; 2) Provide independent valuation and optimisation for SEA projects according to up-to-date energy market data; 3) Standardise energy efficiency valuation criteria for easy comparability with other similar projects; 4) Enable initial risk assessment at much lower cost and with less administrative effort; 5) Facilitate the matchmaking between investors and contractors; 6) Lay the foundation for robust exploitation. 
In addition to its demonstration with a large network of investors and contractors, SEAF seeks to enable investments of €10-15m and primary energy savings of 18-45 GWh/a over the course of its duration. Through its unique combination of services, SEAF will specifically target small projects, which would otherwise not get financed and it will have a disproportionately large impact on job creation, as reduced energy costs have a much stronger effect on SMEs.
ASGARD – A Graphical Monitoring Tool for Distributed Agent Infrastructures

Monitoring the runtime behaviour of a distributed agent system for debugging or demonstration purposes provides a challenge to agent system developers. As a lot of the components in such a system are possibly executed on several different physical systems, maintaining an overview over the complete environment is extremely difficult. Methods taken from the development of monolithic software projects such as log files, debug outputs or step-by-step execution of a program do not easily translate to these scenarios due to the distributed nature of the system. In this paper we describe our concept for a graphical monitoring and management tool “ASGARD” (Advanced Structured Graphical Agent Realm Display), which provides an easy-to-use and intuitively understandable method for monitoring and demonstrating Multi Agent System Infrastructures. ASGARD provides a graphical representation of the connected systems using a 3D visualization. The very promising results from empirical evaluation show that an administrator’s overview over such MAS at runtime is vastly improved.
Enhancing  the  growth  potential  of  coastal  tourism  concentration through an innovative, green and inclusive mobilisation of Med area local assets

The project aims at providing all the stakeholders involved in tourism development in delicate coastal areas of MED  with an Observatory and DSS that help: -to identify the assets on which policy maker should take steps to stimulate the growth of tourism -to identify the challenges that global changes pose to the development of these assets -to design innovative policies that render these areas competitive on the global tourism market, yet satisfying the sustainable tourism criteria.

The core of the Observatory (and DSS) is an Database with a strong regional dimension that, rather than gather new  statistical information, efficiently uses already existing data and generates intelligent and highly operational indicators of Competitiveness and Sustainability of tourism in the medium and long term. A model will be developed to extrapolate the tourism development potentials in the future taking into account the global changes, such as climate change and the shift of the economic barycenter to the South and the East, that afflict these potentials. Last but not least, also by implementing a limited number of strategies designed through the DSS in the countries that are involved in the project, a number of practical and easily generable guidelines for competitive and sustainable tourism development strategies for the MED area will be delivered.
MOOR SIMPLIFIED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

THE ACTIVITY OF EXPANDING THE EXISTING PRODUCTION UNIT CONSISTS OF THE ACQUISITION OF PRODUCTION PLANTS, MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, NEW FACTORY FOR ALL AREAS THAT COVERS THE COMPANY (BAR, KITCHEN AND ROOM) AND THE GREEN AREA ADJACENT TO THE STRUCTURE. IN PARTICULAR, NEW EQUIPMENT WILL BE INTRODUCED BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SUCH AS, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE BUT NOT LIMITED TO, REFRIGERATORS, ICE MAKERS, HANDHELDS FOR COMMANDS, CONSTRUCTION OF A GALLEY AREA IN THE GARDEN WITH OUTDOOR SUPPORT KITCHEN CONNECTED TO THE WELLNESS AREA/ENVIRONMENTAL POOL. WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW EQUIPMENT AND NEW PLANTS, THE AIM IS TO INCREASE THE LOYALTY OF CURRENT CUSTOMERS, INCREASE THE CUSTOMER PORTFOLIO IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF SEATS AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT OFFERED, INTRODUCE SERVICES THAT CAN BRING TO THE COMPANY NEW CUSTOMERS, SUCH AS THE CREATION OF THE EVENT OF APERITIFS ON BOARD.
Photochromic solar cells: towards photovoltaic devices with variable and self-adaptable optical transmission

Solar Solar energy is an unlimited renewable source of energy but its contribution to European energy production is still minor. It is therefore urgent to develop innovative photovoltaic (PV) technologies and products, and to implement them massively. Among emerging photovoltaics, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) are competitive in terms of efficiency, cost, and more importantly stability. They can be made semi-transparent which is an appealing feature for building or automobile integrated photovoltaics. But to be efficient, they have to harvest a maximum of photons from the sun, thus the best-performing DSSCs cannot show a good transparency which impedes their use as windows. 
In 2017, I proposed a new concept to combine photochromism and photovoltaic, leading for the first time to efficient semi-transparent solar cells showing variable and self-adjustable optical transmission. These cells can simultaneously adapt their absorption depending on the weather conditions and produce electricity. 
Starting from this result, PISCO will widely explore this exciting concept and provide a breakthrough in photovoltaics by developing a novel class of multifunctional solar cells that could be massively integrated in buildings, automotive, or mobile electronics.
The main objectives of PISCO are:
1) Design and synthesis of novel photochromic dyes with optimized optoelectronic properties and high stability. 
2) Integration of these molecules in devices using methodologies to enable fundamental studies, to fully understand what factors are governing the photochromic behaviour, the generation of electrical power, and the interplay between them. 
3) Inspired by the most relevant and recent concepts in the field, to develop robust and efficient photochromic solar cells and modules. 

PISCO will provide the step change expected in photovoltaics, it will change our conceit of optical properties of solar cells by providing a ground-breaking technology with widen potential applications.