SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Revosdr - taking drones beyond and bringing them safely back

The use of professional drones for the inspection of infrastructure and surveying has been increasing dramatically over the last years. However, there are technological limitations in the wireless communication systems that connect the drone and its operator. The inspection drone can't fly further than a few hundred meters from the operator, resulting in economically unviable services. If an inspection drone attempts to cover longer distances (kms), the limitations of current communication systems endanger the infrastructure, people on the ground, and the drone itself. From the market perspective, these limitations bound innovation and growth of drone-based businesses.
The majority of the drone manufacturers adopted communication systems based on readily available Wi-Fi solutions, which is not a reliable technology for real-time remote operation of vehicles. Wi-Fi is highly susceptible to interference and was designed for short-range communication with intermittent transmission. A drone requires a continuous long-range data link. Alternative communication solutions, such as cellular and satellite, depend on the coverage of the services providers and lack flexibility.
TWEVO is a high-tech start-up that has developed a wireless modem for drone communications called REVOsdr, which provides reliable and secure long-range real-time connectivity. REVOsdr allows an inspection drone to safely cover several kilometres, reducing inspection OPEX by as much as 50%. REVOsdr is a wireless communication technology that enables and scales the commercial value of drone-based services. With our innovation, we want to disrupt this 140M€-worth drone data link market and its Wi-Fi trend.
Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation

Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools after regression-adjusting for students’ demographic characteristics and previous scores. This article tests for VAM bias using a procedure that asks whether VAM estimates accurately predict the achievement consequences of random assignment to specific schools. Test results from admissions lotteries in Boston suggest conventional VAM estimates are biased, a finding that motivates the development of a hierarchical model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the substantive importance of bias in conventional VAM estimates and to construct hybrid value-added estimates that optimally combine ordinary least squares and lottery-based estimates of VAM parameters. The hybrid estimation strategy provides a general recipe for combining nonexperimental and quasi-experimental estimates. While still biased, hybrid school value-added estimates have lower mean squared error than conventional VAM estimates. Simulations calibrated to the Boston data show that, bias notwithstanding, policy decisions based on conventional VAMs that control for lagged achievement are likely to generate substantial achievement gains. Hybrid estimates that incorporate lotteries yield further gains.
Licensing Conditions for Indefinite Pronouns in Modern Hebrew

The dissertation investigates syntactic and semantic aspects of the indefinite pronoun system in Modern Hebrew and consists of an experimental part and a theoretical part. The experimental part presents the grammaticality judgment task conducted to test three theoretical questions: (1) the relation between negation and the licensing of af ‘any’ and kol ‘any’; (2) the contrast between eyze ‘some’ and eyzesehu ‘some’ in terms of specificity; and (3) the correlation between syntactic position and free choice readings. Three main theoretical findings are contributed by this work. First, it is shown that from a typological viewpoint, Hebrew, a Semitic language, patterns with Romance and Germanic languages, rather than Japanese-type languages, in having indefinite pronouns specialized for particular operators available in the discourse. Second, the thesis proposes a novel unified syntax-semantics for kol which accounts for its interpretational variability. Working with the Kratzer and Shimoyama (2002) framework, where indefinite pronouns generate sets of individual alternatives, the semantics of a kol–modified noun phrase is formalized as a variable and containing a restriction. When this restriction ranges over kinds, kol receives a generic reading; when the restriction is over a contextually specified set of entities, kol has an episodic reading. In these cases, the kol–phrase moves to the argument position of a universal quantifier which binds the individual alternatives generated by the kol–phrase. If kol stays in situ, the individual alternatives are allowed to expand into propositional alternatives, resulting in the free choice reading. Third, I discuss the DP-internal structure of [eyze(N)se-hu (N)] and [(N) kol(N)se-hu], treating se-hu as a CP. I propose that there is a correlation between the postnominal position and the free choice readings of these pronouns, suggesting that domain restrictions, usually derived in the semantics-pragmatics, may also be encoded in the syntax. If this hypothesis is on the right track, it could provide us with a better understanding of how and when in the process of language acquisition domain restrictions found with indefinite pronouns are acquired.
Pathologies of temporality. abnormal experiences of time in mental disorders

The goal of the proposed research project is to analyze temporal disturbances in mental disorders and, as a result, to create a “map” of pathological experiences of time. The map will be phenomenological in nature, i.e. cutting across existing classifications of mental disorders and avoiding untimely biological explanations. The project is highly interdisciplinary – it is situated at the intersection of phenomenology of temporality, philosophy of history and phenomenology of mental illness. It continues the tradition of philosophical-psychiatric reflections on time in mental disorders that started a century ago and that concerned temporal disturbances in conditions such as: addictions, amnesia, anxiety, dementia, depression, mania and schizophrenia. At the same time it enriches the existing empirical, clinical knowledge with non-medical interpretative schemes. The norm against which particular abnormalities will be assessed is going to be a value-based model of the relationship between past, present and future, and not value-free, physicalist notion of temporality. The major contribution that the project is going to make is bridging the gap between studies in philosophical textual analysis concerning temporality, which are theoretically sophisticated yet lack clinical references, and clinical papers, which will not serve its usual practical, medical function but pragmatically oriented philosophy. As a result, the study will constitute a major step toward answering two highly relevant philosophical-medical questions. First, can pathologies of temporality be interpreted as disorders in themselves, and not as epiphenomena built upon primary mental illnesses, and therefore provide ground for uniting otherwise separated categories of mental disorders? Second, how and to what extent can philosophical notions of time be applied not only to understanding of psychopathological phenomena but also to their treatment?
SUstainability PERformance on LNG-based maritime mobility PLUS

Environmental pressure in port areas and in urban areas close to ports is high owing to emissions from ships, port machinery and transport to/from the port areas. LNG is proposed as a low-carbon clean fuel for marine transport in port areas. The boost of LNG for marine and terrestrial propulsion may be a key to enhance the sustainability of port areas, protecting health of population and cultural heritage. However distribution networks and port infrastructures for the bunkering of LNG-powered ships requires technologies and solutions assuring a high level of safety in touristic areas of the Adriatic and Ionian sea, avoiding trade-offs among environment protection and safety of passengers and personnel. The overall objective of the SUPER-LNG PLUS project is to increase the level of safety, environmental quality and sustainability of LNG maritime transportation in the Adriatic and Ionian seas, while the goals are to "Promote the SUPER-LNG project outcomes and results to national/regional/ level" and also to "promote the use of project outcomes to potential benificiaries." These goals will be achieved by the following actions: 1) Organisation of three meetings in the countries of the benificiaries, Greece, Italy and Slovenia, either in person or online open to the public (granted action 1 out of the pre-defined menu) ; 2) Organisation of a workshop within the international conference Loss Prevention 2022, either in person or online; 3) Organisation of a training activity in Greece for Safety of LNG at ports, either in person or on line (granted action 2 out of the pre-defined menu) and 4) Enhancement of the first call delivered moodle platform&#39;s data and operability on LNG safety and security at ports (granted action 6 out of the pre-defined menu). The Enhancement will be performed on the Consequence analysis of LNG accidental released scenarios at port areas, by CFD modeling and estimation of safety zones for the population and emergency responders.
The main benificiaries will be regional, national and port authorities. The project will contribute to the sustainable transport and mobility solutions by supporting safe use of LNG, as a fuel, in the ADRION area.
Understanding the mechanisms of pain modulation through expectations (conscious and unconscious) in placebo analgesia induced in the context of fear conditioning - meg and eeg study

Chronic pain patients cannot be efficiently treated with pharmacological methods and hence investigating alternatives such as psychological-based treatments is essential. One of the well-recognised method of analgesia is placebo which is based on learning processes – classical conditioning (CC). Through CC, expectations about pain relief are formed and those are recognised to mediate the placebo effect. Moreover, the effects of CC play a prominent role in the development of chronic pain-related fear and disability, so investigating the basis of fear conditioning may help developing better pain management strategies.
Expectations about pain relief are shown to reduce the activation of pain-related brain regions and cues associated with pain decrease are processed in higher-order areas of the brain. However, the latest studies are inconclusive in determining to what extent expectations are elicited consciously or unconsciously and it is suggested that it depends the way the effect is generated - simple conditioning or conditioning with verbally induced expectations. In order to bring new light on this subject, the neural basis of the process and how the brain activity changes in order to recognise relevant and irrelevant information during conditioning still needs further investigation.
In order to understand the relation between CC and expectancy in placebo analgesia, this project will implement both types of CC in the context of basic fear conditioning procedure. The brain activity will be measured using MEG and EEG technique and investigated using multiple methods of signal analysis which is a novelty in placebo research. The aim of the project is investigating how sensory cortices are modified to better detect relevant information using MEG and studying anticipatory brain activity using EEG. It may provide an answer to what extent conscious and unconscious processes are involved in pain modulation and what regions of are involved in this process.
Electric circuit breaker with electromagnetic actuator and actuating mechanism

The circuit breaker includes a first air gap (20) in a magnetic circuit (17) into which extends the arm of a moving contact in the rest position. The piece (22) closes a second air gap (23) opposite the first and a striker acts on the moving contact after the attraction of the piece when a threshold current is exceeded. The piece (22) comprises a central part with two side parts arranged symmetrically on either side. The central part is similar to and curved in parallel to the two pole pieces and comprises two slightly folded segments. The side parts are approximately parallel to the sides of the poles.
Nutrient partition and nutritional efficiency of mango cv. Palmer as a function of plant age in São Francisco Valley, Brazil

Knowing the accumulation of nutrients in mango plants is essential for calibrating fertilization programs aiming to increase yield in nutritionally unbalanced orchards. The work aimed to evaluate mango nutritional efficiency through nutrient accumulation and partitioning in plants of Palmer cultivar grown in sand soils at São Francisco Valley, Northwest Brazil. Commercial orchards located in Bahia and Pernambuco States, Brazil, under semi-arid climate (BShw; 400-800 mm annual rainfall) had the vegetable biomass and nutrient contents in the mango compartments determined in 1, 2, 4, 7, and 12 years old plants, by evaluating four plants of each age from 20 sample units. The separated samples of the harvested trees originated the compartments roots, stems, thick twigs, thin twigs, leaves and fruits. Nutrient contents and plant dry matter per compartment were determined and plant nutrient accumulation evaluated. Biomass and fruits coefficient of biological utilization were calculated. There was increment in the accumulated content of macronutrients in the mango plants over the years, with superiority for N and K, for which there was a sharp increase as compared to the other macronutrients. Manganese and Fe were the most accumulated micronutrients in the plants over the years. The canopy of the mango Palmer plants is the compartment that accumulates more macro and micronutrients, and the partition within the canopy occurs in the sequence: leaf&gt; thin twig&gt; thick twig. Phosphorus and Mg, and Cu and B are the nutrients more efficient to generate plant biomass and fruit production in the mango Palmer orchards.
CONTAINERISED MODULAR PROCESSING SYSTEM

A system of exploiting a subsea hydrocarbon reserve, comprising a wet-trees process or a dry-trees process extracting hydrocarbon reserve from production wells (40) on the seabed, establishing a production riser (30) for transferring hydrocarbon reserve from the production wells (40) to a host platform and/or a floating production storage offloading unit characterized in that: a) the wet-tree process comprises of host platform (210) and/or floating production storage offloading unit (10) wherein said host platform (210) and/or floating production storage offloading unit (10) contain at least two modular processing units (20) , topside of which are connected in series located on the host platform (210) and/or the floating production storage offloading (FPSO) unit (10) ; b) the dry-tree process comprises of host platform (310) extracting hydrocarbon reserve from seabed production wells (40) via production riser (30) and said host platform (310) contains a plurality of dry-tree unit (320) extracts fluids from production wells (40) to process trains (60) located on the host platform (310) .
Jean-Marie Carré et les origines historiques et politiques de l’imagologie comparatiste

L’objectif de cet article est de présenter les origines de l’imagologie comparatiste, et notamment les travaux de Jean-Marie Carré, comme une proposition méthodologique profondément marquée par la Première et la Deuxième Guerres Mondiales. Le commentaire des deux œuvres majeures de Carré : Goethe en Angleterre (1920) et Les Écrivains français et le mirage allemand 1800-1940 . (1947) et la relecture de nombreux articles oubliés démontrent comment pendant ces années si difficiles la tentative de fournir au comparatisme français une méthodologie à partir de laquelle appréhender l’image de l’Autre est devenue un lieu où s’expriment les tensions entre la France et l’Allemagne, jusqu’à remettre en question une partie des valeurs qu’on associe traditionnellement au comparatisme. C’est pourquoi, dans le contexte actuel de revitalisation du discours imagologique, désormais conscient de sa dimension politique, reprendre les travaux oubliés de Carré permettra d’aborder cette partie peu étudiée de l’histoire du comparatisme.
Next steps toward an economics for a creative world: a comment

Abstract In this comment I discuss the excellent contribution of Koppl et al . (2014) to our understanding of the role of institutions in the economic system. Much that is offered by them reinforces and extends previous analysis by institutional and evolutionary economists. However, I argue that there are areas of evolutionary economics and complex economic system analysis that need to be integrated into their evolutionary economic perspective to make it more complete. Also, I argue that they are too kind to mainstream economists who purport to deal with institutions and complexity and that they should consider where the boundaries of science should lie in economics.
Industria 4.0 en vidrio doblado a.s.

Gracias a las tecnologías recién adquiridas, el objetivo del proyecto es realizar una fase importante del proceso de transformación digital, que también se reflejará en un uso más sistemático del sistema de información existente.
RALLY DEL PORTOGALLO 2018

Il Rally del Portogallo 2018 si svolge in 12 Comuni dal 17 al 20 maggio, garantendo il valore aggiunto di un evento di grande notorietà internazionale, dando grande visibilità al territorio, generando più di un milione di aspiranti, oltre 900 ore di visione televisiva con un pubblico complessivo di 69 milioni. Un evento in cui la metà degli spettatori proviene dal mercato internazionale soggiornando in media 3 o più notti nella regione.
Short-Term Versus Long-Term Effects of the Louisville Enterprise Zone Incentives: A Response to Sumei Zhang

Zhang wrote that the Louisville enterprise zone (EZ) was more successful than what previous research showed and that variations in research design have led to conflicting or mixed reviews of many local economic development policies that are based on the EZ concept. She mentions a study and an article on the Louisville, Kentucky EZ and implies the time horizon used to evaluate it was too short. This Forum/Letter to the Editor points out that the Louisville EZ went through multiple transformations and expansions over its history from 1983 to 2003, and as noted in the first of two studies, the original zone showed virtually no progress from 1983 to 1990. Several other unpublished papers pointed out the same results when the original EZ and other parts of the expanded EZ were analyzed up to the last years of the 20th century. Finally, this Forum/Letter to the Editor argues that and provides reasons for the methodology employed by Lambert and Coomes as a superior way of analyzing the Louisville EZ when compared with the methods employed by Zhang. The main reason why Zhang showed success in the EZ is because she mostly evaluates it in its final form in the late 1990s after it had annexed many sections of Jefferson County, which were not as nearly economically disadvantaged as the original Louisville EZ established in 1983.
Projecting migration from africa and the middle east into eu countries, driven by climate-change-related crop failure, until 2050

The increase in migration into EU member countries in 2015, and the socio-political challenges associated with it, have led the EU to set out a strategy to tackle root causes of irregular migration in the countries of origin. Crop failure caused by climate change, in particular, is forecast to be a major driver of international migration in the coming decades. In this project, we will integrate state-of-the-art climate, crop, economic and migration models in order to predict potential migration flows, driven by climate-change-related crop failure, from African and Middle Eastern countries into EU member states until the year 2050. We go on identify optimal adaptation strategies in countries at risk, which can stabilise agricultural production and help minimise future migration pressures. By using multi-model projections, and performing in-depth model uncertainty and sensitivity analyses, we will generate robust projections driven by the best data available, and ensure a transparent assessment of uncertainties. Our results will inform evidence-based action by EU policy makers aimed at minimising future large-scale forced migration driven by climate change.
This highly interdisciplinary project will give the Experienced Researcher the opportunity to complement his background in agro-environmental modelling, by developing expertise in the socio-economic dimensions of global food production under climate change. Home to world-leading experts of all disciplines relevant to the project, and exceptionally well connected with national and international governmental and non-governmental bodies, both the Host Institution (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) and the Secondment Host Institution (International Organization for Migration) will provide a unique environment for ensuring the highest-quality research and training during the fellowship, as well as the effective communication of results to EU policy makers and the wider public.
Design and optimization of continuous time linear phase FIR filters

Digital signal processing in continuous-time features some interesting properties with respect to very low power consumption and improved signal quality compared to classical discrete time signal processing systems. Since the continuous time delay elements required for such systems can be adjusted with a very high resolution they offer an additional degree of freedom for the system design. In this contribution it will be shown how linear phase FIR filters can be designed and implemented in continuous time. Furthermore it will be shown how the additional degree of freedom can be taken into account during the design process of digital CT-filters. Thus compared to a classical sampled data filter of the same order, a considerably improved transfer characteristic can be obtained.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Practice Bulletins: Original versus Revised

We compared the types (A, B, or C) of recommendations and levels (I, II, III, or others) of references in the original versus revised practice bulletins (PBs). American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) compendiums and Web site were used to obtain the PBs. Chi-square test for trend or Wilcoxon matched-pairs tests were used. From December 1998 to December 2008, ACOG published 78 PBs, of which 24% (19) have been revised. Neither the median numbers of recommendations per PB (8 to 10; P = 0.235) nor the type ( P = 0.155) increased significantly. Additionally, the level of references ( P = 0.130) and the type of journals they were published in did not vary significantly ( P = 0.554). In 10 years, approximately one in four PBs has been revised and the number of recommendations per PB has increased, but the types of suggestions and level of references has not improved appreciably.
Water, sanitation and hygiene and indigenous peoples: a review of the literature

The levels of sanitation and water services coverage as well as health attainment are low among indigenous peoples. This exclusion from basic service has not been sufficiently studied. The present review has analyzed 185 articles dealing with indigenous peoples and the water, sanitation and hygiene complex. The literature is dramatically skewed towards water resources, and overwhelmingly focused on conflicts, at the expense of basic sanitation and hygiene. More initiatives towards the acknowledgement of indigenous peoples’ world-views and institutions in all aspects of the water management cycle are needed. To this end, the development of effective intercultural dialogue mechanisms is crucial.