SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
COVID-19: managing a pandemic risk with a Non-physical Damage Business Interruption policy

Pandemic risks, such as Covid-19, are difficult to insure because they are characterized by multiple risks and losses that can affect a variety of enterprises and people at the same time.Insurers are unable to generate accurate pricing due to a lack of time series and granular statistical data.To address the pandemic risk posed by the spread of Covid-19, we present a model of Catastrophe Risk with Non-Damage Business Interruption Policies (NDBI).The model entails a Monte Carlo simulation of various shutdown situations, as well as the frequency and severity of losses suffered by Italian SMEs.The research emphasizes the relevance of NDBI policies for both the firms -which can cover their losses -and insurance companies -that can achieve a profit margin thanks to the reinsurance.- ------------------------I rischi pandemici, come il Covid-19, sono difficilmente assicurabili, in quanto oltre ad essere caratterizzati dalla presenza di molteplici fattori di rischio, possono condurre a rilevanti perdite e coinvolgere contemporaneamente una molteplicità di imprese ed individui.La scarsa disponibilità di serie storiche e dati statistici sugli eventi in questione impedisce di fatto agli assicuratori di formulare stime attendibili e, pertanto, di procedere a una corretta tariffazione.Obiettivo del presente contributo è quello di individuare una soluzione in chiave gestionale del rischio pandemico associato alla diffusione del Covid-19 attraverso una gestione del Catastrophe Risk con polizze Non-damage Business Interruption, utilizzando il metodo Montecarlo seguendo un approccio frequency-severity per calcolarne i valori attuariali significativi (Premio, Utile, VaR, SCR, Probabilità di rovina).
СИСТЕМА ПЛАВУЧЕГО БАССЕЙНА И СПОСОБЫ ОБРАБОТКИ ВОДЫ В ПЛАВУЧЕМ БАССЕЙНЕ

Изобретение относится к плавучим бассейнам и к обработке воды в таких бассейнах. Изобретение также относится к большим плавучим бассейнам, которые могут быть установлены в природном или искусственном водоеме для улучшения характеристик воды, которые являются непригодными для рекреационного использования. Плавучий бассейн может быть снабжен системой подачи химикатов; системой фильтрации, включающей мобильное откачивающее устройство и фильтры; устройством для собирания загрязнений с поверхности и, возможно, системой координации.
VIBRATORY DRILL HEAD MOUNTING AND ROTATION COUPLING SYSTEM

A mobile drill rig (10) has a drill mast (12), a carriage (13) mounted to the drill mast for vertical movement, and a vibratory drill head (16) having a sine generator (19) and a rotation mechanism (20) for imparting vibration and rotation to a drill rod string. An elastomeric torsion coupler (25) couples the rotation mechanism to the sine generator (19) to transmit rotational force to the drill rod string while isolating vibrations of the sine generator (19) from the rotation mechanism (20). Another coupler (34) connects the drill head (16) to the carriage (13) in a manner that allows floating vertical movement of the drill head (16) relative to the carriage (13) while isolating vibrations of the sine generator (19) from the carriage (13). Elastomeric bumpers (51, 52) limit the vertical movement of the drill head (16) relative to the carriage (13). Elastomeric spacers (47, 48) located between the rotation mechanism (20) and the sine generator (19) handle the vertical loading and maintain the proper spacing between the sine generator (19) and the rotation mechanism (20).
Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis in l2 english speech using multi-distribution Deep Neural Networks

This paper investigates the use of multi-distribution Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD (2) the acoustic model (AM) and the phonological rules are trained independently and hence contextual information is lost; and (3) phones missing from the ERNs cannot be recognized even if we have a well-trained AM. Hence we propose an Acoustic Phonological Model (APM) using a multi-distribution DNN, whose input features include acoustic features and corresponding canonical pronunciations. The APM can implicitly learn the phonological rules from the canonical productions and annotated mispronunciations in the training data. Furthermore, the APM can also capture the relationships between the phonological rules and related acoustic features. As we do not restrict any pathways as in the ERNs, all phones can be recognized if we have a perfect APM. Experiments show that our method achieves an accuracy of 83.3% and a correctness of 88.5%. It significantly outperforms the approach of forced-alignment with ERNs whose correctness is 75.9%.
On-body polarization-controlled active antenna to enhance signal power in human dynamic channels

This paper presents a polarization-controlled active antenna applied to BAN on-body communications. A primal objective is to achieve the enhancement of signal power, not only in downlink but also in uplink dynamic channels, between an access point mounted on the wrist and a sensor module attached to various locations on a human body. Firstly, a dynamic channel model to represent the geometrical relationship between two locations considering arm-swinging motion was proposed. Based on the model, a weight function was derived to control an orthogonal active antenna in an adaptive way for increasing the radiation pattern in desired directions. The analytical results show that a high level of the received signal power can be obtained regardless of the armswing angle and antenna placement, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed method for BAN on-body communications.
A MOUNTING BRACKET

A mounting bracket (1) is provided for releasably mounting apparatus (7) to a wall. The apparatus (7) is contained within a case (9) and has left and right hand sides (11, 13). The mounting bracket (1) has a first mounting bracket part (3) for mounting to the wall, and a second mounting bracket part (5) that carries the apparatus (7). The second mounting bracket part (5) has a hooking means (55) that hooks with hooking means (33) on the first mounting bracket part (3). The apparatus is held between left and right hand sides (51, 53) of the second mounting bracket part (5) by spacing means (73). Releasable locking means (39) is provided to hold the second mounting bracket part (5) releasably held to the first mounting bracket part (3).
Quality of Monetary Policy in Brazil: Adherence and COPOM's Directors Turnover Effect

The objective of this paper is to analyze the social cost of monetary policy in Brazil. The monetary adherence and the Copoms director turnover are used as way to test the quality of the monetary policy. We estimated two reaction functions using structural vector autoregressive techniques. The result of the two reaction functions indicates that the turnover of director in the monetary policy committee leads to the increase in the interest rate in order to keep inflation rate around the desired target level. Thus, the turnover produces a high social cost to the economy through monetary policy. Moreover, the monetary adherence measured by the deviation of monetary aggregates from its optimal level seems to be the ultimate exogenous variable that causes changes in output gap and inflation. Thus, the economy would have less social cost if policymakers pay closer attention to the deviations of monetary aggregates to its optimal level.
Religious Factors and the Use of Drugs among Seventh-day Adventists in Ghana.

The Seventh-day Adventists are known to be very conservative in spiritual matters and take a strong stand against the use of illicit drugs.  The Church emphasizes that alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and all forms of narcotics drugs are harmful to the body and strongly encourage its members to abstain from them. For vibrant living, the Seventh-day Adventist church urges everyone to follow a lifestyle that avoids tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, and the misuse of drugs. The Seventh-day Adventist church in Ghana has never been studied to ascertain the church members’ adherence to its teachings on drug. The aim of this study is to assess the issues of drug use and the church member’s adherence to the drug policy of the church. The study employed descriptive research design using structured survey instrument for data gathering.  A sample population of 554 was drawn from the church. The result showed that 86.5% and 97.80% were aware of the church’s teaching on harmful drug and on alcohol and tobacco respectfully.  On the issue of illicit drug use, 80% has never taken any narcotic drug while 20% have used marijuana. The principal reason that prevents church members from taking drug is their commitment to God.  The other reasons were concerns for health and living a responsible life. Approximately 56% occasionally take in some alcohol while 19.9% sometimes smoke cigarette. Keywords: Drug abuse, religiosity, Spirituality, Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Assessing the dendroclimatic potential of Nothofagus betuloides (Magellan’s beech) forests in the southernmost Chilean Patagonia

Tree growth of Nothofagus betuloides forests south of 50°S is affected by local temperature and precipitation together with large-scale high-latitude climate patterns, but also significant influences from the Tropical Pacific were found. The characterization of past climate dynamics in southern South America is difficult due to the shortness of instrumental data. However, abundant forests in the southernmost part of the continent makes it an ideal place to assess the dendroclimatological potential for developing high-resolution climate proxy time series to extend the observations back in time. Whereas the majority of dendroclimatological studies have focused on latitudes north of 50°S, we present six new Magellan’s beech (Nothofagus betuloides (Mirb.) Oerst.) tree-ring width (TRW) chronologies, spanning between 202 and 500 years, developed from southernmost Patagonia (> 50°S), Chile. The climate signal in the trees was analyzed using local station data, regional sea surface temperature (SST) and large-scale atmospheric indices: the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and the southern annual mode (SAM). The correlations between individual site chronologies and observed summer temperatures and precipitation varied, reflecting diverse microsite conditions and local scale geographic patterns. An influence of southern Pacific SST was evident at two of the northern sites. Although the associations with SOI and SAM were weak, the influence of regional sea level pressure on tree growth in the region was evident.
Analyse automatique du grec ancien par réseau de neurones. Évaluation sur le corpus De Thessalonica Capta

Le corpus DTC réunit des textes historiographiques grecs d’époque byzantine. Ces textes ont été analysés semi-automatiquement (lemmatisation et catégorisation morphosyntaxique) avec les outils informatiques et les ressources linguistiques du projet GREgORI (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) spécialisé dans le traitement automatique du grec et des langues de l’Orient chrétien. Une seconde analyse a été menée en collaboration avec l’entreprise Calfa (Paris, France) spécialisée dans le traitement de l’arménien et la mise en oeuvre d’approches basées sur l’intelligence artificielle. Cette seconde analyse est réalisée par un réseau de neurones. Cette étude compare et évalue les résultats produits par les deux méthodes et propose une approche hybride pour le traitement automatique des langues concernées.
Genetic epidemiology and heritability of AIS: A study of 415 Chinese female patients

Recent familial segregation studies supported a multifactorial genetic model for the etiology of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). However, the extent of quantitative genetic effects, such as heritability, have not been fully evaluated. This genetic epidemiology study examined the sibling recurrent risk and heritability of AIS in first-degree relatives of 415 Chinese female patients, which is up to now the largest cohort. They were first diagnosed by community screening program and compared to 203 age-matched normal controls. Out of the total 531 sibs of AIS cases, 94 sibs had scoliosis (sibling recurrence risk = 17.7%). The prevalence of AIS among male and female sibs of an index case were 11.5% (95% CI = 7.5-15.5) and 23.0% (95% CI = 18.1-27.9), respectively. Female sibs of an index case had an increased risk of 8.9-fold (95% CI = 3.2-34.4) for developing AIS. These recurrent risks were significantly higher than the risk in the control group (p < 0.0001). Overall, heritability was estimated to be 87.5 ± 11.1%. The results confirmed the prevailing impression of strong genetic influence on the risk of AIS. Here we provided a large-scale study for the genetic aggregation estimates in an Asian population for the first time. The finding also positioned AIS among other common disease or complex traits with a high heritability.
Social Entrepreneurship as an Enabling environment for Migrants’ Employment and INtegration

The project’s objective is to enhance migrants’ integration in CE Regions by strength their enterprise to become financially secure and independent. Entrepreneurship is a powerful driver of economic growth and job creation: it creates new companies and jobs, opens up new markets, and nurtures new skills and capabilities.The SEE ME IN project aims to support an environment attractive to all forms of migrant entrepreneurship, where also business support services reach all potential entrepreneurs, with the aim to make the CE in its entirety stronger and more cohesive. Within the CE, migrants represent, mainly in the urban context, an important pool of entrepreneurs, but can face, specific legal, cultural and linguistic obstacles. These issues need to be addressed in full to give support equitable to that received by all other entrepreneurial groups. The main objective is to promote immigrants’ entrepreneurship to make them more competitive on the market as well as a tool to create a Social Cohesion environments:Enhance the entrepreneurship of Immigrants;Promote mutual learning and exchange;Encouraging Social Cohesion. The WPTs to reach our objective are: T1:Context Analysis, increasing knowledge on immigrants’ entrepreneurship: mapping of existing enterprises, analysis of training needs and ability to network and integrate.T2:Creation of an environment where immigrants’ entrepreneurs can flourish and grow. T3:Pilot Project to test a “Cloud Hub” to support these enterprises. T4:Supporting the development of a B2B dimension among migrant entrepreneurs and established ones thanks to face to face events and digital learning. The main result of SEE ME IN is to create a Social Cohesion environments where entrepreneurship education prepares people to be responsible and enterprising individuals. Social Cohesion and Entrepreneurship Education helps people develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to achieve the goals and share social and business needs of the city.
Breaking frontiers for the utilisation of robust biopolymer nanocomposite materials through flow-induced and nanofiller-assisted tailoring of biomimetic structure and morphology

This project aims to unlock the potential of natural biopolymers such as chitosan and protein which have been increasingly appreciated for not only their renewability (vs petroleum-derived polymers) but also their unique properties for various applications. However, enormous challenges exist to process biopolymers, to disperse nanoparticles in biopolymer matrices, and to achieve desired properties. This research specifically focuses on creating low-cost green biopolymer-graphene nanocomposites with tailored structure and properties via an innovative highly-efficient continuous engineering process. The core objective is to understand the fundamental physicochemical and rheological interactions between biopolymers and graphene with the smart use of novel additives/plasticisers, for precisely controlling composite structural evolution during melt processing. Initially, this will rely on the design of graphene and additives/plasticisers for the biopolymers, and then melt processing and plasticisation of biopolymer-based materials to realise specially oriented distribution of graphene on the nanoscale. Consequently, the interrelationships between processing conditions (affecting the interactions) and material properties (e.g. mechanical, electroconductivity) will be established. The understanding from this project is critical to engineering various biopolymer materials with tailored structures and properties for high-value application areas (e.g. biomedical, environmental). The advancement of knowledge will have a ground-breaking impact on the plastics industry by providing truly high-performance “green” polymer options in major new technology areas that traditional plastics cannot service. Via research and innovation, this multidisciplinary project will enable substantial transfer of knowledge and skills between both parties and provide the Experienced Researcher with widened competencies for research independence and maturity, relevant to the Horizon 2020 Work Program.
Aging alters visual processing of objects and shapes in inferotemporal cortex in monkeys

Visual perception declines with age. Perceptual deficits may originate not only in the optical system serving vision but also in the neural machinery processing visual information. Since homologies between monkey and human vision permit extrapolation from monkeys to humans, data from young, middle aged and old monkeys were analyzed to show age-related changes in the neuronal activity in the inferotemporal cortex, which is critical for object and shape vision. We found an increased neuronal response latency, and a decrease in the stimulus selectivity in the older animals and suggest that these changes may underlie the perceptual uncertainties found frequently in the elderly.
Electrons in fractal geometries

The development of two-dimensional materials has enabled the discovery of new physical phenomena and led to the development of devices that are of crucial importance to our society. For example, we now base the definition of electrical resistance on the quantum Hall effect, a phenomenon exclusive to two dimensions. Similarly, the transistor that underpins every electronic device in use today relies on the manipulation of a two-dimensional electron gas.
The realization that a material can have very different properties in two-dimensions compared to three-dimensions was a huge conceptual leap. Here, I propose a similar leap: from integer (0,1,2,3) to non-integer, or fractional, dimensions. Specifically, I will study the properties of electrons in geometric fractals with dimension between 2 and 1. Fractals are objects that are self-similar on different length scales with two unique properties (i) a non-integer dimension and (ii) expansion symmetry but no periodicity. Studying fractals will not only allow me to verify the existence of predicted exotic properties but also to address urgent questions related to the interplay of dimensionality and symmetry on the one hand and the existence of exotic states of matter (e.g. long-range entangled states, topological phases) on the other.
Building on a recently published proof-of-concept, I will assemble geometric fractals atom-by-atom in a scanning tunnelling microscope. A unique advantage of this approach is that it provides control over all relevant parameters: type of fractal, its size and symmetry, the coupling strength, whether or not spin-orbit coupling and electron correlation are included, defects. My extensive experience with creating and characterising such systems makes me uniquely suited to develop the nascent field of electronic fractals. My results will provide engineering rules for truly novel electronic materials that are based on fractal geometries (e.g. fabricated by lithographic patterning of semiconductors)
Malignant pleural mesothelioma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up☆

Incidence of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is generally higher in males than females and is attributed to historical differences in exposures with world-standardised incidence rates per 100 000 persons of 0.7 and 0.3 in the United States and 1.7 and 0.4 for Europe (for males and females, respectively). Incidence is highest in countries with greatest previous asbestos use such as the Netherlands, UK and Australia.1 Due to a lag time of ∼40 years between exposure and presentation, alongside relatively recent usage bans, incidence continues to rise in many countries.
AN ELECTRIC WORK VEHICLE HAVING AN ELECTRIC DRIVETRAIN AND STORAGE COMPONENT CONFIGURATION

In one aspect, an electric work vehicle includes a chassis extending in a longitudinal direction between a first end and an opposed second end, and a cab supported between the first and second ends of the chassis. The work vehicle also includes a work implement assembly positioned at the first end or the second end, and a storage compartment defining a storage volume extending in the longitudinal direction between the cab and the first end or the second end. Moreover, the electric work vehicle includes a battery module positioned within the storage compartment, and a drivetrain including an electric traction motor positioned within the storage compartment and configured to be operated via power supplied from the battery module. The electric traction motor is coupled to a transmission of the drivetrain to allow torque to be transferred from the traction motor to corresponding traction devices of the electric work vehicle.
A mood-indexed database of scores, lyrics, musical excerpts, vector-based 3d animations, and dance video recordings

The project aims at the development of an online database of scores, lyrics and musical excerpts, vector-based 3D animations, and dance video recordings, indexed by mood. Such a taxonomy of relations between the musical, linguistic and motion domains will be aimed at interactive music systems and music making. For realising the database, digital scores inclusive of lyrics will be gathered from collections of music in the public domain. Music mood classification using audio and metadata will aim at capturing sophisticated features but using no explicit domain-specific knowledge about a mental state. Datasets will be realised through a cross-modal approach. Validation of the model will be carried out by combining results from an online game-with-a-purpose, for Internet users, and from intermedia case studies for selected dancers. In further case studies, music works will be realised, also by invited artists, for the evaluation of the database in interactive music making. An online call for artists to use the database in music making or sound generation will be aimed at extending the evaluation further. The final database will be made available online for further exploitation. The present research will generate new knowledge for use in next-generation systems of interactive music and music emotion recognition, also contributing to extend the investigation in the broader areas of music making, computational creativity and information retrieval.