SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Bam 2003 earthquake disaster: On the earthquake risk perception, resilience and earthquake culture – Cultural beliefs and cultural landscape of Qanats, gardens of Khorma trees and Argh-e Bam

Abstract This paper investigates how the cultural landscape and cultural beliefs impacted communities’ earthquake risk perception and resilience in Bam, Iran, prior to the large earthquake disaster in 2003. Three cultural elements of the Bam’s cultural landscape particularly emerged through the survivors’ narratives: Qanats, gardens of Khorma trees and Arg-e Bam. The cultural landscape of Bam and the associated cultural beliefs had a negative impact on local communities’ earthquake risk perception and earthquake disaster preparedness. This was added to a low estimated seismic risk, no earthquake disaster mitigation measures and no disaster management before the Bam 2003 earthquake. But, Bam’s cultural landscape and cultural beliefs had also their positive contributions to the local communities’ resilience – before and after the 2003 earthquake – by supporting the existence of a culture of coping and adaptation to disasters or a “culture of resilience” to disasters. Moreover, the potential value of the cultural landscape and cultural beliefs towards building an “earthquake culture” needs to be valued and integrated within the efforts for the disaster risk reduction. These findings together with few practical recommendations are added to the earthquake disasters risk reduction’s lessons, community-based approach earthquake disaster risk reduction and to the sustainable efforts to enhance the earthquake disaster resilience in Iran.
More than touch

This paper contributes results from an empirical study of on-skin input, an emerging technique for controlling mobile devices. Skin is fundamentally different from off-body touch surfaces, opening up a new and largely unexplored interaction space. We investigate characteristics of the various skin-specific input modalities, analyze what kinds of gestures are performed on skin, and study what are preferred input locations. Our main findings show that (1) users intuitively leverage the properties of skin for a wide range of more expressive commands than on conventional touch surfaces; (2) established multi-touch gestures can be transferred to on-skin input; (3) physically uncomfortable modalities are deliberately used for irreversible commands and expressing negative emotions; and (4) the forearm and the hand are the most preferred locations on the upper limb for on-skin input. We detail on users' mental models and contribute a first consolidated set of on-skin gestures. Our findings provide guidance for developers of future sensors as well as for designers of future applications of on-skin input.
Tracking and decoding individual memories across the brain from creation to long-term storing

How can we vividly remember so many episodes of our life that, by definition, only happened once? During wakefulness, the hippocampus – a brain structure critical for episodic memory – encodes ‘memory traces’ of our experience. During sleep, it “replays” the very same sequences of neurons that were originally activated during the awake episode. Such reactivations are essential for memory consolidation. Over the years, a growing body of studies have unveiled “on-site” reactivations within the hippocampus, sometimes with a neocortical or subcortical “partner” structure, but the overall activity in the brain during these events remains largely unknown. It is unclear whether brain regions replay memory traces all at once or separately. This is a major knowledge gap because numerous cortical and subcortical structures strongly influence memory. In this project, we propose a unique combination of recording and analysis techniques to reveal the whole-brain correlates of hippocampal replay. To achieve this, we will use functional ultrasound, a newly emerging technology which monitors subtle changes in cerebral blood flow over the whole brain at a resolution up to tens of milliseconds, in combination with high-density electrophysiology, the actual gold-standard to record neuronal activity. With the help of a dedicated behavioral task, we will first establish ‘brain maps’ associated with hippocampal replay and then learn how to decode a specific memory trace from these maps. In a second time, we will investigate how emotional valence affects these maps, and in particular how replay patterns are modified over the course of learning. This project has the potential to track across the brain an individual memory trace from its creation to storage, all along consolidation processes. This project will considerably enhance our understanding of memory networks and potentially provide new regions of interest for the study of neurodegenerative disorders.
Toolpath Planning and Simulation for Cutting Test of Non-Orthogonal Five-Axis Machine Tool

Owing to NAS 979 describes a cutting test for five-axis machine center with a universal spindle, several conditions for C-type machine tool have not been defined yet. This paper proposes a cutting test for a non-orthogonal swivel head and a rotary table type five-axis machine tool (C type) to evaluate its performance. The workpiece consists of 10 machining features. These features include the multi-axis simultaneous machining patterns and the positioning machining patterns. The flat end mill cutters are applied in each machining feature. Cutter location data for the test piece was generated using a commercial CAD/CAM system (UG) and converted to five-axis NC code using a postprocessor created in UG Post Builder. This UG postprocessor is verified through the developed postprocessor utilizing the modified D-H notation. It is also verified using VERICUT ® solid cutting simulation software demonstrated the veracity of the generated five-axis NC code. The machining test is applicable for a variety of five-axis machine tool configurations.
Checking Integral Real-Time Automata for Extended Linear Duration Invariants

Linear duration invariants are important safety properties of real-time systems. They are represented as linear inequalities of integrated durations of system states and form a decidable subclass of Duration Calculus formulas. The problem of whether a real-time automaton satisfies a linear duration invariant can be transformed into a finite number of linear programming problems. In this paper, extended linear duration invariants, which are linear inequalities of integrals of physical quantities that characterize real-time systems, are introduced. The semantics of extended linear duration invariants is defined by introducing integral real-time automata whose states are labeled with a finite number of integrable functions. The problem of checking an integral real-time automaton for an extended linear duration invariant is transformed into a finite number of nonlinear programming problems which can be solved easily. A case study of a reaction tank is discussed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique introduced in the paper.
Formas cefálicas, etnicidad y movilidad poblacional en la costa oriental de Quintana Roo

Artificially modifying the skull was widespread among the pre-Hispanic Maya, who used different head styles during their long cultural past. We examine the distribution and evolution of skull shapes along Quintana Roo’s east coast, a cultural region  defined by its own pictorial style, sculpture, and architecture, which peaked during the Postclassic. Here, we examine 222 documented skulls from eight pre-Hispanic coastal and island sites. With the idea that specific, diagnostic head shapes should identify differentiated cultural associations and perhaps even the ethnicity of their human carriers, we explore the population contexts of the documented head styles and their changes during three occupation periods. Our results are discussed in terms of replacement of shapes with cultural, possibly ethnic implications. The tendencies confirm current interpretations on the increase in commercial activities and with them, the political, ideological and population reorganization of Yucatan after the ninth and tenth centuries.
The first pellet stove with ultra-precise air supply  that reduces to near-zero the harmful emissions produced during single room heating

The decarbonisation of the residential heating sector is one of the main drivers to reduce the EU fossil-fuel dependence and to boost renewable energy sources while improving the urban air quality. 
In contrast to electric and fossil fuel fired heaters, pellet stoves offer renewable heating for single rooms or low energy houses. However, while pellet stoves typically achieve low pollutant emissions during pre-commercial testing, these emissions often surpass certification limits when users operate them at home. Current solutions involve installation of extra filters that can double the investment costs of the entire heating system.
RIKA, European market leader in wood stoves, aims at a significant extension of its product portfolio by the final development and commercialization of cleanFIRE. It constitutes a milestone in pellet-based space heating because it enables for the first time an almost zero CO, OGC and PM emission free combustion without the application of extra dust filters. cleanFIRE’s controlled transformation of the pellets into combustible gas forms its innovation core (as verified by tests performed using its gasifier and burner prototypes). In this project the new technology shall be further optimised in order to pass type testing at project end. Leveraging on EU climate targets, our innovation and current market consolidation with other pellet and logwood stoves, we will start cleanFIRE’s commercialization in 2022 targeting homeowners looking for 1) the replacement of an oil/gas/coal-fuelled or oversized heating appliance, and 2) those aiming to buy a new space heating appliance. We will initially enter the market across Austria, and through our well-established network of importers and retailers across Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and selected Eastern and Southern European countries. We expect to sell at least 9,000 cleanFIRE units by 2024 reaching a cumulative profit of €9.88M (ROI: 2.84) and hiring 8 new team members.
Local Semantic Trace: A Method to Analyze Very Small and Unstructured Texts for Propositional Knowledge

A local semantic trace is a certain quasi-propositional structure that can still be reconstructed from written content that is incomplete or does not follow a proper grammar. It can also retrace bits of knowledge from text containing only very few words, making the microstructure of these artifacts of knowledge externalization available for automated analysis and comparison—which makes it highly interesting when learners write short texts within or outside of any learning experience. The methodology is designed to track knowledge and understanding in contexts that contain small pieces of speech of this kind, like discussion boards, chats, forums, or any other conceivable discourse, with very small amounts of text. In this paper, the methodology is introduced and cross-validated by two subsequent studies with a total of N = 310 text samples against already existing methods that allow the analysis of medium-length texts with proper grammar. The results show a very promising outlook for three levels of expertise and five completely different domains.
Inter-year variation in pup production of Caspian seals Pusa caspica 2005–2012 determined from aerial surveys

Assessing species abundance and reproductive output is crucial for evaluations of population dynamics, conservation status and the development of management objectives. The Caspian seal Pusa caspica is a key predator in the Caspian Sea ecosystem and is listed as Endan- gered by the IUCN. Here we report on fixed-wing aerial strip transect surveys of the breeding population on the Caspian Sea winter ice field carried out in February, 2005−2012. Potential detection biases were estimated by applying a Petersen mark-recapture estimator to the counts from double photographic observations. We also tested for effects of weather conditions on count results, and for correlations between pup production and ice conditions and net primary produc- tivity (npp). Fluctuations in pup production estimates were observed among years, ranging from 8200 pups (95% CI: 7130−9342) in 2010 to 34 000 (95% CI: 31 275−36 814) in 2005. Total adults on the ice ranged from 14 500 in 2010 to 66 300 in 2012. We did not detect significant associations between pup production and either ice summary data (ice season length and ice area) or npp. The observed inter-year variation may be partly due to underlying biological drivers influencing the fecundity of the population, although measurement errors arising from observation bias, plus vari- ation in survey timing and weather conditions may also have contributed. Identifying the potential drivers of Caspian seal population dynamics will require extending both the survey time series and the quality of supporting data. However, inter-year fluctuations should still cause concern that the population may be vulnerable to environmental variability and ecosystem dynamics.
PLANT-DERIVED RESISTANCE GENE

Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides which are capable of conferring resistance against, and being triggered by plant pathogens such as nematodes (e.g. Heterodera schachtii Schmidt and related isolates). In particular, nucleic acid molecules relating to the beet cyst nematode (BCN) Resistance Gene Hs1-2 are provided and embodiments thereof including specific primers, vectors, host cells, polypeptides, antibodies, aptamers, transgenic plants, methods of producing and employing these, and methods of influencing the resistance trait in a plant. Furthermore, transgenic plants are provided resistant to nematodes, in particular Heterodera schachtii because of the expression of an Hs1-2 transgene. Furthermore, screening methods for identifying and obtaining plant protective compounds are described.
Data in, fact out

Towards computational journalism, we present FactWatcher, a system that helps journalists identify data-backed, attention-seizing facts which serve as leads to news stories. FactWatcher discovers three types of facts, including situational facts, one-of-the-few facts, and prominent streaks, through a unified suite of data model, algorithm framework, and fact ranking measure. Given an append-only database, upon the arrival of a new tuple, FactWatcher monitors if the tuple triggers any new facts. Its algorithms efficiently search for facts without exhaustively testing all possible ones. Furthermore, FactWatcher provides multiple features in striving for an end-to-end system, including fact ranking, fact-to-statement translation and keyword-based fact search.
Synergy of culture and tourism: utilisation of cultural potentials in less favoured rural regions

Less favoured rural areas in SEE rely on traditional economic activities as the main source of income and jobs. At the same time they possess unique cultural values which are not recognised as a development factor and consequently not properly managed. The main objective of the project is therefore to improve the management of cultural values in rural areas in order to contribute to economic and social development of less favoured rural areas. This will be achieved through development, application and promotion of a common methodology for management of cultural values in rural areas based on a participatory approach to stakeholders. The application of this methodology will contribute to creating new non-massive rural cultural tourism destinations and consequently generate new income and jobs in tourism. It will be applied and tested in pilot areas where cross-sectoral networks will be established comprising of local and regional public bodies and tourism providers. The experiences from pilot areas will result in a joint proposal for inclusion of the common methodology in the development of the European Label for Sustainable Cultural Tourism Destinations fostered by the European Cultural Tourism Network, which wants to base the Label on the application of practical destination management process. This will be facilitated by the virtual chamber established for promotion of the common methodology and its transfer to other rural areas in SEE. The chamber will be a consulting body for tourism developers and will function through the internet platform where rural areas will exchange experience and good practices in managing cultural values. In order to improve policies for better management of cultural values the common methodology will be disseminated to policy makers in a form of recommendations for concrete local, regional and national policy documents to ensure economic stability of cultural values preservation, especially through income from tourism sector.
Disorders of consciousness (doc): enhancing the transfer of knowledge and professional skills on evidence-based interventions and validated technology for a better management of patients

The overall goal of DoCMA is to enhance international research on Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) by strengthen the collaboration among project participants to leverage the shared scientific and expert know-how in the field. 
The partnerships will be instrumental in addressing, therefore, the following specific objectives:
Specific Objective 1) Consolidating of a joint international scientific and innovation programme for developing research projects on DoC diagnosis, evaluation and management of patients.
Specific Objective 2) Establishing a standardised methodology, common approach and data sharing resources to enable data access and research collaborations concerning DoC. 
Specific Objective 3) Contributing to transfer of knowledge and quality of life of the individuals, by generating new services, technologies and/or products to respond to the society needs concerning DoC. 
In short, this action will increase the scientific competence of the consortium members at the international level in DoC research and clinical practice, enhancing the transfer of knowledge and professional skills on evidence-based interventions and validated technology for a better management of patients. 
To reach the mentioned goal, the partnership is composed by ten partners from different countries in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Spain), covering a wide range of expertise, and bringing together academic and non-academic entities.
A transnational migrant circuit: Remittances from Ireland to Brazil

Abstract Labour migration is a key cog within an increasingly globalised world. A sustained period of economic growth in Ireland from the mid-1990s until the global downturn in 2008 created a high demand for labour which was previously unknown. At the 1996 census, Ireland had for the first time in its recent history became a country of large-scale immigration and rapidly became a destination of choice for many new labour migrants. This research focuses on remittances among Brazilian transnational labour migrants (both documented and undocumented) from a rural area in Ireland to their area of origin. The data comes from interviews and questionnaires undertaken in both Ireland and Brazil. The article outlines the different types of remittances, from monetary to goods in kind, and identifies the motives behind a migrant's decision to remit. The findings presented relate to the varying purposes for which remittance are used, their impacts once received in the area of origin and whether specific remitting patt...
Smart solutions for HYdrogen potential AWAReness Enhancing

SMART-HY-AWARE aims to promote hydrogen-electric mobility by tackling main infrastructural, technological (range anxiety related) and market uptake barriers related to hydrogen for electro-mobility through the improvement of PI linked to Structural Funds in Europe, addressing the transition to a low carbon economy, as clearly requested by objective 3.1 of the INTERREG EUROPE Programme. Specific sub-objectives of the project, to reach the main goal, are:
• Exploiting the potential of hydrogen technologies for electro-mobility involving the whole supply chain;
• Improving regional and local strategies which focus on real needs for implementation such as giving impulses for new models of fuel cells integration;
• Increasing efficiency of green propulsion in transport;
• Improving renewable energy grids to cut down electrolysis costs and IT management applications to enable advanced planning of short-tomid-term power productions and foster use of hydrogen power within distributed networks (Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Serhan Dermici, Chiu-Yue Lin, 2013);
• Increasing the deployment and the accessibility to refuelling infrastructure for both public and private sector in urban and rural areas;
• Supporting the deployment of alternative fuel vehicles in public transport by setting up regional financial support schemes;
• Promoting and assessing new measures favouring public-private partnership (PPP) in e-mobility sector, by designing suitable PPP business schemes to trigger hydrogen mobility;
• Enhancing the capability of public Authorities in developing effective policies for reducing the carbon footprint of transport activities.
Markets as Meta-Intepretive Systems

Organization scholars and sociologists have developed a rich array of insights about how markets function, and shown that organizational actors enact the market environment in which they operate. Not enough attention, however, has been devoted to the interpretative dimension of markets and to role of organizational interpretative processes in market functioning. In this paper, we examine the functioning of the global reinsurance market – the insurance market for insurance companies – drawing on the interpretative literature in management to offer a renewed conceptualization of markets as meta-interpretation systems. This paper thus contributes to the development of a more comprehensive approach to the functioning of market that extends prior conceptualizations of markets as socially constructed, or enacted. In doing so, this paper broadens the reach of sensemaking and interpretation studies beyond the scope of organizational boundaries. The paper also contributes to the sensemaking literature by documenting ordinary sensemaking and by linking interpretation activities to organizational routines. Finally, the paper complements existing sociological studies on market functioning by revealing the organizational and interpretative basis of markets.
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