SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Mental health monitoring through interactive conversations

Mental health is an essential component of health; however depression and anxiety are common disorders across the European Union. Many people may be described as “living with” a mental illness, and managing their own symptoms. However, they are often unsure of the thresholds for treatment, how to control their mental health, what are the best coping strategies or which resources are available to them. Conversational systems may facilitate watchful waiting and symptom monitoring, by initiating contact and symptom checking at various times of the day and night. The MENHIR project aims to research and develop conversational technologies to promote mental health and assist people with mental ill health (depression and anxiety) to manage their conditions. The participants will exchange and share their expertise toward this common objective, building a network for exchanging ideas and knowledge between Spain, Germany, Italy and United Kingdom, including academic, non-profit organizations and companies.
Analyzing the Accuracy of Calculations When Scoping Product Configuration Projects

AbstractProduct configurators have increasingly been applied in industrial environments. With their help, companies providing customized products have managed to redesign their specification processes and to better handle the growing product variety. But despite the promising benefits, conducting configuration projects is still challenging. Assuming that configurators would naturally solve the existing flaws, both, researchers and professionals typically neglect the need for a making a precise scope for their implementation. Based on this theoretical and practical concern, the present study provides a detailed framework on how the highest potential and eventually the most benefits from using configuration systems can be identified. In particular, this paper investigates how the less explored domain of varying gross margins and calculations reveal a considerable potential for improvement by means of configuration.KeywordsProduct configurationConfigurator developmentSales configurationPrice calculationGross margin
Linking latin. building a knowledge base of linguistic resources for latin

Although the research area dealing with building, sharing and exploiting linguistic resources and tools for automatic processing of Latin (and, more generally, of ancient languages) has seen a large growth across the last decade, linguistic resources for Latin are still not interoperable. This means that linguistic information is split up in many products that just do not talk to each other.
Such a situation results in poor exploitation of the richness provided by all those digital objects for Latin that were produced across years of work. Since Latin is a dead language (thus missing native speakers), all we can and must do is to exploit to the best the information contained in those few and precious texts that survived from the past. This means:
- to make the best possible organization and use of the available linguistic resources for Latin (enhanced with web-services for Natural Language Processing – NLP –) for a fruitful integration of the information they provide, i.e. to retrieve and combine information from different sources in the most efficient way;
- to make it available linguistic resources whose quality is assessed (curated data sets).
The objective of the LiLa project is to connect and, ultimately, to exploit the wealth of linguistic resources and NLP tools for Latin assembled so far, in order to bridge the gap between raw language data, NLP and knowledge descriptions, thus enabling scholars to exploit to the best the currently available resources and tools.
To address such a challenge, LiLa intends to incorporate the linguistic resources for Latin into the Linked Data framework, making it possible for them to be published and interlinked on the web and to interact with each other. To this aim, the project will build an open-ended knowledge base for Latin by using the Linked Data paradigm to combine data from disparate linguistic resources, provide NLP web-services and include also Latin into the multilingual Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud.
Improvement of Mediterranean territorial cohesion through setup of tourist-cultural itinerary - Umayyad

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At Mediterranean level, tourism has often led many countries and regions to develop the industry in a competitive way rather than in a cooperative manner. For obvious climatic reasons but also due the role played by tour operators, Mediterranean tourism destinations have based their growth essentially on a “sun and sea” vision and developed strategies aimed at maximizing short term profits instead of addressing the needs and expectations of customers and residents. _x000D_
In this sense, there is a real need to adopt and introduce new consumer models translated into environmentally friendly tourism products, respecting natural resources and diversifying the seasonal nature of tourism demand. UMAYYAD contributes to this objective by promoting sustainable tourism based on the synergies derived from the design of a cross-border itinerary between 6 countries sharing common history and cultural background. _x000D_
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To contribute to the improvement of territorial cohesion in order to overcome the seasonal misbalances in tourism sector within the Mediterranean territory through promotion of sustainable tourism based on synergies derived from the design of a cultural itinerary focusing on the Umayyad heritage.
Weighted K-means clustering subarray design method for large planar monopulse antenna array

Subarray design is widely applied in large planar array monopulse system to synthesize optimal sum and difference patterns at a low system cost. Based on the excitation matching principle, subarray design can be formulated as a clustering problem which can be solved by K-means clustering method. When the elements are weighted uniformly, K-means clustering method can provide the optimal beam pattern synthesis performance. However, the performance will deteriorate when the elements are weighted non-uniformly. Therefore, a weighted K-means clustering method is proposed in this paper to improve the beam pattern synthesis performance for non-uniform element weights. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by numerical simulations.
Time Dependent Network Coverage: A Method to Estimate the Minimum Required Reporting Vehicle Fleet Size

Probe vehicles with smart phones or other advanced technologies are attractive options for collecting real-time traffic data. In this paper, a method is proposed to estimate the minimum number of equipped vehicles needed to completely cover the network within a specified updating period considering time dependent link travel times. The method uses a traverse indicator, which is a function of a travel time factor, coverage factor, number of times a link has been traversed, and link travel time. The approach is applied to two network structures (radial and grid) to test the sensitivity of the results to network structure, number of origins, travel time and coverage factors, and the updating period. Assuming travel time and coverage factors equal to 0.1 and 0.9, respectively, in the grid network and both equal to 0.5 in the radial network produce minimum fleet sizes. Increasing numbers of origins and updating periods generally yield lower fleet sizes.
Application of graphics processing unit (GPU) to software in elementary particle/high energy physics field

Abstract We apply graphics processing unit (GPU) to software in elementary particle and high energy physics field. We develop GPU versions of programs for fast calculations of cross sections of Standard Model (SM) processes at the Large Hadron Colliders (LHC) and those for numerical integration of multi-dimensional differential cross sections of these processes via the Monte Carlo method. We summarize our activity on the development of programs which run on GPU and the results on their performances. Compared with the CPU programs, we obtain around 50 times on average better performance on GPU. We expect that application of GPU to more general programs which are used in jobs on GRID will greatly reduce the computing resources necessary for large scale reconstructions and simulations for the LHC analysis.
Quali altre parole vi aspettate che aggiunga?

Quali altre parole vi aspettate che aggiunga? è una raccolta di saggi dedicata alla memoria di Alfredo Cadonna (1948-2020), filologo, traduttore e studioso delle religioni della Cina. Gli undici capitoli di questo volume, tutti a opera di suoi allievi, propongono la traduzione annotata di brani appartenenti a varie epoche e a differenti tradizioni religiose e cosmologiche, e rappresentativi di generi letterari e registri linguistici diversi. I testi qui raccolti includono scritti della Cina arcaica, brani di letteratura a tema religioso composti da funzionari letterati dell’Impero, varie tipologie di opere del Taoismo e del Buddhismo medievali e tardo imperiali ed esempi delle loro espressioni più moderne.
Maritime security: current challenges

The security of the maritime domain has become a topical area of concern, with threats thereto manifesting in multiple ways, ranging from military activities at sea to marine litter discharges and noise pollution. As an issue of common interest of the international community, maritime security has ignited some commendable initiatives both internationally and regionally, aimed at setting up new legal and institutional frameworks of cooperation. However, current regimes have proved to be ill-suited to address the globalized maritime challenges of today. By and large, a sustained common vision on how to better serve the common interest is currently lacking, owing in part to an intricate North-South divide over both rights and obligations regarding ocean governance. It is thus still necessary to merge the priorities of the various stakeholders into a comprehensive maritime security architecture. This policy brief purports to illustrate this state of affairs through a brief analysis of major themes related to maritime security. Rather than addressing issues of entitlement to ocean space and use, the present paper concentrates on the question of how to conceive a responsible use of the maritime domain. For its purposes, the analysis in this paper is of course more illustrative than comprehensive and is intended to highlight current challenges and issues that should be taken into account by policymakers in the regulation of emerging seas uses.
Balancing and scheduling in extended manufacturing environment

In the fiercely competitive era induced by expansion of open business archetypes, the managerial aspects of Extended Manufacturing Environments (EMEs) are experiencing growing concerns. There is no scope of leaving a possible operational improvement unexplored. For enhanced operational efficiency and capacity utilization the balancing and scheduling problems of EMEs are, therefore, rightfully considered and an integer programme is proposed in this paper. The model is designed in a spread sheet and solved through What’sBest optimizer. The model capabilities are assessed through a test problem. The results have demonstrated that the model is capable of defining optimized production schedules for EMEs.
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVELY CONTROLLING A MOUSE POINTER OF A GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE

The invention relates to a device and a method for interactively controlling the gestures of a mouse pointer (11) of a graphic user interface in the image (10) of an image-representing apparatus (6). Said device comprises a video camera (1) for generating an auxiliary image (20), an image-processing device (2, 3) which processes image data of the auxiliary image (20) and is provided with a mirror unit (3) for mirroring the auxiliary image (20) and an analysis unit (2) for detecting an object (12) captured by the video camera (1) and determining a momentary position of the detected object (12) in the auxiliary image (20). The inventive device further comprises a mouse control mechanism (4) that is connected to the analysis unit (2) and represents and moves the mouse pointer (11) within the image (10) of the image-representing apparatus (6) according to the respective determined momentary position, and a mixing and/or cross-fading device (5) which is connected to the mirror unit (3) and is configured so as to superimpose the main image (30) and the mirrored auxiliary image (20a) obtained by the mirror unit (3) in a partially transparent manner in the image (10) of the image-representing apparatus (6). The inventive device and method make interactive gesture control of the mouse pointer possible without the need for prior calibration.
Vectorized UDFs in Column-Stores

Data Scientists rely on vector-based scripting languages such as R, Python and MATLAB to perform ad-hoc data analysis on potentially large data sets. When facing large data sets, they are only efficient when data is processed using vectorized or bulk operations. At the same time, overwhelming volume and variety of data as well as parsing overhead suggests that the use of specialized analytical data management systems would be beneficial. Data might also already be stored in a database. Efficient execution of data analysis programs such as data mining directly inside a database greatly improves analysis efficiency.We investigate how these vector-based languages can be efficiently integrated in the processing model of operator--at--a--time databases. We present MonetDB/Python, a new system that combines the open-source database MonetDB with the vector-based language Python. In our evaluation, we demonstrate efficiency gains of orders of magnitude.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ELIMINATING FILTER AIR LOCKS

Systems and methods of eliminate filter air locks by maintaining a constant water table at the water head layer of the filter. The constant water table eliminates air locks in the filter as the filter drains. Water flows from the water head layer through a filtration medium in a filter cartridge, and the filtered water is output from a water outlet at the top of the cartridge. For a water table retention filter, where the water (or other liquid) being filtered, is re-directed to the top of the filter to the water head layer to avoid drawing air into the filter. Unfiltered water drains down the center of the filter to the water head layer and then flows up through the filter and is directed out near or at the top of the filter.
Action to limit the risk of spread of Invasive Introduced species in the Mediterranean

The issue of invasive alien species is emerging and still poorly circumscribed, although it is acknowledged to be the second leading cause of biodiversity loss. These species know no borders, and current ways of life increase the risk of their introduction. Some pose a threat to the economy and health. Their propagation threatens Mediterranean biodiversity hotspots, sensitive areas and some Natura 2000 sites close to the entry areas (ports, airports, etc.). To respond to this evolving phenomenon, given the problematic context of climate change, we only have limited means that are not entirely environmentally friendly. There is no formalised collaboration tool in the cross-border area, be it the reporting of potential threats or the exchange of information for prevention and control purposes. This project aims to respond to this situation by devising and implementing essential cooperation tools to guarantee that knowledge, experimentation and management initiatives will be adequate. The project proposes a type of governance that involves the local institutional partners. Their decisions will be based on the organisation of a cross-border fauna and flora monitoring centre and the interaction of decision-makers and scientists. This tool will be set up as a web platform with a dedicated communication plan open to the participation of the population at large and their scientific contributions. The cross-border cluster and the tools thus developed are guaranteed by an inter-institutional collaboration agreement signed before the start of the project. This agreement establishes the framework of the common elements at stake, ensures the consistency of the actions and allows feedback on the five regional areas.
New energy solutions optimized for islands

Funds are available to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Many islands are engaged in energy transition; however most of them haven’t the expertise to concretely launch investments, access finance and kick start the projects. NESOI aims at filling this gap through a hands-on approach allowing to get the expected financial leverage towards the effective implementation of islands’ energy transition plans. Starting with a broad survey gathering EU islands’ needs, NESOI provides a platform where islands can access both indirect and direct support: 1) Provided through a tailor-made digital platform, the indirect support consists in training material, best case examples, toolkit for technical and economic best practices and a cooperative space for islands, investors and technology developers; 2) Based on transparent technical, social, economic and environmental criteria, NESOI selects projects for customised direct support from consortium experts and from external ones for local aspects thanks to a cascade mechanism. NESOI supports projects at different stages of development, starting from early stage ones requiring a high-level technical & economic assistance, to more advanced ones asking for specific and detailed contributions on various fields (technical, legal, financial), putting forward a reality-check mindset, to make islands focus on solid projects with the potential to attract investors. NESOI implements capacity building and coaching activities to ensure raising awareness and capacity of public authorities' staff for developing investible projects with the aim to empower Local Communities in a success pursuit of the energy transition. Broad communication activities at EU level and links with other initiatives like BRIDGE and the Cities Facility are also foreseen. NESOI partners are strongly connected to investors, island communities and the energy innovation ecosystem, and intend to develop a sustainable business model for NESOI platform
IRIS SRL

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CERVEJA ARTESANAL EM CAMPO GRANDE – MS: UM ESTUDO DE CASO COMPARATIVO ENTRE DUAS CERVEJARIAS

O objetivo do presente artigo foi comparar duas fabricantes de cervejas artesanais localizadas em Campo Grande – MS. Os objetivos específicos foram: 1) Identificar as duas cervejarias artesanais localizadas em Campo Grande - MS; 2) Conhecer os tipos de cervejas artesanais das duas cervejarias, verificando a integração da produção com o meio ambiente local como forma de preservação e sustentabilidade. A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada foi bibliográfica, exploratória e descritiva com estudo de caso comparativo entre duas cervejarias. Observou-se que, das duas cervejarias analisadas, apenas uma possui um projeto de engenharia ambiental, contribuindo com o desenvolvimento sustentável, porém, a mesma empresa não especificou o referido projeto e nem mesmo entrou em detalhes sobre essa questão, conforme respondido nas questões 19 a 21 do questionário aplicado. Os impactos ambientais causados pelas cervejarias em questão são presumíveis, pois os resíduos líquidos são descartados no esgoto e, dependendo do local onde a empresa se encontra, pode não haver tratamento de esgoto e os efluentes descartados nos rios da região, poluem o solo e a água.
Yeast biotechnology doctoral training programme

YEASTDOC is a European Joint Doctoral programme to train researchers for outstanding careers as leaders in the field of yeast biotechnology. Six academic institutions are joined by 7 industry and 2 training partner organisations to offer an international training programme leading to the award of joint PhD degrees. The interdisciplinary, trans-sectoral research topic takes advantage of recent technological developments to link fundamental research in yeasts with new applications in the beverage and white biotechnology sectors. 12 Early Stage Researchers will each carry out a 36-month joint PhD project between two academic institutions, spending at least 12 months at each partner university in a different European country. All projects include an industry co-supervisor from a partner organisation and ESRs have an industry secondment of 4-6 months to gain intersectoral experience. Additional research training is provided via summer schools, scientific conferences, doctoral seminars and practical workshops. Further training in innovation-related skills will be provided through network-wide courses that include technology transfer management and entrepreneurship. Transferrable skills training is delivered locally in graduate schools and by network courses in responsible research and innovation, scientific writing, and research leadership. ESRs will disseminate research outcomes in the scientific sector and will participate in outreach activities to engage targeted public audiences in research. All training will receive ECTS credits and be mutually recognised by all academic partners. A joint governance and ESR monitoring structure, including external experts, will assure the quality of the training programme. The long-term impact of the EJD will be an accredited, sustainable, inter-institutional doctoral programme that delivers high quality PhD graduates to drive research and innovation to maintain competitiveness in European biotechnology.
Staged Diverting Acid Fracturing in Horizontal Wells

In view of the problems occurred in the traditional acid fracturing of the Lower Paleozoic carbonate reservoir of the Daniudi gas field such as poor control of acid filtration loss,fast reaction between rock and acid and short etching distance,a trial test was made in the Ordovician Majiagou Formation reservoir through multi-stage external packers in horizontal wells by use of staged diversion acid fracturing. It is shown from the practical application that a viscosity difference is formed between the spent acid left after acid / rock reaction and the fresh acid,which works well in lowering filtration and diverting acid. The acid fracturing string has an integrated structure,including acid fracturing and production combined string + open hole packer + fracturing slide sleeve,realizing an integrated job by one trip to accomplish staged open hole completion,staged acid fracturing,liquid displacement and production start-up,a high yield gas stream was delivered at an OFP of 5. 92 × 104m3/d.
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