SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Science and Society: The Role of Long-Term Studies in Environmental Stewardship

Long-term research should play a crucial role in addressing grand challenges in environmental stewardship. We examine the efforts of five Long Term Ecological Research Network sites to enhance policy, management, and conservation decisions for forest ecosystems. In these case studies, we explore the approaches used to inform policy on atmospheric deposition, public land management, land conservation, and urban forestry, including decisionmaker engagement and integration of local knowledge, application of models to analyze the potential consequences of policy and management decisions, and adaptive management to generate new knowledge and incorporate it into decisionmaking. Efforts to enhance the role of long-term research in informing major environmental challenges would benefit from the development of metrics to evaluate impact; stronger partnerships among research sites, professional societies, decisionmakers, and journalists; and greater investment in efforts to develop, test, and expand practice-based experiments at the interface of science and society.
Spatio-Temporal representation on neuromorphic architecture

The latest achievements in artificial intelligence and neural networks, especially deep neural architecture in large-scale neuromorphic hardware implementation such as SpiNNaker, and in cognitive robotics and neurorobotics, with the widespread use of robots such as iCub and the latest Pepper platform, provide the opportunity to significantly advance our understand human cognition and brains and to reach human-level artificial intelligence. One of the key success factors in deep learning is its hierarchical structure inspired by biological processes in the primate visual cortex, as with convolutional deep networks able to learn rich representations. They are grounded in optimization methods with high precision for training may consume large training datasets and computational resources to learn complex tasks. That gives human level performance in static image recognition but raises adaptation issues. SpiNNaker is a neuromorphic computer architecture in massively parallel computing platform based on spiking neural networks (SNNs) in which neurons communicate by temporal code. The aim of STRoNA (Spatio-Temporal Representation on Neuromorphic Architecture) is to define the technology that will map a computational architecture onto neuromorphic computing circuits, hence to develop a cognitive model with spatio-temporal representation and learning algorithm for humanoid robots.
The principal research objectives of the project are: (i) to investigate which spatio-temporal representations of spikes (or neural action potentials) can be used to achieve human level performance on visual perception; (ii) to develop a novel method to process spatio-temporal representation on a neuromorphic architecture to enable learning in online and interactive contexts; and (iii) to validate and adapt the developed system in real world robotics applications.
Inclusive education and social support to tackle inequalities in society

ISOTIS addresses the nature, causes and impact of early emerging social and educational inequalities in the context of socioeconomic, cultural and institutional processes. The aim is to contribute to effective policy and practice development to combat inequalities. Quasi-panels and pooled longitudinal datasets will be used to examine the variation in early educational gaps and developmental trajectories across countries, systems and time. To disentangle the complex interactions between characteristics of systems and target groups, ISOTIS will study significant immigrant, indigenous ethnic-cultural and low-income native groups, associated with persistent educational disadvantages. ISOTIS will examine current resources, experiences, aspirations, needs and well-being of children and parents in these groups in the context of acculturation and integration, and in relation to local and national policies. ISOTIS aims to contribute to effective policy and practice development by generating recommendations and concrete tools for (1) supporting disadvantaged families and communities in using their own cultural and linguistic resources to create safe and stimulating home environments for their children; for (2) creating effective and inclusive pedagogies in early childhood education and care centres and primary schools; for (3) professionalization of staff, centres and schools to improve quality and inclusiveness; for (4) establishing inter-agency coordination of support services to children and families; and for (5) developing policies to combat educational inequalities. ISOTIS will develop inter-linked programmes for parents, classrooms and professionals using Virtual Learning Environments for working in linguistically diverse contexts. All this work together is expected to support the education practice and policy field in Europe in meeting the challenges of reducing social and educational inequalities.
Analysis of Sustainability of the Dryland Farming with Limited Irrigation Based on DPSIR Model in Tongxin,Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Based on the principle of DPSIR model,driving force,pressure,state,effect,and response were selected to establish an index system for analysis of sustainability of the dryland farming with limited irrigation in Tongxin,Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.The index system was expected to reflect the relationships among all the indices.An analytic hierarchy process and an entropy method were used to determine weights of every index and calculated the comprehensive evaluation index of ecological sustainability.The sustainability index of the dryland farming system with limited irrigation in Tongxin County always increased from 2005 to 2008.The sustainability state improved from good to very good level,which showed that the general sustainability was fair good because of the implementation of limited irrigation project.The order of indices was: 2008(0.924 5)2007(0.851 9)2006(0.710 3)2005(0.572 4).This method combined DPSIR model and revised entropy method,which provided a new tool for ecological sustainability evaluation.
Strengthening marritime technology research center

INEST TEC is strongly committed to become a center of excellence in maritime technology and, in particular, deep sea technology. It is strategically located, with fast access to deep sea, it has been steadily building up its skills, capabilities and resources, and is presently in the process of implementing an open research infrastructure, thus preparing itself to become capable of providing services and open access to the European academic and industrial communities and, thus, become a recognized European maritime research asset.
This proposal thus aims at creating solid and productive links in the global field of marine science and technology between INESC TEC and established leading research European institutions, capable of enhancing the scientific and technological capacity of INESC TEC and linked institutions (as well as the capacity of partnering institutions involved in the twinning action), helping raising its staff’s research profile and its recognition as an European maritime research center of excellence.
These objectives will be fulfilled through a set of measures: summer schools; winter schools; short-term scientific meetings;  Long-term Staff visits; Networking meetings; Workshops; Conferences; technology transfer workshops with stakeholders; and other dissemination activities.
Therefore this proposal addresses the challenges raised in the call H2020-TWINN-2015. In particular, it takes INESC TEC, a top level Portuguese institution, and places it as the pivot of a network of excellence, involving four European Partners which are international leaders in deep sea technology. By tackling the call challenge with the specific topic of deep sea technologies, STRONGMAR is aligned with several National and European priorities (“The Portuguese Strategy for Smart Specialisation” (2014); Portuguese “National Ocean Strategy” (2013); EU Commission’s Atlantic Strategy (2011), etc.) establishing a consolidation path of INESC TEC's strategy in these areas.
A collaborative demand control of nearly zero energy buildings in response to dynamic pricing for performance improvements at cluster level

Abstract Collaborations (e.g. renewable energy sharing) among nearly zero energy buildings can improve performances at cluster level. Demand response control is helpful to enable such collaborations. Existing studies have developed some dynamic pricing demand response control methods to reduce the nearly zero energy building cluster’ electricity bills and eliminate the power grid's undesirable peaks. However, in these controls the collaborations among buildings are not allowed/enabled, since each building interacts with the grid and there is no direct interaction among buildings. Meanwhile, for performance optimizations at building cluster level, the computation costs of these non-collaborative controls are excessively high especially as a number of buildings considered. Therefore, this study proposes a collaborative demand response of nearly zero energy buildings in response to dynamic pricing for cluster-level performance improvements. Considering the building cluster as one ‘lumped’ building, in which the renewable generations, energy demands and battery capacities of individual buildings are aggregated, the collaborative control first identifies the optimal performance at cluster level in response to the dynamic pricing. Then, based on the identified optimal performance, the proposed control coordinates individual buildings' operations using non-linear programming, thereby realizing the collaborations. For validation, the proposed collaborative demand response control is compared with a game-theory based non-collaborative demand response control. The developed control effectively reduces the cluster-level peak energy exchanges and electricity bills by 18% and 45.2%, respectively, with significant computational load reduction. This study will provide the decision makers a computation-efficient demand response control of nearly zero energy buildings which enables full collaborations and thus helps improve the performances.
Pamphlets and patrons: how courtiers shaped the public sphere in ancien régime france

PAPA will rewrite significantly the story of the emergence of modern politics, re-evaluate Ancien Régime society, and re-assess the origins of the French Revolution. To do so, it will develop a new way to look at the rise of the public sphere in the 18th century. The focus is on the study of political pamphlets: 1) the PI and his team will establish a new paradigm in the research on illegally published writings, and 2) develop a database that will open tremendous new possibilities for future research in intellectual and political history.

1) According to the dominant narrative, early modern France experienced a growth of state authority, and a decline of aristocratic power. While earlier royal authority was allegedly sacral, the Enlightenment era is presented as an epoch that witnessed the rise of the bourgeoisie and gave birth to a new criticism of both aristocracy and absolutism. The French Revolution is supposedly the result of these long-term processual changes. PAPA will question major theses of 17th- and 18th-century studies supporting this narrative, and develop new venues of research in these fields. PAPA’s main hypotheses are that a) courtiers shaped the 18th-century public sphere in a crucial way, b) 18th-century society and politics show more continuities than ruptures to the 17th century, and c) the French Revolution had at its inception much more in common with 17th-century princely uprisings than has been hitherto recognised.

2) The PAPA research team will create the first database devoted to Ancien Régime pamphlets. As several humanities and social sciences have a keen interest in these sources, the significance of PAPA goes largely beyond historical studies. The PAPA database will enable ongoing analyses of the content of these sources. This will greatly facilitate future research on Ancien Régime France and make scholarly results accessible within and outside academia.
Advanced mechatronics devices for a novel turboprop electric starter-generator and health monitoring system

The ACHIEVE Consortium will bring together their world-leading expertise in the design and manufacturing of electrical machines for aircraft Advanced Generation Systems (AGS), integrated Power Electronics (PE), advanced control systems and intelligent thermal management, to develop an innovative advanced mechatronic device for electrical power management system of Turboprop.  
The ACHIEVE Consortium will combine their world-leading expertise in the technical areas of PE, AGS and their control, as well as in modelling and simulation for aerospace applications. The aim of ACHIEVE is to develop an innovative mechatronic system with functions of generating,  multi-functional, more efficient, reliable, compact and lighter and hence contributing towards higher performance and more efficient and greener turboprops
The topic of advanced mechatronics devices is to support the CS2 Engine ITD WP3 “Business aviation / Short range reginal Turboprop Demonstrator” programme led by Turbomeca. The WP3 aims to acquisition of technologies for a high performance turboprop engine in the 1800-2000 shp class for business aviation and short range regional applications. This project will deliver a novel advanced mechatronics device which will be integrated to the developed engine. The developed mechatronic device is essentially an electrical starter/generator system with functions including motoring, generating, power transmission, health monitoring and communication.
The concept of ACHIEVE is to design, manufacture and test an innovative and integrated mechatronic device which is capable of performing motoring, generating, power transmission, health monitoring and signal communications. The mechatronic device is essentially made of an electrical machine, an electronic power converter and associate controllers. Moving from the state-of-the-art brushed 28Vdc generator, the system developed within the ACHIEVE will be brushless with higher power density, lower weight and higher TBMO.
Services enhancing the innovation management capacity of sme's and key account management in niedersachsen

EEN Niedersachsen Enterprise Europe Network Enhancement  Innovation Management Capacities of SMEs and Key Account Management for SMEs.
To achieve the above mentioned objectives the Network partners will:
1. Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium sized enterprises with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European support programmes for research and Innovation, but do not have sufficient access to consulting services for innovation management. This service, provided independently from a specific innovation project and focusing on a company's innovation management system, is called Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (EIMC). 
• Partners will deliver minimum 27 EIMC actions as described in Work package 1 as 7-10-day-packages
2. Identify bottlenecks in the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants under Horizon2020's SME instrument and address these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches. This service to beneficiaries of the SME instrument in the context of a given project is called 'Key Account Management'. Partner NBank will provide this service to all companies successful in their proposals in the funding schemes SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation and Future and Emerging Technologies Open.  
• Partner NBank plans to deliver 8 Key Account Management actions as described in Work package 2 as 7-day-packages related to successful proposals for the mentioned funding schemes from the region.
Reply to the letter: “The diagnostic value of MRI in pediatric chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy”

We are grateful to the authors of the letter to the editor for contributing their opinions on our article “Characteristic MRI features of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy” [1]. We respect your opinion, but there has been some misunderstanding regarding our intended meaning. We believe hypertrophy of the nerve root to be one of the characteristic findings of CIDP, and we argue that this idea is not “absolute or necessary” but is only a “characteristic” finding as noted in our case report [1]. In fact, thickened nerve roots are not a common finding in the references you cited, and it is not necessarily seen in all pediatric patients with CIDP [2–4]. Therefore, we believe this finding to be “characteristic” for pediatric CIDP. In addition, it is important to note that the differential diagnosis for nerve root hypertrophy is not only limited to CIDP; neurofibromatosis type 1 and hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies should also be considered. Finally, the significance of MRI for CIDP remains to be fully elucidated, so further discussion like this argument will be required.
Religious super-diversity in cape town. dynamics of leadership and territorialization through religious spaces in the migration process.

This project explores the interaction between religions and migration in specific areas of Cape Town, South Africa, from the perspective of the “religious super-diversity” notion, which considers not merely the diversity of cultures brought by migration, rather their visibility in cities with more diversities and multiple identities, involving race, ethnicity, legal status, age, and gender, but also generating conflicts and exchanges of knowledge among cultures. Added to the “religious super-diversity” is the spatial relationship between religious communities and their places of worship and the urban environment. This project will focus on the strategy of the “religious super-diversity’s place building”, according to which each religious community interacts with territory, social context, institutions, and other religious communities, promoting new processes in which diversity and religious pluralism involve a civic dimension, the religious agency of migrant groups and social cohesion. The areas of Cape Town known as Subcouncils 15, 16 and 20 have been selected for the impressive presence of old and recent migrants’ religious places (different Christian churches, Synagogues, Mosques, Hindu Temples, etc.). Although official statistics reveal low percentages of regular foreign immigrants (1%), the numerous “national” religious places in Cape Town and the kind of responses they offer to migrants suggest a different picture. This project suggests the super-diversity perspective provides a ground-breaking focus on religious cohabitation in Cape Town that is still lacking. Dynamics of leadership and territorialisation will be investigated through an analysis of the religious sites, whose role in the environment will provide new indicators about religious conflicts and social benefits. To this end, a fieldwork will be achieved on the basis of an updated methodology based on ethnographic inquiry, empirical and comparative study of religious actors and movements.
Tunable high quality factor in two multimode plasmonic stubs waveguide

We numerically investigate the optical characteristics of a metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) waveguide side-coupled with two identical multimode stub resonators. Double plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) peaks with narrow full width at half maximum (FWHM) and high quality factor (Q-factor) can be observed in this structure. The Q-factors of PIT peaks in two stub resonators system are larger than those in single stub resonator system. A multimode coupled-radiation oscillator theory (MC-ROT), which is derived from ROT, is proposed to analyze the spectral response in the multimode system for the first time. The analytical results are confirmed by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation results. We can also find that the Q-factors of the two PIT peaks have an opposite evolution tendency with the change of the stubs parameters and the maximum can reach to 427. These results may provide some applications for ultrasensitive sensors, switches and efficient filters.
Digitalização e robotização da produção de engenharia dentro da empresa Korino Industry, spol.s r.o.

A empresa Korino Industry, spol. s r.o. quer se concentrar em usinagem, serralheiro e ferramentas. A fim de manter e reforçar ainda mais a competitividade, a empresa deve desenvolver, modernizar e melhorar constantemente os processos de produção. Como parte do desenvolvimento da empresa, a ênfase é colocada no desenvolvimento da digitalização e da robotização, que também é seguida por este projeto, que pretende desenvolver nesta área.
Developing Telecommunication Strategies Based on Scenarios in the Information Community

The authors propose a new approach to the analysis of the correspondence of information needs of a community and capabilities of satisfying them by available resources of telecommunication systems. It is based on introducing such categories as Information Services Scenario and Telecommunication Strategy. The dialectic sequence of determining the optimal telecommunication strategy based on the given Information Services Scenario is revealed in the level space of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model. A systematic correspondence between the diversity of information needs and limited resources of telecommunication systems and technological capabilities based on categories of applied information theory for telecommunications is established.
An interrater reliability study of a new 'zonal' classification for reporting the location of retinal haemorrhages in childhood for clinical, legal and research purposes

To develop and assess a zonal classification of the retina to facilitate description of the location of retinal haemorrhages in children.A novel zonal classification of the retina was devised based on the anatomical landmarks of the optic disc and vascular arcades, by reviewing a large number of wide field digital retinal images drawn from our database of children with accidental and non-accidental head injury and other encepthalopathies. Four expert examiners then independently 'located' 142 retinal haemorrhages by zone, from 31 high quality photographs.Cohen's unweighted kappa scores for all possible pairs of the four raters (ie, six pairs) ranged from 0.86 to 0.92, that is 'almost perfect' agreement. Fleiss' kappa for agreement between multiple raters (four) and for multiple categories (three) was 0.8841, that is 'almost perfect' agreement. Cohen's unweighted kappa statistic for intrarater reliability gave an overall concordance that ranged from 'substantial' to 'perfect' agreement.This new retinal zone classification and the use of photographs and templates is a very reliable tool for reporting the location of retinal haemorrhages from multiple aetiologies in children, and may be useful for research and medico-legal reports.
Method and device for the packaging of cartons or trays.

The invention relates to a method for the packaging of cartons or trays (9), in which the products (2) are first arranged next to one another in the desired number, grouped into packaging units (2a) and conveyed to a lowering station (3), in which the packaging unit is at least partially surrounded with a carton or tray and the lowered and partly packaged products are guided in a sequencer (4) through the further packaging stations, the packaging unit being separated individually from the product queue and then conveyed to the lowering station (3) at increased speed. <IMAGE>