SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Effective Learning Strategies in the History of Dress.

Many unDErgraDuatES have trepidation about survey of history courses.1 Student fears and occasional complaints may be based on the traditional methods of teaching survey courses, specifically the exclusive use of lectures, multiple-choice exams, and term papers for instruction and assessment.2 these instructor-centered approaches are convenient and use class time efficiently, but they do not actively engage students in the discovery of knowledge; prerequisites for meaningful learning environments.3 In contrast, learning-centered approaches actively involve students directly in course material. Learner-centered materials encourage students to gather and synthesize information and integrate it with the general skills of inquiry, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving. these are all necessary skills in the unpredictable global work-environments that many undergraduate students will experience in future careers.4 Learning strategies that foster active engagement with course material have been associated with greater retention and future application of the subject, the development of intrinsic motivation, and positive attitudes towards continued learning.5 Furthermore, experiential learning strategies are particularly useful in large courses in order to promote deeper, longerlasting learning.6 according to educational psychology, optimal learning occurs when students are interested in the subject matter, are motivated with challenging
Adaptation to audiovisual asynchrony occurs rapidly

In order to combine information from different sensory modalities the brain must deal with considerable temporal uncertainty. In natural environments, an external event may produce simultaneous auditory and visual signals yet they will invariably activate the brain asynchronously due to different propagation speeds for light and sound and different neural response latencies once the signals reach the observer. One strategy the brain uses to deal with audiovisual timing variation is to adapt to a prevailing asynchrony to help re-align the signals. Here we investigate audiovisual recalibration and show that it takes place extremely rapidly. Our results demonstrate that exposure to a single, brief asynchrony is sufficient to produce strong recalibration effects. Such fast-acting recalibration provides a mechanism for overcoming inevitable audiovisual timing variation and serves to rapidly re-align signals at onset to maximize the perceptual benefits of audiovisual integration.
Proposition of psyche entropy analysis and its application

Along with the continuous improvement on the reliability of machinery and electronic devices,system safety increasingly depends on human behavior.When people are in poor mental state,they may be out of control to make certain unexpected mistakes which will result in accidents possibly.Therefore,to analyse the unconscious human errors and bring forward the measures which will improve the situation can promote the safety level of the whole system as well as decrease the risk of the accidents.The concept of psyche entropy analysis was proposed in the paper as a method to figure out the above issue.Based on safety principles,psychology and safety ergonomics,six indicators for the calculation of entropy method were put forward.The method was implemented before the workers were on duty.The workers evaluated themselves by giving the score of the six indicators and calculated the total score they finally gain which was the representation of the their psychological state.Then the manager may enquire about the low-scoring items according to some principles to find the questions and their solutions.Finally we can reduce and control the risk of the accidents caused by unconscious human errors.
INNOVATION SERVICES — INTEGRATED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ON FIRE FIGHTING

IDENTIFICATION OF NEW MARKETS FOR FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEMS THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL REGULATIONS AND REGULATIONS AND THE UPDATING OF THE SOFTWARE CREATED.
Towards more scalable mutual exclusion for multicore architectures

The scalability of multithreaded applications on current multicore systems is hampered by the performance of lock algorithms, due to the costs of access contention and cache misses. The main contribution presented in this thesis is a new lock algorithm, Remote Core Locking (RCL), that aims to improve the performance of critical sections in legacy applications on multicore architectures. The idea of RCL is to replace lock acquisitions by optimized remote procedure calls to a dedicated hardware thread, which is referred to as the server. RCL limits the performance collapse observed with other lock algorithms when many threads try to acquire a lock concurrently and removes the need to transfer lock-protected shared data to the hardware thread acquiring the lock because such data can typically remain in the server's cache. Other contributions presented in this thesis include a profiler that identifies the locks that are the bottlenecks in multithreaded applications and that can thus benefit from RCL, and a reengineering tool developed with Julia Lawall that transforms POSIX locks into RCL locks. Eighteen applications were used to evaluate RCL: the nine applications of the SPLASH-2 benchmark suite, the seven applications of the Phoenix 2 benchmark suite, Memcached, and Berkeley DB with a TPC-C client. Eight of these applications are unable to scale because of locks and benefit from RCL on an x86 machine with four AMD Opteron processors and 48 hardware threads. Using RCL locks, performance is improved by up to 2.5 times with respect to POSIX locks on Memcached, and up to 11.6 times with respect to Berkeley DB with the TPC-C client. On an SPARC machine with two Sun Ultrasparc T2+ processors and 128 hardware threads, three applications benefit from RCL. In particular, performance is improved by up to 1.3 times with respect to POSIX locks on Memcached, and up to 7.9 times with respect to Berkeley DB with the TPC-C client.
A sustainable modular product design approach with key components and uncertain end-of-life strategy consideration

Today, sustainability emphasis is imperative for modern design and manufacturing enterprises; therefore, sustainability assessment has attracted increasing attention. In this study, we use cost, environmental impact, and labor time as indicators to measure a comprehensive set of sustainability dimensions: economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Similarly, modular product design (MPD), due to its benefits to design and manufacturing, has been widely accepted as a useful strategy. The need for customizing MPD for various sustainability purposes across a product’s life cycle motivates this study. Our research goal is to develop a MPD approach to improve the product life cycle performance for dimensions of sustainability. We also concentrate on two current product design focused research gaps: (1) how to best handle key components and (2) taking into account life cycle uncertainty at the component or product end-of-life (EOL) stage. Key components represent core techniques and can have the highest sustainability impact. We specify key components and then develop three sustainable clustering algorithms to generate component modules based on the identified key components. For EOL uncertainty, we adopt fuzzy logic to assess 14 EOL characteristics and use modified transfer equations to convert fuzzy evaluations to designer’s perception toward sustainability. Left-right defuzzification method is employed to estimate the probability of each EOL strategy and calculate the expected EOL sustainability values for each component. The Module Structure Sustainability Index (MSSI) advances toward optimizing sustainability in order to determine the best component modules. A coffee maker case study is used to illustrate the proposed methodology.
Redox-Responsive magnetic materials based on polynuclear organometallics

This proposal describes the synthesis of novel functional materials by incorporating high spin octahedral metal clusters with fascinating electronic and magnetic properties into polymeric assemblies. The resulting highly redox-responsive magnetic materials will be of great interest for a variety of applications including the storage and transfer of electrical charge, gas separation via magnetic selectivity, electrocatalysis, and long range cooperative magnetic properties will also be investigated. The experienced researcher (Dr. Musgrave) wishes to spend 24 months at Harvard University to focus on synthesis and redox activity under the supervision of Prof. Theodore Betley, and 12 months at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP) to carry out magnetic measurements and data modelling under the supervision of Dr. Rodolphe Clérac. The complementary expertise of Prof. Betley (cooperative redox chemistry and catalysis) and Dr. Clérac at the CRPP (electronically active and magnetic materials) are ideally suited for the completion of research objectives. Dr. Musgrave trained in the Manners group at the University of Bristol, and has extensive experience in metallopolymer synthesis and characterisation, which is of great relevance to the project. With an MSCA fellowship, Dr. Musgrave hopes to gain valuable experience in the fields of redox catalysis and magnetic materials, build a network of long-lasting collaborations with international scientists, and improve her leadership and management skills. The fellowship will have an extremely positive impact on her chances of obtaining an independent research position in the EU, and on the success of her career.
Ecological migration during high imperialism. german qingdao as meeting point of international species, 1898-1914.

ECOMIG aims to uncover the environmental history of the German colony of Qingdao located at China's Yellow Sea (1898-1914). Adopting a multi-species ethnography, I will research the production of a colonial ""other"" by foreign forces. So called ""Western"" countries intended to open a market that had won the reputation of a capitalist/traders' Eldorado. Themselves being perceived as invaders by the locals, they introduced a variety of international animals and plants. Some of these were adopted by the Chinese as well, others became ""invasive species"" in the modern word sense. While the military and socio-economic aspects of this brief Imperialist take over have already been explored, its ecological impact remains unknown. German economic ambitions in China included an army of plants intended to redesign the local environment that needed aesthetic improvement and should become a source of renewable resources. The effects of this economically motivated forced migration allow insights on historical narratives at the conjunction of environmental, colonial and economic history, emphasizing the intimate connection between human and environmental questions. ECOMIG addresses these questions exploring the semantic relationship between ""eco-nomy"" (household management) and ""eco-logy"" (household systematics) that signify an important crossroad for the realms of the infamous nature and culture divide.
CULTURA DE VÍDEO

PUESTA EN MARCHA DE UNA NUEVA EMPRESA, PARA LA PRODUCCIÓN DE CONTENIDOS «CULTURALES» Y VÍDEO DIGITAL, APODADO, QUE SERÁN PROPUESTAS Y UTILIZADAS POR EMPRESAS GEOLOCALIZADAS EN UN TERRITORIO DETERMINADO COMO UNA FORMA DE COMPETITIVIDAD HACIA UN CONSUMIDOR INTERNACIONAL
Modelling surface ozone during the 2003 heat-wave in the UK

Abstract. The EMEP4UK modelling system is a high resolution (5×5 km2) application of the EMEP chemistry-transport model, designed for scientific and policy studies in the UK. We demonstrate the use and performance of the EMEP4UK system through the study of ground-level ozone (O3) during the extreme August 2003 heat-wave. Meteorology is generated by the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model, nudged every six hours with reanalysis data. We focus on SE England, where hourly average O3 reached up to 140 ppb during the heat-wave. EMEP4UK accurately reproduces elevated O3 and much of its day-to-day variability during the heat-wave. Key O3 precursors, nitrogen dioxide and isoprene, are less well simulated, but show generally accurate diurnal cycles and concentrations to within a factor of ~2–3 of observations. The modelled surface O3 distribution has an intricate spatio-temporal structure, governed by a combination of meteorology, emissions and photochemistry. A series of sensitivity runs with the model are used to explore the factors that influenced O3 levels during the heat-wave. Various factors appear to be important on different days and at different sites. Ozone imported from outside the model domain, especially the south, is very important on several days during the heat-wave, contributing up to 85 ppb. The effect of dry deposition is also important on several days. Modelled isoprene concentrations are generally best simulated if isoprene emissions are changed from the base emissions: typically doubled, but elevated by up to a factor of five on one hot day. We found that accurate modelling of the exact positions of nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compound plumes is crucial for the successful simulation of O3 at a particular time and location. Variations in temperature of ±5 K were found to have impacts on O3 of typically less than ±10 ppb.
Fifth generation communication automotive research and innovation

There are two ongoing industrial trends, one in the mobile communications industry and one in the automotive industry, which are becoming interwoven and will jointly provide new capabilities and functionality for upcoming intelligent transport systems and future driving.

The automotive industry is on a path where vehicles are continuously becoming more aware of their environment, due to a permanent increase in various types of integrated sensors; at the same time the amount of automation in vehicles increases, which – with some intermediate steps – will eventually culminate in fully-automated driving without human intervention. Along this path, the amount of interactions increases, both in-between vehicles, as well as between vehicles and an increasingly intelligent road infrastructure. As a consequence, the significance and reliance on capable communication systems for vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communication is becoming a key asset that combined with sensor-based technologies will enhance the performance of automated driving and increase further traffic safety.

On the other hand, the mobile communications industry has over the last 25 years connected more than 5 billion people and mobile phones have become part of our daily living. The next step in wireless connectivity is to connect all kinds of devices that can benefit from being connected, with a total of 28 billion connected devices predicted until 2021. It will support the transformation of industries on their journey of digitization. In this step, mobile communications has the ambition to explicitly target the communication needs of vertical industry with corresponding requirements being set for the standardization of 5G until 2020.

5GCAR brings together a strong consortium from the automotive industry and the mobile communications industry, to develop innovation at the intersection of those industrial sectors in order to support a fast, and successful path towards safer and more efficient future driving.
MECHANISM FOR SUPPORTING AND MOVING A DOOR WING, OR A SIMILAR CLOSURE ELEMENT, WITH ROTARY AND TRANSLATIONAL MOTION

In a mechanism for supporting and moving a door wing (1) with rotary and translating movement, the door wing (1) is engaged pivotally, around a first vertical axis of rotation (40) passing through the door wing (1), to translation means (5) which slide in a guide (2), and is pivotally restrained, around a third axis of rotation (80), to the second end (9b, 11b) of two arms (9, 11), the first end (9a, 11a) of which is pivotally engaged on the door frame to which the door wing (1) belongs on a second axis of rotation (60). The supporting mechanism comprises a first (16) and a second (16') snap-hooking device, each acting between the third means of rotation (8) and the second end (9b, 11b) of the first upper arm (9) and, respectively, of the second lower arm (11), and activated with a movement on a plane perpendicular to the third axis of rotation (80).
A new model for potato tuber initiation and yield development

Tuberisation in potato is a major photoperiodic developmental programme in which stolons form starch-rich tubers. The earliness of tuberisation dictates the time to crop maturity and so is a crucial factor in potato agronomy. Exploitation of the naturally occurring variation in tuberisation onset provides a route to breeding improved varieties for different latitudes, harvest times and markets. Recent focus in this field has been on the regulation of a FLOWERING LOCUS T orthologue termed StSP6A, a positive regulator of tuberisation. These studies have facilitated development of tuberisation models. However, data from JHI and other literature suggest that these models are incomplete. Now work at JHI has identified a new player, a TFL-1 orthologue that appears to act as a negative regulator of tuberisation. The aims of POTENT are: to determine the binding partners and detailed expression pattern of TFL-1 in the stolon to develop a refined model of tuber initiation; to use a transcriptomic approach applied to TFL-1 transgenic lines to unravel tuber life cycle processes; to investigate the role of TFL-1 in tolerance to abiotic stress; to determine the combinations of StCDF1 and TFL-1 alleles possessed by potato varieties from different maturity classes, that impact on tuber initiation. 
The project will serve a training vehicle for the experienced researcher (ER) to enhance her portfolio of research skills, to restart her career and so increase her ability to innovate in this area of food security. The ER will add an extra dimension to current research activities in the host organisation by sharing her current expertise. Working with secondment partner Agrico UK, the outcomes will be of commercial and societal interest and a raft of measures will be taken to protect IPR and disseminate results to wide audiences. The project will leave the ER well-qualified to achieve professional maturity and will have a legacy of collaboration and new research avenues to be explored.
How to break mendel’s laws? the role of sexual conflict in the evolution of unusual transmission genetics

Under Mendelian inheritance, individuals receive one set of chromosomes from each of their parents, and transmit one set of these chromosomes at random to their offspring. Yet, in thousands of animals Mendel's laws are broken and the transmission of maternal and paternal alleles lose their symmetry. A large body of theory suggests that these asymmetries might arise because of maternal–paternal genetic conflict, but empirical tests are sorely needed to test whether the plausible is actual.

This proposal aims to understand why, when and how the transmission of genes from one generation to the next deviates from Mendel’s laws. We ask how different types of sexual conflict -- both directly between parents (interlocus sexual conflict), indirectly between the parent’s genes within their offspring (intragenomic sexual conflict), and between genes expressed in males and females (intralocus sexual conflict) -- can affect the evolution of non-Mendelian reproduction. We focus on species with extreme reproductive asymmetry known as Paternal Genome Elimination (PGE). PGE males systematically transmit only those chromosomes that they inherited from their mother. This unusual reproductive strategy is thought to originate from a clash of interests between the sexes, where mothers have “won” by monopolizing the parentage of their sons. Although PGE is rarely studied, its repeated evolution and experimental tractability make it an ideal test case for understanding the role of sexual conflict in the evolution of genetic systems.
Comparison of the MIPAS products obtained by four different level 2 processors

&lt;p class="Default"&gt;MIPAS is a midinfrared Fourier Transform spectrometer that sounded the atmospheric emission at limb onboard the ENVISAT satellite. It was launched on 31 March 2002 in a sun-synchronous polar orbit of about 800 km altitude and operated until 8 April 2012. The limb scanning sequence observed by the instrument is made of spectra that sound the atmosphere at different tangent altitudes (the tangent altitude is the minimum altitude reached by the line of sight and is also the altitude from where most of the observed signal originates). The inversion of the measurements allows the determination of the vertical profiles of the atmospheric quantities of interest in the range of the tangent altitudes covered by the limb scanning sequence, which is 6-70 km for the nominal measurement mode. […]&lt;/p&gt;
Nanoplasmonic sensing of multi-molecular protein interactions at physiological conditions

I will develop a single-molecule sensor that reveals multi-protein dynamics at micromolar concentrations to provide new understanding of how protein machinery functions in real-time. Proteins and their interactions are the cornerstone of biological processes. The dynamic cooperation between multiple species is key to most processes including chaperone-mediated protein folding, signal transduction, and metabolism. The dynamics of these processes is fast and adaptive due to a tailored combination of low affinity and high concentration. Current single-molecule sensors cannot capture these dynamics because (1) they only work in dilute solutions which perturbs the dynamics or (2) they only resolve a single species. Capturing dynamics of protein machinery at physiological conditions therefore remains one of the grand challenges in the field. 

MultiSense will develop a nanoplasmonic sensor to provide the opportunity to reveal multi-molecular protein dynamics at micromolar concentrations. This will be achieved by (a) developing technology to resolve and interpret multi-protein interactions and cooperation using Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in the confined near-field of a plasmonic particle, and (b) using this technology to provide the first real-time picture of chaperone-mediated protein folding at physiological conditions. This will contribute to unraveling why chaperones fail to induce proper folding or prevent protein aggregation in the context of diseases. 

The proposed method can be implemented on any research-grade microscope and can be generalized to any protein by applying the proper particle functionalization. This will inspire other researchers to study dynamic cooperation in protein machinery to unravel complex molecular mechanisms. In the long term the small size and biocompatibility of metal nanoparticles will enable studies of protein interactions at the single-molecule level in their natural environment, a living cell.