SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Towards a model for electric vehicle noise emission in the European prediction method CNOSSOS-EU

The CNOSSOS-EU method is recommended in Europe for environmental noise prediction. In regards to road traffic, it includes vehicle noise emission models implicitly referring to internal combustion vehicles. The development of electrically driven vehicles calls for the future consideration of these vehicles in prediction models. On the basis of experimental data, the study reported in this paper proposes a noise emission model for extending CNOSSOS-EU to light electric vehicles. Correction terms to be applied to the propulsion noise component are determined. Investigations on a sample of tyres with good rolling resistance performance, which is a main tyre selection criterion on these vehicles, indicated that no correction is required for the rolling noise component. Differences between the noise emission from conventional vehicles and electric vehicles are discussed for several road surfaces. Owing to the limited vehicle sample as well as transitional statements, this new model for electric vehicles running at constant speed over 20 km/h should be considered as a first step towards the definition of this vehicle technology in CNOSSOS-EU.
A Level Set with Shape Priors Using Moment-Based Alignment and Locality Preserving Projections

A novel level set method (LSM) with shape priors is proposed to implement a shape-driven image segmentation. By using image moments, we deprive the shape priors of position, scale and angle information, consequently obtain the aligned shape priors. Considering that the shape priors sparsely distribute into the observation space, we utilize the locality preserving projections (LPP) to map them into a low dimensional subspace in which the probability distribution is predicted by using kernel density estimation. Finally, a new energy functional with shape priors is developed by combining the negative log-probability of shape priors with other data-driven energy items. We assess the proposed LSM on the synthetic, medical and natural images. The experimental results show that it is superior to the pure data-driven LSMs and the representative LSM with shape priors.
Dukes of the Alpes

The objective of the project “Dukes of Alpes” is to enhance the touristic attractivity of Alpines’ territories around historic places of Savoy House. For the 600 anniversary of the Duchy of Savoy the department of Savoy, the Fondation of Hautecombe, the Castle of Manta -FAI Italian Environmental Fund, the association Savoy’s Lands encourage visitors to rediscover emblematic places of the most antic European Dynasties: Racconigi Castle, Manta Castle and the Hautecombe Abbey. The Savoy House is valorised by Piedmont Residences of Savoy, Humanity World Heritage. The project purpose a complementary approach, focused on cross-border territory: bring visitors to experiment, rediscover these places, and purpose a more European lecture of history.
Fiscal decentralization in Korea

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make policy recommendations for the current fiscal decentralization discussion by examining the operating mechanisms of local taxes, unconditional grants, and conditional grants within the fiscal relationships between the national government and local governments in Korea. Design/methodology/approach After examining the current fiscal relationships between the national government and the local governments, this paper analyzes trends of local taxes, unconditional grants from both national and high-level local governments, and conditional grants from both national and high-level (or provincial level) local governments between 2002 and 2015. Local governments are classified into high-level local governments, and three types of low-level local governments are: si , kun , and ku . Findings Since the structure of local government finances in Korea is very complicatedly intertwined, the present decentralization discussion regarding increasing the share of local tax revenues may not achieve its purpose of fiscal decentralization. The authorities in charge of revenue allocation should be first decentralized at high-level local governments; high-level local governments should then arrange unconditional and conditional grants from high-level local governments to low-level local governments while taking into consideration unconditional and conditional grants from the national government to low-level governments. Originality/value The dichotomy between the central government and local municipalities has been utilized in the existing discussion regarding fiscal decentralization in Korea, but this study highlights the important resource allocation roles of high-level local governments.
VAMOS RECUPERAR O EMPREGO.

A SUSPENSÃO DA ATIVIDADE (EM RESULTADO DO DECRETO DO PRIMEIRO-MINISTRO DE 22 DE MARÇO DE 2020) CONDUZIU A UMA DIMINUIÇÃO SIGNIFICATIVA DO TRABALHO E, POR CONSEGUINTE, DO VOLUME DE NEGÓCIOS DE ALGUNS MESES. A RETOMADA DA ATIVIDADE LEVA TEMPO PARA PROMOVER A DISPONIBILIDADE DE LIQUIDEZ QUE NÃO É UM CONFRONTO IMEDIATO COM A NECESSIDADE DA EMPRESA DE ENFRENTAR O CUSTO DO REINÍCIO. POR CONSEGUINTE, O FINANCIAMENTO SOLICITADO COBRIRÁ OS CUSTOS DE PESSOAL E DE FORNECIMENTO.
We are the fresh food people: The Supermarket as a performance of happiness

The value most characteristic of the society of consumers, indeed its supreme value in relation to which all other values are called on to justify their worth, is a happy life … in short, an  instant  and  perpetual  happiness. (Bauman, 2007: 44) This paper examines  Wondermart  (2009) ,  an interactive audio performance by British company Rotozaza, which premiered in Australia as part of the first season of 2010 at North Melbourne’s Arts House. Accessed as a downloadable mp3 file and listened to alone in a supermarket,  Wondermart  is a performance for one. This performance raises critical questions about the choices we make as consumers, the ethics of shopping, and how a simple trip through a supermarket may support what sociologist Zygmunt Bauman calls ‘an ideology of privatisation’ (2008b: 20). If, as Bauman argues, affluent Western society ‘re-presents the world as a warehouse of potential objects of consumption, and individual life as a perpetual search for bargains…’ (2008b: 21), is the supermarket an ultimate expression of our contemporary pursuit of happiness? This paper will discuss how the  Wondermart  performance brings about reflection upon current consumer habits and argues that the ways in which we are encouraged to consume, far from promoting a ‘happy life’, actually limit our capacity for happiness.
Environmental indicators for agricultural adoption, success, and continuity in the nile delta

Archaeologists have long debated the origins of settled farming communities, and their appearance across the world at vastly different times, attempting to establish why and how the earliest farming settlements occur where and when they do. This is particularly true for the western Nile Delta, the region within which this training-through-research project focusses, and where the first sedentary farming communities in Egypt appear at c. 5,000 BC, e.g. at Merimde Beni Salama (MBS). The proposed research will apply two key methods using sedimentary analysis to assess the local environment in the hinterland and wider regional around MBS, which will require training in 1) recording, interpretation and analysis of sediments, and 2) thin section micromorphology description and interpretation. The application of these methods aims, overall, to elucidate the environmental setting before, during and after the settlement at MBS, as well as examining climatic data to highlight changes in the suitability/necessity for permanent settlement in the area by c. 5,000 BC, addressing these aims through the questions: 1) To what extent does the transition to settled lifeways depend on the arrival of new human groups bringing with them domesticated species and new technical knowledge; 2) Are the ‘new’ Neolithic lifeways an adaptation of the preceding Epipalaeolithic way of life in the region with the integration of some new groups and new knowledge, within a changed climatic/environmental setting; and 3) was the local environment specific to the western Nile Delta fringes especially well suited for the adoption and success of agriculture. The focal time range is c. 8000-3000 BC, covering the period during which the mobile Epipalaeolithic communities were present in the region, through the Neolithic period to the end of the Predynastic period when MBS goes out of use. The research will involve comparative artefactual analysis and be set within a framework chronometric dating framework.
The Impact of Pillar II Funding: Validation from a Modelling and Evaluation Perspective

We extend the Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact Modelling System (CAPRI) with a regional computational general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the effects of the Pillar II of the Common Agricultural Policy. Our aim is to assess the modeling approach by comparing the scenario results with observations from the evaluation reports for rural development, supplemented with expert interviews and findings from the literature. For this purpose, an ex-post scenario is developed for Germany that models the effect of the Pillar II measures in 2006. We observe a moderate impact, namely, an increase in agricultural income (5%) and agricultural land use (0.15%), particularly grassland, and a substitution of arable land with grassland. This effect leads to a total increase in agricultural production, particularly of beef, and to an increase in total greenhouse gas emissions and total nitrogen surplus for Germany. Greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient surpluses per ha, however, are reduced. We observe that farm investment programmes displace private investment. The evaluation reports confirm the moderate impact and our major results, as does the comparison with other literature. However, the conclusions about agri-environment measures and their impact on income differ. The most important difference between our results and the evaluation reports and majority of the present literature is that we also quantify the joint effect between the whole economy and policy measures, with some contradictory effects.
Political Disaster: Unilateral Powers, Electoral Incentives, and Presidential Disaster Declarations

I argue that presidents use unilateral powers for particularistic aims to gain electoral support. Specifically, I examine presidential disaster declarations, which allow presidents to unilaterally authorize potentially billions of dollars to specific constituencies. In an analysis extending from 1981 to 2004, I find that a state’s electoral competitiveness influences whether they receive a disaster declaration from the president. A highly competitive state can expect to receive twice as many presidential disaster declarations as an uncompetitive state. This relationship has existed since the passage of the 1988 Stafford Act, which expanded the disaster declaration powers of the president. Additionally, I find that these decisions have the intended electoral benefits—voters react and reward presidents for presidential disaster declarations. A president can expect over a one point increase in a statewide contest in return for a single presidential disaster declaration.
Impact of left atrial appendage exclusion using an epicardial ligation system (LARIAT) on atrial fibrillation burden in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices

The left atrial appendage (LAA) is a well-known source of atrial arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation (AF).The purpose of this study was to determine whether LAA exclusion using the LARIAT device would decrease AF burden.A total of 50 patients with AF and cardiac implantable electronic devices who underwent successful LAA exclusion were enrolled in this prospective observational study. AF burden before LAA exclusion (baseline) and 3 and 12 months after exclusion was assessed by device interrogation.AF burden at 3-month follow-up (42% ± 34%) was significantly lower compared to baseline (76% ± 33%, P < .0001). The reduction in AF burden was sustained at 12 months (59% ± 26%, P < .001). Subgroup analysis revealed that AF burden at 3-month follow-up was similarly reduced in both paroxysmal AF (n = 19) and nonparoxysmal AF (n = 31). However, there was no reduction in AF burden in patients with paroxysmal AF at 12 months. AF burden in patients with known AF triggers in the LAA (n = 9) was significantly reduced at 3 months (52% ± 35%) and 12 months (42% ± 19%) compared to respective baseline (84 ± 31%, P < .0001).LAA exclusion appears to reduce AF burden. The presence of AF triggers in the LAA appears to be the strongest predictor of AF reduction. The study underscores the role of the LAA in arrhythmogenesis for AF and highlights the complementary role of LAA exclusion in restoration of normal sinus rhythm.
Food Safety Assurance Systems: Management of Allergens in Food Industry

Food allergy is recognized as an important public health issue, requiring collaboration between multiple stakeholders, including the food industry, to be effectively addressed. Management of allergens in food production aims to assure the safety of allergic consumers, but has proved particularly challenging because of the unique attributes of food allergy and food allergens. Accurate allergen labeling, minimizing unintended presence, and circumspect use of meaningful precautionary labeling, where required, form the cornerstones of effective allergen management. Allergen control plans represent the practical description of the essential measures needed to assure its implementation. Food allergen risk management must also be integrated into general food safety management and allergen risks considered at all stages of the food manufacturing process. Recent advances in understanding of minimum eliciting doses and their distribution in the allergic population make it possible to estimate quantitatively the risk from cross-contact. However, validation studies and the use of analytical methods to quantify levels of carryover remain subject to many potential pitfalls and benefit from a rigorous approach to design, conduct, and interpretation.
Eu foreign policy differentiation and integration: informal groups in eu approach to conflicts and crises

EUDIC addresses the occurrence of informal groups of EU Member States in EU foreign policy post-Lisbon. Thanks to the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, after decades of progressively increasing centralization among Member States, the EU should have finally obtained a coherent foreign policy and a more unified apparatus for supporting it. Yet on several occasions a restricted number of Member States, and at times EU institutions, steered EU foreign policy post-Lisbon, often by cooperating with non-EU countries in international contact groups. As this phenomenon suggests a fragmentation of the EU institutional scene, EUDIC's main contribution will be to explain why and to what effect informal groups persisted in the post-Lisbon era. By doings so, this project will advance our understanding of EU Member States’ practices of cooperation in the post-Lisbon EU foreign policy governance. EUDIC will rely on an interdisciplinary approach combining political science, international relations and sociology, while adopting an innovative mixed-method design. It will focus on EU approach to conflicts and crises. Within this empirical field, it will zoom-in on three sub-cases in which informal groups of EU Member States cooperated with non-EU actors in international contact groups: Kosovo - Group of Informal Dialogue on the Balkans Quint -; Syria - Friends of Syria Group -; and Venezuela - International Contact Group on Venezuela -. To address leadership dynamics, it will also provide an in-depth analysis of the role of Italy. Not only has Italy strong commercial and political links with these countries, but this Member State also took part to all the groupings under consideration. EUDIC’s findings will be published in a monograph, two journal articles and will be disseminated to a non-specialized audience via outreach initiatives (e.g. activities for students; dedicated website; policy brief; workshop).
Fighting back : what governments can do about terrorism

Since terrorism became a global national security issue in the new millennium, all governments have wrestled with its effects. Yet strong measures against terrorism have often made the root causes of the problem worse, while weak responses have invited further attack. In response, this book explains how governments can construct and execute the most effective strategies to combat terrorism-and how they can manage the consequences of those acts of terrorism they cannot prevent. It provides an overview of the complex problem of terrorism and offers a guide to shaping solutions to fit the unique structures and processes of governments. These issues and their solutions are demonstrated in six case studies. The book's value lies in its holistic treatment of what governments can do to protect their societies, with the ultimate goal of reducing terrorism from the global security threat it is today to a national-level criminal problem. Written by a team of experts, the book offers a concise but complete course on the most important national security challenge of our time.
Conocimiento especializado de los estudiantes para maestro: la resolución de un problema con división de fracciones

We analyse the knowledge, errors and strategies that Prospective Primary Teachers (PPT) use in order to solve a one-step school arithmetic problems at a multiplying structural stage in which division through fractions is used. In an interpretative paradigm, the different actions of the PPT faced with this problem have been tabulated, taking as a reference framework the Mathematics Teachers’ Specialised Knowledge, MTSK. An analysis of the results confirms that there are certain conceptual and procedural weaknesses in division through fractions, although we have found different interpretations to what we expected, but at the same time, correct. New representations which could demonstrate the possible specialisation of their knowledge.
ANALISIS PENGARUH INDUSTRI KECIL, INFRASTRUKTUR JALAN, DAN ANGGARAN PENDIDIKAN TERHADAP TINGKAT KEMISKINAN DI PROVINSI D.I YOGYAKARTA (TAHUN 2007-2015)

Poverty is a complex and multidimensional issue. Poverty itself is
influenced by numerous factors. This study is purposed to understand the
influence of 1) The number of small-scale industries, 2) Condition of road as
infrastructure, and, 3) State budget for education towards poverty.
This study used regencies and city of Special Province of Yogyakarta as
object of study. The data employed was secondary data, documented from 2007 to
2015. The data was also processed using E-views software, analysis tool used is
Fixed Effect Model (FEM).
The result of the study showed that 1) Small-scale industries have negative
effects towards poverty, 2) Roads as infrastructure have negative effects towards
poverty, and 3) State budget for education also has negative effects towards
poverty. The study also found that those three variables have significant effects
towards poverty in Special Province of Yogyakarta.
Active pharmaceutical production in flow

APPFlow will develop Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in innovative research through a focussed training plan centred on flow chemistry, essential for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries in Europe. The training programme and research proposed in APPFlow tackles the problems associated with the production of advanced intermediates en-route to Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) in the pharma-industry.  The proposal is aligned with important European research goals outlined in Horizon 2020. Specifically, this research will address areas related to Resource Efficiency, Health, Environment and Nanotechnology. The end goals align with those of the SPIRE 2030 targets and aims, most closely aligned with the goal of ‘a reduction of up to 20% in non-renewable, primary raw material intensity compared to current levels by 2030.’  It comprises of three training sites located in Ireland (1) and the UK (2) and involves multidisciplinary collaboration between academic and industrial partners, each with complementary expertise across a range of disciplines. The programme will train 3 ESRs who will gain state-of-the-art, transferable knowledge in a number of valuable areas such as organic chemistry, catalytic chemistry, chemical engineering, process design and economics. APPFlow will establish long-term collaborations and develop structured research and training relevant to industry and academia and result in highly trained and employable ESRs. At the end of the APPFlow programme, the ESRs will possess a multidimensional perspective to research, enabling them to address problems with a holistic approach. The ESRs will also develop a range of transferable “soft” managerial skills that will widen their potential career opportunities and ability to contribute to a range of different sectors. For example, they will receive business and entrepreneurship mentoring, which will assist them in becoming future business leaders.
Dust in the wind — a new paradigm for inflow and outflow structures around supermassive black holes

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent the active growing phases of supermassive black holes. For the first time, we are able to resolve the dusty gas on parsec scales and directly test our standard picture of these objects. While this “unification scheme” relates the parsec-scale IR emission with a geometrically-thick disk, I have recently found that the bulk of the dust emission comes from the polar region of the alleged disk where gas is blown out from the vicinity of the black hole. Along with these polar features, the compactness of the dust distribution seems to depend on the accretion state of the black hole. Neither of these findings have been predicted by current models and lack a physical explanation. 
To explain the new observations, I proposed a revision to the AGN unification scheme that involves a dusty wind driven by radiation pressure. Depending on their masses, velocities, and frequency, such dusty winds might play a major role in self regulating AGN activity and, thus, impact the interplay between host and black hole evolution. However, as of now we do not know if these winds are ubiquitous in AGN and how they would work physically. Upon completion of the research program, I want to
• characterise the pc-scale mass distribution, its kinematics, and the connection to the accretion state of the AGN,
• have a physical explanation of the dusty wind features and constrain its impacts on the AGN environment, and
• have established dust parallax distances to several nearby AGN, as a multi-disciplinary application of the constraints on the dust distribution.
For that, I will combine the highest angular resolution observations in the IR and sub-mm to create the first pc-scale intensity, velocity, and density maps of a sample of 11 AGN. I will develop a new model that combines hydrodynamic simulations with an efficient treatment of radiative transfer to simulate dusty winds. Finally, direct distances to 12 AGN with a combined 3% precision will be measured.
AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF VISUALIZATIONS REPRESENTING DATA BASED ON DATA ANALYSIS

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method comprises identifying one or more associations amongst a plurality of variables of a multidimensional multivariate dataset based on a data type of each of the plurality of variables. The method further comprises selecting one or more charts to be generated corresponding to the one or more associations based on at least one of the associations between the two or more variables, a number of the two or more variables, the data type of the two or more variables, and a number of rows of the dataset. The method further comprises generating an analysis report comprising the one or more charts.