SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Cerebellar spiking model for real-time closed-loop sensorimotor control

Understanding how the brain processes and represents information is at the core of experimental studies of the Central Nervous System (CNS). A network of brain subsystems mediates information processing through distributed neural computation and dynamic patterns of neural activity. Over the last decades, studying how these patterns are elicited in the CNS under specific behavioural tasks has become a break through research topic in integrative neuroscience. These specific tasks are related to the concept of embodied cognition, according to which the primary goal of the CNS is to solve and facilitate the body-environment interaction. 
This project focuses on the cerebellum, a brain region that plays a crucial role in body-environment interaction, with a primary function related to adaptive motor control and coordination. The functional characteristics of the cerebellum make it a perfect candidate to start modelling and building an embodied nervous system. The cerebellar capability of performing adaptive information processing mediating sensorimotor control will be evaluated in specific tasks. Additionally, the emergence of cognitive-like representations will be studied by focusing on how models of the environment/tools can be acquired through a closed-loop sensorimotor interaction. 
This project sets forth a multidisciplinary methodology combining neuromimetic models and embodied neurorobotics. Simulated neural models and robotic experiments will guarantee full access to the system properties, which will be assessed through both qualitative and quantitative performance indicators to facilitate a constructive cross-validation against neurophysiological data. This approach will also allow us to predict new functional roles of specific cell/network/topology properties. 
The goal of this project lies on moving forward the knowledge frontiers in integrative neuroscience and biological control, thus boosting the candidate position at the cutting-edge of these fields.
CYLINDER CORE

The invention relates to a cylinder core (1) which can be mounted in a rotatable manner in a locking device, in particular of a storage compartment or of a glove compartment of a motor vehicle, and has a head region (6), which has a key channel (2) into which a key can be introduced, and a retaining region (7), which adjoins the head region (6) and is formed with a control means (8) which, when the cylinder core (1) is rotated about its axis of rotation (11), moves an arresting means, which is arranged in the locking device, for a closing and/or opening operation. The invention provides for the cylinder core (1) to have at least two material bodies (6, 7, 8), wherein a first material body (6, 7) is configured with the head region (6), which contains a first plastic, and a second material body (7, 8) is designed with the control means (8), which contains a second plastic, the second plastic having a higher strength than the first plastic.
Nonparametric bayes and empirical bayes for species sampling problems: classical questions, new directions and related issues

Consider a population of individuals belonging to different species with unknown proportions. Given an
initial (observable) random sample from the population, how do we estimate the number of species in the
population, or the probability of discovering a new species in one additional sample, or the number of
hitherto unseen species that would be observed in additional unobservable samples? These are archetypal
examples of a broad class of statistical problems referred to as species sampling problems (SSP), namely:
statistical problems in which the objects of inference are functionals involving the unknown species
proportions and/or the species frequency counts induced by observable and unobservable samples from the
population. SSPs first appeared in ecology, and their importance has grown considerably in the recent years
driven by challenging applications in a wide range of leading scientific disciplines, e.g., biosciences and
physical sciences, engineering sciences, machine learning, theoretical computer science and information
theory, etc.
The objective of this project is the introduction and a thorough investigation of new nonparametric Bayes
and empirical Bayes methods for SSPs. The proposed advances will include: i) addressing challenging
methodological open problems in classical SSPs under the nonparametric empirical Bayes framework, which
is arguably the most developed (currently most implemented by practitioners) framework do deal with
classical SSPs; fully exploiting and developing the potential of tools from mathematical analysis,
combinatorial probability and Bayesian nonparametric statistics to set forth a coherent modern approach to
classical SSPs, and then investigating the interplay between this approach and its empirical counterpart;
extending the scope of the above studies to more challenging SSPs, and classes of generalized SSPs, that
have emerged recently in the fields of biosciences and physical sciences, machine learning and information
theory.
Reliability of product environmental footprints

To move towards a more sustainable world there needs to be a systematic change in the consumption of resources driven by informed decision-making and policies. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely accepted as a tool for supporting decisions on environmental footprints. However, it is also acknowledged that the reliability of state-of-the-art LCA needs to be improved as uncertainty and variability are generally not addressed. The importance of improving the reliability of environmental footprinting is currently recognised in the Product Environmental Footprinting approach and in the recommendations of the European Resource Efficiency Platform. This European Industrial Doctorate proposal (RELIEF), a cooperation between Radboud University and Unilever as partners and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Stanford University, University of Surrey, Ostfold Research, GreenDelta and the International Union for Conservation of Nature as associate partners, offers a unique international and multidisciplinary training environment for early-stage researchers (ESRs) to improve the reliability of the environmental footprinting of products. RELIEF will develop new models to reduce uncertainty throughout the value chain. Developing these models requires a multidisciplinary approach. Four ESRs will work on different topics, i.e. improving the reliability of product footprints related to energy (carbon), land, chemicals and water. The fifth ESR will work on macro-scale environmental models, in order to incorporate cross-cutting issues from the other four ESRs. Each ESR will receive  broad, high-level training in scientific and general skills as well as personalized training. The training will be delivered by a combination of courses, as part of their own research and via learning in business and academia. The RELIEF project will deliver not only novel methods, but also researchers with state of the art skills and environmental footprinting knowledge.
Octaoctyl-Substituted Lutetium Bisphthalocyanine for NADH Biosensing

Cyclic voltammetric and Raman and UV–vis spectroscopic measurements were performed on thin films of nonperipherally substituted bis[1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-octakis(octyl)phthalocyaninato] lutetium(III) (R16LuPc2). Voltammograms exhibit one-electron quasi-reversible redox processes in 1.5 M LiClO4 aqueous solutions. The red-shift of the Q-band of R16LuPc2 in the UV–visible absorption spectra upon oxidation is attributed to the shortening of the inter-ring distance between the two phthalocyanine moieties. This observation is also consistent with the shift in the redox-sensitive vibrational modes in the Raman spectra due to the localization of the positive charge on phthalocyanine moieties. Neutralization of the oxidized R16LuPc2+ film by dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) using different concentrations varying from 0.05 to 1 mM has been studied by UV–vis absorption and Raman spectroscopies. The reduction processes for a three month old film were found to be slower than those for freshly prepared films and showed a dependence upon NADH concentration. The data provide a basis for application of R16LuPc2 as a sensor for NADH.
METHOD AND PLANT FOR THE PROCESSING OF FIBER MATERIALS BY MEANS OF LIQUIDS

A textile material (4) is dyed regularly and rapidly after introduction of the dye and the material in a processing container (1) which is heated up to boiling temperature. The inner pressure in the container and the supply of heat to the liquid are controlled by control means (46, 48, 51) so that the dye slowly and gradually evaporates in order for the vapor bubbles to stirr the dye and the material without the use of a calendar or similar means. The dying operation may be aided by a pulsating motion of the dying liquid. If necessary, all the energy required for the process maybe used in the form of water vapor.
Arquiteturas Deslocadas

Em 2019, Jacques Rancière apresentou “Architectures Deplacées”, na Société Française des Architectes, em Paris. Nosso trabalho consiste na tradução da referida palestra e no artigo introdutório publicado em revista, os quais abordaram temas de suas conferências recentes sobre arquitetura. Dentre os deslocamentos ético, poético e estético propostos, Rancière elucida questões intrínsecas da arquitetura na relação com a paisagem. Nesse contexto, o movimento se refere ao processo de desestabilização da finalidade da arquitetura e a busca pela perfeição, visando a construção de mundos livres. Segundo Rancière, quando a arquitetura sai do seu reduto, provoca mudanças mais efetivas. O autor também observa que a pintura é fonte de uma “arquitetura para ver”, relevante para o paisagismo. Por fim, Rancière sugere que a arquitetura, resgatada de sua funcionalidade autoritária, torna-se apoio de um movimento da imaginação que parte de arquiteturas modernas – para ver ou imaginárias – baseadas na fuga do olhar e na capacidade de imaginação, propondo uma terceira via de construção e movimento. Não mais a elevação ao céu inacessível e tampouco o deslocamento horizontal infinito, mas o enfrentamento da imperfeição, em que a crítica da vontade arquitetônica se alia à crítica da ordem do mundo.
Ceramiche del XVI e XVII secolo da contesti archeologici in Venezia

Migliaia di reperti ceramici sono emersi da indagini archeologiche tra gli anni '80 del XX secolo e il 2014 a Venezia e Mestre, nella vicina terraferma: nell’ex-convento dei Frari a San Polo, pregevoli graffite del primo Rinascimento e una maiolica a lustro, usate come riempimento del soffitto a volte di un salone; a S. Pietro di Castello, S. Giobbe a Cannaregio e S. Maria delle Grazie a Mestre immondezzai hanno restituito invetriate monocrome o dipinte su ingobbio, graffite, maiolica berettina. Ben attestate le maioliche dalla Romagna, specie “berettina” e "stile compendiario"; da S. Giobbe provengono anche un albarello in fritware, crogioli, pietra ollare e reperti vitrei.&#x0D;
Ros-Industrial quality-assured robot software components

ROSIN will create a step change in the availability of high-quality intelligent robot software components for the European
industry. This is achieved by building on the existing open-source “Robot Operating System” (ROS) framework and
leveraging its worldwide community. ROS and its subsidiary ROS-Industrial (European side led by TU Delft and
Fraunhofer) is well-known, but its European industrial potential is underestimated. The two main critiques are (1) is the
quality on par with industry, and (2) is there enough European industrial interest to justify investing in it? Partially, the
answer is “yes and yes”; ample industrial installations are already operational. Partially however, the two questions hold
each other in deadlock, because further quality improvement requires industrial investment and vice versa. ROSIN will
resolve the deadlock and put Europe in a leading position.
For software quality, ROSIN introduces a breakthrough innovation in automated code quality testing led by IT University
Copenhagen, complemented with a full palette of quality assurance measures including novel model-in-the-loop continuous
integration testing with ABB robots. Simultaneously, more ROS-Industrial tools and components will be created by making
50% of the ROSIN budget available to collaborating European industrial users and developers for so-called Focused
Technical Projects. ROSIN maximizes budget efficacy by alleviating yet another deadlock; experience shows that industry
will fund ROS-Industrial developments, but only after successful delivery. ROSIN provides pre-financing for developers
which will be recovered into a future revolving fund to perpetuate the mechanism.
Together with broad education activities (open for any EU party) led by Fachhochshule Aachen and community-building
activities led by Fraunhofer, ROSIN will let ROS-Industrial reach critical mass with further self-propelled growth resulting
in a widely adopted, high-quality, open-source industrial standard.
Caracterización de las localidades

Con el propósito de cumplir con el objetivo general del dossier, el cual supone analizar el rol del Estado en los procesos de conformación del hábitat popular en tres ciudades patagónicas, enfocándonos en las principales políticas de suelo y de vivienda, consideramos necesario generar un apartado dedicado a caracterizar cada una de las localidades que componen el estudio. De tal modo, el presente texto se organiza en torno a información sobre la ubicación de Comodoro Rivadavia, San Carlos de Bariloche y Cipolletti, la historia y el perfil productivo de estas ciudades, datos demográficos como la tasa de crecimiento poblacional, los flujos migratorios, el nivel de desempleo, pobreza o de necesidades básicas insatisfechas, etc. En tal sentido, destacamos la evolución de las estadísticas ligadas con el déficit habitacional, así como establecemos una primera aproximación sobre la presencia de asentamientos en cada localidad. En la introducción general de la publicación detallamos sobre las estrategias metodológicas implementadas, pero cabe resaltar para esta sección que las mismas se basaron en fuentes como los censos nacionales de población elaborados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, al igual que en entrevistas a referentes de los gobiernos locales y habitantes de asentamientos populares.
Intelligent, distributed, human-centered and trustworthy iot environments

The traditional cloud centric IoT has clear limitations, e.g. unreliable connectivity, privacy concerns, or high round-trip times. IntellIoT overcomes these challenges in order to enable NG IoT applications. IntellIoT’s objectives aim at developing a framework for intelligent IoT environments that execute semi-autonomous IoT applications, which evolve by keeping the human-in-the-loop as an integral part of the system. 
Such intelligent IoT environments enable a suite of novel use cases. IntellIoT focuses on: Agriculture, where a tractor is semi-autonomously operated in conjunction with drones. Healthcare, where patients are monitored by sensors to receive advice and interventions from virtual advisors. Manufacturing, where highly automated plants are shared by multiple tenants who utilize machinery from third-party vendors. In all cases a human expert plays a key role in controlling and teaching the AI-enabled systems.
The following 3 key features of IntellIoT’s approach are highly relevant for the work programme as they address the call’s challenges: 
(1) Human-defined autonomy is established through distributed AI running on intelligent IoT devices under resource-constraints, while users teach and refine the AI via tactile interaction (with AR/VR).
(2) De-centralised, semi-autonomous IoT applications are enabled by self-aware agents of a hypermedia-based multi-agent system, defining a novel architecture for the NG IoT. It copes with interoperability by relying on W3C WoT standards and enabling automatic resolution of incompatibility constraints.
(3) An efficient, reliable computation & communication infrastructure is powered by 5G and dynamically manages and optimizes the usage of network and compute resources in a closed loop. Integrated security assurance mechanisms provide trust and DLTs are made accessible under resource constraints to enable smart contracts and show transparency of performed actions.
Substrate-induced respiration as a measure of microbial biomass in vermicomposting studies

Here it is evaluated the relationship between substrate-induced respiration (SIR) and microbial biomass C (C(mic), estimated by chloroform fumigation-extraction) in order to establish SIR as a quick technique to determine microbial biomass in vermicomposting processes. For this, there were designed continuous feeding reactors in which new layers of manure were added sequentially to form an age gradient inside the reactors. Six reactors were set up with and without earthworms (three reactors per treatment). In reactors, with and without earthworms, values of C(mic) and SIR ranged from 1690 to 42,900 microg g(-1)dw and from 43 to 2300 microg CO(2) h(-1)g(-1)dw, respectively. SIR was significantly related to C(mic) (r=0.63, P<0.0001). It is proposed an equation to convert SIR values into C(mic), SIR (microg CO(2) h(-1)g(-1)dw)=25.97+0.04 C(mic) (microg g(-1)dw) which will be useful for comparison between studies which used different techniques for determining microbial biomass.
Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? A new model of Brain Waste vs. Brain Drain

Abstract Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? In order to analyze the optimality of the timing of migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model – the decisions about where to get an education and about where to work. The main reason for having a unified model is that investment in human capital cannot be disjoined from the decision about work. This paper shows that brain drain is usually an optimal solution. But, when we incorporate “brain waste” and “return migration”, then it is optimal to migrate when young.
Turismo como instrumento de desarrollo: Una visión alternativa desde factores humanos, sociales e institucionales

A broad agreement exists among academics, professionals and politicians that is an effective instrument for social and economic development. However, there is no specifi c theoretical or practical framework of for deve- lopment to be found. Even the key questions have remained unformulated: (i) what does the concept of development entail? (ii) which are tourism's contributions to such development?, and (iii) what types of policy and are congruent with the intended for development? This article preliminarily analyzes and answers these key questions. It fi rst summarizes the development paradigms held in the last decades (modernization, neo-liberalism, dependency and sustainability) and goes on to consider the new proposals emanating from the New Institutional Economics and the Theory of Social Capital. In this context, the key elements of a tourism for development policy and governance are examined. Finally, the results of a 2011 enquiry, involving some 60 experts from 15 countries, on development vis-a-vis are presented.
Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Based Metabolomics Study of Cloned versus Normal Pigs Fed Either Restricted or Ad Libitum High-Energy Diets

Genetically identical cloned pigs should in principle eliminate biological variation and provide more pronounced effects when subjected to, e.g., dietary interventions, but little is known about how phenotype and phenotypic variation is affected by cloning. Therefore, an investigation of the metabolome of cloned pigs compared to normal control pigs was performed to elucidate the variation and possible differences in the metabolic phenotypes during a dietary intervention. A total of 19 control pigs and 17 cloned pigs were given the same high-energy dense diet either ad libitum or in a restricted manner (60% of ad libitum) for ∼6 months, and plasma was subjected to liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry nontargeted metabolomics and biochemical analyses. Low systemic levels of IGF-1 could indicate altered growth conditions and energy metabolism in cloned pigs. In response to ad libitum feeding, clones had a decreased energy intake and lower weight gain compared to controls, and plasma lipid profiles were changed accordingly. Elevated lactate and decreased creatine levels implied an increased anaerobic metabolism in ad libitum fed clones. Less interindividual variation between cloned pigs was however not established, suggesting a strong role for epigenetics and/or the gut microbiota to develop variation.
Time-Domain gibbs sampling: from bits to inflationary gravitational waves

The detection of primordial gravity waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential intellectual achievements in modern science. During the last few decades, the instrumental progress necessary to achieve this has been nothing short of breathtaking, and we today are able to measure the microwave sky with better than one-in-a-million precision. However, from the latest ultra-sensitive experiments such as BICEP2 and Planck, it is clear that instrumental sensitivity alone will not be sufficient to make a robust detection of gravitational waves. Contamination in the form of astrophysical radiation from the Milky Way, for instance thermal dust and synchrotron radiation, obscures the cosmological signal by orders of magnitude. Even more critically, though, are second-order interactions between this radiation and the instrument characterization itself that lead to a highly non-linear and complicated problem.

I propose a ground-breaking solution to this problem that allows for joint estimation of cosmological parameters, astrophysical components, and instrument specifications. The engine of this method is called Gibbs sampling, which I have already applied extremely successfully to basic CMB component separation. The new and ciritical step is to apply this method to raw time-ordered observations observed directly by the instrument, as opposed to pre-processed frequency maps. While representing a ~100-fold increase in input data volume, this step is unavoidable in order to break through the current foreground-induced systematics floor. I will apply this method to the best currently available and future data sets (WMAP, Planck, SPIDER and LiteBIRD), and thereby derive the world's tightest constraint on the amplitude of inflationary gravitational waves. Additionally, the resulting ancillary science in the form of robust cosmological parameters and astrophysical component maps will represent the state-of-the-art in observational cosmology in years to come.
Western Marxism’s Misreading of Marx’s Critique of Capitalism

Since its advent in the early 1920s, Western Marxism has undergone a torturous process from anti-liberalism to virtually liberalism. The main theoretical deficiency behind this process is the over-estimation of Marx’s cultural critique of capitalism. As his economic research gradually deepened, Marx’s dual critique of capitalism from economic and cultural perspectives matured. When the leading proponents of Soviet Marxism gave prominence to Marx’s economic critique, as circumstances required, they and some key figures in the Second International misread his theory with emphasis on economic determinism. In contrast, Georg Lukacs and most Western Marxists proceeded to develop a Marxian cultural critique with the consequence that his economic research being marginalized. Without the counterbalance of a continuous and consistent economic theory to challenge a confident international capitalism, cultural critique is consequently reorganized in confluence with liberalism, which is centered on an individual ontology. Re-excavating Marxian dual critical theory may help Western Marxism escape the dilemma.