SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Improving parent and child interaction to enhance oral language development

Across Europe, up to 5.8 million children and youths are affected by language problems. Language difficulties result in poorer academic outcomes, worse job opportunities, and poorer economic and health well-being. A major societal challenge and Europe 2020 priority is reducing social inequalities, which could be addressed by investing in the early years and addressing the inequities in early language development. Impoverished home language environments are shown to contribute to existing and increasing inequalities across Europe. One approach to improving child oral language skills and reducing inequalities is to identify parent-child interaction interventions for promoting the home language environment, with the potential to be incorporated into universal services across Europe. Thus, the objectives of this fellowship are to:
1) Understand expectations and experiences of parents in disadvantaged areas who take part in parent-child interaction programmes aimed at promoting child oral language skills;
2) Determine the feasibility and reliability of an observational rating scale of parent-child interaction for use by health visitors/community health nurses to identify children most likely to benefit from parent-focused interventions for improving child oral language; 
3) Review practices across Europe for promoting parent-child interaction, and provide recommendations to the EU for identifying children most likely to benefit from parent-focused intervention set within a framework of progressive universalism (where all parents and children are provided with a universal service, with additional services targeted to those with additional needs).

At a time when action is needed, the research fellow under the expert supervision and advanced training provided at Newcastle University, will make a significant contribution to advancing the science of the field and also to addressing the major societal challenge in the UK and across Europe of reducing inequalities.
Infections Acquired in the Garden

ABSTRACT Gardening is a wonderful pastime, and the garden is a very peaceful place to enjoy one’s vacation. However, the garden may be a treacherous place for very young or compromised hosts when one takes into account the infectious potential residing in the soil, as well as the insect vectors on plants and animals. Even normal hosts may acquire a variety of infections from the soil, animals, or animal-related insect bites. The location of the garden, its natural animal and insect inhabitants, and the characteristics of the soil play a part in determining its infectious potential. The most important factor making the garden an infectious and dangerous place is the number and interaction of animals, whether they are pets or wild, that temporarily use the garden for part of their daily activities. The clinician should always ask about garden exposure, which will help in eliminating the diagnostic possibilities for the patient. The diagnostic approach is to use epidemiological principles in concert with clinical clues, which together should suggest a reasonable list of diagnostic possibilities. Organ involvement and specific laboratory tests help further narrow the differential diagnosis and determine the specific tests necessary to make a definitive diagnosis.
On the application of the sum of generalized Gaussian random variables: maximal ratio combining

In most wireless communication systems, the additive noise is assumed to be Gaussian. However, there are many practical applications where non-Gaussian noise impairs the received signal. Examples include co-channel and adjacent channel interference in mobile cellular systems, impulsive noise in wireless and power-line communications, ultra-wide-band interference and multi-user interference in wireless systems, and spectrum sensing. To cover this issue, we consider in this paper the application of the sum of generalized Gaussian (GG) random variables (RVs). To this end, we consider single-input multiple-output (SIMO) systems that operate over Nakagami-m fading channels in the presence of an additive white generalized Gaussian noise (AWGGN). Specifically, we derive a closed-form expression for the bit error rate (BER) of several coherent digital modulation schemes using maximal ratio combining diversity in the Nakagami-m fading channels subject to an AWGGN. The derived expression is obtained based on the fact that the sum of L GG RVs can be approximated by a single GG RV with a suitable shaping parameter. In addition, the obtained BER expression is valid for integer and non-integer value of the fading parameter m. Analytical results are supported by Monte-Carlo simulations to validate the analysis.
Risk-, Disaster-Management & prevention of natural hazards in mountainous and/or forested regions

Each year natural disasters harm people and nature and wreak considerably havoc on the economic activity and infrastructure of the areas concerned. In the regions involved in the RIMADIMA project natural disasters have caused immense damage. Many of the existing structures of risk and disaster management have not yet succeeded in preventing or mitigating major catastrophes. An improvement is required based on a long-term process of transnational co-operation, which also assures the transfer of knowledge and best practices concerning risk and disaster management. After the recent disasters in Romania, the Brasov County Council developed the idea of a common risk and disaster management system which should be developed and implemented together with regions threatened by similar hazards with meteorological (storms, floods, forest fires, droughts) and gravitational causes (landslides, avalanches, rock slides, mudslides, falling rocks). The project partners are situated in forested regions characterised by high mountains or large lakes and are located close to densely populated urban areas, technical infrastructures or industrial zones. Tourism is an important economic factor. However these regions do not only benefit from it because tourism causes damage and generates risks which cannot be countered with a sustainable concept. For these regions the establishment of preservation areas and ban zones represents an essential instrument of spatial development. The principal target of RIMADIMA is the development of preventive measures, emergency plans and plans to combat natural hazards. RIMADIMA aims at setting up a common concept of a decision support system to improve the decision-making process for planning departments and Crisis Management Centres. This will provide possibilities for the interaction of planning and crises intervention. The structure of the concept and the demo version of a DSS (Decision Support System) program can be adapted to other risk types and other CADSES regions.
Expression and characterization of the recombinant Trichoderma virens endochitinase Cht2

An endochitinase, Cht2, from Trichoderma virens UKM1 was expressed in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris, and its biochemical properties were characterized. Both the cht2 gene and its cDNA have been cloned and sequenced, the endochitinase gene cht2 encodes 321 amino acids from an open reading frame comprised of an 1169 bp nucleotide sequence separated by three introns. Cht2 is predicted to be an extracellular enzyme due to the presence of a signal peptide of 20 amino acids. Cht2 cDNA was cloned into the pPICZaC expression vector under the regulation of a methanol-inducing a promoter and transformed into P. pastoris X33. Expression in P. pastoris showed that the recombinant Cht2 was secreted into the culture medium with a protein size of approximately 35 kDa when induced with 0.5% methanol. Biochemical characterization of the partially purified enzyme showed a specific enzyme activity of 1.34 U/mg towards colloidal chitin at a pH of 6.0 and at a temperature of 35° C. The enzyme showed optimal activity at this pH and temperature and also showed higher affinity toward colloidal chitin in comparison to glycol chitin. It is stable in the pH range of 5.0 - 7.0 and in the temperature range of 30 - 55° C, where it retained more than 70% of its residual activity.
Counterflow type particulate matter filter trap system having metal fiber filter

Disclosed is a counterflow type filter trap system for filtering particulate matters from engine exhaust gases. A controller for receiving and sending information signals, is included. A metal fiber filter for capturing particulate matters included in the engine exhaust gases is provided. A back pressure sensor for sensing pressure difference between the inlet and the outlet of the metal fiber filter, is formed. A compressed air supplying portion is formed for injecting a compressed air in the opposite direction to the flow of the exhaust gases to separate the captured particulate matters from the metal fiber filter. A particulate matters collecting box for collecting the separated particulate matters and a guiding valve for guiding the separated particulate matters are provided. The life of the filter is lengthened and the apparatus has a simple structure. The filtering efficiency of the exhausted fumes is very high.
COMPONENTS AND METHODS FOR LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED) LIGHTING

Components and methods containing one or more light emitter devices, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) or LED chips, are disclosed. In one aspect, a light emitter device component can include inner walls forming a recess defining an opening such that surface area outside of the opening of the recess is less than or equal to a threshold ratio of overall surface area. In one aspect, the light emitter device component can include a ceramic body mounted directly or indirectly on the ceramic body. Components disclosed herein can result in improved light extraction and thermal management.
Collective personalities: from individuals to groups, and back

Many organisms, including humans, group together and perform collective actions such as birds forming coordinated flocks to evade predators, forage or roost. Some, as social insects, have evolved complex societies in which the unit of selection is not the individual, as in most vertebrates, but the colony. Yet, in both there is evidence of consistent behavioural variability among both individuals and groups. The study of collective behaviour - coordinated actions resulting in emergent properties at the group level - and the study of animal personality - between individual differences that are consistent over time and contexts - have progressed tremendously in the last two decades and are converging in their search for the link between individuality and collectivity, a fundamental and timely issue in biology. The GROUPIND project aims to investigate the relationship between individual personality and group personality by using ants and starlings as study organisms, both of which showing distinct collective behaviour and marked individual behavioural variability. The project will use a comparative approach to address the following objectives: (1) To characterize, also upon experimental manipulation, the composition of personalities in the group and understand how this relates to personality at the group level. Are group personalities an average of individual personalities within the group? Do they result from different distributions of individual personalities? Are there keystone individuals that exert a disproportionate influence on the group personality? (2) To understand how diversity of individual personalities contributes to decision making and to the ecological success at the group level, and how this would feed back at the individual level. By bridging two major fields of study, this project will shed new light on the ability of groups to function effectively, unravelling the consequences that personality differences can exert on social life and its evolution.
Transversal lands: abbeys and large rivers

TRANSLANDS originates from the need to overcome the risk of the landscape decay of alleged minor importance due to their marginalisation and extensive use for agricultural production. Many of the regions have the potential to make use of their cultural, historical and socio-economic value. TRANSLANDS intends to promote actions aimed at protecting and developing the common landscape features shared by several CADSES regions, namely marginal and rural areas characterized by the presence of historical abbeys, water courses and minor cities located along important routes which link large cities. They are considered transversal lands with respect to the main lines of mobility. Nevertheless, they are characterized by cultural, economic, rural and handicraft resources and represent an important link and intermediary between territories and local cultures. The project aims at enhancing their heritage as an important source of sustainable tourism and local economic development.
Linkage Measures of the Real Estate Sector of China

This paper aims to explore the interdependence amongst the estate sector and other industries in China,and to identify and clarify the role estate sector plays in the economy.After telling the difference between estate and estate as a sector,the authors use National Input-Output Tables of China from 1997 to 2007 to calculate the dispersion coefficients and sensitivity coefficients of the estate sector of China.They find out that both coefficients are far smaller than average level of all sectors,and both coefficients tend to decrease in the past decade.This means that the popular saying of real estate sector is intensely related to other sectors and the sector has very strong pulling effect is unfounded and overestimated.
CLOTHES- AND LINEN-WARMING OR DEHUMIDIFICATION APPARATUS WITH CAVITIES

Clothes- and linen-warming or dehumidification apparatus (5) comprises warming means (25) for producing heat, a heat-conducting container (20) containing the warming means (25), and at least one cavity (28, 29) for transmitting heat by convection.
Expansion of the CIRcular Economy concept in the Central Europe local productive districts

Transition towards circular economy,core priority of EU 2020 Strategy, is particularly relevant for CE industrial areas due to outstanding use of primary natural resources in various production stages (processing,packaging,transportation).However, recycling rates in CIRCE2020 Countries (AT30%; IT21%; PL18%; HU18%) are still far from Directive targets (reduction to 35% by 2016) and 1 of the reason is that reuse of by-products is often left to companies’ individual initiatives: i.e the 5 CIRCE2020 industrial pilot areas(central Veneto-IT; Mid Tyrol-AT; Budaörs-HU; Poznan-PL; Split-HR) are characterized by numerous business organizational models (clusters&districts) but the same cross-value relationships are not fully exploited for waste valorisation&reduction of primary natural resources. CIRCE2020 main objective-in line with CE Priority 

3.1& new EU Action Plan for CircEcon-is to facilitate a larger uptake of integrated environmental management approach in 5 specific CE industrial areas by changing patterns from single&sporadic company recycling interventions to integrated redesign of industrial interactions based on the circular economy. Final goal is introduce innovative cross-value chain waste governance models&trasnational analytic tools to improve capacities of concerned waste public-private sector to reduce dependencies from primary natural resources within industrial processing. 4 multiutilites,3 sectorial agencies &1 R&D centre concerned in CIRCE2020 implement 5 pilot actions (across 10 material flows & 50 companies), using common analytic tools (Material Flow Analysis, LCA,LCC & clean-up technology E-CLOUD ) to close some loops actually open in the pilot areas & to provide robust evidences about environmental & economic benefits from shifting to enhanced industrial symbiosis. 5 Regional ActionPlans to expand secondary raw materials markets in pilot regions&1 trasnational strategy for new CE practitioners delivered to address sustainability & large replication
A Critical Review of<i>Homo Economicus</i>from Five Approaches

Neoclassical economics is based on and structured around the notion of homo economicus. The theory of consumer choice, the theory of the firm, industrial organization, and welfare theorems all require the assumption that agents act in accordance with the scheme of individualistic rational optimization. In this context, our contribution is threefold. First, we delimit the notion of homo economicus according to five characteristics or dimensions. Second, we critically review this anthropological scheme from five distinct approaches, namely, behavioral economics, institutional economics, political economy, economic anthropology, and ecological economics. Third, we conclude that the scheme of homo economicus is clearly inadequate and deficient. However, despite its inadequacies, it remains one of the fundamental pillars of the neoclassical paradigm in economics, which allows us to discuss why we have not yet overcome this paradigm.
Optimized dynamic point cloud compression

3D point clouds are receiving increased attention due to their potential for many important applications, such as real-time 3D immersive telepresence. Compared to traditional video technology, 3D point cloud systems allow free viewpoint rendering, as well as mixing of natural and synthetic objects. However, this improved user experience comes at the cost of increased storage and bandwidth requirements as point clouds are typically represented by the geometry and colour of millions up to billions of 3D points. For this reason, major efforts are being made to develop efficient point cloud compression schemes. The task, however, is very challenging due to the irregular structure of point clouds. To standardize these efforts, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) launched in January 2017 a call for proposals for 3D point cloud compression technology. In October 2017, the responses were evaluated and the first test model for lossy compression of dynamic point clouds (TMC2) was established. This test model defines a first “common core” algorithm for collaborative work towards the final standard. The aim of OPT-PCC is to contribute to these efforts by developing algorithms that optimize the rate-distortion performance of the test model. OPT-PCC’s objectives are to: 

1.	O1: build analytical models that accurately describe the effect of the geometry and colour quantization of a 3D point cloud on the bit rate and distortion; 
2.	O2: develop fast search algorithms that optimize the allocation of the available bit budget between the geometry information and colour information; 
3.	O3: implement a compression scheme for dynamic 3D point clouds that outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of rate-distortion performance. The target is to reduce the bit rate by at least 20% for the same reconstruction quality;  
4.	O4: provide multi-disciplinary training to the researcher in algorithm design, metaheuristic optimisation, computer graphics, and leadership and management skills.
Water, Sanitation And Children's Health : Evidence From 172 DHS Surveys

This paper combines 172 Demography and Health Survey data sets from 70 countries to estimate the effect of water and sanitation on child mortality and morbidity. The results show a robust association between access to water and sanitation technologies and both child morbidity and child mortality. The point estimates imply, depending on the technology level and the sub-region chosen, that water and sanitation infrastructure lowers the odds of children to suffering from diarrhea by 7-17 percent, and reduces the mortality risk for children under the age of five by about 5-20 percent. The effects seem largest for modern sanitation technologies and least significant for basic water supply. The authors also find evidence for the Mills-Reincke Multiplier for both water and sanitation access as well as positive health externalities for sanitation investments. The overall magnitude of the estimated effects appears smaller than coefficients reported in meta-studies based on randomized field trials, suggesting limits to the scalability and sustainability of the health benefits associated with water and sanitation interventions.
New approaches to uncover dark matter in the post-wimp era

Uncovering the particle nature of dark matter (DM) is one of the primary goals of fundamental physics and cosmology today. DM accounts for 85% of the matter in the Universe, but only its gravitational effects on the motion of celestial objects have been observed. DM research is arguably in a critical state: the long-prevailing WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) paradigm has not been confirmed experimentally up to now, putting the focus on the electroweak scale under serious pressure. I played a leading role in both identifying and bringing to fall some of the most promising WIMP signal candidates, thanks to new data analysis and modeling techniques that I continuously develop and employ with my group. Furthermore, I am an initiator and lead developer of a powerful new analysis framework for combining a vast range of astrophysical, cosmological, collider and laboratory data, which now forms the core of the most accurate global studies of DM theories.

My goal is to discover particle DM in the post-WIMP era, both by introducing new approaches and by adapting methods that I successfully developed for WIMP searches. I will conclusively probe astrophysical hints for sterile neutrino and axion DM, which are the most promising DM candidates next to the WIMP. However, given the hundreds of valid DM models on the market, one should be wary of repeating the fixation on specific energy scales yet again. I will develop an urgently needed 'principled lampposts' approach to identify gaps in searches for a large number of DM models across the scales. I will cover substantial unexplored territory in the axion and sterile neutrino DM parameter space with upcoming radio and X-ray data, study indirect detection signals over a large range of frequencies, and constrain the substructure of DM with upcoming optical, infrared and radio observations. The results will lead to a detection of the most promising DM candidates, or provide the strongest constraints.
THE INFLUENCE OF MACROECONOMICS INDICATORSTO IMPORT RICE IN INDONESIA

This research aimed to analyze how the influence gross domestic product,
inflation rate and exchnage rate to import rice as the partially or simultaneously.
Data used from secondary data which is gross domestic product, inflation rate
and exchnage rate that published by Bank Indonesia. Analize method used t test
and f test hyphotesis. The result is, as partial the gross domestic product has the
positve influence to import rice. The inflation rate and exchange rate are not
influence to import rice in Indonesia. As the simultaneously, gross domestic
product, inflation rate and exchnage rate have significant influence to import rice
in Indonesia . The contribution of gross domestic product, inflation rate and
exchnage rate to import rice in Indonesia is 36.80 percent.
Paesaggi culturali intesi come integrazione di processi dinamici: il vomero da luogo di delizie a luogo urbano

Il contributo illustra, attraverso gli strumenti della rappresentazione e del rilievo, le trasformazioni che il paesaggio della collina del Vomero a Napoli ha subito nel corso della storia, passando da "luogo di delizie" a "luogo urbano", continuando a caratterizzare il paesaggio dell’intera città. A tale scopo, si è ritenuto importante riconoscere e identificare, in uno spazio fisico, vissuto ed eterogeneo di un luogo, nel caso specifico, della collina del Vomero, i paesaggi culturali che contengono sia i segni del passato che quelli della contemporaneità. Delineare, quindi, quei processi dinamici che rappresentano la storia degli insediamenti umani in continua trasformazione, significa anche delineare il nostro patrimonio identitario, la cui conoscenza è necessaria per ritrovare il racconto di “chi siamo” e di “chi eravamo” e per costruire il futuro delle nuove generazioni.