SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A VSS Algorithm Based on Multiple Features for Object Tracking

A variable search space (VSS) approach according to the color feature combined with point feature for object tracking is presented. Mean shift is a well-established and fundamental algorithm that works on the basis of color probability distributions, and is robust to given color targets. As it solely depends upon back projected probabilities, it may miss the targets because of illumination and noise. To overcome the flaw, we proposes VSS algorithm based on the color and robust feature of the detected object. The proposed algorithm can solve the problem that the color of the detected object is similar to the background, and achieve better real-time tracking due to change the search window’s size. Experimental work demonstrates that the presented method is robust and computationally effective.
TALKING LANDS: talks between the lands of Apulia and Greece

The project aims at transforming the immaterial cultural heritage, made of narrative oral tradition and local identity into new artistic and theatrical performances to be enjoyed from a wider audience. It capitalises on the outputs of a previous project “Terre Parlanti”, widening partnership and providing innovative activities to recover and promote ancient oral traditions by: • Narrative laboratories, about stories, popular voices, images, fragments of daily life • Events of narration, promoted by the International Study Centre (output of the previous project), realized with artists, cultural associations and local actors of both countries, identifying the track of common cultural growth and peculiarities theatrical seasons in each city partner • A DVD collection designed for TV, collecting videos of the shows, backstage, researches and laboratories • An on-line journal devoted to narrative themes • Literary meetings, recorded on DVD and available on-line • Arrangement of the theatrical Room of the Talking Lands .
Study of water sorption properties for esparto grass ultimate fibre (ALFA fibre)

Natural fibres present multiple characteristics and are used in many fields such as textiles, technical or medical applications. In this context, we tried to use ligno-cellulosic fibres extracted from esparto (Stipa tenacissima L) as a support fiber in hygienic products. Due to their cellulosic nature, esparto fibres can provide a certain water sorption potential. In fact, fluff pulp was always used as a support fibre in the absorbent core structure of many hygienic products and this is particularly after adding super absorbent polymer (SAP). In this study, we choose to optimise the extraction process of these fibres using an experimental design method in order to obtain ultimate fibres and maximise their absorbent properties (absorbent capacity and retention).
Zebra Finch Mates Use Their Forebrain Song System in Unlearned Call Communication

Unlearned calls are produced by all birds whereas learned songs are only found in three avian taxa, most notably in songbirds. The neural basis for song learning and production is formed by interconnected song nuclei: the song control system. In addition to song, zebra finches produce large numbers of soft, unlearned calls, among which "stack" calls are uttered frequently. To determine unequivocally the calls produced by each member of a group, we mounted miniature wireless microphones on each zebra finch. We find that group living paired males and females communicate using bilateral stack calling. To investigate the role of the song control system in call-based male female communication, we recorded the electrical activity in a premotor nucleus of the song control system in freely behaving male birds. The unique combination of acoustic monitoring together with wireless brain recording of individual zebra finches in groups shows that the neuronal activity of the song system correlates with the production of unlearned stack calls. The results suggest that the song system evolved from a brain circuit controlling simple unlearned calls to a system capable of producing acoustically rich, learned vocalizations.
Spring arrangement to reduce body resonance.

The invention relates to a spring arrangement, especially in the form of a helical spring, for vibration insulation. In order to achieve objective damping of vibration in the audible body-sound range, the spring (1) is split in the direction of its longitudinal axis (8) into a plurality of individual sections (6), which are essentially constructed such that they are sprung and capable of vibration, the spring sections (6) being arranged at their end points such that they are in each case directly connected by means of coupling elements (7), which consist of spring material and are essentially rigid, in such a manner that the natural frequency of the individual spring sections (6) is greater than the natural frequency of an unsplit helical spring having the same number of spring turns. <IMAGE>
Network in Action to preserve and enhance cultural heritage and identity

Every day, the local administrators of the cross-border area face the real risk of closing museums/cultural sites, mainly smaller and peripheral ones. They know this means a loss of cultural roots and identity for their communities. Depopulation, stores and social services going out of business and the deterioration of historical and valuable buildings compromise the area’s extraordinary landscape. Local administrators must deal daily with people looking for work, not looking to lose or reinvent their jobs, including resident immigrants, because these people want to live where they recognise/discover their cultural identity. These two complex challenges may represent an opportunity for each another. The RACINE project tries to capitalise on many successful local experiences, by networking them and taking them as a method for cultural and socio-economic development policies, so that they will become factors of sustainable and intelligent growth. It puts in place innovative co-planning “Local pacts for the development of cultural identity ecosystems” by which museums/places of culture and the community share creative objectives, actions and resources to obtain mutual advantages based on cultural and geographical identity. It improves the accessibility to places of culture for the sake of inclusiveness and the removal of physical, cognitive and cultural disadvantages. It assigns new community functions and services to cultural sites, committed, in turn, to their communities for the mutual assumption of social responsibility.
Relationship of Image Quality and Radiation Dose for Chest Radiography in the Medical Institutions for Pneumoconiosis: A Comparison to the Korean Diagnostic Reference Level

Copyrights © 2012 The Korean Society of Radiology Purpose: To evaluate the relationship of image quality to the measurement of radiation dose for chest radiography in the medical institutions for pneumoconiosis (MIPs). Materials and Methods: Film-screen radiography (FSR) (n = 24) and digital radiography (DR) (n = 5) were used as chest radiography modalities. The entrance surface dose (ESD) was measured from the exposure conditions routinely used for chest radiography using an ionization chamber dosimeter. All images were randomly selected for evaluating image quality from each of the MIPs, and independently rated by two experienced radiologists using a 3-point scale. Results: ESD of DR was higher than FSR, excluding flat panel. However, image quality of DR was significantly higher than that of FSR, especially in flat panel and the charge-coupled device. ESD and tube voltage were not significantly correlated with image quality. DR more frequently exceeded the Korean diagnostic reference level for ESD than FSR (41.7% vs. 20.0%), though the difference was not statistically significant. Conclusion: DR used a higher radiation dose than FSR; however, there was a possibility of a radiation dose reduction in relation to image quality. We suggest that the MIPs transfer to a flat panel with automatic exposure control for a more effective radiation dose management. Index terms Radiography Image Quality Radiation Dosage Thoracic Relationship of Image Quality and Radiation Dose for Chest Radiography in the Medical Institutions for Pneumoconiosis: A Comparison to the Korean Diagnostic Reference Level 진폐요양기관에서 흉부방사선촬영을 위해 사용되는 선량과 화질의 관계: 국내 진단참고준위와 비교
MAILLON DE CHAINE ET CHAINE TRANSPORTEUSE EQUIPEE D'UN TEL MAILLON ET ENSEMBLE DE BLOCAGE CONSTITUE D'UNE TELLE CHAINE

L'invention est relative à un maillon (1) de chaîne pour la tenue et le transport de tiges végétales sur les machines industrielles, notamment pour les tiges de plantes fibreuses. Le maillon se fixe sur une courroie (5) et coopère avec des maillons adjacents (1', 1") pour former une chaîne (39). Il se compose d'une pièce externe (3) et d'une pièce interne (7), la pièce interne s'emboîtant dans la pièce externe. Le maillon présente une première portion extrême (25) et une seconde portion extrême (27), opposée à la première, la première portion extrême étant agencée pour s'engager dans la seconde portion extrême (27') d'un maillon (1') adjacent. L'invention porte également sur la chaîne (39) comprenant une courroie et des maillons, ainsi que sur un ensemble constitué d'une chaîne et d'une courroie de blocage, ladite courroie de blocage étant agencée pour se loger dans les pièces internes des maillons et pour maintenir les tiges végétales.
Pénurie de main-d’œuvre et immigration ultra sélective

La politique migratoire danoise de ces dernières années s’appuie sur un discours assimilant les étrangers, et particulièrement les réfugiés, à un fardeau pour l’État-providence. Le Danemark a mis en place des lois d’immigration toujours plus restrictives avec un accès limité au travail et au regroupement familial. Les effets sont majeurs sur le marché du travail danois qui connaît aujourd’hui de fortes pénuries de main-d’œuvre. L’objectif de cet article est de confronter la situation tendue du marché du travail danois et la nouvelle politique migratoire en cours depuis quelques années.
Construction of Normalized RNA‐seq Libraries for Next‐Generation Sequencing Using the Crab Duplex‐Specific Nuclease

RNA-seq is a method for studying the transcriptome of cells or tissues by massively parallel sequencing of tens of millions of short DNA fragments. However, the broad dynamic range of gene expression levels, which span more than five orders of magnitude, necessitates considerable over-sequencing to characterize low-abundance RNAs at sufficient depth. Here, we describe a method that enables efficient sequencing of low-abundance RNAs by normalizing or reducing the range spanned by the most abundant RNA species to the least abundant RNA species. This normalization is achieved using an approach that was developed for generating expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries that uses the crab duplex-specific nuclease and exploits the kinetics of DNA annealing. That is, double-stranded cDNA is denatured, then allowed to partially re-anneal, and the most abundant species, which re-anneal most rapidly, are digested with crab duplex-specific nuclease. This procedure substantially decreases the proportion of sequence reads from highly expressed RNAs, facilitating assessment of the full spectrum of the sequence and structure of transcriptomes.
Synthesis and characterization of nanogels of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) by a combination of light and small-angle X-ray scattering

Thermo-responsive crosslinked nanogels of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) were synthesized by emulsion polymerization and the size was varied using different concentrations of surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) in the polymerization process. The collapse behavior of the nanogels at the lower critical solution temperature at around 32 °C was investigated by dynamic light scattering, and by combined static light scattering (SLS) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The combined data from SLS and SAXS were analyzed by a model for the nanogels which at intermediate temperatures included a central core and a more diffuse outer layer describing pending polymer chains with a low degree of cross linking. In the expanded state, the particles were modeled with a single component with a broad graded surface. In the collapsed state the nanogels were modeled as homogeneous and relatively compact particles. The amount of surfactant used had a profound effect on the final size of the nanogels owing to the phenomenon of colloidal stabilization of the emulsion droplets during polymerization. The combination of SLS and SAXS as applied to the nanogels is an attractive method for particle characterization as it spans a very large range of scattering vector from q = 0.0004 to 0.22 Å(-1).
STABLE AQUEOUS SUSPENSION OF PRECIPITATED SILICA

L'invention concerne une suspension aqueuse stable et pompable de silice. Cette suspension se caractérise en ce qu'elle comprend: une silice de précipitation, une biogomme, un tensio-actif cationique choisi dans le groupe des composés d'ammonium quaternaire et des composés de sulfonium ou de phosphonium. Cette suspension stable peut être avantageusement utilisée dans les industries du papier et du carton comme par exemple le couchage pour la préparation de papiers spéciaux, le jet d'encre, le transfert thermique et la préparation du papier de bas grammage. La suspension de l'invention convient pour toutes les applications connues de ce type de produits comme par exemple en tant que compositions de polissage, adjuvants pour béton et matériaux de constructions, adjuvants pour peintures, encres, colles, vernis, etc...
Closing in on new physics in light-quark flavour transitions: from tau decays to the lhc

This action studies the synergy of the Energy and the Intensity Frontiers, with the focus on non-standard effects involving leptons and light quarks. The project starts with an unprecedented Effective-Field-Theory (EFT) analysis of hadronic tau decays including non-standard effects. Their discovery potential and complementarity with direct LHC searches will be assessed in a model-independent approach. The results will be combined with d(s)→u l nu (l=e,mu) transitions and eq → eq (q=u,d,s) processes in a comprehensive EFT flavour fit that will close in on New Physics involving leptons and light quarks.

The obtained model-independent results will be particularised to specific New Physics scenarios that are of phenomenological or theoretical interest. Special attention will be paid to symmetries, symmetry-breaking patterns and classes of models with well-defined power-counting schemes. The emerging correlations between the studied observables will be analysed in detail. Finally, the EFT matching to a general Leptoquark parametrisation will be carried out, along with a phenomenological analysis. The implications for specific models proposed in the recent literature to accommodate various Standard Model tensions will be studied.
Internal Charmonium Evolution in the Quark–Gluon Plasma

We employ a time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation to study the evolution of a $c\bar c$ dipole in a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Medium effects on the heavy-quark potential in the QGP are found to significantly affect the timescales of the internal evolution of the dipole. Color-screening can enhance the overlap of the expanding wavepackage with excited states at high temperature, while it is reduced at lower temperatures where the dipole favors the formation of the charmonium ground state. We investigate the consequences of this mechanism on the double ratio of charmonium nuclear modification factors, $R_{AA}^{\psi(2S)}/R_{AA}^{J/\psi}$, in heavy-ion collisions. The impact of the transition mechanisms on this ratio turns out to be rather sensitive to the attractive strength of the potential, and to its temperature dependence.
PID control with robust disturbance feedback control

Disturbance Feedback Control (DFC) is a technique, originally proposed by Fuji Electric, for augmenting existing control systems with an extra feedback for attenuation of disturbances and model errors. In this work, we analyze the robustness and performance of a PID-based control system with DFC. A multiplicative uncertainty model is used to represent mismatch between a nominal model and the actual plant, and expressions for robust stability, nominal and robust performance are derived. We propose a simple grid-based search algorithm that can be used to find DFC gains to achieve robust stability and performance (if such gains exist). Finally, two different simulation case studies are evaluated and compared. Our numerical studies indicate that better performance can be achieved with the proposed method compared with a conservatively tuned PID controller and comparable performance can be achieved when compared with an H-infinity controller.
A Study on the Self-Efficacy and Expectancy for Success of Pre-University Students

Pre-university students enrolled in a private university need high self-efficacy and expectancy for success to overcome problems associated with language requirements, course duration, assessments, and study skills. The purpose of the study was to examine the self-efficacy and expectancy for success of 105 pre-university engineering and business students from a private university in Sarawak. Self-efficacy was assessed by General SelfEfficacy Scale, while expectancy for success by Generalized Expectancy for Success Scale. A three-way analysis of variance revealed no significant group, gender, or age differences in self-efficacy. Findings showed that pre-university engineering and business students tended to have more similarities rather than differences in their self-efficacy. Significant group differences were found in three aspects of expectancy for success: Success in projects undertaken, ability to solve own problems, and success in personal life. Findings reflected that engineering students had higher expectancy for success in terms of doing projects, solving problems, and attaining personal success than business students. Significant age differences were found in expectancy for success in five aspects. Results indicated that older students had more favorable expectancy for success than younger students. Students might become increasingly more optimistic and confident with the passage of time, partly due to greater exposure toward learning and significant life experiences. Items with high percentages of agreement were also recorded for both scales. Implications and recommendations were made based on significant differences and items that had high percentages of agreement.
[Management of gestational diabetes].

Pregnancy is associated with relative carbohydrate intolerance and insulin resistance. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is recognized as a risk factor for a number of adverse outcomes during pregnancy, including excessive fetal growth, increased incidence of birth trauma and neonatal metabolic abnormalities. This recognition has led to recommendations to screen all pregnant women for GDM and to treat those whose glucose tolerance tests exceed threshold criteria. Numerous epidemiological studies show that GDM affects between 1 and 25% of pregnancies, depending on the ethnicity of the population studied and the diagnostic criteria. Intervention to change lifestyle and, if maternal hyperglycemia persists, treatment with additional oral medication or insulin injections have shown to improve perinatal outcomes. Patients with GDM have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the years after delivery and these women are encouraged to practice specific health behaviours (dietary habits, physical activity) during the postpartum period. The present article discusses the management of GDM in the light of data from the latest studies and international recommendations.
Development and implementation of a diagnostic, preventive and prognostic strain-level microbial test for peri-implant diseases

Oral diseases are a global medical and socioeconomic burden. Diseases affecting dental implants (peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis) are particularly on the rise, and despite the plaque microbiome plays a crucial role in their etiology, the potential of profiling the microbial communities around implants for supporting implant care has not been exploited yet for clinical applications. The availability of metagenomic tools able to profile human microbiomes at unprecedented resolution developed within the ERC-StG MetaPG project and a pilot study we recently performed on the peri-implant microbiome are now enabling such tantalizing opportunity. In this PoC proposal, we aim to develop a product for dental clinics to provide clinically actionable indications for the prevention and treatment of peri-implant diseases by a combination of high-resolution strain-level metagenomic profiling and predictive machine learning methods. Such approach would overcome available clinical tests that are based on low-resolution molecular techniques that are inadequate at completely characterizing the plaque microbiome and do not offer a reliable support in the daily clinical practice to the dentists. By profiling and analysing 2,000 peri-implant microbiome samples collected from 50 dental clinics in the R&D phase, we aim to develop and validate a market-ready kit to (1) define a reproducible strain-level microbial signature for peri-implant diseases, (2) identify and characterize clinically relevant strain-level features of Fusobacterium nucleatum in mucositis, and (3) successfully support the clinical dental practice. Because inter-patient strain-level diversity of the plaque microbiome and of F. nucleatum in particular explains the variability in peri-implant health, our commercial proposition will provide the first microbiome-based and personalized approach for dental clinics.
Starting from the scenario Euclid–Bolyai–Einstein

Our aim is to propose several itineraries which follow the scenario having as a first step Euclid’s Fifth Postulate; as a second step the Bolyai–Lobachevsky’s non-Euclidean geometries and as a third step Einstein’s relativity theory. The role of Euclid’s fifth postulate is successively assumed by Archimedes’ axiom; Zermelo’s choice axiom; Cantor’s continuum hypothesis; von Neumann’s foundation axiom for set theory; Church–Turing thesis and Turing’s computability; the validity of classical logic under the form of the principles of identity, non-contradiction and excluded middle; the macroscopic universe assumed as form of existence, including the fact that humans are macroscopic beings; human language and semiosis assumed as the unique way to approach understanding and communication; the old Greek ideal of order, symmetry and harmony, adopted for representation of the world in Art and Poetry. The common denominator of these starting steps is the fact that they all correspond to the sensorial-empirical perception of the world. We point out the strong interaction among the steps corresponding, in these different itineraries, to Einstein’s relativity theory. We infer in this way the need of a transdisciplinary approach.