SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
BUILT HERITAGE, ENERGY and ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY INTEGRATED TOOLS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF HISTORIC URBAN AREAS

The built heritage preservation has to meet to contemporary needs of a changing world and a main necessity has become the sustainability, in term of environmental, economic and social issues. BhENEFIT proposes a holistic approach to the management of the Historic Built Areas (hereinafter HBA), considering a wide spectrum of related aspects, concerning daily maintenance links to preservation and valorization of historic heritage in a sustainable perspective.
The proposed strategy considers:
- functional compatibility evaluation between the expected use and the historical value;
- performance optimization of the building, in the perspective of its energy efficiency and structural behaviour increase;
- long-term sustainability of the action, with minimization of emergency actions through a comprehensive monitoring strategy, which is aimed at planned preservation of Cultural Heritage.
To implement that strategy, BhENEFIT wants to build management capacities, involving and coordinating relevant players from public and private sectors and providing innovative methodologies, deployed also from the RTD activities of the technical partners for the b(h)enefit of the local communities.
The project is structured on 3 main components:
*Improving the governance’s system, toward a shared strategy for managing the HBAs, reducing the gap between regulations, responsibilities and implementations.
*Deployment of tools, to help the players in implementing the strategy, through monitoring and provisional instruments
*Increasing the capacities of the players, to support the Strategy with more cooperative and pro-active staff.
BHENEFIT methodology will be validated by 13 partners in 8 different HBA pilot areas in Central Europe, every of which is related to specific issues (earthquake, pollution, touristic flows, energy efficiency etc.): the developed tools (action plans, ICT tools, etc) will be customized to local needs.
PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD WITH HEAT SINK

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) may include a heat sink (120) configured to draw heat from a surface-mounted component (128) through the PCB (110) toward a side (116) of the PCB opposite a side (114) having the surface-mounted component. The heat sinks may be single piece components that extend at least partially through the PCB. In some embodiments, the PCB may include connectors (500, 517,530, 531,537,545) that interface between the PCB and a heat sink, or possibly other components.
Examination of the relativistic Dirac equation and its implications for 2D hexagonal materials

Abstract With the advent of the metal–insulator transition (MIT) as a tool for adjusting the properties of lower dimensions materials, with nanoscale dimensions in one or more of the coordinate directions, it is worthwhile to derive analytical formulas for the electronic energy in k-space, for a generic two-dimensional hexagonal lattice as a prelude for their use in nanoscopic transport devices (using the MIT) or other solid state devices. This is done in the tight binding (TB) approximation, since it allows a tractable analytical development, with some refinements possible. This lattice structure is applicable to many 2D materials like graphene, BN, MoS2, and many others. This chapter treats the relativistic energy expression (Section 9.1 ), the Dirac conditions obtained from linear energy representation and its Hamiltonian (Section 9.2 ), the allowable α i and β Dirac matrices (Section 9.3 ), choosing specific α i and β sets and their satisfaction of the Dirac conditions (Section 9.4 ), the non-uniqueness of the Dirac matrices and their transformations (Section 9.5 ), the Dirac equation (Section 9.6 ), the plane wave form of the Dirac equation (Section 9.7 ), eigenvalues of the plane wave Dirac equation (Section 9.8 ), eigenvectors of the plane wave Dirac equation and comparison to graphene eigenvectors (Section 9.9 ), spinor eigenvectors with transverse momentum plane wave Dirac equation (Section 9.10 ), transforming from one Dirac matrix set to another (Section 9.11 ), and the transformed plane wave Dirac equation for transverse momentum (Section 9.12 ).
Social learning of strategic leadership : the role of classroom-based leadership training/education in the 'becoming' processes of senior police commanders as strategic leaders

This is an empirical study that aims to gain a deep understanding of the ‘becoming’ processes of senior police commanders as strategic leaders, particularly the role of classroom-based leadership training/education in those processes. The context examined in this study is the Hong Kong Police Force (the Force), which has a working strength of around 33,000 staff including 28,000 sworn officers. The 18 participants were all commissioner rank officers, most of whom joined the Force in the 1960s-1970s.

This study adopts a constructivist ontological assumption and an interpretive paradigm. Using an adapted grounded theory methodology, the research data collected through in-depth interviews were deconstructed, analysed and reconstructed to allow a sophisticated understanding of their strategic leadership development processes. The central theme, i.e., social learning is both a key feature of those processes and an important facet of classroom-based leadership training/education, is grounded in the lived experiences shared by the participants.

The findings of this study show that while the participants learned to become leaders from many different sources, classroom-based leadership training/education played a significant role in their ‘becoming’ processes. More specifically, compared with other sources of learning, classroom-based training/education provided them a safe learning environment that facilitated co-creation of knowledge with other course participants, activating all three levels of learning, i.e., the single-loop learning involved in acquiring new knowledge, the double-loop learning involved in broadening one’s breadth of thinking, and the triple-loop learning (transformational learning) involved in acquiring a new self-identity.

This study also identifies a number of important factors that might have affected their learning outcomes including the background of co-participants, mode of delivery, venue location and personal leadership experience of the teachers. Based on these findings, the author argues that strategic leadership development is a complex social learning process involving both cognitive and affective domains, and that the common practice of focusing primarily on the former by mainstream leadership researchers reflects questionable ontological and epistemological assumptions.
PROCESS OF MAKING EXTRUDED KNIT MATERIALS

The present invention generally relates to the process of making extruded knit materials in a continuous manner, and more specifically, to an in-line process utilizing a compound extrusion manifold comprising three or more rotary die assemblies for continuously extruding three or more polymeric filaments into a functional knit material suitable for bale wrap, cargo wrap, netted bags, drainage nets, and the like. The in-line process incorporates three or more rotary die assemblies, wherein each rotary die assembly comprises at least one extrusion orifice that is positioned within each of the individual dies so as upon rotation of each of the dies the continuously extruded filaments become intermingled and interlocked.
Forum: Crafting the Introductory Course in Religious Studies

This series of short essays considers the complex choices and decision-making processes of instructors preparing to teach, and continuing to teach, introductory courses in religious studies. In a paper originally presented in the University of Chicago's “The Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion” series, Russell McCutcheon explores a “baker's dozen” of such choices and the larger pedagogical problems with which they are entwined, ranging from classic questions of skill development and content coverage to philosophical concerns around students' identification with their topics of study and institutional concerns around governance and assessment. Aaron Hollander provides a brief introduction and four doctoral students at the University of Chicago Divinity School respond to McCutcheon's essay, widening its scope, testing its applicability, and interrogating its undergirding suppositions from the perspective of early-career educators in the field.
A road traffic noise pattern simulation model that includes distributions of vehicle sound power levels

Abstract Annoyance, sleep disturbance and other health effects of road traffic noise exposure may be related to both level and number of noise events caused by traffic, not just to energy equivalent measures of exposure. Dynamic traffic noise prediction models that include instantaneous vehicle noise emissions can be used to estimate either of these measures. However, current state-of-the-art vehicle noise emission models typically consider a single emission law for each vehicle category, whereas measurements show that the variation in noise emission between vehicles within the same category can be considerable. It is essential that the influence of vehicles that are producing significantly more (or less) noise than the average vehicle are taken into account in modeling in order to correctly predict the levels and frequency of occurrence of road traffic noise events, and in particular to calculate indicators that characterize these noise events. Here, an approach for predicting instantaneous sound levels caused by road traffic is presented, which takes into account measured distributions of sound power levels produced by individual vehicles. For the setting of a receiver adjacent to a dual-lane road carrying free flow traffic, the effect of this approach on estimated percentile levels and sound event indicators is investigated.
Innovative exploitation of Adriatic Reefs in order to strengthen blue economy

ADRIREEF has the ambition to combine innovative actions related to natural and artificial Adriatic reefs with possible socio- economic impacts originated from activities such as aquaculture and tourism, two sectors of Blue Economy. As the success of activities strongly depends on the structural and ecological performance of the reefs (both natural and artificial), the project will also include setting up and testing of suitable technologies with low impact for underwater monitoring. A White paper on the exploitation of Adriatic reefs will also include a specific plan for future funding projects in the forthcoming programming period 2021-2028._x000D_
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Information added on 2020-05-18, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): Adrireef strives to support sustainable business development and define a strategy to valorise reefs as a resource for new business. In the context of the recovery phase of tourism and business in the Adriatic area, the project guidelines will contribute to support new solutions and new approaches to diversify and sustain blue growth.
The international register of academic job categories. facilitating careers in the european research area

The Proof of Concept INTAC project will create a prototype of an online Register which systematically lists, explains and compares formal job categories and status positions of research- and teaching staff in 575 higher education institutions in France, Germany and Great Britain. It will set up the Register on a public multilingual platform and provide resources for career-relevant decision-making (such as career guidelines, CV templates, visualisation and mapping tools for career tracks and status systems, identifier of job equivalents, a community forum). While international academic mobility is growing at high rates and academic systems are rapidly changing, job-seekers as well as recruiting institutions often grapple with the fact that job and status categories in academic institutions (such as PRAG, Akademische Rätin or Teaching Fellow) are difficult to understand for those coming from other institutions or systems. As a consequence, academics may not recognize the most suitable career paths and academic institutions may not receive the best applications. Responding to a demand from academics, employers, unions, associations and organisations in the higher education sector, the INTAC Register aims to facilitate academic recruitments, make national and international academic job markets more transparent and help academic career planning in the European Research Area. In order to bring the Register to the market, INTAC will create a diversified revenue stream, including regular premium user fees and licensing to academic social media. Future sponsors from the public sector will be invited to commission more institutions, countries and service functions to be included into the Register. INTAC draws on the comparative research of the ERC DISCONEX (“The Discursive Construction of Academic Excellence”) project on categorizations and careers of academic researchers in the UK, France, Germany and the U.S.
The radiative interstellar medium

The pressure, radiation, and ionization from the warm (UV emitting) and hot (X-ray emitting) gas has a significant impact on the cold, star-forming interstellar medium. We propose to carry out a comprehensive 3D study of the turbulent, multi-phase ISM in different environments that includes, for the first time, a proper treatment of UV and X-ray emission from stellar (primary) sources and extended (secondary) sources like cooling shock fronts and evaporating clouds. We do this by means of massively parallel, high-resolution 3D simulations that capture the complex interplay of gravity, magnetic fields, feedback from massive stars (ionizing radiation, radiation pressure, stellar winds, supernovae), heating and cooling including X-rays and cosmic rays, and chemistry. We are developing a novel, original and highly efficient method to accurately treat the transfer of radiation from multiple point and extended sources in the 3D simulations. Radiation and chemistry will be coupled to achieve self-consistent heating, cooling, and ionization rates. Moreover, accurate synthetic observations covering the large dynamic range from X-rays down to radio emission will be generated to set the results in the proper observational context. This will enable us to address the key science questions: How efficient is stellar feedback in different environments and which feedback process is dominant? What is the precise role of UV radiation and X-rays, also from secondary sources? Are the observations following the key dynamical players? How do we best interpret ISM observations from ALMA, SKA, or ATHENA? How do we assist in designing future observations? With the resources requested here we will perform the most self-consistent theoretical study of the multi-phase ISM so far, thus building up a leading group for ISM research in Europe. To stimulate worldwide scientific activities and interactions we will make all data available to the community through an open-access web interface.
Modelling non-stationary tree growth responses to global warming

Tree-rings are a key proxy archive for reconstructing high resolution climate variability over the past 1-2ka at regional to global scales. Skillful reconstructions require a stationary relationship between tree growth and climate (Hutton’s principle of uniformitarianism), which is commonly evaluated by statistical calibration/verification trials against instrumental measurements. This association, however, weakened during the second half of the 20th century, when tree-ring width and density chronologies from Northern Hemisphere forests were not able to track the rapidly increasing temperatures. This so-called “divergence” problem was identified in the 1990s to be a large-scale phenomenon, and not only questions the reliability of tree-ring based temperature reconstruction, but also affects our understanding of the Earth’s climate sensitivity to anthropogenic greenhouse gases. A conclusive explanation for this central problem of contemporary paleoclimate research is, however, still missing. Here, I propose to develop a process model that simulates year-to-year and long-term variations in both tree-ring width and density of different conifer species growing under different climate regimes. Evidence from this model will be combined with data from a new, hemispheric scale network of tree-ring width and density chronologies, as well as in-situ monitoring data, to train the model, validate synthetic timeseries, and analyze spatially varying influences of climatological, air chemical and ecological drivers on tree growth. Model-data fusion and inverse modelling techniques will be applied to quantify the non-linear mechanisms underlying divergence, and to deduce methodological recommendations that can be applied by any paleoclimatologist, working with different species and in different regions of the Northern Hemisphere, to mitigate late 20th century divergence and thus improve their climate reconstructions.
GRUPO CILINDRO-PISTON BLOQUEABLE.

Grupo cilindro-pistón bloqueable, que comprende un cilindro que está subdividido por un pistón en un vástago del pistón, en dos recintos de trabajo, presentando entre los dos recintos de trabajo una unión fluida que puede bloquearse mediante un dispositivo de válvulas, presentando el dispositivo de válvulas al menos dos válvulas individuales dispuestas en serie con sendos lados de entrada y salida de válvula, que se abren sucesivamente, estando dispuesto en el paso de la corriente entre las válvulas individuales un dispositivo estrangulador que presenta una reducción de presión entre el lado de salida de la primera válvula individual y el lado de entrada de la válvula siguiente, disminuyendo en su efecto el dispositivo estrangulador con el grado creciente de apertura de la primera válvula individual, y aumentando en la misma medida la aplicación de presión de la siguiente válvula individual en el lado de entrada de válvula.
Frontiers in phononics: parity-time symmetric phononic metamaterials

The boost experienced by acoustic and elastic (phononic) metamaterial research during the past years has been driven by the ability to sculpture the flow of sound waves at will. Thanks to recent developments at the frontiers of phononic metamaterials it can be identified that active phononic control is at the cutting edge of the current research on phononic metamaterials. Introducing piezoelectric semiconductors as a material platform to discover new avenues in wave physics will have the potential to open horizons of opportunities in science of acoustic wave control. Electrically biased piezoelectric semiconductors are non-reciprocal by nature, produce mechanical gain and are highly tunable. 

The aim is to explore novel properties of sound and the ability to design Parity-Time (PT) symmetric systems that define a consistent unitary extension of quantum mechanics. Through cunningly contrived piezoelectric media sculpturing balanced loss and gain units, these structures have neither parity symmetry nor time-reversal symmetry, but are nevertheless symmetric in the product of both. PHONOMETA is inspired and driven by these common notions of quantum mechanics that I wish to translate into classical acoustics with unprecedented knowledge for the case of sound. 

I expect that the successful realization of PHONOMETA has the potential to revolutionize acoustics in our daily life. Environmental and ambient noise stem from multiple scattering and reflections of sound in our surrounding. The extraordinary properties of PT acoustic metamaterials have the groundbreaking potential to push forward physical acoustics with new paradigms to design tunable diode-like behaviour with zero reflections, which is applicable for noise pollution mitigation. Also I anticipate to impact the progress on invisibility cloaks by introducing PT symmetry based acoustic stealth coatings for hiding submarines.
Capability of regional-scale transient wind anomalies to indicate regional heavy rains

The observational atmospheric airflow can be physically interpreted as the combination of climatic airflow,planetary-scale zonal-mean wind anomalies and regional-scale wind anomalies.The regional-scale wind anomalies in lower atmosphere,such as shear lines,southern cyclones,northern cyclones,cold frontal troughs,warm shear lines with vortex in southwestern China,tropical cyclones,shear lines in inverted troughs and easterly waves,can indicate regional heavy rains.These circulation systems in wind anomalies agree with principles of synoptic analysis better than actual wind observations.The heavy rainfall bands in China are mainly the result of confrontation between airflows from both sides of convergence line in anomalous wind fields.Rainfall bands in actual observations are located to the left of low level jets because the climatic airflow and zonal-mean wind anomalies masked or weakened the role of regional-scale wind anomalies.For heavy rainfall caused by shear lines,almost 99% cases can be diagnosed with regional-scale wind anomalies.By comparison,only 66% cases can be indicated by actual observational airflows.
Progressive neurolymphomatosis with cutaneous disease: Response in a patient with mycosis fungoides

Peripheral neurolymphomatosis is a rare manifestation of advanced lymphoproliferative disorders. It is often associated with B cell lymphomas and rarely with cutaneous T cell lymphomas, such as mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome. In this case report, we present a 78-year-old male with a long-standing history of mycosis fungoides. The patient initially presented with chronic peripheral neuropathy in an ulnar nerve distribution. After an unsuccessful ulnar nerve transposition, the ulnar nerve was re-explored and a mass consistent with diffuse lymphomatous infiltration was diagnosed. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the left brachial plexus and later of the sacral plexus demonstrated diffuse thickening and peripheral nodularity in keeping with neurolymphomatosis. The patient's clinical course rapidly deteriorated thereafter and the patient succumbed to his disease. Although uncommon, neurolymphomatosis may be considered in patients with chronic peripheral neuropathy and an underlying history of a lymphoproliferative disorder. US and MR may serve as helpful non-invasive adjuncts in making the diagnosis and identifying sites for biopsy.
Methods of making spunbonded fabrics from blends of polyarylene sulfide and a crystallinity enhancer

Spunbonded fabrics are formed by melt-spinning a blend comprised of a major amount of an uncured substantially amorphous polyarylene sulfide and a minor amount of a crystallinity enhancer to obtain a nonwoven mass of filaments, and thereafter passing the nonwoven mass of filaments through a nip of heated calendering rolls to form a spunbonded fabric therefrom having at last substantially crystalline surface regions. Preferably, blending minor amounts of a polyolefin (e.g., polypropylene) with an uncured polyarylene sulfide (e.g., polyphenylene sulfide) allows spunbonded nonwoven fabrics to be formed which do not suffer from the drawbacks noted above. More specifically, spunbonded fabrics formed of a blend of PPS and polypropylene may be calendered (bonded) at temperatures greater than between about 110 to about 125° C. (preferably greater than about 140° C.), and exhibit lengthwise and widthwise shrinkage after heatsetting at 120° C. for 3 minutes which is less than about 5%.