SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Robust mobility and dexterous manipulation in disaster response by fullbody telepresence in a centaur-like robot

Disaster scenarios, like the Fukushima nuclear accident, clearly show that the capabilities of today's disaster response robots are not sufficient for providing the needed support to rescue workers. The CENTAURO project aims at development of a human-robot symbiotic system where a human operator is telepresent with its whole body in a Centaur-like robot, which is capable of robust locomotion and dexterous manipulation in the rough terrain and austere conditions characteristic of disasters. The CENTAURO robot will consist of a four-legged basis and an anthropomorphic upper body and will be driven by lightweight, compliant actuators. It will be able to navigate in affected man-made environments, including the inside of buildings and stairs, which are cluttered with debris and partially collapsed. The Centauro system will be capable of using unmodified human tools for solving complex bimanual manipulation tasks, such as connecting a hose or opening a valve, in order to relieve the situation. A human operator will control the robot intuitively using a full-body telepresence suit that provides visual, auditory, and upper-body haptic feedback. Rich sensors will provide the necessary situation awareness.
Robot percepts and suggested actions will be displayed to the operator with augmented reality techniques. For routine manipulation and navigation tasks, autonomous robot skills will be developed. This will allow for taking the operator partially out of the control loop, which will be necessary to cope with communication latencies and bandwidth limitations and to reduce the operator workload.
A series of increasingly complex tests with corresponding evaluation criteria will be devised from end-user requirements to systematically benchmark the capabilities of the developed disaster response system.
FAPNN: An FPGA based Approximate Probabilistic Neural Network Library

Due to their flexible architecture and inherent parallelism, FPGAs are ideal candidates for neural network implementations. Still they have not achieved wide-spread acceptance in this regard. One of the major roadblocks for FPGAs is the implementation of complex mathematical functions encountered in neural networks. Exact implementation of these functions consume large number of resources. In this paper we discuss an FPGA-based neural network prototyping platform and the approximate implementation of a probabilistic neural network (PNN) on a Xilinx 7-Series FPGA. The complex mathematical functions as replaced by approximations. Analysis shows that hardware performance is much higher than that of software counter parts and the error induced due to approximations is within tolerable limit.
Holistic and integrated urban model for smart cities

STARDUST serves as smart connector bringing together advanced European cities and citizens of Pamplona (ES), Tampere (FI) and Trento (IT) - with the associated follower cities of Derry (UK), Kozani (GR) and Litomerice (CZ). These six cities, collaborating with relevant industrial partners, including a variety of innovative local SME, and supported by academia and research centres will demonstrate three lighthouse cities, deploy intelligent integration measures, test and validate technical solutions and innovative business models, and deliver blueprints for replication throughout Europe and abroad. 
The objective of STARDUST project is to pave the way towards the transformation of the carbon supplied cities into Smart, high efficient, intelligent and citizen oriented cities, developing urban technical green solutions and innovative business models, integrating the domains of buildings, mobility and efficient energy through ICT, testing and validating these solutions, enabling their fast roll out in the market .
The core idea of the STARDUST project is the demonstration of different “innovation islands” as urban incubators of technological, social, regulatory and market solutions which, once validated, could contribute to this objective of transformation of our cities towards Smart Cities. The integrated approach of STARDUST is based in the combination of technological solutions with human being reflected in joint decision making, economic constraints, citizen’s governance, etc. The STARDUST Smart City concept has been designed to enhance the integration of all these aspects to define a new Urban Metabolism.
Machiavelli and machiavellism in japan: 1868-1968. for an intellectual history of realism from its outskirts

The project studies the fortune in the modern and contemporary Japanese culture (1868-1968) of the notion of Machiavellian realism—the representation of Machiavelli as the father of modern Realpolitik. The analysis will focus, in particular, on the relationship between realism and conflict, which has been fundamental in the nineteenth and twentieth century historiography on Machiavelli as well as in the Japanese discourse on national identity. The inquiry will not address the Japanese interpretations of Machiavelli as an isolated case, but will explore their relations to the wider consideration that the Italian thinker enjoyed in the West, especially in the US and Italy. Through the study of the transfers, exchanges, and interactions between the Japanese interpreters and their European and American colleagues, we aim at sketching a global history of Machiavellism and modern realism from the eccentric perspective of Japan. Our expectation is that, by doing so, we will be able to question some of the fundamental assumptions lying behind the conception of realism as it established itself in mainstream modern politics. In the proposed project, supervision by an expert in Machiavelli and a theorist and methodologist of Global Intellectual History will help the experienced researcher, who has a background both in early modern Italian thought and Japanese intellectual history, to produce a truly global reflection without loosing theoretical depth and historical accuracy. The final goal is to reach out to a wide audience of academics, non-academic experts of foreign policies and interested laymen, showing the potential for intellectual history to contribute to extra-academic debates on global politics. Training will not only focus on specific skills and knowledge within the fields of Renaissance Studies and Global History, but also in the writing and management of research projects, allowing the experienced researcher to step forward with his career towards tenure track.
Recovery and enhancement of high quality fruit tree varieties to enrich biodiversity and to support organic fruit farming in the cross-border areas

Many areas of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region and of the bordering Slovenia, because of their general characteristics (climatic conditions, crops, types of stock farming) are suitable for fruit crops, for which a large number of them can boast a longstanding tradition. Several of the most important diseases affecting fruit trees have been registered both in Italy and in Slovenia; some of them make quarantine necessary, with repercussions for the market of plant and tree nursery. The growing attention paid to environmental protection and human health, as well as the natural resistance/tolerance to disease shown by fruit trees, that over time have adjusted to their environment, make these crops suitable for low environmental impact farming and in particular for organic practices.Suffice it to mention some of the apple-tree varieties which have been selected through years of research to be resistant to the main fungal diseases (scab/oidium). In this regard, this project aims at enhancing and spreading native genotypes of apple, pear and plum trees in the hill and mountain areas of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region and in the neighbouring Slovenia; the project also involves apple-tree varieties which have proved to be scab tolerant in the whole area concerned. The production obtained by means of low environmental impact regimes provides consumers with a greater health protection. The project objectives can be achieved through: scientific studies aimed at detecting the best varieties from the agronomic and organoleptic points of view, the dissemination of knowledge and selected cultivars among fruit growers, technicians and institutional bodies, divulging information about the selected and cultivated varieties among consumers, ensuring the quality of the fresh and processed products obtained by means of environment-friendly techniques (organic method).
SEARCH QUERY GENERATION USING BRANCHING PROCESS FOR DATABASE QUERIES

In one embodiment, a method receives a search query including terms formed in a natural language expression. The terms are included in entities that are categorized in types of entities. The method analyzes the entities for the terms to generate a set of branch queries that include different combinations of entities for the terms. The set of branch queries are ranked based on the types of entities associated with entities of the respective branch queries and a branch query is selected based on the ranking for the branch query. The method uses the entities of the branch query to perform a search of a structured database of structured objects.
CREAZIONE DI ISOLA ROBOTICA 4.0 DI SALDATURA IN GUAZZI 2.0 SRL

DOPO ATTENTA VALUTAZIONE DEI COSTI E DELLE PROSPETTIVE DI MERCATO GUAZZI 2.0 HA DECISO DI EFFETTUARE UN IMPORTANTE INVESTIMENTO IN UN PRESTAZIONALE ROBOT DI SALDATURA CHE ANDRA AD INTERNALIZZARE UNA LAVORAZIONE FINO AD ORA GESTITA NELLA PRESSOCHE TOTALITA
Nanopores for new molecular nitrogen chemistry

We will study the adsorption, binding, transport and reactivity of N-containing substrates within the nanopores of functionalized and doped metal-organic framework (MOF) materials. A range of important target molecules (e.g., NH3, N2H4, N2O, NO, NO2 and N2O4) will be studied in this project, which aims to re-define the molecular chemistry for these energetic N-compounds in confined space, and to develop selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx in the presence of NH3, urea and hydrocarbons. The PI has extensive experience in the field of coordination chemistry and hybrid materials, and seeks to change research direction to develop new gas phase catalysts and to gain fundamental understanding of molecular interactions, properties and function of specific energy, environmentally-related substrates within MOFs. Research objectives include the:
• Design and synthesis of new porous MOFs with emphasis on the decoration of their pore environment and improvement of their structural stability and function; 
• Characterisation of host and substrate-loaded materials by state-of-the-art in situ structural, dynamic and spectroscopic methods for the construction of structure-function relationships, supported by computational analysis and modelling;
• Adsorption, binding, release and separation of NH3, N2H4, N2O, NO, NO2 and N2O4 via both static and dynamic experiments;
• Tests of degradation and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of captured NOx molecules with NH3, urea and hydrocarbons under mild conditions using nanoporous MOFs as host catalysts; 
• Assembly of a MOF-based (i) catalytic deNOx reactor and (ii) NH3 storage system for potential portable applications. 
This project will deliver new functional materials as high capacity portable NH3 stores, efficient capture medium for NOx, and new catalysts for reduction and mitigation of NOx to deliver significant impacts to academia, industry and society of direct relevance to clean energy and sustainable environment.
Synthesis and Properties about Color Stability of m-SiP-PPDFV with Difluoro Groups in Vinylene Units

New electroluminescent polymers with fluoro groups in vinylene units, poly(m-silylphenyl-p-phenylene-difluorovinylene) (m-SiP-PPDFV) have been synthesized by GILCH polymerization. These polymers have been used as the electroluminescent (EL) layers in single layer light-emitting diodes (LEDs) (ITO/PEDOT/polymer/Ca:Al). m-SiP-PPDFV shows PL around = 452 nm and green EL around = 497 nm. The current-voltage-luminance (I-V-L) characteristics of the polymers show turn-on voltages of 4.0 V approximately. Two fluoro groups were introduced on every vinylene units of m-SiP-PPV to give m-SiP-PPDFV in an attempt to increase the electron affinity of the parent polymer, and the devices show an increased color stability even with vinylene units. The color stability is attributed to the electron-withdrawing effect of the fluoro groups, which protect vinylene units from oxidation in PPV derivatives. We believe that fluoro groups can be introduced in vinylene units in order to attain excellent stability of PPV derivatives.
Reinforcing the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in logistics technologies of the university of miskolc

The overall aim of the UMi-TWINN project is to reinforce the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in logistic systems of the University of Miskolc (UMi) and its high-quality Twinning partners for the benefit of different industries and logistics market. To achieve this aim, the 3 year project will build upon the existing strong research and innovation base of UMi and its twinning partners Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. IFF (Fraunhofer), Technische Universitaet Graz (TUGraz) and Intelligentsia Consultants (Intelligentsia). The UMi-TWINN project aims to boost UMi and twinning partners' scientific excellence and innovation capacity in logistics technologies, as well as implementing a research and innovation strategy focused on three sub-topics:
1.	Design of logistic systems and networks; 
2.	Intelligent transport systems; 
3.	Dynamical analysis of materials handling machines.

The research and innovation strategy takes into account the recent SWOT analysis of UMi as well as the national Hungarian research priorities and regional Smart Specialisation Strategy . The specific objectives of the UMi-TWINN project are presented below:
Objective 1: Strengthen UMi’s research excellence in Logistics
Objective 2: Enhance the research and innovation capacity of UMi and Twinning partners
Objective 3: Raise the research profile of UMi and the Twinning Partners
Objective 4: Contribute to the research and innovation priorities of Hungary
Objective 5: Support research and innovation on a European level

In order to achieve these objectives, the consortium partners defined a comprehensive set of measures and activities implemented via the project’s work packages:
* Short term staff exchanges
* Training workshops, summer schools and conference
* Dissemination and outreach activities
Optical inspection of solar cells using phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Abstract The inspection and measurement of solar cells has become an important technique in evaluating the efficiency and quality of solar cell devices. Currently, surface defect detection of solar cells can be achieved by several approaches such as machine vision, photoluminescence, and electroluminescence imaging techniques. Nevertheless, it is still difficult to inspect the inner structures of solar cells. In response to this need, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have become common techniques for investigating the nanostructures of solar cells. However, both carry the disadvantages of destructive imaging, high cost, and a small inspection area. Moreover, it is difficult to simultaneously estimate multiple optical properties with the aforementioned techniques. In this study, we propose the use of phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) for the inspection of solar cells. We develop a two-reference-arm configuration to reduce the phase noise that intrinsically accompanies the OCT system. Based on the proposed approach to extract the amplitude and phase terms from OCT interference signals, the 3D microstructure of solar cells can be obtained while simultaneously probing the nanostructures on arbitrary planes of the solar cell. The OCT microstructural results show that the structures of different layers can be nondestructively visualized and quantitatively evaluated. From the phase signal, the inverted pyramid structure, which is commonly used for the reduction of interface reflection, can be visualized. Moreover, based on the two-reference-arm configuration, the optical reflection coefficient (ORC) can be estimated in order to evaluate the interface reflection from the surface of solar cell. Results show that PS-OCT can be a valuable tool for providing nondestructive inspection of the micro/nanostructures of solar cells.
SANITARY OUTLET DEVICE AND SANITARY FITTING

The invention relates to a sanitary outlet device (1), in which a beam former receiving element (3) is formed on a housing (2), into which an adapter (4) is arranged so as to be removably inserted and rotatable about its axis of rotation 6, wherein the adapter (4) can be rotated between a fixing position, in which the adapter (4) is secured against removal, and a releasing position, in which the adapter (4) can be removed.
Optimal Design of Adaptive Laminated Beam Using Layerwise Finite Element

First, an efficient and accurate finite element model for smart composite beams is presented. The developed model is based on layerwise theory and includes the electromechanical coupling effects. Then, an efficient design optimization algorithm is developed which combines the layerwise finite element analysis model for the smart laminated beam, sensitivity analysis based on analytical gradients and sequential quadratic programming (SQP). Optimal size/location of sensors/actuators is determined for dynamic displacement measurement purposes and for vibration control applications. For static and eigenvalue problems, the objective is to minimize the mass of the beam under various constraints including interlaminar stresses, displacements, and frequencies. For transient vibration problems, the objective is the minimization of the actuation control effort to suppress the vibration in a controlled manner. Illustrative examples are provided to validate the formulation and to demonstrate the capabilities of the present methodology.
A multifactorial analysis of possessive structures: mapping the interaction of language, culture, and cognition

A Multifactorial Analysis of Possessive Structures: Mapping the Interaction of Language, Culture, and Cognition
There is a general consensus in the linguistic community that language is embedded in its cognitive, social, and multimodal dimensions, but these dimensions are often studied in isolation. We propose a novel methodology of linguistic analysis that integrates these interacting dimensions and provide new data on severely under-described languages that are both essential to move beyond the gridlock of polemics in ongoing scientific debates. The MAPS project will not only extend the current knowledge on the interaction of language, culture, and cognition but will also address the urgent issues of preserving the linguistic and cultural heritage of indigenous communities. We precisely measure the impact of three societal factors (assimilation policies, gender, and contact pressure) on language, culture, and cognition within two indigenous linguistic groups: the North Sámi people of Norway, and the Paamese people of Vanuatu. The project will determine whether the three societal factors affect patterns of linguistic change and impact the way of thinking of the two indigenous communities to the extent of potentially redefining their social structure. MAPS embodies the EU’s commitment and values in improving the intercultural integration of both ‘old’ European indigenous minority communities and ‘new’ linguistic group minorities by putting the spotlight on the key role of language policy making and its socio-cognitive-linguistic effects.
Avaliação da qualidade de vida de crianças e adolescentes com Doenças Desmielinizantes através do questionário genérico pediatric quality of life inventory (PEDSQL)

Introdução: De forma geral, doenças crônicas parecem alterar o eixo psíquico-comportamental. Entretanto, a investigação da qualidade de vida em pacientes pediátricos com diagnóstico de doenças desmielinizantes ainda carece de informações. Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade de vida de pacientes na faixa etária pediátrica com doenças desmielinizantes acompanhadas no ambulatório de neurologia e incluídas no Estudo Multicêntrico Observacional para Caracterização da Esclerose Múltipla Pediátrica no Brasil (EMOCEMP) por meio do questionário PedSQL, além de associar com possíveis alterações psíquicas. Métodos: Estudo quantitativo descritivo, transversal e de levantamento de dados, realizado por meio da aplicação do questionário PedsQL e Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21). Resultados: Foram avaliadas 24 crianças com doenças desmielinizantes e que estão em acompanhamento no EMOCEMP, sendo observado maior prevalência do diagnóstico de Esclerose Múltipla (29,3%) e Encefalomielite Disseminada Aguda (25%). Desses, 62,5% apresentaram qualidade de vida acima da média. Em relação ao gráfico DASS-21, 25% apresentaram ansiedade e estresse moderados e 17 % depressão moderada. Conclusão: Os dados analisados mostram que, apesar da qualidade de vida nos pacientes analisados estar acima da média descrita pela literatura, há uma alta frequência de alterações psíquicas em pacientes diagnosticados com doenças desmielinizantes na faixa etária pediátrica em acompanhamento no HCB
Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology

Among the search tools currently on the Web, search engines are the most well known thanks to the popularity of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. While extremely successful, these major search engines do have serious limitations. This book introduces large-scale metasearch engine technology, which has the potential to overcome the limitations of the major search engines. Essentially, a metasearch engine is a search system that supports unified access to multiple existing search engines by passing the queries it receives to its component search engines and aggregating the returned results into a single ranked list. A large-scale metasearch engine has thousands or more component search engines. While metasearch engines were initially motivated by their ability to combine the search coverage of multiple search engines, there are also other benefits such as the potential to obtain better and fresher results and to reach the Deep Web. The following major components of large-s ale metasearch engines will be discussed in detail in this book: search engine selection, search engine incorporation, and result merging. Highly scalable and automated solutions for these components are emphasized. The authors make a strong case for the viability of the large-scale metasearch engine technology as a competitive technology for Web search. Table of Contents: Introduction / Metasearch Engine Architecture / Search Engine Selection / Search Engine Incorporation / Result Merging / Summary and Future Research
Study of neutral pion decays at the na62 experiment at cern

The project presented in this proposal will study decays of the neutral pion at the NA62 experiment at CERN. The main objectives of the project are the measurements of neutral pion transition form factor and the branching fraction of the very rare decay of neutral pion into an electron-positron pair by an analysis of the data sample collected by the NA62 experiment in years 2016-2018. The former observable is an important input to theoretical computations of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, while the latter represents a direct probe of the Standard Model of particle physics. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is a partner organization of this project, with the role of hosting the researcher during two one-month long secondments. This proposal includes both the transfer of knowledge to the host institution and the training of the candidate in new advanced techniques, such as artificial neural network application in pattern recognition. Various outreach activities are planned in the proposal, targetting general public and students from secondary schools.