SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Promoting creativeness in augmented media services

The demand for new media content where videos are augmented with computer generated graphics grows rapidly driven by the enormous amount of online videos and the advent of new eye-wear and mobile devices. In a typical video content production workflow, expensive human resources are allocated for the creation of high quality and realism videos. The high cost of content production remains mostly with SMEs representing 85% of the creative industry sector. The use of automatic video analysis can significantly optimize the existing production workflows and cut the cost. Yet the video analytics market dominated by SMEs is highly fragmented too: Video analytics is only available at high prices and locked to vendors. This limits the interoperability and results into overall market inefficiency. 
This proposal offers the solution to this problem by bringing the developers of video analytics and their users from the content creating industry together on a shared video analytics WEB repository with innovative services for selecting, testing and soliciting all kinds of video analytics solutions. The repository allows the users to choose the solution with the utmost transparency: The user can directly test all available solutions in the repository with own videos. If the content creator cannot find a suitable video analytics from the wide range available, he can solicit a newly developed video analytics solution, which is tailor-made to his requirements. 
The objectives of this proposal are i) establish the WEB repository; ii) define core video analytics applications relevant for content creators; iii) collect a large number of relevant video analytics applications in the WEB repository; iv) customise WEB repository services to the needs of content creators; v) demonstrate added value of the repository in eight use cases implemented by the project creative SMEs; vi) develop business model for the repository commercial operation beyond the project duration.
Enabling live-cell 4d super-resolution microscopy guided by artificial intelligence

Most fundamental biomedical discoveries are carried by indirect observation, due to our inability to follow molecular-level cellular processes non-invasively in living samples. There is a major need to develop the capacity to directly observe the molecular basis of cell regulation at relevant spatial and temporal scales. My work has focused on establishing Next-Generation Super-Resolution Microscopy able to accurately describe the nanoscale structure of living-cells, beyond the capacity of conventional imaging. Despite significant advancements, Super-Resolution Microscopy does not allow observations for more than a few minutes before damaging high-intensity illumination compromises cell behaviour. Better fluorophores and optics can partly address this problem; however, a fundamental limitation remains - humans drive imaging. In microscopy, researchers take educated guesses on how to observe a sample based on empirical criteria. Acquisition settings are then kept static, despite the diversity of spatiotemporal scales associated with cell behaviour in health and disease. This project will solve these challenges by establishing self-driving microscopes, able to adapt in real-time to the biological phenomenon under observation. Doing so, I will enable the capacity for unprecedented 4D imaging data optimised for content, resolution and quality while remaining non-invasive for long periods of time. To this end, I will bridge and evolve cutting-edge concepts in Computational Optical Microscopy and Machine Learning, effectively establishing Machine Learning Guided 4D Super-Resolution Microscopy. These approaches will enable 4D live-cell nanoscopic imaging over record periods and challenge the assumption that microscopy needs to obey homogeneous temporal sampling. Its enabling capacity will be demonstrated by visualising nanoscale cellular events previously unseen over hours, such as the molecular-level progression of viral infection.
Droughts and farms’ financial performance: a farm‐level study in New Zealand

We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, sheep and beef farms using a comprehensive administrative database of all farms in New Zealand. For dairy farms, we found that drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit in the year of the drought. This effect is most likely attributable to drought‐induced increases in the export price of milk solids, as New Zealand is the market maker in this global market and almost all domestic dairy production is exported. All of these quantified impacts, however, are not very large, suggesting that, at this point in time, droughts have a fairly moderate impact on New Zealand dairy and sheep–beef businesses.
New principles in nuclear medicine imaging: A full aperture stereoscopic imaging technique

In nuclear medicine, images of planar scintigraphy and single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) obtained through gamma camera (GC) appear to be blurred. Alternatively, coded aperture imaging (CAI) can surpass the quality of GC images, but still it is not extensively used due to the decoding complexity of some images and the difficulty in controlling the noise. Summing up, the images obtained through GC are low quality and it is still difficult to implement CAI technique. Here we present a full aperture imaging (FAI) technique which overcomes the problems of CAI ordinary systems. The gamma radiation transmitted through a large single aperture is edge-encoded, taking advantage of the fact that nuclear radiation is spatially incoherent. The novel technique is tested by means of Monte Carlo method with simple and complex sources. Spatial resolution tests and parallax tests of GC versus FAI were made, and three-dimensional capacities of GC versus FAI were analyzed. Simulations have allowed comparison of both techniques under ideal, identical conditions. The results show that FAI technique has greater sensitivity (approximately 100 times) and greater spatial resolution (>2.6 times at 40 cm source-detector distance) than that of GC. FAI technique allows to obtain images with typical resolution of GC short source-detector distance but at longer source-detector distance. The FAI decoding algorithm simultaneously reconstructs four different projections, while GC produces only one projection per acquisition. Our results show it is possible to apply an extremely simple encoded imaging technique, and get three-dimensional radioactivity information. Thus GC-based systems could be substituted, given that FAI technique is simple and it produces four images which may feed stereoscopic systems, substituting in some cases, tomographic reconstructions.
The impact of a change in the tick size rule on market quality: evidence from the Australian Stock Exchange

On 1 April 2005, the Australian Stock Exchange reduced the minimum tick size for stocks priced between $0.5 and $2. We examined the market quality of the stocks affected by the minimum tick size rule, using a comprehensive intra-day data sample and an event study methodology. We found that quoted spreads declined by 18% and displayed market depths declined by 57% after the event. Overall market depth in the limit-order book also declined significantly. Although the limit-order submission strategy appears to be more aggressive in absolute terms, we found no convincing evidence of an increase in trading activity relative to the control groups. Further evidence indicates that the change in the minimum tick size rule had no impact on the order exposure of stocks in our sample.
Traitement par la métyrapone dans le syndrome de Cushing endogène : résultats d’efficacité et de tolérance de l’étude de phase III/IV PROMPT

La métyrapone est un inhibiteur de la stéroïdogenèse approuvé en Europe pour le traitement du syndrome de Cushing endogène, sur la base d’études rétrospectives. Nous présentons les résultats de la première étude prospective sponsorisée par HRA Pharma RD. L’étude comporte un seul bras de patients traités pendant 12 semaines (S12), période de titration suivie d’une extension de 24 semaines. Les 50 patients recrutés devaient avoir trois cortisoluries de 24 h (CLU) augmentées chacune d’au moins 50 % par rapports aux valeurs normales (VN = 165 nmol/24 h) avant traitement. Les patients gardant un CLU moyen (CLUm) inférieur à 2xVN à S12 pouvaient participer à l’extension jusqu’à S36. La médiane du CLUm était 3,5xVN avant traitement. L’hypercortisolisme était modéré (> 2xVN et ≤ 5xVN) chez 63 % des patients et sévère (≥ 5xVN) chez 33 %. On a observé une normalisation du CLUm (49 % des patients) ou une amélioration cliniquement significative (40 % des patients) à S12 où la médiane du CLUm était de 1,03xVN. Cette efficacité s’est maintenue à S36 où la médiane du CLUm était de 1,04xVN (CLUm normalisé chez 49 % et cliniquement significativement amélioré chez 31 %). La dose quotidienne médiane de métyrapone était de 1500 mg à S12 et S36. Les effets indésirables (EI), étaient majoritairement légers à modérés. Les EI ≥ 15 % étaient des signes d’hypocortisolisme : nausées (38 %), fatigue (26 %), anorexie (18 %), céphalées (22 %) et vertiges (16 %). Six patients ont présenté une insuffisance surrénalienne. Quatre ont interrompu l’étude pour autres EI. La métyrapone est efficace et bien tolérée dans le traitement du syndrome de Cushing.
Case for the conditioning of pastosos products. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Case for the conditioning of pasty products, of the kind that comprise two coaxial sheaths in molded plastic material, which can rotate one inside the other, a control button integral with one end of the inner sheath protruding from the end corresponding to the sheath exterior; a bowl that supports the pasty product in the form of a bar, and whose bowl moves in the inner cover and comprises, at least, a lug that goes through a groove in the inner cover and also fits in a slot of the outer cover, one of whose grooves are longitudinal and the other helical, the groove of the inner sleeve opens into the end thereof, opposite its end integral with the control button, as well as a transparent protection cap of the bar, whose open end is fitted in the end corresponding to the bowl, characterized in that the end part of the protection cap of the bar and at the end corresponding to the bowl has an inner projection, whose diameter is equal to the outer diameter of said end of the bowl, while, the end of the inner sleeve, opposite to that which is integral with the control knob, has an inner ring, the diameter of which is between the inner diameter of the head cap and the diameter of its inner projection, an annular space is located between the annular side of the tip of said cup end and the rest of the cup on an axial extension, at least equal to the axial thickness of the aforementioned ring. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
Information System for the Integrated Monitoring of Insubric Lakes and their Ecosystems

The lakes are a fundamental resource for the insubric area, the quality of their waters must be protected from the growing risks due to anthropic pressure and climate change. The main objective of the project is to support decision-making and the definition of management policies through an advanced information system based on data from innovative monitoring systems (automatic, diversified, low cost and high spatial and temporal resolution) .The system will also make it possible to identify, using a common methodology in the two countries, possible criticality in a prompt and quick manner.The production of guidelines on future challenges that the large subalpine lakes are called to face is expected.
An integrated model of clastic injectites and basin floor lobe complexes: implications for stratigraphic trap plays

Injectites sourced from base-of-slope and basin-floor parent sandbodies are rarely reported in comparison to submarine slope channel systems. This study utilises the well-constrained palaeogeographic and stratigraphic context of three outcrop examples exposed in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, to examine the relationship between abrupt stratigraphic pinchouts in basin-floor lobe complexes, and the presence, controls, and character of injectite architecture. Injectites in this palaeogeographic setting occur where there is: (i) sealing mudstone both above and below the parent sand to create initial overpressure; (ii) an abrupt pinchout of a basin-floor lobe complex through steep confinement to promote compaction drive; (iii) clean, proximal sand beds aiding fluidisation; and (iv) a sharp contact between parent sand and host lithology generating a source point for hydraulic fracture and resultant injection of sand. In all outcrop cases, dykes are orientated perpendicular to palaeoslope, and the injected sand propagated laterally beneath the parent sand, paralleling the base to extend beyond its pinchout. Understanding the mechanisms that determine and drive injection is important in improving the prediction of the location and character of clastic injectites in the subsurface. Here, we highlight the close association of basin-floor stratigraphic traps and sub-seismic clastic injectites, and present a model to explain the presence and morphology of injectites in these locations.
On the intra-annual variation of cloudiness over the Mediterranean region

Abstract The seasonal variability of cloudiness in the Mediterranean region is studied, through the examination of the mean day-to-day intra-annual variation of gridded NCEP/NCAR total cloud cover for the period 1948–2014. A dimensionality reduction process is followed by using a multivariate statistical methodology and three main modes of seasonal variation are found. The first mode is characterized by a winter maximum and a summer minimum and prevails mainly over the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas; a weak see-saw teleconnection over the Alps represents the opposite intra-annual variation. The second mode presents maxima in early autumn and late spring and minima in late summer and winter and prevails over the SW Europe and NW Africa inland regions. The third mode shows a maximum in June and a minimum in October and prevails over the eastern part of central Europe. The main characteristics of these modes are attributed to the seasonal variation of: i) the temperature and humidity of the lower and the middle troposphere affecting static stability and ii) the intensity and the position of the main circulation systems affecting the region, as for example the Azores subtropical anticyclone and the Mediterranean depressions. The examination of inter-decadal changes in the seasonal variation of cloud cover in the above core regions reveals a long-term decrease of cloudiness during the 66-year period 1948–2014. A comparison with contemporary satellite MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and surface based European Climate Assessment & Dataset (ECA&D) station cloud cover data is carried out for the above core regions, evidencing a similarity among the data sets as to their seasonal variability, which supports the validity of the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis cloud cover results.
Investigating internal architecture effect in plastic deformation and failure for TPMS-based scaffolds using simulation methods and experimental procedure

Rapid prototyping (RP) has been a promising technique for producing tissue engineering scaffolds which mimic the behavior of host tissue as properly as possible. Biodegradability, agreeable feasibility of cell growth, and migration parallel to mechanical properties, such as strength and energy absorption, have to be considered in design procedure. In order to study the effect of internal architecture on the plastic deformation and failure pattern, the architecture of triply periodic minimal surfaces which have been observed in nature were used. P and D surfaces at 30% and 60% of volume fractions were modeled with 3∗3∗ 3 unit cells and imported to Objet EDEN 260 3-D printer. Models were printed by VeroBlue FullCure 840 photopolymer resin. Mechanical compression test was performed to investigate the compressive behavior of scaffolds. Deformation procedure and stress-strain curves were simulated by FEA and exhibited good agreement with the experimental observation. Current approaches for predicting dominant deformation mode under compression containing Maxwell's criteria and scaling laws were also investigated to achieve an understanding of the relationships between deformation pattern and mechanical properties of porous structures. It was observed that effect of stress concentration in TPMS-based scaffolds resultant by heterogeneous mass distribution, particularly at lower volume fractions, led to a different behavior from that of typical cellular materials. As a result, although more parameters are considered for determining dominant deformation in scaling laws, two mentioned approaches could not exclusively be used to compare the mechanical response of cellular materials at the same volume fraction.
Frugal innovation by citizens for citizens

The need for affordable high-quality solutions, so-called Frugal Innovations (FI), has never been more obvious than in the current global health crisis. This is also the time, where Open Innovation (OI) shows its full potential for their development. Just consider the various online challenges aimed at the development of frugal ventilators. These online challenges not only manage to tap into the creative potential of experts from around the globe but also help these experts to find their perfect macht of teammates for the job at hand and assist them in technical matters by offering industry mentoring. 

FRANCIS will use the ability of OI online challenges to bridge geographical distances and social backgrounds for the development of FI with citizens from two developed countries as well as four emerging ones. While most OI online challenges today target students and start-ups, FRANCIS will address society at large, the ""everyday joe/jane"", including marginalized groups such as the poor, the elderly, large families and people with specific lifestyles (""minimalists""). The consortium believes that their contribution, though often neglected by economy and society alike, is of major value for new product development, especially when aiming at Frugal Innovation.  

To ensure their successful inclusion, FRANCIS will finetune the online platform and the communication material used in the challenges to the citizens' needs. Scientists will assist them in idea development, students will help with practical problems. Two companies, a small social enterprise (focus: desinfection) and a large multi-national organisation (focus: white goods), provide guidance during the challenges and ensure the FI's successful scaling at their end. Besides capturing the costs and benefits of the FI and assessing their impacts, FRANCIS will also run behavioural insights tests to learn more about the motivation and support needs of Citizen Frugal Innovators.
Air pollution and cardiovascular hospital admissions in a medium-sized city in São Paulo State, Brazil

The objective of the present study was to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease. A time series ecological study was conducted on subjects aged over 60 years and living in São José dos Campos, Brazil, with a population near 700,000 inhabitants. Hospital admission data of public health patients (SUS) were obtained from DATASUS for the period between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2006, according to the ICD-10 diagnoses I20 to I22 and I24. Particulate matter with less than 10 µm in aerodynamic diameter, sulfur dioxide and ozone were the pollutants examined, and the control variables were mean temperature and relative humidity. Data on pollutants were obtained from the São Paulo State Sanitary Agency. The generalized linear model Poisson regression with lags of up to 5 days was used. There were 1303 hospital admissions during the period. Exposure to particulate matter was significantly associated with hospitalization for cardiovascular disease 3 days after exposure (RR = 1.006; 95%CI = 1.000 to 1.010) and an increase of 16 µg/m(3) was associated with a 10% increase in risk of hospitalization; other pollutants were not associated with hospitalization. Thus, it was possible to identify the role of exposure to particulate matter as an environmental pollutant in hospitalization for cardiovascular disease in a medium-sized city in Southeastern Brazil.
METHOD FOR MODIFYING AND DELIVERING A PROPPING AGENT DURING WELL OPERATIONS

The present invention can be used in the oil and gas industry and relates to a method for modifying and delivering proppants (propping agents) during well operations, in particular hydraulic fracturing and/or gravel packing. By modifying the surface of a proppant using an emulsified treatment material, the invention makes it possible, in the case of hydraulic fracturing operations, to provide the efficient delivery of proppant deep into remote regions of a fracture and also to provide the non-uniform distribution of proppant by means of particle aggregation, and makes it possible, in the case of gravel packing operations, to maintain circulation of a proppant suspension for the uniform deposition of proppant in the requisite locations in a wellbore. The present invention is intended to solve the problems of creating: a method for modifying the surface of a propping agent during well operations; a method for delivering a propping agent into a subsurface formation; a hydraulic fracturing method; and also a gravel packing method.
Electric Vehicles for City Renewable Energy Supply.

European cities are frontrunners in the adoption of innovative technologies. The EU’s renewable energy share and Electric Vehicle (EV) fleets grow at fast pace. Both can contribute significantly to a zero carbon emission society, but their intelligent integration is of a high priority. 

Standalone the total renewable energy and EVs potential is limited. In European cities solar production peaks during the day, when energy demand is low. In the evening the increase of EVs requires an additional high energy demand, which is mostly carbon intensive. Their intelligent integration is a of high priority for clean city development. Combined energy independence and zero emission mobility can be doubled. This is a complex task to realise, given the variety of information sources and devices to interconnect, information to share and decisions to take. First experiences with smart storage and charging of electric vehicles appear, broadening and further development require appropriate policies. ICT for the integration is the main challenge in this process.

EV Energy acts in a proactive way as a catalyst for the transition from internal combustion to renewable energy fuelled electric vehicles. For this purpose, this project will collaborate with cities that have implemented V2G scheme and will study what policies and circumstances are the most appropriates for this transition.  
 
Actually different, fragmented policies are observed, favouring electric vehicles through incentives at local, regional and national level. This includes measures such as energy or mobility taxations, parking and charging issues, energy regulations and grid connection costs. EV Energy will inventorise, analyse and transfer adequatly policy measures by cities, regions and member states. Secondly regional policies are addressed to implement the best solutions. 

EV Energy aims to pave the way towards fair prized decarbonized future energy and mobility systems in cities.