SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Maritime and Coastal SustainaBLE Tourism in the Mediterranean - Community building, Communication and Capitalisation

Built on a transnational partnership with strong knowledge and experience on integrated coastal management and sustainable tourism policies, BleuTourMed aims at supporting and ensuring synergies between the modular projects selected under the SO3.1 with the objective of creating a cluster of projects able to enhance jointly solutions for the protection and promotion of natural and cultural resources in the Mediterranean area through a coherent strategy of Community Building, Communication and Capitalisation. 
The project will develop monitoring and community building activities aiming at collecting the main results of the Modular Projects (MPs) as at stimulating the sharing and co-ownership of data and results among them. It will be also in charge of processing and disseminating these results for the implementation of the policy framework regarding Coastal and Maritime sustainable tourism: e.g. MSP, ICZM, UNEP/MAP MSSD, Blue Gtrowth Strategy, Blue Med initiative, Integrated Regional Development policies on sustainable tourism. The project will develop two main channels for the dissemination of the projects’ cluster outputs; the first will be at a programme level, technically with the JTS and creating synergies with other axes, specifically with SO3.2 and axis 4, and the second to target Mediterranean and EU decision–makers and stakeholders.
REDUCING SPATIAL INTERFERENCE IN ANT-LIKE TRAIL-FOLLOWING FOR MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS

We consider the classical task of transporting resources between spatially separated source and sink by a group of autonomous robots. The robots use ant-like trail-following to navigate between source and sink. This study consists of two independent parts, both aiming to improve the performance of the system by reducing the spatial interference among robots. In the first part it is shown that, under certain conditions, a narrow field of view of each robot’s trail following sensor can improve system performance. We argue that the benefit is obtained by selectively degrading the individuals’ trail-following ability so that more work space is exploited in parallel, thus decreasing mutual spatial interference. In the second part, we focus on reducing the interference among robots that are following different trails. We propose a navigation strategy that is effective in separating these trails. The results of simulation experiments indicate that the performance of robots is usefully increased compared to the original algorithm in constrained environments.
Towards Intelligence Engineering in Agent-Based Systems

In this paper, we consider intelligence as an explicit requirement in modern information systems and introduce intelligence engineering as the application of a systematic and disciplined approach to the development, operation, and maintenance the intelligence. After categorizing intelligence sub-characteristics based on an extensive quantitative analysis, we choose learning as the most frequent sub-characteristic of intelligence and present a process for specifying learning in intelligent systems. This process is based on Organizational Multiagent System Engineering (O-MaSE) process framework and extends this framework to cover Learning Analysis (LA) concepts. More precisely, by using O-MaSE meta-model and LA meta- models, alongside applying the process for development a system, we study the potentials of the process framework in specifying learning concepts. Based on the discovered shortcomings of the process, we propose extensions to enrich the process for specifying learning, namely for Requirements gathering, Goal modeling, Knowledge modeling and Environment specification. The applicability of the extended O-MaSE is evaluated by applying it on a Book Trading System (BTS). Based on this systematic process, software development benefits from the more specific assumptions on capabilities expected for learning, and it moves towards more sophisticated engineering practices which prevents implicit or Ad-hoc activities for developing features of intelligent.
FDI in Multi-brand Retailing in India: Comparative study with China

Retailing is the interface between the producer and the individual consumer buying for personal consumption. As such, retailing is the last link that connects the individual consumer with the manufacturing and distribution chain. Indian retail industry is one of the sunrise sectors with huge growth potential. However, in spite of the recent developments in retailing and its immense contribution to the economy, retailing continues to be the least evolved industries and the growth of organised retailing in India has been much slower as compared to rest of the world. This paper captures the existing retail scenario in India with regard to organized and un-organized retail and presents the limitations of the current set-up along with the experiences of domestic players. The paper discusses about opening up of the multibrand retail sector to foreign direct investment by the government. The rationale for retail reforms and challenges to be addressed by the retail sector are discussed. FDI in Retail is like an allopathic medicine It would deliver quick results &amp; would not work as hit &amp; trial like Homeopath. Government must go for Policy Mix to avoid its side effects. It will require various changes in internal policies also. The whole process must be made socially &amp; economically useful.It will be better to follow the Chinese model of caution and hurrying slowly. China took over 12years to liberalise its FDI regime and in stages with reversals as well. The Chinese retail environment is 20years ahead of us. Looking at their market today can give us a rough idea of how FDI in multi brand retail in India might pan out in the medium term and long term period.
POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES COMPRISING SALINOMYCIN

The present invention relates to polymeric nanoparticles comprising salinomycin and methods for treating certain diseases comprising administering these polymeric nanoparticles to a subject in need thereof.
An empirical analysis of the state of competition in OECD mobile wireless markets

Contra the current trend of deregulation, mobile wireless markets in the OECD member states appear, until recently, to have been more or less concentrated. The study estimates the equations for market concentration, mobile prices, and profits using annual panel data from 24 OECD member states for the 1998-2009 period, in order to assess their interaction. Mobile prices, measured by revenue per minute in constant USD PPP, are regarded as a direct measure of consumer welfare. Estimation results indicate that in the second half of the 2000s, market concentration had no effect on mobile prices, whereas the positive relationship between market concentration and profits persisted. In other words, the market-power hypothesis is rejected in the second half of the 2000s. This empirical result provides a strong case for a recent lenient approach towards regulation and merger attempts in OECD mobile wireless markets. Additionally, the study provides evidence that regulatory policies have affected mobile market structure and performance.
TELESCOPIC LADDER AND LOCKING MECHANISM THEREOF

A locking mechanism for selectively securing and unsecuring the linkage of individual ladder sections of a telescopic ladder. The locking mechanism is shifted into a locked position by pivoting a lever toward a first rotational trajectory, urging a track follower in a first direction along a guiding track, and linearly displacing at least one securing rod into an aperture through multiple ladder sections, securing the linkage of the ladder sections. A lever-securing mechanism form-fittingly secures the lever within a bridge element of the locking mechanism when in a locked position. The locking mechanism is shifted into an unlocked position by pivoting the lever toward a second rotational trajectory opposite the first rotational trajectory, urging the track follower in an opposite direction along the guiding track, and linearly displacing the securing rods out from the aperture through the multiple ladder sections, unsecuring the linkage of the ladder sections.
Friend to understand

Our mission of exposing the researchers as ordinary people with an extraordinary job to the public at large in Serbia started in 2010. Annual impact assessment reports show that we significantly influenced the perception and knowledge of the general public regarding WHAT the researchers do, but they also showed that there is room for improving the ways of showing WHO the researchers are, by making the personalities and faces of the researchers recognizable to the society, as well as in clarifying WHY they become researchers, i.e. their motivation and inspiration to explain why research matters to society. Therefore, without losing a focus on WHAT, RN 2014-2015 will focus on the questions of WHO and WHY in order to offer a new dimension of perceiving the researchers and offer more answers beyond the WHAT question. 
Friend2U - Researchers’ Night project aims at bringing the researchers closer to the general public and increasing awareness of the research and innovation activities with a view to supporting the public recognition of researchers, creating understanding of the impact of the researchers' work on our daily life, and encouraging young people to embark on scientific careers. In other words, it aims at increasing mutual understanding, interest and connections, and facilitating a dialogue between the researchers and the general public. In a nutshell, it is about making the researchers friends with the common people i.e. the general public - as closest friends as possible.  Friend2U project proposal mixes, blends and unites faces, voices, results and energies of many generations of the researchers in offering the public at large, regardless of their age, education and scientific background, the opportunity to make friends with these researchers. Here, making friends with the researchers is a paradigm of learning more about their science, learning how to appreciate their work and achievement, and above all, about building trust in what friends do and invessuccessful implementation fot eh ation and as such needs to be udnertaken weell before sumemr break.
Effective Sentiment Analysis Based on Term Evaluation by Bayesian Model Selection Criteria

Sentiment analysis (or opinion mining) becomes more and more important in many industrial applications because there have been huge needs in extracting writers' intention in their text documents. Previous approaches have adopted classical techniques used in text categorization and information retrieval. For example, for the analysis of terms in a document, information theoretic measures such as point wise mutual information (PMI) have been widely used. Although these approaches are sometimes shown to be effective, it often takes a long time and expensive computation to find a right pair of words with maximum mutual information. Thus, it will be more beneficial if we can use more powerful measures such as Bayesian model selection criteria (i.e. likelihood and Bayesian information criteria) for the term analysis. In this paper, we estimate likelihood and Bayesian information criteria (BIC) for each term conditional to class labels. After we estimate model selection criteria, we calculate a ratio of the model selection criteria for each class label. Based on the obtained ratios, we can sort and identify highly influential terms for each class label. We have performed extensive experiments on several public benchmark data sets. Experimental results on those data sets indicate that our proposed approach is effective in term evaluation for sentiment classification, and exhibits scalability comparable to that of classical Bayesian classifiers.
Accelerating and braking in times of economic crisis

Purpose The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study of an industrial company's top management team (TMT) that fought to survive an economic crisis. Specifically, the article seeks to focus on describing the TMT's composition, group processes, and work during a period of high external pressure; analysing the TMT's work in terms of an organisational learning process; and discussing factors that may have enabled the TMT to make appropriate strategic decisions during the crisis. Design/methodology/approach The empirical foundation of this article is a longitudinal case study of a Swedish industrial company during the economic recession of the late 2000s. Data were collected through observations of meetings involving the TMT from 2009 to 2011 and through semi‐structured interviews with TMT managers. Findings Two empirical themes – “accelerating” and “braking” – illustrate actions taken by the TMT during the crisis. Accelerating involves activities aimed at accelerating the company out of the downturn, whereas braking involves activities aimed at reducing costs. The findings suggest that the TMT exhibited the ability to handle processes of exploration and exploitation during the crisis and that learning occurred at the individual, group, and organisational levels. Practical implications A practical implication of this study is the importance for TMTs to work simultaneously with processes of exploration and exploitation when fighting to survive an economic crisis and to designate time for learning processes in daily work. Originality/value The study contributes to the field by empirically showing the processes of organisational learning in practice and by highlighting the relevance of organisational learning research to understanding the performance and work of top management teams in organisations.
At first insight: how our memories shape empathy for others’ physical pain

Empathy is a multifaceted concept. It mostly relies on the ability to mirror and to explicitly infer others’ inner states. The simulation-theory (ST) account of Theory of Mind (ToM) suggests that people build an accurate representation of others’ inner states by using one’s own mind as a model, i.e. internally simulating others’ mind; for Theory-Theory (TT) such a representation is formed on the basis of common knowledge. Accumulating evidence supported the idea that our memories interact with empathy in building a representation of others’ inner states. In a series of two experiments, the current proposal is aimed at determining how, if any, the recruitment of autobiographical memory occurs when we empathize with others’ emotional experience, such as physical pain. Connectivity analysis applied to oscillatory activity, such as pattern similarity analysis, revealed that neural patterns present during memory formation are reactivated during memory retrieval, thus being a powerful tool to monitor a memory trace. By further combining excellent temporal resolution of electrophysiological measures and the excellent spatial resolution of functional imaging data in a multimodal EEG-fMRI recording, MEMPATHY aimed at establishing whether our memories are reactivated when we empathize with others' pain even when reactivation of our memories is detrimental to build an accurate representation of others’ pain. Importantly, by means of multi-modal neuroimaging measures and connectivity analysis, the proposal will allow to individuate the pathway and the direction of the dynamic communication within the brain network underlying memory and empathic processes.
The first high-performance, all-in-one optical sensor technology to monitor the health of our oceans

AquapHOx is a new optical sensor technology for aqueous environments that measures critical parameters essential to monitor the health of our oceans. Oceans cover more than 70% of the earth surface and are responsible for the basic biogeochemical cycles. Today, CO2 emissions have already led to a dramatic acidification of the oceans. A slight change of the pH value in water has a serious effect on the complete ecosystem and thereby our climate. To get a comprehensive overview of the oceans’ status, marine R&D companies and organisations are urgently looking for technologies to measure under deep-sea conditions i.a. pH values, O2, O2 traces, CO2. In addition, aquaculture is a booming market requiring highly precise measurement of such parameters to monitor water quality and guarantee healthy and environmentally-sustainable farming conditions. Yet, current systems are either non-existent or have very low performance. AquapHOx enables, for the first time, pH measurement under deep-sea conditions, exceeds the state-of-the-art for O2 measurement and allows for the first time to measure several parameters with a single instrument, enabling large-scale, stable, accurate measurements and a reduction of up to 80% of purchasing, maintenance, transport and renting costs. In addition, it is extendable to the measurement of further parameters (CO2, ammonium). By the end of the project, PyroScience will introduce 2 product versions of AquapHOx to the market: one for OEMs and one for end users. The AquapHOx series will be first offered to the marine R&D (especially oceanography) and the aquaculture markets. In a second step, PyroScience will address growth markets of bioprocessing and of water quality control, where further strong market potential has been assessed. Further promising application is expected in medical applications, i.e. blood gas and breath gas analyses. AquapHOx will largely contribute to the PyroScience group’s growth: €28.61M turnover and +52 employees by 2024.
Des signes entre les vieux bédouins. Une interprétation épistolaire de Benjamin

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) et Gerhard Scholem (1897-1982) étaient liés par une profonde amitié, entrelacée depuis 1912 et se poursuivant jusqu’en 1940, lorsque Benjamin se suicide à Portbou, terrifié à l’idée d’être livré aux nazis. Les deux intellectuels, tous deux de confession juive, ont fait des choix existentiels différents : Benjamin est resté en Allemagne jusqu’à ce que la persécution raciale du régime nazi le contraigne à errer en Europe, tandis que Scholem s’est installé en Palestine et a travaillé à l’Université de Jérusalem, où il a pu se consacrer à l’étude de la mystique juive. L’essai porte sur la correspondance entre les deux chercheurs, en particulier sur la proximité de Benjamin avec le communisme, sa relation avec les chercheurs de l’Institut de recherche sociale dirigé par Max Horkheimer et avec Bertolt Brecht. Sur la toile de fond de la correspondance apparaît clairement la tentative de Benjamin de ne pas renoncer à sa recherche intellectuelle et à son amitié, même s’il a été contraint de chercher des lieux marginaux et périphériques où il pourrait survivre dans une Europe alors livrée aux guerres d’Hitler.
Improve the RIS3 effectiveness through the management of the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP)

"Beyond EDP" project addresses the issue of inadequacies in the design and implementation of innovation policies which may negatively  impact the effectiveness of Structural Funds. 
Theoretically, Regional Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3) are expected to provide a relevant solution to this issue, but the RIS3 quality is entirely based on the efficient understanding and implementation of the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP). 
EDP recognises that policy makers do not have innate wisdom about future priorities.  They need to be prepared to listen to entrepreneurs, researchers and citizens in order to identify specialisation areas, improve their acceptance and facilitate the emergence and growth of new activities.
All the regions in the consortium, and also those across Europe, are characterised by an economic fabric which needs to strengthen its absorption capacity of knowledge to innovate. Beyond global value chains identified by designing RIS3, policy makers have to build an efficient ecosystem to identify where and how available knowledge could actually be used. Furthermore, they have to find the right policy mix resulting from the EDP.
In order to find the appropriate approach tailored to company needs and thus improve the results of RIS3, the whole regional innovation ecosystem need not be involved, but only the most relevant players. 

Therefore, “Beyond EDP” project aims at professionalising EDP management.  

It will, in turn, facilitate change management and its acceptance by regional stakeholders, particularly the managing authorities.  
By this way, it will allow to avoid common mistakes and   will provide efficient methodologies and practices, that will benefit to European regional policies makers to enable them to implement effective RIS3 for their regions. Not only the efficiency of RIS3 will be improved, but also the development of relevant public policies.
Tom pit studio - platform for designing information systems

Pharmaceutical sector demands information systems (IS) to be custom designed and in compliance with Good manufacturing practice (GMP)  regulative. In addition IS must be build according to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulative CFR Part 11 . This is currently a big problem for all IS providers which are cooperating with pharmaceutical sector because the effort made to achieve this is substantial, time consuming and expensive. The price of such validated system can be three times as high as with similar non-validated system. We can attribute this to programming methods which are not agile enough. With the proposed project we want to introduce, first to EU and then global markets, an innovative solution to address above mentioned challenges - Tom PIT Studio (TPS). TPS introduces unique modeling method of developing IS which reduces development time by 70% and lowers maintenance cost by 90%. Demand for such a product comes from all pharmaceutical companies with a potential in other industries as well. Product is therefore not limited to local (EU) market but has is a great global potential (Asia, USA) estimated at 7 billion €. Product is developed to TRL6 level and is already being used for demonstrational purposes as well as evaluation with SME and pharmaceutical companies in our geographical region. Plan is to develop product to TRL 9 and assure fast market up take. Feasibility study is critical for us to further elaborate commercialization strategy in order to access global market. TPS is a great business opportunity for us but also has bigger impact on EU economy as it provides leverage for SME IT companies to enter market currently controlled by big IT vendors with their own competitive solution thereby widening offer of information systems and consequently lowering implementation costs for pharmaceutical companies.
Earthquake Risk Perception and Mexico City's Public Safety

Abstract The paper presents some results on seismic risk and other hazards perception of a sector of the public of Mexico City. The approach has been the application of a pre-test of an ‘instrument’ that has been designed for a much bigger field study. Some key findings are the following: a) the sector of the public surveyed considered seismic risk (33%) as the most worrying threat to their daily lives; this was followed by gas explosion (19%), crime (18%), fires (13%), volcanic eruptions (11%), & floods (6%); b) the preliminary results show that the participants do not have the culture of prevention in relation to seismic risk; and c) the participants (those who experienced the 1985 earthquake and those who did not) have not learned the basic lesson (as recommended by Civil Protection) not to immediately leave the building during the quake. More research is being undertaken to seismic risk perception and the public safety.