SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Sustainable Metropolitan Areas and the Role of The Edge City

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To achieve this, eight partners from the metropolitan areas of Akershus, Barcelona, Brandenburg, Ilfov, Krakow, Milano and Stockholm, and the Romanian Ministry of Environment will exchange experience, transfer good practices and facilitate learning between the partners on innovative tools for urban planning. Transport and buildings represent the lion’s share of our emissions, and may be reduced through efficient policies on a local and regional level.   Smart Edge will in particular explore the potential for local renewable energy production, reduction of emissions from transport through renewable energy and energy systems ad reduction of emissions from buildings through renewable energy and energy systems._x000D_
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SmartEdge is expected to result in improved low carbon economy policies in edge cities and their metropolitan regions. In particular the metropolitan regions will prepare and implement action plans to improved selected seven policy instuments by sharing solutions for Integrated Strategic Planning for edge cities and their regions, providing tools and methods for multi-level governance and participatory planning, actively including the edge cities and other stakeholders in the metropolitan areas, and develop policy recommendations.     _x000D_
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205 MEUR in Structural funds and 124,8 MEUR in other fundsof other funds are estimated to be influenced by the project.
Capturing and reproduction of crowded acoustic environments for immersive applications

CROWDMERSE enables real-time capture, processing, and reproduction of an immersive audio experience to the user of any event of interest, focusing on “crowded” acoustic events. Acoustic scenes with large audiences, such as sports events or music concerts, present significant challenges for immersive reproduction which have not been so far adequately considered in the signal processing community. Technological breakthrough in sports events broadcasting has a strong potential impact on media providers, and consequently on the European and global economy. The challenges of capturing and reproducing crowded acoustic events include the need to spatially capture and reproduce numerous sound sources, such as the applause and yells of the spectators, in addition to the “main” sounds of the event. Concerns regarding the privacy of the spectators must not be overlooked: the conversations of the audience members sitting near the microphone sensors must be eliminated. In order to spatially sample large venues, the acoustic sensors should be low-cost, small-sized, and support wireless operation. The developed algorithms should respect the limited sensor resources, while operating in real-time to enable commercial applications. Our final objective is to enable real-time delivery of crowded acoustic events so that the designed platform can be integrated with today’s High-Definition TV programs. CROWDMERSE focuses on sound capturing using multiple closely placed microphones forming a microphone array. The audio content is rendered through a home entertainment system equipped with multiple loudspeakers, accompanying the content of a typical HDTV broadcast. Addressing the scientific challenges and proposing a solution which can be integrated with current broadcasting principles is guaranteed given the previous involvement of the experienced researcher in sports broadcasting projects. The proposed methods are expected to have impact in the general area of immersive sound environments.
Comparative Advantages of Production Water in the Catchment Area of Kaidu-Kongque River, Xinjiang

In order to analyze the comparative advantage of production water in Kaidu-Kongque River Basin of Xinjiang, a model was constructed based on comparative advantage theory in this study. Cluster analysis of SPSS software was applied to assess regional differences. Results show that comparative advantage of production water varies by sector, which is affected mainly by the benefit advantage index. Compared with the average of Xinjiang, industrial water in Kaidu-Kongque River Basin maintains a comparative advantage, while irrigation water and forestry/livestock/fisheries water have a comparative disadvantage, which demonstrates that regional differentiation is introduced mainly by different conditions in natural, precipitation levels and socio-economic development. According to the calculation, cities in Kaidu-Kongque River Basin were divided into five categories, namely city with comparative advantage of production water, city with comparative advantage of industrial water, city with comparative advantage of irrigation water, city with comparative advantage of forestry/livestock/fisheries water, and city with comparative disadvantage of industrial water.
Markets, bodies, and rhythms: A rhythmanalysis of financial markets from open-outcry trading to high-frequency trading

This article explores the relationship between bodily rhythms and market rhythms in two distinctly different financial market configurations, namely the open-outcry pit (prevalent especially in the early 20th century) and present-day high-frequency trading. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis, we show how traders seek to calibrate their bodily rhythms to those of the market. We argue that, in the case of early-20th-century open-outcry trading pits, traders tried to enact a total merger of bodily and market rhythms. We also demonstrate how, in the 1920s and '30s, market observers began to respond to a widely perceived problem, namely that market rhythms might be contagious and that some form of separation of bodily and market rhythms might therefore be needed. Finally, we show how current high-frequency trading, despite being purely algorithmic, does not render the traders' bodies irrelevant. Yet high-frequency trading does change the role of the body rather than seeking to attune their bodies to the markets, high-frequency traders seek to calibrate their bodies to their algorithms. While the article demonstrates the usefulness of deploying Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis in analyses of financial markets, it also suggests that high-frequency trading in particular might produce new types of market rhythms that, contra Lefebvre, do not revolve around traders' bodies.
Some future perspectives in soft- and hard- X-ray photoemission

Abstract We discuss several recent developments in photoemission, with comments on their perspectives for the future. These include an adequate allowance for differential cross section effects in core- and valence-angular distributions, as well as more accurate one-step modeling of angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES); the use of higher photon energies from the soft- to hard- X-ray regime to permit probing bulk electronic structure and buried layers and interfaces; extending ARPES into the soft- and hard- X-ray regimes; tailoring the X-ray wave field through X-ray optical effects including standing waves, total reflection, and tuning through resonances; using standing-wave excitation to provide much enhanced depth sensitivity in studying solid/gas and solid/liquid interfaces; and applying photoelectron holography to time-resolved studies of molecular reactions and dissociation. Specific application examples include a magnetic semiconductor, multilayer structures of complex metal oxides, a thin water solution on a metal oxide surface, and a halo-substituted benzene molecule.
Near-Miss Information Visualization Tool in BIM for Construction Safety

AbstractAlthough the number of fatalities experienced by the U.S. construction industry has been declining, the magnitude of the decrease has stagnated in recent years. Several improvements have been realized in visualizing construction-project information through building information modeling (BIM). One improvement in construction safety can be found in the collection, analysis, and visualization of safety-leading indicator data including near-miss events. Furthermore, the visualization of reported near misses can assist safety managers to identify high-frequency and high-severity events within a construction site for mitigation or hazard removal techniques. The objective of this research is to provide a framework for near-miss data collection and visualization within a BIM platform. A near-miss database was created in a commercially available BIM design software to allow construction-site personnel to report near misses and visualize within an existing BIM. Algorithms were created to enable filtering fo...
New floating platform for offshore wind in deep waters.

Wind power has established itself in recent years as a clean alternative to conventional sources of electrical generation. Reduced costs and wider deployment, especially in the European market, have led over the past decade to its use at sea. Here the wind resource is larger and more constant, allowing higher unitary power turbines. However, the marine environment itself also imposes a number of restrictions and challenges. The technology that is being deployed now is fixed to the seabed, using different types of foundations, but a large amount of wind resources are in deeper waters, where floating solutions are needed. 
Because of their initial higher costs, these solutions are still under development, with only three prototypes installed worldwide. The challenge nowadays is to reduce the costs of floating wind turbine structures that will ease the access to a much larger energy potential than available in land, more easily manageable and with lower visual impact.
The aim of the NFLOW project is the demonstration in real conditions of a floating structure for offshore wind which will allow a reduction in LCOE (Levelized Cost Of Energy) over the current floating technology. To achieve this, it is proposed as a first objective the validation and qualifying for this technology, of a 1:1 scaled prototype not only from a technical point of view but also from economic and necessary logistics. 
The design has been focused on 5MW machine, with the aim of reaching 8-10MW machines when available in the future. The already mounted prototypes have wind turbines installed of around 2MW, which prevented an optimization of structures. Its performance is good, but the cost per MW installed is above of what would be acceptable for the market.
From the point of view of logistics, it has opted for a semi-submersible solution that can be installed on a wider range of depths and using more conventional means.
An instrument-based testing platform and fuel control algorithm verification for direct methanol fuel cell

System integration is crucial to fuel cells. In addition to considering relative control rules and treatment of the reactants, the design and control of the balance of plant (BOP) are vitally important for a self-sustainable and optimized fuel cell system. In this study, a fuel cell control system is developed by utilizing an instrument-based system integration platform and sensor-less fuel concentration estimation and verification. A control measure is determined by both consumption and concentration change of the fuel. The feasibility of the sensor-less fuel concentration estimation is verified by experimental results. A testing platform, integrating software and hardware, which is used for the direct liquid fuel cell system, has developed in this study. It is an beneficial and flexible tool for developing relative controlling algorithms, evaluating efficiency of cells, or designing BOP of fuel cells.
Saturated and Multi-Colored Electroluminescence from Quantum Dots Based Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells

Novel light emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) are fabricated using CdSe-CdS (core-shell) quantum dots (QDs) of tuned size and emission blended with polyvinylcarbazole (PVK) and the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (BMIM-PF6). The performances of cells constructed using sequential device layers of indium tin oxide (ITO), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), the QD/PVK/IL active layer, and Al are evaluated. Only color saturated electroluminescence from the QDs is observed, without any other emissions from the polymer host or the electrolyte. Blue, green, and red QD-LECs are prepared. The maximum brightness (≈1000 cd m-2) and current efficiency (1.9 cd A-1) are comparable to polymer LECs and multilayer QD-LEDs. White-light QD-LECs with Commission Internationale d'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates (0.33, 0.33) are prepared by tuning the mass ratio of R:G:B QDs in the active layer and voltage applied. Transparent QD-LECs fabricated using transparent silver nanowire (AgNW) composites as the cathode yield an average transmittance greater than 88% over the visible range. Flexible devices are demonstrated by replacing the glass substrates with polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography

Public key cryptography is a major interdisciplinary subject with many real-world applications, such as digital signatures. A strong background in the mathematics underlying public key cryptography is essential for a deep understanding of the subject, and this book provides exactly that for students and researchers in mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering. Carefully written to communicate the major ideas and techniques of public key cryptography to a wide readership, this text is enlivened throughout with historical remarks and insightful perspectives on the development of the subject. Numerous examples, proofs and exercises make it suitable as a textbook for an advanced course, as well as for self-study. For more experienced researchers it serves as a convenient reference for many important topics: the Pollard algorithms, Maurer reduction, isogenies, algebraic tori, hyperelliptic curves and many more.
Une subvention pour Sebastian Wilczek Culinary Services pour financer et assurer ses activités quotidiennes.

Le projet prévoit une subvention pour Sebastian Wilczek Culinary Services, qui a perdu ses liquidités à la suite de la pandémie de COVID-19. En raison de la pandémie et des restrictions introduites, les revenus de l’entreprise ont considérablement diminué. La subvention permettra de maintenir les activités de l’entreprise pendant les trois prochains mois civils.
Gigantes. Biografía heroica y cultura transnacional comunista en los años treinta

El artículo se aproxima al género de la biografía heroica comunista durante los años treinta, particularmente en España. Parte del peso notable que han adquirido en los últimos años el vector biocrático/biográfico y las perspectivas transnacionales en la historiografía internacional sobre comunismo. A través de una metodología comparada, se analizan diversos relatos sobre lo personal aparecidos en aquellos años en castellano, bien en traducciones con amplia circulación en el espacio comunista internacional o bien en textos originales generados desde la singularidad nacional. El estudio resalta varios aspectos: las funcionalidades empáticas, ejemplarizantes, didácticas y socializadoras de estas narrativas; el acoplamiento entre particularidades y significaciones compartidas en la cultura comunista; la ubicación de dichos relatos en un contexto «glocal» —global y local—, propio del antifascismo, o su implicación con el culto a la personalidad, un rasgo esencial de la identidad comunista fundado en el carisma y en el capital político-simbólico generado gracias a la imagen de una idílica convergencia entre trayectoria individual, colectividad y partido.
Analysis of Household level Determinants of food security in rural Ethiopia: Evidence from North Gondar zone

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Analysis of Household level Determinants of food security in rural Ethiopia: Evidence from Northern Gondar zone 
Food insecurity is a major challenge for Ethiopia and for many African countries. This paper assesses household food security and identifies factors affecting food security in two districts of North Gondar zone using household survey from 2016/17. A binary logit model has been used because the dependent variable is dichotomous. A clear understanding of the major causes of food insecurity helps policy makers and planners to formulate new policies that enhance food security. Therefore, this study was conducted to measure food security/insecurity status of households, to identify factors influencing farm household’s food security. In order to achieve these objectives biophysical, demographic and socio-economic data were collected from 200 randomly selected households in a two-step sampling procedure. The survey result shows that about 75% of sample farmers were food insecure. Moreover, based on survey data, the empirical results from logistic regression revealed that seven variables, namely age, family size, amount of cultivated land, livestock ownership, agro ecological zone, household head sex and household participation in any off/non-farm income are significant factors influencing the odds ratio of a household food security status. Thus, the finding implies that female-headed households need support in order to improve their food security. Furthermore, improving access to land and its utilization based on comparative advantage could improve household food security. Family planning can also be important to balance demand and supply of food in such areas. 
Key Words: Determinant, Food Security, Logistic Regression, HFBM
Ecosystemic knowledge in standards for hydrogen implementation on passenger ship

Hydrogen fuel cells market potentials in the maritime sector have been demonstrated in the last years with several vessels flagship projects. Despite hydrogen is a worldwide considered a valid option to reach the emission reduction targets, also part of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) strategy, a regulatory framework applicable to hydrogen fuelled ships is not yet available. E-SHyIPS brings together the Hydrogen and maritime stakeholders and international experts, through an Advisory Board, to gather new knowledge based on regulatory framework review and experimental data on ship design, safety systems, material and components and bunkering procedures. The approach is ""vessel independent"", in order to avoid the burdens of customized projects, and is focused on the risk and safety assessment methodologies.  Based on this, e-SHyIPS will define a pre-standardization plan for IGF code update for the hydrogen-based fuels passenger ships and a roadmap for the boost of Hydrogen economy in the maritime sector.
Planthub - boosting technology transfer and responsible research and innovation (rri) in plant sciences

In PlantHUB will capture the academic, industrial and regulatory expertise from 5 world-class universities, 1 governmental organization, 7 enterprises including 4 SMEs to train 10 ESRs in skills and competencies necessary to apply responsible research and innovation (RRI) in the area of plant breeding and production. We wish to address the demand of RRI leadership in plant science related research and diffusion of innovation. The individual research projects are demand-driven, responding to the needs of companies - particular SMEs - to increase R&I capacities. The outcomes are new molecular tools for plant breeding, new forage, cereal and oil crop varieties, non-invasive imaging and phenotyping technologies, intelligent lighting systems for plant growth, new software and services for complex genomic analyses, and plant product quality.  PlantHUB industrial doctoral programme is ground-breaking in a number of respects: (i) doctoral training is placed into an entrepreneurial environment of leading public and private organisations (ii) it combines practical hands-on R&D and technology transfer in plant breeding and production with RRI training and practise. On completion of the training, graduates will have deep interdisciplinary knowledge of plant breeding, crop improvement, high-throughput technologies, isotope and big data analysis. In combination with a portfolio of transferable skills they will be able to take a lead in stakeholder & public engagement, innovation management, technology transfer and entrepreneurship. Our programme will become a flagship example at the forefront of intersectoral research, underpinned with a carefully created training curriculum to foster awareness, know-how, expertise and competence in RRI.
Osteomyelitis: a current challenge

Over the last 30 years, the pathogenesis of osteomyelitis has almost been totally elucidated, and many factors responsible for the persistence of this infection have been identified. Numerous antimicrobial agents with distinct spectrums of action, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics have been used in its treatment. Surgical techniques, including muscle grafts, the Ilizarov technique, and antibiotic bone cements, have been applied. However, bone infections are still a challenge. Despite the importance of isolation and identification of microorganisms to determine the antimicrobial treatment of bone infections, there are few systematic national studies about the etiological profile of these diseases. This article describes the current knowledge of osteomyelitis and summarizes published national data based on the experience of different Orthopedic and Traumatology Services. In general, S. aureus was described as an important etiological agent; however, the difference in design of national studies makes a comparison between the prevalence of bone infection, the associated risk factors, and the different therapeutic approaches difficult. In conclusion, effort is necessary in order to stimulate systematic national studies in different Orthopedics and Traumatology Services to obtain a better consensus on preventive measures and therapies of bone infections.
Software defined unified monitoring and management of clouds

Software defined environments for managing infrastructure services in cloud computing, comprising compute, storage, and network functionality, are an area of active research. This paper demonstrates the need to extend this research to managed services that are offered by IT (information technology) service providers who manage customers' servers and applications to meet functional (e.g., monitoring, patching, and backup) and nonfunctional (e.g., availability, resilience, and portability) requirements. To enable software defined control, managed services must be modularized, and their functionality must be exposed through application programming interfaces (APIs) for lifecycle management, composition, and configuration. This paper provides a vision for service modularization based on real-world customer requirements and describes the pros and cons of providing different classes of APIs from the perspectives of both customers and cloud providers. An example of a complex managed service using monitoring, event management, and incident management components, based on the authors' experiences with a real-world cloud implementation, is used to illustrate the key challenges involved in building software defined managed services. This is an emerging area of research that will enable continuous enhancement of IBM's cloud offerings to satisfy changing customer requirements.