SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Team awareness enhanced with artificial intelligence and augmented reality

First responders are the groups of people, services and organisations with specialised skills and qualifications whose duty is
to arrive first to the emergency zone, search, save and rescue operations, and perform crisis management in natural or
human-made disasters. Although first responders provide secure and safe societies by protecting the communities,
responding to the disasters and rescuing lives, they often use inefficient, weak and obsolete technologies in the operations.
With respect to the current situation, the operational capabilities of the first responders can be dramatically boosted by the
advances in technology and engineering fields such as smart sensor systems, wearables, data processing, data fusion, data
analytics, communication infrastructure, and artificial intelligence tools. The main objective of TeamAware Project is to
develop an integrated and cost-efficient situational awareness system for first responders from different sectors with
heterogeneous and hardly interoperable sensor units including drone mounted, wearable, and external sensor systems,
existing first responder services, and operation centres. The purpose is to enhance crisis management, flexibility and
reaction capability of first responders of different sectors through real-time, fused, refined, filtered, and manageable
information by using highly-standardized augmented reality and mobile human machine interfaces.
TETRA-AZAPENTAMETHINE AND USE THEREOF FOR DYEING KERATINOUS FIBERS

The invention concerns the use as direct dyeing agent of at least one tetra-azapentamethine compound, a dyeing composition comprising at least such a compound, as well as a method for dyeing keratinous fibers, in particular human keratinous fibers and more particularly hair, which consists in applying at least one composition comprising such a compound. The composition also concerns tetra-azapentamethine compounds of formula (I). The invention further concerns a method for bleaching such compounds, as well as bleaching keratinous fibers previously dyed therewith.
Fair and consistent border controls? a critical, multi-methodological and interdisciplinary study of asylum adjudication in europe

‘Consistency’ is regularly cited as a desirable attribute of border control, but it has received little critical social scientific attention. This inter-disciplinary project, at the inter-face between critical human geography, border studies and law, will scrutinise the consistency of European asylum adjudication in order to develop richer theoretical understanding of this lynchpin concept. It will move beyond the administrative legal concepts of substantive and procedural consistency by advancing a three-fold conceptualisation of consistency – as everyday practice, discursive deployment of facts and disciplinary technique. In order to generate productive intellectual tension it will also employ an explicitly antagonistic conceptualisation of the relationship between geography and law that views law as seeking to constrain and systematise lived space. The project will employ an innovative combination of methodologies that will produce unique and rich data sets including quantitative analysis, multi-sited legal ethnography, discourse analysis and interviews, and the findings are likely to be of interest both to academic communities like geographers, legal and border scholars and to policy makers and activists working in border control settings. In 2013 the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) was launched to standardise the procedures of asylum determination. But as yet no sustained multi-methodological assessment of the claims of consistency inherent to the CEAS has been carried out. This project offers not only the opportunity to assess progress towards harmonisation of asylum determination processes in Europe, but will also provide a new conceptual framework with which to approach the dilemmas and risks of inconsistency in an area of law fraught with political controversy and uncertainty around the world. Most fundamentally, the project promises to debunk the myths surrounding the possibility of fair and consistent border controls in Europe and elsewhere.
Isabella'S flight: aerial system for puppetry with drones

ISABELLA'S FLIGHT merges art & technology to create animated characters in the sky. The project proposes the development of an experimental system of aerial puppetry through the creation of an artistic performance called ISABELLA'S FLIGHT, featuring a comic interaction between Isabella and El Capitan. The characters are inspired by Commedia dell'arte and use humor, irony, and exaggeration to expose and engage with social issues. The primary challenge of this project is creating embodied, lifelike puppets manipulated by in-flight. 

This fellowship will be carried out in the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, under the supervision of Professor Pierre Latteur, at the School of Engineering. As part of this research I will carry out a puppet theatre secondment at the Curious School of Puppetry, in the UK; and work in partnership with Luxemburg University and the drone company /RC-Take off, from Belgium. Methodologically, the project is oriented towards the framework of research-creation, an outline for projects that integrates theory with creative processes and experimental components. This approach will show a non-conventional use of drones, taking them out of the usual realms, to create art.

The exploratory research contains six phases: 
-WP1- Project Management; 
-WP2 - Artistic Design, to create the performance's plot, and the character's body and choreography; 
-WP3 - Implementation of Flight Plan to create the drone's flight trajectory; 
-WP4 - Custom Building the Drones, compatible with the puppetry show;
-WP5 - Implement Fly Management System, to generate the choreography in real-time, including methods of localization and communication of the drones; 
-WP6 – Dissemination and Communication, through a public demonstration of the performance, and an exhibit in a prestigious art museum or festival, scientific publications, and a project website.
Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes

Global change has led to shifts in phenology, potentially disrupting species interactions such as plant-pollinator relationships. Advances in remote sensing techniques allow one to detect vegetation phenological diversity between different land use types, but it is not clear how this translates to other communities in the ecosystem. Here, we investigated the phenological diversity of the vegetation across a human-altered landscape including urban, agricultural, and natural land use types. We found that the patterns of change in the vegetation indices (EVI and NDVI) of human-altered landscapes are out of synchronization with the phenology in neighboring natural California grassland habitat. Comparing these findings to a spatio-temporal pollinator distribution dataset, EVI and NDVI were significant predictors of total bee abundance, a relationship that improved with time lags. This evidence supports the importance of differences in temporal dynamics between land use types. These findings also highlight the potential to utilize remote sensing data to make predictions for components of biodiversity that have tight vegetation associations, such as pollinators.
Smash, smart sharing device for mobility

SMASH is a Smart Sharing Device aiming to improve the access and the fruition of innovative urban mobility, through the combined use of satellite tracking technology and wireless transmission, embedded in a single miniaturized device.
The proposed device, developed by greenspider and available in prototype,  integrates in a single ultra-low-power electronic circuit a GNSS receiver, Near Field Communication (NFC),Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and GPRS module for connection to the cloud. The supported NFC is compatible with the standard nowadays adopted by major Smartphones manufactures and mobile operators, and it's considered a disruptive technology to enable secure authentication, mobile access and payment via Smartphone. With this characteristic SMASH permits a direct NFC interaction with end-user smartphone, and correlate positioning data retrieved from different positioning device.
SMASH enables access to innovative mobility schemes, thanks to its embedded GNSS and proximity interaction between the user's Applet and the device. The device can be integrated into vehicles and infrastuctures, like parking or charging stations, or in general in any resource in a sharing scheme, allowing easy NFC controls and data sharing. Thanks to the NFC connection,the data related to the user's access request and  to the available resources, with the relative positions, are exchanged in a safe and reliabl way, and shared in the cloud, enabling innovative mobility service and advanced fleet management. The units of fleet management in Europe has risen from 1.5 million units in 2009 to 4 million in 2014, and are expected to grow further in the next years. The penetration of NFC across all handset is planned to reach approximately 32% by 2017, with more than 1 Billion smartphone with NFC support. In this market scenario the sales forecast for SMASH device reach several million of units in few year, with a target of 5 Millions euro in 5 years.
Experimental study of resistive bistability in metal oxide junctions

We have studied resistive bistability (memory) effects in junctions based on metal oxides, with a focus on sample-to-sample reproducibility which is necessary for the use of such junctions as crosspoint devices of hybrid CMOS/nanoelectronic circuits. Few-nm-thick layers of NbOx, CuOx and TiOx have been formed by thermal and plasma oxidation, at various deposition and oxidation conditions, both with or without rapid thermal post-annealing (RTA). The resistive bistability effect has been observed for all these materials, with particularly high endurance (over 1000 switching cycles) obtained for single-layer TiO2 junctions, and the best reproducibility reached for multi-layer junctions of the same material. Fabrication optimization has allowed us to improve the OFF/ON resistance ratio to about 1000, but the sample-to-sample reproducibility is so far lower than that required for large scale integration.
Neutralization of acid mine drainage using the final product from CO2 emissions capture with alkaline paper mill waste

In this study, experiments were conducted to investigate the applicability of low-cost alkaline paper mill wastes as acidity neutralizing agents for treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD). Paper wastes include a calcium mud by-product from kraft pulping, and a calcite powder from a previous study focused on sequestering CO(2) by carbonation of calcium mud. The neutralization process consisted of increase of pH by alkaline additive dissolution, decrease of metals solubility and precipitation of gypsum and poorly crystallized Fe-Al oxy-hydroxides/oxy-hydroxysulphates, which acted as a sink for trace elements to that extent that solutions reached the pre-potability requirements of water for human consumption. This improvement was supported by geochemical modelling of solutions using PHREEQC software, and observations by scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction of reaction products. According to PHREEQC simulations, the annual amount of alkaline additive is able to treat AMD (pH 3.63, sulphate 3800 mg L(-1), iron 348 mg L(-1)) with an average discharge of about 114 and 40 Ls(-1) for calcium mud and calcite powder, respectively. Likewise, given the high potential of calcium mud to sequester CO(2) and of resulting calcite powder to neutralize AMD, paper wastes could be a promising solution for facing this double environmental problem.
Role of electronic localization in the phosphorescence of iridium sensitizing dyes

In this work we present a systematic study of three representative iridium dyes, namely, Ir(ppy)3, FIrpic and PQIr, which are commonly used as sensitizers in organic optoelectronic devices. We show that electronic correlations play a crucial role in determining the excited-state energies in these systems, due to localization of electrons on Ir d orbitals. Electronic localization is captured by employing hybrid functionals within time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) and with Hubbard-model corrections within the delta-SCF approach. The performance of both methods are studied comparatively and shown to be in good agreement with experiment. The Hubbard-corrected functionals provide further insight into the localization of electrons and on the charge-transfer character of excited-states. The gained insight allows us to comment on envisioned functionalization strategies to improve the performance of these systems. Complementary discussions on the delta-SCF method are also presented in order to fill some of the gaps in the literature.
Bird release: repellent auto-system

For decades, farmers have been in conflict with birds. Changing national agricultural regimes and EU directives are among the main reasons for a growing geese population: 60% increase since 1993 to 5 million. Throughout Northern Europe, the rising geese population causes great damage to farmers’ crops (up to 68k per farmer per incident). Bird Control Group offers solutions which eradicate this damage without harming wildlife or impacting geese populations. 

The overall objective of the project is to bring our next generation system to market: the Autonomous Bird Control Deterrent System (ABCD). This system is able to successfully scare geese without causing harm and has the potential to revolutionise the way farmers deal with geese problems. When a goose enters an agricultural field, it is immediately detected by a smart software-powered camera system that is continuously scanning the field. Based on the movement characteristics of geese, a pattern is chosen to aim a diode laser towards the birds, causing all birds to scare off and leave immediately. Our field trials and scientific research have proven that lasers are 96% effective in deterring birds when applied correctly. Research has shown that our laser is animal-friendly (acknowledged by the World Wildlife Fund) and that birds do not become accustomed to laser, thus giving it a long term effect.

ABCD is based on 4 years of R&D and is capable of deterring more than 80% of birds from farmland, while harming none. As a result, farmers are able to avoid thousands of euros in yearly damage. The Netherlands alone represents a 78m€ nearterm market opportunity, while Europe and Northern America account for 260,650 farmers and amount to 4b€. We plan to sell over 4,000 products by 2023, yielding a total cumulative revenue of 33m€. We already have the support from 4 distributors, the Dutch House of Representatives, the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals, LTO Nederland and Rabobank (letters of support included).
Illuminating neuronal-astrocytic pathways for sleep homeostasis

Sleep is crucial to the brain’s remarkable regenerative and adaptive capabilities. Inadequate sleep is a pervasive problem that severely impairs brain function, productivity, and health. How the brain homeostatically senses sleep need and translates it into the intensified rebound sleep (RBS) that follows sleep deprivation (SD) still remains unclear. I aim to understand these mechanisms and to identify therapeutic targets that will promote consolidated, restorative sleep, enabling the development of superior sleep aids. Furthermore, this will shed light on the enigmatic yet fundamental question of the function of sleep.	
Astrocyte activation increases sleep, and astrocytes release adenosine (ado), a key messenger for sleep homeostasis. Thus, astrocytic-neuronal interactions likely decode sleep pressure into RBS via adenosinergic mechanisms. I discovered that cortical interneurons expressing neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and neurokinin-1 receptor (NK1), which are selectively activated in RBS, show highly unusual excitatory responses to ado that are sensitive to sleep pressure. Furthermore, I found that knockout of a specific ado receptor in mice caused reduced numbers of cortical nNOS/NK1 neurons as well as a delayed RBS response. Based on these findings, I hypothesise that cortical nNOS/NK1 neurons play a key role in sleep homeostasis.
My group now aims to 1) identify the comprehensive sleep homeostasis machinery, by building transcriptomic profiles of neurons activated during and after SD in mice using phosphorylated ribosome profiling, 2) verify the function of these newly identified neurons in sleep homeostasis by activity imaging and chemogenetic manipulation in vivo,  and 3) investigate the functional role of astrocytes in the sleep homeostasis network. These studies will form the foundation for a new generation of sleep aids that are urgently needed to safeguard the productivity and health of our society.
Direct numerical simulation of an isothermal reacting turbulent wall-jet

In the present investigation, Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is used to study a binary irreversible and isothermal reaction in a plane turbulent wall-jet. The flow is compressible and a single-step global reaction between an oxidizer and a fuel species is solved. The inlet based Reynolds, Schmidt, and Mach numbers of the wall-jet are Re = 2000, Sc = 0.72, and M = 0.5, respectively, and a constant coflow velocity is applied above the jet. At the inlet, fuel and oxidizer enter the domain separately in a non-premixed manner. The turbulent structures of the velocity field show the common streaky patterns near the wall, while a somewhat patchy or spotty pattern is observed for the scalars and the reaction rate fluctuations in the near-wall region. The reaction mainly occurs in the upper shear layer in thin highly convoluted reaction zones, but it also takes place close to the wall. Analysis of turbulence and reaction statistics confirms the observations in the instantaneous snapshots, regarding the intermittent character of the reaction rate near the wall. A detailed study of the probability density functions of the reacting scalars and comparison to that of the passive scalar throughout the domain reveals the significance of the reaction influence as well as the wall effects on the scalar distributions. The higher order moments of both the velocities and the scalar concentrations are analyzed and show a satisfactory agreement with experiments. The simulations show that the reaction can both enhance and reduce the dissipation of fuel scalar, since there are two competing effects; on the one hand, the reaction causes sharper scalar gradients and thus a higher dissipation rate, on the other hand, the reaction consumes the fuel scalar thereby reducing the scalar dissipation.
A brief review of spatial analysis concepts and tools used for mapping, containment and risk modelling of infectious diseases and other illnesses

SUMMARY Fast response and decision making about containment, management, eradication and prevention of diseases, are increasingly important aspects of the work of public health officers and medical providers. Diseases and the agents causing them are spatially and temporally distributed, and effective countermeasures rely on methods that can timely locate the foci of infection, predict the distribution of illnesses and their causes, and evaluate the likelihood of epidemics. These methods require the use of large datasets from ecology, microbiology, health and environmental geography. Geodatabases integrating data from multiple sets of information are managed within the frame of geographic information systems (GIS). Many GIS software packages can be used with minimal training to query, map, analyse and interpret the data. In combination with other statistical or modelling software, predictive and spatio-temporal modelling can be carried out. This paper reviews some of the concepts and tools used in epidemiology and parasitology. The purpose of this review is to provide public health officers with the critical tools to decide about spatial analysis resources and the architecture for the prevention and surveillance systems best suited to their situations.
Towards chemical accuracy in computational materials science

This project aims at the development of a novel toolbox of ab-initio methods that approximate the true many-electron wavefunction using systematically improvable perturbation and coupled-cluster theories. The demand and prospects for these methods are excellent given that the highly-accurate coupled-cluster theories can predict atomization- and reaction energies in a wide range of solids and molecules with chemical accuracy (≈43 meV). However, the computational cost involved inhibits their widespread use in the field of materials science so far. A multitude of suggested developments in the present proposal hold the promise to reduce the computational cost beyond what is currently considered possible by the community. These include explicit correlation methods that augment the conventional wavefunction expansion with terms that depend on the electron pair correlation factors. In contrast to the widely-used homogeneous correlation factors, this proposal aims at the investigation of inhomogeneous correlation factors that can also capture van der Waals interactions. Furthermore this proposal seeks to employ a recently developed combination of atom-centered basis functions and plane wave basis sets, maximizing the compactness in the wavefunction expansion. The combination of these ideas bears the potential to reduce the computational cost of coupled-cluster calculations in solids by three orders of magnitude, leading to a breakthrough in the field of highly-accurate ab-initio simulations. As such the study of challenging solid state physics and chemistry problems forms an important part of this proposal. We seek to investigate molecular adsorption and reactions in zeolites and on surfaces, pressure-driven solid-solid phase transitions of two dimensional layered materials and defects in solids. These problems are paradigmatic for van der Waals interactions and strong correlation, and methods that describe their electronic structure accurately are highly sought after.
Making the recruitment decision for fresh university graduates: a study of employment in an industrial organisation

Owing to the intense need for educated and talented workforce, especially in developing countries, recruiting fresh university graduates has become an important issue for organisations. However, conventional recruitment and personnel selection methods may be unable to fulfil the task due to some uncertainties and complexities such as lack of past work experience or creeping subjectivity into the recruitment process of fresh graduates. This paper addresses the problem by proposing a two-fold recruitment approach which benefits from human resource personnel selection methods and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). A study of employment for an industrial organisation in Malaysia was conducted and the proposed model was applied. The study has shown the overriding role of university lecturers for the recruitment of fresh graduates. The consistency and validation of the model was examined through experimental procedures based on consistency test and sensitivity analysis.