SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Data driven dairy decisions 4 farmers

The Data Driven Dairy Decisions for Farmers (4D4F) thematic network will focus on the role which dairy animal and environmental sensors can play in collecting real time information to help make more informed decisions in dairy farming.

The network will develop a Community of Practice comprised of farmers, farm advisors, technology suppliers, knowledge exchange professionals and researchers who will work together to debate, collect and communicate best practice drawn from innovative farmers, industry and the research community to facilitate the co-creation of best practice.  The results will be communicated to farmers using best practice guides on the use of sensors and data analysis tools supported by videos, infographics and an online virtual warehouse of dairy sensor technologies.

The network will include the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) which can be tailored to individual farms to help farmers and farm advisors adopt dairy sensor and data analysis technology.  The SOPs will be developed by working groups of the Community of Practice including farmers, farm advisors, technology suppliers, knowledge exchange professionals and researchers, who will work together to develop farmer friendly SOPs.

The on line Community of Practice and published communication tools will be complimented by on farm events and workshops to help farmers and farm advisors implement innovative sensor and data analysis technologies.  The workshops and events will promote discussion between farmers and their peers on how best to use sensors and data analysis in their own businesses.  This will lead to local peer to peer support to facilitate the adoption of data driven dairy decision making.

The network will work closely with EIP Agri and at member state level it will work with existing EIP Operational Groups working on dairy data and sensors and, where suitable Operational Groups do not exist, it will work with local partners to develop new Operational Groups.
Spectral imaging powered ship hull biofouling detection and cleaning

Marine biofouling has a tremendous economic and environmental impact; it can lead to >€1m in lost revenue per ship per year in fuel overconsumption alone. The International Maritime Organization estimates that gas emissions may increase between 38% and 72% by 2020, unless corrective measures are taken. 

The only way to mitigate biofouling is to detect it at an early stage (Level of Fouling – LoF 1), while it can still be cleaned with soft methods that do not damage hull paint or coating. With current approaches this is impossible, particularly within port waters as they are heavily turbid and inhibit visibility. Inspections outside port waters induce charter-off time that costs >€20k per day and are thus avoided by ship operators.

SleekShip comprises a Semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUV) carrying a hyperspectral camera that captures light wavelength bands where light backscattering is less and the slime is easier to distinguish despite contamination. The inspection can take place in port waters while the ship is docked for other operations thus no additional charter-off time is incurred. An integrated cavitation-based cleaning tool allows for 100% paint-safe cleaning.

By detecting biofouling early, ship owners will be able to achieve >€1.3m savings per vessel annually by reducing fuel overconsumption and paint/coating damage caused by hard-brush cleaning.

Our consortium comprises SubseaTech, a dynamic manufacturer of underwater robots, QCELL, a high-tech SME specialising in hyperspectral imaging, M.Danchor a leading cleaning and inspection services company, TWI, the global leader in image-based underwater inspection technologies and Danaos, a NYSE-listed containership owner.

Through SleekShip we aim to achieve sales of €41m, generating €17.9m profits and >110 jobs while helping the shipping industry save €3.4bn per year and reduce CO2 emissions by 115m tonnes over the 5 years after market launch. The Net Present Value ROI is 4:1 on EC funds with a grant.
Integrated remote tourism

The project aims at creating integrated tourist packages that are valid year-round, in keeping with the attractive peculiarities of the Julian-Karst area. Specifically, the project focuses on cultural, landscape and sport routes in a well-defined geographical area. The idea is to promote - in an aggregate way - mountain, sea and “intellectual” tourism. To this end it takes advantage of the most advanced technological solutions, that consists in practice in georeferential maps, ortho-photos and satellite images of the reliefs, and graphical renditions of the reliefs to be stored in a dedicated imaging server. The project makes use of aggressive web-marketing techniques (a constant high positioning of the web portal, in all search engines, by using key words such as “tourism”, “Karst”, Trieste”, etc.), project scaleability and the use of software allowing for the interfacing with existing databanks to use their data. The aim is therefore to provide potential tourists with the possibility to check the area on their computer as a tourist destination - thanks to the targeted map available and to satellite imaging - and to put together - again online - their tourist itinerary, planning autonomously transfers, accommodation, and selected visits.
When, and how, do team members’ minds align? a dynamic perspective on shared mental models in teams with different levels of task and outcome interdependence

Successful teamwork is crucial to solve many of today’s key problems, but to effectively perform the tasks, team members have to build a shared mental model (i.e., a shared understanding about who does what, when, and with whom) successfully and in a timely manner. I aim to tackle the (implicit) view in the literature that one level of convergence is appropriate for all teams, by analysing the shared mental model changing patterns (i.e., trajectories) of different teams via interdependence theory. This project aims to uncover the range of possible shared mental model trajectories, and understand whether and why different trajectories occur in different types of teams and what the implications for team performance are. I will conduct two longitudinal empirical studies. Study A will analyse the individual team members’ perception of shared mental models. I will use Academic Prolific to target 400 respondents. This study allows me to determine the best timing and interval length to capture shared mental models. Study B will build upon the insights I will gain from Study A to understand which trajectories fit with each type of team and what the implications for performance are. For Study B, I will collect data in 80 teams (team members and leaders) from different industries and sectors. As teamwork is essential to create a competitive European Union, my project will contribute to the development of the European Union labour market for the 21st century. I will accomplish this project by combining my expertise with the expertise in time research and interdependence theory at Maastricht University. Overall, this project and the foreseen two top publications will increase my research-related (e.g., methodological) and transferable (e.g., valorisation of knowledge) skills, which will bring me a significant leap in my career and increase my employability and career prospects in academia.
Screening for Nematicidal Activities of Bacillus Species Against Root Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne incognita)

Aims : The aim of this study is to screen for nematicidal activities of Bacillus species against root knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita ). Study Design: Randomized complete block design was used for this study Place and Duration of Study: This work was done in Research and Development Division, Malaysian Pepper Board in January 2011 to December 2012. Methodology: In this study, bacteria were isolated from pepper farm, the use of these strains was evaluated to control root knot nematode in vitro and the effectiveness of the antagonistic strains in greenhouse condition was investigated. Results: Four rhizobacteria with nematicidal activity were isolated. Among these strains, nematotoxicities of Bacillus strains were intensively analyzed. Bacillus spp strains MPB04 and MPB93 showed remarkable nematicidal activity of 76.4 and 50.6%, killed tested nematodes within 2 h and completely destroyed tested nematode within 12 h. The results also showed that nematicidal activity displayed by Bacillus strains is related with their proteolytic activity. The pot trial also revealed that the application of Bacillus strain MPB04 and MPB93 reduced the root population of M. incognita by 60.95 and 35.28%, respectively over control. This indicated that these bacterial isolates could reduce the ability of M. incognita to reproduce in soil. Conclusion: The coherence of results by chemical, genetic and greenhouse analysis has further strengthened the hypothesis that nematicidal activity displayed by Bacillus strains is
Musculoskeletal disorders among first-year Ghanaian students in a nursing college

To estimate the prevalence and extent of MSDs among a sample of freshmen in a nursing college in Ghana.A semi-structured self-reported questionnaire including the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) was used to collect information on age, gender and musculoskeletal complaints among a random sample of 200 students at a nursing and midwifery college in the Eastern region of Ghana.Out of the 200 questionnaires administered, 160 were retrieved of which 3 were found to be incomplete and void, yielding a total of 157 evaluable questionnaires, a response rate of 78.5%. One hundred and ten (70.1%) students reported having MSDs in the previous 12 months, of which a total 88 (56.1%) suffered disabling effects, while 70(44.6%) students reported having MSDs in the past 7 days. The prevalence of MSDs in the different body regions was generally low with clustered distribution in the neck, upper back, wrists/hands and lower back.Nursing students are at reasonably high risk of MSDs. Strategies to prevent this important public health problem amongst future generation of nursing students must be given utmost priority. This study provides the baseline data for more elaborative studies in the Ghanaian population.
Anthropogenic heathlands: the social organization of past grazing landscapes

In a time of accelerating human-caused ecological catastrophe, questions of organizational resilience have become extremely timely. In bringing the archaeological perspective of a 4200-year timespan, ANTHEA seeks to to radically alter our knowledge of resilient forms of self-organisation in past land-use regimes and human-nature entanglements. Based on seven case study areas, ANTHEA will show how collaborative institutions of common land use were organized in the North European heathland regimes (3200 BC-AD 1000), with a particular emphasis on their earliest emergence, their adaption to internal and external factors as well as their ecological, temporal, spatial, and social fabric. More than 4,000 years ago, farming communities across northern Europe began the first fire-based expansion of naturally occurring heather. Pollen evidence suggests that some of these grazing areas, spanning thousands of hectares, existed until the 18th-19th century. Without frequent intervention and management, anthropogenic heathland will turn into forest. So the survival of these areas suggests the existence of highly specialised forms of social organization with the unique capacity to persist. Still, we know little about the actual stability of these heathlands or what caused their unprecedented resilience. By shifting attention away from seeing institutional robustness as equilibrium, stability and continuity and placing the questions of instability, uncertainty, and areal flexibility at the centre, ANTHEA envisages a new cultural history of heathlands that breaks with rooted ideas of these areas being marginal and underdeveloped. ANTHEA is truly multidisciplinary and links landscape and settlement archaeology with paleoenvironmental modelling, social anthropology and philosophy. Moreover, the project introduces a pioneering theoretical and methodological advancement in the temporality of resilience, to be made usable in contemporary land-use policies. The long-term perspective will allow detailed historical trajectories to be established of how common land-use institutions emerged and reorganized according to changing circumstances, challenging the ""tragedy of the commons"" narrative.
Sustainable Urban Mobility in MED PORT cities

All EU cities are confronted with similar challenges related to mobility, i.e. urban congestion, pollution, GHG emissions and the consequent need to improve the mobility and air quality in a context of enduring economic crisis. Yet, MED cities having ports are defied with even more complex issues, needing a long-term mobility planning approach, integrating both city- and port-originated transport flows, in order to achieve sustainable urban mobility.
SUMPORT aims at tackling this situation through the following activities and outputs:
- Strengthening the MED port cities’ knowledge and planning capacities through trainings for MED port city officials in drafting SUMPs, also benefitting from MED port cities already having them.
- Drafting SUMPs in two MED port cities and updating one already existing.
- Implementing pilot actions and small-scale investments for sustainable mobility in six MED port cities.
The common mobility challenges of MED port cities require, and SUMPORT will provide, a strong transnational participatory approach, exchanging experiences and expertise, with those already having SUMPs participating in the training of those who do not, and comparing how SUMPs are translated into concrete actions. Tools will be developed for transferring the gained knowledge and results to a wider MED audience.
While several projects have been carried out on SUMPs in EU Programmes other than MED, SUMPORT is the first one tackling urban mobility planning in MED port cities.
Utilitarismo migratorio y programas de migración temporal. Estudio comparativo de los contratos OFII (Francia) y los contratos en origen (España)

À partir de nos thèses portant sur les marchés du travail de l’agriculture intensive provençale et andalouse (Décosse, 2011 ; Hellio, 2014), cet article propose une réflexion sur l’utilitarisme migratoire contemporain. En mettant en regard les contrats OFII et les contratos en origen, nous comparons deux déclinaisons — différemment sexuées — d’un même modèle de gestion utilitariste de la force de travail étrangère : le programme de migration temporaire (PMT). Dans un premier temps l’article évalue comment ces architectures migratoires basées sur une assignation à circuler s’appuient sur une articulation entre salariat saisonnier d’une part et économie paysanne et/ou domestique dans le pays d’origine de l’autre. L’étude retrace ensuite succinctement la généalogie de ces dispositifs puis insistons sur les concepts créés pour en assurer le renouveau au tournant des années 2000. Arrivé à la fin d’une démonstration qui allie donc études de cas dans le secteur agricole et approche socio-historique, l’article propose une définition théorique des PMT comme archétypes d’utilitarisme migratoire.
Investigation of the minimum detectable activity of radioxenon isotopes using an active guard

One of the current challenges of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, is reducing the minimum detectable activity and increasing the precision of the detection of radioactive noble gases; namely 135Xe, 133Xe, 133mXe, and 131mXe. These gases are typically detected by systems that use beta-gamma coincidence spectroscopy and gamma spectroscopy for activity measurement. In all of them, a lead shield (passive guard) is used to reduce the environmental isotopes. In this work, the concept of the active guard used in LSC systems has been improved upon for gaseous radioactive samples in a phoswich detector through Geant4 simulations. The simulation results showed that the use of an active guard results in a reduction in the minimum detectable activity, compared to those without an active guard.
Influence of Soil Moisture on Litter Respiration in the Semiarid Loess Plateau

Understanding the response mechanisms of litter respiration to soil moisture in water-limited semi-arid regions is of vital importance to better understanding the interplay between ecological processes and the local carbon cycle. In situ soil respiration was monitored during 2010-2012 under various conditions (normal litter, no litter, and double litter treatments) in a 30-year-old artificial black locust plantation (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) on the Loess Plateau. Litter respiration with normal and double litter treatments exhibited similar seasonal variation, with the maximum value obtained in summer (0.57 and 1.51 μmol m-2 s-1 under normal and double litter conditions, respectively) and the minimum in spring (0.27 and 0.69 μmol m-2 s-1 under normal and double litter conditions, respectively). On average, annual cumulative litter respiration was 115 and 300 g C m-2 y-1 under normal and double litter conditions, respectively. Using a soil temperature of 17°C as the critical point, the relationship between litter respiration and soil moisture was found to follow quadratic functions well, whereas the determination coefficient was much greater at high soil temperature than at low soil temperature (33-35% vs. 22-24%). Litter respiration was significantly higher in 2010 and 2012 than in 2011 under both normal litter (132-165 g C m-2 y-1 vs. 48 g C m-2 y-1) and double litter (389-418 g C m-2 y-1 vs. 93 g C m-2 y-1) conditions. Such significant interannual variations were largely ascribed to the differences in summer rainfall. Our study demonstrates that, apart from soil temperature, moisture also has significant influence on litter respiration in semi-arid regions.
Towards more realistic probabilistic models for data structures: the external path length in tries under the Markov model

Tries are among the most versatile and widely used data structures on words. They are pertinent to the (internal) structure of (stored) words and several splitting procedures used in diverse contexts ranging from document taxonomy to IP addresses lookup, from data compression (i.e., Lempel-Ziv'77 scheme) to dynamic hashing, from partial-match queries to speech recognition, from leader election algorithms to distributed hashing tables and graph compression. While the performance of tries under a realistic probabilistic model is of significant importance, its analysis, even for simplest memoryless sources, has proved difficult. Rigorous findings about inherently complex parameters were rarely analyzed (with a few notable exceptions) under more realistic models of string generations. In this paper we meet these challenges: By a novel use of the contraction method combined with analytic techniques we prove a central limit theorem for the external path length of a trie under a general Markov source. In particular, our results apply to the Lempel-Ziv'77 code. We envision that the methods described here will have further applications to other trie parameters and data structures.
Photocatalysis to crop protection: asymmetric cascades for chiral heterocycles

Food security and sustainable agriculture is a significant and current challenge to society in the face of growing global consumption. PHOTOCHIRO seeks to provide some solutions through assisting the development of more effective crop protection technology. Specifically, we aim at the synthesis of novel chiral amines, which are common motifs in biologically active molecules, by using light-driven organocatalytic cascade processes. Asymmetric organocatalysis and photochemistry, two powerful strategies of modern chemical research, have extraordinary potential for sustainably preparing the novel organic molecules required for driving innovation in the pharmaceutical and agrichemical industries. However, the control of enantioselectivity in photochemical processes poses a fundamental scientific challenge, and PHOTOCHIRO asks whether asymmetric organocatalytic photochemical cascades can be used as an effective tool for the rapid synthesis of novel chiral pyrrolidine and piperidine building blocks. The chiral molecules prepared in this project will be screened for herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide activity in a multidisciplinary collaboration with Syngenta. 
This fellowship brings a new collaboration to the host institution, transfers knowledge of advanced techniques in asymmetric catalysis and photochemistry to the candidate, and, in addition, knowledge of these new enantioselective photocatalytic synthetic techniques to the industrial partner. The results have the potential to increase the economic competitiveness of Europe through Knowledge and Technology Transfer and are in line with one of H2020 Societal Challenges to secure ""viable food production in face of a growing world food demand"". The multi-cultural and intersectoral nature of this project will broaden Dr Holden’s competencies and places her in a competitive position for her next career move.
A Support Vector Regression Approach for Investigating Multianticipative Driving Behavior

This paper presents a Support Vector Regression (SVR) approach that can be applied to predict the multianticipative driving behavior using vehicle trajectory data. Building upon the SVR approach, a multianticipative car-following model is developed and enhanced in learning speed and predication accuracy. The model training and validation are conducted by using the field trajectory data extracted from the Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM) project. During the model training and validation tests, the estimation results show that the SVR model performs as well as IDM model with respect to the model prediction accuracy. In addition, this paper performs a relative importance analysis to quantify the multianticipation in terms of the different stimuli to which drivers react in platoon car following. The analysis results confirm that drivers respond to the behavior of not only the immediate leading vehicle in front but also the second, third, and even fourth leading vehicles. Specifically, in congested traffic conditions, drivers are observed to be more sensitive to the relative speed than to the gap. These findings provide insight into multianticipative driving behavior and illustrate the necessity of taking into account multianticipative car-following model in microscopic traffic simulation.
PLUMBING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DISTRESS SIGNAL

A system, device, and method for communicating distress signals through a plumbing control system is provided. The system includes a plumbing controller configured to operate at least one plumbing appliance, at least one distress indicator in communication with the plumbing controller, and at least one distress sensor in communication with the plumbing controller. Activation of the at least one distress sensor causes activation of the at least one distress indicator.