SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A capability approach for seismic risk analysis and management

Abstract: Current approaches for seismic risk analysis conceptualize the consequences of seismic hazards too narrowly. While they are appropriate for risk analysis and management of individual structures, they fail to capture the actual impact of seismic hazards on society. The limitations of current approaches are discussed along with a list of desiderata for a framework better suited for societal seismic risk analysis and management. This chapter proposes a capability approach that meets such desiderata, where capabilities refer to what individuals are still able to achieve or do in the aftermath of a seismic event. In the proposed framework, individual capabilities are used to capture the net societal impact, including both potential benefits and opportunities. The proposed capability approach provides the information needed for rational decisions on the acceptability and tolerability of risks, informed and fair public policies, optimal allocation of resource, enhancing the quality of life, and promoting a sustainable development.
Een innosupp bg-3

The main objective of this project is to contribute to the implementation of the European policies in the field of innovation management capacity building in SMEs and their implementation in Bulgaria, resulting in effective and efficient investments in novelties leading to growth and quality jobs. As a major tool for improving global competitiveness of European companies, implementation of novelties in products, processes and society needs specially devoted attention and resources. This project will contribute to the better filtering and acceleration of innovation processes in Bulgarian SMEs, thus supporting growth and jobs. Supported companies are supposed to be better prepared for using Access to Finance instruments and attract investments in innovation.
Woven garment fabric

The woven fabric has warps of cladded yarns, with an elastane core and a mantle of polyamide in a thickness of 50-120 dtex. The wefts are of polyester, with a thickness of <= 60 dtex, pref. with 700-900 twists/m. The warps and wefts are dyed simultaneously using the same, different or contrast colors without damage to the elastane material. The warps have a pref. thickness of 70-100 dtex, or 50-80 dtex. The wefts have a pref. thickness of 45-55 dtex, or 20-30 dtex. The wefts are multi-lobed with a silky luster. The fabric is composed of 35-50 warps/cm and 25-40 wefts/cm, or 35-60 warps/cm and 32-43 wefts/cm.
Ants Can Acquire Multiple Symbolisms

The workers of the ant Myrmica sabuleti were previously shown to be able to associate a given amount to its corresponding symbol, one symbol at a time. It was here examined if they can simultaneously learn to associate the amount 1 with a corresponding symbol, the amount 2 with another symbol, the amount 3 with a third symbol, and the amount 4 with a fourth symbol, the cue to avoid being the amount 5. Thanks to operant conditioning during 156 hours and twelve successive testing experiments, it was shown that the ants can effectively memorize, in the course of a same time period, the association between the amounts 1, 2, 3, and 4 and their respective symbols. A distance effect was observed for the learning of the amounts 1 to 4 versus 5, but not for the learning of their four corresponding symbols.
Support for the maintenance of the business activity of the company MOJDODYR SPÓŁKA WITH LIMITED RESPONSIBILITY COMMANDITIVE COMPANY in a situation of a significant decrease in turnover due to COVID-19

The project concerns support for working capital of the company MOJDODYR Sp. z o.o. with limited liability of the COMMANDITOWA company indicated in point II.1 in the event of a significant decrease in turnover (revenue from sales) due to the disruption of the economy due to COVID-19. The aid will be used to maintain the activities of a company that is in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in a situation of sudden shortage or lack of liquidity.
Tick-borne encephalitis outbreak in Hungary due to consumption of raw goat milk

A tick-borne encephalitis outbreak involving 25 patients of 154 exposed persons occurred in Hungary in August 2007. None of the patients had a history of tick-bite, however all of them drank unpasteurized raw goat milk from the same farm. The aim of this study was to identify the goats on the farm which could have spread the infection through their milk. Blood samples were taken from 75 goats on the farm and were examined by various serological methods, namely indirect immunofluorescent assay, hemagglutination inhibition, microneutralization and an ELISA adapted to testing material from goats, to determine antibody levels in the serum. The four methods have proved different levels of specificity. The least specific was the indirect immunofluorescent assay, which showed a low titre in all sera. Comparison of the results of the other three methods indicates that two sera were positive for anti-TBEV IgG and one for anti-TBEV IgM. The goat with the IgM positive serum sample could have been a source of the infected milk. It has been concluded that serological results for goats by the different methods should be compared before final diagnosis because the specificity of methods in use can differ significantly.
METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CONTACT PART

The invention relates to a method for producing a conductive contact part (10) for a detachable electric plug-in connection. Said method provides a contact element (20) comprising a bushing part (23), sections of which contain longitudinal slits and which has ribs (26) distributed around its periphery. A sleeve part (30), which can surround the bushing part (23) and cover the ribs (26), comprises two opposing end faces (31, 32). The sleeve part (30) is placed and positioned in an approximately coaxial manner in relation to the bushing part (23), in such a way that it covers the ribs, the positioned sleeve part (30) being locked by one of its two faces (31, 32) on the bushing part (23). The bushing part (23) is elastically twisted about its central axis (13), in such a way that the ribs (26) arc towards said central axis (13) and the other face (32, 31) of the sleeve part (30) is locked on the bushing part (23) that is held in a twisted position against the elastic restoring force of the ribs (26). A contact part (10), designed for mass-production, with defined elastic properties of the ribs (26) can thus be produced in a reproducible manner (10).
Automatic Auroral Detection in Color All-Sky Camera Images

Every winter, the all-sky cameras (ASCs) in the MIRACLE network take images of the night sky at regular intervals of 10–20 s. This amounts to millions of images that not only need to be pruned, but there is also a need for efficient auroral activity detection techniques. In this paper, we describe a method for performing automated classification of ASC images into three mutually exclusive classes: aurora , no aurora , and cloudy . This not only reduces the amount of data to be processed, but also facilitates in building statistical models linking the magnetic fluctuations and auroral activity helping us to get a step closer to forecasting auroral activity. We experimented with different feature extraction techniques coupled with Support Vector Machines classification. Color variants of Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) features, specifically Opponent SIFT features, were found to perform better than other feature extraction techniques. With Opponent SIFT features, we were able to build a classification model with a cross-validation accuracy of 91%, which was further improved using temporal information and elimination of outliers which makes it accurate enough for operational data pruning purposes. Since the problem is essentially similar to scene detection, local point description features perform better than global- and texture-based feature descriptors.
Polarization shift keying based relay-assisted free space optical communication over strong turbulence with misalignment

Abstract This paper investigates the outage performance of polarization shift keying (PolSK) based multihop parallel relay assisted free space optics (FSO) system over a strong atmospheric turbulence channel with misalignment fading. An exact closed form expression is derived for the end-to-end outage probability of the system. The results are compared with the direct transmission and on-off keying (OOK) based FSO systems. The results indicate that the performance of the PolSK based relay-assisted FSO system is much better than the direct transmission and OOK systems. The outage performance is enhanced by increasing the number of relay path between the transmitter and receiver.
dBug: systematic evaluation of distributed systems

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of - a tool that leverages manual instrumentation for systematic evaluation of distributed and concurrent systems. Specifically, for a given distributed concurrent system, its initial state and a workload, the dBug tool systematically explores possible orders in which concurrent events triggered by the workload can happen. Further, dBug optionally uses the partial order reduction mechanism to avoid exploration of equivalent orders. Provided with a correctness check, the dBug tool is able to verify that all possible serializations of a given concurrent workload execute correctly. Upon encountering an error, the tool produces a trace that can be replayed to investigate the error.

We applied the dBug tool to two distributed systems - the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) implemented in C and the FAWN-based key-value storage (FAWN-KV) implemented in C++. In particular, we integrated both systems with dBug to expose the non-determinism due to concurrency. This mechanism was used to verify that the result of concurrent execution of a number of basic operations from a fixed initial state meets the high-level specification of PVFS and FAWN-KV. The experimental evidence shows that the dBug tool is capable of systematically exploring behaviors of a distributed system in a modular, practical, and effective manner.
The Dialectal Tribe and the Doctrine of Continuity

Abstract In Australia, applicants for native title—legal recognition of proprietary interest in land devolving from traditions predating colonization—must meet a stringent standard of continuity of social identity since before the advent of Crown sovereignty. As courts and the legislature have gravitated toward an increasingly strict application of the continuity doctrine, anthropologists involved in land claims cases have found themselves rehearsing an old debate in Australian anthropology over the degree to which post-contact patterns of subsistence, movement, and ritual enactment can support inferences about life in precontact Australia. In the 1960s, at the dawn of the land claims era, a handful of anthropologists shifted the debate to an ecological plane. Characterizing Australia on the cusp of colonization as a late Holocene climax human ecosystem, they argued that certain recently observed patterns in the distribution of marks of social cohesion (mutual intelligibility of language, systems of classificatory kinship) could not represent the outcome of such a climax ecosystem and must indicate disintegration of Aboriginal social structures since contact. Foremost among them was Joseph Birdsell, for whom linguistic boundaries, under climax conditions, would self-evidently be congruent with boundaries in breeding pools. Birdsell's intervention came just as the Northern Territory Supreme Court was hearing evidence on the value of dialect as a marker of membership in corporate landholding groups in Yolngu country, and offers an object lesson in how language, race, mode of subsistence, and law come together in efforts to answer the questions “Who was here first?” and “Are those people still here?”
PROCESS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE TOTAL ACIDITY NUMBER (TAN) OF A MINERAL INSULATING OIL

The method comprises the steps of: pouring in a container a sample of oil and a pre-established amount of a solution suitable for extracting the acid fraction of the sample; stirring the content of the container and waiting for the separation from the sample of an extract phase; dosing in the extract phase a titrant solution of KOH until an acid-base indicator present therein changes color; and calculating the TAN on the basis of the volume of dosed titrant solution according to the formula: TAN (mgKOH/goil) = (V x 56, 1 x M)/m wherein V is the volume of dosed titrant solution expressed in ml, 56,1 is the molecular weight of KOH, M is the titre of the KOH solution expressed in moles per litre and m is the mass of the sample expressed in g.
Spring drought prediction based on winter NAO and global SST in Portugal

The aim of this paper is to test the ability of neural network approaches to hindcast the spring standardized precipitation index on a 6-month time scale (SPI6) in Portugal, based on winter large-scale climatic indices. For this purpose, the linkage of the spring SPI time series with the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the sea surface temperature (SST) was investigated by means of maps of the correlation coefficient for the period from October 1910 to September 2004. The results indicate that the winter NAO is a good predictor for the SPI6 of the spring (SPI6 finishing in April, May and June, SPI6April, SPI6May and SPI6June, respectively) for the northern, central and southern regions of Portugal. The winter SST1 (area of the Mediterranean Sea) must only be considered for the northern region, and the winter SST3 (area of the North Atlantic between Iberia and North America) only for the southern region. Spatial maps of predictive SPI6 for April, May and June were created and validated. The neural models explained more than 81% of the total variance for the SPI6April and SPI6May and more than 64% of the total variance for the SPI6June. Probability maps were also developed considering the values predicted by the neural methods for the spring months and all drought categories (moderate, severe and extreme). These maps indicating the probability of droughts can provide valuable support for the integrated planning and management of water resources throughout Portugal.



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Mécanismes d'apprentissage dans la Gênes du Moyen Âge tardif : formation, acteurs et réseaux (XIIIe–XIVe siècles)

L’article analyse l’apprentissage dans la ville portuaire de Gênes aux xiiie et xive siècles sur la base d'un large échantillon d’actes notariés. Le but est de clarifier certains aspects de la formation, et des réseaux, et d’identifier les principaux acteurs impliqués. Trois aspects seront abordés : le premier concerne le genre et l’absence apparente des femmes dans le circuit de formation ; le deuxième porte sur la nature du contrat et les conditions qu’il établit ; la dernière partie de l’article examine les réseaux de recrutement en soulignant l’importance des liens sociaux, en particulier pour les apprentis qui venaient de lieux éloignés
BEtter management and implementation of NATURa 2000 sites

One of the current most important and demanding challenges is to face the loss of biodiversity, encompassing the diversity of both habitat and species types. A strong EU legal basis for the nature conservation provides the foundation for the preservation of the EU natural heritage. We refer in particular to Habitats and Birds Directives, whose design of Natura 2000 network is based on. The SEE Countries are at different stages of the application of 92/43/EEC Dir. for the implementation of Nature 2000, as well as of management of natural sites. BE-NATUR aims therefore at favouring the better management and implementation of Nature 2000 sites in the SEE eco-regions, focussing in particular on wetlands (rivers, lakes, coastal shores). The exchange of knowledge and best practices within the consortium will be the basis for the definition of a Transnational Joint Strategy for the better management and improvement of Natura 2000 network, and the definition of Joint Transnational Action Plans for the conservation of species and habitats common to the PP areas, to concretely implement the EU legislative framework. The project and therefore the activities planned are based on: - learning process as the constant and proper management of protected areas is a very big challenge for all EU Member states and still more for candidates - policies integration and concrete application to face the increasing demand of land to the detriment of environment, and mitigate the related conflicts - uniformity of strategies and lobbying for the reduction of gaps in the field of environment management and protection - transnational communication and awareness raising to raise people's consciousness on environment as "cultural" requirement to improve and support the conservation activities and policies in the future
Gas separation performance of polyethersulfone/multi-walled carbon nanotubes mixed matrix membranes

Mixed matrix membranes (MMM) comprised of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) inside polyethersulfone (PES) matrix were fabricated and characterized for gas separation performance. The MWCNTs were purified with acid mixtures (HNO3/H2SO4; v/v = 1:3) to remove carbonaceous impurities followed by surface functionalization with 3-aminopropyltriethoxylsilane (APTES) to allow well dispersion of the tubes in organic solvent such as N-methlypyrrolidone (NMP) during the preparation of PES/MWCNTs suspension. Effects of purification, functionalization and MWCNTs loading on the gas permeation properties of the MMM were investigated by varying the MWCNTs loading in the PES matrix from 0.5–3.0 wt.%. The fabricated MWCNTs/PES MMM were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetry analysis (TGA) and pure gas permeation test. Gas permeation measurement showed that MMMs embedded with different kinds of applied CNTs exhibited different separation performances. For example, gas permeation measurement showed that MMM embedded with 1.0 wt.% purified and functionalized MWCNTs possessed better performances in terms of permeability and selectivity in comparison to raw MWCNTs. The highest gas selectivity was achieved at 0.5 wt.% MWCNTs loadings (aCO2/CH4 = 250.13; aO2/N2 = 10.65) and decreased as the loadings were increased from 1.0 to 3.0 wt.%. The reduction in performance possibly due to the presence of interface voids which became prominent at higher MWCNTs loading. The high selectivity of fabricated MMM suggested that the present works have a great potential to be utilized practically in gas separation technology.
Economic and environmental optimization of waste treatment

This article presents the new systems engineering optimization model, OptiWaste, which incorporates a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology and captures important characteristics of waste management systems. As part of the optimization, the model identifies the most attractive waste management options. The model renders it possible to apply different optimization objectives such as minimizing costs or greenhouse gas emissions or to prioritize several objectives given different weights. A simple illustrative case is analysed, covering alternative treatments of one tonne of residual household waste: incineration of the full amount or sorting out organic waste for biogas production for either combined heat and power generation or as fuel in vehicles. The case study illustrates that the optimal solution depends on the objective and assumptions regarding the background system--illustrated with different assumptions regarding displaced electricity production. The article shows that it is feasible to combine LCA methodology with optimization. Furthermore, it highlights the need for including the integrated waste and energy system into the model.
Implementation of innovative and eco-friendly coating technology for pipes used in fire-fighting pipelines

The aim of the project is to implement an innovative and eco-friendly lacquer technology using UV-curing, thinner-free lacquers (process innovation) and thus not emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) – as a result of which there will be a fundamental change in the overall production process associated with the prefabrication of fire-fighting pipelines. As a result of the implementation of the new technology, the Applicant will launch on the market improved products – pipes for use in fire-fighting pipelines (product innovation). In addition, the project will implement organizational and marketing innovation. The implementation of the project will increase competitiveness and improve the applicant’s market position, enter new markets and develop export activity.
Selective collection of the organic waste in tourist areas and valorization in farm composting plants.

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In addition to the lack in some Mediterranean countries of separate collection of solid and organic waste, the implementation of integrated waste management plans at local level is still undermined by the high costs of transport and treatment. In this framework, SCOW focuses on the collection of organic waste in tourist areas with a view to valorizing biowaste as compost for sustainable agriculture practices._x000D_
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To develop an integrated and environmentally organic waste management system, ensuring sustainable methods for collection and treatment by involving all the relevant waste treatment stakeholders and enhancing their knowledge.
Practice of analgesia and sedation in Italian Paediatric Intensive Care Units: did we progress?

No strong recommendation was reported in management analgesia and sedation of critically ill children. The present study was performed to describe the current practice of analgesia and sedation in Pediatric Italian Intensive Care Units, in order to evaluate the adherence to last published pediatric guidelines.A questionnaire was sent to 24 Italian Paediatric Intensive Care Units during 2010.One Hundred percent of contacted centers returned the filled form. All Pediatric Italian Intensive Care Units used the same combination (opioid plus benzodiazepine); 50% of centers referred to regularly monitor the level of sedation, but only 37% of them used validate tools. Withdrawal syndrome was regularly monitored in 25% of contacted Pediatric Italian Intensive Care Units; Finnegan scale was the only adopted scale.National pediatric intensivists identified the same drug strategy to obtain analgesia and sedation in their patients, according to last published guidelines. Assessment of analgesia and sedation was more diffuse but not regularly performed and different methods were used. Withdrawal syndrome was monitored in a minority of contacted centres. Considering our data the practice of analgesia and sedation in Italian Pediatric Intensive Care Units is improved but not yet completely adherent to last international recommendations.