SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Seeing things you don't see: unifying the philosophy, psychology and neuroscience of multimodal mental imagery

When I am looking at my coffee machine that makes funny noises, this is an instance of multisensory perception – I perceive this event by means of both vision and audition. But very often we only receive sensory stimulation from a multisensory event by means of one sense modality. If I hear the noisy coffee machine in the next room (without seeing it), then how do I represent the visual aspects of this multisensory event? 

The aim of this research project is to bring together empirical findings about multimodal perception and empirical findings about (visual, auditory, tactile) mental imagery and argue that on occasions like the one described in the last paragraph, we have multimodal mental imagery: perceptual processing in one sense modality (here: vision) that is triggered by sensory stimulation in another sense modality (here: audition). 

Multimodal mental imagery is rife. The vast majority of what we perceive are multisensory events: events that can be perceived in more than one sense modality – like the noisy coffee machine. And most of the time we are only acquainted with these multisensory events via a subset of the sense modalities involved – all the other aspects of these events are represented by means of multisensory mental imagery. This means that multisensory mental imagery is a crucial element of almost all instances of everyday perception, which has wider implications to philosophy of perception and beyond, to epistemological questions about whether we can trust our senses.

Focusing on multimodal mental imagery can help us to understand a number of puzzling perceptual phenomena, like sensory substitution and synaesthesia. Further, manipulating mental imagery has recently become an important clinical procedure in various branches of psychiatry as well as in counteracting implicit bias – using multimodal mental imagery rather than voluntarily and consciously conjured up mental imagery can lead to real progress in these experimental paradigms.
System for providing an open-cavity low profile encapsulated semiconductor package

System for providing an open-cavity semiconductor package and method for wire bonding a finger sensor die (300) to an external circuit. The finger sensor die includes a sensor array (316) having one or more die contacts (302) that are wire bonded to one or more external contacts of the external circuit so that a usable portion of the sensor array is maximized. The method comprises steps of forming a ball at a first end of a bonding wire (314), forming an electrically conductive connection between the ball and a selected external contact of the external circuit, extending the bonding wire to a selected die contact so as to form a wire loop having a low loop height (310), and forming an electrically conductive stitch connection between a second end of the bonding wire and the selected die contact. <IMAGE>
Mechanism of whi3 aggregation and its age-dependent malfunction

Age-associated neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by the irreversible pathological aggregation of proteins with low complexity (LC) sequences. In contrast, cells can exploit LC protein aggregation to help them adapt to changing environments. The factors that determine whether an aggregate is functional or pathological are unclear. How do cells control protein aggregation? Are age-associated diseases caused by loss of control over functional protein aggregates? To address these questions, we will study how yeast cells induce aggregation of Whi3, an LC RNA-binding protein, in order to memorise failed mating attempts. Using mass spectrometry, fluorescence microscopy and biochemical assays, we will determine whether post-translational modifications, RNA-binding and protein sequence affect Whi3 aggregation and function. We will then characterise the material properties and structures of Whi3 aggregates using cryo-electron tomography. Once we understand how cells control Whi3 aggregation, we will investigate whether this regulatory mechanism deteriorates in old cells, and whether the properties and structures of age-induced aggregates differ from their functional counterparts. These studies will improve our understanding of the largely unexplored phenomenon of functional protein aggregation, and how ageing promotes the uncontrolled protein aggregation underlying neurodegenerative diseases.
"PARASPRUZZI PER AUTOVEICOLI"

Il paraspruzzi è formato da due pannelli (1-2) sovrapposti e fissati tra loro a tenuta perimetrale ad eccezione che per il lato inferiore. Gli stessi pannelli tra loro opportunamente distanziati in modo da formare un'intercapedine interna (10), liberamente aperta verso il basso. Il pannello (1) rivolto verso la ruota dell'autoveicolo, è contornato da un bordo in rilievo (7), ad eccezione che sul lato inferiore, ed è dotato sulla faccia in vista di rilievi a punta (3), uguali, leggermente piatti, posti di costa, tra loro lievemente equidistanziate ed allineati su file verticali lievemente equidistanziate, in modo da formare dei canali di evacuazione verticali e trasversali (4-5). Nei detti canali (4-5) sono previsti dei fori passanti ed opportunamente distribuiti (6), che s'aprono nella detta intercapedine (10). Il flusso d'acqua e fanghiglia lanciato contro il paraspruzzi, in parte viene evacuato verso il basso dai canali del pannello anteriore ed in parte attraversa i detti fori (6) e giunge nella detta intercapedine che scarica anch'essa verso il basso. Viene così evitato l'accumulo di liquido sul fronte anteriore del paraspruzzi, che darebbe origine al fenomeno indesiderato della nebulizzazione.
Comparación de la riqueza generada por el mercado minorista en Brasil: antes y después de la crisis económica brasileña empezada en 2014

En el cuatrienio 2014-2017, Brasil experimentó una crisis económica con una reducción del 1,5 % en el Producto Interior Bruto (PIB), en comparación con el período anterior de cuatro años (2010-2013), en el que creció un 4 %. Por otro lado, los ingresos netos minoristas continuaron creciendo, pero a niveles 50 % más bajos en comparación con el período anterior de cuatro años (2010-2013). El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar y discutir el comportamiento de la distribución de la riqueza generada por las empresas minoristas que figuran en B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão –la Bolsa de Valores de Brasil–) entre el cuatrienio antes de la crisis económica y el cuatrienio durante la crisis. Analizamos el Estado de Valor Añadido (DVA) de 2010 a 2017 de trece compañías en cada cuatro años, enfocándonos en los cuatro agentes (empleados, gobierno, terceros y socios) que contribuyen a la generación de esta riqueza. Los resultados revelaron que en ambos períodos la mayor distribución de riqueza fue a los empleados, y la más baja, a los accionistas. En el centro del análisis, el segundo y tercer lugar de los receptores de riqueza fueron el Gobierno y terceros. Además, la investigación encontró que el mercado minorista creció un 25 % antes de la crisis, pero cayó un 3 % durante el cuatrienio de crisis.
Novel 6-amino-7-hydroxy-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-imidazo[4,5,1-j-k][1]-benzazepin-2-(1H)-one

Novel 6-amino-7-hydroxy-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-imidazo[4,5,l-j-k][1]-benzazepin- 2-(1H)-one derivatives of the formula <IMAGE> wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 8 carbon atoms optionally substituted with a hydroxyl, aryl and aryloxy of 6 to 10 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl of 3 to 7 carbon atoms optionally interrupted with a heteroatom optionally substituted with alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the wavy lines indicates that the 7-OH and 6-amino have the trans configuration and their non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts having remarkable anti-hypertensive and hypotensive activity and vasodilatatory activity and their preparation.
In silico trial for tuberculosis vaccine development

Tuberculosis (TB) one of the world’s deadliest diseases: one third of the world’s population, mostly in developing countries, is infected with TB. But TB is becoming again very dangerous also for developed countries, due to the increased mobility of the world population, and the appearance of several new bacterial strains that are multi-drug resistant (MDR). There is now a growing awareness that TB can be effectively fought only working globally, starting from countries like India, where the infection is endemic. Once a person present the active disease, the most critical issue is the current duration of the therapy, because of the high costs it involved, the increased chances of non-compliance (which increase the probability of developing an MDR strain), and the time the patient is still infectious to others.  One exciting possibility to shorten the duration of the therapy are new host-reaction therapies (HRT) as a coadjuvant of the antibiotic therapy.  The endpoints in the clinical trials for HRTs are time to inactivation, and incidence of recurrence.  While for the first it is in some cases possible to have a statistically powered evidence for efficacy in a phase II clinical trial, recurrence almost always require a phase III clinical trial with thousands of patients involved, and huge costs. In the STriTuVaD project we will extend our Universal Immune System Simulator to include all relevant determinants of such clinical trial, establish its predictive accuracy against the individual patients recruited in the trial, use it to generate virtual patients and predict their response to the HRT being tested, and combine them to the observations made on physical patients using a new in silico-augmented clinical trial approach that uses a Bayesian adaptive design. This approach, where found effective could drastically reduce the cost of innovation in this critical sector of public healthcare.
Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options and research priorities

Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change have stressed the importance of mitigation, which ideally requires a global agreement that is still lacking. This paper uses a theoretical framework to argue that in the absence of a binding international agreement on mitigation, Latin America should focus mainly on adaptation to cope with the consequences of climate change. This is not a recommendation that such economies indulge in free-riding. Instead, it is based on cost–benefit considerations, all else being equal. Only in the presence of a global binding agreement can the region hope to exploit its comparative advantage in the conservation and management of forests, which are a large carbon sink. The decision of which policies to implement should depend on the results of a thorough cost–benefit analysis of competing projects, yet very little is known or has been carried out in this area to date. Research should be directed toward cost–benefit analysis of alternative climate change policies. Policymakers should compare other investments that are also pressing in the region, such as interventions to reduce water and air pollution, and determine which will render the greatest benefits.
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS

Patients susceptible to or suffering from central nervous system disorders are treated by administering an effective amount of an aryl substituted olefinic amine compound or an aryl substituted acetylenic compound. Exemplary compounds are (E)-N-methyl-4-[3-(6-methylpyrindin)yl]-3-butene-1-amine and N-methyl-4-(3-pyridinyl)-3-butyne-1-amine.
Sustainable regional bioenergy policies: a game changer

With the objective of the transition to a low carbon economy, some countries and regions in Europe are developing energy and land use policies in separate ways by different administrations. To improve the energy sector in balance with the natural resource a challenge is to work on bridging those conflicting views and policies.  BIO4ECO aims to improve regional and national policy processes and policy implementation and delivery addressing the transition to a low carbon economy, in relation with renewable energy use, energy efficiency of building, and forest and agricultural biomass.  The main expected outcomes are: increase the share of renewable energy in the overall energy mix (17 M€ of ERDF funding benefited by the project), take into account bioenergy and bioeconomy in all planning and decision-making, and lay the groundwork for future integrated strategies and programmes for regional bioeconomy and carbon neutrality.  BIO4ECO will organise interregional and local learning process by thematic workshops, study visits and local stakeholder groups meetings, to achieve a greater integration among the lessons learned. Each partner will base their Action Plan on their current and expected policy challenges, and will integrate the lessons learned throughout the project with these exchange activities. In the case of bioenergy policies, there is a strong multi-sectorial element, and Action Plans will take into consideration policy areas where partners have direct legal competence, and other areas where they have shared legal competence and will have to coordinate with other departments/administrations. This is a very important aspect of this project as many policy challenges linked to the regional development of bioenergy strategies are indeed the legislating across policy areas.
The male genitalia in the subfamily Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Morphological information of species on generic level

Abstract The morphology of the male genitalia of 46 Agathidinae species belonging to 20 genera has been investigated. Samples from various geographical regions were used to discover the evolution of the male genitalia within the subfamily Agathidinae. Those male genitalia may contain important phylogenetic information at least in certain groups of Braconidae. For the New World, three of four investigated species of Cremnops ( C. haematodes , C. montrealensis and C. vulgaris ) could suggest the form of the new genus with the other members of New World Cremnops , partly because of the deviating morphology of the male genitalia. Comparative morphology of the male genitalia of Bassus confirms that it is polyphyletic. The status of Lytopylus ( L. erythrogaster ) is again actualised. Once synonymised as Aerophilopsis , this species could be excluded from other Lytopylus species. The statistical analysis showed that smaller specimens (
Detection of defective textile production

SMARTEX is a company committed to reducing the Textile Industry defective production (from 5%) to 0%. 

Our dedicated and highly skilled team has made this possible by developing unique devices, which combine hardware and software built in-house to achieve such a goal. SMARTEX is able to detect defects during the production stage, offering an online software as a service (SaaS) based on Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the clear mission of becoming the main solution for automation of the inspection processes in the Knitting Textile Industry. 

Currently, SMARTEX devices are in a prototype stage (TRL 6), since real short-time environment tests have been successfully performed and the market-fit is also validated by multiple LOIs and prices agreed with potential clients, including Decathlon group, PVH (Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.), Kering (Gucci, YSL), in different continents. 

SMARTEX’s disruptive hardware & software technology has been recognized with several grants and awards and has recently participated  participate in the biggest hardware startup acceleration programme HAX (Shenzhen, China), backed by Smartex’s first investor SOSV (Sean O’Sullivan Ventures).
Forest intelligence: robotic networks inspired by the wood wide web

Plants are connected to each other by an underground network of fungi that provide them with nutrients, help share resources, and extend their perception abilities. This mycorrhizal network, known as the Wood Wide Web, plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy natural ecosystems, and in limiting the global warming. Thus, it must be preserved in order to mitigate the speeding up of the carbon cycle and its effects on climate change. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can offer concrete solutions for a deeper analysis of natural processes at the basis of this global change and for developing sustainable technologies. Based on that, I-Wood proposes a new paradigm of virtual and physical robotic networks inspired by the belowground fungus-mediated inter-plant communication and by the associated collective behaviours. Specifically, I-Wood will study, extract and formalize the rules of plant-fungus interaction mechanisms to develop: a plant-inspired perceptron-like model; and a new generation of plant-inspired robots able to explore soil using their roots with growing, ageing, branching, and elongating abilities in response to their network-augmented perception and implementing plant-inspired collective behaviours. By imitating plants, these distributed intelligent systems will co-develop morphology and behaviour in a dynamic environment. Impact and feasibility of the proposed approach will be tested in a mixed social network, scale-down in a confined environment, where robots will interact with real plants to facilitate the development of mycorrhizal networks. Grounded on a strong multi-disciplinary approach, I-Wood will pave the way for new paradigms in robotics and embodied AI, based on solutions that overcome the current animal-based or brain-based model, novel approaches for the use of robotics in biology and for new scientific knowledge on plants community with a major significance for biodiversity and climate protection.
Value and impact through synergy, interaction and cooperation of networks of ai excellence centres

A broad and ambitious vision is needed for artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation in Europe to thrive and remain internationally competitive. Building upon its strength across allareas of AI and commitment to its core values, Europe is excellently positioned to take a human-centred, ethical and trustworthy approach to AI. However, to establish itself as a powerhouse in AI, Europe needs to overcome the present fragmentation of the AI community, which creates inefficiencies and limits progress on next-generation, trustworthy AI tools and systems that draw from methods across a broader spectrum of AI techniques. Europe also needs to improve interaction between AI researchers, innovators and users.   Following on from the European Commission’s Communication on AI for Europe and the Coordinated Action Plan between the European Commission and the Member States, European efforts in AI should be strongly coordinated to be internationally competitive. Europe must scale up existing research capacities and reach critical mass through tighter networks of European AI excellence centres. Towards this end, effective coordination between the four networks of AI excellence centres to be established under ICT-48-2020  (Research and Innovation Actions) is of crucial importance.   VISION will reinforce and build on Europe’s assets in AI, including its world-class community of researchers, and thus enable Europe to stay at the forefront of AI developments, which is widely recognised as critical in maintainingEurope’s strategic autonomy in AI. VISION will achieve this in the most efficient and effective manner possible, by strongly building on the success and organisation of CLAIRE (the Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research inEurope, claire-ai.org) as well as on AI4EU, and by leveraging the expertise and connections of several of Europe’s leading institutions in AI research and innovation.
Automatized design of injection molds

The goal of this project is to develop the proof of concept for a novel injection-molding design workflow, making mold design accessible to a new, semi-professional user base of designers, engineers, and artists. It will provide a more more cost-efficient way of bringing lower-volume and customized products to the market. Recently, the related Materializable ERC Starting Grant has lead to the invention of novel computational tools for mold design, where the decomposition of a general 3D shape into moldable parts - together with the generation of the corresponding mold geometry - is performed fully automatically. The three main advantages of our method are (i) a drastic reduction of the time requirements of mold design (from hours/days down to minutes) and (ii) the discovery of highly efficient shape decompositions with curved part boundaries, which are very hard to design manually due to their counterintuitive nature. Furthermore, our method allows (iii) a non-expert to refine the aesthetics of the decomposition without being aware of the specifics of molding; these are enforced in the background. In order to evaluate the industrial and commercial potential of this invention, we propose the development of a software prototype for automatized mold design.
P-38 The ‘art bag’ project – enabling hospice communities to ‘connect, contemplate and create’

Aim To provide an accessible creative activity for hospices and the wider communities To raise awareness of the benefits of therapeutic arts To reduce stigma attached to hospices To provide an opportunity for participants to ‘leave a mark’ and to feel connected to others. Method The project is a large collaborative initiative uniting two hospices together, through one activity. Since the launch, in October 2015, over 500 bags have been distributed. Each bag is filled with the same simple, creative activity, 2015/6 weaving. The bag may be completed at the hospice or taken away. Each bag provides the opportunity to ‘connect, contemplate and create’, fostering enjoyment and relaxation and promoting wellbeing. Participants are offered the opportunity to contribute completed artworks to an end of project exhibition. The project 2015/16 culminated in an exhibition in Space2gallery, (in a local museum). Over 210 artworks were in the exhibition. Group ‘tasters’ were then held at the gallery to raise awareness and increase understanding of hospice services. Impact Each bag included a feedback card. Over 50 were returned and were displayed in the exhibition. 100% were positive and demonstrated the range of people accessing the project. ‘By making this circle of life I call it. I think I turned a corner and I now realise my daughter is happy now, and I feel she is at peace’ ‘Participating in the art bag project re-connected me with how calming + satisfying it is to sit quietly + create something with my hands’ ‘Very good way of bringing you into the here and now. Very soothing’ Future relevance The project evolves on an annual basis with a different activity inside. There is a potential for future collaborative developments but these will be dependent on funding. Post is currently funded by Macmillan Cancer Support.
Close encounters of the conceptual kind: Disambiguating social structure from text

Despite its empirical prominence, there is very little extant organizational research on Big Data. However, there is reason to believe this is changing as organizational theory scholars are beginning to embrace new methods and data sources. In this essay, I present a view that suggests there are several latent opportunities, many of which have been simmering unattended for some time. This research approach is not without its challenges, as the ontological terrain of Big Data is untested and potentially disruptive. However, we are observing a renewal of approaches to text and content analysis. By opening up the toolkit of computational linguistics methods for text analysis, Big Data may bring about fresh synthesis and reshape classic debates around social structure.