SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A generic schema and data collection forms applicable to diverse entomological studies of mosquitoes

Standardized schemas, databases, and public data repositories are needed for the studies of malaria vectors that encompass a remarkably diverse array of designs and rapidly generate large data volumes, often in resource-limited tropical settings lacking specialized software or informatics support.Data from the majority of mosquito studies conformed to a generic schema, with data collection forms recording the experimental design, sorting of collections, details of sample pooling or subdivision, and additional observations. Generically applicable forms with standardized attribute definitions enabled rigorous, consistent data and sample management with generic software and minimal expertise. Forms use now includes 20 experiments, 8 projects, and 15 users at 3 research and control institutes in 3 African countries, resulting in 11 peer-reviewed publications.We have designed generic data schema that can be used to develop paper or electronic based data collection forms depending on the availability of resources. We have developed paper-based data collection forms that can be used to collect data from majority of entomological studies across multiple study areas using standardized data formats. Data recorded on these forms with standardized formats can be entered and linked with any relational database software. These informatics tools are recommended because they ensure that medical entomologists save time, improve data quality, and data collected and shared across multiple studies is in standardized formats hence increasing research outputs.
War trauma and battle injuries. Battlefield health care

The study of war trauma and treatment of the wounded on the battlefield nowadays presents a scientific challenge, given the evolving complexity and contemporary elements of war. Understanding the distinction between civil and war trauma as well as their philosophy of management is an essential need. The principles of injury management currently applied in the urban environment are inevitably modified for casualties on the battlefield where penetrating trauma is frequent, local conditions difficult, the environment inhospitable and the availability of materials and tools minimal. Causative mechanisms of war trauma and the distinction between battle injuries and non-battle injuries on the battlefield constitute a separate focus of study in modern literature. War trauma mortality and trauma management are defined differently in relation to common urban trauma. The provision of care “under fire”, “at tactical level” and “during the evacuation — transportation” of casualties represents a new specialist area involving different priorities and principles of assessment and management. The analysis of conditions surrounding trauma management on the battlefield aims to highlight the need for well-organized and trained teams consisting of military medical personnel able to respond to mass or non-mass casualty emergencies.
Spatial thermal condition in aluminum reduction cells under influences of electrolyte flow

Abstract Electrolyte temperature and ledge thickness are two important variables in an aluminum reduction cell, which are often subject to local cell conditions, in particular, local convective heat transfer induced by electrolyte circulation even during normal operation. Understanding the spatial distribution of these two variables is important in the Hall Heroult process for effective alumina feeding to minimize process faults, and to maintain the material and energy balance, as they are coupled via the existence of the ledge layer. In this study, a three-dimensional dynamic model is developed to estimate the spatial cell thermal conditions, and the resulting ledge profile, by mapping a steady state electrolyte flow in the proposed discretized domain. This modeling approach allows the model to be expanded such that different process dynamics can be captured to achieve better estimation, where spatial information can be used to optimize cell operation.
SU-F-T-663: Cerenkov Radiation Enhanced Radiotherapy with Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle: A Monte Carlo Study

Purpose:
A recent publication has shown that by delivering titanium dioxide nanoparticles (titania) as a photosensitizer into tumors, Cerenkov radiation (CR) produced by radionuclides could be used for substantially boosting damage to cancer cells. The present work compares CR production by various clinically relevant radiation sources including internal radionuclides and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), and provides preliminarily computational results of CR absorption by titania.

Methods:
1) Geant4.10.1 was used to simulate ionizing radiation-induced CR production in a 1cm diameter spherical volume using external radiotherapy sources: Varian Clinac IX 6MV and Eldorado 60Co, both with 10*10 cm2 field size. In each case the volume was placed at the maximum dose depth (1.5cm for 6MV source and 0.5cm for 60Co). In addition, 18F, 192Ir and 60Co were simulated using Geant4 radioactive decay models as internal sources. Dose deposition and CR production spectra in 200nm-400nm range were calculated as it is the excitation range of titania. 2) Using 6MV external source, the absorption by titania was calculated via the track length of CR in the spherical volume. The nanoparticle concentration was varied from 0.25 to 5µg/g.

Results:
Among different radioactive sources, results showed that 18F induced the highest amount of CR per disintegration, but 60Co had the highest yield per unit dose. When compared with external sources, 6MV source was shown to be the most efficient for the the same delivered dose. Simulations indicated increased absorption for increasing concentrations, with up to 68% absorption of generated CR for 5µg/g titania concentration.

Conclusion:
The results demonstrate that 6MV beam is favored with a higher CR yield, compared to radionuclides, and that the use of higher concentrations of titania may increase photosensitization. From the findings, we propose that if sufficiently potent concentrations of titania are delivered to tumors this could substantially boost EBRT.
Living with vultures in the sixth extinction: an ethnographic study of avian conservation in changing european landscapes

LiVE provides a historically informed comparative ethnography of contemporary vulture conservation in changing European landscapes. It investigates how the global phenomena of accelerating species loss and corresponding wildlife management unfold within specific historical and cultural contexts. Based within the discipline of social anthropology, and drawing on an interdisciplinary framework, the project expands science-centred discourses on wildlife conservation and management to include social and cultural analysis. It will do so through a timely in-depth qualitative analysis of the situated practices, techniques and ideas involved in vulture conservation today, emplaced in two rural communities in Andalusia, Spain, and the Massif Central in France. Using participatory methods the project involves close collaboration with conservation practitioners and stakeholders in the field. Through integrating the latest interdisciplinary knowledge from avian conservation science and vulture biology into social analysis, as well as by experimenting with more-than-human ethnographic methods, the project results in an innovative study of how to understand and manage wildlife conservation in the Sixth Extinction. Insights gained through the study will be of relevance to academic and applied environmental research, whilst also contributing new knowledge to wider cross-disciplinary public debates on the challenges and possibilities of human-wildlife coexistence in anthropogenic environments. In doing so, it applies RRI principles and contributes to addressing challenges of sustainable development specified in the Horizon 2020 Work Programme and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UP-GRADING ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECT IN ANODIC TREVIGIANA SPA

ANODIC TREVIGIANA SPA, SINCE ITS INCEPTION, HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE MECHANICAL AND SUPERFICIAL PROCESSING OF ALUMINIUM AND ITS ANODISATION; L — COMPANY HAS CONTINUED TO EVOLVE IN THIS FIELD AND THEN INVEST IN NEW PLANTS AND IN THE EXPANSION OF ITS SKILLS; THANKS TO A PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACH AND THE ABILITY TO ESTABLISH A RELATIONSHIP AND A CONTINUOUS EXCHANGE BETWEEN SUPPLY AND DEMAND, IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUSTOMERS AND DESIGNERS.  ANODIC IS TODAY AN INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE POINT FOR THE HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE SECTOR, BUT EVERY DAY IT SHIFTS ITS LEVEL OF SPECIALISATION TO NEW AREAS AND OBJECTIVES. SINCE 2008, FOR EXAMPLE, THE COMPANY HAS CHOSEN TO GIVE A FURTHER BOOST TO ITS EVOLUTION BY ALIGNING ITSELF WITH THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF THE LEAN METHOD.   THIS STRATEGIC CONSULTING PROJECT IS ALSO AIMED AT ACQUIRING FOR THE — COMPANY REQUESTING NEW ANALYSIS, CONSULTANCY AND SUPPORT SERVICES WITH THE AIM OF GUIDING AND SUPPORTING THE
Self-Management interventions and mutual assistance community services, helping patients with dementia and caregivers connect with others for evaluation, support and inspiration to improve the care experience

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, ADI), 44 million people around the world have some form of dementia, for which there is no effective intervention, to halt or reverse the progressive cognitive impairment. As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policies in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focussed on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. 

In this project, we will build a mHealth application that is specifically targeted to caregivers and patients with mild to moderate dementia. The result is CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD: a tool integrating a broader diagnostic approach, incorporating the live-in family caregiver-patient dyad and considering this dyad as the unit of care.
 
CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD will provide value-added services based on social networks, tailored interventions, clinical strategies and gamification for improving quality of life for dementia’s patients and caregivers that allow them to live in the community for as long as possible.

The project will comprise three phases: first, we will develop new services for patients with mild to moderate dementia and their respective caregivers to an existing application. 

In the second phase, we will conduct a user-centric analysis to re-design the existing application for patients with mild to moderate dementia. The development will be steered by patients, carers and doctors, through user-centric design: we will collect feedback on each new version of the application until the design is adapted to the users’ needs.
 
In the third phase, we will pilot the optimised application with 550 dyads (patients and their respective caregivers) and 550 controls. This will show the clinical and social benefits for patients and caregivers, as well as financial benefits for the healthcare system.
Door to door information for airports and airlines

DORA project is aiming at design and establishment of an integrated information system that helps passengers to optimise travel time from an origin of the travel to the airplane at the departing airport as well as from the arrival airport to the final destination. With it, the DORA integrated information system, which will be created within the project together with necessary software platforms and end user applications, is aiming at reduction of overall time needed for a typical European air travel including necessary time needed for transport to and from the airports.
To ensure this, the DORA system will provide mobile, seamless, and time optimised route recommendations for the travels to the airport and time optimised routing within the airports, leading the passengers through terminals to the right security and departure gates. The DORA will integrate all necessary real time information on disruptions in the land transport environments and on incidents in the airport terminals to provide the fastest route alternatives, ensuring the accessibility of airport and airplane at any time in accordance with individual passengers’ requirements. The DORA system will be designed in a generic way, to ensure that it can be widely adopted independently on passengers and airports locations.
In the project, the DORA system will be implemented and tested in realistic environments involving cities of Berlin and Palma di Mallorca as well corresponding airports in both cities with involvement of at least 500 real end users – passengers – in the trials. To support the passengers’ route optimisation, the DORA project will investigate and design technologies for recognition of waiting queues and indoor location services in airports, which will be integrated into the DORA system and tested within the project trials.
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MODULE LUMINEUX AVEC DES GUIDES DE LUMIERE AVEC UNE FIXATION ANTI-VIBRATION

MODULE LUMINEUX AVEC DES GUIDES DE LUMIERE A VEC UNE FIXATION ANTI-VIBRATION Un aspect de l’invention concerne un module lumineux (2) de véhicule automobile comprenant au moins un guide de lumière (20) présentant une première (200) et une deuxième extrémité (201) opposée à la première, une pièce de maintien (21) disposée à la deuxième extrémité (201) et une pièce support (3) comprenant une surface parallèle au guide de lumière (20) à sa deuxième extrémité (201) et un moyen de positionnement (32) de longueur L0 en relief de ladite surface, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de positionnement (32) comprend un premier pan incliné (310) par rapport à la surface, que la pièce de maintien (21) comprend un deuxième pan incliné (210) de même inclinaison coopérant avec un premier pan incliné (310) et que le deuxième pan incliné (210) et la première extrémité (200) sont distants d’une longueur L, telle que avant le montage du guide de lumière et la pièce de maintien sur la pièce support L ≤ L0. Figure à publier avec l’abrégé : Figure 1
Effectively integrating a course on biometrics in a computer vision master's degree

Computer biometrics has gained importance in recent years, both at the industrial and at the research level. Although there is an increasing need for graduates to know the fundamentals of this technology, there are still only few experiences reporting on what contents to include in courses on this discipline, or on how to teach at the master level. This paper reports the experience carried out at one Spanish university when teaching a one-semester computer biometrics course as part of a computer vision master. The related master's courses provide the students multiple synergies with the necessary background on image processing and pattern recognition required to follow the subject. An effort is made in this paper to ensure that the theory, practices and evaluation parts of our experience are set out in sufficient detail to make this course reproducible by other institutions.
Controlling microbiomes circulations for better food systems

CIRCLES aims to discover and translate innovative microbiomes-tailored circular actions into concrete applications that will ultimately enhance EU food system performances and their overall sustainability. The setup of real-world labs in the field of 6 food systems relevant to the EU market – tomatoes, spinach, poultry, pigs, Atlantic salmon and seabream aquacultures – will, first, enable CIRCLES to increase knowledge on the importance of food system microbiomes as determinants of productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. This discovery phase will nurture the design and implementation of food system-specific microbiomes-tailored circular actions. Relying on an integrative usage of different Smart Microbiome (SM)-modulators, circular actions aim to optimize the microbiomes of food systems, from farm to fork, for an overall improvement of food system performances. The effectiveness of actions will then be tested in the labs in the field. This real-world validation phase will allow CIRCLES to translate the project results into concrete products, applications, procedures and tools, ready to be exploited and communicated to penetrate the EU market. In particular, CIRCLES will conceptualize and create SM-food systems for the 6 CIRCLES food chains, defined as food systems with optimized microbiome configurations. CIRCLES will also provide innovative, newly defined SM-food products, as foods derived from the SM-food systems and certified by Microbiome Transparent (MT)-labels. Finally, a vast panel of food system-specific SM-modulators will be provided as new agro-biotech applications to be integrated into circular actions to reach the status of SM-food system. In conclusion, the conceptualization, creation, and dissemination of SM-food systems, as well as all connected procedures, products, and tools, will allow CIRCLES to endow the EU food systems with new, cost-effective commercial applications for improved productivity, quality, safety and sustainability.
Sources contributing to background surface ozone in the US Intermountain West

Abstract. We quantify the sources contributing to background surface ozone concentrations in the US Intermountain West by using the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model with 1 / 2° × 2 / 3° horizontal resolution to interpret the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet) ozone monitoring data for 2006–2008. We isolate contributions from lightning, wildfires, the stratosphere, and California pollution. Lightning emissions are constrained by observations and wildfire emissions are estimated from daily fire reports. We find that lightning increases mean surface ozone in summer by 10 ppbv in the Intermountain West, with moderate variability. Wildfire plumes generate high-ozone events in excess of 80 ppbv in GEOS-Chem, but CASTNet ozone observations in the Intermountain West show no enhancements during these events nor do they show evidence of regional fire influence. Models may overestimate ozone production in fresh fire plumes because of inadequate chemistry and grid-scale resolution. The highest ozone concentrations observed in the Intermountain West (&gt; 75 ppbv) in spring are associated with stratospheric intrusions. The model captures the timing of these intrusions but not their magnitude, reflecting numerical diffusion intrinsic to Eulerian models. This can be corrected statistically through a relationship between model bias and the model-diagnosed magnitude of stratospheric influence; with this correction, models may still be useful to forecast and interpret high-ozone events from stratospheric intrusions. We show that discrepancy between models in diagnosing stratospheric influence is due in part to differences in definition, i.e., whether stratospheric ozone is diagnosed as produced in the stratosphere (GEOS-Chem definition) or as transported from above the tropopause. The latter definition can double the diagnosed stratospheric influence in surface air by labeling as "stratospheric" any ozone produced in the troposphere and temporarily transported to the stratosphere. California pollution influence in the Intermountain West frequently exceeds 10 ppbv but is generally not correlated with the highest ozone events.
Load balance and parallel I/O: Optimising COSA for large simulations

This paper presents the optimisation of the parallel functionalities of the Navier-Stokes Computational Fluid Dynamics research code COSA, a finite volume structured multi-block code featuring a steady solver, a general purpose time-domain solver, and a frequency-domain harmonic balance solver for the rapid solution of unsteady periodic flows. The optimisation focuses on improving the scalability of the parallel input/output functionalities of the code and developing an effective and user-friendly load balancing approach. Both features are paramount for using COSA efficiently for large-scale production simulations using tens of thousands of computational cores. The efficiency enhancements resulting from optimising the parallel I/O functionality and addressing load balance issues has provided up to a 4x performance improvement for unbalanced simulations, and 2x performance improvements for balanced simulations.
Identifying and visualizing technology evolution: A case study of smart grid technology

Abstract This paper attempts to illustrate the technology evolution for describing the emergence, development, or demise of a technology field. The basic idea is to divide a technology field into tight-knit communities over time and track their inter-year continuity. Then the evolving trajectories are presented through visualizing the timeline plot where each community is drawn as a function of its size, average age, and time. Analyzing a set of patents related to smart grid, we found that this technology consists of several trajectories. Among them, the subjects of network management and e-commerce are relatively young and active. The power system recently has emerged owing to the joining of integration and management concepts. As aging subjects, wireless communication system receives more attention than wired one does. The proposed timeline plot gives insights into evolving trajectories, from which the structure of the technology could be investigated and certain emerging subjects might be figured out. Such understandings are essential information to experts who endeavor to profile technology development and keep up with current trends.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOKIE MANAGEMENT

A method, computer program product, and computing system for, upon a user visiting a first website, determining if the user has ever visited the first website (100). If the user has never visited the first website, the user is automatically redirected to a second website (104). If the user has ever visited the second website is determined (108). If the user has already visited the second website, an existing unique identifier is obtained for the user (112). If the user has never visited the second website, a new unique identifier is generated for the user (114). The user is automatically redirected back to the first website in a manner that identifies the user (116). A cookie associated with the second website may be placed onto the computer of the user (122).