SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Financing constraints and SME innovation during economic crises

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the determinants of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) financing constraints and their impacts on investments in innovation. To explicate these factors, the authors use a general definition of innovation, distinguishing between product and process innovations, and highlight the role played by banking relationships. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of a literature review covering works specializing in innovation, financing constraints, and SME characteristics, a quantitative study is carried out in Spain, using a sample composed by 267 Spanish SMEs. Information was gathered by applying surveys addressed to the firm managers. Findings The findings reveal that financing constraints hinder innovation among Spanish SMEs functioning in hostile environments, though long-term banking relationships can moderate these financing constraints. The longer the duration of a firm’s banking relationship, the fewer financing constraints it faces, because the relationship significantly reduces information asymmetry. Practical implications To reduce financing constraints on their innovation, SMEs should establish long relationships and low debt concentration with their main bank. The more banks a firm works with, the greater its financing constraints. The findings have managerial implications, not just for firms but also for government policymakers and providers of consulting services. Originality/value This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the factors that affect innovation, along with insights into which financing constraints limit innovation during a severe recession.
Research on Security Detection and Data Analysis for Industrial Internet

Industrial Internet platform needs to solve a series of problems, such as access of multi-type industrial equipment, multi-source industrial data integration, massive data management and processing, industrial Internet security and so on. This paper builds industrial big data analysis algorithm library based on domain knowledge modeling and big data analysis of industrial data. Through the analysis of the behavior characteristics of industrial internet network traffic data, this paper studies the method of selecting traffic characteristics of events in the industrial Internet; establishes the propagation and evolution model of security events in the industrial Internet, and builds a traceability map of security event propagation; This study combines the characteristics of large data volume and centralized control of future industrial Internet to reduce the complexity of security event detection and analysis. It has reference value for industrial Internet controller to formulate node routing strategy.
Elevate - automated detection & response control access network security platform to face the most sophisticated security threats

Opencloud Factory brings to the market ELEVATE,  a pioneering solution based on NAC (Network Access Control) technologies which intends to disrupt the digital cybersecurity market with a complete, integrated, autonomous and software-defined digital security solution for corporate networks. ELEVATE includes Security Automation and Orchestration (SA&O) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) capabilities. Its main benefits stem from (1)  obtaining 100% visibility and profiling in real-time of all kind of devices connected to the network, increasing visibility in 60% (2) reducing up to 35% on Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Respond (MTTR), (3) allow a higher degree in the orchestration and integration of the cybersecurity tools, attaining a global synergy of all infrastructure, resulting in an efficiency increase of 25%, (4) maximising the efficiency of limited IT staff, reducing costs (20%), an increasing the overall productivity (25%), (5) increasing up to 50% the cybersecurity coverage of organizations.To complement these benefits we propose three unprecedented features: (1) Automated Provisioning, (2) Automated Threat Response and Integration and (3) Advanced Analytics. The novelty of ELEVATE mostly lies in the modular architecture and it is autonomous in the detection and response, minimizing the need for human resources both in the analysis (threat detection and diagnostic) and in the execution of tasks (threat response). To ensure the viability of ELEVATE we will assess its technical, commercial and financial feasibility and the IPR exploitation, and define our Business Plan so as to achieve the market uptake in the targeted European countries in 2021. ELEVATE meets the Cybersecurity policy stated in the Digital Single Market strategy to further improve EU cyber resilience and response and is also aligned with the objectives of the GDPR, whose aim is to protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly data-driven world.
Apparatus for wireless transmission of information and communication system comprising said apparatus

The wireless information communication mechanism (1) has an oscillator circuit (6) producing a high frequency signal (7). The connection structure of the oscillator circuit (14,15) provides the antenna by the use of parasitic signals (Sp).
George Moore: influence and collaboration

Nearly every major figure of his era, writes his biographer Adrian Frazier, worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his impression from, or left it on, George Moore. The Anglo-Irish novelist George Moore (1852-1933) espoused multiple identities. An agent provocateur whether as an art critic, novelist, short fiction writer or memoirist, always probing and provocative, often deliberately controversial, the personality at the core of this book invented himself as he reinvented his contemporary world. Moore's key role-as observer-participant and as satirist-within many literary and aesthetic movements at the end of the Victorian period and into the twentieth century owed considerably to the structures and manners of collaboration that he embraced. This book throws into relief the multiple ways in which Moore's work can serve as a counterbalance to established understandings of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary aesthetics both through innovative scholarly readings of Moore's work and through illustrative case studies of Moore's collaborative practice by making available, for the first time, two manuscript plays he co-authored with Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) in 1894. It is this collaborative practice in conjunction with his cosmopolitan outlook that turned Moore into a key player in the fin-de-siecle formation of an international aesthetic community. This book explores the full range of Moore's collaborations and cultural encounters: from 1870s Paris art exhibitions to turn-of-the-century Dublin and London; from gossip to the culture of the barmaid; from the worship of Balzac to the fraught engagement with Yeats; from music to Celtic cultural translation. Moore's reputation as a collaborator with the most significant artistic individuals of his time in Britain, Ireland and France in particular, but also in Europe more widely, provides a rich exposition of modes of exchange and influence in the period, and a unique and distinctive perspective on Moore himself.
Fluidized bed combustion chamber in a power plant

The corners of the walls of a vessel in which fuel is burnt in the fluidized bed of a PFBC power plant are articulately connected to a supporting framework. The forces arising on the bed vessel walls are taken up by the framework and are transmitted to the framework by means of a plurality of links. At each corner the construction of links allows the corner to be displaced in relation to the framework. This corner-connection includes auxiliary beams which are substantially parallel to the walls and are at one of their ends articulately connected to the framework.
Precise and smart nanoengineered surfaces: impact resistance, icephobicity and dropwise condensation

Water freezing (icing) and condensation are ubiquitous in our life. Preventing undesirable icing on surfaces with minimal energy and chemical use, and improving the efficiency of condensation heat exchangers has broad societal value. Thus, I aim to use fundamental insights to offer energy-efficient solutions for undesirable ice formation and promoting dropwise condensation using novel and robust nanoengineered surfaces. My objectives are:

 i) to realise thermodynamically guided metallic surfaces with precise (<10 nm) morphology and controlled superficial stiffness for energy-efficient icing prevention and sustaining dropwise flow condensation
ii) to rationally intercalate polymers and/or suspensions into surface nanotextures and exploit nanomechanics in order to enable robust and smart nanoengineered surfaces for high speed impact, abrasion and chemical resistance; stable icephobicity (delaying freezing); and sustained dropwise condensation.
iii) to develop new fundamental insights to: a) prevent icing due to high speed (~100 m/s) supercooled droplet/ice crystal impact; b) realise icephobicity down to -30 degrees Celsius; c) minimise ice-surface adhesion; and d) sustain dropwise condensation at high (50-100 m/s) vapour speeds.  

The proposal emphasis on energy efficiency is aligned with the EU's 20/20/20 Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan. To exemplify their salient impact, the proposed smart nanoengineered surfaces offer a passive solution for airplane icing (and related accidents) and will delay evaporator icing on air source heat pumps and refrigerators, thereby helping to lower the energy use in buildings and cold storages. The latter are tied to the global food storage and distribution challenges. Similarly, sustained dropwise condensation will make condensers in process industry and steam power plants compact and efficient. Optimally, only ~1 micron of the surface depth will require treatment – this will minimize chemical use and promote sustainability.
Discourse reporting in african storytelling

The project explores the role of discourse reporting in West African storytelling and the grammatical strategies used by storytellers to achieve their goals. It focuses on three phenomena characteristic of the narrative grammar of a number of West African languages: 
- logophoricity, or the use of special markers to signal self-reference by characters other than the current narrator, 
- the use of quotative markers (commonly described as ""epistemic validators""),
- and the use of foreign language or modified versions of the native language to represent the speech of certain characters. 

The different phenomena are argued to serve the same purpose: they help speakers manage the distance between the role of the current narrator and the roles of story characters that the same speaker performs. The use of specific discourse reporting strategies is therefore closely related to the modes of textual production and performance in the culture-specific narrative genres, and to the construction of deixis in relation to the event of narration. 

The comparative part of the project analyses similarities and differences in the ways discourse reporting functions in several West African cultures with similar data from an unrelated cultural area: the Turkic-speaking areas of Central Russia. The comparison of the organization of the same functional domain in two typologically and culturally distinct areas will assist in advancing our knowledge of universal structural and cognitive motivations underlying typologically diverse and culture-specific systems of discourse reporting.
OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS: PRÁTICA DOCENTE E PROMOÇÃO DA LEI 11.645/08 NA REDE PÚBLICA MUNICIPAL DE ANGRA DOS REIS

We propose with this text to show actions carried out in a municipal public school located in one of the most populated neighborhood on the outskirts of Angra dos Reis, in which we develop our an educational work, more specifically in the early years of Elementary School.The project aims to promote Law 11.645/08 in the classroom, allowing students access to African, Afro-Brazilian, indigenous histories and cultures thus stimulating and provoking, in our children, the perception of diversity and, above all, its valuation.In this specific text we will bring the project that originated it, the project "Outras Histórias", whose main objective was to sharpen, not only the taste for reading, but also to instigate stories with indigenous and black protagonisms, still not so common in the school universe, despite being of extreme urgency given its relevance in 1 Doutoranda pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Contextos Contemporâneos e Demandas Populares/PPGEDUC/UFRRJ.
Shaping a preferable future: children reading, thinking and talking aboutalternative communities and times

Despite overall agreement that children’s voices matter in the development of policies affecting them, little effort has been made to develop cultural practices encouraging utopianism as a critical attitude to reality and a means of facilitating the expression of formative opinions on the part of children. Nor have young readers’ interpretations of utopian literature been investigated as indicating their perception of the sociopolitical arrangements around them, including the context of the EU.
Notwithstanding the popularity of YA dystopian fiction, little attention has been given to utopian contents in other children’s texts. A specialist in children’s literature studies and utopian studies, Deszcz-Tryhubczak addresses these lacunae in a project examining utopianism as a significant element of discourse about children, manifesting in various cultural products addressed to them. She also conducts empirical participatory research (with children as peer researchers) aimed at creating egalitarian spaces within which young readers are not only heard but also collaborate with adults towards a better understanding of how books shape ideas for the desirable future. This approach—an innovation in children’s literature studies—has a huge potential for making children’s literature scholarship relevant to young people’s lives as a cultural practice sustaining intergenerational dialogue. Thus this project is challenge-based and integrates unprecedentedly children’s literature studies, empirical studies of literature and media, utopian studies, and childhood studies. The fellow will publish its results in one article and a co-edited a collection. She will organize a colloquium for international scholars. Her stay at Anglia Ruskin will be crucial in her obtaining full professorship and in her leading a children’s literature research center in Poland. No secondment is proposed, but the research and public outreach activities provide opportunities to expose her work to the public.
Water And Territorial policiEs for integRation oF multisectoRial develOpmeNT

The project aims to define guidelines, strategies and operational tools for planning of common coasts, based on cross-border exchange of experiences Malta-Sicily, for the dissemination of good practice in order to harmonize the technical planning, thereby improving the conditions of environment for the transformation and development of the coastal tracts of the provinces of Trapani and Palermo and of Malta. The strengthening of the infrastructure nodes and their connection to the territories enhance the development of effective policies and programs able to build a strategic platform that unifies the islands in the Mediterranean area. The exchange of experiences and the dissemination of good practices among the partners involved (University Italy-Malta, Local Authorities) will improve techniques about territorial planning and about evaluation at national, regional and local levels and will better the ability of applying environmental policies and programs for risk prevention. The evaluation and interpretation of interventions already done and the analysis of risks and opportunities offered by  a dynamic transformations of the waterfront, already activated (Valletta) or to activate (Trapani and Palermo) will be the beginning of the project, representing itself as a model for all the border of the Mediterranean.
The route of the Pythaïs through Athens and Attica

The Route of the Pythais through Athens and Attica
Daniele Pirisino. Doctoral thesis abstract.
	This study presents a discussion and hypothetical reconstruction of the spatial context of the Pythais, an occasional overland pilgrimage from Athens to Delphi. The main research question addresses the route of the pilgrimage, specifically through Athens and Attica. This work has a broad chronological scope, spanning most of the life of the ritual. It is proposed in this study that the Pythais was introduced to Athens in the sixth century BC. After its introduction, the Pythais was conducted with irregular frequency until the second half of the first century BC, when the traditional Pythaides were taken over by the Dodekaides. The work mainly combines textual sources and old archaeological data with new archaeological evidence collected through field walks. The latter focused on one of the routes possibly used by the pilgrimage, which had not been fully archaeologically understood and contextualised: the Phyle road through western Parnes. The Pythais followed a properly-named sacred road; therefore, a general discussion of Greek sacred roads is provided at the outset to highlight the current issues concerning the study of sacred roads. Subsequently, the work offers a review of the scholarly literature on the Pythais to present the diverse hypotheses on the route of the pilgrimage. Discussion of the scholarly literature also shows that a study on the spatial contextualisation of the Pythais had never been sufficiently conducted; this thesis aims at filling this gap from a principally archaeological perspective. The Pythais staged the Athenian version of the mythical journey of Apollo on his way to Delphi. Therefore, before discussing the topographic matters related to the ceremony, the work offers a discussion of this Athenian myth, with a focus on the mythical geography connected with it. Subsequently, after an in-depth discussion of the religious topography connected with the ceremony and the three main possible routes across Attica, a reconstruction is proposed for the route of the Pythais in Athens and its territory in close connection with current knowledge of the ancient road network. A large part of the work is devoted to the presentation and discussion of the field-collected data. All discussions and interpretations are supported by conspicuous visual aids such as digital photographs and maps, most of which are original.
La sensibilité à la douleur: de l’éthique animale à l’éthique foetale humaine. Un défi pour un statut juridique du foetus en France

La crise écologique et environnementale pousse les militants à hausser la voix pour prêter plus d’attention au bienêtre animal. Afin que leur voix soit entendue, ils essayent de passer par le droit afin de légiférer leurs réclamations; ceci en présentant comme argument principal la question de la sensibilité à la douleur chez l’animal. La récente étude, datant de novembre 2021, concernant la «souffrance des crustacés» reconnue par le gouvernement britannique et la présentation d’un projet de loi sur le bien-être animal – projet étayé par la science – afin d’être étendu à ces animaux en sont un bon témoin. En France, l’animal a un statut particulier dans le Code civil, depuis 2015, comme étant un «être doué de sensibilité», statut qui lui confère une protection juridique. En parallèle, les législations soutenant l’Interruption Volontaire de Grossesse évoluent à une vitesse en France où on se heurte au dilemme bioéthique touchant au respect de la vie de l’être humain et au statut juridique du foetus. Cet article vise à répondre à la problématique suivante: est-ce que le foetus humain jouit d’une protection juridique similaire à celle de l’animal tout en basant sur le critère de la «sensibilité à la douleur»? Il s’agit d’une approche comparative à partir des textes législatifs du droit français.
A community of surface bots for creative storytelling

Interactive digital storytelling systems can be used to foster the development of creativity skills and enhance social awareness on our societal issues, aspects recognized to be strategic for our own future sustainability and competitiveness. However, current interactive storytelling approaches face important limitations in the implementation of digital characters. On the one hand, some systems provide very capable socially virtual agents used as characters, but enacted in a virtual world where technology is rather a barrier to effective creative thinking and collaboration. On the other hand, settings with tangible objects facilitate discussion in groups as well as the development of relevant critical social skills, but with characters unable to show advanced smart capabilities to enrich storytelling for a more effective process.
Hence, given the current state-of-the-art of technology, the main objectives of COBOTNITY are: to timely provide an affordable community of hybrid artificial agents (called surface-bots) capable of drawing a high range of digital expressions while providing tangible interaction to be used in collaborative creative storytelling; and, to provide a better understanding on how a surface-bot community can effectively be used to foster creative thinking and social awareness on societal issues. The project proposal draws on the knowledge of HMI on interaction with artificial agents (both virtual and robots) along with its expertise on interactive storytelling, as well as on the candidate’s experience on creativity in collaboration. COBOTNITY is relevant to the MSCA Work Programme because it will allow developing new research competences, ensuring advantageous skill and knowledge transfer, and opening new perspectives in diverse sectors for potential technology transfer such as entertainment, museum interaction settings and learning games.
Launching the maritime copernicus enablement platform

Copernicus, the enormous Earth Observation European programme based on satellites and intended to provide data for further uptake and use for companies, generates high volumes of information not easy to process and exploit. Anyone interested in using Copernicus data needs to pre-process and store the information in a high performance and big data repository for further querying.

Eixo Digital (ED) is a Portuguese SME active in the areas of IT consulting and software development, focused and with proven experience on the development of telecommunication solutions for the mobile satellite communications market.

ED has developed MCEP – Maritime Copernicus Enablement Platform, based in open-source technologies, in order to offer to developers an easy way to exploit this data by means of an open API. With this solution, Copernicus data is available to everyone – from the single developer to the large company- without having to set up the entire infrastructure. MCEP will boost the use of Copernicus data by providing a consistent, simplified and scalable access to this powerful resource. The MCEP solution will provide economic benefits to users by allowing them to create added-value services on top of Copernicus data. The platform can easily be expanded to other sectors beyond the marine environment granting a wider use of Copernicus downstream applications. MCEP is based on the Metry Framework, which serves as the storage backbone, already developed by us as part of the ESA Space Programme.
Our overall objective in this essential project for ED is the broad exploitation of the proposed platform. In Phase 1, our specific objective is to prepare a clear Feasibility study and Business plan on how to reach and exploit this extraordinary platform for different target groups, which might imply different business models, and different market strategies. In Phase 2, our objective is to implement the actual work necessary to reach the goals outlined in the Phase 1 Feasibility Stu