SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Towards intelligent dc-based hybrid grids optimizing the network performance

DC grids attractiveness has been increased in the last years due to the high proliferation of renewable energy sources together with the increase in DC loads (electronics, LED lighting, electric vehicles, energy storage…). The main drivers behind this paradigm shift are related to the improved efficiency, flexibility, security and reliability DC grids may provide, thus increasing the sustainability of the energy distribution system. However, there is a need for demonstration of DC technologies and grid topologies so that these solutions are able to evolve from a promising solution for the future smart grids to a commercially available technological option.
Under this context, TIGON aims to achieve a smooth deployment and integration of intelligent DC-based grid architectures within the current energy system while providing ancillary services to the main network. To do so, TIGON proposes a four-level approach aiming at improving 1) Reliability, 2) Resilience 3) Performance, and 4) Cost Efficiency of hybrid grids through the development of an innovative portfolio of power electronic solutions and software systems and tools focused on the efficient monitoring, control and management of DC grids. These solutions will be demonstrated in two main Demo-Sites located in France and Spain, while additional use cases in the residential and urban railway sectors will act as niche markets for analysing and further solidifying the replication of TIGON developments after the project’s end.
TIGON has involved for this purpose a multidisciplinary team of 15 partners from 8 different European Member States with a well-balanced consortium integrated by 7 non-profit entities and 7 companies. This partnership provides the required expertise from fields such as power electronics, cybersecurity, standardisation, etc. to design the solutions proposed within TIGON as well as the industrial capabilities required for the manufacturing, integration and validation of the whole TIGON concept.
The role of strike-slip faults in the displacement of the Palaeotethys suture zone in Southeast Thailand

Abstract Six N–S tectono-stratigraphic belts can be recognized in Southeast Thailand, each with a distinct stratigraphy and igneous history. The westernmost Belt (I) is thought to be part of the Sibumasu Block, and the easternmost (V) to include part of the Indochina Block. Between those, Belt III comprises acid volcanic rocks, volcaniclastics, and Carboniferous to Triassic sedimentary rocks with distinctive faunas, interpreted to be a volcanic arc; Belt IV comprises Triassic rocks of back-arc basin origin; Belt V is interpreted as a Permian accretionary complex on the western flank of Indochina; and VI is an unconformable cover of Jurassic–Cretaceous red-beds correlating with the Khorat Group. A history of the Triassic Indosinian Orogeny is proposed, leading to the cratonization of Southeast Thailand by the end-Triassic. The apparent absence in Southeast Thailand of rocks from the Devonian–Triassic Palaeotethys ocean (the Inthanon Zone of Northern Thailand) is suggested to have resulted from a phase of post-Indosinian, oblique to longitudinal, sinistral, strike-slip faulting. That phase is thought to have included displacement on the Mae Yuam Fault which bounds the Inthanon Zone in Northern Thailand. Then followed a phase of transverse, sinistral, strike-slip faulting which offset the tectono-stratigraphic belts and faults of the earlier phase.
Une enfance sous contrôle institutionnel

En France, 187 000 enfants ou adolescents sont placés au titre de l’enfance en danger, soit 1 % des moins de 21 ans. À partir de l’étude longitudinale sur l’accès à l’autonomie après le placement (ELAP), cet article étudie le rapport aux institutions des jeunes de l’aide sociale à l’enfance (ASE). Deux types d’attitudes opposées sont identifiés, entre lesquels il existe un continuum de situations. L’« adhésion » aux attentes des institutions se caractérise par une acceptation de la prise en charge et des parcours conformes aux attentes des travailleurs sociaux. Dans le cas de la « non-adhésion », le placement est au contraire vécu comme une injonction à renoncer à ses rêves ou un carcan. Cela conduit à des confrontations répétées avec les travailleurs sociaux et, parfois, à un départ précipité de l’ASE. Le rapport à l’institution a donc un effet décisif sur la transi tion vers la sortie et l’appréhension des relais avec les aides institutionnelles des dispositifs en dehors de l’ASE.
Effect of disorder on temporal fluctuations in drying-induced cracking

We investigate by means of computer simulations the effect of structural disorder on the statistics of cracking for a thin layer of material under uniform and isotropic drying. The layer is discretized into a triangular lattice of springs. The drying process is captured by reducing the natural length of all springs by the same factor, and the amount of quenched disorder is controlled by varying the width {\xi} of the distribution of the random breaking thresholds for the springs. Once a spring breaks, redistribution of the load may trigger an avalanche of breaks. Our simulations revealed that the system exhibits a phase transition with the amount of disorder as control parameter: at low disorders, the breaking process is dominated by a macroscopic crack at the beginning, and the size distribution of the subsequent breaking avalanches shows an exponential form. At high disorders, the fracturing proceeds in small-sized avalanches with an exponential distribution, generating a large number of micro-cracks which eventually merge and break the layer. Between both phases a sharp transition occurs at a critical amount of disorder {\xi}_c = 0.40 \pm 0.01, where the avalanche size distribution becomes a power law with exponent {\tau} = 2.6 \pm 0.08, in agreement with the mean-field value {\tau} = 5/2 of the fiber bundle model. Good quality data collapses from the finite-size scaling analysis show that the average value of the largest burst <\Delta_max> can be identified as the order parameter, with {\beta}/{\nu} = 1.4 and 1/{\nu} = 1.0, and that the average ratio <m2 /m1> of the second m2 and first moments m1 of the avalanche size distribution shows similar behaviour to the susceptibility of a continuous transition, with {\gamma}/{\nu} = 1., 1/{\nu} = 0.9. These suggest that the disorder induced transition of the breakup of thin layers is analogous to a continuous phase transition.
Grants to the company to finance and ensure its day-to-day business

The project provides for a grant to Mariola Kowalska, which has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic, the company’s turnover decreased significantly. The grant will ensure that the company continues to operate for a period of 3 months.
Method of negative saturations for flow with variable number of phases in porous media: extension to three-phase multi-component case

Various EOR methods lead to the appearance of specific macroscopic surfaces called interfaces of phase transition (IPT) such that the number of phases on two sides of an IPT is different, and fluids separated by an IPT are in non-equilibrium. Therefore, the flow equations are also different on two sides of an IPT and cannot be deduced from each other by a continuous degeneration, which imposes difficulties in numerical modelling. To describe such systems, we developed a new conceptual mathematical method based on the replacement of the real single-phase fluid by an imaginary multi-phase multi-component continuum having fictitious properties. As the result, the fluid over all zones becomes multi-phase and can be described by uniform multi-phase hydro- and thermodynamic equations, which allows applying the direct numerical simulation. The equivalence principle determines the physical properties of the fictitious multi-phase fluid, as well as the structure of the uniform multi-phase equations. It also proves that the saturation of each phase becomes an extended function negative or higher than unity in non-equilibrium zones, which becomes the efficient method of tracking the interfaces, the number of phases at any point, and their degree of disequilibrium. The method was developed in [1, 2] for the two-phase case. In the present paper, the new version of the method is developed for the three-phase case with gravity, diffusion, and capillarity. We have obtained the new equivalent uniform multi-phase equations which contain additional non-classical terms responsible for the diffusion and gravity across an IPT. The comparison with classical method is presented. The presentation is illustrated by several examples of simulation by means of the code developed by the research group; their concern: EOR by miscible methods and CO 2 bubble raising in aquifer.
Quantifying the extent fungal mycorrhizal communities affect orchid niche breadth and geographical distribution

Understanding the factors that underlie species distributions is a fundamental goal of ecology. With climate change there is increased importance to quantify how species distributions will change in a European context. Orchids are particularly sensitive to environmental conditions. Mycorrhizas are vitally important in determining the population occurrence of orchids, as orchid seeds rely entirely on fungi to provide nutrients in order to germinate and establish. While there have been major advances in the use of molecular tools in identifying mycorrhizal communities, no study has yet investigated how mycorrhizal communities influence the likelihood of population establishment over large geographical ranges. MYCRONICHE will bring together innovative approaches in pyrosequencing, ecological experiments, and species distribution modelling to quantify how environmental factors can lead to population adaptation. We plan to investigate three members of the orchid genus Spiranthes that are in decline in Europe. We will (i) model the distribution of Spiranthes species, (ii) perform reciprocal translocation experiments will be used in conjunction with control greenhouse experiments, and (iii) determine mycorrhizal limitation by experimentally adding seeds to habitats where the orchid species should occur. By training in novel molecular tools, the skill-set of the candidate will be advanced by participation in MYCRONICHE. There will be a dedicated training and transfer of knowledge program that will involve the researcher; (i) taking advanced courses in bioinformatics and (ii) teaching courses in spatial statistics at the host institution. By combining cutting-edge molecular tools, elegant experimental approaches, and innovative methods in spatial statistics and species distribution modelling, MYCRONICHE would go a long way to improve our understanding of how mutualistic interactions co-evolve in space and help understand how populations will respond to climate change.
Shape exploration for modules in rapid assembly workflows

The modular design methodology has been widely adopted to harness the complexity of large FPGA-based systems. As a result, a number of commercial and academic tool flows emerged to support modular design including Hierarchical Design Flow and Partial Reconfiguration Flow, OpenPR, HMFlow, PARBIT, REPLICA, GoAhead and QFlow frameworks. As these workflows have shown, a modular approach raises the abstraction level, provides clear boundaries for incremental design, reduces placement complexity, and improves developer productivity. At the physical layer, modules are often compiled into rectangular regions, suitable for placement on the FPGA fabric. Assembling a design then becomes the process of placing all of the modules on the FPGA, followed by inter-module routing. FPGAs, however, are not homogenous, and the shape and resource consistency of individual modules can greatly impact overall device utilization. Prior work in modular assembly utilize modules with a single shape in the assembly process. Due to the increasing size and heterogeneity of contemporary FPGAs, the placement flexibility of such modules is becoming increasingly limited. This work introduces a process that exploits offline shape generation and exploration, enabling the selection of shapes using criterias such as resource usage efficiency, placement flexibility, and device utilization. Module shapes can be generated with these criterias in mind while still taking advantage of the reduced placement complexity of modular design and assembly.
Automatic extraction of texture-periodicity using superposition of distance matching functions and their forward differences

In this paper, we propose a method of automatic detection of texture-periodicity using superposition of distance matching functions (DMFs) followed by computation of their forward differences. The method has been specifically devised for automatically identifying row and column periodicities and thereby the size of periodic units from textile fabrics belonging to any of the 17 wallpaper groups and is a part of automatic fabric defect detection scheme being developed by us that needs periodicities along row and column directions. Overall row-DMF (or overall column-DMF) is obtained based on superposition of DMF of all rows (or columns) from the input image and its second forward difference is computed to get the overall maximum which is a direct measure of periodicity along row (or column) direction. Results from experiments on various near-regular textures demonstrate the capability of the proposed method for automatic periodicity extraction without the need of human intervention.
Found in translation – natural language understanding with cross-lingual grounding

Natural language understanding is the ""holy grail"" of computational linguistics and a long-term goal in research on artificial intelligence. Understanding human communication is difficult due to the various ambiguities in natural languages and the wide range of contextual dependencies required to resolve them.  Discovering the semantics behind language input is necessary for proper interpretation in interactive tools, which requires an abstraction from language-specific forms to language-independent meaning representations.  With this project, I propose a line of research that will focus on the development of novel data-driven models that can learn such meaning representations from indirect supervision provided by human translations covering a substantial proportion of the linguistic diversity in the world. A guiding principle is cross-lingual grounding, the effect of resolving ambiguities through translation. The beauty of that idea is the use of naturally occurring data instead of artificially created resources and costly manual annotations. The framework is based on deep learning and neural machine translation and my hypothesis is that training on increasing amounts of linguistically diverse data improves the abstractions found by the model. Eventually, this will lead to universal sentence-level meaning representations and we will test our ideas with multilingual machine translation and tasks that require semantic reasoning and inference.
Intracranial hemangiopericytoma: MR imaging findings and diagnostic usefulness of minimum ADC values

To describe the clinical and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of primary intracranial hemangiopericytoma (HPC), and to assess the usefulness of minimum apparent diffusion coefficient (MinADC) value of HPC in the differential diagnosis from meningioma.From 2004 to 2010, fifteen patients with primary intracranial HPC were included. The clinical data, conventional MR findings (n = 15), and diffusion weighted image (DWI) features (n = 10) were retrospectively analyzed. MinADC value of the HPCs (n = 10) was measured on ADC map and was compared with that of meningiomas (n = 37).In 15 cases of HPC, isointense signal was detected on both T1-weighted images (T1WI) and T2-weighted images (T2WI) in 11 cases, and heterogeneous signal was demonstrated in 4 cases. Isointensity (n = 9) and iso- and slight hyperintensity (n = 1) were shown on DWI. The mean MinADC value of HPC [(1.116 ± 0.127) × 10(-3) mm(2) /s] was significantly higher than that of meningioma [(0.875 ± 0.104) × 10(-3) mm(2) /s] (P < 0.01). For the differentiation between HPC and meningioma, the critical cutoff MinADC value was 0.991 × 10(-3) mm(2) /s, which provided the best combination of sensitivity (88.9%) and specificity (82.4%).MinADC value may be an useful tool for the differentiation between HPC and meningioma.
Authority and innovation in early franciscan thought (c. 1220-56)

INNOVATION anticipates a breakthrough in scholarly understanding of the medieval origins of modern Western philosophy. This breakthrough will be achieved by exposing the pioneering nature of early thirteenth-century Franciscan thought and its pivotal significance for the subsequent formation of the Western philosophical identity. The work of early Franciscans has largely been neglected in scholarly circles, on the assumption that they merely codified the work of past authorities, where later Franciscans developed innovative ideas that laid the foundation for the development of modern philosophy. INNOVATION will contest this assumption by producing the first comprehensive study of the sources, method, content, and later medieval reception of early Franciscan thought. In conducting this study, I will implement a groundbreaking method of reading scholastic texts, which is attentive to the way that practice informed theory in the high Middle Ages. This ‘practice-led’ hermeneutic will provide a resource for re-envisaging the entire state of the art in the study of scholasticism. As regards early Franciscans, it will allow me to identify novelty, often due to the use of Islamic sources, where past scholars have perceived unoriginality. On this basis, I will highlight previously unnoticed connections between the early and late Franciscan schools. By these means, I will illustrate how Western thought has been nourished by the ethos of a particular religious order and by Islamic thought, pointing up a shared Muslim-Western philosophical identity that is often overlooked but urgently needed to overcome severe fractures in today’s society. At the same time, I will emphasize that Franciscan ideas only became modern once removed from their practice-led context. In juxtaposing the cultural paradigms of philosophy and religious practice, consequently, I will advance knowledge by producing the first nuanced scholarly account of the Franciscan origins of modern Western thought.
Genomic basis of convergent evolution in the trinidadian guppy

Many species have independently evolved similar phenotypes in response to similar environmental challenges. This phenomenon, termed convergent evolution, reflects both the power and the limits of adaptation. However, we often do not know at what scale evolution has repeated itself: did selection act on the same genes in different populations or species, or did convergence result from selection on different genes? This is because, until recently, it has not been possible to investigate the genomic basis of evolution in most systems, limiting our understanding of the factors that facilitate or inhibit convergence and adaptation. To fully understand convergent evolution we need to query the genomic response to selection and determine genotype-phenotype links in systems where convergent adaptation is well established. The Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is a system that offers the opportunity to test the roles of multiple factors in convergent evolution: this species includes multiple natural and experimentally established populations that have repeatedly evolved similar phenotypes under similar predation environments. I propose to fully characterize the genomic-basis of repeated adaptive evolution in guppies. Aim 1 will identify regions that repeatedly show signatures of selection, and will contrast the nature of selection in natural and experimental populations that differ in age and levels of founding genetic diversity. Aim 2 will identify genomic regions associated with phenotypes that are known to play a significant role in local adaptation in the guppy using quantitative genetics approaches. I will then directly test the effects of candidate genes using novel functional genomic approaches, as detailed in Aim 3. Overall, this project will test whether repeated selection led to convergence at the genomic level, determine the genetic basis of convergent adaptations, and ultimately understand how convergent evolution has occurred in an important wild system.
Viaggiatori dell’Adriatico: Scrittura e percorsi di viaggio

The aim is to reinforce the sense of the common identity of the cross-border areas of the Adriatic sea, by creating the Centro di Studi Internazionali sul Viaggio Adratico (for its status see sections B6.1 and B8). This Centro will be able to continue on a stable and autonomous basis even after the two years of financing: the Centro will act as connection between the Scientific Community of the Universities, the system of the tourism agencies, local governments, associations and the potential use of the local population and tourists.
Novel determinants of the neuronal Cl − concentration

It is now a well-accepted view that cation-driven Cl(-) transporters in neurons are involved in determining the intracellular Cl(-) concentration. In the present review, we propose that additional factors, which are often overlooked, contribute substantially to the Cl(-) gradient across neuronal membranes. After briefly discussing the data supporting and opposing the role of cation-chloride cotransporters in regulating Cl(-), we examine the participation of the following factors in the formation of the transmembrane Cl(-) gradient: (i) fixed 'Donnan' charges inside and outside the cell; (ii) the properties of water (free vs. bound); and (iii) water transport through the cotransporters. We demonstrate a steep relationship between intracellular Cl(-) and the concentration of fixed negative charges on macromolecules. We show that in the absence of water transport through the K(+)-Cl(-) cotransporter, a large osmotic gradient builds at concentrations below or above a set value of 'Donnan' charges, and show that at any value of these fixed charges, the reversal potential for Cl(-) equates that of K(+). When the movement of water across the membrane is a source of free energy, it is sufficient to modify the movement of Cl(-) through the cotransporter. In this scenario, the reversal potential for Cl(-) does not closely follow that of K(+). Furthermore, our simulations demonstrate that small differences in the availability of freely diffusible water between inside and outside the cell greatly affect the Cl(-) reversal potential, particularly when osmolar transmembrane gradients are minimized, for example by idiogenic osmoles. We also establish that the presence of extracellular charges has little effect on the chloride reversal potential, but greatly affects the effective inhibitory conductance for Cl(-). In conclusion, our theoretical analysis of the presence of fixed anionic charges and water bound on macromolecules inside and outside the cell greatly impacts both Cl(-) gradient and Cl(-) conductance across neuronal membranes.
Non-Carrier based Digital Switching AngleMethod for 81-level Trinary Cascaded HybridMulti-level Inverter using VHDL Coding

In this paper, non-carrier based digital switching functions and patterns are developed using VHDL language (DSFPV).Non-Carrier based switching angle method is selected for the reduced distortion characteristics. Different methods of switching angle methods like equal phase method, half equal phase method, half height method and feed forward method are designed and developed using VHDL coding. These generated digital switching pulses are validated by interfacing with the 81-level Trinary Cascaded Hybrid Multi-Level Inverter (TCHMLI) simulink model. The obtained simulation results are analysed by the measure of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Peak Voltage (Vpeak), Root Mean Square Voltage (Vrms), Average Voltage (Vavg), Form Factor(FF) and Crest Factor(CF).