SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
High resolution remote sensing classification of coral reef substrate, base on SVM—Taken XiSha Zhaoshu island as an example

Coral resources in global are facing a huge threat under climate change and increasing human activities. In this paper, at first, combined with Support Vector Machine (SVM), WorldView-3 satellite data (October 10, 2014) with high spatial resolution (1.2 m) and eight spectral bands are used to research classification of Zhao Shu island coral reef substrate. Coral reef, coral bleaching, coral sand and seawater are identified. Then training and checking samples are built artificially and label types from in situ data and finished classification result accuracy test. The results show that the total classification accuracy and Kappa coefficient are 95.28% and 0.90 respectively. These results demonstrate that high resolution images can provide more detailed information and are suitable to monitor the health of coral reefs. High resolution remote sensing classification results of coral reef can provide the important information for environment protection.
The usefulness of integrated strategy approaches in replacing animal experimentation.

It is currently well accepted that in general, more than one method is necessary to allow the full replacement of an animal experimentation. These so called partial replacement methods can be used within integrated strategy approaches that combine different methods and information sources. A number of integrated strategy approaches were implemented within recent years in different areas of safety and regulatory toxicology. Moreover, latest advances in biomedical research and bioengineering provide a major opportunity to make use of in vitro human-based and/or three-dimensional complex models that can contribute to achieve more physiologically-relevant models. Examples herein describe currently existing integrated strategy frameworks aiming at full or partial replacement purposes and/or at gaining mechanistic insights. Furthermore, a general concept is provided on how 3R methods might be integrated in a strategy approach in order to ensure that animal experimentation is conducted only as a last resort.
PROtect Our Heritage from Fire

Cultural Heritage Monuments (Monasteries, Museums, etc) in European Countries have a large number of invaluable treasures, artifacts, holy icons, very old & attract many visitors and pilgrims from around the world. Local population in celebrations gathers in big numbers. Also, categories as elderly, kids, handicapped, participate, or living around them. Often monuments are located in isolated areas, sometimes inside forests, being in great fire risk with little or no means to respond. The over-all objective of PROOHF project is to cope with fire risks in cultural heritage monuments, and their impact on local economies and societies. Sub-objectives are (indicatively) to: 1. Collect, catalogue, document, discuss and optimize all aspects of already existing emergency plans and procedures for coping with fire risks in heritage monuments. 2. Record and present fire status of the heritage monuments. 3. Search for possible causes which initiated fires in the past and creating a full record of all relevant conditions. 4. Develop training programs for educating people working /living there, train volunteers, foresters and civil protection personnel, as well as other operational people in coping with fires in monuments & taking measures minimizing the economic and social impact. 5. Develop post-fire-rehabilitation plans 6. Develop three pilot fire risks analysis decision support systems (one per participating country).
TRANSVERSE FIXATION DEVICE FOR SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEMS

A transverse fixation device is disclosed. The device includes one or more connecting bodies disposed substantially between two elongate rods. Each connecting body includes a receptacle that is capable of engaging with the two elongate rods. A c-ring comprising an outer surface having a spherical curvature is also included. A third rod may be inserted into the c-ring. A clamp included in the connecting bodies may then be disposed about the c-ring and third rod to allow the connecting bodies to slidingly engage with the third rod.
Towards Ecosystem conservation and Sustainable Artisanal Fisheries in the Mediterranean basin

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It is a general assumption that benthic communities* are relatively well preserved in areas exploited mostly by artisanal fleets. The richness of these communities depends on the presence of so-called ecosystem engineer species (corals, sponges or sea grasses), which provide a three-dimensional habitat structure and significantly increase biodiversity and productivity creating breeding, feeding and refuge locations for an important number of species of commercial value. The contribution of benthic communities to the conservation of sustainable artisanal fisheries is essential because these communities have a role as ‘Essential Fish Habitats’. However, trawlfishing can damage benthic communities: since engineer species are usually long-living and slowgrowing, any disturbance can have far-reaching and long-lasting effects. Against this threat ECOSAFIMED project will assess the impact of artisanal fisheries on shelf marine areas with low trawling pressure. The aim is to provide a package of scientificbased recommendations for an ecosystembased management of artisanal fisheries whose application will combine conservation of benthic habitats with exploitation of artisanal fishing sector. _x000D_
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• To maintain a good environmental status of benthic communities in the Mediterranean Sea while ensuring artisanal fishing industry in areas preserved from trawling pressure
The relative DNA-shedding propensity of the palm and finger surfaces

The relative DNA shedding propensity of palmar and finger surfaces has not previously been examined. In the study presented here, palm and fingermarks of six volunteers were analysed for DNA recovery, after deposition at a pressure of approximately 4900 Pa onto glass plates or slides, respectively. The marks were swabbed; DNA extracted using a modified Chelex® method, and then quantified using qPCR, followed by genotype analysis. To assess the availability of DNA-containing material on the skin surface, DNA was analysed by directly swabbing the palm and fingerprint areas of the skin. A further set of palm and fingermarks was subjected to microscopic examination. The results demonstrated that the quantity of DNA shed from the palmar surface is significantly less than from two fingers. Single donor DNA profiles were obtained from deposited fingermarks by applying a low copy number protocol (32 cycles). DNA retrieved from palm and fingers may be degraded, as suggested by reduced peak intensity and allelic dropout amongst the larger STR loci. These findings suggest that, owing to the low levels of DNA deposition, when palmar marks are found at crime scenes, every effort should be made to recover friction ridge detail to use as an identification metric, with collection for DNA analysis performed afterwards.
The role of european national health services in the enhancement of sustainable food systems

The European food systems are unsustainable, within a Europe confronting increased environmental degradation, diet related diseases and inequality. Healthcare systems have the capacity to influence the current status quo of food systems towards sustainable means. However, sustainable food system policies are recent and yet poorly implemented within the European health Services. A lack of assessment and target setting for decision making do not ease up the process. The objective of the present proposal is to explore the food system processes related with the economic and educative channels of the European health services from a sustainable dimension and to develop the first System of Indicators that will aid up in the decision making of those processes. The (co-)generation process of the System of Indicators will be via qualitative methodology. A transdisciplinary approach will be used when using the DELPHI methodology and the panel of expert for the theoretical validation of the System of Indicator. A practical phase will also be carried out to validate the System of Indicators against real cases. Additionally, during a secondment phase, we are going to lead the process of the development of a territorial strategy on food systems in health-care within the Basque region, bridging the research into policy making through participatory-action research. The knowledge obtained in this project will be used to develop strategies to target more efficiently the sustainable goals of the United Nations 2030 agenda in Europe. The Fellow will be up-skilled (in new research skills and techniques) to advance in the development of a career path towards sustainable science, to translate her background knowledge into a continuing research environment and to build and maintain links with other researchers in sustainable food policy throughout Europe aiming to contribute to policy making and developmental strategies towards sustainable societies.
Active suspension system of a 3 DOF quarter car using fuzzy logic control for ride comfort

Passenger ride comfort is considered to be of utmost importance in designing any suspension system. The primary objective of any suspension system in automobiles is to isolate the road disturbances experienced by the tyres from being transmitted to the passengers. ISO- 2631-1:1997(E) has provided certain guidelines to analyse ride comfort and also indicates the degree to which the vibration exposure will be acceptable. Hence active suspension systems are becoming crucial to improve ride quality and passenger comfort, in view of the established superiority over conventional systems. In this paper considering direction of vibrations acting on human body in the translational vertical direction of the coordinate system, bump analysis is carried out on a 3 DOF quarter car model. Since the system dynamics change with increase in the Degrees of freedom, fuzzy logic control is used to control active suspension of a 3-DOF quarter car model. The objective function of the fuzzy logic control has been defined to minimize the sprung mass acceleration and seat acceleration, and is evaluated by simulating the transient response to road perturbations. In this paper the study is extended to a quarter car (3-DOF) seat-suspension model instead of 2 DOF suspension systems, since the vibrations are transmitted to human body through broad contact area like buttocks when sitting. The performance parameters, chassis acceleration, seat acceleration, seat displacement and chassis displacements are analyzed and also the ride comfort levels are analyzed according to ISO-2631-1:1997(E). Results indicate more ride comfort to the occupants through the active suspension system with the proposed fuzzy controller rather than the passive suspension system.
Multimedia authoring and management using your eyes and mind

Loss of the voluntary muscular control while preserving cognitive functions is a common symptom of neuromuscular disorders leading to a variety of functional deficits, including the ability to operate software tools that require the use of conventional interfaces like mouse, key-board, or touch-screens. As a result, the affected individuals are marginalized and unable to keep up with the rest of the society in a digitized world. MAMEM's goal is to integrate these people back into society by increasing their potential for communication and exchange in leisure (e.g. social networks) and non-leisure context (e.g. workplace). In this direction, MAMEM delivers the technology to enable interface channels that can be controlled through eye-movements and mental commands. This is accomplished by extending the core API of current operating systems with advanced function calls, appropriate for accessing the signals captured by an eye-tracker, an EEG-recorder and bio-measurement sensors. Then, pattern recognition and tracking algorithms are employed to jointly translate these signals into meaningful control and enable a set of novel paradigms for multimodal interaction. These paradigms will allow for low- (e.g., move a mouse), meso- (e.g., tick a box) and high-level (e.g., select n-out-of-m items) control of interface applications through eyes and mind. A set of persuasive design principles together with profiles modeling the users (dis-)abilities will be also employed for designing adapted interfaces for disabled. MAMEM will engage three different cohorts of disabled (i.e. Parkinson's disease, muscular disorders, and tetraplegia) that will be asked to test a set of prototype applications dealing with multimedia authoring and management. MAMEM's final objective is to assess the impact of this technology in making these people more socially integrated by, for instance, becoming more active in sharing content through social networks and communicating with their friends and family
Universal multifractal Martian topography

Abstract. In the present study, we investigate the scaling properties of the topography of Mars. Planetary topographic fields are well known to roughly exhibit (mono)fractal behavior. Indeed, the fractal formalism reproduces much of the variability observed in topography. Still, a single fractal dimension is not enough to explain the huge variability and intermittency. Previous studies have claimed that fractal dimensions might be different from one region to another, excluding a general description at the planetary scale. In this article, we analyze the Martian topographic data with a multifractal formalism to study the scaling intermittency. In the multifractal paradigm, the apparent local variation of the fractal dimension is interpreted as a statistical property of multifractal fields. We analyze the topography measured with the Mars Orbiter Laser altimeter (MOLA) at 300 m horizontal resolution, 1 m vertical resolution. We adapted the Haar fluctuation method to the irregularly sampled signal. The results suggest a multifractal behavior from the planetary scale down to 10 km. From 10 to 300 m, the topography seems to be simple monofractal. This transition indicates a significant change in the geological processes governing the Red Planet's surface.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TWO AND THREE WAY MIXED METAL OXIDE ZPGM CATALYST

The present invention is directed to an apparatus for reducing emissions from an engine having associated therewith an exhaust system. The apparatus includes a catalyst system comprising: a substrate; a washcoat suitable for deposition on the substrate, comprising at least one oxide solid selected from the group consisting of at least one of a carrier material oxide and a first zero platinum group metal (ZPGM) catalyst; and an overcoat suitable for deposition on the substrate, comprising at least one overcoat oxide solid selected from the group consisting of at least one of a carrier material oxide and a second ZPGM catalyst; wherein the first and second ZPGM catalysts are selected from the group consisting of at least lanthanum, cerium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and mixtures thereof.
Examining constants in the Paulus-Jeske evaporation duct model

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in the environment can be subjected to anomalies due to the structure of the index of refraction in the atmosphere. In the marine environment, one of the most common anomalies results from evaporation ducts, which are due to moisture gradients in the surface layer that extend a few tens of meters above the air-sea interface. The Paulus-Jeske evaporation duct model (PJ) (Paulus, 1990] is frequently used for representing evaporation ducts in propagation simulations. This logarithmic model is considered a single parameter model, where the free parameter is the duct height, which is determined from bulk measurements of atmospheric and oceanic conditions near the sea surface and utilizes Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. While much work has been performed over the years evaluating and improving estimates of the duct height from atmospheric measurements (e.g., Babin et al. 1997; Fairall et al. 1996, Pasricha et al., 2002, Ivanov et al. 2007], discrepancies between measured and predicted propagation remain (e.g., Gunashekar et al. 2007). To address these shortcomings, recent efforts have begun utilizing inverse problem approaches to invert for the refractivity profile based on measured sea clutter and forward propagation models (Gerstoft et al. 2003; Karimain et. al 2011; Xiaofeng and Sixun 2012). Many of these “refractivity-from-clutter” studies also use the PJ model to invert for parameters that will adequately describe the refractivity profile for evaporation ducts. These implementations also consider the PJ model as a one-parameter model. In addition to the duct height, two constant values (fixed parameters] appear in the PJ model formulation, which represent the aerodynamic roughness (Z 0 = 1.5×10−4 m] and the critical potential refractivity gradient (c 0 =−0.125 M-units/m) (Paulus, 1990). A number of assumptions go into fixing these constants, and although atmospheric and oceanic conditions often do not adhere to these assumptions, the PJ model is frequently used to represent evaporation ducts in all types of conditions.
WARNING CONTROL APPARATUS, MOVING OBJECT, WARNING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Provided is a warning control apparatus comprising: an obtainment unit configured to obtain recognition information including position information and a moving direction of each of a plurality of targets present outside a moving object; a classification unit configured to classify the plurality of targets into one or more groups based on the position information and the moving direction of each of the plurality of targets; a risk level determination unit configured to determine, based on position information and a moving direction of the group, a risk level at which each of the one or more groups approaches a moving object; a selection unit configured to select, based on the determined risk level, a plurality of groups to be warned; and a transmission control unit configured to control transmission of warning information including position information of the selected one or more groups.
Selecting an internationally diverse medical workforce

Doing it with respect is in everyone’s best interests

Two new linked studies tackle difficult educational issues concerning international medical graduates practising medicine in the UK. Tiffin et al1 report that international graduates, mainly from outside the European Union, achieve less satisfactory outcomes than UK graduates at annual appraisals known as Annual Review Competency Panels (ARCP). McManus and Wakeford2 find that they perform less well than UK graduates in postgraduate examinations for trainees in internal medicine (Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (MRCP)) and family medicine (Membership of the Royal Collage of General Practitioners (MRCGP)).

Both these data linkage studies were commissioned by the UK regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), which is considering revising the two examinations that currently determine an international graduate’s fitness for medical registration in the UK. Importantly, both studies show that the two examinations, set by the Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board (PLAB Part 1 and PLAB Part 2), predict performance in later professional assessments. They also agree that international graduates who do better at compulsory English language tests do better in postgraduate training.

McManus and Wakeford use two different approaches to quantify how much the pass marks for PLAB examinations would have to change to select international graduates who would perform as well as UK graduates. Both methods yielded similar results and confirmed …
ROS Dependent Modulation of Calcium Sparks in Cardiomyocytes

Mitochondrial regulation of cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]i) is thought to depend on the mitochondrial inner membrane potential (ΔΨm). ΔΨm arises from activity of the electron transport chain and is thought to play a critical role in all ion movements across the inner membrane. With ΔΨmito ≈ −150 mV to −200 mV, there is clearly a strong electrochemical potential for the movement of Ca2+ from the cytosol (about 100 nM) into the matrix (around 100 nM). If significant rapid Ca2+ influx occurs, then ΔΨmito per se should influence the time-course, frequency, magnitude and other characteristics of Ca2+ sparks and the [Ca2+]i transients. Tetramethylrhodamine methyl ester (TMRM) was used to monitor ΔΨmito in freshly isolated rat cardiomyocytes and photon stress was used to depolarize the mitochondria. In addition to the changes in electrochemical potential for Ca2+ entry, depolarization of mitochondria was associated with an increase in cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) as measured by DCF (as has been previously reported by several laboratories). Quantitative analysis of these findings permits us to separate the influence of each on the changes in Ca2+ signaling observed. Consistent with findings by Zhou et al., 2011, we report a role for local [ROS] in altering Ca2+ signaling.ReferencesZhou, L., Aon., M.A., Lui, T., O'Rourke, B. Dynamic modulation of Ca2+ sparks by mitochondrial oscillations in isolated guinea pig cardiomyocytes under oxidative stress. JMCC. 2011. 51(5):632–9.
Cities cooperating for circular economy

The overall objective is to minimise the leakage of materials from the linear economy and work towards a circular economy. Specific objectives are to: 
• Engage cities, enterprises, citizens and academia in 16 participatory value chain based partnerships to create and develop eco-innovative solutions together.
• Develop 10 viable end-markets by demonstrating new applications for plastic waste, metals (EEE devices), biowaste and wood waste.
• Develop a governance model for cities based on value chain based partnerships.
• Develop decision support tools and assess the actual impact by use of Big Data.
• Ensure replication through the FORCE Academy aiming at enterprises, citizens and policy makers.
The eco-innovative solutions will be demonstrated across four cities (Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lisbon and Genoa) and using the four materials: 
Flexible plastics: Recycling and upgrade of 5,000 tonnes of flexible plastic from enterprises and private households will enable virgin material substitution, corresponding to preventing emissions of 12,500 tonnes of CO2. 
Metals: Citizens will be mobilised to reclaim an additional 2 kg/capita of WEEE (app. 3,600 tonnes). A communication campaign will reach 100,000 citizens and support at least five SME’s that repair damaged EEE devices so that 10-20% of the collected WEEE can be redistributed. 
Wood waste: additional 12,000 tonnes wood waste from urban and mountain areas will be collected. 8-10,000 tonnes of brushwood will be used for compost production, and 14-16,000 tonnes will be processed into wood particles.
Biowaste: around 7,000 tonnes of biowaste from the municipal mixed waste stream will be recovered: 3,000 tonnes coming from restaurants and hotels, and 4,000 tonnes coming from households.

The partnerships will result in the creation of viable eco-innovative market solutions, exploited by the partners. Replication in other cities will be incentivised thus ensuring competitiveness of European Circular Economy and green growth.