SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Development of Infrared Techniques for Practical Defect Identification in Bonded Joints

Identification of kissing defects in adhesive bonds has been reported to be an area of concern across a range of industries. To date the majority of work on this matter has focused on the development of advanced ultrasonic techniques. The current thesis focuses on the use of thermography, specifically pulsed and pulse phase thermography (PT and PPT), for the identification of kissing defects. Initially the thesis focuses on the application of PT and PPT for the identification of a range of defect types in a variety of materials to establish the effect of material properties on identification of defects. A numerical model has been developed to simulate the thermal evolution created during a PT or PPT experiment. After validation through a series of case studies, this model has then been used as a predictive tool to relate defect detectability to the thermal property contrast between defect and bulk materials. Where insufficient thermal property contrast exists defects have a limited effect on heat propagation through a component and therefore are not detected using PT or PPT. A means of producing realistic kissing defects in bonded joints is established. The addition of a small load to bonds containing kissing defects was found to open the defects sufficiently to enable their detection. Initial experiments use the application of a tensile load, via a test machine, to successfully investigate simulated kissing defects in single lap joints. A technique using vacuum loading on one adherend of an adhesive bond while PPT is carried out from the other adherend was successfully trialled. Vacuum loading enables the technique to be taken out of the laboratory. A low cost infrared detector, Flir Tau320, compared to the research based photon detector, Flir SC5000, was demonstrated to be suitable for application in PT, thus enabling a significantly lower cost tool to be developed.
Front office operator for tourist offices 

In the light of the importance of tourism in the eligible Programme area - both in Italy and in Slovenia - the “Front Office Operator for Tourist Offices” project intends to develop this specific sector as well as new strategies, through the adoption of competent and qualified human resources in the cross-border labour market . Considering the good prospects connected to the markedly tourist vocation of the crossborder area - both along the coast and in the interior-mountain area - the need has emerged for the management of the changes afoot and for greater competitiveness of the tourist offer: from the traditional holiday to the “all inclusive” package, study-holidays, organised tours, the use of modern information technologies, etc. In this sense the project focuses on the following tourist sectors: naturalistic, adventure, educational and cultural. The front office operator thus trained can work for travel agencies, tour operators, large tourist companies and service providers. His/her skills are mainly commercial and include all the phases of the preparation of a tourist package: he/she must be able to analyse in depth and understand the needs of the client, to plan the service requested and take care of the necessary paperwork, in order to provide a “turnkey” product.
Roboter

Ein Roboter führt sequentielle Arbeiten an jedem Arbeitspunkt auf Grundlage von Punkt-basierten Arbeitsdaten aus. Ein externes Instrument, das an dem Roboter angebracht ist, führt eine Hauptarbeit an jedem Arbeitspunkt in den sequentiellen Arbeiten aus. Eine Steuerung steuert das externe Instrument auf Grundlage von Steuerdaten mit strukturellen Punktblöcken, die in einer Sequenz angeordnet sind, und bündelt die sequentiellen Arbeiten an jedem Arbeitspunkt. Ein Externes-Instrument-Treiber transformiert ein Datenformat, das zwischen dem externen Instrument und der Steuerung ausgetauscht wird. Ein Treibergenerator erzeugt Treiberdaten, die das Detail einer Transformation des Datenformats durch den Externes-Instrument-Treiber anzeigt. Das Treiberauswahlmittel wählt die Treiberdaten aus, die durch den Externes-Instrument-Treiber zu verwenden sind, in Übereinstimmung mit dem externen Instrument.
Les territoires ruraux de montagne en Tunisie, entre marginalisation et perspectives de transition. Éléments d’analyse depuis le Jbel Bargou

En Tunisie, les territoires de montagne n'ont été que peu concernés ces dernières décennies par les politiques de développement rural et agricole. En outre, ils n'ont été que partiellement abordés dans les productions scientifiques qui, souvent, n'ont proposé que des réflexions sur le pastoralisme ou la dégradation des ressources forestières. Alors que le déficit de connaissances à leur sujet constitue un facteur supplémentaire de leur marginalisation, cet article entend proposer un regard nouveau sur les territoires ruraux de montagne en Tunisie, dans un contexte postrévolution de 2011 qui invite à s'interroger sur le développement des régions intérieures. Pour cela, il s'appuie sur les résultats d'une série d'entretiens menés en 2020 auprès de chercheurs, de représentants des services agricoles et des agriculteurs du Jbel Bargou. En restituant et en confrontant leurs discours, ce texte fournit des éléments de réflexion sur les perspectives de transition des territoires ruraux de montagne en Tunisie. Il indique que le manque de "collectif" chez les agriculteurs constitue, pour le moment, un frein à la mise en place de pratiques agricoles innovantes, et précise que cette situation résulte principalement d'une action inadaptée, et en partie dépassée, des services agricoles.
Size-fractionated PM10 monitoring in relation to the contribution of endotoxins in different polluted areas

Abstract Particulate pollution is an environmental concern that is widespread and difficult to resolve. Recently various regulatory improvements around the world have been agreed upon to tackle this problem, especially as related to the fine fraction of particulates, which more closely correlates to human health effects than other fractions. The size-fractionation of inhalable particles and their organic composition represent a new area of research that has been poorly explored thus far. Endotoxins are a type of natural organic compound that can be found in particulate matter. They are correlated with Gram-negative bacterial contamination. Health outcomes associated with exposure to these toxins are not specific and often overlap with the health effects of PM (Particulate Matter) exposure, including asthma, bronchitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and organic dust toxic syndrome. Very little information is available on the endotoxin distribution in different PM10 size fractions. This study examined PM10 size fractions and their endotoxin content. Sampling was conducted at five different locations: one urban, two rural and two rural sites that were highly influenced by large-scale farm animal production facilities. For each location, six different PM10 fractions were evaluated. PM10 sub-fractions were categorised as follows: PM10–7.2 (1.15–31.30 μg m−3); PM7.2–3.0 (1.86–30.73 μg m−3); PM3.0–1.5 (1.74–13.90 μg m−3); PM1.5–0.95 (0.24–10.57 μg m−3); PM0.95–0.49 (1.22–14.33 μg m−3) and PM
Climate warming and the decline of<i>Taxus</i>airborne pollen in urban pollen rain (Emilia Romagna, northern Italy)

Woody plant performance in a changing global environment has always been at the centre of palaeoenvironmental and long-term climate reconstructions carried out by means of pollen analysis. In Mediterranean regions, Taxus constitutes the highest percentage in past pollen diagrams from cold or cool periods, and therefore it is generally considered a good index to infer climate features from past records. However, a comparison of these inferences with the true current trends in pollen production has not been attemped until now. This study reports the decline of airborne pollen of Taxus observed in Emilia Romagna, a region of northern Italy, during the period 1990-2007. Phenological observations on four male specimens and microscopic examination of fresh pollen were made in order to check Taxus flowering time and pollen morphology. Airborne pollen was monitored through continuous sampling with a Hirst volumetric sampler. In the 18-year long period of investigation, Taxus pollen production has decreased, while total woody pollen abundance in air has increased. The trend of the Taxus pollen season shows a delay at the beginning, a shortening of the pollen period, and an advance of the end of the pollen season. This was interpreted as a response to climate warming. In particular, Taxus follows the behaviour of winter-flowering plants, and therefore earlier pollination is favoured at low autumn temperatures, while late pollination occurs more often, most likely after warm autumn temperatures.
The effect of overbooking on idle dental chair capacity in the Pretoria region of the Gauteng Oral Health Services.

An analysis of annual reports revealed that on average 20% of patient appointments with oral hygienists in the Department of Health in the Pretoria region were not utilised due to patient noncompliance (i.e. broken appointments). Many solutions have been considered to address the high rate of noncompliance and the resulting idle chair capacity. One solution selected to overcome some of the negative consequences of broken appointments was deliberate overbooking. The aim of our study was to determine the effect of overbooking on idle dental chair capacity by measuring the utilisation rate over a three month period (July to September) after 25% overbooking was introduced in the Pretoria region. A statistical analysis was conducted on our results to determine an overbooking rate that would ensure full utilisation of the available dental chair capacity. The available time units over the three month study period amounted to 1365, allocated to 1427 patients resulting in an overal overbooking rate of 4.54%. The overall utilisation rate was found to be 79.2%. The calculated regression line estimated that there would be full utilisation of dental chair capacity at an overbooking rate of 26.7%. Overbooking at the levels applied in this study had a minimal overall effect on idle dental chair capacity. Our results confirm the need for careful planning and management in addressing noncompliance. In a manner similar to the clinical situation, organisational development requires a correct diagnosis in order that an appropriate and effective intervention may be designed.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION

Education is a powerful tool that can help improve the lives of people around the world. It is therefore clear that by allowing more women and girls to be educated would be a benefit to society as a whole. As previously stated, there is evidence that proves the advantages of empowering women through education. Education is a basic human right, and thus girls and boys all around the world should be entitled to this opportunity consequently enforcing the ideology of gender equality. If a girl is educated statistics suggest that they will marry later and so on. It can therefore be concluded that by empowering women through education is a great advantage both to women and to society as a whole.
Direct Orthogonal Neighborhood Preserving Discriminant Analysis

Several orthogonal feature extraction algorithms based on local preserving projection have recently been proposed. However, these methods don’t address the singularity problem in the high dimensional feature space,which means that the eigen-equation of orthogonal feature extraction algorithms cannot be solved directly. In this paper, we present a new method called Direct Orthogonal Neighborhood Preserving Discriminant Analysis (DONPDA), which is able to extract all the orthogonal discriminant vectors simultaneously in the high-dimensional feature space and does not suffer the singularity problem. Experimental results on ORL database indicate that the proposed DONPDA method achieves higher recognition rate than the ONPDA method and other some existing orthogonal feature extraction algorithms.
Cultura e esporte - uma hermenêutica visual

Culture and Sport, the subject of this article, describes, through a visual hermeneutics, deep sport linking with culture, in a carnal fusion at some point in human history. This moment came from the modern era and continues today. The basis of this merger is in science and technology, the two cornerstones of the modern in every way. Everything must go by the scientific thinking and technical act. However, the hermeneutic vision required to go beyond modernity. The discovery manifested itself without much effort. There is a long, say, sports prehistory conducted by ludic imagination, the human root of humanity. The sport, term emerged in the nineteenth century, is the designation of the structure of scientific and technological manifestations of fun and play. The visual hermeneutic process acknowledged that the sport achieved a global dimension, far from the values of ludicity. Attempting to recover the meaning of Panhellenic events showed the need to build a discourse able to understand the meaning of mega sport events and all sports in all its complexity. The purpose of this task could be taken by an effective sportive speech, in such a way that happens with the other representative discourses of each science or each professional occupation.
Application of the modified 2-methoxy-2-(1-naphthyl)propionic (MαNP) acid method to steroidal alcohols and the most efficient HPLC separation found in diastereomeric MαNP esters

Abstract A resolution method using enantiopure 2-methoxy-2-(1-naphthyl)propionic (MαNP) acid 1 has been successfully applied to various racemic alcohols for preparing enantiopure (100% ee) alcohols and also for determining their absolute configurations by 1 H NMR diamagnetic anisotropy and/or by X-ray crystallography. A modification of this method was applied to steroidal alcohols, where racemic MαNP acid (±)- 1 was used instead of chiral acid 1 . Although the absolute configurations of steroidal compounds are established, the studies reported herein are important to check whether the MαNP acid method is applicable to steroidal alcohols or not. In fact, in the case of steroidal 3α-alcohols, the observed 1 H NMR diamagnetic anisotropy Δ δ values were large enough to determine their absolute configurations, while it was reported that the Mosher acid method was not applicable to 5-cholesten-3α-ol 5 , because the small Δ δ values were irregularly distributed. The MαNP acid has thus a wider applicability than the Mosher acid. Furthermore, we have found that 5-cholestene-3β,4β-diol 8 was very useful for enantioresolving racemic MαNP acid (±)- 1 ; diol 8 was esterified with acid (±)- 1 giving diastereomeric mono-esters 15a / 15b , which were efficiently separated by HPLC on silica gel: α  = 2.57, Rs  = 6.74. This separation factor, α , is the largest ever found in diastereomeric MαNP esters. From the separated esters 15a and 15b , enantiopure MαNP acids ( R )-(−)- 1 and ( S )-(+)- 1 could be easily recovered. Our results are thus useful for the efficient preparation of enantiopure MαNP acids.
Course of post COVID-19 disease symptoms over time in the ComPaRe long COVID prospective e-cohort

About 10% of people infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 experience post COVID-19 disease. We analysed data from 968 adult patients (5350 person-months) with a confirmed infection enroled in the ComPaRe long COVID cohort, a disease prevalent prospective e-cohort of such patients in France. Day-by-day prevalence of post COVID-19 symptoms was determined from patients' responses to the Long COVID Symptom Tool, a validated self-reported questionnaire assessing 53 symptoms. Among patients symptomatic after 2 months, 85% still reported symptoms one year after their symptom onset. Evolution of symptoms showed a decreasing prevalence over time for 27/53 symptoms (e.g., loss of taste/smell); a stable prevalence over time for 18/53 symptoms (e.g., dyspnoea), and an increasing prevalence over time for 8/53 symptoms (e.g., paraesthesia). The disease impact on patients' lives began increasing 6 months after onset. Our results are of importance to understand the natural history of post COVID-19 disease.
Abdomen Posture and Flash Gesture Direction in a Female Synchronic Firefly Photinus carolinus (Green) (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

North American Photinus fireflies use bioluminescent flashes to communicate an individual’s species and sex, and to attract potential mates. A female firefly responds to a male firefly’s courtship flash with her own species-specific flash. We used a photic stimulator to produce male-like species-specific P. carolinus LED courtship flashes. These evoked species-specific response flashes from a female. The female’s flashes were preceded by a flash gesture comprising a sequence of abdominal postural adjustments (pitch, roll, and yaw). These gestures changed her lantern’s orientation which, at rest, was downward towards the substrate. Our results demonstrate that these gestures mediate a lateralization of the female’s response flashes towards the direction of the stimulating LED. That is, she directs her response to the left of midline when stimuli are presented from her left, and similarly, she directs her response to the right of midline when stimuli are presented from her right. The directional aspect of the flash gesture adds a new perspective to the complexity of the behaviors associated with flash communication in fireflies. Lateralization of the flash gesture suggests that the female’s visual system processes information about the location of male’s flashes as well as their temporal pattern.
Cognitive platform to enhance 360º performance and sustainability of the european process industry

COGNIPLANT project will develop and demonstrate an innovative approach for the advanced digitization and intelligent management of the process industries. This approach will be based on a novel vision to data monitoring and analysis, that will make the most of the latest developments on advanced analytics and cognitive reasoning, coupled with a disruptive use of the Digital Twin concept to improve Production plants’ operation performance by up to 68% in real time control of the productive environment, 65% in quality control of the final products and 70 % in response time to uncontrolled incidents. 

The concept will be implemented by four end-users from four different SPIRE industries, one chemical industry in Austria, one aluminum refinery in Ireland, one concrete manufacturing industry in Italy and one metal industry in Spain. The COGNIPLANT solution will provide a hierarchical monitoring and supervisory control that will give a comprehensive vision of the plants’ production performance as well as the energy and resource consumption. Advanced data analytics will be applied to extract valuable information from the data collected about the processes and their effect on the production plant’s overall performance enabling to design and simulate operation plans in digital twin models based on the conclusions. As a result, optimal operation plans will be obtained that will improve the performance of those cognitive production plants. In addition, the project will demonstrate the positive impact derived from the implementation of COGNIPLANT solution that will allow industries reducing their CO2 emissions up to 20%.
A training strategy will be designed to provide a comprehensive framework for the dissemination of the project outcomes and a clear understanding of the new solution for the employees of the SPIRE sectors.
Toronto’s Urban Heat Island—Exploring the Relationship between Land Use and Surface Temperature

The urban heat island effect is linked to the built environment and threatens human health during extreme heat events. In this study, we analyzed whether characteristic land uses within an urban area are associated with higher or lower surface temperatures, and whether concentrations of “hot” land uses exacerbate this relationship. Zonal statistics on a thermal remote sensing image for the City of Toronto revealed statistically significant differences between high average temperatures for commercial and resource/industrial land use (29.1 °C), and low average temperatures for parks and recreational land (25.1 °C) and water bodies (23.1 °C). Furthermore, higher concentrations of either of these land uses were associated with more extreme surface temperatures. We also present selected neighborhoods to illustrate these results. The paper concludes by recommending that municipal planners and decision-makers formulate policies and regulations that are specific to the problematic land uses, in order to mitigate extreme heat.
Mediterranean Living Lab for Territorial Innovation

The Living Lab model for in situ co-design of innovative ICT services is proving increasingly successful in promoting the knowledge economy by speeding up the pace and quality of research and technology development;* yet despite its significant potential, there is to date no clear link with Mediterranean regional policies. MedLab’s objective is to apply the Living Lab approach from the demand side of regional policy, building on concrete pilot projects to construct a governance network that brings economies of R&D scope, social innovation and policy coherence to all levels, from the local community to the trans-national scale. MedLab’s 24-month workplan links transnational R&D and the strategies of regional departments with specific development needs, validating the approach in five key fields: inno-SME networks, rural development, coastal zone management, participatory strategic planning and tourism. The transnational pilot partnerships and overlapping R&D issues that emerge develop into an integrated, open but stable governance network. The end result of MedLab is thus a permanent trans-Mediterranean structure that increases the competitiveness of the MED space through a virtuous circle whereby regional development authorities apply the Living Lab model in an increasing array of fields and the ICT industry increasingly recognises the value proposition of investing in co-design processes in concrete local and regional development initiatives. *see www.openlivinglabs.eu
A DISHWASHER WITH AN OPTIMIZED FILLING SEQUENCE

In the case of a dishwasher, in particular a domestic dishwasher (1), having a control device (2) for implementing a dishwashing cycle (SG) for the cleaning of washware, having a dishwashing chamber (7) for accommodating the washware during the dishwashing cycle (SG), having an inflow valve (18) which can be operated by the control device (2) and is intended for introducing dishwashing liquid (S) into the dishwashing chamber (7), and having a circulating pump (22), which can be adjusted, in particular controlled or regulated, by the control device (2) and is intended for circulating the dishwashing liquid (S) located in the dishwashing chamber (7), the dishwashing cycle (SG) comprises at least one filling sequence (F, F1, F2, F3), in the case of which the inflow valve (18) is open during a primary filling phase (PF), the duration of which is dependent on a time setting (DT) which corresponds to a desired quantity (FMS) of dishwashing liquid (S) which is to be introduced into the dishwashing chamber (7) and is sufficient for concentricity of the circulating pump (22) running at a nominal speed (NN), and in the case of which use is made of a concentricity-monitoring unit (25), at the end of the primary filling phase (PF), to carry out a concentricity check (RP) to ascertain whether the circulating pump (22) running at the nominal speed (NN) is operating concentrically, wherein the filling sequence (F1) is terminated if the circulating pump (22) is operating concentrically, and the filling sequence (F2, F3) is continued if the circulating pump (22) is not operating concentrically.