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The Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25) was held on April 10 th , 2025, in conjunction with the 47 th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025) in Lucca, Italy. During this half-day event, more than 30 attendees engaged in discussions and presentations focused on recent advancements in narrative representation, extraction, and generation. The workshop featured a keynote address and a mix of oral presentations and poster sessions covering nineteen papers. The workshop proceedings are available online 1 . Date: 10 April 2025. Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt/.

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Object detection is a fundamental task of computer vision that is constantly evolving, with a wide range of applications in fields such as security, medicine, and autonomous driving. This work presents an interactive self-learning course dedicated to exploring some crucial concepts for beginners in object detection. The course offers educational resources, including the possibility to follow a simple tutorial on the operation of an object detection model and definitions of the main concepts related to object detection technology. Users also have a brief description of object detection algorithms such as YOLO (You Only Look Once), R-CNN (Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks), and SSD (Single Shot Detector) and the possibility to learn more about these in a tutorial prepared on a Google Colab notebook. The course aims to provide a learning experience accessible to beginners in the field of object detection, who want to take the first step in their learning about the subject. After completing the tutorial, the user answers a questionnaire, with the goal of analyzing the learning outcomes and extracting the user's impression of the website in general. With this paper, we want to show the advantages of using tools of this nature to foster learning regarding object detection.

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The footwear industry, a sub-sector of textile industrial sector, faces increased pressures towards higher levels of sustainability and circularity along all the value chain. Along the last decades, shoe products have become more complex products, integrating a greater number of components, materials diversity and often long supply-chains related to cost reduction and production or sourcing delocalization strategies. Full value-chain digitalization, as a cornerstone of Industry 4.0 paradigm, plays a key role for leveraging more sustainable and circular products, namely by traceability operationalization and forthcoming instruments such as Digital Product Passport. This research studied, via a state-of-art framing of the challenges followed by qualitative approach, how Industry 4.0 technologies can support the development of new services that contribute to sustainable and circular practices in footwear companies. An interview-based survey was conducted to 6 footwear companies, to map the adoption level of Industry 4.0 technologies and cross-linking to circular services business models.

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This work presents the development of low-cost, low-power, and disposable marine monitoring technologies designed to support oceanographic studies in remote and extreme environments. These platforms were initially targeted for underwater volcanic locations but offer a broader application potential for ocean research. Three main technologies were developed and tested: underwater monitoring probes for real-time water quality assessments in geothermal springs, deep-sea probes for vertical ocean profiling and autonomous drift-phase monitoring, and a surface buoy for rapid-response environmental monitoring. Field deployments in diverse locations, including the Ponta da Ferraria (S. Miguel, Azores), Banco D. Joao de Castro (Atlantic Ocean), and the Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption site (La Palma, Canarias), demonstrated the operational feasibility of these systems. Despite challenges in deep-sea operation and deployment conditions, the results highlight the potential of these platforms for scientific studies, environmental monitoring, and emergency response. Their adaptability and modularity make them valuable tools for a wide range of oceanographic applications beyond their initial focus. Ongoing efforts to improve marine communication reliability, sensor integration, and resilience to extreme ocean conditions hold the potential to further expand the role of these technologies in marine exploration.

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