SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Towards an inclusive common european framework for assisted reproductive technologies (art): queer  transgender reproduction in the age of art.

The use and regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) has undergone repeated significant changes since the 1980s, partly to accommodate biotechnological developments, partly to recognize shifts in socio-cultural practices of kinship and family. These changes have generally been towards greater inclusivity but have been variedly legislated and implemented in the diverse European countries, leading to ‘reproductive migration’. As the numbers of ART users and clinics rise, there is a clear need to provide a common European framework for ART: this is the purpose of this project.
One social group particularly affected by ART policies are queer and transgender people. Most research on their use of ART is performed in English-speaking, western European countries, much less in central European ones and virtually none in east European countries - this project will fill that gap. However, eastern Europeans and their clinics play a major role in European ART use through ‘fertility tourism’ and the provision of biomaterials (eggs, sperm, etc.). This 3-stage comparative project will examine the regulation of ART and the experiences of self-identified queer and transgender people with ART in 6 purposely selected European countries: Austria, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Spain and the UK, in order to draft a more inclusive common European framework for ART. To do so, the ER will work at the Centre for Gender Research (CGR) at Uppsala University, Sweden, analyzing diverse national European ART guidelines and frameworks, collecting original empirical data on queer and transgender people’s experiences of ART, and drafting the framework. Purposive sampling and innovative methods such as community feedback loops will help to create outcomes that impact not only ART research, but importantly on ART policies and legislations, on LGBTQI rights and ART, on LGBTQI people and their families, and on strengthening the EU as a union with common frameworks.
Carnavales y festivales: tendencias y estrategias digitales: arte, cultura y nuevas tecnologías en América Latina y el Caribe

El presente estudio identifica las principales transformaciones e innovaciones que se generaron en los carnavales y festivales de América Latina y el Caribe a raíz de la crisis sanitaria por la COVID-19. Hace énfasis en los nuevos modelos de negocio que se presentan en el ámbito digital y propone estrategias para detonar su desarrollo en la virtualidad, incentivar la reactivación económica y el desarrollo sostenible del sector.
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FORUM METHOD FOR THE SELF DEVELOPMENT COURSE IN UKM AND ITS LINK WITH STUDENT INTEREST

Student inability to explain concepts learnt in lessons using their own words academically and intellectually and their lack of interest in learning the subject are a cause of their incompetence in the development of their personality. This presents a challenge to lecturers that they should not rely entirely on conventional lectures and tutorials. Instead, there is a need to employ a variety of teaching methods to stimulate student minds and encourage them to pursue knowledge. As an effort to diversify learning and teaching methods, a study was conducted to improve weaknesses of teaching and learning methods by organizing to motivate students. This was done to help students realize that concepts learnt in the course are relevant to their daily life and to encourage them to seek knowledge of self development which can be applied outside the class. The fora were followed with an action research. This action research was aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of the forum as an alternative method of teaching and learning of the Self Development Course. A sample of 73 students of various academic faculties 2012/2013 were involved in the forum competition. The sample was divided into two groups: panelists group and audience group. Panelists wrote two reports on their experience from the beginning stage of preparing forum materials until the final stage of conducting the forum itself. Listeners 89 groups were assessed as to their interest and observation to the forum content and its discussion while it was being conducted. The effectiveness of this strategy is based on analysis of student reports on the conducted forum and debates in it. Results show that forum received a positive response among the students. The forum approach increased student skills to relate to current issues in explaining facts they have learnt, encouraged cooperation among them to solve problems and increased interaction skill as well as built self-confidence. Therefore they could sharpen their soft skills and were able to solve problems and human-related issues.
Natural Haemozoin Induces Expression and Release of Human Monocyte Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1

Recently matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and its endogenous inhibitor (tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1, TIMP-1) have been implicated in complicated malaria. In vivo, mice with cerebral malaria (CM) display high levels of both MMP-9 and TIMP-1, and in human patients TIMP-1 serum levels directly correlate with disease severity. In vitro, natural haemozoin (nHZ, malarial pigment) enhances monocyte MMP-9 expression and release. The present study analyses the effects of nHZ on TIMP-1 regulation in human adherent monocytes. nHZ induced TIMP-1 mRNA expression and protein release, and promoted TNF-α, IL-1β, and MIP-1α/CCL3 production. Blocking antibodies or recombinant cytokines abrogated or mimicked nHZ effects on TIMP-1, respectively. p38 MAPK and NF-κB inhibitors blocked all nHZ effects on TIMP-1 and pro-inflammatory molecules. Still, total gelatinolytic activity was enhanced by nHZ despite TIMP-1 induction. Collectively, these data indicate that nHZ induces inflammation-mediated expression and release of human monocyte TIMP-1 through p38 MAPK- and NF-κB-dependent mechanisms. However, TIMP-1 induction is not sufficient to counterbalance nHZ-dependent MMP-9 enhancement. Future investigation on proteinase-independent functions of TIMP-1 (i.e. cell survival promotion and growth/differentiation inhibition) is needed to clarify the role of TIMP-1 in malaria pathogenesis.
Research and development of flexible production process of spherical bearings

Research and development in the field of design, technology, control and organisation of production, and determination of changes in the production process to meet the requirements of a flexible production process and.
Tutor: a universal learning management system for robot-based learning

In this digital age, a change in learning/teaching method is being fuelling by the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and interactive media (digital whiteboard, tablets, robots, etc.) in schools. Among them, the use of robots with age-school children improves their motivation and learning process by 75%. A notable obstacle to implement robotics widely as part of schools’ curriculum appears to be the involvement needed from educators (teachers, therapists, etc) in the generation of contents and experiences, which today requires programming or coding knowledge.
Aiming at overcoming this barrier, our company InterOnLine has developed TUTOR, a novel Learning Management System for leveraging education based on the use of robots, that allows non-computer skilled users create, manage and transfer learning units (LUs) for robots out-of-the-box.
We have detected our potential capabilities to define and design our own educational robot in which run TUTOR, in order to maximize the business opportunity in the innovative Robot-Learning sector. This way, we will develop a fully functional product (LMS software + hardware) that will provide a mechanism for our sustainable growth. By enrolling an Innovation associate we will be able to leverage this innovation strategy. In order to achieve the objectives for develop and implement TUTOR project, we need to reinforce our team with a PhD in robotics engineering with knowledge and experience in educational and pedagogic methodologies.
The recruitment of the IA will help us to accelerate the high growth of our company, by means of the following expected impacts: reinforcing experience and knowhow of our team, developing the new line of products for the future of our company and boosting our business opportunity, reaching 4M€ by 2020 once full product has been launched.
MicroRNA assassins: factors that regulate the disappearance of miRNAs

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) control essential gene regulatory pathways in plants and animals. Serving as guides in silencing complexes, miRNAs direct Argonaute proteins to specific target messenger RNAs to repress protein expression. The mature, 22-nucleotide (nt) miRNA is the product of multiple processing steps, and recent studies have uncovered factors that directly control the stability of the functional RNA form. Although alteration of miRNA levels has been linked to numerous disease states, the mechanisms responsible for stabilized or reduced miRNA expression have been largely elusive. The discovery of specific cis-acting modifications and trans-acting proteins that affect miRNA half-life reveals new elements that contribute to the homeostasis of these vital regulatory molecules.
Unlocking mechanisms of cyst nematode hatching for sustainable cyst nematode control

Cyst nematodes worldwide attack agricultural crops such as potato, sugar beet, rice and soybean and cause large losses in their yield. There is a great need for developing new control methods for cyst nematodes because 1) resistance in cultivars is overcome, 2) crop rotation is problematic and 3) most of the nematicides are banned. Plant roots secrete triterpenoid-like signaling molecules into the soil that are known to induce hatching of cyst nematodes, called hatching stimulants (HSs). In NemHatch, I will develop a new strategy to control cyst nematodes by manipulating the signaling relation – mediated by the HSs - between the host plant and the cyst nematodes. 
I will first create contrasting potato lines with different HS production by phenotyping potato genotypes and applying abiotic factors and stress hormones. Then I will use bioinformatics, biochemistry and forward as well as reverse genetics approaches to elucidate the HS biosynthetic pathway and its regulatory mechanism. This will allow me to create and identify genotypes that differ in HS production so I can study their importance for PCN resistance and possibly other physiological processes in the host plant. I will both obtain and transfer knowledge by secondment and visits to industrial partners. 
This project will expand my expertise in secondary metabolite biosynthesis with an ecological twist on the communication of plants with their abiotic and biotic environment, and I will learn advanced molecular breeding techniques. In addition, I will gain several skills such as project and IPR management. Vice versa, I will bring my expertise on triterpenoid biosynthesis and my molecular biology skills to the host. NemHatch will provide the fundamental knowledge enabling biotechnological and agronomical applications to control cyst nematodes and give me the chance to reach a state of professional maturity that will allow me to find an (independent) position in academia or industry.
A Preliminary Performance Model for Optimizing Software Packet Processing Pipelines

Software packet processing is increasingly commonplace, especially for software-defined networking constructs. Previous work has investigated methods to efficiently map packet processing pipelines to general-purpose processor architectures. Concurrently, novel high-level domain-specific languages (DSLs) for specifying modern packet processing pipeline functionality, are emerging (e.g., P4 [5]). An attractive goal is develop a compiler that can automatically map a high-level pipeline specification (specified in a high-level DSL) to an underlying machine architecture. Ideally, the compiler should automatically exploit the available parallelism, make intelligent scheduling decisions, and adapt to the workload needs in an online fashion, to provide maximum performance. An important pre-requisite for the development of such a compiler is a performance model of the underlying machine architecture, for the applications of interest. We report our experiences with adding an optimizer to the P4C compiler [14], which compiles a high-level P4 program to a lower-level C-based implementation that runs with the DPDK infrastructure [1], and gets eventually executed on a multi-socket x86 machine. We make two contributions: (a) we show that significant performance improvements (up to 55%) can be gained by adding scheduling and prefetching optimizations to the P4C compiler; and (b) we develop a preliminary performance model for reasoning about the expected throughput and latency of a packet-processing workload, on a modern machine architecture. Our model can be used by a compiler, to reason about the expected performance of a packet-processing workload for different code configurations, and can thus be used to optimize the generated code accordingly.
DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ACTIVATION OF ELECTRODES

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), a method of stimulating nerves using electrical current applied through the skin for therapeutic purposes, has been in use since the late 1970's, as have electronic units for self-administration of TENS therapy. With the recent increase in popularity of mobile devices with processing capabilities (smart phones, portable computing devices, MP3 players etc.), most TENS users already carry consumer electronic equipment capable of providing instruction to another device via its audio port or a wireless link. A TENS unit designed to: (a) be coupled with a personal mobile computing device, (b) rely on it for user interaction and, optionally, (c) make use of its power, provides a smaller, less expensive and more convenient portable treatment solution. This approach can be extended to other electrotherapy forms utilizing similar power budgets: Microcurrent Electrical Nerve Stimulation (MENS), Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS), Electrical Muscle Stimulation/Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (EMS/NMES).
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CHEMICALLY MODIFIED FILLERS

Described is an improved process for producing chemically modified fillers by using a certain combination of functionalizing and hydrophobizing agents in an aqueous suspension of inorganic oxide having a pH of 2.5 or less and increasing the pH of the suspension after chemically modifying the filler.
Energy efficiency complaint products 2014

The objective of EEPLIANT 2014 (Energy Efficiency Compliant Products 2014) is to help deliver the intended economic and environmental benefits of the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC and the Energy Labelling Directive 2010/30/EU by strengthening market surveillance and increasing compliance with the Directives and the relevant implementing measures. EEPLIANT 2014 will achieve this by:
-Implementing systems that coordinate, in the most cost-effective manner, the monitoring, verification and enforcement of ecodesign and energy labelling requirements across the European Single Market; 
-Increasing the adoption of best practice amongst Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs).
The Consortium (13 MSAs and PROSAFE) will design, carry out and evaluate coordinated market surveillance actions across three different product sectors over the next two years. It will deliver a higher level of surveillance activities that go beyond testing and will target products that represent the highest energy saving potential. The consortium will work closely with other non-participating MSAs across the EEA through its liaison with the Energy Labelling and the Ecodesign ADCOs. Additionally, the Consortium will work together with a Steering Board comprising of business, consumer organisations and environmental NGOs to draw on their knowledge and experience and to communicate through them with all stakeholders about the progress and results of the project. 
The expected results are:
-Adoption by Member States of best practices on how to conduct market surveillance most effectively.
-Greater compliance due to increased market surveillance of products in the EEA with the Implementing Measures of the Energy Labelling and Ecodesign Directives.
-Increased awareness of (and respect for) market surveillance by industry and amongst users.
-Market surveillance being undertaken in a more cost effective and consistent manner across the EEA with an overall greater impact in the product sectors investigated.
Development of Automated Model of Tree Extraction Using Aerial LIDAR Data

Abstract Currently, increase of greenhouse gas has had a signigicant impact on climate change in urbanization. As a result, the government has been looking for ways to take advantage of the trees that generate oxygen and reduce carbon dioxide for the prevention of climate change. It is essential to extract individual tree for calculating the amount of carbon dioxide reduction of trees. Aerial LIDAR data have three-dimensional information of building as well as trees as form of point clouds. In this study, automated model was developed to extract individual tree using aerial LIDAR data. For this purpose, we established a methodology for extracting trees and then proceeded the process of developing it as an automated model based on model builder of ArcGIS Software. In order to evaluate the applicability of the developed model, the model was compared with commercial software in study area located in Yongin City. Through the experimental result, the proposed model was extract trees 9.91% higher than commercial software. From this results, it was found that the model effectively extracted trees.Key Words : Automated Model, Carbon Dioxide, LIDAR Data, Point Cloud, Tree Extraction
Determination of protection range of mining upper protective layers and its numerical simulation

Aiming at the limitation of the traditional method for determination of protection region, combined with the actual situation of a mine, a new method for determination of protection region was put forward (including the protection of working face layout and development direction), that is, gas flow observation analysis on the spot and gas content contrast method. The protection region was determined by gas flow observation analysis, gas content contrast, and computer numerical simulation combined with engineering practice. In the process of gas content test, the fixed sampling method “big hole drill reaming, small orifice drill rod connected with core tube” was employed. The results show that the determined protection region is in accordance with the actual site situation. The fixed sampling method ensures the accuracy of gas measurement of gas content.
Synthesis of asymmetrically disubstituted anthracenes

Abstract We have developed synthetic pathways toward differently substituted hydroxyanthracenes (anthrols) with the aim to investigate their photochemical reactivity in dehydration reactions. Although the syntheses of anthracenes substituted at positions 9,10 are well known, reports for the synthesis of anthracenes with different substitution patterns are scarce. Herein we review known and report novel synthetic pathways toward anthrols with substituents at 1,2-, 2,3-, and 2,6- positions. We present two synthetic approaches: (i) building of the anthracene tricyclic fused ring system from the appropriate benzene derivatives, and (ii) reduction of the corresponding anthraquinones. Reduction of 2-hydroxyanthracene-1-carbaldehyde to the corresponding alcohol yields rather unexpected 1,1′-methylenedianthracen-2-ol, whose proposed mechanism of formation is supported by experimental observations and calculations.
State of the Science on Cardiometabolic Risk After Spinal Cord Injury: Recap of the 2013 ASIA Pre-Conference on Cardiometabolic Disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) who survive at least 1 year post injury. Persons with SCI who are younger than 45 years of age are four times more likely to die of cardiac causes than their age-matched counterparts without SCI. There is evidence that people with SCI are at increased risk for CVD compared to the general population, however prospective trials documenting true incidence have not confirmed this. These figures are not surprising, due to the effect of paralysis on body composition, challenges to physical activity, and the body’s response to physical activity after SCI. Individuals with SCI may also be less likely, depending on level of injury, to experience angina or other cardiac-related symptoms as a warning sign of cardiac compromise due to sympathetic nervous system disruption. Because measures of risk, and subsequent preventive practices, are based on and designed for the general population and because persons with SCI experience CVD earlier and with fewer cardiac symptoms than the general population, there is a need to better characterize the risks in this population.6 One of the significant risks of CVD in persons with SCI is their tendency to develop cardiometabolic syndrome, defined as a cluster of risk factors that includes obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and subclinical atherosclerosis. Cardiometabolic risk (CMR) has been a principal research focus of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Secondary Conditions in the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury. Research conducted during a previous cycle of SCI-RRTC (2003-2009) funding demonstrated that 76.9% of subjects exhibited risk clustering, with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) occurring in 64% of subjects and depressed high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) occurring in 53% of subjects (42% and 11%, respectively, for males and females). Further, overweight/obesity was the most prevalent CMR (74%) among 121 community-dwelling persons with chronic SCI. Body mass index (BMI) provides a proxy measure of body fat, as the ratio of weight (kg) and height (m2). Although BMI may be adequate for providing a gross estimate of obesity in the general population, it is problematic after SCI due to the significant changes in body composition that are nearly universal and are characterized by a loss of lean and increase in fat mass. As a result, the BMI scale significantly underestimates obesity in individuals after SCI and therefore may not signal actual risk. Similarly, although optimization of the lipid profile is integral to general population CVD prevention, the way in which lipid patterns may differ after SCI and how those differences impact CVD risk in persons with SCI have not received much attention.