SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Yttrium-90 Radioembolization and Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for the Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma

<h3>Purpose</h3> To compare the effectiveness and toxicity of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (chemoembolization) and yttrium-90–labeled microspheres (radioembolization) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). <h3>Materials and Methods</h3> Outcomes from patients who underwent radioembolization or chemoembolization as the only treatment for unresectable HCC from 1996 to 2006 were compared. Response was assessed with Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, survival was assessed with the Kaplan-Meier method, and toxicity was graded with National Cancer Institute criteria. Multivariate analysis for factors affecting survival was performed. <h3>Results</h3> Seventy-one patients were treated with either chemoembolization (<i>n</i> = 44, 62%) or radioembolization (<i>n</i> = 27, 38%). Treatment groups were similar in age, sex, Child class, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score, tumor size, and vascular invasion. Progressive disease at 3 months was observed in 16 (36%) of the 44 patients treated with chemoembolization and nine (33%) of the 27 patients treated with radioembolization (<i>P</i> = not statistically significant). The median overall survival was similar for both groups (6 months with chemoembolization vs 6 months with radioembolization, <i>P</i>= .7). Grade 3 or higher toxicity was observed in 24 of the 71 patients (34%). Tumor multifocality, vascular invasion, and hepatitis C seropositivity were independently associated with worse survival, whereas method of treatment was not. <h3>Conclusions</h3> In this single-center study, preliminary evidence suggests that chemoembolization and radioembolization provided similar effectiveness and toxicity in patients with unresectable HCC.
Phase transition characteristics of Al-Sb phase change materials for phase change memory application

The crystallization behavior of Al-Sb thin films is investigated for phase change memory application. The crystallization temperature and optical band gap of the amorphous material increase with Al content. The thermal stability and randomness in atomic configuration of the films are enhanced considerably. The shift of Raman modes associated mainly with Sb upon phase transformation is observed, and the co-existence of Sb-rich crystalline regions and Al-rich amorphous matrix is confirmed, revealing the amorphous nature of most Al components. Three distinct resistance levels are achieved in the devices using Al50Sb50, suggesting the potentiality for multilevel data storage application of the materials.
A Novel Energy-Efficient Pyrolysis Process: Self-pyrolysis of Oil Shale Triggered by Topochemical Heat in a Horizontal Fixed Bed

This paper proposes a novel energy-efficient oil shale pyrolysis process triggered by a topochemical reaction that can be applied in horizontal oil shale formations. The process starts by feeding preheated air to oil shale to initiate a topochemical reaction and the onset of self-pyrolysis. As the temperature in the virgin oil shale increases (to 250-300°C), the hot air can be replaced by ambient-temperature air, allowing heat to be released by internal topochemical reactions to complete the pyrolysis. The propagation of fronts formed in this process, the temperature evolution, and the reaction mechanism of oil shale pyrolysis in porous media are discussed and compared with those in a traditional oxygen-free process. The results show that the self-pyrolysis of oil shale can be achieved with the proposed method without any need for external heat. The results also verify that fractured oil shale may be more suitable for underground retorting. Moreover, the gas and liquid products from this method were characterised, and a highly instrumented experimental device designed specifically for this process is described. This study can serve as a reference for new ideas on oil shale in situ pyrolysis processes.
LEAD AND ELECTRODE STRUCTURES SIZED AND CONFIGURED FOR IMPLANTATION IN ADIPOSE TISSUE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF IMPLANTATION

Systems and methods provide a stimulation electrode assembly comprising an elongated lead sized and configured to be implanted within an adipose tissue region. The lead includes an electrically conductive portion to apply electrical stimulation to nerve or muscle in the adipose tissue region and at least one expandable anchoring structure deployable from the lead to engage adipose tissue and resist dislodgment and/or migration of the electrically conductive portion within the adipose tissue region.
POWER MANAGEMENT OF DATA PROCESSING RESOURCES, SUCH AS POWER ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF DATA STORAGE OPERATIONS

A system and method for performing power conservation actions is described. In some examples, the system determines a power conservation policy based on information from the system, and implements that policy in an enterprise or in one or more buildings, such as within a data storage environment. In some examples, the system adds or modifies global filters or system performance based on information from the system.
Functional renormalization group in Floquet space

We present an extension of the functional renormalization group to Floquet space, which enables us to treat the long time behavior of interacting time periodically driven quantum dots. It is one of its strength that the method is neither bound to small driving amplitudes nor to small driving frequencies, i.e. very general time periodic signals can be considered. It is applied to the interacting resonant level model, a prototype model of a spinless, fermionic quantum dot. The renormalization in several setups with different combinations of time periodic parameters is studied, where the numerical results are complemented by analytic expressions for the renormalization in the limit of small driving amplitude. We show how the driving frequency acts as an infrared cutoff of the underlying renormalization group flow which manifests in novel power laws. We utilize the tunability of the effective reservoir distribution function in a periodically driven onsite energy setup to show how its shape is directly reflected in the renormalization group flow. This allows to flexibly tune the power-law renormalization generically encountered in quantum dot structures. Finally, an in-phase quantum pump as well as a single parameter pump are investigated in the whole regime of driving frequency, demonstrating that the new power law in the driving frequency is reflected in the mean current of the latter.
The Establishment of Core Competencies for Canadian Genetic Counsellors: Validation of Practice Based Competencies

Numerous groups of health professionals have undertaken the task of defining core competencies for their profession. The goal of establishing core competencies is to have a defined standard for such professional needs as practice guidelines, training curricula, certification, continuing competency and re-entry to practice. In 2006, the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC) recognized the need for uniform practice standards for the profession in Canada, given the rapid progress of genetic knowledge and technologies, the expanding practice of genetic counsellors and the increasing demand for services. We report here the process by which the CAGC Practice Based Competencies were developed and then validated via two survey cycles, the first within the CAGC membership, and the second with feedback from external stakeholders. These competencies were formally approved in 2012 and describe the integrated skills, attitudes and judgment that genetic counsellors in Canada require in order to perform the services and duties that fall within the practice of the profession responsibly, safely, effectively and ethically.
Roberto d’Angiò e Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer: un miracolo dall’«Histoire des trois Maries» di Jean de Venette

Nell’Histoire des trois Maries di Jean de Venette si riferisce di un miracolo accaduto a Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer alla presenza di Roberto d’Angiò. L’articolo presenta l’opera e i suoi testimoni; ricostruisce le testimonianze storiche e letterarie legate alle origini del culto in Camargue e le innovazioni a riguardo proposte dall’autore; infine offre un saggio di edizione critica di due capitoli del testo in versi, della sua traduzione latina quattrocentesca e della mise en prose cinquecentesca.
“PROVVEDITORIA MARE LIGURE ANGELO NOVELLI S.R.L.”

THE LIGURIAN MARITIME PROVISIONARY ANGELO NOVELLI S.R.L. DEALS WITH THE NAVAL SUPPLY: IT IS A SERVICE THAT IS BORN ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARITIME TRAFFIC AND THAT TODAY MAKES USE OF THE MOST MODERN AND EFFICIENT LOGISTIC TECHNIQUES. THE LIGURIAN MARINE PROVVEDITORIA ANGELO NOVELLI S.R.L. IS ABLE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ANY TYPE OF SHIP, AT PORTS THROUGHOUT ITALY AND EUROPE, THANKS TO PROVEN OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES. THE LIGURIAN MARITIME PROVISIONARY ANGELO NOVELLI S.R.L. IS ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL OPERATORS IN THE AREAS OF CARGO, CRUISE AND FERRIES; IT ALSO SUPPORTS CATERING ON AND OFF SHORE AND LARGE CATERING. YACHT SUPPLY THE MARINE PROVVEDITORIA LIGURE ANGELO NOVELLI S.R.L., THANKS TO ITS CONSOLIDATED EXPERIENCE IN NAVAL SUPPLIES, OFFERS A HIGH QUALITY SUPPLY SERVICE FOR YATCH AND MEGA-YACHTS IN TRANSIT IN GENOA. A CO SERVICE
Quantum interface between superconducting circuits and spin ensemble

The ever shrinking size of field effect transistors for digital electronics has now reached a boundary where fluctuations in the position of a single dopant can have a significant influence on the performance of the transistor and quantum effects cannot be neglected any more.  These two effects therefore represent a size limit, preventing the microelectronics industry from further downscaling and performance increase of MOSFET transistors. This calls for a breakthrough. Rather than being a drawback one can take advantage of quantum and dopant effects to build a quantum analogue of the classical electronics. 

To build this Quantum Electronics one would need basic quantum elements: good quantum memory, quantum bus, quantum processor, and of course and efficient interface between these elements. Superconducting circuits have already been shown to be efficient as quantum bus or quantum processor, but can only hold quantum information for tens of microseconds. 

In this project I propose to build a long lasting quantum memory and interface it, quantum coherently and efficiently, to a superconducting quantum bus. I will use an ensemble of spins of bismuth dopants implanted in silicon as a quantum memory. Bismuth spins have been recently proven to be able to hold quantum information over several seconds when immersed in a small magnetic field, bringing them to a so-called clock transition. I will interface this good quantum memory with superconducting circuits, bringing together a good quantum memory with a quantum bus and processor. Building this unit in silicon, I will benefit from tremendous material development made by the microelectronic industry over the past 50 years.
Innovative physical/virtual sensor platform for battery cell

The ambition of INSTABAT is to monitor in operando key parameters of a Li-ion battery cell, in order to provide higher accuracy States of Charge, Health, Power, Energy and Safety (SoX) cell indicators, and thus allowing to improve the safety and the Quality, Reliability and Life (QRL) of batteries.

To achieve this goal, INSTABAT will develop a proof of concept of smart sensing technologies and functionalities, integrated into a battery cell and capable of:
• performing reliable in operando monitoring (time- and space-resolved) of key parameters (temperature and heat flow; pressure; strain; Li+ concentration and distribution; CO2 concentration; “absolute” impedance, potential and polarization) by means of:
(i) four embedded physical sensors (optical fibers with Fiber Bragg Grating and luminescence probes, reference electrode and photo-acoustic gas sensor),
(ii) two virtual sensors (based on electro-chemical and thermal reduced models),
• correlating the evolution of these parameters with the physico-chemical degradation phenomena occurring at the heart of the battery cell,
• improving the battery functional performance and safety, thanks to enhanced BMS algorithms providing in real-time higher accuracy SoX cell indicators (taking the measured and estimated parameters into consideration).

Main results will be: (1) proof of concept of multi-sensor platform (cell prototype equipped with physical/virtual sensors, and associated BMS algorithms providing SoX cell indicators in real-time); (2) demonstration of higher accuracy for SoX cell indicators; (3) demonstration of improvement of cell functional performance and safety through two use cases for EV applications; (4) techno-economic feasibility study (manufacturability, adaptability to other cell technologies...).

INSTABAT smart cells will open new horizons to improve cell use and performances (e.g. by reducing ageing, allowing the decrease of safety margins, triggering self-healing, facilitating second life, etc.).
Competitive Online Clique Clustering

AbstractClique clustering is the problem of partitioning a graph into cliques so that some objective function is optimized. In online clustering, the input graph is given one vertex at a time, and any vertices that have previously been clustered together are not allowed to be separated. The objective here is to maintain a clustering the never deviates too far in the objective function compared to the optimal solution. We give a constant competitive upper bound for online clique clustering, where the objective function is to maximize the number of edges inside the clusters. We also give almost matching upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio for online clique clustering, where we want to minimize the number of edges between clusters. In addition, we prove that the greedy method only gives linear competitive ratio for these problems.
Pan-European urban climate services

Urban areas are very vulnerable to climate change impacts, because of the high concentration of people, infrastructure, and economic activity, but also because cities tend to exacerbate climate extremes such as heat waves and flash floods. The objective of the Pan-European Urban Climate Service (PUCS) project is to establish a service that translates the best available scientific urban climate data into relevant information for public and private end-users operating in cities. 

This will be achieved by demonstrating the benefits of urban climate information to end-users, considering the sectors of energy, cultural heritage, mobility, energy, health, and urban planning. During the first half of the 30-month project, end-users (included as partners) and climate service providers will be involved in the co-design/-development of six concrete sectoral cases, to be implemented in Antwerp, Barcelona, Bern, Prague, Rome, and Vienna. Each of these cases will be subject to a detailed socio-economic impact analysis, quantifying the benefits of using urban climate information. The second half of the project will focus on upscaling and market replication, initially aiming at the extension with six new cases, involving new (non-financed) end-users. Through a business development strategy, supported by dissemination and marketing activities, we ultimately aim at acquiring six more cases by the end of the project, involving new business intermediaries without PUCS project financing, and demonstrating the long-term market viability of the service. 

PUCS aims at a genuine market uptake of (urban) climate services, based on a distributed network of local business intermediaries throughout Europe, enhancing the awareness for urban climate-related issues in the end-user community, and converting (mature) research results into tailored added-value information, thus removing important barriers for the deployment of urban climate services.
Logistics and security of goods transport - Multi action project on the management of dangerous goods entering and leaving ports in the cooperation area.

This project involves a set of joint actions to define information, technological and training systems for dangerous goods monitoring, transport and handling procedures, as well as emergency protocols based on the results achieved with the LOSE project. LOSE+ concerns the traceability of dangerous goods in the IT-FR MARITIME cooperation area; it acts transversally on the actions of LOT 2, to complete what LOSE achieved and defined. The aim is to monitor in real-time the risk from such transport in marine areas near the coast, in port areas and backports, thus improving safety. The project addresses multiple cross-border needs, such as: a) creating/implementing appropriate ICT systems and tools to monitor the cross-border flow of goods on a continuous basis and transmit data/information to those who handle the goods, whether on land, at sea or in ports (transport chain continuity); b) codifying incidents at sea near the coast and in the port area and hinterland access roads (urban and extra-urban roads to the logistics platforms) based on the emergency forecasting and management system, and identifying those who operate in this space and their responsibilities; c) developing an ICT training support system for the management of risks and emergencies from transporting dangerous goods, so the knowledge of new technologies may be acquired and passed on.
Effects of forced copulations on female sexual attractiveness in fruit flies

Male fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) force-copulate with females during the females' short vulnerable period following eclosion. Although sexually immature at that time, the females produce viable progeny from forced copulations. While the females could gain fitness from remating with their chosen male when reaching sexual maturity, mating in female fruit flies is typically followed by a long period of reduced attractiveness and receptivity. To test whether forcibly mated females can overcome the typical effects of mating, we quantified the effects of consensual versus forced matings on female attractiveness and receptivity. Forcibly mated females were as attractive to males as same-age virgin females and more attractive than consensually mated females. The forcibly mated females, however, remated at lower frequencies than same-age virgin females but at higher frequencies than consensually mated females. Our results suggest an intriguing outcome of sexual conflict in which males can sire offspring with and reduce the receptivity of forcibly mated females, but these females can retain their attractiveness and partial receptivity to males.
Wireless visionaries for 2020

The industrial telecommunications sector stands currently at the forefront of a new era, which is marked by the transition to the new generation of wireless communications, namely the rise of 5G. With the recent explosion of the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet-of-Things applications, the internet traffic is growing exponentially. Future networks should support applications with extremely variant Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, from low throughput and generally medium delay (M2M) to very high throughput and low delay (high definition real-time video). These challenges have not been yet addressed in network deployment within buildings, resulting in very low quality mobile access perceived by indoor users. WiVi-2020 aims to develop an architectural framework and respective mechanisms for the next generation of indoor mobile/wireless communications. The goal is to investigate the deployment of heterogeneous Radio Access Technologies using the advances of Software Defined Radios/Networks with a specific aim to meet the end-to-end QoS requirements of differentiated services adopting the concept of Application Defined Networking. The need for advancement along these lines demands cutting edge research and development efforts with a strong focus on industrial requirements that pave the way towards 5G. WiVi-2020 mobilizes a joint industry-academic group towards training the next generation of researchers (or “visionaries”) in multidisciplinary areas, setting the foundations for future mobile communications. In this respect, WiVi-2020 will evolve from traditional specialized training on a narrow area adopting a strong research and doctoral training programme with the direct involvement of the industry for better matching public and private sector needs. This way, WiVi-2020 will create researchers who are highly-skilled in the production of novel fundamental knowledge, with the ability stimulate entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING LASER THERMAL KERATOPLASTY WITH MINIMIZED REGRESSION

Apparatus and method for performing laser thermal keratoplasty capable of treating treatment areas with shapes that reduce regression. Both contact and non-contact apparatuses and methods are provided. The apparatus includes laser sources, a projection optical system, observation system, and control system. In some embodiments, the projection system uses two steering mirrors or a mask to control laser beam position on the cornea. This projection system enables precise control of the area of corneal heat shrinkage using relatively low-powered lasers, such as diode lasers. Desired changes in corneal refractive power are produced by selected patterns of photothermal shrinkage of corneal collagen tissue. The selected patterns are arrangements of oblong shapes that are preferably tapered at the ends of the long axis. The oblong shape and tapering distribute tension in the cornea over a wider area of collagen shrinkage and improve the stability of refractive correction. The long axes of the oblong treatment areas are preferably oriented radially for hyperopia correction and circumferentially for astigmatism correction.
Transcultural perspective in art and art education

The project Transcultural Perspectives in Art and Art Education (TPAAE) aims to investigate contemporary art in Europe and East Africa, and forms of art education on both continents in transcultural perspective. Innovative in our approach will be setting up the theoretical and practical dialogue, recognizing mutual artistic and cultural influences between Europe and East Africa since times of Great Avant-garde until contemporary globalization; in the same time valuing cultural heritage and opening it for modern transformations for the sake of community and social development. The profound research in transcultural perspectives on art and art education will be realized within the TPAAE project by the Consortium containing academic and non-academic institutions from Poland, Italy, and Kenya. International and intersectoral mobility guarantees high level and effective sharing of knowledge. All the institutions investigate art, culture and cultural heritage and have various complementing each other competences, allowing for research and implementation of its effects into practice. Transcultural perspective is the response to the three main strategies for the reduction of otherness developed due to globalization: egocentrism, logocentrism and ethnocentrism, and is essential, today more than ever, to persuade individuals to appreciate cultural diversity and to recognize the importance of defending and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The TPAAE project will develop according to three lines, each having its specific goals: 1) theoretical - researching on relations between East African and European art, 2) academic - elaborating and implementing the programme in Fine Arts and Design at PUC in dialogue with European institutions, and 3) practical - supporting the development of art scene in the region in Kenya.