SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Detecting device for the gaseous state in a nuclear reactor.

A device for detecting the presence of a gaseous phase in the tank of a nuclear reactor closed by a cover on which a plurality of vertical tubes are fixed for adapting the control rod actuating mechanism of the reactor, the adapter tubes not provided with mechanisms being closed by a plug. A plurality of ultrasonic emitter-receivers are fixed to the upper surface of the plugs of at least a part of the adapter tubes, so that each emitter-receiver directs an ultrasonic beam to the inside of the tank parallel to the axis of the corresponding tube, the latter being provided with at least one reflector placed inside the tube in the path of the ultrasonic beam. The invention is especially applicable to reactors cooled by pressurized water.
Rescoop plus

REScoop Plus built on the knowledge and network of the REScoop 20-20-20 project. An interesting additional observation made in the project was that members of supplying REScoops change their behaviour reducing final energy consumption and investing money to produce RESenergy. The aim of the REScoop PLUS is therefore to get a better understanding and foster this behavioural change. It will identify and measure the best practices, share their knowledge, improve their activities in in their citizen’s engagement and energy efficiency actions and disseminate them to other supplying REScoops in Europe.   

The objective of REScoop PLUS is to make REScoops in Europe go beyond their activities of producing and supplying energy and take up energy savings for their members as a new pillar in their organisation. The largest supplying energy REScoops in Europe have recently taken up this task in several experimental projects, with different rates of success for different measures and geographies. The aim is now to go beyond the experimental phase and create a toolkit with a range of best practice products like communication tools, ICT tools for better measurements or new business models that support energy savings of consumers/members by changing the behaviour of consumers that are ready for market uptake by REScoops to implement into their organisation in order to reduce the CO2 footprint of their members.
THE HALO MASSES AND GALAXY ENVIRONMENTS OF HYPERLUMINOUS QSOs AT<i>z</i>≃ 2.7 IN THE KECK BARYONIC STRUCTURE SURVEY

We present an analysis of the galaxy distribution surrounding 15 of the most luminous (>10^{14} L_sun; M_1450 ~ -30) QSOs in the sky with z~2.7. Our data are drawn from the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey (KBSS). In this work, we use the positions and spectroscopic redshifts of 1558 galaxies that lie within ~3', (4.2 h^{-1} comoving Mpc; cMpc) of the hyperluminous QSO (HLQSO) sightline in one of 15 independent survey fields, together with new measurements of the HLQSO systemic redshifts. We measure the galaxy-HLQSO cross-correlation function, the galaxy-galaxy autocorrelation function, and the characteristic scale of galaxy overdensities surrounding the sites of exceedingly rare, extremely rapid, black hole accretion. On average, the HLQSOs lie within significant galaxy overdensities, characterized by a velocity dispersion sigma_v ~ 200 km s^{-1} and a transverse angular scale of ~25", (~200 physical kpc). We argue that such scales are expected for small groups with log(M_h/M_sun)~13. The galaxy-HLQSO cross-correlation function has a best-fit correlation length r_0_GQ = (7.3 \pm 1.3) h^{-1} cMpc, while the galaxy autocorrelation measured from the spectroscopic galaxy sample in the same fields has r_0_GG = (6.0 \pm 0.5) h^{-1} cMpc. Based on a comparison with simulations evaluated at z ~ 2.6, these values imply that a typical galaxy lives in a host halo with log(M_h/M_sun) = 11.9\pm0.1, while HLQSOs inhabit host halos of log(M_h/M_sun) = 12.3\pm0.5. In spite of the extremely large black hole masses implied by their observed luminosities [log(M_BH/M_sun) > 9.7], it appears that HLQSOs do not require environments very different from their much less luminous QSO counterparts. Evidently, the exceedingly low space density of HLQSOs (< 10^{-9} cMpc^{-3}) results from a one-in-a-million event on scales << 1 Mpc, and not from being hosted by rare dark matter halos.
Study of Surface Profile of Rotary Blades

Wear of soil engaging components occurs because the materials used are normally softer than the natural abrasives in the soil. Most of blades of rotavator are manufactured locally which are hardly at par with the standards in terms of material, shape and size which affects operational life of rotary tool. So, there was a need to study wear characteristics of rotary blades so as to provide the proper blades in the rotary tools. Study was conducted in rotary soil bin in loamy soil and sandy loam soil. L-Shape blade of four different makes was mounted on the two flanges and their speed varied from 140-150 rpm. Two rollers along their stand were mounted on soil bin for compressing the soil upto 4.5 - 5.0 kg/cm2 compaction. The width of rotary blades was measured before and after the wear test. The profile change of rotary blades can also be used to determine the wear characteristics of tillage tools. The decrease in width of blade T1,T2, T3 and T4 at starting point of blade section were 10.65%, 13.95%, 3.68% and 4.36 %, respectively in loam soil while the decrease in width of blade T1,T2,T3 and T4 at starting point of blade section were 15.10%, 17.10%, 13.50% and 18.65 %, respectively in sandy loam soil.
Vacuum medical device for safe and gentle cervix grasping gynecological applications

For years, gynecologist practices related to Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device (IUCD) insertions, curettage and several other common indications, have featured poor care and low attention to female patients. The use of the Tenaculum, grasping and pulling on the cervix, inside the vaginal cavity, proved to be painful and traumatic for 84% of the women, and eventually to trigger lesions and bleeding in 29% of the patients, as well as cross-contamination in 5-10% of the women. These disadvantages refrain the use of IUCD contraceptive which exacerbates the unintended pregnancies, sized yearly in 85 mills and representing billions of euros in social costs worldwide.
In response, we have developed Aspivix, a new disruptive gynecological device that reduces the pain and eradicates the bleeding during the exploration procedure. Our patented device will replace the Tenaculum forceps, unchanged for over 100 years, to provide gynecologists an easy-to-use device where gentle and firm cervix uterus grasping and traction is needed. Thus, our device will facilitate the adoption of IUCD, which could avoid up to 8% of unintended pregnancies and reduce derived social costs. Besides, Aspivix is intended for a single use which prevents the risk of contamination and cross-infection. Overall, Aspivix has the potential to shorten the intervention procedure (2 steps instead 7), which will represent for the physician a 28% economic benefit. As result, Aspivix will fulfill the needs of more than 64 M of women worldwide/year, a market that is projected to grow at a CAGR2016-2021 of ~6.5% due to the high demand of IUCD insertions and is valued in more than €350M. In this way, thanks to the sales of 22M units in the European, Asian and North American Markets after 5-years, Aspivix will generate cumulative revenues of nearly €80 M and, considering the total investment of €3.6M, a return of investment (ROI) of €8.3 per euro invested.
Apameia on the Euphrates, Macedonoupolis and Seleucid Forms of Political and Territorial Control

Résumé À travers l’analyse de deux poleis , Apamée sur l’Euphrate et Macedonoupolis, situées dans la partie occidentale de la Mygdonie mésopotamienne, nous tenons à mettre en évidence les stratégies de contrôle territorial utilisées aussi bien par Alexandre le Grand que par les Séleucides. Si le système administratif des satrapies achéménides a été maintenu, de nouvelles poleis aux nomes macédoniens ou séleucides ont été fondées, ex nihilo ou sur des sites préexistants, qui ont transféré l’organisation hiérarchique territoriale typique de la polis , la chôra politike , au nord de la Mésopotamie. De même, la chôra basilike , c’est à dire, les zones du territoire royal interposées entre les poleis , a été également maintenue. Dans les espaces semi-désertiques, où vivaient des populations semi-nomades, et le contrôle direct n’était pas possible, une stratégie de négociation continue fut adoptée. Ainsi, Apamée sur l’Euphrate et Macedonoupolis fournissent un exemple clair de la flexibilité qui a joué un rôle tellement important dans le contrôle politique, militaire, fiscal et économique que le royaume séleucide a réussi à exercer. Cela permet également d’expliquer la consolidation et la continuité de la dynastie séleucide elle-même.
Intracellular Adenosine Triphosphate Deprivation through Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles

Growing interest in lanthanide-doped nanoparticles for biological and medical uses has brought particular attention to their safety concerns. However, the intrinsic toxicity of this new class of optical nanomaterials in biological systems has not been fully evaluated. In this work, we systematically evaluate the long-term cytotoxicity of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles (NaGdF4 and NaYF4) to HeLa cells by monitoring cell viability (mitochondrial activity), adenosine triphosphate (ATP) level, and cell membrane integrity (lactate dehydrogenase release), respectively. Importantly, we find that ligand-free lanthanide-doped nanoparticles induce intracellular ATP deprivation of HeLa cells, resulting in a significant decrease in cell viability after exposure for 7 days. We attribute the particle-induced cell death to two distinct cell death pathways, autophagy and apoptosis, which are primarily mediated via the interaction between the nanoparticle and the phosphate group of cellular ATP. The understanding gained from the investigation of cytotoxicity associated with lanthanide-doped nanoparticles provides keen insights into the safe use of these nanoparticles in biological systems.
Plasma Exchange for Renal Vasculitis and Idiopathic Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis: A Meta-analysis

Plasma exchange may be effective adjunctive treatment for renal vasculitis. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of plasma exchange for renal vasculitis.Systematic review and meta-analysis of articles identified from electronic databases, bibliographies, and studies identified by experts. Data were abstracted in parallel by 2 reviewers.Adults with idiopathic renal vasculitis or rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.Randomized controlled trials that compared standard care with standard care plus adjuvant plasma exchange in adult patients with either renal vasculitis or idiopathic rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.Adjuvant plasma exchange.Composite of end-stage renal disease or death.We identified 9 trials including 387 patients. In a fixed-effects model, the pooled RR for end-stage renal disease or death was 0.80 for patients treated with adjunctive plasma exchange compared with standard care alone (95% CI, 0.65-0.99; P = 0.04). No significant heterogeneity was detected (P = 0.5; I(2) = 0%). The effect of plasma exchange did not differ significantly across the range of baseline serum creatinine values (P = 0.7) or number of plasma exchange treatments (P = 0.8). The RR for end-stage renal disease was 0.64 (95% CI, 0.47-0.88; P = 0.006), whereas the RR for death alone was 1.01 (95% CI, 0.71-1.4; P = 0.9).Although the primary result was statistically significant, there is insufficient statistical information to reliably determine whether plasma exchange decreases the composite of end-stage renal disease or death.Plasma exchange may decrease the composite end point of end-stage renal disease or death in patients with renal vasculitis. Additional trials are required given the limited data available.
(7161.24052017.110000319) DANIELE FIESOLI SÜDKOREA

DAS PROJEKT ZIELT DARAUF AB, DIE PRÄSENZ AUF DEN INTERNATIONALEN MÄRKTEN DES UNTERNEHMENS ZU ERHÖHEN, INDEM ERHEBLICHE RESSOURCEN INVESTIERT WERDEN, UM SEINE SICHTBARKEIT ZU VERBESSERN? BLEIBEN SIE AUF DEM KOREANISCHEN MARKT. IN DER TAT, KOREA? EINER DER MÄRKTE, AUF DENEN DIE MARKE MADE IN ITALY GROSSES PRESTIGE GENIESST UND DAHER? EIN AUSGEREIFTER MARKT IDEAL FÜR EXPORTE VON IMPRESA.THE KOMMERZIELLE PROJEKTION VON ITALIENISCHEN UNTERNEHMEN AUF DEM KOREANISCHEN MARKT HAT SICH IN DEN LETZTEN ZEHN JAHREN KONSOLIDIERT, UND DER HANDEL IST HEUTE DIE GRÖSSTE GRÖSSE? DIE NEIGUNG DER KOREANISCHEN VERBRAUCHER, IHRE PRÄFERENZEN NICHT NUR AUFGRUND DER TECHNISCHEN SPEZIFIKATIONEN DER PRODUKTE ZU ORIENTIEREN, SONDERN AUCH DIE BEACHTUNG VON MERKMALEN WIE ANGENEHMHEIT UND TRENDIGEM DESIGN BEGÜNSTIGT DAS POTENZIAL DER ITALIENISCHEN PRODUKTIONEN.IN ZUSÄTZLICH BEGÜNSTIGT DAS FREIHANDELSABKOMMEN ZWISCHEN DER EU UND KOREA, DAS SEIT 2011 IN BETRIEB IST, DIE SOFORTIGE ABSCHAFFUNG DER PFLICHT VON 13 % FÜR DIE MEHRHEIT DER PROFIS.
Refresher course in the catering sector - Waiting staff organization and management

The project aims at creating a training course in the field of tourism to broaden the knowledge and enhance the skills of restaurant/café waiting staff. The course targets unemployed persons with a background in the tourist accommodationrestaurants sector from the eligible Italian and Slovenian cross-border Programme area. It consists of a number of seminars, workshops and apprenticeships with special emphasis on catering activities, in order to broaden and strengthen the tourist sector in the crossborder area. The restaurant waiting professional is a qualified worker who is able to deal seriously and autonomously - in the context of restaurants and commercial activities- with waiting at table and serving and selling food and beverages. According to company guidelines and in compliance with the relevant legislation in force, this figure is charged with the preparation and decoration of dining rooms and tables, with welcoming and advising the client, serving and executing particular operations in the presence of clients (e.g. to flambé, to cut,...), participating in the drawing up of beverages and wines lists and serving at banquets, preparing bills, receiving and dealing with complaints, etc. In this sense the project intends to contribute to the creation of a territorial network that is attentive to the needs of tourism and, particularly, to prepare qualified and skilled professionals in the cross-border labour market in the field of quality catering services and accommodation.
Studies of MYRRHA using thorium fuel

The problem of long-lived radioactive waste has yet to find an acceptable solution, with political opposition to geological storage remaining strong. One possible solution which has often been discussed is to use ADSR systems for its incineration. The advantages of thorium as a fuel in this process are obvious, but few detailed numerical studies have been performed. We investigate the potential for using a thorium fuelled subcritical reactor for the incineration of long-lived minor actinide radioactive waste, based on the well-developed MYRRHA reactor design, operating in sub-critical mode. We examine the neutron fluxes and spectra in the reactor, particularly in the In-Pile Section (IPS) regions that would be appropriate for such transmutation, comparing the result from thorium fuel rods with those of the standard uranium/plutonium fuel. From this we present the burn-up rates that would be achieved, both initially and in the longer term as 233U is formed.
Incremental sound change in oslo (isc-oslo)

The project ""Incremental Sound Change in Oslo"" (ISC-Oslo) will investigate the socio-demographic origins of five ongoing phonetic changes in a post-hoc phonetic analysis of two corpora from the early 2000s. 

Working-class children and youth have been identified as one of the main sources of language change. Their lexical, syntactic or phonetic innovations are often disregarded by non-linguists as slang, but it has been shown that these innovations can lead to change within pre-existing dialects and even new social dialects. Due to the fact that these innovations often at first escape social monitoring, this process is referred to by Labov as ""changes from below"" and has been identified in a number of urban studies.

The most common – yet, elusive – changes from below are phonetic. These types of changes accumulate generation after generation and result in the evolution of new dialects and languages. What is poorly understood, however, is the role of multiethnolects in this process. These are new varieties formed by the ethnically diverse speakers in Europe’s urban neighborhoods. Like many European cities, Oslo is witnessing the emergence of a new working-class sociolect spoken by the second and third generation descendants of non-western labor and refugee migrants.

Multiethnolects have typically been examined within the lens of youth argot or second-language acquisition. ISC-Oslo, however, takes a different point of departure. It seeks to apply Labov’s theory on speakers of multiethnolects, who often have the same socioeconomic profiles as the innovators describes in his studies. 

The main focus of ISC-Oslo will be twofold. First it would develop an automatic phonetic aligner to phonetically annotate two large corpora collected in the early 2000s. Second, it would analyze the production of five innovative features that are circulating today to identify whether they originated from youth of migrant origin in the early 2000s.
Spheroidal Carbonaceous Fly Ash Particles Provide a Globally Synchronous Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene

Human impacts on Earth are now so great that they have led to the concept of a new geological epoch defined by this global human influence: the Anthropocene. While not universally accepted, the term is increasingly popular and widely used. However, even among proponents, there is considerable debate regarding when the epoch may have started, from coeval with the Holocene, through the Industrial Revolution, to the mid-20th century when unprecedented human activities resulted in exponential increases in population, resource consumption, and pollutant emission. Recently, this latter period, known as the Great Acceleration, appears to be becoming the more widely accepted start date. To define any start point, a global stratigraphic marker or Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) is typically required. Here, spheroidal carbonaceous fly ash particles (SCPs), byproducts of industrial fossil-fuel combustion, are proposed as a primary marker for a GSSP at the time of the Great Acceleration. Data from over 75 lake sediment records show a global, synchronous, and dramatic increase in particle accumulation starting in c. 1950 driven by the increased demand for electricity and the introduction of fuel-oil combustion, in addition to coal, as a means to produce it. SCPs are morphologically distinct and solely anthropogenic in origin, providing an unambiguous marker. This is a clear signal of great stratigraphic utility representing a primary driving force for global anthropogenic change.
WILD FREQUENCY AVIONIC REFRIGERATION SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR

A wild frequency avionic refrigeration system and a controller therefore are provided. One embodiment of the refrigeration system includes: a refrigeration LRU including a vapor cycle system with a brushless DC compressor motor, a brushless DC condenser motor, a brushless DC evaporator motor and a plurality of sensors configured to output operating parameter data relative to the vapor cycle system; a power module configured to convert a wild frequency AC input voltage to at least one DC output voltage; a motor control module in communication with the brushless DC compressor, condenser and evaporator motors; and a processing module in communication with the plurality of sensors and the motor control module, wherein the processing module, according to the operating parameter data, outputs control signals to the motor control module for independently driving the brushless DC compressor, condenser and evaporator motors.
Challenges in Modeling Pheromone Capture by Pectinate Antennae

Insect pectinate antennae are very complex objects and studying how they capture pheromone is a challenging mass transfer problem. A few works have already been dedicated to this issue and we review their strengths and weaknesses. In all cases, a common approach is used: the antenna is split between its macro- and microstructure. Fluid dynamics aspects are solved at the highest level of the whole antenna first, that is, the macrostructure. Then, mass transfer is estimated at the scale of a single sensillum, that is, the microstructure. Another common characteristic is the modeling of sensilla by cylinders positioned transversal to the flow. Increasing efforts in faithfully modeling the geometry of the pectinate antenna and their orientation to the air flow are required to understand the major advantageous capture properties of these complex organs. Such a model would compare pectinate antennae to cylindrical ones and may help to understand why such forms of antennae evolved so many times among Lepidoptera and other insect orders.
Policies Against Depopulation in Mountain Areas

Depopulation in rural areas is not a recent phenomenon but it is also a growing problem -in 2025 about 90 European regions are expected to fall under demographic decline. The problem is more outstanding in mountainous areas where living conditions are extreme and geography and remoteness propitiates isolation. The PADIMA project main aim is to contribute to the improvement of the Regional Policies against depopulation in mountain areas (PADIMAs) through the exchange of good practices for maintaining and increasing population in mountain areas. A partnership covering a diversity of areas facing depopulation will facilitate the exchange of innovation as some of the policies implemented in the far Northern region of Buskerud in Norway are fully innovative in the Southern Spanish region of Teruel and vice versa.
Members of PADIMA partnership face depopulation in mountains with different degrees of development. Some participating regions are at the peak of demographic decline and have already implemented successful practices for prevention and reaction whereas other partners are at the first stages of depopulation and urgently need to benefit from the experience and policies previously implemented in similar European areas. A partnership seminar held in December 2008 in Spain set forth the potentialities in sharing and exchanging policy initiatives that the partners could contribute with and benefit from. A first appraisal of the partner’s good practices was made, showing that these practices could all be classified into three main action lines all coherent with the project sub-theme: Employment, Human Capital and Education.
The project approaches depopulation in mountain areas from three key pillar Policies distributed into three thematic WP led by the partners depending on their experience and know-how: Education and training, Economical diversification and Territorial Marketing. Each of these WPs has 4 main outputs:
- a collection of case studies and good practices
- an inter-regional thematic seminar on the Policy tackled aiming at discussing the information collected and its relevance to each partner's policy
- a study visit
- a good practice guide with recommendations for integration of these practices in regional policies
A 4th WP on integrated approach is meant to compile the 3 themes into recommendations for integrated policy against depopulation and enhance integration at regional level.
The expected result is an improvment of the Regional Policies against depopulation in maintaining and increasing population in European mountain areas.