SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
An Algorithm to Estimate Thermal Radiance Centre in the Sky Hemisphere for Automotive Solar Sensor Validation

There is a solar sensor used in vehicles to estimate thermal radiance source position (azimuth and elevation) in the sky hemisphere and the amplitude of irradiance. That data is used for adjusting climate control systems for maximum passengers comfort in vehicle cabin. Producers of such sensors face the absence of standard on what is the position of radiance source in the sky hemisphere. Furthermore, current means to measure radiance distribution are very expensive. An algorithm was proposed to estimate thermal radiance center position, by means of standard DSLR camera equipped with fish-eye lens. The algorithm was put under test by implementing series of experiments. Result samples of the thermal radiance center estimated by sensor and by proposed algorithm where presented. Ill. 8, bibl. 5 (in English; abstracts in English and Lithuanian).http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.112.6.449
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its determinants in Australian adults aged 25 years and older: a national, population-based study

Vitamin D deficiency is recognized as a global public health problem, but the population-based prevalence of deficiency and its determinants in Australian adults is not known. This study evaluated the vitamin D status of Australian adults aged ≥25 years and risk factors associated with vitamin D deficiency in this population.We studied a national sample of 11,247 Australian adults enrolled in the 1999/2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study drawn from 42 randomly selected districts throughout Australia.Serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] were measured by immunoassay. Vitamin D deficiency was defined as a concentration <50 nmol/l. Information on demographic and lifestyle factors was derived from interview-administered questionnaires.The mean serum 25(OH)D concentration was 63 nmol/l (95% CI: 59-67 nmol/l). Only 4% of the population had a level <25 nmol/l, but the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (<50 nmol/l) was 31% (22% men; 39% women); 73% had levels <75 nmol/l. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency increased significantly with age, was greater in women, in those of non-Europid origin, in the obese and those who were physically inactive and with a higher level of education. Deficiency was also more common during winter and in people residing in southern Australia (latitude >35°S); 42% of women and 27% of men were deficient during summer-autumn, which increased to 58% and 35%, respectively, during winter-spring.Vitamin D deficiency is common in Australia affecting nearly one-third of adults aged ≥25 years. This indicates that strategies are needed at the population level to improve vitamin D status of Australians.
Utility Mining Algorithm for High Utility Item sets from Transactional Databases

The discovery of item sets with high utility like profits is referred by mining high utility item sets from a transactional database. Although in recent years a number of relevant algorithms have been proposed, for high utility item sets the problem of producing a large number of candidate item sets is incurred. The mining performance is degraded by such a large number of candidate item sets in terms of execution time and space requirement. When the database contains lots of long transactions or long high utility item sets the situation may become worse. Internet purchasing and transactions is increased in recent years, mining of high utility item sets especially from the big transactional databases is required task to process many day to day operations in quick time. There are many methods presented for mining the high utility item sets from large transactional datasets are subjected to some serious limitations such as performance of this methods needs to be investigated in low memory based systems for mining high utility itemsets from large transactional datasets and hence needs to address further as well. Another limitation is these proposed methods cannot overcome the screenings as well as overhead of null transactions; hence, performance degrades drastically. During this paper, we are presenting the new approach to overcome these limitations. We presented distributed programming model for mining business-oriented transactional datasets by using an improved Map Reduce framework on Hadoop, which overcomes not only the single processor and main memory-based computing, but also highly scalable in terms of increasing database size. We have used this approach with existing UP-Growth and UP-Growth+ with aim of improving their performances further. In experimental studies we will compare the performances of existing algorithms UP-Growth and UP-Growth+ against the improve UP-Growth and UP-Growth+ with Hadoop.
La externalización de los servicios de información turística en el contexto de la COVID-19

Spanish legislation allows public authorities to outsource the provision of certain services when they lack their own means to do so Thus, tourist information services are one of the services that authorities tend to outsource because tourism’s broad and flexible time margins cannot always be covered by the public sector. In addition, tourism has been one of the economic sectors hardest hit by the recent COVID‑19 pan‑ demic, with significant effects on employment, demand and the arrival of international tourists, among oth‑ ers. Thus, the general objective of this work is focused on analysing the effect that the COVID‑19 pandemic has had on the outsourcing of tourist information services. As such, an investigation has been designed that researches the tenders from the Spanish State Contract Platform from 2018 to 2020. The results seem to suggest a positive trend and that COVID‑19 has had a slight influence. The research also seems to indicate that public administrations do not use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) code adequately in their tender processes, although it seems to be being corrected.
The Profile of Pekalongan as a Center of Economic Growth at Tangkallangka Strategic Areas

This study aims to analyze leading sectors, economic interactions and development strategies of Pekalongan as center of economic growth at Tangkallangka Strategic Areas. Data used in this research are primary and secondary ones. Methods used for data collection are interviews, questionnaries and documentation. Data are then analyzed using Location Quotient (LQ), Growth Ratio Model (GRM), Overlay, Gravity, and SWOT Analysis. The results show that Pekalongan has some leading sectors which have competitive and comparable potentials in infrastructures, trades and finances. Pekalongan has the greatest spatial interaction with Batang. Aggressive strategies are used in developing Pekalongan. Keywords: Regional Development, Growth Center, Klassen Typological Analysis, J EL Classifications : B22; D60 ; O18
COMBINED BEAD LOADING AND APEX APPLICATION SYSTEM

A bead apex subassembly (2) which is formed simultaneously to the formation of a tire carcass (10) but independent of and spaced near the tire building machine (100) is disclosed. The subassembly (2) is transferred to the tire building drum (5) preassembled.
Integrating RENewable energy and Ecosystem Services in environmental and energy policies

Creating win-win solutions from trade-offs?

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), and recently the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy emphasizes that human well-being is tightly linked to environmental conditions through the delivery of Ecosystem Services (ES), and therefore good territorial environmental management could, in principle, also deliver better outcomes for people and environment, resulting in win-win solutions.

Low-carbon policies and Renewable Energy Sources (RES) development are challenged by the complexity of linkages between ecological, physical, social, and economic factors in relation to trade-offs and synergies between RES exploitation and the delivery of multiple ES. Generalizations and knowledge shortage lead to missing the acknowledgment of potential synergies between RES and ES within the governance and policy frameworks at territorial level.

The IRENES project will put in place interregional knowledge and experience exchange process to identify gaps and barriers within current ERDF and energy policy instruments in relation to the RES and ES co-relation, including environmental, social, economic, and governance concerns. The active commitment of Structural Funds Managing Authorities, and governing bodies of other policy instruments addressed in the project, is of paramount importance to integrate the potential RES development trade-offs and co-benefits with ES into the territorial development policies. Therefore, IRENES consortium priority is to communicate and dialogue WITH policy makers and not to policy makers in order to trigger the knowledge transfer and to inform, with scientific evidences on RES and Ecosystem Services, the decision makers about the potential of a win–win outcome that can be incorporated into the regional and national ERDF Operational programmes, energy and climate strategies and laws.

Let’s the IRENES stakeholders be the winners of the low-carbon policies challenges!
The Financial Foundations of the Productivity Puzzle

The financial crisis has led to a change in the mix of capital and labour employed in the UK and a sharp decline in total factor productivity. This has meant that labour productivity has not recovered to any great degree since the financial crisis. We explore the role of overall and sectoral productivity in explaining the fall in labour productivity, but also question the extent to which productivity in the service sector may be measured with error. We outline the links between a constrained financial sector and a fall in overall productivity – in which intangible capital seems to play an important role – and illustrate how a financial sector providing intermediate services may act to amplify the business cycle impetus from a total factor productivity shock within the context of a calibrated model.
Development of an Ontology for Periodontitis

In the clinical dentists and periodontal researchers' community, there is an obvious demand for a systems model capable of linking the clinical presentation of periodontitis to underlying molecular knowledge. A computer-readable representation of processes on disease development will give periodontal researchers opportunities to elucidate pathways and mechanisms of periodontitis. An ontology for periodontitis can be a model for integration of large variety of factors relating to a complex disease such as chronic inflammation in different organs accompanied by bone remodeling and immune system disorders, which has recently been referred to as osteoimmunology.Terms characteristic of descriptions related to the onset and progression of periodontitis were manually extracted from 194 review articles and PubMed abstracts by experts in periodontology. We specified all the relations between the extracted terms and constructed them into an ontology for periodontitis. We also investigated matching between classes of our ontology and that of Gene Ontology Biological Process.We developed an ontology for periodontitis called Periodontitis-Ontology (PeriO). The pathological progression of periodontitis is caused by complex, multi-factor interrelationships. PeriO consists of all the required concepts to represent the pathological progression and clinical treatment of periodontitis. The pathological processes were formalized with reference to Basic Formal Ontology and Relation Ontology, which accounts for participants in the processes realized by biological objects such as molecules and cells. We investigated the peculiarity of biological processes observed in pathological progression and medical treatments for the disease in comparison with Gene Ontology Biological Process (GO-BP) annotations. The results indicated that peculiarities of Perio existed in 1) granularity and context dependency of both the conceptualizations, and 2) causality intrinsic to the pathological processes. PeriO defines more specific concepts than GO-BP, and thus can be added as descendants of GO-BP leaf nodes. PeriO defines causal relationships between the process concepts, which are not shown in GO-BP. The difference can be explained by the goal of conceptualization: PeriO focuses on mechanisms of the pathogenic progress, while GO-BP focuses on cataloguing all of the biological processes observed in experiments. The goal of conceptualization in PeriO may reflect the domain knowledge where a consequence in the causal relationships is a primary interest. We believe the peculiarities can be shared among other diseases when comparing processes in disease against GO-BP.This is the first open biomedical ontology of periodontitis capable of providing a foundation for an ontology-based model of aspects of molecular biology and pathological processes related to periodontitis, as well as its relations with systemic diseases. PeriO is available at http://bio-omix.tmd.ac.jp/periodontitis/.
Abstract P3-10-10: Progesterone Receptor-Negative Status Predicts Poorer Outcomes in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Patients Treated with Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators

Introduction: While estrogen receptor (ER) status has been used as the primary factor influencing the use of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), a number of ER-positive patients will relapse on this therapy. It has been postulated that SERM-resistance may be modulated by aberrant growth factor signaling, for which progesterone receptor (PR) status may be a surrogate. PR status, however, is frequently not considered as a strong prognostic or predictive marker in ER-positive patients. We sought to define the effect of PR-status on outcomes in such patients treated with SERMs. Methods: The North American Fareston versus Tamoxifen Adjuvant (NAFTA) Trial is an investigator-initiated, multicenter, prospective trial that randomized patients with resected hormone-receptor positive breast cancers to receive either adjuvant tamoxifen (20 mg po daily) or toremifene (60 mg po daily) for five years. Between July 1998 and December 2002, 1692 ER-positive positive patients were randomized. PR was missing for 15 patients. The remaining 1677 (1424 PR-positive and 253 PR-negative) patients formed the cohort of interest for this analysis. The impact of PR status on overall (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) was assessed using Kaplan Meier and Cox Proportional Hazards modeling. Results: The median patient age was 67 (range; 41-100) with a median tumor size of 1.2 cm (range; 0.01-14.00 cm). PR-positive status was correlated with node-negative disease (91.3% vs. 87.0%, p=0.035) and low grade tumors (34.9% vs. 27.7%, p=0.009), but was not associated with tumor size (p=0.533) or patient age (p=0.067). With a median follow-up of 59 months, the 5-year actuarial OS and DFS of PR-negative patients was significantly worse than that of PR-positive patients (88.5% vs. 94.3%, p=0.009 and 86.1% vs. 92.5%, p=0.003, respectively). Controlling for tumor size, grade and lymph node status, PR-negative status continued to predict worse DFS (OR=1.561; 95% CI: 1.013-2.406, p=0.043), although it lost significance in terms of OS (OR=1.619; 95% CI: 0.980-2.674, p=0.060). Conclusion: PR-negative status is an independent predictor of worse DFS in ER-positive patients treated with SERMs. These data support the hypothesis that PR-negative status may signal a higher rate of SERM-resistance, and should be considered in adjuvant therapy decisionmaking. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2010;70(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P3-10-10.
Crowdsourcing urban sustainability governance. exploring innovative governance models for addressing urban sustainability through ict-people interaction

The project explores the potential of crowdsourcing (an online, distributed problem-solving process for creative solutions
development) to advance innovative urban sustainability governance (USG) models. It is intended to investigate whether and
how crowdsourcing can be appropriate for:
- dealing with the mutable, multi-scalar and complex character of urban sustainability (including environmental protection and
democracy provisions);
- activating real participatory processes in knowledge production and decision-making;
- empowering technological agency of heterogeneous actor-networks for narrowing the gap between research results and policy applications.
Research hypothesis are tested against evidences collected through investigation on the city of Ghent (Belgium), whose
commitment for achieving urban sustainability goals through people’s participation, technological development and public-private partnerships makes it a forefront example in the European panorama. Actor-Network Theory framework and
Scenario Building analysis are adopted for modelling current material-semiotic fluxes in USG; and for prefiguring
future social, political and economic development determined by the introduction of crowdsourcing processes. Scientific
results will include:
- the assessment of the most appropriate crowdsourcing processes for citizens, administrations and business to
collaboratively produce an innovative USG model;
- the provision of policy-suggestions for the implementation of crowdsourcing-based participatory processes for USG in the
context of European cities.
Scientific and logistic support for the research will be provided by the Centre for Sustainable Development at Ghent University, whose leading experience on sustainable cities, transition governance, scenarios-building and future studies will
provide applicant with the necessary expertise and assistance for establishing a European academic career in science,
technology and society studies.
ION SOURCES FOR MASS SPECTROMETERS

1328882 Ion sources UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY 28 April 1971 [6 May 1970] 21955/70 Heading H1D An ion source for a mass spectrometer comprises an ionizing region 1, and successively spaced therefrom, a first electrode 3, a second electrode 4, a focusing electrode 5 and a collimating electrode 6, all said electrodes having slits for the passage of ions, the arrangement being such that after a cross-over in the plane of the first electrode 3, a virtual image is formed on the incident side of the second electrode 4, from which electrode a divergent beam leaves and is acted upon by focusing electrode 5 to provide at the collimating electrode 6 a beam whose width is only slightly greater than the width of the slit therein. At the collimating slit the beam may form a real image or be slightly divergent.
Silicon carbide semiconductor device manufacturing method

A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: preparing a silicon carbide semiconductor including a first surface having at least a portion into which an impurity is implanted; forming a second surface thereof by cleaning said first surface of said silicon carbide semiconductor; forming a silicon-containing film on said second surface; and forming an oxide film constituting the silicon carbide semiconductor device, by oxidizing said silicon-containing film, said first surface being cleaned by means of a process for forming an oxide film on said first surface using at least one of a solution containing oxygen, thermal oxidation in an atmosphere containing oxygen gas, and oxygen plasma, and then removing said oxide film.
Weight misperception and its association with dieting methods and eating behaviors in South Korean adolescents

There is little information on the association between weight misperception and eating behavior in Korean adolescents. Therefore, we investigated the association of food intake habits and dieting method and disturbed eating behavior (DEB) in relation to weight misperception.Data was collected by using a nationwide online panel survey from 6,943 adolescents enrolled in middle/high school. DEB was measured with the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and those who scored ≥ 20 on the EAT-26 were considered to have eating disorder. Logistic regressions were conducted to examine the association between weight misperception based on self-reported weight status and dieting method and eating behaviors.The proportion of weight underestimation was 23.5% and that of overestimation was 24.0%. Weight overestimating girls were more likely to engage in various unhealthy dieting practices (OR = 1.69 for fasting; OR = 1.88 for laxative or diuretic use; OR = 2.05 for self-induced vomiting after meals; P < 0.05). Moreover, there was a strong association between overestimation and undesirable eating behaviors, especially among girls, e.g.: having breakfast (OR = 0.85), high consumption of fast foods (OR = 1.28) and regular sodas (OR = 1.39), but not among boys. In both genders, weight overestimation appears to be a major risk factor for DEB (OR = 1.34 for boys and OR = 1.41 for girls; P < 0.05).[corrected] Weight overestimation is associated with unhealthy weight control practices and eating behaviors. We particularly found a significant association between weight overestimation and DEB among nationwide Korean adolescents.
Environmental Rehabilitation of brownfield Sites in central Europe

The European Environment Agency estimates that polluting activities (40% due to industries) have occurred in about 3 million sites in Europe & that “data on the redevelopment of brownfields are patchy & hardly comparable, reflecting the lack of a common definition of the problem across Europe”. Territorial analyses carried out by prominent networks (e.g. Cabernet) show that the issue of brownfield development outlines a core topic for the CE area. GreenerSites seeks to improve the environmental management of unused/underused industrial areas through the definition of strategies & tools based on a sustainable integrated approach to make involved Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) cleaner, healthier & more liveable places. Thanks to the project, PPs will bring about a shared & enhanced knowledge on integrated environmental management of brownfields, reinforced capacities of the public sector to plan & carry out brownfield regeneration, well-defined sustainability measures & tools to ensure viability & effectiveness of environmental planning. GreenerSites will build on know-how from previous EU projects & existing networks & will apply an innovative integrated approach which takes into account the whole FUA (9 FUAs involved for a total of 6 million citizens) & the need to reconcile effective environmental quality with necessary economic development. Main outputs will be a common tool for brownfield regeneration stemming from the preliminary analyses conducted in 9 CE FUAs; 9 Strategic Action Plans defined in two steps (joint concept and full definition at FUA level after pilot phase); 11 pilot actions (PAs) testing more sustainable & novel technical solutions in brownfields to improve their environmental performance; a full training package for public employees and stakeholders; a Common transferability manual. Transnational added value of the project will be the elaboration of common tools, the definition of the innovative approach & its pilot application in 9 FUAs.