SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Isoproterenol and aminophylline improve contractility of fatigued canine diaphragm.

We investigated the effects of aminophylline and isoproterenol on diaphragmatic fatigue produced by phrenic stimulation in dogs. With a cast around the abdomen, the diaphragm contracted quasi-isometrically while the thorax was open and the animal was ventilated. We assessed contractility by measuring transdiaphragmatic pressure during supramaximal stimulation of the phrenic nerves at different frequencies and also during spontaneous inspiratory efforts. At doses of 20, 40, and 80 mg/kg, aminophylline significantly improved contractility (p less than 0.01) in a dose-dependent manner during low, but not during high frequency stimulation. The maximal improvement (24%) was observed with 80 mg/kg. With intravenously administered doses of 5 and 10 micrograms/min of isoproterenol, contractility was also significantly enhanced (p less than 0.05) during low frequency stimulation. Maximal improvement (12%) occurred with 5 micrograms/min. Similar results were obtained when spontaneous inspiratory efforts were recorded and transdiaphragmatic pressure was compared at a given diaphragmatic electrical activity before and after administration of each drug. Maximal improvement was 23% with aminophylline and 11% with isoproterenol. Analysis of twitch characteristics revealed that peak tension was increased significantly (p less than 0.025) by both drugs. In addition, isoproterenol caused a marked decrease in the time course of relaxation. We conclude that aminophylline and isoproterenol improve contractility of the fatigued diaphragm by increasing the amplitude of the underlying small twitch. Furthermore, the smaller effect of isoproterenol may be the result of reduced relaxation time of the twitch.
Austro-Hungarian Public Building Refurbishment and Energy Efficiency Measures – A Case Study on a Public Building in Sarajevo

Among other pieces of architectural historical heritage in Sarajevo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina in general, the Austro-Hungarian architecture has preserved its original architectural, artistic and engineering characteristics. Both residential and public representative urban blocks, streets and squares are of distinguishable ambience in the architectural and urban image of the city and are testifying about our architectural past. A number of buildings is valorised and protected by law in terms of their architectural, artistic and historical value. In addition, these buildings have a distinct functional, ambiental, historical, and even aesthetical value. To make them last longer, refurbishment of these buildings is challenging and presents potential and multiple benefits for the city, and beyond. Refurbishing built environment through functional reorganizing, redesign and energy efficiency measures applications could result in prolonged longevity, architectural identity preservation and interior comfort improvement. Besides, implemented measures for energy efficiency, through the refurbishment process, should optimize the needs for energy consumption in treated buildings. This paper defines options in comfort improvements and redesign, without implying risks to the building longevity, analyses interventions and energy efficiency measures which would enable potential energy saving assessment in the refurbishment process of masonry buildings. This paper also discusses the different techniques that can be adopted for conservation and preservation of historical masonry buildings from the Austro-Hungarian period dealing with energy efficiency. The works were preceded by historical research and on-site investigations. This paper describes a methodology to quantify their vulnerability. A scheme of structural retrofitting is suggested following the research conducted. Revitalization of the building consisted in the reconstruction of the old building structure, creating the inner courtyard and covering it with a glass roof.
LOCAL AGENDA 21 IN TERRITORIAL PLANNING IN ENERGY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

Agenda 21 (Ag21) is an action plan of the United Nations (UN) related to sustainable development resulting from the Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally, and locally by organisations of the UN, governments, and major groups in every area in which humans directly affect the environment. In the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, LOCAL AGENDA 21 project addresses two major challenges related to Ag21 in the energy and waste management domain: translate Ag21 principles into action through a participatory approach and support the transition of Ag21 from national to local agendas with the aim of fully integrating Ag21 principles in territorial planning strategies.
Command user interface for displaying selectable functionality controls in a database applicaiton

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls of a database application. When a task-based functionality tab is selected from the user interface, selectable functionality controls provided by the associated database application for performing aspects of a task related to the selected tab are presented in a ribbon-shaped user interface above a workspace in which a user is entering or editing data. Upon selection of a different task-based functionality tab, the presentation of functionality controls associated with the first task is removed, and selectable functionality controls associated with the second selected task-based functionality tab are presented in the user interface. The selectable functionality controls presented in the user interface are grouped into logical groupings for more efficient utilization. An extensibility model is provided for allowing users to develop and use customized user interfaces and to allow utilization of legacy user interfaces.
Flux in Porous Media with Memory: Models and Experiments

The classic constitutive equation relating fluid flux to a gradient in potential (pressure head plus gravitational energy) through a porous medium was discovered by Darcy in the mid 1800s. This law states that the flux is proportional to the pressure gradient. However, the passage of the fluid through the porous matrix may cause a local variation of the permeability. For example, the flow may perturb the porous formation by causing particle migration resulting in pore clogging or chemically reacting with the medium to enlarge the pores or diminish the size of the pores. In order to adequately represent these phenomena, we modify the constitutive equations by introducing a memory formalism operating on both the pressure gradient–flux and the pressure–density variations. The memory formalism is then represented with fractional order derivatives. We perform a number of laboratory experiments in uniformly packed columns where a constant pressure is applied on the lower boundary. Both homogeneous and heterogeneous media of different characteristic particle size dimension were employed. The low value assumed by the memory parameters, and in particular by the fractional order, demonstrates that memory is largely influencing the experiments. The data and theory show how mechanical compaction can decrease permeability, and consequently flux.
Cammino tra natura e spiritualita

On the Italian side, the project involves the Antrona and Bognanco Valleys, Domodossola and the Sacro Monte Calvario Special Reserve (part of the UNESCO heritage). On the Suisse side the Saas valley, Saas Almagell, Saas Grund, Saas Balen, Saas Fee "Vie delle cappelle – chapel path" (UNESCO heritage) are involved. The project’s purpose is to promote spiritual tourism as the means to help seasonal adjustment and to improve the areas’ attractiveness. This shall be obtained by offering hiking/pilgrimage itineraries in high mountain areas that will combine visits to spiritual/religious art sites with the opportunity of multicultural confrontation (through the meeting of different religions). All this will take place in a natural and extremely fascinating setting. This is a project aimed at the development of sustainable tourism based on rediscovering the existing heritage, creating social, as well as economic value.
Brain 4 Industry — Innovation Center

The project is aimed at expanding the innovation infrastructure by creating high-quality shared infrastructure in the field of advanced production technologies with an emphasis on additive technologies with potential interactions between the research and business sectors.
Ultra wide band integrated optical-and-digital approach for smart factory and perceptive car

Our project addresses one of the main challenges of the “Digital agenda for Europe”, namely “Broadband: digital oxygen for all”. While this strategy is expected to have a significant social and economic impact, the huge instantaneous frequency band to be processed also leads to strong constraints, beyond the specifications of the state-of-the-art digital circuits. 
We propose a multidisciplinary approach that takes advantage of the capabilities and complementary aspects of wireless IR-UWB and UWB-over-fiber technologies to design intelligent, robust and high performance indoor wireless systems, for smart factories and perceptive cars. Thus, by associating UWB waveform optimization, cutting edge signal processing techniques and machine learning algorithms, these green low-cost systems should have the capability to jointly transmit high data rates and provide accurate indoor localization and tracking, as well as to recognize human physiological and behavioral patterns, like vital sign monitoring and gesture recognition. 
The project aims at increasing the safety, security and convenience in Industry 4.0 environments, by multi-humans discrimination/detection, localization and tracking, without the need for them to wear tags or any additional identification equipment. It also aims to contribute to the road safety by preventing the driver drowsiness related accidents and to facilitate the interaction with the perceptive car by hand gesture recognition. 
The fellowship will be hosted by the Lab-STICC Joint research unit CNRS 6285, which brings together the project supervisors from the University of Brest and ENIB. It will also benefits from an international collaboration with the Memorial University of Canada, and an industrial partnership with the ZF Friedrichshafen AG company.
The Applications Particulate Li DAR in the Stereo-Monitoring for the Complex Atmospheric Pollution

To analyze the three different mechanisms for the haze formation respectively caused by local pollutants,dust sunk,and the superposition with local pollution diffusion and exogenous pollution input,we applied particulate Li DAR to detect the spatial and temporal characteristics of suspended particulate matter in three different examples. In the haze episodes resulting mainly from the local pollutions,the particulate matter always spread from the ground level to about 1 km. The daily-averaged aerosol profile violated the exponential function,especially in severe pollution days. The extinction coefficient was nearly a constant of0. 3 km- 1below 800 m. A layer with a maximum of extinction coefficient in the aerosol profile was shown at about 800 m,which was over 1 km- 1. Such layer weakened the vertical dispersion of pollution contributing a primary factor for a wide visual range obstacle. For the haze pollution caused by dust mass input,Li DAR clearly outlined the dust profile varied in altitudes. The dust masses always suddenly occurred in 2- 3 km with a depolarization coefficient over 0. 3. It expanded in vertical direction due to the dust's gravitational settlement,which raising the concentration of coarse particulate matter( PM10) greatly larger than that of fine particle matter( PM2. 5). In the third example,Li DAR mapped an input pollution mass floating in 1. 8- 3 km which containing mainly of fine particles. This input pollution felled into the atmospheric boundary layer( ABL) at noon mixing with the pollution diffused to 1. 8 km from ground level,which eventually caused the local haze pollution. In conclusion,we found theLi DAR system could effectively describe the space-time distribution of particulate pollutants. It was advantage to explain three different mechanisms of haze-formation. As one kind of remote sensing techniques,Li DAR could be applied to study the atmospheric complex pollution.
Coastal areas sustainable tourism water management in the Mediterranean

CASTWATER is the first MED project to support sustainable tourism policies & practices on water efficiency in coastal areas. The transnational challenge is to reduce the impact of tourism activities on environmental heritage and to improve management of water resources. The project's overall objective is to support sustainable tourism water management in Med coastal areas, by improving the monitoring and assessment of the water sustainability performance of the tourism sector. CASTWATER follows a studying, testing and transferring approach of transnational cooperation, involving public authorities, tourism enterprises, and relevant agencies and stakeholders. Main outputs are: _x000D_
1. Promotion of widespead uptake of water sustainability indicators & evaluation criteria to measure the tourism sector performance in water efficiency._x000D_
2. Development, validation, pilot testing and evaluation of an online tool for SMEs to monitor, compare and self-assess water efficiency status & efforts, and for public authorities to identify issues, and assess the overall situation of their territories. _x000D_
3. Transferable learning & knowledge resources, and local workshops for public authorities staff on sustainable tourism water management._x000D_
4. Transferability and action plans for public authorities to support the policy integration of sustainable tourism water management approaches into policies and measures, and for enterprises to integrate best practices in their day to day operations.
Smartphone strategic sampling in defending enterprise network security

Smartphones have made their inroads in enterprise environment, manifested in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy: More employees are bringing their own smartphones to work and are using them to access enterprise information assets. The dilemma between responsiveness to security incidents and convenience/cost-effectiveness demands BYOD security solutions beyond the straightforward all-inclusive full-scanning or uniformly random sampling approaches. In this paper, we propose a carefully planned but otherwise random, or strategic, sampling approach out of this dilemma. Strategic sampling provides a balance between security responsiveness and cost effectiveness by identifying and periodically sampling those representative smartphones (security-wise). We validate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed strategic sampling via simulations driven by publicly available, real-world collected traces.
Terahertz end-to-end wireless systems supporting ultra high data rate applications

Data traffic densities of several Tbps/km2 are already predicted for 5G networks. To service a fully mobile and connected society networks beyond 5G must undergo tremendous growth in connectivity, data traffic density and volume as well as the required multi-level ultra-densification. The ThoR project will provide technical solutions for the backhauling/fronthauling of this traffic. The ThoR consortium brings together the leading Japanese and European players from industry, R&D and academia, whose prior work defines the state-of-the-art in high data rate long range point-to-point THz links. This team has been instrumental in defining and implementing the new IEEE 802.15.3d Standard “100 Gbps Wireless Switched Point-to-Point Physical Layer.” ThoR’s technical concept builds on this standard, in a striking and innovative combination using state-of-the-art chip sets and modems operating in the standardized 60 and 70 GHz bands, which are aggregated on a bit-transparent high performance 300 GHz RF wireless link offering >100 Gbps real-time data rate capacity. ThoR will apply European and Japanese state-of-the-art photonic and electronic technologies to build an ultra-high bandwidth, high dynamic range transceiver operating at 300 GHz combined with state-of-the-art digital signal processing units in two world-first demonstrations:  a)>100 Gbps P2P link over 1 km at 300 GHz using pseudo data in indoor and outdoor controlled environments b)>40 Gbps P2P link over 1 km at 300 GHz using emulated real data in a live operational communication network.This will require specific THz PHY technology advances (KETs) in photomixers, amplifiers including Travelling Wave Tube amplifiers, receivers, upconverters and channel aggregation. The success of ThoR will represent the first operational use of THz frequencies in ICT and this influential and powerful consortium will directly influence and shape the frequency regulation activities beyond 275 GHz through agenda item 1.15 of WRC 2019.
Building a decision support module using statistical modelling algorithms and neural networks

Reference number of the aid programme: SA.42799(2015/X), help_de_minimis: §42 of the Ordinance of the Minister of Infrastructure and Development of 10 July 2015 on the granting of financial assistance by the Polish Agency for the Development of Enterprise under the Operational Programme Intelligent Development 2014-2020. The subject of the project is the provision of a service by the special purpose company of universities consisting of developing an innovative product, which will be Erco.Intelligence, supporting decision-making using statistical modeling algorithms and neural networks, using machine learning mechanisms. The software will be a module currently offered by the Applicant of the Erco.Net Service Contractor, selected by the Applicant on the basis of the tender procedure carried out, i.e. The Technology Transfer Centre of the Nicolaus Copernicus University Sp. z o.o. will perform a number of R & D works, which will enable the preparation of an optimal model, the development of necessary algorithms and their implementation as an integral part of the Erco.Net system, so that they support the processes taking place in the system. All planned actions will aim at developing a solution ready for market implementation. The first stage of the project concerns the development of an innovative product (Erco.Intelligence module), in which technical documentation (the theoretical model) will be created. In the second stage of the project, an interactive prototype of the functional module will be developed. It will also be reviewed so that it can be integrated into the Erco.Net system. In the development phase, it is also assumed to show the functionality of the system in laboratory conditions, real or similar to real conditions, and to include end users in the process of creating a significantly improved product.As a result of the project, an innovative product will be created, which will be a learning module, supporting decision making, ana
KURUMSAL KİMLİK ÇALIŞMALARI: BEKO ÖRNEĞİ

Today, the only purpose of all brands and foundations are creating a positive perception and intensifying this perception as a continuous. The most important factor that is the same everywhere; a corporate identity that is formed as a result of good research. A corporate identity has represented the company's attitude and behavior inside/outside the company. When we meet a new brand, foundation, or association, the questions about this formation appear in our mind. At that point, the corporate identity has given an answer for these types of questions. The targets of that study are interaction theory, corporate identity that is related to identity case, researching of the brand of Beko about corporate identity, used the various materials in the brand's corporate identity and results of them. The other part of the study is how to apply a created corporate identity by dealers and its effects on consumers. As a result, the positive effects of corporate identity on people and being persistent are produced with different datas
Agglomeration and diffusion of urban functions: An approach based on urban land use conversion

Abstract The growth of urban space occurs not only through urban land expansion, but also from the conversion of urban development land. Urban land use conversion can reveal the inherent characteristics of the agglomeration and diffusion of urban functions. This paper presents the central city of Changchun as a case study. With the help of topographic and urban land use maps covering the years 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013, the authors analyze the spatial patterns of four urban functions. The authors examine the conversion characteristics of residential, commercial, public service and industrial land. Urban land development and redevelopment are used to explain the spatial pattern of urban functions. The study identifies three concentric zones in Changchun based on the evolution of urban functions. In addition, our work also finds that urban planning lags behind urban development in less developed cities due to its rapid urban growth.
Characterization of optically stimulated luminescence for assessment of breast doses in mammography screening

Landauer optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) technology nanoDot dosimeters (OSLDs) are characterized for use in mammography screening at various tube voltages, mAs values and target/filter combinations. The average glandular dose (AGD) for a 50-mm breast, based on the representative compressed breast thickness of a 45-mm polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) phantom, is assessed using OSLDs with different beam conditions. Further, the linearity of the OSLD response is measured and angular dependence tests are performed for various tube potentials, mAs and target/filter combinations. The breast-absorbed doses are measured at various depths for a 32-kVp X-ray beam at 100 mAs, with a Mo/Rh target/filter combination. The measured incident air kerma values at different lateral positions exhibit a maximum deviation of 6%, and the average relative response of the OSLDs at the reference point (center) with respect to various lateral positions is found to be 1.001 ± 0.09%. The calculated AGD values are in the 1.3 ± 0.1−3.5 ± 0.2 mGy range, depending on the tube potential, tube loading and target/filter combinations. An exposure setup featuring the auto-exposure control (AEC) mode, 28 kVp, 73.8 mAs, and a Mo/Rh target/filter combination may be preferred for mammography screening for a compressed breast thickness of 45 mm.
DISPOSITIF DE MESURES POUR METIERS A TRICOTER

Dispositif portable de mesure et de contrôle de paramètres de tricotage, principalement pour métiers circulaires. Il comporte un organe de mesure de longueur de fil, un détecteur d'aiguilles et un dispositif d'affichage. La nouveauté consiste principalement à rajouter à l'organe de mesure de longueur de fil et au détecteur d'aiguilles connus, un élément de base de temps et un commutateur de fonctions permettant la commutation entre l'organe de mesure de longueur de fil, le détecteur d'aiguilles et la base de temps. Les résultats sont envoyés au dispositif d'affichage numérique. Ce dispositif est utilisable pour effectuer trois mesures: longueur de fil absorbée par maille, vitesse de rotation du métier et vitesse d'appel du fil.