SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Failing to get the gist of what's being said: background noise impairs higher-order cognitive processing

A dynamic interplay is known to exist between auditory processing and human cognition. For example, prior investigations of speech-in-noise have revealed there is more to learning than just listening: Even if all words within a spoken list are correctly heard in noise, later memory for those words is typically impoverished. These investigations supported a view that there is a "gap" between the intelligibility of speech and memory for that speech. Here, the notion was that this gap between speech intelligibility and memorability is a function of the extent to which the spoken message seizes limited immediate memory resources (e.g., Kjellberg et al., 2008). Accordingly, the more difficult the processing of the spoken message, the less resources are available for elaboration, storage, and recall of that spoken material. However, it was not previously known how increasing that difficulty affected the memory processing of semantically rich spoken material. This investigation showed that noise impairs higher levels of cognitive analysis. A variant of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure that encourages semantic elaborative processes was deployed. On each trial, participants listened to a 36-item list comprising 12 words blocked by each of 3 different themes. Each of those 12 words (e.g., bed, tired, snore…) was associated with a "critical" lure theme word that was not presented (e.g., sleep). Word lists were either presented without noise or at a signal-to-noise ratio of 5 decibels upon an A-weighting. Noise reduced false recall of the critical words, and decreased the semantic clustering of recall. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Recent out of Yemen: new version of the theory of unique and recent origin of modern man

It is generally accepted that the human evolutionary history was started in sub-Saharan Africa by the emergence of first individuals belonging to our genus Homo. But details of this evolution, particularly those of its last stage relating to the modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens) emergence, represent until now a controversial topic. Confusion and imprecision associated with certain concepts and definitions have accentuated this controversy and therefore helped to curb the progress of the research in this topic. In this paper I present these problems before presenting a new detailed version of the theory of unique and recent origin of modern man. This version designated “Recent out of Yemen” thesis represents a refined grand synthesis in which my advanced hypotheses are brought together with new additional details. First, from an objective definition of modern man and several solid anthropological arguments I have proposed dates, of about 45,000 years ago for the emergence of our species and 20,000 years ago for that of our subspecies. Second, from analyses of basic genetic results I have shown that the southern Arabian Peninsula would be the most probable place of a so recent emergence of modern man. The various elements of my thesis are presented and discussed following an empirical approach, and then summarized in a scenario that represents a new more consistent image of our evolutionary history. Key words : Human evolutionary history, Origin of modern humans, Recent out of Yemen thesis, Date of modern man emergence, Place of modern man emergence, Genus Homo definition, Modern man definition, Single origin theory.
TUBULAR DISCHARGE LAMP WITH IGNITION AID

A dielectric barrier discharge lamp (1) comprises a tubular discharge chamber (2), a fluorescent layer on at least one part of the inner wall of the discharge chamber (2) and longitudinal electrodes (3). A coating (10) is provided on a partial region of the inner wall at least at one end of the tubular discharge chamber (2), which, in addition, covers one end of at least one longitudinal electrode (3). The material of said coating (10) has a high secondary electron emission coefficient. The ignition behavior of the lamp is thus improved, especially on ignition in darkness.
ACCORDS VOLONTAIRES VERS L’APPLICATION DE L’ACCORD DE PARIS ET LA RESPONSABILITÉ SOCIÉTALE DES ENTREPRISES/RSE

La Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises/RSE ne peut pas tout. Les multiples accords volontaires existants dans l’environnement, dans le management ou dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique peuvent lui emboîter le pas de manière efficace. Finalement quels sont les meilleurs instruments d’application du développement durable du moment que ce concept mis sur orbite à Rio en 1992 génère une mutation positive de l’ensemble des acteurs plus soucieux de leur impact environnemental ? La méthodologie de recherche, utilisée dans cet article, est exploratoire et repose sur l’analyse de références d’articles, d’études bibliographiques et d’études de cas.
Implementation of R & D works in innovative technology for the production of new, dry taste wafers as an opportunity to expand As-Babuni on the international market

The main objective of the project is to increase the competitiveness of the company “AS – babuni” Sp. z o.o. on the domestic and foreign markets, increase the productivity and productivity of the company thanks to the introduction of an innovative technological line for the production of health-promoting dry wafers, as well as the introduction of new health-promoting dry taste wafers that do not contain preservatives and artificial dyes. The project includes the implementation of R & D results developed by the Applicant’s Research Department in order to achieve an internationally innovative technological line. The project covers the implementation of 1 tasks, which will be carried out during the period 22.03-31.12.2017. As part of the task, the applicant will purchase new fixed assets: technological line., spectrophotometer with calibration program, Gluten Index system, as well as intangible assets – sales platform. Result indicators: Number of R & D results implemented: 1, Number of process innovations introduced: 1, Number of product innovations introduced:1, Number of non-technological innovations introduced:1, Employment growth in supported enterprises: 4, Revenue from the sale of new or improved products/processes: 240 000,00 PLN. Output indicators: Private investment complementing public support to enterprises (grants): PLN 534,301, Number of enterprises supported to introduce new products for the market: 1, Number of enterprises supported to introduce new products for the company: 1, Number of enterprises receiving grants: 1, Number of enterprises receiving support: 1, Number of enterprises supported by investment: 1, Number of enterprises supported in implementing R & D results: 1. The target group of this project is the Applicant’s enterprise, as well as existing and potential Consumers and Accountants of the Applicant.
Rapid decision-making under risk

Impulsivity is often characterized by rapid decisions under risk, but most current tests of decision-making do not impose time pressures on participants' choices. Here we introduce a new traffic lights test which requires people to choose whether to program a risky, early eye movement before a traffic light turns green (earning them high rewards or a penalty) or wait for the green light before responding to obtain a small reward instead. Young participants demonstrated bimodal responses: an early, high-risk and a later, low-risk set of choices. By contrast, elderly people invariably waited for the green light and showed little risk-taking. Performance could be modeled as a race between two rise-to-threshold decision processes, one triggered by the green light and the other initiated before it. The test provides a useful measure of rapid decision-making under risk, with the potential to reveal how this process alters with aging or in patient groups.
Stereotypic Beliefs About Masculine Honor Are Associated With Perceptions of Rape and Women Who Have Been Raped

Abstract. Masculine honor consists of stereotypic beliefs about male behavior, including the belief that men’s aggression is appropriate, justifiable, and necessary in response to provocation, especially provocation that insults or threatens one’s manhood, family, or romantic partner. We conducted two studies examining the relationships between stereotypic masculine honor beliefs and perceptions of rape. Masculine honor beliefs generally were associated with both negative attitudes toward rape and negative attitudes toward women who have been raped. Further, different components of masculine honor beliefs correlated differently with various rape perceptions. These outcomes illustrate the complexity of the stereotypic beliefs about appropriate male behavior that comprise masculine honor, and which emphasize men’s responsibility to both take care of others and demonstrate interpersonal dominance.
Decision making: from neurochemical mechanisms to network dynamics to behaviour

How we decide between different alternatives is a central question to cognitive neuroscience. Decisions may appear trivial (selecting between two meals), or sophisticated and long reaching (deciding whom to marry). Decisions constitute a highly dynamical process of evidence accumulation. These dynamics can be represented in cortical oscillations, which have attracted great interest as a key mechanism that coordinates fast computations. 

While a few studies have investigated the role of cortical oscillations in decision making, the underlying mechanisms translating neurochemical activity into network dynamics and ultimately into choice remain unknown. Although neuromodulator effects are well described at the cellular level, their network effects during high-level behaviours are not well understood. There is however evidence that neuromodulators also control cortical oscillations and that this may have behavioural relevance. For a mechanistic understanding of human decision making, it is essential to (1) study its fast temporal cortical dynamics and (2) understand how neurochemical signalling gives rise to network dynamics and ultimately to cognition. Biophysical network models are excellent tools for linking these different levels of investigation. Such an understanding is critically important not only from a basic science perspective, it will also further our understanding of psychiatric diseases, which are often characterized by anomalies in neurochemical systems, neural oscillations and decision making.

The novel approach that is core to this proposal is to investigate whether and how neurochemical systems guide decision behaviour by modulating cortical dynamics. To achieve this ambitious goal, I will use a combination of imaging methods with computational modelling, pharmacological challenges and electrical brain stimulation. This new approach will allow me to move towards a mechanistic understanding of the systems-level dynamics underlying decision making.
Development of technologies for the management of construction and energy waste not related to the upper layers of the embankment and the lower layers of the substructure.

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. Subject AND PROJECT PROJECTION PROJECT PROJECT consists of developing an innovative technology for the management of construction and energy waste not linked to the upper layers of the embankment and the lower layers of the substructure. The development of technology and new production will be commissioned to the Institute of Mechanisation of Construction and Rock Mining. Research has been included in 4 tasks. Project Results Development of technology will contribute to the achievement of specific results: 1. Number of product innovations introduced (1 pieces): As a result of the project, the company’s offer will be extended to include a new product (innovation in the country) – aggregate mixture based on waste 2. Number of process innovations developed (1 pieces): A process innovation (on a national scale) in the project is an innovative technology for the management of construction and energy waste on aggregates used in the upper layers of the embankment and the lower layers of the substructure. 3. Number of innovations introduced (2 pieces) Process INNOVATION The object of the project is process innovation – a new technology for the management of construction and energy waste not linked to the upper layers of the embankment and the lower layers of the substructure. Product innovation The project also includes product innovations – in the form of a new aggregate mixer dedicated to construction (for upper layers of embankment and lower layers of substructure) These products will be created as a result of the treatment of waste – asphalt concrete, concrete and fire slag elements.
A preliminary study of the evolutionary path of viewpoint on poverty and wealth in contemporary China

Since the foundation of the People's Republic of China,especially the reform and opening up,people's viewpoint on poverty and wealth has undergone profound changes.It has experienced a developing process from hoping to eliminate poverty yet taking poverty as honor,desiring wealth yet regarding prosperity as disgrace to disregarding poverty as socialism and taking honor in becoming rich through diligence,and to making progress after becoming rich and paying more attention to fairness.To conduct a profound study on the evolutionary path of viewpoint on poverty and wealth in contemporary China is of theoretical value and practical significance either to our adherence to and development of Marxism and to the enrichment and perfection of socialist system with Chinese characteristics,or to the construction of a correct viewpoint on poverty and wealth and to improving as well as ensuring livelihood,and advancing social harmony and stability.
Personalized therapies for atrial fibrillation. a translational approach

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia affecting more than 6 million Europeans with a cost exceeding 1% of the EU health care system budget (13.5 billion annually). New treatment strategies and the progress achieved in research on AF mechanisms and substrate evaluation methods to date have not been commensurate  with an equivalent development of the knowledge and technologies required to individually characterize each patient in search of the most efficient therapy. 

PersonalizeAF addresses this challenge by delivering an innovative multinational, multi-sectorial, and multidisciplinary research and training programme in new technologies and novel strategies for individualized characterization of AF substrate to and increase   treatments’ efficiency.  

From the research point of view, PersonalizeAF will integrate data and knowledge from in-vitro, in silico, ex vivo and in vivo animal and human models to: 1) generate an individual description of the state of the atrial muscle identifying the disease mechanisms and characteristics; 2) understanding the potential effect that different therapies have on different atrial substrates; and 3) combining this information to generate a specific profile of the patient and the best therapy for each patient. 

With this purpose, PersonalizeAF partnership aggregates relevant scientific staff from the academic and clinical world with highly specialised biomedical companies which will be involved in a high-level personalised training programme that will train a new generation of highly skilled professionals and guarantee ESRs and future PhD students outstanding Career Opportunities in the biomedical engineering, cardiology services and medical devices sectors. PersonalizeAF will disseminate results to a wide spectrum of stakeholders, create awareness in the general public about atrial fibrillation and encourage vocational careers among young students.
Assessing the impact of common forensic presumptive tests on the ability to obtain results using a novel rapid DNA platform

The rise of DNA evidence to the forefront of forensic science has led to high sample numbers being submitted for profiling by investigators to casework laboratories: bottleneck effects are often seen resulting in slow turnaround times and sample backlog. The ParaDNA(®) Screening and Intelligence Tests have been designed to guide investigators on the viability of potential sources of DNA allowing them to determine which samples should be sent for full DNA analysis. Both tests are designed to augment the arsenal of available forensic tests for end users and be used concurrently to those commonly available. Therefore, assessing the impact that common forensic tests have on such novel technology is important to measure. The systems were tested against various potential inhibitors to which samples may be exposed as part of the investigative process. Presumptive test agents for biological materials (blood, semen and saliva) and those used as fingerprint enhancement agents were both used. The Screening Test showed a drop in performance following application of aluminium powder and cyanoacrylate (CNA) on fingerprints samples; however this drop in performance was not replicated with high template DNA. No significant effect was observed for any agent using the Intelligence Test. Therefore, both tests stand up well to the chemical agents applied and can be used by investigators with confidence that system performance will be maintained.
Development of VIK R & D center One3D

The subject of the proposed project is the expansion of the VIK R & D centre of One3D s.r.o. The reason for further expansion of VIK is the expansion of the additive approach technology in the field of metals and metal alloys and directly related activities.
The role of a Family and Community Nurse in a Country Nursing Home in a major metropolitan hospital in Lombardy, Italy

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Process for preparing water sorptive products

The present invention is directed to a process for preparing cellulose containing water sorptive products from an aqueous suspension or paper furnish in accordance with conventional paper making techniques. The suspension or paper furnish employed in preparing the sorptive products comprises a polymer component and a fibrous component slurried in water. The polymer component is provided from a specifically defined class of crosslinked copolymers which contain carboxyl groups. A representative polymer from this class includes that obtained by reacting methyl acrylate and methacrylate acid in the presence of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate. The polymer component becomes water sorptive when the carboxyl groups present thereon are neutralized with a base. In the practice of the process of the present invention, a composite product is prepared from the above mentioned suspension, partially dried, and then neutralized in a specifically controlled manner. Neutralization is achieved while controlling the amount of base and water which contacts the composite product. The control is exercised in a manner sufficient to achieve a proper degree of salting and to prevent undue sorption of the water during neutralization. Such control results in a substantial improvement in the cost efficiency of the process since the amount of water which must be eventually evaporated from the neutralized product is held to a minimum.
A CONDUCTOR POLYMER BACKFILL COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE AS A REINFORCEMENT MATERIAL FOR UTILITY POLES

A conductive polymer backfill composition and method of use for setting or resetting utility poles is described. The backfill material is effective in simultaneously reinforcing and electrically grounding the utility pole.
Effects of storage time prolongation on in vivo and in vitro characteristics of 4°C–stored platelets

Cold (4°C)-stored platelets are currently under investigation for transfusion in bleeding patients. It is currently unknown how long cold-stored platelets can be stored for clinical applications.Twenty three subjects were recruited. Twenty-one subjects were available for in vivo assessment and received indium-111 radiolabeled, cold-stored platelets. We investigated 5- (n = 5), 10- (n = 6), 15- (n = 5), and 20-day-stored (n = 5) platelets and obtained samples for in vitro testing at baseline and after the designated storage time. Twenty three units were available for in vitro testing. Five- and 7-day (n = 5 each), room temperature (RT)-stored platelets served as the current clinical standard control.In vivo, we found a continuous decline in platelet recovery from 5 to 20 days. Platelet survival reached a low nadir after 10 days of storage. Ex vivo, we observed the maximum platelet αIIbβ3 integrin response to collagen at 5 days of cold storage, and we saw a continuous decline thereafter. However, platelet integrin activation and mitochondrial membrane integrity were better preserved after 20 days at 4°C, compared to 5 days at RT. Platelet metabolic parameters suggest comparable results between 20-day cold-stored platelets and 5- or 7-day RT-stored platelets.In summary, we performed the first studies with extended, cold-stored, apheresis platelets in plasma for up to 20 days with a fresh comparator. Storing cold-stored platelets up to 20 days yields better results in vitro, but further studies in actively bleeding patients are needed to determine the best compromise between hemostatic efficacy and storage prolongation.
Tools for ablation of cardiac arrhythmias by irreversible electroporation

Cardiac arrhythmias, a group of conditions in which the heartbeat is abnormal, are among the most recurrent cardiovascular diseases with an important impact in the quality of life of patients (atrial fibrillation is predicted to affect 17.9 million patients in Europe by 2060). When drug therapy fails in the correct management of these diseases, ablation, the selective damage of small regions of the cardiac tissue, is used instead. Current ablation techniques use thermal energy to destroy the target areas with success rates up to 70 %. However, there are complications, such as severe oesophageal or phrenic nerve injury or vascular stenosis, that current thermal treatments cannot overcome. 
The TACAIRE proposal is focused on the development of new technological tools and methods for the non-thermal ablation of cardiac arrhythmias. In particular, the explored technique will be Irreversible Electroporation (IRE), which consists in the application of short and high intensity electric field pulses to kill the cells of the target tissue region. The present action will develop the necessary technologies (electronics, application catheters and numerical models) to study in silico, in vitro and in vivo the potential clinical use of novel electric field waveforms and applicators for cardiac IRE. The present proposal is extremely timely because IRE is an emerging technique in the field of cardiac ablation with very promising expectations of becoming the leading technique in the near future. The goal of TACAIRE is to overcome some identified limitations of IRE that could prevent this technique from being definitively established in the routine clinical practice for cardiac ablation.
The project involves a host team of biomedical/electronic engineers and a secondment partner of cardiologists. This structure is aligned with the multidisciplinary nature of the proposal and ensures all the necessary resources to correctly develop the action and the career prospects of the fellow.