SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Temperature and concentration dependences of thermal conductivity of solid solutions of gadolinium and dysprosium sulfides

Thermal conductivity of a number of solid solutions of gadolinium and dysprosium sulfides has been studied experimentally within the temperature range 80-400 K. The work offers the data on thermal conductivity coefficient and lattice thermal conductivity of the studied samples. It was found that replacement of gadolinium ions by dysprosium ions leads to significant decrease of the samples’ thermal conductivity and changes its temperature dependence character due to the resonance scattering of phonons by paramagnetic ions of dysprosium. Influence of this mechanism of phonon scattering conditions the area of anomalous change observed on the concentration dependence of thermal conductivity coefficient.
The effects of land use on properties of soils developed over ophiolites in Turkey

The information about effects of land use on soils developed over ophiolites is crucial in terms of the best management practices. The effects of land use types of forest, grassland and arable land on soil properties were investigated. In study area located in Eastern Mediterranean region of Turkey, soils were formed over ophiolites parent materials. The results indicated that soils under arable land had significantly higher clay and available P contents comparing with forest and grassland soils. The grassland soils significantly differed from others in pH, exchangeable K, Na, Ca, and Mg contents. However, soils of three land uses were not different in organic matter contents. Besides, soils of all land use types had low Ca/Mg ratio (0.47-1.07). The low Ca/Mg ratio causes erosion which leads to dispersion of soils. The results also implied that erosion played a key role in variation of soil properties formed over ophiolites parent materials.
DENTAL VISCOUS PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINING BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR

The present invention is to provide a viscous preparation for dental use which comprises basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) as an effective ingredient, and further a thickener; a kit for preparing the viscous preparation for dental use; and a method for preparing the viscous preparation for dental use.
Human landscapes: agricultural intensification and peasant resilience in medieval southern greater syria.

Medieval Islamic Archaeology in Southern Greater Syria is relevant to the sustainable agricultural intensification discourse due the implementation of state intensive land use for profit that affected the lives of peasants and the ecology of semi-arid regions. Medieval Islamic agricultural intensification practices included irrigation, fertilizers, overgrazing, deforestation and cash cropping, which increase agricultural yields. The project “Human Landscapes: agricultural intensification and peasant resilience in medieval Southern Greater Syria” (HumanLand), offers a deep-time perspective on these issues. According to surveys and historic resources, the later medieval Islamic eras were marked by the collapse of the Mamluk state, the decline of major agricultural centers, and a shift to a seasonal basis occupation partly due to climatic stressors of the end of the 14th and 15th centuries, as well as the lack of state resources and support. HumanLand will use new environmental and textual data for medieval land-use to investigate these three objectives: 1) To identify changes in agricultural intensification in relation to climatic, political and economic shifts that took place in the late 14th and much of the 15th centuries, 2) To investigate the use of sustainable strategies and impact of imperial regimes on medieval communities, and 3) To investigate the impact of political structures on the ecology in semi-arid regions. The project will use botanical micro remains (phytolith, starches and spherulites) and stable isotope data from crop remains to understand agricultural practices of six medieval communities of Jordan and Israel. This evidence will be evaluated with information on land-use in medieval texts. These methods combined, provide evidence for intensified agriculture making this research one of the few studies done, which combine the different approaches proposed to approach the big picture of medieval Islamic agricultural history.
Applications of deep eutectic solvents in biotechnology and bioengineering—Promises and challenges

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been touted recently as potential alternatives to ionic liquids (ILs). Although they possess core characteristics that are similar to those of ILs (e.g., low volatility, non-flammability, low melting points, low vapor pressure, dipolar nature, chemical and thermal stability, high solubility, and tuneability), DESs are superior in terms of the availability of raw materials, the ease of storage and synthesis, and the low cost of their starting materials. As such, they have become the subject of intensive research in various sectors, notably the chemical, electrochemical, and biological sectors. To date, the applications of DESs have shown great promise, especially in the medical and biotechnological fields. In spite of these various achievements, the safety concern for these mixtures must be sufficiently addressed. Indeed, in order to exploit the vast array of opportunities that DESs offer to the biological industry, first, they must be established as safe mixtures. Hence, the biotechnological applications of DESs only can be implemented if they are proven to have negligible or low toxicity profiles. This review is the first of its kind, and it discusses two current aspects of DES-based research. First, it describes the properties of these mixtures with ample focus on their toxicity profiles. Second, it provides an overview of the breakthroughs that have occurred and the foreseeable prospects of the use of DESs in various biotechnological and biological applications.
Effect of two bio-based liquid formulations from Brassica carinata in containing red spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) on eggplant

Abstract Two liquid formulations based on Brassica carinata oil and defatted seed meal were tested as treatments to control the red spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch) on eggplants in open field conditions. These products were compared to a commercial chemical acaricide (fenazaquin), which is very effective, but whose use was recently limited to ornamentals in greenhouse due to its environmental risks. The application in these trials was therapeutic, the first treatment was distributed at the time of appearance of at least five mobile mites (adults and/or larvae) per plant. The 2-year results indicated that the application of both formulations have a clear effect in containing mites, statistically different from the untreated control. Moreover, the ability of pest control of the formulation with the higher concentrations of oil and defatted seed meal was not different from the chemical treatment. Treatment efficacy clearly decreased after 21 days, but within a preventive treatment plan these formulations could represent an interesting additional bio-based option both in conventional and organic farming.
Increasing recall of information of children diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome: Utilization of visual strategies

Abstract Social skills deficits are a hallmark diagnostic characteristic ( American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ) of individuals diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) or Autism. Interventions targeting social skills with this population have highlighted the effectiveness of visual strategies. This investigation examined the effectiveness of visual strategies in improving recall of personal information of others, a key friendship skill. In a social skills group, children played a game requiring them to recall information about each other. Visual prompts were found to be effective in helping children to recall information of other children. Children also demonstrated the ability to generate their own visual prompts to increase recall. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
The demography of sustainable human wellbeing

This project will apply two distinctly demographic concepts to research questions that go far beyond demography. The wellbeing indicators proposed here will be based on life table methods and the recently operationalized concept of Demographic Metabolism – modelling social change through the replacement of generations – will be used to get a quantitative analytical handle on the temporal dynamics of improving human wellbeing. 
The project will theoretically develop, empirically estimate, test and forecast indicators of human wellbeing that are based on life table methods and hence reflect the basic – but often overlooked fact – that being alive is a necessary prerequisite for enjoying any quality of life. But since mere survival is not sufficient as an ultimate goal for most people the person years lived at each age will be weighted with four different dimensions of empowerment: health, literacy, happiness and being out of poverty. These are four dimensions of an indicator tentatively called ELY (Empowered Life Years). ELY will also serve as the explanandum of a global level econometric estimation of the determinants of wellbeing considering human, manufactured and natural capitals as well as knowledge and institutions.
The global level analysis is complemented by a set of strategically chosen in-depth systems-analytical case studies in Namibia/Western Cape, Nepal, Costa Rica and historical Finland modelling the population-development-environment (PDE) interactions including feed-backs e.g. from environmental degradation to wellbeing and taking the trends of ELY in different sub-populations as sustainability criteria. They will also include stake holder involvement and science-policy interactions.
This innovative inter-disciplinary cross-fertilisation can potentially make an important contribution to the current discussions about operationalizing the criteria and end goal of sustainable development and developing better human wellbeing based metrics of progress.
A new era in personalised medicine: radiomics as decision support tool for diagnostics and theragnostics in oncology

The high degree of tumour (genomic and phenotypic) heterogeneity influences patient’s response to therapy and hampers wide deployment of personalised medicine for cancer treatment. Thus, there is an imperative need for new technologies that can accurately detect tumour heterogeneity, allow for patient stratification and assist clinicians in providing the right diagnosis and treatment for the right patient. PREDICT’s mission is to address this huge unmet need.
Radiomics, a newly emerging field that uses high-throughput extraction of large amounts of features from radiographic images, can boost the field of personalised medicine. The analysis of medical images taken as standard-of-care allows Radiomics to capture tumour heterogeneity and to generate ‘tumour-specific’ signatures in a non-invasive way, without the need of assessing the patient’s genetic profile. Thus, Radiomics, if linked to Big- data and decision support systems (DSS), can be used as diagnostic tool for patient stratification, for prediction of treatment response and for guidance, involving the patient, of clinical decisions in oncology. However, researchers that understand cancer biology, advanced imaging and big data analytics are virtually absent. Even more challenging is to translate the outcomes into actual clinical tools involving the patient.
PREDICT will train 15 highly promising researchers in the emerging field of Radiomics and Big data. These ESRs will be trained to implement the automatic exploitation of large amounts of imaging data to drive decision-making algorithms that will guide diagnosis and treatment of different types of cancer and to develop ‘tumour-specific’ signatures integrated in multifactorial DSS. The ESRs will become experts and innovators in Radiomics, Big Data and DSS, which will allow them to bring unique solutions towards the clinic. PREDICT builds upon a strong consortium with 8 academic and 10 non-academic partners that are all pioneers in their respective field.
MALONYL STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES AND THEIR COMESTIBLE USE

The present disclosure relates generally to malonyl steviol glycosides and the use of such compounds for various comestible uses, such as sweetening a flavored product or enhancing the sweetness of another sweetener. In some aspects, the disclosure provides certain compositions that include such malonyl steviol glycosides, such as compositions that include such malonyl steviol glycosides and one or more other sweeteners. In some other aspects, the disclosure provides methods of reducing the caloric content of a flavored article, such as a flavored food or beverage product, or an oral care product.
New perspectives on inflation

The research in this proposal will contribute to our knowledge of the dynamics and effects of inflation through the perspective of risk-adjusted inflation and valuation formulas. The goal is to provide new perspectives on inflation and its impact on
resource constraints.

The first step in this work is to collect new data on inflation options and use them to construct marginal densities for risk-neutral inflation at different horizons. Because there are data for both cumulative and annual inflation, I propose a new non-parametric estimator of the joint distribution of inflation. This provides a new take on inflation dynamics and the anchoring of inflation expectations.

The second step is to use these densities as discount factors to price nominal claims. Applying these to the assets and liabilities of a central bank gives a measure of the fiscal capacity of the central bank and the impact of a higher inflation target.

The third step combines the densities for inflation with nominal interest rates to gauge how much society dislikes inflation. The risk-neutral densities give inflation strips that reveal how much markets would be willing to pay to eliminate inflation risk.

The fourth step is to design inflation-indexed bonds that allow countries to self-insure in a currency union. Understanding how the value and payments of these bonds changes with different measure of inflation, a country can insure itself against some of the shocks that affect its real exchange rate.

The fifth step is to design new liabilities of the central bank that allow for a better control of inflation. By issuing inflation-indexed reverses and maintaining the commitment to redeem them one-to-one for currency at all date, the central bank can control inflation. 

All together, these different projects aim to deepen our understanding of inflation, by focusing on modeling risk-adjusted inflation, to answer old questions and suggest new approaches in monetary economics.
Innovative and worldwide unique heat pump based condensation drying technology for drying and preservation of food products

Harter GmbH (Harter) was founded in 1991 and is still a family-owned company. Harter is Europe-wide known as specialist for heat pump based condensation drying systems, which are applicable in various sectors. By the companies’ unique expert knowledge and the high innovative strength, Harter developed to one of the most innovative companies for drying systems and gained an excellent reputation in recent years. Within the European society, conscious and healthy nutrition as well as gentle and sustainable processing and preservation are becoming increasingly important. To perfectly meet this trend, Harter developed the worldwide unique AIRGENEX®food chamber drying system for a reliable, gentle and energy-efficient drying process. The flexible adjustable process enables perfect drying of various foods and because of the closed air circuit, aroma, appearance and bioactivity retain in the food. By using variable and low temperatures a gentle way of drying food products, which is absolutely stress-free for the products, is guaranteed. An optimum air conditioning and air routing ensure high energy and cost savings compared to competing drying technologies. Moreover, by AIRGENEX®food the valuable condensate, which contains flavour and colour, can be collected and is available for further use. The new technology primarily addresses the food sector, which is a continuously growing market with an expect CAGR of 5.6% in the common years. Besides the food sector, another promising market is the drying market for medical plants, e.g. medical cannabis, which is expected to grow rapidly at a CAGR of 21.11%.  By the innovative drying technology, Harter expects to generate additional cumulative turnover of 15 million € and an increase in staff headcount of 18 employees in 2023.
Nietzsche, Sport, and Contemporary Culture

AbstractThe word ‘sport’ next to Nietzsche’s name may raise eyebrows among many Nietzsche readers. ‘What an odd pairing?’ one may ask. We prefer Nietzsche and arts or something from the domain of the Geist. Sport is embedded in mass culture and Nietzsche detests anything that has to do with masses; fandom, an important part of sport culture, is nothing Nietzsche would look at favourably but call it a manifestation of the herd instinct. Besides, clubs and sports organizations control this sporting culture through political and economic apparatuses. On the other hand, modern sports, far from producing higher types and the overhuman, appeal to the lowest common denominator, the person on the street and all athletes are equal. All of these objections notwithstanding, one may still speak of a sporting spirit that embodies play, ecstasy in the sense of Dionysian, inventiveness, agonism, grand spectacle, festivity, a specific type of aesthetics and a form of askesis of the body, and a specific outlet for enactme...
Preliminary study of an angiographic and angio-tomographic technique based on K-edge filters

Digital Subtraction Angiography is commonly affected by artifacts due to the patient movements during the acquisition of the images without and with the contrast medium. This paper presents a preliminary study on an angiographic and angio-tomographic technique based on the quasi-simultaneous acquisition of two images, obtained using two different filters at the exit of an X-ray tube. One of the two filters (K-edge filter) contains the same chemical element used as a contrast agent (gadolinium in this study). This filter absorbs more radiation with energy just above the so called K-edge energy of gadolinium than the radiation with energy just below it. The other filter (an aluminium filter in this study) is simply used to suppress the low-energy contribution to the spectrum. Using proper calibration curves, the two images are combined to obtain an image of the contrast agent distribution. In the angio-tomographic application of the proposed technique two images, corresponding to the two filter types, are acquired for each viewing angle of the tomographic scan. From the two tomographic reconstructions, it is possible to obtain a three-dimensional map of the contrast agent distribution. The technique was tested on a sample consisting of a rat skull placed inside a container filled with water. Six small cylinders with 4.7 mm internal diameter containing the contrast medium at different concentrations were placed inside the skull. In the plain angiographic application of the technique, five out of six cylinders were visible, with gadolinium concentration down to 0.96%. In the angio-tomographic application, all six cylinders were visible, with gadolinium concentration down to 0.49%. This preliminary study shows that the proposed technique can provide images of the contrast medium at low concentration without most of the artifacts that are present in images produced by conventional techniques. The results encourage further investigation on the feasibility of a clinical implementation of the technique.
Roller bearing cage or segment and method for manufacturing a roller bearing cage or segment

Ausführungsbeispiele betreffen einen Wälzlagerkäfig (1) oder -segment. Dieser oder dieses besteht zumindest teilweise aus einem Kunststoff. Der Kunststoff umfasst zumindest abschnittsweise eine Schaumstruktur (2).
Fingerprint feature extraction using morphological operations

Fingerprint extraction means to find the various minutiae points in a fingerprint to use it further for fingerprint matching. But if we use the fingerprint as it is for the feature extraction then we will get a lot of minutiae points among those many arises because of noise in fingerprint and thus can't be used for the matching of fingerprints. So we need a preprocessing technique to decrease the number of minutiae points and to get only those points that can be further used to match the fingerprint. According to experimentation results, we can decrease the number of fallacious minutiae points to a very large number by using preprocessing. In this research paper, we calculate the number of minutiae points by using three methods and then analyze the result. The comparison is between original Image and the two other preprocessed images one is obtained by using dilation operations and other is obtained by using hole filling and then dilation.
Plato, Machiavelli and machiavellism

Throughout this paper the author questions Machiavelli?s Machiavellism, i.e. the position that Machiavelli?s political theory takes stance of immoralism. The first part of the paper compares Plato?s and Machiavelli?s political philosophy, analyzing differences as well as similarities between these two philosophers. Author finds Plato?s views on politics and political community more malignant than Machiavelli?s. Machiavelli?s views on politics, state, laws and liberty are in fact closer to the basic principles of liberalism then to the tenets of tyranny or totalitarianism. The second part of the paper deals with the concept of the autonomy of politics and the use of cruelties and evils as the instruments of rule in Machiavelli?s work. In this part of the paper, author denies that Machiavelli was the philosopher of evil or the proponent of political gangsterism.
NANOCOMPOSITE ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR USE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HIGH PRESSURE RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES

Presented in the present disclosure are nanocomposites and rechargeable batteries which are resistant to thermal runaway and are safe, reliable, and stable electrode materials for rechargeable batteries operated at high temperature and high pressure. The nanocomposites include a plurality of transition metal oxide nanoparticles, a plurality of ultrathin sheets of a first two-dimensional (2D) material, and a plurality of ultrathin sheets of a different 2D material, which act in synergy to provide an improved thermal stability, an increased surface area, and enhanced electrochemical properties to the nanocomposites. For example, rechargeable batteries that include the nanocomposites as an electrode material have an enhanced performance and stability over a broad temperature range from room temperature to high temperatures. These batteries fill an important need by providing a safe and reliable power source for devices operated at high temperatures and pressures such as downhole equipment used in the oil industry.