SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Ferulic Acid and Angelica archangelica Extract in Dementia

Symptoms of dementia are classified as “cognitive disturbance” and “behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.” Understanding how to inhibit the progression of cognitive disturbance and control the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia are the most important problems associated with this disease. Ferulic acid is a nutrient that exists in many kinds of grains, whereas Angelica archangelica is a biennial plant from the umbelliferous family Apiaceae. Our studies have shown that treatment with ferulic acid and A. archangelica extract suppressed the development of mild cognitive impairment in dementia and also improved the behavioral and psychological symptoms of frontotemporal lobar degeneration or dementia with Lewy bodies. There were no adverse effects or significant changes in the physical findings or laboratory data during treatment. Our findings suggest that ferulic acid and A. archangelica extract is extremely safe and represents a useful therapeutic tool for patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
Phonon Anharmonicity in Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

We report a temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy study of few-layer black phosphorus (BP) with varied incident polarization and sample thickness. The Raman-active modes Ag1, B2g, and Ag2 exhibit a frequency downshift, while their line width tends to increase with increasing temperature. To understand the details of these phenomena, we perform first-principles density functional theory calculations on freestanding monolayer BP. The effect of thermal expansion is included by constraining the temperature-dependent lattice constant. The study of the temperature-induced shift of the phonon frequencies is carried out using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The normal-mode frequencies are calculated by identifying the peak positions from the magnitude of the Fourier transform of the total velocity autocorrelation. Anharmonicity induces a frequency shift for each individual mode, and the three- and four-phonon process coefficients are extracted. These results are compared with those obtained from many-body perturbation theory, giving access to phonon lifetimes and lattice thermal conductivity. We establish that the frequency downshift is primarily due to phonon-phonon scattering while thermal expansion only contributes indirectly by renormalizing the phonon-phonon scattering. Overall, the theoretical results are in excellent agreement with experiment, thus showing that controlling phonon scattering in BP could result in better thermoelectric devices or transistors that dissipate heat more effectively when confined to the nanoscale.
APPLICATION OF <13>C-<13>C, <13>C-<15>N, AND <13>C-<13>C-<15>N ISOTOPICALLY ENRICHED PROTEINS AS TISSUE-DIRECTED IMAGE-ENHANCEMENT REAGENTS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

The present invention relates to a method employing a tissue-directed <13>C, <13>C-<13>C, <13>C-<15>N or <13>C-<13>C-<15>N isotopically enriched protein reagent as a diagnostic contrasting agent in magnetic resonance imaging to enhance the contrast of a targeted site in a mammalian tissue.
Age-Related Differences in Test-Retest Reliability in Resting-State Brain Functional Connectivity

Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating brain functional connectivity (FC). Research in recent years has focused on assessing the reliability of FC across younger subjects within and between scan-sessions. Test-retest reliability in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) has not yet been examined in older adults. In this study, we investigated age-related differences in reliability and stability of RSFC across scans. In addition, we examined how global signal regression (GSR) affects RSFC reliability and stability. Three separate resting-state scans from 29 younger adults (18-35 yrs) and 26 older adults (55-85 yrs) were obtained from the International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM) dataset made publically available as part of the 1000 Functional Connectomes project www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000. 92 regions of interest (ROIs) with 5 cubic mm radius, derived from the default, cingulo-opercular, fronto-parietal and sensorimotor networks, were previously defined based on a recent study. Mean time series were extracted from each of the 92 ROIs from each scan and three matrices of z-transformed correlation coefficients were created for each subject, which were then used for evaluation of multi-scan reliability and stability. The young group showed higher reliability of RSFC than the old group with GSR (p-value = 0.028) and without GSR (p-value <0.001). Both groups showed a high degree of multi-scan stability of RSFC and no significant differences were found between groups. By comparing the test-retest reliability of RSFC with and without GSR across scans, we found significantly higher proportion of reliable connections in both groups without GSR, but decreased stability. Our results suggest that aging is associated with reduced reliability of RSFC which itself is highly stable within-subject across scans for both groups, and that GSR reduces the overall reliability but increases the stability in both age groups and could potentially alter group differences of RSFC.
Feedback mechanisms across the lifecycle for customer-driven optimization of innovative product-service design

The undergoing transformation in our current socio-economic models, led by the advent of emerging technologies, has changed the relation of customers to products and services. Customers play no longer a passive role in the product and service development process as they express their product and service experiences and opinions through several channels such as discussion forums, blogs, chat, idea voting, and more. In addition, sensor systems in combination with products incorporated in the Internet of Things (IoT), are becoming increasingly common. The potential endless amounts of available information offer a rich ground for value creation in the product-service innovation chain. In this context FALCON envisions to provide a framework to enable the realization of new products and value-adding services, resulting from user-experiences and product and related services usage; undertaken with the principles of sustainability and social responsibility. FALCON will create impact through the following objectives: First the project will address product-service information collection through collaborative intelligence and Product Embedded Information Devices. Second, it will enable new mechanisms for product-service knowledge representation, exploitation, openness and diffusion. Third, it will strengthen collaboration and new product-service development through new feedback and feed forward mechanisms in the product life-cycle. Fourth, FALCON will explore manufacturing intelligence to support innovative product-services design and finally FALCON will improve product-service lifecycle assessment approaches through the real-time collection of product-service usage information and related experiences. The project is driven by a consortium of highly recognized researchers (BIBA, EPFL, TU Delft ), experienced solution providers (UBITECH, Holonix, Softeco, i-Deal) and industrial companies (Arcelik, Philipps, Dena Cashmere, DATAPIXEL, Vinci Consulting).
Transnational Action for Public Private Partnership

Financial, structural and territorial challenges in Central Europe ask for a strengthened teamwork of public and private actors to create and maintain attractive and competitive living conditions. Due to economic and demographic changes and limits to public resources (financial, know-how) the provision of public tasks and regional/urban restructuring can no longer be provided efficiently by public bodies alone and cities/regions risk to lose their position in European competition. Public private partnerships (PPP) – based on long lasting cooperation – are promising and innovative options for restructuring, urban renewal and improved public tasks.

ACT4PPP wants to promote and further develop PPP as strategic tool for enhancing private involvement in territorial development. PPPs do not only ask for legal, financial and organisational know-how but require also strategic and political key decisions, especially as PPP is not suitable for all public tasks or all situations and there are several difficulties to be considered. For using the tool PPP efficiently, many cities and regions still need support and training. Especially for many new member states PPP is still new and the application does not extend first testing.

As experiences among the regions in Central Europe widely differ, a transnational cooperation will be highly valuable for exchanging knowledge, fostering of common learning, transfer of experiences for wise application and gaining a high surplus compared to single efforts. Using PPP as a territorial development tool especially on a transnational level has not yet been addressed systematically and therefore ACT4PPP will highlight potentials and limitations for the targeted involvement of private stakeholders in territorial development processes.
FAILURES OF LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS IN PERFORMING THEIR ROLES AS SOCIETY’S REPRESENTATIVE IN CONTROLLING PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN WAITING FOR SUPERMAN FILM

United States of America, which is recognized as a powerful country puts a great concern toward education. This can be seen from the way government provides free public education for its citizens. Yet, the quality is questionable. The Board of Education is the council responsible for providing good education; it is also responding to community wishes for educational betterment. In its leadership, problems appear and lead to failing public schools. This eventually brings failures to students. Such existing situation in American public schools can be seen through literary works, film is one in case. Waiting for Superman is one showing it.
AVALANCHE PREVENTION APPARATUS

Apparatus is described for arresting or at least retarding an avalanche. In the described embodiment the apparatus comprises a plurality of elongate substantially cylindrical bodies (1) which are positioned on a mountainside in a likely avalanche path, for deployment into an avalanche. Each body is provided with a multiplicity of bristles (10) for engaging with one or more of the other cylindrical bodies (1) with which it may come into contact when the bodies are deployed. The bristles may be provided with locking mechanisms such as hook and loop mechanisms (14,16) for locking one cylindrical body to another when the bristles (10) of each come into contact. Each body may further be provided with anchor cables (26) to brake and arrest the body when deployed into an avalanche. The apparatus includes one or more stands (2) for deploying the cylindrical bodies into an avalanche. In use the stands) are fixed to the mountainside in strategic positions in the predicted avalanche path.
Building the ADRION Brand Name in Tourism: Indulging all Five Senses

The ADRION area has high potential for further development of sustainable tourism; however tourism suffers from several weaknesses. The common territorial challenge to be addressed by ADRION 5 SENSES is the lack of a sustainable tourism model based on innovative, high-quality tourism products and services._x000D_
The project suggests a holistic approach to sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to develop effective branding strategies and boost the performance of ADRION destination by creating conditions to enhance tourist experiences. This integrated approach (sensory marketing) is new and innovative for the ADRION area._x000D_
The overall objective is to build and promote the ADRION brand name in tourism by indulging all five senses of tourists._x000D_
The specific objective is to direct efforts of ADRION stakeholders to the sustainable planning of physical/virtual settings and valorisation and preservation of natural/cultural heritage, in which positive and memorable experiences are more likely to emerge, leading to positive outcomes, such as tourist loyalty._x000D_
The project aims to use technology for the co-creation of enhanced destination experiences. The ADRION destination has the opportunity to better address the multi-sensory nature of the tourist experience in order to design experiences by exploring the potential of ICT._x000D_
The main outputs of the project include a Joint Strategy & Action Plan for the ADRION destination management, the ADRION 5 SENSES Transnational Cooperation Network and demonstration actions (Map of Sensations, Multilingual Web Platform and Exhibition Centres) that will benefit local/regional/national authorities, SMEs, business support organisations, academia etc._x000D_
ADRION 5 SENSES aims to build the ADRION brand in the whole Programme area and thus transnationality is inherent to its logic.
Quality of service and prioritisation for emergency services in the lte ran stack

Q4HEALTH project is an innovation action focused on the optimization of real time video for emergency services over LTE. The project is implemented as a set of experiments conducted over the FIRE platforms PerformLTE and OpenAirInterface. The motivation is to study video performance in scenarios with wearable live video for first responders, improving its response on LTE-A with a particular innovation focus on 3GPP release 12. To achieve this goal six different experiments will be performed focused on resolving a set of six challenges identified as well as addressing a range of KPIs
Q4HEALTH faces different challenges, the inability of applications to negotiate a QoS agreement with the network, the delays introduced on live video, the appropriate  scheduling algorithms on the access nodes, the service availability on indoor scenarios and the communication between geographically correlated  entities. 
These challenges will be approached from different perspectives, the applications that will be extended to provide information regarding the type of traffic as well as their traffic requirements to the EPC and the scheduler in the RAN; the radio access where different scheduling strategies will be explored for emergency video; and the core network where mechanism to perform QoS reservation, techniques for seamless mobility between heterogeneous access technologies and SDN techniques to improve communication will be studied. 
Q4HEALTH has defined 20 KPIs and these will be formulated at the start as a baseline and at the end of the project we will measure the KPIs on an integrated optimized experiment in order to validate the project success.
Q4HEALTH will participate in the EIT KIC as well as FIRE and 5GPPP events in order to disseminate our results in to the wider innovation ecosystem. All the project results and extensions will be showcased to maximize the exposures to other companies that might also exploit the outcomes of the project.
VACUUM SOUNDPROOFING/INSULATING PANELS WITH VACUUM PUMP CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SAME TO PROVIDE ADJUSTABLE INSULATIVE EFFICIENCY TO A BUILDING ENVELOPE

A system of vacuum insulation panels provides an adjustable insulative resistance in a building envelope. The system includes a number of vacuum insulation panels installed to form separate insulation zones in the building envelope with airflow communication between selected vacuum insulation panels in a zone. A vacuum pump connects to vacuum pump connector assemblies of each vacuum insulation panel to thereby increase or decrease the amount of vacuum in each vacuum insulation panels. A digital processor controls the activation of the vacuum pump to adjust the insulative resistance of the building envelope. Thermostats provide real-time temperature information for each zone inside the building and for the outside temperature. Based on the temperature readings and other pre-programmed information the digital processor independently adjusts the isolative resistance of different zones of the building to maximize the heating and cooling efficiency.
Negation Generates Nonliteral Interpretations by Default

Four experiments and 2 corpus-based studies demonstrate that negation is a determinant factor affecting novel nonliteral utterance-interpretation by default. For a nonliteral utterance-interpretation to be favored by default, utterances should be potentially ambiguous between literal and nonliteral interpretations. They should therefore be (a) unfamiliar, (b) free of semantic anomaly or any kind of internal incongruity, and (c) unbiased by contextual information. Experiments 1–3 demonstrate that negative utterances, meeting these 3 conditions, were interpreted metaphorically (This is not a safe) or sarcastically (Ambitious she is not) when presented in isolation and were therefore processed faster in contexts strongly biasing them toward their nonliteral than toward their (equally biased) literal interpretation. Experiment 4 reduces the possibility that it is structural markedness on its own that induces nonliteralness. Two corpus-based studies provide corroborating evidence, supporting the view of negati...
Scooping device

A scooping device that can be used to grab pet refuse, urine clumps, etc. from a litter box, the ground, etc. or any other application where a scooping device is desirable. The scooping device can include a claw portion and a handle portion separated by a pole portion. The claw portion is moveable between an open position and a closed position and allows efficient sifting of grasped material contained within said claw portion.
INTERMESHING KNEADER

A closed kneader mixing machine including a tilting mixing chamber and a pair of counter- rotating intermeshing rotors rotatably mounted within the tilting mixing chamber. The counter- rotating intermeshing rotors may be synchronous rotors.
Specification and Aggregation Errors in Environmentally Extended Input–Output Models

This article considers the specification and aggregation errors that arise from estimating embodied $$\text{ CO }_{2}$$
 emissions and embodied water use with environmentally extended national input–output (IO) models, instead of with an environmentally extended international IO model. Model specification errors result from the use of domestic environmental and domestic technology coefficients to estimate emissions or resources that are embodied in international trade. For $$\text{ CO }_{2}$$
 footprints, unacceptably large overestimations arise from using domestic emission coefficients, which are only partly canceled out by using domestic technology coefficients. For water use footprints both specification errors are smaller, but hardly cancel out. Sectoral aggregation errors occur when combining the 129 EXIOPOL industries to 59 EU industries and 10 broad sectors. The latter aggregation creates the largest errors. Spatial aggregation errors arise from combining 43 individual EXIOPOL countries in four broad regions and “the rest of the world”. Substantial, unacceptable errors occur again, now especially in relation to water use.
Woven Electronic Textiles

Establishing an industrial production process for manufacturing of complex e-textiles is indispensable for making wearable sensors commodity goods. This chapter introduces weaving, the most common approach to developing textiles. Weaving enables both prototyping and mass production with the same production process, and is available to embed complex circuits or specially designed device-carrying yarn into multi-layered textiles. This chapter introduces basic techniques of weaving suitable for e-textile production, materials such as conductive yarn and device-carrying yarn, and advanced techniques such as jacquard or dobby loom for implementation of complex circuits or multi-layered textiles. This chapter also provides examples of several typical applications of woven e-textiles.
Topological explorations with a clip:  new molecular nanocarbons

The lack of synthetic control over the chirality of curved carbon nanostructures derived from graphene, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), prevents the development of molecular electronics applications that require high purity and uniformity of these materials. Single- and multi-walled CNTs are typically formed as a mixture of chiral, armchair, and zigzag nanostructures that significantly differ in their properties. The urgency of controlled chirality-specific synthesis of CNTs advanced the synthesis of curved molecular nanocarbons – molecular precursors for a stepwise synthesis of uniform single-walled CNTs. Applications in bioimaging, sensing, catalysis, and organic electronics have been rapidly emerging on account of the unusual properties of these hoop-like molecular nanocarbons.

To this date, no analogous molecular precursors for topologically more complex carbon nanostructures such as double-walled CNTs or carbon nanoscrolls exist because their topologies do not yet have a stable molecular representation.

TOPOCLIP develops such stable molecular representations, enables their synthesis by using a molecular clip, and delivers unprecedented topological molecular nanocarbons. The molecular clip helps controlling the curvature, preserves the electronic communication throughout the molecular nanocarbon structure, or allows construction of the first molecular nanocarbon with a reversible dynamic behavior. TOPOCLIP (1) improves our understanding of strain and non-covalent interactions that (de)stabilize curved nanocarbons, (2) delivers responsive nanocarbons that can alter shape with an external stimulus, and (3) establishes design principles for tailor-made molecular nanocarbons for future nano- and biotechnology applications. Ultimately, TOPOCLIP takes the vital step to find a solution to a long-standing challenge: the chirality-specific synthesis of carbon nanostructures of complex topologies obtained by rolling-up a graphene sheet beyond the single-walled CNTs.
Composite Flours and Breads: Potential of Local Crops in Developing Countries

Publisher Summary Many crops in developing countries, such as plantains, soybeans, tigernuts, and breadfruits, possess inherent nutritional values and therapeutic properties that could be exploited for enhancement of human nutrition and well-being. Such nutritional values could be transformed into human use by wheat-composite flour technology for bread production. Composite flours are mixtures of different vegetable flours–rich in starch, protein, and/or other nutrients–—with or without wheat flour. The ingredients used in composite flours depend on the availability of raw materials in the country concerned. The goal is to minimize cost of production compared to the cost of imported wheat because this would enable affordability of the final product by consumers. The presence of at least 70% wheat flour is required for good dough formation in wheat-composite flour for bread production. Irrespective of the low level of flour from crops that could be successfully adopted in composite flour/bread technology, it will accrue in great savings of the scarce resources of most developing countries, especially in Africa, where wheat cultivation does not thrive for climatic reasons.