SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Educational Inequalities

This edited collection will bring together researchers in the fields of education, gender, ‘race’ and sociology in an area of research of topical interest to academics in these fields. The main aim of the collection is to provide understandings of (in)equality in relation to ‘race’, gender and class. It will focus on difference and diversity, specifically gender, ‘race’ and class, and intersectionalities of these differences. In particular the collection seeks to locate the dimensions of difference within recent theoretical discourses with an emphasis on ‘race’, class and gender as key categories of analysis. The collection uses theoretical approaches to examine the inequalities and diversities of educational experiences. To do this, each chapter will review existing research and present new and original evidence in a theoretically informed context-specific manner. Whilst there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to ‘race’, class and gender. Given the gap in the literature it becomes all the more important to address the specificity of difference. This collection aims to bring together major researchers and those less established in the field of education located across the UK and diverse international (e.g. Australia, USA, New Zealand, Europe) contexts. Contributors will explore the ways in which dominant perspectives on ‘difference’, intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequality. The collection will emphasise the importance of international perspectives in such discussions and innovative methodological approaches to examining these areas. Additionally, the editors plan to include an introductory think-piece on educational inequalities and intersectionality that will comment on the collection as a whole, and a concluding chapter that provides new and critical perspectives on examining educational inequalities in ‘race’, gender and class.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCALIZED NMR SPECTROSCOPY USING AN INTERLEAVED SPIRAL PATTERN

An NMR system performs $i(in vivo) localized NMR spectroscopy. A two-dimensional selective RF excitation pulse is used to localize to a cylindrical region of interest, and either phase encoding or slice selective inversion is used to localize to a disk in the cylindrical region of interest. The two-dimensional selective RF excitation is performed in a series of pulse sequences rather than a single pulse sequence, and the resulting series of acquired NMR signals are summed together to substantially cancel signal contributions from outside the cylindrical region of interest.
Modified flour.

The invention relates to a method for improving the baking properties of flour, which comprises treating the flour with an acylating reagent. This makes the flour particularly suitable for use in the baking of high-ratio cakes.
Sprayable, thin & robust carbon nanofiber composite for jumping dropwise condensation

This proposal focuses on providing a roadmap towards upscaling and commercialization of promising results obtained during the FET Innovation program HARMoNIC (grant No 801229). In particular, the coordinator partner (ETH Zurich) has developed a nanocomposite material to be coated on metallic steam condensers used in thermal power generation. The coating is composed of a mixture of polytetrafluoroethylene and carbon nanofibers and is superhydrophobic (i.e. minimal affinity to liquid water).  The optimal wettability of the coating ensures that condensed droplets, even smaller than 100 μm, coalesce and spontaneously jump off the surface. Additionally, the coating is very thin (~ 2 μm) so that it has minimal thermal resistance for heat transfer. As a result, it shows a 9-fold improvement in heat transfer coefficient compared to conventional steam condensers wherein the steam condenses as an undesirable continuous liquid film. Moreover, our coating is highly robust and is the first one to sustain coalescence induced droplet jumping behavior over extended time periods under accelerated aging conditions involving exposure to hot steam flow. This enhanced mode of condensation, if maintained long enough, can provide a new direction on how future industrial condensers will be designed. We expect that such thermodynamically efficient condensers will have an immense socio-economic impact by reducing the fossil fuel consumption of thermal power plants and minimizing the associated emission of greenhouse gases. With this proposal, we plan to set the foundation for the commercialization of this technology by accomplishing the next three major steps to be followed. These are: 1) further material optimization beyond the state-of-the-art demonstration, 2) scaling up of the fabrication procedure and implementation of the technology to industrial condensers, and 3) developing a business plan and setting up a spin-off company while attracting venture capital.
Social work practice and social science history

Social work may be regarded as a product of the Enlightment together with other social sciences. The ontological shift from religious perspectives to a secularly based responsibility that opens up for political as well as individual action is regarded as a baseline for modern social work. Social work itself has struggled to develop an academic identity and a sustainable social field within the social sciences. Social work has historically experienced a gap between research and practice, relating to social sciences and other subjects as part of its teaching without a firm scientific foundation for social works own practice. If social work earlier developed related to ideas of welfare and social policy in practice it may now be moving in a new direction towards more than being based on scientific development within its own field. Over the last decades the need for scientific development within social work has strengthened its relation to research and social science. There seems to be arguments to support that social work is moving with research in directions which may be regarded as an epistemological turn based on understanding of knowledge production as well as a linguistic turn where the construction of meaning enhance the importance of regarding different lifeworlds and worldviews as basis for claiming some egalitarian positions for different positions as clients as well as researchers and practitioners .
Long-term Repeatability and Reproducibility of Phosphene Characteristics in Chronically Implanted Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Subjects

Previously published literatures of acute studies on few subjects have shown contradictory evidence on the reproducibility and characteristics of the elicited phosphenes, despite using the same stimulating parameters with epiretinal electrode arrays. In this study, we set out to investigate the long-term repeatilibity and reproducibility of phosphenes in subjects chronically implanted with the Argus II retinal prosthesis (Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA, USA).Retrospective interventional case series and reliability study.Six Argus II subjects of >5 years implantation from a single site participated. The 4-electrode cluster ("quad") closest to fovea was stimulated in each subject with a fixed biphasic current. Perceived phosphenes were depicted relative to subjective visual field center. The stimulus was applied at reducing time intervals from 20 minutes to 1 second. Two sets of stimulations were performed on the same day and 2 further sets repeated on a separate visit >1 week apart.Each subject depicted phosphenes of consistent shapes and sizes, and reported seeing the same colors with the fixed stimulating parameters, irrespective of the interstimuli intervals. However, there is a wide intersubject variation in the phosphene characteristics. Four subjects drew phosphenes in the same visual field quadrant, as predicted by the quad-fovea location. Two subjects depicted phosphenes in the same hemifield as the expected locations.Phosphenes for each subject were consistently reproducible in all our chronically implanted subjects. This has important implications in the development of long-term pixelated prosthetic vision for future devices.
REALLOCATION OF CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCES FOR RETRANSMISSION OF DATA IN WIRELESS NETWORKS BASED ON COMMUNICATIONS MODE

A technique is provided for allocating resources based on a communications mode. The technique may include receiving, by a user device from a base station in a wireless network, information indicating a communications mode to be used to receive a data retransmission, and receiving, by the user device based on the communications mode, a data retransmission that includes control information and retransmitted data, wherein a portion of resources allocated for the control information is based on the communications mode.
Feasibility study for urban protection aviation copter s-100

SCHIEBEL will develop a new unmanned aerial system (UAS) for civil market applications including urban security which will be more cost-effective, reliable and versatile than current solutions. 
Currently air authorities worldwide are formulating the conditions to be able to operate UAS in the civil airspace, opening a myriad of new market opportunities. With its long-term experience and leadership in the UAS market and its cooperation with regulatory authorities, SCHIEBEL is expected to be the first company to operate in the category of professional UAS, a global market which is expected to reach a volume of 700 million USD in the next five years.
SCHIEBEL’s UPAC S-100 will revolutionize disaster relief, protection and surveillance of critical infrastructure and other areas in urban environments, such as:

- Supporting first responders in monitoring disaster areas (e.g., the fire brigade in locating a fire, where people are exiting or how to get around the problem area)
- Instantly creating a temporary mobile phone network in only 30 minutes, dropping leaflets and talking to people via loudspeakers in case of destroyed infrastructure
- Entering contaminated areas (too risky for manned assets) and identifying (through sensors) biological/chemical hazard leaks
- Fast and flexible response to criminal acts (including terrorism) 
- Inspections/maintenance of critical infrastructures, e.g. power lines and pipelines
- Improving coast guard activities, maritime emergency response and border control

The Feasibility Assessment will define the regulatory requirements, the business case, the necessary technical developments and the changes needed within SCHIEBEL’s organization. It will define precisely the market potential in terms of geographical areas, type of clients, potential revenues and market size, establishing a roadmap with clear priorities, actions and targets.
Taxonomic and systematic revisions to the North American Nimravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)

The Nimravidae is a family of extinct carnivores commonly referred to as “false saber-tooth cats.” Since their initial discovery, they have prompted difficulty in taxonomic assignments and number of valid species. Past revisions have only examined a handful of genera, while recent advances in cladistic and morphometric analyses have granted us additional avenues to answering questions regarding our understanding of valid nimravid taxa and their phylogenetic relationships. To resolve issues of specific validity, the phylogenetic species concept (PSC) was utilized to maintain consistency in diagnosing valid species, while simultaneously employing character and linear morphometric analyses for confirming the validity of taxa. Determined valid species and taxonomically informative characters were then employed in two differential cladistic analyses to create competing hypotheses of interspecific relationships. The results suggest the validity of twelve species and six monophyletic genera. The first in depth reviews of Pogonodon and Dinictis returned two valid species ( P. platycopis , P. davisi ) for the former, while only one for the latter ( D. felina ). The taxonomic validity of Nanosmilus is upheld. Two main clades with substantial support were returned for all cladistic analyses, the Hoplophoneini and Nimravini, with ambiguous positions relative to these main clades for the European taxa: Eofelis , Dinailurictis bonali , and Quercylurus major ; and the North American taxa Dinictis and Pogonodon . Eusmilus is determined to represent a non-valid genus for North American taxa, suggesting non-validity for Old World nimravid species as well. Finally, Hoplophoneus mentalis is found to be a junior synonym of Hoplophoneus primaevus , while the validity of Hoplophoneus oharrai is reinstated.
A groundbreaking no contact, roll to roll, modular transportation and fluid delivery technology that enables faster and more uniform chemical reaction of any feature size without risk of damage.

A major problem with current chemical processing tools is that they use rollers to transport and support foil (any thin roll-to-roll substrate) through chemical treatment chambers located between un-winding and re-winding mechanisms. Roller transport limits and potentially prohibits fine detail treatment and reduces yield (to 10% in extreme cases) due to damage caused by contact with such rollers. Current technology employs long process tanks and slow speeds to minimise contact damage. In applications where contact is of less concern rollers still limit capability as the force required to turn them results stretching or breaking of the foil limiting foil type, thickness, and process residence times.
Fluid Foil will provide frictionless, non-contact, modular transportation and fluid delivery technologies that enable chemical processing of any feature size without risk of damage to the web. Extremely low re-wind tensions enable processing of thin delicate and porous materials. Web processing density of 30 meters of web per linier meter of system dramatically increases processing speeds and most importantly places no limit on web length. Modular control software will complete activities such as data logging and real time fault analysis.
Fluid Foil will have the capacity to accelerate innovation printed, organic & flexible electronics as well as enabling potential new markets to emerge (e.g. graphene, e-textiles and paper products). This will be achieved via the provision of low cost and adaptable machinery to fabricators, opening up chemical processing to SMEs. The commercial aim of the project is to limit the time-intensive work that goes into the customisation of machines and software and reduce the lead time and cost to the customer while increasing our output.Our goal for the overall project is to develop and build a suite of demonstrator modules which will help generate customer confidence and gain orders from early adopters before we go on to license the system.
Bataille: The Master, the Slave, and Consumption

The aim of the essay is to situate Bataille’s idiosyncratic thought on consumption in the context of the modern debate on this topic, to unravel its vacillations and contradictions, and to tease out its main implications. The modern philosophical and ideological debate on consumption, while highly variegated, can be usefully divided into two main camps, two broad intellectual traditions or lineages, a Marxist and a Nietzschean one. These camps are diametrically opposed in all important respects, including consumption, yet paradoxically enough, Bataille had roots in both. This point is of crucial importance for understanding his position and its striking peculiarities. Bataille’s contradictory political position is explored, a position which overtly embraces radicalism but remains in fact profoundly attached, it is argued, to capitalism.
Postprandial Triglyceride-rich Lipoprotein Composition and Size after Olive Oil

Publisher Summary The postprandial lipid period takes place after the intake of food. Therefore, postprandial lipid metabolism refers to the metabolic processes that occur following the ingestion of a meal containing fat, and it is characterized by a considerable increase in plasma triglyceride (TG) levels. The postprandial response can last up to 8 hours depending on the amount and type of ingested fat. Thus, due to the frequency of intake in developed countries, most humans are in an almost constant postprandial state. Together with elevated plasma TG, an impaired metabolism of postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRL) is believed to contribute to the onset and development of atherosclerosis. TRL comprise a very heterogeneous group of nascent and metabolically modified lipoproteins, including chylomicrons (CM), very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL), and their remnants. CM are assembled in the intestine and mainly contain dietary lipids, while VLDL include lipids from endogenous origin. TRL become remnant particles after partial depletion of their TG content by lipoprotein lipase (LPL) hydrolysis. These types of particles are highly atherogenic because, in contrast to low-density lipoproteins, TRL can penetrate into the intima and be taken up by macrophages without need for prior oxidation, leading to foam cell formation, which is one of the first steps in atherosclerosis development. In addition, each TRL transports more cholesterol than does each particle of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), delivering to the intima 5- to 20-fold more cholesterol and therefore, being potentially more atherogenic than LDL. The atherogenicity of TRL is influenced by their composition and size, increasing the risk with the augmentation of circulating particles and the time elapsed before their clearance. One of the proposed reasons why dietary fats play a key role in atherogenesis is because dietary lipids contained in CM can interact directly with cells in the artery wall during their plasmatic transport.
Fast Neutron and Gamma induced Radiation Dose Monitoring during Nano-particle Production by Proton beam Irradiation

We report a fast neutron and gamma induced radiation dose and flux monitoring study during the nano-particle production at the proton beam irradiation facility. The monitoring results will be used for understanding of the activation of irradiated samples and the effect to the nano-particle production. A cylindrical shape of BC523A liquid scintillator was used for the fast neutron and gamma monitoring purpose. A neutron tagger module was used for the signal digitization and it has a function of pulse shape discrimination capability by using a charge comparison method. Samples for the nano-particle production were irradiated with 45-MeV proton beam from the MC-50 cyclotron at the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences. The fast neutron detector was located just behind of the sample. Proton beam current from 20 nA to 500 nA was used for the test. The measured neutron and gamma flux, energy spectra, and neutron and gamma induced radiation dose in the liquid scintillator were evaluated and compared with different sample setup. This study showed that the developed detection system is useful for the absorbed dose and flux monitoring of neutron and gamma in the proton beam line.
A QUICK LOCK WIRELINE VALVE/BLOW-OUT PREVENTOR AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME

A blow out preventor (BOP) apparatus is disclosed that includes a BOP body including a quick connection system including one female connector or a plurality of female connectors, disposed in each actuator receiving aperture, each female connector having a female engaging profile and one male connector or a plurality of male connectors, disposed on an outer surface of an actuator cylinder, one for each female connector, each male connector having a male engaging profile, where the male engaging profile is adapted to register with the female engaging profile upon insertion of an actuator into its corresponding receiving aperture and upon rotation of the actuator through a rotational angle, the male profile engages the female profile in at least one contacting zone, and where the rotational angle depends on the profiles.
Uncovering molecular mechanisms of active transcriptional repression.

Animal development and homeostasis critically depend on the accurate regulation of gene expression, which includes the silencing of genes that should not be active. Silencing or repression of transcription is mediated by a specific class of transcription factors termed repressors that, typically via the recruitment of co-repressors, can dominantly suppress transcription, even in the presence of activating cues. While the importance of such “active repression” is emphasized by severe developmental defects and diseases like cancer that can result when repressors are mutated, how repressors function is not well understood. In particular, how repression is achieved mechanistically and whether all repressors can repress all activators has remained elusive.   Here, I propose to study the functional properties of repressors and the mechanisms of active repression by an interdisciplinary approach that combines genome-wide experiments, targeted assays, and bioinformatics. Specifically, I will use high-throughput functional assays in combination with the Gal4/UAS system to systematically test whether transcriptional repressors can repress all active promoters and enhancers or only specific ones but not others. Further, I aim to uncover the mechanisms behind active repression by recruiting repressors to active promoters and enhancers in a rapidly inducible manner, using chemically-inducible-proximity, to then assess the changes to DNA accessibility, histone modifications, and Pol II activity. In addition, I will measure differential protein composition and PTMs at active genomic regions, before and during induced repression. These approaches should identify critical molecular events, proteins, or PTMs and allow me to test their causal involvement in repression.   This project has the potential to greatly improve our mechanistic understanding of transcriptional repression, which despite its importance for gene expression, development and disease has remained poorly understood.
VEHICLE HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM

A vehicle heating and air conditioning system basically includes an interior/exterior air introducing structure (3), a heating device (7), a driving end time acquiring section (12) and an interior/exterior air switching control section (14). The interior/exterior air introducing structure (3) switches the flow of cabin intake air between an interior air recirculation mode and an exterior air introducing mode. The heating device (7) heats the cabin intake air being introduced by the interior/exterior air introducing structure (3). The driving end time acquiring section (12) estimates a driving end time corresponding to a point in time at which driving of a vehicle is predicted to end. The interior/exterior air switching control section (14) switches the interior/exterior air introducing structure (3) from the exterior air introducing mode to the interior air recirculation mode during a period of time from a prescribed point in time until the driving end time such that windshield fogging can be restricted while in the interior air recirculation mode.