SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Firms and their networks

There is mounting evidence that firms are becoming more fragmented; production is less often made “in-house”. Firms buy inputs from abroad. Tasks are often split in parts. Some are offshored, others are subcontracted. Hence, firms buy services from other, local or international, firms. But they also supply inputs to other firms. Technical change, the internet, and globalization, all facilitate this transformation. 

In order to better understand how firms thrive in the new global environment, the proposed research aims to construct a networks view of the firm. Fragmentation offers new opportunities: firms may specialize in what they make best, hence creating a business network of customers and suppliers. Networks are also useful to secure provision of fragmented tasks. The firms’ suppliers of goods and services – accountants, logisticians, consultants… -- may well be related to the firm through its workers’ social networks: family ties, boardroom relations… These social networks should be useful when times are tough -- board members could help find financing in banks where their schoolmates have a job – or when times are unusually good -- employees could help in spotting the right hires among their former co-workers. 

The proposed research will focus on how firms social and business networks help firms to be resilient in the face of shocks. Resilience will be measured using the firms’ and workers’ outcomes – value-added, wages, employment, or occupations. The research will have a theoretical component using general equilibrium models with heterogeneous firms, an empirical component with unique data sources from at least two countries (France, Sweden), and an “econometric theory” component which will seek to develop techniques for the study of many-to-one matches in the presence of networks. The research will speak to the labor economics community but also to the international trade community, the management community, as well as the econometrics community.
QUICK ACCESS GUIDE WITH INTEGRATED STRAP CHUTE OPENER

A quick access guide with an integrated strap chute opening device for a strapping machine is disclosed in which the strap chute separating device has a frame and a strap chute mounted to the frame. The strap chute includes at least one fixed wall (28) cooperating with at least one movable wall (30). In a first position, the walls are closed and define a strap path (22) through the strap chute and in a second position, the movable wall moves to separate and open the strap path. A handle (16) rotates to open the chute using a cam (18). A guide arm (34) is also rotated by rotation of the handle to allow access to the strap path.
Expression of Nogo-66 receptor in human astrocytoma is correlated with tumor malignancy

Nogo-A is a myelin-associated neuronal growth inhibitory molecule in central nervous system after trauma. However, the physiological functions of Nogo-A in neural development and in healthy oligodendrocytes are largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the expression of Nogo-66 receptor (NgR) protein in 60 cases of human astrocytoma by Western blot RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry. The correlation between the expression of NgR and pathologic grades of astrocyoma was further analyzed. The results showed that the expression of NgR protein and NgR mRNA immunoreactivity score, were decreased markedly with the increasing pathological grades. Double immunostaining results showed that Nogo-A and NgR were colocalized at the interface of astrocytoma cells and extracellular matrix. Our results indicated that NgR may have inhibitory effects on tumor activity and Nogo-A may restrict migration of tumor cells via NgR.
Understanding the fate of arctic atmospheric mercury (hg) deposition – a hg stable isotope investigation of redox processes and hg re-emissions

Mercury (Hg) is a pollutant of global concern for human and ecosystem health. This is particularly true in the Arctic where indigenous populations are excessively exposed to dietary Hg from fish and marine mammal consumption. The deposition of Hg from the atmosphere to Earth surfaces and its re-emission via biogeochemical reduction processes determine Hg concentrations in Earth surface reservoirs, such as soils, snow, and runoff into Arctic lakes and surface Ocean. In order to predict the impact of anthropogenic Hg emissions on net atmospheric Hg deposition and ultimately Hg concentrations in biota, it is important to understand these deposition and re-emission processes. The reduction of deposited Hg2+ to volatile gaseous Hg0 and the oxidation of gaseous Hg0 to reactive Hg2+, which is rapidly deposited from the atmosphere, control the global fate of Hg. Major knowledge gaps concerning the mechanisms of these redox processes exist. 
Different photochemical and non-photochemical Hg2+ reduction mechanisms were found to fractionate Hg stable isotopes in distinct, identifiable ways. Also, different atmospheric Hg0 and Hg2+ pools have been shown to have distinguishable Hg isotope signatures. Hg isotopes can thus provide new insights in the sources of Hg and redox transformation processes at the Earth-atmosphere interface, which are inaccessible by means of concentration and flux measurements alone. In the MEROXRE project proposed here we will combine the latest innovations in gaseous Hg measurements in porous media (soils, snow) with state-of-the-art Hg isotope techniques to investigate:
(i)	Hg isotope fractionation of Hg2+ reduction and gaseous Hg0 oxidation in interstitial snow air and soil pores. 
(ii)	Hg isotope fractionation factors associated with net gaseous Hg0 re-emission fluxes from soil and snow
(iii)	the importance of gaseous Hg0 oxidation and Hg2+ reduction and re-emission for the global Hg cycle by incorporating the results in a global Hg isotope model.
Communication for children with hearing impairment to optimise language development

The World Health Assembly adopted a 2017 resolution recognising Hearing Impairment (HI) as a priority worldwide health issue. Children with HI present significant risks for language acquisition, educational achievement, socio-emotional development, and well-being. Current intervention plans fail to prepare those children for academic achievement and social participation in contemporary society where the diversity of their needs is increasing. Comm4CHILD is a consortium implementing an innovative approach for optimising the communicative skills and social inclusion of children with HI. Comm4CHILD addresses the large inter-individual heterogeneity in brain plasticity, cognitive resources, and linguistic abilities, and takes full advantage of this heterogeneity to support efficient communicative skills in children with HI. A group of 15 ESRs will be trained in research and intervention in a cross-sectoral way. ESRs individual research projects are conceptualized within three focus areas or work packages: biology (i.e. anatomical variations of the cochlea and cerebral functional reorganisation), cognition (i.e. working memory, multimodal integration in communication), and language (i.e. inter-individual differences in speech intelligibility and spelling ability). The work of the ESRs will (1) enhance mapping of the factors underlying heterogeneity, (2) advance the understanding of the predictors of linguistic communicative skills, and (3) develop new intervention methods. The ESRs will become the “paediatric hearing care entrepreneurs” of the future, thanks to the collaborations between academic, industrial, clinical, and community-based partners. The output of this unique consortium is expected to have an impact across all aspects of HI children's everyday life. Specifically, Comm4CHILD will provide a significantly improved understanding of communicative and social skills that will underpin the development of innovative future treatment and rehabilitation measures.
Optimization of diacylglycerol production by glycerolysis of fish oil catalyzed by Lipozyme TL IM with Tween 65

The diacylglycerols (DAG) are emulsifiers with high added value used as functional additives in food, medicine, and cosmetic industries. In glycerolysis of oils for the production of DAG, the immiscibility between the substrates (glycerol and oil phases) has to be overcome, for example, by the addition of a food grade surfactant like Tween 65. The main objective of this work was to optimize the process conditions for obtaining diacylglycerols rich in the omega-3 eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids, through the enzymatic glycerolysis of fish oil, in systems with Tween 65 and without this surfactant, using Lipozyme TL(®) IM as biocatalyst. The experiments were performed according to predetermined conditions varying the temperature, enzyme load, the oil to glycerol molar ratio and, when added, the surfactant load. After 6 h of reaction, it was possible to produce up to 20.76 and 13.76% of diacylglycerols from fish oil in the reactions with and without Tween 65, respectively.
Small launch vehicle trajectory profile optimization using hybrid algorithm

A hybrid optimization approach combining a genetic algorithm (GA) with sequential quadratic programming (SQP) has been used for optimization of the trajectory profile of a three stage solid propellant small launch vehicle configured from existing solid rocket motors. The selected launch vehicle (LV) is capable of delivering a small satellite of 80 kg to a low earth orbit (LEO) of 660 km altitude. This hybrid optimization approach combines the advantage of GA as a global optimizer and complemented with SQP to find the local optimum. The vertical flight time, launch maneuver variable, maximum angle of attack, coasting time between the first and second stage and the second coasting time between the second and third stage were optimized. It is shown that the proposed hybrid optimization approach was able to find the convergence of the optimal solution with very acceptable values.
Brain-Viscera interactions underlie subjectivity

Subjectivity defines the subject who is perceiving, feeling, thinking, acting, and is essential to understand the conscious mind from the inside. However, subjectivity, or non-reflective first-person perspective, is not identified as a core concept in cognitive neuroscience and its neural basis remain largely unknown. BRAVIUS offers a unified framework to appraise both the concept and the neural mechanisms generating subjectivity. The hypothesis relies on two vital organs that generate their own rhythmic electrical activity, the stomach and the heart, and therefore constantly send information up to the neocortex, even in the absence of bodily change. Cortical responses to those visceral organs would define the organism as an entity at the neural level, and create a subject-centered referential from which first-person perspective can develop. In other words, the cardiac and gastric pacemakers could feed the brain with self-specifying inputs. BRAVIUS builds on previous theories and studies on visceral states but focuses on ascending information, from viscera to brain, and does not require visceral states to change nor to be consciously perceived. Experimentally, BRAVIUS measures the understudied neural response evoked by heartbeats and introduces a new measure, the electrogastrogram, to quantify the slow gastric pacemaker. BRAVIUS will test with magneto-encephalography (MEG) the role of neural responses to ascending visceral signals in generating subjectivity by cutting across domains of cognitive sciences and exploring diverse paradigms where subjectivity is engaged: perceptual consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions and decision making. BRAVIUS will further explore how cardiac and gastric ascending signals shape the temporal (MEG) and spatial (fMRI) organization of spontaneous brain activity. The project outcome is a detailed mechanistic neural account of the most private part of the human mind, and a unified concept of subjectivity across cognitive domains.
Color sorting method for small-grain agricultural products combining area scanning photoelectric characteristic and line scanning photoelectric characteristic

A color sorting method for small-grain agricultural products combining an area scanning photoelectric characteristic and a line scanning photoelectric characteristic is provided. The present invention obtains an area scan image of small-grain agricultural product materials on a conveyor belt by using an area scan camera, which can accurately extract area array features of the materials and realize accurate identification of the unqualified materials. At the same time, the present invention can provide key parameters for accurate positioning during free falling of the materials while identifying the unqualified materials by using the area scan image, and can cooperate with the line scan positioning camera and the pneumatic nozzle to achieve high-speed elimination of the unqualified materials.
Transmutation and Reinvention of Public Spaces Through Ideals of Urban Planning and Design

Our cities are undergoing a rapid transformation of public spaces due to different factors, such as economic and cultural globalization, demographic transformations, marketing strategies, urban planning and design approaches, medialization reinterpretations, social networks, and others. The urban realm itself is the collection of public spaces and places—buildings, squares, streets, landscapes, and ecosystems, as well as processes, mindscapes, and people that make up and shape any environment. In that respect, urban planning and design is really characterized by two distinct processes that transubstantiate space and place: static and dynamic. This qualitative, reflective article discusses these issues, taking a standpoint from the notion of public space as a common good. This notion is discussed in relation to the factors that transform our cities and is analyzed in relation to the concept of public good. We reflect this discussion vis-à-vis the views of the leading paradigms in urban planning and design, and their intake on and outlook on these complex issues.
Accurate concentration determination of anions nitrate, nitrite and chloride in minced meat using a voltammetric electronic tongue

Abstract A method for predicting levels of chloride, nitrite and nitrate in minced meat by using an electronic tongue based on pulse voltammetry is proposed here. The electronic tongue consists of a set of noble (Au, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ag) and non-noble (Ni, Co, Cu) electrodes that were housed inside a stainless steel cylinder used at the same time as both the body of the electronic tongue system and the counter/reference electrode. An electrochemical study of the response of the anions Cl − , NO 3 − and NO 2 − using the different noble and non-noble electrodes was carried out in water in order to design a set of pulses for the electronic tongue. The determination of the concentration of chloride, nitrate and nitrite with the voltammetric tongue was carried out on both saline solutions (brines) and minced meat. The addition of the salts was performed following an experimental design in which a system of three compounds/three levels was established. Multivariate analysis including cross validation and partial least square (PLS) techniques were applied for data management and prediction models building. A very good prediction of the concentration of the anions chloride, nitrate and nitrite was achieved in brines. In minced meat, PLS models showed reduction in the prediction capabilities caused by a matrix effect, nevertheless the system still shows good accuracy and precision in the determination of concentration levels of these anions.
DAMPING DEVICE FOR MOVABLE PARTS, IN PARTICULAR FOR HINGES OR EXTENDABLE OR PIVOTABLE FURNITURE PARTS

The present invention relates to a damping device (11) with two parts (13, 15) which are pivotable relative to each other about a pivot axis (12), a first part (13) with a sleeve (19, 25a, 25b), a second part (15) with an axle holder (21a, 21b) and an axle (17) for insertion into the sleeve (19, 25a, 25b) and into the axle holder (21a, 21b), and therefore the pivoting parts (13, 15) can be pivoted relative to each other about the pivot axis (12). A mechanical coupling (23a, 23b, 35a, 35b) is provided between the axle (17) and the axle holder (21a, 21b). In addition, the sleeve (19, 25; 19, 25a, 25b) and the axle (17) are designed in such a manner that, upon relative rotation of the two parts (13, 15), a braking effect is obtained by means of friction.
Integrability versus quantum thermalization

Non-integrability is often taken as a prerequisite for quantum thermalization. Still, a generally accepted definition of quantum integrability is lacking. With the basis in the driven Rabi model we discuss this careless usage of the term "integrability" in connection to quantum thermalization. The model would be classified as non-integrable according to the most commonly used definitions, for example, the only preserved quantity is the total energy. Despite this fact, a thorough analysis conjectures that the system will not thermalize. Thus, our findings suggest first of all (i) that care should be paid when linking non-integrability with thermalization, and secondly (ii) that the standardly used definitions for quantum integrability are unsatisfactory.
INTERNET OF THINGS GATEWAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OIL AND GAS FIELDS

The present disclosure describes implementation of wireless sensor packages to monitor various oilfield equipment health status, such as bearing wear and detect out-of-balance condition on reciprocating rod lifts (RRLs). Equipment health data can be collected, analyzed and stored by an IoT gateway, which is a small form-factor, ruggedized, low-power Intel processor computer running a novel message-oriented middleware software stack that leverages the MQTT protocol. Data may subsequently be transmitted to a cloud service via the internet via to a datacenter through SCADA, for analysis and action.
The normativity of sacred images in early modern europe

What is a sacred image? This is a crucial question for multicultural Europe – today as well as in the past. Between 1450-1650 Europe underwent, at the same time, an impressive artistic development and a dramatic religious crisis during which the status of the sacred image was repeatedly contested. Focusing on a comparison between five major areas that, remaining inside Catholicism, responded differently to the challenge imposed by the Reformation, SACRIMA will investigate the relations between art, religion and geography proposing to break ground in two main ways. First, by using and developing the concept of ‘normativity’ in a double sense: institutional normativity and visual normativity. Second, by adopting a comparative approach at the crossroads of the history of art, the history of religion and cultural geography. Starting from a new systematic survey of image-based material in ecclesiastical archives, it proposes: 1) A comparative survey of contested images in the Italian peninsula and islands, France, Iberia, the Low Countries and Southern Germany. 2) An investigation of ‘visual norms’ through focus on three complementary aspects: styles (in particular, the limits of realistic effects), iconographic norms, and the role of reproduction, restoration and reframing. 3) An exploration of the geography of reactions to art transfer aiming at reconstructing a cross-border cartography of visual norms in Europe and the Mediterranean. The proposed focus on the capacity of art to impose new normative visions of sacred subjects as well as to produce reactions which are often geographically differentiated opens new perspectives on the relations between art, religion and cultural transfer, shedding new light on previously explored notions of ‘image censorship’, the ‘power of images’ or the ‘performance of images’. The overall project will contribute to the understanding of dynamics of cultural integration, differentiation and local negotiation in early modern Europe.
Lean and Green Supply Chain Performance: A Balanced Scorecard Perspective

The performance evaluation has become an important subject to get competitive advantage on supply chain. New business paradigms as lean and green are able to develop improvements on the supply chain performance. To get a balanced performance measurement system, a balanced scorecard (BSC) may be developed. This study is motivated by the lack of evidence on the lean and green supply chain performance through a BSC framework. The purpose of this study is to explore how to reach benefits on supply chain performance, considering the lean and green performance measures through the traditional BSC perspectives. To attain the paper objective in a first stage a literature review was carried out, to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the BSC can incorporate the lean and green supply chain performance measures. Next, a conceptual framework was developed to investigate how lean and green initiatives can affect the supply chain performance, using a cause-and-effect BSC approach. It is possible to recognize that lean and green initiatives influence the linkages between performance measures. These linkages in the scorecard are an example of how to evaluate the organization’s supply chain.KeywordsLean supply chainGreen supply chainBalanced scorecard Performance measurement
Clinical value of transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy

Objective To evaluate the clinical value of transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy.Methods Sixty patients underwent 10 core prostate biopsy guided by transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) from January 2011 to January 2012.Results In 60 patients,the detection rate of prostate cancer were 53.3%(32/60).The display rates of prostate nodule by TRUS increased with the rising of prostate-specific antigen(PSA) levels(Z=-2.9971,P=0.0014).There was significantly different in display rates of prostate nodule of different PSA levels(χ2=9.3854,P=0.0246);The positive rates of biopsy increased gradually with the rising of PSA levels(Z=-4.3657,P0.0001).There was significantly different in the pathological results of different groups(χ2=42.1727,P0.0001).Conclusion The display of prostate nodule by TRUS increases with the rising of PSA levels.The detection rates of prostate cancer are positively correlated with PSA levels.The transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy has many advantages,such as more safety and less side effects,which will be valuable to the clinic.