SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Effect of late sodium current inhibition on MRI measured diastolic dysfunction and myocardial perfusion reserve in aortic stenosis: a pilot study

Background Aortic Stenosis (AS) is characterized by pressure overload hypertrophy (LVH) with associated diastolic dysfunction. The presence of LVH, diastolic dysfunction and microvascular dysfunction appear to be important determinants of exercise capacity in AS. There are no medical therapies in AS of proven value. Ranolazine is licenced for the treatment of angina and inhibits late sodium channel activation. Ranolazine has been shown to improve diastolic dysfunction in isolated myocytes. Methods In this prospective, open label study with blinded endpoint analysis, patients with asymptomatic moderate/severe AS and diastolic dysfunction or LVH were recruited. Patients, underwent trans-thoracic echocardiography, exercise testing and adenosine stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at baseline, 6 weeks after commencing Ranolazine (maximum dose 750mg BD) and again at 10 weeks (4 weeks after discontinuation). Tagged images were acquired at three short-axis slices on a 3T platform (Siemens Skyra). Myocardial perfusion reserve was calculated from stress and resting blood flow. The primary hypothesis was that Ranolazine would improve peak early diastolic strain rate (PEDSR) on tagged MRI. Results Fifteen patients (PPG 48.8±12.4 mmHg, MPG 27.1±7.5 mmHg, AVA 1.26±0.31 cm 2 , LV mass index 66.72±15.35 g/m 2 ) completed the week-6 visit and 13 completed the final visit. Results are shown in table 1. There was a trend for the global PEDSR to increase from the baseline to week-6 (0.79 ± 0.15 to 0.86 ± 0.18, p=0.198). For those who completed the final visit, PEDSR increased from baseline to week-6 and then returned close to the baseline value at week-10 (table). There was no significant change in MPR or echocardiographic measures of diastolic dysfunction. The total exercise duration increased from 10.47 ±3.68 minutes to 11.60±3.25 minutes (n=15, p=0.06), with a trend for the maximal HR and SBP to be lower at week6, resulting in a reduction in exercise LV rate-pressure product (LVRPP), suggesting improved myocardial efficiency. On splitting the patients into low and high-MPR subgroups based on the median MPR, the trend for the improvement in PEDSR (0.88 ± 0.80, 1.03 ± 0 .30, 0.86 ± 0.15) and reduction in exercise LVRPP was maintained in the low-MPR subgroup only. Conclusions This pilot hypothesis-generating study has shown some signals towards Ranolazine improving diastolic function and exercise myocardial efficiency in patients with AS, particularly in those with a lower MPR. The current results would support a larger study in patients with diastolic dysfunction. Funding
A Quantitative Comparison of Program Plagiarism Detection Tools

In this work we compare a total of 9 different tools for the detection of source code plagiarism. We evaluated the plagiarism or copy detection tools CPD, JPlag, Sherlock, Marble, Moss, Plaggie and SIM and two baselines, one based on the Unix tool diff and one based on the difflib module from the Python Standard Library. We provide visualizations of the output of these tools and compare the performance of each tool when running it on different tasks by comparing both the F-measures and the area under the precision-recall-curve (AUC-PR). We compare the performance using these metrics on each task and identify the best performing tools.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF A MATERIAL WEB AND FOR CONTROL OF THE BEHAVIOR OF A MATERIAL WEB

The solution of the invention relates to a method and apparatus for the treatment of a paper web in a paper or cardboard machine. The essential feature of the solution of the invention is that a moving material web (1), its properties and/or its behavior are influenced by the use of a gas (2) by causing the gas (2) to flow substantially toward the material web or to its immediate vicinity.
Change Vector Analysis using Integrated Vegetation Indices for Land Cover Change Detection

The change detection is the process to identify the difference of area between two dates in the same location. The objective of this research is to study the land cover change from satellite image during the years 2007 and 2017 using change vector analysis (CVA). The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and bare soil index (BI) were the parameters considered for land cover change analysis using the CVA. The magnitude and direction of change vectors were used to identify of land cover change. Data collection was conducted by interviewing group leader of 3 sub-districts where considerable land cover changes were observed to evaluate the land cover changes using GIS. The results of the magnitude of change vector have revealed no change 52 % and change 48 %. The results of the direction of change vector found that the moisture change more than 76 %. The land cover change from questionnaire show that Thakhonyang, and Khamriang sub-districts have changed from agriculture area to built-up area, but Makha sub-district did not show changes.
The Poisoning Mechanism Study of ITO Target

In order to better understand the ITO target poisoning mechanism,this paper introduces the technology of magnetron sputtering thin film preparation principle,reviews the poisoning research present situation of the ITO target in the sputtering process,analyzed the possible causes effecting ITO target poisoning phenomenon,introduces in detail the present 3 kinds of solution ITO target poisoning phenomenon method process for the preparation of ITO target:different effects,the best Sn dopant and other elements of the dopant and the influence of the sputtering process,points out their remission ITO target poisoning phenomenon principle,and looks to the future to solve our country ITO toxicity problem of targets the development direction,which provides certain reference function to our country ITO target development.
Protecting the environment from oil-based lubricants

Every year skiers, cyclists and surfers go to enjoy the great outdoors. What they often not realise is that the waxes and lubricants that their equipment uses are made from oil and that they are depositing damaging hydrocarbons in the environment. These deposits damage the soil composition and poison fresh water reducing species, restricting plant growth and limit biodiversity. As such it can also enter the human food chain and cause serious harm to the body. So the very thing that outdoor sports practitioners crave and love to be in contact with (the environment), they are damaging.  
Marteen Sports World has been founded with the objective to reduce such chemicals and oil in nature. We have developed the world´s first fully natural bio-degradable ski wax for which we have received a coveted ISPO and an eco-ski award. We now request SME Instrument funding to develop product for a new sports category and to fully investigate markets and channels to maximise our success and scale our company. By 2023 we predict sales of 5.6M EUR and growth to 26 employees, this is important to us, but we are also really driven to foster better understanding and the take-up of environmentally friendly outdoor materials for other sectors such as biking, surfing etc.
Changes in groundwater storage, Kamienna drainage basin, southeastern Poland

Water-table levels in the Kamienna River drainage basin, SE Poland, are presently measured at 14 observation points within the groundwater observation-research network of the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, included in the monitoring programme during the period 1979–2007. They exhibit multi-year changes in groundwater storage near the observation points. The best documented cycle is that for the period 1982–2002, observed in the wells monitoring water in fractured-karstic formations, where the amplitude of the water-table level was 45 m at that time. The retention balance in the cycle was negative. At the beginning of the cycle, the water table in the fractured-karstic aquifers was 1.40 to 1.94 m higher than at the end. Further observations of the multi-year changes in retention will be the basis for possible corrections to calculations of groundwater resources in this drainage basin, as well as for model predictions of resources, performed for water management in connection with potential climate change.
Energy behaviour change driven by plug-and-play-and-forget ict and business models focusing on complementary currency for energy efficiency for the wider population

BENEFFICE’s strategic objective is to reduce wasted energy by incentivising various consumer types in the wide energy consumer market. A novel ecosystem will be developed which enables and incentivises long-term energy consumption savings. BENEFFICE ecosystem leverages novel IoT enabled, low-cost, “plug-and-play-and-forget” devices, energy disaggregation and an innovative empowerment and rewards approach based on an alternative monetary currency so as to change consumers’ energy consumption behaviour. The “plug-and-play-and-forget” devices will accurately capture energy use patterns at the level of each electrical appliance and at the level of each individual user. An energy behaviour model will be used to correlate these patterns with optimal, personalised comfort levels, social profiles and characteristics (including social, economic, geographic and energy use contexts) in order to determine optimal energy use behaviour to reduce wastage of energy and to increase the use of renewable resources in the energy mix. BENEFICE will design personalized, real-time motivational paths to deliver sustained reductions in energy consumption. Customers will be incentivized to follow these paths voluntarily, through the application of novel business models that provide monetary rewards in return for progress along each personalized pathway and help build an online community of like-minded actors. These business models will be based on an innovative digital CO2 currency - CO2 Credits are awarded to actors for proven, sustained reduction in fossil fuel use. Business models that stimulate the supply of, and demand for, CO2 Credits, will be designed, tested and validated. These business models will leverage partnerships with established businesses -third party market catalysts- that recognize the potential offered by CO2 Credits both to promote reduced consumption of fossil fuels and to extend their market share by offering a new service to their clients with clear social added value.
Context-dependent impairment of recollection in list-method directed forgetting

In list-method directed forgetting, people's ability to forget one of the sets of learned material is examined. Research shows that memory for to-be-forgotten items is impaired when assessed by a recall test and by recognition tests reliant on recollective processes. Retrieval inhibition and context-change mechanisms have been proposed to account for the directed forgetting effects and both of them account for the results obtained with recognition tests. However, the context change account makes a specific prediction that recollection is impaired by directed forgetting only if it makes use of contextual associations. In the present study, directed forgetting was examined with two types of recollection-based tasks making use of different types of associations, namely a list discrimination task utilising contextual associations and an associative recognition task utilising interitem associations. Consistent with the context change account, the costs of directed forgetting were observed in a list discrimination task and were not observed in an associative recognition task. The results indicate that impairment in recollection due to directed forgetting is not general and provide converging evidence to support the context-change account.
BOR-MING JAHN (BMJ) biographical memoir and brief introduction to BMJ’s scientific contributions and academic services

Abstract This memoir highlights the scientific and academic contributions of Bor-ming Jahn who passed away in last December. He is best known for his ability to draw novel insights about the Earth’s tectonics, evolution, and geological processes from in-depth field and laboratory studies of isotopic and elemental geochemistry. He is recognized as a global leader in the applications of geochemical and isotope tracers (Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb-O) to regional tectonic evolution, and made outstanding contributions to the formation of dominant juvenile crust (>70%) for the Phanerozoic Central and Northeast Asian Orogenic Belts. He created the term “TTG” for tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite suites formed in ancient and present-day magmatic arc setting and is the first to date the oldest Chinese rocks and to constrain Triassic continental subduction for the Dabie-Sulu UHP terrane. He received numerous honors, and was the first Chinese Earth scientist to be the Editor-in-Chief of the celebrated Journal of Asian Earth Sciences , Elsevier. We are sad for his sudden passing; yet his scientific devotion and contributions will be remembered for decades to come.
Results of a Community-University Partnership to Reduce Deadly Hazards in Hardwood Floor Finishing

A community-university partnership used community-based participatory research (CBPR) to design, implement, and evaluate a multi-cultural public health campaign to eliminate flammable products and reduce use of products high in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in hardwood floor finishing in Massachusetts. Leading participants were Vietnamese-American organizations and businesses. Following the public health campaign, a multi-lingual survey of self-reported experiences with fires, product use, exposure to outreach activities, and changes made, was conducted with floor finishers. One hundred nine floor finishers responded. Over 40% reported fires at their companies' jobs, mostly caused by lacquer sealers. Over one third had heard radio or TV shows about health and safety in floor finishing, and over half reported making changes as a result of outreach. Exposure to various outreach activities was associated with reducing use of flammable products, increasing use of low-VOC products, and greater knowledge about product flammability. However, most respondents still reported using flammable products. Outreach led by community partners reached large proportions of floor finishers, was associated with use of safer products, and adds to recent work on CBPR with immigrant workers. Continued use of flammable products supports the belief that an enforceable ban was ultimately necessary to eradicate them.
Smart strategies for sustainable tourism in LIvely cultural DEStinations

The S.LI.DES. project aims at fostering cross border cooperation among cultural destinations in the Programme area and the joint planning of smart strategies to support more sustainable and balanced territorial development through the promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, in particular those assets shaping the identity of the destinations. Through a set of innovative tools and methods, S.LI.DES will develop a Smart Destination Ecosystem to dynamically analyze different aspects of the project cultural destinations#-# heritage, monitor visitors' mobility patterns and identify the potential of valuable skills and "know-how" to enhance visitors' experience. All data will concur to assess the competitive and sustainable performance of the destinations, to support the development of actions aimed at diversifying tourism offer through targeted investments in cultural heritage and to design a cross border smart strategy transferable at EU level.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN AUTOMATED WEB TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE

A system, method and computer readable medium that provides an automated web transcription service is disclosed. The method may include receiving input speech from a user (110; 140) using a communications network, recognizing the received input speech, understanding the recognized speech, transcribing the understood speech to text (130), storing the transcribed text in a database, receiving a request via a web page to display the transcribed text, retrieving transcribed text from the database, and displaying the transcribed text to the requester (110; 140) using the web page.
Laughter in conversation: enhancing the naturalness of dialogue systems

With the wide-scale adoption of speech-based applications, the research community has started focusing on ways to improve naturalness and expressiveness of human-machine interactions. Among the directions pursued, the study of paralinguistic phenomena in conversation plays an important role. This project proposes to investigate conversational laughter, both from a fundamental research perspective as well as from an application viewpoint. The addressed research question concerns the context in which social laughter occurs, in particular the use of acoustic-prosodic cues in marking it. The findings of this investigation will directly feed into a spoken dialogue system, with the aim of increasing its perceived naturalness. In a first step, phrase- and turn-level analyses will be performed to identify the range of cues used by speakers to mark the use of laughter in conversation. Next, state-of-the-art signal processing methods combined with prosodic information will be used to automatically detect and segment laughter. This will allow the analysis of a larger number of conversational corpora which would, in turn, improve the generalizability of the results. Finally, a laughter-enhanced dialogue system will be implemented and its naturalness will be tested through perception experiments. It is expected that the laughter-enhanced system will be perceived more natural and that documented gender differences found in the production of laughter will be found also in its perception.
CONCENTRATED SUGAR PREPARATION AS REDUCING AGENT FOR SULFUR DYES

The present invention generally concerns a concentrated sugar preparation comprising (a) raffinate derived from citric acid recovery industry and (b) a sugar- containing solution useful as reduction agent for sulfur dyes.
PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE SURFACES OF SUPPORTS OR CONTAINERS FOR TWO- DIMENSIONAL NEURONAL CULTURES BY MEANS OF CHITOSAN AS A CELL ADHESION FACTOR

Process for the treatment of the surfaces of supports or containers for the in-vitro preparation of a two-dimensional neuronal culture by means cell adhesion factor, characterised in that the cell adhesion factor is chitosan.
Cross-bedding related anisotropy and its interplay with various boundary conditions in the formation and orientation of joints in an aeolian sandstone

Abstract Previous research revealed that the cross-bedding related anisotropy in Jurassic aeolian Aztec Sandstone cropping out in the Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, affects the orientation of compaction bands, also known as anti-cracks or closing mode structures. We hypothesize that cross-bedding should have a similar influence on the orientation of the opening mode joints within the same rock at the same location. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the relationship between the orientation of cross-beds and the orientation of different categories of joint sets including cross-bed package confined joints and joint zones in the Aztec Sandstone. The field data show that the cross-bed package confined joints occur at high-angle to bedding and trend roughly parallel to the dip direction of the cross-beds. In comparison, the roughly N–S trending joint zones appear not to be influenced by the cross-beds in any significant way but frequently truncate against the dune boundaries. To characterize the anisotropy due to cross-bedding in the Aztec Sandstone, we measured the P-wave velocities parallel and perpendicular to bedding from 11 samples and determined an average P-wave anisotropy to be slightly larger than 13%. From these results, a model based on the generalized Hooke's law for anisotropic materials is used to analyze deformation of cross-bedded sandstone as a transversely isotropic material. In the analysis, the dip angle of cross-beds is assumed to be constant and the strike orientation varying from 0° to 359° in the east (x ), north ( y ), and up ( z ) coordinate system. We find qualitative agreement between most of the model results and the observed field relations between cross-beds and the corresponding joint sets. The results also suggest that uniaxial extension ( e zz  >  e xx  =  e yy  = 0) and axisymmetric extension ( e xx  =  e yy e zz and e xx  =  e yy  >  e zz ) would amplify the influence of cross-bedding associated anisotropy on the joint orientation whereas a triaxial extension ( e xx  >  e yy  >  e zz ) would mitigate this influence. We suggest that the potential implication of different categories of joint sets (i.e., cross-bed package confined joints and joint zones) forming in response to the variation of the boundary conditions (axisymmetric extension and triaxial extension, respectively) and the interplay with the rock anisotropy is significant. These results have important implications for fluid flow through aeolian sandstones in reservoirs and aquifers.
Stratégies de déconnexion des eaux pluviales à l’échelle d’un bassin versant pour réduire les déversements

Différentes stratégies de déconnexion et/ou désimperméabilisation des eaux pluviales sont couramment appliquées pour soulager le système traditionnel du « tout tuyau ». Cependant, la mise en oeuvre de ces stratégies soulève des questions concernant leur efficacité hydraulique et leur robustesse, notamment face aux changements globaux. La présente étude aborde ces questions dans le cas du bassin versant d’Écully en périphérie de Lyon (245 ha), muni d’un réseau unitaire. Le bassin versant a été modélisé à l’aide du logiciel d’hydrologie urbaine Canoe pour simuler les volumes déversés ainsi que le nombre de jours avec déversement à l’échelle annuelle. Une chronique de 2 ans de données à pas de temps fin (pluviométrie, débits dans le réseau et au niveau du principal déversoir d’orage de la zone) a été exploitée pour caler et valider le modèle. Des scénarios futurs (augmentation de la population, urbanisation et changement climatique) ont été élaborés puis simulés à l’aide du modèle calé et validé dans le but de tester l’efficacité des stratégies de déconnexion et désimperméabilisation pour réduire les déversements. Les résultats montrent qu’une stratégie de déconnexion, même modeste, a un impact plus important qu’une stratégie de désimperméabilisation. Par ailleurs, l’abattement systématique des 15 premiers millimètres de pluie permet une diminution des volumes déversés : dans la situation de référence, ceuxci représentent un peu plus de ~11 % du volume produit sur le bassin versant, tandis qu’ils passeraient à ~6 % avec la mise en oeuvre de cette stratégie à l’horizon 2030 ; le nombre de jours avec déversement serait quant à lui réduit d’environ ~50 %. Cette stratégie permettrait de se mettre en conformité avec la réglementation sur au moins un de ces deux critères, même dans le cas d’un scénario de changement climatique extrême s’accompagnant de pluies plus intenses.