SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
CONNECTION FOR PERCUSSION DRILLING

A connection for use in percussion drilling includes a male coupling and a female coupling. Each coupling includes a body and a respective screw thread formed on a respective inner or outer surface of the respective body. Each thread has a thread-form including a crest, a root, a contact flank and a non-contact flank. Each thread-form has a contact flank angle and a non-contact flank angle inclined relative to a respective baseline located at a respective minor or major diameter thereof. Each non-contact flank angle is greater than the respective contact flank angle. The crest of each thread-form is inclined from the respective contact flank to the respective non-contact flank such that an apex of the respective thread-form defining a respective minor or major diameter thereof is located adjacent to the respective non-contact flank.
Actiwhey based microencapsulation solution for sustainable food manufacturing

Overuse of antibiotics in meat production causes human antimicrobial resistance, diseases and gut related disorders, leading to 1.2m life-threatening hospital infections and 19,000 deaths from MRSA-bacteria each year. The best solution is sustainable antibiotic free food production, improved food safety and nutrition value, wider use of probiotics and increased functional foods production.

Companies like Bon Appétit, Tyson Foods, Smithfield, McDonalds, etc. are voluntarily banning antibiotics treated food products. To meet this trend and EU regulations, new cost-effective technologies for processing delicate substances and active ingredients are needed in EU.

Uniq Bioresearch has developed and patented ACTIWHEY® microencapsulation technology that addresses these challenges and provides market leading nutritional efficiency; extended shelf-life, increased food safety and countless new opportunities for food, feed and nutraceuticals manufacturers.

ACTICAPS project aims to 1) reduce the microencapsulation costs by 91%; 2) achieve 70% fill-coating ratio; 3) improve controlled release and other key advantages; 4) set up pilot production for market validation and dissemination; 5) create a scale-up package, incl. process planning strategy, production manuals and licencing concept; 6) validate the innovation in 3 market segments with most potential for fast market uptake.

This project is an integral part of our long-term development roadmap. Our market uptake potential is based on 11+ years of R&D and business success; established key customer base; validated patented technology, experienced team and detailed feasibility study for identifying the best business and commercialisation strategy.

We target a high growth €7.3b market and expect to generate sales revenue of €38m and create more than 50 new jobs by 2022. Besides current customer base, we have received potential order indications from market-leading feed and food producers like Hankkija, Raisio, Valio etc.
MODERNIZING LOVE: GENDER, ROMANTIC PASSION AND YOUTH LITERARY CULTURE IN COLONIAL NIGERIA

ABSTRACT This article concerns literary culture and the representation of romantic love in colonial Nigeria's print media. It examines how Nigerians, during the first half of the twentieth century, began redefining love, as both a biocultural and a historical construction, through what I call the modernization of African romantic passion. Through letters to editors and articles, print media showed that love, like education, politics and other institutions of colonial power, could be modernized to reflect Nigerians' quest to embrace ‘civilization’ and Western modernity. Modern romantic love did not just replace the precolonial or ‘traditional’ norms; rather, selective appropriation of precolonial gender and romantic norms created a hybrid that was neither African nor totally Western. While much has been written on African textual and print culture, gender, marriage and sexuality under colonial rule, the subject of romantic passion has received limited attention. Those few published works on the subject overlook it as a significant element of modernization that was championed by Africans who sought new avenues to express their emotion for the consumption of the reading public. This article attempts to retrieve the literary culture of colonial Nigerian youth by weaving textual analyses of representations of love into the wider socio-cultural transformation under alien rule.
Web-based crop model: Web InfoCrop – Wheat to simulate the growth and yield of wheat

Web based crop simulation model 'Web InfoCrop - Wheat' is described.Defines model's crop processes, crop agronomic management and programing abilities.Explains the Web interface of the crop model and its performance mechanism.Estimates crop growth, yield, water, nitrogen, pest dynamics & global warming potential. Crop simulation is useful for characterizing and predicting the crop growth and yield due to abiotic stress and also climate change events at the national and international levels, under different agronomic management options. Crop simulation models will gain wider acceptance if they are robust, accessible and easy to use. To simulate the growth of wheat on a daily basis using inputs of weather, soil, variety and management practices, a web-based application of the crop simulation model 'Web InfoCrop - Wheat' was designed and developed at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. The Web InfoCrop - Wheat model was developed using Visual Studio Express, SQL Server, NET framework 4.0 and hosted at http://InfoCrop.iari.res.in. This web-based model has separate modules for input variables, management conditions, and result outputs. Crop model users after registration without any payment, have the right to insert, edit or update and delete data within their private domains while the system manager alone has the administrative right to add data to the public domain, this will ensure authentic data to be available in the public domain. This is done mainly to ensure the availability of factual data to the public and also to maintain the privacy of the user data. The users can run the model to simulate the wheat crop growth and yield, at a single day interval or as defined. This web-based model performed well under different irrigation and nitrogen management practices for the observed and predicted yield and biomass with significant R2 (0.958 and 0.947 respectively) and RMSE (0.054 and 1.318, respectively). Thus, the 'Web InfoCrop - Wheat' crop model provides an innovative and efficient approach to the evolving crop simulation model to be used as a decision support tool in the agricultural production system.
A Variational Framework for Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting

Non-local methods for image denoising and inpainting have gained considerable attention in recent years. This is in part due to their superior performance in textured images, a known weakness of purely local methods. Local methods on the other hand have demonstrated to be very appropriate for the recovering of geometric structures such as image edges. The synthesis of both types of methods is a trend in current research. Variational analysis in particular is an appropriate tool for a unified treatment of local and non-local methods. In this work we propose a general variational framework for non-local image inpainting, from which important and representative previous inpainting schemes can be derived, in addition to leading to novel ones. We explicitly study some of these, relating them to previous work and showing results on synthetic and real images.
We help employees to adopt digital solutions

Only in EU, about 26 million active companies employing about 144 million employees invest billions of euros per year in onboarding process (training and support activities) and most of the companies are being digitally transformed. But being a digital organization means not only having digital products, services, and customer interactions but also needs a digital culture - which means proper mindset, expert network, and digital onboarding and training programs. By ignoring culture, an organization risks transformation failure and indeed that’s why almost 75% of the digital transformations fail. According to a Gartner study, 30% of tech jobs will be unfilled owing to digital talent shortfalls. According to recent BCG research even today, the biggest perceived technology challenge is not data security but a lack of qualified employees - only 25% of the digitally skilled people found in online recruiting databases today are working at large enterprises
YesElf is an onboarding platform for providing a personalized and predictive step-by-step walkthrough for any enterprise software which makes employees more efficient (+10%) without any additional personal training at the right time by applying artificial intelligence and user behavior analysis. YesElf is improving the process of the employee onboarding, engagement and the adoption of digital products.
Based on customers feedback our solution can reduce employee training costs by more than 50%, reduce support costs by more than 30%, increase employee productivity by double-digit number, provide smooth digital adoption and increase company income per employee.
Brainware was founded in 2013 as a spin-off (sister) company of Seges (est. in 2006) with a strong focus on providing digital adoption and employee onboarding to large companies across Europe. YesElf has more than 300k unique monthly users from more than 30 European countries. Our team has been awarded by several start-up, innovation and entrepreneurship awards.
Fusion of Airborne LiDAR With Multispectral SPOT 5 Image for Enhancement of Feature Extraction Using Dempster–Shafer Theory

This paper presents an application of data-driven Dempster–Shafer theory (DST) of evidence to fuse multisensor data for land-cover feature extraction. Over the years, researchers have focused on DST for a variety of applications. However, less attention has been given to generate and interpret probability, certainty, and conflict maps. Moreover, quantitative assessment of DST performance is often overlooked. In this paper, for implementation of DST, two main types of data were used: multisensor data such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and multispectral satellite imagery [Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre 5 (SPOT 5)]. The objectives are to classify land-cover types from fused multisensor data using DST, to quantitatively assess the accuracy of the classification, and to examine the potential of slope data derived from LiDAR for feature detection. First, we derived the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from SPOT 5 image and the normalized digital surface model (DSM) (nDSM) from LiDAR by subtracting the digital terrain model from the DSM. The two products were fused using the DST algorithm, and the accuracy of the classification was assessed. Second, we generated a surface slope from LiDAR and fused it with NDVI. Subsequently, the classification accuracy was assessed using an IKONOS image of the study area as ground truth data. From the two processing stages, the NDVI/nDSM fusion had an overall accuracy of 88.7%, while the NDVI/slope fusion had 75.3%. The result indicates that NDVI/nDSM integration performed better than NDVI/slope. Although the overall accuracy of the former is better than the latter (NDVI/slope), the contribution of individual class reveals that building extraction from fused slope and NDVI performed poorly. This study proves that DST is a time- and cost-effective method for accurate land-cover feature identification and extraction without the need for a prior knowledge of the scene. Furthermore, the ability to generate other products like certainty, conflict, and maximum probability maps for better visual understanding of the decision process makes it more reliable for applications such as urban planning, forest management, 3-D feature extraction, and map updating.
Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought

Preface.- List of Contributors.- Nature and Norms in Thought Martin Lenz (University of Groningen) and Anik Waldow( University of Sydney) .- Part I Nature's Influence on the Mind.- Intentionality Bifurcated: A Lesson from Early Modern Philosophy? Lionel Shapiro.- Ideas as Thick Beliefs: Spinoza on the Normativity of Ideas Martin Lenz.- Three Problems in Locke's Ontology of Substance and Mode Antonia LoLordo.- Kant on Imagination and the Natural Sources of the Conceptual Johannes Haag.- Naturalized Epistemology and the Genealogy of Knwoledge Martin Kusch.- Part II Shaping the Norms of our Intellectual and Practical Engagement with the World.- Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten, and Herder Stephen Gaukroger. - Back to the Facts - Herder on the Normative Role of Sensibility and Imagination Anik Waldow.- Extending Nature: Rousseau on the Cultivation of Moral Sensibility Annette Pierdziwol.- The Piacular, or On Seeing Oneself as a Moral Cause in Adam Smith Eric Schliesser. - Explaining and Describing: Panpsychism and Deep Ecology Michael Hampe.- Index. Eric Schliesser. - Explaining and Describing: Panpsychism and Deep Ecology Michael Hampe.- Index.
Elites locais versus monarquia?

O fim do Império romano no Noroeste da Península Ibérica foi um processo abrupto. A irrupção bárbara praticamente isolou a província de Galicia dos centros de poder imperial, em especial da corte de Ravena. Os mecanismos de resistência diante dos suevos, evidenciados na crônica de Hidácio, não responderam a um padrão uniforme. Evidenciaram, por baixo do sistema uniformizador romano, uma sociedade complexa com interesses heterogêneos, uns decididamente locais, outros de base urbana, alguns diretamente herdados da presença administrativa romana. Perante a um poder suevo que só lentamente foi capaz de impor sua soberania sobre território provincial, essas realidades locais criaram estruturas de poder atomizadas e geraram elites de poder que estão na base da atomização extrema do período alto medieval. A conquista visigoda provavelmente foi resultado de um processo negociador a muitos grupos, onde incluíam-se as elites suevas, que não fizeram senão reforçar os padrões de evolução. Incluindo esses elementos godos, chegando como parte da administração provincial e militar, se converteriam em um fator a mais nesse panorama desagregado.
El reto de la innovación en las bibliotecas municipales del cantón Portoviejo

El Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado del Municipio de Portoviejo ha desarrollado el Plan 2035, enfocado en el mejoramiento continuo de los procesos en términos de calidad, inclusión, transparencia, modernidad para brindar bienestar y servicios públicos eficientes a la ciudadanía. En el marco de dicho plan, se establece el programa Cultura y Patrimonio, una oportunidad de desarrollo sostenible de las zonas urbanas y rurales. Este programa se enmarca en el “incremento de actores culturales en el cantón, sean estos gestores, artistas, productores, investigadores y otros profesionales relacionados a las artes como una manifestación de la cultura y al patrimonio cultural”. (Plan 2035, 2021: 7). Actualmente, se lleva a cabo el Plan de Recuperación del Archivo Histórico y de la red de bibliotecas municipales; y uno de los proyectos más innovadores desarrollado en la Biblioteca “Pedro Elio Cevallos Ponce”, fundada en el año 1909.
An Assessment of Grade 8 Geometry Teaching Guide of the K to 12 Basic Education Program Based on Van Hiele Model of Geometric Thinking and Department of Education’s Standards

Using the descriptive method of research, this study focused on the assessment of the Grade 8 geometry teaching guide of the K to 12 Basic Education Program based on the van Hiele model of geometric thinking and Department of Education’s standards. The four modules of the teaching guide namely: Reasons Behind Reasoning, Triangle Congruence, Inequalities in Triangles, and Parallelism and Perpendicularity were assessed vis-a-vis the levels of thinking: Level 0 (Visualization/Recognition), Level 1 (Analysis), Level 2 (Ordering), Level 3 (Formal Deduction) and Level 4 (Rigor). The learning competencies, instructional activities and assessment tasks were classified according to the levels. Frequencies and percent values were used to analyze the presence of the levels in the teaching guide. In assessing the consistencies, as well as the presence of some features necessary for geometric instruction, DepEd’s levels of assessment or the Knowledge, Process, Understanding and Products (KPUP) framework was used. It was found out that in terms of the model, the teaching guide bordered on Analysis, Ordering and Formal Deduction. Recognition, and Rigor were given less emphasis in the teaching guide. The guide is commendable for the comprehensive presentation of relevant learning activities and its tendency towards the development of higher order thinking skills. However, there were inconsistencies in the use of the DepEd’s KPUP model. It is recommended that the DepEd may consider the use of the model as a framework to develop the teaching guide’s components. It is also recommended that future researchers consider results of the instruction based on students’ van Hiele levels of thinking.
Dissociable cortical and ventral striatal responses to painful somatosensory stimulation measured using functional MRI imaging

INTRODUCTION Investigation of the neural responses of chronic pain have traditionally involved establishing the BOLD fMRI response to acute pain in a nodal network that has been referred to as the ‘pain matrix’ or the ‘pain neuromatrix’ (1). However, Melzack originally used the term ‘matrix’ because the system to which he referred was multimodal in function and lacked specificity. This might explain why, over 20 years after the term was coined, there has been little translational benefit to patients in terms of improved management of chronic pain states despite numerous studies examining the ‘pain matrix response’. The basal ganglia form part of this matrix and are worthy of further investigation. Destruction of nigrostriatal neurones in the ventral basal ganglia are associated with reduced pain thresholds, the inverse effect occurring with nigrostriatal stimulation(2). However, inactivation of the accumbens core in the ventral basal ganglia with local anaesthetic has demonstrated a hyperalgesic response (3). Molecular imaging has been used to examine the differential roles of dorsal and ventral basal ganglia in pain perception (4) . These authors found that whilst nigrostriatal D2-dopamine activity correlates with sensory and affective ratings, in accumbens the dopamine response is positively associated with negative affect and fear ratings during pain, aspects of the pain experience that are thought to better explain interindividual variations in chronic pain (5) and response to analgesia. In establishing a region of interest approach to the investigation of chronic pain through the application of acutely painful stimuli, the ventral striatum may therefore be an important target. The role of the ventral striatum in response to aversive stimuli is receiving increasing attention, in counterpart to studies of its responsivity to rewarding stimuli. Recent work (6) suggests that the differential striatal responses to acute pain may provide a meaningful insight into the neural substrates of chronic pain perception, including idiopathic pain disorders and the functional somatic syndromes, where activation of the ‘pain matrix’ as a whole has proved unable to. We have investigated the brain response to somatosensory pain, specifically examining the response of the ventral striatum in contrast to other components of the ‘pain matrix’.
High precision thermal modeling of complex systems with application to the flyby and Pioneer anomaly

Thermal modeling of complex systems faces the problems of an effective digitalization of the detailed geometry and properties of the system, calculation of the thermal flows and temperature maps, treatment of the thermal radiation including possible multiple reflections, inclusion of additional external influences, extraction of the radiation pressure from calculated surface data, and computational effectiveness. In previous publications the solution to these problems have been outlined and a first application to the Pioneer spacecraft have been shown. Here we like to present the application of our thermal modeling to the Rosetta flyby anomaly as well as to the Pioneer anomaly. The analysis outlines that thermal recoil pressure is not the cause of the Rosetta flyby anomaly but likely resolves the anomalous acceleration observed for Pioneer 10.
EDIBLE ANIMAL CHEWS

The present disclosure relates to edible animal chews. Embodiment disclosed include an edible animal chew and processes for producing an edible animal chew comprising at least two extruded layers, wherein at least one extruded layer comprises: animal skin protein, wherein the animal skin is porcine or bovine, animal fat, wherein the animal fat is porcine or bovine, and soybean protein, wherein there is an air-gap between at least a portion of the at least two extruded layers, and a processes for forming an edible animal chew.
An Assessment of the Screening Performance of a Single-Item Measure of Depression From the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale Among Chronically Ill Hospitalized Patients

Few studies have examined the validity of using a single item from the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) for screening for depression.To examine the screening performance of the single-item depression question from the ESAS in chronically ill hospitalized patients.A total of 162 chronically ill inpatients aged 65 and older completed a survey after admission that included the well-validated, 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) and four single-item screening questions for depression based on the ESAS question, using two different time frames ("now" and "in the past 24 hours") and two response categories (a 0-10 numeric rating scale [NRS] and a categorical scale: none, mild, moderate, and severe).The GDS-15 categorized 20% (n = 33) of participants as possibly being depressed with a score ≥ 6. The NRS for depression "now" achieved the highest level of sensitivity at a cutoff ≥ 1 (68.8%), and an acceptable level of specificity was obtained at a cutoff of ≥ 5 (82.2%). For depression "in the past 24 hours," a cutoff of ≥ 1 achieved a sensitivity of 68.8% and a cutoff of ≥ 7 a specificity of 80.3%. For the categorical scale, a cutoff of "none" provided the best level of sensitivity for depression "now" (65.6%) and "in the past 24 hours" (81.3%), with an acceptable level of specificity being obtained at ≥"mild" (68.8%) and ≥"moderate" (68.8%), respectively.These single-item measures were not effective in screening for probable depression in chronically ill patients regardless of the time frame or the response format used, but a cutoff of ≥ 5 or "mild" or greater did achieve sufficient specificity to raise clinical suspicion.