SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Spatial and temporal patterns of nearshore clarity in Lake Tahoe from fine resolution turbidity measurements

Abstract The nearshore areas of lakes respond quickly to watershed runoff, increases in tributary inflows from annual snowmelt, and increased anthropogenic activity in the basin. Therefore, this area of the lake serves both as an early warning system for water quality degradation and as an indicator of the effectiveness of land management practices or sediment control projects. In this study we evaluated the usefulness of combining fine-scale water quality measurements and discrete particle sample analysis to gain a better understanding of seasonal and spatial trends in the nearshore area of Lake Tahoe. Turbidity and mineral composition at 0.5 m depth were measured in nearshore waters near the City of South Lake Tahoe at a spatial resolution of 5–30 m in 2002 and 2003. Particles filtered from discrete samples collected 200 m from shore were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy and chemical analysis using quantum electron dispersive spectrometry. Baseline turbidity levels were extremely low (0.15 NTU) ...
Clinical and socio-demographic profile of women with post-partum psychiatric conditions at a federal neuropsychiatric hospital in southeast Nigeria between 2009 and 2011

Pregnancy and labor in areas with high maternal morbidities as in Nigeria could be sufficiently stressful to precipitate mental disorders in women after delivery, which may be a new or a relapse of previously existing one, or an exacerbation of an attenuated mental illness in the nursing mother. Mental illness in a nursing mother, if not treated may result in impaired mother-infant relationship.To determine the clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of women diagnosed with postpartum psychiatric conditions in a tertiary mental health facility of a developing country.A retrospective case note reviews of 76 women diagnosed with postpartum psychiatric conditions for the first time in the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu between January 2009 and December 2011.The mean age of the women was 27.76 years, with 63% (48/76) of them coming from the rural areas. 93% (71/76) of them had at least a secondary education and 78% (59/76) of the women had a family history of psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia was commonest, 48.7% (37/76) followed by depression, 22% (17/76) and mania, 15% (11/76). Those presenting with schizophrenia were younger when compared with other diagnostic groups, had a lower level of education and presented earlier for treatment. The husbands were the primary caregivers in 48% of them.With 63% (48/76) of them being rural dwellers, policy changes become imperative that would encourage establishment of psychiatric services in rural areas to ensure early detection and prompt treatment of postpartum women with a need for psychiatric services.
Role of yoga for patients with type II diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis

To understand the role and efficacy of yoga in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, this meta-analysis was conducted. Electronic data bases searched were PubMed/Medline, ProQuest, PsycINFO, IndMED, CENTRAL, Cochrane library, CamQuest and CamBase till December 17, 2014. Eligible outcomes were fasting blood sugar (FBS), post prandial blood sugar (PPBS) and glycosylated haemoglobin (HBA1C). Randomized controlled trials and controlled trials were eligible. Studies focussing only on relaxation or meditation or multimodal intervention were not included. A total of 17 RCTs were included for review. Data from research articles on patients, methods, interventions- control and results were extracted. Mean and standard deviations were utilized for calculating standardized mean difference with 95% confidence interval. Heterogeneity was assessed with the help of I(2) statistics. χ(2) was used to rule out the effects of heterogeneity due to chance alone. Beneficial effects of yoga as an add-on intervention to standard treatment in comparison to standard treatment were observed for FBS [Standardized Mean Difference (SMD) -1.40, 95%CI -1.90 to -0.90, p˂0.00001]; PPBS [SMD -0.91, 95%CI -1.34 to -0.48, p˂0.0001] as well as HBA1C [SMD -0.64, 95%CI -0.97 to -0.30, p˂0.0002]. But risk of bias was overall high for included studies. With this available evidence, yoga can be considered as add-on intervention for management of diabetes.
PHOTOVOLTAIC-BASED POWER SYSTEM

The present invention relates to a photovoltaic power installation configured to deliver power to a power distribution grid at a point of common coupling, the photovoltaic power installation comprising means for determining an amount of self-consumed power of the photovoltaic power installation, and a first power inverter configured to generate power in accordance with 1) the determined amount of self-consumed power, and 2) a power level to be delivered at the point of common coupling. The invention further relates to an associated method.
A global alliance for zika virus control and prevention

ZIKAlliance is a multidisciplinary project with a global ""One Health"" approach, built: on a multi-centric network of clinical cohorts in the Caribbean, Central & South America; research sites in countries where the virus has been or is currently circulating (Africa, Asia, Polynesia) or at risk for emergence (Reunion Island); a strong network of European and Brazilian clinical & basic research institutions; and multiple interfaces with other scientific and public health programmes. ZIKAlliance will addrees three key objectives relating to (i) impact of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy and short & medium term effects on newborns, (ii) associated natural history of ZIKV infection in humans and their environment in the context of other circulating arboviruses and (iii) building the overall capacity for preparedness research for future epidemic threats in Latin America & the Caribbean. The project will take advantage of large standardised clinical cohorts of pregnant women and febrile patients in regions of Latin America and the Caribbean were the virus is circulating, expanding a preexisting network established by the IDAMS EU project. I will also benefit of a very strong expertise in basic and environmental sciences, with access to both field work and sophisticated technological infrastructures to characterise virus replication and physiopathology mechanisms. To meet its 3 key objectives, the scientific project has been organised in 9 work packages, with WP2/3 dedicated to clinical research (cohorts, clinical biology, epidemiology & modeling), WP3/4 to basic research (virology & antivirals, pathophysiology & animal models), WP5/6 to environmental research (animal reservoirs, vectors & vector control) , WP7/8 to social sciences & communication, and WP9 to management. The broad consortium set-up allow gathering the necessary expertise for an actual interdisciplinary approach, and operating in a range of countries with contrasting ZIKV epidemiological status.
Animal welfare and product quality, in the genetic reproduction centres, through new management and technological methods

The project aims at testing new technologies, both in the farm and in the laboratory, to improve the quality of the seminal material obtained by cattle reproducers, in order to make it more competitive on the market. In the farm, animal welfare is an important factor to improve the semen quality and the reproduction characteristics of the animal. On the other hand, the laboratory activity aims at ensuring the procedural quality connected with the semen; by defining the standardized procedures and practices of productive processes, the market can rely on further quality and health standards thanks to the traceability of the product. All cross-border livestock farmers share the need to invest on technology and innovation in order to improve the semen quality, to limit or reduce production costs and to ensure a suitable working environment as far hygiene and safety are concerned. The structures that are currently available in the proponents’ centres are characterized by outdated technologies and even their management techniques must be innovated, especially from the technical point of view and in the field of computeraided techniques. The need arises to detect and test new techniques at several productive levels of the semen collecting and processing activity, in the process operational management, in the information provided to the zootechnical firms and in the requalification of staff. The training part concerns in particular the internal staff of the partners’ centres. Finally, as far as regional zootechnical firms are concerned, they are the ones that use the product and enjoy the economic benefits derived from the productive and reproductive performance of the animals put on the market.
Educating Youth for the Alps: (re)connecting Youth and Mountain heritage for an inspiring future in the Alps

Worldwide, specialists diagnose a lack of contact from young people to their living space. Among Alpine youth, it leads also to the dying out of Alpine identity and mountain-related know-how. Mountain-oriented education (MOE) plays a key role to instil in young generation the sensibility and knowledge of Alpine cultural and natural heritage, highlighting opportunities for their future. Various educational programs already take place especially in the non-formal education realm, but a strong development of MOE approach in the formal education is a challenge in the whole Alps. _x000D_
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YOUrALPS tackles the challenge to raise Youth awareness on Alpine heritage by supporting MOE process via better interconnected formal and non-formal educators, supporting alp-wide inclusion of MOE in the educational curricula and practices. YOUrALPS’ innovative approach is twofold: on one hand by bringing together for the first time stakeholders of different sectors within an alpine cooperation structure, on the 2nd hand by elaborating and testing a transferable “Alpine school” model, in a bottom-up approach including youth participation and involving directly decision-makers. A comparative report on MOE practices and strategies of formal and non-formal education in the alpine countries will be the basis, in parallel of a participatory web-platform, for the development and transfer of the model. This will be tested via several pilot field activities encouraging transalpine youth participation, involving classes from e.g. vocational high schools and universities in cooperation with non-formal education. _x000D_
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The project has direct and long-term impacts, as the model will directly benefit to the students, educators and decision-makers involved, as well as to the future generations of pupils. Decision makers will dispose of a transferable model. YOUrALPS will create new opportunities for youth and increase their empowerment and engagement in the Alpine territory, to better shape their future.
METHD FOR PERFORATING A WELLBORE IN LOW UNDERBALANCE SYSTEMS

By substantially eliminating the crushed zone surrounding a perforation tunnel and expelling debris created upon activation of a shaped charge with, first and second successive explosive events, the need for surge flow associated with underbalanced perforating techniques is eliminated. The break down of the rock fabric at the tunnel tip, caused by the near- instantaneous overpressure generated within the tunnel, further creates substantially debris-free tunnels in conditions of limited or no underbalance as well as in conditions of overbalance.
Seed treatment with a binary pesticide and aqueous extract of Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk. for improving sorghum yield in Burkina Faso.

Seed health testing and field trials were carried out in Burkina Faso to evaluate the effects of seed treatment with aqueous extracts of Eclipta alba and a binary pesticide Calthio C 50 WS (thiram 25%, chlorpyrifos ethyl 25%) on seedborne fungi, seedling emergence, and yield of sorghum. The treatments included soaking seeds with E. alba extract (6.25 to 25% concentrations), soaking seeds in water, dusting seeds with pesticide (4 g kg–1 of seeds), and no treatment. Seed samples with moderate to high infection levels of Curvularia Boedijn., Fusarium Link: Fr., and Phoma Sacc. were used for testing. E. alba extract and Calthio C caused significant inhibition of Leptosphaeria sacchari Breda de Haan (syn. Phoma sorghina Sacc.) in vitro. In field trials, a stimulatory effect on seedling emergence and yield increases of 7 to 38% were observed for E. alba and the pesticide treatments, as compared to no treatment. Yield increases were significant for plant extract and pesticide in two out of three trials. No consistent effect on yield was observed for water treatment. Our findings represent the first large-scale field testing of E. alba for seed treatment of sorghum and the first direct comparison with a thiram-based pesticide and seed priming.
Cultural Routes as Investment for Growth and Jobs

Cultural Routes (CRs) of the Council of Europe (CoE) have been established for the past 29 years, stressing the importance of European identities. The CoE’s Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on CRs currently comprises 33 routes contributing to protection and development of natural and cultural heritage.  CRs are used as powerful tools to promote and preserve EU’s shared and diverse cultural identities. CRs provide a better understanding of the history of Europe through interregional exchanges of people, ideas and cultures.

The impacts of CRs on SMEs’ innovation and competitiveness have showed that CRs are at the heart of cultural tourism development; they have achieved a noteworthy impact and progress, and shown remarkable potential for SME generation, networking, social cohesion, intercultural dialogue, and for promoting the image of Europe. CRs represent a source of innovation, creativity, small-business creation, and cultural tourism products and services development. There is a common challenge, in terms of evaluating and exploiting the benefits of existing CRs and deploy them in the development of new CRs, so that Growth & Jobs targets can be met faster.

The overal objective of the Cult-Ring project is to highlight the value of investments in European Cultural Routes, in terms of their contribution to Growth & Jobs, with capitalisation of good practices, policy learning, policy implementation, development of new Cultural Routes, monitoring and capacity building.

Main outputs are action plans on CR development and upgrading, with implementation and monitoring of improved policy instruments in 6 regions, communication and dissemination tools for policy learning and capacity building, contribution to EU policies and EU2020 targets. The beneficiaries are regional authorities looking for capturing the benefits of CRs, both existing ones with greater visibility and new ones, NGOs, European Networks, EU institutions, international organisations and stakeholders.
Ultrastructural changes to rat hippocampus in pentylenetetrazol- and kainic acid-induced status epilepticus: A study using electron microscopy

A pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced status epilepticus model in rats was used in the study. The brains were studied one month after treatment. Ultrastructural observations using electron microscopy performed on the neurons, glial cells, and synapses, in the hippocampal CA1 region of epileptic brains, demonstrated the following major changes over normal control brain tissue. (i) There is ultrastructural alterations in some neurons, glial cells and synapses in the hippocampal CA1 region. (ii) The destruction of cellular organelles and peripheral, partial or even total chromatolysis in some pyramidal cells and in interneurons are observed. Several astrocytes are proliferated or activated. Presynaptic terminals with granular vesicles and degenerated presynaptic profiles are rarely observed. (iii) The alterations observed are found to be dependent on the frequency of seizure activities following the PTZ treatment. It was observed that if seizure episodes are frequent and severe, the ultrastructure of hippocampal area is significantly changed. Interestingly, the ultrastructure of CA1 area is found to be only moderately altered if seizure episodes following the status epilepticus are rare and more superficial; (iv) alterations in mitochondria and dendrites are among the most common ultrastructural changes seen, suggesting cell stress and changes to cellular metabolism. These morphological changes, observed in brain neurons in status epilepticus, are a reflection of epileptic pathophysiology. Further studies at the chemical and molecular level of neurotransmitter release, such as at the level of porosomes (secretory portals) at the presynaptic membrane, will further reveal molecular details of these changes.
Achille Funi nella collezione del MAC-USP

Negli ultimi anni, molto è stato detto, nella storiografia dell’arte brasiliana, sulla creazione delle istituzioni artistiche dedicate all’arte moderna nel paese, a partire dai contatti, negli anni Quaranta, del critico paulistano Sérgio Milliet e, poi, dell’industriale Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho (di discendenza italiana) con gli Stati Uniti, in particolare col Museum of Modern Art di New York. Da queste trattative, svolte con maggior intensità nel 1946, risultò l’acquisto, da parte di Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho e di sua moglie, Yolanda Penteado, di un primo gruppo di opere moderniste italiane e francesi, che giunsero in Brasile nel 1947. Quei due anni segnarono l’inizio del progetto di costituzione del primo Museo d’Arte Moderna di San Paolo (MAM), la cui collezione fu trasferita all’Università di San Paolo nel 1963, con la creazione del Museo di Arte Contemporanea (MAC-USP) per accoglierla.Il saggio si concentra su un dipinto di Achille Funi incluso nella collezione, L’indovina (1924), comprato per tramite della Galleria Il Milione di Milano nel 1946.
Scalar perturbations of a single-horizon regular black hole

We investigate the massless scalar field perturbations, including the quasinormal mode spectrum and the ringdown waveform, of a regular black hole spacetime that was derived via the Loop Quantum Gravity inspired polymer quantization of spherical $4$D black holes. In contrast to most, if not all, of the other regular black holes considered in the literature, the resulting nonsingular spacetime has a single bifurcative horizon and hence no mass inflation. In the interior, the areal radius decreases to a minimum given by the Polymerization constant, $k$, and then re-expands into a Kantowski-Sachs universe. We find indications that this black hole model is stable against small scalar perturbations. We also show that an increase in the magnitude of $k$ will decrease the height of the QNM potential and gives oscillations with lower frequency and less damping.
Population pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic analysis of nevirapine in hypersensitive and tolerant HIV-infected patients from Malawi

Purpose of the study: Despite risk of hypersensitivity (HS), nevirapine (NVP) underpins first-line HIV therapy in Africa. The relationship between NVP exposure and HS is unknown but could be influenced by polymorphisms in CYP2B6 and CYP3A4 affecting drug metabolism. Supplement: Abstracts of the Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-13-S4-info.pdf Conference: Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection 7-11 November 2010 Glasgow, UK (Published: 8 November 2010) doi:10.1186/1758-2652-13-S4-P181 Cite this article as: Dickinson et al.: Population pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic analysis of nevirapine in hypersensitive and tolerant HIV-infected patients from Malawi. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010 13(Suppl 4):P181. Full text: PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112962/
Support for small businesses with a turnover exceeding BGN 500 000 to address the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

Support for small businesses with a turnover exceeding BGN 500 000 to address the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
Changing Lifestyles, Attitudes and Behaviour: towards effective strategies for regions in sustainable consumption and development.

The increasing emphasis on sustainable development at EU level also affects policy-making at the regional level. Successful implementation of policies which support sustainable alternatives requires a commitment from consumers and sometimes a very considerable change in behaviour. A growth in consumption and unsustainable lifestyle trends combined with a lack of recognition or responsibility for the impacts of such behaviour can reduce the efficacy of attempts to introduce sustainable policies. In order to reverse these trends and encourage a reduction in both the domestic use of key resources (water, energy, materials) and the generation of waste, as well as reducing reliance on use of the private car, strategies and tools need to be developed to support policy aimed at encouraging citizens to adapt their behaviour accordingly. The overall objective of ChangeLAB is to provide partners and others engaged in policymaking on sustainable development with guidance on how to effectively change patterns of consumption without reducing quality of life and prosperity. By providing practical guidance and best practice examples for local and regional authorities and agencies across the EU, ChangeLAB seeks to increase awareness of sustainable consumption issues and the link with successful policy implementation.
Pricing accessibility: Urban morphology, design and missing markets

Urban design happens at a variety of scales—individual sites, streets, neighbourhoods, infrastructure projects, whole cities. At any of these scales, the benefits of good design spill over to a wider set of individuals than those with a direct interest in the project—land owners, developers, financiers, consultants, government officials, residents, neighbours, pedestrians, road users and so on. Indeed, urban design becomes an issue precisely because of these wider benefits. So we would like, in principle, to maximise the quantity of well designed urban morphology. One way of achieving this would be to attach a price to the benefits of urban design. The purpose of the paper is to take this argument as far as it will go in various directions. To facilitate this, the idea of well designed urban form is translated into the idea of accessible urban form; accessibility being a somewhat easier concept to deal with, there being a well established scientific literature to draw upon—in the fields of economic geography, spatial economics and spatial analysis. The term also has a singular common sense meaning. When applied to urban social science, it breaks down into a small number of more specific and equally well-defined concepts. The paper explores these in turn, considering the following: the role of markets in allocating scarce resources; accessibility as a scarce resource that planners and urban designers seek to supply; approaches to enhancing urban accessibility; the tricky problem of securing collective action; the idea of missing markets; the property rights ambiguities at the heart of collective action and missing market problems; mechanisms for pricing accessibility and organising its enhancement; the example of urban open space; and the distinction between general (geometric) and specific (economic) accessibility.