SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Polydispersity-driven topological defects as order-restoring excitations

The engineering of defects in crystalline matter has been extensively exploited to modify the mechanical and electrical properties of many materials. Recent experiments on manipulating extended defects in graphene, for example, show that defects direct the flow of electric charges. The fascinating possibilities offered by defects in two dimensions, known as topological defects, to control material properties provide great motivation to perform fundamental investigations to uncover their role in various systems. Previous studies mostly focus on topological defects in 2D crystals on curved surfaces. On flat geometries, topological defects can be introduced via density inhomogeneities. We investigate here topological defects due to size polydispersity on flat surfaces. Size polydispersity is usually an inevitable feature of a large variety of systems. In this work, simulations show well-organized induced topological defects around an impurity particle of a wrong size. These patterns are not found in systems of identical particles. Our work demonstrates that in polydispersed systems topological defects play the role of restoring order. The simulations show a perfect hexagonal lattice beyond a small defective region around the impurity particle. Elasticity theory has demonstrated an analogy between the elementary topological defects named disclinations to electric charges by associating a charge to a disclination, whose sign depends on the number of its nearest neighbors. Size polydispersity is shown numerically here to be an essential ingredient to understand short-range attractions between like-charge disclinations. Our study suggests that size polydispersity has a promising potential to engineer defects in various systems including nanoparticles and colloidal crystals.
Evaluation of acute and chronic anti-nociceptive and anti-Inflammatory effects of apple cider vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) is a natural compound that is used mainly in numerous food preparations. During the last few decades, ACV has been used for various therapeutic purposes in different countries. One of its main applications by people in Iran and other countries has been as an oral traditional remedy to control chronic pain in arthritis. In this study, ACV’s effects on acute and chronic pain and inflammation were evaluated in an experimental model.
Formalin test and sciatic nerve ligation in mice were used to study acute and chronic anti-nociceptive effects, respectively. Likewise, Xylene test in mice and cotton roll implantation in rats were used to study acute and chronic anti-inflammatory effects, respectively. ACV (standard preparation) was administered to animals orally by gavage or in drinking water (1%, 2%, or 4%).
In formalin and xylene tests, none of ACV doses caused significant effect on animal response to acute pain or inflammation, suggesting that ACV does not possess acute anti-nociceptive or anti-inflammatory effect. However, in sciatic nerve ligation ACV showed a significant and remarkable dose-dependent effect on chronic pain evaluated by hot plate test, which was comparable to the positive control. Furthermore, chronic inflammation caused by cotton roll implantation was controlled significantly by ACV consumption. This effect was dose and time dependent.
In this study, our results showed that ACV has considerable effect on controlling chronic pain and inflammation, confirming the value of ACV’s traditional use by many patients in helping their chronic pain and inflammation. Although B complex vitamins have been found in ACV and they might be responsible for at least some of the observed effects (recently, it has been shown that B1 and B12 vitamins have some useful anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects), it would be important to find out exactly which ingredient (s) of ACV is (are) responsible for this observation. The mechanisms of these effects need to be addressed as well.
CUTTING BLADE APPARATUS AND METHODS

A cutting blade includes a blade body 10 with one or more cutting elements 20/50 positioned along its periphery. The elements can be keyed to the blade core to help provide secure mounting onto the blade, and can include a polychrystaline diamond composite (PDC) portion as a primary cutting material. Protection elements 80 can be positioned to reduce wear and other damage to the blade core 10 and/or any substrate supporting the PDC, and thereby extend the life of the blade assembly.
MÉTODO Y SISTEMA DE ACCESO A DATOS Y ELIMINACIÓN DE DATOS CONTROLADOS POR EMISOR MÓVIL

Se proporcionan un método y un sistema para eliminar remotamente datos almacenados en el dispositivo de comunicación móvil remoto, y dentro de la red de comunicaciones, mediante inicio de un comando de 5 eliminación, o estableciendo el tiempo de existencia de los datos cuando se crean los datos, desde un dispositivo de comunicación móvil emisor.
PUBLIC NOTICE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF INTERNATIONALISATION PROJECTS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL FAIRS TAKING PLACE FROM 01/10/2020 TO 31/12/2021

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF INTERNATIONALISATION PROJECTS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL FAIRS TAKING PLACE FROM 01/10/2020 TO 31/12/2021
Toward a Shared Vocabulary for Visual Analysis: An Analytic Toolkit for Deconstructing the Visual Design of Graphic Novels

AbstractLiteracy educators might advocate using graphic novels to develop students’ visual literacy skills, but teachers who lack a vocabulary for engaging in close analysis of visual texts may be reluctant to teach them. Recognizing this, teacher educators should equip preservice teachers with a vocabulary for analyzing visual texts.This article foregrounds three analytic concepts preservice teachers can use to examine the role issues of design play in eliciting their response to images—specifically, those in graphic novels. To demonstrate how the concepts function, the author applies them to his own reading of panels excerpted from a critically acclaimed graphic novel for adolescents.
Odyssee-Mure, a decision support tool for energy efficiency policy evaluation.

The 2012 Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) establishes a set of binding measures to help the EU reach its 20% energy efficiency target by 2020. Countries have also set their own indicative national energy efficiency targets. To reach these targets, EU countries have to implement energy efficiency policies and monitor their impact. The Commission has also the task of monitoring the impacts of the measures to check that the EU is on track with its 2020 target. 

The objective of the ODYSSEE MURE 2015 proposal is to contribute to this monitoring:

•	By updating two comprehensive databases covering each EU MS; ODYSSEE on energy consumption and energy efficiency indicators, and MURE on energy efficiency measures;
•	By providing new and innovative trainings and didactical documents to national, regional and local administrations in EU MS to raise their capacity and expertise in the field of energy efficiency monitoring and impact evaluation.
•	By extending the evaluation of the impact of energy efficiency from energy and CO2 savings, as already done in ODYSSEE, to the multiple other benefits.

The updating of two databases ODYSSEE and MURE will play a key role to provide updated and centralized information required by each MS and the Commission to assess, monitor and evaluate energy efficiency progress and the state of implementation of measures and their impact.

The project will provide innovative training tools and documents in a very user friendly way to public administrations to help them in implementing the monitoring of the progress achieved with indicators, in designing new policy measures and assessing the impacts of these measures, not only in terms of energy savings, but also in terms of the other benefits linked to energy efficiency improvements.

Finally, the project will try to provide an assessment of the multiple benefits of energy efficiency policies for all MS combing existing evaluation and new calculations.
Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider–Outsider Divide: Evidence from France

Insider-outsider theory argues that in dual labour markets there are two groups with opposing preferences regarding protection against dismissals: i) insiders with permanent work contracts who defend employment protection, because it increases their rents, and ii) outsiders (temporary workers and the unemployed) who see protection barriers to mobility and demand deregulation. Although this argument is influential in the political economy literature, there is little empirical research on outsiders' preferences regarding employment protection. We test the argument using French data on support for a proposed reform of employment protection. Our results show that permanent and temporary workers do not differ significantly in their support for employment protection, while some evidence indicates that the unemployed do show greater support for deregulation. We conclude that insider-outsider theory overemphasises the relevance of employment protection for temporary workers and that care should be taken not to place these workers in a composite outsider group with the unemployed.
L’italianité liquide chez Antonio D’Alfonso et Filippo Salvatore

Cet article se propose d’analyser les lieux de la migration dans les recueils de poèmes d’Antonio D’Alfonso (L’autre rivage, 1987) et de Filippo Salvatore (Terre e Infiniti, 2012). Les espaces habités par les poètes italo-canadiens deviennent liquides, leur discours identitaire n’y prend pas corporalité ou nationalité, au contraire, il se dissout. Au quotidien, l’énergie mobile des lieux « migrants » est la métaphore d’une condition identitaire qui veut traverser les frontières en longueur et en profondeur, pour tout ce qui touche à la sphère du souvenir, du voyage, du retour, du départ, du vagabondage – que ce soit à Guglionesi ou à Montréal, à travers le fleuve Biferno ou le Saint-Laurent, l’Adriatique ou l’Atlantique. Le fait de se baigner dans le panta rhei (toutes les choses coulent, tout passe) réveille la sensibilité des poètes : c’est ce bain qui régénère le moi, c’est ce qui lui donne l’énergie de se reconstruire autrement, différemment, d’acquérir une dimension universelle. Les gouttes d’eau, de sang et d’encre alimentent la construction d’une identité fluide et d’un nouveau sens de la citoyenneté.
A BAKING MACHINE

A baking machine for cooking food in the shape of sphere is disclosed. The baking machine comprises a food heating plate configured for accommodating and heating food materials; a vibration means configured for generating vibrations in a plurality of directions and transmitting the vibrations to the food heating plate; a housing configured for supporting the food heating plate and the vibration means and transmitting the vibration generated by the vibration means to the food heating plate; and a safe switch configured for turning on or off the food heating plate and the vibration means depending upon posture of the baking machine. The safe switch can secure safety, and the size of the baking machine can be reduced by employing a bended pendulum for generating vibrations.
Dynamics of variable-length tethers with application to tethered satellite deployment

Abstract The dynamics of variable-length tethers are studied using a flexible multibody dynamics method. The governing equations of the tethers are derived using a new, hybrid Eulerian and Lagrangian framework, by which the mass flow at a boundary of a tether and the length variation of a tether element are accounted for. The variable-length tether element based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation is developed to simulate the deployment of satellite tethers. The coupled dynamic equations of tethers and satellites are obtained using the Lagrangian multiplier method. Several tethered satellite systems involving large displacements, rotations, and deformations are numerically simulated, where the tethers are released from several meters to about 1 km. A control strategy is proposed to avoid slackness of the tethers during deployment. The accuracy of the modeling and solution procedures was validated on an elevator model.
Notsoquantum: realistic simulations of polaritonic chemistry

Polaritonic chemistry is an emerging field aiming to manipulate chemical dynamics and reactivity as well as material properties through the formation of polaritons. These are hybrid light-matter states emerging from the interaction between molecular transitions and confined light modes, leading to unique properties in the so-called strong coupling (SC) regime. Recent investigations have demonstrated several examples where polaritonic states prove beneficial to a variety of distinct processes, including the modification of nonadiabatic dynamics and molecular photophysical processes. Despite all the efforts placed into understanding how polaritons affect these processes, many unanswered questions still remain in the field. At the present time, the only way to achieve a deeper understanding on how to control the effect of polaritons in chemistry and predict new phenomena is to have a physically sound, accurate and low-cost methodology capable of including all key ingredients responsible for the formation of polaritons, while describing the dynamics of the light and matter entities on an equal footing. Such a framework remains to be explored, and this proposal precisely aims at developing the necessary methodology and simulate a realistic setup of molecular polaritons. The outcomes of this proposal will provide insight on the manipulation of chemical dynamics in polaritonic chemistry and additionally predict plausible modifications of photophysical processes. This will be possible by extending the Ehrenfest+R approach, a promising method for the simulation of coupled photon-molecular dynamics, to SC situations. Taking advantage of its ability to recover quantum effects of light-matter interactions with semiclassical dynamics, we will follow a “NOTsoQUANTUM” approach that will allow for feasible simulations which would otherwise be prohibitive with a full quantum description of both light and matter.
VOLTAGE SHIFT CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR PLL

A PLL structure comprises a PFD, a loop filter and a VCO, as well as a voltage shift capacitor (Ca) coupling the PFD and the VCO. A voltage shift control circuit (50) is placed in parallel with the voltage shift capacitor. This circuit comprises controlled charging means (51), which are designed to charge the voltage shift capacitor according to a channel control signal. It also comprises controlled pre-charging means (52) which are designed to accelerate the charging of the voltage shift capacitor by the controlled charging means. It further comprises controlled biasing means (53), designed to ensure the bias of the input during the pre-charging of the voltage shift capacitor.
Operational strategies for offshore wind turbines to mitigate failure rate uncertainty on operational costs and revenue

Several operational strategies for offshore wind farms have been established and explored in order to improve understanding of operational costs with a focus on heavy lift vessel strategies. Additionally, an investigation into the uncertainty surrounding failure behaviour has been performed identifying the robustness of different strategies. Four operational strategies were considered: fix on fail, batch repair, annual charter and purchase. A range of failure rates have been explored identifying the key cost drivers and under which circumstances an operator would choose to adopt them. When failures are low, the fix on fail and batch strategies perform best and allow flexibility of operating strategy. When failures are high, purchase becomes optimal and is least sensitive to increasing failure rate. Late life failure distributions based on mechanical and electrical components behaviour have been explored. Increased operating costs because of wear-out failures have been quantified. An increase in minor failures principally increase lost revenue costs and can be mitigated by deploying increased maintenance resources. An increase in larger failures primarily increases vessel and repair costs. Adopting a purchase strategy can negate the vessel cost increase; however, significant cost increases are still observed. Maintenance actions requiring the use of heavy lift vessels, currently drive train components and blades are identified as critical for proactive maintenance to minimise overall maintenance costs.
KNEADING TROUGH FOR THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION OF DOUGH FOR BAKING BREAD, VIENNESE BAKERY PRODUCTS, PASTRY OR THE LIKE

The invention concerns a kneading trough for the industrial production of dough for baking bread, Viennese bakery products, pastry or the like, designed to supply a processing unit, such as a dough divider (6) comprising one or several vats (2, 2A) provided with kneading means (3) and means for measuring out (4) ingredients to supply the vat(s) (2, 2A) at each kneading cycle. This kneading trough (1) is characterised in that the vat(s) (2, 2A) are mounted tilting on a supporting frame (10) located above said dough processing unit (6), and, furthermore, said means for measuring (4) out ingredients (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) being mounted on said supporting frame (10) above the vat(s) (2, 2A).
Molecular MRI of Atherosclerosis Burden

Atherosclerosis is a systemic vascular disease predominantly affecting the intima of central and peripheral arteries. Its complications, myocardial infarction and stroke, remain the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world and developing countries. Angiographic imaging methods are the current gold standard for the clinical graduation of coronary and carotid artery disease and the guidance of treatment. These techniques are however limited to the assessment of the extent of luminal narrowing. MRI is a noninvasive modality, which allows the direct evaluation of the thin arterial vessel wall with excellent soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution. Targeted MR contrast agents enable the evaluation of specific cellular and subcellular markers on a molecular level. This review will introduce and discuss novel molecular MR imaging techniques for the assessment of plaque and inflammatory burden in the context of atherosclerosis. Both measures can provide additional information beyond the assessment of luminal stenosis alone.
Hypervisible Man: Techno-Performativity and Televisual Blackness in Percival Everett's I Am Not Sidney Poitier

In interviews and in his writing, Percival Everett has been notoriously evasive about the role of race and African American identity in his fiction. For instance, in a typical exchange from a 2005 interview, Jim Kincaid asked Everett, “What, for you, is race?” Everett responded, “It’s when two or more people, dogs, horses or cars try to get to a distant point as fast as they can.” Kincaid later asked Everett whether he is “in some way a black writer” (378); Everett gave a similarly playful but perhaps more telling answer: “I am a black writer the way you are a white professor or that man over there is a fat banker. You might point me out as a black writer when trying to betray me to the KKK or the Bush administration. If I get lost and you’re trying to tell the police what I look like, you will say, ‘He’s devastatingly handsome, tall and black’” (379). While of course Everett is in part merely engaging in some verbal parrying with Kincaid here, this statement reveals something about the way that race and racial identification are treated in Everett’s fiction. For Everett, blackness is primarily a visual descriptor, one that is much more likely to tell us something significant about the person doing the describing than the person being described. Proceeding from this point, many critics who have discussed Everett’s fiction claim that its project is defiantly to carve out space (in a uniquely curmudgeonly style) for African American writers whose writing does not fit neatly into stereotyped and popularly circulated versions of the authentic black experience. For instance, about Erasure (2001), Everett’s scathing takedown of the publishing industry’s treatment of black culture, Margaret Russett writes that “Everett unhinges ‘black’ subject matter from a lingering stereotype of ‘black’ style, while challenging the assumption that a single or consensual African-American Experience exists to be represented” (360). Brian Yost similarly argues that rather than depicting any sort of unitary form of blackness, Everett “re-evaluates expression at the individual level, offering instead a human identity composed of a non-reducible array of significant experiences and influences” (1325). A defiant individualism in Everett’s work puts him in the context of a postmodernist black
Hybrid wafer for multi-layer integration mems devices

It reports on the exploratory experiment of a hybrid wafer with two or more die wired for each other in this thesis. The cavity is formed to the wafer, and individual die is arranged there (die is MEMS device and LSIs, etc.). The surface of the wafer and the surface of the dies are made smooth with the resin, and flat wiring is done to the electrode pads of individual die by the photolithography technology. The accumulating mounting to which other wafers are sticked together in using the flip-chip technology and the TSV technology on the wafer can be done. As a result, it becomes possible to raise the package density from a past wafer-level packaging technology further.
Use of Essential Oils for Manipulation of Rumen Microbial Fermentation Using Batch Culture

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of various levels of essential oils on feed digestibility, gas production and rumen fermentation. Two batch cultures were designed for screening various doses of each essential oil (EO). Treatments were control (CON), cinnamon oil (CIN), clove oil (CLO), garlic oil (GAR), ginger oil (GIN), and lemongrass oil (LEM). Dosages were 0, 200, 400, 800, and 1600 mg/kg DM in experiment I (1 st batch) and 50, 100, 150, and 200 mg/kg DM in experiment II (2 nd batch). Digestibility of DM (DMD), neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber was measured at 24 h and 48 h post incubation, while gas production (GP) was read at 3, 6, 12, 24, 36, and 48 h post incubation. Experimental diet used was a dairy type ration consisting of 50% forage (35% grass hay and 15% alfalfa hay) and 50% concentrate (20% barley grain, 10% corn DDGS, 10% wheat DDGS, 5% canola meal, and 5% vitamin and mineral supplements). All essential oils could improve DM disappearance with consistent results in both experiment I and experiment II. Meanwhile, the essential oils had no effect on NDF and ADF digestibility. Total VFA concentration and individual VFA proportion in experiment I were not affected by the essential oils. However, 200 mg/kg DM of each EO increased total VFA concentration without any effect on individual VFA proportion in experiment II. Ammonia N concentration was reduced by the essential oils in both experiments I and II, confirming the effect of essential oils on deamination. However, the effect of EOs on methane production was apparently negligible. These results suggest that the EOs used in the present study could be potentially developed as rumen modifiers to improve feed digestibility in the rumen.
Stipendium für Irmina Podlewska Centrum Management und Entrepreneurship zur Finanzierung und Sicherstellung des laufenden Betriebs

Das Projekt geht von einer Finanzhilfe für den Antragsteller aus, der unter der COVID-19-Pandemie litt. Aufgrund der Pandemie ist der Umsatz der Klägerin erheblich gesunken. Mit der Finanzhilfe wird sichergestellt, dass das Unternehmen und die Beschäftigung mindestens drei Kalendermonate andauern.