SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A Radionavigation Systems Course

This paper presents a new course, Radionavigation Systems, whose laboratory and theoretical components complement each other to enhance student learning. Radionavigation skills and knowledge are taught by means of various instructional methods, and the laboratory successfully merges hands-on learning using specific instrumentation and software simulation tools, with m-learning and a competition. The relationship between cognitive and psychomotor learning outcomes is discussed. These instructional methods proved highly motivating to students. Oral presentations and report preparation skills also improved in students who completed the course. The experiments designed for the course are discussed in the light of student surveys, student grades, and the work carried out by the lecturer. The evaluation results demonstrate a high degree of success in meeting the initial goals of the course. The main drawback of the current course is related to equipment availability. Student motivation was high throughout the course. The course as designed is transferable to other universities.
The Sun and stars: Giving light to dark matter

During the last century, with the development of modern physics in such diverse fields as thermodynamics, statistical physics, and nuclear and particle physics, the basic principles of the evolution of stars have been successfully well understood. Nowadays, a precise diagnostic of the stellar interiors is possible with the new fields of helioseismology and astroseismology. Even the measurement of solar neutrino fluxes, once a problem in particle physics, is now a powerful probe of the core of the Sun. These tools have allowed the use of stars to test new physics, in particular the properties of the hypothetical particles that constitute the dark matter (DM) of the Universe. Here we present recent results obtained using this approach.
METHODS AND DEVICES FOR STIMULATION OF AN ORGAN WITH THE USE OF A TRANSECTIONALLY PLACED GUIDE WIRE

Devices, systems and methods are provided for electrical stimulation of a body organ, particularly within the gastrointestinal tract. In preferred embodiments, the stomach is the organ within the gastrointestinal tract which is targeted for such stimulation. A guide wire or other delivery device is positioned within the body so as to transect the stomach wall. Devices and systems are then advanced over the guide wire for attachment to the stomach wall. The guide wire may be placed by endoscopic, open, laparoscopic or a modified percutaneous approach. In a modified percutaneous approach, the stomach is accessed without the use of general anesthesia by advancing a needle through the abdomen, transecting the stomach wall with the needle and advancing the guide wire through the needle. In some embodiments, particularly for use in obese patients, the modified percutaneous approach includes advancing a trocar through the tissue of the patient toward the outer surface of the organ and advancing the needle through the trocar prior to transecting the wall with the needle.
Innovating hessian smes towards europe

With this proposal the coordinator of the EEN Hessen consortium, Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH (HTAI), participates as a sole partner in the Consultation of Enterprise Europe Network partners on the work programme for 2019 Horizon 2020 activities. HTAI will implement the action on services enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMES under the H2020 programmes for specific activities in the context of innovation support and the European Innovation Council pilot. 

Beneficiaries of the funding schemes SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation and Future and Enabling Technologies Open will be supported with dedicated Key Account Management (KAM) services. EEN Hessen will assess their gaps and challenges in the innovation process, identify and propose a suitable coach, facilitate the interaction between the coach and the SME and respond to further needs by additional support measures. The overall aim is to enable those companies to conduct their innovation projects successfully and thus to contribute to their commercial growth. 

Other SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for international growth will be supported in the separate process of Enhancing the Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC). EEN Hessen will identify suitable companies in Hessen and motivate them for the EIMC service, assess their gaps and needs, develop an appropriate action plan and facilitate its implementation.

With these activities, complemented by a wide range of further EEN services along the Network Client Journey, HTAI strives to increase the competitiveness of Hessian SMEs and strengthen their ability to operate successfully in the European Single Market and outside, thus contributing to the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy.
The action will be conducted by the EEN Hessen innovation experts, all senior staff experienced in innovation management. They will use the Innovation Health Check by Enterprise Ireland as a CEN/TS 16555-1 conform assessment tool.
Contexts of and relations between early writing systems

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems

This project takes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the history of writing, redressing lingering problems that have hampered previous research and developing new methodologies for studying scripts and their social context. The staff on the project will work on specific case studies relating to inscriptions of the ancient Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Levant (c.2000-600 BC), developing a new and much deeper understanding of writing, literacy and social and cultural interrelations in the area than has ever been possible via the often out-dated traditional methods usually applied to these data. The focus will be on enriching our understanding of both linguistic and social aspects of the borrowing and propagation of writing. This planned research has the potential to change the way we think about writing systems, their societal context and the ways in which ideas were exchanged in early civilisations. Published and publicised through multiple outputs and media, the results will be of importance not only to the specific chronological period and geographical area under close consideration but also to the diachronic study of relationships between population groups and the significance of such relationships for the wider field of cultural history.
El liderazgo de la mujer en la investigación en comunicación en España

El objetivo de este artículo, basado en resultados del proyecto I+D+i “Mapas de la investigación en comunicación en las Universidades españolas de 2007 a 2018”, es ofrecer el estado actual de la presencia, acceso y liderazgo de las mujeres en la investigación académica en el campo de la comunicación. Los resultados muestran que la brecha de género subsiste en ciencias sociales y, en menor medida, en el campo de la comunicación. Las mujeres consuman en mayor proporción que los hombres su doctorado y aventajan a éstos en la autoría de contribuciones a congresos y presencia en la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación como asociadas, sin que esto tenga un correlato en la progresión de su carrera académica respecto a ocupar posiciones de liderazgo en la dirección de proyectos de I+D+i, tesis doctorales, grupos de investigación, puestos de responsabilidad en la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación o en la publicación de artículos en las revistas de mayor impacto de la especialidad.
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

A large number of countries have enacted laws aimed at making it easier for firms to invest in their country, while many countries offer various monetary incentives and tax incentives to encourage inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The desire to attract FDI is due not only to the fact that FDI brings in new investment boosting national income and employment, but also due to the expectation that inward FDI would also provide additional spillover benefits to the local economy that can result in higher productivity growth and increased export growth. This study aims to examine the impact of foreign direct investment on innovation in developing countries. The estimation of a panel threshold model on a sample of 54 developing countries for the 1980-2009 period shows the presence of non linear effects in the relationship between FDI and innovation. We find a threshold value of technological development below which FDI has a negative impact on innovation and above which FDI has a significant positive impact on innovation. We conclude that it is not enough for economic policy to attract foreign investments, it is still necessary to support domestic firms to build an absorptive capacity allowing them to enjoy the benefits of multinational firms.
ANTI-TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY

The present invention relates to the use of telomerase-derived peptides for the treatment of any cancer patients, particularly for the treatment of patients with renal or prostate cancer.
SCRAPED SURFACE EVAPORATORS

The present invention relates to scraped surface evaporators (10), and in particular to scrapers (30) for use in scraping the surface of the evaporator (10). Such scraped surface evaporators (10) comprise a refrigerated drum (12), the inner surface of which is scraped by the scraper(s) (30). The scraper is mounted on drive means (16), which are arranged to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the drum (12). The scraper comprises a leading edge region (32) and a trailing edge region (34), with the leading edge formed into a blade (44). A biasing force is applied to the scraper (30) so that the blade (44) and a trailing edge (48) are biased into contact with the surface (46) to be scraped.
Additional file 1 of Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease and sequelae in the United Kingdom during the period 2008 to 2017 – a secondary database analysis

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Submarine medial moraines in Hambergbukta, southeastern Spitsbergen

Sediments are incorporated into glaciers mainly by basal erosion and freeze-on, and by debris-fall onto the ice surface along the slopes of adjacent mountainsides. Flow-parallel debris ridges formed at the confluence of glaciers are known as medial moraines (Benn & Evans 2010). Medial moraines have a number of different origins (Eyles & Rogerson 1978; Benn & Evans 2010), including ingestion of basal marginal debris in deep crevasses and redistribution of supra-, en- and subglacial debris in the shear zone between converging glaciers (e.g. Sharp 1988; Vere & Benn 1989; Hambrey & Glasser 2003). Medial moraines up to tens of kilometres long and tens of metres high can be preserved after glacier retreat, marking the former flow path of ice masses. Medial moraines have also been shown to exert significant control over surging glaciers by inhibiting and/or redirecting glacier flow. Locally persistent subglacial meltwater conduits located under the medial moraines can also inhibit glacier surges by draining subglacial meltwater efficiently and decreasing basal water pressure (Benn et al. 2009).

Hambergbukta …
The world’s largest toothed pterosaur, NHMUK R481, an incomplete rostrum of Coloborhynchus capito (Seeley, 1870) from the Cambridge Greensand of England

Abstract The assignment of a fragment of the anterior tip of a pterosaur rostrum from the Cenomanian Cambridge Greensand of eastern England to the ornithocheirid Coloborhynchus capito ( Seeley, 1870 ) is confirmed. The fragment represents partial left and right fused premaxillae and retains broken teeth within alveoli. A width across the palate of 57.4 mm, a height at the anterior rostrum in excess of 95 mm and a tooth with a diameter of 13 mm at the base of the crown indicates a remarkably large individual, tentatively estimated to have had a skull length in excess of 0.75 m and a wing span of up to 7 m. This fragment represents the largest toothed pterosaur yet reported. This find, and several other large postcranial fragments from the Cambridge Greensand, suggest that ornithocheirids, toothed ornithocheiroids known from the earliest Early to early Late Cretaceous (Valanginian–Cenomanian) achieved very large, but not giant size. Pteranodontids, edentulous ornithocheiroids currently known only from the mid Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian–early Campanian), reached similar dimensions, up to 7.25 m in wing span. Contrary to popular myth, however, ornithocheiroids did not attain the giant sizes (wing spans of 10 m or more) achieved by azhdarchids in the late Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian).
Being a politically active emigrant. the political structuring of the french and italians abroad: a comparative analysis of mobile citizens

This research project aims to understand the organizational and cognitive consequences of the election of specific national political representatives by citizens living abroad. The proposal is based on a comparative analysis of two expatriate populations with such rights, Italians and French, in two host countries, Belgium and Canada. The focus of the research is the motivations, representations and strategies of politically active emigrants in branches of home political parties abroad.
The research will be done through an original multi-methods research design – computer-assisted discourse analysis, qualitative comparative analysis and quantitative questionnaire analysis – to gather rich and sociologically relevant data. The combination of CAQDAS techniques with QCA, as a comparative tool of analysis, will produce robust results and provide good grounds for tentative generalization beyond the considered case studies.
The project will originally contribute to the theoretical advancement of many research fields. It will develop the theory of political parties, since the knowledge is weak and fragmentary concerning the role and functioning of political parties abroad, and almost inexistent in non-contentious contexts. The project will also advance the theory of transnational politics, since it will focus on two dimensions underdeveloped in the existing literature: the involvement of emigrants in home politics and the analysis of banal transnational politics. The project will finally contribute to the theory of national identity and citizenship since it will question the reconfiguration of established nation states that might result from giving citizenship rights and representation to nationals living abroad.
In a policy perspective the research responds to recurring demands to further investigate the governance of migration as well as the implications of multilevel citizenship in a context of growing mobility of EU citizens from, to and within the EU.
Fixed outline multi-bend bus driven floorplanning

Modern hierarchical SOC design flows need to deal with fixed-outline floorplanning under the interconnect constraints, in this paper, we address the problem of bus driven floorplanning in a fixed-outline area. Given a set of blocks, the bus specification, and the height and width of the chip area, a floorplan solution including bus routes and satisfying the outline constraint will be generated with the total floorplan area and total bus area minimized. The approach proposed in this paper is based on a deterministic algorithm Less Flexibility First (LFF), which runs in a fixed-outline area and packs hard blocks one after another with no drawbacks. In our approach, we put no limitation to the shape of the buses, and the processes block-packing and bus-packing are proceeding simultaneously. Experiment results show that under the constraint of fixed-outline, we can also obtain a good solution, with less dead space percentage and shorter run time, besides, for large test cases, our algorithm still works well.
Improving performance technologies in freight single information space

Some directions of implementation process development and provision of freights by rail are shown in the article. These aspects consider update conditions of technological process and information space. The main objective of the study is improving the work technology of the cross-border transfer station under the change of gauge on the territories of neighboring countries. The model of the system “border station – crossing point of the cars on another gauge”, which considers connection of information and material flows during implementation of the electronic data exchange is examined on the example of the model of the transport logistics system. The model is aimed to optimize the costs in the organization and fulfillment of car service technology on the border station and during the change of gauge. The research results can be applied on the cross-border transfer stations, where the transferring and receiving of cars from / to the territory of neighboring countries, with a gauge of 1435 mm are being existed allows to consider maximum intensity of the incoming flow, material and information ones, and to ensure the executing conditions of the freight delivery adjusted in advance
A THRESHOLD MODEL APPROACH TO ESTIMATING THE ABNORMAL STOCK RETURNS

The classical capital asset pricing model postulates a linear relationship between stock returns and stock risks. However, a number of subsequent empirical studies have revealed some anomalies in this relationship, especially for firms with small size and high book-to-market values. A possible explanation for the anomalies is the existence of threshold effects in the proxies of stock risks. However, conventional threshold models only allow for one threshold variable, which limits their applicability in this context. In this paper, we address this issue by applying the econometric technique developed by Bai et al. (2012). We estimate the joint threshold effects of firm size and book-to-market equity ratio on the stock returns using a sample of 5,271 US firms. The test results yield clear evidence for the existence of threshold effects in both firm features. We find that abnormal returns exist when the firm size falls below 52.04 million USD and the book-to-market ratio exceeds 0.4085.
A HEATING DEVICE

A heating device for food preparing purposes, primarly cooking pots and grill tables in large kitchens and the like includes electrical resistor elements adapted to supply thermal energy to a surface to be heated, such as the outer surface of a cooking pot and the underside of a grill surface or table. According to the invention the resistor elements (2-5) comprise resistor filaments in the form of an electrically conductive foil, which is vulcanized firmly to the aforementioned surface (12; 13) with the aid of a thin layer of a vulcanizable rubber material. In accordance with one embodiment, when the heating device is a cooking pot (1) the foil is applied to the peripheral surface (12) of the cooking pot (1) in the form of strip-like elements (23, 24, 25) which extend around the pot in superposed relationship from the bottom (13) thereof. An element (35) is also provided on the bottom (13) of the pot, and covers substantially the whole of the pot bottom.
Le diabète gestationnel : diagnostic et prise en charge à court et à long terme

Universal consensus on the diagnosis methods and thresholds has long been lacking. The recently published Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study has been used to confirm the link between hyperglycemia and materno-fetal complications. Consequently, in France, the Société francophone du diabète (SFD) and the Collège national des gynécologues et obstétriciens français (CNGOF) proposed an expert consensus on gestational diabetes mellitus for clinical practice. Fasting blood glucose should be measured at the first visit during early pregnancy for women with risk factors to identify the women with pregestational diabetes. It is proposed a selective screening on risk factors rather than universal screening. Specific treatment of gestational diabetes reduced materno-fetal complications compared to the absence of therapy. Women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus are characterized by a high risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Intrauterine growth restriction is associated with structural alterations in human umbilical cord and decreased nitric oxide-induced relaxation of umbilical vein

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) affects ∼8% of all pregnancies and is associated with major perinatal mortality and morbidity, and with an increased risk to develop cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. Despite identification of several risk factors, the mechanisms implicated in the development of IUGR remain poorly understood. In case of placental insufficiency, reduced delivery of oxygen and/or nutrients to the fetus could be associated with alterations in the umbilical circulation, contributing further to the impairment of maternal-fetal exchanges. We compared the structural and functional properties of umbilical cords from growth-restricted and appropriate for gestational age (AGA) term newborns, with particular attention to the umbilical vein (UV).Human umbilical cords were collected at delivery. Morphological changes were investigated by histomorphometry, and UV's reactivity by pharmacological studies.Growth-restricted newborns displayed significantly lower growth parameters, placental weight and umbilical cord diameter than AGA controls. Total cross-section and smooth muscle areas were significantly smaller in UV of growth-restricted neonates than in controls. Maximal vasoconstriction achieved in isolated UV was lower in growth-restricted boys than in controls, whereas nitric oxide-induced relaxation was significantly reduced in UV of growth-restricted girls compared to controls.IUGR is associated with structural alterations of the UV in both genders, and with a decreased nitric oxide-induced relaxation in UV of newborn girls, whereas boys display impaired vasoconstriction. Further investigations will allow to better understand the regulation of umbilical circulation in growth-restricted neonates, which could contribute to devise potential novel therapeutic strategies to prevent or limit the development of IUGR.
ELECTROPORATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

Electroporation is a technique in which an electrical field is applied to cells in order to increase the permeability of the cell membrane. This allows for chemicals, drugs, and/or macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids to be introduced into the cells. Embodiments relate to an electroporation apparatus. The electroporation apparatus comprises: a plurality of chambers configured to store a plurality of cells during an electroporation process; a plurality of electrodes configured to generate a plurality of electric fields within the plurality of chambers during the electroporation process, each electric field of the plurality of electric fields corresponding to one chamber of the plurality of chambers; a flow channel configured to transport the plurality cells during a cell collection process after the electroporation process; and a plurality of valves connecting the plurality of chambers to the flow channel.
FREQUENCY LOCATION APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS

In some embodiments, an ex-situ apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, operate to transmit wideband modulated pulses to generate an externally-projected oscillating magnetic field in a material body, to record one or more raw echo free induction decay (REFID) signals during echo acquisition periods following some of the second modulated pulses, and to transform the acquired REFID signals via frequency decomposition to determine a preferred nuclear magnetic resonance frequency associated with a maximum amplitude of decomposed frequency components. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.