SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A system dynamics approach to analysing bioethanol and biodiesel supply chains: increasing bioethanol and biodiesel market shares in the USA

This paper proposes a system dynamics model to study and analyse interactions among the variables of bioethanol and biodiesel supply chains. The proposed model is used for constructing scenarios to investigate appropriate policy options and their possible future effects on the market share of bioethanol and biodiesel in the USA. In order to increase bioethanol and biodiesel market shares and creating a reasonable balance between them, a scenario-based sensitivity analysis is conducted. The results of sensitivity analysis demonstrate that causing an increase in oil plant and biodiesel production and a decrease in corn and bioethanol production results in an increase in both bioethanol and biodiesel market shares as well as a fair balance between them. Policy implications related to increasing biofuel production in the USA are also provided. Additionally, for validating the proposed model, behaviour reproduction test is done.
Team semantics and dependence logic

In the traditional so-called Tarski’s Truth Definition the semantics of first order logic is defined with respect to an assignment of values to the free variables.  A richer family of semantic concepts can be modelled if semantics is defined with respect to a set (a ""team"") of such assignments. This is what is called team semantics, a term coined by the PI in his 2007 monograph, and used ever since to describe this highly non-trivial modification of Tarskian semantics. Team semantics was introduced around the same time in inquisitive logic under the name state semantics. Examples of semantic concepts available in team semantics but not in traditional Tarski semantics are the concepts of dependence and independence. The PI introduced what he called dependence logic around these concepts. It appears that teams appear naturally in several areas of sciences and humanities which has made it possible to apply dependence logic and its variants to these areas. Now is the right moment to move from dependence logic to a broader explication of team semantics. This is what the TEAMDEP project proposes to do. In the TEAMDEP project we take team semantics to a new level by focusing on its hard axiomatizability questions and to its applications to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the multiverse of set theory.
A hybrid solar panel that maximises heat capture and electricity generatio

A hybrid solar panel that maximises heat capture and electricity generation.  Although solar panel technology is well established, commercial hybrid panels are a recent innovation. A typical PV panel transforms ~20% of incident solar irradiance into electricity – and a thermal panel several times that, into heat. Between the two, there are trade-offs; and the detailed economics – factoring in power prices and other heating costs, etc. – can be very complex. In the end, however, people/businesses need continuous electricity and regular hot water. There is clear need for a solution that delivers both: hence the development and uptake of hybrid panels. The battle is to establish technology (efficiency) leadership – which EndeF has achieved in ECOMESH: the most efficient panel ever built. At the core of the innovation is ECOMESH’s Transparent Insulating Cover (TIC) technology: an advanced heat recovery system which, using an inert gas layer, maximises heat capture. TIC also increases electricity generation by 15%, by cooling the PV cells to their optimum operating temperature.
War and the supernatural in early modern europe

The debates of intellectuals both Catholic and Protestant have much to tell us about the nature of religious warfare in early modern Europe. In the seventeenth century, the small numbers of radical Catholics and Protestants who favoured imposing their own version of Christianity on others by force were accused by moderates (no less religiously sincere) within their own communities of promoting wars incompatible with Christian orthodoxy. Religious faith, the moderates insisted, was a supernatural thing, a gift of God, rather than a natural thing, a creation of rational humans, and thus could not be imposed by force. Arguments for religious war in the sense of evangelisation by force were thus resisted by most of the educated European elite. These debates among university-based Catholic and Protestant intellectuals took place in the Latin language and are insufficiently known to political historians of early modern Europe. Political historians examining the phenomenon of early modern religious war impose the modern categories of sacred (which they associate with the irrational) and secular (which they posit must be drained of the divine) on the past, mistakenly assuming that those who opposed evangelisation by force were somehow more secular than their opponents and composing a false history of secularisation.
This project will analyse, translate, edit, and publish these scholastic debates between religious militants and religious moderates on the role of force in religious life in order to inform and re-shape arguments among political historians on the nature of religious warfare. One focus of the project will be the Franciscan intellectual tradition which favoured evangelisation by force. But some Protestants and especially Calvinists also brought the supernatural very far into human life, and the project will insist on the utility of that distinction between natural and supernatural in composing a trans-confessional history of religious militancy.
Minorities' agriculture - Detection and enhancement of the cross-border typical products

This project stems from the shared need to enhance the resources of the primary sector, that are connected with the Italian minority in Slovenia and the Slovenian minority in Italy. The project is especially addressed to farmers, their trade associations and the other representative associations, together with various professionals (wine stewards, tasters, journalists, etc.) and all the inhabitants of the cross-border area and tourists. The general objectives are the joint detection and enhancement of some resources in the cross-border territory, focusing in particular on the typical and traditional local types of production, that are peculiar to the territory. They represent an added value, for they typify the area inhabited by the respective minorities. Several types of local production are characterized by a very high quality: wine, olive oil, honey, dairy products, sausages, but also fruit and vegetables, products which derive from both border countries.Yet, these small producers lack the necessary connections and joint activities to analyse products, to open an information centre and to equip themselves with information and enhancement instruments. The project envisages the detection and mapping of typical products, the opening of an information centre in the cooperative Dolga Krona in S. Dorligo/Dolina, information and training initiatives, workshops, the organization of fairs of tyipical products from the cross-border area, the preparation of multilingual information material, the promotion of such initiatives and of the results achieved.
INNOVATIVE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

The ISEDE -NET concept was conceived within a TCA dissemination conference on Social Entrepreneurship (SE) financed through the EQUAL C.I. in October 2007. It is a link between 2 Programming periods of SF, capitalizing results of 2000-2006 along as new experimentations to be undertaken by the project, and projecting them into the 2007-2013 period. Moreover ISEDE-NET is planned in a period of financial turmoil, when real economy based on innovation, sustainability, inclusion is expected to have a renewed role. The global objective of ISEDE-NET is to support the development of SE across the SEES, contributing to social and economic cohesion. Specific objectives are: 1) identify driving forces for SE development; 2) mobilize a transnational network of SE and promote participation to ISEDE-NET social network; 3) implement pilot innovative actions (finance, business support services, market development); 4) promote innovation and new SE creation; 5) commit stakeholders to SE development 6) providing a chance for social inclusion of disadvantaged groups. 5 thematic WPs are delivered: WP3: Research on SE; WP4: Establishment of the ISEDE?NET Portal; WP5: Development of an innovative financial tool; WP6: Development of business support services; WP7: Development of market niches. Main expected outputs: 8 national research studies on SE; ISEDE-NET social network populated by min. 400 SE; n. 1 feasibility study for innovative financial tool, informative and training material in 8 languages and online local help-desks, n. min. 4 feasibility studies on new potential market niches. Main expected results are: 1) better knowledge about driving forces of SE at PP and stakeholder level; 2) permanent transnational public-private network committed to the development of SE; 3) permanent transnational network of SE with increased business capacities and improved road to market; 4) implementation of pilot actions for the development of SE sector.
Calculating gamma ray exposure buildup factors for plane source and double stratified layers of water and lead and investigating effect of coherent scattering on these factors

In this work, gamma exposure buildup factors (E.B.F.) for plane sources and two-layer shields of water and lead were calculated. Also, coherent scattering effect usually left unattended in this type of geometry and application was considered. First, gamma EBFs were calculated by using MCNP, without considering coherent scattering effect for a normal and anisotropic plane source and double stratified layers of water-lead and lead-water. Then, the above-mentioned factors were calculated by considering coherent scattering effect, and influence of coherent scattering and also fluorescence radiations on E.B.F. was studied. Due to coherent scattering, EBFs were increased in both layers, especially for sources with low energies and layers with more mean free paths. Regarding the high accuracy of statistical calculation and the applied cross sections, more complete results in comparison with previous works for the mentioned geometry were obtained.
Survival of molecular gas in cavities of transition disks

(Abridged) Planet formation is closely related to the structure and dispersal of protoplanetary disks. A certain class of disks, called transition disks, exhibit cavities in dust images at scales of up to a few 10s of AU. The formation mechanism of the cavities is still unclear. The gas content of such cavities can be spatially resolved for the first time using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We have developed a new series of models to simulate the physical conditions and chemical abundances of the gas in cavities to address the question whether the gas is primarily atomic or molecular inside the dust free cavities exposed to intense UV radiation. Molecular/atomic line emission by carbon monoxide (CO), its isotopologues (13CO, C18O, C17O, and 13C18O) and related species ([CI], [CII], and [OI]) is predicted for comparison with ALMA and the Herschel Space Observatory. The gas can remain in molecular form down to very low amounts of gas in the cavity. Shielding of the stellar radiation by a dusty inner disk (pre-transition disk) allows CO to survive down to lower gas masses in the cavity. The main parameter for the CO emission from cavity is the gas mass. Other parameters such as the outer disk mass, bolometric luminosity, shape of the stellar spectrum or PAH abundance are less important. Since the CO pure rotational lines readily become optically thick, the CO isotopologues need to be observed in order to quantitatively determine the amount of gas in the cavity. A wide range of gas masses in the cavity of transition disks (~4 orders of magnitude) can be probed using combined observations of CO isotopologue lines with ALMA. Measuring the gas mass in the cavity will ultimately help to distinguish between different cavity formation theories.
Modeling Seebeck coefficient of Ca3−xMxCo4O9 (M=Sr, Pr, Ga, Ca, Ba, La, Ag) thermoelectric ceramics

Abstract Over the past decade, there has been considerable interest in the field of thermoelectrics, driven by the need for more efficient materials for electronic refrigeration and power generation. In the present study, a new method has been utilized to evaluate the Seebeck coefficient of different Ca3−xMxCo4O9 (M=Sr, Pr, Ga, Ca, Ba, La, Ag) thermoelectric ceramics. For this purpose, a total number of 571 data were collected from the previous experimental works, randomly divided into 462 and 109 sets, and then trained and tested, respectively by gene expression programming (GEP) process. In the set of the model, type of M (for Ca-site substitution), M content (x/3−x), process temperature, compact pressure, sintering time and sintering temperature were entered as input parameters, while the Seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric ceramics was used as output parameter. The training and testing set results of the explicit formulations obtained by the model show that artificial intelligent methods have strong potential and can be applied for the prediction of the Seebeck coefficient of different Ca3−xMxCo4O9 (M=Sr, Pr, Ga, Ca, Ba, La, Ag) thermoelectric ceramics.
Air spring strut

An air spring strut is mounted between a chassis of a motor vehicle and a wheel support of a wheel suspension and takes up wheel transverse forces. The air spring strut includes: an air spring including an outer hollow cylinder (8) and an inner hollow cylinder (9). A piston is arranged within the inner hollow cylinder (9) and is connected to the outer hollow cylinder (8). A first rolling-lobe resilient member (10) is arranged between the outer hollow cylinder (8) and the inner hollow cylinder (9) so as to seal off an outer air chamber. A second rolling-lobe resilient member (11) is arranged between the inner hollow cylinder (9) and the piston (2) so as to seal off an inner air chamber (7). The inner hollow cylinder (9) is articulately connected to the wheel support (3). The inner hollow cylinder (9) and the outer hollow cylinder (8) are arranged eccentrically to each other.
Systems, articles, and methods for capacitive electromyography sensors

Systems, articles, and methods for improved capacitive electromyography (“EMG”) sensors are described. The improved capacitive EMG sensors include one or more sensor electrode(s) that is/are coated with a protective barrier formed of a material that has a relative permittivity εr of about 10 or more. The protective barrier shields the sensor electrode(s) from moisture, sweat, skin oils, etc. while advantageously contributing to a large capacitance between the sensor electrode(s) and the user's body. In this way, the improved capacitive EMG sensors provide enhanced robustness against variations in skin and/or environmental conditions. Such improved capacitive EMG sensors are particularly well-suited for use in wearable EMG devices that may be worn by a user for an extended period of time and/or under a variety of skin and/or environmental conditions. A wearable EMG device that provides a component of a human-electronics interface and incorporates such improved capacitive EMG sensors is described.
ReprDB and panDB: minimalist databases with maximal microbial representation

Profiling of shotgun metagenomic samples is hindered by a lack of unified microbial reference genome databases that (i) assemble genomic information from all open access microbial genomes, (ii) have relatively small sizes, and (iii) are compatible to various metagenomic read mapping tools. Moreover, computational tools to rapidly compile and update such databases to accommodate the rapid increase in new reference genomes do not exist. As a result, database-guided analyses often fail to profile a substantial fraction of metagenomic shotgun sequencing reads from complex microbiomes.We report pipelines that efficiently traverse all open access microbial genomes and assemble non-redundant genomic information. The pipelines result in two species-resolution microbial reference databases of relatively small sizes: reprDB, which assembles microbial representative or reference genomes, and panDB, for which we developed a novel iterative alignment algorithm to identify and assemble non-redundant genomic regions in multiple sequenced strains. With the databases, we managed to assign taxonomic labels and genome positions to the majority of metagenomic reads from human skin and gut microbiomes, demonstrating a significant improvement over a previous database-guided analysis on the same datasets.reprDB and panDB leverage the rapid increases in the number of open access microbial genomes to more fully profile metagenomic samples. Additionally, the databases exclude redundant sequence information to avoid inflated storage or memory space and indexing or analyzing time. Finally, the novel iterative alignment algorithm significantly increases efficiency in pan-genome identification and can be useful in comparative genomic analyses.
Psoriasis beyond the skin: a review of the literature on cardiometabolic and psychological co-morbidities of psoriasis

Psoriasis is increasingly associated with a range of co-morbid diseases and risk factors. Patients with co-morbidities are more likely to need hospitalisation for non-dermatological conditions, and incur greater total costs than those without co-morbidities. A literature review was conducted on two of the most common co-morbidities of psoriasis (cardiovascular (CV) and psychological co-morbidities), to establish their incidence and impact and to raise awareness of unanswered questions and highlight knowledge gaps. A large number of small controlled or cross-sectional studies report increased prevalence of cardiometabolic and psychological co-morbidities in psoriasis patients. A number of large cohort studies documented the incidence of various cardiometabolic co-morbidities. Severe psoriasis is associated with increased mortality, and the most common cause of death is CV disease. Studies on the management of co-morbidities and their impact on psoriasis treatment are scarce. Many questions on the co-morbidities of psoriasis remain to be answered.
Sex-specific migration patterns and population trends of SkylarksAlauda arvensisringed during autumn migration in southern Italy

The autumn migration of Skylarks Alauda arvensis along the southern Tyrrhenian coast of Italy from 1998 until 2014 is described, with respect to timing and phenology, sex-specific migration patterns and population trends. In total, 21,610 fully grown birds were captured and ringed, using mist nets, from October to mid November. The frequency distribution of wing length shows a clear bimodality due to sexual dimorphism, with males having longer wings than females. Wing length was used to determine sex in 20,622 individuals using Harding–Cassie plots: 57.1% were identified as females, 38.3% as males and 4.6% were undetermined. Autumn migration of Skylarks peaked during the second and third 10-day periods of October. Females migrated earlier than males: the median date of migration, based on combined data for all years, was 19 October for females and 25 October for males. The main migration period, expressed as the interquartile range, fell between 12 and 26 October for females and between 17 and 29 October ...
An Efficient GA with Multipoint Guided Mutation for Graph Coloring Problems

Proper coloring of the vertices of a graph with minimum number of colors has always been of great interest of researchers in the field of soft computing. Genetic Algorithm (GA) and its application as the solution method to the Graph Coloring problem have been appreciated and worked upon by the scientists almost for the last two decades. Various genetic operators such as crossover and mutation have been used in the GA probabilistically in the previous works, which distributes the promising solutions in the search space at each generation. This paper introduces a new operator, called double point Guided Mutation operator with a special feature. An evolutionary algorithm with double point Guided Mutation for the Graph Coloring problem is proposed here, which could advance the performance level of simple GA dramatically. The algorithm has been tested upon a large-scale test graphs and has shown better output than the earlier works on the same problem. This paper describes the advancement of performance of simple GA applied upon the problem of graph coloring using a operator called double point Guided Mutation in association of the general genetic operators Crossover and Mutation used probabilistically. Our work is still going on for designing better algorithms.
Analysing the Emotional Appeal of a Website through Verbal and Pictorial Stimuli

When looking for information about a tourism product in the majority of cases websites are the first contact most tourists have with a tourism product. Moreover, the first impression of a destination or tourist facility is crucial for the evaluation of these. As pictures and text are a main part of a tourism website, a tourist’s opinion will be influenced by them. So, through the visual and textual stimuli an experience and especially emotions are evoked. Therefore, it is of major importance to know what a picture and a text initiates and why. Hence, this research study analyzes pictures and text on tourism websites related to their emotions in order to catch the visual appeal and in succession the induced image. Results show that verbal stimuli are used skilfully while a third of the pictorial stimuli are perceived negative. Therefore improvements are necessary to create a positive overall perception.
Research on Stability of an Excavated High Slope

Stability analysis of excavated high slope is a complex problem. This work aims to a real excavated high slope in argillaceous mudstone, the strength properties of mudstone and instability mechanisms of slope had been studied separately by laboratory tests and numerical stimulate. The test results of residual-strength under large strain and softening-strength under rainfall infiltration were presented. The stability estimate basis of Bishop circular arc method and non-linear stress-strain analysis based on Duncan constitutive model had been carried out on the slope, using different strength indexes and Duncan model parameters obtained by triaxial drainage shear test. The results show that the landslides mechanisms caused by excavation and rainfall infiltration are relaxation failure and soften failure, separately. The deformation zone lies within the 0-4m soil layer and slope toe. The reinforcement measures of resistance piles set at slope toe and combined bolting and shotcrete set at slope surface were presented. After reinforced, the stability of excavated slope increased.