SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Effects of Foeniculum vulgare ethanol extract on osteogenesis in human mecenchymal stem cells.

Osteoporosis or silent disease is a major bone disorder in elderly women in current century. Estrogen has an important role in osteogenesis and prevention of bone fractures. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is usually accompanied by such effects as breast and ovary cancers. Thus, there is an increasing demand for replacement with plant phytoestrogens. This study is focused on determining the effects of Foeniculum vulgare extract on proliferation and osteogenesis progress in human mesenchymal stem cells.Human mesenchymal stem cells were isolated and treated with different amount of plant extracts (0.5 to 100 µg/ml). Extract cytotoxicity was measured using MTT assay. The alkaline phosphatase enzyme activity was measured to evaluate the differentiation progress.RESULTS of MTT assay and alkaline phosphatase activity showed that Foeniculum vulgare extract, at range of 5 to 50 µg/ml, may positively affect cell proliferation and mineralization. The most proliferation and enzyme activity were seen with dose of 5 µg/ml.Foeniculum vulgare has been used in Iranian folk medicine for many years. Our in vitro study showed that Foeniculum vulgare extract has osteoprotective effects.
BENZOXAZINE DERIVATIVES AND BENZOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVES HAVING NOS-INHIBITORY AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES

The invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and to the tautomeric and isomeric forms and salts thereof, wherein: X represents O or S; R<1> represents -(CHR<9>)n-NR<7>-A-NR<8>-B, -(CHR<9>)n-NR<8>-B or -(CHR<9>)n-B; R<2> represents hydrogen or R<1> and R<2>, together with two adjacent carbon atoms, form a 5-, 6-, 7- or 8-member ring, which is monocyclic or bicyclic, saturated or unsaturated, and in which 1 or 2 CH2 groups can be replaced by oxygen or carbonyl, and which is substituted by -(CHR<9>)r-NR<7>-A-NR<8>-B, -(CHR<9>)n-B or -(CHR<9>)r-NR<8>-B; R<3> represents hydrogen or NR<15>R<16>; R<4> represents hydrogen or acyl; R<5> and R<6>, independent of one another, represent hydrogen, C3-7 cycloalkyl, phenyl, C1-6 alkyl, C2-6 alkenyl radicals or C2-6 alkynyl radicals, which can each be substituted by halogen, OH, O-C1-6 alkyl, SH, S-C1-6 alkyl, NR<15>R<16>, 5- or 6-member heteroaryl with 1-3 N, O or S atoms, phenyl or C3-7 cycloalkyl; A represents a straight-chain or branched C1-6 alkylene or -(CH2)p-Q-(CH2)q-, and; B represents (II) or (III). The invention also relates to the method for preparing said compounds and to their use in medicaments.
Emotional impact on children during home confinement in Spain

Abstract Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about important changes. On March 14, 2020, a strict home confinement was decreed in Spain. Children did not attend school and were not allowed to leave their homes. The aim of this study was to determine the emotional state of these children, as well as associated factors. Material and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using an online questionnaire sent by cell phone. This survey includes sociodemographic items and questions concerning the emotional impact of the lockdown. With the questions on emotions, two categories of emotional state were established with the variables fear, irritability, sadness and somatization: those who were less or more emotionally affected. A multivariate logistic model was used to estimate the associations between the variables. Results: A total of 3890 responses were obtained. The mean age of the children was 6.47 years (range 0 to 17). A score indicating poor emotional state was reported by 40.12%. The multivariate logistic model for poor emotional state was directly associated with having less appetite, sleep disturbances, and with parents’ beliefs that their child will have difficulties returning to normal life after lockdown. A better emotional state was associated with being an only child, access to outdoor spaces at home, having pets, and parents informing their children about the pandemic using creative explanations. Conclusions: During strict home confinement, a considerable emotional impact was observed in children as described by their parents. Specific elements were associated with a better or poorer emotional state.
A Multi-Classified Method of Support Vector Machine (SVM) Based on Entropy

Studies propose to combine standard SVM classification with the information entropy to increase SVM classification rate as well as reduce computational load of SVM testing. The algorithm uses the information entropy theory to per-treat samples’ attributes, and can eliminate some attributes which put small impacts on the date classification by introducing the reduction coefficient, and then reduce the amount of support vectors. The results show that this algorithm can reduce the amount of support vectors in the process of the classification with support vector machine, and heighten the recognition rate when the amount of the samples is larger compared to standard SVM and DAGSVM.
ENDOSCOPE

An endoscope with a flexible portion (4) which, at least at one end, adjoins a rigid portion (2, 3) and is enclosed by an elastic hose that is pushed with an end area over the rigid portion (2, 3) and is clamped sealingly thereon by a radially acting clamping device (5, 7, 12), characterized in that the clamping device is designed as a loop member (7, 12) which is made of metal and which winds around the hose (4) with at least two windings in the clamped state, and in which at least two windings are welded to each other.
Study on moringa tree (Moringa oleifera Lam.) leaf extract in organic vegetable production : A review

Moringa oleifera is the most nutritious tree that has ever been found. Almost all parts of the plant can be used as an eco-friendly nutrient supplement and natural biopesticide to improve crop growth and yields. Based in this fact this review article aims to focus on the possible role of Moringa oleifera as an alternative source of the environmentally friendly product in organic vegetable production. It is evident that the plant is rich in antioxidants, antibiotics, nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, protein, and carotenoids. Due to the presence of high concentration of different hormones mainly zeatin, it can be used to improve the yield of many types of crops by 10–45 per cent apart from the lowest cost of production. Many research papers demonstrate the benefits of the tree in different aspects like livestock production, medicine, manufacturing, water purification, source of nutrients in poor nations, and food technology.
Nutritive value of morphological fractions of Sesbania sesban and Desmodium intortum

Nutritive value of morphological fractions of Sesbania sesban [15019] and Desmodium intortum was determined based on their chemical composition, in sacco dry matter (DM) degradability, in vitro gas production and in vitro organic matter digestibility (IVOMD). In sesbania, neutral detergent fiber (NDFom) and acid detergent fiber (ADFom) contents were higher in twigs and green pods (P twigs > whole forage > leaves. The soluble tannins (STs) content was higher (P twigs > green pods.
In the case of desmodium, the twigs had lower CP contents and leaves had lower NDFom, ADFom and ADLsa contents than the other fractions. The STs concentration was highest in leaves and lowest in green pods whereas the CTs concentration was higher in whole forage than in twigs. The washing loss (A) was higher in twigs than the other fractions, while the slowly degradable fraction (B) was higher in green pods than in twigs. In the view of the optimal nutrient contents, supplementation with whole or fractionated forage parts of both sesbania and desmodium can improve the nutritional status of ruminants fed low quality roughages.
Climate science from space: synergies for a greener innovation economy conference

The Portuguese Presidency, with the support of the European Commission, and in coherence with national strategic priorities aims organising an event entitled: Climate Science from Space: Synergies for a greener innovation economy. This event (conference) is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education underlying issues of major relevance to the Societal Challenge Climate Action. Hence, featuring innovation and technologies towards clean transformation with the aim of providing an appropriate balance between environmental, economic and social elements. The concept dovetails with the 18-month Trio (DE-PT-SI) Programme of the Council on the need to foster a competitive space sector and its integration into European economy, including in promoting market driven approaches and opening space to new actors.

The conference shall be focused on how European space programmes, with especial relevance for Copernicus, can be meaningful for the implementation and monitoring of climate actions. Space activity encompass an important innovation component, always at the edge of the scientific-technological development. Fighting climate change and achieving the transition to a climate-neutral society with investments in space related programs always ensure a very high level of research and innovation, and the generation of new high skilled jobs. Assessing the benefit and overall coherence of existing and planned actions in the field of research and innovation in the context of a wider European strategic global role in the space ecosystem is also behind the concept. Therefore, underpinning the outputs of past R&D activities, their positive impact on improved resource efficiency, climate resilience and the contribution of Earth Observation data will positively foster other endeavours in the downstream involving scientists, businesses, investors, local authorities or environmental organisations.
Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture

Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live on.
Accelerating photonics deployment via one stop shop advanced technology access for researchers

ACTPHAST 4R is a unique one-stop-shop photonics technology access and support centre for European researchers which is perfectly aligned with their needs in bridging the gap between fundamental research at TRL1-2 and applied research up to TRL4-5. Driven by the deployment ambitions and capabilities of a critical mass of European top-class researchers -in particular non-photonics researchers for whom advanced photonics is a key enabling technology to the realisation of so many exciting and diverse new applications and products, ACTPHAST 4R will directly support the accelerated deployment of existing cutting-edge photonics technologies by providing them with action-oriented solutions on two complementary levels. 
In the first instance, ACTPHAST 4R will provide researchers with one-stop-shop access to the photonics expert know-how and mature technologies of 24 of Europe’s leading competence centres. The photonics technology platform capabilities of ACTPHAST 4R cover the entire integrated supply chain from design to packaging. Through intensive technology coaching, leading to focused innovation projects involving transnational internships and hands-on working with the advanced photonics technologies at the host institutes, the goal is to turn the researchers’ scientific conceptual breakthroughs into industrially-relevant demonstrators.
In parallel, ACTPHAST 4R will provide researchers with expert business coaching to help foster their entrepreneurial mindset and deployment capabilities, with guidance to pathways for further scaling of their demonstrators and financing of innovation in the industrial domain. Ambitious targets are set for commercial valorisation successes by “star performing” researchers in the form of patents, licensing deals and spin-outs. As a result, ACTPHAST 4R will be a game-changer in strengthening the European innovation ecosystem and improving the cross-fertilisation of photonics with other technology areas.
Attosecond time-and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (attopes)

Topological materials (TM) show fascinating properties such as small bulk bandgaps and robust surface states with Dirac dispersion, Floquet-Bloch states and spin-momentum locking. Their topological nature means these states are resistant to change, and thus stable to temperature fluctuations and physical distortion, features that could make them useful in quantum computers and ultrafast electronic devices. In order to reap the full benefits of TM and tailor their properties, understanding of the phenomena related to electron-electron, electron-spin and electron-phonon interactions, occurring on a femto- to attosecond timescale, is required. Ultrafast Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) is the expertise of the experienced researcher (ER) and is the technique that will be implemented in this work. It will be employed for investigating novel industry-grade TM that are developed in parallel research activities at the host IMEC in Leuven, Belgium. State-of-the-art attosecond high harmonic generation laser light coupled with a powerful imaging electron spectrometer will be employed in ultrafast pump–probe experiments to disentangle all coupled interactions between the charge, spin, lattice and electronic degrees of freedom of novel TM. The researcher’s academic background in ultrafast laser spectroscopy perfectly complements research conducted at the host IMEC, one of largest independent R&D centers worldwide in the field of nanoelectronics delivering industry-relevant technology solutions by leveraging its global industrial partner network. AttoPES will take attosecond science to the next level and contribute to accelerate the development of new TM complement for nanoelectronics. It will benefit from the extensive expertise available in IMEC’s groups and enable the ER to diversify his competences, creativity and innovation potential to strengthen his profile as a time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy top-class researcher
Teaching Requestive Downgraders in L2: How Effective are Written vs. Oral Output-Based Tasks?

Abstract The present study examines the impact of focused tasks on the development of Iranian EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. To this end, the researchers devised the dictogloss (DIG) as a written output-based task to explicitly raise learners’ awareness of the requestive downgraders. The researchers also administered the recast feedback during an oral output-based task to implicitly raise learners’ awareness of the target features. Prior to the experiment, 147 Iranian EFL learners and 43 American native English speakers were asked to participate in the study to help the researchers develop the instruments. To carry out the study, the researchers matched 60 Iranian EFL learners in two groups based on their scores on the Oxford Placement Test (2004). The groups were then randomly assigned to instructional conditions, namely the DIG task and the recast. Findings demonstrated that participants in both tasks preformed significantly better in the immediate and delayed posttests than in the pretest. The results also revealed that neither the effects of instructional treatment nor the effects of time were significant between the groups on the perception and production measures. Similarly, participants in both groups maintained the positive effects of the treatment in the delayed posttest on the same measures. For the recognition measure, although the effects of treatment were marginally significant in favor of the participants in the DIG task, they could not maintain the positive effects of treatment in the delayed posttest. This rendered the effect of time non-significant on this measure.
Multidimensional analysis of axis patterning in plant embryo

Plant cells are immobile, therefore positional signaling is essential for body patterning. While many genes involved in positional signaling in plants are known, we currently lack a mechanistic understanding of their functions. Embryonic axis pattering is the earliest and simplest instances of positional signaling. In Arabidopsis thaliana, embryo is initially radial symmetry. Soon after, the embryo switches to bilateral symmetry and development continues along the newly-established axis. How these patterns emerge from a small group of homogeneous cells remains a fundamental unanswered question in developmental biology. Answering this question requires an in-depth analysis of the spatio-temporal relationship between gene expression and cellular patterns. Today, advanced microscopy and latest image analysis allow us to quantify division, growth and gene expression in individual cells throughout embryogenesis. The host group has been studying the regulatory role of homeobox proteins, PHABULOSA (PHB) and PHAVOLUTA (PHV). Distribution of PHB/PHV protein is restricted by microRNA to apical embryo, triggering embryonic shoot formation. If the PHB/PHV distribution is a positional signal reflecting apical-basal axis, how do they regulate cellular growth and division patterns to establish axis? I will generate a 4D map of axis patterning, extract high quality quantitative data to develop spatial computer models, and examine the interplay between geometry and genetic regulation on axis patterning. I will also apply same approaches to study embryos in other Brassicaceae species. Such comparative developmental analysis will reveal the core mechanism of axis formation shared among these species and also provide insights into the origins of their embryonic morphological diversity.
2230 – Preliminary validation study of portuguese version of cancer coping questionnaire

There is some evidence that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in serious illness does work through its impact on coping. Cancer Coping Questionnaire (CCQ) was originally developed to assess coping strategies taught in CBT. In this work the preliminary study of the psychometric characteristics of CCQ in a sample of breast cancer Portuguese women is described. We purpose to evaluate psychometric characteristics of CCQ in a Portuguese sample, namely: internal consistency, test-retest reliability and concurrent validity. The convenience sample included 189 breast cancer patients, who fulfill CCQ and the following measures: Courtauld Emotional Control Scale (CEC); Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire and the Questionnaire Breast Cancer Module (EORTC QLQC30 and BR-23). CCQ was used in two moments of assessment, the second moment after 2 months of the first. It was obtained a Cronbach alpha of .80. The test-retest reliability show significant statistical positive correlations (rS = .59, p = .000 for individual sub-scale and rS = 65, p = .000 for interpersonal sub-scale). Significant statistical correlations between CCQ and the other measures used were also obtained. The validation of the Portuguese CCQ has good psychometric proprieties of internal consistency and test-retest reliability with Portuguese breast cancer women. This instrument also demonstrated to be correlated with other assessment tools used with this population. We conclude that CCQ is a useful and a valid scale for assess the evolution of coping strategies with cancer. Future studies should include other populations.
Calcareous algae in changing environments

ABSTRACT Although calcareous algae are known both in present environments and fossil records, from shelf and upper slope settings, either in warm seas for green algae or at all latitudes for red algae, we still need models to quantify their abundance in space and time. Calcareous algae are an important component of biogenic carbonate production but they are very sensitive to marine acidification and rise in temperature, as illustrated by the effects of ongoing global change. Contributions herein were first presented at the 6th Regional (European) Symposium of the International “Fossil Algae” Association: they include two reviews respectively devoted to the carbonate production of red and green algae, and a suite of investigations covering quantification, facies delineation, and controlling factors spanning the present-day Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Pacific going back to the Jurassic of Romania.
Comment on “Static and dynamic analysis of micro beams based on strain gradient elasticity theory” by S. Kong, S. Zhou, Z. Nie, and K. Wang, (International Journal of Engineering Science, 47, 487–498, 2009)

Abstract This paper comments on the recently published work dealing with the static and dynamic analysis of micro beams by using the strain gradient elasticity theory (International Journal of Engineering Science, 47, 487–498, 2009) by Kong et al. (2009) . The authors give the non-zero elements related to deviatoric stretch gradient tensor and higher-order stress. The values of η 131 ( 1 ) and τ 131 ( 1 ) are taken as zero by Kong et al. (2009) . We present the non-zero terms in this comment. Consequently, we presented some results for cantilever beam in order to show the effect of these non-zero terms on the tip deflections of micro-sized beam.
Falcon

Concurrency fault are difficult to find because they usually occur under specific thread interleavings. Fault-detection tools in this area find data-access patterns among thread interleavings, but they report benign patterns as well as actual faulty patterns. Traditional fault-localization techniques have been successful in identifying faults in sequential, deterministic programs, but they cannot detect faulty data-access patterns among threads. This paper presents a new dynamic fault-localization technique that can pinpoint faulty data-access patterns in multi-threaded concurrent programs. The technique monitors memory-access sequences among threads, detects data-access patterns associated with a program's pass/fail results, and reports dataaccess patterns with suspiciousness scores. The paper also presents the description of a prototype implementation of the technique in Java, and the results of an empirical study we performed with the prototype on several Java benchmarks. The empirical study shows that the technique can effectively and efficiently localize the faults for our subjects.
ANTI-ADHESION COMPOSITES AND METHODS OS USE THEREOF

Described herein are composites that inhibit or reduce adhesion between two or more tissues. Also described herein are methods of using the composites.