SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
An open, trusted fog computing platform facilitating the deployment, orchestration and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure iot services and cross-cloud apps

The vision of RAINBOW is to design and develop an open and trusted fog computing platform that facilitates the deployment and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure IoT services and cross-cloud applications (i.e, microservices). RAINBOW falls within the bigger vision of delivering a platform enabling users to remotely control the infrastructure that is running, potentially, on hundreds of edge devices (e.g., wearables), thousands of fog nodes in a factory building or flying in the sky (e.g., drones), and millions of vehicles travelling in a certain area or across Europe. RAINBOW aspires to enable fog computing to reach its true potential by providing the deployment, orchestration, network fabric and data management for scalable and secure edge applications, addressing the need to timely process the ever-increasing amount of data continuously gathered from heterogeneous IoT devices and appliances. Our solution will provide significant benefits for popular cloud platforms, fog middleware, and distributed data management engines, and will extend the open-source ecosystem by pushing intelligence to the network edge while also ensuring security and privacy primitives across the device-fog-cloud-application stack. To evaluate its wide applicability, RAINBOW will be demonstrated in various real world and demanding scenarios, such as automated manufacturing (Industry 4.0), connected vehicles and critical infrastructure surveillance with drones. These application areas are safety-critical and demanding; requiring guaranteed extra-functional properties, including real-time responsiveness, availability, data freshness, efficient data protection and management, energy-efficiency and industry-specific security standards.
Roman catholic laywomen’s “turn to habit” as a strategy of developing modern pious womanhood: catholic female social reformers in france, germany and partitioned poland between 1878-1914.

The project’s objective is to explain the meaning of habitual mental and bodily practices for the nineteenth century Catholic laywomen’s program of developing modern pious womanhood and further interprets those women’s interest in habit as part of the broader contemporary religious, intellectual, and socio-cultural inquisitiveness in routinized actions. The research employs a transnational approach privileging individuals, networks, and debates in France, Germany and Partitioned Poland between 1878-1914. The Catholic laywomen’s focus on habit will be retrieved through analyses of their pedagogical writings and educational models and subsequently confronted with contemporary conceptualizations of habitual action as found in the epoch-making theological, philosophical and scientific theories and selected social practices. It is argued that in a context in which women could formally engage with theology, philosophy and science in very limited ways those lay activists’ religious or pedagogical writings and educational practices were distinctive ways of participating in major contemporary disquiets over the limits of human agency and plasticity of human behavior. With their interventions in the concept of habit those Catholic laywomen joined the nineteenth century efforts of overcoming body-mind, freedom-necessity, and spirit-matter dualisms. The research adds to the field of women’s history by proposing new motives and periodization of the nineteenth century Catholic laywomen’s activism’s emergence and providing novel interpretations of their actions in a transnational perspective. This multidisciplinary project will expand my competences with insights from several fields of academic inquiry. Marie Curie Fellowship will provide me with triple experience as a researcher, project manager and a science communicator, which will give me confidence in planning, executing and delivering projects independently in the future.
SYNTHESIS OF POLYNUCLEOTIDE BOTTLEBRUSH POLYMER

Provided is a method including extending a ssDNA by sequentially adding a plurality of modified nucleoside triphosphates to the ssDNA, wherein the base of the modified nucleoside triphosphates includes a primary modification selected from (i) a primary polynucleotide attached to the base of the modified nucleoside triphosphate, and (ii) a site on the base for covalent attachment of a primary polynucleotide to the base, further comprising covalently attaching a primary polynucleotide to the base after the polymerizing.
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPRESSOR

A compressor control system includes a compressor compressing a fluid, an anti-surge valve preventing backflow in the compressor, the anti-surge valve being arranged on a line connecting an inlet and an outlet of the compressor and operated by a first signal, an inlet guide vane controlling an opening area of the inlet, the inlet guide vane being arranged at the inlet and operated by a second signal, and a controller connected to the anti-surge valve and the inlet guide vane and generating the first signal to control the anti-surge valve, a vane control signal to control the inlet guide vane, a pressure compensation signal to control the inlet guide vane to compensate for a change in pressure at the outlet of the compressor according to the first signal, and the second signal by combining the pressure compensation signal with the vane control signal.
Sonic inquiry in urban research: advancing policy analysis and design through sound planning tools

The sonic environment constantly surrounds us, and strongly contributes to give a special atmosphere to every location, a particular ‘sense of the place’, which directly influences the quality of urban environment. This is because atmosphere has the capability to attract or repulse people, to make them feel comfortable or uncomfortable, secure or unsecure: it represents the immaterial framework of the living environment and perfectly reflects the effects of every urban transformation. In particular, urban atmosphere drives people’s experience of everyday public space, and its social and political implications can be finely investigated through sound, especially in regards to those vulnerable areas dealing with critical urban issues (such as depopulation, segregation, transformation and expiration of local identities and intangible cultural heritages), and to those vulnerable citizens who experience social, racial, religious, and gender issues. 
Is it possible to better acknowledge –and contribute to improve– the atmosphere of a vulnerable urban area undergoing spatial and social transformation by investigating and intervene its sonic environment? What are the related political, social, and cultural implications? The action intends to advance Urban research for urban policy analysis and design by implementing a participatory and collaborative approach to urban sound design, and sound planning tools oriented to vulnerable areas. In particular, the research aims to demonstrate how the investigation of sonic environment can support policy analysis and influence policy design, and aims to explain how the use of urban sound installations and sonic intervention can promote social inclusion, and sustainable local development.
On sunflowers and matrix multiplication

We present several variants of the sunflower conjecture of Erdős & Rado (J Lond Math Soc 35:85–90, 1960) and discuss the relations among them. We then show that two of these conjectures (if true) imply negative answers to the questions of Coppersmith & Winograd (J Symb Comput 9:251–280, 1990) and Cohn et al. (2005) regarding possible approaches for obtaining fast matrix-multiplication algorithms. Specifically, we show that the Erdős–Rado sunflower conjecture (if true) implies a negative answer to the “no three disjoint equivoluminous subsets” question of Coppersmith & Winograd (J Symb Comput 9:251–280, 1990); we also formulate a “multicolored” sunflower conjecture in $${\mathbb{Z}_3^n}$$
 and show that (if true) it implies a negative answer to the “strong USP” conjecture of Cohn et al. (2005) (although it does not seem to impact a second conjecture in Cohn et al. (2005) or the viability of the general group-theoretic approach). A surprising consequence of our results is that the Coppersmith–Winograd conjecture actually implies the Cohn et al. conjecture. The multicolored sunflower conjecture in $${\mathbb{Z}_3^n}$$
 is a strengthening of the well-known (ordinary) sunflower conjecture in $${\mathbb{Z}_3^n}$$
 , and we show via our connection that a construction from Cohn et al. (2005) yields a lower bound of (2.51 . . .)
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 on the size of the largest multicolored 3-sunflower-free set, which beats the current best-known lower bound of (2.21 . . . )
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 Edel (2004) on the size of the largest 3-sunflower-free set in $${\mathbb{Z}_3^n}$$
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Cultural diversity as a tool for caring and productive resistance. The case of FC Barcelona: A responsible perspective

This paper demonstrates the influence of plural identities on caring in global responsible environments. The research examines FC Barcelona as a case of a caring organisation developing a global identity via productive resistance within a regional national culture. FC Barcelona is a deviant example in its display of a caring relationship towards others. This study highlights productive resistance as a practice of caring and discusses the reciprocal relationship between the caring organisation and resistance. The purpose of this study is to explain how domination can induce productive resistance, which can lead to the creation of caring organisations. Positive exposure to diversity reinforces plural identities, which are amplified by acts of productive resistance. This research builds on the notion of caring as a productive form of resistance in an effort to explain the increasing emergence of caring organisations on the international stage. The study shows how caring can be a productive response to domination. Resistance, in the case of FC Barcelona as an institution of a minority culture, is understood as a form of care.
An experiment on case-based decision making

We experimentally investigate the disposition of decision makers to use case-based reasoning as suggested by Hume (An enquiry concerning human understanding, 1748) and formalized by case-based decision theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler in Q J Econ 110:605–639, 1995). Our subjects face a monopoly decision problem about which they have very limited information. Information is presented in a manner which makes similarity judgements according to the feature matching model of Tversky (Psychol Rev 84:327–352, 1977) plausible. We provide subjects a “history” of cases. In the $$2\times 2$$
 between-subject design, we vary whether information about the current market is given and whether immediate feedback about obtained profits is provided. The results provide support for the predictions of case-based decision theory, particularly when no immediate feedback is provided.
Preparation and Adsorption Ability of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Microspheres for Malachite Green

Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) microspheres were synthesized through precipitation polymerization using malachite green (MG) as template, methacrylic acid (MAA) as monomer, and trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate (TRIM) as cross-linker. The microsphere structure of MIP was characterized by IR spectroscopy and SEM. The influence of preparation conditions such as monomer and cross-linker dosages on the polymer absorption of MG in acetonitrile solution was also explored. Under the optimum synthesis conditions (0.25 mmol MG, 1.5 mmol MAA, 2.5 mmol TRIM, 40 mL acetonitrile), the prepared MIP microspheres have a binding capacity as high as 2000 µg g−1 of MG with an imprinting factor of above 4.0. The result suggests that the prepared MIP microspheres are promising material for the selective extraction of MG in complicated matrix solutions.
Tractor mower with enhanced turning radius

A tractor mower with an enhanced turning radius comprising steerable left and right front wheels; left and right rear wheels; an engine for providing power to drive said rear wheels; an independent rear braking system capable of applying a braking force to said left and right rear wheels independently of one another; and a steering system coupled to said front steerable wheels and said independent rear braking system. The steering and braking systems may be configured such that when the tractor mower is steered in a first direction the front wheels are turned to the right and a braking force is applied on the right rear wheel. Alternatively, when the tractor mower is steered in a second direction the front wheels are turned to the left and a braking force is applied on the left rear wheel.
Systematic review of geochemical data from thermal springs, gas vents and fumaroles of Southern Italy for geothermal favourability mapping

Abstract In recent years, two research projects specifically conceived by Italian Institutions of Research to promote the implementation of the use of geothermal energy in Southern Italy has allowed the review of most data on chemical and isotopic compositions of natural thermal manifestations in the territory of Italy. Two large databases, one for thermal springs and CO2-rich springs, and a second one for fumarolic condensates and associated gas phase have been produced and are available on line, with data spanning in time from the early 70's to the present. We have used those data, after careful evaluation of the quality and reliability of them, to produce correlation diagrams and isodistribution maps of some relevant geochemical/geothermal parameters, such as: pCO2 in thermal springs, %CO2 and δ13C in CO2 of gas phases, 3He/4He ratio and %He. In this way, we have been able to delimit the areal patterns of thermal anomalies potentially related with geothermal reservoirs. The cross correlation among the many parameters (>40) selected has allowed the overview on the circulation of fluids at shallow crust, in one of the most active tectonic boundary of the Earth between the African and the Eurasian continents. Shallow circulation of hot fluids is particularly active in the Roman Comagmatic Province, the Neapolitan area and Sicily (both at Etna, Aeolian Archipelago and Pantelleria island in the Sicily Channel) where active geothermal systems are already known, whose areal extension is probably much larger than what envisaged at present. The geothermometric evaluation of data has not allowed to clearly identity new areas apart from those already known but, nevertheless, some areas in the inner Apennines, as well as Sicily and Sardinia have shown anomalous 3He/4He values that point to the presence of mantle fluids located inside the crust. Being most of active volcanic islands likely much smaller than the thermal anomaly they are associated with, a futuristic perspective of utilizing geothermal fluids off shore is suggested. Moreover, the database and the proposed maps can be a useful tool both scientific community and stakeholders to perform geothermal favourability maps and to identify potential new areas interesting from a geothermal perspective.
Poverty in Pakistan: A Region-Specific Analysis

Most of the earlier literature on poverty in Pakistan uses a single poverty line for the whole country or, at most, relies on a rural-urban divide. This segmentation fails to incorporate differences across provinces. This study estimates different poverty lines for the rural and urban segments of each province and region. Its estimated food, nonfood and overall poverty lines show that, with the exception of the capital territory of Islamabad, the urban poverty line is higher in all regions. The estimates of poverty show that, with the exception of Islamabad Capital Territory, rural poverty is much higher than urban poverty in all regions. We find that 25 percent of urban households and nearly 37 percent of rural households fall below the poverty lines we have defined. The study also finds that poverty measured in terms of households ignores household size and thus suppresses poverty figures.
Metal(II) Ion Complexes with 5-(Pyrazin-2-yl)-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazole-3-thione; Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Acid-base, and Complexing Properties in Solution

The study reports the synthesis of complexes Co(HL)Cl2 (1), Ni(HL)Cl2 (2), Cu(HL)Cl2 (3), and Zn(HL)3Cl2 (4) with the title ligand, 5-(pyrazin-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazole-5-thione (HL), and their characterization by elemental analyses, ESI-MS (m/z), FT-IR and UV/Vis spectroscopy, as well as EPR in the case of the CuII complex. The comparative analysis of IR spectra of the metal ion complexes with HL and HL alone indicated that the metal ions in 1, 2, and 3 are chelated by two nitrogen atoms, N(4) of pyrazine and N(5) of triazole in the thiol tautomeric form, whereas the ZnII ion in 4 is coordinated by the non-protonated N(2) nitrogen atom of triazole in the thione form. pH potentiometry and UV/Vis spectroscopy were used to examine CoII, NiII, and ZnII complexes in 10/90 (v/v) DMSO/water solution, whereas the CuII complex was examined in 40/60 (v/v) DMSO/water solution. Monodeprotonation of the thione triazole in solution enables the formation of the L:M = 1:1 species with CoII, NiII and ZnII, the 2:1 species with CoII and ZnII, and the 3:1 species with ZnII. A distorted tetrahedral arrangement of the CuII complex was suggested on the basis of EPR and Vis/NIR spectra.
PROCESSES FOR THE PREPARATION OF N-HETEROARYL-N-ARYL-AMINES BY REACTING AN N-ARYL CARBAMIC ACID ESTER WITH A HALO-HETEROARYL AND ANALOGOUS PROCESSES

The present invention relates to processes for producing a diaryl amine compound of the formula (I); or a salt thereof, said process comprising the step of coupling a compound of formula (II) with an amine of formula (III) in the presence of an alkali metal salt or a transition metal catalyst, wherein: Ar1 and Ar2 are independently Q; wherein each Q is an aryl or heteroaryl ring system optionally fused to a saturated or unsaturated 5-8 membered ring having 0-4 heteroatoms; wherein Q is optionally substituted as defined in claim 1, wherein: X is a leaving group; and Y is -C(O)-O-Z; and Z is selected from C1-C6 aliphatic, benzyl, Fmoc, -SO2R' and Q, provided that Q is not substituted with X or alkyne; wherein R' is as defined in claim 1.
Inefficient export of viral late mRNA contributes to fastidiousness of human adenovirus type 41 (HAdV-41) in 293 cells

The human adenovirus (HAdV) early protein E1B55K interacts with E4orf6 to form an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, which plays key roles in virus replication. To illustrate the reason for the fastidiousness of HAdV-41 in 293 cells, interaction between heterotypic E1B55K and E4orf6 proteins was investigated. HAdV-5 E1B55K could interact with HAdV-41 E4orf6, and vice versa. To form E1B55K/E4orf6 E3 ubiquitin ligase, HAdV-41 E4orf6 recruited Cul2 while HAdV-5 E4orf6 interacted with Cul5. The ligase complex formed by HAdV-5 E1B55K and HAdV-41 E4orf6 could cause the degradation of p53 and Mre11. However, in E1-deleted HAdV-41-infected 293TE7 cells, which expressed HAdV-41 E1B55K, viral late mRNAs were exported from nucleus more efficiently and accumulated to a higher concentration in cytoplasm when compared with that in infected 293 cells. These results suggested that interaction between homotypic E1B55K and E4orf6 was indispensable for efficient export of viral late mRNAs. • Interactions between heterotypic E1B55K and E4orf6 proteins were investigated. • HAdV-5 E1B55K could interact with HAdV-41 E4orf6, and vice versa. • HAdV-5 E1B55K/HAdV-41 E4orf6 ligase complex caused degradation of p53 and Mre11. • HAdV-41 E1B55K/HAdV-41 E4orf6 facilitated export of more viral late mRNAs. • The results partially explained the reason why HAdV-41 was fastidious in 293 cells.
Seroprevalence of other antibodies (herpes, CMV, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, chlamydia, mumps, toxoplasmosis) in HIV-positive patients.

We attempted to determine the seropositivity of HIV-positive patients to other antibodies (herpes, CMV, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, chlamydia, mumps, toxoplasmosis). The study was carried out at the Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy Centre of a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. A total of 70 patients (50 females and 20 males) attending the centre between June 1997 and December 2005 who were screened and found to be HIV-seropositive were further screened for herpes simplex IgG/IgM, CMV IgG/IgM, rubella IgG/IgM, varicella IgG/IgM, mumps IgG/IgM, toxoplasmosis IgG/IgM, chlamydia IgG/IgM, hepatitis B and hepatitis C IgG/IgM using ELISA kits and syphilis (THPA) using the HAE method. Our study showed that a large number of HIV-positive patients are carriers of other antibodies and should be screened for them before therapy.
Lack of Association between Testosterone and Suicide Attempts

To determine whether testosterone levels differ in male suicide attempters versus healthy controls and to explore the associations between testosterone levels and time of blood collection, and between testosterone levels and characteristics of suicide attempts.A sample of 112 male suicide attempters was studied. Thirty-seven male blood donors were recruited as controls.The mean testosterone levels were 5.1 ± 2.9 ng/ml in male attempters and 4.6 ± 1.6 ng/ml in controls. Group differences in testosterone levels were not significant when we studied the interaction with time of extraction (F = 0.37; d.f. = 2; p = 0.70) or when matched by age and time of extraction (t = -0.74; d.f. = 26; p = 0.47). When partial correlations were performed correcting for the effect of time of extraction, significant partial correlations were found in testosterone levels with history of aggressive behavior and lethality of the attempt.When circadian variation and age were considered, we found no support for the putative role of testosterone as a biological marker of suicidal behavior. Further research should consider: (1) testosterone and neurosteroids; (2) serial determinations with a minimal time gap between the attempt and the blood extraction; (3) controls within the same time periods, and (4) other variables that may affect testosterone levels, such as body mass index, physical activity and sleep disturbances.
Performance of FRAX in a cohort of community-dwelling, ambulatory older men: the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) study

We evaluated performance of FRAX in older men who participated in the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) study.FRAX has been extensively studied in women, but there are few studies of its performance in men.FRAX estimates for 10-year hip fracture and major osteoporotic fracture (MOF; either hip, clinical spine, forearm, or shoulder) were calculated from data obtained from MrOS participants and compared to observed 10-year fracture cumulative incidence calculated using product limit estimate methods, accounting for competing mortality risk.Five thousand eight hundred ninety-one men were followed for an average of 8.4 years. Without bone mineral density (BMD) in the FRAX model, the mean 10-year predicted fracture probabilities for hip and MOF were 3.5% and 8.9%, respectively; addition of BMD to the calculations reduced these estimates to 2.3% and 7.6%. Using FRAX without BMD, predicted quintile probabilities closely estimated cumulative incidence of hip fracture (range of observed to predicted ratios 0.9-1.1). However, with BMD in the FRAX calculation, observed to predicted hip fracture probabilities were not close to unity and varied markedly across quintiles of predicted probability. For MOF, FRAX without BMD overestimated observed cumulative incidence (range of observed to predicted ratios 0.7-0.9) and addition of BMD did not improve this discrepancy (range of observed to predicted ratios 0.7-1.1). Addition of BMD to the calculation had mixed effects on the discriminatory performance of FRAX, depending on the analysis tool applied.Among this cohort of community-dwelling older men, the FRAX risk calculator without BMD was well calibrated to hip fracture but less well to MOF.