SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Micronutrient deficiencies among preschool-aged children and women of reproductive age worldwide: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from population-representative surveys

BackgroundMicronutrient deficiencies compromise immune systems, hinder child growth and development, and affect human potential worldwide. Yet, to our knowledge, the only existing estimate of the global prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies is from over 30 years ago and is based only on the prevalence of anaemia. We aimed to estimate the global and regional prevalence of deficiency in at least one of three micronutrients among preschool-aged children (aged 6–59 months) and non-pregnant women of reproductive age (aged 15–49 years).MethodsIn this pooled analysis, we reanalysed individual-level biomarker data for micronutrient status from nationally representative, population-based surveys. We used Bayesian hierarchical logistic regression to estimate the prevalence of deficiency in at least one of three micronutrients for preschool-aged children (iron, zinc, and vitamin A) and for non-pregnant women of reproductive age (iron, zinc, and folate), globally and in seven regions using 24 nationally representative surveys done between 2003 and 2019.FindingsWe estimated the global prevalence of deficiency in at least one of three micronutrients to be 56% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 48–64) among preschool-aged children, and 69% (59–78) among non-pregnant women of reproductive age, equivalent to 372 million (95% UI 319–425) preschool-aged children and 1·2 billion (1·0–1·4) non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Regionally, three-quarters of preschool-aged children with micronutrient deficiencies live in south Asia (99 million, 95% UI 80–118), sub-Saharan Africa (98 million, 83–113), or east Asia and the Pacific (85 million, 61–110). Over half (57%) of non-pregnant women of reproductive age with micronutrient deficiencies live in east Asia and the Pacific (384 million, 279–470) or south Asia (307 million, 255–351).InterpretationWe estimate that over half of preschool-aged children and two-thirds of non-pregnant women of reproductive age worldwide have micronutrient deficiencies. However, estimates are uncertain due to the scarcity of population-based micronutrient deficiency data.FundingUS Agency for International Development.
THE USE OF AN NADPH-OXIDASE INHIBITOR IN THE TREATMENT OF REPERFUSION INJURY

The present invention is directed to a method for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of reperfusion injury or injury due to a distal reperfusion. The method involves the administration of an NADPH-oxidase inhibitor to a cell, tissue, organ or animal in an amount sufficient to treat the cell, tissue, organ or animal for reperfusion injury prophylactically or therapeutically. The NADPH-oxidase inhibitor preferably is an o-methoxycatechol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, derivative, dimer or prodrug thereof. Most preferably, the o-methoxycatechol is apocynin.
Women’s Wage and Childbearing

This research studies how women’s hourly wages affect childbearing using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The results of discrete time hazard model show that the relationship between women’s hourly wage and fertility is dynamic. Overall relationship looks negative, but they are not consistent across education levels. Women who have a high school diploma or less have a tendency to decrease childbearing when their wages increase. But women who have some college experience or a college degree are likely to have children when their wages increase. It means that only for highly educated women who are likely to be in high paying decent jobs, the rise of income can be used as a resource for reconciling the mother’s and worker’s roles. Or, for less educated women who are likely to be in the low paying jobs, the rise of income is not large enough to lessen role incompatibility.
Miniature on-chip raman spectrometer for personal volatile organic compound (voc) monitoring

We aspire to build the smallest and most lightweight Raman spectrometer in the world, with a target size of 5x10x1 mm3 and a weight of only 0.1 g. The innovation builds on the combination of three key results of the ERC Advanced Grant project InSpectra (2011-2017): 1. Demonstration of Nanophotonic waveguide Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (NERS); 2. Demonstration of a novel on-chip Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS); 3. Demonstration of the integration of III-V light sources on a silicon platform through bonding or transfer printing technologies. By using a standard CMOS process toolset for fabricating the Raman spectrometer, a cost-effective and high yield product can be guaranteed with a price level at least an order of magnitude lower than current commercial systems. The exceptional form factor of the spectrometer will generate a rich variety of innovative applications of Raman spectroscopy. A spectrometer this small can be implanted, incorporated in smartphones or smartwatches and fits into textiles, drones etc. In this ERC PoC project, we will build this miniature spectrometer and use it for the target application of detecting volatile organic compounds (VOC) for personal safety monitoring, both at work and at home.
Prior - making food and goods more accessible online

Prior is a on-demand commerce platform enabling businesses in the food and drinks industry to sell online. Businesses can
use the platform to allow their customers to order and pay both in-store or for delivery.
Prior currently powers thousands of on-demand transactions and is trusted by brands like Carrefour, Costa Coffee and
Reebok. Our goal is to bring the technology powering the new on-demand economy to any business and help them bridge
the gap between online and offline commerce. Both online food delivery and mobile pre-order are markets ripe for disruption
with reports showing huge potential market growth in the coming years (mobile pre-order from $10 to $38 billion in 2020 and
food delivery from $11 to $210 billion in the longer term). Online food ordering penetration is just 2% of the total addressable
market, compared with eCommerce (10% penetration) and online travel (40% penetration).
Platforms like Prior's were only accessible via third parties aggregators who cannibalise businesses’ margin or through very
expensive solutions (ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of euros). With a technological platform specifically
developed to provide any business with a on-demand app or website with their own brand, Prior helps its customers
increase sales and profit while reducing operational or staff costs.
The feasibility assessment to be developed under Phase 1 will determine the commercial scalability of the platform. The
assessment will focus on defining the global launch strategy for Prior and hence gauge the necessary effort to enter multiple
markets. Prior will also be tested in a second country in Europe as part of the assessment.. Apart from defining the feasibility
and setting up a strategy to scale, an actual pilot in a second country will help inform the assessment.
Prior is also aligned with the European Commission's goal to make goods more accessible online and intends to foster
innovation in the pursue of that goal.
Specialized ribosomes for neuronal protein synthesis

The ability of the nervous system to respond adaptively relies on modifications to existing proteins as well as changes in gene transcription and mRNA translation. It is now clear that synapses possess the capacity for local protein synthesis, owing to the localization of ribosomes and mRNAs within dendrites. There is emerging interest in the possibility that ribosomes, as cellular machines, are not as static as typically assumed- and may be heterogeneous in composition and specialized for particular functions and cellular compartments. Intriguingly, several studies have noted the presence of ribosomal protein mRNAs in the dendrites and axons, raising the possibility that locally synthesized ribosomal proteins might serve to modify the local ribosome population. Amongst the players in protein synthesis, many signaling proteins, RNA-binding proteins, and most translation factors have been considered as potential regulatory hubs. The ribosomes, thus far, have not been considered. Here we propose to discover the nature and diversity of ribosomes present in neurons, their dendrites and their synapses in the rodent brain.  Using a combination of RNA-sequencing, Mass Spectrometry, Fluorescence In situ Hybridization, and new labelling approaches to visualize nascent proteins, we will determine whether neuronal ribosomes are heterogeneous and specialized in different subcellular compartments. The proposed experiments will determine the relationship between the ribosome composition and the neuronal mRNAs that undergo translation. We will also examine how plasticity sculpts the ribosome population to regulate the changes in the proteome that are dynamically regulated by ongoing synaptic events and plasticity.
SPECIFIC DETECTION OF TROPONIN AND MODIFIED FORMS OF TROPONIN

Methods of specifically detecting troponin, modified forms of troponin and biomolecular interactors of these are provided. Modified forms of troponin include troponin fragments. All of the aforementioned polypeptides can be detected, e.g., by affinity mass spectrometry.
Multiple Reprocessing of Gear Using Recycled Polypropylene

The reprocessing ability of recycled polypropylene (PP) has been investigated to evaluate the recycling feasibility in spur gear production. Up to 15 reprocessing cycles have been performed by injection moulding, and the effects on tensile properties including ultimate tensile strength, Young’s modulus and elongation at break have been studied. Results revealed that reprocessing ability of recycled PP spur gears could yield satisfactory quality as attractive as that corresponding to the virgin PP spur gear. The recycled PP gears resulted in more 10% variation in tensile properties during multiple processing. This effort might be a contribution to convince the industry to apply recycling of PP by means of multiple reprocessing in gear manufacturing.
Quantum counterpart of spontaneously broken classical \mathcal P\mathcal T symmetry

The classical trajectories of a particle governed by the PT-symmetric Hamiltonian $H=p^2+x^2(ix)^\epsilon$ ($\epsilon\geq0$) have been studied in depth. It is known that almost all trajectories that begin at a classical turning point oscillate periodically between this turning point and the corresponding PT-symmetric turning point. It is also known that there are regions in $\epsilon$ for which the periods of these orbits vary rapidly as functions of $\epsilon$ and that in these regions there are isolated values of $\epsilon$ for which the classical trajectories exhibit spontaneously broken PT symmetry. The current paper examines the corresponding quantum-mechanical systems. The eigenvalues of these quantum systems exhibit characteristic behaviors that are correlated with those of the associated classical system.
Co-Operation of Networks for the Creation of Effective Policies for Transportation

The European Commission’s Transport White Paper identified a number of issues that need to be addressed for the sustainability and competitiveness of Europe’s transportation system. Principal among these is the need to "place users at the heart of transport policy" and "shifting the balance between modes of transport", from road-based transport to rail, sea and inland waterways. The overall objective of this project is to create more effective regional transportation policies and strategies to aid regional development. By encouraging and facilitating the transfer of good practice in sustainable transport, and its consequent adoption by partner regions, CONCEPT also aims to help the European Commission meet the targets mentioned above.
Colour and kinematics of quarks and gluons inside loops

The LHC era of fundamental physics presents a formidable challenge for theorists - the precision of Standard Model predictions should be improved by a factor of two. One of the major bottlenecks is the availability of two-loop scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which is largely limited to 2 -> 2 processes due to the daunting complexity of the perturbative series. The need for amplitudes of higher-multiplicity processes calls for new analytic insights into the intricate structure of gauge theories.

This project centers around one such insight - colour-kinematics duality - and aims to convert it into a powerful ally for future QCD calculations. This will be possible because the duality, recently generalised from the purely gluonic sector to full QCD, contains valuable information about non-Abelian gauge theories. In particular, it relates aspects of QCD calculations that are simpler to aspects, which are thought to be much harder. This input non-trivially constrains the S-matrix and thus can be used to reduce the number of subcalculations needed. To achieve this, we plan to pursue the four following lines of research:
- systematise the relations among generalised unitarity cuts, which follow from tree-level amplitude relations induced by the duality of colour and kinematics;
- simplify the analytic structure of loop integrands via smart loop momentum parametrisation;
- develop tools for tree-level amplitudes in six-dimensional gauge theories, which serve as input for dimensionally-regulated two-loop amplitudes in four dimensions;
- calculate previously inaccessible two-loop amplitudes contributing to NNLO corrections to 2 -> 3 QCD processes at the LHC.

This will improve our understanding of gauge theories and open the way to previously intractable calculations of higher-loop scattering amplitudes, such as the next-to-next-to-leading-order amplitude for 2 -> 3 parton scattering, thus making a major impact on the field of perturbative QCD.
POINTER INITIATED INSTANT BILINGUAL ANNOTATION ON TEXTUAL INFORMATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT

This invention provides a system and method for providing a user an artificial intelligence based bilingual annotation, displayed in a callout associated with the user's mouse pointer, on a piece of textual information contained in a segment of text adjacent to, or overlaid by, the user's mouse pointer while the user is reading an electronic document on the computer screen.
Effect of alkyl chain length on adsorption properties of alkyl imidazolium ionic liquids surface imprinting polymers

An ionic liquid (IL) surface molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) was prepared using 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C8mim]Cl) as the template and acylated ethylenediamine-poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) particle as the supported material. The obtained MIP material was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area analysis, and FT-IR spectroscopy. The adsorption property and selective recognition performance of [C8mim]ClMIP were studied by static adsorption and solid-phase extraction coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography. Next, the effect of alkyl chain length of imidazolium cations on the adsorption characteristics of [C2mim]ClMIP, [C4mim]ClMIP, and [C8mim]ClMIP was examined in detail. It was shown that the adsorption selectivity of the three IL MIPs was significantly affected by the alkyl chain length. [C8mim]ClMIP exhibited broad recognition characteristics for all the imidazolium chloride ILs studied ([C
 n
 mim]Cl, n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16), and the adsorption equilibrium was achieved within 40 min. [C4mim]ClMIP could enrich [Cnmim]Cl (n = 2, 4, 6, 8), but [C2mim]ClMIP could only recognize [C2mim]Cl and [C4mim]Cl selectively. It is obvious that the adsorption selectivity of the IL MIPs increased with the decrease of alkyl chain length of the template molecules. Furthermore, the possible recognition mechanism was suggested.
Loss of Sialic Acid Binding Domain Redirects Protein σ1 to Enhance M Cell-Directed Vaccination

Ovalbumin (OVA) genetically fused to protein sigma 1 (pσ1) results in tolerance to both OVA and pσ1. Pσ1 binds in a multi-step fashion, involving both protein- and carbohydrate-based receptors. To assess the relative pσ1 components responsible for inducing tolerance and the importance of its sialic binding domain (SABD) for immunization, modified OVA-pσ1, termed OVA-pσ1(short), was deleted of its SABD, but with its M cell targeting moiety intact, and was found to be immunostimulatory and enhanced CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell proliferation. When used to nasally immunize mice given with and without cholera toxin (CT) adjuvant, elevated SIgA and serum IgG responses were induced, and OVA-pσ1(s) was more efficient for immunization than native OVA+CT. The immune antibodies (Abs) were derived from elevated Ab-forming cells in the upper respiratory tissues and submaxillary glands and were supported by mixed Th cell responses. Thus, these studies show that pσ1(s) can be fused to vaccines to effectively elicit improved SIgA responses.
Finding Forms of Flocking: Evolutionary Search in ABM Parameter-Spaces

While agent-based models (ABMs) are becoming increasingly popular for simulating complex and emergent phenomena in many fields, understanding and analyzing ABMs poses considerable challenges. ABM behavior often depends on many model parameters, and the task of exploring a model's parameter space and discovering the impact of different parameter settings can be difficult and time-consuming. Exhaustively running the model with all combinations of parameter settings is generally infeasible, but judging behavior by varying one parameter at a time risks overlooking complex nonlinear interactions between parameters. Alternatively, we present a case study in computer-aided model exploration, demonstrating how evolutionary search algorithms can be used to probe for several qualitative behaviors (convergence, non-convergence, volatility, and the formation of vee shapes) in two different flocking models. We also introduce a new software tool (BehaviorSearch) for performing parameter search on ABMs created in the NetLogo modeling environment.
Two coupled qubits interacting with a thermal bath: A comparative study of different models

We investigate a system of two interacting qubits having one of them isolated and the other coupled to a thermal reservoir. We consider two different models of system-reservoir interaction: i) a "microscopic" model, in which the master equation is derived taking into account the interaction between the two subsystems (qubits), ii) a naive "phenomenological" model, in which the master equation consists of a dissipative term added to the unitary evolution term. We study the dynamics of quantities such as bipartite entanglement, quantum discord and the linear entropy of the isolated qubit for both strong and weak coupling regimes (qubit-qubit interaction) as well as for different temperatures of the reservoir. We find significant disagreements between the results obtained from the two models even in the weak coupling regime. For instance, we show that according to the phenomenological model, the isolated qubit would approach a maximally mixed state more slowly for higher temperatures (unphysical result), while the microscopic model predicts the opposite behaviour (correct result).
New Art Collectives in the Service of the War: The Formation of Art Organizations during the Asia-Pacific War

This article explores Japanese artists’ proactive engagement with wartime politics through the formulation of patriotic art associations during the Asia-Pacific War (1937–45). The main foci of this investigation are three artist collectives formed in response to the outbreak of war and the advent of the mass mobilization policy: the Army Art Association (Rikugun Bijutsu Kyōkai), the Women Artists Service Corps (Jōryū Bijutsuka Hōkōtai), and the Art Unit for Promoting the Munitions Industry (Gunju Seisan Bijutsu Suishintai). Although these three collectives were all created under the banner of promoting Japan’s imperialist war, the actual motives behind the foundation of and participation in these patriotic art associations varied to a significant degree, depending on the artists’ political/economic standings, age, gender, and the ever-changing conditions of the war. Carefully contemplating these sociopolitical factors, whether imposed upon or internalized by the artists, illuminates how artists from time to time actively committed to the war effort in order to pursue their own benefits. By closely examining the formulation and activities of these patriotic art associations, this article reveals how the alliances between artists and Japan’s wartime state were formed, not only through top-down control but also as a result of a multilateral reciprocity, thereby exploring how artists played a proactive role in forming the wartime cultural landscape.
DISTANCE QUANTIZATION IN COMPUTING DISTANCE IN HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACE

Techniques and systems for quantization based nearest neighbor searches can include quantizing a set of candidate points based on one or more characteristics of a query point; generating metric values based on the quantized candidate points, respectively, the metric values being indicative of respective proximities between the query point and the candidate points; and selecting one or more of the candidate points in response to the query point based on the metric values. In some implementations, techniques and systems can compress search metric computation resolution by implementing non-uniform scalar quantization within a metric computation process.
Parenting stress and children’s problem behavior in China: The mediating role of parental psychological aggression.

This study examined the mediating effect of parents' psychological aggression in the relationship between parenting stress and children's internalizing (anxiety/depression, withdrawal) and externalizing (aggression, delinquency) problem behaviors 1 year later. Using a sample of 311 intact 2-parent Chinese families with preschoolers, findings revealed that maternal parenting stress had direct effects on children's internalizing and externalizing problem behavior and indirect effects through maternal psychological aggression. However, neither direct nor indirect effects of fathers' parenting stress on children's internalizing and externalizing problem behavior were found. The findings highlight the importance of simultaneously studying the effects of both mothers' and fathers' parenting on their children within a family systems framework.