SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Mineral intelligence capacity analysis

Primary and secondary raw materials are fundamental to Europe’s economy and growth. They represent the most important link in the value chain of industrial goods production, which plays a prominent role as a source of prosperity in Europe.  However, as stated in the call, there exists to-date no raw materials knowledge infrastructure at EU level. The Mineral Intelligence Capacity Analysis (MICA) project contributes to on-going efforts towards the establishment of such an infrastructure by projects such as ProMine, EURare,  Minventory, EuroGeoSource, Minerals4EU, ProSum, I2Mine, INTRAW, MINATURA2020 and others. 
The main objectives of MICA are:  
- Identification and definition of stakeholder groups and their raw material intelligence (RMI) requirements,
- Consolidation of relevant data on primary and secondary raw materials,
- Determination of appropriate methods and tools to satisfy stakeholder RMI requirements,
- Investigation of (RMI-) options for European mineral policy development,
- Development of the EU-Raw Materials Intelligence Capacity Platform (EU-RMICP) integrating information on data and methods/tools with user interface capable of answering stakeholder questions,
- Linking the derived intelligence to the European Union Raw Materials Knowledge Base developed by the Minerals4EU project.
The MICA project brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts from natural and technical sciences, social sciences including political sciences, and information science and technology to ensure that raw material intelligence is collected, collated, stored and made accessible in the most useful way corresponding to stakeholder needs. Furthermore, the MICA project integrates a  group of 15 European geological surveys that contribute to the work program as third parties. They have specific roles in the fulfilment of tasks and will provide feedback to the project from the diverse range of backgrounds that characterizes the European geoscience community.
METHOD FOR DRYING LAUNDRY AND LAUNDRY DRYER FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD

The invention relates to a method for drying laundry and to a laundry dryer for carrying out said method, comprising a drying chamber and process air conduct wherein a blower is arranged for conveying dry air through the drying chamber and a fresh air supply element and used air discharge element are arranged. Means for separating the dry air flow into a used air part and a circulating air part are provided in the process air conduct. The laundry dryer comprises sensors for detecting process parameters and the means for separating the dry air flow in order to modify the used air/circulating air are controlled according to the detected parameters. A sensor (20) detects the pressure of the process flow in the area (19) where the dry air enters the drying chamber (1) in order to prevent laundry damage from occurring if the dry air flow in the drying drum is interrupted and in order to obtain an optimum drying result. The pressure value and/or pressure evolution is evaluated and according to said evaluation, the means (14,22) for separating the dry air flow are controlled in such a way that the amount of circulating air is reduced or adjusted to zero and the drying process is continued with a reduced volume flow through the drying chamber (1).
Pathogen induced chemo-attractant hepoxilin A3 drives neutrophils, but not eosinophils across epithelial barriers

Pathogen induced migration of neutrophils across mucosal epithelial barriers requires epithelial production of the chemotactic lipid mediator, hepoxilin A3 (HXA3). HXA3 is an eicosanoid derived from arachidonic acid. Although eosinophils are also capable of penetrating mucosal surfaces, eosinophilic infiltration occurs mainly during allergic processes whereas neutrophils dominate mucosal infection. Both neutrophils and eosinophils can respond to chemotactic gradients of certain eicosanoids, however, it is not known whether eosinophils respond to pathogen induced lipid mediators such as HXA3. In this study, neutrophils and eosinophils were isolated from human blood and placed on the basolateral side of polarized epithelial monolayers grown on permeable Transwell filters and challenged by various chemotactic gradients of distinct lipid mediators. We observed that both cell populations migrated across epithelial monolayers in response to a leukotriene B4 (LTB4) gradient, whereas only eosinophils migrated toward a prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) gradient. Interestingly, while pathogen induced neutrophil trans-epithelial migration was substantial, pathogen induced eosinophil trans-epithelial migration was not observed. Further, gradients of chemotactic lipids derived from pathogen infected epithelial cells known to be enriched for HXA3 as well as purified HXA3 drove significant numbers of neutrophils across epithelial barriers, whereas eosinophils failed to respond to these gradients. These data suggest that although the eicosanoid HXA3 serves as an important neutrophil chemo-attractant at mucosal surfaces during pathogenic infection, HXA3 does not appear to exhibit chemotactic activity toward eosinophils.
Aneuploidy and DNA Fragmentation in Sperm of Carriers of a Constitutional Chromosomal Abnormality

Among various causes responsible for infertility, it has been admitted for a long time that male infertility can be due to impaired spermatogenesis and/or balanced structural chromosomal abnormalities. Sperm DNA fragmentation is also considered as another cause of infertility. Most of the studies on male infertility have concerned either aneuploidy in the sperm of carriers of constitutional chromosomal abnormalities or sperm DNA fragmentation. This review is aimed at analyzing these 2 parameters in the same patients. Furthermore, we present work on the study of these 2 parameters in the same gametes of 4 carriers of a balanced chromosomal abnormality. Meiotic segregation was analyzed by fluorescent in situ hybridization and DNA fragmentation was detected by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling assay. It was shown that aneuploidy and DNA fragmentation were increased in the sperm of carriers of a balanced chromosomal abnormality. For all 4 carriers of a balanced structural abnormality, there was a 2–5 times higher proportion of spermatozoa with unbalanced chromosomal content and fragmented DNA than among those with normal/balanced content. Moreover, we found a non-random distribution with more gametes with DNA fragmentation when these arose from a particular segregation mode. The mechanism which would tend to explain our results is abortive apoptosis. In conclusion, both meiotic segregation and DNA fragmentation studies should be integrated in the genetic exploration of male carriers of a chromosomal structural abnormality.
Adsorption of Nonionic Surfactant on Silica Nanoparticles: Structure and Resultant Interparticle Interactions

Addition of nonionic surfactant, C(12)E(9), to an aqueous dispersion of charge stabilized silica nanoparticles renders particle aggregation reversible. In contrast, aggregation of the same silica particles in aqueous solutions is irreversible. We use a combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and contrast matching small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to investigate interparticle interactions and microstructure in dispersions of silica particles in aqueous nonionic surfactant solutions. We show that the silica particles interact through a screened Coulombic interaction in aqueous dispersions; interestingly, this interparticle interaction is hard-sphere-like in surfactant solutions. In surfactant solutions, we show that the final surfactant-particle structure can be modeled as 14 micelles adsorbed (on average) on the surface of each silica particle. This gives rise to the short-range interparticle repulsion that makes particle aggregation reversible, and results in the hard sphere interparticle interaction potential. Finally, we show that adsorption of polyethylene imine on the surface of the silica particles prevents adsorption of surfactant micelles on the particle surface.
Dinâmica Espaço-Temporal da Cobertura e Uso do Solo em Unidades de Conservação no Norte de Minas Gerais, Brasil, entre 1986 e 2015

A implantação de unidades de conservação é uma das principais estratégias para a conservação da biodiversidade em todo mundo, sendo constatada sua importância na contenção da conversão de habitats naturais. Porém há grande variação na dinâmica espacial dessas áreas. Nesta perspectiva, este estudo teve como objetivo determinar a ocorrência e intensidade de mudanças no uso e cobertura do solo em unidades de conservação (UCs) de proteção integral e uso sustentável, entre os anos de 1986, 2000 e 2015, usando o norte de Minas Gerais como estudo de caso. O desenvolvimento de tal estudo foi possível devido ao uso de imagens de satélites Landsat, e o emprego de técnicas de sensoriamento remoto e inteligência artificial, como a árvore de decisão, para elaboração dos mapas de uso e cobertura do solo. Foram calculados os valores de uso e cobertura e feito o balanço de área em ambiente SIG. Os resultados indicam que a área desmatada foi maior entre 1986-2000 (55,40km²) antes da implementação da maioria das UCs. Foi possível constatar grandes perdas de cobertura de Floresta Estacional Decidual e ganhos em cobertura por Cerrado. As áreas protegidas no Norte de Minas Gerais, em sua maioria, têm cumprindo seu papel na proteção dos recursos naturais, auxiliando na contenção do desmatamento e promovendo a regeneração natural. Entretanto, é necessário um monitoramento a longo prazo com emprego de técnicas de Sensoriamento Remoto que possibilitam constantes atualizações dos cenários terrestres e fornecimento de informações atualizadas para a fiscalização e desenvolvimento de projetos de educação ambiental.
Construction of company buildings including investment in automation by means of collaborative industrial robots

A production building with office and storage space will be erected on a new site in Gumpoldskirchen. Collaborative industrial robots, an autoclave and a CNC-3D robot dispenser are purchased
Eubrasilcloudforum: fostering an international dialogue between europe and brazil

The EUBrasilCloudFORUM Coordination and Support Action aims at establishing an organisational cooperation model that enables the EU and Brazil to formulate and develop a common strategy and approach for Research & Innovation in Cloud Computing in line with the priorities of each region. 

Shaping the Digital Single Market (DSM) requires revitalising industry with a strong focus on cloud computing and the data economy. Europe & Brazil understand the potential global importance of the DSM, where both parties within EUBrasilCloudFORUM, agree that an open exchange with stakeholders is critical for building consensus amongst the regions and for delivering practical guides on how Cloud Services can help business and research activity.

The on-going evolution of cloud computing will radically transform business processes and bring about the most sweeping changes to the structure of the global economy since the Industrial Revolution. A structured channel as the EUBrasilCloudFORUM is needed to exchange views on the digital economy can support better access for consumers and businesses around innovative cloud services and solutions and maximise the growth potential of the digital economy.

Four main objectives have been set by the EU & BR consortium: 1) structure a community driven engagement forum for EU-Brazil policy and research and innovation dialogues; 2) deliver an EU-Brazil Research and Innovation Roadmap and Action Plan related to cloud computing; 3) build a web based EUBR Service platform to promote and market the results from the EU-Brazil community as well as showcasing the success stories; and 4) organize and deliver focused EU-BR Cloud Computing Events.
AN ANCHOR FOR A HEIGHT SAFETY SYSTEM AND HEIGHT SAFETY SYSTEM INCORPORATING AN ANCHOR

Embodiments of anchors for use in height safety systems are described, the anchors including: a generally elongate member; an attachment point for a safety line is provided at one end of the member; the anchor is arranged to be affixed to a sturdy object so that, in use, the attachment point is in a raised position. Various height safety systems including such anchors are also described.
Konsuln, Statthalter und venationes

Eine markante Gruppe von Bildern auf Gefäßen aus dem Töpfereirevier von Sidi Marzouk Tounsi imitiert Motive spätantiker Elfenbeindiptychen. Vom späten 4. bis zur Mitte des 6. Jhs. wurden Elfenbeindiptychen gemeinsam mit einem Silbergefäß zu bestimmten Anlässen von Vertretern der Aristokratie als Ehrengeschenke an ausgewählte Personen gegeben. Die Imitationen auf den Terra-Sigillata-Gefäßen zeigen Konsuln, Senatoren, Statthalter und Kaiserpriester, die allerdings anders als bei den Elfenbeindiptychen bis auf wenige Beispiele anonym bleiben. Die Bilder und zugehörigen Inschriften können überwiegend mit wichtigen im gesamten Reich gefeierten Festen in Verbindung gebracht werden (Neujahr, kaiserliche Gedenktage), was eine Zweckbestimmung als besonderes Festtagsgeschirr nahelegt. Die Motive werden primär als Symbolbilder für diese wiederkehrenden Festereignisse interpretiert, die in allen Provinzen des Reiches verstanden werden konnten.
Lens barrel and image-taking apparatus

A lens barrel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a fixed barrel, a movable member that is movable relative to the fixed barrel, a flexible circuit board that is bent in a U-shape and hangs between the fixed barrel and the movable member, and a flexible circuit board guide. The flexible circuit board guide secures one side of the flexible circuit board that is continuous with the bent portion of the flexible circuit board to the fixed barrel while the one side of the flexible circuit board extends in a moving direction of the movable member.
The promise of land: law, land restitution, and indigenous communities in colombia

Forcible land displacement due to the armed conflict has been prevalent in Colombia’s indigenous communities, which have been disproportionately affected. These communities are pushing back against the different intrusions on their land from multinational companies and armed groups in their goal of regaining possession of communally held territories. Additionally, current peace efforts in Colombia have set in motion a broad programme of land restitution. The project PROLAND examines the relationship between land restitution for indigenous communities and the Victims and Land Restitution Law of 2012, a juridical mechanism that formalises land ownership and, by this action, seeks to restore expropriated land. To date, however, only few indigenous communities have been granted land under the law. PROLAND will address why more cases have not been successfully concluded. The purpose of this project is to examine law for its own sake by interrogating its (in)efficacy and employing it as a heuristic to disclose the social, cultural, and political contexts that lead to this (in)efficacy. This project will engender new international interdisciplinary research on land restitution and establish the conceptual bases for studying land restitution by looking beyond the domination–resistance paradigm.
Ruminal Transcriptomic Analysis of Grass-Fed and Grain-Fed Angus Beef Cattle

Beef represents a major diet component and one of the major sources of protein in human. The beef industry in the United States is currently undergoing changes and is facing increased demands especially for natural grass-fed beef. The grass-fed beef obtained their nutrients directly from pastures, which contained limited assimilable energy but abundant amount of fiber. On the contrary, the grain-fed steers received a grain-based regime that served as an efficient source of high-digestible energy. Lately, ruminant animals have been accused to be a substantial contributor for the green house effect. Therefore, the concerns from environmentalism, animal welfare and public health have driven consumers to choose grass-fed beef. Rumen is one of the key workshops to digest forage constituting a critical step to supply enough nutrients for animals' growth and production. We hypothesize that rumen may function differently in grass- and grain-fed regimes. The objective of this study was to find the differentially expressed genes in the ruminal wall of grass-fed and grain-fed steers, and then explore the potential biopathways. In this study, the RNA Sequencing (RNA-Seq) method was used to measure the gene expression level in the ruminal wall. The total number of reads per sample ranged from 24,697,373 to 36,714,704. The analysis detected 342 differentially expressed genes between ruminal wall samples of animals raised under different regimens. The Fisher's exact test performed in the Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) software found 16 significant molecular networks. Additionally, 13 significantly enriched pathways were identified, most of which were related to cell development and biosynthesis. Our analysis demonstrated that most of the pathways enriched with the differentially expressed genes were related to cell development and biosynthesis. Our results provided valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms resulting in the phenotype difference between grass-fed and grain-fed cattle.
Post-Egression Host Tissue Feeding is Another Strategy of Host Regulation by the Koinobiont Wasp,Toxoneuron nigriceps

Koinobiont wasps start their lives as hemolymph feeders inside the host body, but before they egress from the host many become tissue predators. One species, the endoparasitoid Toxoneuron nigriceps Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), exhibits the unusual behavior of egressing before initiating tissue predation. After egression from the host, it reinserts its head into the host body to begin tissue feeding. These third instar T. nigriceps larvae show a significant increase in body size and mass after post-egression feeding. Through this project the importance of post-egression feeding in the development of T. nigriceps in its host the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has been evaluated. The study was conducted by preventing the egressed third instar T. nigriceps larvae from feeding on host tissue and observing whether they could undergo further development. Though some of the larvae that were prevented from post-egression feeding did undergo cocoon formation, pupation, and adult emergence they were inferior in terms of size, body mass, and survival to those that developed from larvae allowed to feeding after egression. Hence, it is concluded that post-egression host tissue feeding is essential for the normal development of T. nigriceps, as the prevention of feeding resulted in significantly lighter and smaller larvae, cocoons, and adults as well as deformed adults and reduced adult survival. Post-egression feeding as a host regulatory strategy is discussed.
Connecting solar and stellar variabilities

The proposed project aims at answering four general questions of high scientific importance:
- How typical is the Sun as active star?
- What is the solar role in climate change?
- What are the limitations for detectability of Earth-type planets in habitable zones?
- Can the solar paradigm help us to explain variability of other stars and to better detect and characterize
exoplanets?
These exciting questions can now be addressed thanks to recent progress in solar and stellar physics. On the
observational side, the unprecedented precision of broadband stellar photometry achieved with the CNES
CoRoT and the NASA Kepler satellites initiated a new era in studying stellar photometric variabilities.
Recent surveys with ground-based automated telescopes have significantly increased the number of stars
observed over their activity cycles. On the theoretical side, solar irradiance models have matured to
reproduce solar brightness variability in great detail. The enormous progress in magnetohydrodynamic
simulations of solar and stellar atmospheres as well as the development of new computationally efficient
radiative transfer schemes makes it finally possible to extend physics-based solar irradiance models to other
stars, thus opening an entirely new horizon for solar-stellar and solar-terrestrial connection studies.
How Do Continence Nurses Address Sexual Function and a History of Sexual Abuse in Daily Practice? Results of a Pilot Study

There is a strong association between urological complaints, sexual dysfunction, and history of sexual abuse (SA), and it is unknown whether urological continence nurses integrate this knowledge in their daily practice.To evaluate how, in their daily practice, Dutch urological continence nurses address sexual dysfunction and possible SA.An anonymous 19-item questionnaire was distributed among all Dutch urinary continence nurses visiting their yearly congress.The survey results.The response rate was 48.9% (93/190). Of the respondents, 11.8% did not ask their female patients about sexual function; 37.6% asked only rarely; 44.1% asked often; and 6.5% always asked. Sexual functioning in males was not evaluated by the majority of the nurses (13.2% never, and 46.2% rarely). A minority of continence nurses asked males about sexual functioning (36.3% often and 4.3% always). Important reasons for not asking were insufficient knowledge of how to adequately ask males (38.9%) and females (47.8%) about sexual problems, and because nurses assumed the urologist had addressed this issue (48.1% asking males, 39.1% asking females). Younger nurses found it particularly difficult to raise sexual issues with both male and female patients (P=0.001 and P=0.003, respectively). Screening for sexual dysfunction was stated to be important by almost all nurses (65.2% "quite important," and 31.5% "very important"). Within their patient population, both male and female, 28% of the nurses never asked about SA and 49.5% asked only rarely.Dutch urological incontinence nurses acknowledge the importance of sexual problems in their patient population, but asking about this issue was not part of routine care. The main reasons for not asking, according to the nurses' responses, were that they had insufficient knowledge and that they assumed the urologist had already asked about sexual problems.
Integration and Evaluation of a Matrix Factorization Sequencer in Large Commercial ITS

Correct evaluation of Machine Learning based sequencers require large data availability, large scale experiments and consideration of different evaluation measures. Such constraints make the construction of ad-hoc Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) unfeasible and impose early integration in already existing ITS, which possesses a large amount of tasks to be sequenced. However, such systems were not designed to be combined with Machine Learning methods and require several adjustments. As a consequence more than a half of the components based on recommender technology are never evaluated with an online experiment. In this paper we show how we adapted a Matrix Factorization based performance predictor and a score based policy for task sequencing to be integrated in a commercial ITS with over 2000 tasks on 20 topics. We evaluated the experiment under different perspectives in comparison with the ITS sequencer designed by experts over the years. As a result we achieve same post-test results and outperform the current sequencer in the perceived experience questionnaire with almost no curriculum authoring effort. We also showed that the sequencer possess a better user modeling, better adapting to the knowledge acquisition rate of the students.