SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Temporal changes of aortic neck morphology in abdominal aortic aneurysms

This study characterized temporal changes in the infrarenal aortic aneurysm neck in patients with small, untreated abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).Patients with infrarenal AAA who had contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scans separated by >6 months were identified and their images reviewed. Infrarenal neck diameter and length were measured along with aneurysm diameter. Comparisons between the interval CT scans were made and analysis of factors affecting neck changes performed.Sixty patients met inclusion criteria with an imaging interval of 3.8 years (median, 3.4 years; range, 0.75-9.6 years). During the interval, there was an increase in proximal and distal neck diameters of 1.1 mm (SD, 2.2) (0.28 mm/y) and 1.0 mm (SD, 3.0) (0.26 mm/y), respectively. During the same interval, the neck length decreased by 4 mm (SD, 11) (1 mm/y). A neck length of <15 mm was present in 10 patients (17%) at the initial imaging. Four of the remaining 50 patients experienced an interval decrease in neck length to <15 mm, all of whom had initial lengths of 15 to 20 mm. Medications had no association with changes in neck morphology; however, diabetes correlated with a slower rate of neck shortening (P = .001).The natural history of the aneurysm neck is one of expansion and shortening that will not affect most patients under surveillance. Patients with marginal neck lengths (range, 15-20 mm) at the initial imaging are more likely to experience loss of neck length that may negatively affect endovascular suitability.
Traffic-Driven vs. Topology-Driven Strategies for Regeneration Sites Placement

Many studies have been carried out in the field of translucent network design during the last years. Translucent networks use sparse regeneration strategy where electrical regeneration is performed at a limited number of network nodes in order to improve the signal budget. The objective of translucent network design is to judiciously choose the regeneration sites to overcome the signal degradation and to maintain a predefined quality of transmission. Pachnicke et al. have recently proposed an approach for routing and regenerator placement. In this paper, we propose a novel heuristic called COR2P for translucent network design. Our concern is both to minimize the number of required regenerators and to concentrate them in a limited number of sites. In addition, we propose an improved version of Pachnicke's algorithm under the name of RP-CBR+ and we proceed to the comparison of these two approaches. On one hand, both COR2P and RP-CBR+ choose, a priori, a set of regeneration sites, before the effective RWA phase. Our approach is both traffic and topology-driven since it considers the effective traffic matrix and the limited capacity of the network. Oppositely, regeneration sites placement in RP-CBR+ is only topology-driven since it considers a connection demand between any pair of nodes under unlimited network capacity. On the other hand, COR2P differs from RP-CBR+ in three points: the order in which traffic demands are processed, the wavelength assignment strategy and the possibility or not to use additional regeneration sites. Simulation results show that unlike RP-CBR+, COR2P accepts all traffic demands under low traffic load, using the same number of regenerators. Under high traffic load, our algorithm presents much lower blocking ratios than RP-CBR+ at the price of a larger number of regenerators.
Clinical study on the restriction of low-molecular heparin in treating fetal growth

Objective To analysis and research the clinical effect of low mole-cular heparin therapy on fetal growth restriction(FGR). Methods 104 patients with FGR were randomly divided into the observation group and the control group.Each group included 52 cases.The control group was treated with low molecular dextran and danshen,and the observation group was treated with low molecular de-xtran conbined with low molecular heparin.The effects of the two groups were compared. Results The height of fundus of uterus,femur length,biparietal diameters,abdominal perimeter and head circumference in the observation group were better than those in the control group.The biophysical score and the indexs of the speed blow of umbilical arteries in the observation group were also better than those in the control group.The body weight of newborn of the observation were higher than that of the control group. Conclusion Low molecular heparin improve placents function,promote fetal growth,have good effects on FGR,which is safe for both pregnant and their fetuses.
Inclusion processes for persons with intellectual disability through multiple negotiation networks

This article explores multiple aspects of the inclusion processes related to the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities) implementation process carried out in Asti (NW Italy) between 2016 and 2020. For the purpose of this article, data have been collected regarding the work of social work professionals, who supported individuals and families following the methodology of “enabling co-design”. The results show the necessity to allow interventions that create a support network to achieve full and equal citizenship, rethinking the transition to adult life through new epistemological categories that make it possible to overcome, both in theory and in practice, what is currently defined as a special adulthood. This goal may be achieved by adopting approaches that are more coherent with the scenario defined by the approval of the CRPD for the rights of persons with disabilities.&#x0D; &#x0D; Processi di inclusione per persone con disabilità intellettiva attraverso le reti negoziali multiple.&#x0D; Questo articolo esplora molteplici aspetti dei processi di inclusione relativi al percorso di attuazione della CRPD svolto ad Asti tra il 2016 e il 2020. Ai fini del presente articolo sono stati raccolti dati relativi al lavoro degli operatori che hanno sostenuto persone con disabilità e famiglie seguendo l’approccio della coprogettazione capacitante. I risultati mostrano la necessità di promuovere interventi che creino una rete di supporto per raggiungere una cittadinanza piena e paritaria, ripensando il passaggio alla vita adulta attraverso nuove categorie epistemologiche che permettano di superare, sia in teoria che in pratica, ciò che è attualmente definito come un adulto speciale. Questo obiettivo può essere raggiunto adottando approcci più coerenti con lo scenario definito dall'approvazione della CRPD per i diritti delle persone con disabilità.
Modeling and Analysis of Agent-Based Labor Market

This paper presents an agent-based model of labor market to investigate the relationship between company and worker. Unlike most of previous studies of labor market we apply a game theoretic approach to defining entities in labor market: companies and workers. A company can choose the level of wages, and workers can select the level of effort to increase the productivity in response to the wages. Company and worker agents are designed to possess the basic attributes in order to reflect the real labor market and their activities are adaptively changed using evolutionary model. Our approach is illustrated with four simulation results: the effect of workers resignation, sick leave, dismissal of companies and productivity growth. Various experiments were conducted, and the interactions between worker and company are analyzed. Especially performance-based reward strategy and non-greedy strategy in job changing are necessary for companies and workers according to the simulation results. The experimental result confirms that the balanced power between worker and company is important in maintenance and extension of labor market. Nash Equilibrium can be maintained in all cases.
A DEBRIS FILTER ARRANGEMENT FOR SEPARATING SOLID WASTE FROM FLUID

A debris filter arrangement (10) for separating solid waste from fluid, said debris filter arrangement (10) including, a main body (12), a plurality of blades (21) rotatably supported within the main body (12), a filter screen (24), said filter screen (24)including a multiplicity of apertures (25), wherein the multiplicity of apertures (25) are of a dimension to permit fluid to pass therethrough and wherein the multiplicity of apertures (25) act as a barrier for solid waste containable in the fluid to pass through said filter screen (24), said main body (12) including an inlet (14), wherein the inlet is adapted to receive fluid containing solid waste from a fluid source, said main body(12) including a first discharge outlet (16) wherein the first discharge outlet (16) is separated from the inlet (14) of the main body (12) by said filter screen (24) and said main body (12) further including a second discharge outlet (18), said second discharge outlet (18) located on the same side of the filter screen (24) within the main body (12) as the inlet (14) of the main body (12).
Communication strategies for enhancing perceived fit in the CSR sponsorship context

Engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming an increasingly common business practice globally and across industries. By contributing to societal welfare, firms can also enhance their corporate image among its stakeholders – in particular, its customers. For CSR to generate goodwill, consumers generally need to perceive a fit between the sponsoring firm and its CSR. Otherwise, consumers may second-guess the firm’s intrinsic CSR motives, which may even evoke a negative reaction. In practice, however, many firms today engage in CSR activities that cover a wide spectrum of perceived fit. To this end, this research explores communication strategies (elaborational vs relational) that help elevate the perceived fit between the sponsoring firm and its CSR activity at high vs low levels. Specifically, we find elaborational communication strategy (which focuses on the merits of CSR activity per se and not on the association with the firm) to be more effective for the low-fit case, whereas relation...
Stability control of a railway vehicle using absolute stiffness and inerters

Work presented in this paper studies the potential of employing inerters -a novel mechanical device used successfully in racing cars- in active suspension configurations with the aim to enhance railway vehicle system performance. The particular element of research in this paper concerns railway wheelset lateral stability control. Controlled torques are applied to the wheelsets using the concept of absolute stiffness. The effects of a reduced set of arbitrary passive structures using springs, dampers and inerters integrated to the active solution are discussed. A multi-objective optimisation problem is defined for tuning the parameters of the proposed configurations. Finally, time domain simulations are assessed for the railway vehicle while negotiating a curved track. A simplification of the design problem for stability is attained with the integration of inerters to the active solutions.
STATIC ELIMINATOR AND METHOD

A low profile ionizing surface for use as a static eliminator or charging means in an apparatus within which insulative material is contacted by apparatus surfaces. The LPIS (1) includes a low profile fibrous network (2) of randomly disposed, electrically conductive, 0.5 - 50 mu m by 1/8'' - 3'' microfibers (3) in electrically conductive contact with one another across the network, providing ionizing points (8) across the network surface. The thickness (w) of the network is significantly less than the average length (l) of the microfibers. An adhesive layer (7) fixes the network (2) to a surface of the machine. Thus, when the network is grounded or electrically charged, static charge is removed from the material as it passes across or near the exposed surface of the network. The LPIS may be in the form of a peel-and-stick sheet or tape (31), or a kit may be provided to install the LPIS in an apparatus. A method for ionization of air between a surface of an apparatus and a passing insulative material are also disclosed.
Study on Fire Control and Escape Safety of High-rise Buildings

Fire of high-rise building is the important factor to threaten the security of the lives and property.The research on the fire of high-rise building can reduce the possibility of fire and reduce the personal injure and property loss.This article analyzes the reasons and features of the fire of high-rise building.The damage of the fire is serious because of the high degree,high density people,and the complex indoor layout features of high-rise building.Then we give some effective measures to improve building fire safety and safe escaping approaches.Finally,this paper introduces the safe escaping software FDS+Evac,which can simulate the temperature field and smoke distribution.FDS+Evac can be used to forecast the people's safe escaping when fire happens.
Inter-Coulombic Decay in Laterally Arranged Quantum Dots Controlled by Polarized Lasers

The inter-Coulombic decay (ICD) process, where one electronically excited species relaxes while the neighboring one is concomitantly ionized, has been recently discovered likewise in atomic, molecular, biological, and nanostructured systems. Any theoretical prediction of it relies strongly on an accurate treatment of the involved resonance and continuum states. Here, we describe laser-induced ICD in quantum dots with electron dynamics at a multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree–Fock level for the first time for a two-dimensional continuum, such that ICD control with laser polarization is within reach. This explicit electron dynamics is possible through the efficient Multigrid POTFIT tensor decomposition of the Coulomb interaction on a grid. Conclusively, ICD turns out to be much faster in laterally arranged self-assembled or lithographic quantum dots connected to a two-dimensional wetting-layer continuum than in previously investigated dots in nanowires.
Shaped hybrid forward error correction

Next-generation optical and wireless communications require high-performance, high-speed, and low-power consumption error decoding structures. These requirements cannot be satisfied by VLSI-implemented soft-decision or hard-decision forward error correction (FEC), as both bear crucial limitations. The entire telecommunication network value chain is in distress. Designers, device manufacturers and system level integrators are trying to find solutions via costly and time-consuming approaches that only result in incremental improvements. Error correction algorithms need to be replaced with completely new methods to cater for the ever-increasing data rates in future high-speed communication systems.

Recently, we made a breakthrough innovation in tackling the challenges above and developed Shaped Hybrid Forward Error Correction (SHY-FEC) that combines hybrid channel coding and low-complexity constellation shaping. With such an algorithm-based approach, we have been able to achieve low complexity, high-throughput and low energy consumption making it a very attractive solution to high-speed communication systems, both for wireless systems and for short/medium-haul fibre optics.

The environmental footprint of the ICT sector is estimated to be 5–9% of the world’s total electricity use, of which a large proportion is due to data centres cloud services and connectivity. For connectivity, 15% of the overall receiver energy consumption is attributed to FEC. Therefore, our approach can create also a significant positive environmental impact. Our ultimate goal is to use SHY-FEC to obtain performance levels similar to those of state-of-the-art soft-decision FEC, but with at least one order of magnitude lower energy consumption. In addition to establishing the technology feasibility in this PoC, we will also carry out pre-commercialisation activities.
Turning up the heat on L-type Ca2+channels promotes neuronal firing and seizure activity

It is well recognized clinically that fever in young children (< 6 y of age) may lead to seizure activity in a small, but significant percentage of these individuals, which may have negative consequences for the developing brain and progressive cognitive function. In rodent models, exposure of acute brain slices to hyperthermic temperatures (i.e., 38–41°C) is reported to evoke membrane depolarization and increased neuronal firing, although the underlying molecular/cellular events responsible for these phenomena are not fully understood. Elevated temperature may alter membrane excitability by influencing individual ion channels within a given neuron, or alter the behavior and connectivity of neurons and glia that operate within a local network. In the present study, Radzicki and colleagues have examined the possibility that modest increases in tissue/body temperature (up to 40.5°C) may enhance the activity of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels, which could then promote spontaneous firing of individual neurons and greater network discharge. The results of this work indicate that fever-like temperatures positively and reversibly influence the gating properties of L-type Ca2+ channels, and that the L-type blocker nimodipine reduces both temperature-induced increases in spontaneous neuronal firing and the incidence/duration of discharge activity in a whole animal model of febrile seizure.
SYSTEM AND MIXING ARRANGEMENT FOR PREPARING AN ALUMINIUM MELT

A system of obtaining an aluminium melt including SiC particles for use when moulding vehicle parts, e.g. brake disks, the system comprises a pre-processing tank (2),configured to receive SiC particles and to apply a pre-processing procedure to pre-process the SiC particles; a SiC particle transport member (4) configured to transport the pre-processed SiC particles from the pre-processing tank (2) to a crucible (6) of a melting furnace device (8), and the melting furnace device (8) is configured to receive and melt solid aluminium, e.g. aluminium slabs, and to hold an aluminium melt (10) and to receive said pre- processed SiC particles (12). The system also comprises a tube-like SiC particle mixing arrangement (14) defining and enclosing an elongated mixing chamber (16), the mixing arrangement (14) is configured to be mounted in said crucible (6) and structured to receive into said mixing chamber (16) said pre-processed SiC particles (12) via a first inlet (18) and said aluminium melt (10) via at least one second inlet (20), and to apply a mixing procedure by rotating a rotatable mixing member (22) arranged in said mixing chamber (16) about said longitudinal axis A, wherein said pre-processed SiC particles are mixed together with the aluminium melt in said mixing chamber. The mixing arrangement (14) is provided with at least one outlet (26) to feed out the mixture from said mixing chamber into said crucible.
Quantum trajectories for time-dependent adiabatic master equations

We develop a quantum trajectories technique for the unraveling of the quantum adiabatic master equation in Lindblad form. By evolving a complex state vector of dimension $N$ instead of a complex density matrix of dimension $N^2$, simulations of larger system sizes become feasible. The cost of running many trajectories, which is required to recover the master equation evolution, can be minimized by running the trajectories in parallel, making this method suitable for high performance computing clusters. In general, the trajectories method can provide up to a factor $N$ advantage over directly solving the master equation. In special cases where only the expectation values of certain observables are desired, an advantage of up to a factor $N^2$ is possible. We test the method by demonstrating agreement with direct solution of the quantum adiabatic master equation for $8$-qubit quantum annealing examples. We also apply the quantum trajectories method to a $16$-qubit example originally introduced to demonstrate the role of tunneling in quantum annealing, which is significantly more time consuming to solve directly using the master equation. The quantum trajectories method provides insight into individual quantum jump trajectories and their statistics, thus shedding light on open system quantum adiabatic evolution beyond the master equation.
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging using different b-value combinations for the evaluation of treatment results after volumetric MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of uterine fibroids

To assess the value of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) mapping using different b-value combinations for treatment evaluation after magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU) of uterine fibroids.Fifty-six patients with 67 uterine fibroids were treated with volumetric MR-HIFU. Pre-treatment and post-treatment images were obtained using contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI (CE-T1WI) and DWI using b = 0, 200, 400, 600, 800 s/mm(2). ADC maps were generated using subsets of b-values to investigate the effects of tissue ablation on water diffusion and perfusion in fibroids treated with MR-HIFU. Four combinations of b-values were used: (1) all b-values; (2) b = 0, 200 s/mm(2); (3) b = 400, 600, 800 s/mm(2); and (4) b = 0, 800 s/mm(2).Using the lowest b-values (0 and 200 s/mm(2)), the mean ADC value in the ablated tissue reduced significantly (p < 0.001) compared with baseline. Calculating the ADC value with the highest b-values (400, 600, 800 s/mm(2)), the ADC increased significantly (p < 0.001) post-treatment. ADC maps calculated with the lowest b-values resulted in the best visual agreement of non-perfused fibroid tissue detected on CE images. Other b-value combinations and normal myometrium showed no difference in ADC after MR-HIFU treatment.A decrease in contrast agent uptake within the ablated region on CE-T1WI was correlated to a significantly decreased ADC when b = 0 and 200 s/mm(2) were used.DWI could be useful for treatment evaluation after MR-HIFU of uterine fibroids. The ADC in fibroid tissue is influenced by the choice of b- values. Low b-values seem the best choice to emphasise perfusion effects after MR-HIFU.
Revolutionary embedded memory for internet of things devices and energy reduction

REMINDER aims to develop an embedded DRAM solution optimized for ultra-low-power consumption and
variability immunity, specifically focused on Internet of Things cut-edge devices. The objectives of REMINDER are :
i) Investigation (concept, design, characterization, simulation, modelling), selection and optimization of a
Floating-Body memory bit cell in terms of low power and low voltage, high reliability, robustness
(variability), speed, reduced footprint and cost.
ii) Design and fabrication in FDSOI 28nm (FD28) and FDSOI 14nm (FD14) technology nodes of a
memory matrix based on the optimized bit-cells developed. Matrix memory subcircuits,
blocks and architectures will be carefully analysed from the power-consumption point of view.
In addition variability tolerant design techniques underpinned by variability analysis and statistical
simulation technology will be considered.
iii) Demonstration of a system on chip application using the developed memory solution and
benchmarking with alternative embedded memory blocks.
The eventual replacement of Si by strained Si/SiGe and III-V materials in future CMOS circuits would also
require the redesign of different applications, including memory cells, and therefore we also propose the evaluation
of the optimized bit cells developed in FD28 and FD14 technology nodes using these alternative
materials. 
The fulfilment of the objectives above will also imply the development of:
i) New techniques for the electrical characterization of ultimate CMOS nanometric devices. This will
allow us to improve the CMOS technology by boosting device performance.
ii) New behavioural models, incorporating variability effects, to reach a deep understanding of
nanoelectronics devices
iii) Advanced simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices for state of the art, and emerging devices.
iv) Extreme low power solutions
The consortium supporting this proposal is ideally balanced with 2 industrial partners, 2 SMEs, 2 research centers and 3 universities.