SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Optimizing and profiting best practices in the MED Area on foreign trade, intermodal, transport and maritime safety

Some projects have developed good practices, pilot actions and tools with similar objectives but at the end of the project, all of them disappear into obscurity. The idea is to join the skills of these different outputs by thematic trying to enrich the capitalization of the result, involving the different agents that have to profit it: - IMPROVING THE SUPPLY CHAIN BY USING INNOVATIVE IT TOOLS. Promoting the intermodality in the logistics and transport chain to reduce external costs is one of the main axes of European policy related to transport. A lot of projects of Med and similar programs have been developed in this field as BACKGROUNDS, TRANSit - INCREASING ECONOMIC & PORT ACTIVITIES STATE AND PROSPECTIVE KNWOLEDGE. The European Commission have stated a particular challenge for a better application of an European port policy, focused on current practice in collecting and interpreting ports data, restricting the ability to monitor the evolution, developments and needs of the EU port system. In this context, under the Med Programme, several projects have produced tools, databases and sets of indicators addressing the mentioned categories (TERCONMED, SECURMED, MEMO) - OPTIMIZING MARITIME RISK PREVENTION & SAFETY TOOLS. Maritime risk prevention and maritime safety is a priority at European level, having been included in most of European programs, and even having been the subject of a call for strategic projects in the MED program (SECURMED PLUS, MEMO, LOSAMEDCHEM). Among the results of the project will be a platform allowing direct access to all of them and a campaign of capitalization close the European Institutions, territorial stakeholders, economic actors, transport companies and other potential users. In order to do this efficiently is important to include some partners that have participated in the development of these tools, other that can manage the capitalization of the resulting outputs and some others that have the experience implementing them.
Quantum spin and charge pumping through double quantum dots with ferromagnetic leads

Abstract The pumping of electrons through double quantum dots (DQDs) attached to ferromagnetic leads have been theoretically investigated by using the nonequilibrium Greenʼs function method. It is found that an oscillating electric field applied to the quantum dot may give rise to the pumped charge and spin currents. In the case that both leads are ferromagnet, a pure spin current can be generated in the antiparallel magnetization configuration, where no net charge current exists. The possibility of manipulating the pumped spin current is explored by tuning the dot level and the ac field. By making use of various tunings, the magnitude and direction of the pumped spin current can be well controlled. For the case that only one lead is ferromagnetic, both of the charge and spin currents can be pumped and flow in opposite directions on the average. The control of the magnitude and direction of the pumped charge and spin currents is also discussed by means of the magnetic flux threading through the DQD ring.
Cotton Hedging: A Comparison across Developing and Developed Countries

This paper uses the results of ordinary least squares, bivariate vector autoregressive, and error correction models to estimate the hedge ratios for cotton production across different countries and to determine whether New York Cotton Exchange futures prices can serve as a hedging tool for cotton producers. Models comparison shows that the error correction model fits the data better. The results of the error correction model show that the spot prices and the NYCE futures prices are co-integrated in United States, Australia, and China, but not in Africa Franc Zone countries. In addition, for countries with higher market power, such as US and China, and countries without market distortions, such as Australia, the New York Cotton Exchange futures prices can serve as a hedging tool for cotton producers. In contrast, for less developed countries, such as Africa Franc Zone countries, and Pakistan, the NYCE futures prices cannot serve as hedging tool against the risks faced by cotton farmers.
Continuous pressure molten metal supply system and method

A molten metal supply system (90) includes a plurality of injectors (100) each having an injector housing (102) and a reciprocating piston (104). A molten metal supply source (132) is in fluid communication with the housing (102) of each of the injectors (100). The piston (104) is movable through a first stroke allowing molten metal (134) to be received into the housing (102) from the molten metal supply source (132), and a second stroke for displacing the molten metal (134) from the housing (102). A pressurized gas supply source (144) is in fluid communication with the housing (102) of each of the injectors (100) through respective gas control valves (146). The molten metal supply system (90) is in fluid communication with an outlet manifold (140) having a plurality of outlet dies (404), which may be used to form continuous metal articles including rods, bars, ingots, and continuous plate.
Education physique, conduites motrices et sémiose : pour une éducation sémiotrice

Résumé La sémiotricité se propose comme un moyen incontournable si l’on veut approfondir les registres symboliques de l’action motrice. Dans le domaine de l’éducation physique et sportive, les élèves apprennent à identifier et à détecter des indices signifiants dans l’environnement physique dans lequel ils évoluent. Un élève en situation de jeu, observe les comportements d’autrui et apprend à deviner les prolongements de leurs actes en vue d’anticiper des enchaînements d’actions et à conformer ses conduites aux comportements qu’il pré-perçoit. Ce faisant, il participe à un processus de symbolisation ou de sémiotricisation. Étant entendu que cette sémiotricisation est liée à la logique interne de la pratique, il est clair que l’adaptabilité sémiotrice dépondra des caractéristiques des activités retenues dans les programmes pédagogiques. Cet article se propose, à partir d’une analyse comparative entre trois programmes d’Education Physique et sportive (Algérie, France, et Espagne), et des corpus d’études traitant de cette question, de mettre en premier plan l’importance des choix pédagogiques dans l’accès à la symbolisation et dans la construction de la personnalité de l’enfant.
FILLING NEEDLE FOR DISPENSING A PHARMACEUTICAL LIQUID INTO A CONTAINER AND FILLING DEVICE

The invention relates to a filling needle (10; 10a to 10g) for dispensing a pharmaceutical liquid (1) into a container (2), comprising a preferably rod-like filling needle body (12; 12a; 12b; 12d; 12f; 12g), in which a product supply bore (13) is formed, with at least one, preferably a plurality of product outlet bores (16; 16a to 16d), which proceed from the product supply bore (13) and lead to an outer wall of the filling needle body (12; 12a; 12b; 12d; 12f; 12g) in a region spaced apart from a filling needle body end (25; 25b; 25c) with respect to a longitudinal axis (18) of the filling needle body (12; 12a; 12b; 12d; 12f; 12g), and with a valve element (14; 14b; 14c; 14d; 14e; 14g), which covers the filling needle body (12; 12a; 12b; 12d; 12f; 12g) at least in the region of the at least one product outlet bore (16; 16a to 16d) and consists of an elastic material.
Predicting Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads

Online forums contain huge amounts of valuable information in the form of discussions between forum users. The topics of discussions can be subjective seeking opinions of other users on some issue or non-subjective seeking factual answer to specific questions. Internet users search these forums for different types of information such as opinions, evaluations, speculations, facts, etc. Hence, knowing subjectivity orientation of forum threads would improve information search in online forums. In this paper, we study methods to analyze subjectivity of online forum threads. We build binary classifiers on textual features extracted from thread content to classify threads as subjective or non-subjective. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods on two popular online forums.
Valor nutritivo da vegetação herbácea de caatinga enriquecida e pastejada por ovinos e caprinos

The objective of this word was to evaluate the chemical composition, digestibility and intake of herbaceous vegetation in a thinned and enriched with buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) Caatinga grazed by sheeps and goats. 12 goats F1 (Boer x SRD) and 12 Santa Ines sheeps with live weight of 15,00kg were used. The vegetation data were analyzed using a completely randomized design with repeated observations over time, and the animals intake of was also a completely randomized design with two treatments and twelve repetitions. Grazing did not affect the chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of herbaceous vegetation. On the evaluation on june 1st the three floristic components had the lowest percentage of dry matter and the higherest percentages of crude protein and in vitro digestibility of dry matter, while the opposite occurred in august 1st, differing even from that observed in september 1st and october 1st. The goats intake was 437.47 of dry matter, compared to 331.78g of dry matter intake by sheep. Although the available dry matter from thinned and enriched caatinga with buffel grass presented low levels of crude protein and in vitro digestibility of dry matter, the goats were able to select a diet that allowed intake of more than 2% of body weight.
Finding shrink critical section refactoring opportunities for the evolution of concurrent code in trustworthy software

With the keyword synchronized, Java provides a simple but often over-used synchronization mechanism. Many programmers tend to use a big synchronized section to protect a large block of statements even if many of them are unnecessarily synchronized. Such coarse-gained synchronizations may increase lock contention and thereby decrease the performance of a program, especially in a multi-core environment. The decrease in performance may affect the quality of service provided by the software and hence make the software less trustworthy. To ensure trustworthiness, this paper proposes a source-code level refactoring approach to optimize coarse-gained synchronizations. It exploits dependence and escape information to search for shrinkable critical sections and can transform them into smaller ones automatically. The approach can be used to gradually evolve concurrent code for better quality. In the approach, to achieve more optimizations, we develop a new escape analysis, named escape state analysis, which can not only tell us whether an object finally escapes but also determine the escape states of objects at each program site. With such an analysis, more refactoring opportunities can be found. We build a tool and test our refactoring approach on several benchmark programs. The results show that the proposed approach does make effective refactoring suggestions for the users.
Open book epc for brussels’ condominiums

The objective of easyCOPRO is to develop a fully-fledged renovation package for Brussels based condominiums. The package will include financial means and technical assistance which aims at significantly simplifying the decision-making process of co-owners and property managers to engage into heavy refurbishment procedures. Third party financing energy performance contracts will be signed with the beneficiaries. We call them ""open book EPC ""because they will be elaborated together with the beneficiaries in a fully transparent manner.

The specific objective of easyCOPRPO is to retrofit an average of 20 condominiums between 2018 and 2022 worth a total investment of 10 million €. All the buildings will have been audited, technically and financially assessed and specifications will have been developed. 

The partners of this project have the technical expertise to develop all steps needed from the open book EPC to the energy audits and action plans. The consortium includes one third-party investor which has the capacity to finance the retrofit measures and thereby offers the possibility to overcome a significant upfront barrier. 

The standardised tools to be developed in this package will ensure a replicability on regional, national and EU level. easyCOPRO will develop, test and improve over four years a set of standardised tools (""tool box"") which can very easily be reused by other property managers, developers or third party investors to refurbish on large scale the Brussels pool of condominiums.

The package proposal of easyCOPRO offers innovation in financial engineering, in overcoming administrative, legal and financial barriers and a high degree of replicability. These elements should unlock by 2022 additional investments in energy efficiency of 10 million € in the Brussels region.
Data Mining of the Regularity of Compound Herbal Formulae for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Objective To study the regularity of compound herbal formulae for gastroesophageal reflux disease.Methods Compound herbal formulae published on journals in CBMdisc(1978.1-2010.11),Wanfang Data(1998.1-2010.11) and CHKD(2004.1-2010.11) for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease were analyzed by using association rule,frequency analysis and cluster analysis.Regularity of key herbs and pair herbs was summarized.Results There were 119 prescriptions(totaling 144 herbs and 1 206 counts of frequency) in the compound herbal formulae for gastroesophageal reflux disease.The herbs which were used for more than 10 times included 31 herbs(totaling 913 counts of frequency).They were cluster analyzed and classified into 6 clusters including descending qi,strengthening spleen,clearing heat,soothing liver,promoting blood circulation for relieving pain and inhibiting acidity drugs.Eighteen herbal pairs were obtained by association rule analysis,mainly for herbs of descending qi combined with soothing liver,clearing heat and strengthening spleen.Conclusions It was feasible that study the regularity of Chinese compound prescription for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease by data mining.
Evaluation of High-Level Synthesis Techniques for Memory and Datapath Tradeoffs in FPGA Based SoC Architectures

While High-Level Synthesis (HLS) has been a research topic for more than 30 years, modern HLS tools have made possible the development of production ready circuits, taking advantage of improvements in areas like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and multicore System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. The efficient use of these improvements however require technology aware coding and constraint specification, through specific tool directives. In this paper, a modern HLS environment is used to investigate different architecture alternatives, for the design of hardware accelerators, taking into account tradeoffs between memory and datapath component utilization, in modern, SoC aware FPGA devices. Experimental results show that correct architectural option selections can lead to an almost 120X speedup and better scaling performance while the input size is increasing, with practical negligible resource utilization overheads in medium and large scale devices.
PIPETTING DEVICES PRELOADED WITH STANDARDIZED CONTROL SAMPLE MATERIALS

Devices and apparatus are disclosed for rapid, consistent, precise and accurate formation of standard solutions for use as reference samples without error, excessive costs, waste and degradation problems. Test reactants, normally solutes, are preloaded in measured amounts into pipette tips or instrument tubing. The devices draw in a measured quantity of liquid, normally solvent, through the tip or tubing, which quickly dissolves or disperses the solute, forming a consistent and accurate solution for an individual test. Since only the amount of solute and solvent which is needed for each individual test is used, there is no preparation of excess solution. Since the invention involves the production of pipette tips preloaded with stable solute, it can be used in many different settings, including emergency rooms and vehicles. Also disclosed is a container for retaining a readily available supply of solvent adjacent to detached pipette tips containing preloaded solute samples, such that when the technician connects the pipette tip to the pipette, the required quantity of solvent can also be obtained and the desired solution sample produced in a single operation.
Proof-Theoretic analysis of modal logics

The PAnaMoL project aims at systematising proof theory for modal
logics.  We intend to provide a unified perspective on sequent-style
calculi and a deeper understanding of the general connections between
axiom systems and sequent-style calculi for such logics.  In detail
the research objectives are

- The systematic development of suitable syntactic characterisations
of classes of modal axioms corresponding to natural formats of rules
in different sequent-style frameworks (e.g. sequent, hypersequent,
nested sequent or display calculi) including algorithmic translations
from axioms to rules and back.

- A systematic comparison of the different sequent-style frameworks
according to their expressive strength.

- The exploitation of these results in the investigation of:
classification results stating necessary and sufficient
proof-theoretic strength for important examples of logics such as GL
and S5; uniform decidability and complexity results for large classes
of logics; general consistency proofs.

The research conducted in the project will be of relevance to
researchers in all fields where modal logics are used to model complex
phenomena and provide easy-to-use results and methods for the
proof-theoretic investigation and implementation of newly developed
modal logics.
Error assessment of satellite-derived lead fraction in the Arctic

Abstract. Leads within consolidated sea ice control heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere during winter, thus constituting an important climate parameter. These narrow elongated features occur when sea ice is fracturing under the action of wind and currents, reducing the local mechanical strength of the ice cover, which in turn impact the sea ice drift pattern. This creates a high demand for a high-quality lead fraction (LF) data set for sea ice model evaluation, initialization, and for the assimilation of such data in regional models. In this context, an available LF data set retrieved from satellite passive microwave observations (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer – Earth Observing System, AMSR-E) is of great value, which has been providing pan-Arctic light- and cloud-independent daily coverage since 2002. In this study errors in this data set are quantified using accurate LF estimates retrieved from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images employing a threshold technique. A consistent overestimation of LF by a factor of 2–4 is found in the AMSR-E LF product. It is shown that a simple adjustment of the upper tie point used in the method to estimate the LF can reduce the pixel-wise error by a factor of 2 on average. Applying such an adjustment to the full data set may thus significantly increase the quality and value of the original data set.
464 - Usage des médicaments dans le traitement de la maladie pulmonaire obstructive chronique entre 2007 et 2018 au Québec

Plusieurs nouveaux médicaments ont été introduits dans les dernières années pour traiter la maladie pulmonaire obstructive chronique (MPOC), dont les agonistes Bêta2 ultra-longue action (ultraBALA), des nouveaux antimuscariniques (AMLA) et leurs combinaisons à doses fixes (CDF). Dans le cadre d'une étude évaluant l'effet des ultraBALA/CDF sur les complications de la MPOC, nous avons d'abord souhaité décrire l'usage des ultraBALA/CDF entre 2007 et 2018 et évaluer l'impact de leur introduction sur l'usage des anciens AMLA, des corticostéroïdes inhalés en monothérapie (CSI) et des méthylxanthines. Une cohorte d'individus âgés de 66 ans et plus atteints de MPOC a été créée à partir du Système intégré de surveillance des maladies chroniques du Québec. Les proportions d'utilisateurs des médicaments pour la MPOC ont été calculées mensuellement à partir des données du fichier des services pharmaceutiques. L'effet de l'arrivée des nouveaux médicaments a été estimé avec des modèles autorégressifs multivariés segmentés en contrôlant pour les principaux facteurs confondants. À l'arrivée des ultraBALA (mars 2013), la cohorte incluait 76 759 individus (âge 78±7 ans, 51 % de femmes). La proportion d'utilisateurs d'ultraBALA ou de nouveaux AMLA a augmenté progressivement pour atteindre 18 % en 2018. L'usage de CDF, débuté en février 2015, augmentait toujours en décembre 2018 pour atteindre 13 % d'utilisateurs. L'arrivée des ultraBALA est associée à une réduction relative mensuelle de 1,64 % (IC95 %: -2,44; -0,82) de la proportion d'utilisateurs d'AMLA, traitement d'entretien le plus fréquent en 2013. Parallèlement, les proportions d'utilisateurs de CSI et de méthylxanthines ont respectivement chuté de 51 à 34 % et de 6 à 1 % pendant la même période. L'augmentation de l‘usage des ultraBALA/CDF entre 2007 et 2018 au Québec est associée à une baisse constante de l'utilisation des CSI et semble correspondre à l’évolution des guides de pratique en MPOC. François Maltais reports grants from AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, Boehringer Ingelheim, GSK, Sanofi, and Novartis, and personal fees for serving on speaker bureaus and consultation panels from GlaxoSmithKline, Grifols, and Novartis. He is financially involved with Oxynov, a company which is developing an oxygen delivery system. Les autres auteurs ne déclarent aucun conflit d'intérêt.
Men’s Emotions

This article focuses on the underresearched topic of how masculinity relates to emotional forms of caring within heterosexual relationships. Both scholarly and common sense thinking, often present heterosexual male partners as unable and/or unwilling to do emotion work, leaving women burdened with this task. However, contemporary relational complexity increasingly requires emotional reflexivity. Such reflexivity entails interpretations of one’s own and others’ emotions, and acting in light of those interpretations. The question here is to what extent and how that emotional reflexivity might effect a reshaping of heteromasculinity toward more caring forms of emotionality? Drawing on interviews with heterosexual couples in distance relationships, it is argued that emotional reflexivity may produce a variety of ways of relationally gendering emotions. Those who seem to adhere to ideas of men as emotionally restricted may claim tactile forms of emotional expression. However, there may be limitations to these forms in certain circumstances, and this may prompt a reflexive reorientation of heteromasculine emotionalities toward more verbal forms of support. The point of seeking to illustrate that masculinity and emotionality are open to such reflexive shifts is to debunk essentialist views of gendered emotionality which undermine efforts to achieve greater gender equality in intimate life.