SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Language, Discourse, and New Media: A Linguistic Anthropological Perspective

Over the last few decades, an increasing number of scholarly articles and books have been published on language and new media. This article provides a brief overview of socioculturally informed studies on language and new media in addition to providing further directions for future scholarship. In this article, I show that it is promising to take an ethnographic and discourse-centered approach to new media to demonstrate actual discursive practices and performances that are taking place in new media environments. Furthermore, I demonstrate that it is social actors/performers who mediate and negotiate (deploy and play with) various ideologies and semiotic resources in a given discursive encounter to accomplish artful performances. Thus, instead of primarily focusing on the already designed and constructed (a medium and its boundedness), we should focus on social actors and their playful performances. By employing an ethnographic/discourse analytic approach to language and new media, we can look at the circulation of discourses to better understand what new media mean for those who use them and how new media are localized into everyday practices and performances of social actors in their diverse geographical localities.
ECO-FIN-NET

The network was approved as one of the first URBACT
projects focussing on access of SMEs to finance through
innovative financial instruments and in particular on the
access of the smallest companies in less favoured urban
areas.
The ECO-FIN-NET partners identified the following three
issues which formed the structure for the three working
groups:
1. Access to Finance for SMEs – generally through banks
or other financial institutions with which SMEs can encounter
difficulties. The network studied the reasons for these
difficulties and suggested possible solutions
2. Public Sector financial support – grants and loans
for businesses and start ups are commonplace in many cities
but ECO-FIN-NET questions the relevance of such schemes
and in particular the adaptations required for the specific
conditions of micro enterprises in deprived areas
3. Non financial services – business advice, training,
mentoring and networking are all ideas which have been
studies by the network partners
A series of meetings including the kick off meeting, 5 working
groups meetings, 1 interim meeting and 1 expert meeting
have taken place followed by the final conference held in
March 2006 in Marseille.
Motivated reading of evidence

Economists have distinguished for long soft and hard information with the understanding that cheap talk is more prone to subjective interpretation than hard evidence. In fact, any piece of evidence carries some of the true underlying information that agents are usually assumed to be willing and able to access. For various reasons, agents may however prefer to avoid disturbing truths or maintain wrong but encouraging beliefs. In MOREV, I propose to study motivated reading of evidence, that is, study how individuals interpret hard information in ways that serve their own purposes. I wish to identify the goals that push the reading of evidence in systematic ways. I also want to study how agents manage to distort this reading, for example by choosing not to read or reason about available evidence. The MOREV project is divided into two parts, each bringing the recent literature on motivated beliefs to a new area of study.
 
In part 1, I will focus on agents' motivated reading of evidence about other individuals (their ability, their socio-economic characteristics, etc.). Indeed, one may not view a person the same way ahead of cooperative or competitive tasks. It is well-established that how close agents feel to each other (as network members or in terms of social identity) affects what they do to each other. I propose to investigate experimentally and theoretically the converse relationship: how do agents’ strategic goals affect their perception of others? 

In part 2, I will focus on agents' motivated reading of evidence about products. For example, consumers may purposefully distort their beliefs about some attributes to make their purchasing plans easier to execute or take on. To do so, agents may not interpret vague information skeptically or, more generally, use motivated reasoning processes. By studying these ideas in the lab and in new models, I aim at bringing a novel explanation to the fact that, in many markets, information does not unravel as theory predicts./
Next generation gan power amplifiers

Digital communications are a cornerstone of a digitalised and connected society. Both terrestrial and satellite communications systems face increasing demands for higher frequency band, power and efficiency for communications electronics. 
SweGaN has developed a patent-protected production tool and methodology for producing very high quality GaN material grown on a Silicon Carbide substrate. Implemented as High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs), our devices have of the world’s best performances, particularly at high frequencies. The recent breakthrough CoolHEMT design is the world’s first bufferless GaN HEMT, with superior power and frequency performance. SweGaN materials will enable smaller devices, weighing less, consuming less power, and reducing systems requirements; devices with better cost/benefit ratios.  These can a) reduce energy per bit of data: combatting the growing energy/CO2 footprint of digital communications, and b) are more cost-effective: enabling widespread, affordable, sustainable internet for all, a cornerstone of Digital Society and Digital Single Market. CoolHEMT will also complement ongoing European efforts to secure an autonomous source of high quality GaN materials and devices for advanced applications
Building on a successful phase 1 activity (ELeGaNS), the CoolHEMT phase 2 project will 1) further improve the performance of its baseline GaN material and devices, 2) scale material production and process into a pilot line, 3) validate material performance in prototype devices developed with commercial partners, including field trials in representative extreme environments, and 4) secure the pre-orders, joint ventures and investment to finance final scaling to market (in Phase 3).
SweGaN aim to reach a market share of 10% of GaN devices in Europe, generating 157 direct and 600 indirect jobs and €26.5M in direct revenue by 2023.
iNNoVaNDiS: de “C’est juste Impossible » à « Faire que cela Arrive »

Sur la base de nos 15&#160;ann&#233;es d&#8217;exp&#233;rience dans un programme d&#233;di&#233; &#224; l&#8217;entrepreneuriat et &#224; l&#8217;innovation&#160;&#8211;&#160;(iNNoVaNDiS) propos&#233; aux &#233;tudiants en bachelor de l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Deusto &#224; San Sebastian (Espagne)&#160;&#8211;&#160;nous partagerons nos points de vue sur la fa&#231;on dont l&#8217;entrepreneuriat pourrait &#234;tre enseign&#233; et comment ce programme a chang&#233; au cours de cette p&#233;riode. Ce programme d&#233;veloppe et encourage le comportement entrepreneurial de tous les &#233;tudiants du campus, en travaillant sur les connaissances, les capacit&#233;s, les attitudes, les valeurs et les &#233;motions.Les fondements du programme reposent sur le fait qu&#8217;&#234;tre entrepreneur ou innovant s&#8217;appuie sur une mani&#232;re de penser et une identit&#233; propre. C&#8217;est un programme orient&#233; &#171;&#160;action&#160;&#187; dans diff&#233;rents contextes et au travers de plusieurs ateliers, mises en situation dans le cadre de d&#233;fis propos&#233;s par des organisations locales et pour cela l&#8217;action est un &#8216;MUST&#8217;.La philosophie qui soutient ce programme est que l&#8217;entrepreneuriat et l&#8217;innovation ne sont pas des finalit&#233;s en soi ni une discipline que l&#8217;on doit apprendre mais que l&#8217;objectif va bien au-del&#224; de la cr&#233;ation d&#8217;entreprise. La vis&#233;e d&#8217;un tel dispositif n&#8217;est pas le d&#233;veloppement d&#8217;entreprises mais de poursuivre une d&#233;marche &#233;thique de l&#8217;entrepreneuriat et un comportement innovant dans la vie de tous les jours.
Role of the Cultivar in Choosing Clementine Fruits with a High Level of Health-Promoting Compounds

Thirteen cultivars and two hybrids of Clementine fruits (Citrus clementina Hort. Ex. Tan) cultivated in Italy were characterized according to pH, titratable acidity, total soluble solids, total polyphenols, carotenoids, vitamin C, hesperidin, rutin, narirutin and naringin and radical scavenging activity. The presence of rutin in Clementine fruit juice is reported for the first time here. The results indicated that all chemical parameters statistically differentiated each cultivar (P < 0.001). In particular, principal component analysis showed a clear discrimination of five cultivars from all the other varieties based on vitamin C and total polyphenols for the Caffin cultivar, which showed also the highest antioxidant activity; narirutin for the Etna hybrid cultivar; hesperidin, rutin and total soluble solids for the SRA 89 cultivar; and naringin, hesperidin and rutin for the Esbal cultivar. Moreover, the Mandalate hybrid cultivar showed the lowest antioxidant activity as well as vitamin C and total polyphenols content, while titratable acidity and naringin level were the highest. The antioxidant activity assessed in all the fruits was closely correlated with vitamin C and total polyphenols content, rather than with the flavonoid compounds.
Implementierung und Zertifizierung des Managementsystems nach den Anforderungen der ISO 9001:2015 und ISO 27001:2013.

Heute überleben nur diejenigen Unternehmen, die die Bedeutung der Anpassung an immer anspruchsvollere Kunden auf dem Markt verstehen, und Vertrauen ist einer der wichtigsten Faktoren, um ihre Gunst zu gewinnen. Mit der Entwicklung der digitalen Gesellschaft wächst auch die Zahl der spezialisierten Unternehmen, die Dienstleistungen der Vorbereitung und Umsetzung hochentwickelter Computerprogramme anbieten. International anerkannte ISO-Standards sind das effizienteste Qualitäts- und Informationssicherheitsmanagementsystem und ihre Anwendung verbessert die Geschäftstätigkeit jedes Unternehmens. Daher entschied sich das Management von 8Sigma, ISO 9001:2015 und ISO 27001:2013 Standards in ein eigenes Geschäftssystem umzusetzen. Dieser Prozess bestätigt eine hohe Qualität der Arbeit, erwirbt aber auch eine große Herausforderung.
Validation of a method to quantify chromium, cadmium, manganese, nickel and lead in human whole blood, urine, saliva and hair samples by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

For biological monitoring of heavy metal exposure in occupational toxicology, usually whole blood and urine samples are the most widely used and accepted matrix to assess internal xenobiotic exposure. Hair samples and saliva are also of interest in occupational and environmental health surveys but procedures for the determination of metals in saliva and hair are very scarce and to our knowledge there is no validation of a method to quantify Cr, Cd, Mn, Ni and Pb in four different human biological materials (whole blood, urine, saliva and axilary hair) by electrothermal atomization atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS). In the present study, quantification methods for the determination of Cr, Cd, Mn, Ni and Pb in whole blood, urine, saliva and axilary hair were validated according to the EU common standards. Pyrolisis and atomization temperatures have been determined. The main parameters evaluated were: detection and quantification limits, linearity range, repeatability, reproducibility, recovery and uncertainty. Accuracy of the methods was tested with the whole blood, urine and hair certified reference materials and recoveries of the spiked samples were acceptable ranged from 96.3 to 107.8%.
The Contribution of Benefit-in-Kind Taxation Policy in Britain to the ‘Peak Car’ Phenomenon

Car use per person has historically grown year-on-year in Great Britain since the 1950s, with minor exceptions during fuel crises and times of economic recession. The ‘Peak Car’ hypothesis proposes that this historical trend no longer applies. The British National Travel Survey provides evidence of such an aggregate levelling off in car mileage per person since the mid-1990s, but further analysis shows that this is the result of counter trends netting out: in particular, a reduction in per capita male driving mileage being offset by a corresponding increase in female car driving mileage. A major contributory factor to the decline in male car use has been a sharp reduction in average company car mileage per person. This paper investigates this aspect in more detail. Use of company cars fell sharply in Britain from the 1990s up to the 2008 recession. Over the same period, taxation policy towards company cars became more onerous, with increasing levels of taxation on the benefit-in-kind value of the ownershi...
“Modern two-hull hydrographic unit as a basis for improving the quality of marine measurement results and the expansion of echogram s.c. services to the off-shore market”

The material scope of the project includes the purchase of hydrographic catamaran as a basis for improving the quality of marine measurement results, which will enable the Company to: 1. Breaking down existing development barriers (described in the following parts of this application form) 2. The focus of the Company’s activities in the area of ISP – offshore and port-logistic technologies 3. Significant expansion of the markets throughout Poland to include offshore areas and expansion to external markets through the export of hydrographic services in the offshore zone to Lithuania and Latvia. The implementation of the project will enable a significant improvement of the quality of hydrographic services and start operations in the offshore area, thanks to which the Company will be prepared for changes in the legal provisions concerning batymmetric measurements, changes in the industry and effective competition for customers, which will allow to increase the competitive potential of the country and internationally.
Socially distanced solidarity: far right recruitment and enrolment during the covid-19 pandemic

The questions at the centre of the project Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic (SODIS) are how far right organisations have adapted recruitment strategies in time of crisis, namely the Covid-19 pandemic, how successful these strategies have been, and how pathways to joining have shifted as a result of the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine changes in collective action and political protest, providing a natural experiment for policy intended to tackle radicalism. Due to lockdowns and partial lockdowns across the world, organisations have had to cancel protest activities and other events at the centre of many recruitment strategies; the ongoing threat of Covid-19 well into 2021 means that organisations must alter their strategies. The subsequent change, or lack-there-of, in recruitment numbers can have implications for counter-radicalisation strategies moving forward. SODIS relies on a modern research design focusing on various perspectives of organisation recruiters and new organisation members, and different national contexts, while taking advantage of this exceptional time in history. A quantitative online survey will lend to a better understanding of motives and attitudes of organisations members in four national contexts and to gain a better understanding of motives for joining organisations, qualitative interviews will be conducted in each country. SODIS will elucidate drivers of far right mobilisation and pathways to radicalisation, contributing to scholarship on social movements, collective action, and radicalisation studies. It will provide insight for practitioners working on countering radicalism and recruitment into such organisations, engaging with the conversation of how liberal and illiberal democracies deal with right-wing extremism .
Crystal Structure and Thermodynamic Stability of Ba/Ti‐Substituted Pollucites for Radioactive Cs/Ba Immobilization

As an analogue of the mineral pollucite (CsAlSi2O6), CsTiSi2O6.5 is a potential host phase for radioactive Cs. However, as 137Cs and 135Cs transmute to 137Ba and 135Ba, respectively, through the beta decay, it is essential to study the structure and stability of this phase upon Cs → Ba substitution. In this work, two series of Ba/Ti-substituted samples, CsxBa(1−x)/2TiSi2O6.5 and CsxBa1−xTiSi2O7−0.5x, (x = 0.9 and 0.7), were synthesized by high-temperature crystallization from their respective precursors. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction and Rietveld analysis reveal that while CsxBa(1−x)/2TiSi2O6.5 samples are phase-pure, CsxBa1−xTiSi2O7−0.5x samples contain Cs3x/(2+x)Ba(1−x)/(2+x)TiSi2O6.5 pollucites (i.e., also two-Cs-to-one-Ba substitution) and a secondary phase, fresnoite (Ba2TiSi2O8). Thus, the CsxBa1−xTiSi2O7−0.5x series is energetically less favorable than CsxBa(1−x)/2TiSi2O6.5. To study the stability systematics of CsxBa(1−x)/2TiSi2O6.5 pollucites, high-temperature calorimetric experiments were performed at 973 K with or without the lead borate solvent. Enthalpies of formation from the constituent oxides (and elements) have thus been derived. The results show that with increasing Ba/(Cs + Ba) ratio, the thermodynamic stability of these phases decreases with respect to their component oxides. Hence, from the energetic viewpoint, continued Cs → Ba transmutation tends to destabilize the parent silicotitanate pollucite structure. However, the Ba-substituted pollucite co-forms with fresnoite (which incorporates the excess Ba), thereby providing viable ceramic waste forms for all the Ba decay products.
Heat exchange system

A package heat exchange system is disclosed having a burner positioned in the central plenum of a substantially cylindrical heat exchanger. A fuel-air mixture is supplied through a blower supplied with fuel from a pressure regulator which requires a somewhat less than atmospheric pressure at the blower inlet to draw gaseous fuel through the pressure regulator. A solenoid-operated, positive pressure valve in the main gasline provides the heat exchanger with an enriched gas mixture on ignition. The enrichment valve automatically closes after 30 seconds of operation. Air for combustion is drawn through a series of orifice plates positioned between the regulator and the blower. The fuel-to-air ratio may be altered by changing the size and/or number of the holes in one of the orifice plates. Further, one of the orifice plates may be deformable so as to form a seal, and to supply a predetermined quantity of air to the burner for combustion. The blower motor also drives a solution pump that circulates a fluid to the cylindrical heat exchanger and from there to a second heat exchanger for heating the air within an enclosure. The blower supplies the fuel-air mixture to the burner where it is ignited. An ignition reset timer automatically initiates an ignition cycle every 30 minutes as long as the thermostat is calling for heat. The products of combustion are radially exhausted upward through a wrapper surrounding the cylindrical heat exchanger and discharged from the package through a cap. The package heat exchanger system may be combined with a conventional air conditioning system to either heat or cool an enclosure, depending upon the mode desired.
MÉTODO PARA REGULAR LA ANGIOGÉNESIS UTILIZANDO PROTEÍNA RYK

Se encontró que la proteína Ryk tenía una novedosa actividad en la regulación de la anglogénesis. Se construyeron nuevas proteínas Ryk variantes que son ventajosas para modular la actividad formadora de capilares de las células endoteliales. Las proteínas Ryk variantes pueden ser utilizadas como agentes terapéuticos en enfermedades tales como el cáncer, la cicatrización de heridas, las retinopatías diabéticas, la degeneración macular y las enfermedades cardiovasculares, así como otras enfermedades o trastornos clínicos en la que la anglogénesis está involucrada en la causa o el tratamiento de la enfermedad.
Treating contact lenses

There are disclosed contact lens sterilizing solutions of pharmaceutically acceptable strength which contain dichloroisocyanurate, together with tablets and capsules containing dichloroisocyanurate for making up into such solutions with a predetermined quantity of a carrier liquid.
Nitrogen Fertilizer Replacement Value of Cattle Slurry in Grassland as Affected by Method and Timing of Application

Slurry application with methods such as trailing shoe (TS) results in reduced emissions of ammonia (NH3) compared with broadcast application using splashplate (SP). Timing the application during cool and wet weather conditions also contributes to low NH3 emissions. From this perspective, we investigated whether reduced NH3 emissions due to improved slurry application method and timing results in an increase in the nitrogen (N) fertilizer replacement value (NFRV). The effects of application timing (June vs. April) and application method (TS vs. SP) on the apparent N recovery (ANR) and NFRV from cattle slurry applied to grassland were examined on three sites over 3 yr in randomized block experiments. The NFRV was calculated using two methods: (i) NFRV(N) based on the ANR of slurry N relative to mineral N fertilizer; and (ii) NFRV(DM) based on DM yield. The TS method increased the ANR, NFRV(N), and NFRV(DM) compared with SP in the 40- to 50-d period following slurry application by 0.09, 0.10, and 0.10 kg kg(-1), respectively. These values were reduced to 0.07, 0.06, and 0.05 kg kg(-1), respectively, when residual harvests during the rest of the year were included. The highest NFRV(DM) for the first harvest period was with application in April using STS (0.30 kg kg(-1)), while application in June with SP had the Slowest (0.12 kg kg(-1)). The highest NFRV(DM) for the cumulative harvest period was with application in April using TS (0.38 kg kg(-1)), while application in June with SP had the lowest (0.17 kg kg(-1)). Improved management of application method, by using TS instead of SP, and timing, by applying slurry in April rather than June, offer potential to increase the NFRV(DM) of cattle slurry applied to grassland.
WIND POWER PLANT

The invention relates to a wind power plant having a Magnus rotor, a bearing unit enabling rotation of the Magnus rotor about the longitudinal axis thereof, and a drive unit that drives the Magnus rotor. In order to provide a wind power plant that can be produced particularly easily and inexpensively, has low operating costs, and can be widely used, it is provided that the bearing unit (20) is designed to convert transverse forces acting on the Magnus rotor into tilting movements of the Magnus rotor and to transmit the tilting movements of the Magnus rotor (1) to a generator unit (21), and a regulation unit (22) is provided to control wind inflow on the Magnus rotor (1).