SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Design Proposals for Organic Materials Exhibiting a Low Exciton Binding Energy

Organic photovoltaics (OPV) have the potential for a low cost energy conversion from solar to electrical power. However, minimizing voltage losses, inherent to the currently used intermolecular donor–acceptor system, represents the main challenge to make this technology suitable for commercial large area applications. One key parameter to overcome is the high exciton binding energy in organic materials. Based on density functional theory (DFT) simulations, it is shown how polar side chains may significantly increase the dielectric constant, which lowers the exciton binding energy and enables charge generation in organic materials without a donor–acceptor system. Furthermore, based on time dependent (TD)-DFT calculations, we show another path for low exciton binding energy organic materials, by inducing a charge transfer state between two hydrogen bonded oligomers along the backbone. The charge transfer is achieved by fluorination of the acceptor oligomer investigated, leading to a wide-range intermolecula...
Crossing Angles of Geometric Graphs

We study the crossing angles of geometric graphs in the plane. We introduce the crossing angle number of a graph G, denoted can(G), which is the minimum number of angles between crossing edges in a straight line drawing of G. We show that an n-vertex graph G with can(G) = O(1) has O(n) edges, but there are graphs G with bounded degree and arbitrarily large can(G). We also initiate studying the global crossing-angle rigidity of geometric graphs. We construct bounded degree graphs G = (V,E) such that for any two straight-line drawings of G with the same prescribed crossing angles, there is a subset V′ ⊂ V of |V′| ≥ |V|/2 vertices that are similar in the two drawings.
VERTICAL CURRENT CONTROLLED SILICON ON INSULATOR (SOI) DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME

A Silicon on Insulator (SOI) Integrated Circuit (IC) chip with devices such as a vertical Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR), vertical bipolar transistors, a vertical capacitor, a resistor and/or a vertical pinch resistor and method of making the device(s). The devices are formed in a seed hole through the SOI surface layer and insulator layer to the substrate. A buried diffusion, e.g., N-type, is formed through the seed hole in the substrate. A doped epitaxial layer is formed on the buried diffusion and may include multiple doped layers, e.g., a P-type layer and an N-type layer. Polysilicon, e.g., P-type, may be formed on the doped epitaxial layer. Contacts to the buried diffusion are formed in a contact liner.
Social and neural moderators of the temperament-anxiety association: risk or protective factors?

Why do some children develop anxiety while others do not? Behaviorally inhibited temperament is a strong risk factor for pediatric anxiety disorders, but not all children with behavioral inhibition develop anxiety. Identifying risk and protective factors in children with behavioral inhibition could improve early detection and prevention of anxiety disorders. I will focus on early adolescence, a pivotal developmental period for social and neural changes as well as for the development of anxiety. Notably, these changes unfold differently in boys and girls, which could influence risk for anxiety in sex-specific ways, thereby creating a female preponderance of anxiety. The goal of this study is to identify social and neural moderators of the temperament-anxiety association in boys and girls. This fellowship will be embedded in the Generation R Study at Erasmus University Rotterdam, a unique interdisciplinary prospective cohort following 1232 children since birth. Data on temperament (at 3 years), social and neural factors (from 7-13 years), and anxiety symptoms (at 13 years) have been collected. I will study social and neural factors in a novel way by focusing on multi-informant measures of peer relations, multi-modal quantification of in-lab social behavior, and developmental trajectories of resting-state functional connectivity. The large sample size provides the unique opportunity to examine sex differences. This fellowship will allow me to bring the knowledge and skills I acquired in the USA to the Netherlands. I will expand my line of research to include social and protective factors, longitudinal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, and epidemiological methods. I will learn how to foster a strong mutual connection between research and clinical practice. Finally, I will systematically set up outreach activities, especially for children, to bridge science and society. Together, this enhances my long-term career success in academia.
Development of management capacity and growth in Tara Ltd.

The project proposal “Development of the management capacity and growth in Tara EOOD” aims to develop the management capacity of Tara Ltd. by fully regulating and improving the management of the work processes and achieving effective organisation of the overall activity, improving the management and minimising the environmental impact due to the production processes, promoting the use of ICT as a factor for sustainable corporate development on the national and European market. The main activities that will be carried out within the project are:1. Consulting and re-certification services for migration of the existing in Tara EOOD Quality Management System according to ISO 9001:2015;  2. Development and certification of the Environmental Management System according to ISO 14001:2015;  3. Acquisition and introduction of business process management software in Tara Ltd.
EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT CONCENTRATIONS OF FRESH AND DRIED CALOTROPIS PROCERA (SODOM APPLE) EXTRACT ON COW MILK COAGULATING TIME, CHEESE YIELD AND ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTIES OF WEST AFRICAN SOFT CHEESE (WAGASHIE)

This study was conducted to determine the effects of different concentrations of fresh and dried Calotropis procera extract (CPE) on cow milk coagulating time, yield, whey volume and organoleptic properties of West Africa soft cheese (WASC) (wagashie). Three different concentrations of fresh and dried CPE (F2, F5, and F7) and (D2, D5, and D7) were respectively obtained from 2 g, 5 g and 7 g (on dry matter basis) of fresh and dried Calotropis procera. Each of the extracts prepared was used as a sole coagulant of pasteurized cow milk and the effects on the milk coagulating time, WASC yield, whey volume, and organoleptic properties of WASC were determined. All the parameters assessed were significantly (p < 0.05) influenced by the type and concentration of CPE. The average milk coagulating time, cheese yield and whey volume ranged between 14 - 29 minutes, 134.9 – 237.4 (g/l) and 657.1 – 771.4 (ml/l) respectively. The coagulating time of the fresh Calotropis procera extract (FCPE) treatments were significantly shorter than that of the dried Calotropis procera extract (DCPE) treatments. Generally, milk coagulating time decreased with increased concentration of CPE. The yield of WASC was significantly (p < 0.05) higher among DCPE treatments as compared to FCPE treatments. Cheese yield increased with increased concentration of CPE. There was strong negative correlation (p < 0.05) between milk coagulating time and WASC yield for both FCPE and DCPE treatments. The type and concentration of CPE added to the milk had significant (P < 0.05) effects on the organoleptic properties (taste, colour, texture and overall acceptability) of the WASC produced. Generally, extracts from 2 g of Calotropis had better performance in terms of cheese yield, and organoleptic properties of WASC (wagashie).
Entanglement in mutually unbiased bases

One of the essential features of quantum mechanics is that most pairs of observables cannot be measured simultaneously. This phenomenon is most strongly manifested when observables are related to mutually unbiased bases. In this paper, we shed some light on the connection between mutually unbiased bases and another essential feature of quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement. It is shown that a complete set of mutually unbiased bases of a bipartite system contains a fixed amount of entanglement, independently of the choice of the set. This has implications for entanglement distribution among the states of a complete set. In prime-squared dimensions we present an explicit experiment-friendly construction of a complete set with a particularly simple entanglement distribution. Finally, we describe basic properties of mutually unbiased bases composed only of product states. The constructions are illustrated with explicit examples in low dimensions. We believe that properties of entanglement in mutually unbiased bases might be one of the ingredients to be taken into account to settle the question of the existence of complete sets. We also expect that they will be relevant to applications of bases in the experimental realization of quantum protocols in higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces.
Effects of conventional immunosuppressive therapy on functional and pathological features of CNS lupus in NZB/W mice

<ns4:p>Neurological involvement is one of the most devastating complications of the disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). To understand the effect of the drugs, cyclophosphamide (CY) and prednisolone (PD) on CNS manifestations, the New Zealand Black/White (NZB/W) lupus mice, were given a cocktail of both drugs by intraperitoneal injections daily from 22 to 44 weeks of age. The treatment prolonged survival (10% of the treated 20 NZB/W mice died compared to 50% of the 30 NZB/W mice, with no mortality in the control NZW mice). Real-time PCR analysis showed a three- to fifteen-fold increase in the expression of GFAP, vimentin and syndecan4 in the cerebral cortex of 44 week NZB/W mice. These alterations were prevented by CY and PD treatment. Immunostaining revealed increased GFAP expression in NZB/W mice compared to congenic, nondiseased NZW mice, which was prevented by treatment. In addition, concomitant changes were observed in the expression of extracellular matrix proteins, collagen IV and fibronectin. To determine the impact of these alterations on the neurological manifestations of SLE, behavior was studied in these mice. The NZB/W mice were spontaneously less active in the open field and exhibited a decrease in distance traveled (58% of control, p&lt;0.01) and ambulatory measurements (52% of control, p&lt;0.01). They took more time (8.8<ns4:underline>+</ns4:underline>1.2min) to escape from the maze compared to the control NZW mice (2.6<ns4:underline>+</ns4:underline>0.8min). Even more striking was that the behavioral deficits were alleviated in these mice by CY and PD treatment. These results support the hypothesis that increased astrogliosis and altered extracellular matrix proteins may be two of the critical factors that mediate lupus brain disease.</ns4:p>
Nextgen road safety for smarter cities

Every year more than 1.25 million people are killed worldwide by road accidents and over 50 million are seriously injured. Road traffic accidents are the main leading cause of death for people aged between 15 to 29 years old, which cost governments approximately 3% of their GDP (WHO, Global Road Safety Report on 2015).
In average, a speed reduction of only 5% can reduce by 30% the number of fatal crashes. In cities, a speed reduction from 50 km/h to 30 km/h can reduce the probability of fatality in an accident from 45% to 10% (Holzmann, 2008). Adding to this, 38% of the pedestrian deaths in car accidents happen in crosswalks.
PAVNEXT is a beyond state-of-the-art award-wiing Speed Reduction Systems that maximizes speed reduction without the need for any action from the driver, while minimizing the occupant discomfort and the impact on vehicles.
In addition to the speed reduction function, PAVNEXT also harvests the vehicles kinetic energy, converting it with a very high efficiency into electrical energy that can be injected into the public grid, or used locally for other safety purposes (e.g. lighting signals), while collecting significant road traffic and energy production data.
For the past 4 years we focused on technological development (currently demonstrating in real environment) and fundraising, and we have also accumulated significant recognition and developed a relevant network of partners, potential customers and other stakeholders.
Our beachhead market is crosswalk areas in cities above 150 thousand inhabitants, and motorway operators will follow. 
The successful market entry of PAVNEXT will mean increased safety for pedestrians and drivers, fewer road traffic accidents, a more comfortable urban driving experience, reduced vehicle maintenance needs, more clean energy production and efficiency, atmospheric pollution reduction and, ultimately, better road traffic management.
A novel loop-heat-pipe (lhp)-based data centre heat removal and recovery system employing the micro-channels cold/hot plates

Date centres consume 1.1-1.5% of the world’s total electricity supply and remain 15-20% of annual increase rate in power demand. Space cooling, owing to vast dissipation of the heat from the data-processing equipment to data centre space, has a very high cooling capacity, accounting for 30-40% of energy delivered into the space. Developing an effective heat removal and recovery system to prevent excessive equipment heat transmission to the space is critical to reducing energy consumption of the cooling system. The proposed MSCA programme aims to investigate an innovative a novel Loop-Heat-Pipe-based data centre heat removal and recovery system employing the micro-channels-cold/hot-plates(LHP-C/H-PLATE-4-DC), by integrating the excellence of the host applicants in loop-heat-pipe(LHP) and expertise of the researcher applicant in hot/cold plates for data processing equipment. The innovative features of the system lie in (1) microscopic interior spaces increase liquid evaporation rate and heat transfer of the LHPs; (2) sensor-controlled liquid upper-feeding and liquid/vapour separator prevent the dry-out and entrainment effects of the conventional LHPs; (3) flat-plate surface of the cold-plate enables a perfect contact with the skin of the data-processing equipment; and (4) novel heat/mass transfer analysis approaches employing the latest fractal and enthalpy/temperature-difference-driven heat transfer theories. The programme tasks include (a) concept development; (b) computer modelling; (c) prototype construction & testing; and (d) economic & environmental analyses. The programme will attract an experienced researcher with particular knowledge in data centre heat removal technologies into Europe. This will (a) achieve transfer of knowledge from outside into Europe, thus helping growing EU’s knowledge-based economy and society; (b) develop a long-term contact among the researcher and host/partner organisations; and (c) enable the advanced training to the researcher.
SECOND CHANCE

Objective of the network is to activate the larger buildings, building complexes or areas with many vacant buildings for the benefit of the sustainable urban development, of an integrated neighbourhood development. This means to bring these larger buildings and sites in use again, to rehabilitate them, providing space for functions and uses which are needed in the neighbourhood or in the city, to support an appropriation through indefinite users, to support strategic uses of the premises, not only oriented on private exploitation interests, but also on interests of the common goods.As these buildings are vacant since a longer time and most often derelict, it needs further stakeholders to create a new momentum to be able to start off the process of re-activation in a step-by step-process. The partners will find out and try new ways/ process qualities and planning methods to bring these buildings back in use. They will build up such partnerships and prepare a participative re-activation process, which allows making us of the opportunities these vacant buildings present for the city/for the neighbourhood.The network will also be about developing further organisation and financing models to turn more local actors into players in the revitalisation of such buildings and to strengthen the local potential for innovation.The network will also be used to develop guidelines, policies and instruments in support of the re-activation of vacant buildings in general in the city.
Per-patch Descriptor Selection Using Surface and Scene Properties

Local image descriptors are generally designed for describing all possible image patches. Such patches may be subject to complex variations in appearance due to incidental object, scene and recording conditions. Because of this, a single-best descriptor for accurate image representation under all conditions does not exist. Therefore, we propose to automatically select from a pool of descriptors the one that is best suitable based on object surface and scene properties. These properties are measured on the fly from a single image patch through a set of attributes. Attributes are input to a classifier which selects the best descriptor. Our experiments on a large dataset of colored object patches show that the proposed selection method outperforms the best single descriptor and a-priori combinations of the descriptor pool.
Flavonoids from Fragaria ananassa calyx and their antioxidant capacities

The calyx of Fragaria ananassa (Rosaceae) has not been investigated for its chemical constituents and biological activity. This study focused on the isolation of active metabolites from the calyx of this plant. Compounds from F. ananassa calyx were extracted in 80 % aqueous MeOH and the concentrated extract was successively partitioned into EtOAc, n-BuOH, and H2O fractions. Repeated silica gel, octadecyl silica gel, and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatographies afforded six purified flavonoids. On the basis of spectroscopic methods, including 1H, 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (NMR), DEPT, and 2D NMR (gCOSY, gHSQC, gHMBC), the flavonoids were identified as kaempferol (1), astragalin (2), quercetin (3), isoquercitrin (4), sexangularetin (5), and sinensin (6). All the flavonoids were isolated for the first time from the F. ananassa calyx in this study. The flavonoids were evaluated for radical-scavenging capacity 2,2′-azinobis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid ammonium salt), 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl, and oxygen radical absorbance capacity methods. In conclusion, quercetin (3) consistently showed the highest ABTS, DPPH, and ORAC radical-scavenging activities compared with the other isolated flavonoids.
Fibre caps across Europe: type studies and 11 new species of Inocybe (Agaricales, Basidiomycota)

Auf der Basis detaillierter morphologischer und genetischer Untersuchungen werden 11 neue Arten von Inocybe beschrieben (I. abdita, I. alcis, I. carissima, I. cryptica, I. culicis, I. mecoana, I. mortenii, I. orioli, I. rangiferi, I. sepiana and I. turfae). Sechs Arten sind glattsporig, fünf höckersporig. Die neuen Arten werden mit 18 Typusbelegen verglichen, die alle hier beschrieben werden. Für sieben von ihnen wurden ITS-Sequenzen generiert. Für sechs Arten, I. griseovelata, I. lacera, I. soluta, I. subcarpta, I. tarda und I. transitoria wurden Lecto- und/oder Epi-, respektive Neotypen ernannt und von allen wurde jeweils eine Beschreibung und Abbildungstafel vorgelegt. Auf Grund unserer Untersuchungen sind wir davon überzeugt, dass I. albofibrillosa und I. striatorimosa synonym sind mit I. soluta, während I. aurantioumbonata synonym ist mit I. tarda. Außerdem bestätigen wir, dass I. longicystis synonym ist mit I. stellatospora. Alle neuen Arten werden durch phylogenetische Analysen gestützt. Zusammenfassend werden in dieser Arbeit 29 Arten von Inocybe entweder neu beschrieben, ihr taxonomischer Status überprüft, beziehungsweise deren morphologisches Artkonzept erarbeitet oder bestätigt.
Molecular-topological structure of γ-irradiated polytetrafluoroethylene

The molecular-topological structure of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been studied in the range of −100 to +450°C by thermomechanical spectrometry. Revealed in this temperature range is a fourblock topological structure composed of one amorphous (T
 g = 16°C) and three crystalline (low-melting (T
 m = 315°C), intermediate (T
 m
 1
 = 355°C), and high-melting (T
 m
 2
 = 388°C)) polymorphs. At a dose of 1 kGy, the long-range orientation of chains in the intermediate and high-melting crystalline blocks of PTFE is replaced by short-range orientation of the cluster association structure. At doses of 100–500 kGy, the latter structure transitions to the amorphous state and the irradiated samples acquire a semicrystalline structure of the two-block type. The molecular-mass distribution function of interjunction chains of the pseudo-network of the amorphous block is bimodal in character and its maxima are noticeable shifted toward lower masses with an increase in the radiation dose. As the dose increases, the crystallinity decreases and the molecular mobility of amorphized chains is enhanced. As a result, both the glass transition and the molecular flow onset temperatures of the polymer are reduced.
Analysis of reasons and countermeasures for the necessity of alternative futures discourses in South Korea

Abstract This paper examines an overview of the Western origins and concepts of alternative futures to address the ‘alternatives to what’ question, and to define three approaches to clarify the concept of alternative futures. An integrated approach, as a holistic means, should be considered as incorporating both the formal approach and the content-based approach. Moreover, this paper presents the necessary reasons for alternative futures discourses in Korea and proposes several countermeasures to improve Korea's futures practice. To date the Korean society and its futures practices have been dominated by five tendencies: (a) a dominant modernization paradigm, (b) a prevailing unipolar worldview, (c) an uncertainty avoidant culture, (d) poor methodological practice, and (e) Westernization of the Korean futures studies. These current tendencies and their ensuing negative effects have undermined both the continuation of creative futures and the Korean way of seeing the future. Thus, Korea's futures practice has experienced a lack of alternative futures approaches as well as a kind of identity crisis. In order to respond to those problems and create rigorous products of future practice, it is crucial for Korea's futures community to concentrate on the five alternative tendencies: (a) inventing Korean models in a viable utopia, (b) adopting a liberal cosmopolitan worldview, (c) building an uncertainty tolerant culture, (d) overcoming methodological challenges and (e) moving toward indigenous futures studies. In particular, indigenous futures studies can provide the grounds for relevant and enriched futures studies as well as the development of universal futures studies.