SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Del conflicto armado al posconflicto, y del posconflicto a los neoconflictos en los Montes de María, Colombia

ResumenLas problemáticas estructurales, incluso después del conflicto armado, siguen siendo una coyuntura aún sin solucionar en los Montes de María: conflictos por la tierra (restitución de tierras, formalización de predios, catastro y delimitación geográfica de linderos, conflictos entre campesinos, etc.); usurpación de recursos naturales para la privatización y uso exclusivo de modelos corporativos; crimen organizado y asociatividad con bandas juveniles (narcomenudeo); amenazas e intimidación.Estas patologías sociales crecen de manera exponencial, el orden social es vulnerado y, en consecuencia, la incidencia política se fragmenta y la zozobra se apodera de los pobladores.
Jeunesse de l’Université de Bouaké et socialisation, à l’ère de l’Intelligence Artificielle

Gnéré Laeticia Blama DAGNOGO et Arrouna SAMASSEEste estudio investiga el impacto de la Inteligencia Artificial en la socialización de los jóvenes estudiantes de la ciudad de Bouaké (Costa de Marfil) a través de los smartphones y el desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles.El objetivo es analizar la influencia del uso de los teléfonos inteligentes en el proceso de socialización de los jóvenes en general y, en particular, en el espacio universitario.A través de un estudio de datos cuantitativos y cualitativos combinados, la IA se presenta como una tecnología con una doble tendencia, tanto luminosa que oscura.En el lado luminoso, vemos la aparición de auténticas actuaciones capaces de revolucionar las actividades académicas y pedagógicas de la formación universitaria.En el
Occupational exposure to indium: what does biomonitoring tell us?

The industrial uses of indium, a rare metal with no known physiological role in humans, have increased dramatically over the past 15 years. The results of animal toxicity studies showing pulmonary and systemic effects as well as some reports in workers have created a growing concern about the possible occurrence of toxic effects in exposed workers. Validated biomarkers to assess exposure to indium are not available.This work aimed at investigating the kinetics of indium in urine (In-U) and plasma (In-Pl) in workers manufacturing In ingots and mainly exposed to hardly water-soluble In compounds. All nine workers from the In department of a large metallurgical concern participated in the study as well as 5 retired workers and 20 controls.Personal breathing zone air was collected throughout the work shift on Monday and Friday. Blood and urine samples were collected, before and after the shift, on the same day as the air sampling and on preshift the next Monday after a non-working week-end. Moreover, rats were given either InCl(3) by intraperitoneal injection or In(2)O(3) by pharyngeal aspiration, In was followed in plasma during 120 days and measured in tissues 120 days after exposure.Higher In-Pl and In-U concentrations were found in both current (range 0.32-12.61 μg/L plasma; 0.22-3.50 μg/g creat) and former (0.03-4.38 μg/L plasma; 0.02-0.69 μg/g creat) workers compared with controls (<0.03 μg/L plasma; <0.02 μg/g creat). Both biological parameters were highly correlated but no correlation was found between In-air (10-1030 μg/m(3)) and In-Pl or In-U. Normalizing In-U by the urinary creatinine concentration reduced the inter- (from 90% to 70%) and intra-individual variability (from 54% to 35%). In-Pl remained remarkably stable along the working week (inter- and intra-individual variability: 89% and 10%, respectively). Neither In-U nor In-Pl significantly increased during the day or the week. A week-end without occupational exposure was not sufficient to reach the background In-Pl and In-U levels measured in controls. The results of the experimental investigations confirmed the hypothesis that inhalation of hardly soluble In compounds may cause accumulation of In in the body leading to a prolonged "endogenous exposure" from both a lung depot of "insoluble" particles that are progressively absorbed and from a retention depot in other internal organs.This study shows that in workers exposed to hardly soluble In compounds, In-U and In-Pl are very sensitive to detect exposure and mainly reflect long-term exposure. In-Pl levels are particularly stable for a given individual. In-U might be more influenced than In-Pl by recent exposure. Both parameters remained high years after withdrawal from exposure, indicating a possible endogenous exposure and a prolonged risk of pulmonary and systemic diseases even after work exposure has ceased.
Use of Francisella tularensis for prevention and treatment of allergic airway disorders

A pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing a Th2-mediated disease or disorder includes live, killed or attentuated Franciscella tularensis or its components. The F. tularensis cells may be LVS cells. Administration of an effective amount may prevent or reduce bronchoconstriction or allergic airway inflammation through a T-helper cell (Th) 1-mediated suppression of an ongoing Th2 response mechanism.
Improving Thai-English word alignment for interrogative sentences in SMT by grammatical knowledge

This paper presents a method to improve Thai-English word alignment in statistical machine translation (SMT) for interrogative sentences in a parallel corpus. We utilize the Thai and English grammatical knowledge i.e. tense, part of speech (POS), and question inversion pattern. The proposed method handles the difference of Thai and English interrogative sentences using sentence transformation, interrogative grammatical attribute extraction, and interrogative grammatical attribute annotation. This method works as a pre-processing of GIZA, a standard word co-occurrence alignment tool in SMT. We hypothesize that using grammatical knowledge as a pre-processing of GIZA can provide higher accuracy. We experiment by using 43,500 interrogative sentences to compare alignment result between interrogative sentences attached an interrogative grammatical label and interrogative sentences unattached interrogative grammatical label. The experimental results yield 95% of accuracy with significant improvement than the conventional one. With the increasing accuracy of word alignment, the translation accuracy is consequently improved.
Protocol-Aware Backscatter Communication Using Commodity Radios

Backscatter is one of the important techniques of IoTs as it can offer low-cost and low-energy wireless communication. With the help of widely available ambient signals, backscatter communication can even work without specialized carrier generation. The current solutions, however, are unable to identify various ambient signals. So, we introduce a backscatter system to do this. In particular, we realize the identification of OFDM WiFi (802.11a/g/n), 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and ZigBee. Further, we implement our backscatter in the FPGA hardware to evaluate the design. Comprehensive field studies show that our backscatter can identify four protocols at an average identification accuracy of about 90 %. We also demonstrate that our identification is compatible with different backscatter modulation for all four signals in 2.4GHz band.
4-Arylflavan-3-ols as Proanthocyanidin Models: Absolute Configuration via Density Functional Calculation of Electronic Circular Dichroism

Density functional theory/B3LYP has been employed to optimize the conformations of selected 4-arylflavan-3-ols and their phenolic methyl ether 3-O-acetates. The electronic circular dichroism spectra of the major conformers have been calculated using time-dependent density functional theory to validate the empirical aromatic quadrant rule applied to the assignment of the absolute configuration of this class of compounds. The modest 6-31G* basis set was sufficient to produce reasonable spectra. The calculated Cotton effects at 220-240 nm, crucial for the assignment of the C-4 absolute configuration, result from electronic transitions of the molecular orbitals involving the pi-electrons of the spatially close aromatic A-ring and 4-aryl moieties. The sign of this Cotton effect is determined by the orientation of the 4-aryl substituent: the negative and positive Cotton effects are associated with 4alpha- and 4beta-aryl substituents, respectively.
Development of a web application for communication and collaboration between users

The World Wide Web has been known as service to wider community since the early 1990's. The very first generation of World Wide Web was used only as source of information but in the late 1990's new web pages started to appear, which offered us much more than before. The World Wide Web as we know today is called Web 2.0. One of the most important characteristic of Web 2.0 is the ability to communicate and collaborate with other users. Development of web application that stands out with this characteristic is demonstrated in this thesis – the communication and collaboration between users. 
In this thesis we tried to realize solution of the problem which occurs with communication and collaboration between users of the World Wide Web. It may have happened to you, that you tried to forward somebody a hyperlink on a web page in a fast and easy way, at the same time highlight certain content and add this content a few of your own ideas, but you didn't find the right way to exchange this information. For that reason an idea of making a web application that offers us all that and more, has been developed and described in this thesis. 
This thesis is briefly divided into two parts. In the first part, there is theoretically represented majority of tools, approaches and technologies, which were used in developing our web application. Therefore a problem that we wanted to solve and a modern web application as a solution to this problem are discussed in this thesis.
Spatially resolved single photon detection with a quantum sensor array

The ultimate goal and the theoretical limit of weak signal detection is the ability to detect a single photon against a noisy background. [...] In this paper we show, that a combination of a quantum metamaterial (QMM)-based sensor matrix and quantum non-demolition (QND) readout of its quantum state allows, in principle, to detect a single photon in several points, i.e., to observe its wave front. Actually, there are a few possible ways of doing this, with at least one within the reach of current experimental techniques for the microwave range. The ability to resolve the quantum-limited signal from a remote source against a much stronger local noise would bring significant advantages to such diverse fields of activity as, e.g., microwave astronomy and missile defence. The key components of the proposed method are 1) the entangling interaction of the incoming photon with the QMM sensor array, which produces the spatially correlated quantum state of the latter, and 2) the QND readout of the collective observable (e.g., total magnetic moment), which characterizes this quantum state. The effects of local noise (e.g., fluctuations affecting the elements of the matrix) will be suppressed relative to the signal from the spatially coherent field of (even) a single photon.
Acoustic cardiography S3 detection use in problematic subgroups and B-type natriuretic peptide “gray zone”: secondary results from the Heart failure and Audicor technology for Rapid Diagnosis and Initial Treatment Multinational Investigation

Dyspneic emergency department (ED) patients present a diagnostic dilemma. The S3, although highly specific for acute heart failure (AHF) and predicting death and readmission, is often difficult to auscultate. The HEart failure and Audicor technology for Rapid Diagnosis and Initial Treatment (HEARD-IT) multinational trial evaluated the S3 via acoustic cardiography (Audicor). Our goal in this secondary analysis was to determine if the strength of the S3 can provide diagnostic/prognostic information in problematic heart failure subgroups.Dyspneic ED patients older than 40 years and not on dialysis were prospectively enrolled. A gold standard AHF diagnosis was determined by 2 cardiologists blinded to acoustic cardiography results. The S3 strength parameter was delineated on a scale of 0 to 10. This secondary analysis of subgroups from the HEARD-IT database used univariate/multivariate regression to determine the diagnostic/prognostic ability of the S3 strength.In the 995 patients enrolled, S3 strength was a significant prognosticator in univariate analysis for adverse events but not in a multivariable model. In patients with "gray zone" B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels (100-499 pg/mL), acoustic cardiography increased diagnostic accuracy of AHF from 47% to 69%. Acoustic cardiography improved S3 detection sensitivity in obese patients when compared to auscultation.The strength of the S3 gallop provides rapid results that assist with identification of AHF in selected populations. S3 detection complements the use of BNP in the gray zone, and its diagnostic/prognostic ability is largely unaffected by body mass index and renal function. S3 strength shows promise as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in problematic HF subgroups.
Nanobiotics: Challenging the anti-microbial perspective - The game changer?

Antibiotics are the most important medical inventions in human history and are the invaluable weapons to fight against various infectious diseases. Multi drug resistant microorganisms are becoming a serious issue and increasingly public health problem in present day scenario. Antibiotics are becoming less useful due to increasing bacterial resistance. Development of new and more powerful antibiotics leading to drastic pathogens response by developing resistance to the point where the most powerful drugs in our arsenal are no longer effective against them. New strategies for the management of bacterial diseases are urgently needed and nanomaterials can be a very promising approach. Nanobiotics uses nano-sized tools for the successful management bacterial diseases and to gain increased understanding of the complex underlying patho-physiology of disease. (European Science Foundation. Forward Look Nanomedicine: An EMRC Consensus Opinion 2005. Available online: http://www.esf.org (accessed on 15 July 2017). The application of nanotechnologies to medicine, or nanomedicine, which has already demonstrated its tremendous impact on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, is rapidly becoming a major driving force behind ongoing changes in the antimicrobial field. Present review providing important insights on nanobiotics, and their preparation, mechanism of action, as well as perspectives on the opportunities and challenges in nanobiotics.
THE RECENT GLOBAL CRISIS UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LONG WAVE THEORY

In this paper it is presented the secular unfolding of four economics-related agents, which when considered as a whole allow comprehending what happened in the past in the global economy and shed some light about possible future trajectories. The four agents considered are: world population, its global output (GDP), gold price and the Dow Jones index. The joint action of these actors, in despite of being only a part of the whole, might be seen as a good depiction of the great piece representing the world economic realm. The application of analytical tools such as spectral analysis, moving averages, and logistic curves on time series data about the historical unfolding of these actors allows the demonstration that the recent global crisis seems to be a mix of a self-correction mechanism that brought the global output back to its original learning natural growth pattern, and that it carries also signals of an imminent transition to a new world economic order. Moreover, it is pointed out that fingerprints of Kondratieff long waves are ubiquitous in all observed time-series used in this research and it is demonstrated that the present decade will be probably one of worldwide economic expansion, corresponding to the second half of the expansion phase of the fifth K-wave.
Development of deformation-based method for the behavior of masonry bracing elements,  considering the cracked and inelastic state  “cic-brel” cracked  inelastic calculation of bracing elements

The MSCA Fellowship is an excellent chance for the Training of the Experienced Researcher through Teaching and Research TTR. The research subject will be a topic for Habilitation, a strong prerequisite for Professorship of the Experienced Researcher.

The main goal of CIC-BREL project (Cracked and Inelastic Calculation of BRacing Elements) is to develop an innovative analytical method, using the deformation-based approach, to distribute horizontal forces on bracing elements of a building considering the cracked and inelastic state of the material. Then, from the analytical approach, it is aimed to develop a numerical method in a matrix form appropriate to be programmed in easy to use software. The developed analytical method will be verified by the results of shake table tests at the UCSD, USA. The numerical method will be implemented in software during the secondment at the PCAE Company. The developed analytical and numerical methods will be added to the Euro Code 6 and national German Standards.

This way is decisive in designing high-raise buildings and apartments, and implementing the cracked and inelastic limit state could save up to 40% of building materials. This would have very positive economic and environmental advantages on the building sector.

This project is inter-disciplinary, where academic (universities) and non-academic (software company) partners are involved together for a successful achievement of the Fellowship goals. It is multi-disciplinary it combines theory and analysis invention with computer software development. Cooperation between USA and European institutes makes it international.

Best Researchers in USA and Europe are working actively together in an excellent academic and non-academic environment to get the best of the Fellowship for the Experienced Researcher and all other participants.
Relative worth of a bachelor degree

This article considers the implications of sequential segmentation in the tertiary education set-up for stratification of labour market outcomes among university drop-outs and graduates. Building on signalling, queuing, credentialist and human capital framework, we articulate theoretical expectations about labour market entry patterns for tertiary education graduates and drop-outs emerging from two distinct types of tertiary education institutional set-up: integrated (diploma) and sequential (bachelor-master) systems. In particular, we explore whether bachelor graduates from sequentially organized systems perform substantially better in the labour market compared to drop-outs from integrated systems who have completed a comparable amount of coursework. Empirically, we rely on two recent surveys pertaining to tertiary education leavers from the Ukrainian sequential system and the Croatian integrated system. Our results indicate that, with regard to the patterns of higher-status job entry, diploma and master degree holders enjoy the most substantial advantages of quicker job entry in both countries. However, bachelor graduates from the Ukrainian sequential tertiary education system clearly have an advantage over those who dropped out, whereas in the Croatian integrated tertiary education system we observe no differences in access to salariat jobs among drop-outs, regardless of amount of coursework they have completed. Selectivity is unlikely to explain observed differences in outcomes, as both countries demonstrate very similar patterns of selection into and through academic tertiary education.
Why Walking the Dog Takes Time: Frechet Distance Has No Strongly Subquadratic Algorithms Unless SETH Fails

The Frechet distance is a well-studied and very popular measure of similarity of two curves. Many variants and extensions have been studied since Alt and Godau introduced this measure to computational geometry in 1991. Their original algorithm to compute the Frechet distance of two polygonal curves with n vertices has a runtime of O(n^2 log n). More than 20 years later, the state of the art algorithms for most variants still take time more than O(n2 / log n), but no matching lower bounds are known, not even under reasonable complexity theoretic assumptions. To obtain a conditional lower bound, in this paper we assume the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis or, more precisely, that there is no O*((2-adelta;)N) algorithm for CNF-SAT for any delta > 0. Under this assumption we show that the Frechet distance cannot be computed in strongly subquadratic time, i.e., in time O(n2-adelta;) for any delta > 0. This means that finding faster algorithms for the Frechet distance is as hard as finding faster CNF-SAT algorithms, and the existence of a strongly subquadratic algorithm can be considered unlikely. Our result holds for both the continuous and the discrete Frechet distance. We extend the main result in various directions. Based on the same assumption we (1) show non-existence of a strongly subquadratic 1.001-approximation, (2) present tight lower bounds in case the numbers of vertices of the two curves are imbalanced, and (3) examine realistic input assumptions (c-packed curves).
STUDIO DR ROBERTO CANNAVO'

IL DOTT. ROBERTO CANNAVO' ESERCITA L'ATTIVITA' DI COMMERCIALISTA DAL 2004 FORNENDO SERVIZI DI CONSULENZA TRIBUTARIA, FISCALE, SOCIETARIA E CONTABILE AD AZIENDE DI VARIE DIMENSIONI. LAUREATO PRESSO LA FACOLTA' DI ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO DI GENOVA, NEL 2004 HA CONSEGUITO L'ABILITAZIONE PROFESSIONALE E SI E' ISCRITTO ALL'ALBO DEI DOTTORI COMMERCIALISTI DI GENOVA. SI OCCUPA PREVALENTEMENTE DI ASPETTI CONTABILI, FISCALI E SOCIETARI. PER CONTO DEL TRIBUNALE DI GENOVA SVOLGE SALTUARIAMENTE L'ATTIVITA' DI DELEGATO ALLE VENDITE E DI CUSTODE IN MATERIA DI ESECUZIONI IMMOBILIARI. REVISORE LEGALE, MEMBRO DI COLLEGI SINDACALI DI ALCUNE SOCIETA'. DAL 2001 AL 2004 HA SVOLTO L'INCARICO DI RAPPRESENTANTE DEI PRATICATI DOTTORI COMMERCIALISTI DI GENOVA; DAL 2004 AL 2014 HA PARTECIPATO ALL'ATTIVITA' DELL'UNIONE GIOVANI DOTTORI COMMERCIALISTI, TALVOLTA CON L'INCARICO DI CONSIGLIERE, TALVOLTA DI SEGRETARIO E DI PROBO-VIRO. NEL 2015 E' STATO NOMINATO PRESIDENTE DELL'UGDC DI GENOVA, INCARICO SVOLTO FINO A FINE
MAXTRINO SPA_BANDO MICROINCENTIVES III CALL

THE PROJECT INVOLVES THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MAXTRINO® SOFTWARE FRONT END ARCHITECTURE THROUGH A WEB-BASED APPLICATION WITH THE MVC (MODEL — VIEW — CONTROLLER) ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN. THE FRONT END WEB INTERFACE THANKS TO ITS BASIC FEATURES: CROSS-PLATFORM, INDEPENDENT OF THE HARDWARE ON WHICH IT RUNS, NATIVE CLOUD, WILL ALLOW THE PRODUCT TO BE ABLE TO RUN FROM ANY DEVICE WITH A WEB BROWSER. CENTRALISED INSTALLATION ONLY ON THE SERVER WILL REDUCE MAINTENANCE, CONFIGURATION, INSTALLATION COSTS AND MAKE IT EASIER TO CONTROL SECURITY AND ACCESS TO THE SINGLE LOCATION.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL

A temperature controller and a method of determining an amount of thermal energy stored in thermal storage media in a temperature controlled thermal storage reservoir in which a temperature of the thermal storage media can vary and in which the thermal storage media is to be maintained at a desired temperature, which method includes periodically measuring a temperature of the thermal storage media, calculating a rate of temperature change from the desired temperature of the thermal storage media, retrieving previously stored data representing an amount of thermal energy stored in the thermal storage media and adding the rate of temperature change multiplied by a predefined constant value to the previously stored data.