SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Application of Rice Straw Compost with Different Bioactivators on the Growth and Yield of Rice Plant

Turnover of organic matters to the soil can increase the efficiency of chemical fertilizers, improve the plant growth and sustain the environment. Field experiment was carried out in the Buyut Udik Village, Gunung Sugih District, Central Lampung from May to August 2009.  Rice straw was composted by three kinds of decomposer (bioactivator A, B, and C). Rice straw compost (2 Mg ha-1) was applied to the paddy-field soil that was planted by rice (Oryza sativa) of Ciherang Variety. The experiment was arranged in a randomized block design with three replicates. The results showed that application of rice straw compost reduced the numbers of empty grain per tiller compared to control (without compost) in which control had the highest percentage of empty grain (15.9%). The application of rice straw compost that was decomposed by bioactivator A gave the highest numbers of grain per panicle and yield per plot as followed 162.5 seed and 33 kg plot-1, respectively.  Application of various rice straw composts that were decomposed by three kinds of bioactivator increased the rice grain up to 13-26% compared to control.
LCA sensitivity analysis of a multi-megawatt wind turbine

During recent years renewables have been acquiring gradually a significant importance in the world market (especially in the Spanish energetic market) and in society; this fact makes clear the need to increase and improve knowledge of these power sources. Starting from the results of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a multi-megawatt wind turbine, this work is aimed to assess the relevance of different choices that have been made during its development. Looking always to cover the largest possible spectrum of options, four scenarios have been analysed, focused on four main phases of lifecycle: maintenance, manufacturing, dismantling, and recycling. These scenarios facilitate to assess the degree of uncertainty of the developed LCA due to choices made, excluding from the assessment the uncertainty due to the inaccuracy and the simplification of the environmental models used or spatial and temporal variability in different parameters. The work has been developed at all times using the of Eco-indicator99 LCA method.
MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES IN VACCINE FORMULATIONS

Vaccine formulations which provide for active or passive immunity against infection by pathogens. The active component of the vaccines of the present invention comprises a monoclonal antibody or a fragment of the monoclonal antibody which contains the idiotype of the molecule. Vaccine formulations which provide for active immunization of a host against a particular pathogen, are prepared using monoclonal antibodies or idiotypic fragments that bear the conformational image of a specific receptor of the pathogen. Vaccine formulations which provide for passive immunity are prepared from anti-idiotypic antibodies or idiotypic fragments thereof that bear the conformational image of a ligand that binds specifically to a receptor of the pathogen. In either approach, the pathogen is not required to prepare the antibody which comprises the active component of the vaccine formulation.
Climate change and evolution: effects on phenotypic plasticity and genetic pattern

With the consensus that human activities are leading to dangerous interference in Earth’s climate, there has been growing policy pressure for clear quantification and attribution of the resulting biological impacts. For this reason, there is an urgent need to understand the effect of ecological and evolutionary processes caused by past climate change on range dynamics. In fact, adaptation of plant populations in fitness-related traits to different local climate condition might enable species to take on future climate change. In general, species performance (genetics, physiology, morphology and demography) is predicted to decline gradually from population growing in the climatic optimum (central population) to population growing in harsh climate conditions (peripheral populations). However, studies aimed to analyse differences between central and peripheral populations relate this differences with only one or two possible causal factors (i.e., historical, ecological or biogeographic factor), without distinguishing between geographical, environmental and historical isolation. For this reason, the goal of our project is to evaluate whether the environmental (ecological niche), historical (biogeographical processes) and geographical barriers may explain difference in both gene diversity and fitness-related floral traits between central and peripheral populations in Lilium pomponium, a species potentially prone to extinction risk because of range loss induced by climate change and spanning across Mediterranean to Alpine climate. The originality and interdisciplinarity of this research programme lies into integrate ecological niche characteristics together with current and past range structure to investigate evolutionary processes that have affected spatial patterns of genetic and demographic variation across species ranges combining different research fields in evolutionary biology as reproductive biology, ecology, phylogeography and population genetics.
Investigation of the mesoscale couplings in nanofluidics using nonlinear optical techniques

Transport of fluids and ions confined at the nanoscale strongly deviates from the continuum description of hydrodynamics. These exotic nanofluidic properties take their roots in the combination, at the nanoscale, of physical phenomena such as charge effects, fluctuations or fluid slippage. Such effects can be harvested for applications such as desalination, blue-energy production, or ultrafiltration for healthcare. Recently, it has been discovered that beyond the chemical reactivity of interfaces, the electronic properties of the confining materials also strongly modify nanofluidic transport. The aim of this project is to understand the molecular nature of these couplings happening at the mesoscale, where the atomic scale of electronic properties meets the bulk scale of the continuum and classical physics of electrolytes. This requires to develop new experimental tools to go beyond the state-of-the-art techniques mainly based on current measurements. Indeed, despite their precision, they only quantify charge transport regardless of the species involved and cannot distinguish water/surface (slippage) from ion/surface interactions (surface charge). To disentangle these effects, we will use new fast nonlinear optical techniques to reveal the molecular nature of the couplings inside channels (nanotubes and 2D channels) made of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphite. These twin materials will allow us to probe the electronic nature of the couplings: indeed, they share the same crystallographic structure but differ by their electronic properties (insulator versus conductor). We will focus in particular on two objectives: (i) developing a label-free (pump-probe) method able to measure nanoflows in situ and using it to study the effects of ion density, walls’ electronic properties and channel geometry (1D, 2D) on water slippage, and (ii) using Sum Frequency Generation spectroscopy to identify the nature of the surface charge of graphene and hBN interfaces.
Micro-Level politics of peace

Peace settlements are elite pacts that ignore the views of the population, those most affected by the conflict, which leads to a lack of buy-in for sustainable peace. The project “Micro-level Politics of Peace” (MICROPOLPAX) puts individuals at the centre of the focus and asks what peace means to individuals. The framework has universal relevance but will be tested in the timely case of Ukraine, a country currently undergoing conflict in the European Union’s near abroad and of geopolitical significance to the EU. The project is interdisciplinary and methodologically plural, using mixed methods of qualitative interviews and the rigorous methods of survey experiments. 
The action allows for the two-way transfer of knowledge, combining the experienced researcher’s learning on norm diffusion and political psychology with the supervisor’s expertise on micro-level dynamics of conflict. The training-through-research gained will enable the applicant to open up this new research area and become an independent and skilled researcher.
The action will generate academic dissemination through conferences, articles, open-access data and a specialist seminar. The action will also provide policy exploitation for the EU, peace negotiators and for democracy activists in Ukraine. Throughout the action, the project will take advantage of many types of public engagement, such as blogs, web-based games, World Peace day and International Women’s Day.
A Study on the Effectiveness of Internet Advertisements

Online advertising is the means of promoting a product on the Internet using various Internet features. With the arrival of the Internet, the business world has become digitalized, and people prefer to buy stuff online, which is easier and faster. Online advertising, otherwise known as e-advertising, gives a new dimension and unique charm to the product, which is an added advantage. The primary benefit of online advertising over traditional form of advertising is that it surpasses all geographical boundaries, which cannot be gained locally. This leads to great progress in business, which is the ultimate aim of any businessman. Online advertising offers a wide spectrum of recognition, which is incomparable to any other mode of advertising. Online advertising has no time limitations and can be viewed day and night throughout the globe. It also reduces the transaction cost and contributes to the profit of the company and is secure in competition against international marketing. The owner is much more satisfied because a secure business is more beneficial and reliable. Certainly, online advertising is one step ahead over others, and helps to keep pace with the fast-changing world.
Influences of ventilation velocity on dust dispersion in coal roadways

Abstract The ventilations of pressure cylinders is a widely used practice in coal mine roadways in China. It has been determined that the velocities of the ventilations will directly affect the diffusion of the dust particles which reduce the visibility of road-header drivers, and also tend to slowdown operating efficiency. In this study, a CFD-DPM method was adopted in order to examine the airflow flow and dust pollution behaviors in coal mine roadways under various ventilation velocities. The results showed that airflow fields could be divided into disordered regions of airflow flow fast and chaos; recirculation regions, where there were dust backflow; and stable regions, from the heading faces to the exits of the coal mine roadways. The airflow were observed to carry the dust particles along the roadway wall away from the pressure cylinders from the disordered regions into the recirculation regions due to the blocks caused by the road-headers. It was observed that the dust migration had slowed down in the areas behind the road-headers due to the sudden decreases in the airflow velocities. Then, major amounts of dust particles were carried by airflow into the stable regions. The remaining dust was carried to the exits of the pressure cylinders as a result of the dust backflow. As a result, areas of approximately 5 m behind of the road-headers, as well as the areas near the exits of the pressure cylinders, contained high dust concentrations. The dust concentrations near the exits of the pressure cylinders into which the dust particles had been attracted due to the strong entrainment effects, were found to increase with increasing of the ventilation velocities. However, this had only occurred when ventilation velocities had exceeded 17 m/s.
MODIFIED POLYESTER HAVING ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES AND USE OF THE MODIFIED POLYESTER

A polyethylene terephthalate functionalized with polyether amine to obtain antibacte- rial properties is described. Described are also uses of and methods for producing this functionalized polyester.
A Protocol for mtGenome Analysis on Large Sample Numbers

The mitochondrial genome is widely studied in a variety of fields, such as population, forensic, and human and medical genetics. Most studies have been limited to a small portion of the sequence that, although highly diverse, does not describe the total variability. The arrival of modern high-throughput sequencing technologies has made it possible to investigate larger sequences in a shorter amount of time as well as in a more affordable fashion. This work aims to describe a protocol for sequencing and analyzing the complete mitochondrial genome with the Ion PGM™ platform. To evaluate the protocol, the mitochondrial genome was sequenced to approximately 210 Mbp, with high-quality sequences distributed between 12 samples that had an average coverage of 1023× per sample. Several variant callers were compared to improve the protocol outcome. The results suggest that it is possible to run up to 120 samples per run without any loss of any significant quality. Therefore, this protocol is an efficient and accurate tool for full mitochondrial genome analysis.
Adaptive context discovery and exploitation

Context is used in data fusion - and in decision-making in general - to establish expectations, to resolve ambiguity and assess performance. We model this in terms of “context variables” which a (human or automated) decision system seeks, discovers and evaluates as a means to infer or refine desired information (“problem variables”). An adaptive evidence-accrual inference method is presented, whereby context variables are selected on the basis of (a) their utility in refining explicit problem variables, (b) the probability of evaluating these variables to within a given accuracy, given candidate system actions (data collection, mining or processing), and (c) the cost of such actions. The JDL Data Fusion Model, extended to dual Resource Management functions, has been refined to accommodate adaptive decision, to include adaptive context exploitation. The interplay of Data Fusion and Resource Management (DF&RM) functionality in exploiting contextual information is developed by means of the DF&RM technical architecture. An important advance is in the integration of data mining methods for data search/discovery and for inductive and abductive model refinement.
A coastal distributed autonomous sensor network

In-situ measurements are essential for monitoring, understanding, and predicting marine phenomena. Monitoring and sampling missions often require observations of phenomena with spatial and temporal dynamics that span different scales (e.g. seconds to months, meters to kilometers, etc). A combination of different vehicles, fixed nodes, advanced payload sensors, and advanced control algorithms are usually required for success. Basic research needs to focus on the individual elements composing such systems but also, more importantly, on strategies to ensure all components function together smoothly as a whole. The challenges presented by coastal environments, such as low depths and commercial vehicle traffic, increase the likelihood of collisions with oceanographic monitoring hardware and consequently the environmental geometry becomes an important constraint. In this study our group presents the progress and recent achievements of a distributed heterogenous autonomous sensor network that combines underwater, surface, and aerial robotic vehicles along with advanced sensor payloads, planing algorithms and learning principles to successfully operate across the scales and constraints found in coastal environments.
Investment risk assessment of coal-fired power plants in countries along the Belt and Road initiative based on ANP-Entropy-TODIM method

Abstract Coal is an irreplaceable part of the world energy structure and the condition will not be changed in the near future. Under the Belt and Road initiative, more and more Chinese energy enterprises are planning to invest in coal-fired power plant (CFPP) abroad. However, there are multiple potential risks in investing in CFPP overseas. So, assessing the risk level can help the investors avoid too risky countries and at the same time facilitate the government to take measures to reduce the potential risks to attract more investors. To reasonably assess overseas investment risk of CFPP in countries along the Belt and Road initiative, this paper establishes an evaluation criteria system from eight dimensions which consists of a total of 39 criteria. Then, these criteria weights are determined through a combined analytic network process-Entropy method. Furthermore, considering the psychological characteristics of decision-makers, a TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for Interactive Multi-criteria Decision Making) approach is used to rank the overall risk level of CFPP investment for 23 nations. The findings indicate that the criterion of economic foundation owns the largest weight. Moreover, among these evaluated nations, Singapore have the lowest risk for China’s CFPP investment, followed by New Zealand and Thailand.
Appropriate Methods for Evaluating the Agricultural Policies Consequences at the Farm Level

TheCommon Agricultural Policyis foreseen to suffer important reforms after 2013, which will greatly affect the farms production environment. For thea priorianalysis of such policy measures, there was built a recursive single period model adapted to the Romanian farming system. The positive mathematical programming method in use, proved to be in the last period highly applied inagricultural policiesimpact studies at the European level. Furthermore, the model was employed in order to test three different agricultural scenarios that were proposed by the European Commission as reform alternatives. The first policy option presumes to leave unchanged the current direct payment system while slightly changing the payment distribution pattern among Member States. The second policy option envisages substantial changes of the direct payment system that would be allocated only if farmers bring societal benefits. The last option consists in phasing outdirect paymentsand provides limited financial support to farmers through the second Common Agricultural Policy pillar (rural development). All these options were investigated on the economical and financial data of 21 Romanian farms categorized according to the European classification system as mixed crops livestock farms. Results show that all these policy options have important effects on the farm revenue, in the sense that a decrease in the subsidy level produces important average gross margin falls. Soft landing approach in the first CAP pillars reform is desirable especially for the Romanian agriculture that still presents important farm structural shortcomings.
Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club

Much of the argument around reforming, remaking, or preserving the traditions of scholarly publishing is built on economic principles, explicit or implicit. Can we afford open access? How do we pay for high-quality services? Why does it cost so much? In this article, we argue that the sterility of much of this debate is a result of failure to tackle the question of what a journal is in economic terms. We offer a way through by demonstrating that a journal is a club, and discuss the implications for the scholarly publishing industry. We use examples, ranging from open access to prestige journals, to explain why congestion is a problem for club-based publications, and to discuss the importance of creative destruction for the maintenance of knowledge-generating communities in publishing.
Knowledge Exchange Program for the Adriatic School System

KEPASS aims to integrate the Adriatic School systems for a more competitive secondary education and to create opportunities for students’ mobility and for reciprocal recognition of secondary school programs and diplomas, thus contributing to increasing connections between the educational system and the Adriatic labour market. Specifically KEPASS will create a program for students’ mobility at secondary school level. This will give students aged 17/18 the opportunity to attend a school in another Adriatic country for one or more terms, thus being exposed to different cultures, languages and curricula, with an incredible transformational effect in terms of flexibility, intercultural competences, overcoming ethnic prejudices, new skills and languages acquired, ability to operate in different labour markets. In order to participate in the program and thus send and receive students on mobility, a secondary school will need to be “accredited” within the KEPASS system. Only schools offering a real added value to students in terms of education offer, afternoon activities, additional “international modules”, languages, mutual recognition of competences acquired and tutorship to students in mobility will receive accreditation. Accreditation will therefore become a tool for schools to become more attractive and have access to additional funding, while for public authorities it will be an incentive to drive schools towards best practices and continuous improvement. The first group of schools applying for accreditation within the KEPASS program will be assisted in their upgrading efforts by experienced tutors nominated by the project partners. Their principals and teachers will participate in training sessions and workshops which will help them play the role of Pilot schools within the program. Teachers will also be involved in designing common “international modules” to be then added to the ordinary curriculum of each school receiving accreditation in the KEPASS system. The mobility program, launched by the project, will then be supported with ordinary funds for school projects of the partner authorities, which already provide funding for school projects within their institutional activities. A Technical Group and a Decision Makers Committee will define ways to assess the competences acquired by students during mobility and to mutually recognize vocational diplomas in specific sectors of interest (ie tourism). The tools created will have the potential to be extended to a more comprehensive mutual recognition of school credits and diplomas in the Adriatic region. A more integrated Adriatic school system, offering cross cultural and multilingual experiences, rooted in the quality local tradition but open to international European contents and qualifications and able to give mutually recognized qualifications and diplomas, will make the secondary school experience in the Adriatic region more attractive, competitive and useful for access to the labour market.
DUAL END GEAR FLUID DRIVE STARTER

A compressor starting torque converter method and apparatus for high power rotating equipment strings includes a compressor starting torque converter (CSTC) and gearing to make the input and output speed conform to the speed and power requirements of the at least one compressor at the end of the string. The string also includes a prime mover, either a motor or a gas turbine with a starter motor. The CSTC is driven by a prime mover that has been geared down to an appropriate speed for efficient power transfer, followed by a gear increasing unit to allow the output of the CSTC to be increased in speed to conform to the necessary requirements of a high speed compressor. The gearing can be two separate units with their own housings, or incorporated in a single housing with the CSTC. The CSTC may be a CSTC used in pressurized starts of high compressor load strings for LNG refrigeration service.