SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Acute effects of short-term exposure to second-hand smoke on induced platelet aggregation

Passive smoking may increase cardiovascular events by yet insufficiently understood mechanisms. We, therefore, tested the hypothesis that passive smoking could affect platelet aggregation. Fourteen healthy non-smoking males were exposed to second-hand smoke during 60 min in a room with smokers, who maintained the CO-concentration between 4.5-7.0 ppm throughout that period. Citrated blood was drawn before and immediately after smoke exposure (which took place between 6 and 7 p.m.). The last 7 individuals had blood taken also at 9.00 a.m. before and the day after smoke exposure. Platelet aggregation was measured (a) in flowing whole blood using the platelet function analyser PFA-100, which determines the closure time (CT) of a collagen coated membrane pore by shear-induced platelet aggregation, and (b) with a Chrono-log 700 Aggregometer, assessing platelet aggregation either by the change of impedance in diluted whole blood or light transmission in platelet-rich plasma. After short term second-hand smoke exposure we did not observe an increase in platelet aggregation with any of the instruments. We conclude that acute exposure to second-hand smoke is unlikely to increase platelet aggregability. Other mechanisms must be involved in the increased risk of cardiovascular events associated with passive smoking.
Thermal monitoring and reliability analysis system for underground substation

A thermal monitoring and reliability analysis system for underground substation is introduced in this paper. Back propagation (BP) neural network is applied in the proposed system for temperature prediction; life estimation model is utilized for estimating residual life span of transformer. This system is capable of real time on-line monitoring, early warning, control and alarm for substation operation. In addition, with novel algorithms the proposed system is also capable of forecasting failure of power facilities as well as ambient environment of transformer room. It could be employed in substation with various hazardous conditions for intelligent and safe operation of power equipment.
Unified modeling of high temperature deformations of a Ni-based polycrystalline wrought superalloy under tension-compression, cyclic, creep and creep-fatigue loadings

The complex deformation behaviors under tension-compression, cyclic, creep and creep-fatigue loadings of a nickel-base polycrystalline wrought superalloy at 650°C and 700°C were experimentally investigated. To uniformly simulate the complex deformation behaviors, the modified viscoplastic constitutive model combined with both the Kachanov damage evolution equation and the Ohno-Wang modification was formulated on the basis of the Chaboche theory. The simulated results on tension-compression behavior, cyclic viscoplastic and creep deformations showed comprehensive predicting ability. With the obtained material parameters, the deformations in creep-fatigue interaction under three dwell types were simulated and the capability of the modified model was further verified with good accuracy.
Rock physics modeling and 4D seismic feasibility study in one of the Iranian carbonate reservoirs

Abstract Rock Physics is one of the vital steps of any Reservoir Geophysics studies to estimate the reservoir parameters. To do this, it is necessary to quantify the effect of reservoir parameters on the velocity and density of the saturated rocks. Carbonate reservoirs contain different heterogeneities such as the presence of pore types and irregular distribution, making it difficult to estimate the reservoir properties in these reservoirs. Various rock physics models have been provided to estimate the P and S-wave velocities. However, each of these models shows some degree of limitations, especially in carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs with different pore types. In this paper, an integrated algorithm was introduced to estimate the dry rock modulus that include the pore type, as well as the pressure effect. The effect of porosity and pore type was considered by employing Xu and White's (1995) equation. The pressure effect was added using MacBeth's (2004) methodology. Finally, the fluid effect was included utilizing Gassmann's (1951) equation. During the time-lapse seismic feasibility study for our case study, it is observed that the impact of pore type is as important as the quantity of the porosity, and even more. The variation of pore type from the fracture to the stiff pores (increasing the pore aspect ratio), can double the p-wave velocity. In addition, it is concluded that increasing the Aspect Ratio (the ratio between the minor and major axes of an ellipsoidal pore) of the pores from 0.0.07 to 0.8, could significantly decrease the pressure and saturation sensitivity of the elastic properties from 17% to 2%. Without proper treating of pore type and pressure impact , as an example, a feasible four dimensional (4D) seismic project can be concluded non-feasible and vice versa. In this paper, utilizing the introduced methodology, one dimensional (1D) feasibility study was carried out for one of Iranian Carbonate reservoirs. We could replicate the velocity and density logs with acceptable deviation from the observed logs that are better than the original Gassmann's method. Subsequently, the injection and production scenarios were generated to estimate the impedance variation in this reservoir. We observed that the reservoir pressure increase of 1500 psi and water saturation increase of 60% could change the impedance by −2% and +7%, respectively. However, the reservoir pressure drop has negligible impact on the impedance in this field. In overall, it makes this reservoir feasible for a time-lapse seismic project to monitor production and injection.
Transitioning to microalgae as a sustainable, high-quality large-scale food source through launching the first daily drink containing spirulina

To meet the challenges of growing world food consumption, environmental preservation and sustainable food production, spirulina has been identified as an extremely valuable solution by many international bodies. However, this microalgae is still a largely underutilised food resource. The reasons are organoleptic (foul taste and smell) and, most importantly, cultural (algae are not part of the Western culinary art).

To eliminate organoleptic barriers, ALGAMA brings a strong innovation by extracting high-quality nutrients from microalgae. To overcome cultural resistance, ALGAMA wants to create consumer awareness through an appealing mass-market product: “Springwave”, the first daily drink containing high-quality spirulina nutrients. This first product will be followed by a large variety of spirulina-based food products.

User needs to be met upon completion of the project are the trends (and societal challenges) health and well-being. Consumers are increasingly concerned with the nutritional properties of their food, but also that the food is natural and sustainable. Other user benefits are taste, texture similar to water and the ready-to-use approach.

The feasibility study will assess 3 key levels:
1. Commercial: Define strategy for mass-market expansion in France, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden
2. Industrial: Analyse and decide on environment-friendly model to increase production capacity from 15 000 to 1 000 000 bottles per year
3. Legal: Identify legal and IP issues for the launch of Springwave outside France
For mass-market commercialisation of our spirulina-based beverage, total funding requirement during 2 years for Phase 2 is estimated at € 3 300 000.

After testing its beverage in France, ALGAMA intends to expand in Northern Europe (UK, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden) where the health awareness is strongest and the functional product consumption highest, before entering into the first two biggest functional beverage consumption markets: USA and Japan.
REGIONAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY HUB PLUS

The EU today finds itself in conditions where Energy Efficiency (EE) investments have become strategically important due to the high level of energy imports required by the EU blocK, energy price instability and the need for transition to a competitive low carbon and resilient economy.  In addition, energy efficiency investing has a fundamental and beneficial role to play in the transition towards a more competitive, secure and sustainable energy system with an internal energy market at its core. Notwithstanding the “win-win” characteristics of EE investments, existing investment flows in EE are sub-optimal. Currently, with the exception of buildings constructed in the last decade, Albanian buildings have no insulation. According to the EED (Directive 2012/27/EC), Albania will have to achieve an annual 1.5 percent energy sales savings compared to the recent three-year period through the use of a utility obligation scheme or other alternative approach.  Montenegro has also been implementing the EE Programme in Public Buildings since 2012 and is planning to complete the programme by the end of 2020. Montenegro plans to invest EUR 6 million in the implementation of energy efficiency measures at 18 health care facilities by 2023, as part of the Montenegro Energy Efficiency Project 2 (MEEP 2). Partners of the project share the idea that public buildings should be an example of best practise to energy saving, improving energy efficiency through innovative techniques and good habits and consumers’ behaviour. According to this goals, they would like to propose “REEHUB +”. HUBs will be get stronger in REEHUB +, capitalizing results of REEHUB and connecting experience with similar Mediterranean regions, as a network, to increase EE awareness at regional levels. REEHUB+ will boost new energy policy and energy efficiency approach for future building local rules.
Dark matter and Higgs phenomenology predicted by left-right twin Higgs model in light of CDMS II results

The left-right twin Higgs model predicts a light stable scalar \hat{S}, which is a candidate for WIMP dark matter. We study its scattering on nucleon and find that the cross section is below the CDMS II upper bound but can reach the SuperCDMS sensitivity. Then we study the Higgs phenomenology by paying special attention to the decay h -> \hat{S} \hat{S} which is strongly correlated with the dark matter scattering on nucleon. We find that such an invisible decay can be sizable, which can severely suppress the conventional decay modes like h->VV (V=W,Z) and h->b\bar{b}. On the other hand, compared to the SM prediction, the rates of Higgs boson productions at the LHC via gluon-gluon fusion, weak boson fusion or in association with top quark pairs are all reduced significantly, e.g., the gluon-gluon fusion channel can be suppressed by about 30%.
Spillover Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Pakistan

Foreign direct investment has increasingly become an integral of economic growth in most developing economies, upon accepting the liberal market economic paradigm. Given this backdrop, the paper is geared at underpinning the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing economy, with particular reference to Pakistan. The paper considers a timeline of (2001 to 2010) in measuring the extent to which foreign direct investment spurs economic growth in the country. Similarly, we seek to ascertain whether there was an economic growth or decline amid a diminishing trend of FDI, though our paper suggests there is insignificant impact on the economy, as the latter faces a falling trend of FDI. The empirical results of the paper reveal a weak positive correlation of FDI with economic growth. The paper has gathered data from the State Bank of Pakistan, Ministry of Finance and Economic Surveys of Pakistan. Hence, the paper intends to provide guidance to investors as well as furnish policymakers in crafting out policies tailored at attracting foreign investors.
Investigation of current–voltage and capacitance–voltage characteristics of Ag/perylene-monoimide/n-GaAs Schottky diode

Ag/perylene-monoimide(PMI)/ n -GaAs Schottky diode was fabricated and the current–voltage ( I – V ) characteristics at a wide temperature range between 75 and 350 K and also the capacitance–voltage ( C – V ) characteristics at room temperature for 1 MHz have been analyzed in detail. The measured I – V characteristics exhibit a good rectification behavior at all temperature values. By using standard analysis methods, the ideality factor and the barrier height are deduced from the experimental data and also the variations of these parameters with the temperature are analyzed. In addition, by means of the Cheung and Cheung method, the series resistance and some other electrical properties are calculated for the diode. Finally, capacitance–voltage characteristics of device have been analyzed at the room temperature. From analyzing the capacitance measurements, Schottky barrier height is determined and then compared with the value which calculated from the I – V measurements at room temperature. Also, the concentration of ionized donors, built-in potential and some other parameters of diode are found using C – V characteristics.
SEQUENCE DERIVED FROM A HUMAN MAMMARY GLAND CDNA LIBRARY

Novel cDNAs clones and their corresponding polypeptide sequences isolated from a human mammary gland cDNA library are disclosed.
Franz Brentano über Schelling – eine neue Lesart

Einige der wichtigsten Aspekte aus der Anfangsphase des Werkes von Franz Brentano müssen noch sorgfältiger als bisher eingeteilt und bewertet werden. Diese Aufgabe zu erfüllen, bedeutet 1) die tiefgründige Gestalt seiner Auffassung zu Aristoteles wahrzunehmen und zu beschreiben; 2) die Beweggründe seiner heftigen Unstimmigkeit zu einigen wesentlichen Punkten gegenüber dem deutschen Idealismus klarzustellen. Der erste Aspekt ist in der Brentano-Forschung sehr präsent; der zweite Aspekt, der uns hier interessiert, wurde hingegen nicht angemessen wahrgenommen und ist in manchen Hinsichten sogar in Vergessenheit geraten. Insbesondere sein Umgang mit Schelling bedarf einer kritischen Rekonstruktion. Von besonderem Interesse in dieser Hinsicht ist ein kürzlich in Graz entdecktes handschriftliches Manuskript von 950 Seiten mit dem Titel Geschichte der Philosophie, das ausdrücklich Brentano zugeschrieben wird, sowie Brentanos Nachlass. Es wird gezeigt, wie Brentano Schellings Methode, die aufs Ganze gerichtet ist, schätzt, seine Mystik jedoch zurückweist, da sie zu einer Verkennung des Verhältnisses zwischen Natürlichem und Übernatürlichem führt.
Culture, itineraries and sport: an integrated tourism supply for small cross-border villages

The project aims at ensuring an integrated tourist offer for small cross-border villages, by providing tourist packages according to an environment-friendly programme, focused on the enhancement of thematic paths such as Italian-Slovenian folk music concerts and performances, and travelling photo exhibitions on Italian-Slovenian traditions and musical instruments as well as naturalistic-cultural itineraries from the smaller centres of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Vivaro, Sequals, Travesio, Pinzano, Pielungo, Ragogna, Prato Carnico, Pulfero, San Pietro al Natisone) to Slovenia (Koper-Capodistria area). With regard to sport, a boxing tournament is organized in Vivaro, with Italian and Slovenian boxers. Project promotion, in its entirety, is carried out in cooperation with Udine’s AIAT (local tourist office), IAT - Pro Spilimbergo (Spilimbergo local tourist office), as well as with AIAS (Italian Association of Arts and Performances in Koper - Capodistria). “CULT.I.SPORT” also implements information initiatives that are useful to Italian and Slovenian operators in this sector, as well as educational trips and workshops. Special tourist offers will be promoted to attract potential customers/tourists, and two information offices will be opened in Spilimbergo and Koper-Capodistria. Lastly, the project entails the creation of a tourism web portal for smaller centres to ensure an organised approach to the management and promotion of the proposed tourist offer.
Nitrate removal from drinking water by point of use ion exchange.

A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the ability of a special type of strongly basic resin MP500WS for the removal of nitrate from different waters.Two different types of Point-of-Use (POU) devices containing an identical resin were used. MP500WS known as macro porous was used in POU devices for removal of high concentrations of nitrate and sulfate ions from water. Sulfate and chloride ions are considered the most important interferences in the treatment process of nitrate by most anion exchange resins.The results obtained by treatment of water samples having different ranges of nitrate (20 to150 mg/L), sulfate (50, 100 and 800 mg/L) and chloride (50 and 500 mg/L) have shown that the method was suitable for delivering water with NO(3) concentrations in less than its maximum contaminant level (MCL=45 mg/L) as long as the initial NO(3), SO(4) and Cl concentration has remained in less than 150, 100 and 500 mg/L, respectively.For this purpose, POU systems that utilize a suitable tested resin may be considered as an economical and effective alternative to conventional systems. This study shows this strategy very effective for nitrate reduction to acceptable levels when macro porous type strongly basic resin is used as the resin.
Eu-Strat - the eu and eastern partnership countries: an inside-out analysis and strategic assessment

Ten years after its inception, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has fallen short of accomplishing its mission. The war in Ukraine and the rising tensions with Russia have made a re-assessment of the ENP both more urgent and more challenging. EU-STRAT will address two questions: First, why has the EU fallen short of creating peace, prosperity and stability in its Eastern neighbourhood? Second, what can be done to strengthen the EU’s transformative power in supporting political and economic change in the six Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries? 
Adopting an inside-out perspective on the challenges of transformation the EaP countries and the EU face, EU-STRAT will
• develop a conceptual framework for the varieties of social orders in EaP countries to explain the propensity of domestic actors to engage in change;
• investigate how bilateral, regional and global interdependencies shape the scope of action and the preferences of domestic actors in the EaP countries;
• de-centre the EU by studying the role of selected member states and other external actors active in the region;
• evaluate the effectiveness of the Association Agreements and alternative EU instruments, including scientific cooperation, in supporting change in the EaP countries;
• analyse normative discourses used by the EU and Russia to enhance their influence over the shared neighbourhood.
• formulate policy recommendations to strengthen the EU’s capacity to support change in the EaP countries by advancing different scenarios for developmental pathways.
EU-STRAT features an eleven-partner consortium including six universities, three think-tanks, one civil society organization and one consultancy. This consortium will achieve the research and policy relevant objectives of the project by bringing together various disciplinary perspectives and methodologies and strengthening links with academics and policy makers across six EU member states, Switzerland and three of the EaP countries.
Soigner sans compter. Les agents de l’hôpital public face à l’épidémie de Covid-19

L’épidémie de Covid-19 survenue en mars 2020 a mobilisé tous les personnels des hôpitaux les plus touchés et a contraint leur administration à suspendre les restrictions budgétaires pour accueillir l’afflux de malades. À partir d’une enquête qualitative menée dans deux hôpitaux d’Île-de-France et du Grand-Est, cette contribution montre ce qu’a représenté ce moment critique pour les personnels de ces institutions. Les auteurs mettent en évidence les ressorts d’un service public qui est confronté à des besoins débordant ses capacités. Dans ce contexte, les personnels ont consenti à fournir un surtravail et à s’investir dans leur mission sans compter, bien au-delà de ce que prévoient les règlements. Cet engagement trouve sa source dans l’intériorisation de la norme du travail bien fait et dans l’attachement à des collectifs de travail qui ont porté les agents durant cette période. Les rapports de domination entre catégories de personnels et entre services hospitaliers n’ont pas pour autant disparu et ont resurgi avec d’autant plus d’acuité une fois la crise passée.
Harmonization and integrative analysis of regional, national and international cohorts on primary sjögren’s syndrome (pss) towards improved stratification, treatment and health policy making

HarmonicSS vision is to create an International Network and Alliance of partners and cohorts, entrusted with the mission of addressing the unmet needs in primary Sjogren Syndrome; working together to create and maintain a platform with open standards and tools, designed to enable secure storage, governance, analytics, access control and controlled sharing of information at multiple levels along with methods to make results of analyses and outcomes comparable across centers and sustainable through Rheumatology associations. The overall idea of the HarmonicSS project is to bring together the largest well characterized regional, national and international longitudinal cohorts of patients with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) including those participating in clinical trials, and after taking into consideration the ethical, legal, privacy and IPR issues for sharing data from different countries, to semantically interlink and harmonize them into an integrative pSS cohort structure on the cloud. Upon this harmonized cohort, services for big data mining, governance and visual analytics will be integrated, to address the identified clinical and health policy pSS unmet needs. In addition, tools for specific diagnostic procedures (e.g. ultrasonography image segmentation), patient selection for clinical trials and training will be also provided. The users of the HarmonicSS platform are researchers (basic/translational), clinicians, health policy makers and pharma companies. pSS is relevant not only due to its clinical impact but also as one of the few “model” diseases to link autoimmunity, cancer development (lymphoproliferation) and the pathogenetic role of infection. Thus, the study of pSS can facilitate research in many areas of medicine; for this reason, the possibility for sustainability and expandability of the platform is enhanced. Moreover, pSS has a significant impact on the healthcare systems, similar to that of rheumatoid arthritis.