SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Les mandarins et la horde bibliométrique

L’article présente les équilibres, oppositions et conflits des dernières décennies qui ont contribué à la réorganisation institutionnelle de la sociologie italienne, ainsi qu’à l’évolution de ses pratiques de recrutement, d’évaluation et d’avancement. Ces changements sont toujours en cours et leurs partisans et opposants continuent à s’affronter ; notre texte est donc aussi un peu l’histoire d’un combat qui fait encore rage. Dans une première partie, nous expliquons comment la sociologie italienne a été historiquement dominée par trois « composantes » : de puissantes coteries mandarinales, à l’origine associées aux trois principaux partis politiques du pays, qui s’étaient réparti l’ensemble des postes universitaires et des positions de pouvoir de la discipline. Dans une seconde partie, nous montrons comment ce système et la partition qu’il avait mise en place ont été remis en cause par la pénurie de postes et, surtout, par deux réformes successives des recrutements universitaires, qui ont instauré des habilitations nationales aux grades de professeurs et un dispositif de mesure standardisée de la productivité individuelle et de la qualité des travaux sociologiques. En effet, comme le détaille la troisième partie, on assiste depuis deux décennies en Italie, au fil d’évaluations nationales successives, à un essor de la bibliométrie et à la légitimation progressive de nouveaux critères pour mesurer la valeur scientifique, laquelle est désormais davantage définie en fonction de la peer-review et de l’internationalisation. Enfin, une quatrième partie montre comment ces évolutions s’inscrivent aussi dans un contexte général de dégradation des conditions d’emploi des docteurs et des diplômés en sociologie.
Children of empires and european postmemories

MEMOIRS focuses on the intergenerational memories of the children and grandchildren of those involved in the decolonization processes of colonies held by France, Portugal and Belgium. Through interviews of this second and third generation, and a comparative analysis of the cultures influenced by the postmemory of the colonial wars and the end of empire, Europe's postcolonial heritage will be reinterrogated, and a new understanding of the contemporary continent will be developed. At the heart of the project is a desire to comprehend the effects of Europe's postimperial diversity through postmemories of colonial praxis. 
The project is interdisciplinary, bringing together specialists from literary and cultural studies, arts, history, sociology and migration studies. MEMOIRS aims to maximize the impact of its findings through broad web, open-access publications and an itinerant artistic exhibit that captures multiple aspects of the representations of postmemory, and fosters a meaningful North-South dialogue.
The Development and Tendency of High Performance Polyester Fibers for Technical Application

The development situation of the commercial high performance polyester fibers in the world and the mainland China in recent years is described briefly.The capacity and production of polyester technical yarn are obtained high speed development,the application of polyester modification technology will drive to increase quickly the flame retardant polyester fiber with favorable prospect.With structure adjustment of upstream raw material industry,the supply chain of the raw material of high performance polyester fibers will be well established.From the view point of development tendency,the application field should be moved to the multi-application fields from purely military use.From the processing chain,the focus should be made on raw material development and commercial technology application.The opening up of application fields of high performance fibers will bring up the enhancement of competition.
STARPANT — desenvolvimento de SW projetado para avaliar o estado de carbono no pantógrafo de fotos

O objetivo do projeto é diagnosticar a condição física dos semipantógrafos a partir de fotografias, movendo veículos ferroviários ao passar por um local específico. a.
The stochastic modeling of TiO<inf>2</inf> memristor and its usage in neuromorphic system design

Memristor, the fourth basic circuit element, has shown great potential in neuromorphic circuit design for its unique synapse-like feature. However, though the continuous resistance state of memristor has been expected, obtaining and maintaining an arbitrary intermediate state cannot be well controlled in nowadays memristive system. In addition, the stochastic switching behaviors have been widely observed. To facilitate the investigation on memristor-based hardware implementation, we built a stochastic behavior model of TiO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> memristive devices based on the real experimental results. By leveraging the stochastic behavior of memristors, a macro cell design composed of multiple parallel connecting memristors can be successfully used in implementing the weight storage unit and the stochastic neuron — the two fundamental components in neural network (NN)s, providing a feasible solution in memristor-based hardware implementation.
AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN PORTABLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND GROUND

An aircraft communications system includes a wireless local area network (LAN) access point positioned within the aircraft that receives and transmits wireless communications to and from at least one portable wireless communications device. A control panel is operatively connected to the wireless LAN access point and positioned within the flight deck of the aircraft. A communications transceiver is operative with the control panel and wireless LAN access point and operative for receiving and transmitting a communications signal between the wireless LAN access point and a ground-based transceiver. Communications between the portable wireless communications device and ground-based transceiver can be controlled from the flight deck using the control panel in one non-limiting example.
EFECTOS DEL INTERVALO ESTíMULO-COMIDA SOBRE LA POLIDIPSIA EN RATAS

The control of a tone (3 khz, 60 dB) on drinking was evaluated in two experiments. In the first experiment, food was delivered to each rat every 60 s; a 2-s tone was presented either 2, 12,22,32,42,52,60 s from the subsequent food delivery or randomly in time In a final condition the tone alone was scheduled every 60 s. In the second experiment, food was delivered every 180 s; across successive conditions, the tone was presented either 180, 152, 122, 92, 62, 32,2 s from the subsequent food delivery or randomly in time. Between each condition of tone and food presentation, the tone alone was scheduled every 180 s. In both experiments ea eh rat developed an idiosyncratic pattern of licking that remained unchanged throughout the different presentation schedules of tone and food. When presenting the tone alone, the rate of licking did not vary systematically with the temporal position of the tone.
Liu et al. reply

Replying to R. C. P. Mounce & M. Wills , 10.1038/nature10266 (2011)
 ; D. A. Legg et al. 10.1038/nature10267 (2011)
 We welcome the reanalyses by Mounce and Wills
 1 and Legg 2 of our paper3, and although we do not fully concur with their conclusions we are pleased that Diania has reopened the debate about key stages in arthropod evolution. We accept that the position of this fossil remains sensitive to parameters of analysis and in the original publication we conceded that our best-supported tree—Diania as sister-group to (Schinderhannes + Euarthropoda)—could be subject to change, and that the ‘walking cactus’ may have a more basal position within the overall framework of the arthropod stem-group. These alternative treatments of our data would seem to confirm this suspicion, although we find the placement of Diania in an unresolved, and extremely basal, polytomy alongside velvet worms, tardigrades and various other lobopodians similarly problematical. We do not doubt that the authors’ results1,2 are statistically well supported, but what do these cladograms tell us about the evolution of the group? Lobopodians are, by their nature, fairly simple and consequently yield few convincing synapomorphies, either with each other or with arthropods in general. As we discovered, this makes scoring a robust data matrix including both lobopodians and arthropods challenging, and we wonder whether the basal polytomies recovered here are simply due to clustering among taxa with few unequivocal apomorphies and/or much missing data.
Role of listerin ubiquitin ligase in mhc-i antigen presentation

Mammalian cells present a fingerprint of their proteome through the display of endogenous peptides on MHC-I complexes. This allows for CD8+ T cells to recognize and kill cells infected with viruses or other intracellular parasites, or cells accumulating aberrant proteins resulting from malignant transformation. The MHC-I peptides originate from protein degradation by the ubiquitin proteasome system, which is responsible for controlled protein turnover. This would mean that viral proteins, which are typically very stable, would escape monitoring. Nevertheless, cells are able to mount an MHC-I immune response minutes after viral infection. Most MHC-I presented peptides are therefore thought to originate from newly synthesized, defective ribosomal products (DRiPs), rather than proteins at the end of their lifespan. Although there is a growing body of evidence showing that antigen presentation is better correlated with protein synthesis rather than protein stability, characterization of the underlying cellular pathway is lacking. Recently, the E3 ubiquitin ligase Listerin has been shown to mark nascent polypeptides resulting from defective mRNAs for degradation. Here we test the hypothesis that this pathway contributes to the production of peptides for MHC-I loading. Our major aim is therefore to investigate the involvement of Listerin in antigen presentation, using 3 different approaches: I) proof-of-principle experiments analyzing the rate of MHC-I presentation of a model protein, comparing the efficiency of its presentation when expressed from an intact or defective mRNA, and when expressed in WT or Listerin knock-out cells; II) global characterization of the MHC-I peptidome of WT and Listerin knock-out cells using mass spectrometry; III) quantitative analysis of the fraction of newly-synthesized proteins undergoing the RQC pathway, and of its possible correlation with the MHC-I peptidome.
Density Functional Study of Nickel N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed C–O Bond Hydrogenolysis of Methyl Phenyl Ether: The Concerted β-H Transfer Mechanism

The catalytic C–O bond activation of aryl ethers attracts substantial interest as it is significant for the lignin degradation process. A nickel complex with N-heterocyclic carbene (Ni-SIPr) has been shown to selectively catalyze C–O bond hydrogenolysis of aryl methyl ether to obtain arene and alcohol as the only products. Here, the reaction mechanism of Ni-SIPr catalyzed C–O bond hydrogenolysis of methyl phenyl ether (PhOMe) was studied using density functional theory. In the presence of H2, the catalytic cycle involves the following: (i) aromatic C–O bond oxidative addition of Ni(SIPr)(η2-PhOMe) to form Ni(SIPr)(OMe)(Ph), (ii) β-H transfer from the methoxy to phenyl group in Ni(SIPr)(OMe)(Ph) via σ-complex-assisted metathesis (σ-CAM), which eliminates benzene and forms Ni(SIPr)(η2-CH2O), (iii) H2 binding to form Ni(SIPr)(H2)(η2-CH2O) prior to H-transfer from H2 to the formaldehyde carbon via σ-CAM to generate Ni(SIPr)(H)(OMe), and (iv) reductive elimination to form methanol and the binding of methyl phe...
The Age Profile of the Income–Health Gradient: An Evaluation of Two Large Cohorts of Contemporary US Children

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dynamics of health and income in contemporary US children and the influence of these dynamics on the age profile of an income–health gradient. Two large cohorts were used to evaluate income gradients in children from 9 months to 5 years and from 6 to 14 years using dynamic specifications of random effects models. An income gradient in parental reports of poor child health was observed in two large cohorts of contemporary US children with ages ranging from infancy to early adolescence. When estimated in separate models both current and averaged income exhibited steepening gradients over the ages of both samples. When estimated jointly only current income exhibited a steepening gradient. While state dependence in health was indicated in dynamic models it did not influence the magnitude or age profile of the income effects. The findings suggested that the age profile of an income–health gradient in the health of US children may depend on whether income is measured as a long-term or short-term variable. Distinguishing these patterns is important for an understanding of how families cope with their children’s health adversities.
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135,274. Pease, E. L. Nov. 18, 1918. Gills for tubes.-Heat-interchanging apparatus consists of vertical tubular members both the internal and external surfaces of which are utilized as air-heating surfaces, the outer one also constituting a heatradiating surface. These heating- columns are secured in good metallic contact with a vertical series of horizontal heating-tubes through which steam may be passed, and are arranged with spaces between each vertical tube. The heating- columns are usually constructed of sheet metal, but may be of cast-iron. Several examples are described, in one of which a series of horizontal tubes a, supplied with steam &c. from a pipe d through a header h and fitted with baffles b, b<1> to ensure correct flow of heating-fluid to the outlet g, are provided with a number of vertical fattened tubes smaller at the lower end, as shown in Fig. 3, arranged with spaces between them. The vertical tubes are in close metallic contact with the horizontal tubes and may be fitted with diaphragms k of various lengths, also in good contact with the horizontal tubes a. In other examples, the vertical tubes are completely enclosed in a case, air being supplied at one end and exhausted at the other end. In place of vertical tubes, bent plates may be used as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. Specification 113,298 is referred to.
Creating an electron-positron plasma in a laboratory magnetosphere

The visible Universe is predominantly in the plasma state. On Earth, plasmas are less common, but they find many applications in industry and are also studied with the goal of providing an abundant energy source for mankind through fusion energy. The behaviour of plasmas studied thus far, in particular those that are magnetized, is very complex. The complexity manifests itself first and foremost as a host of different wave types, many of which are generically unstable and evolve into turbulence or violent instabilities. This complexity and the instability of these waves stems to a large degree from effects that can be traced back to the difference in mass between the positive and negative species, the ions and the electrons.

In contrast to conventional ion-electron plasmas, electron-positron (pair) plasmas consist of equal-mass charged particles. This symmetry results in unique behaviour of the pair plasmas, a topic that has been intensively studied theoretically and numerically for decades but experimental studies are only just starting. These studies are not only driven by curiosity: Strongly magnetized electron-positron plasmas are believed to exist ubiquitously in pulsar magnetospheres and active galaxies in the Universe, and the entire Universe is believed to have been a matter-antimatter symmetric plasma in its earliest epochs after the Big Bang.

We propose here to create and study the first long-lived and confined pair plasmas on Earth. This is now possible by combining novel techniques in plasma and beam physics. We will develop a levitated dipole confinement device and will fill it with readily available electrons and low-energy positrons from the world-leading steady-state positron source.
‘Islamophobia never stands still’: race, religion, and culture

Abstract Islamophobia bundles religious, ethnic and cultural prejudices together even though a narrow definition of the term flags religion as playing the central part. Calls for decoupling religion from ethnicity and culture appear justifiable: religions are increasingly disconnected from the cultures in which they have been embedded. But established political discourse infrequently makes such distinctions and may go further to racialize cultural and religious attributes of non-Europeans through essentialist framing. Islamophobia becomes a cryptic articulation of race and racism even if overtly it appears as religiously-based prejudice. Islam has been culturalized and racialized by its adherents and antagonists alike. Survey data on attitudes towards Muslims confirm such framing: the most common grounds given for experiencing discrimination was race or ethnic origin; religion and belief system were cited less often. Racialization, race and differential racism have become more endemic to Islamophobesa sti...
Novel four-session treatment intervention for anxiety and high-functioning autism: A single case report for Externalizing Metaphors Therapy

The Brief Services psychotherapy paradigm has evolved to produce cost-effective and clinically significant outcomes in children's mental health. Though its clinical evaluation is still in its infancy, it has been utilized to a much lesser degree with autism spectrum disorders, which typically require a longer-term approach to psychotherapy treatment.The current paper introduces a novel, four-session intervention that aims to decrease anxiety experienced by clients presenting with high-functioning autism. Externalizing Metaphors Therapy is based upon the externalization of problems, transformation of metaphoric imagery, shifting of maladaptive emotional schemas, and the generalization of problems. A case study is utilized to visually aid in the understanding of this new treatment intervention.A composite literature review was conducted with regards to significant works in Narrative Therapy, treatment interventions for anxiety and high functioning autism, evidence-based treatments for anxiety, and practice based approaches in psychotherapy. Works were selected based on their relevance to the research filed of anxiety and autism.This clinical research challenges the children's mental health field in addressing anxiety and high-functioning autism from a brief framework. Further clinical research is needed to clinically evaluate the current model.
Modified enhanced steady state genetic algorithm for Scheduling &amp; Optimization problems

Scheduling & Optimization problems are iterative in nature. To find a ideal solution to which is a complex task. These types of problems may be effectively solved and optimal solutions which may be close to the ideal solution may be derived with the help of evolutionary algorithms like the Genetic Algorithm. This paper introduces a new variant of genetic algorithm called Modified Enhanced Steady State Genetic Algorithm (MESSGA) which uses Fuzzy Logic on crossover probability, mutation probability and insertion, for better convergence time. The results of this paper are studied on a common scheduling problem faced by all universities to assign externals for viva-vose or examination to other colleges under its jurisdiction.
Ash-Forming Matter in Torrefied Birch Wood: Changes in Chemical Association

Torrefaction is heat treatment of biomass at relatively low temperatures (∼240–300 °C) in the absence of air. The torrefied fuel offers advantages to traditional biomass, such as higher energy density, better grindability, and reduced biological decay. These factors could, for example, lead to increased use of biomass in pulverized coal boilers. Ash-forming elements are present in biomass as water-soluble salts, ion-exchangeable elements, included or excluded minerals, and covalently bound sulfur and chlorine. In this work, we have studied the change in the chemical association of ash-forming elements in birch wood as a function of the extent of torrefaction. The birch wood was torrefied at 240, 255, 270, or 280 °C at ECN, The Netherlands. The raw and torrefied birch wood samples were studied using three different techniques: chemical fractionation, potentiometric titration, and methylene blue sorption. Chemical fractionation was performed on the original wood sample, and the samples of wood were torrefie...
Toxicity of selected biorational insecticides to Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell and its predator, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant in citrus field

ABSTRACTThe citrus cottony scale, Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell, is the most important pest of citrus orchards in northern Iran in recent years. Owing to the harmful impacts of chemical insecticides, the use of biorational pesticides seems a safe and convenient way to control this pest. The present investigation was set up to study contact toxicity of various biorational and chemical compounds on the first, second instar nymph and overwintering adult of the citrus cottony scale, P. aurantii, and its predator, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant under field conditions. The results indicated that the highest percentage of mortality of first instar nymph of the citrus cottony scale was observed in the Dayabon treatment of 9 and 10 ml/L, 100.0% ± 0.0% and the lowest percentage was observed in Palizin treatment of 1.5 ml/L, 34.7% ± 2.9%. In the second instar nymph, the highest mortality was seen in the Dursban treatment of 2 ml/L, 94.7% ± 2.4% and the lowest mortality in the Palizin treatment of 1.5 ml/L, 30.0% ...
LNG boil-off gas reliquefaction by Brayton refrigeration system – Part 2: Improvements over basic configuration

Abstract Exergy analysis of reliquefaction system based on Reverse Brayton cycle (RBC), which is used to condense boil-off gas (BOG) generated in LNG carrier ships, was presented with its basic configuration in Part 1. In this paper, three modifications of the basic system are evaluated. One modification is based on intercooling and precooling of BOG before compressor suction. Others involve ambient compression of BOG. Effects of pressure ratio of RBC, mass flow rate of nitrogen, thermal sizes of heat exchangers and entry temperature of BOG to reliquefaction system on each configuration have been evaluated. Sensitivity analysis shows that 7.8% improvement of rational exergy efficiency is obtained for systems with ambient compression. When BOG enters as superheated gas, modified configurations could keep up their performance while basic system deteriorated. Higher adiabatic efficiencies of compressors and turbines improve the performance of the reliquefaction systems across the board without any additional weight or space. Design and operating parameters have been optimized with the aid of in-built optimiser tool of Aspen HYSYS® V8.6. It resulted in an improvement of rational exergy efficiency of configurations by 1%–3% and decrease of total UA by 5–7% compared to best values predicted by sensitivity analysis.