SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Incorporating Frequency Information in a Collocation Dictionary: Establishing a Methodology

This paper describes the methodology applied to incorporate frequency information in the Diccionario de Colocaciones del Espanol, a dictionary developed within the framework of Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology. The main reasons for including lexical frequency information in DiCE were to enrich the dictionary content with information potentially useful for language learners, and to filter currently listed collocates. Obtaining and providing frequency information on collocations is not a straightforward task. In our case, we have opted for assigning a frequency score to each individual lexical unit which constitutes the base of a collocation, while collocations are assigned a frequency score taking into account both the absolute frequency of the collocation itself and the frequency of the lexical unit constituting its base. As a result, collocates are presented in the dictionary under the lexical entry of the base organized according to their syntactic pattern and their meaning, and ordered according to their frequency. Through assigning frequency scores to collocations we also foresee obtaining a frequency list of all collocations included in DiCE, valuable for language teaching and testing purposes.
Features in subjects with the frontal occlusal plane inclined toward the contralateral side of the mandibular deviation

The frontal occlusal plane of the maxilla generally inclines toward the ipsilateral side of the mandibular deviation in subjects with facial asymmetry; however, a few patients with facial asymmetry have their frontal occlusal planes inclined toward the contralateral side. We aimed to investigate the morphologic and functional features of such patients.The subjects were 40 patients with facial asymmetry divided into 2 groups based on the inclination of the frontal occlusal plane toward the ipsilateral or the contralateral side. We analyzed lateral and posteroanterior cephalometric radiographs and occlusal variables and evaluated temporomandibular joint symptoms. Statistical comparisons were performed between the 2 groups (P <0.05).The posteroanterior cephalometry significantly differed between the ipsilateral and contralateral groups. Occlusal force and occlusal contact area were significantly larger, and temporomandibular joint symptoms were more frequently found on the side of the upward-inclined frontal occlusal plane than on the opposite side in both groups.The features in the contralateral group in terms of occlusal force and temporomandibular disorders were clinically significant. Clinicians should note that the conditions associated with the contralateral group require less presurgical decompensation.
TUBING SHOE

A tubing shoe is disclosed with a body adapted to be connected to a section of tubing to be emplaced in a wellbore and a nose provided on the body, wherein the nose includes a failure guide structure for controlling break-up of the nose upon being drilled out from inside the nose. The failure guide structure typically controls break up by limiting the maximum size of pieces of the nose broken off upon drill out, for example, by defining weakened areas of the nose which are prone to failure upon drilling. The failure guide structure can include discontinuities such as slots or bores formed or drilled into the outer surface of the nose. The failure guide structure controls the break up of the nose in a consistent and predictable manner, and typically at a predictable stage during the drill-out process.
Trends in three decades of rankings of Dutch economists

This paper analyzes more than 30 years of rankings of the best 40 Dutch economists, and examines if performance in terms of weighted publications increased. One of the findings is that over time the differences between top-performers and those lower on the charts decrease, but also that the group of top-performers is small and persistent over the years. Further, the average scores of ranked economists also increase over time. At the same time, new entries usually decrease in the subsequent years. Finally, after 20 years the charts contain 95 % new names and, in general, inclusion in the rankings usually lasts only for about 5 years.
A hybrid mathematical model for controlling particle size, particle size distribution, and color properties of toner particles

A mathematical modeling approach was proposed combining the capabilities of response surface methodology (RSM) and desirability function (DF) and implemented successfully in production of printing toner particles. Toner powders were systematically synthesized through suspension copolymerization process. Applying RSM, a series of experiments were designed and toner particles were prepared and the effects of monomer ratio, colorant and surfactant content on the particle size (PS), particle size distribution (PSD), thermal and colorimetric properties (∆E) of the resulting toner were monitored and discussed. The second-order models corresponding to each target characteristic, i.e., PS, PSD, and ∆E of different types of toner powders, were obtained by individual optimization to express variation of each property in terms of polymerization parameters. Applying statistical calculations, the best reduced models were identified to be fed in the second step of optimization. Since toners with appropriate PS, PSD, and CP were needed, we applied multi-objective optimization based on DF approach. The results show that exact tuning of toner properties is closely possible with the aid of hybrid mathematical model developed in this work. Noticeably, desirabilities are very close to 100 %.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Fluency in Non-Fluent Aphasia after Stroke (IN4-1.002)

Objective: To determine whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) improves speech fluency in individuals with chronic nonfluent aphasia, and to identify linguistic properties that mediate improved fluency in persons who respond to rTMS. Background Failure of spontaneously generated fluent speech is a significant source of functional impairment in many individuals with aphasia. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) administered to the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) has been shown to induce improvements in naming ability in persons with chronic left hemisphere stroke and non-fluent aphasia. However, changes in fluency in aphasic subjects receiving rTMS have not been adequately explored. Design/Methods: Ten individuals with left hemisphere MCA strokes and mild to moderate non-fluent aphasia participated in the study. Before treatment, subjects were asked to describe the Cookie Theft picture scene in three separate sessions. In the treatment arm, subjects received 1200 pulses of 1 Hz rTMS daily for 10 days at a site that had previously been shown to elicit a patient-dependent optimal response to rTMS on a naming task. They repeated the task two months after treatment. Five of these subjects initially received sham stimulation instead of real TMS. Two months after sham treatment, these individuals entered into the treatment arm. Performance both at baseline and after stimulation was coded using Quantitative Production Analysis (Saffran, Berndt & Schwartz, 1989) and Correct Information Unit (Nicholas & Brookshire, 1993)analysis. Results: Real rTMS treatment resulted in a significant increase in multiple measures of discourse productivity compared to baseline performance. There was no significant increase in measures of sentence productivity or grammatical accuracy. There was no significant increase from baseline in the sham condition on any study measures. Conclusions: Stimulation of the right IFG in patients with chronic non-fluent aphasia can improve fluency, and does so specifically by facilitating discourse production, potentially reflecting improved lexical-semantic access. Disclosure: Dr. Hamilton has nothing to disclose. Dr. Medina has nothing to disclose. Dr. Norise has nothing to disclose. Dr. Turkeltaub has nothing to disclose. Dr. Coslett has nothing to disclose.
Unprecedented Control of Selectivity in Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrophosphorylation of Alkynes: Efficient Route to Mono- and Bisphosphonates

Received: February 3, 2014; Published online: March 3, 2014Dedicated to the memory of Z. A. Starikova.Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201400123.Abstract: A unique nickel-based catalytic system wasdeveloped where the direction of the hydrophos-phorylation reaction can be controlled by varyingthe catalyst loading. A flexible one-pot access to vi-nylmonophosphonates and alkylbisphosphonates wasdemonstrated using simple starting materials in anatom-economic reaction without any specific solventsor ligands. Monitoring of the reaction mechanismwith joint NMR and MS studies revealed key infor-mation about the reaction intermediates. The syn-thetic scope of the developed catalytic system wasexplored and the utility of the synthesized productsfor the fire protection of cotton materials was dem-onstrated.Keywords: alkynes; homogeneous catalysis; nickel;phosphorylation; selectivity
A parallel MPI+OpenMP+OpenCL algorithm for hybrid supercomputations of incompressible flows

Abstract The work is devoted to the development of efficient parallel algorithms for large-scale simulations of incompressible flows on hybrid supercomputers based on massively-parallel accelerators. The governing equations are discretized using a high-order finite-volume scheme for Cartesian staggered meshes with the only restriction that, at least, one direction is periodic. Its “classical” MPI + OpenMP parallel implementation for CPUs was designed to scale till 100,000 CPU cores. The new hybrid algorithm is developed on a base of a multi-level parallel model that exploits several layers of parallelism of a modern hybrid supercomputer. In this model, MPI and OpenMP are used on the first two levels to couple nodes of a supercomputer and to engage its CPU cores. Then, computing accelerators are further used by means of the hardware independent OpenCL computing standard. In this way, the implementation is adapted to a general computing model with central processors and math co-processors. In this paper the work is focused on adapting the basic operations of the algorithm to architectures of Graphics Processing Units (GPU) without considering the multi-GPU communication scheme. Technology of porting the code to OpenCL is described, certain optimization approaches are presented and relevant performance results obtaining up to 80–90 GFLOPS on a GPU accelerator are demonstrated. Moreover, the experience with different GPU architectures is summarized and a comparison based on the particular application is given for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs as well as for CUDA and OpenCL frameworks.
Urban Manufacturing - Stimulating Innovation Through Collaborative Maker Spaces

The common challenge of Urban Manufacturing is to better support and develop a particular type of innovation infrastructure: collaborative maker spaces. These spaces are characterised as places where people from different disciplines work together to produce new products and services, and have sprung up throughout cities and regions. Examples include Fab Labs, Living Labs, Open Innovation Centres and Cross-Sector Incubators. However, such facilities often struggle to maximise their impact, due to issues such as segregated ecosystems, poor governance and challenging business/financial models.

The overall objective of Urban Manufacturing is to ensure that these spaces thrive. This will be achieved through identifying good practices in Urban Manufacturing, improving the related policy instruments in partner city/regions, and monitoring the effects. The partnership has identified three specific development themes: 1) collaborative incubation (particularly where Arts combine with STEM); 2) investment in collaborative R&D; 3) commercialisation of collaborative innovation. Each theme has a grouping of cities/regions, who share that interest and will work together to make improvements through an iterative process of exchange of experience, peer review and action plan writing.

The expected changes are: an increase in the amount of ESIF funding for collaborative innovation; an increase in the number of enterprises engaging with collaborative maker spaces; greater integration for innovation infrastructure; and indicators to measure the impact of policies, ensuring sustainability.

The main outputs of the project will be 24+ Good Practices; 14 Study Visits; 8 Policy Clinics; 13 Peer Review Sessions; 8 Local Stakeholder Groups; and 8 city/region Action Plans. These will be delivered alongside a comprehensive programme of dissemination.                  

The beneficiaries of the project will include innovation actors, policy makers, enterprises, cluster managers and Fab Labs.
The Social Internet of Things and the RFID-based robots

Internet of Things allows the interconnection of smart objects, such as mobile robots, wireless sensors, etc., and of human beings, by using different communication protocols and by developing a dynamic multi-modal heterogeneous network. This paper proposes some considerations on cognitive robots based on radio frequency identification technology within Internet of Things, by adding a social dimension to human-robot and robot-robot interactions. Social networks can be used for storing and sharing links to resources of interest for the humanrobot and robot-robot interactions. A Stinger robot-based prototype was built to demonstrate the presented functionalities. The prototype shows that this model is not only flexible, but also practical.
Observations of fatigue crack initiation in 7075-T651

Abstract This paper reports the results of a study of the initial stages of fatigue crack formation in the commercial aluminum alloy 7075-T651. Direct observations were made of the evolution of cracking in a notch under moderately high fatigue loads in a scanning electron microscope. The experimental conditions were designed to mimic the behavior of fastener holes in the lower wing covers of military attack aircraft, thus the loading parameters were such that local plasticity was expected. Constituent particle cracking was observed to be the sole cause of fatigue crack initiation in these experiments; particle debonding was not a factor. The iron-bearing constituent particles were the sites of nearly all of the cracks initiated by fatigue. Mg 2 Si particles were not effective crack initiation sites. This was attributed to the difference in the moduli of the particles: the iron-bearing particles were harder than the matrix while the Mg 2 Si particles were softer. A large fraction of the cracks in the constituent particles were present before any loading was applied, but a certain amount of additional constituent particle cracking was caused by the fatigue loading. A cracked constituent particle eventually gave rise to a crack in the surrounding matrix, but this process required the application of fatigue loads. No matrix cracks were observed prior to fatigue loading. Subsequent propagation of the matrix cracks also required additional fatigue cycling. These observations are being used in the development of detailed computer models of the fatigue process in 7075-T651.
Packer assembly with inserts for blowout preventer

A blowout preventer (“BOP”) includes a housing comprising a vertical bore extending through the housing and a packer assembly movably positioned within the housing and configured to form a seal within the housing. The packer assembly includes an elastomeric body comprising an elastomeric material and inserts positioned within the elastomeric body and in parallel alignment with respect to each other.
New Directions in Race, Ethnicity and Crime

The disproportionate criminalisation and incarceration of particular minority ethnic groups has long been observed, though much of the work in criminology has been dominated by a somewhat narrow debate. This debate has concerned itself with explaining this disproportionality in terms of structural inequalities and socio-economic disadvantage or discriminatory criminal justice processing. This book offers an accessible and innovative approach, including chapters on anti-Semitism, social cohesion in London, Bradford and Glasgow, as well as an exploration of policing Traveller communities. Incorporating current empirical research and new departures in methodology and theory, this book also draws on a range of contemporary issues such as policing terrorism, immigration detention and youth gangs. In offering minority perspectives on race, crime and justice and white inmate perspectives from the multicultural prison, the book emphasises contrasting and distinctive influences on constructing ethnic identities. It will be of interest to students studying courses in ethnicity, crime and justice.
Going more private and sustainable: ex-post assessment of armenian water utilities

Recent worldwide changes in water policies emphasize the role of the private sector in the provision of water services with the expectation of market forces to redress public provision failures and introduce innovative approaches for promoting sustainability. Armenia has experienced unprecedented rapid and mass privatization in the water sector: in a decade from zero reaching 63% of the population, which records the third highest level in Europe. The paper examines the impacts of privatization on sustainability performance of all water utilities. Ex-post benchmarking is employed for assessing relative and absolute sustainability measures and developing scores for utility sustainability ranking. The paper focuses on utility performance in time and scale dimensions and on the international level. The paper shows that transition to the public–private partnerships positively influenced the sustainability performance of all utilities. All utilities have improved their relative to pre-privatization performance. Considerable progress was seen in social followed by environmental performance. Armenian utilities also succeed in performing well internationally. The paper concludes that though water privatization may lead to sustainability of utility performance, the scale of impact may depend on the initial state of the enterprise and the local context. Moreover, after the low-hanging fruits are reached at the first stage, more efforts will be required for enhancing long-term sustainability and effectiveness, consistent with social and environmental needs.
The Research and Development of NTC Automatic Tool Selection Based on Aucol

This paper analyses the performance characteristics of NTC magazine, introduces the mode and characteristic of tool selection, discusses the details of the function and the design of the software of the control system. It also utilizes the automatic tool selection of PLC magazine set in the Italian FIDIA CNC and introduces the chart flow of automatic tool selection system. By adopting the brand new Aucol to realize the automatic tool selection program in the magazine, machine tools can improve their productivity in reliability and maintenance. The utilization in production indicates a good control result, which provides an approach of technological innovation for factories.
Long autonomy e-bike through enhanced regenerative braking

The e-bike industry is a blooming market since it provides a solid alternative for cleaner, more sustainable urban mobility. Annual e-bike sales are in the order of 3,400 M€ in Europe only and are expected to rise up to 7, 200 M€ by 2025. However, there is still an unsolved and recurrent complaint related to the limited autonomy of e-bikes. 
LONGRIDER is a novel control system for e-bikes that provides extended battery autonomy by supporting the cyclist only when necessary and by applying extensive and efficient regenerative braking. By cleverly controlling the energy use (deliver and recover), the feeling for the cyclist is that of continuously riding on flat terrain irrespective of the terrain slope, and in the limit case it is even possible to make the battery last close-to-indefinitely (provided that the user is willing to compensate the system inefficiencies by pedaling). Thus, the value proposition of the LONGRIDER e-bike can be formulated in 2 ways:
-An e-bike with the same battery size as competitors that can last significantly more (up to 200% more with mild regenerative braking, and above that with a more intensive regeneration set-up)
-An e-bike with a smaller battery size than competitors for the same autonomy (LONGRIDER requires a battery-pack 60-70% smaller with the associated cost and weight reduction)
The development of this new concept is being carried out by a team that has extensive experience in the electric mobility industry developing next generation motors for electric vehicles, as well as a solid background in bicycles with over 10 patents related to innovative concepts for bicycles, some of them under licensing discussions with major brands in the bicycle industry (Sram, Campagnolo and FSA). ZUMA is currently working on patenting the LONGRIDER-related developments to secure a leading market position.
(14508.17092020.172000279) MACHINERY

REPLACEMENT OF OBSOLETE MACHINERY, SPECIFICALLY 03 FORKLIFTS AND 01 LOADERS, WITH TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED MACHINERY THAT ALLOW A SAFER PROCESSING
ICIQ symptom and quality of life instruments measure clinically relevant improvements in women with stress urinary incontinence

To determine whether changes in questionnaire scores on symptoms and condition-specific quality of life reflect clinically relevant improvements in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).We retrospectively analyzed questionnaires collected during a randomized controlled trial in women with SUI, that received pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) in two different formats. We included 218 women that answered validated self-assessment questionnaires at baseline and at a 4-month follow-up. We registered changes on two questionnaires, the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI SF) and the Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Quality of Life (ICIQ-LUTSqol). We compared these score changes to responses from the Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I) questionnaire. Differences were analyzed with the Spearman rho and one-way-ANOVA. The minimum important difference (MID) was the mean change in score for women that experienced a small improvement.The PGI-I correlated significantly to both the ICIQ-UI SF (r = 0.547, P < 0.0001) and ICIQ-LUTSqol (r = 0.520, P < 0.0001). Thus, larger reductions in symptoms or quality of life scores were associated with greater impressions of improvement. The changes in ICIQ-UI SF and ICIQ-LUTSqol scores were significant across all PGI-I groups from "no change" to "very much improved" (P < 0.05). The MIDs were 2.52 (SD 2.56) for ICIQ-UI SF and 3.71 (SD 4.95) for ICIQ-LUTSqol.The change in ICIQ-UI SF and ICIQ-LUTSqol scores after PFMT reflected clinically relevant improvements in women with SUI. The MIDs established for this population may facilitate future research, treatment evaluations, and comparisons between studies.