SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Russia's “Space” Diplomacy: Why We Should Look Back to the Soviet Years

La guerre actuelle en Ukraine a soulevé avec une acuité particulière la question de la diplomatie scientifique, de ses capacités et de ses limites. Les précédents historiques des relations spatiales internationales du point de vue de la coopération et de la concurrence technoscientifiques peuvent être étudiés pour en tirer une expérience précieuse. Cet article se concentre sur deux questions majeures. La première concerne la diplomatie scientifique soviétique dans l'espace pendant la Guerre froide. Une attention particulière est accordée à la définition du concept d’“espace” par les sciences humaines en général et en particulier par les historiens de la Guerre froide. Deuxièmement, sur la base de mon expérience à l'école de diplomatie scientifique de Varsovie 2021, je tire des conclusions sur les défis de l'enseignement des études de cas historiques aux futurs spécialistes dans le domaine de la diplomatie scientifique.
Investment decisions in the rent-to-own industry in the absence of inventory

This study addresses the product investment decision faced by firms in the rent-to-own industry. In this setting, a customer arrives according to a random process and requests one unit of a product to rent (and eventually own should he/she choose to make all the required payments). At the time of request, if the product is available in inventory, the firm enters into a contractual agreement (by accepting the customer's offer) and rents the merchandise. More interesting and the case considered here, if the requested item is not in inventory, the firm must decide whether to purchase the item in order to rent it out or to simply reject the request. The customer's offer specifies the desired maximum contract length and the payment frequency—from which the firm determines the fixed periodic payment charged. The firm makes its investment decision based on the characteristics of the offer as well as those of the product (eg, initial and resale values, useful life and carrying costs) in essence performing a complicated cost benefit analysis. An extension is also considered whereby instead of simply rejecting the request the firm can adjust the required payment amount. Dynamic programming techniques are used to address the problem and to solve for the firm's optimal decision.
Model of human palm controlled by glove with micromachined accelerometers

The aim of the research presented in this paper was to test the possibility of inventing a fully autonomous device to detect the position of the fingers with the use of micromachined accelerometers. An implemented algorithm is based on the measurement of gravity acceleration. Designed microprocessor system analyses that data and controls the model of a human palm made in a 1∶1 scale. The model has a motionless wrist, two fingers and an opposing thumb. Every finger has three joints. An extra joint is made for the thumb. This paper is based on the author's master thesis which is entitled “Data glove controlled by a microprocessor system”.
Misfit between physical affectedness and regulatory embeddedness: The case of drinking water supply along the Rhine River

Abstract One open question in environmental sciences is whether effective management of natural resources depends on the fit between the bio-physical and the governance system. To address this question, we investigate water quality in transboundary rivers and ask to what extent a fit between the area covered by the physical extent of pollution and the area in which this pollution is addressed through management and policy regulation can be observed. We adopt a spatial approach and argue that the visualization of social-ecological overlap and misfit supports science and practice when taking decisions about how best to explain or address ineffectiveness and cause-effect mismatches in transboundary river management. We focus on drinking water supply in the international river basin of the Rhine focusing on micropollutants. These persistent trace compounds have potential toxic effects on humans and ecosystems, which makes them a relevant type of pollution that needs to be taken into consideration. Based on a combination of mass flow and social network analysis, we can conclude that the Rhine River is characterized by large social-ecological overlap, but that some parts of the catchment area still lack integration.
An agent-based model of the emergence and transmission of a language system for the expression of logical combinations

This paper presents an agent-based model of the emergence and transmission of a language system for the expression of logical combinations of propositions. The model assumes the agents have some cognitive capacities for invention, adoption, repair, induction and adaptation, a common vocabulary for basic categories, and the ability to construct complex concepts using recursive combinations of basic categories and logical categories. It also supposes the agents initially do not have a vocabulary for logical categories (i.e. logical connectives), nor grammatical constructions for expressing logical combinations of basic categories through language. The results of the experiments we have performed show that a language system for the expression of logical combinations emerges as a result of a process of self-organisation of the agents' linguistic interactions. Such a language system is concise, because it only uses words and grammatical constructions for three logical categories (i.e. and, or, not). It is also expressive, since it allows the communication of logical combinations of categories of the same complexity as propositional logic formulas, using linguistic devices such as syntactic categories, word order and auxiliary words. Furthermore, it is easy to learn and reliably transmitted across generations, according to the results of our experiments.
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<strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> In recent years, science has hardened the discourse on the emergency of global warming, pointing out that the next decades will be decisive to maintaining the stability of the climate system and, thus, avoiding a cascade effect of events that increase the average temperature above safe limits. The scientific community warns that there are different tipping points that could produce a chain reaction in the global climate. One of them is related to the jet stream. However, despite the importance of this air current in atmospheric dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere and the changes it is experiencing in the context of global warming, the public is still not familiar with this kind of physical concept nor with other much simpler concepts. As concerns about the climate crisis rise, climate literacy remains stagnant. To advance the learning of the science of climate change, in general, and of concepts such as the jet stream, in particular, specific scientific communication formats are required that can successfully tackle the difficult task of explaining such complex problems to the general public. These formats should be included in the media, as the characteristics of the formats (daily section, scientific dissemination, historic perspective, teleconnections and specialization) make them well suited to taking on the challenge of explaining the complexity of climate science. In this article, we present a communication proposal existent in a newspaper published in Spain. We argue that this communication format represents a good model to disseminate climate science, educate readers and even to make physical concepts such as the jet stream accessible. We believe that this format conforms to and complies with the enunciation of ArticleÂ 12 of the Paris Agreement, which calls on the signatory countries to promote education and training on climate change.
Personalised multimedia digital consultation to revolutionise the doctor-patient consultation process.

Anatomus is a software platform that enables personalised and recorded doctor-patient consultations, which enhance patient education and increase treatment plan adherence.

Seal of Excellence recipient in February 2019, eMedia is an award winning medical multimedia software design company, registered and based in Ireland, specialising in 3D medical education software - most notably, creators of the Pocket Anatomy, the company has developed Anatomus, a software platform that is working on using interactive 3D anatomy to improve the overall doctor-patient communication process.

The doctor-patient consultation lasts on average 10 minutes in Europe, resulting, in the patient, remembering only 14% of what was discussed. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), “in developed countries, adherence among patients suffering chronic diseases averages only 50%”, which leads to higher hospitalisation, higher costs (€125billion/year), higher social impact and premature deaths (200,000/year). 

Based on these challenges, Anatomus aims to help patients understand and remember what the doctor said by using interactive multimedia visualisations of common illnesses on mobile devices in the doctor's office, which can be shared with patients for improved understanding, recall, and treatment plan adherence.
Construction of Performance Evaluation Index System of Countryside Environmental Project

With people's increasing emphasis on the rural environment quality and carrying out of environmental projects in the countryside,it becomes necessary to improve the efficiency of environmental investment,build a reasonable performance evaluation index system and evaluate projects scientifically.Based on the literature review,data collection and investigation,this study completes the preliminary design of the new rural environmental protection project performance evaluation index system,using expert scoring method and principal component analysis to select and optimize indexes,using AHP method to determine the weights of indexes.This study can provide the basis and reference for the establishment of specific environmental projects performance appraisal index system in rural areas,then the scientific evaluation can be carried out,the management of environmental protection special fund can be regulated,furthermore,the investment efficiency and the rural environmental quality can be improved truly.
Advances and Future Challenges in Electric Power Big Data

Through storage, consolidation, calculation, application core technologies of Big Data, application in electric power industry could drive upgrading and transformation of IT platform and business model of electric power companies. Big Data application in electric power industry requires to improve the capabilities of data storage and processing, which fills in the virgin areas of analysis and usage of unstructured data and massive data mining to improve the data mining efficiency of electric power companies. The electric power big data (EPBD) challenge is becoming one of the most exciting opportunities for the years to come. We present a broad overview of this topic, its current status, technical challenges, and a forecast to the future in this paper.
DNA barcoding of Nilssonia congeners corroborates existence of wild N. nigricans in northeast India

DNA barcode data of soft-shell turtles is limited in global DNA database while it is completely lacking for the highly debated species Nilssonia nigricans. We employed DNA barcoding technique to discriminate the species cluster for Nilssonia congeners, especially for the highly debated N. nigricans from different localities of northeast India. Sampling across the region included a few live specimens from wild, market sold carcass specimens, and a few dry carapaces meant for home decoration purpose. The generated sequences (621 bp of mtCOI) of dry carapaces showed 99-100% homology with the generated sequences of morphologically identified N. nigricans. The COI barcode sequences of N. nigricans (n = 12) showed 3.8% mean genetic divergence with N. hurum (n = 3), 10% with N. gangetica (n = 4), and 9.2% with N. formosa (GenBank sequences). Similarly, the mtCytb sequences of the dry carapace and live specimens of N. nigricans were 99-100% homologous with the conspecific database sequences and formed specific clusters. The inferred Neighbor-Joining (NJ), Maximum Likelihood (ML), and Bayesian (BA) phylogeny based on partial mtCOI gene efficiently discriminated all the congeners of Nilssonia into specific clusters and, therefore, it was helpful to detect the existence of N. nigricans.
Sea-More-Yield: a blue biotechnology solution for the reduction of pod shatter in bio-oil producing crops

Sea-More-Yield is a revolutionary non-transgenic platform for trait introduction via single 1.5L/Ha foliar spray, enabling immediate expression of desirable anti-shatter traits in OSR. This pioneering technology enables growers for the first time to modulate OSR pod physiology to minimise seed loss and yield risk with an early season spray (in the absence of pods). With a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050, OSR is a key crop for human and animal consumption and is central to mitigating a future food and/or energy security crisis. OSR due to its relatively recent domestication suffers from a number of defects which limits its success as a modern day crop. Fully mature pods of oilseed rape are extremely prone to opening, resulting in seed loss (pod shatter). Typical losses vary between 15% and 25% of the potential yield, but reductions of up to 50% were estimated in seasons when weather conditions were poor prior to and during harvest. A reduction in the tendency of pods to opening is the number one trait sought by farmers and would serve to increase the proportion of the yield recovered by the combine harvester and thereby improve production efficiency and sustainability of OSR as alternative food and energy source. To address this industry-limiting problem, SMY offers a unique blue technology that modulates OSR pod physiology to control unsynchronized pod shatter leading to recovery of an additional 20% of the yield potential.
Numerical simulation of solar air heater with V-groove absorber used in HD desalination

It is based on the heat transfer analysis of double-pass solar air heater with V-groove absorber, and used CFD software to make numerical simulation for the air flow paralleling with the V-groove in the air heater. The comparisons of simulation data with the experimental ones are made, it shows that the average difference between them is less than 8%, and the method of simulation is reliable. It is found by simulation that if the air flows across the V-groove in the air heater, the parameters of air heater, such as outlet air temperature, inlet-outlet pressure drop and efficiency of heat collected would be higher than the ones of parallel-flow under the same conditions; if the included angle of V-groove is increased, the inlet-outlet pressure drop of air in the heater would be decreased appreciably, and the outlet air temperature decreased obviously; if the height of V-groove is reduced about 10%, the inlet-outlet pressure difference of air in the heater would be reduced considerably, but the outlet tempe...
Impacts of the Atlantic Equatorial Mode in a warmer climate

The main source of sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the Tropical Atlantic at interannual time scales is the Equatorial Mode or Atlantic El Nino. It has been shown to affect the adjacent continents and also remote regions, leading to a weakened Indian Monsoon and promoting La Nina-type anomalies over the Pacific. However, its effects in a warmer climate are unknown. This work analyses the impact of the Equatorial Mode at the end of the twenty first century by means of sensitivity experiments with an atmosphere general circulation model. The prescribed boundary conditions for the future climate are based on the outputs from models participating in the coupled model intercomparison project—phase V. Our results suggest that even if the characteristics of the Equatorial Mode at the end of the twenty first century remained equal to those of the twentieth century, there will be an eastward shift of the main rainfall positive anomalies in the Tropical Atlantic and a weakening of the negative rainfall anomalies over the Asian monsoon due to the change in climatological SSTs. We also show that extratropical surface temperature anomalies over land related to the mode will change in regions like Southwestern Europe, East Australia, Asia or North America due to the eastward shift of the sea level pressure systems and related surface winds.
A comparative study to evaluate the effect of limited access dressing (LAD) on burn wound healing

Biochemical and histopathological analyses are commonly used objective parameters in research and clinical fields to assess the healing status of burn wounds. In this study, the effect of newer intermittent negative-pressure wound therapy in combination with moist environment [limited access dressing (LAD)] on burn wound healing is studied. Various biochemical parameters like hydroxyproline, hexosamine and total protein, and antioxidants like reduced glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and oxidative biomarker malondialdhyde (MDA) were measured in the granulation tissue. Histopathologically, necrotic tissue, amount of inflammatory infiltrate, angiogenesis and extracellular matrix deposition (ECM) were studied to determine wound healing. A total of 55 patients were divided into two groups as follows: LAD group (n = 28) and conventional dressing group (n = 27). Patients treated with LAD have shown significant increase in the mean levels of (±SD) hydroxyproline (75·2 ± 26·30 versus 27·8 ± 15·5; P = 0·010), hexosamine (9·0 ± 1·99 versus 8·0 ± 1·18; P = 0·038), total protein (15·6 ± 8·23 versus 10·26 ± 4·94; P = 0·003), GSH (7·40 ± 1·91 versus 5·1 ± 1·28; P = 0·037), GPx (112·6 ± 46·4 versus 92 ± 32·4; P = 0·016), and decrease in MDA (6·5 ± 2·24 versus 1 0·6 ± 3·8; P = 0·002). Histopathologically, between LAD and conventional dressing groups, there was a significant difference after 10 days of treatment (mean±SE) in necrotic tissue of (LAD versus conventional dressing groups = 10 ± 1·8 versus 11·9 ± 2·6; P = 0·033), inflammatory cells (8·4 ± 1·9 versus 13 ± 3·46; P = 0·021), new blood vessels (12·5 ± 2·87 versus 9·4 ± 1·7; P = 0·047), ECM deposit (12·9 ± 2·41 versus 9·68 ± 1·3; P = 0·018) and showed comparatively fewer inflammatory cells, increased and well-organised extracellular matrix deposit, more angiogenesis in LAD group as compared with that in conventional dressing group. To conclude, LAD exerts its beneficial effects on wound healing by reducing oxidative stress, decreasing necrotic tissue and amount of inflammatory infiltrate, and increasing ECM deposition and angiogenesis.
State of the art paper Deep brain stimulation for refractory epilepsy

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a method of treatment utilized to control medically refractory epilepsy (RE). Patients with medically refractory epilepsy who do not achieve satisfactory control of seizures with pharmacological treatment or surgical resection of the epileptic focus and those who do not qualify for surgery could benefit from DBS. The most frequently used stereotactic targets for DBS are the anterior thalamic nucleus, subthalamic nucleus, central-medial thalamic nucleus, hippocampus, amygdala and cerebellum. The DBS is believed to be an effective method of treatment for various types of epilepsy among adults and adolescents. Side effects may be associated with implantation of electrodes and with the stimulation itself. An increasing number of publications and growing interest in DBS application for RE may result in standardization of the qualification and treatment protocol for RE with DBS.
The Role of Collateral in the Credit Acquisition Process: Evidence from SME Lending

This study tests the simultaneous impact of observed characteristics and private information on debt term contracts in a multi-period setting, using a dataset of 12,666 credit approvals by one major Portuguese commercial bank during 2007–2010. The main results show that borrowers with good credit scores that know they have a high probability of success and are unlikely to default are more willing to pledge collateral in return for a lower interest rate premium (IRP). Furthermore, lenders tailor the specific terms of the contract, increasing both collateral requirements and the IRP from observed risk, for borrowers operating in riskier industries and with less credit availability. The results are robust to controls for joint debt terms negotiation and the degree of collateralization offered by the borrower.
RETAIL PURCHASE INCENTIVE METHODS AND SYSTEMS

Computerized methods and systems receive access information from an electronic device of a user. The access information is provided to the user in response to completion of a retail transaction between the user and a retailer. Completion of the retail transaction associated with the received access information is verified. In response to the verification, at least one electronic game token and at least one electronic lottery ticket are assigned to the electronic device. The at least one electronic game token allows the user to play a computerized game on the electronic device. The at least one electronic lottery ticket is randomly selected from a plurality of electronic lottery tickets.
Programmable nucleic acid toolkits for cell-free diagnostics and genetically encoded biosensing

WHY: The biological complexity of tumours and the large diversity of diagnostic biomarkers call for the development of innovative analytical tools that can detect multiple targets in a sensitive, specific and low-cost way and allow real-time monitoring of disease pathways and therapeutic effects. To provide such transformative tools creative thinking, innovative approach and the exploration of new research avenues that span different disciplines is necessary. 

WHAT: The goal of the PRO-TOOLKITS project is to address this need by developing innovative cell-free point of care diagnostic kits and genetically encodable biosensing tools. 

HOW: I oriented my independent career as a P.I. towards the design and development of synthetic nucleic acid-based nanodevices and nanomachines. With the help of an ERC Starting Grant I made ground-breaking contributions in the field of nucleic acid Nanotechnology. Motivated by these advancements I propose to challenge my know-how and expertise to explore new research avenues that will open exciting possibilities in biosensing applications. The key, ground-breaking IDEA underlying this project is to take advantage of my expertise and harness the advantageous features of RNA synthetic modules that can translate the expression of proteins in controlled in-vitro cell-free systems and can be also genetically encoded in living organisms and function inside the cells. I will develop rationally designed programmable nucleic acid modules that respond to a wide range of molecular markers and environmental stimuli through innovative nature-inspired mechanisms and that can be orthogonally wired to provide cell-free diagnostic kits and genetically encoded live-cell biosensing tools. The project will provide transformative approaches, methods and tools that will represent a genuine break-through in the fields of in-vitro diagnostics, biosensing and synthetic biology.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING FOG USING SPECTROSCOPY

A method for detection or the density determination or the classification of an aerosol using spectroscopy includes: using an image taken by a camera for a vehicle, a first value of a parameter being ascertained from the at least one image in a first step, using a first color filtering, and a second value for the same parameter being ascertained in a second step having a second color filtering, which is different from the preceding color filtering, and the values ascertained in the at least two steps are compared, and as a function of the result of the comparison, the detection or the density determination or the classification of the aerosol is carried out.