SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A POWER SUPPLY

A power supply (1) for an electronic device comprising electric cells (7) arranged to generate an intermediate voltage (Vx), and a voltage converter (30) coupled to the electric cells (7), the voltage converter (30) converting the intermediate voltage (Vx) to an output voltage (Vo), wherein the converter (30) comprises a switch (14) to vary the output voltage (Vo) to match an input voltage of the electronic device.
Towards Queering the Business School: A Research Agenda for Advancing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Perspectives and Issues

This article draws on queer theory to advance a research agenda that foregrounds lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) perspectives and issues as one means by which business schools can be made queer(er) institutions to work. As such, this article employs a process of queering to expose how LGBT people experience and negotiate the heteronormativity within business schools. A queering approach is encouraged to generate research on LGBT sexualities that can reveal instances of queerness within business schools, with the aim of helping LGBT people and their allies to foster alternative ways of relating, identifying and organizing that transcend heteronormativity. As such, the research agenda elaborates on the importance of the following: problematizing organizational heteronormativity; queering organizational and management knowledge; and the role of straight and queer allies. This article concludes by speculating about the implications of a queer(er) business school for LGBT people and their allies.
Monte Carlo gradient estimation in high dimensions

A Monte Carlo procedure to estimate efficiently the gradient of a generic function in high dimensions is presented. It is shown that, adopting an orthogonal linear transformation, it is possible to identify a new coordinate system where a relatively small subset of the variables causes most of the variation of the gradient. This property is exploited further in gradient-based algorithms to reduce the computational effort for the gradient evaluation in higher dimensions. Working in this transformed space, only few function evaluations, i.e. considerably less than the dimensionality of the problem, are required. The procedure is simple and can be applied by any gradient-based method. A number of different examples are presented to show the accuracy and the efficiency of the proposed approach and the applicability of this procedure for the optimization problem using well-known gradient-based optimization algorithms such as the descent gradient, quasi-Newton methods and Sequential Quadratic Programming. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Facile synthesis of pure TiO2(B) nanofibers doped with gold nanoparticles and solar photocatalytic activities

Abstract Pure and highly crystallized gold nanoparticles-doped-TiO 2 (B) nanofibers (Au-T B NFs), with thickness of 50–200 nm and length of several microns, were successfully synthesized by combination of low-temperature (150 °C) hydrothermal reaction of titanium (IV) isopropoxide (Ti[OC 3 H 7 ] 4 ) and sonication of the ensued precipitate with gold nanoparticles followed by post-heat treatment at 300 °C. Formation of pure TiO 2 (B) was confirmed by X-ray diffraction, high resolution transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS) of Au–TiO 2 (B) nanofibers exhibited surface-state absorption beyond 400 nm with band gap energy at 2.94 eV and broad gold plasma resonance band around 550 nm. The photoluminescence (PL) emission spectra of the Au-T B NFs exhibited structural emission band around 410 nm with shoulders around 464 nm and 540 nm. Analysis of these optical properties revealed that the surface state absorption is attributed to the indirect transition. These results suggest that coupling of the surface charge carriers with the lattice phonon of Au-T B NFs is so strong that the charge recombination is mostly nonradiative as supported by the significantly quenched emission of Au-T B NFs as compared to that of free T B NFs. These optoelectronic properties were well correlated with highly efficient solar photocatalytic activities of Au-T B NFs for oxidation of methylene blue (MB).
REvitalization of Sustainable Tourism Across Regions in The MEDiterranean

RESTART MED! is aimed at revitalizing the tourism economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, by building on and learning from previous experiences and practices, using this moment to boost sustainability together with the economic recovery of this key industry. The project will support tourism providers to work alongside public and civil society stakeholders for a better and resilient recovery, by creating more sustainable policies and products. A positive change is expected through a reset of basic tourism principles where the diversified, sustainable offer and common branding will reattract tourists. This will be achieved thanks to the exploitation and dissemination of best practices and results of at least 8 sustainable tourism projects, and the via the reinforcement and extension of stakeholder networks of at least 5 capitalizable projects with a common brand and platform. Finally, the project will raise awareness among public authorities and policy-makers, promoting sustainable tourism good practices among them, and supporting mainstreaming into policies.
Pilot-Project for the Activation of Maritime Connections between Emilia-Romagna and Croatia

The proposed project is made up of three macro-sets of action. The first relates to the drawing up of a Feasibility Study on the possibilities of developing the maritime links for passengers and goods between the ports of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the corresponding Croatian ports, with particular reference to those ports in the Centre North area. The second action relates to the realisation of a pilot-project concerning the activation of a direct maritime line, linking the port of Ravenna and a corresponding Croatian port to be chosen through the following procedure. The third set of actions regards the realisation of a pilot-project carried out through the activation of maritime
connections of the”light” type (using a hydrofoil or a catamaran) between the ports of Rimini, Cesenatico and the ports of the Northern
Croatian area.
ABC/XYZ Estimates Intracerebral Hemorrhage Volume as a Percent of Total Brain Volume in Children

Background and Purpose— Intracerebral hemorrhage volume (ICHV) as a percentage of total brain volume (TBV) is a strong predictor of outcome in childhood intracerebral hemorrhage with ICHV/TBV &gt;2% associated with functional impairment. We aimed to determine whether easily performed approximations of intracerebral hemorrhage and brain volume can accurately and reliably stratify intracerebral hemorrhage by size. Methods— CT scans of 18 children with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage were independently reviewed by 4 neurologists. ICHV as a proportion of TBV was estimated as ABC/XYZ expressed as a percentage: A= largest axial hemorrhage diameter; B=largest axial diameter perpendicular to A on the same slice; and C=hemorrhage vertical diameter. Similarly, X=largest midline axial diameter of supratentorial brain; Y=largest axial diameter perpendicular to X; and Z=brain vertical diameter. Interrater reliability was measured with intraclass correlation coefficients. ICHV and TBV were measured using computer-assisted manual segmentation tracings to establish criterion validity. Each intracerebral hemorrhage was classified as small (≤2% TBV) or large (&gt;2% TBV). Results— Estimates of ICHV, TBV, and ICHV/TBV using the ABC/XYZ method had outstanding interrater reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.95 to 0.99). These estimates were highly correlated with volumetric measures ( R 2 =0.77 to 0.96). Sensitivity of the ABC/XYZ method for identifying an ICHV &gt;2% TBV was 100% (95% CI, 89% to 100%). Specificity was 95% (95% CI, 83% to 99%). Conclusions— The ABC/XYZ method accurately and reliably estimates ICHV and TBV in children. These values can be used to approximate quickly and easily ICHV as a percentage of TBV, which has important prognostic implications.
Derechos fundamentales en movilidad humana. Flexibilización de los requisitos para la visa de residencia temporal de trabajo solicitada por la República del Ecuador para los migrantes de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela

El presente trabajo de investigación parte de una investigación que nace del convenio entre la Fundación FIDAL y la Universidad Internacional SEK, dentro del año 2020 y 2021 se llevó a cabo un trabajo de ayuda social, el cual arrojó una serie de insumos entre ellos el análisis detallado de los derechos de los migrantes venezolanos al momento de encontrarse dentro del territorio ecuatoriano, y observar si es que en efecto existe una vulneración a estos derechos cuando buscan adquirir la visa de residencia temporal de trabajo. Por lo que la presente investigación se dividirá en 3 apartados. El primer acápite se encuentra orientado en definir a la movilidad humana. De igual forma, este apartado enlista los principios aplicables en esta rama del derecho. Por último, se desarrolla cuales son los requisitos que se solicita el Estado ecuatoriano para otorgar la Visa de residencia temporal de Trabajo. Dentro del segundo apartado son analizados los derechos de los migrantes, para lo cual se tiene como premisa principal tanto artículos de la Constitución del Ecuador como sentencias de la Corte Constitucional. De igual forma, analizaremos el Código de Trabajo para observar cuales son esos derechos laborales que poseen los migrantes, y a su vez, observaremos pronunciamientos de grandes entidades internacionales.
DEPURE - Développement d’un système durable pour la prise de DÉcisions PUbliques au niveau RÉgional dans l'économie de la connaissance

A society’s success depends to a large extent on a good strategic understanding of different public policies, which have to be sustained and firmly based on information and knowledge. In the current economic context, the public administrations and bodies involved in regional development require mechanisms to help them manage information and to provide arguments to ensure that political decisions are taken correctly. This enables regions to achieve sustainable development, to structure regional cohesion and to improve quality of life for their citizens. Overall objective / Objectif général DEPURE aims to draw up a sustainable system for the analysis, evaluation and testing of regional public decisions in the knowledge society. The specific objectives focus on providing the regional authorities with tools to support the planning process and regional public decision-making, improving the efficiency of regional development policies and providing innovative tools for collecting information in a coordinated fashion. Expected results / Résultats attendus DEPURE should contribute to sustainable regional development and should add value to regional policy through: • More efficient regional management and integration of regions in the knowledge society. • Regional clusters and virtual, inter-regional clusters to provide coordination among the different public administrations. • The DEPURE system should allow analysis, visualisation of policies, strategies, plans and actions and the coordinated comparison of information on regions. • The creation of bases to ensure that collaboration is present among regions in other initiatives and to strengthen interregional and regional cooperation.
Il sistema delle procedure amministrativo-contabili della GSA: il caso di Regione Lombardia e Regione Veneto

Il presente studio intende offrire un contributo al dibattito sulla Gestione Sanitaria Accentrata (GSA). Nello specifico, propone uno strumento innovativo, vale a dire la redazione di un sistema di procedure amministrativo-contabili della GSA che, travalicando i confini organizzativi della GSA stessa e abbracciando una logica integrata di sistema del SSR, mappa i flussi di risorse afferenti al fabbisogno sanitario. Attraverso la disamina di due casi studio particolarmente emblematici (quello della GSA in Lombardia e quello di Azienda Zero in Veneto), lo studio mostra che le procedure sistemiche e integrate della GSA (i) sono utilmente applicabili in contesti diversi, in quanto in grado di coglierne e valorizzarne le peculiarit&amp;agrave; organizzative e contabili; (ii) costituiscono un valido strumento di risposta alle principali problematiche della GSA soprattutto in termini di governo e controllo della filiera Regione-GSAaziende sanitarie.
Sophisticated 3d cell culture scaffolds for  next generation barrier-on-chip in vitro models

The blood-brain barrier is a sophisticated biological barrier comprising several different cell types, structured in a well-defined order with the task to strictly control the passage of molecules - such as drugs against neurodegenerative diseases - from the blood into the brain. To reduce the ethical and economic costs of drug development, which in EU today uses 
~10 million experimental animals every year, we must develop in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier with high in vivo correlation, as these are completely missing today.

SONGBIRD aims to achieve this with the scientific approach to
- Develop advanced microfabrication methods to handle biologically derived materials
- Structure the materials into heterogeneous 3D multi-layer suspended cell culture scaffolds
- Incorporate blood-brain barrier cells with precise control on location and order
- Integrated the 3D scaffolds into a microfluidic network as a miniaturised screening platform

The vision is to develop and validate versatile microfabrication methods to mechanically structure and physically handle soft biological materials to unlock the use of next generation animal-free barrier-on-chip models that can be used to speed up drug development, serve as screening platforms for nanotoxicology and help medical researchers to gain mechanistic insight in drug delivery. During SONGBIRD, I will focus on the blood-brain barrier due to its urgent relevance for drug development for the ageing population but the final processing tool-box will be suitable for realising in vitro models of any biological barrier in the future.

SONGBIRD is proposed to run for 60 months and will include researchers with expertise in microsystem engineering (PI), hydrogel synthesis and drug delivery. The expected output is a validated 3D barrier-on-chip model as well as a microfabrication toolbox for biological materials enabling transformation from 2D to 3D cell cultures in several other life science research areas.
Molecular dynamics study on low-energy sputtering of carbon material by Xe ion bombardment

Abstract The low-energy sputtering of carbon material under Xe ion bombardment is studied through the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. For the normal incidence of Xe, the MD result of sputtering yield almost agrees with the experimental result by Williams et al. (AIAA-2004-3788). However, the experimental result shows a less incident angle dependence than the MD result because the experiment performed on a rough surface. It is found that the sputtered particles have memory of the projectile because the sputtered particles by the low-energy projectile undergo only a few collisions before the ejection. Low density of an amorphous carbon surface brings the decrease of the sputtering yield and the increase of high-energy sputtered atoms.
Seismic spectral decomposition and inversion for buried channels delineation: a case study from the Asmari Reservoir, southwestern Iran

Dense data sampling in 3D seismic surveys provides a clear image from subsurface layers, but it may fail in the cases where the thickness of a layer is below seismic resolution (e.g. thin beds and channels). Seismic spectral decomposition and inversion are among methods that can help us to delineate and study the sub-seismic resolution features.
This paper shows how the buried channels of the Asmari formation in an oil field located in southwest Iran were delineated and are studied using seismic spectral decomposition and inversion. The Gabor wavelet transform was used to divide seismic frequency spectra into eight bands out of which three frequency bands with central frequencies of 24, 29, and 35 Hz have been selected for RGB blending for its perfectness in exposing the channels.
Several distinct channels were detected at 15ms interval below the top of the Asmari formation. The P-impedance data coincide with the findings further giving information on lithological aspects. Detailed delineation of the channels became possible by using the Matching Pursuit Decomposition (MPD) method.
In order to delineate sub-seismic resolution features, spectral decomposition is used to transform time-domain seismic data into the frequency domain and then the special elements corresponding to these subsurface features are enhanced with spectral blending.
Physiological and environmental controls of water and ozone fluxes in a short rotation poplar plantation: from leaf to tree to ecosystem scale.

One of the consequences of global climate changes is the altered global water availability. Among the greenhouse gases (GHGs) causing global climate changes, carbon dioxide (CO2) has received most attention. Over the last decennia the impact of rising CO2 concentrations on crops has been widely studied. The study of tropospheric ozone (O3) and its consequences on crops has not been as extensive, although O3 is a widespread and damaging air pollutant in industrialized countries. The PHYSIO-POP project fits within the search for renewable (bio-)energies, in particular the production of woody biomass energy. The project will examine the water consumption and the sensitivity to O3 pollution of a short rotation poplar plantation with fast-growing poplars (Populus spp.) for biomass production.
The multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach followed by this PHYSIO-POP proposal aims to improve our knowledge of the impact of global climate change by studying the physiological and environmental controls of water and O3 fluxes in different short rotation poplar genotypes at all relevant biological (leaf, tree, ecosystem) and time (daily, seasonal) scales. To achieve this objective the project makes the unusual combination of plant (eco-)physiological studies at the leaf and the tree levels with model simulations at tree and ecosystem levels to improve our understanding of what happens at the whole plantation, from the leaf to the ecosystem scale over the individual tree level.
Conhecimento das boas práticas ao parto por parte dos profissionais de enfermagem: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Introdução: A assistência obstétrica era marcada por excesso de intervenções e não como evento natural e fisiológico. O surgimento das recomendações da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) para as boas práticas ao parto trouxeram evidências a fim de promover uma boa qualidade de assistência ao parto. Material e Métodos: Revisão Integrativa da Literatura. A pergunta norteadora foi: “Qual o conhecimento científico produzido acerca da aplicabilidade das Boas Práticas do Parto por profissionais de enfermagem na assistência ao parto”. Os descritores utilizados foram: cuidado perinatal, parto humanizado, enfermagem obstétrica, por meio do operador booleano AND. As bases de dados utilizadas foram PubMed, LILACS e CINAHL. Critérios de inclusão: artigos completos dos anos de 2005 à 2020, disponíveis em Inglês, Português e Espanhol, de métodos quantitativo. Foram excluídos artigos que não corresponderam ao período estabelecido; publicações repetidas, artigos de Revisão de Literatura, e estudos não quantitativos. Resultados: Foram localizados 1468 artigos, no entanto apenas 4 se enquadraram no critério de inclusão do estudo. Todos os artigos tiveram o enfermeiro como profissional de enfermagem. Há um aumento das boas práticas ao parto quando o enfermeiro obstetra está presente, devido ao seu conhecimento. Em alguns hospitais algumas práticas desfavoráveis e usadas de maneira inapropriada ainda persistem, apesar de ter diminuído com o conhecimento do enfermeiro obstetra. Conclusão: a Enfermagem Obstétrica é componente fundamental na assistência humanizada ao parto, reduzindo assim o risco de práticas claramente prejudiciais ou que são utilizadas de modo inapropriado e incentivando boas práticas ao parto e nascimento.
Long-term aging of Ag/a-C:H:O nanocomposite coatings in air and in aqueous environment

Nanocomposite coatings of silver particles embedded in a plasma polymer matrix possess interesting properties depending on their microstructure. The film microstructure is affected among others also by the RF power supplied during the deposition, as shown by transmission electron microscopy. The optical properties are characterized by UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy. An anomalous optical absorption peak from the Ag nanoparticles is observed and related to the microstructure of the nanocomposite films. Furthermore, a long-term aging of the coatings is studied in-depth in ambient air and in aqueous environments. It is shown that the studied films are not entirely stable. The deposition conditions and the microstructure of the films affect the processes taking place during their aging in both environments.
Numerical Analysis of Inelastic Lateral Torsional Buckling Strength of HSB800 Steel Plate Girders with Doubly Symmetric Section

In this paper, lateral-torsional buckling(LTB) strength of HSB800 high strength steel plate girder with monosymmetric section under uniform moment was evaluated by nonlinear analysis. The unbraced length in inelastic LTB range was considered for the sections whose smaller or larger flange is in compression with slender, noncompact and compact web. Analyses of SM490 steel girders were first performed with the single-panel and three-panel model to judge the validity of the constructed models by comparing those results with Eurocode 3, AASHTO and AISC codes. By using the same models, LTB strength of HSB800 girder was evaluated and it was found that the sections whose smaller flange is in compression with noncompact flange-slender/noncompact web could not reach the flexural strength of the design codes.
Regional excess mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality from all causes in 2020 varied across and within European countries. Using data for 2015-2019, we applied Bayesian spatio-temporal models to quantify the expected weekly deaths at the regional level had the pandemic not occurred in England, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. With around 30%, Madrid, Castile-La Mancha, Castile-Leon (Spain) and Lombardia (Italy) were the regions with the highest excess mortality. In England, Greece and Switzerland, the regions most affected were Outer London and the West Midlands (England), Eastern, Western and Central Macedonia (Greece), and Ticino (Switzerland), with 15-20% excess mortality in 2020. Our study highlights the importance of the large transportation hubs for establishing community transmission in the first stages of the pandemic. Here, we show that acting promptly to limit transmission around these hubs is essential to prevent spread to other regions and countries.