SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
La pérennité d’un projet de prévention et de prise en charge de la malnutrition au Niger

This article is a case study of a capacity-building project to reduce malnutrition, implemented by a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Niger. It aims to generate a set of lessons learned on the processes of sustaining health interventions in vulnerable contexts.Using a theoretical framework on sustainability, we carried out a thematic analysis on semi-structured individual interviews (n = 124) collected, between 2016 and 2017, during the evaluative research of the NGO project.The data analysis revealed several risks and opportunities to sustain the project activities, classified according to the characteristics of a routine identified in the theoretical framework: memory, routines, values, and rules. Our findings show a low level of sustainability of the project. Several activities were stopped at the end of the project and others may not continue in the long term. Indeed, local realities-poverty and political fragility-combined with the 'short-term' and vertical logics of the project's implementation have hindered the project activities' sustainability.In vulnerable environments, sustainability should not simply be seen as an outcome to be achieved at the end of the project. The sustainability process must be activated by key stakeholders, focusing not only on the resources stabilizing but also on the resilience of the structures and systems in which interventions are embedded.RéSUMé: OBJECTIF: Cet article est une étude de cas portant sur un projet de renforcement des capacités visant à réduire la malnutrition et implanté par une organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) au Niger. Notre étude a pour but de générer un ensemble de leçons apprises sur les processus de pérennisation des interventions en santé dans des contextes vulnérables. MéTHODE: Utilisant un cadre théorique sur la pérennité, nous avons effectué une analyse thématique sur des entretiens individuels semi-structurés (n = 124) collectés, entre 2016 et 2017, durant la recherche évaluative du projet de l’ONG. RéSULTATS: L’analyse des données a révélé plusieurs risques et opportunités pour pérenniser les activités du projet qui ont été classés selon les caractéristiques d’une routine relevée dans le cadre théorique que sont : la mémoire, les routines, les valeurs et les règles. Les résultats font ressortir un faible niveau de pérennité du projet de l’ONG. Plusieurs activités ont été arrêtées à la fin du projet et d’autres risquent de ne pas continuer à long terme. En effet, les réalités locales – pauvreté et fragilité politique – combinées aux logiques ‘courtermistes’ et verticales de mise en œuvre du projet empêchent sa pérennisation. CONCLUSION: Dans des environnements vulnérables, la pérennité ne devrait pas simplement être considérée comme un résultat à atteindre à la fin du projet. Le processus de pérennisation doit être activé par les parties prenantes, en mettant l’accent non seulement sur la stabilisation des ressources mais également sur la résilience des structures et systèmes dans lesquels sont intégrées les interventions.
Assessment of Soil Thermal Conductivity Based on BPNN Optimized by Genetic Algorithm

Thermal conductivity is a critical parameter playing an important role in the heat transfer process in thermal engineering and enormous other engineering fields. Thus, the accurate acquisition of thermal conductivity has significant meaning for thermal engineering. However, compared to density test, moisture content test, and other physical property tests, the thermal conductivity is hard and expensive to acquire. Apparently, it has great meaning to accurately predict conductivity around a site through easily accessible parameters. In this paper, 40 samples are taken from 37 experimental points in Changchun, China, and the BPNN optimized by genetic algorithm (GA-BPNN) is used to evaluate the thermal conductivity by moisture content, porosity, and natural density of undisturbed soil. The result is compared by two widely used empirical methods and BPNN method and shows that the GA-BPNN has better prediction ability for soil thermal conductivity. The impact weight is obtained through mean impact value (MIV), where the natural density, moisture content, and porosity are 30.98%, 55.57%, and 13.45%, respectively. Due to high complexity of different parameter on thermal conductivity, some remolded soil specimens are taken to study the influence of individual factors on thermal conductivity. The correlations between moisture content and porosity with thermal conductivity are studied through control variable method. The result demonstrates that the impact weight of moisture content and porosity can be explained by remolded soil experiment to some extent.
Resultados do Plano Nacional de Aviação Civil (PNAC) em Santa Catarina (2009 a 2015)

Esta pesquisa tem como seu tema principal pesquisar sobre os efeitos da Política Nacional de Aviação Civil (PNAC) em Santa Catarina no período de 2009 – 2015, entender qual foi o sua importância e seu legado que foi deixado sobre o transporte aéreo comercial no estado catarinense, como isso influenciou e economia, a integração e desenvolvimento no território do estado através da movimentação de cargas e passageiros. Para isso irá abortar uma visão desenvolvimentista através de uma análise qualitativa e quantitativa de dados fornecido pela Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC), como número de passageiros e quantidade em quilogramas (Kg) transportada, fazendo uso também de livros, artigos, reportagens, regulamentos e leis. Após fazer as pesquisas e análise podemos ver PNAC permitiu grande melhorias estruturais nos aeroportos, tornando-os mais bem preparado para atender as demandas, mas ainda assim tendo deixado a desejar no transporte de carga.
The impact of recent retrotransposon invasions on the evolution of human neural gene expression

Throughout evolution, primate genomes have been under attack by different classes of retrotransposons, retrovirus-derived mobile DNA elements. As a result, an astonishing ~50% of the human genome is derived from many types of retrotransposons. I previously showed that primate-specific retrotransposon invasions are restricted by primate-specific KRAB zinc finger proteins. These findings suggest that through recruitment to thousands of new genomic locations, KRAB zinc finger proteins have become intimately integrated into pre-existing gene regulatory pathways. Retrotransposons are an important source for evolutionary novelties, but the impact of thousands of human-specific retrotransposon-KZNF regulatory modules on the evolution of human gene expression patterns is unknown. There is increasing evidence that retrotransposons become reactivated during neural differentiation, suggesting that neuronal gene-regulatory networks may be extra sensitive to retrotransposon insertions. Furthermore, new retrotransposon insertions may hold clues to the mechanism of human disease: Even when retrotransposons are efficiently silenced in health, they may become aberrantly activated by changes in DNA methylation observed in neurological diseases and cancer. Using a previously established human and non-human primate stem cell cortical neuron differentiation assay, I will identify, validate and functionally test neurodevelopmental genes that have come under the control of retrotransposons. This will address the impact of recent waves of retrotransposon insertions on the evolution of human neural gene expression patterns and opens up the exploration of how new retrotransposon insertions may be correlated to human neurological disorders. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship will provide the opportunity to establish my research group in Europe and re-integrate in Dutch and EU networks, as well as allow me to achieve my professional development training goals.
A pervasive framework for real-time activity patterns of mobile users

Given the rise of ubiquitous computing and communication devices like biosensors, smart watch, and smartphones, real-time online systems can provide users with a wide range of supports including monitoring daily activities and retrieving of personal data. User activity pattern can give an abstraction and summarization about physical behavior for certain group of people. However, one of the biggest challenges in this topic that we are facing today is the big data problem associated with large, complex, and dynamic data. In addition, as the demand for the integration and analysis of dynamic data as well as static historical data from different sources has been growing steadily, smartphones with limited capacity and computing abilities can hardly manage and process such a huge task. To address these above issues, a new framework has to be used to assist in the process, analysis, and integration of big data for a mobile platform. In this paper, I propose a distributed cloud based pervasive framework to help do complicated computing for a mobile platform. The framework has the ability to collect, process, analyze, and integrate different types of data from different sources by using state-of-the-art technologies. The purpose of this framework is to provide an intelligent and efficient approach to analyze and combine new incoming data with historical data to build and refine a solid user activity pattern.
Jungck-type implicit iterative algorithms with numerical examples

We introduce a new Jungck-type implicit iterative scheme and study its strong convergence, stability under weak parametric restrictions in generalized convex metric spaces and data dependency in generalized hyperbolic spaces. We show thatnewintroduced iterative scheme has better convergence rate as compared to well known Jungck implicit Mann, Jungck implicit Ishikawa and Jungck implicit Noor iterative schemes. It is also shown that Jungck implicit iterative schemes converge faster than the corresponding Jungck explicit iterative schemes. Validity of our analytic proofs is shown through numerical examples. Our results are improvements and generalizations of some recent results of Khan et al.[21], Chugh et al.[8] and many others in fixed point theory.
Global assessment of organ specific basal gene expression over a diurnal cycle with analyses of gene copies exhibiting cyclic expression patterns

Abstract Background Studying functional divergences between paralogs that originated from genome duplication is a significant topic in investigating molecular evolution. Genes that exhibit basal level cyclic expression patterns including circadian and light responsive genes are important physiological regulators. Temporal shifts in basal gene expression patterns are important factors to be considered when studying genetic functions. However, adequate efforts have not been applied to studying basal gene expression variation on a global scale to establish transcriptional activity baselines for each organ. Furthermore, the investigation of cyclic expression pattern comparisons between genome duplication created paralogs, and potential functional divergence between them has been neglected. To address these questions, we utilized a teleost fish species, Xiphophorus maculatus, and profiled gene expression within 9 organs at 3-h intervals throughout a 24-h diurnal period. Results Our results showed 1.3–21.9% of genes in different organs exhibited cyclic expression patterns, with eye showing the highest fraction of cycling genes while gonads yielded the lowest. A majority of the duplicated gene pairs exhibited divergences in their basal level expression patterns wherein only one paralog exhibited an oscillating expression pattern, or both paralogs exhibit oscillating expression patterns, but each gene duplicate showed a different peak expression time, and/or in different organs. Conclusions These observations suggest cyclic genes experienced significant sub-, neo-, or non-functionalization following the teleost genome duplication event. In addition, we developed a customized, web-accessible, gene expression browser to facilitate data mining and data visualization for the scientific community.
The portfolio, a document for an internationally comparable assessment

This project is among the priority projects in the framework of cross-border cooperation in the field of education to ensure the inclusion and cooperation of the Slovenian minority in Italy. The scope of the project covers preschool and primary education and takes the form of a research aimed at introducing new ways to assess the personal progress of pupils and teachers. A number of initiatives have been promoted both in Italy and in Slovenia in the past few years to experiment and draw up a portfolio that responds to schooling needs. The pupil’s skills portfolio is a document containing a brief description of the educational development and the educational - didactic progress made by the pupils as well as a collection of significant papers that clearly indicate their personal resources, interests, the methods and times of learning, their inclinations and personal aspirations. The creation of the portfolio must be preceded by a period of close and careful observation of the pupils - both occasional and systematic - aimed at understanding and interpreting their behaviour and at identifying their needs. The teacher portfolio is instead an instrument accompanying the teachers throughout their professional growth and maturing. It aims at promoting the development of the teacher’s meta-cognitive skills. With the entry of Slovenia in the EU exchanges are encouraged also in the field of education, with a consequent need for the definition of an instrument that is easy to read and shared by the Italian and Slovenian school systems. Hence the need for a cross-border project to harmonize the paperwork produced in the two bordering countries.
Young and innovative: how to help young entrepreneurs be more innovative – a peer learning project

The system of business environment institutions plays an important role in the diffusion of technology process and assists the innovative entrepreneurship development. Their support is especially important in case of young entrepreneurs, which very often have innovative ideas but they lack the knowledge and the resources to transform it into solid business.

The number and variety of BEI ie. Business centres, innovation centres, financial institutions and their offer, according to the studies in point. 1.1 and data available in the work program, are insufficient for the appropriate innovation stimulation in the partner countries, which at the same time affects the level of innovation and the competitiveness of the European economy.

That is why TARR, EPLD, CTRIA and BARR decided to join their forces and by sharing knowledge and experience try to contribute in solving problem mentioned above.

The main objective of this project is to develop through the lifetime of the project (7 months) recommendations to improve systems supporting innovation among young entrepreneurs, applied by specialized business environment institutions, using the Twinning Advanced method and then to disseminate them in the partners’ regions and countries and other EU Member States.

The T+ methodology involves peer learning of equal partners. Therefore it is possible not only to exchange and disseminate existing solutions but also to develop recommendations for the new ones, which will eventually become good practices in supporting innovation.

In order to achieve the main and specific objectives the work‐flow of YoungInnovative will comprise a one phase process,
which is the development and dissemination of Design Option Paper.
Integration system of test ports and/or compressed air filling ports in vehicle accessories, especially of industrial or commercial vehicles

The present invention relates to an integration system of test ports and/or compressed air filling ports in one or more accessories of a vehicle, especially of an industrial or commercial vehicle, comprising a system for the direct connection of the test and/or filling ports on the accessories.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING POWER FROM A FLUID CURRENT

An apparatus and method for generating power from a fluid current. The apparatus can include a power drive assembly (200) for converting the flowing energy of a fluid current into rotational energy, an acceleration chamber (106) configured to increase an entering flow of fluid to an accelerated flow, and pontoons (102) for supporting at least a portion of the power drive assembly in the acceleration chamber, such that the power drive assembly is positioned to receive the flowing energy of the accelerated flow. The method may include accelerating a flow of fluid to an accelerated flow, positioning at least a portion of a power drive assembly within the accelerated flow, the power drive assembly configured for converting the flowing energy of a fluid current into rotational energy, and supporting the power drive assembly with pontoons, such that the power drive assembly may be floated on a moving body of fluid.
Impact of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles and their optimal deployment in Smart Grids

This paper develops mathematical model of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) combined with distribution system components model in an optimization framework, which can be used to study the impacts of PHEVs in distribution systems and also to optimally schedule numerous PHEVs connected to a distribution system for the benefits of distribution system operators (DSOs) and/or the PHEV owners. The developed mathematical model is based on the information exchange among individual PHEV and various entities, and on the communication and control capabilities which will eventually evolve in the Smart Grid. The developed model is first used to study the impacts of uncoordinated and coordinated charging of PHEVs in distribution system operations considering a 15-node distribution feeder with 10%, 25%, and 50% PHEV penetrations in residential loads. The results showed that the coordinated charging of PHEVs could be beneficial to the DSOs to reduce distribution losses, and to improve voltage profiles and load factor, while on the other hand, the uncoordinated charging leads to more losses and increased peak load despite yielding optimized energy costs for the PHEV owners.
Non-Canonical nucleoside incorporation into synthetic rna-oligonucleotides: investigations towards the discovery of selective rna-binding proteins

The increase of life expectancy around the world comes at the unavoidable cost of a rise in the occurrence of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s as well as debilitating ones like cancer. These conditions prevent the possibility of a sustained quality of life and cost society vast amounts of money for the treatment and care of patients. It is the responsibility of scientists to find innovative methods of treating and eliminating these diseases, allowing for a healthier quality of life. Recently, RNA-binding proteins have been linked to biological processes leading to these diseases as well as the expression of genes relating to obesity. A plethora of natural chemical modifications in RNA fine-tune its structure, allowing for this specific interaction which regulates processes such as gene expression and the tuning of translation. Although these have been known for years, their binding proteins have not been systematically studied. The difficulty of the chemical synthesis of modified oligoribonucleotides represents the major bottleneck in this field. The overall aim of this project is to discover RNA-binding proteins which bind to the non-canonical modifications Am, Cm, Gm, i6A and ms2i6A which were identified in the mRNA of human cancer cell lines. These will first be synthesised and then incorporated into oligoribonucleotide strands mimicking natural mRNA. By incubating with cellular extracts, we subsequently aim to identify their binding proteins by tagging them with novel technologies and analysing them using mass spectrometric techniques. This project will inspire and offer unique training to Dr. Michaelides by exposing him to this multidisciplinary field where chemistry and biology meet, enabling him to embark on his own academic career. Furthermore, it will set the foundation for the better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the aforementioned conditions, which will in the long term lead to the design of new therapies for their prevention.
Modelamento Experimental da Interação Água-Rocha Mineralizada (Fe, Pb, Zn, F, Ba) e Hidrogeoquímica do Aquífero Salitre, Bahia (BR)

Este artigo almeja compreender os resultados do modelamento experimental da simulação da interação entre a água e as rochas mineralizadas (Fe, Pb, Zn, F, Ba) da Formação Salitre, na Bacia Sedimentar de Irecê, na Bahia, NE do Brasil. Coletou-se 10 Kg de rochas da Formação Salitre (n=4) e identificou-se os minerais por petrografia e DRX, que foram quantificadas por MEV/EDS. Realizou-se análises dos metais (ICP-OES), físico-químicas e dos ânions principais, nitrato, fluoreto, do índice de saturação dàs lixiviações de amostras de rochas de Melancias (M), Segredo (S), São José (SJ) e Palmeiras (P) pelos métodos cinéticos de Ensaios com Reatores Fechados (RF) e de Colunas de Lixiviação (CL). Quantificou-se 25 minerais nas amostras de rochas (calcita, dolomita, barita, o quartzo, willemita, feldspato alcalino), e os minerais secundários (&lt;1%) (berlinita, copiapita, fluorita, gipsita, jamesonita, óxidos de zinco, chumbo e manganês). As amostras de rochas de M e SJ apresentaram-se mineralizadas em sulfatos e sulfetos e as amostras de S e P mineralizadas em calcita, silicatos e pirita. Obteve-se soluções lixiviadas subsaturadas ou em equilíbrio em aragonita, calcita e dolomita nos Ensaios I e II e supersaturadas nestes minerais no Ensaio III. As soluções lixiviadas das rochas de M, SJ e P extraídas (RF ou CL) estiveram subsaturadas em gipsita, anidrita e fluorita e supersaturadas em hematita, goetita e Fe (OH)3 e às lixiviações da amostra de S subsaturadas ou em equilíbrio em gipsita, anidrita e fluorita. Além disso, às lixiviações extraídas por RF diferiram dos resultados de estudos anteriores da hidrogeoquímica do Aquífero Salitre em relação aos ânions principais.
MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORE YARN

The invention relates to a monitoring device (1) for the manufacture of core yarn. The monitoring device (1) comprises a front return pulley (5) for returning a filament (15), said pulley disposed at an oblique angle relative to and above the delivery roller (7) of a drawing mechanism (3). A separating device (8) disposed in the intake of the drawing mechanism (3) comprises a rear return pulley (11) for returning the filament (15), wherein the separating device (8) is used to interrupt the feeding of fibers (6) to the drawing mechanism (3) in relation to the level of stress on the filament (15).