SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Strengthening management at district level to support the achievement of universal health coverage (perform2scale)

The new challenge in global health is to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC) by 2030.  Having an adequate workforce is critical to achieving UHC.  Efforts are in place to scale up the numbers of health workers. Improving health workforce performance is equally important as the quantity of health workers, but more challenging.  Workforce performance improvement can be achieved better at management levels close to front-line workers.  The PERFORM project developed a problem-based management strengthening intervention for management teams at district level in three African countries to improve both health workforce performance and service delivery more generally. The evaluation of the management strengthening intervention (MSI) demonstrated its effectiveness in enabling the management teams to solve workforce performance and other problems locally which improved service delivery, and become better managers.   To have a wider impact and thus contribute to the achievement of UHC the PERFORM management strengthening intervention needs to be scaled up and embedded.   The aim of PERFORM2scale is to develop and evaluate a sustainable approach to scaling up a district level management strengthening intervention in different and changing contexts. A framework and strategy for scaling up the intervention will be developed with government agencies in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda each country.  Capacity will be developed to implement the scale-up which will be carried out over three years in order to use the MSI at scale and embed the process at district level.  The scale-up framework and strategy will be subjected to process evaluation (to identify opportunities and barriers) and outcome evaluation. Both the framework and strategy will be validated for use in the study countries and elsewhere for use and adaptation. The use of the management strengthening intervention at scale in countries will be a major contribution to achieving UHC.
InterCork 4 — Campaña internacional del corcho

Promover el corcho y sus productos en los principales mercados de destino, con el nuevo enfoque de destacar el valor añadido del uso del corcho para el comercio y los consumidores, creando las condiciones para fortalecer e incrementar nuestras exportaciones, son los principales objetivos de InterCork IV.
The role of voice quality and prosodic contour in affective speech perception

We explore the usage of voice quality and prosodic contour in the identification of emotions and attitudes in French. For this purpose, we develop a corpus of affective speech based on one lexically neutral utterance and apply prosody transplantation method in our perception experiment. We apply logistic regression to analyze our categorical data and we observe differences in the identification of these two affective categories. Listeners primarily use prosodic contour in the identification of studied attitudes. Emotions are identified on the basis of voice quality and prosodic contour. However, their usage is not homogeneous within individual emotions. Depending on the stimuli, listeners may use both voice quality and prosodic contour, or privilege just one of them for the successful identification of emotions. The results of our study are discussed in view of their importance for speech synthesis.
An innovative 3d free-form manufacturing technology for the construction industry

Freeform surfaces play a prominent role in contemporary architecture. However current methods used in the construction industry to produce free-forms involve five major problems. 1. Since they do not involve machine production, the accuracy according to the CAD model is limited and the architect has no direct control on end product. 2. Manually built structures, with two opposing wire mesh frames, with interposed plastic wool often suffer corrosion. This restricts their inclusion in buildings. 3. Due to weight and size of prefabricated free-forms, transportation is difficult and expensive. 4. High manpower demand: at least 3 persons must work on the mounting of each structure. 5. Milling of moulding causes 50% waste. Clever Contour, an Austrian company founded in 2013, is finishing the development of i-Contour, an innovative technology to design and produce large 3D free-forms at 90% lower cost and overcoming key technical barriers such as high weight and transportation difficulties. i-Contour is the first end-to-end manufacture technology for free-forms thanks to two key elements: an own-developed frontend software – a plug-in for Rhinoceros, and an innovative 3D bending machine for plastics. The most relevant Unique Selling Points of i-Contour are: *drastic costs reduction (up to 90%), *real-time control of the overall process, *weight reduction (up to 50%), *easiness of transportation and mounting, and *very fast production time (from weeks down to 2-3 days). The first prototype of the system is already working in our premises and we have successfully executed 6 projects with national and international design studios. We have also engaged several companies from different segments such as concrete manufacturers, formwork producers and architects. By the end of 2023, three years after market launch, we expect to have an accumulated revenue of €21 million and have created up to 20 new positions.
The Influences of Organizational Culture and Work Discipline to the Employee Performance (Case Study in PT.Sinarwijaya Ekapratista)

The research aims to examine and analyze the influence of organizational culture and work discipline on employee performance. This study uses permanent employees at PT. Sinarwijaya Ekapratista, using saturated sample as a technique of determining the sample, in order to obtain a sample of 60 employees. The approach used in this research is Structural Equation Model (SEM) analysis tool SmartPLS. The results showed that organizational culture provide a positive and significant influence on employee performance. Then work discipline provides a positive and significant influence on employee performance. Keywords: Organizational Culture, Work Discipline, employee performance, Structural Equation Model (SEM), Partial Least Square (PLS). DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-20-07 Publication date :October 31 st 2019
Architecture-Driven, multi-concern and seamless assurance and certification of cyber-physical systems

Embedded systems have significantly increased in technical complexity towards open, interconnected systems. This has exacerbated the problem of ensuring dependability in the presence of human, environmental and technological risks. The rise of complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has led to many initiatives to promote reuse and automation of labor-intensive activities. Two large-scale projects are OPENCOSS and SafeCer, which dealt with assurance and certification of software-intensive critical systems using incremental and model-based approaches. OPENCOSS defined a Common Certification Language (CCL), unifying concepts from different industries to build a harmonized approach to reduce time and cost overheads, via facilitating the reuse of certification assets. SafeCer developed safety-oriented process lines, a component model, contract-based verification techniques, and process/product-based model-driven safety certification for compositional development and certification of CPSs.
AMASS will create and consolidate a de-facto European-wide assurance and certification open tool platform, ecosystem and self-sustainable community spanning the largest CPS vertical markets. We will start by combining and evolving the OPENCOSS and SafeCer technological solutions towards end-user validated tools, and will enhance and perform further research into new areas not covered by those projects. The ultimate aim is to lower certification costs in face of rapidly changing product features and market needs. This will be achieved by establishing a novel holistic and reuse-oriented approach for architecture-driven assurance (fully compatible with standards e.g. AUTOSAR and IMA), multi-concern assurance (compliance demonstration, impact analyses, and compositional assurance of security and safety aspects), and for seamless interoperability between assurance/certification and engineering activities along with third-party activities (external assessments, supplier assurance).
Abrigos temporários: um olhar arquitetônico sobre a relação entre usuário e ambiente

Temporary shelters are directly related to human survival in the early stages of a disaster. In that sense, shelters must provide an adequate response, focusing on spatial characteristics that should be relevant to social and environmental expectations. These work studies which spatial attributes of temporary shelters must be explored through a dimensional approach of public places proposed by Holanda and Kohlsdorf. Designing temporary shelters with a specific regard on the user-environment relationship is an activity that must also be based on the compatibility between the principles of Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Logistics, concepts that will be also approached in this study. From the dimensional approach to places, the authors also present spatial attributes that must be explored when seeking the best possible performance for temporary shelters.Keywords: architecture, emergency shelters, spatial attributes, Humanitarian Logistics, natural disaster.
FACE FINISHED FABRICS EXHIBITING NON-DIRECTIONAL SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS AFTER DYEING IN OPEN-WIDTH FORM

Range-dyed fabrics that possess excellent hand characteristics and simultaneously exhibit substantially nondirectional appearances are provided. Such a combination permits the production and utilization of an extremely comfortable apparel fabric that can be attached to any other similar type of fabric to form a target apparel article without the time-consuming need to align such component fabrics to ensure an overall aesthetic appearance is met for the target apparel article. In general, such a fabric is produced through the initial immobilization of individual fibers within target fabrics and subsequent treatment through abrasion, sanding, or sueding of at least a portion of the target fabric. Such a procedure produces a fabric of short pile height and desirable hand. Upon range-dyeing the target fabric exhibits the extra benefit of nondirectional surface characteristics. The ability to produce such specific fabrics without the need for jet-dyeing thus provides a significant cost advantage to the manufacturer and consumer.
Nutritional biomarkers to advance understanding of association between diet and type 2 diabetes

Objectives: There is an unabated rise in the burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) with associated premature morbidity, mortality and cost to individuals and society. There is an urgent need to identify modifiable factors that can prevent T2D. This Fellowship aims to use objectively measured nutritional biomarkers to improve the precision of dietary assessment for investigating the association between dietary factors and T2D risk. The use of biomarkers opens the possibility to investigate gene/diet interactions, which can lay the foundation for future stratified or personalised nutrition, and to address causality of associations using genetic-based approaches.

Method: Measurement of plasma vitamin C, six carotenoids and 25-hydroxyvitamin D is now complete in the EPIC-InterAct study across 26 centres within 8 European countries in the world’s largest study of T2D incidence with 12,403 new-onset T2D cases, and a random sub-cohort of 16,835 individuals. We will examine the distribution and determinants of these nutritional biomarkers within European populations and investigate the association between biomarkers and T2D, and biomarker-gene interaction on T2D. Combining these data with other studies, we will use Mendelian randomisation to examine potential causal association of biomarkers with T2D.

Relevance: Diet and nutrition are crucial for the prevention of non-communicable disease including T2D, but measurement error in self-report dietary assessment has posed a major challenge in identifying specific dietary components that elevate or mitigate disease risk. The systematic use of nutritional biomarkers on an unprecedented scale opens up an important new frontier to advance diet/health research. Specifically, this proposal will clarify the distribution and determinants of important biomarkers within European populations and as well as increasing aetiological understanding, will enable the estimation of the population impact of dietary factors on avoiding new cases of T2D
Juventud, riesgo sexual y religión

El análisis desarrollado en esta investigación tiene como acción principal comparar las Encuestas Nacionales de Juventud en materia de salud sexual y reproductiva, diferenciando por la filiación religiosa de las juventudes en soltería para tres países latinoamericanos alrededor del 2012, en particular para el grupo etario entre 15 y 19 años. Se encontró que la juventud evangélica exhibe mayores niveles de vulnerabilidad respecto al promedio nacional de cada país, especialmente en Perú. Además, según el Índice de Riesgo Sexual propuesto, el grupo etario de 15 a19 años de las adolescencias/juventudes católicas chilenas y evangélicas, en los tres países comparados, superaron su respectivo promedio nacional en la categoría de «riesgo moderado», repitiéndose este resultado para la categoría de «riesgo muy alto» en Perú y Chile. Se destaca la falta de fundamento empírico de las protestas de grupos conservadores peruanos en contra de la Educación Sexual Integral y el enfoque de igualdad de género para la educación básica regular, desde que, probablemente, la adolescencia evangélica sería la que más provecho podría obtener de ellos. Asimismo, se releva también la necesidad de la implementación efectiva del enfoque de género e intercultural (i.e. idioma, costumbres, y religión de la población) en las políticas e intervenciones públicas a fin de asegurar su pertinencia y eficacia.
Sustainable industrial processes based on a c-c bond-forming enzyme platform

C-C bond forming reactions are at the heart of industrial organic synthesis, but remain largely unexplored due to long development timelines and the lack of broad biocatalytic reaction platforms. CARBAZYMES addresses these challenges by assembling an interdisciplinary and intersectoral consortium as a powerful synergistic tool to promote innovation in the field of biocatalytic C-C bond formation at large scale, and thus the global competitiveness of the European chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The proposed consortium, with 50% industrial participation, represents academia but also commercial interests in different stages of the research-to-market process. This top-down approach, together with a life-cycle innovation approach ensures an industrial drive to the project.
Clearly aligned with the scope of topic BIOTEC3-2014, CARBAZYMES will pursue the biocatalytic synthesis (spanning TRLs 5-7) of 4 APIs and 3 bulk chemicals –corresponding to market needs detected by the industrial partners in the Consortium. This will be accomplished through an inter-disciplinary approach which includes: i) a broad platform of 4 types of unique C-C bond-forming enzymes, mostly lyases; ii) the capacity to rapidly evolve enzymes to operate under industrial conditions by means of novel enzyme panels and massive screening methods; iii) application of microreactor technology for bioprocess characterization; iv) demonstration actions comprising technical (up to 100L) and economic viability studies carried out by industrial partners.
CARBAZYMES unmistakably aims to have social and economic impact by addressing markets worth bn €, developing enzyme evolution technologies beyond the state of the art and creating qualified jobs and technical-scale facilities at the industrial partners’ sites.  CARBAZYMES will also achieve an environmental impact by enforcing that the developed processes replace more energy and resource intensive processes, thus leading to reduced environmental footprints.
Plantain Value Chain Mapping in Southwestern Nigeria

Understanding relationships, opportunities and bottlenecks in a commodity value chain is crucial to the determination of the contribution of a commodity to economic development. The objective of the study was to Map Plantain Value Chain in order to identify the key players, their roles, value added along the chain as well as constraints. Personal Interview and Focus group discussions were used to collect primary data from the actors along the chain. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Value added analysis. The study identified conventional and peculiar actors such as Input suppliers, Producers, Farm-Gate Assemblers, Market-Arena Assemblers, Insitu Wholesalers, Transit Wholesalers, Processors, Retailers and Consumers. The study revealed tremendous dominance of the Midstream sector in the commodity value chain and that Value addition, volume of trade and geographical coverage indices were highest at the midstream sector. The result revealed also that Plantains were traded mostly in unprocessed form and there was low level of export of the commodity. Producers sold most of their product (55%) at the farm gate.  Horizontal flow of the commodity was prominent among the actors. Value added at processing level was estimated at ?111/kg of processed product. The cross cutting constraints among the actors were inadequate credit accessibility, high transportation cost, inadequate market access and inadequate storage facilities amongst others. The study recommends intervention in the area of linking actors in the value chain to prospective markets for them to benefit from the various activities.  Keywords: Plantain, Value Chain Map, Value Chain Actors, Value Added, Southwestern Nigeria.
Analyzing the effects of place on injury: Does the choice of geographic scale and zone matter?

Recent studies have shown that the morbidity and mortality associated with injury of pedestrians are inversely related to socio-economic status (SES). However, in drawing inferences from this association, investigators have paid little attention to the modifiable artifacts related to scale and how the data are partitioned. The purpose of this population-based study was to identify the relation between SES and incidence patterns of pedestrian injury at 4 different geographic scales.We used a Poisson generalized linear model, stratified by age and sex, to analyze the relation between each of 4 area measures of SES and incidence patterns of pedestrian injuries occurring in metropolitan Vancouver between 1 January 2001 and 31 March 2006. The 4 area measures of SES were based on boundaries of dissemination areas, census tracts, custom-defined census tracts (generated by reassignment of dissemination area boundaries by means of a geographic information system) and census subdivisions of the Canadian census. We measured the SES of the location where the injury occurred with the Vancouver Area Neighbourhood Deprivation Index.A total of 262 injuries in adults (18 years of age or older) were analyzed. Among adult men, the odds ratio (OR) for injury of pedestrians at the scale of dissemination area was 4.93 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.89-8.42) for areas having the lowest SES relative to those with the highest SES. For the same population, the OR for injury was lower with increasing aggregation of data: 2.33 (95% CI 1.45-3.74) when census tracts were used, 3.26 (95% CI 2.06-5.16) when modified census tracts were used and 1.27 (95% CI 0.47-3.45) when census subdivisions were used. Among adult women, the OR for pedestrian injury by SES was highest at the scale of census subdivision within medium-low SES areas (4.33, 95% CI 1.23-15.22). At the census subdivision scale, the relation between SES and incidence pattern of injury was not consistent with findings at smaller geographic scales, and the OR for injury decreased with each increase in SES.In this analysis, there was significant variability when different administrative boundaries were applied as proxy measures of the effects of place on incidence patterns of injury. The hypothesized influence of SES on prevalence of pedestrian injury followed a statistically significant socio-economic gradient when analyzed using small-area boundaries of the census. However, researchers should be aware of the inherent variability that remains even among the more homogenous population units.
Characterization of Cytoplasmic Gag-Gag Interactions by Dual-Color Z-Scan Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy

Fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy (FFS) quantifies the interactions of fluorescently-labeled proteins inside living cells by brightness analysis. However, the study of cytoplasmic proteins that interact with the plasma membrane is challenging with FFS. If the cytoplasmic section is thinner than the axial size of the observation volume, cytoplasmic and membrane-bound proteins are coexcited, which leads to brightness artifacts. This brightness bias, if not recognized, leads to erroneous interpretation of the data. We have overcome this challenge by introducing dual-color z-scan FFS and the addition of a distinctly colored reference protein. Here, we apply this technique to study the cytoplasmic interactions of the Gag proteins from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1). The Gag protein plays a crucial role in the assembly of retroviruses and is found in both membrane and cytoplasm. Dual-color z-scans demonstrate that brightness artifacts are caused by a dim nonpunctate membrane-bound fraction of Gag. We perform an unbiased brightness characterization of cytoplasmic Gag by avoiding the membrane-bound fraction and reveal previously unknown differences in the behavior of the two retroviral Gag species. HIV-1 Gag exhibits concentration-dependent oligomerization in the cytoplasm, whereas HTLV-1 Gag lacks significant cytoplasmic Gag-Gag interactions.
Bilateral Trade and Fisheries Development: the Anglo-Danish Trade Agreement, 19331

This article examines the fish trade between Denmark and Britain, focusing on the 1933 bilateral trade agreement. Britain was the main export market for Danish fish, achieving a significant market share. Import penetration exacerbated British concerns about competitiveness that had emerged during the 1920s. While British protectionism saw the introduction of tariffs and quotas, which nominally reduced Danish imports by 10%, the Danes accommodated restrictions through exporting semi-processed fish. This article details trends in fish imports from Denmark, examines the national positions in negotiating the trade agreement, and considers how each country's fishing industry responded to its implementation. It draws two principal conclusions. First, that the significance of trade in the development of the interwar fisheries requires greater consideration in historical accounts. Second, that the Danish industry more effectively accommodated the new trade regime than the nominally protected British fishing industry.