SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A compsemydid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Var, southern France

Calissounemys matheroni gen. et sp. nov. (Testudines) is described on the basis of a skull and shell elements from the Upper Cretaceous of Var, southern France. This new taxon is assigned to the family Compsemydidae and characterized by a thick-boned, robust skull, a shallow temporal emargination, a crista supraoccipitalis not extending beyond the posterior edge of the skull roof, large nasals meeting along the midline for their full length; frontals retracted from the orbital margin, absence of a cheek emargination, a large jugal forming a substantial part of the orbital margin, absence of a secondary palate and an uneven upper triturating surface; and the shell with vertebral 1 clearly wider than vertebrals 2-3, with the lateral margins strongly divergent towards the anterior border and wider than long vertebrals 2-3. This find increases the diversity of the Late Cretaceous turtle fauna from southern France, and fills a stratigraphical gap in the fossil record of Compsemydidae between the Early Cretaceous and the Paleocene in Europe. Calissounemys matheroni gen. et sp. nov. (Testudines) est décrit à partir d’un crâne et d’éléments de la carapace provenant du Crétacé supérieur du Var, sud de la France. Le nouveau taxon est attribué à la famille des Compsemydidae et caractérisé par un crâne robuste aux os épais, une échancrure temporale faible, une crista supraoccipitalis ne dépassant pas le rebord postérieur du toit crânien, de grands nasaux se rejoignant sur la ligne médiane sur toute leur longueur, le frontal rétracté du rebord de l’orbite, l’absence d’une échancrure jugale, un grand jugal formant une part substantielle du rebord de l’orbite, l’absence d’un palais secondaire, et la surface triturante supérieure inégale ; la carapace avec l’écaille vertébrale 1 plus large que les vertébrales 2-3, aux rebords latéraux divergents vers l’avant, et les vertébrales 2-3 plus larges que longues. Cette découverte augmente la diversité de la faune de tortues du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France et comble une lacune stratigraphique dans le registre fossile de Compsemydidae entre le Crétacé inférieur et le Paléocène en Europe.
Iron Bioavailability Studies of the First Generation of Iron-Biofortified Beans Released in Rwanda

This paper represents a series of in vitro iron (Fe) bioavailability experiments, Fe content analysis and polyphenolic profile of the first generation of Fe biofortified beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) selected for human trials in Rwanda and released to farmers of that region. The objective of the present study was to demonstrate how the Caco-2 cell bioassay for Fe bioavailability can be utilized to assess the nutritional quality of Fe in such varieties and how they may interact with diets and meal plans of experimental studies. Furthermore, experiments were also conducted to directly compare this in vitro approach with specific human absorption studies of these Fe biofortified beans. The results show that other foods consumed with beans, such as rice, can negatively affect Fe bioavailability whereas potato may enhance the Fe absorption when consumed with beans. The results also suggest that the extrinsic labelling approach to measuring human Fe absorption can be flawed and thus provide misleading information. Overall, the results provide evidence that the Caco-2 cell bioassay represents an effective approach to evaluate the nutritional quality of Fe-biofortified beans, both separate from and within a targeted diet or meal plan.
Effects of a Smoking Cession Program Using Telephone Counselling and Text Messaging for Patients after Ischemic Heart Disease

The study was conducted as a quasi-experimental study targeting 60 patients with ischemic heart disease to determine how the smoking cessation program that uses telephone counseling and text messaging (short message) affects smoking cessation self-efficacy, nicotine dependence, co levels, and smoking cessation rate of the first, second experimental group at varying times of arbitration and control group. An examination of the effects of this program revealed the control group to have a significant increase in smoking cessation self-efficacy, smoking cessation rate than the first and second group but a significant decrease in the nicotine dependence, co levels. In addition, although the control group showed a significant increase in smoking cessation self efficacy, smoking cessation rate and a significant decrease in co levels than other groups, there was no difference in nicotine dependence. Therefore, a smoking cessation program that uses telephone counseling and text messaging (short message) for patients with ischemic heart disease worked for the smoking cessation rate and appeared to be more effective, depending on the times of arbitration.
(A19_082_2015_0820200_1268) EXPOOMET

VARIANT: THE ORIGINAL PROJECT CONSISTED OF TWO COUNTRIES: RUSSIA AND BRAZIL, FOR THE LATTER? OPEN STATE OFFICE IN COLOMBIA (BOOOT?) FOR TRADE-RELATED ACTIONS FOR NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON BRAZIL. UNFORTUNATELY, THE CRISIS IN BRAZIL (THE WORST IN THE PAST 25 YEARS) HAS LED THE COMPANY TO REVIEW ITS STRATEGIES: DO YOU FIND INTERESTED LOCAL COMPANIES WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN A DEMONSTRATION OF OMET FOODTECH PRODUCTS AND ARE APPLYING FOR PI? THE TIME OF THE PLANNED TIME. IN ADDITION, GIVEN THE PREVAILING SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY? IT IS CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE TO CANCEL THE PARTICIPATION IN THE WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY. THE CHANGE OF STRATEGIES HAS ALSO LED TO A RESTRUCTURING OF THE FINANCIAL PLAN, IN PARTICULAR: C.1.1: ? HAS THE COUNTRY BEEN REMOVED FROM THE TRADE FAIR IN BRAZIL, THE STRONG CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY HAS DRASTICALLY REDUCED THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND, CONSEQUENTLY, HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THE OPPORTUNITIES INVOLVED? TO MEET WITH POTENTIAL NEW CLIENTS. S
Sensing the future: novel agronomy for resilient farming systems

Future food production relies on efficient water use. This research project will focus on optimizing the utilisation of deep stored water in novel emerging agronomic systems in both semi-arid and temperate systems that incorporate three emerging agronomic interventions that lead to increased systems resilience; (i) altered crop phenology (earlier sowing of slower maturing crops); (ii) dual-purpose crops (used for grazing and grain); and (iii) summer cover crops. The project will utilise novel approaches for continuous deep water sensing to unprecedented depths combined with aerial canopy temperature imaging and autonomous root phenotyping using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Novel automated data capture on dynamics of water availability and deep root growth under various farming practices and contrasting soils and environments will also provide a validated dataset for model simulation. As a result, the project will contribute to formulation of a better decision-support system for farmers and breeders that can assist overcoming one of mankind’s greatest challenges. The overall project also aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially, Goal 2 (sustainable agriculture), Goal 6 (sustainable water management) and Goal 13 (urgent action for climate change) which EU has adopted and committed to implement. As such it is an excellent research and training opportunity for a Marie Skłodowska-Global Fellow.
Quantifying the spread of p. falciparum malaria

Background: A major challenge for malaria elimination is its phenomenally efficient spread through sexual stage parasites (gametocytes). Many individuals in endemic settings harbour low but transmissible gametocyte densities. It is currently unclear how gametocyte density translates into the likelihood that an infected mosquito gives rise to secondary infections, who drive malaria transmission at population level and how anti-gametocyte immunity affects gametocyte production and infectivity. 

I hypothesize that secondary infections can arise from low-density infections but that higher gametocyte densities result in comparatively more infectious mosquitoes and an increased number of secondary infections. I further hypothesize that malaria transmission efficiency and changes therein can only be accurately predicted if anti-gametocyte immunity is thoroughly understood and that the rapid loss of gametocyte immunity during effective control results in increased transmission efficiency.

Aims and approach: I will perform the first-ever direct assessment of numbers of malaria parasites ejected by mosquitoes in relation to natural gametocyte densities. Using novel genotyping approaches, longitudinal sampling of infections at unsurpassed resolution and state-of-the art analytical approaches, I will perform the most comprehensive molecular evaluation of malaria transmission in a real community ever performed. Lastly, I will quantify the impact of immune responses that reduce gametocyte density and infectivity by novel immune-profiling approaches and mathematical transmission models.

Importance and innovation: this project will profoundly improve understanding of the production and infectivity of gametocytes and the epidemiological impact of human immune responses that influence these processes. The work in different African settings will provide a major leap forward in understanding the human infectious reservoir for malaria and has direct implications for elimination
Combinatorics of networks and computation

Networks are present in our lives in numerous different environments: to name just a few, networks can model social relationships, they can model the Internet and links between web pages, they might model the spread of a virus infection between people, and they might represent computer processors/sensors that have to exchange information.
This project aims to obtain new insights into the behaviour of networks, which are studied from a geometric and computational perspective. Thereto, the project brings together researchers from different areas such as computational geometry, discrete mathematics, graph drawing, and probability. Among of the topics of research are enumerative problems on geometric networks, crossing numbers, random networks, imprecise models of data, restricted orientation geometry. Combinatorial approaches are combined with algorithms. Algorithmic applications of networks are also studied in the context of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and in the context of musical information retrieval (MIR).
The project contains the work packages: “Geometric networks”, ""Stochastic Geometry and Networks"", “Restricted orientation geometry”, “Graph-based algorithms for UAVs and for MIR”, and “Dissemination and gender equality promotion”. 
The project connects researchers from 14 universities located in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, who will collaborate and share their different expertise in order to obtain new knowledge on the combinatorics of networks and applications.
Modeling Poly-Lysine Interactions with Mutant and Wild Type Cardiac Myosin Subfragment-2

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-causing mutations in β-cardiac myosin subfragment-2 destabilize the coiled coil structure which might be related to their phenotypes. Using a synthetic peptide model of this coiled coil region, it was found that the stability of the myosin coiled coil was inversely correlated with the phenotypic severity of the disease-causing mutations. Stability of the coiled coil was measured by luminescence resonance energy transfer in which some of the mutant and wildtype peptides were labeled with donor probes and others were labeled with acceptor probes so the fraction of peptides in a coiled coil could be determined. Similar results were obtained with dynamics simulations of the mutant and wildtype peptides. It was further found that the instability of the coiled coil caused by the mutations could be partially reversed by the addition of poly-D-lysine. Both molecular mechanics and dynamics simulations of the poly-lysine binding to the coiled coil peptide indicated that the poly-lysine of an appropriate length could wrap around the coiled coil by interacting with negatively-charged glutamate side-chains. Further modifications of the sequence of the poly-lysine were found to improve the interaction energy between the complex which may result in increased stabilization of the myosin coiled. These results suggest that it may be possible to design peptides that can counteract the destabilizing effects of specific disease-causing mutations. (Supported by NSF 082736 ARRA.)
The materials genome in action

It is now possible to make an enormous spectrum of different, novel nanoporous materials simply by changing the building blocks in the synthesis of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF) or related materials. This unique chemical tunability allows us to tailor-make materials that are optimal for a given application. The promise of finding just the right material seems remote however: because of practical limitations we can only ever synthesize, characterize, and test a tiny fraction of all possible materials. To take full advantage of this development, therefore, we need to develop alternative techniques, collectively referred to as Materials Genomics, to rapidly screen large numbers of materials and obtain fundamental insights into the chemical nature of the ideal material for a given application. The PI will tackle the challenge and promise posed by this unprecedented chemical tunability through the development of a multi-scale computational approach, which aims to reliably predict the performance of novel materials before synthesis. We will develop methodologies to generate libraries of representative sets of synthesizable hypothetical materials and perform large-scale screening of these libraries. These studies should give us fundamental insights into the common molecular features of the top-performing materials. The methods developed will be combined into an open access infrastructure in which our hypothetical materials are publicly accessible for data mining and big-data analysis. The project is organized in three Work Packages, each centered around finding better materials for carbon capture: (1) screen materials for gas separations and develop the tools to predict the best materials for carbon capture; (2) gain insights into and develop a computational methodology for screening the mechanical properties of nanoporous materials; (3) achieve an understanding of the amine-CO2 chemistry in diamine-appended MOFs and use this to predict their performance.
Holomorphic blocks in  quantum field theory: new constructions of exact results

A central challenge in theoretical physics is to develop non-perturbative or exact methods to describe quantitatively the dynamics of strongly coupled quantum fields. This proposal aims to establish new exact methods for the study of  supersymmetric  quantum field theories  thereby  unveiling new integrable structures and fostering new  correspondences and dualities. We will develop a  new  cut-and-sew formalism to compute partition functions and  expectation values of observables  of supersymmetric gauge theories  on  compact manifolds through the gluing of   a fundamental set of building blocks, the holomorphic blocks. The decomposition of partition functions into holomorphic blocks corresponds to 
the geometric decomposition of compact manifolds into standard  simpler pieces. Similarly the gluing rules for the holomorphic blocks correspond to the geometric gluing rules. The key insight required to exploit the holomorphic block formalism is the  deep connection between supersymmetric gauge theories  and  low dimensional  exactly solvable systems such as 2d CFTs, TQFTs and spin chains.  Two and four dimensional holomorphic blocks can be reinterpreted as  conformal blocks in Liouville theory  through an established correspondence between supersymmetric gauge theories and Liouville theory. We will provide a similar realisation of three and five dimensional holomorphic blocks in  a new theory, 
a  q-deformed version of Liouville theory where the Virasoro algebra is replaced by the q-deformed Virasoro algebra.
We will  develop this theory classifying the symmetries of correlation functions. These symmetries will be realised as gauge theory dualities, while  the language of the q-deformed Liouville theory will become a new powerful tool to investigate supersymmetric gauge theories.
Perceptions and Performance of Undergraduate Medical Students in Objective Structured Practical Examinations (OSPE) in Biochemistry at Rak Medical and Health Sciences University (Rakmhsu), UAE

INTRODUCTION: Health educators and accrediting bodies have defined objectives and competencies that medical students need to acquire to become a safe doctor. The present study was done to determine the student perception and satisfaction regarding OSPE as an assessment method of laboratory practical sessions in Biochemistry. MATERIAL AND METHODS: During OSPE sessions hundred MBBS first year students were divided into 3 different batches. These students were asked to rotate around 10 different working stations. Each station designed to complete a task comfortably within 5 minutes. One or two rest stations of 5 minutes are given at end or in between to complete the unfinished writing work. All the students perform the same task in the same time frame. Institutional research and effectiveness office (IRO) gets the student feedbacks on OSPE will inevitably result in the refinement of the OSPE as a tool for learning and evaluation. RESULTS: The study showed that 96.5% students agreed that OSPE questions were linked to the curriculum and 93% of students felt objectives were clear. Eight eight percent students perceived that OSPE covered a wide range of learning outcomes. Ninety five percent felt relevant psychomotor skills were assessed using agreed check list. An 86% and 81% of student perceived that it was conducted fairly and is unbiased. In terms of stress we got mixed response as 50.5% percent of students perceived OSPE to be less stressful and other half felt stressful. Seventy two percent of students agreed OSPE preparation facilitated team work. Ninety percent strongly agreed that exam scores are better and 83% said it is easier to pass. Fifty four percent of the students felt that the time given was too short; especially for procedure stations. Ninety six percent of students felt OSPE should be an integral part of assessment tool for the Biochemistry practical's. CONCLUSION: The current study showed several advantages of OSPE as an objective, structured, unbiased, fair, valid and reliable assessment method. In view of the tremendous advantages, OSPE should be included in summative evaluation to improve student's clinical competence.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jucms.v2i4.12071 Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (2014) Vol.02 No.04 Issue 08Page: 54-61
Quantum kinetic equations for pre-thermal light and matter

One of the research forefronts in quantum many body physics, is represented by the non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly
interacting photons coupled to quantum matter.
However, while tools to deal with quantum optics systems of few constituents are available, many particle effects require the development of advanced and timely methods.

The QUAKE4PRELIMAT project will:

(i) provide a new technique to confront with the dynamical evolution of a many body photon system coupled to an ensemble of atoms, exporting the quantum kinetic equation method (based on the two-particle irreducible effective action) from the domain of high energy physics;

(ii) look for the onset of pre-thermal non-equilibrium states in quantum optics systems, where light and matter equilibrate at different temperatures;

(iii) extend concepts tailored for pre-thermalization in isolated systems, as the Luttinger Liquid model and the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble, to driven open low dimensional quantum many body systems;

under the supervision of two world renowned experts on strongly correlated physics, in Harvard and Geneva.

The outcomes of this research project will pave the way to pre-thermalization in driven open systems, with a multitude of applications, and will provide to the quantum optics and condensed matter communities, the (previously lacking) tools to handle the dynamics of many body photon systems.

The European Union will make a step forward in a field with tantalizing technological perspectives, as photon logic gates,  quantum computing based on interacting photons, molecules and crystals of quantum light. A number of outreach activities are planned to increase the awareness of the general public on such potentialities. 

Finally, the experienced researcher will learn how to apply his theoretical background to concrete physical platforms, will grow in scientific leadership, will learn how to drive a new research trend into the condensed matter and quantum optics areas.
PROCEDE ET FORMULATION POUR LA PREPARATION DE FIBRES DE LIGNINE

L'invention concerne une formulation pour la préparation par la voie fondue de fibres à base de lignine, précurseurs de fibres de carbone. Cette formulation comprenant de la lignine, un agent plastifiant et un agent réticulant apte à réticuler avec la lignine à une température supérieure d'au moins 10°C à la température de transition vitreuse du mélange intime de la lignine et de l'agent plastifiant. Un procédé de préparation de fibres à base de lignine, à partir de cette formulation, comprend le filage par extrusion à chaud d'un mélange intime des composants de la formulation, selon des conditions adéquates pour provoquer la réticulation de l'agent réticulant et de la lignine dans la zone terminale du dispositif d'extrusion mis en œuvre.
NOVEL TAMPER PROMINENT CONTAINERS

The present invention is directed to containers and packaging that incorporate novel tamper evident features that make prominent the evidence of tamper. In particular, the novel tamper prominent containers of the present invention comprise newly designed tamper prominent images, i.e., prominent continuity control (PCC) images. Additionally, the present invention provides novel methods of increasing prominence of the evidence of tamper with a container, e.g., of consumer goods, by incorporating prominent continuity control (PCC) images integrated with a button locking assembly that must be removed to open a locked container making prominent the evidence of tamper through clear visualization in the PCC image, e.g., prominently displaying an image of a broken lock after full fracture and removal of the button locking assembly.
Determination of weak values of quantum operators using only strong measurements

Weak values have been shown to be helpful especially when considering them as the outcomes of weak measurements. In this paper we show that in principle, the real and imaginary parts of the weak value of any operator may be elucidated from expectation values of suitably defined density, flux and hermitian commutator operators. Expectation values are the outcomes of strong (projective) measurements implying that weak values are general properties of operators in association with pre- and post-selection and they need not be preferentially associated with weak measurements. They should be considered as an important measurable property which provides added information as compared with the "standard" diagonal expectation value of an operator. As a first specific example we consider the determination of the real and imaginary parts of the weak value of the momentum operator employing projective time of flight experiments. Then the results are analyzed from the point of view of Bohmian mechanics. Finally we consider recent neutron interferometry experiments used to determine the weak values of the neutron spin.