SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
IMPROVED O-RING DRILL HOLE PLUG

A plug (10) for blocking off mining exploration drill holes. The plug (10) comprises an elongate body (12) of solid impervious material, and an engineered surface (14) is provided on an external circumference of the elongate body (12). The engineered surface (14) comprises an annular anchoring groove (16) having a ramp (18) extending from a maximum diameter to a minimum diameter of the engineered surface (14) in a braking direction, in which it is intended to prevent movement of the plug (10) in the drill hole. The plug (10) also comprises an O-ring (20) received in the anchoring groove (16) and having a thickness whereby it protrudes slightly above the maximum diameter of the engineered surface (14) and engages with a wall (22) of the drill hole. In use, when the plug (10) is moved in the braking direction in the drill hole, the O-ring (20) rolls up the ramp (18) and wedges between the engineered surface (14) and the wall (22) of the drill hole to provide a braking action for the plug (10) against the wall (22) of the drill hole.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PAINT ROLLER COVERS

A method of manufacturing paint roller covers is disclosed in which the paint roller covers are manufactured from a seamless, tubular knitted pile fabric sleeve that is installed onto a core member. To facilitate the manufacture of the paint roller covers, the knitted pile fabric sleeve is initially placed upon the outside of a thin hollow cylindrical mounting tube, and the core member with an adhesive bonding material provided on the exterior surface thereof is inserted into the interior of the mounting tube. The knitted pile fabric sleeve is installed onto the exterior surface of the core member by withdrawing the mounting tube from the knitted pile fabric sleeve while maintaining the respective positions of the knitted pile fabric sleeve and the core member, with the knitted pile fabric sleeve being retained on the core member by the adhesive bonding material. The pile fabric covered core member may be finished into paint roller covers by cutting it to a desired size, combing and shearing the pile fabric to a desired length, beveling the edges of the paint roller covers, and vacuuming stray fibers from the paint roller covers.
Fatores associados ao uso inconsistente de preservativo com parceiros comerciais entre homens que fazem sexo com homens no Brasil

O objetivo foi analisar os fatores associados ao uso inconsistente de preservativo com parceiros comerciais entre homens que fazem sexo com homens (HSH) no Brasil. Foi feito um estudo transversal, com HSH adultos, recrutados por meio da técnica respondent-driven sampling (RDS), em 12 capitais brasileiras, em 2016. Os HSH responderam a um questionário sociocomportamental, que incluía questões sobre o comportamento sexual. O uso inconsistente de preservativo com parceiros comerciais foi mensurado por meio das relações sexuais anais insertivas e receptivas, ocorridas nos últimos seis meses e na última relação sexual. A associação entre as variáveis independentes e o uso inconsistente de preservativo foi mensurada utilizando o modelo de regressão de Poisson com variância robusta, com estimação de razões de prevalência ajustadas (RPa). Foram analisados dados de 461 HSH. A prevalência de uso inconsistente de preservativo com parceiros comerciais foi de 26% (IC95%: 19,0-34,3, n = 123). Pertencer às classes econômicas mais baixas (D/E), ter médio ou baixo conhecimento sobre HIV, ter praticado sexo anal insertivo e receptivo e nunca ter realizado teste para HIV na vida são fatores que estiveram associados ao uso inconsistente de preservativo com parceiros comerciais. As variáveis associadas ao uso inconsistente indicaram que o sexo comercial está sendo praticado em um contexto de maior vulnerabilidade à infecção pelo HIV. Nesse sentido, são necessárias intervenções biomédicas e comportamentais, com foco no acesso e na utilização de estratégias de prevenção, aliadas a políticas públicas para a redução de desigualdades socioeconômicas entre HSH que praticam sexo comercial.
Cross-border services for innovation and start-ups

The common challenge of STEP-IN-UP is to develop a joint and cross-border action plan, to provide transversal and specialised services to a group of target companies (new companies established no more than two years ago and innovative companies established no more than three years ago), whose aim is to offer solutions to markets in the blue & green economy, in an innovative and collaborative way. Meeting this general objective will allow for a more competitive group of new companies, able to face the international market from a more solid position.
 The project output will concern: analysis of the needs expressed by operators in the green & blue economy; mapping and identification of target companies; the definition of a joint action plan for target companies to approach the market in a systematic way; the provision of transversal and specialised services, and the definition of regulations for the supply of vouchers to increase cross-border networking and business opportunities for target companies.
 The target companies will be selected on the basis of the analysis of the needs expressed by key players in the green & blue economy; their needs will be identified with the support of a team of experts who will draw up the action plan. The plan will contain different types of transversal and vertical services chosen on the basis of the needs expressed by the companies, in order to promote the latter on the market, including the identification of strategic events in the reference markets.
 This initiative is innovative as it activates a system of transversal and vertical services based on a joint analysis of the markets linked to supply chains in the green & blue economy, promoted by partners with the support of experts selected according to shared criteria. This plan can be replicated and transferred.
Economic and social innovations in the field of culture and creation activities

The project Sostenuto aims at reinforcing the competitiveness and the capacities of economic and social innovation from the cultural and creative sector in the Med space by accompanying its transformation towards new economic and social models. It will encourage the decision-makers, the country planners and the financers to take into account the economic potential as well as the capacities of innovation of this sector. It consists in testing the application of innovative practices in the cultural and creative sector, in defining the conditions of their transfer and in promoting their dissemination within the Med space and beyond. It will focus more specifically on the innovative methods of organization and management. Thus the following practices will be tested within 4 laboratories, ie: incubator, cluster, local exchange trading system and territorial governance. The work of these laboratories will be analysed and modelled, and then diffused in the Med space and beyond, favouring thus the appropriation of these new methods of organization and management by the cultural and creative sector, the improvement of its competitiveness and the increase of its insertion in the territorial public policies.
IMPROVING ACCURACY OF A COMPASS PROVIDED WITH A CARRIER STRUCTURE FOR USE IN SUBTERRANEAN SURVEYING

Techniques or mechanisms are provided to improve accuracy in determining headings and/or shapes of carrier structures based on measurements made by one or more compasses that are attached to or provided with the carrier structures. The carrier structures are used to carry survey receivers that detect survey signals affected by a subterranean structure.
Sortal concepts and pragmatic inference in children’s early quantification of objects

It is typically assumed that count nouns like fork act as logical sortals, specifying whether objects are countable units of a kind (e.g., that a whole fork counts as "one fork") or not (e.g., that a piece of a fork does not count as "one fork"). In four experiments, we provide evidence from linguistic and conceptual development that nouns do not specify units of quantification, but include both whole objects and their arbitrary parts in their denotations. We argue that, to restrict quantification to whole objects, nominal concepts are enriched pragmatically, via contrast with concepts denoted by alternative descriptions: a piece of a fork is not counted as "one fork" because it is "one piece of fork." Experiment 1 replicated previous findings that children count pieces of broken objects as whole objects (e.g., two pieces of fork as "two forks"), and showed that children also accept whole object labels as descriptions of object pieces (e.g., "two forks" to describe two pieces of fork). Experiment 2 showed that although children accept such descriptions in isolation, they prefer measure phrases (e.g., "two pieces of fork") when they are explicitly presented as alternatives. Experiment 3 found that children were better at excluding pieces from their counts of whole objects when measure phrases were primed prior to counting, making them accessible as alternatives to whole object labels. Finally, Experiment 4 taught children names for novel objects, and found that they do not count parts that are given unique labels or that have non-linguistic properties that suggest they are members of distinct object kinds (e.g., unique functions or physical affordances). Together, our results suggest that for children and adults alike, nominal concepts do not provide necessary and sufficient criteria for excluding parts from object kinds. To specify units of quantification--and do the work of sortals--concepts are contrasted with one another and enriched pragmatically.
Novel Technique to Measure Moisture Content of Paddy and the Error Correction

The moisture content in agricultural products is very critical. The presence of moisture also affects the quality of agricultural products like rice, wheat, nuts etc. Moisture content in food grains should be reduced and made optimum value otherwise it would encourage fungi development. The development of fungus makes the grain useless. For measuring the capacitance of paddy grains, designed integrated circuit was interfaced with the PC. The arrangement used is a high precision impedance converter. It is a 12 bit frequency generator and 1 Mega samples / sec analog to digital converter. Frequency sweep can be done using the circuit. This converter is interfaced with PC to measure the capacitance of paddy. Initially ceramic capacitors of different values were used to check the designed circuit. Then using the designed circuit, capacitance of representative amount of samples was measured and calculated the moisture content from the obtained readings. The technique is fast, simple, accurate and non-destructive method. Though the method is accurate, there is a slight variation in decimal points and the error was also corrected using Matlab.
SOFT TISSUE HAVING REDUCED HYDROGEN BONDING

The present invention provides a modified cellulosic fiber having reduced hydrogen bonding capabilities. The modified fiber formed in accordance with the present invention may be useful in the production of tissue products having improved bulk and softness. More importantly, the modified fiber is adaptable to current tissue making processes and may be incorporated into a tissue product to improve bulk and softness without an unsatisfactory reduction in tensile.
Broader Aspects of Nanopharmaceutical Safety: Need for an Integrated Approach

Broader Aspects of Nanopharmaceutical Safety: Need for an Integrated Approach
Nanoparticulate drug carriers and multifunctional nanoparticles are beginning to provide a range of unique therapeutic and diagnostic opportunities. However, there is an increasing concern regarding nanoparticle safety for human use, but these are not often viewed within the context of clinical dosing, administration route, and pathological conditions in question. A complex array of interrelated physicochemical and biological factors control nanoparticle pharmacokinetics, site-specific targeting, therapeutic efficacy and safety, and these have been reviewed recently. From a clinical perspective, it is imperative to identify and translate realistic opportunities offered by understanding of pathophysiological processes to the design and engineering of efficient and safe nanopharmaceuticals. Such strategies will most likely enhance benefit-to-risk ratio, as opposed to empirical approaches that tend to find forced biomedical applications for a broad range of emerging nanomaterials, which eventually contributes to increased toxicity concerns.
Topological Model of Austenite-Martensite Interfaces in Cu-Al-Ni Alloy

Cu Al Ni alloy is one of the most widely studied shape-memory alloys because of a very large reversible strain and relative easiness of single crystal preparation. The β1 austenite phase has DO3 structure with the lattice parameter of 0.5836 nm. Three types of martensite are observed in this alloy: γ′ 1 with 2H, β ′ 1 with 18R, and α′ 1 with 6R structures. The orthorhombic γ ′ 1 martensite has the lattice parameters a = 0.4382 nm, b = 0.5356 nm, and c = 0.4222 nm [1]. The experiments indicate that at interfaces between the austenite and a single variant of 2H martensite can exist on a microscopic scale [2]. Unfortunately, no invariant plane can be found for martensitic transformations in this material [3]. Consequently, the classical phenomenological theory of martensite cannot predict interface plane between the austenite and a single variant of 2H martensite. It is possible to nd only an average macroscopic habit plane between the austenite and two twin-related martensite. The at interfaces between the austenite and single variant of the martensite were discussed in our previous paper [4] where a simple shear strain of martensite was included in the phenomenological model in order to nd the invariant plane. A comparatively large set of possible habit planes was obtained in that way and it was shown that this set is not in contradiction with the experimental results. However, the simple shear deformation of martensite was included in the model in a purely mathematical way without physical justi cation. The aim of the present paper is to discuss the austenite single-variant-martensite interfaces in Cu Al Ni alloy in the frame of topological model of martensite interfaces [5 7]. This model takes into account admissible defects lying in the interface. Hence, it allows prediction of the austenite martensite habit planes only by analysis of such defects without considerations of the invariant plane.
Water and bees

The “A.A.A.” project aims to set up in the Venetian-Slovenian area a method to develop sustainable tourism through two significant elements: water - intended as wetlands, the arms of the river and the lagoon environment - and beekeeping. This initiative represents the beginning of a permanent programme of interventions translating into the two itineraries to be developed: the first with naturalistic relevance is located among the wetlands above the mouth of the Dese river and the Northern lagoon of Venice, and the second is devoted to beekeeping activities, in order to set up a bee-tourist centre of excellence. The project intends to trigger the transformation of these areas into potential tourist destinations, by connecting three SCI- Sites of Community Importance (Mestre wood, Praello quarry and Gaggio quarry) with the Northern Lagoon Park through the mouth of the Dese river. By means of a sustainable tourism programme, a series of itineraries are proposed: river trekking, cycling routes, bridle paths or river/lagoon routes. The objective of the programme is relieving tourism congestion by creating new opportunities for the fruition of naturalistic environments, also through the promotion of smaller production activities - like beekeeping - that are of great interest for their positive effects on the environment and the economy, both in Italy and Slovenia. Upon project completion and to ensure the dissemination of relevant information two volumes will be published, one presenting the Wood of Mestre and the area studied by the project, and the other on honey, with interesting recipes using this product.
A JETTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF A JETTING APPARATUS

The present invention is generally related to a jetting device for jetting droplets of viscous medium onto a substrate, said jetting device comprising an ejector element for performing the jetting process and a jetting outlet through which said droplets are jetted. In particular, the invention is related to a method, a measuring device, a jetting device, and a viscous medium container for use in such a jetting device for measuring or monitoring a level or volume of viscous medium during a jetting process and/or measuring electrical properties of the viscous medium to determine characteristics of the medium.
Stock Market Index and Macro Economic Variables in India: An Empirical Relationship

The present study is an attempt to examine the inter linkages between stock market index and macro economic variables namely weighted average lending rate, net inflows of foreign direct investment, net investments by foreign institutional investors, exchange rate of Indian Rupee vis a vis US$, ratio of current account balance to gross domestic product over the time period 1991 to 2016 for India. Johansen cointegration test's results have indicated that at least four cointegrating vectors exist among stock market index and macroeconomic variables. The study reveals existence of long run positive relation between stock market index and macroeconomic variables exchange rate, interest rate, foreign direct investments and net foreign institutional investments. However, deficits in current account have shown long run negative relation with stock market index. The results of Granger causality indicate that unidirectional causality runs from stock market index to exchange rate, foreign direct investments and foreign institutional investments.
DEVICE FOR ANALYSING SAMPLE FLUIDS CONTAINING SUSPENDED MATERIALS

The invention relates to devices which are used to analyse sample fluids containing suspended solid substances, e.g. pulp, said devices comprising a measuring device which is used to measure flow potential and a titration device which is used to guide a titration fluid from a container to a sample fluid. According to the invention, the titration device, together with the container which is arranged in such a manner that it can be exchanged thereon, and which is used for transporting the measuring device and the titration device, is configured such that it can be separated from the measuring device, in order to simplify frequent transportation.
Properties and optimal manufacturing conditions of chicken feathers/poly(lactic acid) biocomposites

Chicken feathers waste from poultry industry was incorporated in poly(lactic acid) matrix to obtain an environmental friendly biocomposite taking advantage of the unique properties of chicken feathers, such as low density, biodegradability and good thermal and acoustic properties, and of the biodegradability of the poly(lactic acid). The effect of manufacturing conditions on the final properties of the composite and on the matrix–fiber compatibility was studied. Optimal manufacturing conditions, in order to obtain the best mechanical results, were found at a temperature of 170–180℃ for a processing time of 5 min and a speed of mixing of 50 r/min. Young’s modulus was not very affected by the chicken feather’s content showing a maximal variation of less than 8%, indicating that is possible to include chicken feathers in a composite maintaining its stiffness. However, tensile strength and elongation decreased up to 58 and 12%, respectively, when chicken feather content was 25% because of the restraining effect of the fibers. Moreover, dimensional stability was negatively affected with the inclusion of chicken feathers. Infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy studies show that fiber–matrix interaction exists but it is weak.
A cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of dental anxiety and its relation to the oral health-related quality of life in patients with dental treatment needs at a university clinic in Switzerland

The aim of this observational, cross-sectional study was to analyse the relationship between dental anxiety (DA) and health-related quality of life aspects associated with oral conditions of a population with dental treatment needs in Switzerland.The measurements of DA were collected by means of two questionnaires, the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) was assessed with the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP). The sample included 223 patients enrolled at a university clinic which specialises in oral prosthetic rehabilitation and temporomandibular disorders. Of them, 78.9% were at or above the age of 50.No gender or age dependencies were observed. A comparison of answers regarding OHRQoL and DA revealed a significant interdependence (p = 0.0118); highly anxious patients were 3.55 times more likely to suffer from poor quality of life compared with less anxious ones.This cross-sectional study of mostly elderly patients seeking dental treatment in Switzerland found that increased DA was associated with an impaired OHRQoL. The average DA was slightly higher than the results of other industrialised countries and the average OHRQoL was reduced.
Robust Joint Analysis with Data Fusion in Two-Stage Quantitative Trait Genome-Wide Association Studies

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in identifying the disease-associated genetic variants have been proved to be a great pioneering work. Two-stage design and analysis are often adopted in GWASs. Considering the genetic model uncertainty, many robust procedures have been proposed and applied in GWASs. However, the existing approaches mostly focused on binary traits, and few work has been done on continuous (quantitative) traits, since the statistical significance of these robust tests is difficult to calculate. In this paper, we develop a powerful<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>F</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math>-statistic-based robust joint analysis method for quantitative traits using the combined raw data from both stages in the framework of two-staged GWASs. Explicit expressions are obtained to calculate the statistical significance and power. We show using simulations that the proposed method is substantially more robust than the<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M2"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>F</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math>-test based on the additive model when the underlying genetic model is unknown. An example for rheumatic arthritis (RA) is used for illustration.