SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A procedure for preparing films for packaging. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

A process for preparing films for packaging that are easy to thermally weld, characterized in that supports constituted by polyolefin films are coated with a layer consisting of a primer, which is the product of the partial reaction of an amine with an oxirane derivative, and another layer consisting of an acrylonitrile/vinylidene chloride copolymer and a vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate copolymer. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
Error analysis of multipoint flux domain decomposition methods for evolutionary diffusion problems

Abstract We study space and time discretizations for mixed formulations of parabolic problems. The spatial approximation is based on the multipoint flux mixed finite element method, which reduces to an efficient cell-centered pressure system on general grids, including triangles, quadrilaterals, tetrahedra, and hexahedra. The time integration is performed by using a domain decomposition time-splitting technique combined with multiterm fractional step diagonally implicit Runge–Kutta methods. The resulting scheme is unconditionally stable and computationally efficient, as it reduces the global system to a collection of uncoupled subdomain problems that can be solved in parallel without the need for Schwarz-type iteration. Convergence analysis for both the semidiscrete and fully discrete schemes is presented.
Democratic governance in a turbulent age

Democratic politics and governance in Europe are facing turbulent times. This not only affects the institutions of government, but the wider structures and processes that make democratic societies work. In order to respond to them, we require an understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of these challenges, as well as assessments of how governments, political parties, interest groups and other societal actors can effectively address them.

With this proposal for a research programme on the topic of governance, NORFACE offers a timely investigation of the precise nature of the turbulence, but also how European states can negotiate it and develop strategies to enhance the quality of democratic politics and governance. The proposed programme will focus on themes derived from five critical challenges to democratic governance and the responses to them: inequality and redistribution, the evolving politics of threat, democratisation of information, shifting identities and representation, and the changing authority of institutions. Through collaborative cross-disciplinary research based on cross-national, historical and/or longitudinal comparison, the programme will develop theoretically ambitious and empirically founded insights to enrich the knowledge base upon which to build new institutions, policies and practices and reshape existing ones for a reflective, inclusive and innovative society.

NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) is a collaborative partnership of national research funding agencies in the area of social and behavioural sciences. Since 2004, NORFACE has been committed to leading and developing opportunities for social scientists in Europe by developing thematic joint research programmes; building capacity for transnational and interdisciplinary research; advocating for the societal value of the social sciences; and sharing excellence in research management practices and procedures.
¿ÁMBITO CIENTÍFICO O ASIGNATURAS?

A polémica que se gerou em algumas comunidades em Espanha pelo desenvolvimentode um sistema de ensino científico na primeira fase do Ensino Secundário Obrigatório (ESO),baseado na ideia de "Campo Científico" em vez de disciplinas e na possibilidade de que, longe desendo uma medida excepcional de natureza específica provocada pela COVID19, poderácontinuar ou ser ampliada ao abrigo da nova Lei da Educação (LOMLOE), é um assunto sobre oqual, como professores, investigadores e cidadãos, nos sentimos obrigados a comentar. É umaquestão de grande importância, que afeta ou pode afetar também outros países e que tembasicamente duas vertentes: sociopolítica e científico-educacional. Neste artigo, ambos sãobrevemente discutidos.
AN ETHANOL FUEL AND THE USE OF AN IGNITION IMPROVER

The ignition of an aqueous ethanol fuel is essentially improved by using a water soluble adduct of a polyol having 3-10 hydroxyl groups and ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide, the molecular weight of the adduct being 350-10,000. The fuel is in the form of a solution and contains 70-96 % by weight of ethanol, 2-10 % by weight of water and 0,5-20 % by weight of the ignition improving adduct.
Meteorological factors influencing insect pests of Tomato

The fruit borer population exhibited significant positive correlation with the temperature but positive and non-significant with sunshine hours. Relative humidity and rainfall had non-significant negative effect on borer population. Aphid population was positively but non significantly correlated with the maximum, minimum temperatures and sunshine hours and negative non-significantly with relative humidity and rainfall. Mealy bug population exhibited positive and significant correlation with the temperature and positive but non significant with rainfall and sunshine hours. The leaf miner population was positively but non significantly correlated with maximum temperature and sunshine hours. However, minimum temperature and rainfall had positive and significant effected on leaf miner population. Relative humidity was negatively correlated with leaf miner. The correlation studies between whitefly and abiotic factors showed positive correlation for temperature and sunshine hours, while the correlation was negative relative humidity and rainfall. The multiple linear regression analysis showed that all the weather parameters together were responsible for 96.3, 69.7, 97.1, 77.3 and 89.0% (R2 value) of total variation of fruit borer, aphid, mealy bug, leaf miner and whitefly population, respectively.
HSM Strategies of CAD/CAM Systems — Part I Tool Path Generation

Owning to the ultra high feed rate and spindle speed, tool path patterns which are less important in conventional metal cutting processes becomes critical in High Speed Machining (HSM). Without an appropriate tool path strategy HSM can not be fully implemented even though the CNC machine has HSM potentials. In practice attentions are usually drawn to advanced hardware components; tool path pattern catering to HSM is often overlooked. This paper introduces the principles of tool path generation for HSM. Essential properties of HSM and its technical requirements on the CAD/CAM system are summarized. The state-of-the-art technologies and practice-oriented tool path generation methodologies are presented.
Biodiversity erosion in european medicinal plants

Environmental degradation due to land-use, over-exploitation and  climate change rapidly erodes Europe’s unique biodiversity, resulting in irreversible loss of valuable resources both for ecosystem functions and for human well-being. However, despite the numerous monitoring and conservation efforts, our ability to predict and mitigate the extinction risk of wild populations remains limited. Assessing the temporal variation in genetic diversity and its environmental drivers represents a powerful approach to address this challenge, but incorporating it into conservation planning has been hindered by i) lack of affordable technology, ii) lack of interdisciplinarity, and iii) disconnection between fundamental research and applied conservation. BEEP will address these gaps by combining modern sequencing technologies for quantifying species temporal genomic erosion, with satellite observations of the earth for assessing the corresponding environmental change. By bridging diverse technological fields and scientific principles, BEEP will provide an applied predictive framework for species extinction risk in response to human pressure that can be directly utilised by major environmental organisations (IUCN, EEA, IPBES). I will showcase the power and importance of this approach using the European endemic and highly threatened mountain tea species (Ironwort), that are of significant conservation interest due to their traditional and emerging medicinal properties. I will achieve BEEP's objectives at SBiK-F (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre), a world-class centre in interdisciplinary biodiversity research, ranging from earth observations from space to species evolutionary genomics.The proposed project will provide new research and training opportunities that will bring me in a very competitive position in order to successfully establish myself as a leading and interdisciplinary European researcher in the fields of biodiversity research and conservation.
GAMING KITS AND METHODS OF PLAYING WITH HOUSINGS RECONFIGURABLE BY RETRIEVABLE UNLOCKING ELEMENTS

Gaming kits and method of playing with same are described, where the gaming kit includes a reconfigurable housing, a retrieving device, a securing mechanism configured to secure the housing in the boxing configuration and a retrievable article including an unlocking element, and the method includes retrieving the unlocking element, unlocking the securing mechanism and reconfiguring the housing into a gaming configuration, so that the reconfigured container is usable as a toy rather than as packaging.
Feature-preserving triangular geometry images for level-of-detail representation of static and skinned meshes

Geometry images resample meshes to represent them as texture for efficient GPU processing by forcing a regular parameterization that often incurs a large amount of distortion. Previous approaches broke the geometry image into multiple rectangular or irregular charts to reduce distortion, but complicated the automatic level of detail one gets from MIP-maps of the geometry image. We introduce triangular-chart geometry images and show this new approach better supports the GPU-side representation and display of skinned dynamic meshes, with support for feature preservation, bounding volumes, and view-dependent level of detail. Triangular charts pack efficiently, simplify the elimination of T-junctions, arise naturally from an edge-collapse simplification base mesh, and layout more flexibly to allow their edges to follow curvilinear mesh features. To support the construction and application of triangular-chart geometry images, this article introduces a new spectral clustering method for feature detection, and new methods for incorporating skinning weights and skinned bounding boxes into the representation. This results in a tenfold improvement in fidelity when compared to quad-chart geometry images.
Nanomaterials for enzymatic control of oxidative stress toxicity  and free radical generation

Recent advances in nanotechnology have already provided excellent platforms to reshape many areas of biocatalysis and healthcare, and yet many challenges are still being faced to produce artificial nanozymes with better catalytic efficiency. Pending achievements include having enhanced enzymatic robustness and stability while keeping the key aspects of natural enzymes such as high specificity, low toxicity and bioavailability. Consequently, there is currently a real demand for better-designed nanozymes capable to solve these challenges for the different industrial and health requirements. NESTOR project aims to develop atomically-designed nanozymes based on versatile iron-oxide-based materials, to assess their true toxicological impact and to theoretically model the microscopic mechanisms of their enzymatic-like reactions (e.g., catalase-like, peroxidase-like, etc.) and to achieve a product-oriented enzymatic activity with minimum toxicological impact, a highly relevant societal concern.  The outcomes from NESTOR project are expected to provide a better control of enzymatic reactions inside living entities together with the additional properties from the new materials such as magnetic actuability, imaging or heating. These research goals are embedded in the motivation of establishing a dynamic network with NESTOR, aimed to train the next generation of materials scientists, theoretical physicists, chemists, toxicologists and medical doctors in a highly interdisciplinary research environment so they can benchmark upcoming challenges concerning the new biomedical and environmental challenges to come. This next generation of open-minded scientists with true knowledge of multidisciplinary work will be an essential actor in the complex interactions between nanotechnologies and society that lay ahead.
Spatio-temporal assessment of nocturnal surface ozone in Malaysia

Abstract This study aims to determine the level and potential sources of nocturnal surface ozone (NSO) in different regions in Malaysia. Eleven-year (2005–2015) ozone data from 37 continuous air quality monitoring stations throughout Malaysia have been analysed to determine spatio-temporal variations in NSO concentrations. NSO daily maximum concentrations from different regions in Malaysia were used for seasonal variation analysis while linear regression and the Mann-Kendall trend test were used for the annual variation analysis. Average ratios of mean NSO to daytime surface ozone (DSO) for the whole country were found to be 60% of DSO (0.58–0.61). The east coast of the Malaysian Peninsula recorded the highest ratio (70% of DSO) while the central region recorded the lowest concentration (50% of DSO). Titration processes, particularly by NO in the urban areas of the central region, and long transboundary movement of ozone to the east coast are expected to influence the concentration of ozone in these two regions, respectively. On certain occasions, the NSO concentrations (with a maximum value of 137 ppb) exceeded the limit of 100 ppb, the value suggested by Malaysian Air Quality Standard for ambient ozone concentration. The monthly diurnal variation analysis revealed the occurrence of secondary/nocturnal peaks at more than 50% of the stations occurring around 0300–0500 h. The NSO was found to be influenced by the monsoonal season with higher concentrations mainly observed during the boreal winter season. The long-term trend analysis presented the country's overall NSO as having an increasing trend at 27% of the stations.
Restructuring the SOE Sector in Vietnam

This paper assesses Vietnam's recent experience with reforming its state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector and discusses potential ways forward. It does so by: reviewing the economic principles that account for the motivations and shortcomings of state ownership; taking stock of stylized facts about the SOE sector; and assessing the legal and institutional reforms and equitizations that have taken place over the last years. The current focus on microeconomic approaches to firm productivity is highly misleading and a broader reform perspective of Vietnam's development model is needed. While there is little compelling evidence that the state of the SOE sector is as dismal as some analysts suggest, the paper highlights an increasing implementation lag of the legal reform progress — reflecting fault lines in Vietnam's political economy. SOEs can and should play a vital role in Vietnam's development strategy going forward. However, a more precise vision for the sector, based on a more elaborate assessment of market failures and externalities in different parts of the economy, is needed.
Physico-Chemical Analysis and Quality of Drinking Water From Bindtoli Village, Digha, Patna, (Bihar State)

The present investigation reports survey on health status of inhabitants of Bindtoli village, Digha Municipal area of Patna City, Patna (Bihar). It also reports physico-chemical analysis of water samples from all hand pumps of the village. The water samples showed high concentration of iron, arsenic and turbidity. The surveys on health status revealed general complain of indigestion and skin problems in villagers. The problems appeared to be linked with intake of water with high concentration of arsenic and iron. The borewell, 200 feet deep in nearby area was free from arsenic and iron contamination. Thus deep borewells may become an alternativesourceofcleanwater.A265feetdeepborewell hasbeeninstalledinthe village which is now being used for drinking and cooking by the villagers. As a result of this ailments of stomach and itching of skin are greatly reduced. Korean Centre for International Cooperation has thus lowered the sufferings of the people by providing funds.
Obstacle problems with elliptic operators in divergence form

Under the guidance of Dr. Ivan Blank, I study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator in divergence form. First, I give all of the nontrivial details needed to prove a mean value theorem, which was stated by Caffarelli in the Fermi lectures in 1998. In fact, in 1963, Littman, Stampacchia, and Weinberger proved a mean value theorem for elliptic operators in divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients. The formula stated by Caffarelli is much simpler, but he did not include the proof. Second, I study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator in divergence form. I develop all of the basic theory of existence, uniqueness, optimal regularity, and nondegeneracy of the solutions. These results allow us to begin the study of the regularity of the free boundary in the case where the coefficients are in the space of vanishing mean oscillation (VMO). OBSTACLE PROBLEMS WITH ELLIPTIC OPERATORS IN DIVERGENCE FORM by ZHENG HAO M.S., Kansas State University, 2012 A DISSERTATION submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Mathematics College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2014 Approved by: Major Professor Ivan Blank
DOORSTOP

A resilient doorstop may be inexpensively manufactured to provide a door-engaging portion (10) and a base portion (20) interconnected with two or more serially connect, long, straight lengths of rod (32, 33) laying transverse to the door-engaging portion and having a length sufficient that the door-engaging portion may be substantially deformed in the direction of the base portion without exceeding the elastic limit of the rod. The resilient doorstop is preferably formed from a single, resilient, bent rod and includes a U-shaped portion (31) with a central axis laying transverse to the central axis of the door-engaging portion to provide one or more long straight lengths of rod, permitting deformation of the door-engaging portion towards the base portion through torsional deformation and urging the door-engaging portion away from the base portion through torsional resilience. The base portion (20) may be a large U-shaped portion at one end of the rod, and the door-engaging portion (10) may be a smaller U-shaped portion at the other end of the rod that is positioned to be concentric with the larger, U-shaped, base portion so that the smaller door-engaging portion may be deformed into substantially the same plane as the base portion, thereby permitting the doorstop to be inserted into a space between the door and the floor that is only slightly greater than the thickness of the rod from which the doorstop is formed.
Role of yap/taz on circulating tumour cells

Metastasis is the leading cause of all cancer-related deaths. Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) are cancer cells that shed off the primary tumour, enter into blood vessels and through the blood circulation are transferred to distant organs, whereby they establish new metastatic lesions. CTCs are detected as single cells and/or clusters of cells with clusters being more metastasis-prone than single CTCs. CTC clusters have different sizes varying from 2- to 50-cells. However, it still remains unknown if the different size of CTCs has an impact on their metastatic potential and what factors regulate their size. To elucidate the molecular dynamics of clustered CTC formation, we performed RNA-seq analysis in cells from primary tumours and CTCs and identified the YAP/TAZ gene signature to be upregulated in CTCs. YAP/TAZ is an interesting molecular node, as its function depends on its subcellular localisation. Junctional localised YAP/TAZ inhibits cancer cell dissemination by supporting the maintenance of cell-cell adhesions, while nuclear YAP/TAZ induces a genetic program that promotes cancer progression. We hypothesised that YAP/TAZ could play a critical role on CTC biology, regulating the size and metastatic potential of CTCs. Thus, the aim of this fellowship is to determine the impact of the size of clustered CTCs on establishing metastatic lesions and provide mechanistic insight on the role of YAP/TAZ. More specifically, I will determine: 1) the localisation of YAP/TAZ in CTCs from mouse models and patients with breast cancer, 2) if YAP/TAZ affects the size of clustered CTCs in breast cancer mouse models, 3) if YAP/TAZ localisation affects the metastatic potential of CTC clusters of variable sizes and 4) signals regulating the nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of YAP/TAZ in CTCs. Hence, this research could be the foundation for developing novel anticancer therapies and an improved patient stratification system.
Imagens Cidadãs: a participação da Bem TV no estímulo à cidadania

O objetivo deste artigo é observar de que modo é estimulada a cidadania através da análise do caso concreto de uma TV comunitária já tradicional no Estado do Rio de Janeiro: a Bem TV. O artigo é dividido em três seções: uma contextualização do aspecto audiovisual na contemporaneidade, relacionando-o ao conceito de Sociedade do Espetáculo, de Guy Debord; uma discussão sobre as TVs comunitárias e suas principais características, com base nos trabalhos de pesquisa de Raquel Paiva, Cicilia Peruzzo e Muniz Sodré, destacando as TVs comunitárias em rede como um elemento recente; a análise de uma amostra da produção audiovisual da Bem TV, de Niterói, com base no seu canal do Youtube, através da seleção e da análise do conteúdo de quatro vídeos publicados em 2018 (ano de eleições presidenciais e de amplo debate sobre temas sociais) e de três vídeos mais antigos (de um período anterior à produção voltada especificamente para o canal em questão). A metodologia usada é a de estudo de caso (com análise de conteúdo dos vídeos selecionados). Os resultados encontrados evidenciam o estímulo à discussão de temas fundamentais para a construção de uma relação cidadã comunitária, inclusiva e dialógica.
Opioid Analgesic Agents and Cancer Cell Biology

There is growing interest in the notion that perioperative factors may influence the long-term outcome of cancer surgery. Among these factors, pharmacologic agents including anesthetics and analgesics have been scrutinized for their potential effect on tumors. Opioids are particularly interesting in this context, as conflicting literature reports both pro- and anti-tumor effects for this class of drugs in every aspect of tumor growth and metastasis that has been examined. Cancer and non-cancer cells important to the tumor biology may be affected, as demonstrated using a variety of in vitro and preclinical models. More evidence is required to optimize the perioperative pain management of cancer surgery patients.