SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Southern ocean and antarctic climatic phasing:tephrochronological correlation of southern ocean marine records and antarctic ice-cores

Determining the temporal relationships of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic fluctuations is crucial for advancing understanding of the mechanisms controlling heat transfer between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The thermal bipolar see-saw caused asynchronous interhemispheric climatic changes during the last glacial period and Southern Ocean marine records and the Antarctic ice-cores are valuable archives recording this past climatic variability. Ascertaining the precise phasing of the climatic variability between these records provides crucial boundary conditions for testing models simulating the future behaviour of the bipolar see-saw and assessing potential large-scale oceanic and atmospheric reorganisations under anthropogenic forcing. In addition, establishing tighter constraints on phase relationships between sedimentary evidence for deep-water ventilation of CO2, and ice-core evidence for past atmospheric CO2 variations is key to determining the future response of the Earth system to rising CO2 levels. This project will address this challenge by ascertaining the rate, timing and phasing of Southern Hemisphere climatic changes between 40-10 kyr BP using tephrochronology to independently synchronise the palaeoclimatic sequences using common horizons of volcanic ash as time-synchronous tie-lines. Recognition of ash horizons not visible upon core inspection (cryptotephras) within sequences increasingly distal from volcanic regions has increased the scope of this technique. Cryptotephra identification methods will be used to trace ash horizons visible in Antarctic ice-cores into a marine core network from the Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and to trace previously unknown horizons identified in the marine realm into the Antarctic Atlantic sector EPICA DML ice-core. This region has a high potential for synchronisation due to the number of upwind volcanic regions that have previously deposited volcanic ash over the ice-sheet and Southern Ocean.
Innovative 3-dimensional optoacoustic imaging for safe breast cancer screening

Breast cancer is a global challenge representing the leading cause of death for women worldwide: according to the
estimates of WHO, there were over 2 million new cases in 2018, with a projection of more than 3 million individuals by 2040.
It is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage while early detection greatly increases the chances for successful treatment.
The 2 components of early detection are mass screening and early diagnosis. Currently, most diffuse population-based
screening programs for breast cancer are based on mammography. Weighing the harms against the benefits of these
programs has led WHO not to recommend mammography screening in women less than 50 years of age. Mammography
has been the medical industry’s “gold standard” breast cancer screening tool for nearly four decades. Today a number of
adverse effects, backed up by mounting scientific evidence, are limiting the use of mammography as a mass screening
device. LOUISA-3D uses safe light and sound to provide safer and accurate breast cancer screening. The LOUISA-3D
innovation consists of a novel optoacoustic imaging method that allows one to see under the skin through the tissues with
high spatial resolution by listening to the sound of light absorbed in the body which can be used for detection and diagnostics
of cancer and vascular diseases. During the phase 1 project, a go-to-market strategy and a supply chain will be established,
as well as further development plan will be drafted. Within the overall innovation project Tomowave will finalize its
engineering of LOUISA-3D before scaling up for clinical trials and system industrialization.
Carrying out a resource audit of Nordic Group OÜ

In the framework of the project “Performing a resource audit of Norddic Group OÜ”, an overview of RESSURSIAUDIT will be carried out at the company’s production unit in Kiiu village, in order to identify the potential for energy and&#10;resource savings. The purpose of energy and resource audits is to increase the company’s awareness of the use of its resources and to create the prerequisites for changing the use of resources more efficiently.
Current status and outlook on genetic transformation of fruit trees in Korea

Abstract The paper reviewed research status and outlook of genetic transformation in fruit trees in Korea. Genetic transformation has been long considered as an alternative technique overcoming limitation of conventional breeding and conducted since early 1990’s. An efficient genetic transformation was established with major cultivars of apple, even in Fuji and Gamhong, and some transgenic apple plants have been transferred into the greenhouse for further analysis of gene expression. A few successes of genetic transformation have been reported and application to a variety of cultivars tried in citrus and kiwifruit. Successful genetic transformation has not been reported in the other fruit trees including grapevine, yet and it is considered being at the level of research. Those factors including replacement of antibiotics as a selective agent, use of transgenic rootstocks and manipulation of gene expression at proper parts and developmental stages have been prerequisites for the rapid commercialization of transgenic fruit plants.
DARIUSZ KOWALSKI – GRANT

The project concerns support for working capital of a company in the event of a decline in turnover (sales revenue) caused by the negative effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Electromagnetic radiation absorbers and modulators comprising polyaniline

A method of providing electronic shielding comprising providing a layer of a polyaniline composition on the object to be shielded, whereby the entrance and egress of electromagnetic radiation is prevented. Also presented herein is a method of changing the absorption by a polyaniline composition of electromagnetic radiation by modifying the chemical structure and crystallinographic order of the polyaniline composition, wherein said composition comprises a composition of the formula <IMAGE> where y can be equal to or greater than zero, and R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of -H, -OCH3, -F, -Cl, -Br, -I, -NR32, -NHCOR3, -OH, -O, -SR3, -OR3, -OCOR3, -NO2, -COOH, -COOR3, -R3SO3H, -COR3, -CHO, and -CN, where R3 is a C1 to C8 alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group.
A CFD study of biomass pyrolysis in a downer reactor equipped with a novel gas–solid separator — I: Hydrodynamic performance

This study presents the first part of a CFD study on the performance of a downer reactor for biomass pyrolysis. The reactor was equipped with a novel gas-solid separation method, developed by the co-authors from the ICFAR (Canada). The separator, which was designed to allow for fast separation of clean pyrolysis gas, consisted of a cone deflector and a gas exit pipe installed inside the downer reactor. A multi-fluid model (Eulerian-Eulerian) with constitutive relations adopted from the kinetic theory of granular flow was used to simulate the multiphase flow. The effects of the various parameters including operation conditions, separator geometry and particle properties on the overall hydrodynamics and separation efficiency were investigated. The model prediction of the separator efficiency was compared with experimental measurements. The results revealed distinct hydrodynamic features around the cone separator, allowing for up to 100% separation efficiency. The developed model provided a platform for the second part of the study, where the biomass pyrolysis is simulated and the product quality as a function of operating conditions is analyzed. Crown
Station Black-Out Analysis with MELCOR 1.8.6 Code for Atucha 2 Nuclear Power Plant

A description of the results for a Station Black-Out analysis for Atucha 2 Nuclear Power Plant is presented here. Calculations were performed with MELCOR 1.8.6 YV3165 Code. Atucha 2 is a pressurized heavy water reactor, cooled and moderated with heavy water, by two separate systems, presently under final construction in Argentina. The initiating event is loss of power, accompanied by the failure of four out of four diesel generators. All remaining plant safety systems are supposed to be available. It is assumed that during the Station Black-Out sequence the first pressurizer safety valve fails stuck open after 3 cycles of water release, respectively, 17 cycles in total. During the transient, the water in the fuel channels evaporates first while the moderator tank is still partially full. The moderator tank inventory acts as a temporary heat sink for the decay heat, which is evacuated through conduction and radiation heat transfer, delaying core degradation. This feature, together with the large volume of the steel filler pieces in the lower plenum and a high primary system volume to thermal power ratio, derives in a very slow transient in which RPV failure time is four to five times larger than that of other German PWRs.
Magnetic design of inductor for DC-DC converter

This paper describes magnetic design of inductor for DC-DC converter of HEV. Inductor is a simple component. However, there is a gap in order to increase its current capacity of the inductor. In this paper, the magnetic characteristics variation by the gap design is discussed. The magnetic characteristics of inductor are determined only by the gap length in the theory. However, the magnetic characteristics were affected not only by the gap length but also the position of gap and the number of gaps. In this paper, the magnetic characteristics variation by various design of the gap which cannot be explained in the theory will made clear.
Mechanistic studies of prokaryotic genome defense mechanisms

The constant biological arms race between prokaryotic organisms and invading mobile genetic elements has resulted in the evolution of sophisticated genome defense mechanisms. The genes encoding for immunity commonly reside in genomic clusters known as defense islands that are in the vicinity of other host-defense loci.  Recent studies of defense islands have uncovered ten novel host defense mechanisms whose molecular mechanisms remain elusive at present. The proposed project aims to provide a mechanistic basis for genetic immunity in two novel host defense systems: Druantia and Shedu. These systems contain genes encoding nucleases, ATPases and helicases, which strongly suggests that they provide immunity by directly targeting invading nucleic acids. To unravel the molecular mechanisms that underpin immunity in these systems, I will apply a highly interdisciplinary approach by using biochemical and state-of-the-art structural biology techniques, including high-throughput X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM and crosslink-coupled mass spectrometry. Understanding these mechanisms will provide fundamentally new insights into prokaryotic biology and the evolution of host-virus defense systems. Furthermore, these studies might uncover novel molecular activities that may be exploited for use as genetic engineering tools.
Visual Object Tracking and Classification Using Multiple Sensor Measurements

Multiple sensor measurement has gained in popularity for computer vision tasks such as visual object tracking and visual pattern classification. The main idea is that multiple sensors may provide rich and redundant information, due to wide spatial or frequency coverage of the scene, which is advantageous over single sensor measurement in learning object model/feature and inferring target state/attribute in complex scenarios.

This thesis mainly addresses two problems, both exploiting multiple sensor measurement. One is video object tracking through occlusions using multiple uncalibrated cameras with overlapping fields of view, the other is multi-class image classification through sensor fusion of visual-band and thermal infrared (IR) cameras.

Paper A proposes a multi-view tracker in an alternate mode with online learning on Riemannian manifolds by cross-view appearance mapping. The mapping of object appearance between views is achieved by projective transformations that are estimated from warped vertical axis of tracked object by combining multi-view geometric constraints. A similarity metric is defined on Riemannian manifolds, as the shortest geodesic distance between a candidate object and a set of mapped references from multiple views. Based on this metric, a criterion of multi-view maximum likelihood (ML) is introduced for the inference of object state.

Paper B proposes a visual-IR fusion-based classifier by multi-class boosting with sub-ensemble learning. In our scheme, a multi-class AdaBoost classification framework is presented where information obtained from visual and thermal IR bands interactively complement each other. This is accomplished by learning weak hypotheses for visual and IR bands independently and then fusing them as learning a sub-ensemble.

Proposed methods are shown to be effective and have improved performance compared to previous approaches that are closely related, as demonstrated through experiments based on real-world datasets.
NEWCOM SRL

NEWCOM S.R.L. WANTS TO BE BORN WITH THE PLEDGE TO KILL THE DIGITAL DIVIDE WITH A VIABLE AND RELIABLE TECHNOLOGY, PROVIDING ULTRA-BROADBAND SERVICES
PRODUKSI PENISILIN OLEH Penicillium chrysogenumDENGAN PENAMBAHAN FENILALANIN

Phenylalanine use is for nitrogen source for growth of Penicillium chrysogenum. Penicillin production needs carbon source, in this research use sucrose from molasses. The purpose of this research is to know amount of optimum phenylalanine to produce penicillin from Penicillium chrysogenum, that can produce penicillin to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. This research have several step that is take sampel of leachate, take sampel of molasses, purity test of bacteria, starter, production medium, biomass measurement, pH measurement, concentration of nitrogen, concentration of reducing sugar, and bacteria activity. Medium is made with adding phenylalanine 0.2; 0.4; and 0.6 gram. Experimental design use completely randomized design factorial with variation of phenylalanine. Analysis data use ANAVA with confidence level 95%, if there is significant difference continued by Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT). The result of this research is phenylalanine can be used as nitrogen source for growth of Penicillium chrysogenum, but phenylalanine can inhibit process of penicillin production. Result of production penicillin by this study is not able to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in the test phase of antibacterial activity by using the inhibition zone.
« Qu’aurais-je trouvé de plus chouette à Paris, Lyon ou Marseille ? » Socio-démo-géographie des Français·es de Bruxelles

Cet article étudie l’immigration française dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale d’un point de vue socio-démographique et géographique à l’aide de données statistiques individuelles et agrégées. Très concentrée dans les quartiers du Sud de la Région, cette population en forte croissante est caractérisée par une surreprésentation des jeunes adultes et des femmes. Elle comprend principalement des diplômé·es de l’enseignement supérieur mais est néanmoins polarisée entre des jeunes aux revenus faibles et des adultes en emploi bien rémunéré·es. À la différence des ressortissant·es des autres pays limitrophes de la Belgique, avec lesquels une comparaison est effectuée, les Franco-Bruxellois·es relèvent donc davantage de la Middle-Class migration (Scott, 2006) que d’une élite migrante transnationale.
The Childhood of Jesus

J.M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus (Text Publishing, 2013)I have always resisted reading Coetzee allegorically. I took to heart - possibly through wilful misunderstanding - his statement to David Attwell that 'a critical practice whose climactic gesture is always a triumphant tearing-off, as it grows lazy (and every orthodoxy grows lazy), begins to confine its attentions to clothed subjects, and even to subjects whose clothes are easily torn off'; and 'in the act of triumphantly tearing the clothes off its subject and displaying the nakedness beneath - (Behold the truth!) it exposes a naivete of its own. For is the naked body really the truth?'1 Bolstered by Susan Sontag's essay 'Against Interpretation', I felt justified in resisting the search for meanings below the surface of Coetzee's novels, or indeed anyone else's.But what is to be done with a novel titled The Childhood of Jesus? It's not only tempting to read it as allegory: there seems to be no alternative. Not, of course, that it is simple to do so. The parallels with the New Testament, the novel's most obvious intertext, are far from simple. A man and a young boy arrive in Novillo, a city in a Spanish-speaking country, and are confronted with a blandly courteous but indifferent bureaucracy which at first fails to provide basic necessities. They have been on the road for a week, from a camp called Belstar. So at first, one is might think that this is an allegory of the appalling treatment meted out to refugees, always remembering that the child, as we must presume from the title, is a Christ figure.But after a few initial inconveniences the man, to whom the authorities have assigned the name Simon, and the boy, David, find adequate shelter and means of sustenance, and make friends among the other residents of the city, all of whom appear to have arrived by the same route. Everyone in Novilla is newly-made, and everyone has forgotten their old life, except Simon, who alone, it seems, is unsatisfied, who alone has an ironic cast of mind - the others 'see no doubleness in the world, any difference between the way things seem and the way things are' (80). His fellow workers, however, do indulge in a sterile kind of philosophising which 'just makes him impatient' (144).As I read, I tried out theories. Is Simon Joseph, the 'stepfather' of the Jesus figure? He is adamant that he is not a relative, and is only caring for the boy until he can find his mother. But when he finds the woman he intuits to be David's mother (not literally, but in some vague but more important sense), he seems to play the part of Gabriel at the Annunciation. …
Estimated daily intake of organochlorine pesticides from dairy products in Brazil

Abstract The estimated daily intake (EDI) of organochlorine (OC) pesticides (HCB, α-HCH, lindane, aldrin, p,p′-DDE, p,p′-DDD, and o,p′-DDT) through consumption of dairy products from Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil) was investigated. Fluid milk and cheese had similar ΣOC levels (26.04 and 26.14 ng g−1 fat, respectively), whereas milk powder had lower levels (2.23 ng g−1 fat). OC levels in UHT milk exhibited a declining trend over time (ΣOC = 27.70 ng g−1 fat in 2000 vs. 1.50 ng g−1 fat in 2009/2010). The EDI of OC pesticides was remarkably higher for children (8.266 ng kg−1 day−1) than for adolescents, adults, and the elderly (ranging from 0.393 ng kg−1 day−1 to 0.614 ng kg−1 day−1). The average EDIs for OC pesticides were below the acceptable daily intakes (ADI), with the exception of aldrin, which greatly exceeded the ADI for children. In addition, some samples (8.8%) exceeded the maximum residue limit for the compounds evaluated.
Conodontos y episodios carbonatados en el Silúrico de la Cadena Hercínica meridional y del Dominio Sahariano

Se han reunido y evaluado los datos (publicados e inéditos) sobre los conodontos silúricos en una región que se extiende desde las Ardenas hasta el Sahara occidental y central. Su revisión taxonómica ha pemitido la identificación de 63 especies y subes­pecies, que han sido referidas a una biozonación útil. El análisis de los aspectos lito y bioestratigráficos de cuarenta secciones sin­téticas de este ambito pone en evidencia asociaciones de faunas características y su relación con la dinámica sedimentaria. El Sis­tema Silúrico, en la region investigada, presenta dos litofacies mayores consistentes en, pelitas que gradan de manera heterócrona a (1) facies siliciclásticas groseras, o bien a (2) calizas de cefalópodos de rampa distal ("facies mediterranea") o a calizas bio­clásticas en áreas marginales. Los datos proporcionados por los conodontos en los materiales carbonatados, contrastados con la información ofrecida por graptolitos, han permitido reconocer, con caracter preliminar, la existencia de cuatro episodios carbo­natados, cuya edad esta indicada por las Zonas de conodontos. El primer episodio se registra en el Llandovery, próximo al trán­sito Rhuddaniense-Aeroniense y tiene un caracter local. el segundo se inicia en el Llandovery superior-Wenlock inferior, el ter­cero se instala desde el Wenlock mas alto-Ludlow y el cuarto en el Prídoli, correspondiendo los dos últimos a la generalización de los intervalos condensados carbonatados y que en las áreas de mayor influjo clástico estan representados por determinados horizontes de profundización.
Procold: empowering stakeholders to deliver highly energy efficient professional cold products

The general objective of the project is to empower private stakeholders and public authorities in adapting and enforcing EU and national energy efficiency policies in the sector of professional cold products. 

A specific objective is to ensure more energy efficient professional cold products enter the EU market and increase their market shares, thereby contributing to the EU’s energy efficiency goals and policies. 

The product groups concerned relate to products cooling, refrigerating or freezing foodstuff and drinks in professional premises – from public buildings, to hotels, retailers, and canteens. These represent significant energy consumption, important differences exist between various models of the same product category, but, due to lack of clear regulation and lack of information, the potential for more energy efficient models remains untapped. 

The specific legislation concerned is the one regulating the minimum energy performance standards (Ecodesign) and energy labelling, as well as public procurement activities. The project benefits from ideal timing, since a number of the above mentioned product groups do not have an energy efficiency regulation in place, but these are planned to be developed and the project would therefore contribute to the knowledge of public authorities and policy makers on the specific performance characteristics of these product groups, based on which an effective legislation could be implemented and monitored.  

Target groups of this project are threefold: empowering public authorities in implementing effective policies on energy efficiency of professional cold products; motivating product manufacturers and suppliers in delivering more efficient models to the market; and working with the food industry, retailers, building operators and other stakeholders in demanding and procuring more efficient professional cold products.
Synthesis and Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Three Push–Pull Oxazol-5(4<i>H</i>)-one Compounds

Three uncharged push-pull oxazol-5(4H)-ones were synthesized and thoroughly characterized. The examined molecules contained electron-donor and electron-acceptor groups interacting via a π-conjugated bridge. Spectral properties of the oxazol-5(4H)-ones were studied in detail in three solvents of different polarities. The results indicate a solvatochromic shift toward lower energy for the charge-transfer state. The compounds are weakly fluorescent in polar solvents, but they have high fluorescence quantum yields in nonpolar solvents. Their two-photon absorption (2PA) properties were characterized by the open- and closed-aperture Z-scan technique, by the pump-probe technique, and by the two-photon excited fluorescence method. The dyes exhibit relatively high effective two-photon absorption cross sections ranging from 490 to 2600 GM at ~100 GW/cm(2), according to the Z-scan results, which are found, however, to contain significant contribution from higher-order absorption processes. In addition, these compounds display good photostability.