SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Retention of total carotenoid and β-carotene in yellow sweet cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) after domestic cooking

Over the last decade, considerable efforts have been made to identify cassava cultivars to improve the vitamin A nutritional status of undernourished populations, especially in northeast Brazil, where cassava is one of the principal and essentially only nutritional source.The aim of this study was to evaluate the total carotenoid, β-carotene, and its all-E-, 9-, and 13-Z-β-carotene isomers content in seven yellow sweet cassava roots and their retention after three boiling cooking methods.The total carotenoid, β-carotene, and its all-E-, 9-, and 13-Z-β-carotene isomers in yellow sweet cassava samples were determined by ultraviolet/visible spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography, respectively, before and after applying the cooking methods. All analyses were performed in triplicate.The total carotenoid in raw roots varied from 2.64 to 14.15 µg/g and total β-carotene from 1.99 to 10.32 µg/g. The β-carotene predominated in all the roots. The Híbrido 2003 14 08 cultivar presented the highest β-carotene content after cooking methods 1 and 3. The 1153 - Klainasik cultivar presented the highest 9-Z-β-carotene content after cooking by method 3. The highest total carotenoid retention was observed in cultivar 1456 - Vermelhinha and that of β-carotene for the Híbrido 2003 14 11 cultivar, both after cooking method 1. Evaluating the real retention percentage (RR%) in sweet yellow cassava after home cooking methods showed differences that can be attributed to the total initial carotenoid contents. However, no cooking method uniformly provided a higher total carotenoid or β-carotene retention in all the cultivars.Differences were found in the cooking methods among the samples regarding total carotenoid or β-carotene retention, suggesting that the different behaviors of the cultivars need to be further analyzed. However, high percentages of total carotenoid or β-carotene retention were observed and can minimize vitamin A deficiency in low-income populations.
Development of a cross-border cycling system in the territories of the Olona, Lanza and mendrisiotto valleys

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- Develop a common strategy and an action plan on cross-border cycling (governance) that will put together projects, economic resources and the skills of the various stakeholders.
COMPOSITE BLADE FOR AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a composite material blade (10) for a turbomachine, in particular an aircraft turbomachine, the blade (10) comprising a metal shield (1) extending along a leading edge (12a) of the aerofoil (12), the method comprising the steps consisting in cutting a film along the edges of the shield (1) so that the cut film forms at least one template (5) delimiting a region (15) for applying adhesive located under the shield (1), positioning a film of adhesive (7) on said region (15), cutting the film of adhesive (7) according to the shape of the or each template • (5), removing the or each template (5), positioning the shield (1) on the film of adhesive • (7), and curing the resulting assembly in a thermocompression mould. The invention also relates to a blade (10) manufactured by such a method.
Advanced integrated rpas avionics safety suite

This proposal addresses “Topic 03: Aircraft Systems” of the SESAR ER RPAS call. Drones appear in a large variety of types, configurations and sizes. They are operated in a large variety of operational environments (i.e. locations, classes of airspace). However, it is essential that they interoperate with other drones as well as with manned aircraft. This proposal addresses the on-board technologies for drones that are required in order to implement the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) concept for drone operations at Very Low Level (VLL) and within the Visual Flight Rules (VFR) environment. The project will cover Detect And Avoid (D&A) systems for cooperative and non-cooperative traffic, auto-pilot systems as well as Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) systems. This project will identify the available CNS infrastructure and on-board technologies to formulate an implementation approach. Based on this an on-board system concept will be developed and evaluated.
Adolescents, well-being and spirituality: insights from a spiritual program

This paper is a study of adolescents, well-being and spirituality. I have looked at the All Round Training in Excellence (ART-Excel) program for adolescents developed by an international spiritual organisation called the Art of Living Foundation (AOL Foundation). Adolescents participants (n = 396) of this program from four cities – Vancouver, London, Johannesburg and Mumbai – comprised of the sample. An equal number comprised of the control group. The findings suggest that spirituality is generally perceived as having positive mental health and well-being influences for program participants. Logistic regression analyses showed that girls, Hindus (homeland and Diaspora), adolescents in higher monthly expenses brackets, with a better health status, that is no self-declared ailments saw a higher efficacy to the ART-Excel program. The program was in general seen to contribute to well-being, social participation, sense of social duty, relationships, future vision and educational attainment. It is important to ...
The next billion musicians: leading the digital disruption of music education

Music helps people express emotions and ideas, from the commonplace to the revolutionary. Playing a musical instrument is a great lifelong activity, and the benefits for the individual and for society are manyfold. Unfortunately, traditional means of music education do not work for most people. However, now the technological advances enable totally new solutions to emerge. Yousician is a mobile service that uses advanced audio technology combined with music exercises to motivate users to learn and play an instrument. Users play along on their real instruments as the app provides instruction. Yousician has both the benefits of private lessons, guidance and feedback, and of self-learning methods such as books and videos, affordability and 24/7 access anywhere. Because of its game-like design, Yousician keeps users motivated to practice and lets them connect to other players around the world. Yousician's educational approach is based on the best pedagogical practices and the learning patterns of millions of users. Today, Yousician is leading the disruption of the highly fragmented music education market which is in its infancy stage of digitalisation. By 2017, Yousician has reached 90 million downloads in 156 countries. However, we estimate the available market to be 1.1 billion people if learning music becomes more inclusive. The goal of this project is to make music education available to a billion new people. To do this we must: (1) increase the product range by adding more instruments, syllabi for advanced users and localisation to several languages and (2) build readiness to scale up in global markets. This project will help Yousician become a successful high-growth tech company of the sort Silicon Valley brings out. Furthermore, by giving millions of people access to music education, this project will massively grow the whole industry, ranging from music schools, bands, and artists to instrument manufacturing.
Natalie Dower: Reflections

This exhibition catalogue was published on the occasion of Natalie Dower’s Reflections exhibition at the Eagle Gallery, London.

Images © 2015 Natalie Dower
Text © 2015 Laurence Noga
Design/typography: Neil Crawford, typoG, London
Typeset in Linotype Syntax and Gill Sans


Relationships are at the centre of Natalie Dower’s work. They are often coded through rules based on proportion, composed of mathematical puzzles, or phenomenological in terms of a plurality of place. Dower’s approach feels supermodern and constructive. Her ingenuity and innovation are reflected through the use of mathematical systems, such as the ‘Fibonacci Sequence’ or the ‘Dudeney Dissection’, which activate the works’ interwoven surface facture. The awareness of a more terrestrial space synchronises with a systematic field of vision, and allows the parts to function reciprocally.
Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate

Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law.
Class, crime and international film noir: globalizing America's dark art

List of Figures Foreword Preface: On Symbolic Misery and Its Attenuation (And the Crime Film) Acknowledgements Introduction: Global Fugitives: Outside the Law and the Cold War 'Consensus' 1. Un greve, sanglant et poetic (A Strike, Bloody and Poetic): French Film Noir and the Defeat of the Popular Front 2. The Revolution That Wasn't: Black Markets, Ressentiment, and Survival in Postwar British Film Noir 3. The Wintering of the Italian Spring: From Neorealism to Film Noir via Verdi 4. Occupy the Zaibatsu: Postwar Japanese Film Noir: From Democracy to the (Re)Appearance of the (Old) New Order Conclusion: Mediterranean Noir: Sunlight Gleaming Off a Battered .45 Appendix Bibliography Endnotes Index?
HEAT EXCHANGER TUBE

Coolant tubes (14) for heat exchangers are formed with projections (30) extending into the tube cross section to interfere with the fluid flow (28) and to ensure mixing of the coolant as it passes through the tubes. To achieve the necessary degree of mixing without causing the flow to become turbulent and thus to prevent unnecessary back pressure, the area of the tube wall occupied by projections (30) is less than 7.5% of the total area of the tube wall.
[Three cases with high TARC levels of gastrointestinal food allergies in neonates and infants].

We measured serum TARC (Thymus and activation-regulated chemokine, CCL-17) levels in three patients of gastrointestinal food allergies in neonates and infants. Patient 1: 14-day-old girl. The chief complaints were poor feeding and weight loss. She tested peripheral eosinophilia (5820 /μL), high serum TARC levels (4730 pg/mL) and positive milk-specific IgE (1.53 UA/mL) at the time of onset. After change from cow' milk formula to hydrolyzed infant formulas and breast milk ahead of dairy products intake, the symptoms resolved. One month and a half later, she re-tested negative milk-specific IgE and normal serum TARC levels (198 pg/mL). Patient 2: 3-month-old girl. The chief complaint was vomiting after intake of cow' milk formula. She tested negative milk-specific IgE and very high serum TARC levels (25200 pg/mL) at the time of onset. After changing to hydrolyzed infant formulas and breast milk ahead of dairy products intake, the symptom resolved. Three months later, she re-tested positive milk-specific IgE (0.42 UA/mL) and normal serum TARC levels (1250 pg/mL). Patient 3: 21-day-old boy. The chief complaint was vomiting after intake of cow' milk formula. He tested peripheral eosinophilia (2923 /μL), very high serum TARC levels (49100 pg/mL) and positive milk-specific IgE (0.47 UA/mL) at the time of onset. After changing to hydrolyzed infant formulas and breast milk ahead of dairy products intake, the symptom resolved. Two weeks later, he re-tested negative milk-specific IgE and serum TARC levels (2210 pg/mL). Serum TARC may be related to the part of gastrointestinal food allergies in neonates and infants.
SVILUPPO DELLE PRODUZIONI DI ERBE OFFICINALI DI ELEVATO VALORE QUALITATIVO E SALUTISTICO NELL'AREA ALPINA

Obiettivi: •• individuazione delle strategie di miglioramento della produzione di erbe officinali in aree montane, organizzazione e coordinamento delle attivita tecnico-scentifiche. •• produzione di una gamma di prodotti di elevato valore qualitativo e innovativo con forte legame al territorio; •• condurre ricerche in campo etnobotanico e fitofarmacologico per verificare le proprieta delle erbe officinali per individuare nuove proprieta dei preparati a base di erbe e a potenziali utilizzi meno tradizionali (uso antiparassitario, insetticida, repellente per la produzione delle derrate); •• stimolare la creazione di un’associazione di produttori di erbe officinali anche in Valtellina; •• indagine di mercato svolta dal cantone Ticino che comporta lo studio del mercato Svizzero e del Nord Italia per la creazione di un marchio comune. •• Le azioni previste da progetto sono promuovere la coltivazione delle piante officinali, selezionare specie che meglio si adattano alle diverse situazioni climatiche e costituire un’associazione che raggruppi i produttori. Operativamente le azioni previste sono: •• allestimento di campi dimostrativi, valutazione degli effetti della variazione di alcune condizioni di crescita sulla produzione di principi attivi. •• Valutazione della possibilita di orientare le coltivazioni verso la produzione di sementi, considerato il costo relativamente elevato delle stesse e la difficolta di reperirle sul mercato italiano; •• valutazione dei diversi metodi per la caratterizzazione del materiale vegetale, in particolare saranno misurati i livelli di principi attivi diversi da quelli gia normalmente utilizzati per la titolazione del prodotto commerciale; •• valutazione delle potenzialita salutistiche delle piante coltivate e dei loro derivati; •• analisi economica di filiera, allo scopo di acquisire informazioni mirate a dimensionare le produzioni e facilitare l’immissione dei prodotti di campo (o di possibili loro derivati) sul mercato.
GREEN ENTERPRISE: A Framework for Planning and Implementing Local Level Strategies Serving Sustainable Socio Economic Development

Τhe project Green Enterprise focuses on rational spatial management; taking the Enterprise as a major Actor for sustainable development of the Community, while recognizing the effective management of Environmental Resources as a critical factor for sustainability, the project aims to develop and test a coherent – integrated framework for rational planning and implementation of strategies for promoting and supporting the development of “Environmentally Conscious” and “Socially Responsible” business units. Sustainable, balanced and harmonized spatial development is at the core of the “Green Enterprise” project, which seeks to contribute substantially to planning and implementing such kind of strategies, policies and measures in the ARCHIMED area. Taking Environmental Management as a cornerstone for rational and sustainable Spatial Planning, leading – either directly or indirectly - to significant outcomes at various categories of socio-economic evolution, and considering the need for coordinated exploitation of all resources and means, the project introduces “Green Enterprise” as a critical factor for successfully intervening in the said planning and implementation process and for achieving viable results and impacts. In this frame, enterprises are considered to play key roles in the overall “developmental structure” of a territory, being potentially able to act as a lever of important local forces, while also they are at a great extent responsible for critical aspects of the environmental evolution process. The partnership will move towards elaborating and testing of a rational, flexible and applicable “Green Enterprise Framework”, setting the ground for capacity - building in the field of design and establishment of suitable actions aiming to widen, strengthen and integrate environmental management processes. The axes around which the project action will be deployed (and the relevant goals) are: • Construction of a coherent conceptual Framework that will provide a synthetic, systemic and systematic approach in designing, implementing and managing regional and trans-regional level interventions serving environmental resources’ conservation and management. • Focus on the Enterprise “Social Behaviour”, which is considered to rank among the main routes for effectively implementing strategies, policies and measures in favour of environment and, in general, of sustainable development at local/regional level. • Integration into the framework of the Local Agenda 21 goals and provisions (achieving Sustainable Development through linking Social and Economic Development, Conserving and Managing Resources, Strengthening Participation etc.). • Animation and active involvement of significant local Actors. • Production and testing of effective and applicable tools supporting Enterprises to move towards the “Green Enterprise” status. • Development of transterritorial / transnational cooperation in the frame of a viable Network providing extensive know–how and expertise.
Grounding rri practices in research performing organisations

GRRIP will embed sustainable RRI practices in 4 research performing organisations (RPO) and 1 dual function RPO and research funding organisation (RPO/RFO) (total 5 RPO&RFO) in the Marine and Maritime (M&M) sectors through Action Plans (AP) for institutional and cultural change.  This will be accompanied by establishing a platform for engagement with the Quadruple Helix (QH) for each RPO&RFO, and a platform for mutual learning between the 5 RPO&RFOs and QHs. M&M is a high priority for the EU. However, the M&M is seriously exposed to the non RRI alignment between Research and Innovation (R&I), societal actors and the environment, affecting its performance and competitiveness. Objective 1: Co-develop, implement and evaluate self-tailored RRI APs to enable sustainable institutional and cultural change for the 5 M&M RPO&RFOs to embed RRI in their governance frameworks, structures and cultures. The APs will be based on a detailed audit of the RPO&RFO current RRI maturity level and the barriers identified. RRI dimensions will be incorporated into R&I. Objective 2: Establish structures to facilitate, promote and maximise real sustainable engagement with, and input from, the QH (industry, societal actors, policy and other RPO&RFOs). Objective 3: Establish indicators and methodology for impartial Monitoring, Reflection and Evaluation cycles, to ensure provision of evidence of societal, democratic, economic and scientific impacts of institutional changes. Objective 4: Develop a sustainable Mutual Learning process across the M&M RPO&RFOs both during the institutional and cultural change project and thereafter. Objective 5: Legacy: To enable more M&M RPO&RFOs to ground RRI practices through institutional and cultural changes by a) creating a practical user-friendly RRI AP framework template & guidelines, and b) launching a M&M RRI community. Objective 6: Examine how an RFO can positively influence and encourage an RPO towards RRI via its funding policy and interaction.
Telehealth-Ready ai-powered multi-parametric system for surveillance of covid-19 and cardio-pulmonary chronic patients

The COVID-19 outbreak causes world health care systems to crumble under the load. This consortium proposes a Home-use/Point-of-Care device, incorporating improved clinical parameters, providing early detection, and monitoring of COVID-19 patients.
This consortium presents a computerized auscultation device – the PyXy – which provides expert-level lung and heart check-up. The PyXy brings breakthrough capabilities in terms of sound and infrasound analysis, body temperature, blood oxygen levels, heart rate and respiratory cycle, all analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) for accurate diagnostic data. The device recently showed very promising results in relation to managing COVID-19 disease. Using H2020 funds, the consortium plans to introduce the PyXy to the market within 22 months: allowing anyone to perform diagnostic at an accuracy not normally accessible to the medical staff.
In this project the consortium will collect COVID-19 patient data and take the PyXy to high volume manufacturing level. The consortium gathers two technology provider SMEs – Sanolla, the developer of the PyXy device, and Medsensio, experts in AI for classification – together with an established player in the medical devices and e-health solutions – Riester. The work will be done in collaboration with four healthcare service providers (Natali, BeneVit, Helgeland and PhilonMed) to ensure the PyXy will be accepted by the market from all possible aspects.
We believe that PyXy is capable to substantially reduce the health-economic impact on healthcare and elderly care services by preventing hospitalization in emergent-care situations. In addition, as PyXy can be used by lesser skilled individuals, we believe it will potentially bridge the gap in care settings that face extreme shortage of skilled workers, and can even be used by informal caregivers at home reducing the overall hospitalization rate even further.
Financiación del capital circulante

En relación con la prohibición gubernamental de llevar a cabo actividades empresariales introducida por la decisión del Consejo de Ministros de 13 de marzo de 2020 del Ministro de Sanidad sobre el estado de la epidemia en Polonia, se produjo una disminución del 100 % en el volumen de negocios de nuestra empresa. Perdimos nuestra liquidez financiera y, como resultado, fuimos privados de cualquier ingreso financiero de la noche a la mañana. A partir del 13.3.2020, hemos estado con el mantenimiento de veinte empleados, con costos fijos como medios de comunicación, impuestos, salarios de empleados y otros y pasivos. Una de las industrias más difíciles de reconstruir después de la cerradura de la antigua es la industria de la hospitalidad, cuyos ingresos dependen de los huéspedes que llegan a las instalaciones. Atraer huéspedes durante la epidemia requiere desembolsos financieros muchas veces más altos que antes del brote. Las redes sociales gratuitas por el momento no son capaces de cumplir con el marketing alentador para atraer a un huésped del hotel, como lo fue en los días anteriores a la pandemia. Actualmente nos enfrentamos a enormes gastos en publicidad en sitios web, en la radio, en los periódicos. Nuestro spa Świeradów-Zdroj se basa en huéspedes extranjeros, por lo que también tuvimos que invertir en publicidad en el extranjero, lo que nunca hemos hecho hasta ahora. Los esfuerzos de marketing que necesitamos implementar ahora ponen una pesada carga en el presupuesto de la compañía. Animar y convencer a los huéspedes a venir de vacaciones y rehabilitación, que anteriormente disfrutaba de un gran interés para hoy, es muy difícil. No contamos con el apoyo de la Oficina de Trabajo de Poviat desde julio. Recibimos los costos fijos actuales, es decir, la remuneración de los empleados, ZUS, impuesto salarial, impuesto inmobiliario, electricidad y gas, y trabajamos en la ocupación del hotel en la cantidad de solo 30 %-40 %.