SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Yellowstone's Deep Roots

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CREDIT: THINKSTOCK

Yellowstone National Park in the western United States, renowned for its geothermal features, including geysers and hot springs, rests on a ∼4000-km2 caldera attributed to a series of supervolcano eruptions over the past 2 million years. The volcanic and geothermal activity is caused by the presence of a hot spot currently resting below the park that migrated eastward over the course of millions of years. Conflicting geological evidence implies that the source of this hotspot volcanism is either a deep plume originating hundreds of km below Earth's surface in the lower mantle or more shallow upper mantle melting caused primarily by extension of the continental lithosphere—a process that occurs elsewhere in the western United States. Schmandt et al. , analyzing data collected by the dense USArray seismic network while it was deployed across the region, addressed this debate through seismic imaging of the mantle below Yellowstone. Comparing the temperature-sensitive depth variation of mantle discontinuities at 410 and 660 km to global averages indicates the presence of a high-temperature upwelling that is vertically heterogeneous. The shallowing of the 660-km discontinuity, which marks the boundary between the upper and lower mantle, suggests that this plume-like structure originates in the lower mantle, but just how deep down remains unclear.

Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.025 (2012).

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IDENTIFYING AN OPTIMAL IMAGE FROM A NUMBER OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES

The invention relates to a method of identifying, from a number of ultrasound images (34) acquired during an ultrasound examination of a subject (6), the ultrasound image best suited to analyze a pre-determined anatomical structure of the subject. The method comprises the steps of (a) Providing a number of ultrasound images (34) acquired during an ultrasound examination of the subject; (b) Deriving at least one biometric parameter (96) related to the anatomical structure from a physical examination of the subject, (c) Retrieving a reference image (38) showing a target view of the anatomical structure (35); (d) For each of the number of ultrasound images (34), calculating an image similarity index between the ultrasound image and the reference image, (e) For at least the ultrasound image(s) having the best image similarity index, determining (100) a biometric parameter from the ultrasound image, and calculating a biometric similarity index, i.e. a measure of the agreement between the biometric parameter, as determined from the ultrasound image, and the corresponding biometric parameter as derived from the physical examination; and (f) selecting the optimal ultrasound image based on the biometric similarity index, and optionally on the image similarity index.
Employability and knowledge based economy : tools for innovative culture

The Nord-Pas de Calais Region, the flemish and the french Communities of Belgium, the Region of Castilla-la-Mancha, the Voivodship of Silesia, Rogaland County Council and the Arts Wales Council are engaged, since 2003, in a strong territorial cooperation. Improving regional policies has always been the main priority of this cooperation. These regions wanted to go further on an innovative issue: human capital in a knowledge-based economy. Indeed, the development of a knowledge-based economy is based on new job sectors, new working methods and new professional skills and competences. It requires new policies, enabling to reinforce the employability of the workforce. The cultural and creative sector is a key sector in this framework. Knowledge-intensive sector strongly linked to creativity, innovation and ICT, and important new job sector, it favours the development of new skills closely related to the employability in a knowledge-based economy. Nevertheless, it remains underexploited.
The project aims at developing, in each partner region, suitable strategies, policies and tools on the link between cultural and creative sector, knowledge-based economy and employability. The project is based on five working phases. The Identification phase will enable, in each region, to identify, analyse and evaluate good practices, thanks to a joint methodological and conceptual framework. The Exchange phase will ensure an exchange of these practices, an in-depth analysis of their development conditions and a diagnostic of each region situation. The Capitalization phase will capitalize public policies and regional analysis. The Transfer feasability phase will study the transfer of these practices within each partner region, targeting the most relevant ones. Finally, the Experimentation phase will enable to test some good practices. These phases will result in concrete tools for policy makers, based on a better knowledge of the sector characteristics and of regional specificities.
The project will contribute to strengthening the cultural and creative sector, and to identify it as a full economic sector, and more largely, as a key sector of a knowledge-based economy. It will contribute to developing a cross-cutting approach around this sector, to integrate it in development policies and to define more suitable strategies, policies and tools, at regional and European level. It will also contribute to enlarging the reflections on this sector, still more focused on the industrial and entreprenarial issues, and less on human capital. In this framework, one of the project results should be a better use of the European Social Funds. Covering 7 regions and 7 countries, the partnership is based on a complementarity between regional authorities, technical experts (CRRAV, Technocité, Bangor University, Simetrias Foundation, Ars Cameralis) and scientific experts (University IUAV of Venice and Relais Culture Europe).
DEVICE BLASTING PYROTECHNIC DEVICE

FIELD: pyrotechnics.SUBSTANCE: invention relates to systems for initiation of pyro device. Pyro device blasting instrument comprises a microcontroller, each output of which is connected to control input of corresponding relay switch, blasting circuits, power source, negative terminal of which is connected to first lead of first electronic switch, first, second and third resistors, capacitor, galvanic isolation unit and second electronic switch. First leads of relay switches are connected to first leads of blasting circuits. Control input of second electronic switch is connected to first leads of capacitor, third resistor and via first resistor is connected to second lead of first electronic switch and second leads of each relay switch. Second leads of third resistor and capacitor and first lead of second electronic switch are connected to negative terminal of power source, to positive terminal of which are connected second leads of blasting circuits. Second lead of second electronic switch is connected to control input of first electronic switch, first lead of which is connected to negative output of galvanic isolation unit, positive output of which is connected via second resistor to control input of first electronic switch, wherein inputs of galvanic isolation unit are connected to corresponding additional outputs of microcontroller.EFFECT: technical result is higher noise immunity.1 cl, 2 dwg
Pancreatic cancer as a treatment target of dwarfbody-therapeutics

Dwarfbody-Therapeutics (DB-Tx) is a new company, established in 2016 as a spin off from a frontrunner research team in Gastro-Intestinal Cancers in the AMC Amsterdam. DB-Tx aims to transform current, ineffective treatment of these aggressive cancer types by co-administering highly effective and safe low molecular weight antibodies (“Dwarfbodies®”) to significantly increase therapeutic outcome.  The superiority of the Dwarfbodies® compared to competing molecules and their anticancer effects have been published in various high ranked journals. Now PANTREAT primarily aims at broadening the initial target market for the Dwarfbodies® by creating additional proof-of-concept, reports on production, test Trial Centers and a sound business plan. Results will be compiled into a sound company portfolio, which will form the basis for further development of the Dwarfbodies® and obtaining investments and supportive grants and partnerships. Finally, this will lead to highly attractive licencing deals from 2020 onwards.
Integrated network of sleep-optimizing modules for norm-informed adaptive behavioural, environmental and therapeutic internet training

Major depression is among the most prevalent and burdening health hazards. Our best chance to combat the pending global pandemic is to provide preventive interventions to identified people at risk. The strongest modifiable risk factor is insomnia. Insomnia can be ameliorated by its recommended treatment, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which indeed improves depression outcomes. Current health infrastructures however cannot supply CBT for the ±10% of the population suffering from insomnia. Internet-based self-help could solve this bottleneck, but current implementations utilize only a fraction of the evidence-based effective intervention possibilities, are not equipped to support personalized approaches, and do not harness the potential to support large-scale research. The current PoC project will build an Integrated Network of Sleep-Optimizing Modules for Norm-Informed Adaptive Behavioural, Environmental And Therapeutic Internet Training (INSOMNIA BEAT IT) to solve these shortcomings and allow for the implementation of personally optimized combination of self help modules to promote health in general and to prevent depression in particular. It has a high potential for widespread marketing to health professionals and companies that may want to offer the platform to their employees to promote health and well-being.
Informed cyberlearning : a case study

This cyberlearning case study demonstrates the application of Web 2.0 in mainstream higher education curriculum, whilst providing an in-practice example of informed learning (Bruce, 2008. The case study features the learning experiences and creative outcomes of postgraduate Cyberlearning students at Queensland University of Technology in 2011. As informed learners, the students learned simultaneously about the theory and practice of Cyberlearning by carrying out a virtual team project. This involved collaboratively researching a topical issue, as well as exploring and applying Web 2.0 media. To support the informed learning of their peers, they created online resources which both convey disciplinary knowledge and showcase the educational potential of Web 2.0.
Power conversion units for lifercraft demonstrator

The growth of Power Electronics has been driven by the demand for more electrical solutions in a very diverse range of application sectors, including transport electrification, energy generation, transmission and distribution, consumer electronics and lighting, industrial motor drives. This range of applications has brought increasing demands on the performance, reliability and cost of power electronics and the associated power conversion techniques, leading to a rapid and dynamic improvement in a range of essential technologies.
In this context, two leading institutions in the field of power electronics, Techniques et Fabrications Electroniques (TFE) and the University of Nottingham (UNOTT) are combining their forces in order to propose a project (POCOL) that will enable a step change in the development of high specification power converters for modern aircraft application such as for the lifeRcraft helicopter.
The two partners of the project will be organized as to get the best of their specificity. Being a University well known for its strong research activity allows UNOTT to lead the project at the beginning for the three first work packages, setting up the bases of the design. As an equipment designer and manufacturer working in the aeronautic area, TFE will be the leader of the rest of the project and will be able to propose an industrialization of the product made under the POCOL project.
TFE and UNOTT will work together to:
•	Develop models and design the required power converter and inverter to meet the functional and operational performance and reliability requirements set out in the CfP. 
•	Manufacture B1 prototypes that meet the design criteria up to TRL5
•	Test the B1 demonstrators under relevant environmental and operational conditions
•	Re-iterate knowledge gained from B1 models into updated B2 models
•	Build B2 demonstrators and test and validate up to TRL6
•	Provide relevant documentation to prove required certification
Effects of temperature on size-at-terminal molt and molting frequency in snow crab Chionoecetes opilio from two Canadian Atlantic ecosystems

The effect of temperature on molting frequency and size-at-terminal molt of the snow crab Chionoecetes opilio was investigated and compared between 2 Canadian Atlantic ecosystems based on spring and summer surveys. We found that the size-at-terminal molt was directly related to temperature but that the effect of temperature was much clearer and occurred at smaller sizes for females than for males. By focusing on recently molted (new-shelled) crabs, we showed that size-at-terminal molt is conditioned by temperature over a variable number of instars and intermolt periods leading up to the terminal molt. Crabs of both sexes larger than about 50 mm carapace width (CW), on annual molting schedules, sometimes skipped a molt. The frequency of skip-molting differed between the areas and sexes, and was directly related to size and in versely related to temperature. We develop a hypothesis to explain the relationships of terminal size with temperature and molting frequency that is consistent with life-history theory and snow crab bioenergetics and considers differences between the sexes. The implications to natural mortality and recruitment to fisheries are also discussed.
Diets diet rich in stearidonic acid negatively impact visceral adipose mass (121.1)

Dietary marine-based n-3 fatty acids have been implicated to have beneficial effects on insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The objective of the present study was to determine if consumption of stearidonic acid, from a terrestrial plant-based (Echium oil) n-3 fatty acid, may impact diet-induced obesity and glucose homeostasis in mice. B6 mice were fed a low-fat diet (LF, 10% kcal total fat) or high-fat diet (HF,60% kcal total fat) containing 20% of total fat content of either fish oil (FO), Echium oil (EO), or no supplement (Control, C) for 12 weeks. Body mass and daily weight gain were ~50% greater in HF than in LF mice (P < 0.001), but no differences were observed within the groups. Although food intake was not different between the groups, energy intake was greater (+38%) in HF than LF mice. EO-fed mice exhibited a lower fat pad/body weight ratio when compared to control mice. Pancreas weight and pancreas/body weight ratio was lower in the HF-EO mice when compared to HF-FO (P < 0.05). As expected, plasma glucose and insulin were increased in HF mice when compared to LF (P < 0.05); however, no differences within the LF or HF groups were observed. Glucose and insulin tolerance tests showed impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance, respectively, in HF mice when compared to LF mice, but no oil-specific effects. Hence, diets rich in stearidonic acid appear to impact tissue energy distribution by decreasing visceral adipose mass.
A comparison of cartilage stress-relaxation models in unconfined compression: QLV and stretched exponential in combination with fluid flow

Cartilage exhibits nonlinear viscoelastic behaviour. Various models have been proposed to explain cartilage stress relaxation, but it is unclear whether explicit modelling of fluid flow in unconfined compression is needed. This study compared Fung's quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV) model with a stretched-exponential model of cartilage stress relaxation and examined each of these models both alone and in combination with a fluid-flow model in unconfined compression. Cartilage explants were harvested from bovine calf patellofemoral joints and equilibrated in tissue culture for 5 days before stress-relaxation testing in unconfined compression at 5% nominal strain. The stretched exponential models fit as well as the QLV models. Furthermore, the average stretched exponential relaxation time determined by this model lies within the range of experimentally measured relaxation times for extracted proteoglycan aggregates, consistent with the hypothesis that the stretched exponential model represents polymeric mechanisms of cartilage viscoelasticity.
Clamshell package for holding and displaying consumer products

A clamshell package is provided for holding and displaying a consumer product that comprises a bottle and a cap. The clamshell package comprises a first clamshell side and a second clamshell side, wherein at least a portion of the first and second clamshell sides are affixed together to hold the consumer product between the first and second clamshell sides. The clamshell package further comprises an aperture through which at least a portion of the cap of the consumer product extends from the clamshell package. The clamshell package is therefore able to hold and display the consumer product, while allowing a consumer to access the cap of the product in order to smell or to sample the product. A clamshell package is further provided for holding and displaying a consumer product comprising liquid composition contained in a tottle.
A general black string and its microscopics

Using G2(2) dualities we construct the most general black string solution of minimal five-dimensional ungauged supergravity. The black string has five independent parameters, namely, the magnetic one-brane charge, smeared electric zero-brane charge, boost along the string direction, energy above the BPS bound, and rotation in the transverse space. In one extremal limit it reduces to the three parameter supersymmetric string of five-dimensional minimal supergravity; in another extremal limit it reduces to the three parameter non-supersymmetric extremal string of five-dimensional minimal supergravity. It also admits an extremal limit when it has maximal rotation in the four-dimensional transverse space. The decoupling limit of our general black string is a BTZ black hole times a two sphere. The macroscopic entropy of the string is reproduced by the Maldacena-Strominger-Witten CFT in appropriate ranges of the parameters. When the pressureless condition is imposed, our string describes the infinite radius limit of the most general class of black rings of minimal supergravity. We discuss implications our solution has for extremal and non-extremal black rings of minimal supergravity.
Informational cities: Analysis and construction of cities in the knowledge society

Informational cities are prototypical cities of the knowledge society. If they are informational world cities, they are new centers of power. According to Manuel Castells (1989), in those cities space of flows (flows of money, power, and information) tend to override space of places. Information and communication technology infrastructures, cognitive infrastructures (as groundwork of knowledge cities and creative cities), and city-level knowledge management are of great importance. Digital libraries provide access to the global explicit knowledge. The informational city consists of creative clusters and spaces for personal contacts to stimulate sharing of implicit information. In such cities, we can observe job polarization in favor of well-trained employees. The corporate structure of informational cities is made up of financial services, knowledge-intensive high-tech industrial enterprises, companies of the information economy, and further creative and knowledge-intensive service enterprises. Weak location factors are facilities for culture, recreational activities, and consumption. Political willingness to create an informational city and e-governance activities are crucial aspects for the development of such cities. This conceptual article frames indicators which are able to mark the degree of “informativeness” of a city. Finally, based upon findings of network economy, we try to explain why certain cities master the transition to informational cities and others (lagging to relative insignificance) do not. The article connects findings of information science and of urbanistics and urban planning. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Phoenix-RTOS 178 — version du système d’exploitation Phoenix-RTOS conçu pour mettre en œuvre des systèmes conformes aux exigences de la norme de sécurité DO-178C.

L’objectif du projet est de développer une version du système d’exploitation Phoenix-RTOS conforme à la norme DO-178C (ci-après Phoenix-RTOS 178). Le do-178C fournit des lignes directrices pour le développement de logiciels pour les applications critiques et est utilisé dans l’aviation civile. Il existe plusieurs systèmes d’exploitation sur le marché qui sont compatibles avec DO-178C. Il s’agit notamment de Green Hills INTEGRITY-178. Wind River VxWorks 178, LynxOS 178, SYSGO PikeOS et QNX. Tous les systèmes, à l’exception de SYSGO PikeOS, sont des produits américains et il est difficile d’obtenir des licences pour eux ou le prix des licences est si élevé qu’ils ne peuvent pas être utilisés dans de nouvelles solutions, par exemple les aéronefs sans équipage destinés à des opérations certifiées. Le développement d’un nouveau système d’exploitation européen pour faciliter le développement de logiciels compatibles avec DO-178C, en particulier pour les nouveaux aéronefs sans pilote pour les missions certifiées, revêt une importance particulière. Le système peut également être utilisé pour mettre en œuvre des systèmes aéronautiques, par exemple des interrogateurs, des systèmes avioniques, des systèmes de contrôle de mission. Le système d’exploitation Phoenix-RTOS a été créé en tant que successeur du système d’exploitation Phoenix, développé à la Faculté d’électronique et de technologie de l’information de l’Université de technologie de Varsovie en 1999-2001. Sur la base de Phoenix-RTOS, des compteurs d’énergie intelligents et des concentrateurs de données ont été développés pour les réseaux électriques modernes (p. ex. 30 000 concentrateurs pour Energa-Operator). En 2017, les travaux ont commencé sur Phoenix-RTOS 3, qui a une architecture de micronoyau évolutif. La version 3 a été publiée sous la licence BSD en tant qu’open-source. SA.41471(2015/X) Objet de l’aide publique conformément à l’article 25 du règlement (CE) no 651/2014 du 17 juin 2014 déclarant certaines catégories d’aides compatibles avec le marché intérieur dans l’application des articles 107 et 108 du traité C’est tout. UE L 187/1 du 26.6.2014).