SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Tackling plant growth-defense trade-offs  by characterizing the role of prl1 in jasmonate responses

Abiotic and biotic challenges pose serious risks to plant growth and crop production world-wide. The plant hormone Jasmonate (JA) is essential to protect plants against insect herbivory, mechanical wounding and necrotrophic pathogens. Upon these challenges, JA hormone levels increase and induce defense responses while stunting growth. Hence, understanding how plants balance growth-defense trade-offs during environmental stresses represents a tremendous opportunity to improve plant yield and meet the global need for increased food production. Through an extensive genetic approach in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the host lab has identified PLEIOTROPIC REGULATORY LOCUS 1 (PRL1) as new putative regulator of the JA pathway. PRL1 is also known for its role in sugar signalling and metabolism, representing a probable integration node for balancing growth during stress responses. This project thus aims to characterize the role of PRL1 in activating the JA pathway and uncover how are sugar and defense signalling integrated during insect and fungal attacks. Specifically, I will use state-of-the-art cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology approaches available at the host institute to answer the following questions: 1. How does PRL1 regulate JA responses? 2. How does PRL1 impact cell-type specific JA-mediated defense strategies? 3. How are PRL1- and JA-signalling pathways integrated? 4. What is the role of PRL1 in plant defense responses against insect herbivory and fungal pathogens? In addition to increasing our fundamental understanding of plant-pathogen interactions and activation of hormonal pathways, this ambitious project will inevitably provide novel targets and strategies to improve crop adaptability and secure means for stabilizing future food security.
Growth project technology investment

By investing in a special conical timber planer, the company can achieve a process innovation in the area of final production and increase production capacity.
In situ product recovery techniques aiming to obtain biotechnological products: A glance to current knowledge

Biotechnology and bioengineering techniques have been widely used in the production of biofuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food additives, being considered a "green" form of production because they use renewable and nonpolluting energy sources. On the other hand, in the traditional processes of production, the target product obtained by biotechnological routes must undergo several stages of purification, which makes these processes more expensive. In the past few years, some works have focused on processes that integrate fermentation to the recovery and purification steps necessary to obtain the final product required. This type of process is called in situ product recovery or extractive fermentation. However, there are some differences in the concepts of the techniques used in these bioprocesses. In this way, this review sought to compile relevant content on considerations and procedures that are being used in this field, such as evaporation, liquid-liquid extraction, permeation, and adsorption techniques. Also, the objective of this review was to approach the different configurations in the recent literature of the processes employed and the main bioproducts obtained, which can be used in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical, and/or fuel additives industry. We intended to elucidate concepts of these techniques, considered very recent, but which emerge as a promising alternative for the integration of bioprocesses.
SYSTEME DE TRAITEMENT DE L'EAU D'UN BASSIN DE PISCINE

Système de traitement de l'eau d'un bassin de piscine (2), dans lequel on injecte de l'ozone sous pression en amont d'un système de pompage (5) dans le circuit de filtrage de l'eau du bassin de piscine (2), et on extrait l'ozone en aval du système de pompage (5) avant le retour dans le bassin de piscine (2).
Performance Analysis of a Multi-Source, Single-Output, Buck-Boost DC-AC Converter Feeding Active Power to a 3-Phase Distribution Grid

No doubt that, power electronics plays an important role in the modern industry and power system networks.This paper presents the performance analysis of a multi-source, single-output, buck-boost dc-ac convertersuitable for use in different applications such as feeding ac loads from photovoltaic systems. In this paper,the performance of the proposed converter is studied, through power simulation program (PSIM), underdifferent modes of operation during feeding active power to a distribution network. The most importantfeatures of the proposed converter are the possibility to control voltage, frequency, voltage and frequencytogether, and the low value of the total harmonic distortion (THD) in the voltage and current waveforms. Key-Words: - Buck-Boost, DC- AC Converter, Design, Performance, Simulation.
Devonian bryozoans from Argentina: new cosmopolitan components of Southwestern Gondwanan basins

Abstract Lower to probably Middle Devonian bryozoans from western Argentina are reported. Five genera of trepostomes: Leptotrypa , Leptotrypella , Eridotrypella , Cyphotrypa , Boardmanella , and the cryptostome ? Pseudonematopora are described and figured. The paleobiogeographical significance of these bryozoans was analyzed in the context of Southern Gondwana during the Devonian. The group was considered as nearly absent from southwestern marine basins. In contrast with highly endemic groups, supporting the recognition of the Malvinokaffric Realm in this region, bryozoans reported are nearly cosmopolitan. The presence of those genera typical of warm-temperate, carbonate settings from low paleolatitudes, such as the Laurentian-European Eridotrypella , Leptotrypa , and Leptotrypella , or the Eurasians Boardmanella and ? Pseudonematopora , implies that these taxa were euritopic with remarkable capabilities for dispersion to reach high-latitude siliciclastic environments of the Southwestern Gondwanan basins.
STORAGE CONTAINER FOR A STORAGE AND DISPENSING STATION FOR PHARMACEUTICALS

The invention relates to a storage container for storage and dispensing stations for pharmaceuticals. In known storage and dispensing stations, pharmaceutical dust formed by the individualization process produces increased friction between the individualization device and the wall of the storage and dispensing station. In order to prevent this, the storage and dispensing station comprises a housing (10), which surrounds a receiving chamber (2) and comprises a guide section (11), an inner wall (3) of the guide section (11) defining a cylindrical guide chamber, and an individualization device (40), which is arranged in the guide section (11) of the housing (10) and has a central rotational axis (DA). The individualization device (30) has a main section (48) and a plurality of protrusions (42), each protrusion (42) having two end sections (45) and a central section (46), and a pharmaceutical channel (41) is formed between each two end sections (45) of adjacent protrusions. The central sections (46) of the protrusions (42) are retracted, and the end section (45) of each protrusion (42) rests against the wall (3) of the guide section (11).
Impact of High Frequency Power on Performance and Energy Consumption of Electrostatic Precipitator

Taking the first field of the right section at the left column of electrostatic precipitator(ESP) in a 440 t/h circulating fluidized bed(CFB) boiler as a research object,contrast tests of ESP performance were performed between high frequency power and fundamental frequency power.The results show that the dedusting quantity by using high frequency power has been improved 4.25%than that by using fundamental frequency power,in which the dedusting efficiency of the first field has been improved 4.54%.From the points of effective power's conversion efficiency and active power input,it is proved that high frequency power has obvious energy saving effect,and the payback period of power plant is 3.77 years.The selection method of high frequency power is suggested according to the value of apparent migration velocity of particle(ω_κ).
That was the year that might happen again

Some of the most eye-catching events of 2015 included the bankruptcy of US rare earths miner, Molycorp Inc., the splitting up of global chemicals giant, DuPont, a litany of scandals for Chile's Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) and a number of failed merger attempts, including Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) and K+S AG in potash, Iluka Resources Ltd and Kenmare Resources Ltd in mineral sands, Saint-Gobain SA and Sika AG in speciality chemicals, and Halliburton Inc. and Baker Hughes Inc. in oilfield minerals.

Away from dwelling the past, this first 2016 issue of IM also has a forward-looking angle, in the form of an article by Vladislav Vorotnikov, IM Correspondent, discussing how Russian embargo on imports of Western foods could benefit the country's mothballed zeolite industry ( pp30-32 ).

For this month's Refractories Hotline, Liz Gyekye, Chief Reporter, spoke to leading Brazilian refractories producer, Magnesita Refratarios SA, about how end user demands for quality, efficiency and value for money are setting demanding but achievable goals for the most agile and technically capable businesses in the in the sector ( pp28-29 ).
Patrimonit. from cheap print to rare ephemera: 16th-century italian 'popular' books at the british library

Large quantities of 16th-Century Italian ‘popular’ books – the books read or ‘listened to’ by everyone during the Early Modern Period, printed with poor quality material and having usually a short life expectancy –, sometime after the 16th century found their way to the UK to join the largest single collection of Italian 16th-century books in the world, that is the British Library (BL). This library preserves today a substantial number of early Italian editions which do not survive in any Italian library and are still not adequately recorded.
The objectives of the PATRIMONiT project are both bibliographical and historical: 1) to survey all the 16th Italian ‘popular’ books now at the BL which do not survive in any Italian library; 2) to define new rules for cataloguing 16th ‘popular’ books and catalogue approx. 250 items in the PATRIMONiT database, entering the data in EDIT16 and in the CERL Thesaurus; 3) to study the edition history of these books using archival sources, that is to examine the historical circumstances related to their survival and international circulation with a new methodology.
Carnelos proposes to demonstrate that this ephemeral material is really important in reconstructing the socio-cultural history of a country. Specifically, her aim is to understand when and why ‘popular’ books underwent a change in their perceived value, from books to be used and reused to books that were considered at once disposable and worthy of collection, and how time and space, politics and cultural policies influenced this change. 
Supported by three centres of excellence (the Consortium of European Research Libraries or CERL, the BL and the Istituto Centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche or ICCU), the PATRIMONiT project combines the more recent developments in three main disciplines (Library Science, History and ICT), to tackle historical questions which cannot be approached and successfully solved individually.
Advanced manufacturing ecosystem improvement

Industry foresight for next 10 years are highlighting how the global economy will be fully globalized and competition for markets will become fiercer. New industrial players from emerging and newly emerged industrial economies will fight for market share with multi-nationals and companies from traditionally industrialized countries, including the EU. This will drive companies seeking for innovation to develop a competitive edge for new products and services, and to adopt operations that are more efficient. Europe is a global leader in supplying advanced manufacturing technologies, however notwithstanding the relevant investment in R&D to develop such technologies, the effective uptake is still weak and European companies are lagging behind in comparison to global competitors regarding demand and use of them.  Despite the benefits AMTs offer, the majority of manufacturing SMEs in the EU are not yet using these technologies. One of the key obstacles to AMT adoption is represented by the general weakness of the support system supplying with adequate capacities in all areas of advanced manufacturing sector. The overall project objective of the project is to improve the Advanced Manufacturing Ecosystem for European SMEs by reinforcing the innovation infrastructures that should provide support to manufacturing SME. The aim is thus to collaboratively address a common innovation support challenge consisting in providing adequate support to SMEs in the adoption of AMT. The Peer Learning activity is expected to collect and identify a wide range of services that Innovation intermediary agencies may provide to SMEs to stimulate their transformation through the AMT uptake. The expected Design Options Paper will serve as a “guide” or a “handbook” to other agencies and business support centers to provide more focused support services and to set up “Regional Innovation Hubs” to improve a suitable ecosystem fostering AMT uptake.
A computational method for post-construction settlement of high-speed railway bridge pile foundation considering soil creep effect

Based on reasonable assumptions that simplified the calculational model, a simple and practical method was proposed to calculate the post-construction settlement of high-speed railway bridge pile foundation by using the Mesri creep model to describe the soil characteristics and the Mindlin-Geddes method considering pile diameter to calculate the vertical additional stress of pile bottom. A program named CPPS was designed for this method to calculate the post-construction settlement of a high-speed railway bridge pile foundation. The result indicates that the post-construction settlement in 100 years meets the requirements of the engineering specifications, and in the first two decades, the post-construction settlement is about 80% of its total settlement, while the settlement in the rest eighty years tends to be stable. Compared with the measured settlement after laying railway tracks, the calculational result is closed to that of the measured, and the results are conservative with a high computational accuracy. It is noted that the method can be used to calculate the post-construction settlement for the preliminary design of high-speed railway bridge pile foundation.
GEOM. IT WILL PURIFY AURELIUS

THE INDIVIDUAL COMPANY IS CONFIGURED TO CARRY OUT THE MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE SURVEYOR THAT CONSIST, TO A LARGE EXTENT, IN THE EXECUTION OF RAPID SURVEYS IN THE FIELD AND GRAPHIC RETURN, DESIGN AND 3D REPRESENTATION. IN THIS SENSE, IT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE ACCESS TO TOOLS THAT ALLOW THE PROCESSING, IN AN EFFICIENT WAY, OF DATA ACQUIRED BY SAPR MEANS (DRONES) FOR THE SIMPLIFIED RETURN OF REALITY THROUGH CLOUDS OF POINTS FOR WHICH PERFORMANCE HARDWARE AND SPECIFIC SOFTWARE ARE NEEDED. THE ACTIVITY ALSO AFFECTS THE CADASTRAL BRANCH (FRACTIONS, MAPPING TYPES, STACKINGS, VARIATIONS, ETC...). SURELY THE ACTIVITY OF THE SURVEYOR IS VERY VARIED AND THEREFORE NEEDS, BY ITS NATURE, TO BE ABLE TO ORGANISE THE WORK IN A SYSTEMATIC WAY. THE INCREASING REQUIREMENTS REQUIRED TO OPERATE IN THE TERRITORY BUT ALSO TO PRESENT PRACTICES AND REQUESTS OF VARIOUS KINDS OBLIGES THE PROFESSIONAL TO AN ADMINISTRATION OF THE R ACTIVITY
Introducing innovations in traditional agro-food products to increase SMEs competitiveness

The overall objective is to strengthen services for the transfer of technical-scientific innovations from research institutions to enterprises in order to foster the development of traditional agro-food products consistent with market demands. The project thus includes 4 sub-objectives:

(i) Strengthening policies and strategies for the development and valorization of innovative traditional products.

(ii) Identification of innovations in the agro-food sector to reinforce the competitiveness of SMEs (WP4).

(iii) Development of ICT tools to improve access to knowledge and encourage interactions between scientific research and SMEs system.

(iv) Enhancing visibility and valorization of innovative traditional products through the establishment of the Home of flavors.
Gut virus brain axis technology in organoid science

The battle against infectious diseases is hampered by lack of therapeutic innovations due to poor understanding of disease outcome in humans. Organoid technology is a major breakthrough for medical research that has traditionally relied heavily on animal models. In our current OrganoVIR consortium, we are at the forefront in establishing human organoids as superior models for viral pathogenesis and antiviral research. The next critical step is to integrate organoid models to create a complex multi-organ ex vivo model that better mimics the human physiology. This raises several challenges such as incorporation of various cell types, medium incompatibility, validation, high throughput, and robust ways to connect mature organoid models. At the same time, the model has to be accessible, user friendly, and affordable to all end users. Therefore, this proposed GUTVIBRATIONS consortium will leverage its expertise in microfabrication, organoid technology, virology, immunology, bioengineering, and materials science to deliver an enabling organ-on-chip system.

As a demonstrator, a modular human gut-brain axis multi-organ model will be achieved for studying viral disease and treatment. This model will be built by combining an open source 3D printed scaffold technology with human gut and brain organoid models. The deliverables will include a complex gut epithelial layer, immune cell layer, blood-brain layer and brain organoid; all individually developed and subsequently connected by vertical stacking. Our unique modular approach where individual components are separately developed and validated minimizes compatibility issues. The individual models and the multi-organ model will be used for studying three different clinically relevant viral infections with high global burden and will be validated against existing clinical data to bring the system to TRL5. Routes towards commercialization will also be assessed by performing a market analysis and developing a business plan.
Tendances récentes du modèle italien de laïcité de l’État

regard de la jurisprudence constitutionnelle antérieure qu'en comparaison avec d'autres systèmes juridiques nationaux (France, Allemagne, Canada, États-Unis).
Monitoring the presence of chloramphenicol and nitrofuran metabolites in cultured prawn, shrimp and feed in the Southwest coastal region of Bangladesh

Abstract Presence of nitrofuran and chloramphenicol in farmed prawn and shrimp is a major concern in the export sector of Bangladesh. Rejections of consignments by the foreign buyers have been recurrent for the last couple of years due to detection of these banned antibiotics. The increasingly complex requirements for food safety assurance and traceability set by major export markets represent a threat to the trade of this significant sector. In this study, the status and trends of the presence of nitrofuran and chloramphenicol in freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man) and marine shrimp Penaeus monodon (Fabricius) and in their feeds in the Southwest coastal region of Bangladesh were investigated. The prawn/shrimp farmers, feed manufacturers and feed sellers were interviewed with well structured pre-tested Questionnaires. Antibiotic residues present in the animal muscles, feeds and feed ingredients were detected using LC–MS–MS by the Fish Inspection and Quality Control Wing of the Department of Fisheries. The study reveals that farmers did not deliberately use those banned antibiotics, but these chemicals were detected in many M. rosenbergii and P. monodon samples in 2008, 2009 and 2010, in both fresh muscles, pre-export and post-export consignments. The percentage of contamination with this banned antibiotics in M. rosenbergii samples were 17.74%, 22.89%, 13.60% and in P. monodon samples were 12.65%, 15.79%, 11.85% in 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively. Antibiotic residue data of 2008, 2009 and 2010 showed: (i) contamination of nitrofuran and chloramphenicol was more in M. rosenbergii than P. monodon; (ii) among four nitrofuran metabolites, nitrofurazone was found more frequently but in smaller quantities in 2009 and 2010; (iii) contamination of nitrofuran metabolites was more in prawns fed with commercial feed than those with home-made feed; and (iv) there has been a decreasing trend of the presence of nitrofuran and chloramphenicol in prawn and shrimp of Bangladesh.
Serotonin Influences the Endogenous Opiate Peptides in the Rat Spinal Cord to Participates in Pain Modulation

Spinal cord is a necessary pathway that transfers the body nociceptive inputs to the brain. Endogenous opiate peptides have been proven to participate in the nociceptive process at spinal level. It has reported that serotonin (5-HT, 5-hydroxytryptamine) in spinal cord plays a role in pan modulation, which can be blocked by opiate receptor antagonists. The present study was designed to investigate the interaction between 5-HT and endogenous opiate peptides at rat spinal level effecting on pain modulation. The results showed that 1) pain stimulation increased not only leucine-enkephalin (L-Ek), β-endorphin (β-Ep) and dynorphin A1-13 (DynA1-13) concentrations but also 5-HT and 5-hydorxyindoleace acid (5-HIAA, the 5-HT main metabolic product) concentrations in spinal cord significantly; 2) 5-HT could increase L-Ek, β-Ep and DynA1-13 concentrations in spinal cord in a dose-dependent manner, whereas cypotolamine (a 5-HT receptor antagonist) decreased L-Ek, β-Ep and DynA1-13 concentrations in spinal cord. The data suggested that 5-HT antinociceptive role might be involved in the endogenous opiate peptide system through 5-HT receptors at spinal level.
Endoscopic Ultrasonography and Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasonography

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is superior to all other imaging modalities in detecting small pancreatic cancers. However, its ability to characterize hypoechoic pancreatic masses is limited: most carcinomas, neuroendocrine tumors, and inflammatory pseudotumors are simply depicted as hypoechoic masses. Contrast enhancement helps EUS to characterize such hypoechoic masses. Intravenous ultrasound (US) agents increase the signal from the blood and, thus, act as amplifiers and improve visualization of blood flow in small vessels using Doppler US. Contrast-enhanced Doppler EUS can differentiate small pancreatic carcinomas that cannot be detected by other imaging modalities. The development of second-generation US contrast agents and an EUS system with a broad-band transducer enabled the visualization of microvessels and the parenchymal perfusion in the pancreas. This contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS has shown that most pancreatic cancers exhibit hypovascular heterogeneous enhancement with irregular network-like microvessels. Moreover, it can diagnose pancreatic cancers with a high sensitivity (89-92%).