SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
European marine biological research infrastructure cluster to promote the blue bioeconomy

Marine (blue) biotechnology is the key to unlocking the huge economic potential of the unique biodiversity of marine organisms. This potential remains largely underexploited due to lack of connectivity between research services, practical and cultural difficulties in connecting science with industry, and high fragmentation of regional research, development and innovation (RDI) policies. To overcome these barriers, EMBRIC (European Marine Biological Resource Infrastructure Cluster) will link biological and social science research infrastructures (EMBRC, MIRRI, EU-OPENSCREEN, ELIXIR, AQUAEXCEL, RISIS) and will build inter-connectivity along three dimensions: science, industry and regions. The objectives of EMBRIC are to: (1) develop integrated workflows of high quality services for access to biological, analytical and data resources, and deploy common underpinning technologies and practices; (2) strengthen the connection of science with industry by engaging companies and by federating technology transfer (TT) services; (3) defragment RDI policies and involve maritime regions with the construction of EMBRIC. Acceleration of the pace of scientific discovery and innovation from marine bioresources will be achieved through: (i) establishment of multidisciplinary service-oriented technological workflows; (ii) joint development activities focusing on bioprospection for novel marine natural products, and marker-assisted selection in aquaculture; (iii) training and knowledge transfer; (iv) pilot transnational access to cluster facilities and services. EMBRIC will also connect TT officers from contrasted maritime regions to promote greater cohesion in TT practices. It will engage with policy-makers with the aim of consolidating a perennial pan-European virtual infrastructure cluster rooted in the maritime regions of Europe and underpinning the blue bioeconomy.
[Molecular characteristic of duck hepatitis A virus type 1 causing pancreatitis ].

[OBJECTIVE] We studied the molecular characteristics of the full-length genome of duck hepatitis A virus type 1 causing pancreatitis in Muscovy ducklings. [METHODS] We determined the entire genomic sequence of duck hepatitis A virus type 1 strain MPZJ1206 using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay and analyzed the bioinformatics of the viral genome sequence. [ RESULTS] The genome length of strain MPZJ1206 comprised 7703 bases, with a G + C content of 43.05%. The genome of MPZJ1206 contains a single, long open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 2249 amino acids, with a genomic orgariization similar to those of other isolates of duck hepatitis A virus type 1. MPZJ1206 is identical with previously isolates by 93. 5% - 99. 6% in nucleotide sequence and 97. 9% - 99. 6% in amino acid sequence and shares genetic distance no more than 7%. Phylogenetic analysis based on genome sequence indicates that MPZJ1206 shares a close genetic relationship with two strains isolated in 2011. [CONCLUSION] Although pathotype caused by MPZJ1206 strain is significantly distinct from those induced by classical isolates of duck hepatitis A virus type 1, the genome of MPZJ1206 shares high homology with those of previous isolates. The change of pathotype may result from an alteration in viral tissue tropism of MPZJ1206.
Delayed Detached Eddy Simulations of Compressible Turbulent Mixing Layer and Detailed Performance Analysis of Scientific In-House Code TASCOM3D

AbstractIn the present paper a compressible turbulent mixing layer is investigated using Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (DDES). Thereby two compressible flows are divided by a splitter plate which join downstream of the plate and form a mixing and shear layer. The simulations are performed with the scientific code TASCOM3D (Turbulent All Speed Combustion Multigrid Solver) using a fifth-order upwind biased scheme combined with an improved multi-dimensional limiting process (MLP) (Gerlinger, 2011) for spatial discretization. The inviscid fluxes are calculated using the AUSM+-up flux vector splitting. DDES is a hybrid RANS/LES approach which uses a traditional Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach for wall-bounded regions and a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach for the mixing section. The simulations show a quasi two-dimensional flow field right after the splitter plate and a following conversion to a turbulent and highly unsteady flow field after short distance. Furthermore the performance of TASCOM3D on different HPC systems is analyzed: a vector (NEC SX-9) and a scalar processor based (Cray XE6) system, both installed at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). The investigation points out the challenges and problems in HPC and may serve other researchers as comparison and assistance to achieve good performance on the different architectures.KeywordsLarge Eddy SimulationSplitter PlateDetach Eddy SimulationStrong ScalingConvective Mach NumberThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENVIRONMENTALLY HELPFUL POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM AND METHOD

A high-efficiency energy conversion system (10) and method which is able to use a low volume air flow source such as a vacuum cleaner to turn a drive means and generate rotary energy. The system and method includes a water-filled container (16) and a drive means which is selectively made more or less buoyant at various points of rotation. The system includes leverage arms (30, 31) and balloon elements (40, 41). It may be made of smaller components for domestic use or larger components for an industrial-type usage.
Luminescence properties of undoped LiBaAlF6single crystals

This paper presents the results of the study of electronic excitations in undoped LiBaAlF(6) single crystals by means of luminescence spectroscopy and complimentary optical methods. The intrinsic emission at 4.2 eV due to self-trapped excitons was identified. The fast nanosecond defect-related luminescence was revealed at 3.0 eV. Both emissions degrade under electron beam irradiation, the most probable reason of which is defect creation introducing an additional non-radiative relaxation channel prohibiting energy transfer to luminescence centers. These defects can be recovered and luminescence intensity restored at higher temperatures (>200 K). The permanent damage by electron beam irradiation results only in overall growth of the absorption coefficient in the whole 1.5-6.5 eV spectral region studied. The analysis of thermally stimulated luminescence glow curves in the temperature range of 5-410 K revealed two shallow charge carrier traps with the activation energies of 0.22 and 0.33 eV, respectively. The luminescence of an impurity peaked at 2.5 eV was found and tentatively assigned to an oxygen-related emission center.
Students, social change and the construction of the post-independence algerian state, 1962-1978

This project seeks to bring a new perspective to understanding state construction in Algeria after independence. Through a history of the first generations of Algerians who went to university in the 1960s and 1970s, it explores the intersections between political and institutional transformations and social, cultural and economic processes. These processes include increasing literacy, rural to urban migration, migration to study abroad and changes in gender relations and family structures. Bringing together concepts and methodologies from across a number of humanities and social science disciplines, the project will produce a case study setting out new approaches to studying state-building as a dynamic process which takes place at different levels of power (transnational, national and local) and which both shapes, and is shaped by, individual agency and wider processes. The goal is for this approach to be applicable to a range of other post-colonial contexts, challenging teleological readings of post-independence histories and homogenising understandings of post-independence states. 

The project is to be carried out in Algeria, France and the UK, with the researcher working with leading experts in the field in each of these countries to create a transnational, interdisciplinary network exploring the central research themes. Through extensive interviewing of former students, this project will create a new body of sources for researchers, which will also, with informants’ consent, be made accessible online. Public engagement is integral to the research design and process of data collection as well as dissemination, with Algerian students from the 1960s and 1970s invited to participate in group testimony sessions, alongside the wider public, throughout the project.
From One Shore, the Other … the Image of France in the Works of Contemporary Judeo-Maghrebi Novelists

The specific “Idea of France,” as expressed by French authors of Jewish-Maghrebi origin, comes from the conflicted relationship they have with the concept. These people are attached to France's republican values, but criticize what they see as a hegemony of Western people over Middle-Easterners. For them, France represents an emancipatory ideal. They remember the French revolution, the Cremieux decree of 1870, and their education in republican schools in Algeria or at the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Tunisia or in Morocco, which only reinforces the idea. Their narratives express many echoes of this shared history, where France is exalted for having brought these emancipatory values. Nonetheless, their image of France is tarnished by three striking events: the fact that Algerian Jews were stripped of their French nationality in 1940, the exile en masse from North Africa when France left her colonies and protectorates, and the difficult time they had getting established in the metropole. Given the part...
Spatiotemporal change analysis of urban land surface component based on V-I-S Model &#x2014;A case study in Guangzhou

The components of urban surface are diversified and mainly included building area, vegetation, water body and so on. To give urbanization a quantitative analysis in order to describe and forecast some problems, which occurred in the process of urbanization, the analysis of urban land surface components is important and necessary. One of the recent major advances in urban land surface components analysis is V-I-S (vegetation, impervious surface and soil) model, which is presented for urban land surface components change and deemed the urban as the combo of three components: Vegetation, Impervious surface and Soil. Ignoring water surfaces, the V-I-S model included the most fundamental components of urban land surface cover and may reflect the connotation of urban expansion. Remote sensing have developed a variety of approaches to distinguish surface cover through multi-spectral data and has became the most convenient and popular means to map the V-I-S components in urban area for its wide area coverage and regular orbiting period. As the third biggest city in China, Guangzhou has been in a rapid urbanization process during the past two decades. The V-I-S model is implied in the study to quantify the composition of urban land surface with multi-temporal Landsat images between 1990 and 2009 to explore a spatiotemporal change of urban land surface components. The linear spectral mixture analysis method was used to extract three components in V-I-S model at sub-pixel level. The results show that: temporally, V-I-S proportional changes in the time series reveal different patterns of urban development in different period. Spatially, spatial variation analysis in different districts can highlight regional differences in urban sprawl process. The significant difference of urban expansion pattern is analyzed in the study by assessing the changing abundance and area of vegetation, impervious surface and soil from 1990 to 2009.
Aestheticization of life and cosmopolitan modernity: the poetics of elegance in the long 19th century

In the course of the long 19C the pursuit of 'elegance' emerged as a phenomenon aiming at an intensification of life through aestheticization. The distinguishing features of an 'elegant' appearance manifested themselves in the self-fashioning of an individual person (language, attire, behaviour) and in the shaping of domestic and public environments (artefacts, interior design, architecture). The concept of elegance was realized in social action and cultural practices, particularly in convivial conversation, entertainment and leisure activities. The  project demonstrates that one of the crucial patterns of modernity manifests itself in the phenomenon of elegance, which inaugurates a specific aesthetic of the surface as a distinguishing social feature as well as a marker transcending the established order: an imaginary community of urban origin that supersedes historically conditioned social and gender norms. Committed to the methods of transnational historiography, the study outlines the European topography of the so-called ‘elegant world’ in the tension between national aspirations and transnational aesthetic norms. The project focuses on ‘circulating things’ and examines the social agency of press and material goods. It pays particular attention to an innovative type of cultural journals, which reported in detail on urban social, cultural, and material life and helped spread the new urban styles of living and had a decisive impact on the staging of a new, imaginary cross-border community. Its geographic range is marked by the imperial metropolises, as well as by aspiring Central and Eastern European cities such as Berlin and Leipzig, Prague and Pest, which developed into new urban centres in the course of the 19C. The main output of the project is a monograph that maps out the phenomenon of elegance and the way it redefined the social order, constituted urban life, and expressed the transnational aspirations and affiliations of the elite.
Aggregate and event-level associations between substance use and sexual behavior among gay and bisexual men: Comparing retrospective and prospective data

Despite limited research, some evidence suggests that examining substance use at multiple levels may be of greater utility in predicting sexual behavior than utilizing one level of measurement, particularly when investigating different substances simultaneously. We aimed to examine aggregate and event-level associations between three forms of substance use - alcohol, marijuana, and club drugs - and two sexual behavior outcomes - sexual engagement and condomless anal sex (CAS).Analyses focused on both 6-week timeline follow-back (TLFB; retrospective) and 30-day daily diary (prospective) data among a demographically diverse sample of 371 highly sexually active HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay and bisexual men.Models from both TLFB and diary showed that event-level use of alcohol, marijuana, and club drugs was associated with increased sexual engagement, while higher aggregated frequency marijuana and any frequency club drug use were associated with decreased sexual engagement. Event-level use of club drugs was consistently associated with increased odds of CAS across both TLFB and diary models while higher frequency marijuana use was most consistently associated with a lower odds of CAS.Findings indicated that results are largely consistent between retrospective and prospective data, but that retrospective results for substance use and sexual engagement were generally greater in magnitude. These results suggest that substance use primarily acts to increase sexual risk at the event-level and less so through individual-level frequency of use; moreover, it primarily does so by increasing the likelihood of sex on a given day with fewer significant associations with the odds of CAS on sex days.
Automated brain volumetrics in multiple sclerosis: a step closer to clinical application

Whole brain volume (WBV) estimates in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) correlate more robustly with clinical disability than traditional, lesion-based metrics. Numerous algorithms to measure WBV have been developed over the past two decades. We compare Structural Image Evaluation using Normalisation of Atrophy-Cross-sectional (SIENAX) to NeuroQuant and MSmetrix, for assessment of cross-sectional WBV in patients with MS.MRIs from 61 patients with relapsing-remitting MS and 2 patients with clinically isolated syndrome were analysed. WBV measurements were calculated using SIENAX, NeuroQuant and MSmetrix. Statistical agreement between the methods was evaluated using linear regression and Bland-Altman plots. Precision and accuracy of WBV measurement was calculated for (1) NeuroQuant versus SIENAX and (2) MSmetrix versus SIENAX.Precision (Pearson's r) of WBV estimation for NeuroQuant and MSmetrix versus SIENAX was 0.983 and 0.992, respectively. Accuracy (Cb) was 0.871 and 0.994, respectively. NeuroQuant and MSmetrix showed a 5.5% and 1.0% volume difference compared with SIENAX, respectively, that was consistent across low and high values.In the analysed population, NeuroQuant and MSmetrix both quantified cross-sectional WBV with comparable statistical agreement to SIENAX, a well-validated cross-sectional tool that has been used extensively in MS clinical studies.
Reexamining the Evidence for a Pitch-Sensitive Region: A Human fMRI Study Using Iterated Ripple Noise

Human neuroimaging studies have identified a region of auditory cortex, lateral Heschl's gyrus (HG), that shows a greater response to iterated ripple noise (IRN) than to a Gaussian noise control. Based in part on results using IRN as a pitch-evoking stimulus, it has been argued that lateral HG is a general "pitch center." However, IRN contains slowly varying spectrotemporal modulations, unrelated to pitch, that are not found in the control stimulus. Hence, it is possible that the cortical response to IRN is driven in part by these modulations. The current study reports the first attempt to control for these modulations. This was achieved using a novel type of stimulus that was generated by processing IRN to remove the fine temporal structure (and thus the pitch) but leave the slowly varying modulations. This "no-pitch IRN" stimulus is referred to as IRNo. Results showed a widespread response to the spectrotemporal modulations across auditory cortex. When IRN was contrasted with IRNo rather than with Gaussian noise, the apparent effect of pitch was no longer statistically significant. Our findings raise the possibility that a cortical response unrelated to pitch could previously have been errantly attributed to pitch coding.
tradición manuscrita e impresa de «El mejor alcalde, el rey», desde finales del siglo XVII hasta finales del siglo XVIII

Se examinan tres manuscritos tardíos de El mejor alcalde, el rey nunca cotejados para las ediciones modernas del drama de Lope: el que se conserva en la Biblioteca de la Hispanic Society of America y dos que atesora la Biblioteca Histórica Municipal de Madrid y que proceden de los archivos de los teatros de la Cruz y del Príncipe. Ninguno de estos testimonios parece derivar de una rama de la tradición textual más cercana que el texto de la Parte XXI al perdido original de Lope. Aun así, su estudio detenido nos revela aspectos interesantes de la transmisión de textos en el mundo del teatro, permitiendo, entre otras cosas, esclarecer la historia de la fortuna de este drama de Lope en los tablados madrileños entre finales del siglo XVII y finales del siglo XVIII.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A MODEL OF VEHICLE TURNING DYNAMICS.

In some embodiments, techniques for updating a model that represents turning dynamics of a vehicle are provided. In some embodiments, an initial location and orientation of the vehicle with respect to an object outside the vehicle are determined using information from environment sensors including but not limited to image sensors and/or range sensors. In some embodiments, vehicle state information including but not limited to steering angle and wheel speed is received before determining a new location and orientation of the vehicle with respect to the object. In some embodiments, the model is updated using the initial location and orientation, the new location and orientation, and the vehicle state information.
Ossification score is a better indicator of maturity related changes in eating quality than animal age

Ossification score and animal age are both used as proxies for maturity-related collagen crosslinking and consequently decreases in beef tenderness. Ossification score is strongly influenced by the hormonal status of the animal and may therefore better reflect physiological maturity and consequently eating quality. As part of a broader cross-European study, local consumers scored 18 different muscle types cooked in three ways from 482 carcasses with ages ranging from 590 to 6135 days and ossification scores ranging from 110 to 590. The data were studied across three different maturity ranges; the complete range of maturities, a lesser range and a more mature range. The lesser maturity group consisted of carcasses having either an ossification score of 200 or less or an age of 987 days or less with the remainder in the greater maturity group. The three different maturity ranges were analysed separately with a linear mixed effects model. Across all the data, and for the greater maturity group, animal age had a greater magnitude of effect on eating quality than ossification score. This is likely due to a loss of sensitivity in mature carcasses where ossification approached and even reached the maximum value. In contrast, age had no relationship with eating quality for the lesser maturity group, leaving ossification score as the more appropriate measure. Therefore ossification score is more appropriate for most commercial beef carcasses, however it is inadequate for carcasses with greater maturity such as cull cows. Both measures may therefore be required in models to predict eating quality over populations with a wide range in maturity.
CEMENT ROOFING TILE CONSISTING OF AT LEAST TWO LAYERS

The invention relates to a cement roofing tile consisting of two layers. The internal layer is embodied in the form of a basic plate or a blank cement tile, the external layer being a coating containing at least one type of sand and binder. The sand of the coating has different grain-sizes. The maximum diameter of the largest grains is equal to the coating thickness, whereas the minimum diameter of the smallest grains is equal to one third thereof.