SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Sperm morphometry and chromatin condensation in Nelore bulls of different ages and their effects on IVF

The aim of this study was to evaluate the chromatin packing and sperm head morphometry of cryopreserved semen of Nelore bulls (Bos taurus indicus) of different ages. Furthermore, the influence of the degree of chromatin compaction on in vitro embryo production (IVP) was investigated. Forty bulls were divided into three groups: young (1.8-2 years), adult (3.5-7 years), and senile (8-14.3 years). The ejaculates were frozen according to standards established by the Artificial Insemination Center located in the Southeast of Brazil. Toluidine blue staining was used for simultaneous evaluation of the sperm chromatin and sperm head morphometry. Chromomycin A3 (CMA3) was applied to analyze sperm protamination and IVP for embryonic development. Spermatozoa of young bulls presented higher values for area (A, pixels), perimeter (P, pixels), and width (W, pixels) compared to adults and senile (young: A = 1848.5 ± 119.79, P = 10.23 ± 0.29, and W = 1.95 ± 0.1; adults: A = 1672.9 ± 104.46, P = 9.86 ± 0.33, and W = 1.81 ± 0.06; senile: A = 1723.1 ± 124.41, P = 9.97 ± 0.33, and W = 1.83 ± 0.09; P < 0.0001) and showed higher protamination deficiency when analyzed by CMA3 (young: 1.57 ± 0.76; adults: 1.09 ± 0.63, and senile: 0.90 ± 0.59; P < 0.05). Likewise, variables of sperm head size (A, P, and W) and protamination assessed by CMA3 showed negative correlation with age and positive correlation with ellipticity, evaluated by toluidine blue method (P < 0.05). Sperm head area was larger in spermatozoa presenting chromatin instabilities than spermatozoa without chromatin alteration (P < 0.0001). There was no difference in IVP when using semen with larger or smaller portions of spermatozoa with chromatin instabilities, indicating that the proportion of sperm with abnormal chromatin compaction (4%-16.15%) did not interfere with early embryonic development. From our results, it can be concluded that sperm of young Nelore bulls have larger heads compared to adults and senile due to reduced protamine content when evaluated by CMA3 and higher proportion of major sperm defects assessed by differential interference contrast microscopy.
Probing the intra-group medium of a z = 0.28 galaxy group

We present new MUSE observations of a galaxy group probed by a background quasar. The quasar sightline passes between multiple $z=0.28$ galaxies, whilst showing at the same redshift low ionised metal line species, including Ca II, Mg I, Mg II and Fe II. Based on the galaxy redshifts measured from the MUSE data, we estimate the galaxies to be part of a small galaxy group with a halo mass of $\approx6\times10^{12}$ M$_{\odot}$. We use the MUSE data to reveal the two dimensional dynamical properties of the gas and stars in the group galaxies, and relate these to the absorber kinematics. With these data we consider a number of scenarios for the nature of the gas probed by the sightline absorbers: a co-rotating gas halo associated with a single galaxy within the group; outflowing material from a single group member powered by recent star-formation; and cool dense gas associated with an intra-group medium. We find that the dynamics, galaxy impact parameters, star-formation rates, and the absorber strength suggest the cool gas can not be clearly associated with any single galaxy within the group. Instead we find that the observations are consistent with a superposition of cool gas clouds originating with the observed galaxies as they fall into the group potential, and are now likely in the process of forming the intra-group medium.
Plantinga’s Haecceitism and Simple Quantified Modal Logic

In a series of papers Alvin Plantinga argued for a serious actualist modal semantics based on the notions of possible world, understood as maximal possible state of affairs, and of individual essence (haecceity). Plantinga’s actualism is known as haecceitism. In spite of the fact that haecceitism has been thought by Plantinga to require a Kripke-style semantics, the aim of this paper is to show that it is compatible with constant domains semantics and the simplest quantified modal logic. I will argue that not only does this approach have all the advantages of a greater simplicity in combining quantification and modalities, but also it better conforms to the actualist program.
Vectored vaccines to protect against PRRSV

PRRSV is the causative agent of the most important infectious disease affecting swine herds worldwide, producing great economic losses. Commercially available vaccines are only partially effective in protection against PRRSV. Moreover, modified live vaccines may allow virus shedding, and could revert generating virulent phenotypes. Therefore, new efficient vaccines are required. Vaccines based on recombinant virus genomes (virus vectored vaccines) against PRRSV could represent a safe alternative for the generation of modified live vaccines. In this paper, current vectored vaccines to protect against PRRSV are revised, including those based on pseudorabies virus, poxvirus, adenovirus, and virus replicons. Special attention has been provided to the use of transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) as vector for the expression of PRRSV antigens. This vector has the capability of expressing high levels of heterologous genes, is a potent interferon-α inducer, and presents antigens in mucosal surfaces, eliciting both secretory and systemic immunity. A TGEV derived vector (rTGEV) was generated, expressing PRRSV wild type or modified GP5 and M proteins, described as the main inducers of neutralizing antibodies and cellular immune response, respectively. Protection experiments showed that vaccinated animals developed a faster and stronger humoral immune response than the non-vaccinated ones. Partial protection in challenged animals was observed, as vaccinated pigs showed decreased lung damage when compared with the non-vaccinated ones. Nevertheless, the level of neutralizing antibodies was low, what may explain the limited protection observed. Several strategies are proposed to improve current rTGEV vectors expressing PRRSV antigens.
Pilot scale experiments on denitrogenation process of second vacuum dewaxed oil furfural adding assistants refining

The bench-scale and pilot-scale experiments of denitrogenation refining for the second vacuum dewaxed oil by the method of complex extraction were carried out. The pilot-scale experiments of basic nitrogen compounds removal from the second vacuum dewaxed oil with furfural and mixed solvent with metal salts were mainly introduced. The results showed that the contents of basic nitrogen compounds in dewaxed oil were about 2.31 μg ? g~(-1), rotary oxygen bomb time, viscous index and denitrification rate attained 236 min,119 and 99% ,respectively. The optimal refining operation condition of second vacuum dewaxed oil with furfural in pilot scale experiment was as follows: top and bottom temperature in extraction tower 115℃ and 70℃ respectively, solvent/oil volume ratio 2.0, additive dosage 5g ? kg~(-1) (oil). The later atlapulgite supplement refining could be left out for the purpose of denitrogenation of dewaxed oil.
Experimental Analysis of Textual and Graphical Representations for Software Architecture Design

Software architecture design documentation should communicate design decisions effectively. However, little is known about the way recipients respond to the different types of media used in documentation. We therefore conducted a controlled experiment to study whether visual or textual artifacts are more effective in communicating architecture software design decisions to software developers. Our participant group consisted of 47 participants from both industry and academia. Our results show that neither diagrams nor textual descriptions proved to be significantly more efficient in terms of communicating software architecture design decisions. Remarkably, participants who predominantly used text, scored significantly better, overall and with respect to topology related questions. Furthermore, surprisingly, diagrams were not able to alleviate the difficulties participants with a native language other than English had in extracting information from the documentation. In combination, these findings at the very least question the role of diagrams in software architecture documentation.
Constructing an Imperfect Citizen-Subject: Globalization, National “Security,” and Violence Against South Asian Women

The landscape of antiviolence advocacy for South Asian women living in the United States has been altered in several significant ways. My research on legal advocacy for South Asian women suggests that distinct patterns of abuse against immigrant women are not easily addressed within existing legal paradigms of domestic violence because mainstream advocacy models continue to imagine as their primary subject women who do not experience interlocking forms of oppression. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data, I argue that South Asian women’s incomplete access to antiviolence laws in the United States provides further evidence of the salience of nation-state boundaries, particularly in the lives of gendered subjects whose enjoyment of citizenship, I argue, remains imperfect. In this essay I analyze the enduring link between women’s access to legal protections against domestic violence and their legal status in the United States. What endures, I believe, are the ways in which raced and gendered notions of citizenship continue to erode the meaningfulness of legal protections for battered immigrant women. What has evolved, however, are the ways in which transnational shifts have reconfigured the landscape in which antiviolence laws are being imagined and enforced within the modern nation-state. My study of the particular constraints in antiviolence advocacy for South Asian women draws on the following theoretical ideas regarding the reconfiguration of citizenship and the reterritorialization of power in a transnational age.
Large roller bearing axial securing component - comprises wire ring with surface undulations differing in height and length

Shaped, axial securing components for large to very large roller bearings, which spring engages in a groove located near the running track on the edgeless side of a running ring. The component comprises a one-piece structure which is undulated in its radial plane, with a wire (1) bent to form a ring whose ends are firmly attached to the securing point (1'). The surface undulations of the component vary so that after one undulation having height h1 follows a further smaller undulation having height h2. Prior to assembly, the securing component is pre-bent into an elliptical shape, and the undulations in its surface, apart from having varying heights, are of differing lengths.
Validation of an agent-based travel demand model with floating car data

Abstract This paper compares the results of the agent-based travel demand model MITO (Microscopic Travel Demand Orchestrator) with Floating Car Data. MITO is developed using household travel survey data, and uses the traffic assignment model MATSim. The model estimates the travel demand for an average working day and is applied to the metropolitan area of Munich. In contrast to traditional approaches where travel demand models are validated using the local traffic counts, average travel speed from Floating Car Data (FCD) are used in this study. The main advantage of using FCD is that they cover extremely large parts of the network, whereas the local traffic counts are sparse and limited to a few major streets. The average link travel time and average speed between the model estimation and the FCD were compared with the goal of validating travel time calculations within an agent-based transport model.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT IN TRICKLING FILTERS USING LUFFA CYLLINDRICA AS BIOFILM SUPPORTING MEDIUM (doi: 10.4090/juee.2012.v6n2.057066)

Domestic sewage treatment experiments were conducted in trickling filters in laboratory pilot plants in which the peeled dehydrated fruits of Luffa cyllindrica were used as a support medium for microbiological growth, in order to verify its capacity to remove organic matter, measured in terms of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5,20) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). Other parameters such as suspended and settleable solids were also measured. The results obtained, when compared to results from similar pilot plant using stones as supporting medium, and with the removals predicted by classic formulas used for trickling filters design, indicated that this support medium may substitute with advantages, under specific conditions, the traditional support media. Further studies are recommended.
Automatic tracking of golf games for improvement and training purposes, using gnss receivers, wearable sensors and earth observation information

The overall objective of GOLFTRACKER is to offer golfers a product to automatically track of golf shots during the game, collecting and combining data from GNSS receivers, wearable motion sensors and Earth Observation mapping.
 
The resulting product, will be based on a general wearable device implemented on top of existing COTS hardware (e.g. Samsung GEAR, Apple Watch) and a specific tracking device for golfing using a sensor fusion approach. The product will allow golfers to improve their game, providing statistics for post analysis, peer benchmarking tools and training recommendations. The proposed innovation is aimed at equipment segment and training segment (golf lessons) with estimated revenues of 3300 Million euros in Europe.
 
This phase1 project focus on exploring the business opportunity related to the automatic tracking, by developing a innovation strategy supported EGNOS/Galileo and Sentinels that will lead to patent registration. The activity aims also to assure user’s involvement, collecting the feedback from early adopters and promote the product's features to reach a wider community. A business survey will be performed, consolidating the results on the product business plan.
 
The work to be performed is led by BLUECOVER with the participation of third-parties.
Development of Myocardial Constructs Using Modulus-Matched Acrylated Polypropylene Glycol Triol Substrate and Different Nonmyocyte Cell Populations

Tissue engineering approaches are currently being investigated for the restoration of myocardial function in heart failure patients, most commonly by combining cells with a substrate to form myocardial-like constructs (MCs). The final properties of these constructs are dependant on the characteristics of both the substrate and the cells used for fabrication. To create a construct with the appropriate mechanical properties required for any future therapeutic, we tailored an acrylated polypropylene glycol triol (aPPGT) substrate to the elastic modulus of heart tissue and then investigated the fabrication of MCs. We first assessed the aPPGT substrate alone in vivo, both under normal conditions and in an infarct model in mice, and found that there was a mild foreign body response with good integration of the substrate into the epicardial surface in mice hearts. We next studied the fabrication and properties of MCs by culturing mouse embryonic cardiomyocytes on the aPPGT substrate. To achieve myocardial-like concentrically contractile constructs, cocultures with supportive stromal cells were found to be essential and both mouse heart-derived stromal cells or bone-derived mouse mesenchymal stromal progenitor cells (mMSCs) could be used. These different stromal cell types produced MCs with different properties. The average beating rate of the constructs formed from mouse heart-derived stromal cells was significantly higher those constructs formed using mMSCs. Conversely, the constructs formed using mMSCs had reduced fibrotic extracellular matrix secretion and increased hepatocyte growth factor expression. Both of these mMSC construct properties may enhance integration and therapeutic efficacy of the construct postimplantation on the surface of the infarcted heart. This study thus demonstrates the formation of MCs using mechanically tailored aPPGT substrate and also demonstrates the effects of different stromal cell populations have on the properties of the resultant MCs, both of which are critical for future applications of tissue engineering in heart failure patients.
Robotic production of eps formwork for cost-effective concrete stairs

Founded in 2012, Odico A/S is an international pioneer in the emerging field of ro¬botics for the construction industry. In 2014, Odico became the first company in the world to produce form¬work (i.e. molds for concrete casting) with robotic hotwire cutting and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) blocks for a commercial project – the iconic Fjordenhus in Vejle (Denmark) designed by the world-famous artist Olafur Eliasson. We have completed over 250 robot manufacturing projects in 6 countries, in¬cluding several high-profile construction projects, such as the Opus Dubai building.
Today, producing formworks (i.e. molds) for a typical concrete staircase takes up to 4 person-days. Our SmartStair innovation will do this in under 30 minutes; 64x faster than existing technology. SmartStair is a containerized, full-feature robot production system developed by Odico and currently patent-pending. It replaces non- value-added manual work and enables concrete manufacturers to slash formwork manufacturing costs by up to 88%.
The system comprises a) an industrial robot with b) a proprietary wire-cutting tool, c) groundbreaking robot control software developed by Odico, and, d) all assembled in a containerized Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform. With the easy-to-use SmartStair App for iPad, the concrete pre-manufacturer designs the formwork according to project specifications, in just a few minutes.
SmartStair addresses our customers’ severe pain points: building formworks for staircases is expensive, time-intensive and generates +100M tons of timber waste annually in Europe alone. The market opportunity is massive. Our Total Addressable Market is €2.13Bn and will reach €2.48Bn by 2026 at a CAGR of 5%. We aim to rapidly penetrate this market by introducing a far superior technology. Through our hardware + software licensing business model, we expect a market share of 1.8% (of Serviceable Available Market), a turnover of €23.5M, EBITDA of €6.5M and headcount of 87 people by 2025.
LATICÍNIOS DE MENNA PIETRINO E CRIANÇAS SNC

MODERNIZAÇÃO DE UM CASEIFICO EXISTENTE, ATRAVÉS DA INTRODUÇÃO DE EQUIPAMENTOS INOVADORES QUE PERMITAM A VALORIZAÇÃO DE MATÉRIAS-PRIMAS E PRODUTOS E UMA MAIOR INTEGRAÇÃO DA CADEIA DE ABASTECIMENTO
CONNECTOR COVER

Provided is a connector cover structure that can fasten a connector cover without support for the connector cover with a finger and showing a high degree of assembly of a cover member in fabrication. The connector cover structure covers connects 61 and 62 for passage of high-voltage current provided in a casing 51 housing a high-voltage component in a vehicle 10. The connector cover structure includes connector covers 71 and 72 each having a flat surface along a vertical direction, first anchoring parts 91 and second anchoring parts 74 provided in the connector covers 71 and 72, fastening holes 92 formed in the connector covers 71 and 72 and configured to fasten the connector covers 71 and 72 to the casing 51, and float preventing mechanisms 95 for pressing the surfaces of the connector covers 71 and 72.
PRINT QUALITY EVALUATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRINT QUALITY EVALUATION

A method and apparatus to evaluate print quality determines an indicator thereof by measuring a reflectance of printed dots by scanning a medium on which pattern data having a predetermined pattern is printed. The predetermined pattern includes a highlight region and a shadow region. An average of reflectances of the highlight region in the predetermined pattern and an average of reflectances of the shadow region thereof are determined, and a contrast value is determined from a difference between the averages. The indicator is determined from the contrast value. Accordingly, deterioration of print quality that occurs due to a mismatch of a print position is considered, and furthermore, a change in print gradation and a degree of mixing with noise components is also considered in the print quality evaluation.
All about that bass: Audio filters on basslines determine groove and liking in electronic dance music

Groove is defined as wanting to move the body to music. Most empirical groove research has focused on rhythmic features like microtiming and syncopation, while research on musical liking has focused on pitch, form, and repetition. Here, we examine the effect of timbre on groove and liking ratings by applying audio filters to basslines in an electronic dance music (EDM) style. We also investigate via questionnaire the role of music and dance experience, preferred genre, and gender on groove and liking. Four brief EDM loops were created, each consisting of drum samples and a synthesized bassline. Each loop had four audio filter conditions (high-pass, band-pass, low-pass, no filter) applied to its bassline. The 102 participants heard all stimuli three times, rating them for groove and liking, and then completed the questionnaire. For both groove and liking, participants gave higher ratings to the filter conditions preserving low-frequency energy (low-pass and no filter). The relation of the questionnaire data to groove and liking was limited, meriting further investigation. Overall, the results suggest that people find groovier, and like more, basslines preserving low-frequency energy. The lack of loop-filter interaction suggests that timbre can determine groove and liking across different melodic and rhythmic contexts.
Design of an innovative energy-aware it ecosystem for motivating behavioural changes towards the adoption of energy efficient lifestyles

Taking into account the fact that buildings constitute the largest end-use energy consuming sector, the design and development of solutions targeted at reducing their energy consumption based on the adoption of energy efficient techniques and the active engagement of citizens/occupants is considered crucial. Innovative solutions have to be implemented upon properly understanding the main energy consuming factors and trends, as well as properly modeling and understanding the citizens’ behaviour and the potential for lifestyle changes. 
The ENTROPY project addresses this challenge by building upon the integration of technologies that facilitate the deployment of innovative energy aware IT ecosystems for motivating end-users’ behavioural changes and namely: (1) the Internet of Things that provides the capacity for interconnecting numerous devices and applying energy-efficient communication protocols, (2) the evolvement of advanced Data Modelling and Analysis techniques that support the realization of semantic models and knowledge extraction mechanisms and (3) the Recommendation and Gamification eras that can trigger interaction with relevant users in social networks, increase end users’ awareness with regards to ways to achieve energy consumption savings in their daily activities and adopt energy efficient lifestyles as well as provide a set of energy efficient recommendations and motives. 
Novel practices that fully integrate information collected from a set of sensor networks and mobile crowd sensing activities are going to be exploited along with processes for monitoring, reporting and analysing sets of data with regards to energy consumption and the behavioural profile of citizens. The engagement and inclusion of end users will be strongly supported upon the development of a set of serious games and personalised applications. 
The designed IT ecosystem is planned to be validated in three pilot sites.