SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Small town geographies in Africa : experiences from South Africa and elsewhere

Preface: Small town geographies Classification of South African towns revisited Exploring small town development dynamics in rural South Africa's post-productivist landscapes Identifying economic growth drivers in small towns in South Africa: A case study Rethinking sustainability of small towns: Towards a socio-technical approach Using geospatial data analysis & qualitative economic intelligence to inform local economic development in small towns: A case study of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa Theorizing the way forward regarding transdisciplinary research on environmental crises in small towns - Merafong in the Gauteng Province as case study Commuting to & from small towns in the hinterland of Cape Town Metropolitan Area, Western Cape Province Small town racism: Place-identity politics & discourses of protest Improving the business environment for local economic development in small town South Africa Prince Albert: A fourth economic bubble or sustainable development? Book town tourism as a private development initiative for small town revival: The case of Richmond Promoting small town development: The case of the Apollo Development Association Missing the uranium train: Local economic development & civic culture in Beaufort West Tarring the road to Mecca: Dilemmas of infrastructural development in a small Karoo town Tourism risks associated with small town development: The case of Clarens Getting the chemistry right: The impact of the FIFA 2010 world cup on Karoo towns Hartbeespoort evolving from small town to post-productivist second home development node Coastal spaces as walls: Gated developments in small towns on the West Coast Calvinia: Exploratory study of the workings of a Karoo town Local implementation of national policy: Breaking new ground in the coastal towns of the Overberg municipal area? Size matters: Land restitution in Knysna A developmental planning approach to the plight of small & dying towns in South Africa The future of struggling small towns in South Africa Re-orienting rural development in the Eastern Cape: Small town regeneration as a strategy for rural development: The case study of Keiskammahoek Tourism development & community response: The case of the Inhambane coastal zone, Mozambique Tourism growth & societal transformations in Cameroon's coastal resorts: Sex tourism & its implications for sustainable tourism development in Kribi & Limbe Agriculture-related industry & small town growth in Zambia: A case of Mazabuka Small town sustainability: problems & potentials 'Informal' settlements: A product of deficient formal land management policies? Index.
DEVICE FOR INFLUENCING THE DISPLACEMENT OF SEVERAL DISPLACEABLE FURNITURE PARTS AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING SAID TYPE OF DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED FURNITURE

The invention relates to a device for influencing the displacement of several displaceable furniture parts (3) which are driven in a displaceable manner by means of a drive unit with the aid of a control unit for controlling the displacement of the displaceable furniture parts (3) in relation to a fixed furniture part (2). Said control unit is configured in such a manner that as long as a displaceable furniture part is driven in a displaceable manner on a predefined displacement path, all other furniture parts which are driven in a displaceable manner are not permitted to be displaced. The invention also relates to associated furniture (1) and to a method for configuring a device for influencing the displacement of displaceable furniture parts.
Integrated roof wind energy system

The Integrated Roof Wind Energy System (IRWES) is the breakthrough solution overcoming all shortcomings of existing renewable energy solutions. IRWES is a roof-mounted, elegant structure with an internal – nonvisible – turbine making smart use of aerodynamics. It is more efficient than any existing urban windmill, and more efficient per area than PV panels when mounted on roofs higher than 20m. This novel system has highest efficiency based on IP protected and tested technology (TRL6). It reduces the payback time by effectively producing electric power in both high and low wind speeds resulting in both more efficiency and operational hours. The Netherlands counts 35.000 buildings suitable for application with attractive ROI, while greatest impact is achieved in Europe where 1/6 of the population lives in high-rise buildings. Customers have already committed to 25 units after demonstration. IRWES is a business opportunity ready for large growth, to serve the – until now – unreachable segment of local renewable energy supply to high buildings, while seamlessly aligning with the Horizon 2020 Work Programme objectives. Moreover, IRWES addresses European and global challenges such as reducing the risk of carbon “lock-in”, offering sustainable and affordable alternatives to rising electricity prices as well as closing the gap between R&D, innovation and entrepreneurship. Its market excellence is defined by meeting the important customer demands differentiating in aesthetical integration and customization; creating more value as an outstanding, attractive solution. Our business objectives have been outlined in 8 Work Packages to prepare the IRWES mass-market launch, positioning it as a game changing solution on the European market. Based on rigorous studies and feasibility assessments, already performed, we present a solid business plan that incorporates a commercialization strategy and a financing plan to underpin the foreseen market launch and growth strategy of IRWES.
PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF GUANIDINE DERIVATIVES

The invention pertains to a process for the synthesis of guanidine derivatives of Formula (I) wherein X is selected from OH, OM wherein M is an alkali or earth alkali metal ion, and NR1R2 wherein R1 and R2 are independently H, C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, or C6-C10 aryl; which comprises a first step of reacting cyanogen chloride (N=CCI) with NH3 in an organic solvent followed by a second step of reacting with an amine of Formula (II) wherein X has the previously given meaning, optionally followed by a step of converting a compound of Formula (I) into another compound of Formula (I).
Integration of remote and virtual laboratories in the educational process

This paper describes a new holistic approach to integrate remote and virtual laboratories in the educational process. Aim of the integration is to test students' knowledge not only on lower levels as usual multiple choice tests and the like are doing, but also on higher-order thinking skills. Based on these tests the students should get a detailed feedback about their strengths, weaknesses or mis-conceptions. Therefore Learning Analytics methods are applied to a database, storing learning activities of the students during their online work- phase in the educational process. The paper discusses the actual approach as well as the architecture of a prototype implementation.
Design of a system for evaluating, optimising and visualising the operating and process variables of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles

As part of the innovation voucher, applicants from the research department (VŠB-TUO – ENET Centre) will be provided with expert services in the area of designing a new system for evaluating, optimising and visualising the operational and process variables of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, including the use of renewable energy sources, especially photovoltaics and battery storage. The project output will be a project with source code and documentation.
A multilevel integrative approach to microbial ecology: from molecular networks to cellular interactions in a spatially structured community

Microbial communities profoundly influence global biogeochemical cycles and human life. Understanding their wiring is crucial to manage, rationally manipulate, or de novo assemble communities for environmental, industrial or medical applications. However, studying the complex web of microbial interactions and how they are affected by the spatial structure of the community is experimentally challenging. Here, I propose an integrative approach to dissect microbial interactions in a synthetic community consisting of two bacterial species of the human gut microbiota, the commensal Escherichia coli and the probiotic lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum. These two species were predicted to engage in exploitative and mutualistic metabolic interactions depending on oxygen availability and provide an experimentally tractable and possibly health-relevant model community. I will employ a combination of highly sensitive quantitative analyses on the molecular level (proteomics, metabolomics, CRISPR/Cas9 genetic perturbations) with quantitative analyses on the individual cell and community level (cellular growth rates and spatial organization) to obtain a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of the interactions between the two species. The multilayered nature of the approach, including the conceptualization of the interactions with a mathematical model, is expected to provide novel insights into the fundamental principles underlying microbial interactions and how they are affected by the environment. Furthermore, a detailed understanding of the molecular interactions of L. plantarum with other gut residents could inform the rational modulation of the gut microbiome to treat diseases associated with dysbiosis. This fellowship would have a major impact on my career by facilitating re-integration into the European research landscape. It would allow me to acquire a unique and competitive scientific profile and to establish my own niche in the field of microbial ecology.
Zones d’investissement de la municipalité de Rejowiec Fabryczna

Le projet consistera à préparer des domaines d’investissement prêts à l’emploi pour les entreprises du secteur des PME. Le site d’une superficie totale de 28 8146 hectares situé à Pavłów devrait couvrir les parcelles suivantes: 1305, 1465, 1437/5, 1234/3, 1234/4, 1234/10, 1234/16, 1234/11. Les parcelles incluses dans la zone sont couvertes par le plan local de développement de l’espace pour les investissements et dans la zone couverte par le Programme de revitalisation locale. Le champ d’application du soutien aux zones d’investissement ne fait pas double emploi avec les infrastructures disponibles, il ne sera pas destiné exclusivement aux grandes installations de vente au détail. La requérante s’est engagée à appliquer des conditions préférentielles pour le secteur des PME (par exemple, allégements fiscaux et redevances locales pour les PME (groupe cible du projet) localisant leurs activités dans les domaines d’investissement disponibles). Le projet vise à construire une infrastructure technique entièrement équipée, un espace favorable aux investisseurs où de nouveaux investissements peuvent être investis, ce qui se traduira directement par le développement de l’économie locale et la création d’emplois. Les objectifs spécifiques sont liés à l’objectif principal du projet, en décrivant l’impact du projet immédiatement après sa mise en œuvre. Les activités suivantes font partie de l’investissement: reconstruction de la rue Bednarska existante à Pavłów d’une longueur de 276,00 m et construction d’une sortie publique et d’une sortie individuelle, construction d’un parcours pédestre de 999 m de long et de 4 sorties publiques dans la zone des parcelles no ewid.gr. 1234/10 et 1234/11 dans la ville de Pavłów, construction d’un réseau d’égouts, construction d’éclairage de rue, nivelage des terrains. Le projet comprend également des activités autres que des investissements, telles que: promotion du projet, service d’inspection de la supervision, élaboration d’études de faisabilité, gestion de projet, documentation technique, travail d’arpentage et mise au point d’informations sur le climat d’investissement dans le domaine de l’investissement.
Reeb orbits and the minimal discrepancy of an isolated singularity

Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which has an isolated singularity at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the link of A. Any contact manifold contactomorphic to the link of A is said to be Milnor fillable by A. If the first Chern class of our link is torsion then we can assign an invariant of our singularity called the minimal discrepancy, which is an important invariant in birational geometry. We define an invariant of the link up to contactomorphism using Conley–Zehnder indices of Reeb orbits and then we relate this invariant with the minimal discrepancy. As a result we show that the standard contact five dimensional sphere has a unique Milnor filling up to normalization proving a conjecture by Seidel.
Enquête sur la prise en charge des patients acnéiques en France

Acne is one of the main reasons for dermatological consultation. Management may seem standardized, in particular for mild to moderate juvenile facial acne, where topical treatments are used for mild cases and topical treatments associated with systemic antibiotics are used for moderate cases. The aim of this investigational study was to evaluate current treatment approaches for mild to moderate acne patients by French dermatologists in private practice.During this study, more than 252 dermatologists practising in over 144 French cities were asked about their preferred treatments (other than isotretinoin) for young acne patients. A questionnaire containing information about patient characteristics, disease severity and the prescribed therapy was completed by dermatologists at baseline and 2 months later.In total, 3145 acne patients were analyzed. This study showed that in 53% of cases, dermatologists prescribed several topical treatments (up to three) associated with one or several systemic therapies (up to three), in addition to a cosmetic product. In 51% of cases, dermatologists prescribed only application of a dermatological cosmetic product for patients with very mild acne; in 41% of cases, a single treatment, especially a topical treatment, was prescribed for patients with mild acne, and in 59 and 64% of cases, two treatments (a combination of local and systemic therapy) were prescribed respectively for patients with moderate and severe acne.This study demonstrated the complexity of management of acne patients by dermatologists, particularly in the case of mild to severe acne. Most notably, such therapeutic complexity raises the question of compliance, a key factor in successful treatment.
The Reduced Gradient Approach (RGA): An Alternate Method to Optimizing Humidity Conditions in House Museums in Cold Climates

The modern approach to artifact preservation comprises an aggressive interior environment with high relative humidity levels. Maintaining high interior humidity coupled with typical interior temperatures in house museums has proved to be detrimental to their building envelopes. Such envelopes are typically un-insulated and often experience excessive, uncontrolled air leakage. Thus, the potential is high for interstitial condensation and the deleterious effects that typically accompany it. For house museums, solutions to mitigate this problem are limited because the degree of intrusiveness on original structure and associated costs are primary concerns. This article presents research on a simple, low-cost, non-destructive preservation control technique applicable to house museums and similar designated historical structures. The reduced gradient approach involves manipulation of the interior temperature regime to minimize the water vapor pressure differential across the building envelope throughout the yea...
Remote FPGA lab applications, interactive timing diagrams and assessment

The Remote FPGA Lab (RFL) provides interactive web-based visual control and probing of reconfigurable logic hardware in the Cloud in real time, and supports a learn-bydoing approach to digital system education. The authors have previously reported the RFL architecture, and RFL usage and survey data which highlights its effectiveness for enhanced learning, achievement and engagement. This paper illustrates an RFL counter example use case. A range of animated interactive web page console views are presented, from top level block diagram to FPGA Lookup Table and D Flip Flop hardware implementation views, and Finite State Machine animation. The paper illustrates the additional interactive real-time timing diagram functionality and proposes an automatic online assessment strategy using the RFL.
Hauberk: Lightweight Silent Data Corruption Error Detector for GPGPU

High performance and relatively low cost of GPU-based platforms provide an attractive alternative for general purpose high performance computing (HPC). However, the emerging HPC applications have usually stricter output correctness requirements than typical GPU applications (i.e., 3D graphics). This paper first analyzes the error resiliency of GPGPU platforms using a fault injection tool we have developed for commodity GPU devices. On average, 16-33% of injected faults cause silent data corruption (SDC) errors in the HPC programs executing on GPU. This SDC ratio is significantly higher than that measured in CPU programs (<;2.3%). In order to tolerate SDC errors, customized error detectors are strategically placed in the source code of target GPU programs so as to minimize performance impact and error propagation and maximize recoverability. The presented Hauberk technique is deployed in seven HPC benchmark programs and evaluated using a fault injection. The results show a high average error detection coverage (~87%) with a small performance overhead (~15%).
LOCALIZED CONTROL OF THERMAL PROPERTIES ON MICRODEVICES AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF

The present invention relates to microfluidic devices, and in particular, heat management in such devices. To achieve desired thermal properties in selected areas of a microfluidic or nanofluidic device, selective removal or addition of material (thermal mass) can be effected in certain selected regions of the device to controlling thermal properties. This is particularly useful in accommodating rapid heating and/or cooling rates during sample processing and analysis on a microfluidic or nanofluidic device.
Computational oncology training alliance

Cancer is a major cause of death and suffering, rendering it a huge concern to the general public. Consequently, it has been targeted by application of the molecular techniques developed during the last 20-25 years, thereby improving diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless, although current biomarker and treatment concepts often are successful initially, they subsequently frequently fail to achieve durable drug response and long-term survival for cancer patients. The study of somatic evolution in cancer is a very promising approach to rectify this situation. Fortunately, single cell genomic sequencing has recently begun to provide opportunity to unprecedented detailed insights into tumour evolution and new techniques are emerging for assaying the spatial distribution of tumour heterogeneity. Analysing and developing methods for these emerging data sets are under-researched areas that lie at the intersection of medical, evolutionary biology, and computational research. In CONTRA, European researchers with complementary expertise have joined forces in order to collectively facilitate training of future European computational cancer researchers. We will by applying modern recruitment and selection methods in combination with offering excellent training and employments conditions, including social security, facilitate recruitment of 15 excellent ESRs, across genders and geographical areas.  We will train these 15 ESRs in the mathematical, computational, and applied skills required to tackle the complex analysis problems posed by somatic evolution in cancer. We will also teach them entrepreneurship and the requirements of pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Using a novel scheme, this substantial academic cancer expertise will be complemented with industrial expertise in software development, especially for biotech and pharmaceutical industry, which will unleash key components of the innovative force of the European commercial sector in the struggle against cancer.
De las Ordenanzas filipinas a la necropolítica. La resistencia de la población negra y el embrión estructural del racismo positivista en Brasil

Este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir el racismo existente en la sociedad brasileña a partir del contexto histórico de Brasil desde la colonización y analizar cómo se reconstruye la resistencia de la población negra al racismo estructural positivista brasileño en clave histórica. Para ello se desarrollo un análisis de las particularidades de la legislación embrionaria que propugnaba lo que hoy se ha vuelto latente: el papel del Estado en las políticas de exterminio de la existencia negra. A lo largo del texto se revisarán las principales legislaciones creadas durante la esclavización de la población negra, dando cuenta de la permanencia de las mismas aún después del período de abolición. Se pretende además resaltar qué agenda o necesidades de las élites fueron atendidas por estas leyes, teniendo en cuenta el accionar del Estado, su estrategia de exterminio y necropolítica.
Hidden extreme multistability in a novel 4D fractional-order chaotic system

Abstract The hidden attractor and extreme multistability are very important topics in nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, by adding a further variable in a three-dimensional chaotic system, a novel four-dimensional fractional-order chaotic system is developed. This system consists of eight terms including three different nonlinear terms and one constant term. What interests us is that this newly presented system has no-equilibrium but it can also exhibit rich and complex hidden dynamics. Furthermore, the offset boosting of a variable of the proposed chaotic system can be achieved by adjusting the constant term. The intricate hidden dynamic properties of the proposed chaotic system are investigated by employing conventional nonlinear dynamical analysis tools including equilibrium, phase planes, bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponents, chaos diagrams, etc. Finally, Multisim simulations and the corresponding hardware experiments are implemented to validate the theoretical analysis.
COMPRESSOR PLANT WITH A CIRCULATING CIRCUIT

The inventive compressor plant with a circulating circuit comprises a single-stage stream-handling compressor (2), at least two injectors (1), an input receiver (3), an output receiver (4), a filter (5), a valve (6) and a pressure gauge (7). The outputs of the parallel-placed injectors (1) are connected to the input of the inlet receiver (3). The active nozzles of the injectors (1) are connected to a pipeline connected to the output receiver (4) in which the pressure gauge (7) is located. The passive chambers of the injectors (1) are connected to a pipeline which is connected to the filter (5) provided with the input from the external gas medium. The output of the input receiver (3) is connected to the input of the single-stage compressor (2). The single-stage compressor (2), closing the circulating circuit, is connected by means of the pipeline to the output receiver (4), the exit of which is connected to a forcing pipeline. The use of the invention makes it possible to reduce material and energy costs.