SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Visual Search Differs But Not Reaction Time When Intercepting a 3D Versus 2D Videoed Opponent

The authors aimed to identify differences in (a) visual search and (b) reaction time when athletes sidestepped to intercept 2D versus 3D videoed opponents. They hypothesized that participants would (a) fixate on different parts of the opponent's body and (b) react quicker when responding to the 3D versus 2D opponent due to the added depth cues. A customized integrated stereoscopic system projected the video stimuli and synchronously recorded the gaze and motor behaviors of 10 men when they responded to two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) opponents. The number and duration of gaze fixations were coded according to locations on the opponent's body (head, shoulders, arms, trunk, pelvis, legs) or otherwise (other). Mediolateral pelvic movement was used to infer reaction time. Participants spent 16% less time fixating on the trunk and 23% more time outside the 3D opponent's body compared with the 2D stimulus. No reaction time differences were found. Although participants fixated less on the 3D opponent's body and, by inference, invested less perceptual processing toward interpreting the opponent's movements compared with the 2D condition, they performed the interception task equally fast in both conditions. Three-dimensional depth cues may provide more meaningful information per fixation for successful task performance.
Against All Odds – A Diaspora Entrepreneur Developing Russian and Central Asian Markets

Abstract
Purpose
To understand how diaspora entrepreneurship evolves and becomes a small-scale emerging market multinational and how this process is enabled.


Methodology/approach
Case study and ethnographic methods were employed.


Findings
Diaspora entrepreneurs can act as change agents who create and penetrate markets under difficult conditions. They are less influenced by institutional voids in home and host countries when they have strong international diaspora networks that enable a connection to resources, overcoming such voids. Diaspora entrepreneurs may be resource-embedded socially in a way that creates superior competitive advantages and reduces liabilities of foreignness and of outsidership.


Research limitations/implications
Diaspora entrepreneurship incorporates invisible and idiographic potential, such as social capital and knowledge networks. These are not available for other non-incumbent companies (e.g., foreign entrants) and are difficult to research due to access barriers.


Practical implications
Perception and active management of network-based resources is important for opportunity and business development. Management in a transition economy context requires holistic views, deep understanding, and working linkages across markets.


Social implications
Transgenerational entrepreneurship and ethnic traditions are important for the community. Entrepreneurship provides continuity and identity, such as using ethnic language, as well as prosperity and solidarity that are important for supporting cultural identity.


Originality/value
This study connects diaspora entrepreneurship in Central Asia and emerging market multinationals that are small and medium-sized enterprises. Both are underexplored domains, but may share particular institutional settings. Growth and internationalization into a multinational enterprise with an emerging market origin, especially by women entrepreneurs, are rarely studied. This case illustrates the need to capture the processual dynamics, resources, and actor networks, including sociocultural and spatiotemporal factors for better contextualization.
Response of oxygen saturation in preterm infants receiving rib cage stabilization with an elastic band in two body positions: a randomized clinical trial

Preterm newborns have higher thoracic compliance, providing less stability to the different forces of distortion imposed on the rib cage, leading to instability of the chest. Adequate body position may reduce this instability and facilitate respiratory work.To assess the oxygen saturation response of preterm newborns receiving rib cage stabilization with an elastic band in two body positions.A clinical, prospective, randomized crossover study was conducted, including sixteen newborns with a gestational age of 31 to 35 weeks (mean 32.8 weeks) at a tertiary care facility, who did not receive supplemental oxygen. The infants were placed in a sequence of prone and supine positions with and without chest stabilization with an elastic band. Respiratory rate, heart rate, and oxygen saturation were measured at 10-minute intervals, corresponding to 7 samplings of 60 minutes. Data collection was interrupted when oxygen saturation was less than 90%.The mean gestational age of the infants was 32.8±1.5 weeks and the mean birth weight was 1,789±255 g. Better values for the variables studied were observed in the supine position with an elastic chest band compared to the supine position without the band. The positions using an elastic band resulted in lower mean respiratory rate and heart rate and higher oxygen saturation.The use of an elastic chest band improves respiratory indicators such as oxygen saturation.
Anal fistula treatment

Signum Surgical Ltd. is a medical device company developing a solution to anal fistula disease. Anal fistulas are a common rectal disease affecting 2 out of every 10,000 people globally. An anal fistula is an artificial tunnel that, in the majority of cases, develops from an infection that begins within a blocked anal gland.  If the infection cannot be cleared from the anal gland an abscess forms and the infection burrows though muscles in the rectum and exits externally at the buttocks.  Patients endure a poor quality of life, experiencing pain associated with the tract and related abscesses and suffering faecal, pus and blood discharge from the fistula tract. Many patients must wear pads to control leakage, and those who seek treatment face poor surgical outcomes.
There is currently no gold standard treatment for anal fistula treatment, which has not changed significantly in over 2,500 years when Hippocrates described using horse hair and silk to drain the fistula tracts. Surgeons are frustrated with the commercially available treatment options which either result in inadequate healing of the initial condition, introduce incontinence as a consequence of surgical treatment, or result in repeat procedures and additional cost to health care system.
Through close collaboration with expert colorectal surgeons, Signum Surgical has developed the BioHealx device - an intuitive novel single use technology which improves upon current state of the art devices and surgical procedures to meet all identified critical clinical requirements to reliably heal anal fistulas. During this H2020 project, the company seek to demonstrate the technology in man to enable product launch and growth of sales in the U.S. and Europe.
Negotiating religion at the united nations

Religion has become a salient issue within the United Nations (UN), especially in its human rights activities. This is especially due to a widespread perception of the growing threat posed by Islam, especially to the universality of human rights. The academic debate on the topic is highly polarised, with one view defending secularism as a basis of the universality of human rights and the suppression of religion, and the other seeing religion as a basis of universality and secularism as a threat to it; a more critical view questions both the neat distinctions between these rival views, and their internal coherence. Taking a different path, this project takes secular and religious visions as two sides of the same equation, and explores the question of how states negotiate the unending conflict between these two visions in relation to the construction of human right norms and institutions within the UN. It aims to write a revisionist history of the sources and consequences of the conflict between secular and religious vision in the field of human rights. The project proposes an entirely new theory to conceptualise the dialectic conflict between these two visions, and to select the case studies that exemplify the different configurations of the positions of states on the matter. These positions are then assessed in relation to five critical junctures in the development of human right norms and institutions, based on primary sources collected from UN archives and semi-structured interviews, analysed through the process-tracing method. In producing a theoretically informed and empirical investigation, the project aims to reframe the terms of the debate across disciplines, and allow for the formulation of innovative policy recommendations to help EU states cope with the tension between secular and religious visions domestically and at the UN, in a way that transcends binary or absolutist perspectives that dominate academic and public debates.
TEMPLATED CARBON FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

A carbon fiber is disclosed with a template derived shape and method for making the same by (a) mixing a precursor 30 with a fibrous template 26A, (b) forming the mixture into a pre-determined shape, (c) curing the mixture to form a precursor composite, (d) carbonizing the precursor composite, and (e) decomposing the fibrous template.
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION BASED ON METHISOPRINOL FOR ORAL ADMINISTRATION

This invention relates to the field of medicine and the pharmaceutical chemical industry. Claimed is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration, comprising methisoprinol, methyl p-hydroxybenzoate, propyl-p-hydroxybenzoate, sucrose or maltose, glycerine, citrus flavouring and purified water. The composition has a pleasant taste and is storage-stable.
A remote electrocardiogram monitoring system with good swiftness and high reliablility

A Two-level Load-balance Monitoring Strategy (TLLBMS) is proposed.Parallel PCA-ICA Algorithm is realized to fulfill quick preprocessing and feature extraction.Only eigenvectors are transmitted at a Dynamically Variable Time Interval (DVTI).MD5 hash algorithm is realized to ensure the correctness of communication. To solve the problems of long time delay and low reliability in existing systems, a Two-level Load-balance Monitoring Strategy (TLLBMS) is proposed in this paper. In monitoring terminal level, based on customizable System-on-Chip A2F500, monitoring terminals implement parallel Principal Component Analysis and Independent Component Analysis (PCA-ICA) algorithm to fulfil quickly preprocessing and feature extraction of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, and give a pre-classification and alarming mechanism. Depending on the results of pre-classification, monitoring terminals transmit only eigenvectors to monitoring center at a Dynamically Variable Time Interval (DVTI). This will reduce the quantity of data transmission dramatically, which means it will lead to high robustness of communication and short time delay. In monitoring center level, monitoring server processes eigenvectors directly, and realizes quick classification, diagnosis and rescuing. To ensure the correctness of communication and protect data from being falsified, Message Digest Algorithm MD5 is realized to verify the integrity of data. Display Omitted
Global signaling effects of a schizophrenia-associated missense mutation in neuregulin 1: an exploratory study using whole genome and novel kinome approaches

Aberrant neuregulin 1-ErbB4 signaling has been implicated in schizophrenia. We previously identified a novel schizophrenia-associated missense mutation (valine to leucine) in the NRG1 transmembrane domain. This variant inhibits formation of the NRG1 intracellular domain (ICD) and causes decreases in dendrite formation. To assess the global effects of this mutation, we used lymphoblastoid cell lines from unaffected heterozygous carriers (Val/Leu) and non-carriers (Val/Val). Transcriptome data showed 367 genes differentially expressed between the two groups (Val/Val N = 6, Val/Leu N = 5, T test, FDR (1 %), α = 0.05, -log10 p value >1.5). Ingenuity pathway (IPA) analyses showed inflammation and NRG1 signaling as the top pathways altered. Within NRG1 signaling, protein kinase C (PKC)-eta (PRKCH) and non-receptor tyrosine kinase (SRC) were down-regulated in heterozygous carriers. Novel kinome profiling (serine/threonine) was performed after stimulating cells (V/V N = 6, V/L N = 6) with ErbB4, to induce release of the NRG1 ICD, and revealed significant effects of treatment on the phosphorylation of 35 peptides. IPA showed neurite outgrowth (six peptides) as the top annotated function. Phosphorylation of these peptides was significantly decreased in ErbB4-treated Val/Val but not in Val/Leu cells. These results show that perturbing NRG1 ICD formation has major effects on cell signaling, including inflammatory and neurite formation pathways, and may contribute significantly to schizophrenia pathophysiology.
TRANSMISSION LINE AND ANTENNA FOR VEHICLE

A transmission line for a vehicle includes: a steel plate for forming a body of a vehicle; a dielectric formed on the steel plate; and a conductive line formed on the dielectric. An antenna for a vehicle includes: a steel plate for forming a body of a vehicle; a dielectric formed on the steel plate; and a conductive line formed on the dielectric in such a manner as to include a radiating structure.
EMERSION

China and the European Union both face the challenge of building dynamic and internationally focused knowledge economies. Information Technology (IT) is a key enabler of such economies and IT education must be at the forefront of any strategy to meet the challenges of building them. Recognising this, the School of Computing in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland, the National Pilot School of Software in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, and the School of Computing and Information Technology in the University of Wolverhampton (UW), United Kingdom, established a collaboration which resulted in the EMERSION (Education to Meet the Requirements of Software Industry and Beyond - Establishing, Implementing and Evaluating an Industry-Oriented Education Model in China) project. This project designed, implemented, and evaluated an education model with an industrial ethos to deliver sustainable, high-quality, and effective IT education in HIT. The project was completed in 2006, and this chapter presents a review of the main lessons that emerged from it.
Photoevaporation of protoplanetary gas discs due to flybys of external single stars in different orbits

During the evolution of proto-planetary disc, photo-evaporations of both central and external stars play important roles. Considering the complicated radiation surroundings in the clusters, where the star formed, the proto-planetary discs survive in different lifetimes due to flyby events. In this paper, we mainly focus on the disc around a T Tauri star, which encounters with another main-sequence star with different temperatures in hyperbolic orbits with different peri-center distances, eccentricities and inclinations. We find the criterion for gap-opening due to photo-evaporation of central star after the flyby event. A gap is opened in the late stage of gas disc, and induce that the gap only influence the planet formation and migration limitedly. If the flyby orbit has a moderate value of peri-center distance, which weakly depends on the eccentricity and inclination, the external photo-evaporation lead to a maximum mass loss during the flyby event. Flyby stars in orbits with smaller eccentricities or larger inclinations induce larger mass loss. Adopting a simple multiple flyby models, we conclude that in open clusters, gas discs usually survive in typical lifetimes between 1 and 10 Myr, except there are many massive stars in dense open clusters. In globular clusters, discs disperse very quickly and hardly produce the gas giant planets. The fast-depleted discs are probably responsible for the null detection of giant planets in globular clusters.
Topology Exploration and Torque Component Analysis of Double Stator Biased Flux Machines Based on Magnetic Field Modulation Mechanism

Biased flux machines (BFMs) have biased magnetic flux in the core and allows flexibility to adjust the field with a dc current. The conventional topology exploration methods for BFMs are based on the flux observation. It is time consuming and ineffective since the initial structure searching process is guideless. Meanwhile, BFMs usually work with arbitrary magnetic field harmonics instead of the fundamental one. The torque components of these machines and their essential operation principle have not been fully revealed. To solve these issues, in this paper, a topology exploration method for BFM based on magnetic field modulation mechanism is proposed, and the torque generating principle is analyzed. With this method, some new BFM structures have been developed and their torque components have been developed. It is shown that various space harmonics have contributed to constant torque rather than the fundamental one. To verify the feasibility of this design method, one double stator BFM is selected as a case study. Simulation and experimental results have verified that this design method is feasible and effective since the prototype has good sinusoidal back electromotive force waveforms and well performance. Besides, it is practical to realize flux weakening and strengthening the control with biased current.
Abstract 2680: Characterization of cultured circulating melanoma cells for individualized therapy

Proceedings: AACR 103rd Annual Meeting 2012‐‐ Mar 31‐Apr 4, 2012; Chicago, IL

In the presented study circulating melanoma cells (CMSs) have been isolated from a B16 mouse melanoma model and from melanoma patients. Culture of CMCs has enabled us to perform drug sensitivity testing on them. The main hypothesis was to compare drug sensitivity of primary tumor cells grown in culture with the sensitivity of CMCs grown in vitro after capture. B16 murine melanoma was implanted i.p. in mice. Fourteen days after peritoneal injection, mice were sacrificed and blood obtained by cardiac puncture for CMCs-capture. The CMCs were captured either by immunomagnetic separation (Adnagen, AdnaTest Melanoma Select™, Germany) and/or blood added to culture flask containing growing medium. Sensitivity to cisplatin (CDDP) was tested with the MTT-assay at different concentrations. Primary melanoma and disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) were also cultured and tested. The DTCs were isolated from peritoneal washing (ascites like cells), lymph nodes and peritoneal fat tissue. CMCs and DTCs were found less sensitive to CDDP than primary melanoma cells. The ability to capture and culture CTCs enabled these studies which can be used for individualized therapy design.

Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2012 Mar 31-Apr 4; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2012;72(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 2680. doi:1538-7445.AM2012-2680
Content and component analysis of lipid in three freshwater diatoms.

Three strains of freshwater diatoms(Nitzschia capitellata,Synedra acus,Synedra ulna var.danica) were cultured and their lipid content and composition were examined and analyzed to assess the potential of these microalgae as biodiesel feedstocks.Growth period of Nitzschia capitellata was shorter and its biomass higher than that of Synedra acus and Synedra ulna var.danica.Total lipid represented 2.92%~9.25% of dry weight with the highest percentage in Nitzschia capitellata(9.25%).The fatty acid component was similar and indicated that the main components were myristic(C14:0),palmitic(C16:0),palmitoleic(C16:1),oleic(C18:1),linoleic(C18:2)and parinaric acids(C18:4);The percentage of unsaturated fatty acids(UFAs) in each lipid fraction was more than 60% of the total fatty acids with Nitzschia capitellata reaching up to 63.54%.The results indicated that Nitzschia capitellata could be used as a biodiesel feedstock after further improvement of the culture conditions.
An investigation of structural and magnetic properties of Cr–Zn ferrite nanoparticles prepared by a sol–gel process

Cr
 x
 Zn Fe2−x
 O4 (with x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5) spinel ferrite nanoparticles have been synthesized via sol–gel method. The precursor compound was calcined at a temperature of 900 °C for 3 h. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Cr3+ ion substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of Cr–Zn ferrite. The size, shape, and chemical state of the synthesized powders were structurally characterized by powder XRD, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, SAED, energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) spectral techniques. The XRD pattern of Cr–Zn ferrite provides information about single-phase formation of spinel structure with cubic symmetry. Both crystallite size and lattice parameter decrease with increasing Cr content. Formation of spinel structure is affirmed by using FTIR and FTIR spectra which shows that the bands υ1 and υ2 are found to shift gradually toward the higher frequency side with substitution of Cr, which have been attributed to the decrease in the lattice constant. SEM and TEM micrographs demonstrated that nanoparticles with narrow size distribution were obtained. The average grain size was found to be in nanometer range and of the order of 43–63 nm obtained using TEM images. Compositional stoichiometry was confirmed by EDAX technique. The magnetic properties of synthesized chromium-substituted Zn ferrite nanoparticles were studied using vibrating sample magnetometer at room temperature under the applied magnetic field of 15 KG. The result indicated that the amount of Cr contents significantly influenced the crystal morphology and structural and magnetic properties of Cr-doped Zn ferrite nanoparticles.
Standardization and Regulatory Guidelines May Inhibit Science and Reduce the Usefulness of Analyses Based on the Application of Preference-Based Measures for Policy Decisions

As Mavranezouli and colleagues 1 note, the use of a 10-y time horizon for health states for their time tradeoff (TTO) preference elicitation may have affected their results. So why did these authors choose a 10-y time horizon? Proximally, they probably chose this time horizon because one of the important objectives of the study on which the article is based was to generate evidence for a submission to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England and Wales. NICE recommends the TTO and a 10-y time horizon—the time horizon that was used in the Measurement and Valuation of Health (MVH) study on which the UK scoring function for EQ-5D is based. Distally, the authors probably chose the 10-y time horizon to enhance the comparability between their results and results from other studies. Indeed, the 10-y time horizon has been very frequently used.