SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Effect of triadimefon: a triazole fungicide on oxidative stress defense system and eugenol content in Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

The effect of triadimefon (TDM) a triazole compound on antioxidant potential and eugenol content was studied in Ocimum tenuiflorum L. The plant was subjected to 15 mg/l TDM by soil-drenching on 50th, 70th and 90th days after planting (DAP). Analyses were carried out on 60th, 80th and 100th DAP. Both enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant potential estimation was carried out. The non-enzymatic antioxidant viz ascorbic acid, α-tocopherol and reduced glutathione were found to increase under triadimefon treatment. The antioxidant enzyme like superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase and catalase activities showed significant increase in TDM treatment. Triazole-treated plants yielded more eugenol (a major component of Ocimum-essential oil) in comparison to control. The study evidenced that TDM residues could be detected in the upper soil layer only and does not accumulate in the soil. These preliminary results suggest that TDM may be useful to increase the antioxidant content in medicinal plants and also to act as an elicitor to enhance the production of secondary metabolites of medicinal plants.
High Specialized Technicians in Kets

HISTEK aims at enhancing SMEs’ capacities of competitiveness, innovation and internationalization, through the creation of a new  CBC cluster whose members are SMEs, Training Organizations and Public Institutions, strongly committed to set-up and carry on, with a co-responsible approach, a cross-border innovation community. In order to improve SMEs’ competitiveness and innovation, one of the most important leverage is represented by human resources, i.e. companies, especially those ones that have already or intend to establish new branches in CB area, need very highly qualified technicians according to CB common standards, to allow and to favor their mobility in the 3 Countries. For this reason HISTEK, will create the CBC cluster, that will work soundly to develop common tools for assessing SMEs’ needs in terms of human resources, and to create common standards to be adopted in the education systems for developing young highly qualified technicians. This represent in fact a strategic framework condition for the development of SME’s cross-border market.
 
The CBC Cluster will be immediately operative, through a pilot action whose key elements are: 1) creation of a CB Assessment Tool Kit to be used by SMEs in recruiting activities of young technicians; 2) design of a new join (IT-AL-ME) CB tertiary education course, to be implemented soon after the end of the project, able to train high specialized technicians with advanced high technical preparation, particularly focused on Key Enabling Technologies. In fact, KETs are considered essential for growth and employment, since they provide the basis for innovation in a wide range of industries; 3) dedicated toolkits and guidelines for improving the capacity of SMEs to deal with practical learnings inside the company and with mentoring activities.
HISTEK wants to offer an effective and sustainable response to CB SMEs regarding the challenge of innovation against the economic crisis.
Radio transmitters and methods of operation

A radio transmitter has a digital modulator 10 which modulates an incoming coded signal according to pi /4 DQPSK modulation. A signal 30 representative of the amplitude of the modulated signal is applied to a bias modulator 27 to modulate the magnitude of a bias voltage 26. The modulated bias voltage 26 is applied to a power amplifier 24 of the transmitter in order to improve the apparent linearity and adjacent channel performance of the power amplifier.
Groundforce: grounding natural language semantics in video games

While language is a natural way to interact with artificial characters
or agents in video games, communication with agents currently tends to
be limited to menu systems. To achieve smooth linguistic
communication, utterances need to be grounded in the situation in
which they occur. That is, the meanings of utterances must be learned
from observing their use in some naturally occurring perceptual
context. Recent years have seen much progress in the development of
visually- or auditorily-grounded language understanding using novel
machine learning techniques such as deep learning. At the same time,
companies like Google DeepMind have introduced deep learning models
that can learn to play games at super-human levels. We propose to take
this research to the next step, by grounding natural language in video
games.

Grounding natural language in video games yields two main
benefits. The first benefit is commercial in nature: with the global
market for video games expected to reach $100 billion by 2017, there
is clearly a large demand for more sophisticated interaction with
in-game agents. Secondly, video games are a natural way to explore
artificial intelligence techniques in a ""simulated"" world that is
easier to understand computationally than the extremely complicated
""real"" world.

The current project will explore natural language grounding in a small
number of appropriate games. Once we are capable of grounding natural
language in these games, we can translate utterances into
straightforward actions for artificial agents. An example might be
telling your team members to follow you, to take the left flank, or to
duck when they are being shot at. Given the recent developments in
machine learning and grounded language understanding, we believe that
now is the perfect moment to explore these possibilities further.
Molecular dynamics study of the bulk temperature effect on primary radiation damage in uranium dioxide

The effect of bulk temperature on the primary damage induced by a displacement cascade was investigated in uranium dioxide using classical molecular dynamics simulations. In this study, the Morelon potentials were used to model the middle-range interactions between the atoms that constitute the host matrix during the radiation events. Cascades were initiated by accelerating a uranium primary knock-on atom at 10keV inside a perfect UO2 lattice at a temperature between 700K and 1800K, a range which comprises in-pile temperatures of oxide fuels in light water reactors in standard operating conditions. Cascade overlap sequences were also simulated at 700K and 1400K in order to study the radiation damage accumulation in the oxide fuel. This study reveals the maximum damage level which the material can accommodate for decreases with the temperature. Furthermore the direct formation of vacancy clusters under irradiation is considerably slowed down above 1000K, notably during cascade overlap sequences.
Molecules, magnetic fields and intermittency in cosmic turbulence – following the energy trail.

The discovery of molecules in the early universe is a challenging providence. Molecules unveil the truly cold universe in which stars form and their rich versatility provides unique diagnostics to unravel the ”relative importance of purely gravitational effects and gas dynamical effects involving dissipation and radiative cooling”, recognized 40 years ago by White and Rees to be a central issue in theories of galaxy formation. Molecules also reveal that cosmic turbulence is far less dissipative than predicted by cosmological simulations, with a broad equipartition in a vast variety of media between the thermal energy of the hottest phases and the turbulent energy of the coldest. Our project focuses on the physics of turbulent dissipation, and its link to the emergence of molecules, in the magnetized compressible medium where gravitational instability develops to form stars and seed galaxies in the early universe. It builds on a fundamental property of turbulence, its space-time intermittency: dissipation occurs in bursts. Our team will foster strong interactions between three main research axes: (1) observations of the chemical and thermal markers of turbulent dissipation in the high-redshift and local universe, (2) statistical analyses of the magnetic and velocity fields in samples of unprecedented size and sensitivity to study the non-Gaussian signatures of turbulent dissipation, and (3) numerical experiments dedicated to (a) the space-time structures of turbulent dissipation and the formation of molecules in their wake, and (b) the split of the energy trails between hot/thermal and cold/turbulent phases. This project will benefit from the prodigious capabilities of the ALMA and NOEMA interferometers, the launch of the JWST in 2018, and the Planck satellite data on polarized Galactic foregrounds. The ENS Physics Department, with its strong theoretical and experimental expertise on turbulence, is an ideal place to house such a project.
Dinâmicas históricas e causalidades da diáspora senegalesa – 1970-2010:

&#x0D; O artigo analisa aspectos causais, numa dimensão mais estrutural, em termos econômicos, territoriais e ambientais, que produziram a intensa mobilidade de população do Senegal para outros países, dentre os quais, primeiramente, os de seu entorno, posteriormente, a Europa Ocidental e a América do Norte e, por último, novas trajetórias, adentrando para a América Latina, em particular, o Brasil; busca dar ênfase ao fato de que se produziu no interior do país uma representação positivada, da necessidade e da otimização da migração, principalmente, a internacional; conclui que a trajetória deste último ciclo migratório em direção à América Latina, é fruto dessa dinâmica de novos espaços, horizontes e sentidos dado ao ato de migrar.
Reliability and safety engineering and technology for large maritime engineering systems

Failure of large complex engineering systems often leads to catastrophic consequences. Their efficient and safe design and operation will avoid or reduce malfunctions, failures and accidents, which would have a significant impact on the daily life of the public in terms of service and product delivery, business interruption, economic losses, human injuries/fatalities, and property and environmental damage. 
The proposed project aims to develop and apply knowledge in Reliability and Safety Engineering and Technology (RESET), for safe and reliable design and operation of large maritime (marine and offshore) and other made-to-order (MTO) engineering systems. This multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary project of 48 months’ duration, will formulate a consortium of complementary expertise targeting areas of academic and industrial importance. In particular, a series of integrated activities will investigate i) the framework for reliability and safety assessment, ii) system risk and reliability modelling under uncertainties, iii) fluid and structural modelling under uncertain environments, iv) fatigue and fracture assessment, v) decision making together with case studies, and vi) the development of guidelines for general application of the developed models. 
The engineering systems that are addressed in this project include: a) ships, b) offshore installations, c) offshore wind farm units and d) other MTO engineering structures/units. In order to achieve an integrated project, all the ESRs and ERs involved will conduct their model development and application within the RESET framework. Novel and flexible models for addressing the identified research needs will be developed for application in situations where conventional approaches may not be confidently applied due to incompleteness, randomness and fuzziness of the available data for use in reliability and safety analysis. The collaboratively produced research results will be disseminated to a wide audience.
Outage Behavior in Wireless Networks With Analog Network Coding

In this paper, we consider a Rayleigh fading half-duplex system where multiple source-destination pairs communicate with the help of a single relay. The relay performs the analog network coding (ANC) to assist the transmissions from the sources to the destinations, which is a well-known amplify-and-forward-based protocol. We derive the closed-form expressions for outage probabilities in the high-SNR regime for the system with an arbitrary number of the source-destination pairs. The diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) of the ANC is also derived, which is based on the outage probabilities. It is shown that the derived outage probabilities match the results of Monte Carlo simulations in the high-SNR regime. The ANC is shown to achieve the same DMT as the xor network coding strategy that assumes an ideal condition that each destination node perfectly overhears the data from other sources.
Opening the pathway towards dendritic zeolites

A great interest has arisen in the past ten years on synthetic materials exhibiting a dendritic 3D superstructure due to their outstanding and singular properties and to the high number of potential applications in a variety of relevant fields. Starting from silica nanoparticles, dendritic structures have now been extended to other compositions. 
However, the development of dendritic zeolites has remained elusive in spite of their huge scientific and industrial relevance. Being considered mature materials, the reality is that the scientific publications on zeolites is constantly and rapidly growing. Thus, over 48,000 articles can be found in literature databases by 2020 including the term “zeolite” in the title, with about 2,370 contributions just in 2020. However, almost no records are found when the term “dendritic” is added to the search.
In this context, I have envisaged TODENZE as a very ambitious and high-risk project aimed to develop a general strategy for the synthesis of zeolites with dendritic 3D superstructures. The achievement of this goal will have a strong impact in the scientific community working with porous solids and also in many other fields and topics in which dendritic zeolites are expected to exhibit a quite better performance than the state-of-the-art zeolitic materials.
Starting from preliminary results of my research group, I have structured the TODENZE project according to 4 major objectives in relation to the concept of dendritic zeolites: i) Unveiling the synthesis mechanism; ii) Expanding and generalizing the concept, iii) Assessing the properties, and iv) Finding relevant applications. In particular, their use as catalysts for biomass valorisation and as nanocarriers for combined drug/gene therapy will be explored.
Achievement of the TODENZE goals will provide remarkable benefits and high-gains in strategic areas such as environment, sustainable energy, circular economy and health.
Low-level functional GPU programming for parallel algorithms

We present a Functional Compute Language (FCL) for low-level GPU programming. FCL is functional in style, which allows for easy composition of program fragments and thus easy prototyping and a high degree of code reuse. In contrast with projects such as Futhark, Accelerate, Harlan, Nessie and Delite, the intention is not to develop a language providing fully automatic optimizations, but instead to provide a platform that supports absolute control of the GPU computation and memory hierarchies. The developer is thus required to have an intimate knowledge of the target platform, as is also required when using CUDA/OpenCL directly. FCL is heavily inspired by Obsidian. However, instead of relying on a multi-staged meta-programming approach for kernel generation using Haskell as meta-language, FCL is completely self-contained, and we intend it to be suitable as an intermediate language for data-parallel languages, including data-parallel parts of high-level array languages, such as R, Matlab, and APL. We present a type-system and a dynamic semantics suitable for understanding the performance characteristics of both FCL and Obsidian-style programs. Our aim is that FCL will be useful as a platform for developing new parallel algorithms, as well as a target-language for various code-generators targeting GPU hardware.
Probing the relationships between molecular conformation and intermolecular contacts inN,N-dibenzyl-N′-(furan-2-carbonyl)thiourea

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C 20 H 18 N 2 O 2 S, molecules are linked by bifurcated C—H...O hydrogen-bond interactions, giving rise to chains whose links are composed of alternating centrosymmetrically disposed pairs of molecules and characterized by R 2 2 (10) and R 2 2 (20) hydrogen-bonding motifs. Also, N—H...S hydrogen bonds form infinite zigzag chains along the [010] direction, which exhibit the C (4) motif. Hirshfeld surface and fingerprint plots were used to explore the intermolecular interactions in the crystal structure. This analysis confirms the important role of C—H...O hydrogen bonds in the molecular conformation and in the crystal structure, providing a potentially useful tool for a full understanding of the intermolecular interactions in acylthiourea derivatives.
The Implication of Personal Selling Strategies in Motivation, Approaches and Good Grooming

Abstract This study focuses on the use of strategies in motivation, approaches and good grooming in the personal selling of cosmetic products. The descriptive-purposive method of research was used; One Way Analysis of Variances statistic interpreted the correlates of personal selling strategies on motivation, approaches and good grooming. It showed that the use of strategies in motivation, approaches, and good grooming are significantly correlated. The questionnaire was validated to 12 respondents from consumers and sellers of cosmetics and floated to 140 respondents of four selected retail outlets that sell facial cosmetic products in Santiago City, Philippines. It is expected that the strategic personal selling model plan for effective salesmanship will be proposed.
Parapets, Politics, and Making a Difference: Lessons from Christchurch

At 12:51 on 22 February 2011, 12 people died beside me. The parapet and facade of an unreinforced masonry building on the main street of Christchurch, New Zealand, crushed the bus that I was riding. I'm the only one left, the lucky 13th. My leg, my hand, and my soul will never be the same. I broke more bones than the surgeons were willing to count, spent two months in the hospital, and most of a year off work. I walked, slept, and dreamed in a fog for four years. It cost half a million dollars to save my left leg. I treasure that leg, scars and all, but still feel the earthquake in every step. In this opinion paper, I share my story—from the earthquake, to the Bright Light, to the Dark Place, to the hospital, to the Dalai Lama, to the halls of Parliament. I also share the story of a nation coming to grips with its home on the Ring of Fire. The story ends on 8 May 2016, when Parliament passed the new Building Act, complete with a ministerially titled “Brower Amendment” that halved the remediation time for unreinforced masonry parapets and other falling hazards. I conclude with the lessons I've learned on making a difference.
CYPROTERONE ACETATE COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF

Provided herein are oral drug preparations including cyproterone acetate and ethinylestradiol, dosing regimen for the drug preparations, and methods of treating diseases. The methods provided include the administration of the oral drug preparation to treat one or more symptoms of hyperandrogenic conditions or hyperandrogenic activities, to provide contraception, and to reduce a risk of vascular thromboembolism (VTE) in a subject.
Clinical teaching performance improvement of faculty in residency training: A prospective cohort study

The purpose of this study is to investigate how aspects of a teaching performance evaluation system may affect faculty's teaching performance improvement as perceived by residents over time.Prospective multicenter cohort study conducted in The Netherlands between 1 September 2008 and 1 February 2013. Nine hundred and one residents and 1068 faculty of 65 teaching programs in 16 hospitals were invited to annually (self-) evaluate teaching performance using the validated, specialty-specific System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ). We used multivariable adjusted generalized estimating equations to analyze the effects of (i) residents' numerical feedback, (ii) narrative feedback, and (iii) faculty's participation in self-evaluation on residents' perception of faculty's teaching performance improvement.The average response rate over three years was 69% for faculty and 81% for residents. Higher numerical feedback scores were associated with residents rating faculty as having improved their teaching performance one year following the first measurement (regression coefficient, b: 0.077; 95% CI: 0.002-0.151; p = 0.045), but not after the second wave of receiving feedback and evaluating improvement. Receiving more suggestions for improvement was associated with improved teaching performance in subsequent years.Evaluation systems on clinical teaching performance appear helpful in enhancing teaching performance in residency training programs. High performing teachers also appear to improve in the perception of the residents.
Accessory genome accountability in pseudomonas aeruginosa persistent infections

Bacterial survival to antibiotic treatment poses an urgent problem to humanity, causing 25.000 deaths per year in the European Union alone. The inability to fully eradicate pathogens with antibiotics leads to the establishment of persistent infections (PIs). Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen, is found chronically in the airways of 70% of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients. In CF, the anomalous production of mucus in the lung promotes the establishment of bacteria, with infections decreasing the life quality and expectancy of patients. The mechanisms by which P. aeruginosa is able to escape treatment and generate PIs within the CF lung have not been fully elucidated. Mostly, the success of P. aeruginosa relies on its adaptability, which derives from its large genome carrying genes for survival in a wide spectrum of environments. Most of these genes are not conserved among strains, composing the accessory genome (AG), which is built up through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Previous studies have identified components of the AG involved in virulence and resistance, yet the extent of the AG involvement in PIs is unknown. Through AGAPE I seek to elucidate the relevance of the AG in the establishment of PIs in CF lungs. I will do so by studying both the conformation and function of the AG, through novel CRISPR-Cas tools in P. aeruginosa. First, I will determine the identity and quantity of HGT during infection by recording transfer events with a CRISPR-Cas recorder system. Second, I will generate individual and combinatorial knockdowns of every accessory gene through CRISPR interference (CRISPRi), to screen the effects of the repression on fitness during infection. I will follow the infections of the generated strains on lung organoids derived from the corresponding hosts. Overall, this bona fide action will allow to uncover novel mechanisms behind PIs relying on accessory genes, and to identify novel markers and targets to improve patient treatment.