SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
pH in the Bacteria-Contaminated Wound and Its Impact on Clostridium histolyticum Collagenase Activity

We sought to understand the influence of pH on Clostridium collagenase activity, using both in vitro and in vivo, and to understand the influence of bacterial contamination on pH in vivo.Artificial wound eschar was used for the assessment of debridement efficacy in vitro and the wound fluid of a contaminated pig wound model was used for examining pH during healing using in vivo techniques.We used a collagen-based artificial wound eschar to test collagenase activity in the collagenase product under various pH conditions. We evaluated bacterial contaminated wounds, using a pig wound model with a bacterial load including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, coagulase-negative staphylococci, and Fusobacterium sp to track the pH of wounds in relation to bacterial load.The pH levels in the wound fluid were all above neutral. They varied from 9.2 on day 1 to 8.3 on day 10. Collagenase achieved its highest activity around a pH of 8.5 when tested in Tris-buffered saline. Using artificial wound eschar, the optimal pH range for C collagenase was determined to be more than a pH of 6. The total initial microbial load (day 0) was higher than levels at any other time during the study. The levels of P aeruginosa began to decrease on day 1, but by day 4 the total pseudomonas population had rebounded to near day 0 levels. This was followed by a distinct decrease and by day 21 levels were lower than those on day 0. The coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) population behaved differently than the pseudomonas population, decreasing and remaining decreased relative to day 0 through day 14. However, by day 21 the CNS population had increased to near day 0 levels. This greatly influenced the increase in total bioburden by day 21, indicating that it was primarily due to the increase in CNS.The data demonstrate that wound pH in a model of contaminated pig wounds is alkaline during the first 10 days of healing. As healing progresses, pH decreases with no significant change in the level of bacterial bioburden. C collagenase exhibited robust activity in the pH range found in this contaminated pig wound model, suggesting it can effectively debride necrotic tissue in the environment found in most chronic wounds in humans.
Development of export activity on foreign markets Fabryka Krzeseł JAKER – Jakub Ślączka

The subject of the project is to prepare a new business model of internationalisation as part of the planned phase of the first phase of the project. “Development of export activity on foreign markets of Fabryka Krzeseł JAKER – Jakub Ślączka”. Within the framework of the project activities, the implementation of advisory services will cover such issues as: — analysis of the company’s export possibilities by examining the company’s products/services and assessing the competitive position of the company on foreign markets, – examination of foreign markets and identification of target markets, as well as identification of potential contractors on foreign markets, – the concept of entering the foreign market together with the projection of sales opportunities on the selected foreign market, – indication of the most effective tools and methods of marketing and marketing services (including indication of trade events or directions of marketing missions), – recommendations in the field of export and marketing services, etc. Advisory services will concern the basic service provided by Fabryka Krzeseł JAKER – Jakub Ślączka., i.e. production of chairs and tables.
INVENTORY OF LIANA IN PERMANENCE QUADRATS IN KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK / KBNP (Value to Tshivanga sector)

A study on lianes inventory in the permanent quadrats has been done in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, exactly in Tshivanga sector in South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The objective of this work is to make inventory of all lianes in the quadrats as well as their relative density.The inventory was realized by four quadrats. Each quadrat dad 1 hector and is subdivided in to 16 square of 25 m x 25 m. In each quadrat, 4 squares have been selected at random. The number of undurduals was counted. We measured then the DBH of trees which lianes use as support.The researches have reached of the following results: the lianes are more represented (22 species) than the support trees (18species). This resultant is very different from that of Madidi (1999) who found a mono dominante forest of Babagulu. Less diversified in lianescent flora.We notice that the plants which have lianes are less numerous. The choice of the lianas to colonise a plant depends on the distance which separates the lianes of the host plant.
Cross-listing and subsequent delisting in foreign markets

Abstract Employing a sample of stocks cross-listed and subsequently delisted from foreign markets, we examine the consequences of delisting to investors in terms of price, risk, and liquidity. We also provide a direct comparison between the firm's performance after a foreign cross-listing and after its subsequent delisting. We find a positive cross-listing and negative delisting effect on stock price, both of which dissipate in the long run. No significant changes in the market risk are found for either event. Foreign cross-listing and delisting are associated with increasing and decreasing long term trading volume respectively. Further analysis reveals that firms delist in response to low host market return and low firm trading volume in the host market. The changes in liquidity and market risk from delisting relate those from cross-listing. Finally, our results show that the bonding hypothesis fails to explain the listing premium and the delisting loss.
SAMPLE PRESERVATION METHOD AND SAMPLE PRESERVATION SUBSTRATE

The invention discloses a cellulose or glass fibre paper for preservation of biological samples, which comprises 4 - 30 wt % of a hydrophilic branched carbohydrate polymer. It also discloses a method for preservation of biological samples by applying and drying them on the paper.
Some Paradoxical Aspects of the Use of Computers for Architectural and Structural Design

The architectural form determines visual perception of the building and its social acceptance. From it depends also fulfillment of functional and utilitarian assumptions, adopted at the project beginning. The aim of architectural modeling is primarily to create a geometric model of the future facility. It has also influence on the ability of modeling of the structural system which is a carrier of architectural form. All limitations of the structural system translate into limitations of architectural form. As long as only straight lines and planes were readily available, and any curves and non-planar surfaces were extremely difficult to model – architectural form was characterized by preference of orthogonality. If one looks at the restrictions in both architectural and structural modeling, resulted from the shortcomings of the underlying theory, and the impact that introduction of modeling with use of numerical tools had on change of that situation – it can lead to surprising conclusions.
A música caipira raiz como ferramenta de sensibilização e educação ambiental

A moda de viola caipira tornou-se um meio de registro cultural transmitindo aos ouvintes ensinamentos morais e éticos e pode ser usada como ferramenta para práticas educacionais. A música promove uma assimilação prazerosa no processo de aprendizagem, assim, a Educação Ambiental pelo seu caráter interdisciplinar pode utilizar a música sertaneja raiz para formar cidadão responsáveis do ponto de vista socioambiental. O presente trabalho objetivou sensibilizar alunos quanto às questões ambientais através das letras e música sertaneja raiz na Escola Municipal Quim Machado em Itumbiara, Goiás, Brasil. Foram selecionados 67 alunos, do 6º ao 9º ano os quais foram incentivados a interagir com a moda de viola por meia da produção de letras de músicas caipira com a temática ambiental. A maioria das composições foi feita em dupla ou trios, resultando em 27 paródias. A partir da sensibilização quanto às questões ambientais por meio da viola caipira, os alunos foram capazes de produzir letras de músicas retratando de forma poética as perturbações ambientais observadas no entorno deles. A preocupação com os recursos hídricos e o desmatamento foram os assuntos mais citados nas músicas, seguidos dos versos referentes à valorização e respeito à natureza. A produção das músicas permitiu uma atividade lúdica associando os saberes da Língua Portuguesa e Ciências com música, arte, cultura e ambiente, validando esta experiência como ferramenta produtiva para a Educação Ambiental.
ULTRASONIC TRAVELING WAVE MICROPUMP FOR LIQUID

The invention relates to an ultrasonic traveling wave micropump for moving a liquid, said micropump comprising: two single linear piezoelectric transducers (2, 3); a flexible metal blade (4), each end portion of which rests on one of the two linear piezoelectric transducers; a sealable channel (5) that is made of shape-changing material and is intended for transporting the liquid from an inlet (E) to an outlet (S) of the micropump, said channel (5) resting longitudinally on said blade (4) between said linear piezoelectric transducers (2, 3); and an excitation means (7) for exciting at least the linear piezoelectric transducer (2) located near the inlet (E) of the micropump so that said transducer generates a transverse vibration in the blade (4) and the channel (5) along a traveling wave moving to the outlet (S) of the micropump.
Study on the Internal Flow of an Electric Oven with Variation of Steam Outlet Position

The composite electric oven is one of the fixing utensil, various functions are required. Steam generating function, which is one of its functions, and allows various food cooking. The location of the outlet of the steam generator is designed around ease of installation, consideration of internal fluid is not. Distribution of the steam can not be non-uniformly. Accordingly, cooking time becomes longer, the energy consumption increases. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed stagnation phenomenon of the internal flow through the interpretation of the calculations for the position of the outlet of the steam generator existing. Further, by computing the analysis of various locations of the outlet of the steam generator, we investigated the distribution and characteristics of the internal flow.
TIPI-NET - Network of initiatives for the promotion of typical products between the Alps and the Adriatic.

The purpose of this trilateral joint project is to enhance and promote, among consumers, typical high-quality products in the project area, by providing the image of a territory characterized by a strong agri-food vocation. The direct targets of the project are the agri-food quality producers of the cross-border area, but an indirect benefit will be felt also by the tourist sector and the farmhouses working in the field of rural tourism. “TIPI-NET” envisages the organization, restoration, enlargement or the extraordinary maintenance - should it be necessary - of the agricultural produce collection and sale centres that the operators of Eastern Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and the statistical regions of Goriška and Obalno – Kraška refer to. These centres are network-connected and regulated in the management, promotion and sale of the products. Moreover, a system will be set up in order to promote and enhance the local agri-food products as well as the products of the territory, that is to say a Food Park in the Eastern Veneto. Later on this could evolve and become a rural/agri-food district of a wider area. The project will analyse the territory in terms of its agriculture, the quality products, and the rural and environmental landscape, and will carry out a feasibility study on the opportunity to set up a rural/agri-food district. With regard to information (apart from issuing press-releases, information material, etc. ) meetings, presentations and promotional initiatives will be organized.
Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Fan-Blisk einer Gasturbine

Die vorliegende Erfindung bezieht sich auf ein Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Fan-Blisk einer Gasturbine, bei welchem eine Fan-Scheibe 25 und eine Vielzahl von Fan-Schaufeln 29 separat erzeugt und nachfolgend mittels eines Schweißverfahrens gefügt werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Fan-Scheibe 25 und die Fan-Schaufeln 29 mittels eines im Wesentlichen in Axialrichtung 1 der Fan-Scheibe 25 wirkenden Elektronenstrahls 32 verschweißt werden.
Impact Assessment of the 2008 to 2010 Economic Downturn Period on Appalachian Hardwood Sawmill Operations

A mail survey was conducted in the fall of 2010 to investigate the impacts of the 2008 economic downturn on sawmill production, employment, and marketing in the Appalachian region. The mail survey was sent to 776 hardwood sawmills in the region and 58 valid responses were used in the study. It was determined that the average number of employees per mill had decreased from 42 to 30, a reduction of 29 percent during the period. At the same time, annual operating hours decreased 9 percent and weekly lumber production fell by 26 percent. Additional information collected with the survey indicated that the average log inventory reported by the responding mills was sufficient to allow production for 6 weeks. Weekly chip and sawdust production was reported as 139 and 81 tons, respectively. Sixty-seven percent of the reporting mills indicated they had changed their marketing strategies as a result of the downturn. Forty-six percent of the respondents reported they were exporting production to overseas markets.
Contrapuntal Urbanisms: Towards a Postcolonial Relational Geography

Relational geography has reformulated how we study cities, but has reiterated perennial problems in the discipline between the utility of theory and the complex realities it purports to represent. I argue that by constructing this problem as a dialogue between urban and postcolonial studies, we can find better ways to understand this frustration and reflexively engage with it. Through reworking Edward Said's ‘contrapuntal’ perspective, I propose a relational urban geography which is more sensitive to the ontological limitations of theory, and which takes a provisional approach to conceptualising and writing about cities. I then illustrate these propositions through a contrapuntal reading of recent redevelopment in Cork, Ireland.
Voting-based ensemble-averaging visualization for water mass distribution

The distribution of water masses has become one of the most important topics in recent oceanic research. Water masses flow dynamically and have interannual variability, and hence the distribution can change dramatically even over short time periods and may differ from year to year. In this paper, we use a high-resolution ocean dataset, which contains multiple ocean variables, to visualize the details of the water mass. Because water mass can be defined by multiple ocean variables (e.g., temperature and salinity), we develop a multi-variate visualization system, which allows us to extract the time-varying distributions of water masses from multiple variables. The visualization is then adjusted by multiple ocean specialists because directly applying the existing definition to extract the water mass would result in incorrect rendering results. This leads to another problem that different ocean specialists may have different perspectives on the distribution of water masses, so that the adjustments would also be different. To solve this problem, an ensemble average process is performed for the adjusted rendering results from multiple ocean specialists. To increase the authenticity, we also add a voting scheme to the system, so that a majority rule can be applied to the ensemble-averaging result. As the application of the proposed voting-based ensemble-averaging visualization system, we first show the interannual variability of the significant water mass and then visualize the dynamic behavior for the period of interest in different years. We also highlight a mixing phenomenon that has a strong influence on the distribution of the water mass. As a result, we can obtain a clear and accurate visualization of the water mass distribution.
Appareil et procédé de préparation d'un produit de nettoyage ménager

Appareil de préparation de produit de nettoyage ménager, comprenant : - un réservoir de traitement (10) agencé pour définir un volume prédéterminé destiné à recevoir une solution aqueuse à transformer en produit de nettoyage ménager et un réactif, tel que du carmin d'indigo, agencé pour indiquer un état de transformation de la solution aqueuse en produit de nettoyage ménager par un changement de couleur, - une cellule d'électrolyse (40) agencée pour effectuer une électrolyse de la solution aqueuse, - une unité de commande (60) agencée pour contrôler le fonctionnement de la cellule d'électrolyse (40), dans lequel le réservoir de traitement (10) comprend au moins une fenêtre de visualisation pour permettre à un utilisateur de visualiser le changement de couleur du réactif. Figure pour l'abrégé : Fig. 1
A climatology of Australian severe thunderstorm environments 1979-2011: inter-annual variability and ENSO influence

Severe thunderstorms present a significant threat to property and life in Australia during the warm season (September to April). However, these relatively infrequent events are poorly understood in terms of frequency and occurrence for much of the continent due to a lack of in-situ observations. With the spectre of a changing climate, there is an increasing need to understand thunderstorms and their impact on Australia, both in the past and for the future. To facilitate this, the relationship between severe thunderstorms and their associated environments is used as a probabilistic proxy for direct observations. To establish these conditions, a proximity climatology of environments was developed for observed severe thunderstorms in Australia during the period 2003–2010 using the ERA-Interim reanalysis. Proximity soundings from the reanalysis for observed severe thunderstorms were used to develop covariate discriminants that identify the increased probability of an environment to produce severe thunderstorms. The covariates use a combination of ingredients describing instability (mixed-layer convective available potential energy) and potential for organized severe convection (deep-layer wind shear). These discriminants have been extrapolated to produce a climatology of environments favourable to the development of severe thunderstorms over the period 1979–2011 from this reanalysis. The inter-annual variations in both the spatial and temporal distribution of convective environments over Australia were analysed, with particular focus on the influence of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the occurrence of severe thunderstorm environments. These results suggest that while ENSO has a substantial impact on the spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm environments over the continent, the link to frequency is more uncertain.
The Transitional Economic Voting Model Revisited: The Case of Poland 1993–1998

This article evaluates the extent to which the transitional economic voting model that Tucker (2006) developed to explain voting behavior in young postcommunist democracies of Europe applied to Poland in the 1990s. According to Tucker, voting behavior depends on the transitional identity of the political parties and voters’ status of winners or losers of transition. Using the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN and its data on the 1993 and 1998 parliamentary elections, I distinguish economic winners and losers of the transformation by tracing the socioeconomic situation of the same respondents through time. I find that the political situation in Poland during the first years after the transition was not as unstable and chaotic for voters as Tucker assumed. There is little empirical support for the transitional economic voting model in the first years after transition. Winners did not have a higher propensity to vote for reformist parties, and losers were not more likely to vote for old-regime parties.
Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Commitment between the Hotel Staff in Tehran, Iran

The aim of this paper is to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment of the hotel staff in 5-Star hotels of Tehran, Iran. The research enjoys an applied, descriptive, survey-based, and correlational framework. The population of the study was comprised of 423 employees (N =423) of public 5- star hotels in Tehran including Esteghlal, Laleh, and Homa. The sample was randomly selected based on Kerjesi- Morgan table and included 142 (n=142) individuals. The data gathering instruments were two standard questionnaires measuring emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. To analyze the data, Pierson correlation, ANOVA, and Qi-square were employed and results revealed that there was a significant relationship between the two main variables of the study, namely; emotional intelligence and organizational commitment and some of the components of these variables. This signifies the necessity of attracting and employing highly emotionally intelligent individuals, training them in different levels and leading them towards the application of the skills required. Paving the ground for the development and continuation of emotional intelligence within managers and the staff of the hotels and residential centers are also inevitable factors to be followed.
Effect of Fiber Laser–MIG Hybrid Process Parameters on Weld Bead Shape and Tensile Properties of Commercially Pure Titanium

A series of fiber laser–metal inert gas (MIG) hybrid welding experiments were carried out on the commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) sheets to investigate the effects of the welding parameters, such as MIG welding current, welding speed, laser-arc distance, defocused distance of laser beam and gap, on the bead appearance, weld shape, and tensile properties of the welded joints. The results show that fiber laser–MIG hybrid process parameters were of considerable importance for the bead appearance, weld width, and elongation of the welded joints. However, ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of the welded joints in CP-Ti was not obviously influenced by the process parameters owing to a higher microhardness in the fusion zone compared to the base metal.
Socio-demographic profile of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Idoma land, Benue state, North-central Nigeria: Implications for HIV/AIDS control

&nbsp; The profile of PLWHA constitutes a subject of interest in HIV/AIDS control initiatives. This study investigated the socio-demographic attributes of PLWHA in Idoma land, Benue State [Nigeria], with a view to suggesting customized measures for HIV/AIDS control. A total of 133 PLWHA and 25 relatives of PLWHA selected from two HIV/AIDS treatment centres provided the data through a survey questionnaire. Health workers and community/group leaders similarly provided information through IDIs and FGDs on their perceptions on those mostly inflicted by HIV/AIDS. Existing hospital records of HIV screening/admissions were also used. Data collected were analysed descriptively and thematically. Findings showed that PLWHA in Idoma land were predominantly young married farmers and females with low level of income and formal education. Many once married or unmarried PLWHA still intend to remarry or marry respectively; male PLWHA were more likely to desire remarrying. It is concluded that young female and farmers with low educational status and low income are more afflicted by HIV/AIDS. Measures to empower women and young people economically and socially are recommended, in addition to other HIV/AIDS control measures, including mass education tailored toward these more vulnerable groups. &nbsp; Key words:&nbsp;People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), socio-demographic profile, Idoma land, Benue State, Nigeria, HIV/AIDS control measures.