SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
TRANSREGIO - TRANSMISSION D'ENTREPRISE DANS LES REGIONS D'EUROPE

According to a European Commission report, about one third of businesses in the EU-15 are likely to be transferred over the next ten years. This amounts to an annual average of 610,000 enterprises, of which 86% are SMEs, and represents over 2 million jobs. For the regions participating in the TRANSREGIO project, the number of enterprises to be transferred over the next ten years is estimated at 43,000 in Rhône Alpes, 29,000 in Steiemark, 60,000 in Lombardy, 52,000 in Baden Wurtemberg and 10,000 in Slovenia. (There are no statistics for Poland or Lithuania). For these five regions, it is estimated that the enterprises to be transferred over the next ten years employ over one million people. Overall objective / Objectif général The main objective of the TRANSREGIO project is to organise benchmarking among seven European regions in order to compare the economic and social impacts of business transfers and to share good practices among those involved in measures to support transfers. An inter-regional observatory on transfers is therefore to be set up. A survey will be carried out among a group of business managers and buyers in order to compare the problems they face and their expectations. Good practices will be identified in the seven regions participating for measures to support business transfers. Expected results / Résultats attendus Creation of an inter-regional observatory on business transfers in seven regions in the enlarged EU (statistical indicators). • Interregional survey among a group of business managers and buyers on their expectations and the problems faced in business transfers and acquisitions. • Interregional guide to good practices in measures to support business transfers. • Organisation of a meeting to share experiences and discuss good practices among the main agents involved in transfers in the seven regions participating in the project. • Organisation of a programme of individual visits among partners • Organisation of seven conferences and fourteen workshops to present the results of the project, involving about seven hundred participants. • Creation of a web site on the project to disseminate the results. • Publication of a CD ROM to disseminate the project results.
Global reserve currency system: Why will the dollar standard give way to a tripolar currency order?

The recent financial crisis highlighted some of the underlying defects in the dollar-based reserve system. This paper argues that the era of the US hegemonic stability and unipolarity, which provided the foundation for the dollar’s sustenance as the pre-eminent global reserve currency, has already peaked and the global economy of the future will revolve around a multipolar order. The rise of China, along with other emerging markets, is rapidly redrawing the traditional Western dominated global economic system. The structural challenges facing the American economy along with the extraordinary expansion of Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and the explosion of the US government debt will diminish the attractiveness of the dollar standard going forward. Our analysis suggests that a tripolar currency order—consisting of the dollar, the yuan and the euro—will replace the dollar standard in the coming decades.
Caliendo, Giuditta et Oster, Corinne (2020) : Traduire la criminalité : Perspectives traductologiques et discursives. Lille : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 260 p.

Caliendo, Giuditta et Oster, Corinne (2020) : Traduire la criminalité : Perspectives traductologiques et discursives. Lille : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 260 p.. Un article de la revue Meta (Pour de nouvelles méthodes en traductologie quantitative) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
Management challenges of congenital & early onset childhood hearing loss in a sub-Saharan African country

Hearing impairment is a hidden human disability with potentially catastrophic and age long consequences. This study highlighted the challenges associated with the management of congenital and early onset childhood hearing loss in a sub-Saharan African country.A retrospective descriptive study of children seen between January 2008 and December 2013 RESULT: A total of 223 children consisting of 124 (55.6%) males with (M:F) of 1.3:1. Age ranged 1-15 years (mean±SD; 6.39±4.37 years) and age group 1-5 years constituted the largest proportion (56.5%). Congenital causes, febrile illness and hypoxia were the leading causes of HI. Over 93% had moderately severe to profound hearing loss and 64.6% had delayed speech development. Majority (99.3%) with congenital/perinatal onset of HL had significantly delayed speech development and 99.3% of HL due to ototoxicity and infective causes had peri/post lingual speech impairment. Larger percentage of patients presented late; 16.6% of patients with congenital/perinatal onset of HL presented within the first year, >41% presented after the fifth year. Less than 5% had hearing aid fitted and patients with profound hearing impairment were referred for cochlear implantThe burden of congenital and early onset hearing impairment is high and management outcomes are unsatisfactory in our locality, Challenges associated with managing such children were discussed, and suggestions/strategies for better management and outcome were made.
Future threats to agricultural food production posed by environmental degradation, climate change, and animal and plant diseases – a risk analysis in three economic and climate settings

Global food security is one of the most pressing issues for humanity, and agricultural production is critical for achieving this. The existing analyses of specific threats to agricultural food production seldom bring out the contrasts associated with different levels of economic development and different climatic zones. We therefore investigated the same biophysical threats in three modelled types of countries with different economic and climatic conditions. The threats analysed were environmental degradation, climate change and diseases and pests of animals and plants. These threats were analysed with a methodology enabling the associated risks to be compared. The timeframe was 2012–2050 and the analysis was based on three underlying assumptions for 2050: the world population will have increased to 9 billion people, there will be a larger middle class in the world and climate change will be causing more extreme weather events, higher temperatures and altered precipitation. It is suggested that the risks, presented by the biophysical threats analysed, differ among the three modelled types of countries and that climate zone, public stewardship and economic strength are major determinants of these differences. These determinants are far from evenly spread among the world’s major food producers, which implies that diversification of risk monitoring and international assessment of agricultural production is critical for assuring global food security in 2050.
LONG-SIZE COUPLING-FREE PIPE SEALER

FIELD: oil and gas industry.SUBSTANCE: sealer of long sleeveless pipes belongs to the field of oil and gas production and is intended for use during repair work and technological operations on oil and gas wells using a long sleeveless pipe. The hermetic sealer contains a body made of alloy steel, which has a through axial channel for the passage of pipes lowered into the well, upper and lower flanges. A nipple is screwed into the body with a union nut and an O-ring mounted on it for mounting on a preventer. A cylinder with a hollow piston is installed on the body. On the outer side of the cylinder, under the bottom flange, there is a removable casing that forms a sealed heating chamber, while the removable casing has two threaded holes for supplying and removing the coolant.EFFECT: increased service life of the sealing elements and reliability of sealing the wellhead at low temperatures.1 cl, 4 dwg
The effects of early-life adversity on cognition: a comparative approach.

This research programme will investigate how adversity experienced early in life affects cognition in adulthood in two different long-lived species, humans and European starlings. Previous research has suggested that there might be cross-species similarities in the way early-life adversity shapes cognition, but the extent of commonalities has not been systematically investigated. I will focus on three cognitive domains where we have some evidence that early-life adversity may be important: impulsivity, dietary cognition, and threat-related cognition. For each domain, I will characterise how the trait relates to different facets of early-life adversity. These will be measured using socioeconomic and familial variables in humans, but in young starlings they will be experimentally manipulated via cross-fostering and hand-rearing siblings apart so that they experience different early histories. To measure the adult outcomes in each cognitive domain, I will develop novel behavioural paradigms with directly analogous versions in the two species. I will also examine whether telomere length, a cellular measure of cumulative stress exposure, statistically mediates the relationships between early-life adversity and the cognitive outcomes, thus testing recent theoretical models based on psychological adaptation to ones own physical state. In the second phase of the programme, I will focus on adaptive questions: do the observed effects of early-life adversity simply represent pathology, or can they be considered as adaptive responses? To test this, I will create ‘novel worlds’: experimental environments whose parameters I can vary systematically to establish whether there are circumstances under which individuals who have experienced early-life stress actually perform better than those from more benign developmental backgrounds. Thus, I will move beyond cataloguing the cognitive consequences of early-life adversity, and begin to explain them.
Phase Behavior, Densities, and Isothermal Compressibility of Carbon Dioxide + 1-Bromobutane, Carbon Dioxide + 1-Chlorobutane, and Carbon Dioxide + 1-Methylimidazole

The phase behavior and critical parameters of (carbon dioxide + 1-bromobutane), (carbon dioxide + 1-chlorobutane), and (carbon dioxide + 1-methylimidazole) have been determined using a high-pressure variable-volume view cell, and their densities have also been measured in sub- or supercritical regions. The isothermal compressibility (KT) is calculated from the density of the binary mixtures. The transition points, bubble point, dew point, and critical point, have been measured with concentrations of organic solvent mole fractions from (0.0102 to 0.1495), temperatures from (308.2 to 337.4) K, and pressures from (6.21 to 19.04) MPa. It is demonstrated that the density is sensitive to the pressure as the pressure approaches the critical point of binary mixtures; that is, KT is large and increases significantly. KT also increases sharply when the pressure approaches the dew point or bubble point at other compositions near the critical composition. When the pressure is much higher than the phase transition pre...
Yoga Nidra as a Stress Management Intervention Strategy

The objective of the research paper is to explore the role and effectiveness of Yoga Nidra in mitigating the stress level of the employees at the workplace. The paper is conceptual and qualitative in nature in which Yogic technique- Yoga Nidra has been used as a stress management intervention strategy. This study is based on the content analysis of the similar researches already conducted in the past and also the interviews of the employees practising Yoga Nidra and has drawn useful inferences regarding the role of Yoga Nidra in managing the employees' stress at the workplace. It has been found that Yoga Nidra has a great potential to mitigate the stress level among the people. The paper also gives new insight to the organizations where effective mechanism of Yoga Nidra increases the parasympathetic system and decreases the sympathetic system which results into physical, mental and emotional relaxation in our body.
Proteomic Strategies to Characterize Signaling Pathways

AbstractCells respond to external stimuli by transducing signals through a series of intracellular molecules and eliciting an appropriate response. The cascade of events through which the signals are transduced include post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation and ubiquitylation in addition to formation of multi-protein complexes. Improvements in biological mass spectrometry and protein/peptide microarray technology have tremendously improved our ability to probe proteins, protein complexes, and signaling pathways in a high-throughput fashion. Today, a single mass spectrometry-based investigation of a signaling pathway has the potential to uncover the large majority of known signaling intermediates painstakingly characterized over decades in addition to discovering a number of novel ones. Here, we discuss various proteomic strategies to characterize signaling pathways and provide protocols for phosphoproteomic analysis.Key wordsSignaling pathwaysMass spectrometryPhosphorylationEnrichment of phosphoproteomesQuantitative phosphoproteomicsCancer
Un passé qui ne passe pas. the ethics and aesthetics of contemporary french holocaust literature

The project addresses the controversial interplay between postmodern narrative strategies and Holocaust representations in recent French fiction. The project’s innovative quality lies in applying Anglo-American theories of postmodernism to French literature, deemed largely immune to the influence of the ‘alien’ and negatively connoted postmodern poetics. The project’s aims are a) to establish the presence of French literary postmodernism, b) to observe parallels between contemporary French- and English-language Holocaust historiographic metafiction, c) to explore the tension between the analysed works’ thematics and aesthetics, and d) to examine the ethical implications of the corpus for French World War II memory. The project is planned for 24 months and is entirely feasible, its successful completion being ensured by suitable project management procedures, the perfect match between the Fellow’s profile and the research, and the ideal working environment offered by the Host. The future Fellow is Dr Helena Duffy, an experienced researcher whose academic work has more than adequately prepared her for the proposed research, and the Host is Royal Holloway (RHUL). By being one of UK’s top research-led universities and home to the Holocaust Research Centre, the leading academic centre of its kind in Europe, RHUL is the best possible context for Dr Duffy’s work. The project will be supervised by Prof. Robert Eaglestone, a world-leading specialist in Holocaust Studies, and carried out in synergy with other eminent scholars. The project, which will result in a range of publications and outreach activities, will create a space for a two-way transfer of knowledge between Dr Duffy, who will contribute her specialism in French literature and postmodernism, and the Host that will offer its expertise in Holocaust Studies. By creating an opportunity to refocus her research, the fellowship will help Dr Duffy attain the position of academic independence and authority she is seeking
Auditor style, auditor changes and financial statements comparability

The term auditor style to determine a unique set of internal working rules each audit firm to perform audit standards and application generally accepted accounting principles between their clients are used. Audit style implies that two companies audited by the same auditor, subject to the same audit style, are more likely to have comparable earnings than two firms audited by two different audit firms with different styles. The sample consists of 44 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange for the period 2002 to 2013. The tests are based on pairs of firms and a total of 1958 pairs of firms as observations are used. In the present study used correlation method and multiple regression and is performed regression analysis for hypothesis test. The findings show that the clients of audit firms in the same industry and year than to their non-clients have more similar in accruals and earnings structure. Also the auditor style has an effect on clientele accruals, and that a change to the same auditor leads to more similar accruals. However, there is no evidence that a change to different auditors reduced comparability in the post-switch period. Finally the findings show that audit style is effective to comparability of financial statements.
Capacity building on energy performance contracting in european markets in transition

A project proposed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in cooperation with the Climate Protection and Energy Agency of Baden-Württemberg/Germany and European competence centres on Energy Performance Contracting (EnPC) in Croatia, Greece and Slovenia, a competence centre for e-learning in Slovakia, and key actors for the promotion of EnPC at the local level in Latvia, Serbia, Romania and Ukraine.
Objective of EnPC-INTRANS is to increase the market uptake of technologies for the improvement of energy efficiency (EE) in public buildings and services by means of fostering private sector participation in innovative financing schemes for EE investments. This will be achieved by means of implementing large-scale capacity building for local public authorities and SMEs to jointly set-up and use adapted EnPC models for EE services (topic 3 in the scope of the EE21 call). 
European best practices in EnPC are adapted to local conditions (WP2) and presented to relevant target groups in the partner countries (WP3). Training needs of local public authorities and SMEs are assessed in intensive stakeholder dialogue, providing the basis for design and implementation of efficient training concepts and tools making use of advanced on-line technologies for European-wide capacity development (WP3). Trainers are trained throughout the partners’ networks (WP4) and the developed training concepts and tools are demonstrated in national and international cooperation seminars (WP5). The achieved impact of large-scale capacity development on the European market for EnPC projects is continuously monitored and evaluated (WP6), and the project results are disseminated to all EU28 member states (WP7).
At least 50 trained trainers and 3,000 trained experts will directly benefit from the project and cater for the initiation and development of EnPC projects in partner countries and beyond, providing for energy savings of more than 60 GWh per year when implemented. (The lead Partner) GIZ has been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with the implementation of the project ‘Energy Efficiency in Municipalities’ in the Ukraine. The EC through this Horizon 2020 project thus contributes complementarily to achieving the overall objectives of the BMZ-funded project as the BMZ-funded project supports the implementation of the EU Horizon project. None of the activities covered by this work programme are funded by any other funding.
Translation Equivalents and the Emergence of Multiple Lexicons in Early Trilingual Development

This study examines lexical differentiation in early trilingual development through an analysis of the translation equivalents (TEs) produced by a Tagalog—Spanish—English trilingual child. The child’s cumulative vocabulary between 1;4 and 2;0 was reconstructed through diary records and audio-recordings, and the extent to which phonetically distinct equivalent doublets and triplets were represented in her cumulative lexicon was examined. The results indicate that TEs were produced from early on, similarly to bilingual children. However, the amount of input heard in each language determined the number and types of equivalents acquired. Also, learning a second TE took less time than learning a first, suggesting that the initial differentiation of the lexicon as evidenced by doublets might facilitate the emergence of multiple lexical systems.
CHITOSAN COMPOSITIONS

Compositions comprising chitosan in the form of a network of nano-sized fibres. There is also provided a process for making such compositions. The compositions have improved solubility and activity. The compositions are useful in hair care, skin care, odour control, wound care, blood management, sanitary compositions, oral care, film formation, hard surface treatment, fabric treatment, release of hydrophobic or hydrophilic materials, plant care, water purification and drug delivery.
iDTool .: Technics of Identification of Cutting Tools with RFID tags for smart tool management

The iDTool project consists of integrating RFID technology into cutting tools for trimming, aiming to create an intelligent identification and management solution through the development of an agile and decentralised data management system.
Investigating Perceptions of Personalization and Privacy in India

Technological products are increasingly equipped with data collection and personalization mechanisms that allow them to adapt to an individual user’s needs [4]. However, the value and perception of these practices for users is still unclear. This field trip proposal investigates users’ mental models of personalization as well as perceived benefits and drawbacks using semi-structured interviews. The interviews make use of the critical incident technique and drawing tasks. We expect that findings from the field trip will result in rich understanding of the prospective of a collectivist society on personalization and privacy. Results of the field trip can, hence, be contrasted to the results of an equivalent study conducted in Germany, an individualistic society. The overall goal of our studies is to highlight differences in user needs of collectivist and individualistic societies for researchers and practitioners who develop highly personalized systems.
Buy-to-let investors on the Dutch residential market: a study on pricing and capitalization rates

The advent of the ‘buy-to-let’ (BTL) phenomenon in the Netherlands, apart from producing a new wave of private investment, has been widely argued to be a speculative and destabilizing force in the housing market. This thesis presents a detailed empirical investigation of private investment in the entire Dutch residential market. In order to study the relationship between house prices and BTL investment, a quantitative approach is used. Data provided by Dynamis B.V. serves as the main input for these analyses to assess the nature and scale of BTL. The quantitative analyses, however, are informed by a real estate agent interview that investigates the underlying motivations of BTL investors. An explicit and in-depth connection between pricing and how this is driven by BTL investment sentiment is made by analysing
capitalization rates. The results provide evidence that in the Netherlands overall there is no case of structural price premium paid by investors, the price premium paid by investors does however largely occur in Amsterdam and The Hague. The results have implications for housing
market policies, including those targeted at first-time-buyers (FTBs), who may compete for similar properties as BTL investors do.