SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Efectos del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte sobre el comercio de México

There is a lot of economic literature on the trade effects (trade creation, trade diversion, intraindustrial specialisation) of the integration processes. One of the most analyzed integration processes is the European case, which has been the aim of many studies because its long evolution and depth. This work aims at analysing the tendencies regarding the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This process has been less studied than the European one because its shorter evolution. In this sense, we try to verify the existence of trade creation and/or trade diversion effects along with the pattern of intraindustrial specialization, from the perspective of the Mexican economy (1993-2007). Finally, we emphasize the importance of the foreign investments (mainly USA) explaining the new tendencies and trade patterns.
Tight coupling of primary production and marine mammal reproduction in the Southern Ocean

Polynyas are areas of open water surrounded by sea ice and are important sources of primary production in high-latitude marine ecosystems. The magnitude of annual primary production in polynyas is controlled by the amount of exposure to solar radiation and sensitivity to changes in sea-ice extent. The degree of coupling between primary production and production by upper trophic-level consumers in these environments is not well understood, which prevents reliable predictions about population trajectories for species at higher trophic levels under potential future climate scenarios. In this study, we find a strong, positive relationship between annual primary production in an Antarctic polynya and pup production by ice-dependent Weddell seals. The timing of the relationship suggests reproductive effort increases to take advantage of high primary production occurring in the months after the birth pulse. Though the proximate causal mechanism is unknown, our results indicate tight coupling between organisms at disparate trophic levels on a short timescale, deepen our understanding of marine ecosystem processes, and raise interesting questions about why such coupling exists and what implications it has for understanding high-latitude ecosystems.
Molecular characterization of clinical isolates of Cyclospora cayetanensis from patients with diarrhea in India

Cyclospora cayetanensis is an intestinal coccidian protozoan that has emerged as an important cause of both epidemic and endemic protracted diarrhea worldwide. Though humans appear to be the only natural hosts; the role of animals as natural reservoir is uncertain but of increasing concern. The present study aimed to study the prevalence of coccidian in different groups such as immunocompromised, clinically apparent immunocompetent and healthy individuals. Also, the study isolates were assessed for heterogeneity among the sequences.Stool samples from different groups of patients were collected. The parasite was detected in stool by different diagnostic tools such as light microscopy and nested PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism using 18S ribosomal RNA as the target gene.The prevalence of C. cayetanensis was 2.4% (19/800) in the present study. The PCR assay amplified Cyclospora cayetanensis DNA in only 89% (17/19) isolates. Further, sequencing revealed no significant difference among the study isolates and the non-primates. Phylogenetic analysis of the study isolates however, formed two clusters. While one cluster showed close evolutionary association with the C. cayetanensis strains, the other cluster showed evolutionary association with the two non-primate species.The methods described here for detection of C. cayetanensis oocysts are simple, efficient, specific, and sensitive and therefore can be effectively applied for laboratory diagnosis and environmental assessment of fresh produce and water sources. Clinicians should include Cyclospora infection in the differential diagnosis of prolonged or relapsing diarrheal illness even in clinically apparent immunocompetent individuals.
Measurement and simulation of flow properties of coal ash slag in coal gasification

The viscosities of 45 coal ash slag samples at high temperature have been measured under different temperatures and shear rates. The computer thermodynamic software package FactSage has been used to predict liquidus temperatures, volume fractions of crystallized solid particles (ϕ), and the compositions of remaining liquid phase for 45 coal ash slag samples. The flow properties of completely liquid and partly crystallized coal ash slag samples have been predicted by three viscosity models. The Urbain formalism has been modified to describe the viscosities of fully liquid slag and homogeneous remaining liquid phase in coal ash slag samples. The modified Einstein equation and Einstein–Roscoe equation have been used to describe the viscosities of heterogeneous coal ash slag samples of ϕ < 10.00 vol % and ϕ ≥ 10.00 vol %, respectively. These three models provided a good description of the experimental data of fully liquid and heterogeneous coal ash slag samples. The new models also predicted flow properties of mixtures of coal ash slags with CaO, Fe2O3, MgO, SiO2, and Al2O3. © 2010 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2011
EXTRUSION PROCESS FOR DISPERSION PRODUCTION

A process for producing an aqueous dispersion of a polymer in an aqueous medium having a viscosity below 10 Pa.s, in which the polymer is dispersed in an aqueous medium in an extruder at a temperature above 100 DEG C, the pressure inside the extruder being maintained above atmospheric pressure so that the aqueous medium does not boil inside the extruder.
ASSAY METHOD USING NOVEL NAD SYNTHETASE AND A PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF THE ENZYME

A NAD synthetase having the following properties: 
(1) Action: 
at least catalyses in the presence of Mg⁺⁺ or Mn⁺⁺ ion the reaction (a):   + NAD and does not catalyse in the presence of Mg⁺⁺ ion the reaction (b);   (2) Substrate specificity: 
utilises ammonia, including ammonia in the form of an ion, as a substrate but does not utilise glutamine or asparagine as a substrate; is useful in assaying for ATP, deamide-NAD, ammonia including ammonia in the form of an ammonium ion or for a component of a reaction system in which ATP, deamide-NAD or ammonia including ammonia in the form of an ammonium ion is consumed or generated. The NAD synthetase may be prepared from any microorganism belonging to the genus  Bacillus  which produces the NAD synthetase. A preferred microorganism is  Bacillus stearothermophilus  H-8044 (FERM BP-1408).
Working capital subsidy for “Schlösser – Heiztechnik Gruppe Polska” Sp. z o.o. Sp. z o.o. K.

The project concerns support to the entrepreneur in providing liquidity and support to day-to-day activities due to the financial difficulties that have occurred to the entrepreneur as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Financial assistance under scheme SA.57015 (2020/N)
Interethnic relationships in contemporary communities: how does ethnoracial diversity affect in- and out-group trust, solidarity, and cooperation

The increasingly multiethnic nature of modern societies has spurred academic interest in the consequences of diversity. Recent scholarship has linked ethnoracial diversity to undesirable collective outcomes, e.g., low levels of trust, civic engagement, and social capital. These findings have important policy implications, in part because they resonate with public anxieties about immigration, residential integration, and the role of the welfare state. The proposed research will investigate the micro-mechanisms through which contact promotes or impedes solidarity and cooperation in diverse communities. More generally, this research moves beyond communitarian conceptions of social capital to understand the building blocks of solidarity in contemporary, diverse societies. 

To investigate the micro-level dynamics that link intergroup contact to solidarity and cooperation, this project takes an innovative field-experimental approach, which moves beyond observational data. In particular, the project uses lab-in-the-field experimental games to assess the dispositional mechanisms – such as generalized altruism, group solidarity, reciprocity, and sanctioning – that bring about solidarity and cooperation in various group settings.

This revised version of the proposal addresses all the panel observations and implements changes accordingly. First, I have limited the research to project 3 (P3), and cut projects 1 (P1) and 2 (P2). Second, the duration of the project has been reduced to 48 months. Third, all expenses related to P1 and P2 have been cut.
Cross-border cooperation and best practices for urban waste water treatment in the Isonzo river basin 

This project aims at safeguarding the Isonzo-Soča river and its host of tributaries through the treatment of urban waste water. The Isonzo-Soča is a cross-border river with its source in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia at the heart of the Julian Alps, it enters Italy at Solkan (Salcano) and finally flows on the Adriatic Sea. Its hydrographic basin covers a surface of more than 3,400 km2, one third of which in Italian territory. In addition to being an important water resource, the Isonzo-Soča also plays a significant environmental role (as the water habitat of several animal and plant species) and a tourist one too, therefore it must be safeguarded. The “DISO-PRA” project consists in the upgrading of the water treatment plant serving the Municipality of Pradamano, which meets the demand of up to 400 inhabitants. In this sense, the Municipality has acquired a new general plan for the sewage system which will centralize the water treatment process in one single facility. to be located in the vicinity of the purification plant of Lovaria, to discharge sewage water in the Torre stream. The works will be concluded with the re-channelling of the sewage waters of the main urban centre, where the purification plant needs upgrading. The infrastructural actions listed above concern the upgrading of the sewage purification lines of the municipal plant, in order to improve the quality of sewage water in the Torre stream and to meet existing regulations and safeguard the receiving water body from an environmental point of view. The project - which represents the implementation on Italian soil of the experience acquired by Slovenian Municipalities that are partners in the framework of similar actions along the Isonzo-Soča river, financed under PHARE-CBC Programme ECO-ADRIA 2001- intends to contribute to the definition of a joint plan to safeguard natural resources in the cross-border area. It also envisages the organisation of technical meetings with visits to the plants located in Slovenia and in Friuli Venezia Giulia to foster the mutual transfer of know-how, and the promotion and dissemination of the results achieved, to be illustrated on the occasion of special events.
Clinical, Electrodiagnostic, and Genetic Features of Tangier Disease in an Adolescent Girl with Presentation of Peripheral Neuropathy

Tangier disease (TD) is a rare, autosomal recessive inherited disorder caused by a mutation in the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter 1 (ABCA1) gene, which results in a decrease in plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. Peripheral neuropathy can be seen in approximately 50% of patients with TD, which usually occurs after the age of 15 years, and is characterized by relapsing-remitting mono- or polyneuropathy or syringomyelia-like neuropathy. Herein, we report a 16-year-old female patient who was initially diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy at the age of 13 years. Whole exome sequencing was performed, and a nonsense mutation (p.Arg1817X) in ABCA1 was identified. The patient was investigated for systemic findings of TD after the genetic diagnosis was made, and low (< 5 mg/dL) levels of HDL cholesterol were detected by lipid electrophoresis. Other family members were reexamined after the diagnosis of the proband, and asymptomatic sister of the proband was diagnosed with TD. We would like to emphasize that TD should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pediatric patients presenting with peripheral neuropathy; furthermore detection of HDL levels by lipid electrophoresis is a simple but indicative diagnostic test.
HYBRID-CAPTURE SEQUENCING FOR DETERMINING IMMUNE CELL CLONALITY

In an aspect, there is provided, a method of capturing a population of T-Cell receptor and/or immunoglobulin sequences with variable regions within a patient sample, said method comprising: extracting/preparing DNA fragments from the patient sample; ligating a nucleic acid adapter to the DNA fragments, the nucleic acid adapter suitable for recognition by a pre-selected nucleic acid probe; capturing DNA fragments existing in the patient sample using a collection of nucleic acid hybrid capture probes, wherein each capture probe is designed to hybridize to a known V gene segment and/or a J gene segment within the T cell receptor and/or immunoglobulin genomic loci.
sm@rt region

The Sm@rt Region project aims at strengthening co-operation potentials between regional development units and their work environment in the regions involved in the project. The intensified co-operation should foster spatial integration. This will be achieved by applying a Knowledge and Information Manager (KIM) model which will be developed after an intensive analysis and survey of the participating regions. The main tasks and duties of the KIM model are to provide a comprehensive overview of development processes on different levels (regional, national, interregional bi- and multi-lateral) and to address potential areas of regional development in an integrative manner. The KIM model will be anchored in the participating regions and transferred to an enlarged network of project partner organisations, thus contributing to overcoming regional disparities between candidate states and EU Member States as well as other countries. The main objective of the project is to tackle regional imbalances within the CADSES area as well as imbalances between rural and urban areas by fostering and supporting the co-operation potential between small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and local administrations as well as other stakeholders. The project should support regional economies by setting up methods for interregional sector and transsector co-operation between economic, scientific, administrative and technological resources. Moreover, the promotion of innovation, education, training, research and development is a further objective.
University - SMEs Collaboration to Support the Economic Growth: A Mauritian Case Study

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) make a substantial contribution to economic growth and employment in most countries around the world including the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Most countries have set up schemes to encourage creation of new SMEs as well as expansion of existing businesses. Many of the SMEs are family businesses and are managed by the owners/entrepreneurs. The SMEs usually face great difficulty when it comes to expansion as they lack the technical know-how to support the expansion plan and very often the cost of the equipment coupled with lack of financial support prevent many of these companies to even think of new investment. They are also not willing to share too much information about their companies due to competition and tax evasion purposes. In many Small Island Developing States (SIDS) the market is very limited and it may be difficult for the SMEs to export their products, hence further limiting investment. The cost of state of the art equipment available off the shelf are usually very high and very often they are loaded with lots of functions that may not be required by the specific SMEs. Local Universities can support SMEs by designing low cost equipment to meet their needs. There must be a proper coordination and support between University, SMEs, an appropriate institution doing the link between University and SMEs and the funding institutions. The government, through the funding institutions, can provide a fraction of the funds to develop the prototype. Many small projects have already been considered by the University of Mauritius and two such projects are discussed in this paper. The design and implementation (in some cases) clearly show that there is a possibility of collaboration between Universities and SMEs together with the help of appropriate institutions in SIDS to support the sector. Keywords: Small and Medium Enterprises, University Collaboration, Small Island Developing States
A New Recovery Scheme Against Short-to-Long Duration Transient Faults in Combinational Logic

This paper presents a new recovery scheme for dealing with short-to-long duration transient faults in combinational logic. The new scheme takes earlier into account results of concurrent error detection (CED) mechanisms, and then it is able to perform shorter recovery latencies than existing similar strategy. The proposed scheme also requires less memory resources to save input contexts of combinational logic blocks. In addition, this work also proposes a taxonomy of CED techniques. It allows pointing out which are the necessary recovery resources as well as identifying which are the types of CED mechanisms that can be used with the new recovery scheme of this paper. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme was evaluated through electrical-level simulations. For all short-to-long duration transient-fault injections, it was never slower than state-of-art similar strategy, and indeed its recovery latency was faster for 34 % of the simulated faulty scenarios.
Waves in the Witten Bubble of Nothing and the Hawking Wormhole

We investigate the propagation of the scalar waves in the Witten space-time called "bubble of nothing" and in its remarkable sub-manifold, the Lorentzian Hawking wormhole. Due to the global hyperbolicity, the global Cauchy problem is well-posed in the functional framework associated with the energy. We perform a complete spectral analysis that allows to get an explicit form of the solutions in terms of special functions. If the effective mass is non zero, the profile of the waves is asymptotically almost periodic in time. In contrast, the massless case is dispersive. We develop the scattering theory, classical as well as quantum. The quantized scattering operator leaves invariant the Fock vacuum: there is no creation of particles. The resonances can be defined in the massless case and they are purely imaginary.
Integrating software engineering data using semantic web technologies

A plethora of software engineering data have been produced by different organizations and tools over time. These data may come from different sources, and are often disparate and distributed. The integration of these data may open up the possibility of conducting systemic, holistic study of software projects in ways previously unexplored. Semantic Web technologies have been used successfully in a wide array of domains such as health care and life sciences as a platform for information integration and knowledge management. The success is largely due to the open and extensible nature of ontology languages as well as growing tool support. We believe that Semantic Web technologies represent an ideal platform for the integration of software engineering data in a semantic repository. By querying and analyzing such a repository, researchers and practitioners can better understand and control software engineering activities and processes. In this paper, we describe how we apply Semantic Web techniques to integrate object-oriented software engineering data from different sources. We also show how the integrated data can help us answer complex queries about large-scale software projects through a case study on the Eclipse system.
Radiolytic decomposition of pesticide carbendazim in waters and wastes for environmental protection

The radiolytic degradation of widely used fungicide, carbendazim, in synthetic aqueous solutions and industrial wastewater was investigated employing γ-irradiation. The effect of the absorbed dose, initial concentration and pH of irradiated solution on the effectiveness of carbendazim decomposition were investigated. Decomposition of carbendazim in 100 μM concentration in synthetic aqueous solutions required irradiation with 600 Gy dose. The aqueous solutions of carbendazim have been irradiated in different conditions, where particular active radical species from water radiolysis predominate. The obtained data have been compared with the kinetic modeling. The reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography was used for the determination of carbendazim and its radiolytic decomposition products in irradiated solutions. The changes of toxicity of irradiated solutions were examined with different test organisms and human leukemia cells.
AQUEOUS POLYURETHANE STOVING LACQUERS AND THE USE THEREOF FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LACQUER FILMS AND COATINGS

AQUEOUS POLYURETHANE STOVING LACQUERS AND THE USE THEREOF FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LACQUER FILMS AND COATINGS The present invention is directed to aqueous stoving lacquers containing pigments or fillers wherein the binders are based on combinations of (a) polyurethane prepolymers containing partly or completely neutralized carboxyl groups and blocked isocyanate groups and (b) polyurethane prepolymers containing free hydroxyl groups and partly or completely neutralized carboxyl groups. The binder components are further characterized by polyester and polyether segments, each being present in amounts of greater than 10% by weight. The present invention is also directed to films and coatings prepared from these aqueous stoving lacquers.
INTEGRATED PROCESS AND ORGANISATION INNOVATION TO OPTIMISE THE ENTIRE VALUE CHAIN

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW PRODUCTION PROCESS AND WILL BE PUT FORWARD. THIS WILL BE GIVEN OVER TO A FIRM TOWARDS A FACTORY ZONE 4.0Â. ALL ACTIVITIES WILL BE INTERLINKED AND WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMISATION OF ALL BUSINESS DIVISIONS. THE PROJECT PROVIDES FOR A SUBSTANTIAL AND ARTICULATED PROCESS OF INNOVATION IN BOTH THE PROCESSES AND OF THE ORGANISATION OF THIS ORGANISATION, WHICH THROUGH DIGITALISATION WILL ENSURE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALL SAAS AND THE EXPLOITATION OF ANY PART OF THE VALIDEST CHAIN.
Can ratio of blood/curettage material HCG be used as a reliable method for differentiating miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy?

Objective : There is an increasing rate of ectopic pregnancy with the use of assisted reproductive techniques. There is currently no serum test to differentiate ectopic pregnancy from miscarriage. Early and accurate detection of ectopic pregnancy may prevent the development of complications. The aim of this study was whether the ratio of serum/curettage material hCG could provide us with reliable and early diagnosis in distinguishing miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies and also to measure the diagnostic accuracy rate of this method.A total of 24 patients were evaluated. Twelve of them were diagnosed as an ectopic pregnancy and 12 of them were diagnosed as a miscarriage. All the patients' diagnoses were confirmed pathologically. Non-of the patient had viable fetus. All participants underwent curettage protocol. Serum and curettage material were obtained at the same time. HCG measurements were done from blood and curettage material.Ratio of Blood/Curettage Material HCG provides fast and reliable results within a few hours with 91.7% accuracy rates.Ratio of blood/curettage material HCG can be used as a reliable method for differentiating ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage.