SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Drug Abuse and Consequences by this Phenomenon into Albanian Adolescents in Tetovo

Given the facts that deviant behavior such as: delinquency, alcoholism, narcomany, violence, crimes among adolescent peoples are very spread in our country, it is more important to  know what are the social causes and consequences from abuse with narcotics substances at young peoples, especially in the town Tetovo and its surrounding. The social elements who describe the narcomany and abuse with drug types among adolescent peoples is to talk about personality of these children,  influences of their family, school and educations impact, the neighborhood etc. So in this work amy research is based in empirical facts and arguments that will arrive by survey and opinions from groups of students of high schools in Tetovo, focused in means of access for the kind of drugs who used their peers, locations that exploitation for  using drugs and consequences by abuses with drugs substances. Keywords: teenager, drug abuse, family, school, peers.
A cost-effective approach for ubiquitous broadband access based on hybrid PLC-VLC system

Visible light communication (VLC) using the light emitting diode (LED) will become an appealing alternative to the radio frequency communication technology for indoor wireless broadband access. However, VLC needs a ubiquitous network as its backbone to avoid becoming an information isolated island. Power line communication (PLC) systems could easily solve the informative problem of VLC while powering the LED lamps at the same time, which is considered as a good partner of VLC for the cost-effective implementation. In this paper, a novel and cost-effective framework of ubiquitous indoor broadband access based on deeply integrated VLC and PLC technology with only low-cost modification to the current infrastructure is therefore proposed. The broadband access network supports duplex transmission through each LED using the decode-and-forward (DF) working mode. This paper will present our recent research progress in this area, including a prototyping of duplex voice communications network based on hybrid PLC and VLC in our lab. Our research and development plan in this area for the near future will also be covered.
Structural vulnerabilities to HIV/STI risk among female exotic dancers in Baltimore, Maryland

Female exotic dancers (FEDs) are an important, yet understudied group of women who may engage in drug- and sex-related HIV/STI risk behaviors through their work. The study objective was to identify co-occurring indicators of vulnerability (e.g., housing, income, incarceration) associated with HIV/STI risk behavior among FEDs in Baltimore, Maryland. Surveys administered during July 2008-February 2009 captured socio-demographic characteristics, drug use, and sexual practices among dancers (N = 101) aged ≥18 years. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the relationship between vulnerability and risk behavior. Dancers with a high vulnerability score (i.e., 2 or more indicators) were more likely to report sex exchange (AOR: 10.7, 95% CIs: 2.9, 39.9) and multiple sex partnerships (AOR: 6.4, 95% CIs: 2.3, 18.3), controlling for demographics and drug use, compared to their less vulnerable counterparts. Findings point to primacy of macro-level factors that need to be addressed in HIV/STI prevention efforts targeting this and other high-risk populations.
Hedge fund allocation: Evaluating parametric and nonparametric forecasts using alternative portfolio construction techniques

We propose a model for constructing Asian funds of hedge funds. We compare the accuracy of forecasts of hedge fund returns using an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model, a nonparametric regression model, and a nonlinear nonparametric model. We backtest to assess these forecasts using three different portfolio construction processes: an “optimized” portfolio, an equally-weighted portfolio, and the Kelly criterion-based portfolio. We find that the Kelly criterion is a reasonable method for constructing a fund of hedge funds, producing better results than a basic optimization or an equally-weighted portfolio construction method. Our backtests also indicate that the nonparametric forecasts and the OLS forecasts produce similar performance at the hedge fund index level. At the individual fund level, our analysis indicates that the OLS forecasts produce higher directional accuracy than the nonparametric methods but the nonparametric methods produce more accurate forecasts than OLS. In backtests, the highest information ratio to predict hedge fund returns is obtained from a combination of the OLS regression with the Fung–Hsieh eight-factor variables as predictors using the Kelly criterion portfolio construction method. Similarly, the highest information ratio using forecasts generated from a combination of the nonparametric regression using the Fung–Hsieh eight-factor model variables is achieved using the Kelly criterion portfolio construction method. Simulations using risk-adjusted total returns indicate that the nonparametric regression model generates superior information ratios than the analogous backtest results using the OLS. However, the benefits of diversification plateau with portfolios of more than 20 hedge funds. These results generally hold with portfolio implementation lags up to 12 months.
Effective clinical reasoning in virtual patients

The European Commission estimates in the report "Patient Safety and Quality of Care" (2014)1 that each year 8 - 12% of hospitalized patients suffer from adverse events, including errors in diagnosis. One reason for the occurrence of such errors is a lack of clinical reasoning skills, a core competency that medical students have to learn during their studies (Norman 2005, Scott 2009).
Clinical reasoning is often taught in face-to-face courses such as bedside-teaching, problem-based tutorials or during internships. Since the early nineties virtual patients (VPs) became more and more important in medical education to teach clinical reasoning skills (Cook 2009).
The knowledge gap this project addresses was raised by Cook et al. (2009, 2010) and, until know, remains unaddressed. He concluded that there is no evidence how VP design variations influence clinical reasoning acquisition and that it is not fully understood how VPs teach clinical reasoning and how this process could be improved.
Therefore, in this project research will be undertaken to develop and assess an effective clinical reasoning tool to be embedded into VPs, and create guidelines on how to implement the tool based on the outcomes of an interdisciplinary grounded theory approach.
The success of the project builds on the applicant's strong expertise in creating, integrating, and researching VPs, as well as on her interdisciplinary background in medicine, medical education research, and computer science, which enables her to manage all aspects of the project.
The project will have a major impact on the applicant's career development, enabling her to become an independent researcher and ultimately establish her own research group within the field of virtual patients.
Such a detailed elaboration of clinical reasoning in VPs will improve students' diagnostic skills potentially leading to a reduction of diagnostic errors, avoiding unnecessary treatment and pain for patients and reducing healthcare costs.
A CIRCUIT BOARD WITH SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED CONNECTION TERMINALS

A circuit board (10) with spaced circuits (13) and connection terminals (12) of metal for connection of electrical components (11) between the connection terminals by means of electrically conductive glue (14), which connects the connection terminals (12) and the components (11) electrically and mechanically. The connection terminals (12) are designed in pairs with substantially continuous fronts (15) facing each other with a space (18), which is delimited behind the front (15) and is free from circuits (13) and connection terminals (12), for receiving and adhesion of the glue (14).
Assessing the Allocation of CDBG to Community Development Need

This article evaluates how well the current allocation formula for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program allocates funds with respect to community development need. We assemble an index of community development need from a variety of demographic and economic indicators which capture the components of need that can be addressed directly by the CDBG program based on its statutory objectives. We use this index to estimate the relation between funding levels and community development need and how this relation has changed over time. In particular, we assess the effectiveness of targeting by examining the horizontal and vertical equity of the formula. Results suggest that the relation between the formula data inputs and community development need has deteriorated over the past two decades. The present formula is shown to underfund Formula A grantees conditional on need and to overfund a select number of high-income, slow-growth, older communities. Finally, we consider several alternative formula...
Expression of the 5-HT1A Serotonin Receptor in the Hippocampus Is Required for Social Stress Resilience and the Antidepressant-Like Effects Induced by the Nicotinic Partial Agonist Cytisine

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) blockers potentiate the effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in some treatment-resistant patients; however, it is not known whether these effects are independent, or whether the two neurotransmitter systems act synergistically. We first determined that the SSRI fluoxetine and the nicotinic partial agonist cytisine have synergistic effects in a mouse model of antidepressant efficacy, whereas serotonin depletion blocked the effects of cytisine. Using a pharmacological approach, we found that the 5-HT1A agonist 8-OH-DPAT also potentiated the antidepressant-like effects of cytisine, suggesting that this subtype might mediate the interaction between the serotonergic and cholinergic systems. The 5-HT1A receptors are located both presynaptically and postsynaptically. We therefore knocked down 5-HT1A receptors in either the dorsal raphe (presynaptic autoreceptors) or the hippocampus (a brain area with high expression of 5-HT1A heteroreceptors sensitive to cholinergic effects on affective behaviors). Knockdown of 5-HT1A receptors in hippocampus, but not dorsal raphe, significantly decreased the antidepressant-like effect of cytisine. This study suggests that serotonin signaling through postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors in the hippocampus is critical for the antidepressant-like effects of a cholinergic drug and begins to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying interactions between the serotonergic and cholinergic systems related to mood disorders.
A METHOD OF CRACKING AND/OR DEMULSIFICATION OF HYDROCARBONS AND/OR FATTY ACIDS IN EMULSIONS

The invention relates generally to a method for cracking and/or demulsification of hydrocarbons and/or fatty acids in emulsions, wherein these hydrocarbons and/or fatty acids in emulsions are exposed to an electromagnetic field created by a microwave emitting process, whereas this electromagnetic field is correlated with the oscillation frequency of the longer chained molecules of these hydrocarbons and/or fatty acids, by either adapting the exact correlated frequency and/or by adjusting the electromagnetic field to the properties of the targeted hydrocarbon and/or fatty acid molecules and its emulsions by adding suitable catalysts and by applying the correlated microwave output power.
From hazardous waste to reusable raw materials

Hazardous wastewaters generated by chemical production, manufacturing, mining and other industrial activities can cause substantial harm to human health and to the environment. 

There are several treatment technologies in use to limit these negative effects. However, these technologies do not solve the issue for good. The sludge that is left over after the treatment is still hazardous and has to be stored in costly controlled landfill deposits for indefinite period of time.

Improper hazardous waste storage or disposal frequently contaminates surface and groundwater supplies. Continuing accumulation of hazardous waste is increasing the risk of leakages that threat the wildlife as well as the safety of our drinking water.

Finnish SME Global EcoProcess Services Oy has developed, patented and tested a simple new technology that enables to remove metals from the wastewater completely, so that just purified water and solid metals are left after the process. Both are reusable in manufacturing as valuable raw materials.

The SMEI project focuses on speeding up our sales and piloting processes. We will develop and build portable pilot equipment for efficient on-site technology demonstrations and test the new equipment and process together with actual customers.
Culture and Heritage for Responsible, Innovative and Sustainable Tourism Actions

Cultural and natural heritage is very important at all levels, local, regional, national and European, consisting of several dimensions that can lead to resource efficiency, through deployment for sustainable and responsible tourism development with innovative character. Policies for heritage applications to eco-cultural tourism need to be further developed, implemented and monitored, through interregional cooperation.

The common challenges that are jointly tackled in the CHRISTA project are:

- Natural & Cultural Heritage assets are valuable treasures, sometimes in danger and in need of proper conservation, preservation and/or restoration
- These assets can be deployed for the purposes of sustainable and responsible tourism development, namely cultural tourism, heritage tourism and ecotourism
- The tourism potential of these assets may facilitate the preservation and restoration efforts, if performed in a sustainable and responsible way
- Innovation can contribute greatly towards improving cultural and natural heritage policies for sustainable and responsible tourism development.  

The overall objective is to protect and preserve natural and cultural heritage assets and deploy them for the development and promotion of innovative, sustainable and responsible tourism strategies, including intangible and industrial heritage, through interpretation and digitisation, with capitalisation of good practices, policy learning, policy implementation and capacity building.  

Expected changes are in terms of improved policy instruments in destination regions, advances in relevant policy implementation, upgrading of cultural and natural assets and innovative applications.  

Main outputs are action plans, with implementation and monitoring of improved policy instruments in 9 regions, communication and dissemination tools for policy learning and capacity building, contribution to EU policies and EU2020 targets. The beneficiaries are public authorities and their stakeholders.
The role of groups in complex disagreement

The research project “DISAGROUP – The Role of Groups in Complex Disagreement” will investigate the phenomenon of complex disagreement in society from a philosophical perspective. Social epistemology has been mainly devoted to the study of peer disagreement (the kind of disagreement among individuals who share the same evidence and intellectual capacities). However, real-life disagreements such as long-standing religious, political or economic disagreements have a much more complex structure: the involved parties are not normally individual epistemic peers but groups that do not possess the same evidence or intellectual resources, they involve a lot of claims and are usually sustained not for the sake of knowledge but by elements such as faith, hate, intolerance or distrust. DISAGROUP aims to fill a gap in the philosophical literature by giving a general account of the structural elements that make most real-life disagreements so complex and difficult to understand, with a particular focus on the role played by groups in sustaining complex disagreements. In particular, DISAGROUP will address four main research questions: (1) Are the beliefs and other attitudes that ground complex disagreements beliefs and attitudes of groups with their own distinctive agency or by contrast of individuals that merely happen to believe the same thing? (2) Is complex disagreement better characterized in terms of belief or alternatively in terms of acceptance? (3) Can complex disagreement be characterized (at least partially) in terms of a difference in epistemic virtues among the disagreeing parties (groups) and, if so, what kind of virtues are they? (4) What is the rational response to complex disagreement? More specifically, does complex disagreement rationally compel groups to revise their beliefs or joint acceptances or does it also compel them to become more intellectual virtuous?
Trainable Emotional Speech Synthesis Based on PAD

Emotional speech synthesis is the emphasis and hotspot in affective computing and speech signal processing.In speech synthesis,accurate speech emotion analysis is a prerequisite for high-quality synthesis of emotional speech.In this paper,PAD emotional model is used to build a 3D emotional space for sentiment analysis and clustering of emotional corpus of speech in order to get emotional PAD parameters model.The emotional speech is synthesized by HMM speech synthesis system,and the parameters of synthesized speech emotion are modified by PAD model.Therefore,the quality of emotional speech synthesis is improved.The experimental results show that the proposed method improves the naturalness of synthesized speech and the clarity of emotion and also achieves good performance among different male speakers.
MODIFIED HYBRIDE RESIN BASED ON NATURAL FATTY ACIDS AND METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF

The invention relates to natural fatty acid based hybride resins, modified with reactive monomers, and to a method for preparing it. The invention also relates to the use of the modified natural fatty acid based hybride resin as binding agent especially in water based coatings, adhesives and as environmentally friendly wood impregnating agent. The modified natural fatty acid based hybride resin comprises the condensation product of natural fatty acid or natural fatty acid ester, modified with di- or oligo- carboxylic acid or anhydride or half ester, and natural fatty acid based alkyd resin.
Automatic image co-segmentation using geometric mean saliency

Most existing high-performance co-segmentation algorithms are usually complicated due to the way of co-labelling a set of images and the requirement to handle quite a few parameters for effective co-segmentation. In this paper, instead of relying on the complex process of co-labelling multiple images, we perform segmentation on individual images but based on a combined saliency map that is obtained by fusing singleimage saliency maps of a group of similar images. Particularly, a new multiple image based saliency map extraction, namely geometric mean saliency (GMS) method, is proposed to obtain the global saliency maps. In GMS, we transmit the saliency information among the images using the warping technique. Experiments show that our method is able to outperform state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark co-segmentation datasets.
Experimental Study of Dielectric Properties on Human Lung Tissue

This study is aim to investigate the differences of dielectric properties between lung cancer tissue and the normal tissue in vitro and establish the dielectric parameter frequency spectrum of human lung tissue which provide the basic theory and reference data for medical research and clinical diagnosis of lung cancer.Two main categories of tissues were considered as specimens: the central part of the tumor and the normal tissue around the tumor.After operation,specimens was put into test chamber in which the temperature and humidity were controlled at expected values.Then the measurement of specimens' dielectric properties was performed at frequency from 100 Hz to 100 MHz using 4294A impedance analyzer of Agilent Company.Finally the two categories of tissues' characteristic parameters were extracted by using the least square curve fitting method based on Cole-Cole model.The relative permittivity of lung cancer tissue was 3~5 times larger than that of the normal tissue.The conductivity of lung cancer tissue was 1.6~3.3 times larger than that of the normal tissue.Impedance spectroscopy of lung cancer tissue moved apparently to low impedance direction.Among the characteristic parameters(R0,R∞,α,τandfc),the difference of low frequency resistance(R0) between the two categories of tissues was statistically significant(P0.05).The differences of dielectric properties and low frequency resistance between lung cancer tissue and the normal tissue are significant,which provide basic data for human lung tissue's dielectric properties research and EIT measurement.
Pessoa, presença e a frente comum contra Adolfo Rocha (Miguel Torga)/ Pessoa, presença and the common front against Adolfo Rocha (Miguel Torga)

Resumo: A presença, “folha de arte e crítica” de Coimbra, teve um papel fundamental na afirmação dos valores do modernismo português e manteve contatos com um dos seus representantes principais, Fernando Pessoa. Além das cartas trocadas com os diretores da revista, é de salientar o breve contato epistolar entre Fernando Pessoa e Adolfo Rocha (colaborador da presença, mais tarde famoso através do pseudónimo literário de Miguel Torga), porque documenta uma polémica que, pela sua concomitância com a dissidência de Rocha, Edmundo de Bettencourt e Branquinho da Fonseca do grupo da presença, teve um peso relevante na intensificação das relações entre Pessoa e a folha de Coimbra. Esta correspondência, que aqui se apresenta, compõe-se de três documentos conservados na Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa: dois, efetivamente trocados, mais o material preparatório de uma carta que Pessoa resolveu finalmente não enviar.Palavras-chave: Pessoa, presença, Torga, Simões, cartas.Abstract: The literary magazine presença, from Coimbra, played a fundamental role in the affirmation of the values of Portuguese modernism and kept in touch with one of its main representatives: Fernando Pessoa. In addition to the letters exchanged with the magazine’s directors, it is worth mentioning the brief epistolary contact between Fernando Pessoa and Adolfo Rocha (a contributor to presença, who would later become famous through the literary pseudonym of Miguel Torga). The exchange documents a controversy which, since it was concomitant with the dissidence of Rocha, Edmundo de Bettencourt and Branquinho da Fonseca from the presença group, played an important role in the intensification of relations between Pessoa and the Coimbra magazine. This correspondence, presented here, consists of three documents preserved in the National Library of Lisbon: two, effectively exchanged, plus the preparatory material for a letter that Pessoa finally decided not to send.Keywords: Pessoa, presença, Torga, Simões, letters.
(11429.27102016.098000127) GAIP – GARANTIERT AUTHENTISCHES ITALIENISCHES PRODUKT

ZIELT DAS GAIP – GARANTIERT AUTHENTISCHE ITALIENISCHE PRODUKTPROJEKT DARAUF AB, EINEN RÜCKVERFOLGBARKEITSSERVICE ZU ENTWERFEN UND UMZUSETZEN? VON DEN PRODUKTEN, DIE ZUM EINEN ZUR BEKÄMPFUNG VON FÄLSCHUNGEN DIENEN, IST ZUM ANDEREN EIN CHARAKTERISTISCHES ELEMENT FÜR DIE SCHAFFUNG EINES E-COMMERCE-SCHAUFENSTERS FÜR ALLE UNTERNEHMEN, AUCH KLEINE ODER SEHR KLEINE UNTERNEHMEN, DIE DEN EINTRITT IN DIE INTERNATIONALEN MÄRKTE BEABSICHTIGEN. DER SERVICE BESTEHT DAHER IN DER SCHAFFUNG EINES PORTALS, IN DEM ES SPEZIELLE RÄUME FÜR UNTERNEHMEN UND IHRE PRODUKTE GIBT, UND EIN TRACKING-SYSTEM? SPEZIELL ENTWICKELT, DIE ES DEM KÄUFER ERMÖGLICHT, DEN URSPRUNG DES IN JEDEM MARKETINGKANAL GEKAUFTEN PRODUKTS ZU ÜBERPRÜFEN. WIRD DIESE ART VON ANSATZ GARANTIEREN? ZWEI VORTEILE FÜR UNTERNEHMEN, DIE AM PORTAL TEILNEHMEN: 1. VORTEIL VON UNICOT? GARANTIERT ES DIE EINZIGARTIGKEIT? ÜBER DAS PRODUKT UND SEINE AUTHENTIZITÄT? . HEBT SICH DAS UNTERNEHMEN HERVOR? VON ANDEREN ITALIENISCHEN UNTERNEHMEN, DIE KEIN AUTHENTISCHES PRODUKT GARANTIEREN M