SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
AUXILIARY NOZZLE FOR A WEAVING MACHINE

Weaving machine with an auxiliary nozzle (8) and auxiliary nozzle (8) for supporting a weft thread in a weaving machine, which auxiliary nozzle (8) comprises a hollow needle (11), wherein the hollow needle (11) comprises an elliptical outflow aperture (25) close to the tip (12) of the auxiliary nozzle (8), wherein the height of the outflow aperture (25) along the length axis (27) of the auxiliary nozzle (8) is smaller than the width of the outflow aperture (25) transversely to the length axis (27) of the auxiliary nozzle (8).
HPLC-DAD-MS/MS profiling of phenolics from Securigera securidaca flowers and its anti-hyperglycemic and anti-hyperlipidemic activities

Securigera securidaca (L.) Degen & Doefl., Fabaceae, has been widely used in the Iranian, Indian and Egyptian folk medicine as antidiabetic and anti-hyperlipidemic remedy. Phenolic profiling of the ethanolic extract (90%) of the flowers of S. securidaca was performed via HPLC-DAD-MS/MS analysis in the positive and negative ion modes. The total polyphenols and flavonoids in the flowers were determined colorimetrically, and the quantification of their components was carried out using HPLC-UV. Total phenolics and flavonoids estimated as gallic acid and rutin equivalents were 82.39 ± 2.79 mg/g and 48.82 ± 1.95 mg/g of the dried powdered flowers, respectively. HPLC-DAD-MS/MS analysis of the extract allowed the identification of 39 flavonoids and eight phenolic acids. Quantitative analysis of some flavonoids and phenolics (mg/100 g powdered flowers) revealed the presence of isoquercetrin (3340 ± 2.1), hesperidin (32.09 ± 2.28), naringin (197.3 ± 30.16), luteolin (10.247 ± 0.594), chlorogenic acid (84.22 ± 2.08), catechin (3.94 ± 0.57) and protocatechuic acid (34.4 ± 0.15), in the extract. Moreover, the acute toxicity, hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects of the extract were investigated using alloxan induced diabetes in rats in a dose of 100, 200, and 400 mg/kg bwt. The ethanolic extract was safe up to a dose of 2000 mg/kg. All tested doses of the flower extract showed marked decrease in blood glucose level by 31.78%, 66.41% and 63.8% at 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg bwt, respectively, at p < 0.05. Regarding the anti-hyperlipidemic effect, a dose of 400 mg/kg of the flower extract showed the highest reduction in serum triacylglycerides and total cholesterol levels (68.46% and 51.50%, respectively at p < 0.05). The current study proved the folk use of the flowers of S. securidaca as anti-diabetic and anti-hyperlipidemic agent which could be attributed to its high phenolic content.
Emergent spacetime and maximally spinning black holes

One of the greatest challenges of theoretical physics is to understand the fundamental nature of gravity and how it is reconciled with quantum mechanics. Black holes indicate that gravity is holographic, i.e. it is emergent, together with some of the spacetime dimensions, from a lower-dimensional field theory. The emergence mechanism has just started to be understood in certain special contexts, such as AdS/CFT. However, very little is known about it for the spacetime backgrounds relevant to the real world,  due mainly to our lack of knowledge of the underlying field theories.

My goal is to uncover the fundamental nature of spacetime and gravity in our universe by: i) formulating and working out the properties of the relevant lower-dimensional field theories and ii) studying the mechanism by which spacetime and gravity emerge from them. I will adress the first problem by concentrating on the near-horizon regions of maximally spinning black holes, for which the dual field theories  greatly simplify and can be studied using a combination of conformal field theory and string theory methods. To study the emergence mechanism, I plan to adapt the tools  that were succesfully used to understand  emergent gravity in anti de-Sitter (AdS) spacetimes  - such as holographic quantum entanglement and conformal bootstrap - to  non-AdS, more realistic spacetimes.
The architecture of william burn: style and identity in scotland's imperial age

BURN-BEYOND is a study of the Scottish architect William Burn (1789-1870), the progenitor of ‘Scots Baronial’ architecture, one of the earliest and most distinctive examples of a self-consciously ‘national’ revivalist style. Burn’s career spanned the period when the world was being transformed by British imperial and economic power and by the aftermath of the French Revolution, when architecture became an enduring vehicle for defining national, political and social identities. His achievement was to formulate a pro-Scottish architectural identity that was simultaneously accepted as pro-establishment and British. His work is of special contemporary relevance given the recent resurgence of nationalist politics in the face of contemporary trends towards economic and cultural globalisation. This study will articulate debates over architectural style and national identity in Britain and beyond, and show that, through Burn’s work, the Scots foreshadowed the later 19th-century quest to establish political or cultural difference through national or pseudo-national architectural revivalism. Using innovative approaches to stylistic, spatial and historical analysis, this project will explore the construction of national, imperial, political and gender identities in Burn’s work. It will seek to: establish the motivations for and implications of Burn’s unrivalled stylistic diversity; demonstrate how Burn contributed to the formulation of a Scottish architectural identity; and understand how his famously ingenious domestic planning shaped gender, familial and social relationships. It will therefore generate new insights into the interactions between stylistic choice and social, cultural and political identities in Europe in the Romantic era, and enrich studies of politics, literature, gender relations, the visual arts and nationalism. It will be of particular value to historians studying the emergence of stylistic nationalism elsewhere.
The nonconvective/convective structural transition in stochastic scaling of atmospheric fields

High-resolution numerical weather prediction simulations are able to reproduce observed stochastic scale invariant behavior of atmospheric wind and water fields down to the effective model resolution, which is shown to be a process-dependent transient property that varies with the underlying dynamics. The effective resolution gain in dynamical downscaling of convective regimes is substantially smaller than the grid size decrease indicating that improvements in the model's capacity to resolve small-scale processes require consistent adjustments including both numerical formulation and physical parameterizations. Instantaneous realizations of simulated atmospheric wind and water fields exhibit robust multifractal properties with intrinsically transient scaling behavior depending on the underlying atmospheric state. In particular, a sharp transition in the scaling parameters between nonconvective and convective conditions is found, which explains different scaling regimes reported in the literature for atmospheric wind, temperature, and moisture observations. Spectral slopes around 2–2.3 arise under nonconvective or very weak convective conditions, tightly related to the scaling behavior of the underlying topography. In convective situations the transient scaling exponents remain under 5/3 in agreement with the Kolmogorov turbulent regime accounting for the intermittency correction. These findings have important implications for stochastic downscaling and the implementation of stochastic subgrid scale parameterizations using fractal methods. Specifically, it is shown that, based on scaling arguments, subgrid scale probability distributions of atmospheric moisture can be obtained from the coarse resolution information alone. Our results suggest that fractal methods can be used for estimating temporally and spatially varying regime-based subgrid scale statistics (and realizations of moisture fields) in real time and in a computationally efficient manner that could be useful in climate models.
HOW IMPORTANT ARE TERMS-OF-TRADE SHOCKS?

According to conventional wisdom, terms of trade shocks represent a major source of business cycles in emerging and poor countries. This view is largely based on the analysis of calibrated business-cycle models. We argue that the view that emerges from empirical SVAR models is strikingly different. We estimate country-specific SVARs using data from 38 poor and emerging countries and find that terms-of-trade shocks explain only 10 percent of movements in aggregate activity. We then build a fully-fledged, open economy model with three sectors, importables, exportables, and nontradables, and use data from each of the 38 countries to obtain country-specific estimates of key structural parameters, including those defining the terms-of-trade process. In the estimated theoretical business-cycle models terms-of-trade shocks explain on average 30 percent of the variance of key macroeconomic indicators, three times as much as in SVAR models.
The role of D-dimer in one year recurrence of venous thromboembolism after anticoagulation withdrawal following a first idiopathic deep vein thrombosis

Background: After discontinuing oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT), the recurrence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is greatest in
the 1st year and gradually diminishes. D-dimer assay was proposed to be eff ective in selecting patients with idiopathic DVT. Th e aim
of this study was to determine the rate of VTE recurrence after discontinuing OAT according to the results of D-dimer. Materials
and Methods: Th is prospective study was conducted in patients with a fi rst episode of symptomatic proximal deep vein thrombosis
(DVT) who had received OAT for at least 3 months. Patients were re-evaluated at 1st, 6th and 12th months of their follow-up. At the
fi rst (T0) and 30-day (T1) visits, venous blood samples were taken for D-dimer test. At each follow-up visit, we examined patients
for clinical symptoms or signs of recurrent VTE, bleeding, postthrombotic manifestations, adherence to treatment, and concomitant
analgesic or antiinflammatory therapy. Th e endpoint outcomes were VTE recurrence and complete of this survey follow-ups. Results:
A total of 68 eligible patients was enrolled. Four patients (two patients need to use long-term oral anticoagulation, and two patients
lost their fi rst follow-up) were excluded. At T0, D-dimer and compression ultrasonongraphy (CUS) was normal in 28 patients (44%).
Moreover, 36 patients had abnormal D-dimer but normal CUS. A follow-up of 12 months was available in 44 patients. During the
follow-up, three recurrent events were recorded. All Recurrent events were ipsilateral DVT. Among these index cases, all had an
abnormal D-dimer at either T0 and/or T1. Th e recurrence rate was higher in males than in females (8.6% vs. 2.2%, P = 0.04) with an
abnormal D-dimer at T0 and/or T1 with a multivariate hazard ratio of 2.1 (95% confi dence intervals [CI]: 1.2-5.2; P = 0.02). Patients
older than 65 years had a higher rate of events than younger and hazard ratio was about 3.8 (95% CI: 2.1-4.2; P = 0.02). Patients with
recurrences had higher mean D-dimer at both T0 and T1 when compared with those without recurrences, but the diff erence was
signifi cant only for D-dimer at T1 (P = 0.03). During the follow-up, two patients died (3%). Conclusion: Within 12 months followup,
the risk of recurrence with an abnormal D-dimer, either during or at 1-month after discontinuing OAT, was 4.6% which is much
lower to the annual risk of recurrence in most studies with idiopathic and provoked VTE. D-dimer has an acceptable prognostic
value in detecting recurrence of idiopathic VTE before discontinuing the anticoagulant therapy.
How Corporate Governance Influence on Firms Performance: An Association between Fuel and Power Sector Listed in KSE-100

The purpose of this paper to examines the impact of corporate governance on firm’s performance for listed companies of Fuel and Power. In this paper we analyzed the corporate governance such as board size, board independence block holders on firm performance (ROE, ROA, Tobin’s Q, Firm Size and leverage). It covers the study for the period of 2010-2014 with 15 listed companies of Fuel and Power in KSE using linear regression analysis. The empirical findings show a firm size and leverage is significant effect with corporate governance and also positive association between board of independence and firm’s performance. The research has been limited to some selected fuel and power sector companies focus on the comparison of corporate governance 2002 and 2012. This paper suggests the reforms of corporate governance in Pakistan companies or firms especially in board size and block holders should be promoted to the other sectors. Keywords: Corporate Governance, Fuel and Power Sectors, Karachi Stock Exchange
Lago Maggiore Meeting Industry: green meetings by the blue-waters lake

The project is outlined as follows:
­ Target: congress clients and incentives 
­ Markets: foreign markets, with special attention to Great Britain, France and Switzerland
­ Content: reducing the events’ environmental impact. It involves two lines of action
a) Definition of the “Lake Maggiore Meeting Industry - Green Meetings by the blue-waters Lake" protocol, which contains a series of standards and procedures to reduce the environmental impact of the events. The standards and procedures will be defined and adopted by lake Maggiore stakeholders and communicated to the clients. 
b) Promotion of “Lake Maggiore Meeting Industry - Green Meetings by the blue-waters Lake" on three markets: Great Britain, France and Switzerland. These foreign markets have been chosen based on the  past interest shown and their accessibility to lake Maggiore. The promotion of certified Green Meetings enhances the quality of the area’s environment and landscape.
Prognostic Clinicopathological Factors After Curative Resection of Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma

Small bowel adenocarcinoma is a relatively uncommon neoplasm that accounts for approximately 0.3% to 2.4% of digestive cancers. In comparison with carcinomas of the other areas of the gastrointestinal tract, the prognosis for small bowel adenocarcinoma is generally worse. The prognostic factors of small bowel adenocarcinoma were analyzed retrospectively, and the significance of operative procedure, lymphadenectomy, and adjuvant chemotherapy was evaluated.From 1990 to 2009, 30 patients with small bowel adenocarcinoma who underwent surgery at Osaka Medical College Hospital were analyzed with respect to tumor extent, operation method, and prognosis.Overall 5-year survival was 52.5%, and the median survival time was 27.0 months. On univariate and multivariate analyses, the location (duodenum vs. jejunum and ileum), size (greater or less than 70 mm), and tumor, nodes, and metastasis (TNM) stage (stage 0 + I + II vs. III + IV) of the tumor were the significant prognostic factors. No differences in survival and recurrence rates were observed between patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy and those undergoing partial resection, between those undergoing mural lymphadenectomy and those undergoing extended lymphadenectomy, or between those with and without adjuvant chemotherapy. The combination of surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy did not control recurrence or improve the prognosis.In small bowel adenocarcinoma, location, size, and TNM stage of the tumors were the independent prognostic factors after curative resections. Partial resection with mural lymphadenectomy may be recommended as optimal surgery for small bowel adenocarcinoma.
Material properties in the strong light-matter coupling regime

An electromagnetic mode without photonic excitations still has a non-zero energy - called zero-point energy. The resulting vacuum fluctuations give rise to long known physical effects such as the spontaneous emission. By engineering electromagnetic modes in cavities, vacuum can be made to interact with matter in the extensively studied weak, strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling regimes. The term `light-matter coupling', as well as the optical experimental means by which the regime is usually studied, hides this important fact: vacuum alone gives rise to the coupling and to the mixed light-matter excitations (polaritons) of the system.
In physics, still only few experimental platforms have allowed to observe `vacuum-matter coupling' without photonic excitations. Properties of materials dressed by a cavity were successfully observed by measuring their conductivity [Orgiu et al. Nat. Mater. 14, 1123 (2015); Paravicini-B. et al. Nat. Phys. 15, 186 (2019)]. In recent years, the new field of polaritonic chemistry has identified other material properties altered by vacuum coupling, including chemical reaction rates and thermodynamic properties.
In this project, we intend to expand the new experimental access to the matter part via conductivity measurements to an entirely new system. So far, only highly disordered organic semiconductors [Orgiu] and very high mobility GaAs based electron gases were used [Paravicini-B.]. Here, we suggest a new platform using transition metal dichalcogenides inside a plasmonic cavity. This should work at room temperature and shed more light on the mechanism responsible for vacuum field assisted charge transport. In a second project, we attempt to alter phase transition properties by dressing a chemical to a cavity. Both projects aim to explore the potential of engineering properties of materials with a cavities vacuum field mode. They both mostly rely on optical, electronic and chemical experimental tools available in the host group.
PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF SOLUBLE FIBER FROM UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA ON VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM IN MICE

The objective of this study was to investigate the protective effect of soluble fiber extracted from Undaria pinnatifida (UP) on vascular endothelium and the mechanisms involved. The experiments were performed in aorta and plasma from C57BL/6J control and apolipoprotein E deficient (ApoE-/-) mice treated or not with UP soluble fiber (5 or 10%) for 8 weeks. UP soluble fiber treatment improved endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation, increased the maximal relaxation value, and decreased the half-maximum effective concentration concomitantly with a decrease in asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and malondialdehyde plasma concentrations, and increase in the expression as well as activity of dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase II in ApoE-/- mice. Treatment with UP soluble fiber also significantly decreased reactive oxygen species production in mice aorta. The present results suggest that the protective effect of UP soluble fiber on vascular endothelium may be associated with a decrease in ADMA level in mice.



PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

Soluble fiber have complex beneficial effects on cardiovascular system such as lowering serum cholesterol, inhibiting lipid peroxidation, reducing blood pressure, increasing insulin sensitivity, modulating plasma glucose, improving homocysteine levels, protecting against intima-media thickness progression of the common carotid arteries, and decreasing the serum levels of markers of inflammation. The present work reports that the protective effect of Undaria pinnatifida soluble fiber on vascular endothelium may be associated with a decrease in ADMA level. It complements previous work. This is important because the mechanism responsible for the protective effect of fiber on endothelial function is defined. Furthermore, it provides information for the consumer about the potential effects of fiber and Undaria pinnatifida.
IMPROVED PROCESS FOR APPLYING A POLYSILOXANE TO TISSUE PAPER

Disclosed is a process for making soft tissue paper which includes the steps of wet-laying cellulosic fibers to form a web; drying the web and elevating the web temperature, creping the hot web, and applying low levels of a polysiloxane material to the hot, creped web. Preferably, the hot web is dried to a moisture level below its equilibrium moisture content before application of the polysiloxane material. The process may further include the steps of applying an effective amount of a surfactant material to enhance softness and/or wettability control; and/or an effective amount of a binder material such as starch, for linting control, and/or to contribute tensile strength to the tissue paper.
Mechanism of action of ethylene sulfite and vinylene carbonate electrolyte additives in LiNi<sub>1/3</sub>Mn<sub>1/3</sub>Co<sub>1/3</sub>O<sub>2</sub>/graphite pouch cells: electrochemical, GC-MS and XPS analysis

The role of ethylene sulfite used either alone or in combination with VC in LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 (NMC)/graphite pouch cells was studied by correlating data from differential capacity (dQ/dV) analysis, gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), theoretical calculations, ultrahigh precision coulometry, storage experiments and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. For cells containing VC alone, the electrochemical performance and gas production were greatly improved, compared to cells without VC, due to the formation of more stable and protective SEI films at both electrode surfaces by a polymer of VC. For cells with ES alone, a vigorous reactivity was observed due to preferential reduction that also generated large amounts of gas during formation. The dramatic decrease in electrochemical performance as well as the continuous production of gas during cycling in cells with ES was explained by the formation of a very thin and ineffective SEI film at the NMC surface. The suppression of the vigorous reaction of ES in cells with both ES and VC occurred because the solvation energy of Li(+) by VC is smaller than that of EC so VC is reduced first during formation. During charge-discharge cycling, a slow consumption of ES occurred and different sulfur species were observed on the electrodes when VC was combined with ES. SEI film formation processes and SEI composition were therefore dominated by VC and the electrochemical performance of cells with both VC and ES were similar compared to those of cells with VC alone.
Diversity, Democracy, and Culture

This article asks whether it is morally acceptable for a liberal democratic state to consider refugees’ religious beliefs when determining which refugees it will allow to resettle in its territory. I examine four arguments that might be advanced to defend such religious discrimination: i) that it is not even pro tanto wrongful; ii) that refugee resettlement is a supererogatory act, and therefore the way in which a state might choose to engage in it cannot be a proper subject of moral criticism; iii) that religious discrimination is necessary in the refugee resettlement context in order to preserve the political culture of the receiving state; and iv) that selecting refugees for resettlement in a religiously discriminatory manner may lead to a net increase in the total number of the world’s refugees that are resettled. I conclude that the first and second rationales should be rejected outright. I argue that the third argument could theoretically succeed in justifying religious discrimination in refugee resettlement decisions, but is not at all plausible in the actual world we inhabit today, given the very low number of refugees that are resettled. I recommend caution in advancing the fourth defence of religious discrimination, and elucidate the range of considerations – as well as the empirical facts that cannot be assumed into existence in advance – upon which its success would depend.