SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Reproducing Deportability: Migrant Agricultural Workers in South-western Ontario

Deportability, or a threat of deportation, can be viewed as a technique of discipline employed to make migrant workers efficient and compliant. Under the threat of deportation, migrants accept dangerous, dirty, degrading and difficult jobs for low pay. Deportability also prevents them from challenging their working and living conditions either individually or collectively. Most of the literature on deportability applies to unauthorised migrants. Yet, as illustrated in this article, migrants employed legally on temporary contracts are also disciplined through a threat of deportation. While for unauthorised migrants, it is the receiving state that is the most important actor (re)creating the regime of deportability, for legally employed migrants, other actors––such as employers, the sending states, recruiters and international organisations––assume a more important role in employing the threat of deportation as a disciplinary technique. In this article, we explore how power is reproduced in this disciplinar...
Genome editing strategies: potential tools for eradicating HIV-1/AIDS

Current therapy for controlling human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection and preventing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) progression has profoundly decreased viral replication in cells susceptible to HIV-1 infection, but it does not eliminate the low level of viral replication in latently infected cells, which contain integrated copies of HIV-1 proviral DNA. There is an urgent need for the development of HIV-1 genome eradication strategies that will lead to a permanent or "sterile" cure of HIV-1/AIDS. In the past few years, novel nuclease-initiated genome editing tools have been developing rapidly, including zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and the CRISPR/Cas9 system. These surgical knives, which can excise any genome, provide a great opportunity to eradicate the HIV-1 genome by targeting highly conserved regions of the HIV-1 long terminal repeats or essential viral genes. Given the time consuming and costly engineering of target-specific ZFNs and TALENs, the RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 technology has emerged as a simpler and more versatile technology to allow permanent removal of integrated HIV-1 proviral DNA in eukaryotic cells, and hopefully animal models or human patients. The major unmet challenges of this approach at present include inefficient nuclease gene delivery, potential off-target cleavage, and cell-specific genome targeting. Nanoparticle or lentivirus-mediated delivery of next generation Cas9 technologies including nickase or RNA-guided FokI nuclease (RFN) will further improve the potential for genome editing to become a promising approach for curing HIV-1/AIDS.
NETWORKING MUSEUMS ECOSYSTEM

DO YOU WANT TO IMPLEMENT A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WITH A HIGH RATE OF INNOVATION USING ICT TECHNOLOGIES AND CREATIVE SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE ONLINE LEARNING IN THE FIELD OF CULTURAL GOODS AND TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE ARTISTS’ HERITAGE
Cross-border Cultural Routes

The project aims at enhancing economic competitiveness and social cohesion of the eligible areas, taking into advantage the comparative assets of the regions and targeting at their sustainable development. More precisely, the main objectives of the project would be summarized as follows:
• Enhancing both areas’ cultural and social cohesion
• Preserving cultural heritage within the framework of thematic tourism promotion
• Building a cooperation link which will allow both regions to develop and valorize their cultural tradition, create bonds and exchange information, know-how and good practices.
• Promoting cultural treasures of each region, making clear the interactive relationship between sustainable development and the preservation of the cultural heritage
• Developing synergies with other related projects, in order to make the cross-border area a significant tourist destination.
• Stimulating local economy and promoting local and traditional products, responding to locals’ need for economic growth
• Adapting of new tourism trends for more sophisticated/alternative forms of tourism trends.
Scalable optimization of power systems with  flexible demand and renewable supply

The large-scale integration of renewable resources in electric power systems requires the mobilization of flexible consumers who can adapt their consumption to the variable and uncertain fluctuation of renewable supply. The mobilization of demand-side flexibility remains an elusive goal in electric power systems, while the majority of flexible consumers are connected to distribution systems that are currently operated passively. The major obstacles towards the optimal management of demand-side flexibility include the enormous number of flexible consumers (with ensuing challenges for scalable optimization), the presence of uncertainty at all layers of the power grid, and the physical complexity of distribution system power flow. In this context, the ICEBERG project proposes a novel approach towards the proactive utilization of transmission and distribution system resources in a coordinated fashion.

My approach to achieving this ambitious goal is based on three key ingredients. (i) The first ingredient is a novel approach for planning and simulating the dispatch of the system which exploits the structure of distribution networks and can scale to systems of arbitrary size. (ii) The second ingredient is an original optimization framework for tackling uncertainty and non-convexity at every layer of the system. (iii) The third ingredient is a novel implementation of this optimization framework in parallel and distributed computing infrastructure, which will enable the optimal short-term planning and real-time coordination of resources at all layers of the system. 

My vision is to break down the current barriers to renewable energy integration by mobilizing the as yet untapped flexibility that is present at all layers of the network. This will enable the achieving of ambitious sustainability targets with acceptable infrastructure upgrades and without any deterioration in the quality of electric power service, which consumers currently enjoy.
Consensus guidelines on management of childhood convulsive status epilepticus

Status epilepticus has a wide etiological spectrum, and significant morbidity and mortality. Management using a pre-determined uniform protocol leads to better outcomes. Multiple protocols for management of childhood status epilepticus are available, without much consensus.A 'Multi-disciplinary Consensus Development Workshop on Management of Status Epilepticus in Children in India' was organized. The invited experts included Pediatricians, Pediatric neurologists, Neurologists, Epileptologists, and Pediatric intensive care specialists from India, with experience in the relevant field. Experts had previously been divided into focus groups and had interacted on telephone and e-mail regarding their group recommendations, and developed consensus on the topic. During the meeting, each group presented their recommendations, which were deliberated upon by the house and a consensus was reached on various issues; the document was finalized after incorporating suggestions of experts on the draft document.To provide consensus guidelines on evaluation and management of convulsive status epilepticus in children in India (excluding neonatal and super-refractory status epilepticus).Each institution should use a pre-determined protocol for management of status epilepticus; pre-hospital management and early stabilization is the key to a satisfactory outcome of status epilepticus. Pharmacotherapy should not be delayed for any investigations; the initial management should consist of a parenteral benzodiazepine by any route feasible. Subsequent management has been detailed. The group also felt the need for more epidemiological research on status epilepticus from India, and identified certain research areas for the purpose.
A diversity-oriented rhodamine library for wide-spectrum bactericidal agents with low inducible resistance against resistant pathogens

Antimicrobial resistance is a public health emergency and warrants coordinated global efforts. Challenge is that no alternative molecular platform has been identified for discovery of abundant antimicrobial hit compounds. Xanthene libraries have been screened for bioactive compounds. However, the potentially accessible chemistry space of xanthene dyes is limited by the existing xanthene synthesis. Herein we report a mild one-step synthesis, which permits late-stage introduction of a xanthene moiety onto i.e. natural products, pharmaceuticals, and bioactive compounds and construction of a focused library of rhodamine dyes exhibiting facile functional, topographical and stereochemical diversity. In vitro screening yields 37 analogs with mid-to-high bactericidal activity against WHO priority drug-resistant pathogens. These findings suggest that synthetic dye libraries exhibiting high structural diversity is a feasible chemical space combating antibacterial resistance, to complement the natural sources.
O ruralismo na Baixada de Jacarepaguá: a intervenção intelectual na agricultura de subsistência do sertão carioca

Este artigo se configura como análise do impacto referente às alterações socioeconômicas ocorridas no Brasil na virada do século XIX e início do XX, endossadas pelos governos republicanos no pós-abolição em áreas rurais da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, mas sobretudo, na região de Vargem Grande e, especificamente, na Comunidade de Agricultores Negros e Mestiços que deu origem ao Quilombo Cafundá Astrogilda. Os diversos agentes inseridos neste projeto de transformação da nação atuaram nas franjas da cidade como portadores da nova ordem, capitalista, que alterava os padrões de produção, comercialização e, sobretudo, de vida dos indivíduos que habitavam o sertão carioca. Diante das investidas de outsiders, os camponeses cariocas envidaram esforços e adotaram diversas estratégias de resistência para assegurar os seus direitos básicos de moradia, trabalho e sociabilidade.
Individualized interaction in discourse

Humans adapt the content and form of their utterances to different interlocutors (students vs. colleagues vs. granny), and monitor the level of understanding in their conversational partner. Today's NLP systems are however largely blind with respect to individual variation in language comprehension, which in turn leads to misunderstandings and lack of naturalness in the interaction.

The vision of IDDISC is to enable individualised language interaction with computer systems, such that information or explanations generated by a system will fit the user and the situation, by explicitly modelling their state of understanding. This project will break completely new ground by addressing individual differences in comprehension at the pragmatics and discourse level, i.e. with respect to the inferred meaning that goes beyond the literal meaning of an utterance. 

This vision requires ground-breaking contributions at the intersection of individual differences research, language processing models and statistical methods: (a) we will develop innovative models that can predict inferences based on specific cognitive properties of an individual and their domain knowledge; (b) we will undertake foundational research on the factors that lead to individual differences in pragmatic inferences;  (c) we will contribute to new statistical modelling techniques for quantifying similarities between individuals, as well as new methods for modelling inference variation in the NLP pipeline; (d) we will test the success of adaptation to individual characteristics in practical applications.

This project will make it possible to reduce the risk of misunderstandings, and enable adaptation of automatically generated language (e.g., explanations, summaries) to specific users. The new statistical methods and crowd-sourcing paradigms developed as part of this project will open the door to other researchers for investigating individual differences in all areas of language processing.
NON-AEROSOL SHAVING GEL

A non-aerosol shaving gel of the invention consists essentially of a major amount of a resin gel-former which is a crosslinked, neutralized copolymer of maleic anhydride and a C1?-C5? alkyl vinyl ether, a water-soluble soap and water.
Role of periodisation and training method in sports

The concepts ‘training’ and sportsman9s ‘preparation’ in the main coincide, but are not identical. Periodisation and training are the main components and the basic form of preparing the athlete. In other words, it is systematically planned preparation with the help of the exercise methods which realises the main factors of influencing athletes9 progress. The content of training includes all the basic types of preparation of the sportsman – physical, technical, tactical and psychological. Systematic training improves the athlete9s fitness level. It is the basis of his preparedness for sporting achievements. At the same time, training has an impressive effect on the athlete9s physical and spiritual development and his acquisition of vital knowledge and skills. Today even a highly talented sportsman is not in a position to win a medal unless he possesses a certain minimum of the above mentioned factors. It has also become increasingly clear that these factors cannot be developed to the desired level in 1 or 2 years. It is necessary for a person to develop adequate level of physical fitness early in life and then continuously maintain it through regular participation in a well designed activity programme to promote his total physical well being flexibility along with strength, speed and endurance is one of the very basic components of physical fitness (Uppal 1983).
The rediscovery of the cross-border artistic and religious heritage in the mountains

The main objective of the project is to promote and enhance the places of faith and spirituality present in the territory as spaces in which rediscover the history, traditions and religiousness. It also capitalizes and implements the “Romea Strata” project, defining an intervention strategy format that can be replicated also in other areas. The project plans to carry out a cross-border socio-economic analysis, involving the local communities for the conservation of historical-religious, natural and cultural heritage, guaranteeing the integrity of the ecological and environmental systems in which they are connected. Considering the importance that territories have taken during the pilgrimage era and the wealth of places of worship born in that period, the idea of creating a link between them by inserting them into a single spiritual path emphasizes its historical, cultural and religious role making them a tourist attraction and an instrument to support the local economic framework. As part of the project, various events, promotion and communication activities will be organized to disseminate the results of the activities carried out and to expand the existing network. Through the planned actions the project wants to promote also sustainable and inclusive tourism, accessible to all and respectful of local traditions.
Energy-Balanced Distributed Sparse Kernel Machine in Wireless Sensor Network

In wireless sensor networks, classification and regression are very fundamental tasks. To reduce and balance the energy consumption of nodes during training classifiers or regression machines, a distributed incremental learning problem of kernel machine by using 1-norm regularization is studied, and an energy-balanced distributed learning algorithm for the sparse kernel machine is proposed. In this proposal, a novel incremental learning algorithm and an energy-balanced node selection strategy that takes into account the residual energy of node, the number of been accessed and the neighbors number of node are used. Simulation results show that this proposal can obtain pretty consistent prediction correct rate with the batch learning algorithm, and it can get a very simple model. Meanwhile, it has significant advantages with respect to the communication costs and the iterations. Moreover, it can reduce and balance the energy consumption of nodes.
A rapid point-of-care breath ammonia sensor for diagnosis of helicobacter pylori

Helicobacter pylori is classified by the World Health Organisation as a carcinogen leading to gastritis and gastric cancer, the second most lethal cancer. The biggest challenge is to identify the infection at an early stage and give a more complete intervention as more than 85% of infections are asymptomatic. This makes screening/ testing an important primary action in combating H. pyrlori and its life threatening effects. Current non-invasive diagnosis methods are based on radiolabelling and are costly, cumbersome to the technician, inappropriate for wide spread clinical use and time consuming in delivering test results.

AM-SENSE is a completely new and low-cost hand held electrochemical breathalyser device to efficiently and accurately measure the presence of ammonia in a person's breath to screen for H. pyroli giving ‘instant results’. Costs per test will decrease from an average of €60 to €9.50. The key markets for our product are Europe, Asia and the USA. We project, through manufacturing, retailing and licensing of AM-SENSE a turnover of €59 million in 5 years creating 35 new jobs. A sales forecast of 125,000 units has been set for the 5 year post commercialisation period. This will result in reduced gastric cancer incidence, cheaper and faster treatment for H. pyroli infection and lower all round societal cost.

In Phase 1 we intend to test AM-SENSE against gold standards and conduct a more intensified market study, tapping into the knowledge of breathalyser companies through partnerships.

In Phase 2 we intend to integrate the electrodes and electronics with the breath capture device into a single market ready prototype and validate with potential clients.
Design and application of ultrasound PACS based on DICOM

Objective:To construct an automatic platform for ultrasound diagnosis to improve work efficiency and improve the quality of diagnosis,treatment and assisted clinical decision making.Methods:According to the DICOM standard,multi-threaded image data transmission technology,the network cluster distribution storage technology,advanced software and hardware technology and information system,a suitable use of the ultrasound division system was established.Results:After several years of continuous improvement and promotion of the current system normal operation,the department work efficiency has been greatly improved to promote treatment quality and service levels.Conclusion:The application of the system can optimize the business processes of the department,improve treatment quality,standardize the diagnosis and improve the capability of clinical consultation.
Pain distribution and predictors of widespread pain in the immediate aftermath of motor vehicle collision

Musculoskeletal pain is common after motor vehicle collision (MVC). The study objective was to evaluate distribution of pain and predictors of widespread musculoskeletal pain in the early aftermath (within 48 h) of collision.European American adults aged 18-65 years presenting to the emergency department (ED) after collision who were discharged to home after evaluation were eligible. Evaluation included an assessment of reported pre-collision psychological characteristics, crash characteristics, current pain severity and location, and current psychological symptoms. Adjusted risk ratios were estimated using generalized linear models.Among 890 participants included in the study, 589/890 (66%) had pain in three or more regions, and 192/890 (22%) had widespread musculoskeletal pain (pain in seven or more regions). In adjusted analyses, the presence of widespread pain was strongly associated with depressive and somatic symptoms prior to collision, pain catastrophizing, and acute psychological symptoms, and was not associated with most collision characteristics (road speed limit, extent of vehicle damage, collision type, driver vs. passenger, airbag deployment). The reported number of body regions that struck an object during the collision was associated with both reported pre-collision depressive symptoms and with widespread pain.More than one in five individuals presenting to the ED in the hours after MVC have widespread pain. Widespread pain is strongly associated with patient characteristics known to be modulated by supraspinal mechanisms, suggesting that stress-induced hyperalgesia may influence acute widespread pain after collision.
Smart and local renewable energy district heating and cooling solutions for sustainable living

The overall objective of WEDISTRICT is to demonstrate DHC as an integrated solution that exploits the combination of RES, thermal storage and waste heat recycling technologies to satisfy 100% of the heating and cooling energy demand in new DHC and up to 60-100% in retrofitted DHC.  For this purpose, the focus of WEDISTRICT is large-scale replication of best practice: better valorisation of local resources, like renewable and waste heat by making District Heating and Cooling networks more efficient in relation to the use of new resources. In parallel, systems will evolve to provide even more flexible solutions by the integration of innovative molten-salts based thermal storage, the interaction with other energy networks (electricity and gas) and the involvement of end-users (operators and consumers) through ICT-based control and decision making. Finally, to enable significant expansion, cost-effectiveness will be enhanced by transitioning from handicraft to more industrialised solutions that integrate LEAN methodologies to optimise processes and lower costs.
Strengthening the competitiveness of Artronic d.o.o. certification of products

The purpose of the project is to strengthen the competitiveness of Artronic certification of new products. The central problem of applicants, Artronic d.o.o. has reduced competitiveness given that the lack of a product certificate prevents the placing of a new generation of products on the market.Adresated problem will be resolved by certification 4 new product types. The project’s target groups are the company and its employees and, in addition, the business partners and corporate customers will benefit significantly.
Research of Legal Issues of Natural Resources Protection under the Public Ownership

China's natural resources are public and a system of usufructury right for natural resources has been set up.However,there is certain tension relationship between the system of usufructury rights and protection of natural resources.Public ownership will lead to the tragedy of the commons.Owners of the usufructuary may destructively use the natural resources.So a unified state-owned natural resource system must be established.Natural resources usufructuary rights protection mechanisms must be improved.The deadline of usufructuary must be extended.The circulation channels of the natural resources of usufructuary should be constructed.Management of natural resources usufructuary should be strengthened.Obtaining usufructuary shall be paid and meet certain conditions of resource protection.When usufructuary use natural resources,they shall comply with the provisions of the obligation to protect natural resources.The responsibility of destructive using of natural resources is civil liability firstly,and then are administrative responsibility and criminal liability.