SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Not all prospective bicyclists are created equal: The role of attitudes, socio-demographics, and the built environment in bicycle commuting

Abstract Barriers to bicycling may vary widely depending on individual, attitudinal, and built environment characteristics; barriers may be modest for some (e.g. requiring secure bike parking) or significant for others (e.g. improving regional bicycle-accessibility). This research suggests that for a substantial population of travelers who are interested in bicycling but unwilling to cycle regularly, barriers to increasing commute cycling may be different than for individuals who already commute by bicycle at least occasionally. Treating these two populations as one homogenous group may be inappropriate and reduce the effectiveness of bicycle promotion strategies. This research disaggregates these two prospective commute-cyclist populations and tests how attitudes, socio-demographics, and the built environment impact their commute mode choice. Socio-demographic and attitudinal data are drawn from a survey of “Bike to Work Day” participants in Denver, Colorado while built environment measures – including street network connectivity, street network density, and trip distance – were calculated with GIS. Bicycle commuting decisions within the two groups of prospective cyclists are estimated using binary and ordered logistic regression. Distinct socio-demographic and built environment factors are significant for different groups of prospective cyclists. Significant attitudinal variables are similar across groups; for both populations, convenience and utility of the bicycle relative to other modes is significant, suggesting that these factors outweigh issues regarding safety for the sample population. Findings from this research demonstrate that there are important distinctions between the decision to start commuting by bicycle and the decision to increase the frequency of bicycling to work.
The digital ludeme project: modelling the evolution of traditional games

The development of games goes hand in hand with the development of human culture. Games offer a rich window of insight into our cultural past, but early examples were rarely documented and our understanding of them is incomplete. While there has been considerable historical research into games and their use as tools of cultural analysis, much is based on the interpretation of partial evidence with little mathematical analysis. This project will use modern computational techniques to help fill these gaps in our knowledge empirically.

I will represent games as structured sets of ludemes (units of game-related information), which will allow the full range of traditional strategy games to be modelled in a single software system for the first time. This system will not only model and play games, but will evaluate reconstructions for quality and authenticity, and automatically improve them where possible. This will lay the foundations for a new field of study called digital archaeoludology, which will involve addressing technical challenges that could yield significant benefits in their own right, particularly in artificial intelligence.

The ludemic model reveals innate mathematical relationships between games, allowing phylogenetic analysis. This provides a mechanism for creating a family tree/network of traditional games, which could reveal missing links and allow ancestral state reconstruction to shed light on the gaps in our partial knowledge. Locating ludemes culturally provides a mechanism for creating interactive maps that chart the transmission of mathematical ideas across cultures through play. This project seeks to bridge the gap between historical and computational studies of games, to provide greater insight into our understanding of them as cultural artefacts, and to pioneer new tools and techniques for their continued analysis. The aim is to restore and preserve our intangible cultural heritage (of game playing) through the tangible evidence available.
Quantum chemical, spectroscopic and X-ray diffraction studies of 5-methoxy-2-({4-[3-methyl-3-mesityl-cyclobutyl]-thiazol-2-yl}-hydrazonomethyl)-phenol

• We investigate molecular and crystal structure of the new hydrazone derivative. • Crystal structure is stabilized by N H⋯O and C H⋯π intermolecular hydrogen bonds. • The title compound is a good candidate as a nonlinear optical material. The title molecule, 5-methoxy-2-({4-[3-methyl-3-mesityl-cyclobutyl]-thiazol-2-yl}-hydrazonomethyl)-phenol (C 25 H 29 N 3 O 2 S), was prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, IR and X-ray single-crystal determination. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2 1 / c with a = 18.9647(4) Ǻ, b = 11.0203(3) Ǻ, c = 10.8562(2) Ǻ and β = 91.546(2)°. In addition to the molecular geometry from X-ray determination, vibrational frequencies and gauge, including atomic orbital (GIAO) 1 H and 13 C NMR chemical shift values of the title compound in the ground state, were calculated using the Hartree–Fock and density functional methods with the 6-31G(d, p) basis set. The calculated results show that the optimized geometries can well reproduce the crystal structure. Besides, the theoretical vibrational frequencies and chemical shift values show good agreement with experimental values. The calculated first hyperpolarizability of the title compound are greater than those of urea. DFT calculations of the molecular electrostatic potentials, frontier molecular orbitals and thermodynamic properties of the title compound were carried out at the B3LYP/6-31G(d, p) level of theory.
Launch platform for new ideas Hub of Talents

no. Ref.: SA.42798(2015/X) Animators of the launch platform for new ideas – Hub of Talents is 6 technoparks from Podlasie and Warmia-Mazury voivodships listed in points II and VI of the application. More than 50 entities were involved in the implementation of the incubation programme: local self-government units, including the City: Białystok, Olsztyn, Elbląg, Elk, Suwałki and Łomża – in which cycles of incubation will take place; universities, including e.g. Warsaw University of Technology, Białostock University of Technology, Medical University in Białystok, University of Warmia and Mazury; capital funds; a network of business angels; economic self-governments; clusters; business environment institutions and large enterprises, including CISCO Systems Poland sp. z o.o. and Samasz sp. z o.o. Participants of the start-up ecosystem declared support for the incubation program by posting mentors, industry experts, declaring business advice, including financial analyses, conducting workshops with commercialisation, as well as promoting the program in order to attract as many interesting ideas for innovative product/services to the platform. The incubation programme will include basic services provided to start-ups (i.e. legal service, accounting, tax advice, development of corporate identification elements, provision of space to work on the idea), a series of workshops common to all qualified for the programme (including marketing and sales strategies, pitching before investors), as well as tailor-made services designed as part of individual incubation programmes by startup maintainers. The supported companies will be supported by mentors – experienced entrepreneurs. The incubation programme will provide the possibility of incubating ideas submitted by foreigners – in English and designed to support the idea for innovative business from any industry.
Strategies of circular economy and advanced bio-based solutions to keep our lands and seas alive from plastics contamination

SEALIVE aims at demonstrating innovative circular strategies for bio-based plastics in land and sea applications. The project will be driven by economically and technically sustainable business models based on materials with advanced properties, design for circularity techniques and end-of-life solutions. It will establish a partnership of raw material providers, convertors, end users, recyclers, policy experts, certification organizations and NGOs to demonstrate solutions within a shared vision for circular plastic strategies. Solutions for reusable, recyclable and biodegradable bio-based plastics to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds will be demonstrated in four pilot territories: Cyprus, Ireland, France and Denmark (or Non-European site).  

Innovative formulations based on PHAs, PLA and starch materials with advanced properties will be developed following recycling, biodegradability (marine and land) and composting standards. Design for circularity techniques (recyclable multi-layer single packaging materials, digital materials for traceability) and End-of-life solutions (high precision NIR-based mechanical recycling, controlled biodegradation/composting in natural and industrial conditions) will be upscaled at TRL6.  

Solutions will be applied to 8 end-applications with high potential for pollution reduction of soils and water media: rigid food containers, flexible packaging, agricultural films, fish crates, fishing nets and aquaculture mesh bags. Pre-normative research will be carried out to improve current standards for biodegradation, composting and recycling with regards to eco-toxicity, safety and influence of plastic ageing. Policy recommendations at EU and global level will be provided in order to build a common framework enabling pollution reduction of land and sea via sustainable bio-based plastics solutions.
Fishing ancient reasons to address current concerns

Europe’s pristine marine fisheries probably originated in estuarine biotopes rather than on the open shore, while many of what we now consider offshore species were also originally denizens of much shallower waters. These new data do not emerge from traditional historical data, such as landing records, but from a less conventional source: zooarchaeolo-gy. This archaeological data also suggests that estuarine fish were particularly vulnerable to fishing pressure. Through the analysis of pre-historic, historic and modern fish remains from the Iberian Peninsula, FISHARC will explore (1) the origin and evolution of fishing activities in the Northeast Atlantic, and (2) their impacts on fish biodiversity, behaviour and ecology through time and space, with a particular focus on the commercially import species of cod and hake. The project will pair the zooarchaeological expertise of Laura Llorente-Rodríguez, with the state-of-the art biomolecular facil-ities of the BioArCh at the University of York, to 1) develop new molecular methods for accurate fish species identifica-tion; and 2) apply new stable isotope approaches to examine human impacts on the biogeography, trophic level and pop-ulation structure of North Atlantic cod and hake through time. This project will explore a unique source of cultural, ecological and environmental data preserved in archaeological record to generate invaluable baseline data on pre-industrial fish population levels immediately applicable to marine conservation and management issues.

KEYWORDS: fishing origin, fishing evolution, Norhteast Atlantic, ichtyoarchaeology, ecological baselines
Kant in south america

A consortium of 4 EU Universities and 4 Southern American (SA) academic institutions analyze critically the development of Kant scholarship in Southern America in the last 15 years, following the booming of Kant studies in that continent over that period and the exponential increase of its quality. Top SA Kant scholars are enrolled in the project that promises to enlarge greatly the competence of EU colleagues and in turn profit from their feedback. Early stage researchers from both ends also take part to the exchange. The consortium builds on a web of established relations of most of the participants, at the personal and institutional level.
Zone des chasseurs de trésors — Baltic Komfort investit dans une base touristique pour l’organisation de services touristiques innovants

Le projet consiste à lancer le produit touristique original «Treasure Hunter Zone». Le projet prévoit de construire un service touristique avec 21 chambres et appartements allant de 35 à 102 m², qui fournira un hébergement pour les participants aux événements de la «zone de chasse» des célibataires aux familles nombreuses. C’est une offre toute l’année. Le projet est prêt pour la mise en œuvre (a un permis de construire). Outre la construction, l’achat d’équipements, d’équipements touristiques (vélos et scooters électriques) et de logiciels/construction d’applications (utilisation des TIC) et d’équipements pour contrer la COVID-19 est prévu. Facilité adaptée aux conditions de la pandémie: jauges individuelles de qualité de l’air, ventilation avec filtres à air, service de réservation en ligne complet et plus encore. Le produit utilise le potentiel endogène de l’emplacement — la côte de la mer Baltique et le caractère spa du lieu. Situation dans le spa de Dąbki (zone SSW), à environ 200 m de la plage. Le projet s’inscrit dans 3 domaines du tourisme dans la «politique d’autonomie gouvernementale de la voïvodie Z-ski dans le secteur du tourisme». La mise en œuvre augmentera l’attractivité des itinéraires indiqués dans le «Concept du développement et de la commercialisation des itinéraires culturels de Poméranie occidentale....» Itinéraire culturel européen — Itinéraire hanséatique, route de voile de Poméranie occidentale, route piétonne internationale E9. Grâce à la mise en œuvre du projet, l’entreprise introduira une offre de produits et de tourisme innovante sur le marché national et international. Le projet est complémentaire aux projets antérieurs du demandeur et aux projets publics dans le quartier. Il contribuera à établir une coopération avec les fournisseurs et les bénéficiaires de la région. Grâce à la construction d’une station photovoltaïque pour la recharge rapide des vélos et scooters, à l’utilisation de pompes à chaleur, à l’utilisation de l’eau de pluie, le projet implique l’utilisation de solutions pro-écologiques. Le projet est divisé en étapes: mener des procédures pour la construction de l’installation, de l’équipement, de l’application et du guide. La dernière étape — lancement.
Biologically inspired chiral oxidation catalysts for commercial applications of fine chemistry

The ERC-funded project BIDECASEOX ERC-239910 has produced a series of chiral catalysts with broad applicability in various commercial fields associated with synthetic organic chemistry. These catalysts are based in earth abundant metals and activate hydrogen peroxide to perform asymmetric introduction of oxygen atoms into readily available and cheap non chiral organic molecules, producing highly valuable chiral products, leaving water as the only byproduct. By virtue of these reactions, valuable chiral products that nowadays are only accessible by expensive enzymatic methods, or in some cases by toxic, expensive and large waste-producing traditional stoichiometric oxidants, become available in a sustainable manner. Pharmaceutical and agricultural industry, polymer chemistry and fine chemistry are envisioned as potential targets for the interest of the catalysts. With the aim of accelerating their access to the market, the present Proof of Concept (PoC) project, named CHIROXCAT, will target to study the feasibility of bringing these catalysts into a pre-commercial stage. This will be achieved by scaling-up current mg-scale synthetic methods, in order to establish economically optimized multigram scale procedures, and by validating their use in the production of representative chiral molecules of potential interest to the fine chemical industry. This PoC activity will also include an analysis of intellectual property (IP) protection needs within the field of application, as well as setting up the basis for any patent filling procedure required to provide an adequate protection of the catalysts and their uses. Moreover, a market study will be conducted to identify specific potential uses of these compounds, and a review of potential commercialisation partners will be carried out.  The expected outcomes of the PoC project will be the commercial availability of a portfolio of chiral catalysts based in earth abundant metals with application in chemical
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Specialized Villages and Rural Development: A Case Study of Henan Province, China

Regional economic development is inherently uneven as determined by the local conditions and available resources. Specialized villages (SVs) in China played a very important role in the development and economic transformation in rural areas. By integrating regional spatial structure theory, multilevel network theory, and spatial interface theory, this article examines the spatial and temporal evolution of SVs in Henan Province, China. Results from the analyses show that the development of SVs over time progressed in four stages, each corresponding to important adjustments in national agricultural policy. SVs were distributed unevenly in space and the distribution seemed to be scale-dependent. At a macrolevel, SVs displayed a dispersed pattern over a large area. SVs showed localized clusters at a microlevel, however, also exhibiting a core–periphery structure. Rural economic development in China showed that SVs formed a multilevel network hierarchy. We also observed that SVs were often in transitional area...
Soil water storage capacity under chronosequence of revegetation in Yanhe watershed on the Loess Plateau, China

The relationship between vegetation and soil moisture deserves attention due to its scientific importance and practical applications. However, the effects of soil moisture on vegetation development and succession are poorly documented. Here we study soil water storage in Yanhe watershed at northern Shaanxi on five different land uses, namely shrubland, farmland, natural grassland, woodland, and artificial grassland, and in soil under restoration for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25. The results show that (1) soil water in soil 0-60 cm below ground is the highest in farmland, and lower in shrubland, artificial grassland, natural grassland and woodland; (2) soil water in artificial grassland and woodland decreases rapidly as the soil depth increases; whereas soil water in farmland, natural grassland, shrubland and woodland decreases; (3) soil water storage of farmland is greater than that of shrubland, artificial grassland, natural grassland and woodland; and (4) the vegetation succession in soil undergo restoration for different years on eroded soil results in a decrease in soil water storage.
No Evidence of Transmission of Bacteria Between Reptiles and a CF Patient - A Case Report of a Young Adult CF Patient and Reptiles

A microbiological study was undertaken to assess the risk of infection to a CF patient from a collection of pet reptiles, particularly atypical mycobacteria. This study helped to verify that the reptiles under the care of the CF patient did not harbour bacterial organisms that would normally be pathogenic to CF patients. However, the chronic carriage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other pathogens in the CF patient may constitute a greater risk of infection to the animals being handled. Therefore, we recommend stringent infection control precautions by CF patients and their pets, particularly adherence to hand washing and disinfection, when handling the animals, their litter or when working with their immediate environment, to potentially minimize the spread of bacterial and other pathogens from animal to human and vice versa. Detailed risk assessments therefore need to be undertaken by clinicians and veterinarians to detail working models that protect both animals and patients from pathogens originating from the other.
The Roles and Functions Positioning Deviation of the Government and Corrective Measures in Environmental Group Events

After 30 years of rapid economic development,the environmental pollution situation is more and more serious.Along with the awakening of public consciousness of the environment,environmental problems caused by the growing number of mass incidents become increasingly serious,and the situation cannot be ignored.Why the environmental mass incidents continue to occur and unresolved? The fundamental reason lies in the deviation of roles and functions positioning of local government.To eradicate the collusion,we must strengthen supervision;correct the deviation of the government role in the environmental group events.Furthermore,we must transfer government economic functions to social services functions,in order to ensure the environment group events to be resolved and the effect of environmental governance.
Sulphur as a Factor in Soil Fertility

1. Composite soil samples from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin were analyzed for total sulphur, total phosphorus, and volatile matter (loss on ignition), and cooperative fertilizer experiments with gypsum were conducted in fields in Indiana and Kentucky. 2. The analytical data show a general relation between the sulphur content and loss on ignition in soil samples from the same soil type or closely related soil types, but the relation is not apparent when different soil types are compared. 3. The sulphur contents in the surface soil vary from 0.0118 to 0.0905 per cent, while the phosphorus contents vary from 0.0360 to 0.3407 per cent. All the upland soils and most of the alluvial soils are low in sulphur. Most of the Kentucky soils and one of the Indiana soils are high in phosphorus. This is undoubtedly due to the influence of the rock from which the soils were formed, as all the Kentucky samples were from soils derived either from the Trenton limestone or the Cincinnati limestone, both o...
Natural structuring with cell wall materials

This review covers the emerging science and application of the use of cell wall materials in the manufacture of soft solid composites. The achievement thus far has been in the area of food products, but alternative product types e.g. cosmetics and detergent based systems are not beyond the scope of this technology. The recent development in the understanding of such composite systems is allowing the precision structuring of the end product, but also may serve to determine the molecular requirements from natural primary production. Here functionalisation of the composite through physical, chemical and biochemical processes is outlined and examples of use in food formulations are covered. Future challenges of delivering Food Security for the world may also be achieved by application of such findings.
Application of nonlinear nodal diffusion method for a small research reactor

Abstract Nodal diffusion methods are usually used for LWR calculations and rarely used for research reactor calculations. A unified nodal method with an implementation of the coarse mesh finite difference acceleration was developed for use in plate type research reactor calculations. It was validated for two PWR benchmark problems and then applied for IAEA MTR benchmark problem for static calculations to check the validity and accuracy of the method. This work was conducted to investigate the unified nodal method capability to treat material testing reactor cores. A 10 MW research reactor core is considered with three calculation cases for low enriched uranium fuel depending on the core burnup status of fresh, beginning-of-life, and end-of-life cores. The validation work included criticality calculations, flux distribution, and power distribution; in addition, a comparison between different fuel materials with the same uranium content was conducted. The homogenized two-group cross sections were generated using the TRITON–NEWT system. The results were compared with a reference, which was taken from IAEA-TECDOC-233. The unified nodal method provides satisfactory results for an all-rod out case, and the three-dimensional, two-group diffusion model can be considered accurate enough for MTR core calculations.