SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Shear Strength of Hybrid Beams Combining Precast Concrete and Cast-In-Place Concrete

Currently in precast concrete construction, precast concrete and cast-in-place concrete with different concrete strengths are used. However, current design codes do not provide shear design methods for PC-CIP hybrid members using dual concrete strengths. In the present study, the shear strengths of beams using dual concrete compressive strengths (24 MPa, 60 MPa) were tested. The test variables were the area ratio of the two concretes, longitudinal bar ratio, and shear span-to-depth ratio. The shear strengths of test specimens were evaluated by current design methods, using an effective concrete strength (considering the area ratio of the two concrete strengths). The test result showed that when 60 MPa concrete was used in the compressive zone and the longitudinal bar ratio was low, the shear strengths of the test specimens were less than the predictions. On the basis of the results, design recommendations were provided for the shear design of the PC-CIP hybrid beams.
ADAPTATION OF OPENLINE’S ACTIVITY TO THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

This project aims to adapt Openline’s facilities to minimise the risk of contagion and spread of COVID-19 disease and to initiate the recovery and revitalisation phase.
Improving models for marine environment services

The overarching goal of IMMERSE project is to ensure that the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) will have continuing access to world-class marine modelling tools for its next generation systems while leveraging advances in space and information technologies, therefore allowing it to address the ever-increasing and evolving demands for marine monitoring and prediction in the 2020s and beyond.

In response to the future priorities for CMEMS, IMMERSE will develop new capabilities to:
 - enable the production of ocean forecasts and analyses that exploit upcoming high resolution satellite datasets, 
 - deliver ocean analyses and forecasts with the higher spatial resolution and additional process complexity demanded by users, 
 - exploit the opportunities of new high performance computing (HPC) technology
 - allow easy interfacing of CMEMS products with detailed local coastal models. 

These developments will be delivered in the NEMO ocean model, an established, world-class ocean modelling system that already forms the basis of the majority of CMEMS analysis and forecast products. Hence the pathway from the research in IMMERSE to implementation in CMEMS will be simple and seamless, as the model code developed will be directly applicable in CMEMS models. NEMO has a long track record of producing and maintaining a stable, robustly engineered code base of the type that is needed for operational applications, including CMEMS. 

The IMMERSE consortium combines world-class expertise in ocean modelling, applied mathematics and HPC, established software engineering processes and infrastructure, and in-depth knowledge of the CMEMS systems and downstream CMEMS systems. Thus IMMERSE is exceptionally well placed to deliver the operational-quality model code required to meet the emerging needs of CMEMS, and maintain it into the future.
Position and Strategy of Constituents in the IFRS 16 Project on Lease with Special Attention to Large Audit Firms’ Comment Letters

This chapter examines the position and strategy of groups of constituents in IFRS 16 on leases through a content analysis of comment letters submitted in the last consultation period. The chapter also focuses on large audit firms to understand their influence in the final standard because they have been submitting extensive comment letters to the two Exposure Drafts and Discussion Paper in the IASB lease accounting due process. Specific objectives of the chapter include the following: i) to examine the position and the strategy developed by constituents to persuade regulators in the lease standard setting process, looking for measures of quality, lobbying effort or style, among others; ii) to understand the arguments of Big 4 audit firms and their reflection on final standard. Findings show differences in content analysis variables among constituents (groups of participants, US respondents vs non-US respondents, and signatories’ gender), suggesting different positions and strategies to persuade regulators. The study also provides a deeper understanding of the large audit firms’ motivations to be involved in the lease standard setting process and their influence on final decisions. Understanding the role of players in the decision process may help the accounting community to improve the standard setting.
Best practices in teaching K-12 online: Lessons learned from Michigan Virtual School teachers

Virtual schools are rising in popularity and presence. Unfortunately, there is a relative dearth of research related to teaching and learning in virtual schools. Although there are numerous handbooks addressing teaching online, there is little research on successful online teaching in the K-12 arena. Much of the existing research focused on teaching online is rooted in face-toface content, not focused on content areas, built upon a post-secondary audience, or fails to use data from the teachers themselves to triangulate findings. This article reports on a study of 16 virtual school teachers from the Michigan Virtual School (MVS). It reports on best-practices from the interviews conducted with MVS teachers; and also provides research triangulation for those practices. The paper concludes with implications for policy, research, and practice.
Magnetic and gravity signatures of the Kifl oil field in Iraq

Abstract Potential field methods are capable to provide satisfactory results on the tectonics and geology, especially when dealing with the hydrocarbon reservoirs and ore-bearing mineralization. In this study, magnetic and gravity survey were conducted at the west of Kifl area in central Iraq to image the subsurface geological structure and consequently the characteristics of the oil and gas reservoirs. Ground measurements were conducted on an area of 16 by 24 km with a regular grid spacing of 250 m. The results clarified the tectonic setting of the study area, where the fault system in the Kifl oil field was recognized by resembling both magnetic and gravity anomalies with distinct trends along NS and NW. A 3D inversion algorithm based on a weighted minimum length solution was used for reconstruction of the subsurface physical properties of magnetic susceptibility and density contrast. Weighting matrix is composed of multiplication of compactness and depth weighting functions, and truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) was used for regularization. 3D inversion was first applied to a synthetic model to simulate the geological reality of the study area, while satisfactory results were obtained. Implementing the algorithm on the real potential field data, the physical properties of the hydrocarbon reservoir were determined. Four cross sections have been extracted from the inversion result to show geometric characteristics (depth and shape) of the main reservoir in the Kefl oil field. The results indicated the presence of a fault system in the middle area within a column of sedimentary sequences represented as a graben-horst structure. This phenomenon in the area could be attributed to the tectonic deformation and tension over the area and the Eurasian and Arabian plates collided back to the Permian - Paleocene periods.
IMPROVED DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER (DVR) METHODS AND APPARATUS

Digital video recorder (DVR) methods and apparatus are described. By combining DVR and on-demand functionality a large number of programs selected by a user can be made available to the DVR user and may be included in a single content availability list. The list may indicate whether the recording is available via an on-demand service or is locally recorded/stored content. When the user selects content for recording a check is automatically made to determine if the content is available via an on-demand server. If the content is available via an on-demand server the user is provided the opportunity to choose between the content being recorded by the DVR or being added to the recordings list but supplied via the on-demand server. In some embodiments the user may select the DVR to default to on-demand content supply as opposed to local recording when the content is available for on-demand delivery.
Career development and mobility fellowships in medical device research and development: a cúram industry-academia training initiative.

MedTrain is a new Industry-Academia Training, Career Development, and Mobility Fellowship Programme in Medical Device Research and Development at CÚRAM. CÚRAM, the national Centre for Research in Medical Devices, is a distributed research centre, headquartered in the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), and composed of multiple academic partners from around Ireland (NUIG, University College Dublin (UCD), University College Cork (UCC), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Molecular Medicine Ireland) and 35+ industry partners. MedTrain will offer 31 prestigious two-year postdoctoral fellowships for incoming mobility to eligible Experienced Researchers in the area of Medical Device Research and Development across two calls. Experienced researchers, by definition under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), are those in possession of a doctoral degree (or at least four years full-time equivalent research experience) at the time of the recruitment by the host organisation. Fellowships must comply with the MSCA mobility rule. Career breaks will be taken into account. Fellowships are open to candidates of any nationality who shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Ireland for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to the time of recruitment by the host organisation. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account. MedTrain is based on individual-driven mobility, meaning that fellows will have the freedom to choose their research area (provided it falls within the remit of CÚRAM), their supervisor and their secondment organisation. Fellows will be hosted in a CÚRAM academic host organisation (NUIG, UCC, UCD, RCSI) and will second to a suitable research performing organisation in the non-academic sector, located in any country in the world appropriate to meet the needs of the fellows’ research, training and career development requirements.
Abordagem familiar na paralisia cerebral

Reabilitação: Teoria e Prática reúne estudos sobre a medicina em reabilitação e o trabalho multiprofissional necessário para o atendimento a pessoas com deficiência física, intelectual e auditiva. Trata-se de uma obra robusta. Com 52 capítulos que discutem, não apenas os cuidados necessários às pessoas com deficiência e o devido envolvimento das famílias no processo, esse repositório fundamental, apresenta teorias, práticas e experiências das diferentes áreas profissionais que devem atuar conjuntamente. No trabalho de reabilitação, médicos de diversas especialidades, fisioterapeutas, psicológicos, fonoaudiólogos, assistentes sociais, nutricionistas, e demais áreas profissionais, atuam, combinando teorias e técnicas num processo contínuo e coordenado.Reabilitação: Teoria e Prática torna-se útil não apenas a estudantes e profissionais, mas também para gestores sobre uma referência importante para a atuação do Centro Integrado de Reabilitação (CEIR), criado em 2008 e gerenciado pela Associação Reabilitar, hoje, uma referência de excelência no atendimento de pessoas com deficiência no Brasil.A obra foi construída inicialmente para desvendar de forma científica o trabalho realizado pelos profissionais do CEIR, que acumulam experiências, desafios e oportunidades desenvolvidas no processo de reabilitação a partir de diferentes realidades, inovando dentro da perspectiva de reabilitação no Estado do Piauí, uma vez que esse foi o primeiro Centro com essa envergadura de trabalho realizada no Estado.A obra é dividida em 5 partes, cada uma com capítulos organizados de forma consistente para facilitar a localização das informações. Ricamente ilustrado, cada capítulo possui um corpo teórico, com diretrizes claras, exemplos e práticas que incluem temas como ortopedia e neurologia, garantindo uma compreensão abrangente da reabilitação apoiada pelas pesquisas clínicas mais recentes.Toda a obra foi pautada em respeitabilidade à Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD). O respeito à dignidade da pessoa com deficiência é o maior valor da obra, que envolve o princípio do “nada sobre nós sem nós”, mas, sobretudo, quando os autores se revestem do conhecimento científico para aperfeiçoar e disseminar novas práticas e intervenções profissionais.
Polyurethane emulsion, sheet-like porous material making use of the emulsion and production process of the material

A polyurethane emulsion is composed of an organic solvent solution of a polyurethane resin containing silicone segments and/or fluorocarbon segments as backbones and/or side chains and water emulsified in the organic solvent solution. A sheet-like porous material having a porous layer of a polyurethane resin provided on a base material is produced by using the above polyurethane emulsion to form the porous layer.
Cheto – Adapt

Chetonecessita to adapt its space of work organisation and relationship with clients and workers to the new conditions of physical distancing in the context of covid 19, ensuring compliance with the established standards and recommendations of the authorities
Modeling population dynamics, landscape structure, and management decisions for controlling the spread of invasive plants

Invasive plants cause substantial economic and environmental damage throughout the world. However, eradication of most invasive species is impossible and, in some cases, undesirable. An alternative is to slow the spread of an invasive species, which can delay impacts or reduce their extent. We identify three main areas where models are used extensively in the study of plant spread and its management: (i) identifying the key drivers of spread to better target management, (ii) determining the role spatial structure of landscapes plays in plant invasions, and (iii) integrating management structures and limitations to guide the implementation of control measures. We show how these three components have been approached in the ecological literature as well as their potential for improving management practices. Particularly, we argue that scientists can help managers of invasive species by providing information about plant invasion on which managers can base their decisions (i and ii) and by modeling the decision process through optimization and agent-based models (iii). Finally, we show how these approaches can be articulated for integrative studies.
Fully automated, controlled and versatile system for low cost, high rate and energy efficient production of highly loaded aeronautical structural parts

The main objective of the FALCON project is the design and manufacturing a versatile  tooling system (reduction of tooling by up 40%) for the effective (30% reduction in time, 20% in cost and 20% in energy) and high quality (Aeronautic Quality Standards) production of CFRP frames for different fuselage sections subjected to different level of loads. The FALCON system will include two interrelated components (press-forming tooling and curing tooling) which will be supported through laser tracker technologies and robotic positioning/placement equipment.

The press-forming tooling consists of flexible and adaptable modules designed for different frame geometries that will increase the number and typologies of produced parts. These modules have plug and produce connectors for fast and accurate connexion and individual hydraulic cylinders for a precise controlling of the kinematics of the process. In addition, the cooling/heating system will be also especially designed for improving part quality and process energy efficiency. This cooling/heating is adapted to part geometries through the combination of metallisation technologies with embedded channels and metallic additive 3D technologies applied to trickiest geometries.

In other hand, the curing tooling is designed for including all the required reinforcements into the frame during the curing process independently to the face of the part in which should be placed. This will be achieved by means of positioning tooling which are produced according to each part requirements through the utilisation of high accuracy mechanising equipment.

Finally, the process is continuously controlled and optimised thanks to a real time monitoring system in order to be robust and repeatable. The monitoring system is feed through integrated sensors (strain and temperature gauges) and external equipment (laser tracker) in order to obtain soundness data related to deformation, displacements and temperature at micro and macro levels.
Effects of perinatal exposure to waterborne fluoxetine on memory processing in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis

Recent ecotoxicological studies highlight the increasing presence of pharmaceuticals discharged in the aquatic environment. Amongst them is the antidepressant fluoxetine (FLX), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, primarily indicated for treatment of depression. The effect of chronic exposure to FLX on memory processing in 1-month-old cuttlefish Sepia officinalis was evaluated. Three groups of new-borns were reared in different conditions: one control group (no FLX) and two groups exposed to environmental concentrations of FLX (1 and 100ng/L) from 15 days pre-hatching to 1 month post-hatching. Acquisition and retention performances were assessed using the 'prawn-in-the-tube' procedure. Perinatal exposure to fluoxetine led to significant changes in memory processing of the animals. The lowest observed effect concentration of this antidepressant on learning and retention was 1ng/L which is under the range of environmental contamination. Cuttlefish exposed at low FLX concentration had impaired acquisition capabilities and animals exposed at high FLX concentration displayed a deficit of memory retention compared to the control group that had nonimpaired initial acquisition and retention performances. The results subsequently suggested that FLX-induced changes in cognitive capacities could potentially lead to inappropriate predatory behaviors in the natural environment. The study provides the basis for future studies on how pharmaceutical contaminants disrupt cognition in ecologically and economically relevant marine invertebrates.
Momentum or contrarian investment strategies: Evidence from Dutch institutional investors

Abstract This paper analyses investment strategies of three types of Dutch institutional investors – pension funds, life insurers and non-life insurers – over the period 1999–2005. We use balance sheet and cash flow data, including purchases and sales of equity, fixed income and real estate. We trace asset reallocations back to both active trading and revaluations and link investment decisions to firm-specific characteristics and macroeconomic variables. Overall, our results indicate that all three investor types tend to be contrarian traders, i.e. they buy past losers and sell past winners. Especially pension funds showed this behaviour in the most turbulent part of the sample – the crash of 2002 and early 2003 – implying that these institutions have a stabilising impact on financial markets when this is needed most. Life insurers tend to be contrarian traders when they have a high proportion of unit-linked policies, while non-life insurers are contrarian when they have a more risky business model.
VEHICLE AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM

An automatic emergency response system (12) is operable to notify an emergency centre (27) of a defined event, such as a vehicle accident. The system facilitates location of the event, by using position determining means, such as GSP (18), to establish its at least approximate location. A control circuit (19) includes code generating means to generate a coded signal incorporating the position location information. An alarm signal transmitter (16) is operable on occurrence of the defined event to transmit an alarm signal incorporating the coded signal to a receiving station (26), which may be a satellite, which relays the message to the emergency centre (27), including the positional information relating to the location of the transmitter (16). A relative low power homing signal transmitter (17) simultaneously transmits a homing signal either continuously or at periodic intervals.
Response of Tropical Cyclones to Idealized Climate Change Experiments in a Global High-Resolution Coupled General Circulation Model

Abstract The authors present an assessment of how tropical cyclone activity might change owing to the influence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, using the U.K. High-Resolution Global Environment Model (HiGEM) with N144 resolution (~90 km in the atmosphere and ~40 km in the ocean). Tropical cyclones are identified using a feature-tracking algorithm applied to model output. Tropical cyclones from idealized 30-yr 2×CO2 (2CO2) and 4×CO2 (4CO2) simulations are compared to those identified in a 150-yr present-day simulation that is separated into a five-member ensemble of 30-yr integrations. Tropical cyclones are shown to decrease in frequency globally by 9% in the 2CO2 and 26% in the 4CO2. Tropical cyclones only become more intense in the 4CO2; however, uncoupled time slice experiments reveal an increase in intensity in the 2CO2. An investigation into the large-scale environmental conditions, known to influence tropical cyclone activity in the main development regions, is used to determine the response of tropical cyclone activity to increased atmospheric CO2. A weaker Walker circulation and a reduction in zonally averaged regions of updrafts lead to a shift in the location of tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere. A decrease in mean ascent at 500 hPa contributes to the reduction of tropical cyclones in the 2CO2 in most basins. The larger reduction of tropical cyclones in the 4CO2 arises from further reduction of the mean ascent at 500 hPa and a large enhancement of vertical wind shear, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, North Atlantic, and northeast Pacific.
A Study on the Effect of Irradiation Angle of Light on Defect Detection in Visual Inspection

This study focuses on the difference in the visibility of defects according to the irradiation angleof the light in visual inspection using fluorescent light, and also considersthe relationship between the irradiation angle and the defect detection. In the experiment, the irradiation angle of light is considered as the experimental factors. The visibility of defects that are different according to the irradiation angle of the light are reproduced using a tablet PC, and the effect of inspection movement on the defect detection is evaluated. As the result, it is observed that the inspection oversights occurs by the irradiation angle of light. Also, it is observed that the angle formed by the visual line and the inspection surface becomes not perpendicular, the defects detection also becomes more difficult. Based on the above observation, new inspection method is proposed instead of the conventional inspection method.