SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
High-performance membranes comprising polyaniline nanoparticles incorporated into polyvinylamine matrix for CO2/N2 separation

Abstract Polyaniline nanofibers, netlike polyaniline nanofibers and polyaniline nanosheets were prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was employed to characterize morphology of the polyaniline (PANI) nanoparticles. The nanocomposite membranes were prepared by blending PANI nanoparticles with polyvinylamine (PVAm) as the active layer and polysulfone (PS) as the support layer. The surface and cross-section morphology and crystallization of nanocomposite membranes were measured by SEM and XRD. The permselectivity of nanocomposite membranes was investigated by the pure CO 2 and N 2 gases and gas mixture containing 20 vol.% CO 2 and 80 vol.% N 2 . The results demonstrate that the inclusion of the PANI nanoparticles to PVAm increases the gas permeance and selectivity of the membranes due to chain packing disruption of PVAm and N 2 barrier property of PANI nanoparticles. The influences of PANI nanoparticles, PVAm and the interaction between PANI and PVAm on gas transport properties of nanocomposite membranes have been discussed. At CO 2 partial pressure of 0.02 MPa, the nanocomposite membrane containing 17 wt.% PANI nanosheets displayed a CO 2 permeance of 1200 GPU and a CO 2 /N 2 selectivity of 120. The permeance increased about 852% and the selectivity increased about 137% compared with the PVAm/PS membrane. The separation performance stability of the PVAm/PS membrane and PANI–PVAm/PS membrane was investigated and no deterioration in membrane permselectivity was observed.
The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Through Distributed, Mediated Visions of Memory in 2nd Generation Canadian Chinese Experience

The sheer affective force of trauma from a 20th century Chinese history filled with the scars of war, chaos, poverty, famine, and disaster, transmits across ethnic Chinese Canadian diasporas through (un)conscious silences and remembrances. Diasporic visions of memory that embody these traumatic histories can become entangled through affective, discursive, and hegemonic forces that include: a) transgenerational hauntings through the transmission of affective intensities across social links, familial bodies and collective diasporas b) the tension of ‘blurring’ boundaries between history, testimony and fantasy c) official memory productions across media d) and the hegemony of nation-state power concerning which ‘historical ‘wounds’ are chosen or silenced for public consumption and transnational distribution. My research questions include: How does the transmission of trauma affectively pass from one generation to the next? What ‘methods of seeing’ can diasporic ethnic Chinese employ to crystallize invisible histories and lost traumas? How can Chinese Canadians engage problematic, mediated visions of the past and develop a reflexivity that both ‘sees’ haunted histories and critically defies the power problematics within memory production?
 
For Chinese-Canadians, those compelled to seek out the histories of our migrant parents/grandparents are left with fragmented, silenced memories. Narratives of an era filled with trauma are expressed as ‘moral lessons’ and/or ‘Confucian’ virtues. Access to histories for postgeneration Chinese-Canadians, therefore, is dependent on a diasporic vision that assemblages multiple ways of ‘seeing’ the gaps in trauma through mediated memory, including: the memories of elder generations, memoirs, moving images, and artworks and multimedia installations. My research intentionally subverts traditional research methods that incorporate critical approaches that juxtapose mediations of memory, defying the problematics of power and memory production. Through a critically reflexive autoethnographic approach, I perform a ‘staging’ of the 2nd generation Canadian Chinese experience by composing a diasporic montage of data and im/material hauntings.
Observations about the Effect of a Cell Phone Pillar to a Residence

The location of the pillars for retransmission radi o, TV or GSM antenna is determined from specific measurements that company's employees are required to do. But the problem of physical measurements is inconclusive, especially since, after establishing of worldwide numerous studies, researchers have shown the advers e effect of these components. In addition to these determinations, the very clear effects and evident to the naked eye, were not taken into account. And yet the harmful effects that these structures are g enerated on the environment, plants, animals, but humans too are obvious. This paper aims to present a special case that highlights the harmful effects that these telecommunication compounds generated them, but the effect of A.D. bio-phyto-dynamic modulators through environment and human body too.
Quantifying the impact of the urban biosphere on the net flux of co2 from cities into the atmosphere.

Due to the offsetting effect of the urban biosphere resulting from the photosynthetic uptake of CO2 by plants that are often well watered and fertilized, the precise impact of urban emissions on the global burden of GHGs is challenging to quantify. Green-space initiatives that increase the vegetative coverage of the landscape, and therefore the productivity of the urban ecosystem for sequestration of CO2 are often proposed as GHG reducing strategies, despite there being very little quantitative evidence for the effectiveness or efficiency of such strategies. Uncertainty in the time scales for respiration of carbon previously taken up through photosynthesis obscures the picture even further. Meanwhile, as the modern urban landscape is continually evolving, with green spaces and parks becoming a more integral component and with suburbs expanding outward from city centers into previously rural, agricultural, and natural areas, it is apparent that we lack the scientific understanding of how best to implement planning strategies that minimize the impact of such changes on climate. 
I have expertise in urban metabolism and quantifying carbon footprint at city level, however I lack the scientific knowledge required to understand and quantify the impact of the (urban) biosphere on the net flux of CO2 from cities into the atmosphere. UC Merced, presently leading a 4-yr NSF project in atmospheric modeling of COS to understand carbon cycle processes in urban ecosystems, provides the ideal training ground for me to gain the skills necessary to reach excellence in this multi-disciplinary effort to making our cities more sustainable. The project aims to answer the following questions:
• What is the global impact of urban/suburban ecosystems on atmospheric CO2?
• How will future shifts in land-use types and management practices in densely populated areas influence surface  atmosphere fluxes of CO2?
A comprehensive analysis of the influence of drug binding kinetics on drug action at molecular and systems levels

Binding kinetics is closely related to the efficacy of drugs. Several aspects of binding kinetics, such as long residence or frequent dissociation, have been proposed to affect drug properties such as efficacy, selectivity, and multi-target potency. However, a comprehensive and balanced study of binding kinetics in various scenarios is still needed. We performed a comprehensive computational analysis of the role of drug binding kinetics in various situations such as enzyme inhibition, receptor binding, multi-target drug targeting, signal transduction pathways, and metabolic networks. Molecular studies of enzyme inhibition, receptor binding, and multi-target drugs have shown that at constant binding affinity, fast associating drugs show better enzyme inhibitory effects, earlier and higher receptor occupancy peaks, and better multi-target performances, while slow dissociating drugs show prolonged receptor occupancy, as suggested by others. Different situations exemplify slightly different kinetic-efficacy relationships, and each must be considered separately. At the systems level, binding kinetics can not only change the overall effect of drugs, but can also affect signaling dynamics. For example, in the tumor necrosis factor α-induced nuclear factor-κB pathway, inhibitor addition can delay the onset of oscillations and decrease their frequencies, with these changes varying with the binding kinetics of the inhibitor. The effects of drug binding kinetics also depend on network topology and where the target is located in the network. For successful drug discovery, both molecular binding kinetics and systems level requirements need to be considered.
HYDRAULIC HAMMER

A piston cylinder is formed inside a ram and is fitted with a piston attached to a stationary hollow piston rod, creating an upper piston chamber for receiving pressurized hydraulic fluid, which causes the ram to rise as the volume of the upper piston chamber is expanded due to the hydraulic pressure and increasing volume of hydraulic fluid. When the ram reaches a predetermined desired height, hydraulic pressure is released by opening a directional valve, allowing the ram to drop. A lower piston chamber is sealed and filled with gas. A moveable shuttle member reciprocates up and down inside a hollow piston rod in response to the changing volume of the lower piston cylinder, facilitating the evacuation of hydraulic fluid from the upper piston chamber. An alternative embodiment uses a single fluid and has no shuttle member.
Enhancing environmental management capacities for sustainable use of the natural heritage of Central European SPA towns and regions as the driver for local and regional development.

Natural heritage, including natural deposits of mineral waters & hot springs are well known common feature of CE countries. Their potential is widely used in large number of SPAs that constitute very important element of natural & cultural heritage and also local & regional economy in health care, wellness & tourism sectors.
The common challenge that CE SPAs share is sustainable management of mineral & thermal waters deposits, especially reduction of pressures related to economic & urban development, mass tourism and careless sector policies became the basis for launching the HealingPlaces project. Project focus is to support sustainable development of SPAs, while protecting unique resources that constitute their basis. This will be done by extension of knowledge & awareness regarding influence of various factors on underground water deposits and by building multi-level and multi-territorial governance models of management of valuable natural SPA resources.
Crucial element of the project will be constructing of common, innovative & web-based tool for assessment of threats & pressures on mineral & hot waters deposits. This tool will be offered freely to wider CE community as a decision making support mechanism. Exchange of experience as well as the implementation of dedicated pilot actions will lead to elaboration of integrated strategy for SPA sustainable development. Project leads also to direct results through implementation of elaborated activities in local scale, where HealingPlaces will design, test & implement innovative solutions for mineral water sustainable management in SPAs through various models of participatory practices. Through cooperation of actors representing different levels & sectors, widely applicable methodologies, lessons learnt from several pilot actions will strengthen environmental considerations during spa-related interventions & support efficient reduction of conflicts between economic, social & environmental approaches.
Verification engineering of safety and security critical dynamic industrial applications

The VESSEDIA project will bring safety and security to many new software applications and devices. In the fast evolving world we live in, the Internet has brought many benefits to individuals, organisations and industries. With the capabilities offered now (such as IPv6) to connect billions of devices and therefore humans together, the Internet brings new threats to the software developers and VESSEDIA will allow connected applications to be safe and secure. VESSEDIA proposes to enhance and scale up modern software analysis tools, namely the mostly open-source Frama-C Analysis platform, to allow developers to benefit rapidly from them when developing connected applications. At the forefront of connected applications is the IoT, whose growth is exponential and whose security risks are real (for instance in hacked smart phones). VESSEDIA will take this domain as a target for demonstrating the benefits of using our tools on connected applications.
VESSEDIA will tackle this challenge by 1) developing a methodology that allows to adopt and use source code analysis tools efficiently and produce similar benefits than already achieved for highly-critical applications (i.e. an exhaustive analysis and extraction of faults), 2) enhancing the Frama-C toolbox to enable efficient and fast implementation, 3) demonstrating the new toolbox capabilities on typical IoT (Internet of Things) applications including an IoT Operating System (Contiki), 4) developing a standardisation plan for generalising the use of the toolbox, 5) contributing to the Common Criteria certification process, and 6) defining a label “Verified in Europe” for validating software products with European technologies such as Frama-C.
Banking products marketing techniques - Tanja Spacal, Tamara Moro

This project offers the opportunity for two work experiences - lasting eight months each - to two unemployed people, one residing in the eligible Programme area in Italy, the other in Slovenia. In the office of the bank “Nova Ljubljanska Banka” in Trieste, both trainees work in the “Projects and Development” department and perform, under the close supervision of a tutor, the tasks of the professional figure of reference. Specifically, they work on market research and analysis, studying user’s responsiveness, screening existing products, planning market entry in the medium term, analysing the most suitable ways to involve and fulfil the needs of potential clients, providing assistance and constant information updates to the clients, drawing up statistics and feedback analyses, analysing and processing the results of direct-marketing actions, of new banking products launched and of their entry on the market. The training also focuses on the main services offered by the Bank with reference to cross-border development and, specifically, cash credit, forfeiting, export loans and advances, credit appropriation, solvency guarantees, participation to calls for tender, advance payment guarantee, satisfactory performance of works.
Assessment of vertical dengue virus transmission in Aedes aegypti and serotype prevalence in Bantul, Indonesia

To determine the reality of dengue virus (DENV) serotype circulation in Bantul and the potential impact of a vertical transmission in the maintenance of dengue. Mosquitoes were captured using ovitraps in the vicinity of households of patients diagnosed with severe forms of dengue. DENV was detected in mosquitoes by immunochemistry and typed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with DENV were found in 14 out of 17 districts in the Bantul Regency. Vertical transmission was demonstrated and serotype prevalence was coherent with the current clinical situation and the previous reports. DENV-3 was the most common serotype (12 districts), followed by DENV-2 (3 districts) and DENV-4 (1 district). No DENV-1 was found. Unlike continental countries such as Cambodia or Thailand, where the replacement of serotypes is the rule, maintenance of DENV-3 is a major feature in Java. Vertical transmission is likely to play a major role along with the archipelago structure of Indonesia, which might help maintaining local mosquito populations. Regular survey of circulating DENV and prevalence will help predicting and controlling outbreaks.
A New Galactic Wolf-Rayet Star in Centaurus

I communicate the detection of a new Galactic Wolf-Rayet star (WR60a) in Centaurus. The H- and K-band spectra of WR60a show strong carbon near-infrared emission lines, characteristic of Wolf-Rayet stars of the WC5-7 subtype. Adopting mean absolute magnitude M K and mean intrinsic (<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"><mml:mi>J</mml:mi><mml:mtext>-</mml:mtext><mml:msub><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mi>S</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math>) and (<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M2"><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mtext>-</mml:mtext><mml:msub><mml:mi>K</mml:mi><mml:mi>S</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math>) colours, it was found that WR60a suffers a mean visual extinction of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M3"><mml:mn>3.8</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>1.3</mml:mn></mml:math> magnitudes, being located at a probable heliocentric distance of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M4"><mml:mn>5.2</mml:mn><mml:mo>±</mml:mo><mml:mn>0.8</mml:mn></mml:math> Kpc, which for the related Galactic longitude (<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M5"><mml:mtext>l</mml:mtext><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>312</mml:mn></mml:math>) puts this star probably in the Carina-Sagittarius arm at about 5.9 kpc from the Galactic center. I searched for clusters in the vicinity of WR60a and in principle found no previously known clusters in a search radius region of several tens arcminutes. The detection of a well-isolated WR star induced us to seek for some still unknown cluster, somewhere in the vicinity of WR60a. From inspection of 5.8 μ m and 8.0 μ m Spitzer/IRAC GLIMPSE images of the region around the new WR star, strong mid-infrared extended emission at about 13.5 arcmin south-west of WR60a was found. The study of the H-K S colour distribution of point sources associated with the extended emission reveals the presence of a new Galactic cluster candidate probably formed by at least 85 stars.
Providing Care for the “Whole Patient” in the Cancer Setting: The Psycho-Oncology Consultation Model of Patient Care

This paper describes a psycho-oncology consultation model of care (POCM) that provides a framework for psychosocial clinical work with cancer patients. Goals for care are addressed that follow the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine report advocating care for the "whole patient." Specific goals include reducing distress and symptoms, building on the patient's existing strengths, enhancing self-efficacy, expanding the patient's repertoire of healthy coping strategies, and addressing informational needs. Specific interventions are described that clinicians can implement in order to address the above goals. The paper also addresses the unique challenges encountered in working with cancer patients, as well as programmatic difficulties that are inherent in providing mental health care in a medical setting.
Age affects the contraction-induced mitochondrial redox response in skeletal muscle

Compromised mitochondrial respiratory function is associated with advancing age. Damage due to an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) with age is thought to contribute to the mitochondrial deficits. The coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in its reduced (NADH) and oxidized (NAD+) forms plays an essential role in the cyclic sequence of reactions that result in the regeneration of ATP by oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria. Monitoring mitochondrial NADH/NAD+ redox status during recovery from an episode of high energy demand thus allows assessment of mitochondrial function. NADH fluoresces when excited with ultraviolet light in the UV-A band and NAD+ does not, allowing NADH/NAD+ to be monitored in real time using fluorescence microscopy. Our goal was to assess mitochondrial function by monitoring the NADH fluorescence response following a brief period of high energy demand in muscle from adult and old wild-type (WT) mice. This was accomplished by isolating whole lumbrical muscles from the hind paws of 7- and 28-month-old WT mice and making simultaneous measurements of force and NADH fluorescence responses during and after a 5 s maximum isometric contraction. All muscles exhibited fluorescence oscillations that were qualitatively similar and consisted of a brief transient increase followed by a longer transient period of reduced fluorescence and, finally, an increase that included an overshoot before recovering to resting level. Compared with the adult WT mice, muscles from the 28 mo WT mice exhibited a delayed peak during the first fluorescence transient and an attenuated recovery following the second transient. These findings indicate an impaired mitochondrial capacity to maintain NADH/NAD+ redox homeostasis during contractile activity in skeletal muscles of old mice.
Constraining compressed versions of MUED and MSSM using soft tracks at the LHC

A compressed spectrum is an anticipated hideout for many beyond standard model scenarios. Such a spectrum naturally arises in the minimal universal extra dimension framework and also in supersymmetric scenarios. Low $p_T$ leptons and jets are characteristic features of such situations. Hence, a monojet with $\not E_T$ has been the conventional signal at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, we stress that inclusion of $p_T$-binned track observables from such soft objects provide very efficient discrimination of new physics signals against various SM backgrounds. We consider two benchmark points each for minimal universal extra dimension (MUED) and minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) scenarios. We perform a detailed cut-based and multivariate analysis (MVA) to show that the new physics parameter space can be probed in the ongoing run of LHC at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy with an integrated luminosity $\sim$ 20-50 fb$^{-1}$. When studied in conjunction with the dark matter relic density constraint assuming standard cosmology, we find that compressed MUED (with $\Lambda R=2$) can be already excluded from the existing data. Also, MVA turns out to be a better technique than regular cut-based analysis since tracks provide uncorrelated observables which would extract more information from an event.
Medidas anti COVID-19

Com a concretização deste projeto, a empresa verá melhoradas as suas condições de rentabilidade e de equilíbrio financeiro, vendo assim reforçadas as condições de manutenção do seu efectivo em condições apropriadas.
P141 Outpatient Management of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism at a District General Hospital; A Two Month Review

Background Studies have suggested that outpatient (OP) management of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) is feasible. 1 At our DGH (pop n 289,400) the decision to manage a suspected PE as an OP is made clinically by the admitting physician. The aims of our study were To ascertain the proportion of patients who underwent CTPA investigation that were managed as outpatients and subsequent nights saved. To identify any further patients that could have been managed as OP and potential nights that could have been saved. To determine if the outpatients met the current criteria for ambulatory management of PE. Methods RADIS was used to collect all CTPA’s performed between 1st September 2011 and 31st October 2011.Notes were requested. Inclusion criteria Ambulatory, normal heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturations (on air),any patient who was managed acutely as an OPPESI Score 2 Exclusion criteria Any pre-existing in-patient that had a CTPA ordered where the primary admission (and reason for in-patient stay) was not for suspected PE, any patient who had their CTPA on the same day of discharge, OP CTPA where waiting time was > 2 weeks. PESI Score > 85. 2 Results For the above period 105 CTPA’s were performed. Average time from request to CTPA was 4.1 hours (1–21 hours.) Figure 1 shows the excluded patients. 15 patients were included; 7 were female, average age 47 years(18–78 years).All had a PESI score Conclusion Over a 2 month period at our DGH most suspected PE patients (suitable for ambulatory care) are being identified resulting in significant (17 nights) bed savings. Hogg K et al, Emerg Med J 2006; 23:123–127. Aujesky D et al, AJRCCM 2005; 172(8):1041.