SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Oral Hygiene Awareness among Two Non Professional College Students in Chennai, India- A Pilot Study

Health for Healthy the theme for World Health Day by WHO for 1998 (1).No one can be truly healthy unless he or she is free from the burden of oral and craniofacial diseases and conditions (2). Oral health diseases are detrimental to the quality of life during childhood through old age and can have an impact on self-esteem, eating ability, nutrition, and health. They are associated with considerable pain, anxiety, and impaired social functioning (3.4). Among the dental disease, dental caries and periodontal problem is of more prevalence and it is an important component of global disease burden. Dental disease preventions depend upon the involvement of community, professional and individual. Oral health of an individual depends upon awareness and attitude .Attitudes naturally reflect their own experiences, cultural perceptions, familial beliefs, and other life situations and has a strong influence on oral health behaviour (5). Several recent studies concern the oral health attitudes and behaviours of young adults and the relation between their attitudes and behaviours and their dental or oral status, (6,7) Oliveira et al. report that children with inadequate oral health knowledge are twice as likely to have caries than children with adequate knowledge. Studies have shown that there is an association between increased knowledge and better oral health  (8,9).The objective of this study was to evaluate the oral health knowledge and oral health behaviour among the nonprofessional college students in Chennai with help of questionnaire adopted from Peterson et al. (18) and Stenberg et al.(19)
PYROTECHNIC INITIATOR FOR USE IN HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENTS

A pyrotechnic initiator (2) adapted for insertion into a sealed gas unit (18) includes an igniter (8) over which a nonconductive body (6) is molded.
Hybrid node modes for highly efficient light concentrators

The meaning of solar energy for future decentralized power supply will largely depend on both efficiency and cost of solar to electrical power conversion. All kinds of conversion strategies including photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, solar to fuel and others would benefit from efficiently collecting solar power on large areas. For this reason luminescent solar concentrators have been developed for over thirty years, but due to waveguide losses their maximum size is still limited to a few centimeters.

The proposed project suggests the exploitation of a new type of electromagnetic waveguide in order to realize passive planar concentrators of unsurpassed collection efficiency, size, concentration, lifetime and costs.
 
A dielectric TE1-mode shows a node, a position in the waveguide where no intensity is found. A thin film placed in this node remains largely “invisible” for the propagating mode. Such dielectric node modes (DNMs) have been investigated by the applicant in previous work, but only recently a silver island film (SIF) was for the first time placed in such a node. The resulting extremely low waveguide losses cannot be explained by our current understanding of waveguide modes and hint to a hybridization between the SIF-bound long-range surface plasmon polaritons (LRSPPs) and the DNMs into what we call hybrid node modes (HNMs).
 
The SIFs strongly interact with incident light. An appropriate nanopatterning of SIFs enables efficient excitation of low-loss HNMs modes collecting solar power over square meters and concentrating it. To achieve this goal new technological methods are used that enable patterning on the nanometer scale and low cost roll-to-roll processing at the same time. New measurement techniques and numerical simulation tools will be developed to investigate the HNMs – a novel kind of electromagnetic modes – and their exploitation in the passive solar concentrators.
SIDE MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS INDUCED BY CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS: OBSERVATIONS AND SIMULATIONS

Over the last few years coronagraphic and spectroscopic observations have demonstrated that small-scale eruptions, such as 'jets', 'narrow coronal mass ejections (CMEs)', 'mini CMEs', 'streamer puffs', 'streamer detachments', and others, occur ubiquitously on the Sun. Nevertheless, the origin of small-scale eruptive events and how these are interrelated with larger scale CMEs have been poorly investigated so far. In this work, we study a series of small-scale side eruptions that occurred during and after a large-scale CME. Observations show that a CME can be associated not only with a single reconnection process, leading to the large-scale phenomenon, but also with many other side reconnections occurring at different locations and times around the main flux rope, possibly induced by the CME expansion in the surrounding corona. White light and EUV observations of a slow CME acquired by the SOHO/LASCO and SOHO/UVCS instruments are analyzed here to characterize the locations of side reconnections induced by the CME. The magnetic reconnection rate M has been estimated from the UVCS data from the ratio between the inflows and outflows observed around the reconnection region, and from the LASCO data from the observed aperture angles between the slow mode shocks (SMSs) associated with the reconnection. Itmore » turns out that M {approx_equal} 0.05 at the heliocentric distance of 1.8 R{sub sun}, while between {approx}2.5 and 5.5 R{sub sun}, M values progressively decrease with time/altitude from M {approx} 1 down to M {approx} 0.3. Such large values of M are theoretically acceptable only if flux pile-up reconnection is envisaged. The observed occurrence of multiple reconnections associated with a CME is verified by numerical simulations of an eruption occurring within multiple helmet streamers. The simulations confirm that small side reconnections are a consequence of CME expansion against the surrounding coronal streamers. The simulated and observed evolution of aperture angles between the SMSs are in good agreement as well. These results demonstrate the effect of the global coronal magnetic field in the occurrence of small-scale eruptions due to lateral reconnection in a preceding CME event.« less
Sti international cooperation network for eastern partnership countries – plus

The project 'STI International Cooperation Network for EaP Countries Plus (EaP PLUS)' aims to stimulate cooperation between researchers from the EaP countries and EU MS and enhance the active participation of the Eastern Partnership countries in Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.

Building on the results of the predecessor FP7 project 'IncoNet EaP', the project will eliminate remaining obstacles to EU-EaP STI cooperation through a number of innovative and targeted actions:

(a) strategic priority setting through supporting EU-EaP policy dialogue and through maximizing the impact of the association to Horizon 2020;

(b) stronger interaction between researchers & participation in H2020, i.e. Info days, cooperation with scientific diaspora, and grants for networking;

(c) promotion of the research-innovation interface supporting communities of excellence, i.e. co-patenting analyses, clustering schemes, promotion of the technology platforms concept to EaP countries;

(d) optimal framework conditions and increasing coordination in policies and programmes through training seminars for STI policymakers, increased coordination and synergies between policies and programmes of EU/MS and EaP, i.e. JPIs, COST, national programmes;

(e) communication and outreach through innovative actions
Carbon Budgets in the Steppe Ecosystems of Russia

Abandoned lands formed in the place of former arable lands occupy considerable areas in the steppe zone and are a basic reserve for the restoration of the steppe biome in Russia. Taking into account the secondary steppe ecosystems developed in the place of the abandoned lands, the total carbon dioxide sink in the steppe zone of Russia can reach 92–121 Mt С per year. This is comparable to the СО2 sink in the managed forests of the Russian Federarion (96 Mt/yr) and accounts for 10–20% of the total sink of СО2 in the terrestrial ecosystems of Russia. To increase the sink potential on the territory of the Russian Federation, the natural and restored steppe ecosystems should be preserved.
Practical Use of MONITORing in Natural Disaster Management

Management of natural hazards constitutes a common challenge in the SEES. Until now, neither hazard mapping nor contingency planning have been transnationally coordinated and defined in a sufficient manner. These gaps will be tackled in MONITOR II with the development of a common methodology and a CSA ("Continuous Situation Awareness") system. The integration of monitoring systems facilitates periodic update of hazard maps and contingency plans and thus makes them usable in real-time for disaster situations. Products of these activities are a harmonized methodology and a ready-to-use system, which are applied by the partners for implementation in their characteristic test beds. The practical implementation of CSA system will result in improved hazard maps and contingency plans. It will thus support prevention of natural hazards, improve efficiency of workflows in the disaster management cycle and mitigate natural hazards intensified by climate change phenomena. Legal, technological and participatory aspects, which are vital for successful risk management, will be considered in a broad discussion among a variety of partners and external stakeholders all over SEES. Stakeholders addressed include the public, politicians, emergency services and experts. Prevention of natural hazards requires intensive awareness raising and training for preparedness. The ambitious communication structure and dissemination strategy of MONITOR II will help to achieve these objectives. The partnership combines transnational scientific experts, authorities, public services and end-users, which ensures practical relevance as well as application of results. The project will strongly profit from existing network structures and their experience (e.g. MONITOR, DIS-ALP) and will use their results as a starting point. MONITOR II will improve the usability of hazard maps and contingency plans. Its products will facilitate communication in all phases of disaster management.
Take control

TACO aims to define an automated system sufficiently powerful to both accomplish complex tasks involved in the management of surface movements in a major airport and self-assess its own ability to deal with non-nominal conditions. When needed, such system should be sensitive enough to transfer responsibilities for traffic management back to the controller, in a timely and graceful manner and in way that makes him/her comfortable with the inherited tasks.
Automation is one of the key solution proposed and adopted by SESAR to tackle the challenges coming from the increase of capacity and complexity of the future ATM system. On the one hand, the programme aims at substantially reducing controller task load per flight through a significant enhancement of integrated automation support, whilst simultaneously meeting the established safety and environmental goals. On the other hand, it is envisaged that human operators will remain at the core of the system (mainly with the role of overall system managers) using automated systems with the required degree of integrity and redundancy. TACO proposes a dove tailed process to facilitate the controller’s forward thinking, also in anticipation to A-CDM (Airport- Collaborative Decision Making) amongst others.
Following the two grounding principles of automation in SESAR, TACO project aims at:
defining algorithms and solutions to automate and optimize both the decision making and implementation tasks for the controller involved in the ground movement of airport vehicles and aircraft;
identifying and providing the controller with suitable and usable tools to supervise (monitor, tune and re-program) the system;
studying the interaction between the human actors and the automation. Main focus will be on the identification of sensitive state transaction from a (fully) automated management system to conditions where the human is brought into the loop to handle situations where his/her cognitive resources are essential.
A solar urban hub with integrated lighting and information system for optimal smart cities efficiency

Commitment to clean energy nowadays should be essential for governments, companies and citizens. Sustainable urban planning helps improve the welfare of the community, shaping public areas into clean and efficient spaces to live. On the other hand, IoT is changing the way in which cities are operating by enabling effective infrastructure management. The Solar Hub is a new concept of solar urban furniture which converts smart street lighting into an IoT enabling smart city tool. Conventional street lighting is associated with high energy and maintenance requirements, resulting in high costs for municipalities. Although energy efficient lighting solutions are gaining ground, they often fall short of addressing the sustainable development of Smart Cities: lack of aesthetic appeal, no-use of solar energy, difficult integration of sensors and smart devices and not designed for a long term retrofitting. SIARQ addresses all these challenges in a single solution, championing a new concept of solar urban furniture. The Solar Hub belongs to the new generation of Cradle to Cradle zero CO2 emissions products entirely powered by the Sun. It stands out by its dome-shaped lightweight photovoltaic module that houses environmental sensors and other smart devices that enable different kinds of monitoring. SIARQ thus actively contributes to overcoming the lack of interoperable solutions and the risk of fragmentation that have been acknowledged by the European Commission as major challenges to the deployment and exploitation of the IoT potential. SIARQ’s business model targets Telecoms, IT service providers and Energy Service Companies as preferential channels to reach the end users and to generate new business models with shared incomes. The phase 1 feasibility study will focus on validating the business model and commercialization strategy, planning of all activities for an in-field pilot in a city environment and elaborating industrialization and marketing plans.
DRILL STEM TUBULAR CONNECTION WITH INTERNAL STIFFENER RING

A threaded pipe coupling is shown for a drill pipe used in horizontal boring operations utilizing a special form of a threaded connection with an internal stiffener ring which eliminates the need for hot forging operations. The pipe coupling is used for joining an upset region of a first tubular member to a further tubular member of lesser external diameter. The internal stiffener ring is received within the internal bore of the pin end of the coupling and underlies and extends along a portion of its length. The stiffener ring having an innermost extent terminating in an exposed end which is received upon an internal shoulder provided in the mating internally threaded box end. The stiffener ring also has an external shoulder formed at the innermost extent thereof which traps the pin face between the ring exterior and the box threaded interior.
Forward slice core

There are two major flavors of processor core microarchitectures, namely the in-order core and the out-of-order core. Out-of-order processors deliver high performance while incurring high design complexity, large chip area and high power consumption. In-order processors on the other hand feature low complexity, small chip area and low power consumption, but deliver limited performance. There is a clear need for a novel core microarchitecture that delivers high performance at low hardware complexity, low cost and low power consumption. This is of particular interest for mobile and edge devices (e.g., tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, etc.) where increasingly high performance is needed at low cost and low power consumption. The mobile and edge device market is a huge market which continues to grow. High-performance out-of-order processors are too costly and too power-hungry, while in-order processors deliver insufficient performance for the increasingly high-performance demands of emerging mobile and edge workloads and use cases.

We propose a novel core microarchitecture, called the Forward Slice Core (FSC) microarchitecture, which provides high performance at low cost and low power consumption. FSC achieves a dramatic improvement in efficiency by replacing the expensive and high-complexity out-of-order hardware with much simpler in-order hardware queues into which instructions are intelligently steered for high performance using the notion of a load's forward slice. FSC has the potential to improve performance per Watt per euro by at least an order of magnitude. 

The overall objective of this PoC project is to build a strong benchmarking and IPR portfolio to convince potential processor manufacturers to license the Forward Slice Core microarchitecture. The project will strengthen the evaluation of the FSC proposal through simulation and real-hardware implementation, and develop a licensing strategy for commercialization.
Modified Metabolic Syndrome Criteria for Identification of Patients at Risk of Developing Diabetes and Coronary Heart Diseases: Longitudinal Assessment via Electronic Health Records

Metabolic syndrome has been shown to predict type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular events in well-studied cohorts, but lack of appropriate measures in real-life populations has limited its use in clinical settings. We developed and tested an algorithm to identify patients at risk for future diabetes or coronary heart disease (CHD) events using electronic health records (EHRs) at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS).Patients older than 18 years who had at least 1 visit (outpatient or inpatient) at the CHUS in 2002 or 2003 were included. We excluded patients with diabetes or CHD at baseline. Patients with at least 3 relevant measurements were classified as no metabolic syndrome (zero criteria met), at-risk for metabolic syndrome (1-2 criteria met), or having metabolic syndrome (≥ 3 criteria met). Incidence of diabetes and CHD were assessed through 2008.Data from 31,823 patients were included at baseline: 2997 (9.4%) were classified as having metabolic syndrome, while 18,686 (59%) were classified as at risk for metabolic syndrome. During the 5-year follow-up, having metabolic syndrome was associated with a 20.0% risk of developing diabetes (age- and sex-adjusted odds ratio = 5.12 [95% confidence interval, 4.57-5.74]; P < 0.0001) and a 14.7% CHD event incidence (age- and sex-adjusted odds ratio = 1.83 [95% confidence interval, 1.62-2.07]; P < 0.0001).An algorithm based on clinically available EHRs could identify patients at high cardiometabolic risk of future diabetes and CHD in the population receiving care at the CHUS.
The domestication of ‘hindu’ asceticism and the religious making of south and southeast asia

Censuses report over a billion “Hindus” in the world today. But what is “Hinduism”? In answer, many accounts describe the doctrinal evolutions of various quite different currents of thought. To try to reply using material and social evidence is difficult because so many vital primary sources for institutional history remain inaccessible.
What were the material foundations of the constellation of religious movements today classed as “Hindu”? How have different forms of religious agency shaped the institutional and religious landscape of a large sweep of Asia? How did such “Hindu” traditions, associated primarily with the ideas and practices of ascetics questing for liberation, become institutionally rooted? And what were the repercussions of the widespread patronage of pious foundations?
Three types of sources will be examined: inscriptions, manuscripts, archaeological remains. Inscriptions are crucial because most of our historical knowledge of early South and Southeast Asia is based on epigraphy. We will explore, mine and diffuse these sources with the tools of digital humanities (rich mark-up of proper-names, technical terms, geodata, etc.). In order to contextualise epigraphy, unpublished prescriptive texts and new archaeological data will be adduced. Our goal is to identify and to map regional and interregional patterns of patronage. The actors are varied: “lettrés”, holy men and priestly intermediaries, as well as their patrons, often grandees of the state; but also cenobitic communities with their statutes, their libraries, their educational activities, and their incipient bureaucracy.
Through a comparative approach (concentrating on “Hinduism”, but also considering the so-called “heretic” religions Buddhism and Jainism), and in a broad range of regional contexts, we shall attempt to uncover with unprecedented historical depth the complex interplay of religion, state and society in a formative period, the “Śaiva Age”, between the 6th and 13th centuries.
Leptospirosis, bovine viral diarrhea and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis: prevalence in Colombian cattle and buffaloes

One of the limiting factors of productive efficiency in cattle and buffalo herds is related to the high prevalence of infectious diseases which affect reproduction. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti-Leptospira antibodies for bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) in bovine and buffalo herds in Colombia. Blood serum samples were collected from 1100 buffaloes and 1000 cattle. The ELISA technique was used to detect antibodies against BVDV and BoHV-1, and the microscopic agglutination technique to detect anti-Leptospira antibodies. The prevalence of anti-Leptospira antibodies and of BVDV and BoHV-1 in bovine samples was observed in 16, 39.7, and 65% of animals, respectively, while the positivity in samples for the same antibodies in buffalos was detected in 18.7, 27.5 and 51.5%, respectively. Exposure of cattle and buffaloes to BoHV-1 was positively associated with age, higher prevalence rates were observed in older ages. Seropositivity of cattle for BVDV and BoHV-1 was higher in male animals. Activities such as embryo transfer, milking, and needle reuses, as well as the presence of cats and rodents are factors which favor positivity of the herd for BVDV and BoHV-1.
Critical issues in research design in action research in an SME development context

Purpose The main aim of this paper is to develop guidelines on the critical issues to consider in research design in an action research (AR) environment for SME network capability development. Design/methodology/approach The issues in research design for AR studies are developed from the authors' experience in running learning sets but, in particular, by an SME owner‐manager learning set established to develop and test theory about network capability. Findings The authors present a comprehensive set of research design issues for AR across seven areas – sampling; the facilitator; learning set interaction; set design; measurement; data collection decisions; and data analysis. Research limitations/implications While action research is inherently situational in approach, for those researchers wishing to use it to develop or test theory, the authors' framework will provide a benchmark for research design decisions. Practical implications The methodology is ideally suited to knowledge exchange settings and for collecting research data in such contexts and, if used in this way, could be an incentive to encourage more academic engagement with practice. Management and organisational development using AR is often reported on, but rarely in an SME context. The paper provides an example of a study conducted in this setting. Originality/value The main contribution of this article is to present an implementation framework for research design using AR. In addition, given policy goals now often require firms to collaborate with each other and in partnership with training organisations and universities, it makes sense to develop a mechanism to enhance the understanding of research methodologies that can be used in these contexts.