SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Trauma Leaves Children Behind: Impact of Psychological Distress on Childrens Learning

Tanzania has been prone to both natural and man-made disasters such as droughts, floods, accidents, earthquakes, and locus invasions. These disasters affect livelihoods; destroy infrastructure, cause food shortages and health problems. The Uncontrolled explosions of bombs on 29th April 2009, at the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) armouries in Mbagala military facility, in Dar es Salaam must have been a terrible experience, with psychological as well as physical consequences. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological effects of bomb blasts on academic development among the children involved in the tragedy. It was put forward that the studied children would exhibit psychological disorders resulting from bombs blasts, and such disorders would have impact on their learning. This study was qualitative in nature, and purposive sampling was applied in selecting both students and teachers for the study. The study was conducted in the two primary schools (Maendeleo and Mbagala Kuu) that are too close to the military base where the bombs exploded. It was found that bombs blasts had caused intrusive thoughts, frustrations and low confidence to the children, which in turn affected their academic performance, mainly in mathematics and science subjects. The study suggests that these children should be supported just as it is for students with special educational needs.
ANALYSIS ON CHARACTERISTICS OF DEEP-WATER SEDIMENTARY TIGHT SANDSTONE RESERVOIR OF CHANG 6 IN HUAQING AREA

The sedimentary characteristics,lithology characteristics,porosity-permeability characteristics,diagenesis types,pore texture and pore types of the reservoir of the Change 6 formation in Huaqing area are studied through analyzing the core,thin sections,casting thin sections and physical property.The result indicates that the deep-water sedimentary sandstone reservoir of Chang 6 formation has the following characters-ultrafined grain size of the deposits,low comparative maturity and moderated textural maturity,the pore types include residual interparticle pores,and secondary dissolution pore.The pore structure is mainly composed by the micropore fine-throat type.Between porosity and permeability of the investigated area,there are good positive correlations.It is a typical reservoir from low pore,low osmosis to extra low pore,extra low osmosis.
Il personaggio di Francesca Baffo nel Raverta di Giuseppe Betussi

Giuseppe Betussi is unique among his contemporaries for the attention he pays to women. While most Italian works of the 1500s present women as secondary characters, Betuss’s work gives them the main role. This focus is made evident in the writer’s dialogues on love, in which he introduces prominent female interlocutors — such as Francesca Baffo in il Raverta (1544). This female presence is not a mere stylistic formality in Betussi’s work (most love treatises of the time do feature women). Rather, it is an occasion for the author to celebrate the intellect of women and to propose the model of a woman, and in particular of a courtesan, who is shown as an interlocutor as cultured and skilled as any man. La vita e la produzione letteraria di Giuseppe Betussi, mostrano un profondo legame tra l’autore e le donne. A differenza di altri scrittori del Cinquecento italiano in cui si può rintracciare una filoginia solamente occasionale, nel caso di Betussi questa componente risulta essere una costante in tutta la sua carriera. In particolare è nei dialoghi amorosi in cui questo elemento risulta particolarmente evidente. Nel Raverta (1544), l’autore sceglie di inserire una donna come personaggio interlocutore del dialogo: Francesca Baffo. L’inclusione di personaggi femminili nei trattati d’amore è una caratteristica innovativa presente in molte opere cinquecentesche significativa di una maggiore partecipazione delle donne nel contesto intellettuale della società rinascimentale. Si cercherà di mostrare come nei dialoghi di Betussi, la scelta di inserire una donna come personaggio non risulti essere una mera adesione a un modello letterario esistente, ma rappresenti la volontà da parte dell’autore di celebrare le qualità intellettuali delle donne e di proporre ai lettori un modello di cortigiana colta e capace di discutere alla pari con gli uomini. La vita e la produzione letteraria di Giuseppe Betussi, mostrano un profondo legame tra l’autore e le donne. A differenza di altri scrittori del Cinquecento italiano in cui si può rintracciare una filoginia solamente occasionale, nel caso di Betussi questa componente risulta essere una costante in tutta la sua carriera. In particolare è nei dialoghi amorosi in cui questo elemento risulta particolarmente evidente. Nel Raverta (1544), l’autore sceglie di inserire una donna come personaggio interlocutore del dialogo: Francesca Baffo. L’inclusione di personaggi femminili nei trattati d’amore è una caratteristica innovativa presente in molte opere cinquecentesche significativa di una maggiore partecipazione delle donne nel contesto intellettuale della società rinascimentale. Si cercherà di mostrare come nei dialoghi di Betussi, la scelta di inserire una donna come personaggio non risulti essere una mera adesione a un modello letterario esistente, ma rappresenti la volontà da parte dell’autore di celebrare le qualità intellettuali delle donne e di proporre ai lettori un modello di cortigiana colta e capace di discutere alla pari con gli uomini.
ISOLATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTION IN A DRILL STRING

A system includes a drill string made up of a plurality of connectable pipe sections. An assembly is provided for use with each pipe section including contact arrangement for forming an isolated electrical connection between attached pipe sections at each end of each pipe section. An electrically conductive arrangement is located in the innermost passage of each pipe section and is in electrical communication with the contact arrangement to extend there between in a way which provides an electrically conductive path that is arranged against the inner wall of the innermost passage of each pipe section in cooperation with the contact arrangement to form an overall electrically isolated conductive path through the drill string. The electrically conductive arrangement resiliently biases the electrically conductive path against the inner wall, which path may take the form of a helix.
Training of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial researchers in waterborne dispersed polymers

TRACKWAY aims at training the next generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative researchers combining projects at the frontline of the research in functional dispersed polymers with interdisciplinary training in transferable and specialized skills. Based on the synergetic collaboration between BASF, a leading industry in dispersed polymers and University of the Basque Country, a reputed academic institution in the field, the research programme faces the challenge of innovation aiming at creating new waterborne dispersed polymers with new functionalities and lower environmental impact. In particular, it aims at developing intrinsically autonomous self-healing coatings, waterborne adhesives with controlled temperature responsiveness, and non-leaching exterior coatings that will avoid the long-term environmental concern caused by the leaching of surfactants from roofs and facades. The research program is complemented with training in basic and industrially-relevant transferable skills and with exposure of the young researchers to different environments and ways of thinking beyond the consortium. The young researchers trained in this interdisciplinary and intersectorial programme will be able to face the challenge of converting knowledge into useful, marketable and sustainable products, which will make them highly valuable by the large EU industry in this field as well as for many other industrial sectors and academia.
Exonuclease hDIS3L2 specifies an exosome-independent 3′-5′ degradation pathway of human cytoplasmic mRNA

Turnover of mRNA in the cytoplasm of human cells is thought to be redundantly conducted by the monomeric 5'-3' exoribonuclease hXRN1 and the 3'-5' exoribonucleolytic RNA exosome complex. However, in addition to the exosome-associated 3'-5' exonucleases hDIS3 and hDIS3L, the human genome encodes another RNase II/R domain protein-hDIS3L2. Here, we show that hDIS3L2 is an exosome-independent cytoplasmic mRNA 3'-5' exonuclease, which exhibits processive activity on structured RNA substrates in vitro. hDIS3L2 associates with hXRN1 in an RNA-dependent manner and can, like hXRN1, be found on polysomes. The impact of hDIS3L2 on cytoplasmic RNA metabolism is revealed by an increase in levels of cytoplasmic RNA processing bodies (P-bodies) upon hDIS3L2 depletion, which also increases half-lives of investigated mRNAs. Consistently, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analyses demonstrate that depletion of hDIS3L2, like downregulation of hXRN1 and hDIS3L, causes changed levels of multiple mRNAs. We suggest that hDIS3L2 is a key exosome-independent effector of cytoplasmic mRNA metabolism.
A Validation and Replication Study of the Patient-Generated Measure PSYCHLOPS on an Icelandic Clinical Population

PSYCHLOPS (Psychological Outcome Profiles; Ashworth et al., 2004 ) is a patient-generated outcome measure developed to be a sensitive indicator of change after therapy. It requires the patient to choose which symptoms or problems are most important to measure over the course of therapy. The present study replicates previous findings for the original version and validates the Icelandic version. The psychometric properties of PSYCHLOPS were investigated by comparing it to an established nomothetic outcome measure, CORE-OM. Icelandic versions of both questionnaires were administered to patients attending cognitive behavior group therapy in a mental-health setting in Iceland. PSYCHLOPS was found to be considerably more sensitive to change over therapy than CORE-OM; convergent and concurrent validity was supported, and internal reliabilities were satisfactory. The acceptability of the instrument was demonstrated by the high completion rate. Overall, these findings suggest that the Icelandic version of PSYCHLOPS has good psychometric properties, and the findings compared very favorably to previous findings. It is concluded that PSYCHLOPS should be considered a desirable instrument for evaluating mental-health outcome and a valuable complement to conventional nomothetic outcome measures.
Companion nanodiagnostics for quantifying epr and stratifying patients to targeted nanotherapies

CONQUEST aims to commercialise a first-of-its-kind platform technology for imaging a biological effect – i.e. the EPR effect – that is predictive for a cancer patient's response to tumor-targeted nanomedicine (NM) therapy. CONQUEST thereby addresses a key issue in the (nano)pharmaceutical industry; as currently large proportions of cancer patients do not respond to NM, while others show major improvements in terms of response rates, survival times and quality of life. This trend impairs the outcome of clinical studies and results in many patients receiving treatments that are not effective to them. It would therefore be highly desirable to stratify responders from non-responders prior to study entry or treatment. CONQUEST stands at the basis of introducing a solution to this problem in the pharmaceutical industry.  
Prof. Lammers and colleagues, as part of ERC-funded research, have developed a powerful imaging approach that allows to construct an EPR profile of each individual tumour - by the administration and non-invasive imaging of contrast agent-labelled nanocarriers (drug-loaded or empty) that accumulate in tumours through EPR. The general idea is that patients with a low degree of EPR, and therefore unlikely to respond to such treatments, can be excluded from NM treatment and referred to alternative established or experimental interventions. Vice versa, patients with a high level of EPR can likely be treated relatively efficiently.
Recognising the commercial potential of this technology, CONQUEST aims to tailor the technique and protocol for application in humans, by tuning the method for imaging with PET-MRI. A successful demonstration of PET-MRI-based EPR imaging will trigger large interest of the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry, to invest in further clinical (co-) development.
Supporto per il mantenimento dell'attività dell'azienda Gościnne Rooms Paweł Skowronek

In relazione al Covid-19, la mia struttura è stata chiusa dal Regolamento del Ministro della Salute dal 14.3.2020 al 4.5.2020 Per il momento del divieto sono stato privato dell'unica fonte di reddito e il mio reddito per questo periodo era di 0,00 PLN. Sono stato costretto a fermare gli investimenti necessari nella struttura. Una delle esigenze più urgenti è quella di recuperare liquidità finanziaria e completare le riparazioni e gli investimenti necessari per il corretto funzionamento dello strumento.
The Distress of Citizen-Children with Detained and Deported Parents

In immigration enforcement, many undocumented immigrants with children are often detained and deported. But it is their US-born citizen-children that have been overlooked in immigration debates and enforcement policies and practices. Citizen-children are at risk for negative psychological outcomes when families are fractured and destabilized by arrest, detention, and deportation. The children risk being torn from their parents and, often, their undocumented siblings. To add to the small but growing empirical base on the effects of living under the threat of deportation and actual deportation of parents, we compared the psychological status of three groups of citizen-children: (1) a group living in Mexico with their deported parents; (2) a group in the US with parents affected by detention or deportation; and (3) a comparison group of citizen-children whose undocumented parents were not affected by detention or deportation. We compared children on self-report and parent-report measures of behavioral adjustment, depression, anxiety, and self-concept. Across the three groups we found elevated levels of distress, and differences between children who had experienced a parent's detention or deportation and those who had not. We discuss findings in the context of children's clinical needs, future research, and implications for immigration enforcement policy and practices.
Nonlinear system modelling for linear parameter-varying control design

This project approaches the linear parameter-varying (LPV) framework starting from a nonlinear system point of view. This allows one to include strongly nonlinear systems in the considered LPV system class, and to develop LPV-based control strategies for nonlinear systems. At the end of this project a unified framework will be in place to go from nonlinear system identification to a LPV model suited for robust LPV control design.

Complex nonlinear behavior is encountered in many physical systems in engineering, e.g. in high-tech applications, chemical processes or in energy applications. For a long time, these systems were operated around steady-state conditions or specific regimes using digital controllers, designed via Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) control synthesis. Growing challenges in terms of system complexity, performance requirements, operational constraints and energy efficiency have begun to push the limitations of the LTI framework.

The nonlinear modelling and control tools developed in the past lack the intuitive and simple interpretation that are the trademark of LTI framework. The LPV framework on the other hand has been developed as an extension of the LTI framework, preserving most of its intuitive features, with the possibility to use a systematic control design flow. A significant gap continues to exist between nonlinear systems and the LPV framework. 

How to bridge this gap, while exploiting the already available tools of nonlinear system identification for the estimation of LPV models for robust LPV control design is the topic of this research proposal. Three core research objectives are addressed in this project:

1. Nonlinear identification for robust LPV control using a frequency-domain weighted cost function
2. Convert nonlinear models in LPV representations in a systematic way
3. Develop a frequency-domain LPV model uncertainty analysis framework

These three objectives combined result in LPV models suited for robust LPV control design.
ASSEMBLY OF TITANIUM AND STEEL PARTS BY DIFFUSION WELDING

The invention relates to a method for assembling titanium parts and steel parts by diffusion welding that comprises placing two thin spacers (14, 16) made of niobium or vanadium and of copper, respectively, between a titanium part (10) and a steel part (12), placing the part and spacer assembly under vacuum, and subjecting the same to hot isostatic compression at a temperature of between 900°C and 950°C and under a pressure of between 1000 and 1500 bars for about two hours. The invention also relates to the production of turbine shafts for turbine engines.
Integrating climate impact and spatial microsimulation modelling for improved climate change adaptation decision-making

Minimising the welfare cost of climate change requires effective adaptation policies. Consequently, the EU strategy on climate change adaptation prioritises the creation of ‘frameworks, models and tools to support decision-making and to assess [the effectiveness of] various adaptation measures’. Accurate measurement of welfare cost is a prerequisite for effective policy prioritisation. The current state of the art quantifies welfare costs using aggregated methodologies. This has been shown to bias cost estimation and does not capture the socioeconomic distribution of welfare impacts. This bias may therefore affect the effectiveness of adaptation measures. Integrating climate impact models (with which Prof Lotze-Campen and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research [PIK] are experts) with Spatial Microsimulation (SM) modelling (with which the experienced researcher, Dr. Farrell, is an expert) provides a framework to estimate micro-level welfare impacts and thus overcome these deficiencies. Furthermore, this project integrates these estimates into decision-making models to aid policy. 

This project provides: (1) a timely contribution; (2) a strong multidisciplinary focus; (3) a transfer of SM knowledge to PIK, improving their ability to quantify the welfare impacts of climate change; (4) strong training in climate science and decision-making tools for Dr. Farrell; (5) strong communication/dissemination strategy drawing on resources of Dr. Farrell and PIK.

The value of this project is in the collaborative opportunities provided by the research fellowship. PIK provides the best possible opportunities for mentorship and training/professional development for Dr. Farrell. This establishes Dr. Farrell as the leading expert in an emerging field of micro-based welfare estimation of climate change impacts and, coupled with the integration of the research networks of Dr. Farrell and PIK, provides a platform through which many further career developments are possible.
IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member to carry a toner image, a nip forming member to form a transfer nip with the image carrying member, and a transfer bias outputting unit to output a transfer bias to transfer the toner image from the image carrying member to a recording medium. The transfer bias is composed of a direct current (DC) component and an alternating current (AC) component, and a least one of the DC component and the AC component is subjected to constant voltage control. When constant current control is conducted at a timing other than when the toner image is being transferred from the image carrying member to the recording medium, a detection bias voltage at the transfer nip is detected, and the voltage of at least one of the DC component and the AC component is controlled based on the detected detection bias voltage.
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist Therapy and Obesity in Girls

Depot preparations of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa) are the gold standard drugs for the treatment of central precocious puberty. A concern about these drugs is obesity.This study aimed to investigate the effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa) therapy on body mass index (BMI) in girls with central precocious puberty (CPP).The girls with onset of puberty before eight years of age or menarche before nine years of age were studied. The weight, height, BMI, and pubertal stage were determined before and at sixth and 12th months of treatment. The GnRHa (Triptorelin) was administered intramuscularly for patients with rapidly progressive forms of CPP. Patients with slowly progressive forms of CPP were considered as control group.From 110 subjects with CPP, 46 girls (41.8%) were considered as intervention and 64 (58.2%) as control groups. The mean age at initial visit was 7.46 ± 1.03 years. The BMI standard deviation scores in both groups was not significantly different at sixth and 12th months of treatment compared with baseline (P = 0.257 and P = 0.839, respectively). The prevalence of obesity was not significantly different between study groups at baseline and at and sixth and 12th months of therapy (P = 0.11, P = 0.068, and P = 0.052, respectively).The GnRHa therapy has no effect on BMI and the prevalence of obesity.
Spider Recognition by Biometric Web Analysis

Saving earth’s biodiversity for future generations is an important global task. Spiders are creatures with a fascinating behaviour, overall in the way they build their webs. This is the reason this work proposed a novel problem: the used of spider webs as a source of information for specie recognition. To do so, biometric techniques such as image processing tools, Principal Component Analysis, and Support Vector Machine have been used to build a spider web identification system. With a database built of images from spider webs of three species, the system reached a best performance of 95,44 % on a 10 K-Folds cross-validation procedure.KeywordsSpider websspider classificationprincipal component analysissupport vector machine
METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROVIDING INPUT FOR HEAD-WORN IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICES

An apparatus for use with an image display device configured for head-worn by a user, includes: a screen; and a processing unit configured to assign a first area of the screen to sense finger-action of the user; wherein the processing unit is configured to generate an electronic signal to cause a change in a content displayed by the display device based on the finger-action of the user sensed by the assigned first area of the screen of the apparatus.
An easy-handling compound saw

The present invention relates to a compound saw which may be used as a mitre saw or as a table saw, in particular, an easy-handling saw of which the movable legs (308) may be used as handles. The base supporting the saw blade unit comprises a left side frame (32), a right side frame (31), and four independent movable legs (308) also acting as handles. Two sets of leg orientation devices are respectively disposed at the lower end of the left and right side frames, and each set of leg orientation devices respectively includes a vertical orientation slot which extends approximately vertically and a horizontal orientation slot which extends approximately horizontally. The upper ends of the movable legs may be connected to the leg orientation devices by movable locking mechanisms (311) and the movable legs may be restricted inside the vertical orientation slots or the horizontal orientation slots by means of the movable locking mechanisms. It has characteristics such as providing movable legs also acting as handles, light weight, and easy handling, etc, and it solves the problem of awkward, inconvenient handling due to the structure of conventional compound saws.