SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
A Ação Popular como Objeto de Estudo em Teses e Dissertações no Brasil: Um Balanço da Produção Acadêmica (2010-2019)

No Brasil, a Ação Popular (AP) é uma garantia constitucional, com previsão no art. 5º, LXXIII, e confere a qualquer cidadão a legitimidade na provocação do Judiciário para a proteção do patrimônio público. O presente artigo apresenta um balanço da produção científica nacional, especificamente das teses de doutorado e dissertações de mestrado, dos últimos dez anos, sobre a Ação Popular. Sistematiza e analisa, a partir do Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da CAPES, os trabalhos que elegeram o instituto como objeto central de estudo e investiga de que forma o abordaram. A partir dos dados encontrados, o procedimento de análise consistiu em caracterizar as pesquisas a partir de categorias temáticas, além de ter explicitado outras informações, como regime jurídico das instituições de ensino, distribuição por região geográfica e metodologia utilizada. Como principal resultado identificou-se a baixa produção acadêmica em relação ao tema, concentrando-se em instituições privadas de ensino, no Sudeste e Sul do país, e nos cursos de mestrado.
Early modern exchanges in sanskrit astral sciences

During the period of Mughal rule (1500 to 1800 CE) in early modern India, traditional Sanskrit astronomers actively engaged with Islamic (Ptolemaic) astronomy for the very first time. The EMESAS project proposes to study the canonical works (siddhāntas) of three Sanskrit astronomers from the early 17th century: Nityānanda, Munīśvara, and Kamalākara. The aim of this study is to find and analyse 'knowledge elements' found in their texts that are of Islamic origin, e.g., computational
methods, geometrical arguments, astronomical models, diagrammatic proofs, etc. In doing so, the EMESAS project will contextualize the process of transmission, reception, assimilation, and adaptation of Islamic ideas in medieval Sanskrit astronomy.

The Centre for the Study of Indian Science (CSIS), hosted by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies at University of Copenhagen (UCPH), specializes in research on different aspects of Indian astral sciences like saṃhitā (omens), horā (astrology), and gaṇita (mathematical astronomy). This makes CSIS ideally suited to host the EMESAS project.

Under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Zysk, the head of CSIS, the EMESAS project will examine Nityānanda's 'Sarvasiddhāntarāja' (1639 CE), Munīśvara’s 'Siddhāntasārvabhauma' (1646 CE), and Kamalākara’s
'Siddhāntatattvaviveka' (1658 CE). The research expertise at CSIS will enable this project to ask challenging questions: What motivated Sanskrit authors to discuss Islamic astronomical theories? What kind of technical explanations, mathematical vocabularies, and cultural tropes did Sanskrit authors adopt in accepting (or rejecting) foreign ideas? How did the scientific milieu of early 17th century Mughal India influence the development of Sanskrit astronomy? To answer these questions, the EMESAS project will develop a unique interdisciplinary approach that brings together philological, historical, and mathematical methods of analysis.
Bridging the innovation gap through converting R&D results into commercial success in a more effective and efficient way

High regional expenditure on R&D does not necessarily lead to innovation and increased regional competitiveness if the regional economy is hampered by insufficient exploitation of its own R&D results and from a lack of access to public R&D results. Increasing SMEs’ competitiveness is at the core of the InnoBridge project by improving the Innovation Bridge and related policy instruments for SMEs: “Bridging the innovation gap through converting R&D results into commercial success in a more effective and efficient way”. This enables SMEs to better realise their innovation potential and to act as a catalyst for creating more high qualified jobs and regional growth.

The partnership consists of 9 partners from 8 regions in 8 countries spread over Europe with a balance of advanced and less advanced regions.

Project phase 1 (3 years) is dedicated to an intensive interregional exchange and learning process on the Innovation Bridge with involvement of regional stakeholders (Peer Reviews, Study Visits, Capacity Building Workshops, Staff Exchanges). This approach facilitates the development of Action Plans, which are implemented in phase 2 (2 years).

Strong involvement of the responsible authorities for the 8 addressed policy instruments – as direct partner or as stakeholder group member – ensures the durability of the implemented improvements and the long-term impact on SMEs’ innovativeness in the partner regions.

All instruments are part of RIS3, 7 instruments are dealing with Structural Funds. An estimated total amount of 30.4 M EUR, influenced through InnoBridge implementation demonstrates the strong leverage effect for regional and European policies as added value.

The InnoBridge Concept Paper with InnoBridge methodology, Good Practice knowledge pool and lessons learnt, summarises the exchange and learning process and is disseminated EU wide. The project is supported by intensive communication activities like website, newsletters, social media and 2 conferences.
Pembrolizumab – cancer du sein TN métastatique PD-L1 positif

The island of Mayotte is part of the French territory and one of the European Union's Outermost Regions but there is a significant lack of data and research on health and cancers in Mayotte. This article reviews the literature on health, disease and cancer in Mayotte, from the perspectives of social science and epidemiology. It starts by shedding light on the specificities of Mahoran demography and society, and shows the healthcare infrastructure is insufficient to meet the population's needs. It then reviews social science studies on health and illness in Mayotte and shows that the political issue of migration permeates the management and the experiences of health on the island. It ends with a focus on the epidemiology of cervical cancer and a review of the available data on screening, treatment and prevention. The article concludes with a quick review of ongoing research and urgently calls for more data and research on this critical public health issue.Mayotte fait partie du territoire français et des régions ultrapériphériques de l’Union européenne, mais le problème de santé publique posé par les cancers est méconnu et peu documenté. Cet article passe en revue la littérature sur la santé, les maladies et les cancers à Mayotte, du point de vue des sciences sociales et de l’épidémiologie. Il commence par mettre en lumière les spécificités de la démographie et de la société mahoraise, et montre que les infrastructures de soins sont insuffisantes pour répondre aux besoins de la population. Il passe ensuite en revue les études en sciences sociales sur la santé et la maladie à Mayotte et montre que la question politique de la migration imprègne la gestion et les expériences de la santé sur l’île. Il propose enfin une focale sur l’épidémiologie du cancer du col de l’utérus et un examen des données disponibles sur le dépistage, la prise en charge, le traitement et la prévention. L’article se conclut par un rapide tour d’horizon des recherches en cours et lance un appel urgent à la production de données et de recherches sur la santé et les maladies à Mayotte.
The wingtips of the pterosaurs: Anatomy, aeronautical function and ecological implications

Abstract The leading edge and shape of the pterosaur wing is constrained by the skeleton. Although it has long been known that at least some pterosaurs had posteriorly curved distal wing phalanges, affecting the shape of the wingtip, this has been little studied despite that this may have profound effects on flight performance. Here we examine the evidence for curved wingtips in pterosaurs and evaluate the possible aerodynamic and aeronautical effects. Curved wingtips are shown to be common in both pterosaurs likely to have inhabited terrestrial environments, and those which were strongly pelagic. The recently described genus Bellubrunnus provides new anatomical novelty for pterosaurs having anteriorly directed wingtips and thus likely had a different flight profile to all previously known pterosaurs.
Conservative corrections to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole: A new gauge-invariant post-Newtonian ISCO condition, and the ISCO shift due to test-particle spin and the gravitational self-force

The innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) delimits the transition from circular orbits to those that plunge into a black hole. In the test-mass limit, well-defined ISCO conditions exist for the Kerr and Schwarzschild spacetimes. In the finite-mass case, there are a large variety of ways to define an ISCO in a post-Newtonian (PN) context. Here I generalize the gauge-invariant ISCO condition of Blanchet and Iyer [Classical Quantum Gravity 20, 755 (2003)] to the case of spinning (nonprecessing) binaries. The Blanchet-Iyer ISCO condition has two desirable and unexpected properties: (1) it exactly reproduces the Schwarzschild ISCO in the test-mass limit, and (2) it accurately approximates the recently calculated shift in the Schwarzschild ISCO frequency due to the conservative-piece of the gravitational self-force [L. Barack and N. Sago, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191101 (2009)]. The generalization of this ISCO condition to spinning binaries has the property that it also exactly reproduces the Kerr ISCO in the test-mass limit (up to the order at which PN spin corrections are currently known). The shift in the ISCO due to the spin of the test-particle is also calculated. Remarkably, the gauge-invariant PN ISCO condition exactly reproduces the ISCO shift predicted by the Papapetrou equations for a fully relativistic spinning particle. It is surprising that an analysis of the stability of the standard PN equations of motion is able (without any form of ``resummation'') to accurately describe strong-field effects of the Kerr spacetime. The ISCO frequency shift due to the conservative self-force in Kerr is also calculated from this new ISCO condition, as well as from the effective-one-body Hamiltonian of Barausse and Buonanno [Phys. Rev. D 81, 084024 (2010)]. These results serve as a useful point of comparison for future gravitational self-force calculations in the Kerr spacetime.
γ-Phase stabilized Bi4BaxV2−xO11−δ (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.20): Structural, thermal and conducting properties

Abstract In the present study, the effect of processing conditions (melt quench followed by sintering) on the structure, thermal and conducting properties is investigated of undoped and doped Bi 4 V 2 O 11 − δ . Both quenched and sintered samples were characterized by various techniques. High conducting disordered γ-phase is stabilized at lower dopant concentration than earlier reported values. The thermal stability of the samples increases with increase in dopant concentration. Activation energies are found in the range 0.70–1.15 eV. The conductivity increases up to x = 0.05 dopant concentration. After that, as dopant concentration increases, the conductivity decreases. A maximum value of conductivity ~ 4.07 × 10 − 3  S/cm at 600 °C is observed for the x = 0.05 sintered sample.
Accumulation, biotransformation, and multi-biomarker responses after exposure to arsenic species in the earthworm Eisenia fetida

Earthworms (Eisenia fetida) were exposed to OECD soils contaminated with arsenite (29.3 mg kg-1), arsenate (35.2 mg kg-1), monomethylarsonate (342.5 mg kg-1) and dimethylarsinate (373.0 mg kg-1) for 64 days. The exposure concentration for the four arsenic species was set at one-tenth of 14 d-LC50 in order to compare their toxicity. Eight biomarkers including superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione S-transferase, glutathione reductase, reduced glutathione, lipid peroxidation and metallothioneins were analyzed in the organisms. A multi-biomarker approach, the integrated biomarker response (IBR) index, was adopted to summarize the multi-biomarker responses to a single value, reflecting the integrated stress of different arsenic species on earthworms. Furthermore, total arsenic and arsenic speciation were analyzed in earthworm tissue to evaluate the relationship between arsenic accumulation and biomarker responses at the molecular and subcellular levels and to observe the role of arsenic biotransformation in earthworms. The results showed that the toxicity of the four arsenic species was ranked as: arsenite > arsenate > monomethylarsonate and dimethylarsinate. Although organic arsenics showed a low degree of biotoxicity, they could be turned into highly toxic inorganic arsenics under the effect of demethylation, which caused a toxic effect on organisms. The biomarker responses indicated that a sub-lethal dose of both arsenite and arsenate could trigger the response of the antioxidant defense system and cause oxidative damage when the protective capacity of the system was exhausted. Arsenic in earthworms could be detoxified during the process of biotransformation, where inorganic arsenics were converted into organic arsenics, which would then be excreted out. Based on these results, it was proved that different arsenic species showed different degrees of toxicity. Therefore, arsenic species should be differentiated in order to obtain accurate results in quality/risk assessment programs.
Relationship between Biological Egg Characteristics and Female Brood Fish in Stellate Sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus Pallas, 1771 (Pisces: Acipenseridae) in the Southeast Caspian Sea, Iran

Fecundity is one of the important indicators of reproduction biology in fishes especially in rearing and restocking management of endangered species such as sturgeon. The fecundity of stellate Sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus Pallas, 1771) was studied in 50 specimens captured by gill net (mesh size= 100 mm) and seine net in different fishing areas along the southeastern part of the Caspian Sea from October 2004 through June 2005.Some biological characteristics of eggs (including diameter, surface-to-volume ratio of egg) and of fish (including age, fork length, weight, fecundity and gonadosomatic indices) were determined, and the relationship between them was defined. The results obtained showed that eggs were in stage F5 of development, and mean fork length, weight, age, fecundity and gonadosomatic indices were 125.26±8.01 (cm), 10.3±1.97 (kg), 12±1.34 (years), 170730±43211.11 and 20.88±3.19 (%), respectively. Also, the average egg diameter and surface-to-volume ratio were 2.92±1.44 (mm) and 2.06±0.12 (mm-1), respectively. Positive correlation was detected between egg diameter and surface, and volume, while negative correlation was found between egg diameter and surface-to-volume ratio. Weight, length and age have linear relationships with absolute fecundity and age was the best predicator of fecundity (r2= 0.848, F=27.962 and P value=0.003).
The Global need for Quality

The literature on quality management is explored to gain insight into the role of quality management in assuring quality products and services. The notion of quality is first described as point of departure for the exploration of systems to produce quality. In considering various approaches to quality management systems, international approaches are explored and some fundamental underlying principles of quality and the application of these principles in the context of medical laboratories are addressed. Standards contain technical specifications or precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or definitions of characteristics, to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. When applied in organisations, they contribute to increasing the reliability and effectiveness of the goods and services delivered. An international standard may be used as such, or may be implemented through incorporation into the national standards of individual counties. Quality management systems in relation to certification and accreditation, and the particular standards applicable to medical laboratories are described in this overview on the global need for quality.
Erosion control methods and products for equipment pads

Erosion control apparatuses are provided for equipment pads. In one embodiment, a silt fence that acts as a soil erosion barrier is provided for attachment to an equipment pad. In another embodiment, a percolating fabric layer is provided that causes water to seep and spread slowly or gradually in an unsteady pattern, minimizing erosion. In another embodiment, a multi-layer fabric assembly is provided that has a first, ground-penetrating fabric layer joined to a second, ground-overlaying fabric layer. In another embodiment, corner and side wall pieces that interlock to form a continuous soil erosion barrier are provided for an equipment pad. An installation tool is also provided to aid installation of the erosion control apparatuses.
Code Status Discussions in Psychiatric and Medical Inpatients

The Patient Self-Determination Act along with regulatory standards and institutional standards of care highlight the need for collaboration between care providers and patients with respect to goals of care and, in emergency situations, code status and measures to be taken in keeping with patients' wishes. Addressing code status may be lacking in patients who require psychiatric hospitalization due to the nature of psychiatric illness, relative medical stability, and a general expectation of survival. We sought to compare code status documentation and discussion between psychiatric and medical inpatients, as this knowledge will help shape future interventions for process improvement.We conducted a retrospective chart review of hospitalized patients in psychiatric and medical units during a 12-month period in 2008. For those with multiple admissions, we reviewed only the index (or first) hospitalization. Data collected included demographic information, clinical information regarding cancer as a primary diagnosis or a diagnosis that met National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) guidelines, code status order and discussion documentation, the presence of an advance directive, length of stay, and 1-year mortality. Data were summarized using mean values, percentages, and frequencies. The 2 groups (psychiatric and medical groups) were compared.The charts of 276 psychiatric patients and 317 general medical patients were reviewed. More psychiatric patients had dementia (P < .001). Medical inpatients had a higher rate of code status order documented on admission (96% vs 65%, P < .001) and "full-code, discussed" order (67% vs 33%, P < .001). Psychiatric inpatients had more "do not resuscitate/do not intubate" orders (20% vs 13%, P = .037), more frequent changes in code status order (18% vs 7%, P < .001), and a higher percentage of advance directives (46% vs 25%, P < .001).A code status discussion with hospitalized patients needs to occur at admission regardless of reason for admission. Strategies are needed to improve this process for psychiatric inpatients.
Soft-Bioelectrochemistry for artificial respiratory chain

All cells contain tiny molecular motors made from a large family of proteins including enzymes and antibodies that help the cell produce energy, move, and move material inside the cell. While several biomolecular motors have been identified, the remaining challenges are determining how these species transfer information from one region of a motor to another and how the malfunctioning of these can lead to the development of several diseases. One timely example is the detrimental effect that a disrupted mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) can produce in human beings (e.g., cancer, neurodegeneration, heart failure). The SoftBioArt project will explore a new paradigm in ETC by achieving an efficient inter-protein electron transfer at electrified soft-interfaces and to using this platform to pinpoint any weak points for possible electron leakage during the ETC. The SoftBioArt program will result in a new platform bringing biomimetic modified soft-interfaces to a new level, to demystify one of the most relevant living machines within mitochondria (respiratory ETC) where any malfunctioning is linked to the development of several chronic human diseases. Thus, the SofBioArt program will develop model membrane systems that will serve as scaffolds harbouring protein and enzymes of the ETC at soft-interfaces maximizing the electron transfer efficiency at an electrified soft-interface. The SoftBioArt project pushes the boundaries of the current state-of-the-art of bioelectrochemistry at soft-interfaces to determine if this unexplored system can bridge the gap between solid electrode bioelectrochemistry and living systems.
Photoreceptor Ablation Initiates the Immediate Loss of Glutamate Receptors in Postsynaptic Bipolar Cells in Retina

Structural changes underlying neurodegenerative diseases include dismantling of synapses, degradation of circuitry, and even massive rewiring. Our limited understanding of synapse dismantling stems from the inability to control the timing and extent of cell death. In this study, selective ablation of cone photoreceptors in live mouse retina and tracking of postsynaptic partners at the cone-to-ON cone bipolar cell synapse reveals that early reaction to cone loss involves rapid and local changes in postsynaptic glutamate receptor distribution. Glutamate receptors disappear with a time constant of 2 h. Furthermore, binding of glutamate receptors by agonists and antagonists is insufficient to rescue glutamate receptor loss, suggesting that receptor allocation depends on the physical presence of cones. These findings demonstrate that the initial step in synapse disassembly involves postsynaptic receptor loss rather than dendritic retraction, providing insight into the early stages of neurodegenerative disease.
Pandemic Recession: L or V-Shaped?

We develop and calibrate a search-theoretic model of the labor market in order to forecast the evolution of the aggregate US labor market during and after the coronavirus pandemic. The model is designed to capture the heterogeneity of the transitions of individual workers across states of unemployment, employment and across different employers. The model is also designed to capture the trade-offs in the choice between temporary and permanent layoffs. Under reasonable parametrizations of the model, the lockdown instituted to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus is shown to have long-lasting negative effects on unemployment. This is so because the lockdown disproportionately disrupts the employment of workers who need years to find stable jobs.
Silkene: bionic silk with graphene or other nanomaterials spun by silkworms

The project aims at designing, developing, scaling-up and optimizing a pre-industrial process towards the mass production of “silkene”, a bionic silk fiber reinforced with graphene, or other nanomaterials such as nanotubes, directly spun by silkworms. The idea is simply based on nanomaterial ingestion and subsequent “silkene” spinning by silkworms. Silkene is expected to be significantly stronger and tougher that its natural counterpart. Since silk produced by silkworms has already impacted our society, the impact of SILKENE project could also be significant. The process under consideration should in this project be technically verified, optimized and taken to a pre-commercial stage, for applications in industrial sectors such as smart or high-performance technical fibers, textiles, and related reinforced composites. The concept has been already preliminarily (see http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06751) demonstrated at the laboratory scale with spiders, within our ERC Starting Grant ""Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials"" (BIHSNAM).