SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Water and energy assessment for dewatering in opencast mines

Pumps are used in mines for dewatering and consume about 18% of the total energy usage in an opencast coal mine. Quantitative estimation of water removal rate in a mine is necessary for designing an effective dewatering system and to minimise energy consumption. In this paper, a generic model is proposed to estimate water and energy requirement for pumping in an opencast mine based on the mine excavation characteristics. The modelling framework is used to estimate specific water removal (SWR) and specific energy consumption (SEC) for water pumping in an opencast mine of a given topography, climatic condition and soil properties. A case study of water pumping of an opencast coal mine in India resulted in SWR of 22.8 m3/t and SEC of 8.97 kWh/t of coal for a maximum daily rainfall of 100 mm/d in the year 2010. The results show that the SEC increases by 34% from 3rd year in 1998 (6.65 kWh/t) to the 15th year (8.97 kWh/t), with progress of mining. The model can help the mine planner to decide the pump capacity and operating strategy for optimal energy usage.
Microbial risk governance: challenges and opportunities in fresh water management in Canada

This paper analyzes the barriers and opportunities that decentralized water governance regimes pose to effective microbial risk assessment and management for drinking and recreational water quality. The paper presents a case study of Canada (a country whose approach to water governance is among the most decentralized in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD]) evaluating microbial governance approaches in British Columbia and Ontario. The analysis is timely for two reasons: (1) relatively little research has been conducted on microbial risk assessment and management from a governance perspective; the literature focuses largely on technical and methodological approaches (such as Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment [QMRA] or Water Safety Plans); (2) 15 years post Walkerton,– little research has examined the implementation of source water protection as a strategy to reduce microbial risk in recreational and drinking water in the context of decentralized water governance. A range ...
Reinforcing social and solidarity economy for the unemployed, uneducated and refugees

The financial crisis in Europe, as well as the unstable financial and political situation in many Mediterranean Partner Countries, sorely tested the applied economic model. Furthermore, around 15 million persons (migrants and refugees) born in a third country currently live in the region and need to find a job or enter the education system. It has become apparent that new and credible alternatives to the mainstream economy are needed. These transformations in the economy and the society have brought increased attention to the social and solidarity economy (SSE) actors that have been capable of helping to turn the challenges into opportunities. Nevertheless, for the SSE initiatives to be efficient, effective collaboration with the public authorities is fundamental. MoreThanAJob will deliver and demonstrate a framework of best practices, previously identified and studied for the inclusion of the unemployed (including refugees and uneducated) in the work and education system. The framework is based on the collaboration of SSE actors and public authorities for delivering in a more effective way their services. This will be done through pilot sub-projects aiming to ensure a long-term impact and the creation of jobs.
La emergencia de Brasil como principal exportador mundial de carne de pollo

La creciente riqueza en el mundo en los últimos setenta y cinco años ha llevado a una cada vez mayor demanda de proteína animal barata. Mientras que la moderna carne de pollo o la industria broiler fue desarrollada primero en los Estados Unidos y Europa Occidental, hoy es Brasil el principal exportador de pollos broiler. Este artículo examina el origen y expansión de esta industria en Brasil, explicando cómo y por qué este país ha emergido como el principal exportador mundial tanto de carne de pollos broiler en general, como de carne de pollo halal en particular.
BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS GENES ENCODING NEMATODE-ACTIVE TOXINS

B. thuringiensis genes encoding toxins active against nematode pests have been cloned from the strains PS80JJ1, PS158D5, PS167P, PS169E, PS177F1, PS177G, PS204G4 and PS204G6. The toxins are active especially against Panagrellus redivivus as examplified in the application. The DNAs encoding the toxins can be used to transform various hosts, such as plants, to express the toxins.
Entrevista a Laura Alcoba: "Para qué sirven las historias".

Par la forêt est le dernier roman de Laura Alcoba (La Plata, 1968), publié par Gallimard en janvier de cette année. L'auteur y raconte en français une histoire qui frise l'indicible : un double infanticide, plusieurs tentatives de suicide et l'expérience de l'exil. Griselda, mère de trois enfants, tue ses deux plus jeunes enfants. Flavia, la fille aînée, survit non seulement à la mort précoce, mais aussi au silence qui, pendant des années, entoure les événements qui ne peuvent être expliqués par des mots. Dans Par la forêt, un narrateur à la première personne qui rencontre les protagonistes de cette histoire, les écoute, prend des notes et écrit, rassemble dans un temps ultérieur les mots qui n'ont peut-être pas pu être dits avant.&#x0D; Dans cet entretien, qui s'est déroulé au café Le progrés à Paris en juillet 2022, Laura Alcoba partage l'expérience intimement humaine et d'écriture de la création de Par la forêt. À partir de ce roman, en rétrospective, Alcoba retrace son écriture romanesque, révèle son lien avec la traduction et la langue maternelle, et propose un regard sur ce qu'il faut raconter, à quoi servent les histoires.
The use of improved exposure factors in the interpretation of fine particulate matter epidemiological results

Multi-city population-based epidemiological studies have consistently reported a significant association between ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and daily mortality. However, in these studies heterogeneity between-community effect estimates is often observed but not thoroughly examined, leaving much of the difference in the effects of individual communities inadequately explained. In this study, we evaluated whether community-specific exposure factors play a role in explaining heterogeneity in the associations between ambient PM2.5 concentrations and several causes of mortality in 27 US communities from 1997 to 2002 as reported by Franklin et al. (J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 3:279–287, 2007). Using publically available databases, we created factors capturing home ventilation characteristics and commuting patterns. These factors include the normalized leakage, annual and seasonal temperatures, and in-vehicle commuting distances and time. In-vehicle commuting distance and time, and annual, spring, and fall temperatures were significant negative effect modifiers of the relationship between PM2.5 exposure and respiratory and non-accidental mortality. Additionally, cardiovascular mortality PM2.5 effect estimates were negatively modified by in-vehicle commuting distances. We concluded that future multi-community studies of particle health effects should consider these and other determinants of personal–ambient exposure relationships during the epidemiological analysis.
Libralato rotary engine; a game-change for cost competitive gasoline engines and plug-in hybrid cars.

The Libralato engine is the world’s first “one stroke” rotary Atkinson cycle engine, completing all of the engine phases in parallel in each rotation. It has a completely new thermodynamic cycle which is predicted to achieve around 40% efficiency using gasoline. This is achieved because of its asymmetrical expansion and compression volumes and because it does not need to convert the reciprocating motion of pistons into the rotational motion of the output shaft. The Libralato engine has only four principal moving parts: two rotors fixed by their own bearing, connected by a sliding vane and a rotating exhaust. It has no need for conventional cylinders, pistons, con-rods, crankshafts, valve trains and cam shafts. The engine is tuned for lean burn combustion, with high and constant levels of torque, very low vibration and very low exhaust temperature and noise reducing fuel consumption by two thirds and CO2 emissions by 50%.
The proposed innovation project intends to; demonstrate and validate the performance of the engine in an operational environment; run a fully operation commercial pilot with fleet test; industrialisation of Libralato engine for high volume production; scaling of production capability for up to 20k units.
Keys to evolutionary success: untangling drivers of hyperdiversification

Explaining why some taxa are more diversified than their closest relatives remains one of the major challenges in evolutionary biology. However, much of Earth’s biodiversity is concentrated in few diverse non-vertebrate animal lineages, whose analysis of diversification dynamics is hampered by the lack of empirical data. The NEOME project will focus on one hyperdiverse and poorly-known taxon of molluscs, the marine predators Neogastropoda. Their high species diversity (>15,000 species), largely undescribed, and the key innovations they evolved, linked to their feeding habits and dispersal abilities, make them a perfect model system to test hypotheses related to the diversification of hyperdiverse taxa. The first objective of the project will be to reconstruct a robust, precise and complete phylogeny of the group by using cutting-edge omic technologies. The second goal will be to test correlations between two traits – the exogenome diversity as proxy of feeding habits, and the type of larval development as a proxy of dispersal capabilities, which are keys for understanding diversification dynamics, using genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic approaches. The same data will also be used to fulfil the last objective: identifying the genetic determinants of the two traits, the molecular mechanisms at the origin of their diversity, and the processes by which these traits interact with the environment to mediate the diversification of the neogastropods. The major breakthrough of the project will thus rely on the joint analysis of the correlation between traits and diversification and of the causal factors at the origin of this correlation. Furthermore, the project will also impact other fields of research, with the production of unique data on many culturally, economically and scientifically important species, including the first complete genomes for the group, and the characterization of numerous compounds potentially promising in human therapeutics and biotechnologies.
Intratracheally instilled mannosylated cationic liposome/NFκB decoy complexes for effective prevention of LPS-induced lung inflammation

The nuclear factor kappa B (NFκB) signaling pathway is a key mechanism in the pathophysiology of lung inflammation. NFκB is critically responsible for the expression of pro-inflammatory mediators following activation. The specific inhibition of NFκB by a NFκB decoy via inhalation appears to improve therapeutic effects. However, administration of naked NFκB decoy limits the efficacy of the decoy strategy due to low targeting ability to immune cells such as alveolar macrophages. In this study, we have assessed the effect of alveolar macrophage-targeted NFκB decoy by mannosylated (Man) cationic liposomes in a LPS-induced lung inflammation model after intratracheal administration. The complex of Man-cationic liposome/NFκB decoy was physically stable during spraying. Man-cationic liposome/NFκB decoy complex was selectively delivered to alveolar macrophages for subsequent localization of NFκB decoy in the cytoplasm and to a lesser extent in the nucleus. In the LPS-induced lung inflammation model, pre-treatment with Man-cationic liposome/50μg NFκB decoy complex significantly inhibited the release of TNF-α, IL-1β and CINC-1, neutrophil infiltration and NFκB activation compared with naked NFκB decoy, cationic liposome/NFκB decoy complex and Man-cationic liposome/scrambled decoy complex treatments. This study demonstrates the sufficient targeting of NFκB decoy using Man-cationic liposomes in a novel effective anti-inflammatory therapy for lung inflammation.
Reflexivity as capacity in eu’s border security: a contribution to theory and practice through the case of polish border guard training

Lived experience of border guards receives surprisingly little attention given the current challenges of European border security and its humanitarian aspects. The proposal sets out a plan to redress this hiatus through conducting an important policy-relevant research project that encourages reflexivity as capacity in border guard training. As a follow-up from my previous research in European security and preliminary results from studying assistance to border reform, it aims to both aid the EU’s efforts to establish a more efficient European Border and Coast Guard and foster greater humanitarian and democratic sensibilities in European border policy. In contrast to existing approaches which neglect reflective practice of actors on the ground, the project explores new empirical evidence, hones new theoretical avenues and develops participative dissemination techniques to nurture reflexivity in cooperation between scholars and practitioners. In order to do so, it studies the lived experience of Polish Border Guard (PBG) officers involved in the transformation of their service in the aftermath of EU enlargement which occurred at the intersection of receiving training from Western European border guards and providing training assistance to the Ukrainian Border Guard service. This unique situation of dual interaction triggers reflection and creates conditions for knowledge production that the project taps into. The core of the project consists in fieldwork with participants to study, make use of for participative design and inspire interpretations of shifting training methods towards installing greater reflexivity. The latter is planned as an innovative dissemination technique developed through the researcher’s training in action research and reflective teaching practice at Aberystwyth University and tested in secondment with a local border guard facility to contribute to a more context-informed EU border security policy.
The Research on Land-Use Change and Ecological Environment Effect of Urban Landscape in China

The rapid expansion of urban construction land has become the major characteristic of urban land-use change in China today. Meanwhile, the rapid urbanization process has led to the great changes of urban landscape in China, and it also has had certain impacts on environmental factors such as climate, soil, hydrology, biodiversity, etc., then it has made the overall ecological environment deteriorated. This study is based on the summary and analysis of research on land-use change and ecological environment effect of urban landscape in recent 20 years in China, and it aims at providing scientific bases and theoretical supports for the planning and construction of urban landscape, the sustainable land-use of city and the protection of ecological environment in China.
Analysis of Vibration Characteristics for Wind Turbine Gearbox

Wind turbine is the high-end and important equipment, of which the reliability and stability is always one of the main problems. Because the gearbox is running under the condition of dynamic load caused by random wind speed, it has important significance for improving reliability of the transmission system to research dynamic behaviors of wind turbine gearbox, especially the vibration characteristics. First of all, time-varying stiffness of the meshing gear-pair is calculated in this article. Then the dynamic model of parallel gears is established and the corresponding vibration characteristics are simulated. Finally, the conclusion that the speed increasing gearbox has the amplified effect on vibration displacement disturbance and the speed decreasing gearbox has the diminished effect on vibration displacement disturbance is drawn from the contrastive analysis of vibration characteristics for these two gearboxes.
Transitioning textile industry into the 21st century: the new generation needle by needle knitting machine

The knitting machine industry has not evolved significantly in the past 25 years and they use the same mainly mechanical and partially electrical knitting machines today as they did in the last millennium. 
Based on our 30+ years’ experience in this industry we have developed a new type of knitting machine that can revolutionise the complete industry. Instead of moving the knitting needles using mechanical cams on a predefined route (present solution used by industry), we have integrated miniature stepper motors to move each needle individually (needle by needle). Our innovation results in a faster, more versatile and cheaper machine allowing the production of limitless different designs in a single batch (Just in Time manufacturing). The aim of NbyN development is to take our circular knitting machine for hosiery  to the market (as the market entry point) and through it pilot the technology for the industry. The second step will be to apply our NbyN technology to all type of knitting machines.
The potential impact of this development is huge in the long term, but even in the short term we see that the NbyN circular knitting machines for hosiery will generate profits in the region of € 5 million 3 years after the development is completed. We have wide range of networks (over 50 past customers) and have sold over 1,500 custom machines to the industry. Based on feedback from our flagship partners there is a significant need for our innovation (see Letters of Intent from potential customers). This gives us the perfect platform to commercialise our new technology.
The aim of the Phase 1 project is to review the market, adjust our business strategy (licencing or distribution) and prepare for product development under the Phase 2 project.
Resonant model—A new paradigm for modeling an action potential of biological cells

Organ level simulation of bioelectric behavior in the body benefits from flexible and efficient models of cellular membrane potential. These computational organ and cell models can be used to study the impact of pharmaceutical drugs, test hypotheses, assess risk and for closed-loop validation of medical devices. To move closer to the real-time requirements of this modeling a new flexible Fourier based general membrane potential model, called as a Resonant model, is developed that is computationally inexpensive. The new model accurately reproduces non-linear potential morphologies for a variety of cell types. Specifically, the method is used to model human and rabbit sinoatrial node, human ventricular myocyte and squid giant axon electrophysiology. The Resonant models are validated with experimental data and with other published models. Dynamic changes in biological conditions are modeled with changing model coefficients and this approach enables ionic channel alterations to be captured. The Resonant model is used to simulate entrainment between competing sinoatrial node cells. These models can be easily implemented in low-cost digital hardware and an alternative, resource-efficient implementations of sine and cosine functions are presented and it is shown that a Fourier term is produced with two additions and a binary shift.
Nonlinear spatiotemporal light bullets: origin and stability

The NOSTER project is about unveiling the dynamics and features of spatiotemporal coherent structures emerging in multimode optical fibers, such as spatiotemporal solitons, also known as light bullets.  Solitons are particle-like states, emerging due to a double balance between linear and nonlinear processes, that maintain their shape while propagating in a medium. Solitons arise in a large variety of different natural media, ranging from hydrodynamics and plasma physics, to nonlinear optics and biology. In nonlinear optics, the emergence of solitons is related to the light confinement in time or space.  One basic example of a system yielding to this type of state are single mode optical fibers, where the Kerr nonlinearity counteracts the spreading of the light produced by the chromatic dispersion. In multimode optical fibers, temporal and spatial effects, such as chromatic dispersion and diffraction, can occur simultaneously and counteract the Kerr nonlinearity, leading to the space-time confinement of light, and therefore, to the formation of much more complex coherent structures. My approach in this project is to predict and analyze the generation of localized spatiotemporal states, in particular light bullets and vortices, from a pattern forming and bifurcation theory perspective. Applying advanced analytical and numerical methods, I will first elucidate the origin of light bullets,  characterizing  their  dynamics and bifurcation structure. In a second step, I will study the dynamical properties of optical vortices and the potential transition to optical turbulence. In both cases, their interaction dynamics, and the influence of high-order effects and losses will be analyzed. The understanding of such complex dynamics is crucial, and it will enable a tremendous breakthrough in many technological areas such as high-power multimode fiber lasers, optical communication systems, and a large variety of other industrial and biomedical applications.
PNPLA3 polymorphism influences liver fibrosis in unselected patients with type 2 diabetes

Recently, it has been shown that an allele in the adiponutrin (PNPLA3) gene was strongly associated with increased liver fat content (LFC) and liver fibrosis independent of visceral adiposity and insulin resistance.In this study, we set out to determine whether the PNPLA3 rs738409 polymorphism was associated with liver fibrosis in unselected patients with type 2 diabetes.Two hundred and thirty-four patients with type 2 diabetes were included in this study.LFC was evaluated using (1) H-MR spectroscopy; fibrosis was measured using the non-invasive FibroTest(®).Advanced liver fibrosis (stage F2 or above) was observed in 10.2% of the patients while 149 (63.6%) patients had steatosis. The prevalence of steatosis and fibrosis was higher in minor G allele carriers than that in C allele homozygote carriers (70.3 vs 57.1%; P=0.04 and 14.7 vs 7.5%; P=0.07 respectively). In multivariate analysis, the predictive variables for advanced liver fibrosis were age (≥60) (P=0.005), sex (female) (P=0.004) and rs 738409 PNPLA3 polymorphism (P=0.01); body mass index (BMI) and LFC were not associated with liver fibrosis.This study confirms that in patients with type 2 diabetes who were not selected for liver abnormalities, liver fibrosis was related to the rs738409 polymorphism independent of BMI or LFC.
Searches for lepton number violation and resonances in K ± → πμμ decays

The NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays to final states with multiple charged particles in 2003--2004. A new upper limit on the rate of the lepton number violating decay $K^{\pm}\to\pi^{\mp}\mu^{\pm}\mu^{\pm}$ is reported: $\mathcal{B}(K^{\pm}\to\pi^{\mp}\mu^{\pm}\mu^{\pm})<8.6 \times 10^{-11}$ at 90% CL. Searches for two-body resonances $X$ in $K^{\pm}\to\pi\mu\mu$ decays (such as heavy neutral leptons $N_4$ and inflatons $\chi$) are also presented. In the absence of signals, upper limits are set on the products of branching fractions $\mathcal{B}(K^{\pm}\to\mu^{\pm}N_4)\mathcal{B}(N_4\to\pi\mu)$ and $\mathcal{B}(K^{\pm}\to\pi^{\pm}X)\mathcal{B}(X\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ for ranges of assumed resonance masses and lifetimes. The limits are in the $(10^{-11},10^{-9})$ range for resonance lifetimes below 100 ps.