SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Symbiotic bacteria in the nudibranch mollusk Dendrodoris nigra: fatty acid composition and ultrastructure analysis

In the present study, the hypothesis that marine nudibranch mollusks harbor symbiotic bacteria was tested using analyses of fatty acids as biochemical markers and transmission electron microscopy of the tissues of Dendrodoris nigra (Gastropoda/Opisthobranchia/Nudibranchia). An aberrant level of the odd-numbered carbon chain and branched fatty acids, iso- and anteiso- that are specific for bacteria, was detected in the nudibranch tissues. Their amounts in the notum exceeded significantly that in the viscera. Rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria were revealed in the epithelial cells of the notum and the mantle edge as well as in the adjoining glycocalix. These bacteria were enclosed in secondary vacuoles in the epithelial cells. The consequent stages of inoculation of the bacteria into the cytoplasm of epithelial cells, from adhesion to the apical surface to invagination of the cell membrane and formation of the vacuole with an enclosed bacterium, were observed. The presence of dividing bacteria suggests that the epithelium includes a renewable, dividing population of symbiotic bacteria. No bacteria were detected in the gonads and the digestive system. Probable functions of these symbiotic bacteria such as involvement in protection or defense from predators and environmental impacts as well as their nutritional role in the nudibranch are discussed.
Remembering the unfi nished confl ict: museums and the contested memory of the Korean War

On 27 May 2009, the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) provoked worldwide alarm and protest by announcing that it no longer considered itself bound by the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War. Amongst the mass of western media reports deploring this announcement, however, only a few noted the fact that the armistice has never been signed by the Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea), because its then President Yi Seungman [Syngman Rhee] did not accept that the war was over, and wanted to go on fighting. The armistice was therefore signed only by some of the belligerents, and, since negotiations on the Korean Peninsula in the UN framework proved abortive and the US and North Korea have not pursued bilateral peace negotiations, there has never been a peace treaty. [1] More than half a century after the ceasefire, Korea remains uneasily divided along the 38th Parallel, one of the world’s most dangerous military flashpoints. Of all the conflicts over history and memory which trouble the Northeast Asian region, this is surely the one most direct ly l inked to contemporary politics: for rival understandings of the unfinished war lie at the heart of continuing political tensions on the Korean Peninsula. As Sheila Miyoshi Jager asks, “how does one commemorate a war that technically is still not over?” [2] In English language writings, the Korean War is referred to, with almost monotonous regularity, as “the Forgotten War”. This description, however, begs an important question: forgotten by whom? Certainly not by the people of North Korea, where education, propaganda, TV dramas and repeated air-raid drills ensure that the conflict is experienced as an ongoing reality. Nor, I would suggest, have many South Koreans (particularly those of older generations) forgotten the Korean War. The term “Forgotten War”, then, refers largely to an American amnesia, although this amnesia is probably also shared by some of America’s major allies, including Australia, Britain and Japan. (The latter, of course, though not a combatant in the war, was deeply involved in providing bases and material support for the UN forces engaged in the conflict). Or perhaps, as Bruce Cumings has suggested (quoting French literary theorist Pierre Macherey), we should see the silence less as amnesia than as “structured absence”. [3]
Making amnesty international: connections, disconnections, and the uneven geography of international human rights, 1961-2001

How does an organisation become international? How does it overcome the political, social, economic, cultural and material barriers to transnational collaboration - and what happens when it can't overcome them? This project explores this question by taking a global look at the creation of Amnesty International, one of the most well-known international non-governmental organisations in the world. This project will map the development of Amnesty from its origins in Europe in 1961 to its uneven spread across the globe throughout the following four decades, up until 2001. Using case studies from within the organisation it will clearly identify the factors that both facilitated and hindered its growth in different places, explaining why, after taking root in north-western Europe, some international branches proved fruitful while others withered. This difficult process of internationalising the organisation suggests that there are important limits and borders that global activism and international ideas must traverse. These limits are rarely examined, but without an understanding of them and the impact they had on the work done in the name of human rights, we are left with a distorted view of one of the most important political concepts of our time. Amnesty is commonly characterised as playing a crucial role in shaping contemporary understandings of human rights. The project analyses the ways that the uneven geography of Amnesty’s development shaped these understandings. As such, it constructs a historical geography of human rights that will be relevant to scholars, teachers and practitioners in the fields of international human rights cooperation and international organisations.
Psychotherapy appointment no-shows: Rates and reasons.

Patients who frequently miss or do not show for their scheduled psychotherapy appointments create administrative and clinical difficulties, and may not be receiving effective treatment. Prior research has predominately focused on either identifying demographic and administrative factors related to patient no-show rates or evaluating the effectiveness of administrative procedures for reducing no-shows. This paper attempts to identify rates of missed appointments in clinical practice and explore more specific clinical process factors related to patient no-shows. Psychotherapists (N = 24) and their patients (N = 542) in the outpatient department of a public safety-net hospital were surveyed to examine how frequently patients missed scheduled psychotherapy appointments and for what reasons. Findings indicate that the majority of missed appointments were accounted for by patients with occasional absences (approx. 1 per month), while only a small percentage of patients missed appointments with high frequency. Patients missed their psychotherapy appointments for a number of reasons, including clinical symptoms, practical matters, motivational concerns, and negative treatment reactions.
An approach to sustainable coloration of lyocell fabrics by screen printing using extracts of leaves and bark from eucalyptus

This paper presents an initial study from a more extensive programme of research at the design/technology interface that is focused on the use of design methodology as a means to lower the environmental impact of fashion clothing. The leaves and bark that are byproducts of the responsibly farmed eucalyptus used in the manufacture of lyocell fibres were extracted with water to provide a source of natural colour. Lyocell fabric, which required minimal preparation, was screen printed with an aqueous paste containing only the extracted colour and a natural thickener to provide attractive golden-yellow prints. The printed fabrics demonstrated surprisingly good fastness towards light, washing and rubbing. A mordanting pretreatment of the lyocell with alum modified the colour of the naturally coloured prints to become stronger and duller, but provided no advantage in terms of technical performance. The outcome presents a potentially useful model for the development of sustainably coloured fashion textile products.
Efficiently-mapped adaptive hierarchical QAM for reliable scalable video communication

This paper proposes an efficiently-mapped adaptive hierarchical QAM (AHQAM) scheme for unequal error protection (UEP) of embedded video bitstream. The coded bits of each frame are hierarchically partitioned into high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) substream, using two-staged partitioning strategy. Then pairs of stream blocks, one from each substream are selected judiciously to form symbols, which are modulated using HQAM with varying modulation parameter. The proposed scheme is generic in nature and can be applied to any scalable video bitstream. Simulations are performed with 16-AHQAM for AWGN channel and it is observed that the proposed scheme offers up to 7.2 dB improvement in quality of received video as compared to 16-HQAM.
From east to west, and back again: student travel and transcultural knowledge production in renaissance europe (c. 1470- c. 1620)

This project is the first comprehensive study of transcultural knowledge production in early modern Europe. Its underpinning idea is that the students who travelled from central-eastern Europe to attend renowned universities were active agents of this transcultural knowledge. During their stays abroad they created personal hand-written notebooks containing lecture notes and any other texts that attracted their interest. Conserved in the archives of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine, these notebooks provide us with unique and first-hand documentary evidence of the impact of multiple cultural stimuli on knowledge. Combining intellectual history, history of migration and physical analysis of documents, the project will consider the period from the rise of this practice among students, due to an unprecedented availability of paper (c. 1470), up to the Thirty Years’ War, which restricted their travels. Its objectives are to analyse: the relationship between academic and non-academic knowledge gathered in the students’ notebooks; the emergence of new forms of self-learning, examining the criteria of text selection; and the contact between humanist culture and the cultures of the countries the students came from. Early modern studies of knowledge production have traditionally focused on academic teaching. Although the cosmopolitan nature of universities is an established fact in these studies, the impact of different cultures (languages, artistic-literary interests, religious practices) on knowledge creation has been neglected, due to lack of evidence. Students’ experience makes it possible to observe links between knowledge and a plurality of languages and traditions which best reflects the European scenario at the time. The project will explore knowledge creation from an unprecedented angle, fostering a rethinking of the notion of centre and peripheries in Renaissance studies and breaking important new ground for research on intellectual history.
Reprint of “Structural diversity of cobalt(II) coordination compounds involving bent imidazole ligand: A route from 0D dimer to 3D coordination polymer”

Abstract Mixed ligand approach could be successfully applied to design porous three-dimensional coordination polymers, involving 1,3-bis(imidazol-1-yl)benzene (1,3-bib) as ligand. Five novel Co(II) compounds with different dimensionality have been synthesized. Utilizing only 1,3-bib in the solvothermal reaction with Co(II) salts, only molecular dimer Co2(bib)2Cl4 or 1D polymer Co2(1,3-bib)2(NO3)2 could be synthesized. Copolymerization technique using additional linear dicarboxylates 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate (1,4-bdc) or 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate (2,6-ndc) facilitates the formation of 2D layered coordination polymers Co(1,3-bib)(1,4-bdc) and Co(1,3-bib)(2,6-ndc). Utilizing 4,4′-biphenyldicarboxylate (4,4′-bpdc) as a co-linker, a 3D metal–organic framework Co3(1,3-bib)(4,4′-bpdc)3 (DUT-58, DUT – Dresden University of Technology), possessing two interpenetrated uninodal 8-connected frameworks, has been obtained. DUT-58 exhibits a specific surface area of 1208 m2/g and adsorbs 27 mg/g hydrogen (maximum excess value at 30 bar and 77 K), 0.18 g/g n-butane (at 293 K) and 72 mg/g methane (maximum excess value at 60 bar and 298 K).
Working conditions associated with ovarian cycle in a medical center nurses: A Taiwan study

Decreased basal body temperature measurements predict ovulation with an accuracy of 74%. The anovulatory cycle exhibits an ovarian monophasic pattern. This study evaluated the relationship between ovarian cycle pattern and sociodemographic characteristics, menstrual history and work characteristics of nurses in a Taiwan medical center.Of 200 nurses recruited, 151 were analyzed. Each subject completed questionnaires and provided life recordings and daily basal body temperature measurements during the 14-week study.The analytical results demonstrated that work place (P = 0.014) and work shift (P = 0.048) are significantly related to ovarian cycle pattern. Nurses who worked in emergent care units and wards had a higher prevalence of irregular ovarian cycle pattern. Approximately 53% of nurses who worked rotating shifts exhibited irregular ovarian cycle pattern.Nurses who either had rotating shift work or worked in emergent care units and wards should be concerned with their own ovarian cycle pattern for their health.
The Advantage of Failing First: Bear Stearns v. Lehman Brothers

The collapse of the housing market coupled with the largest government intervention in the economy in US history led to a radical reorganization of the investment banking industry in 2008 culminating in the failure of two major US investment banks: Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. This paper examines why Lehman Brothers was forced into bankruptcy, while Bear Stearns received a government bailout. An analysis of market factors and the financial strength of these two firms and their peer group demonstrates that the problems these banks faced were shared throughout the industry, despite the different fates of the five major standalone investment banks. This paper finds the different treatments of Lehman compared to Bear Stearns by both the government and capital markets were not justified given the financial conditions of the companies. Both investment banks were very similar in terms of financial strength, and Bear Stearns was arguably in worse condition. The US government made efforts to broker a solution on behalf of Lehman Brothers, but ultimately chose to allow the firm to fail in order to prevent the spread of moral hazard. Thus, Lehman’s failure was caused more by unfortunate timing and the government’s desire to discourage moral hazard than by its financial characteristics. Ultimately, it seems Lehman’s failure cannot be entirely explained by the firm’s own assets or poor decisions, but rather Bear Stearns’ advantage of being the first to fail and the government’s subsequent decision to prevent the spread of moral hazard.
Using the theory of planned behavior to examine residential substance abuse workers intention to use evidence-based practices.

There is considerable discrepancy between what is considered evidence-based practice (EBP) and what is actually delivered in substance abuse treatment settings. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TpB) is a well-established model that may assist in better understanding clinician's intentions to use EBPs. A total of 106 residential substance abuse workers employed by The Salvation Army participated in the current study. The workers completed an anonymous survey that assessed attitudes toward EBP and examined the constructs within the TpB. A linear regression analysis was used to predict clinicians' intentions to use EBPs. Overall, the model accounted for 41% of the variance in intentions, with attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control all significant predictors. The discussion highlights the potential for social reinforcement in the workplace to promote the implementation of EBPs.
METHOD OF FORMING BIPOLAR PLATE MODULES

A bipolar plate module (10) includes an anode plate (12), a cathode plate (14) and a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) disposed therebetween (16). A sealing material forms a sealing layer (22) between the plates and encapsulates a portion of the MEA. A method of manufacturing involves injection of the sealing material into a groove (20) of the anode plate and through a through-hole (24) disposed within the groove. The sealing material fills the space between the anode and cathode to form the sealing layer and encapsulates the portion of the MEA to form the edge seal (28). Further, material injected on the outer surface of the anode forms an insulation layer when compressed. An alternate method includes utilizing a screen printing technique to deposit the material upon the anode, placing the MEA and cathode in their proper positions, and then curing the material to form the sealing layer and to form an edge seal about the portion of the MEA.
Social and creative

The S&C project structures the capitalisation of the results of the former TALIA horizontal project and of the ongoing and past modular projects dealing with creativity and social innovation, financed by the Interreg MED Programme 2014-

2020. The project is structured on three main strands of action (alongside Communication and Management), with the twin aim of building a shared sense of purpose within the MED Creative and Social Innovation community and promoting implementation and transferability of results through exemplary policy innovation trials:- Community Building: Following on the TALIA track and complementing previous work with modular projects and their local and transnational networks, in two new main directionswill be addressed: liaison and interaction with the PanoraMED Axis 4 project and other, thematically relevant Horizontal Projects and their target audiences.- Transferring: This notably includes the preparation of a common asset database and the organisation of a huge series of dedicated events at the local and MED levels, including a Summer School for policy makers.- Capitalisation: Particularly involving the creation of interregional working groups across the MED space, aimed at discussing and implementing the most prominent results into exemplary and reusable policy templates, thus contributing to a new wave of evidence-based policy making
Simulations of a Circulating Fluidized Bed Chemical Looping Combustion System Utilizing Gaseous Fuel

Numerical studies using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been carried out for a complete circulating fluidized bed chemical looping combustor described in the literature (Abad et al., 2006 Fuel 85, 1174-1185). There have been extensive experimental studies in Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC), however CFD simulations of this concept are quite limited. The CLC experiments that were simulated used methane as fuel. A 2-D continuum model was used to describe both the gas and solid phases. Detailed sub-models to account for fluid-particle and particleparticle interaction forces were included. Global models of fuel and carrier chemistry were utilized. The results obtained from CFD were compared with experimental outlet species concentrations, solid circulation rates, solid mass distribution in the reactors, and leakage and dilution rates. The transient CFD simulations provided a reasonable match with the reported experimental data.
Hybrid Method/Tool for Sustainable Process Synthesis, Design, Analysis, and Improvement

Abstract Due to increased concerns regarding environment, public health and safety through regulatory enforcements and growing competitiveness through globalization, there is an incentive and a quest for innovative designs that are efficient, profitable as well as sustainable. To generate a truly optimal process flowsheet a systematic method to identify the types of tasks-operations that need to be performed, the corresponding design of the operation-equipment, their configuration, mass-energy flows, environmental impacts, etc., need to be employed. In this case, development and use of a hybrid method that combines the best features of knowledge-based and optimization-based approaches into one method is an attractive option. This work focuses on the development of an integrated method and computer aided software tool capable of enumerating all feasible alternatives within the entire search space defined by a process synthesis problem. Solving this type of large and complex synthesis problems using mathematical formulations is usually cumbersome and difficult. In this work we integrated ProCAFD (computer-aided synthesis tool used for enumeration) with Super-O, which automates the mathematical formulation of the synthesis problem thereby leading to very quick and reliable solutions. An overview of the key concepts and the method is presented along with details of the developed computer-aided tool.
Integrated Water Management System in crossborder area

The common challenge of the programme area is the  lack of a related integrated plan for the water management system ,including[u1]   wastages and high consumption levels (civil, industrial and agriculture). Specific needs are: 1)water quality; 2)Waste generation and Ri-use; 3)Water use reduction; 4) conserving, improving and promoting a rational use of surface waters and groundwater; 5) manage services in delivering drinking water and waste water treatment. To respond to these common problems it is also necessary to improve institutional capacity and create conditions to establish an efficient and effective water management system. The main Objective of the project is to establish an efficient and effective crossborder Water Management System (WMS).The main outputs are: O.T1 Cross-broder Integrated Plan on WMS ; O.T. 2 n° 4 pilot initiatives one for each country involved, to be  realized in according to he  integrated plan "WMS" : 1)APULIA  water resource protection and energy optimization“;  2) MOLISE  "strategies and techniques for optimization of Water supply management”; 3) TIRANA "water supply network in Kasalla Village "; 4) Montenegro "monitoring, control and protection of the Bolje sestre spring”;OT3  creation of a Common WMS Policy paper. Moreover, to improve integrated local water culture, it‘s provided a Crossborder awareness campaign on water  use and re use  addressed to citizens , in particulary youth and families. The water management and environmental issues don’t have  geografical, political and social borders, thus it is necessary to face this challenge through  cross-border and international cooperation. For this reason, the approach is participatory, from the cooperation of technical experts and policy makers from the different countries , to the  citizens collaboration.Capacity building activities will strength the project approach , by improving the cross-border framework conditions for  water management.