SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Technical and economic design of photovoltaic and battery energy storage system

Abstract In the last years, the technological development and the increasing market competitiveness of renewable energy systems, like solar and wind energy power plants, create favorable conditions to the switch of the electricity generation from large centralized facilities to small decentralized energy systems. The distributed electricity generation is a suitable option for a sustainable development thanks to the environmental impact reduction, the load management benefits and the opportunity to provide electricity to remote areas. Despite the current cut off of the national supporting policies to the renewables, the photovoltaic (PV) systems still find profitable conditions for the grid connected users when the produced energy is self-consumed. Due to the intermittent and random nature of the solar source, PV plants require the adoption of an energy storage system to compensate fluctuations and to meet the energy demand during the night hours. This paper presents a technical and economic model for the design of a grid connected PV plant with battery energy storage (BES) system, in which the electricity demand is satisfied through the PV–BES system and the national grid, as the backup source. The aim is to present the PV–BES system design and management strategy and to discuss the analytical model to determine the PV system rated power and the BES system capacity able to minimize the Levelized Cost of the Electricity (LCOE). The proposed model considers the hourly energy demand profile for a reference year relating the analysis to the hourly irradiation and the temperature trend for the installation site. Furthermore, the proposed model is applied to design the grid connected PV–BES system installed at the new buildings of the Engineering and Architecture School of the Bologna University, Italy. A multi-scenario analysis is assessed varying the PV–BES system rated power and capacity. The results highlight the technical feasibility and the economic profitability of such a system for the proposed context. A reduction of 25.5% of the electricity cost respect to the grid electricity price benchmark is among the key outcomes discussed in the present paper.
Las relaciones de fiesta y la hermenéutica de la danza histórica: algunas pautas de reflexión a partir del Premio de la hermosura

El artículo defiende el valor documental de las relaciones de fiesta para la hermenéutica de la danza histórica. Valioso complemento a los tratados técnicos, las relaciones permiten reinscribir la danza en su contexto festivo, es decir, situarla con respecto a otras piezas espectaculares de una misma fiesta, así como entender mejor sus distintos usos políticos. Después de enumerar los distintos aspectos en que las relaciones pueden arrojar luz sobre la danza, desarrolla el ejemplo de las danzas interpoladas entre los actos del Premio de la hermosura de Lope de Vega, representada con motivo de una fiesta en los jardines de Lerma, el 3 de noviembre de 1614, para publicitar el inminente enlace de los infantes Felipe y Ana con los príncipes franceses Isabel y Luis.
Photonic integrated circuits on inp technology platform enabling low cost metro networks and next generation pons

Cloud applications, 5G and IoT are pushing modern networks over the edge to satisfy the stringent high capacity and low latency demands. Photonic integration is a key enabling technology to tackle the new challenges and to bring new products and services to the market. PICaboo will develop novel building blocks on the InP PIC platform of TUe and III-V Lab based on the generic foundry model aiming to enhance PIC performances and reduce development costs. It will develop compact models of the building blocks and will compile them in PDK-compatible libraries allowing designers to explore their use in a wide range of applications hence maximizing their exploitation potential. PICaboo PIC demonstrators will transform the optical metro and access networks in terms of speed, footprint, power consumption and cost. The high speed EAM-based transmitters will employ all-optical equalization functionality on-chip which will scale PON line rate to 50/100Gb/s reducing the electronic signal pre-processing required for meeting the 29dB power budget of the optical distribution network within the expected dispersion limit. Both single EAM-MZM and coherent EAM-IQM transmitter PICs will leverage power consumption benefits of 50 and 65% respectively compared to 50G EML solutions and overall cost reduction by almost 20%. The dual polarization coherent receiver PIC employs integrated reset-free phase and polarization control allowing for complex DSP functions to be performed directly at the optical domain. In this case, power consumption reduction of more than 30% with concurrent cost benefits 3.6x will be achieved compared to standard coherent transceivers stemming from the use of simplified direct detection DSPs and low-cost tunable lasers, making PICaboo an attractive technology within the 20-80km DCI range. Exploitation of the PIC demonstrators will be pursued by NOKIA and ADVA. VLC will exploit the developed PDK libraries for a fast uptake of PICaboo building blocks by end-users.
Implementation of an innovative platform to manage employee development together with the library of development activities

The subject of the project is the purchase and implementation of a dedicated system of the Platform for Employees Development Management and the preparation of a set of blended learning activities in the field of interpersonal, managerial and linguistic competences. Purchased dedicated software – IT system platforms to manage employee development will be equipped with modules:- recognition and analysis of training needs,- development,- implementation policy,- evaluation. 80 in the field of interpersonal and managerial competences and 40 in English,- training packages with complementary e-coaching packages: 80 in the field of interpersonal and managerial competences and 20 in the field of English,- 20 e-coaching packages in the field of English,- modification of 20 e-learning packages in the field of English.The project also provides for the purchase of 2 computer sets for employees employed in the project.The project will include:- Number of enterprises receiving support: 1,- Number of enterprises receiving grants: 1,- Private investment complementing public support to enterprises (grants): 1 656 000,00 PLN- Private investment complementary to public support in innovation or R & D projects: 1 656 000,00 PLN,- Number of enterprises supported to introduce new products for the company: 1,- Number of enterprises supported to introduce new products to the market: 1,- Number of intangible assets acquired: 241,- Number of fixed assets purchased: 2
DETOXIFICATION DEVICE HAVING HEATED FILTER FOR KILLING PATHOGENS

A detoxification device for removing pathogens from air within an environment. The detoxification device may include a filtration media for catching and retaining particles larger than about 0.3 micrometers (pm) with an efficiency of at least 99%, The detoxification device may also include a heating element having a metallic foam. The heating element may be heated upon application of an electrical current to the heating element. The heating element may, upon being heated, heat the filtration media to a target temperature that is effective to kill a pathogen.
Preparing an L2 Role-play: How Students Manage L2 Deficits

Abstract: There is considerable variation in the implementation of role-play activities in second language (L2)/foreign language (FL) classroom settings, and little information is available about how students actually manage them, particularly with regards to overcoming their L2 deficits. This study examines the preparation of role-plays by university students in an intermediate Spanish class. When confronted with challenging aspects of the L2, they employed a variety of strategies, such as asking classmates, consulting reference materials, and modifying their original ideas to manage the task. This analysis of students’ strategy use provides insights into how teachers might implement role-play activities more effectively into second and foreign language classes.
Support vector machines using Bayesian-based approach in the issue of unbalanced classifications

There have been a lot of reports about the fact that the characteristics of datasets will strongly affect the performance of different classifiers. A study in the cognition is thus conceived, and it is natural to propose the Bayesian approach. As is well known, valuable quantitative features from datasets are easily captured and then to update these previous classification problems to guarantee well class separability. The purpose of this learning method is to give an attractive pragmatic feature of the Bayesian approach in the quantitative description of class imbalance problem. Thus, a programming problem of mixing probability information: Bayesian Support Vector Machines (BSVMs) is discussed. In addition, we first change some of the aims and conditions of the original programming problems and then explore what effect will be acquired due to the change. The experiments on several existing datasets show that, if prior distributions are assigned to the programming problem, the estimated classification errors will be reduced.
The Development of the Renewable Energy Technologies in Spain

This article examines the development of the four main renewable energy technologies (RET) in Spain in the latest years: biomass, small hydro (SH), solar photovoltaic (solar PV) and wind. It has been studied the variation of the work-ing time per MW installed available from the on line data base of Spanish National Commission on Energy (SNCE), in the national context and in each of the Autonomic Communities (AACC). We have also obtained the marginal cost curve of the global RE. The main conclusions of the study are that Spain is effective meeting the RE generation target but not efficient in costs and in short term it is not any RETs that can achieve competitive price comparing to the elec-trical market.
Vision and Policy Direction of the Park Geun-hye Administration and its East Asia Diplomacy

Saenuri Party candidate Park Geun-hye was elected the president of South Korea with 51.6% of the vote in the 18 presidential election on December 19, 2012. It was a very close match between Park and Moon Jae-in, the Democratic Party candidate, until the day of the election, but the result was Park’s victory by a relatively wide margin of more than 1 million votes. Park was successful in her second attempt at a presidential election, after losing the 2007 presidential candidate election to her rival, Lee Myung-bak, who became South Korea’s Vision and Policy Direction of the Park Geun-hye Administration and its East Asia Diplomacy
CHIMERIC MOLECULES AND METHODS OF USE

Chimeric molecules comprising endostatin and all or a portion of an Ig (Ig) molecule are used to treat tumors. A chimeric molecule, including endostatin fused to an Ig domain of an anti-HER2/neu antibody exhibited longer serum half-life and stability than native endostatin. <SUP>125</SUP>I-labeled anti HER2/neu IgG3-endostatin chimeric molecule and anti-HER2/neu IgG3-endostatin was 6 fold faster than that of anti-HER2/neu IgG3 (CLss=0.374 and 0.062ml/min/kg, respectively), however, the specific tumor radiolocalization indices of anti-HER2/neu IgG3-endostatin were greater than those of anti-HER2/neu IgG3. Anti-HER2/neu IgG3-endostatin inhibited tumor growth more effectively than endostatin alone, anti-HER2/neu IgG3 antibody, or the combination of antibody and endostatin.
3D unconstrained and geologically constrained stochastic inversion of airborne vertical gravity gradient data

We present an inversion tool for airborne gravity gradient data that yields a 3D density model using stochastic methods i.e. cokriging and conditional simulation. This method uses geostatistical properties of the measured gravity gradient to estimate a 3D density model whose gravity response fits the measured gravity gradient anomaly. Linearity between gravity gradient data and density allows estimation of the model (density) covariance using observed data, i.e. we adjust iteratively the density covariance matrix by fitting experimental and theoretical gravity gradient covariance matrices. Inversion can be constrained by including densities known at some locations. In addition we can explore various reasonable solutions that honour both the estimated density covariance model and the gravity gradient data using geostatistical simulation. The proposed method is first tested with two synthetic datasets generated from a sharp-boundary model and a smooth stochastic model respectively. The results show the method to be capable of retrieving models compatible with the true models; it also allows the integration of complex a priori information. The technique is then applied to gravity gradient survey data collected for the Geological Survey of Canada in the area of McFaulds Lake (Ontario, Canada) using the Falcon airborne gravity system. Unconstrained inversion returns a density model that is geologically plausible and the computed response exactly fits the observed gravity gradient anomaly.
TURBINE PISTON

A torque converter includes an impeller with a plurality of impeller blades and a shell with a radial wall disposed radially outside of the blades. The converter also includes a cover fixed to the impeller shell to form a housing, and a turbine. The turbine includes a plurality of turbine blades and a shell with a radial wall disposed radially outside of the turbine blades. The turbine radial wall is arranged to frictionally engage the impeller shell radial wall. In some example embodiments, the turbine shell includes indented slots and the turbine blades include tabs disposed in the slots. In an example embodiment, the turbine blades are fixed to the turbine shell by brazing.
Usages des Circonstanciels Temporels et Aspectuels dans les Journaux em Portugais Brésilien et en Français

Le chapitre apporte des résultats de recherche sur les usages des circonstanciels -plus précisément, des locutions adverbiales temporelles et aspectuelles -avec les objectifs suivants : a) comparer les usages des circonstanciels en portugais et en français, à partir de journaux dont les lecteurs ont un profil sociologique similaire au Brésil et en France, et b) analyser les rôles de ces circonstancielles à l'écrit, en tenant compte de leur ordre et de leurs rôles sémantiques.On utilise les présupposés théoriques du fonctionnalisme nord américain pour comprendre les variations de sens en ce qui concerne les compléments circonstanciels de temps et d'aspect et les différentes positions qu'ils occupent dans la phrase.La comparaison de deux langues soeurs, mais avec des tendances
Condition Monitoring of Wind Power Converters Using Heat Flux Sensor

The application of the gradient heat flux sensor as a failure and aging indicator of the power electronics was studied in this paper. Conducted experiments shown that the heat flux sensor attached to the insulated-gate bipolar transistor’s (IGBT’s) base plate can provide real-time heat flux monitoring. Condition monitoring (CM) model implemented in wind turbine based on online comparison of measured IGBT heat flux and expected power losses was proposed. The deviation of the measured heat flux from the expected power losses was detected during IGBT’s package related failures. The maximum deviation of 30% was obtained from the module with broken bond wire. The IGBT's package related degradation mechanisms were modeled by the Finite Element Method (FEM) in order to validate experimental observations. The obtained results have shown that in order to accurately estimate the possible deviation of power losses of the degraded IGBT, the exact change in thermo-electric parameters of IGBT in different failure mechanisms, environmental conditions and operating temperatures should be taken into account.
A PROCESS FOR MAKING A LIGHTWEIGHT, CEMENTITIOUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE

A process of making a light weight, cementitious, three-dimensional structure such as a building panel which includes the steps of measuring a quantity of water, measuring about 425 kilograms of cement, and between approximately 40 to 60 grams of ferric chloride in 40 % solution by volume per approximately 278 liters of said water, mixing said quantity of water, said cement and said ferric chloride, measuring between approximately .620 kilograms and 1 347 kilograms of substantially pure powdered aluminum, between approximately .230 kilograms and .710 kilograms of Hexafluorosilicate, between approximately .560 and .680 kilograms of calcium formate, and between approximately 4 and 8 kilograms of fiber, per approximately 278 liters of said water, combining said mixture of said cement, said ferric chloride and said water with said powdered aluminum, said Hexaflurosilicate, said calcium formate and said fiber, mixing said combination, waiting until said mixed combination rises, and forming the lightweight, cementitious, three-dimensional structure.
Evaluation of the Mutagenic Properties of Two Lignans from Acanthopanax koreanum Nakai

Acanthopanax koreanum Nakai, a well known traditional herb grown in Jeju Island, South of Korea, has been used as a tonic and sedative agent, as well as in the treatment of diabetes and immune diseases. Mutagenicity of two lignans, syringaresinol and tortoside A isolated from A. koreanum, was assessed using Salmonella/microsome (Ames) test. Tester strains used were Salmonella typhimurium TA98, TA100, TA1535, and Escherichia coli WP2uvrA. The mutagenic activity was determined both in the absence or presence of S9 mixture. As a result, tortoside A did not cause any increase in the number of his(+) revertants in S. typhimurium and E. coli WP2uvrA strains in the presence or absence of S9 mix, compared to the controls. Similarly, low concentrations of syringaresinol (750 and 1,500 μg/plate) did not show any mutagenic properties in all bacterial strains, in the presence or absence of S9 mixture. However, in the high concentration of syringaresinol (3,000 μg/plate), the number of revertants were increased in TA1535 strains, in the absence of S9 metabolic activation. Therefore, in vivo experiments such as comet assay are needed to further determine the genotoxic/carciogenic potential of syringaresinol isolated from A. koreanum.
Oral tribology: update on the relevance to study astringency in wines

AbstractOral tribology is emerging as a new paradigm to quantify friction and lubrication of food-saliva mixtures in the oral mucosa. Recently, oral tribology has captured research attention in quantifying wine astringency, a characteristic ‘dryness feeling’, which strongly impacts consumer preference. Hence, this paper aims to provide a concise review of oral tribology in the context of wine astringency. Firstly, the important roles of ‘biolubricant’ saliva, salivary proteins and current tribo-pairs used in oral tribology measurements are reviewed. Then, we have discussed the key mechanisms of wine astringency involving polyphenol-salivary protein interactions (hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions), rupture of the lubricating salivary film and oral sensation of discrete particles. Studies employing Stribeck curve analysis and microstructural characterisation to understand polyphenol-salivary protein interactions are reviewed. Finally, we highlighted the need for bio-relevant tribo-pairs, simulated ...
Genetics and the electrocardiogram for predicting scd risk

Sudden cardiac death (SCD), a main consequence of malignant ventricular arrhythmias, is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality in the general population. The early identification of individuals at risk is important. The spatio-temporal dispersion of ventricular repolarization is recognized as one of the major factors modulating the vulnerability to malignant arrhythmias and SCD. The morphology of the T-wave has been proposed to specifically reflect dispersion of ventricular repolarization. As part of my Ph.D, I developed a signal processing method to quantify the single-lead T-wave morphology restitution (TMR) index and I have shown that is strongly associated with SCD risk, but its relationship with intracardiac indices of dispersion of repolarization has never been evaluated. In addition, genome-wide association studies have been successful in identifying genetic variants for ECG indices in the general population, but  no previous publications have reported SNPs significantly associated with the T-wave morphology. The main objective of this project is to establish and test a novel effective approach to prevent SCD based on the combination of information derived from cardiac electrophysiological indices and genetic predisposition.
The project has three parts: 1) To develop a novel ECG risk marker based on the adaptation of 3D T-wave morphological variations to heart rate changes with strong SCD predictive value. 2) To assess the interaction of non-invasive ECG indices with intra-cardiac electrophysiological indices simultaneously measured during invasive electrophysiological studies. 3) To generate personalized risk scores combining genetics, ECG indices and clinical variables to optimize SCD prediction. 
This project has the ambition of establishing a new approach to SCD prediction, where genetic screening and advanced cardiac electrophysiological analysis are combined to provide an improved assessment of the predisposition to malignant arrhythmic events.
Self-standing, binder-free electrospun Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composites for non-aqueous Li-air batteries

In this study, self-standing, binder-free ZIF-9 derived Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composites were synthesized via electrospinning and post thermal treatment for use as the cathode in a non-aqueous Li-air battery. Due to possessing a three-dimensional cross-linked web structure, Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composites are used directly as the cathode for Li-air batteries without the use of any binders or conductive metal foam, thus alleviating undesirable chemical reactions. We confirm that metallic cobalt (Co) in ZIF-9 is successfully oxidized to cobalt oxide (Co3O4) following two thermal treatment steps by analysis of XRD and XPS. The initial discharge capacity of Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composites exceeds 760 mAh g−1, which is a much higher discharge capacity compared to pristine carbon nanofiber (72 mAh g−1). Additionally, Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composite based cells exhibit improved cycling properties and a lower charge overpotential at various current densities. The improved electrochemical properties of the Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composites are attributed to the catalytic activity and stable contact with the homogeneously distributed Co3O4 in the carbon nanofiber structure. This work demonstrates that the synthesized Co3O4/carbon nanofiber composites could possibly be applied for use as next generation electrode materials for energy storage and conversion devices, particularly Li-air batteries.
AN APPLIANCE AND ACCESSORY FOR CONTROLLING A CYCLE OF OPERATION

An appliance (12, 310, 1000) configured to perform an operation cycle to effect a physical operation on an article, the appliance includes at least one component (60, 300, 1060) configured to effect the physical operation, and a cycle engine (69) on the component. The cycle engine can build a cycle structure for the operation cycle to enable the component to perform the physical operation. The appliance can be part of a network (1030) including an operational cycle component accessory (3, 312).