SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Intervertebral disc creep behavior assessment through an open source finite element solver

Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) is one of the largest health problems faced worldwide, based on lost working time and associated costs. By means of this motivation, this work aims to evaluate a biomimetic Finite Element (FE) model of the Intervertebral Disc (IVD). Recent studies have emphasized the importance of an accurate biomechanical modeling of the IVD, as it is a highly complex multiphasic medium. Poroelastic models of the disc are mostly implemented in commercial finite element packages with limited access to the algorithms. Therefore, a novel poroelastic formulation implemented on a home-developed open source FE solver is briefly addressed throughout this paper. The combination of this formulation with biphasic osmotic swelling behavior is also taken into account. Numerical simulations were devoted to the analysis of the non-degenerated human lumbar IVD time-dependent behavior. The results of the tests performed for creep assessment were inside the scope of the experimental data, with a remarkable improvement of the numerical accuracy when compared with previously published results obtained with ABAQUS(®). In brief, this in-development open-source FE solver was validated with literature experimental data and aims to be a valuable tool to study the IVD biomechanics and DDD mechanisms.
Application of cold plasma treatment for antimicrobial contact lenses

While the market of contact lenses has evolved over the years, there still remains a need for contact lenses which inhibit or do not promote bacterial and microbial growth or adhesion to the surface of the lenses, while simultaneously being safe for the wearer. 
Our company has identified a business opportunity based on cold plasma technology which will revolutionise the contact lens market.. We have the ability to modify the surface properties of the contact lens, to increase resistance to the attachment of bacteria, making the contact lens safer. Through our technology we will also increase the comfort of the contact lens by adding an aqueous layer which will reduce the chances of the lens drying out. 
Based on successful clinical studies, the grafting of heparin to the surface of the contact lens, will decrease contact-lens-related morbidity. Heparin is a glycosaminoglycan and when exposed to a substrate (sulfur salt in our case), forms a molecular layer of water that prevents attachment of bacteria to the surface via adhesins .  The possibility of grafting heparin directly to the surface of the contact lens will provide a much safer and more comfortable solution to contact lens users, one which lasts throughout the lifetime of the product.  

With our process, we aim to disrupt the industry and drastically reduce incidents of severe eye infection resulting from inappropriate contact lens use and care. Furthermore, we aim to increase customer retention and reduce the dropout rate by making contact lenses more comfortable for the users, adding more relief and reducing instances of dryness and discomfort.
The project proposal MePlat was submitted in September 2016 and received a score of 13.71, surpassing all thresholds (4.62 Impact, 4.52 excellence, 4.57 Implementation). We strongly believe in the potential of our project and after studying closely the ESR and discussing the project with our contact point, we are hereby putting forward a revised resubmission.
MagicBox — Connectez-vous à votre espace

Tous les systèmes domestiques intelligents disponibles sur le marché sont faits de routeurs et d’une gamme de capteurs et de systèmes de sortie. Lors de l’installation d’un tel système domestique intelligent standard, en plus des commutateurs déjà existants, des contrôleurs, vous devez en ajouter un autre (environ. 5’ciu) rendre l’espace encore plus encombré et compliqué en termes de service. MagicBox est un appareil intelligent innovant, car il élimine le nombre d’appareils nécessaires dans votre chambre ou vos pièces, car tous les appareils nécessaires sont en 1 produit et c’est la taille d’un interrupteur d’éclairage appelé MagicBox. MagicBox est un seul appareil qui contient un certain nombre de capteurs sur son «bord», dispose d’un écran TFT, communique à l’intérieur via WiFi, et parle avec le monde extérieur avec un protocole avec le certificat de sécurité SSL utilisé dans les banques. Tout cela s’intègre dans le boîtier de l’interrupteur et est installé au lieu de l’interrupteur. Nous n’avons plus besoin d’un hub reliant différents capteurs, car ils s’intègrent dans ce produit. Cette solution augmente l’esthétique de la pièce, car au lieu de plusieurs interrupteurs, contrôleurs sur un ou plusieurs murs, nous avons un dispositif discret placé à la place de l’interrupteur d’éclairage. MagicBox est simple à installer, ne nécessite pas d’installation de fil supplémentaire et aucune mise à niveau de l’installation d’alimentation 230V existante n’est requise. Tout ce que vous devez faire est de remplacer l’interrupteur d’éclairage actuel par MagicBox, qui fournira un niveau supérieur dans la gestion des fonctionnalités de l’appartement ou de la maison. En conclusion: Il s’agit d’un système domestique intelligent contenant la plupart de ce dont vous avez besoin dans un seul appareil, monté au lieu d’un interrupteur d’éclairage.
New growing, production, processing and conservation techniques of native officinal and aromatic herbs.

This project envisages the introduction of new production, processing and conservation techniques in the field of native (dandelion, “sclopit”, juniper, butcher’s-broom) and officinal (arnica, pot marigold, St. John’s wort, mallow) herbs, cultivated according to the methods of organic agriculture or low environmental impact techniques. As far as conservation is concerned, the “IV Gamma” technique can represent a significant added value to the fresh product, for the production that is going to be sold both locally and in a wider regional market. The growing and production techniques will be tested in the municipal botanical garden and analyzed from the technical, economic and management points of view. Such assessments will make it possible to divulge data and to propose the most suitable methods. This project wants to create an operational model, which enhances the peculiarities of a territory, Paluzza municipality, located in the mountain cross-border area and, at the same time, is an example for other communities located in homogenous areas. The various innovations proposed in the fields of production, conservation and marketing of spontaneous and officinal herbs concern a sector that, if properly managed and promoted, could play an important role in the mountain economy, creating jobs and possibly ensuring a better management of the territory. The necessary production factors - land value and demand for personnel - are limited and make it possible for new firms to enter the sector. Moreover, the production and processing of the various herbs need an integration with other professionals working in the restaurant and tourism sectors.
Using peer support in developing empowering mental health services

Background: A large number of people with severe mental illness receive no treatment. This treatment gap is largest in low and middle income countries (LMIC), with detrimental effects on individuals (social role, quality of life, stigma) and societies (equity, costs). Peer support is an established intervention involving a person in recovery from mental illness being employed to offer support to others with mental illness. Peers are an untapped resource in global mental health.
Objective and methods: UPSIDES will scale-up peer support interventions for people with severe mental illness in high-, middle- and low-resource settings. An international community of practice for peer support including peer support workers, mental health researchers, and other relevant stakeholders in Europe, Africa and Asia (9 study sites in 7 countries) will be established. Peer support will be implemented adapted to the local context. Using a mixed-methods approach (N=688), the impact of peer support will be rigorously evaluated at the levels of patients and peer support workers (psychosocial and clinical outcomes), services (cost-effectiveness, return on investment), and implementation (adoption, sustainability, organisational change). Evidence of best practice will be disseminated to local, national and international stakeholders ensuring sustainability and spread. 
Expected impact: UPSIDES will improve the lives of large numbers of citizens in Europe and LMIC by modifying mental health systems using the expertise of people with personal experience of mental illness. Utilising peers will provide an essential driver in low-income settings relieving the scarcity of human capital. Performance of mental health services will be maximised through actively involving and empowering service users, generating system changes towards patient-centeredness, recovery orientation, and community participation. UPSIDES will transform health systems towards realizing mental health as a human right.
An overview of photoelectrochemical cells (PEC): Mimicking nature to produce hydrogen for fuel cells

In order to meet the energy demands of the world in the future, clean renewable resources must be explored to the fullest. While many renewable energy avenues exist, to be competitive with fossil fuels an efficient cost effective means of storing converted energy must be found. Photoelectrochemical cells offer an excellent potential solution to this problem. By taking advantage of the most abundant resource available on the Earth, the sun, these cells offer a significant opportunity to make great strides in meeting sustainable energy goals through an efficient and cost effective means of hydrogen production. In recent years, photoelectrochemical cells have gained significant ground through advancements in nanostructured materials and dye sensitized catalysts. They have shown much promise not only in hydrogen production, but also in areas such as waste water treatment and CO 2 reduction. The technology is still in its infancy however, and many challenges must be overcome in order to realize its full potential. Chief among these are improving the ability to harvest energy from the visible light spectrum and developing reliable, efficient, and cheaper semiconductor materials. However, the potential benefits of a fully developed photoelectrochemical cell make the technology well worth exploring.
Sand Filtration as an Alternative Technique for the Treatment of Distillery Effluent

Distilleries produce large volume of wastewater which poses a considerable environmental impact by polluting water and soil bodies. The present study was conducted to find a simple and economical way for wastewater treatment. Wastewater released from distilleries was filtered by using different ratio of sand and clay soil with some amount of wood ash and charcoal. The result revealed that there was a significant reduction in parameters as: pH, COD, BOD, TDS, EC and heavy metal concentrations. Maximum percentage reduction in all parameter was obtained for the filtration with 3:1 sand and clay soil with some amount of crushed wood charcoal. Minimum reduction in all parameter was recorded for the filtration with 3:1 sand and clay soil. Keywords: Wastewater, Physicochemical, Filtration-Bed
Platform discourses: a critical humanities approach to the texts, images, and moving images produced by tech companies

This project aims to develop a critical humanities perspective on the platform society, in which the online platforms owned by major tech companies—from Google to Facebook, from Apple to Airbnb—are integrated into all domains of life. In recent years, scholars across the humanities and the social sciences have analysed the functioning of platforms and their social impact. However, there has not yet been a systematic scholarly analysis of the discourses through which tech companies seek to generate trust around their products, addressing people not only as consumers, but increasingly also as a general “public.” This angle is crucial, because tech discourses are not mere by-products of platforms themselves, but form an integrated part of the development in which tech companies present their market-driven services as neutral spaces for social interaction. Platform Discourses offers this angle on tech companies as discourse producers by employing methods of narrative, image, and discourse analysis in order to analyse the texts, images, and moving images generated by tech companies: from books to corporate blogs (e.g., Airbnb’s Citizen blog), from product presentations to billboard campaigns (e.g., Apple’s World Gallery), from manifestos to public statements (e.g., Microsoft’s call for a digital Geneva convention). The project identifies the ideological underpinnings of those materials. What are the dominant visions of individual and collective human existence tech companies develop in their discourses? How have these visions evolved over the decades? And what conceptual understandings of humanity inspire Google’s mission to “do no evil” or Facebook’s ideal of a “global community”? Answering these questions, Platform Discourses presents a critical framework to understand how tech companies not only disrupt traditional markets and transform people’s practices, but also seek to reconfigure the stories through which people relate to themselves, others, and their ecosystems.
Striatal prediction errors support dynamic control of declarative memory decisions

Adaptive memory requires context-dependent control over how information is retrieved, evaluated and used to guide action, yet the signals that drive adjustments to memory decisions remain unknown. Here we show that prediction errors (PEs) coded by the striatum support control over memory decisions. Human participants completed a recognition memory test that incorporated biased feedback to influence participants' recognition criterion. Using model-based fMRI, we find that PEs-the deviation between the outcome and expected value of a memory decision-correlate with striatal activity and predict individuals' final criterion. Importantly, the striatal PEs are scaled relative to memory strength rather than the expected trial outcome. Follow-up experiments show that the learned recognition criterion transfers to free recall, and targeting biased feedback to experimentally manipulate the magnitude of PEs influences criterion consistent with PEs scaled relative to memory strength. This provides convergent evidence that declarative memory decisions can be regulated via striatally mediated reinforcement learning signals.
Content Based Message Filtering System for OSN User Walls

Online Social Network plays a vital role in our each day life. A person can communicate with others by sharing information in several forms like image, audio and video contents. Major matter in OSN (Online Social Network) is to provide security in posting unnecessary messages. One fundamental question in present Online Social Networks (OSNs) is to give users the capability to have power over the messages posted on their individual private space to avoid that unnecessary content is displayed. Till today , OSNs contribute slight support to this need. As a solution to this problem in this paper, we propose a system in which OSN users to have a straight control on the contents displayed on their private space. This is done with the support of a flexible constrain-depended system, that permits users to provide the filtering to be applied to their walls, and a Machine Learning-based classifier automatically labelling messages in support of content-based filtering
Ultrafast structural dynamics of elementary water-mediated proton transport processes

How acids and bases react in water is a question raised since the pioneering days of modern chemistry. Recent decades have witnessed an increased effort in elucidating the microscopic mechanisms of proton exchange between acids and bases and the important mediating role of water in this. With ultrafast spectroscopy it has been shown that the elementary steps in aqueous proton transfer occur on femtosecond to picosecond time scales. Aqueous acid-base neutralization predominantly proceeds in a sequential way via water bridging acid and base molecules. These ultrafast experiments probing molecular transitions in the ultraviolet, visible and mid-infrared spectral ranges, though, only provide limited insight into the electronic structure of acids, bases and the water molecules accommodating the transfer of protons in the condensed phase. Soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), probing transitions from inner-shell levels to unoccupied molecular orbitals, is a tool to monitor electronic structure with chemical element specificity. The aim is now to develop steady-state and time-resolved soft-x-ray spectroscopy of acids and bases in water-poor and water-rich solutions. Here novel liquid flatjet technology is utilized with soft-x-ray sources at synchrotrons as well as table-top laser-based high-order harmonic systems, to elucidate the electronic structural evolution of proton transfer pathways. Questions to be solved are electronic structural changes upon hydrogen bond formation, the nature of hydrated proton species, and the impact of conversion from acid to conjugate base (or base to conjugate acid) in aromatic alcohols, carboxylic and amine compounds, and ultimately the oxygen oxidation state in hydrated protons. Resolving the electronic structural dynamics of elementary steps of aqueous proton transport will furthermore elucidate the role of mediating water in bulk solution, and in specific conditions such as hydrogen fuel cells or trans-membrane proteins.
Enriching Dynamically Detected Invariants in the Case of Arrays

AbstractSoftware engineering is the work of designing, implementing and modifying of software to build software fast and have a high quality, efficient and maintainable software. Invariant helps programmer and tester to perform some aspect of software engineering. Since arrays and pointers are more probable to be faulty, invariants which report these properties are more useful. By presenting first and last elements of arrays we can detect the carelessness in using index which mostly happens in loops. The idea of employing number of mutual elements between two same type arrays can help us to catch faults in the cases that an array is gained from changes in another array. These two properties help us to capture lots of prevalent faults and therefore try to remove them. This paper proposes an interesting sort of extension over Daikon like tools. It can generate more invariant in the case of array.Keywordsdynamic invariant detectionsoftware testingarray propertyarray’s first and last elementsmutual element between arrays
Process implanting: a new active introspection framework for virtualization

Previous research on virtual machine introspection proposed out-of-box approach by moving out security tools from the guest operating system. However, compared to the traditional in-the-box approach, it remains a challenge to obtain a complete semantic view due to the semantic gap between the guest VM and the hypervisor. In this paper, we present Process Implanting, a new active VM introspection framework, to narrow the semantic gap by implanting a process from the host into the guest VM and executing it under the cover of an existing running process. With the protection and coordination from the hypervisor, the implanted process can run with a degree of stealthiness and exit gracefully without leaving negative impact on the guest operating system. We have designed and implemented a proof-of-concept prototype on KVM which leverages hardware virtualization. We also propose and demonstrate application scenarios for Process Implanting in the area of VM security
PILLAR FRACTURING

A system and method for hydraulic fracturing a subterranean formation with fracturing fluid to generate fractures, and intermittently adjusting a characteristic of the fracturing fluid conveying proppant to form pillars of proppant in the fractures.
SHORT STROKE MAST-RAISING SYSTEM

A system for raising a mast includes a primary cylinder and an actuator. The primary cylinder has a first end coupled to the mast and a second end coupled to a lifting base. The primary cylinder actuates from a retracted position to an extended position to at least partially raise the mast. The actuator actuates from a retracted position to an extended position to at least partially raise the mast, thereby moving the first end of the primary cylinder or the second end of the primary cylinder toward a pivot point between the mast and the lifting base.
Hip screw migration testing: First results for hip screws and helical blades utilizing a new oscillating test method

Despite continued improvement in the methods and devices used to treat intertrochanteric fractures, there remains an unacceptable amount of failures. The cut-out rate for hip screws has been recorded up to 8.3%. To evaluate the migration of different implants under physiological loads, a multiplanar biomechanical test method for hip screws was developed, the first to incorporate a simulation of the human gait cycle by an oscillating flexion/extension movement of the test device. The new method was used to compare different hip screw and blade designs with respect to their directional migration resistance. The test method generated failure modes that were consistent with those observed clinically. Under cyclic loading, the hip screws migrated predominantly in a cephalad direction. In contrast, the helical blades exhibited a distinct migration in their axial direction. The Gamma3 hip screw design showed a significantly higher migration resistance compared with other screw and helical blade designs. The results demonstrate the ability of hip screws to significantly reduce axial migration and prevent cut-out under simulated walking loads. Further, the new multiplanar test method creates a physiological environment that can be used to optimize designs for intertrochanteric fracture fixation.
miRNAs can increase the efficiency of ex vivo platelet generation

The process of megakaryopoiesis culminates in the release of platelets, the pivotal cellular component for hemostasis and wound healing. The regulatory architecture including the modulatory role of microRNAs, which underlies megakaryocytic maturation and platelet formation, is incompletely understood, precluding the ex vivo generation of sufficient platelet numbers for transfusion medicine. We derived a highly efficient differentiation protocol to produce mature polyploid megakaryocytes and functional platelets from CD34⁺-hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells by comparing previously published approaches. Our megakaryocytic culture conditions using the cytokines SCF, TPO, IL-9, and IL-6 include nicotinamide and Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) inhibitor Y27632 as contextual additives. The potency of our novel megakaryocytic differentiation protocol was validated using cord blood and peripheral blood human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Using this novel megakaryocytic differentiation protocol, we characterized the modulatory capacity of several miRNAs highly expressed in normal megakaryocytic cells or malignant blasts from patients with megakaryoblastic leukemia. Overexpression of candidate microRNAs was achieved by lentiviral transduction of CD34⁺-hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells prior to differentiation. We revealed miR-125b and miR-660 as enhancers of polyploidization, as well as platelet output of megakaryocytes. The oncogene miR-125b markedly expanded the number of megakaryocytes during in vitro culture. Conversely, the miR-23a/27a/24-2 cluster, which is highly expressed in normal megakaryocytes, blocked maturation and platelet formation. Our study on the utilization of microRNAs in conjunction with a highly efficient differentiation protocol constitutes another step towards ex vivo platelet manufacturing on a clinically relevant scale.