SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Dosiereinrichtung und Verfahren zum Betreiben einer Dosiereinrichtung

Die Erfindung betrifft unter anderem eine Dosiereinrichtung (10), umfassend wenigstens einen Einlass (34a, 34b, 34c), wenigstens einen Auslass (35), und wenigstens eine von einer Steuerung (21) ansprechbare Pumpe (14), wobei der Einlass mit einem Behältnis (11a, 11b, 11c) verbindbar ist, in dem sich ein zu dosierendes Medium (31a, 31b, 31c) befindet, und wobei mittels der Pumpe (14) das Medium von dem Einlass zu dem Auslass förderbar ist. Die Besonderheit besteht unter anderem darin, dass der Steuerung eine Detektionseinrichtung (25a, 25b, 25c) zugeordnet ist, mit dera) eine Farbe des Behältnisses (11a, 11b, 11c) und/oderb) eine Farbe eines Deckels (24a, 24b, 24c) des Behältnisses (11 a, 11b, 11c) und/oderc) eine Farbe einer Verbindungsleitung (13a, 13b, 13c) zwischen dem Behältnis und dem Einlass und/oderd) eine Farbe des Mediums (31a, 31b, 31c) ermittelbar, und als Farbinformation an die Steuerung übermittelbar ist.
Frailty Models and Frailty-Mixture Models for Recurrent Event Times

The analysis of recurrent event times faces three challenges: between-subject heterogeneity (frailty), within-subject event dependence, and the possibility of a cured fraction. Frailty can be handled by including a latent random-effects term in a Cox-type model. Event dependence may be considered as contributing to the intervention effect, or it may be considered as a source of nuisance, depending on the analysts’ specific research questions. If it is seen as a nuisance, the analysis can stratify the recurrent event times according to event order. If it is seen as contributing to the intervention effect, stratification should not be used. Models with and without stratification for event order estimate two types of treatment effects. They are analogous to per-protocol analysis and intention-to-treat analysis, respectively. In the context of chronic disease treatment, we want to estimate whether there is a cured fraction; for infectious disease prevention, this is called a nonsusceptible fraction. In infectious disease prevention, we want to understand whether an intervention protects each of its recipients to some extent (“leaky” model) or whether it totally protects some recipients but offers no protection to the rest (“all-or-none” model). The truth may be a mixture of the two modes of protection. We describe a class of regression models that can handle all three issues in the analysis of recurrent event times. The model parameters are estimated by the expectation-maximization algorithm, and their variances are estimated by Louis's formula. We provide a new command, strmcure, for implementing these models.
Federico BERTOTTO, Analogia e diritto nella Chiesa

Federico BERTOTTO, Analogia e diritto nella Chiesa, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2022, 414 págs., ISBN 978-88-6512-797-1.
DISPENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND INJECTOR THEREFOR

A dispensing system and method, and injector therefor are disclosed. The disclosed dispensing system, when used for washing hands, may include a faucet in communication with a water or other supply line and a soap or other substance dispensing device adapted to create, for example, a soap and water mixture in the supply line. The system may provide an injector which may include at least one vortex generator to create strong vortices that effectively commingle the two fluids into a thoroughly dispersed mixture, for discharging from the faucet outlet or other outlet.
Gaia-Binaries: formation and fundamental properties of stars and planetary systems

Systems with close stellar-mass or planetary-mass companions are ubiquities in the universe. However, the processes that shape the architecture of these systems are still not understood. By 2021 the GAIA mission will provide astrometric+radial velocity orbits for millions of multiple systems. For the vast majority, GAIA will measure only photocenter displacements and not be able to resolve the individual components, preventing masses and orbital statistics to be derived.  The aim of the GAIA-BIFROST project is to exploit the GAIA sample in order to identify the processes that govern the formation and dynamical evolution of binaries and planetary systems. Using VLTI+CHARA interferometry we will resolve up to ∼6000 GAIA binaries in the continuum and in spectral lines, allowing us: (a) to derive precision dynamical masses, ages, and comprehensive orbital parameter statistics that is needed to discern between different binary formation scenarios; (b) to measure the spin-orbit and spin-spin alignment for hundreds of GAIA star-star and star-planet systems. This will constrain the origin of the orbit obliquity for stars and planets, providing unique information about their formation process and dynamical history; and (c) to image companion-disk interactions in young binary systems and use them as benchmark for studying the hydrodynamical processes that determine the system architecture at formation.  Furthermore, our survey will provide a legacy data set of dynamical masses and precision ages for (literally!) thousands of stars, by far exceeding all earlier work in these areas. This will impact many areas of modern astrophysics, including studies on stellar evolution and Galactic Archaeology. To unlock these powerful new observational avenues, it is important to resolve GAIA binaries close to the GAIA wavebands and at high spectral resolution. We will achieve this by commissioning the BIFROST beam combiner at VLTI, building on our recent successful instrumentation work
Work and Empowerment: Women and Agriculture in South India

This article explores the implications of women's work in agriculture in Telangana, a region in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. I suggest that higher capital costs for cultivators' post-liberalisation increased the pressure to contain wage costs in a region where women form the majority of the agricultural wage labour force. Under such conditions, when women perform both own-cultivation as well as agricultural wage work in the fields of others, they face pressure to restrict bargaining for higher wages, contributing to a widening gender wage gap. To the extent that wages shape intra-household bargaining power, the empowering effect of workforce participation for such women would thus be blunted. From available NSS data I provide some preliminary evidence in support of this argument.
The effect of introducing a winter forage rotation on CO2 fluxes at a temperate grassland

Abstract Temperate grasslands have the potential to sequester carbon, helping to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The ability of grasslands to absorb CO2 is influenced by site elevation, soil type, management practices, climate and climatic variability. There is a need for long-term observations and field experiments to quantify the effects of the key drivers of management and climate variability. This paper presents over 4 years of eddy covariance measurements of CO2 flux over a managed temperate grassland site in south-east Ireland. For the first 2 years the entire study area was under grass. During the second 2 years a winter forage crop was grown over part of the site. The site was found to have a net uptake of CO2 during all years. However, the magnitude of the CO2 uptake varied considerably from year to year, with a maximum net uptake of 1.32 kg CO2 m−2 in 2004, a year with no winter forage crop. Net uptakes were much lower in the 2 years of mixed grass and kale cultivation, but detailed analysis of the measurement footprint and statistical comparisons showed that this was not due to the introduction of the forage rotation. For a short period following sowing of the forage crop, daytime CO2 uptake was less than that of the area under grass, but over subsequent months daytime CO2 uptake of the kale areas recovered strongly and exceeded that of the grass areas. The net effect over the year following kale planting is close to CO2-neutral.
Quercetin-mediated Mcl-1 and survivin downregulation restores TRAIL-induced apoptosis in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma B cells

Non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphomas account for approximately 70% of B-cell lymphomas. While its incidence is dramatically increasing worldwide, the disease is still associated with high morbidity due to ineffectiveness of conventional therapies, creating an urgent need for novel therapeutic approaches. Unconventional compounds, including polyphenols and the cytokine TRAIL, are being extensively studied for their capacity to restore apoptosis in a large number of tumors, including lymphomas.Molecular mechanisms of TRAIL-resistance and reactivation of the apoptotic machinery by quercetin in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cell lines were determined by Hoescht, flow cytometry, Western blot, qPCR, by use of siRNA or pharmacological inhibitors of the mitochondrial pathway and by immunoprecipitation followed by post-translational modification analysis.Results demonstrate that quercetin, a natural flavonoid, restores TRAIL-induced cell death in resistant transformed follicular lymphoma B-cell lines, despite high Bcl-2 expression levels due to the chromosomal translocation t(14;18). Quercetin rescues mitochondrial activation by inducing the proteasomal degradation of Mcl-1 and by inhibiting survivin expression at the mRNA level, irrespective of p53. Restoration of the TRAIL pathway requires Bax and Bak but is independent of enhanced TRAIL DISC formation.We demonstrate that inactivation of survivin and Mcl-1 expression by quercetin is sufficient to restore TRAIL sensitivity in resistant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma B cells. Our results suggest, therefore, that combining quercetin with TRAIL treatments may be useful in the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
WIRELESS MASTER-SLAVE DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

A master-slave distributed communications network comprises a master node (10), a plurality of slave nodes (12 to 22), and links (VL) operatively interconnecting the slave nodes and the master node in accordance with a routing plan. Each slave node has means for storing an address of the next node in the routing plan for a message to be routed on an uplink to the master node and when sending a data packet to the master node it appends the prestored address and forwards the data packet to the next node. If the next node is not the master node, it, in turn, adds the prestored address of the next following slave node to the data packet thus lengthening the data packet and re-transmits it , and so on until the data packet reaches the master node.For a downlink message, the master node (10) using a prestored routing table includes in the data packet the addresses of all the slave nodes on the selected route. As the data packet is progressed from slave node to slave node, the address of each slave node which has forwarded the data packet is deleted thus shortening the overall length of the data packet.
Feasibility and Efficacy of Simultaneous Pulmonary Vein Isolation and Cavotricuspid Isthmus Ablation Using Cryotherapy

Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) and cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) ablation are often performed as part of the same procedure. In many cases, PVI is performed by cryotherapy and then CTI ablation by radiofrequency (RF) energy. We sought to determine whether it is more efficient to perform CTI ablation simultaneously with PVI using separate cryogenerators.We performed cryoablation of the CTI during PVI with the Arctic Front cryoballoon in 25 consecutive patients with clinical indications for both (PVI/CTI-cryo group). Procedural data were compared to those of 25 matched patients who underwent PVI only by the same operator (PVI-only group), and 25 patients who underwent PVI by cryotherapy and CTI ablation using RF energy sequentially during the same procedure (PVI/CTI-mixed group). No complication occurred. All veins were isolated; bidirectional CTI block was demonstrated in all cases where it was attempted, except for 1 patient in the PVI/CTI-mixed group. Procedure and fluoroscopy duration were significantly shorter in the PVI/CTI-cryo group (162 ± 34 and 24 ± 5 minutes) than in the PVI/CTI-mixed group (209 ± 46 minutes, P < 0.001 and 59 ± 28 minutes, P < 0.001). Procedure and fluoroscopy duration in the PVI-only group (155 ± 32 and 22 ± 8 minutes) were similar to those in the PVI/CTI-cryo group (P = NS) but significantly shorter than in the PVI/CTI-mixed group (P < 0.001 for both). Clinical outcomes were similar in all groups.When CTI ablation is performed with RF energy after PVI by cryoballoon, it adds significantly to the procedure and fluoroscopy durations; when performed contemporaneously using cryotherapy at both sites, the procedure and fluoroscopy durations are not prolonged.
Building multi‐level governance in Southeast Europe?

Drawing on the contributions to this volume, this concluding analysis reflects on the extent to which European Union (EU) cohesion policy and related pre‐accession instruments are contributing to the development of more compound polities in Southeast Europe and, specifically, promoting multi‐level governance. It argues that these EU policies have created more compound polities but that system‐wide multi‐level governance remains weak in the case study states and central governments remain prominent. However, there are interesting and potentially important developments in relation to particular features of multi‐level governance, not least in states whose engagement with the EU in this sphere is relatively new. As such, a large part of this story appears yet to unfold.
Intermodal Freight Services Development Committees

The project pursues the creation of regional Intermodal Freight Services Development Committees. Each regional Committee will operate as a technical working group to analyze the operational feasibility and the socio-economic return of new intermodal freight services, on demand of interested companies or by proposal of any of its members. In addition, this technical group would provide a wide range of commercial support possibilities. A key point is the demand-oriented approach. This means that the Committees will not promote any new service unless it meets a proven need by shippers, forwarders or transport operators. Their commitment is to help those economic agents developing new business opportunities and to improve the regional competitiveness of the concerned territories, not only individually but also taking into account the benefits shared by the whole Mediterranean area over its competitors. The project will be structured in 4 axes. Each axis will be addressed by a Working Group (WG) that will involve all relevant local stakeholders and complementary actors (public bodies, port authorities, chambers of commerce and intermodal freight transport operators). Every WG will be lead by a different partner, taking advantage of its relevant knowledge and competences. 1st WG: Strategic Planning. Establishing a common working framework. Joint definition of the concept of Development Committees, as starting points and involved stakeholders are different for each region. This phase shall allow the administrative setup and the specific role definition of all regional Committees, and also to share information about services and infrastructures mapping. WG Coordinator: General Council of Catalan Chambers of Commerce. Chronogram: 4 months (January 2013 - April 2013). 2nd WG: Operational activities. Active promotion of new services and routes. Each regional Committee will be focused on the identification of new demand-oriented transport services or operational facilities needed and the elaboration of feasibility and viability analysis of actions jointly with interested companies, giving priority to cross-border dimension. WG Coordinator: Port of La Spezia. Chronogram: 26 months (May 2013 - June 2015). 3rd WG: Accompanying Measures. Identifications of mechanisms and best practices to increase the competitiveness of intermodal and rail freight transport. This phase will include the development of pilot actions and an intense effort on the communication strategy. WG Coordinator: Port of Koper. Chronogram: 26 months (May 2013 - June 2015). 4th WG. Promotional and Sustainability Actions. Project partners will focus on the future sustainability and transferability of the Committees and their link with the governance structure provided by the European Commission for a coordinated approach with regard to infrastructure use and investments of every Core Network Corridor: the Corridor Platform. WG Coordinator: Generalitat de Catalunya. Chronogram: 12 months (July 2014 - June 2015).
Befriending the Field: culture and friendships in development worlds

Abstract This paper explores some of the cross-cultural friendships of Western NGO workers with Indonesians, before and after the 2006 earthquake in Yogyakarta. These kinds of friendships enabled aid workers to transcend a private–professional divide which is often taken for granted. The paper draws attention to different cultural ideals of friendship and argues that cross-cultural friendships present a central instrument for establishing emotional belonging and for crafting identities. The social competences gained frequently moved beyond the individual private sphere and were turned into meaningful resources and professional qualifications relevant in development work. I argue that friendships act as mediators allowing aid workers to oscillate between different spheres of social engagement. This intermediate potential renders friendships highly relevant to more in-depth anthropological enquiry into development workers' everyday lives and their cultural positioning in foreign environments.
THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION AND PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING INFORMATICS AT SCHOOL

The article describes the content of the modern information technology and teaching methodology, which should be used in the lessons of the computer science at the secondary school of general education. These are such technologies as educational technology, health saving technology, information technology, gaming technology, personal oriented approach, and training project. Each technology is indispensable and important to the learning process. The article refers to the feasibility of the technologies application and their practical use during the lessons. The information technologies become productive when personally oriented environment is created, that is a complex of technological approaches, methodical and methodological attitudes, which determines the content and structure of education, and provides opportunities for self-realization and self-development of the pupil’s personality. The analyzed material is intended for the experienced teachers and the young teachers of the computer science with a view to the proper use of modern pedagogical technologies in their lessons.
Intravitreal Expansile Gas and Bevacizumab Injection for Submacular Hemorrhage Due to Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration.

To evaluate the results of intravitreal expansile gas injection, with or without recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA), followed by intravitreal bevacizumab injection for treatment of submacular hemorrhage (SMH) secondary to neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).In this interventional case series, 5 eyes of 5 patients with SMH secondary to choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to neovascular AMD were treated with 0.3 cc intravitreal SF6 (and 50 μg of rtPA in two eyes), followed by face-down positioning; 24 hours later, 1.25 mg of bevacizumab was injected intravitreally. Main outcome measures included displacement of SMH and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA).Mean patient age was 75.6±9.2 (range, 60-83) years, mean duration of symptoms was 6.4±3.2 (range, 3-10) days, and mean number of bevacizumab injections was 1.8 (range, 1-3). Mean preoperative BCVA was 1.28±0.27 logMAR which improved significantly to 0.57±0.33 logMAR at 12 months (P=0.042). SMH displacement occurred in all eyes, and visual acuity improved and remained stable during the follow-up period of 12 months.Intravitreal expansile gas injection, with or without rtPA, followed by intravitreal bevacizumab injection, seems to be an effective modality for SMH displacement and treatment of the underlying CNV in neovascular AMD.
Eurego - a study on the opportunity to found a Euroregion on the Italian-Slovenian border

This project envisages a study to assess the opportunity and the usefulness of a cross-border Euroregion which, by cooperating in several sectors, can contribute to dismantling the remaining border barriers after Slovenia’s entry into the EU. This initiative also meets the requirement of resuming the content of the “Cross-border cooperation protocol” to adjust it to the new relationships between the two territories. The adoption of common methods, instruments and strategies, in order to submit the project proposals to be financed, aims at ensuring a new territorial dimension which can consolidate the two border areas’ cooperation initiatives in several sectors.
Electron source, method for manufacturing same, emitter, and device including same

An electron source according to the present disclosure includes a columnar portion made of a first material having an electron emission characteristic; and a tubular portion that is disposed to surround the columnar portion and made of a second material having a higher work function than the first material, wherein a hole that extends in a direction from one end face toward the other end face and has a substantially circular cross-sectional shape is formed in the tubular portion, and the columnar portion has a substantially triangular or substantially quadrangular cross-sectional shape and is fixed to the tubular portion in an abutting engagement with an inner surface of the hole.
The β-richness of two detritivore caddisflies affects fine organic matter export

We used stream networks as a model system to test whether the ecosystem function, upstream production, and export of fine organic particles, an important subsidy to downstream habitats, would vary between two stream networks with identical detritivore species but different spatial distributions (i.e. high or low β-richness). Our experiment employed artificial stream networks with two simulated tributaries. We used two species of detritivorous caddisflies, Lepidostoma sp. and Pycnopsyche guttifer, in either sympatry (low β-richness) or allopatry (high β-richness) in the tributaries of each network. The tributaries were given either senesced or green speckled alder (Alnus incana rugosa). In the networks with senesced leaves, particle export was more than twice as great when the detritivores were in allopatry whereas interference competition in sympatry reduced particle export. In the networks with green leaves, particle export did not significantly vary between the allopatric and sympatric distributions because the interference competition was reduced and the two species had similar feeding rates on green leaves. Humans are altering β-richness by homogenizing or differentiating flora and fauna across habitats; however, little is known about how altering this type of biodiversity will affect ecosystem functions. Our experimental manipulation is a simple version of a change in the β-richness of the detritivores in a more complex stream network in nature. These results may indicate that shifts in species distributions across sites may significantly affect ecosystem functions, even when no species are lost from a watershed.