SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Impact assessment of tritium in an ITER hot cell

Abstract Tritium concentration analysis in temporary storage, where large numbers of containers store tritiated metallic waste temporarily, is performed numerically using a time dependent tritium concentration model under an atmosphere detritiation system (ADS) and vent detritiation system (VDS). The tritium concentrations in the temporary storage for both after tritium removal (T-removal) and without T-removal cases are estimated with respect to the capacity of ADS and VDS to find the influence of the tritium removal process. And also a numerical model for estimating tritium behavior in the concrete wall in the temporary storage is developed by using a one-dimensional diffusion model and tritium concentration model. The tritium permeated depths in the wall under the worst conditions are estimated for both after T-removal and without T-removal, respectively.
Feasibility study of a novel metabolic liquid biopsy for cancer therapy monitoring

Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) are strong indicators of the aggressiveness of metastatic cancer and there is strong evidence that CTCs are a reliable prognostic factor in patients with early-stage and metastatic breast cancer. Despite significant efforts, the detection and identification of CTCs in peripheral blood has proven difficult. The key technical challenge is posed by the rarity of tumour cells in blood, with estimates of just one CTC per ~1-10 million white blood cells per millilitre of blood. Up until now, there has been only one FDA-approved CTC enumeration system, CellSearch®, yet this state-of-the-art method suffers from severe limitations. There is an urgent need for new, alternative methods of CTCs enumeration and further characterization to fully realize the potential clinical benefits of CTC analysis. Lowering cost and speed of analysis coupled with ability to isolate CTC for further analysis would have a tremendous effect on diagnostics and treatment of cancer patients. It would provide novel means for early screening of individuals in a certain risk groups, elucidating most promising therapy options and following a chosen treatment and providing a cost-effective way to monitor patients in risk of relapse. Cytofind Diagnostics has developed a radically new method to count and isolate CTCs based on single cell determination of the anomalous metabolic properties of tumour cells (the so-called Warburg effect). Here, we wish to carefully analyze the potential impact of our technology on different parts of the oncology care cycle and establish which market is most suitable for the first introduction of our disruptive technology.
Recessionary bundles: HR practices in the Irish economic crisis

The HR practices adopted by firms in response to the current deep and prolonged recession have received little attention in the literature. There are reasons for supposing that firms will adopt HR practices in bundles in responding to the recession in order to benefit from technical and behavioural complementarities. Drawing on a nationally representative survey, the article investigates the bundles of HR practices adopted by firms during the Irish recession and examines influences on the bundles that are evident. The article contributes to HRM theory by testing different views on HR bundles likely to be adopted in recessionary conditions and by moving beyond the prevailing focus in HRM on HR bundles adopted by firms in steady-state business conditions.
Revisiting a many-body model for water based on a single polarizable site: From gas phase clusters to liquid and air/liquid water systems

We present a revised version of the water many-body model TCPE [M. Masella and J.-P. Flament, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 9105 (1997)], which is based on a static three charge sites and a single polarizable site to model the molecular electrostatic properties of water, and on an anisotropic short range many-body energy term specially designed to accurately model hydrogen bonding in water. The parameters of the revised model, denoted TCPE/2013, are here developed to reproduce the ab initio energetic and geometrical properties of small water clusters (up to hexamers) and the repulsive water interactions occurring in cation first hydration shells. The model parameters have also been refined to reproduce two liquid water properties at ambient conditions, the density and the vaporization enthalpy. Thanks to its computational efficiency, the new model range of applicability was validated by performing simulations of liquid water over a wide range of temperatures and pressures, as well as by investigating water liquid/vapor interfaces over a large range of temperatures. It is shown to reproduce several important water properties at an accurate enough level of precision, such as the existence liquid water density maxima up to a pressure of 1000 atm, the water boiling temperature, the properties of the water critical point (temperature, pressure, and density), and the existence of a "singularity" temperature at about 225 K in the supercooled regime. This model appears thus to be particularly well-suited for characterizing ion hydration properties under different temperature and pressure conditions, as well as in different phases and interfaces.
TOOL DEVICE

The invention relates to a tool device, in particular a jigsaw device, having at least one guide unit (10, l0a) for at least partially guiding at least one machine body (12; 12a) and/or a workpiece processing motion. According to the invention, the tool device comprises at least one alignment detection unit (14; 14a) for detecting an alignment of the guide unit (10; 10a) relative to a motor housing (16; 16a) and/or relative to a tool receiving unit (18; 18a).
Illumineation --- bright concepts for a safe and sustainable digital mining future

The (European) mining industry is under great pressure due to a number of reasons, e.g. high number of injuries/fatalities and environmental accidents, bad reputation, low commodity prices, depleting resources and decreasing ore grades, etc. The only way to overcome these challenges is to completely “rethink” the process of traditional mining via progressively digitising mining operations and introducing ground-breaking innovations (e.g. remote controlled robots, autonomous drones, novel sensor systems, etc.), accompanied by the extensive use of data analytics and new forms of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). illuMINEation will illuminate important digitalization aspects in underground mining operations in order to achieve the next level of safety, environment and economic performance, and to retain and gain a social licence to operate. The project will develop a robust multi-level distributed IIoT platform (including cloud computing & distributed cloud management) that connects via wireless communication with the physical mining world, defined by massively installed low-cost all-embracing sensor networks. Advanced analytical algorithms will support the implementation of powerful, sophisticated automated control systems. Mobile user interfaces, dashboards, augmented and virtual reality as well as digital twins will be utilised for data visualisation and operational control. illuMINEation will ensure that all mining personnel receive the best possible information that the enormous amount of data has to offer, whilst ensuring all data is properly protected via a rigorous cyber security approach. The illuMINEation consortium provides the necessary resources and comprehensive skills and capabilities to operate across organizational boundaries with the aim to bring together the different parts of the entire digital mining business value chain and create cross-industry innovations.
Esquiver le stigmate lié à l’avortement : le « travail d’invisibilisation » comme renforcement du travail procréatif

Cadre de la recherche : Partant du constat que l’avortement demeure une pratique stigmatisée, cet article analyse les stratégies d’invisibilisation mises en place par les femmes ayant avorté d’une première grossesse afin de contourner la stigmatisation. Objectif : Cet article montre comment le « travail d’invisibilisation » mis en place par les avortées (gestion du secret, dissimulation des signes de grossesse, du parcours de soin et de l’avortement…) renforce le travail procréatif assigné aux femmes. En cela, il contribue à reproduire des asymétries genrées. Méthodologie : Les données utilisées sont issues d’entretiens semi-directifs menés en France auprès de femmes entre 17 et 38 ans ayant avorté d’une première grossesse (n=49). Elles sont complétées par des observations ethnographiques dans plusieurs centres d’Interruption Volontaire de Grossesse (IVG) français. Résultats : Dans le cadre d’une première grossesse interrompue, le dévoilement de l’avortement se réalise dans un entre-soi féminin, principalement auprès des amies et des mères des avortées. Les partenaires sexuels sont des soutiens d’autant plus ambigus que la relation de couple n’est pas établie. L’invisibilisation de l’avortement se traduit par des stratégies de justification alternative des absences au travail comme à l’école, pour préserver l’intimité et éviter une stigmatisation sexuelle et contraceptive. Dans l’espace domestique, la dissimulation, plus rare, s’avère difficile : elle suppose de masquer les signes de grossesse et les traces du parcours de soin. La prise en charge médicale de l’avortement expose quant à elle à une stigmatisation de l’échec contraceptif. Conclusion : Se prémunir de la stigmatisation de l’avortement peut être nécessaire pour éviter le discrédit des avortées. Le travail d’invisibilisation varie selon les caractéristiques sociales des avortées (âge, situation conjugale) et les motifs de la stigmatisation (sexualité, représentation du fœtus, échec contraceptif). Contribution : Cet article contribue à l’analyse internationale de l’ abortion stigma en le resituant dans une perspective matérialiste attentive au travail procréatif accompli par les femmes. Il montre également les spécificités de la stigmatisation abortive en France.
Neural bases of multimodal integration in children

Children typically learn their language in a multimodal environment as their caregivers interact with them with a variety of modalities. Especially, hand gestures are often used by caregivers to convey semantic information with speech. Thus, gestures are an important medium for children to understand speakers’ messages (McNeill, 1992). By using behavioural measures, previous studies have revealed that children and adults can comprehend and integrate information from iconic gestures and speech. For example, the Researcher found that it is hard for 3-year-olds to integrate information from speech and co-speech gestures, but 5-year-olds could perform with similar results to adults. However, behavioural measures do not provide access to the underlying neurocognitive processing of speech and iconic gestures, whereas neuroimaging techniques can provide more direct measures of the online cognitive process underlying the comprehension of co-occurring multimodal semantic information. Thus, this project examines neurocognitive processing of semantic information from gesture and speech in children and adults by using neuroimaging techniques such as EEG and fMRI. Study 1 investigates whether iconic gesture and speech are independently or bidirectionally processed in 3- and 5-year-olds and adults. Study 2 examines which brain areas are used to speech and gesture in children and adults. Two contributions are expected from this project. A practical contribution will be providing information to caregivers and teachers about how they should use their gestures to foster childrens’ language acquisition. A theoretical contribution will be providing neurobiological data on how gesture and speech are processed in children and adults. Through this project, the Researcher will obtain knowledge about neuroimaging research and his expertise will contribute to the Host institution by providing knowledge about childrens’ communication research.
Development and Evaluation of a Novel Four-Electrode Device System for Monitoring Skin Impedance

Qi, meridians, and acupoints are important issues in Chinese medicine. One of the theories claims that acupuncture points and meridians have unique electrical properties. The associations between acupuncture points or meridians and special electrical properties are still under debate. In the current study, we introduced and explained a device for this kind of research and evaluated the reliability of this device as well as effects of pressure, cleaning the skin by alcohol and exfoliation on electrical skin measurements. Fifteen subjects (10 female, 5 male) were recruited to participate in the study. An impedance meter based on the four-electrode technique was designed and fabricated specifically for this study. The effects of pressure, cleaning of the skin by alcohol, and exfoliation on electrical skin impedance were evaluated separately. The device repeatability was also evaluated 30 times in a 30 minutes period. Scale weight up to 200 grams, cleaning the skin with alcohol, and exfoliation didn't affect the performance of this device. The device performance didn't change significantly during the 30 minutes measurement either. The new system we evaluated can be a reliable tool for researches on electrical skin impedance in acupuncture, as its performance is fairly stable even in the presence of various confounding factors such as various pressures on the probe, cleaning the skin with alcohol and exfoliation.
‘Pretty Rooms’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design

I first propose a new context for examining the sonnets and then scrutinize some verbal features of the poems with that context in mind. The context is visual design in the second half of the 16th century: the cultural commitment to arrangement in Tudor England is visible in furniture, textiles, gardening, and to a certain degree in painting, but especially in architecture, particularly Elizabethan domestic architecture. The feature I analyse is a species of poetic ornament: literal and lexical forms of repetition. My aim is to identify the increasing devotion to order in Elizabethan visual culture with the manifest delight in patterning exhibited in Shakespeare’s sonnets and shared by all the imaginative writers of the period.
The German motor vehicle industry: Costs and crisis

Abstract Japanese expertise with a flexible and efficient automobile manufacturing system posed a challenge to the German motor vehicle industry, renowned for high quality. We investigate cost characteristics of the German industry, including scale economies, input relationships, and other issues. We find German production still has scale economies available, that labor and outsourced intermediate goods and domestic and outsourced intermediate goods are substitutes, the industry has increased its use of outsourced inputs, labor demand has become more sensitive to its own price and that of outsourced inputs, and the industry restructuring appears to have been successful in increasing its international competitiveness.
TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING BEAM FAILURE OR RADIO LINK FAILURE

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some networks, a user equipment (UE) may perform radio link monitoring according to one or more radio link monitoring configurations. The UE may select a radio link monitoring configuration from a first radio link monitoring configuration associated with radio link monitoring over a duration that a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process is enabled and a second radio link monitoring configuration associated with radio link monitoring over a duration that the HARQ process is disabled. The UE may monitor reference signals using the selected radio link monitoring configuration, and may determine a radio link failure, a beam failure, or both has occurred based on monitoring the one or more reference signals using the selected radio link monitoring configuration. The UE may subsequently transmit a measurement report based on determining the radio link failure, the beam failure, or both.
Institutional Investors’ Reaction to SEC Concerns about IFRS and US GAAP Reporting

For the period of 2006 to 2008, we collect Comment Letters issued by the SEC that question the application of US GAAP by US firms or the application of IFRS by European firms registered with the SEC. We investigate whether institutional investors react to the letters by changing their holdings and whether their responses vary for US registrants and European registrants. We do this via a treatment-effects model in which we test the hypothesis that institutional investors rebalance their portfolio holdings because they view Comment Letters as informative public signals. We find that institutional investors reduce their equity holdings when firms receive SEC Comment Letters, and their negative reactions are most marked for low turnover institutional investors, who we use to represent those informed investors most prepared to incur costs to closely monitor firms. Next, while noting that the number of Letters questioning application of IFRS are smaller in number relative to those questioning application of US GAAP, we investigate whether there are different reactions to Comment Letters questioning different standards. We show that there is a higher probability of the SEC questioning the application of IFRS as compared to US GAAP. After controlling for firm-specific conditions that impact the issuance of a Comment Letter, we show that this higher probability has economic significance because institutional investors� react more negatively to Comment Letters that question the application of IFRS as compared to US GAAP. A content analysis confirms the economic importance of the Comment Letters. We find that in almost half of all IFRS cases the Comment Letters request amendments to financial statements.
Clinical and Neuroimaging Profile of Children with Lesions in the Corpus Callosum

T2-hyperintense signal changes in corpus callosum (CC) have been described in epilepsy and encephalitis/encephalopathy. Little is known about their pathophysiology. The aim of this study was to examine the clinical presentation and evolution of CC lesions and relationship to seizures.We identified 12 children among 29,634 patients from Radiology Database. We evaluated following characteristics: seizures and accompanying medical history, antiepileptic drug usage, presenting symptoms, and radiological evolution of lesions.CC lesions were seen in patients with prior diagnosis of epilepsy (n = 5) or in those with new onset seizures (n = 3), or with encephalitis/encephalopathy without history of seizures (n = 4). Seizure clustering or disturbances of consciousness were the main presenting symptoms. No relationship was observed between CC lesion and AEDs. On imaging, ovoid lesions at presentation resolved on follow up imaging and linear lesions persisted. DTI showed that the fibers passing through splenial lesions originated from the posterior parietal cortex and occipital cortex bilaterally.In patients with seizures, no clear relationship was demonstrated between seizure characteristics or AED use with CC lesions. Ovoid lesions resolved and may have different pathophysiologic mechanism when compared to linear lesions that persisted.
Porous carbon materials for solar photoelectrolytic disinfection

Water is one crucial natural resource since life on our planet depends on it. The transmission of serious diseases through pathogenic microorganisms in water is extremely common in the developing world and the antimicrobial resistance has increased globally. The understanding of new processes that guarantee effectively the elimination of resistant microorganisms and access to safe drinking water, is therefore of utmost importance, thus a priority in H2020 programme. The scientific aim of Porous carbon materials for Solar photoElectrolytic Disinfection (SED) project is the development of a new sustainable methodology for water treatment. It will be the first time that Ordered Mesoporous Carbons and graphene foam are used in a solar photoelectrolytic disinfection system. The societal aims are to contribute to the reduction of the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. SED project proposes an advanced oxidation process combined with specific carbon materials, which can operate under ambient temperature and pressure, developing a new low-cost technology to water treatment. Oxygen and water will be used as oxidant without the addition of consumable chemicals and without generation of potential mutagenic disinfection byproducts. If one uses solar energy to drive the photoelectrolytic process, then it becomes a truly clean technology. The Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, FEUP) has excellent resources and facilities to carry on this research, because it is one of the most advanced academic laboratories for carbon materials production and characterisation in the EU. The participation of the Adventech company as the partner organisation for the secondment is an excellent opportunity to develop a new research method in which the transference of knowledge is one of the principal aims. These are excellent conditions for the development of SED project by Dr Velo.
Induction of labour - what influences outcomes?

<h3>Objectives</h3> To identify predictors of vaginal delivery following induction of labour. <h3>Method</h3> A retrospective review of 200 consecutive case notes from women induced in a London teaching hospital over 13 months, between January 2009 to January 2010. <h3>Results</h3> 9% of women had a documented body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 at booking. 58% had a vaginal delivery (spontaneous or assisted). 5% of women being induced were aged over 40% and 50% had a vaginal delivery. 61% of the patient population were Caucasian, of whom 70% had a vaginal delivery. 19% were Asian and 56% of them delivered vaginally compared to 46% of the African population. 60% of primigravidae patients delivered vaginally compared to 85% of mutiparous patients. 16% were induced for hypertension, 40% for postmaturity, 9% for prolonged rupture of membranes and 15% for gestational diabetes, all achieving similar vaginal delivery rates. 43% of the diabetic patients were Asian. 88% required induction with prostaglandins, 9% by artificial rupture of membranes and 3% with syntocinon augmentation following spontaneous rupture of membranes. 40% of patients had a spontaneous vaginal delivery and 24% had an instrumental delivery. 36% of women had an emergency Caesarean, 15% for fetal distress, 13% for failure to progress and 8% for failure to enter established labour. <h3>Conclusion</h3> These data suggest that Caucasian ethnicity and multiparity were positive predictors for vaginal delivery, while BMI, indication for induction and maternal age over 40 did not influence mode of delivery.