SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Sustainable and cost-efficient catalyst for hydrogen and energy storage applications based on liquid organic hydrogen carriers : economic viability for market uptake

Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC), consisting on a reversible transformation catalytically activated of a pair of stable liquid organic molecules integrated on hydrogenation/dehydrogenation cycles, are attractive due to their ability to store safely large amounts of hydrogen (up to 7 %wt or 2.300 KWh/ton) during long time and release pure hydrogen on demand. Proof of concept and some commercial solutions exist but still suffer from high cost and energy needed to facilitate catalytic reactions. 
In order to reduce the system cost for LOHC technology to 3 €/Kg for large scale applications SherLOHCk project targets  joint developments consisting on :i) highly active and selective catalyst with partial/total substitution of PGM  and thermo-conductive catalyst support to reduce the energy intensity during loading/unloading processes: ii) novel catalytic system architecture ranging from the catalyst to the heat exchanger to minimize the internal heat loss and to increase space-time-yield and iii) novel catalyst testing, system validation and demonstration in demo unit (>10 kW, >200h); to drastically improve their technical performances and energy storage efficiency of LOHCs:
A combination of challenges for the catalyst material, catalyst system and their related energy storage capabilities  will constitute the core of a catalyst system for LOHC, that will be validated first at a lab scale, then in a demo unit > 10kW. As a whole they will enable the reduction of Energy intensity during loading/unloading processes, a higher efficiency and increased lifetime. Technological, economical and societal bottlenecks are considered to determine the economic viability, balance of energy and the environmental footprint of novel catalyst synthesis route.
Scale-up of the obtained solutions will be carried out together with technology comparison with other hydrogen logistic concepts based on LCA and TCO considerations to finally improve economic viability of the LOHC technology.
Clinical correlates of oral malodour in a population of patients attending a preventive clinic in Pretoria, South Africa.

This study investigates the occurrence of oral malodour in an adult dental clinic population in Pretoria, South Africa, and the clinical parameters associated with the condition.Data collected from new patients (n=896), examined by oral hygiene students under supervision of instructors, between January - October 2004, were retrospectively analysed. Subjects self-reported their medical history and smoking status. Caries experience, plaque index, pocket depths, bleeding on probing (BOP), tongue coating status, and oral hygiene practises were recorded. Malodour was diagnosed using the halimeter (> or = 120ppb) and an organoleptic measurement (0-5 point scale) of > or = 3. Data analysis included chi-square, t-tests and logistical regression.15.1% presented with organoleptically-determined malodour and 20.9% presented with malodour detected by the use of the halimeter. Irrespective of the diagnostic tool used, tongue coating, increased plaque levels and BOP were associated with an increased likelihood for oral malodour, while regular flossing reduced the likelihood of presenting with the condition. Periodontitis was associated with oral malodour when applying organoleptic ratings, but not with the halimeter.Oral malodour prevalence corresponds with values reported in developed countries. Interdental flossing was the most effective self-care practise associated with a reduced likelihood of presenting with malodour. Halimeter performance should be further investigated in relation to varying degrees of severity of periodontal disease.
Electric vehicle components for 1000 km daily trips (evc1000).

The project brings together ten participants from industrial and academic backgrounds to provide innovative and mass-production optimised components enabling the efficient integration of powertrain and chassis systems, which will increase EV range and user acceptance. Given the recent progress related to in-wheel motors technology, and the benefits of in-wheel architectures in terms of active safety, packaging and drivability, EVC1000 will focus on in-wheel drivetrain layouts, as well as a wheel-centric integrated propulsion system and EV manager. More specifically, the consortium will develop: - New components for in-wheel powertrains: i) Efficient, scalable, reliable, low-cost and production-ready in-wheel motors, suitable for a wide range of torque and power specifications; and ii) Dual inverters for in-wheel motor axles based on Silicon Carbide technology. The designs will include detailed consideration and measurement of the electro-magnetic compatibility aspects, as well as the implementation of model-predictive health monitoring techniques of the electronic components.  - New components for electrified chassis control with in-wheel motors: i) Brake-by-wire system for seamless brake blending, high regeneration capability and enhanced anti-lock braking system control performance; and ii) Electro-magnetic active suspension actuators, targeting increased comfort and electric vehicle efficiency. - Controllers for the novel EVC1000 components, exploiting the benefits of functional integration, vehicle connectivity and driving automation for advanced energy management The new EVC1000 components will be showcased in two production-ready electric vehicle demonstrators of different market segments. EVC1000 will assess the increased energy efficiency and will include demonstration of long distance daily trips. The vehicle demonstration phase will consider objective and subjective performance indicators for human factor analysis, to deliver enhanced customer experience.
Management for Sustainable Development and Its Impact on Firm Value in the SME Context: Does Size Matter?

With the increasing demands from society towards sustainable and social responsible business practices, management for sustainable development has become a cornerstone to understand the success of many firms in the current competitive context. This article investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) and examines the links between CSR practices and business outcomes – both financial and non-financial (i.e. image and corporate reputation) – for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, we also attempt to determine whether the impact of such relationships is moderated by firm size.

To this end, we carry out a quantitative study using PLS techniques to analyze a sample of SME owners and managers, with a view to test the proposed model in the light of social capital theory. In this sense, our study is pioneering in that it aims to determine – from a quantitative viewpoint – the degree to which firm size has a moderating impact on a series of relevant CSR-driven outcomes. The data suggest that, in SME contexts, CSR impacts corporate reputation, brand image and financial value of the company. Importantly, we find that the larger the firm, the greater the intensity of the relationships linking CSR and business outcomes. Hence, our findings have important implications for CSR implementation in SME contexts. Finally, we provide a series of guidelines aimed at maximizing the effectiveness of CSR-based business practices. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Effect of Area, Academic Stream and Neurotic Personality Pattern on Human Rights Awareness of Senior Secondary School Students

To save humanity is to serve God and it has been said by all humanist thinkers. But nowadays newspapers, magazines and other news media are flooded with reports of crime, murder, agitation and ever-teasing deeds against humanity. All these occurrences indicate deterioration in our ethical standards, loss of our moral and social values resulting in great loss to families, society, nation and ultimately the globe at large. Today the human beings are gradually converting themselves from psycho-social to only biological organism, though they are not only a biological organism, but also a psycho-social. We are bearing self-centeredness and this perception towards valuing humanity or human values giving a great thrust on divisive and distinguishing tendency. In that way, ultimately we will be forced the provisions made by our forefather in the Constitution of India, really it is the great source of human values and it looks forward to promote the conducive environment pertaining to humanism. But only having provisions are not sufficient, they should be translated into action by the citizens like ours.  This paper highlights the human rights awareness among senior secondary school students of Himachal Pradesh.
The Power of Linear Estimators

For a broad class of practically relevant distribution properties, which includes entropy and support size, nearly all of the proposed estimators have an especially simple form. Given a set of independent samples from a discrete distribution, these estimators tally the vector of summary statistics -- the number of domain elements seen once, twice, etc. in the sample -- and output the dot product between these summary statistics, and a fixed vector of coefficients. We term such estimators \emph{linear}. This historical proclivity towards linear estimators is slightly perplexing, since, despite many efforts over nearly 60 years, all proposed such estimators have significantly sub optimal convergence, compared to the bounds shown in [VV11]. Our main result, in some sense vindicating this insistence on linear estimators, is that for any property in this broad class, there exists a near-optimal linear estimator. Additionally, we give a practical and polynomial-time algorithm for constructing such estimators for any given parameters. While this result does not yield explicit bounds on the sample complexities of these estimation tasks, we leverage the insights provided by this result to give explicit constructions of near-optimal linear estimators for three properties: entropy, $L_1$ distance to uniformity, and for pairs of distributions, $L_1$ distance. Our entropy estimator, when given $O(\frac{n}{\eps \log n})$ independent samples from a distribution of support at most $n,$ will estimate the entropy of the distribution to within additive accuracy $\epsilon$, with probability of failure $o(1/poly(n)).$ From the recent lower bounds given in [VV11], this estimator is optimal, to constant factor, both in its dependence on $n$, and its dependence on $\epsilon.$ In particular, the inverse-linear convergence rate of this estimator resolves the main open question of [VV11], which left open the possibility that the error decreased only with the square root of the number of samples. Our distance to uniformity estimator, when given $O(\frac{m}{\eps^2\log m})$ independent samples from any distribution, returns an $\eps$-accurate estimate of the $L_1$ distance to the uniform distribution of support $m$. This is constant-factor optimal, for constant $\epsilon$. Finally, our framework extends naturally to properties of pairs of distributions, including estimating the $L_1$ distance and KL-divergence between pairs of distributions. We give an explicit linear estimator for estimating $L_1$ distance to additive accuracy $\epsilon$ using $O(\frac{n}{\eps^2\log n})$ samples from each distribution, which is constant-factor optimal, for constant $\epsilon$. This is the first sub linear-sample estimator for this fundamental property.
Needle-Free Vaccine Injection

AbstractMillions of people die each year from infectious disease, with a main stumbling block being our limited ability to deliver vaccines to optimal sites in the body. Specifically, effective methods to deliver vaccines into outer skin and mucosal layers – sites with immunological, physical and practical advantages that cannot be targeted via traditional delivery methods – are lacking. This chapter investigates the challenge for physical delivery approaches that are primarily needle-free. We examine the skin’s structural and immunogenic properties in the context of the physical cell targeting requirements of the viable epidermis, and we review selected current physical cell targeting technologies engineered to meet these needs: needle and syringe, diffusion patches, liquid jet injectors, and microneedle arrays/patches. We then focus on biolistic particle delivery: we first analyze engineering these systems to meet demanding clinical needs, we then examine the interaction of biolistic devices with the skin, focusing on the mechanical interactions of ballistic impact and cell death, and finally we discuss the current clinical outcomes of one key application of engineered delivery devices – DNA vaccines.KeywordsBiolisticsDNA vaccinesDrug deliveryGene gunsImmunotherapeuticsLangerhans cellsSkinSkin mechanical propertiesMicroneedlesVaccines
Lithography process simulation studies using coarse-grained polymer models

Lithography processes were modeled on the basis of coarse-grained polymer simulation techniques using OCTA, which is the simulation software for soft materials, and the simulations of these processes were performed to clarify the mechanism of the polymer chain dynamics in lithography processes. In the case of the top-down process, the development and rinse processes were modeled using a dissipative particle dynamics method. From our series of simulations, the line pattern constituted by resist polymers can be simulated as a result. In the rinse process, the reduction of line edge roughness (LER) can be found, and the importance of the rinse process to modify the LER was identified. The bottom-up process, which is called the directed self-assembly (DSA) process, can also be simulated. From our DSA process simulations, the polymer chain dynamics in the defect annihilation process can be analyzed. The lithography process simulations modeled by coarse-grained polymer techniques are reviewed. As a case of top-down process, development and rinse processes were simulated. From these simulations, line edge structure can be obtained to discuss the line edge roughness. As a case of bottom-up process, the directed self-assembly (DSA) process was simulated, and the polymer chain dynamics in the defect annihilation process can be analyzed.
Annotated bibliography on the marine environment of Jervis Bay.

The purpose of this paper is to indicate the limited scope of past scientific research on the marine environment of Jervis bay by listing references to geological, geomorphological, hydrological and marine biologicalwork in this area. The coverage is considered to be comprehensive rather than exhaustive and is dated to December 1986.

Items listed are ordered chronologically in an annotated bibliography, so as the show the spread of research work over the past twenty years. The literature search carried out for the preparation of this paper did not locate any publications specific to either marine biology or coastal and nearshore habitats prior to 1966. Several general references are made to the Bay in all editions of Dakin, from 1952 onwards. Also there are some earlier references to the geology of the area but these are adequately synthesised by Walker (1967) and Taylor (1970).

Literature covered by this annotated bibliography also includes unpublished reports and manuscripts. There has been a wide range of submissions by government departments and agencies and private organisations to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation (HORSCEC) which relate to marine biological matters, including fisheries of the Bay. The presence of this material is noted and the two HORSCEC reports (1975 and 1986) and one submission are included in the bibliography.
MULTI-ANTIGEN VECTORS FOR MELANOMA

The present invention relates to peptides, polypeptides, and nucleic acids and the use of the peptide, polypeptide or nucleic acid in preventing and / or treating cancer. In particular, the invention relates to peptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding such peptides for use in diagnosing, treating, or preventing melanoma.
APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AIR-BORNE CLEANING OF SURFACES

There is provided a system and method of cleaning surfaces of an interior cabin space of a contamination comprising a microbial and viral load. The method includes the steps of sealing the interior cabin space and placing water, and a solid or gel pack, into a container and generating a vortex the container by rotating an impeller. The agitation causes the solid or gel pack to release a gaseous cleaning agent. An air-borne spray exiting from the container spreads throughout the interior cabin space to coat the surfaces to be cleaned within the interior cabin space. The cabin is maintained closed for an effective time period while the coating from the air-borne spray dwells on the surfaces to eliminate or substantially reduce the load of the contamination.
A METHOD FOR PREPARING A MULTI-LAYERED POLYMERIC COMPOSITE AND A MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITE PRODUCED THEREBY

The present invention relates to: a method of preparing a capstock layer that includes a comb copolymer; a method of preparing a multi-layered polymeric composite, one layer of which is a capstock layer; and a capstock layer and a multi-layered composite formed, respectively, thereby.
Developmental outcome in preterm infants <29 weeks gestation with ⩽ Stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP): relationship to severity of ROP

We have determined the influence of the severity of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) on development at 3 years of age in infants <29 weeks gestation from a population-based cohort. Primary analysis of surviving infants born <29 weeks gestational age (GA) from 1998 to 2001 in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory were grouped according to stage of ROP. Infants with periventricular leukomalacia, Grade III or IV intraventricular haemorrhage, hydrocephalus, major congenital abnormalities, Stage 4 or 5 ROP, cerebral palsy or a severe hearing impairment were excluded. Infants with Stage 3 ROP were matched for GA, birthweight and gender to those with no ROP, Stage 1 and Stage 2 ROP. The four groups were then compared for their 3-year-old developmental outcome, using the Griffiths Mental Development Scale. Development was also compared for those infants with Stage 3 ROP who were either treated or not treated with laser therapy. A secondary multivariate regression analysis on developmental outcome was performed with all infants included in the analysis. In neurologically comparable groups and in the multivariate analysis, there was no association between ROP and developmental outcome. There was also no difference in the Griffiths assessment at 3 years between those who were or were not treated for severe ROP. Neither severity of ROP nor treatment for severe ROP were related to developmental outcome at 3 years of age in a large population-based cohort of infants born <29 weeks gestation.
“To Regulate,” Not “To Prohibit”: Limiting the Commerce Power

Today it is taken for granted that Congress’s power “to regulate . . . Commerce among the several States” includes the power to shut interstate markets down. That is why, for example, Congress is understood to have the power to ban the possession and use of marijuana, even though twenty states have expressed contrary preferences, either for the medicinal or recreational use of the drug. This Article argues that as a matter of constitutional history and theory both, this familiar assumption about congressional power is wrong. First, the Article demonstrates that the original understanding, which prevailed for over one hundred years, did not grant Congress the power to ban markets. Congress could pass “helper” statutes to facilitate state choices, and it could even ban particular goods (such as diseased cattle) “in service” of the interstate market; but it could not simply prohibit all commerce in products of which it disapproved. Second, the Article demonstrates that although this understanding changed following the 1903 Supreme Court decision in Champion v. Ames, none of the reasons supporting the change justify Congress possessing the power today. Finally, this Article examines theoretical justifications for congressional power grounded in law and economics and constitutional theory to suggest that the power “to regulate” interstate commerce should not be understood to include the power to prohibit it. The argument has implications for national bans on articles and activities such as interstate gambling, drugs, raw milk products and assault weapons.
PROCESS FOR SOFTENING HYGIENIC PAPER

An on-line process for manufacturing a multi-ply hygienic paper product is provided which involves the steps of supplying at least two separate webs to a processing station, applying to at least one of the surfaces of a web forming an outer ply a softening composition, adjoining the webs by gluing and/or embossing to manufacture a multi-ply hygienic paper product and directly transporting such paper to a cutting and/ or further processing station.
Spark Plasma Sintering Densification Mechanism for Cemented Carbides with Different WC Particle Sizes

The paper is focused on understanding the densification characteristics of WC–Co composite powders by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique, especially the essential mechanisms for the distinct differences of the effects of WC particle size on the densification behavior between the SPS and the conventional sintering technologies. For the particular combination and contacting state between WC and Co after ball milling in which Co forms thin films coating the WC particles, a model that quantitatively describes the densification process of SPS WC–Co powders with different WC particle sizes has been developed. The calculated results show that both the actual temperature in the Co film and the melting temperature of the Co film increase with the increase of the WC particle size. As a result, the formation and growth of the sintering necks due to the rapid melting and solidification of the Co films turn to be weakly influenced by the WC particle size, and hence the SPS densification is almost independent of the WC particle size. The model calculations are consistent with the experimental findings that in the SPS processes the temperatures corresponding to the start of the densification and the peak of the displacement rate, respectively, are nearly the same for the WC–Co powders with different WC particle sizes.
Design principles and field performance of a solar spectral irradiance meter

Abstract A solar spectral irradiance meter (SSIM), designed for measuring the direct normal irradiance (DNI) in six wavelength bands, has been combined with models to determine key atmospheric transmittances and the resulting spectral irradiance distribution of DNI under all sky conditions. The design principles of the SSIM, implementation of a parameterized transmittance model, and field performance comparisons of modeled solar spectra with reference radiometer measurements are presented. Two SSIMs were tested and calibrated at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) against four spectroradiometers and an absolute cavity radiometer. The SSIMs’ DNI was on average within 1% of the DNI values reported by one of NREL’s primary absolute cavity radiometers. An additional SSIM was installed at the SUNLAB Outdoor Test Facility in September 2014, with ongoing collection of environmental and spectral data. The SSIM’s performance in Ottawa was compared against a commercial pyrheliometer and a spectroradiometer over an eight month study. The difference in integrated daily spectral irradiance between the SSIM and the ASD spectroradiometer was found to be less than 1%. The cumulative energy density collected by the SSIM over this duration agreed with that measured by an Eppley model NIP pyrheliometer to within 0.5%. No degradation was observed.