SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Subvenção para capital de exploração da AWOS Łukasz Domagała

O projeto diz respeito ao apoio do empresário no fornecimento de liquidez financeira e ao apoio às atividades atuais devido às dificuldades financeiras sentidas pelo empresário em resultado do surto de COVID-19. Assistência financeira prestada ao abrigo do programa n.º SA.57015 (2020/N)
Online Data Collection System of Crop Infrared Canopy Temperature for Irrigation Control

The temperature difference between air and crop canopy,CATD,is a very economical and convenient index for irrigation decision-making.A new data collection system is presented for crop infrared canopy temperature to make irrigation decisions,which can avoid the expensive labor cost and the disadvantage of interrupted data serial by manual work..The main characteristics of the system are flexible and safe to run and operate.The results of the field experiments on winter wheat,indicate that the system is effective and veracious for application.Meanwhile,more issues and points will be explored and research will be done on the CATD.The next step of the CATD is mentioned along with the development direction and research subjects in field application.
Neutral zone approach to denture fabrication for a severe mandibular ridge resorption patient: Systematic review and modern technique

Abstract Conventional complete denture therapy for patients with severe residual ridge resorption is challenging. The dental implant therapy may be a treatment option for improving the denture support, retention, and stability. However, the neutral zone technique is also considered to be an important alternative approach to patients complaining of unstable dentures, particularly when implant therapy is not feasible. This technique is by no means new, but is not widely practiced due to lack of experience of dentists. The aim of this article is to describe historical perspectives on the neutral zone concept. In addition, a modified modern neutral zone technique is presented to reconstruct a lower complete denture for a patient with severe ridge resorption. The new definitive complete denture successfully improves stability, comfort, and function for the patient with severe mandibular ridge resorption.
Sensitivity of phytoplankton distributions to vertical mixing along a North Atlantic transect

Abstract. Using in situ data of upper ocean vertical mixing along a transect in the North Atlantic and a one-dimensional phytoplankton growth model, we study the sensitivity of the surface phytoplankton concentration to vertical mixing distributions. The study is divided into two parts. In the first part, the model is calibrated to the observations. The optical model parameters are determined from measurements of the light attenuation. The biological parameters are calibrated to three different reference stations with observed vertical profiles of the chlorophyll a (Chl a) concentration and the nutrient concentration. In the second part, the sensitivity of the three model calibrations to the vertical mixing is studied. Therefore measured vertical mixing profiles are applied to the model. These mixing profiles are based on the measurements along the transect and are treated as a set of possible mixing situations of the North Atlantic. Results show that shifts in vertical mixing are able to induce a transition from an upper chlorophyll maximum to a deep one and vice versa. Furthermore, a clear correlation between the surface phytoplankton concentration and the mixing induced nutrient flux is found for nutrient-limited cases. This may open up the possibility to extract characteristics of vertical mixing from satellite ocean colour data using data-assimilation methods.
Permafrost long-term monitoring network

Permafrost is highly sensitive to climatic changes. Permafrost degradation and related natural hazards affect traffic routes, tourism areas, settlements and infrastructures. The main problem is a lacking strategy for the consideration of these newly observed specific impacts of climate change in risk prevention and territorial development. With the joint development of a common strategy for dealing with permafrost and related hazards under changing climatic conditions and the creation of an Alpine-wide monitoring network the project aims at preventing natural hazards, at contributing to sustainable territorial development and at the implementation of good governance practices. Outputs are an Alpine-wide permafrost monitoring network, a permafrost map for the entire Alpine Space and guidelines for the consideration of permafrost in risk and water resources management. The project arises the awareness of decision-makers and responsible authorities to this topic and provides Alpine-wide decision bases and strategies.
Strengthening of marketing activities of KELLNER CZ s.r.o. on the Austrian market

The project aims to support export activities of KELLNER CZ s.r.o. on the Austrian and German markets thanks to participation in 6 international pool technology fairs in Tulln, Austria (3x Pool&Amp;Garden, 3x Internationalle Gardenbaumesse). In particular, the company expects new customers to be acquired from the participation. The main benefit of the project will be increased sales of the company in connection with the acquisition of new customers and the consolidation of the company’s position on the Austrian and German markets. a.
Children and transnational popular print, 1700-1900

Both popular and children’s literature have increasingly been understood as important elements of the pre-modern history of print. Exciting research is being undertaken in both fields. Yet systematic research on the crossover between these two forms of cultural production has not been undertaken. The extent, diversity and significance of children’s popular print remains largely unknown.
CaTPoP will be the first project to methodically examine European children’s popular print, 1700-1900. An ambitious programme of fieldwork will provide the first overview of cheap, ephemeral print that was either produced specifically for children and young people, or that was used predominantly by them. The aim is to establish the extent to which popular print reached young people, and to give a full account of the different forms that were produced with children as a target audience. These will include educational books (eg. ABCs, almanacs, catechisms...), and more imaginative, and attractively illustrated works, including penny prints, ballads, chapbooks and romances. Despite linguistic, cultural and confessional differences, it is clear that some formats and titles appeared across Europe, and CaTPoP will take a transnational approach, tracing geographical (and temporal) continuities, and fractures. The aim is to assess whether a shared print culture existed for children across Europe. 
CaTPoP will not only advance scholarly understandings (print history; children’s literature), but will support the curation of cultural heritage. Secondments in different countries and sectors (a museum, a library, a university) will raise awareness and expertise among professionals, and support the communication of findings to a general audience, both online and through events and a touring exhibition. CaTPoP will enhance the principal researcher’s skills, as well as the host venues’ capabilities. It aims to recover a significant part of print culture that has been for too long overlooked.
Increased erythrocyte lead levels correlate with decreased hemoglobin levels in the Korean general population: analysis of 2008–2010 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data

We present data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2008-2010 on the association between blood lead and hemoglobin levels in a representative sample of the adult South Korean population.The analysis was restricted to participants ≥20 years of age who completed the health examination survey, including blood lead measurements (n = 5,951). Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed to estimate adjusted mean differences in hemoglobin level associated with doubling of whole blood and erythrocyte lead or quartiles of the metal after covariate adjustment. Odds ratios (ORs) for having borderline anemia or clinical anemia were calculated for log-transformed whole blood and erythrocyte lead or quartiles of the metal after covariate adjustment.A twofold increase in whole blood lead or erythrocyte lead was associated with a 0.285 g/dL increase or 0.088 g/dL decrease in hemoglobin level, respectively. There was a 0.416 g/dL increase or 0.143 g/dL decrease in hemoglobin, respectively, in the highest, compared with the lowest tertile of whole blood lead and erythrocyte lead, respectively. Based on ORs, doubling of whole blood lead or erythrocyte lead resulted in a 36.3 % decrease or 36.2 % increase, respectively, in the risk of borderline anemia.The association of whole blood lead versus erythrocyte lead with hemoglobin level was opposite. In the case of anemia, which is frequently caused by iron deficiency, the effect on the whole blood lead concentration may be very significant, leading to a considerable underestimation of the person's lead status. Therefore, hematocrit-adjusted blood lead level (i.e., erythrocyte lead) should be applied to the general population. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that erythrocyte lead levels showed a significant inverse relationship with hemoglobin level at lead levels <10 μg/dL in the general Korean population. In conclusion, increased erythrocyte lead levels may be associated with mildly decreased hemoglobin levels, after adjusting for covariates, in a representative sample of the adult Korean population.
Coexistence of AmpC and Extended-Spectrum β-lactamases in Metallo-β-Lactamase Producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Burn Isolates in Tehran

Background: Multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes serious complications in burn patients. One of the most important mechanisms of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics is hydrolysis of antibiotics by various β-lactamases. In recent years, Carbapenems have been widely used for treatment of P. aeruginosa infections. However, the organisms have become resistant to Carbapenems mostly by producing metallo β-lactamases.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine antibiotic susceptibility, production of extended spectrum and AmpC β-lactamases in metallo β-lactamase producing P. aeruginosa burn isolates.
Materials and Methods: Antibiotic susceptibility of 135 P. aeruginosa burn isolates was determined by disc diffusion. Metallo β-lactamase production was screened by the double disc synergy test. Metallo β-lactamase producing bacteria were then tested for extended spectrum β-lactamase production by the combined disc diffusion method. AmpC production was carried out using AmpC disc test.
Results: There was 99% resistance to Carbenicillin, and Ticarcillin, 98% to Cotrimoxazole, 96% to Ciprofloxacin, and Aztreonam, 95% to Imipenem, and Meropenem, 94% to Pperacillin, 93% to Tobramycin, 92% to Cefepime, 90% to Amikacin, 89% to Ceftazidime, and 87% to Piperacillin-tazobactam. Among the 128 Imipenem resistant isolates, 32 (25%) were capable of producing metallo β-lactamases of which, 4 (12.5%) produced extended spectrum and 26 (81%) produced AmpC β-lactamases. Four isolates (12.5%) produced all 3 types.
Conclusions: This study showed that multiple β-lactamases can be produced in burn isolates. This suggests that use of Cephalosporins and Carbapenems should be restricted in burn isolates to minimize the development and spread of these multidrug resistant pathogens.
Photomechanical writing of cell functions

Generating artificial organs and tissues from stem cells would revolutionize regenerative medicine and open the door to controllable, biology-based robotics. These systems require a physical understanding of cells, specifically their dynamic and adaptive responses to external forces. This “mechanotransduction” is already known to control important cellular functions, and even stem cell differentiation. With the project proposed here, I plan to bring our quantitative understanding of force-controlled cell functions to a new level by a challenging and novel photomechanical cell stimulation approach. It will combine new materials containing photoswitchable molecules with a complex optical system employing intense laser light pulses. By pulsing the laser, we can apply controllable force stimuli on cells through a conformational change of the photoswitchable molecules. I hypothesize that cell functions, such as adhesion, migration and differentiation, have a huge systematic dependency on frequency, duration, history, and intensity of the force stimuli. Importantly, the method I propose applies forces to cells solely via light and does not require genetic modifications. Using this novel strategy for photomechanical stimulation of cellular proteins, we will be able to collect previously unobtainable physical information within cells on multiple size scales, from the single molecule to tissue level. Using the laser like a pen, we will be able for the first time to write cell functions in 3D, imitating the growth of the cellular scaffolds in living creatures: a completely new means of photomechanically controlling multicellular structures. Ultimately, the tools and materials we study in this interdisciplinary project will allow for the writing of multicellular structures in vitro and in vivo by force-induced mechanotransduction in stem cells. It will lead to a paradigm-shift in many fields, from biophysics to regenerative medicine, synthetic biology and biohybrid robotics.
Image enhancement & page standardisation solution for error-free printing and 35% ink saving

As Pico Technology & Solutions we are a Value-Added Distributor based in Reggio Emilia distributing technology, software and IT solutions since 1987. Amongst our clients are Apple Premium Resellers, Corporate Resellers, Value Added Resellers and Systems Integrators. We have developed a solution (ColorBOX) under the Publishing, Prepress and printing business unit. We are focussing on the prepress colour management segment of the printing industry set to grow from €71.7B in 2017 to €131.4B in 2025. ColorBOX is an all-in-one solution that automatically optimizes the printing properties of PDF and image files in the printing workflow. It also enhances the images according to International Color Consortium (ICC) standards and colour profiles for typical prepress workflow. Target user include digital printers, commercial printers, WIDE Format Digital Printers, newspapers as well as editorial companies. Our solution offers the following benefits:  * Reduction in raw material needs [35% ink savings, 0% printing error]  * 90% Reduction in disposal costs  * Reduction in operational costs [50% faster printing time, 10% reduction personnel cost, 30min starting time]  * Easier compliance to industry standards and regulations [ICC optimized image colour profile] Having invested €0.5M to produce a technically viable prototype, we are progressing our development to a commercial version. We will undertake a Phase 1 project to finalise functionality and specifications for the dashboard, the specific end-user demographics as well as search for development and commercial partners for technical and commercial success. In addition to developing a detailed Intellectual Property strategy and dissemination plan, we will also outline the activities and timelines we will adhere in the Phase 2 project towards a 2019 market launch. We anticipate that ColorBOX will yield a turnover of €17.2M and cumulative profit of €7.5M by the 5th year on the market.
The Planning of Guaranteed Targeted Display Advertising

As targeted advertising becomes prevalent in a wide variety of media vehicles, planning models become increasingly important to ad networks that need to match ads to appropriate audience segments, provide a high quality of service (meet advertisers' goals), and ensure that ad serving opportunities are not wasted. We define Guaranteed Targeted Display Advertising (GTDA) as a class of media vehicles that include webpage banner ads, video games, electronic outdoor billboards, and the next generation of digital TV, and formulate the GTDA planning problem as a transportation problem with quadratic objective. By modeling audience uncertainty, forecast errors, and the ad server's execution of the plan, we derive sufficient conditions that state when our quadratic objective is a good surrogate for several ad delivery performance metrics. Moreover, our quadratic objective allows us to construct duality-based bounds for evaluating aggregations of the audience space, leading to two efficient algorithms for solving large problems: the first intelligently refines the audience space into successively smaller blocks, and the second uses scaling to find a feasible solution given a fixed audience space partition. Near-optimal schedules can often be produced despite significant aggregation.
Growth, nutritional indices and digestive enzymes of Hyposidra infixaria Walker (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) on artificial and natural (tea) diets

Abstract In Darjeeling Terai-Dooars, looper stage of Hyposidra infixaria is often causing heavy damage to tea crop as key pest. Therefore for conducting experiment related to its control, rearing on artificial diet becomes an imperative. H. infixaria showed better survival on modified artificial diet of its congener H. talaca than on tea-leaves used as natural diet. Shorter life-cycle, superior developmental traits, higher fecundity and better food utilization capability indicated suitability of the artificial diet. Activity of midgut amylase, protease and lipase of loopers provided suitable hint for formulating balanced artificial diet that supported its normal growth and development. This first attempt of rearing of the pest species (H. infixaria) through three consecutive generations on artificial diet could be useful in mass production of disease-free specimen for the purpose of research and development activity related to tea plant protection and industrial-level production of bioagents.
Processing and control of novel nanomaterials in packaging, automotive and solar panel processing lines

Nanocomposites are promising for many sectors, as they can make polymers stronger, less water and gas permeable, tune surface properties, add functionalities such as antimicrobial effects. In spite of intensive research activities, significant efforts are still needed to deploy the full potential of nanotechnology in the industry. The main challenge is still obtaining a proper nanostructuring of the nanoparticles, especially when transferring it to industrial scale, further improvements are clearly needed in terms of processing and control.

The OptiNanoPro project will develop different approaches for the introduction of nanotechnology into packaging, automotive and photovoltaic materials production lines. In particular, the project will focus on the development and industrial integration of tailored online dispersion and monitoring systems to ensure a constant quality of delivered materials. In terms of improved functionalities, nanotechnology can provide packaging with improved barrier properties as well as repellent properties resulting in easy-to-empty features that will on the one hand reduce wastes at consumer level and, on the other hand, improve their acceptability by recyclers. Likewise, solar panels can be self-cleaning to increase their effectiveness and extend the period between their maintenance and their lifetime by filtering UV light leading to material weathering. In the automotive sector, lightweight parts can be obtained for greater fuel efficiency.

To this end, a group of end-user industries from Europe covering the supply and value chain of the 3 target sectors and using a range of converting processes such as coating and lamination, compounding, injection/co-injection and electrospray nanodeposition, supported by selected RTDs and number of technological SMEs, will work together on integrating new nanotechnologies in existing production lines, while also taking into account nanosafety, environmental, productivity and cost-effectiveness issues.
Simulation of turbulence and roughness in additive manufactured parts

Additive manufacturing (AM) process offers tremendous gains over conventional subtractive manufacturing in heat exchanger design, key issue of thermal engine efficiency.  The STREAM project aims at designing novel modeling strategies for the performance prediction of additive-manufactured heat exchangers. The consortium consists in two laboratories CNRS-CORIA and CNRS-LEGI, which have a long experience in high-fidelity multi-physics turbulent flow modeling and TEMISTh, a SME which develops customized solutions for heat exchangers. From the fluid dynamics point of view, AM often introduces important wall roughness, which depends strongly on the manufacturing process itself, and which impacts heat transfer and pressure loss across the device. It is therefore mandatory to design Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with a sufficient level of accuracy to predict the performances of heat exchangers. RANS (Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes) and LES (Large-Eddy Simulation) are two complementary turbulence modeling approaches that are good candidates for such challenge. In these approaches, wall modeling often relies on statistical analysis, leading to law-of-the-wall models that are widely used in the prediction of internal flows. However, these models need to be extended and validated for wall roughness generated by additive manufacturing. To this aim, STREAM proposes to build a large database of high-fidelity roughness-resolving Large-Eddy Simulations that will be analyzed to derive well-parametrized statistical wall models. An original wall model parametrization will be used that has already been successfully adapted to heat transfers on a turbine blade. The resulting statistical model, usable in both roughness-modeled RANS and LES approaches, will be extensively validated a priori by comparison with the high-fidelity database and a posteriori on classical heat exchanger applications: Fuel-Cooled Oil Cooler, Air-cooled Oil cooler, Surface Air-cooled Oil cooler.
The Migration of Coalbed Methane under Mining Pressure and Air Injection: A Case Study in China

Gas outburst has always affected the safety of coal mining. To eliminate this risk by high-efficiency extraction of coalbed methane (CBM) in 4102 working face of number 3 coal seam in Hebi Number 3 coal mine, a model of CBM extraction in working face was established which was considering the mining impact of adjacent 4101 working face. In this model, the coupling relationships between stress, desorption, and migration of methane were analyzed. Moreover, we also studied the changes of methane pressure, plastic failure scope, and permeability of coal during the mining and then verified the results with the field data. And on this basis, a stimulation solution for methane extraction by injecting air into coal seam was presented, and the extraction effect was simulated. The simulation results show that the injection of air decreases the effective stress of coal which increases the permeability of coal and promotes the methane migration within the coal seam fractures. Besides, affected by the velocity of gas migration, the pressure drop between fractures and matrix will reduce with time while air injection can provide extra power for gas migration in fractures which causes the desorption and diffusion of methane in the matrix. So this stimulation solution can enhance the efficiency of gas extraction of coal seam and prevent gas outburst of the working face.