SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
AN ONLINE EVALUATION OF EXPLICIT FEEDBACK MECHANISMS FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

The success of a recommender system is not only determined by smart algorithm design, but also by the quality of user data and user appreciation. User data are collected by the feedback system that acts as the communication link between the recommender and the user. The proper collection of feedback is thus a key component of the recommender system. If designed incorrectly, worthless or too little feedback may be collected, leading to low-quality recommendations. There is however little knowledge on the influence that design of feedback mechanisms has on the willingness for users to give feedback. In this paper we study user behavior towards four different explicit feedback mechanisms that are most commonly used in online systems, 5-star rating (static and dynamic) and thumbs up/down (static and dynamic). We integrated these systems into a popular (10,000 visitors a day) cultural events website and monitored the interaction of users. In 6 months over 8000 ratings were collected and analyzed. Current results show that the distinct feedback systems resulted in different user interaction patterns. Finding the right technique to encourage user interaction may be one of the next big challenges recommender systems have to face.
DEVELOPMENT OF KINETIC MODEL FOR ADSORPTION OF CAROTENOIDS ON ACTIVATED CLAY IN THE BLEACHING OF PALM OIL

In this work the mechanism of adsorption for the bl eaching of palm oil using activated clay as adsorbe nt was studied. Tetraoxosulphate (VI) acid was used to activate a l ocal (Inyi) clay obtained from Oji River province in Enugu State. The sample of palm oil used in the study was obtained from Akpugo in the same state and was bleached with the activa ted clay. The oil was characterized before and after bleaching and the re sults used in the study. It was observed that acid addition increases the bleaching efficiency of activated clay. The mechanism of pal m oil bleaching with the activated clay was develop ed from the results obtained. The stability of the oil was measured in terms of F ree Fatty Acid (FFA) 0.12%, Peroxide Value (PV) 3.0 m.eq/kg, Anisidine Value(AV) 4.55 m.eq/kg, Iodine Value (IV) 48, Iron (Fe) 4.3 x 10 3 (Ppm), and Phosphorous content 0.015 (Ppm), all of which were compared with those of the American Oil Chemist Society (AOC S) standard values.
Online Public Health Education for Low and Middle-Income Countries: Factors Influencing Successful Student Outcomes

Background: Affordable, online public health education could assist health and development in low and middle-income countries. The Peoples-uni (www.Peoples-uni.org ) aims to provide this through a fully accredited, low cost, online Masters in Public Health. Although literature exists relating to online learners in general, we lack research regarding the characteristics of successful learners in this new student group. This study assessed which readily available information on learners could predict success in course modules.&#x0D; &#x0D; Methods: A descriptive survey method was used to assess correlations between pass rates with studentsâ?? personal characteristics (gender, nationality etc) and indicators of course engagement (discussion contributions, online profile etc). We sampled all students starting modules between September 2009 and March 2010 (n=218).&#x0D; &#x0D; Results: All indicators of engagement correlated strongly with pass rates, particularly online presence (photo/personal information on profile). Paying for modules correlated with higher pass rates than not. Interestingly, waiving fees correlated with lower pass rates than those who had not paid. Personal characteristics were not related to pass rates. &#x0D; &#x0D; Conclusion: Engagement is important for success, and indicators of which can predict pass rates, the personal characteristics investigated were not related to success. Further research is required to understand the nature of associations this study highlights.
PLC Performance Analysis Over Rayleigh Fading Channel Under Nakagami- <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="TeX">$m$</tex-math></inline-formula> Additive Noise

Power line communication (PLC) utilizes power lines for transmission of power as well as data transmission. It is an emerging field of communication for the home area network of smart grid. The performance of a PLC system is significantly affected by the additive and multiplicative power line noises; the additive noises are of two types, namely background noise and impulsive noise. Whereas, the multiplicative PLC noise leads to fading in the received signal strength. This paper provides the performance analysis of a PLC system over Rayleigh fading channel under Nakagami- $m$ distributed additive background noise assuming binary phase shift keying modulation scheme. The probability density function of the decision variable is derived. We obtain a numerically computable expression of the analytical average bit error rate of the considered system. The closed-form expression of the outage probability of the PLC system is also computed. Simulation results closely verify the validity of the derived analytical expressions.
An Individulized Prison Network Public Opinion Algorithm Based on Belief Network

With the development of Internet and the sharp increase of the number of netizens, Network is becoming an important public platform for the public to express the opinion, Network public opinion is becoming the improtant base of decision making to the government and companies.Managing the public opinion information and timely discovering hot spots is essential to correctly guiding the public opinion trends, so the Network Public Opinion has become a hot point in this years.Because of the different demand, it is impossible for all the users to acquire the satisfied result.This paper describes an individulized prison Network Public Opinion algorithm based on information network to solve this problem expecially for the judicial authority.
Correction: Prognostic Factors of Malignant Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma: A Combined SEER and TCGA Databases Review

Pheochromocytoma (PCC) and paraganglioma (PGL) are rare malignancies while pathogenesis is strongly influenced by genetics. The prognostic factors of these patients remain poorly defined. We aim to study the epidemiology and survival pattern by analyzing the combination of SEER and Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Primary outcome was overall survival (OS) and disease specific survival (DSS). Between 1973 and 2013, a total of 1014 patients with PGL or PCC were analyzed. Younger age and female were associated with better outcomes. The incidence of second primary malignancy in PGL/PCC patients was about 14.6%. This population had a significant longer DSS. Other factors, including surgical resection and origin from of aortic/carotid bodies, conferred remarkable survival advantage. In contrast, distant spread portended worse prognosis. Laterality, race, positive serum catecholamine marker did not demonstrate a significant association with OS and DSS. By analyzing TCGA database with total 184 patients were identified. Eighty out of 184 patients (43.5%) had at least one pathogenic mutation. Female had higher ratio of pathogenic mutations than male (58.7% vs. 41.3%) and NF1 mutation was associated with elderly population. SHDB mutation had higher percentage in male. Twenty-nine patients (15.8%) had 2 or more primary. ATRX was the most common oncogenic mutations in metastatic cohort. In conclusion, younger age, female sex, origin from aortic/carotid bodies, complete surgical resection, regional disease, as well as concomitant second primary malignancies were associated with better prognosis. The prognostic value of radiotherapy and oncogenomics warrants further investigation.
The effect of Au cocatalyst loaded on La-doped NaTaO3 on photocatalytic water splitting and O2 photoreduction

Abstract Photocatalytic water splitting over La-doped NaTaO 3 (NaTaO 3 :La) was improved by loading with Au cocatalyst which works as H 2 evolution sites. NaTaO 3 :La loaded with Au by an impregnation method showed higher and more steady activity for water splitting than that by a photodeposition method. This difference in the activity for water splitting was related to the O 2 photoreduction on the loaded Au cocatalyst, which is one of the backward reactions of water splitting. The impregnated spherical Au cocatalyst suppressed the O 2 photoreduction by photogenerated electrons more efficiently than the photodeposited hemispherical Au cocatalyst, because the perimeter of Au/NaTaO 3 :La interface which produces activated O 2 molecules was smaller in the impregnated Au than the photodeposited Au.
INTEGRATED POWER AND CONTROL SYSTEM

An integrated downhole power and well control system for engagement with a single pressurized hydraulic control line (32). Hydraulic fluid pressure is provided to a hydraulic diverter or switch valve device (30) which selectively distributes hydraulic pressurized fluid to a well tool actuator (15) for actuating a well tool element (10).
Duality for logic on words

Duality For Logic on Words (DFLOW)

The mathematical theory of Stone duality underlies a deep connection between syntax and semantics in logic and theoretical computer science, and allows for powerful applications in both of these research fields. The aim of this project is to apply the topological methods provided by Stone duality to the study of the expressive power of logic in describing formal languages of both finite and infinite words. 

During the outgoing phase of the project, at the Mathematics Department at the City College of the City University of New York, the applicant will perform an in-depth study of profinite semigroups and their applications in formal language theory, through the lens of Stone duality and finite model theory. In particular, recent insights from duality theory will be applied to obtain tractable combinatorial descriptions of the free profinite objects for logic fragments of varying expressive power. 
During the return phase to Europe, to the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, the applicability of duality theory will be extended to streams and data words. To this end, the knowledge and skills obtained during the outgoing phase will be combined with the existing local expertise on logic and coalgebra in Amsterdam.

During both phases, the hands-on research training will be complemented by training activities to further enhance the applicant's skills in networking, collaboration, teaching, communication and management.

The project, taking place at the interface of mathematics and computer science, has the potential to make a significant impact in three different ways: by advancing the research on Stone duality and formal language theory, by facilitating a new collaboration between the European host institute and a world-leading mathematics department in the USA, and by establishing the applicant's position as a leading young researcher in his field.
Cryopreservation of anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria

Preservation and storage of microbial stock cultures is desirable since the risk of contamination or loss of living cultures is immanent while over long periods mutations accumulate. Generally, it is rather difficult to preserve photosynthetic bacteria due to their sensitive photosynthetic membranes. Phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria face an additional challenge; since they are exposed to light and Fe(II) during growth, they have to cope with radicals from Fenton reactions of Fe(II)-species, light and water. Therefore, phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing strains are thought to be especially susceptible to genetic modifications. Here, we provide a simple and fast protocol using glycerol as cryo-protectant to cryopreserve three strains of anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria from different taxa: alpha-proteobacteria, gamma-proteobacteria and chloroflexi. All three strains investigated could be revived after 17 months at -72 degrees C. This suggests that a long-term storage of phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing strains is possible.
Subsidy for maintaining current operations and ensuring financial liquidity of the company City of Ciasto Hanna Spaczyńska

The project assumes a grant for the City of Ciasto Hanna Spaczyńska company, which suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic, turnover has fallen significantly. The grant will ensure the maintenance of the company’s activities for a period of 3 calendar months
Using a symptom diary to investigate work-related urticaria

The strategy of keeping a diary may not be considered by many treating clinicians, but this approach has been recommended for occupational asthma and proved useful in this case of chronic urticaria associated with work.To report a case of a health care worker who had significant allergic reactions that were found to be associated with exposure to test allergens while working in an asthma clinic.The patient, a nurse working in a paediatric asthma clinic, was known to be allergic to common allergens that were used to test patients in the clinic. She developed reactions including swelling of the eyelids and urticarial reactions on the forehead, torso and upper and lower limbs on different occasions. A symptom diary was used to collect information on the reactions and the activity performed at the time they occurred.She recorded symptoms that were mainly urticarial, with additional rhinitis or wheeze on occasion, on 20 (74%) working days and only 5 (28%) non-work days, indicating a significant association (P < 0.01) between her symptoms and working days.Medical management had not controlled her symptoms, which improved on removal from the work activity and was confirmed by further diary recording.
Prácticas y significados del uso del condón en varones adolescentes de dos contextos de México

Resumen  El objetivo de este articulo fue conocer las practicas y profundizar en los significados que varones adolescentes en dos contextos de Mexico, dan al uso del condon en sus relaciones sexuales. Los datos provienen de una investigacion cualitativa que toma como base la linea teorica del Construccionismo Social. La investigacion se realizo en el area metropolitana de Monterrey y en un municipio del estado de Guerrero. La poblacion de estudio fueron varones menores de 19 anos que en el momento de la entrevista ya se habian iniciado sexualmente. Para la recoleccion de informacion se realizaron dos entrevistas grupales y 28 entrevistas a profundidad. El analisis de la informacion fue inductivo a partir de la teoria fundamentada, utilizando el software Nvivo 10. Los resultados permiten comprender que a partir del contexto a que se refiera, las practicas y los significados en el uso del condon van a variar, mucho de ello dependera de la imagen y percepcion del riesgo que el varon se construye de la mujer, lo que marca el tipo de encuentro y el uso del condon en sus relaciones sexuales. Se puede concluir que el modelo hegemonico de masculinidad y las relaciones desiguales de genero, permiten que los adolescentes de los contextos estudiados construyan socialmente connotaciones y significados del uso de condon, las cuales, tienen consecuencias en su vida actual y futura.  Abstract The aim of this paper was to know the practices and to deepen into the meanings that teen males, in two context of Mexico, give to the condom use in their sexual relations. The information comes from a qualitative research that takes as a base the theoretical line of the Social Constructionism. The research was made in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey and in a Guerrero’s Municipality. The study populations were males under the age of 19, In the moment of the interview they had already begun their sexual life. For the compilation of information two group interviews and 28 in-depth interviews were made. The analysis of the information was inductive from the Grounded Theory using the software Nvivo10. The results allow understanding that from the context, to which it refers, the practices and meanings in the condom use will vary. Much of it will depend especially the risk’s image and perception the male makes of the women, this marks the type of meeting and the condom use in his sexual relations. It can be concluded that the hegemonic model of masculinity and the unequal relations of genre allow the teenagers of the studied contexts to socially construct connotations and meanings of the condom use which have consequences in their current and future life.
Improvements in or relating to washing machines

648,421. Washing and drying machines. WATSON, F. (Aktiebolaget Elektrolux.). April 29, 1948, No. 11742. [Class 138 (ii)] In a combined washing and drying machine having a single driving motor 35 for actuating a washing member producing movement of the clothes within a washing container 12 and for driving a centrifuging drum 14, the motor 35 is arranged below the drum 14 with its shaft substantially in line with the axis of rotation of the drum, the upper end of the motor shaft being used to drive the drum and the lower end to actuate the washing member through transmission members. The washing member may be an oscillating agitator (not shown) mounted between'a bearing 33 and a driving shaft 34, the 'shaft 34 being driven by the motor through a belt and pulleys 38, 39, a shaft 40 enclosed in a pipe 42, and a gear device 41. The centrifugal drum 14 is driven by the motor 35 through a slidable coupling 36, the upper end of the drum carrying a disc 48 journalled in a bearing 47. This bearing is carried by a cover 45 mounted by hinges 46 on an upper plate 26 of the machine. The washing container may be heated by a gas burner 16 (as shown) or by an electric heating element mounted below a perforated plate 23 in the receptacle. The motor 35 is resiliently mounted on a ring 30 secured to the centrifuge housing 15 by means of vibration damping pads 37 and is readily removable together with one part of the friction coupling 36. A control plate (not shown) is mounted in the front of the machine and has control members for coupling the washing member or the drum 14 with the driving motor 35.
Hydrodynamic Response of a Combined Wind–Wave Marine Energy Structure

Due to the energy crisis and greenhouse effect, offshore renewable energy is attracting increasing attention worldwide. Various offshore renewable energy systems, such as floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), and wave energy converters (WECs), have been proposed and developed so far. To increase power output and reduce related costs, a combined marine energy structure using FOWT and WEC technologies has been designed, analyzed and presented in the present paper. The energy structure combines a 5-MW braceless semisubmersible FOWT and a heave-type WEC which is installed on the central column of the semisubmersible. Wave power is absorbed by a power take-off (PTO) system through the relative heave motion between the central column of the FOWT and the WEC. A numerical model has been developed and is used to determine rational size and draft of the combined structure. The effects of different PTO system parameters on the hydrodynamic performance and wave energy production of the WEC under typical wave conditions are investigated and a preliminary best value for the PTO’s damping coefficient is obtained. Additionally, the effects of viscous modeling used during the analysis and the hydrodynamic coupling on the response of the combined structure are studied.
Blingual literacy and input knowledge outcomes: tracing heritage language bilingual development

Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge Outcomes: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development
This project significantly adds to a burgeoning—roughly 2 and half decades long—sub-field of bilingualism studies, namely Heritage Language Bilingualism (HLB). We propose a novel approach that combines offline and online methods and focuses on a severely understudied, yet crucially important age group of heritage speaker (HS) bilinguals in an effort to fill crucial gaps in the available literature. We will examine the role and weight of key variables that (potentially) contribute to ubiquitous differences between these populations and matched monolingual counterparts. To this end, we capitalize on the relatively unique opportunity Turkish provides as a heritage language acquired in its diaspora in the EU (the snapshot will be Norway and Germany).  Having access to balanced populations in both Norway and Germany and their respective multiple subgroups that differ in key variables (e.g. access or not to literacy education in Turkish) we will for the first time have a fairer chance to converge on an understanding of how and why HLB presents so differently from monolingualism and even other cases of bilingualism. Because HLB, deals with the development and maintenance of minority languages spoken in the home and small ethnic communities in a larger national context, it fits very well with the imperatives of the EU and its commitment to fostering cross-cultural integration while guaranteeing the rights of all to maintain their heritage languages and cultures. Understanding how to best fulfill language related EU imperatives and commitments is inherently related to understanding the cognitive, social and linguistic sciences behind HLB.
Compostable capsule for instant coffee delivery based on an innovative chemical functionalization of biobased plastics

Compsule is a compostable capsule designed for instant espresso coffee machines such as ones produced by Lavazza and Nespresso, that operates at a high temperature and pressure. Compsule aims to contribute to reduce the amount of recyclable material being sent to landfills as a result of the increased use of capsuled coffee. In Italy alone over 1 billion plastic coffee capsules are consumed annually. Albeit being made of 100% recyclable materials, coffee capsules are barely recycled due to the time and effort required in cleaning and sorting the capsule’s components after use. Point Plastics have developed an innovative chemical additive that when mixed with bioplastics increases their thermal stability, making them compatible for extreme operational applications such as espresso coffee extraction. This process technology has a great impact on biobased polymer producers enabling a wider market share in fields impossible to target today. Compsules will be able to be disposed of with other food and green waste that is commonly collected by municipalities within the European Union, thus reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfills by hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year. For coffee producers the capsules will reduce their carbon footprint and respond to the demand of an increasingly environmentally conscious consumer base. For the capsule printing manufacturers, the Compsule does not impose any new machinery on their current production line as the Compsules can be manufactured similarly to the polymers currently used. For capsuled coffee drinkers the Compsules are both airtight and designed to fit user’s current machines, allowing them to be easily adopted.
The Compsules have been developed and validated in an operational environment (TRL 8) and now require funding to outline a sound business development and industrial implementation and validation plan.
Application of Panchakarma to Prevent Disease

Ayurveda is a natural health care system that aims to achieve good health and well-being through a comprehensive approach that addresses mind, body, behavior and environment. The good health is achieved through practicing preventive and personalized medicine. The busy schedule in the lifestyle of this era leads to the total imbalance of doshas in our body. Hence it is important to have a systematic approach to balance the doshas according to seasonal changes. The person-centered theme of Ayurveda mainly concerns maintenance of an abiding health, preventing and treating diseases by doing Panchakarma in Swastha, roga anusaara Panchakarma and Panchakarma for rasayanaadi asadhaarana guna prapthi.