SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Explaining the winds of cool giant and supergiant stars with global 3d models

Without stellar winds, life as we know it would not exist. Critical elements like carbon are produced inside luminous cool giant stars, transported to the surface by turbulent gas flows, and ejected into interstellar space by massive outflows of gas and dust. Direct evidence for this scenario comes in the form of dust grains produced in the stellar winds, and detected in meteorites by their isotopic composition. Nevertheless, the current understanding of stellar winds is far from sufficient to draw a realistic, quantitative picture of their effects on stellar evolution and their contribution to the enrichment of the interstellar medium with newly-produced elements and dust.

Project EXWINGS aims at a breakthrough in understanding the winds of cool giant and supergiant stars with a novel modeling approach. We will produce global radiation-hydrodynamical ‘star-and-wind-in-a-box’ simulations, based on our recently-developed prototype. For the first time, it will be possible to follow the flow of matter, in full 3D geometry, all the way from the convective, pulsating interior of a cool giant, through its atmosphere and dust-formation zone, into the dust-driven wind region. Extending our unique approach to the warmer, more luminous red supergiants, we will explore alternative driving scenarios for their still enigmatic winds, involving magneto-hydrodynamic waves and radiation pressure on molecules and dust.

The current progress in high-angular-resolution instruments, giving resolved views of the stellar atmospheres where the winds originate, presents an excellent opportunity for testing the new models. An ultimate goal is a predictive theory of mass loss and dust production in evolved stars, based on first physical principles. The results of EXWINGS will have a major impact on understanding stellar and galactic chemical evolution, on tracing the origin of building blocks for terrestrial planets, and on constraining physical properties of supernova progenitors.
Point-to-Volume Registration of Prostate Implants to Ultrasound

Ultrasound-Fluoroscopy fusion is a key step toward intraoperative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy. We propose a method for intensity-based registration of fluoroscopy to ultrasound that obviates the need for seed segmentation required for seed-based registration. We employ image thresholding and morphological and Gaussian filtering to enhance the image intensity distribution of ultrasound volume. Finally, we find the registration parameters by maximizing a point-to-volume similarity metric. We conducted an experiment on a ground truth phantom and achieved registration error of 0.7 +/- 0.2 mm. Our clinical results on 5 patient data sets show excellent visual agreement between the registered seeds and the ultrasound volume with a seed-to-seed registration error of 1.8 +/- 0.9mm. With low registration error, high computational speed and no need for manual seed segmentation, our method is promising for clinical application.
Spontaneous breaking of spacetime symmetries and the inverse Higgs effect

It has been long known that when spacetime symmetry is spontaneously broken, some of the broken generators may not give rise to independent gapless, Nambu-Goldstone excitations. We provide two complementary viewpoints of this phenomenon. On the one hand, we show that the corresponding field degrees of freedom have the same symmetry transformation properties as massive, matter fields. The "inverse Higgs constraints", sometimes employed to eliminate these modes from the theory, are reinterpreted as giving a field parametrization that makes these transformation properties manifest. On the other hand, relations among classical symmetry transformations generally lead to identities for the associated Noether currents that allow saturation of the Ward-Takahashi identities for all the broken symmetries with fewer gapless excitations than suggested by mere counting of broken generators.
Value Added Wood - fostering a dynamic competence area

The operation “VAW- Value Added Wood - Fostering a Dynamic Competence Area” joins eight European wood clusters in developing new ideas and policies to stimulate the sector. Participating clusters have specific competences and strategies but also face a range of common challenges, including low export rates and a high pressure on prices, limited innovation management skills and a low value added in production processes. Overall objective / Objectif général VAW’s overall objective is to improve the competitiveness of the wood manufacturing industry. Partners aim to strengthen the sector through the transfer of high-end technologies and knowledge, benchmarking and exchange of market information. A range of tools to upgrade regional SME-support schemes and the involvement of industry and knowledge providers such as universities and research institutes in the process will enhance the innovation potential. Expected results / Résultats attendus The operation improves the capacities of the participating regions to solve common challenges to regional growth with a particular focus on their wood production sector. It results in more efficient regional strategies for the wood manufacturing industries and provides practical examples of how interregional cooperation can boost regional competitiveness through the collaboration of actors facing similar challenges and opportunities. Activities include the elaboration of competence maps to analyse cluster competencies and product profiles as well as available R&D resources and public sector initiatives. Based on a best practice analysis, partners develop tools and elaborate a “Common Service Package.” Through joint workshops, partners have identified a number of cooperation projects (“Joint Action Lines”), such as providing specific research to companies, joining marketing efforts and exchanging market information, as well as developing common export activities (for instance to China) for high tech wood products.
FOLDING STRUCTURE OF DISPOSABLE PANTS, AND DISPOSABLE PANTS

A folding structure of underpants, which comprises an underpants-shaped exterior sheet and an absorbent main body bonded to the exterior sheet on the side in contact with skin, and provided with an elastic body attached at least to the periphery of a waist opening and to the peripheries of the leg openings. An inseam portion (5) of the disposable underpants is folded back to an underpants middle portion (7) located above the inseam portion. A left side portion (6) and a right side portion (8) are folded back to the underpants middle portion (7), respectively. An underpants upper portion (9) where both left and right side portion are folded over are folded back to a lower portion (10) located below the upper portion.
Fostering Cultural Awareness Through Storytelling at a Multilingual Primary School

This chapter is a contribution to teacher education and teacher development studies in the field of plurilingualism and intercultural development through critical reflection. It presents a teaching proposal based on the use of a multimodal literary text for the promotion of intercultural awareness and translanguaging practices at its heart. The teaching proposal, which was implemented in a primary education class from a multilingual school in Catalonia in 2015, was designed ad hoc on the basis of relevant research works on TLA, plurilingualism, and intercultural awareness, and in the light of the interviews conducted before and after the implementation in the workfield. The study was carried out in an English as an additive language class to look into the teaching opportunities of storytelling and picture books to foster interculturality and effective language learning practices with a communicative approach.
Simulating realistic high-resolution precipitation in the tropics

Changes in rainfall characteristics over the Maritime Continent affect a rapidly increasing population of 275 million people through effects on agriculture, forest fires, floods and vector-borne diseases. However, current atmospheric models fail to represent most features of precipitation in the region, such as its distinctive strong diurnal cycle. Therefore, our knowledge of the physical processes initiating and propagating convective systems that generate precipitation in the Maritime Continent is very limited. In addition, the Maritime Continent is at a centre of interactions across scales, hence global model errors in this region propagate through the entire earth system and affect model estimates in remote regions too. This project is aimed at exploring our ability to simulate realistic precipitation by incorporating explicit convection and fine-scale ocean-atmosphere interactions in regional models. We will quantify the interplay between sea breeze circulation, ocean-atmosphere processes and convective systems to produce precipitation in the Maritime Continent and how it could change in the future. As such, this project will also advance our understanding of sea breeze and convective processes that are of major importance to a breadth of locations globally.
SUstainable Ports in the Adriatic-Ionian Region

Ports are core nodes for multimodal transport in the Adriatic-Ionian basin and strategic key drivers for economic growth: reducing negative environmental impacts is essential for a sustainable development of the area. SUPAIR responds to a major challenge (EUSAIR strategy, pillar 2, topic 1), in that it tackles reduction of emissions from shipping and on-shore port operations with an integrated approach, enhancing port authorities’ capacity to plan and implement low-carbon and multimodal transport and mobility solutions and further empowering the main political, technical, trade stakeholders and partners in related decision-making. _x000D_
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SUPAIR firstly establishes a TRANSNATIONAL NETWORK of port authorities, technical organizations, relevant actors to jointly elaborate the project’s durable and transferable methodology; then develops operational ACTION PLANS complete with technical and feasibility studies in the 7 partner ports; ultimately implements dedicated actions and produces a TRANSNATIONAL STRATEGY for port-based low-carbon transport systems to increase the network, disseminate, enhance and widen scope, methodology and results. The transnational development and implementation (3 EU and 2 IPA countries) of methodology and actions insisting on a broad range of fields, with an innovative territory-based approach, involving port authorities, technical partners, stakeholders and institutional actors guarantee quality, durability and transferability. SUPAIR’s impacts are short-term (7 operational plans developed) and mid- to long-term plans implemented and financed, new actions undertaken following the established methodology by an enhanced and widened network of ports. Benefits for the involved territories embrace enhanced technical capacity for ports, increased empowerment of relevant local organizations and institutions, improved environmental quality and attractiveness, increased investments in low-carbon and environment-friendly port transport and mobility solutions.
MATTE POWDER COATING COMPOSITION

The present invention relates to a matte powder coating composition comprising a powder coating (A) comprising a resin, a curing agent and a colorant, and a powder coating (B) comprising a resin and a curing agent without containing a colorant, wherein the powder coating (B) has a gelation time of 1200 seconds or less, and the difference in the gelation time of the powder coating (B) and the powder coating (A) is 400 seconds or more; a process for preparing the same; and a method for forming a matte coating film using the powder coating composition.
Shape-variable gap covering between control surfaces and adjacent structural components on aircrafts

A transition piece, which can be mounted in a recess, and which can form a continuous surface from a structural component of an airplane to a control surface, which is connected to the structural component in a pivotable manner is described. The transition piece can be mounted between an edge of the structural component and a lateral edge of the control surface such that the transition piece is fastened in a pivotable manner both to the edge of the structural component and to the lateral edge of the control surface. According to an example, the transition piece has a planar design and can be deformed within said plane, that is, the transition piece can be stretched or compressed within this plane.
Le costume féminin des élites germaniques orientales et ses répliques « populaires » dans le royaume wisigothique aux V e -VI e siècles

L’objet de cet article est, d’une part, d’examiner l’état de la recherche portant sur les traces archéologiques du costume « princier » féminin de tradition « ponto-danubienne » à deux fibules en tôle métallique du v e siècle sur le territoire du royaume wisigothique et, d’autre part, d’identifier ses répercussions dans le costume « hispano-wisigothique » de la « classe moyenne » de la deuxième moitié du v e siècle et de la première moitié du vi e siècle. Le costume féminin est un indice ethnographique des sociétés traditionnelles parmi les plus stables. Cependant, à un niveau social élevé, ce costume peut devenir aussi un indice d’appartenance à la « classe dirigeante ». Dans ce cas, le costume de prestige, quelles que soient ses origines, commence tôt ou tard par être imité par la population « ordinaire ». Les communautés villageoises de l’Espagne wisigothique étant très majoritairement romaines, on peut donc conclure que la diffusion dans ce milieu de la mode ponto-danubienne « barbare » montre le début de la fusion de la culture matérielle des Wisigoths et des Hispano-Romains.
Local diversity and long-run development

Social scientists have long studied the effects of population diversity on society. The research project proposed here breaks new ground in multiple dimensions by rigorously estimating the long-run effects of (i) local population diversity, (ii) individual diversity, and (iii) the interaction between these two concepts, on comparative socioeconomic performance across locations and lineages within a country.

Through a combination of two extensive high-quality databases covering the complete genealogy of more than five million individuals living in Quebec, spanning its settlement in the 16th century up to present day, as well an immense database covering more than 43 million worldwide individuals, I will analyze the effects of diversity using measures of diversity that are well-established in the field of quantitative genetics. The project will deliver the first within-country long-run investigations involving local and individual diversity.

First, I hypothesize that the diversity of an individual’s ancestors has a significant effect on the productivity of that individual as well as his descendants. In particular, I hypothesize that individuals from more diverse lineages were more capable of adjusting to changing economic conditions, finding new productive niches, and thus raising that individual’s income.

Second, I hypothesize that the negative effects of diversity found on the country level are less operative within a country. Thus, I expect to find that local population diversity has had a monotonically positive effect on long-run development within a country.

Third, I hypothesize that there is an interaction effect between population-level and individual-level diversity. Thus, I suggest that the effect of individual diversity is affected by the diversity of the locality in which the individual is situated. In particular, I hypothesize that there is a greater benefit to individual diversity in less diverse localities.
Bi-center problem and Hopf cyclicity of a Cubic Liénard system

In this paper we investigate the bi-center problem and the total Hopf cyclicity of two center-foci for the general cubic Lienard system which has three distinct equilibria and is equivalent to the general Lienard equation with cubic damping and restoring force. The location of these three equilibria is arbitrary, specially without any kind of symmetry. We find the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of bi-centers and prove that there is no case of a unique center. On the Hopf cyclicity we prove that there are totally \begin{document}$ 9 $\end{document} possible styles of small amplitude limit cycles surrounding these two center-foci and \begin{document}$ 6 $\end{document} styles of them can occur, from which the total Hopf cyclicity is no more than \begin{document}$ 4 $\end{document} and no less than \begin{document}$ 2 $\end{document} .
Pneumatic robotic device for early delivering of rehabilitation therapy

This paper describes a new pneumatic rehabilitation robot for upper limbs to deliver Proprioceptive Neuro-muscular Facilitation (PNF) therapies to the acute post-stroke patients, even if they are still in supine position. The robotic device assists the therapist in repetitive PNF therapies, learning the defined movement by therapist at the same time that the patient, and then repeating it with different level of assistance. Moreover, the rehabilitation device was designed to be used for relearning daily living skills like: take a glass, drinking, etc. The proposed solution is composed by two robotic arms actuated by pneumatic swivel modules and a virtual environment for the motivation of the patient.
Supported porous nanoparticles for functional plasmonic materials

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) occurring in metal nanoparticles has opened the door to the realization of fascinating novel concepts and technologies. This is possible due to the unique properties of the light-metal nanoparticles interaction mediated by LSPR, for example the efficient light absorption and scattering by metal nanoparticles at resonance, as well as enhanced electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the nanoparticles. A particularly interesting, yet rarely explored nanoparticle feature with great potential for the creation of plasmonic nanostructures with novel functionalities is porosity, which exhibits numerous so-called ""hotspots"": regions where the local electromagnetic field is greatly enhanced with respect to the incoming field. Combined with large surface-to-volume ratios, porous metal nanoparticles offer potentials for e.g. sensing and plasmon-mediated catalysis applications. Despite these prospects, porous nanoparticles have so far been rarely exploited due to the fact that they are produced via colloidal synthesis, which introduces several limitations.
The objective of the proposed research is to establish a nanofabrication route, by combining nanolithography and wet chemical route, to produce supported array of porous plasmonic nanoparticles with excellent dimension control and utilize these nanostructures in the fields of plasmon-mediated catalysis and plasmonic hydrogen sensing. The action will combine the researcher expertise in nanofabrication, experimental plasmonics and hydrogen sensing and the supervisor and host institute experiences in wet chemistry, single-particle spectroscopy and plasmon-mediated catalysis. The successful results of this action will contribute to the development of new class of materials, that is supported porous nanoparticles, which extends the library of the functional plasmonic materials with wide applications for example in sensing and plasmon-activated catalysis.
The effect of different ranges of motion on local dynamic stability of the elbow during unloaded repetitive flexion–extension movements

Local dynamic stability (LDS) of movement is controlled primarily by active muscles, and is known to be influenced by factors such as movement speed and inertial load. Other factors such as muscle length, the length of the target trajectory, and the resistance of passive tissues through ranges of motion (ROM) may also influence LDS. This study was designed to examine the effect of ROM, which impacts each of the aforementioned factors, on LDS of the elbow. 16 participants performed 30 unloaded, repetitive, flexion-extension movements of the elbow with varying (1) angular displacement magnitudes: 40° and 80°; (2) locations of ROM: mid-range, flexion end-range, extension end-range; and (3) rotated positions of the forearm: pronated and supinated. LDS was calculated using a finite time Lyapunov analysis of angular elbow flexion-extension kinematic data. EMG-based muscle activation and co-contraction data were also examined for possible mechanisms of stabilization. Results showed no changes in LDS with any movement condition; however, there were significant effects on muscle activation with ROM location and forearm rotated position. This suggests that a consistent level of LDS of the elbow through varying ROMs is maintained, at least in part, by the active control of the elbow flexor and extensor muscles.
Prolonged Voluntary Running Negatively Affects Survival and Disease Prognosis of Male SOD1G93A Low-Copy Transgenic Mice

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease in which physical activity plays a controversial role. Epidemiological studies indicate an association between intense exercise and risk of developing ALS. To study the impact of physical activity on ALS, mouse models rely mostly on forced exercise. In this study we hypothesized that voluntary wheel running could represent a better model of the influence of exercise in the pathogenesis of ALS. We used an automated home-cage running-wheel system that enables individual monitoring of performance. To verify the effect of voluntary running on disease progression, prognosis and survival as well as motor functions, we challenged SOD1G93A low-copy male and female mice on one (1 RW, at age 24 weeks) or multiple (3 RW) running sessions at age 13, 18, and 24 weeks. In parallel we measured performance on Rotarod and Grip strength tests at different ages. Several parameters were analyzed through Principal Component Analysis in order to detect what indices correlate and may be useful for deeper understanding of the relation between exercise and disease development. We found mutant male mice more negatively affected than females by prolonged and repeated exercise. SOD1G93A low-copy male mice showed shorter survival, increased body weight loss and poorer disease prognosis when exposed to multiple running sessions. These findings could encourage the investigation of the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the supposedly increased risk to develop ALS in humans engaged in specific and intense exercise activities.
Optimized Subsurface Irrigation System (OPSIS): Beyond Traditional Subsurface Irrigation

Technologies that ensure the availability of water for crops need to be developed in order for agriculture to be sustainable in the face of climate change. Irrigation is costly, so technologies need to be improved or newly developed, not only with the aim of the sustainable use of precious water resources, but also with the aim of reducing associated labor and energy costs, which lead to higher production costs. OPSIS (optimized subsurface irrigation system) is a super water-saving subsurface irrigation system developed to irrigate upland crops by soil capillarity. It is an environmentally-friendly, solar-powered automatic irrigation method with minimum energy consumption and operational costs. In soils vulnerable to drought damage, OPSIS can outperform other irrigation methods. This technical note introduces OPSIS.