SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
LOCALIZED CALIBRATION OF PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL LOGIC CELLS

An integrated circuit (IC) (420) includes self-calibrating programmable digital logic circuitry. The IC includes at least one programmable digital logic cell (431A-431E), wherein the programmable digital logic cell provides (i) a plurality of different accessible circuit configurations or (ii) a voltage level controller. A self-calibration system (435) is provided that includes at least one reference device (430), a measurement device (441) for measuring at least one electrical performance parameter that can affect a processing speed of the programmable digital logic cell (421A-431E) or at least one parameter that can affect the electrical performance parameter using the reference device to obtain calibration data. A processing device (442) maps the calibration data or a parameter derived therefrom to generate a control signal (446) that is operable to select from the plurality of different accessible circuit configurations or a voltage level output to change the processing speed of the programmable digital logic cell.
Scientix 4

SCIENTIX IV – The Science Education Community in Europe that promotes Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) and other initiatives at national level (from hereon, Scientix 4) will ensure the continuation and adaptation of the current Scientix III activities and will contribute to the development of national strategies for a wide uptake and dissemination of IBSE and other projects, expanding to cover STE(A)M education practices, which will help educate future citizens in the importance of STE(A)M in society. In particular, Scientix 4 will work on the following five main items: 
1)	The portal: The portal/internet platform developed under previous Scientix programmes in order to collect and present European STEM education projects and their results will be maintained to ensure permanent searchable access to projects and further dissemination.
2)	Professional development: The professional development activities will be continued and increased. 
3)	Community building: Community building aspects also will be maintained, and the number of face-to-face meetings will be increased. Scientix 4 will also see the expansion of the National Contact Points (NCPs), Ministries of Education through their STEM representatives Working Group (MoE STEM WG) members, and Scientix Teacher Ambassadors.
4)	STEAM European partnerships: In light of the current achievements obtained within the previous Scientix activities, and to expand the professional development activities and the community building, Scientix 4 will test the setting up of STEAM European partnerships at national level. These partnerships will develop new approaches for creative and innovative science, technology, engineering and maths teaching and learning opportunities, connected to existing national practices.
5)	The conference: The conference bringing together the major STEAM teachers' communities in Europe will be maintained. This event represents one of the major networking events about STEAM education in Europe.
METHOD FOR PRODUCING A WOVEN FABRIC AND WOVEN FABRIC PRODUCED THEREBY

The invention relates to a method for producing a woven fabric (8, 9), the woven fabric (8, 9) comprising at least one monofil or monofil-like weft thread made of highly shrinkable material and warp threads made of low-shrinkage material, characterized in that at least one multifil weft thread (18, 19) running in the same shed is woven together with the at least one monofil or monofil-like weft thread (1, 2) during the weaving process.
Stratégie venézuélienne d'accord sur l'ALBA face à l'expansion commerciale États-Unis d'Amérique latine

En 2004, Venezuela y Cuba en convenio de una colaboración regional en Amérique latine appelée Alternative bolivarienne Las Americas et en abregé ALBA. Esta colaboración está formada como una resistencia frente a la expansión del comercio americano para aportar una misión neoliberal. Avec la formación de l'ALBA, le Venezuela est le leader de la coopération régionale qui prend des mesures stratégiques pour faire face au néolibéralisme. En 2010, l'ALBA cuenta con un total de 10 socios. En tant que contre-hégémonie, ALBA a également travaillé dans trois espaces. Dans l'espace des idées, les pays membres ont besoin de principes complémentaires de solidarité et de coopération pour parvenir à la prospérité et au développement régional équitable. Au niveau de l'espace Institutionnel, l'idée est alors intégrée à l'ALBA.
WASTE GAS PURIFICATION SYSTEM

A waste gas purification system includes a gas container(12), a driver(33), a gas input unit(13), a gas output unit(14) and a contaminant capturing apparatus(2). The gas input unit(13) is for entrance of waste gas into the gas container(12), and is to be driven by the driver(33) into movement. The gas output unit(14) is for discharge of the waste gas out of the gas container(12) after the waste gas is purified. The contaminant capturing apparatus(2) is disposed in the gas container(12), and includes a capture device(21) that purifies the waste gas by using an adhesive to adhere particulate matter in the waste gas.
Matched case–control study with reporting bias

Abstract Matching is widely used to improve the efficiency in case–control studies. To achieve this, it is required that both case and control samples are representative of respective part in the source population. Often this characteristic is violated and we fail to draw valid inference about the parameter of interest. In this work, we consider matched case–control study subject to such bias known as selection bias. This kind of bias arises, for example, in the analysis of spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports, where the event of ADR, or its complement, is reported with some probability depending on the use of drug. Here it is known as reporting bias. For unbiased analysis of such data, we consider a reference sample from the source population. We also discuss the asymptotic properties of the estimates of the model parameters. An example is considered for the purpose of illustration and some simulation studies are carried out to investigate the properties of the estimators.
Influence of laser beam brightness during surface treatment of a ZrO2 engineering ceramic

A comparative study between fibre and Nd:YAG (neodymium, yttrium, aluminium, garnet) laser surface treatment on a cold isostatic pressed (CIP) ZrO 2 engineering ceramic was conducted to investigate the individual differences of laser brightness (radiance) produced by the two laser sources. The effects of brightness exhibited by the two lasers were investigated in respect to the change in the hardness, dimensional size of the laser irradiated zones and the microstructure of the ZrO 2 engineering ceramic. The results showed that the hardness of the ZrO 2 engineering ceramic was reduced by 36% for the Nd:YAG laser in comparison to the as-received surface. However, only 4% reduction in the surface hardness was found from employing the fibre laser surface treatment which was not significant as much as the results of the Nd:YAG laser irradiation. The change in hardness occurred due to softening of the laser irradiated surface of the ZrO 2 with a changed composition which was softer than the laser unaffected surface. The dimensional size of the fibre laser irradiated track was also found to produce broader surface profiles in comparison to that of the Nd:YAG laser. The fibre laser irradiated surface track was 32% larger in width and 51.5% longer in depth of penetration in comparison to that of the Nd:YAG laser. Change in microstructure of the ZrO 2 engineering ceramic irradiated by both lasers was found as opposed to the ground and polished untreated surface. The fibre laser affected the grain morphology to a greater extent in comparison to that of the Nd:YAG laser irradiation. The physical and micro-structural effects from applying the two laser types to the ZrO 2 engineering ceramic differed as deep penetration and broader laser irradiated track as well as larger grains were produced by the fibre laser, despite using identical laser processing parameters such as spot size, power density, traverse speed, gas flow rate, wavelength and the Gaussian beam profile. This occurred due to the high brightness exhibited by the fibre laser irradiation which generated larger power per unit area which in turn induced into the ZrO 2 engineering ceramic and resulted to producing high processing temperature, larger fibre laser-ceramic-interaction zone and melt-pool at the laser-ZrO 2 interface in comparison to that of the Nd:YAG laser which intrinsically resulted to a change in physical attributes of the ceramic. © 2011 Old City Publishing, Inc.
Middleware for the Internet of Things

The Future Internet enables us to have an immediate access to information about the physical world and its objects. As such, Internet of Things (IoT) has been introduced to integrate the virtual world of information and the real world of devices. Internet of Things covers the infrastructure, which can be hardware, software and services, to support the networking of physical objects. IoT aims to provide a simple interaction between the physical world and the virtual world, by integrating a large numbers of real-world physical devices (or things) into the Internet.
IoT has increasingly gained attention in industry to interact with different types of devices. This popularity cause a demand to use IoT vision for different types of device. While each type of devices can support its own communication protocol and required data to provide data for each interaction. This heterogeneous device interaction cause difficulties to interact with the devices to gather information from the environment. The solution that has introduced in the literatures is defining a middleware layer between the devices and the user of the IoT- based system.
In this research, we investigate on developing a middleware for an IoT-based system like video Monitoring System (VMS), to facilitate configuration and deployment for non-expert end-users. A VMS is responsible to provide full video coverage to monitor an area for an end-user, such as a guard. The configuration and deployment can be facilitated by providing a homogeneous Graphical User Interface to interact with different types of camera in a uniform way.
A VMS must support the technical details of different types of cameras. However, these variations should be hidden from non-expert end-users. Thus, we extract a model from the required features to configure different types of cameras. In this project, we developed a VMS that consist of a Middleware for video Monitoring System (MVMS) and applications, which run on top of the middleware. Our VMS let non-experts end-users configure cameras through communicating with third-party camera service providers which is responsible to apply end- users configuration on cameras.
To evaluate our VMS to achieve the ease of configuration and deployment for non-expert end-users, we developed a prototype and interview with the practitioners in a company which has developed VMS.
A study of QR decomposition and Kalman filter implementations

[ANGLES] With the rapid development of new technologies during the last decades, the demand of complex algorithms to work in real-time applications has increased considerably. To achieve the real time expectations and to assure the stability and accuracy of the systems, the application of numerical methods and matrix decompositions have been studied as a trade-off between complexity, stability and accuracy. In the first part of this thesis, a survey of state-of-the-art QR Decomposition methods applied to matrix inversion is done. Stability and accuracy of these methods are analyzed analytically and the complexity is studied in terms of operations and level of parallelism. Besides, a new method called Modified Gaussian Elimination (MGE) is proposed. This method is shown to have better accuracy and less complexity than the previous methods while keeping good stability in real time applications. In the second part of this thesis, different techniques of extended Kalman Filter implementations are discussed. The EKF is known to be numerically unstable and various methods have been proposed in the literature to improve the performance of the filter. These methods include square-root and unscented versions of the filter that make use of numerical methods such as QR, LDL and Cholesky Decomposition. At the end of the analysis, the audience/reader will get some idea about best implementation of the filter given some specifications.
IA scientifique

Mise en œuvre par logiciel d’une méthode permettant d’identifier les pertinences scientifiques et les vérités de publication des résultats scientifiques initiaux antérieurs en une plate-forme de recherche unifiée et son internation ale commercialisation
Congenital blindness leads to enhanced vibrotactile perception

Previous studies have shown that in comparison with the sighted, blind individuals display superior non-visual perceptual abilities and differ in brain organisation. In this study, we investigated the performance of blind and sighted participants on a vibrotactile discrimination task. Thirty-three blind participants were classified into one of three groups (congenital, early, late), depending on the age at which they became blind. Consistent with previous neuroimaging data, individuals blinded after late childhood (14 years) showed no advantage over sighted participants. Both the congenitally- and early-blind participants were better than the sighted. The congenitally blind participants were even more accurate than the early-blind participants; a distinction that has not been drawn previously. Duration of blindness did not predict task performance and the effect of onset age persisted after duration of daily Braille reading was accounted for. We conclude that complete visual deprivation early in life leads to heightened tactile acuity.
Investigation on performance of all optical buffer with large dynamical delay time based on cascaded double loop optical buffers

Optical buffers are critical for optical signal processing in future optical packet-switched networks. In this paper, a theoretical study as well as an experimental demonstration on a new optical buffer with large dynamical delay time is carried out based on cascaded double loop optical buffers (DLOBs). It is found that pulse distortion can be restrained by a negative optical control mode when the optical packet is in the loop. Noise analysis indicates that it is feasible to realise a large variable delay range by cascaded DLOBs. These conclusions are validated by the experiment system with 4-stage cascaded DLOBs. Both the theoretical simulations and the experimental results indicate that a large delay range of 1–9999 times the basic delay unit and a fine granularity of 25 ns can be achieved by the cascaded DLOBs. The performance of the cascaded DLOBs is suitable for the all optical networks.
Design Methodology for Constructing Multi-Material Origami Robots and Machines

Robotic origami allows rapid prototyping of intelligent machines and robots constructed by thin sheets of functional materials. Multi-material-based design freedom of origami robots creates functional versatility; however, the design parameters pose challenges in their mechanical layout and fabrication. While conventional robot design follows a coherent and well-established design process, the construction of origami robots requires close study of their 3D and 2D geometries, compliant mechanisms, functional material-specific components, and 2D fabrication methods. In this article, we report a systematic design methodology for building origami-inspired machines and robots based on these four essential design features. We provide their comprehensive formulation, comparing to conventional robots and highlighting design challenges as well as potentials. We demonstrate the applicability of our procedure to the majority of origami robots in the literature and also validate it by designing a centimeter-scale jumping and crawling origami robot, Tribot as showcase. The 6 g Tribot crawls with fixed steps in closed-loop, adjusts its vertical jumping height by power modulation and overcomes obstacles of 45 mm high by side jumps. This work advances design and fabrication methodology of origami robots, with customizable functionality from the ground-up
Research of Innovation Project Designation in Finance Experimental Teaching

As a carrier of enhancing practical ability and innovative ability of the students who majoring in finance and other relative faculties,the finance experimental teaching's importance has been appreciated by most of the colleges and universities which have set up finance or relative majors.However,the experimental teaching content merely remains at the level of imitation or verification,only a few of experiments have the nature of comprehensiveness,constructiveness and innovativeness.Therefore,as a view of cultivating innovative financial talents,we should vigorously strengthen the building of the finance experimental teaching,construct the experimental platform,create favorable conditions for financial experiment,deepen the reform of experiment teaching,expand the content of financial experiment and innovative experimental projects.
Gait measures in patients with and without AFO for equinus varus/drop foot

Even if significant differences were obtained only for limited parameters when measuring gait in the two different AFO- no AFO conditions, this doesn't prevent to consider the preliminary results in the use of the inertial device encouraging for assisting outcome measure in rehabilitation. The limit of this study is in fact the small number of subjects. In the field of neurological rehabilitation it is well known that research has to manage the problem of the wide variability among patients and usually a large number of subjects have to be included in comparative studies. Such measurements could be differently achieved only by means of traditional gait analysis, which however is expensive, is based on a few steps under conditions of walk constrained by the laboratory which does not reflect the environment in which the patient usually moves. The new device is in conclusion sensitive to measure time distance parameters in a clinical setting. Further research must be developed in wider sample of patients and with different treatment options to validate the device as a useful tool in monitoring the rehabilitation outcome.
A comercialização do açaí e do mapati na tríplice fronteira (Brasil, Colômbia e Peru)

O artigo propõe uma compreensão da relação sociedade – natureza por meio da discussão sobre o processo conceitual e a materialidade da Biodiversidade, considerando os aspectos econômicos, ecológicos, éticos e patrimoniais relacionados a este conceito. A pesquisa que baseia o artigo se debruça sobre a comercialização dos frutos Açaí e Mapati, na cidade de Tabatinga (Amazonas) - um contexto em que se depara com a organização e a produção capitalista do espaço geográfico no circuito tetralógico (ordem/desordem/interações/organizações). Tomando as frutas Açaí e Mapati como significativas da biodiversidade encontrada na regiáo, levou-se em conta a agência do camponês. Tendo em vista que o saber agregado ao cultivo e extração de espécies endêmicas é um fator constituinte do fenômeno que aqui pretendemos estudar. Os resultados apresentados são, no entanto, apenas parciais, dado que os projetos que originam a pesquisa encontram-se ainda em andamento. Contudo, observa-se desde já o protagonismo dos indígenas Tikuna no que tange ao abastecimento e comercialização das frutas Açaí e Mapati no município.
Chronic Exposure to Low Doses of HgCl2 Avoids Calcium Handling Impairment in the Right Ventricle after Myocardial Infarction in Rats

Right ventricle systolic dysfunction is a major risk factor for death and heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI). Heavy metal exposure has been associated with the development of several cardiovascular diseases, such as MI. The aim of this study was to investigate whether chronic exposure to low doses of mercury chloride (HgCl2) enhances the functional deterioration of right ventricle strips after MI. Male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: Control (vehicle); HgCl2 (exposure during 4 weeks- 1st dose 4.6 µg/kg, subsequent dose 0.07 µg/kg/day, i.m. to cover daily loss); MI surgery induced and HgCl2-MI groups. One week after MI, the morphological and hemodynamic measurements and isometric tension of right ventricle strips were investigated. The chronic HgCl2 exposure did not worsen the injury compared with MI alone in the morphological or hemodynamic parameters evaluated. At basal conditions, despite similar maximum isometric force at L-max, relaxation time was increased in the MI group but unaffected in the HgCl2-MI compared to the Control group. Impairment of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function and reduction in the sarcolemmal calcium influx were observed in MI group associated with SERCA2a reduction and increased PLB protein expression. Induction of MI in chronic HgCl2 exposed rats did not cause any alteration in the developed force at L-max, lusitropic function or -dF/dt except for a tendency of a reduction SR function. These findings could be partially explained by the normalization in the sarcolemmal calcium influx and the increase in NCX protein expression observed only in this group. These results suggest that chronic exposure to low doses of HgCl2 prevents the impaired SR function and the reduced sarcolemmal calcium influx observed in MI likely by acting on NCX, PLB and SERCA2a protein expression.
7bulls.com Strategia di sviluppo

7Bulls è un'entità che opera nel settore ICT, specializzata nella creazione, implementazione e integrazione di soluzioni IT complete. Alcuni di essi sono il risultato di lavori di R & S svolti autonomamente e l'offerta aziendale comprende servizi per l'implementazione e l'integrazione dei sistemi informatici. 7Bulls crea soluzioni IT complete per un certo numero di entità provenienti da vari settori dell'economia — finanziario, editoriale, automobilistico, farmaceutico, nonché media e reti di vendita. Gran parte delle tecnologie sviluppate finora non sono ancora state commercializzate, pur individuando il loro elevato potenziale di mercato. Per il richiedente, non è chiaro quale delle tecnologie valga la pena sostenere costi aggiuntivi connessi alla loro preparazione per l'attuazione e l'introduzione di prodotti sotto forma di prodotti nel mercato commerciale. Per valutare il potenziale di mercato delle tecnologie sviluppate da 7Bulls è necessario un'analisi dettagliata. L'obiettivo principale di questo progetto è quello di sviluppare la strategia di sviluppo 7Bulls implementando l'innovazione attraverso l'acquisto di servizi di consulenza promozionale forniti da un IOB accreditato. Ciò sarà ottenuto coinvolgendo un IOB accreditato per analizzare le tecnologie detenute da 7Bulls, selezionare quelle con il giusto potenziale di commercializzazione e sviluppare strategie di commercializzazione per almeno una delle tecnologie analizzate. Il destinatario del progetto è il richiedente. Il progetto svolgerà due compiti: Task 1 con due elementi specifici: Sviluppo della strategia di sviluppo 7bulls.com basata sullo sviluppo e l'implementazione dell'innovazione 2. valutazione del potenziale della tecnologia 7bulls.com Il compito di cui sopra sarà svolto da un ente specializzato selezionato (IOB accreditato) nella procedura competitiva. Compito 2 — promozione del progetto Il compito di cui sopra sarà svolto dal richiedente.