SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Chemical and Nutritional Properties of Some Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties Grown in NWFP, Pakistan

Grains of ten maize varieties grown in NWFP, Pakistan were obtained and investigated for physicochemical characteristics, proximate composition, energy content and mineral composition. Mean electrical conductivity and thousand seed mass were determined in the range of 9.26-33.83 μS and 319230.4 g, respectively. Proximate composition shows moisture content in the range of 9.201-10.908%, ash (0.7-1.3%), fats (3.21-7.71%), protein (7.71-14.60%), crude fiber (0.80-2.32%) and carbohydrates (69.65974.549%). The data indicate that seeds of these varieties vary greatly in term of protein, fats and crude fiber contents. Pahari, Jalal 2003, WD2*8 and Azam varieties were determined to contain high protein content (>10% protein) while WD-2*8, Pop. 2004B, PSEV 3-2 and Sarhad (W) contain high fats content of >6%. The energy value of the grains of these varieties was determined in the range of 307.047-394.066 kcal/100 g which shows that the grains of these varieties are rich source of energy. In minerals the level of sodium is 540.30-620.41ppm, K (2915-3471 ppm), Ca (410-590 ppm), Fe (38.02-56.14 ppm), Zn (37.05-52.4 ppm), Mg (985.2-1125.3 ppm) and Cu (11.02-14.25 ppm).
FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED HIGH-PRESSURE ACCUMULATOR

The invention relates to a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, comprising a high-pressure pump. A high-pressure outlet (4) of the high-pressure pump is connected to a high-pressure accumulator (23) that has at least one accumulator outlet (13a, 13b) for connecting to a fuel injector. According to the invention, a fuel injection system which is compact and operates in a highly reliable manner is provided. This is achieved in that the high-pressure accumulator (23) is directly adapted to the high-pressure pump and in that the accumulator outlet (13a, 13b) is aligned in a precisely defined position with respect to the high-pressure pump.
Secretariat for the international research consortium on animal health

Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage, impact on animal welfare and in some cases directly threaten human health. The objective of SIRCAH (Secretariat for the International Research Consortium on Animal Health) is to provide organisational, communication and technical support to the STAR-IDAZ International Research Consortium (IRC) on Animal Health and thereby accelerate the development of much needed disease control tools.  The agreed aim of STAR-IDAZ IRC is to coordinate research at international level to contribute to new and approved animal health strategies for at least 30 priority diseases/infections/issues.  The deliverables will include candidate vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutic, procedures and key scientific information/tools to support risk analysis and disease control.  
To achieve these goals SIRCAH will support the IRC in establishing and running: i) Working Groups consisting of researchers for each of the priority topics and ii) a Scientific Committee,  consisting of independent experts, who will advise the IRC Executive Committee.  SIRCAH will provide the Working Groups with literature reviews and support them with gap analyses and the development of research roadmaps, map current activities against research needs and make recommendations relating to programme alignment, support the Scientific Committee and Executive Committee logistically, monitor progress against delivery targets and facilitate information exchange within and between all three levels
FIRE RESISTANT INSULATION PANEL

The present invention relates to an insulation panel comprising at least one layer of insulation material, such as rigid polyurethane, expanded polystyrene, extruded polystyrene foam, phenolic foam, cellular glass, mineral wool and plaster board, or a combination of these, and at least one metal facing, such as a steel, aluminum or copper sheet, fastened to at least one side of the insulation material, where the insulation panel further comprises at least one blocking profile fixed in the insulation material and which engages with the metal facing such that the blocking profile prevents the metal facing from separating from the insulation material.
A temporal switch in the germinal center determines differential output of memory B and plasma cells (IRC3P.468)

Though memory B cells (MBCs) and long-lived plasma cells (LLPCs) are both thought to derive from the germinal center (GC) reaction, there is little insight into or agreement about the signals that control differentiation to one cell type or another. By performing BrdU pulse-labeling studies, GC disruption experiments and V gene sequencing, we found that the generation of these cell types is actually temporally controlled and separated during the immune response. We report that MBCs mainly derive from early GCs (much before GC peak size), while more affinity matured LLPCs are predominantly formed during late GCs - long after its peak in size. Based on these findings, we propose a new model that the GC response undergoes a temporal switch, functioning quite differently at early and late stages. Therefore the generation of MBCs and LLPCs is the consequence of a general shift in GC output over time rather than the result of specific instructive signals that are selectively delivered to GC B cells at any given time during the response. We also present direct evidence that a large fraction of long-lived IgM+ MBC, and even some IgG+ MBC, are formed at very early time points, prior to the existence of detectable GCs. The knowledge of when specific long-lived immune-effector cells are generated during an immune response has strong implications for vaccine design and understanding long-term pathogen immunity.
ACCUMULATOR MANAGEMENT

Effectively managing the activity of an accumulator in a hydraulic system can improve the efficiency and safety of the system. A hydraulic system includes a variable displacement pump and a hydraulic transformer. The hydraulic transformer includes an output shaft mechanically connected to a working load. The working load is a swing gearbox for an excavator. The hydraulic system also includes an accumulator fluidly connected to the pump by a pump line. The accumulator is also fluidly connected to the hydraulic transformer by a transformer line. The hydraulic system further includes a pre-charge valve positioned on the pump line between the accumulator and the pump. Fluid passes to the accumulator from the pump through the pre-charge valve along the pump line when the pump is first powered on.
Ion mobility spectrum for Gerdien tubes by integral equation method

Ion mobility is an important parameter used in many ion-related research areas, such as atmospheric electricity, ion flow field around high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines and so on. The spectrum of ion mobility is an elaborate tool that can be utilized to study the impacts of ambient conditions, such as temperature and humidity, on the atmospheric ion chemistry and motion of ions and hence help understand the underlying physics. This paper proposes an integral equation method for the recovery of ion mobility spectrum for Gerdien tubes widely used in ion mobility measurements. In view of the experimental observation of the multiplicity of ion species in the gas ionization products, it is believed that the multiplicity is associated with the difference between the ideal and real current-voltage (I-U) characteristics of the tubes and a qualitative explanation of this association is given. With the introduction of ion mobility spectrum density function, the qualitative explanation is formulated as an integral description which renders us to obtain the ion mobility spectrum by solving a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind. Tikhonov regularization method is utilized to solve this integral equation. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the integral equation method, numerical simulations and practical case studies are conducted. By simulations, it is found that the ion mobility spectrum recovered by the integral equation method is powerful enough for our practical use. Further, the integral equation method is applied to several sets of I-U characteristic data of air corona discharge ions and SF6 ions due to natural radiation recorded by Gerdien tubes. The calculated mean ion mobilities and total ion densities are in consistency with that by the commonly-used graphical method. The peaks in the recovered ion mobility spectrum show that there are several dominant species of ions in the ionization products. This helps us in understanding phenomena that are not comprehensible before. This integral equation method maybe very promising in the measurements of mobility spectrum of the ions under conductors with DC corona discharges.
A study of human capital development in young entrepreneurs

In recent years young entrepreneurs have attracted considerable attention from policy makers and the media, and there is evidence that increasingly many young people aspire to start their own business. However, there has been little research into how young entrepreneurs actually build their businesses, and the limited existing research about young entrepreneurs has tended to focus on participants who have struggled to achieve business survival and growth.

By contrast, this thesis investigates how young entrepreneurs are able to build high performing businesses. All participants have built a business with a turnover between £1 million and £90 million or otherwise raised at least £1 million in external investment. It takes a qualitative approach, based primarily on semi-structured interviewing, to understanding the knowledge and skills 21 young entrepreneurs used to build their businesses. It uses a human capital theory framework to analyse how the young entrepreneurs developed relevant knowledge and skills prior to start-up in order to build a business. It then considers what additional human and social capital the young entrepreneurs acquired during the venture creation process itself.

The findings identify three different pathways, each of which typifies the human capital used by particular young entrepreneurs, according to their educational background and the precise age at which they started their business. The study also establishes the necessary human capital which all of the young entrepreneurs developed prior to start-up or during the early stages of starting their ventures, which was important to their success in growing a business. The study finally contributes to the debate about whether general human capital or venture-specific human capital is most important to entrepreneurs, finding that for young entrepreneurs developing pre-start-up general human capital is particularly significant.
Novel aspects of pathogenesis and regeneration mechanisms in COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a major cause of death and morbidity worldwide, is characterized by expiratory airflow limitation that is not fully reversible, deregulated chronic inflammation, and emphysematous destruction of the lungs. Despite the fact that COPD is a steadily growing global healthcare problem, the conventional therapies remain palliative, and regenerative approaches for disease management are not available yet. We aim to provide an overview of key reviews, experimental, and clinical studies addressing lung emphysema development and repair mechanisms published in the past decade. Novel aspects discussed herein include integral revision of the literature focused on lung microflora changes in COPD, autoimmune component of the disease, and environmental risk factors other than cigarette smoke. The time span of studies on COPD, including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthmatic bronchitis, covers almost 200 years, and several crucial mechanisms of COPD pathogenesis are described and studied. However, we still lack the holistic understanding of COPD development and the exact picture of the time-course and interplay of the events during stable, exacerbated, corticosteroid-treated COPD states, and transitions in-between. Several generally recognized mechanisms will be discussed shortly herein, ie, unregulated inflammation, proteolysis/antiproteolysis imbalance, and destroyed repair mechanisms, while novel topics such as deviated microbiota, air pollutants-related damage, and autoimmune process within the lung tissue will be discussed more extensively. Considerable influx of new data from the clinic, in vivo and in vitro studies stimulate to search for novel concise explanation and holistic understanding of COPD nowadays.
Collaborative consortium for the early detection of liver cancer

Hepatitis B (HBV) and C virus (HCV) are the most important etiologic agents of Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the second leading cause of tumour related death in the world. The burden of HCC in developing countries represents a major challenge in global public health for the oncoming decades. Clinically, HCC patients have a very poor prognosis and high 5-year mortality rate except when detected early. As a result, HCC early detection is a critical parameter to anticipate the initiation of a tumour process, but affordable and discriminant diagnostic tools are lacking. 
A consortium of European and Third Countries institutions (Peru and Laos) gathered within the project COCLICAN proposes to tackle this issue through the analysis of metabolomics serum profiles of a large cohort of HBV-HBC infected patients to delineate a bunch of molecules predictive of the emergence of liver cancer. The performance of a low-cost and open-source echo-stethoscope connected to a smartphone will also be assessed, to allow early detection of tumorogenesis in health care underserved areas. 
This will be possible, thanks to the construction of a sustainable scientific and academic network of engineers, researchers and clinicians mobilised to exchange expertise, skills, technologies, biological material, deployed in three continents: Europe, South America and Asia. 
COCLICAN has been designed to improve research collaborations, to reinforce capacities, to enhance knowledge of partners and students involved in the project, but also to raise awareness of policy makers and to participate to the innovation potential improvement at the European and global levels. COCLICAN will therefore respond to the health needs of left behind populations, all around the world.
Use of antimicrobials in Equine Practice across North America: a case-based survey

designated PBP2a, which present a very low affinity for betalactam antibiotics. The mecA gene is located on a mobile genetic element, named staphylococcal cassette chromosomemec (SCCmec) inserted in the S. aureus chromosome. In addition, MRSA are frequently resistant to a wide range of additional antimicrobial classes. From January 2007 to June 2011, 912 S. aureus isolates were obtained from various clinical samples. Identification of MRSA was confirmed by amplification of the nuc (specific of S. aureus) and mecA genes. MRSA strains were typed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and by Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST). SCCmec elements (types I to VI) and genes encoding virulence factors Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL), Toxic Shock Staphylococcal Toxin (TSST1) and Enterotoxin A were characterized by using a PCR approach. Susceptibility testing of MRSA isolates was performed using the agar diffusion method and following drugs were tested: erythromycin (ERY), tetracycline (TET), streptomycin (STR), gentamicin (GEN), rifampin (RIF), cotrimoxazole (TMP-SULF), chloramphenicol (CHL) and ofloxacin (OFL). Genes conferring resistance to macrolides [erm(A), erm(B), erm(C)], gentamicin [aac(6’)-aph(2’’)], and tetracyclines [tet(M)] were amplified by PCR. Among the 912 S. aureus isolates between 2007 and 2011, 19 strains were characterized as MRSA. Their prevalence increased until 6% in2010 and4% in thefirst sixmonths of 2011. 9 types could be distinguished by PFGE. MLST revealed thatMRSA isolated belonged to two sequence types, ST8 and ST398. All ST398MRSA (n1⁄47)were detected in 2010 including two isolates originating from the same farm. These results suggested possible cross-transmission of MRSA. The isolates, except two, possessed SCCmec IV and did not harbor the genes for the virulence factors PVL, TSST1, and enterotoxin A. All isolates were multiply resistant to other antimicrobials. PCR experiments showed that resistance to quinolone was active efflux, while to gentamicin and tetracycline was due to the presence of the aac(6’)-aph(2’’) and tet(M)genes, respectively. The increase in the prevalence of MRSA in horse infections is related to the emergence and spread of the ST398 type. This type is known to cause outbreaks in horses, to be responsible of cross-colonization and eventually infect humans. Farm hygiene and antimicrobial use contribute to MRSA occurrence in animals. Hygiene measures should, therefore, be maintained or reinforced to limit the transmission of S. aureus between horses and also between horses and personnel.
Coliforms and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in water from rivers and wells at Curitibanos, Santa Catarina

The quality of water used for human consumption related to the absence of coliforms, which, which may cause diseases and exhibit antimicrobial resistance, a frequent issue in places with poor or non-existent environmental sanitation. The present study evaluated the concentrations of total and thermotolerant coliforms in rivers and wells in Curitibanos (SC), as well as the phenotypic resistance to four antibiotics (Ampicillin, Ampicillin+Sulbactam, Ciprofloxacin and Tetracycline), during four seasons of the year. Analysis of variance was performed and means were separated by the Scott-Knott test, at 5% error probability. In rivers, the highest values ​​of fecal coliforms were recorded in summer and winter, and resistance to ampicillin and ampicillin+sulbactam was higher in autumn, while resistance to tetracycline was more prevalent in summer. In the wells, the highest averages of fecal coliforms occurred in summer, autumn and winter, and the highest levels of resistance were observed against ampicillin, in autumn. Overall, rivers had more compromised water quality, compared to wells, emphasizing the need to preserve aquatic resources in order to decrease evolution of resistance to antibiotics and diseases and deaths cause by superbacteria that may be ingested with contaminated water.
South-East European Digital Television

Use of ICT technologies and services has a major impact to the sustainable development of the society. SEE Digi.TV will directly speed-up the digitalization of the broadcasting services, and will trace the path for a wider deployment of ICT broadband services. The inclusion of stakeholders, especially broadcasters and industry, is essential and will have positive influence on business development. On a long term, the project will solve issues of digital divide and social inclusion and thus will contribute to the creation of the region of equal opportunities. The overall objective of the SEE Digi.TV is harmonization of the activities in the target SEE region related to the introduction of Digital Broadcasting services, which will: (a) speed-up the overall process of analog switch-off in the region and further developments to more efficient technologies, (b) maximize the harmonization of the legislative and technical frameworks with the EU digitalization process, (c) avoid policy, technology and market fragmentation, (d) develop regional strategy for optimal use of freed frequency spectrum for new ICT broadband services and (e) efficiently manage digital dividend. SEE Digi.TV is based on distribution of television signal and new services to everyone in SEE region no matter of their gender or ethnicity. Furthermore the project will contribute to environmental sustainability as new digital broadcasting technology at both sides, transmitting and receiving side, lowers the power consumption significantly.
APPLICATION OF ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY IN DRILLING FLUID COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS

Systems and methods are described herein. The method generally includes generating frequency responses of one or more sample fluids having known fluid properties, selecting an equivalent circuit model for modeling the frequency responses, the equivalent circuit model including one or more model elements, calculating an equivalent impedance of the equivalent circuit model, generating a correlation between the one or more model elements and the known fluid properties, measuring an impedance of a drilling fluid, and determining at least one property of the drilling fluid based on the correlation between the one or more model elements and the known fluid properties
Power‐efficient, PVT robust conductance cancellation method for gain enhancement

A power-efficient, process, voltage and temperature (PVT) robust gds cancellation method for gain enhancement is proposed. The method generates a negative conductance, which matches and cancels the positive conductance. This makes the gds cancellation method effective over process and wide temperature variation without the aid of external calibration or a tuning circuit. The method senses signals from cascode nodes instead of output nodes, making the method insensitive to output voltage swing. The simulation results of an example implementation in IBM 0.13 µm process show at least 22 dB DC gain enhancement over all process corners and temperatures ranging from − 20 to 80°C, with less than 9% power consumption overhead.
TUNEABLE BUSHING

A bushing arrangement for the connection between a drivers' cab and the chassis of the vehicle. The anti roll bar comprises a torsion bear and two link arms. Each link arm has a first end portion connected to the torsion bar and a second end portion connected to a core (9) by a first bushing element. The first bushing element comprises a first rigid sleeve (11) arranged concentric to the core and a first elastic element (10) positioned between the first rigid sleeve and. the core. The bushing arrangement further includes a second bushing element arranged concentric at a radially outer or inner position relative to the first bushing element. The second bushing element comprises a second rigid sleeve (12) and at least a second elastic element (13) wherein at least a portion of the radially inner surface of the second rigid sleeve is arranged in contact with the radially outer surface of the second elastic element. The second elastic element is more elastic than the first elastic element. The second bushing element is provided with at least one adjustable stop arrangement comprising one stop portion (12a) included in the second bushing element.