SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Methotrexate versus traditional Chinese medicine in psoriasis: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial to determine efficacy, safety and quality of life

Psoriasis is a common and chronic immune-mediated skin disorder, for which there is currently no cure. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized placebo-controlled trial comparing methotrexate and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in terms of efficacy, safety, and quality of life for the treatment of psoriasis.In total, 61 patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis were randomized to receive treatment with methotrexate, TCM or placebo for 6 months. The primary outcome measure was the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), and secondary outcome measures were the Physician's Global Assessment (PGA) and the Psoriasis Disability Index (PDI).In all, 50 patients completed the study and were included in the analysis. Dropout rates were highest in the TCM group. Mean PASI change from baseline at 6 months revealed an improvement of 73.9% of the methotrexate group, 15.1% of the TCM group and 32.0% of the placebo group. There was a significant difference between the three groups, with methotrexate showing greater effectiveness than the other two groups. No significant difference was found between the TCM and placebo groups. The methotrexate group also had greater improvement when assessed using the PGA and PDI.Our results verify the therapeutic effect of methotrexate for the management of psoriasis. Despite widespread belief and use of TCM in Asia for the treatment of psoriasis, we were unable to confirm the efficacy of TCM in this study.
Text Classification Using Computational Model of the Cerebral Cortex

We applied the BESOM cerebral cortex model to text classification. A 20 Newsgroups Data Set is often used as a benchmark data set for text classification and has 20 categories. We used the data set. Although BESOM is currently an imperfect model, we were able to apply it to text classification by using its own basic logic. Results of a text classification task showed that 70.03% of the texts could be classified correctly. In a second task, we reduced the amount of learning data to one text per category (i.e., 20 texts) and found that the precision was 69.79%. Although our proposed method is less accurate than the conventional method using a naive Bayes classifier, it can perform in acceptable precision and more accurate than naive Bayes classifier with limited information.
Healthcare access, socioeconomic factors and late-stage cancer diagnosis: an exploratory spatial analysis and public policy implication

Patients diagnosed with late-stage cancer have lower survival rates than those with early-stage cancer. This paper examines possible associations between several risk factors and late-stage diagnosis for four types of cancer in Illinois: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer. Potential risk factors are composed of spatial factors and nonspatial factors. The spatial factors include accessibility to primary healthcare and distance or travel time to the nearest cancer screening facility. A set of demographic and socioeconomic variables are consolidated into three nonspatial factors by factor analysis. The Bayesian model with convolution priors is utilised to analyse the relationship between the above risk factors and each type of late-stage cancer while controlling for spatial autocorrelation. The results for breast cancer suggest that people living in neighbourhoods with socioeconomic disadvantages and cultural barriers are more likely to be diagnosed at a late stage. In regard to prostate cancer, people in regions with low socioeconomic status are also more likely to be diagnosed at a late stage. Diagnosis of late-stage colorectal or lung cancer is not significantly associated with any of the abovementioned risk factors. The results have important implications in public policy.
Nonlinear energy sink metamaterial approaches for flow-induced vibration attenuation

Flow-induced vibration can occur in many engineering systems and structures such as bridges, transmission lines, aircraft control surfaces, offshore structures, marine cables, and other hydrodynamic applications. A novel approach to attenuate such vibrations could be the application of mechanical metamaterials, which are artificial engineering materials having unique elastic wave propagation properties based on the existence of stop and pass bands originating from the material or geometric periodicity. Nonlinear energy sinks are having a wider frequency band of vibration attenuation than linear vibration absorbers due to strong nonlinear stiffness. This project aims at taking the functionality of metamaterials to the next level by performing the design, modeling and experimental aspects of advanced materials research by combining the features of a hysteretic nonlinear energy sink, energy harvesting, dissipation effects and tuning of metamaterial properties based on magnetorheological composite in the metamaterial subunit design. This, in turn, will give rise to a novel class of semi-active magnetorheologically tuned metamaterials (MTMs) for flow-induced wing flutter and pipeline vibration control using linear and nonlinear approaches for bandgap forming, vibration attenuation, and energy harvesting. The computational framework based on numerical and semi-numerical methods together with pseudo-arc continuation techniques will be developed to discover dispersion characteristics of linear models, and frequency-responses and bifurcation points of nonlinear models. Novel 3D printing techniques will be developed for the fabrication of MTMs with magnetorheological composite. Experiments will serve to validate mathematical models and identify parameters of the nonlinear MTM models for the purpose of numerical simulations. Optimization procedures will be carried out to maximize the efficiency of developed metamaterials for flutter and pipeline vibration control.
Sulfur dioxide-ethanol-water fractionation platform for conversion of recycled wood to sugars, lignin and lignosulfonates

Recycled wood of two grades (A and B) and spruce were converted on bench (100 o.d. g) and pilot (100 o.d. kg) scales to monosugars, lignin and lignosulfonates using SO2-Ethanol-Water (AVAP®) technology. After digestion, C6 and C5 sugars were recovered at 98-100% and 87-99% for Wood A and Spruce, respectively, while the values for Wood B were 92% and 74-87%. Cellulose was hydrolysed to glucose at 90% or higher using enzyme charge of 7.1 FPU/g glucan. Hemicellulosic sugars were autohydrolyzed to 95-100% monosugars. At bench scale, monosaccharide yield was 609, 561 and 688 kg (hydrous) per BDT biomass for Wood A, Wood B and Spruce, respectively. Corresponding water insoluble lignin yield was 157, 148 and 189 kg per BDT biomass. The preliminary techno-economic evaluation revealed that conversion of recycled wood to sugars using AVAP® fractionation platform results in higher profitability in comparison to virgin wood.
Wigner–Yanase skew information and quantum phase transition in one-dimensional quantum spin-1/2 chains

The quantum coherence based on Wigner---Yanase skew information and its relations with quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in one-dimensional quantum spin-1/2 chains are studied. Different from those at the critical point (CP) of the Ising transition in the transverse-field XY chain, the single-spin quantum coherence and the two-spin local $$\sigma ^z$$?z quantum coherence are extremal at the CP of the anisotropy transition, and the first-order derivatives of the two-spin local $$\sigma ^x$$?x and $$\sigma ^y$$?y quantum coherence have logarithmic divergence with the chain size. For the QPT between the gapped and gapless phases in the chain with three-spin interactions, however, no finite-size scaling behavior of the derivatives of quantum coherence is found.
Sustainable smart mobile devices lifecycles through advanced re-design, reliability, and re-use and remanufacturing technologies

sustainablySMART will make a change to the life cycle of mobile information and communication devices by developing new product design approaches (including enhanced end-of-life performance, re-use and re-manufacturing aspects; i.e. implementing “Design for a Circular Economy”) for smartphones and tablet computers on the product and printed circuit board level, and by new re-/de-manufacturing processes with improved resource efficiency through (1) enhanced sorting capabilities and speed (optimized sorting efficiency), (2) automated disassembly of mobile IT devices for extraction of reusable components / modules, better material separation and depollution of end-of-life devices (increase value creation out of discarded devices significantly to create an economic advantage over shredding processes), and (3) high-quality performance testing (batteries) and rework (semiconductors and modules) of reusable components/modules (creating a market push for reusable parts through enhanced availability for repair and cascade reuse)
INDUSTRY 4.0 - Q2043901

THE AIM OF THE COMPANY TO INVEST IN THE PURCHASE OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY READY FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 IN ORDER TO INDEPENDENTLY CARRY OUT ALL COMPONENTS FOR MEDIUM SIZED VALVES AND ACTUATORS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE CUSTOMERS WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE THAT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE ASSEMBLY AND TESTING OF ALL COMPONENTS. THE GI COMPANY PRODUCES PARTS FOR VALVES BUT THE TRADITIONAL AND NON-CNC EQUIPMENT IS THEREFORE QUALITY AND PRODUCTION COSTS.
La disparition d'un roman : La quatrieme invention. Journal d'embrouilles vers Compostelle de Bernard de Marsangy

La quatrième invention. Journal d'embrouilles vers Compostelle (2005) est un roman de Bernard de Marsangy. Il raconte les aventures de Pierre-Antoine Rablaud pendant son pèlerinage à Compostelle. Ce personnage est un cadre qui abandonne tout pour faire ce voyage. Il sera persécuté par d'anciens partenaires et par les autorités françaises, pour avoir détourné des fonds. Dans le présent travail, nous essayons de montrer comment dans La quatrième invention. Journal d'embrouilles vers Compostelle s’opère un processus de disparition du roman. Cela se produit à deux niveaux : narratif et historique. Dans le premier, le récit se dissout avec la mort ou la disparition de ses personnages. Dans le second, le récit s’évanouit dans la tentative infructueuse de renaissance du bogomilisme et du catharisme au XXIe siècle. La dissolution du roman est pour Marsangy une manière de montrer sa conception de la vie comme une illusion, comme un vide.
Automated security proofs of cryptographic protocols: privacy, untrusted platforms and applications to e-voting protocols

The rise of the Internet and the ubiquity of electronic devices has deeply changed our way of life. Many face to face and paper transactions have nowadays digital counterparts: home banking, e- commerce, e-voting, etc. The security of such transactions is ensured by the means of cryptographic protocols. While historically the main goals of protocols were to ensure confidentiality and authentication the situation has changed. The ability of people to stay connected constantly combined with ill-conceived systems seriously threatens people’s privacy. E-voting protocols need to guarantee privacy of votes, while ensuring transparency of the voting process; RFID and mobile telephone protocols have to guarantee that people cannot be traced. Moreover due to viruses and malware, personal computers and mobile phones must not be considered anymore to be trustworthy; yet they have to be used to execute protocols that need to achieve security goals. To detect flaws, prove the security of protocols and propose new design principles the Spooc project will develop solid foundations and practical tools to analyze and formally prove security properties that ensure the privacy of users as well as techniques for executing protocols on untrusted platforms. We will

- develop foundations and practical tools for specifying and formally verifying new security properties, in particular privacy properties;

- develop techniques for the design and automated analysis of protocols that have to be executed on untrusted platforms;

- apply these methods in particular to novel e-voting protocols, which aim at guaranteeing strong security guarantees without need to trust the voter client software. 

The Spooc project will significantly advance formal verification of security protocols and contribute to the development of a rich framework that provides techniques and tools to analyze and design security protocols guaranteeing user’s privacy and relaxing trust assumptions on the execution platforms.
Scheduling Parallel Tasks on Multicore Nodes for Energy Saving

In this paper, we have further explored the novel metrics and policies of Speedup per Watt (SPW), Power per Speedup (PPS), Energy per Target (EPT), Sharing Policy, the Hare and the Tortoise Policies, which were introduced in our previous work. Each policy leverages application parallelism and Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to reduce energy consumption in multicore computers. Our experiments show that, running the Sharing Policy on a busy multicore computer can make savings of 25% in energy and reduce execution time by 26%. The Hare Policy made savings up to 73% on a system with low utilization. Combining these two methods with task migration on a small four-node cluster made savings of 58%.
Nietzsche e Sartre na encruzilhada: itinerários de filósofos andarilhos

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate points that attaches and separate the philosophical paths taken by Nietzsche and Sartre; thus, after a brief passage about Nietzsche's reception in France and, in particular, around Sartre's impressions on the German philosopher, the article discourses the concept of corporeality developed by the authors, and then, reflects on the notion of acting arising from this conception: if we are not commanded by a rational-volitional mechanism, what moves human actions? Freedom, Sartre will answer; the Will to Power, Nietzsche would say. And if Nietzsche's philosophy demands for everyone to make themselves an artistic work, Sartre appeals to the situation circumscribed by free action. Finally, the article proposes an extemporaneous dialogue between wandering philosophers around the freedom-responsibility, body-consciousness correlations, to think about such questions.
RELIABILITY OF A POWERPOINT METHOD FOR WEAR MEASUREMENT AFTER TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY: A RETRIEVAL STUDY USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL LASER SCANS

The PowerPoint (2007 Version; Microsoft, Redmond, Wash) method is reported to have improved repeatability and reproducibility and is better able to detect differences in radiographs than previously established manual wear measurement methods. In this study, the PowerPoint method and the Dorr and Wan method were used to calculate the polyethylene liner wear volume. The wear volumes of retrieved polyethylene liners calculated from the 3D laser scanning method were compared with each method. This study hypothesized that the wear volume calculated by the PowerPoint method would correlate well with the wear volume measured by 3D laser scanning method. Between March 2004 and June 2009, 22 polyethylene liners from 20 patients were collected during revision Total hip arthroplasty(THA). Exclusion criteria included (1) missing an early primary postoperative radiograph or prerevision radiograph, (2) evidence of acetabular loosening or migration, (3) existence of significant mismatch between early primary postoperative radiograph and prerevision radiographs on vertical axis, and (4) liner wear-through. After applying these exclusion criteria, 17 retrieved polyethylene liners from 16 patients were included in this study. Wear volumes were calculated using the PowerPoint, the Dorr and Wan methods by 3 independent experienced observers who were unaware of the study design, and 3-dimensional (3D) laser scanning methods. Spearman correlation coefficients for wear volume results indicated strong correlations between the PowerPoint and 3D laser scanning methods (range, 0.89–0.93). On the other hand, Spearman correlation analysis revealed only moderate correlations between the Dorr and Wan and 3D laser scanning methods (range, 0.67–0.77). The PowerPoint method is an efficient tool for the sequential radiologic follow-up of patients after THA. The PowerPoint method can be used to monitor linear wear after THA and could serve as an alternative method when computerized methods are not available.
Polar regions in the earth system

The overall objective of PolarRES is to provide new insights into key local-regional scale physical and chemical processes for atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions in the Arctic and Antarctic, their responses to, and influence on, projected changes in the global circulation and their implications for society and the environment. PolarRES will zoom into the climate of both Polar regions with state-of-the-art regional climate models (RCMs), run at unprecedented resolutions, to investigate the influence of projected changes in the global circulation on the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic. Polar climates in a global context remains poorly understood and thus climate change projections in Polar regions have large uncertainties and this hampers mitigation and adaptation efforts. PolarRES proposes an innovative ‘storyline’ approach and novel analysis methods to address these challenges. We will accomplish this by exploiting the recent CMIP6 global climate model (GCM) projections and novel developments in GCMs such as variable resolution grids. High-resolution regional projections will be co-designed with and exploited by impact modellers to produce impact-relevant projections of future climate change for both Polar regions. PolarRES will combine these high-resolution simulations from state-of-the-art RCMs and next generation fully coupled RCMs with a comprehensive range of existing and novel observations (e.g. YOPP and MOSAiC) including satellite products from relevant projects funded by the ESA Earth Observation Programme. The consortium consists of leading European groups in the areas of polar-lower latitude teleconnections, polar oceanography, meteorology, climatology, biogeochemistry, global climate modelling, and regional climate modelling in the Arctic and Antarctic. PolarRES will contribute to the EU Strategy on Climate Action and EU strategy for international cooperation in R&I.
National Mosaic and Multi-Sensor QPE (NMQ) System: Description, Results, and Future Plans

The National Mosaic and Multi-sensor QPE (Quantitative Precipitation Estimation), or “NMQ”, system was initially developed from a joint initiative between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory, the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Weather Research Program, and the Salt River Project. Further development has continued with additional support from the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Hydrologic Development, the NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, and the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan. The objectives of NMQ research and development (R&amp;D) are 1) to develop a hydrometeorological platform for assimilating different observational networks toward creating high spatial and temporal resolution multisensor QPEs for f lood warnings and water resource management and 2) to develop a seamless high-resolution national 3D grid of radar reflectivity for severe weather detection, data assimilation, numerical weather prediction model verification, and aviation product development. Through about ten years of R&amp;D, a real-time NMQ system has been implemented (http://nmq.ou.edu). Since June 2006, the system has been generating high-resolution 3D reflectivity mosaic grids (31 vertical levels) and a suite of severe weather and QPE products in real-time for the conterminous United States at a 1-km horizontal resolution and 2.5 minute update cycle. The experimental products are provided in real-time to end users ranging from government agencies, universities, research institutes, and the private sector and have been utilized in various meteorological, aviation, and hydrological applications. Further, a number of operational QPE products generated from different sensors (radar, gauge, satellite) and by human experts are ingested in the NMQ system and the experimental products are evaluated against the operational products as well as independent gauge observations in real time. The NMQ is a fully automated system. It facilitates systematic evaluations and advances of hydrometeorological sciences and technologies in a real-time environment and serves as a test bed for rapid science-to-operation infusions. This paper describes scientific components of the NMQ system and presents initial evaluation results and future development plans of the system.
Coating of composite wood panels with aminoplast resin films fitted with an abrasion-resistant, easy-clean and hydrophobic surface

Finishing of decorative and/or overlay papers impregnated with aminoplast resin which are used for coating composite wood panels and form an abrasion-resistant, easy clean and hydrophobic surface, wherein after resin impregnation, the impregnated papers are coated in a second application step with a sol-gel preparation containing dissolved metal alkoxides and fullerene-like nanostructures and nanotubes made of metal disulfides of the metals molybdenum and/or tungsten and, after drying and final condensation, the surfaces are formed in a hydraulic heating press.
Human Exposure to Live Poultry and Psychological and Behavioral Responses to Influenza A(H7N9), China

To investigate human exposure to live poultry and changes in risk perception and behavior after the April 2013 influenza A(H7N9) outbreak in China, we surveyed 2,504 urban residents in 5 cities and 1,227 rural residents in 4 provinces and found that perceived risk for influenza A(H7N9) was low. The highest rate of exposure to live poultry was reported in Guangzhou, where 47% of those surveyed reported visiting a live poultry market > or =1 times in the previous year. Most (77%) urban respondents reported that they visited live markets less often after influenza A(H7N9) cases were first identified in China in March 2013, but only 30% supported permanent closure of the markets to control the epidemic. In rural areas, 48% of respondents reported that they raised backyard poultry. Exposure to live commercial and private poultry is common in urban and rural China and remains a potential risk factor for human infection with novel influenza viruses.