SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Server-aided signatures verification secure against collusion attack

Wireless handheld devices which support e-mail and web browsing are increasingly popular. The authenticity of the information received is important, especially for business uses. In server-aided verification (SAV), a substantial part of the verification computation can be offloaded to a powerful but possibly untrusted server. This allows resource-constrained devices to enjoy the security guarantees provided by cryptographic schemes, such as pairing-based signatures, which may be too heavyweight to verify otherwise.To gain unfair advantage, an adversary may bribe the server to launch various kinds of attacks --- to convince that an invalid signature held by a client is a valid one (say for providing false information or repudiable commitment) or to claim that a valid signature is invalid (say for spoiling the offer provided by an opponent). However, these concerns are not properly captured by existing security models.In this paper, we provide a generic pairing-based SAV protocol. Compared with the protocol of Girault and Lefranc in Asiacrypt '05, ours provides a higher level of security yet applicable to a much wider class of pairing-based cryptosystems. In particular, it suggests SAV protocols for short signatures in the standard model and aggregate signatures which have not been studied before.
Targeted engineering of stone fruit tree genomes for resistance to sharka

Plant viruses cause an estimated 50 billion € loss worldwide per year. Viral diseases represent one of the most limiting factors in European crop production having negative effects on the quantity and quality of foodstuffs. The recent identification of plant factors required for virus infection, together with the development of functional genomic tools in several economically important crops, offer novel opportunities to protect crop plants against viral diseases.
The scope of TESS is to capitalize on the latest biotechnological tools in order to manipulate the plant/virus interactions towards non-host resistance and to match the research outputs with fruit industry and breeding applications.
TESS benefits from multidisciplinary research teams involving genomics, tissue culture, molecular biology, virology and plant breeding. It focuses on Prunus species for stone fruit trees. The originality of TESS is to test the generic mode of interference of plant viruses with their host during the infection and use this information to implement complex and durable resistance in perennial fruit tree species.
DEGASSING DEVICE HAVING AN OVERFLOW

The invention relates to a device for degassing liquid to paste-like media (1), in particular fibre suspensions in a closed container (2) which is connected to a vacuum source and which has at least one inlet (3) and at least one discharge (4) for the medium and at least one overflow (5) for separating excess medium (1). The aim is to improve the controllability of the level of the medium (1) by forming the overflow edge (6) terminating the overflow (5) at the top so as to be non-flat.
The impact of neighbourhoods, peers and families on psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders and crime in first- and second-generation immigrants

The successful integration of the high numbers of refugees is one of the most critical issues facing the EU today. We propose to identify factors at the neighbourhood-, family-, peer-, and individual-levels that may protect immigrant children, adolescents and adults from psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and crime. We have access to highly accurate and almost complete nationwide sociodemographic data from 1960-2015 including, but not limited to, country of birth, education, income, employment, and social welfare, school grades, and reason for immigration linked to nationwide inpatient- and outpatient health care data, family relations, neighbourhood socioeconomic factors and indices of 250,000 neighbourhood goods and services. These timely data are available for more than 3 million 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, including over half a million more recent immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. We will apply different causal models and our novel designs (e.g., identification of deprived immigrant enclaves, deviant peer contexts, and natural experiments) to examine our aims. We are in a unique position to carry out the entire sequence of the proposed research from direct clinical observations, formulation of novel hypotheses and use of innovative analytic methods to interpretation of findings tailored to subgroups of immigrant populations. Findings from Sweden are highly relevant to the EU as around 25% of the entire population are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants. Our findings will delineate meaningful subgroups of immigrants, including refugees, similar to those in other EU countries. Based on our results, we will develop recommendations at the neighbourhood-, family-, peer-, and individual-levels that, when tailored appropriately, will help guide EU policies and strategies, thus leading to decreased strain on health and social services, improved psychiatric health and successful integration of immigrant populations.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEAN COLD STARTING OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES

An improved starting system for internal combustion engines that normally use a liquid fuel such as gasoline. Gaseous fuels such as hydrogen, natural gas, propane, butane, and the like are used in place of the liquid fuel during engine (10) starting and for a selected period thereafter. When starting is initiated, the gasoline introduction system (33, 34, 38) is disabled and introduction of gaseous fuel is initiated. Rapid engine start promptly occurs, even under very cold ambient conditions. Once the engine (10) has started and has run for a period sufficient to reach a reasonable operating temperature, the gaseous fuel introduction system is interrupted and the gasoline system is enabled and provides the fuel thereafter. If desired gaseous fuel flow may continue for a short period after liquid fuel flow has begun.
Evaluation of Skeletal Stability Following Two-jaw Surgery via Surgery First Orthodontic Treatment in Class III Malocclusion

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the postoperative skeletal stability of two-jaw surgery (Le Fort I osteotomy and bilateral sagittal split ramus osteotomy) via surgery first orthodontic treatment (SFOT) in class III malocclusion. Methods: Thirty-two patients who had two-jaw surgery via SFOT were included in this study. Serial lateral cephalograms were obtained before (T0), immediately after (T1), and six months after (T2) surgery. Twelve variables were measured for horizontal and vertical skeletal stability as well as for dental change. All measurements were evaluated statistically by a paired t-test ( mm at point A and mm at the pogonion. The mean horizontal relapse was 11.6% at the pogonion, and the mean vertical surgical changes included an upward displacement of mm and a forward displacement of mm at the pogonion. Upper incisor inclination decreased after surgery and was maintained at T2, and lower incisors were proclined from T1 to T2 by postsurgical orthodontic treatment. Conclusion: Postoperative skeletal stability of two-jaw surgery via surgery first orthodontic treatment in class III malocclusion was clinically acceptable.
Microfluidic approaches for high-throughput fungicide screening and sensitivity testing

Fungicide development and screening is stuck in an innovation gap, in which it incurs staggering expenses and takes many years to get a fungicide to market, furthermore, many pathogens develop resistance against fungicides which necessitates the sensitivity screening and recalled fungicides. The present proposal is conceptualized to bridge the gap for high throughput (HT) screening of fungicides effectively, by designing the novel lab-on-chip device. Specifically, we will assess (i) baseline sensitivity of fungicides against phyto-pathogenic fungi, (ii) response of fungi to different doses of fungicides, (iii) antifungal effects induced on fungal conidia, (iv) specific enzyme inhibition by fungicide. The fungicide screening lab-on-a-chip will address the large and currently unmet need to model fungicide screening device, regarding the spatial and mechanical cues important for conidia. The project will be based on the state-of-the-art technical expertise of ELVESYS in microfluidic chip design and fabrication and will fully integrate the Experienced Researcher’s (ER) strong expertise with agricultural plant pathology, molecular plant-microbe interactions and fungicides design and screening to develop a HT fungicide screening chip. Testing and validation of the product will be by perfusion using a set of candidate fungicides. The development of lab-on-a-chip technology will result in increasing the pre- and in-field HT screening of fungicides for their efficacy, optimal dosing and toxicity. The device will minimize the cost of fungicide development and screening, thus reducing the economic burden in the EU area as well as having large implications on improving the production of food globally. Through this opportunity the ER will be immersed in a richly entrepreneurial environment at ELVESYS and exposed to marketing concepts. Together, these experiences will provide the ER with the optimal environment to become a leader in next generation tools for fungicide screening.
Seismic hazard assessment and rheological implications: a case study selected for cities of Saudi Arabia along the eastern coast of Red Sea

A probabilistic approach is used to evaluate the seismic hazard for 12 strategic cities in Saudi Arabia along the eastern coast of Red Sea. The focal depth variations controlled by rheological characteristics are taken into account for hazard calculations, and its creditability is tested through sensitivity analysis for hazard results. This study presents a neo-probabilistic seismic hazard assessment methodology in which the focal depth distribution of earthquakes within seismogenic layer is divided into three depth slices. These depth slices are based upon rheological characteristic of seismogenic layer. The hazard results are obtained using this depth-slice methodology and conventional approach in which uniform distribution of seismicity within seismogenic layer is assumed. The sensitivity analysis culminated in underestimation of hazard values in higher frequencies for uniform distribution of seismicity within seismogenic layer. Foregoing the observations recorded above, it can be concluded that the exploitation of depth-slices biased by the rheology to calculate hazard is relatively preferable in the situations demanding safety measures.
The European Union as a destination of Turkish migrants in 2008–2018

Abstract In the 1950s and 1960s, Europe was a popular migration destination for Turkish people due to its employment opportunities. Today, however, these labor market drivers of migration destinations in the EU-28 have been superseded. This article empirically investigates the drivers of the migration destinations of Turkish newcomers to EU countries between 2008–2018. It contributes to the literature by focusing only on Turkish newcomers, whereas other studies rely on migration stock data. Using data provided by the OECD, Eurostat, and the World Bank, the findings show that security-based and social drivers mostly attract Turkish newcomers to EU-28 destinations, specifically a demand for democracy and social networks.
IMPROVED PROCESS TO MAKE A WET-LAID ABSORBENT STRUCTURE

In accordance with the invention there is provided a process to form a nonwoven, wet-laid, superabsorbent, polymer particle-impregnated fibrous structure on a commercial scale wet-forming machine having a head box, a forming section and a drying section, the process comprising adding SAP to water and within 5 secondes of the SAP water contact, providing agitation of at least 4000 Reynolds units thereby dispersing ungelled SAP particles in a fiber furnish, delivering the furnish to a moving foraminous support, forming a wet laid web containing wetted SAP particles, draining water from the moving wet web, and conveying the web to the dryer section, wherein the maximum elapsed time from the point where SAP is mixed with water to the time the web passes into the dryer section is less than 45 seconds.
Considerations on the poor discriminatory power of the FRANCE-2 risk score

To the Editor, The developers1 of the first rigorous predictive model for mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) have overcome the limitations of the previous surgical scores. While EuroSCORE I is an old and redundant model based on data of 1995 and derived from a highly heterogeneous patient group with different operations, techniques and demographics, this predictive model is based on new results of a remarkably homogeneous population (72.4% >80 years of age and all treated with TAVI procedures).1 Moreover, while EuroSCORE II developers included variables that were not significantly associated with the event by multivariate regression and did not analyse some important variables, …
Deviating from the Norm: Peculiarities ofAplysia cf. californicaEarly Cleavage Compared to Traditional Spiralian Models

Spiralia represents one of the main clades of bilaterally symmetrical metazoans (Bilateria). This group is of particular interest due to the remarkable conservation of its early developmental pattern despite of the high diversity of larval and adult body plans. Variations during embryogenesis are considered powerful tools to determine ancestral and derived characters under a phylogenetic framework. By direct observation of embryos cultured in vitro, we analyzed the early cleavage of the euopisthobranchs Aplysia cf. californica. We used tubulin immunocytochemistry to stain mitotic spindles during early cleavages, and followed each division with the aid of an autofluorescent compound inside yolk platelets, which differed from the characteristic pink-brownish pigment of the vegetal cytoplasm in zygotes and early embryos. We found that this species exhibits an unequal cleavage characterized by ooplasmic segregation, oblique inclination of mitotic spindles, and differences in size and positioning of the asters in relation to the cellular cortex. Furthermore, we detected asynchrony in cleavage timing between the two large macromeres C and D, which increases the number of cleavage rounds required to reach a particular cell stage in comparison to other spiralians. Here, we report the presence of a transient and previously undescribed U-shaped embryo in this species. The present detailed description of A. californica early development deviates considerably from stereotypical patterns described in other spiralians. Our observations demonstrate that early spiralian development can be more plastic than previously thought.
Strategia di progettazione come opportunità di sviluppo per la Farmacia Kasperkiewicz Staszów

Questo progetto riguarda l'esecuzione di un audit di progettazione, consistente in un'analisi esperta della società Farmacia Tomasz Kasperkiewicz Staszów, in breve (A.T.K. Staszów), che indicherà ulteriori prospettive per aumentare il potenziale di maggiore competitività derivante dall'applicazione del design nei servizi offerti dall'azienda. Come risultato dell'audit, verrà sviluppata una strategia di progettazione — un documento completo che indicherà conclusioni, suggerimenti e raccomandazioni per l'ulteriore sviluppo dell'azienda, comprese le attività di progettazione. A.T.K. Staszów è una catena di farmacie che hanno una tradizione multigenerazionale. L'attività commerciale è svolta nella vendita al dettaglio di medicinali, dispositivi medici, integratori alimentari, parafarmaceutici e materiali di medicazione. Ha un marchio riconosciuto sul mercato e un ampio gruppo di destinatari dei servizi forniti. A causa della necessità di cambiamenti globali e di diversificazione dell'offerta nelle sue operazioni esistenti, l'azienda ha bisogno di supporto, che comporta il coinvolgimento delle attività di progettazione. Al fine di sviluppare soluzioni favorevoli, è necessario approfondire l'analisi strutturale del business condotto, sviluppare nuove direzioni di sviluppo e adeguare le tendenze attuali alle condizioni dell'azienda. La società A.T.K. Staszów ha effettuato un contratto pubblico pubblicato sul portale PARP. A seguito dell'annuncio, è stata selezionata una società di revisione contabile, che ha presentato un'offerta vincolante. Le attività di audit saranno svolte nel periodo dal 01.03. al 31.8.2018. Il valore del progetto è di 98 400,00 PLN, di cui il valore della sovvenzione è di 68 000,00 PLN.
AIUTI PER L'ATTIVITÃ DI PRODUZIONE PRODOTTI ALIMENTARI - PSL00070

L'INTERVENTO HA RIGUARDATO L'ACQUISTO DI MACCHINARI INNOVATIVI PER PRODUZIONE PRODOTTI ALIMENTARI (PASTI PRONTI) DA AFFIANCARE ALL'ATTIVITÃ DI CATERING
Light and electron microscopic study of the toxic effect of prolonged lead exposure on the seminiferous tubules of albino rats and the possible protective effect of ascorbic acid

Lead has been long recognized as an occupational toxicant. Now, lead is considered to be one of the major environmental pollutants which have serious potential threat to human health. Reports of declining male fertility have renewed interest in the role of environmental and occupational exposures in the etiology of human infertility.The aim of the present work was to investigate the toxic effect of prolonged exposure to lead on albino rat's seminiferous tubules and the possible protective effect of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) on lead toxicity.The study was carried out on 40 adult male albino rats divided into three groups: a control group which comprised three subgroups; negative control which received no treatment and two positive controls receiving an oral daily dose of distilled water or ascorbic acid, respectively. Lead acetate--intoxicated group received lead acetate orally in a dose of 25 mg/kg b.w dissolved in distilled water for 3 months. While the protected group received ascorbic acid orally in a dose of 100 mg/kg b.w daily for 3 months, simultaneously with lead acetate in a similar dose to that of the intoxicated group. By the end of the experimental period, blood samples were collected for estimation of blood lead level. Fresh specimens were taken from the testis and processed for light and electron microscopic examination.Biochemical analysis demonstrated significant increase in the blood lead level in lead intoxicated group compared to the control group, while ascorbic acid--protected group revealed significant decrease in the blood lead level. Light microscopic examination of lead treated group revealed loss of normal architecture of the testicular tissue in the form of thin walled seminiferous tubules with wide lumen and vacuolations in the spermatogenic epithelium mostly separating primary spermatocytes from spermatogonia and surrounding nuclei of Sertoli cells. Apoptotic bodies were found among the basal part of the spermatogenic epithelium. Ultrastructural examination of the same group revealed degenerating cells with cytoplasmic vacuolations, apoptotic cells with heterochromatic nuclei and dense cytoplasm, irregularities in the basal lamina with increased collagen deposition and shrunken myoid cells. Late differentiating spermatids showed deformed head with widening of the subacrosomal space and redundant acrosome, in addition to the abnormalities in the tail of developing sperms. On the other hand, ascorbic acid--protected group showed amelioration of most of the degenerative changes depicted in the lead intoxicated group.Lead had an injurious effect on the testis of the exposed animals. Simultaneous administration of ascorbic acid was efficient in preventing most of such toxic effect and decreasing the blood lead level. Therefore, ascorbic acid can be recommended for protection against lead intoxication.
CATION COMPLEXES BETWEEN CATION GUESTS AND POLYMER HOSTS THAT CONTAIN CYCLIC ETHER UNITS

Cation complexes that comprise a cation guest and a polydentate polymeric host. The host contains 2,5-diyl, 2,6-diyl, or combinations of 2,5- and 2,6-diyl units to provide specified arrays of hereto atoms. Complexes of the invention employ the above-mentioned host thereby overcoming the need to utilize different host materials for different cation guests. The complexes of the invention are stable. Complexes of the invention are useful in rendering cation-containing salts soluble in organic solvents; enhancing the reactivity of cation-containing salts in nucleophilic substitution reactions; modifying solid surfaces to render them more organophilic; and forming stable suspension and dispersions of particulate solids in organic solvents.
Evaluation of large display interaction using smart phones

Visual analytics, “the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by visual interactive interfaces” [5], puts high demands on the applications visualization as well as interaction capabilities. Due to their size large high-resolution screens have become popular display devices, especially when used in collaborative data analysis scenarios. However, traditional interaction methods based on combinations of computer mice and keyboards often do not scale to the number of users or the size of the display. Modern smart phones featuring multi-modal input/output and considerable memory offer a way to address these issues. In the last couple of years they have become common everyday life gadgets. In this paper we conduct an extensive user study comparing the experience of test candidates when using traditional input devices and metaphors with the one when using new smart phone based techniques, like multi-modal drag and tilt. Candidates were asked to complete various interaction tasks relevant for most applications on a large, monitor-based, high-resolution tiled wall system. Our study evaluates both user performance and satisfaction, identifying strengths and weaknesses of the researched interaction methods in specific tasks. Results reveal good performance of users in certain tasks when using the new interaction techniques. Even first-time users were able to complete a task faster with the smart phone than with traditional devices.
Enhancement and HF Doppler observations of sporadic-Eduring the solar eclipse of 22 July 2009

[1] The sporadic E (Es) frequently emerging in midlatitude during summer is a very special layer in the ionosphere, and its formation mechanism is different to from that of other layers. The total solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 provided a very unique opportunity to study the relationship of Es and solar radiation. During the solar eclipse day and the days before and after, the vertical incidence ionosonde was located in Wuhan to record the ionograms for this event. Two oblique incidence high-frequency radio systems were used to record the waves from Wuhan to Suzhou and from Wuhan to Huaian. The enhancement of Es during the eclipse period was observed in the vertical and oblique incidence ionograms. The quasi-periodic fluctuations in the critical frequency and Doppler frequency shift curves indicated the possible existence of the gravity waves, which may be responsible for the Es enhancement. However, we find that the enhancement occurred earlier than the appearance of gravity waves and consider that there may be other mechanisms which contribute to the observed enhancement in the ionosphere. A hypothesis is put forward that the cooling effect of the lunar shadow induced powerful airflow from the northern and southern limits of the shadow toward its center, which accelerated the irregularities in Es to produce the large-scale Doppler shift in the reflected waves and form the meridional windshear. Both the windshear and the gravity waves may affect the Es layer and increase the electron concentration. Many observed phenomena are in accordance with this.