SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Magnetic and Dielectric Studies on Cobalt Substituted BiFeO3

This thesis presents the study of structural, surface morphology, electric, magnetic, magnetoelectric and magnetodielectric properties of Cobalt substituted multiferroic BiFeO3.
Since their discovery, multiferroics have brought tremendous interest among the researchers due to the coexistence of various ferroic order parameters. The synchronization of the magnetic and electric order parameter, hence generating magnetoelectric coupling, has been of importance in particular. Various functional devices aiming at the coupling between the ferroelectric and ferromagnetic order parameter are underway. Among all, the perovskite oxides (ABO3) based multiferroics are of prime interest due to their ease of synthesis and easy to understand physical interactions due to their simple structure.
Bismuth Ferrite (BiFeO3), is a prototype ABO3 type multiferroic material, possessing the ferroelectric Curie temperature (Tc) ~ 1103K and antiferromagnetic Neel temperature (TN) ~ 643K. It exhibits a weak net magnetization as the G- type magnetic ordering is superimposed with an incommensurate cycloidal spin structure having the periodicity of 62nm. The chemical substitution is considered as one of the alternatives for enhancing the net magnetization via disruption of the cycloidal chain. Among the various B–site substitution, the Co substituted BiFeO3 is found to be very rare in the literature.
Refresh pausing in DRAM memory systems

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) cells rely on periodic refresh operations to maintain data integrity. As the capacity of DRAM memories has increased, so has the amount of time consumed in doing refresh. Refresh operations contend with read operations, which increases read latency and reduces system performance. We show that eliminating latency penalty due to refresh can improve average performance by 7.2%. However, simply doing intelligent scheduling of refresh operations is ineffective at obtaining significant performance improvement. This article provides an alternative and scalable option to reduce the latency penalty due to refresh. It exploits the property that each refresh operation in a typical DRAM device internally refreshes multiple DRAM rows in JEDEC-based distributed refresh mode. Therefore, a refresh operation has well-defined points at which it can potentially be Paused to service a pending read request. Leveraging this property, we propose Refresh Pausing , a solution that is highly effective at alleviating the contention from refresh operations. It provides an average performance improvement of 5.1% for 8Gb devices and becomes even more effective for future high-density technologies. We also show that Refresh Pausing significantly outperforms the recently proposed Elastic Refresh scheme.
Case study of using boundary integration technique in reservoir modeling of single- and two-phase immiscible fluid flow

Abstract Petroleum reservoir simulation is a process of modeling the complex physical phenomena inside a reservoir. The goal is to determine how hydrocarbons and water behave and how local reservoir characteristics affect the oil and gas recovery in the reservoir. This study presents an application of two rigorous analytical based numerical schemes in petroleum engineering, so called the Boundary Element Method (BEM) and its hybrid form, the Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method (DRBEM). They are proven to be able to provide a computationally efficient means of handling single- and multi-phase flow in a homogeneous medium through the comparison with results obtained by COMSOL. The accuracy can be further enhanced by incorporating singularity programming and Laplace transformation techniques; hence an alleviation of numerical errors caused by singularities and a time derivative is achieved. It is observed that these two methods can be an alternative tool to analyze pressure transient performance in both single- and multi-phase flow, and estimate the saturation change during an immiscible displacement process. In addition, it has been shown that there are numerous potential areas of oil recovery where COMSOL can be a useful and successful means of research and design advancement.
On theorizing transitional justice: responses to Walker, Hull, Metz and Hellsten

ABSTRACTTransitional justice encompasses a global body of scholarship and practice that concentrates on responses to large-scale wrongdoing in the context of an attempted shift from conflict and/or repression. In my book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (2017) I argue that transitional justice is a distinctive type of justice. Transitional justice requires the just pursuit of societal transformation. I define transformation relationally, as the terms defining interaction among citizens and between citizens and officials. Transformation is necessary because of the presence of pervasive structural inequality and wrongdoing. Transformation is a practical possibility because of the uncertainty characteristic of transitions. Processes of transitional justice pursue transformation by dealing with past wrongs. The just pursuit of societal transformation requires heeding the moral claims of victims and moral demands on perpetrators. In this paper, I address four issues raised by Sirkku Hellsten...
Alternative energy and natural resources in determining environmental sustainability: a look at the role of government final consumption expenditures in France

The global community is concerned about several environmental changes. Climate change, desertification, destruction of tropical rainforests, erosion of coastal ecosystems, soil resource loss, overfishing, species extinction, and loss of biodiversity are all contributing factors. Many commentators contend that these issues make up a cumulative, sustained human impact on the environment that has profoundly changed the surface of the Earth. We explore the effects of alternative energy sources, natural resources, and government consumption expenditures on French environmental sustainability from 1990 through 2018 under the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) framework. We apply advanced econometric methodologies for empirical analysis. Our long-run estimates indicate that alternative and nuclear energy, natural resources, and government final consumption expenditures are negatively associated with CO2 emissions, while economic growth is positively related to CO2 emissions. CO2 emissions are negatively correlated with the square root of economic growth (EKC), thereby supporting EKC. As economic growth increases, environmental sustainability deteriorates. Eventually, EKC will make a positive contribution to environmental improvement. Future research directions, research limitations, and policy implications are discussed.
Développement du modèle d’affaires internationalisation du système informatique pour la gestion des projets de construction pour OPTeam S.A.

La portée matérielle de ce projet prévoit l’achat de services de conseil visant à développer un nouveau modèle d’affaires lié à l’internationalisation des opérations d’OPTeam dans le domaine de la vente d’un système informatique spécialisé pour la gestion globale des projets de construction. Le résultat final sera de fournir à l’entreprise une stratégie globale de développement des exportations pour le système de gestion des projets de construction sur les marchés étrangers recommandés. Le résultat des analyses et des recherches sur les marchés étrangers sera, entre autres, une indication de la position concurrentielle de l’entreprise, l’identification des marchés cibles potentiels et leur mise en œuvre, le développement du concept d’entrée sur le marché étranger, l’indication des outils et méthodes de marketing et de promotion les plus efficaces, la recherche des événements internationaux les plus efficaces et la possibilité d’obtenir des sources de financement externe des activités d’exportation.
Thermal performance of building envelope of ready-made garments (RMG) factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract In this research the thermal performance of ready-made garments (RMG) factory building's envelope has been measured on the basis of internationally established indoor thermal comfort range for the workers. A three-dimensional model has been developed to conduct thermal simulations for typical RMG factory. The simulated factory has been divided into three different zones based on their activities and results have been analyzed by means of statistical distributions. Two types of variables were considered in this study, these were ‘thickness of the exterior wall’ and ‘type of the local construction materials’. Nineteen different exterior wall construction types have been observed through simulations. Prior to the simulations, thermal properties of available local materials were measured in the laboratory. From the analysis, it was found that change of building exterior wall materials and their constructions have significant contributions on the indoor thermal environment of RMG factory building particularly in production spaces. It was also observed that in brick constructions using 2nd class local brick's potentially results in higher indoor temperature leading to poor thermal condition. However, the thermal performance of 3rd class local brick constructions has been found relatively better than other types because of porosity and physical properties of the materials used.
Youcount - empowering youth and cocreating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science

In Europe, and globally, substantial numbers of young people are at risk of social exclusion, and there is therefore a pressing need to develop more knowledge and innovation to create more inclusive and youth-friendly societies. Citizen social science might contribute to these needs, but the actual outcomes of citizen social science and its innovative potential is uncertain.  

YOUCOUNT will therefore, through cocreative youth citizen social science (Y-CSS) including youths in the age of 15- 29 years as citizen scientists, produce new knowledge of positive drivers for social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion, and cocreate innovations and policy-making. Moreover, to provide evidence of the actual outcomes of Y-CSS through hands on citizen science activities. 

The project includes four substudies: 1) Development of a framework for Y-CSS together with a transdisciplinary consortium and multilevel platform of key experts and stakeholders in a European and international setting. 2) Implementation of a multiple case study of Y-CSS projects in nine countries across Europe where over 900 young citizen scientists and nine local living labs will cocreate innovations together. 3) Mixed-methods evaluation of the outcomes and impact of the Y-CSS activities, and a multi-criteria assessment of the costs and benefits of Y-CSS, and 4) Creation of social and scientific impact through widespread scaling up and continuity. These activities will lead to robust knowledge and scientifically reasoned measures to promote Y-CSS and social change. The project will support dissemination and education in Y- CSS, and make synergies with other CS related projects and initiatives, in particularly with citizen social science.
Uma poesia de exportação: Pau-Brasil na Itália

O poeta italiano Giuseppe Ungaretti viveu, entre 1937 e 1942, em São Paulo, dando aulas de Literatura Italiana na recém-criada Universidade de São Paulo. Não conseguindo escrever versos próprios dedicou-se furiosamente à tradução. De volta a Itália, começou a publicar as traduções por ele realizadas de poetas brasileiros, fossem eles pertencentes à tradição ou aos seus contemporâneos. Entre estes, traduziu e publicou Pau-Brasil, de Oswald de Andrade. Neste artigo, tentamos compreender quais foram as afinidades eletivas que uniram os dois poetas, aparentemente tão distantes, e descrever a atitude adotada por Ungaretti para enfrentar a tradução.
The global Middle and Late Miocene and the deep earth: Model for earlier orogenies

Abstract The 11 Ma Middle and Late Miocene interval forms only 2% of Phanerozoic time but includes two broadly contemporaneous global orogenies—one reaching across southern Eurasia and the other spanning the Circumpacific. These two global orogenies caused many global events, and because they are close to us in time, causality links between these orogenies and these far scattered events are much more apparent than in older orogenies. These teleconnections include establishment of the present world oceanic current system; the beginnings of oceanic cooling at 14 Ma; an increase in hemipelagic mud bordering the continents; changes in continental tilts and river systems; great biological changes; increased desertification; replacement of C 3 by C 4 grasses; a major shift in siliceous microfossils from the Atlantic to the Pacific at 15 Ma; and first development of the earliest hominids in East Africa starting at 10 Ma. In addition, spreading rates of oceanic ridges increased, volcanism increased, there was movement along many transform faults, and continental elevations increased. Short, bulleted statements set forth these near and far field events. Immediate causes were increased rates of plate motions and/or changes of directions. Only a strong, short 11 Ma pulse of heat from the Earth's core provides the logical ultimate source of this energy. Only such a pulse of heat from the core has sufficient magnitude and acts globally. Thus the deep Earth cycle is a plausible, easy-to-understand, overarching explanation that should be increasingly considered by geologists and geophysicists studying the outer crust. A flow diagram links major earth surface features on the continents to the deep earth. Alternative explanations for these events are considered and seem totally inadequate.
Zoledronic acid combined with androgen-deprivation therapy may prolong time to castration-resistant prostate cancer in hormone-naïve metastatic prostate cancer patients – A propensity scoring approach

To clarify the oncological benefit of zoledronic acid for hormone-naïve metastatic prostate cancer, patient outcome of androgen deprivation therapy with zoledronic acid (ADT + Z) and androgen deprivation therapy alone (ADT) was compared.Fifty-two patients with pathologically confirmed metastatic prostate cancer were prospectively enrolled and treated with combined androgen blockade (goserelin and bicalutamide) with zoledronic acid (4 mg every 4 weeks for 24 months). A propensity score-match with logistic regression analysis was applied to select 50 pair-matched cohorts (both from ADT + Z and from historical control cohorts who had undergone ADT alone), and patient outcomes were compared.Patients with ADT + Z had significantly longer time to progression (TTP) than those with ADT (median TTP; 24.2 vs. 14.0 months, p = 0.0092), while no significant difference of overall survival between two groups (p = 0.1502). Multivariate analysis for biochemical recurrence revealed treatment with ADT was the sole independent prognostic factor (HR: 1.724, 95% CI: 1.06-2.86, p = 0.0297).Combination of zoledronic acid with ADT may prolong time to castration resistant prostate cancer.
Open Network for Mediterranean Sustainable Tourism 2

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Tourism is an important sector of the economy in the Mediterranean region and in some cases it significantly contributes to local development representing the main source of income for local populations. However, the Mediterranean model is still based on mass tourism with a concentration in time and in a limited number of destinations mostly related to coastal areas. In order to contribute to the diversification of tourism offer, ONMEST 2 project aims to enhance minor destinations such as Ipsica (Italy), Kalavrita (Greece), Alcaraz (Spain), Kadisha Valley (Lebanon), Birzeit (Palestine), Umm Qais (Jordan) and Béja (Tunisia), and turn them into ‘Centers of Local Culture’ as privileged places of sustainable tourism. _x000D_
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To enhance the minor tourist destinations in marginal geographical areas in Italy, Greece, Spain, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia and turn them into ‘Centers of Local Culture’ as privileged places of sustainable tourism
HANDLE DEVICE

The invention relates to a handle device for a closing device of a vehicle, comprising a handle part (10) which is displaceably mounted in relation to the door (5) of the vehicle, an overall opening (8) which is provided inside the door (5) and through which the handle part (10) at least partially extends which can be displaced between a rest position (11) and an operational position (12, 13). According to the invention, a cover arrangement (80) is fixed to the handle part (10) on the outer side (6) of the door (5).
Awareness Coverage Control Over Large-Scale Domains With Intermittent Communications

In this paper, a novel dynamic awareness model is proposed and applied to coverage control over large-scale task domains using a decentralized multi-vehicle sensor network with intermittent communications and/or faulty sensors. For each vehicle, an individual state of awareness is defined. The individual vehicle's state of awareness continuously evolves based on the vehicle's motion and is updated at discrete instants whenever the vehicle establishes a communication link with other vehicles. This information sharing update step aids in reducing the amount of redundant coverage. Based on this awareness model, a decentralized control strategy is proposed that guarantees that every point within the task domain will be covered with a satisfactory state of awareness under intermittent communications and/or faulty sensors. We demonstrate the results using numerical simulations.
Crg international research postdoctoral programme

INTREPiD is an innovative 5-year Fellowship Programme that aims at recruiting 12 experienced researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) located in the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), one of the largest biomedical research clusters in southern Europe. Fellows will be selected following an open, transparent, and merit-based process, based on international peer-review, and offered attractive working conditions in line with the European Charter and Code (the CRG was awarded the HR Excellence in 2013). Selected researchers will be able to develop their own project under the supervision of the group leader they select. They will be offered international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial mobility opportunities in a highly creative and dynamic environment supported by cutting-edge core facilities and a vibrant network of collaborators from academia and the private sector. INTREPiD will provide tailored mentoring and a comprehensive training programme, including up-to-date scientific and technological courses in a wide range of topics and disciplines, and modules on transferable skills, entrepreneurship, open science and career development. Mobility to national and international academic and non-academic institutes will be encouraged, in one of the partner organisations or in institutes that research labs collaborate with. Overall, the INTREPiD Programme will provide fellows unique skills and competences for developing a successful career in both the academic and non-academic sector. Thanks to the large CRG network of collaborators locally and internationally, the Programme will also catalyse sharing of best practice in experienced researchers training programmes across different institutes.
Large scale interactive multi-touch displays

There is currently an established worldwide market worth annually more than $2 billion for interactive whiteboards. These whiteboards are mainly used in schools and other educational establishments. The end-users expect that a new generation of interactive whiteboards will support multi-touch finger input, yet current touch sensing solutions, while adding thousands of dollars to the cost of a large display, are striving to meet the technical specification for multi-touch interfaces. Our technology will disrupt this existing market. Alterix has invented a novel, highly efficient and low-cost electronic solution for measuring touch inputs.  By achieving a hundred-fold increase in the measurement speed compared to the touch interfaces commonly used in tablets and mobile phones, our technology scales easily to large displays with  diagonal sizes up to 250cm and is compatible with interactive whiteboards and flat-panel TVs. To serve the educational market the cost of interactive transparent TV display overlays must be reduced by replacing the indium – a critical raw material in short supply - which otherwise would be used to build the transparent sensor grid. To achieve this goal Alterix is transferring the inexpensive technology for making laminated ultrafine (nearly invisible) wires developed in the last decade for heating the windscreens of modern cars.  

It is now of strategic importance for Alterix to study the feasibility of establishing a functional supply chain, preferably within Germany and Portugal, for manufacturing TV display overlays and interactive whiteboards at the affordable cost point, validate possible issues with the manufacturing yields caused by novel aspects of the integration of large area electronics, and to articulate the company’s commercialisation plans. The outcomes of the project will help to establish a pilot production capability and to secure further investment in scaling up our business with possible support from Phase 2 funding.
Central European Crowd-funding Support

Project starts from the main challenge of unused crowdfunding (CF) potential, especially in the eastern part of CE countries. The project&#39;s main objective is to improve skills and competences of all 4  relevant stakeholder groups to prepare them for taking advantage of crowdfunding phenomena. Change will be visible in improved financial conditions for start-ups fostering innovation, employment and social stability in the region. Focus will be on economically weaker businessess with fewer opportunities, who do not have access to bank loans, but with use CF would be able to start business ideas. CF also minimizes business risk-taking and increases entrepreneurship mind-set.

Outputs and results of the project are closely connected with beneficiaries:
-Crowdfunding platform operators: increased institutional competences with providing minimum platform standards, minimizing cross-border barriers for CF, raising professional competences with exchange of experiences;
-SMEs and start ups: increased competences for CF fundraising with trainings, guidelines, advising, pre-funding check and supporting CF campaigns;
-Citizens (CF investors): increased safety by better understanding of benefits and risks;
-Policy makers: increased decision making competences: regional action plans for CF support, proposals for legislation improvements, contribution from CE to EU level.

Project is innovative in its approach of balanced raising CF capacities of all 4 relevant stakeholder groups by knowledge sharing and learning from the most advanced. Based on raised capacities the innovation system will have better foundation for development.

Crowdfunding is global phenomena, therefore it cannot be properly addressed on national level. Other reason for transnational approach is opportunity for knowledge transfer along east-west divide.