SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Evaluación de riesgo sistémico y niveles de metahemoglobina en niños que consumen agua contaminada por nitratos

The Comarca Lagunera is considered the most important milk producing area in the north of the country and had to fertilize the fields with nitrogenous substances to cover the demand of food for cattle fodder polluting the aquifer of Ciudad Juarez, Durango, which is the short term hydrological reserve, as the main aquifer is contaminated by arsenic. The aim of this research was to evaluate the systemic risk and methemoglobin levels in children aged 1-12 years who consume water contaminated with N-NO-3. 11 wells were sampled for human consumption and 51 for agricultural use. There were three exposure scenarios: in drinking water, low with 0-3, mid 3.1-11.8, high >11.8mg / L of N-NO- 3, and agricultural wells with low 3, mid 64, high-124mg / L of N-NO-3. From 1750 children who reside in ten communities, a sample of 346 children was taken, at different exposure levels. The results showed that 45% of the wells represented health risk as they have values greater than 1, according to hazard ratio. Of all children who were studied, 150 had detectable levels of methemoglobin, 97 of these were male (64.6%) and 53 female (35.4%), some factors can potentiate the increase in methemoglobin levels as well water intake OR = 1.87 p <0.18 found detectable levels of methemoglobin from 11.8 mg / L of N-NO-3and an increased risk for male OR = 1.5 p <0.05. Keywords. nitrate nitrogen, water, methemoglobinemia, gender, risk evaluation
COMPOSITE FAN INLET BLADE CONTAINMENT

A ribbed composite shell (1 10) includes an annular grid (1 12) of relatively thick crack arresting ribs (1 14) embedded in a relatively thin annular shell (120) and relatively thin panels (1 18) in thin annular shell (120) between arresting ribs (114) wherein each of panels (1 18) are completely surrounded by a set (122) of relatively thick adjoining ones of ribs (116). A shell forward flange (54) may extend radially inwardly from thin annular shell (120). Arresting ribs (1 14) may include radially stacked layers of strips (126) between radially stacked annular layers (128) of shell (110). Annular grid (1 12) may include a rectangular grid pattern (138), a diamond grid pattern (148), or a hexagonal grid pattern (158). A nacelle inlet (25) may have the ribbed composite shell (1 10) within one or both of radially spaced apart composite inner and outer skins (60, 62) of an inner barrel (40). Nacelle inlet (25) may be part of attached to a fan casing (16) and axially disposed forward of fan blades (18) circumscribed by the casing (16). The inlet (25) may be on an engine nacelle.
Future changes in precipitation over East Asia projected by the global atmospheric model MRI-AGCM3.2

We conducted global warming projections using global atmospheric models with high-horizontal resolution of 20-km (MRI-AGCM3.2S, the 20-km model) and 60-km (MRI-AGCM3.2H, the 60-km model) grid sizes. For the present-day climate of 21 years from 1983 to 2003, models were forced with observed historical sea surface temperatures (SST). For the future climate of 21 years from 2079 to 2099, models were forced with future SST distributions projected by the models of the Fifth phase of Couple Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). Ensemble simulations for four different SST distributions and three different cumulus convection schemes were conducted to evaluate the uncertainty of projection. The simulations consistently project the increase of precipitation over eastern China for almost all months. In June, precipitation decreases over Japan and increases over the ocean to the south of Japan. The geographical distribution of precipitation change tends to depend relatively on the cumulus convection scheme and horizontal resolution of models rather than on SST distributions. The time evolution of pentad mean precipitation over Japan indicates the delay in the onset of Japanese rainy season in June. This delay can be attributed to the decrease of water vapor transport toward Japan associated with the southward shift of the subtropical high. Change in the subtropical high can be interpreted as the southward shift of the local Hadley circulation. The intensity of precipitation increases over most part of East Asia, while the possibility of drought will increase over Japan, the East China Sea and the area to the south of Japan.
REAR PART FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE AND UTILITY VEHICLE WITH SUCH A REAR PART

The present invention relates to a rear part for a utility vehicle (1), wherein the rear part (3) comprises a coupling module (12) for fixedly coupling the rear part (3) to a front part (2) of the utility vehicle (1), a floor (10) extending in a planar manner in the longitudinal and width directions of the rear part (3), a superstructure (11) which is erected over the floor (10) and delimits a loading compartment (36) for goods to be transported, and at least one functional module (13, 14, 15, 16) which is arranged on the lower side of the floor (10) facing away from the superstructure (11), and to a utility vehicle (1) with such a rear part (3). The rear part according to the invention makes it possible to improve at least one component of the superstructure of utility vehicles assembled from a front part and a rear part in such a manner that the manufacturing outlay is reduced while the flexibility in the configuration of the utility vehicles is increased. This is achieved in that the coupling module (12) and the respective functional module (13, 14, 15, 16) are fastened directly to the floor (10), and the floor (10) and the superstructure (11) form a self-supporting unit which bridges the distance between the coupling module (12) and the respective functional module (13, 14, 15, 16) in an unsupported manner.
The Maya Forest: Destroyed or cultivated by the ancient Maya?

Both academic and popular perceptions concerning the relationship between the Maya (ancient and modern) and the Maya Forest in which their culture developed and persisted for more than three millennia are varied and continuously subject to change (1). The analysis of a sediment core from a pond located near the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, interpreted by McNeil et al. (2) in this issue of PNAS, offers a unique perspective on long-term interactions between the Maya and their environment. The results of this study demonstrate how refinement of methods and extension of time frames can provide dramatic reinterpretations of scenarios that have become engrained in both academic and popular perceptions about the Maya. Whereas the pollen analysis presented and interpreted by McNeil et al. (2) cannot be expected to provide a full picture of the Maya Forest and how it may have been managed, it does provide sound and convincing evidence that the Late Classic Maya at Copan did not foolishly strip away the forest and destroy their environment as portrayed in Jared Diamond’s best-selling book (3) and taught in our children’s classrooms. Among academics, we generally recognize that the results of our research represent what we hope to be the best interpretation of currently available data, and that our interpretations will be subject to modifications as new data and methods are developed. At the same time, our initial interpretations, often based on very limited data, are picked up and amplified in the public realm through books and movies that influence audiences a thousand-fold greater than the readers of our obscure academic publications. I was recently a reviewer for California Education and the Environment Curriculum for seventh grade classes that would be taught about the rise and fall of Pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas, with a strong focus on the ancient Maya. One of the primary lessons in the curriculum was how the ancient Maya exemplified uncontrolled destruction of the environment and the consequent collapse of their civilization. This lesson was based in large part on the earlier interpretation of a sediment core from Copan (4). Dramatic swings in our interpretations concerning the historical ecology of the Maya Lowlands will continue, at least until enough studies, such as the one presented by McNeil et al. (2), are conducted and published.
Catalytic Treatment of Dye Bearing Wastewater

Zeolite catalyst was synthesized from the fly ash, and it was used for thermal treatment and catalytic wet oxidation (CWO) of congo red dye bearing wastewater. Effects of various operating parameters like temperature, pH, H 2 O 2 concentration and catalyst loading was observed on chemical oxygen demand (COD) and color removal at pH 2 and temperature 70°C with 4 ml dm -3 H 2 O 2 and 4 gm dm -3 catalyst. Maximum 99.52% dye and 88% COD removal was obtained. Between CWO and catalytic thermolysis, the CWO was found to give better result. Keywords: dye wastewater, congo red, thermolysis, wet oxidation
Ultra-Bright thin-film light emitting devices and lasers

Thin-film light sources such as OLEDs are extremely valuable, as, in contrast to III-V crystalline LEDs, they can be precisely designed and dimensioned, as single components or in massive arrays, into any target application without the need of hetero-assembly. Unfortunately, their light power density remains about 300 times smaller than that of III-V LEDs. Also, none of today’s thin-film light sources could ever be brought to lasing by electrical pumping.

It is the objective of this project to break through the barriers that limit the brightness of thin-film light sources and to achieve lasing by electrical pumping (“injection lasing”) in such sources.

Our first target is to create a high-brightness (30W/cm2) thin-film light-emitting device. For the emission layer, we propose a perovskite semiconductor with controlled quantum-confinement features (wells or dots). It will be integrated into a novel light-emitting device, in which electron and hole injection are separately controlled by gates, such that a perfect charge balance is achieved up to the highest current densities.

Our next target is to create a thin-film injection laser. We present several innovative strategies to lower the lasing threshold. The emission layer of our light-emitting device will be shaped as a ring resonator with ultra-low optical losses. The gates will be patterned to spatially modulate the carrier injection in the emission layer, which will efficiently restrict the pumping to few selected modes. Further elaborations of cavity designs can lead to mode-locking. Combined with the efficiency of the quantum-confined perovskite emission layer in producing optical gain, these features will reduce the lasing threshold current density to below 100 A/cm2, within reach of our thin-film device.

These novel devices will serve numerous applications in the fields of sensing and ICT, by enabling massive optical interconnects, augmented reality displays, on-chip sensing and more.
3D object classification using salient point patterns with application to craniofacial research

This paper presents a new 3D shape representation and classification methodology developed for use in craniofacial dysmorphology studies. The methodology computes low-level features at each point of a 3D mesh representation, aggregates the features into histograms over mesh neighborhoods, learns the characteristics of salient point histograms for each particular application, and represents the points in a 2D spatial map based on a longitude-latitude transformation. Experimental results on the medical classification tasks show that our methodology achieves higher classification accuracy compared to medical experts and existing state-of-the-art 3D descriptors. Additional experimental results highlight the strength and advantage of the flexible framework that allows the methodology to generalize from specific medical classification tasks to general 3D object classification tasks.
Additional file 4 of Patterns of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella isolates from fattening pigs in Spain

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3d/4f Coordination Clusters as Cooperative Catalysts for Highly Diastereoselective Michael Addition Reactions

Michael addition (MA) is one of the most well studied chemical transformation in synthetic chemistry. Here, we report the synthesis and crystal structures of a library of 3d/4f coordination clusters (CCs) formulated as [ZnII2YIII2L4(solv)X(Z)Y] and study their catalytic properties toward the MA of nitrostyrenes with barbituric acid derivatives. Each CC presents two borderline hard/soft Lewis acidic ZnII centers and two hard Lewis acidic YIII centers in a defect dicubane topology that brings the two different metals into a proximity of ∼3.3 Å. Density functional theory computational studies suggest that these tetrametallic CCs dissociate in solution to give two catalytically active dimers, each containing one 3d and one 4f metal that act cooperatively. The mechanism of catalysis has been corroborated via NMR, electron paramagnetic resonance, and UV-vis. The present work demonstrates for the first time the successful use of 3d/4f CCs as efficient and high diastereoselective catalysts in MA reactions.
Adding the ‘medicines’ back into personalized medicine to improve cancer treatment outcomes

The excitement surrounding the newly redefined concept of ‘Personalized medicine’ was ignited in the Wall Street Journal in 1999. This heralded a ‘New Era of Personalized Medicine’ to ‘target drugs for each unique genetic profile’ 1, spurred on by an era of apparently targeted therapies. Today, personalized medicine has been redefined to ‘Precision medicine’ to incorporate genomics and aimed at developing new targets, treatments and optimized therapy. Ideally, the clinician's concept of personalized medicine is about the right drug, dose, patient and time. Additionally it involves basic principles of pharmacological and clinical medicine. Although personalized medicine embodies the culture of clinical pharmacology, this Editorial alerts to the paradox that lack of the input of clinical pharmacology into personalized medicine has led to incomplete translation of genomic data into the optimal choice and application of cancer drugs and the funding decisions of public access to therapies.
Sustaining cyborgs: Sensing and tuning agencies of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Recently there has been a renewed interest in cyborgs, and particularly in new and emerging fusions of humans and technologies related to the development of human enhancement technologies. These studies reflect a trend to follow new and emerging technologies. In this article, I argue that it is important to study ‘older’ and more familiar cyborgs as well. Studying ‘the old’ is important because it enables us to recognize hybrids’ embodied experiences. This article addresses two of these older hybrids: pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators inserted in the bodies of people suffering from heart-rhythm disturbances. My concern with hybrid bodies is that internal devices seem to present a complex and neglected case if we wish to understand human agency. Their ‘users’ seem to be passive because they cannot exert any direct control over the working of their devices. Technologies inside bodies challenge a longstanding tradition of theorizing human–technology relations only in terms of technologies external to the body. Cyborg theory is problematic as well because most studies tend to conceptualize the cyborg merely as a discursive entity and silence the voices of people living as cyborgs. Inspired by feminist research that foregrounds the materiality of the lived and intimate relations between bodies and technologies, I argue that creating these intimate relations requires patients’ active involvement in sustaining their hybrid bodies. Based on observations of these monitoring practices in a Dutch hospital and interviews with patients and technicians, the article shows that heart cyborgs are far from passive. On the contrary, their unique experience in sensing the entangled agencies of technologies and their own heart plays a crucial role in sustaining their hybrid bodies.
Commercial Banks Performance in Ghana: Does Capital Structure Matter?

This study seeks to investigate the relationship between capital structure and commercial banks performance in Ghana. Using a panel data of listed commercial banks spanning from 2010-2015, the Ordinary Least Squares regression model is employed to estimate the functions relating to bank performance (measured by Return on Equity) with measures of capital structure. The findings show statistically significant relationship between commercial banks’ performance and all the capital structure measures (the ratios of short-term debt to total capital, long-term debt to total capital, and total debt to total capital). Whereas total debt and banks’ performance are positively correlated, short-term debt and long-term debt are inversely related to banks’ performance. In essence, using large proportion of debt significantly enhance commercial banks performance in Ghana.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PAYMENT THROUGH MOBILE DEVICES

Processing payment through a mobile device includes: receiving a command; using an upper layer application program on the mobile device to generate a payment request based on the command and send the payment request to localhost address of the mobile device via a predetermined port; using a lower layer payment program on the mobile device to monitor the payment request sent from the localhost address of the mobile device via the predetermined port; in response to the payment request, using the lower layer payment program to provide an input interface for payment information in and receive the input payment information; using the lower layer payment program to connect with a payment server and pass the payment information over a network to the payment server; and using the lower layer payment program to transfer a payment processing result received from the payment server, to the upper layer application program.
Linking urban families to community resources in the context of pediatric primary care

Pediatric guidelines emphasize the importance for healthcare providers to view children in the context of family and community, and promote community resources at visits. In 2006, a Family Help Desk (FHD) was established in an urban academic-based clinic in Baltimore, MD to assist healthcare providers in educating families about available community-based resources.A longitudinal cohort pilot study was conducted during a 6-week period in 2007 to evaluate the impact of the FHD in connecting at-risk families to community resources.Overall, 6% of parents (n=59) who brought their child for a scheduled clinic visit accessed the FHD. Parents had a mean of 1.7 social needs, including after-school programs and childcare (29%), employment (13%), housing (12%), and food (11%). Most parents who utilized the FHD (64%) contacted a community resource or service within 6 months of their clinic visit. Nineteen parents (32%) who utilized the FHD enrolled in community programs.A clinic-based multi-disciplinary model can empower families to connect with community-based resources for basic social needs.The Family Help Desk model has great potential for addressing family psychosocial needs, and educating families about community resources within the context of pediatric primary care.
Connectivity for Bridge-Addable Monotone Graph Classes

A class of labelled graphs is bridge-addable if, for all graphs G in and all vertices u and v in distinct connected components of G , the graph obtained by adding an edge between u and v is also in ; the class is monotone if, for all G ∈ and all subgraphs H of G , we have H ∈ . We show that for any bridge-addable, monotone class whose elements have vertex set {1,. . ., n }, the probability that a graph chosen uniformly at random from is connected is at least (1− o n (1)) e −½ , where o n (1) → 0 as n → ∞. This establishes the special case of the conjecture of McDiarmid, Steger and Welsh when the condition of monotonicity is added. This result has also been obtained independently by Kang and Panagiotou.
Effect of Intracoronal Depth of Teeth Restored with Endocrowns on Fracture Resistance: In Vitro and 3-dimensional Finite Element Analysis

Endodontically treated teeth have an increased risk of biomechanical failure because of significant loss of tooth structure. The biomechanical behavior of endodontically treated teeth restored was evaluated using different extensions of endocrowns inside the pulp chamber by in vitro and 3-dimensional finite element analysis (FEA).Thirty mandibular human molars were endodontically treated. Standardized endocrown preparations were performed, and the teeth were randomly divided into 3 groups (n = 10) according to different endocrown extensions inside the pulp chamber: G-5 mm, a 5-mm extension; G-3 mm, a 3-mm extension; and G-1 mm, a 1-mm extension. After adhesive cementation, all specimens were subjected to thermocycling and dynamic loading. The survival specimens were subjected to fracture resistance testing at a crosshead speed of 1 mm/min in a universal testing machine. All fractured specimens were subjected to fractography. Data were analyzed by 1-way analysis of variance and the Tukey post hoc test (P < .05). Stress distribution patterns in each group were analyzed using FEA. Qualitative analyses were performed according to the von Mises criterion.After dynamic loading, a survival rate of 100% was observed in all groups. For static loading, statistically significant differences among the groups were observed (P < .05) (G-5 mm = 2008.61 N, G-3 mm = 1795.41 N, and G-1 mm = 1268.12 N). Fractography showed a higher frequency of compression curls for G-5 mm and G-3 mm than for G-1 mm. FEA explained the results of fracture strength testing and fractography.Greater extension of endocrowns inside the pulp chamber provided better mechanical performance.
Understanding the resilience of amazonian floodplain ecosystems

The riparian forests that flank the major rivers in the Amazon Basin form a highly distinct ecosystem that connects the most biodiverse aquatic and terrestrial environments on the planet. These ‘flood forests’ are inundated for periods of up to six months each year. But although submerged part of the year, flood forests are susceptible to forest fires during the dry season, especially in El Niño (ENSO) drought years. Surprisingly, flood forests poorly regenerate after burning, and after repeated burning can transition to a savanna-like state in which the forest appears unable to regenerate altogether. Our previous field surveys and experiments suggest that seed dispersal limitations may play a fundamental role in understanding the resilience of flood forests to fire perturbations. Fire destroys the seed bank completely. We hypothesise that forest regeneration is arrested by limited seed dispersal as burnt treeless stands affect fish communities and the capacity to retain incoming seeds. Amazonian fishes heavily exploit flood forests during the rainy season. Most flood forest trees produce fruits and seeds during the time of high water, coinciding with the arrival of fishes. Fishes may play an important role as dispersal agents for flood forest trees, as tree seeds have been found in the stomachs of >200 fish species. The reduced input of seeds in burned areas suggests that fishes avoid entering these sites, resulting in a positive feedback that helps to keep these areas in a state of sparse tree cover. In the proposed research, we will assess the ecological barriers that explain arrested regeneration of Amazonian flood forests by evaluating the pathways of seed dispersal and the effects of fire on the composition and abundance of fish communities. Understanding the regeneration of flood forests after fire will become increasingly relevant as extreme ENSO drought events and their associated fires are predicted to become more frequent.