SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
UNBALANCED HYBRID CORDS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SUCH CORDS ON CABLE CORDING MACHINES

A hybrid cord formed from a plurality of component plies wherein at least one of the plies has a length that is from 1 to 50 percent longer than the other plies and a method of providing a cord with predetermined twist and component ply lengths.
An exponential decay relationship between micro-flotation rate and back-calculated induction time for potential flow and mobile bubble surface

Flotation researchers have long hypothesised that particles have inherently different flotation rates under the same operating conditions because they have different induction times in the flotation cell. The relationship between flotation rate constant and induction time, however, has yet to be explored. Here we analysed the relationship between micro-flotation rate and back-calculated induction time for galena and sphalerite particles. The floatability of the particles was controlled by depression with potassium chromate (galena) and activation with copper sulphate (sphalerite). The bubble rise velocity vs. size in the micro-flotation experiments was determined by high speed video microscopy and followed the prediction for bubbles with the fully mobile air-water interface. Therefore, the theoretical analysis of the micro-flotation results was carried out, based on the potential flow model for water flow around a mobile bubble surface. The relationship between micro-flotation rate constant and back-calculated induction time was found to rapidly decay exponentially. In this model, flotation rate constant is highly sensitive to induction time. For example, a doubling or tripling of induction time results in an order-of-magnitude decrease in flotation rate constant.
Modeling Complex Workflow in Molecular Diagnostics

One of the hurdles to achieving personalized medicine has been implementing the laboratory processes for performing and reporting complex molecular tests. The rapidly changing test rosters and complex analysis platforms in molecular diagnostics have meant that many clinical laboratories still use labor-intensive manual processing and testing without the level of automation seen in high-volume chemistry and hematology testing. We provide here a discussion of design requirements and the results of implementation of a suite of lab management tools that incorporate the many elements required for use of molecular diagnostics in personalized medicine, particularly in cancer. These applications provide the functionality required for sample accessioning and tracking, material generation, and testing that are particular to the evolving needs of individualized molecular diagnostics. On implementation, the applications described here resulted in improvements in the turn-around time for reporting of more complex molecular test sets, and significant changes in the workflow. Therefore, careful mapping of workflow can permit design of software applications that simplify even the complex demands of specialized molecular testing. By incorporating design features for order review, software tools can permit a more personalized approach to sample handling and test selection without compromising efficiency.
New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant and Test of the Quantum Electrodynamics

We present a new measurement of the ratio h/mRb between the Planck constant and the mass of 87Rb atom. A new value of the fine structure constant is deduced, α−1 = 137.035 999 037 (91) with a relative uncertainty of 6.6 × 10−10. Using this determination, we obtain a theoretical value of the electron anomaly ae = 0.001 159 652 181 13(84) which is in agreement with the experimental measurement of Gabrielse (ae = 0.001 159 652 180 73(28)). The comparison of these values provides the most stringent test of the QED. Moreover, the precision is large enough to verify for the first time the muonic and hadronic contributions to this anomaly.
END EFFECTOR

The invention relates to an end effector for a manipulator (1), wherein the end effector interacts with a workpiece (2), wherein there is provided at least one carrier (3, 4) for a tool arrangement (5, 6), said carrier being configured in particular as a carrier plate, and wherein the tool arrangement (5, 6) serves for interacting with the workpiece (2). It is proposed that the carrier (3, 4) is formed at least in part from a deformable material, in particular from an elastically deformable material, and that the carrier (3, 4) is assigned an actuator arrangement (7, 8) by way of which the carrier (3, 4) is deformable and thus the tool arrangement (5, 6) is orientable in space.
Eye’m talking to you: speakers’ gaze direction modulates co-speech gesture processing in the right MTG

Recipients process information from speech and co-speech gestures, but it is currently unknown how this processing is influenced by the presence of other important social cues, especially gaze direction, a marker of communicative intent. Such cues may modulate neural activity in regions associated either with the processing of ostensive cues, such as eye gaze, or with the processing of semantic information, provided by speech and gesture. Participants were scanned (fMRI) while taking part in triadic communication involving two recipients and a speaker. The speaker uttered sentences that were and were not accompanied by complementary iconic gestures. Crucially, the speaker alternated her gaze direction, thus creating two recipient roles: addressed (direct gaze) vs unaddressed (averted gaze) recipient. The comprehension of Speech&Gesture relative to SpeechOnly utterances recruited middle occipital, middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri, bilaterally. The calcarine sulcus and posterior cingulate cortex were sensitive to differences between direct and averted gaze. Most importantly, Speech&Gesture utterances, but not SpeechOnly utterances, produced additional activity in the right middle temporal gyrus when participants were addressed. Marking communicative intent with gaze direction modulates the processing of speech-gesture utterances in cerebral areas typically associated with the semantic processing of multi-modal communicative acts.
Reproducibility of pulse contour analysis in children before and after maximal exercise stress test: The Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) Study

Arterial stiffness index (SI) and reflection index (RI) from digital pulse contour analysis have been shown to be good measures of arterial stiffness and may be useful in the evaluation of endothelial function. Finger skin temperature (FST) is also considered to reflect peripheral circulatory functions. We evaluated the reproducibility of SI, RI and FST before and after the exercise stress test. The subjects were 36 children (16 boys, 20 girls) 6-8 years of age. We measured SI, RI and FST at rest both before and after the exercise stress test on a cycle ergometer and repeated these measurements within 5-14 days. The reproducibility of SI, RI and FST was evaluated by calculating intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), coefficients of variation (CV%) and 95% limits of agreements. SI had a greater reproducibility after the exercise stress test than before it (CV% 4·8 versus 6·3%, ICC 0·548 versus 0·438). RI had a better ICC (0·689 versus 0·416) but a higher CV% (28·6 versus 18·7%) after the exercise stress test than before it. Relative change in response to the exercise stress test in SI (-1·5% at first visit and 0·4% at second visit) was not as dramatic as in RI (-49·3% at first visit and -46·5% at second visit). The reproducibility of FST was also better after the exercise test than before it (CV% 5·7 versus 10·0%, ICC 0·509 versus 0·503). In healthy children, the reproducibility of SI, RI and FST was relatively good, especially after the exercise stress test.
Optimal Captive Power Wheeling for Industrial Load Management

Captive power plants installed in large scale industries in many developing counties like India, are intended mainly as a stand by supply source or to cater some portion of critical load, and hence remain under utilized. In the context of ongoing power system deregulation, the spare capacity of captive power plants can be effectively utilized by wheeling the captive power among the deficient industries, which will in turn reduce the utility’s peak demand. In this paper, an optimization model for captive power wheeling for peak demand management is proposed. The formulation utilizes non linear programming technique for minimizing the electricity cost and reducing the peak demand, by wheeling the captive power among the industries, satisfying the system constraints. The model when applied to three large scale industries of a typical industrial belt, resulted in significant reduction in peak demand (about 39%) and electricity cost (about 11%).
Establishment and Effectiveness Evaluation of Coordinated Operation Mechanism of Learning Society Construction in Guangzhou

Through the study of coordinated operation mechanism of the learning society construction both in practice and theory, this paper proposes the establishment strategy and effectiveness evaluation method in Guangzhou after consideration of its current situation and background. It firstly extracts the element indexes from the real situation, determines their weights and constructs the evaluation matrix,then determines the relevancy of the elements between each other, and finally puts forward a series of implement methods, including making full use of the dominant rule of government, building widely coordinated mechanism, enhancing the organizational guarantee and establishing the feedback channel lead by examples on the basis of evaluation effectiveness.
Learning and analysing massive / big complex data

LAMBDA aims at transferring game changing technologies to the European industry in critical areas of Machine learning. Based on recent algorithmic breakthroughs, we adapt sophisticated methods to targeted industries, with a twofold goal: First, to help turn cutting edge tools into innovative software products and processes, tailored to real-world issues. Second, based on the available data, to organise open data repositories / benchmarks, or to simulate data with the same statistical properties, when such data is confidential, following ""anonymisation"".

LAMBDA focuses on two distinct application domains: 3D shape analysis and unstructured data mining. They share challenging features such as inherent complexity in modeling the data, high dimensionality which raises the issue of curse of dimensionality, and the need to address such datasets at a massive scale. Moreover, they correspond to the expertise of the participants. LAMBDA is characterised by a unique blend of theoretically rigorous and geometrically inclined methods, thus supporting a strong aspect of interdisciplinarity between Theory of Algorithms and Machine Learning. This shall be supported by advanced software development, ranging from public-domain prototype implementations to licensed software and integrated libraries, where the latter may be based on the highly-optimised platform BIDMach (UC Berkeley).

LAMBDA strengthens existing links within Europe and across the Atlantic, while creating new synergies in the directions of two industrial domains, namely 3D shape search and insurance data. The two clusters are organised around representative companies in the respective domains. The Project is built so as to support knowledge transfer beyond its lifetime. Besides inter-sectoral collaborations, we exploit the international dimension by associating leading USA Universities, so as to bring state-of-the-art methods developed at the global level into the European framework.
Anschaffung moderner Geräte zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Dieses Projekt beinhaltet den Kauf eines Baggerladers, um die Aktivitäten des Antragstellers zu diversifizieren. Dank der hochspezialisierten Funktionen des Baggerladers, die die Ziele des Projekts angemessen erfüllen, wird der Antragsteller Dienstleistungen auf höchstem Niveau einführen und einen innovativen Service auf regionaler Ebene einführen. Die im Rahmen des Projekts geplanten Geräte werden die Einführung innovativer Dienstleistungen und Technologien ermöglichen, die dem Umweltschutz förderlich sind. Mit diesem Projekt wird der Tätigkeitsbereich des Antragstellers auf neue, noch nicht angebotene Dienstleistungen ausgeweitet. Die geplante Technologie wird sich durch innovative Ausrüstungen auszeichnen, die ein effizientes Energiemanagement während der Arbeit ermöglichen, was sich sowohl auf die Produktivität als auch auf die Arbeitsqualität sowie auf eine Verringerung des Kraftstoffverbrauchs auswirken wird – was folglich zur Verringerung der Umweltbelastung beitragen wird. Die im Rahmen des Projekts geplanten Geräte sind die Grundlage für die Einführung neuer Dienstleistungen mit innovativen Technologien, die toxische Emissionen reduzieren. Die technologische Innovation des Baggers – Ladegerät wird darin bestehen, die Verbrennung und maximale Reduzierung der Abgasemissionen zu optimieren, indem eine Kombination aus einem elektronischen Energieoptimierungssystem mit einem System zur Verbesserung der Effizienz des Hydrauliksystems verwendet wird. Der Einsatz modernster Geräte wird die Produktivität und Effizienz des Unternehmens deutlich steigern. Die Hauptziele des Projekts werden durch spezifische Ziele erreicht, d. h. die Umsetzung von Prozessinnovationen, Produktinnovationen und die Schaffung neuer Arbeitsplätze. Der Antragsteller wird unmittelbar zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Region Niederschlesien beitragen. Das moderne Gerät wird an komplexe Aufträge angepasst, wo es unter anderem über GPS zur Unterstützung der Computersteuerung und zur Unterstützung der Positionierung erforderlich ist.
USE OF PHENETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVES IN THE TREATMENT OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS

The use of compounds of formula (I) in which: R<0> is hydrogen, methyl or hydroxymethyl; R<1> is substituted alkyl; R<2> and R<3> are each hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkyl, nitro, haloalkyl group, or substituted alkyl; X is oxygen or sulphur; and Ar is optionally substituted phenyl or naphtyl; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders is described.
Integrated innovative metallurgical system to benefit efficiently polymetallic, complex and low grade ores and concentrates

The INTMET approach represents a unique technological breakthrough to overcome the limitations related to difficult low grade and complex ores to achieve high efficient recovery of valuable metals (Cu, Zn, Pb, Ag) and CRM (Co, In, Sb). Main objective of INTMET is applying on-site mine-to-metal hydroprocessing of the produced concentrates enhancing substantially raw materials efficiency thanks to increase Cu+Zn+Pb recovery over 60% vs. existing selective flotation. 3 innovative hydrometallurgical processes (atmospheric, pressure and bioleaching), and novel more effective metals extraction techniques (e.g. Cu/Zn-SX-EW, chloride media, MSA, etc) will be developed and tested at relevant environment aiming to maximise metal recovery yield and minimising energy consumption and environmental footprint. Additionally secondary materials like tailings and metallurgical wastes will be tested as well for metals recovery and sulphur valorisation. The technical, environmental and economic feasibility of the entire approaches will be evaluated to ensure a real business solution of the integrated INTMET process.
INTMET will be economically viable thanks to diversification of products (Cu, Zn, Pb), high-profitable solution (producing commodities not concentrates), with lower operation and environmental costs (on-site hydroprocessing will avoid transport to smelters) and allowing mine-life extension developing a new business-model concept based on high efficient recovery of complex ores that will ensure EU mining industry competitiveness and employment.
INTMET is fully aligned with EIP-RM validated in the PolymetOre Commitment where most of INTMET partners take part on and the market up-take solutions are guaranteed by an exploitation from industrially-driven consortia composed by 3 Mines, 2 SMEs (AGQ -waste&water tech provider; MINPOL -policy & exploitation expert), 2 tech providers (OUTOTEC and TR) and 5 complementary RTD´s with expertise in leaching and recovery metals processing
Using an online phycocyanin fluorescence probe for rapid monitoring of cyanobacteria in Macau freshwater reservoir

Monitoring of cyanobacteria and their toxins are traditionally conducted by cell counting, chlorophyll-a (chl-a) determination and cyanotoxin measurements, respectively. These methods are tedious, costly, time consuming, and insensitive to rapid changes in water quality and cyanobacterial abundance. We have applied and tested an online phycocyanin (PC) fluorescence probe for rapid monitoring of cyanobacteria in the Macau Storage Reservoir (MSR) that is experiencing cyanobacterial blooms. The relationships among cyanobacterial abundance, biovolume, cylindrospermopsin concentration, and PC fluorescence were analyzed using both laboratory and in-the-field studies. The performance of the probe was compared with traditional methods, and its advantages and limitations were assessed in pure and mixed cyanobacterial cultures in the laboratory. The proposed techniques successfully estimated the species including Microcystis and Cylindrospermopsis, two toxic species recently observed in the MSR. During February–November, 2010, the PC probe detected high correlations between PC and cell numbers (R
 2 = 0.71). Unlike the chl-a content, which indicates only the total algal biomass, the PC pigment specifically indicates cyanobacteria. These results support the PC parameter as a reliable estimate of cyanobacterial cell number, especially in freshwater bodies where the phytoplankton community and structure are stable. Thus, the PC probe is potentially applicable to online monitoring of cyanobacteria.
Recent advances for sustainable production of levulinic acid in ionic liquids from biomass: Current scenario, opportunities and challenges

Abstract Levulinic acid (LA) is a unique potential building block chemical which has attracted significant attention of researchers globally due to its potential utility to synthesize a variety of commercially important value added energy compounds. Conversely, efficient production of LA from lignocellulosic biomass is limited by some challenges that relate to the use of a proper solvent-catalytic system and reaction processing parameters. The existing literature shows that, reaction processing parameters and ionic liquid (IL) properties are key aspects which essentially determine the yield of LA and formation of side-products (formic acid and humin). In IL media, an improved LA yield can be achieved by maintaining appropriate optimal reaction conditions. Moreover, direct synthesis of LA from biomass in IL is at the development phase, where further research efforts are needed to improve process efficiency for sustainable synthesis of LA. In view of this, the present review serves to highlight the ongoing research related to (i) use of IL as unique solvent-catalytic system for direct synthesis of LA, (ii) influence of each reaction processing parameter and IL properties on LA yield (iii) mechanism of direct LA synthesis in IL media (iv) global market scenario, (vi) downstream processing for effective LA separation as well as IL recycling and (vi) sustainable applications of by-products in LA formation. This article also outlines future opportunities and challenges for construction of a successful model biorefinery for LA synthesis in IL media.
Study of various parameters in diesel-generator sets

A diesel generator is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate electrical energy. Diesel generating sets are used in places without connection to the powe grid, as emergency power-supply if the grid fails, as well as for more complex applications such as peak-lopping, grid support and export to the power grid.Setsizes range from 8 to 30 kW (also 8 to 30 kVA single phase) for homes, small shops & offices with the larger industrial generators from 8 kW (11 kVA) up to 2,000 kW (2,500 kVA three phase) used for large office complexes, factories.In addition to this there are factors which diesel generators depend on they are Ambient Temperature , Load on the Generator ,Altitude of operation of the generator.Ambient generator refers to the Inlet temperature .Because the generator works with the diesel engine, the heat that the diesel engine emit make ambient temperature more than 40 celcius. However temperature should be less than 40 celsius for operation. In the present work behaviour of 62.5 KVA Diesel-Generator is studied in ANSYS V13.0 (A licensed Institute software.) First a schematic approximation of the diesel-generator is drawn in the ANSYS Software and then the Experiments are mae to determine the temperature conditions of various surfaces under constant load.These observations are taken for the simulation in the software and the results are displayed.
Work of separation in CO 2 capture: Applicability of the value function

Abstract The energy requirements for two CO 2 separation processes (VSA and membrane), calculated from detailed numerical simulations, are shown to be qualitatively consistent with the trends predicted from value function theory. At low feed concentrations the work of separation increases strongly, in contrast to the thermodynamic minimum work which shows only a very gradual increase. This has important implications in relation to processes such as direct air capture of CO 2 in which a concentrated product is separated from a very dilute feed. The present results suggest that the energy requirements for such processes may be much greater than that has been generally assumed.
TERritory, eneRgy & Employment  

The envisaged balance of the SEE programme area in economic and social development leads to an increasing demand in energy provision, mainly provided by the carbon-neutral production of energy. Indeed, the achievement of a sustainable energy future in South East Europe requires new investments in R&D, as well as key policy initiatives to overcome existing technical, ideological and economic obstacles and pave the way towards a EU energy and environmental policy's convergence. Several territories (rural, hilly and mountainous) of SEE are affected, although at a different level, by similar problems: less (or lack) of services and less employment opportunities compared to urban agglomerations and competitive growth areas. The rising cost of oil (and also of public transportation as a result of anti-public deficit measures adopted, more or less, everywhere) is making less convenient to live outside of cities and however far from the working places. These factors are causing (or could) a gradual depopulation of the less inhabited areas, with serious consequences in terms of new territorial disparities, risk of depopulation of more peripheral zones, risk of underproductive crops as well as loss of ecological safeguard and control of the territories. In such a context, Territory, Energy & Employment intends to experiment and demonstrate that a wise & integrated exploitation of endogenous resources to produce renewable energy (from different sources as bio-mass, sun, water, wind) is an effective engine for a self-generated and sustainable local development in the areas, based on PPP between public institutions (regions, provinces, municipalities), private operators (overall farmers, breeders and woods' owners, plus investors in RES), and local communities, to get revenues and employment opportunities in less developed or marginal zones, and thus to promote tailored paths of growth and development based on a proper use of local resources.