SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures

Culture has emerged as an important concept within the entrepreneurship literature to help explain differences in the nature of the entrepreneurship process observed between regions, industries and socio-cultural groups. Despite voluminous research on the topic, theories about how culture affects the entrepreneurship process remain underdeveloped. Without a framework to connect culture with everyday entrepreneurial practices and strategies, it is difficult to critically compare the role of culture between multiple contexts. Such a framework is necessary when examining the influence of local cultures on entrepreneurship, given the diverse ways they can influence economic activities. This paper introduces a Bourdieuian perspective on entrepreneurial culture that can be used to explain how particular entrepreneurial cultures emerge within regions, influence the local entrepreneurship process and evolve in the face of internal and external developments. Building on existing work on Bourdieu and entrepreneursh...
Investigation of antiaromatase activity using hepatic microsomes of Nile tilapia (<i>Oreochromis niloticus</i>)

Microsomal aromatase enzymes of humans and rats have been used in antiaromatase assays, but enzyme activity is species-specific. The current study extracted hepatic microsomes of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to investigate and compare the antiaromatase activity of chrysin, quercetin, and quercitrin. This activity was evaluated using a dibenzylfluorescein (DBF) assay. Results revealed that the age and body weight of Nile tilapia affected the yield of extracted microsomes. Extraction of hepatic microsomes of Nile tilapia was most effective when using a reaction medium with a pH of 8.0. A DBF assay using Nile tilapia microsomes revealed significant differences in levels of antiaromatase activity for chrysin, quercetin, and quercitrin. Chrysin was the most potent aromatase inhibitor, with an IC50 of 0.25 mg/mL. In addition, chrysin is an aromatase inhibitor that also inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells. Hepatic microsomes of Nile tilapia can be used to investigate and compare the antiaromatase activity of different compounds.
Green synthesis of sustainable bio-sourced multi-functional ingredient for skin care applications

Nowadays, cosmetics and personal care products are considered essential commodities of our life. However, the growing concern about the environmental impact and human health risk related to the excessive use of chemical ingredients in skin care formulations calls for the exploration of safe and sustainable natural alternatives. The diverse functional and bioactive properties of lignin make it worthwhile to be considered for cosmetic applications. Moreover, lignin is generated as an undervalued by-product from kraft-pulping operations, the most widespread method for pulp manufacture worldwide. The BIO4CARE project tackles challenging concepts with innovative solutions to develop an efficient lignin-based multi-functional ingredient with understood and controlled properties from kraft lignin for skin care formulations. To the best knowledge of the Experienced Researcher (ER), no prior research on using kraft lignin as a multi-functional ingredient to manufacture a novel and bio-based competitive solution for skin photo-protection has been reported. The BIO4CARE project comprises multi-disciplinary tasks and addresses different research areas such as analytical and applied chemistry as well as physics and biology to achieve the specific objectives of the project. The main objectives of the project are production of homogeneous lignin nanoparticles (LNP) by a sustainable and efficient method, optimization and understanding of nanostructure-properties relationships using powerful analytical tools, manufacture of high-quality Pickering emulsions with LNP and assessment of multi-functionality and toxicological profile of LNP. In addition, through MSCA program activities, the ER will gain research and scientific skills and acquire a new set of competences to reach professional maturity and independence after the fellowship by building a solid research and industrial network, organizing events, mentoring young researchers and managing projects.
Trends in SSBs and snack consumption among children by age, body weight, and race/ethnicity

To describe national trends in discretionary calories from sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) and snacks by age-specific body weight categories and by age- and weight-specific race/ethnicity groups. Examining these subpopulations is important as population averages may mask important differences.24-hour dietary recall data obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2010 among children aged 2 to 19 (N = 14,092) were used. Logistic and linear regression methods were used to adjust for multiple covariates and survey design.The number of calories from SSBs declined significantly for nearly all age-specific body weight groups. Among overweight or obese children, significant declines in the number of calories from SSBs were observed among Hispanic children aged 2 to 5 (117 vs. 174 kcal) and white adolescents aged 12 to 19 (299 vs. 365 kcal). Significant declines in the number of calories from salty snacks were observed among white children aged 2 to 5 (192 to 134 kcal) and 6 to 11 (273 vs. 200 kcal).The decrease in SSB consumption and increase in snack consumption observed in prior research are not uniform when children are examined within subgroups accounting for age, weight, and race/ethnicity.
Understanding cellular mechanisms of human brain development using cerebral organoids

The development of the human brain is a key and fascinating question in neurobiology. Studies in model organisms have provided enormous insight into basic mechanisms of neurogenesis, which relies on the balance between proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells. Although human neurogenesis follows the same principles, human specific processes that lead to human brain expansion are largely unclear. In vitro models that recapitulate human brain development are invaluable tools to provide insight into human specific processes and brain expansion. In this application, I propose to use human cerebral organoids, a novel in vitro model system of human brain development, to investigate human specific mechanisms of brain development.
Studies in primates suggest that the orientation of the mitotic spindle in neural stem cell divisions may be a key factor driving the expansion of the human brain. In order to gain insight into the role of spindle orientation in human brain development, I will use cerebral organoids to investigate how changes in spindle orientation affect proliferation of human neural stem cells and their differentiation into neural fates. To induce changes in spindle orientation in cerebral organoids, I will inactivate known regulators of spindle orientation. For this, I will establish an inducible loss-of-function system in human embryonic stem cells to inactivate such regulators in a controlled manner during the development of cerebral organoids. By using live-imaging techniques in such organoids, I will analyse how changes in spindle orientation affect the outcome of neural stem cell divisions. Then, by using immunohistochemical analysis, I will examine how changes in spindle orientation influence neuronal layering and cortical architecture. Overall, I expect to gain insight into the role of spindle orientation in human brain development and into the mechanisms underlying human brain expansion.
Class and Representation in Latin America

Mexico’s 2012 presidential election was fought between two affluent career politicians and a millionaire businesswoman. The 2013 race in Chile pitted an economist against a physician. And the top candidates in last year’s presidential election in Brazil were both millionaire economists. The pattern is clear: Latin American democracies – like democracies all over the world – are disproportionately run by the rich. Although working-class jobs (informal workers, manual labor, and service industry jobs) make up the vast majority of the labor force in every Latin American country, only a tiny percentage of Latin American lawmakers come from those kinds of jobs. Like most places, Latin America is run by white-collar governments. Many journalists, pundits, and political observers take this aspect of the governing environment for granted in Latin America and elsewhere. (In 2013, commentators in Chile buzzed about having two female frontrunners in the presidential race. But they failed to note that both came from affluent backgrounds.) Perhaps they are so accustomed to welloff politicians that they simply see them as a natural feature of the political landscape. Or perhaps they believe that it does not matter whether politicians are drawn from one class or another. In the 1970s, scholars of comparative politics reached exactly that conclusion. After a handful of studies (which, in hindsight, probably had serious methodological problems) found that policymakers from different classes behave about the same in office, the eminent political scientist Robert Putnam concluded that “the assumption of a correlation between attitude and social origin lies behind most studies of the social backgrounds of elites, . . . most of the available evidence tends to disconfirm this assumption” (R. Putnam, unpublished manuscript: 93). A decade later, a sweeping review of the evidence available in the mid-1980s concluded that the existing data were “scattered and inconclusive” and “certainly [did] not add up to a finding that the social . . . [or] economic . . . biases of legislative recruitment result in a . . . policy bias of legislative institutions” (Matthews 1985: 25). In the mid-1990s, another review of the research reached the same conclusion: scholars had “not clearly established that the social background of politicians has a significant influence on their attitudes, values and behavior” (Norris and Lovenduski 1995: 12). Ever since, the idea that a legislator’s class does not matter has been the de facto conventional wisdom in the scholarly community. This conventional wisdom has helped fuel indifference about the overwhelmingly unequal social class makeup of the world’s political institutions. But new evidence suggests that the scholarly consensus may be wrong (Carnes 2013, and his contribution to this Swiss Political Science Review 21(2): 229–236 doi:10.1111/spsr.12162
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRIORITIZING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FINDINGS FOR REMEDIATING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSETS

A method for prioritizing information technology security findings for remediating information technology assets includes: determining a plurality of information technology security findings affecting at least one information technology asset based on at least one information technology security rule; determining at least one finding score; determining at least one information technology asset score; prioritizing remediation of the at least one information technology asset; and based on the prioritization, remediating the at least one information technology asset. A system for prioritizing information technology security findings for remediating information technology assets is also disclosed.
Plumes on Europa tease NASA mission planners

A proposed NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa is gathering momentum. Congress has long been enthusiastic, and earlier this month the White House finally signed on to the $2 billion mission, which would investigate the habitability of Europa, which might host life in its deep, hidden saltwater ocean. Lately the mission has also gained a tantalizing target: plumes of water vapor that seem to erupt through the moon's icy crust, presumably sweeping any organic molecules into space, where they might be detectable. The trouble is, the plumes might not exist. Observers spotted them with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, detecting the fluorescence of oxygen and hydrogen in the water molecules as they were bombarded by electrons whipped up by Jupiter's intense magnetic fields. But dozens of other observational campaigns have failed to spot any plume. That posed a dilemma for the scientists who gathered last week at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, to discuss how the presence of plumes—or their absence—should affect planning for the mission.
The effect of family support on the performance pattern of working women in Mumbai

Today women can work independently and feel secure. Every woman has a goal to get a good job, sufficient bank balance for future and desire to prove them efficient, skilled and strong. They seek better job to assist parents and their brother and sister. Women are balancing between home and workplace and their elders also support because they have enhanced the status of women. This study will be used to highlight importance and effect of family support when the women are handling household chores along with 9 to 5 job. The sample taken for survey was of married women. The lack of help and support from family will lead to stress and pressure which will have an impact on their job performance and productivity
Trapped ensembles of circular rydberg atoms for quantum simulation

TRENSCRYBE proposes a groundbreaking concept for a quantum simulator (QS) of spin systems. QSs aim at an in-depth understanding of many-body physics, important for fundamental issues (quantum transport, phase transitions), but also for the development of engineered materials. A QS transcribes the system of interest into another with the same dynamics but with a fully controlled Hamitlonian parameter set. It provides a complete access to all the systems observables and allows the exploration of regimes, in which numerical simulations are difficult or impossible due to the huge size of the Hilbert space. QSs of spin systems are the focus of an intense activity, e.g. with trapped ions, superconducting devices, atoms in optical lattices or low-angular-momentum Rydberg atoms. I propose with TRENSCRYBE a disruptive QS using trapped circular Rydberg atoms. Their microwave spontaneous emission can be inhibited, extending their lifetime in the minute range. In contrast with ordinary Rydberg states, they can be trapped in optical lattices, allowing one to take full benefit from such exceptional lifetimes. I propose an innovative preparation method of ultra-cold defect-free chains with a few tens of atoms. The QS realizes a Nearest-Neighbor XXZ spin-1/2 Hamiltonian in a transverse field, the spin states being coded on circular levels. Its parameters are fully tunable by adjusting a static electric field and a microwave dressing applied on the atoms. I will first benchmark this QS by adiabatic evolutions through the phase diagram of a 1-D chain in a regime where numerical results are available. I will explore quenches through quantum phase transitions and the generation of defects in a regime where numerical or theoretical predictions are difficult. I will realize a first step towards 2-D arrays with spin ladders and explore their topological phases. The realization of TRENSCRYBE will open a whole realm of new possibilities for quantum simulation of spin systems.
Optimizing Slack Time Allocation in Train Timetable: A Two-Stage Stochastic Recourse Model

Slack time allocation, heterogeneity of paths and capacity utilization have great impact on the reliability of timetable. Aiming at the factor of slack time allocation, we proposed a two-stage stochastic programming with recourse model to optimize slack time allocation in timetable on high-speed passenger dedicated lines, in which the first-stage model formalize the slack time allocation in the timetabling phase, while the second-stage model simulates the execution of timetable with consideration of train dispatching behaviours. A genetic algorithm was designed and implemented to solve the mathematical model. Numerical experiments were conducted to test effects of the proposed method. The results show that slack time allocation has great impact on the timetable reliability and the presented method in this paper could improve the quality of slack time allocation by 10% on average.
Research of Product Oil Demand Forecast Based on the Combination Forecast Method

The demand forecast is very necessary during the process of product oil supply because the distribution of product oil consumer market is not balanced in our country, in order to respond to market demand in time, so that, the enterprise not only keep the balance of the supply and demand of product oil by the production planning according to the information of the timely market demand forecast, but also can reduce cost of the product transportation and inventory. Now the product oil demand is forecasted in this paper by the combination forecast method based on the arithmetic average, moving average, index smoothing method. Through comprehensive use of the demand forecasting methods, we can reduce the prediction error and improve the precision of requirement forecast, and a group of optimal solution will be selected in these several forecasting methods.
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE CATHODE LAYER OF MOLTEN CARBONATE FUEL CELLS

In order to produce the cathode layer of a molten carbonate fuel cell in which the cathode layer is part of a sandwich structure also comprising a matrix layer and an anode layer, a porous cobalt or iron layer is filled with lithium carbonate, the cobalt or iron layer is oxidized at a temperature below the melting point of the lithium carbonate in an oxidizing atmosphere, so that a cobalt or iron oxide layer is produced, and after the temperature is increased above the lithium carbonate melting point, the cobalt or iron oxide reacts with the molten lithium carbonate, producing lithium cobaltide or lithium ferrite. The thus produced cathode layer allows high current densities with insignificant voltage losses and has an extremely low solubility in molten electrolytes.
FOVEATED OPTICAL LENS FOR NEAR EYE DISPLAY

An optical system includes an optical system axis, a display and at least one lens, the optical system forming a virtual image of an image emitted by the display for viewing by an eye, the eye having an optical eye axis, such that a first retinal image of the virtual image at a first virtual image location and an associated first field angle, the first field angle between about 5 degrees and about 30 degrees, has a first image resolution when the eye axis is substantially coincident with the system axis, and a second image resolution when the eye is rotated so that the eye axis is substantially coincident with a first field axis extending between the eye and the virtual image at the first field angle, wherein the second image resolution is greater than the first image resolution.
Experimental extraction of barrier lowering and backscattering in saturated short-channel MOSFETs

In this work we propose a fully experimental method to extract the barrier lowering, at the operative bias point above threshold, in short-channel saturated MOSFETs using the Lundstrom backscattering transport model. At the same time we obtain also an estimate of the backscattering ratio. Respect to previously reported works, our extraction method is fully consistent with the Lundstrom model, whereas other methods make a number of approximations in the calculation of the saturation inversion charge which are inconsistent with the model. The proposed experimental extraction method has been validated and applied to results from 2D quantum corrected device simulation and to measurements on short-channel poly-Si/SiON gate nMOSFETs with gate length down to 70 nm.
“The Three Cardinal Guides and the Five Constant Virtues” and the Culture Codes——The relationships reflected in Chinese characters between emperor and minister, father and son, husband and wife

The three cardinal guides and the five constant virtues,advocated by Zhongshu Dong in Han dynasty,are the core contents of the feudal ethical spirit.As it had dominated the national spirit for two thousand years,its influences to people’s characters were deep into the soul.However,in the practical society,the principle of the feudal moral conduct was not initiated by Zhongshu Dong in his theory.Based on the research of relevant Chinese characters radical,a fact could be confirmed:in ancient times,the relationship between emperor and minister,father and son,husband and wife was not equal,and the inequality was not accidental,but determined by the former productivity level and the mode of production.
Bayesian neural networks for detecting epistasis in genetic association studies

Discovering causal genetic variants from large genetic association studies poses many difficult challenges. Assessing which genetic markers are involved in determining trait status is a computationally demanding task, especially in the presence of gene-gene interactions. A non-parametric Bayesian approach in the form of a Bayesian neural network is proposed for use in analyzing genetic association studies. Demonstrations on synthetic and real data reveal they are able to efficiently and accurately determine which variants are involved in determining case-control status. Using graphics processing units (GPUs) the time needed to build these models is decreased by several orders of magnitude. In comparison with commonly used approaches for detecting genetic interactions, Bayesian neural networks perform very well across a broad spectrum of possible genetic relationships while having the computational efficiency needed to handle large datasets.
Deployment of support services aiming at enhancing the innovation management capacity and projects of smes based in the hauts de france region

The project EURACTE-INNOV III proposed by the consortium Enterprise Europe Network EURACTE II aims at the deployment of two support services aiming at enhancing the innovation management capacity and projects of SMEs based in the new Hauts de France region (covering the previous Nord – Pas de Calais and Picardie regions), thus generating growth and competitiveness among local actors : The first service targets successful applicants under the SME instrument scheme, i.e. “SME Instrument beneficiaries”. The aim of this service is to detect weaknesses in the projects, help the SMEs identify a coach who is competent in the particular field in order to efficiently accompany the SME in finding solutions to the identified challenges, and follow up and facilitate the SME-coach relationship in order to maximize the probability of the project to access the targeted market successfully. The second support service, “Enhancing SME innovation management capacity”, aims at helping regional SMEs with potential for international growth, to consolidate their innovation strategy and management, in order to generate more structured innovation projects and increase their chances of success on the European market. The overall objective is to allow those SMEs to reach the required capacities to access to funding under Horizon 2020 R&D programs.