SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
On the energy integral formulation of gravitational potential differences from satellite-to-satellite tracking

Two approaches have been formulated to compute the gravitational potential difference using low–low satellite-to-satellite tracking data based on energy integral: one in the geocentric inertial reference system, and the other in the terrestrial reference system. The focus of this work is on the approach in the geocentric inertial reference system, where a potential rotation term appears in addition to the potential term. In former formulations, the contribution of the time-variable components of the gravitational potential to the potential term was included, but their contribution to the potential rotation term was neglected. In this work, an improvement to the former formulations is made by reformulating the potential rotation term to include the contribution of the time-variable components of the gravitational potential. A simulation shows that our more accurate formulation of the potential rotation term is necessary to achieve the accuracy for recovering the temporal variation of the Earth’s gravity field, such as for use to the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment GRACE observation data based on this approach.
Effects of Collaboration and Multimedia Annotations on Vocabulary Learning and Listening Comprehension

Sixty-eight college students enrolled in a French course listened to a multimedia-based French passage in one of four groups to which they were randomly assigned: the listening text (a) alone, with no annotations; (b) in pairs, with no annotations; (c) alone, with written and pictorial annotations; and (d) in pairs, with written and pictorial annotations. The students identified or recalled vocabulary best when working with both annotation types either alone or in pairs. However, when they worked collaboratively with annotations available, they showed the highest level of aural comprehension. These outcomes suggest that accessing pictorial and written annotations in multimedia listening comprehension activities, while one is collaborating with a peer, results in relatively high vocabulary recall and recognition, as well as improved aural comprehension.
Study of Acid Treated Mixed Sawdust as Natural Oil Sorbent for Oil Spill

Abstract Despite the presence of many techniques to clean up oil spills, sorbents are considered as one of the most attractive techniques due to the high rate of absorption or adsorption and ease of application. Organic-based sorbents have become the best type to use based on their abundance of resources and its biodegradability. Among the many natural organic sorbents available, sawdust has big potential to be used as oil absorbent due to its advantages of being low-cost source, low density and exhibiting hydrophobic-oleophillic characteristics. In this study, the utilization of mixed sawdust as oil sorbent was investigated. The mixed sawdust sorbent was treated using chemicals such as ethanol, sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid to further improve the efficiency for oil absorbency. The performance of as-prepared and acid-treated sorbent was characterized using sorption capacity (g/g). The effects of sorption time and surface condition (on seawater surface or on land) towards the performance of sorbent was then investigated. Besides that, the temperature, oil viscosities and reusability of treated sawdust were also studied. It has been proven that acid treated sawdust has higher sorption capacity of 4.82 g/g even after 90 minutes of sorption with four times reusability due to improved hydrophobic and oleophillic characteristics. It was also found that the viscosity of oil and temperature can also affect the sorption capacity. Crude oil, which poses lower viscosity (30.51cP) and at oil temperature of 27°C gave the highest sorption because of the migration of oil into the structure of sorbent was accelerated. This study indicated the possibility of using sawdust as sorbent for oil spill control.
SUBSTITUTED 1H-IMIDAZOL-5-YL ALKANOIC ACIDS

Antagonistes du récepteur de l'angiotensine II ayant la formule (I), utiles dans la régulation de l'hypertension et dans le traitement de l'insuffisance cardiaque congestive, d'insuffisances rénales et du glaucome. L'invention concerne également des compositions pharmaceutiques comprenant ces antagonistes ainsi que des procédés d'utilisation de ces composés afin de produire un antagonisme au récepteur de l'angiotensine II chez les mammifères.
A Study on the Structural Properties of Epoxy Based Nanocomposites

In this paper, epoxy nanocomposites, focusing on the electrical properties of the composites to understand controllers, circuit breakers, bushings and power to apply to the modified instrument was carried out basic research. Composed of composites of this study to develop a power unit to control the dispersion synthesis technology is essential electrical appliances such as electrical properties analysis techniques will also need ba^_@span style=color:#cccccc ^_#sic research skills and experience accumulated in this study, several areas of applied technology. In this study, promotion and application of nano-composite material application technology power devices than conventio^_@/span^_#^_@span style=color:#999999 ^_# ... ^_@/span^_#^_@a href=javascript:; onclick=nodeUse('NODE01629634|147003') style=color:#999999;font-size:14px;text-decoration:underline; ^_#전체 초록 보기^_@/a^_#
A web-based revision control framework for 3D CAD model data

A calibration of web-based calculating and representing differences between 3D CAD models is an important and challenging task in distributed, collaborative and integrated design areas. Many CAD application developers have improved user interfaces and connectivity supports that enable the incorporation of online information and web applications in a convenient manner. The representing difference involves numbers of steps such as uploading 3D model data file to the STL converting server, calculating their differences and visualizing them on the webpage. This paper describes steps in involved web based revision control system supporting most of CAD native formats. The C#, JavaScript programming language, PHP technique, and MySQL database system have been used to develop the framework and some special technique such as Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) and WebGL technology have been used in the system. We conclude with a discussion of some of the issues raised by the project and the steps underway to address them.
Characterization of the Pinus massoniana Transcriptional Response to Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Infection Using Suppression Subtractive Hybridization

Pine wilt disease (PWD) caused by pine wood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is the most destructive diseases of pine and poses a threat of serious economic losses worldwide. Although several of the mechanisms involved in disease progression have been discovered, the molecular response of Pinus massoniana to PWN infection has not been explored. We constructed four subtractive suppression hybridization cDNA libraries by taking time-course samples from PWN-inoculated Masson pine trees. One-hundred forty-four significantly differentially expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were identified, and 124 high-quality sequences with transcriptional features were selected for gene ontology (GO) and individual gene analyses. There were marked differences in the types of transcripts, as well as in the timing and levels of transcript expression in the pine trees following PWN inoculation. Genes involved in signal transduction, transcription and translation and secondary metabolism were highly expressed after 24 h and 72 h, while stress response genes were highly expressed only after 72 h. Certain transcripts responding to PWN infection were discriminative; pathogenesis and cell wall-related genes were more abundant, while detoxification or redox process-related genes were less abundant. This study provides new insights into the molecular mechanisms that control the biochemical and physiological responses of pine trees to PWN infection, particularly during the initial stage of infection.
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and sea surface temperature in the Bay of Biscay and adjacent regions

The sea surface temperature (SST) variability of the Bay of Biscay and adjacent regions (1854–2010) has been examined in relation to the evolution of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a major climate mode. The AMO index explains ~25% of the interannual variability of the annual SST during the last 150 years, while different indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) explain ≤1% of the long-term record. NAO is a high frequency climate mode while AMO can modulate low frequency changes. Sixty per cent of the AMO variability is contained in periods longer than a decade. The basin-scale influence of NAO on SST over specific years (1995 to 1998) is presented and the SST anomalies explained. The period analysed represents an abrupt change in NAO and the North Atlantic circulation state as shown with altimetry and SST data. Additional atmospheric climate data over a shorter ~60 year period (1950–2008) show the influence on the Bay of Biscay SST of the East Atlantic (EA) pattern and the Scandinavia (SCA) pattern. These atmospheric teleconnections explain respectively ~25% and ~20% of the SST variability. The winter SST in the shelf-break/slope or poleward current region is analysed in relation to AMO. The poleward current shows a trend towards increasing SSTs during the last three decades as a result of the combined positive phase of AMO and global warming. The seasonality of this winter warm flow in the Iberian region is related to the autumn/winter seasonality of south-westerly (SW) winds. The SW winds are strengthened along the European shelf-break by the development of low pressure conditions in the region to the north of the Azores and therefore a negative NAO. AMO overall modulates multidecadal changes (~60% of the AMO variance). The long-term time-series of SST and SST anomalies in the Bay of Biscay show AMO-like cycles with maxima near 1870 and 1950 and minima near 1900 and 1980 indicating a period of 60–80 years during the last century and a half. Similar AMO-like variability is found in the Russell cycle of the Western English Channel (1924–1972). AMO relates at least to four mesozooplankton components of the Russell cycle: the abundance of the chaetognaths Parasagitta elegans and Parasagitta setosa (AMO −), the amount of the species Calanus helgolandicus (AMO −), the amount of the larvae of decapod crustaceans (AMO −) and the number of pilchard eggs ( Sardine pilchardus ; AMO +). In addition to AMO, the decadal to multidecadal (D2M) variability in the number of sunspots is analysed for the last 300 years. Several periodicities and a multi-secular linear increase are presented. There are secular minima near 1710, 1810, 1910 and 2010. The long term variability (&gt;11 years) of the solar sunspot activity explains ~50% of the variance of the SST of the Bay of Biscay with periods longer than 11 years. AMO is finally compared with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the leading principal component of North Pacific SST anomalies.
(14508.17092020.172000150) NEW GM PACK

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PURIFIED SUBFRAGMENT CODIFYING FOR NEUROAMINIDASE, RECOMBINANT NEUROAMINIDASE AND ITS USE IN ZOOPROPHYLAXIS

Within the prophylaxis strategies for the control of type A avian influenza caused by viral infection with specific epidemic strain H7N1, a vaccination process is envisaged comprising the preparation of a heterologous vaccine that is administered to an animal population, said vaccine featuring the same subtype of viral haemoagglutinin HA7 and a different subtype of neuroaminidase NA3, and thereafter detecting the viralinfection positiveness by contacting an antigen with at least one genomic sequence that codes for a neuroaminidase NA1 protein with the biological fluids collected from the animals. By subsequently revealing an antigen-antibody reaction by means of a test for detecting positiveness (iIFA, ELISA among others), the vaccinated animals can be discriminated from the other ones. The recombinant antigen is represented by the recombinant glycoprotein neuroaminidase NA1, the genomic sequence of which is carried by a baculovirus and expressed in insect cell.
Automatic scalable vm management for data centre optimisation

The overall vision of the FishDirector project is to bring to market our innovative software solution for real time live optimization of cloud data centres to enable optimum use of server resources and reduce overall energy use by at least 30%. 

To reduce the number of servers needed to deliver services and reduce overall energy consumption data centres have adopted virtualization, running VMs (virtual machines) on each server. VM workload is dynamic, varying in response to user demand. However, data centre operators do not currently have a comprehensive automated system for optimally placing VMs and allocating the optimal number of servers to meet the workload requirements. This results in sub-optimal hardware utilization (typically 18% whilst consuming 60% - 90% of their maximum system power), a larger number of servers than is necessary, higher energy consumption and a poorer end user experience due to lower response time and/or intermittent availability. 

FishDirector works with OpenStack to address this problem by providing a scalable software solution for automating VM placement in a highly dynamic environment and consolidating live VMs data centre-wide, ensuring continuous operation and load balancing. Unlike existing solutions, it allows data centre operators to automatically optimize resources for VM instances across multiple servers in a scalable manner and with no practical limit to the number of servers that can be managed.

FishDirector has been successfully demonstrated in small server installations and is thus at TRL6. We seek funding for the Phase I Feasibility Study to explore the viability of moving FishDirector to TRL 9 through a Phase 2 project to demonstrate and validate FishDirector in a large data centre (> 100 servers). The expected outcome is the technical and economic validation of the FishDirector software solution with data and documentation ready for commercialization across European and US markets.
Forest cover dynamics from Landsat time-series data over Yan’an city on the Loess Plateau during the Grain for Green Project

In order to arrest environmental degradation, China initiated the Grain for Green Project GGP in 1999, an ecological restoration project that aims to convert cropland to wetland, grassland, or forestland. In most parts of China, where croplands have been part of the project, most have been converted into forestlands. In this project affected farmers receive compensation from the central government and this is administered by local governments. To monitor the achievements of this project, the actual acreage of croplands that were converted to forest or other natural ecosystems needs to be known. However, local governments usually rely on field visits and on-site surveys to determine this amount. This is not only time-consuming, but also subjective. In this research we study the potential of Landsat time-series images in monitoring cropland and wasteland to forest conversion as a result of the GGP ecological restoration project in the Loess Plateau region. We developed a method to reconstruct the change history of land conversion, particularly cropland and wasteland to forest plantation from 1999 to 2009. The prefecture level city, Yan’an, on the Loess Plateau, with a total area of 37,037 km2, was chosen for the experiment. Our results indicate that an overall accuracy of 86% can be obtained for afforestation during the entire period of GGP. The GGP in Yan’an has made remarkable achievements since 1999. Between 1999 and 2009, the forested area in this region has increased by nearly 340 ± 30 thousand ha, approximately 10% of the total area of Yan’an. We also found that 5% of the GGP afforested areas were converted to urban built-up area or reverted to cropland.
Consensus Output Regulation of a Class of Heterogeneous Nonlinear Systems

This technical note deals with consensus output regulation of network connected multi-agent systems. Every agent or subsystem is a nonlinear system in the output feedback form with relative degree one, but subsystems may have different dynamics in terms of different nonlinear functions and even different system orders. The subsystem dynamics are influenced by state variables generated from an exosystem. The outputs of the subsystems are required to follow a desired trajectory which is a function of the exosystem state. Only some subsystems have access to the desired trajectory, and the other subsystems will have to rely on the exchange of information through the network. In this technical note, a consensus control design is proposed to ensure that the outputs of all the subsystems converge to the same desired output trajectory by exploiting the internal model design strategy. The proposed control design only uses the relative outputs of the subsystems, and does not require the estimation of subsystem state variables.
High-Level Expression, Purification and Large-Scale Production of l-Methionine γ-Lyase from Idiomarina as a Novel Anti-Leukemic Drug

l-Methionine γ-lyase (MGL), a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent enzyme, possesses anti-tumor activity. However, the low activity of MGL blocks the anti-tumor effect. This study describes an efficient production process for the recombinant MGL (rMGL) from Idiomarina constructed using the overexpression plasmid in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), purification, and large-scale production. The enzyme produced by the transformants accounted for 53% of the total proteins and accumulated at 1.95 mg/mL using a 500 L fermentor. The enzyme was purified to approximately 99% purity using a high-pressure mechanical homogenizer and nickel (Ni) Sepharose 6 Fast Flow (FF) chromatography. Then, the enzyme was polished by gel filtration, the endotoxins were removed using diethyl-aminoethanol (DEAE) Sepharose FF, and the final product was lyophilized with a vacuum freeze dryer at -35 °C. The specific activity of rMGL in the lyophilized powder was up to 108 U/mg. Compared to the control, the enzyme significantly inhibited cellular proliferation in a concentration-dependent manner as tested using the MTS (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxyphenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium) assay and induced cellular apoptosis as analyzed by Annexin V-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) with fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) in leukemia cells. This paper demonstrated the cloning, overexpression, and large-scale production protocols for rMGL, which enabled rMGL to be used as a novel anti-leukemic drug.
Shaping of the human immune system by primal environmental exposures in the newborn child

Immune systems are highly variable, but the sources of this variation are poorly understood. Genetic variation only explains a minor fraction of this, and we are unable to accurately predict the risk of immune mediated disease or severe infection in any given individual. I recently found that immune cells and proteins in healthy twins vary because of non-heritable influences (infections, vaccines, microbiota etc.), with only minor influences from heritable factors (Brodin, et al, Cell 2015). When and how such environmental influences shape our immune system is now important to understand. Birth represents the most transformational change in environment during the life of any individual. I propose, that environmental influences at birth, and during the first months of life could be particularly influential by imprinting on the regulatory mechanisms forming in the developing immune system. Adaptive changes in immune cell frequencies and functional states induced by early-life exposures could determine both the immune competence of the newborn, but potentially also its long-term trajectory towards immunological health or disease. Here, I propose a study of 1000 newborn children, followed longitudinally during their first 1000 days of life. By monitoring immune profiles and recording many environmental influences, we hope to understand how early life exposures can influence human immune system development. We have established a new assay based on Mass Cytometry and necessary data analysis tools (Brodin, et al, PNAS 2014), to simultaneously monitor the frequencies, phenotypes and functional states of more than 200 blood immune cell populations from only 100 microliters of blood. By monitoring environmental influences at regular follow-up visits, by questionnaires, serum measurements of infection, and gut microbiome sequencing, we aim to provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of immune system development in newborn children.
METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FIBROUS WEB

The invention relates to a method for producing a fibrous web, especially a web of paper or carton. According to the inventive method, the fibers are charged with a precipitation product, thereby producing crystalline precipitation product particles, supplying the fibers so treated in the form of a pumpable fiber suspension to a sheet forming process and controlling and/or regulating during said sheet forming process the filler distribution resulting across the web cross-section via a corresponding impingement with a vacuum.
Hepatitis Knowledge and Attitudes among Jordanian Nursing Students

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to identify the differences among three groups of nursing students (i.e., sophomores, juniors, and seniors) in the (a) level of knowledge regarding hepatitis transmission, (b) attitudes towards hepatitis, and (c) needs for further education related to hepatitis. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive design was used. One thousand questionnaires were administered randomly. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests. Results: The response rate was 75%. Approximately 50% of the participants did not know that hepatitis B and C can be transmitted by sharing razors, and can be more easily spread than AIDS. The results showed that participants were fearful to treat people with hepatitis. They felt that they were at risk if they treat people with hepatitis. They thought that people with hepatitis should be isolated in a special room. Relevance to Clinical Practice: One major step in preventing a widespread hepatitis infection is to qualify s...