SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Development of a setup to enable stable and accurate flow conditions for membrane biofouling studies

AbstractSystematic laboratory studies on membrane biofouling require experimental conditions that are well defined and representative for practice. Hydrodynamics and flow rate variations affect biofilm formation, morphology, and detachment and impacts on membrane performance parameters such as feed channel pressure drop. There is a suite of available monitors to study biofouling, but systems to operate monitors have not been well designed to achieve an accurate, constant water flow required for a reliable determination of biomass accumulation and feed channel pressure drop increase. Studies were done with membrane fouling simulators operated in parallel with manual and automated flow control, with and without dosage of a biodegradable substrate to the feedwater to enhance biofouling rate. High flow rate variations were observed for the manual water flow system (up to ≈9%) compared to the automatic flow control system (<1%). The flow rate variation in the manual system was strongly increased by biofilm acc...
Timeliness of care and prognosis in patients with lung cancer

Timeliness of care is an important dimension of health care quality. The determining factors of less timely care and their influence on the survival of patients with lung cancer (LC) remain uncertain.To analyse the delays in the diagnosis and treatment of LC in our health area, the factors associated with the timeliness of care and their possible relationship with the survival of these patients.A retrospective study was conducted on all patients with a cytohistologically confirmed diagnosis of LC between 1 June 2005 and 31 May 2008. The time delays for consultation (specialist delay), diagnosis (diagnosis delay), and treatment (treatment delay), were analysed, as well as the factors associated with these delays and the influence of the timeliness of care on survival.A total of 307 cases were included (87 % males). The mean specialist delay was 53.6 days (median 35 days), diagnosis delay 31.5 days (median 18 days), treatment delay 23.5 days (median 14 days). The greater age of the patient and a more advanced stage were associated with a shorter specialist delay. Male sex, a more advanced stage, and poor general status were associated with a shorter treatment delay. The survival is longer in patients with a longer treatment delay.The delay in the diagnosis in our population seems to be excessively long. The greater the age, a more advanced tumour stage, male sex, and poor general health status are associated with shorter delays. A longer treatment delay is associated with a longer survival.
METHOD OF CONTROLLING EMISSIONS OF A GAS TURBINE PLANT AND GAS TURBINE PLANT

A method of controlling emissions of a gas turbine plant (1), including a compressor (7), a combustion chamber (9) and a gas turbine (10), includes detecting the oxygen concentration (S02) in the exhaust gases (QE) of the gas turbine (10) and heating a fuel gas flow (QF) supplied to the combustion chamber (9) as a function of the detected oxygen concentration (S02 ) and of a reference concentration value (S02R; S02R' ).
Noise tailoring for scalable quantum computation via randomized compiling

Quantum computers are poised to radically outperform their classical counterparts by manipulating coherent quantum systems. A realistic quantum computer will experience errors due to the environment and imperfect control. When these errors are even partially coherent, they present a major obstacle to achieving robust computation. Here, we propose a method for introducing independent random single-qubit gates into the logical circuit in such a way that the effective logical circuit remains unchanged. We prove that this randomization tailors the noise into stochastic Pauli errors, leading to dramatic reductions in worst-case and cumulative error rates, while introducing little or no experimental overhead. Moreover we prove that our technique is robust to variation in the errors over the gate sets and numerically illustrate the dramatic reductions in worst-case error that are achievable. Given such tailored noise, gates with significantly lower fidelity are sufficient to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computation, and, importantly, the worst case error rate of the tailored noise can be directly and efficiently measured through randomized benchmarking experiments. Remarkably, our method enables the realization of fault-tolerant quantum computation under the error rates observed in recent experiments.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM RESTORATION BY TAPPING MECHANISM

Some examples include detecting that a source computing device is in proximity to a target computing device. For instance, a user credential of the source computing device may be received from the source computing device. Further, a copy of system data of the source computing device may be retrieved from a cloud storage service. A system state of the source computing device may be restored on the target computing device by using the user credential received from the source computing device and the copy of the system data of the source computing device retrieved from the cloud storage. In some cases, the user credential may expire on the target computing device after a predetermined system event in the target computing device.
Augmentation du niveau d’équipement des machines de l’atelier de menuiserie

Le projet est mis en œuvre dans le but d’acheter des technologies modernes pour le début de l’atelier de menuiserie. L’objectif du projet est d’accroître la productivité de la main-d’œuvre et la qualité des produits, la satisfaction de la clientèle, le développement des affaires sur les aspects financiers, professionnels et personnels.
Monitoring bone healing around endosseous implants: from multiscale modeling to the patient’s bed

Implants are often employed in orthopaedic and dental surgeries. However, risks of failure, which are difficult to anticipate, are still experienced and may have dramatic consequences. Failures are due to degraded bone remodeling at the bone-implant interface, a multiscale phenomenon of an interdisciplinary nature which remains poorly understood. The objective of BoneImplant is to provide a better understanding of the multiscale and multitime mechanisms at work at the bone-implant interface. To do so, BoneImplant aims at studying the evolution of the biomechanical properties of bone tissue around an implant during the remodeling process. A methodology involving combined in vivo, in vitro and in silico approaches is proposed.
New modeling approaches will be developed in close synergy with the experiments. Molecular dynamic computations will be used to understand fluid flow in nanoscopic cavities, a phenomenon determining bone healing process. Generalized continuum theories will be necessary to model bone tissue due to the important strain field around implants. Isogeometric mortar formulation will allow to simulate the bone-implant interface in a stable and efficient manner.  
In vivo experiments realized under standardized conditions will be realized on the basis of feasibility studies. A multimodality and multi-physical experimental approach will be carried out to assess the biomechanical properties of newly formed bone tissue as a function of the implant environment. The experimental approach aims at estimating the effective adhesion energy and the potentiality of quantitative ultrasound imaging to assess different biomechanical properties of the interface. 
Results will be used to design effective loading clinical procedures of implants and to optimize implant conception, leading to the development of therapeutic and diagnostic techniques. The development of quantitative ultrasonic techniques to monitor implant stability has a potential for industrial transfer.
Disfluencies as Extra-Propositional Indicators of Cognitive Processing

We explore filled pause usage in spontaneous medical narration. Expert physicians viewed images of dermatological conditions and provided a description while working toward a diagnosis. The narratives were analyzed for differences in filled pauses used by attending (experienced) and resident (in-training) physicians and by male and female physicians. Attending physicians described more and used more filled pauses than residents. No difference was found by speaker gender. Acoustic speech features were examined for two types of filled pauses: nasal (e.g. um) and non-nasal (e.g. uh). Nasal filled pauses were more often followed by longer silent pauses. Scores capturing diagnostic correctness and diagnostic thoroughness for each narrative were compared against filled pauses. The number of filled and silent pauses trends upward as correctness scores increase, indicating a tentative relationship between filled pause usage and expertise. Also, we report on a computational model for predicting types of filled pause.
MEDIUM-LOW TEMPERATURE ASPHALT MODIFIER HAVING DEODORIZATION FUNCTION, ASPHALT MIXTURE PREPARED USING THE SAME, AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF

Provided are a high-strength medium-low temperature asphalt modifier including: i) a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer powder which is frozen ground to 0.1 to 1 mm at a low temperature, wherein the styrenic thermoplastic elastomer is selected from a polystyrene-polybutadiene-polystyrene block copolymer (SBS), a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), a styreneisoprene-styrene block copolymer (SIS), a styrene-ethylenebutylene-styrene block copolymer (SEBS), and a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer (STE), ii) a high-boiling point process oil, iii) a rosin resin tackifier modified by an aliphatic hydrocarbon, iv) a polymer-silica nanocomposite, and v) an asphalt deodorant, an asphalt mixture prepared using the same, and a construction method thereof.
UMH

In this article, we describe how to ease memory management between a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and one or multiple discrete Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) by architecting a novel hardware-based Unified Memory Hierarchy (UMH). Adopting UMH, a GPU accesses the CPU memory only if it does not find its required data in the directories associated with its high-bandwidth memory, or the NMOESI coherency protocol limits the access to that data. Using UMH with NMOESI improves performance of a CPU-multiGPU system by at least 1.92 × in comparison to alternative software-based approaches. It also allows the CPU to access GPUs modified data by at least 13 × faster.
BP Global Energy Outlook 2030

This paper presents the highlights of the third annual edition of the BP Energy Outlook, which sets out BP’s view of the most likely developments in global energy markets to 2030, based on up-to-date analysis and taking into account developments of the past year. The Outlook’s overall expectation for growth in global energy demand is to be 36% higher in 2030 than in 2011 and almost all the growth coming from emerging economies. It also reflects shifting expectations of the pattern of supply, with unconventional sources — shale gas and tight oil together with heavy oil and biofuels — playing an increasingly important role and, in particular, transforming the energy balance of the US. While the fuel mix is evolving, fossil fuels will continue to be dominant. Oil, gas and coal are expected to converge on market shares of around 26—28% each by 2030, and non-fossil fuels — nuclear, hydro and renewables — on a share of around 6—7% each. By 2030, increasing production and moderating demand will result in the US being 99% self-sufficient in net energy. Meanwhile, with continuing steep economic growth, major emerging economies such as China and India will become increasingly reliant on energy imports. These shifts will have major impacts on trade balances.
Data infrastructure capacity for eosc

The Data Infrastructure Capacities for EOSC (DICE) consortium brings together a network of computing and data centres, research infrastructures, and data repositories for the purpose to enable a European storage and data management infrastructure for EOSC, providing generic services and building blocks to store, find, access and process data in a consistent and persistent way. Specifically, DICE partners will offer 14 state-of-the-art data management services together with more than 50 PB of storage capacity. The service and resource provisioning will be accompanied by enhancing the current service offering in order to fill the gaps still present to the support of the entire research data lifecycle; solutions will be provided for increasing the quality of data and their re-usability, supporting long term preservation, managing sensitive data, and bridging between data and computing resources.
All services provided via DICE will be offered through the EOSC Portal and interoperable with EOSC Core via a lean interoperability layer to allow efficient resource provisioning from the very beginning of the project. The partners will closely monitor the evolution of the EOSC interoperability framework and guidelines to comply with a) the rules of participation to onboard services into EOSC, and b) the interoperability guidelines to integrate with the EOSC Core functions.
The data services offered via DICE through EOSC are designed to be agnostic to the scientific domains in order to be multidisciplinary and to fulfil the needs of different communities.
The consortium aims to demonstrate their effectiveness of the service offering by integrating services with community platforms as part of the project and by engaging with new communities coming through EOSC.
Acoustofluidic Relay

We report an on-chip acoustofluidic method for sequential trapping and transporting of microparticles via acoustically oscillating bubbles. The size and location of bubbles were precisely controlled by lithography. When the acoustic waves were turned off, particles followed the streamlines dictated by laminar flow. When the acoustic waves were turned on, particles were attracted to and trapped in a vortex near the surface of bubble. Therefore, particles could move across the microfluidic channel with programmed trajectories. Additionally, a theoretical model based on acoustic radiation force and drag force due to acoustic microstreaming was established to help design this particle-trapping and -transporting system.
Influence of the Fly Ash Character on Quality of Artificial Aggregate

In a world is of ever-increasing pressure on the use of fly ash in building materials. Despite these efforts the majority of produced energy by-products end up as reclamation material and only small part as high-quality materials. Technology of sintered artificial aggregate is fully based on the fly ashes and allows processing a high percentage of this raw material. The work is devoted to assessing the impact of fly ash character on the quality artificial aggregate. There were selected three fly ashes from high-temperature combustion technology and two from the FBC combustion. The results clearly show that the FBC ashes are not too useful for sintered aggregate technology. For fly ashes is determined primarily by their fineness and the amount of amorphous silica phase.
Mediterranean Electronic Marine Highways Observatory

The proposed project MEMO will build on the experiences and results gained from its predecessor, AEM-MED (“Les Autoroutes Electroniques Maritimes de la MÉDITERRANÉE”) which has been completed ion 9/30/2008 under the INTEREGG IIIB MEDOCC Programme, and will utilize the AEM MED system by providing new tools and services focused on maritime risk prevention and local contingency planning. The AEM-MED system is an innovative marine information and infrastructure system that integrates environmental management and protection systems with maritime safety technologies (AIS, VTIS) for enhanced maritime services, higher navigational safety standards, integrated marine environment protection and sustainable development of coastal and marine resources. The project will focus on the enhancement of the existing marine information and infrastructure system created under AEM-MED with five new local / regional nodes and the provision of additional new services (Class B AIS, cross- correlation with Radar signal and meteorological data, application of Long Range AIS, integration of early response system and local preparedness plans, Fleet management, Aids to Navigation management etc). Moreover, it will lead to the establishment of the Mediterranean Marine Electronic Highway Observatory (MEMO) that will identify, monitor and integrate into the AEM-MED system enhanced environmental management tools and maritime safety technologies.
Setting up an Italian-Slovenian Service Centre to carry out the collection, analysis, qualitative assessment and marketing of milk (produced by cows, goats or sheep) and its subsequent processing with innovative company-supporting technologies .

The constant development of cattle, goat and sheep breeding in the cross-border area makes it possible to maintain the rural culture and the population in the area. Livestock farms therefore become very important from the social point of view, for they ensure the continuity of traditional culture in these areas, which are still closely connected with agricultural production. Sheep and goat breeding in the Italian border area is undergoing a sharp decline, because of the insufficient enhancement of the products made with sheep and goat milk; for the time being, therefore, it does not attract new investments. The milk laboratory of the KGZS GO institute, the central milk laboratory in Rome and Codroipo laboratory have been cooperating, for several years now, in milk analysis. The market is more and more demanding and requires new research on this raw material. This project envisages the construction, in the Italian territory (Tolmezzo), of a bottling plant for cow, goat and sheep milk in the mountain area, whereas the Slovenian partner will modernize its milk experimental laboratory. A lasting cooperation between the two (scientific and local) communities will be fostered with regard to milk cattle-goatand- sheep breeding, joint research and the development of new opportunities for the production and the marketing of quality fresh milk and its by-products. This initiative suggests a constant, effective and bilateral professional commitment in the breeding of milk animals and in the selection activities aimed at improving milk quality. Attention will be paid to production orientation and innovative technologies in order to support producers.
Todays Common Errors for Display Toponyms on Web Maps and Solutions

Primarily we dealt with the problem of toponyms placement on web maps and it can be noticed that even today on most visited sites with web maps toponyms placement is not in accordance with the cartographic principles, cartographic visualization conditions or cartographic generalization rules. There are good and bad examples of toponyms placement on web maps and the good are generally those who adhere to the cartographic principles for toponym label placement used for printed maps but are also implemented on the web maps. A simple method for decision of visible or invisible label is proposed when label is shown in a complex map environment with all other cartographic elements and different layers as it is usual on web maps. The perfect solution can be approached but we have to wait for more complex systems that apply artificial intelligence on which for now we think in theoretical form, that would use different ways of learning by examples and by own mistakes, much like humans do.
”Det kunde lika gärna ha hänt idag” : Maj Bylocks Drakskeppstrilogi och historiemedvetande hos barn i mellanåldrarna

The aim of this thesis, The Historical Novel and Historical Consciousness in ten- to twelve-year-olds - Maj Bylocks Drakskeppstrilogi in Theory and Practice, is to illustrate the possibilities for pupils of the ages between ten to twelve to develop their historical consciousness by participating in classroom work making use of fiction as a central source of knowledge. In the first part of the thesis the three novels in the trilogy about the Viking age by the Swedish author Maj Bylock, Drakskeppet (1997), Det gyllne svardet (1998) and Borgen i fjarran (1998), are analyzed. The purpose is to show the conditions given by the novels which could promote children’s own historical consciousness and how the characters are portrayed in order for the readers to be able to identify with them. Two functions of the novels are studied: knowledge and analogy. Within the analysis of analogy the concept of empowerment is central to the portrayal of the protagonist. The textual analysis shows that the protagonist’s situation as a migrant above all points to cultural encounters both in the past and in the present time and further highlights the situation of the slaves in the Viking age. The apparent analogy of the present time means that the novels are well suited to discussions about ethics, the value of human beings and cultural encounters. In the second part of the thesis I analyse 11-year-old children’s reading of Bylock’s trilogy. Three pupils’ texts, book talks and interviews and experiences of the novels have been documented during a six week long thematic project on the Viking age. The analysis is conducted amongst others with the help of Judith A. Langer’s concept envisionment building. The pupils’ historical consciousness development and newfound knowledge can partly be related to the analogy and the themes found in the novels. With the assistance of the novels’ “living characters”, the exciting plot and an emotional envolvement the pupils have acquired knowledge and at the same time developed their historical consciousness. Book talks are of crucial importance in this. (Less)
Evidence for glycosylation as a regulator of the pigmentary system: key roles of sialyl(α2-6)gal/GalNAc-terminated glycans in melanin synthesis and transfer

The major regulators of melanogenesis are glycoproteins, however no role for glycosylation in the pathway has yet been described. We stained skin biopsies and melanocyte-keratinocyte co-cultures with a panel of 20 lectins as oligosaccharide markers. Notably, the Elderberry Bark Lectin (EBL/SNA) stained melanocytes in both systems. EBL binds the sequence Neu5Ac(α(2-6)Gal/GalNAc)- at the termini of some oligosaccharide antennae. We used inhibitors of synthesis and/or binding of this sequence to assess effects on pigmentation.Cell culture, lectin histochemistry, siRNA transfection, and assays for dopa oxidase and melanin were carried out by standard techniques.6'-sialyllactose, a short homolog of the sequence in question, anti-sialyltransferase 6 (ST6) siRNA, and cytidine, a sialyltransferase (ST) inhibitor, each inhibited EBL binding, melanogenesis and melanosome transfer. Unexpectedly, 3'-sialyllactose and siRNA for ST3, chosen as a negative controls, also inhibited these processes. Though strong inhibitors of melanization, none of the agents affected tyrosinase/dopa oxidase activity, indicating previously unrecognized post-tyrosinase regulation of melanization.We report for the first time that Neu5Ac (α(2-6)Gal/GalNAc)- and possibly Neu5Ac(α(2-3)Gal/GalNAc)-terminated oligosaccharides play multiple roles in melanin synthesis and transfer.