SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
INTEGRATION OF MAGNETIC RESIDUALS, DERIVATIVES AND LOCATED EULER DECONVOLUTION FOR STRUCTURAL AND GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF PARTS OF THE PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES OF AGO-IWOYE, SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Ground based magnetic survey conducted between longitude 06O 55I 51IIN – 06O 55I 54IIN and latitude 03O 52I 06IIE – 03O 52I 4.8IIE (Olabisi Onabanjo University) remarkably revealed a consistent subsurface NW - SE structural azimuth of localized discontinuities within the shallowly buried heterogeneous basement rocks, which at exposed locations are composed of strongly foliated granite gneiss and migmatite-gneiss with veins and veinlets principally orientated in NNW – SSE direction. Magnetic survey of the area was preceded by site inspection to avoid metallic objects interferences. Field procedure in the area involved Cartesian gridding, base station establishment, data acquisition at gridded points, and repeated bihourly diurnal checks at the base station. At the processing stage, diurnal variation effect was aptly removed before subjection to Kriging (gridding). The gridded data was then prepared as input for Forward Fourier Filter Transform (FFT), which upon definition and implementation enabled Butterworth filtering of isolated ringing effects, reduction to the equator (RTE) for geomagnetic correction, and the use of Gaussian and Upward Continuation filtering for regional magnetic intensity trend determination. Removal of the regional magnetic intensity (RMI) from the total magnetic intensity (TMI) resulted in the derivation of the residual anomaly. Enhancement filters adopted for better resolution of the residual magnetic gradient include analytical signal (AS), tilt-angle derivative (TDR), vertical derivative deconvolution (VDD), and the first vertical derivatives (FVD). TMI and RMI values range between 32925nT – 33050nT and 32935nT – 333050nT respectively, while the residual gradient ranges between 15nT/m and 10nT/m; AS ranges between 0.28nT/m and 4.1nT/m; and TDR ranges from -1.4nT/m to 1.4nT/m. Source depth calculation estimated from power spectrum analysis and Euler deconvolution ranges between 1m and 15m. Composite overlay of magnetic maps revealed jointed and faulted zones within the area; exhibiting a NW-SE principal azimuth of Liberian orogenic impress, which are in consistence with the foliation direction of the jagged foliated bedrock with an estimated maximum overburden of about 15m. The structural significance of this area as a prospective hydro-geological centre, and as an undesirable spot for high-rise building has been accurately evaluated from research findings. Application of integrated geophysical approach, complemented by detailed geological studies may furnish greater information about the subsurface structural architecture.
Keywords: Gneisses; Ground Magnetic Surveying; RTE; Structural discontinuities; TDR.
DOI 10.35180/gse-2020-0027
Sobreexplotación de pozos profundos y perforación irregular en acuíferos costeros

A medida que la humanidad va en aumento, la demanda de agua crece y es extraída en una cantidad superior a su recarga hídrica. El objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar la sobreexplotación de pozos profundos y perforación irregular en acuíferos costeros de Manabí. La investigación tiene un diseño descriptivo no experimental, debido a que se realizó sin la manipulación de las variables, evaluando aspectos referentes a la autoridad Ambiental del Ecuador. Para la recolección de información se diseñó una encuesta estructurada de acuerdo con la escala de Likert, la misma fue validada por criterio experto antes de ser aplicada a usuarios beneficiados del acuífero, considerando una población de 1200 usuarios que usan y/o aprovechan el recurso hídrico en distintas actividades con réplica en varios sitios del objeto de estudio. Para la muestra se aplicó la fórmula estadística, quedando un total de 292 personas a encuestar. Finalmente se realizó una correlación de la información obtenida con estudios de otros acuíferos costeros para concluir que existe coincidencia en la disminución del nivel freático como efecto de la sobreexplotación y mal manejo del objeto de estudio. Con base en los resultados se determina que el acuífero Cantagallo es usado mayormente para el consumo humano y riesgo, siendo apoyados por organizaciones gubernamentales, juntas comunales y son capacitados para el buen uso y aprovechamiento del recurso hídrico.
Energy services, networks and territorial impact EU energy policy

This project provides basic evidence and background information, necessary for a more informed discussion on energy policy impact in Europe. The ambition was to show how energy infrastructures and production and consumption are linked with economic and human activity, and thereby to provide a basis for understanding to what extent territorial development depends on, or is influenced by the energy sector.

It presents an overview of European energy supply (networks, infrastructures and services, with regard to different types of energy), basic consumption patterns, as well as a tentative prospective analysis of possible effects of energy policy impact, in terms of regional development, considering energy supply as a potentially influent location factor for economic activities. Regarding more environmental (sustainability) objectives, the project also considers the potential for development of renewable energy over Europe, and enumerates a number of policy recommendations in order to promote their development. Finally, an interesting attempt was made to estimate the impact that a 10% energy price change (increase and decrease) can have on regional GDP.
Covering the purchase of goods, fuel

The project concerns support to the entrepreneur in providing liquidity and support to day-to-day activities due to the financial difficulties that have occurred to the entrepreneur as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Financial assistance under scheme SA.57015 (2020/N)
Legal identity for all?

Although we often think of undocumented persons as migrants or non-citizens, about one in seven people across the globe lack documents such as birth certificates, ID cards or passports to prove their legal identity, and thus their status as citizens in their own country. This gap between citizens with and without state-recognized documents is just as consequential as the distinction between citizens and non-citizens. 

Existing approaches portray the citizenship gap – the difference between legal status and the ability of citizens to document their claim to this status – as the apolitical by-product of deficiencies in governance. The proposed research project – CitizenGap – aims to change how scholars and policy-makers think about achieving one of the key targets of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration” by developing a novel political understanding. 

The project establishes the citizenship gap as a field of social scientific research, and pursues two main questions: (1) How and why do states invest in civil registration? (2) How and why do citizens decide to obtain documents? To understand why millions of citizens are undocumented, it is crucial to remember that citizenship is not only a legal status, but first and foremost a political relationship between states and the populations they govern. CitizenGap advances a strategic theory that seriously considers the incentives of states and citizens in the politics of civil registration. Empirically, the project contributes a comprehensive, cross-national measure that captures the number and characteristics of undocumented citizens, including those at risk of having their citizenship status questioned. The project analyzes the origins and nature of the citizenship gap in India and Mexico with a mixed methods design, combining demographic and spatial (GIS) datasets with fieldwork, archival sources, interviews and focus groups
RESCUE TOOL

The invention relates to a rescue tool, comprising a power cylinder having a cylinder housing and a piston with a piston rod extending out of the housing, a transmission connected to the piston, at least one rotatably drivable arm, a structure accommodating at least the cylinder housing; and a yoke, which defines a passage for any one or more than one of the cylinder housing, the piston and the transmission and which is connected to the structure to define a rotation point for the at least one rotatably driveable arm. The rescue tool further comprises an end-cap, which is arranged on the cylinder housing to close an internal pressure chamber of the cylinder, wherein the yoke and the end-cap form an integral component.
Cosentino, Gianluca: Grammatik der Prosodie für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2019 (Studien Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache, 7). – ISBN 978-3-503-18701-0. 227 Seiten, € 59,95.

Article Cosentino, Gianluca: Grammatik der Prosodie für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2019 (Studien Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache, 7). – ISBN 978-3-503-18701-0. 227 Seiten, € 59,95. was published on April 1, 2022 in the journal Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache (volume 49, issue 2-3).
Efficient methods for radiative heat transfer analysis in fires and water sprays for fire suppression

The annual cost of losses due to fires is estimated at €126bn, equivalent to 1% of European global gross domestic product (GDP). The use of performance-based fire safety engineering which relies on fire modeling is seen as a good step to reduce fire losses. Thermal radiation is the most dominant mode of heat transfer in fires and its rigorous and efficient modeling is therefore critical for the reliability of fire safety codes employed in fire engineering. The project aims to improve the current modeling strategies of radiative heat transfer in fires and in fire suppression by water sprays where the  interaction between fires and water droplets should be taken into account. Current computational methods used in fire modeling and fire suppression suffer from the main following drawbacks: (1) They use the optically gray Planck mean radiative properties of the composite medium, which are too crude to describe the real spectral behavior of thermal radiation (2) The angular dependence of the radiation intensity is usually approximated with too much details without accounting for the real radiation field; (3) The computational mesh taken from the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) part of the general fire code is too detailed and not appropriate for radiative transfer calculations; (4) the computational requirements for current fire CFD codes are prohibitive and this is an obstacle.
It is proposed in the scientific part of the project to develop simplified and rigorous radiative approaches which retain the physics and significantly reduce the computational time. This will lead to more efficient CFD fire codes and enhance their wider use for safety applications. The action also aims to train the Experienced Researcher in developing and acquiring knowledge in advanced fire combustion and turbulence modeling using LES (large eddy simulation) approach, CFD methods and gain a general knowledge of multidisciplinary fire safety science.
Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in cities across Central Europe

Whilst cities cover only three percentage of Europe's surface, they account for eighty percent of the buildings and seventy five percent of carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore one of the major challenges faced by European countries today is the reduction of CO2 emissions that contribute to climate change. This is particularly true for cities as they account for eighty percent of the buildings and seventy five percent of carbon dioxide emissions. 
Buildings, whether commercial, residential, private or social housing, account for almost fifty per cent of energy use, with consequent impact on climate change and&nbsp; CO2 emissions. 

They are therefore an obvious area where efforts have to be concentrated as improvements in their energy efficiency can deliver substantial gains in the fight against climate change.&nbsp; All European countries are facing the same challenge to improve energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions, therefore a coordinated and transnational approach is needed in order to introduce coherent policies and achievable targets that can be met by all countries. 

The implementation of strategies in EnerCity for the reduction of energy consumption and the consequent increase of energy efficiency in buildings stocks and urban agglomerates will therefore contribute in an effective and direct way to the achievement of the fight against climate change.
Sensitivity and specificity of unenhanced MR mammography (DWI combined with T2-weighted TSE imaging, ueMRM) for the differentiation of mass lesions

ObjectiveThis study was performed to assess the sensitivity and specificity for malignant and benign mass lesions of a diagnostic approach combining DWI with T2-weighted images (unenhanced MR mammography, ueMRM) and compare the results with contrast-enhanced MR mammography (ceMRM).Materials and methodsConsecutive patients undergoing histopathological verification of mass lesions after MR mammography without prior breast interventions (contrast-enhanced T1-weighted, T2-weighted and DWI sequences) were eligible for this retrospective investigation. Two blinded observers first rated ueMRM and then ceMRM according to the BIRADS scale. Lesion size, ADC values and T2-weighted TSE descriptors were assessed.ResultsThis study examined 81 lesions (27 benign, 54 malignant). Sensitivity of ueMRM was 93% (observer 1) and 86% (observer 2), respectively. Sensitivity of ceMRM was 96.5% (observer 1) and 98.3% (observer 2). Specificity was 85.2% (ueMRM) and 92.6% (ceMRM) for both observers. The differences between both methods and observers were not significant (P ≥ 0.09). Lesion size measurements did not differ significantly among all sequences analyzed. Tumor visibility was worse using ueMRM for both benign (P < 0.001) and malignant lesions (P = 0.004).ConclusionSensitivity and specificity of ueMRM in mass lesions equal that of ceMRM. However, a reduced lesion visibility in ueMRM may lead to more false-negative findings.
Students' interest in STEM education

In this paper we study the interest of students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from grade 9 to 12 in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Surveys were distributed to students who chose STEM tracks and students who chose non-STEM tracks in public and private schools, as well as universities, across the country. The data collected revealed a number of reasons that make students like, or dislike, scientific majors. These reasons include the presence or absence of capable teachers and the choice of the teaching language. The results presented in the paper also focus on differences between public and private institutions, male and female students, as well as nationals and non-nationals. We also compare our findings to similar research done in the USA We show that several factors remain valid in both countries whereas others are specific to each of them.
Feasibility study for a breakthrough core system to enable fault tolerant manufacture of high performances composites wind blades

KORIDION project is aimed to provide a simple yet effective solution, transferring positive results applied in protective equipments (helmets), to composite materials applied for wind blade structures.  The advantages provided within the system enable to improve the load capacity of the structure, adhesion from skin and core, and more relevant to the end performances, to constitute a system which can be easily automated, contemporarily reducing the potential impacts of errors in manual operation.  Innovative material and processing mechanisms are at the forefront of the project objectives, oriented to revolutionize the way blades are designed and manufactured. The basic KORIDION formula and the processing means have been developed within SmartNets EU project (G.A: 262806) in cooperation with the UK company Tryonic Ltd. Tryonic owns the IPR generated and THURCKON has the rights for use and further exploitation of the five patents developed.
The project is expected to generate relevant growth for THURCKON that foresee to reach, in a short-medium term (2-4 years), revenue of about 2.3 M€ (low success scenario) and to hire a minimum of 4 employees.
The final objective is to demonstrate the feasibility, also through a reduced scale blade application, that can effectively constitute a basis for a successful Step2 project, oriented to the successful transfer of the overall approach at a full scale wind turbine blade.
Comparative studies of partial discharge using acoustic emission method and optical spectroscopy

This paper concerns improvement of evaluation methods of partial discharge (PD), which may occur in the power transformer insulation systems. This particular study regards the next stage of research works, which aim to determine the energy share of particular physical phenomena accompanying generation of PD. The performed works were connected to comparative analysis of PDs, which were measured with the acoustic emission (AE) method and with optical spectroscopy. The applied measurement setup was specially designed for generation of surface partial discharges (SPDs) in transformer oil as insulation medium. In the introduction section elements of the experimental setup, i.e. the spark gap for modeling of SPDs and the transformer tank model filled with insulation oil will be characterized. Further the measurement equipment and the metrological parameters for both applied PDs registration methods will be described in detail. In the following sections the achieved results will be presented and discussed. In particular spectra of optical signals registered in the range from 200 to 1100 nm and frequency spectra of AE signals registered in the range from 0 to 500 kHz will be presented. In order to determine the effect of voltage value, which was used for generation of SPD, on the registered optical and AE signals, the results will be presented for three relative values: 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8 times the value of breakdown voltage of the applied test system. In addition, results of time-frequency analysis of EA signals, in the form of two dimensional spectrograms calculated using the short time Fourier transform will be presented. In the following section the achieved results of performed comparative analysis will be presented and discussed.
Coachcom2020 – a coaching community enhancing impact of the h2020 sme instrument

Objectives
The overall aim of CoachCom2020 is to ensure the fast implementation of a consistent and comprehensive, professional coaching community to support European SMEs participating in the new dedicated SME instrument under Horizon 2020. 

Workplan and relevance
Based on a robust and tested system approach CoachCom2020 will put in place and implement a coaching community methodology and platform with embedded quality assurance measures, ready to tackle the pressing requirements of the first months following the start of the first SME Instrument projects in Fall 2014 and subsequently (WP1). The overall coaching scheme will include highly targeted recruitment communication and broad dissemination reach (WP2), state-of-the-art mechanism for peer-learning in professional communities both on- and offline, structured knowledge sharing under scientific supervision (WP3) and, finally, three classes of pre-validated management systems and tools for Commission and EEN stakeholders: a case tracking / monitoring system; an impacts evaluation / benchmarking system; and a virtual learning platform with both an informal social network dimension and a structured knowledge repository (WP4). An “open-knowledge” policy and open source software are at the heart of the project paving the way for long-term perspectives post-project. 

Consortium
The proposed concept is anchored firmly in the organizational experience and proven excellence of the innovation platform of Western Switzerland – which is coupled to and strongly leveraged by the comprehensive reach and crucial role of the EEN network. The effort is coordinated by a future “end-user” - an experienced, Danish SME coaching organization. Management of the project rests in the hands of seasoned experts. A lean organisation is streamlined for fast decision making and ongoing risk appraisal.
Evaluating Unfractionated Heparin Fixed Dosing Protocol and Establishing an Institutional Therapeutic Range for UFH in Hospital Setting in Jordan

This study was conducted to evaluate current unfractionated heparin (UFH) dosing regimen and establish an institutional therapeutic range for UFH in a public hospital in Jordan. In the first part, medical records of 241 patients who received UFH were reviewed retrospectively. In the second part, blood samples were withdrawn from 60 patients on UFH, and activated partial thromboplastin time and anti-Xa assay were measured. Most activated partial thromboplastin time readings were not therapeutic (91.4%) and recurrence of thrombosis was reported in 35.3% of patients. In the second part, therapeutic activated partial thromboplastin time range corresponding to the UFH concentration of 0.3 to 0.7 anti-factor Xa unit/mL was 56 to 95 seconds, which corresponds to an activated partial thromboplastin time range of 1.5 of 2.8 times the mean control value. The traditional activated partial thromboplastin time range ratio of 1.5 to 2.5 times the control value can result in subtherapeutic UFH levels.
Proteomics analysis of human brain tissue infected by street rabies virus

In order to extend the knowledge of rabies pathogenesis, a two-dimensional electrophoresis/mass spectrometry based postmortem comparative proteomics analysis was carried out on human brain samples. Alteration in expression profile of several proteins was detected. Proteins related to cytoskeleton, metabolism, proteasome and immune regulatory systems showed the most changes in expression levels. Among these groups, the cytoskeleton related proteins (dynein light chain, β-centractin, tubulin alpha-1C chain and destrin) and metabolism associated proteins (fatty acid-binding protein, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, glutamine synthetase and alpha enolase) were the main altered proteins. These alterations may be considered as an evidence of disturbances in neuronal key processes including axonal transport, synaptic activity, signaling and metabolic pathways in rabies virus infected human brain.