SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Enhancing the antitumor cell proliferation and Cu2+-chelating effects of black soybeans through fermentation with Aspergillus awamori

In the present study, black soybeans were fermented with Aspergillus awamori at 30°C for 3 days. The effect of fermentation on the antiproliferative effect against human colon cancer cells, Caco-2 and HT-29 as well as Cu 2+ -chelating effect of black soybeans was investigated. It was found that the water, 80% methanol or 80% ethanol extract of fermented black soybeans showed a significantly higher ( P < 0.05) antiproliferative and Cu 2+ -chelating effect than did the respective extract of non-fermented black soybeans. Generally, the methanol extract and the ethanol extract of fermented black soybeans exerted higher antiproliferative effect on both Caco-2 and HT-29 cells. While water extract of fermented black soybeans showed the highest Cu 2+ -chelating effect among the various extracts examined. Taking into account of extraction yields further revealed that bioactive principles that exhibit Cu 2+ -chelating effect could be extracted to the largest extent with water as the extraction solvent. With same amount of sample, water extract obtained from fermented black soybeans possesses the highest Cu 2+ -chelating abilities.
Using the Wii Remote for Mobile Device Application Testing

There has been a dramatic shift in the interaction methods of mobile devices over the past decade. From devices simply being able to make phone calls to being able to handle complex tasks traditionally performed on personal computers (PCs); this change has led to new interaction issues that need to be understood during the application development process, particularly as these devices now commonly incorporate a touch-screen as their primary source of input. Currently, the methods of conducting software user experience testing of these devices employs techniques that were developed for PCs, however mobile devices are used within different contexts of use. This research initially reviews the current methods for user experience testing of applications running on mobile devices and then presents, through a proof-of-concept approach, an innovative method for conducting user experience testing employing actual devices.
Digitalhealtheurope: support to a digital health and care innovation initiative in the context of digital single market strategy

DigitalHealthEurope will provide comprehensive, centralised support to the digital transformation of health and care (DTHC) priorities of the Digital Single Market. The partners bring a broad range of collective knowledge and expertise, originating from the longstanding leadership and engagement in the whole spectrum of activities, from interoperability and standards to health service innovation and from the technical to the policy level. The project will support large-scale deployment of digital solutions for person-centred integrated care by identifying, analysing, and facilitating the replication of highly impactful best practices, utilising the consortium’s exceptional expertise on knowledge management and impact assessment (EIP on AHA repository of innovative practices, MAFEIP), twinning schemes, and mobilisation of stakeholders. A marketplace will enable organisations to find suitable partnerships. At least 46 twinnings ranging from adaptation of impactful best practices to full adoption will be carried out. A funding advice service and capacity building framework will be provided to further stimulate deployment and scale up. Building on the unique composition of the consortium, the project will establish and manage 3 collaboration platforms to align all efforts of ongoing and future initiatives supporting the 3 DTHC priorities. The partners will utilise their vast network of more than 1,100 members representing national, regional, and EU-wide stakeholders. The collaborative work will lead to common strategic agendas and commitments for action that will boost innovation and progress in the respective topics. A Board of Associated Experts with proven high-level competence on all key fields will support the delivery of an actionable strategic vision and recommendations for EU policy beyond 2020.
INVESTIMENTOS DE ALTA TECNOLOGIA PARA A MODERNIZAÇÃO E O REFORÇO DA ATIVIDADE EMPRESARIAL.

INVESTIMENTOS EM NOVO CICLO DE SOLDAGEM COM MÁQUINAS DE ALTA TECNOLOGIA E NOVO COMPRESSOR, COMPRA DE EQUIPAMENTOS, CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS DEDICADOS A INVESTIMENTOS.
Advantages of an analysis of soil-structure interaction in a frequency domain

With the computer power available an analysis of a total soil-structure system has become possible. In this paper the advantages of an analysis performed in an frequency domain is shown: the condensation to the primary degrees of freedom, thereby conserving all the characteristic properties of the system, is straightforward; material damping based on rheological models can be considered easily; and even nonlinear problems may be investigated. The formulation is developed in a total displacement formulation, where the motion is driven by forces acting at the soil-structure interface, or more generally, at so-called interaction nodes. The total displacement formulation is compared with the classical approach, where the unknowns are the relative deformations with respect to the rigid base of the structure. These unknows are produced by inertial forces acting on the masses of the structure. In the conclusion the total displacement formulation in the frequency domain is suggested for structures with embedded elastic foundation built on a sub-grade which requires extended modeling for the mechanical representation of the structure and the sub-grade.
Dietary Phosphorus Restriction in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Merits, Challenges, and Emerging Strategies

Hyperphosphatemia is an independent risk factor for mortality in patients on maintenance dialysis. Since phosphorus clearance by standard three times-weekly dialysis is insufficient to balance ongoing dietary phosphorus intake, strategies to prevent absorption of dietary phosphorus are essential for attenuating increased serum levels. Dietary phosphorus binders are used widely for this purpose but dietary phosphorus restriction is relatively underutilized, most likely because of the logistical complexity of instituting and monitoring a low phosphorus diet, and for fear of worsening protein-energy wasting, which itself is a potent risk factor for mortality. In this review, we propose sustainable strategies for reducing phosphorus intake while avoiding exacerbation of protein-energy wasting. The approach is based on recognition of the dissociation between protein and phosphorus content in phosphorus-rich processed foods and the varying phosphorus bioavailability in different dietary sources. Controlling serum phosphate levels is among the most challenging aspects of day-to-day dialysis care but integration of sensible dietary interventions will likely improve phosphorus control.
3-D video cube

The present invention is a novel, high resolution, color, three-dimensional (3-D) volumetric display system for dynamic images—the video cube. The video cube consists of an air-tight glass cube filled with a gas mixture and multiple planes of thin wires arranged in alternating orthogonal layers. These wires may be set at voltage potentials capable of producing a glow discharge at the intersection of pairs of wires. Using a computer capable of storing dynamic image data and electronic controllers capable of energizing pairs of wires appropriately at the proper time 3-D dynamic images may be formed from multiple glows between excited wire pairs. The video cube may be used to display complex real-time information from computers and other digital processors with high accuracy for unlimited number of simultaneous unaided observers.
Metastability and emergent performance of dynamic interceptive actions

Adaptive patterning of human movement is context specific and dependent on interacting constraints of the performer-environment relationship. Flexibility of skilled behaviour is predicated on the capacity of performers to move between different states of movement organisation to satisfy dynamic task constraints, previously demonstrated in studies of visual perception, bimanual coordination, and an interceptive combat task. Metastability is a movement system property that helps performers to remain in a state of relative coordination with their performance environments, poised between multiple co-existing states (stable and distinct movement patterns or responses). The aim of this study was to examine whether metastability could be exploited in externally paced interceptive actions in fast ball sports, such as cricket.Here we report data on metastability in performance of multi-articular hitting actions by skilled junior cricket batters (n=5).Participants' batting actions (key movement timings and performance outcomes) were analysed in four distinct performance regions varied by ball pitching (bounce) location.Results demonstrated that, at a pre-determined distance to the ball, participants were forced into a meta-stable region of performance where rich and varied patterns of functional movement behaviours emerged. Participants adapted the organisation of responses, resulting in higher levels of variability in movement timing in this performance region, without detrimental effects on the quality of interceptive performance outcomes.Findings provide evidence for the emergence of metastability in a dynamic interceptive action in cricket batting. Flexibility and diversity of movement responses were optimised using experiential knowledge and careful manipulation of key task constraints of the specific sport context.
GATE VALVE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SUPPORT MEMBER

A gate valve assembly having a through bore adapted for fluid communication with a well bore and prepared for receiving an elongated member. The gate valve assembly comprises a gate element which is movably arranged in a gate valve housing, wherein the gate element has a gate bore arranged for receiving the elongated member, wherein a cutting tool is arranged in the gate bore first and second seats, wherein at least one of the first or second seat is arranged to provide sealing contact with a sealing surface of the gate element. A support member arranged with an opening encompassing the through bore and an expanded opening portion which is open to the through bore in the axial direction of the through bore, wherein a reduced section of the support member defines the expanded opening portion, and the opening has a decreasing radius along the reduced section in the axial direction of the support member toward a contact surface area arranged at an end portion of the support member adjacent the cutting tool, wherein the radius of the opening corresponds essentially to the radius of the through bore. The contact surface area is prepared for engagement with the elongated member and provides a counter acting area interacting with the cutting tool when shearing the elongated member. The invention also includes a method.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF USE

A surgical instrument includes an element connectable with a fixture. A first member is independently and selectively movable relative to the element and includes a part engageable with an incision in a cranial-caudal orientation relative to a body to space apart tissue. A second member is independently and selectively movable relative to the element and includes a part engageable with tissue of an anterior portion of the incision relative to the body. A third member is independently and selectively movable relative to the element and includes a part engageable with tissue of a posterior portion of the incision relative to the body. Systems and methods are disclosed.
Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Market: The Case of Storable Pollution Permits

Motivated by the structure of existing pollution permit markets, we study the equilibrium path that results from allocating an initial stock of storable permits to an agent, or a group of agents, in a position to exercise market power. A large seller of permits exercises market power no differently than a large supplier of an exhaustible resource. However, whenever the large agent's endowment falls short of his efficient endowment – allocation profile that would exactly cover his emissions along the perfectly competitive path – market power is greatly mitigated by a commitment problem, much like in a durable-goods monopoly. We illustrate our theory with two applications: the US sulphur market and the international carbon market that may eventually develop beyond the Kyoto Protocol.
Genetic and molecular priming approaches to increase crop strength and stress tolerance

The project provides advanced systems biology training for 5 ESRs who will develop novel methods for increasing crop strength and resistance to stress by alternative genetic and genomic, non-GMO, technologies: (1) Selecting allelic variants of a novel gene identified by members of the consortium which regulates oxidative and abiotic stress tolerance and (2) Molecular priming by biostimulants or low doses of H2O2 to induce stress-protective mechanisms in crops. This dual approach will meet the growing EU push towards secure, sustainable and safe means of food production (Dir.2009/128/EC & EU Reg. EC/178/2002). The genetic approaches are combined with high-throughput technologies for transcriptome, metabolome, and phenotypic analyses, combined with advanced bioinformatics. Both approaches to increasing crop yield are growing in importance, with the biostimulants industry expected to reach $2.2B globally by 2018. Equipping ESRs with these skills will enable them to develop their research careers in academia or industry. Training will be conducted at the University of Potsdam (UP, Coordinator), Germany, and two companies: BioAtlantis (BA), Ireland, and Enza Zaden (EZ), The Netherlands. Prof. B. Mueller-Roeber (UP) has extensive research management and teaching experience and will supervise the ESRs as PhD students. BA is internationally recognized for producing innovative biostimulants and has 3 patents filed, while EZ is among the top ten in vegetable breeding worldwide. All partners have experience in coordination and participation in EU FP7 projects. The expected results will increase our understanding of the molecular basis of stress tolerance and provide two alternative strategies for crop improvement and increasing food production. BA and EZ will ensure rapid dissemination of applied research to end users.
Wearable applications enabled by electronic  systems on paper

The WASP project aims at bringing the much-needed step change in flexible and wearable electronics by developing a new industrially driven enabling printing technology for the definition of electronic devices and circuits on paper, a flexible and foldable substrate, which is low cost, disposable, biodegradable, easily obtainable in nature and compatible with high speed roll-to-roll processes. The proposed technology is based on an environmentally friendly process and addresses the needs for future circular economy, as well as that for cheap, flexible and lightweight, multi-functional electronics. At the end of the project, a demonstrator will be released, able to sense biometric parameters (i.e., humidity, pH, glucose levels) and to communicate to an external reader, developed on purpose within the WASP activity.
Plan de mejora de atención al cliente en Recaudaciones del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado de la Provincia de Pichincha

The collection of taxes in the public sector has always been colored by the chaos that is
almost always generated in the institutions where these collections are made, the GAD
case of the Province of Pichincha has not escaped this reality and it is in this problem,
That this investigative work is developed trying to give solution to this constant
agglomeration of people and of long rows for his attention. 
In this study a descriptive type investigation was carried out of the current situation of
the office in question, the historical - logical method was used to determine in time how
this problem has been happening and the survey was helped as the main source of
information in the search for solutions. 
From the study carried out and with the strategies of improvement raised a considerable
reduction in the times of collections towards the users of this dependence. 
Keywords: improvement, collection, taxes, customer service.
FIBERS AND FABRICS INCORPORATING LOWER MELTING PROPYLENE POLYMERS

Propylene homopolymers and copolymers formed by metallocene catalyst system exhibit generally lower melting behaviour than previous propylene polymers. This lower melting behaviour will be of use in the fabrication and use of fibers and fabrics that depend upon either lower melting behaviour in general or upon a melting point differential between two fabrics or fibers to achieve bonding. Such fibers are, for instance, chenille or tufted cord, core and sheath. Fabrics such as spunbonded and meltblown, when combined in SM or SMS fabrics will show bonding at lower temperatures with fewer pinholes. Such fabrics may also be bonded by adhesives such as hot melt, water based and extruded polyolefins. Combinations of Ziegler-Natta catalyzed and metallocene catalyzed polymers are contemplated.
ESTUDIO EMPÍRICO SOBRE LA UTILIZACIÓN DE LA ESPECIFICACIÓN 2000M EN CADENAS DE SUMINISTRO DE AERONAVES MILITARES

The automation of the commercial transactions among the customers and suppliers involved in a supply chain allows its efficient and effective management. Such automation is based on the utilization of Electronic Data Interchange protocols and this paper reports the results of an empirical and exploratory research on the use of the protocol known as Specification 2000M (S2000M) in the Information Systems (IS) supporting supply chains for military aircraft. The research is based on questionnaires from 62 persons in 9 European nations working in areas related with the subject under study. This document proposes a model to implement supply chains based on the S2000M-based, and identifies the benefits delivered by the S2000M, the level of success of the S2000M-based IS, the benfits that impact the most such success and some measures to gauge the performance of the S2000M systems.
Integrated open access materials modelling innovation platform for europe

OpenModel provides an integrated open access material modelling platform designed to be easily integrated with, and usable by, any existing and future EU platforms, e.g., Open Translation Environments (OTE), Materials Modelling Market Places (MMMP), Innovation Test Beds (ITB), and Business Decision Support Systems (BDSS). Furthermore, OpenModel integrates with Life Cycle Analysis as well as the ""plug and produce"" and characterization open innovation environments to enable better integration of characterization and processing into materials modelling workflows. The OpenModel platform directly addresses the needs of industry for creating and executing standardised advanced materials modelling workflows by offering 5 main ingredients: 1) EMMO based ontology extensions as basis for all developments, 2) An Interoperability layer providing an implementation of EMMO-based Common Universal Data Structures classes (CUDS) for describing any modelling workflow or simulation data in a semantic manner, 3) An Open Simulation Platform based on standardised interfaces and semantic common application programming interfaces (API), to enable integration of third party physics based modelling codes, 4) Smart workflow builders that respond to semantic information and requirements from OTE, MMMP, ITB, and BDSS and creates on the fly advanced workflows taking into account Key Business and Technical Performance Indicators (KPI) utilising the semantic power embedded in the platform, and 5) workflow executors and curators able to perform and manage the results making it readily and transparently available for further control and processing by the other platforms. OpenModel targets multiple use cases and materials with their processing in the fields of environment, aviation and automotive industry, yet OpenModel's scope is generic and can thus address all materials modelling, processing and characterization fields. OpenModel is the platform for materials modelling Services in Europe.
Catheter and catheter arrangement

The catheter (10) has an elongated catheter body (13) comprising a distal end (10d) and a proximal end, where the catheter is designed as an electrode line. A sponge or cushion-like elastic deformation body is arranged at the distal end, and has an electrically, mechanically or optically-acting measuring unit or measuring connection to detect pressing force exerted on the body. The body contains plastic foam with electrically-conductive polymer or with particles made of ferroelectric film, or fluid e.g. liquid, gel or filling of pourable particles. The catheter is provided with a stimulation and/or sensing electrode that is made of conductive plastic.
ROMAN ITINERARIES

The travelling public's growing interest in archaeology is a typical example of what is often referred to as "motivation tourism", a set of new market segments opposed to "generic tourism". The main challenge of the ROMIT project is to find new ways of preservation and management for Roman archaeological complexes to integrate them into local development policies. The aim is to protect the heritage in an area embracing cities of Roman origin situated in Emilia-Romagna, Bavaria and Western Greece, and also to create employment and foster regional development through an intelligent enhancement of the cultural resources, with special benefits for the institutions, local actors and populations of the involved territories. The ROMIT project covers two major lines of action: a thorough research action aimed at comparing the management systems of the involved sites, identifying their weaknesses, successes and potentials, and drafting and testing transnational public/public and public/private co-operation models for the development planning of archaeological sites which facilitate their integration into the regional and local policies.