SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Association between Voluntary/Involuntary Job Loss and the Development of Stroke or Cardiovascular Disease: A Prospective Study of Middle-Aged to Older Workers in a Rapidly Developing Asian Country

The aim of this research was to investigate the association between job loss and the development of stroke or cardiovascular disease among middle-aged to older individuals in Korea. We also examined how this relationship was modified by gender and the nature of the job loss.This study used samples from the first- to fourth-wave datasets from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA), which were collected in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. The study collected data from a total of 10,254 subjects aged ≥ 45 years at baseline. After applying exclusion criteria, the final sample size for analysis consisted of 4,000 individuals. Information about employment status, development of stroke or cardiovascular disease, and covariates (age, income level, and behavioral factors) was obtained. Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate the association between voluntary/involuntary job loss and the development of stroke or cardiovascular disease. We performed these analyses separately according to disease, gender, and the nature of the job loss.Involuntary job loss significantly increased the risk of stroke or cardiovascular disease among males (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] = 3.560, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.055-6.168). Voluntary retirement also increased the risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke among males (adjusted HR = 2.879, 95% CI = 1.533-5.409). Job loss was more closely associated with stroke than with cardiovascular disease (stroke, adjusted HR = 6.208, 95% CI = 2.417-15.943; cardiovascular disease, adjusted HR = 2.768, 95% CI = 1.402-5.465).Our findings suggest that both voluntary retirement and involuntary job loss increase the risk for stroke or cardiovascular disease in middle-aged to older individuals, especially males.
Magnetic Field Swimmer Positioning

Several projects have tracked the movement of swimmers in pools using body worn inertial measurement units. In swimming, inertial sensing is subject to large amounts of drift and accumulated error which can only be corrected for after a complete length has been swum. In this article, we present a new method for tracking swimmers by detecting variations in the magnetic field caused by the structure of pools. This method is complementary to inertial positioning, as it allows the direct extraction of position without requiring post-processing, and unlike inertial sensing which loses accuracy over time, magnetic field tracking becomes increasingly accurate towards the end of a length.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LENGTHENING A PIPE STRING AND INSTALLING A PIPE STRING IN A BOREHOLE

A method and an apparatus are provided to connect a pipe segment (22) to lengthen a pipe string (20) using friction stir welding. The pipe string is suspended in a borehole (6), and a lower end (22b) of the pipe segment (22) is brought into an abutting or nearly abutting relationship with a proximal end (20a) of the pipe string above the suspending device (16) and above a rig floor (14). A friction stir welding machine (40) welds the abutment or gap between the pipe segment and the pipe string to lengthen the pipe string. In one aspect, the method includes friction stir welding an expandable pipe segment to lengthen an expandable pipe string. The lengthened pipe string is lowered into the borehole and the new proximal end of the lengthened pipe string is positioned to abut or nearly abut a new pipe segment and friction stir welded.
Plan comparison of volumetric-modulated arc therapy (RapidArc) and conventional intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in anal canal cancer

Abstract Background To compare volumetric-modulated arc therapy (RapidArc) plans with conventional intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans in anal canal cancers. Methods Ten patients with anal canal carcinoma previously treated with IMRT in our institution were selected for this study. For each patient, three plans were generated with the planning CT scan: one using a fixed beam IMRT, and two plans using the RapidArc technique: a single (RA1) and a double (RA2) modulated arc therapy. The treatment plan was designed to deliver in one process with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) a dose of 59.4 Gy to the planning target volume (PTV2) based on the gross disease in a 1.8 Gy-daily fraction, 5 days a week. At the same time, the subclinical disease (PTV1) was planned to receive 49.5 Gy in a 1.5 Gy-daily fraction. Plans were normalized to 99% of the PTV2 that received 95% of the prescribed dose. Planning objectives were 95% of the PTV1 will receive 95% of the prescribed dose and no more than 2% of the PTV will receive more than 107%. Dose-volume histograms (DVH) for the target volume and the organs at risk (bowel tract, bladder, iliac crests, femoral heads, genitalia/perineum, and healthy tissue) were compared for these different techniques. Monitor units (MU) and delivery treatment time were also reported. Results All plans achieved fulfilled objectives. Both IMRT and RA2 resulted in superior coverage of PTV than RA1 that was slightly inferior for conformity and homogeneity (p &lt; 0.05). Conformity index (CI 95% ) for the PTV2 was 1.15 ± 0.15 (RA2), 1.28 ± 0.22 (IMRT), and 1.79 ± 0.5 (RA1). Homogeneity (D 5% - D 95% ) for PTV2 was 3.21 ± 1.16 Gy (RA2), 2.98 ± 0.7 Gy (IMRT), and 4.3 ± 1.3 Gy (RA1). RapidArc showed to be superior to IMRT in terms of organ at risk sparing. For bowel tract, the mean dose was reduced of 4 Gy by RA2 compared to IMRT. Similar trends were observed for bladder, femoral heads, and genitalia. The DVH of iliac crests and healthy tissue resulted in comparable sparing for the low doses (V10 and V20). Compared to IMRT, mean MUs for each fraction was significantly reduced with RapidArc (p = 0.0002) and the treatment time was reduced by a 6-fold extent. Conclusion For patients suffering from anal canal cancer, RapidArc with 2 arcs was able to deliver equivalent treatment plan to IMRT in terms of PTV coverage. It provided a better organ at risk sparing and significant reductions of MU and treatment time per fraction.
WEAR INDICATOR FOR A WEAR MEMBER OF A TOOL

A wear indicator (118) is provided for a wear member (16) of a machine wherein the wear member (16) is subject to wear during use of the machine. The wear indicator (118) may include a plug member configured to be positioned in a region of the wear member (16) subject to wear. The plug member may be oriented with a central axis extending in a direction substantially parallel to a direction of wear of the wear member (16). The wear indicator (118) may include a plurality of perceptibly different and distinct axial cross sections (118a, 118b, 118c, 118d) taken perpendicular to the central axis of the plug member in axially spaced planes along the central axis.
Properties of Glass-Ceramics Obtained from Crystallization of the SiO<sub>2</sub>-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-MgO-Li<sub>2</sub>O System with Addition of ZrO<sub>2</sub>

This paper presents the study results with glass-ceramics obtained from base glass (MgO-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2 -Li 2 O system) with addition of ZrO 2 as nucleating agent. The glass was melted at 1650 oC for 3 h and at a heating rate of 10 °C/min. The molten glass was poured into a graphite mold to obtain monolithic samples and also in water in order to obtain particulate material. Such material was grinded and then pressed by both uniaxial and isostatic pressing methods before being sintered. Both the monolithic and pressed samples were performed under two different conditions of heat treatment so that their nucleation and crystallization occurred. In the first one, the samples were heated to 1100 oC with a heating rate of 10 oC/min. In the second one, there was an initial heating rate of 10 oC/min up to 780 oC, which was kept for 5 minutes. After that, the samples were heated to 1100 oC at a heating rate of 1 oC/min. Microhardness analyses showed that base glass presented values around 7.0 GPa. The glass-ceramics obtained from the powder sintering showed microhardness values lower than those obtained from monolithic samples. The highest hardness values were observed in the samples which were treated with two heating rates, whose values were around 9.2 ± 0.5 GPa. Moreover, the glass-ceramics which were produced with an only heating rate, presented values around 7.1 ± 0.2 GPa, very close to those observed in the base glass.
Innovative integrated sensor system for monitoring infrastructural assets

High infrastructural spending (expected to reach €79 trillion annully on a global scale) is highly indicative of the ageing of our infrastructure (with most assets being >60years old). As infrastructure ages, its level of service, reliability and safety decreases, becoming susceptible to failure and a danger to human life. The most plausible solution to this problem is the adoption of proper asset management. A fundamental premise to asset management is continuous monitoring to understand the state of the infrastructure for appropriate action to be taken and this has been made possible through the use of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, current tools for asset monitoring either have low accuracy, are manually operated, lack civil engineering expertise, are not scalable - service specific e.g. big infrastructure only, or are extremely expensive. This limits the determination of present asset conditions and hinders effective preventive maintenance operations to make ageing infrastructure safer. Realising this challenge, INFRASENS is developing Inte-Sens, a game changing integrated sensor system with a range of application-specific sensors and a wireless data transmission system, used to monitor and manage infrastructure in real time. Our key unique feature which enables our uniqueness is the ability for Inte-Sense to link all geotechnical sensors under a single data management and the combination of our sensor technology with Big Data analytics to create an exact representation of the state of  the asset. This enables civil engineers to forecast asset conditions and/or failure and make informed maintenance decisions on behalf of their customers. Although it has a miriad of application, for the purpose of this project, Inte-Sens will be targeted at residential infrastructure. This feasibility study will enable us to validate the viability of Inte-Sens and ascertain the technical, commercial and financial conditions for successful completion and exploitation.
Meetings for innovation growth in smes: enhancing collaboration with innovative start-ups

The project wants to identify and design new programmes aimed at supporting the adoption of Open Innovation practices by SMEs, strengthening the collaboration between SMEs and innovative start-ups. In particular, the project will try to understand if and how Open Innovation (OI) tools used with increasing frequency and effectiveness by large companies to get closer to the start-ups world (e.g. collaborations with incubators and accelerators, running of call for ideas, B2B meetings) could be usefully implemented also by SMEs, or if other kinds of initiatives, still to be designed, could be more appropriate for these businesses. The project team will try to identify which role European innovation agencies could play in facilitating the adoption of OI practices by smaller companies.

Project partners will be involved in peer-learning activities, using the Twinning+ methodology. Through joint workshops and desk researches, existing programmes consistent with the project challenge will be peer-reviewed. On the basis of good practices and strength points derived from this analysis, project partners will try to identify improvements and new tools, testing their own hypotheses with pilot initiatives whenever possible. The result of the group activities will be a Design Option Paper, a document containing recommendations about the most suitable actions to be implemented by innovation agencies for designing effective SME innovation support programmes.

In accordance with the Work Programme, the project aims at strengthening the innovation support capacity of European innovation agencies. Peer-learning activities will help not only the agencies directly involved in Twinning+ in reviewing their service offerings, but also all the subjects interested in promoting the use of OI tools by SMEs. In fact, the DPO will be a useful public guide containing practical suggestions for delivering effective initiatives in this field, addressing all the elements of the Service Delivery System
A clustering-based coordinated spectrum sensing in wideband large-scale cognitive radio networks

Efficient spectrum sensing is one of the key features that allows the implementation of fully agile cognitive radio networks. In this paper, we present an efficient coordinated spectrum sensing algorithm for wideband large-scale cognitive radio networks. Our approach is based on clustering secondary users according to their spectrum sensing results and performing the spectrum sensing tasks collaboratively within each cluster. In addition, the clusters can collaborate with each other to achieve an optimal distributed spectrum sensing across the network. We set up a cognitive radio framework and evaluate our proposed algorithm using numerical simulations. We show that the proposed algorithm increases the successful channel sensing rate at a reasonable computational cost.
Facilitating photonics innovation, through a modular, integration technology platform

The Telecom sector is predicted to explode over the next few years, driven by data from IoT sensing solutions, games, autonomous driving, gaming and AI-technologies. Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) on Indium Phosphide (InP) will play a critical role in providing the superior functionality demanded. Today. only few companies can produce integrated chips but do so exclusively for their own vertically integrated production lines, making it impossible for many thousands of other companies in sensor and data technology to tap into this technology.

SMART Photonics has developed a suite of world class functional photonic modules based on InP, which can be combined together as “building blocks”. It simplifies the design of photonic circuits and allows SMART complete flexibility to quickly build up functional PICs to meet any given application. 

SMART has calculated its specific obtainable market in the data&telecom and sensing markets of €350m by 2021 and €1.16bn by 2023 respectively.

Two first customers are ready to enter volume manufacturing in 2019/2020. By 2023, SMART plans €210m revenues at a gross margin of 70% and employ 120 staff. 

The Phase 2 project will help industrialize the manufacturing processes and prepare for scale-up. The project is strategic to the company as it will develop the processes needed for reliable volume production, set-up a pilot line (1.000 wafers/year) and develop a Process Design Kit – a software tool – that will empower customers to design chips with custom functionality based on SMART’s technology platform. 

At the end of Phase 2 SMART will:
•	be positioned as the only independent foundry for InP PICs.
•	have achieved readiness necessary build a commercial scale facility at 20,000 wafers/year 
•	have new building block capabilities allowing new applications in new, yet untargeted, markets
SMART is run by an experienced team with deep technical and commercial semiconductor and photonics backgrounds.
processo do Clementina e o combate ao comércio transatlântico de africanos escravizados na Província de Pernambuco (1831-1839)

O presente artigo analisa o processo da escuna francesa Clementina, apreendida no dia 21 de janeiro de 1831, com 175 africanos escravizados, suspeita de realizar o tráfico transatlântico para o Brasil. O objetivo geral desse artigo é elaborar um estudo de caso, tendo como fontes primárias a correspondência intercambiada entre o consulado francês no Recife e o governo da Província de Pernambuco, assim como as sentenças prolatadas no Brasil e na França, inserindo nossa análise no contexto do debate que antecede a primeira lei antitráfico de 7 de novembro de 1831 e seus desdobramentos. Em particular, buscamos entender como a apreensão da Clementina pode ser reveladora de uma conjuntura social característica, da qual inferimos, ao mesmo tempo, a participação dos traficantes estabelecidos no Recife e suas estratégias para perpetuarem a ilegalidade do contrabando de seres humanos, bem como compreender o papel desse governo no combate a este infame comércio.
Evaluation of psychometric properties of the Chinese Mandarin version State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y form in Taiwanese outpatients with anxiety disorders

This study was conducted to develop the Chinese Mandarin State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y form and to evaluate its psychometric properties among Taiwanese outpatients with anxiety disorders. A three-phase survey questionnaire was used to gather cross-sectional data. Non-hospitalized adults (n= 306) with anxiety disorders were recruited from mental health clinics in central Taiwan. Cronbach's alpha reliabilities for the state and trait anxiety subscales were 0.91 and 0.92, respectively. The 2-week test-retest reliabilities for the state and trait anxiety subscales were 0.76 and 0.91, respectively. Criterion validity of the scale was supported by its high correlations with the interview version of the Chinese Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (r= 0.69 for state and 0.74 for trait anxiety). Construct validity of the scale was confirmed by a four-factor structure, showing slightly adequate representation of the data. The scale was shown to be reliable and may be valid for measuring anxiety in Taiwanese adults with anxiety disorders.
Variable Lifting Index (VLI)

Objective: We seek to develop a new approach for analyzing the physical demands of highly variable lifting tasks through an adaptation of the Revised NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) Lifting Equation (RNLE) into a Variable Lifting Index (VLI). Background: There are many jobs that contain individual lifts that vary from lift to lift due to the task requirements. The NIOSH Lifting Equation is not suitable in its present form to analyze variable lifting tasks. Method: In extending the prior work on the VLI, two procedures are presented to allow users to analyze variable lifting tasks. One approach involves the sampling of lifting tasks performed by a worker over a shift and the calculation of the Frequency Independent Lift Index (FILI) for each sampled lift and the aggregation of the FILI values into six categories. The Composite Lift Index (CLI) equation is used with lifting index (LI) category frequency data to calculate the VLI. The second approach employs a detailed systematic collection of lifting task data from production and/or organizational sources. The data are organized into simplified task parameter categories and further aggregated into six FILI categories, which also use the CLI equation to calculate the VLI. Results: The two procedures will allow practitioners to systematically employ the VLI method to a variety of work situations where highly variable lifting tasks are performed. Conclusions: The scientific basis for the VLI procedure is similar to that for the CLI originally presented by NIOSH; however, the VLI method remains to be validated. Application: The VLI method allows an analyst to assess highly variable manual lifting jobs in which the task characteristics vary from lift to lift during a shift.
EARTH BORING BIT HAVING AIR TUBE WITH REMOVABLE CAP

A drill bit has a plurality of air tubes extending into the bowl for separating entrained debris and liquids from air flow used to clean and cool bearings in the cutters of the bit. The air tube is assembled from a tube and a cap. The tube has open ends and a plurality of openings through the sidewall of the tube for allowing air to flow through the openings while preventing large debris from entering the tube. The lower end of the tube is inserted into an inner portion of a fluid passage, and the cap is secured to the upper end of the tube. The cap is removable for providing access to the interior of the tube when necessary to dislodge debris from within the tube.
Concertation and Actions of valorisation of fluvial eco-systems

The objective of Eau Concert 2 project is to restore and protect cross-border aquatic ecosystems, and to enforce ecosystemic systems, that’s means services offered by natural environment to humans (foods, sanitarian, economical). A particular attention will be bringing on the conservation of biodiversity, ecological corridors and the adaptation to climate changes. 
The cooperation on cooperative participative governance of fluvial ecosystems of rivers in France and Italy is based on Rivers Contract instrument, which constitute a working method for the negotiated management and shared hydraulic resources at watershed level. 
Actions engaged under Eau Concert 2 allows to capitalize and go further in the experience started with the first Eau Concert project under the precedent ALCOTRA (2007-2013), on the participative method, the rising of awareness, Rivers Contract management but also for the operational phase. 
Eau Concert 2 project is bettering thanks to the sharing of new practices and new instruments of information between French and Italians, enlarging its target public to youth, thorough actions of participation and raising awareness.
Lutte symbolique, recours à l’étranger et consécration transnationale. Sartre et ses modèles américains

L'effort pour intégrer les acquis de certains romanciers américains, notamment Faulkner, Hemingway et Dos Passos, a joué un rôle majeur dans l'apprentissage littéraire de Sartre. En se réclamant explicitement d'eux, il s'est démarqué de ses aînés et des autres concurrents auxquels il se confrontait dans son pays. À son tour, grâce à la célébrité acquise, il a beaucoup contribué à élargir la renommée de ses maîtres américains, en France et dans le monde entier. Nous nous proposons de reconstituer cette relation d'échange symbolique, et d'analyser les formes d'appropriation et de détournement que Sartre a pratiquées à l'égard de ses modèles. Nous verrons, par ailleurs, que la transformation de sa position, après 1945, a affecté également son attitude à l'égard des écrivains admirés dans sa jeunesse. Sur le plan théorique, nous allons mettre à l'épreuve quelques hypothèses générales concernant, d'une part, les conditions de la circulation et de la consécration transnationale des œuvres littéraires (Bourdieu, 2002 ; Sapiro, 2012, 2013 et 2016b ; Casanova, 2015) et d'autre part, les facteurs qui orientent les choix des écrivains, y compris les aspects techniques de leurs œuvres. Nous allons souligner, notamment, le rôle de la lutte symbolique, en montrant qu'on peut jeter un éclairage inédit sur ces pratiques en les considérant comme des « prises de position » reliées à l'état du champ, local et global, et aux propriétés de la position que l'écrivain y occupe (Bourdieu, 1992).
Methods for uncertainty propagation in life cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA) calculates the environmental impact of a product over its entire life cycle. Uncertainty analysis is an important aspect in LCA, and is usually performed using Monte Carlo sampling. In this study, Monte Carlo sampling, Latin hypercube sampling, quasi Monte Carlo sampling, analytical uncertainty propagation and fuzzy interval arithmetic were compared based on e.g. convergence rate and output statistics. Each method was tested on three LCA case studies, which differed in size and behaviour. Uncertainty propagation in LCA using a sampling method leads to more (directly) usable information compared to fuzzy interval arithmetic or analytical uncertainty propagation. Latin hypercube and quasi Monte Carlo sampling provide more accuracy in determining the sample mean than Monte Carlo sampling and can even converge faster than Monte Carlo sampling for some of the case studies discussed in this paper. Display Omitted