SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Multicultural journey between Italy and Slovenia through the prism of minorities

The common challenge of the programme area to which the PRIMIS project will contribute is the "Conservation, protection and restoration of cultural and natural heritage". The overall project objective is to enhance the value of the linguistic, cultural and natural heritage of the linguistic communities in the programme area in order to attract sustainable tourism. This area is by nature multicultural and multilingual, due to the presence of Slovenian and Italian national minorities and other language communities (Cimbrians, Ladins, Friulians) making it unique compared to other territories in Italy and Slovenia. The project will bring about a new perception of the multicultural and multilingual identity of the PA for both tourists and residents. The main outputs are the creation of 4 Multimedia Centres for the dissemination of the specificities and peculiarities of the indigenous language communities; a multimedia platform and a digital guide; the enhancement and promotion of cultural events in the PA; information and training activities for specific target groups. The beneficiaries are: tourists, residents, young people, SMEs, project partners. The intended approach is to transfer the multicultural and multilingual peculiarities of the indigenous communities to the tourism sector and the promotion of the cross-border territory through the use of innovative, interactive and multimedia tools with immersive and virtual reality in the Multimedia Centres. The approach will go beyond the current practices of the sector (sea-mountain) because it will help to create tourism products based on the cultural and linguistic heritage of the PA. Cross-border cooperation is necessary because it brings together the diversities and peculiarities linked to multiculturalism and multilingualism to create a unique image of the PA. The project is original because it considers the material and immaterial cultural heritage of the indigenous language communities as an added value for an economic activity - cultural and sustainable tourism.
Methods for processing battery waste and other lead-contaminated materials

The present invention is directed to improved methods for processing battery wastes, battery casing debris and other lead contaminated materials. The improved processes of the present invention provide less environmentally stressful methods for recovering lead from such materials while at the same time producing scrap or recyclable ebonite and plastics having reduced and environmentally acceptable lead and leachable lead levels. Most of the lead is first removed by trammel scrubbing. In another aspect of the present invention ebonite and other hard surface materials to which are adhered lead contaminants are mixed with water and abraded in a high energy scrubber to remove the adhered contaminants prior to separation of the cleaned ebonite from solution. This simple and environmentally preferred hydromechanical process provides clean scrap or recyclable ebonite. In another aspect of the present invention, plastic and other soft materials contaminated with lead are mixed with a solution having a pH greater than about 7, preferably about 1-5 percent-by-weight alkali hydroxide solution, to dissolve lead contaminants. Separation of particulates produces clean scrap or recyclable plastic while carbonation of the wash water permits recovery of lead carbonate. Finally, the present invention provides methods for controlling dust contamination prior to and during processing by spraying the fine, raw materials with an aqueous solution of a wetting agent, preferably about 2 percent-by-weight alkali carbonate, bicarbonate or sesquicarbonate in water.
Why Asian Pacific cooperative models matter?

Abstract Asia Pacific cooperatives were created under strong Western influence brought about by colonialism, immigration, and learning from advanced models. They, however, evolved quite differently under the prevailing political and socio-economic circumstances. Largely protected from competition by licenses and trade restrictions and supported by subsidies and tax concessions, they had accepted stringent government control except for the British Dominions. Now, they are in the process of transforming into more independent and autonomous organizations to fulfill their objective of serving their member’s needs, rather than the public good. In addition, there are a variety of self-help groups or pre-co-ops that may grow into more formal cooperatives. Currently, Japanese agricultural cooperatives are ranked at the highest positions in the World Co-operative Monitor, while consumer cooperatives have 71% of the membership of the European counterpart. Indian Amul dairy cooperatives serve small farmers to market milk, while the Fonterra group became the largest exporter in New Zealand. Asia Pacific cooperatives had a predominant share of membership, that is, 57% of the ICA affiliates in 1998, while their share in the number of larger co-ops in the World Cooperative Monitor was only 14.9% in 2010. However, given the growing population and the high growth rate in the past decades, and since it is forecast that the Asian economy will occupy 50% of the world’s GDP in 2050, they have great potential to become the mainstream of the global cooperative movement, if they can grow in parallel with the whole economy. This chapter starts with an overview of the vast diversity of the Asia Pacific region. Then it provides an overview of Asian Pacific cooperatives and describes the emerging, unique models both at the organizational level and the inter-cooperation level. Finally, it calls for studies to identify Asian Pacific cooperative models.
SYSTEM FOR MONITORING, PROCESSING, AND PRESENTING SLEEP TIME DATA

A timer device utilized both as a conventional alarm clock and a snooze timer that incorporates historical user data enhanced display modes to facilitate the display of information and correlation of mood or performance with sleep time. The device includes a housing (1) having a display unit (3), at least one button-type switch (2), a central processing unit, a clock and a memory. According to one implementation, the central processing unit, the clock and memory are contained in a single microprocessor chip.
Multi-Disciplinary Forest Fire Danger Assessment in Europe: The Potential to Integrate Long-Term Drought Information

A key motivation for multi-disciplinary collaborations is the inclusion of data and knowledge from contributing disciplines for the further development of existing models. The objective of this research is to evaluate the potential of using drought information from the European Drought Observatory (EDO) to complement the forest fire danger assessment of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). Drought conditions are provided through the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), which is a spatially invariant and probabilistic year-round index based on precipitation alone. For verifying the hypothesis that drought information can improve the danger assessment of forest fires, we statistically analyse the correspondence between multi-timescale drought condition information with the incidence of forest fires. Within this paper, we perform a detailed comparative analysis of the SPI frequencies for burnt areas with the respective SPI frequencies for the total study area during the same period. The research is carried out in the Iberian Peninsula for the reference year 2009, using the burnt areas mapped by the EFFIS Rapid Damage Assessment. The results clearly show that the frequencies of burnt areas in Iberian Peninsula relate to the regions with abnormal 24-month accumulated precipitation totals, as mapped by the SPI. This suggests that the long-term lack of water contributes to vegetation dryness in the region and thereby increases its risk of fire danger. The added value of including drought information in the fire danger assessment lies in particular outside the forest fire season, when it provides complementary information on areas under risk that are not necessarily marked with a high fire risk following the risk assessment of EFFIS. Based on the results of the study, we suggest an operational integration of drought information coming from EDO into EFFIS using the existing web service infrastructure.
Limit of detection comparison for surface wave biosensors

Bloch surface waves (BSW) propagating at the surface of truncated, one-dimensional crystals are valid candidates to improve sensors based on surface plasmon polaritons, usually referred to as surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The low losses introduced by the dielectric BSW stacks enable to achieve resonance widths much below the ones of SPR, thus proposing improved sensing results. A simplified, bi-linear model of the resonance intensity distribution is applied to estimate the effect of the resonance properties onto the measurement noise. This yields a limit of detection (LoD) that is used to optimize a BSW supporting thin film stack and to quantitatively compare SPR and BSW sensors. The results indicate that an order of magnitude reduction of the LoD is within reach when sufficient sampling of narrow BSW resonances is achieved.
Direct Posterior Restorations: A 13-Year Survey of Teaching Trends and Use of Materials

SUMMARY Objective: The study aimed to evaluate teaching trends and use of materials in direct posterior restorations during a 13-year period in an Israeli dental school. Methods: Data registered in computerized files, relating to posterior restorations performed in the student clinic during the past 13 years (2004-2016), were collected. The restorative materials used (ie, amalgam vs composite), the type of tooth, and the number of surfaces restored were analyzed. Results: Data analysis included 26,925 restorations performed during 13 years. The number of one-surface composite restorations increased from 54.7% (n=330) to 81.9% (n=873). Two-surface restorations increased from 33.3% (n=254) to 64.3% (n=721). The percentage of amalgam restorations in three-surface restorations decreased from 72.08% to 51.34% (n=173). Analysis of tooth type showed that in 2016, the number of composite restorations performed in premolars reached 80.87% (n=723) and in molars 63.50% (n=1035). The percentage of composite restorations in the mandible and the maxilla was virtually equal. Conclusions: A clear trend in favor of composite resin restorations is evident in the 13-year survey and suggests a move toward an amalgam-free era.
Increase the competitiveness of CEWAR by increasing the use of design design.

Design AUDIT activities are the following analyses: — product offer, – business model, – technology, – organizational structure, – communication processes, – marketing strategy, – in terms of the definition and characteristics of customers and competition, – in terms of key in the context of ordering industry trends, – the needs of the contracting authority in the field of design management, – offer in terms of the use of design and market potential. DURATION OF THE AUDIT: 63 days of rob. Based on the analysis, a design STRATEGIA will be developed containing at least: — the general characteristics of the Ordering Company, including design analysis in terms of products, technology, organizational structure, customer communication processes, marketing strategy, – a general description of the enterprise’s design environment, including at least information on customer characteristics, a description of the main competitors, – a description of market trends, a definition of key in the context of the ordering company’s industry, social and technological trends with a high potential impact on the Contracting Party’s market, – an assessment of the level of use of design in the company and its potential in this respect, – defining design problems in the contracting company (concerning both the product and other business processes in the company), – possibilities to solve design problems in the enterprise, – recommendations for further detailed actions for the enterprise. TIME TO DEVELOP THE STRATEGY: 41 days of rob. 4 experts will be responsible for the project as a whole: Patryk Góźdź, Radosław Nowakowski, Aneta Biszek, Michał Jachymek. In addition, Need Studio will support other experts (graphic design, branding, brand strategy, industrial design): Michał Ćwiek, Agnieszka Walczak-Skałecka, Katarzyna Krygier-Świtoń, Krzysztof Kurkowski, Monika Góźdź, Urszula Rojek, Dominika Baran, Joanna Łubkowska).
Global mapping of second messenger c-di-gmp signaling networks in bacteria using proteomics

To survive in diverse niches, bacteria must adapt to changes in their local environment by sensing and responding to environmental cues. External cues are transduced through complex signaling networks throughout a cell and drive diverse changes in cellular behavior. In bacteria, cyclic di-guanosine-monophosphate (c-di-GMP) is a nucleotide-derived second messenger that mediates signal transduction of important biological processes for bacterial growth and survival e.g. motility, biofilm formation and metabolism. These biological processes are also crucial in clinical settings as they underlay antibiotic resistance in important pathogenic bacteria. Recent advances in MS-based proteomics have provided different tools to investigate the proteome of an organism in a systematic and global manner. Especially, thermal proteome profiling (TPP) and limited-proteolysis MS (LiP-MS) are pioneering methods to study change of protein states proteome-wide. I aim to employ these proteomics based approaches to achieve the global map of the c-di-GMP signaling network in two different bacteria, Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus, both are model organisms of Gram-negative bacteria. Furthermore, I will apply these methods to investigate signaling network of another important second messenger, (p)ppGpp, and explore how the networks of these two messenger molecules interact in bacteria to dictate cellular physiology.
FURNISH AND COMMUNICATE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY THE SYSTEM TO FURNISH AND COMMUNICATE CAPABLE OF COMBINING FLEXIBILITY, FUNCTIONALITY, VERSATILITY AND AESTHETICS IN A SINGLE BASIC ELEMENT.

FURNISH AND COMMUNICATE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY THE SYSTEM TO FURNISH AND COMMUNICATE CAPABLE OF COMBINING FLEXIBILITY, FUNCTIONALITY, VERSATILITY AND AESTHETICS IN A SINGLE BASIC ELEMENT.
Shareholder Heterogeneity and Conflicting Goals: Strategic Investments in the Japanese Electronics Industry

This article investigates the effects of the changing institutional environment on strategic orientations of Japanese electronics firms during the 1990s. We examine the effects of three different types of shareholders on strategic directions of their invested firms. The first one, foreign portfolio investors, characterizes the emerging influence that pressed for change in corporate strategies. The two domestic shareholders, corporate investors and financial institutions, represent the conventional forces for continuity. Between the two domestic forces, though, while corporate investors attempted to maintain status quo, financial institutions have shifted towards market-oriented behaviour of investment. Specifically, we explore: (1) the influence of each type of shareholder on a firm's diversification strategy and capital commitment; and (2) the moderating effects of firm performance on the relationships between ownership structure and strategic choices. The results suggest that foreign investors prefer the focused product portfolio and conservative capital commitment. They also prefer the reduction of capital investment when the financial performance of their invested firms is poor. Domestic financial institutions are now similarly sensitive to the performance of their invested firms when those firms make strategic investments. By contrast, domestic corporate shareholders remain indifferent to performance, while they aim to maintain relational business ties with invested firms.
Support to the implementation of the long-term eu-au research and innovation partnership for food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture

The general objective of LEAP4FNSSA is to establish a sustainable structure, or ‘Platform’, for the efficient and coherent implementation of the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership as described in the FNSSA Roadmap. Under the aegis of the HLPD and its Bureau, and by building upon related projects such as RINEA, CAAST-Net.
Plus, ProIntensAfrica and LEAP-Agri, LEAP4FNSSA aims to achieve this overall objective through three specific objectives: - Increase the synergies and coherence between actors, research and innovation projects, initiatives and programmes, through the development of institutional alliances and clusters of projects; - Develop a learning environment and a large knowledge base, including monitoring and evaluation activities, creating communication and links between different initiatives to improve STI cooperation; - Establish a long term and sustainable governance and funding mechanism for the Platform. To reach these objectives, LEAP4FNSSA will build on a large consortium of experienced partners and implement a methodology based on 3 principles: long-term impact, relevance of the outputs to the HLPD, and innovative actions. Long-term impact of the CSA relates to its main objective to enable and catalyse the transformation of the existing AU EU FNSSA Partnership into a bi-continental Platform for collaboration, organised along a Knowledge and Management Communication Framework. Outputs relevant to the HLPD will be achieved by connecting and framing activities of all Work Packages on top of the supporting activities specifically requested in the SFS-33-2018. Innovative actions are foreseen to run the Platform efficiently throught e.g. the development of a new approach to information mapping, text and data mining, and testing of multistakeholder alliances at a regional level and the mobilisation of actors to manage research and innovation programming in a 4-steps management cycle.
Research in Construction of Harmonious Color in Highway Architecture

Based on the analysis of highway architecture circumstance,this essay proposes the principle of highway architecture color design.Combined with the other characteristics in various architecture circumstance including highway slope,center compartmentation,tunnel,etc,this article gives the methods of harmonious color construction.By the applied instances,the paper advances the new methods of highway circumstance analysis and new idea of color design.The instances indicate that the methods of color study can direct the color choices of highway architecture and compound the highway constructions with architecture circumstance perfectly at its maximum.At the same time it can enrich the sights of highway,boost up the security of traveling and add the highway culture connotations in the new times,which have the essential meaning in studying improvement of highway construction circumstance and sight design.
Global Energetics of Solar Flares. XII. Energy Scaling Laws

In this study we test 30 variants of 5 physical scaling laws that describe different aspects of solar flares. We express scaling laws in terms of the magnetic potential field energy $E_p$, the mean potential field strength $B_p$, the free energy $E_{free}$, the dissipated magnetic flare energy $E_{diss}$, the mean loop length scale $L$, the mean helically twisted flux tube radius $R$, the sunspot radius $r$, the emission measure-weighted flare temperature $T_w$, the electron density $n_e$, and the total emission measure $EM$, measured from a data set of $\lapprox 400$ GOES M- and X-class flare events. The 5 categories of physical scaling laws include (i) a scaling law of the potential-field energy, (ii) a scaling law for helical twisting, (iii) a scaling law for Petschek-type magnetic reconnection, (iv) the Rosner-Tucker-Vaiana scaling law, and (v) the Shibata-Yokoyama scaling law. We test the self-consistency of these theoretical scaling laws with observed parameters by requiring two conditions: a cross-corrleation coefficient of CCC$>$0.5 between the observed and theoretically predicted scaling laws, and a linear regression fit with a slope of $\alpha \approx 1$. With these two criteria we find that 10 out of the 30 tested scaling law variants are consistent with the observed data, which strongly corroborates the existence and validity of the tested flare scaling laws.
ANALISIS FAKTOR – FAKTOR YANGMEMPENGARUHI KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIANDENGAN SISTEM PRE ORDER SECARAONLINE(Studi Kasus Pada Online Shop Chopper Jersey)

This research is caused by why consumer want to buy products with a
system of pre order online. Even though this system has some risk such as
deception by the seller, length of time the goods arrive and else. The aim of this
research is to analyze the influence of price, attractiveness post message, trust,
reputation and buying interest towards purchase decisions with a system pre
order online in online shop Chopper Jersey.
The Population used in this research are the consumers of online shop
Chopper Jersey. 200 respondents that taken as sample using non probability
sampling technique with purposive sampling approach. The analysis technique
used in this research is structural equation models with 16.0 Amos program.
The results of this research indicate that the price have positive impact on
buying interest. Attractiveness of the posting messages impacting positively on
buying interest. Trust have positive impact on buying interest. Reputation have
positive impact on buying interest and buying interest have positive impact on
purchasing decisions online
Structural mechanisms of RNA recognition: sequence-specific and non-specific RNA-binding proteins and the Cas9-RNA-DNA complex

RNA-binding proteins play crucial roles in RNA processing and function as regulators of gene expression. Recent studies have defined the structural basis for RNA recognition by diverse RNA-binding motifs. While many RNA-binding proteins recognize RNA sequence non-specifically by associating with 5' or 3' RNA ends, sequence-specific recognition by RNA-binding proteins is typically achieved by combining multiple modular domains to form complex binding surfaces. In this review, we present examples of structures from different classes of RNA-binding proteins, identify the mechanisms utilized by them to target specific RNAs, and describe structural principles of how protein-protein interactions affect RNA recognition specificity. We also highlight the structural mechanism of sequence-dependent and -independent interactions in the Cas9-RNA-DNA complex.