SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
« Aver pensiero dell’abondanza » : les famines anciennes et modernes dans la tradition du Tacitisme florentin

Cet article analyse le genre littéraire du commentaire historico-politique typique de la littérature politique de la Renaissance, en soulignant l’importance de sa genèse essentiellement florentine. La naissance et la diffusion du Tacitisme (si nous l’entendons comme un format spécifique d’argumentation politique, sans le confondre avec la générique « fortune de Tacite » dans la littérature de la fin de la Renaissance et du Baroque) sont en fait difficiles à expliquer si nous ne les contextualisons pas dans une période décisive de l’histoire de Florence, à savoir le passage de la République au Grand-Duché. La forme « éclatée » de ces traités politiques – qui dépend en grande partie des Discorsi de Machiavel – les rend particulièrement adaptés aux réflexions liées à des crises sociales et politiques soudaines, comme le montre très bien le cas de la famine de la fin du XVIe siècle, qui fait l’objet des réflexions de deux des plus importants auteurs du canon « tacitiste », Scipione Ammirato et Virgilio Malvezzi.
Bed Sheet with Compartment for Feet

A bed sheet placed on a mattress for bedding includes a region of fabric defining a compartment for surrounding a user's feet at one end of the mattress.
Venture capitalists and portfolio companies’ real activities manipulation

I study the relation between venture capitalists’ (VCs) presence and real activities manipulation (RM). I find that compared to non-venture-backed companies, venture-backed companies show significantly less RM in the first post-IPO fiscal year. The results are robust after controlling for the VC selection endogeneity. This is consistent with the argument that VCs do not inflate earnings when they exit the IPO firm but instead exercise a monitoring role to reduce the RM by other insiders. By the end of the second post-IPO fiscal year when VCs exit the portfolio companies, their impact on portfolio companies’ RM decreases dramatically. This suggests that the impact of VCs on portfolio companies is mainly through direct monitoring rather than through the establishment of a governance structure. A partitioned sample analysis indicates that VCs lapse their control and do not restrain RM during the Internet Bubble. VCs also tighten their control and reduce significantly RM in technology companies where managers engage in more aggressive RM, but they have no influence on RM in non-tech companies. Furthermore, using alternative VCs’ reputation proxies, I find that portfolio companies’ RM is negatively associated with VCs’ reputation.
Oncologic patient profiling and personalized treatment through smart bedside diagnostics

The advent of personalized cancer care demands for distributed diagnostic solutions to support clinical decisions and selection of the best therapeutic regimen. Supportive information can be obtained by analyzing the response of patient’s tissue to various treatment options. A specific opportunity arises in the field of cellular analysis, where the ex-vivo assessment of drug efficacy performed through drug response assays represents a powerful tool and, at the same time, a challenge due to the difficulty of maintaining in-vitro conditions that closely resemble in-vivo cell response. 

CellPly developed a novel in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) product to define cell response to anti-cancer drug treatment through integrated drug response analyses. Oncosmart platform includes a smart consumable, integrating a hybrid polymer/flexible-PCB micro-technology, an analytical instrument and diagnostic software.

After patient’s tissue sampling, an automated process will carry out sample preparation, precise drug delivery and monitoring of cell response through time-lapse imaging. Cancer patients will benefit from more personalized cancer therapies, while the public health systems will reduce overall analysis and hospitalization costs and better allocate resources dedicated to cancer therapies. 

The Phase 1 project will set up the a quality-certified manufacturing chain and plan the validation of the platform in clinical setting in the field of acute leukemia; regulatory pathways to comply with CE-IVD and to seek reimbursement will be assessed; the commercialization strategy and associated business model(s) will be elaborated.
Design and evaluation of breakfast gruel based on QFD and fuzzy mathematics

[Objective]To research the application of QFD and fuzzy mathematics in developing of new food.[Method] Based on the investigation of breakfast gruel requirements of students from Anhui Science and Technology University,the concept design of breakfast cereals was finished by using QFD.The breakfast cereals products were done based on orthogonal experiment.The sensory indexes were evaluated from the breakfast cereals and other four similar market products by the fuzzy mathematical evaluation,and its formula design was optimized.[Results] The importance of nutrition and sensory indexes of breakfast cereals as follows:nutrition﹥colour﹥fragrance﹥palate.The optimal formula of nutritional breakfast cereals was:rice 100g,red bean 20g,0.5cm3 diced lean 40g,scrambled eggs 50g,carrots 20g,green vegetables 3g,and the ratio of material to water was 1∶ 6.[Conclusion] QFD can objectively and accurately determine consumption demand of food,and the fuzzy mathematical evaluation contributes to improve the quality of products,new product development and quality improvement.Two methods were feasible and efficient.
Graphene oxide functionalization with aminocoumarin nanosheet fluorescent dye: Preparation, electrochemistry, spectroscopy and imaging in the living cells

Abstract A new nanosheet fluorescent chemosensor (GO–NH–COUR) based on graphite oxide (GO) covalently functionalized with a 4-methyl-7-aminocoumarin (NH2-COUR) has been prepared. The GO were prepared by a modified Hummers method. The products were characterized by TEM, XRD, and FT-IR. The photophysical properties of GO, NH2–COUR and GO–NH–COUR in aqueous and ethanol solution have been investigated by UV/vis spectrophotometry, steady-state and time-resolved fluorometry. They reflect a large effect of the NH2–COUR substituent on the fluorescence characteristics of GO. In aqueous solution, GO–NH–COUR probes undergo protonation–deprotonation in the acid to basic pH range, producing intensity increases with acid to near-neutral pH range. The advantages of the newly prepared nanoparticles are that they offer good dispersion in aqueous solution and optical properties. Confocal microscopy experiments showed that GO–NH–COUR can be transfected into the living cells and applied for fluorescence imaging.
FORMATION EVALUATION

A method can include receiving borehole data for at least two properties associated with a formation; performing an inversion for formation pressure and temperature values based at least in part on at least a portion of the borehole data; and outputting at least a portion of the formation pressure and temperature values.
Understanding maternal smoking during pregnancy: Does residential context matter?

The goal of this paper was to investigate whether or not the factors beyond individual characteristics were associated with maternal smoking during pregnancy. Social capital has been found to have both negative and positive implications for health behaviors, and this study attempted to understand its association with maternal smoking during pregnancy. Specifically, the association between county-level social capital and rurality and maternal smoking during pregnancy was investigated. In this study, Putman's definition of social capital was used (e.g., connections among individuals-social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them). The ecological dimension of rurality was used to define rurality, where rural areas are smaller in population size and are less densely populated when compared to non-rural areas. Using data for all women who gave birth during the year 2007 in the United States, we implemented a series of multilevel logistic regression models. The results showed that social capital was significantly associated with maternal smoking during pregnancy. Specifically, higher social capital in a county was associated with higher odds that women smoked during their pregnancy. However, in rural counties, higher social capital was associated with a decrease in the odds that a woman smoked during her pregnancy. A one unit increase in the social capital index was found to reduce the risk of smoking during pregnancy among those women living in rural counties by 11 percent. The results also showed that improvement of the socioeconomic status of the counties in which women live reduced the risk of maternal smoking during pregnancy. As this study found that factors beyond individual characteristics are important for reducing the risk that women smoked during pregnancy, county characteristics should be taken into account when developing policies focused on intervening maternal smoking during pregnancy.
Paint it Black – To Protect the Qubits

This thesis deals with reducing quasiparticle generation in superconducting circuits caused by stray photons by utilizing electromagnetic absorbers. This thesis deals with reducing quasiparticle generation in superconducting circuits caused by stray photons by utilizing electromagnetic absorbers. 
Quasiparticle generation is a known problem in several superconducting circuit applications such as quantum computing research. 
In order to quantify successful radiation reduction, a superconducting resonator was used as a sensor and a cylindrical shield was designed for testing the absorbers. 
Four different absorbers were tested, three of them are commercially available microwave absorbers and one was designed by our group. 
Internal differences were observed between the absorbers, however, compared to reference measurements, no improvements were observed. 
The results also indicates that the resonators properties changed in-between measurements and more tests should be performed in order to draw final conclusions.
Programming by Feedback

This paper advocates a new ML-based programming framework, called Programming by Feedback (PF), which involves a sequence of interactions between the active computer and the user. The latter only provides preference judgments on pairs of solutions supplied by the active computer. The active computer involves two components: the learning component estimates the user's utility function and accounts for the user's (possibly limited) competence; the optimization component explores the search space and returns the most appropriate candidate solution. A proof of principle of the approach is proposed, showing that PF requires a handful of interactions in order to solve some discrete and continuous benchmark problems.
Probabilistic oil outflow: the tanker fleet in the context of risk analysis

The study of safety and environmental friendliness of tankers remains a vital concern of the shipping industry, and the analysis of risk regarding oil spillage from this type of ships is considered as a top priority item in the agenda of shipping. In this context, the paper is focused on the implementation and probabilistic formulation of regulation 23 of MAPPOL to calculate distribution and quantities of oil outflow for all major oil tanker categories such as Aframax, Suezmax, VLCC, etc. Dedicated databases for each tanker size category have been developed, checked for statistical acceptance, and utilised to obtain all necessary inputs for the calculation of oil outflow. Subsequently, numerous cargo tank configurations per tanker size were examined (for double hull vessels following regulation 19 of MARPOL), multiple scenarios were drafted, and these were put under simulation exercises to come up with oil outflow probabilistic distributions. The paper concludes with a framework for the assessment of costs for (tanker) oil spills.
Deciding when to stop: efficient experimentation to learn to predict drug-target interactions

Active learning is a powerful tool for guiding an experimentation process. Instead of doing all possible experiments in a given domain, active learning can be used to pick the experiments that will add the most knowledge to the current model. Especially, for drug discovery and development, active learning has been shown to reduce the number of experiments needed to obtain high-confidence predictions. However, in practice, it is crucial to have a method to evaluate the quality of the current predictions and decide when to stop the experimentation process. Only by applying reliable stopping criteria to active learning can time and costs in the experimental process actually be saved.We compute active learning traces on simulated drug-target matrices in order to determine a regression model for the accuracy of the active learner. By analyzing the performance of the regression model on simulated data, we design stopping criteria for previously unseen experimental matrices. We demonstrate on four previously characterized drug effect data sets that applying the stopping criteria can result in upto 40 % savings of the total experiments for highly accurate predictions.We show that active learning accuracy can be predicted using simulated data and results in substantial savings in the number of experiments required to make accurate drug-target predictions.
Comparing clinicians’ use of an anticoagulation management service and usual care in ambulatory oncology

Purpose: There is no consensus in the oncology community about the optimal model for anticoagulation management of ambulatory cancer patients. To understand oncologists’ preferences regarding anticoagulation management, we compared the characteristics of patients referred to an oncology-oriented anticoagulation management service with “usual care” patients managed by the patient’s primary oncologist. Methods: We performed a retrospective medical record review of ambulatory oncology patients’ anticoagulation care at a comprehensive cancer center. We examined the characteristics of 33 patients anticoagulated before implementation of a dedicated oncology anticoagulation management service. We compared this group with 33 patients managed by the anticoagulation management service and with 39 usual care patients managed by the primary oncologist after the anticoagulation management service was created. We also examined differences in laboratory test utilization, time in the therapeutic range (for patients anticoagulated with warfarin), and anticoagulation-related adverse events during a 3-month assessment period. Results: Anticoagulation management service patients were more likely to be treated for hematologic malignancies, use erythropoietin stimulating agents, and require warfarin management for previous venous thromboembolic disease compared to usual care patients. In contrast, oncologists were more likely to manage anticoagulation care of patients with advanced solid tumors undergoing active chemotherapy. Anticoagulation management service and usual care patients on warfarin therapy had comparable time in the therapeutic range and complication rates. Conclusion: Oncologists selectively referred patients to the anticoagulation management service. Anticoagulation management service patients’ warfarin control and complication rates were comparable to care provided by the primary oncologist, suggesting that an oncology-specific anticoagulation management service may be a feasible and effective option for anticoagulation management of ambulatory oncology patients.
Best suited statistical model for describing yield response of potato (Solanum tuberosum) to applied nitrogen fertilizer.

Under the backdrop of growing environmental concerns estimation of optimum fertilizer rates as accurate as possible is of great interest to the researchers. Trials would be conducted by spending all sorts of inputs including time, capital, labour etc., but if the generated data could not be interpreted properly, all these efforts go waste. Response functions or statistical models are used to estimate the optimal fertilizer recommendations. In the present study, three models were evaluated viz., Quadratic, Square root and Mitscherlich’s models describing the yield response of three potato (Solatium tuberosum L.) varieties (Kufri Jyoti, Kufri Swama and Kufri Giriraj) to four different rates (0, 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1) of nitrogen application in each of three years (2004 to 2006) in Nilgiris, a hilly tract in Tamil Nadu, India. Economic optimum N rates (Nop) varied among varieties and models. The proportion of variability (R2) explained by the three models was almost similar. The quadratic model, calculated a minimal Nop value (131 to 140 kg N ha-1) for different varieties than those calculated by the Mitscherlich’s (164 to 174 kg N ha-1) and square root (166 to 192 kg N ha-1) models. Regression residues of the quadratic model were closer to a normal distribution than those of the other two models, indicating a less systematic bias. Economic losses were greatest when the quadratic model was the most appropriate model, but the data were fitted to the square root (loss of Rs.83.4—274.2 ha-1) or Mitscherlich’s model (loss of Rs.1501-2354 ha-1). We conclude that the quadratic model is the most appropriate for describing the potato yield response to N fertilizer and predicting Nop for areas with a ratio of the cost of N fertilizer to the price of potatoes similar to that in Nilgiris.
“Em mim não poço explicar que sou um colchão de pancadas…”: escritos de mulheres e escritos sobre mulheres na América Portuguesa

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar a violência histórica pela qual as mulheres sofreram apagamento sendo sistematicamente secundarizadas no discurso histórico hegemônico. O artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa de iniciação científica alocada no Projeto Mulheres na América Portuguesa, o qual constrói um catálogo digital de documentação escrita por e de mulheres na América Portuguesa, logo, se utiliza de documentos que possibilitam analisar o cotidiano de grupos subalternizados, como os das mulheres. Entendidas nesse artigo como uma categoria social construída, desse modo, enquanto grupo, são lidas em conjunto devido à histórica opressão que as violenta, ou seja, como uma categoria política, e não de identidade. Sendo assim, a categoria teórica “mulher”, no singular, envolve diferentes classes, raças, orientações sexuais, etc., mas não intenta homogeneizar.
Estimation of Relative Satellite Formation Element Positions in Near Circular Orbits

Abstract : Precise relative position determination of satellite formation elements in near circular orbits is the focus of this thesis. A Bayes filter is used for the estimator with the dynamics solution obtained by solving the time periodic, linearized system via Floquet theory. This approach is similar to that of the traditional Clohessy-Wiltshire treatment, however much more of the system's behavior is retained by using a linear, time periodic system. The dynamics model includes all zonal harmonics of the Earth as well as sectoral, tesseral, and air drag perturbations. The filter algorithm was fed three types of simulated measurements: relative Carrier-Phases Differential GPS data, Standard Positioning System GPS data and range measurements between each satellite. Simulations were conducted to investigate the accuracy obtainable with these measurements. Results obtained are on the order of the noise of the measurements, which is as low as 2 centimeters in each coordinate axis.
LONG CHAIN BRANCHED POLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME.

A polymer having a long chain branching content peaking at greater than about 20 long chain branches per million carbon atoms, and a polydispersity index of greater than about 10 wherein the long chain branching decreases to approximately zero at the higher molecular weight portion of the molecular weight distribution. A polymer having a long chain branching content peaking at greater than about 8 long chain branches per million carbon atoms, a polydispersity index of greater than about 20 wherein the long chain branching decreases to approximately zero at the higher molecular weight portion of the molecular weight distribution. A polymer having a long chain branching content peaking at greater than about 1 long chain branches per chain, and a polydispersity index of greater than about 10 wherein the long chain branching decreases to approximately zero at the higher molecular weight portion of the molecular weight distribution.
Automatic exclusion of skin border regions from breast MRI using proposed combined approach

In this paper, an automatic combined approach is presented to exclude skin border regions from Breast MRI images. This procedure is vital as pre-processing process in breast tumour segmentation systems. In order to detect and remove skin border regions, the proposed approach integrates two methods in two main stages. These stages are: edge detection using Level Set Active Contour method. Followed by, skin border removal using Morphological thinning method. The results showed high performance for edge detection stage with average of sensitivity 0.81 and specificity 0.94. On the other hand, the final skin border removal stage is also scored high performance with average of sensitivity 0.86 and specificity 0.97.
Entrevista com André Guyaux

André Guyaux é professor emérito da Faculdade de Letras da Sorbonne Université. Autor de um livro sobre a “fortuna crítica” de Baudelaire (Baudelaire. Un demi-siècle de lectures des « Fleurs du Mal », 1855-1905, PUPS, 2007), publicou Fusées e Mon coeur mis à nu na coleção Folio (2016). Ele codirige a revista anual de estudos baudelairianos, L’Année Baudelaire. Também editou as Œuvres complètes (2009) de Rimbaud na Bibliothèque de la Pléiade e codirigiu a edição de Romans et nouvelles (2019) de Huysmans na mesma coleção.
EVENT LAMP THAT CAN BE OPERATED AS A BATTERY-POWERED SPOTLIGHT AND PERMANENTLY WIRED SPOTLIGHT

The invention relates to an electrical mobile event lamp. The object of the invention is to design a mobile electrical event lamp for hiring for events, such that same can be used alternatively for permanently wired and battery-powered operation. According to the invention, this is achieved by integrated rechargeable batteries for power supply and a connection for a wiring of the lamp provided for an alternative power supply, as well as a blocking function implemented in the electronic controller of the lamp for access to the integrated battery implemented in the electronic controller of the lamp, and a data connection for activating or deactivating the blocking function by means of an external data synchronisation.