SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Effects of exposure to rice-crop residue burning smoke on pulmonary functions and Oxygen Saturation level of human beings in Patiala (India)

Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs) like Force Vital Capacity (FVC), Force Expiratory Volume in one second (FEV₁), Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF) and Force Expiratory Flow between 25 and 75% of FVC (FEF(25-75%)) and Oxygen Saturation (SpO₂) level of 50 healthy inhabitants with respect to rice crop residue burning were investigated for three rice cultivation periods from 2007 to 2009. The subjects were residents of five sampling sites selected in Patiala city. Concentration of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM), Sulfur dioxide (SO₂), Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and Particulate Matter (PM) of size less than 10 and 2.5 μm (PM₁₀ and PM₂.₅) were measured by using High Volume Sampler (HVS) and Cascade Anderson Impactor. Results show that rice crop residue burning increases the pollution level in the ambient air, and PFTs undergo a significant decrease in their respective values. No significant change was seen in SpO₂ level during rice crop residue burning. In 2008, an increase of 10 μg m⁻³ in PM₂.₅, PM₁₀, SPM and NO₂ was associated significantly with decrease in FVC in percentages predicted -1.541, -1.002, -1.178, -0.232%, respectively. The decrease in air quality due to open rice crop residue burning has sub acute effect on pulmonary functions of healthy subjects and that SO₂ and NO₂ have less adverse effects on pulmonary functions than with different size Particulate Matter.
Merging nanoporous materials with energy-efficient spintronics

This Project aims to integrate engineered nanoporous materials into novel energy-efficient spintronic applications. Magnetic storage and magneto-electronic devices are conventionally controlled by means of magnetic fields (via electromagnetic induction) or using spin-polarized electric currents (spin-transfer torque). Both principles involve significant energy loss by heat dissipation (Joule effect). The replacement of electric current with electric field would drastically reduce the overall power consumption. Strain-mediated magneto-electric coupling in piezoelectric-magnetostrictive bilayers might appear a proper strategy to achieve this goal. However, this approach is not suitable in spintronics because of the clamping effects with the substrate, need of epitaxial interfaces and risk of fatigue-induced mechanical failure. The exciting possibility to control ferromagnetism of metals and semiconductors directly with electric field (without strain) has been recently reported, but most significant effects occur below 300 K and only in ultra-thin films or nanoparticles. This Project tackles the development of a new type of nanocomposite material, comprising an electrically conducting or semiconducting nanoporous layer filled with a suitable dielectric material, where the magnetic properties of the metal/semiconductor will be largely tuned at room temperature (RT) by simply applying a voltage, via electric charge accumulation. The porous layer will consist of specific alloys (Cu-Ni or Fe-Rh) or oxide diluted magnetic semiconductors, where surface magnetic properties have been recently reported to be sensitive to electric field at RT. Based on these new materials, three technological applications are envisaged: electrically-assisted magnetic recording, voltage-driven switching of magnetic random-access memories and spin field-effect transistors. The obtained results are likely to open new paradigms in the field of spintronics and could be of high economic transcendence.
Psychological Entitlement and Ambivalent Sexism: Understanding the Role of Entitlement in Predicting Two Forms of Sexism

Recent research has shown that narcissistic men in the United States express more ambivalent sexism than their non-narcissistic counterparts. The present study sought to extend these findings by hypothesizing that psychological entitlement would be a predictor of ambivalent sexism but that that this relationship may vary by gender. Given entitlement’s associations with hostility and aggression and the previously established link between narcissism and sexism in men, we hypothesized that entitlement would predict hostile sexism in men. Given that entitlement is characterized by a pervasive sense of deservingness for special treatment and goods, we expected that entitled women would endorse attitudes of benevolent sexism. These hypotheses were tested using two cross-sectional samples in the U.S.—a sample of undergraduates from a private university in the Midwest (N = 333) and a web-based sample of adults across the U.S. (N = 437). Results from regression analyses confirmed that psychological entitlement is a robust predictor of ambivalent sexism, above and beyond known predictors of sexism such as low openness and relevant covariates such as impression management. In addition, entitlement was a consistent predictor of benevolent sexism in women, but not in men, and a consistent predictor of hostile sexism in men, but not in women. These relationships were largely robust, persisting even when relevant covariates (e.g., socially desirable responding, trait openness) were controlled statistically, although in one sample the link between entitlement and hostile sexism in men was reduced to non-significance when benevolent sexism was controlled for statistically. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Foreseeing opportunities, risks and emergent science issues for the next generation: highlighting trends

Our proposal for ERN 2016-17 is focussed on foresight, exploring alternatives to consider and manage the future with researchers and the public, envisioning new trends of science and technologies and of their impacts on society. Of special concern are the complex problems and challenges that humanity faces: climate change, sustainable energy, food and water supply, ageing and social inclusion, to name but a few of the global trends identified for the next 10-15 years.

FORESIGHT will consider how scientists, technologists, policymakers and citizens together will cope with these challenges; it will also look at the public perception of the associated risks and of the scientific capacity to manage them. FORESIGHT aims will thus be twofold: on one hand the project will provide opportunities for direct contact of scientists with the public in open, lively events, promoting trust and providing role models for younger generations. On the other hand, FORESIGHT will identify trends, challenges and barriers related with scientific and technological developments with societal implications that may become relevant in Europe in the near future. This will be pursued through ongoing debate and deliberation with different stakeholders: business, NGOs, youth clubs, makers and the DIY groups, education community, etc.

The detailed programme will be developed by a consortium that includes research centres (IBMC, ITQB) and science communication institutions closely connected to universities (science centres of the Ciência Viva National Network, science museums, botanical gardens). Both the research centres and the Ciência Viva network provide extensive dissemination channels that will ensure the engagement of a wide range of stakeholders and publics.
Continuity of Heart-mind and Things-events: A Systematic Reconstruction of Neo-Confucian Epistemology

Many scholars argue that there is no epistemology in Chinese philosophy, or that an epistemological sensibility was not fully developed in Chinese thinking. This leads western audiences to mistakenly think that Chinese philosophy is not properly ‘philosophical’. This paper argues that there is a great deal of discourse about understanding the world as a whole in ancient Chinese philosophy. Taking Song-ming Neo-Confucianism as an example, the author shows that most researchers do not uncover its philosophical advancement as it developed throughout history. The author reconstructs a real philosophical breakthrough in Neo-Confucianism and argues that Chinese philosophy should be recognized as fully ‘philosophical’—not just ethical, but also epistemological. Through the clarification about epistemological progress in Song-ming Neo-Confucianism, the author argues that there is a coherent development of epistemology in Chinese philosophical history. In short, this article formalizes a systematic view of Chinese...
Bacterial membrane vesicles a novel delivery system for the treatment of multi-drug resistant gram-negative bacterial infections.

Bacterial infections are a significant public health challenge and a major cause of human mortality globally. Antibiotics are indispensable for the treatment and prevention of infections caused by bacteria. However, global spread of drug-resistant bacteria, coupled with a dearth of new antibiotics in development has led to an alarming shortage of effective drugs. Gram-negative bacteria, in particular, protect themselves against antibiotics with a highly selective outer membrane. The high burden of diseases caused by Gram-negative bacteria, combined with their frequent multi-drug resistance has placed them as world´s highest-priority pathogens by the World Health Organization. Consequently, there is an urgent need for novel therapeutic approaches that combat Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The goal of ""BacDrug"" is to use lipid-based bacterial membrane vesicles (BMVs) produced by non-pathogenic Lactococcus lactis as delivery system. BMVs have great potential as nanocarriers to by-pass the outer membrane and deliver their toxic payload to kill drug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. A range of strategies will be used to load BMVs with cargo, including genetic engineering of L. lactis as well as chemical treatments. This Fellowship will harness expertise and techniques across microbiology, molecular biology, nanotechnology and drug design to deliver a successful outcome. The collaborative, truly interdisciplinary, cross faculty setting within the groups of Prof Molly Stevens (materials and bioengineering) and Dr Andrew Edwards (molecular microbiology) at ICL combines world-class expertise and provides an environment to maximise the success of this Fellowship, both in terms of the delivering the project and the training opportunities provided. Moreover, this innovative, alternative strategy to tackle drug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections has a high translational potential, which will be exploited via the clinical and translational research clinics at ICL.
Nanoscale vertical cavity surface emitting laser and its arrays

Significant advances are needed to improve the speed and efficiency of future communication and computing systems. Photonic interconnect components are the only solution to offer both high speed and low power consumption. To this end, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been widely deployed as optical interconnects in the last two decades. Even though the current VCSEL technology has been very successful, its processing approach has been proven to be particularly challenging for miniaturization, it reduces the reliability for small lasers and its high thermal resistance substantially degrades the lasers’ performance. This project addresses all these bottlenecks by focusing on the development of a nanoscale VCSEL (NOVEL) device for ultra-low threshold, energy efficient and ultra-fast operation for future optical interconnects and light sources.
The driving idea of this proposal is based on using a lithographically defined laser concept to develop a novel growth and fabrication process for GaAs-based VCSELs. This will employ buried electrical- and optical-confinement method to provide us with a unique opportunity to scale the cavity down to 500 nm diameter to demonstrate the viability and performance of the NOVEL device. Additionally, this research proposal aims to investigate the potential of NOVEL array architectures for applications in sensing and innovative high beam quality lasers. This project is expected to have a strong impact both in academia and industry as it will open the way for great flexibility in the design of VCSELs and nanolasers with high reliability essential for commercialization of research. The NOVEL devices with their fundamentally new capabilities hold special promise in a wide range of scientific disciplines including optical communication, computer science, quantum electrodynamics, laser physics, on-chip nanophotonics and biosensing.
A.I. enabled knowledge analysis automation to increase resilience, security and performance of enterprise ict systems.

90% of all issues affecting ICT infrastructures are known and documented issues , that could have been avoided, but still
outages happen. Many aspects of our everyday life rely on ICT systems and the trend shows it will increase to the point
where we will soon fully depend on them. When technical issues cause interruptions to these services, the results can be
dramatic. Imagine the chaotic and even life-threatening effects of outages in airport flight control systems, life support
systems in hospitals, banks, railway management systems.
Every ICT solution vendor maintains their own Knowledge base where these issues are documented in human readable
format. These sources of information are used by System Administrators and Engineers maintaining and supporting the ICT
environments to help them troubleshoot and resolve the issues. Unfortunately, this vast information database is only used
reactively.
Runecast has been at the forefront of developing Runecast Analyzer technology for over 3 years. During these 3 years we
have built a world class development team based in the Czech Republic that has developed cutting edge, patent pending,
technology. Runecast’s flagship product, Runecast Analyzer, has been leveraging manual translation of the existing
knowledge base records into computer readable records to prevent issues on thousands of virtual environments running
VMware platform ever since its release in October 2015.
RAIKA, our disruptive solution is designed to proactively scan ICT systems to identify all known issues that can be prevented
within that system. It does so by gathering and parsing information from public knowledge bases, then using Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and human expertise to translate it to machine usable data. This data is then used to analyze configuration
and logs on the ICT environment. The result is the ability to identify known technical issues and problematic patterns before
they cause service interruptions.
PROTECTIVE WAX FOR BLEACHED TEETH

A protective coating material applied to whitened or bleached teeth. The protective coating material comprises microcrystalline wax, mineral oil, vitamin E, and amorphous calcium phosphate or ACP. The protective coating material covers the whitened or bleached tooth surface protecting it from staining thereby prolonging the whiteness of the teeth. The whitened or bleached damaged tooth enamel may also be strengthened or repaired.
Management of heritage in coastal landscapes

Europe’s maritime & fluvial regions exist in great diversity, yet show parallels in spatial & political challenges. Cultural heritage of these regions, made up of non-renewable man-made & natural resources, traditions & lifestyles, form an essential part of coastal landscape. This heritage is considered particular vulnerable, perishable & unstable, exposed to spatial changes in transport, industrialisation of fisheries and growing use of coastal zones for tourism.  This project aims to improve regional policies for heritage management in maritime & fluvial regions by facilitating policy learning and supporting exchange of experience, in line with the EC’s advice on improving heritage management. In this way, the regions will achieve a better balance between exploitation & preservation measures when redeveloping coastal landscapes. Policy instruments will be improved through the generation of funding for new projects, improved governance and structural change. Seven MEUR in Structural Funds are estimated to be influenced by the project, as well as 1.030 MEUR of other funds. The number of visitors to cultural heritage sites is expected to increase and public access to these sites expected to improve. The partnership covers eight partners from six countries (NO,RO,ES,IT,NL,IE) and all core target groups for priority 6c. Four of five policy instruments addressed by EU partners are Structural Funds Programmes._x000D_
A 3-step interregional learning process will be applied: 1) Identification and analysis of heritage & territorial situations; 2) exchange of experience and good practice within heritage management; 3) development of regional action plans through participatory involvement of stakeholders. A methodological framework and a tool-box for assessing & developing heritage within entire cultural landscapes will serve as the backbone to the learning process. The results will be communicated at the European level via the Policy Learning Platform and through heritage NGOs.
Stoichiometry-driven Protein Folding: A Comment

Mittal et al. (1) have examined the frequency distributions of amino acid residue proximities in the secondary and tertiary structures of almost 4000 proteins, and have concluded that there are no preferences related to side-chain chemistry. Irrespective of the size and three-dimensional shape of a protein, the probability that two residues will be close together depends mainly, if not entirely, on how many of each there are within that protein. This result sits uncomfortably with major current ideas about protein folding, such as the evolution of wonderfolds (2), the proteomic code (3), and the ‘first-in-last-out’ hypothesis (4). It may not be logically inconsistent with these ideas, but it will be considered surprising. On the simplest level: it is common knowledge that polar residues cluster with other polar residues rather than hydrophobic ones, and vice versa, and this almost-universal pattern is crucial for the spatial structuring of globular proteins. Preferential interaction between amino acids is the basis of the development of knowledge-based potentials, which in turn form the underpinning of protein structure prediction. Nowadays, determination of protein structure by modeling and simulation, based on preferential contacts and interactions, has become a common practice (5, 6 and references therein).
Chemokines and transplant outcome

Improving long-term management, life-quality and outcome of transplant recipients continues to be a challenge. The impact of highly chemoattractant proteins as chemokines on transplant outcome is undeniable. These immunoactive molecules are critical in a wide variety of physiological and pathological processes, such as immunosurveillance, inflammation, infection, cancer, and rejection or tolerance after organ transplantation. Chemokines, playing an essential role in immune cell recruitment and localization within the graft, mirror the complex processes occurring in host-graft dialogue. In particular, the system of inflammatory chemokines and their receptors is modulated throughout all stages of transplantation and its inhibition counteracts rejection processes. The increase in chemokine expression at gene or protein level is, indeed, associated to multiorgan rejection. Thus, chemokines could serve as markers for risk of organ dysfunction/rejection and outcome predictors. This review intends to summarize chemokine function in transplantation and particularly focuses onto proinflammatory molecules such as CXC chemokines, which mediate early graft rejection in different organs and warrant consideration as predictors of outcome. The potentiality of chemokines - CXCL10 in particular - as systemic, robust, non-invasive, reliable and reproducible biomarkers for post-transplantation surveillance is addressed. Ideally, chemokines, as potential tools to predict and improve outcome, could give clinicians the opportunity to ameliorate patients' life-quality.
Soft Tissue Changes Following Combined Anterior Segmental Bimaxillary Orthognathic Procedures

To analyze the soft tissue response in patients treated by combined anterior segmental bimaxillary procedures.A Prospective, observational and analytical study was carried out for a period of 2 years involving 37 patients with predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria; lateral cephalograms were taken by the same operator on the standardized unit immediately before and 6 months after surgery; hard and soft tissue landmarks were measured in millimeters to both horizontal and vertical reference lines; any differences in distances were recorded as a surgical change; appropriate statistical test was carried; level of significance was p < 0.05.All patients underwent anterior maxillary osteotomy with 34 anterior mandibular osteotomies, 2 advancement genioplasties and 1 reduction genioplasty. Analysis showed significant angular, horizontal and vertical change. The significant differences in skeletal variables were observed in N-Pg distance, overjet, overbite, U1-NF angle, L1-Mp angle and soft tissue variables like labiomental angle, upper-lower lip protrusion, upper-lower lip length and lower incisor to labrale inferius distance. Nasolabial angle, interlabial gap and upper incisor exposure were extremely significant.Soft tissue response to surgery is perhaps more predictable after 6 months, so this may be a treatment modality of choice in adult bimaxillary/dentoalveolar protrusion patients who need instant esthetic facial results.
Environmental friendly fungicide based on new endophytic biological control agent trichoderma asperellum strain t18

Biocontrol has been the fastest growing segment of the global plant protection business over the last few years. Its market is estimated at about 2,3 billion $, and within biologicals, the microbial products have been the fastest growing product type segment of biocontrol today. The multinational agricultural input companies such as the Crop Protection Multinationals have shown a strong interest in the biocontrol industry with highest priority in the microbial market segment. Regulatory Authorities are committed to encouraging the development and use of low risk biological pesticides as alternatives to conventional chemical pesticides than have shown to have a high toxicity.
Main objective of TRICHO T-18 Project is to develop a feasibility study in order to obtain and produce a biological control agent (strain T18) in an industrial scale, necessary to develop a commercial product. The strain T18 must to be obtained as pure propagules (spores) and formulated in a solid state with longer life and stability. AMC will be the first worldwide company to produce and commercialize a profitable product based on new endophytic Biological Control Agent (BCA) Trichoderma asperellum strain T18.
The new product T-18 means a complete innovative product. There is no product similar in the market at present time. T18 is going to have unique characteristics: efficient endophytic fungus with high capacity to combat plant pathogens; resistant to adverse abiotic conditions as extreme pH in the soil (both acid and alkaline) as well as lower temperature conditions (15ºC and below) and low relative humidity which can’t be supported by other fungus Trichoderma´s genus.
Thanks to Risk Analysis, Market Study and Feasibility concept of Phase 1, SME AMC will know technical and economic viability of the product and will have a business plan to deal with the security challenges of the demonstration phase and testing, expected to fund with Phase 2-SME Instrument, and accelerate time to market.