SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Fish Assemblage at the Lhalu Wetland:Does the Native Fish Still Exist

Non-native invasive fishes have been shown to be highly dangerous to aquatic ecosystems,and have caused huge ecological and economic costs.The Lhalu wetland,one of the most important wetlands in the Lhasa River basin,Tibet,China,represents the highest and largest urban wetland in the world.The ecosystem of the wetland was intensively disturbed by human activities before it was listed as a national reserve in 2005.Although 2 exotic fishes(Carassius auratus(Linnaeus) and Monopterus albus(Zuiew)) were found in the wetland in a survey which was carried out from 2001 to 2003,unfortunately they did not receive enough attention they deserve.In order to examine whether the native fish still exists,the fishes were studied by gillnets and setting nets in April and June in 2010 and April in 2011.Of the 12 species collected,C.auratus(Linnaeus),Cyprinus caupio Linnaeus,Ctenopharyngodon idellus(Cuvier et Valenciennes),Pseudorasbora parva(Temminck et Schlegel),Misgurnus anguillicaudatus(Cantor),Silurus asotus Linnaeus,and Hypseleotris swinhonis(Gunther) were alien species,and Oxygymnocypris stewartii(Lloyd),Schizopygopsis younghusbandi younghusbandi Regan,Triplophysa stewartii(Hora),T.stenura(Herzenstein) and T.tibetana(Regan) were native species.The non-native fish P.parva and C.auratus were the dominant species,as the former took up 83.9 % of the total fish abundance performed by setting nets and the latter accounted for 93.0 % of that performed by gillnets.Both of them had a wide distribution,almost spreading all over the wetland.By contrast,all the 5 native species were rare,with poor abundance( 2% by number) and low occurrence.Non-native C.carpio,C.idellus,M.anguillicaudatus,S.asotus and H.swinhonis were found at low density and low occurrence.For the unevenness of abundance among species,the fish assemblage had little diversity,as the value of the Shannon-Weiner index,Simpson index and Pielou's evenness index of fish assemblage sampled by gillnets were 0.343,0.866,and 0.213,respectively.Those indexes of fish assemblage sampled by setting nets were 0.638,0.855,and 0.290 respectively.This study demonstrates that although 5 native fishes still exist,the Lhalu wetland has been thoroughly invaded by non-native fishes,and no longer supported a distinct fish assemblage.It is suggested that restoring the water quality of the wetland,enhancing training and education for local people on the dangerousness of non-native fishes and eradication of non-native fishes are important to the conservation of fish fauna and ecosystems of the Lhalu wetland.
Maltese presidency conference on strengthening euro-mediterranean cooperation through research and innovation

During the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Malta Council for Science and Technology (Ministry for Education and Employment) proposes to hold a conference with the participation of the Research Ministers of the EU Member States and non-EU Mediterranean countries on “Strengthening Euro-Mediterranean cooperation through Research & Innovation”. The conference will comprise a high-level technical meeting on 3rd May 2017 that will feed a Ministerial Conference on 4th May 2017.  
The conference is expected to result in the "Valletta Declaration on Strengthening Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in Research and Innovation", which will take stock of progress made in Euro-Mediterranean R&I cooperation, while looking ahead towards the implementation of the major large-scale initiatives that are being rolled out in the region as well as sowing the seeds for potential future priorities during the final part of Horizon 2020 and beyond. These areas reflect the overall objectives of the proposed conference: 
1. Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area - PRIMA.
2. Addressing the root causes of migration: the role of research. 
3. R&I for blue jobs and growth in the Mediterranean Area.
The conference resonates well with the three overarching priorities of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU, namely: Mediterranean, Migration and Maritime, and provides a logical thematic focus in research and innovation policy in these key selected areas.
The proposed event is expected to have significant knock-on effects on the coordination of efforts in R&I cooperation and support to R&I capacities by different services of the Commission as well as at bilateral or multilateral levels of on-going cooperation in the Mediterranean. The proposed event draws on existing knowledge and expertise provided by EU-level setups and networks in the Mediterranean area as well as interdisciplinary participation covering the range of fields addressed by the event.
Final results of the search for νμ → νe oscillations with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

A bstract The OPERA experiment has discovered the tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS muon neutrino beam, in agreement with the 3 neutrino flavour oscillation hypothesis. The OPERA neutrino interaction target, made of Emulsion Cloud Chambers, was particularly efficient in the reconstruction of electromagnetic showers. Moreover, thanks to the very high granularity of the emulsion films, showers induced by electrons can be distinguished from those induced by π 0 s, thus allowing the detection of charged current interactions of electron neutrinos. In this paper the results of the search for electron neutrino events using the full dataset are reported. An improved method for the electron neutrino energy estimation is exploited. Data are compatible with the 3 neutrino flavour mixing model expectations and are used to set limits on the oscillation parameters of the 3+1 neutrino mixing model, in which an additional mass eigenstate m 4 is introduced. At high Δ m 41 2 (≳0.1 eV 2 ), an upper limit on sin 2 2 θ μe is set to 0.021 at 90% C.L. and Δ m 41 2 ≳ 4 × 10 − 3 eV 2 is excluded for maximal mixing in appearance mode.
Les apocalypses de l’Histoire. Transmédialité de l’ Angelus Novus dans la postmodernité allemande de Heiner Müller

Là où l’ Angelus Novus , en vertu du continuum historique constitué par les catastrophes et les ruines, réussit à entrer dans le futur, ceux de Heiner Müller, grand dramaturge allemand de Berlin divisé puis réunifié, font l’expérience d’une sorte d’immobilité, d’une incapacité à agir, et inaugurent ainsi une nouvelle herméneutique de l’ange benjaminien. Une figure de la postmodernité allemande, si l’on pense au film de Win Wenders Les Ailes du désir ou à la Love Parade berlinoise terminée à la Colonne de la Victoire. À travers des fragments visuels et des anachronismes littéraires, il y a là une véritable source de nouvelles significations sociales et d’imaginaires inouïs.
Analysis of heterogeneous cardiac pacemaker tissue models and traveling wave dynamics

The sinoatrial-node (SAN) is a complex heterogeneous tissue that generates a stable rhythm in healthy hearts, yet a general mechanistic explanation for when and how this tissue remains stable is lacking. Although computational and theoretical analyses could elucidate these phenomena, such methods have rarely been used in realistic (large-dimensional) gap-junction coupled heterogeneous pacemaker tissue models. In this study, we adapt a recent model of pacemaker cells (Severi et al., 2012), incorporating biophysical representations of ion channel and intracellular calcium dynamics, to capture physiological features of a heterogeneous population of pacemaker cells, in particular "center" and "peripheral" cells with distinct intrinsic frequencies and action potential morphology. Large-scale simulations of the SAN tissue, represented by a heterogeneous tissue structure of pacemaker cells, exhibit a rich repertoire of behaviors, including complete synchrony, traveling waves of activity originating from periphery to center, and transient traveling waves originating from the center. We use phase reduction methods that do not require fully simulating the large-scale model to capture these observations. Moreover, the phase reduced models accurately predict key properties of the tissue electrical dynamics, including wave frequencies when synchronization occurs, and wave propagation direction in a variety of tissue models. With the reduced phase models, we analyze the relationship between cell distributions and coupling strengths and the resulting transient dynamics. Further, the reduced phase model predicts parameter regimes of irregular electrical dynamics. Thus, we demonstrate that phase reduced oscillator models applied to realistic pacemaker tissue is a useful tool for investigating the spatial-temporal dynamics of cardiac pacemaker activity.
New higher-derivative couplings in 4D $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ supergravity

Using the off-shell formulation for general N = 2 supergravity-matter systems developed in arXiv:0905.0063, we propose a construction to generate a restricted chiral superfield from any real weight-zero projective multiplet L. One can choose L to be composed of tensor multiplets, O(2n) multiplets, with n=2,3,..., and polar hypermultiplets. In conjunction with the standard procedure to induce a N = 2 linear multiplet from any chiral weight-one scalar, we obtain a powerful mechanism to generate higher-derivative couplings in supergravity. In the case that L is a homogeneous function of n tensor multiplets of degree zero, we show that our construction is equivalent to that developed by de Wit and Saueressig in arXiv:hep-th/0606148 using the component superconformal tensor calculus. We also work out nontrivial examples with L composed of O(2n)and tensor multiplets.
Discretization and adaptive approximation of fully nonlinear equations

Fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) arise in many applications ranging from physics to economy. They are different from PDEs in mechanics, and the PDE theory relies on the generalized solution concept of so-called viscosity solutions. Monotone finite difference methods (FDM) are provably convergent for approximating viscosity solutions, but are restricted to regular meshes and low-order approximations, thus having limitations in resolving realistic geometries or dealing with local mesh refinement. As viscosity solutions are lacking smoothness properties in general, adaptive approximations are desirable. In contrast to FDM, finite element methods (FEM) offer the possibility of high-order approximations with flexibility in adaptive and automatic mesh design. However, provably convergent FEM formulations for viscosity solutions to nonvariational problems are as yet unknown.

With a background in the numerical analysis of PDEs, especially the theory of FEM and adaptive algorithms, DAFNE aims at laying the theoretical and practical foundation for the application of FEM and automatic mesh-refinement algorithms to fully nonlinear equations. The focus is on the large class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. They originated from stochastic control problems, but more generally comprise many classical and relevant equations like Pucci's equation or the Monge-Ampère equation
with applications in finance, optimal transport, physics, and geometry.

The novel approach is to estimate local regularity properties through the control variable in the HJB formulation. This (a) gives rise to new regularization strategies and (b) indicates where the mesh needs to be refined. Both achievements are key to the design of a new FEM formulation.

The project is at the frontiers of PDE analysis, numerical analysis, and scientific computing.  The long-term goal is to establish the first convergence proofs for adaptive FEM simulations of fully nonlinear phenomena.
Multi-modal Innovation for Sustainable Maritime & Hinterland Transport Structures

Port Integration - Multi-modal innovation for sustainable maritime & hinterland transport structures is designed to identify, exchange & transfer best practices in the transport sector with the aim of an overall integration of related policies. Background is the recent increase of European transport flows leading to imbalances in the usage of different transport modes. While landside especially the road network is heavily loaded, resulting in traffic congestion & negative economic as well as environmental effects, sea-based transport, especially intra-European short sea shipping, shows high capacity reserves. These imbalances may only be equalized within the framework of integrated concepts for the transport chain as a whole, combining its maritime angle with the hinterland one. By realizing a more balanced usage of transport modes, the demands of an environmentally sustainable & economically efficient transport sector will be met coincidentally. As ports are the nuclei of maritime
& hinterland transport flows, they are the logical actors for a comprehensive integration of transport chains. However, to fulfill this “integrating” function, an analogous political environment on all levels is needed. Existing policies are mainly designed for individual parts of the transport chain, but a really integrated approach is missing. Port Integration will contribute to the development of such a political environment following a 3-staged approach of firstly identifying, secondly exchanging and finally transferring best practices between partners on policy level, e.g. by supporting appropriate multi-modal EDI concepts. This way strengthening of maritime transport shall be realized in compliance with the establishment of innovative hinterland concepts, thus combining both angles of transport chains within a concerted strategy. Due to the relevance of ports in this approach, partnership has been designed as a mixture of different level political actors & port authorities,
all encompassing direct linkages to the policy level. With 13 partners from 10 EU countries and Russia, the partnership builds a sound basis to achieve the goals set. Regarding the overall objective, to integrate transport-related policies within a concerted strategy, a three-staged approach has been adopted. Firstly the partnership will identify best practices and summarize them. After prioritizing them according partner needs, they will be ranked as preparatory step for actual exchange activities comprising best practice tours and a capacity-building exchange programme, e.g. to overcome adminstrative bottlenecks.  Finally, transfer of best practices will begin with the formulation of two Action Plans with measures for actual transfer, brought together into an integrated multi-modal best practice guide. Communication and dissemination being an integral part of the project, it will be guaranteed that project progress and results will spread even beyond the entire partnership.
Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) in the evaluation of the renal parenchymal stiffness in paediatric patients with vesicoureteral reflux: preliminary results

To prospectively evaluate acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging of the kidneys in children with and without chronic renal disease.Twenty-eight children (age range 9-16 years) with primary or secondary vesicoureteral reflux (≥ grade III) underwent scintigraphy and ultrasound with ARFI. Kidneys were divided-according to scintigraphy-into "affected" and "contralateral"; the results were compared with 16 age-matched healthy subjects. An ARFI value, expressed as speed (m/s) of wave propagation through the tissue, was calculated for each kidney through the mean of the values obtained at the upper, middle and lower third. The Wilcoxon test was used; P values <0.05 were considered statistically significant.The mean ARFI values obtained in the "affected" kidneys (5.70 ± 1.71 m/s) were significantly higher than those measured in both "contralateral" (4.09 ± 0.97, P < 0.0001) and "healthy" kidneys (3.13 ± 0.09, P < 0.0001). The difference between values in the "contralateral" kidneys and "healthy" ones was significant (P < 0.0001). The "affected" kidneys with secondary reflux had mean ARFI values (6.59 ± 1.45) significantly higher than those with primary reflux (5.35 ± 1.72).ARFI values decrease from kidneys with secondary vesicoureteral reflux to kidneys with primary reflux to unaffected kidneys contralateral to reflux to normal kidneys.
The Deviation of Society’s Alcohol Process in the Context of the Modern Social and Economic Crisis of XXI Century’s the Second Decade

A detailed analysis concluded that the economic crisis of the XXI century’s second decade was unconventionally serious for the Russian population owing to the strengthening of West’s economic sanctions that leads to the strengthening of deviation processes in the country. As a rule, the economic situation in Russia is powerfully has an effect on the quality of social life. The thesis that social stress and dissatisfaction with the external reality make a considerable contribution to the formation of negative deviation processes, first of all, in Russian the alcohol society is very widespread. On the basis of social polls, statistical data, mass media materials the authors analyze the present situation in Russia. Deviation processes are understood the movement and development of deviations with their various character of state changes deviant behavior. Deviance as a category classifies the state of a deviant (subject) who is involved in this or that deviation process, at the same time by a subject's alloprining in a certain type of the deviation process as deviant behavior. Alcoholization as the deviant process has its own history in Russia and in the world which has certain dynamics of demonstration. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p160
Derivation of a societal risk acceptance criterion for major accident hazard installations in Sri Lanka

Abstract The usage of risk acceptance criteria for preventing major accident hazards (MAH) in chemical industrial installations is not widely practiced in Sri Lanka at present. This paper attempts to derive a societal risk acceptance criterion for MAH installations in the Sri Lankan context. In the absence of a precedent for a “societal risk acceptance criteria” in Sri Lanka a reference criteria or baselines were developed initially based on historical data using an empirical deductive approach. Disasters resulting from natural and technological events were considered. The level of risk is presented in the form of a Cumulative Frequency, F (N) vs Fatalities, N curve or FN curve. Two FN curves for natural disasters were compared with one FN curve for technological disasters to select a suitable reference or baseline. The selected baseline was then compared with internationally accepted societal risk acceptance criteria for the two major characteristics of the criteria line, slope and anchor point. Based on this comparison a line having a slope of −1 and an anchor point of (10, 10−4) is proposed as an initial estimate for the societal risk acceptance criterion.
A MEMBRANE OR MATRIX FOR CONTROLLING THE PERMEATION RATE OF DRUGS

The invention relates to a membrane or matrix for controlling the permeation rate of a drug, wherein said membrane or matrix comprises a siloxane-based elastomer composition which comprises at least one elastomer and possibly a non-crosslinked polymer. The elastomer composition comprises poly(alkylene oxide) groups, and the poly(alkylene oxide) groups are present in the elastomer or the polymer as alkoxy-terminated grafts of polysiloxane units, or as blocks, the said grafts or blocks being linked to the polysiloxane units by silicon-carbon bonds, or as a mixture of these forms. The invention also relates to methods for the preparation of the elastomer composition to be used in said membrane or matrix.
Una lauda per Maria Maddalena nell’inedito laudario di tradizione ligure-piemontese di Agostino Perrone, frate in Provenza (ms. Béziers, CIRDÒC - Mediatèca occitana, 913)

Riassunto: Si d&agrave; notizia del ms. B&eacute;ziers, CIRD&Ograve;C - Mediat&egrave;ca occitana, 913, fino ad oggi mai stato oggetto di studi (ma in Brunel 1935, n. 250). Il manoscritto contiene, oltre a preghiere in provenzale, latino e francese, anche un piccolo laudario di tradizione ligure-piemontese: la raccolta tramanda testi condivisi con molti dei gi&agrave; noti laudari dell&rsquo;Italia nord-occidentale, con fortissima somiglianza con i due provenienti da Finale Ligure (Orlando 1984 e Meliga 1992). Una lauda per Maria Maddalena sar&agrave; l&rsquo;occasione per osservare l&rsquo;appartenenza del testo alla menzionata tradizione. Palabras clave: laudario, Liguria, Provenza, confraternite, plurilinguismo Abstract: MS B&eacute;ziers, CIRD&Ograve;C - Mediat&egrave;ca occitana, 913, which has never been studied until now (but in Brunel 1935, no. 250), is the focus of this contribution. The MS contains, in addition to prayers in Proven&ccedil;al, Latin and French, a small laudary of Ligurian-Piedmontese tradition: the collection hands down texts that also appear in many of the already known laudaries of north-western Italy, with very strong similarities to the ones from Finale Ligure (Orlando 1984 and Meliga 1992). A lauda for Mary Magdalene will be an opportunity to observe the belonging of the text to the mentioned tradition. Keywords: laudary, Liguria, Provence, confraternities, multilingualism
Portable analyser for detection of metal micropollutants in water

Water is an invaluable resource for humans and agricultural and industrial activities. Preventing this natural resource from pollutants to guarantee good chemical status for its multiple uses is a global challenge. Pollutants such as chemicals, in particular heavy metals, can cause serious health hazards and have long-lasting effects in humans and the human food chain.  Current legislation such as the 2013/39/EU directive states that heavy metals must be monitored regularly and stablishes maximum thresholds of heavy metals concentration e.g. 0.1-0.5 μg/l.  Water treatment plants require efficient and effective methods of inspecting, sampling and reporting on the quality of water. However, high costs associated with water analysis combined with the complex and lengthy processes involved, pose a challenge for those responsible for ensuring a safe supply of water for all. 
In response to those challenges Klearia  has developed PANDa, a Portable ANalyser for the Detection of metal micropollutants in water, based on the patented lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technology, made of glass. PANDa can easily and accurately detect heavy metals by electrochemical methods. The benefits for users are three-fold: a) improvement in tracing pollutants in low concentration levels, b) costs-savings associated to equipment, staff and maintenance, c) quick and accurate monitoring and reporting of results, leading to overall improvement of processes and business practices. PANDa is presently at TRL6, so the aim of this project is to conduct a feasibility study to assess the technical, commercial and financial aspects needed to commercialise the product.