SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Stories of tomorrow - students visions on the future of space exploration

The STORIES project aims to contribute to a dynamic future of children’s ebooks evolution by a) developing user-friendly interfaces for young students (10-12 years old) to create their own multi-path stories expressing their imagination and creativity and b) by integrating the latest AR, VR and 3D printing technologies to visualize their stories in numerous innovative ways. In the heart of this intervention lies the vision for integrated curricula and deeper learning outcomes. The project will offer these innovations through a single environment, the STORIES Storytelling Platform which will be the place for students’ artistic expression and scientific inquiry at the same time. The creations of the students (paintings, models, dioramas and constructions, 3D objects and landscapes, animations, science videos and science theatre plays) will be captured and integrated in the form of interactive ebooks. The STORIES technical team will design advanced interfaces in which students will be able to augment characters, buildings, greenhouses and different 3D geometrical structures on a tablet or their computer and inspect their work using a mobile device. The outcome of their work will be detected and tracked, and the video stream is augmented with an animated 3D version of the character or the artefact. The platform will be tested in real settings in Germany, Greece, Portugal, France, Finland and Japan, involving 60 teachers and 3000 students (5th and 6th grade). To achieve this, the proposed project is developing a novel cooperation between creative industries and electronic publishing, educational research institutions in the field of STEM, schools and informal learning centres. The consortium includes 15 partners from Europe, USA, Japan and Australia. But STORIES is going beyond that: The consortium will cooperate in the design of the platform and in the development of the storyline mechanism with Eugene (Eugenios) Trivizas, well known writer of children's books.
Fossil-fuel-fired once-through steam generator

The steam generator has a combustion chamber for fossil fuel. A vertical gas flue is arranged downstream of the combustion chamber on a heating-gas side and connected via a horizontal gas flue. The structure requires especially little outlay in terms of manufacture and installation. The combustion chamber has a number of burners which are disposed at the same level with the horizontal gas flue.
savinG fUel and emissions from mariTime Transport in the Adriatic region

GUTTA project will provide a contribution to decarbonization of the Italy-Croatia ferryboat transport. _x000D_
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In fact, GUTTA will develop a decision support system for ferryboat routes of minimal CO2 emissions, depending on forecast environmental conditions. GUTTA will also support and inform about the implementation of the EU-MRV regulation 757/2015 on CO2 emissions from vessels. Finally, GUTTA will prepare the ground for a new maritime route between Italy and Croatia._x000D_
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Information added on 2020-05-18, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): The GUTTA project is focused on ferry boat transport. In the Adriatic Sea, this industry is heavily coupled to tourism sector. It is thinkable that knowledge of the ferry boat traffic and its transformation during and after the pandemic might be a valuable input for shaping forthcoming strategies for tourism recovery.
Exponential Convergence Towards Consensus for Non-Symmetric Linear First-Order Systems in Finite and Infinite Dimensions

come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Exponential convergence towards consensus for non-symmetric linear first-order systems in finite and infinite dimensions
COOKED FOODS CONTAINING CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACIDS

The invention comprises a cooked food comprising an ingredient selected from the group consisting of a prepared conjugated linoleic acid, an ester thereof, a non-toxic salt thereof, diglyceride and triglyceride esters of various isomers of conjugated linoleic acids, conjugated dienes of long-chained fatty acids, and mixtures thereof, said ingredient being present in an amount of at least 3 milligrams per gram of lipid in the food. A portion of the ingredient is present in the food after cooking.
Optimized Design of Rotor Blade for a Wind Pump

Design of a rotor of a wind mill is very crucial to harness wind energy. The aerodynamic design of rotor involves optimizing the rotor and its components to produce maximum power co-efficient which is the ratio of actual rotor output to the wind energy available for a given rotor area. The design of a wind mill although looks simple but involves complex and detailed design of its components like rotor, transmission, load matching, yawing mechanism etc. In addition it also involves study of wind and estimation of its power carrying capacity. In this paper, a rotor for wind mill at Bagur of Hosadurga district (Karnataka) is designed to achieve maximum power coefficient by optimizing various parameters like no. and shape of blades, chord width, tip speed ratio etc.
Einführung der ISO-Zertifizierung als Voraussetzung für den Geschäftsausbau und die Öffnung neuer Märkte

Eigentümer von Advensys engineering d.o.o. haben die Einführung von ISO-Zertifikaten anerkannt, die sie derzeit nicht als eine der wichtigsten Voraussetzungen für das Geschäftswachstum und die Realisierung von geplanten Ergebnissen besitzen. Mit der Umsetzung des Projekts wird das Unternehmen zu den wenigen renommiertesten Unternehmen zählen, die diese Zertifikate haben und damit einen großen Schritt in Bezug auf den Wettbewerb machen und viele neue Märkte und Kunden eröffnen, die als Voraussetzung für die Zusammenarbeit genau den Besitz der ISO-Zertifizierung angeben.
Five-Year Outcomes of FOLFIRINOX vs Gemcitabine as Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

Importance Early results at 3 years from the PRODIGE 24/Canadian Cancer Trials Group PA6 randomized clinical trial showed survival benefits with adjuvant treatment with modified FOLFIRINOX vs gemcitabine in patients with resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; mature data are now available. Objective To report 5-year outcomes and explore prognostic factors for overall survival. Design, Setting, and Participants This open-label, phase 3 randomized clinical trial was conducted at 77 hospitals in France and Canada and included patients aged 18 to 79 years with histologically confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who had undergone complete macroscopic (R0/R1) resection within 3 to 12 weeks before randomization. Patients were included from April 16, 2012, through October 3, 2016. The cutoff date for this analysis was June 28, 2021. Interventions A total of 493 patients were randomized (1:1) to receive treatment with modified FOLFIRINOX (oxaliplatin, 85 mg/m 2 of body surface area; irinotecan, 150-180 mg/m 2 ; leucovorin, 400 mg/m 2 ; and fluorouracil, 2400 mg/m 2 , every 2 weeks) or gemcitabine (1000 mg/m 2 , days 1, 8, and 15, every 4 weeks) as adjuvant therapy for 24 weeks. Main Outcomes and Measures Primary end point was disease-free survival. Secondary end points included overall survival, metastasis-free survival, and cancer-specific survival. Prognostic factors for overall survival were determined. Results Of the 493 patients, 216 (43.8%) were women, and the mean (SD) age was 62.0 (8.9) years. At a median of 69.7 months’ follow-up, 367 disease-free survival events were observed. In patients receiving chemotherapy with modified FOLFIRINOX vs gemcitabine, median disease-free survival was 21.4 months (95% CI, 17.5-26.7) vs 12.8 months (95% CI, 11.6-15.2) (hazard ratio [HR], 0.66; 95% CI, 0.54-0.82; P &amp;amp;lt; .001) and 5-year disease-free survival was 26.1% vs 19.0%; median overall survival was 53.5 months (95% CI, 43.5-58.4) vs 35.5 months (95% CI, 30.1-40.3) (HR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.54-0.85; P = .001), and 5-year overall survival was 43.2% vs 31.4%; median metastasis-free survival was 29.4 months (95% CI, 21.4-40.1) vs 17.7 months (95% CI, 14.0-21.2) (HR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.52-0.80; P &amp;amp;lt; .001); and median cancer-specific survival was 54.7 months (95% CI, 45.8-68.4) vs 36.3 months (95% CI, 30.5–43.9) (HR, 0.65; 95% CI, 0.51-0.82; P &amp;amp;lt; .001). Multivariable analysis identified modified FOLFIRINOX, age, tumor grade, tumor staging, and larger-volume center as significant favorable prognostic factors for overall survival. Shorter relapse delay was an adverse prognostic factor. Conclusions and Relevance The final 5-year results from the PRODIGE 24/Canadian Cancer Trials Group PA6 randomized clinical trial indicate that adjuvant treatment with modified FOLFIRINOX yields significantly longer survival than gemcitabine in patients with resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Trial Registration EudraCT: 2011-002026-52; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01526135
Effective decomposition of large-scale separable continuous functions for cooperative co-evolutionary algorithms

In this paper we investigate the performance of cooperative co-evolutionary (CC) algorithms on large-scale fully-separable continuous optimization problems. We have shown that decomposition can have significant impact on the performance of CC algorithms. The empirical results show that the subcomponent size should be chosen small enough so that the subcomponent size is within the capacity of the subcomponent optimizer. In practice, determining the optimal size is difficult. Therefore, adaptive techniques are desired by practitioners. Here we propose an adaptive method, MLSoft, that uses widely-used techniques in reinforcement learning such as the value function method and softmax selection rule to adapt the subcomponent size during the optimization process. The experimental results show that MLSoft is significantly better than an existing adaptive algorithm called MLCC on a set of large-scale fully-separable problems.
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES

Das Verfahren zur Herstellung photographischer Bilder besteht darin, belichtete photographische Materialien mit einem Entwickler zu entwickeln, der eine erhöhte Bromionen-Konzentration aufweist, die für die Dauer des Gebrauches des Entwicklers konstant gehalten wird. Der Vorteil des Verfahrens liegt in der technisch unkomplizierten Regnerierbarkeit des Entwicklers.
JK Tools — Centre de recherche, de développement et d’innovation industrielle II

L’objectif du projet est d’élargir le centre de recherche industrielle, de développement et d’innovation de la société JK Toole s.r.o. (centre VVI). L’accélération de l’infrastructure de ses propres activités de R & D augmentera les recettes provenant de produits innovants d’au moins 15 à 20 %, élargira le portefeuille de produits et étendra la position d’exportation de l’entreprise à de nouveaux marchés (principalement l’Espagne et d’autres pays de l’UE). Les capacités techniques et spatiales de l’entreprise ne permettent pas la réalisation des projets de R & D prévus. L’extension du centre VVI est donc une nécessité pour l’entreprise.
Active fractions of mannoproteins derived from yeast cell wall stimulate innate and acquired immunity of adult and elderly dogs

• Aging can promote changes in the immune system in dogs. • Nutritional intervention in older dogs aims to increase lifespan. • The yeast cell wall comprises β-(1,3)-D-glucan, β-(1,6)-D-glucan and mannoproteins. • Elderly dogs when compared to adult dogs had lower absolute T and B lymphocyte counts. • Mannoproteins stimulated acquired and innate immune responses in adult and elderly dogs. Nutritional intervention in older dogs aims to increase lifespan and improve life quality as well as delay the development of diseases related to ageing. It is believed that active fractions of mannoproteins (AFMs) obtained through extraction and fractionation of yeast cell walls ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) may beneficially modulate the immune system. However, studies that have evaluated this component and the effects of ageing on the immune system of dogs are scarce. This study aimed to evaluate the immunological effects of AFMs in adult and elderly dogs. Three extruded iso-nutrient experimental diets were formulated: without addition of AFM (T0); with AFM at 400 mg/kg (T400); and with AFM at 800 mg/kg (T800). Thirty-six beagle dogs were used, and six experimental treatments, resulting in combinations of age (adult and elderly) and diet (T0, T400, and T800), were evaluated. On days zero, 14, and 28, blood samples were obtained for leucocyte phenotyping and phagocytosis assays. On days zero and 28, a lymphoproliferation test, quantification of reactive oxygen (H 2 O 2 ) and nitrogen (NO) intermediate production, evaluation of faecal immunoglobulin A (IgA) content, and a delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity test (DCHT) were performed. Statistical analyses were performed with SAS software. Repeated measure variance analyses were performed, and means were compared by the Tukey test. Values of P ≤ 0.05 were considered significant, and values of P ≤ 0.10 were considered tendencies. Dogs fed T400 tended to have higher neutrophilic phagocytic activity than dogs fed T800 (P = 0.073). Regarding reactive oxygen intermediates, bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated neutrophils from animals that were fed T400 had a tendency to produce more H 2 O 2 than those from animals fed the control diet (P = 0.093). Elderly dogs, when compared to adult dogs, had lower absolute T and B lymphocyte counts, lower auxiliary T lymphocyte counts, and higher cytotoxic T lymphocyte counts (P < 0.05). A significant effect of diet, age, and time with saline inoculation was noted for the DCHT. There was no effect of diet or age on faecal IgA content in dogs. This study suggests beneficial effects of mannoproteins on the specific and nonspecific immune responses in adult and elderly dogs.
Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation: the average vote example

The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically behave strategically. We evaluate the discrepancy between the average taste and the average vote. If the population is sufficiently large, it is possible to construct approximations of both the average vote and the average taste which may be readily compared. We construct upper and lower bounds for the limit average vote that depend on the limit average taste. If the average taste is central enough, the range of possible values for the average voting outcome is narrower than the corresponding range for majority voting. For instance, if the average taste is at 1/2, the limit equilibrium outcome is this value plus or minus roughly .2, whereas the weighted median maybe anywhere in the [0,1] interval.
Batch process monitoring and fault diagnosis based on improved MPLS

Aiming at the defect of three-dimensional data pre-processing of traditional partial least squares (MPLS) in batch process online monitoring, a improved method of MPLS is researched to do online monitoring and fault diagnosis. In the data pre-processing, the method combines the advantages of traditional expanding methods. It contains information of different batches that remove the nonlinear and dynamic characteristics of the process at a certain extent, as well as resolving the problem of data filled in online applications; In calculating the monitoring statistic of T2, the method researched in this paper uses time-varying covariance to replace the fixed one of principal components, which fully considers the dynamic characteristics of the score vector. Meanwhile, aiming at the problem of characteristic of lagging in process that the ordinary contribution plot method is difficult to correctly display the source of the fault of the current moment, a fault diagnosis method based on time-varying contribution plot is proposed in this paper. The improved method was proved to be effective by comparing with traditional MPLS through experiments.
A high-sensitivity room-temperature hydrogen gas sensor based on oblique and vertical ZnO nanorod arrays

Abstract The high surface area to volume ratio, the networks connections of vertically and oblique nanorod arrays, and the absence of seed layer, were the key factors responsible for the high sensitivity of ZnO nanorod arrays based hydrogen sensor at room temperature. Arrays of vertical and oblique zinc oxide nanorods were grown on a c -plane sapphire substrate by microwave-assisted chemical bath deposition. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)–Zn(OH) 2 nanocomposites were used as a novel seed material to seed the sapphire substrate prior to the growth of the ZnO nanorods. The hydrogen sensing capabilities of the ZnO nanorod arrays, without the use of a metal catalyst, were investigated at room temperature. The rods exhibited excellent sensitivity, of 500%, in the presence of 1000 ppm of H 2 while consuming an ultralow level of power ( 2 gas. Hysteresis was noticed in the sensor for different concentrations of H 2 at different temperatures. It can be surmised that this hydrogen gas sensor has potential for use as a portable room-temperature gas sensor.
Cultural Tourism Routes as Incubators for Innovation and Economic Diversification: A Potential Analysis in the Framework of the New Silk Road Initiative in Azerbaijan

Abstract Cultural routes are today a widespread phenomenon throughout the Industrialized Countries (IC) and have become more and more prominent as a tool for tourism development in recent years (Flognfeldt, 2005:37; Meyer, 2004:5). For countries in the Southern Caucasus, who profit from their bridging position between Europe and Asia, the planned revival of the Ancient Silk Road (ASR) in form of the New Silk Road (NSR) offers substantial potentials for economic diversification by means of tourism as a catalyzing industry. On the case of Azerbaijan, this study analyzes the potential to trigger regional economic diversification within the existing national destination-system in a framework of route development. To this end, the methodological approach builds upon a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to diagnose the current degree of cluster maturity in the system, following the question of how Azerbaijan as a system of regional destination can access the transnational route system of the NSR.
In²Lisbon - innovative and inclusive lisbon

""IN²LISBON - Innovative and Inclusive Lisbon"" will investigate whether and how public policies and private investments that announce “innovation” in two neighbourhoods of Lisbon (Beato and Marvila), Portugal, promote or neglect the social inclusion of subaltern groups (women, ethnic minorities and low-income residents) and diversity in this city. These interventions are advertised as vehicles for the establishment of “innovative and creative industries”; for the creation of an “open, entrepreneurial city and a world reference”; and the consolidation of Portugal's status as a “cosmopolitan, open and innovative” country. However, the governance of this urban renewal process can also reproduce privileges and hierarchies, and even reinforce dynamics of urban segregation and inequality within the city. The Beato and Marvila area offers a privileged vantage point for the interests of this investigation, due to the clear articulation between urban renewal operations, on the one hand, and the existence of municipal and national symbolic strategies aimed at repositioning Lisbon and Portugal on the global map. Second, due to the scale and the fast pace that characterize this process in the context of a post-crisis economic recovery phase. Third, due to its timing: since the beginning of the current pandemic, many plans, deadlines and ideas for these projects are being discussed, and IN²LISBON will also be well positioned to contribute to this debate. The researcher will count on the contribution and partnership of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa), with excellent academic resources, namely the stimulating and productive research group Environment, Territory and Society. Based on this unique experience, the researcher intends to assume a more qualified and powerful position to continue his academic career in Brazil.
Stackless Multi-BVH Traversal for CPU, MIC and GPU Ray Tracing

Stackless traversal algorithms for ray tracing acceleration structures require significantly less storage per ray than ordinary stack-based ones. This advantage is important for massively parallel rendering methods, where there are many rays in flight. On SIMD architectures, a commonly used acceleration structure is the MBVH, which has multiple bounding boxes per node for improved parallelism. It scales to branching factors higher than two, for which, however, only stack-based traversal methods have been proposed so far. In this paper, we introduce a novel stackless traversal algorithm for MBVHs with up to four-way branching. Our approach replaces the stack with a small bitmask, supports dynamic ordered traversal, and has a low computation overhead. We also present efficient implementation techniques for recent CPU, MIC Intel Xeon Phi and GPU NVIDIA Kepler architectures.
Fiji's worst natural disaster: the 1931 hurricane and flood

At least 225 people in the Fiji Islands died as a result of the 1931 hurricane and flood, representing the largest loss of life from a natural disaster in Fiji's recent history. This paper explores the causes of disaster and the potential for recurrence. The disaster occurred because a rare event surprised hundreds of people-especially recently settled Indian farmers-occupying highly exposed floodplains in north-west Viti Levu island. The likelihood of a flood disaster of such proportions occurring today has been diminished by changed settlement patterns and building materials; however, a trend towards re-occupancy of floodplains, sometimes in fragile dwellings, is exposing new generations to flood risks. The contribution of this paper to the global hazards literature is set out in three sections: the ethnicity, gender and age of flood fatalities; the naturalness of disasters; and the merit of choice and constraint as explanations for patterns of vulnerability.
Heterologous expression and functional characterization of a novel cellulose-disruptive protein LeEXP2 from Lycopersicum esculentum

There has been little research reported on the synergism of plant expansins in cellulose hydrolysis because of the difficulty of heterologous expression. In this study, the expansin gene LeExp2 of Lycopersicum esculentum was expressed for the first time in Pichia pastoris to identify its function in vitro. The optimal expression level was obtained by adding PMSF and a commercial protease inhibitor, and the maximum expression level was 70.9 mg/L. The affinity-purified LeEXP2 displayed cellulose-weakening activity and synergism with cellulase, and the reducing sugar yield in the reaction mixture with LeEXP2 was 1.4-9.8-fold that of control. The optimum pH and temperature for reducing-sugar liberation by LeEXP2 and endoglucanase were pH 4.8 and 50 °C. Cu(2+) and Fe(2+) notably increased the synergistic activity of LeEXP2, and Co(2+) enhanced the activity of endoglucanase but failed to improve synergism. LeEXP2 exhibited a high level of robustness to reagents and heat, indicating its potential application for cellulose decomposition. LeEXP2 preferentially bound to cellulose over lignin, and the binding capability to given substrates was not related to the crystallinity. This is the first study to characterize the functional role of LeEXP2 in cellulose degradation.