SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
An Empirical Study of the Fisher Effect and the Dynamic Relationship between Inflation and Interest Rate in Sri Lanka

Maintaining price stability is one of the primary objectives of monetary policy in any economy as price instability, particularly high inflation, will cause to reduce economic growth by reducing investments and productivity growth. Therefore, investigating the existence of Fisher Effect and Price Puzzle is a necessary requirement in order to understand the nature, extent and dynamics of effective monetary policies in Sri Lanka. The main objective of this study is to investigate the existence of short run and long run Fisher Effect and Price Puzzle in Sri Lanka. The results from co-integration technique, Error Correction Model (ECM) which employed in the study suggest that in Sri Lanka, nominal interest rates fully adjust for expected inflation in long-run. But in short-run, a significant positive association between nominal interest rates and expected inflation is there with absence of full Fisher Effect. Moreover the analysis has been extended and identified the existence of the Price Puzzle both in a short run and long run. Therefore, changes in monetary instruments do not appear to be completely effective in meeting the goal of low inflation. In order to solve this problem what we can recommend is, Sri Lanka should move towards inflation-targeting monetary policy system.
Smart SpecialiSation UNIvercity CAmpus

Smart specialization strategies have been used to build more effective innovation policies and support interregional cooperation. The Smart Specialization University Campus project aims at emphasizing the role of Universities in regional innovation policies, by providing specialist research and technical expertise in the field of energy sustainable buildings and by offering campuses as an hands-on lab where to implement these innovative solutions. Universities involved in the project can contribute to regional knowledge exchange and its translation into innovative energy products, solutions and public/private services.
The S3UNICA project is the natural follow up of the Pilot Project ”Smart Campus” selected by DG REGIO under the call for expression of interest for “Thematic Partnerships to pilot interregional innovation projects”, within the S3 Partnership on “Sustainable Buildings”.

The main goal of the project is to capitalize the experience of "Smart Campus" project to improve the energy efficiency of University Campus buildings and infrastructures, promoting the symbiosis with regional territory and the development of innovative solutions throughout the value chain associated to energy saving and smart grid developments: a common methodology will be defined, using the new Energy Performance of Buildings directive and its Smart Readiness Indicator.

Being S3 an ex-ante conditionality to access Cohesion Policy funds, this project will contribute to the foreseen “entrepreneurial discovery” process to influence regional policy, starting from University achievements and involving all the quadruple helix actors: S3UNICA can count on the involvement S3P Partnership on Sustainable Buildings, which currently includes 45 public administrations and the participation of different stakeholders from the industrial sector and civil society.
DIRECTIONAL DRILLING SYSTEM

A drilling assembly comprises an outer housing, a drive shaft, an articulated steering shaft assembly, a drill bit at end of steering shaft assembly and an eccentric fulcrum support though which the steering shaft assembly passes. The fulcrum support centre being offset from the centre axis of the drill string and is able to be rotated about drill string axis to change the direction of the drill bit. A key and keyway being disposed between the eccentric fulcrum support and the outer housing, so that the joint can be rotationally positioned by axial movement along the drill string axis.
Floating offshore wind support platform and assembly solution

Project FLOWSPA (Floating Offshore Wind Support Platform Assembly) will demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative floating offshore wind foundation structure “Starfloat” that combines “spar” technology with “semi-submersible” technology to provide a compact and cost effective low motion platform for supporting large capacity wind turbines at deep-water offshore wind farm sites. Energy analysts have predicted that, if a viable and cost effective technology can be delivered, the deep-water offshore wind market in Europe could meet 50% of Europe’s electricity requirement by 2050. Unlike competitor technologies the simple scalable ""Starfloat"" is designed for construction at existing shipbuilding facilities with restricted water depth thus opening up construction opportunities for European shipyards that are currently in decline. The innovative floating foundation design and assembly process takes significant cost out of the CAPEX of deep water floating offshore wind projects and removes the need for risky offshore marine operations. ""Starfloat"" therefore has the potential to be disruptive to the current perceived limitations of the offshore wind industry by bring floating offshore wind into the same levelised cost of energy (LCOE) as fixed foundation offshore wind. This will allow the project financing of deeper water wind farm sites, where the wind resource is stronger and more reliable, to be exploited using relatively low risk technology with the end result of reducing carbon emissions and reduced dependency for Europe on imported fuels. It also has the benefit of bringing steel fabrication work to declining shipyards and assembly work to deep-water offshore construction sites that are currently seeing a sharp decline in activity with the fall in the oil price and the collapse of the new shipbuilding market.
Development and characterisation of soluble polymeric particles for pulmonary peptide delivery

Pulmonary administration of protein and peptide drugs using inhaled dry powder particles is an interesting alternative to parenteral delivery. The stabilisation of these molecules is essential to the maintenance of biological activity in such inhalation formulations. Here salmon calcitonin (sCT) was co-spray dried with linear or branched PEG (L-PEG and B-PEG) and PVP in order to formulate aerosolisable particles of the bioactive peptide. Co-spray drying L-PEG and PVP resulted in porous particles, with minimal D(50) (median volume diameter) and MMAD (mass median aerodynamic diameter) values obtained for a PEG/PVP w/w ratio of 1. For particles based on both L-PEG and B-PEG, an increase in acetone, a poor solvent for the PVP, up to 70wt% of the spray dried solution led to a decrease in D(50) and MMAD. Crystallinity of PEG in the particles ranged between 90 and 97% when the PVP content varied between 15 and 70wt%, indicating a low degree of interaction between PVP and PEG. Additionally, dynamic vapour sorption analysis showed that an increase in PVP content increased the particle surface hygroscopicity. Hence, particle properties were adjusted by altering the water/acetone and PEG/PVP ratio in the spray dried solutions. PVP present at the particles surface protects them from melting during the spray drying process but also increases their hygroscopicity, adversely affecting their aerodynamic properties. Targeting a 5wt% of sCT loading resulted in a loading efficiency of 77.9 and 83.6% with L-PEG and B-PEG-based particles, respectively. Loading of sCT in L-PEG or B-PEG-based particles modified particle roughness and D(50), leading to an increase in MMAD of the L-PEG-based particles. However, particles were still considered to be suitable for aerosolisation as their FPFs (fine particle fractions) were higher than 30%. These particles formulated with PVP and PEG allowed sCT biological activity to be maintained when evaluated by measuring cAMP production by T47D cells.
SISTEMA MOVIL PARA CONTROL Y MONITOREO DE UN INVERNADERO EN LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS.

The technology is in a constant evolution which involves the human being, be it at home, studies and at work, practically everything we do or do in daily life is technology, without the help of it we could not perform anything. The lack of knowledge and the need for people to put in place a control system for a greenhouse would help with crop crops of short cycles.
When the Technical University of Babahoyo was founded, it began to operate with 3 buildings, where nowadays it is a headquarters, for that purpose it had built the Provincial Council of Los Rios, including more or less 6 hectares of land for research and field practices. the students of agronomy. In 1981, the of Agronomy and Veterinary changed its name to Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, identifying itself with the abbreviation FACIAG. Later in the year 1998 and keeping the same abbreviations, changed the name to Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.
In the of Agricultural Sciences of the Technical University of Babahoyo, there is a serious problem that is taking place in the greenhouse that can put at risk the crops of short cycle and the practices of the students who make them in the greenhouse of the faculty, this due to the misuse of the technology that is being implemented and can not benefit this area, in fact, there is an implementation of the technology but it is not suitable for the short cycle crops that are held in said faculty greenhouse. These crops play a very important role for students because they are the academic practices that are carried out in the institution.
Long-Term Fire Trends in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from Sedimentary Charcoal: A Comparison of Three Records

Charcoal preserved in lake sediments is commonly used to reconstruct past trends in fire occurrence. However, interpretation of the charcoal record is often complicated, as changes in charcoal influx could represent natural shifts in fire regimes associated with changes in climate, changes in vegetation, or changes in patterns of anthropogenic burning. Here we examine sedimentary charcoal records from three lakes on the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico: Laguna Saladilla in the Dominican Republic, Lake Miragoane in Haiti, and Laguna Tortuguero in Puerto Rico. All records are based on microscopic charcoal fragments quantified from pollen slides and cover the last 7,000 or more years of the Holocene. We compare charcoal influx values to archeological and palynological evidence of human activity and explore the role of increasing winter insolation over the Holocene in driving increased charcoal deposition beginning ca. 6,000–5,000 cal yr BP. An increase in charcoal influx at Laguna Tortuguero a...
Nano diamond powder additive for cosmetics

Appsilon Diamond Works proposes a new and innovative material for the cosmetics industry, the Nano Diamond powder “DiaCosm”, with surface modified Nano Diamond particles in order to provide greater
anti-aging effects, deeper penetration, healthier experience and added value.
As the current generation target the premium and effective products in the ever growing cosmetics market, a product that is
able to provide excellence and effectiveness at the same time is needed. This is where the diamond shines.
Appsilon excels in lab-grown diamond synthesis and infused its profession into cosmetics additives, thus created DiaCosm.
DiaCosm nano diamond powder additive will provide penetration via high surface energy and low particle sizes, thanks to
our novel methods of surface modification, pre and post treatments.
But our nano diamond powder is purified of heavy metals and other impurities unlike standart powders in the market,
therefore will provide a healthy experience. Once purified, diamond is inherently biocompatible. Our nano diamond is treated
to have nano size particle sizes, to be able to penetrate the skin, the first requirement of cosmetic additives in term of
performance. It is also surface modified to alter the surface energy, to carry and transport the actives in the cosmetics, to
provide a better performance. Our production also involves recycling jewelry cuts from rough diamond we produce, therefore
our raw material supply line is in the company and completely environmental.
There are already a few diamond powder users in the cosmetics market, but there are certain problems with those. Appsilon
identified the market, the customer, the bussiness model, developed a product that satisfies the need of the bussiness and
therefore proposes the DiaCosm to the European Community.
Wavelet Shrinkage on Paths for Denoising of Scattered Data

We propose a new algorithm for denoising of multivariate function values given at scattered points in \({\mathbb{R}^{d}}\) . The method is based on the one-dimensional wavelet transform that is applied along suitably chosen path vectors at each transform level. The idea can be seen as a generalization of the relaxed easy path wavelet transform by Plonka (Multiscale Model Simul 7:1474–1496, 2009) to the case of multivariate scattered data. The choice of the path vectors is crucial for the success of the algorithm. We propose two adaptive path constructions that take the distribution of the scattered points as well as the corresponding function values into account. Further, we present some theoretical results on the wavelet transform along path vectors in order to indicate that the wavelet shrinkage along path vectors can really remove noise. The numerical results show the efficiency of the proposed denoising method.
Re-collection: art, new media, and social memory

How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audio and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art links to websites that no longer exist; Amiga software doesn't run on iMacs. In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media, distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion. Rinehart and Ippolito, both museum professionals, examine the preservation of new media art from both practical and theoretical perspectives, offering concrete examples that range from Nam June Paik to Danger Mouse. They investigate three threats to twenty-first-century creativity: technology, because much new media art depends on rapidly changing software or hardware; institutions, which may rely on preservation methods developed for older mediums; and law, which complicates access with intellectual property constraints such as copyright and licensing. Technology, institutions, and law, however, can be enlisted as allies rather than enemies of ephemeral artifacts and their preservation. The variable media approach that Rinehart and Ippolito propose asks to what extent works to be preserved might be medium-independent, translatable into new mediums when their original formats are obsolete.
On the Modulus Consensus of Multi-agent Systems with Double-Integrator Kinematics in Three-Dimensional Space under Linear Control

In this paper, we consider a group of double integrator systems in three dimensional space and study the modulus consensus problem problem with desired orientation. To solve this problem, we propose a distributed linear protocol with rotation matrices representing desired orientation. Then, the multi-agent system can be described as a linear system, whose system matrix contains the information of the interconnection topology and the orientation configuration. By exploring some special properties of the system matrix, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition under which the proposed linear protocol can achieve the modulus consensus. Specially, the modulus consensus under such linear protocol only depend on the initial velocity of each agent. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed approaches.
Music without borders

This project, resulting from the intercultural cooperation of the Slovenian Minority in Italy and the Italian Minority in Slovenia, targets the field of the conservation and promotion of the musical heritage as well as the professional training of musicians residing in the cross-border area. The project aims primarily at the creation of a Documentation Centre for the filing, preservation, study and promotion of music across Friuli Venezia Giulia - and, particularly, Trieste - and the Republic of Slovenia. The Centre is hosted by Glasbena Matica, that for over almost a century has been directly involved in the musical life of the area and is the repository of a significant wealth of documentary evidence. The training programme, defined in cooperation with Zveza Primorskih Glasbenih Šol, aims at creating opportunities to showcase young talents from the border area, by allowing them to attend courses with a high artistic content and enabling them to participate in a cross-border cooperation framework, within an area that is more and more integrated. Specifically, the project aims at creating a cross-border accordion orchestra and the organisation of a Masterclass, i.e. a specialisation course for classic guitar. The closing event is the concert of the symphony orchestra of the students of the Union of Musical Schools of the Italian and Slovenian Coastline, with a double performance first intended for schooling institutions and then for the “public at large”.
Entwurf und Erprobung eines Prototyps eines Stromgenerators im Trainingspool für „Company Mazur“ Sp. z o.o. Sp. Kommandant-in-law

Number_reference_aid_Programm: SA.42799(2015/X), aid_de_minimis: § 42 der Verordnung des Ministers für Infrastruktur und Entwicklung vom 10. Juli 2015 über die Gewährung von Finanzhilfen durch die polnische Agentur für Unternehmensentwicklung im Rahmen des operationellen Programms „Intelligentes Wachstum“ 2014-2020 Gegenstand des Projekts ist die Durchführung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeiten an der Entwicklung eines neuen Produkts – eines innovativen Systems zur Erzeugung eines Hochleistungstrends und Eigenschaften, die den natürlichen Bedingungen des Schwimmens am Ort maximal ähnlich sind. Die Forschungsarbeiten werden vor der wissenschaftlichen Einheit durchgeführt, die während des Ausschreibungsverfahrens ausgewählt wurde – Akademie der Technischen und Geisteswissenschaften, Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik in Bielsko-Biała. Ziel des geschaffenen Systems ist es, Parameter zu erhalten, die dem Schwimmen unter normalen Bedingungen ähnlich sind, unter der Annahme einer variablen Stromintensität, die sich an die Bedürfnisse des Trainers anpasst.
Primary Industry Input-output Efficiency of Yangtze Delta Area Based on DEA

The overall efficiency,technical efficiency and scale efficiency of the primary industry were analyzed by DEA model based on the input-output statistics data of the primary industry of 16 cities in Yangtze Delta Area in 2010 from the input angle and the problems of non-DEA effective unit were analyzed from input redundancy and output deficiency angles in the light of projection analysis results of non-DEA effective unit to provide a reference for improving the efficiency of the primary industry and GDP growth in Yangtze Delta Area.The results showed that 9 cities of Shanghai,Suzhou,Wuxi,Nantong,Hangzhou,NingboHuzhou,Zhoushan and Taizhou were in the DEA effective state but 7 cities of Yangzhou,Jiaxing,shaoxing,Changzhou,Taizhou,Nanjing and Zhenjiang were in the non-DEA effective state.The reasons to affect the overall efficiency of 7 cities were invalid scale efficiency and invalid technical efficiency.Shaoxing was in the progressive increase state of scale efficiency with input redundancy and without insufficient output.Zhenjiang was in the state of input redundancy amount and insufficient output amount.Nanjing,Changzhou,Yangzhou,Taizhou and Jiaxing were in the state of input redundancy and insufficient output but 2 cities of Nanjiang and Changzhou were in the progressive increase state of scale efficiency,and 3 cities of Yangzhou,Taizhou and Jiangxing were in the progressive decrease state of scale efficiency.
The Involvement of Civil Society Organizations in British Industrial Relations: Extent, Origins and Significance

This article examines the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs) in UK industrial relations. Organizations of this type, including advocacy, campaigning, identity and community organizations have attracted increasing attention from employment relations scholars in recent years. The study reported in this article demonstrates that CSOs have become increasingly active in the sphere of work and employment, partly in response to trade union decline but also owing to political opportunities, afforded by the labour market policy of the New Labour government. It is claimed that CSOs operate at multiple levels of the industrial relations system and interact with the state, employers and trade unions. They generate significant effects within UK industrial relations and can rightly be judged significant ‘new actors’ on the UK employment scene.
Home delivery and its outcomes in India

In 1986, World Health Organization (WHO) suggested the home as a suitable place for delivery process of pregnant women. Home delivery (HD) has been considered less or not at all in developing countries. Based on official reports the rate of HD in Iran 2000 was 5.2% for urban areas. This study reports the reasons and outcomes of HD in 750 pregnant women of Koohdasht-Iran. All the women who resided in Koohdasht and had experienced HD during the study period were enrolled. The data were gathered through a questionnaire that filled in by the researcher while interviewing these women or their relatives. Seven hundred and fifty cases of HD were detected during the study period. The mean age of women was 28 Â± 0.7 years. Financial problems, personal willingness, and pervious history of HD were the most common reasons for HD. The majority of unpleasant outcomes of HD were precocious bleeding after HD, looseness of womb, and precocious rapture of sack which occurred in cases who were conducted by a local uneducated midwife and among the mothers who had their first delivery. Screening and selection of the pregnant women at low risk for HD can reduce the unpleasant outcomes. It is suggested to arrange some training program about HD for uneducated lay midwives and to the family planning units to emphasize the training mothers about the delivery process. Relevance to clinical practice: HD can be noted as an alternative choice for pregnant women. Key words: Home delivery, home birth, out of hospital birth, India, Koohdasht.