SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Famine in the Young and Risk of Later Hospitalization for COPD and Asthma

Undernutrition during critical periods of growth and development may permanently affect lung physiology and function.To investigate whether acute undernutrition in childhood or young adulthood increases the risk of later hospitalization for obstructive airways disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or asthma.We studied 7,841 women from Prospect-EPIC who experienced the 1944-45 Dutch famine between ages 0 and 21. Pulmonary outcomes were measured by registered hospital admissions and exposure-blinded computed tomography (CT) in a subgroup of 295 women. With Cox proportional hazard regression we explored effects of famine exposure on risk of hospitalization for obstructive airways disease, COPD, and asthma. With logistic regression we explored effects of famine on risk of CT evidence of pulmonary disease.Risks of hospitalization for obstructive airways disease, copd, and asthma were increased after moderate famine exposure, and significantly increased after severe famine exposure: hazard ratios for obstructive airways disease were 1.31 (95% CI: 0.97 to 1.77) and 1.57 (95% CI: 1.10 to 2.23) respectively. Associations between famine exposure and hospitalization for COPD were stronger in ever-smokers than in never-smokers.Acute undernutrition in childhood or young adulthood is associated with an increased risk of later COPD and asthma hospitalization, possibly through increased sensitivity for tobacco smoke.
PROCEDE DE FABRICATION DE FILAMENTS, FIBRES ET FEUILLES PAR LE PROCEDE A LA VISCOSE

<P>Procédé de fabrication de filaments, fibres et feuilles en cellulose régénérée par le procédé à la viscose. </P><P>Il est caractérisé en ce que l'on élimine de l'alcalicellulose les ions de métaux lourds ayant une action catalytique en ajoutant un ou plusieurs agents complexants efficaces dans les conditions de l'alcalinisation, et on effectue le mûrissement et la sulfuration de l'alcalicellulose substantiellement en l'absence de tels ions. </P><P>La courbe donne le pourcentage de cellulose à bas poids moléculaire non filable, formée par dégradation au cours du mûrissement de l'alcalicellulose en fonction de la teneur en fer.</P>
Window frame member or rigid plastics material

A window frame member formed as a hollow extrusion of rigid plastics material has a hollow space partly defined by a wall portion including two opposed, undercut lips and a web interconnecting the lips. Internal grooves are provided along the junctions of the web with the lips to provide lines of severance allowing the web to be readily removed so as to provide a slot between the edges of the lips. Preferably, the web and adjoining parts of the lips have a smooth, uninterrupted exterior surface. This invention allows the frame member to be used either with the web in place, in which case there is no slot or observable discontinuity in the exterior wall, or with the web removed where it is desired to provide a slot for weather stripping or attachment of adjacent pieces. The web may be readily removed with simple tools.
FORMING FABRIC WOVEN WITH WARP TRIPLETS

A forming fabric having a paper side layer and a machine side layer comprises at least two systems of weft yarns and a single set of warp yarn triplets. In the fabric weave pattern, each member of each triplet set of warp yarns interweaves with the paper side weft yarns to occupy in sequence segments of an unroken warp path in the paper side surface, and the members of each triplet interlace in pairs with single machine side layer weft yarns. Each segment in the unbroken warp path is separated by at least one paper side layer weft yarn. The machine side layer interlacing points can be regularly or irregularly spaced. After heat setting, the fabrics typically have a warp fill from boutt 105 % to about 140 %, an open area of at least 35 % in the paper side surface, and an air permeability typically from about 3,500 to about 8,200 m<3>/m<2>/hr. Paper products made using these fabrics have enhanced printability.
Behavioral and Community Correlates of Adolescent Pregnancy and Chlamydia Rates in Rural Counties in Minnesota

Identifying co-occurring community risk factors, specific to rural communities, may suggest new strategies and partnerships for addressing sexual health issues among rural youth. We conducted an ecological analysis to identify the county-level correlates of pregnancy and chlamydia rates among adolescents in rural (nonmetropolitan) counties in Minnesota. Pregnancy and chlamydia infection rates among 15-19 year-old females were compared across Minnesota's 87 counties, stratified by rural/urban designations. Regression models for rural counties (n = 66) in Minnesota were developed based on publicly available, county-level information on behaviors and risk exposures to identify associations with teen pregnancy and chlamydia rates in rural settings. Adolescent pregnancy rates were higher in rural counties than in urban counties. Among rural counties, factors independently associated with elevated county-level rates of teen pregnancy included inconsistent contraceptive use by 12th-grade males, fewer 12th graders reporting feeling safe in their neighborhoods, more 9th graders reporting feeling overweight, fewer 12th graders reporting 30 min of physical activity daily, high county rates of single parenthood, and higher age-adjusted mortality (P < .05 for all associations). Factors associated with higher county level rates of chlamydia among rural counties were inconsistent condom use reported by 12th-grade males, more 12th graders reporting feeling overweight, and more 12th graders skipping school in the past month because they felt unsafe. This ecologic analysis suggests that programmatic approaches focusing on behavior change among male adolescents, self-esteem, and community health and safety may be complementary to interventions addressing teen sexual health in rural areas; such approaches warrant further study.
MEMBRANE AND MEMBRANE SEPARATION SYSTEM

Described herein is a method for altering the characteristics of a membrane comprising a dielectric material. The method comprises heating the membrane and applying an electric field in a direction out of the plane of the membrane to at least a portion of the dielectric material. At least a portion of the dielectric material becomes aligned with the applied electric field. In some embodiments, the membrane is piezoelectric and application of an electric signal to the membrane causes out of plane movement of the membrane. Also disclosed are membranes and systems and apparatuses comprising such membranes.
The integrated initiative of european laser research infrastructures

LASERLAB-EUROPE is the European consortium of major national laser research infrastructures, covering advanced laser science and applications in most domains of research and technology, with particular emphasis on areas with high industrial and social impact, such as bio- and nanophotonics, material analyses, biology and medicine. 
Recently the field of advanced lasers has experienced remarkable advances and breakthroughs in laser technologies and novel applications. Laser technology is a key innovation driver for highly varied applications and products in many areas of modern society, thereby substantially contributing to economic growth. Through its strategic approach, LASERLAB-EUROPE aims to strengthen Europe’s leading position and competitiveness in this key area. It facilitates the coordination of laser research activities within the European Research Area by integrating major facilities in most European member states with a long-term perspective and providing concerted and efficient services to researchers in science and industry.
The main objectives of LASERLAB-EUROPE are to:
•	promote, in a coordinated way and on a European scale, the use of advanced lasers and laser-based technologies for research and innovation, 
•	serve a cross-disciplinary user community, from academia as well as from industry, by providing access to a comprehensive set of advanced key laser research installations,
•	increase the European basis of human resources in the field of lasers by training new users, including users in new domains of science and technology and from geographical regions of Europe where laser user communities are still less developed,  
•	improve human and technical resources through technology exchange and sharing of expertise among laser experts and operators across Europe, and through coordinated Joint Research Activities enabling world-class research, innovations and applications beyond the present state-of-the-art.
NEURON TARGETING PEPTIDES

A neuron targeting peptide includes about 5 to about 30 amino acids and an amino acid sequence that preferentially binds to isolated G<SUB>T1b</SUB>
PAGUS - Programme d'Assistance et Gestion Urbaine Soutenable

The programme aims to support sustainable renovation of urban historic centres through integrated actions including the redefinition of real estate heritage, both residential and nonresidential, actions for public spaces, actions to improve mobility for people and goods, and advanced services. The project will be organised around three main areas: urban renovation, physical accessibility, and urban information systems.These three areas have been selected on the basis of experience obtained in the context of the FINESTRA project which formed part of the RECITE II programme. Overall objective / Objectif général The overall objective is to promote the sustainable development of small and medium-sized historic towns in Europe through integrated actions in the field of urban redefinition, improvement of physical accessibility for people and goods and accessibility via computer technology to services and information as well as urban planning and management. This objective involves safeguarding the specific features of historic centres which, however varied, constitute a representative element of European life, based not only on residential functions but also on aspects of production and trade, social and cultural exchanges and political links. Expected results / Résultats attendus The final beneficiaries will be citizens.Whether or not they live in historic centres, they will benefit from integrated development not only in the field of real estate renovation, mobility and access to services, but also in improved quality of life over time through programming actions and the management of urban centres. The strategies considered aim to return to historic centers their role as agents for social cohesion, keeping or bringing back residents and compatible activities by offering quality standards that are similar to those of the suburbs and creating conditions for the use of new information technologies. Constant interaction among the authorities responsible for the planning and management of historic centres will facilitate the control, monitoring and evaluation of the various actions taken.
Selbstlernendes Community-Managementsystem

Im Rahmen des Vorhabens soll eine App-Anwendung entwickelt w erden, die den Nutzern die Wahrnehmung sozialer Kontakte und die Planung gemeinsamer Aktivitäten ermöglicht.
Delivering better starting points for drug discovery: new compound libraries driven by intelligent design

Whilst the need to generate new therapeutics has never been more important, drug discovery is at the same time becoming much more difficult. In short, we need to be more efficient at developing drugs. One way of achieving this is to reduce the attrition rates, which currently blight the drug-discovery process, by populating compound screening libraries with more structurally diverse and higher quality, i.e. designed, molecules to provide better starting points for drug development. Pharma also needs a new type of researcher given an increasing proportion of scientists are now finding employment in smaller companies, where they need to be more flexible, entrepreneurial and business-aware. iDESIGN seeks to address these key challenges by combining the complementary expertise from both academic and industrial sectors. iDESIGN has the following Principal Objectives: 1) to use the ESRs' individual research projects to develop new, structurally diverse, 'smart' compound libraries for the sector to use in hit-identification screening campaigns; 2) to provide a training programme which will see the ESRs becoming expert synthetic and medicinal chemists, confident research scientists, consummate professionals, effective communicators and innovators with a creative and entrepreneurial spirit. iDESIGN will begin with an academic training phase, during which the ESRs will undertake project-wide training whilst acquiring the synthesis skills to generate bespoke molecular scaffolds, which they will elaborate and validate using in silico and experimental methods. The ESRs will then transfer to one of the industrial partners to take full advantage of their Industrial Supervisors' expertise and the available instrumentation to complete the library-generation aspect of their research projects. All 6 ESRs will return to Birmingham for their final 2 months to allow their Academic Supervisors to oversee directly the final stages of their PhD thesis preparation.
Attosecond physics, free electron quantum optics, photon generation and radiation biology with the accelerator on a photonic chip

Resting on our demonstration of laser-driven nanophotonics-based particle acceleration, we propose to build a miniature particle accelerator on a photonic chip, comprising high gradient acceleration and fully optical field-based electron control. The resulting electron beam has outstanding space-time properties: It is bunched on sub-femtosecond timescales, is nanometres wide and coherent. We aim at utilizing this new form of all-optical free electron control in a broad research program with five exciting objectives: 
(1) Build a 5 MeV accelerator on a photonic chip in a shoebox-sized vessel,
(2) Perform ultrafast diffraction with attosecond and even zeptosecond electron pulses,
(3) Generate photons on chip at various wavelengths (IR to x-ray), 
(4) Couple quantum-coherently electron wavepackets and light in multiple interaction zones, and
(5) Conduct radiobiological experiments, akin to the new FLASH radiotherapy and Microbeam cell treat-ment.

AccelOnChip will enable five science objectives potentially shifting the horizons of today’s knowledge and capabilities around ultrafast electron imaging, photon generation, (quantum) electron-light coupling, and radiotherapy dramatically. Moreover, AccelOnChip promises to democratize accelerators: the accelerator on a chip will be based on inexpensive nanofabrication technology. We foresee that every university lab can have access to particle and light sources, today only accessible at large facilities. Last, AccelOnChip will take decisive steps towards an ultracompact electron beam radiation device to be put into the tip of a catheter, a potentially disruptive radiation therapy device facilitating new treatment forms. AccelOnChip is a cross-disciplinary high risk/high return project combining and benefiting nanophotonics, accelerator science, ultra-fast physics, materials science, coherent light-matter coupling, light generation, and radiology - and is based on my group’s unique expertise acquired in recent years.
An Algorithm for the Detection and Tracking of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems Using Infrared Images From Geostationary Satellite

This paper focuses on the tracking of mesoscale convective systems (MCS) from geostationary satellite infrared data in the tropical regions. In the past, several automatic tracking algorithms have been elaborated to tackle this problem. However, these techniques suffer from limitations in describing convection at the “true” scale and in depicting coherent MCS life cycles (split and merge artifacts). To overcome these issues, a new algorithm called Tracking Of Organized Convection Algorithm through a 3-D segmentatioN has been developed and is presented in this paper. This method operates in a time sequence of infrared images to identify and track MCS and is based on an iterative process of 3-D segmentation of the volume of infrared images. The objective of the new tracking algorithm is to associate the convective core of an MCS to its anvil cloud in the spatiotemporal domain. The technique is applied on various case studies over West Africa, Bay of Bengal, and South America. The efficiency of the new algorithm is established from an analysis of the case studies and via a statistical analysis showing that the cold cloud shield defined by a 235-K threshold in the spatiotemporal domain is decomposed into realistic MCSs. In comparison with an overlap-based tracking algorithm, the analysis reveals that MCSs are detected earlier in life cycle and later in their dissipation stages. Moreover, MCSs identified are not anymore affected by split and merge events along their life cycles, allowing a better characterization of their morphological parameters along their life cycles.
L’Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem en moyenne montagne. Approche comparée des implantations en Haute-Provence et dans le Massif central (XIIe-XIVe siècle)

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Establishing a global observational view of the early stages of planet formation and evolution

Recent observing campaigns have revealed a great diversity in exoplanetary systems whose origin is yet to be understood. How and when planets form, and how they evolve and interact with their birth environment, the protoplanetary disks, are major open questions. Protoplanetary disks evolve and dissipate rapidly while planets are forming, implying a direct feedback between the processes of planet formation and disk evolution. Observing protoplanets still in the early stages of formation and studying their imprints on the disk structure is therefore crucial.

PROTOPLANETS aims to establish a global observational picture of the early stages of planetary systems formation and evolution. My team and I will analyze cutting-edge observations on a large sample of protoplanetary disks, calibrated with novel data processing technics and modelled in the light of state-of-the-art simulations, to:
(1) search for giant protoplanets still embedded in disks;
(2) study the imprints of planet-disk interactions and their dependence on stellar/disk properties;
(3) reveal the impact of planets on the disk structure and dust evolution;
(4) determine the conditions for terrestrial planet formation in the inner disk regions.

The overall ambition of PROTOPLANETS is to understand the diversity of exoplanetary systems by linking the properties of protoplanets with those of the inner and outer disk regions. 

The project builds on a novel methodology to detect giant protoplanets and at the same time, characterize the birth environment shaped by those planets. As demonstrated by our recent discovery of the first protoplanet imaged in a disk, the direct detection and characterization of protoplanets will be a major breakthrough, enabling probing of processes of planet formation that could only be addressed theoretically before. The properties of such forming planets, constrained by the proposed research, will offer key insights into the timescales, location and processes of planet formation.
Autoscan – rail inspection by autonomous systems

There are 215,720km of rail track in Europe, of which 4,300 broken rails are found every year. Broken tracks are the biggest cause of derailments, leading to loss of life and major disruption to services. Maintenance costs for member states of repairing broken rails are around €2bn every year. With the rapid increase in train traffic, train speeds and load carried, there is an urgent need to optimise the maintenance regime and increase reliability of rail infrastructure. Overall integrity and safety maintenance costs in the UK alone are more than €2,276m in 2014, with 20-40% of that spent on tracks (€455m - €910m).

AutoScan system(TRL6); an autonomous robotic evaluation system that performs rapid NDT inspection of track, accurately detecting defects, their position and size so that accurate assessment and scheduling of repair work can be made by the network operator.  
Current methods or rail track inspection 

AUTOSCAN will enable more frequent inspections of rail track which will significantly reduce lifecycle costs by enabling more efficient flaw detection and intervention. Operators will not need personnel to walk the track side, therefore improving safety. Overall inspection costs will reduce by at least 15% and probably significantly more

The aim of this project is to enhance the current prototype from TRL 6 to TRL 9 and develop a system proven in an operational environment suitable for commercial exploitation.

AutoScan will enable us to become more competitive within our major target market – Rail network operators and rail maintenance companies. With project development costs of €1,822,055 partly funded by company revenues, we aim to achieve a 2.3% European market penetration, with estimate sales revenues of €41M over the 5 years, with profits of €34.7M, providing an ROI of 1444%. We also anticipate creating over 50 jobs as a result of project AutoScan
FLUIDS DETECTION SENSOR AND RAIL, IN PARTICULAR FOR AUTOMOTIVE FUELS

The invention relates to a sensor for detecting the properties of the fuel of an internal combustion engine. The sensor comprises at least one pair of internal electrodes (12, 13) extending in an axial direction relative lo a further or third external electrode (14) which surrounds them. The invention also relates lo a fuel rail (2) to which the sensor may be mounted, and a method for detecting the properties of the fluid.
PLANNER — NATURAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN URBANISED ENVIRONMENTS

THE PROJECT ENVISAGES THE PROTOTYPING OF A SW PLATFORM (SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM SISS) BASED ON WEB-GIS TECHNOLOGY, WHICH, STARTING FROM THE POPULATION OF A STRUCTURED BASE DATE SUCH AS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AREA (MORPHOLOGY, GEOLOGY, ETC.) OF THE BUILT HERITAGE (CONSTRUCTION TYPES, BUILDING PERIODS, STATE OF MAINTENANCE). THE PROJECT IDEA IS TO SET UP A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL TO MAP OUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS (HAZARD, HYDRO-GEOLOGICAL CHANGES) ÃŠ TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF INTEROPERABLE TOOLS, TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSOCIATED WORKING METHODS TO SUPPORT URBAN PLANNERS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS IN EARLY EVALUATION, MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION, THROUGH RESILIENCE BUILDING MEASURES.
Grasping soft tissue by means of vacuum technique

A notable characteristic of bariatric surgery is the frequent manipulation of the bowel. The bowel is large, delicate, flexible, and has a natural lubricant on the tissue surface. Therefore the bowel is difficult to grasp and manipulate. Vacuum technique is commonly used in industry for all types of grasping and manipulation. Two types of nozzles that differed slightly in geometry (NT1 and NT2), were reviewed in an experimental set up for pull tests on pig bowels.An experimental set-up was used to conduct a series of pull tests on pig bowel tissue. The basic principle of the measurements was a Newton's force balance; F(Pmax)=Δp×A. Student t-tests, two-way ANOVA and Wilcoxon signed rank tests were conducted for the statistical analysis of NT1 and NT2 with regard to the maximum pull force (F(Pmax)).Concerning NT1 the Newton's force balance could not be confirmed. Concerning NT2 the Newton's force balance could partly be confirmed. For both nozzle types the effect of Δp on F(Pmax) was significant. F(Pmax) increases linear in proportion as Δp increases. This relation between F(Pmax) and Δp was confirmed by the Newton's force balance.The results confirm that vacuum technique can be used as a grasp technique for soft organs, particularly the bowels. By means of a clever design of the nozzle a firm grip can be obtained on the bowel segments. Therefore vacuum technique should be studied for further development of instruments, graspers and retractors, to be used in the abdominal area.