SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Pareto analysis of critical factors affecting technical institution evaluation

Article history: Received December 20, 2011 Received in Revised form March, 25, 2012 Accepted 23 April 2012 Available online April 27 2012 With the change of education policy in 1991, more and more technical institutions are being set up in India. Some of these institutions provide quality education, but others are merely concentrating on quantity. These stakeholders are in a state of confusion about decision to select the best institute for their higher educational studies. Although various agencies including print media provide ranking of these institutions every year, but their results are controversial and biased. In this paper, the authors have made an endeavor to find the critical factors for technical institution evaluation from literature survey. A Pareto analysis has also been performed to find the intensity of these critical factors in evaluation. This will not only help the stake holders in taking right decisions but will also help the management of institutions in benchmarking for identifying the most important critical areas to improve the existing system. This will in turn help Indian economy. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
La carta perdida de Asparros (Logroño, 8 de junio de 1521)

El objetivo de este artículo es dar a conocer el contenido de una nueva fuente documental para el estudio de la segunda mitad de la Expedición Franco-Navarra de 1521. Se trata de una carta hasta ahora perdida de André de Foix, señor de Asparros, general en jefe de la campaña, a su soberano, Francisco I, escrita en Logroño el 8 de junio de 1521 y conservada en la Biblioteca Británica. Su lectura aporta información novedosa sobre las circunstancias que envolvieron el ataque a la capital riojana y sus consecuencias en las semanas siguientes, las previas a la batalla de Noáin, que frustró definitivamente el intento.
Nitrification Inhibition Potential of Brachiaria humidicola

An incubation experiment was conducted to determine the nitrification inhibition potential of Brachiaria humidicola (B. humidicola) and their effect on nitrification process. The pots soil was mixed 2 mg of nitrogen through ammonium sulphate. Seven treatments were evaluated viz. control, four root extracts of B. humidicola called as biological nitrification inhibitors (BNIs) (i.e., 70 % ethyl alcohol, 40 % ethyl alcohol, phosphate buffer solution and 2 M KCl salt solution extracts) and two standard chemical inhibitors i.e. dicyandiamide and neem oil coating. The amount of NH4
 +-N was reduced 20.66–11.91 μg g−1 soil and NO3
 −-N increased 28.89–31.18 μg g−1 soil from 14th to 22nd day time interval. Percent nitrification inhibition was more in BNIs (70 and 40 % alcohol extract) treated soils compared to plant based and synthetic nitrification inhibitors. The nitrification inhibition by B. humidicola also varied it was maximum (64.71 %) observed at 14th day over 22nd day (49.63 %).
Fostering improved training tools for responsible research and innovation

FIT4RRI moves from the assumption that there is a serious gap between the potential role Responsible Research and innovation (RRI) and Open Science (OS) could play in helping Research Funding and Performing Organisations (RFPOs) to manage the rapid transformation processes affecting science (especially the science-in-society aspects) and the actual impact RRI and OS are currently having on RFPOs, research sectors and national research systems. FIT4RRI is precisely intended to contribute in bridging this gap, promoting viable strategies to activate institutional changes in RFPOs. The project, in particular, will act on two key factors i.e.  i) Enhancing competences and skills related to RRI and OS through an improvement of the RRI and OS training offer (in terms of training tools, actions and  strategies) presently available; ii) Institutionally embedding RRI/OS practices and approaches by promoting the diffusion of more advanced governance settings able to create an enabling environment for RRI and OS. With this double aim in view, FIT4RRI is organised following an overall methodology based on three main steps: an analytical strand devoted to understand  what is happening in the RRI and OS practice, taking into account general trends, barriers and drivers to RRI and OS, interests and values, advanced experiences; a  testing strand (observing RRI/OS in action though 4 co-creation experiments) aimed at figuring out possible solutions  in terms of training approaches and governance settings; and a proactive strand, promoting changes (i.e. developing training tools and actions and easy-accessible evidence-based guidelines on governance settings functioning as enablers for RRI and OS). The project will last  36 months  and  includes  7 WPs: Mapping and benchmarking; Sectoral diagnosis, Co-creation experiments, Training tools and actions, Governance Setting, Communication, dissemination and exploitation of results, Management. This project involves 13 partners from 9 EC.
Globalization and the markups of European firms

We use a unique cross
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section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries 
(France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with bal
ance sheet data to study the relationship 
between key aspects of globalization and firm
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level markups. The main results are: (i) 
Exporting is positively correlated with markups; (ii) Importing intermediate inputs and 
outsourcing are also positively correla
ted with markups; (iii) Firms with affiliates have higher 
markups than other firms, while simply membership in a group or being foreign
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owned seem 
to be less important; (iv) Perceived competition from low
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cost markets is negatively 
correlated with markups;
(v) Higher quality production and innovation, especially if it results 
in IP, has a strong positive relationship with markups; (vi) While these variables are 
correlated, they are significant in a joint model including all four groups, and `fully 
globalize
d' firms tend to charge around 100% higher markups than non
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globalized firms.
From mechanical control to shape-shifting in supramolecular biomaterials to guide stem cell fate

The biochemical and biophysical cues of the stem cell environment that act in a concerted and spatiotemporal manner lead to the formation of the 200 cell types and organs of the human body, but how this precisely occurs remains unclear and it is necessary to guide their production for use in the biomedical area. Standard differentiation protocols in vitro mimic known stages in development by the timed addition of biochemical cues on 2D substrates, however these protocols lack the complexity of the 3D natural extracellular matrix (ECM), with its mechanical character that evolves in time.   Supramolecular materials can recapitulate the structural and dynamic character of the ECM being based on non-covalent interactions. Moreover, as I have shown, their mechanical soft character can mimic embryonic microenvironment for induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) culture but renders them unable to mimic stiff and tough tissues. Double networks using covalent polymers have demonstrated to achieve such mechanical properties, however these materials lack the cytocompatibility for use in 3D cell culture. In this proposal, I will synthesize hybrid covalent-supramolecular polymer networks that use biocompatible chemical and light-activated ligation approaches to apply them to guide the fate of iPSCs to cardiomyocytes by controlling their mechanical properties in time. I will exploit the unique properties of these double networked materials to interface them with biomechanical devices, and as an actuatable culture platform by 3-D printing a miniature beating heart ventricle.  These advanced culture platforms based on hybrid-covalent supramolecular materials that go from soft to stiff and tough in time and space with shifting-shapes, with the potential to decouple the presentation of bioactive cues in an integrated manner, will provide uncharted opportunities to understand the spatiotemporal evolution of active and passive mechanical cues in development from cell to organ.
Cost-Effective automated process for producing innovative high-performance electric motors

DEMA is a high-tech SME, world leader of machines for the production of electric motors. We have developed a new manufacturing process and associated machinery enabling production of the emerging segmented motors, where stators and rotors are composed by modules (segments). Compared to traditional motors the segmented ones are: 
• cheaper, because use of raw materials is more efficient and assembly is simplified,
• greener, because waste material during production is massively reduced,
• high-performance, thanks to optimization of electrical phenomena.

The segmented motors, whose production is enabled by SPARK, meet the needs of motors manufacturers for reduction of waste material in production, due to cost and environmental concerns. 

SPARK strongly supports the EC Societal Challenges for clean, efficient energy, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials. Segmented motors, in fact, reduce wastes and therefore energy, CO2 and pollution for material recycling and re-processing.

The feasibility assessment will focus on the production process and machinery; the goal is twofold: the technical feasibility (to assess what are the necessary developments to be carried out and including an IP regime analysis) and the economic viability (a detailed Business Plan will be built around the 9 classic blocks of Canvas). This would allow to consider the additional funding that will be needed, with a possibility to further develop the concept through a Phase 2 project.

Overcoming the technical barriers in manufacturing these motors, implementing an advanced manufacturing process and introducing the related machinery in our product portfolio by end of 2017 is our major objective. If we succeed in developing this, we would be the only company providing this solution, anticipating competitors, penetrating the market and achieving high market shares. This will improve and consolidate our position in the market of automated machinery for motors production.
Back to the future

The ”B-FUTURE _ Back to the Future” project is promoted by the Neuromed Foundation with the aim to push students getting closer to the fascinating world of research as ""a gate from the past to the future"", by offering the chance to meet young and communicative researchers, as well as experienced scientists and researchers involved in EU programs at international level. The main theme is “BACK TO THE FUTURE” to prove, through a significantly scientific path, how human life is always characterized by research and how the research is evolving. The objective is to drive visitors on an exciting journey in the world of science creating a path that starts from the origin of the species, through its development and observing the environmental changes and how they affect human life, up to the realization of Cyber Brain and man projected in the space.  Why B-FUTURE? Because communicating science to younger people -particularly students of primary and secondary schools - it is important to demonstrate that being part of research is being the memory and the future at the same time. As in the famous film, participants will come back to the past to better know life origins and then projected to experience new technologies imagining what the 'next step' in that progression would be.Students will enter in the fantastic world of science where they will meet new characters ""researchers"", will make discoveries and will live exciting experiences in a stimulant and funny way. The researchers will be able to present themselves as people engaged and emotionally involved in the activities with a strong impact on society and everyday life, not as sad.Since the 2018 is designated as the “European Year of Cultural Heritage”, B-FUTURE will include  cherishing few local venues of cultural heritage because, as research, cultural heritage shapes our identities and everyday lives. As for research, through heritage the past meets the future and celebrating the past can help us to build the future.
Blockchain protocol for responsible mineral sourcing

Minespider is the first fully integrated, blockchain solution which offers the conflict mineral sector the means to
source responsibly, ensuring no breaches of human rights in at-risk origin countries. Minerals like gold, tin,
tantalum, tungsten or copper are essential components in most electronic devices today, and tech giants like
Microsoft, Apple or Nokia rely on them to develop their products. The usage of these valuable ores, however,
poses crucial ethical and legal risks for all companies involved, since many of them are extracted from conflict-
torn countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, further funding violence.
Minespider answers to companies’ CSR concerns and upcoming legislation, by transforming today’s due
diligence on mineral sourcing from a costly service, into a commodity, allowing mines, processors, transporters
and other stakeholders to capitalize on their ethical activity. Minespider was developed based on an innovative
opened, free, decentralized blockchain protocol and uses a DApp to allow companies to create and sell
certification data. This way, Minespider incentivises all stakeholders in the sector to responsible sourcing
straight from extraction and following up along the entire chain.
The team has extensive experience in the domain area and aims to scale the business to €50M to serve 2.000
active users by 2024, covering mineral supply chains worldwide.
Platform for rapid development of personalized nanomedicine drug delivery systems

Innovation idea of the proposal is to create a standalone personalized-medicine computational platform that use patient-specific tumour parameters to recommend nanomedicine-based drug delivery systems which would be the most optimal to treat specific patient. It will be done by using a computational platform that is under development in the ongoing FET Open project EVO-NANO. The core of PACE will be to develop IP in EVO-NANO in accordance to market and regulatory demands thus increasing both the technology readiness level (TRL) as well as the investment readiness level (IRL). 
The ultimate objective will be to position IP from EVO-NANO for market uptake through the completion of exhaustive commercial due diligence which will create the market strategy from gathered market research. The project will consist of several stages  that are organized so that each step further funnels the research down to ever greater levels of focus. Stages are: 1- Ideation, IP / Business Model Preliminary Research and Positioning; 2 -Market Research, which is divided into two sub-stages: 2A – Macro Market Research and Analysis, and 2B – Application Research and Analysis; 3- Market Strategy; and 4- Exploitation.
The impact of this proposal will be the creation of monetarily valuable IP and/or the foundation for the creation of a business that can create monetary value. Although the ongoing FET Open project EVO-NANO will have social impact toward treating cancer, PACE is aimed at gathering the necessary market information to position EVO-NANO for market uptake. In other words, these projects will increase the competiveness of European SMEs while contributing/supporting European industrial leadership in nano-personalized medicine technologies. The dissemination of PACE will go beyond simply broadcasting the IP and will be specifically aimed at targeting the audience decided upon in the market research stage.
Rank-profile revealing Gaussian elimination and the CUP matrix decomposition

Transforming a matrix over a field to echelon form, or decomposing the matrix as a product of structured matrices that reveal the rank profile, is a fundamental building block of computational exact linear algebra. This paper surveys the well-known variations of such decompositions and transformations that have been proposed in the literature. We present an algorithm to compute the CUP decomposition of a matrix, adapted from the LSP algorithm of Ibarra, Moran and Hui (1982), and show reductions from the other most common Gaussian elimination based matrix transformations and decompositions to the CUP decomposition. We discuss the advantages of the CUP algorithm over other existing algorithms by studying time and space complexities: the asymptotic time complexity is rank sensitive, and comparing the constants of the leading terms, the algorithms for computing matrix invariants based on the CUP decomposition are always at least as good except in one case. We also show that the CUP algorithm, as well as the computation of other invariants such as transformation to reduced column echelon form using the CUP algorithm, all work in place, allowing for example to compute the inverse of a matrix on the same storage as the input matrix.
Artificial Cognitive Maps: Selecting Heterogeneous Sets of Geographic Objects and Relations to Drive Highly Contextual Task-Oriented Map Views

We present work from an on-going project to develop techniques of automated cartography. We introduce Artificial Cognitive Maps as an approach to integrating insights from spatial cognition with geographic data. The ultimate goal is to drive highly contextual map views that more effectively support navigation tasks such as travelling across large, complex cities. With a focus on our now ubiquitous small screen mobile devices, we propose that distortions on the traditional metric cartographic representation may support a reduction in cognitive load for the user, but that the logic and parameters of these distortions should be founded on the natural distortions present in our cognitive representations of geographic objects and their relation.
Learning, robust monetary policy and the merit of precaution

Abstract We study in a New Keynesian framework the consequences of adaptive learning for the design of robust monetary policy. Compared to rational expectations, the fact that private sector follows adaptive learning gives the central bank an additional intertemporal trade-off between optimal behavior in the present and in later periods thanks to its ability to manipulate future inflation expectations. We show that adaptive learning imposes a more restrictive constraint on monetary policy robustness to ensure the dynamic stability of the equilibrium than under rational expectations but strengthens the argument in favor of a more aggressive monetary policy when the central bank fears for model misspecifications.
Dinámicas y transformaciones urbanas recientes en Ciudad Real. De los PGOU al urbanismo de los proyectos estratégicos

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A Two Element Plasma Antenna Array

This theoretical study presents the characteristics of plasma monopole antennas in the VHF/UHF range using finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation. Results show that more broadband characteristics can be obtained by increasing the diameter of the plasma tube and that the minor lobes diminish in intensity as diameter increases. Furthermore, the nulls are replaced by low level radiation. Since the collision frequency, which is a function of gas pressure, represents the loss mechanism of plasma, decreasing its value increases the gain and radar cross section (RCS) of the antenna. Theoretical modeling shows that at higher plasma frequencies with respect to the signal frequency, the gain and radar cross section of the plasma antenna are high enough and that the impedance curves are altered as the plasma frequency varies. Using these preliminary studies, mutual impedance and gain of a broadside array of two parallel side-by-side plasma elements is presented.
Technologische Modernisierung zur Steigerung des Exportpotenzials von Kosara-R EOOD

Kosara-R Ltd. wurde 1997 in Smolyan gegründet. Im Rahmen ihrer langjährigen Präsenz auf dem bulgarischen Markt hat Kosara-R Ltd. ihre Positionen gestärkt und einen Ruf als fairer Partner für seine Kunden aufgebaut. Derzeit konzentrieren sich fast 90 % der Produktion des Unternehmens auf den bulgarischen Markt und nur 10 % werden auf dem europäischen Markt realisiert. Die geringe Präsenz auf den EU-Märkten ist auf zwei Gründe zurückzuführen: – Mangel an Produktionskapazitäten;-moralische und physische veraltete technologische Grundlagen, die verhindern, dass größere und komplexe Aufträge, wie etwa diejenigen ausländischer Kunden, aufgenommen werden; Angesichts der stabilen Position des Unternehmens auf dem bulgarischen Markt ist die aktuelle Vision des Managements und das Ziel des Projekts der Eintritt und die Schaffung dauerhafter Positionen auf dem europäischen Markt. Das spezifische Werkzeug zur Erreichung dieses Ziels ist die Realisierung einer Investition in spezialisierte Nähgeräte, die zu folgenden Ergebnissen für Kosara-R Ltd. führen wird:~ Vollautomation und Optimierung des Produktionsprozesses; ~ Steigerung der Produktivität aufgrund der Beseitigung der manuellen Arbeit; ~ Erhöhung der Produktionskapazität um 31 %; ~ Diversifizierung des Produktportfolios; * Erhöhung der Qualität des produzierten Fertigerzeugnisses; effizientere Nutzung von Materialien und Rohstoffen in der Produktion; ~ Verkürzung der Produktionszeit;~ Möglichkeit, komplexe Modelle von Kleidungsstücken herzustellen, die durch einen höheren Mehrwert gekennzeichnet sind; * Abschluss des Produktionszyklus und Ausschluss der Notwendigkeit der Vergabe von Unteraufträgen; ~ Öffnungsmöglichkeiten für einen dauerhaften Markteintritt auf den Exportmärkten und Konsolidierung der Marktpositionen des Bulgaren; Die Realisierung der oben genannten Ergebnisse wird es Kosara-R Ltd. ermöglichen, sowohl auf dem bulgarischen als auch auf dem internationalen Markt Produkte mit höherer Qualität zu konkurrenzfähigen Preisen und in kurzer Zeit anzubieten.
AN EASY OPEN CROWN CAP AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD

The present invention discloses an easy open crown cap and its production method. It is composed of a top and a side, and a connecting strip with a handle is extended from the hemline on its side. The first longitudinal incision and the second longitudinal incision are symmetrically established on both sides of the said connecting strip on its side. The said first incision and second incision are located between its top and the hemline on its side. An easy open crown cap and its production method in the present invention use such a manner that the crown cap can be easily opened, which can avoid bruising the bottle mouth when it is opened, and improve the recycling rate of glass bottles. Due to the existence of incisions on the side of the cap, when the pressure sealed within a glass bottle is overhigh because of external factors, the incisions on the side of the cap will be swelling up, which results in air leak, reduces the risks of glass bottle explosion after sealing, can avoid the phenomenon of twisted insertion between crown caps caused by existing incisions during production in a production line, guarantee the product quality and enhance the productivity effect.
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Gas Pipeline Steel Based on LAMMPS Parallel Computing Platform

Along with the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, the processing capacity of big is highly demanded in industry community. Compared with the traditional computing and programming model based on serial program, parallel computing is based on heterogeneous architecture and runs in a completely different way from CPU, which has greatly enhanced the processing speed of large-scale data sets. Therefore, parallel computing has been developing dramatically in recent years, and has been favored by all walks of life. In the future, large-scale data processing must belong to parallel computing. Set on LAMMPS (large-scale atomic/molecular massively parallel simulator) as an example, this paper described the technique of establishing parallel computing platform, and applied it on simulated test on fracture process of lamellar structure from gas-pipeline steel.