SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Exchange Rate and Trade Balances in Brazil: A Disaggregated Analysis by Major Economic Categories

This work investigates the repercussions of real devaluations in the exchange rate on the trade balance for Brazil, when considering major economic categories, i.e., capital goods, durable consumer goods, semi-durable and non-durable consumer goods, intermediate goods, and fuels and lubricants. To this end, monthly data are used for the period January 2000 and July 2019, and vector error correction (VEC) models. The results suggest that, in the long run, real devaluations in the exchange rate have positive and elastic impacts on the trade balance in all sectors, except for fuels and lubricants. Only the durable consumer goods and fuels and lubricants sectors do not show the occurrence of the J curve. Domestic income has a negative impact on the trade balance in most models analyzed, while foreign income has a positive impact on all sectors, except for fuels and lubricants.
Preservasi Ovarium dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Morfologi Folikel Domba

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of cooling and freezing of ewes ovarian tissue on
their follicles morphology. The study was carried out in two experiments. Experiment I, ovaries were
maintained in Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS) at -20o
C and room temperature (RT) for 24 h, and at 5o
C
for 24 h and 72 h, respectively. After storage, follicles were histologically evaluated. Experiment II, the
ovarian cortex was isolated and tissue slices (±1 mm3) were prepared. Following this tissues were loaded
into hemistraw then transferred to equilibration solution (PBS+20% FBS+7,5% EG+7,5 % DMSO) at
room temperature and held for 10, 20, 30 minutes, respectively. Afterward tissues were tranferred to
vitrification solution (PBS+20%FBS +15%EG+15%DMSO ) for 3 minutes, then the hemistraw was placed
directly into liquid nitrogen. After thawing, the tissues were prepared for histological examination. All of
the follicles were deteriorated after 24 h storage at RT. The percentage of morphologically normal follicles
was significantly reduced when ovarian tissues were stored at -20o
C for 24 h and at 5o
C for 24 h and 72 h.
However, it seemed to have a minor deterioration effect when the tissues were kept at 5o
C for 24 h
(P<0.05). Antral follicles were damaged in all of the treatments. Primordial follicles preserved their
morphology intactness better than growing follicles. Exposing tissues to equilibration medium for 10
minutes seemed to produce higher numbers of morphologically normal follicles (P<0.05), compared to
when tissues were exposed for 20 minutes and 30 minutes (P>0.05). It can be concluded that exposing
tissues to equilibration solution for 10 minutes prior to freezing would kept the ovarian follicles morphology
in good condition
Idiopathic Orbital Myositis Mimicking Orbital Cellulitis

Idiopathic orbital myositis (IOM) is a subtype of orbital inflammatory disease characterized by primarily involving the extraocular muscle. The signs and symptoms of IOM may also be seen in such processes as orbital cellulitis, primary or metastatic orbital neoplasm, carotid-cavernous fistulae, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous sinus thrombosis, and thyroid eye disease, and because there is no pathognomonic sign, symptoms, laboratory test, or radiologic findings, its diagnosis is often provisional. In our case, diagnosis of IOM was more difficult because our patient presented with proptosis after alloplastic implant insertion in the blow-out fracture. After considering radiologic and physical findings, we concluded that cellulitis was more likely as initial diagnosis. To remove foreign body or pus, surgical exploration was done, but intraoperative findings did not show any pus or sign of infection but diffuse enlargement and swelling of inferior rectus muscle. The diagnosis was confirmed as IOM, and the patient was treated with systemic corticosteroid. Although proptosis after alloplastic insertion in blow-out fracture is usually a sign of cellulitis, this case illustrates that it may also occur in patients with IOM.
ART LAB SERVICES_AIDS FOR EXISTING BUSINESSES IN THE ARTISAN CRAFTS SECTOR FOR THE ACQUISITION OF CONSOLIDATION / EXPANSION SERVICES

This project aims to help existing artistic craft enterprises to acquire business consolidation and expansion services. The project takes its inspiration and continues on from the Art Lab Net project funded with the first Call of the Marittimo PO programme, which led to the creation of four resource centres for innovation in artistic craftsmanship, built in the four regions involved (Sardinia, Corsica, Liguria and PACA). A cross-border network was also created for these centres, which uses a digital platform to connect artisan businesses, providing services relating to innovation for production, communication and marketing. The ALSERV project will identify complementary services to those already developed as part of the Art Lab Net project as well as selecting the relative suppliers, encouraging existing artistic craft businesses to make use of them. The partnership is made up of six partners belonging to the four regions, five of which were already part of the Art Lab Net partnership. Four of these partners are four of the regional resource centres created with Art Lab Net (Carros in the PACA region, Ajaccio in Corse, Sassari at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sardinia, Sanremo in Liguria), which bring together their diverse characteristics and specific traits to allow for the demand for services among artisans to meet with the supply of services that will be developed during the ALSERV project.
Hematobiochemical profile in Surti goats during post-partum period

The study was undertaken to find out the changes in hematobiochemical profile in post-partum Surti goats.The present study was conducted on 40 Surti goats out of which 20 goats who had undergone recent parturition acted as treatment group and 20 non-pregnant animals comprised control group. Blood samples were collected from the treatment group on 0, 7, 14, 21, 30, and 45 days post kidding and once from the control group. Blood samples were analyzed for hematological parameters such as hemoglobin (Hb), packed cell volume (PCV), total erythrocyte count (TEC), total leukocyte count (TLC), differential leukocyte count, and biochemical metabolites such as total protein (TP), albumin, globulin, total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA), glucose, and urea.Hb level was the highest on the 45(th) day and lowest on the day of parturition. Significantly low level of Hb, PCV, and lymphocyte was found on 0 day and significantly high level was found on the 45(th) day. TEC was also low on the 0 day and high on the 45(th) day post kidding, but the difference was non-significant. Mid-sized cells and granulocyte percentage decreased significantly from 0 to 45(th) day post-partum. TP, albumin, and urea were found to be lowest on 0 day and highest on 45(th) day post-partum. Urea concentration increased parallel to TP indicating an increase in urea production with catabolism of protein. The globulin concentration also increased from 0 to 45(th) day post-partum, but the difference was non-significant. TC, TG, and NEFA were the highest on 0 day and lowest on the 45(th) day post-partum. Decrease in TC and TG from 0 to 45(th) day post-partum indicates that the animals utilized the lipids for the supply of energy for milk production. High level of NEFA acts as an indicator of negative energy status but in the present study, the high glucose level on 0 day indicates that the animals were in positive energy status. The glucose concentration decreased up to 14(th) day post-partum and then started increasing from 21(st) day onward.Hematobiochemical parameters are indicative of health status of animals. Significantly low values of Hb, PCV, and TLC during first 2 weeks post-partum are indicative of stress. Catabolism of protein occurred during 2 weeks post-partum, as observed from increase in urea concentration. Decrease TGs and high level of NEFA during the transition period are suggestive of utilization of lipids for the supply of energy. High glucose level on 0 day indicates that the animals were in positive energy status.
Models of Grid Cell Spatial Firing Published 2005–2011

Since the discovery of grid cells in rat entorhinal cortex, many models of their hexagonally arrayed spatial firing fields have been suggested. We review the models and organize them according to the mechanisms they use to encode position, update the positional code, read it out in the spatial grid pattern, and learn any patterned synaptic connections needed. We mention biological implementations of the models, but focus on the models on Marr's algorithmic level, where they are not things to individually prove or disprove, but rather are a valuable collection of metaphors of the grid cell system for guiding research that are all likely true to some degree, with each simply emphasizing different aspects of the system. For the convenience of interested researchers, MATLAB implementations of the discussed grid cell models are provided at ModelDB accession 144006 or http://people.bu.edu/zilli/gridmodels.html.
Detecting compartmental non-Gaussian diffusion with symmetrized double-PFG MRI

Diffusion in tissue and porous media is known to be non-Gaussian and has been used for clinical indications of stroke and other tissue pathologies. However, when conventional NMR techniques are applied to biological tissues and other heterogeneous materials, the presence of multiple compartments (pores) with different Gaussian diffusivities will also contribute to the measurement of non-Gaussian behavior. Here we present symmetrized double PFG (sd-PFG), which can separate these two contributions to non-Gaussian signal decay as having distinct angular modulation frequencies. In contrast to prior angular d-PFG methods, sd-PFG can unambiguously extract kurtosis as an oscillation from samples with isotropic or uniformly oriented anisotropic pores, and can generally extract a combination of compartmental anisotropy and kurtosis. The method further fixes its sensitivity with respect to the time dependence of the apparent diffusion coefficient. We experimentally demonstrate the measurement of the fourth cumulant (kurtosis) of diffusion and find it consistent with theoretical predictions. By enabling the unambiguous identification of contributions of compartmental kurtosis to the signal, sd-PFG has the potential to help identify the underlying micro-structural changes corresponding to current kurtosis based diagnostics, and act as a novel source of contrast to better resolve tissue micro-structure.
Supramolecular assembly of janus carbon nanotubes into functional 3d microparticles

The remarkable mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are only valid for individual particles, and are generally lost when bulk CNT materials are integrated in devices. The controlled manufacturing of macroscopic functional and high-performance CNT-materials, retaining the compelling properties of individual tubes, has hence become of paramount importance to allow their full exploitation within commercial products.

With the Supra-CNT project we aim at tackling this compelling issue by performing an unprecedented sequential engineering of the architecture of CNT materials, from the nano-, to the micro- and macroscale level. Specifically, we intend to synthesise Janus amphiphilic CNTs, which will be able to self assemble into well-defined 3D microparticles following the instructions encoded in their pre-organised functionalisation. These structures will then be employed in large area self-assembly to form higher order macro-assemblies (i.e. colloidal crystals), achieving an unprecedented degree of hierarchisation and tailoring of the CNT material.

By providing such controlled multiscale engineering, Supra-CNT will shed light on the structure-property relationships characterising CNT bulk materials. This knowledge will allow for the implementation of a property-conservative manufacturing of CNT-based materials, boosting their performance–to–cost ratio, and integration in a vast set of applications with high societal and industrial impact, such as high performance filters, catalysts, and energy storage devices.
Sensor enabled affective computing for enhancing medical care

This project brings together a diverse group of subject matter experts from industry and academia under one umbrella, with the main aim of enhancing and advancing future healthcare processes and systems using sensory and machine learning technologies to provide emotional (affective) and cognitive insights into patients well-being so as to provide them with more effective treatment across multiple medical domains. The objective is to develop technologies and methods that will lessen the enormous and growing health care costs of dementia and related cognitive impairments that burden European citizens, which is estimated to cost over €250 Billion by 2030 [1]. 

From a technical perspective, the primary objective is to “develop a cloud based affective computing [2] operating system capable of processing and fusing multiple sensory data streams to provide cognitive and emotional intelligence for AI connected healthcare systems”. In particular the consortium intends to:

•	Specify and engineer the architecture of the SenseCare platform and will release two versions of the platform cloud infrastructure during the life of the RISE project.
•	Create and evaluate two use case test pilots (relating to the dementia care and connected health medical domains) that integrate with, use and apply the services of the SenseCare platform.  
•	Specify and engineer a number of medical informatics applications that will run on the SenseCare platform and that will also be tested and evaluated as part of the use case test pilot phases.

The outputs of the project will lead to significant and lasting impact on the innovation potential of the individual researchers, their host organisations as well as impacting in a much wider sense at a European and global level.
Collaborative development of renewable/thermally driven and storage-integrated cooling technologies

Cooling is the fastest-growing use of energy in buildings but is also one of the most critical blind spots in today’s energy debate. Rising demand for space cooling is putting enormous strain on electricity systems in many countries, as well as driving up emissions. Comparing to heat, power, and transport, cooling had long been under-represented in the EU energy policy until 2016 when the European Commission took the first step with the launch of its Heating and Cooling Strategy. The strategy identifies actions of ‘increasing the share of renewables’ and ‘reuse of energy waste from industry’ as two key areas for decarbonizing cooling to meet the EU’s climate goals by 2050. Accordingly, the targets are only achievable with fast development and deployment of new efficient and effective cooling technologies driven by either ‘renewable electricity/heat’ or waste heat. This CO-COOL RISE project assembles an international, interdisciplinary consortium from 12 research institutions and 5 industrial companies to collectively accelerate the cooling technology development and deployment, with complementary expertise/skills including composite solids, phase change materials (PCMs), complex fluids, process intensification (heat and mass transfer), cold thermal storage, refrigeration systems, as well as techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA), marketing analysis, and entrepreneurship skills. Based on the innovation of composite solids (sorbents/PCMs) and fluids (PCMs and hydrate slurries) as well as related components and systems, the project aims to develop renewable/recoverable energy driven, storage-integrated cooling technologies which could offer energy resource-efficient and cost-effective solutions to meet end-users’ low carbon cooling demand.
US banks' capitalization speed‐of‐adjustment: a microeconometric approach

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there are any differences in the capitalization speed‐of‐adjustment across regulatory capitalization buckets of commercial banks in the USA, for the period 2002‐2009.Design/methodology/approach – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) monitors banks' capital ratio using the bucketing approach. Thus, this discrete and ordered variable is modeled in the context of a partial adjustment specification, controlling for initial conditions and cross‐sectional heterogeneity. Parameters are estimated with the generalized dynamic random effects ordered probit technique that is flexible enough to allow for differential effects of covariates across capitalization categories.Findings – The main result is that the speed of adjustment is monotonically increasing for banks belonging in lower capitalization buckets, after controlling for bank‐specific capitalization determinants. In addition, substantial differential impacts of capitalization drivers a...
PANEL FOR SHUTTERING WALLS AND PILLARS

A panel consisting of a single covering member constituting the shuttering surface and having folded edges forming the panel sides. The panel is lined with transverse and longitudinal reinforcing members and has coupling means provided on some of the side edges and on the inside thereof for joining together the sides of two adjacent panels in the case of wall shutterings, or for joining one panel perpendicularly to another panel to define the cross-section of a pillar by perpendicularly coupling together four panels.
(7429.31052017.113000084) PROGEO

LE FLUIDE QUI S’ÉCOULE DANS UN RÉSEAU DE PIPELINES GÉOTHERMIQUES PU? AVEZ-VOUS DES COMPORTEMENTS DYNAMIQUES FLUIDES TRÈS COMPLEXES, COMPTE TENU DE LA PRÉVISIBILITÉ DIFFICILE? PARAMÈTRES OPÉRATIONNELS DANS LES PUITS GÉOTHERMIQUES. DE PLUS, LA DISTANCE ENTRE LES PUITS, LE POINT D’ARRIVÉE DU FLUIDE GÉOTHERMIQUE, LA TOPOGRAPHIE ET L’OROGRAPHIE DES PROFILS DES LIGNES EN FONT PLUS? COMPLIQUÉ LE BON FLUX DE FLUIDE DANS LE RÉSEAU DE TUYAUTERIE. POUR LA RATIONALISATION DE L’EXPLOITATION DES RESSOURCES GÉOTHERMIQUES, LA SIMULATION NUMÉRIQUE DYNAMIQUE DU FLUIDE MULTIPHASE À L’INTÉRIEUR DES CONDUITES EST D’UNE IMPORTANCE VITALE. CEPENDANT, LA PLUPART DES MODÈLES DÉVELOPPÉS SE LIMITENT À L’ÉTUDE DE L’ÉTAT D’ÉQUILIBRE ET/OU DES FLUX MONOCOMPOSANTS (VAGUE). LE PROJET PROGEO OFFRE DES SERVICES SPÉCIALISÉS POUR LA CONCEPTION AVANCÉE DE SYSTÈMES DE PROCESS AUX ENTREPRISES DU SECTEUR DE LA GÉOTHERMIE ET DE L’ÉNERGIE EN GÉNÉRAL. ET ILS NÉCESSITENT L’UTILISATION DE CODES PARTICULIÈREMENT AVANCÉS. LEUR DISPONIBILITÉ LIMITÉE
Transcriação e construção de um papel educativo: a abordagem biográfica na formação de babás

Este artigo tem o objetivo de investigar as potencialidades dos dispositivos biográficos na formação de babás. Para tanto, apoia-se numa pesquisa realizada com babás migrantes, brasileiras que trabalham na França, desenvolvida com base nos fundamentos teórico-metodológicos da pesquisa (auto)biográfica e da história oral. A hermenêutica das narrativas de vida que compõem o corpus de tal estudo traz à luz a centralidade dos processos de biografização, colocados em ação pelas profissionais do cuidado infantil no ato de narrar a experiência vivida. Conclui-se que o papel social de educadoras informais da infância é construído por essas trabalhadoras do care a partir do estabelecimento de relações entre, de um lado, seus percursos vividos e os saberes a partir deles adquiridos e, de outro, as culturas – familiares, linguísticas, nacionais etc. – com as quais se deparam nos lares que constituem seu ambiente de trabalho. Nesse espaço intersticial, a abordagem biográfica se configura como pesquisa-formação, na medida em que convida essas mulheres a assumir o papel de “pesquisadoras de si”, a construir sentidos ao vivido, tomar consciência de suas reservas de saberes biográficos, lidar com as proximidades e distanciamentos presentes no encontro intercultural com as crianças e famílias empregadoras, agenciar temporalidades e projetar-se em direção a um porvir. Reconhecida em sua dimensão transcriativa, a operação de colocar em palavras aquilo que é da ordem do não dito, do experienciado, revela-se como potente ferramenta de formação de babás-educadoras-da-infância e inscreve-se numa perspectiva de valorização de saberes invisibilizados.
Concept of Transportation Entropy and Its Application in Traffic Signal Control

Abstract This paper introduces the notion of the transportation entropy as the measure of the system disorder and studies its application in traffic signal control. In particular, this paper shows firstly the similarity between the thermodynamic system and transportation system by regarding the vehicles as energy, which provides us the opportunity to introduce the entropy notion into the transportation context. The detailed analysis indicates that the transportation entropy presented in this paper is proportional to the sum of the traffic densities of all vehicles inside the network. It is known that for each vehicle, its traffic density limits the speed and hence prolongs the delay. Therefore, the transportation entropy can be considered as the measure of the system disorder. Furthermore, by using the theory of dissipative system, this paper presents the condition for traffic signal control to make the transportation system have the tendency to decrease its disorder. This condition is then applied in the framework of Model Predictive Control to construct a traffic signal control strategy. Finally, a system including four intersections is carried out to illustrate the results.
Aircraft power management system

A method and associated system for managing power within an aircraft electrical system, the aircraft comprising a generator driven by a gas turbine engine for the supply of electrical power to the system, wherein the generator and electrical system are connected to a common energy store. The method comprises determining predicted electrical energy demands of the system and predicted thrust demands for the gas turbine engine over at least a portion of a flight. A plurality of time periods within at least said portion of the flight are defined and a desired rate of charge of the energy store for each time period is determined based upon the predicted thrust and electrical energy demands over said time period. The rate of charge of the energy store is controlled during the flight in accordance with the determined desired rate of charge for each time period. The desired rate of charge of the energy store may represent an optimal energy efficiency charge profile based on a global assessment of the operational characteristics of the flight.
Contingent Geometries

Generative computational methods such as parametric systems currently employed in architectural and urban design tend towards homeostatic solution spaces; that is, fields of solutions that privilege regularized distributions of difference across any parametric range, which in turn result in design homogeneity. In order to develop a rich design space using parametric or rule based systems, it is argued that it is necessary to develop an understanding of a multitude of open computational systems, or an ecology of systems, particularly in regard to performance-oriented computational design. This paper presents a design research studio test case exploring this issue in relation to tall building morphologies.