SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
U.TdR - UNION des TERRES de RIVIERES

Sustainable management of water and rivers requires cooperation that transcends administrative, cultural and geographical divisions. A network of partners in different European countries has been established, starting with an association of local groups in the Aquitaine region of France, with the aim of developing cooperation. Through this project, the aim is now to achieve trans-national cooperation (travel costs, seminars, etc.). It is difficult for local elected representatives to achieve trans-national cooperation (due to questions of travel, time, lack of information, languages, etc.) so videoconferences will be used to resolve certain difficulties. Overall objective / Objectif général • Environmental protection and an economic, cultural and social approach to water and its heritage. • Adaptation of land planning to include water management. • Participation by citizens in the construction of Europe, through trans-national cooperation in a bottom-up approach. Development of the UtdR network should lead to the sharing of experience and good practices and joint action with regard to European policy. Expected results / Résultats attendus • Creation of a study group on water in order to provide scientific support and a training structure for politicians and specialists. • Inventory of practices and actions taken in the participating regions (water resources and river landscapes). • Meetings between local politicians and specialists in the framework of trans-national cooperation to encourage exchanges and raise awareness. • Dissemination of know-how and training. In the long term: • Development of trans-national cooperation between local and regional European political leaders to establish common policies and technical management of this network. • Analysis of shared problems and projects so that joint actions can be taken through other Community programmes. • Development of a policy for trans-national communication in the framework of cooperation.
Performance and growth dynamics in young service firms: an exploratory study

This paper explores, over a period of ten years since their creation, the initial growth process of a sample of 16 young French innovative firms active in two service industries: ICT and real estate. Mainly rooted in an original dynamic analysis using a set of multivariate indicators of growth, the study highlights the growth trajectories of young companies. As a result, the analysis found out heterogeneous growth trajectories among the firms of the sample, from these we draw an emerging typology of models of development of micro size enterprises (MSEs). The sector of activity does not seem to affect the development patterns identified.
The consequences of introducing non-indigenous species: two case studies, the grey squirrel in Europe and the brushtail possum in New Zealand

Two examples of the introduction of non-indigenous invasive species are reviewed: the grey squirrel in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy) and the brushtail possum in New Zealand. Both have become very successful in their respective non-native habitats since their introductions in the mid-to-late 19th Century. Both species impact extensively on native biodiversity, environmental sustainability, forestry, and agriculture through a range of direct and indirect mechanisms. Management is currently mainly by lethal control, namely poisoning, trapping and shooting. Such methods of control are, however, increasingly contentious for both species, and alternative, non-lethal methods of population control, e.g. fertility control, are being developed. The case studies highlight many of the issues in invasive animal control; for example, prevention being better than control, lack of good understanding of impacts and the success of control measures on reducing impacts, interactive impacts on native biodiversity and ecosystems, the telling influence of public opinion on management options and, lastly, the need to better inform and educate the public.
Optical module and electronic apparatus

An optical module includes: a filter holding member to which an interference filter having a pair of mirrors facing each other is fixed; a base to which the filter holding member is fixed; and a first fixing member which fixes the filter holding member to the base. In the optical module, k<mω2/2 is satisfied, where k is a spring constant of the first fixing member, ω is a frequency of vibration generated in the base, and m is a total mass of the interference filter and the filter holding member.
The Effects of Ozone Depletion on Aquatic Ecosystems

Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Increase in Ultraviolet Radiation, D-P. Hader. Making Links: From Causes to Effects to Action, C. Nolan. Consequences of the Effects of Increased Solar Ultraviolet Radiation on Aquatic Ecosystems, D-P. Hader and R.C. Worrest . Instrumentation and Methodology for Ultraviolet Radiation Measurements in Aquatic Environments, J.H. Morrow and C.R. Booth. Penetration of Solar UV and PAR into Different Waters of the Baltic Sea and Remote Sensing of Phytoplankton, H. Piazena and D-P. Hader . Biological Weighting Functings for Describing the Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Aquatic Systems, J.J. Cullen and P.J. Neale. Biological UV Dosimetry, G. Horneck. Role of Ultraviolet Radiation on Bacterioplankton Activity, G.J. Herndl. Optical Properties and Phytoplankton Composition in a Freshwater Ecosystem (Main-Donau-Canal), M. A. Hader and D-P. Hader. The Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Amphibians in Natural Ecosystems, A.R. Blaustein and J.M. Kiesecker. Impacts of UV-B Irradiation on Rice-Field Cyanobacteria, R.P. Sinha and D-P. Hader. Studies of Effects of UV-B Radiation on Aquatic Model Ecosystsems, S.-A. Wangberg and J.-S. Selmer. Solar UV Effects on Benthic Marine Algal Assemblages-Three Case Studies, R. Santas. Effects of UV-B on Ciliates, R. Marangoni, B. Martini and G. Colombetti. Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Pelagic Antarctic Ecosystem, M. Vernet and R.C. Smith. Index.
Security management platform for enhanced situation awareness and real-time adaptive evacuation strategies for large venues for sports and entertainment

evaGuide is a Security Management Platform for enhanced situation awareness and real-time adaptive evacuation strategies for large venues for sports and entertainment. evaGuide aims to address the needs of the safety of large facility visitors during complex evacuation processes, following normal and abnormal events (crises) towards the creation of an easily deployable system that will be able to timely identify new threats, designate and sustain a Location based Dynamic Evacuation Route (LDER) that improves all corresponding response times under any circumstances. Moreover it will support the complete lifecycle of evacuation planning, simulating complex scenarios, training of safety personnel and assessment of the performed actions. The results of the market research that has been performed among the 300 member stadia of ESSMA (the European Stadium & Safety Management Association) revealed that there is a clear need for a project like evaGuide that addresses all the phases of the evacuation lifecycle and offers superior situational awareness, while at the same time existing and emerging regulations from FIFA/UEFA need to be met. The business sustainability/exploitation potential has been validated in the Feasibility Study, which is an integral part of this proposal. The project outcome will be a fully functional evaGuide platform demonstrator delivered for operational use to one stadium (one of the ESSMA member stadia, selected on M2). The demonstrator will perform according to the adapted requirements defined by ESSMA and the stakeholders involved (finalized on M12), will be fully integrated (by M28) and tested (M29), ready to be commercially exploited by the joint commercialization entity defined during the last months of the project (M30).
Sequencing An Epigenetic Mark

Because access to DNA is tightly controlled, hair doesn’t grow on bone and toenails don’t appear in the spleen. Control comes from a system that includes chemical modifications to DNA bases, or epigenetic marks, that ensure the right genes are expressed in the right place at the right time. Two widely known chemical modifications are 5-hydroxymethyl­cytosine (5hmC) and 5-methylcytosine (5mC). What they do can now be better understood with the first tool to measure, with single-base resolution, their relative amounts (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1220671). Researchers have known that when cytosine bases are methylated, the gene is silenced. The precise role of 5hmC is still debated, but it’s clear it has enormous biological importance, says Shankar Balasubramanian, a chemical biologist at Cambridge University. Most researchers believe that 5hmC marks are an epigenetic “on” switch for genes. Others think that 5hmC is an intermediate in so-called active demethylation, which occurs in the first ...
High resolution spectroscopy and chemical shift imaging of hyperpolarized <sup>129</sup> Xe dissolved in the human brain in vivo at 1.5 tesla

Purpose
Upon inhalation, xenon diffuses into the bloodstream and is transported to the brain, where it dissolves in various compartments of the brain. Although up to five chemically distinct peaks have been previously observed in 129Xe rat head spectra, to date only three peaks have been reported in the human head. This study demonstrates high resolution spectroscopy and chemical shift imaging (CSI) of 129Xe dissolved in the human head at 1.5 Tesla.

Methods
A 129Xe radiofrequency coil was built in-house and 129Xe gas was polarized using spin-exchange optical pumping. Following the inhalation of 129Xe gas, NMR spectroscopy was performed with spectral resolution of 0.033 ppm. Two-dimensional CSI in all three anatomical planes was performed with spectral resolution of 2.1 ppm and voxel size 20 mm × 20 mm.

Results
Spectra of hyperpolarized 129Xe dissolved in the human head showed five distinct peaks at 188 ppm, 192 ppm, 196 ppm, 200 ppm, and 217 ppm. Assignment of these peaks was consistent with earlier studies.

Conclusion
High resolution spectroscopy and CSI of hyperpolarized 129Xe dissolved in the human head has been demonstrated. For the first time, five distinct NMR peaks have been observed in 129Xe spectra from the human head in vivo.
PRODUCTION METHOD OF SKIN CARE CREAM

This invention is related to the production method of skin care cream, which can be used for treatment of irritation, redness, itch, dermatitis, scar, burn, skin dryness, allergy, eczema, skin crack, bedsore on the skin by revitalizing the skin cells without causing any side effect thanks to its formula. Boric acid within the production formula of the skin care cream, which has antiseptic characteristic and decelerates reproduction of microbes on the skin, offers faster treatment process.
PUblic authorities Role Enhancing COmpetitiveness of SMeS

PURE COSMOS brings together two of the big challenges facing the EU: the need to stimulate and support SMEs and the need to reduce the weight of public administration.  

So PURE COSMOS aims to improve the effectiveness of public support for SMEs by 15%, cutting costs by 10% and improving quality by 20%.  We will develop highly integrated approaches to deliver these improvements and we will especially target entrepreneurs aged 25-40.

We will improve regional policies through innovative new projects and by improving governance so that the different stakeholders can agree common solutions.  We will do this by:
* analysing partners’ plans through peer review,
* identifying good practices that will improve these plans, studying them through Study Visits, importing them via special workshops and Regional Action Plans.
We will closely involve SMEs in the work. 

The project’s main outputs will benefit SMEs, especially young entrepreneurs.  They are:
* New projects to implement advanced services such as e-payments tools, One Stop Shop, “digital by default” models, digital-skills support.
* Improved governance through IT administrative solutions, regional legislation review, simplifying and speed up the launching of new businesses calls. 
All Action Plans will be prepared using intense cooperation between the key decision-makers (horizontal cooperation) and between the city and the MAs (vertical cooperation). The project will also work closely with the IE Policy Learning Platform.
Adaptive Backstepping Autopilot for Way- point Tracking Control of a Container Ship in the presence of Time-varying Disturbances

Abstract Effective Control of ships in a designed trajectory, is always an important task for ship maneuvering. This article considers way-point tracking control of a container ship based on LOS method using adaptive backstepping. The uncertainty of model parameters in the presence of disturbances such as waves, winds and currents, dictate the application of techniques that take into account the nonlinear equations of ship's motion and the presence of unknown parameters. In this sense, the adaptive backstepping procedure with tuning functions design is used for solving this problem. The simulation results show the suitability of this technique to compensate the time-varying disturbances effects in way-point tracking control.
Support of sales activities of the company Liberecké strojírny s.r.o. on foreign markets

The subject of the submitted project is the participation of the company Liberecké strojírny s.r.o. at foreign trade fairs in 2018-2020.  The company’s intention is to expand export options, especially in the Russian and Ukrainian markets, to find new markets and trade contacts within Europe and Africa. The company plans to participate in the Gulfood Manufacturing fair in Dubai in 2018, the Modern Bakery fair in Moscow in 2019 and 2020 and the Südback fair in Štutgart, Germany in 2019. a.
Becoming men: performing responsible masculinities in contemporary urban africa

This anthropological study examines the reconfiguration of masculinities in urban Africa over the last 30 years. Focusing on how practices and discourses of empowerment and equality shape male subjectivities, this study builds upon a significant body of nuanced research on masculinities in Africa. Since the mid-1980s academic and public discourses have depicted African masculinity as both precarious and predatory. Economic insecurity, urbanization, shifting gender norms, and growing gender parity have accompanied claims that African masculinity is ‘in crisis’. More recently, new stories of urban men embracing responsible fatherhood, condemning intimate partner violence, and demanding homosexual rights have emerged as exemplars of progressive possibility. To disentangle these seemingly competing claims about African masculinities and shed light on the scientific, political, and economic projects that shape them, this research theorises that the discourses and practices that pathologise and politicise masculinity are simultaneously performing and producing gendered selves on multiple scales in the name of gender equality. Recently, ‘male involvement’ has become a rallying cry throughout the vast global development assemblage, around which governments, NGOs, research networks, activists, and local communities fight gender inequality to promote health, economic development, and human rights. In this research, a range of male-involvement initiatives provides a lens through which to study how masculinities are diversely imagined, (re)configured, and performed through men’s engagements with this assemblage, in both its local and global manifestations. Multi-sited ethnographic research will focus on six cities where the PI has active research ties: Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya; Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa; and Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, Tanzania.
KIT FOR TREATING A SUBSTRATE

A kit having a light housing having a source of light; and a container containing a photocatalyzable treatment composition having a photoactivator, wherein the light housing and the container are co-packaged with one another.
Capture the Flag as Cyber Security Introduction

Introducing technical concepts to students with little to no technical background can be a challenging task for any teacher to achieve. The concept of gamification has been introduced recently as a method to motivate students by taking a variety of techniques found in popular games, and adding them into educational modules. Extending from this notion, it has been found that capture the flag (CTF) style competitions are a successful way to introduce students to a variety of technical concepts within the standard computer science curriculum. During the 2015 summer, a CTF was run at several GenCyber camps across the country with the primary goal of introducing high school students to various computer security and digital forensics topics without requiring that the students have any background in these topics. We found that this method of breaking down concepts into singular challenges, and tying these challenges together in a competitive environment was widely successful at not only introducing students to these concepts, but also motivating continued learning after the camps ended. This paper will analyze both the successes of the effort as well as the limitations discovered through using this technique.
Public participation by other means? informal practices to engage with matters of collective concern in non-democratic settings

How to ensure meaningful public participation in governing matters of collective concern? With the growth of distrust and alienation between citizens and established political institutions, it urgent to improve democracy by finding new ways of involving citizens in decisions that shape their lives. I make a counterintuitive proposal to look for new modes of public participation in informal practices creatively employed by citizens to contest governance arrangements, especially in settings where they are discouraged from doing so. Scholarship traditionally defines public participation as dependent on making issues public, i.e. visible and debatable, whereas informality is considered dysfunctional and anomic, not least to democracy itself. Therefore, informal practices that involve working around formal procedures and public spaces, and depend on remaining invisible, have not been explored as modes of public participation. My project is the first comprehensive study of public participation by means of informal practices. It takes a qualitative approach inspired by the ethnographic ‘rear-mirror’ methodology to comparatively investigate local (Russian healthcare system) and global (pharmaceutical industry) sites where non-democratic situations abound and identify how informality mediates participation in health, a domain personally relevant for many citizens because their lives are at stake. I will elucidate the effects of this mediation and elaborate the theoretical significance of conceptualising certain informal practices as public participation.  This project will offer a fundamentally novel insight into the impacts of informal practices on formulating and addressing matters of collective concern, enable discerning a wider spectrum of participatory modalities, and open up new avenues of democratisation. I will draw on my previous research on informality in health and pharmapolitics and on my extensive international network to achieve the project goals.
DISPOSITIF POUR LA JONCTION DE DEUX TUBES D'UN TRAIN DE TUBES

<P>L'invention est du domaine des techniques de forage. Elle a pour objet un dispositif d'articulation des tubes d'un train de tubes principalement caractérisé par des moyens formant ressorts 4 et 5, 6 et 7 reliant chacun des tubes 1 et 2 à un manchon 9, les moyens formant ressorts délimitant entre eux des chambres annulaires 11 et 12 destinées à être remplies de liquide; il résulte de cette disposition que des mouvements angulaires d'un tube par rapport à l'autre sont permis et qu'en conséquence les moments de flexion ne sont pas transmis. </P><P>Application à l'exploitation pétrolière sur plate-forme, dite << off shore >>.</P>
The study on the angular dependence of the resonance signal for optical pumping of the rubidium magnetometer

In this paper, the resonance signal of the rubidium optical pumping magnetometer was studied. The theory is based on the quantum physics and atomic physics. Through establishing the relation between the magnetic sub-level rate equations and the light intensity, the angular dependence of the resonance signal was discussed. When θ=0° the resonance signal is maximum, when θ=90° the signal strength becomes zero, and the equipment won't work. Through the simulated curves, the relationship between the resonance signal and the relaxation time as well as the density of rubidium vapor has also been done. This research provides a theoretical basis to solve the key technology of posture correction. As the rubidium vapour magnetometer measures the underwater geomagnetic field, it also plays a vital role for improving the accuracy of the instrument.
ZPGM DIESEL OXIDATION CATALYSTS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME

Diesel oxidation ZPGM catalyst systems are disclosed. ZPGM catalyst systems may oxidize toxic gases, such as carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides that may be included in exhaust gases. ZPGM catalyst systems may include: a substrate, a washcoat, and an impregnation layer. The washcoat may include at least one carrier material oxides. The impregnation layer may include at least one ZPGM catalyst, carrier material oxides and OSMs. Suitable known in the art chemical techniques, deposition methods and treatment systems may be employed in order to form the disclosed ZPGM catalyst systems.
Home, sweet home: How well-being shapes the adoption of artificial intelligence-powered apartments in smart cities

L’augmentation récente de l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et de l’Internet des objets a donné lieu à des changements fondamentaux qui affectent la vie quotidienne des utilisateurs. Des objets connectés intelligents et des maisons intelligentes sont apparus. L’objectif de cette étude est de comprendre les facteurs d’acceptation et de résistance des maisons intelligentes basées sur l’IA en combinant la théorie unifiée de l’acceptation et de l’utilisation de la technologie (UTAUT) avec d’autres théories pertinentes (théories d’acceptation de la technologie issues de la recherche sur l’IA et les robots ; théorie des focus régulateurs ; théorie des usages et gratifications ; théorie de la réceptivité à la technologie) dans un modèle unifié. Des données interculturelles sont collectées dans des pays occidentaux (France, Allemagne) et dans un pays oriental (Chine) et analysées à l’aide d’un modèle d’analyse de chemin des moindres carrés ordinaires. Les résultats montrent que les consommateurs poursuivent des types de buts complémentaires lorsqu’ils prennent des décisions (par exemple, des buts utilitaires, orientés vers la prévention, et des buts affectifs, orientés vers la promotion et impliquant le bien-être). Nous avons trouvé un fort impact positif de la sécurité technologique, de la confiance et du bien-être des maisons intelligentes sur l’intention d’utilisation. Les risques perçus en matière de vie privée n’influencent négativement l’intention d’utilisation que dans les pays développés.