SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Multi-Band Absorption Properties and Near-Field Enhancement in Mid-Infrared Based on the Interference Theory

We numerically study the multi-band absorption properties and near-field enhancement inside the microcavity based on the interference theory. The compact single unit cell consists of a gold square patch placed on the top of a metallic ground plane, separated by a dielectric layer. At the normal incidence of electromagnetic radiation, four bands of a maximum absorption of 98% are accomplished by appropriate sizes of the square patch. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the four bands, which are corresponding to the fundamental mode and higher modes of the standing wave, can be readily tuned in the mid-infrared region and associated with the near-field enhancement in the cuboid microcavity. Since chemical and biological fingerprints of the common functional groups can be found in the mid-infrared region, we may readily tune the multi-bands of interest in the mid-infrared range and identify the molecular stretches of groups. Moreover, the proposed structure is insensitive to the polarization of the incident wave due to the complete rotational symmetry (C4 symmetry). The unique properties of the optical metamaterial indicate that this approach is a promising strategy for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy and for the tracking of characteristic molecular vibrational modes
SEQUENTIAL DELIVERY OF IMMUNOGENIC MOLECULES VIA ADENOVIRUS AND ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS-MEDIATED ADMINISTRATIONS

An immunogenic regimen is provided. The regimen involves sequential administration of a recombinant adenoviral vector and a recombinant adeno-associated viral vector, each of which delivers a heterologous expression cassette encoding the same immunogenic product, or a cross-reactive immunogenic product. Also provided are products containing the vectors for use in the regimen of the invention.
The importance of the “not-so-cool” sectors: creative solutions to reconcile environmental and economic sustainability within a floodplain

Creative cities are generally considered as “cool” spaces which attract a particular “creative class” whose ability to innovate and transform – particularly in the media and cultural sectors – offers urban economies a competitive edge. This paper argues that, in the face of dangerous climate change, the creativity of the “not-so-cool” sectors needs to be acknowledged and valued. A case study of Salford in the north-west of England shows how political, technological and economic creativity has secured sustainable regeneration within a floodplain. It is argued that the concept of “creativity” in urban economic discourse needs to be widened to acknowledge the importance of the creativity of planners, civil engineers and builders in securing environmentally sustainable cities. Environmental sustainability, it suggests, not only underpins economic sustainability. Faced with dangerous climate change and society's need to respond, the skills and expertise can in themselves contribute to a city's competitiveness.
The Arthropod-Borne Onchocerciasis : Is It Deserved to Be Neglected ?

Onchocerciasis a filarial parasitic nematode, also known as river blindness and Robles disease, is a neglected tropical disease infecting more than 18 million people mainly in sub-Saharan of Africa, the Middle East, South and Central America and many other countries. Disease infectivity initiates from Onchocerca volvulus (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) transmitted by the blackfly, Simulium sp. which introduces the infective stage larva with its saliva into the skin. Within human body, adult females (macrofilaria) produce thousands of larvae (microfilariae) which migrate in skin and eye. Infection results in severe visual impairment or blindness for about 2 million, as being the world's second-leading cause of blindness after trachoma, as well as skin onchocercomata.
Criação de um Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento no domínio da investigação sobre métodos inovadores de fenotipagem e gestão de culturas ornamentais

O objetivo do projeto é criar no JMP Flowers Group Producers Sp. z o.o. CBR. em que serão realizadas pesquisas e desenvolvimentos para desenvolver métodos inovadores de cultivo de plantas ornamentais.
Operational FIre Danger preventIon plAtform 2

The main goal of Ofidia2 project is to prevent wildfires and protect the biodiversity in the forests and rural areas in the region of Apulia (Italy) and in Epirus (Greece).

A fruitful cooperation between scientific research, cutting-edge technologies, policymakers and Italian and Greek public agencies will improve the safety of environment from wildfires danger. A network of technologies, infrastructures and scientific knowledge is at the heart of the project that aims to develop environmental protection measures by setting up an operational big data infrastructure. 

With the help of HD video cameras, wireless sensors networks and drones, the stakeholders will effectively patrol high-danger and remotely located areas in the two Regions. A new control room in the Regional Civil Protection office in Bari will be the headquarters of the necessary operational activities in Puglia.

Lead Partner of the project is CMCC Foundation; the project partners are Decentralized Administration of Epirus-Western Macedonia, Forest Directorate (DAEWM), University of Ioannina, Puglia Region – Civil Protection Section; associated partners: Municipality of Lecce, ARIF (Regional Agency for Irrigation and Forest Activities).

Ofidia2 project capitalizes the results of the previous project Ofidia, already funded during the 2007-2013 Programming Period, by covering a larger area in both regions.
The ecosystem functioning dimension in conservation: insights from remote sensing

An important goal of conservation biology is the maintenance of ecosystem processes. Incorporating quantitative measurements of ecosystem functions into conservation practice is important given that it provides not only proxies for biodiversity patterns, but also new tools and criteria for management. In the satellite era, the translation of spectral information into ecosystem functional variables expands and complements the more traditional use of satellite imagery in conservation biology. Remote sensing scientists have generated accurate techniques to quantify ecosystem processes and properties of key importance for conservation planning such as primary production, ecosystem carbon gains, surface temperature, albedo, evapotranspiration, and precipitation use efficiency; however, these techniques are still unfamiliar to conservation biologists. In this article, we identify specific fields where a remotely-sensed characterization of ecosystem functioning may aid conservation science and practice. Such fields include the management and monitoring of species and populations of conservation concern; the assessment of ecosystem representativeness and singularity; the use of protected areas as reference sites to assess global change effects; the implementation of monitoring and warning systems to guide adaptive management; the direct evaluation of supporting ecosystem services; and the planning and monitoring of ecological restorations. The approaches presented here illustrate feasible ways to incorporate the ecosystem functioning dimension into conservation through the use of satellite-derived information.
Pulse propagation and failure in the discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo model subject to high-frequency stimulation

We investigate the effect of a homogeneous high-frequency stimulation (HFS) on a one-dimensional chain of coupled excitable elements governed by the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations. We eliminate the high-frequency term by the method of averaging and show that the averaged dynamics depends on the parameter $A=a/\ensuremath{\omega}$ equal to the ratio of the amplitude $a$ to the frequency $\ensuremath{\omega}$ of the stimulating signal, so that for large frequencies an appreciable effect from the HFS is attained only at sufficiently large amplitudes. The averaged equations are analyzed by an asymptotic theory based on the different time scales of the recovery and excitable variables. As a result, we obtain the main characteristics of a propagating pulse as functions of the parameter $A$ and derive an analytical criterion for the propagation failure. We show that depending on the parameter $A$, the HFS can either enhance or suppress pulse propagation and reveal the mechanism underlying these effects. The theoretical results are confirmed by numerical simulations of the original system with and without noise.
Low cots advanced driver assistance systems (adas): a cost affordable solution for improved road safety

Road safety is a mayor societal issue with road accidents being main cause of death in industrial countries. According to the
World Health Organization, the total number of road traffic deaths remains unacceptably high at 1.24 million per year,
occupying the 9th position in the list of top leading causes of death in the world. Advanced driver assistance systems
(ADAS) can contribute to a possible solution.
ADAS are systems developed to automate, adapt and enhance vehicle systems for safety and better driving. Since 2000,
the automotive industry has gradually introduced new ADAS features in vehicles. The progress in this field has been
enormous and it has been demonstrated that the most advanced ADAS systems can contribute reducing fatal road
accidents by a factor of more than 30%. However, in spite of the huge progress so far, relatively few vehicles on the road
today have these systems, and their share of the market is growing at only 2 to 5 percent annually.
The major problem preventing ADAS massive implementation is that these systems are only offered to the drivers when
purchasing a new vehicle as embedded solutions and the most advanced (securest ADAS) are found only in the high price
vehicle segment. This implies that the improved driving safety is restricted to the high purchasing power consumers and only
when replacing their old car, while it is not accessible to the lower-middleclass consumers.
The SMARTCARS project is aimed at making the most advanced ADAS systems accessible to everyone. Our technology is
not based on an embedded system but on an external hardware solution which can be integrated to any car manufactured
after year 2000 by a simple USB connection. SMARTCARS will enable any car owner paying just 475€ and 30€/year for
system maintenance, to enjoy the improved driving safety offered by the most advanced ADAS, which nowadays can only
be enjoyed when purchasing a new car of the premium-high price segment.
Changes consequent to maxillary molar distalization with the bone-anchored pendulum appliance

This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the dentoalveolar, skeletal, and soft tissue effects obtained with bone-anchored pendulum appliance in patients with Class II malocclusion.A total of 18 patients (4 male, 14 female) at a mean pretreatment age of 14.0 years (+1.08) were enrolled in this study. All patients were treated with the bone-anchored pendulum appliance for an average duration of 4.8 months. Only the active distalization period was evaluated with predistalization and postdistalization lateral cephalograms. Skeletal, dentoalveolar, and soft tissue variables were obtained. Based on these variables, the treatment effects were evaluated with dependent t-test.Correction of Class II molar relationship resulted from distal movement of 3.45 mm and tipping of 11.24° of the first maxillary molars. The premolars were distalized accompanying the molars.The bone-anchored pendulum appliance proved to be an effective method for distalization of maxillary molars in cases that require maximum anchorage, avoiding reciprocal mesial movement of premolars and incisors.
Small Multi-Band Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antennas for Personal Communication Devices

The design of a novel rectangular dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) for multi-band application has been presented in this paper. The presented antenna has been composed of very low cost and relatively low dielectric constant substrate materials while three-segment thin dielectrics with different sizes have been used and separated by two metal plates in order to set the four diﬀerent frequency bands. The proposed quad-band antenna operates at 2.4/3.5/5.2 & 5.8 GHz. The radiation pattern, gain and VSWR of this antenna show very good operation for this antenna in all frequency bands. The ﬁrst method based on ﬁnite element method (FEM) and the second one based on ﬁnite integral technique (FIT) have been used to analyze antenna structure, and subsequently the Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been applied by using HFSS simulator to obtain the optimized parameters. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v4i1.4576
A reviravolta estética do Brasil: de nação emergente a pária internacional

Ao longo das últimas décadas, o Brasil havia construído a imagem de uma nação emergente e progressista que passava, pouco a pouco, a exercer papel de liderança dentro do cenário político internacional. Neste artigo, efetuamos uma análise de conteúdo das cerimônias dos Jogos Olímpicos do Rio – realizadas em 2012 e em 2016 – revelando suas referências fragmentárias e mitos políticos. Em seguida, as comparamos com o posicionamento do atual governo com relação ao ambientalismo, ao multiculturalismo e à tolerância social. Desta maneira, ficou evidente que as representações do Brasil e dos brasileiros, expostas internacionalmente durante o governo Rousseff através das cerimônias olímpicas, diferem profundamente da imagem que o governo Bolsonaro buscou dar ao país a partir dos últimos anos da década de 2010. Apesar dos esforços de consecutivas administrações – sobretudo após a redemocratização, na década de 1980 – para transmitir a imagem de um Brasil emergente e progressista, crises políticas, a recessão econômica e, sobretudo, a vitória de um regime reacionário e antiambientalista nas eleições de 2018 colocaram em xeque tal narrativa nacional romantizada, revelando – internacionalmente e domesticamente – um país de contrastes, em que campos opostos competem pela nação como espaço sociopolítico e objeto simbólico.
A novel SLA-driven verification and planning framework for QoS

QoS (Quality of Service) guarantee has emerged as one of the most important technologies for the grid computing. Because the existing QoS control systems focus on designing independent executive management system, some problems still remain to be addressed, including low efficiency, bad scalability, and inadequate QoS automatic control. To address the above problems, this paper presents a novel SLA-driven system framework with verification and planning for QoS. The framework integrates functions of executive management with system services, achieves the optimization of system monitoring & management and automatic QoS control through a novel automatic combination of services, and scales well. The system framework with verification and planning for QoS is applied to heuristic scheduling to improve the Min-Min algorithm. An illustrative example and experimental results show that the system framework with verification and planning for QoS can effectively improve the efficiency of monitoring and management for QoS and facilitate automatic QoS control.
Non-parametric Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in India

The aim of the article is to analyze and evaluate technical efficiency scores of public sector banks (PSBs) in India. The study also determines the nature of return to scale (RTS) of individual banks and thereby identifies the leaders and laggards in the PSBs. To measure the extent of overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency (SE), the non-parametric approach, that is, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to determine the causes of inefficiency. The sample of the study includes 26 PSBs operating in India during the time period from 2007–2008 to 2011–2012. The results show that although the PSBs have more or less similar efficiency scores, that is, higher than 0.900, still out of 22 banks falling in the category of efficient banks in 2007–2008, only 7 of them were left by the year 2011–2012. Overall analysis of PSBs during the time period of the study explains that a greater part of inefficiency among PSBs is attributed to scale inefficiency. In addition, the number of banks operating at constant return to scale (CRS) came down to 9 in 2011–2012 from 23 in 2007–2008. Simultaneously, there was a reduction in leaders and increase in laggards. It is suggested that banks must optimize their scale of operations and adopt technological innovations.
Touch control substrate, driving method thereof, display panel and display device

A touch control substrate, a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The touch control substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of touch electrode blocks, disposed on the base substrate and arranged in an array; a resistance detection module, used for inputting a driving signal to the touch electrode blocks; a first control module, used for determining which touch electrode block is touched according to a time at which the touch electrode blocks in each row output the driving signal; a capacitance detection module, used for inputting a capacitance detection signal to sub-electrodes in each of two sub-rows of a row where the touched touch electrode block is located; and a second control module, used for determining a position of a touch point according to a capacitance feedback signal output by two sub-electrodes corresponding to the touched touch electrode block.
Combined solution of metal hydride and mechanical compressors: demonstration in the hysoparc green h2 mobility project

Hydrogen mobility is gaining unprecedented momentum through the deployment of passenger & heavy-duty FCEVs. Although the number of Hydrogen Refuelling Stations (HRS) is increasing, the development of a refuelling infrastructure remains a major issue. Today, the compressor is the most challenging component in an HRS in terms of costs and reliability.
The COSMHYC consortium developed an innovative compression solution (which combines metal hydride and diaphragm compressors), specifically addressing the needs of H2 mobility. In previous research projects, comprehensive tests enabled this technology to reach TRL5. The solution is now ready for real-life validation within the COSMHYC DEMO project. The aim is to demonstrate that it is well adapted to commercial use for a wide range of H2 applications. The project includes design, construction and integration of the demonstrator in a new dual-pressure HRS supplied with green hydrogen from solar-powered water electrolysis. This HRS is a central part of HYSOPARC, a project implemented by CCTVI (a grouping of municipalities) near Tours, France, for driving regional development based on H2 technologies. The HRS will supply a fleet of 700 bar passenger vehicles, 350 bar utility vehicles and a 700 bar garbage truck. This project presents a great opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness and versatility of the innovative compression solution.
The consortium will achieve further innovations on the compression solution followed by a 15 month demonstration phase within the HRS. The compression solution will be CE-certified & will meet latest refuelling standards, incl. for hydrogen purity. An advisory committee will support the partners to validate the solution against the needs of end-users. Market entry will be prepared through a techno-economic analysis and extensive communication, dissemination and exploitation activities, maximising the economic, environmental and societal impacts of the project.
Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite genetic differentiation in the European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus L.

Abstract Borrell, Y. J., Piñera, J. A., Sanchez Prado, J. A., and Blanco, G. 2012. Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite genetic differentiation in the European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus L. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: . The European anchovy Engraulisencrasicolus is currently one of the principal target species for commercial fisheries in Europe, and most stocks are overfished at present. In this work, specimens were sampled in the Bay of Biscay (Cantabrian, Basque Country, and French coasts) in 2009 and also in the Mediterranean (Adriatic Sea). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA; cytochrome b and 16S) was sequenced, and 14 nuclear microsatellites showing high and low levels of polymorphism were arranged in three multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems and genotyped. Two main ancient mitochondrial clades were found. These clades are separated by 15 mutational steps and 1.7% sequence divergence, corresponding to a separation time of ∼0.5 million years ago. Our results using both mtDNA and microsatellites suggest the presence of at least three genetically differentiated groups: the west Cantabrian Sea, the rest of the populations in the Bay of Biscay, and the Mediterranean. Although it is known that western Iberian Atlantic populations of E. encrasicolus may be genetically different from those of the Bay of Biscay, the results suggest that the transition between these groups may be as close as a 100 km and that a recent genetic homogenization process in the eastward area of the Bay of Biscay has probably occurred.
La cualificación del profesorado universitario y los retos en América Latina: caso coronavirus

En esta investigación se expresa una visión en torno a la cualificación de los profesores para afrontar el enfoque de formación que emergió a partir de la situación de emergencia sanitaria declarada en el año 2020 en América Latina. Presentaremos una descripción de variables influyentes y de discursos profesorales relacionados con la cualificación de los docentes universitarios, que va desde la fortaleza que ha representado para algunos profesores hasta las situaciones que deben mejorarse para articularse adecuadamente con las competencias digitales necesarias. Surge la necesidad de incorporar caminos permanentes de cualificación digital como medio que permita contribuir al mejoramiento del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Nuestro objetivo es profundizar las condiciones sobre las cuales se han desarrollado los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje en el marco de la emergencia sanitaria, para identificar los aspectos de contexto de América Latina, así como las principales brechas existentes para coadyuvar a la identificación de caminos de mejoramiento a nivel estratégico, táctico y operativo.