SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Volume changes during the motility period of fish spermatozoa: Interspecies differences

The aim of this study was to describe spermatozoa volume changes during the motility period of fish species with either osmotic (common carp Cyprinus carpio) or with ionic (sterlet Acipenseri ruthenus and brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis) modes of motility activation. Nephelometry, light microscopy, and spermatocrit methods were used for quantitative assessment of cell volume changes in media of different osmolalities. Significant correlation (R(2) = 0.7341; P < 0.001) between parameter of volume changes measured using nephelometry and light microscopy methods confirmed nephelometry as a sufficiently sensitive method to detect changes of spermatozoa volume. The spermatocrit alteration method resulted in a large proportion of damaged and potentially immotile spermatozoa in media of osmolality less than 150 mOsm/kg in carp and osmolalities from 10 to 300 mOsm/kg in sterlet and brook trout. Therefore, this method is not reliable for assessing spermatozoa swelling in hypotonic solutions, because the integrity of the cells is not fully preserved. Increase in carp spermatozoa (osmotic activation mode) volume occurred during the motility period in hypotonic conditions, but no indications of volume changes were found in sterlet and brook trout spermatozoa (ionic activation mode) associated with environmental osmolality alteration. Accordingly, we conclude that sperm volume changes are differentially involved in the motility activation process. Species-specific differences in spermatozoa volume changes as a response to a hypotonic environment during the motility period are discussed in relation to their potent physiological role.
Three steps to safety: developing procedures for active shooters.

Every Second counts once gunshots are heard in the workplace environment. Close the office door, turn out the lights and turn the mobile phone to 'silent' is the standard mantra for what is expected in the response efforts; however, is that enough? In a perfect world, this sermon may fall short of what emergency management practitioners might preach as it does not adequately fulfil the reality of what is best practice for optimal life safety. This paper offers options for lockdown preparedness and response to address internal lockdown from the moment shots are fired. Recommendations for the creation of a lockdown plan, building assessment surveys and a controlled, simulated exercise are addressed to raise awareness in response methods and reduce overall response time. The procedures suggested in this paper will optimise training efforts using the community's standard emergency operating procedures in response to workplace violence to minimise loss of life.
Kanaloplastie und transiente Vorderkammerblutung: ein prognostischer Faktor?

An attempt has been made to evaluate transient anterior chamber haemorrhage after canaloplasty.In the period from November 2008 to October 2009 a total of 21 eyes in 17 patients underwent canaloplasty for primary open angle glaucoma in our clinic. At the end of surgery all eyes left the surgical table with an intraocular pressure (IOP) of 5 - 10 mmHg and a deep anterior chamber without any bleeding.The IOP on day 1 after surgery was 9.6 mmHg in average. By that time 15 of 21 eyes showed anterior chamber haemorrhage with a hyphaema between 0.5 - 2 mm in height. Eyes without hyphaema showed an IOP of > 15 mmHg at the same time. In no case was there further haemorrhage, the blood was absorbed in all cases within a maximum of 1 week without further complications.In contrast to trabeculectomy, where the natural anterior chamber water outflow is by-passed via an artificial fistula, canaloplasty attempts to re-establish the physiological anterior chamber water draining system by means of a 360 degree viscocanalostomy and a thread mediated dilation of Schlemm's canal and its collector channels. If the anterior chamber pressure temporarily lowers the level of the venous capillary pressure, it is consistent with a patent piping system when a reverse flow with blood reflux into the anterior chamber can be observed as long as a minimal physiological pressure gradient from the anterior chamber in the direction of channel Schlemm's canal has been restored. Thus, in the authors opinion, anterior chamber haemorrhage shows the desired consistency of the water draining system and should therefore logically be expected after each successful operation in all cases where hypotony in the postoperative period occurs.
Two highly destructive twenty-first century vapor cloud explosions: one in the United Kingdom and the other in Venezuela

This chapter reviews two massive and powerful unconfined vapor cloud explosions. One occurred in Buncefield, Hertfordshire near London, England and is well documented with public reports. The other incident occurred in Amuay, Venezuela. The Amuay incident has multiple reports that have some major differences in the cause but not in the consequences. Government reports say that the Amuay incident was the result of sabotage; others say it was lack of maintenance. Each incident resulted in a large blast with major damages to the nearby residential areas or adjacent commercial facilities. Each incident occurred in a tank farm area and not within a refinery process area. The British were fortunate that it occurred on a Sunday morning when few people were working in the nearby commercial buildings. In Venezuela, the blast killed an estimated 47 people and only one was a refinery worker. A number of casualties were National Guard and their family members.
Viscosity iterative scheme for generalized mixed equilibrium problems and nonexpansive semigroups

In this paper, we propose a new general iterative scheme based on the viscosity approximation method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of the generalized mixed equilibrium problem and the set of all common fixed points of a finite family of nonexpansive semigroups. Then, we prove the strong convergence of the iterative scheme to find a unique solution of the variational inequality that is the optimality condition for the minimization problem. Our results extend and improve some recent results of Cianciaruso et al. (J. Optim. Theory Appl. 146:491–509, 2010), Kamraksa and Wangkeeree (J. Glob. Optim. 51:689–714, 2011), and many others.
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea

The daughter who nobody wanted learns the truth about the mother she never knew. page-turning, heart-breaking full of surprises...this is a classic whodunit. (Scotsman). McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things - and sometimes people - lost or missing at sea. His expertise could unravel the haunting mystery of why, twenty-six years ago on a remote Scottish beach, Megan Bates strode out into the cold ocean and let the waves wash her away. Megan's daughter, Violet Wells, was abandoned as a baby on the steps of a local hospital just hours before the mother she never knew took her own life. As McGill is drawn into Violet's search for the truth, he encounters a coastal community divided by obsession and grief, and united only by a conviction that its secrets should stay buried...Praise for The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Simply intoxicating. (Library Journal, USA). Entertaining and gripping mystery. (The Herald). A classic whodunit. (The Scotsman). Cal McGill is a triumph...a wonderfully unique creation. (crimefictionlover.com). Great writing, enjoyable story-telling and wonderful characterisation. (The Scots Magazine).
PORTABLE FIREWALL

A firewall device provides a novel architecture for conducting firewall and other network interface management operations over a wired Ethernet connection. The firewall device includes a first network interface for connecting to a first packet switched network connection that transports packets, a second network interface for connecting to a second packet switched network connection that transports packets, and firewall circuitry configured to perform firewall operations on the packets transported between the first and second network interfaces and being powered entirely through power received through one of the first and second network interfaces over one of the first or second packet switched network connections.
Maternal renal artery Doppler sonographic changes in pregnancy-induced hypertension in South West Nigeria

To evaluate the renal arterial hemodynamic changes caused by pregnancy-induced hypertension using Doppler ultrasonography.Eighty (80) subjects with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and 160 controls (80 pregnant normotensive women and 80 healthy, non-pregnant women) underwent triplex renal sonography prospectively to determine their renal volumes and right renal artery Doppler indices.The peak systolic velocity, end diastolic velocity, pulsatility index, systolic/diastolic ratio and acceleration time were respectively significantly higher in the PIH group (68.67 cm/s, 21.55 cm/s, 1.23, 3.38, 123.2 ms) than the pregnant, normotensive group (65.19 cm/s, 20.27 cm/s, 0.88, 3.35, 61.14 ms) and healthy, non-pregnant group (52.06 cm/s, 18.27 cm/s, 0.84, 2.90, 68.48 ms). Resistivity index was also increased in the PIH group, but this was not statistically significant. Conversely, the systolic acceleration was significantly lower in the PIH group (6.06 m/s(2)) compared to the pregnant, normotensive group (11.82 m/s(2)) and healthy, non-pregnant group (8.26 m/s(2)). The right renal volume of the PIH group (132.76 cm(3)) was significantly higher that of the pregnant, normotensive group (125.29 cm(3)) and healthy, non-pregnant group (91.66 cm(3)). The same pattern was observed in the left renal volume which was 168.78 cm(3), 164.95 cm(3) and 113.80 cm(3) in the study groups, respectively.Renal Doppler ultrasound is clinically relevant in the diagnosis and follow-up of renal complications in patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Hybrid Porous Materials with High Surface Area Derived from Bromophenylethenyl-Functionalized Cubic Siloxane-Based Building Units

Sonogashira cross-coupling of bromophenylethenyl-terminated cubic, double four-ring, siloxane cages with di-/triethynyl compounds results in microporous poly(ethynylene aryleneethenylene silsesquioxane) networks, simply termed as polyorganosiloxane networks (PSNs). In comparison with porous organic polymers reported previously, these PSNs show relatively high surface area and comparable thermal stability. Their apparent BET specific surface areas vary in the range of 850-1040 m(2) g(-1) depending on the length and the connectable sites of the ethynyl compounds. Analyses of pore size distribution revealed bimodal micropores with relatively narrow distribution. The degree of cross-linking affects the degree of cleavage of the siloxane bonds, and this suggests that partial cleavage of the siloxane cages is mainly a result of cage distortion. Hydrogen adsorption was performed to evaluate potential of the PSNs as hydrogen storage media. Uptakes of up to 1.19 wt% at 77 K and 760 Torr and initial isosteric heats of adsorption as high as 8.0 kJ mol(-1) were observed. These materials have been obtained by a combination of structural, synthetic organic, and materials chemistry, which can exploited to synthesize porous hybrid materials with specifically designed structures and functions.
Psychiatric ratings using intermediate stratified markers - sofia ref.: 115916

The current nosology of neuropsychiatric disorders allows for a pragmatic approach to treatment choice, regulation and clinical research. However, without a biological rationale for these disorders, drug development has dramatically stagnated in the past decades. In a coordinated effort encompassing academic experts, SMEs, patient and family organizations, regulators, ECNP and EFPIA partners, this project aims to develop a quantitative biological approach to the understanding and classification of neuropsychiatric diseases to accelerate the discovery and development of better treatments for patients. This project will concentrate on Schizophrenia (SZ), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and Major Depression (MD), as these disorders share part of their symptomatology, in particular social withdrawal and certain cognitive deficits, such as deficits in attention, working memory and sensory processing. By applying innovative technologies (e.g. EEG, cognitive tasks, (f)MRI,
smartphone monitoring, and (epi-)genetics) to deep phenotype a clinical cohort of SZ and AD patients combined with a wider analysis of existing clinical data sets from major European and global disease cohorts that also include MD, we will define a set of quantifiable biological parameters best able to cluster and differentiate SZ, AD, and MD patients that do, or do not, exhibit social withdrawal. First, by mining large European SZ, AD and MD cohort datasets with already available social and cognitive proxy measures, and, second, by obtaining objective measures of social exploration levels (using a novel smartphone application), phenotypic relationships with social and cognitive measures will be further tested. For instance we might predict that socially withdrawn individuals may have lower cognitive functioning and poorer clinical course compared to those who are more socially engaged.
Emulation of subgrid-scale aerosol-cloud interactions in climate models: towards a realistic representation of aerosol indirect effect

I propose to develop an innovative interdisciplinary model framework to refine the estimate of aerosol indirect effect (i.e. influence of atmospheric aerosol particles on cloud properties), which remains the single largest uncertainty in the current drivers of climate change. 

A major reason for this uncertainty is that current climate models are unable to resolve the spatial scales for aerosol-cloud interactions. We will resolve this scale problem by using statistical emulation to build computationally fast surrogate models (i.e. emulators) that can reproduce the effective output of a detailed high-resolution cloud-resolving model. By incorporating these emulators into a state-of-the-science climate model, we will for the first time achieve the accuracy of a limited-area high-resolution model on a global scale with negligible computational cost.

The main scientific outcome of the project will be a highly refined and physically sound estimate of the aerosol indirect effect that enables more accurate projections of future climate change, and thus has high societal relevance. In addition, the developed emulators will help to quantify how the remaining uncertainties in aerosol properties propagate to predictions of aerosol indirect effect. This information will be used, together with an extensive set of remote sensing, in-situ and laboratory data from our collaborators, to improve the process-level understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions. 

The comprehensive uncertainty analyses performed during this project will be highly valuable for future research efforts as they point to processes and interactions that most urgently need to be experimentally constrained. Furthermore, our pioneering model framework that incorporates emulators to represent subgrid- scale processes will open up completely new research opportunities also in other fields that deal with heterogeneous spatial scales.
From quantum to classical modeling of radiation reaction: a focus on the radiation spectrum

Soon available multi petawatt ultra-high-intensity (UHI) lasers will allow us to probe high-amplitude electromagnetic fields interacting with either ultra-relativistic electron beams or hot plasmas in the so-called moderately quantum regime. The correct modelling of the back-reaction of high-energy photon emission on the radiating electron dynamics, a.k.a. radiation reaction, in this regime is a key point for UHI physics. This will lead to both validation of theoretical predictions on the photon spectrum emitted during the laser-particle interaction and to the generation of high energy photon sources. In this paper we analyse in detail such emission using recently developed models to account for radiation reaction. We show how the predictions on the spectrum can be linked to a reduced description of the electron distribution function in terms of the first energy moments. The temporal evolution of the spectrum is discussed, as well as the parameters for which quantum effects induce hardening of the spectrum.
A DRIVERLESS VEHICLE DEMONSTRATION ON MOTORWAYS AND IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

The constant growth of the number of vehicles in today’s world demands improvements in the safety and efficiency of roads and road use. This can be in part satisfied by the implementation of autonomous driving systems because of their greater precision than human drivers in controlling a vehicle. As result, the capacity of the roads would be increased by reducing the spacing between vehicles. Moreover, greener driving modes could be applied so that the fuel consumption, and therefore carbon emissions, would be reduced. This paper presents the results obtained by the AUTOPIA program during a public demonstration performed in June 2012. This driverless experiment consisted of a 100-kilometre route around Madrid (Spain), including both urban and motorway environments. A first vehicle – acting as leader and manually driven – transmitted its relevant information – i.e., position and speed – through an 802.11p communication link to a second vehicle, which tracked the leader’s trajectory and speed while maintaining a safe distance. The results were encouraging, and showed the viability of the AUTOPIA approach.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A RADIO TRANSCEIVER

A wireless radio transceiver which reduces interference between antennas positioned in substantially close proximity is disclosed. The exemplary radio transceiver comprises at least two radios, at least one antenna interfacing with each of the radios, at least one antenna spacer mounted to each of the antennas, and at least one shield, wherein each of the antenna spacers are mounted to one of the shields.
METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING OR ERASING DATA IN A MASTER-SLAVE ENVIRONMENT

The present invention relates to a method for transferring or erasing data of a memory (4) in a system comprising at least a slave device (2) connected to a master device (1) by a Serial Peripheral Interface bus (3). According to the invention, the method comprises the steps of: - the slave device transmits (S1) an interrupt signal to the master device, - in response to said interrupt signal, the master device transmits (53) a read command to read a status register of the slave device, said status register storing flags indicating whether a data transfer and/or erase in the memory is requested or not by the slave device, - in response to said read command, the slave device transmits (54) the flags of the status register and address information and length information on the data to be transferred or erased, and - the master device parses the flags (S7) and triggers (S8-S10) a transfer and/or erase operation in accordance with said flags, address information and length information.
Asking Questions – Critical Thinking Tools

Abstract The study aims at highlighting the way in which the theories of critical thinking from the last 25 years may be exploited in the school practice from primary education. By exploiting the didactic experience and practice from the psycho-pedagogic experiment conducted, we shall illustrate a way of formative intervention in the direction of building critical thinking. The purpose of our intervention is to value the R.W.C.T. methods, the taxonomy of interrogation and the Socratic seminar with a view to forming/building critical thinking skills at students in the 4 th grade. On this basis, we shall demonstrate how we have applied a critical thinking stimulation process, during a school year, within the program Asking Questions OMC 3-3-4.
Open framework of e-services for multilingual and semantic enrichment of digital content

The aim of the FREME innovative action is to establish an “Open Framework of E-Services for Multilingual and Semantic Enrichment of Digital Content”. Six enrichment services will be designed, piloted, and validated during the action. Their innovation, usability, and robustness will be shaped by four real world business cases that will bring FREME data innovation and technology transfer directly to the market: (1) authoring and publishing multilingually and semantically enriched eBooks; (2) integrating semantic enrichment into multilingual content during localisation; (3) enhancing cross-language sharing and access to open data and (4) empowering personalised content recommendations.
FREME innovation will lead to new business models for digital content and Big Data markets and will contribute to EU competiveness and new job profiles in the digital content management realm.
FREME addresses specific challenges of topic ICT 15-2014: 1) FREME will improve the ability of EU companies to build innovative multilingual data products and services by providing six innovative, user-friendly, and robust enrichment services that are accessible both via APIs and GUIs; 2) FREME will remove technological barriers for multilingual content technologies by allowing to use data assets in an interoperable, reusable, and aggregatable way across sector, borders, and languages; 3) FREME will transfer existing mature multilingual and semantic technologies and cloud-based infrastructures previously developed by partners and available on their 7, 8, or 9 technology readiness level for action as value-adding components to content and data value chains during; 4) FREME business cases will validate the action concept, approach, and ambition within the entire content and data value chain.
The core of the FREME consortium are companies who define business cases, partners who shape data innovation and technology transfer including their expertise in market validation and business modelling and planning.
Low expression of ferroxidases is implicated in the iron retention in human atherosclerotic plaques

The effect of iron on the progress of atherosclerosis is still controversial. To explore the relationship between atherosclerotic plaques and iron metabolism and how iron is accumulated in plaque macrophages, we performed Oil red O staining to detect the lipid of the atherosclerotic plaques, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect the intracellular lipids (total cholesterol, free cholesterol) and serum hepcidin, Western-blot to examine the iron-related proteins, immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence assays to localize ferroportin 1 in macrophages. The contents of serum iron and transferrin saturation were measured. The results confrimed that atherosclerotic plaques were all lipid-rich. Compared to normal vessel wall, atherosclerotic plaques had significantly higher levels of ferritin and ferroportin 1. Strikingly, we found the much lower levels of ferroxidases ceruloplasmin and hephaestin in plaque tissue than the normal vessel, while the content of serum hepcidin, iron and transferrin saturation were similar in these two groups. The novel finding suggests that the inability of ferrous iron to be oxidized into ferric iron might be a potential mechanism for iron retention in plaques.
CONVERTIBLE SKI-SUPPORTED VEHICLE

Wheel unit (20) to be semi-permanently mounted on the ski (1) of a snowmobile. Wheels (18) are readily deployable or retractable as conditions require. The wheel unit (20) allows the snowmobile to be driven over gravel, dirt, and hardtop surfaces, without losing its ability to be steered with the handlebars.
USE OF IONIC MATRICES FOR MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS OF TISSUE SECTIONS

The invention concerns improved methods for studying peptides/proteins expression in a tissue section or for determining at least one compound, in particular a protein, expression map in a tissue section, using ionic MALDI matrices.