SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Geology of the Campanian M1 sandstone oil reservoir of eastern Ecuador: A delta system sourced from the Amazon Craton

Abstract The Campanian M1 sandstone Member of the Napo Formation is one of the main reservoirs of the Capiron-Tiputini oil play system of the eastern part of the Oriente Basin of Ecuador. This study presents a geological model for this reservoir at the Apaika and Nenke oil fields included within the Block 31, and the Eden Yuturi oil field, operated by PETROAMAZONAS EP. The geological characterization of the M1 sandstone is based on an integrated study, which includes core description, electric log analyses and seismic data interpretation. The sedimentological descriptions from available cored sections show that M1 sandstone records a variety of fluvial to shallow marine processes, including mass flow and delta-front turbidity currents not previously documented. The stratal stacking pattern interpreted from electric logs indicates that the succession reflects deltaic progradation rather than the backstepping pattern typically displayed by the underlying Albian to Santonian sediments of the Napo Formation. Seismic RMS amplitude defines clinoform geometries with sigmoidal sand body architecture prograding from east to west. Correlation with neighboring regions in Colombia suggest that the M1 sandstone was probably part of a large river-dominated delta system sourced from the east during major Campanian progradation. The location of the source area of sediment was determined using U-Pb detrital zircon dating. Provenance ages are uniform within the M1 Sandstone cluster in a population that ranges from 1.4 to 1.6 billion years. These ages indicate that sands were derived mostly from erosion of the lithotectonic Rio Negro-Jurena province, located to the northeast of the studied area. Detrital ages from the overlying Maastrichtian Tena Formation include ages between 80 and 200 Ma pointing to an important change in the source areas, located in the Eastern Cordillera of Ecuador. The change in sediment supply from east to west recorded in the Tena Formation coincide with the initial episodes of the Andean orogeny, and may be driven by the collision of fragments of the Caribbean large igneous province (CLIP) against the continental margin of northwestern South America.
Sobre la identidad taxonómica de Polycarpon apurense (Caryophyllaceae) con una aclaración sobre su distribución en Sudamérica

Como parte de los estudios en curso del género Polycarpon (Caryophyllaceae) y la preparación de su tratamiento para la Flora Argentina, presentamos aquí una nota taxonómica sobre la identidad del nombre P. apurense. Un espécimen preservado en P es designado como el lectotipo de este nombre. Se discute su identidad y se descarta la sinonimia con P. prostratum, recurrente en la literatura, sobre la base de algunos caracteres morfológicos como el hábito, forma y tamaño de las hojas. Se propone un cambio nomenclatural (P. tetraphyllum subsp. apurense), sobre la base del concepto actual en el género Polycarpon. Sobre la distribución de este taxon, se excluye de las floras de Brasil y Uruguay y, se considera un registro dudoso para Perú.
Great ape organoids to reconstruct uniquely human development

Humans diverged from our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and other great apes, 6-10 million years ago. Since this divergence, our ancestors acquired genetic changes that enhanced cognition, altered metabolism, and endowed our species with an adaptive capacity to colonize the entire planet and reshape the biosphere. Through genome comparisons between modern humans, Neandertals, chimpanzees and other apes we have identified genetic changes that likely contribute to innovations in human metabolic and cognitive physiology. However, it has been difficult to assess the functional effects of these genetic changes due to the lack of cell culture systems that recapitulate great ape organ complexity. Human and chimpanzee pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can self-organize into three-dimensional (3D) tissues that recapitulate the morphology, function, and genetic programs controlling organ development. Our vision is to use organoids to study the changes that set modern humans apart from our closest evolutionary relatives as well as all other organisms on the planet. In ANTHROPOID we will generate a great ape developmental cell atlas using cortex, liver, and small intestine organoids. We will use single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility to identify cell type-specific features of transcriptome divergence at cellular resolution. We will dissect enhancer evolution using single-cell genomic screens and ancestralize human cells to resurrect pre-human cellular phenotypes. ANTHROPOID utilizes quantitative and state-of-the-art methods to explore exciting high-risk questions at multiple branches of the modern human lineage. This project is a ground breaking starting point to replay evolution and tackle the ancient question of what makes us uniquely human?
Reestatización del agua potable y resiliencia neoliberal en Uruguay

Resumen El artículo discute sobre la neoliberalización de la naturaleza a partir del estudio de la reestatización de los servicios de distribución del agua potable y saneamiento en Uruguay durante el gobierno progresista del Frente Amplio. Se propone el concepto de “resiliencia neoliberal” para entender la reproducción de una lógica neoliberal en la gestión de estos servicios a pesar del reconocimiento del derecho humano al agua en la Constitución del país. A partir de una metodología cualitativa y cuantitativa, se reconstruye el proceso de privatización de los servicios hídricos y sus repercusiones sociales. Se identifican cuatro procesos que frenan la vuelta a servicios públicos y estatales: la permanencia de concesiones con capitales privados, la fragilización del sistema de subsidios cruzados, la desmovilización de la oposición y la inserción en un modelo de desarrollo económico neoliberal.
Integrated porous cementitious nanocomposites in non-residential building envelopes for green active/passive energy storage

The NRG-STORAGE project will launch a novel breakthrough solution that replaces the currently available insulation materials used in building envelopes, by proposing a multi-functional and eNeRGy saving cementitious Foam (NRG-Foam). The heat-activated foam will be used for passive/active management of energy transfer and will be applied to new building envelopes and to retrofit existing ones. Graphene-based nano-additives will be doped in both cementitious foam matrix and bio-based PCM fraction for improving the thermal storage capacity, volume stability and mechanical properties of the resulting composite. Two active/passive systems will be prototyped and validated. First, an implicit heating system for thermal activation of the added nano-graphene will be installed representing a material-based approach, and, second, a multi-functional energy efficient façade system (MeeFS) will be installed, to diverse and direct the thermal absorption capacity and shadowing of the external building walls for optimizing the NRG-Foam’s. 
NRG-Foam composites will be optimized to achieve the best compromise between thermal insulating properties (air bubbles) and heat storage capacity (bio-PCMs). A highly conductive cementitious paste will be designed and produced,  targeting on an increase in thermal conductivity (once activated up to 10 times for bio-PCM, and 2 times for cement matrix), and an enhanced efficiency of bio-PCM heat storing performance (> 5 times). With this project, the partners will develop an innovative functional material that combines high insulation capabilities (more than 25% of classical layers) and high energy-storage capacity (more than 10% of improvement in active applications). Furthermore, the NRG-Foam layer will be characterized by a high water and air tightness (between 10% and 25% higher than existing solutions) and at least 15% lower costs than the actual solutions available in Europe for insulation purposes of non-residential buildings.
La fibrosis endomiocárdica tropical, una enfermedad abandonada. Serie de casos en Camerún

Las redes de Código Infarto deben garantizar una atención al infarto agudo de miocardio con elevación del segmento ST con buenos resultados clínicos y dentro de los parámetros de tiempo recomendados. No hay información contemporánea sobre el funcionamiento de estas redes en España. El objetivo es analizar las características clínicas de los pacientes atendidos, el tiempo hasta la reperfusión, las características de la intervención realizada y la mortalidad a 30 días.Registro prospectivo, observacional y multicéntrico de pacientes los consecutivos atendidos en 17 redes de Código Infarto en España (83 centros con Código Infarto) entre el 1 de abril y el 30 de junio de 2019.Se atendió a 5.401 pacientes (media de edad, 64 ± 13 años; el 76,9% varones), de los que 4.366 (80,8%) sufrieron un infarto con elevación del ST. De estos, se trató al 87,5% con angioplastia primaria, al 4,4% con fibrinolisis y al 8,1% sin reperfusión. En los casos tratados con angioplastia primaria, el tiempo entre el inicio de los síntomas y la reperfusión fue 193 [135-315] min y el tiempo entre el primer contacto médico y la reperfusión, 107 [80-146] min. La mortalidad total a 30 días por infarto agudo de miocardio con elevación del ST fue del 7,9%, mientras que entre los pacientes tratados con angioplastia primaria fue del 6,8%.Se trató con angioplastia primaria a la inmensa mayoría de los pacientes con infarto agudo de miocardio con elevación del ST, y en más de la mitad de los casos el tiempo desde el primer contacto médico hasta la reperfusión fue < 120 min. La mortalidad a 30 días fue relativamente baja.ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) networks should guarantee STEMI care with good clinical results and within the recommended time parameters. There is no contemporary information on the performance of these networks in Spain. The objective of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics of patients, times to reperfusion, characteristics of the intervention performed, and 30-day mortality.Prospective, observational, multicenter registry of consecutive patients treated in 17 STEMI networks in Spain (83 centers with the Infarction Code), between April 1 and June 30, 2019.A total of 5401 patients were attended (mean age, 64 ± 13 years; 76.9% male), of which 4366 (80.8%) had confirmed STEMI. Of these, 87.5% were treated with primary angioplasty, 4.4% with fibrinolysis, and 8.1% did not receive reperfusion. In patients treated with primary angioplasty, the time between symptom onset and reperfusion was 193 [135-315] minutes and the time between first medical contact and reperfusion was 107 [80-146] minutes. Overall 30-day mortality due to STEMI was 7.9%, while mortality in patients treated with primary angioplasty was 6.8%.Most patients with STEMI were treated with primary angioplasty. In more than half of the patients, the time from first medical contact to reperfusion was < 120 minutes. Mortality at 30 days was relatively low.Full English text available from:www.revespcardiol.org/en
Environmental Regulation and Location of Industrialized Agricultural Production in Europe

This paper analyzes empirically the extent to which environmental regulation influences production location in the pig industry. The analysis is based on a general empirical location model that captures interactions between region and sector characteristics in determining production location, and data on pig production in 43 European regions. We find that while environmental regulation may not have a measurable effect on the E.U. pig industry location per se, it is a strong influence on the sectoral composition of the industry. Relatively highly polluting sectors of the pig industry are attracted to relatively lax jurisdictions, which become pollution havens (hot spots of hog waste).
Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method therefor

A liquid crystal display ( 200 ) includes a first base plate ( 202 ), a second base plate ( 220 ), a liquid crystal layer ( 238 ) located between the first base plate and the second base plate, and two alignment films ( 210, 228 ). The two alignment films are respectively positioned on inner surfaces of the first base plate and the second base plate. Each alignment film is a film of oriented carbon nanotubes ( 212, 230 ). An oriented direction of the carbon nanotubes on the first base plate is perpendicular to that of the carbon nanotubes on the second base plate. A manufacturing method for the liquid crystal display is also disclosed.
Research on Startup Process and Influencing Factors of Half-Nitrosofication in CANON Reactor

The experimental study on startup process of half-nitrosofication for high ammonia nitrogen simulated wastewater has been accomplished with a reactor of completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite (CANON). The startup process and its influences of the concentration of influent , DO and pH were analyzed with the experimental results. The results show that the conversion rate of to is close to 55%, the accumulation rate of is over 95% and the rate of to steadily keeps as 1.02~1.24 under the condition of influent of 400 mg/L, pH of 7.6~8.2, DO of 0.95~1.3mg/L, HRT of 1.5d and water temperature of 17~27°C, which meet the environmental requirements for anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria growth, and half-nitrosofication was achieved in the CANON reactor, which create good conditions for further enrichment of anammox bacteria for the operation of the CANON reactor.
Who Talks, and Who’s Listening? Networks of International Security Studies

This article examines the international networks of communication among journals concerned with international security studies. It uses the Web of Knowledge database on which journals cited articles in which other journals over the decade 1999—2008, and on the overall impact of each journal in the field as a whole. We discover a complex set of networks, with different central journals exerting influence both overall and within subnetworks, as well as peripheral journals linked weakly to only a few others. Some subnetworks can be distinguished by methodology or theoretical schools. Subnetworks frequently cross geographical lines, including both European and USA journals. No single journal dominates the field.
Consequences of conspiracy theories

The rise of conspiracy theories is often framed as a cause of various social ills such as declining public trust in democracy, the growing allure of populist and extremist politics, and the rejection of scientific consensus in favour of hearsay and fake news. However, the extent to which conspiracy theories contribute to these problems is not clear. Despite hundreds of academic articles on this topic in recent years, and significant interest in conspiracy theories in both academic and non-academic circles, there has never been a systematic investigation of their consequences. In fact, we know very little about when, how, and why conspiracy theories affect the decisions and wellbeing of individuals and societies. 

The current project will address this issue, pulling together a team of three postdoctoral researchers, two PhD students, one Masters student, and senior collaborators from a range of academic disciplines. To discover when and how conspiracy theories are influential, three sub-projects will each focus on one of the key contexts in which conspiracy theories have shown the most potential to shape people’s beliefs and behaviours: politics, vaccination, and climate change. To understand why conspiracy theories are influential, a fourth sub-project will focus on the consequences of conspiracy theories for the persons who spread them, concentrating in particular on the use of conspiracy theories by politicians and other elites.  

A project on this scale, and with this level of sophistication, has never been attempted before. It will adopt a mixed-methods approach using archival and social media analyses, interviews, cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, and experiments (including attitude, behavioural, cognitive/neuropsychological and physiological techniques). This project will move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art in the literature to identify when, how, and why conspiracy theories matter.
TRANSPORTING APPARATUS

The invention relates to a transporting apparatus for transporting containers (10), comprising a rotatable transporting wheel (2) with a multiplicity of accommodating units (3) each for accommodating a container (10), also comprising a multiplicity of clamping means (4), wherein in each case one clamping means (4) is arranged on an accommodating unit (3), and further comprising a fixed control curve (5), wherein each clamping means (4) comprises a control roller (40), a restoring element (41) and a clamping lever (42), which can be pivoted about a point of rotation (D), wherein a container (10) can be clamped between the clamping lever (42) and a surface (30) of the accommodating unit (3), wherein the control roller (40) of each clamping means (4) is in contact with control curve (5), in order to cause the clamping means (4) to open, and wherein the restoring element (41) guides the clamping lever (42) back into a closed position again.
Bi-Stage Large Point Set Registration Using Gaussian Mixture Models

Point set registration is to determine correspondences between two different point sets, then recover the spatial transformation between them. Many current methods, become extremely slow as the cardinality of the point set increases; making them impractical for large point sets. In this paper, we propose a bi-stage method called bi-GMM-TPS, based on Gaussian Mixture Models and Thin-Plate Splines (GMM-TPS). The first stage deals with global deformation. The two point sets are grouped into clusters independently using K-means clustering. The cluster centers of the two sets are then registered using a GMM based method. The point sets are subsequently aligned based on the transformation obtained from cluster center registration. At the second stage, the GMM based registration method is again applied, to fine tune the alignment between the two clusters to address local deformation. Experiments were conducted on eight publicly available datasets, including large point clouds. Comparative experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method, is much faster than state-of-the-art methods GMM-TPS and QPCCP (Quadratic Programming based Cluster Correspondence Projection); especially on large non-rigid point sets, such as the swiss roll, bunny and USF face datasets, and challenging datasets with topological ambiguity such as the banana dataset. Although the Coherent Point Drift (CPD) method has comparable computational speed, it is less robust than bi-GMM-TPS. Especially for large point sets, under conditions where the number of clusters is not extreme, a complexity analysis shows that bi-GMM-TPS is more efficient than GMM-TPS.
Deploying high capacity dense small cell heterogeneous networks

Broadband mobile networks are experiencing exponential traffic growth. It is predicted that this trend will continue in the next five to ten years with an estimated compound annual growth rate of 0.6 to 1.0. Hence the traffic (mostly data) carried by a mobile operator’s network in 2022 could be over 1000 times of that in 2012. This traffic growth presents a huge challenge to both the mobile industry and to academic researchers.

Along with increased spectrum efficiency, spectrum bandwidth expansion and traffic offloading through WiFi, small cell deployment is regarded as one of the most promising ways to meet the use of broadband mobile service in both outdoor and in particular indoor scenarios in the next decade. The deployment of small cells in a macrocell coverage area leads to a multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet), in which a mix of access node types, such as macrocell, femtocell and relay, will co-exist. Despite the current research and development on small cell/HetNet from both industry and academia, there are still many challenges to be addressed and questions to be answered for successful small cell and HetNet deployment. These challenges range from the lack of fundamental understanding of HetNet network capacity to the need of Radio Access Network (RAN) Planning and Optimisation (PO) tool for HetNet deployment involving both indoor and outdoor scenarios.
 
The DECADE project adopts the scheme of Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE), with the effect of inter-sectorial efforts and knowledge integration to tackle the challenges in HetNet planning and optimization. The research consists in fundamental capacity analysis, system modeling, algorithm development, and performance engineering for HetNets. In addition, DECADE serves as a solid platform to promote long-term collaboration between academia and industry collaboration in a rapidly evolving area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Europe.
Multi-dimensional overall regulatory modes and threshold values for water cycle of the Haihe River Basin

In this study, a multi-dimensional critical regulatory criteria and decision-making mechanism based on the scientific cognition of multi-dimensional attributes and characteristics of the water cycle was proposed. This system was functioned by deeply discriminating the nature-society binary characteristics of the five-dimensional characteristics of the water cycle system of the Haihe River Basin (water resources, economy, society, ecology, and environment) under the influence of high-intensity human activities and hydrological changes and by analyzing the organic interactive relationships between the five dimensions and their overall effect on the water cycle. A GDP calculation model was constructed in this study by adjusting the water environment for water resources, after which five-dimensional normalization objective functions were established for multi-objective analysis to carry out trade-off analysis of multi-dimensional regulatory indexes. In addition, synergetic theory, entropy theory and dissipation structure theory were introduced to construct an evaluation model for multi-dimensional regulatory schemes. A water cycle multi-dimensional critical overall regulatory model system was also established. This system consisted of a multi-objective macroeconomic model (DAMOS), water resource allocation model based on rules (ROWAS), evaluation model for WEDP (EMW) and multi-dimensional regulatory scheme evaluation model (SEAMUR) as the main body. To address the national demands faced by the Haihe River Basin as a result of combinatorial schemes for different hydrological series and water amounts diverted by the south-to-north water diversion project, this study adopted a hierarchy progression method to set up the technologies, investigated multi-dimensional overall regulatory methods, proposed an overall regulation threshold value for the water cycle of the Haihe River Basin, and recommended corresponding five-dimensional regulatory schemes.