SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Plotlab - plot combines with integrated lab equipment for lean breading

In order to feed the larger, more urban and richer population, food production must increase by 70%, and annual cereal production will need to rise to about 3 billion tonnes from 2.1 billion today. However, there are limited opportunities to expand the area of agricultural land without huge detrimental impact on the natural environment. As a consequence, sustainable increase of food supply must be based on productivity improvements. Plant breeding has significantly contributed to and will continue to be a major contributor to increased food security.
The breeding and seed production process comprises many different stages. An important part is the process where varieties are selected for field tests and planted in small 10-15 m2 plots, often 10-thousind of such plots. The following step, where crop is harvested and the quality of the crops in individual plots are determined, is a resource and time consuming process. The process involves both specialised field equipment – the so-called plot combines for harvesting of the plots - and subsequent lab testing of the yield and quality parameters of crop to determine the 5%-20% candidates for further field testing.
This project will bring new machinery to market which by integrating the field equipment (the plot combine) with lab equipment can shorten the time span of the breeding and seed production process, and has the potential to shorten the variety testing and selection process by a whole season. Moreover, by determining the quality parameters (water content, oil, protein, digestibility, sugar, etc.) at the time of the harvest, only the crop from fewer candidates plots needs to be packaged and handled for further processing, saving both significant labour efforts and reducing the risk of handling-related errors in the process.
Multi-modal analysis for low energy neutron-induced fission of ~(235)U

Low energy neutron induced fission of 235U is studied in the framework of the multi-modal fission model. The fission fragment properties, such as the yields, the average total kinetic energy distribution and the average neutron separation energy, are investigated for incident neutron energies from thermal to 6.0 MeV. The multi-modal fission approach is also used to evaluate the prompt fission neutron multiplicity and spectra for the neutron-induced fission of 235U with an improved version of the Los Alamos model for incident neutrons below the (n, nf) threshold. The three most dominant fission modes are taken into account. The model parameters are determined on the basis of experimental data. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental data.
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

A light emitting device of the present invention includes a substrate, a semiconductor element, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The substrate has a first conductivity type and contains a single-crystal silicon. The substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface on which thermally-oxidized films are formed. A first opening portion and a second opening portion are formed to be mutually spaced in the thermally-oxidized film formed on the lower surface. The substrate includes a diode structure unit that includes a first well region and a second well region. The first well region is formed in a first region along the lower surface, is exposed at the first opening portion, and has a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. The second well region is formed in a second region along the lower surface in the first region, is exposed at the second opening portion, and has the first conductivity type. The semiconductor element is disposed on the substrate and includes a semiconductor layer. The first external electrode is formed on a lower surface of the thermally-oxidized film and in contact with the first well region at the first opening portion. The second external electrode is formed on the lower surface of the thermally-oxidized film, spaced from the first external electrode, and in contact with the second well region at the second opening portion. The second well region extends to the first opening portion side exceeding a middle line between the first opening portion and the second opening portion along the lower surface of the substrate.
STUDY OF DEFORMATION BEHAVIOURS OF LIMESTONE UNDER CYCLE TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION WITH DIFFERENT CONFINING PRESSURES

The mechanical behavior of rock under cycle load is the one of most important factors which could effect on the long-term stability of rock matrix.So the rock behavior and evolving regular of rock under circulation load are needed to be researched.The samples are selected through the wave velocities of compression wave and shear wave.The rock deformation tests are measured under different confining pressures,constant cycle upper limit confining pressures and triaxial altering confining pressure cycle loading.Triaxial altering confinement pressure cycle test is performed on the GCTS-1 000 rock mechanic test system.The test results are as follows:(1) The deformation of limestone forms a closed plastic sluggish winding when the limestone is loaded or unloaded under altering or constant confining pressure.The areas of plastic sluggish winding diminish succession on the axial deformation;the areas of plastic sluggish winding under altering confining pressure increase succession on the radial deformation;the areas of plastic sluggish winding under constant confining pressure are almost equal.(2) In the triaxial altering confining pressure test,the residual deformation displays a scaling down tendency in condition that the confinement pressure increases and the cycle upper limit stress does not change.The developing trend of axial deformation and radial deformation is contrast to the result of residual deformation.(3) The deformation moduli of cycle loading or unloading progress are different and the deformation moduli of unloading progress are bigger than the value of loading progress.(4) The deformation moduli measured under altering confinement pressure are bigger than the deformation moduli measured under constant confinement pressure.Through experiments,the deformation character and rock elastic parameters of limestone under triaxial altering confinement pressure cycle exist divergence.
Toward Enhanced Fixation of CO2 in Aquatic Biomass: Focus on Microalgae

The need to reduce the CO2 footprint of human activities calls for the utilization of new means of production and new sources of products. Microalgae are a very promising source of a large variety of products, from fuels to chemicals for multiple industrial applications (e.g. dies, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, food and feed, new materials for high tech manufacture), and for processes such as wastewater treatment. Algae, as photosynthetic organisms, use light to energize the synthesis of organic matter and differently from most terrestrial plants, can be cultured on land that are not used for crop production. We describe the main factors contributing to microalgae productivity in artificial cultivation systems and discuss the research areas that still need investigation in order to pave the way to the generation of photosynthetic cell factories. We shall comment on the main caveats of the possible mode of improving photosynthetic efficiency and to optimize the partitioning of fixed C to products of commercial relevance. We address the problem of the selection of the appropriate strain and of the consequences of their diverse physiology and culture conditions for a successful commercial application. Finally, we shall provide state of the art information on cell factories chassis by means of synthetic biology approaches to produce chemicals of interest.
Estudio de factibilidad del Hotel Boutique Camino Real, Checa-Ecuador

The study's objective was to analyze the feasibility of Camino Real Hotel Boutique. It is located at Checa, at one hour and a half from Quito's city. The hotel's concept is for people to enjoy and experience the Ecuadorian culture. A variety of different activities that will be developed in order to achieve that objective. It was done a current supply's analysis in order to set the future demand based on the Mariscal Sucre Airport as a demand generator. As a result, people older than fifty years, who come from Europe and the United States and are willing to stay for more than three days, were stated as the hotel's target market. Finally, there were developed three different financial scenarios in order to set the Net Present Value, the TIR, and the payback. That contrast establishes that the project is profitable in the long term.
PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A FIBROUS PLY COMPRISING AN ELEMENT OF A GIVEN THICKNESS, FORMING FABRIC FOR PRODUCING THE FIBROUS PLY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID FABRIC AND SECURITY SHEET INCLUDING A FIBROUS PLY

The invention relates to a wet process for manufacturing a fibrous ply on a forming fabric of a paper machine, comprising a stack of fabrics, said stack of fabrics comprising a surface fabric and at least one under-fabric, these being superposed, said fibrous ply comprising at least one element of given thickness, characterized in that it includes the following step: formation of said ply by the dewatering of an aqueous fibre-based suspension on said forming fabric, the stack of fabrics of which includes a reduced dewatering region compared with the first under-fabric, in at least one under-fabric and/or beneath the surface fabric, said reduced dewatering region being in correspondence with the position that said element will have.
An orthogonal Hilbert-Huang transform and its application in the spectral representation of earthquake accelerograms

Abstract This paper first discusses the limitation that the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) decomposed by the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) are not orthogonal. As an improvement to the HHT method, three orthogonal techniques (the forward, backward and arbitrary sequence orthogonalization algorithms) based on the Gram-Schmidt method are then proposed to obtain the completely orthogonal IMFs. According to the orthogonal index and the energy index, the effectiveness of the proposed technique and algorithms is validated through a synthetic signal generated by the combination of three sinusoidal waves with different frequencies and the El Centro (1940, N-S) earthquake accelerogram. By taking the El Centro (1940, N-S) earthquake accelerogram as an example, the problem that whether the orthogonal IMFs satisfy the requirements of IMF is discussed, then the backward and the arbitrary sequence orthogonalization algorithms are recommended. Three historic earthquake accelerograms are analyzed by using the recommended orthogonalization algorithms combined with the Hilbert spectral analysis. The results show that the orthogonal Hilbert spectrum and the orthogonal Hilbert marginal spectrum can produce more faithful representation of earthquake accelerograms than the Hilbert spectrum and the Hilbert marginal spectrum, and they can be used to quantitatively characterize the energy distribution of earthquake accelerograms at different frequency regions.
Robotic Innovations in Support of the Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19 - DIH-HERO Perspective

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the conditions of work in healthcare institutions and the quality of patient care around the world. Emerging healthcare robotic technology may facilitate and improve the overall quality of life, as well as the diagnostics, rehabilitation, and intervention services. This paper reports the lessons learned from actions carried out in the implementation of the DIH-HERO project call across Europe for robotic solutions that support healthcare activities. Conclusion remarks are as follows: i) technology pull and the urgent need together accelerate the innovation development and deployment, ii) it takes time to establish safety and legal regulations for the deployment of human-machine devices, so the ethical, safety, and reliability aspects of robotic application need to be carefully considered, iii) technology adoption depends on the trust of the users to the technology, iv) existing robotic technology for prevention, diagnosis, hospital admission, rehabilitation, and intervention is mature enough for the adaptation and deployment, v) unskilled general population should be trained for the usage of robotic technology.
A practical guide to quantifying the effect of genes underlying adaptation in a mixed genomics and evolutionary ecology approach

AbstractIn adaptation studies, approaches in genomics investigate the genetic, cellular and biochemical mechanisms involved in adaptation using model organisms. In study systems such as Arabidopsis, the demand is high to test for the effect of genes which polymorphism is known on the ability of plants to cope with adverse environmental conditions. In evolutionary ecology, understanding how selection and environmental heterogeneity shape the diversity of organisms is crucial. In that regard, tools to decipher how the architecture of standing genetic variation affects the evolutionary potential of plants to adapt are required. Quantitative genetics provide a range of statistical methods that could be used to study those questions but are generally neglected as a consequence of their scary name, as for example for the pedigree based random regression method used in our approach. Here, we provide a practical guide for researchers from multiple domains who would like to use such methods. We begin by providing ...
Marx and the future of capitalism

Marx conceived different narratives about the future of capitalism, describing this future as an increasingly faithful update of the essence of capitalism. If this social system is a market-driven private production, then capitalism would be expected to march toward increased privatization and increased markets. Neo-liberalism would be the future of capitalism. Some texts go in this direction. But the dialectic of competition results in a pattern that is the opposite: capitalist concentration leads to the formation of monopolies and to state intervention. This scheme supports the catastrophism of Marx, who condemns capitalism to its downfall and makes state capitalism the transition to what the vulgate will call socialism, which is embodied in an organized, transparent economy.
Diagnostic value of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in urine for bladder cancer

Objective To assess the diagnostic value of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in urine for bladder cancer,and to study the relationship between MMP-2 and MMP-9 levels and the development of bladder cancer.Methods Urinary MMP-2 and MMP-9 levels were detected using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) in 101 patients with bladder cancer,eighty-eight patients with benign urological lesions and fifty-one healthy volunteers.MMP-2 and MMP-9 levels were compared in three groups,and the relationship in different tumor stage groups was evaluated.The optimal cut-offs of MMP-2 and MMP-9 were identified by using ROC curve.Accuracy,positive predictive value and negative predictive value were calculated at optimal cut-off.Results MMP-2 and MMP-9 levels in bladder cancer group were higher than those in benign urological lesions group and control(P0.01).MMP-2 and MMP-9 levels in grade Ⅱ and Ⅲ in bladder cancer were higher than those in grade Ⅰ(P0.01).The AUROC of MMP-2 was 0.854,and the optimal cut-off value was 2.4 ng/mg protein.Accuracy was 80.8%,sensitivity was 81.2%,and specificity was 81.3%.The AUROC of MMP-9 was 0.906,and the optimal cut-off value was 6.2 ng/mg protein.Accuracy was 87.5%,sensitivity was 85.1%,and specificity was 89.2%.Combination of MMP-2 and MMP-9 reached to accuracy 90.0%,sensitivity 98.0% and specificity 96.4%.Conclusion MMP-2 and MMP-9 in urine might have great diagnostic potentials for bladder cancer.
Brain Gray Matter Deficits at 33-Year Follow-up in Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Established in Childhood

Volumetric studies have reported relatively decreased cortical thickness and gray matter volumes in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) whose childhood status was retrospectively recalled. We present, to our knowledge, the first prospective study combining cortical thickness and voxel-based morphometry in adults diagnosed as having ADHD in childhood.To test whether adults with combined-type childhood ADHD exhibit cortical thinning and decreased gray matter in regions hypothesized to be related to ADHD and to test whether anatomic differences are associated with a current ADHD diagnosis, including persistent vs remitting ADHD.Cross-sectional analysis embedded in a 33-year prospective follow-up at a mean age of 41.2 years.Research outpatient center.We recruited probands with ADHD from a cohort of 207 white boys aged 6 to 12 years. Male comparison participants (n = 178) were free of ADHD in childhood. We obtained magnetic resonance images in 59 probands and 80 comparison participants (28.5% and 44.9% of the original samples, respectively).Whole-brain voxel-based morphometry and vertexwise cortical thickness analyses.The cortex was significantly thinner in ADHD probands than in comparison participants in the dorsal attentional network and limbic areas (false discovery rate < 0.05, corrected). In addition, gray matter was significantly decreased in probands in the right caudate, right thalamus, and bilateral cerebellar hemispheres. Probands with persistent ADHD (n = 17) did not differ significantly from those with remitting ADHD (n = 26) (false discovery rate < 0.05). At uncorrected P < .05, individuals with remitting ADHD had thicker cortex relative to those with persistent ADHD in the medial occipital cortex, insula, parahippocampus, and prefrontal regions.Anatomic gray matter reductions are observable in adults with childhood ADHD, regardless of the current diagnosis. The most affected regions underpin top-down control of attention and regulation of emotion and motivation. Exploratory analyses suggest that diagnostic remission may result from compensatory maturation of prefrontal, cerebellar, and thalamic circuitry.
Electrochemiluminescent Peptide Nucleic Acid-Like Monomers Containing Ru(II)–Dipyridoquinoxaline and Ru(II)–Dipyridophenazine Complexes

A series of Ru(II)-peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-like monomers, [Ru(bpy)(2)(dpq-L-PNA-OH)](2+) (M1), [Ru(phen)(2)(dpq-L-PNA-OH)](2+) (M2), [Ru(bpy)(2)(dppz-L-PNA-OH)](2+) (M3), and [Ru(phen)(2)(dppz-L-PNA-OH)](2+) (M4) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, dpq-L-PNA-OH = 2-(N-(2-(((9H-fluoren-9-yl)methoxy)carbonylamino)ethyl)-6-(dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazine-11-carboxamido)hexanamido)acetic acid, dppz-L-PNA-OH = 2-(N-(2-(((9H-fluoren-9-yl) methoxy)carbonylamino)ethyl)-6-(dipyrido[3,2-f:2',3'-h]quinoxaline-2-carboxamido)acetic acid) have been synthesized and characterized by IR and (1)H NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and elemental analysis. As is typical for Ru(II)-tris(diimine) complexes, acetonitrile solutions of these complexes (M1-M4) show MLCT transitions in the 443-455 nm region and emission maxima at 618, 613, 658, and 660 nm, respectively, upon photoexcitation at 450 nm. Changes in the ligand environment around the Ru(II) center are reflected in the luminescence and electrochemical response obtained from these monomers. The emission intensity and quantum yield for M1 and M2 were found to be higher than for M3 and M4. Electrochemical studies in acetonitrile show the Ru(II)-PNA monomers to undergo a one-electron redox process associated with Ru(II) to Ru(III) oxidation. A positive shift was observed in the reversible redox potentials for M1-M4 (962, 951, 936, and 938 mV, respectively, vs Fc(0/+) (Fc = ferrocene)) in comparison with [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) (888 mV vs Fc(0/+)). The ability of the Ru(II)-PNA monomers to generate electrochemiluminescence (ECL) was assessed in acetonitrile solutions containing tripropylamine (TPA) as a coreactant. Intense ECL signals were observed with emission maxima for M1-M4 at 622, 616, 673, and 675 nm, respectively. At an applied potential sufficiently positive to oxidize the ruthenium center, the integrated intensity for ECL from the PNA monomers was found to vary in the order M1 (62%) > M3 (60%) > M4 (46%) > M2 (44%) with respect to [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) (100%). These findings indicate that such Ru(II)-PNA bioconjugates could be investigated as multimodal labels for biosensing applications.
Symmetry tests in experiments with portable antiprotons

Our present understanding of particles and their fundamental interactions leaves us with extremely well tested theories in laboratory experiments, however cosmological observations indicate that our models are incomplete. Dark matter and dark energy are clearly not contained in our theories, and the baryon asymmetry in the universe cannot be reproduced from the Standard Model with its current parameters. Antiprotons offer the unique opportunity to make high-precision measurements at low energies in the antimatter sector and provide important tests of the fundamental interactions to search for a manifestation of new physics complementary to matter-based experiments. Here, I propose to extend the methods in low-energy antiproton precision measurements by developing a transportable antiproton reservoir. Relocating measurements from CERN’s antiproton decelerator into precision laboratories eliminates limitations from magnetic field noise in the antiproton decelerator hall and improves the precision by at least a factor of 30. I will also implement a novel method for ultra-precise cyclotron frequency measurements based on low-energy thermal-state selection for single antiprotons and quantum non-demolition measurements of the cyclotron energy. This leads to measurements at 300-fold reduced temperature compared to the state-of-art methods. Using these two methods, I will improve the most precise test of CPT invariance in the baryon sector by at least a factor of 70 and demonstrate charge-to-mass ratio comparisons with unprecedented precision. I will also set first limits on the interaction of light dark matter and antiprotons by searching for topological defects by simultaneous measurements of the antiproton cyclotron frequency in two separate experiments. The developments provide also methods to test whether the weak equivalence principle holds for charged antimatter by comparing the gravitational redshift of protons and antiprotons at different altitudes.
Optimizing the automatic test generation by SAT and SMT solving for Boolean expressions

Recent advances in propositional satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are increasingly rendering SAT and SMT-based automatic test generation an attractive alternative to traditional algorithmic test generation methods. The use of SAT/SMT solvers is particularly appealing when testing Boolean expressions: These tools are able to deal with constraints over the models, generate compact test suites, and they support fault-based test generation methods. However, these solvers normally require more time and greater amount of memory than classical test generation algorithms, limiting their applicability. In this paper we propose several ways to optimize the process of test generation and we compare several SAT/SMT solvers and propositional transformation rules. These optimizations promise to make SAT/SMT-based techniques as efficient as standard methods for testing purposes, especially when dealing with Boolean expressions, as proved by our experiments.