SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Estimating the impacts of land use/land cover changes on Ecosystem Service Values: The case of the Andassa watershed in the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia

• Non-vegetation covers have expanded while the vegetation covers declined during the 1985–2015 periods, and the same trends will continue for the next three decades. • The observed and predicted LULC changes have affected the total and the specific ESV of the watershed. • LULC changes have also affected the average ESV of the land presented per hectare basis. Estimating the impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) changes in Ecosystem Service Values (ESV) is indispensable to provide public awareness about the status of ESV, and to help in policy-making processes. This study was intended to estimate the impacts of LULC changes on ESV in the Andassa watershed of the Upper Blue Nile basin over the last three decades (1985–2015), and to predict the ESV changes in 2045. The hybrid land use classification technique for classifying Landsat images, the Cellular-Automata Markov (CA-Markov) model for LULC prediction, and the modified ecosystem service value coefficients for estimating ESV were employed. Our findings revealed that there was a continues expansions of cultivated land and built-up area, and withdrawing of forest, shrubland and grassland during the 1985–2015 periods, which are expected to continue for the next three decades. Consequently, the total ESV of the watershed has declined from US$26.83 × 10 6 in 1985 to US$22.58 × 10 6 in 2000 and to US$21.00 × 10 6 in 2015 and is expected to further reduce to US$17.94 × 10 6 in 2030 and to US$15.25 × 10 6 in 2045. The impacts of LULC changes on the specific ecosystem services are also tremendous.
Cochlear optogenetics for auditory research and prosthetics

Disabling hearing impairment (HI) affects 360 million people worldwide and prevalence increases with age. So far, no causal treatment is available for its most common form, sensorineural HI. I propose to establish, characterize, and employ optogenetic stimulation of the cochlea, which provides unprecedented opportunities for auditory research and promises a fundamental advance of hearing restoration.
Sound is encoded by spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) with high frequency-, intensity-, and time-resolution. Hearing can be enabled via electric stimulation of SGNs, which is employed in current hearing restoration with cochlear implants (CIs) and also used in auditory research. CIs enable speech comprehension in most users, but the quality of ‘electric hearing’ is low, with poor frequency resolution. 
The goal of OptoHear is to overcome this fundamental limitation by increasing the number of independent coding channels via spatially confined optical stimulation of channelrhodopsin (ChR)-expressing SGNs by tens of light emitters along the cochlear axis (cochlear optogenetics). This promises a dramatic improvement in the frequency resolution of artificial sound coding. As proof of principle, we achieved virus-mediated expression of ChR in SGNs, recorded light-evoked auditory activity and demonstrated improved frequency resolution for optical vs. electric stimulation in rodents. We co-developed and implanted optical multichannel CIs and studied their position in the rodent cochlea using X-ray tomography.
We will optimize the expression of best-suited ChRs in SGNs, establish multichannel optical stimulation, characterize neuronal responses to cochlear optogenetics along the auditory pathway by physiological and behavioural approaches, and employ cochlear optogenetics for fundamental auditory research. OptoHear will establish and use cochlear optogenetics as a research tool, validate its potential for research and hearing restoration, and prepare translation into the clinic.
TARGET RECOGNIZING BINDING AGENTS

The invention is directed to binding agents having binding loops and a stable beta barrel conformation. The binding loops of these agents can easily be altered so that the binding agent can bind any selected target molecule. A variety of methods for generating binding agents with different binding loops are also provided.
Juan DÍAZ ÁLVAREZ (coord.), «Cultura académica y monarquía en el siglo XVIII», Gijón, Ediciones Trea, 2020, 319 págs.

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A Moment of Madness: Derrida's Kierkegaard

Beginning with his famous 1963 lecture on Foucault, Derrida repeatedly invokes a line from Kierkegaard, often translated from his French as ‘the instant of decision is madness,’ without ever giving a precise reference or subjecting that sentence to anything like a reading in the Derridean sense. This paper tracks some of the unsuspected complexities that emerge when that sentence is located in Kierkegaard and the Pauline tradition to which Kierkegaard is appealing. It is suggested that the singular functioning of this sentence in Derrida nonetheless, in its very failure to read, shows up something of the madness, folly or stupidity at play in Kierkegaard's thinking, and thus performs in its repetitions something of the unreadability that opens the possibility of reading itself.
Phase transitions in thermoelectric Mg-Ag-Sb thin films

come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
RAPID CURE POLYMERIC RESINS

A polysulfide material having reactive vinyl end groups and a method of making a vinyl end-capped polysulfide material are described. The vinyl end-capped polysulfide material has potential applications as a sealant, an adhesive, a coating, a caulking, or the like. In a specific example, the polysulfide material may be used as a precursor material for a sealant resin in the manufacturing of an integral fuel tank of an aircraft. An example method for making polysulfide materials includes contacting a vinyl-functionalized aryl halide and/or a vinyl-functionalized heteroaryl halide with dithiols and/or trithiols in the presence of an organic solvent.
Preparing Evangelical Protestants for Peace: The Evangelical Contribution on Northern Ireland (ECONI) and Peace Building 1987–2005

In 1987, a group of Northern Irish Evangelicals created the Evangelical Contribution on Northern Ireland (ECONI) in order to challenge fundamentalists, such as Ian Paisley, directly, who were using religious rhetoric to pursue political aims in the aftermath of the 1985 Anglo–Irish Agreement. In the 18 years of its existence, ECONI has sought to develop a more nuanced understanding of Evangelicalism in Northern Ireland while actively encouraging Evangelicals to engage in peace building and to contemplate their role in the Conflict. It has done so by taking a three-staged approach, similar to that described by Vendley and Little: by embarking on a process of internal reflection and self criticism before examining and adjusting Evangelicals’ attitudes to peace making, then by disseminating its ideas and providing training courses in conflict resolution. This article explores the methods used by ECONI to complete each of these stages and demonstrates that through its peace and reconciliation work ECONI has p...
The Outcome of Assisted Reproductive Techniques among Couples with Male Factors at Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Fertility Centre, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Thirty-three percent of infertility due to paternal factors, there are an increasing proportion of couples who decide to conceive by assisted reproductive techniques (ART). The outcome prediction is pivotal for decision making.AIM: We aimed to study the pregnancy outcomes of different ART with male factors infertility.METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study conducted at Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One hundred fifteen patients' records reviewed using a structured checklist to collect demographic data, sperm (concentration, motility, and morphology). Female with significant infertility factor were excluded. Chi-square was used for the outcome of various ART.RESULTS: Out of 115 couples with male factors; treated by Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Intrauterine Insemination (IUI); the mean age was 35.2 ± 6.3 years for men and 29.7 ± 5.1 for females. IVF had the highest success rate overall and had a high pregnancy rate with oligospermia and asthenospermia. ICSI has a good outcome for those with azoospermia, severe oligospermia, and teratozoospermia. IUI must be tried as a first line treatment when semen concentration is more than 10 million sperm/ml. all are not significant (P &gt; 0.05).CONCLUSION: No significant differences were reported in the pregnancy outcome between various assisted reproductive techniques, smoking, type of infertility and medication.
Application-Aware user-centric programmable architectures for 5g multi-tenant networks

The vision of future 5G networks encompasses a heterogeneous communication landscape in which existing Radio Access Technologies (RATs) will be integrated with evolving wireless technologies and systems, software-design network architectures and cloud-enabled services. Effectively harnessing the potential of all these innovative and heterogeneous features and providing a programmable multi-tenant network architectural framework will be the key to the success of 5G, and will be the main objective of the 5G-AURA project. Instead of focusing separately on the optimization of the diverse technological and architectural components, our efforts will be concentrated on providing a unifying framework that will sustain the coexistence and coordination of networking, software and cloud technologies, ensure network programmability and efficient resource orchestration, minimize control and signalling overhead, support multi-tenancy and scalability, and promote the development of new business models for emerging services. To efficiently achieve these objectives, 5G-AURA has identified 12 specific research challenges which have been mapped to 14 individual projects that will be carried out by 14 recruited ESRs. The project’s consortium, formed by four academic institutions and four industrial partners, has the necessary expertise and available infrastructures to form a high quality training network across multiple disciplines, sectors and countries. Considering that 5G is currently in an early development state and there are multiple open issues on 5G protocols, network architectures and technologies and standardization efforts, the timing of 5G-AURA is perfect, and the project has a strong potential to have significant impact on academia and industry and enhance the European innovation capacity in terms of technical contributions, intersectoral training of scientists and professional and novel business opportunities.
Double paired water key

A double paired water key has a handle with two opposite ends, a shaft extending from one end of the handle, two opposite ends upon the shaft, and at least two concentric openings extending into each end of the shaft where a user may select a pair of openings on the shaft extending from the handle. The openings have various internal shapes, preferably square, and at least two different widths. In each pair of openings, the opening with the least width has its position inwardly from the remaining opening, towards the handle. Each shaft has a tip with at least two sizes of opening. The two ends of the shaft provide four sizes of opening readily selected by a user. Each opening has rounded corners.
Risk screening of non-native freshwater fishes at the frontier between Asia and Europe: first application in Turkey of the fish invasiveness screening kit

Summary

The aim of the present study was to assess the invasive potential of introduced non-native and translocated fishes in Turkey (Anatolia and Thrace) by applying the Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit (FISK), a risk identification tool for freshwater fishes. From independent evaluations by two assessors of 35 species, calibration of FISK for Turkey identified a threshold score of 23, which reliably distinguished between potentially invasive (high risk) and potentially non-invasive (medium to low risk) fishes for Anatolia (Asia) and Thrace (Europe). No species was categorized as ‘low risk’, 18 species were categorized as ‘medium risk’ and 17 as ‘high risk’ (two being ‘moderately high risk’, nine ‘high risk’, and six ‘very high risk’). The highest scoring species was gibel carp Carassius gibelio, whereas the lowest scoring species was Caucasian dwarf goby Knipowitschia caucasica, a translocated species. Assessor certainty in their responses averaged overall between ‘mostly uncertain’ and ‘mostly certain’, with red piranha Pygocentrus nattereri and topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva achieving the lowest and highest certainty values, respectively, and with overall significant differences in certainty between assessors. The results of the present study indicate that FISK is a useful and viable tool for identifying potentially invasive non-native fishes in Turkey, a country characterized by natural biogeographical frontiers.
Skilled, innovative & entrepreneurial scientists

Through the SKIES project, the consortium partners will provide PhD and 1st year postdoctoral researchers in the field of astronomy with a new set of skills integrating open science, innovation and entrepreneurship, thereby equipping them for a career that allows them to fulfill their potential and contribute to society and economy. A Train the Trainer programme builds the capacity of the teaching staff, so that they have the training and tools to continue the programme beyond the life of the project. Online training will be made available to support the partner as well as other organisations interested to run similar courses.
State disintegration in the context of macroeconomic crisis - the case of yugoslavia

The Eurozone financial and economic crisis, Brexit, the rise of Euroscepticism, nationalist voices and populism, as well as the fall in public support for the European Union (EU) have brought concerns over European (dis)integration and Eurozone prospects to the top of the political agenda and academic discussions. DISMAC-Y places itself at the heart of these preoccupations and proposes to draw lessons from the process of political disintegration of Yugoslavia. This historicization of the European experience using a case study of a country that is known for its federalist-like state structures, complex multi-scalar governance, and uneven regional development, is a highly innovative research enterprise that fills the political economist and comparativist ""blind spots"" in the existing sholarship on Yugoslavia's breakup. The restructuring of Yugoslav monetary regime is taken as the entry point of the research that draws on newly available material resources and builds on original framework to explore disintegrative interactions between different actors and fields of Yugoslav economy in a historical political economy perspective. By providing a systemic study on the political and economic role of monetary regime in the period of macroeconomic crisis, DISMAC-Y makes the Yugoslav experience analytically comparable to other similar experiences of political (dis)integration, especially the European one. Hence, it considerably shifts the existing frontiers of the scholarship on Yugoslavia and deepens our understanding of the European integration and monetary experiences.
A systematic strategy for robust automatic dialect identification

Automatic dialect Classification is very important for speech based human computer interface and customer electronic products. Although many studies have been performed in ideal environment, little work has been done in noisy or small data corpus, both of which are very critical for the survival of a dialect identification system. This paper investigates a series of strategies to address the question of small and noisy dataset dialect classification task. A novel hierarchical universal background model is proposed to address the question of limited training dataset. To address the noisy question, we initiate the use of perceptual minimum variance distortionless response (PMVDR), combining with shifted delta cepstral (SDC) algorithm. Rotation forest is also explored to further improve the system performance. Finally, compared with the baseline system, the proposed best system shows relative gains of 31:8% and 28:7%, in the worse noise and clean condition on a small data set, respectively.
Sustainable Use of Former or Abandoned Landfills Network, SUFALNET

SUFALNET aims to identify and bring together expertise and best practice, as well as the joint development of policy programs available in Europe on redevelopment and aftercare of landfills, so that former landfills might finally really be dealt with. In this way, the various EU Member States can combine forces, enabling them to deal effectively with the environmental risks posed by these former landfills. It will also help them to find new uses for these landfills, thus increasing the efficient use of building space.
Decerebrate posturing following traumatic brain injury: MRI findings and their diagnostic value

To determine the pathomorphological and clinical background to decerebrate posturing in humans following serious traumatic brain injury.One hundred and twenty patients who had been unconscious for more than 24 h underwent diagnostic MRI within 8 days after trauma. The presence of decerebrate rigidity as the clinical parameter was correlated to MRI findings, such as traumatic lesions in defined brain areas. Significance was presumed as p < 0.05.On the day of MRI 43 (36%) patients exhibited decerebrate posturing: 19 (23%) cases were unilateral and 24 (77%) bilateral. There was a significant correlation between midbrain lesions and the presence of rigidity. If a midbrain lesion was found in the absence of pontine lesions, decerebrate rigidity could be concluded (p < 0.05). There was no significant correlation to the rigidity in the case of midbrain lesions accompanied by pontine lesions, and no correlation to the rigidity could be detected for other regions of the brain. Both the occurrence of decerebrate posturing and the detection of brainstem lesions at MRI correlated with the Glasgow Outcome Scale. The combination of both parameters improved the probability of predicting the outcome.The rate of decerebrate posturing increases significantly in the presence of midbrain lesions. The presence of pontine lesions appears to be of secondary importance. The chances of predicting the Glasgow Outcome Scale are improved by the combination of clinical information (decerebrate posturing) and radiological parameters (type of brainstem lesion).
Restoration of productive capacity Alpendres do Regato, Unip. Lda

It consists of placing a roof of the building, to prevent the infiltration of rainwater and to restore the productive capacity, which it had before the fires, where the promoter begins to have very large losses.
Renovation and re-use of Salzano spinning mill for cultural purposes

This project stems from the need, voiced by the municipality of Salzano, to renovate the Romanin-Jacur spinning mill (which the municipality has owned since 1979) and the eighteenth-century villa that hosts the town hall, as well as the adjoining English garden. The building is a real architectural, environmental and historical jewel and is a place of interest as example of industrial archeology. The renovation activity intends to preserve this mine of history and tradition, an ideal place to undertake cultural activities which find their source of inspiration here and in the cultivation of mulberry trees, worm-raising and silk production. The first renovation intervention is the construction of a new entrance to the spinning mill. Part of the ground floor will be used for cultural and social activities. The future destination of use of the spinning mill will be a documentation centre, that will collect the largest possible quantity of books, documents, papers, maps, photos, videos and anything related to the history of the Romanin-Jacur spinning mill and its connection with the territory. Special attention has been paid to the production of silk, starting from the cultivation of mulberry trees, worm-raising, spinning and marketing of silk.
Simulating the effects of mid- to upper-tropospheric clouds on microwave emissions in EC-Earth using COSP

Abstract. In this work, the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison (CFMIP) Observation Simulation Package (COSP) is expanded to include scattering and emission effects of clouds and precipitation at passive microwave frequencies. This represents an advancement over the official version of COSP (version 1.4.0) in which only clear-sky brightness temperatures are simulated. To highlight the potential utility of this new microwave simulator, COSP results generated using the climate model EC-Earth's version 3 atmosphere as input are compared with Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) channel (190.311 GHz) observations. Specifically, simulated seasonal brightness temperatures (TB) are contrasted with MHS observations for the period December 2005 to November 2006 to identify possible biases in EC-Earth's cloud and atmosphere fields. The EC-Earth's atmosphere closely reproduces the microwave signature of many of the major large-scale and regional scale features of the atmosphere and surface. Moreover, greater than 60 % of the simulated TB are within 3 K of the NOAA-18 observations. However, COSP is unable to simulate sufficiently low TB in areas of frequent deep convection. Within the Tropics, the model's atmosphere can yield an underestimation of TB by nearly 30 K for cloudy areas in the ITCZ. Possible reasons for this discrepancy include both incorrect amount of cloud ice water in the model simulations and incorrect ice particle scattering assumptions used in the COSP microwave forward model. These multiple sources of error highlight the non-unique nature of the simulated satellite measurements, a problem exacerbated by the fact that EC-Earth lacks detailed micro-physical parameters necessary for accurate forward model calculations. Such issues limit the robustness of our evaluation and suggest a general note of caution when making COSP-satellite observation evaluations.