SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Photon-Photon and spin-spin entanglement using diamond-based impurity elements: silicon, tin and lead

Quantum technologies promise revolutionary capabilities in processing information and transmitting with security over a network certified by the principles of quantum physics. The key hardware element of a quantum network is the ‘node’, where a stationary qubit cluster perform primitive processes and communicate with other nodes by exchanging flying qubits. The interfacing between the stationary qubit cluster and the flying qubits is realised by a special ‘broker qubit’. Today, the most competitive candidates for flying and stationary qubits are photons and diamond spins, respectively, and this opportunity is being pursued worldwide. A specific emitter in diamond, the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV), has enabled landmark demonstrations of basic quantum building blocks, but faces fundamental challenges on reaching the optical qualities required to scale up. PEDESTAL offers an efficiency boost to the NV while building on key advances in diamond technology. Our goal is to create a quantum node hardware prototype with characteristics required to sustain a multi-purpose quantum network capable of implementing simultaneous quantum communications and computing. PEDESTAL will develop a demonstrator quantum node based on diamond group-4 spins, which offer specifications outperforming others. Benchmarking against the known silicon-vacancy (SiV) centre, our workhorse will be the tin-vacancy (SnV) centre, which we have shown to have outstanding qualities satisfying the requirements for a quantum node. In parallel, we will develop to maturity the less-known but highly promising lead-vacancy (PbV) centre which can operate with more feasible conditions and develop a novel technique to control spins. Our objectives include creating multi-spin and multi-photon entangled states as resource and will complete its key objectives with the demonstration of distributed three-spin entanglement, culminating in the experimental demonstration of a high-fidelity, high-bandwidth multi-node quantum network
The effect of pressure and chemical substitution on the kitaev heisenberg system alpha-rucl3

The Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice has caused an abiding fascination due to its quantum spin liquid ground state, which is relevant to register information in matter and specifically for topological quantum computation. Here, alpha-RuCl3 is believed to be the prime material to-date to harbor such a quantum spin liquid phase. Recent studies from 2016 showed that a magnetic field can induce the highly desired quantum spin liquid state. As a new route towards the realization of this state in alpha-RuCl3, this research project will concentrate on tuning the magnetic properties by the application of hydrostatic pressure and chemical substitution. Their influence on the Kitaev-like interaction, the magnetic ground state, and the field-induced quantum spin liquid state will be studied by magnetization and thermodynamic techniques.
During the time of his PhD, the applicant acquired a strong knowledge on magnetism and experimental skills in high-pressure and low-temperature measurements. This makes the applicant perfectly adapted for this research project, which will be conducted under unique conditions at the host institution. At the IFW Dresden high-quality single crystals and world-class experimental facilities (such as a unique pressure cell) are available. Via the solid experience of the applicant in high-pressure physics, this pressure cell will be improved to an even higher accuracy in the research project.
The applicant will follow trainings to study research integrity, develop his own leadership, construct this career development plan and learn German to obtain a clear visibility to continue an excellent career in academic research. He will disseminate his results among the scientific community through publications in high-ranking scientific journals, and participation in conferences. He will also communicate them to the public through a Science Night. In the future, the obtained results will eventually lead to the realization of quantum computing.
Renewable energy sources for perspective industrial clusters development

Suburban territories industrial development sets new challenges in terms of power supply reliability and energy quality improvement in distribution grids. In case of long distances from main substations, embedded generation becomes a feasible alternative for industrial customers' power supply. Because of strict reliability requirements, the paper focuses mainly on hybrid renewable-based microgrids. The authors present a multi-criteria approach of geographical and technological zoning. Provided approach serves as a decision making tool regarding the type of power supply system, while focusing on renewable energy application in ineffective climatic conditions. Renewable energy potential and power supply system are assessed based on real initial data.
End-To-End slicing and data-driven automation of next generation cellular networks with mobile edge clouds

-The 5G mobile network architecture, which is currently consolidated (in terms of network components, technologies and interfaces), reveals a great network performance potential, appealing to different vertical market players. However, this potential cannot be fully harnessed without the appropriate algorithmic innovations and data-driven network automation that will permit full exploitation, global management and end-to-end integration of all the heterogeneous network components and resources. However, despite the rapidly increasing efforts devoted to the consolidation of the core 5G technologies(e.g. 5GPPP phase 2/3 projects), substantial work is still required to meet the IMT-2020 objectives set for the 5G network performance and fully harness the multitude of technological capabilities offered by 5G with minimum human intervention (e.g. through intelligent network automation and control). SEMANTIC aims to answer the aforementioned performance and technological gaps by forming an innovative research and training network for multi-GHz spectrum communications, MEC-empowered service provisioning and end-to-end network slicing, all integrated and jointly orchestrated by forward-looking data-driven network control and automation exploiting the enormous amounts of mobile big data spurred into the mobile data network. In this context, SEMANTIC will form an integrated, multi-disciplinary training network of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), guided by experienced supervisors, aiming at the creation of highly-trained academic researchers and industrial professionals with a future-proof background on PHY design for multi-GHz communications, end-to-end MEC/RAN integration, slice-enabled connectivity and data-driven network orchestration in the 5G continuum.
The Determinats of Cross-Cultural Adjustment: A Case of Japanese Expatriates in Thailand

Global human resource management plays an important role in determining the success of MNCs by facilitating the process of expatriation. Cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates is the major driving force for successful international expansion and expatriation. Each year, an increasing number of expatriates come to Thailand to take up international assignments of which the largest number is Japanese expatriates. This study examines crucial antecedents of cross-cultural adjustment of the Japanese expatriates in Thailand. The independent variables include learning characteristics, congruency of organizational cultures, effectiveness of cross-cultural training, mentor programming and demographic profile. An important moderator in the process is spouses’ degree of adjustment in the environment of the host country. The conceptualization of this model is aimed at understanding the mechanisms required to overcome the impacts of cultural distance between the two countries; Thailand and Japan. This quantitative study was conducted using questionnaire surveys. A total of 412 Japanese expatriates working in subsidiaries in Thailand were surveyed. The statistical treatments employed were structural equation modeling (SEM) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings demonstrated that individual learning characteristics, effectiveness of cross-cultural training, and spouse adjustment were the major predictors of the Japanese expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment in Thailand. In addition, mentor programs and age groups could also create significant difference on the overall degree of cross-cultural adjustment. The expatriates and spouses should be provided with proper processes of selection, preparation, and support based on effective human resource management practices of their Japanese multinational corporations.
Radial head implant diameter: A biomechanical assessment of the forgotten dimension

The effect of radial head implant length has been a subject of controversy, with the impact on clinical outcomes and forearm biomechanics being extensively studied. However, the impact of radial head diameter on forearm load transfer has not been examined. This study examined the influence of radial head implant diameter on forearm load transfer as measured by interosseous membrane tension and radiocapitellar joint contact characteristics.An upper extremity simulator was utilized to study five cadaveric specimens with three different radial head implant diameters (-2mm, anatomically sized, +2mm). A load sensing device was woven into the fibers of the central band of the interosseous membrane to quantify its tension. An inter-positional pressure measurement sensor was used to quantify radiocapitellar joint contact force and area. Axial loads of 160N were applied to the forearm during forearm rotation with the elbow at 90° of flexion.Changes to the radial head diameter did not change radiocapitellar contact force or area (P=0.4 and P=0.5 respectively). There was a linear relationship between radial head diameter and interosseous membrane tension; increasing radial head diameter increases the interosseous membrane tension (P=0.01).Although radial head diameter was not found to alter radiocapitellar contact area or force, the interosseous membrane tension was impacted. After radial head arthroplasty, an increase in radial head implant diameter increases the interosseous membrane tension, with a potential for increased pain and stiffness. There is also a potential for increased proximal radioulnar joint contact pressures; resulting in stem loosening or radio-ulnar pain.
Exploiting low dimensional models in sensing, computation and signal processing

The aim of this project is to develop the next generation of compressive and computational sensing and processing techniques. 
The ability to identify and exploit good signal representations is pivotal in many signal and data processing tasks. During the last decade sparse representations have provided stunning performance gains for applications such as: imaging coding, computer vision, super-resolution microscopy and most recently in MRI, achieving many-fold acceleration through compressed sensing (CS).
However in most real world sensing it is generally not possible to fully adopt the random sampling strategies advocated by CS. Systems are often nonlinear, measurements have limited dynamic range, noise is rarely Gaussian and reconstruction is not always the final goal. Furthermore, iterative reconstruction techniques are often not adopted in commercial imaging systems as they typically incur at least an order of magnitude more computation than traditional techniques. Thus there is a real need for a new framework for generalized computationally accelerated sensing and processing techniques. 
The research proposed here will build on the PIs recent work in this area and will develop and analyse a much richer class of hierarchical low dimensional signal models, accommodating everything from physical laws to data-driven models such as deep neural networks. It will provide quantitative guidance for system design and address sensing tasks beyond reconstruction including detection, classification and statistical estimation. It will also exploit low dimensional structure to reduce computational cost as well as estimation accuracy, challenging the notion that exploiting prior information must come at a computational cost.
This research will result in a new generation of data-driven, physics-aware and task-orientated sensing systems in application domains such as advanced radar, CT and MR imaging and emerging sensing modalities such as multispectral time-of-flight cameras.
Wool worked worlds - studying industrial landscapes through collaborative filmmaking.

This study anthropologically investigates tensions within the transnational wool industry, a commercial network that emerged from European colonial projects that distributed sheep to the Global South’s grasslands. Wool production is an industry with a key paradox: it is highly industrialised yet cannot be detached from place-specific ecologies and social relations. Wool sheared from sheep is materially shaped by the geopolitical and ecological particularities of the grasslands where they are raised. This study explores 1) how these local diversities shape the global wool industry, 2) how local sheep rearing and landscape management practices are shaped by practitioners’ imaginaries of geographically distant parts of the wool industry. It develops a bottom-up approach to studying supply chains, attending to situated perspectives and knowledges of actors in three wool regions: Patagonia, Australia and South Africa. The approach deploys collaborative filmmaking as both method and analytical tool: the project engages sheep farmers, indigenous elderly, laboratory technicians and ambulant sheep shearers in the three regions, and businessmen at the Europe based International Wool Textile Organisation, in describing their version of global wool, analysing their own position within wool networks, and discussing how they understand the ‘globalities’ of the other sites. Building on previous work by the ER and conversations in visual anthropology, the project positions collaborative filmmaking as research practice, not dissemination. It also specifically explores connections and imaginaries that travel directly across the Global South (and not via European centres). Bringing in Global South perspectives, this project disrupts a notion of linear north-south axes and describes how a complex weave of knowledges among grassland regions shapes sheep grazing and landscape management.
INTERCHANGEABLE OUTDOOR LUMINAIRE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY THEREOF

An interchangeable outdoor luminaire includes a housing (10) having a circular top rim (16) and a circular bottom rim (18) with a circumferential recess (24), a plurality of interchangeable tops (11), and a plurality of interchangeable light transmissive doors (12). Each top has a circular rim (16) with a flange that corresponds to the top of the housing, and each door has a circular rim (16) with a circular edge that corresponds to the bottom surface of the housing. Because the dimensions of the circular rims of the tops are the same, and the dimensions of the circular rims of the doors are the same, any of the tops for housing can be used in conjunction with any light transmissive doors (12).
PS-InSAR time series analysis for measuring surface deformation before the L'Aquila earthquake

L'Aquila area has a high topography and complex geological structures, and is covered with thick vegetation and snow in areas of high topography. To monitor the characteristics of crustal deformation in this region before the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, we apply StaMPS software to analyse 20 descending ASAR images acquired between September 2003 and March 2007 and 39 ascending ASAR images acquired between February 2003 and March 2009. In this paper, two mean LOS deformation velocity maps are acquired for this area, which reveal the same deformation pattern. Several deformation gradient in this area can be clearly identified, furthermore, we discover that most faults in this region may strike approximately NW-SE and dip < 90° to SW. We also draw the conclusion that descending SAR images are superior to ascending ones in monitoring crustal deformation with InSAR in this region.
Rehabilitation Following Lumbar Fusion Surgery

A systematic review with meta-analysis.The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of current evidence evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitation following lumbar fusion surgery (LFS).LFS for the management of lower back pain, with(out) neurogenic leg pain, is increasing as the population ages. Clinical outcomes commonly lag behind surgical outcomes and 40% of patients experience significant back-related disability 12 months after LFS. Identifying rehabilitation strategies to improve function and quality of life following LFS is important.A systematic review of databases were searched, including MEDLINE, CINAHL, and grey literature. Studies identified were screened for inclusion by title and abstract. Full text of eligible/potentially eligible studies was evaluated against predetermined eligibility criteria. Included studies were subjected to critical appraisal and risk of bias evaluation. The GRADE approach to quality of evidence was utilized. A meta-analysis comparing usual care with "complex rehabilitation," comprising exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy, for outcomes relating to pain, disability, fear of movement, and mental health was conducted at short and longer term (<3 and >12 months postsurgery) time points.Three studies were identified for the systematic review and 2 included in the meta-analysis (n = 237, female = 62%, mean age = 55). Low-quality evidence suggests that "complex rehabilitation" provides short-term improvement in disability [effect size, -0.85, 95% confidence interval (95% CI), -1.41 to -0.29] and fear avoidance behavior (-1.07, 95% CI -1.33, -0.80), compared with usual care. Low-quality evidence exists favoring "complex rehabilitation" over usual care for longer term disability (-0.84, 95% CI -1.11 to -0.58) and fear avoidance behavior (-1.40, 95% CI -1.69 to -1.12).A small number of low-quality studies suggest that "complex rehabilitation" reduces short and long-term disability and fear avoidance behavior following LFS. More, high-quality research is required to confirm the effectiveness of "complex rehabilitation" programs.
Method and apparatus for recovering residual tar or oil from a fluid medium.

There is disclosed a method and apparatus for recovering sticky tar or oil from a fluid medium, such as water or sand. The tar is first separated from the fluid medium, e.g. by an open mesh conveyor (1), and the separated tar is subjected to intense heating, e.g. from live flame tubes (12) or heat exchangers using very high temperature circulating medium. This heating liquefies the tar rapidly, and the liquid tar is directed into a suitable collection tank (16), which may itself be provided with a heater (17) to maintain the tar in its liquid state.
A study of F0 estimation based on RAPT framework using sustained vowel

Acoustic analysis plays a vital role in the study of human voice. Acoustic parameters such as Fundamental frequency (F0) can be derived directly from voices. It is one of the most proven parameters that determines the normality or abnormality of voice disorders in people. The Statistical measures of fundamental frequency, such as mean F0 and standard deviation F0 are suitable for clinical assessment of voices. In this study, these measures are computed using Robust Algorithm for Pitch Tracking (RAPT) and Dr. Speech algorithms. The common error that occurs in the fundamental frequency estimation algorithm is the octave error. The post-processing method namely de-step filter is applied to rectify this error. This study uses Dr. Speech as the benchmark and evaluates the robustness of the RAPT algorithm for the original F0 contour and de-step filtered contour. The results indicate that the use of the filter gives significant improvement to the performance of the RAPT algorithm, thus making it suitable for clinical evaluation of the fundamental frequency.
Regional identity as a driver or a barrier in the process of regional development: A comparison of selected European experience

The article contributes to the ‘new’ European regionalism by discussing the role that regional identity can play in regional development. It is based on the concept of ‘regional identity’ as the keystone of the institutionalization of the region and as consisting of two intertwined and complementary components: the regional consciousness of the inhabitants and the identity of a region. Through the heuristic study of relevant scholarly articles, the authors critically discuss six case studies from European countries dealing with the relationship between regional identity and regional development and published in the first decade of the new millennium. To date, research has examined the role of regional identity as both a successful and unsuccessful driver in regional development. From the case studies, a third possible role of regional identity is identified: regional identity as a barrier to regional development. Further, the article discusses the relationship between these three roles and attempts to ide...
Platform for ict learning and inclusion for youth employability and entrepreneurship

The current proposal responds to the H2020 topic "Platform for ICT for Learning and Inclusion". Its main objective is to establish a sustainable, overarching platform for ICT (for) learning and inclusion focused on boosting the employability and entrepreneurship of young people. 
As key stakeholders in the ICT learning and e-Inclusion sector themselves, the consortium partners are called to lead such a platform and be a guarantee for its sustainability. This will bring together a broad spectrum of stakeholders (civil society organisations, educational institutions, ICT industry, policy-makers, researchers, individual experts and practitioners) and end users (youth). Three main stakeholder groups coordinated by partners, i.e. formal education and training institutions and organisations [European SchoolNet]; digital and socio-economic inclusion organisations/networks [Telecentre Europe] and organisations focused on youth employability [Telefónica], plus a selected pool of changemakers, will collaboratively design innovative and sustainable solutions by benefiting from existing platforms, networks and resources that the project will collect and link. In achievement of the overall objective of the proposed action, this project aims to:
- Develop a wide, rich and active community of stakeholders, aspiring to become a reference point in the long run in the field of ICT (for) learning and inclusion; 
- Link existing stakeholder activities in the field of ICT (for) learning and inclusion and join them to increase their impact both on policy-maker and end-user level. 
- Contribute to the improvement of existing platforms by creating a common (blended) space for open dialogue and meetings, and foster active mutual exchanges and peer-learning activities.
- Define directions on how to improve tools and services for the modernisation of education and training and the employability of young people while tackling the risk of digital and socio-economic exclusion (i.e. eInclusion).