SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Linear-optical qubit amplification with spontaneous parametric down-conversion source

A single photon is the basic building block in quantum communication. However, it is sensitive to photon loss. In this paper, we discuss a linear-optical amplification protocol for protecting a single photon with a practical spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) source. Our protocol revealed that in a practical experimental condition, the amplification using entanglement as an auxiliary is more powerful than the amplification using a single photon as an auxiliary, for the vacuum state in the SPDC source does not disturb the amplification and can be eliminated automatically. Moreover, the weak SPDC source will become another advantage to benefit the amplification, as the double-pair emission error can be decreased. Our protocol may be useful in future quantum cryptography, especially in the device-independent quantum key distribution.
EL MITO CURUPIRA DESDE LA COSMOVISIÓN DEL INTERIOR AMAZÓNICO: REALIDAD, TRADICIÓN Y ANCESTRALIDAD

Este trabajo presenta los resultados de una investigación realizada en el marco del Grado en Letras/Español de la Universidad Federal do Pará/Castanhal (2021-2022), cuyo objetivo principal fue acercarnos al mito Curupira y analizarlo desde la cosmovisión del interior amazónico y paraense. Nos centramos en reflexionar sobre el papel que juega este ser sobrenatural en lo cotidiano de los llamados povos da floresta (pueblos de la selva) y observar cómo se preservan las tradiciones ancestrales hasta nuestros días, por medio de la tradición oral. Para ello, nos adentramos en el interior de la gran selva a través de cuarenta (40) relatos orales y descubrimos algunos de los secretos que ella guarda. Las narraciones sobre Curupira son una valiosa fuente de información fundamental para conocer muchos de los misterios de la madre naturaleza, ya que por esta vía es posible (re)conocer, preservar y dar a conocer memorias, secretos, realidades y tradiciones ancestrales que apenas conocemos. Todo ello a través de historias protagonizadas por el genio tutelar de la selva, que es el más vivo dios de los bosques tropicales, según Cascudo (2010). Para la recolección de los datos se realizaron entrevistas espontáneas y amistosas (MAGÁN, 2010), a través del trabajo de campo. Los resultados han demostrado que Curupira es parte de la Amazonía como lo es el agua, la tierra y el aire. Así, pues, se concluye que este ser mitológico, trasmitido de generación en generación por medio de la oralidad, puede ser, inclusive, más ejemplar y eficiente que nuestras propias leyes, que muchas veces son burladas e incumplidas (COLOMBRES, 2016).
Tantalum and vanadium response to shock-wave loading at normal and elevated temperatures. Non-monotonous decay of the elastic wave in vanadium

The evolution of the elastic precursor waves in pure tantalum and vanadium is presented at normal and elevated temperatures over propagation distances that ranged from 0.125 to 3 mm. Measurements were performed in order to obtain experimental data about the temperature-rate dependence of the yield stress of the two metals. With increasing propagation distance, the rate of the decay of elastic precursor decreases, as the shear stress in the elastic precursor wave approaches the Peierls stresses. It has been found that the decay, with propagation distance, of the post-spike minimum of the spike-like elastic precursor wave in vanadium is essentially non-monotonous. The experiments also revealed that annealing of tantalum and vanadium increases their Hugoniot elastic limit. The anomalous increase of the high strain rate yield stress with temperature, as observed earlier for some FCC and HCP metals, has not been detected in these measurements.
A unique and innovative cleanliness test bench that allows to increase test efficiency and reduce costs for cleanliness assessment of hydraulic, automotive and aeronautic components and systems

Most of the wear and fatigue problems suffered by hydraulic systems are caused by solid contaminants, usually generated during the manufacturing process of the components. These particles have a big impact in the reliability and life expectancy of the hydraulic systems, as well as in their efficiency and in their overall energy consumption. The state-of-the-art solutions for cleanliness evaluation need, at least, a contaminant extraction system, a drying oven and a microscope, all of it installed in a clean-room laboratory and operated by skilled technicians. Apart from complex, this is scarcely effective and very costly. OilSafe is an Italian SME funded in 1998. CLEAN CABINET is our disruptive solution for cleanliness testing. It integrates all the previously mentioned processes in a single and fully automated device, from the extraction to the image analysis. Our solution doesn’t need a laboratory, can be readily integrated in manufacturing lines and no skilled operators are needed. It is more efficient and is fully compliant with ISO16232. Moreover, the results are obtained much faster and the tests result, at least, four times cheaper. Its use will have a big impact in the quality of the hydraulic systems because it enables to perform more tests at lower cost. Initially, the target sectors will be machinery (construction, agriculture, etc.) automotive and aeronautic, although applications can be encountered in many sectors. A first prototype is already working with very good results. The goals of the project are to integrate the image analysis module and some additional features in a new prototype before launching it to the market and to develop the commercial network needed to sell it, first in Italy and then in the rest of Europe. The project will last 2 years with an estimated budget of 2,5M€. We expect to sell more than 500 units during the fifth year after the completion of the project, for a ROI of 7.8, and we foresee to create 18 new jobs in OilSafe
In pursuit of nanocarbons

With the advent of the Krätschmer-Huffman historical breakthrough on the macroscopic synthesis of C(60) in the late summer of 1990, I decided to stop all my research so far in the area of spectroscopy of gas-phase molecular microclusters. Since then, my odyssey in and quest for the so-called nanocarbons started. Thanks to the brand-new and enchanting world of fullerenes, metallofullerenes, carbon nanotubes and nano-peapods, I have been able to entertain (and still am entertaining!) "the pleasure of finding things out", as Richard Feynman once put it in an interview by a BBC television program in 1981. I believe that as long as one has big dreams and lays the groundwork for the dreams, one will achieve them. My quest for nanocarbons is still on its way.
Challenges Faced by Real Estate Agents in the City of Beira, Mozambique

The purpose of this study was to analyse the phenomenon of challenges faced by the real estate agents in the city of Beira, Mozambique. The study sought to examine challenges being faced by property owners, property seekers, property management regulators, and real estate agents during the course of their business activities in the city of Beira. The researcher adopted the qualitative methodology under the Interpretivism paradigm. The study adopted the case study research design to build theory while investigating the phenomenon. Face-to-face interviews were conducted among 30 participants. The results show that real estate agency activities are being managed haphazardly; there is no government board to oversee the property industry. The study recommends that Mozambique government sets up real estate board, to develop laws and specific guidelines for real estate agents activities. It also recommends setting up qualifications needed for real estate agents.
Arena-Master mobile solution for complete synthetic turf recycling on-site

Over 600 000 tonnes of rubber crumb, silica and polymers mixed wastes are generated from used artificial grass fields each year in Europe. Based on the current market trends the total market volume and waste generation will increase more than 5-times by 2022, causing a huge environmental impact.

Despite the growing popularity and implementation of artificial grass fields, there are no unified regulations or procedures for its EOL management. Current recycling technologies enable only low-efficiency infill separation from the artificial grass that is also time consuming, expensive and unsustainable. Therefore, most field owners landfill the used turf without any recycling, creating a big environmental impact and increasing the need for raw materials in new installations.

ASIE, company with over 20-years of experience in installing artificial grass fields, has developed the first mobile and complete artificial grass recycling line that helps to lower the synthetic turf EOL management costs by up to 40-50% and increase the artificial grass sustainable management recycling rates. Compared to alternative solutions, we ensure:
• 2x better infill separation (100%)
• 4x faster old turf removal (1 day)
• 2x faster field renewal (7 days)
• 30-40% cheaper field renewal

Our goal is to achieve a zero-waste concept and improve the ecologic and economic sustainability of artificial grass installations. Our unique mobile technology enables to reuse about 95% of the used materials in new artificial grass application or as a raw material in other industries together with:
• 100% infill materials and polyethylene reclaim
• 4x better turf removal enabling re-installation
• 6x reduced transportation needs, leading to 95% less CO2 emissions

Our total addressable market in Europe is €350 million annually, with very high growth potential in the next years. As a result of the innovation project, ASIE will generate €25m annual revenue and create more than 50 new jobs by 2022.
Growing Adriatic Laboratories in Local Economic Organizations

Appears of fundamental importance to activate resources and public subjects to implement projects, like GALILEO – net, to promote the start up and to boost the private subjects to adopt ICT solutions in the logistic and transport sectors. The ICT characteristics that offer mainly server side services and the on going experiences, suggest the needs for referents, that in the beginning could be public or mixed (public-private) thus super partes, that are not sharing productive cycles and that are not enterprises competitors.
Novel system for environmental monitoring based on the automatic detection of birds

In 2001, EU countries committed themselves to halt biodiversity decline by 2010, and to evaluate this target. As such, a number of international conventions requiring bird populations to be monitored are actually in force.
Traditional birds’ ringing -using metallic rings- implies identifying the animal at one site and then recapturing it at a different site or in a different moment which provides spatial, temporal, physiological and behavioural information of individuals (mark-recapture techniques).
INKOA has developed e-BIRDS System, which consists of a robust system to automatically and unequivocally identify bird individuals on the basis of radio frequency identification (RFID). The e-BIRDS System comprises (1) a bird feeders network with integrated RFID reader and antenna, (2) system architecture for wireless data collection and (3) user friendly interface for the individual identification of birds. e-BIRDS System can be deployed in unlimited areas of interest and throughout the complete life time of the animal. e-BIRDS is a completely unattended system (no need to manually collect data or to charge or replace batteries) for long term data acquisition on birds’ population dynamics. The innovation entails substantial savings in fields’ work for professional ornithologists and establishes the pathway for collaborative science for domestic consumers. Furthermore, it implies no need to manipulate animals beyond the initial tagging (paradigm change from mark-recapture to mark-automatic identification). No similar product currently exists on the market. 
e-BIRDS contributes to biodiversity halting and early establishment of environmental protection measures. 
The Objective of the overall innovation project is to scale up, industrialise, validate on a complete value chain and bring to market readiness and maturity the e-BIRDS system for market take-up. The innovation project aims as well to define a sound marketing and commercialization strategy.
4- (2,6-DICHLORO-BENZOYLAMINO) -1H-PYRAZOLE-3-CARBOXYLIC ACID (1-METHANESULPHONYL-PIPERIDIN-4-YL) -AMIDE FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER

The invention provides the compound of formula (I) 4-(2,6-dichloro-benzoylamino)-1H-pyrazole- 3-carboxylic acid (l-methanesulphonyl-piperidin-4-yl)-amide in a substantially crystalline form, therapeutic uses thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the crystalline compound. The invention also provides novel pharmaceutical formulations containing 4-(2,6-dichloro-benzoylamino)-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid (1-methanesulphonyl-piperidin-4-yl)-amide and novel processes for preparing the compound.
My Life in Sociology

Following on an article in Bennett Berger (1990), Authors of Their Own Lives, titled “From Socialism to Sociology,” in which I and other sociologists describe how we came to sociology, I continue with my academic and public career as a sociologist at the University of California–Berkeley (1963–1969) and at Harvard subsequently, in the Graduate School of Education and the Sociology Department. I describe my involvement in the formulation of urban policy in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and beyond, and my attempt to understand the student revolt at Berkeley, which spread throughout the United States and indeed much of the world. I further discuss my long involvement in the issue of affirmative action, on which I in time changed my views, originally based on a distinctive conception of the course of ethnicity and ethnic and racial groups in the United States, from critical opposition to acceptance, and my similar involvement in the debates over social policy in the United States, in which a complex...
CREATION OF A MICROBREWERY AIMED AT THE PRODUCTION OF BEER

THE INITIATIVE CONCERNS THE CREATION OF A MICROBREWERY AIMED AT THE PRODUCTION OF BEER FOR ADMINISTRATION IN ITS OWN EXERCISE AS WELL AS SELLING IT WHOLESALE. BEER’S OWN PRODUCTION. ADMINISTRATION OF DRINKS AND FOOD IN THE BREWERY.
Pelagic seascape ecology for operational fisheries oceanography: modelling and predicting spawning distribution of Atlantic bluefin tuna in Western Mediterranean

Abstract The ecology of highly migratory marine species is tightly linked to dynamic oceanographic processes occurring in the pelagic environment. Developing and applying techniques to characterize the spatio-temporal variability of these processes using operational oceanographic data is a challenge for management and conservation. Here we evaluate the possibility of modelling and predicting spawning habitats of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Western Mediterranean, using pelagic seascape metrics specifically designed to capture the dynamic processes affecting the spawning ecology this species. The different seascape metrics applied were processed from operational oceanographic data products providing information about the temporal and spatial variability of sea surface temperature, kinetic energy and chlorophyll a. Spawning locations were identified using larval abundances sampled in the Balearic Sea, one of the main reproductive areas for this species in the Mediterranean Sea. Results confirm the high dependence of bluefin tuna spawning ecology on mesoscale oceanographic processes while providing spawning habitat maps as a tool for bluefin tuna assessment and management, based on operational oceanographic data. Finally, we discuss the coming challenges that operational fisheries oceanography and pelagic seascape ecology face to become fully implemented as predictive tools.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED VIDEO-DRIVEN FACIAL ANIMATION TRANSFER

A method transfers facial expressions from a performance input to a 3D CG character. The method comprises: providing an inference engine trained for receiving, as input, images exhibiting facial expressions and outputting, for each input image, a 3D CG representation of a CG character having a character facial expression corresponding to that of the input image; receiving performance input, the performance input comprising, or convertible to, one or more performance input images, each of the one or more performance input images exhibiting a performance facial expression; and inputting the performance input images to the inference engine to thereby infer, for each of performance input image, a corresponding 3D CG representation of an output CG character having an inferred character facial expression corresponding to the performance facial expression of the performance input image.
Decowood OÜ investissements dans l’efficacité des ressources 1

Avec l’acquisition de la ligne d’arrivée, la production de DecoWood OÜ deviendra plus efficace sur le plan des ressources et, grâce au projet, les produits seront produits avec moins d’utilisation des ressources et une productivité accrue des ressources. Avec l’acquisition de la ligne d’arrivée, la production devient plus efficace et la capacité d’augmenter le volume de production est créée.
The Design Argument

This Element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but the main focus is on two such arguments. The first concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. Creationists who advance this argument contend that evolution by natural selection cannot be the right explanation. The second design argument - the argument from fine-tuning - begins with the fact that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values. Since probability is the main analytical tool used, the Element provides a primer on probability theory.
SELF ALIGNING MUD SAVER VALVE SEAT

A mud saver valve is constructed so that the valve seats self align preventing the loss of fluid when the valve is in the closed position. One or both seats can skew their longitudinal axes to get the alignment.
Tourist enhancement initiatives on the Venetian and Slovenian coasts through cross-border events 

“COSTAVESLOCAV” consists in a series of initiatives aimed at informing tourists about the extraordinary natural resources of the Venetian province and the Slovenian territory, with the objective of bring larger numbers of people to the coast and in the Venetian mainland. Planned initiatives refer to leisure boating and maritime itineraries, such as museums and open-air tourism, through the definition of alternative routes. Since “new” tourists are interested in matching relax and learning about the surrounding territory, the project intends to meet this demand through the creation and the promotion of the “Venetian coast” trademark, favouring the connections with the beaches of Cavallino-Treporti, Jesolo, Eraclea, Caorle, Bibione and Chioggia. The project also aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation among tourist institutions, in order to create a coordinated tourist offer, through the identification of alternative routes between the beach and the mainland, thus enhancing smaller artistic centres. Lastly, the project intends to encourage tourism in connection with the rural economy through the study of eno-gastronomical itineraries leading to the discovery of typical local products and farmhouses in the two areas: working in synergy leads to the establishment of a constructive public-private relation through the collaboration with the sector of tourist wet docks and with camping sites.
CUT RESISTANT FABRIC COMPRISING" ARAMID FIBERS OF DIFFERENT DENIER AND METHOD FOR MAKING ARTICLES THEREFROM

This invention relates to cut resistant fabrics and articles including gloves, and processes for making cut resistant articles, the fabrics and articles comprising a yarn (4) comprising an intimate blend of staple fibers, the blend comprising 20 to 50 parts by weight of a fiber (7, 8) selected from the group of aliphatic polyamide fiber, polyolefin fiber, polyester fiber,- and mixtures thereof; and 50 to 80 parts by weight of an aramid fiber mixture; based on the total weight of the aliphatic polyamide, polyolefin, polyester, and aramid fibers. The aramid fiber mixture comprises at least a first aramid fiber (5) having a linear density of from 3.3 to 6 denier per filament (3.7 to 6.7 dtex per filament); and a second aramid fiber (6) having a linear density of from 0.50 to 4.5 denier per filament (0.56 to 5.0 dtex per filament). The difference in filament linear density of the first aramid fiber to the second aramid fiber is 1 denier per filament (1.1 dtex per filament) or greater.
Imaging the cosmic dawn and the first galaxies with 21cm and atomic line intensity mapping

Modern astrophysics has pushed the observational frontier to a time a billion years after the Big Bang.  Lying beyond this frontier is the period when the first stars and galaxies formed, whose light heated and ionized the Universe in the process known as reionization.  Understanding this ""epoch of reionization"" would fill in a key missing period in our picture of the history of the Universe.  Existing observational techniques have scratched the surface, but new observational techniques are required to truly understand this early period of galaxy formation.  My work will lay the theoretical foundations for three novel probes of this period - 21 cm tomography, the 21 cm global signal,  and line intensity mapping - that would enable three dimensional maps of the epoch of reionization.  If realized through challenging radio-frequency observations, these techniques would transform our understanding of the first galaxies.

Through this ERC starting grant, I will build the theoretical framework needed to predict and interpret observations of line emission from gas in and surrounding the first generation of galaxies.  My team will aim to develop models of the interplay between radiation from the first galaxies and the heating, ionization, and illumination of hydrogen gas that lies in the space between galaxies.  At the same time, we will build models of the formation and properties of the atomic and molecular gas that fills the space inside galaxies.  By combining probes of this ""inner"" and ""outer"" space a complete nature of galaxy formation during the first billion years might be achieved. Analysis of sky averaged 21 cm observations will complement this with a broad overview of galaxies back to a few hundred million years after the big bang. This work will provide a clear theoretical road map to guide the design of next generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array, to achieve this ambitious goal.