SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Superdeterministic hidden-variables models II: conspiracy

We prove that superdeterministic models of quantum mechanics are conspiratorial in a mathematically well-defined sense, by further development of the ideas presented in a previous article $\mathcal{A}$. We consider a Bell scenario where, in each run and at each wing, the experimenter chooses one of $N$ devices to determine the local measurement setting. We prove, without assuming any features of quantum statistics, that superdeterministic models of this scenario must have a finely-tuned distribution of hidden variables. Specifically, fine-tuning is required so that the measurement statistics depend on the measurement settings but not on the details of how the settings are chosen. We quantify this as the overhead fine-tuning $F$ of the model, and show that $F > 0$ (corresponding to `fine-tuned') for any $N >1$. The notion of fine-tuning assumes that arbitrary (`nonequilibrium') hidden-variables distributions are possible in principle. We also show how to quantify superdeterministic conspiracy without using nonequilibrium. This second approach is based on the fact that superdeterministic correlations can mimic actual signalling. We argue that an analogous situation occurs in equilibrium where, for every run, the devices that the hidden variables are correlated with are coincidentally the same as the devices in fact used. This results in extremely large superdeterministic correlations, which we quantify as a drop of an appropriately defined formal entropy. Nonlocal and retrocausal models turn out to be non-conspiratorial according to both approaches.
Institutional Environment, Political Connection and Financial Constraints---Evidence from Private Enterprise in China

On the condition that formal institution of China has not protected the main economic entities especially non-public cases adequately, existed, and it has become a good complement to the formal institution. The majority of non-public economic entities form the political connection with the government actively in various ways, thus it improves their own ability to access debt capital and increases enterprises' value. We make a further refinement of the intensity of political connection in reference to historical research and make a combination of institutional environment, political connection and capital structure. We analyze the relationship between the three from both the and data validation perspectives. Firstly, we review the relevant papers from different angles. Then, we make some hypotheses, select the variables and build models to test the relationship between the three. We use the descriptive statistical analysis, Pearson correlation test, OLS regression testing and some other methods to make inference and proof to the theoretical hypotheses in order to provide quantitative basis for the theory of sublimation. Our research found that the listed private companies in the areas where have lower level of property rights protection and financial development are more likely to form a stronger political connection. The enterprises which have or have a stronger political connection can obtain more bank credit.
Inovação para a prática da Antropologia Forense: D-O-Sator Mini

A constante evolução técnica em antropologia forense visa, sobretudo, trazer maior celeridade e qualidade para as análises periciais. Este trabalho é um relato de experiência que apresentará em detalhes o D-O-Sator, dispositivo criado pelo Dr. Frank Marotta, cuja finalidade principal é preparar remanescentes biológicos para o exame antropológico, de forma padronizada e com controle fino de temperatura. Nesta leitura você irá conhecer os materiais necessários para produção, instruções para montagem e utilização do dispositivo. O D-O-Sator está em uso no Laboratório de Antropologia Forense do Instituto Médico Legal Dr. André Roquette, em Belo Horizonte, que faz parte da Polícia Civil de Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Students' Beliefs about Willingness to Access Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CAT) Training for Future Integration into Psychology Practice

It is suggested that all psychologists gain basic training in the types of complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) their clients may be using. As psychology students are the next cohort of health professionals who will inform future initiatives in the field, it is important to understand the factors which influence their decisions about CAT integration. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, we investigated the beliefs that differentiate between psychology students who are high or low on willingness to access training in CAT for future practice use. Undergraduate psychology students () completed a questionnaire assessing the likelihood of positive and negative consequences of accessing training and utilizing CAT within a psychological practice, important others’ approval, and barriers preventing them from this integration behavior. Those students higher on willingness were more likely to endorse positive outcomes (e.g., offering a more holistic approach to therapy) of accessing CAT training for future practice use and to believe that important others (e.g., clients) would support this behavior. A regression analysis examining the relative importance of these belief sets broadly supported the belief-based analyses. These beliefs of student psychologists can inform educators and policy makers about CAT training and integration in psychology practice.
Diversifizierung des Produktionsangebots im Bereich Scrapbooking und Papercrafting durch Einführung neuer Produkte auf dem nationalen und internationalen Markt

Gegenstand des Projekts ist der Erwerb von Sachanlagen und Software, die notwendig sind, um ein einzigartiges Angebot im Bereich Scrapbooking und Papercrafting auf dem Markt umzusetzen. Der detaillierte sachliche Umfang des Projekts ist in Abschnitt G.1.2 des Finanzhilfeantrags beschrieben. Umsetzungsmethode: Das Projekt wird eigenständig durchgeführt, es ist kein Partnerschaftsprojekt geplant. Aufgrund seines Umfangs wird das Projekt eine einstufige Investition sein.
Innoway key account manager and innovation specialists services – noreic 2020-2021

The specific objectives of the NOREIC project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of Norwegian SMEs in 2020 and 2021 by reducing barriers to innovation and to ensure that more great ideas will reach the market. The two distinct types of services under this consultation, a) Key Account Management under the EIC pilot and its successor  b) Services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs will in 2020 and 2021 be offered as an integrated part of the general support services of the Enterprise Europe Network Business Cooperation Centre (BCC) in Norway. The services will not be delivered to the same client(s) in parallel.
Basajaun - building a sustainable joint between rural and urban areas through circular and innovative wood construction value chains

European rural areas will boost when their natural resources constitute the basis of innovative and sustainable value chains with a high positive economic impact. In this sense, forests constitute an asset that provide not only ecosystems and biodiversity, but also a valuable and sustainable raw material, “wood”. Wood is consumed by various sectors, including one of the most “raw materials” demanding sector, the construction. The BASAJAUN project is a puzzle composed of 1st and 2nd transformation companies, research organizations, associations and public bodies that are focused on maximizing the forest value through its use in wood construction. Its main goal is to optimize the wood forest resources to enable the construction of a medium sized building (16 dwellings with 4 floors) with the lowest possible forest hectares – that will depends on the tree species and the forest local peculiarities (climate, surface, ..). The whole process will be optimised to maximize the consumption of wood products from the forest (solid wood, fibers, veneers, bark, sawdust, etc.).

For this purpose, a) innovative wood-based construction materials (thermal insulation, composites, varnishes, SIPs) and systems (structure, facades, floors, walls, roof and fixings) will be developed and upscaled, b) two full -scale demo buildings (Finland and France) that use those products will be constructed, c) digitalization of the whole construction value chain (from forest to building) will be done and d) the rural development impact will be studied at regional level. The environmental impact of the products of these value chains will be assessed as well. Besides, to assure a sustainable impact of the project a novel thematic platform to integrate the stakeholders of the wood region with urban areas will be developed.

Besides, BASAJAUN leverages the previous results of successful projects where the innovative materials and systems were designed at laboratory and semi-industrial scale.
Human immune profiling of graphene nanoribbons

To promote the Safe and Healthy use of ‘Future and Emerging Technologies’ such as innovative carbon-based nanomaterials, the study of their interactions with blood immune cells is of fundamental importance for any translational medicine application, in particular, those requiring intravenous injection.

Taking Graphene Nanoribbons (GNRs) as model, IMM-GNRs will overcome the limits of conventional nano-immunotoxicology to achieve a comprehensive picture of their immune activity in relation to their structural properties (shape, edge structures, width, size…), enhancing the EU excellence in 2D materials research.

IMM-GNRs Specific Objectives are:

1° To design and synthetize a wide variety of highly stable and water-soluble GNRs
2° To perform quantitative GNRs deep immune phenotyping on 17 diverse immune subpopulations, demonstrating the potential of a forefront approach coupling an array of high-throughput technologies
3° To correlate immune phenotype and physicochemical properties, investigating the potential molecular mechanisms underlying the observed immune-functions, in order to provide an outstanding paradigm shift in the nanomaterials engineering and classification proposing the novel “immunity-by-design” concept.

IMM-GNRs multidisciplinary action will provide the fellow with new career perspectives and contribute to European excellence and competitiveness by:

I. Developing expertise in cutting-edge technologies whose diffusion is still limited in Europe; the lack of EU experts make the Fellow’s experience (she will be the first worldwide to apply CyTOF technology to the nanoworld) an high added value to European Academia and Industrial sector;
II. Setting long-term collaborations among leading groups of nanotechnology and cell biology;
III. Gaining exposure to the industrial sector: GNRs as immunomodulators can give rich possibilities for new therapeutic approaches in particular in the field of immunotherapy.
Tornar-se um ativista do clima

Este artigo analisa o processo de socialização de jovens iniciados na Extinction Rebellion (XR) em Paris que os transforma em ‘ativistas’ desobedientes, um grupo de ativistas de elite treinados em ação direta não violenta. O artigo baseia-se numa etnografia de cursos de formação em desobediência civil ministrados na XR em 2019 e 2021. Estes cursos são “ritos de instituição”, de acordo com Bourdieu, que consagram ativistas operando uma seleção social. Assim, alguns indivíduos estão dispostos a envolver-se em atividades não violentas devido à sua origem social, ao seu capital cultural ou à sua socialização primária (religiosa em particular). Muito mais do que a transmissão de conhecimentos práticos, o objetivo destes cursos de formação é criar um “esprit de corps”, para utilizar o conceito de Blumer, específico do movimento. O simbolismo dos cursos é mais forte para estes ativistas do que a mera transmissão de conhecimentos técnicos, permitindo a interiorização de uma identidade política coletiva. Recebido: 5/2/2022 Aceite: 31/5/2022
Reducing the Radiation Dose for CT Colonography

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a low-tube-voltage technique and iterative reconstruction (IR) on the radiation dose and image quality of computed tomography colonography (CTC).We studied 30 patients (14 women and 16 men; mean age, 64.5 ± 13.1 years; range, 39-90 years) with colorectal cancer referred for surgical treatment. All underwent CTC with fecal tagging under a standard 120-kVp protocol in the supine position and a 100-kVp protocol in the prone position. The 120-kVp images were reconstructed with filtered back projection (FBP). The 100-kVp images were postprocessed using FBP and a hybrid type of IR (adaptive iterative dose reduction 3D). The effective radiation dose (ED), image noise, and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) were compared among the three protocols. The visual image quality was scored on a four-point scale.The mean ED was significantly lower under the 100-kVp protocol than the 120-kVp protocol, resulting in a 27% radiation dose decrease (3.5 ± 2.0 vs 2.5 ± 1.5 mSv; P < .01). Image noise decreased by 48%, and the mean attenuation of tagged fluid increased from 452 to 558 HU on images acquired at 100 kVp with IR compared to that in the 120-kVp protocol; these differences were significant. The mean CNR was significantly higher under the 100 kVp with IR than the other two protocols. We found no significant differences in the visual scores for diagnostic utility between the 100 kVp with IR and the 120 kVp with FBP protocol (P = .10).Low-tube-voltage CTC reduced the radiation dose by approximately 27% while maintaining the image quality.
The RT-PCR identification and sequence analysis of Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus from apple cultivars in Jiaodong Peninsula, China

A set of specific primer pairs was utilized to detect Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV) from seven different apple cultivars in Jiaodong Peninsula via reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and the sequence of ACLSV genome was analysed. The results indicate that: (1) High-purity total RNA could be successfully isolated using plant RNA rapid extraction kit. The ratios of A260/A280 varied between 1.8 and 2.1. The fragmentation in agarose gel was good and the 28S and 16S bands were clear, which suggested that the extracted RNA had better quality and could be used for RT-PCR. (2) The amplified products by RT-PCR were approximately 220 bp, which showed the tested samples were infected by ACLSV in this study. (3) Sequencing analysis showed that the lengths of the target fragments were 217 bp, and the sequence identity rate ranged from 85.7% to 99.1% at the nucleotide level aligned with the corresponding sequences of other ACLSV strains in National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Interactive charging

The INteractive Charging (INCH) project aims to commercialise a price-performance optimised smart AC charging station for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). It will be designed primarily for home use and use in semi-private areas where several PEVs are charging at the same time. The device will support smart charging of PEVs by offering advanced features not yet available on the market: remote interactive charging power management, real-time communication with external actors, advanced power management, different connectivity options, clustering of charging stations in the same area, precise metering of energy consumption within the charging station and support for latest charging protocols. The INCH project will present an enabling technology for the integration of PEV charging into the European smart grids and for the provision of new services in electromobility.
There are two main categories of users that will benefit from INCH: end users who use the PEV charging station and other electromobility actors (service providers, PEV supply equipment operators, DSOs, energy providers, VPP operators) who can offer new services to these end users. End users will benefit from easily charging a PEV on the existing installation without worrying about potential outages, thanks to built-in flexible power management. Other electromobility stakeholders will be able to offer new added value services based on controllability and new data coming from smart charging stations.
The proposed feasibility assessment will produce a study which will assess the technical and commercial feasibility of INCH by identifying relevant use cases, analysing user needs, defining the corresponding new functionalities, and researching the HW and SW required for the support of these new functionalities. Economical feasibility of the project will be assessed within the initial business plan, which will include evaluation of project costs and a detailed time-plan for the potential Phase II.
The Concept of Structure and the Work of Art in the Structuralist Art History of Hans Sedlmayr in Comparison with the Structural Aesthetics of Jan Mukařovský

AbstractJosef Vojvodik offers a detailed and highly original study of structuralism based on a comparison between the art historian Hans Sedlmayr and the Czech theorist Jan Mukařovský. Both produced theories of general aesthetics developed in a series of three phases ultimately focused on a central concept: the “explicit character” for Hans Sedlmayr and the “semantic gesture” for Jan Mukařovský. Josef Vojvodik explains the key concepts of their works, such as the importance of gestalt theory and of gestalt psychology, the key role of semantics, the Macchia colored spot theory and the process of decomposition, and the significance of noetic understanding. The author concludes his text with an interrogation of Jan Bakos’s comparison of the Prague Linguistic Circle and the New Viennese School of art history.
Control strategies for residential battery energy storage systems coupled with PV systems

This paper presents, and compares the performances of four control strategies for residential battery energy storages coupled with photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. The control strategies are: 1) rule based control, 2) optimization based control without utility constraints, 3) optimization based control with utility constraints, and 4) distributed control. The first two methods only concern about fulfilling the battery owner's requirements. In the other two methods, the utility is involved in controlling the operation of the batteries into certain extent. Therefore, the batteries intentionally contribute to lower the overvoltage risks while fulfilling the customers' needs. From the simulations it is shown that a significant reduction in reactive power support required from the converters can be achieved with optimization based control with utility constraints and distributed control schemes. Distributed control scheme shows best performance in terms of reduction in reactive power requirement, reduction in line losses and decreasing voltage unbalance. All these can be realized with little impact on the battery owner's desired objectives.
Paleoambiente, conjuntos líticos y uso del espacio durante la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno en la circumpuna de Atacama

Se discuten las estrategias adaptativas de los humanos que poblaron las tierras altas del sureste del desierto de Atacama en el centro-sur andino (21-24,5°S), del norte de Chile, durante la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno (12,600-10,200 cal. AP). Se comparan los paleoambientes, conjuntos líticos, óseos y uso del espacio desde los sitios TUI-1 y 5, correspondientes a dos abrigos bajo roca, emplazados en la serranía precordillerana de Tuina y los campamentos a cielo abierto SPN-1 y 6, en el borde oriental del salar de Punta Negra. Se proponen relaciones comparativas y se hipotetiza que los asentamientos del patrón Tuina generaron los primeros pulsos colonizadores durante la transición a fines del Pleistoceno en los ambientes circumpuneños, a través de una creciente movilidad interpiso y especialización en el manejo de los ambientes andinos en ambas vertientes de la puna. En cambio, las ocupaciones involucradas con las puntas del patrón Fell, constatadas hasta ahora en las cuencas de Punta Negra e Imilac, se corresponderían con exploraciones que habrían optado por el corredor Costa-Andes hasta alcanzar los espacios fértiles aislados del desierto de altura y alcanzar posiblemente los recursos continuos del Valle Longitudinal del centro del país.
Algal blooms: an emerging threat to seawater reverse osmosis desalination

Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination technology has been rapidly growing in terms of installed capacity and global application over the last decade. An emerging threat to SWRO application is the seasonal proliferation of microscopic algae in seawater known as algal blooms. Such blooms have caused operational problems in SWRO plants due to clogging and poor effluent quality of the pre-treatment system which eventually forced the shutdown of various desalination plants to avoid irreversible fouling of downstream SWRO membranes. This article summarizes the current state of SWRO technology and the emerging threat of algal blooms to its application. It also highlights the importance of studying the algal bloom phenomena in the perspective of seawater desalination, so proper mitigation and preventive strategies can be developed in the near future.
Bioleaching of ilmenite and basalt in the presence of iron-oxidizing and iron-scavenging bacteria

Abstract Bioleaching has been suggested as an alternative to traditional mining techniques in extraterrestrial environments because it does not require extensive infrastructure and bulky hardware. In situ bioleaching of silicate minerals, such as those found on the moon or Mars, has been proposed as a feasible alternative to traditional extraction techniques that require either extreme heat and/or substantial chemical treatment. In this study, we investigated the biotic and abiotic leaching of basaltic rocks (analogues to those found on the moon and Mars) and the mineral ilmenite (FeTiO 3 ) in aqueous environments under acidic (pH ∼ 2.5) and circumneutral pH conditions. The biological leaching experiments were conducted using Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans , an iron (Fe)-oxidizing bacteria, and Pseudomonas mendocina , an Fe-scavenging bacteria. We found that both strains were able to grow using the Fe(II) derived from the tested basaltic rocks and ilmenite. Although silica leaching rates were the same or slightly less in the bacterial systems with A. ferrooxidans than in the abiotic control systems, the extent of Fe, Al and Ti released (and re-precipitated in new solid phases) was actually greater in the biotic systems. This is likely because the Fe(II) leached from the basalt was immediately oxidized by A. ferrooxidans , and precipitated into Fe(III) phases which causes a change in the equilibrium of the system, i.e. Le Chatelier's principle. Iron(II) in the abiotic experiment was allowed to build up in solution which led to a decrease in its overall release rate. For example, the percentage of Fe, Al and Ti leached (dissolved + reactive mineral precipitates) from the Mars simulant in the A. ferrooxidans experimental system was 34, 41 and 13% of the total Fe, Al and Ti in the basalt, respectively, while the abiotic experimental system released totals of only 11, 25 and 2%. There was, however, no measurable difference in the amounts of Fe and Ti released from ilmenite in the experiments with A. ferrooxidans versus the abiotic controls. P. mendocina scavenged some Fe from the rock/mineral substrates, but the overall amount of leaching was small (&lt;2% of total Fe in rocks) when compared with the acidophilic systems. Although the mineralogy of the tested basaltic rocks was roughly similar, the surface areas of the lunar and Mars simulants varied greatly and thus were possible factors in the overall amount of metals released. Overall, our results indicate that the presence of bacteria does not increase the overall silica leaching rates of basaltic rocks; however, the presence of A. ferrooxidans does lead to enhanced release of Fe, Al and Ti and subsequent sequestration of Fe (and other metals) in Fe(III)-precipitates.