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In this study we analyse the social base of authoritarian and nationalist (AN) parties in the European Union grounded on a theory that articulates social and cultural dimensions. We aim to characterize and understand this electorate, and explain its increase, considering their social class, education, income, social orientations, human values, and attitudes towards immigrants, and looking upon the trajectory of inequalities. Data is from the European Social Survey and contextual national level information on economic and educational inequalities, and on social mobility. We find that AN parties voters are mostly industrial and agricultural workers, with very low educational resources and low income. They are characterized by the social orientation of heteronomy, a paradigmatic conformist disposition combining conformity with inequality and conformity with hetero-determination of one's social position, here defined by a low score of the human values of equality and creativity. Heteronomy helps to understand a wide range of AN cultural traits of this population such as their exclusionary attitude towards immigrants. And we verify that the expansion of this electorate follows increasing inequality, mainly in education, as well as downward mobility, and social exclusion. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Portugal and the Russian Federation share some aspects of traditional culture and similar experiences in modern history, but they also exhibit significant differences that determine specific modes of civil society's development. Results of a comparative and diachronic analysis show that the major differences between the two countries reside in civil society's openness and composition. Organized civil society is not very distinct in relative size when comparing Portugal and the Russian Federation, but it is globally more autonomous, expressive, trusted and institutionalized in Portugal than in the Russian Federation and among the factors that contribute to this condition are an earlier and revolutionary transition to democracy, a larger middle class, a greater prevalence of the value of interdependence, and a regime that endorses bigger public social expenditure in Portugal, all this within the framework of the European Union that has a longer history of social demand and institutional incentives for civil society. Despite those unequal conditions, civil society faces similar current challenges in both countries, mainly with the outsourcing of the public provision of social services. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

The analysis of individual satisfaction and citizens' quality of life is paramount by the interdependence with democracy consolidation that exists nowadays in Ecuador. A proposal to calculate a synthetic indicator of satisfaction of citizens on the subjective wellbeing (SWB) in Ecuador based on fuzzy logic method and the degree of similarity to ideal solutions is developed in the study. The information is obtained through the application of a structured survey based on the European Social Survey to the Ecuadorian society to a sample of 416 Ecuadorians. The analysis is based on eight different dimensions of individual satisfaction, namely: (1) Life; (2) Economy; (3) City Government; (4) Transparency; (5) Education; (6) Health System; (7) Roads; and (8) National Government. The results are discussed according to three segmentation variables: gender, age and marital status. The results show that men experience more individual satisfaction than women; generation Y is more satisfied than other age groups; and those who live with couples without being married are more satisfied than single and married citizens. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

8 pags., 5 figs. ; The quantum perceptron is a fundamental building block for quantum machine learning. This is a multidisciplinary feld that incorporates abilities of quantum computing, such as state superposition and entanglement, to classical machine learning schemes. Motivated by the techniques of shortcuts to adiabaticity, we propose a speed-up quantum perceptron where a control feld on the perceptron is inversely engineered leading to a rapid nonlinear response with a sigmoid activation function. This results in faster overall perceptron performance compared to quasi-adiabatic protocols, as well as in enhanced robustness against imperfections in the controls. ; We acknowledge fnancial support from Spanish Government via PGC2018-095113-B-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE), Basque Government via IT986-16, as well as from QMiCS (820505) and OpenSuperQ (820363) of the EU Flagship on Quantum Technologies, and the EU FET Open Grant Quromorphic (828826). J. C. acknowledges the Ramón y Cajal program (RYC2018- 025197-I) and the EUR2020-112117 Project of the Spanish MICINN,as well as support from the UPV/EHU through the Grant EHUrOPE. X. C. acknowledges NSFC (12075145), SMSTC (2019SHZDZX01-ZX04, 18010500400 and 18ZR1415500), the Program for Eastern Scholar and the Ramón y Cajal program of the Spanish MICINN (RYC-2017-22482). E. T. acknowledges support from Project PGC2018-094792-B-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER,UE), CSIC Research Platform PTI-001, and CAM/FEDER Project No. S2018/TCS-4342 (QUITEMAD-CM). ; Peer reviewed

7 pags., 3 figs., 1 app. ; Quantum sensors typically translate external fields into a periodic response whose frequency is then determined by analyses performed in Fourier space. This allows for a linear inference of the parameters that characterize external signals. In practice, however, quantum sensors are able to detect fields only in a narrow range of amplitudes and frequencies. A departure from this range, as well as the presence of significant noise sources and short detection times, lead to a loss of the linear relationship between the response of the sensor and the target field, thus limiting the working regime of the sensor. Here we address these challenges by means of a Bayesian inference approach that is tolerant to strong deviations from desired periodic responses of the sensor and is able to provide reliable estimates even with a very limited number of measurements. We demonstrate our method for an 171Yb+ trapped-ion quantum sensor but stress the general applicability of this approach to different systems. ; We acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Government via PGC2018-095113-B-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) and EUR2020-112117, the Basque Government via IT986-16, as well as from QMiCS (820505) and OpenSuperQ (820363) of the EU Flagship on Quantum Technologies, and the EU FET Open Grant Quromorphic. J.C. acknowledges the Ramón y Cajal program (RYC2018- 025197-I) and support from the UPV/EHU through the grant EHUrOPE. M.B.P. acknowledges support from the ERC Synergy Grant HyperQ, the EU Flagship project AsteriQs, and the BMBF projects Nanospin and DiaPol. J.F.H. acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the form of a FeodorLynen Fellowship. R.P. and M.P. acknowledge support from the SFI-DfE Investigator Programme (Grant No. 15/IA/2864). M.P. acknowledges the H2020 Collaborative Project TEQ (Grant Agreement No. 766900), the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant UltraQuTe (Grant No. RGP-2018-266), the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (RSWF/R3/183013), and the UK EPSRC (Grant No. EP/T028106/1).

We develop energy efficient, continuous microwave schemes to couple electron and nuclear spins, using phase or amplitude modulation to bridge their frequency difference. These controls have promising applications in biological systems, where microwave power should be limited, as well as in situations with high Larmor frequencies due to large magnetic fields and nuclear magnetic moments. These include nanoscale NMR where high magnetic fields achieves enhanced thermal nuclear polarization and larger chemical shifts. Our controls are also suitable for quantum information processors and nuclear polarization schemes. ; E. S. and J. C. acknowledge financial support from Spanish MINECO/FEDER FIS2015-69983-P, Basque Government IT986-16, as well as from QMiCS (820505) and OpenSuperQ (820363) of the EU Flagship on Quantum Technologies. J. C. acknowledges support by the Juan de la Cierva Grant No. IJCI-2016-29681. E. T. and J. J. G. R. acknowledge support from Spanish MINECO/FEDER Project No. FIS2015-70856-P, No. FIS2016-81891-REDT and CAMPRICYT ProjectQUITEMAD þ CMNo. S2013- ICE2801. M. B. P. acknowledges support by the ERC Synergy grant BioQ (Grant No. 319130), the EU project HYPERDIAMOND, the QuantERA project NanoSpin, the BMBF project DiaPol, the state of Baden-Württemberg through bwHPC, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) through Grant No. INST 40/467-1 FUGG. This material is also based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advance Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Quantum Algorithms Teams project under field work proposal ERKJ335. ; Peer Reviewed

In Portugal, Spain and South Africa, there has been a noted anti-neoliberal resistance, marked by the significant participation of the older generation in protest movements. Changing demographics, the global financial crisis, unemployment, poverty, and the reliance of the family nucleus on the pensioner, coupled with neoliberal and austerity-based reductions to welfare programmes, pensions, health, and social care, has caused the "silver revolution". As a population group that is often considered to be less politically active and robust members of society, such resistance is a noteworthy moment in society that needs to be considered and responded to. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion