Dragon09/odtu_chatbot huggingface dataset:
smart mechatronic anklefoot orthosis platform for gait assistance and augmentation

mechatronic ankle foot orthoses have recently attracted significant attention as a means for assisting or augmenting gait functions of impaired and healthy individuals however this technology has seldom translated into products that are available to clinicians and the general public to solve this issue we aim at training six highskilled professionals who can design and develop solutions that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders and can translate into products smartankle will establish a comprehensive training program that will provide the six doctoral candidates dcs with all the skills required to bring the mechatronic ankle foot orthosis concept into the market the smartankle group brings together four internationally recognized universities one hospital and three companies the smartankle dcs will be trained in all the aspects of the development of a radically new smart mechatronic ankle foot orthoses smafo platform the components of this platform will be used to assemble different smafo configurations able to provide positive torque during gait and that can be utilized in different applications spanning from gait assistance of stroke survivor training of sport practitioners and human augmentation the training will cover all phases of product development from conceptualization to design to translation and testing the dcs will learn to identify the needs of the different users and to investigate the requirements of all stakeholders the dcs will formulate a tailored career development plan which includes the acquisition of engineering research and management skills in a training that will foster teamwork open science practices and gender aspects the dcs will undergo outreach activities aiming at disseminating smartankles impact to a wide array of audiences smartankle will greatly enhance the career perspectives of the dcs in academia and industry and will set an example for a novel researchintensive industrial doctoral network
6gdisac 6g for distributed intelligent sensing and communication

the 6gdisac project aims to bring the integrated sensing and communication isac vision to life by adopting a holistic perspective with widely distributed intelligent infrastructure compatible with realworld integration constraints and future wireless network flexibility requirements the project addresses both fundamental and practical challenges such as tracking connected ues and passive objects performing isac with many distributed base stations efficient distributed signal processing and machine learning for semantic isac incorporating extremely large mimo technologies and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and intelligent sensing activation 6gdisac will focus on the distributed implementation of isac unlocking real sensing applications and providing a multiperspective view of networks in space and time for tangible communication gains it will bridge theoretical approaches with operational and standardscompatible distributed joint communication and sensing 6gdisac brings together worldleading actors across the value chain including operators network vendors verticals smes research laboratories and academic institutions together the 6gdisac partners will define use cases requirements and design an innovative network architecture they will also develop novel physicallayer waveforms distributed sensing and communications methods optimised resource allocation methods and protocols several demonstrations will validate the key 6gdisac concepts this project will revolutionise various applications from extended reality and robothuman interaction to vehicular safety functions and improving communication key performance indicators with sensingaided communications
the legal foundations for a civic financial system

time is running out for humanity to reduce carbon dioxide co2 emissions in order to avoid catastrophic climate change yet the financial system continues to enable unsustainable levels of co2 emissions in many carbonintensive sectors including the fossil fuel industry law can help govern this problem but effective legal interventions need to take into account the complexity of the financial system the overarching objective of the civic finance project is to develop a complexityinformed theory of law and finance that can underpin the legal foundations of a civic financial system in particular a financial system that refrains from enabling unsustainable levels of co2 emissions in the fossil fuel industry to do that the project will develop a theoretical framework that synthesises institutionalist theories of law and finance with studies of complexity in the financial system it will then combine doctrinal and sociolegal methodologies to collect empirical data on the legal rules underpinning the european financial systems continued support of unsustainable levels of co2 emissions in the fossil fuel industry to test the effectiveness of these legal rules the project will develop an agentbased model of the european financial system that will simulate their potential impact on co2 emissions in the fossil fuel industry the project will then integrate this simulation data and the empirical data into the theoretical framework to develop a complexityinformed theory of law and finance building on institutionalist theories of law and finance the project argues for the utility of complexitysensitive methods to study how law shapes complex financial systems in the longer term the project will revolutionise how european lawmakers financial institutions and civil society organisations use the law to mitigate co2 emissions enabled by the financial system
making morality impartial an experimental investigation of the veil of ignorance

we are living in an age of increased moral disagreement and polarization one explanation for this trend is partiality people on one or both sides of contested social issue abortion covid19 climate change etc do not give equal or adequate weight to the interests of all those concerned their views are based on bias or prejudice finding ways of increasing impartiality may therefore be one of the most important tasks that humanity currently faces my project attempts to contribute to this task in particular i will investigate one particular device that philosophers have used to promote impartial reasoning namely the so called veil of ignorance thought experiment an attempt to abstract from knowledge about ones gender race income and other morally irrelevant characteristics that might distort ones judgments previous research has only focused on peoples actual choices behind the veil of ignorance my project in contrast will investigate the methodological appropriateness of this thought experiment 1 how robust is the voi ie to what extent are the judgments people arrive at by engaging in the thought experiment influenced by irrelevant factors 2 how effective is the voi ie to what extent does it fulfill the function it was supposed to fulfill 3 what are the larger philosophical implications of these findings the framework that i will use in investigating these questions is that of experimental philosophy that is i will run empirical studies on peoples intuitions to inform philosophical argumentation being supervised by leading experts at the universities of tokyo outgoing phase graz return phase oxford secondment and auckland secondment my research has the potential to significantly impact a number of debates in both philosophy and psychology and hopefully it can also make a small contribution to making morality more impartial in public discourse
development of perovskite photovoltaics for space environment

hybrid organicinorganic perovskite solar cells pscs as a wellknown emerging thinfilm photovoltaic pv technology are developing rapidly owing to their versatile optoelectronic properties outstanding photoconversion efficiency high specific power power to weight ratio compatibility with flexible substrates and lowcost chemicalbased manufacturing and excellent radiation resistance of pscs make them as a promising alternative for nextgeneration space pvs however compared with other practical space pvs such as silicon and iiiv multijunction commercial cells the research on pscs for space environment is just in the infancy stage the aim of p4space project is delivering of a sustainable pv technology for any present and future space environment application by developing and scaleup of the pscs with high performance and durability in the harsh space environments
crosskingdom symbionts plant pathogens as insect mutualists

by vectoring plant pathogens herbivorous insects are key determinants in the epidemiology of numerous plant blights for a vectorborne phytopathogen natural selection favors upgrading insect fitness to enhance transmission to an uninfected plant it is currently unclear how a microbe balances this dual symbiotic lifestyle featuring markedly different interaction outcomes as a plant pathogen and an insect mutualist likewise little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying pathogen specificity and the genomic basis and consequences of crosskingdom host shifts along the parasitismtomutualism continuum i will tackle these questions using an emergent model system the interaction between the fungal pathogen fusarium the leaf beetle chelymorpha alternans and their shared host plant ipomoea batatas i recently described that c alternans associates with a fusarial strain that coats the pupae of its host protecting beetles against predators during metamorphosis in exchange the insect propagates its symbiont to its host plant where it causes wilt disease the unique biology and tractability of this study system affords unparalleled opportunities for experimentation my approach will combine fieldwork and bioassays with the latest developments in sequencing technologies reverse genetics and metabolomics to characterize 1 the mechanistic features of symbiontdriven defense 2 the genetic basis of infection in a crosskingdom hostshift 3 the genomic consequences of a dual symbiotic lifestyle and 4 the breadth origin as well as partner fidelity and chemical stability of a pathogenvector interaction bridging the fields of chemical ecology plant pathology and natural product research this project will significantly further our understanding of the geneticbasis of crosskingdom symbiotic interactions and the epidemiology of plant pathogens
origin of animals using highquality genomic assemblies and metagenomic analyses

one of the most fundamental questions in evolutionary biology is centred on our ancestors how did animals originate recent advances in various disciplines have refined this question of whether the most profound divergence in the animal phylogenetic tree estimated to have occurred approximately 800 million years ago was between the sponges porifera or the combjellies ctenophora and this remains a contentious point of discussion within the scientific community this is important as it influences our understanding of the evolution of the nervous muscular and digestive systems did the ancestor of all animals already possess complex systems or did these systems evolve at a later stage the project described in this proposal aims to answer this question through multiple crucial steps firstly by improving the genomic quality data from the animal clades in contention and their closest relatives then by applying innovative and stateoftheart phylogenomics comparative genomics and molecular dating techniques and thirdly through harnessing the power of hidden diversity in the environment through metagenomics we will use our novel highquality data to infer the animal tree of life and importantly to reconstruct the gene content and metabolism of their last common ancestor thanks to the use of complete sets of proteins we will be able to address this question for the first time from a higher hierarchical level rather than merely looking at the differences between gene histories we can use our inference of these interacting metabolic networks which are more conserved across deep time to understand the evolution of the group and reconstruct the metabolism of the last common ancestor of animals
diagnose alzheimers disease with isotopes

during the course of the pristine proposal we have developed the first high precision high sensitivity stable isotope measurements for a variety of vital elements including zn and cu with these technical advances we realized that we could monitor stable isotopic changes within organisms that open up a new way to study metal homeostasis as well as a new ways of detection diagnosis for diseases in particular the alzheimers disease in dai we will further explore make use of these unique technical advance to demonstrate the feasibility of using stable isotope geochemistry of metals to detect the early stages of the alzheimers disease to reach this goal we will combine our technical skills developed during pristine with medical science to demonstrate this proof of concept and if succesful to file a patent this would represent a unique way to apply isotope cosmochemistry to medical science fields
cyanobacterial glycolipids as tracers of continental climate change

global surface temperatures are increasing in a manner unprecedented in modern earth history the extent of future warming on regional to global scales is difficult to predict but crucial for developing climateresilient pathways and strategies for adaptation and sustainability the study of ancient climates allows a mechanistic exploration of the earth system and the opportunity to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate and improve new generations of climate models particularly on the continents however the spatiotemporal reconstruction of ancient climates is often associated with large uncertainties due to the scarcity of proxy recordscyanite takes an innovative approach to fill the proxy record gap by tapping lacustrine sediment deposits as highresolution archives of continental climate change this will for the first time be feasible by the pis recent discovery of a novel suite of lipids known as heterocyte glycolipids hgs that are ubiquitously present in lakes worldwide cyanite will interrogate the sensitivity of hgs to climate forcing in space and time and will develop validate and apply hgbased lipid palaeothermometers that will provide essential new insights on the magnitude and timing of past continental climate change cyanite will go beyond the current stateoftheart and through an integrated approach deliver i culture and sediment calibrations to transfer hgbased proxy values to absolute temperatures and ii highresolution cenozoic proxy records of continental climate change to facilitate palaeoclimate modeldata comparison as such cyanite will open new pathways in palaeoclimate research and significantly advance our capabilities to reliably forecast future climate change
transformative change in telecoupled agrofood systems for biodiversity and equity

demand for agricultural commodities from eu agrofood systems are driving land use change in biodiversityrich countries in the global south leading to major biodiversity losses tackling the eus global biodiversity footprint is a top eu policy priority the science demonstrates the need for transformative change in economic social and financial models for safe and just transitions but there is limited knowledge on how to achieve transformative change in practice which requires navigation of biodiversity climate and equity tradeoffs and synergies tc4be will support transdisciplinary research on different dimensions and scales of telecoupled agrofood systems engaging diverse stakeholders including eu and producercountry policymakers and indigenous peoples and local communities scenarios and modelling of eu agrofood systems transformations will be complemented by analysis of eu governance trade legal consumer collective action and sustainable finance levers and social innovations in three producer countries cameroon colombia and kenya tc4be will generate methods for and assess land use change drivers atrisk biodiversity hotspots and the effectiveness of sustainable landscapes initiatives in six landscapes tc4be will explore relationships to nature perceptions of socioecological histories and futures rigorously evaluate slis and conduct regenerative enterprise case studies using a structured landscape learning process transformative change pathways will be cogenerated by diverse stakeholders recognizing plural values and informed by new evidence decisionmaking tools and training modules the overall process will strengthen the capacity of participating stakeholders careknowledgeagency to influence biodiversity and equity outcomes a global dialogue facilitated by the global landscapes forum will link the transdisciplinary processes between the scales supported by additional dissemination and communication activities
networking for excellence in the development of innovative consumeroriented horticultural food products using the living lab approach

hortifoodtrends is a project under which instytut ogrodnictwa pastwowy instytut badawczy inhort will establish and implement into its practice a longlasting interdisciplinary collaboration network with high profile european partners kbenhavns universitet ucph association groupe esa groupe esa and centre de recherche de linstitut lyfe lyfe in the field of novel food product development considering the needs of the enduser consumers and food processing sector with an approach defined as the living lab formula in accordance with the inhort competence traditionally strongly linked with horticultural producers and the postharvest management of horticultural commodities the project effort will focus on creating healthpromoting novel foods by using emerging processing techniques dedicated to fruit and vegetable preservation obtaining appropriate competences to carry out work in the consumeroriented formula and in particular using the living lab approach will provide inhort with a unique tool to enhance the knowledge transfer into the agrifood sector cooperation of food technologists technological knowledge aimed at maintaining the healthpromoting properties of processed raw materials with specialists in the field of consumer sciences knowledge of communicating with consumers contrasting with consumers needs and preferences as well as market and economic conditions articulated by entrepreneurs work in the living lab formula is expected to substantially increase the likelihood of delivering innovative nutritionally and sensory valuable products to the hortifood market thus a conscious consumer in line with the idea of the eu strategy from farm to fork will have better access to highquality food products produced using current environmentally friendly modern processing technologies besides within hortifoodtrends activity strengthening research management capacities and administrative skills are foreseen
bringing knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce food loss at the primary production stage understanding measuring training and adopting

each year a substantial amount of food loss fl is generated at the primary production stage
augmented intelligence for pedagogically sustained training and education

augmentor aims to develop a novel pedagogical framework that promotes both basic skills and 21st century competencies by integrating emerging technologies this framework will be supported by an open access aiboosted toolkit that builds on the strengths of big data and learning analytics to provide different types of stakeholders with explainable recommendations for smart search and identification of educational resources as well as for designing personalized learning profiles that take into account individual actors characteristics needs and preferences the overall approach foreseen is innovative based on appropriately structured data that capture the stakeholders learning paths promote informed and welljustified interaction and advance critical thinking augmentor will leverage advancements in the fields of pedagogical design creative pedagogy explainable artificial intelligence and knowledge representation and reasoning for instructional purposes we will meaningfully integrate pedagogical approaches with aibased software solutions to enable a rich collaboration among all chains actors from students to teachers and policy makers our goal is to provide guidelines to stakeholders on how to address potential underlying educational difficulties and disabilities shape individual learning paths or identify cases of gifted and talented students to enable them to reach their full potentialaugmentor will enhance trust and transparency and trigger constructive reflection in both tutoring and pedagogical policy making the project keeps a strategic balance between the pedagogical and technological dimensions of teaching and learning at the same time it contributes equally to the concepts of individual and organizational learning considering them as interdependent processes the foreseen solution will be thoroughly deployed and validated in a series of real pilots representing diverse educational and training settings to define best practices
geography and cartography in dantes comedy

the geodetic project aims to explore an understudied and undervalued aspect of dantes poem the geography of our world alongside its imaginary afterlife sceneries the comedy shows fourteenthcentury italian and european geographies most of which are still recognizable today dante outlines an unprecedented detailed and exact image of the world but above all he reveals profound geographical awareness the very few studies on this theme are obsolete or weak at exegetical level an updated analysis is therefore needed integrating a philological approach with the territorial data through a specifically interdisciplinary methodology the project firstly proposes a complete examination of the italian and european geographical areas described in the comedy along with of those in the de vulgari eloquentia secondly a specific focusing on a selection of places is foreseen aiming for the geohistorical reconstruction of the physical territories mentioned by the poet through relevant geographic historiographic literary and iconographic sources web mapping services will be also fundamental to localize and visualize each of the geographical elements considered the first objective is to investigate the components of dantes geographical culture the second objective is to evaluate his geographical knowledge in its own environmental framework in order to enrich our comprehension of his poetry and shed light on passages whose correct interpretation depends on a clear understanding of topographical details the third objective is to verify the possible presence of maps among dantes sources by matching his text to extant cartographic documents the recent progress made in medieval cartography and the increasing digital accessibility of this heritage will be crucial to advancing my analysis the result will open up an innovative perspective on dantes geopoetics as an essential constituent of the poem