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ecological impacts of floating photovoltaics in lake ecosystems

the need to mitigate the ecological effects of climate change is accelerating the development of renewable energy technologies floating photovoltaic systems fpv is an important advance of the energy industry and is spreading fast across the globe a key challenge remains to ensure that climate mitigation strategies are not triggering novel unexpected and counterproductive impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems that can counterbalance their ecological benefits fpv can affect lakes ecosystem services through abrupt changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning through changes in abiotic conditions in lakes eg light arrival water mixing oxygenation that can ultimately alter the composition of plant and animal communities with cascading effects on ecosystem functioning to date however empirical assessments of these impacts are still lacking eclipse aims to provide an integrative assessment of the ecological impacts of fpv on lakes ecosystems by 1 measuring the insitu impacts of fpv on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 2 experimentally quantifying the contextdependency of these effects 3 predicting the impacts of fpv on lakes under climate change scenarios and 4 providing evidencebased guidelines for fpv deployment an innovative combination of methods will be used to quantify food web architecture stable isotope analyses and ecosystem functioning lake metabolism and carbon balance incorporating in situ lake monitoring mesocosm experiments and ecological modeling eclipse is highly innovative as it will answer an applied question with ecological and socioeconomic implications providing fundamental knowledge on ecosystem responses to abrupt environmental changes
temporal evolution of the milkyway properties from an observational and theoretical sinergy

understanding how galaxies form and evolve in the universe is a key longterm goal of astrophysics in this regard our galaxy provides unique insights because due to its proximity detailed galactic properties can be resolved that can unravel its formation history for this reason the international community and in particular european countries have made large investments in observational resources to perform galactic research during this and the following decades for example the gaia mission and a number of ambitious spectroscopic surveys like weave and 4most among others the extraordinary wealth of data is facilitating an unprecedented leap forward to uncover the origin and evolution of our galaxy with important implications for deciphering the physical processes governing galaxy evolution in general in the last decade there has been important progress in the understanding of the chemodynamic and accretion history of the milky way in which the rr has played a visible role there is however an important caveat in observational analysis the lack of a methodology to derive precise stellar ages for large unbiased samples of stars without the temporal dimension it is difficult to interpret observed galactic stellar properties in terms of the processes that led to the current configuration of the galaxy this proposal aims to develop and exploit a novel methodology to derive precise age distributions for milkyway mw stellar populations these age distributions will be combined with the chemodynamical information provided by the huge spectroscopic datasets and analyzed using chemical evolution models altogether this information will provide key strong constraints to evaluate theoretical models of galaxy formation and evolution thus approaching the study of our galaxy through a comprehensive observational and theoretical approach
development of kasurias code tech product analytical engine

kasuria applies data science to blockchain data with a purpose to provide its users financial institutionsbank financial regulators with clarity on how a specific decentralized finance applications generate profit and how risky they are this data enables the customers to optimally align their own investments in cryptocurrencies and tokens as well as other defi decentralized finance services the actual data are quantitative investment metrics using performance and risk indicators that can be calculated retrospectively ie from historical transactions on blockchains using data analytics kasurias customers need this data for their research and reporting purposes eg for benchmarking or the securities prospectus according to local financial regulatory requirements such as requested by bafin in case of germany and in particular to be able to quantitatively under or substantiate the asset selection as part of their own fund and investment strategy
compressing manybody quantum states in continuous spacetime with tensor networks

manybody quantum systems with strong correlations are particularly difficult to understand in the continuum where nonperturbative techniques are in scarce supply direct diagonalization methods are not available since the hilbert space is simply too large to be manageable this inhibits progress in high energy physics nuclear physics and in the study of exotic topological phases of matter on the lattice tensor network states a variational class of wavefunctions coming from quantum information theory have allowed to compress exponentially large hilbert spaces down to a smaller numerically manageable corner this has allowed substantial theoretical and numerical advance on the manybody problem on the latticethis project will develop continuous tensor network states a new framework to extend the recent lattice progress to the continuum and quantum field theory qft the originality of the approach is that it will not rely on any discretization of spacetime i will work directly in the continuum without any cutoff low energy states of quantum field theories which a priori live in a continuously infinite dimensional hilbert space will be compressed down to a finite and small number of parameters this will then allow to solve numerically very generic nonintegrable strongly coupled theories in a fully nonperturbative manner such a compression was long thought to be impossible in particular in the relativistic case but i overcame crucial theoretical hurdles in the past year making the proposal particularly timelyi will construct this framework with 3 main applications in mind i nonrelativistic problems in 2 space dimensions and more including eg fractional quantum hall states ii relativistic qft starting with 11 dimensional toy model and gradually increasing complexity to get closer to nonabelian gauge theories iii critical quantum systems and classical statistical mechanics
optimizing the adsorption of water vapour to enhance the sequestration of inorganic carbon and phototrophs activity in dry soils

mineral carbonation is based on the reaction of co2 with metal oxide bearing materials to precipitate insoluble carbonates with calcium being one of the most attractive metals while the development of industrial carbonation processes has been recommended to mitigate climate change its natural occurrence in soils and its potential enhancement through management practices has received little attention so far since natural carbonation is commonly considered to be a slow process spreading powder of noncarbonated calciumbearing minerals over soils a strategy known as enhanced rock weathering erw is a promising way to accelerate it while humid tropical areas are generally regarded as having the greatest potential for erw recent evidence suggests that carbonation may also be significant in drylands driven by water vapour adsorption wva by soil at night potentially representing an overlooked longterm carbon sink the general objective of the oasis project is to assess the potential of erw in dryland soils its main underlying assumption is that optimizing wva with amendment of highly adsorbent ground rock will maximize the carbonation process while reducing the dependence of phototrophic organisms on rainfall or irrigation to tackle this objective oasis will implement field and mesocosm manipulative experiments using cuttingedge infrastructure to control environmental conditions and simulate climate change these will be coupled to stateoftheart measurements and isotopic tracing of soilatmosphere water vapor and co2 fluxes this research will contribute to filling several gaps in our understanding of natural carbonation and its interactions with wva organisms and climate change it is also expected to provide solid arguments to implement conservation measures and sustainable agricultural practices in drylands or seasonally dry lands to protect and increase water and carbon resources in line with several european and global guidelines
pattern formation in systems of magnetic spinners

the collective behavior of magnetic particles in rotating fields opens challenging physical questions and suggests their role as model systems for nonlinear behavior in soft matter physics their nonequilibrium phase diagrams show a wide range of patterns from the experimental perspective the control by an external magnetic field of collective dynamics of particles with permanent dipoles namely magnetic spinners offers a promising route for applications such as chiral fluids cargo transport and targeted delivery however the full comprehensive understanding of pattern control of the magneticresponsive aggregates remains challenging and it lacks a profound investigation which is crucial for future applications this proposal aims to investigate the pattern formation in systems of magnetic spinners by theoretical approaches which are compared to experimental data to find characteristic parameters and rules studies will make use of particleresolved computer simulations such as langevin dynamics simulation based on langevin equations to investigate the interplay among magnetic hydrodynamics and lubrication interaction
first miniaturized universal gas analyzer for all renewable gases in all their extensive and complex composition at all production and consumption phases including hydrogen purity for fuel cells

gas chromatographs are powerful sophisticated pieces of equipment but today they are expensive complex and most of the time are operated in laboratories or expensive shelters apix analytics is willing to revolutionize the gas chromatography market apix has the ambition to develop a new generation of gas chromatograph that provides end users with the performance of an analysis laboratory in an embedded portable systemthe underlying breakthrough is the invention of a universal detector based on a nano electromechanical system nems called the ngd nano gravimetric detector developed by apix during the last 8 years 25 patents protect it the objective of the greenpix project is to develop industrialize and commercialize an ultrafast and ultrasensitive gas microchromatograph capable of analysing any renewable gas within the same system to do so there is today no unique and universal solution
supporting the sns ju operations

supporting the operations of the 6g smart networks and services joint undertakingthe sns ops project is devoted to supporting the sns ju operations the planned work is to facilitate the activities of the european sns initiative as outlined in the sns contractual partnership this includessupport for the smart networks services sns institutionalised european partnership and the related programmatic organisation through cross sns projects coordination organisation of the sns as a coherent programme with clear links to the 6g infrastructure association and the ec via the partnership board and the ju office and their strategic policies maximised output and exploitation of sns project results in key domains eg standardisation spectrum through managed cooperation between projects on horizontal issues inter ju coordination and joint actions the sns ops project will also orchestrate and organise strategic activities to capture and promote the european view on 6g the achievements of the 6g sns and will start the process of monitoring the development and impact of these results on the evolution of 6g in europe over the period of life of the 6g sns initiative this work will also look to the future and consider what additional actions are necessary to maintain the european momentum and leadership in 6g and facilitate the uptake of 6g by the european vertical sectorsduring the life of the sns ops project the sns ju will be launching and expanding its first phase activities and preparing for subsequent phases
genetic recombination and mating in mamiellophyceae

phytoplankton is responsible of almost the half of earths primary production among the different components of the phytoplankton there is an important group of picosized green algae between 08 and 3um the mamiellophyceae that is ubiquitous in the sunlit ocean and can reach high abundances in coastal environments the first population genomics study of the mamiellophycean species ostreococcus tauri revealed indirect evidences of recombinant events and the presence of two different mating types m and m which led to the description of these two mating types in another three mamiellophycean species however we do not know whether this candidate matingtype structure is conserved throughout earlier diverging mamiellophyceaen lineages neither do we know the relative frequency of the two mating types in natural communities and which environmental factors influence mating and recombination therefore the major aim of this proposal is to elucidate the evolution of mating types and the prevalence of recombination across natural populations in ecologically relevant phytoplanktonic species mamiellophyceae including the estimation of environmental effects in mating to address this i will use a multidisciplinary approach taking advantage of an original set of genomic datasets population genomics data new genomic sequences and metagenomic data from natural communities and experimental tools which will allow me to contribute to solving an important knowledge gap in the life cycle of mamiellophyceae specifically i will focus in identifying the prevalence of recombination in two closely related species of otreococcus capture the ecology and evolution of mating types across mamiellophyceae and detect the abiotic and biotic factors that affect mating in o tauri for the latter i will take advantage of genetic transformation techniques to select recombinant cells
localized cancer therapy

currently cancer is the second cause of morbidity and death in europe with 19m deaths and 37m cases annually cancerrelated deaths are projected to exceed 13m by 2030 with abdominal organs hosting most cancer incidents although popular conventional modalities are nonetheless associated with major clinical challenges such as nonspecificity side effects and drug tolerance which impede further developments in recent years noninvasive controllable minimal side effects and localized nanoscale drugbased therapies have been developed this treatment deploys nanocarriers ncs to the location of the targeted cancer tumors and upon activation they release chemotherapeutic drugs however there are concerns over the safety of this strategy due to lack of biodegradation potential toxicity poor bioavailability and limitations associated with the drug activation protocols the main goal of the lct project is to overcome these challenges in an original and innovative manner by developing nanocarriers that are nontoxic biocompatible biodegradable and can be combined with a wellknown treatment modality eg a precise and effective radiation treatment the proposed work will be approached from theoretical numerical and experimental perspectives based on the applicants and host laboratorys expertise the training program is exhaustive and will allow the applicant to grow as an independent researcher the proposed research will foster further development in this direction a step that is fundamental in healthcare and for the benefit of societythe applicant is a libyan scholar with expertise in the areas of applied mechanics industrial medical radiation materials science nanochemistry and structural engineering he has been trained in prestigious industrial and academic institutions in libya canada and hong kong he is applying for a twoyear msca fellowship to conduct the lct at nui galway a 4 months secondment at ucd is planned
linguistic tuning shifts in the human brain during second language learning

language learning and fostering linguistic diversity within the european union are priorities of the european commission learning new languages can change the structure and function of the cerebral cortex affecting the way we think however despite extensive research we lack a finegrained description of how dynamical changes in cortical representations mediate learning concepts and linguistic structures of a new language the lingshift program will use a cuttingedge paradigm to identify the dynamic shifts in linguistic representations by addressing three main questions what are the core cortical regions involved in processing semantics the meaning of words and sentences and syntax the grammatical structures of sentences during language learning what specific semantic or syntactic information do these regions represent does the spatial organization of semantic and syntactic representations dynamically change over the course of learning a new language to investigate this lingshift will combine longitudinal noninvasive brain imaging using naturalistic stimuli and a powerful predictive modelling approach in a multidisciplinary work program first lingshift will create an openaccess longitudinal functional mri language comprehension and production dataset this dataset will be recorded across a oneyear period of adults learning a new language second it will unravel the cortical semantic and syntactic representations using a predictive modelling approach that makes use of stateoftheart deep neural network language models third it will identify the dynamical changes in semantic and syntactic representations during language acquisition lingshift will provide new predictions about longterm dynamics and cortical changes that will improve our understanding of language systems in the brain it will place important constraints on theoretical frameworks of second language learning that will help modernise language teaching
cosmological phase transitions of standard model matter and their gravitational wave signatures

the standard model of particle physics is the theory of the strong electromagnetic and weak interactions describing the elementary particles of nature at microscopic length scales the precise theoretical predictions of the standard model are put to the test in contemporary and future highenergy particle collider experiments besides explaining matter around us in the present the standard model also predicts the distant past of our universe by describing the behavior of particles at temperatures as high as it used to be just fractions of seconds after the big bang the relics of the cosmological phase transitions in this era of our universe are actively soughtfor via their gravitational wave signatures in current and future observatories most of the relevant features of hot standard model matter are nonperturbative implying that a firstprinciples treatment is only possible via computer simulations of the underlying field theories on spacetime lattices this proposal will use such largescale lattice field theory simulations to determine the properties of cosmological phase transitions and thus significantly improve our understanding of how the early universe cooled down and became the world that we know todayspecifically we will perform the first full physical simulations of hot electrically charged strongly interacting matter we will also substantially improve on existing calculations of the weak and electromagnetic interactions at high temperature the computational effort of the combined treatment of these forces is immense we will overcome these challenges by employing optimized algorithms and cuttingedge technologies including machine learning methods for both systems we will determine the nature of the hightemperature transition and analyze the induced gravitational wave spectrum our results will provide the most accurate description of standard model matter in the early universe
detecting and countering information suppression from a transnational perspective

the proposed project explores a how russia and china pursue informationsuppression tactics in the eu and its partner countries pcs and how they constructstrategize these tactics b which cases of fimi have been the most impactful in eu countries and pcs and how to measure the importance of future fimi attacks c which transnational dissemination and consumption networks have been contributing to the success of foreign informationsuppression attempts within the eu d the social and psychological drivers of which forms of fimi succeed e how can the existing legal regulatory and diplomatic frameworks in the eu such as the gdpr or digital services act and pcs be improved to build greater resilience against such efforts and f opportunities and pitfalls of platformlevel governance that could be improved to improve collective eu and pc defences against fimi in an interdisciplinary multimethod interconnected and multinational manner the value of this research linkage is 1 better understanding fimi from the perpetrator side for more accurate defense 2 why transeuropean information networks knowingly or unknowingly misinformation vs disinformation adopt semantic narratives of certain fimi attempts and contribute to their domestic and europewide dissemination 3 synoptically evaluate and methodologically sharpen existing research on cognitive and societal drivers of which topic and content types remain most salient in successful fimi cases 4 approach the research gaps that exist in this field by providing an interdisciplinary focus by combining political communication international relations social psychology area studies eu china and russia security studies and computational social science and 5 present an expanded solution space by creating an interconnected menu of legal regulatory diplomatic and technological policy and regulatory options to help counter fimi in a more coordinated and targeted fashion