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an ontology for the transmission and reuse of argumentative patterns otra in christianmuslim religious encounters

in this project i will study argumentative structures in christian antiislamic polemics from a historical perspective using a digital humanities approach by investigating these argumentative patterns i want to find out how this discourse developed over time are we confronted with a stable set of arguments stereotypes and references that structured the christian discourse about islam from the middle ages or did the increased availability of empirical sources and the increased contact from the 17th century lead to new forms of argumentative interactions in order to answer these questions in a datadriven comparative way i will create an ontology that allows to record and classify references borrowings and structure of arguments in a standardized form i will apply this scheme to a selected number of texts from the christian tradition from the 13th to the 19th century creating a knowledge base i will use this knowledge base to answer selected research questions regarding the evolution of argumentative patterns to disseminate this approach i will develop and conduct a workshop format in which i will introduce students and other researchers to work with ontologies in general my ontology and my knowledge base my approach will yield insights historical development of argumentative structures but it will also allow to easily share data among researchers to collaborate more effectively and to base conclusions on larger datasets it will provide a paradigm for describing historical argumentative structures that can be generalized and applied to many other fields of research pursuing this project will allow me to evolve into a digital humanities researcher to pioneer my own research to greatly expand my research network and to gain a wider perspective on christianmuslim religious engagement
unified transcription and translation for extended reality

the aim of utter is to leverage large language models to build the next generation of multimodal extended reality xr technologies for transcription translation summarisation and minuting we will make these technologies scalable adaptable contextualised robust explainable and emotionaware we will increase the contextsensitivity of the technologies so they can take into account the full history of the conversation as well as its wider context we will introduce confidenceaware models which can take into account their own limitations we will develop explainable models so the human user can know why the model made the decisions it did we will improve adaptation so that domainspecific and languagespecific models can be quickly rolled out for these advances we will make use of pretrained extended reality xr models which optimally combine text and speech signals and are trained efficiently with adapters and prompting we will also develop efficient methods to deploy such large and complex models so that they can put into production in an energyefficient manner our usecase prototypes will cover i a personal assistant for meetings that can improve communication in the online world and ii an advanced customer service assistant to support global markets these prototypes will be developed and tested throughout the project with annual releases and evaluations through our cascaded grant programme and our release of tools to facilitate the use of pretrained xr models will enable the takeup and development of these technologies throughout europe
intelligent robotic endoscopes for improved healthcare services

in intelligent robotic endoscopes ire for improved healthcare services we envision creating intelligent robotics solutions extending current endoscope technology with robotics control that is based on learning from currently collected human operator data coupled with novel biomechanical modeling techniques and sensory feedback as well as soft robotics phantom for trainingthe challenge with colonoscopy is that the success rate of detecting cancer depends on the skills of the clinician that operates the endoscope from a health and societal perspective the number of colonoscopies is bound to increase as they are the only way to screen patients for early cancer detection many european countries have national screening programs this is a very big market in need of improved technologyire enables a new generation of intelligent robots that through data simulation and learning can interact with the interior of a living human while communicating with a human operator the huge variation of human anatomy and the dynamic effect of human physiology make it a complicated navigational task to use endoscopes entanglement haemorrhage and perforation risks create a critical and difficult environment to navigate autonomously in where even trained human operators meet challenges we exploit one of the largest datasets on reallife colonoscopies with more than 2000 operations to learn safe navigation combined with simulated training on a population of biomechanical models of the abdominal regionire boosts the design and configuration of the robotic endoscope using digital twins and simulation and careful inclusion of clinicians will speed up the process of integration ire will raise the level of autonomy by building upon simulation imaging and learning to yield an increased interpretation and understanding of the complex real world environments capable of anticipating the effect of human motions adapting and replanning to avoid entanglement
pushing boundaries in preclinical aortopathy research

thoracic aortic aneurysm taa entails a high risk for aortic dissection and rupture which is a prominent cause of death in western countries prophylactic surgery significantly reduces the mortality risk but complications are relatively common moreover in severe taa conditions aneurysms often develop at other locations afterwards exposing patients to repeated surgeries and thus threats current drug options only modestly slow down dilatation without preventing dissections or ruptures clearly a game changer in taa patient management would be the availability of medical therapies capable of stopping or reversing aneurysm formation functional characterization of the known taa genes especially those that are linked to syndromic taa in relevant cell andor mouse models has already delivered valuable insights into the disease mechanisms prompting preclinical drug testing in mice the mechanistic picture is incomplete though encumbering the development of additional and especially more effective therapies another prevailing issue is the inefficient andor unsuccessful translation of pharmacological mouse results to the clinic few compounds make it to clinical trials due to the high costs lengthy time frames and difficulties as to patient recruitment additionally while taa mouse models allow us to study and therapeutically target disease in an in vivo setting efficiency of ensuing compounds might not be recapitulated in humans building on intriguing preliminary data and the unique availability of mutantcontrol fbn1 and ipo8 mice and human induced pluripotent stem cells this project aims to contribute to the resolution of these issues by further unravelling and therapeutically targeting the mechanisms underlying syndromic taa additionally breakout will provide proofofconcept that patientderived aortaonachip models can be used for preclinical taa research
fostering research careers in light sciences

flight is a 60month mcsa cofund doctoral program that aims at recruiting outstanding early stage researchers esrs to carry out ambitious phdprojects at icfo in one of 3 tracks standrard industrial or clinical it will offer 30 highly competitive fellowships of 36 months duration through 3 calls to outstanding international candidates and equip them unique capabilities to become future leaders in academic industrial and clinical researchflight aims to fostering career mobility of researchers beyond the academic sector the program includes an extensive training program of multidisciplinary scientific workshops and training events where all fellows are exposed to the interdisciplinary mix between academic research and industrialclinical work esrs in the industrial and clinical tracks will undertake research projects in collaboration with one of 14 industrial and clinical partners from innovative startups to multinational companies and leading local hospitals who will cofinance the esrs research projects and provide cosupervision extended secondments research and training resourcesflight will equip recruited fellows with unique capabilities to launch a research career at the intersection of photonic sciences with a wide range of industrial and clinical applications and enhance the european talent base in a field photonic sciences identified as vital to the ongoing competitiveness of the european research area
slavery abolition and archipelagic connections in the swedish caribbean

surveys and datasets of the transatlantic slave trade do not include swedish slave trade and colonial history yet when sweden acquired the antillean island saint barthlemy in 1784 it became a slaving nation that traded and smuggled captive africans and punished the enslaved population using draconic slave laws until the abolition of swedish slavery in 1847 the project is the first investigation of new sources and it situates swedish colonialism in the caribbean archipelago by shifting the emphasis of the previous historiography from the european colonizers to building knowledge on the enslaved and free afrocaribbean majority population the project shows how the swedish caribbean society only can be understood in a larger setting where singlenation historical narratives have little explanatory power five subprojects creates new knowledge that will build a critical mass of data on hitherto unstudied facets of swedish caribbean history slave law and justice slave trade abolition of slavery colonial demography and colonial governance the project uses the swedish governmental colonial archive held in france that for the first time has been made accessible in the pis preceding project by scholarly publications and the creation of datasets covering legislation biographies of the majority black population slave trade data etc and publishing them online in both projectowned databases and by contributing to major international datasets it develops new methods within digital caribbean and colonial history the caribbean intergovernmental organization caricom has included sweden in its claims for reparations for genocide slavery slave trading and racial apartheid and the project builds a firm basis to evaluate swedish participation in caribbean slavery and colonialism
wind hybrid evolution for lowcarbon solutions

the overall objective of the wheel project is to fully demonstrate and bring to a precommercial technology readiness level trl a revolutionary floating wind technology excellently suited for deep water locations effective industrialization strategies breakthrough cost reduction and minimized carbon footprint this shall enable a radical step forward for lcoe reduction whilst also addressing scalability harbour infrastructure suitability and availability and the sustainability circularity of floating offshore wind development and demonstration needed to reach the pursued trl will be achieved through the design installation certification and testing of a fully operative 6mw pilot unit which will showcase and demonstrate the breakthrough advantages that the wheel technology can deliver to the floating wind industry it will be installed in a deepwater location in the plocan testing area canary islands spain where it shall be thoroughly monitored along a period sufficient to underpin the commercialization and bankability of the technology the wheel project pulls together a consortium of renowned european companies and research institutions with extensive experience and a spearhead position in the renewables and marine industry this multidisciplinary team joins forces to complete the full demonstration of such a disruptive technology by integrating complementary expertise fields and capabilities which effectively cover all key areas of floating wind systems in pursuit of the ambitious objectives of the project
reducing climate based health risks in blue environments adapting to the climate change impacts on coastal pathogens

blueadapt brings together an interdisciplinary team of biologists climate scientists economists epidemiologists and public health experts to investigate and quantify the future health risks associated with selected coastal pathogens blueadapt will provide tools to assess the impacts of policy responses and communicate the results to a wide audience including both policymakers and the public a conceptual framework will be developed around existing models of one health and ecological public health to help wider engagement with the complex nature of the issue horizons scanning and downscaled climate modelling will feed into lab based experiments and the development of simulations around how changes in climate variables interacting with other environmental change may influence the state of selected microbial pathogens of public health concern in coastal waters case studies will illustrate how one health and ecological public health concepts can be used to generate action and identify potential barriers to adaptation health impact assessment and costbenefit analysis will inform appropriate action blueadapt innovation slams and policy workshops will help deliver wider impact from the project including newtofirm and newtomarket products and services
nexus framework for biodiversityrelevant transformative change

biotrails aims to generate knowledge and develop tools that will inspire and accelerate biodiversityrelevant transformative change in our society biotrails will use participatory systems dynamics modelling to take into account the complex interrelations between the indirect drivers of change in four value chains of traded products cocoa produced in peru forestbased cultural products created by indigenous communities in the brazilian amazon fisheries and aquaculture products supplied by the mediterranean basin and consumed within the mediterranean countries and gold mined in ghana and in an integrated manner alongside the climate and social justice agendas based on this knowledge and tools biotrails will bring together stakeholders across different stages of productmaterial global value chains to collaboratively design pathways that can lead to a sustainable future proposing interventions in policy urban consumption patterns and corporate policies biotrails will set up learning and action alliances groups of organisations and individuals with a common interest to address the multiple challenges of climate change biodiversity loss and peoples good quality of life across different spatial and administrative scales and stages of global value chains environmentally extended multiregional inputoutput analysis and life cycle assessment methods will be used to trace the environmental pressures arising from extraction production trade and consumption activities and behaviour patterns along global supply chains in the target sectors the project will assess besides the economic values the biophysical social and relational values emerging across different steps of value chain behavioural studies will be conducted based on the theory of planned behaviour which considers psychological and behavioural patterns structural equation models will be used to identify the most significant factors that drive behavioural change
palaeogenetics and palaeoecology of the southern european red deer the greatest survivor of the late quaternary extinction event

the late quaternary extinction event led to a major loss of biodiversity with the global disappearance of several terrestrial large mammals ancient dna studies of extinct lineages dated before the late pleistoceneholocene boundary suggests that this event may have been a result of repetitive climatic shifts that fragmented large mammal populations making them more vulnerable to increasing human activities current climate change and human impacts on ecosystems may lead to similar scenarios of extinction the red deer cervus elaphus represents one of the few taxa that survived the quaternary megafauna extinction with the fossil record suggesting that its lineage has been continuously present for almost 1 ma in the iberian peninsula which acted as a refugium during intense glacials the aim of agendeer is to provide data on the genetic structure and niche occupation of southern european fossil red deer populations before and after the late quaternary extinction event through palaeogenetic and dietary behaviours analyses as well as a pilot palaeoproteomic study agendeer will investigate which winning palaeobiological and palaeoecological strategies that allowed cervus elaphus to not disappear as other megafauna populations results will be essential to understand the survival capacity and adaptation of one of the most important species of the european natural heritage providing new information for the proper management of the species the european researcher will receive advanced training on stateoftheart molecular analyses which combined with classical palaeoecological methods will greatly enhance her competence and allow her to develop her research career and leadership
paleodietary analyses of the first andean cities highresolution assessment to macronutrients using a multiproxy approach

paleodietary analyses of the first andean cities highresolution assessment to macronutrients using a multiproxy approachthe socioecological circumstances that underpinned the rise of the earliest urban centers in the americas are some of the most intriguing and unclear aspects of new world archaeology in particular the emergence of andean cities 5000 years ago has been the subject of contentious debates on one hand the maritime foundations of andean civilization have challenged the conventional assumption that agriculture was a precondition for early city development and on the other recent archaeological investigations have reenergized these debates by demonstrating that plant management and agriculture were developed in the region before the rise of complex societies and urban centers uncertainties remain regarding the proportional contributions of plants fish and terrestrial animals to individual diet and their potential roles in sustaining early sedentary and stratified urban populations engaged in monumental architecture pachamama will employ a suite of molecular techniques to unlock the relationship between diet and processes of social complexity among early urban groups in coastal peru using a multiproxy approach that integrates stable isotopes of bone collagen bulk and single amino acids bayesian mixing models and palaeoproteomic analyses of dental calculus the fellow will address the role of marine resources and plant production systems in formative period 3000 1 bc populations on the northcentral coast of the central andes a region known as the crucible of andean civilization this novel integrative approach will advance the stateoftheart on social complexity and urban development in hyperarid regions of the ancient world
exploring the potential of snow data assimilation in forest areas

despite its importance snow water equivalent swe monitoring remains an unresolved issue in modern hydrology this is a consequence of the limitations of orbital sensors the large spatial variability of the snowpack and the combined errors of meteorological forcings and numerical models snow data assimilation sda of remotely sensed data into numerical models is one way to advance the estimation of swe distribution in remote regions however implement sda initiatives in forested areas is challenging limiting the development of sda initiatives in more than 20 of the northern hemisphere the aim of this project is to train the candidate in sophisticated radiative transfer modelling and ai to implement snowforest interactions in data assimilation pipelines for a better understanding of snow freshwater resources this main objective will be developed through the creation of an international network of experts to train the researcher in different related topics this includes dr jessica lundquis outgoing phase host from the university of washington an authority on forestsnow interactions and dr simon gascoin returning phase host from cesbio toulouse france with long experience in multidisciplinary snow remote sensing the results will be used to enhance the current capabilities of the musa tool an open source and highly scalable data assimilation system developed by the researcher the project will be the first effort to infer swe in forest through sda of spacial imagery and therefore is of great interest for many stakeholders and scientists the project is designed with an obvious focus on training the researcher in new techniques but also in soft skills thanks to the mentoring programs of both the university of washington and cesbio the ultimate goal of the project is to improve the career prospects of the researcher making him an authority in snow science and providing the scientific community with a new and sophisticated sda tool
innovating to enhance dialogues on migration policies and practices

the innovate project aims to facilitate a step change in the types scope forms and impacts of migration research to policy mr2p engagement it will do so through a series of actions that develop test apply and communicate process innovations that are grounded in the needs and interests of researchers policymakers and other key stakeholders including migrants that are engaged with migration issues across governance levels from the local to the international it will then embed these within an mr2p collaboratory with both a real and virtual presence comprising a research exchange engagement hub and training facility the projects objectives are to1 establish as a key project outcome the mr2p collaboratory as a goto resource that promotes use of and valorises research evidence in both virtual and real formats to support policymaking2 develop its coordination and support actions based on principles of cocreation that are migrantcentred3 create opportunities for mutual learning between researchers policymakers citizens and people with lived migration experiences4 engage at all stages with strategic stakeholders to generate a multiplier effect of increased engagement during the life of the project5 design process innovation actions to promote use of and valorise knowledge and promote mutual learning by addressing key topics in mr2p relations6 have builtin margins of flexibility to respond to new and emerging issues7 expand the strategic scope of the work by complementing and enhancing the role of existing eu networks and evidence sources8 provide insights from behavioural science to bridge work on narratives frames and perceptions9 create measurable indicators of the projects success and impact along four dimensions building capacity incentivising engagement in incentivising engagement increasing demand and increasing uptake10 establish activities with the potential to generate income beyond the duration of funding