Dragon09/odtu_chatbot huggingface dataset:
safety systems and humanmachine interfaces oriented to diverse population towards future scenarios with increasing share of highly automated vehicles

facing to the challenge of future highly automated vehicles where occupants can freely orient themselves to engage in nondriving activities this new environment prompts questions about how car occupants will actually sit what activities they will engage in and how they will informed through the hmi to keep them in the loop if necessary aware2all aims to pave the way towards highly automated vehicles havs deployment in traffic by effectively addressing the changes in road safety and changes in the interaction of different road users caused by the emergence of hav through the development of innovative technologies along with the corresponding assessment tools and methodologies aware2all will develop safety and hmi systems that will be interrelated through achieving a holistic understanding of the scene to ensure safe operation of the hav aware2all proposes a common conceptual universal safety framework for considering human machine interaction hmi the project will be built on the results of projects funded under h2020 and other rd programmes addressing the identification of new safetycritical situations and the most likely positions and postures considering the expected hav applications the main objective of aware2all is to address the new safety challenges posed by the introduction of havs in mixed road traffic through the development of inclusive and innovative safety passive and active and hmi interior and exterior systems that will consider the variety of population and will objectively demonstrate relevant improvements in mixed traffic safety
biases in administrative service encounters transitioning from human to artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence ai holds the potential to assist or even replace civil servants in citizenstate interactions which refer to those instances in which citizens seek or receive assistance information or support from a public agency in germany alone around 130 to 150 million such public service encounters pse occur each year with the current proportion of digital encounters facilitated through email or chatbots standing at 41 percent this is only the beginning of a revolution that will accelerate due to technological innovation and scarcity in human resources the goal of this project is to study the consequences of shifting from human to aipowered conversational agents in pseparadoxically while the transition to artificial encounters is already taking place in practice we still lack understanding of what happens during conventional human encounters this prevents researchers from evaluating the consequences of shifting from one venue to the other therefore the projects main research questions are how can we conceptualize and measure communicative biases in pse what biases emerge in the verbal communication of humans and ai agents in pse how does variation in communication affect citizen perceptions of the encounterai has the potential to improve service delivery but there are also risks for the legitimacy of democracy without further research the introduction of ai threatens to merely shift biases from one venue civil servants to another ai agent as its groundbreaking contributions the project 1 develops natural language processing tools to operationalize verbal communication 2 collects data from human encounters in pse and realizes experiments on aibased encounters 3 and analyses such data to formulate and test a theory about communicative biases in pse doing so 4 the project will produce and disseminate urgently needed practical insights on the application of ai conversational agents in the public sector
revolutionising industrial robotics with the next generation robotspecific aipowered security platform

today robots are not secure thousands of industrial security vulnerabilities are emerging and our team has contributed to filing hundreds of them related to industrial robots like manipulators agvs amrs and other componentswe have created ris robot immune system the first integrated endpoint protection platform specific for robots ris is based on a bioinspired ai that adapts to novel security threats it is installed directly in the robotic systems allowing the examination of interactions at robot level in search for anomalies and delivering an integrated suite of protection technologies such as antivirus intrusion prevention and data encryption among othersris is a unique solution based on our patented technology by using ai ris is able to search for vulnerable robots on the industrial network and discover vulnerabilities in working robot systems while learning over particular robot deployments to detect and protect robots against known and even unknown attacks
from rnapeptide coevolution to cellular life at heated air bubbles

the origin of life on earth is one of humanitys profound mysteries that lacks scientific answers we aim to answer this fundamental question by performing pioneering experiments starting from the darwinian evolution of rna and peptides to the emergence of cellular life all in a single environment with only a small selection of starting molecules we are an interdisciplinary team with diverse backgrounds in chemistry physics and biochemistry and we have a proven track record of strong interdisciplinary collaborationspreliminary experiments have revealed the remarkable potential of heatexposed air bubbles for molecular evolution bubblelife connects long evolutionary timescales through targeted experiments bridging from amino acids and nucleotides to the emergence of protocellular life in one unified environment our experimental studies indicate a chemical cooperation of amino acids nucleoside monophosphates and lipids driving their darwinian coevolution towards modern biochemistry the nonequilibrium at heated air bubbles promotes rna oligomerization and templatedirected ligation fostering the emergence of autocatalytic replication networks including the first rna catalysts ribozymes coaccumulating lipids form membrane vesicles at heated airwater interfaces that autonomously encapsulate rna driven by prebiotic phosphorylation amino acids polymerize into peptides in the same alkaline environment subsequently they form rnapeptide hybrids revealing intriguing modes of early prototranslation by combining our unique expertises in a synergistic manner our work will ultimately culminate in protocell generators that feed and encapsulate not only primitive rnabased replicators but also modern transcriptiontranslationbased systemsbubblelife will reshape our understanding of the origin of life on earth and potentially elsewhere in the universe
a quasi coherent receiver optical subassembly technology for improved access networks

the internet industry is growing enormously and it already accounts for more than 2 of global emissions current infrastructures and technologies for access networks cannot answer the growing demand without high energy and environmental costs with this project bifrost aims to deliver a fully developed tested and qualified breakthrough receiver optical sub assembly rosa based on proprietary and patented quasi coherent technology which increases signal detection by more than 10 times our technology can be seamlessly integrated into any existing transceiver on the market applied to the 5g fronthaul and ring architectures it will significantly increase the infrastructures reach from a max of 10 km up to 20 km in fixed networks it will enable meeting all classes of the new ngpon2 standard increasing reach bandwidth and number of users this will have a major impact on internet networks reducing the need for costly and high energyconsuming central offices by up to 90
cryptography from unstructured hardness

cryptographyand its basic tasks such as encryption authentication and key exchangeis essential for ensuring privacy and security on the internet the question of whether unbreakable encryption methods exist has fascinated mathematicians and cryptographers for thousands of years and is closely related to the famous np vs p problem this question is still wide open and consequently internet security today relies on cryptographic constructions based on the conjectured hardness of some computational problems such as eg the factoring problem the discrete logarithms problem or various noisy linear algebra problems however these conjectured hard problems all contain significant eg algebraic structure that may make them vulnerable to attacks furthermore for tasks such as key exchange and publickey encryption only a handful of candidate hard problems are known on which these tasks can be based as a result some unexpected algorithmic developments for structured problems could upend the whole infrastructure we rely on for communicating and transacting on the internetin this project we propose to develop an alternative approach a foundation for provablysecure cryptography from unstructured hardness assumptions towards resolving this longstanding challenge we will leverage our recentlydiscovered connection between cryptography and the seemingly unrelated area of kolmogorov complexity specifically we will develop new hardness assumptions rooted in kolmogorov complexity on which the cryptographic tasks eg privatekey encryption keyexchange publickey encryption can be based critically these assumptions will lack algebraic and other computational structure that may make them vulnerable to attacks overall kolmocrypt will provide a new theoretical foundation for the hardness assumptions on which cryptography is based and ultimately a more secure foundation for the internet and beyond
searching for transeqtl affecting the risk to develop inflammatory bowel disease

inflammatory bowel disease including crohns disease and ulcerative colitis now afflict close to 1250 individuals in industrialized societies there is a pressing need for effective preventive means as well as curative drugs ciseqtl analyses are uncovering a growing list of genes that are perturbed by ibd risk variants detected by gwas constituting a list of prime drug targets for the pharmaceutical industry ciseqtl effects trigger downstream effects both within the same intracellular and other cell types intercellular that culminate in disease declaration some of these downstream effects are accompanied by changes in transcript levels referred to as transeqtl effects the aim of the triq project is to take advantage of the cedarii dataset transcriptome data for up to 400 individuals in 75 ibdrelevant cell types to identify transeqtl effects that mediate ibd predisposition the genes that are perturbed by these transeffect will include druggable targets that constitute prime targets for the development of new ibd therapies
resource recovery from novel assisted metabolism

the new policies issued by the european commission support the concept of bioeconomy and circular economy to develop a new value chain in the market across the implementation of innovative technologies for the production of biobased compounds from biowaste and wastewater in this scenario reframe project aims to upgrade wastewater treatment plants wwtp into water resource recovery facilities wrrf in which wastewater and sewage sludge are used as raw materials for the production of different biobased compounds a biobased compound is defined as a product that is derived from materials of biological origin the main objective of reframe is to develop a new hybrid biological system assisted by an oxidationreduction potential orp based control for the combined production and purification processes of targeted biobased volatile fatty acids vfas and polyhydroxyalkanoates phas reframe will be the platform for chemicals precursors for bioplastics and feed ingredients ready for the market a wwtp becomes a wrrf that attempts to produce valuable and marketable biobased products such as cellulose by utilizing the organic matter from the wastewater as raw material the recovery of cellulosic primary sludge cps could be biologically converted to other biobased compounds such as vfas and phas the project will advance the state of the art of the field by the investigation of a new type of bioprocess and bacterial metabolisms to fill the current lack of the longterm stability quality and purity of isolated biobased compounds vfas and phas produced from cps as raw materialsthe applicant has a proven record of biological processes control a fundamental skill required for reframe he will thrive in the environment of the university of verona department of biotechnology this project will enrich and broaden the applicants expertise in this field and fortify his international research career
sublinear quantum computation

the rapid rise in the scale of data is a shaping force in the evolution of computer science with the ubiquity of massive datasets in recent years there is an urgent need for ultrafast algorithms that run in sublinear time ie much faster than it takes to even read their inputin the quantum era this need is even more imperative since the dimension of a quantum system scales exponentially in the number of quantum bits indeed the description size of a system with merely 127 quantum bits exceeds 1076 real numbers which is close to the number of atoms in the observable universe hence sublinear computation is essential in the quantum regimethis proposal is a highrisk highgain research programme which targets longstanding open problems in sublinear quantum computation via new and unique technical and conceptual approaches traversing quantum learning theory property testing and complexity theory this includes new paradigms for designing quantum algorithms delegating quantum computation and making progress on the quantum pcp conjecturethe proposed research will pioneer new notions of quantum computation motivated by realworld needs and establish fundamental connections between quantum computing and deep areas of mathematics such as harmonic analysis and additive combinatorics
versatile integrated brillouinkerr frequency combs for onchip photonic systems

an ultrastable lownoise optical frequency comb seamlessly integrated into a compact chipscale form factor has the potential to revolutionize precision measurements radiofrequency and optical communications and quantum technologies todays chipscale frequency combs can achieve stable phaselocked and broadband emission but they suffer from high noise that blocks the pathway towards more stringent applications such as microwave photonics brillouin optomechanics a nonlinear optical effect relying on coherent coupling of photons and acoustic phonons can enable onchip lasers with ultralow noise and high purity my erc proof of concept project veritas will build on initial breakthroughs of harnessing brillouin optomechanics in silicon nitride and aim to deliver the first chipscale lownoise frequency combs i will explore system applications of these combs for agile frequency conversion in 6g radio systems and for coherent optical communications along with these technological developments i will perform a thorough market study with appropriate ip measures maximizing the commercial potential of this technology we expect that our results in veritas will point to the feasibility of this technology for softwaredefined reconfigurable frontends for very high frequency and size and weightsensitive rf applications
strengthening democratic governance for climate transitions

the overall goal of the retool project is to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance the project has four overarching objectives i to deepen our understanding of the relationship between democratic governance and the climate imperative by developing a novel analytical framework and creating new empirical underpinnings including important new openaccess datasets ii to understand how a variety of democratic institutions across europe are responding to the climate challenge including learning lessons from history and studying new and innovative democratic practices iii to contribute to reinvigorating democratic governance in europe by developing and synthesising new knowledge and insights on climate democracy and presenting them in a range of highimpact formats and iv to serve as a bridge between academic research on climate democracy innovations and policymakers and practitioners as well as civil society and the wider public retool brings together an international and interdisciplinary consortium with partners from western europe ireland uk belgium austria northern europe finland eastern europe estonia and southern europe italy greece combining expertise in political science political sociology deliberative democracy environmental law european studies and public administration the consortium includes a democracy practitioner foundation ddf and all partners are closely associated with practitioner and civil society networks and involved in handson activities retool will be undertaken by a mature settled consortium that has significant experience of working together with six of our nine partners core members of the eufunded jean monnet network greendealnet
opening the black box of microbial interactions microbiome editing on seed natural microbial communities

over 80 of human food relies on plants but up to 40 of crops are lost to pests and diseases chemical pesticides have boosted yields but pose health and environmental risks to address this the eu aims to replace 50 of pesticides with biological solutions by 2030 as a result of hundreds of millions years of coevolution plants host a diverse microbiota coming from soil offering biotechnological potential exploring plantmicrobe and microbemicrobe interactions can revolutionize agriculture enhancing food security the discovered plantbeneficial microbial interactions could be used to generate tailored microbial communities capable of protecting plants and reducing the need for pesticides crisprcas derived genetic tools to edit the plant seed microbiome in order to decipher the main microbial interactions affecting plant health seediting aims to adapt these tools analogous to reverse genetics from simplified synthetic bacterial communities to native seed microbiota the main outcomes of the seediting project will be to master an efficient tool for microbiome editing on syncoms wp1 and to deploy this editing tool on extracted seed natural microbiota wp2 to observe the consequences of editing on microbiome dynamics and microbial interactions in vitro finally i will assess the impact of seed microbiota editing on the microbial transmission rates to the seedlings and the resulting plant phenotypes wp3 this project will lead to major breakthroughs in microbiome sciences and plantmicroorganisms interactions in agriculture by generating three main outputs opening new research avenues 1 validation of a microbiome editing tool transferrable to multiple ecosystems to decipher microbial interactions in natural communities 2 identification of microorganisms responsible for the modulation of host phenotypes 3 identification of microbial functions responsible for the phenotypes or involved in host colonization and survival
personalised pharmacometabolomic optimisation of treatment for hypertension

hypertension or high blood pressure bp is a serious medical condition and the single biggest contributor to circulatory diseases which continue to dominate as the leading cause of death and morbidity across the eu it accounts for almost 10 percent of all healthcarerelated costs systolic hypertension leads to a broad variety of diseases with an immense impact on both patients and healthcare systemshypermarker will unleash the potential of pharmacometabolomics to provide a smart prescription of antihypertensive therapy wellphenotyped cohorts from eleven european countries will provide metabolomic profiles and blood samples for pharmacometabolomic assessments to identify predictors of treatment response in hypertension using advanced ai and deep learning methods prediction models for individual treatment responses to antihypertensive medication will be clinically validated and refined through an innovative rct across 4 sites in europe the result is a clinical decision support tool that will give clinicians the ability to make an informed selection of whether the patient they are treating will best respond to the use of angiotensin inhibition calcium antagonists betablockers or a range of other existing drugs with evidencebased for bp controlto ensure sustainability the project will also develop a framework for the uptake of this tool in routine care for patients with hypertension across europe and beyond hypermarker will be implemented by a group of worldclass scientists and clinicians from a diversity of disciplines who have collaborated multiple times and have a track record of leading key national and eufunded initiatives to deliver highimpact results
decentralized platform for fair creative content distribution empowering creators and communities though new digital distribution models based on digital tokens

a growing trend in the field are nfts or nonfungible tokens nonfungible is a relevant feature in the creative industries as it is unique and cant be replaced by anything else transactions using nfts over blockchains allow audiences to easily acquire unique content from the artists users and creators take part in a cultural and artistic distributed community or gamify the experience with creative contentdafne will use this technologies to focus on the definition of novel revenue and business models to the cultural and creative industries improving their global reach and open up new distributions channels without the imposed rules by intermediaries even controlling the artists revenues which is many cases are not based on eu eg youtubetherefore dafne aims to create new distributed autonomous organizations communities dao around digital tokens and nft with a decentralized governance where cultural and creative industries cci as be a driver of innovation and competitiveness can play a role in the community governance and deciding on the rules of the communitydafne will provide novel services and tools for intuitive and simple content creation by developing new applications in case of absence or closed approach that will enable users to produce and ingest new content which can be directly valued and distributed dafne will also aim at increasing the legal transparency around the creation online distribution and sharing of existing and novel forms of artistic content via blockchain technologies and involving smart contracts nfts and other digital tokens towards this objective dafne will map and analyse the relevant ip legal framework in the eu and in particular the copyright regulatory framework in order to identify and assess specific legal requirements opportunities as well as barriers stemming from the identified ip framework which may impact the use of blockchain technologies in online content creation and sharing