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modelling and simulating huntergatherer seafaring in the americas ecology society and watercraft technology in cold aquatic environments

one of the major problems archaeologists have yet to address systematically is the development of watercraft and longdistance seafaring which is critical for understanding earlier coastal and insular colonization and the emergence of social complexity among smallscale societies the hugasea project is designed to address the determining factors in organizational and seafaring strategies of aquatic hunterfishergatherers hfg on the northwest coast of north america and the fuegopatagonia coast of south america the project is based in an innovative and interdisciplinary approach integrating archaeology ethnohistory ecology computational modelling and artificial intelligence the project is inherently comparative as the two regions and their respective internal variation offer the opportunity to test past interaction among three variables watercraft technology environment and social organization mobility gender status cultural diversity ecological archaeological and ethnohistorical data will be collected and modelled with gisbased methods then agentbased models abm will be created validated by sensitivity analysis and machine learning bayesian belief networks against empirical data and finally used to geosimulate seafaring hfg in aquatic environments test hypothesis and predict spatial patterns the project will reach expert and nonexpert audiences including indigenous peoples and young audiences through a range of dissemination communication and outreach activities the researcher will develop the project on the us northwest coast where he will expand his experience research competencies and international networks all the new knowledge and skills will be transferred back to the european host during the incoming phase thus the project will be very productive for both the researcher and the hosts enhancing the development of his career as an independent researcher
leveraging the zombiemaking strategies of ophiocordyceps fungi to understand animal behaviour

reminiscent of zombies in pop culture some parasites hijack host behaviours our understanding of this parasite strategy to improve transmission is minimal despite its convergent evolution across major taxa functional genetics studies would advance our knowledge of the molecular underpinnings of zombie behaviour additionally learning how behaviour can be altered would elucidate how normal phenotypes are maintained however most zombiemaking parasites and their hosts are not classic model organisms which complicates mechanistic interrogationthe socalled zombie ants can be used to study parasite hijacking of animal behaviour in more detail zombie ants are infected by ophiocordyceps fungi that cause summit disease infected ants ascend vegetation that they bite into as they die to ensure fungal spore dispersal my lab developed fungal culturing techniques infection methods and behavioural assays to detail infectionrelated changes in daily ant foraging communication and locomotion additionally by integrating multiomics tools we identified candidate fungal products and ant host pathways that might underlie the behavioural changes observed however to move from correlation to causation these candidates need to be functionally testedby leveraging my labs pioneering work and my training in molecular microbiology i aim to elucidate the molecular genetics underlying parasite hijacking of host behaviour i propose to 1 adopt molecular genetics tools to characterise fungal products that induce altered host behavioural phenotypes 2 use rnaseq and rnai to investigate the affected ant pathways that give rise to those phenotypes and 3 further establish involvement of these behavioural pathways through integration of the animal model drosophila melanogasterthe proposed work will be transformative in our understanding of parasite manipulation strategies and spark novel research into sustainable pest control strategies and fungusderived drugs
collaborative radio light detection and ranging

this proposal aims at developing an advanced detection and ranging sensor system based on a collaborative scheme integrating on the same module both radio and lightbased sensing the module will consist of a silicon photonics solidstate light detection and ranging lidar chip with integrated laser source and driver electronics a cmos radio detection and ranging radar chip connected to a single transmitting tx and receiving rx set of antennas a processing unit pu to actively control the two sensors and process the generated data the lidar and radar chip will be integrated on the same printed circuit board pcb avoiding any use of free space optics the proposed architecture will allow an active cooperation of the two sensors through an advanced algorithm installed on the pu coralidar advanced sensor system will exploit lidars highresolution capabilities and radars strong reliability in adverse weather conditions to deliver an automotive compatible detection and ranging system the use of fully integrated photonics and electronics will reduce packaging size manufacturing cost and ultimately operational power with coralidar we plan to create a lowcost low power and reliable sensor system that can be used as a platform for the automotive market and beyond
addressing the environmental impacts of food loss and waste prevention and its rebound effects

if food loss and waste flw were a country it would be the third leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions flw also burdens waste management systems and exacerbates food insecurity contributing significantly to the three global crises of climate change nature and biodiversity loss and pollution and waste precious an transdisciplinary alliance of 20 entities from 11 eu countries believes that reliable data on the environmental impacts of flw is crucial for accelerating eu progress towards climate targets and reducing environmental impacts including biodiversity across the food supply chain the projects collective understanding is that the challenge goes beyond measuring the amount of food saved or co2 emissions when food is wasted valuable and limited resources such as water land use and energy are lost while 89 of the worldwide population is suffering from hunger accordingto fao therefore depleting the planets natural resources it is critical to broaden our understanding of the issue to transform the food system and raise public awareness that motivate change precious aims to contribute to the transformation of food systems by addressing existing data gaps and developing a unified and openly accessible evaluation framework to quantify the economic environmental and social impacts of strategies to reduce flw taking into account potential rebound effectsthe project will engage stakeholders from 2 use cases spain and greece and 3 cocreation and replication nodes poland lithuania hungary to address systemic causes across geographical boundaries the project aims to induce a fundamental change in attitudes and behaviours towards food consumption and disposal through collaborative efforts and innovative methods fostering a more just and sustainable eu food system
probing the role of mechanosensory pathways in regulating intestinal stem cell activity and gut homeostasis

in adult organisms gut barrier function is maintained by adapting the proliferation and turnover of resident intestinal stem cells iscs to environmental cues in recent years an immense effort in the field has successfully identified many short and longrange signals involved in iscdriven adaptive growth responses however it is becoming increasingly evident that biomechanical cues such as shear stress compressions swellings and tissuescale tension also play a key role in regulating sc activity in adult tissues hence the adult gut is constantly exposed to mechanical stress and must adapt accordingly to the stretch and strain despite the undisputed impact that mechanical forces have on adult organ physiology very little is known about the molecular signals involved using drosophila as a model we performed a genetic screen for isc niche receptors coupling environmental cues with iscdependent adaptive growth and identified several receptors belonging to mechanotransduction pathways as indispensable for preserving gut barrier function mechanical forces can be either of tissue intrinsic origin such as forces emanating from cell division and cell death or of external origins such as those originating from extracellular matrix remodeling mechanical coupling to neighboring tissues and food and fluid flow recent studies in developing embryos and during tissue morphogenesis show that cells can sense mechanical forces through mechanotransducer proteins and are used as cues to regulate gene expression patterns cell fate specifications cell packing and proliferation an insight into mechanosensation in regulating isc niche homeostasis in mature organs is still lacking and given my scientific background in biophysics and mechanobiology this study aims to understand the role of mechanosensory inputs in maintaining the isc niche using the drosophila adult gut as a model system
synthesis and properties of fblock organometallics en route to the bond

if the felements rare earths and actinides have many applications in various fields catalysis materials for optics for magnetism for energy and quantum technologies major fundamental questions yet remain to be discovered the nature of the interactions between the f orbitals which have a low radial extension and their surroundings is still in question indeed if the buriedcharacter of felectrons confers their compounds with some of their properties this particularly harms the description of covalent bonds of symmetry more specifically the interaction of two symmetry metallic orbitals which would lead to the description of bonds is sorely lacking in the landscape of molecular chemistry in order to exacerbate the interactions with f orbitals we propose to use the argument of symmetry locking the f orbitals in an ideal configuration which will make the description of interactions easier to study we propose to use original large aromatic ligands in order to synthesize compounds of high symmetry this approach notably differs from the current one which aims to sterically hinder conventional ligands with large substituents once the symmetry is locked we will vary the electron count and the redox state as well as the ligand field by modulating the 4f or 5fion used including transuranic elements the organometallic synthesis of the these original 4f and 5fcompounds will be followed by experimental electronic density studies as well as adapted spectroscopy which will shed light on the interactions of symmetry unusual radioelements uranium and more classical rare earth metal ions will thus lead to an overall assessment of the necessary requirements to enhance the interactions and move towards molecules containing several fmetal ions and a small intermetallic distance the redox and physical properties of the latter compounds will be engineered with the aim of forming molecules containing metalmetal interactions of symmetry
supporting uptake integrated pest management and lowrisk pesticide use

research has shown that welldesigned integrated pest management programmes ipm are a viable solution to reduce the dependency on use of chemical pesticides however the uptake of ipm practices by farmers remains low creating a challenge to support adoption of those techniques this requires thorough understanding of the decisionmaking process of farmers and other involved stakeholders in order to improve strategies and policies that enables and stimulates the application of ipm support responds to this challenge by increasing the capacity to understand the environmental social and economic impacts of existing and future crop protection systems in which ipm is applied by creation of an inventory of ipm tools and techniques and the development an impact monitoring system farmers behave in an economic social and institutional environment support will identify barriers and opportunities in the entire agrifoodchain for the adoption of ipm and analyse qualitatively and quantitatively their role in farmer decisionmaking data will be collected by interviews surveys choice experiments and derived from the fadn the results of this analysis will be used as a basis for the development of strategies and policies enabling and supporting farmers and other stakeholders to apply ipm the develop takes place in a cocreation process with stakeholders therefore a multiactor approach will be the backbone of the research process 26 national crop clusters nccs will be used for data collection in 9 of those nccs community of practices cops will be developed with public and private stakeholders to cocreate strategies and policies the cops will be embedded in a network of practice nop an overarching platform connecting all stakeholders this nop will be used to communicate discuss and disseminate results of support with the entire community of stakeholders in the eu
an extreme mesh deformation method to follow sharp physical interfaces

this project will develop an innovative approach xmesh to overcome a major difficulty associated with engineeringanalysis we aim to provide a revolutionary way to track physicalinterfaces in finite element simulations using extreme deformation ofthe meshesunprecedented low computational cost high robustness andaccuracy are expected as the proposed approach is designed to avoidthe pitfalls of the current methods especially for topological changes the key idea of the projecthas emerged in a synergistic brainstorming between jf remaclemeshing methods and n mos computational methods this key ideais to allow elements to deform up to zero measure for example atriangle can deform to an edge or even a point this idea is ratherextreme and totally revisits the interaction between the meshingcommunity and the computational community who for decades havestriven to interact through beautiful meshes six areas in fluid and solid mechanics as well as heattransfer are targeted interfaces will be either i materialie attached to particles of matter the interface between twoimmiscible fluids or the dry interface in a wetting and drying modelii immaterial ie migrating through the material asolidification front contact front yield front in yield stress fluidflow or a crack front successes brought by xmesh are expected in the following engineeringareas safety design and maintenance manufacturing processes coastalengineering energy efficiency ocean modeling to cite a few theproject takes place in a stimulating environment mixing senior staffwith phds and postdocs to produce and disseminate publications withopen source pieces of software it also intends to create a synergy atlarge with the computational communities dealing with interfaces andfronts in all fields of science topology optimizationsuperconductivity tissue growth hydrogel swelling crystal growthferroelectric crystal etc
high dimensional approximation and discretization

approximation and discretization are two steps of making high dimensional problems more computationally feasible on the one hand both the approximation of certain functional classes by simpler functions and the discretization of underlying space while preserving certain important properties are classical problems on the other hand new trends and challenges in pure mathematics and applications lead to new approximation and discretization problemsthe main goal of this research is to study certain high dimensional approximation and discretization problems firstly we intend to obtain new innovative results in the problem of integral norms discretization both in the important special case of algebraic polynomials on convex domains and in the general case of any finite dimensional subspace of continuous functions secondly we will study the dependence of the rate of approximation by polynomials on the smoothness properties of functions while this second problem itself is classical our main aim is to study it in new settings finally both described problems will require the study of various properties of multivariate algebraic polynomialsthe stated goals require the development of a new technique involving a combination of classical analytic and new probabilistic approaches in order to develop this new technique the researcher will work under the supervision of sergey tikhonov who is one of the most experienced researchers in the fields of harmonic analysis approximation and discretization while working with the supervisor the researcher will acquire techniques of classical approximation theory then this new obtained techniques will be combined with the researchers own expertise in probabilistic approaches in functional analysisin conclusion this msc fellowship will allow the applicant to obtain new important results in various research areas this will support him as an independent researcher and advance his career opportunities within the eu
packaging with ai for circular economy strengthening digiminds market position

packaging is the biggest contributors to the global waste problem because it is not designed for circularity given the changes in the legislations and the increasing customer awareness the packaging industry is under pressure to solve this problem at the design phase of their products one of the main difficulties is to manage the tradeoff of cost performance and sustainability criteria which leads to package performance uncertainties in this context digimind was created with the mission of accelerating the transition to circularity by depackaging waste is one of the biggest contributors to the global waste problem especially plastic packaging accounts for almost half the global plastic waste packaging design is driven mainly by marketing requirements not incorporating any circularity such as recyclability or reusability with nowadays pressure due to limited material resources as well as the need to reduce co2 emissions circularity in packaging design becomes the new key driver for the packaging industry this poses immense challenges to manage the new complexity of the tradeoff of cost performance and sustainability criteria digimind is developing an innovative software solution specifically for the packaging industry to tackle these challenges using digitalization and artificial intelligencepace objective is to strengthen digiminds position to successfully raise funding for the next phase of growth the workplan to achieve this goal is twofold setting up a technical use case with a glass packaging proving digiminds technology on a second material as well as improving our business plan and pitch deck this consolidation of digiminds position in the market will allow me to raise money to lead the company to its next steps in delivering its unique value proposition this will create a strong example of a female cofounded deep tech company successfully build within europe with a strong vision of solving our waste problem using digitalization
exsoldiers of empire colonial veterancy in the interwar world

colvet will develop the first comprehensive and comparative account of colonial veterancy in what was the foundational era for modern conceptions of the veteran the interwar period grounded in a collaborative and comparative methodology the project will trace and analyse the contrasts and commonalities in the evolution and reception of veteran policy within across and between the french empire the italian empire the american colonial empire britishruled east africa and britishruled india this innovative research will not only deepen our understanding of veteran history around the world in the period but also help us reimagine the concepts we use to analyse veterans and their stories so they can better capture the diversity of veteran experiencesthe project has four principal aims 1 to trace and compare the history of veteran experiences and policy across colonial contexts and imperial polities 2 to use veteran policy and the responses it elicited to explore the nature of colonial rule across interwar empires3 to expand the imagined geography of veteran history in the period to include colonial veterans 4 to reimagine the conceptual framework of veteran history so it can better incorporate colonial veterans alongside veterans from the rest of the world to achieve these aims the colvet team will explore key questions around the definition and regulation of veterancy the political recognition and mobilisation of veterans and the systems set up to cater for and control veterans across a range colonial territories and imperial polities the project design ensures that the original research this generates will then be put into dialogue with scholarship on and scholars of veterans in other contexts colonial and noncolonial this collaborative and comparative approach will allow the team to coproduce a new analytical framework that will facilitate the writing of a truly global history of the veteran
panoramic optical manipulation of cardiac electrical dynamics a novel tool to study complex arrhythmias

cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death worldwide and a substantial number of these deaths are caused by cardiac arrhythmias heterogeneities in repolarisation time rt which are caused by prolongation or abbreviation of action potential duration apd in certain areas of the heart can underly arrhythmias inherited disease as well as acquired heart disease such as myocardial infarction can induce rt heterogeneities rth while recent studies shed some light on how rth drive arrhythmias current experimental techniques lack flexibility of affected area size and the conditions facilitating arrhythmias therefore remain elusive recently a novel method to generate rth was described applying lowintensity optical stimulation in murine hearts expressing the lightactivated ion channel channelrhodopsin2 chr2 depolarising resting membrane potential rmp and prolonging apd in a spatially specific manner while this intriguing approach would allow to study the impact of rth on arrhythmogenesis in a highly flexible manner current experimental platforms lack the abilities to perform this assessment therefore we propose to construct a novel panoramic optical platform consisting of 4 cameras and 4 digital projectors to allow for optical stimulation as well as recording across the entire ventricular surface in addition we explore pharmacological approaches to enhance the rt gradient between the optically stimulated and nonstimulated area identifying drugs prolonging apd in an rmpmodulated manner the capability of manipulating rt across the whole heart surface with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution will be employed to understand the mechanisms underlying arrhythmia induction and rotor maintenance the development of this groundbreaking methodology will provide fundamental insights in cardiac disease boosting new therapeutic strategies and will represent a whole new approach for the investigation of cardiac physiology in general