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female slavery in mediterranean catholic europe 15001800

more than one million and perhaps as many as two million individuals were enslaved in the catholic regions of the early modern mediterranean despite evidence of the prevalence of female slavery and of the fact that women constituted the bulk of the enslaved population in some areas scholarship on bondage in mediterranean europe from 1500 to 1800 retains a strong androcentric bias transcending national historiographic traditions femsmed will break new ground by providing for the first time a comprehensive investigation of womens enslavement and its wideranging implications during the pivotal period in european history that encompassed the renaissance the reformations the onset of european colonialism the scientific revolution and the enlightenment whereas extant scholarship emphasizes religious political and economic aspects femsmeds goal is to uncover the sexual familial and broader social contexts of these aspects by elucidating the longterm consequences of womens enslavement it further aims to reveal the gendered mechanisms of racialization and ethnicization and raise awareness of europes multiethnic and multireligious heritage this will be done by exploring 1 typologies of slave womens abuse and their implications for perceptions of illicit sexuality and genderbased violence 2 how the birth of children under slavery bore on the creation of categories of difference 3 the impact of domestic female slavery on slaveholders family life and on conceptualizations of consanguineal and affinal kinship 4 how the enslavement of minority women shaped collective identities and intercommunal relations informed by theoretical advances in the sociological and anthropological study of slavery femsmed employs methodologies from social and religious history as well as from art history and the study of material culture combining a transcultural approach with a gender analysis of a vast array of archival printed visual and material sources
advanced research on cryogenic technologies for innovative computing

the rise of quantum technology has opened the eyes of the ict industry with respect to cryogenics it is considered an enabler bringing in quantum functionalities and enhanced system performance and we are observing a massive growth of cryogenics from coolers to cryogenic electronics and photonics arctic is a joint effort of top european rtos industrial fabrication facilities and leading application partners 23 industrial among which 14 smes 7 rto 6 academic sharing the vision to take a joint eu step towards the era of cryogenic classical and quantum microsystems we aim to close the gap between qubit research and interfacing control machinery highly needed for scaledup quantum systems the main goal of arctic is to develop scalable cryogenic ict microsystems and control technology for quantum processors the technologies developed will have applications in many fields from sensing to communication leading to important crossfertilization that will strengthen the forming european ecosystem on cryogenic classical and quantum microsystems arctic will advance semiconductor technologies and materials and tailor these for qt requirements and cryogenic applications multiscale physics and datadriven models cryogenic pdk modelling device characterization circuit design activities will support the development of cryogenic microelectronics we will develop quantum processor platforms and broaden the applicability of microelectronic devices and circuits for cryogenic operation by developing cryocompatible ultralow loss substrates and thinfilms microelectronic and photonic circuits semiconductor packaging and heterogeneousintegration techniques and benchmark the developed technologies scientific and industrial arcticdemonstrators and applications are driving our developments enabling the european industry to maintain and expand its leading edge in semiconductor components and processes and qt and strengthen sustainable manufacturing technologies
rapid chipbased detection of antibiotic resistances

drugresistant infections are one of the greatest threats facing humanity antimicrobial resistance amr causes over 700000 deaths each year furthermore amr is associated to reduced quality of life increased hospitalization periods and medical costs misuse and overprescription of antibiotics for human or animal treatment are one of the drivers of amr at the same time the development of new antibiotics is virtually nonexistent hence developing fast diagnostic methods to identify the optimal treatment is key to effectively fight amr and increase survival rates of patients encountering lifethreatening infections so far diagnostics rely on bacterial cultures leading to slow turnaround times which are linked to the preventive administration of broadspectrum antibiotics often inefficient and leading to worse disease outcomes and spread of amr novel approaches such as dna pcrbased diagnostic panels or next generation sequencing methods have been recently proposed to address this issue however they are target a limited number of pathogens and genes or require expensive equipment and highlytrained personnel furthermore they require a culture step to reach detection levels usually lasting a few hours that can be critical for serious conditions recently using technology derived from erc stg and poc grants we designed a method to concentrate purify and isolate bacterial rna in just 5 minutes here we seek to develop and validate these tools combined with a rapid rna chip array with singlemolecule resolution to provide a culturefree fast and highly sensitive alternative to bacterial infection diagnostics from direct blood samples once developed resischip will provide a tailormade diagnostic kit with the capacity to identify thousands of genes and pathogens from a blood sample in less than 2 hours allowing the rapid selection of the best treatment improving amr stewardess and becoming a significant breakthrough in amr diagnostics
interactions among coherent objects and the origin of collectivity in qcd at colliders

the surprising findings of collective effects in nucleonnucleus and nucleonnucleon collisions and very recently even in electronpositron collisions previously thought to be exclusive to large systems such as nucleusnucleus collisions pose an important challenge to the particle physics community both from the heavyion and the highenergy communities intense efforts are devoted to gain a better understanding of the origin of collectivity in qcd this project revolves around the theoretical study of the interactions among coherent objects and their phenomenological implications so far these type of interactions have been absent in the respective stateoftheart descriptions of the dynamical evolution of qcd at colliders adopted by both communities the first goal of this project will be to compute the crosssections for a new set of processes ranging from the interaction of onshell particles with colored dipoles to the interactions among dipoles with other dipoles as a result of these interactions broadening and stimulated radiation can take place the features of the dipoles such as their mass are imprinted in the scattered object due to the phenomenon of color and quantum interference these physics translate in the appearance of nontrivial correlations among these objects a second aspect of the project will consist in the phenomenological modeling that these correlations can have in a qcd parton showers the natural scenario from the highenergy front where interactions among parton and multiparton objects will be added to the typical splitting processes and b qcd effective kinetic theory the natural scenario from the heavyion front where the inclusion of the coherent objects can be modeled by considering them as unstable particles a detailed study of the observable effects that these new correlations can induce will shed light on the role played by the physics of quantum interference in describing the origin of collectivity in qcd
preclinical validation and market analysis of a micromesh implant for brain cancer eradication

despite tremendous progress in the treatment of several malignancies glioblastoma continues to be the less curable form of any cancer with an overall average survival of 20 months from diagnosis in this poc an interdisciplinary team of engineers biotechnologists and technologytransfer experts will work to prove that a groundbreaking drug delivery implant micromesh can be engineered to deploy intracranially a chemoimmunocombination therapy to eradicate glioblastoma and minimize its lifelong complications micromesh will be engineered to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs taxanes and monoclonal antibodies anticd47 that normally would not cross the blood brain barrier uniformly and deep in the tumor bed micromesh will comprise two physically distinct compartments a micrometric network of polylacticcoglycolic acid plga strands carrying taxane molecules a polyvinyl alcohol pva microlayer encapsulating anticd47 upon deposition on the tumor mass the pva microlayer will dissolve in a few days releasing directly on the tumor margins anticd47 while the thin and flexible plga network will progressively conform to the surrounding surface establishing an intimate interaction with the malignant cells and release taxanes in a sustained fashion over several weeks while taxanes will prevent the rapid proliferating glioblastoma cells from growing anticd47 will stimulate the removal of cancer cells by resident and infiltrating immune cells the success of this poc will result in a preclinically validated micromesh for the treatment of newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma upon subsequent completion of glp toxicological and cgmp manufacturing studies micromesh will advance to a phase 12 trial expected to start as early as 2024 in this space companies with validated phase 12 assets have market capitals ranging from 50m to 400m a successful micromesh could lead to revenues of 10m year starting already in 2027
advancing ecosystembased management through hybrid bluegrey infrastructures in marine and coastal areas

the transeation main objective is to demonstrate the effectiveness of marine and coastal hybrid bluegrey infrastructures and validate a new level of ecosystembased management combining naturebased solutions social implication digitalization to the protection and restoration of marine ecosystem health and services to ensure the success of this main objective the transeation project counts on partners and collaborators with broad expertise in relevant areas covering four types of entities in the project from research and technological centers to companies and offshore industrial operators as follows managerial cmcc iow glp ctn industrial saitec itaskorda geocorail ccell scientifical oe uoh cmcc azti gaiker iow dtu ctn and participatory so ecoocean azti ctn cmcc in addition this project implements three user cases towards marine and coastal infrastructures considering the different life cycle stages then the following 5 specific objectives are identifiedspecific objective 1 apply ebm through a systema approach to integrate hybrid nbs in marine and coastal infrastructures to support the preservation and restoration of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services simultaneously with addressing multiple societal challenges environmental social and economic benefitsspecific objective 2 demonstrate the effectiveness of 3 type of coastal and marine infrastructures as hybrid nbs both to preserve ecosystems and support their restoration considering its replicability and scaledupspecific objective 3 to identify limiting factors gaps and current issues of existing leed initiative regarding blue building setting up links with previous projects specific objective 4 to analyze the benefits and potential tradeoff of these hybrid solutions in short and longterm for marine biodiversity and ecosystem services protection and restorationspecific objective 5 digital solutions for monitoring analysis and social involvement
ecoislam in indonesia media institutions publics

in indonesia the worlds most populous muslim country a socalled mediated ecojihad zbidi 2013 has emerged today islamic green pop musicians ecoyoutubeimams films and social media campaigns find inspiration in religious scriptures to encourage muslims to engage in environmental protection for ecoconscious muslims the quran is the ultimate greenguide zaufishan 2013 the quran is read by muslims for spirituality but the quran also provides countless examples that could be read as an islamic call to combat climate change zaufishan 2013 indonesian cultural producers are now acting on these historic edicts with an eye toward the consequences of global warming for the worlds most populous muslim country bodetti 2018 taking indonesia as a case study and focusing on the main outlets of islamic ecocultural discourse film tv popular music social media this project aims to investigate an islamic ecocultural approach to climate change ecoislam asks what does an indonesian islamic ecocultural approach to climate change entail and how is it developed negotiated and contested through a multimethod research design and a conceptual approach that draws on an affective ecogovernmentality of care the project analyzes three levels institutions texts publics through four work packages the project analyzes level 1 work package 1 institutions how islamic institutions play a key role in the development of islamic ecomedia level 2 work package 2 texts how subjects are affectively addressed as caring ecoconscious muslim citizens as khalaifa of the earth by these media texts ie media products level 3 work package 3 publics how people negotiate specific green islamic subject positions through their engagement with media texts and synthesis work package 4 relations how institutions texts and publics relate
understanding arctic amplification of climate change through airmass transformations

we expect that temperatures over the wintertime central arctic will increase by 20 degrees and precipitation will double by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise arctic seaice is projected to completely melt in summer within the next decades and may cease to form in winter in the coming century the traditional framework to understand this arctic amplification of climate change focuses on the steadystate mean arctic climate however the arctic wintertime atmosphere has two preferred states that are largely controlled by initially warm and moist air masses that cool and dry after being advected from lower latitudes we understand little about how these air masses cool and dry and what controls the sudden transition from a cloudy state to a clear state along their trajectory this lack of understanding is a major obstacle to scientific progress and improved climate models to achieve groundbreaking progress i will analyze the warm moist poleward flows cold dry equatorward flows and the airmass transformations that lead from one to the other i will observe and model such air masses along their trajectories using recently developed airmass following balloons and customized model setups cooling of air in the arctic mirrors heating in the tropics together these drive the global atmospheric circulation but the arctics role in this picture has largely been overlooked my team will investigate how the arctic couples to the global climate system using a novel concept of averaging the atmospheric circulation we will focus on how and why both the heat and moisture content and the amount of air transported into and out of the arctic change in a warming world and contribute and respond to arctic amplificationa3mtransform will deliver a step change in understanding the airmass transformation processes that shape arctic amplification and transform our view of how the arctic couples to the global climate system
ballmilling mechanochemistry at the molecular level2

ball milling mechanochemistry is receiving tremendous attention over the last years the applicant has pioneered the use of it for effecting catalytic reactions culminating in catalytic ammonia synthesis from h2 and n2 at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in spite of the success in driving reactions mechanically the molecular level understanding of the key processes under mechanical activation is still in its infancy the proposed program will change this using methods giving insight at the atomic scale by a multipronged approach the applicant partly in collaborations will experimentally probe at the atomic scale hypotheses which have been put forward to explain the special effects of mechanochemical reactions to provide key elements for a conceptual understanding three topical areas will be covered in addition one general purpose tool for the study of mechanochemical reactions will be developed 1 temperature dependent luminescence will be used to monitor temperatures during model impacts in order to probe the hot spot and magmaplasma hypotheses 2 the role of hypothetical shortlived mechanically induced defects in catalysis will be analyzed locally at the atomic scale in scanning probe microscopes 3 in order to understand mechanically induced phase transitions mechanical forces will be applied insitu to precursor crystals in a transmission electron microscope tem and phase transitions for instance from boehmite to corundum will be followed at the atomic scale by tem imaging 4 as a general tool to study the influence of mechanical forces a hammeranvil system will be developed in which directly after applying mechanical force the system can be studied by various analytical methods overall the program is expected to provide deep mechanistic understanding of different aspects of mechanochemistry to advance it to a next level
airbrush a transdiciplinary valuesensitive study of biases and stereotypes in aigenerated global health images and their significance for science and society

this project engages with the proliferation of abusive and biased stereotypes from colonial and humanitarian photography through generative ai technology and investigates their consequences for science and society this is a pressing issue ai simultaneously absorbs and learns from real images which in the case of global health have been marked by racism coloniality and sexism meaning that given images become a cluster for generative ai to learn from biased depictions and perpetuate negative stereotypes such cycles have to be studied and eliminated in order to move toward more equal postcolonial societies and promote a culture of valuesensitive depictions of vulnerable people the project builds and greatly expands on the emerging methodology of purposeful generation and valuesensitive evaluation of aigenerated global health visuals recently pioneered by prof koen peeters the supervisor and dr alenichev and encapsulated in a lancet global health article in august 2023 offering a firstever systematic study of aigenerated global heath visuals airbrush sets five core objectives and asks how should the international community account for generative ai as part of the internationally set goal of decolonizing global health and its visual culture and tackle biased depictions of race class gender and other socially enacted markers of similarity and difference airbrush answers this question by analysing the substrate of the real global health images ai learns from evaluates the learning progress and the reproduction and modification of such tropes by ai theorizes this relationship and outlines societal outcomes with regard to the future of respectful depictions in the ai era the findings from this study will be encapsulated as academic articles a thematic webinar a collaboration with the who ai and ethics research group and an art exhibition at itm the host and in other places among other outputs
european doctoral network enabling artificial intelligence for electromagnetic compatibility

pattern is a doctoral network at the intersection of electromagnetic compatibility medical engineering systemsafety engineering and sustainability management in its push to go beyond the state of the art the project will embed artificial intelligence ai into every challenge the project will research how best to use ai to discover innovative and sustainable solutions to manage electromagnetic interference emi and develop new sets of design guidelines for electromagnetic reliability and the safety of european medical products of the futurepatterns science case is based on the integration and optimization of every key performance indicator kpi linked to the two revolutions faced by medical electronics risk and sustainability this requires us to think in terms of a tradeoff across a new mix of disciplines to develop innovative solutions and to consider all the farreaching societal and technical consequences of a design choice until now even the most hightech of industries have been forced to manufacture several prototypes and perform tests because the actual performance of an emi solution in a product is unknown a characterization strategy embedded in these new realities is urgently neededpattern is the first training network dedicated to the inclusion of ai as the choice of technology to support these paradigm shifts with a new design philosophy it answers the recently highlighted pressing need for trained specialists in the fieldpattern involves 9 academic beneficiaries and 9 industrial associated partners across the complete lifecycle of design solutions from 8 countries a paneuropean approach in a multisectoral context is guaranteed universities an established startup smes and major industries pattern will train a new generation of scientific professionals who can transition between disciplines and take up leading positions in the field of electronics safety sustainability and ai while thinking about design differently
packing in discrete domains geometry and analysis

the packing problem associated with a family of sets f seeks a large subfamily of pairwise disjoint members of f when f comprises the unit balls in dspace this is the sphere packing problem which for d 3 was solved by halesferguson keplers conjecture the cases d 8 24 have won viazovska her fields medal much of discrete mathematics deals with dense packing problems the asymptotic rate vs distance problem may be the most fundamental open problem about error correcting codes it seeks the densest hammingsphere packing in discrete cubes a linear code is a linear subspace of f2n such codes are important both in theory and in practice here we seek to maximize dimc when every nonzero vector in c has hamming weight n despite its mathematical significance and practical importance the answer remains unknown for all 12 0 and our best upper bounds on the rate date from the 70s neither do we know if linear codes can be asymptotically as good as general codes we have made some progress on these key questions of our proposal the infinite dregular tree td is another important metric space where we seek dense sphere packing it is easy to perfectly pack balls in td but not in a periodic manner periodic perfect sphere packings in td coincide with moore graphs finite regular graphs of least diameter and largest possible girth ie with no short cycles moore graphs were fully characterized in the 70s yet we still cannot show that for fixed d 3 and large r any periodic packing of rspheres in td must have vanishing density many important mathematicians including erdös margulis and lubotzkyphillipssarnak sought the largest possible girth of a dregular nvertex graph d fixed n we show how better upper bounds on linear codes yield progress here whereas bounds on general codes would not dowe use computers as exploratory tools eg to test our new bounds on codes yet we publish only humanly verifiable proofs