SIRIS-Lab/unlabelled-sti-corpus huggingface dataset:
Country of words: reading and reception of palestinian literature from 1948 to the present

This project proposes a deep and thorough study of Palestinian literature as an early and on-going case of literary displacement. It aims to find new ways to account for and analyse texts, literary production and reading publics that challenge and lie outside conventional conceptions of the nation-state. The proposed methodology will take a novel approach in merging textual analysis with reception theory and reading practices. The project is ambitious in seeking to be the first instance to explore its application on the scale of an entire ‘literature-of-a-nation’. By doing so, the project aims to introduce methodological innovations that can expand horizons beyond textual and national analyses towards interdisciplinary models that contend with the multi-faceted and unconventional dimensions of the Palestinian case, and generate a richer and more nuanced history of its literature.
The proposed project will explore, for the first time under one analytic roof, all the geographic fragments of Palestinian literature together, traditionally studied separately, or limited to certain authors or time periods. The project’s novelty also lies in broadening the horizons of literary analysis towards an interdisciplinary and transmedial approach that embeds literary production into a wider cultural web of intersecting media and genres. A creative approach will be developed to overcome the hurdles of working, in the Palestinian case, with few scholarly precedents, and scattered, lost or damaged primary and secondary sources. The project’s four work packages will trace connections and disconnections and transformations of publics and reading practices across dispersed Palestinian literary communities of writers and readers over time. The focus will be on identifying, tracing and elaborating key and/or turning point moments across the various localities of the Palestinian literary sphere. An online platform will visual, digitalize and make accessible the project’s outputs.
Dissecting the molecular mechanisms underlying yap activation in intestinal tissue repair

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, are chronic and debilitating pathologies of the intestines that affect 2.5-3.0 million patients in Europe and impose an economic burden of approximately €5.0bn/year on European healthcare systems. Currently, no curative therapies are available and standard of care is limited to palliative anti-inflammatory treatments that fail to promote healing of the intestinal lining. Enhancing epithelial regeneration is likely to accelerate functional recovery and reduce exposure to luminal microbes, thereby avoiding further inflammation and, ultimately, chronic damage. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying regeneration of intestinal epithelium are not yet fully understood, and thus opportunities for pharmacological modulation remain scarce. Recently, the mechanoresponsive transcription factor YAP has been identified as a key mediator of epithelial repair in experimental IBD models. Yet, the molecular details of its function remain elusive. Here, I propose to carry out a proteomic study to dissect the mechanisms by which YAP is activated and exerts its functions in intestinal tissue repair. I will leverage the intestinal stem cell organoid technology and my expertise in CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to:  i) perform a detailed characterisation of YAP post-translational modifications and interacting protein partners using unbiased proteomic approaches; and ii) define the function of identified partners using novel in vitro and animal models of intestinal tissue repair. I envisage the study will provide a clear map of signalling pathways and molecular networks underlying YAP function and uncover potential druggable targets for pharmacological enhancement of intestinal tissue repair. From a professional perspective, execution of the project will equip me a valuable set of technical and transferable skills and ultimately facilitate my transition into a group leader position.
Exploring triterpene diversity in monocots

Triterpenes are one of the most diverse groups of plant natural products, with important roles in plant defense and wide use in medicine, food, and cosmetics. So far, studies on triterpene biosynthesis have largely focused on eudicot plants, while little is known about triterpene biosynthesis in monocots. Here, we seek to expand current knowledge of triterpene chemistry and biochemistry in monocots and to investigate mechanisms of metabolic diversification in this group of plants, and specifically in the cereals group, which together provides more than half of the global human caloric intake. Monocot genomes will be mined for identification of new triterpene-related genes and biosynthetic gene clusters. These will be utilized for biosynthesis of novel triterpene compounds via combinatorial recombinant expression in yeast and plant systems. Entire triterpene metabolic pathways will ultimately be introduced into the monocot model plant Brachypodium distachyon, and pathogen-tolerance of the engineered plants will be evaluated. This will serve as an important proof-of-concept for the possibility of introducing these pathways into agriculturally-important cereals and grasses. The recent publication of the common wheat genome, coupled with fears for re-emergence of devastating fungal wheat pathogens in Europe, indicate the timeliness and relevance of the proposed action. EXTRIDIM is a highly interdisciplinary project that will draw upon the synergistic combination of the expertise and well-established scientific approach of the host lab, together with the background and complementary skills of the researcher in plant molecular biology and metabolic engineering. The proposed research will greatly contribute to the researcher’s career development and strengthen the host lab, will advance our understanding of triterpene biosynthesis in the agriculturally-important cereal crops, and will potentially lead to new applications in plant protection and drug discovery.
The Criminal Law of Genocide: International, Comparative and Contextual Aspects

Contents: Preface. Part I Historical Perspectives: The Armenian Genocide: a contextual view of the crime and politics of denial, Raffi Sarkissan Armenian genocide claims: a contextual version of the 1915 events, Sadi Cayci Genocide and Nuremberg, Henry T. King Jr. Part II Case Studies: Has genocide been committed in Darfur? The state plan or policy element in the crime of genocide, William A. Schabas Sudan, the United States and the International Criminal Court: a tense triumvirate in transitional justice for Darfur, Zachary D. Kaufman The major powers and the genocide in Rwanda, RomA(c)o Dallaire and Kishan Manocha. Part III Aspects of the Crime: The schism between the legal and the social concept of genocide in light of the responsibility to protect, Larissa van den Herik Is the emerging jurisprudence on complicity in genocide before the international ad hoc tribunals a moving target in conflict with the principle of legality?, Michael G. Karnavas Telling stories and hearing truths: providing an effective remedy to genocidal sexual violence against women, Fiona de Londras A moment of kindness? Consistency and genocidal intent, Paul Behrens Freedom of speech vs. hate speech. The jurisdiction of 'direct and public incitement to commit genocide', Tonja Salomon. Part IV International and Domestic Prosecution of Genocide: The prohibition of genocide under the legal instruments of the International Criminal Court, Tuiloma Neroni Slade ICC investigations and a hierarchy of referrals: has genocide in Darfur been predetermined?, Chris Gallavin Specificity of indictments in ICTR genocide trials, Paul Ng'arua Cambodia's extraordinary chamber: is it the most effective and appropriate means of addressing the crimes of the Khmer Rouge?, Alex Bates The prosecution of genocide a  in search of a European perspective, Jan Wouters and Sten Verhoeven Reflection on the separation of powers: the law of genocide and the symptomatic French paradox, Caroline Fournet. Part V Prevention, Alternative Justice Solutions and Sentencing: The United Nations and the prevention of genocide, Juan E. MA(c)ndez Criminal justice in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Shivon Byamukama and John A. Kapranos Huntley The normative context of sentencing for genocide, Ralph Henham Genocide, reconciliation and sentencing in the jurisprudence of the ICTY, Shahram Dana Index.
Beyond shannon: algorithms for optimal information processing

In the road towards quantum technologies capable of exploiting the revolutionary potential of quantum theory for information technology, a major bottleneck is the large overhead needed to correct errors caused by unwanted noise. Despite important research activity and great progress in designing better error correcting codes and fault-tolerant schemes, the fundamental limits of communication/computation over a quantum noisy medium are far from being understood. In fact, no satisfactory quantum analogue of Shannon’s celebrated noisy coding theorem is known. 
The objective of this project is to leverage tools from mathematical optimization in order to build an algorithmic theory of optimal information processing that would go beyond the statistical approach pioneered by Shannon. Our goal will be to establish efficient algorithms that determine optimal methods for achieving a given task, rather than only characterizing the best achievable rates in the asymptotic limit in terms of entropic expressions. This approach will address three limitations — that are particularly severe in the quantum context — faced by the statistical approach: the non-additivity of entropic expressions, the asymptotic nature of the theory and the independence assumption. 
Our aim is to develop efficient algorithms that take as input a description of a noise model and output a near-optimal method for reliable communication under this model. For example, our algorithms will answer: how many logical qubits can be reliably stored using 100 physical qubits that undergo depolarizing noise with parameter 5%? We will also develop generic and efficient decoding algorithms for quantum error correcting codes. These algorithms will have direct applications to the development of quantum technologies. Moreover, we will establish methods to compute the relevant uncertainty of large structured systems and apply them to obtain tight and non-asymptotic security bounds for (quantum) cryptographic protocols.
The absence of the ERBB4 hotspot mutations in melanomas in patients from southern China

V-erb-a erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene homolog 4 (ERBB4) has been reported to be somatically mutated in 19% of melanoma cases. To investigate the prevalence of ERBB4 mutations in melanoma patients from southern China, we analyzed 117 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded melanoma samples archived in the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. A matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) platform was used to screen for mutations. No ERBB4 hotspot mutations were detected. Our results indicate that ERBB4 mutations may play a limited role in melanomas in China; therefore, targeting the ERBB4 mutation in melanoma patients from southern China may not be a promising strategy.
Cantare il trauma: la voce franta diffratta universale di Diamanda Galás

L’opera di Diamanda Galás (San Diego, 1955) costituisce un primo caso storico di sintesi totale nell’arte vocale, poiché implica una competenza compositivo-performativa che include tutti gli stili di canto, dotto e popolare, e tutte le tecniche fonatorie esistenti, anche estreme e anomale. Secondo una concezione politica dell’arte, tale versatilità tecnico-stilistica è messa al servizio dell’espressione del trauma, del male inflitto e subìto dall’umanità. A tal fine la voce dà forma sonora sia all’identità del carnefice sia all’identità della vittima, cosicché l’unità dell’azione vocale rappresenta l’intrinseca ambivalenza morale dell’uomo. L’uso galásiano della voce dimostra che il materiale vocale traumatico non è espressivamente neutralizzabile, riducibile a elemento di una combinatoria puramente formale. L’opera di Galás funge dunque da paradigma per una riflessione generale sull’estetica del trauma, dove si rivela strutturale la funzione dell’antifrasi: ai fini della trascendenza estetica, l’arte non può fare a meno del trauma.
Characterization of the frequency dependence of the electrical properties of sandy soil with variable grain size and water content

The electrical properties of soil at low radio-frequencies are important for engineering applications. In this work the effects of excitation frequency (42 Hz-1 MHz) as well as soil characteristics and conditions on the electrical properties of soil are experimentally investigated using remolded soil samples. Several sandy soils were tested with variable water content (dry up to saturation) using guarded two-electrode arrangements. A method is proposed based on the Nyquist plot to estimate the critical frequency above which measurements of the electrical properties of wet soil are free from electrode polarization effects. The latter result in extremely high real permittivity values, which do not correspond to the response of soil. The critical frequency is higher for smaller grain size and higher water content and varies according to a power law with soil power-frequency conductivity. The real and (effective) imaginary relative permittivity decrease with increasing frequency whereas the effective conductivity increases; this is attributed to the distributed relaxation of the interfacial polarization mechanism associated with the particulate nature of soil. The values of soil electrical properties increase with increasing water content and decreasing grain size (increasing specific surface) as a consequence of enhanced polarization and conduction phenomena. The effective imaginary permittivity varies with frequency according to a power law with an exponent approximately −1; the multiplier coefficient of this law expresses losses and has been formulated as a function of the degree of saturation and soil specific surface.
Validation of an Automated Surveillance Approach for Drain-Related Meningitis: A Multicenter Study

OBJECTIVE Manual surveillance of healthcare-associated infections is cumbersome and vulnerable to subjective interpretation. Automated systems are under development to improve efficiency and reliability of surveillance, for example by selecting high-risk patients requiring manual chart review. In this study, we aimed to validate a previously developed multivariable prediction modeling approach for detecting drain-related meningitis (DRM) in neurosurgical patients and to assess its merits compared to conventional methods of automated surveillance. METHODS Prospective cohort study in 3 hospitals assessing the accuracy and efficiency of 2 automated surveillance methods for detecting DRM, the multivariable prediction model and a classification algorithm, using manual chart review as the reference standard. All 3 methods of surveillance were performed independently. Patients receiving cerebrospinal fluid drains were included (2012–2013), except children, and patients deceased within 24 hours or with pre-existing meningitis. Data required by automated surveillance methods were extracted from routine care clinical data warehouses. RESULTS In total, DRM occurred in 37 of 366 external cerebrospinal fluid drainage episodes (12.3/1000 drain days at risk). The multivariable prediction model had good discriminatory power (area under the ROC curve 0.91–1.00 by hospital), had adequate overall calibration, and could identify high-risk patients requiring manual confirmation with 97.3% sensitivity and 52.2% positive predictive value, decreasing the workload for manual surveillance by 81%. The multivariable approach was more efficient than classification algorithms in 2 of 3 hospitals. CONCLUSIONS Automated surveillance of DRM using a multivariable prediction model in multiple hospitals considerably reduced the burden for manual chart review at near-perfect sensitivity. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;36(1): 65–75
A New Integrated Hybrid Power Quality Control System for Electrical Railway

This paper presents an integrated hybrid railway power quality control system (HRPQC) to deal with the power quality problems in the electrical railway supply system. The prominent advantage of HRPQC is that, in the premise of adopting a hybrid compensating scheme for better performance, it can integrate the active system with the main transformer without other expensive low-frequency high-power auxiliary transformers. HRPQC's mathematical model, control idea, and transforming relationship in harmonic frequency are first presented. Second, the harmonic-suppressing mechanism and the resonance characteristics are analyzed in detail. Finally, simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed compensating system.
Cliodynamic archaeology: computational approaches to final palaeolithic/earliest mesolithic archaeology and climate change

Late Pleistocene/early Holocene Europe is said to be the ideal laboratory for the investigation of human responses to rapidly changing climates and environments, migration and adaptation. Yet, pinpointing precisely how and why contemporaneous Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic (15,000-11,000 years BP) foragers migrated, and which environmental or other factors they adapted to – or failed to – has remained remarkably elusive. At the core of ClioArch is the radical but, in light of research-historical insights, necessary hypothesis that the current archaeological cultural taxonomy for this iconic period of European prehistory is epistemologically flawed and that operationalisations and interpretations based on this traditional taxonomy – especially those that seek to relate observed changes in material culture and land-use to contemporaneous climatic and environmental changes – are therefore problematic. Hence, novel approaches to crafting the taxonomic building blocks are required, as are novel analyses of human|environment relations in this period. ClioArch’s premier ambition is to provide operational cultural taxonomies for the Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic of Europe and to couple these with interdisciplinary cultural evolutionary, quantitative ecological methods and field archaeological investigations beyond the state-of-the-art, so as to better capture such adaptations – almost certainly with major implications for the standard culture-historical narrative relating to this period. In so doing, the project will pioneer a fully transparent and replicable – and eminently transferable – methodology for the study of the impacts of climate change and extreme environmental events in deep history. In turn, such a quantitative understanding of past adaptive dynamics will position archaeology more centrally in contemporary debates about climate change, environmental catastrophe and their cultural dimensions.
Politiser l’équipement, équiper l’autonomie Enquête sur l’autoconstruction de matériel agricole en France

Cet article explore les ressorts rhétoriques et pratiques de l’autonomie technologique. Il s’appuie sur une recherche conduite autour des activités d’un organisme de formation prônant l’autoconstruction de machines agricoles, l’ Atelier Paysan . Il montre tout d’abord une pluralité de modes d’existence de l’autonomie : une autonomie dotée d’une épaisseur politique, prônée par les formateurs, et une autonomie plus pragmatique pour les agriculteurs. Seront ensuite mises en évidence l’importance des outils et des fournitures mobilisés lors des formations, constituant l’infrastructure de toute activité de construction et de maintenance. L’article argumente ainsi en faveur d’une prise en compte accrue de la dimension matérielle des processus d’autonomisation.
Collaborate, Co-create and Build Economic Development Opportunities

The cooperation area (CA) has high entrepreneurial potential, but is still suffering significant compression effects due to the economic crisis.
 The high percentage of SMEs present (92% of total active enterprises) means few opportunities for increasing employment, also due to the marked tendency among SMEs to only turn to regional and national markets. The potential of the cross-border market has still not been explored very much by Italian and French SMEs. It is therefore necessary to increase services to invigorate/support SMEs working within the priority supply chains in order to help them with their positioning on cross-border and international markets.
 The COCCODÉ project faces this challenge in an innovative way and intends to strengthen the specialisation of CA companies through actions to invigorate/acquire services able to promote, attract and generate investments and new cross-border business experiences in the priority supply chains. At the end of the 24 months of the project, 15 Italian and French MSMEs will have improved their competitiveness thanks to the provision of consulting and services worth € 317,000, and the development of five cross-border business plans. From a methodological point of view, COCCODÉ: 
a) organises opportunities for companies that are interested in exploring cross-border business opportunities and setting up ‘Cross-border Groups of Companies’ to ‘get to know’ each other (T1).
b) makes it easier for cross-border groups of companies to obtain customised consulting and business support services that are useful for cross-border business (T2), also thanks to the service networks that have already been established (INVITRA, FRINET2).
c) develops cross-border business plans in priority supply chains (T3). 
COCCODÉ benefits from skilled, highly specialised and well-established partnerships with seven facilitators (long-standing cooperation with: SAVOIR, INVITRA, OPERA, Invitra Jeunes)
Embedded storage elements on next mcu generation ready for ai on the edge

The main objective of the storAIge project is the development and industrialization of FDSOI 28nm and next generation embedded Phase Change Memory (ePCM) world-class semiconductor technologies, allowing the prototyping of high performance, Ultra low power and secured & safety System on Chip (SoC) solutions enabling competitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Edge applications. The main challenge addressed by the project is on one hand to handle the complexity of sub-28nm ‘more than moore’ technologies and to bring them up at a high maturity level and on the other hand to handle the design of complex SoCs for more intelligent, secure, flexible, low power consumption and cost effective. The project is targeting chipset and solutions with very efficient memories and high computing power targeting 10 Tops per Watt.
The development of the most advanced automotive microcontrollers in FDSOI 28nm ePCM will be the support technology to demonstrate the high performances path as well as the robustness of the ePCM solution. The next generation of FDSOI ePCM will be main path for general purpose advanced microcontrollers usable for large volume Edge AI application in industrial and consumer markets with the best compromise on three requirements: performances, low power and adequate security.  
On top of the development and industrialization of silicon process lines and SoC design, storAIge will also address new design methodologies and tools to facilitate the exploitation of these advanced technology nodes, particularly for high performance microcontrollers having AI capabilities.  Activities will be performed to setup robust and adequate Security and Safety level in the final applications, defining and implementing the good ‘mixture’ and tradeoff between HW and SW solutions to speed up adoption for large volume applications.