The interaction between abiotic and biological processes is crucial to understand the development of life on Earth and the ecosystem services. Natural highly heterogeneous landscapes that support life develop through biological and abiotic processes at the interface of atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. Despite their importance to natural ecosystems and humanity, we still lack good understanding of the mechanisms of landscape formation.

A coherent interface between microwave and optical photons is thought to be an essential first generation quantum technology, allowing information from a superconducting quantum computer to be communicated over a photonics-based quantum network. Developing such a technology is challenging, however, as it requires advanced techniques from at least three engineering disciplines—superconducting microwave electronics, quantum photonics, and a third discipline governing the microwave-to-optical transduction element.

The accelerated expansion of the Universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in decades. It is not predicted by the standard model of particle physics; the amplitude of the leading theoretical explanation, vacuum energy Λ , and observations differ by tens of orders of magnitude. This proposal combines two leading cosmology research groups with complementary expertise to unlock the constraining power of combining Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements and galaxy imaging surveys.

Our actions are influenced not only by our own intentions and expectations but also by circumstances, feelings, and norms. Language provides a window into how we conceptualize opposing and congruent influences; moreover, different languages reveal different ways minds can package these concepts. Yet state-of-the-art formal semantic frameworks do not permit a rich representation of influences. Instead, this project's starting point will be a formal framework (causal models) that originated outside of linguistics.

The RHAPSSODY project proposes an automated reasoning platform to extract, understand, and reason with complex arguments. The project is based on combining computational argumentation theory with natural language processing. This approach will identify the most essential arguments listed on debate platforms, estimate the acceptability degrees of these arguments using information mined from the web, and using the totality of the arguments, estimate the decision that will be taken.

Seed and fruit crops both depend on pollination, a process highly sensitive to heat. At elevated temperatures, pollen tubes fail to grow through the female pistil tissues and deliver sperm cells in ovules for fertilization and seed formation. An increase in average worldwide temperatures will thus undermine crop productivity. In this proposal, we propose to study LARP6C protein in tomato, previously identified by the CNRS team, using many state-of-the-art procedures to understand its potential roles in pollen tube growth under permissible and HS temperatures

Analyzing the drivers of the vulnerability of species and ecosystems to environmental changes is critical. Functional trait ecology has brought standardized protocols to analyze the response of numerous species on a physiological basis simultaneously. However, it lacks a theoretical corpus, which impedes a deep exploration of the underlying mechanisms and limits predictions. Rooted on adaptive dynamics theory, we will focus on the dynamics of local physiological optima and community-level trait distributions (TD) around them and provide theoretical expectations.

We focus on applied problems where it is necessary to make optimal decisions in the presence of risk and uncertainty together with dependence between the random events, where the source of uncertainty is twofold. One component of uncertainty is exogenous and results from substantially incomplete knowledge of important dependent problem data, like demand for goods and services, weather conditions, prices for commodities, high-impact technical failures, and other disruptions occurring with low probability.

The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding PhD students from U.S. institutions who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 8/9 months. Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition, with expert evaluation in France and in the United States.

Africa is an important continent in the twenty-first century in terms of demographics and economic growth but also, significantly, in terms of promoting environmental justice and revitalizing the culture of democracy from the grassroots up. Whereas culture is a crucial aspect of African citizen-led movements, this is often overlooked or inadequately addressed in political science and human rights research.

Seed and fruit crops both depend on pollination, a process highly sensitive to heat. At elevated temperatures, pollen tubes fail to grow through the female pistil tissues and deliver sperm cells in ovules for fertilization and seed formation. An increase in average worldwide temperatures will thus undermine crop productivity. In this proposal, we propose to study LARP6C protein in tomato, previously identified by the CNRS team, using many state-of-the-art procedures to understand its potential roles in pollen tube growth under permissible and HS temperatures

A digital twin (DT) is a model of a real system, which automatically learns and continually updates to represent the dynamics of the system in near real-time, using sensor data that reflect various aspects of its operating conditions, human experts with relevant domain knowledge, and its environment. However, this recent concept does not yet benefit from support tools for its effective implementation.

Africa is an important continent in the twenty-first century in terms of demographics and economic growth but also, significantly, in terms of promoting environmental justice and revitalizing the culture of democracy from the grassroots up. Whereas culture is a crucial aspect of African citizen-led movements, this is often overlooked or inadequately addressed in political science and human rights research.

Seed and fruit crops both depend on pollination, a process highly sensitive to heat. At elevated temperatures, pollen tubes fail to grow through the female pistil tissues and deliver sperm cells in ovules for fertilization and seed formation. An increase in average worldwide temperatures will thus undermine crop productivity. In this proposal, we propose to study LARP6C protein in tomato, previously identified by the CNRS team, using many state-of-the-art procedures to understand its potential roles in pollen tube growth under permissible and HS temperatures