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EDITS IV is the fourth stage of a joint project between DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (D'C) and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) with the aim at collaborating on the empirical and modeling analysis of new disruptive trends of technological and social innovation for reducing energy demand.

À medida que as cidades se tornam mais populosas e mais diversificadas, melhorar a compreensão da paisagem urbana está a tornar-se cada vez mais importante. O All@CityScape propõe-se alavancar a digitalização no desenvolvimento de metodologias cientificamente sólidas assentes no conceito de Identidade da Paisagem para apoiar transformações inovadoras no espaço público em resposta às dinâmicas demográficas e ao risco de exclusão social.

A segurança e a confiança são preocupações vitais na era digital atual, particularmente em sistemas baseados na internet, aplicações automóveis e dispositivos biomédicos. Com o número drasticamente crescente de dispositivos interligados em aplicações de internet das coisas (IoT) de baixo custo, fornecer soluções de segurança de hardware (HW) fiáveis, energeticamente eficientes e económicas torna-se de importância primordial. Os dispositivos IoT ubíquos enfrentam desafios adicionais devido às condições ambientais variáveis ​​e ao possível acesso físico por hackers. Além disso, é necessário garantir primitivas de hardware de segurança de sistemas sem emendas para o silício produzido noutros locais. Assim, é necessário criar e implementar fluxos de projeto para sustentar a cadeia de confiança. É fundamental que a Europa garanta que, se o silício for produzido num ambiente não fiável (mais de 90% do silício nas nanotecnologias CMOS avançadas, abaixo de 5 nm, é produzido na Ásia), a Europa ainda controla a cadeia de confiança, mantendo as capacidades de design e a propriedade intelectual. Para melhorar ainda mais a fiabilidade, aleatoriedade, eficiência energética, estabilidade e robustez das PUFs (Funções Fisicamente Não Clonáveis) contra variações de envelhecimento, serão utilizadas diversas técnicas no SECURE para o projeto de novas PUFs. A principal inovação do sistema híbrido de identificação de PUFs proposto baseia-se na combinação híbrida do melhor de duas tecnologias diferentes. Por um lado, para obter uma melhor fonte de entropia estática, utilizaremos eletrónica passiva impressa diretamente em substratos flexíveis. Isto irá garantir que as nossas PUFs são compostas principalmente por melhores estruturas que amplificam as variações intra matriz (devido à variabilidade inerente do processo associada às tecnologias de impressão a baixa temperatura). A utilização de algoritmos criptográficos em hardware é também uma novidade explorada no projeto. Os dois grupos env...

Despite decades of devoted research, cancer remains a tremendous health threat and societal burden. Europe's Beating Cancer Plan aims to improve the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030 by improving prevention, early detection, diagnostics, therapeutics, and quality of life. The biggest single hurdle here is the highly inadequate way cancer data, both from research and healthcare, are still being dealt with. While other areas of society (e.g. e-finance, e-commerce, logistics, travel, meteorology, etc.) have fully exploited advances in data and information technology to serve organisations as well as individual consumers, so far this has failed in the health domain. Consequently, cancer data are hard to Find, Access, make Interoperable and Reuse. Evidently this is not caused by lack of suitable technology, but rather by organisational, social and cultural causes. Inherently, solving the problem requires a cultural shift from the current craftsmanship approach to cancer research and data, to a drastic collaboration model at industrial scale. CANDLE therefore aims to scale-up and improve existing (inter)national health data infrastructures, align maximally with national EHDS implementations in member states, including HDAB’s, DAAMS’s and SPE’s. CANDLE will also identify and resolve potential barriers (https://www.health-ri.nl/en/participation/obstacles-removal-trajectory ) that jeopardize effective implementation of UNCAN.eu and ECPDC digital platforms. CANDLE aims to equipe data users and NCDN developers with a ‘ready-to-use' CANDLE Resource Kit in a process oriented (research journey, patient journey, data life cycle) way. In summary, CANDLE will provide an avenue towards a successful and highly desired data transformation in European cancer research and serve as a catalyzer for the UNCAN.eu and ECPDC platforms by advancing the development of NCDNs to reach the goal of the Cancer Mission and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, i.e. reducing the burden of cancer.

Musical rhythm processing has been increasingly associated with children’s reading and writing skills. However, most existing studies rely on cross-sectional designs, focus on pre-reading stages, and leave critical questions unanswered. It remains unclear how the rhythm–reading/writing link develops over time, which mechanisms sustain it, and whether rhythm-based training can causally enhance reading and writing acquisition. This project will address these gaps through a randomized controlled trial that combines behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Portuguese children aged 6–8 will be recruited from public school and randomly assigned to rhythm-based music training, Orff-based comprehensive training (active control), or no systematic training (passive control). Training will last ~9 months—one school year—and will be delivered in the regular school context. Children will undergo pre- and post-training assessments of rhythm, reading, writing and fine motor skills, alongside measures of cognition, motivation, and sociodemographics. Structural and functional MRI will examine the neural substrates of rhythm–reading/writing relationships. We hypothesize that rhythm predisposition predicts reading and writing outcomes, mediated by phonological processes (for basic reading and writing skills) and motor processes (for writing fluency), and that rhythm training will produce specific improvements in rhythm perception and synchronization, leading to gains in reading (and writing-related skills), and enhance motor skills, and writing fluency as a result. Orff-based training is expected to improve fine motor skills and, consequently, writing fluency. Brain correlates and plasticity are anticipated to reflect behavioral outcomes, particularly in auditory and motor regions. By clarifying causal links between rhythm and reading/writing skills, this study will advance theoretical models and inform evidence-based educational and clinical practices.