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Gjergji Kasneci, Urs Gasser, Thomas Hofmann, Gerhard Kramer + 4 more
Leadership Authors: ['Gjergji Kasneci' 'Urs Gasser' 'Thomas Hofmann' 'Gerhard Kramer' 'Gerhard Müller' 'Claudia Peus' 'Helmut Schönenberger' 'Enkelejda Kasneci'] Europe is at a make-or-break moment in the global AI race, squeezed between the massive venture capital and tech giants in the US and China's scale-oriented…
Mark McCarthy
Background The creation and exchange of knowledge between cultures has benefited world development for many years. The European Union now puts research and innovation at the front of its economic strategy. In the health field, biomedical research, which benefits the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has been…
Torsten Günther, Mattias Jakobsson
Genomic information from ancient human remains is beginning to show its full potential for learning about human prehistory. We review the last few years' dramatic finds about European prehistory based on genomic data from humans that lived many millennia ago and relate it to modern-day patterns of genomic variation.…
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Nina Baranowska, Philipp Hacker, Alessandro Fabris
'Alessandro Fabris'] This brief paper provides an introduction to non-discrimination law in Europe. It answers the questions: What are the key characteristics of non-discrimination law in Europe, and how do the different statutes relate to one another? Our main target group is computer scientists and users of…
O. V. Butorina, Yu. A. Borko
For decades, the topic of regional integration has been considered in research through its economic benefits. The classic theories of customs unions and optimum currency area, together with, to a lesser extent, the new regionalism approach are based on analyses of potential costs and benefits of regional associations.…
Wolfgang Streeck
There is another hero in van Middelaar’s account of the Great Breakthrough of 2020, in the same league as Merkel, by the name of Mario Draghi, then recently retired as President of the European Central Bank. van Middelaar can barely contain himself when recounting how “Super Mario”, as he does not refrain from calling…
Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Emmanuelle Munger + 17 more
Spread and emergence of West Nile virus (WNV) in Europe have been very different from those observed in North America. Here, we describe key drivers by combining viral genome sequences with epidemiological data and possible factors of spread into phylodynamic models. WNV in Europe has greater lineage diversity than…
Charlotte Stix
The received wisdom is that artificial intelligence (AI) is a competition between the US and China. In this chapter, the author will examine how the European Union (EU) fits into that mix and what it can offer as a 'third way' to govern AI. The chapter presents this by exploring the past, present and future of AI…
Marieke Verschuuren, Maaike Droogers, Damir Ivanković, Hans Henri P Kluge + 4 more
'Hans Henri P Kluge' 'Robb Butler' 'Katrine Habersaat' 'Anthony Staines' 'Floris Barnhoorn'] In this edition of the European Public Health News, the EUPHA office celebrates the European Public Health Week as a successful event and fixed value for public health in Europe, while we also mourn the loss of Richard Horst…
Christakis Georgiou
This paper is a contribution to the comparative historical literature on the development of American and European federal macroeconomic government institutions, spawned by the 2010-12 Eurozone crisis. The literature has two major shortcomings, namely a lack of agreement on relevant periodization and a lack of causal…
Stefano Mammola, Nicoletta Riccardi, Vincent Prié, Ricardo Correia + 3 more
Through the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and the LIFE projects financial investments, Europe has been the world’s experimental arena for biological conservation. With an estimated budget of €20 billion/year, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 has set an ambitious goal of reaching 30% Protected Areas and ensure no…
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo
Over the last decades, in disciplines as diverse as economics, geography, and complex systems, a perspective has arisen proposing that many properties of cities are quantitatively predictable due to agglomeration or scaling effects. Using new harmonized definitions for functional urban areas, we examine to what extent…
Stéphane Aris-Brosou
The role played by natural selection in shaping present-day human populations has received extensive scrutiny [1, 2, 3], especially in the context of local adaptations [4]. However, most studies to date assume, either explicitly or not, that populations have been in their current locations long enough to adapt to local…
Jeroen van Dongen
As the History of Science Society, which is based in America, holds its annual meeting in Utrecht, one of the key academic centers on the European continent, one may surmise that the field has returned home. Yet, this hardly reflects how today's world of scholarship is constituted: in the historiography of science…
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Low-carbon fuels (LCFs) such as green hydrogen, synthetic hydrocarbons, and biofuels are critical for decarbonizing sectors that are difficult to electrify. In this study, we present a globally harmonized techno-economic assessment of 21 LCF production pathways, including power-to-X, biomass- and sun-to-liquids, and…
Yiyang Mei, Matthew Sag
Whether and how to regulate AI is one of the defining questions of our times—a question that is being debated locally, nationally and internationally. We argue that much of this debate is proceeding on a false premise. Specifically, our article challenges the prevailing academic consensus that the European Union's AI…
Zoltán Kaló, Loek Hendrik Matheo van den Akker, Zoltán Vokó, Marcell Csanádi + 1 more
This study aimed to investigate the distribution of European Union (EU) healthcare research grants across EU countries, and to study the effect of the potential influencing factors on grant allocation. We analysed publicly available data on healthcare research grants from the 7th Framework Programme and the Horizon…
Juan J. Negro, Eduardo Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Airam Rodríguez, Keith Bildstein
Europe should be considered as a diversity hotspot for diurnal raptors, but just during the breeding season, as it holds the higher proportion of transcontinental migratory species of any landmass, and the area becomes depleted during the winter period. This study will test the hypothesis that the high diversification…
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Climate change is driving the migration of crop pests and pathogens into new regions, posing significant threats to food security and safety. Aflatoxins, toxic metabolites produced by Aspergillus flavus, are of particular concern due to their carcinogenic properties. This study reports the first detection of aflatoxin…
Dimitris Bouris, George Kyris
Combining the literature on sovereignty and Europeanisation, this article investigates the engagement and impact of the European Union (EU) on contested states (states lacking recognition) through a comparative study of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and Palestine. We find that characteristics of…
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Fluoropolymers are widely used across sectors, but their production is associated with emissions of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), which are mobile, persistent, and toxic. In this work, we compiled a global inventory of fluoropolymer production plants (FPPs) and assembled PFAS concentration measurements…