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Cognitive Networks for Intelligent Materials and Devices (COGNET)

Date du début: 1 juin 2013, Date de fin: 31 mai 2018,

"COGnitive NETwork (COGNET) is a new technology platform for materials, sensor and device design that exploits unique and hitherto unrecognised properties of random nanowire (NW) networks. These networks—comprised of metallic or semiconducting NWs connected to each other via junctions with controllably random property distributions—lead to new and unexpected levels of connectivity that are inheren ...
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A radical approach for improved glaucoma treatment (Oculus)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2013, Date de fin: 31 mars 2018,

Open angle glaucoma (OAG) is the second leading cause of world blindness. Treatments involving topically applied pressure-reducing medications or surgery targeting ocular drainage channels are effective, although significant complications exist. We propose to address the hypothesis that it is possible to develop a radical approach to management of intraocular pressure employing an AAV-mediated sys ...
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Predicting and managing plant population responses in human altered ecosystems (POP-CHANGE)

Date du début: 1 mars 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,

"Humans are rapidly changing the environments that plant and animal populations exist in. In order to make predictions about which populations will persist, which we are likely to lose and where to best place our management efforts for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services we need a fundamental understanding of how the environment affects population growth and decline in human altered e ...
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Survival in Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer Patients and Vitamin D (SOGVID)

Date du début: 1 mars 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,

"This project aims to investigate the role of vitamin D status in survival of patients diagnosed with oesophageal or gastric cancer. The ultimate goal of the project is to help inform cancer treatment and improve survival in these patients.Both oesophageal and gastric cancer have exceptionally poor prognosis, with a 5-year survival of only 15-20%. Moreover, little improvement in survival has been ...
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ISOTOPIC TOOLS AS NOVEL SENSORS OF EARTH SURFACE RESOURCES (IsoNose)

Date du début: 1 mars 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,

Soil, water, and precious metals are major natural resources present at the Earth´s terrestrial surface and their efficient management is essential for future sustainable development. Their availability is regulated by massive biogeochemical transformations that take place as the chemical elements move from rock to soil, into plants, through ground water, into river water, and into ore deposits. T ...
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Neurobiology and Treatment of Adolescent Female Conduct Disorder: The Central Role of Emotion Processing (FEMNAT-CD)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,

Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder with symptoms of Conduct Disorder (which is included among the abbreviation “CD” throughout the proposal) has a highly negative impact for the affected individual as well as for families and society. Although the number of females exhibiting serious aggressive behaviours is growing, the majority of studies on aetiology and treatment of CD hav ...
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Use of Graphics Rendering and Artificial Intelligence for Improved Mobile Search Capabilities (GRAISearch)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2018,

The principal aim of this project is to develop and apply revolutionary graphics rendering and artificial intelligence (AI) methods to an existing social media search engine platform (known as Tapastreet) thereby creating ground breaking mobile search capabilities with significant online commercial potential.Specifically these goals will be achieved by meeting the following Scientific & Technologi ...
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Synthesis of mono-dithiolene molybdenum complexes and their evaluation as potential drugs for the treatment of human isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency (MOCOMODELS)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2012, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2018,

Two rare but usually fatal diseases are caused by a failure at different levels of the multistep biosynthetic generation of the three human molybdenum dependent enzymes involved in metabolic processes. In contrast to the more general Moco deficiency (MocoD) affecting all three enzymes, isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency (iSOD) cannot be treated yet. The proposed project is primarily aimed at synt ...
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Dosage sensitive genes in evolution and disease (DOSE)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"Evolutionary change of gene copy number through gene duplication is a relatively pervasive phenomenon in eukaryotic genomes. However, for a subset of genes such changes are deleterious because they result in imbalances in the cell. Such dosage-sensitive genes have been increasingly implicated in disease, particularly through the association of copy number variants (CNVs) with pathogenicity.In my ...
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Social PracticE Cultural Trauma and REestablishing Solid Sovereignties (SPeCTReSS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"The objective of this project is to build upon, solidify, formalise and condense the recently initiated, but as yet informal, relationships between leading research institutions representing different regions and historical traditions in order to conduct joint research and participate in knowledge exchange to identify new paradigms for understanding how national identities are disrupted and forme ...
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Simulation Enhanced Integrated Systems for Model-based Intelligent Control(s) (EINSTEIN)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"EINSTEIN addresses the scientific and technical challenges related to the optimization of energy efficiency in existing buildings. This is achieved through the development of a new innovative modular simulation-based building control system. This has the ability to: (i) exploit real-time holistic building simulation (integrated with diverse building systems), (ii) directly enable automated contr ...
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Evaluating the impact and outcomes of European SSH research (IMPACT-EV)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"The main objective of IMPACT-EV is to develop a permanent system of selection, monitoring, evaluation and comparison of the impact and outcomes from European SSH research, taking into account the latest quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools, identifying new ways of implementing them and exploring new standards and indicators that complement existing impact assessment processes. IMPACT-EV ...
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Framework to respond to regulatory needs of future nanomaterials and markets (FutureNanoNeeds)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

Rapidly developing markets such as green construction, energy harvesting and storage, advanced materials for aerospace, electronics, medical implants and environmental remediation are potential key application targets for nanomaterials. There, nanotechnology has the potential to make qualitative improvements or indeed even to enable the technology. Impacts range from increased efficiency of energy ...
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The development of advanced numerical tools to study and control supersonic particle beams in Cold Spray (SSAM)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2017,

"“Supersonic Spray Advanced Modelling - SSAM” is an ambitious project, which proposes the development of new computational tools to model the acceleration of micro-sized metallic particles in a novel manufacturing process known as Cold Spray (CS). In this method, powders are entrained in a supersonic jet stream (carrier gas) and are accelerated up to high velocity levels (>1000m/s). This enables t ...
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Quantitative electron and spin transport theory for organic crystals based devices (QUEST)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2012, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2017,

"Predicting the electron and spin transport properties of organic crystals is a formidable theoretical challenge as these are determined both by the electronic structure of the individual molecules and by the morphology of the crystal. Quest's research program seeks at developing a fully quantitative theory for electron and spin transport in organic crystals, which does not rely on external parame ...
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Advanced Materials for Cardiac Regeneration (AMCARE) (AMCARE)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,

The Advanced Materials for Cardiac Regeneration (AMCARE) consortium aims to establish a translational research program to develop truly restorative therapies for acute myocardial infarction repair (MI) by optimising cardiac progenitor cell (CPC) therapy using smart biomaterials and advanced drug delivery, and coupling these therapeutics with minimally-invasive surgical devices. Two distinct biomat ...
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Tuning the properties of NanoCarbon with Fluorination (NANOCF)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2017,

Low-dimensional carbon structures such as graphene and carbon nanotubes have raised tremendous interest in recent years both from fundamental and technological perspectives. However, the tunability of the density of electronic states of graphene and carbon nanotubes remains a limiting factor for their implementation in modern nanotechnology. It has been recently shown that the energy bandgap of gr ...
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"Training in neurodegeneration, therapeutics intervention and neurorepair" (TINTIN)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2017,

"Dopamine neurons play a central role in major illnesses, such as anxiety and mood disorders, schizophrenia, autism-spectrum disorders, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and dementia. A multidisciplinary approach must be taken by European researchers to discover the molecular basis of dopamine neurodegeneration and how new technologies will lead to repair and regeneration of neuronal systems in the b ...
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"Crossing borders in the comprehensive investigation of labour market matching processes: An EU-wide, trans-disciplinary, multilevel and science-practice-bridging training network" (EDUWORKS)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2017,

"The objective of EDUWORKS is to train talented early-stage researchers in the socio-economic and psychological dynamics of the labour supply and demand matching processes at aggregated and disaggregated levels. EDUWORKS brings together researchers from several academic disciplines. Supply and demand matches at the aggregated levels of the national or European labour force are widely studied in La ...
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Individualised Diagnostics and Rehabilitation of Attention (INDIREA)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2017,

"We propose a training network based around a linked set of research projects which attempt to improve the diagnosis and rehabilitation of neuropsychological disorders of attention, with each project linked to an external industrial partner in order to commercialise emerging diagnostic and rehabilitation procedures. New diagnostic procedures will link clinical measures of attentional disorders to ...
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Seasonal activity of Polar Dunes on Mars (MarsDune)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 31 août 2017,

A significant finding of the data analysis from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the confirmation of active surface processes under the current Martian climate. Many of these processes in the Polar Regions are linked to seasonal volatile and wind cycles, such as the migration of aeolian ripples and sand dunes, avalanches of carbon ...
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Brain Imaging Return to Health (r'BIRTH)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 31 août 2017,

Extended lifespan is a new and permanent feature of human life globally. The demographic for population growth of persons over 60 years is predicted to expand by 70% and 400% respectively in developed and less developed regions during the coming decades. Ageing, is accompanied by cognitive decline and greater risk of depression and anxiety. Major drug companies have recently cutback significantly ...
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Cognitive strategies and self-regulation of learning character based scripts as a second language: The learning of kanji and hanzi (Japanese and Chinese characters) by alphabetic first language users (KANJI HANZI LEARNING)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2013, Date de fin: 1 juil. 2017,

The proposed study investigates the kanji and hanzi learning (the learning of Japanese and Chinese written characters) of native-English speaking learners of the Chinese and Japanese languages. The purpose of the study is to investigate cognitive strategies and self-regulation of kanji and hanzi learning using in-depth qualitative methods to broaden the understanding of how learners approach this ...
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Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts (CodeX)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2012, Date de fin: 30 juin 2017,

Through animal domestication humans profoundly altered their relationship with nature, controlling the breeding of their major food sources for material, social or symbolic profit. Understanding this complex process is a compelling research aim. There is a need to develop new high-resolution genetic tools to put flesh on the bones of this two-millenium long transition. These will take advantage ...
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New innovative solutions, components and tools for the integration of wind energy in urban and peri-urban areas (SWIP)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 31 mai 2017,

European Commission plans for wind energy development by 2020, highlights a fully competitive onshore wind power with 20% penetration. One of the better opportunities to fulfil this aim is the integration of small and medium wind turbines into urban and peri-urban environments, due to the potential market given. However, nowadays there are several barriers) that have relegated the Small Wind Turbi ...
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Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques Service (HELCATS)

Date du début: 25 avr. 2014, Date de fin: 1 mai 2017,

The advent of wide-angle imaging of the inner heliosphere has revolutionised the study of the solar wind and, in particular, transient solar wind structures such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and Co-rotating Interaction Regions (CIRs). CMEs comprise enormous plasma and magnetic field structures that are ejected from the Sun and propagate at what can be immense speeds through interplanetary spac ...
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Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in response to extreme weather (RAIN)

Date du début: 1 mai 2014, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2017,

The RAIN vision is to provide an operational analysis framework that identifies critical infrastructure components impacted by extreme weather events and minimise the impact of these events on the EU infrastructure network. The project has a core focus on land based infrastructure with a much wider consideration of the ancillary infrastructure network in order to identify cascading and inter-relat ...
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CONFLICT LANDSCAPES & LIFE CYCLES: EXPLORING & PREDICTING AFRICAN POLITICAL VIOLENCE (GEOPV)

Date du début: 1 mai 2012, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2017,

"The central aim of this work is to explain what causes the various types of political violence found within and across African states. In contrast to the widespread view that conflict is confined to a few crisis prone states, new evidence suggests that almost all states are sites of substantial, widespread political insecurity (Raleigh et al. 2010). Civil war accounts for 35% of the conflict acro ...
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Security System for language and image analysis (Slandail)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 mars 2017,

Project Slándáil will demonstrate a cost-effective and ethically-correct way in which social media information can be used by an emergency management system. The social media landscape consists of a range of digitized documents in a variety of formats, updated by a diverse and geographically distributed people and organisations. During an emergency, authorities use websites and the population, emp ...
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Online and Mobile Communications for Emergencies (SOTERIA)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

The SOTERIA Project aims to research and develop recommendations and an associated toolbox that leverage the positive impact of social media in emergencies, enabling public safety organisations (PSOs) and citizens using new mobile and online social media technologies to communicate before, during and after an emergency event, and exchange critical information for the PSOs' intervention in emergenc ...
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Improving the organisation of maternal health service delivery, and optimising childbirth, by increasing vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC) through enhanced women-centred care (OPTIBIRTH)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2012, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

Optimal, healthy pregnancy followed by normal birth is the ideal. Caesarean section (CS) doubles the risk of mortality and morbidity (hysterectomy, blood transfusion), and increases the risk of postnatal infection by 5, compared with vaginal birth (WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health). The European Perinatal Health Report (2008) notes “widespread concern” over rising CS rates, which ...
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What Can We Learn from Late-Onset Schizophrenia? Comprehensive Genomic and Clinical Characterization of Late-Onset versus Normal- and Early-Onset Cases (LOSzGenPhen)

Date du début: 1 mars 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a debilitating disorder affecting 1% of the population and shows a strong genetic component. Onset of SZ is usually before age 40, but 1.2% have onset after 40. These individuals show marked differences from earlier onset, including more female cases, improved cognition, and more paranoid symptoms. The burden of late-onset SZ (LOS) is likely to grow due to the ageing populati ...
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Exact Methods in Gauge and String Theories (EMGST)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

"Much of the structure of the world around us is currently understood in the language of quantum field theory. As such theories have been highly tested by experiment we have a great deal of confidence that they are correct, at least in their regimes of applicability. However, to answer many of the most important open questions, from the nature of confinement to the origin of high temperature supe ...
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Nanoelectronics based on two-dimensional dichalcogenides (MoWSeS)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

Semiconductor industry rapidly approaches the performance limits of silicon-based CMOS technology. This proposal aims to pave the wayto electronic circuits based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), newly emerging semiconducting analogues ofgraphene. TMDs can be rapidly exfoliated in the liquid phase into single layers starting from powders and provide solutions of 2D materi ...
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A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials (NANOREG)

Date du début: 1 mars 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related EHS issues. While toxicity data is continuously becoming available, the relevance to regulators is often unclear or unproven. The shrinking time to market of new MNM drives the need for urgent action by regulators. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answe ...
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SEC-2012.1.3.2- Homemade explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation- Capability (HOMER)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

The objective is to establish basic knowledge hitherto unknown about HMEs; their composition and characterisation. The task is also to review freely available recipes (for instance on internet) and to evaluate their dangerousness. During the study, several basic questions should be answered, how can HMEs be produced from ordinary commercially available chemicals and materials? What type of chemic ...
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Four World Nodes for Brain Networks of Attention and Awareness (CognitiveFocus)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

A Group of cognitive neuroscience institutes join forces to enhance scientific advances on cognition through a series of collaborative actions centred on knowledge and information sharing and transfer through sustained cooperation. The project aims at realizing a high-level researchers’ exchange and networking activities in cognitive neuroscience in health and disease. The research group has four ...
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RRI TOOLS, a project to foster Responsible Research and Innovation for society, with society (RRI TOOLS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

This project will develop and use a Training and Dissemination Toolkit on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It will be addressed and designed by all the stakeholders of the Research and Innovation (RI) chain of value, including Researchers, Civil Society, Industry and Education but will specially focus on Policy Makers in order to impact significantly in the future governance of RI.The Co ...
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Infection biology training network: shaping the future of infectious diseases treatments (INBIONET)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

"The increasing number of bacteria resistant to all antibiotics and antimicrobials and the virtual lack of antiviral drugs make necessary to develop therapeutics based on new targets/approaches. European-wide-acting sectors must permanently improve their capabilities and capacities to cope with these challenges. Thus, the demand for experts trained to understand infectious diseases in their whole ...
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Electrical spin manipulation in electroACtive MOLecules (ACMOL)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

The project "Electrical spin manipulation in electroACtive MOLecules" (ACMOL) has the ambitious goal of fabricating a switchable, room-temperature spin-polarizer employing electro-active and magnetic molecules, which are integrated into graphene-type electrodes modified with ferromagnetic materials. The combination of these molecules with ferromagnetic electrodes is a new route in spintronics. Exp ...
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