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The Resurgence in Wage Inequality and Technological Change: A New Approach (CBTC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Social-science explanations for rising wage inequality have reached a dead end. Most economists argue that computerization has been primarily responsible, while on the other side of the argument are sociologists and political scientists who stress the role of political forces in the evolution process of wages. I would like to use my knowledge and experience to come up with an original theory on th...
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Crisis on the margins of the Byzantine Empire: A bio-archaeological project on resilience and collapse in early Christian development of the Negev Desert (NEGEVBYZ)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

This project proposes an innovative, integrative and data-intensive approach to understand the parameters for long-term sustainable functioning of complex societies under vulnerable conditions. The broad aim of the research is to explore contexts of collapse and resilience in an ancient society with high levels of socio-political complexity and technological ingenuity within a resource-limited env...
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DARIAH ERIC Sustainability Refined (DESIR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Europe has a long and rich tradition as a centre for the arts and humanities. However, the digital transformation poses challenges to the arts and humanities research landscape all over the world. Responding to these challenges the Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) was launched as a pan-European network and research infrastructure. After expansion and consolidation, ...
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The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language (GRAMBY)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The pioneering framework I propose for the analysis of the foundations of human language – the Grammar of the Body – is inspired by sign language. My main aim is to create a body-based model of linguistic compositionality and to provide clues of its evolutionary origins.Instead of analysing sign language (and language generally) from the perspective of mental categories, the radical approach I in...
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Wheat and barley Legacy for Breeding Improvement (WHEALBI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

WHEALBI will combine genomics, genetics and agronomy to improve European wheat and barley production in competitive and sustainable cropping systems. Germplasm representing the species diversity will be selected and characterised in unprecedented detail by next-generation-sequencing. Life history and adaptive traits will be evaluated in both transnational field experiments and a state-of-the-art p...
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Secretion of inflammatory mediators from eosinophils and their tissue residing cell-free granules: mechanisms and implications in inflammation (eosinophil secretion)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Eosinophils, both as end-stage effector cells and as Th2-immunomodulators, have the capacity to secrete varied inflammatory mediators, such as, cytokines and enzymes that are stored in their cytoplasmic secretory granules. Among them are the cationic proteins: major basic protein, eosinophil peroxidase, and the eosinophil RNases. In the last decade several studies, both in vitro and in vivo, have...
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Developing programs for Access of disadvantaged groups of people and Regions to higher Education

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Inclusive education has increasingly become a focus of debate in discussions about the development of educational policy and practice around the world. We can see today that in a large number of developed and developing countries they have started reformulating their policies to promote the inclusion of students with difficulties (social or physical) into mainstream in higher education. However, w...
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European Master in Law and Economics

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Objective The objective of the European Master in Law and Economics is to provide students with advanced knowledge in the Economic Analysis of Law, an integrated discipline studying the economic effects of legal rules as well as the legal underpinnings of economic efficiency.Course duration One year (60 ECTS)Brief DescriptionThe Economic Analysis of Law pervades scientific research, policymaking, ...
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Promoting civic engagement via exploration of evidence: Challenges for Statistics Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Promoting civic engagement via exploration of evidence: Challenges for Statistics Education The project aims to contribute to the preparation of young people in Europe and beyond for responsible citizenship, in terms of their ability to be aware of and understand quantitative evidence and statistics about key social phenomena that permeate civic life, such as migration, demographic change, crime, ...
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Fear Conditioning and Extinction in Anxious Youth: Identifying Neuro-cognitive Abnormalities and Their Relation to Pediatric Anxiety Treatment Outcomes (ERBT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Anxiety disorders are the most common pediatric psychopathology. Despite therapeutic advances, treatment-resistance remains high, and progress towards early detection of at-risk populations has hindered. The proposed research aims to address this problem by targeting information-processing functions, specifically fear learning and extinction, in an effort to link pediatric anxiety to dysfunction i...
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Evolution of sociality in invasive fire ant populations (SOCIAL INVASIONS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Evolutionary theory struggled to explain animal societies for many decades. Ultimate explanations were found but little is known about proximate explanations: how do social traits evolve at the molecular level? Dramatic advances in genome sequencing technologies now allow such questions to be addressed. Ants are a classical study system for social evolutionary research. Their impressive ecological...
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Post-quantum cryptography for long-term security (PQCRYPTO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Online banking, e-commerce, telemedicine, mobile communication, and cloud computing depend fundamentally on the security of the underlying cryptographic algorithms. Public-key algorithms are particularly crucial since they provide digital signatures and establish secure communication without requiring in-person meetings.Essentially all applications today are based on RSA or on the discrete-logarit...
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Reaserchers' Night Project 2016-2017 in Israel (ERNI2016)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Following previous TEN years of successful implementation of European Researchers' Night in Israel we will have:o Venues covering the whole country.o Involvement of the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major researchuniversities, leading collages and three science museums.o Awareness campaign at national level managed and funded by the Israe...
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ACTION PLAN ON SIS RELATED ISSUES IN EPIDEMICS AND TOTAL PANDEMICS (ASSET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

ASSET (Action plan in Science in Society in Epidemics and Total pandemics) is a 48 month Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plan (MMLAP), which aims to 1) forge a partnership with complementary perspectives, knowledge and experiences to address effectively scientific and societal challenges raised by pandemics and associated crisis management; 2) explore and map SiS-related issues in global...
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Popular Nationalism and Attitudes toward Immigrants (PNATI): A Multistage Investigation of Popular Nationalism and its Effects on Attitudes toward Labor Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in Israel (PNATI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The general framework of the proposed research challenges the traditional approaches to popular attitudes toward labor immigrants and asylum seekers. Previous scholarship has highlighted either economic competition between immigrants and the host society or perceptions of symbolic threats posed by immigrants. The proposed research, in contrast, will be the first to investigate how attitudes toward...
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Shaping Community Boundaries in a Networked Society: The Case of the ultra Orthodox Community in Israel (CBNS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The recent penetration of ubiquitous digital technologies into bounded communities is dramatically reshaping the power structures within these communities and evoking formidable resistance from established traditional authorities. In light of the recent dramatic penetration of digital technologies amongst bounded communities, the proposed study seeks to examine the impact of free flowing and non-f...
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Master courses: Quaternary GeoEnvironment - ArchaeoGeomorphology ; Analysis and Management of Anthropogenic Natural Hazards and Disasters

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The continuous development of science and the growing new techniques necessitate a significant change in the educational syllabus of postgraduate university programs. Taking into consideration the specificity of the students, as well as the need for proper preparation for the labor market, educational material changes targeting specific topics designed to address problems in a better way, provide ...
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Bloom the Dry. The Creation of Traditional Mediterranean Irrigated Fields (DryIR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The main target of the research proposal is to study the historical transformation of Mediterranean drylands into fertile and productive irrigated fields. The construction and maintenance of irrigated fields has been one of the most successful strategies adopted by past societies to cope with the uncertainty of the Mediterranean weather. Many irrigated fields were constructed in the past and are s...
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Drug-Related Information Seeking and Scanning from Media and Interpersonal Sources as an Indicator of Drug Use Risk: An Innovative Approach to Drug Use Prevention (SSBD)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Aug 6, 2017,

Information related to marijuana and prescription drugs is widely available and easily accessible to young adults. This information may shape decisions about drug use. The current proposal seeks to increase understanding of the role of active and passive (scanning) drug-related information seeking among young Israeli adults in transition to college/university.The objectives are to 1) develop measu...
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Mechanisms of Emotion Control: Identifying Neuro-Cognitive Abnormalities Predisposing to Hypertension (COEM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

Essential hypertension (EH) is the most important risk factor for cardio- and cerebro-vascular diseases, the most common cause of premature death in industrialized countries. This proposal addresses the hypothesis that neuro-cognitive abnormalities serve as a key risk factors in the development of EH. It is well established that patients with EH, and healthy individuals genetically at risk to deve...
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Representation in Legal Proceedings (RIPL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Litigation in person is a widespread phenomenon in common law jurisdictions. A right to litigate in person is treated as a fundamental right in both civil and criminal proceedings, regardless of whether the litigant or the defendant has the financial means to hire a lawyer or the capacity to conduct litigation effectively. The proposed research has two primary objectives. First, to establish a gen...
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Rapid adaptation to varying odor concentration (RAPIDODORADAPTATION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

In day-to-day life during navigation, hunting, escaping from predator and social interactions, animals rely on sensory information in general and on olfactory cues in particular. A general feature common to all forms of sensory processing is adaptation, whereby in the presence of continuous stimulation, sensory receptors exhibit a marked reduction in responsiveness. Perceptual adaptation attenuate...
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Narrating the Past in the Hindu Himalayas: On Social Memory in South Asian Oral Traditions (NPHH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The Eurocentric notion of South Asian Hindu society as intrinsically ahistorical due to its perception of time as cyclical has resulted in more than two centuries of misreading of Indian traditions. While this misperception has been viewed with increasing suspicion in recent decades, the scholars who attempt to read Indian texts with the aim of deciphering indigenous perceptions of the past remain...
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Flexible Event pRocessing for big dAta aRchItectures (FERARI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Many of today's Big Data technologies were built on the tacit assumption of web-based systems processing human generated-data at Facebook or Google. Such data is typically unstructured and predominantly persistent. As a result, the focus to date has been on batch processing of Big Data stored in distributed file systems. However data volumes generated from Machine-to-Machine interactions (M2M) sur...
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Generalizing Truth-Functionality (GETFUN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The Fregean-inspired Principle of Compositionality of Meaning (PoC), for formal languages, may be construed as asserting that the meaning of a compound expression is deterministically (and often recursively) analysable in terms of the meaning of its constituents, taking into account the mode in which these constituents are combined so as to form the compound expression. From a logical point of vi...
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Ambiguity in Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning (AMBIGUITY IN FLVL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 7, 2016,

Understanding the pattern of interactions between the languages of multilingual speakers, and the mechanisms supporting efficient learning of a foreign-language are imperative in today's global society. For one, the majority of individuals in the world use more than one language in their daily lives. Second, many individuals are required to learn a foreign-language as adults, to be able to acquire...
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From Gene Regulatory Networks to Specification, Differentiation and Morphogenesis in the sea urchin embryo (ECT-SPEC-DIFF-MORPH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 7, 2016,

A fundamental challenge in developmental biology is to understand how regulatory networks transform regulatory information into cell fate specification and differentiation. Addressing this challenge requires a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory connections between the transcription factors present in a cell and their regulatory and structural targets through developmental time. The sea urchi...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the...
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Randomness and Computation (RAC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"This project is concerned with the necessity and availability of randomness in computation. This research area (often referred to as the ""Theory of Derandomization'') is one of the most active and exciting areas in theoretical computer science. We intend to study some of the main questions of this area: In what setups can randomized algorithms be efficiently simulated by deterministic ones? In c...
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Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture (IDREEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"The proposal IDREEM will create smarter greener growth for one of Europe’s most important industrial sectors: the aquaculture industry. It will achieve this through taking waste streams that are at present lost to the environment (as pollution) and converting them into secondary raw materials for the production of high value organisms such as seaweed and shellfish. To do this IDREEM will develop,...
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Native-Born Youth of African Immigrants and Cardiovascular Risk: A Mixed Methods Study (BYAIMS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Cardiovascular risk factors (CR) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. By adolescence, CR of diet, exercise, blood pressure, body mass index, and smoking already are predictive of adulthood morbidity. Although genetics play a part in CR, health behaviors are the major contributors. Health status and service use differ between ethnic/racial groups (including im...
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GAS SEEPS AND SUBMARINE SLIDES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE GEOHAZARD PREVENTION (GASTIME)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The objectives of this proposal are to study the shaping mechanisms behind gas seepage and slope stability in the Levantine basin (eastern Mediterranean), and to understand the geological forces shaping and controlling sedimentary basins under similar conditions. Fluid escape features and mass transport deposits are common in hydrocarbon-prone basins. Thus, studying the relationship between these ...
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Developing the Substance Use Normalization Theory (SUNT): Explaining Adolescent Substance Use in Contemporary Society (SUNT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Substance use among youth continues to be a public health concern. Effective prevention options require up-to-date and relevant theoretical frameworks and empirical studies that can help explain the etiology and correlates of substance use. The current proposal aims to develop the “Substance Use Normalization Theory” which is a promising and novel theoretical framework to explain adolescent substa...
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Marine microbial interactions – physiology, genomics and ecological modeling (MICROBES-2-MODEL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Interactions between marine microorganisms such as symbiosis, competition, and allelopathy determine the structure and function of microbial communities, yet are relatively unstudied. We must understand these interactions at multiple levels in order to predict how marine microbial communities will evolve in a changing world. Here, I propose to study interactions between Prochlorococcus, the most ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl...
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BRIDGING THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP: FACILITATING CROSS-BORDER ICZM IMPLEMENTION BY LOWERING LEGAL-INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS IN THE MSB (MARE NOSTRUM)

Start date: Jan 30, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

The project in briefMost Mediterranean countries share the challenges of rapid shoreline development, extreme seasonal fluctuation in populations, vulnerability to coastal hazards and eroding environmental quality. Yet many of these countries are also characterized by inadequate planning, management and enforcement of the regulations, as well as the lack of solid database to assist decision makers...
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Guiding Patients Anytime Everywhere (MobiGuide)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Description The MobiGuide project has developed an intelligent decision-support system for patients with chronic illnesses, such as cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes and high blood pressure. The patient wears sensors that can monitor biosignals (e.g. heart rate, blood pressure); these signals are transmitted to their smartphone and from there to...
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European Researchers' Night 2014 and 2015 in Israel (ERNI2014)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

"Following previous eight years of successful implementation of European Researchers' Night in Israel we will have:o Venues covering the whole country.o Involvement of the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major research universities, leading collages and three science museums.o Awareness campaign at national level managed and funded by the I...
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"Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence" (TELL ME)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

"TELL ME (Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence) is a 36 month Collaborative Project, which aims to provide evidence and to develop models for improved risk communication during infectious disease crises. TELL ME combines public health, social sciences, behavioral sciences, political sciences, law, ethics, commun...
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Social Information Processing and Exposure to Political Violence: Relations to Maladaptive Behavior in Preschool Children (SIP in Israel)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The project proposed here aims to expand our understanding of the origins of maladjusted behaviors in children exposed to political violence by examining the complex set of links among levels of exposure to political violence, Social Information Processing patterns, and disruptive behavior in preschool children in Israel. Exposure to political violence refers here to constant and unpredictable exp...
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