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Mapping the Deprived Visual System: Cracking function for prediction (MADVIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

One of the most striking demonstrations of experience-dependent plasticity comes from studies of blind individuals showing that the occipital cortex (traditionally considered as purely visual) massively changes its functional tuning to support the processing of non-visual inputs. These mechanisms of crossmodal plasticity, classically considered compensatory, inevitably raise crucial challenges for ...
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Multimodal functional neuroimaging techniques to probe the representation of pain in the human brain (PROBING-PAIN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"Pain may be defined as a primarily aversive perception that is vital for survival, as it incites the individual to respond to stimuli constituting a real or potential menace. However, pain is also a major healthcare issue, undermining the health and welfare of millions of individuals and imposing a severe financial burden to our societies. How does the brain process noxious stimuli, and how does ...
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"Gut microbiota, innate immunity and endocannabinoid system interactions link metabolic inflammation with the hallmarks of obesity and type 2 diabetes" (ENIGMO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

"Obesity and type 2 diabetes are characterized by metabolic inflammation and an altered endocannabinoid system (eCB) tone. We have provided evidence that gut microbiota modulate both intestinal and adipose tissue eCB system tone. Insulin resistance and inflammation have been linked to microbiota-host interaction via different Toll-Like Receptors (TLR’s). Our preliminary data show that tamoxifen-in ...
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Critical phenomena in random matrix theory and integrable systems (CRaMIS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The main goal of the project is to create a research group on critical phenomena in random matrix theory and integrable systems at the Université Catholique de Louvain, where the PI was recently appointed.Random matrix ensembles, integrable partial differential equations and Toeplitz determinants will be the main research topics in the project. Those three models show intimate connections and they ...
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Poverty, Resource Equality, and Social Policies (PORESP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2017,

This project aims at revisiting the economics of poverty by using recent advances in welfare economics. First, poverty measurement theory will be enriched by taking account of individual preferences over the several dimensions of poverty. New poverty indices will be defined. They will be applied using panel data of material standard of living and subjective satisfaction to study the recent evoluti ...
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Theoretical predictions and analyses of LHC physics: advancing the precision frontier (LHCtheory)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The primary goal of this research proposal is to push to new levels of precision the predictive power of theoretical analyses of the phenomena observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The start-up of the LHC has opened a new era in the exploration of the fundamental laws of Nature. This is expected to lead, among other results, to the clarification of the mechanism breaking the electro ...
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UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF FACE PERCEPTION: NEW INSIGHTS FROM STEADY-STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (facessvep)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Face recognition is one of the most complex functions of the human mind/brain, so that no artificial device can surpass human abilities in this function. The goal of this project is to understand a fundamental aspect of face recognition, individual face perception: how, from sensory information, does the human mind/brain build a visual representation of a particular face? To clarify this question, ...
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Simple locally compact groups: exploring the boundaries of the linear world (SIMPLELCGPS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The theory of locally compact groups stretches out between two antipodes: on one hand, connected groups whose structure, according to the solution to Hilbert fifth problem, is governed by Lie theory and is thus relatively rigid, and on the other hand, discrete groups, which are subject to a spectacular variety of behaviours, going from the most stringent rigidity properties to the most intriguing ...
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Unraveling the cellular sulfenome: a search for new redox-regulated pathways (SULFENIC)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"Within proteins, cysteine residues are sensitive to oxidation by reactive oxygen species (ROS). The first oxidation product of cysteines exposed to ROS is the sulfenic acid derivative (-SOH). Sulfenic acids are highly reactive intermediates that, unless they are stabilized within the protein microenvironment, react with another cysteine present in the vicinity to form a disulfide or are further o ...
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Institutionalizing global genetic-resource commons. Global Strategies for accessing and using essential public knowledge assets in the life sciences (GENCOMMONS)

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

...that implementing collective intellectual property strategies and standard material transfer agreements for access to these pre-competitive research materials has become feasible in a cost effective manner through new hybrid approaches to governance which combine design features from natural resource commons and digital information commons. To substantiate these proposals, this research project wi ...
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CRyptographic Algorithms and Secure Hardware (CRASH)

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

"Side-channel attacks are an important threat against cryptographic implementations in which an adversary takes advantage of physical leakages, such as the power consumption of a smart card, in order to recover secret information. By circumventing the models in which standard security proofs are obtained, they can lead to powerful attacks against a large class of devices. As a consequence, formali ...
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Academie universitaire Louvain Incoming Post-Doc Fellowshpis (IPOD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

From 2006 on, the French-speaking Community of Belgium has organized its nine universities in three Academies. In this new legal context, UCL is part of the ‘Academie Universitaire Louvain’ (AUL) which also comprises the Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur (FUNDP), and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL). With resp ...
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TERPENOYLATION: AN ORIGINAL CONCEPT FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW NANOMEDICINES (TERNANOMED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

Terpenoids are a group of natural compounds that are extraordinary diverse in chemistry, structure and function. Most of the natural terpenoids are flexible and biocompatible biopolymers, having physico-chemical characteristics able to adapt to a wide variety of biologically active compounds. Surprisingly, they have never been used previously in the nanotechnology field for drug delivery and targe ...
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Glycolytic contribution to cancer growth and metastasis (TUMETABO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Cancer lethality is most often associated to occurrence of distant metastases. To grow and become aggressive, cancers may undergo 2 critical adaptations: the glycolytic switch, corresponding to uncoupling glycolysis from the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, and the angiogenic switch, promoting neovascularization. In this high risk/high gain research program, we propose that the glycolytic switch pr ...
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Integrated Theory and Observations of the Pleistocene (iTOP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

There are essentially two approaches to climate modelling. Over the past decades, efforts to understand climate dynamics have been dominated by computationally-intensive modelling aiming to include all possible processes, essentially by integrating the equations for the relevant physics. This is the bottom-up approach. However, even the largest models include many approximations and the cumulative ...
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M- and Z-estimation in semiparametric statistics : applications in various fields (MAZEST)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The area of semiparametric statistics is, in comparison to the areas of fully parametric or nonparametric statistics, relatively unexplored and still in full development. Semiparametric models offer a valid alternative for purely parametric ones, that are known to be sensitive to incorrect model specification, and completely nonparametric models, which often suffer from lack of precision and power ...
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"An Intense Summer Monsoon in a Cool World, Climate and East Asian Monsoon during Interglacials with a special emphasis on the Interglacials 500,000 years ago and before" (EMIS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"Asian monsoon is a spectacular occurrence in the climate system. What make it so powerful are the combination of thermal contrast between the World s largest landmass (Eurasian continent) and ocean basin (the Indo-Pacific Ocean) and the presence of the World s largest ridge, the Tibetan Plateau. Climatologically, monsoon regions are the most convectively active areas and account for the majority ...
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Development of technology building blocks For structural health monitoring sensing devices in aeronautics (TRIADE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"NEEDS and CONCEPTS: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) will be very important for Aeronautics. A study from Goodrich stated: "Structural Health Monitoring shows a great potential in terms of cost savings coming from the benefits it would have on inspections which are currently about 25% of the Life Cycle Cost of an airline". Some applications are intended to explore the “out-of-flight domain” con ...
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European Coordination Action for Aircraft Wake Turbulence (WakeNet3-Europe)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

The Coordination Action WakeNet3-Europe will promote multidisciplinary exchange between research and operational specialists in the field of wake vortex turbulence. It will enable to develop a shared view on how to address capacity-related issues caused by wake turbulence. It continues the Thematic Networks WakeNet and WakeNet2-Europe. Safe separations prescribed to avoid potential hazards by enco ...
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