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Structure and Ecological Niche in the Soil Environment (SENSE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

SENSE (Structure and Ecological Niche in the Soil Environment) is a groundbreaking project to discover the processes affecting soil animal diversity and how soil biodiversity affects ecosystem stability and function. SENSE tackles the challenging enigma of soil animal diversity (exceptionally high diversity in an apparently much less diverse environment), studying the effect of soil structural com ...
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Growing Synthetic Load-Bearing Materials: Nano-Scale Fabrication of Bio-Inspired Materials for Marco-Scale Structural and Biomedical Applications (NanoGrow)

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

This proposal will establish a program of research at Queen's University Belfast that will pursue a strategy for mimicking the bottom-up nature of biological growth to produce bulk, macro-scale materials that exhibit some of the salient features and advantageous properties observed in bone, teeth, shells, and deep-sea glass sponges. Layer-by-layer assembly of nanocomposite coatings onto porous, th ...
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MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE AEROSTRUCTURES UTILISING CARBON NANOTUBE WEBS (MAGNUS)

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

"The aim of this research is to create multifunctional lightweight composite aerostructures utilising the unique properties of recently-developed carbon nanotube webs (CNTWs), produced from directly spinnable CNT forests (highly aligned CNTs grown on a silicon substrate). These webs will be strategically introduced into laminated carbon-fibre material to mitigate the current limitations primarily ...
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Radiation Response Models for Personalised Radiation Oncology (RadResPRO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

Clinical radiotherapy for cancer has seen dramatic improvements in recent years, driven by developments in imaging and delivery techniques. However, the ability to deliver radiation is now out-stripping radiotherapy planning techniques. Despite the goal of radiotherapy – tumour control – being primarily biological, radiotherapy planning tools focus on a purely physical metric: dose. This has signi ...
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Optimising Turbo-Spindle Efficiency for Machining at Ultra-High Speed (OpTEMUS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

There is a growing demand for ultra-high speed precision machine tool spindles to create complex miniature devices in a variety of materials, in consumer markets such as medical devices, electronics and communications. Air turbine spindles are a key enabling technology for micro-scale mechanical machining due to their high speed, high power-to-weight and volume ratios, low friction, low vibration ...
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Rare Earth Metal Separation with Ionic Liquids (REMSIL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"REMSIL (Rare Earth Metal Separation with Ionic Liquids) focuses on the design and development of novel technologies based on task specific ionic liquids (TSILs), solid-supported-ionic liquids (SSILs) and ionogel membranes for the separation and recovery of high-tech rare earth metals (REMs).With the current demand for these high-tech metals and their severely limited supply in the EU, their recyc ...
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Online Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Generators and Power Converters (OHMWiT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

This proposal is a 24-month Marie Curie IOF scheme which involves a British experienced researcher to undertake a training-through-research project on the development of cutting-edge wind turbine health monitoring technologies in liaison with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Dr Wenping Cao has been conducting original research into electrical machines and power electronics at QUB, ...
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GENomic evolution In Ecological Speciation (genies)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Speciation is the major process creating diversity of life on Earth. The proposed study will focus on the genomics of ecological speciation. Little is known about constraints on ecological speciation and the effects that the shift in the spatial arrangement of habitats has on the differentiation process. Goal of this project is to discover how past environmental changes effected differentiation in ...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: context, function and choice of early metalworking tools on Europe’s Atlantic façade (HARDROCK)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The aim of this project is to achieve a better understanding of both the technological and the social dimensions of early metalworking in Western Europe, through a systematic study of the toolkit employed by Chalcolithic and Bronze Age craftspeople. The study will consider both physical (tool morphology, use wear, material properties) and contextual data (site type, chronology, association with ot ...
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Establishing new concepts and approaches for future vaccine development against parasitic pathogens of cattle (FLUKVAC)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The negative impact of worm parasites on livestock animal health/welfare and on plant crop health seriously undermines food production systems and poses a direct threat to global food security. However, the use of chemical products to treat worms is not sustainable in the long term because of the continual emergence of drug-resistant parasites. Also, the presence of chemical and antibiotic residue ...
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Electric field driven Magnetization switching in multiferroic Nanoislands (ELMAGNANO)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Magnetoelectric (ME) multiferroics (MF) are prospective constituents for applications in micro- and nanoelectronics. Offering the possibility to switch magnetization (M) by electric field, their utilization would improve device performances. Though, at the state of the art several conditions hamper consideration for actual applications: mesoscopic devices with planar geometry, high WRITE voltages, ...
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Risk assessment of inorganic arsenic in EU rice-based infant products and strategies to reduce exposure (RICENIC)

Start date: Apr 28, 2014, End date: Apr 27, 2016,

Inorganic arsenic (i-As) has been identified as a non-threshold carcinogen. Children are particularly susceptible to As exposure and early-life exposure may adversely affect long-term health, yet there are no EU standards for i-As or total (t-As), given that i-As in water is tightly regulated yet food sources dominate EU exposure. The levels of tolerable dietary exposure to i-As have been reviewed ...
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"Cross-Layer Design of Adaptive, Reliable and Energy Efficient Systems" (DARE)

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

"Though current day designs carry the promise of meeting the ever escalating demands of high performance/ quality requirements, they often exhibit large power consumption that limits the battery lifetime and generates excessive heat. Besides power consumption, process variations also pose major design concern with scaling of devices that may lead to erroneous computations and loss of stored data t ...
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EUscreenXL, the pan-European audiovisual aggregator for Europeana (EUscreenXL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

EUscreenXL is a three-year project that aggregates a comprehensive body of professional audiovisual content and makes it accessible through Europeana and the EUscreenXL portal. The project consortium consists of 20 leading audiovisual archives, excellent media scholars, skilled technical service providers and the EBU. The partnership has established alliances with key stakeholders as the Europeana ...
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