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Individualised Interventions in Learning: Bridging Advanced Learning Science and 21st CenturyTechnology (INTERLEARN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

This year, over 5 million European infants will be born into an intellectually demanding and technologically sophisticated world. These children's success in learning academic, linguistic, and social skills will play a large part in determining their future health, wealth, and happiness - and in driving European social and economic success. Thanks to new technologies, we have an unprecedented oppo ...
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Building body representations: An investigation of the formation and maintenance of body representations (BODYBUILDING)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"The body is ubiquitous in perceptual experience and is central to our sense of self and personal identity. Disordered body representations are central to several serious psychiatric and neurological disorders. Thus, identifying factors which contribute to the formation and maintenance of body representations is crucial for understanding how body representation goes awry in disease, and how it mig ...
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Integrated view on disruptions of early brain development (BRAINVIEW)

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

Early onset neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are rather common, and affect more than 30 million children in Europe. The disorders carry a huge burden to the patients and their families and to society in general. This burden is linked to their chronic course and the absence of curative treatments. These neurodev ...
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The Academic Research Network on Agencification of EU Executive Governance

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

EU agencies have now become a core element within efforts to establish good EU governance. Yet, this agencification process is also a cause for critical concern, especially as regards legitimate and effective agency-led administration. This project aims to fill two particular lacunae in current agency research by:• Promoting in-depth multi- and interdisciplinary research to integrate isolated disc ...
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FUnerals as public Services in long Eighteenth century London (FuSEL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...ervices? Which elements did modern public services inherit from them? In order to ask to these questions, I will make use of an interdisciplinary methodology taking advantage of expertise acquired at Birkbeck, University of London, under the guidance of an excellent supervisor (Professor Vanessa Harding). Working in a large, many-faceted academic entity such as the University of London will be a c ...
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Structural biology of Legionella’s effectors and secretion system (STRUCT4LEG)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

Legionella pneumophila is the causative agent of a severe form of pneumonia known as Legionnaires’ disease. Legionella utilizes a type IV secretion system, encoded by the dot/icm gene cluster, to secrete circa 300 effectors that highjack host cellular function to allow the bacterium to live intracellularly inside macrophages. Although the molecular basis of effector function has been elucidated fo ...
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Avoiding and mitigating safety risks in urban environments (City.Risks)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The main objective of the City.Risks project is to increase the perception of security of citizens in cities by activating in a more transparent and sustainable way their participation in communities, through which information and interventions can be provided both to proactively protect citizens from falling victims to criminal activities as well as to reactively provide more timely and effective ...
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TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research (TRIGGER)

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

TRIGGER aims at promoting systemic interventions designed to have deep, long lasting and widespread impacts at all the different levels in 5 research organisations. The project, coordinated and co-funded by the Italian Government, assisted by an institute specialised in gender and science, involves as co-funders five universities from different EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Italy, UK, Spai ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Reasonable Doubt: An epistemological and psychological approach (ReaDoubt)

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

The purpose of this research is to shed light on the nature and dynamics of doubt and confidence in complex epistemic decision-making, through a study of the notion of reasonable doubt. While doubt is considered a rational virtue, waiting until complete certainty before accepting and acting upon a given hypothesis is unreasonable in many contexts. Given some evidential support for the hypothesis, ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Motion Picture Grammatical Rating System for Infants and Toddlers (MOPIGRASFIT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

"The use of infant-directed media has increased substantially, from 17% in the 1990s to now over 50% in the first year of life although this use is highly controversial. Current motion picture rating systems in Europe only target viewers above 3 years, and only in terms of content. Infant-directed videos include a wide range of cinematic techniques which require film literacy to understand. It i ...
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Molecular and cellular imaging of membrane interactions in pathogen attack and immune defense (MEMBRANEATTACK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

"The immune system and pathogens both use membrane pore-forming proteins to penetrate cellular membranes, in order to kill target cells or to allow passage of pathogenic organisms such as malaria parasites, listeria, or toxoplasma. For both fundamental and practical reasons, it is important to understand the biological actions of the ""arms race"" underlying virulence, pathogenesis and immune defe ...
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European Autism Interventions - A Multicentre Study for Developing New Medications (EU-AIMS)

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

Despite dramatic advances in molecular and imaging technologies, there are currently no effective pharmacological treatments for the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Major obstructions to this include a lack of aetiologically-driven or pathophysiologically-accurate animal models; an absence of tests that indicate efficacy; and reliance of clinical trials on DSM/ICD10 categories wh ...
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Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom. An integrated training in research and diffusion for comparative history (PIMIC)

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

"PIMIC is a cooperative effort by a team of western medievalists, Arabists and Byzantinists -eight partners from prestigious academic institutions and two private sector companies- in order to propose a four years ITN program. For this project, we will take advantage of the wide-ranging expertise and complementarities of all ITN partners, composed of some of the most relevant research in mediaeval ...
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Ar/Ar and K/Ar geochronology by stepwise dissolution (KARSD)

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

Isotopic closure is typically considered to be governed by temperature controlled volume diffusion. However, theoretical considerations as well as experimental evidence suggest that fluid-induced metamorphic recrystallisation may be orders of magnitude more important than thermal diffusion in many if not most field settings. This simple concept may explain the irregular release spectra observed in ...
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A comparative history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy (AR.C.H.I.ves)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Most historians work in archives, but generally have not made archives into their primary object of research. While we tend to be preoccupied by documentary loss, what is striking is the sheer amount of paperwork preserved over the centuries. We need to study the reasons for this preservation.This project wishes to study the history of the archives and of the chanceries that oversaw their producti ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...hallenges and opportunities that the project brings and how best to harness the experience gained by participants so that they have a positive impact on the wider learning and teaching environment at Birkbeck. The numbers themselves clearly show the limited extent of our engagement in our first Erasmus+ project. We had a total of nine participants (three students and six members of staff), a limi ...
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Gender and Work/Life Stress among National Parliamentarians in Comparison (GENDER ELITE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

...s of the three nations, for the purpose of reference comparisons between the political elites and average citizens of respective country.The research project will be carried out by the applicant at Birkbeck, University of London (UK), Department of Politics, Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, under the supervision of Professor Joni Lovenduski.
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Synchronic Entanglements and New Social Imaginaries: Anti-War Activism in Brazil and the United Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century (SENSIAWABUK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The project aims to investigate the practices and modes of association of anti-war activists in Brazil and in the UK, while formulating an interaction ritual theory that places emotions and synchronicity at the centre of social process. Building on interaction ritual chains theory (Randall Collins), I articulate a notion of synchronicity that emerges from a theorisation of the relationship between ...
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Action research: Improving understanding and methodologies in early development (ACT)

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

"The ACT Initial Training Network aims to establish a leading European training network devoted to investigating the interplay between action and cognition using a developmental approach. The ACT network represents a collective of scientific and industrial groups at the cutting edge of research in the fields of social development, developmental psychology, cognitive science, developmental neuropsy ...
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Talk, Tutor, Explore, Learn: Intelligent Tutoring and Exploration for Robust Learning (iTalk2Learn)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Description iTalk2Learn platform enables learners to communicate and interact more naturally via rich intuitive user interfaces leveraging direct manipulation and, in particular, natural language user interfaces.iTalk2Learn project (The Intelligent Tutoring and Exploration for Robust Learning) project aims to facilitate robust learning by ...
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Reactivity of Aluminium Sulphate Minerals In Mine wastes (RASMIM) (RASMIM)

Start date: Jul 3, 2013, End date: Jul 2, 2015,

Mine wastes are unwanted, currently uneconomic materials found at or near mine sites. Volumetrically they are one of the largest waste streams in the European Community and also at a global scale and they often contain high concentrations of elements such as aluminium (Al) that can have severe effects on ecosystems and humans.The risks posed by exposure to Al are controlled by the reactivity of Al ...
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Coastal Frontiers: Water, Power, and the Boundaries of South Asia (CFRONTIERS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

'Coastal Frontiers' will involve the Principal Investigator, Dr Sunil Amrith, and a post-doctoral research assistant, in a study of the Bay of Bengal’s coastal rim from the late-nineteenth century to the present. This project will illuminate the entangled political and ecological history of the coastal arc stretching from India’s southern tip to the edge of the Malay Peninsula. It will combine mac ...
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New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy (FIDUCIA)

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

"The FIDUCIA project will shed light on a number of distinctively ""new European” criminal acts that have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of technological developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe.The objective of the project is to develop policy responses to “new” forms of deviant behaviours that are also highly relevant to responding to “conventional” forms ...
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Tracking Early Development: From Basic Science to Applications (TRACKDEV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

We propose a structured PhD training programme that will prepare Early Stage Researchers for a career in public or private sector research in early developmental cognitive neurosciences. A unique feature of the project is the extensive participation of private sector partners from the technology, manufacturing and services industry in an emerging discipline that does not yet normally interact wit ...
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Nano-materials for the conservation and preservation of movable and immovable artworks (NANOFORART)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The main objective of the NANOFORART proposal is the development and experimentation of new nano-materials and responsive systems for the conservation and preservation of movable and immovable artworks.While the progress in material science has generated sophisticated nanostructured materials, conservation of cultural heritage is still mainly based on traditional methods and conventional materials ...
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"Plurals, Predicates, and Paradox: Towards a Type-Free Account" (PPP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"This project aims to transform our understanding of the logical paradoxes, their solution and significance for mathematics, philosophy and semantics. It seeks to show that some of the key inferences in the paradoxes should not uncritically be blocked, as is customary, but rather be tamed and put to valuable mathematical, philosophical and semantic use. By adopting a richer logical framework than ...
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"Measurement, Effect Assessment and Mitigation of Pollutant Impact on Movable Cultural Assets. – Innovative Research for Market Transfer." (MEMORI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"The MEMORI proposal will provide the conservation market with innovative measurement technology, improved pollution effects knowledge and evaluation and control methods for the reduction of gaseous pollutant impact on movable cultural assets, - facilitating increased and safe use of protective enclosures for cultural heritage (CH) objects located indoors in new or rebuilt buildings for collection ...
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Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems (SAPERE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The objective of SAPERE is the development of a highly-innovative theoretical and practical framework for the decentralized deployment and execution of self-aware and adaptive services for future and emerging pervasive network scenarios. The framework will be grounded on a foundational re-thinking of current service models and of associated infrastructures and algorithms. In particular, getting in ...
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Structural analysis of the newly described hybrid secretion system of the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa involving the outer membrane transporter CupB3 (‘P-usher’) and the adhesin CupB5 (P-usher)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Bacterial pathogenesis is closely linked to the biogenesis of fimbrial adhesins. Up to date 7 different types of secretion systems involved in assembling such structures are defined. However, recent data on the CupB secretion system described in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, indicate that this is the first time a hybrid secretion system is described, as it contains proteins of both the type Vb Two-Partn ...
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Experimental measurement of the direct partitioning of peptides into lipid bilayers (Peptide partitioning)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The transfer of peptide segments into the lipid bilayer to form stable transmembrane helices is the crucial first step in membrane protein folding and assembly. However, the mechanisms that drive this process are not fully understood. A recent experimental assay has measured the insertion of designed peptide sequences into the endoplasmic reticulum membrane via the cellular translocon machinery. T ...
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Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardisation - 2 (CASAGRAS2)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

The need for authoritative, on-going international cooperation in respect of the European agenda for taking the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) to reality is pivotal in putting it into the global context it demands. CASAGRAS2 provides the necessary conduit for taking the next steps in international collaboration.CASAGRAS2 identifies a much broader base for international cooperation, with p ...
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Supporting Lifelong learning with ICT Inquiry-Based Education

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

Arguably, the surplus of information available through a variety of devices and in multimedia formats in today's knowledge society can have an immediate positive impact on learning. Apart from basic ICT-skills, digital competence (intended primarily as the ability to retrieve information and to assess its suitability to learner’s needs) can make a difference in learning outcomes. A learner-focused ...
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Development of an International Model for Curricular Reform in Multicultural Education and Cultural Diversity Training

Start date: Oct 15, 2012,

DOIT enhances the quality of education in participating IL and GE HEI by:• designing, piloting and implementing curricular reform which promotes ME (Multicultural Education) and CDT (cultural diversity training) and • Facilitating the exchange and sharing of knowledge among professionals involved in education. DOIT's Principal multi-dimensional program includes design, piloting and integrating in ...
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Geographic Information science for Environmental and Spatial Planning

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

This proposal outlines the activities of the transatlantic consortium (GISESP) comprised of the University of Cagliari, Italy (UniCA), the University of London, UK (UL), and the George Mason University, USA (GMU). This consortium will develop an integrated programme of curriculum in GIS and environmental planning science that will lead to the award of two masters degrees, one from UniCA and the ot ...
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