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Intelligent Assessment of Pharmaceutical in the Environment (IPIE)

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

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be released to the natural environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of. As APIs are biologically active compounds concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human and environmental health. Over the past 15 years, a substantial amount of work has ...
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Toxicokinetics and biotransformation in aquatic invertebrates (TOXKINBIO)

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

"Pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals support our modern standard of life, but their use can have detrimental impacts on our environment. We want to study the uptake, biotransformation and elimination (toxicokinetics) of pharmaceuticals in aquatic invertebrates. We aim to identify and model biotransformation pathways in four different species. Studying the comparative toxicokinetics of ...
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The role of nuclear gene flow in the evolutionary history of Pleistocene mammals (GeneFlow)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

How important are environmental barriers between species and populations now and in the future? Currently, environmental barriers to movement across habitats that have persisted since the last ice age are breaking down, resulting in gene flow among previously isolated populations and even hybridization between species. What are the consequences of this gene flow? Local genetic adaptations to the s ...
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Cutting-Edge Approaches for Pollution Assessment in Cities (CAPACITIE)

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

"Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and nearly two billion extra urban residents are expected in the next 20 years. Many of the fastest growing cities in the world are highly polluted, resulting in adverse effects on the health of humans and ecosystems. With increasing urbanisation across the world, there is an urgent need to better understand the factors and processes affecting p ...
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"Resilience in East African Landscapes: Identifying critical thresholds and sustainable trajectories – past, present and future" (REAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, and global climate change have exacerbated previously localized environmental problems such as soil erosion ...
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Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts (CodeX)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 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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As simple as possible: a modelling approach to upscale the relevance of ecotoxicological studies (ASAP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"As simple as possible: a modelling approach to upscale the relevance of ecotoxicological studies.A big discrepancy exists between the increasing demand for ecological realism in regulatory risk assessment and the effective implementation of ecotoxicological studies aimed at assessing the adverse effect of stressors at the population or higher level. The effect of toxicants is commonly measured on ...
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SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN: Sustain and enhance cooperation on sustainable development between Europe and Southeast Asia (SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

This coordinating action will focus on climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials issues and will aim to enhance collaboration between researchers in the EU and the ASEAN region . Addressing these issues in a coherent way is vital for sustainable development that leads to economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental integrity. Both regions have developed innovative ideas to re ...
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GREENECONET: A best practice platform to support the transition towards a green economy (GREENECONET)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The unsustainable path of our current economic system in managing both natural and man-made resources demands a paradigm shift in our idea of economic development. We need to define an innovative, multidisciplinary and integrate approach to identify, develop and deploy technologies, tools and services promoting a transition to a low-carbon, sustainable, resilient and socially comprehensive econom ...
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Distributed MILS for Dependable Information and Communication Infrastructures (D-MILS)

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

Modern critical systems bear great responsibilities and face escalating challenges. Distributed systems for critical applications are costly and time-consuming to develop and to certify. Since there is little automated support for early assurance that a system faithfully implements its architectural design and satisfies its requirements, qualification testing and certification processes often reve ...
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Open Platform for EvolutioNary Certification Of Safety-critical Systems (OPENCOSS)

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

Safety assurance and certification are amongst the most expensive and time-consuming tasks in the development of safety-critical embedded systems. European innovation and productivity in this market is curtailed by the lack of affordable (re)certification approaches. Major problems arise when evolutions to a system entail reconstruction of the entire body of certification arguments and evidence. F ...
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Time-predictable Multi-Core Architecture for Embedded Systems (T-CREST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Safety-critical systems are important parts of our daily life. Those systems are also called dependable systems, as our lives can depend on them. Examples are controllers in an airplane, breaking controller in a car, or a train control system. Those safety-critical systems need to be certified and the maximum execution time needs to be bounded and known so that response times can be assured when c ...
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Automatic Customizable Tool-chain for Heterogeneous Multicore Platform Software Development (TOUCHMORE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

Recent trends in embedded system architectures brought a rapid shift towards multicore, heterogeneous and reconfigurable platforms. This makes chip design enormously complex and imposes a large effort for the programmers to develop their applications. For this reason, new and more efficient tools for software development are needed to ensure software productivity and time to market of new applica ...
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Java platform for high-performance and real-time large scale data management (JUNIPER)

End date: Dec 1, 2012,

The efficient and real-time exploitation of large streaming data sources and stored data poses many questions regarding the underlying platform, including:1) Performance - how can the potential performance of the platform be exploited effectively by arbitrary applications;2) Guarantees - how can the platform support guarantees regarding processing streaming data sources and accessing stored data; ...
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