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Do oral contraceptives alter women’s mate preferences? (OCMATE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"Worldwide, ~100 million women use oral contraceptives (OCs). Discontinuation of OC use due to concerns about possible side effects is common among women who do not intend to become pregnant. Many recent studies have reported that women using OCs and women not using OCs have different mate preferences, raising the possibility that OCs alter mate preferences. Although these findings have been widel ...
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GENOMIC TOOLS FOR BREEDING AGAINST HERITABLE DISEASES IN HORSES (HORSEGENE)

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

The project will use reliable state-of-the-art genomic technologies for the rapid identification of genetic markers for heritable diseases in horses, which will facilitate effective genomics based selection against disease susceptibility. The diseases of particular focus for this project are osteochondrosis (OC), insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) and chronic progressive lymphedema (CPL). The occ ...
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Visible LIGHT Active PhotoCATalytic Concretes for Air pollution Treatment (LIGHT2CAT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The goal of Light2CAT is to develop new, highly efficient visible-light-activated titanium dioxide for inclusion in concretes to be used in structures across the whole of Europe to improve ambient air quality independent, for the first time, of local climate conditions. The need to improve air quality in European Countries has been identified as a major requirement to be achieved within the next d ...
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The Genetic Basis and Adaptive Significance of Natural Ionomic Variation (Ionomic Variation)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Evolutionary forces are known to drive the fixation of locally adaptive genetic variation within populations, and plants provide an excellent model for investigations into its genetic origins, maintenance and adaptive significance. We aim to take advantage of the natural genetic variation that occurs between populations of the genetic model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to identify gene functions tha ...
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European Training Network on Cancer-Induced Bone Diseases (BONE-NET)

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

Several cancers are prone to metastasize to bone. Combating bone metastasis, especially the early dissemination of cancer cells in bone, requires basic research knowledge, skills in different technologies and longstanding clinical experience in order to make clinically significant progress. BONE-NET is a european consortium with complementary expertises in the fields of cancer and bone. It brings ...
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Sustainable Approaches to Reduce Oomycete (Saprolegnia) Infections in Aquaculture (SAPRO)

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

The oomycete family contains some of the world’s most destructive fish pathogens. In Europe alone, these microorganisms collectively account for multimillion-Euro losses annually in the fish farming industry. Saprolegnia parasitica in particular is a major problem in the aquaculture industry where it has been estimated that 10% of all hatched salmon and eggs succumb to Saprolegniosis. Until 2002, ...
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Signaling circuitry controlling fungal virulence: identification and characterization of conserved and specific fungal virulence genes as common antifungal targets (ARIADNE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

"Fungi are heterotrophic microorganisms with devastating impact on agriculture and human health. Agricultural production worth billions of € is destroyed annually by fungal diseases. Human fungal infections have severe consequences on the growing number of immuno-compromised patients, with high mortality rates associated with Aspergillus and Candida infections. There is a critical need to further ...
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"Fungi in the setting of inflammation, allergy and autoimmune diseases:Translating basic science into clinical practices" (ALLFUN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The ALLFUN proposal aims at defining the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which ubiquitous airborne or commensal fungi contribute to immune homeostasis and its dysregulation leading to allergy and inflammatory diseases. Breakthroughs in understanding how mucosal homeostasis is established, maintained or disrupted in the presence of fungi should be sources of new therapeutic targets and drugs ...
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Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems (GHG Europe)

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

The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-m ...
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Genetic Mechanisms of Muscle Fibre Variation (GenetMuscleFibreVar)

Start date: Nov 2, 2009, End date: May 1, 2013,

A loss of muscle mass and strength with aging or disease leads to a compromised quality of life. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms underlying muscle function. The present proposal will shed light on largely unknown mechanisms underlying the effects of genetic variation on important properties of muscle fibres (i.e., their number, size, type) which in turn contribute to muscle ...
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30-year re-analysis of CARBON fluxES and pools over Europe and the Globe (CARBONES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The carbon Environmental Service (CARBONES) will provide the first multi-decadal reanalysis of the global carbon cycle and a service to provide a rolling update of this analysis. This will include the "essential climate variables" (defined by the Global Climate Observing System) of atmospheric carbon dioxide, leaf area and biomass in various categories. No integrated reanalysis includes these cli ...
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Climate Change and BIRDs in the African SAVannah (SAVBIRD)

Start date: Sep 15, 2009, End date: Sep 14, 2012,

"Climate change is arguably the greatest threat to biodiversity today. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie climate impacts is crucial if biodiversity goals are toe be met as the global climate changes. To date, climate impact research has focussed on northern areas, yet tropical ecosystems hold most biodiversity. For the first time, this project will have the overriding objective of identif ...
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Breeding for low grain arsenic rice (LowAsRice)

Start date: Oct 29, 2009, End date: Jun 28, 2011,

High levels of arsenic in rice grains threaten the health of millions of people particularly in the Ganges delta of India and Bangladesh where arsenic-contaminated irrigation water is used for rice cultivation. It is of global importance that this problem is tackled and that Indian scientists are able to contribute to the solution. In this application it is proposed that an advanced backcross bree ...
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Wide Scale network of E-systems for Multimodal Journey Planning and Delivery of Trip Intelligent Personalised data (WISETRIP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

"Mobility and demand trends of tourism, travel and citizen transport need data from various transportation actors for information and route guidance. Getting the right information is complex and must consider all alternatives and special factors like time and cost related user preferences, number of hops, and other. Moreover, information about dynamic conditions (delays, traffic, weather) that aff ...
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Coordination, Organisation and Model Driven Approaches for Dynamic,Flexible, Robust Software and Services Engineering (ALIVE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

Description Combining software services is difficult. ALIVE applies techniques from organization theory to software-based services, to make those services easy to assemble and use in complex scenarios. Software-based services can help solving a large variety of problems, but combining them in non- ...
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Handover practices assuring patient safety at care transitions from anaesthesia (SAFE-HANDOVER)

Start date: Oct 5, 2009, End date: Oct 4, 2010,

"Transfer of responsibility and information about patient care between clinicians (i.e. handover) is a safety-critical phase of a patient’s journey. Research on adverse events in healthcare shows that problems in coordination and communication during patient handover represent a major threat to patient safety in a multitude of healthcare settings. Thus, patient handover has recently become a key p ...
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