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Temptations to Eat Moderated by Personal and Environmental Self-regulation Tools (TEMPEST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

"The prevalence of overweight amongst European children and adolescents has risen at an alarming rate in the past decades, with major repercussions for their health in the short and long term. Existing prevention programmes to combat the epidemic either highlight a public health approach (employing incentive schemes such as taxing of foods) or an individual-educational approach to encourage young ...
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Vehicle Concept Modelling (VECOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The aim of the proposed training network is to provide dedicated research training in the emerging field of vehicle concept modelling for up-front pre-CAD functional performance engineering, bridging between industry and academia across Europe. The research area is of highly strategic importance to European automotive OEMs, who must launch products on an ever shorter time frame, at increased quali ...
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Heterogeneous quantum rod and quantum dot nanomaterials, towards a novel generation of photonic devices (Herodot)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Recent progress in the fabrication of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals has led to a wide range of quantum dots with a high oscillator strength, photoluminescence efficiency and size-tunable emission spectrum. The present proposal ‘Heterogeneous quantum rod and quantum dot nanomaterials’ aims at a comprehensive research and training program on the opto-electronic properties of heterostructured ...
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Neurotransmitter Cys-loop receptors: structure, function and disease (NeuroCypres)

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

Cys-loop receptors (CLRs) form a superfamily of structurally related neurotransmitter-gated ion channels, comprising nicotinic acetylcholine, glycine, GABA-A/C and serotonin (5HT3) receptors, crucial to function of the peripheral and central nervous system. CLRs cover a wide spectrum of functions, ranging from muscle contraction to cognitive functions. CLR (mal)function is linked to various disord ...
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"Ascertaining Barriers for Compliance: policies for safe, effective and cost-effective use of medicines in Europe" (ABC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"Medication non-compliance is highly prevalent across all medical conditions, and represents a major barrier for realising the benefits of evidence-based therapies. The aim of the project is to produce evidence-based policy recommendations for improving patient compliance and subsequent better use of medicines by Europeans. Lack of consensus in the terminology used in this field impedes benchmarki ...
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SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World (SCIFI-GLOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

In 2000, EU leaders committed to the objective of making Europe ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs, greater social cohesion and respect for the environment.’ They drew up the ‘Lisbon agenda’ to achieve this goal by 2010. The central strategy was based on policies to encourage investment in knowle ...
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Hierarchical and Distributed Model Predictive Control of Large-Scale Systems (HD-MPC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

Manufacturing systems, power networks, transportation systems, road traffic networks, process plants, and other large-scale networked systems are often composed of multiple subsystems, with many embedded sensors and actuators, and characterised by complex dynamics and mutual influences such that local control decisions have long-range effects throughout the system. This results in a huge number o ...
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Plug-in ADAptronic MODules for real-time errors (Thermal & Vibration) compensation and superfine positioning in reconfigurable high precision machine tools (ADAMOD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Ever increasing competition in international markets drives manufacturers to shorten design cycles and reduce manufacturing times and costs for their products. This trend generates a demand for smart, flexible and faster machining systems, which are easy to set up and configure and able to drastically increase productivity, while improving final accuracy. Therefore the primary goal is to achieve c ...
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Memory loss in Alzheimer disease: underlying mechanisms and therapeutic targets (MEMOSAD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"MEMOSAD aims at defining the molecular mechanisms of Abeta- and Tau-induced synaptotoxicity and at developing disease-modifying therapeutics for the prevention of memory loss in Alzheimer disease (AD). Insoluble aggregates of the two proteins provide the pathological hallmarks of this incurable brain disorder. Early stage AD is characterized by a remarkably pure impairment of declarative memory a ...
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Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

The ultimate goal of CLARIN is the construction and operation of a shared distributed infrastructure that aims at making language resources and technology available to the humanities and social sciences research communities at large. The preparatory phase will pave the way for implementation along 4 dimensions: Funding and governance: The aim is to bring together the funding agencies and to work o ...
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Mucosal protease and their inhibitors in inflammatory bowel disease: From etiopathogenetic insight to innovative therapy (IBDase)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

IBDase addresses the etiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with a multidisciplinary plan for innovative diagnosis and therapy focused on mucosal proteases and their inhibitors (P/PIs). The incidence of IBD, a multifactorial disease influenced by environmental factors in a background of complex genetic susceptibility, is rising, particularly among European children. Current ...
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Bisociation Networks for Creative Information Discovery (BISON)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

Description Humans are gifted at uncovering hidden similarities between concepts, even illogical ones. Computers aren't... yet. Thus uniquely human gift is the basis of our creativity and humour. The concept of association is at the heart of many of today’s powerful ICT technologies such as inform ...
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Copper Interconnects for Advanced Performance and Reliability (CopPeR)

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

The CopPeR project will provide a novel copper deposition process based on the useof non-aqueous solvents to overcome the limitations of currently employedinterconnect formation processes enabling device scaling beyond the 32 nmtechnology node. This non-aqueous process will open novel routes to implementdirect on barrier plating, focussing on tantalum and ruthenium as diffusion barriers.As another ...
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Antenna Research and Technology for the Intelligent Car (ARTIC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Antenna Research is a strategic enabling technology for intelligent vehicles and road safety services. Car-to-car communications, real time congestions localisation, obstacle and collision radars, on board sensor networks, etc. are based on novel antennas solutions and subsystems integration.Antenna Research in Europe received great benefits from the structuring efforts provided by the Network of ...
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