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Microstructural Design of Bulk Ultra-fine Grained and Nanostructured Materials for High Performance Applications (BUNSMAT)

Start date: May 6, 2013, End date: May 5, 2017,

"Bulk ultra-fine grained (UFG) and nanostructured (NS) materials have attracted immense interest in recent years due to the paramount goal of achieving simultaneous increase in strength and ductility. A unique method for obtaining these materials is the utilization of severe plastic deformation for structural refinement. Despite their technological importance in industries ranging from automotive ...
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Algorithms, Design Methods, and Many-Core Execution Platform for Low-Power Massive Data-Rate Video and Image Processing (Almarvi)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

ALMARVI aims at providing cross-domain many-core platform solution, system software stack, tool chain, and adaptive algorithms that will enable massive data-rate image/video processing with high energy efficiency. ALMARVI will provide mechanisms and support for high degree of adaptivity at various system layers that will abstract the variations in the underlying platforms (e.g., due to imperfectio ...
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"Protein-integrated white light-emitting diodes for efficient, high-quality and biocompatible solid-state lighting" (PROTEINLED)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Green photonics aims to provide solutions that generate or save energy, reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, produce environmentally sustainable outputs or enhance public health. Solid-state lighting (SSL), one of the most important green photonics technologies, offers 50% reduction in global electricity consumption for lighting that corresponds to the production by hundreds of coal pla ...
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Seismic Analysis of Liquid-Storage Tanks with a Focus on Tank-Base Uplift (LIFTING TANKS)

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

"Liquid-storage tanks are crucial parts of industrial facilities and public water supply systems. Earthquake damage to tanks in earthquake prone regions can result in severe social, economic, and environmental problems since they are used to store crucial liquids such as water for drinking and fire fighting, petroleum products, and fertilizers. In addition, failure of such tanks leads to devastati ...
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Convergent Human Learning for Robot Skill Generation (CONVERGE)

Start date: Sep 3, 2012, End date: Sep 2, 2016,

"The human sensorimotor system enables the learning and control of an ever-growing number of artifacts ranging from simple tools such as chopsticks to advanced computer interfaces. The Researcher’s recent work in Japan exploited this human capacity to obtain dexterous skills on robots, which otherwise would require expert programming. In this framework, a human operator is put in the control loop ...
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Integrated analysis and visualization for advanced construction planning and controls (BUILD-CYCLE)

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

"This project offers a novel integrated 3D planning and control environment for construction projects. While recent Building Information Modeling (BIM) and construction automation techniques have potential to significantly improve construction management, the benefits are yet to be realized for construction planning and controls. This proposed project will describe an integrated 3D platform for an ...
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Cooperation in Service Systems and Service Supply Chains (COOPSS)

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

"The recent European economic crisis showed that effective use of resources is more important than ever for sustainability of companies. Inter-organizational cooperation is foreseen as a good opportunity to achieve further efficiency in operations that companies require to stay competitive in a global economy. However, up to now, very little quantitative insights and tools have been developed for ...
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IMMERSION COOLING OF SUSPENDED AND COATED NANO-PHOSPHOR PARTICLES FOR ENHANCED THERMAL AND OPTICAL EXTRACTION OF LIGHT EMITTING DIODES FOR GENERAL ILLUMINATION (NPLC-LED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The introduction of high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs) with white light and monochromatic colors has allowed LED penetration into general illumination applications. The increased electrical currents used to drive these LEDs have resulted in high heat fluxes, often exceeding those for average silicon computer chips. The output of a typical HB LED is today over 100 lumens, achieved with h ...
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Drought-tolerant yielding plants (DROPS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

DROPS will develop novel methods and strategies aimed at yield maintenance under fluctuating water deficit and at enhanced plant water-use efficiency. We deal with high genotype x environment interaction in the field (any trait can have positive, negative or no effect depending on drought scenarios) with an approach combining Physiology, Genetics, field testing and Ecophysiological modelling. The ...
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Rapid Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation for Statistical Text-to-Speech Systems (CLSASTS)

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

"Unit selection has been the dominant approach to text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) in the last decade. Recently, statistical TTS (STS) is proposed where statistical models are used for speech synthesis. The high quality and intelligibility speech it generates, the flexibility it offers in voice/speaker/emotion conversion, and its small memory requirements make STS systems a strong candidate to be th ...
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Connectivity Brokerage for Collaborative Optimization of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (CONN-BRO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Traditional approach to resource allocation is inefficient, and optimal mapping of them to different applications is a promising alternative in order to meet the stringent requirements of some future wireless network applications. Recent developments such as opportunistic spectrum access have brought new resources on the table. Collaborative optimization of heterogeneous technologies is an import ...
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Free-Space Optical Systems for Next Generation Communication Networks (FOCUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Free-space optical (FSO) communication is a license-free access technology with high-bandwidth capacity. It is a powerful alternative and/or complementary solution to commonly deployed fiber optic and wireless radio-frequency links. FSO is appealing for a number of applications including metropolitan area network extensions, enterprise/campus network connectivity, fiber back-up, back-haul for wir ...
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Business Intelligence for the Masses (BI4MASSES)

Start date: Jul 2, 2010, End date: Jul 1, 2014,

"Whoever can process more data faster and turn it into useful information quickly becomes a global leader in today’s digital world. There may be millions of personal computers and thousands of supercomputers in the world, but the analysis of both stored and streaming data keeps lagging due to the lack of online, easy-to-use, and semi-automated data processing and analytics software. USA has made b ...
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Nano-Scale Protective Oxide Films for Semiconductor Applications & Beyond (NANO-PROX)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Conventional demands for development in semiconductor industry are changing as the Moore’s Law approaching to its limits. Continuous decrease in the size of the transistors is coming close to atomic levels creating a fundamental barrier for further process developments as the semiconductor manufacturing is established today . Growth of thin films and inherent stress development within the film an ...
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Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of transnational knowledge of clusters policies related to independent of Elderly (JADE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"Citizens are getting older and are increasingly living with chronic diseases, because although their health condition is better than that of earlier generations, they live longer helped by advanced medical care ending up to chronic conditions and minor disabilities well manageable by home care. This has highlighted shared concerns by regional Governments about implications for future provision of ...
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Sustainable Peace Building (SPBuild)

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

SPBuild is created and developed by a solid and dynamic network of 11 institutions (EDEN Network for Peace and Conflict) with a proven commitment and capacity to deliver high-quality training in the rapidly developing field of Peace and Conflict research. These universities have undertaken joint research, published, and jointly created a European Doctoral Enhancement Programme on Peace and Conflic ...
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Mathematical Methods for Financial Risk Management (FiRM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Since the pioneering works of Black & Scholes, Merton and Markowitch, sophisticated quantitative methods are being used to introduce more complex financial products each year. However, this exciting increase in the complexity forces the industry to engage in proper risk management practices. The recent financial crisis emanating from risky loan practices is a prime example of this acute need. This ...
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Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"This Initial Training Network in electoral democracy will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries, including 1 from an associated country and 2 new Member States and 2 full industry partners. The goals of the ELECDEM network are encapsulated in three linked, inter-dependent themes which evaluate the effects of globalisation, communication and institutions on the quality of electo ...
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MERGING ATOMISTIC AND CONTINUUM ANALYSIS OF NANOMETER LENGTH-SCALE METAL-OXIDE SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY AND CATALYSIS APPLICATIONS (MACAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

The stability of thin films in contact with different materials is a critical issue for a wide range of modern devices, including high-k films in the microelectronics industry, metal electrodes for fuel cells, and nanometer sized particles on oxides for catalysis. Some groups are working on thermodynamic analysis of thin film stability, who correlate relative interface energies with dopant adsorpt ...
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Ubiquitous Participation Platform for Policy Making (UbiPOL)

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

UbiPOL aims to develop a ubiquitous platform that allows citizens be involved in policy making processes (PMPs) regardless their current locations and time. It is suggested that the more citizens find connections between their as-usual life activities and relevant policies, the more they become pro-active or motivated to be involved in the PMPs. For this reason, UbiPOL aims to provide context awar ...
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Multiwavelength Studies of Galactic Black Holes (Black Hole Universe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Black holes are some of the most exotic astronomical objects in the universe, and are accordingly the focus of much speculation and study. By definition invisible, they are only detectable when interacting with their environment, either by bending surrounding light or gravitationally capturing enough matter to power other processes whose radiation we can detect. Depending on the spin of the black ...
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Relating Company Efforts to Consumer Perceptions: A Contingency Framework (GLOBRAND)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"Global brands are among the most important intangible assets a company can have. According to the Interbrand/BusinessWeek Study (2004), the financial value of the top 100 global brands exceeds 1 trillion USD. Accordingly, many researchers have investigated different aspects of branding and global branding. Dr. Tasoluk would like to investigate how a “systems model of brand antecedents and conseq ...
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Life Watch (LIFEWATCH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"The Life Watch e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories will be a large-scale European research infrastructure bringing together: -a system of marine, terrestrial and freshwater observatories; -common access to a huge amount of interlinked, distributed data from databases and monitoring sites; -computational facilities in virtual laboratories with analytic ...
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