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Fragility and sustainability in restricted island environments: adaptation, cultural change and collapse in prehistory (Fragsus)

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

Sustainability of societies in a restricted or fragile environment forms a perpetual question, past and present underpinning questions of the rise and fall of civilisation. Today, the eroded Maltese islands support one of the densest human populations in the world. When first colonised in the 6th millennium BC, pristine soil and forest covered the landscape, but within centuries the landscape was ...
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Glycerol Biorefinery Approach for the Production of High Quality Products of Industrial Value (GRAIL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The project GRAIL has been build with 15 partners from 9 different countries with the aim of finalising the solutions given previously to the valorization of glycerol and transform then in valuable products in a biorefinery approachThe overall concept of GRAIL project is the use, exploitation and further development of the state of the art in the field of bio-based products from glycerol and the d ...
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An Adaptive, highly Scalable Analytics Platform (ASAP)

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

This project proposes a unified, open-source execution framework for scalable data analytics. Data analytics tools have become essential for harnessing the power of our era's data deluge. Current technologies are restrictive, as their efficacy is usually bound to a single data and compute model, often depending on proprietary systems. The main idea behind ASAP is that no single execution model ...
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NanoStreams: A Hardware and Software Stack for Real-Time Analytics on Fast Data Streams (NanoStreams)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

NanoStreams co-designs a micro-server architecture and software stack that address the unique challenges of hybrid transactional-analytical workloads, which are encountered by emerging applications of real-time big-data analytics. To this end, NanoStreams brings together embedded system design principles, application-specific compilers, and HPC software practices.The processor technology that unde ...
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Evaluation and Development of Wind Turbine Generator Technologies (EDWTGT)

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

"Renewable energy has been widely recognised as a growth area, and thus included in the ten themes of the FP7 for research and technological development. At this moment it is wind energy that is firmly in the spotlight because this is the only feasible source of renewables to be utilised economically in quantities. Traditionally, medium and large wind turbines use doubly-fed induction generators ( ...
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Significance-Based Computing for Reliability and Power Optimization (SCoRPiO)

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

Manufacturing process variability at low geometries and power dissipation are the most challenging problems in the design of future computing systems. Currently manufacturers go to great lengths to guarantee fault-free operation of their products by introducing redundancy in voltage margins, conservative layout rules, and extra protection circuitry. However, such design redundancy may result into ...
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Eye-hand coordination in space and time (EYEHAND)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

"Loss of arm function can have a severe impact on a patient’s life and results in a loss of productivity. As a remedy, scientists are currently developing brain-machine interfaces, which ultimately would allow patients to control a cybernetic arm by thought, through signals recorded from the brain. Even though many basic real-life situations, such as interacting with other people and navigating tr ...
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Parallel Patterns for Adaptive Heterogeneous Multicore Systems (ParaPhrase)

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

A revolution is happening in computer hardware. After three decades during which microprocessor speeds increased almost 4000 times, we are starting to hit long-predicted physical limits on the speed of a single processor. Recent computers instead use two, four or even twelve processor cores working together ``in parallel'', giving peak performance that is equivalent to a 5GHz, 10GHz or even 30GHz ...
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Software management of non-volatile memory hierarchies (NoVoSoft)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

This project will investigate techniques for software management of hybrid memory hierarchies composed of conventional DRAM memory technology and upcoming non-volatile memory (NVRAM) technology. The scientific objective is to gain understanding of the memory behavior of programs and to construct co-designed hardware/software policies for NVRAM management based on this understanding. The technologi ...
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Marine inspired biosilica-filled hydrogels (DiaDOM)

Start date: Jul 11, 2012, End date: Mar 13, 2015,

This IOF fellowship merges together two unique concepts toward a common goal, which can have significant benefit to the end users – the patients. It investigates the potential of a less invasive approach to surgeries through the use of injectable biosilica-filled adhesive hydrogels comprised of a sustainable biosilica phase and a marine inspired adhesive hydrogel. The IOF fellowship is with Nort ...
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"Prevention, protection and REaction to CYber attackS to critical infrastructures" (PRECYSE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Today, attackers are using more sophisticated technologies, making existing “add-on” security solutions obsolete or insufficient, and the number of stakeholders involved –both human and machines– is always increasing. Thus, design and embedding of new security mechanisms directly into the systems is needed to drastically increase reliability and security levels, and provide higher levels of resil ...
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Incorporating Laughter into Human-Avatar Interactions: Research and Evaluation (ILHAIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Laughter is a significant feature of human communication, and machines acting in roles like companions or tutors should not be blind to it. So far very limited progress has been made towards allowing computer-based applications to deal with laughter.ILHAIRE will lay the foundations of truly multimodal, multicultural laughter-enabled man-machine interaction, by associating experts of the different ...
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Social Signal Processing Network (SSPNet)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success in life.Although each one of us understands the importance of social signals in everyday life situations, and in spite of recent advances ...
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Temporal Enhancement of Motor Performance Using Sensory Guides (TEMPUS_G)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Temporally controlling our movements to successfully perform an action (e.g. directing our eyes to read this text, picking up a pen, drinking from a cup) is something we do thousands of times a day, without thinking twice. Given that many of these actions are self-paced, (i.e. no perceptual timing cues are provided by the environment) prospective control has to be determined by intrinsic neural me ...
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Radio technologies for short range gigabit wireless (GigaRadio)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The GigaRadio IAPP will establish a partnership between Infineon Technologies Austria AG (IFAT), the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and DecaWave. ECIT is a cross-disciplinary research institute and incorporates a globally recognised research group in microwave and millimetre wave technology. Infineon is a top 10 vertic ...
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Pulses in active and nonlinear metamaterials (PEARL)

Start date: Dec 20, 2010, End date: Dec 19, 2012,

"Electromagnetic pulses have ubiquitous applications as information carriers, and the continuously increasing demand for larger capacity of information channels, faster data transmission and high resolution real time imaging necessitate novel approaches to pulse generation, transmission and exploitation in functional devices. Artificial electromagnetic materials (metamaterials) have opened new ave ...
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Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

This project will examine the processes which influence democratic ownership and participation in eight European states. It will draw on the disciplines of Politics, Sociology, Social Policy, Psychology and Education to examine macro-level contextual factors (including historical, political, electoral, economic and policy factors), proximal social factors (including familial, educational and media ...
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The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity (EUROIDENTITIES)

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

The development of a sense of positive identification with the 'European project' by ordinary citizens is crucial for the long-term success of the European Union. The current state-of-the-art in research into European identity has been driven almost exclusively by a 'top down' elitist perspective that focuses upon the development of an identification with 'Europe' through centrally-driven policies ...
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