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Bio-inspired optical corrections of presbyopia (PRESBYOPIA)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The human crystalline lens has the capability to dynamically change its shape to focus near and far objects. By age 55, the accommodation capability is lost and optical aids are needed for near vision. Many questions remain open that are critical to understand accommodation, the failure in presbyopia, and the prospects for its correction. Multifocal presbyopic corrections are increasingly used. Ho ...
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Early Prevention of Diabetes Complications in people with Hyperglycaemia in Europe (E-PREDICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Background: A significant proportion of pre-diabetics, show macro and micro vascular complications associated with hyperglycaemia. Although many trials have demonstrated the efficacy of lifestyle and pharmaceutical interventions in diabetes prevention, no trial has evaluated the extent to which mid- and long-term complications can be prevented by early interventions on hyperglycaemia.Aims: To ass ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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Product-Service System across Life Cycle (ProSSaLiC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Nowadays, customers’ purchase habits have changed: they do not buy more goods or services in the traditional sense, perceiving them as two separated entities. They rather look for a solution, whose value encompasses many intertwined components, some of them being services and some being goods. In this context, the Product-Service System (PSS) concept finds its root. The servitization process of a ...
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Genetic testing in Europe - Network for the further development, harmonization, validation and standardization of services (EUROGENTEST2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

EuroGentest is an FP6 European network for the harmonization of genetic testing and for the further improvement of quality in genetic services across Europe.This proposal is to support EuroGentest2, a Coordination Action that will cover the different aspects of quality assurance of genetic practice and has all the ingredients to fulfil the needs. EuroGentest2 will be concerned with setting the tar ...
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novel DIagnostic Techniques for future particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork (DITANET)

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

"The Council of the European Union expressively welcomed the development of a first European roadmap for research infrastructures. The aim of this recently published roadmap was to identify vital new infrastructures that are crucial for the future European research area, in particular for capacity building. These multi-disciplinary projects require substantial investments, forty percent of which ...
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iNTER Support Action (International Network of Teleconsultation Excellence & Referral) (iSA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The iNTER Support Action (iSA) Project aims to create a pilot cooperative medical support network constituted by the Hospital Son Espases (former Son Dureta) (Spain), the Instituto Valenciano de Oncología (Spain), the Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Spain), the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Spain), the Hospital Regional de Bata (Equatorial Guinea), the Desarrollo 2000 en África NGO (Equatorial Guinea), the H ...
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Treble-CLEF: Evaluation, Best Practices and Collaboration for Multilingual Information Access (Treble-CLEF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

Description This Coordination Action supported the development and consolidation of expertise in the research area of multilingual information access and has disseminated this knowhow to application communitiesThe popularity of Internet and the consequent global availability of networked information sources and digital libraries have led ...
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