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Information and Randomness in Quantum Theory (IRQUAT)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Quantum information science is one of the most dynamic and exciting areas of science today, its significance ranging from the ultimate physical limits of information processing, to fundamental issues of quantum mechanics, to new mathematics and prospects of realising novel, enhanced computation and communicationtechnologies.Drawing on ideas from physics, mathematics and computer science, one of th ...
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Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.Family)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Nutrition-related diseases caused a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens in 2000. I.Family will make a significant contribution to reduce this burden by studying the interplay and impact of the main drivers of dietary behaviour and food choice. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity to follow-up the large IDEFICS children’s cohort to not only provide added v ...
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Functional Nanomaterials via Controlled Block Copolymer Assembly (FUNCA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

We outline an ambitious 5 year interdisplinary research programme that introduces a fundamentally new platform to the fabrication of nanoelectronic and liquid crystal devices, current areas of intense scientific and technological interest. The new approach involves the use of block copolymer micelles and block comicelles prepared by Crystallization-Driven Living Polymerization (CDLP) processes. Th ...
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Joint European and South African Research Network in Anxiety Disorders (EUSARNAD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The overall aim of our proposal is to build on the strengths of an existing European network for research into causes and maintaining factors in anxiety disorders and to extend these by establishing firmer research collaboration with the University of Cape Town in South Africa.Through establishing this research exchange, we aim to share knowledge and expertise among participating centres, and ensu ...
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Hydration lubrication: exploring a new paradigm (HydrationLube)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

In recent years, as first established in some 6 papers in Science and Nature from the PI s group, a new paradigm has emerged. This reveals the remarkable and unsuspected - role of hydration layers in modulating frictional forces between sliding surfaces or molecular layers in aqueous media, termed hydration lubrication, in which the lubricating mode is completely different from the classic one of ...
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Novel immunotherapies for type 1 diabetes (NAIMIT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This proposal will pioneer the concept of tailored interventions with minimal immune system interference in new onset T1DM, leading to beta-cell protection and restoration, based on a solid understanding of the disease pathogenesis. This will enable experimental findings to be adopted for future clinical application. Four work packages are grouped around ‘Reversal of autoimmunity’, in which two ke ...
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Urban Reduction of GHG Emissions in China and Europe (URGENCHE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

In URGENCHE, a team of internationally recognised scientists in the areas of health risk assessment, urban energy demand and supply scenarios, urban planning, environmental science and epidemiology - in close collaboration with city partners in both Europe and China - develops and applies a methodological framework for the assessment of the overall risks and benefits of alternative greenhouse gas ...
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2D glacial drainage system model (GlaDS): application and coupling to ice sheet model (GlaDS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The prediction of future sea level rise due to dynamic changes of the ice flow in Greenland and Antarctica is one of the great outstanding problems of climate science. One reason why ice sheet models fail to provide this information is their lack of a realistic glacial drainage system model, providing basal boundary conditions. The applicant is currently developing such a glacier drainage system m ...
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Dynamics of volcanoes and their impact on the environment and society (VOLDIES)

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

Active volcanoes threaten 500 million people and vulnerability is increasing due to population growth, globalisation and increasing environmental stresses. The project will investigate key topics that will provide the understanding to increase societal risk and reduce vulnerability of communities. The project will: investigate how volcanoes work focussing on the nature and dynamics of magma chambe ...
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Determining factors and critical periods in food habit formation and breaking in early childhood: a multidisciplinary approach (HabEat)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

HabEat will bring together 11 European partners from 6 European countries with a multidisciplinary approach (psychology, epidemiology, behavioural science, nutrition, sensory science) to enable a key breakthrough in the understanding of how food habits are formed (and can also be changed) in infants and young children. This will be done by combining epidemiologic studies based on existing human co ...
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Efficiency and regulation of teaching under environmental constaints (Teaching in ants)

Start date: Jan 23, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

In many animal species, individuals acquire information from others. Until recently, however, there was no evidence for teaching in non-human animals. Now teaching has been shown in a small but diverse group of animals, all of them social. Teaching, according to the definition that is well established in evolutionary biology, must incur a cost or provide no immediate benefit to the experienced ind ...
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"University Reform, Globalization and Europeanization" (URGE)

Start date: Jan 4, 2010, End date: Jan 3, 2014,

"This multidisciplinary exchange programme examines how processes of regionalization and globalization are redefining the nature and scope of universities. A comparison between the regions of Europe and Australasia, especially New Zealand, will ask what is actually going on in apparently similar processes of university reform? Are process of creating a European Higher Education Area not only prepa ...
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“Effect of diet on the mental performance of children” (NUTRIMENTHE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Current evidence on the effect of diet on mental performance (MP) is largely based on animal, retrospective studies, and short-term nutritional intervention studies in humans. NUTRIMENTHE will significantly improve this knowledge through studying the role, mechanisms, risks & benefits of specific nutrients & food components to respond to specific needs and improve the MP of children. The research ...
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Resolve Chronic Inflammation and Achieve Healthy Aging by Understanding Non-regenerative Repair (RESOLVE)

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

"RESOLVE has been outlined to better understand the regulatory networks that control the devel-opmental processes in organ repair and to identify mechanisms which cause the termination of regu-lar organ development leading to fibroproliferative wound healing. Fibroproliferative wound healing represents a major pathology in elderly people shifting regular organ development into progressive organ fi ...
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Quantum Theory and Statistics (QUANTSTAT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"The proposed project addresses fundamental problems at the mathematical/statistical foundations of quantum information theory, with a special focus on the problem of discriminating quantum states. The main goals are to study asymptotic state discrimination under locality constrained measurements, to explore how criticality of the systems influences the validity of asymptotic state discrimination ...
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The significance of stable isotopes as dietary indicators in ancient terrestrial ecosystems (SSIDIATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"Paleodietary reconstruction is an important component of palaeoecology, but evidence for diet of ancient organisms is very rare and mostly limited to indirect inference. Besides, our knowledge related to the trophic organization of extinct communities mostly relies on assumptions from morphofunctional studies. Contrary to living communities, quantitative assessment of the trophic relationships wi ...
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"Chiral Metallopolymers: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Applications" (CMSSA)

Start date: Aug 8, 2011, End date: Aug 7, 2013,

"The creation of chiral molecules and materials is of major current interest and of key importance to pharmacy, biochemistry, and materials science. Recently, metal-containing polymers (metallopolymers) have emerged as highly promising advanced materials due to their potential uses in various fields. However, the chiral characteristics of metallopolymers are virtually unexplored. We propose to cre ...
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Application of a Novel Magnesium-Lithium Dual Isotopic Tracer to Biogeochemical Cycles in the Soil Critical Zone (ISOCRIT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"Chemical weathering exerts a key control on global CO2 cycles and ocean chemistry. Magnesium is a particularly important aspect of seawater chemistry, given that it controls the nature of carbonate precipitation is important tool in the reconstruction of past ocean temperatures. Stable isotopic tracers are increasingly being used to identify sources of Mg and other constituents in rivers and ocea ...
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Fatty liver: Inhibition of Progression (FLIP)

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

"Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become one of the top concerns for the practising hepatogastroenterologist due to the obesity epidemic and its potential to progress to advanced liver disease which significantly impacts on overall and liver-related mortality. The aim of the FLIP (Fatty Liver: Inhibition of Progression) project is to understand and prevent the progression of liver dis ...
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Iron-based superconductivity: Fermi Surface and superconducting gap anisotropy (FESUME)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The purpose of this postdoctoral research project is to investigate the mechanism that leads to the high temperature superconductivity. In particular, this project is focused on performing a comprehensive study of fundamental electronic properties, in both the normal and superconducting states, of the recently discovered iron-pnictide superconductors. These systems have very interesting phase dia ...
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"Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion. Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe" (ACCEPT PLURALISM)

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

"In recent times, Europe has experienced increasing tensions between national majorities and ethnic or religious minorities, more particularly with marginalised Muslim communities. In some countries challenges relate more to immigrant groups while in other countries they refer to native minority claims. It is in this geopolitical context that the ACCEPT project responds to Topic 3.3.1 and notably ...
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Self-Organising Liquid-Crystalline OligoAnilines for Photovoltaic Applications (SOLiCOAPs)

Start date: May 3, 2011, End date: May 2, 2013,

Major interest exists and research activities have grown over the last decade to investigate the development of renewable energies generated from natural sources, especially in the area of solar cells (or photovoltaics, PV), a high priority area of research in the European Research Area (ERA). Central to addressing this challenge is the development of novel materials with tunable optoelectronic pr ...
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Global redox state of the ocean during Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events: new insights from molybdenum isotopes (Moly-OAEs)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The main goal of this proposal is in the investigation of the relationship between major perturbations in the carbon cycle and the global extent of euxinia during three Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events (OAEs), with important implications for the temporal evolution of ocean chemistry and for the better understanding of interactions between environmental change and the physical state of the oceans. ...
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SCHERD: a Study of Cuisine and animal Husbandry among Early farmers via Residue analysis and radiocarbon Dating (SCHERD)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"The SCHERD project is centred on the systematic analysis of lipid residues from pottery from key Irish sites through the Neolithic. In providing the first conclusive evidence for the contents of these vessels, as well as absolute dates for vessels from key assemblages in the Irish pottery sequence, this all-island project aims to obtain a clearer picture of the nature of agriculture and the timin ...
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Complex Supramolecular Architectures via the Micellization of Semicrystalline-Coil Block Copolymers: Synthesis and Hierarchical Self-Assembly (supraNANOASSEMBLY)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The development of nanostructured soft materials based on the solution self-assembly of polymers is an area of intense global interest. The self-assembly of semicrystalline-coil block copolymers is virtually unexplored but offers new opportunities to prepare well-defined micelles and enhances the opportunities to fabricate and manipulate novel nanostructures with tailored properties. This represen ...
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"Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe. Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in European knowledge societies in comparative perspective" (GOETE)

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

"The GOETE project will analyse the role of school in re-conceptualising education in terms of lifelong learning by combining a life course and a governance perspective. In European knowledge societies adequacy of education means a balance of individual, social and economic aspects. This is operationalised by exploring how educational institutions conceptualise and organise individual educational ...
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"Polygermane Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Applications in Nanotechnology" (PARIM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"Polygermanes, polymers with a -GeR2- repeat unit, are a potentially useful class of inorganic polymers with exciting chemical, physical, and electronic properties. Although recognized for having much promise, the study of polygermanes has been severely hindered by inadequate synthetic routes.In this proposal we target the creation of novel organogermanes as precursors for use in living anionic p ...
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Developing a Child Cohort Research Strategy for Europe (CHICOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"Mother-child cohorts are currently collecting a wealth of information on childhood diseases and their determinants across Europe, but these data are often of fragmented nature and there is little coordination to structure and consolidate scattered research. Although cohort research carries large potential policy implications, messages are not always filtering through to policy at the national, le ...
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New Transformations of Secondary Alkylboronic Esters (TASTE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"The properties of organic molecules are defined by their shape andfunctionality. However, the creation of such molecules with controlover both of these features is highly challenging. This proposaldescribes novel methodology for simultaneous C-C bond formation with controlover shape (stereochemistry). In particular it focuseson the stereoselective replacement of boron (which is easy tointroduce) ...
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Ethics in Public Policy Making: The Case of Human Enhancement (EPOCH)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

EPOCH aims both to broaden and deepen knowledge of the role of ethics in the governance of science and technology, focusing on ethical aspects of new and emerging bio-, neuro- and nanotechnologies and specifically related to the topic of human enhancement (i.e. any modification of the human body aimed at improving performance and realized by scientific-technological means). On the basis of compara ...
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Contaminant mixtures and human reproductive health - novel strategies for health impact and risk assessment of endocrine disrupters (CONTAMED)

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

"Disruption of hormonal signalling in fetal life can irreversibly affect human development and reproductive health at a later age. Of considerable concern in Europe is a decline in male semen quality and a high prevalence of congenital malformations and hormone-dependent cancers. Although it appears plausible that environmental chemicals with endocrine activity may be involved in the causation of ...
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Advance decision-making: Advance directives and proxy decision-making in France and in England (ADVANCED)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"How should one take into account a patient's wishes when he or she is no longer capable of expressing those wishes? Both France and England have recently introduced new legal frameworks aimed at answering this question. In both jurisdictions the status of advance directives has now been clarified, and, in England, a patient is also now able to appoint a health care proxy, such as a loved one, to ...
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Science Teacher Education Advanced Methods (S-TEAM)

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

"Helping teachers raise the quality of science teaching and its educational environment has the potential to increase student engagement, attainment, scientific literacy and science career choices. S-TEAM will achieve this by connecting existing science education research and teacher knowledge to teacher education. This task requires the power of coordinated action across a wide range of instituti ...
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Pronouns of Medieval Italian Dialects (PROMID)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"This project will examine the pronominal systems of Medieval Italian Dialects on the basis of a scrutiny of 13th and 14th centuries texts. It will represent a significant contribution both to the field of Italo-Romance linguistics and, more widely, to the general linguistics community, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach that interfaces traditional philological and dialectological studies w ...
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Mind the Gap: Learning, Teaching, Research and Policy in Inquiry-Based Science Education (Mind The Gap)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

The key concept of this project is inquiry-based teaching of secondary school science. Research and development done in Europe in the area of inquiry-based science teaching (IBST) is abundant, however, the knowledge is spread and indistinct, and thereby not utilised to its full potential by teachers and educators throughout Europe. The project aims to gather, exchange, develop and disseminate idea ...
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