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Partisan Ties that Matter? Exploring the Advantages of National Incumbency for Local Governments (Local Partisan Ties)

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

This project explores whether and how politicians in local governments benefit from their partisan ties to the national incumbents. The empirical analysis will cover local governments in two highly centralized unitary countries – Chile and Turkey. First, local election results (in Chile between 1992 and 2008 and in Turkey between 1984 and 2009) will be analyzed to understand the political and soci ...
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Stimuli Responsive Polymer Nanotubes by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (SRPNiCVD)

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

One dimensional nanotubular structures have a wide range of applications due to their unique physical and chemical properties that are different from the bulk materials. Metal and semiconductor nanotubes are being used as sensors, optoelectronic devices or transistors. Furthermore, polymeric nanotubes have great potential as biomedical devices due to the biocompatible nature of the polymers used. ...
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High Efficiency Nanostructured Electrodes for Organic Solar Cells Using Solution Processed LiF (NIOS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"Conventional electrode structures for organic electronics often rely on interlayers to enhance the efficiency at inorganic electrodes. In this project, we propose to implement improved electrodes in organic solar cells by introducing solution processed LiF interlayers. The performance of devices would be compared with state- of-the-art production devices. A potential increase of performance of 1- ...
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AUTOMATED NMR STRUCTURE-BASED ASSIGNMENTS (NMR-SBA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"While automation is revolutionizing many aspects of biology, the determination of three-dimensional protein structure remains a long, hard, and expensive task. Novel algorithms and computational methods in biomolecular NMR are necessary to apply modern techniques such as structure-based drug design on a much larger scale. The goal of this project is to address a key computational bottleneck in NM ...
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Ultra Low Energy Vertically Integrated Circuits (ULEVIS)

Start date: Sep 15, 2010, End date: Sep 14, 2013,

"The current integrated circuit scaling hits two major roadblocks or walls. One wall is the atomic level feature sizes of the current devices forcing the capabilities of even nano-scale implementations. The other wall is the total power consumed per unit area exceeding the capabilities thermal dissipation techniques limiting the maximum device densities. The solution to the feature size problem is ...
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Incompressible Single and Multi-phase SPH with Improved Boundary Treatment (SPH-Meshless CFD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

The objectives of the proposal are to 1) implement a new improved boundary treatment method (refer to as Multiple Boundary Tangent (MBT) developed by PI) to simulation of complex geometries such as flow over an airfoil, and 2) develop an incompressible multiphase SPH (IMSPH) algorithm, and 3) study feasibility of modeling single crystal growth (CG) processes with SPH. In literature, benchmark simu ...
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MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR CANCER TREATMENT MONITORING AND TUMOR ATLAS FORMATION (MICAT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"We present a research program for career development and reintegration of the principal investigator (PI) to the host institution and European Research Area (ERA). The PI has left her research scientist position at Siemens USA to return back to Europe, and established strong knowledge, experience, and collaborations with both US academia and industry. She will capitalize on these strengths and st ...
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Motivating Parents to Invest in Children (MPIC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"It is an empirically established fact that parental investments are crucial in determining adult outcomes. Furthermore, government does not have a direct control over investment children receive at home and as a result cannot force parents to invest. Motivated by these observations, this project pursues a broad program at the intersection of macroeconomics and public economics that will both cont ...
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Systematic Analysis of Gene Synergies to Discover Drug Synergies (GS2DS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"Using multitherapeutics against disease is a promising direction in medicine. A particularly useful drug combination is a synergistic drug pair, where two drugs administered together produce a collective effect better than the added independent effects of both. Since drug interaction screening is an expensive experiment, most synergistic drug pairs are found by serendipity. In this proposal, we d ...
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Microstructure of Takeover Markets (MergerMicrostructure)

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

This project aims to contribute to the financial M&A literature by analyzing the microstructure of corporate takeovers. The primary tool used in this project for examining the merger process is the concept of deal initiation. Recent research shows that there is a significant difference between buyer-initiated deals and seller-initiated deals. In buyer-initiated deals, buyer firms contact target fi ...
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The Impact of Integration Policies on Immigrant Outcomes: Cross-country Evidence from EU (INTEGRATION-POLICY)

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

"The proposed research will study the impact of different integration policies in European context. The labor market outcomes of the first generation immigrants, the educational outcomes of the second generation and intergenerational mobility will be explored. The cross country variation in labor market outcomes of first generation immigrants is determined by two factors: (1) selection of immigran ...
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Using Hardware Performance Counters for Functional Correctness Debugging (FaultLocalization)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

Program debugging is a process of identifying and fixing bugs. Identifying the root causes is the hardest, thus the most expensive, component of debugging. According to a U.S. federal study, software defects costs U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion each year and improvements (including testing and debugging) could reduce this cost by a third, or $22.5 billion. Therefore, automated approaches ...
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Bimanual Rehabilitation System for Distal Upper Extremity Therapy (REHAB-DUET)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"Assistance of repetitive and physically involved rehabilitation exercises through use of robotic devices not only helps eliminate the physical burden of movement therapy for the therapists, but also decreases application related costs. Moreover, robot mediated rehabilitation therapy allows quantitative measurements of patient progress and can be used to realize new treatment protocols. In the lit ...
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Dual Sales Channel Management: Analytical Analysis and Behavioral Experiments (DUALCHANNEL)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Nov 28, 2011,

"Recent developments in the Internet have enabled manufacturers to open web-based stores and sell directly to consumers. Such a direct sales channel allows the manufacturer to access more consumers and may also enable cost savings. On the other hand, most manufacturers also continue selling through the traditional retail stores (the retail channel). By opening a direct channel, a manufacturer beco ...
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Incumbents' Innovation Strategy Choice Under Market Uncertainty (Innov-market)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The proposed project investigates an incumbent’s decision to pursue radical or incremental innovation when facing a rival entrant. Radical innovations hold the promise of superior rewards and obsoleting the existing product technology, but beyond development risks market acceptance of these innovations are very difficult to predict. Radical innovation is also particularly attractive to the rival e ...
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Linking Interdisciplinary Integration Studies by Broadening the European Network

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Reason: A New Focal Point for Teaching EU StudiesAs of December 2009, the Lisbon Treaty has become the EU's new fundamental framework for the foreseeable future. The analysis of altered or novel treaty provisions becomes a high priority for interdisciplinary research-based teaching curricula in EU studies. Only a European academic network will be able to exploit input from the relevant disciplines ...
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