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Direct and Indirect Emotion Regulation as a New Path of Conflict Resolution (Emotions in Conflict)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

Intractable conflicts are one of the gravest challenges to both humanity and science. These conflicts are initiated and perpetuated by people; therefore changing people's hearts and minds constitutes a huge step towards resolution. Research on emotions in conflicts has led to the realization that intergroup emotions are critical to conflict dynamics. This project’s intrinsic question is whether an ...
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Implications of the Dynamic Nature of Portfolio Delegation (Dynamic Delegation)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The asset management industry is a 60 trillion euros industry world wide, with a ratio of assets under management by asset managers to GDP around 100 percent. Despite the prominence of financial intermediaries in financial markets, our understanding of the portfolio delegation relationship, and its equilibrium asset pricing and contracting implications is at its infancy. The recent financial crisi ...
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Fast and Sound Cryptography: From Theoretical Foundations to Practical Constructions (FSC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Much currently deployed cryptography is designed using more “art'” than “science,” and most of the schemes used in practice lack rigorous justification for their security. While theoretically sound designs do exist, they tend to be quite a bit slower to run and hence are not realistic from a practical point of view. This gap is especially evident in “low-level” cryptographic primitives, which are ...
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Theoretical and empirical examination of the effects of shareholder diversification and mode of incorporation on firms' strategies and outcomes (Lyandres)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jun 1, 2017,

In this research we are interested in examining the effects of controlling shareholder diversification on firms’ operating strategies and outcomes. Our project involves the following logical building blocks:
1.Firms vary with respect to the degree of controlling shareholder diversification.
2.Firms’ controlling shareholder diversification feeds into their objective functions and in particular, the ...
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"(IN)FORMING CONFLICT PREVENTION, RESPONSE AND RESOLUTION: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN VIOLENT CONFLICT" (INFOCORE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"INFOCORE focuses on the conditions that bring about different media roles in the cycle of conflict and peace building. It generates knowledge on (1) the social processes underlying the production of conflict news, and (2) the inherent dynamics of conflict news contents, (3) in a systematically comparative fashion. Based on this perspective, we identify the conditions under which media play specif ...
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Deep Packet Inspection to Next Generation Network Devices (DPI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"Deep packet inspection (DPI) lies at the core of contemporary Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems and Web Application Firewall. DPI aims to identify various malware (including spam and viruses), by inspecting both the header and the payload of each packet and comparing it to a known set of patterns. DPI are often performed on the critical path of the packet processing, thus the overall ...
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Listening in noise with older native and non-native speakers: The time-line for segregating speech from noise, real-time lexical processing of spoken-words, and the identification of verbal emotions (Older Listners)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"By 2025, a quarter of Europeans will be over 65 years old. In everyday life, older adults need to communicate efficiently, yet they often find it more difficult than younger adults to attend to target speech when other people are talking, specifically when operating in their second language. This could be the outcome of age-related cognitive and/or sensory changes. To address these issues, the cu ...
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Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE)

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

VERE aims to carry out research on the fusion of the human body with virtual or physical surrogates. By fuse we mean that human participants would operate under the illusion that the virtual body is their own, or that they are actually in the physical space of the real world in a robotic body that they perceive as their own. As well as providing a radical extension of traditional virtual reality ...
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Secure Multiparty Computation in the von Neumann Architecture (VON NEUMANN MPC)

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

The ultimate aim of this project is to design and implement an efficient virtual machine that can be used in practice for generic secure multiparty computation (MPC).MPC is a way to convert any distributed computation that can be performed securely with the assistance of a trusted third party into a protocol that does not require any third parties, yet gives the same output and remains just as sec ...
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Embodied Cognitive Models for Fluent Human-Robot Interaction (HUMAN ROBOT FLUENCY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Robotics is moving from industrial applications into personal and office environments, in part due to converging trends of an aging population, a shrinking workforce, and a decrease in production costs. The research field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies the models and algorithms necessary for robots to interact with non-professional humans in these new environments.However, most HRI model ...
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Heuristics and Biases in Debt Managment (NAIVE DEBT MANAGMENT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Managing a debt portfolio requires complex decision making and is particularly challenging in the current climate of economic instability. Faced with various debts and diverse interest rates, consumers must decide the amount to allocate and the order in which to settle their debts. Issues of debt management also impact financial institutions such as banks and credit companies who need to understan ...
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The International Politics of Law-enforcement Cooperation (IPLEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The proposal includes three studies in the field of international relations. These studies examine the political dimensions of international cooperation in law enforcement. Study 1 explores why states succeed or fail to cooperate against smuggling along a shared border. The goal is to explain why Jordan has cooperated with Israel in combating smugglers of goods and persons, whereas Egypt has been ...
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Behavioural and physiological markers of Parental Embodied Mentalising: Cultural, gender, and attachment factors (Embodied Attachment)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

parental mentalising, the parent’s capacity to regard the child as a psychological agent (Sharp & Fonagy, 2008), is an important factor predicting attachment security (e.g., Slade et al., 2004).Thus far, all formulations of parental mentalising conceptualise and measure it as verbal, explicit, and reflective capacity (e.g. Meins, 1999; Slade, 2002).Despite their empirical contribution, these appro ...
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The Irony of Harmony: Examining how Experiences of Intergroup Contact can Undermine Potential for Social Change toward Equality (Contact and Change)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Conflict and tensions between members of different groups are critical problems facing societies today. One of the most important contributions of social psychology for improving intergroup relations has been contact theory, which offers that cooperative and friendly intergroup encounters can improve attitudes between groups. The theory stimulated a vast amount of research and generated widespread ...
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An integrated model of LEAN production concepts, practices, and climate as a tool for improving efficiency and effectiveness in hospitals and R&D units (LEAN)

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

In order to survive, organizations need to keep high efficiency and effectiveness by targeting the right quantity, at the right quality, at the right time, and in the right place. Lean production seeks to identify and eliminate wasted time, effort, and resources, leaving only streamlined processes that add value at every step. For example, by reducing protective buffer inventories, and improving t ...
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Beaming through augmented media for natural networked gatherings (BEAMING)

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

BEAMING is the process of instantaneously transporting people (visitors) from one physical place in the world to another (the destination) so that they can interact with the local people there. This is achieved through shifting their means for perception into the destination, and decomposing their actions, physiological and even emotional state into a stream of data that is transferred across the ...
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Subjective Knowledge and Consumer Choice (Subjective Knowledge)

Start date: May 12, 2010, End date: May 11, 2014,

Consumer knowledge of product category has been extensively investigated in consumer research. However, past research suffers from two major drawbacks. First, it focused on the impact of consumer knowledge on information search and learning, and thus very little is known about the direct impact of consumer knowledge on choice which is not mediated through information stored in memory. Second, the ...
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HUBS AND DIRECT CARRIERS :AN OLIGOPOLY MODEL OF THE AIRLINE MARKET (airlines)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The structure of the US airline industry has undergone important changes since the deregulation in 1978, which removed entry and exit restrictions and allowed carriers to set airfares. One of the most dramatic aspects of the airline deregulation has been the shift of carriers from a point-to-point business model to hub-and-spoke (HS) networks, where a carrier designates one or more strategically l ...
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Understanding Collaboration in 3D Virtual Environments (UNCOVER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"The proposed research aims to advance our understanding of virtual teamwork in 3D collaborative virtual environments (CVE) that have gained increasing importance in global organizations and higher education institutions, and are subject to an emerging interdisciplinary field of research. CVE have been developed to facilitate cross-border collaboration and to overcome the issues associated with tr ...
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Children in the crossfire: The cumulative effect of political violence, parent-child relations, and individual characteristics, on the development of aggression (Children and War)

Start date: Nov 4, 2008, End date: Nov 3, 2012,

In societies around the world, millions of children experience political violence in the form of armed conflict as a fact of daily life. Most research on the psychological well-being of these child victims focuses primarily on trauma-related symptoms. However, these traumas are added to existing developmental risks children face due to individual, family, and relational factors. Among the most com ...
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Intuitive decision making and bias: Examination of their role in the initial mental-health intake with ethnically and racially diverse populations (Intuition and Bias)

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

The proposed project investigates the complexity of provider decision-making process during the initial mental-health interview (intake) with ethnically and racially diverse populations. We focus on examining intuitive decisions and explore the effect of explicit and implicit bias on decisions related to patient care, including, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and assessment of rapport. Maki ...
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Attachment anxiety, Self Structures and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (Attachment and OCD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2007, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

We aim to investigate, via experimental tasks, the nature of the relationships between attachment anxiety, self structures and key phenomenological features of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in order to inform conceptualisations and improve psychological treatment of this disorder. In Study 1, we aim to assess whether the triggering of attachment-anxiety is associated with lower implicit self ...
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Central Offices Responsible for the Integration at Home of Internationalisation as Assurance of quality in the Meda region

Start date: Jan 15, 2010,

The project comes as result of the participation of 5 of the 6 partner universities in the programme Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Windows. Given the importance to create structural measures that sustain the exchange of mobilities and facilities joint ventures, degrees and programmes this project proposal attempts to construct those pillars that will strengthen the harmonisation of higher ed ...
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