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Surface texture is modelled as a composition of surface geometry (a bump map) and first-order reflectance characteristics (a Lambertian albedo map). This is why photometric stereo is selected as the method of interest, since it",{"id":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":27,"abstract":28},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8254","Political violence in comparative perspective: A system dynamics approach to violent conflicts","UPPSALA UNIVERSITY","SE","€159,117","As a general objective, this project aims to the development of a theoretical framework to analyze and model, from the perspective of System Dynamics and its relation to Peace Studies, situations and conditions of intractability related to both political violence and deep-rooted violent conflicts. It intends to undertake a comparative study using two cases that involve political violence and violent conflict. Such a comparison will address that their internal dynamics of intractability pose to g",{"id":30,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":31,"piName":10,"institution":32,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":34},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10393","Magnetic Fields during the Birth and Death of Stars","THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","€162,448","Magnetic fields are believed to play an important role in both the formation of stars and the evolution of stars at the end of their life. However, the exact role of magnetic fields is still under debate. Highly detailed studies of magnetic fields in star-forming regions and in the envelopes of late-type stars have been made possible by recent advances in observational and data reduction techniques in the field of radio interferometry. With Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) we observe ast",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":10,"institution":38,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":39,"abstract":40},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500985","In Vivo Evaluation of Myeloarchitecture in Brain Cortex by MRI","INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€161,314","The aim of this project is to provide anatomical delineation of functionally differentiated areas of the human cortex, using non-invasive MR imaging techniques to visualise the myeloarchitecture of the cortical regions. This will allow association to be made between the physical characteristics of grey matter cortical areas, as represented in MR images, and the computational tasks attributed to them, eliminating the requirement for drastic smoothing of data from individual brains in order to ach",{"id":42,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":43,"piName":10,"institution":44,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":47},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500765","Weil conjectures with a difference","UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1","FR","€143,433","The classical Hassle-Weil zeta function of a variety defined over a finite field contains all the number-theoretic information about the variety because it encodes the number of rational points of the variety over all finite fields extending the field of definition. Weil conjectures, proved in full by Deigned, state that the zeta function, which is a priori just a formal power series, is in fact a rational function and that its form is governed by the geometry of the variety. Trying to understan",{"id":49,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":50,"piName":10,"institution":51,"country":52,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":53},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25402","Symplectic Geometry, Cotangent Bundles and Mechanical Systems","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FéDéRALE DE LAUSANNE","CH","The main objective of this project is to advance significantly the understanding of the symplectic geometry of cotangent bundles endowed with lifted actions, from the point of view of reduction, mechanics and applications.The usual methods of symplectic geometry and symplectic reduction applied to cotangent bundles with Hamiltonian lifted symmetries are not fine enough to treat this important case since the extra bundle structure that makes a cotangent bundle different from other symplectic mani",{"id":55,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":56,"piName":10,"institution":57,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":59},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2706","Testing for post-copulatory female choice in a cephalopod","ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE","€160,180","Empirical studies and theoretical discussion in the field of sexual selection suggest that male-male competition and female choice have postcopulation equivalents in polyandrous systems. Postcopulatory processes may affect sexual selection by increasing heterogeneity of fertilisation success of males. Sperm competition, the postcopulatory equivalent of male-male competition, has broad empirical and theoretical support. Postcopulatory female choice however, has proven difficult to demonstrate and",{"id":61,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":62,"piName":10,"institution":63,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":65,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502216","Learningful Work - Increasing Employees' Learning Opportunities' at Work. An International Comparison.","UNIVERSITY KASSEL","DE","€150,827","The research project studies the elements of meaningful work: work enabling an employee to learn and develop. The importance of continuous learning at work cannot be exaggerated in the complex world, where organizational success has to be built on employees' individual and collective competencies. Work in itself has to be learningful. To complement professional training and companies' training efforts, daily work has to offer opportunities for learning - for continuous individual and organizatio",{"id":68,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":72,"abstract":73},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509503","The effect of social learning on the neuroendocrine basis for territorial aggression","UNIVERSITETET I OSLO","NO","€197,223","Effects of hormones on behaviour have been recognized for over a century. The reciprocal is also true behaviour can have profound effects on hormone secretions. For example, in response to conspecific intruders, testosterone in territorial male birds can increase to maintain aggression over the course of a challenge.Thus, social cues are often powerful stimuli for the induction of neuroendocrine responses. Recognition of competitors can be altered by sexual imprinting birds reared by heterospeci",{"id":75,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":76,"piName":10,"institution":77,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":79,"abstract":80},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509465","Generalised lipschitz classes, fourier series and moduli of smoothness","CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMATICA","ES","€129,644","This is a project in harmonic analysis and approximation theory.We present research actions in the following three topics, which are closely related to each other:1.Generalised Lipschitz class and Fourier series. 2.Moduli of smoothness of fractional orde r. 3.Relationship between Besov, Nikolsky, Besov-Nikolsky and Weyl-Nikolsky classes of functions. In the first topic, the objective consists in finding necessary and sufficient conditions on the Fourier coefficients of a function to belong to a ",{"id":82,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":10,"institution":84,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":85,"abstract":86},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501046","Combinatorics in Commutative Algebra","UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN","€63,000","By the pioneering work of Huckster and Richard Stanley it has become evident that there are strong interactions between Commutative Algebra and Combinatory. On one hand side the theory of monomial ideals, mitigated modules and tonic rings is studied with techniques from Combinatory (simplified complexes, sellable posits, integral palmtop theory) while on the other hand Hilbert functions, resolutions, Rees algebras and homological properties if ideals and their powers can often be studied using G",{"id":88,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":89,"piName":10,"institution":90,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":91,"abstract":92},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10502","Optimisation of Energy Integrated Pressure-Swing Distillation Processes for Separation of Homogeneous Azeotropic Mixtures","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN","€150,826","The separation of homogeneous azeotropic mixtures via pressure swing distillation is an important chemical engineering problem. The currently known studies deal mainly with the process feasibility, distillation- and energy- efficiency, and the control prop erties of different possible configurations. The considered configurations include continuous, semi-continuous and batch.The proposed project aims at the systematic analysis of these distillation configurations in order to achieve optimal econ",{"id":94,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":95,"piName":10,"institution":96,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":97,"abstract":98},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500267","Noncommutative geometry in string theory","QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","€162,562","The project explores the emerging role of methods of non-commutative geometry in string theory and string field theory. The applicant has a background in physics especially string theory and by beating to the quantum groups and non-commutative geometry section at Queen Mary, University of London, will be able to acquire the necessary mathematical tools also.At the moment, there are several specific points of contact where string theorists have noted the presence of non-commutative geometries suc",{"id":100,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":101,"piName":10,"institution":102,"country":103,"year":13,"amount":104,"abstract":105},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515144","Non-commutative geometry of quantum homogeneous spaces","INSTYTUT MATEMATYCZNY, POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK","PL","€130,875","In global analysis or in algebraic geometry, a geometric space is described by an algebra of functions on this space. Non-commutative geometry extends this approach to geometry also to non-commutative algebras. In this way, A. Connes generalized in particular results from index theory and spin geometry. The aim of this project is to apply the methods of non-commutative geometry to so-called quantum homogeneous spaces. There are several definitions of this notion, but all of them cover a class of",{"id":107,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":108,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":111,"abstract":112},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502098","Calabi-Yau manifolds and higher potential functions","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT (UTRECHT UNIVERSITY)","NL","€151,522","Calabi-Yau manifolds arise naturally in algebraic geometry as objects with certain special structures. In theoretical physics these geometric objects define super symmetric models of the universe via string theory. String theory in turn constructs a hierarchy of functions on the parameter space of Calabi-Yau manifolds, the so-called higher potential functions. In the context of algebraic geometry, the mathematical understanding of potential functions is far from complete. The aim of this project",{"id":114,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":115,"piName":10,"institution":116,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":117,"abstract":118},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515397","Physiological, morphological and neurochemical studies of the cortico-spinal pathway in experimental hepatic encephalopathy","INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE L'HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D' HEBRON","€139,849","Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) A is a neuropsychiatric syndrome occurring in both acute and chronic liver failure that includes behavioural, mental and motor disturbances. The more typical motor abnormalities observed are flapping tremor or cortico- spinal signs (exaggerated deep tendon reflexes, Babinski's signs). Those abnormalities significantly diminish the quality of life of the patients.  Clinical studies led by the host of this fellowship have suggested that a low grade brain oedema along th",{"id":120,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":121,"piName":10,"institution":122,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":123,"abstract":124},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509939","An investigation of host and donor DC modulation in GVHD throught the use of comparative in vitro (human) and in vivo (chimeric human\u002Fmurine) models","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€209,123","Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) still remains the only cure for a variety of malignant, non-malignant haematological diseases and disorders of the immune system. The success of SCT is limitedby post transplant related complications; including li fe threatening infections, relapse of malignantdisease and most notably graft versus host disease (GVHD). It is estimated that between 25-60% sufferfrom GVHD in either its acute or chronic form. Research has implicated the antigen presenting c",{"id":126,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":127,"piName":10,"institution":128,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":129,"abstract":130},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7363","Imaging of Localised Corrosion: Local Electrochemical Probes application","UNIVERSITE DE BOURGOGNE","€76,253","Corrosion damages have a major impact on society and economy in terms of injury, environmental damage and financial costs. Developing quantitative models to reliably predict the dynamic performance of the surface of engineering materials is still an open challenge.The scientific and technical issue of this project is to demonstrate that it is possible to combine local electrochemical techniques to go further in the probing and modelling of galvanic and chemical processes involved during pitting ",{"id":132,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":133,"piName":10,"institution":134,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":135,"abstract":136},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501345","Atropenantioselective lactamizations using an intramolecular Staudinger ligation strategy","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","€149,276","The present proposal concerns the development of atropenantioselective localizations using an intermolecular Standing legation strategy. The study will be undertaken in the Homestead\u002FVan Maureen group at the University of Amsterdam. This group has recently disclosed a novel strategy for the synthesis of medium-sized lactase, and is currently developing the use of the \u002Fnframolecular Standing legation in difficult localizations, towards an improved synthesis of several homo- and heterodetically cl",{"id":138,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":139,"piName":10,"institution":140,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":141},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500946","Molecular machines with mechanically-controlled magnetic properties","THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH","The proposal concerns the construction of ' molecular-based machinery' wherein mechanical movement within the molecule may control intermolecular magnetic interactions promoted by external stimuli. The molecular entities will be of the  rotaxanes family which are molecules where a macro cycle is locked onto a linear  thread by bulky  stoppers at either end of the thread. Two types of rotaxane systems are proposed. The first involves a rotaxane where the stoppers are paramagnetic metal centers an",{"id":143,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":144,"piName":10,"institution":145,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":146,"abstract":147},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501205","Circumstellar envelopes of AGB and young post-AGB stars","INSTITUT DE RADIOASTRONOMIE MILLIMETRIQUE","€158,219","We will perform systematic high-quality observations of low-energy molecular lines with the IRAMinterferometer, in a wide sample of AGB and post-AGB objects. Our purpose is to study in depth thecircumstellar envelopes of these objects, their effects on the stellar evolution, with particular attention to the structure of the AGB envelopes and to the irruption of the post-AGB winds in them. We will in particular determine1) the radius of the CO envelope, which is a basic parameter to understandpho",{"id":149,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":150,"piName":10,"institution":151,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":152},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24030","Analyzing the behaviour of ant colony optimization algorithms","UNIVERSITAT POLITèCNICA DE CATALUNYA","Research on a new technique for optimization is initially focused on proof-of-concept applications. It is only after experimental work has shown the practical interest of the method that researchers try to deepen their understanding of the method's functio ning not only through more and more sophisticated experiments but also by means of an effort to build a theory. Tackling questions such as ``how and why the method works'' is important, because finding an answer may help in improving its appli",{"id":154,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":155,"piName":10,"institution":156,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":158},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10350","Simulation of Quantum Magnetism with Trapped Ions","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. REPRESENTED BY: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUR QUANTENOPTIK","€142,918","This project's main goal is the theoretical design of a quantum simulator of magnetism that makes use of current technology for the manipulation of trapped ions. The implementation of this idea would lead to the simulation of complex spin models that are not well understood, and also to the first observation of quantum phase transitions in a system of trapped ions. The project will pursue the following objectives: (1) Elaboration of methods and protocols that experimentalists working with trappe",{"id":160,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":161,"piName":10,"institution":162,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":164,"abstract":165},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8054","Godel Logics and descriptive properties of the reals","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA","IT","€136,375","This project aims at a thorough mathematical connection of descriptive properties of the reals with semantic properties of Godel logics. If we want to discuss logical descriptions of descriptive, i.e. topological and order theoretic, properties, an adequate logic has to be determined by the order structure of the underlying truth value set, and should not depend on quantitative properties. With other words, validity should be invariant with respect to adequate classes of non-trivial isomorphism.",{"id":167,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":168,"piName":10,"institution":169,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":170,"abstract":171},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8740","Effects of adverse early-life environment on the wiring and connectivity of neural circuits involved in the regulation of stress responses during critical periods of development","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","€149,843","An adverse early familial environment, especially disruption of the mother-infant relationship, during critical periods of development can permanently affect stress reactivity (i.e. hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity) and susceptibility to develop stress-related disorders. During the stress hyporesponsive period (SHRP) (postnatal days (PND) 4-14), rat neonates display low basal and stress-induced corticosterone (CORT) levels in response to mild stressors. A single, 24-hour materna",{"id":173,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":174,"piName":10,"institution":175,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":176,"abstract":177},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514943","Tribology of Orthodontic Materials (TOM)","ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON","€120,081","Orthodontic treatments are increasingly applied to correct teeth alignment and occlusion problems. In France, for instance, recent studies show that nearly 1 million young adolescents have undergone such treatment. The principle of orthodontic treatments is to impose a continuous and slow displacement of teeth by adjusting tension forces between the brackets (stuck to the teeth), and an arch-wire.Recent studies show that friction resistance between the arch-wire and the bracket contacts plays a ",{"id":179,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":180,"piName":10,"institution":181,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":182},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25126","The analysis of paired fin development in the zebrafish","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY HEIDELBERG","The vertebrate limb constitutes a classic model for the study of developmental processes. Since it comprises a non-vital part of the embryo body, the limb bud can be readily manipulated without affecting survival. In addition, many molecular events that occur during limb development are also present in other embryonic regions; in this way, knowledge acquired from the analysis of limb formation can be used to interpret developmental processes elsewhere. The vertebrate limb originates as a small b",{"id":184,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":185,"piName":10,"institution":186,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":187,"abstract":188},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11034","The detailed structure of geomagnetic excursions and their relation to cosmogenic nuclides, and climate variations","THE CHANCELLORS, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","€159,046","The primary scientific objectives of this project are twofold, 1) to improve understanding of the mechanisms which generate the geomagnetic field in the core by careful study of geomagnetic excursions (brief changes in direction and intensity of the geomagnetic field) and, 2) to better understand the correlation between geomagnetic-field intensity, production rate of cosmogenic nuclides, and climate variations.This project will involve a detailed study of two such geomagnetic excursions, the Bla",{"id":190,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":191,"piName":10,"institution":192,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":193},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24806","3D Geodynamics of continental orogens","SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","The goal of the proposed project is to use 3D dynamical modelling to investigate the interplay of convergence and extension in convergent continental orogens. Special emphasis will be on the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian geological system of eastern Europe. This region has been intensely investigated through geological and geophysical observations and is thus well suited as a natural laboratory for testing and investigating mechanisms that drive deformation in convergent orogens. The Alpine-Carpat",{"id":195,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":196,"piName":10,"institution":197,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":198},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-22937","Continuous mappings on compact metrizable spaces","INSTITUT DE MATHéMATIQUES DE JUSSIEU","I propose to study properties of sequences of iterations of a given continuous mapping on a compact metrizable space.From a topological version of the Rosenthal dichotomy, the pointwise closure of the sequence either consists of the pointwise limits of subsequences and then it is called a Rosenthal compact space, or there exists a chaotic subsequence, where chaos is manifested by the fact the pointwise closure of the subsequence is homeomorphic to a copy of the Cech-Stone compactification of the",{"id":200,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":201,"piName":10,"institution":202,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":203,"abstract":204},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515391","Dynamics of non-expensive maps: Theory and Applications to discrete event systems","THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","€129,850","The objective of the research project is to investigate the dynamical behaviour of certain discrete event systems. Discrete event systems are a useful abstraction to analyse the performance of certain man-made systems including, digital circuits, communication networks, and manufacturing systems. In practice designers of these systems are faced with a number of dynamical questions: What is the long-term behaviour of the system? What are its stability properties? How fast does it operate? To answ",{"id":206,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":207,"piName":10,"institution":208,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":209,"abstract":210},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501940","Witten's conjecture in K-theory","UNIVERSITE DE NICE - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS","€142,866","In this proposal we present a project in Algebraic Geometry with connections to TheoreticalPhysics. The applicant, Alessandro Chiodo, is an Italian researcher completing (June 2003) his Ph.D.at DPMMS, University of Cambridge, UK. The host institution is the Laboratoire Dieudonné(University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis), the largest research group in complex algebraic geometry in France. The main objective is to contribute to a set of conjectures by Edward Witten relating moduli of curves with inte",{"id":212,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":213,"piName":10,"institution":214,"country":215,"year":13,"amount":216,"abstract":217},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501018","Flexible Time-Frequency Decompositions and Adaptive Treatment of Operator Equations by Frames","UNIVERSITAET WIEN","AT","€142,025","The goal of the proposed two year project is to develop a general Banish space theory of time-frequency localized, redundant and stable non-orthogonal expansions (briefly Banish frames) and to study adaptive numerical schemes for (certain) linear (pseudo-differential) operator equations using their matrix representations with respect to such well-localized frames. Whereas the construction of unconditional (rasp. Rises) bases is no problem in the wavelet or Gabon analysis case (due to the group s",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":10,"institution":221,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":222,"abstract":223},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502129","Transition from slow-moving landslides into fast-moving debris-flows. Evaluation of the hazard.","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","€157,192","The project deals with the question: why and how some landslides transform into debris-flows, while most of them stabilize?. Though seldom, debris-flows are a major source of property damage at the European scale, especially in mountain areas. Today the management of debris-flows is quite easily achieved for watersheds where debris-flows result regularly from continuous erosive processes. In the converse case, when debris-flows originate from a landslide, the problematic around the protection al",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":10,"institution":227,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":228},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24748","On biharmonic evolution equations","UNIVERSITY OF ULM","In this project we want to consider biharmonic evolution equations on domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This evolution problem gives a model for the continuum theory of some special kinds of liquid crystals. The big difference between this biharmonic evolution problem and the corresponding second order problem is that in the higher order case the maximum principle does not hold. A solution of the biharmonic evolution equations in the whole space with a non-negative initial condition ma",{"id":230,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":231,"piName":10,"institution":232,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":233,"abstract":234},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10275","Loop spaces and the topology of manifolds","UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIE DE LILLE","€151,982","String Topology is a new field of research which combines several classical techniques of algebraic and geometric topology with the new ideas suggested by quantum field theory and string theory. It was opened to the mathematics community by a pioneering work of Chas and Sullivan in 1999, but it is developing rapidly in a number of directions. We propose an intensive study of this topic addressing the implication of String Topology on the understanding of the topology of the manifolds, with parti",{"id":236,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":237,"piName":10,"institution":238,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":239,"abstract":240},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501793","Quaternionic Shimura surfaces","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.","€114,689","In my thesis, I worked on compact quaternionic Shimura surfaces. Ideveloped techniques which made it possible to study particular casesof these surfaces and place them into the Kodaira classification of algebraic surfaces. In this proposal, I describe how these investigations can be extended in several directions and broadened toinvolve other research areas, in particular modular forms. With the techniques which are now available, it should be possible tosolve some types of problems which have p",{"id":242,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":243,"piName":10,"institution":244,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":245},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500308","String theory as the unifying theory of all fundamental particle interactions - a step forward in the comprehension of dualities relating different string theories","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","Type IIB string theory has a preservative symmetry corresponding to the reversal of the orientation of the fundamental string. Type I string theory is obtained from type IIB projecting out the states that are odd under this flip, and this operation is known as orient fold projection. The research objective is to clarify the duality that relates type he and I erotic SO (32) in ten dimensions. This duality is a strong-weak coupling duality, while tiepin possesses a non-preservative self-duality. S",{"id":247,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":248,"piName":10,"institution":249,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":250},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24984","Monetary and fiscal policy with incomplete markets","LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS","General equilibrium models become the standard tool for analyzing optimal monetary policy actions. The dominant modelling approach in the study of monetary economies has been to assume that markets are complete.Complete markets are an idealization that agents can trade all commodities on future states of the environment. The implications for authority policies are quite different in models with incomplete markets. We propose to develop a model able to capture these markets imperfections and be a",{"id":252,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":253,"piName":10,"institution":254,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":256},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501123","Mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei by means of the time-of-flight technique at SPEG","GRAND ACCELERATEUR NATIONAL D'IONS LOURDS","€150,237","The measurement of the masses of very neutron-rich nuclei is of great interest because it reflects many of the aspects of nuclear structure and offers a unique test of those components of the nucleon-nucleon interaction that depend on isospin degree of freedom. In fact, novel theoretical predictions show that close to the neutron drip line magic numbers such as N=8,20,40 could disappear and new ones as N=6,16,34 arise. The present project proposes the detemination of the masses of a large number",{"id":258,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":259,"piName":10,"institution":260,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":261,"abstract":262},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514590","Education and identity politics in Eastern and Western Europe","INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON","€151,675","Overall ProjectObjectives 1.Research objectives: Individual research project:- To gain understanding in the role of education and particularly that of history and geography in the nation-building politics of one young West-European states (Ireland) and on e new East-European state (Ukraine); Project on education, identity and social cohesion (EISC):- To make a substantial contribution to an international project on education, identity and social cohesion, which is headed by Andy Green, prof, of ",{"id":264,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":265,"piName":10,"institution":266,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":267,"abstract":268},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8307","Biogeomorphodynamic model of Estuaries for the analysis of effects of human interference","UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE","€250,417","Estuaries are important for economy and nature. Due to the relatively calm conditions where land meets the water, they are good locations for harbours and are safe havens and feeding grounds for wildlife. These qualities collide in the Western Scheldt. Dredging is required to enable navigation to Antwerp Harbour, but it endangers the stability of the shoals that are important to ecology. The interactions of the bed and the water flow over it shape the estuaries. The bed determines the flow of th",{"id":270,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":271,"piName":10,"institution":202,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":272,"abstract":273},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509292","The politics of financial market regulation: the case of speculative instruments","€125,494","This research proposal deals with the regulation of those financial strategies and vehicles that are generally defined as'instruments of speculation' and looks at the wider societal implications of their activities. The following instruments will beconside red: hedge funds, short selling, single-stock futures and put options. The research will draw upon the work that theFellow has already initiated on hedge funds and will expand its scope by including other vehicles that are the economicequivale",{"id":275,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":276,"piName":10,"institution":277,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":279},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25003","Identification, evaluation, and transfer of competences through mergers-and-acquisitions: a knowledge-based perspective","COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL","DK","These days the transition to a knowledge economy becomes increasingly observable. The topic is one thematic priority nominated by the EU's 6th Framework program. Contemporary strategic and organisational research describes organisational competences (OC) built on knowledge as the most important factors for gaining and sustaining competitive advantage. A specific Knowledge-based View (KbV) gains in importance.While the impact of OC in competitive environment is well analysed, development processe",{"id":281,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":282,"piName":10,"institution":283,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":284,"abstract":285},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-6958","Unconditionality and geometrical properties of polynomials on Banach Lattices","UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA. ESTUDI GENERAL","€130,778","Despite extensive work in the area of un-conditionality of bases for symmetric tensor products and spaces of polynomials, certain problems remain open, for instance, when do the monomials form an unconditional basic sequence? In a recent paper it has been shown that the polynomials that admit unconditional monomial expansions can be thought of as the multi-linear analogue of the regular linear operators between Banach lattices. This fact opens up a new perspective on the area. We expect that the",{"id":287,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":288,"piName":10,"institution":289,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":290,"abstract":291},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11434","Dynamical Entropies in Assemblies of Neurons","ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA APPLICATA","€136,942","The final aim of the present project will be to gain some comprehension of how the brain stores and processes information. By considering the brain as a high dimensional non-linear system, we plan to apply information-theoretic and dynamical tools to characterize the response of single neurons as well as of neuronal assemblies to different classes of external (deterministic and stochastic) excitations. Data measured in experiments and generated by simulating networks of various sizes will be exa",{"id":293,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":294,"piName":10,"institution":295,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":296,"abstract":297},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500814","Non-equilibrium phase transition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","€183,304","Experiments with ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions are performed with the aim to study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter and the phase transition into a deco fined phase. The properties of the matter determine the collective dynamical evolution of the system produced in the collision. There are indications that due to rapid expansion of the system the possible deco fined phase can be super cooled and a rapid decomposition may occur. We will study this scenario and investigat",{"id":299,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":300,"piName":10,"institution":301,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":302},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-22988","New approach to plasticity in fatigue of material under multi-axial service loading","LABORATOIRE DE MECANIQUE ET PHYSIQUE DES MATERIAUX (UMR CNRS 6617), ENSMA","The assessment of fatigue life is a very important point in engineering design since most of the elements are subjected to multiaxial dynamic loading, which causes fatigue process.Many multiaxial fatigue failure criteria have been formulated to calculate the fatigue life. The stress-strain relationship (plasticity model) under multiaxial loading is very often required in these criteria. Many of the dynamic loading has the stochastic and multiaxial character.Dealing with such a loading is not eas",{"id":304,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":305,"piName":10,"institution":306,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":307},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502378","Analysis of the negative elements controlling Lunatic fringe cyclic expression in the presomitic mesodem","CANCER RESEARCH UK","Somitogenesis has been shown to involve a molecular oscillator called the \\segmentation clock\\, which acts in prismatic cells. This molecular clock controls the periodic expression of \\cyclic genes\\, which are, so far, all related to the Notch pathway. In the mouse, the cyclic genes include downstream targets of Notch such as those encoding the transcription factors, Hes1 and Hes7 (hairy homologues), and lunatic fringe (Long) that encode aglycosyl transferees, which modulates Notch activity. Rec",{"id":309,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":310,"piName":10,"institution":311,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":312,"abstract":313},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8681","Study of the highest energy cosmic rays with the hybrid technique of the Auger Observatory","UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA, DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA","€177,628","The Pierre Auger Observatory has been conceived to measure the properties of the highest energy cosmic rays with unprecedented statistics and accuracy. A giant array of surface detectors, covering 3000km2, is viewed in coincidence by a set of 24 fluorescence detector telescopes. The southern site of Malargue, Argentina, is in advanced stage of construction and already collecting data. The concept of hybrid detection of cosmic ray showers is unique of the Auger experiment.The proposal objectives ",{"id":315,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":316,"piName":10,"institution":317,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":318,"abstract":319},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509520","Nociceptin\u002Forphanin FQ-NOP receptor signalling and mood regulation: behavioural, pharmacological and neurochemical studies","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FERRARA","€145,447","Depression is a devastating disease with high incidence and societal cost involving dysfunction of noradrenergic and serotonergic brain circuits. Current antidepressants are not ideal with less than half of the patients treated attaining complete remission using a single antidepressant whilst others exhibit partial, refractory or intolerant responses.There is a need for novel antidepressants and neuropeptides represent an interesting lead. Nociceptin\u002Forphanin FQ (N\u002FOFQ) and its receptor (NOP) co",{"id":321,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":322,"piName":10,"institution":323,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":324,"abstract":325},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501613","Spin-dependent transport in nanostructures","FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH","€114,679","Transport properties in atomic scale are attaining increasing amount of interest. The proposed project focuses on determination of transport properties of single molecules from density-functional first-principles calculations. The main emphasis is in the effect of magnetic leads and the spin dependence of the transport. The semi-infinite leads are treated with a novel embedded Green function approach based on the accurate linearized-augmented plane-wave method. Conductance can be calculated with",{"id":327,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":328,"piName":10,"institution":329,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":330,"abstract":331},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515055","European security and defence policy and the emergence of a shared normative self-understanding","EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE","€136,376","The European Union is moving towards a closer political union and envisions future projects of epochal dimensions. Among these projects are the Common Security and Foreign Policy and the European Security and Defence Policy (CSFP\u002FESDP). But these policy fields are very likely to interfere with national sovereignty and traditions. That is why some people hold that without shared values European governance is condemned to be ineffective, chaotic and irresponsible: Europe doesn't speak with one voi",{"id":333,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":334,"piName":10,"institution":335,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":336,"abstract":337},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2884","MEDiCA - Medical Emergency Dispatch Centres Analysis","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO","€103,681","What happens when a citizen rings an emergency telephone number? Who takes the call? What information is needed to intervene efficaciously? How are the resources to deal with the emergency alerted? How are these resources distributed? Who organizes the work? What role is performed by technology in handling the emergency? Again: What types of problems do emergency organizations encounter? Can their performance be improved? How can the new technologies enhance the efficacy of their action?The aim ",{"id":339,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":340,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":342,"abstract":343},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509544","2-generator discrete groups and hyperbolic orbifolds","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE","€150,281","This project deals with the classification problem of 3-dimensional hyperbolic orbifolds or equivalently, the classification problem of discrete subgroups of PSL(2, C) which is isomorphic to the isometry group of the hyperbolic 3-dimensional space. We concentrate on 2-generator groups and orbifolds. The first part is dedicated to finding criteria (necessary and sufficient conditions) for discreteness of 2-generator subgroups of PSL(2,C) without invariant planes.The project is aimed to obtaining ",{"id":345,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":346,"piName":10,"institution":347,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":348},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24517","Modelling multimedia fate and exposure of organic chemicals","STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET","The training program is for Dr. Gertje Czub, a very talented young researcher who has developed a unique bioaccumulation model to predict human tissue levels of organic contaminants from their concentrations in the physical environment. The training program consists of two research topics. The goal of the first topic is to assemble, evaluate, and apply a bioaccumulation model to predict human tissue levels of brominated flame retardants from their levels in the physical environment. To achieve t",{"id":350,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":351,"piName":10,"institution":352,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":353},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23983","Scalable autonomic fault tolerance for distributed middleware","UNIVERSITäT ULM","The dependable operation of the global distributed IT infrastructure is of increasing importance for our society. Tolerating failures of components is one important aspect of dependability. For a wider deployment of fault-tolerant systems, (1) the tradeoffs with other aspects of dependability, such as performance and real-time guarantees, must be better understood, and (2) systems must operate in a more autonomic manner, not requiring expert configuration and constant monitoring.This project aim",{"id":355,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":356,"piName":10,"institution":357,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":358,"abstract":359},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8953","A new approach to the gauge hierarchy problem","UNIVERSITE PARIS 6 PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE","€149,147","While the Standard Model of particle physics is extremely successful in explaining most experimental data in particle physics, it is believe that it is incomplete. First of all, the Higgs boson, predicted by the Standard Model hasn't been discovered yet. If it exists, the Standard Model requires an incredible fine-tuning of one of its parameters. The most well-known, and widely accepted solution to this problem is to embed the Standard Model in a super-symmetric theory. Such theories have been e",{"id":361,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":362,"piName":10,"institution":363,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":364},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7547","Transannular Macrocyclisation and the concise total synthesis of Antifungal natural products","IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY","The Barrett group has carried out extensive research on the synthesis of antifungal natural products and the underlying synthetic methodology with recent focus on targets such as nikkomycin B, papuamine, papulacandin, FR-900848, pramanicin, the palmarumyci ns and preussomerin G.This proposal concerns the total synthesis of two bioactive natural products zearalenone and 15G256b. These two macrocyclic compounds are respectively a mycotoxin and an antifungal agent. They possess a highly functionali",{"id":366,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":367,"piName":10,"institution":368,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":369,"abstract":370},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7323","Integrable Structures in theory of multi-phase flows","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","€160,294","In recent years, integral structures have been found in a class of hydrodynamics problem leading to pattern formation in a regime far from equilibrium. Growth problems of this type, Laplacian Growth or Hele-Shaw problems, refer to dynamics of a moving front between two distinct phases driven by a harmonic scalar field. These problems have been primarily approached using asymptotic and complex variable methods to address both their stable and the notoriously unstable versions. The relation betwee",{"id":372,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":373,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":374,"abstract":375},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501846","ZEEMAN-DOPPLER-IMAGING OF T TAURI STARS","€150,804","Magnetic fields play a key role in early phases of stellar evolution. I shall use the advanced technique of Zeeman-Doppler Imaging to map the spatial distribution of magnetic fields on the surfaces of young pre-main sequence stars. This will allow me to ex plore directly the nature and structure of the stellar dynamo that drives this activity. The Doppler Imaging of accretion 'hotspots' will allow me to relate the accretion flows to the field geometry in these stars, and to determine if there is",{"id":377,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":378,"piName":10,"institution":379,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":233,"abstract":380},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10050","Equivariant infinite dimensional topology","UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6","The main objective of this proposal is to continue the study of actions of groups on Q-manifolds and in particular to study the topology of orbit spaces of such actions. The examples of the main interests will be actions of compact groups on hyperspaces of Peano continua induced by actions of those groups on the continua. I plan to extend my results concerning Q-manifold structure of such quotient spaces and of Banach-Mazur compacta.I will also study in details such Q-manifolds structures trying",{"id":382,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":383,"piName":10,"institution":77,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":384,"abstract":385},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515339","Characterisations of geometric groups","€130,211","Results involving all finitely generated groups are often of very little interest, and therefore combinatorial group theory concentrates on particular classes of groups. Hyperbolic groups form one of the classes that offer an extremely satisfactory compromise between interest and generality, as one can prove very precise structural results for such groups. In our project we propose to work on relatively hyperbolic groups, which are a generalisation of hyperbolic groups, and on some other questio",{"id":387,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":388,"piName":10,"institution":389,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":390},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11269","Precision tests of the Standard Model using beta decay and a novel transparent Paul trap","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE \u002F INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES","This proposal is centred on low energy tests of the Standard Model using ion traps. We plan to investigate accurately the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient 'a' in nuclear beta decay. According to the Standard Model, 'a' has a well defined value and any deviation from this value will open scenarios for new physics. This deviation can be only observed if 'a' is determined at the per mil level and therefore one needs of very precise measurements. Up to date, the most precise beta-neutri",{"id":392,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":393,"piName":10,"institution":368,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":394,"abstract":395},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515591","Representations of finite groups of Lie type and associated algebras","€152,242","The proposed research is in the representation theory of finite groups and algebras and consists of two parts: one focusing on the finite groups of Lie type and their associated algebras, the other part involving the study of Steenrod algebras with the help of A-infinity algebras. In the context of finite groups of Lie type, we propose to show Cabanes-Rickard and apos;s conjecture on Alvis-Curtisduality, beginning with some specific cases. My thesis contains the original construction of a comple",{"id":397,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":398,"piName":10,"institution":399,"country":400,"year":13,"amount":401,"abstract":402},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500913","Differential geometry of quantum homogeneous spaces","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","IL","€88,256","The research group of A. Joseph at the Weidman Institute is internationally recognized for its fundamental contributions to the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups. The researcher I.Heckenberger is a member of a group in Leipzig. He has been working on the field of quantum groups with focus on no commutative differential geometry for ten years. In the framework of quantum groups one investigates deformations of universal enveloping algebras of semi simple Lie algebras and quintile coordina",{"id":404,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":405,"piName":10,"institution":406,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":407,"abstract":408},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-011218","Analysis on fractal-like spaces","IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON","€82,131","Since the early 1980's physicists have started to investigate analytical and probabilistic problems on fractals, for instance questions about heat diffusion, Brownian motion and vibration. Fractal structures are convenient models for porous materials and hence are of high interest for natural scientists. These structures appear naturally in medicine, biology, economy, physics and chemistry, but also in pure mathematics.The subject of this research project lies on the borderline edge between stoc",{"id":410,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":411,"piName":10,"institution":412,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":413,"abstract":414},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501550","Nonabelian Torelli theorem for Kodaira surfaces","CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMÀTICA","€129,076","This is a project about nonblank Hodge theory. Whereas usual Hodge theory concerns mainly the usualcohomology of algebraic varieties, nonblank Hodge theory concerns the co homology of variety withnonabelian coefficients. The research in the topic of nonblank Hodge theory is motivated by the possibility of obtaining applications similar to what has already been done with classical Hodge theory. One of these would beta obtain restrictions on the homogony types of smooth projective varieties. Other",{"id":416,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":417,"piName":10,"institution":418,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":419},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23353","New geometries and mathematical tools from and for string theory","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET, INSTITUTIONEN FOR TEORETISK FYSIK","The symbiotic relation between string theory and mathematics has proven to be a gold mine for both fields, providing a guideline for the mathematicians and powerful tools for the physicists.For example, by extending the newly discovered mathematical concept called generalized complex geometry (GCG) to the supersymmetric sigma model, a new understanding of the mathematics of extended supersymmetric sigma models is being achieved.On the other hand, generalized complex manifolds have been shown to ",{"id":421,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":422,"piName":10,"institution":423,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":424},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9541","Algebraic Curves over super-simple fields","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - DELEGATION RHÔNE ALPES - SITE VALLEE DU RHÔNE","The analysis of fields is one of the most active branches of Model Theory, which has found its most spectacular applications in Hrushovski's proofs of the Mordell-Lang and Manin-Mumford conjectures.There are three principal aspects:- ways of interpreting a field,- studying the general properties of fields thus obtained, and- determining the properties of particular theories of fields (with additional algebraic structure like a derivation or an automorphism).All three aspects are closely interrel",{"id":426,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":427,"piName":10,"institution":428,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":429,"abstract":430},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7886","Vector Multiprocessor architecture for multimedia energy-efficient applications","STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.","€151,854","The past 10 years have witnessed an explosion of the amount of visual information that must be transmitted and stored efficiently using limited and expensive resources. Advanced video coding that allows orders of magnitude reduction in the required bit-rates is regarded as an enabling technology to move personal communications to a higher level of interactivity. Common features required in personal communication systems are the need for high-quality, low bit-rate video coding implemented in high",{"id":432,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":433,"piName":10,"institution":434,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":435},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515386","Understanding smective-water complex","THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON","Smectite is a clay mineral able to adsorb water. Water is retained between smectite layers; forming a complex with the interlayer cations that balance the charge caused by is omorphous substitution within the layers. This ability to adsorb water is an important control of the physical and chemical properties of soils and surface sediments: stability, subsidence and rising, plant nutrient availability, mobility of chemical species, water availability, etc. Water adsorption on smectite is controll",{"id":437,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":438,"piName":10,"institution":439,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":440,"abstract":441},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9452","The morphological evolution of epiphytic mosses","NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET \u002F SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY","€165,354","A shift from terrestrial to epiphytic habitats has occurred several times in different evolutionary lineages among mosses. Epiphyte mosses are thus not closely related to each other, but in spite of this they share a number of similar morphological character s. These characters are usually considered as adaptations to epiphytic habitat conditions.Although the correlation between certain morphological characters and epiphytism is striking, the evolutionary pathways and mechanisms behind them are ",{"id":443,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":444,"piName":10,"institution":445,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":446,"abstract":447},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11226","High resolution hydrodynamic simulations of star formation and protoplanetary disc evolution","ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM","€149,722","Understanding the formation and evolution of protostellar discs is a key ingredient in star-formation theory. Due to angular momentum conservation, almost all matter falling onto a protostellar object first accretes onto a disc-like structure. The size, ma ss and stability of such a protostellar disc determines the probability of sub- fragmentation into a binary or higher-order multiple system, as well as the properties of the planetary system that may build up in the late phases of disc evoluti",{"id":449,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":450,"piName":10,"institution":451,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":452,"abstract":453},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500709","Quantum Invariants of Manifolds and Homotopy Quantum Field Theory","UNIVERSITE LOUIS PASTEUR","€207,786","This application proposes a period of mobility to place a researcher, currently making the transition to the research area of quantum topology, into a leading international research group in that field. The twin goals of the proposal are to provide the vehicle by which the applicant can complete his training in quantum topology, and to contribute new scientific results to the area. The scientific aim is to develop our understanding of quantum invariants of X-manifolds (that is, manifolds equippe",{"id":455,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":456,"piName":10,"institution":457,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":458,"abstract":459},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7966","Dynamically defined fractals with overlapping constructions","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","€112,112","Since the seventies there has been a growing interest in different branches of the sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, finance, etc.) about a new phenomenon called fractals''. As a result of this, since the mid-eighties mathematicians have been investigating the structure of fractal sets. The simplest fractals are the so called self similar ones. These are fractals which are unions of their own similar copies (I.e., scaled down versions of the original). These similar copies (so cal",{"id":461,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":462,"piName":10,"institution":463,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":464,"abstract":465},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500938","Samarium (II) lodide induced cyclisations leading to new steroid-like compounds","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","€149,155","Samarium(II) iodide is an extremely versatile reagent in synthetic organic chemistry. Of particular interest are electron-transfer reactions to carbonyl compounds, which provide ketyls capable of undergoing inter- and intramolecular additions to unsaturated groups.Recently in the group of Prof. Reissig a novel intramolecular reaction involving aryl groups has been discovered, which afforded highly substituted hexahydronaphthalene derivatives with excellent diastereoselectivities. The research pr",{"id":467,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":468,"piName":10,"institution":469,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":470,"abstract":471},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-506912","Comparison of the molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling tissue polarity in drosophila and zebrafish","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. REPRESENTED BY THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS","€148,021","The aim of this project is to identify the common mechanisms in the generation of planar cell polarization (PCP) during the Drosophila wing development and during zebrafish gastrulation. Planar polarization of the Drosophila wing epithelium is reflected by the formation of a single actin-based hair at the distal tip of each cell. Components of the Wnt\u002FFz signalling pathway (PCP pathway) have been shown to control both the number and orientation of these hairs. Similarly, during vertebrate gastru",{"id":473,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":474,"piName":10,"institution":399,"country":400,"year":13,"amount":475,"abstract":476},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502349","Non-Conformal and Non-Supersymmetric Generalizations of the Gauge\u002FGravity Correspondence and Holographic Renormalization Group","€164,315","The objective of this research project is the study of generalizations of the recently-discovered correspondence between gauge theories and gravitational theories (such as string theory). One aim will be to find phenomenologically useful generalizations of this correspondence and to use them to explore the non- perturbative features of theories similar to OCO, the theory of the strong nuclear interactions (such as confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, the existence of a mass gap, and so on). In",{"id":478,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":479,"piName":10,"institution":480,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":481,"abstract":482},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505238","Auditory Processing Skills, Phonological Awareness and Literacy Development in Monolingual and Bilingual Swedish Children","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€168,799","This project explores whether basic auditory processing abilities in children, specifically those concerned with tracking the rhythms of speech, can predict literacy in Swedish. The project builds on prior experimental work in English being carried out in the host laboratory (Professor Usher Go swami). Using new measures of children\\'s ability to track the \\andquot; beats\\andquot; in the rhythm of speech, Go swami and colleagues have shown specific difficulties in these measures of rhythmic proc",{"id":484,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":485,"piName":10,"institution":486,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":487},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-22443","Epigenetic regulation of vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana","JOHN INNES CENTRE","Vernalization is the acquisition or acceleration of the ability to flower by chilling treatment. After a prolonged cold treatment, like winter, vernalized plants have the competence to flower, and this competence is remembered during the development of the plant. The molecular basis of this cellular memory is the regulation of the floral repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) by the vernalization pathway. FLC mRNA levels decrease during the prolonged cold and this repression is maintained during subs",{"id":489,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":490,"piName":10,"institution":491,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":492,"abstract":493},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501300","Development and application of combined scanning electrochemical -confocal microscopy for investigating lateral diffusion process in model biomembranes","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY","€169,366","Two of the most fundamental bioenergetics processes in living organisms are respiration and photosynthesis. The translocation of protons across cellular membranes is a key step in these processes, since this generates the charismatic gradient that drives energy-requiring processes, such as the synthesis of adenosine troposphere (ATP). Although it is postulated that lateral proton diffusion, along the cell membrane, is inefficient pathway for proton transport the extent and rate of this process r",{"id":495,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":496,"piName":10,"institution":497,"country":498,"year":13,"amount":499,"abstract":500},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-980014","Mesoporous Photocatalysts for the Degradation of Persistent Organic Pollutants","ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY","IN","€35,609","This proposal is for an IIF award to enable a researcher from India to visit a laboratory in the UK. The researcher wishes to develop: (i) new scientific skills; (ii) a lasting collaboration within the UK; and (iii) potential to increase the research capacity of his home research environment.The proposal aims at understanding chemical mechanisms and catalyst design factors that influence photocatalysed degradation of selected pesticides in aqueous solution. This understanding will be used to des",{"id":502,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":503,"piName":10,"institution":504,"country":505,"year":13,"amount":506,"abstract":507},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9448","Seismic performance of light-gauge steel framed houses","VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND","FI","€124,335","The use of light-gauge steel houses is becoming more and more widespread in Europe, even if compared to the market share figures in the United States, Australia or Japan this branch of the industry is still in the initial development phase.Structural solutions are being offered as standard package by companies mainly in Great Britain and the Northern countries, while in other parts of Europe the use of steel framed houses is still at the level of 'experimentation'.This state is also conserved by",{"id":509,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":510,"piName":10,"institution":329,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":511,"abstract":512},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-513901","Member states and coalition building in a wider and deeper European Union","€80,954","The purpose of the proposed research project is to contribute with systematic empirical data to a research field -negotiations and coalition-building in the Council of Ministers of the European Union - which is suffering from too little data to put into existing theoretical models. Current research is strong on formal modelling, but weak on empirical testing. The main empirical puzzle for the project is: Which coalitions are formed, why, and with what consequences? Special attention will be give",{"id":514,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":515,"piName":10,"institution":516,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":517},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24275","Identification of interneurons involved in generating locomotor activity","UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN; FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES","The mammalian spinal cord contains neuronal circuits that can generate rhythmic flexion and extension movements - the spinal central pattern generator (CPG) for locomotion. Although the CPG determines the basic pattern of muscular activity, sensory feedback is necessary for adjusting motoneuron recruitment and for determining the timing of switching between the stance and swing phases. Stimulation of afferents transmitting information on length and contraction force of extensor muscles is able t",{"id":519,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":520,"piName":10,"institution":521,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":522},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24236","Differences in language structures as a guide to studying cross-cultural differences in cognition: gender and articles","DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA","The issue of relation between language and cognition is again, after decades of a relative abandonment, in the centre of scientific interest. Results of recent studies suggest that people from different cultures may differ more in their cognition than previously thought, and that language does indeed provide us with good clues as to where to look for those differences. In most research language is even indicated as a causal force, which, by influencing our cognition from early childhood, brings ",{"id":524,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":525,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":526,"abstract":527},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501735","A theoretical investigation on the relation of lymphoma and germinal centres","€85,534","Germinal centre B-lymphocytes have been identified in malignant follicular lymphoma. It is therefore believed that a malignancy in germinal centre reactions may even induce the development of follicular lymphoma. The relevant mechanism in germinal centres is not known and open for speculation. However, characteristic morphologies of malignant germinal centres have been observed. The aim of this project is to contribute to this discussion from a theoretical point of view. Theories for the germina",{"id":529,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":530,"piName":10,"institution":140,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":492,"abstract":531},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501583","Molecular mechanisms of circadian gating interconnecting light and clock signaling in Arabidopsis","The periodic succession of days and nights is an eternally recurring environmental factor ever since life has appeared on the Earth. It is postulated that (i) organisms possessing the ability to adapt to the predictable changes of the environment have an evolutionary advantage and that (ii) this benefit has promoted the development of timekeeping mechanisms (endogenous clocks). The biological clocks that generate and maintain oscillations of many physiological and molecular processes with a peri",{"id":533,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":534,"piName":10,"institution":535,"country":536,"year":13,"amount":537,"abstract":538},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501150","The new basel capital accord: implications for the EU banking system","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","BE","€137,784","Prudential regulations of banks are viewed as instruments to prohibit banks from investing in risky projects, and thus protect banking system from the problems discussed above. To this end, several mechanisms are used by the central banking authorities. Two popular instruments are minimum capital requirements and deposit rate ceilings.Higher capital implies higher losses for banks' shareholders in the event of default, and consequently less incentives for involvement in high risk activities. Rec",{"id":540,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":541,"piName":10,"institution":542,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":543,"abstract":544},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500740","Low-temperature behaviour of stochastic Ising models","EURANDOM","€143,039","We propose to investigate several aspects of the long-time behaviour of stochastic Ising models at low and zero temperature that are presently poorly understood, especially for disordered systems. The goal of the proposed research is to further our understanding of out-of-equilibrium dynamics, in particular, to elucidate various stochastic relaxation mechanisms. Stochastic Ising models at low temperature are studied very actively, but many questions remain open, especially for disordered systems",{"id":546,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":547,"piName":10,"institution":548,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":549,"abstract":550},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501143","Exploring the influence of intraseasonal oscillations on the climate variability in the Indo-Pacific sector during boreal summer","UNIVERSITY OF READING.","€92,281","The sub seasonal activity in the Indo-Pacific region is dominated by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), which can be defined as a 30-50-day oscillation that moves eastward from at least the Indian Ocean to the Central Pacific Ocean. This intraseasonal oscillation organizes convection on a regional scale and, by modulation of the strength and position of the main tropical heat source, is thought to strongly influence large-scale climatic phenomena, such as the Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) and the",{"id":552,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":553,"piName":10,"institution":554,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":555,"abstract":556},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501928","Pushing the boundaries of general equilibrium theory with asymmetric Information","UNIVERSITE DE PARIS I - SORBONNE - PANTHEON","€144,000","In general equilibrium models with time and uncertainty, even if markets are complete the competitive allocation of resources will nonetheless be inefficient in the presence of asymmetric information, especially when some traders have private information concerning future assets payoffs.This inefficiency can in some cases be quite severe, leading even to the vanishing of some financial markets, limiting the scope of risk and uncertainty protection that the individuals in a given society can guar",{"id":558,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":559,"piName":10,"institution":560,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":561,"abstract":562},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10706","Study and Digitisation of Italian Emblem Books in the Stirling Maxwell Collection of the Glasgow University Library","UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW","€77,822","This project focuses on the study and the digitization of selected 16th-century Italian emblem books now located in Glasgow University Library. Emblems, characterised by the combination of text and image, enjoyed an enormous popularity, and ¿ thanks also t o their figurative elements and the many translations or multilingual editions ¿ had wide circulation across Renaissance Europe in academic, court, religious and bourgeois circles. The emblem corpus constitutes a socio-historical document of E",{"id":564,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":565,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":566,"abstract":567},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501551","Measuring dark matter halos of galaxies with weak gravitational lensing using the VIRMOS-Descart survey","€151,414","We propose to study dark matter halos of galaxies with weak gravitational lensing using the VIRMOS- Descart survey. The results of these studies will provide a valuable test for current theories of galaxy- formation. These theories are able to make detailed predictions on the dark matter halos in which galaxies are embedded while observational studies still remain challenging. Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a very promising technique that has been developed within the last decade and that is currently",{"id":569,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":570,"piName":10,"institution":571,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":572,"abstract":573},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514699","Phylogeography and genetic diversity of the red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris in Europe, in relation to the range expansion of the American grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis","ISTITUTO SUPERIORE PER LA PROTEZIONE E LA RIZERCA AMBIENTALE ( ISPRA)","€143,179","The invasion of the American grey squirrel, Sciurus cardinensis, into the range of the Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, is threatening the latter species in large parts of Europe, particularly the UK and Northern Italy. Due to the ecological simila rity of the two species, which used to have non-overlapping distribution areas before they were brought together by human influence, their coming together relatively recently on an evolutionary time- scale challenges the limits of coexistence.",{"id":575,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":576,"piName":10,"institution":577,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":209,"abstract":578},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502062","Feedback strategies and optimal control, with Applications to Low Thrust Orbital Transfer","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE","This project aims at1.",{"id":580,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":581,"piName":10,"institution":582,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":583},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23556","Impact of increasing CO2 on trophic transfer efficiency in marine food webs","DANISH INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH","Current models predict a twofold increase in atmospheric CO2 and associated decrease in oceanic pH by about 0.4 units until the end of present century. How this drastic change will affect food webs and trophic transfer in the coastal ocean is unforeseen. We propose to study the effects of these changes on phytoplankton biochemical composition and concurrent effects of potentially altered food quality on secondary producers in the marine systems.",{"id":585,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":586,"piName":10,"institution":587,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":588},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24885","Organic carbon sequestration and environmental change during the mid-Cretaceous: biogeochemical studies of outcrop pelagic sediments from the Vocontian Basin, SE France","STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ONDERZOEK DER ZEE","The mid-Cretaceous 'greenhouse' world, characterised by high atmospheric carbon dioxide levels (3-8 times the pre-industrial values), also experienced widespread deposition of marine sediments anomalously rich in organic carbon. This was due to the presence of oxygen-defficient conditions in the ocean and\u002For high fluxes of organic matter to the sea floor.The term oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) has been coined in the literature to collectively describe such events. The Cenomanian\u002FTuronian boundary ",{"id":590,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":591,"piName":10,"institution":480,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":592,"abstract":593},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501417","Social Contexts of Adolescents' Pathways Into Crime (SCOPIC) Network Fellowship","€161,428","The aim of the project is to analyse, partly in cross-national comparison, the delinquent behaviour or adolescents within community contexts employing quantitative multilevel techniques, and focusing particularly on the differential effects of social influences on boys and girls, and on adolescents from immigrant families. The research will be part of the \\'Cambridge Network for the Study of the Social Contexts of Pathways into Crime\\'(SCOPIC), a multi-sited, multi-disciplinary network investiga",{"id":595,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":596,"piName":10,"institution":597,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":598},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500026","From rigorous models to accurate energy density functionals","UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE","The coordinator of this project (A. Savin) and co-workers proposed a method that mixes configuration interaction (CI) and density functional theory (DFT), by splitting the electron-electron interaction into a short-range part (to be treated with DFT) and a long-range part (to be treated with CI). Preliminary tests of this method, within a simple local approximation for the short-range functional, gave very encouraging results [see Pollet et al., J. Chem. Phys. 116, 1250(2002)]. The researcher in",{"id":600,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":601,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":602,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500698","REGULATION OF APOPTOSIS OF BURKITT'S LYMPHOMA","€89,293",{"id":604,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":605,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":606},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25232","Hheterocycle transformations","The aims of this research are to develop efficient synthetic methodology for catalytic enantioselective elaboration of heterocycles, and to eventually apply this methodology in strategies for the enantioselective synthesis of selected biologically important structural motifs.",{"id":608,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":609,"piName":10,"institution":610,"country":505,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":611},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24186","Analysing the impact of pedagogical models within and between collaboration contexts through students' collaboration experiences","UNIVERSITY OF OULU","Collaboration in technology supported environments has become increasingly important for professional contexts. Many companies require that future employees are proficient in such collaboration. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is well-suited to teach students the dynamics and skills needed for collaboration in technology supported environments. A large collection of pedagogical models have been shown to stimulate collaboration in electronic environments. A pedagogical model offe",{"id":613,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":614,"piName":10,"institution":238,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":615,"abstract":616},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502045","Studying Quantum Information on the Real Line","€72,026","The project's topic is in the field of quantum information with continuous variables. More precisely, its objectives are to find new experiments proposals and to better understand past quantum communications experiences. Using the formalism of covariance matrices and symplectic transformations, the applicant will generalize some quantum communications protocols and characterize the set of protocols which can be achieved using coherent states. He will characterize Bell inequalities with continuou",{"id":618,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":619,"piName":10,"institution":620,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":621,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502352","Futurum","LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE","€160,861",{"id":623,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":624,"piName":10,"institution":625,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":626,"abstract":627},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8914","The effects of breeding synchrony on avian reproductive strategies","RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN","€214,837","The discovery that birds commonly mate with individuals other than their own social partner, resulting in extra-pair paternity (EPP), has been described as the most important advance in the field of avian mating systems in the last thirty years. However, w e still have only a rudimentary understanding of the function of these extra-pair copulations (EPC), or the reason why the frequency of EPP varies so dramatically both between and within different species.One of the leading factors proposed to",{"id":629,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":630,"piName":10,"institution":631,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":632,"abstract":633},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502125","The 3D Galaxy","CNRS DÃ'©LÃ'©GATION MIDI-PYRÃ'©NÃ'©ES","€151,981","The main objective of the proposal is the investigation of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) and, especially, of its constituents. This study is motivated by the fact that the ISM is the site in which matter in the Galaxy collapses into stars and is then rejected at the end of their life therefore providing a unique source of information for tracing the complete evolution from dust to stars and from these to the final supernova phase. The project , in particular, aims at the 3D reconstructi",{"id":635,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":636,"piName":10,"institution":637,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":492,"abstract":638},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-510004","Effects of early rearing environment on cortical and limbic activity in the rat: validation of an animal model of depression","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","Depression is a devastating mental illness associated with extremely high social and economic costs, given that the lifetime prevalence of this debilitating disease can be as high as 15%. Characterized byseveral emotional and cognitive disturbances, this d isease can also be fatal as a significant proportion ofits sufferers commit suicide. Although treatments are available for depression, many of its sufferers do not respond adequately to currently available antidepressant drugs. Furthermore, th",{"id":640,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":641,"piName":10,"institution":642,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":643,"abstract":644},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500645","ASYMMETRIC FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, MONETARY POLICY AND FINANCIAL REGULATIONS : THE CASE OF CURRENCY AREAS","UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA","€134,180","The creation of the European Monetary Union has been an unprecedented grand monetary experiment and posed tremendous challenges for policy design. Twelve countries characterized by different economic structures created the largest currency area in the world. Among the numerous questions that this episode has raised the most important and urgent ones concern the possible asymmetric effects of monetary policy actions on welfare and economic activity of the currency union' s. A consensus exists tha",{"id":646,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":647,"piName":10,"institution":428,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":648,"abstract":649},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2624","Design and implementation of high data rate and robust multiple-antenna space-time modems for fourth generation broadband wireless communication systems","€154,801","A key point for 4G wireless systems will be to satisfy the raising need for high quality various broadband applications, as multimedia, high-speed Internet access, telephony and other. The challenge for physical layer designers is to develop higher data rate and reliable transmission systems, relying on a limited bandwidth and overcoming the severe impairments of wireless channels (multiple propagation paths, signal fading). Multiple antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver (namely mult",{"id":651,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":652,"piName":10,"institution":399,"country":400,"year":13,"amount":653,"abstract":654},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500687","Strongly coupled gauge theories from topological open strings and membranes","€166,583","The research and training outlined in this proposal is aimed at extending our knowledge of strongly coupled gauge theories with lower amounts of supersymmetries and their relation to gravity, using methods from and inspired by String theory.In particular, we want to study non-perturbative aspects of N=1 super Yang-Mills theories, such as the structure of their moduli spaces ¿ working towards a full understanding of its global structure ¿ and efficient method of calculating of superpotentials. Al",{"id":656,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":657,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":658},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24738","K-Homology and M-Theory physics","We apply new mathematical tools of certain generalized cohomology theories, namely K-homology and differential cohomology, to study the problem of obtaining realistic four-dimensional backgrounds of string theory suitable for phenomelogical analyses. The consistency conditions implied by the cancellation of global anomalies in string theory are used to establish the conditions under which a given compactification is consistent. Twisted K-theory and K-homology is used to derive an effective actio",{"id":660,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":661,"piName":10,"institution":662,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":187,"abstract":663},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502200","Calcareous dinoflagellate culturing experiments: understanding the life cycle of oceanic species","THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM","Din flagellates are primarily unicellular aquatic organisms that typically occur as biflagellate motile cells. At ascertain stage of their life cycle, several marine din flagellates produce non-motile cells surrounded by calcareous wall. Calcareous din flagellates constitute an important group of the marine calcareous phytoplankton and their cysts are subject to an increasing number of palaeoenvironmental studies. However, fundamental biological and ecological characteristics of these organisms ",{"id":665,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":346,"piName":10,"institution":347,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":666,"abstract":667},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10918","€156,882","The training program is for Gertje Czub, a very talented young researcher who has developed a unique bioaccumulation model to predict human tissue levels of organic contaminants from their concentrations in the physical environment. The training program consists of two research topics.   The goal of the first topic is to assemble, evaluate, and apply a bioaccumulation model to predict human tissue levels of brominated flame retardants from their levels in the physical environment. In order to ac",{"id":669,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":670,"piName":10,"institution":671,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":672,"abstract":673},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7477","Combinatorial knot theory","THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL","€141,674","The aim is to study curves and surfaces in 3-space, using discrete combinatorial data including braid and polygonal descriptions of curves and graphs. Polygonal descriptions will be used to capture features of curves and surfaces, which have a small number of extreme points measured in all spatial directions. Building on his previous successful visit to Liverpool under the INTAS scheme, recent methods of 3-page presentations for curves and graphs, familiar to the fellow, will be explored further",{"id":675,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":676,"piName":10,"institution":677,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":678,"abstract":679},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11303","E2F3 - a potential clinical marker for prostate cancer","INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH: ROYAL CANCER HOSPITAL","€159,613","Prostate cancer is now the leading cause of cancer related deaths in most European countries. However, knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is still scarce. The overall aim of this project is to identify new oncogenes involved in prostate cancer and assess their potential as clinical markers. The focus will be the E2F3 transcription factor that has an established role in cell cycle progression and has recently been proposed as a candidate oncogene for bladder cancer. Initial studies indicate t",{"id":681,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":682,"piName":10,"institution":683,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":684},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25424","Algebraic Cycles in the Cohomology of Finite Groups","UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA","We propose to continue the study of algebraic cycles in the cohomology rings of finite groups, as initiated in the candidate's PhD thesis. (A cohomology class is called algebraic if it is Poincare dual to the fundamental class of an algebraic manifold mapping into the space under consideration, here the classifying space of a finite group).We have been able in our previous work to do a lot of explicit computations with these. We have been led to formulate a conjecture, which predicts the behavio",{"id":686,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":687,"piName":10,"institution":688,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":678,"abstract":689},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502440","Transition Metal Alkane sigma-Complexes","UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY","The Applicant Peter Portius is a young prize-winning synthetic chemist from the Humboldt University in former East Germany whose work on azides is already having an international impact. At the end of his Fellowship the Applicant intends to establish a research group for designing new materials particularly by the photochemical decomposition of azide precursors.   This Fellowship will give him the photochemical training needed to realise his vision on returning to Germany. We will exploit a new ",{"id":691,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":692,"piName":10,"institution":693,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":694},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500848","Chemical and Structural Synergy in Heterobimetallic Chemistry","UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE","Recent breakthroughs in the field of s-block metal amide chemistry have unveiled a novel new class of compounds for which the term inverse crowns has been coined. These compounds are the product oaf remarkable synergy, which is switched on by the co-operative action of mixing two different s-block metal atoms within the same molecular environment. Removing one of the metal atoms switches off the synergy. As featured on a recent front cover of Angewandte Chemise, this synergy can bring about unpr",{"id":696,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":697,"piName":10,"institution":698,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":699,"abstract":700},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8682","Low-dimensional quantum topology","UNIVERSITÃ'  DI PISA","€94,360","The research topic of the proposal is Quantum Topology. This mathematical theory (which involves topology, algebra, and mathematical physics) was born in the 1990's and was inspired by the works of Jones, Witten, Drinfeld, Atiyah, Reshetikhin, Turaev, Kontsevich, and their followers. Structures which originally do not have any relation with topology (such as quantum groups, braided categories) appear of crucial importance in the construction of new topological invariants of knots, of 3-dimension",{"id":702,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":703,"piName":10,"institution":704,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":705},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24769","Nonlinear perron-frobenius theory","UNIVERSTITY OF WARWICK","The goal of this research proposal is to solve some fundamental open problems in nonlinear Perron-Frobenius theory. These problems concern order-preserving homogeneous maps on finite dimensional cones and have a distinct dynamical flavour. We shall ask, am ong others, when such maps have an invariant ray in the interior of the cone and investigate the long-term behaviour of orbits of these maps. To analyse these problems we intend to use methods from dynamics of nonexpansive maps and from hyperb",{"id":707,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":708,"piName":10,"institution":709,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":710},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24939","Model theory and geometry of fields with operators","UNIVERSITé PARIS 7- DENIS DIDEROT","We will consider a field K with an operator of one of the following 4 kinds: derivation, automorphism, Hasse derivation and derivation of Frobenius. We are interested in results of two kinds -- geometric and model theoretical (i.e. concerning first-order properties of those structures).First, I explain what kind of geometric results we expect. For an algebraic variety X (or scheme) over K, we enrich the geometry of X by extending the operator to the structure sheaf of X. In the case of a derivat",{"id":712,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":10,"institution":714,"country":715,"year":13,"amount":716,"abstract":717},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501662","Central simple algebras and Galois cohomology","HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ALFRED RENYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS","HU","€72,599","Our field in mathematics is the Galois cohomology, a theory by Jean-Pierre Serre and John Tate, which is part of algebra, number theory, algebraic topology and algebraic geometry. The theory has recently known deep expansions with the proof by V. Voevodsky of the Milnor's conjecture (Fiels medal 2002). Our intention is to work one year on this topic with Dr Tamas Szamuely (Renyi Institute, Budapest) by going back to Merkurjev-Suslin's work of the 80's on Galois cohomology, which is the main star",{"id":719,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":720,"piName":10,"institution":721,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":722,"abstract":723},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514113","Differential structures in complex and almost complex geometry","UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1","€250,844","The objectives of the proposal are;1) to study the global regularization of pluri-sub-harmonic functions on almost complex manifolds, in a way that generalizes Demailly's regularization theorems for complex manifolds,2) to improve the understanding of al most-analytic sets on almost complex and their singularities. It is likely that Siu's theorem on the analyticity of sublevel sets of closed positive currents can be extended to the almost complex case.3) to introduce pseudo-holornorphic sub-sche",{"id":725,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":726,"piName":10,"institution":221,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":727},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23637","Asthma, Endotoxin and Environmental Tobacco Smoke","ASETS aims to investigate the relationships between environmental tobacco smoke, endotoxin and asthma. Asthma is an allergic disease of increasing concern within Europe, with considerable impacts on individual health, education and national economies.Our understanding of asthma is improving but there are many areas where scientific investigations are required. Endotoxin is a known agent that can aggravate asthma, but its role in asthma development is complex. Some studies suggest a causal link b",{"id":729,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":730,"piName":10,"institution":637,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":678,"abstract":731},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-11621","A 3D imaging system for real time fetal cardiac analysis.","This research program aims to remove the problems of acquiring a clear and accurate 3D dynamic image of the fetal heart during pregnancy. If successful then this will be a diagnostic research instrument that is a world leader in fetal care. This research p roject is only possible by combining the complementary skills of both the fellow (who is a leading industrial expert on real time systems) and the international expertise in medical instrumentation of the host institution, The University of No",{"id":733,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":734,"piName":10,"institution":202,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":394,"abstract":735},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501276","Currents - Kaehler Geometry and Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry","The project is intended to deal with various questions of complex algebraic and analytic geometry, with a special emphasis on effective results and transcendental methods in algebraic geometry. Such methods afford deep insight into spectacular relations between complex analysis, algebraic geometry, topology, and PDE theory. There are two main tools to be employed in the project. On the one hand, LA2 methods, already used byHormander in the study of the Cauchy-Riemann operator, revealed deep link",{"id":737,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":738,"piName":10,"institution":597,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":739,"abstract":740},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500927","Nonlinear analysis and differential topology in infinite dimensional Banach spaces","€102,756","Until now, I have worked mainly on smoothness and geometrical properties of Banish spaces and their interplay with infinite-dimensional differential topology. For instance, I have shown inky thesis that every smooth sphere (note that we say the whole sphere and not the sphere minus a point) in any infinite-dimensional Banish space is diffeomorphic to a hyper plane, thus providing a full generalization of a celebrated result of Message’s. We have also established Avery strong approximate form of ",{"id":742,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":743,"piName":10,"institution":744,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":745,"abstract":746},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501326","Minimality conditions in model theory","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","€152,809","The main objective of this proposal is to continue tee study general model theoretic properties and examples of important classes of structures which are minimal with respect to a certain language, namely weakly o-minimal, C-minimal and P-minimal structures and o-minimal expansions of Boolean algebras. Each of these classes is constrained by certain tight conditions on definable sets in one variable. In the case of weak o-minimalist, especially for weakly o-minimal expansions of real closed fiel",{"id":748,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":749,"piName":10,"institution":750,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":46,"abstract":751},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-6853","Branched shadows and invariants of smooth 4-manifolds","UNIVERSITE LOUIS PASTEUR STRASBOURG","This application proposes a period of mobility to place a researcher currently developing his own long-term research plan into a leading international research group in the study of torsion and quantum invariants. The goals of the proposal are to complete applicants training on low dimensional topology, and to contribute new scientific results to the area. The scientific aim is to develop the theory of branched shadows of 4-manifolds through two applications: finding 2-cohomology classes satisfy",{"id":753,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":754,"piName":10,"institution":597,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":755,"abstract":756},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9949","The response of Evapotranspiration and streamflow to global land cover Transformation: numerical experiments with ORCHIDEE land surface model","€117,814","More than one billion people are forced to drink water from sources contaminated with human waste, devastating floods have resulted in loss of lives, untold material and economic damage, and blistering droughts have resulted in the shortage of available drinking water and rising food insecurity.Our proposed work investigates how this global water crisis is affected by human-caused land cover change. We propose to examine the impact of the present extent of land cover change on the water cycle, i",{"id":758,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":759,"piName":10,"institution":760,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":761,"abstract":762},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9256","Schroedinger operators: from measure convergence to spectral convergence","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB (CUT.MI)","€150,079","The proposed project is aimed at the study of Schroedinger operators, which are differential operators of second order, used for modelling the behaviour of a quantum particle interacting with various types of potentials.The objective is to approximate Schroedinger operators with one type of potentials by operators with another type of potentials, where the latter are solvable in the sense that their spectra are easy to calculate. It would yield an alternative method to compute the spectra in sit",{"id":764,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":765,"piName":10,"institution":766,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":767,"abstract":768},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10830","Studying systematic differences between the air fluorescence technique and the surface detector technique with hybrid cosmic ray data from the Pierre Auger Observatory.","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES (CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE)","€153,072","The Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) measures the ultra high energy cosmic ray flux and arrival directions indirectly by detecting the showers of charged particles that cosmic rays generate in the earth and apos;s atmosphere. These air showers are detected using two different techniques: air fluorescence detectors, like the High Resolution Fly and apos;s Eye experiment (HiRes), observe the light from excited nitrogen molecules in the path of the air shower; huge arrays of surface detectors, simi",{"id":770,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":771,"piName":10,"institution":772,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":745,"abstract":773},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502356","Aspects of string gravity and cosmology","UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION","The impressive level of precision in fields such as observational cosmology and experimental gravity represent an exciting challenge and a precious test for both theoretical cosmology and fundamental physics. In order to constrain the candidate theories for unifying all interactions, the observable implications of such theories on cosmology need to be examined in detail. My research project moves in this direction and aims to study some aspects of the (linear and non-linear) gravitational field ",{"id":775,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":776,"piName":10,"institution":777,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":778},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24238","Gravity, strings and the dynamics of strongly coupled gauge theories","THE NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN","The study of holographic duals has yielded and will continue to yield very interesting information about the structure of string theory and gauge theory. Within this setting, the ultimate goals of this project are the following:(1) to explore the phase structure of near-external branes (in the presence of compact directions) and the consequences of this structure for thermal physics of non-gravitational theories,(2) to obtain more information about the structure of Little String Theories and non",{"id":780,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":781,"piName":10,"institution":782,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":783},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24676","Geometry of non-Abelian effective brane theories","CTN (CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS) UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN","The proposed research is to apply recent ideas from mathematics and theoretical physics in a superspace setting. These ideas concern the differential geometry one encounters when dealing with extended objects rather than points. This should shed light on the long outstanding problem of the effective action of coincident branes, i.e. generalisations of Yang-Mills theories.The use of superspace in this novel mathematical setting seems essential to achieve this. This is a completely new approach to",{"id":785,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":786,"piName":10,"institution":787,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":788,"abstract":789},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501754","A new approach to the modelling of biochemical networks","STICHTING VOOR FUNDAMENTEEL ONDERZOEK DER MATERIE","€141,338","Many important cellular processes are controlled by networks of biochemical reactions. The individual components of the network and their interactions are often well known. However, the functioning of these networks remains an important issue for research. Recent research has shown that, due to the very low concentrations of molecules involved, biochemical networks are highly stochastic. Particle-based approaches are needed in order to model the large fluctuations that are involved. Spatial diff",{"id":791,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":792,"piName":10,"institution":793,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":794},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25053","Cosmological and phenomenological studies of string theory","SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE DI PISA","String theory is for the moment a unique candidate for a consistent unification of gravity with gauge interactions but it lacks experimental evidence. Given the multitude of possible ways of compactifying string theory from ten to four dimensions, it then becomes very difficult to find the compactification that will correspond in the low energy limit to the Standard Model.One aim of the project is to make advances in understanding the way in which the Standard Model is possibly embedded as a low",{"id":796,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":797,"piName":10,"institution":798,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":555,"abstract":799},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8859","New integrable dynamics: from condensed matter systems to gauge and string theories","INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES SCIENTIFIQUES","There are many examples in physics when dynamics of the system in question can be shown to be integrable, i.e. entirely determined by the algebraic structure underlying its symmetries. It seems that the integrability is an emerging new principle of Nature, universal and ubiquitous. In particular, there are many recent examples of appearance of the integrable structure (exactly solvable non-linear partial differential equations) in quantum field theories (Yang-Mills theories), condensed matter sy",{"id":801,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":802,"piName":10,"institution":803,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":804},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501178","Charm, a laboratory for QCD","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES","Accurate measurements of specific charm particle decays are needed to provide calibration for lattice-QCD calculations. These inputs are crucial to extract electro weak parameters as the CP violation phase and light (u, d, s) quark masses. These are among the objectives of the CLEO-c experiment, which starts taking data by mid-2003. Several of these measurements can be conducted at b-factories using the large, already registered, statistics of charm quark pairs produced in the continuum. The app",{"id":806,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":807,"piName":10,"institution":808,"country":536,"year":13,"amount":809,"abstract":810},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502541","ARROW-Like Concepts for Ultra-Compact Photonic Integrated Circuits Combining Hgh Cntrast Lw Ccontrast Waveguides","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","€77,510","Fibre optics used to be exclusively employed for long distance communications, are penetrating into the local area network. The network will reach our homes before long. In order to manage the expected vast amount of data traffic, we need complex and highl y integrated optical circuits, i.e. transmitters, routers and multiplexers that are able to control many channels simultaneously. Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) that combine passive and active waveguide based devices on the same chip are ",{"id":812,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":813,"piName":10,"institution":814,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":815},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-22357","Theoretical analysis of nonperturbative QCD effects in heavy quark systems","UNIVERSITE PARIS-SUD XI","The project is aimed at the theoretical analysis of the effects of strong interactions in weak processes with hadrons containing the heavy beauty b-quark. Weak interactions of the b-quark give a possibility to probe a fundamental property of nature - a difference between matter and antimatter, known as CP violation. They also allow a measurement of the unknown parameters of the Standard Model describing the mixing between the heavy and the light quarks, and open a window to physics beyond the St",{"id":817,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":818,"piName":10,"institution":819,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":79,"abstract":820},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501426","TOURISM, CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE: CHANGING IMAGES. SHIFTING MEANINGS?","UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA","Major events are arguably a principal ' image builder' of modern tourism. The CIUTAT project aims to analyse the effects of major cultural events' on the image of and urban space within their European host cities. As such, an analysis of the broad European context of the production and consumption of urban space for tourism and culture objectives on city image will be undertaken, necessitating an intersect oral, multidisciplinary research approach. The empirical objectives include an evaluation ",{"id":822,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":823,"piName":10,"institution":134,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":824,"abstract":825},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501086","The Right to Work: The Legal and Moral Construction of a Human Right","€105,151","The right to work is enshrined in the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights. It has also been incorporated into the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It can be further observed in several Constitutions of European Countries and worldwide. Various scholars have argued the need to promote the right to work as a human right, whether moral or legal, although there are striking differences between the proponents\\' views regarding the right\\'s substance. How",{"id":827,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":828,"piName":10,"institution":829,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":830,"abstract":831},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8024","Renewables contribution and a framework for quantification of energy security","FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI","€145,617","Energy is vital for all aspects of modern life and the security of energy supply has always been of strategic importance. Needless to say, the issues of energy are of critical importance in economic, environmental and social terms for sustainable development. However, the broad outlook at energy security has dramatically changed during the past few years because of a range of issues: Oil price spikes and sharp increase in gas prices; the impact of the oil products blockade in late 2000; the cris",{"id":833,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":834,"piName":10,"institution":835,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":836,"abstract":837},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-3093","Geometric quantization of field theories","STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT","€143,038","Quantum field theories are the basis of most of modern theoretical physics, but they are not well understood mathematically. Although algebraic quantum field theory provides a framework for describing quantum field theories mathematically, there has been little success at constructing specific models, particularly of gauge theories.On the other hand, the relationship between classical and quantum mechanics has been abstracted and studied in terms of deformation quantization, and the construction",{"id":839,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":840,"piName":10,"institution":841,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":842},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515340","Dynamical Photo-dissociation Regions: Observations and Modelling","OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS","Photo-Dissociation Regions (PDRs) constitute an impressive fraction of the gas of a galaxy. Recent observations lead by the Madrid and Pan's groups have established that a very rich carbon chemistry is taking place in PDRs: the detection of benzene, the simpler aromatic species; the observation of non-polar carbon chains C3 and C4; the surprisingly high abundance and survival of polar carbon chains and small hydrocarbons, and the spatial correlation found with the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon",{"id":844,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":845,"piName":10,"institution":846,"country":847,"year":13,"amount":848,"abstract":849},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500748","Receptor clustering promoted by restricted divalent ligands","NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","IE","€155,012","Dr. Trinidad Velasco, a Spanish national who has recently completed her PhD in the UK and been a researcher in Belgium in the area of bioorganic chemistry, is requesting funds for 2 years to research in Ireland with Dr. Paul Murphy and study fundamental aspects of the mechanism of action of multivalent legends. It is proposed that Trinidad will receive training in carbohydrate and oligosaccharide synthesis, application of NMR and molecular modelling techniques in design and determination of solu",{"id":851,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":852,"piName":10,"institution":368,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":678,"abstract":853},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500521","Development of novel, selective inhibitors of HIF prolydroxylase","In all multi-cellular organisms, oxygen homeostasis represents a fundamental physiological challenge and requires the co-ordinated regulation of an array of genes. Under hypoxic conditions levels of hypoxia inducible factor, a transcription factor, rise and enable transcription of an array of genes involved in the hypoxic response. Under nomadic conditions, levels of HIF are suppressed by the action of oxygen dependent hydroxyls. This project will contribute to the biochemical knowledge and medi",{"id":855,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":856,"piName":10,"institution":857,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":858},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500657","Simple B-Lactams in the Synthesis of furopyridine Antibiotic: Total Synthesis of CJ-15,696 and Analogues","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","The emergence of bacterial resistance has significantly underscored the importance of the discovery of novel classes of antibiotics. The common occurrence of multiple-drug resistant microbes, particularly in hospital settings, is cause for serious clinical concerns. Additionally, the existence of large cohorts of immune compromised patients and the need to utilise anti-infective agents prophylactic ally in their lifetime therapy compound the problem. Finally, the potential activities of dysfunct",{"id":860,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":861,"piName":10,"institution":862,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":863,"abstract":864},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8616","PROTACT: Dynamical aspects of protein activation in biological regulatory pathways","UTRECHT UNIVERSITY","€179,467","Regulation in cells and organisms is achieved by the interplay of proteins acting in concert to achieve a tight control over time and space. In the development of my research line, I focus on the molecular mechanisms of recognition and regulation that underlie biological processes, such as the arrest of bleeding and the innate immune defence against invading pathogens. The proteins involved are, typically, large multi-domain proteins that function in large complexes that collectively carry out e",{"id":866,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":867,"piName":10,"institution":868,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":767,"abstract":869},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9929","Structural characterization of the type III secretion translocon of Pseudomonas aeruginosa","COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE","Bacterial pathogens have developed highly specialized processes to target hosts and establish infection. A recently described weapon, the type III secretion system, transfers toxins from the bacterial cytoplasm into the host cell through a pore formed on the host cell membrane upon cell-to-cell contact. In this project, we will use X-ray crystallography to study PopB and PopD, the two membrane proteins required for pore formation by the nosocomial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, both in their i",{"id":871,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":872,"piName":10,"institution":873,"country":52,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":874},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25261","Structural elucidation by x-ray crystallography of p62, a nuclear pore subcomplex involved in signal mediated nucleocytoplasmic transport","DEPARTMENT OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, BIOZENTRUM, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, SWITZERLAND","Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are large multi-protein structures (~125 MDa) spanning the double membrane of the nucleus and acting as the only gateway of nucleocytoplasmic transport. The three dimensional (3D) architecture of the NPC, its role in trafficking of proteins and RNA, and its molecular composition (nucleoporins 'Nups') have been extensively studied.Nonetheless, to understand how the NPC mediates nucleocytoplasmic exchange requires the independent characterization of its molecular comp",{"id":876,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":877,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":745,"abstract":878},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501422","Gravitating Vertex Models","The construction of a quantum field theory of gravity is among the most fundamental open challenges in theoretical physics. Dynamical triangulations (DT) provide a discrete, non-preservative proposal for addressing this problem. These are well understood for Euclidean signature space times. However, the construction of such a framework for Corinthian signature with a dynamically evolving global causality has not yet been accomplished. As an alternative to the approach of Am Bjorn et al. using tr",{"id":880,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":881,"piName":10,"institution":882,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":883},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23775","Mechanisms and Evolutionary Consequences of Wolbachia Dependent Oogenesis","UNIVERSITé CLAUDE BENARD LYON1","Symbiosis is an important factor in evolution as a source of evolutionary novelty and ecological diversity. Microbial symbionts in particular have had a large impact on the evolution of eukaryotic organisms. An intimate type of symbiosis is endosymbiosis, in which (typically) bacteria live within the host cells.Mitochondria and chloroplasts are examples of ancient endosymbioses that dramatically extended the range of eukaryotic life. Besides on these organelles of bacterial origin, many organism",{"id":885,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":886,"piName":10,"institution":887,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":888,"abstract":889},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500510","Cuckoo-host interactions when multiple parasites target a single host: tactics and trade-offs in a co-evolutionary arms race","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€171,634","Interspecific brood parasitism occurs when parents relegate the care of their offspring to unrelated foster parents of another species. As a consequence, foster parents often fail to rear their own offspring. How can such pattern evolve? Hosts should quickly evolve mechanisms to prevent costly parasitism, yet brood parasitism persists in cuckoos and other birds, fishes, and insects. Theory suggests that parasite-host interactions evolve inane \\arms-race\\ - a cycle of adaptation and counter-adapt",{"id":891,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":892,"piName":10,"institution":893,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":894},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10326","Towards Rational Zeolite Design","ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN","In the proposed project I aim to develop a set of design tools to guide the synthesis of new zeolite-like frameworks, through a thorough understanding of the link between framework topology and energetics. Zeolites and related crystalline microporous solid s constitute an industrially important class of materials with significant applications as catalysts, adsorbents and ion-exchangers. The wide scope of their use originates from the fact that they span a uniquely large spectrum of easily synthe",{"id":896,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":897,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":898,"abstract":899},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514982","GlutathloNe and gene regulation","€149,103","Legumes are one of the most important crops, providing the major source of proteins and oil and improving the nitrogen soil fertilization. Glutathione (GSH) and its legume specific homologue, homoglutathione (hGSH), are major antioxidant molecules, which have important roles in plant defence against biotic and abiotic stresses, storage of reduced sulphur and redox control of the cell. Recently, our team has shown that these molecules have a key role in the nodulation process of legumes. GINGER w",{"id":901,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":902,"piName":10,"institution":903,"country":536,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":904},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23702","Role of interfacial rheology in tailoring the stability of Pickering emulsions","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","The goal of this project is to elucidate the role of interfacial rheology of particle-laden interfaces in the stability of Pickering emulsions, polymer blends and foams.To this end, novel interfacial rheometrical methods will be used in combination with rheo-physical methods to evaluate the influence of interfacial rheology and underlying microstructure on the stability of particle stabilized emulsions, blends or foams.Specifically, experiments on model systems will be used to establish a relati",{"id":906,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":10,"institution":908,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":909,"abstract":910},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500956","Characterisation of Microbial Communities degrading Xenobiotics","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","€190,676","Xenobiotics are man made chemicals of organic origin, and are a persistent problem in Europe, and Worldwide. These include emulsifying agents such as nonylphenols and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Paths) derived from incomplete combustion processes, and phthalates, which are used as additives in plastics and surfactants such as linear alkyl benzene suffocate (LAS). They have an impact on human quality of life, through influence on health, and avoidance techniqu",{"id":912,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":913,"piName":10,"institution":914,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":915,"abstract":916},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7599","New Approaches for the recognition of membrane Bilayers - Therapeutic applications","UNIVERSITé BORDEAUX 1","€159,353","The rapid emergence of bacterial infections resistant to antibiotic drugs has motivated interest in the development of new methods of treatment. In natural systems, antibiotic peptides are part of the first line immunological defence against bacterial infection. These peptides, often having an amphipathic helical structure are believed to exert their effect by the selective disruption of bacterial cell membranes. As this mode of action is not conducive to the development of resistance, they have",{"id":918,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":919,"piName":10,"institution":920,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":921,"abstract":922},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9922","Graph theory and general topology: foundations, infinite graphs and beyond","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (TECNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK)","€147,466","In spite of the traditional gap between graph theory and topology, it is possible to view a graph as a (possibly finite) non-trivial topological object.With respect to this novel topology, the ground set consists of the vertices and edges of the graph, so that an edge is as much of a 'point' in the space as a vertex is, in contrast with the traditional way of modelling a graph as a one-dimensional cell-complex.This topological construction reduces graph-theoretic connectedness directly to connec",{"id":924,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":925,"piName":10,"institution":926,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":135,"abstract":927},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502421","Phylogeography and reproductive modes of two cryptic invasive red algae","NATIONAAL HERBARIUM NEDERLAND","The widespread and ubiquitous genus Ceramium has never previously been considered to have been involved in species invasions. However, recent unpublished data has highlighted the fact that this genus is divided into two biogeographical groups - North Atlantic\u002FMediterranean and Pacific\u002FSouthern Hemisphere. Only two species of Ceramium are found in both groups, namely Ceramium flaccidum and C. virgatum. This highlights the possibility that both of these species have been involved in reciprocal ant",{"id":929,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":930,"piName":10,"institution":931,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":932,"abstract":933},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509865","String-of-pearls: a new bacterial consortium: investigations of lipid biomarkers and their geological significance","UNIVERSITAET BREMEN","€157,641","The proposed project is an investigation of a newly discovered consortium comprising a novel group of SM1- Archaea and bacterium, mainly Thiothrix, that takes on the appearance of a string-of-pearls.Objects bearing a close physical resemblance to these consortia have been found in rocks as old a 1500 million years and are presently considered 'problematic' fossils because there have been no known modern analogues for comparative study. In this project we will investigate the physiology and metab",{"id":935,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":936,"piName":10,"institution":937,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":187,"abstract":938},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500859","Adaptation of Caenorhabditis elegans technology to express and identify parasite target genes","MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE","There are about 82 million cattle in the EU, most of which are exposed to infection with gastro-intestinal nematodes at grazing, with resultant, often substantial, impaired production efficiency. The most common and most pathogenic of these nematodes is Ostertagia ostertagi, which infects the abomasum of cattle.Control of O. ostertagi in Europe is based almost exclusively on the use of anthelmintic drugs. However, these drugs have several drawbacks such as the high costs, interference with natur",{"id":940,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":941,"piName":10,"institution":942,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":943,"abstract":944},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9951","Photosynthesis: What controls the membrane protein Ring Size?","COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE","€205,474","During the last decade life sciences have witnessed a spectacular progress in structural biology with the structures of many important biomolecules coming available. However, up to now, only a few structures of membrane proteins have been determined, even although as many as 20 to 40% of the genes of all sequenced genomes code for such macromolecules.Photosynthetic membrane proteins have been at the forefront of membrane protein science, because they generally bind chlorophyll and carotenoid cof",{"id":946,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":947,"piName":10,"institution":948,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":949},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24534","Biomimetic formation of bacterial magnetic nanoparticles: progress and promises","MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FüR MARINE MIKROOBIOLOGIE","One of the most intriguing examples for biogenic magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is found in magnetotactic bacteria (MTB). MTB synthesize intracellular, enveloped crystals of magnetite (Fe3O4) called magnetosomes, which are formed by a process called biologically-controlled mineralization (BCM). Because of unique features, BCM of magnetosomes has been in the focus of strong interdisciplinary interest to understand bacterial control on MNPs formation. However, little is known about how BCM occurs a",{"id":951,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":952,"piName":10,"institution":953,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":830,"abstract":954},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7623","Laplacian growth and inverse potential problems","SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI","In the last twenty years much efforts have been done in the understanding of interface dynamics in various fields, such as hydrodynamics, combustion, non-equilibrium statistical and condensed matter physics. The problem of pattern formation is one of the most rapidly developing branches of non-linear science today. The field has grown fast and there is no need to stress its importance. The study of the front dynamics between two phases (Laplacian growth problem) that arises in a variety of non-e",{"id":956,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":957,"piName":10,"institution":958,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":959,"abstract":960},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501330","CMRF35-like molecules: a novel receptor family involved in the control of myeloid cell function","UNIVERSITY OF OSLO","€260,060","Cells of the myeloid lineage are the major cellular component of the innate immune system. They orchestrate the adaptive immune response and play a major role in inflammatory pathologies and tumour progression. Given these facts, a more thorough understanding of the control of myeloid cell function is clearly warranted.Our proposal aims to address this problem directly, by investigating a newly identified family of myeloid receptors. This family is orthologous to a previously identified human re",{"id":962,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":963,"piName":10,"institution":964,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":965,"abstract":966},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8977","Analysis of interactions between cell division proteins","INSTITUT PASTEUR","€250,232","Cell division is a fundamental process that allows the multiplication of all bacteria. Although this mechanism is essential for their survival, it is one of the least understood processes in bacterial cell biology. Understanding the molecular function of different factors implicated in this key event of the bacterial cell cycle is essential. Furthermore the characterization of cell division machinery will open up new opportunities in bioengineering and development of novel therapeutic and antiba",{"id":968,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":969,"piName":10,"institution":970,"country":278,"year":13,"amount":971,"abstract":972},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-515536","Benthic invertebrate guts as mobile microsites in sediments: Hot spots for denitrification and N2O production","UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS","€20,500","The proposed project centres on so far neglected animal-microbe interactions in freshwater sediment that are expected to greatly influence denitrification rates and N2O emission to the atmosphere. We hypothesise that the guts of sediment-dwelling detritivores constitute mobile microsites in which bacterial denitrification will be induced by anoxia and high concentrations ofdissolved organic carbon. Over time, the inoculation of sediment with actively denitrifying bacteria via egested feces may f",{"id":974,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":975,"piName":10,"institution":744,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":976},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514549","Catalytic cascade reactions, generic technology for glycobiology","Innovative chemical manipulation of carbohydrates has lagged significantly behind advances in glycobiology (the biochemistry of carbohydrates). Moreover, despite the widespread involvement of carbohydrates in the fundamental processes underpinning human an d animal health and their involvement in the growth and maturation of many of the species responsible for human\u002Fanimal illness, e.g. bacteria, viruses, there has not been a concerted and substantial involvement of major pharmaceutical \u002Fanimal ",{"id":978,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":979,"piName":10,"institution":980,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":981},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-23567","Diversity of subsoil anaerobic microorganisms and their potential for aromatic hydrocarbons degradation","ESTACIóN EXPERIMENTAL DEL ZAIDíN, CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTíFICAS","The steps involved in oil refining can generate accidental spills resulting in hydrocarbon contaminated areas, reaching as far as the subsoil and ground waters. Rehabilitation by microbial methods has been recognised as novel, cleaner and less expensive than physical-chemical techniques.However, low or zero oxygen levels has limited the application of aerobic bacteria in the subsoil. Consequently, anaerobes significance became apparent for subsurface bioremediation. Nevertheless, evaluation of a",{"id":983,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":984,"piName":10,"institution":480,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":58,"abstract":985},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10501","Crystallographic studies of bacterial membrane transport systems","This project will study substrate translocation mechanisms of multi-component drug-efflux pumps that transport molecules across membranes in Gram-negative bacteria. These pumps serve both protective and virulence associated functions, by forming channels associated with the export of invasive proteins and the efflux of toxic compounds. At the same time, the outer membrane component of the pump, TolC, is a point of weakness for the bacterium since it is a receptor for bacteriophages and is a poin",{"id":987,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":988,"piName":10,"institution":989,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":990,"abstract":991},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501133","Supramolecular Interactions in Smart Materials","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - DÉLÉGATION BRETAGNE PAYS DE LA LOIRE","€113,670","The main objective of the proposed research is the definition of reliable supramolecular structure-properties relationships, with the aim to guide the design of materials with desired optical and electronic properties, from the molecular to the supramolecular level. Starting from the analysis of the properties of the solvated molecule, a comprehensive theoretical model will be developed to predict the properties of complex supramolecular systems, then guiding the synthetic strategy in a bottom-u",{"id":993,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":994,"piName":10,"institution":995,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":996},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25654","Application of recombinant lactic acid bacteria secreting Interleukine12 for enhancement of Th1 response and alleviation of allergic disease","INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH","Common allergic disease has trebled in the last twenty years, resulting in approximately one-fifth of the EU population likely to be seeking treatment for allergy. Potentially life-threatening conditions such as peanut allergy now affect about one in 70 children and are still increasing.Asthma, rhinitis and eczema have increased two- to three-fold in the last twenty years. The cytokine IL12 is one of the most powerful Th1 lymphokines and it has been found to cure Th2 cytokine-mediated murine sch",{"id":998,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":999,"piName":10,"institution":1000,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":1001},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-24800","Lactococcus lactis as a delivery system of macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) to enhance mucosal transport of biologically active compounds","INTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH","In order to induce a robust and effective immune response at mucosal level, bacteria, viruses and other antigens must cross the intestinal barrier. Highly specialised antigen-sampling M cells are strategically located in certain areas of the gut and play a fundamental role in the induction of mucosal and systemic immune responses by transporting antigens to the mucosal-associated immune system (MALT). Large numbers of in vivo studies, in which the follicle-associated epithelium (FAE) of gut-asso",{"id":1003,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1004,"piName":10,"institution":1005,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":1006},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25241","Speciated Isotope Labelling Experiments on Organometallic Compounds to Unravel their Chemical and Microbial Fate in the Environment","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE DéLéGATION RéGIONALE 15","As reflected in the Water Framework Directive (2000\u002F60\u002FEC) and in the Decision 2455\u002F2001\u002FEC the European Union has demonstrated its concern in the field of water policy, particularly in the establishment of a list of the most hazardous pollutants for the aquatic environment.Organometallic species such as tributyltin and its degradation products, Hg and its compounds as well as Pb and its compounds have been already included in this list and qualified as priority pollutants.Unravelling the biogeo",{"id":1008,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1009,"piName":10,"institution":1010,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":1011},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-25521","Influence of selective grazing of bacteria on the transfer of autochthonous versus allochthonous carbon","INSTITUTO MEDITERRANEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS, CSIC-UNIV. ILLES BALEARS","In brief, the proposed project is about the influence of selective grazing of marine bacteria on the transfer of autochthonous versus allochthonous carbon. It appears that there are different bacterial life strategies - fast growth on high quality substrates and high sensitivity to grazing, and slow growth on low quality substrates and low sensitivity to grazing.Due to qualitative differences in dissolved organic matter (DOM) of autochthonous and allochthonous origin, the selective grazing of ba",{"id":1013,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1014,"piName":10,"institution":1015,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":1016,"abstract":1017},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-514535","Antigen presentation and T cell-mediated immunity: membrane trafficking in cross-presentation","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA RECHERCHE MÉDICALE","€151,938","Cross presentation is the process by which professional antigen presenting cells (APCs) present phagocyted antigens in the context of MHC class I molecules (MHC I), to prime CD8+ T cells. Recent findings have revealed that this process takes place in a spe cialized, ER-phagosome mix compartment in the major APCs, like dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages. This novel compartment was also shown to be self-sufficient for cross presentation. In this context, ER membranes are recruited to the formin",{"id":1019,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1020,"piName":10,"institution":1021,"country":1022,"year":13,"amount":1023,"abstract":1024},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-980020","Development of mixed starter cultures for the production of high quality cocoa in West Africa","UNIVERSITY OF GHANA","GH","€26,529","Export of cocoa plays a significant economic role in West African countries like Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria, the major cocoa producing region in the World. Fresh cocoa beans have to go through a fermentation and drying step to obtain the desired characteristic 'cocoa flavour'. Traditionally, cocoa beans are fermented through a spontaneous, indigenous fermentation with no control of the microorganisms present. As a consequence, the quality of cocoa varies. These variations negatively influe",{"id":1026,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1027,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":1028,"abstract":1029},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501962","A quest for biological roles of new small RNAs in Escherichia coli","€167,055","In recent years, genomic searches performed in several laboratories have indicated the high prevalence of identified new small, untranslated RNAs in all organisms, from bacteria to animals and plants. In the enterobacterial model E. coli, many new RNAs were identified (50) or predicted (250). However, although their expression patterns suggest involvement in stress responses, few of them have at present a biological function assigned to it. Moreover, even for the few for which information about ",{"id":1031,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1032,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":45,"year":13,"amount":767,"abstract":1033},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10103","Self-hidden Bifunctional Organocatalysts for Organic Synthesis","The research project aims at developing new tools for synthetic chemistry, more precisely a new class of multi-centre catalysts (MCC). This approach markedly differs from those reported so far since the two active sites of the catalysts would mutually and reversibly protect each other via an intramolecular donor-acceptor interaction. Accordingly, the bifunctional derivatives would behave as self-hidden or dormant catalysts. Thanks to this methodology, a broader range of active sites could be inv",{"id":1035,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1036,"piName":10,"institution":1037,"country":215,"year":13,"amount":1038,"abstract":1039},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-510027","Prevention and definition of autoimmunity through dipeptidyl-peptidase IV signaling","INSTITUT OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY OF THE AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES","€149,963","Type-1 diabetes remains one of the most devastating childhood disease of the day. Despite over acentury of research into the condition diagnosis still carries with it a sentence to lifelong daily insulininjection. Despite its prevalence, medicine has yet t o offer preventative therapy for the condition.Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DP IV) is a ubiquitous multifunctional membrane ectopeptidase withparticularly high expression levels on the endothelial lining of the vasculature and on the surface ofimm",{"id":1041,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1042,"piName":10,"institution":1043,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1044,"abstract":1045},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8966","Infant speech segmentation and the role of the emergent lexicon","UNIVERSITY OF WALES BANGOR","€114,664","The goal of the project is to bring to Europe for one year an innovative researcher in mid-career who has established a strong collaborative link with one researcher in the UK (the project host). The researcher stands to gain momentum and visibility in his career as well as to forge valuable new contacts with members of the European research community.His presence will also serve as a further stimulus to the vibrant international team of young researchers currently involved in developing a model",{"id":1047,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1048,"piName":10,"institution":1049,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":1050,"abstract":1051},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-7541","New Heterocyclic Liquid Crystals","UNIVERSITY OF EXETER","€23,814","This proposal will bring to the EU a most talented Russian researcher with a strong background in heterocyclic chemistry, and to use his expertise in a ped with the synthesis and properties of new heterocyclic liquid crystals. In one part, the work will exploit the availability of precursors to symmetric and unsymmetric di- and tri-substituted phenanthrolines to realise high birefringence materials with negative dielectric anisotropy, while in another, bent-core disubstituted phenanthrolines wil",{"id":1053,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1054,"piName":10,"institution":1055,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":1056,"abstract":1057},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-2928","Synthetic Bio-Nanoarchitectures For Enhanced Biosensing Approach","CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB","€155,182","Nanostructured functional materials constitute one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding fields in scienceand technology, which include their use in such diverse areas as materials technology, biotechnology, energy and environmental technology, electronics, catalytic applications etc. From other side, the increasingly important role in biophysics and in life sciences is played by laser spectroscopy methods. The present project challenges one of the most exciting and phenomena rich sub-fields",{"id":1059,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1060,"piName":10,"institution":1061,"country":163,"year":13,"amount":1062,"abstract":1063},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-8985","Active manipulation of Biomolecules in microfluidic arrays","SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA","€72,156","The proposed research deals with the problem of sorting and separating biomolecules using a microfluidic network of micron- or nanometre-sized channels. The flow in the network is driven by electrical potentials induced by electrodes placed at various node s of the network. We propose to carry out a comprehensive study (both analytical and computational) of the resulting electroosmotic flow (EOF) in the network in order to determine the channel configuration and the electric potential distributi",{"id":1065,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1066,"piName":10,"institution":1067,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":678,"abstract":1068},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9382","REMOTE CONFORMATIONAL CONTROL","VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","Stereochemistry can be viewed as binary information, and stereocontrol as the communication of that information through space. Reliable stereochemical control is mediated by conformation, and empirically it is clear that better control of conformation yields higher stereoselectivity.   In this project we propose to develop the methods of stereocontrol and apply them more generally to the problem of communicating information through space, mediated not by electronics but by conformation. We shall",{"id":1070,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1071,"piName":10,"institution":1072,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":1073,"abstract":1074},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501883","Modulation of osteoblast function by bioactive RGD-peptides arranged in nanotemplates","UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG","€160,466","The development of new methodologies in the field of material science and nanotechnology represents a useful tool to further explore and modify biomaterial design. Biocompatiblity is dependent on material-related factors, such as topography and surface chemistry, as well as cell adhesion and function. The focus of this multidisciplinary work is the creation of a system, which permits the study of bone cells adhesion and the regulation of their cellular activities. We propose to use novel chemica",{"id":1076,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1077,"piName":10,"institution":1078,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":1079,"abstract":1080},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-3023","Visualisation of the early steps of human hepatitis B virus infection: a colourful approach","UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG","€159,332","The human Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen. Despite the energetic introduction of a vaccine against HBV in the developed world, still worldwide one in twenty people is chronically infected. People living in poverty, particularly in developing countries, are particularly at risk due to lack of access to vaccines and donor organs. Carriers of the human hepatitis B virus are at high risk of developing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and worldwide more than one million",{"id":1082,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1083,"piName":10,"institution":1084,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":1085},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-10311","Structural studies of the catalytic core of the spliceosome","MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL","The excision of introns from eukaryotic pre-mRNA and splicing together of exons is performed by a macromolecular machine called the spliceosome. Splicing is a highly dynamic process that involves many spliceosomal intermediates. Each intermediate contains specific RNA-protein complexes called small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) and a number of additional non-snRNP proteins. It has been established that the spliceosome intermediates that are involved in the actual splicing reaction",{"id":1087,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1088,"piName":10,"institution":341,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":915,"abstract":1089},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509423","Evaporative of a guided atomic beam: towards a continuous Bose-Einstein condensate source","Nanostructured functional materials constitute one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding fields in science and technology, which include their use in such diverse areas as materials technology, biotechnonology, energy and environmental technology, electronics, catalytic applications etc.From other side, the increasingly important role in biophysics and in life sciences is played by laser spectroscopie methods. The present project challenges one of the most exciting and phenomena rich sub-fie",{"id":1091,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":1092,"piName":10,"institution":1093,"country":64,"year":13,"amount":464,"abstract":1094},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-9293","Analysis of single molecules at high concentration in stimulated emission depletion generated zeptoliter volumes with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.","The objective of this proposal comes from a wish and need in fluorescence-based bioanalytical studies to detect single molecules, one by one, even at high biological concentrations.At present, commonly used optical microscopes applied in the detection of single molecules, using diffraction-limited observation volumes (lateral size ~200nm; axial ~ 500 nm), only allow for single molecules to be detected at pico- to nanomolar concentrations. 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