[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-2003":3,"awarded-stats-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship":425},{"awarded":4,"total":424},[5,16,22,27,34,40,46,53,58,64,70,77,84,91,98,102,107,112,118,122,129,135,140,146,153,159,165,171,178,184,190,195,201,206,212,218,224,229,234,240,245,251,257,262,266,270,277,281,287,293,298,303,307,311,318,324,330,334,339,344,348,354,360,365,370,375,379,384,390,396,402,408,413,418],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":15},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502200","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship","Calcareous dinoflagellate culturing experiments: understanding the life cycle of oceanic species",null,"THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM","UK",2003,"€159,046","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":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":20,"abstract":21},"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":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":26,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502352","Futurum","LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE","€160,861",{"id":28,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":29,"piName":10,"institution":30,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":32,"abstract":33},"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":35,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":36,"piName":10,"institution":37,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":39},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500848","Chemical and Structural Synergy in Heterobimetallic Chemistry","UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE","€160,180","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":41,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":42,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":44,"abstract":45},"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":47,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":48,"piName":10,"institution":49,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":51,"abstract":52},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501345","Atropenantioselective lactamizations using an intramolecular Staudinger ligation strategy","UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM","NL","€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":54,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":55,"piName":10,"institution":56,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":57},"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":59,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":60,"piName":10,"institution":61,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":62,"abstract":63},"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","€142,866","This project aims at1.",{"id":65,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":66,"piName":10,"institution":67,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":68,"abstract":69},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501042","Filling transitions for fluids at structured substrates and related phenomena.","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","€152,809","The purpose of this proposal is to further investigate the theory of interfacial phase transitions on structured substrates. From this study we hope to develop a more complete picture of the role that surface geometry plays in determining fluid adsorption and its interplay with interfacial fluctuation effects. We are interested in the phenomenology that arises at the micrometer scale, where fluctuations can be important. At this scale, effective Hamiltonian models are currently the only tools th",{"id":71,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":72,"piName":10,"institution":73,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":75,"abstract":76},"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":78,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":79,"piName":10,"institution":80,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":82,"abstract":83},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500956","Characterisation of Microbial Communities degrading Xenobiotics","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","DK","€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":85,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":86,"piName":10,"institution":87,"country":88,"year":13,"amount":89,"abstract":90},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501962","A quest for biological roles of new small RNAs in Escherichia coli","UPPSALA UNIVERSITY","SE","€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":92,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":93,"piName":10,"institution":94,"country":95,"year":13,"amount":96,"abstract":97},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501099","Physics and technology of nanotubes@nanotubes (nanotubes in nanotubes)","MATERIAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA","AT","€156,753","Carbon annotates (CNT) represent the one-dimensional form of carbon. Related to their appealing needle-like structure, they possess a number of peculiar mechanical and electronic properties, which makes them promising candidates for devices-devices. The single walled version of Cants (SWCNT) are even more interesting due to their well defined geometry and small diameter. Doping and modifications of SWCNTs have attracted considerable interest. The C60 doped SWCNT, (C60@SWCNT) combines two fundame",{"id":99,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":100,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":101},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501682","Phylogenetic and evolutionary studies in the Ptychomniieae (Bryophyta) and a novel approach to biogeography","This project will use phylogenetic analysis to resolve the relationships of a monophyletic group of mosses. The resulting topology will then be used in studies of the evolution of morphological characters that will enable us to learn more about evolutionary processes. To develop a well-resolved phylogeny of the pleurocarpous moss group Ptychomniieae, I will extract and sequence DNA from the chloroplast, mitochondrial, and nuclear genome, and combine these in phylogenetic analyses. This work will",{"id":103,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":104,"piName":10,"institution":105,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":106},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502079","Functional analysis of DIR1, a putative lipid transfer protein that promotes long distance signalling during systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis.","JOHN INNES CENTRE","Attempted infection can result in systemic acquired resistance (SAR)- the development throughout the plant of immunity to subsequent attack by a broad range of normally virulent pathogens. TheArabidopsis mutant defective in induced resistance 1-1 (dirl-1) exhibits wild-type local resistance toavirulent Pseudomonas syringe, but defence gene expression is abolished in distant leaves and dirl-1fails to develop SAR to virulent Pseudomonas or Peronospora parasitical. Petiole exudates experiments indi",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":10,"institution":110,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":111},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-505812","Manipulating Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) activity in the adipose cell. A means of altering cell differentiation and metabolism ?","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","In most individuals, the adipose tissue, like other adult tissues, maintains a stable mass. Nevertheless, this tissue displays a unique capacity to grow or regress during adulthood, when energy balance shifts positively or negatively. In humans, phenotypes of adipose dystrophy range from massive obesity, where adipose mass represents 60 to 70% of body weight, to lipoatrophy, with less than 2% of fat. Starting during the past 10-20 years, the number of obese individuals is increasing on an epidem",{"id":113,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":114,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":116,"abstract":117},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501953","Computational study of membrane bound parts of the ATP synthase","UNIVERSITE LOUIS PASTEUR","€161,621","We will perform a computational study of selected properties of the membrane bound part of ATP synthase, the protein responsible for the synthesis of ATP. The objective of this proposal is to achieve training in the interdisciplinary field of molecular dynamics simulations of proteins through research in a project that is of both fundamental and practical importance. The research plan includes the study of:a) the conformational change of the subunit c;b) the rotation of the subunit c ring;c) the",{"id":119,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":120,"piName":10,"institution":67,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":121},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501920","Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli\u002Finfected mammalian cells cross talk: post genomic and molecular targeted approach","Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEG) are highly adapted food-borne intestinal pathogens causing haemorrhagic colitis and the haemolytic uremie syndrome (HUS). STEG constitute a major problem in human food safety as cattle represent an important reservoir of STEC strains. Ability of STEG to adhere to. and subvert normal signalling pathways of, host cells is a key process in their pathogenesis. The objective of this project is to dissect the cross talk between STEC and epithelial cells on both ",{"id":123,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":124,"piName":10,"institution":125,"country":126,"year":13,"amount":127,"abstract":128},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502541","ARROW-Like Concepts for Ultra-Compact Photonic Integrated Circuits Combining Hgh Cntrast Lw Ccontrast Waveguides","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","BE","€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":130,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":131,"piName":10,"institution":132,"country":133,"year":13,"amount":134,"abstract":10},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-504232","7th International Conference and Laser Ablation","FOUNDATION OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY - HELLAS","EL","€34,620",{"id":136,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":137,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":138,"abstract":139},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500582","A density functional theory study of the early steps in radiation damage","€167,665","Radiation damage on molecular scale commonly occurs due to exposure to UV light or ionizing radiation as applied e.g. for food preservation, waste water treatment, medical treatments, or originating from the sun. Initially, radiation creates highly reactive electronic defects such as electron holes and excess electrons.These defects can attack organic molecules directly or are converted to intermediate free radicals that react rapidly with most molecules and are responsible for e.g. DNA damage. ",{"id":141,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":142,"piName":10,"institution":143,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":144,"abstract":145},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500999","Photophysics and Spectroscopy of Hydrides, Ions and Organic Radicals","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","€159,613","PHOSPHOR: Photo physics and Spectroscopy of Hydrides, ions and Organic Radicals Processes that convert electronic excitation into nuclear kinetic energy largely determine the photo physics of platonic molecules in excited electronic states. Such processes are ubiquitous - in scientific areas ranging from atmospheric chemistry to photobiology, and from molecular electronics to Nan science. In the language of chemical physics, such processes represent a breakdown of the so-called Born-Oppenheimer ",{"id":147,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":148,"piName":10,"institution":149,"country":150,"year":13,"amount":151,"abstract":152},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501218","Evaporative cooling in an optical conveyor belt providing a source of ultra cold atoms for continuous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), and combining optical lattices with BEC microchip technology","EUROPEAN LABORATORY FOR NON-LINEAR SPECTROSCOPY","IT","€73,007","We will study continuous evaporative cooling of atoms in an optical conveyor belt as a source of ultra cold atoms for a continuous Einstein-Einstein condensate (BEC) or a pumped atom laser. We will superimpose a 1-D optical lattice (OL) on a 2-D magnetic wave-guide using RF knife evaporation. This could provide a continuous source of degenerate atoms without the use of resonant photons or variable magnetic fields. Alternatively we could use a diverging optical conveyor belt with fixed optical po",{"id":154,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":155,"piName":10,"institution":156,"country":74,"year":13,"amount":157,"abstract":158},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501892","Cirrus cloud mimic surfaces in the laboratory: organic acids, bases and NOx heterogenous reactions","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK","€163,279","It is proposed to investigate the mechanisms of heterogeneous reactions taking place between the important tropospheric pollutants, NO2, NO and NH3 and certain simple carboxylic acids on water-ice surfaces. The systems employed will be relevant to the ch aracterization of \\missing\\ atmospheric chemistry, which has been suggested to be driven by cirrus cloud particulates. The core methodologies involved are based upon the successful water-ice, thin-film FT-RAIR studies previously performed in Pro",{"id":160,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":161,"piName":10,"institution":162,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":163,"abstract":164},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502330","Identifying conserved gene expression changes functionally linked to lifecycle parameters and predictive for fitness of soil invertebrates.","NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL","€119,568","To enable management of polluted sites, regulatory and scientific focus is on developing sensitive sub lethal (cellular, biochemical, molecular) indicators for early recognition, identification and analysis of chemical effects. Current tools are based on detoxification mechanisms that can only be linked to ecological parameters by correlation. To provide immediate ecological relevance of biomarkers this project aims to identify molecular parameters (e.g. genes) that are functional components of ",{"id":166,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":167,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":169,"abstract":170},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502420","Molecular Ruthenium Catalyst for Fine Chemistry","UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1","€150,804","The project aims at the development of molecular catalysis for fine chemistry via the design of ruthenium catalysts and the discovery of new combinations of molecules. The use of new catalysts will improve the outcome of useful reactions, increasing significantly atom economy, mild conditions and selectivity. The development of new catalytic carbon-carbon bond reactions by ruthenium complexes, through the combination of simple and cheap materials (alkenes, alkynes, dienes) via clean processes, w",{"id":172,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":173,"piName":10,"institution":174,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":176,"abstract":177},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501466","The role of C-type lectins in A. gambiae immunity and vector-Plasmodium interactions","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","DE","€150,856","Anopheles mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium. During its journey in the mosquito the parasite suffers severe losses in numbers due to immune defence mechanisms of the vector. The genome of A. Gambia, the major African vector, has been recently sequenced and is certain to accelerate studies on mosquito innate immunity and vector-parasite interactions. In this context a first pass genomic analysis identified, among others, 7 genes families ",{"id":179,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":180,"piName":10,"institution":181,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":182,"abstract":183},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501281","Competition and innovation: empirical analysis of market power, schumpeterian competition and innovation","THE AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS","€173,331","Recent theoretical work in the field of growth theory has stressed the Schumpeterian nature of the growth process, illustrating the continuous emergence of new ideas and products, and the consecutive decline of old products and ideas, leading to entry and exit of firms.Empirical research has documented the existence of this process of creative destruction, but has rarely tried to look at the non-idiosyncratic determinants and to assess the consequences of the process. A likely candidate to expla",{"id":185,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":186,"piName":10,"institution":187,"country":88,"year":13,"amount":188,"abstract":189},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502109","A Study of the Factors Determining Penetration of Polymethyl Methacrylate Bone Cement into Trabecular Bone","LUNDS UNIVERSITET","€156,883","Total joint replacement is a very successful operation, relieving pain and disability for approximately 1,5 million people worldwide each year. With changing demographic age distributions in the population, it is predicted that the need for such operations will increase significantly over the coming decades. Most implants use polymath methacrylate (PMMA) bone cement, which grouts the prosthesis into bone. A benchmark figure for survival to these implants is now 95% after 10 years. Even so, the n",{"id":191,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":192,"piName":10,"institution":193,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":169,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501935","Integrated Geomechanical and Elastic-wave Methods for Characterisation of localised deformation and yielding in geomaterials","UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER","Deformation and rock failure in the subsurface could have significant socio-economic and environmental consequences, e.g., for tunnel safety, waste storage or hydrocarbon production. These consequences can be ameliorated through prior identification of subsurface regions that are at or close to yielding. Such identification requires remote sensing techniques and an understanding of the underlying characteristics of failure zones. The project will utilise elastic wave and acoustic emission data t",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":199,"abstract":200},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501214","Nonlinear quotients and geometry of banach spaces","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","€163,696","It is proposed to study a number of the open questions in the general area of non-linear geometric functional analysis. The research in this area involves a rich interplay between classical analysis, geometry of Banach spaces, geometric measure theory, topology and combinatorics.Some of the specific questions we would wish to consider are:- Lower bounds for the volume ratios of Lipschitz quotient mappings.- Gorelik principle for Lipschitz quotient mappings with constants close to one.- Quas irre",{"id":202,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":203,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":205},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501521","Embodiment and agency: experimental investigation of the relation between plurimodal body representation and action attribution","€158,479","The project, which participates to the pluridisciplinary approach of Cognitive Science, will allow reformulating the traditional philosophical problem of self-consciousness by combining empirical and theoretical tools. We have to distinguish two distinct kinds of self-consciousness, the sense of ownership that results from the recognition of one' s own body and the sense of agency, which consists in the recognition of oneself as the cause of actions (Gallagher, 2000). Even if the sense of agency",{"id":207,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":10,"institution":209,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":210,"abstract":211},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500489","The role of T Cell Activation in Type 1 Diabetes. T cell differentiation versus T Cell tolerance","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE","€210,010","The proposal presented here represents a continuation of the work I have done in the USA on peripheral tolerance and autoimmune diabetes. My goal is to gain a better understanding of the disregulation of the mechanisms of immune tolerance leading to the activation of autoreactive T cells in autoimmune processes.This will allow us to rationally design new therapeutic strategies against type 1 diabetes in particular, that can prevent or stop the progression of the disease before insulin function i",{"id":213,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":214,"piName":10,"institution":215,"country":150,"year":13,"amount":216,"abstract":217},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500573","Using trust and reputation to Improve security in virtual societies","CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE","€136,375","This proposal has three main objectives:1. Improve the reliability and security in e-Commerce environments. Trust and reputation systems are currently being implemented as an alternative or as a complement to sanctions for regulating transactions and discouraging cheaters in e-Commerce environments. However, the efficiency of reputation systems currently implemented is not as good as it would be desirable. If we want to undertake current problems of virtual societies we need theoretically more s",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":10,"institution":221,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":222,"abstract":223},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502072","The impact of advertising on consumer (dis)satisfaction","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT","€126,632","Consumers are increasingly exposed with advertising campaigns in which they are often confronted with idealized representations of the world (e.g., idealized situations, attractive models). A large amount of studies has shown that ads presenting idealized images can have strong effects on consumer satisfaction and welfare. However, obtained results were not consistent with each other. Some studies found that advertising had an increasing effect on consumer satisfaction; other studies found that ",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":10,"institution":209,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":227,"abstract":228},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502287","The role of adherence factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the continous modification of the host\u002Fpathogen relationship","€76,253","Bacterial pathogens encountering host cells employ several attachment factors, which promote direct contact and trigger distinct signalling pathways in the host. The stimulation of particular signalling pathways subverts the eucaryotic cell and enables sur vival and persistence of bacteria within the host. Identification and characterisation of communicative tools between the bacteria and the host cells should lead to a better understanding of the infectious process and the development of new an",{"id":230,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":231,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":232,"abstract":233},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500978","Synthesis of Marine Macrolides and Hybrid Structures as Novel Microtubule Stabilising Anticancer Agents","€162,448","Project Summary and Research Objectives: Dictyostatin is a potent inhibitor of cell proliferation at the Nan molar level, causing cell cycle arrest at the G2\u002FM phase and inducing apoptosis. By sharing the same microtubule-stabilising mechanism as the anticancer drug Taxi, and retaining activity against Resistant-resistant cancer cells, the marine microcline dictyostatin is a potential new chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of solid tumours. Due to the extremely low isolation yield from the",{"id":235,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":236,"piName":10,"institution":237,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":238,"abstract":239},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500768","Role of caveolae in the adipocyte's lipid droplet regulation","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. REPRESENTED BY THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS, DRESDEN","€148,588","The storage of triacylglycerols so as to provide energy for the organism in case of food deprivation is amajor function of adipocytes. In addition, the adipose tissue contains the largest body pool of free-cholesterol localized in the lipid droplet. Moreover, the adipose tissue constitutes the highest expressing tissue of caveolinswhich are known to act as cholesterol-binding proteins. We propose to try to find out if the dynamics of thesecaveolins, that have recently been reported to be around ",{"id":241,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":242,"piName":10,"institution":243,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":44,"abstract":244},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501724","Genomic fine-mapping of malaria susceptibility loci","CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum kills over a million African children each year. We need to get a better understanding of natural mechanisms of host defence against the parasite, to help in the search for better ways of treating severe malaria and for an effective malaria vaccine. This proposal aims to understand the association between severe malaria and polymorphisms of TNF, the gene encoding tumour necrosis factor. Several different associations have been observed between TNF and severe ",{"id":246,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":247,"piName":10,"institution":248,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":249,"abstract":250},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501659","Evolution and epidemiology of human malaria \u002F mosquito interactions.","WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCES","€157,192","Malaria remains one of the most successful diseases of human both in terms of its prevalence and of defying our attempts at control. Contributing to its success is the fact that its transmission fails to be prevented by the immune response of its human host or its mosquito vectors. Indeed, malaria parasites are only rarely killed by their mosquito vector's immune response in natural situations. One possible explanation for the lack of resistance is that the cost of the immune response prohibits ",{"id":252,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":253,"piName":10,"institution":254,"country":150,"year":13,"amount":255,"abstract":256},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501104","Doppler Ultrasound Techniques at High Frequency to Estimate Blood Flow in Microvessels of the Human Eye","DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY ROMA TRE","€143,179","Glaucoma is the most frequent reason for ophthalmic visits among persons over the age of 65. Glaucoma is the end result of a variety of diseases and is analogous to heart failure or liver failure, each of which can result from a number of different causes. These causes are still not completely understood and glaucoma remains a disease of unknown aetiology and inadequate treatment. Elevated interlobular Pressure was identified as the primary risk factor for the illness over 100 years ago, but oth",{"id":258,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":259,"piName":10,"institution":260,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":261},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501686","Molecular mechanisms of amino acid recognition by adenylation domains of the Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) coelichelin nonribosomal peptide synthetase","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are a large family of modular multienzymes that catalyse the biosynthesis of many commercially important microbial natural products. Adenylation (A) domains within each NRPS module selectively bind and activate (by reaction with ATP) the amino acids constituting the peptide. Structure based models of A-domains have recently been developed, which identify potentially important residues for amino acid recognition and facilitate the prediction of new peptid",{"id":263,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":264,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":265},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501815","Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Addition Reactions of Metal Pyrrolates : New Methodology and Synthetic Applications","Alkali metal pyrrolate derivatives are effective \u002FV-centred nucleophiles that partake in Michael addition reactions to electron poor alkenes. In the former case, the reaction leads to masked ÿ-amino acids that may be converted to the parent amino compound through a tandem ozonolysis\u002Facid hydrolysis procedure. The reactions may be made asymmetric by using covalently linked chirality on the 2-position of the pyrrole ring, or catalytic quantities of chiral multidentate ligands to accelerate the Mic",{"id":267,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":268,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":269},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500242","Development of an organic-catalyst mediated cyclopropanation reaction","A new cyclopropanation reaction will be described, based on ammonium ylides. The reaction of a-chloroketones with electron-deficient alkenes mediated by a nucleophilic tertiary amine will generate the cyclopropane as a single diastereoisomer. The reaction can be performed as a 'one-pot' stoichiometric process, using DABCO as the tertiary amine.It will be also highly enantioselective under these conditions when a chiral amine is used. Furthermore, the achiral reaction proceeds with a catalytic am",{"id":271,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":272,"piName":10,"institution":273,"country":274,"year":13,"amount":275,"abstract":276},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502412","Gravitation, Holography and Quantum Gravity","THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (DUPLI USE 99013254)","IL","€165,449","The main aim of this research project is to further the understanding of the so called Holographic Principle, originally formulated by G. t Hooft (who wrote a referee assessment of the applicant). This is a subject that is not only of great intrinsic intellectual interest but has many ramifications across wide areas of physics and mathematics. The Holographic Principle gives a precise, general and surprisingly strong limit on the information content of space-time regions: the total number of ind",{"id":278,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":279,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":280},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501675","Evolutionary reproductive ecology of caecilian amphibians","Caecilian amphibians are burrowing predators of tropical soil ecosystems. They have exceptionally diverse reproductive modes (e.g. oviparity, viviparity). The project is an integrative analysis of the evolution of this reproductive diversity. We hypothesise a linear sequence of evolutionary changes between reproductive modes, the extent and form of investment in propagule size and quality, and regimes of parental care. We will test the hypothesised evolutionary changes by integrating data on dif",{"id":282,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":283,"piName":10,"institution":284,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":285,"abstract":286},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500516","Ecological control of nitrogen fixation in marine Cyanobacteria","NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY","€93,898","Nitrogen plays a central role in the control of aquatic ecosystems; it participates to the eutrophication process in lakes, streams, and estuaries and near coastal oceans. As nitrogen is a growth-limiting nutrient in most marine systems, internal recycling processes drive the community dynamics. Phototropic N2 assimilation, essentially realised by plank tonic Cyan bacteria, thus contributes a non-negligible part of total N demand by phytoplankton in the upper mixed layer. Blooming diastrophic Cy",{"id":288,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":289,"piName":10,"institution":290,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":291,"abstract":292},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502005","The role of protein phosphorylation in biological response to genotoxie stress","DANISH CANCER SOCIETY","€109,625","Medal and 53BP1 have recently emerged as the key components of the cellular defence machinery, which guards against adverse effects of geotaxis stress. This research proposal embarks on elucidating of how phosphorylation of Medal and 53BP1 regulates genetic stability in human cells.Task 1 aim at mapping of phosphorylation sites of Medal and 53BP1 induced by DNA damage and\u002For replication stress.Task 2 includes generation of the phosphor-deficient and mimicking-mimicking mutants of Mac and 53BP1 a",{"id":294,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":295,"piName":10,"institution":174,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":296,"abstract":297},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501966","Study of signalling pathways regulating cell 'survival' and 'death' in the central nervous system","€151,854","The transcription factor NF-kB regulates the expression of many genes that are involved in cell survival, proliferation and apoptosis. NF-kB is expressed in many cell types in the central nervous system (CNS) and many neuronal diseases are thought to involve an aberrant NF-kB regulation and apoptosis. The underlying molecular mechanisms, however, are still unclear.",{"id":299,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":300,"piName":10,"institution":301,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":14,"abstract":302},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501404","Gene identification and molecular regulatory mechanisms responsible for LH-induced Adrenal gland pathologies","INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY - IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF LONDON","Gonadotrophins, including Latinising hormone (LH), are key hormones regulating gonad functions. LH actions on target cells are mediated by a specific receptor, the LH receptor (LHR). A very perplexing finding has been the recent discovery of functional LHR in extragonadal tissues, e.g. in the adrenal gland which suggests some as yet unknown non-gonad functions for LH. Experimental models showed that elevated LH levels lead to LHR over-expression in the adrenals, resulting in hyperplasic and canc",{"id":304,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":305,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":144,"abstract":306},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502110","Electronic liquids: glass formation, confinement and nanostructures.","The scientific aim of this Fellowship is to investigate a novel class of complex fluids in which high concentrations of electrons are present as stable solvated species: so-called \\andquot;electronic liquids\\andquot;. These liquids are typically formed when a metal, such as sodium, is dissolved in ammonia. Such solutions contain a fascinating variety of solvated ionic and electronic species, including isolated poltroons, spin-paired bipolarise, exaction atoms, metal anions, and truly delocalised",{"id":308,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":309,"piName":10,"institution":260,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":38,"abstract":310},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501305","Mechanistic Studies into Copper Mediated ATRP","The overall objective is to obtain mechanistic information on copper mediated living radical polymerisation, ATRP. At present as the reaction is assumed to proceed via a free radical mechanism kinetic rate constants are often utilised to analyse first order plots to derive radical concentrations. In addition as many of the catalysts utilised are often insoluble, especially the copper (II) species the use of the elegant persistent radical effect theories to these systems may not always be trivial",{"id":312,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":313,"piName":10,"institution":314,"country":315,"year":13,"amount":316,"abstract":317},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502435","MIGRATION CIVIL SOCIETY AND CONFLICT: integration and the political mobilisation of immigrants in a territory defined by intra-state conflict","UNIVERSIDAD DE DEUSTO","ES","€130,211","This project aims to provide a theoretical model for the conceptualisation of the link between integration and political mobilisation of immigrant communities within a territory defined by intra-state conflict. The proposed case study is the Latin American immigrant community in Spain\\'s Basque Country, as this population represents the largest and the fastest growing segment of the immigrant population. More specifically the research will conceptualise the behaviour of civil society in the Basq",{"id":319,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":320,"piName":10,"institution":321,"country":126,"year":13,"amount":322,"abstract":323},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502007","Globalisation, European economic integration and the impact on national welfare states, labour markets and gender. A comparative analysis of employment and old age pensions in France and Germany","EUROPEAN TRADE UNION INSTITUTE","€145,381","The relative impact of endogenous and exogenous forces, such as those found in the process of globalisation, on the nature of gender relations remains a topic in need of empirical and detailed research. This research proposal aims to address this research gap, focusing on the complex relationship between different political levels and their influences on each other in two countries France and Germany. The proposal is based on a multidisciplinary approach. The basic assumption is that individual ",{"id":325,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":326,"piName":10,"institution":327,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":328,"abstract":329},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502369","Migrant Domestic Workers in European Care Regimes","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","€153,376","This research project explores parental strategies to reconcile new demands in work and care in conjunction with the increasing European demand for migrant domestic workers in three contrasting care regimes: the U.K., Sweden and Spain. Highlighting the shifting division of labour in the global political economy of care, the project investigates the ways migrant domestic care workers and their European employers negotiate such shifts. In particular, the study focuses on the ways cultural preferen",{"id":331,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":332,"piName":10,"institution":181,"country":81,"year":13,"amount":182,"abstract":333},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501280","Organisational changes and personnel economics: the effects of mergers, product market competition and technological changes on personnel policies of firms","Growing interest has emerged recently in the field of personnel economics, defined as the use of economics to understand the internal workings of the firm. This has led in practice to a few in-depth investigations of the personnel policies in a single firm, and to a theoretical attempt to identify which theories were most suited to the findings obtained.However, the literature has remained silent about the way personnel policies react to external shocks, probably because it investigated personne",{"id":335,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":336,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":337,"abstract":338},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501213","Speculative Trade in Auctions with Secondary Markets","€82,131","The current project aims at the development of a promising application of Game Theory: the study of auction markets with resale in which some bidders are interested in the consumption of the good (\\buyers\\), and some bidders are interested in the good because of its resale opportunities (\\speculators\\). This problem has not been addressed by the existing literature. To cover this problem a game theoretic model will be developed. To accomplish the project Dr. Hernando-Viviane will spend a whole a",{"id":340,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":341,"piName":10,"institution":342,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":32,"abstract":343},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500944","Statistical mechanics of granular materials: how can sand fill voids like a gas, flow like a liquid and sustain stresses like a solid?","UNIVERSITE DE PARIS-SUD XI","Granular materials (e.g. sand, powders, concrete, seeds, pills and so on) are subject to a recent strong scientific interest: they are materials of fundamental importance for industry and agriculture. The economic impact of a better comprehension of their collective properties has been estimated to be of the order of the billions of dollars per year.The physics of granular materials has unveiled a large number of intriguing phenomena: granular systems can behave like gases, liquids or solids, de",{"id":345,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":346,"piName":10,"institution":209,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":62,"abstract":347},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502006","Singularities near a moving contact line: from sliding drops to avalanches","The goal of this project is to theoretically study the singularities near the moving contact line of a sliding droplet in relation to the problem of avalanche fronts in granular media. A droplet flowing down a window displays fascinating behaviours; involving bifurcations between singular shapes drop emission and coalescence, which have only recently been characterized experimentally. To describe these phenomena theoretically, one has to overcome a fundamental problem:In classical hydrodynamics ",{"id":349,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":350,"piName":10,"institution":351,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":352,"abstract":353},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500511","NUMERICAL STUDY OF GRANULAR TRANSPORTATION MECHANISMS","CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€151,675","The mechanisms ruling the transportation of granular material are of paramount interest since they are fundamental in numerous natural phenomena and environmental issues (dunes migration, landslides, desertification...), as well as industrial and civil engineering processes. Yet, the motion and onset of motion of a granular bed remain debatable mechanisms. The better physical understanding of the behaviour of a collection of grains during its transport is thus a challenging issue. To address thi",{"id":355,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":356,"piName":10,"institution":357,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":358,"abstract":359},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500571","Chemical genomics. Dissecting the RAS signal transduction pathway using combinatorial chemistry methodology.","MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY","€149,155","Protein limitation plays an essential role for membrane recognition and anchoring of proteins. More specifically, cytokine palmitoylation of RAS -a C16 modification of sulphide groups of key player protein in an important signal transudation pathway- is regulated by a recently discovered enzyme -APT1- and the exact role of this process has been a matter of discussion over the last decade. In order to gain insights into this yet unsolved question, I propose to approach the problem in a multidisci",{"id":361,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":362,"piName":10,"institution":110,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":363,"abstract":364},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500833","Disassembly of signalling protein complexes in T cell plasma membrane domains","€168,232","Signalling via cell surface receptors is a key element of cell regulation. The physiological response of the cell touch external stimuli is determined by multimolecular complexes at the plasma membrane that allow for the interaction of signalling enzymes with their respective substrates. Despite extensive knowledge of proteins that compose these complexes, very little is understood about the structure and dynamics of signalling assemblies. Here, the well-characterised system of T cell activation",{"id":366,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":367,"piName":10,"institution":368,"country":50,"year":13,"amount":51,"abstract":369},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500034","Therapeutic modulation of thrombogenicity of the atherosclerotic plaque","UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN","Coronary artery disease, the primary cause of death in the western world, is induced by an acute cessation of the blood flow due to the formation of an occluded thrombus or blood clotin or nearby an unstable atherosclerotic lesion. Whether or not thrombotic complications will ensue from plaque rupture is strongly dependent on the presence of procoagulant molecules within the plaque. Interference with their activity thus represents a promising approach to influence the initiation and progression ",{"id":371,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":372,"piName":10,"institution":187,"country":88,"year":13,"amount":373,"abstract":374},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500998","Gene therapy for treatment of Parkinson's disease : functional and cellular evidence","€100,148","Parkinson\\'s disease is characterized by the progressive loss of the dopaminergic neurons in thesubstantia Ingra pars compact which results in functional changes in structures of the basal ganglia such as the sub thalamic nucleus, the entopeduncular nucleus and the substantial Ingra pars reticulata. Current therapies involve dopamine pharmacological treatment, deep brain stimulation and fatal cell transplantation. Though these approaches reach significant beneficial effects, they are however ham",{"id":376,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":377,"piName":10,"institution":105,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":44,"abstract":378},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501107","Isolation of the VRN5 gene and the molecular characterization of its function in the vernalization response of Arabidopsis thaliana","A common strategy for plants to avoid entering the reproductive phase immediately before or within the non-permissive cold period of the northern and southern latitudes is the necessity for vernalization. This means that they have to pass through a long period (months) with cold temperatures before they undergo floral transition.The perception of cold temperature and the flowering response can be separated in time, often for several weeks and this molecular memory seems to have an epigenetic bas",{"id":380,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":381,"piName":10,"institution":382,"country":150,"year":13,"amount":296,"abstract":383},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500696","Integration of Ecosystem Data, Remote Sensing and Advanced Modelling for Improved European Carbon Balance Estimates","UNIVERSITA DELLA TUSCIA","The proposal aims at building and applying a novel bottom-up modelling system for better estimates of European biosphere carbon balance components that integrates data from CARBOEurope eddy covariance flux towers, remote sensing via the EOS MODIS sensor, European soils, and meteorological observations. For that purpose, eddy covariance net ecosystem carbon exchange data from boreal to Mediterranean sites will be separated into the components gross carbon uptake and ecosystem respiration. Models ",{"id":385,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":386,"piName":10,"institution":387,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":388,"abstract":389},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-502368","Use of organoclays in bioremediation of contaminated soils and groundwater","FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH","€157,631","The objectives are the development of fundamentals for effective biodegradation approaches combining biological and physicochemical processes as the use of organ clays in reactive barriers for pollution control. The principles base on a combination of adsorption and biodegradation in a defined matrix, which provides contaminant elimination and sorbet regeneration. The requirements of reversible sorption processes and sufficient compatible milieu for bacteria are met by the use of organ clays. Th",{"id":391,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":392,"piName":10,"institution":393,"country":150,"year":13,"amount":394,"abstract":395},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500508","Aerodynamic shape optimization for minimum transient growth in compressible flow","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO","€138,643","Industrial, economical and environmental interests are at stake in the research efforts concerning the optimisation of the shape of aircraft wings so to obtain low aerodynamic drag. For a computational method to be reliable as a design process, it must be based on a mathematical model, which provides an appropriate representation of the significant features of the flow, such as shock waves, boundary layers and laminar-to-turbulent transition. The total drag of an aircraft wing is mainly given by",{"id":397,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":398,"piName":10,"institution":399,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":400,"abstract":401},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501244","Excision and outer boundary conditions for the Einstein equations","DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON","€162,562","Gravitational waves are expected to open up a new window for Astronomy in the near future. Numerical simulations are essential for this effort. By combining the results of simulations of systems containing compact stars or black holes with observational data we can hope to probe the dynamics of strong gravitational fields. The results will have significant impact on our understanding of the Universe. With the exponential growth of computer power, the numerical simulations of astrophysical intere",{"id":403,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":404,"piName":10,"institution":405,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":406,"abstract":407},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-509319","The influence of solar variability on climate","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN.","€257,169","The fundamental energy source of the climate system is the Sun. Variability of the solar radiation is one potential source of climate change. Variations in the thermal, dynamical and chemical structure of the atmosphere have been observed that can be attri buted to 11-year solar irradiance variations. Since the advent of satellites in the late 1970s global atmospheric and solar variability data have been collected. Together with numerical models of the atmosphere they allow the study of the sola",{"id":409,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":410,"piName":10,"institution":411,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":238,"abstract":412},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-500915","Investigating similarity-breaking in galaxy clusters with XMM-Newton and Chandra","MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.","If galaxy clusters, containing 80% dark matter, formed hierarchically under the influence of gravity alone, we would expect their intrinsic properties to follow self-similar scaling derived, assuming hydrostatic equilibrium, from basic viral relations. Such similarity applies equally to the hot X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium and thedark matter components. For instance, the total mass would be proportional to the X-ray temperature (M µ T³\u002F²) and the X-ray luminosity would be proportional to ",{"id":414,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":415,"piName":10,"institution":43,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":416,"abstract":417},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501836","Predicting the Size Distribution and Morphology of Sub-Micron carbon particles in Diesel Engines","€161,428","The proposed research is motivated by increasing concern that Diesel participates are harmful to the environment and to human health. In particular, the increasing number of sub- micron soot particles emitted from modern diesel engines needs to be addressed. A prerequisite to the in-cylinder reduction of these particles and the effect of different operating conditions is a better understanding of the basic processes forming and oxidising these particles. The proposed research will aim at develop",{"id":419,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":420,"piName":10,"institution":421,"country":175,"year":13,"amount":422,"abstract":423},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-501467","Lattice-QCD with Dynamical Overlap Fermions on Tera-Scale Cluster Computers","BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL","€141,784","Lattice quantum Homodynamic (LQCD) is an established technique to determine theoretical non-preservative properties of the strong interaction between elementary particles. Advancements in LQCD are of vital importance in understanding standard model and beyond the standard model particle physics. Lattice calculations including dynamical fermions performed so far suffer from large systematic errors that arise from violation of choral symmetry or flavour symmetry. 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