[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-2011":3,"awarded-stats-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship":942},{"awarded":4,"total":941},[5,15,22,28,35,41,47,52,56,61,67,74,81,88,92,97,102,106,112,118,122,127,132,138,143,149,154,158,165,172,176,180,185,191,195,201,206,210,214,218,222,227,231,235,239,244,248,255,259,263,267,271,276,281,287,291,295,299,303,307,311,315,321,325,329,333,337,342,346,350,354,358,362,366,371,375,379,383,388,392,396,401,406,410,414,418,422,427,431,437,442,446,451,455,459,463,467,472,477,482,486,490,494,498,503,507,511,516,520,526,531,536,542,548,552,557,561,565,569,574,579,583,588,592,596,600,604,609,614,619,624,631,635,640,644,650,655,659,664,669,673,677,681,686,691,695,699,703,707,711,716,721,726,730,734,738,742,746,751,756,760,765,769,773,777,781,785,789,794,800,804,809,815,820,825,829,834,838,843,848,852,857,862,867,871,875,879,883,888,892,896,901,905,909,913,919,924,928,933,937],{"id":6,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":9,"piName":10,"institution":11,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":14},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253950","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship","Systematic analysis and modeling of the gene regulatory network underlying neural tube patterning",null,"MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL","UK",2011,"In many developing tissues, initially equipotent cells acquire their intended identity by exposure to extrinsic, graded signals termed morphogens, such as Sonic Hedgehog (Shh). In the ventral neural tube, Shh induces 5 progenitor domains in a precise spatial order along the dorsoventral axis of the developing spinal cord. These domains can be distinguished by the expression of different combinations of transcription factors (TFs). During their specification, the progenitors transit through sever",{"id":16,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":17,"piName":10,"institution":18,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":20,"abstract":21},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276301","Conformal Field Theory","EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO THEORITIKIS KAI YPOLOGISTIKIS FYSIKIS","EL","€150,520","The research will be on CFT and address two issues: constraints on correlation functions and operator spectra via respectively conformal partial wave analysis and superconformal indices.  This will be achieved using techniques largely developed in the applicant's and coordinator's past work on these fields.  This work is important for a deeper understanding of dualities in physics.",{"id":23,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":24,"piName":10,"institution":25,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":27},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252210","Elucidation of the function of DDX3X in innate immunity","INSTITUT FUER MOLEKULARE BIOTECHNOLOGIE GMBH","AT","Viral infections are among the most frequent causes of human diseases and affect most people worldwide. While some viral diseases have been successfully combated, novel viral diseases like AIDS, SARS, avian influenza A H5N1, or the swine influenza A H1N1, have emerged over the last decades. Research aiming at elucidating mechanisms of viral infection and the involved immune response is, therefore, of utmost importance in order to understand viral pathogenesis and to identify novel potential drug",{"id":29,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":30,"piName":10,"institution":31,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":34},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276645","Visual crowding: The paradox of position","Université Paris Descartes","FR","€185,248","Visual crowding is the disruptive effect of “clutter” on our ability to recognise objects, despite their being identifiable in isolation. This effect is particularly strong in our peripheral vision, making crowding the fundamental limit on over 95% of the visual field. Understanding crowding will thus reveal much about how we recognise objects, as well as how to present information to those who rely on peripheral vision (e.g. macular degeneration) and those with elevated crowding (e.g. amblyopia",{"id":36,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":37,"piName":10,"institution":38,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":40},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251862","Combined structural and electronic characterization of semiconductor nanowire devices on the atomic scale using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy","MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University","SE","Free-standing III-V semiconductor nanowires, with diameters of about 20 to 80 nm at a length of several µm, offer tremendous possibilities for application in photovoltaics, optoelectronics, information technology as well as life-science. Semiconductor nanowire devices are not only smaller than conventional structures and significantly power-saving, but can even exhibit qualitatively novel behavior. Due to the small size and the very large surface to bulk ratio, the nanowire surface has a crucial",{"id":42,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":43,"piName":10,"institution":44,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":45,"abstract":46},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273191","Land  Use  Processes  and  Urban  Sprawl","UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE","€272,480","Urban sprawl is a remarkable socioeconomic phenomenon that continues to generate attention across Europe and beyond. In its broadest sense, urban sprawl may be defined as the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over increasingly large areas of rural land at the periphery of an urban area and the consequent conversion of open space into developed land.The research project described in this proposal explores the economic processes under-pinning the phenomenon of urban sprawl. Its objective is ",{"id":48,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":49,"piName":10,"institution":50,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":51},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254195","Molecular basis of cell communication during a migratory event that establishes brain asymmetry in zebrafish","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","The long-term aim of the proposed study is to resolve the genetic and cell biological mechanisms that contribute to the establishment of vertebrate brain asymmetry. In the zebrafish forebrain, an event crucial in establishing and elaborating asymmetry is the migration of the parapineal primordium. Parapineal cells are specified bilaterally at the midline. They subsequently assemble into a rosette-like structure and migrate to the left side of the brain. The molecular basis of the cellular commun",{"id":53,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":54,"piName":10,"institution":44,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":55},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274012","Decoding User Experience Qualities with and through Technology over Time","User Experience (UX) is a complex, but promising concept in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This Marie Curie project aims to identify the key “UXCodes”, in particular to decode the UX qualities for a better ICT-enabled life for older people, following a humanistic, dialogical approach. The key premise is that people act on the basis of social relationships, which influence the quality of an experience with a technology. Gained insights are translated into for practical guidance fo",{"id":57,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":58,"piName":10,"institution":59,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":60},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255437","HYbrid approach for Finite Element Model Updating with Stochasticity","SWANSEA UNIVERSITY","A reliable numerical model is crucial for the design and analysis modern dynamic engineering systems such as automobiles, helicopters and aircrafts. The objective of the project HY-FEMUS (acronym for A HYbrid approach for Finite Element Model Updating with Stochasticity) is to develop novel finite element model updating methods using uncertainties for complex dynamic systems.Historically, majority of the model updating methods do not include uncertainties. Such uncertainties include (a) parametr",{"id":62,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":63,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254449","High Magnetic Field Investigation of Transport and Thermodynamic Properties of Metallic Oxide Hetrointerfaces","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT","NL","Artificial, layered heterostructures of transition metal oxides provide an opportunity to tune and couple electronic charge and spin properties on an atomic scale. Strong correlations between electrons can then lead to the formation of exotic new phases at the interfaces which are impossible to stabilise in the bulk materials. This proposal describes an experimental project to investigate the LaAlO3-SrTiO3 heterostructure, where a 2-D electron gas (2DEG) is formed at the LaO:TiO2 interface. The ",{"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-253289","Cascaded Optical Pulse Compressor","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","DK","€288,598","Ultra-short ultra-intense laser pulses are crucial for exploring state-of-the-art research and applications in new territories of extreme nonlinear optics in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and for industrial purposes. Most of the research is currently only carried out in specialized laser laboratories and it is a challenge to generate energetic few-cycle pulses (less than 20 fs) through a compact and reliable approach, not just in the infrared, where most pulsed lasers operate, but certai",{"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-272619","Rough surfaces in sliding contact: A combined atomistic\u002Fcontinuum investigation of topography evolution","FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV","DE","€211,120","Summary - Mechanical systems have moving parts which dissipate energy at surfaces sliding with respect to each other. Energy efficient devices need interfaces that are tailored to consume little to no energy. This requires a fundamental understanding of frictional dissipation processes. The evolution of the topography of the two surfaces that are in contact is a crucial component of sliding friction: Processes such as fracture and plastic flow dissipate energy and contribute to the macroscopic c",{"id":82,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":83,"piName":10,"institution":84,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":86,"abstract":87},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274396","The Econometric Analysis of Mixed Frequency Data and its use in Policy Making","UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS","CY","€198,860","The project deals with methods that are applicable across different scientific disciplines and is therefore inherently multidisciplinary. Our focus, however, will be on economic applications, as this is our field of expertise. Economic time series are sampled at different frequencies. For example, financial markets data are available on a (intra-)daily basis, while many macroeconomic series are observed monthly or quarterly. The typical approach adopted in empirical research is to align the data",{"id":89,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":90,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":91},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272375","Regulation of endocytosis of the aquaporin-2 water channel: an interplay of phosphorylation and ubiquitination","A proper water balance is essential for life on land and is, besides drinking water, depending on water reabsorption in the kidney. Renal water uptake depends on the expression of the aquaporin-2 (AQP2) water channel in the urinary membrane of collecting duct cells, which is critically determined by a balance of shuttling of AQP2 to (exocytosis) and from (endocytosis) this membrane. Humans with insufficient AQP2 levels suffer from Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), a disorder in which the kid",{"id":93,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":94,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":95,"abstract":96},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276297","Trait-based approaches across marine ecosystems","€154,485","Trait-based approaches are being increasingly used in ecology.  They consider simultaneously multiple morphological and functional traits to explain community distributions along various environmental gradients and predict ecosystem functioning. Traditional taxon-based approaches become unwieldy as the number of species increases; trait-based approaches provide a way to simplify this complexity, by focusing attention on the functional traits that determine how organisms interact with each other ",{"id":98,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":99,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":101},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275755","Designing Bifunctional Nano-Alloy Catalysts for Bio-Renewable Feedstock Valorisation","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","The principal goal of “BIFUNC-NANOCAT” is to develop efficient and selective bi-functional catalyst systems having both acid\u002Fbase catalysed and an oxidation functionalities for the valorisation of biomass to produce bulk\u002Fspeciality chemicals effectively in an environmentally benign route. Oxidative valorisation of the lignin and cellulosic constituents of biomass for the production of value added products by bi-functional heterogeneous catalysts using environmentally benign oxidants like O2 or H",{"id":103,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":104,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":105},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272156","Microtubule Dynamics and Protein Trafficking in Axon Regeneration","The overall aim of the proposal is to support the scientific career development of an experienced researcher, by completing an interdisciplinary research project on microtubule dynamics in axon regeneration, and enabling the fellow to acquire new knowledge and academic skills in order to attain a position of maturity and independence. The scientific objectives of the research are to analyse how the mechanisms regulating microtubule network dynamics and protein trafficking underlie the intrinsic ",{"id":107,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":108,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":111},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275400","Designing catalysis: Nitrogen-carbon ylids as methylene donors","EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH","CH","Catalyst optimization is currently predominantly done by screening a large number of catalysts, rarely catalysts are designed by either chemical intuition or molecular modelling.In this proposal we will try to develop -by design- a new catalytic protocol using environmental benign reagents for the synthesis of cyclopropanes. The inspiration for this work stems from an interesting historical anomaly.In early work of Nobel prize laureate Georg Wittig cyclopropanation by the reaction of N-C-ylids a",{"id":113,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":114,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":116,"abstract":117},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276071","Interplay of anisotropy and interactions in charged colloidal systems","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS","€90,024","In this proposal we present a program of research and training  in the area of soft condensed matter and statistical physics, focusing on understanding  the role of long ranged  interactions on phase behavior of  anisotropic  colloids. The Interesting interplay between  anisotropic shape, long range interactions  and its consequences on the phase behavior ofnanoparticles  is a challenging problem which is far from well-understood. As an important step towards realizing this goal, we aim  for a s",{"id":119,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":120,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":121},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274602","Phase-locking of terahertz quantum  cascade lasers","The terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum, between the infrared and microwave range, has historically suffered from a lack of sources and detectors, leading to the phrase ‘terahertz gap’ to be coined. In recent years however there have been a number of sources and detectors developed in this region. Two of these new technologies are THz time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) and THz quantum cascade lasers (QCL).In this project we seek to combine these technologies and phase-lock the THz",{"id":123,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":124,"piName":10,"institution":125,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":126},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252563","A world of villages: dispersed settlement and colonial expansion in Central-Southern Italy under the Roman Republic (c. 4th-2nd centuries BC)","UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW","This project explores the role of non-urban settlements in Roman colonial expansion in the formative phase of the Roman empire (4th-2nd centuries BC). It challenges the traditional, urban model of Roman colonies by proposing instead a distinctive, non-urban settlement organization, within which clustered sites such as villages played key-roles. Detection and analysis of such settlements have until now been minimal due to scholarly biases. Investigating the non-urban nature of colonial settlement",{"id":128,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":129,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":130,"abstract":131},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252890","Development of novel quantum dot based materials for compact laser devices for potential telecommunication and biophotonic applications","€204,629","The goal of the project is the development of portable, low-cost, reliable and highly-efficient ultrashort pulse (down to 100 fs) laser sources based on quantum dot (QD) material working in the spectral range 1.0-1.6 microns. This new generation of QD based mode-locked lasers has to become an alternative to the conventionally used ultrafast solid-state lasers, which are very expensive, cumbersome and complex to operate. The proposed research has a very high practical significance because it crea",{"id":133,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":134,"piName":10,"institution":135,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":136,"abstract":137},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275357","Academic Researchers Driving Innovation Systems","RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN","€217,245","Academic researchers form a crucial part of innovation systems but research so far leaves room for the following three questions: how does social capital of academic researchers co-evolve with the use, creation and dissemination of knowledge and innovation? Two, how do academic researchers’ innovation systems function at the regional, national and global level? Three, are the research activities and goals, the knowledge accumulation and the networks of academic scholars characterized by their te",{"id":139,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":140,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":142},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276199","Managing AM fungi for enhancing C sequester in an agroecosystem affected by salinity","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","According to research priorities within the seventh Framework Programme of the EU, a multidisciplinary R+D project (physics and microbiology of soils, molecular biology of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and biotechnology of mycorrhizal inocula) is proposed aimed to achieving soil rational and sustainable recovery practices for increasing carbon sequestration and stabilization of degraded salt affected soils. Our research will focus on agroecosystems subjected to physical degradation processes",{"id":144,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":145,"piName":10,"institution":146,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":147,"abstract":148},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252206","Semiautomatic Methods for the Creation and Maintenance of Links between Scientific Resource Aggregations on the Web","UNIVERSITAT WIEN","€235,162","The Web has revolutionized the way of publishing and distributing scientific results. If, however, we regard current publications on the Web, they still resemble the production process of traditional print publications and usually do not deliver the relevant or even necessary information for the described research context, such as the data sets required for reproducing experiments. The goal of the SciLink project is to reassess the traditional way of publishing scientific results on the Web. We ",{"id":150,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":151,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":152,"abstract":153},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253643","Wireless and wireline service convergence in next generation optical access networks","€216,241","The next generation of information technology demands both high capacity and mobility for applications such as high speed wireless access capable of supporting broadband services. The transport of wireless and wireline signals is converging into a common telecommunication infrastructure. In this project, we focus on the conception and study of novel architectures for wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical multi-modulation format radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems, which is a promising soluti",{"id":155,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":156,"piName":10,"institution":146,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":157},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252452","Functional study of MicroRNAs in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Cnidaria; Anthozoa)","MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are RNAs of ~21-24 nucleotides with pivotal regulatory roles in various developmental and physiological pathways. They inhibit the translation of mRNAs and thus constitute a “tuning” system for controlling post-transcriptional expression. While the understanding of miRNAs function in bilaterians such as flies, nematodes and mammals is expanding rapidly, little is known about miRNAs in other animals. The starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis is a rising model which enable",{"id":159,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":160,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":163,"abstract":164},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272335","Reducing drag over wings","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA","IT","€189,112","A great challenge in both fundamental and applied fluid mechanics research is to reduce friction drag on bodies immersed in a fluid. Even small amounts of drag reduction on airplanes, ships, cars, wind- and water-power plants could save several billions Euros annually and help preserve earth’s resources. The present project combines recent developments in numerical simulations of fluid flows, novel theory of poroelasticity and inspiration from biological observations, to devise passive flow cont",{"id":166,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":167,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":170,"abstract":171},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253098","Salva nos, Domine: A Study of Chanted Confraternity Liturgies and Their Social Contexts in the Southern Low Countries, 1300-1550","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","BE","€159,100","This project is a multidisciplinary study of the music and religious practices of lay communities in the Southern Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.  Such communities, which include trade guilds, devotional confraternities, and selected chivalric orders, formed a central part of daily medieval life, especially for tradespeople and merchants.  Very little is known about the role of music, in particular Gregorian chant, in the devotional practices of these close knit comm",{"id":173,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":174,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":175},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273104","Mechanistic modelling of Critical Target Tissue Residues based on substance properties, species characteristics and external effect concentrations","A key challenge facing environmental risk assessors is the need to assess the risk of thousands of chemicals, for a wide range of species, with increased accuracy and ecological relevance, while using fewer resources and experimental animals. Traditional external toxicity metrics, such as the lethal aqueous concentration (LC50), are not sufficiently sophisticated to accomplish this task, and “new” approaches are emerging. This includes the tissue residue approach (TRA), which is advocated as a p",{"id":177,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":178,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":179},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255141","Function and regulation of CRL4s-based ubiquitin-dependent processes for mitotic progression","Mitosis relies heavily on ubiquitin-dependent degradation of specific protein substrates, mainly by the APC\u002FC and CUL3-RING E3 ligases (CRL3s). In contrast, CUL4-RING E3 ligases (CRL4s) have previously been associated with silencing of gene expression, DNA replication and repair. However, unpublished data from the Peter laboratory suggest that CRL4s may also be important for progression through mitosis. In this grant proposal, I thus present two complementary approaches to investigate the role o",{"id":181,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":182,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":183,"abstract":184},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275313","Ultrafast Lasers and Attosecond Dynamics","€248,905","Attosecond technology realizes the century-old dream of direct measurement of electron dynamics at the atomic scale.  The ensuing experimental cornucopia, with many publications in Nature and Science, underscores the need for better analytic tools to explain the data, as a step towards a better physical foundation for a truly multi-disciplinary science. Current theoretical technique must be substantially improved to properly address some recent experimental controversies, such as measurements of",{"id":186,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":187,"piName":10,"institution":188,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":189,"abstract":190},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274339","Transhistorical tropes of female subordination","ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION","€137,740","A society defines itself partly through the stories it tells about itself. There is an interchange between the individuals who consume the stories and the society the produces them, each influencing the other. The project Transhistorical Tropes of Female Subordination analyses this interchange through three ubiquitous tropes in present-day fiction - referred pain, women suffering patiently for love, and dead or absent mothers - and traces their roots in narratives of earlier periods. The tropes,",{"id":192,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":193,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252477","Novel Ultra-Sensitive Infra-Red Absorption Laser Sensors","In-line and in-situ fast ultra-sensitive detection of gaseous species at part per billion and part per trillion with ability to distinguish isotopomers without any pre-processing of gas sample is of high interest in chemistry, medicine, geology, physics, various other sciences and industries. Recent technology achievements in development of compact and robust tunable near-infrared and mid-infrared lasers open a door to new applications of optical sensors based upon laser absorption spectrometry.",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":199,"abstract":200},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252768","Biofunctionalized surfaces: a multiscale modeling approach","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","€162,161","The proposed research project will deal with biofunctionalized materials, specifically surfaces on which biomolecules have been attached. These novel biomaterials have recently attracted attention, as they are believed to potentially give rise to a variety of innovative biotechnological applications, ranging from bio-electronics and bio-sensors to templates for programmable self-assembly. From a more fundamental point of view, the complex behavior of biopolymers at interfaces is not yet fully un",{"id":202,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":203,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":204,"abstract":205},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274716","Solar Prominences: Stability, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Seismology","€157,100","The solar corona is a natural laboratory to study the behavior and properties of plasmas under conditions that cannot be realized in a laboratory on Earth. Understanding the plasma behaviour in the solar atmosphere is a necessary prerequisite for our understanding of plasma behaviour in the atmospheres of other stars and space weather. The focus in this proposal is on Solar Prominences, spectacular large-scale magnetic structures of the solar corona. Very recent observations have reported on exc",{"id":207,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":208,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":170,"abstract":209},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255140","Symbolic and non-symbolic number processing, a developmental perspective","The symbolic number system that has evolved in humans enables more complex and accurate calculations than a non-symbolic system. The application of this symbolic system has turned out to be so useful that we have a hard time imagining the world without it. This patent importance makes the study of questions about the acquisition and implementation of these processes in the human brain very relevant. In the current study, three important and related topics in numerical cognition will be addressed",{"id":211,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":212,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":213},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272956","Future evolution of the Greenland ice sheet and associated impacts: Studies with an advanced Earth System model","The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to 21st century sea level rise is highly uncertain. Most estimates in the most recent IPCC report (AR4) were obtained using relatively crude ice sheet models forced with General Circulation Models (GCMs) output, without including important climate feedbacks associated with the changing ice sheets.  Within the proposed project, the response of the Greenland ice sheet to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing is explored with the new Community Earth System Mod",{"id":215,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":216,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":217},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274681","Stress and chemical perturbation around mineral inclusions","The proposed project provide a comprehensive study of the chemical response of a host grain on volumetric changes connected with phase transition of inclusions in ultra-high-pressure rocks. The main goal is to investigate the effects of stress induced diffusion in a solid of uniform composition by means of an integrated approach including combination of conventional petrology methods with material science analytical techniques and numerical approaches. Though the interplay between stress and dif",{"id":219,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":220,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":221},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252331","(Dis)Connected Elders? Interfaces of Cosmologies, Subjectivities and ICTs in the Lifeworlds of Kinshasa's Old Aged","The project aims at analysing the ways in which Kinshasa's old aged make meaning of the diverse ICTs on offer in their city. Via ethnographical research, we want to understand (a) the perceptions of Kinshasa's elders on mobile telephones, television, radio and internet, (b) their uses of these ICTs, (c) the ways in which these ICTs impact on the elders' social relations, and (d) the role of these ICTs in the elders' religious lives. The intersection of ICTs and senectitude opens up a fascinating",{"id":223,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":224,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":226},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273083","Quantum optics with optomechanical systems","€185,748","Interferometric measurements are by far the most sensitive displacement measurements , with sensitivities better than 10-20m\u002Fsqrt(Hz) either for large-scale gravitational-wave interferometers or table-top interferometers.In these measurements, there are two quantum limits one has to deal with, even after the classical noise has been substantially lowered: quantum phase noise and quantum radiation-pressure noise. The currently operated gravitational-wave interferometers are limited by quantum pha",{"id":228,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":229,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":230},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251863","Determination of the Fate of Inorganic Components upon Gasification of Sewage Sludge","Gasification is a promising technology for the production of renewable energy resources from biomass and waste streams, offering the advantage of providing a safe disposal route for organic pollutants. However, a major concern is the unclear fate of inorganic components during gasification, which brings about several environmental and technological issues. Because of its elevated content in N, P, S and heavy metals, sewage sludge forms an excellent model compound for a biomass waste stream with ",{"id":232,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":233,"piName":10,"institution":125,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":234},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254349","New Frontiers in Quantum Dots Science: Assembly and Functionalisation","This project will investigate a diverse range of octanuclear zinc sulfide nanoclusters as Quantum Dots (QDs). Compared with colloidal QDs whose distribution are random over space, these stoichiometric crystalline nanoclusters exhibit uniform cluster size and long-range periodic ordering which are vital for the study of quantum confinement effects. A simple and successful scheme to assemble them has been reported by the applicant and the goal of this project is to further assemble and functionali",{"id":236,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":237,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":238},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252373","The role of mitotic tissues in controlling the developmental clock","A number of studies suggest that the larval imaginal discs, the precursors of the adult structures in the fly, play a crucial role in coordinating tissue maturation\u002Fpatterning with developmental timing. Thus, disc transplantation experiments show that the transplantation of a young imaginal discs into more developmentally advanced larvae delays pupal molt, allowing the underdeveloped discs to catch up with other larval tissues. In contrast, complete ablation of the imaginal discs has no effect o",{"id":240,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":241,"piName":10,"institution":242,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":199,"abstract":243},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251864","A new logic to control signalling pathways in the mouse brain: The role of MAPK in emotional behavior","HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH","Mood disorders represent some of the most common and proliferating health problems worldwide. The present knowledge on the molecular regulation and intracellular signalling mechanisms of anxiety and depression behaviour is incomplete. A better understanding and the development of novel, improved therapeutic treatment would fill a medical need. To study the function of signal transduction pathways in the brain requires control of the activity of a signalling protein in a temporal manner in a sele",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":10,"institution":242,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":247},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272965","Fluorescence intraoperative imaging platform for tumor margin delineation","According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Among the distinct types of cancer treatments, surgery, which is the oldest modality, is still often confronted with difficulties in the identification of cancer spread and the accurate delineation of tumor margins. This is of uttermost importance in order to infer the lowest harm to the organ where the tumor originated but without leaving residual tumor. This proposal is intended to improve the surgi",{"id":249,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":250,"piName":10,"institution":251,"country":252,"year":13,"amount":253,"abstract":254},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276153","The geometry of critical random and pseudorandom systems","BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM","HU","€208,700","Probability is one of the fastest developing areas of mathematics, finding new connections to other branches constantly, from conformal geometry and representation theory to geometric group theory and PDE. It is also indispensable in physics and computer science. A central object is percolation, the simplest example exhibiting phase transition, shedding light on other statistical physics models in two and more dimensions and on Cayley graphs. It is also a key example of how perturbations of the ",{"id":256,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":257,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":258},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276443","Chemokine functions in collective cancer cell invasion: induction, guidance and systemic dissemination","Cancer progression recapitulates, in part, ill-fated morphogenesis, including single-cell and collective cell migration and associated invasive growth, metastasis and poor prognosis of cancer disease. Chemokines and their receptors enhance cancer progression, by supporting both cancer invasion and proliferation. Previous studies have addressed chemokine function on individual cancer cell functions with emphasis on in vitro effects, yet their contribution to in vivo growth and collective cancer i",{"id":260,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":261,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":262},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274586","Identification of genetic determinants involved in Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis","Respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of global mortality and morbidity. It has been estimated by the WHO that annually 4-5 million people die of pneumonia. Streptococcus pneumoniae, aptly named because it is the most important bacterial cause of pneumonia, is likely primarily responsible for these deaths. Infection by S. pneumoniae is a complex process dependent on a number of essential pathways, of which members could form ideal candidates for drug design. To identify microbial gene",{"id":264,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":265,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":266},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255267","Space AsteroSeismology & RR Lyrae stars","The new data gathered with the Kepler satellite will not only boost the discovery of planets orbiting other stars, including those resembling Earth, but they will also open a window into the inner workings of the parent stars themselves. In particular, stars that oscillate -- and it turns out many do -- yield clues that allow us to probe their structure with a set of research tools called asteroseismology. At the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), a large group of scientists is w",{"id":268,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":269,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":270},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252075","Connectivity in Complex Networks of interacting stochastic nonlinear systems. Applications in neuroscience","The context of the project is the study of networks of interacting nonlinear systems with application to neuroscience. The project adresses two timely and innovative questions: - Are we able to estimate the connectivity\u002Fdirectivity graph from the observation? - What is the influence of the network topology on the information processing of the network? To answer the questions we develop four tracks of research: 1- Practical inference for connectivity and directivity in complex networks (statistic",{"id":272,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":273,"piName":10,"institution":274,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":275},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276155","Biomimetic nanopore for a mechanistic study of the nuclear pore complex","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT","Compartmentalization of the eukaryotic genome into a nucleus necessitates nuclear import and export to achieve basic cellular processes. The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is a large (60 - 125 MDa) macromolecular structure in eukaryotic cells, where it spans the nuclear membrane and serves as the gatekeeper of nucleocytoplasmic transport. While water, ions, and small molecules can freely diffuse through the NPC, macromolecules larger than 25 - 40 kDa cannot pass the NPC’s permeability barrier unless",{"id":277,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":278,"piName":10,"institution":279,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":280},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273572","UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS:  FROM SYNTHESIS TO UNDERSTANDING","COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES","The main scientific aim of the proposed research program is to study the physical properties of unconventional superconductors, in particular those with high superconducting transition temperatures (cuprates and iron-pnictides). The key issues are addressed through intensive team work and a bottom-up approach. This begins with the synthesis and careful characterization of single crystals, continues with the application of advanced experimental probes, and culminates in a rationalization of the o",{"id":282,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":283,"piName":10,"institution":284,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":286},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272571","Grid connection of Wave Energy Converters: investigation on storage requirements and solutions","FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION","ES","\"Sea2grid project is developed in the field of Renewable Energy and it is targeted towards the exploitation of sea waves for the production of electricity to be injected into the power grid. To allow the grid connection of Wave Energy Converters it is necessary that the delivered power is conveniently smoothed and satisfies strict Grid Codes requirements. This is a critical point for very intermittent sources as sea waves. The lack of established storage solutions to mitigate this problem is, at",{"id":288,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":289,"piName":10,"institution":146,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":290},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274895","Priming in an aquatic ecosystem - Stream biofilms as hotspots for carbon cycling","Recent findings concerning the role of inland waters in global carbon cycling is currently having a major impact of the view of the global carbon cycle. These findings highlight inland waters - such as streams, rivers and lakes - as major sites of carbon cycling, implying that they must be considered in the context of climate change. Microbial degradation of organic carbon is a process that is central to carbon cycling in all ecosystems. In soils, microbial degradation of recalcitrant carbon is ",{"id":292,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":293,"piName":10,"institution":84,"country":85,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":294},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273175","Analysis of Constructions of Religious Identities among Turks in Cyprus (1925-2010)","The Turks of Cyprus constitute the biggest non-migrant Muslim community in the EU. So far no systematic research on their religious identity has been carried out. The religious attitudes of the Cypriot Turks are usually labeled with epithets such as “halfhearted” or “lax”. The deconstruction of this label would be one of the aims of the research.The main target of the proposed project is to identify the various constructions of religious identities among Turks in Cyprus (approx. 80% of the Cypri",{"id":296,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":297,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":298},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274515","Regulated release of Pt-based drugs from multi-component Au-nanocarriers","The aim of the proposed research is to develop a new (Au-NP) gold nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems. For this new synthetic approach, three different components are designed",{"id":300,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":301,"piName":10,"institution":70,"country":71,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":302},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275512","Nanofluidic Methods for Mapping Epigenetic and Genomic Variation","The objective of this project is to investigate nanofluidic single-molecule approaches to DNA mapping using a new denaturation mapping concept developed by W. Reisner. We propose to make advances in extending these approaches to true genome scale applications. We will furthermore demonstrate that epigenomic as well as genomic variations can be mapped with these approaches. Eventually, we seek to develop a device for mapping DNA that was extracted from single-cells on-chip. At the first stage of ",{"id":304,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":305,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":306},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271803","Microscopy of Interacting fermi-Gases : high-Resolution Imaging and Statistical properties","During the last decade, cold atoms have become one of the best controlled quantum systems. The major achievements were of Bose-Einstein condensation and Fermi degeneracy in trapped gases. More recently, cold gases have entered the régime of strong interactions, with the most prominent breakthroughs beein the observation of superfluidity in a Fermi gas and the transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator, arranging atoms site by site in a periodic optical lattice.Here we reach out for a new l",{"id":308,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":309,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":310},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276336","Improving the Realism of Mobility and Cooperation Models in Opportunistic Networks","The project MOVE-R - Improving the Realism of Mobility and Cooperation Models in Opportunistic Networks - will provide techniques for increasing the representativeness of models and algorithms used in opportunistic networking research. Opportunistic networking is a novel paradigm in future networks based on data storing, carrying, and forwarding by mobile nodes which exploit wireless ad-hoc communication opportunities when coming in range of one another. These networks are disruption tolerant an",{"id":312,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":313,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":314},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274932","Stochastic Optimal Control of multiscale processes with applications to energy systems","The European energy policy aims to establish Europe as one of the world leaders in renewable energy and low-carbon technologies. The energy challenge consists of the set of technologies and policies that need to be developed in order to enable the transition to a low-carbon economy. The motivation for studying energy systems stems from this challenge.Studying the properties of energy systems requires the use of advanced simulation and control algorithms for the computation of the optimal system ",{"id":316,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":317,"piName":10,"institution":318,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":319,"abstract":320},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-270889","Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Soil Strata Resting on a Poroelastic Half-plane by the BEM","ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS","€102,205","The research subject under investigation is synthesis of artificial seismograms and of their corresponding response spectra on the free surface of non-horizontal soil strata exhibiting anisotropy and resting on a poroelastic half-plane through which propagate upward-moving seismic signals. Three basic steps are identified in this research work, namely (a) analytical solution of seismic wave propagation in a water-saturated, poroelastic half-plane; (b) formulation of the elastodynamic problem for",{"id":322,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":323,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":324},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275137","EFFECT OF IL-23 ON IMMUNE CELL INFILTRATION AND TUMOR GROWTH IN A GLIOMA MODEL","Malignant gliomas are the most common primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors in humans and belong to the most aggressive types of cancer. Glioblastoma cells display an invasive phenotype and release immunosuppressive molecules to avoid the host’s immune response. Therefore, there is an urgent need for novel tumor-selective treatments that specifically target migratory glioma cells and\u002For promote inflammatory anti-tumor responses.The possibility of using immuno-therapy to control tumor growt",{"id":326,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":327,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":183,"abstract":328},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274160","Detecting protease substrates using unnatural amino acids","There are aminoacyl transferases, such as arginyl tRNA protein transferase 1 (Ate1) in Eukaryotes and leucyl\u002Fphenylalanyl tRNA protein transferase (L\u002FF transferase) in Bacteria.  Both enzymes recognize specific N-terminal amino acids of a target poly-peptide and conjugate an amino acid from an aminoacylated tRNA onto the N-terminus of the targeted poly-peptide.Ate1 conjugates an arginyl moiety onto the N-terminus of a poly-peptide.  Electrospray ionization of peptides critically depends on argin",{"id":330,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":331,"piName":10,"institution":64,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":332},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275584","Ultrasensitive Quantum Cascade Laser spectroscopy for the heterodyne detection of exhaled biomarkers","This proposal is designed to combine high-performance Quantum Cascade Lasers with the most advanced cavity-enhanced spectroscopic methods in order to develop new trace-gas methods. This project will lead to a non-invasive and compact, diagnostic tool for the real-time analysis of trace gas concentrations in human breath. The detection in human breath of gases with medical relevance, and particularly of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and hydrogen cyanide (HCN), will be our main challenge.The first inn",{"id":334,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":335,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":336},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273455","Drug Discovery using DNA-encoded Chemistry","DNA-encoded based selection methods represent a novel avenue for the facile discovery of binding molecules from large libraries. Unique DNA fragments covalently attached to small molecules serve as amplifiable identification barcodes. The encoding allows the in vitro selection of ligands at sub‐picomolar concentrations from large library populations by affinity capture on a target protein of interest, in analogy to established technologies for the selection of binding polypeptides (e.g., antibod",{"id":338,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":339,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":340,"abstract":341},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275197","Railway Stations as Interface between The Global and The Local","€240,205","PORTA proposes to study the social dynamics of mobility environments associated with inner-city high-speed rail stations. Previous related studies point at a tension between everyday life rhythms, and the development choices of railway stations. In PORTA I argue for the inclusion of the provision for social life in decision making processes for railway stations development, as a measurable parameter of spatial quality that indicate city’s potential success in the global marketplace. Based on my ",{"id":343,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":344,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":345},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273711","Experimental generation of distant quantum dot spin entanglement","Quantum dot spins, known as “artificial atoms”, not only provide platforms for studying spin dynamics in a solid-state environment, but also serve as promising candidates for implementing scalable quantum computation. Considerate efforts have been devoted to manipulating quantum dot spins as qubits. Precise preparation of initial qubits and complete control of a single quantum spin with optical means have been reported. Until now, however, the generation of distant quantum dot spin entanglement ",{"id":347,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":348,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":349},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271895","“DiSC-MS” - Direct Single cell Mass Spectrometry: a novel analytical platform for monitoring the metabolism at single-cell level","Cells can display different variations in behavior toward different external cues. The multidisciplinary field of metabolomics provides a unique insight into the molecular feedbacks and cross-talk between metabolic cascades that allow organisms to adapt toward different sources of biotic and abiotic stress.Unfortunately, there is still a substantial technological limitation (in terms of sensitivity and throughput), when trying to understand the complex and highly interrelated metabolic processes",{"id":351,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":352,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":353},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273039","Symbolic Pattern Recognition in Drug Design - Statistical Models and Scientific Insight","Profound understanding of the relationship between molecular structure and biological activity is an essential prerequisite for rational drug design. Due to the inherent non-linearity of these relationships, ordinary regression is often inadequate, and black-box machine learning approaches offer limited, if any, interpretability. As a solution, we propose to use symbolic regression, in conjunction with a unique approach to feature selection, to establish quantitative structure-activity relations",{"id":355,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":356,"piName":10,"institution":279,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":357},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275082","Fluid Dynamics and Quantum Gravity","Using and combining the experiences and tools from quantum field theory, gravity and fluid dynamics, the goal of this proposal is to address the challenging task of mapping the Navier-Stokes turbulence problem to a general relativity problem. For this we will study fluctuations of certain d-dimensional geometries at a cutoff surface beyond the linear order, and study the map to the nonlinear fluid dynamics. We also aim to contribute further to the development of efficient methods for identifying",{"id":359,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":360,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":361},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251271","Analytic and ergodic aspects of automorphic forms on higher rank groups","Automorphic forms are an important subject in number theory and have many arithmetic applications. Some crucial results in the theory of (classical) automorphic forms include results on subconvexity, converse theorems and zeros of L-functions, to name only a few. However, so far the theory of higher rank groups is not as developed as the theory of (classical) automorphic forms and in the last years interest in higher rank groups and their application has increased. This can be seen from the numb",{"id":363,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":364,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":365},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273810","Crystallography-assisted synthesis of zeolites with tailored acid site distributions","This research deals with a long-term objective in zeolite science: the control of acid site distribution by varying synthesis parameters. In most catalytic reactions, the performance of zeolite-based catalysts depends on the distribution of the acid sites at the nanoscale level. The aluminium atoms in the zeolite framework structure are responsible for the formation of the acid sites, so if their distribution can be tailored so can that of the acid sites. In spite of intense interest, no method ",{"id":367,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":368,"piName":10,"institution":369,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":370},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254658","ADVANCED NUMEREICAL STUDY OF FLAME ACCELERATION AND DETONATION IN VAPOUR CLOUD EXPLOSIONS","KINGSTON UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION","The proposed research aims to tackle the extremely complex problem of flame acceleration, the conditions for transition from turbulent deflagration to detonation and detonation. These physical phenomena are highly multidisciplinary which involve fluid mechanics, combustion, shock dynamics and detonation. We will start with small scales for model development and validation. In such analysis advanced combustion models for flame acceleration will be coupled with detailed chemistry together with spe",{"id":372,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":373,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":374},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272259","Representation Theory of Blocks of Group Algebras with Non-abelian Defect Groups","The proposed project is set in pure mathematics in the areas of representation theory of associative algebras and Lie theory. Its goal is to contribute to the structure theory of the blocks of group algebras of symmetric groups with non-abelian defect groups. The main emphasis of this project will be on the subclass of the RoCK blocks. The main objective of the project is to make a significant contribution towards proving Turner's conjecture about the structure of the RoCK blocks.Recent developm",{"id":376,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":377,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":378},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274842","NAnoscience with SUrface MEtal CArbenes","The central theme of this project is elucidating and exploiting the reactivity of metal carbenes on well-defined surfaces. We propose to use surface science techniques in vacuo (mainly scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, temperature programmed reactions, near edge X-ray adsorption fine structure and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) to address olefin metathesis reactions and provide an understanding at the single molecule level. Harnessing the reactivity of the metal carbenes, we wil",{"id":380,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":381,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":382},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273994","Macrophage Proteoglycans in Atherosclerosis","Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in Western societies. CVD-related deaths are primarily caused by complications of atherosclerosis, a disease initiated via focal infiltration and retention of lipoproteins in the subendothelial matrix of arteries due to a combination of aggregation and interaction with proteoglycans produced by the arteries. Little is known about the in vivo contribution of macrophage-derived and -associated proteoglycans during atherosclerosis develop",{"id":384,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":385,"piName":10,"institution":168,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":386,"abstract":387},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272448","Nano-diamond building blocks for micro-device applications","€219,500","The aim of the proposed project is to initiate a new research line on the development of nano-diamond building blocks for micro-devices. Diamond is a superlative engineering material combining exceptional thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties. Nano-grained diamond is of large scientific and technological interest since it could lead to several breakthroughs in micro-engineering, like e.g. for the synthesis of micro-electromechanical systems. Such nano-diamond deposits could replace silico",{"id":389,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":390,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":391},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253818","Mechanisms and functions of microtubule plus end tracking proteins in mammalian cells: development of inhibitory strategies","Microtubule plus end tracking proteins are a group of factors that accumulate specifically at the ends of growing microtubules where they control microtubule dynamics and the interactions with different structures, such as mitotic kinetochores, actin cytoskeleton and the cell cortex. The core components of the microtubule plus end tracking machinery are End Binding (EB) proteins, such as EB1, which autonomously track the growing ends of microtubules and recruit to microtubule tips multiple funct",{"id":393,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":394,"piName":10,"institution":125,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":395},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273664","Potassium:Absolute Chronologies Calibrated Using Really Accurate TIMS Experiments","Accurate and precise geochronology is fundamental to earth sciences, essential for the quantification of rates and durations of geological processes and in unravelling cause and effect relationships. The 40Ar\u002F39Ar technique has the widest temporal range of any geochronometer, can be applied to many K-rich rocks, and is used to solve key questions in earth, life, and planetary sciences. Modern mass spectrometers generate measurements with analytical uncertainties (precision) much smaller than the",{"id":397,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":398,"piName":10,"institution":399,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":400},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274481","Accelerated myocardial perfusion, metabolic and contractile cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging","UNIVERSITAT ZURICH","Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide and the costs due to CVD are increasing. Early detection and correct treatment of CVD is therefore important and research on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for imaging of myocardial viability, perfusion and contractility has been intensified. While these methods are already well developed and in use in clinical research and practice, data on metabolic changes associated with CVD are difficult to obtain in-vivo due",{"id":402,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":403,"piName":10,"institution":279,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":404,"abstract":405},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272811","Investigation of changing molecular orbitals using high-harmonic radiation tomography with resolving the full two dimensonal phase map","€194,064","In this work pictures of the highest occupied orbital of changing molecular states will be taken using the molecular orbital tomography technique. This technique is based on the harmonic radiation emitted by the aligned sample molecules interacting with a strong IR-laser field. From amplitude, polarization and relative phases of the harmonic radiation the molecular orbital involved in the process can be reconstructed. The molecular orbital tomography has an intrinsic time resolution of below one",{"id":407,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":408,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":409},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273003","A multidisciplinary approach for the computational assembly of large molecular machines from electron density maps","Proteins are often organized in large, dynamic molecular machines. A mechanistic, atomic-resolution understanding of these machines would provide fundamental insights into the clockwork of the complex machinery underlying human life. However, machines such as the 26S-proteasome have resisted crystallization attempts for decades.Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has provided insightful maps of molecular machines, but these lack atomic resolution. In principle, molecular machines can be assembled",{"id":411,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":412,"piName":10,"institution":146,"country":26,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":413},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275891","Quantum opto-mechanics with photonic and phononic crystals","Micro- and nanomechanical resonators are currently receiving enormous interest due to their potential as a new class of quantum systems, with possible impact ranging from the foundations of quantum physics, quantum limited sensing and quantum information processing. A particularly successful system is the optomechanical oscillator, where the radiation pressure of light is used to manipulate and read-out the dynamics of the mechanical system. To date experiments have demonstrated individually eac",{"id":415,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":416,"piName":10,"institution":274,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":417},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275217","Planning under uncertainty for real-world multiagent systems","A major goal of Artificial Intelligence is designing agents: systems that perceive their environment and execute actions. In particular, a fundamental question is how to build intelligent agents. When uncertainty and many agents are involved, this question is particularly challenging, and has not yet been answered in a satisfactory way.The need for scalable and flexible multiagent planning is particularly pressing given that intelligent distributed systems are becoming ubiquitous in society.  Fo",{"id":419,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":420,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":421},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252267","The functions of mTOR complex subunits Rictor and Raptor in myelination","Understanding the molecular basis of myelination, and the nature of the cells that achieve myelination, is of fundamental importance for both basic and clinical neuroscience. Detailed insights into these processes are likely to provide the foundation for therapeutic approaches to diseases affecting myelinating cells, like Multiple sclerosis in the central nervous system (CNS) and Peripheral Neuropathies in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The host lab has shown that integrin-mediated signals",{"id":423,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":424,"piName":10,"institution":425,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":426},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275823","Development of an integrated numerical model of the intra-cranial space (including the brain parenchyma, blood flow and cerebrospinal fluid) for clinical application","University of Zurich","This research project aims at developing an integrated numerical model of the intra-cranial space necessary for a better understanding of cerebral mechanics under normal and disease conditions. This model will address the key short comings of the current strategies, namely the lack of integration between structural and fluid components and the discrepancies between the parenchymal deformations under large or small strain rates.To reconcile the different mechanical behaviors reported in literatur",{"id":428,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":429,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":430},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276562","Caring Labour in a Migrating World","The position of migrant workers employed in European care systems is defined and shaped by the intersection and interrelation of national social policy and migration regimes embedded in specific economic, political and cultural contexts.The combination of the researcher’s background and knowledge of care and migration and the substantial expertise of the host institution in comparative studies of care in Europe will enable an interdisciplinary and multi-national analysis of the position of migra",{"id":432,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":433,"piName":10,"institution":434,"country":435,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":436},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274035","Analysis of controllability and control landscapes for quantum systems","WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE","IL","The proposed research program is in the field of quantum control. This is a vibrant, actively-growing and highly interdisciplinary branch of science of broad interest to the physics and chemistry communities, with many researchers involved in Europe, the US and worldwide. The project addresses two fundamental topics in quantum control. The first is controllability of Markovian and non-Markovian open quantum systems (i. e., systems interacting with the environment). While controllability properti",{"id":438,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":439,"piName":10,"institution":440,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":441},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254603","The zebrafish as a new vertebrate model for molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory, including synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease","GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET","A majority of our most common neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, age-related dementia and multiple sclerosis, are manifested by memory loss and a reduced potential for learning. Additionally, a substantial portion of our population suffers from various forms of learning difficulties. Despite all the efforts to solve the mystery of learning and memory, we still do not have a complete cellular model of learning in a higher model organism. During my postdoc at ",{"id":443,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":444,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":445},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255568","Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Projections including Biogeochemical Feedbacks","State-of-the-art earth system models used for long-term climate projections are becoming ever more complex in terms of not only spatial resolution but also the number of processes included in the models. Biogeochemical processes are just beginning to be incorporated into these complex models due to a difficulty in resolving heterogeneous biogeochemical processes. The motivation of this project is to quantify how climate projections are influenced by additional biogeochemical feedbacks that have ",{"id":447,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":448,"piName":10,"institution":449,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":450},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275726","A conserved mechanism regulating shoot and root lateral organ placement","WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY","Plant architecture is largely determined by branching patterns in the shoot and root systems. Shoots of seed plants, such as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, branch via lateral bud outgrowth, where branches are patterned along the stem at the base of a leaf. Roots branch laterally from an internal cell layer surrounded by differentiated tissues, at a distance from the root tip. Despite the differences in ontogeny and the divergent evolutionary origin of root and shoot lateral branches, both",{"id":452,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":453,"piName":10,"institution":440,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":454},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273851","Larval quality in oyster hatcheries: Effects of ocean acidification, temperature change and food availability on reproductive success and survival of the European flat oyster","The proposed research will investigate the effects of biological and physicochemical conditions on growth and development of the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) throughout its life cycle.Specific research objectives for this project are:1. determine current causes of hatchery instability in broodstock conditioning and larval productivity, including potential effects of ocean acidification and temperature change on larval development in O. edulis",{"id":456,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":457,"piName":10,"institution":109,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":458},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275345","Doped semiconductor contacts for low resistance contacts to carbon nanotubes","Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are attracting an immense research effort due to their remarkable electronic properties. The ability to integrate CNTs into applications such as sensors and low power transistors will allow the technology to fully benefit from these structures. The advantages CNTs offer include high sensitivity, very low power requirements, and the ability to use nanometer scale components. Key issues remain before the full potential of CNTs can be exploited: Low resistivity contacts must",{"id":460,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":461,"piName":10,"institution":274,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":462},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272653","Diffusion of Ions in Cementitious Materials","Durability and reliability of concrete infrastructure is a serious, large scale, financial and safety concern with an increasing scientific, engineering and economical focus. Although the interest for numerical modelling of cementitious materials and durability issues increases rapidly in recent years, a comprehensive knowledge on their fundamental processes is still lacking. The proposed project is interdisciplinary, bridging fundamental understanding of multiphase ionic transport in porous mat",{"id":464,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":465,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":466},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276032","The causes, consequences and conservation implications of individual specialisation in seabirds","Albatrosses are the most threatened family of birds in the world. Their susceptibility to climate change and bycatch by fisheries, combined with their slow life cycle, makes them of paramount conservation concern. While much work to date has focussed on behaviour at the species level, there is growing evidence that the variation in the response of the individual is the crucial driver in population and species level changes. This project would use two unique data sets collected by CEBC-CNRS: 1) l",{"id":468,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":469,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":470,"abstract":471},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275045","Spin triplet proximity effect and spin-injection in High Tc superconductor\u002Fferromagnetic hybrids","€186,248","This proposal is dedicated to hybrid systems combining High-Tc superconductors (HTCS) with (oxide or not) ferromagnets (FM). This project aims at experimentally underpinning the microscopic mechanisms of interaction between HTCS and FM. Our goals are to understand how the d-wave superconductivity of HTCS diffuses into a FM material (in particular to determine if new quantum states such as spin-triplet pairing emerge in the FM), and to characterize spin-polarized quasiparticle transport across HT",{"id":473,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":474,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":476},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271909","Spectroscopic insight with nanoscale resolution on model photovoltaic systems","UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO\u002F EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA","Engineering of cheap nanoscale elements based on self-assembled organic molecular materials with spatially distributed p-n interfaces is envisaged as a promising alternative to the expensive inorganic photovoltaic cells. In this frame, we plan to explore nanophotovoltaic interfaces to advance our understanding of the processes of sunlight conversion into usable electrical energy in molecular-scale structures.Of particular relevance for the working principle of solar cells are the interfaces betw",{"id":478,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":479,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":480,"abstract":481},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275622","Logarithmic conformal field theory as a duality between Brauer-type algebras and quantum groups at roots of unity","€185,864","This project concerns the little studied  class of  logarithmic two-dimensional conformal field theories (LCFTs) - with  unusual properties such as non-unitarity and non-semisimplicity. LCFTs  have applications in   statistical mechanics (sand-piles, percolation,  polymers, disordered electrons) and in  the AdS\u002FCFT conjecture. They have come under increased interest in the mathematical physics community . Yet,  very few LCFTs have been understood at  the writing of this proposal, and the subject",{"id":483,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":484,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":485},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273844","A universal approach for analyzing the diet of omnivorous mammals based on DNA barcoding and next generation sequencing: application to the brown bear population in northern Italy","The brown bear population in northern Italy is the result of a recent translocation and is of conservation concern also due to the high impact of human activities in the modern Alpine ecosystem. Diet studies are particularly important for endangered species or for population of conservation interest because accurate knowledge of animal diet is fundamental for evaluating the ecology of animals in their habitat. The general goal of the proposed project is to develop a universal and standardized to",{"id":487,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":488,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":489},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273487","Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticosteroids in the Central Nervous System","Glucocorticoids (GCs), the adrenal steroid hormones released during stress, can have an array of adverse effects in the nervous system, including disruption of hippocampal-dependent plasticity and cognition. Of relevance to this proposal, GCs can also compromise the ability of hippocampal and cortical neurons to survive an array of necrotic neurological insults. Amid this picture of deleterious effects, there is the accepted paradigm in which GCs are seemingly protective in the context of necrot",{"id":491,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":492,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":493},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272869","Oxidative and Inflammatory Response of Oysters to Harmful Algal Bloom Species","Harmful Algal blooms (HABs) are a global issue with economic, ecologic and biomedical implications. Shellfish mortalities associated with HABs have been observed. Algal toxins accumulate in some bivalves whereas other species won't display similar accumulation. Furthermore, one species may respond differentially to various toxins, which causes difficulties to generalize the mechanisms involved. Only very few studies investigated cellular and molecular mechanisms occurring during HAB exposure. Ex",{"id":495,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":496,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":497},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253112","New pincer-type complexes derived from 2-indenylidene ligands","The group of D. Bourissou has recently reported a new family of indenyl-type ligands bearing one or two coordinating side-arms. These new ligands have allowed the preparation of several metal complexes (Zr, Rh, Pd) exhibiting original coordination modes: eta-1 indenyl and 2-indenylidene. In this project, we envision to take advantage of the strong sigma-donor character of such original 2-indenylidene pincer ligands (i) to stabilise oxo and peroxo complexes of late transition metals and (ii) to e",{"id":499,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":500,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":501,"abstract":502},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274268","Regulation of AMPA type of glutamate receptor surface diffusion by Protein Kinase ζ","€195,064","In recent years significant progress has been made into deciphering the initial triggering mechanisms responsible for the induction of synaptic strengthening. Contrarily, very few studies address the question as to which cellular processes are responsible for the maintenance of LTP. Recently, the protein kinase M zeta (PKMζ, an atypical protein kinase C) has taken center stage in the field of synaptic plasticity due to its unique role in the maintenance of LTP. Among some of the most crucial obs",{"id":504,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":505,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":506},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255508","Mechanistic and structural insight into di-aspartyl intramembrane proteases","The proposed project aims at providing structural and functional characterization of a family of membrane proteins from archaea, which are either homologous or related in structure to the human protein Presenilin. Membrane proteins represent one third of the proteins of living organisms, one half of drug targets, and still less than 1% of known protein structures refers to this class of macromolecules. The successful accomplishment of such a project will possibly result in a fundamental progress",{"id":508,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":509,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":510},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272113","Quantum Simulations of Relativistic Systems","This proposal is framed in the timely and novel field of quantum simulations of relativistic and quantum field theory systems. In the field of quantum information, quantum simulations of physical systems difficult to measure in the lab, with other, controllable, quantum systems, appear as one of the most promising avenues. Due to the difficulty to analyze some physical systems in the lab, or the limitations of classical simulations of quantum systems with standard computers, quantum simulations ",{"id":512,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":513,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":514,"abstract":515},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275325","Learning Greek in the Renaissance: Marcus Musurus, philologist, editor of Greek texts and teacher","€187,364","The ancient texts transmitted by the humanists of the Renaissance are the direct source of our cultural heritage. It is therefore important to understand how humanists have worked to establish a continuous link between antiquity and our time and to enter the duration in the originality of our own thinking. In this perspective the case of Marcus Musurus offers an investigation particularly favorable. The research proposed in the framework of a Marie Curie IEF, by integrating in both a personal se",{"id":517,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":518,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":519},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274523","Base Station (BS) Aided D2D (Device to Device) communication in cellular networks","Recent studies predict that the traffic to mobile devices will increase by two orders of magnitudein the next few years.  In particular, this is due to multimedia download generated by the widespread success of Internet-capable smartphones and other portable devices. Today's wireless cellular networks are strained by this dramatic increase in traffic demand. In order to meet this challenge, we argue that a novel network architecture that combine the best of both cellular and ad-hoc (device to de",{"id":521,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":522,"piName":10,"institution":523,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":524,"abstract":525},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274350","Constructing Solidarities. Kinship Ties and Social Networks in the Urban Communities of Italy and the Low Countries, 1250-1550","EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE","€91,706","In the rapidly growing cities of late medieval and early modern Italy and the Low Countries new forms of trust emerged that gave social cohesion to the urban community. The new trust networks, based on the building blocks of kinship ties and extra-familial co-operation, strengthened the processes of social integration and community building in the medieval city. This project aims to reveal the social mechanisms that underlay these solidarities as well as to determine the factors that facilitated",{"id":527,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":528,"piName":10,"institution":523,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":529,"abstract":530},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272211","EU Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective(Council of Europe, European Union, United States)","€251,275","Once part of the realm of the sovereign state, criminal policy has now become a competence of the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty will facilitate the design of arrangements that guarantee mutual recognition between member states’ criminal justice systems. Potentially affecting most aspects of domestic penal procedures, these new developments in European law take place in a domain where culturally distinct legal characteristics are deeply entrenched. In that respect, the promotion of enhanced p",{"id":532,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":533,"piName":10,"institution":523,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":534,"abstract":535},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272146","Circular migration and home care? The case of Romanian and Ukrainian home care workers in Northern Italy","€173,384","In its recent documentation on migration issues, the European Commission has been promoting “circularity” as an effective and efficient way to manage labour migration from both within and outside the EU. But how does the employment of circular migrants exactly work and what are its implications for Europe's societal challenges such as ageing and immigration?To answer to these questions, the present study focuses on Eastern European circular migrants and the elderly care sector. In particular, it",{"id":537,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":538,"piName":10,"institution":539,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":540,"abstract":541},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272227","Greek Women and Death, ancient and modern: A comparative Analysis","ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON","€204,910","To do the project, a training period in Greece is essential, which will also add scientific competencies to my career. The central theme of the project is women's role in connection with death-cult in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with ethnographic fieldwork in modern Greece. Assuming that death-rituals have a focal and lasting importance, and are reflecting the gender relations within a society, the institutions surrounding death may fun",{"id":543,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":544,"piName":10,"institution":545,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":546,"abstract":547},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272178","Reproductive pathways in birds","UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE","€114,600","In order for the brain to control reproductive behaviour, there must be nerve pathways that link higher brain centres with spinal motor neurons that innervate the muscles producing the behaviour. Knowledge of these pathways in the brainstem and spinal cord is presently either controversial or lacking in birds. In this proposal these pathways will be defined precisely in both songbirds and non-songbirds by charting the essential neuroanatomical links between the hypothalamus and other centres in ",{"id":549,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":550,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":551},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273854","Spectrum of the planar AdS\u002FCFT correspondence","This project aims to formulate the full solution to the spectral problem of the planar AdS\u002FCFT correspondence. This will be achieved in three steps. Firstly, I will subject the recently proposed set of spectral equations (TBA equations) for the planar AdS\u002FCFT correspondence to extensive tests and, if necessary, modify them. Secondly, I will develop new powerful tools to facilitate the computation of the energies\u002Fdimensions of the physical states from the TBA equations. This should also give a ha",{"id":553,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":554,"piName":10,"institution":555,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":340,"abstract":556},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276136","Ethical, Legal, Social and Practical Barriers to Sharing between Biobanks in Europe","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE","Biological samples, such as tissues, DNA, and cells are an increasingly important resource for advancing research on human diseases. In the last two decades, important efforts have been made to organize such samples and data into biobanks in order to make these samples and data available for sharing between researchers.  That being said, there remains many barriers and challenges to sharing between researchers and biobanks (whether regionally, nationally or internationally).  The overall objecti",{"id":558,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":559,"piName":10,"institution":523,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":560},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255137","Between Contestation and Cooptation: the Participation of Civil Society Organisations to the European Union Integration Process","The aim of this project is to analyse the various modes of contribution of civil society organisations in the process of integration within the EU. My intention is to understand why and how certain groups are recognised as legitimate actors, whereas others are limited to alternative fields of action, in both national and transnational environments. My hypothesis is that the institutional forms of civil society consultation that the EU has initiated, and the much stronger reactions of protest tha",{"id":562,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":563,"piName":10,"institution":523,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":564},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251759","Extraordinary Leadership and Radical Change in Democracy","This project aims to study how radical change in democracy is effectuated by political leadership. In the classical liberal view, democracy is associated with ordinary institutional processes, juridical continuity, entrenched interest groups, extensive de-politicization, and gradual change. But democracies do not only develop in evolutionary manner; they also experience breaks and undergo new institutional beginnings. This project is motivated by the observation that such radical changes in demo",{"id":566,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":567,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":568},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273786","Revealing the role of intrinsically disordered proteins in transcription and replication of measles and sendai paramyxoviruses using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy","Over the last decade it has become increasingly clear that a large fraction (up to 40%) of the proteins encoded by the human genome are disordered. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) remain functional despite a lack of a well-defined structure, such that the classical structure-function paradigm breaks down, and new insight into the relationship between primary sequence and molecular function is necessary. The object of this proposal is to study the role of IDPs in the replication and tran",{"id":570,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":571,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":572,"abstract":573},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272940","Identifying and understanding the cis-regulatory modules that control the spatio-temporal transcription of genes in chordates","€186,748","A major challenge in deciphering the genome is to understand the genomic sequences which control the spatio-temporal expression of genes. Despite much progress, the rules by which these regions, the cis-regulatory modules (CRMs), control the transcription of a gene remain unclear. The objectives of this proposal are to develop an algorithm to detect novel CRMs, to analyze the identified CRMs, and to elucidate the logic by which CRMs control when a gene is transcribed and in what cells. This will",{"id":575,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":576,"piName":10,"institution":555,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":577,"abstract":578},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274821","Computational study of the interaction between inhaled carbon nanoparticles and lung membranes","€179,548","We hereby propose a study on the physical and biological basis of the interaction between inhaled carbon nanoparticles and lung membranes, by computational approach.The past decades have seen hundreds of new applications of nanomaterials developed and patented. At the same time, the scientific community is encouraged to devote research efforts to assess the safety of nanotechnology products. The PLUM project focuses on the effects of inhaled carbon nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes. Inhalation ",{"id":580,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":581,"piName":10,"institution":555,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":582},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253004","Impact of IL-7 and IFNa on nTreg development","In developed countries, most HIV-infected patients are under highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). However, despite controlled viral replication, the immune reconstitution often remains incomplete, probably due to a poor reconstitution of thymic production. Apart its role in educating a diverse repertoire of conventional T-cells, the thymus also produces natural regulatory T-cells (nTreg), which contributes to the regulation of immune responses. Various cytokines are presently proposed a",{"id":584,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":585,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":586,"abstract":587},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273017","Hydrogen Incorporation in Subducting Lithosphere after Dehydration Reactions","€269,710","Subduction zones play a fundamental role in the deep water cycle making the Earth unique among other terrestrial planets. During subduction dehydration of hydrous minerals produces a fluid phase. A part of this fluid phase will be recycled water back to the Earth’s surface through hydrothermal aqueous fluids or through hydrous arc magmas, whereas another part of the water will be transported to the deep mantle by Nominally Anhydrous Minerals (NAMs) such as olivine, pyroxene and garnet. The parti",{"id":589,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":590,"piName":10,"institution":555,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":33,"abstract":591},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272808","Regulation of chromatin compaction in response to DNA damage in mammalian cells","Protection of genome integrity is crucial for maintaining cell viability and preventing cancer. However, how the dynamic organisation of DNA into chromatin in the cell nucleus is orchestrated in order to allow and promote detection and repair of DNA lesions remains poorly understood. A controlled accessibility of damaged chromatin is likely critical for an efficient cellular response to DNA damage, but underlying molecular mechanisms enabling this regulation have to be deciphered. In this propos",{"id":593,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":594,"piName":10,"institution":555,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":501,"abstract":595},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273223","Human blood vessels infected by meningococcus","Invasive infection of Nesseria meningitidis can have fatal consequences for the victims, typically healthy young children. The project outlined here aims to enhance the current understanding of N. meningitidis infection by studying the pathogen in a relevant in vivo environment. Study of N. meningitidis has previously been hindered by a lack of appropriate in vivo models. This shortfall is related to the difficulties in emulating N. meningitidis’ infectious niche, the human blood stream. Here we",{"id":597,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":598,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":599},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273923","Paricle Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions with CMS","The proposed research entails the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) which will be created in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose to apply particle-flow event reconstruction, a powerful technique shown to improve the capabilities of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) detector in p+p collisions, to heavy-ion collisions for the first time. Using this method, the researcher will study parton energy loss in the QGP by full reconstruction of jets in heavy-ion collision",{"id":601,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":602,"piName":10,"institution":475,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":603},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273635","From Minimally Autonomous Biological Individuals to Collectively Associated Autonomous Adaptive Agents","A great difficulty in theorizing and explaining living systems and their evolutionary patterns, is due to their individual-systemic and collective-evolutionary characteristics being so strongly and deeply intertwined. Biological individuals aggregate to collectively form more complex and diverse forms of biological organization in time, thus new forms of functionally and interactively diverse adaptive agents are produced. The problem is when one tries to specify the conditions and the terms in w",{"id":605,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":606,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":163,"abstract":608},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276574","pi-Electronic Gel Hybrids: Towards SmartPhotoactive Nanomaterials","CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE","GELBRID is a 3-year project aiming at the preparation and extensive characterization of advanced gel hybrid materials. Three basic strategies will be addressed: (i) peptide-substituted linear pi-conjugated molecules to be gelated and (ii) used as scaffolds for the hybridization with inorganic nanoparticles and for (iii) noncovalent functionalization of graphene through self-assembly. The final target is (iv) a new gel hybrid system that, combining the above 3 strategies, incorporates their outst",{"id":610,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":611,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":612,"abstract":613},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273528","tunAble Liquid-crystal LOng-range surface PLASMon polariton components","€180,084","ALLOPLASM aims at the theoretical analysis and the experimental fabrication and characterization of liquid-crystal tunable long-range surface plasmon polariton elements. Conventional metal stripe plasmonic waveguides shall be enhanced with an electrically-switchable liquid-crystal superstrate layer. Through appropriate design, the electrical tuning of the LC-molecule tilting shall control the level of structural asymmetry and, therefore, the propagation properties, such as propagation constant a",{"id":615,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":616,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":617,"abstract":618},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275626","Project PEA (Photosynthesis and Earth Atmospheres): Investigating the effect of evolutionary adaptation to high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in fossil and living plants","€181,084","Photosynthesis is of critical importance to biodiversity, food security and society within the context of current climate change.  The photosynthetic responses of plants to rising atmospheric CO2 have been studied in experiments where CO2 is artificially enriched to predicted levels.  However, these experiments involve plants adapted to current “low” ambient levels of ~380ppm CO2, and do not incorporate consideration of plant evolutionary adaptation of photosynthesis, where the physiology of pla",{"id":620,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":621,"piName":10,"institution":622,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":623},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273427","Structural studies of HK97 bacteriophage assembly and maturation","INSTITUT PASTEUR","Virus maturation is virtually universal and allows the transition from an initially assembled non-infectious and fragile particle to a robust infectious virion. Siphophage HK97 is an accessible model system, to study assembly and maturation, for which intermediates can be isolated and myriad structural, biophysical and biochemical data are available. The capsid protein fold similarity between HK97, all other dsDNA bacteriophages and some animal viruses suggests that they share common maturation ",{"id":625,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":626,"piName":10,"institution":627,"country":628,"year":13,"amount":629,"abstract":630},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252252","Evolutionary response of two African Rodent species (Hystrix sp) to climate changes: the study of the past as an estimate of the future","UNIVERSITETET I OSLO","NO","€204,568","Evidences of ongoing global warming, set the study of the reactions of species and ecosystems to climatic change as one of the main issues of Conservation Biology and the development of most accurate and reliable predictive models as crucial. To date, such models are principally based on projecting climatic variables that characterize the current distribution of species on modelled future climatic scenarios (Ecological Niche Modelling). However, accuracy of such predictions are strongly debated ",{"id":632,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":633,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":634},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272081","International Alliances for Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: Peace Negotiations and Implemented Resilience Strategies","Global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace and negotiation, in harmony with other actors, through alliances and international consensus. The literature on psychology applied to international negotiation has been progressing at a theoretical level, but we know much less about how to master interacting cognitive and affective processes to shape judgements and decisions. Our psychological cognitive-motivational approach may help to widening the understanding and improvement of relation",{"id":636,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":637,"piName":10,"institution":638,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":639},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275707","Mechanisms of Human Neuronal Development and Functional Integration in Neural Network","UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE","Despite the exponentially growing burden that neurodevelopment or neurodegenerative diseases represent in public health, the therapies are mostly inexistent or very limited. Intensive fundamental research on the biological mechanisms of neurological disorders is strongly needed to discover and validate pharmacological treatments. At the same time, there is a pressing need for treatment that would compensate the loss of neurons occurring in a multitude of neurological disorders. Rare clinical tri",{"id":641,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":642,"piName":10,"institution":607,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":643},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273485","Democratic Peace Theory. A Philosophical Reconsideration","In the last three decades political philosophers, historians, and international relations scholars have widely debated the so called Democratic Peace Theory (DPT), i.e. the fact that liberal democracies have rarely, if ever, fought wars against each other, and the explanation of this fact. The root of this thesis is to be found in the essay To Perpetual Peace (1795) where Kant argued that the main cause of war is the injustice of some political institutions. Despite the impressive amount of work",{"id":645,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":646,"piName":10,"institution":647,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":648,"abstract":649},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276201","Graphene-Based Ultra-Sensitive Gas Sensors","THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER","€280,680","Goal of the proposed research is to transfer the knowledge of experienced researcher to Europe. Detection of minor gas leaks in a hazardous work environment has been a challenging research problem for many decades as it involves health, safety and environmental risks. In this proposed research we will develop graphene based gas sensors with ultrafast response, high sensitivity, great selectivity and high durability to detect the environmental pollutants even in very low concentrations. We intend",{"id":651,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":652,"piName":10,"institution":627,"country":628,"year":13,"amount":653,"abstract":654},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255326","Timing of bird migration under climate change: phenotypic plasticity, microevolutionary response or both?","€197,368","Climate is changing at a global scale, exposing organisms to novel environmental conditions and potentially having a profound impact on life-history traits of individuals, and, hence, on the ecology, distribution and persistence of species. Among the most apparent effects of climate change are alterations in the phenology of many species as a result of changes in the timing of seasons. One of the most striking examples concerns the life-cycle of migratory birds: during recent decades a growing n",{"id":656,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":657,"piName":10,"institution":647,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":658},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272999","Ionisation of aligned atoms and molecules by low energy electron impact","Low energy ionising electron collisions with atoms and molecules have an impact on a range of phenomena and applications, since it is in this energy regime that ionisation is most likely to occur. As an example, these collisions are important in understanding the Earths upper atmosphere, in creating new energy efficient lighting and in the accurate targeting and treatment of cancers by radiotherapy. For these fields to progress it is essential to understand the physics governing the interactions",{"id":660,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":661,"piName":10,"institution":627,"country":628,"year":13,"amount":662,"abstract":663},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271610","Stability of composite structures for civil engineering applications","€147,080","My research project is mainly oriented towards Stability theory of elastic, elastoplastic and damaged structural systems. The project is consisting of two distinct parts:-Buckling of beamsBeams or columns are one-dimensional media, very current in the field of civil engineering. The project is focused on the stability and the vibrations of these structural elements, both for the in-plane and the out-of-plane behaviour. The lateral-torsional buckling of elastic beams will be investigated. The vib",{"id":665,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":666,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":668},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253013","Greek fantastic literature: a case of censorship in a European literary canon","AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS","Rarely have Modern Greek Studies taken into consideration any other than “serious” or mainstream works in order to establish a national “canon” and to analyze trends, worldviews or discursive strategies in Greek literature. Although disregarded by scholars and critique, there are some specific genres at the margins of official Greek literature that can reveal many things about national literature and related discursive strategies. The purpose of this project is to research one of the mentioned g",{"id":670,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":671,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":672},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272282","Shearwaters' Olfaction: a comparative study of sensory ecology in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean","Petrels (order Procellariiformes) are seabirds found in worldwide oceans with a high diversity of species and characterized by pelagic and wide-ranging lifestyle. Some recent study showed that their well-developed sense of smell plays a key role in locating patchily distributed food resources in the ocean, in nest finding at night, and for mate recognition. However, different species of petrels tested responded differently to olfactory stimuli according to their ecology. This suggests that odour",{"id":674,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":675,"piName":10,"institution":627,"country":628,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":676},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274356","Social complexity in Resource Management","This research projects starts from the observation that in some instances, government intervention is effective in conserving renewable natural resources, such as fish stock, but not in others. We argue that government intervention does not take place in a vacuum, as sets of social norms may exist that govern resource use. In some cases these social norms promote sustainable harvesting strategies, but they may also aggravate overfishing if they are merely aimed at reducing costs of exploitation.",{"id":678,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":679,"piName":10,"institution":50,"country":10,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":680},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274580","Online Communication Analysis: Methods for Multimodal, Networked Communication","The overarching objective of the proposed project “Online Communication Analysis: Methods for Multimodal, Networked Communication” (OnCoA) is to develop an interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approach to online communication in the field of media and communication studies that aims to provide applicable solutions for current and future demands in digital media and communication analysis.The term ‘online communication’ comprises here any communicative interaction\u002Faction on and by mea",{"id":682,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":683,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":684,"abstract":685},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273773","Searching genomic regions involved in adaptive evolution and speciation using ring species as a model system and next-generation sequencing","€216,040","Understanding the genetic bases of phenotypic variation is one of the most challenging topics faced by evolutionary biologists. Recently next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS) have brought into focus exciting technological advances to cover these aims, to the point that new disciplines such as Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics have recently emerged. Here, we propose to take advantage of one of the very few well-described ring species, the greenish warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides, to ",{"id":687,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":688,"piName":10,"institution":689,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":690},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253719","Haploid selection in animals","UPPSALA UNIVERSITET","Unlike in plants, selection during the haploid (gametic) phase of the life cycle has been assumed to be insignificant in animals. The main reason for this assumption is that gene expression in mature sperm was thought to be absent due to the densely packed nuclear DNA. However, there is increasing evidence that several genes are indeed expressed in mature sperm and hence may be under selection. Importantly, gene expression in mature sperm may lead to antagonistic selection between haploid and di",{"id":692,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":693,"piName":10,"institution":555,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":694},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-276416","Physiological impact of IF1 inhibitor on Reverse Cholesterol Transport (RCT) and atherosclerosis","Several large prospective studies established that high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is an independent negative risk factor for CHD thus representing today’s major protective factor against atherosclerosis, mostly attributable to their roles in ‘Reverse Cholesterol Transport (RCT)’. RCT allows excessive cell cholesterol to be taken up and processed in HDL particles, and later carried to the liver. To identify new cellular partners involved in hepatic HDL-C clearance in human, Martinez",{"id":696,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":697,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":698},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273610","Methodological development of phytolith analysis for studying non-dietary crop products in prehistoric agricultural societies","Plants have been of economic importance since the start of human evolution. Archaeobotanical studies of past agricultural societies have mainly focused on crop domestication and cultivation, both related to food production. However, particularly cereal crops supply not only food but also so-called secondary products (straw, chaff, etc.). Ethnographic studies indicate that these non-dietary resources must have been of fundamental importance in the past, supplying fuel, animal fodder and component",{"id":700,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":701,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":702},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273967","Revealing the response of the coral and its endosymbiotic algae to climate changes by molecular techniques","Tropical coral reefs shelter a high rate of marine biodiversity and provide a sizeable amount of ecological services. These ecosystems of interest face tremendous and pervasive challenges from human demography sky-rockets and inherent development pressures, as well as climate change and associated sea level rise. Prospects of coral reefs conservation, critically inevitable, will achieve through the growth of understanding their ecological mechanisms.The basis for the existence of tropical coral ",{"id":704,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":705,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":225,"abstract":706},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273743","Novel si\u002FmiRNAs in epigenetic regulation of salt stress responses in M. truncatula","The lifestyle of plants requires them to constantly adapt their growth and development to environmental variation. While highly related plants coding transcriptome are conservated, the non-protein-coding RNA (npcRNA) trascriptome diverges during evolution and within species. It is known that npcRNA can modificate spatio-temporal gene expression patterns, and play a key role in developmental adaptation and plasticity. In the last years, small\u002FmiRNA (two npcRNA families) have emerged as a novel an",{"id":708,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":709,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":710},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272284","Vegetation dynamics and ecosystem services provision in a fragmented landscape in response to global change","Anthropogenic land use change, caused by increasing needs for energy and resources, is driving dramatic changes in biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and consequently ecosystem services, such as water quality or crop pollination. New quantitative tools are needed to refine our understanding and projections of these processes into the coming century. Such tools are needed to develop policies and management strategies (e.g. ecological networks) required to mitigate the effects of climate change a",{"id":712,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":714,"abstract":715},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275681","Land-Ocean Connectivity - from Hydrological to Ecological Understanding of Groundwater in the Coastal Zone","€260,975","The coastal zone, where fresh and saltwater meet, hosts some of the most dynamic, diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. Ecological and hydrological land-ocean connectivity are important drivers of these ecosystems. This study will advance the understanding of hydrological-ecological coupling and connectivity, by studying relationships of key fauna with coastal groundwater hydrology in the tropical realm on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The use of groundwater proxies embedded in shells o",{"id":717,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":718,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":719,"abstract":720},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255215","Precision agricultural crop monitoring using laser scanning and unmanned aerial vehicles","€154,417","Currently the science of the remote sensing community does not meet the stringent requirements of sustainable agriculture and forestry practices, where quasi-real-time decision making of irrigation management, fertilizer application and disease detection is needed. The two highlighted obstacles that the remote sensing community needs to overcome are: a) the high cost and operational limitations of airborne remote sensing for short turnaround time needed for agricultural applications, and b) the ",{"id":722,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":723,"piName":10,"institution":115,"country":32,"year":13,"amount":724,"abstract":725},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272165","Luminescent liquid crystalline materials based on metal clusters","€259,975","The “MESOCLUST” project, which predominantly addresses fundamental research but also aims to take the benefit of further industrial applications, explores a completely new concept regarding the liquid-crystalline materials, namely CLUSTOMESOGENS, reported for the first time in 2010 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3351).The main objective of this proposal is the design of new hybrid materials showing liquid crystalline properties as well as bright luminescence in the red-NIR range by coupling me",{"id":727,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":728,"piName":10,"institution":689,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":729},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275691","Infants' understanding of social interaction","How do infants come to understand social interactions between other people? The first objective of the current project is to examine when infants recognize the joint and individual goals that underlie others' social interactions. This will be achieved with a developmental study using eye tracking to examine infants' expectations of others' behavior in social situations. The second objective of the project is to explore the role of both specific and general social experience in the development of",{"id":731,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":732,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":733},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271936","Oceanic exploration with seismic reflection data","OCEANSEIS is based on the recent discipline of Seismic Oceanography, which consists on the use of multichannel seismic reflection technique, traditionally used for geological prospection, to oceanic exploration. Temperature and salinity contrasts between oceanic water layers allow MCS technique to image the thermohaline fine structure with vertical and horizontal resolution on the order of 10 m.  This high horizontal resolution provides new information about the lateral coherence and horizontal ",{"id":735,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":736,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":737},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253970","Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Bacterioplankton Functioning: Effects on Proteorhodopsin-containing Marine Bacteria","The increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere and its high uptake by the oceans are lowering the pH of the oceans. Dramatic changes in ocean pH have been shown to negatively affect ocean biota such as phytoplankton and coral reefs. However, there is little known regarding the impact of decreasing ocean pH on marine bacteria. This project seeks to evaluate the effects of the ocean acidification on the structure and function of marine bacterioplankton communities. Proteorhodopsin (PR) phototrophy ar",{"id":739,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":740,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":741},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275863","Degradative potential of rivers as a key driver of the environmental fate and sink of organic pollutants","The great “riverine input-output paradox” is that even though the inputs of organic pollutants in rivers are enormous by point and non-point sources, the levels of pollutants in rivers are moderate and the final amount and impact of organic pollutants that reach the sea is small in comparison to other processes transporting pollutants to the marine environment Therefore, there is a need to study the degradative potential of rivers  (and other sinks such as volatilization) in order to understand ",{"id":743,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":744,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":745},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275840","A NOvel Architecture for a photonics LIquid State machine","Reservoir computing represents a new paradigm in information processing, based on the insight that computational power can emerge from a system’s complexity. The project’s objective is to develop a novel photonic approach to reservoir computing. The experimental scheme will implement the concept of a liquid state machine (LSM), a sub-category in the neuro-inspired framework of reservoir computing. It has been shown that LSMs posses universal and highly efficient computational properties. Experim",{"id":747,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":748,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":749,"abstract":750},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251710","Modeling and Understanding the Influence of Geological Complexity on CO2 Storage","€127,117","Carbon capture and storage in geological formations has been proposed in the last ten years to reduce the emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere. Geological storage consists in injecting supercritical CO2 into deep aquifers so that it remains trapped under a low permeability caprock. At the injection pressure, CO2 solubility is high and dissolution is controlled by diffusion and dispersion. CO2 saturated brine is highly acidic and will dissolve the rock, increasing its permeability, but also reducin",{"id":752,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":753,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":754,"abstract":755},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251904","Quantum Interference and electro-PHonon ANOmalies in graphenes","€205,678","Graphenic systems represent nowadays one of the most important research topics, because of their potential applications in new designed electronic devices. Most promising are the bilayer and multi-layered compounds where a controlled gap can be induced by field effect. Besides their peculiar transport properties, graphenes present also interesting phonon anomalies, usually probed by means of Raman spectroscopy. The theoretical and experimental investigation of such features has been shown to pro",{"id":757,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":758,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":759},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275286","Network QTL mapping of circadian clock","Understanding the molecular and genetic basis of complex quantitative traits is an important goal in genetics with wide ranging ramifications across the scientific community. Phenotypes within species are not fixed and instead have significant levels of natural genetic variation that distinguishes individuals. This includes traits ranging from development to metabolism to pathogen resistance, with selection often maintaining the underlying genetic variation. One network that is known to be natur",{"id":761,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":762,"piName":10,"institution":763,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":764},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273824","Mass Career Customization -a flexible career approach : effects on women's career advancement and wellbeing","STICHTING VU","During my IEF I will investigate on the effects of a new innovative career tool on the career advancement of women inside a multinational Accountancy firm. The overall objective is to examine how organisations by the use of more flexible career models can create inclusive organisational cultures that promote equal treatment and health and well-being among their female workforce. In this regard, I follow an important request of the EU – the promotion of gender equality and employability. To addre",{"id":766,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":767,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":768},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273220","Speciation and adaptive radiation in a Neotropical cichlid fish species complex: resolution of a systematic, ecological and evolutionary puzzle","Cichlid fish are among the most spectacular examples of rapid speciation and adaptive radiation, which makes them an excellent model system for the study of mechanisms of speciation and evolution. The hotspots of cichlid diversity are the large East African lakes, which contain hundreds of endemic species. Neotropical cichlids are less species rich, but often offer better and simpler scenarios to study very recent speciation events. A good model system of a small scale and extremely recent radia",{"id":770,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":771,"piName":10,"institution":763,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":772},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255525","Framing the World: Genre as Worldview","The problem of worldview in cognitive science concerns how high-level conceptual structures govern lower-level interpretation, emotion, reasoning, and discourse. Due to this top-down influence, when worldviews conflict people often literally cannot understand the “other side,” and may attribute their beliefs and values to non-cognitive causes (personal interest, conformity, ignorance). “Culture wars” arise when moral-political worldviews compete. Thus the study of worldview is central for commun",{"id":774,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":775,"piName":10,"institution":763,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":776},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274386","How temperature affects co-evolutionary interactions between partners: a study on physiological underlying mechanisms","Global warming often triggers the question if species response to a changing environment will enable them to persist. However species persistence is also dependent on species interactions. Relationships between tightly co-evolved species within communities are expected to be disrupted by thermal changes. An example of a co-evolutionary arms race is found in parasitoid insects, which develop in other arthropods to complete their larval development. The outcome of host-parasitoid interactions is k",{"id":778,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":779,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":780},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272470","Imaging the Plasmonic Activity of Magnetic Nanostructures","The proposed project concerns the study of magnetoplasmonic systems, that is nanostructures exhibiting both magneto-optic (MO)  properties and surface plasmon resonances (SPRs). Particularly, localized SPRs appearing in magnetic nanostructures will be studied using local probe microscopy techniques.The typical magnetoplasmonic nanostructure is a Noble-Metal\u002FFerromagnetic-Metal\u002FNoble-Metal trilayer. They can be fabricated either as continuous thin films that are subsequently patterned using litho",{"id":782,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":783,"piName":10,"institution":763,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":784},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274224","Wave-function theory embedded in density-functional theory with coupled excitations","Electronic excitations play an important role in several biological processes, such as photosynthesis and vision, as well as in technological applications like lighting materials---making the calculation of excitation energies an interesting and up-to-date challenge.Of special interest are influences of solvent molecules such as water or acetone.Typically (time-dependent) density-functional theory is used for larger systems but is not appropriate when charge-transfer comes into play.We propose t",{"id":786,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":787,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":788},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254996","Operation of Cavity Optomechanics in Fluids for Ultrasensitive Mass Detection","In cavity nanomechanics, researchers are racing towards the mechanical quantum ground states, however, it remains unclear how these interesting system could be usable in real applications. This project proposes that the cavity nanomechanics could find important use \u2029in a broad range of applications in chemical and biological detection. The use of cavity nanomechanics as sensitive mass detection could potentially replace mass spectrometers in portable detection systems. These devices are light ba",{"id":790,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":791,"piName":10,"institution":792,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":793},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252843","Self-Replication in Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries","RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN","The host group has recently made a remarkable discovery: the spontaneous emergence of self-replicating molecules from a complex mixture of continuously interconverting peptide-derived compounds (dynamic combinatorial libraries). This project builds on this discovery and aims to come to a complete understanding of the mechanism of replication. Based on this understanding new replicators will then be developed. In the final stage the process of replication will be studied inside bilayer vesicles. ",{"id":795,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":796,"piName":10,"institution":797,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":798,"abstract":799},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275012","New Strong Forces at the Large Hadron Collider","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","€157,600","The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will hopefully uncover some of the fundamental mysteries of particle physics: What is the origin of the observed asymmetry between electromagnetic and weak interactions ? What is the origin of electron and quark masses ? Does the Higgs boson exist ? What is the dark matter of the universe made of ? What is the origin of the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry ? In order to answer (some of) these questions from a theoretical standpoint several models have been pro",{"id":801,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":802,"piName":10,"institution":792,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":803},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274987","Asymmetric Aza-Michael reactions catalyzed by hybrids metal-DNA","This project deals with the development of new asymmetric reactions catalyzed by metal-DNA hybrids in aqueous medium. The present proposal has two main features:(i) The first feature lies on the design of novel catalytic systems putting into practice the concept of DNA-based asymmetric catalysis presented in the year 2005 by Ben. L. Feringa and G. Roelfes. This methodology involves the modular assembly of a DNA-based catalyst from natural duplex DNA and a metal complex of a nonchiral ligand that",{"id":805,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":806,"piName":10,"institution":797,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":807,"abstract":808},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255042","Agricultural soils and environmental change: integrating Geomorphic and Agro-Ecosystem Modelling Across Spatial Scales","€166,800","The general research objective of this proposal is to improve our understanding of the role of the agricultural soil resource in environmental change with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon sequestration and crop productivity. This will be achieved through: (i) the development and validation coupled geomorphic\u002Fagro-ecosystem models that will substantially reduce uncertainties by moving from conceptual and simplified coupled approaches to more advanced process-level approaches; (ii)",{"id":810,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":811,"piName":10,"institution":812,"country":813,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":814},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272194","Towards an enantioselective synthesis of Plakortide P and its application to the development of drugs for the treatment of Chagas disease","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK -  NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK","IE","African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease are all examples of orphan diseases, so named for the overall lack of attention given to them by major pharmaceutical companies. The infectious agent of the disease is Trypanosoma cruzi. Between 8 to 11 million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America are estimated to have Chagas disease, most of whom do not know they are infected. If untreated, infection is lifelong and can be life threatening.Recently, the Plakortis specie",{"id":816,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":817,"piName":10,"institution":818,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":819},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252025","Atmospheric Exchange of Persistent Chemicals in Bothnian Bay, Northern Baltic Sea","UMEA UNIVERSITET","Atmospheric deposition and air-sea exchange of persistent chemicals in Bothnian Bay are investigated with goals of understanding current atmospheric loadings and how future loadings will respond to changes in ice cover and air concentrations. Substances examined are organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), current-use pesticides (CUPs) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs), substances which have been shown to undergo long-range transport and deposition in the Arctic and other remote locations. The CUP",{"id":821,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":822,"piName":10,"institution":823,"country":162,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":824},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251763","Double-site ligands for the inhibition of Cholera toxin","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO","Specific binding between bacterial enterotoxins and oligosaccharides on the host cell membrane is a paradigm for protein-sugar interaction. One of the best characterized recognition pairs is formed by ganglioside GM1 and the cholera toxin (CT).  Recently, Krengel´s group has identified a second binding site, which appears to be present in the close CT congener LT and in CT from the El Tor strain, responsible for the current cholera pandemic. This binding site, which is clearly distinct from the ",{"id":826,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":827,"piName":10,"institution":812,"country":813,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":828},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251714","Sex in the Early Modern City: Musical Eroticism in Rome","This project examines the role of music in Rome in creating, circulating, reinforcing, policing and subverting norms of gender and sexuality. The methods by which sexuality and the erotic are transmitted by music (of any age) are not wholly understood; through this investigation we learn more about the affective nature of music, and how music can be used as a political and cultural tool. The research identifies eroticism in music in secular song, drawing on madrigals as well as a repertory of st",{"id":830,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":831,"piName":10,"institution":667,"country":285,"year":13,"amount":832,"abstract":833},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253825","PROGRAMMED ACCELERATION OF EVOLUTION OF THE BIODEGRADATIVE GENE INVENTORY","€214,054","Evolution of the ability of microorganisms to degrade xenobiotic compounds, including many environmental pollutants, is slow and limited by a whole set of physiological and regulatory bottlenecks. This Project aims at harnessing natural mechanisms of generation of diversity and selection to accelerate in vivo evolution of the bacterial biodegradative gene inventory and to understand how they function in relation to the genomes of the strains bearing the enzymatic activities. Specifically, we pro",{"id":835,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":836,"piName":10,"institution":812,"country":813,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":837},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255082","Shakespeare and the 1590s Style","The project explores how the early style of Shakespeare's dramatic and non-dramatic works written before 1595, which remains one of the least explored areas in Shakespeare studies, was shaped through a range of influences that came from withing England, European tradition of rhetoric, and classical sources. Critics have often thought of that style in terms of form (language) only, not as a product of a complex interplay of historical, political, ideological, and artistic influences brining 'mode",{"id":839,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":840,"piName":10,"institution":818,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":841,"abstract":842},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275873","FAcilitated Niche creation Through Indirect interactions in SIZE structured ecological communities: Ontogenetic Asymmetries and Alternative-Stable-States","€259,565","Under the emergent facilitation hypothesis, size-selective predators create a niche for another predator through facilitating the availability of previously scarce size-classes of prey by reducing competition amongst them. Emergent consumer facilitation has been proposed to give rise to Alternative Stable States (ASS) in species composition of ecological communities. There is a great deal of interest in ASS due to being linked to fisheries collapse and explaining biodiversity loss. The objective",{"id":844,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":845,"piName":10,"institution":846,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":847},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273469","The rise and fall of military honour in Western Europe, 1789-1918","UNIVERSITAET BERN","The proposed project examines changing concepts of military honour in Western Europe between the end of the ancien régime culture of civility in the mid-eighteenth century and the advent of modern mass warfare in 1914\u002F18. This period, as a is well known, marked an important political, economic, technological, and cultural watershed in European history. The ancillary transformation of normative codes of conduct in war on the other hand shows historiographical lacunae. Whereas a substantive corpus",{"id":849,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":850,"piName":10,"institution":812,"country":813,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":851},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273719","The Epic in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland","This project explores the transmutation of the epic in Scotland from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern periods to consider the vital role of texts in codifying the past, legitimising the present and problematising contemporary socio-political anxieties. These texts contributed to the founding of nationalism and the fabrication of the existing national identities all over Europe.The project offers an innovative perspective in Irish and Scottish literary studies since medieval chronicles and his",{"id":853,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":854,"piName":10,"institution":797,"country":169,"year":13,"amount":855,"abstract":856},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273584","Estimating monotone boundaries and frontiers","€163,800","The estimation of monotone support boundaries is relatively unexplored and still in full development. This research project examines two partial frontier models which provide a valid alternative for purely stochastic ones, that are known to be sensitive to model misspecification, and for completely envelopment models, which often suffer from lack of robustness and precision. The development of mathematical properties under these two recent models is, however, often a lot harder than under the ot",{"id":858,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":859,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":861},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271921","CULTURAL CHANGE AND HUSBANDRY DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE IRON AGE – ROMAN TRANSITION IN IBERIA AND BRITAIN","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","Livestock has been one of the main productive activities in Europe since the introduction of domestic mammals around 8000BP. The study of animal remains from archaeological sites provides reliable information on eating and husbandry changes resulting from population growth and social complexification processes. The Iron Age to Roman transition represents a very interesting case study, as it is associated with a change from ‘close’ or ‘regional’ economies to a centralized ‘world socio-economic sy",{"id":863,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":864,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":865,"abstract":866},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274146","Ecological and life-history bases of sexual selection and sex roles in birds","€273,480","Sexual selection is widely viewed as one of the major mechanisms of evolution and impacts on a wide range of organisms’ traits from the genomic level to social behaviour. Here I propose a multidisciplinary research programme that combines the approaches and tools of evolutionary biology, brain research and advanced phylogenetic statistics to investigate three fundamental but controversial aspects of sexual selection. First, the causative relationship proposed between the intensity of sexual sele",{"id":868,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":869,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":870},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254386","Defining the Role of Flap Endonuclease 1 Conformational Dynamics in Catalysis","Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) catalyzes the removal of 5’-flap structures generated by strand-displacement synthesis during lagging-strand DNA synthesis and long-patch base excision repair. Homozygous knockout of FEN1 in mice is embryonically lethal, whereas haploinsufficiency or catalytic deficiency due to mutation leads to rapid tumor progression, thereby illustrating the importance of FEN1 to genome stability. Despite its critical role in DNA replication and repair, a detailed mechanistic unders",{"id":872,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":873,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":874},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275958","Metals, weapons and social change around the Adriatic and Ionian seas 2000-1000 BC: A longue durée vista on the impact of military praxis on technology, politics and communication networks","The invention of metal weapons irrevocably changed prehistoric societies in Europe. The weapons of the hunter that could be used against man or beast were supplanted by those of the warrior – tools with a primary purpose of inflicting physical harm on other humans. This led to changes in the manner in which combat could take place, which in turn changed how communities organised themselves for war, and in particular how they provisioned warriors with the requisite equipment and training to fight",{"id":876,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":877,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":878},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254835","Analysis of Waste Prevention Behaviour through a Conceptual Statistical Model and Scenario Simulation","The justification for this proposal is based on the growing awareness that environmental problems have more to do with the decisions of ordinary people as opposed to governments and corporations. This proposal argues that the solution for solid waste issues involves not only technical or economic regulations or both, but also real changes in individuals’ behaviour. Hence, with the aim to provide an explanation to such complex interaction of questions, an interdisciplinary study is required. The ",{"id":880,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":881,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":882},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272369","Mapping Terrorist Risk Perceptions Comparatively","Since the events of 9\u002F11, terrorism has been framed in the prevailing public discourse as an all pervasive societal threat.  In turn, the official response to this ‘new threat’ has created a pervasive atmosphere of anxiety where political fear bleeds into the fabric of daily life. At the same time, one of the liveliest areas of theoretical debate in social and political analysis in recent times is that addressing the phenomenon of risk and the role it plays in contemporary politics. Yet, and sur",{"id":884,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":885,"piName":10,"institution":886,"country":39,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":887},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275386","Novel miniature machine tool design and realization for next generation high performance micro-components: A coupled-dynamic modelling and simulation approach","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","The demand for micromachining is currently increasing with the reduced device dimensions in medical, electronics, aerospace and defense fields. As nanotechnology advances in leaps and bounds, the mechanical interface of these devices becomes more critical. Unfortunately, the techniques of micromachining have not been able to keep up with the advances in nanotechnology. This disparity between the two provides an opportunity for research. To bridge this gap, new techniques in micromachining need t",{"id":889,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":890,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":891},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253300","Identification of genes underlying a colour polymorphism in Anolis lizards using next generation transcriptome sequencing and SNP genotyping","Understanding the evolution and maintenance of variation in observable characteristics (phenotypic variation) is a major goal in evolutionary biology. Addressing this goal requires identifying the genes responsible for important traits. Until recently, this was only possible in a handful of model species because of a lack of genomic resources in non-model organisms. But recent advances in DNA sequencing technology has revolutionized the development of genomic resources in non-model species and p",{"id":893,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":894,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":895},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-253948","Regulation of innate immunity in the female reproductive tract","Implantation failure after natural mating or in vitro fertilization may be due to either embryo or endometrial factors. Recent evidence suggests that sub-clinical infection, inflammation or malfunctions of the immune system in the female reproductive tract (FRT) are major causes of implantation failure. Toll like receptors (TLRs) have been shown to have a key role in the induction of immune and inflammatory responses in mammals. TLRs are the main family of pattern recognition receptors, they rec",{"id":897,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":898,"piName":10,"institution":899,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":900},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-273965","Examination of the relationship between microbial and plant diversity across large spatial and elevational gradients to predict community migration patterns as a function of climate change","UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE","The specific aims of the proposed project is to understand the relationship between microbial community structure and plant diversity across large spatial and elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps in order to predict community migration patterns as a function of climate change. The 3 objectives covered by the project will be: 1) to characterize the soil community composition of the archaeal, bacterial, and fungal groups in 200 locations across the Western Swiss Alps; 2) to determine the relati",{"id":902,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":903,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":904},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-254202","Dynamic genome architecture in ciliates: an analysis of the evolution of internal eliminated sequences (IESs) in the Paramecium aurelia species-complex","Genomes are highly dynamic units that often undergo events of reorganization which are formally called developmentally regulated genome rearrangements (DRGRs). DRGRs, like for example chromatin\u002Fchromosome elimination or chromatin diminution are widespread throughout eukaryotes (e.g., ciliates, animals, insects, kinetoplastids, foraminifera, entamoebae) and create diversity in genome architecture, often producing significant changes in the fate of the affected cells. The relevance and the consequ",{"id":906,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":907,"piName":10,"institution":860,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":908},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-252568","Evolvability and drivers of photosynthetic transitions in flowering plants","Several carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCM) have evolved to counteract the deficiencies of the classical photosynthetic pathway (C3 photosynthesis). Their multiple origins represent one of the most striking examples of convergent evolution and make them especially suitable for comparative evolutionary studies. In land plants, the two main CCM are CAM and C4 photosynthesis, which confer an advantage in arid and warm environments. These CCM are ecologically and economically very important, but t",{"id":910,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":911,"piName":10,"institution":899,"country":110,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":912},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275999","Exploring natural variation of Shade Avoidance Syndrome in Arabidopsis using high-throughput phenotyping and Genome-wide association studies","Higher plants respond to a change in light quality -indicative of competition from other plants- by eliciting a range of adaptations summarized under the term Shade Avoidance Syndrome (SAS). These action responses include e.g. increased elongation of organs (e.g. hypocotyls, stems), a decrease in leaf surface, a more erect leaf position, rapid changes in gene expression and an accelerated transition to flowering. Our molecular understanding of SAS mostly comes from studies in Arabidopsis thalian",{"id":914,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":915,"piName":10,"institution":916,"country":78,"year":13,"amount":917,"abstract":918},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-255307","The Emergence of the Concept of Practical Reason in Kant's Ethics and its Philosophical Grounds","JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN","€161,769","The project aims to reconstruct the emergence of a new conception of practical reason in Kant’s work and to shed light on its philosophical meaning. Although the notion of the practical reason still holds a significance in the contemporary debate in moral philosophy, Kant’s innovative introduction of the notion in the vocabulary of modern ethics has not been specifically investigated yet. There is no extensive research dealing with the subject combining philosophical analysis and historical reco",{"id":920,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":921,"piName":10,"institution":922,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":923},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-274766","The role of host personality and stress responses in parasite dynamics","CARDIFF UNIVERSITY","The study of personality - consistent individual differences in animal behaviour - is a rapidly expanding research field. Like humans, animals may be categorized on personality axes such as bold-shy and aggressive-passive. These traits have both costs and benefits. However, the mechanisms underlying individual variation in personality and the consequences for evolutionary fitness are largely unknown.For the first time, links between personality and stress physiology (a potential determinant of p",{"id":925,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":926,"piName":10,"institution":922,"country":12,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":927},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-275848","The role of altered monocyte activity in the long-term potential of peritoneal dialysis as a therapy","Recurrent infection remains the major reason for treatment failure in patients treated for renal failure with peritoneal dialysis (PD).  The underlying hypothesis of this study is that modification of peritoneal monocyte\u002Fmacrophage biology by PD alters tissue homeostasis, susceptibility to infection and the development of immunity to re-infection, compromising the long-term potential of peritoneal dialysis as a therapy.In spite of their role in peritoneal host defence and tissue homeostasis, the",{"id":929,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":930,"piName":10,"institution":931,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":932},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-271910","Equality without borders? The protection of individuals against EU equality law","UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT","The first new target for the Europe 2020 Strategy is an employment rate of 75%. The focus is on increasing labour market participation of women, young, older workers and legal migrants. This ambitious political objective must be read in conjunction with a very powerful legal instrument: EU equality law. It for example prohibits discrimination between male and female workers. EU equality law is a most useful tool to increase the competitiveness of European labour markets while reducing inequaliti",{"id":934,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":935,"piName":10,"institution":931,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":936},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-272563","Evaluation of a Best Practice Model for Personalized Health Care within Public Health Genomics","The research area of the applicant is on personalized health care in complex diseases, their underlying genomic basis and its interaction with other contributing factors including life style. The personal career goal of the applicant is to become a leading researcher in Europe by developing an innovative, effective and interdisciplinary model to prevent diseases and improve health status of European citizens. Within this goal, the researcher developed a personalized health care model at GENAR In",{"id":938,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":939,"piName":10,"institution":931,"country":65,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":940},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-251684","The interplay between the appetitive dopaminergic and the aversive serotonergic system in motivational control of behavior","The impact of reward and punishment on behavior is modulated by the neurotransmitters (chemicals that influence signal transfer between neurons) dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT). This project tests a new model of the interplay between DA and 5-HT in motivational control of behavior, by studying the effects of DA and 5-HT increasing drugs on motivational learning and brain activation. 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