[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"awarded-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-2015":3,"awarded-stats-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship":954},{"awarded":4,"total":953},[5,15,21,27,33,39,46,50,57,63,67,72,78,83,87,91,97,102,107,111,117,123,128,133,138,143,147,152,158,163,167,171,175,179,185,189,195,200,204,208,212,216,220,224,228,232,238,244,248,253,258,263,268,272,276,280,284,288,292,297,302,308,313,318,322,326,331,335,340,345,350,354,359,363,368,373,377,381,385,390,394,398,402,406,410,414,419,423,428,433,438,443,447,452,456,460,464,468,473,479,483,487,491,496,500,505,509,514,519,524,528,532,537,542,546,550,554,558,562,567,571,575,579,583,587,593,597,602,607,612,616,621,626,631,637,642,647,651,655,659,663,667,672,676,680,684,688,692,697,702,707,711,716,721,726,731,736,741,745,750,755,759,764,768,773,777,782,787,792,797,802,807,812,817,822,827,833,838,843,848,855,860,865,871,876,881,885,889,894,898,902,908,913,917,924,928,933,938,943,948],{"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-629661","Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship","VTA-specific noradrenergic regulation of motivational control",null,"INSTYTUT FARMAKOLOGII IM. JERZEGO MAJA POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK","PL",2015,"Motivational control is crucial for adaptive behaviors. Conversely, disruption of motivational control leads to maladaptive behaviors and is one of the core symptoms of addiction. Noradrenaline (NA) system, encompassing NA neurons in locus coeruleus and nucleus tractus solitiarius is well positioned to regulate motivational control",{"id":16,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":17,"piName":10,"institution":18,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":20},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625402","A Formal Rule-Processing Engine for Privacy-Respecting Forensic Investigation","THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD","UK","The forensics investigation requirements are in direct conflict with the privacy rights of those whose actions are being investigated. At the same time, once the private data is exposed it is impossible to ‘undo’ its exposure effects should the suspect is found innocent! Therefore, there is a growing concern in the development of forensic investigation frameworks that respect privacy of the involved entities whiles only need-to-know data are exposed to the forensic investigator.To the best of ou",{"id":22,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":23,"piName":10,"institution":24,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":26},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626598","Frontal Asymmetry as an Endophenotypic Marker of Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Infancy: A Functional NIRS Study","Université Paris Descartes","FR","Infants’ social-cognitive skills develop within the parent-infant relationship. Differences between parents in the way they interact with their infant may have important consequences for infants’ social-cognitive development. Moreover, due to their genetic make-up, some individuals may be more affected by their social environment than others. Indeed, genes that may convey this differential susceptibility have been identified. However, the analysis an use of genetic material is time-consuming, ex",{"id":28,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":29,"piName":10,"institution":30,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":32},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627457","The neural circuit mechanisms of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: revealing the role of NMDA receptors in spatial memory in mice","CONSORCI INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIONS BIOMEDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER","ES","Since the discovery of the anti-NMDA receptor (anti-NMDAr) encephalitis (Dalmau et al., 2007) there has been a rapid expansion in both the number of patients diagnosed with this potentially fatal but treatable disease, and the identification of other autoimmune synaptic disorders (Lancaster & Dalmau 2012). Given the established central role of NMDAr in learning and memory, memory deficits are among the predominant symptoms of this disorder. Based on classical human studies, it is well establishe",{"id":34,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":35,"piName":10,"institution":36,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":38},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626014","Stochastic Optimal Planning for Renewable energy sources Integration in power Systems","EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH","CH","Environmental concerns and the pursuit of sustainable energy sources have resulted in policy measures toward high shares of renewable generation. However, Renewable Energy Sources (RES), such as wind and photovoltaic power generation, are non-dispatchable, variable and uncertain. Traditionally, conventional generators provide balancing reserves. The increasing share of RES results in an increasing amount of required reserves, and hence it may have an opposite effect both from an environmental an",{"id":40,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":41,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":44,"abstract":45},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625131","Demography, Ecology, Evolution and Management in the Deep","KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN","BE","€169,800","The oceans, upon which humanity relies for its survival, it is largely unexplored. Recent estimates establish that only 5% of the bottom of the sea has been explored. Of this small area, only one millionth is constituted by deep sea floor. Despite being largely unknown, the deep sea is becoming exceedingly exploited, especially by fisheries searching for new stocks.For all these reasons, understanding the functioning of the deep-sea environment is deemed crucial. This habitat has a pivotal role ",{"id":47,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":48,"piName":10,"institution":36,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":49},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623396","Identifying structural and functional biomarkers of the brain indicating SensoriMotor Recovery in Cerebral Palsy","Cerebral palsy (CP), caused by brain damage during pregnancy, at birth or the first 2 yrs of life, is the most common childhood physical disability. Regardless of the severity of disability, these children face lifelong sensorimotor deficits that require continuous support, resulting in lifetime costs of around €800,000 per child. Active inclusion in the labor market would reduce these costs and would vastly benefit from optimal upper limb recovery. There is growing consensus that this can be be",{"id":51,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":52,"piName":10,"institution":53,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":55,"abstract":56},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629115","Meeting governance: the enactment of social skill in inter-organizational meetings","GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET","SE","€271,023","This research project studies how social skill - defined as the ability to induce cooperation in others - is enacted in inter-organizational meetings. It does so through the lens of communication theory and by using a combination of conversation analysis and narrative analysis as methods. The observed meetings are conceptualized as governance units of the field that the inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) constitutes so that social skill can be linked to the governance of inter-organization",{"id":58,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":59,"piName":10,"institution":60,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":62},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622863","Self Healing Asphalt for Road Pavements","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT","NL","The SHARP project aims to develop a unique self healing technology for asphalt pavements, whereby the encapsulated rejuvenator within the asphalt mix is used as the healing catalyst. The principle underpinning this technology is that when micro cracks begin to form within the pavement, they encounter a microcapsule. The fracture energy at the crack-tip will open the capsule, thereby releasing the rejuvenator. The rejuvenator then diffuses with the asphalt binder to seal the crack, preventing its",{"id":64,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":65,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":66},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627743","The Experimental Study of Threat-Avoidance in Anxiety Patients: Behavioral, Emotional, and Neural Correlates","Disabling forms of anxiety are a major problem for many people world-wide and come with high societal and financial costs. Important steps forward are being made within a global network of translational trans-disciplinary and trans-diagnostic researchers. These pre-clinical research efforts focus on reducing inflated levels of fear, with considerable success. But, clinicians, clinical theorists and clinical researchers argue more and more that engaging in strategies to avoid imagined threats is ",{"id":68,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":69,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":70,"abstract":71},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623303","ASAMBA:AsteroSeismic Approach Towards Understanding Massive Blue SupergiAnts","€177,000","The recent space-born missions dedicated to studying stellar variabilityproviding unprecedented high-precision photometry of variable massiveAdditionally, we have also monitored a sample of oscillating blue supergiants in high-precision spectroscopy over 7 years.Such rich observational data call for carefully designed methods for astrophysical interpretation.This project aims to develop and provide such methodology.Our tools will be used to enhance the understanding of the physics of massive B-t",{"id":73,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":74,"piName":10,"institution":75,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":77},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626397","Silicene, a new material for nanoelectronics","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","DE","Silicene, the silicon analogue for graphene, has recently been discovered. It retains many of the interesting phenomena of graphene (2D geometry, strength, durability, the Dirac cone at the Fermi level), however it displays a significant buckling out of plane relating to the preference of silicon to form sp3, rather than sp2, hybridised bonds. This buckling is predicted to allow greater control over the electronic properties of silicene than has been traditionally been found in graphene, with si",{"id":79,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":80,"piName":10,"institution":81,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":82},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626590","Direct Township Elections in China: Political dynamics and governance outcomes","UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW","China's direct local elections have received a great deal of international attention, and have been a particular concern of the European Union. But there has been much more focus on understanding village elections than elections at the township level of government. Direct township elections are significant, however, because – unlike village elections – they involve the lowest tier of the Chinese governmental system. And they were suspended in 2006 after only eight years of experimentation. In th",{"id":84,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":85,"piName":10,"institution":36,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":86},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626601","New approaches in media and communication geography: Quantitative methods for analyzing geographical mobility","This study uses as a starting point the current call for a fundamental restructuring of research paradigms in geography and media & communication (Adams 2010, Adams and Jansson 2012). I aim to contribute to this restructuring mainly methodologically – to find the link between the disciplines through the analysis of geographical mobility and using quantitative methods. I originate from the current studies in the field of mobility (Giddens 1990, Castells 2001, Urry 2012) and from the critics (Cast",{"id":88,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":89,"piName":10,"institution":36,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":90},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628020","Single-Cell Epigenetics in Cell Fate Determination","The demonstration of induced pluripotency and direct lineage conversion of cells has led to remarkable insights regarding the roles of epigenetic modifications in mediating cell state transitions. However, approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms behind induced reprogramming are hindered by the inefficiency of induction and the interplay of reprogramming mechanisms with other cellular processes such as the cell cycle, which leads to variability in induced cell populations and limits the ",{"id":92,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":93,"piName":10,"institution":94,"country":95,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":96},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624345","Moduli of canonically polarized varieties in positive characteristic","UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS","CY","The main objective of this project is to study the moduli stack of varieties of general type with a fixed Hilbert polynomial defined over a field of positive characteristic. In characteristic zero it is known that it is a separated Deligne-Mumford stack locally of finite type. Moreover, the extended moduli stack of stable varieties is also proper. I would like to investigate to what extend the same properties hold in positive characteristic, if some property fails what is the reason and how the ",{"id":98,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":99,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":101},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626248","Yugoslavia Revisited:  Post-Yugoslav Literature and Art as Curators of the Socialist Past","UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT","This interdisciplinary project aims to investigate how post-Yugoslav literature and art remembers the heydays of socialist Yugoslavia (1950s-1970s) and how these acts of remembrance critically intervene in the public sphere. Focusing on a number of selected cases from prose fiction, film, visual art and performance\u002Ftheater, the project will not only scrutinize how the arts ‘archive’, ‘document’ or ‘recall’ the everyday life and memory of socialist Yugoslavia, but also examine how critical cultur",{"id":103,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":104,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":105,"abstract":106},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624010","Genetic and epigenetic regulation of vitamin C accumulation in apple fruits","€227,800","To date, fruit-breeding programmes have mostly focused on easily identifiable phenotypic characteristics such as fruit colour or size. However, the availability of high-throughput analytical and molecular methodologies now allows us to pursue more challenging quality traits such as nutritional contents and an increase in vitamin C concentrations. The main goal of this proposal is to identify the genetic and molecular factors that control vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid, AsA) accumulation in apple fru",{"id":108,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":109,"piName":10,"institution":100,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":110},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622444","Elucidating pathways from hereditary Alzheimer mutations to pathological tau phenotypes","Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, manifested by a progressive loss of synaptic connectivity, neuronal death and memory impairment. AD affects 1 out of 10 Europeans aged over 65. There are no effective therapies for AD, in part because there is no proven molecular explanation of the steps leading from initial neuronal changes to synaptic defects and cognitive consequences.The two major hallmarks of AD pathology, Abeta plaque deposition and neurofibrillary tangles, ari",{"id":112,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":113,"piName":10,"institution":114,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":116},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624097","Insight into the structure and function of marine pelagic food webs: traits and trade-offs in zooplankton feeding behaviour","DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET","DK","Understanding biogeochemical dynamics in the ocean and predicting responses of marine ecosystems to climate change and other stressors require a good description and knowledge of the structure and biological processes in pelagic food webs. In marine ecosystems, zooplankton occupy a key trophic position in plankton food webs, playing a pivotal role in marine biogeochemical cycling and fish recruitment. Knowledge of zooplankton predator-prey interactions is essential for better comprehension of th",{"id":118,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":119,"piName":10,"institution":120,"country":121,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":122},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623098","Bloom the Dry. The Creation of Traditional Mediterranean Irrigated Fields","UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA","IL","The main target of the research proposal is to study the historical transformation of Mediterranean drylands into fertile and productive irrigated fields. The construction and maintenance of irrigated fields has been one of the most successful strategies adopted by past societies to cope with the uncertainty of the Mediterranean weather. Many irrigated fields were constructed in the past and are still in use today, being among the most productive agrarian areas in Europe. Irrigated fields have a",{"id":124,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":125,"piName":10,"institution":126,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":127},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629347","Regional Migration Governance (R_eMigra)A human-rights analysis of emerging mobility regimes","STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT","On the basis of migration governance and legal pluralism theories, as well as on the basis of the developments in migration policies, the proposed research hypothesizes that the growing role of regional economic groups is likely to impact international migratory flows, bringing about, at the national level, a shift from migration control to migration management. A second hypothesis is that beyond trade and economic integration, regional initiatives have the potential to fulfil relevant functions",{"id":129,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":130,"piName":10,"institution":131,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":132},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626736","Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights","FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN","Immigration has become a hot-button issue that stands at the forefront of public debates. This project addresses a simple but important question: Is it legally and morally defensible for a liberal state to restrict migration in order to preserve cultural rights of a majority group? This question is one of the greatest challenges facing liberalism today. It is fiercely debated in the U.S. Congress, EU institutions, and international organizations.Cultural Defense discusses the justifications and ",{"id":134,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":135,"piName":10,"institution":136,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":137},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629434","The Role of Beta-Adrenergic Signaling in Cardiac Progenitor Cell Activation after Myocardial Infarction","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE","Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of mortality in the industrialized world with myocardial infarction (MI) being one of the common pathological events. Cardiac progenitor cells (CPC) are a progenitor cell population within the myocardium and are activated after MI to proliferate, migrate to the infarct site, and participate in cardiac regeneration. CPC are a current therapeutic target to diminish cardiac injury after a MI. After a MI, the beta-adrenergic system gets activated due to ex",{"id":139,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":140,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":142},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627200","Plotinus against Gnostics: a New Survey","CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS","The PaGaNS project aims to prepare, in 2 years, a new constitution of the text and a new thorough philological commentary to three Plotinian anti-Gnostic treatises (III.8 [30], V.8 [31], V.5 [32]). Since the philological research on Plotinus’ works has been neglected after Henry – Schwyzer’s ed. minor (1982), there is still much scope for philological analysis in the Enneads. It is unavoidable to examine the sources for the reconstruction of Gnostic thought and Plotinus’ polemic fight, e.g. the ",{"id":144,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":145,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":146},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621541","Nietzsche's Reading of Emerson. A Genetic Study","Ralph Waldo Emerson played a fundamental role in the development of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. There was no author whom Nietzsche admired more and longer than Emerson. Nietzsche’s personal copies of Emerson's works provide us with strong and reliable evidence of his deep intellectual relation with the American essayist. The pages of these books are covered with a lot of signs of reading, from underlinings, exclamation marks, question marks, and dog-eared pages to numerous annotations and ",{"id":148,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":149,"piName":10,"institution":150,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":151},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624170","Meso and Sub-mesoscale Physico-biogeochemical Dynamics in a Coastal NW Mediterranean Sea: Quantifying and Understanding Ecosystem Structure and Transport","UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE","Shelf and coastal regions are at the interface between continents (impacted by human activities) and the open ocean (the main regulator of our planet’s climate and its biogeochemical cycles). The shelf-sea carbon pump largely relies on lateral transport to remove atmospheric CO2 from the ventilated surface waters and sequester it at depth. A good understanding of the physical transport processes in coastal regions and their impact on the ecosystem dynamics is therefore not only important for fut",{"id":153,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":154,"piName":10,"institution":155,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":157},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628183","The Future of European Citizenship in Comparative Perspective","EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE","IT","The European University Institute (Florence, Italy) will host professor Willem Maas (York University, Toronto, Canada) for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Incoming Fellowship.As one of the most promising North American scholars in the study of citizenship, professor Maas brings extensive research experience, project management capability, and especially expertise in the emerging area of multilevel citizenship. Drawing on his careful combination of empirical knowledge and interpretive and ",{"id":159,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":160,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":162},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629414","Genome-wide screen for new centrosome position regulators","AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS","Centrosomes are the main microtubule-organizing centers in animal cells and their structure and function are extremely well conserved across evolution. Centrosome localization is a dynamic, cell cycle, and cell type regulated process that plays many critical roles in a variety of cell functions and animal development. I have recently published, as part of my work in the lab of Pierre Gönczy, a siRNA genome wide screen that has successfully identified new regulators of centriole duplication. In t",{"id":164,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":165,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":166},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623151","Development of Fluorescent Polypeptide Biosensors for Detection of Protein Kinase Cancer Biomarkers and Drug Discovery Programs","This proposal is intended to develop biosensors, named CDKACT and CDKCONF, as smart tools to detect and study key cancer biomarkers, such as CDK4 and CDK5 kinases, which may be of potential value for cancer diagnostic and theragnostic purposes, as well as to propose new selective compounds for cancer therapeutics by screening for non-ATP-competitive inhibitors of these targets.This is a multidisciplinary project at the interface between chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and cell and animal imagi",{"id":168,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":169,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":170},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628961","Characterization of the mechanisms underlying the asymmetric segregation of cell fate determinants in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae","One of the modern challenges of cell biologists is to fully understand the mechanisms underlying cell lineage that takes place during the development of multicellular organisms. This is of importance in context of adult stem cells that alternate between quiescent and proliferation states, then dividing asymmetrically to give rise to a self-renewal stem cell plus a differentiating cell. The asymmetric determinants conferring self-renewal properties are still unknown. Of interest, in yeast Sacchar",{"id":172,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":173,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":174},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626843","Quark-gluon tagged jet quenching studies in PbPb collisions with the CMS detector at LHC","The studies of high energy nuclear (heavy-ion) collisions have been exploring the properties of QCD under extreme conditions. It is predicted that the matter in these conditions forms a new phase which is called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Many features of this matter is already observed in RHIC and LHC experiments, one of them being the jet-quenching phenomenon. The color-charged highly-energetic projectiles (quarks and gluons) lose some of their energy while traversing this medium, and form ",{"id":176,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":177,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":178},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626449","Investigation of VEGF-C involvement in acquired metastatic properties of renal cell carcinoma following anti-angiogenesis treatments","Abnormal vascular network formation is a prerequisite for tumor growth. This phenomenon has prompted the development of therapeutic approaches targeting molecules involved in the formation of pathological blood vessels such as VEGF and its receptors VEGFR1, VEGFR2 and VEGFR3. Although some patients benefited from such an approach, the majority of patients had a poor outcome through a transient decrease of the tumor\u002Fmetastases accompanied by the selection of more aggressive tumors cells.Renal cel",{"id":180,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":181,"piName":10,"institution":182,"country":183,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":184},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623747","The Greek Connection: Irish Poets and Contemporary Greece","ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON","EL","The project traces down the connections between two Irish poets – Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon – and contemporary Greece.Its interdisciplinary and intersectoral character resides in its methodology and scope of themes.Methodology of the project involves: comparative literature (work of Irish and Greek Nobelists: Heaney, Seferis, Elytis; and Derek Mahon); ecocriticism (landscapes, environmental concerns); translation studies (comparative analysis of translation projects launched by Mahon, Seferi",{"id":186,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":187,"piName":10,"institution":136,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":188},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623638","Cannabinoid receptors CB1 in schizophrenia: role of brain mitochondrial activity and astroglial signalling","Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by a series of positive and negative symptoms, which eventually lead to strong sufferance, social isolation and occupational impairment. Via activation of type-1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1), cannabinoids are known to induce schizophrenic-like symptoms, which are major caveats in the possible therapeutic use of these compounds. On the other hand, mitochondria-dependent regulation of brain bioenergetics is emerging as a promising novel r",{"id":190,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":191,"piName":10,"institution":192,"country":193,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":194},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626491","“Between the Times”:  Embattled Temporalities and Anti-Historicism in Interwar Europe","HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO","FI","The inter-war period in Europe – politically, ideologically, and socially – has remained as if a misfit in our narrative schemes of modern history. While various aspects of its cultural and intellectual histories have intrigued scholars for decades, one of the key experiences that shaped its self-perception as a misfit – the new sense of human time as fractured, of human history as disrupted – has received only occasional attention.The proposed study begins with a hypothesis that the currents of",{"id":196,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":197,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":199},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623739","The role of DOT1L in regulating the epigenetic signature of cardiomyocytes during heart development","CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE","Understanding mechanisms underlying cardiomyocyte (CM) transcriptional regulation is critical for deciphering molecular origins of cardiac malformations. Epigenetics is crucial for stabilizing transcriptional programs, but little is known about the “epigenetic code” of histone methylation during cardiogenesis, and in particular the role of histone methylation at lysine 79 (H3K79me) during heart development. DOT1L is the sole enzyme that catalyzes methylation at H3K79. Different degrees of H3K79m",{"id":201,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":202,"piName":10,"institution":192,"country":193,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":203},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624073","Demographic and Selective effects on the Quantitative Genetics of Ninespine Sticklebacks","The aim of this project is to use the ninespine stickleback as a model to understand the relative importance of natural selection and random demographic events in shaping the evolution of ecologically relevant complex traits; harness the demographic history of the stickleback to detect complex genetic interactions affecting complex traits; improve the empirical understanding of the genetics of complex traits, and explore the effect of copy number variation (CNV) on complex traits. I will employ ",{"id":205,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":206,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":207},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622428","Power quality in coastal smart grids","Although almost half of the European population lives in coastal areas, the specific issues associated with the dramatic transformation of the coastal electrical networks into smart grids have been little addressed. These issues stem from the fact that coastal electrical networks are usually more structurally fragile than inland electrical networks. Hence, the former are more prone to be affected by a significant deterioration of the quality of the electricity supplied to the customers which is ",{"id":209,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":210,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":211},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627227","GPCR oligomers: Facts and function for the GABAB receptor","G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are key players in cell communication and represent the largest class of drug targets. However, GPCR lead compound development has suffered from a low success rate the last 10 years, likely because these receptors are more complex than initially thought. GPCRs are known to form dimers and higher oligomers with specific properties, but the physiological relevance of this oligomerization remains elusive in native tissues. Deciphering the precise functional conse",{"id":213,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":214,"piName":10,"institution":141,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":215},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627322","Competition-Induced Novel Quantum States","Our project aims at an experimental investigation of exotic states of matter, particularly, quantum criticality and  quantum spin liquid where quantum criticality seems to play a major role, which are rapidly expanding fields in physics and material chemistry. We focus on itinerant ferromagnetic quantum critical systems and geometrically frustrated novel triangular corner sharing kagome antiferromagnet and edge sharing Mott insulators, which display exotic properties stemming from quantum fluctu",{"id":217,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":218,"piName":10,"institution":150,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":219},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625372","Imaging Interneurons in Epilepsy","Oscillations of the neuronal network are well defined in the hippocampus, with theta oscillations associated with numerous cognitive functions. The role interneurons play in hippocampal oscillations is also well defined; however, the rules governing cell type-specific firing during oscillations are not known. The goal of this study is to determine how afferent inputs are processed to produce a given output in one class of GABAergic interneurons: Hippocampus-Septum (HS) interneurons using combine",{"id":221,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":222,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":223},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624519","Chemistry of Marine Natural Products from the Mediterranean","Bioactive marine natural products from nudibranchs and other marine organisms from the bay of Naples – Marine natural product chemistry is a dynamic field of research with most of the compounds currently known having only been discovered since 1990 and with an ever increasing number of newly discovered compounds per year. Marine invertebrates including organisms that are vulnerable to predators are a particularly interesting source of bioactive natural products, which often constitute their most",{"id":225,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":226,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":227},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626182","The Role of Mixotrophs in the Oceanic Carbon Cycle","Oceanic life plays a major role in global biogeochemical cycles and the oceans act as sink for atmospheric CO2. How an ecosystem influences the carbon cycle depends on its balance between primary production and respiration. Primary producers convert inorganic carbon into their biomass, thereby removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Conversely, consumers take up organic material to fuel their respiration and release CO2 back into the environment. The two key processes in this cycle, primary production",{"id":229,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":230,"piName":10,"institution":198,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":231},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623413","MODeling Electron Non-Adiabatic DYNAmics","The aim of this project (MODENADYNA) is to push Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) beyond the present 'state of the art' by implementing a novel computational scheme to MODel Electron Non-Adiabatic DYNAmics due to electron-electron scattering processes. This goal matches the needs of: (i) going beyond the simplest adiabatic approximation -- commonly adopted in the description of ultrafast phenomena at the nanoscale; and(ii) dealing with the actual spatial inhomogeneities of many-el",{"id":233,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":234,"piName":10,"institution":235,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":237},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628665","Policies to extend working life: implications for gender, ageing and precarious work.","UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY","IE","The proposed project is a cross-national comparative qualitative analysis of the impact on older workers in Ireland and the United States of policies introduced to extend working lives; it will focus on gender, precarious work, health and the impact of the global recession. Demographic ageing poses a formidable policy challenge for governments in western countries and will do so for the foreseeable future (OECD, 2012). There is a need for increased pension provision as workers live longer after ",{"id":239,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":240,"piName":10,"institution":241,"country":242,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":243},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629541","Biomarkers and underlying mechanisms of vulnerability to depression","Masarykova univerzita","CZ","Depression is the leading chronic condition in Europe and fourth leading cause of mortality woldwide. Depression is twice more common in women compared with men, associated with dysregulation of steroid hormones in the HPA-HPG axis, ovarian dysfunction, obesity, and very recently, prenatal stress, but the  mechanisms underlying its development are not well understood, yet. The current project aims to identify early hormonal and neuroimaging biomarkers and explain underlying mechanisms of vulnera",{"id":245,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":246,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":247},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628303","Impact of global change on the remobilization and Bioaccumulation of organic Pollutants in PolAr aquatic food webs","Global change, especially global warming, is affecting the Polar Areas with great magnitude. Some of the most rapid changes associated with warming are occurring in polar terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, associated with changes in the carbon cycle (C-cycle), sea ice dynamics, nutrient loadings and perturbation of sinks of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and greenhouse gases. In addition to the direct influence that increasing temperatures will have on the polar ecosystems, per",{"id":249,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":250,"piName":10,"institution":251,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":252},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621796","An Account of Legal Obligation","JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN","This research project addresses an important legal issue, that of legal obligation. The notion of legal obligation features centrally in legal practices and studies, since law and obligation are widely regarded as closely connected by virtue of the authoritative structure of law.Now, any explanation of legal obligation aspiring to some degree of comprehensiveness must explain both the nature of the obligatory force of law and its foundation. That is, an account of legal obligation has to elucida",{"id":254,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":255,"piName":10,"institution":256,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":257},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623332","Transport Jars and Commodity Exchange in the Late Bronze Age Argolid: Tiryns and Midea","THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD","This project will provide major insights into commodity exchange and maritime links, in the Bronze Age Aegean world and Eastern Mediterranean, through the detailed analysis and publication of Transport Jars of LHIIIA-LHIIIC date in the Argolid, Greece. Building on important new evidence from the major citadels of Tiryns and Midea, it will use thin section petrography and chemical analysis to ascribe provenance to transport jars of the late 14th to 12th centuries BCE. Recent work on transport amp",{"id":259,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":260,"piName":10,"institution":261,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":70,"abstract":262},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626519","Molecular characterization of environmental stress responses in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum","VIB VZW","Solar UV-B radiations can have a negative impact on photosynthetic organisms leading to a reduction of the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Aquatic ecosystems absorb a similar amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide as terrestrial ecosystems, are estimated to produce half of the biomass on our planet and are a major source for human food supply. At the base of these ecosystems, phytoplankton are the main primary producers. Among them, diatoms have colonized all types of aquatic environments an",{"id":264,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":265,"piName":10,"institution":266,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":267},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625116","Synthetic Polypeptides with Well-Defined Microstructures and Biological Activity","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN","Peptides are nature’s expression language and as such perform vital roles in living organisms. They are highly functional and produced naturally with a precision that is unprecedented in synthetic polymers. Synthetic polypeptides present a promising alternative as they combine the accessibility of synthetic polymers with functionality and biocompatibility of natural peptides. They are thus ideally suited as a new (commercial) renewable and sustainable polymer materials platform if some practical",{"id":269,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":270,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":271},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622716","The most cosmopolitan animal migration: phylogeography and population genomics of the butterfly Vanessa cardui","The migratory strategy is an evolutionary response to heterogeneity in either time or space that is common in animals, including many insects. The dispersal of myriads of insects has relevant economic consequences with examples including the pollination of agricultural systems, the association with pest outbreaks and the spread of infectious diseases. The case of the butterfly Vanessa cardui is an ideal model to study population dynamics of insect migrations because the species is distributed wo",{"id":273,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":274,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":275},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624808","Travelling knowledge in medieval Islam: the Ash‘arites of al-Andalus and North Africa","In the context of the intellectual life of Muslim societies, systematic rational theology was traditionally seen as a discipline in its own right. It was thereby clearly distinguished from other, in many respects, similar intellectual endeavours like, for example, Graeco-Arabic philosophy. One of the most influential theological schools in Muslim history was the Ash‘ariyya. According to its self-understanding, this school sought to reconcile a rational approach towards theological issues with th",{"id":277,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":278,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":279},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623155","Chemical programming of Toll like Receptor 4: Design, synthesis and biological studies of prostate-cancer vaccines","The IOF proposal, TLRPROSTATE, consists of a 24 month outgoing phase to The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, and a 12 month return phase to the Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC) for a total of 36 months. TLRPROSTATE will use advanced methods in synthetic biology to develop synthetic vaccines against prostate cancer, which is the second most common cancer worldwide for men. The project will consist of the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of",{"id":281,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":282,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":283},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627684","BIOdiversity over Microevolutionary and Macroevolutionary scales: Evolutionary and ecological determinants revisited","Evolutionary biologists have long sought to understand the relationship between microevolution (processes within species), as observed in nature and the laboratory, and macroevolution (processes at and above the species), which occurs over intervals that far exceed a human lifespan. They have also long endeavoured to determine which factors – whether abiotic like climatic or geological changes (Court Jester), and\u002For biotic like species interactions, traits, or niche space (Red Queen) – govern bi",{"id":285,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":286,"piName":10,"institution":256,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":287},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626845","Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and immunohistochemical investigations of CNS activity in a novel preclinical migraine model","This application is being submitted by Dr Milena De Felice of the University of Arizona (researcher), and Professor Fiona Boissonade of the University of Sheffield (scientist-in-charge and supervisor), who have complementary expertise in different aspects of trigeminal pain. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Aneurin Kennerley, the lead physicist in the University of Sheffield's preclinical MRI facility. The proposed multi-disciplinary project will utilise magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a",{"id":289,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":290,"piName":10,"institution":256,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":291},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624295","Desistance from crime by restorative justice practices in prisons. A qualitative comparative research between the UK and Belgium","Over the last fifteen years, proactive interest in Restorative Justice can clearly be observed at policy level within many European countries and within European institutions such as the Council of Europe and the European Union. While the implementation of restorative justice practices in Europe has essentially been victim-oriented, it is now increasingly focused on the moral and social rehabilitation of the offender. The capacity of restorative justice interventions to impact positively on offe",{"id":293,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":294,"piName":10,"institution":295,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":296},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624145","Biology of UnderGround Symbioses (BUGS): studies of a subterranean ant-aphid-microbe cooperative network","STICHTING VU","Mutualism, cooperative interaction between different species, is widespread in nature. Despite its ubiquity and recognised importance for ecological communities, how mutualism evolves and persists remain major unresolved questions in evolutionary biology. The reason for this is that mutualistic interactions can often be exploited by parasites, and high degrees of species interdependence can increase extinction risk. Applying established network theory to interpret biological details of mutualist",{"id":298,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":299,"piName":10,"institution":300,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":301},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624496","Application of advanced technologies and stochastic modeling in the study of submarine groundwater discharge","AARHUS UNIVERSITET","Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is the subsurface flow of continental water to the sea or coastal water systems. It has become increasingly important during recent years due to the effect on coastal ecosystems associated with the contaminants produced either naturally or anthropogenically inland. The increasing impact of this problem is illustrated by the inclusion of protection figures in the European Water Framework Directive and by the rising number of scientific articles on the subject",{"id":303,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":304,"piName":10,"institution":305,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":306,"abstract":307},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623393","CONTRIBUTION OF BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS TO THE CARBON BALANCE IN DRYLANDS","UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN","€235,000","The aim of this project is to investigate the role of biological soil crusts (BSC) in the C balance in arid and semiarid zones in function of their successional stages and environmental factors. To achieve this goal, BIOSOC will monitor the CO2 fluxes along with key meteorological parameters controlling the CO2 exchange rates from representative biological soil crusts at their different successional stages and will map their spatial extent using novel techniques adapted for covering large areas.",{"id":309,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":310,"piName":10,"institution":311,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":312},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625814","The Neurobiology of Aggression and Violent Behaviour and Its Social Implications","UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG","Since the 1990s, neuroscientists have made fundamental progress in the study of violence and aggression. Advances in the neurosciences and the development of new biotechnologies have helped to elucidate genetic variations and neural correlates of anti-social behaviour such as polymorphisms in the MAOA gene, alterations in serotonin activity, or dysfunctions in the neural circuitry of emotion regulation. This research may help to identify potentially risky individuals even before they show any an",{"id":314,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":315,"piName":10,"institution":316,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":317},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627547","Regulation of gene expression in sebaceous glands","KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET","In the pathogenesis of dermal inflammation, sebaceous glands (SGs) were considered as impotent players that are under the control of other cell types, but without any feedback on them. Only research of the past decade put SGs into our focus showing that besides their contribution to the lipid layer covering the skin surface and the hair, SGs are also capable of exerting inflammatory responses, thus providing an interesting cell type where lipid metabolism and inflammation is linked at a cellular",{"id":319,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":320,"piName":10,"institution":295,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":321},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626797","Refined screening for novel targets in the tumor vasculature","Angiostatic compounds have made their way into the daily clinical management of cancer, but their impact on patient survival is rather limited. This is likely due to the fact that most current drugs are antagonists of tumor produced growth factors, a strategy expected to induce drug resistance. A better strategy would be to target the tumor vasculature directly. Several markers of tumor endothelial cells have been described but most of them lack sufficient specificity.The applicant proposes to u",{"id":323,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":324,"piName":10,"institution":235,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":325},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623748","Epigenetics of Cnidarian Stem Cells","Epigenetics is a new and exciting area in biomedical sciences. It studies mitotically heritable chemical modifications of chromatin that are not associated with changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic modifications (EMs) affect the expression of genes, and therefore the phenotype of cells. Current views suggest that epigenetics reinforces cell fate stability. Indeed, EMs are essential for normal development and tissue homeostasis, and improper regulation may result in diseases like cancer. Despi",{"id":327,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":328,"piName":10,"institution":329,"country":54,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":330},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622888","Dependence of PRoteorhodopsin-phototrophy on specific dissolved Organic Matter compounds and their link to bacterial carbon cycling in the ocean (PROM)","LINNEUNIVERSITETET","Proteorhodopsin (PR) phototrophy represents a recently discovered process for solar energy harvesting for non photosynthetic bacteria in the global ocean. Despite its widespread abundance, the ecophysiological and ecological functions of PR phototrophy, the specific metabolic processes that mediate PR-enhanced growth or survival and the role of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) composition in determining the responses of different PR-containing bacteria to light remain unexplored. This project is a",{"id":332,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":333,"piName":10,"institution":161,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":334},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629703","Developing smart Coordination Polymer Nanoparticles as Biomedicine for Metastatic Neuroblastoma","Metastatic neuroblastoma is one of the most challenging malignancies of childhood, being associated with the highest death rate in pediatric oncology (20%). Moreover its prognosis is very poor, practically incurable, what shows the inability of nowadays chemotherapy to eradicate all the illness, underlining the need for novel therapeutic approaches. A current study of the European Group for study of the Neuroblastoma has shown profits in the survival of patients by means of the combination of se",{"id":336,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":337,"piName":10,"institution":338,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":339},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624773","Variations in biochemical and microbiological milk composition among highly diverse human populations and their impact on infant gut ecosystem","UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID","Human milk is universally considered as the best nutrition for the new born infant and recent research has revealed that, in addition to its nutritional value, it represents a constant supply of commensal, non-pathogenic and potential probiotic bacteria to the infant gastrointestinal tract. Milk is also a rich source of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), which have been shown to interrupt the attachment of enteric pathogens to the intestinal mucosa and to act as prebiotic substrates within the ",{"id":341,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":342,"piName":10,"institution":343,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":344},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623620","Generic fault-detection for multirobot systems","UNIVERSITY OF YORK","Multirobot systems (MRS) have recently been of great interest to environmental scientist, consequent to their ability to monitor large-scale atmospheric and aquatic environmental processes. Furthermore, the deployment of large numbers of relatively inexpensive robots for such monitoring purposes may soon be possible. However, considerable technological advances in platform reliability and endurance are required, to potentiate the wide-spread deployment and usage of MRS for environmental monitori",{"id":346,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":347,"piName":10,"institution":348,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":349},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625163","MEG2 Ultra Light TIming Drift Chamber","PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT","The MEG2 Ultra Light TIming Drift Chamber (MULTIDC) proposal concerns the upgrade of MEG an experiment hosted at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) designed to search for the charged lepton flavour violating decay mu in e+gamma. The upgrade aims at a sensitivity of one order of magnitude better than the final MEG result.The MEG upgrade (MEG2) will increase the rate capability of all detectors while also improving the energy, angular and timing resolutions, for both the positron and photon arms.One",{"id":351,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":352,"piName":10,"institution":343,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":353},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622846","Bio-mechanical organisation of the modern human mandible in transition from foraging  to agriculture","It has been well over a century and a half since the evolution of our species was linked to developments in technology made by our immediate ancestors. However, do we actually know how these evolutionary changes in modern humans occur and how our own material culture drives our biological adaptation? This project will explore one of the most prominent examples of culture impacting on our anatomy from our recent history – the biological changes that human groups went through with the transition f",{"id":355,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":356,"piName":10,"institution":357,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":358},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624526","New Challenges in Set-Valued Numerical Analysis","IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE","This research project aims at the development of a radically new systematic approach to the field of set-valued numerical analysis. It is based on recent breakthrough results on the representation of sets as functions in a Banach space, and will allow the design of high performance numerical schemes for problems in dynamical systems and control theory, which cannot be solved efficiently within the traditional framework.The last two decades have witnessed the successful development of grid-cell d",{"id":360,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":361,"piName":10,"institution":357,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":362},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628803","Hitting Times for Stochastic Processes","The main goal of this project is to develop a qualitative theory for describing the long term atypical behaviour of stochastic processes. An important characterization of such behaviour is given by atypically large values of the time (known as the hitting time) when the process enters a set. We aim to establish new results about the probabilities of large values for the hitting times of appropriate sets for a variety of important stochastic process arising in probability theory, physics and stoc",{"id":364,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":365,"piName":10,"institution":366,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":367},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628605","Pb-Free Perovskites for Efficient All-Solid-State Hybrid Solar Cells","LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN","Organo-lead halide perovskite absorbers offer an extremely promising solution to solar energy conversion, in line with the European Union’s 2020 renewable energy targets. This family of materials can be processed from solution utilizing common techniques and equipment developed by the printing industry, achieving power conversion efficiencies on par with the silicon industry. However, the state-of-the-art perovskite developed uses lead as the metal center, which is highly toxic and water soluble",{"id":369,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":370,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":372},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627232","Dual Organo \u002F Metal Desymmetrisation in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","The combination of an organocatalyst and a metal catalyst in a single transformation provides novel reactivity and high control in the creation of new bonds. However, this approach has never been applied to the synthesis of complex natural alkaloids. The aim of DOMDICAS is the development of a novel dual-catalysed asymmetric desymmetrisation methodology and its application to the synthesis of Strychnos alkaloids leuconicines A and B. In the first stage of the proposed research, a dual catalytic ",{"id":374,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":375,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":376},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626638","The Philosophy of the Young Schiller (1773-1789). Education, Sources, and Issues","The proposed project is an interdisciplinary research on the philosophical development of Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), one of the most prominent European intellectual figures between late Enlightenment and Idealism. The research considers the period from Schiller’s first attendance of philosophy classes in 1773 to his very first adoption of Kantian ideas in 1789, and will provide the first multi-faceted and comprehensive monograph on the young Schiller’s thought, as well as papers and present",{"id":378,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":379,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":380},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628545","Medical Complicity: A New Normative Account and Its Implications for Three Study Cases","Traditionally, discussions in medical ethics have focused on ways in which medical professionals may do wrong by directly  harming or wronging patients or research subjects. However, medical professionals may also act wrongly in indirect ways, by being accomplices to others' wrongdoing (e.g. by taking part in torture, a doctor may become complicit in torture). Moreover, the effects of medical complicity can aggregate to produce substantial wrongs, such as gross human right violations (e.g. the c",{"id":382,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":383,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":384},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624981","Giovanni Tortelli's Orthographia and Greek studies in Xvth century Europe","This project aims to study the role of Giovanni Tortelli (1400c.-1466) and of his most important work (the Orthographia) in the promotion and dissemination of the study of Greek in Italy and in Europe in the fifteenth century. Friend of Lorenzo Valla, who dedicated to him the Elegantiae, Tortelli collaborated with Pope Nicholas V in founding the Vatican Library and supervised the search for Greek manuscripts and the work of many translators hired by the pope. His work, still largely unknown, rep",{"id":386,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":387,"piName":10,"institution":388,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":389},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622362","Development of biodegradable conducting scaffolds for treating peripheral nerve lesions taking into account the influence of mechanical vibrations on neurons regeneration in tissue engineering","ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE","The proposed project aims to develop engineered biodegradable conducting 3D scaffolds capable of promoting neuronal survival, as well as axon extension and guidance, for treating peripheral nerve lesions. Current approaches focus on the sensitivity of neurons to the surrounding environment, which includes surface topography, biochemical cues, and electrical activity. Constructs implanted in vivo are also subject to mechanical constrains that have an impact on tissue formation. This project aims ",{"id":391,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":392,"piName":10,"institution":343,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":393},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625158","INTERACT: Integrating Archaeological and Climatological Datasets: Investigating Global Human-Environmental Interactions","Climate change has always had a marked impact on human society. In the past it was far more extreme in amplitude if not in rate than that experienced today; unfortunately this experience provides few models for the present and future since the responses of past communities to these changes still remain largely unknown. Major developments in human society since the end of the Last Ice Age are associated with the intensification food production; this includes the adoption of farming and the intens",{"id":395,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":396,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":397},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621297","Novel chemical and enzymatic strategies for probing O-GlcNAc glycosylation","The modification of nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins by covalent attachment of N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) to serine or threonine residues is emerging as a crucial regulatory posttranslational modification similar to phosphorylation. O-GlcNAc is essential for cell survival and is implicated in key biological processes (e. g., nutrient sensing, protein regulation and gene expression) and human diseases (e. g., diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer). In contrast to conventional protein glyco",{"id":399,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":400,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":401},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627982","The challenges of diversity for current societies: Its impact on social capital and well-being through the lens of identity","Today, widespread availability of transportation together with the globalisation of job markets and changes in current economies has increased the numbers of immigrants in Europe and around the world. Societies are in constant flux, and have become more diverse than ever before. It is thus not surprising to see, within the social sciences (and also in politics and public debate), concern about the impact of these changes for societies. In fact, this increasing concern has escalated to pessimism ",{"id":403,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":404,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":405},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627288","Mapping the Dark Web of the Cosmos","With this research project we propose a full morphological analysis of clusters of galaxies and the cosmic web itself, based on very high resolution maps of the dark matter distribution in these structures. Those maps will be derived by means of gravitational lensing and other tracers of the dark matter distribution like temperature maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background. This analysis will go far beyond the usual simplifications made in the characterisation and classification of structure, lik",{"id":407,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":408,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":409},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623228","Multiscale analysis and hybrid simulations of neuronal microdomains: from molecular dynamics to function","Critical biological processes, such as cellular physiology or neuronal transmission have very different spatial scales are due to small binding sites inside or on the cell boundary, or narrow passages between large compartments. The great disparity in spatial scales can be resolved by singular perturbation analysis of their mathematical models.  Deriving the function of neuronal synapses from their molecular organization falls precisely in the class of problems associated with diffusion and it c",{"id":411,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":412,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":413},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626320","Direct measurements of surface potential and charge of a single mineral nanoparticle in water by particle-impact nanoelectrochemistry","The proposed project will establish a method for direct measurement of surface potential of single mineral nanoparticles in an aqueous solution as they collide with a stationary microelectrode.  The particle-impact approach described in the proposal is a revolutionary approach for in situ analysis of mineral\u002Fwater interfacial chemistry and a significant step forward from the state of the art of the colloid and interfacial science especially in the field of geochemistry.Hydr(oxo) functional group",{"id":415,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":416,"piName":10,"institution":417,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":306,"abstract":418},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623082","New uses for X-ray Tomography in natural building stones: characterization, pathologies and restoration of historical and recent roofing slates","UNIVERSITEIT GENT","Europe is nowadays the world’s leading producer and consumer of roofing slate. Slate quarries are found in most European countries. However, despite their importance as a building stone, roofing slates are a relatively unexamined material. In comparison with other building stones, there is a lack of research and scientific publications on roofing slates.Applying expertise in X-ray micro-Computed Tomography (MCT) for the study of roofing slates will make it possible to determine several unresolve",{"id":420,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":421,"piName":10,"institution":417,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":306,"abstract":422},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625378","Spatial processing under attentional load: from clinical to fMRI evidence","Everyday life requires to continuously process the surrounding space to extract behaviourally-relevant information. When attention is loaded, however, this processing might become difficult. This happens, for instance, when space has to be attended while additional stimuli have to be processed in parallel (e.g., talking while driving). In the present project the attentional system will be loaded through visual or auditory dual-tasking to investigate the core cognitive and neural mechanisms subte",{"id":424,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":425,"piName":10,"institution":426,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":427},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627046","Drug Legalization of Cannabis in a developing Country. The Uruguayan Model","MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV","Analysis and systematization of the process of Cannabis Legalization in Uruguay.  Uruguayan government proposed the legal treatment of Cannabis, passing from prohibition to a legal monopoly of its production and supply by the State. This proposal has found detractors in the UNODC. The focus of my proposal lies in identify and characterize the possible effects that the approval of this bill will bring for the Uruguayan people, for the uruguayan international relationships and also to raise lesson",{"id":429,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":430,"piName":10,"institution":431,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":432},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625316","Motiliy in the third domain of life: the haloarchaeal way to move","ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG","The first representatives of the third domain of life, Archaea, were isolated from particularly harsh environments. Long it was thought that all archaea are ‘extremophiles’, but recently archaea were discovered in many temperate habitats, including the human gut, sea and soil, where they perform key roles in biochemical cycles.Archaea are the least explored domain of life and little is known about the mechanisms underlying motility and adhesion. Understanding these processes is especially timely",{"id":434,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":435,"piName":10,"institution":436,"country":242,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":437},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-630023","Primary Productivity Measurements in Freshwater: Converting Photosynthetic Electron Transfer Rates to Carbon Fixation Rates","MIKROBIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR V.V.I","Acquisition of rapid, high resolution photosynthesis (i.e. carbon fixation) rates is a major challenge in aquatic research. One way to measure primary productivity in situ at an unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution is by active fluorometry (mainly Fast Repetition Rate techniques). Implementation of this technique, however, requires that the electron transfer rates (ETRs) measured by FRR fluorometry can be easily converted to carbon fixation rates via the electron requirement for carbon ",{"id":439,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":440,"piName":10,"institution":441,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":442},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627446","Optimization of superconducting cavities for CW applications","UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER","Continuous wave (CW) operation of superconducting cavities for particle acceleration is the enabling technology for several projects in research and industry.Minimizing the losses of superconducting cavities is essential for their realization and can yield huge cost savings. The initial investment cost is reduced by the need for a smaller cryogenic infrastructure and the operation costs are lowered due to reduced energy consumption.Currently almost all superconducting cavities used in particle a",{"id":444,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":445,"piName":10,"institution":426,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":446},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625955","Nanophotonics for Quantum Information and Simulation","The growth of classical computational power supported by continued size reduction is expected to find its limit around 2019, when devices will probe the atomic scale. Fortunately, this limit represents an opportunity as systems are ruled by quantum mechanics that may lead to more efficient computation techniques. Many systems have been proposed as candidates to implement quantum computers: trapped ions or cavity and circuit QED,... However, still none of them has emerged as a definite full-fledg",{"id":448,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":449,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":451},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623293","Tropical Micro-Archaeology:An interdisciplinary project aiming to study site formation processes in tropical environment related to hunter-gatherers' use of space","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","TropicMicroArch aims to study how hunter-gatherers' ways of living are reflected in their use of space and how it affects the depositional processes of microscopic materials in tropical forests. Although hunter-gatherers' use of space has previously been studied through Ethnoarchaeology, this project proposes to study it from a new microscopic perspective with special attention given to post depositional processes. In comparison to arid, semi-arid and temperate environments, site formation proce",{"id":453,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":454,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":455},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624904","3D Engineered Environments for Dermal Regeneration","Current dermal substitutes are suboptimal and do not mimic the physiological and pathological conditions required for in vitro biological, cancer and drug discovery studies. Extension of a well established freeze drying approach will allow replication of the complex 3D architecture and mechanics of native tissue with consequent improved cell infiltration, survival and de novo matrix deposition. This approach will be multi-facetted. Initially the fabrication parameters of the freeze drying system",{"id":457,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":458,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":459},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629510","Living the Law: Transitional Justice in Colombia","The proposed project “Living the Law: Transitional Justice in Colombia” is intended to help the researcher to attain a leading independent position as a socio-legal scholar.The researcher, a social anthropologist, will acquire new skills and knowledge in empirical socio-legal research and will return to her host institution equipped to teach and publish in the still under-represented field of socio-legal studies in Europe.Dr Brunnegger’s research seeks to develop an understanding of the complexi",{"id":461,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":462,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":463},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623720","Stemming the rising tide: The protective role of saltmarshes","Sea level rise and the associated flooding of coastal regions are predicted to lead to severe impacts in many European countries. It is recognised that coastal habitats will play a vital role in mitigating the effects of sea level rise, through increasing sediment accretion rates and thus surface elevation. In Europe, saltmarshes are the primary vegetated coastal habitat and are widely distributed along the European coastline. Both geological evidence from the Holocene, when sea levels rose quic",{"id":465,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":466,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":467},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627253","Synthesis of small molecules and evaluation of their biological activity: discovery of new protein-protein interaction inhibitors","(1)  GoalThe project goal is to exploit diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) to discover protein-protein interaction (PPI) inhibitors of gankyrin-S6 complex.(2)  TopicVital cellular functions are all regulated by protein complexes. In order for a complex to work correctly, interactions among its subunits must have the right intensity. If they are too weak or too strong, the complex does not work well, causing disease. Thus, modulation of PPIs offers a strategy for therapy. Gankyrin is a protein th",{"id":469,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":470,"piName":10,"institution":471,"country":61,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":472},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625455","Do individuals with intellectual disabilities have an abnormal physiological response to exercise?","ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM","Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) are important consumers of health care, partly due to high prevalence rates of inactivity-related health conditions. So far, adapted physical activity interventions have focused mostly on organizational and behavioural aspects, with disappointing results. In these studies, physiological aspects such as cardiorespiratory capacity or energy cost of activities, were not taken into account or were assumed to be similar to the general population. Howeve",{"id":474,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":475,"piName":10,"institution":476,"country":477,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":478},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624598","Decision support toolkit FOR ADAPTive management of forest ecosystem services across borders in the face of climate change and economic scarcity in Europe","UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN","AT","There is an urgent need to provide decision support for forest managers facing challenges of cross-border forest management and system change. The applicant will employ novel analytical approaches and structured decision making to inform managers in maintaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services while accounting for climate change and limited budgets in Europe. The fellow will reveal contrasts in how European countries implement pan-national policies regarding forest management based on a",{"id":480,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":481,"piName":10,"institution":426,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":482},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623609","From the Sun to stars - Interplay between dynamo and corona","Most stars show strong magnetic fields on their surfaces and sustain a hot outer atmosphere, the corona. Two of the fundamental problems in stellar astrophysics are how the stars generate their magnetic field, and how they manage to heat the corona to temperatures of two million K, well in excess of the surface. I will address these problems by performing local and global numerical simulations. These include the stellar interior and an overlaying corona, which are evolved self-consistently by so",{"id":484,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":485,"piName":10,"institution":371,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":486},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627088","Role of Membrane Dynamics on Immunological Responses","The cellular plasma membrane is composed mainly of lipids and proteins. The bioactivity of the plasma membrane (such as the activation of receptors) is not only triggered and influenced by protein-protein or lipid-protein interactions, but also by bulk properties of the membrane such as the order or packing of lipids. In this project, I aim to understand how lipid packing influences membrane related processes in immunology such as T-cell signaling or antigen presentation. It is believed that lip",{"id":488,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":489,"piName":10,"institution":426,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":490},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626279","Mechanisms of Fungiculture in Ambrosia Beetles","Farming insects are one of the most exciting examples for the success of symbioses in nature. Ants, termites and ambrosia beetles started to grow fungi for food 40–60 million years before the rise of human agriculture. Research on fungus-farming ants has revealed the association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria as fungus fertilizers and the application of antibiotics produced by symbiotic bacteria to control garden parasites. However, in the ecologically and economically important ambrosia beetles,",{"id":492,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":493,"piName":10,"institution":494,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":495},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624016","The role of boron in the crystallization and surface properties of CaCO3 at the nanoscale","KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET","Boron is important in industry and nature. It is used in oil extraction, detergents, superconductors and agricultural chemicals. At neutral to slightly basic pH, where CaCO3 forms, B exists as boric acid and borate. These are present in all sea water so marine organisms automatically incorporate B into their shells. Strangely, nearly nothing is known about the extent of uptake or its effects. In many areas of the Mediterranean Sea and continental Europe, B is a contaminant, risking environmental",{"id":497,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":498,"piName":10,"institution":450,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":499},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623163","WNT3A IN NEUROIMMUNE INTERACTIONS IN STROKE BRAIN","A stroke, or cerebrovascular accident, is the rapid loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. Ischemic stroke is currently the leading cause of adult chronic disability, the second most common cause of cognitive impairment and the third most frequent cause of mortality in industrialised countries. Consequently, it is presently of outmost importance to study, to understand and to characterize the etiopathological mechanisms underlying stroke.Neuroinflammation is ",{"id":501,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":502,"piName":10,"institution":503,"country":477,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":504},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625556","Sintering Behavior in Steels containing New Alloying Systems","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN","Powder Metallurgy (PM) is a Sustainable Manufacturing Technique which allows producing cost effective, near-net-shape metallic products by die-pressing metal powder followed by sintering at elevated temperature to consolidate the material. In the last years, the increasing cost and volatility in prices of the common alloying elements (Cu, Ni and Mo), demands the research of new alloying alternatives to maintain a competitive position. This work considers the possibility of introducing elements s",{"id":506,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":507,"piName":10,"institution":494,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":508},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624619","Opening the black box: Imaging microbial behaviour inside rock","The ubiquity and diversity of microbes make them natural, cost effective and sustainable agents for driving a wide range of subsurface engineering and remediation technologies, such as CO2 sequestration, oil recovery, sealing rock for CO2 and nuclear waste storage, and erosion control. Yet, their implementation is limited because we know too little about i) how to inject the microbes to the precise location where they are needed, and once there, ii) how they behave. The subsurface is a black box",{"id":510,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":511,"piName":10,"institution":512,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":513},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624861","Activity-Dependent Maturation of Inhibitory Processing in the Spinal Dorsal Horn","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON","In the early postnatal period neonates are particularly sensitive to touch, often responding with exaggerated reflexes and whole-body movements to an isolated cutaneous stimulus. This suggests a predominance of excitation over inhibition in spinal sensory networks, which may facilitate activity-dependent synaptic strengthening. We have recently shown that neonatal hypersensitivity to touch is due to the late maturation of glycinergic inhibitory signalling and that this signalling, in turn, requi",{"id":515,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":516,"piName":10,"institution":517,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":518},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623963","Worker participation and job preservation in recessionary conditions","UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS","The proposed research will be conducted by Dr. Gabriel Burdín (the applicant) who obtained his PhD at the University of Siena (Italy) while developing a successful early research career focused on the economics of worker-managed firms. He will be hosted by the centre for Economics Research on Governance and Organization (ERGO) at Leeds University Business School (UK).  The scientist in charge is Prof. Virginie Pérotin, a leading international expert on the economics of employee participation.  T",{"id":520,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":521,"piName":10,"institution":522,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":523},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621571","Landscape connectivity for Cat species: transcending structures, scales and climates","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ","Anthropogenic pressures drive global biodiversity loss. The loss of landscape connectivity, further exacerbated by climate change, is a key driver of species decline. Hence, it is crucial to identify key elements that ensure landscape connectivity across landscapes and scales. Several challenges in this context include insufficient knowledge of 1) species’ eco-physiology across landscapes and ranges, 2) the mechanisms driving migration pulses, 3) how local-scale processes (animal movements) tran",{"id":525,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":526,"piName":10,"institution":522,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":527},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624857","Biodegradation of xenobiotic tertiary alcohols","Tertiary alcohol groups are not unusual in nature. They can even be moieties of central metabolites, such as citric and mevalonic acid, which are processed by nearly universal metabolic pathways. However, simple tertiary alcohols not possessing additional functional groups are rarely degraded by bacteria or other organisms. These xenobiotic compoundsmight be formed during microbial attack of some important groundwater pollutants, such as fuel oxygenate ethers, alkyl phenols, naphthenic acids and",{"id":529,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":530,"piName":10,"institution":517,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":531},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628790","Rapid internationalization of Small-Medium Enterprises: unanticipated evolution from local-oriented to effective international players","The present research focuses on achieving a deeper understanding of how European entrepreneurs can speed up the internationalisation process and, therefore, improve the performance of their (often resource constrained) SMEs.From the field experience and recent international entrepreneurship literature, it emerges that often entrepreneurs adopt “unexpected” lines of reasoning and adapt to changing environmental circumstances by combining networking, resource based analysis and serendipity, result",{"id":533,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":534,"piName":10,"institution":535,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":536},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625174","Constantius in Context: Reshaping the Roman Empire","UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN","The reign of the Roman emperor Constantius II (337–361) was instrumental in shaping early models of a united Europe. Constantius presided over religious controversies regarding the definition of Christian orthodoxy and the role of the state in ecclesiastical affairs, and a substantial reorganization of the political, administrative and military aspects of the empire. His reign shaped the state which was to become the Carolingian empire in the west and the Byzantine empire in the east.In the abse",{"id":538,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":539,"piName":10,"institution":540,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":541},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626272","Proteomic Profiling and Knock-out Analysis of Key Components of the Zebrafish Egg: Discovering Vitellogenin Contributions to Fish Egg Quality","INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT","Most farmed fishes exhibit problems producing high quality eggs, which has adverse socioeconomic impacts and endangers global food security. Almost no attention has been paid to imbalance of egg proteins crucial for early development as a potential cause of poor egg quality. The major components of fish eggs are yolk proteins (YPs) derived from circulating precursors, vitellogenins (Vtgs). All fish produce multiple types of Vtg and the different types may play disparate roles in oocyte maturatio",{"id":543,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":544,"piName":10,"institution":535,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":545},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622867","Indirect Search for Dark Matter Using the VERITAS Telescope Array","Observations of the motions of stars and galaxies in large-scale structures have revealed that most (>80%) of the matter in the Universe is invisible. The nature of the “dark matter” is one of the outstanding puzzles in modern physics and experiments are underway to detect and characterize it. There are three main experimental approaches: direct detection of dark matter particles arriving from space, generation and detection of dark matter particles in particle accelerators, and indirect detecti",{"id":547,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":548,"piName":10,"institution":494,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":549},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627651","It takes two to tango: A longitudinal study of the development of infant-mother attachment and stress- regulation capacities","Infant attachment is one of the key factors for child mental health. Whereas secure attachment predicts social competence and resilience, insecure and disorganized attachment are risk factors for later mental problems. These long-term effects can be explained by the importance of early attachment for children’s stress-regulation capacities. Securely attached children are confident that the parent is available when needed, which provides them with an effective dyadic stress-regulation strategy: t",{"id":551,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":552,"piName":10,"institution":535,"country":236,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":553},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625014","The Impact of Breastfeeding on Children’s Cognitive and Non-cognitive Development: One Step Closer to Addressing the Notion of Causality","The World Health Organization and the Department of Health and Children in Ireland have put forth recommendations for exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months following birth, and non-exclusive breastfeeding up to two years of age to promote the healthy growth and development of infants. The rates of breastfeeding in the first 48 hours postpartum in Ireland are among the lowest across all European countries and have been reported by the National Perinatal statistics between 36% and 45",{"id":555,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":556,"piName":10,"institution":517,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":557},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-630038","Kinematic Identification of Developmental Disorders","The high levels of deprivation and multi-ethnic nature of Bradford’s population make it an ideal setting in which start a developmental disorders epidemiologic study.  Bradford is the 6th largest metropolitan borough in England with a population of ~ 500,000 and includes some of the most deprived areas in the UK. Problems which begin in early childhood often translate into lifelong inequalities in health and wellbeing. Sixty per cent of babies born in Bradford are born into the poorest 20% of th",{"id":559,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":560,"piName":10,"institution":494,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":561},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626524","Mechanistic modeling of the formation of bioactive compounds in high pressure processed seedlings of Brussels sprouts for effective solution to preserve healthy compounds in vegetables","Health and quality of life of the European citizens is threatened by degenerative diseases with increased social and health care expenses. The health gains of food consumed are an important key to tackle this challenge; by developing new healthier food products or ingredients to be included in daily meals. In both cases, consumer acceptance is important and healthy bioactive compounds (BC) naturally present in food provide a solution to meet the consumer demand for natural components. Glucosinol",{"id":563,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":564,"piName":10,"institution":565,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":566},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624721","Plant immunity regulated by cell wall integrity","UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID","In their natural environments, plants are under continuous biotic stress caused by different attackers and exposed to abiotic stresses that compromise their survival and offspring. Being well defended against environmental threats throughout the constitutive expression of defensive mechanisms may not always be the best strategy for plants due to the tradeoffs associated to such responses. One of these defensive mechanisms is constituted by the cell wall, a very dynamic and complex structure that",{"id":568,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":569,"piName":10,"institution":517,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":570},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625920","The Ecology and Evolution of Mimicry in a Changing World","Climate change has the potential to decouple interacting species. The EcoEvoMimic proposal will consider, for the first time, the effects of climate change on a mimicry system: hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) that mimic stinging bees and wasps (Hymenoptera). Both groups are economically-important pollinators, and both are currently in decline across much of their ranges. The applicant will establish the ecological responses to climate change in these taxa, and the evolutionary consequences of th",{"id":572,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":573,"piName":10,"institution":494,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":574},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625238","Characterization of epithelial wound repair at the molecular level for revealing epithelial aspects of inflammatory bowel disease","Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects millions of people worldwide. The incidence and the prevalence are rising every year. This chronic disease not only decreases patient's quality of life but also creates a huge socio-economic burden for society. For establishment of a curative therapy, it is critical to understand the pathophysiology of IBD and this requires comprehensive understanding of intestinal epithelial regeneration process at the molecular level. The immune system and the epithelia",{"id":576,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":577,"piName":10,"institution":494,"country":115,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":578},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624879","Functional non-coding mutations in human cancer","There is an urgent need to improve approaches for cancer diagnosis and targeted treatment, which requires a detailed understanding of the disease and its genetic basis. The advent of next-generation sequencing has allowed researchers to obtain comprehensive profiles of acquired genetic mutations in patient tumors. However, due to primarily reasons of cost, these sequencing approaches have so far ignored mutations in the multitude of non-protein-coding DNA sequence elements that control and regul",{"id":580,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":581,"piName":10,"institution":540,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":582},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624473","Plasticity and adaptation of hydraulic traits to overcome climate change","The increase in CO2 concentration and globalscale trends of rising temperature will have progressive and cumulative effects on especially forested ecosystems. It is largely debated whether forest trees will be able to adapt in situ fast enough to outstrip the higher frequency of extreme phenomena. In this sense, the long-term acclimation of the structure-function relations of the hydraulic system seems to play a key role to assure tree resilience. In HYDROPIT we will identify which hydraulic tra",{"id":584,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":585,"piName":10,"institution":565,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":586},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627191","Developement of an AMR 3D Maxwell-Bloch code and application to coherent femto-nano-imaging","The advent of ultra-intense and ultra-short soft X-ray sources has generated a major scientific leap. Free Electron Lasers (FELs), High Harmonic Generation (HHG) and laser-driven X-ray sources allow researchers to create and study exotic states of matter or to record images in 3D with femtosecond and angstrom resolution. My research project will focus on nano- femto- coherent imaging (diffraction and holography). Exciting applications are developed nowadays in this field: coherent imaging of bio",{"id":588,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":589,"piName":10,"institution":590,"country":43,"year":13,"amount":591,"abstract":592},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629263","Rational design of novel nanoprous materials for the separattion of enantiomers","VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL","€267,078","The current proposal ChiralMOF has the aim to develop rationally designed novel nanoporous materials for the separation of enantiomers. The separation of enantiomers is of great importance to industry in the domain of medicine. New treatments often rely on medication consisting of pure enantiomers. Enantiomers separation is extremely challenging as the molecules are nearly identical (shape and properties) and is achieved at great cost by relying on expensive, time consuming and complex processes",{"id":594,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":595,"piName":10,"institution":517,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":596},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623372","Long-term developments in jihadi militant ideology and its transnational impact","The proposed study investigates long-term ideological developments in Islamist ideology and how this influences the formation of attitudes, opinions and beliefs in the European Muslim diaspora. In particular it focuses on the question how militant ideologies transmit political violence from one social setting into another. Through a longitudinal and quasi-experimental design the project assesses the impact of three emerging political landscapes evoked by the Arab spring on the ideology of al-Qae",{"id":598,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":599,"piName":10,"institution":600,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":601},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622439","Silicon carbon oxide minerals at extreme pressure and temperature conditions","UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA","The objective of this research project is to synthesize Si-C-O-based minerals under extreme pressures and temperatures (several tens of GPa and thousands of degrees) and study in situ their structure stability and physical properties at Earth’s mantle conditions. Experiments will be performed using cutting-edge techniques such as diamond-anvil cells and high-power heating lasers together with concurrent complementary characterization techniques, such as Raman spectroscopy or x-ray diffraction in",{"id":603,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":604,"piName":10,"institution":605,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":606},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624502","Stochastic Optimisation and Simulation in Image Processing","UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL","The aim of this fellowship proposal on Stochastic Optimisation and Simulation in Image Processing (SOSIP) is to investigate new computational methods to perform Bayesian inference in challenging inverse problems arising in statistical image processing. Precisely, this proposal intends to explore new stochastic approximation and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to perform Bayesian inference in high-dimensional statistical models that are not differentiable (e.g. involving l1 or total-variation re",{"id":608,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":609,"piName":10,"institution":610,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":611},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627325","Rare Earth Metal Separation with Ionic Liquids","THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST","REMSIL (Rare Earth Metal Separation with Ionic Liquids) focuses on the design and development of novel technologies based on task specific ionic liquids (TSILs), solid-supported-ionic liquids (SSILs) and ionogel membranes for the separation and recovery of high-tech rare earth metals (REMs).With the current demand for these high-tech metals and their severely limited supply in the EU, their recycling has become vital. Separation and recovery of REMs from secondary sources (“urban mining”) has be",{"id":613,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":614,"piName":10,"institution":610,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":615},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625760","GENomic evolution In Ecological Speciation","Speciation is the major process creating diversity of life on Earth. The proposed study will focus on the genomics of ecological speciation. Little is known about constraints on ecological speciation and the effects that the shift in the spatial arrangement of habitats has on the differentiation process. Goal of this project is to discover how past environmental changes effected differentiation in the genome of Murella muralis, a land snail that has an impressive shell shape diversity displayed ",{"id":617,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":618,"piName":10,"institution":619,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":620},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626210","Stochastic Parametrizations in Complex Systems","THE UNIVERSITY OF READING","Our society increasingly relies on numerical atmospheric models to predict extreme events such as intense storms or rare flow regime changes such as those leading to heat  waves. Yet, how well these events can be reproduced with those models is currently unknown. In this project, we will make use of advances in the mathematics of stochastic differential equations to determine how the presence of delayed feedback influences the rates of rare transitions between flow regimesand the separation of n",{"id":622,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":623,"piName":10,"institution":624,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":625},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627270","Online Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Generators and Power Converters","ASTON UNIVERSITY","This proposal is a 24-month Marie Curie IOF scheme which involves a British experienced researcher to undertake a training-through-research project on the development of cutting-edge wind turbine health monitoring technologies in liaison with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Dr Wenping Cao has been conducting original research into electrical machines and power electronics at QUB, and has established an excellent track record. MIT is a world-leading research institution in the f",{"id":627,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":628,"piName":10,"institution":629,"country":183,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":630},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626057","Understanding tumour resistance: Receptors and signalling pathways that can lead the race against tumour angiogenesis","PANEPISTIMIO PATRON","Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapies, such as bevacizumab, inhibit VEGF angiogenic actions and are increasingly used in the clinic as anticancer regimens for a variety of tumours, among which glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most lethal and angiogenic brain tumour, characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity. However, resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy, which leads to ineffectiveness of the existing drugs, is often acquired and suggests that there is urgent need to i",{"id":632,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":633,"piName":10,"institution":634,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":635,"abstract":636},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625276","DIGITAL Devices for mUltimodal Expression Through vocal Synthesis","FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA","€250,935","Artistic and musical expression is an important part of human experience, and can be considered a universal language above any cultural diversities. In particular, the communicative power of voice is worldwide known, since voice is the first musical instrument ever exploited to create and perform music. During the last twenty years, novel scientific and technological achievements have given birth to several systems able to generate synthetic speech and singing voices, unleashing the exploration ",{"id":638,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":639,"piName":10,"institution":640,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":641},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625988","Developing Improved Estimations of Soil CO2 Effluxes at ecosystem Level","UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA","Most studies consider soil CO2 effluxes as directly corresponding to soil respiration. However, in the short term the soil CO2 efflux can deviate from instantaneous soil respiration whenever a change occurs in the amount of CO2 stored in the soil pore-spaces. Gaps in soil CO2 efflux measurements usually are filled using the soil temperature as a predictor. The relationship between soil temperature and soil CO2 efflux has been defined using exponential functions, most commonly the Arrhenius funct",{"id":643,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":644,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":646},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622728","The Governance Capacity of Cooperative Housing: The Role of 'Linking Social Capital'","THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM","Cooperative initiatives in the field of housing are considered increasingly important for fostering social cohesion in European city regions. Nevertheless, the debates on the potential of third sector housing in different EU member states are currently only weakly connected. It is therefore crucial to inform these debates with timely academic research that is accessible to policy makers and practitioners in Europe.Against this background, the principal aim of the proposed project is to investiga",{"id":648,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":649,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":650},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626808","Facilitation and Inhibition of Multisensory Integration via Neural Oscillations","The brain is constantly challenged to decide between integrating or segregating multiple sensory signals. For instance, at a busy party, we should integrate the facial movements of the speaker we are listening to with the speech he produces whilst ignoring other voices. Despite its importance for many daily situations, little is known about how the brain computes this decision. This multidisciplinary proposal combines psychophysics, Bayesian Causal Inference, EEG\u002FMEG and concurrent EEG-fMRI to c",{"id":652,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":653,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":654},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622575","Monitoring Intracranial Pressure","The most common cause of death in neurosurgical patients is raised intracranial pressure and therefore it is essential that accurate monitoring of this pressure is undertaken clinically.  Currently there are no non-invasive methods available.  The overall aim of this research proposal is to develop a novel method for monitoring intracranial pressure.  The overall aim will be achieved by undertaking the following complementary research objectives:1) To measure the viscoelastic properties of skull",{"id":656,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":657,"piName":10,"institution":605,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":658},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623328","The radiation of modern mammals: release from dinosaur incumbency or response to environmental change?","Did dinosaurs suppress the evolution of large mammals, or was early mammal size and diversity more related to the environmental conditions? Mammals first appeared in the Late Triassic, and lived alongside dinosaurs during the rest of the Mesozoic (Jurassic and Cretaceous), during which time they were all small and generalized in their ecologies. Only after dinosaur extinction (at the end of the Mesozoic) did mammals diversify into larger and more specialized forms, and so suppression by dinosaur",{"id":660,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":661,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":662},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621945","Civil society and new migrants in superdiverse contexts","This project investigates the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) for new migrants in superdiverse contexts. It explores whether CSOs are instrumental in the building of social relations during their settlement process. This social aspect of settlement, also described as social integration, is crucial regarding other aspects of settlement such as access to education, housing and the labour market. The project also looks at the role of CSOs regarding the relationships which long-term resid",{"id":664,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":665,"piName":10,"institution":605,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":666},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623876","Self-Assembled Virus-Like Particles from Polyferrocenylsilane-Based Polymers and Viral Capsid Proteins: Fabrication, Surface Engineering and Applications","The capsid proteins of viruses have been shown to organize around a variety of non-biological polyanions, in a similar way that proteins assemble around RNA genomes, to form virus-like particles (VLPs).  Metal-containing polymers such as polyferrocenylsilane possess additional interesting physical and chemical properties and may yield VLPs possessing very different morphologies and more diverse functionalities on co-assembly with capsid proteins. In a similar manner to almost all nanoscale objec",{"id":668,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":669,"piName":10,"institution":670,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":671},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624488","Constructing a robust drug delivery system by thermo-responsive gelation and pH-responsive gel-dissolution from triblock terpolymer-drug conjugates","UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK","The aim of this research program is to achieve secure delivery, targeted release and high loading of anti-cancer drugs conjugated with polymers utilizing the following two components. First, the proposed plan involves developing a new polymer-drug conjugate composed of poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide) (PHPMA) and anti-cancer drugs containing no amine groups in their chemical structures including docetaxel (DTX). PHPMA is widely conjugated with drugs, and DTX has been reported as an effic",{"id":673,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":674,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":675},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626184","Graphene Based Active Metamaterials","This proposed Fellowship is aimed at developing active control of optical properties that may not be found in nature by synergising the “graphene metamaterials” technology invented at the applicant’s institute in Korea and the “novel design of metamaterials with unnatural properties” developed by the host university through knowledge sharing and technology transfer by the incoming top-class researcher, Dr. Teun-Teun Kim. The proposed hybrid metamaterial system features very thin, free-standing a",{"id":677,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":678,"piName":10,"institution":605,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":679},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623446","Deep partial melting of subducted carbon and the formation of sub-lithospheric diamonds and their mineral inclusions","The key aspect of the Earth’s deep carbon cycle is how exogene carbon is recycled into the deeper earth via subduction of altered, carbonated, mafic oceanic crust. We aim to use ultrahigh-pressure experimental petrology to investigate the behaviour of subducted carbonate at pressures corresponding to the deep upper mantle, the mantle transition zone and the uppermost lower mantle. Earlier experimental studies showed that some residual crystalline carbonate in oceanic crust remains stable in subd",{"id":681,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":682,"piName":10,"institution":645,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":683},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628763","The origins of gestural imitation: insights from evolution, development and cultural transmission","The ability to copy others lies at the heart of our capacity to learn languages, social rules and acquire material culture. While imitation is a core feature of human life, understanding how it evolved, how it develops and the role of cultural transmission are not fully understood. Moreover, most of our understanding comes from studies of tool use, while neglecting the role of imitation in other contexts, namely communicative interactions, such as gesture. Considering the key role gesture itself",{"id":685,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":686,"piName":10,"institution":624,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":687},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622786","Quality of vision and subjective satisfaction in new non-spectacle systems for restoring accommodation in presbyopic people","ProVisione project offers to the Researcher an extraordinary opportunity to become an independent scientist in the field of vision sciences. The Researcher’s interest in studying the quality of vision in patient with different systems of optical correction finds in the project the perfect ground in which acquire new skills and knowledge.The topic of the project is the correction of presbyopia, that is the physiological, age-related loss in near visual function associated with the loss in accommo",{"id":689,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":690,"piName":10,"institution":605,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":691},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625531","Adaptive Optimal Estimation and Control for Automotive Engine Systems with Approximate Dynamic Programming","According to the latest global energy policy, more than 630 million vehicles are expected to be added to the Indian, Chinese, US, and EU fleets between 2000 and 2030. This growth increases requirements for fuel economy and necessitates the development of automotive engine management systems using advanced estimation and control approaches. This project is dedicated to study a novel online optimal adaptive estimation and control framework and to address their applications to engine estimation and",{"id":693,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":694,"piName":10,"institution":695,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":696},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628523","Fast Anneal of Compound semiconductors for Integration of new Technologies","IBM RESEARCH GMBH","The CMOS industry relies on the capabilities of engineers to control atomic positions at sub-nm scale across several interfaces. The formation of abrupt interfaces is heavily dependent on the thermal budget during their formation and of any other subsequent thermal treatments during device fabrication. As device dimensions decrease, the thicknesses of all junctions and interfaces must be reduced so that they do not become the major fractional volume of the whole device. In that framework, ultra ",{"id":698,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":699,"piName":10,"institution":700,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":701},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624673","In Vitro Tissue Model with Integrated Micro-fluidics and Electronics","INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM","There is a pressing need to move away from animal testing and animal models for the toxicological profiling of chemical substances and new drug formulations. For this reason the generation and validation of alternative test methods of in vitro tissue models is required.The IN TIME project proposes to bring together recent advances in the fields of ‘organ-on-chips’ (micro-fluidics incorporating in vitro cell growth) with a highly performant electronic monitoring system to provide in-line monitori",{"id":703,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":704,"piName":10,"institution":705,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":706},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623305","Zinc Interaction with Phosphorus in Root Uptake","THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE","The overall goal of this project is to understand phosphorus (P) and zinc (Zn) interactions in the mineral nutrition of Brassica oleracea, a species that has been bred into a wide range of crops such as broccoli, cabbage, kale and cauliflower. To achieve this, we will develop a comprehensive understanding of key mechanisms and coordination of P-Zn cross-talk that allows high P-use-efficiency (PUE) plus high Zn accumulation and thereby provide the basis for breeding programmes combining improved ",{"id":708,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":709,"piName":10,"institution":700,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":710},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627271","COgnitive Radio Platform and Algorithms","The ICT industry is faced with a global challenge: develop new services with improved QoS, high QoE, and reduce its environmental impact. Clearly, there is a deep need of global efficiency, in the spectral domain, in the energy domain, and in the design of the radio.Indeed, wireless technology is rapidly proliferating into all aspects of computing and communication. The explosion of wireless applications and new services creates a very huge demand for more spectrums. However, most easily usable ",{"id":712,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":713,"piName":10,"institution":714,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":715},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623984","The RANK-Axis in Breast Cancer: A comprehensive prospective evaluation of promising novel biomarkers","DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM HEIDELBERG","Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer mortality in women worldwide. The recently identified Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor (NF)-κB (RANK)-axis has stimulated novel research in the field of breast cancer etiology, treatment, and prevention. Experimental data implicate RANK signalling in mammary tumor development. Preliminary human data show increased RANK expression correlated with poor outcome, and circulating concentrations of osteoprotegeri",{"id":717,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":718,"piName":10,"institution":719,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":720},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621886","The Braided Side of the Earth: modelling the long-term morphological impact of dams on the gravel-bed braided rivers of New Zealand to support restoration of the heavily-impacted European rivers.","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO","The present three-year project aims at predicting and quantifying the impact of dam construction and operation on highly dynamic, multi-thread river systems through the development of a novel, physically-based numerical morphodynamic model, which can be used as a decision support tool in river management  and restoration.Gravel-bed rivers with braided and transitional morphologies were once common in alpine-piedmont regions of Europe, providing key services to the human society and sustaining bi",{"id":722,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":723,"piName":10,"institution":724,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":725},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627114","The Location of Economic Activity in Space: An Intra-city Approach","UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI","This 24-month project aims at providing a comprehensive picture of the location determinants of different activities that make part of the productive system of modern metropolises, and advancing the current knowledge on how agglomeration effects operate in large cities in developing countries. It involves the mobility of the main researcher, who has been based at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands for the past seven years, to the Universitait Rovira i Virgili in Spain, under the supe",{"id":727,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":728,"piName":10,"institution":729,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":730},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623439","Gravity, Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics: The Missing Link","UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA","New precision observations of compact objects and the imminent advent of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy provide us with the unique opportunity to test fundamental physics with astrophysical observations to unprecedented level. Neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) can be used as cosmic labs where matter in extreme conditions, particle physics, and even the very foundations of Einstein's theory can be put to the test. Triggered by recent breakthroughs at various levels, the area of strong ",{"id":732,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":733,"piName":10,"institution":734,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":735},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624609","Valorisation of waste streams from the agro food sector","IRIS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA","The ever-increasing depletion of natural resources, the economical stress on water bodies and raw materials, the increase of greenhouse emissions and the raising awareness of citizens for sustainable development has culminated in the transformation of organic wastes, residues and biomass to valuable materials and fuels producing no (or limited) waste -a concept known as biorefinery or valorisation.The waste effluents from the agro-food sector have minimal toxicity and often contain substances ha",{"id":737,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":738,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":740},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624849","Long-term physiological responses of herbaceous plant species from contrasting functional groups and environments to centennial climate change","UNIVERSITAT BASEL","The proposed project is aimed at assessing long-term physiological responses of herbaceous plant species from diverse functional groups and environments to changes in climate that have occurred during the last centuries in Switzerland. Leaf oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions will be analyzed for a large number of specimens from the unique herbaria hold at the University of Basel, which cover 600’000 specimens collected mostly in Switzerland since the 17th century.Plant physiological respons",{"id":742,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":743,"piName":10,"institution":705,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":744},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626291","Regulatory networks underpinning fertility of the lateral florets on the barley inflorescence (spike)","The ancestral form of cultivated barley produces two rows of grain along the grain bearing 'spike'.  However, types with six rows of grain emerged soon after the domestication of the species and quickly became the dominant form in primitive agricultural systems.  This morphological and developmental switch is generally accepted to result from recessive mutations in a single gene called SIX-ROWED SPIKE 1 (VRS1).  However alleles at several other SIX-ROWED SPIKE genes have since been identified an",{"id":746,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":747,"piName":10,"institution":748,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":749},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622527","Effective Theories for Strong Interactions: Precision Tools to Meet Experiment","ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE","The strong force is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature. It is responsible for binding together the constituents of atomic nuclei and for making up the vast majority of the mass of the visible universe. According to present understanding, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory governing strong interactions. Understanding how QCD gives rise to the whole complex phenomenology of nuclei and particles affected by strong forces is one of the great theoretical challenges of our time",{"id":751,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":752,"piName":10,"institution":753,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":754},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623593","Integrated Assessment of the water-energy Nexus:  the water metabolism of hydraulic fracturing.","UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA","This project is coordinated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona with Yale University as outgoing partner. Using the research lines of the partners, it aims at enhancing the potential of the, integrated, multi-scale analysis of Water Metabolism of fracking activities to contribute to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM).Water connects human and ecosystem processes at different spatial-temporal scales which form part of the water-energy nexus. IWRM aims at dealing with multiscale and ",{"id":756,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":757,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":758},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626729","Metabolic switch during mutant-PI3K-induced breast tumorigenesis and metastasis","Each year 1.1 million new cases of breast cancer occur among women worldwide and ~50% of the patients succumb to metastatic disease. Although the biology of metastasis has been intensively studied, the cellular and biochemical mechanisms orchestrating its steps remain largely elusive. In this proposal, I will study the metabolic rewiring accompanying breast tumorigenesis and metastasis. Switching of metabolism can be controlled by oncogenic pathways, such as the PI3K\u002FAKT pathway, which is freque",{"id":760,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":761,"piName":10,"institution":762,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":763},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628100","Preclinical efficacy testing of hydrogen sulfide donors against diabetic complications","THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER","Diabetic complications are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. Oxidative stress and inflammation contributes to the loss of endothelial function and dysfunction of the vascular endothelium plays a major role in diabetic macrovascular and microvascular complications. We found that hydrogen sulfide can reduce the hyperglycemia-induced mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in endothelial cells and can prevent diabetic vascular dysfunction in aortic ri",{"id":765,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":766,"piName":10,"institution":762,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":767},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626111","Dynamics of Phase Oscillator Networks with Generalized Coupling","The interaction of units which undergo repetitive motion is one of the fundamental schemes in nature and technology. For example these oscillations are crucial to make our hearts beat: all heart cells have to contract together at the same time. Typically, the interaction between units is assumed to be simple whereas more complicated interaction has been neglected.Understanding the dynamics of oscillatory units with complicated interaction is the main goal of GECO: what are the features of networ",{"id":769,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":770,"piName":10,"institution":771,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":772},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-621727","Milk Powder for Enhancing Probiotic PERformance","UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE","Food technologists from private companies as well as university researchers are currently investing time and effort in the quest of healthier food systems. One innovative solution may be to provide structured dairy powders allowing stabilization and enhancing the performance of bioactive compounds (flavonoid, vitamins, enzymes…) and cells (bacteria). The present project is focused on probiotics stabilization and particularly on Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG. The design of milk powders in Nancy has ",{"id":774,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":775,"piName":10,"institution":739,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":776},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625740","Functional and molecular characterization of excitatory layer IV neurons in mouse visual cortex","What developmental processes are responsible for establishing the sensory preference of cortical neurons? In visual cortex, neurons belonging to a particular class (e.g. morphologically similar neurons in layer IV) are diverse in their functional properties, including receptive field size, and spatial and temporal frequency preference. For each neuron, these response properties are primarily defined by the pattern of inputs it receives. On one hand, these inputs could be selected by stochastic o",{"id":778,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":779,"piName":10,"institution":780,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":781},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627113","Development of novel Near-infrared Light-triggered CORMs for Cancer Treatment","HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV","The capacity for imaging and treatment with a single assembly (“theranostic”) is a promising advance that seeks to further improve personalised cancer treatment. This project aims to contribute a revolutionary step to this field through the development of near-infrared light-activated carbon monoxide-releasing molecules (NIRA-CORMs). Carbon monoxide plays an important role in the regulation of stress response and in cell adaption to injury. Moreover, pre-clinical trials applying this gas as a th",{"id":783,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":784,"piName":10,"institution":785,"country":25,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":786},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622289","Functional roles of astroglial connexins in the generation of sharp wave ripples","COLLEGE DE FRANCE","It is believed that sleep plays an important role in memory consolidation. In rodents, hippocampal neurons (place cells) selectively discharge when the animal is in a specific location in space. During subsequent sleep, they are reactivated in the same order at 200Hz network oscillations known as ripples. This timescale is optimal for synaptic plasticity underlying memory. The host team (Rouach) has recently shown that connexin 30 (Cx30), a main gap-junction subunit in astrocytes, regulates exci",{"id":788,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":789,"piName":10,"institution":790,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":791},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628855","Design of Fiscal and Monetary Policies: Central Bank Objectives and Public Debt Management","UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA","The goal of the project is to develop economic models for the design of fiscal and monetary policies to tackle the current economic crisis – the primary objective of the European Commission Work programme for 2013. The first part of the project will develop a framework to determine what should be the primary objectives of central banks. The main goal is to understand if central banks should only focus on maintaining price stability – the conventional wisdom in among academics and practitioners– ",{"id":793,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":794,"piName":10,"institution":795,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":796},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623673","Historicizing Reproduction","UNIVERSITAET BREMEN","The aim of this project is to historizise the shifts and moves reproduction underwent from a concept that described a pregiven capacity fixed in “life” and defining matter as “living” to  a capacity apprehended through technoscience and open to transformation. It focuses on the 20th century as a central period when the “technoscientific turn” in reproduction took place.  The project investigates reproduction as a dispersed phenomenon in time and space that transgresses bodies, disciplines, the b",{"id":798,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":799,"piName":10,"institution":780,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":800,"abstract":801},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623744","Establishing of a novel technology platform for bio-based mineral processing: Development of peptides as agents for the separation of rare earth minerals via bio-flotation","€168,321","The MinePep project is addressing the development of an innovative, clean process for the recovery of raw materials from primary and secondary sources. Processes for a sustainable recovery of raw materials are an urgent need in Europe in order to ensure the availability of strategic metals and rare earth elements, resource efficiency, the reduction of environmental impacts and in this way economic growth. Current recycling processes of secondary raw materials are insufficient by reason of scarce",{"id":803,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":804,"piName":10,"institution":805,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":806},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623914","Geomicrobiology of Parys mine, Wales: Influence of mineralogy on the development, composition and functioning of microbial communities","BANGOR UNIVERSITY","The presence and activities of microbes on and within minerals have profound worldwide environmental and economical consequences; from the consumption of atmospheric carbon dioxide during biotically-enhanced weathering of basalt, to the degradation of manmade structures and microbial mineral formation. In metal mineral mines, microbial activities have both positive and negative consequences. Microorganisms reside on minerals, including sulfide ores such as pyrite and chalcopyrite, abundant mine ",{"id":808,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":809,"piName":10,"institution":810,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":811},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629376","3D Forest Structure Monitoring and Mapping","UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER","ForeStMap aims at developing an innovative methodology to derive 3-D information on forest structure at different scales, local to regional, based on a multi-source RS data (multispectral, LiDAR and SAR). A 2-phase approach will be applied. First local estimates from airborne data will be provided and will be subsequently used as reference data to up-scale estimates to a regional scale based on satellite data. An innovative aspect of ForeStMap will be the joint use of empirical non-parametric me",{"id":813,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":814,"piName":10,"institution":815,"country":477,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":816},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626572","Impact of food matrix interaction and post-translational modifications on the allergenicity of Mal d 3, a major apple allergen","MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN","Food allergy is a global health problem with significant impacts on the community, especially in Western countries. Fruit allergy, in particular, has a considerable relevance as the avoidance of some fruits or other cross-reactive vegetables often results in an unbalanced diet. Among fruit allergens, non-specific Lipid Transfer Proteins (nsLTPs) are small, basic proteins that can cause severe, potentially lifethreatening, systemic reactions. Their compact and stable three-dimensional structure, ",{"id":818,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":819,"piName":10,"institution":820,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":821},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628705","Dissecting the Mechanism of Nucleosome Retention in Mouse Spermatozoa","FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FONDATION","Studies in mice and men suggest that changes in environmental conditions such as nutrition, exposure to environmental pollutants or parental care during early postnatal life can affect the development, physiology and fitness of offspring. The epigenetic mechanisms underlying the transmission of such traits over one or multiple generations are largely unknown but DNA methylation, RNA and nucleosomes have been proposed as mediators of such inheritance. At the end of male germ cell development chro",{"id":823,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":824,"piName":10,"institution":825,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":826},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627645","The interplay between innate immunity and RNA interference in mammals","THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED","In antiviral RNAi, the DICER (DCR) enzyme processes virus-derived double-stranded (ds)RNA into siRNAs that guide ARGONAUTE proteins to silence complementary viral RNA. As a counter-defense, viruses deploy viral suppressors of RNAi (VSRs). Well-established in plants and invertebrates, the existence of antiviral RNAi in mammals has remained unknown until our recent findings (from my first postdoctoral studies) that undifferentiated mouse cells infected with Encephalomyocarditis virus or Nodamuravi",{"id":828,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":829,"piName":10,"institution":830,"country":831,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":832},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625977","The europeanisation of the Organised Civil Society in Turkey. The case of the Youth organisations in the prospect of the European Integration","ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITESI","TR","The proposal fits with the overall research that in recent years has focused on the role of the European Civil Society in the prospect of creating the European Public Sphere. It investigates the process of europeanisation the Organised Civil Society in Turkey, by taking the organisations active in the Youth sector, as a key case study. The overall objective is to shed new light regarding their positioning in a country that has since long negotiating its access to the EU. The project will be base",{"id":834,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":835,"piName":10,"institution":836,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":837},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625639","Investigating the topography of nuclear phosphoinositide signalling in relation to chromatin and the genome","FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GENETICA MOLECOLARE INGM","Phosphoinositides (PIs) are an important group of phospholipid messengers that regulate diverse cellular functions. A combination of mono, bis and tris-phosphorylation generates seven different PIs present in various subcellular compartments and importantly found within the nucleus. Nuclear PI levels change in response to diverse stimuli such as differentiation, growth factor receptor activation, growth responses in vivo, cell cycle progression, DNA damage, and cellular stressors. Chromatin form",{"id":839,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":840,"piName":10,"institution":841,"country":193,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":842},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626897","TRANSNATIONAL YOUTH IN CIVIC ACTION: YOUNG RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS AS AGENTS OF DOMESTICATION IN FINNISH AND ESTONIAN CIVIL SOCIETIES","JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO","It can be said that the history of mankind is largely the history of migration. However, the social, political and technological developments have changed its nature. In today’s increasingly diverse and mobile world, growing numbers of people come into contact with more than one culture and their creation of social categories, identity construction processes, and political and cultural practices are going on in a more complex context than in the past. The migrants´ continuous involvement in cult",{"id":844,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":845,"piName":10,"institution":846,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":847},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626947","Molecular Mechanisms Employed by the Newly Assigned RNA-binding Protein FASTKD2","EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY","Posttranscriptional gene regulation is an essential process exerted by a multitude of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and allows for rapid adaptation of the cellular proteome to environmental perturbations. Previously, only in a limited number of instructive cases, the RNA networks targeted by individual RBPs had been elucidated. The recent proteome-wide unbiased identification of RBPs yielded a comprehensive catalogue of RBPs acting in human cells and has assigned an RNA-binding activity to over 30",{"id":849,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":850,"piName":10,"institution":851,"country":852,"year":13,"amount":853,"abstract":854},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627761","The role of small RNAs in response of maritime pine to drought stress","INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL E TECNOLOGICA","PT","€147,210","Since small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) were discovered researchers have been rethinking the “central dogma of molecular biology”. Two types of these small molecules, microRNA (miRNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNA), have been highlighted as critical mediators of biological processes along the different species carrying out their functions though a complex post-transcriptional regulation. In plants, small ncRNAs regulate the expression of genes playing diverse roles, among others those genes invo",{"id":856,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":857,"piName":10,"institution":858,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":859},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623874","Investigation of the Structural Stability and Integrity of Steel Foam Sandwich Panels","CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY","INSIST is an experimental investigation on the structural integrity and stability of novel steel foam sandwich panels under monotonic and cyclic loading.  The response of single density and graded properties cores are studies and the differences in the observed failure modes quantified. Furthermore the project explores the response of welded end-plates in steel foam sandwich panels and testing the strength and tolerance of the connection under static load and fatigue. Also for the first time a p",{"id":861,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":862,"piName":10,"institution":863,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":864},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623612","The cytoskeleton and Cadherin-2 are tightly linked to coordinate nucleokinesis in migrating neurons","TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG","The cerebellum coordinates the body’s movements. It consists of distinct layers of neuronal populations, but during embryonic development, these neurons are generated distantly from their final locations. In zebrafish, this means that cerebellar neurons have to migrate from the upper rhombic lip to the midbrain-hindbrain boundary and further. While descriptions of the migratory pathways for the different neuronal populations have become available in recent years, fundamental questions of this pr",{"id":866,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":867,"piName":10,"institution":868,"country":852,"year":13,"amount":869,"abstract":870},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-628761","Mechanisms underlying hemogenic induction in human fibrobalsts","CENTRO DE NEUROCIENCIAS E BIOLOGIACELULAR ASSOCIACAO","€202,630","Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) transplantation whether from bone marrow, mobilized peripheral blood or cord blood is the best example of regenerative cell therapy. HSCs have remarkable therapeutic applications in a broad range of diseases that affect the blood forming and immune system. Nevertheless, there remains a shortage of usable genetically-matched material for all needs. Growing HSCs in vitro from adult or fetal sources or generating them from embryonic stem cells has proven to be challeng",{"id":872,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":873,"piName":10,"institution":874,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":875},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622254","String compactifications, their low energy effective field theories and applications to physics","THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL","Recent advances in string phenomenology have produced hundreds of explicit string compactifications whose low energy particle spectra correspond to the supersymmetric standard model and no chiral exotics.  This project concerns the low energy effective field theory (LEEFT) of such string compactifications, which is essential in order to go beyond the particle spectra towards fully realistic string models.  In particular, with the LEEFT it will be possible to address fundamental dynamical problem",{"id":877,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":878,"piName":10,"institution":879,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":880},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623733","Multi-junction nano-materials with coated highly ordered structure and their Application in energy generation and Energy storage","THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM","Energy crisis and environmental pollution have been suggested to be two serious problems to world countries. The efficient energy generation and use of clean energy are the effective pathways for solving these problems. This project promotes a cutting-edge research collaboration on the development of the late-model multi-junction nano-materials for energy applications in relation with solar energy driven production of hydrogen from water and rechargeable battery for renewable energy storage. Usi",{"id":882,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":883,"piName":10,"institution":879,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":884},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-624770","Dimensional micro and nanometrology using areal topography data produced by 3D surface metrology instruments","The project investigates the development of original methods and algorithms for the dimensional and geometric verification of products and\u002For surface features defined at micro and nanometric scales. The idea is to overcome the current limitations of SEM imaging (only qualitative information) and micro\u002Fnano CMMs (slow, difficult to use) through an unconventional use of measurement data produced by advanced 3D profilometers and microscopes, which are being currently adopted in surface metrology fo",{"id":886,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":887,"piName":10,"institution":879,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":888},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-329845","Development of Platform Technology for Butanol Production using Biodiesel Industry Derived Glycerol Waste","Heightened concerns over global warming and the supply, security and price of fossil oil, has led to a resurgence of interest in biological routes to the production of biofuels and chemicals. Butanol is a superior biofuel to ethanol with an existing platform chemical market of >3 M tonne\u002Fyr - worth $8 billion. Current attempts to revive a commercial butanol fermentation process are thwarted by: (i) the high cost of the feedstock; (ii) solvent toxicity and; (iii) low titers. Feedstock cost is 60-",{"id":890,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":891,"piName":10,"institution":892,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":893},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626986","Social media and resurgent ethno-nationalism in Greece","BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY","The role of the media in the rise of political extremism is a critical issue for European societies in the current political and economic crisis, the persistence of which seems to foster euroscepticism, nationalism and right-wing populism. Greece is a highly emblematic case in this context, since the spread of anti-European sentiment, in addition to high poverty levels and the unprecedented rise of political extremism, pose a threat to the very survival of democracy. Since the beginning of the c",{"id":895,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":896,"piName":10,"institution":879,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":897},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625585","Development of a Sustainable Route to the Important Platform Chemical 3-Hydroxypropanoic Acid Using Synthetic Biology and a Geobacillus Chassis","The environmental damage caused by the indiscriminate use of fossil fuels for chemical manufacture threatens the very future of our planet. Attention must now focus on biological routes that convert lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) into the required platform chemicals. 3-hydroxypropanoic acid (3-HP) has been ranked as the third most important chemical that can be derived from LCB by the US Department of Energy. However no commercial biological process is presently available. Current attempts are th",{"id":899,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":900,"piName":10,"institution":879,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":901},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623992","Topologically Confined Chemical Reactions Performed Within Substrate-Supported Porous Molecular Architectures","The TOPCHEM project investigates an innovative approach to the on-surface synthesis of molecular products by performing chemical reactions within geometrically well-defined 2D regions on a substrate. The size and shape of these regions is governed by the dimensions of a porous molecular template adsorbed on the surface, formed by the self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded or covalently linked molecular architectures. The ‘topochemical’ reactions carried out within these pores may be driven along a spe",{"id":903,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":904,"piName":10,"institution":905,"country":906,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":907},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626128","Workers, Gypsies, and the Market: The Anthropology of New Fascism in Eastern Europe","UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE","SK","This research focuses on how market transformation gives rise to new patterns of politics that among some social groups in Eastern Europe emerge as new fascism. By focusing on two social groups that have encountered the most significant transformation in effect of the economy re-structuring after state-socialism and whose positions caused the major challenges for academics and policy makers -- heavy industry workers and Roma\u002FGypsies -- the project aims to offer new perspective on the anthropolog",{"id":909,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":910,"piName":10,"institution":911,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":912},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627111","Merging Lie perturbation theory and Taylor Differential algebra to address space debris challenges","UNIVERSIDAD DE LA RIOJA","In an increasingly saturated space about the Earth, aerospace engineers confront the mathematical problem of accurately predicting the position of Earth’s artificial satellites. This is required not only for the correct operation of satellites, but also for preserving the integrity of space assets and the services they provide to citizens. Operational satellites are threatened by the possibility of a collision with a defunct satellite, but most probably by the impact with other uncontrolled man-",{"id":914,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":915,"piName":10,"institution":892,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":916},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629517","Interactive extremism. A comparative psychosocial study of the emotional dynamics of far 'right' extremisms in Germany and Great Britain","This project will focus on an international comparison of the interaction of extremist groups with the general public, an area where very little research has been done despite the ambitious European targets related to the intervention of and prevention of extremism. Due to the rise of Islamist and right-wing extremism in European countries, interventions are needed urgently.  The primary objective is to analyse the psychosocial underpinnings of extremism in relation to the societies of Great Bri",{"id":918,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":919,"piName":10,"institution":920,"country":921,"year":13,"amount":922,"abstract":923},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-622868","Bayesian Truth Serum and its applications to conjoint analysis: a reliable way to assess user preferences for new products, services and policies","EKONOMSKI INSTITUT ZAGREB","HR","€336,315","Many areas of economics use subjective data. In use of subjective data the crucial question is how much confidence one can have in truthfulness of respondents' answers. Resolving this problem would improve reliability of current uses of subjective data and also open up new possibilities of use. One solution to this problem is presented by Bayesian Truth serum (BTS). BTS is a game-theoretic scoring system that takes as inputs respondents’ answers to questions, as well as their probabilistic predi",{"id":925,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":926,"piName":10,"institution":820,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":927},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-623271","Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstem: genetic and activity-dependent mechanisms","Somatosensory information from the physical world is accurately relayed from body surface receptors to brain cortex through topographic connectivity maps enabling to spatially locate and distinguish stimuli such as touch, temperature, proprioception (body position), and nociception (pain). This organization provides a somatosensory body-map representation in the brain exemplified by the concept of sensory homunculus. In mammals, the cortical representation of face receptors has a prominent role ",{"id":929,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":930,"piName":10,"institution":931,"country":156,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":932},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627474","A multi-wavelength approach to investigate biases affecting galaxy clusters mass","ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA","The biggest future challenge for astronomers, cosmologists and particle physicists is to determine the nature of the two main components of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. With this goal in mind and fortified by the new results of the Planck satellite, European, American, and Japanese Institutes, space agencies, and governments have invested in new missions that are about to see their first light (e.g. e-ROSITA, DES, EUCLID, CCCAT, SPT-3G, ACT-POL, ASTRO-H). All of them propose galaxy",{"id":934,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":935,"piName":10,"institution":936,"country":76,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":937},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-627156","Echo State Networks for Developing Language Robots","UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG","In this project, we propose to build a biologically plausible model of sentence comprehension based on recurrent neural networks called reservoirs. Human sentence comprehension is mainly handled by prefrontal cortex areas, which have highly recurrent connectivity. In both biological and artificial neural networks this recurrence is supposed to enable the management of different aspects of time such as working memory and contextual information processing. Here, we propose to develop the Reservoir",{"id":939,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":940,"piName":10,"institution":941,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":942},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-629051","Grey Systems and Its Application to Data Mining and Decision Support","DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY","Current data mining research is focused almost exclusively on big data. Data mining with limited and incomplete data offers valuable supplement yet to date has attracted little attention.  In many real world applications, there are situations where data are limited and incomplete, such as macroeconomics, climate change and R&D management of complex products.  A well defined data mining method for small and incomplete data does not yet exist. The theory of Grey Systems provides such an alternativ",{"id":944,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":945,"piName":10,"institution":946,"country":31,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":947},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-625840","JUnction iMProved KESTerite based solar cells for cost efficient sustainable photovoltaic technologies","FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE L'ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA","Kesterite based solar cells are emerging devices with a strong interest for the development of high efficiency and low cost sustainable photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Kesterites are quaternary compounds with a crystalline structure very similar to that of chalcopyrites (CIGS: Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2). In contrast to CIGS - where the potential for high mass production is compromised by the scarcity of In and, to a lower extend, also Ga - they are only constituted by abundant elements.Although rapid pro",{"id":949,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":950,"piName":10,"institution":951,"country":19,"year":13,"amount":10,"abstract":952},"cordis-marie-skłodowska-curie-actions-award-626893","Interactions in Community Treatment","LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY","The goal of the project INTERACT (Interaction in Community Treatment) is to explore practices of face-to-face communication and social interaction used to implement Therapeutic Community (TC) programmes in the area of addiction recovery. 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