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"Alpha-helical Barrels: Exploring, Understanding and Exploiting a New Class of Protein Structure" (ABEL)

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

"Recently through de novo peptide design, we have discovered and presented a new protein structure. This is an all-parallel, 6-helix bundle with a continuous central channel of 0.5 – 0.6 nm diameter. We posit that this is one of a broader class of protein structures that we call the alpha-helical barrels. Here, in three Work Packages, we propose to explore these structures and to develop protei ...
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The Neurobiology of Decision-Making in Eating - Innovative Tools (NUDGE-IT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Nudge-it engages internationally leading experts in the neurobiology of motivational behaviour, the neuroscience of reward pathways, the neuroendocrinology of homeostatic regulation of appetite, experimental psychology, functional brain imaging, behavioural economics, and computational modelling. They will work together to develop new tools and approaches that can provide the evidence needed to in ...
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Chaos in Parabolic Dynamics: Mixing, Rigidity, Spectra (ChaParDyn)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"The theme of the proposal is the mathematical investigation of chaos (in particular ergodic and spectral properties) in parabolic dynamics, via analytic, geometric and probabilistic techniques. Parabolic dynamical systems are mathematical models of the many phenomena which display a ""slow"" form of chaotic evolution, in the sense that nearby trajectories diverge polynomially in time. In contras ...
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The Greenhouse Earth System (TGRES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"Human activity is fundamentally changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere and warming the Earth. However, the impact of these changes, especially on continental precipitation patterns and biogeochemical cycles, remains poorly understood. The study of ancient climates allows a mechanistic exploration of the Earth system and the opportunity to evaluate new generations of climate models. M ...
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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th ...
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Isotopic records of solar nebula evolution and controls on planetary compositions (ISONEB)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

"This project has three linked strands that will combine to constrain the birth environment of the solar system and the nebular processes that shape bulk planetary compositions. Firstly, I will use ultra-high precision isotope ratio measurements in bulk meteorites to determine the stellar origin of the pre-solar of material that controls the gross compositional differences between planetary bodi ...
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Carbon dioxide regulation of Earth’s ecological weathering engine: from microorganisms to ecosystems (CDREG)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

CDREG develops the major new Earth system science research hypothesis that tectonic-related variations in Earth’s atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]a) drive negative ecological feedbacks on terrestrial silicate weathering rates that stabilise further [CO2]a change and regulate climate. This paradigm-changing hypothesis integrates ecological and abiotic controls on silicate weathering to underst ...
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The Milking Revolution in Temperate Neolithic Europe (NeoMILK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

This project explores the introduction and spread of cattle-based agriculture by Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) farmers and its implications for modelling of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Northern and Central Europe beginning ca. 8,000 years ago. This revolutionary shift in human subsistence strategy completely reshaped prehistoric European culture, biology and economy, in ways which u ...
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Nonlocality in space and time (NLST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Quantum mechanics is our most successful theory of nature. Yet more than eight decades after its inception there is a general agreement that a deep and intuitive understanding of it is still missing; we know how to compute quantum effects but we clearly do not have the full story. Even to this day, surprising and even paradoxical quantum effects continue to be frequently discovered. They are parad ...
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Synergistic Fouling Control Technologies (SEAFRONT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Marine biofouling, the unwanted colonization of marine organisms on surfaces immersed in seawater has a huge economic and environmental impact in terms of maintenance requirements for marine structures, increased vessel fuel consumption, operating costs, greenhouse gas emissions and spread of non-indigenous species. The SEAFRONT project will aim to significantly advance the control of biofouling a ...
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Frontiers of Analytic Number Theory And Selected Topics (FANTAST)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"This proposal sits at the interface of analytic number theory and selected topics, viewed through the prism of Diophantine equations defining higher-dimensional algebraic varieties. A core part of the proposal involves using analytic methods (such as complex analysis, Fourier analysis and additive combinatorics) to tackle a range of problems about Diophantine equations. These include suchbasic q ...
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Reconstructing abrupt Changes in Chemistry and Circulation of the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for global Climate and deep-water Habitats (CACH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Ice-core records show that glacials had lower atmospheric pCO2 and cooler temperatures than today and that the last deglaciation was punctuated by large, abrupt millennial-scale climate events. Explaining the mechanism controlling these oscillations remains an outstanding puzzle. The ocean is a key player, and the Atlantic is particularly dynamic as it transports heat, carbon and nutrients acros ...
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A large-area detector for precision time-of-flight measurements (TORCH)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

"We propose to construct and prototype an innovative high-precision time-of-flight system suitable for large areas, up to tens of square metres. The TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected CHerenkov light) detector provides a time-of-flight measurement from the imaging of photons emitted in a 1 cm thick quartz radiator, based on the Cherenkov principle. The photons propagate by total internal reflecti ...
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Soft, Small, and Smart: Design, Assembly, and Dynamics of Novel Nanoparticles for Novel Industrial Applications (NANOS3)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The proposed ITN (NanoS3) have assembled eight academic groups with complementary expertise in synthesis, modeling and characterization. They are joined by two full industrial partners active in the development of novel luminescent materials (LuminoChem), and in the home and personal care sectors (Procter and Gamble). Two associated partners will contribute to the work of our proposed network: Bio ...
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Homogeneous Flows and their Application in Kinetic Theory (HFAKT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"Since the pioneering work of Maxwell and Boltzmann in the 1860s and 1870s, a major challenge in mathematical physics has been the derivation of macroscopic evolution equations from the fundamental microscopic laws of classical or quantum mechanics. The key idea of the present proposal is to introduce a renormalization technique that will provide a new route to attack some of the most important qu ...
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Chemical and photochemical dynamics of reactions in solution (CAPRI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"Ultrafast laser methods will be employed to examine the dynamics of chemical and photochemical reactions in liquid solutions. By contrasting the solution phase dynamics with those observed for isolated collisions in the gas phase, the fundamental role of solvent on chemical pathways will be explored at a molecular level. The experimental studies will be complemented by computational simulations ...
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A European Training Network for Sustainable Phosphorus Chemistry (SusPhos)

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

The SusPhos training network will bring about a paradigm shift in the teaching of sustainable phosphorus chemistry, in the training of multidisciplinary-competent scientists, and in the public’s view on chemistry to preserve the essential element phosphorus from depletion. SusPhos represents the first systematic investigation of the eco-friendly production, smart use, recycling and commercial expl ...
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Complex Topology, Anyons, and Entanglement (Top-Anyon-Ent)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Topology and geometry are of fundamental importance in quantum physics. This proposal concerns applications of recent developments in topology and geometry to outstanding problems in condensed matter physics and quantum information theory. The first aim is to lay the foundations for the understanding of the influence of complex topology, which gives rise to generalized anyon statistics, on many-pa ...
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Breaking the Barrier on Optical Integration (BBOI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Photonic technologies enable today to generate, manipulate and detect photons by means of miniaturized devices integrated onto the same optical chip. However, compared to electronics, photonics still lacks essential tools enabling the aggregation of hundreds of functionalities into large scale circuits, this hindering its full exploitation in many applicative domains. The BBOI project aims to brea ...
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MEDiterranean SUpersite Volcanoes (MED-SUV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

This project will improve the consortium capacity of assessment of volcanic hazards in Supersites of Southern Italy by optimising and integrating existing and new observation/monitoring systems, by a breakthrough in understanding of volcanic processes and by increasing the effectiveness of the coordination between the scientific and end-user communities. More than 3 million of people are exposed t ...
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A European volcanological supersite in Iceland: a monitoring system and network for the future (FUTUREVOLC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The main objectives of FUTUREVOLC are to establish an integrated volcanological monitoring procedure through European collaboration, develop new methods to evaluate volcanic crises, increase scientific understanding of magmatic processes and improve delivery of relevant information to civil protection and authorities. To reach these objectives the project combines broad European expertise in seism ...
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Reconstructing Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange during the Miocene (MEDGATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"MEDGATE combines the expertise of 29 geoscientists from both the oil industry and academia in the training of 10 researchers. It aims to equip these researchers for successful careers in either sector through interdisciplinary projects focussing on an intriguing problem which has implications for both environmental change and hydrocarbon exploration. The research aim of MEDGATE is to reconstruc ...
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Evolutionary origin of multicellularity and the oxygenation of Earth (EVOXY)

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

The origin of multicellularity is considered a major transition in the evolution of life. It has independently evolved over 20 times in different pro- and eukaryote lineages. Underlying genetic mechanisms are still far from being understood. Moreover, it seems that the transition to multicellularity in cyanobacteria might have be correlated to the “Great Oxidation Event” (GOE), over 2.4 billion ye ...
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What can island isostasy tell us about hotspot dynamics? (Island Freeboard)

Start date: Jan 11, 2013, End date: Jan 10, 2016,

Hotspots are enigmatic structures on Earth's surface that are not explained in the framework of plate tectonics. One of the characteristic features of oceanic hotspots is anomalously shallow seafloor, or hotspot swell, on which the volcanic islands associated with hotspots rest. The study of isostatic movements of oceanic volcanoes is a key discriminant among different theories of hotspot swell de ...
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Past hurricane activity reconstructed using cave deposits: Have humans increased storm risk? (HURRICANE)

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

"The proposed research would utilise various geochemical proxies (oxygen, carbon, and trace elements) in cave calcite deposits (stalagmites) to develop extraordinarily high-resolution North Atlantic hurricane activity records for the past five hundred years, extending existing historical datasets by hundreds of years. This new stalagmite record would be the first high resolution record to extend b ...
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Investigating Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (INSPIRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In everyday life, people listen to speech under a wide range of conditions that are “non-optimal” relative to the controlled conditions in laboratory experiments. Classical research methods can only deal with the effects of individual “adverse” conditions. This has contributed to the fragmentation of speech communication research in numerous sub-disciplines that have little interaction. While each ...
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Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System (INGOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases a ...
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Numerical, Experimental and stochastic Modelling of vOlcanic processes and Hazard: an Initial Training Network for the next generation of European volcanologists (NEMOH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Volcanic eruptions, and associated hazards, are a constant concern for many European countries and for Europe as a whole. During last decades, disciplines like thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, and advanced experiments and computation, have been incorporated in volcano science, and formalized treatment of uncertainties has become a prominent means of volcanic hazard evaluation. ...
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Catalytic Dehydrocoupling/Dehydrogenation of Amine-Boranes: Mechanistic Studies and the Development of Polyaminoboranes, Boron-Nitrogen Analogues of Polyolefins (EMLIM)

Start date: Apr 15, 2012, End date: Oct 29, 2015,

Polyaminoboranes [RNH-BH2]n, isoelectronic analogues of the industrially ubiquitous linear polyolefins [RCH-CH2]n , are an exciting class of main-group polymers with potentially interesting properties and applications. These polymers have recently become accessible for a very restricted number of amine-borane substrates. However, key limitations exist in terms of the scope and control of the polym ...
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Seismic Anisotropy and Magma Systems (SAMS)

Start date: Oct 15, 2013, End date: Oct 14, 2015,

"Magma movement in the crust at active volcanoes will exert a stress on the surrounding country rock that may or may not be manifest as observable strain (ground deformation) or seismicity (earthquakes). Detecting and understanding this stress is a key to predicting if and when a volcano will erupt. The measurement of seismic anisotropy (the variation of seismic wave speed with direction) using th ...
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Volcanic unrest in Europe and Latin America: Phenomenology, eruption precursors, hazard forecast, and risk mitigation (VUELCO)

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

Our knowledge of the causative links between subsurface processes, resulting unrest signals and imminent eruption is, today, wholly inadequate to deal effectively with crises of volcanic unrest. The VUELCO project consortium has come together for a multi-disciplinary attack on the origin, nature and significance of volcanic unrest from the scientific contributions generated by collaboration of ten ...
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Monitoring Arctic Glaciers and IceCaps from Space (MAGICS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Sea level change is one of the major challenges for the next century. Historically, ice loss from mountain glaciers and ice caps has been the single largest contributor to the ~2 mm/yr sea level rise over the last century and 50% of this contribution has come from the Arctic. Recent studies show that they will continue to be one of the major contributors to sea level rise in the 21st century. Ther ...
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The interface between language and cognition in neurodevelopmental disorders: Evidence from cross-linguistic comparisons (LANGCOGINT)

Start date: Sep 9, 2013, End date: Sep 8, 2015,

This study will investigate the interactions between language and cognition in Down Syndrome (DS), Williams Syndrome (WS) and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in an attempt to challenge existing views of the modularity of language and to move a step further towards a full understanding of the underlying linguistic challenges faced by people with neurodevelopmental disorders. This main aim will b ...
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Understanding Geophysical Granular Flows: from Small-scale Experiments to Full-scale Simulations (GEOGRAF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The broad aim of the proposal GEOGRAF is to develop a general understanding of granular flow rheology that will underpin truly predictive models for landslide dynamics. The main objective is to explore and further develop a promising rheology, recently established for idealized granular materials, in situations relevant to large-scale geophysical systems, including flows over complex topography a ...
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Star-like Oligo(aniline)s with Tunable Band Gaps for Tailored Nanostructures in Advanced Electronic Applications (TANOGAPPs)

Start date: Jul 29, 2013, End date: Jul 28, 2015,

The overarching aim of the proposed research is to advance the understanding and design of conjugated oligomeric materials with tunable optoelectronic properties, in particular materials based on oligo(aniline)s, for applications in the EU priority area of organic electronics. To underpin and support this innovation, key new routes to novel molecular architectures and nanostructures will be explor ...
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Decompression and fragmentation of andesitic magmas during explosive events at open-vent volcanoes (DFAM)

Start date: Jun 16, 2013, End date: Jun 15, 2015,

Some andesitic volcanoes at subduction plate margins experience periods of sub-continuous eruption during years, decades, or centuries (open-vent activity periods). Such long-lived periods typically include outgassing events, extrusion of viscous lava flows and domes, and explosive activity of low to moderate intensity. This background activity can be disrupted by violent explosive events of short ...
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A remote controlled helicopter for investigating the echoes experienced by bat during navigation (Chirocopter)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

While foraging and commuting, echolocating bats navigate to salient places in their surroundings. They are able to do this relying only on echolocation. Currently, we have only a very limited idea about the kind of information these animals extract from the returning echoes to support navigation. Recent findings in both insect vision and the sensory ecology of bats suggest that their navigation ab ...
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Well-defined Conjugated Block Copolymer Nanofibers and their Applications in Photovoltaic Devices (XLIM)

Start date: Apr 8, 2013, End date: Apr 7, 2015,

"This proposal for a Marie Curie Fellowship focuses on the preparation of well-defined nanofibers from conjugated polymers and their use in photovoltaic devices. This project will be highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, involving polymer synthesis, polymer self-assembly in the solution state, polymer crystallography, polymer physics, the physics of semiconducting materials, the fabrica ...
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3D GaN for High Efficiency Solid State Lighting (GECCO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Solid State Lighting sources, presently being completely based on the semiconductor material Gallium Nitride, will replace inefficient and environmentally harmful conventional light sources, and therefore contribute significantly to a sustainable energy saving and carbon footprint reduction. In order to further support this transition, white LEDs with higher efficiencies and lower cost per lumen h ...
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Testing the limits and potential of evolution in response to climate change (CLIMADAPT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

BACKGROUND: Predicting the consequences of rapid environmental change for biodiversity is a critical global issue. However, we lack data on how quickly populations will evolve to escape extinction. Such evolution is especially important to specialist organisms that depend on other species as hosts or prey. Understanding limits to adaptation depends on knowing how genetic variation affects the fit ...
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