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Politics of Welfare in Emerging Market Economies (WelfarePolitics)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
The research aims at explaining contemporary welfare system transformations in emerging market economies during the last four decades, by considering grassroots political factors. Through a comparative and historical analysis of welfare systems in Brazil, South Korea and Turkey, this project will examine to what extent grassroots politics have shaped welfare policies, focusing on government effort ...
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Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE)
Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
The overriding aim of this project is to conduct a comparative EU wide analysis on youth unemployment that is sensitive to gender, ethnic and class differences and the historical legacies of multi-level institutions shaping relevant policies.This aim will be achieved through 10 objectives organized around 12 research, management, dissemination and scientific coordination work packages.There are th ...
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Development of Coordination Mechanisms During Different Kinds of Emergencies (COncORDE)
Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,
The threat of mass casualty incidents or medical surges to healthcare systems has always been present. Preparing essential parts of the healthcare system such as hospitals and their partners to prevent, respond, and rapidly recover from these threats is critical for protecting and securing the entire health infrastructure. Large-scale disaster situations causing mass casualty incidents are charact ...
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COOPERATION BETWEEN STATES AND NON-STATE ARMED GROUPS: SYTEMATIC OR RANDOM PARTNERSHIPS? (State-NAGCooperation)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
The objective of this project is to advance my existing research on state support for Non-state Armed Groups (NAGs) including terrorists, ethnic, religious, and ideological insurgencies and guerrilla organizations. NAGs are defined by three characteristics: the absence of a formal affiliation to a state or its armed forces, resort to violence to achieve their objectives, pursuit of political objec ...
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Cognitive mechanisms that lead to age related memory deficits (ChArM)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
It is well established that aging results in deficits in memory functioning in a variety of memory tasks. However, there is a debate over the specificity of the mechanisms that lead to the pattern of age-related deficits. The aim of the proposed project is to contrast two major classes of theories in an important but somewhat understudied empirical domain: retrieval dynamics, which can allow a di ...
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Interval Timing, Decision Making, and Reward Maximization (Optimal Timing)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
Time is a ubiquitous, defining feature of apparently simple decisions that we routinely face in daily life. These decisions include trading off speed against accuracy while taking a timed test, or stepping on the gas pedal rather than braking when the traffic light turns yellow. Keeping track of time is adaptive, because reward earned in many real-life scenarios depends on the temporal statistics ...
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