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An aptamer-based multiplex assay to recording molecular signatures of cancer cell fingerprints (APTACELLSENS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

... aptamers that reveal broad-spectrum interaction patterns with cancer cells derived from solid tumours will be employed for developing a robust, multiplex assay format likely to determine molecular fingerprints of the most prevalent and lethal cancers worldwide. Furthermore, the multiplex aptamer-based assay will allow gaining information of the relative expression levels of yet unknown marker pro ...
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Dusting for the Fingerprints of Planet Formation (DustPrints)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2022,

...le detailed models of the evolution of solids in protoplanetary disks with chemical models on the one side and with hydrodynamical simulations on the other. We aim to derive the unique observable fingerprints of these processes and link those predictions to upcoming observations.With the advent of the ALMA observatory, the prospects of finding these fingerprints are excellent. ALMA will allow us t ...
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Spectral Fingerprints of Neuronal Interactions (SPECFIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...re ubiquitous in the brain. The frequencies of these oscillations reflect the biophysical properties of underlying circuit interactions. Thus, frequency-specific oscillations may serve as ‘spectral fingerprints’ of specific circuit interactions. However so far, the circuit interactions underlying cortical oscillations are largely unknown.The key objective of my proposal is to establish this ‘spect ...
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ToothPic, a large-scale camera identification system based on compressed fingerprints (ToothPic)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...ed implementation of the camera identification core functionality, which will be used to validate the capability of the proposed technology to handle scenarios involving 100+ millions of sensor fingerprints, in real time and at a low cost. A set of demo applications, including a public search engine, taking as input a camera fingerprint or a photo and returning a list of photos acquired by the sam ...
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"Early anthropogenic signatures on landscapes: geomorphic, paleo-botanical, and other paleo-environmental fingerprints" (EASL)

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

...mental change worldwide. This project will examine anthropogenic signatures on natural landscapes, in particular testing the hypothesis that geomorphic, paleo-botanical, and other paleo-environmental fingerprints of human activity are identifiable, even at the vanguard of early human migrations. In particular, anthropogenic ignition is hypothesized to be an effective mechanism by which small popul ...
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Tailored offers for adults - Fingerprints Learning

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The project can be extended to the topic Fingerprints Learning as the relevance of education to the individual needs of the elderly. Justification of the project is the need to take into account differences in the non-professional adult education.The aim of the project is the exchange of practice on the learning of the elderly, taking into account individual differences and develop lasting coopera ...
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OdourCOB - Odour Characterization of Odorants from Biosolids (OdourCOB)

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

...ed for separation, isolation and identification of compounds from biosolids treatment facilities. The combine analytical and data analysis techniques will enable the establishment of specific odour fingerprints for the different unit processes as well as variations due to sludge variability and operating conditions. The three-year project on wastewater biosolid odour characterization will be exec ...
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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,

... strategies for 1) enhanced monitoring capacity and value, 2) mechanistic data interpretation and 3) identification of reliable eruption precursors; all from the geophysical, geochemical and geodetic fingerprints of unrest episodes. Experiments will establish a mechanistic understanding of subsurface processes capable of inducing unrest and aid in identifying key volcano monitoring parameters indi ...
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The application of Protistan diversity and community analysis, an integrated approach to Water Quality Assessment (PROTISTAN DIVERSITY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2010,

...obust, high-throughput method to assess water quality and aquatic biodiversity, as a proxy for environmental health, are clear. This provides an obvious target for initial efforts resolving molecular fingerprints for total diversity and identification of potential indicator organisms. Eukaryotes exhibit a significant level of morphological diversity that has traditionally been used to define Linne ...
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Cryosphere-Carbon on Top of the Earth (CC-Top):Decreasing Uncertainties of Thawing Permafrost and Collapsing Methane Hydrates in the Arctic (CC-TOP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2021,

...bon/methane to break through on:The “awakening” of terrestrial PF-C pools: CC-Top will employ great pan-arctic rivers as natural integrators and by probing the δ13C/Δ14C and molecular fingerprints, apportion release fluxes of different PF-C pools.The ESAO subsea cryosphere/methane: CC-Top will use recent spatially-extensive observations, deep sediment cores and gap-filling expeditions to (i) estim ...
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Ultra-trace element fingerprinting of geological and environmental archives (CHEMICAL FINGERPRINT)

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

Natural and anthropogenic processes leave behind tell-tale chemical signatures - fingerprints - that inform researchers about a wide variety of interesting and topical issues. The research proposed here aims at refining our ability to read the chemical fingerprints both in geological and environmental archives. The research will have a strong technological component and a number of applied project ...
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Development of a non-invassive breath test for early diagnosis of tropical diseases (TROPSENSE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

...y can be miniaturised and are suitable for building on-site portable systems. Advanced pattern recognition algorithms will be employed for building discriminative models for the identification of the fingerprints of the different tropical diseases studied, and multisensors data fusion will be then applied for obtaining enhanced resulyts. A point of care prototype will be proposed on the basis of t ...
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Route to guided TeraHertz backscattering Inspection and Analysis (THEIA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...sues like the unknown position of the target and the significant contribution of the sample surface roughness, THEIA will establish a consistent technique of inference respect to databanks of known fingerprints to recognize complex compounds, paving the way to a new form of remote electromagnetic probing device."
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Multi-Modal Functional Fingerprint of the Human Brain. Application in ADHD (BRAIN FINGERPRINT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

...brain that is sensitive to subtle variations, inclusive in what it captures, specific when distinguishing subgroups, and well validated for clinical use. Specifically, I will construct functional fingerprints that capture the richness of functional connectivity interactions between brain regions, augmented with a behavioral profile and informed by brain structure. I will test the ability of the fu ...
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cmos-compatible nonlinear integrated Mid-IR frequency COMBs (MIRCOMB)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...biological and chemical sensors, homeland security applications, industrial and environmental monitoring, defence, astronomy... The reason is that most chemical and biological compounds have unique fingerprints in this range that can be exploited in detection schemes with unprecedented reliability, sensitivity and precision. The surge in interest in the mid-IR has been recently driven by breakthro ...
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The role of cell signalling and infochemicals in marine Algal-Virus interactions (VIRUSIGNALLING)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

...viral infection and to gain insights into the origin of programmed cell death (PCD) in unicellular organisms. We will analyze natural coccolithophore blooms with our newly-discovered biomarkers as “fingerprints” to evaluate the importance of viral infection during bloom succession. This work has great potential to reveal novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of virus-host interactions, incl ...
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A commercial device for mercury isotope monitoring (MIMO) (MIMO)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...AMNet typically gather data on atmospheric Hg concentrations, but do not provide information on the Hg emission source. In the ERC StG MERCURY ISOTOPES we have developed dual Hg isotope signatures as fingerprints for Hg sources and transformations. Our observations suggest that most, but not all, anthropogenic Hg emission sources are isotopically distinguishable. The goal of the ERC POC MIMO proje ...
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Innovative Technology for Fingerprint Live Scanners (INGRESS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...ke fingerprint images by looking at additional biometrics associated with the finger. The project will pave the way to the manufacturing of innovative fingerprint scanners capable of properly sensing fingerprints of intrinsic very-low quality and/or characterized by superficial skin disorders.The project focuses on capturing sub-surface fingerprint and delivering a high-quality image. The technolo ...
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Ve-Wa:Vegetation effects on water flow and mixing in high-latitude ecosystems–Capability of headwater catchments to mediate potential climate change (VeWa)

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

...erent seasonality than mid-latitude sites. This interdisciplinary proposed project will address novel questions on vegetation-water linkages by using isotopic tracers in different waters as ""fingerprints"" across different spatial scales along a climate gradient as a precursor to understand future response to change in high-latitude upland catchments. The proposed project will – for the first tim ...
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Physically unclonable functions found in standard PC components (PUFFIN)

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

... are used to uniquely identify electronic components and to protect valuable objects against counterfeiting. They allow creating a root of trust in a hardware system through generating device-unique "fingerprints" and deriving secret keys from the underlying physical properties of the silicon. Today they are typically found in specially designed hardware components and result from the silicon prop ...
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Transition into the Anthropocene: learning about the climate system from the 19th and early 20th century (TITAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...ittle Ice Age’, and shows periods of warming including the still enigmatic early 20th century warming. Newly available observational data now make it possible to analyze this period in detail. ‘Fingerprints’ for climate changes in response to external drivers, such as changes in atmospheric composition, solar radiation, and volcanism will be used to estimate the contribution by these factors to ob ...
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A quantitative analysis of single cell variation in transcription during the stabilisation of neural mesodermal cell states in vivo and in vitro (QUANT CELL STATE)

Start date: May 19, 2014, End date: May 18, 2016,

... vitro. We expect that this study will not only provide fundamental insights into the dynamics of transcriptional regulation as cells undergo cell state transitions, but also provide highly sensitive fingerprints with which to analyse the molecular mechanisms that control and coordinate cell specification. These studies will be performed in experimental systems that are highly amiable for molecula ...
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THz Optics for Biological In-situ Analitical Spectroscopy (TOBIAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

...ith the development of a Near-field (NF) THz absorption spectroscopy system with specific reference to the real-time characterization of bio-matter. This system will exploit electromagnetic resonance fingerprints (i.e. characteristic spectral responses). µm and sub-µm resolution will enable to spatially discriminate important low-energy materials resonances in bio-samples. The proposed research w ...
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Language Evolution: The Empirical Turn (EVOLAEMP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...ng-edge methods from *machine learning* such as *kernel methods* and *causal inference*, and- developing, implementing and testing models of language evolution that correctly predict the *statistical fingerprints of language evolution*, i.e. pay sufficient attention to the domain specific features of language evolution that have no counterpart in biological evolution."
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FLying ultrA-broadband single-shot InfraRed sensor (FLAIR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

FLAIR aims at developing an airborne, compact and cost-effective air quality sampling sensor for sensitive and selective detection of molecular fingerprints in the 2-5 μm and 8-12 μm infrared atmospheric windows. The sensor is based on an innovative supercontinuum laser that provides ultra-bright emission across the entire spectrum of interest. Such a light source in combination with a novel type ...
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WHY DO THEY DIE? DECIPHERING AND QUELLING THE LETHAL CUES OF IMMUNO-INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN SEPSIS (COMBATING SEPSIS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

... need for treatments improving outcomes in sepsis and a rise of a new effective, individual patient-based therapy against sepsis is contingent upon exhaustive understanding of its immuno-inflammatory fingerprints. Successful accomplishment of the projected study will contribute to this effort."
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Improve our understanding of Rock Slope Failures using calving events (Rockslope_failures)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Rock-slope failure (RSF) processes show very similar fingerprints to ice failures on glacier termini, nevertheless, progressive failures on glacier fronts occur at a much higher rate than that observed on mountain cliffs, which may lead to the latter being used as a proxy for investigating the occurrence of RSF in Alpine areas. I will originally investigate the observed similarities between ice an ...
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Sources and atmospheric processing of carbonaceous aerosol in East Asia (EastAsiaAerosol)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...n Basin– Chengdu) and from the SE Yellow Sea recipient site on a Jeju Island (Korea Climate Observatory – Gosan), providing an ideal context for these investigations. The molecular/isotopic fingerprints of such synoptic aerosol samples provide integrated source signature and possibility to assess atmospheric processing during over-ocean long-range transport. This field quantification of BC and OC ...
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MID-IR Integrated Photonic Sensor for Health and Environment (MIRIPSHE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...cal sensing for health and environmental monitoring. The MIR band is an excellent detection window for most bio-chemical elements such as Amides, Lipids, Nitriles and Carbon dioxide as the absorption fingerprints of these molecules lies in the 3-10 µm wavelength range. Integrated Photonics platform can play a major role in the MIR on-chip chemical and biological sensing with high sensitivity. The ...
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Mechanisms of the Development of ALLergy (MEDALL)

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

...dy (Karelia) and existing birth-cohorts followed using a common protocol. IgE to foods and inhalants are tested using component-resolved diagnosis across Europe in populations. Biomarker profiles (“fingerprints”) are extensively assessed using epigenetics, targeted proteomics and unbiased transcriptomics in a subsample of the study population. Those associated with allergic phenotypes are validate ...
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Big Data of Small Molecules (BDoSM)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...ining and visualization of millions of spectral, structural, chromatographic and biochemical data of small molecules.Our project will become the world most comprehensive database platform of spectral fingerprints of endogenous metabolites, natural products and environmental contaminants that will allow identification of substances present in biological samples that could not be identified using co ...
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Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks (TABULA RASA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

...sues of direct (spoofing) attacks to trusted biometric systems. This is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently because it has recently been shown that conventional biometric techniques, such as fingerprints and face, are vulnerable to direct (spoof) attacks.Direct attacks are performed by falsifying the biometric trait and then presenting this falsified information to the biometric system, o ...
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Forensic Identification Frontiers (ForensicIDFrontiers)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

...tion, including the legitimacy, acceptability and viability of forensic identification practice and policy. It will identify the obstacles to EU harmonisation on the use and exchange of forensic DNA /fingerprints, producing original data for policymakers. The project will involve researching at the Centre for Forensic Excellence in Australia, a unique and internationally unrivalled research centre ...
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Modelling the Archaean Subduction Environment (MASE)

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

...ious models fit the same data within uncertainty, and often lack a firm physical basis. To overcome these shortcomings, I propose a novel, forward approach of predicting synthetic geochemical fingerprints from numerical, geodynamically consistent physical models, and comparing those with geochemical observations. This will be used to constrain and better understand the two most pressing questions ...
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Mapping the First Millennium Glass Economy (GlassRoutes)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The production of raw glass up until the early medieval period was restricted to few primary glassmaking centres in the Levant and Egypt producing glasses with distinct chemical fingerprints that were then shipped all over the Mediterranean. The study of glass thus provides a unique perspective on long-distance communications and shifts in economy, trade and cultural interactions. This project exp ...
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Unbiased Biomarkers for the Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...ating an international consensus on diagnostic criteria for severe asthma.II)Unbiased discovery of sub-phenotypes of severe asthma in adult and paediatric patient cohorts using biomarker profiles (“fingerprints”) and systems biology to define “phenotype/handprints”.III)Validating the handprints for exacerbations, disease progression, and experimental challenges.IV)Using the handprints to improve h ...
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Nomad Biometric Authentification (NOBA)

Start date: Oct 31, 2007, End date: Jul 13, 2013,

...information systems security and aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a nomad strong authentication based on acquiring and merging biometric data (fingerprints, voice, iris …) and to create a prototype. A lot of economical and societal outcomes are expected towards the end of the project: stronger partnerships between the University of Kent and the ESIGELEC, creation of a SMEs cross-border netw ...
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PYroelectric Conformable SEnsor matrix for Large area applications in security and safety (PYCSEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

From government to consumer applications, personal identification is an ever increasing concern and demand. Fingerprints are the oldest and the most reliable features to be used because of their singularity and inalterability. The main goal of the PYCSEL project is to develop a low cost thin and large area fingerprint sensing surface enabling the personal identification via the development of a TO ...
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Unraveling interstellar chemistry with broadband microwave spectroscopy and next-generation telescope arrays (ASTROROT)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

...arch will go far beyond the state-of-the-art: We will use cutting-edge techniques both in the laboratory and at the telescope to greatly improve and speed the process of identifying molecular fingerprints. These techniques now enable studies at this important frontier of physics and chemistry that previously would have been prohibitively time-consuming or even impossible.
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Identification and screen of RNA Editing in the Human Genome (GenEdiScreen)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...ng a combination of computational approaches and next generation sequencing based technology, I am able, for the first time, to perform large-scale comprehensive screen and sketch the “editosome” fingerprints. As an independent investigator, I will use the padlock probes technology followed by next generation sequencing to associate different diseases with altered editing levels and investigate th ...
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