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Exploiting new radio telescopes to understand the role of AGN in galaxy evolution (RadioLife)

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

...d hoc and far from realistic..Observations of radio AGN suggest that this type of active nucleus can play an important role in feedback. Their large jets and lobes can efficiently couple with the ISM/IGM and transport energy to large distances, preventing gas from cooling and, therefore, providing a self-regulating mechanism for gas accretion.This proposal requests funding to set up a science team ...
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Cross-border network for the sustainable management and biodiversity (SIGMA 2)

Start date: Aug 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

The project aims to contribute to the Cross-border biodiversity conservation and to the improvement of the environmental conditions. Expected Results: The expected results of the project realisation are made of the slowing of ...
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Social and Intercultural Dialogue through Governance for Local development: Mediterranean Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) (SIDIG-MED)

Start date: Nov 15, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Project in brief Poverty and social exclusion take complex and multi-dimensional forms which require the mobilisation of a wide range of policies and actors. Alongside employment policy, social and intercultural dialogue has a pre-eminent role to play, while the importance of other factors such as housing, health, culture and communication should also be acknowledged. The Mediterranean area is fac ...
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Conservation of the macrostigma trout in Corsica (TRUITE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2003, End date: Oct 31, 2007,

Background The brown trout (Salmo trutta macrostigma) is a sub-species of fish of community interest identified in Annex II of the Habitats Directive. It is distinguished from other types of trout by its pigmentation which consists of large red spots. In France, it can de found only in Corsica and quite exclusively in the upper sectors of the catchment ar ...
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Processing sludge for recovery of energy and phosphorous with removal of heavy metals (Sludge processor)

Start date: Apr 5, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2005,

Background Sludge from sewage plants is potentially hazardous. It is currently deposited, incinerated or used as fertiliser. However, conventional incineration of wet sludge is mainly a method of decreasing the volume of sludge, and could generate other environmental problems. Another problem with incineration is that it doesn’t allow recovery of nutrit ...
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Changing paradigm of education: integration of new media and of competence-based learning

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

"Changing paradigm of education: integration of new media and integration of competence-based learning (CPE) - Teaching with tablet-PCs pan-European Freedom of movement, European job market, personal responsibility and media competence – these are only a few challenges for apprentices and vocational education. School as an institution needs to react. It still faces the challenge to prepare studen ...
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İşimiz, Gücümüz Meslekler ( Our Work, Our Power is Jobs)

Start date: May 1, 2013,

...Because they have the right to become a public officer, they never tend to head towards other groups of occupation, try to pass the university exams and especially know the occupations The project of IGM aims to shape the futures of the teenagers who stay in the orphanages and go on their formal educations enabling them to become self-aware. We plan to organize the seminars of job introduction in ...
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Memory and innate-like B-cell subsets: deciphering a multi-layered B-cell response in mice and humans (B-response)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

...rresponds to a specific transcriptional program at the miRNA, lncRNA or mRNA level, as well as a specific cell homeostasis 3) To discriminate the specific effector function of human marginal zone and IgM memory B cells in, respectively, T-independent and T-dependent responses, as well as their specific differentiation/diversification pathway.The general goal is to delineate the regulatory pathways ...
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Galactic Outflows and Feedback in the Astro-H eR (GOFAR)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

...light (~ 0.1c). Since the kinetic power in the wind scales as the outflow velocity cubed, these components are the most promising AGN energy feedback, and for enriching the intergalactic medium (IGM). We will attempt to identify absorption from filaments of the IGM, which represent the long sought-after missing atoms of the Universe.
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Highly accurate Isogeometric Method (HIGEOM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

...imulations, often in tight connection with Computer Aided Design (CAD). The Finite Element Method (FEM) is one of the most popular technique for the discretization of PDEs. The IsoGeometric Method (IGM), proposed in 2005 by T.J.R. Hughes et al., aims at improving the interoperability between CAD and FEMs. This is achieved by adopting the CAD mathematical primitives, i.e. Splines and Non-Uniform ...
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The Emergence of Structure during the Epoch of Reionization (Emergence)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...h metals.We will unravel how the hydrogen in Universe progressed from substantially neutral to highly ionized by detailed comparison of cosmological hydro-simulations of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) and galaxy formation including continuum and resonant Lyman-alpha radiative transfer with QSO absorption spectra and LBG/ Lyman-alpha emitter surveys and other data.This will help us to mak ...
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Role of Quorum Sensing mechanisms in the Immune System s regulation (QSIS)

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

...mber of components is detected. To address the role of quorum-sensing in the Immune System this project aims: 1) To study the role of quorum-sensing mechanisms in the homeostasis of natural activated IgM-secreting and memory B cell populations, by studying the role of secreted IgG in these processes. 2) To determine the role of quorum-sensing mechanisms associated with the homeostasis of naïve and ...
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Enlightenment and Innovation, Ensured through Pre Commercial Procurement in Cities (ENIGMA)

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

Through the ENIGMA project, 5 cities from Sweden, Finland, Italy,The Netherlands and Norway will initiate a joint Pre-Competitive Procurement process leading to the procurement of innovative solutions and radical improvements for these and other cities' urban safety and energy efficiency using next generation ICT applications in the context of innovative public lighting systems in part of their ci ...
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Mining for Metals in a Massive Spectroscopic Survey of the Intergalactic Medium (MINE BOSS)

Start date: Sep 19, 2012, End date: Sep 18, 2014,

"The researcher has demonstrated excellence in developing new techniques for detecting, measuring and modelling the intergalactic medium (IGM) and its relation to galaxy formation. He has been particularly focussed on recent incarnations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II & -III) and is a key member of the team using observations of the IGM in a massive spectroscopic survey of the distant un ...
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NANOSCALE ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN ISLANDS ON LYMPHOCYTES (nano-Islands)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...ty ligation assay (Fab-PLA) which allows us to study the organization of membrane proteins at 10-20 nm distances. With this method, we discovered that the B cell antigen receptor (BCR) of the classes IgM and IgD are located in different class-specific nano-islands.Due to the technical limitations of classical biochemistry (detergent lysis), light microscopy (diffraction limit of 250 nm) and electr ...
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"Teleost B lymphocytes, the equivalent of mammalian B1 innate lymphocytes?" (TEBLYM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"Teleost fish are the most primitive bony vertebrates that contain immunoglobulins, although belonging to different classes than those of mammals, having only IgM, IgD and IgT. No Ig maturation to more specific class is observed in fish, providing them with an antibody response that is slow and weak in terms of antigen affinity. This is the main reason why protection conferred by disease natural r ...
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Innate signaling networks in B cell antibody production: new targets for vaccine development (B-INNATE)

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

... splenic sinusoidal endothelial cells induce reprogramming of NC cells into NBH cells upon sensing bacteria through Toll-like receptors. Aim 2 is to elucidate the mechanisms by which NBH cells induce IgM production, IgG and IgA class switching, and plasma cell differentiation in MZ B cells. Aim 3 is to evaluate the mechanisms by which NBH cells induce V(D)J gene somatic hypermutation and high-affi ...
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Regulation and function of IgD in systemic lupus erythematosus (ACIGDSLE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

...gatively charged double-stranded DNA. These features highlight the strong pathogenicpotential of IgD in SLE. We recently discovered that a discrete subset of B cells undergoes a non-canonical form of IgM-to-IgD class switching upon exposure to a specific cocktail of cytokines, including interleukin-21 (IL-21). We also found that IgD binds to myeloid cells such as basophils, mast cells, monocytes a ...
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Cooling, AGN Feedback and Evolution in Groups (CAFEGROUPS)

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

...rchers in the UK, Italy, USA and India to study the nature and consequences of the energy transferred from supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies to the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM) in groups of galaxies. The research combines data from opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum: low-frequency radio observations track the history of outbursts from the black holes, while X ...
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The Intergalactic Medium as a Cosmological Tool (cosmoIGM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The cosmoIGM proposal aims at investigating the role of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) as a cosmological probe and at exploiting the many IGM-related sinergies between observational cosmology, galaxy formation and fundamental physics. The IGM is a unique cosmological observable as it probes 3/4 of the present age of the universe, it contains up to 80% of the baryons and is sensitive to scales th ...
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Defense mechanisms of innate immunity against influenza virus (INIMIN)

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

...fferent methods, including serological techniques, EliSpot and FACS analyses, to characterize the neutralizing Ab titers and reveal the frequency of Ab-producing cells. 2) Examine the role of natural IgM in host innate and adaptive responses to influenza. We will try to identify clones of natural IgM that neutralize the virus, by screening a panel of B-1 cell hybridomas for virus binding and neutr ...
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Diffuse Baryons in Space (Diffuse Baryons)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

...al aims to significantly enhance our knowledge of diffuse gas in the universe and its association with galaxies. Better understanding of the properties and physical state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) will not only shed light on processes related to galaxy formation and evolution, but will also provide a more complete census of baryons in the universe with implications for the missing baryons ...
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Implementing Outreach Empowerment and Diversity

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The project is the follow-up of a Grundtvig network that elaborated guidelines for trainers/staff in adult education and policy recommendations for policy-makers for engaging disadvantaged learners. The partners now want to implement the principles: Outreach – Empowerment – Diversity (OED). The participation in adult education has stagnated or even decreased in some countries while we do know th ...
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COLLAB ARTS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME: Art in social and community contexts

Start date: Nov 12, 2014, End date: Sep 15, 2018,

The COLLAB Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) will support the training and development of artists working in social and community contexts throughout Europe, encouraging a growth in support structures for this sector, mainstreaming the profile of this dynamic form of artistic practice in the process, with the aim of increasing access and participation in the arts, placing art at the heart of all l ...
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Level up! Workplace Tutor goes Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...ntinued need for a better qualification and improved professionalisation of VET personnel in Europe. This issue is of increased importance against the background of the current shift of policy paradigms in Europe, away from "streamlining" vocational education and towards holistic vocational education according to the model of dual training. At the same time, growing youth unemployment, especially ...
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ECVET AND PRACTITIONERS WORKING IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT SERVICES

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The EPWESS project is located in the context of Entrepreneurship Support Services (SAEs). The need for support and assistance to entrepreneurship is an area that permeates any country which bases its growth strategy in promoting the creation and consolidation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).As mentioned in the initial description of the project, 85% of the jobs generated by companies in Eur ...
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Berufsausbildung mit Ausrichtung auf Europa - Erwerb praktischer, berufsspezifischer, interkultureller und sprachlicher Kompetenzen in kaufmännischen, sprachlichen und erzieherischen Berufen für Lernende und Bildungspersonal im Bereich Berufsbildung

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Project Background: Advances in globalisation as well as European Union enlargement and liberalisation of the European labour force have put increasing demands on the professional mobility of apprentices and employees. The facility sending such apprentices seeks to prepare prospective commercial foreign language correspondents, early childhood educators and medical professionals for the increasin ...
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R.U.IN? - Drama methods' innovation for inclusive youth communities

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

...ethodology- Youth workers, teachers and educators dealing with community building- Youngsters and studentsPartners:Nyitott Kör Egyesület Hungary – NGO – coordinatingTheatrEtc – Cyprus – NGOSigma Art – Romania – NGOCedeum – Serbia – NGOAims:We aim: A) to prove the efficacy of drama-based tools and to decrease bullying in order to nurture functional communities, B) to compare and facilitate drama an ...
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A European University-Business Alliance aiming to foster young SCIEntists’ ENTrepreneurial spirit

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

“One becomes an entrepreneur not by birth but by education as well as by experience” Reason of project: SCIENT will develop an innovative entrepreneurship programme for PhD STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students/graduates, giving them an insight out of the ivory tower of pure research, developing their transversal skills and providing a new professional path. The EU need ...
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Financing Adult Learning and Education

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2017,

In most European countries, financing (non-formal) adult education remains problematic. In contrast to the formal system, the sources of financing are fragmented. On the side of public authorities, there is a distribution across different ministries, regional and local authorities and communes. Employers obviously play an important role as do public employment services. In many countries, the lear ...
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Erasmus Without Paper

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 30, 2017,

Every year more than 200.000 students from over 2.000 higher education institutions (HEI) go to study abroad under the LLP flagship programme Erasmus. For each of these 200,000 students several paper documents and information was sent back and forth between institutions. Although the majority of HEIs in Europe use software to handle mobility, to transfer the locally stored data, this data is repro ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

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

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Will Alternative Drive Technologies Save the Future of the Car?

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project pursues the question Will Alternative Drive Technologies Save the Future of the Car? The car is the most wide spread form of transport and probably the most popular. Its effects damage the environment and challenge the infrastructure of nearly all states. A solution for these problems could either be the replacement of individual traffic by 'soft' environmentally friendly public trans ...
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Future Skills for the Third Sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The objective of the Future Skills for the Third Sector (FUTUR3) project is to help third-sector employers (associations, NGOs, foundations etc.), employees and educational organisations that train professionals in the field to identify future skills needs in the sector and to prepare for them.This project focuses on organisations with volunteering activities, and the main target group is professi ...
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Employment and Women on the 21st century in Europe: From Houselhold economy to SME (Small and Medium enterprises) like economy

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

... labor world and focused on personal motivation and on the enhancement of competences. The participant entities are 8: FEUP and ARIEMA (Spain), DVV (Germany), ADAE (Macedonia), DAFNI KEK (Greece), KERIGMA (Portugal), UPF (Italy) and CAEA (Cyprus). All of them work in the field of adults training, social integration of disadvantaged groups and social conflicts resolution, among others, excepting AR ...
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Embrace Nature Through Entrepreneurship

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

Embrace Nature Through Entrepreneurship is a Youth Exchange which aims to increase youth’s level of consciousness, aged from 18 to 25, on the topic of Environmental Stewardship and Social Entrepreneurship. We decided to combine these two fields in order to ensure that the information, the abilities and the attitudes that the youngsters acquire in the 9 days of the project, will be applied by creat ...
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TechNet2020: internazionalizzazione della Rete Politecnica in Emilia-Romagna

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Italy struggles among the less performing EU countries, when it comes to youth employment. The EU Strategy Europe 2020 calls up our country to renew its Education and Training systems, to make young people achieve competences that are key to economy and the knowledge society, to improve their employability and become an instrument to enforce internationalisation of companies. At the same time, in ...
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Neue Ressourcen für den Unterricht gewinnen

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

The reason why I am applying for the seminary “Providing resources for school lessons” in Piran, Slovenia with following topics- resources based lessons - luckiness as a school subject - self-management for teachers and trainers in adult education - group-dynamic in the lessons - systemic - brain gym - fairy tales and metaphors and the application in lessons - open space (providing space for exch ...
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MythBusters

Start date: Jun 7, 2016, End date: Mar 6, 2017,

A relevant issue in youth and also in our society is the importance of traditional values and the protection of the identity. Every country which has a globalisation process phenomenon, has a serious danger to a national culture. When individuals' mobilisation and refugees stream increase, the new challenges of intercultural communication and ethnicity development appear. How nowadays Lithuanians ...
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European Union Youth Network at Opel/Vauxhall Sites - Project 2 - Analysing Realities, Defining Needs, Empowering Young Multipliers

Start date: Aug 3, 2015, End date: Jan 2, 2017,

26 young active trade union members from Opel/Vauxhall sites in Germany, Spain, Austria and UK will meet 3 times 5 days in Spain, Austria and Germany within one year in order to learn about each other’s living and working conditions, develop ideas on how to improve these, communicate these to management and unions, set the framework for a long-term European cooperation. As a result the young trade ...
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GeT2Europe "Germans Trainees and vocational students visits Europe"

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

GeT2Europe pursues the following goals in the implementation of the project. One hand, the quality of the company and school education in the structurally expandable region Ostfriesland improved, increasing the methods, in particular the technical and social skills of the trainees and vocational students, the discovery of existential resources be increased, on the other hand to promote and support ...
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IeFP+. Mobilità sistemica per l'Istruzione e la Formazione Professionale in Emilia-Romagna

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

CONTEXT IeFP+ integrates in the internationalisation strategy of the IeFP regional system, aiming at the reaching of the 6% benchmark of students participating to mobility, foreseen by ET2020. Aeca and its regional network of partners, including Regione Emilia Romagna, have already started the process through previous LLP Leonardo Mobility, Network and ESF for students' mobility and the developme ...
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Destination eValidation

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Volunteering has always played important role in many sectors of the European economy and especially in the non-profit sector but for a very long time its contribution was not officially recognised at EU level. In 2012 the role of volunteering in the EU was highlighted in a resolution adopted by the European Parliament. The resolution stated that "the competences and knowledge gained by volunteers ...
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Flexible fabrication of lightweight aluminium transport structures (FlexiFab)

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

The Flexi-Fab project aims to develop a flexible FSW welding system capable of automatically fabricating complex structures, in a variety of joint configurations, from a range of aluminium alloy grades and thicknesses used in the transport sector.Flexi-Fab will deliver significant benefits to the metal working and fabrication industry by providing a cost-effective method of fabricating aluminium s ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...eir study semester abroad will be a real asset for them when looking for a future job. the project of this year has been highly influenced by the merger of IFMA and ENSCCF and thus the creation of SIGMA Clermont. All students, administrative staff and academic personal have been mobilized in order to set up the new bigger school. This demanded a high amount of time and efforts, individually and co ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...their study semester abroad will be a real asset for them when looking for a future job. the project of this year has been highly influenced by the merger of IFMA and ENSCCF and thus the creation of SIGMA Clermont. All students, administrative staff and academic personal have been mobilized in order to set up the new bigger school. This demanded a high amount of time and efforts, individually and ...
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