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Building body representations: An investigation of the formation and maintenance of body representations (BODYBUILDING)

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

"The body is ubiquitous in perceptual experience and is central to our sense of self and personal identity. Disordered body representations are central to several serious psychiatric and neurological disorders. Thus, identifying factors which contribute to the formation and maintenance of body representations is crucial for understanding how body representation goes awry in disease, and how it mig ...
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TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research (TRIGGER)

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

TRIGGER aims at promoting systemic interventions designed to have deep, long lasting and widespread impacts at all the different levels in 5 research organisations. The project, coordinated and co-funded by the Italian Government, assisted by an institute specialised in gender and science, involves as co-funders five universities from different EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Italy, UK, Spai ...
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Molecular and cellular imaging of membrane interactions in pathogen attack and immune defense (MEMBRANEATTACK)

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

"The immune system and pathogens both use membrane pore-forming proteins to penetrate cellular membranes, in order to kill target cells or to allow passage of pathogenic organisms such as malaria parasites, listeria, or toxoplasma. For both fundamental and practical reasons, it is important to understand the biological actions of the ""arms race"" underlying virulence, pathogenesis and immune defe ...
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A comparative history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy (AR.C.H.I.ves)

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

Most historians work in archives, but generally have not made archives into their primary object of research. While we tend to be preoccupied by documentary loss, what is striking is the sheer amount of paperwork preserved over the centuries. We need to study the reasons for this preservation.This project wishes to study the history of the archives and of the chanceries that oversaw their producti ...
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Gender and Work/Life Stress among National Parliamentarians in Comparison (GENDER ELITE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

Are gender inequalities in levels of work/life stress apparent among those positioned at the powerful top of society’s hierarchy, and if so, why? This proposal outlines a research project that investigates the mechanisms behind gender and individual-level work/life stress among political elites (national parliamentarians) using a comparative perspective between three country cases: UK, Sweden and ...
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Synchronic Entanglements and New Social Imaginaries: Anti-War Activism in Brazil and the United Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century (SENSIAWABUK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The project aims to investigate the practices and modes of association of anti-war activists in Brazil and in the UK, while formulating an interaction ritual theory that places emotions and synchronicity at the centre of social process. Building on interaction ritual chains theory (Randall Collins), I articulate a notion of synchronicity that emerges from a theorisation of the relationship between ...
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Reactivity of Aluminium Sulphate Minerals In Mine wastes (RASMIM) (RASMIM)

Start date: Jul 3, 2013, End date: Jul 2, 2015,

Mine wastes are unwanted, currently uneconomic materials found at or near mine sites. Volumetrically they are one of the largest waste streams in the European Community and also at a global scale and they often contain high concentrations of elements such as aluminium (Al) that can have severe effects on ecosystems and humans.The risks posed by exposure to Al are controlled by the reactivity of Al ...
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Coastal Frontiers: Water, Power, and the Boundaries of South Asia (CFRONTIERS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

'Coastal Frontiers' will involve the Principal Investigator, Dr Sunil Amrith, and a post-doctoral research assistant, in a study of the Bay of Bengal’s coastal rim from the late-nineteenth century to the present. This project will illuminate the entangled political and ecological history of the coastal arc stretching from India’s southern tip to the edge of the Malay Peninsula. It will combine mac ...
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A High-Level Paradigm for Reliable Large-scale Server Software (RELEASE)

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

The exponential growth in the number of cores requires radically new software development technologies. Many expect 100,000-core platforms to become commonplace, and the best predictions are that core failures on such an architecture will be common, perhaps one an hour. Hence we require programming models that are not only highly scalable but also reliable. The project aim is to scale the radic ...
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Empowerment of Disabled people through Ethics in Care & Technology (EDECT)

Start date: Jan 31, 2014, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The aim is to further investigate the importance of dignity in care in the design and testing of assistive technology as well as reinforcing the role of technology in future care of disable people, and preparing the care network for these changes.
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Development and proof of new approaches for through-life asset management based on next generation of materials and production technology (ThroughLife)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Within this framework, the main objective of the project is to develop and prove new approaches for through-life asset management for selected technologies and application scenarios.This will be done by considering all life cycle phases of the technologies concerned in view of their cost efficiency, environmental performance and safety. Special emphasis will be given to the identification, elabora ...
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Comparative Analysis of Factor Markets for Agriculture across the Member States (Factor Markets)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Well functioning factor markets are a crucial condition for the competitiveness and growth of agriculture and for rural development. At the same time, the functioning of the factor markets themselves are influenced by changes in agriculture and the rural economy, and in EU policies. Member state regulations and institutions affecting land, labour, and capital markets may cause important heterogene ...
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Structural analysis of the newly described hybrid secretion system of the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa involving the outer membrane transporter CupB3 (‘P-usher’) and the adhesin CupB5 (P-usher)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Bacterial pathogenesis is closely linked to the biogenesis of fimbrial adhesins. Up to date 7 different types of secretion systems involved in assembling such structures are defined. However, recent data on the CupB secretion system described in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, indicate that this is the first time a hybrid secretion system is described, as it contains proteins of both the type Vb Two-Partn ...
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Experimental measurement of the direct partitioning of peptides into lipid bilayers (Peptide partitioning)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The transfer of peptide segments into the lipid bilayer to form stable transmembrane helices is the crucial first step in membrane protein folding and assembly. However, the mechanisms that drive this process are not fully understood. A recent experimental assay has measured the insertion of designed peptide sequences into the endoplasmic reticulum membrane via the cellular translocon machinery. T ...
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Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardisation - 2 (CASAGRAS2)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

The need for authoritative, on-going international cooperation in respect of the European agenda for taking the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) to reality is pivotal in putting it into the global context it demands. CASAGRAS2 provides the necessary conduit for taking the next steps in international collaboration.CASAGRAS2 identifies a much broader base for international cooperation, with p ...
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"Health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe – Modelling the INTERfaces and LINKS between prevention, rehabilitation, quality of services and informal care" (INTERLINKS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The objective of this 3-year project is to construct and validate a general model to describe and analyse long-term care (LTC) systems for older people from a European perspective. The particular aspects of the different emerging national models that currently address long-term care needs in Europe will be used to show how the links to health care services, the quality of LTC services, the incent ...
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Services and Health for Elderly in Long TERm care (SHELTER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"One of the most relevant obstacle to assess and compare nursing home (NH) services and patients across countries relates to the fact that standardized and validated methodologies are not routinely in use in daily practice in Europe. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a comprehensive assessment instrument which contains a standardized set of essential clinical and functional status measures and allows ...
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Changing Perceptions of Security and Interventions (CPSI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

"The goal of the present project is to provide governments and related organizations with a methodology to increase insight into the determinants of actual and perceived security, and into which interventions are effective for increasing security. The deliverables of this project represent practical and ready-to-use tools, which can be employed by policy makers and other end-users, to formulate po ...
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