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Transfer Learning within and between brains (Transfer-Learning)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

The neural bases of adaptive behavior in social environments are far from being understood. We propose to use both computational and neuroscientific methodologies to provide new and more accurate models of learning in interactive settings. The long-term objective is to develop a neural theory of learning: a mathematical framework that describes the computations mediating social learning in terms o ...
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Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) from “Vaccinobacter”: A Synthetic Biology approach for effective vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer (OMVAC)

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

This proposal intends to apply Synthetic Biology to create a new bacterial species, Vaccinobacter, devoted to the production of multivalent, highly effective vaccines. The project originates from the evidence that Outer membrane Vesicles (OMVs) naturally produced by all Gram-negative bacteria can induce remarkable protective immunity, a property already exploited to develop anti-Neisseria vaccines ...
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Mapping the Deprived Visual System: Cracking function for prediction (MADVIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

One of the most striking demonstrations of experience-dependent plasticity comes from studies of blind individuals showing that the occipital cortex (traditionally considered as purely visual) massively changes its functional tuning to support the processing of non-visual inputs. These mechanisms of crossmodal plasticity, classically considered compensatory, inevitably raise crucial challenges for ...
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Perceptual Awareness in the Reorganizing Brain (Perceptual Awareness)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The present project aims at casting light on the neural and cognitive reorganization of visual function following unilateral lesion at various levels of the central visual system such as optic tract, optic radiation, primary visual cortex, extrastriate visual areas. In the first part of the project we will employ behavioural as well as brain imaging methods to study the basic neural mechanisms of ...
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Instabilities and nonlocal multiscale modelling of materials (INSTABILITIES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"Failure in ductile materials results from a multiscale interaction of discrete microstructures hierarchically emerging through subsequent material instabilities and self-organizing into regular patterns (shear band clusters, for instance). The targets of the project are: (i.) to disclose the failure mechanisms of materials through analysis of material instabilities and (ii.) to develop innovative ...
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Construction of perceptual space-time (CoPeST)

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

The foundation of lived experience is that it occurs in a particular space and time. Objects, events and actions happen in the present moment in a unified space which surrounds our body. As noted by Immanuel Kant, space and time are a priori concepts that organize our thoughts and experiences. Yet basic laboratory experiments reveal the cracks in this illusion of a unified perceptual space-time. O ...
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Brain-State Dependent Perception: Finding the Windows to Consciousness (WIN2CON)

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

"The neurophysiological mechanisms of conscious perception are a major unsolved scientific riddle. Since linking brain activity and qualia is currently difficult, the common strategy in neuroscience is first to identify the ""Neural Correlates of Consciousness"" (NCC). A major insight is that consciously versus not consciously perceived stimuli differ not so much on an early sensory level, but mai ...
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Predisposed mechanisms for social orienting: A comparative neuro-cognitive approach (PREMESOR)

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

Predispositions for newly hatched/born vertebrates, including humans, to attend to and preferentially learn about conspecifics, are pervasive and can be of vital biological importance. Such predispositions are, however, very poorly understood. Studying them, and their physiological, genetic, molecular and neural bases, is crucial for an understanding of typical and atypical human development. Inde ...
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Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials (BIHSNAM)

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

"Nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes or graphene sheets represent the future of material science, due to their potentially exceptional mechanical properties. One great drawback of all artificial materials, however, is the decrease of strength with increasing toughness, and viceversa. This problem is not encountered in many biological nanomaterials (e.g. spider silk, bone, nacre). Other biologic ...
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Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (COMPOSES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"The ability to construct new meanings by combining words into larger constituents is one of the fundamental and peculiarly human characteristics of language. Systems that induce the meaning and combinatorial properties of linguistic symbols from data are highly desirable both from a theoretical perspective (modeling a core aspect of cognition) and for practical purposes (supporting human-computer ...
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Space-Time Methods for Multi-Fluid Problems on Unstructured Meshes (STIMULUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"In this project we develop new algorithms for the solution of general nonlinear systems of time dependent partial differential equations (PDE) in the context of non-ideal magnetized multi-fluid plasma flows with thermal radiation. We will produce new high order schemes on unstructured tetrahedral meshes that are applicable to a rather general class of problems in general geometries, thus opening ...
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Foundations for Software Evolution (LUCRETIUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Software evolution refers to changes made to a software system after its deployment. These changes may be caused by changing requirements, domain assumptions, or computing infrastructure, and may affect the system’s implementation, architecture and/or requirements. Evolution may be automatic (aka self-adaptation), or manual, or something in-between. This project aims to develop principles that und ...
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KNOTOUGH: Super-tough knotted fibers (KNOTOUGH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"This project is intended to lead to the identification, design and development of a novel, economically viable pre-industrial process, to make the world's toughest synthetic fibres. Our new concept to obtain fibers with unconventional toughness is indeed very simple and robust: the introduction in high-strength fibers of a smart frictional element, in the form of a large slip loop in a slider, th ...
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Quantum Gases Beyond Equilibrium (QGBE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The physics of systems out of equilibrium represents a fascinating chapter of science, with many unsolved problems and unexplored issues. Quantum gases are particularly well suited to investigate non-equilibrium phenomena, because the key parameters of the problem (scattering length, trapping conditions, etc.) can be varied in a well controlled manner. They also offer unique opportunities to perf ...
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How the brain codes the past to predict the future (NEUROINT)

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

The overarching objective of this research program is to use neuroimaging methods to determine how the recent past is coded in the human brain and how this coding contributes to the processing of incoming information. A central tenet of this proposal is that being able to maintain a representation of the recent past is fundamental for constructing internal predictions about future states of the en ...
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REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces (REPLICA2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"The project aims at designing and optimizing a pre-industrial process to produce artificial biomimetic anti-adhesive polymer/metal surfaces by direct copy of the morphology of a natural water-repellent substrates such as lotus leaves, and subsequent modification thereof. Thus, morphological modifications are exploited rather than chemical treatments to obtain water/ice/particle-repellent surfaces ...
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Families of Inequalities- Social and economic consequences of the changing work-family equilibria in European Societies (FAMINE)

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

"This project investigates social change and its correlates in European societies. In specific, the change in social and economic inequalities associated with new welfare-work-family equilibria. The Project therefore focuses on the changes in women s labour market behaviour, the interlinkage between women s employment and family decisions, families’ capacities to compensate for increasing market r ...
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"TARGETING HIV INTEGRATION CO-FACTORS, TARGETING CELLULAR PROTEINS DURING NUCLEAR IMPORT OR INTEGRATION OF HIV" (THINC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"Standard therapy of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is based on potent cocktails of drugs targeting viral proteins. This treatment is associated with severe side effects and is almost unaffordable for the patients living in sub-Saharan Africa. Incomplete suppression of HIV replication results in drug-resistance. Therefore, a continued research effort is required to ...
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FACing ReSearch (FACERS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Main idea: researchers and their work are the engine of progress in society but they are also normal people who have the same problems, expectations and hopes as everyone else. Their faces are like doors that lead you through to their professional and personal stories. The invitation to meet researchers is already suggested in the title of the “Facing Research” project, that the University of Tre ...
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