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Using consumption and reward simulations to create desire for plant-based foods
The production of animal-based foods has a significant, negative impact on the environment. Compared to plant-based protein sources, such as beans and lentils, the production of be...
Numerical Methods for Financial Market Models
Many existing models for the evolution of financial and economic variables such as interest rates, inflation and so forth have no known closed-form solution.To deal with such model...
A modelling of the neuro-energetics of Bayesian learning.
Validation of energetic cost of neuroplasticity as an important tradeoff in reward/cost evaluations that instruct behaviour and learning by modelling empirically obtained biologica...
Auditory Cognition in Alzheimer's Disease
To create tests to predict and diagnose dementia, it is important to understand how problems with memory and thinking develop. Hearing loss may be involved in how dementia develops...
The history of pronominal subjects in the languages of northern Europe
This project looks at subject pronouns ('I', 'she', 'they') and how their form and functions change over time. Languages create new pronouns (neither...
Quantum Sensing for the Hidden Sector (QSHS)
Identifying the nature of the dark matter that dominates the mass distribution of galaxies and that plays a key role in our understanding of cosmology is a central unsolved problem...
CBET-EPSRC: Transition and Turbulence in Compressible Boundary Layers Subjected to Concave Surface Curvature
Compressible boundary-layer flows over concave surfaces, characterized by Gortler vortices, are ubiquitous in a large number of fluid engineering applications, such as turbine blad...
Documentary Snapshots from Seventh-Century Egypt: Local Responses to Regime Transitions
The seventh century of our era witnessed dramatic events and transformations in the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the Near East and North Africa. Egypt did not es...
Tackling Climate Change in Scotland: The role of environmental economics, behavioural economics and psychology in achieving Scottish energy targets
This project aims to examine whether the effectiveness of economic and environmental appeal based campaigns in household energy use and the effect of frame on these campaigns.It wi...
Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity - Transition Funding
What can prosperity possibly mean on a finite planet? Conventional models assume that being better off means a continual expansion of material wants and needs. That vision has defi...
Chemical Characterisation of Agricultural Plastic Mulch Film and Assessment of Anthropogenic Chemical Release to Agroecosystem Compartments
Plastic is a prominent material applied throughout agricultural supply chains through cultivational practices to product packaging.Mulch film is one such 'plasticulture'...
Improving nutrition efficiency and milk quality in dairy production
Milk is the most nutritious single food but also a major provider of saturated fatty acids (SFA) in the UK diets. Certain SFA may increase risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and...
DRUG RISK ASSESSMENT AND REPURPOSING USING BIOMIMETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY AND BODY ON CHIP TECHNOLOGY
Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils.For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at https:/...
Voicings: 48 proems, preludes and fugues
I propose to write a creative work that will exemplify Giorgio Agamben's proposition that 'poetry and philosophy are actually internal to each other' (Agamben, 2018)...
Realtime Hydrocarbon Measurement using Software Sensor
The aim of the project is to carry out an in-depth investigation of the current technology with a view to developing and integrating a robust and cost-efficient clustering and clas...
Priests in a post-imperial world, c. 900-1050
The history of Western Europe in the long tenth century (c. 900 - c. 1050) has long divided historians.For some, especially those working in English and French intellectual traditi...
Understanding the molecular and biophysical mechanisms that drive cell contact re-establishment after division
Cells are generally not found in isolation, but embedded within tissues. Therefore, after every cell division the newly formed cells need to re-establish cell-cell contacts to main...
Interactions between Dynamic Effects and Alternative-Based Inferences in the Study of Meaning
Several open questions exist about how the division of labour between Semantics (the conventional aspect of meaning associated with words and other expressions) and Pragmatics (kin...
Academic freedom, globalized scholarship and the rise of authoritarian China
In the context of today's globalized scholarship, academic freedom faces novel threats. Autocracies, such as the Chinese one-party state, not only curtail academic freedom wit...
Digital footprints and search pathways: working with National Collections in Scotland during Covid19 lockdown to design future online provision
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every aspect of daily life, including the human need to connect to collections held at museums and galleries. The timing of the pandemic has been...