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Rust and Revolution: Understanding Social Technologies in Enlightenment Europe through metaphorology
This project asks how, if we take rust with its connotations of change and corruption as a starting point, we can return to three very different clusters of phenomena, each of whic...
From paradise to mass extinction: correlating and comparing low and high latitude basins during the greatest Permian extinction events and subsequent faunal recoveries.
Drastic global climate change during the Permian resulted in two of the greatest mass extinction events of all time, one around 260 Ma ago and the other around 252 Ma ago.Arguably...
Blackness Imagery in the Construction of European Identity/ies: The Case of the Czech Lands in a Transnational Perspective
This project conceives (self-)Africanisation as a rhetorical strategy of symbolic exclusion of the “other”, despite being European, from Europe by either the voluntary assumption o...
Multi-attribute values’ OntologiEs to improve Built Heritage InformatiOn assessment in cluStered territories
MOEBHIOS (Multi-attribute values’ OntologiEs to improve Built Heritage InformatiOn assessment in cluStered territories) aim is to develop an innovative Value-Based Decision-Making...
Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Charge-Density Waves in YBa2Cu3Oy and ErTe3
Understanding high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates is arguably the hardest problem in condensed matter.Active research in the pastten years has shown that a successful mi...
Dismantling, REdialing, personalizing, and implementing task SHIFTing psychosocial interventions to treat and prevent common mental disorders in low-resource settings
RE-SHIFT focuses on preventing and treating common mental disorders in people living in low-resource settings.It aims at (a) dismantling psychosocial interventions delivered by non...
Intermarriage and ethnic identity
An important element of social cohesion and contact between majorities and sub-state ethnic minorities are intermarriages, which are either welcomed as vehicles easing the tensions...
Untangling the dry limit for microbial life in rock-inhabiting communities of US Western drylands
The effects of global warming are particularly pronounced in drylands, leading to their fast degradation and hampering the capacity to support active life.In an era of fast deserti...
Energy Driven Pattern Formation: Continuous Symmetry Breaking and Positive Temperature
Spontaneous pattern formation is an ubiquitous and fascinating phenomenon in nature, of enormous importance for the present and future of applications.A crucial aspect, both at zer...
Law, Economy and Seeing Woman’s Work: Knowledge Production and the ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention in Global Migration Governance
This project will investigate how knowledge production takes place within the context of an international organization (IO) – the International Labour Organization (ILO).It will lo...
Spying on Ultrafast Structural Changes Through Three Sets of Eyes
Modern ultrafast laser technologies have initiated a 'femtosecond revolution' revolution in chemical physics, allowing the motion of nuclei within molecules to be visuali...
Revealing the BActerial Response to Temperature and Antibiotics Stress via multiscale imaging
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest scientific and health challenges of our time. If actions are not taken, antibiotics resistance infections will become the first cause of...
The ultrastable state of metallic glasses and its role in the structural pathway of ageing
What are the structural characteristics of ultrastable metallic glasses?The recently discovered ultrastable state of metallic glasses (MGs) exhibits a variety of thermodynamic stab...
Optimality and Resetting: Investigation On Nonequilibrium
ORION project (Optimality & Resetting: Investigation On Nonequilibrium) poses three different problems, relevant at both the fundamental and applied level.Apart from their inde...
Supporting Local Economic Development with Business Transaction Data
This project aims to develop tools and solutions that turn value-added tax (VAT) records into an information system that can support evidence-based policy making and the developmen...
Unravelling the pathogenic cell-cell circuits underlying the tissue memory of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
With the obesity epidemic, global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently at 25% and rising.NAFLD results from accumulation of excessive fat in the liv...
Understanding the autophagy-linked disorder BPAN: an integrated approach for studying developmental basis of neurodegenerative diseases
Understanding the fundamental basis of brain disorders is a one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century.Large-scale genetic studies have identified numerous genes with assoc...
Role of astrogliosis in the recurrence of brain tumors after microsurgical resection
Malignant primary and secondary brain tumors represent the deadliest types of human cancer. Glioblastoma is the most common and the most lethal primary brain tumor.Standard of care...
HerInt: Cultural heritage participation patterns among immigrants and their influence on integration. The case of Ukrainians in Poland and Poles in Norway.
How do immigrants engage with ancestral and new homeland heritage and what factors stand behind their heritage participation patterns? Can cultural heritage participation facilitat...
Improving water management in semi-arid regions: Insights in hydrological and environmental controls of lakes using triple oxygen isotopes
Lakes provide an important water resource for agricultural and industrial purposes, and form a critical habitat for plants and animals.Understanding the hydrological functioning of...