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Hypoxic regulation of senescent cells secretome in lung cancer and Alzheimer's disease
Research over the last decade has convincingly evidenced that cellular senescence and low oxygen (O2) availability (hypoxia) are distinctive features involved in the physiopatholog...
Do grains make the difference? Plant economies during the development of urban societies in Mesopotamia
During the 4th-3rd millennia B.C in Mesopotamia, communities previously living in small egalitarian villages progressively grew into large cities, ruled by political, religious and...
Evolution on an island continent: feeding ecology of Pleistocene sloths
South America (SA) contains Earth’s highest mammalian species richness, but this richness was exponentially higher just 10k years ago, prior to the last ice age extinction that eli...
The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History
The proposed project 'The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History' (ICEglobe) charts and questions the historical processes of knowledge productio...
The role of bacteriocins in shaping oral biofilms
In the BOB project, the role of bacteriocins in shaping oral biofilms will be investigated by moving a Spanish researcher currently working in Ireland to the Norwegian University o...
Language learning in adults with sight loss: the acquisition of phonetic features
Thirty million Europeans with sight loss are challenged to access the everyday goods and services that most people takefor granted.Our project will contribute to the implementation...
Secure Indoor Communication empowered by Intelligent reflecting Surface
Due to the broadcast nature of transmission in the air, wireless communications are particularly vulnerable to security threats.Being an emerging wireless communication technology,...
Reconstructing the origin of the auxin response system
Hormone signaling allow organisms to regulate their physiology.Single hormones trigger multiple and complex, context-dependent responses that evolved from simpler, ancestral pathwa...
Communities of Concord: Building Contentment and Belonging through Emotional Images in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
The project aims to uncover case studies and connections that shed light on how European identities were constructed in the early modern period.It focuses on visual and narrative p...
A holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation
HOLAHERIS proposes a holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures (CHSs) conservation, introducing an original multidisciplinary framework that will make th...
Small molecule inhibitors of bacterial communication - a new strategy for tackling antimicrobial resistance
Bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics currently result in 33,000 deaths per annum in Europe alone.Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) will potentially cost the EU an estimated €1....
Advanced Electrochemical Treatments for Cork Washing Wastewater Remediation towards a Circular Economy
With 162,000 tons/year, Portugal and Spain have the largest world quota of cork production, being cork stoppers for wine and champagne the “star product”. About 90% of the cork sto...
INCOming MARSEILLE22
The aim of this project is to organise the Marseille Conference for International Cooperation (#INCO) under the upcoming French Presidency of the Council of the European Union duri...
The Scoto-British Subjects of James I: Literature, Europe and Nation Building in Newly United Great Britain, 1603-1617.
This project focuses on the Scoto-British subjects of James I.After the Union of of the Crowns in 1603, many Scottish writers and intellectuals moved to London, while James promote...
Plasmon-Driven Catalysis on Bimetallic Nanostructures: Au-Pd for the Selective Oxygenation of Hydrocarbons
In PLACABIN, the candidate proposes a novel mode of plasmonic-nonplasmonic bimetallic photocatalysts based on the intermetallic effects between the plasmonic metal and catalytic me...
Safeguarding Space for Giants: building sustainable infrastructure for the benefit of nature and people
The growth of transportation infrastructure since the turn of the century has been phenomenal and is expected to expand significantly by 2050, especially in Africa and Asia, under...
Integrating physiological responses into species distribution models to forecast the effects of future ocean warming and oxygen depletion on fish larvae dynamics
Assessing the effects of climate change in larval ecology is fundamental to predict the future of fish stocks and fish diversity since connectivity among fish populations depends o...
Heritage Language Acquisition: The qualitative nature of input and cross-linguistic influence
This project aims to fill important gaps in our existing knowledge of Heritage Language (HL) acquisition, a subfield of bilingualism studies.While most previous research has focuse...
Royal ideology and legitimacy at the beginning of New Kingdom: The function and decorative program of temples of millions of years
The iconography of temples is an aspect that has been frequently treated in Egyptian research.Yet, it is still an important source of knowledge for understanding the religion, thou...
Philosophy as Cultural Self-Knowledge: R. G. Collingwood, Peter Winch and the Human Sciences
The input of the humanities and social sciences is vital in fostering a viable civil society.Informed public debate concerning the good life needs the kind of reflexive cultural se...