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Transforming applicability of density functional theory simulations
Quantum-chemical simulations have become an integral part of chemistry research, enabling significant technological advances in predictions of new drugs, solar cells, catalysts, ba...
European Cohorts of Patients and Schools to Advance Response to Epidemics
The EuCARE project gathers a comprehensive multidisciplinary team of clinicians, virologists, epidemiologists, statisticians and top experts in artificial intelligence to unveil th...
Applying novel analytical methods to elucidate bio-nano interactions at individual cell level in plants
Phytonanotechnology (use of Engineered Nanomaterial, ENMs, in agriculture) supports the controlled release of agrochemicals (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) and target-specific deli...
Developing Fan Engagement For Increasing Participation, Attendance and Commercial Value in Women's Football
European women’s football has come a long way in recent years, yet it is still considerably underdeveloped.Football being one of the most revered forms of popular culture in Europe...
Ancient aqueduct carbonate deposits as a high-resolution archive for the environment and archaeology
Natural archives such as travertine, speleothems and tree-rings are used to understand past environmental changes and to predict effects of future changes.However, such archives la...
Evolutionary toxicology by anthropogenic pollution in invasive crayfish populations
Climate change and biodiversity loss are one of the biggest threats facing the world in the next decade. Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the most important direct drivers o...
Mechanical contribution of starch granules in the stabilization/destabilization of cell walls during bread baking
Wheat-based bread is a staple food in the European and North American diet, presenting a relevant economic importance.Early successes in the wheat selection (high in gluten) along...
Functional Laser Induced Graphene from natural bio-plastics (bio-LIG), sustainable composites for non-invasive wearable sweat sensor platforms
Wearable sensors have the potential to revolutionise traditional health and wellbeing diagnostics by enabling personal healthcare monitoring everywhere and anytime.However, the inc...
Beta cell GABA secretion: route, physiological function, and potential for pharmacological modulation in diabetes therapy
According to the World Health Organisation, diabetes affects 422 million people worldwide, over 8% of the entire adult population.The progression of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes...
Evolution of the interaction between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus): the importance of numts and heteroplasmy
Cutting edge sequencing technology enables, for the first time, the characterization of high quality numts (non-functional copies of genes of mitochondrial origin present in the nu...
Electrochemical Protease Biosensor for Milk Safety Control
EPROMILK is a career development scientific project aimed at offering an experienced researcher (Dr.Eva González) a high-quality research and training programme in the field of Bio...
Warming ocean And Responses of Arctic Marine Mammals
Over the past 30-years, sea ice in the Arctic has declined by 3-4% per decade, making the Arctic the area experiencing the most rapid ecological changes due to climate change.Under...
Female Paid Domestic Care Work: A Node of Social Reproduction
CareWork is an anthropological study of domestic paid female care work for children and elderly persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).Motivated by the global under-recognition of...
Pathways towards a 'restorative' Anthropocene: a comparative study of three marginalised land practices, their narratives and regenerative potential across local-global dimensions
We are experiencing unprecedented environmental and societal changes at a global scale that affect all living beings on earth at a local scale.The epoch of humanity's impact o...
Patterned microfluidic sheets for studies of root exudation profiles
Modern plant varieties have been bred to grow and increase production under non limiting soil conditions and have consequently lost their ability to capture resources efficiently....
Sustainable Urban Form For Integrated Climate Change Mitigation Solutions
Urbanisation is a global trend poised to continue throughout the twenty-first century.Levels of urbanisation and various aspects of urban form (including density, land-use diversit...
Contested urban territories: Ethnographic concept building for a more global urban theory
Indigenous movements in Latin America exemplify alternatives ways of relating to urban nature.These different practices and ecological imaginaries at play in urban contexts could s...
INdustrialization and the Process of modernity: the ArChaeological Transformation of the rural world (18th-21st c.)
INPACT aims to investigate how the relationship between local communities and their environment changed as rural areas became industrialized, by analysing material evidence from ar...
A novel interdisciplinary framework to investigate neural and immune mechanisms in mindfulness interventions
Lifetime stress and trauma have detrimental consequences on the brain and immune system in the form of chronic inflammation that increases risk for the majority of leading causes o...
‘Development of hypoxia-activated quadruplex DNA binders as potential cancer therapeutics’
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally.In spite of the great advances in cancer therapy over the past two decades, there is still a pressing need to develop new thera...