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MUlti-limb Virtual Environment (MUVE) for full body and augmented interactions
The MUlti-limb Virtual Environment (MUVE) is a first-of-its-kind system housed in the Human Interface Laboratory of Imperial College that enables to study the interaction of human...
Gene x Environment Interactions and Congenital Heart Defects – Illuminating the Mechanisms
PROJECT SUMMARY The causes of most non-syndromic structural birth defects remain unknown due to their complex causes where genetic and environmental factors (GxE) interact to cau...
Gene x Environment Interactions and Congenital Heart Defects – Illuminating the Mechanisms
PROJECT SUMMARY The causes of most non-syndromic structural birth defects remain unknown due to their complex causes where genetic and environmental factors (GxE) interact to cau...
Characterizing and modeling the genomewide molecular basis of gene-environment interactions
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Organismal phenotypes in a given environment frequently differ from what might be expected based on genotypic or environmental data alone. These genotype...
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Environment on Cardiometabolic Health
PROJECT SUMMARY RELEVANCE: The COVID-19 pandemic upended life in the United States through social distancing policies, such as remote work mandates, to halt the spread of the SAR...
The Dynamic Relationships Among Human Activities, Place Attachments, and the Environment
This project investigates what role environmental factors have in mediating the connections between human activities and the development of place attachment for these activities. T...
ENhanced understanding of Trade Impacts on Climate, industries, and the Environment
Despite the wide recognition of the complex interactions between trade (policy) and climate (policy), the state-of-the-art capabilities in macroeconomic models face substantial lim...
Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Development of Pastoralism in a Steppe Environment
This doctoral dissertation research project undertakes archaeological research to study hunting and animal herding in arid steppe ecosystems. Understanding the deep history of gras...
Linking environmental variability and species-environment relationships to understand fluctuating populations
The project will test how the environment and geographic distance between populations affects variation in population size. The number of individuals in a population does not stay...
Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary
Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary will uncover diverse new narratives of the Anthropocene beyond the Global North. In close collabor...
Higher-order motor control of stochastic behavior in an uncertain environment
Decision-making behaviors often occur in the absence of clear instruction to guide action. Instead, theories and experiments have predicted that the brain must compute a decision-v...
Twin Wind tunnels for Energy and the EnvironmenT - Innovations and Excellence
TWEET-IE aims to upgrade the Wind Tunnel (WT) testing activities of the widening member National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The NTUA WT will be rendered on par with oth...
Plasma Reactors for Efficient Fertilizer Production Applied in a Real Environment
My project aims to demonstrate the proof of concept of new plasma reactors for sustainable and energy-efficient NOx production from air, as basis for green fertilizer production. P...
Investigating the balance of privacy versus security in a family environment
With the growing fear surrounding children's online safety, parents and caregivers have turned to technology for support through monitoring apps and parental controls. However, par...
THETIS: Thetis modeling of the Heterogenous Environment beneath Thwaites Ice Shelf
The current, rapid melting of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica and its ongoing contribution to sea-level rise are of broad societal concern for their potential to impact coastal comm...
MEDIEVAL BLUE GENES: Reducing Industrial Indigo Dye Pollution of the Environment
Indigo is the oldest source of blue dye in the world. In use since 6000 BC, prior to the 20th century, it was sustainably isolated from the leaves of plants. It is now almost entir...
SALIENT (food System triALs for Impact on Environment, Nutrition and healTh)
The UK food system is neither sufficiently healthy nor sustainable. Poor diet is the second-leading cause of death and ill health in the UK. The number of food banks in the country...
Work från home - legal challenges for work environment and insurance protection
Research problem and specific questionsThe pandemic has resulted in a new organization of work, with both work from home and workplace presence. The division leads to new challenge...
Urban environment and early markers of cardiometabolic health in young adults
Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases (CMD) remain the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, including myocardial infarction, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Although youn...
Floating Castles: the Built Environment and Social Signaling in Medieval Scandinavia
Medieval castles and their built environments served military, economic, administrative, social, and artistic-expressive functions critical to maintaining elites’ status. In the la...