Results for Environment
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STC: Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand
Non-Technical Abstract: Optoelectronic devices that generate, sense, and control light underpin the modern information-technology era. Society is increasingly reliant on such devic...
Mapping social media networks of political actors and understanding the flow of information through them from elites to the wider public
In an information era, the role of social media on the spread and flow of information across the political and social world is of increasing prevalence. More importantly, social m...
Sociocultural and environmental influence on self and social processing and mental health in adolescence in the UK and Spain
Adolescence is considered a period of social reorientation in which people start to explore novel social surroundings, expanding their relationships with peers and spending less ti...
Advanced Crystal Shape Descriptors for Precision Particulate Design, Characterisation and Processing (Shape4PPD)
Developing and improving our R&D and manufacturing capabilities to prepare greater numbers of higher quality crystalline materials has become a growing societal and hence indus...
Using biomaterials to investigate how ageing affects the anti-inflammatory properties of MSCs and their EVs
With a progressively ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, remaining healthier for longer has become a heightened challenge. As we age our immune system...
The evolutionary ecology of interspecific microbial public-goods
Mine waste is a major problem worldwide, having detrimental effects on human health as well as the environment. There is a pressing need to develop long-term sustainable remediatio...
PhD Studentship in Remote Robotic Laser Inspection of Welds and 3D Metal Printed Components
The majority of challenges for NDE and high value manufacturing today stem from the increased use of advanced materials and advanced processes that push the performance limits to e...
Should the UK go plant-based to support its' green recovery? An environmental, economic and health analysis
The coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted the UK economy. As we learn to control and live alongside coronavirus the Government is looking to embark on a green recovery with th...
Sounding Marvels: Musical Instruments between Reality and Imagination in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been defined as the 'age of marvellous' for the extraordinary interest in the aesthetic of wonder, which emerged in literature, figurat...
Identification of Genetic Traits for Capacity to Digest Non-Standard Feed Materials in Meat Poultry
Although poultry are the least environmentally impactful terrestrial meat, poultry breeding companies must now urgently consider the traits required for the rapidly changing food p...
The European Union in the Global Refugee Regime: A Political Economic Approach to the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
This project examines the role of the European Union (EU) in promoting new technologies for aid and displacement management in the global refugee regime. It presents a study of...
Fostering Future Engineering Faculty Diversity by Building a Pipeline to Graduate Programs
This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achiev...
Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit: Measurements along Lagrangian Transects
This is a project that is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Geosciences (NSF/GEO) and the National Environment Research Council (UKRI/NERC) of the...
Data for Digital Decarbonisation (3D): A FAIR approach to energy demand data in buildings
It is a salient truth that the better clarity and structure of data relating to a problem, the easier that problem will be to solve. In the words of Linus Torvalds, the inventor of...
RAPID: Too hot to hold: Effects of unseasonable warming on the Azores nekton community and its keystone taxon
Across the globe it has become increasingly clear that climate change is influencing animal movement patterns. The daily vertical migration of marine animals such as squid is often...
Automotive electric powertrain whistling and whining: fundamental root cause analysis to novel solutions
The "Road to Zero" strategy is placing the UK at the forefront of designing and manufacturing zero emission vehicles, with the sale of new petrol/diesel cars and vans pla...
Untangling gene regulatory networks controlling host-pathogen interactions of the antimicrobial-resistant human pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae
The last decades have seen a rise in infections due to multi-drug-resistant bacterial pathogens, and the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is one of the major challenges o...
TMPRSS2 as a potential target for treatments of COVID-19 and respiratory infectious viruses in lung
Project Summary In December of 2019, a novel coronavirus, now referred to as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2), struck Wuhan, China and unleashed the c...
Machine learning approaches to enabling ultra-fast diagnostic MRI protocols for neurology
1. Brief description of the context of the research including potential impact Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is proven as the diagnostic imaging method of choice for a wide r...
Thermal stress and differential recovery of coral reefs
Coral reefs are the world’s most diverse marine ecosystem that provide invaluable goods and services for millions of people worldwide. Yet, coral reefs are experiencing thermal-str...