Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
OdourCOB - Odour Characterization of Odorants from Biosolids (ODOURCOB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-15
End date: 2017-10-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 249805.5
EU funding (EUR): 249805.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project 'OdourCOB – Odour Characterisation of Odorants from Biosolids' is to identify the major contributing odorants produced from wastewater biosolids to odour annoyance. In order to achieve this goal a range of different unit processes used for the treatment of wastewater biosolids will be characterized using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry/olfactory analysis (GC-MS/O) to determine the olfactory impact of odours in terms of their odour character and intensity. The functionality between the unit processes and the odorants will be investigated by applying statistical algorithms, chemometric methods and multiway data analysis techniques to discriminate and identify the major contributing odorants. The GC-MS/O analytical approach will be used for separation, isolation and identification of compounds from biosolids treatment facilities. The combine analytical and data analysis techniques will enable the establishment of specific odour fingerprints for the different unit processes as well as variations due to sludge variability and operating conditions. The three-year project on wastewater biosolid odour characterization will be executed at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (outgoing host) and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (return host). Both of research institutions offer the research fellow, the research infrastructure in terms of state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation and supporting professional mentoring to undertake the proposed studies and further develop his scientific capacity to understand the composition of odorous emissions from biosolid treatment processing. The outcomes from the research will minimise the environmental impact of such waste management operations on local populations as well as enable the benchmarking the monitoring techniques and methodologies for the assessment of odorous emissions from these facilities to improve the design of the odour abatement systems and management strategies.

Keywords: biosolids,gc/o,olfactometry,wastewater treatment plant,odour,odorants,odour annoyance,olfactory-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry,gc-ms/o,odour fingerprints,sludge
The land of Caesar: Geography and economy of the imperial properties in Roman Asia Minor (LANCRAM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194046.6
EU funding (EUR): 194046.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The LanCRAM project aims at studying the geographical distribution and the economic, social and political impact of the properties of the Roman emperors in Asia Minor. These consisted of villas, landed estates, pastureland, woods, mines and quarries. This immense richness was a key element for the maintenance of the position of supreme power, since the emperor could use it to confer social status to individuals or to perform benefactions in favour of communities. Furthermore, imperial properties produced undeniable economic repercussions on the regions where they had a considerable extension. Since their owner was both the head of the empire and a global economic player, we can trace a tendency to trans-regional uniformity in the patterns of exploitation and a positive effect on the integration of rural areas in the political and economic system of the empire. No major survey of the available documentation has been produced since the beginning of the 20th century and many questions about the development and use of the properties remain unanswered. The project aims at filling this gap in three ways. (1) The development of a powerful online relational database of all published sources for the proposed area; every record will contain geodata and will be related to separate databases of all known persons (administrators, peasants etc.), regions and bibliographic references. (2) The preparation of a monograph on the geography and the economy of the imperial properties in Asia Minor from Augustus to Diocletian (27 BC-AD 284). This region is one of the best documented for the Roman period and offers a variety of geographical, cultural and administrative contexts that allow to study the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective; (3) the organisation of two workshops and an international conference together with experts of other regions in order to open the database to different areas of the empire and provide for the first time a general overview of the documentation.

Keywords: roman empire,roman history,ancient economy,epigraphy,roman imperial administration,ancient asia minor,patrimonialism,landholding,digital databases,geolocalisation.
SUpeR REsolution Adaptive LIght Sheet Microscopy for high resolution volumetric imaging in turbid specimen (SURE-ALISM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-15
End date: 2016-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173370.6
EU funding (EUR): 173370.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Rapid high contrast imaging in combination with low light exposure makes light sheet microscopy particularly attractive for studying the three-dimensional development of biological specimens. Currently however, the highest resolution of light sheet microscopy can only be achieved with relatively transparent samples. To study more advanced stages of development, of particular interest in brain imaging, scattering and aberrations pose a significant obstacle to achieve super-resolution or even diffraction limited resolution. Adaptive optics can correct aberrations in situ, yet inhomogeneities in the sample can severely restrict the usable field-of-view. Here we propose the use of structured illumination with variable periodicity to reclaim the resolution for a wide field-of-view. This Marie Curie Fellowship will thus enable super-resolution light sheet imaging deep within turbid biological tissue.

Keywords: computational imaging,light sheet microscopy,adaptive optics
Atomically thin layers of Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Crystals – Electronic Properties and Application in Solar Cells (ELECTPROPOIPC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 274810.2
EU funding (EUR): 274810.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to experimentally study the electronic properties of organic-inorganic perovskite crystal (OIPC) monolayers by means optical spectroscopy and charge transport measurements. In the last few months, OIPC’s have emerged as an outstanding material for inexpensive and efficient solar cells. In a series of studies, various research groups have successfully demonstrated the preparation of solar cells with 10-15% power conversion efficiency. In addition to their remarkable performance in solar cell applications, OIPC’s can form layered structures that are held together by relatively weak VdW interactions. Thus, monolayers of OIPC’s can be readily separated and isolated by mechanical exfoliation, which enables controlled studies of their surface and interfacial properties. The overall goal of the research described in this application is to understand what makes OIPC’s such efficient materials for solar cell applications and to develop methods to further improve their performance.

Keywords: hybrid materials,organic electronics,optical spectroscopy,charge transport,thz time domaine spectroscopy,transient absorption,exfoliation,photoluminescence,graphene
Spatial dynamics of tropical forest biomass change (SPATFOREST)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

International climate change mitigation policies envisage carbon storage in tropical forests. Long-term studies have reported an increase of above-ground biomass (AGB) accumulation in tropical forest trees in recent decades, presumably due to an increase in atmospheric CO2, but this signal is heterogeneous across space and time. This heterogeneity limits our capacity to forecast future changes in AGB in response to climate change predictions. The spatio-temporal dynamics of AGB change are determined by the cumulative effects of interactions in local tree neighbourhoods influencing the growth and mortality of individual trees. Understanding these neighbourhood interactions is challenging because it requires spatially-explicit data-sets of tree demography over several decades, high-resolution data on environmental covariates, and complex statistical modelling techniques. SpatForest aims to address this challenge by developing statistical models of tree demography and AGB dynamics in tropical forest that explicitly account for variation in local biotic and abiotic environments. By including terms for environmental factors that are likely to respond to future climate change, the models developed during SpatForest will enhance our ability to forecast changes in AGB of tropical forests.

Keywords: biomass dynamics,climate change,individual based model,statistical models,spatial dynamics,tree growth,tree mortality,tree productivity,tropical ecology.
Quality of vision and subjective satisfaction in new non-spectacle systems for restoring accommodation in presbyopic people. (PROVISIONE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-03-02
End date: 2017-03-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 231283.2
EU funding (EUR): 231283.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ProVisione project offers to the Researcher an extraordinary opportunity to become an independent scientist in the field of vision sciences. The Researcher’s interest in studying the quality of vision in patient with different systems of optical correction finds in the project the perfect ground in which acquire new skills and knowledge. The topic of the project is the correction of presbyopia, that is the physiological, age-related loss in near visual function associated with the loss in accommodation. There is a huge interest in the field because presbyopia prevalence is extremely high with the number of presbyopes that in 2005 exceed one billion. Moreover there is increasing demand of presbyopia non-spectacle correction. ProVisionet will bring different, interdisciplinary expertise together in order to study the relationship between two new optical approaches to restore accommodation (the Scleral surgery and the Femtosecond Laser to treat the lens), the visual outcomes and patient satisfaction. Effectiveness will be evaluated longitudinally and compared to other non spectacle, pseudo-accommodative optical devices available for presbyiopic correction (monovision and multifocal Contact Lenses, multifocal and accommodative Intraocular Lenses). The objective of the project will have to cover different areas that represent research pillars: optical devices used in the project, optical quality of the eye and accommodative response, psychophysics of visual function, subjective quality of vision, perceptual factors that affect the quality of vision. This will be possible thanks to the expertise from 3 Universities (the Host University in UK, one in Italy and one in Germany respectively), 3 Clinical Structures (2 Private clinics in UK and Italy; 1 NHS clinic in UK), 2 private companies (Germany and Italy). ProVisione will involve a series of prospective and retrospective clinical studies that will be carried out on presbyopic patients from the clinical centres involved

Keywords: presbyopia,accommodation,quality of vision,aberration,psychophysics measurements,accommodation restoration,scleral implants,femtosecond laser,multifocal cls,multifocal iols,monovision
Infrahumanization:The Effects of Uniquely Human and Non-Uniquely Human Emotions on Justice (JUSTICE_HUMANNESS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-08
End date: 2016-09-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169800.0
EU funding (EUR): 169800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will examine the role of infra-humanization and group membership in administration of justice for violation of moral rules. Justice theory distinguishes certain criteria, such as intentionality of the harm-doer, that are considered for the restoration of justice. Intentional harms require both compensation in favor of the victim and punishment of the harm-doer. Two different kinds of punishment have been detected; retributive, is a proportionate to the harm punishment (a more lenient and emotionally oriented punishment), while utilitarian, is a more severe punishment (harsh and rationally oriented) than the harm displayed. Emotions of the perceiver (i.e., the person who ascribes the sentence) are considered as the most significant predictor of imposition of sanctions to the harm-doer. No study to date, however, has explored the role that emotions with different social value (i.e., uniquely human; UH vs. non-uniquely human; NUH) attributed to the victim might play in justice. According to the infra-humanization theory, UH emotions are highly valued compared to NUH ones, as they differentiate humans from animals. People attribute UH emotions mostly to the ingroup rather than outgroup, while such a bias does not occur regarding NUH emotions.This project will test people’s moral judgments depending on whether negative UH or NUH emotions are attributed to the ingroup or outgroup victim. We hypothesized that a) sanctions to the harm-doer (compensation in favor of the victim and punishment) will be imposed mostly when negative UH emotions are caused to an ingroup victim, and b) a utilitarian rather than retributive punishment will be assigned to the harm-doer for causing negative UH emotions to the ingroup victim. No such bias will occur regarding NUH emotions. c) Kind of emotions (UH vs. NUH) attributed to the victim, group membership of the victim and justice outcome will interact affecting belief in a just world and well-being of participants.

Keywords: social psychology,infrahumanization,uniquely human/non-uniquely human emotions,group membership,victim,administration of justice,retributive/utilitarian punishment,just world beliefs,well-being
Self Healing Asphalt for Road Pavements (SHARP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243847.8
EU funding (EUR): 243847.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SHARP project aims to develop a unique self healing technology for asphalt pavements, whereby the encapsulated rejuvenator within the asphalt mix is used as the healing catalyst. The principle underpinning this technology is that when micro cracks begin to form within the pavement, they encounter a microcapsule. The fracture energy at the crack-tip will open the capsule, thereby releasing the rejuvenator. The rejuvenator then diffuses with the asphalt binder to seal the crack, preventing its further propagation. Researchers at TU Delft have pioneered this technology by successfully developing a rejuvenator encapsulation method that thermally and mechanically survives the asphalt production process. Despite progress to date, the functionality of this self healing technology remains unknown and as a result, self healing technology is not accepted as standard within the road industry. The SHARP project builds on the TU Delft research to translate self healing technology for asphalt pavements from theory into practice. The SHARP project has four main objectives: 1) to select the most suitable, commercially available rejuvenator for encapsulation, with an emphasis on low temperature diffusion and ecologically friendly rejuvenators, 2) to develop a numerical model for simulating the release of healing agent from the capsule and its diffusion into the asphalt binder to optimise the size, amount and distribution of capsules within the asphalt pavement mix, 3) to investigate the physical and mechanical performance of asphalt mix containing the encapsulated rejuvenator and 4) to develop a plan for transferring self healing asphalt technology from laboratory to site/roadside. The SHARP project presents an opportunity to progress the field of self-healing asphalt pavements, to generate new knowledge, to apply that knowledge to the road network. In so doing, the SHARP project will contribute to a revolution in the road design and maintenance.

Keywords: self healing asphalt,asphalt pavement,rejuvenator,polyurethane micro capsules,numerical modelling,fracture,fatigue,technology transfer,life cycle analysis,road maintenance
Thermomechanical Modelling of Powder Compaction (THERMOPC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Powder compaction is a widely used manufacturing technique for producing high quality particulate products. Its use in manufacturing high value-added products with heat sensitive materials is significantly hindered primarily by three scientific and technology issues: (i) the accumulation of heat during continuous process, which can significantly degrade organic materials used in the formulation; (ii) lack of holistic process understanding especially linking with single particle properties and (iii) lack of science-based predictive models for product developments. Innovative science-based predictive models are thus urgently needed. This project timely synergizes the technical perfection of Surrey Particle Engineering Research Group (SPERG) in the development of computational models, including finite element methods (FEM) and discrete element methods (DEM), for powder compaction with the extraordinary hands-on experience of the researcher in experimental characterization and FEM modelling of powder compaction, to address these issues through a systematic and structured research training programme on thermo-mechanical modelling of powder compaction, aiming at developing robust predictive process models that can be used as a product development tool for powder compaction of heat sensitive materials. This will provide a timely and unique opportunity to make a significant contribution to the European particulate product manufacturing industries.

Keywords: powder compaction,fem,dem,thermomechanical modelling
Quantum control of large molecular systems using the Multi-Layer MCTDH method (QMOLML)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194046.6
EU funding (EUR): 194046.6
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The introduction of general numerical methods in the form of widely available software can have a dramatic effect on the development of a scientific field. In electronic structure theory, for example, general-purpose programs (such as GAUSSIAN, MOLCAS, MOLPRO...) combined with better computational resources have in part led to molecular electronic structure calculations becoming a ubiquitous tool in chemical research. Similarly, quantum dynamics methods based on the variational principle such as the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree (MCTDH), hold out similar promise in the study of adiabatic and non-adiabatic processes, because of their generality, applicability and fast convergence towards the “exact” solution. Hence, the goal of the present proposal is to develop and apply for the first time the Multi-Layer (ML) variant of the MCTDH method to coherent control in large polyatomic molecules (i.e. more than 10 atoms). We plan to use benzopyran as a benchmark system in order to show that our strategy can be generally applied in the context of laser-driven control of photochemical reactivity involving large amplitude motions and multiple electronic potential energy surfaces. Which is the effect of the size of the system on the quantum-mechanical effects or how to generate general strategies to control the chemistry around a non-adiabatic event in complex molecules, are some of the open questions we aim to address in direct collaboration with experimentalists in the field. In the long-term, this development is expected to have a major impact, allowing fully accurate non-adiabatic dynamics simulations to be made not only in small molecular systems, but also routinely in large molecules with the ultimate goal of treating systems embedded in a complex environment such as a protein, a solvent or a matrix.

Keywords: quantum molecular-dynamics,nonadiabatic dynamics,photoinduced dynamics,time-dependent hartree,mctdh,dimensional model representations,conical intersections,excited-states,spectrum,coherent control