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Neurocognitive systems for morpho-lexical analysis: The cross-linguistic foundations for language comprehension (NEUROLEX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Advanced Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2414558.0
EU funding (EUR): 2414558.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Language comprehension is a fundamentally dynamic process, where incoming speech information interfaces with two markedly different neuro-cognitive processing systems a left lateralised fronto-temporal system that is critical for linguistic processes of morphological and syntactic analysis, and a distributed bi-hemispheric system that supports semantic and pragmatic interpretation. This view of the neurocognitive language system has emerged from interdisciplinary research focusing mainly on English. The research proposed here will take our understanding of these systems to a new level of specificity in terms of the spatio-temporal pattern of different language processing procedures across the brain, while achieving a new level of generality by conducting parallel investigations in three contrasting languages. The first strand (English) will use behavioural and neuro-imaging methods (fMRI, MEG) to analyse the neural networks engaged by different types of morpho-lexical complexity. We will contrast specifically linguistic forms of complexity (derivational and inflectional morphology, argument structure, etc.) with more general sources of complexity reflecting on-line competition between different lexical and phrasal interpretations. Research in English suggests that these engage different processing systems across the two hemispheres. The second strand (Polish) examines the neural dynamics of the same sources of processing complexity in a morphologically much richer language, but sharing with English the same concatenative word-formation mechanisms. The third strand will analyse neural responses to processing complexity in the radically different morpho-lexical context of Arabic, where the fundamental mechanism of word formation is non-concatenative, and where key grammatical morphemes serve multiple linguistic functions. These cross-linguistic neuro-cognitive comparisons will provide important new information about the relationship between language and the brain.

Keywords: lexical processing,morphology,cross-linguistic,fmri,meg
Quantitative dynamic macroeconomic analysis of global climate change and inequality (MACROCLIMATE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal is to form a Research Center for Quantitative Macroeconomic Research (RCQMR) at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. The aim of the RCQMR is to conduct research within the general area of macroeconomics and inequality. However, most of the focus during the buildup period will be on a broad project on the world economy and climate change. The aim is to build a dynamic quantitative macroeconomic model of the world economy with a climate system as an integral part. The novelty, relative to existing economy-climate models, is the modeling methodology: it will use modern macroeconomic analysis---in particular the numerical tools developed to study economies with a cross-section of consumers/agents---in order to substantially enrich and generalize the description of the world economy.

Keywords: approximate aggregation
Assessment of Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Cyprus (CCECON)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the framework of a wider study, co-funded by other sources, which will initially examine the physical and biological impacts of climate change in Cyprus, the proposed project will quantify, for the first time in Cyprus, the expected economic effect of climate change in three important sectors: a) impact on agriculture, b) impact on the energy system and c) impact on human health due to changes in air quality throughout the country. As world climate models predict that climate change will lead to higher temperatures and less rainfall in the Eastern Mediterranean, the sectors addressed in this project are among the most important in terms of potential long-term effects on the economy of the country. The project will exploit assessments of physical, chemical and biological effects to be provided by experts in these fields (i.e. effect on agricultural production, atmospheric concentrations of air pollutants and air pollution-induced mortality and morbidity), and will then assess the economic implications (in monetary terms) associated with these effects. To achieve the objectives stated above, the applicant will collaborate with major national authorities and researchers that deal with agriculture, air quality and energy issues in Cyprus. As these topics have not been adequately addressed for any Mediterranean country up to now, the project's multidisciplinary approach will improve knowledge for this region in general and can contribute to the advance of similar analyses in other South European countries.

Keywords: environmental economics,agricultural economics,valuation
Midfrequency Energy Analysis (MIDEA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 794401.0
EU funding (EUR): 794401.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project partners will develop a versatile and efficient software tool based on a recently introduced method - Dynamical Energy Analysis (DEA). This will yield significantly improved algorithms and software solutions to describe wave energy distributions in complex structures in a mechanical engineering context for small to medium wave lengths. The wave problems considered range from acoustics to vibrational dynamics and elastic deformations. Midfrequency problems are one of the few areas of great importance where standart methods in computer aided engineering (CAE) modelling fail and no efficient and reliable methods exist. The new approach based on wave chaos ideas has the potential to fill this gap and will serve an enormous demand in the mechanical engineering industry. Applying the to be developed method in CAE studies will lead to huge cost and development time savings and will lead to better products in terms of noise characteristics and vibration controll. DEA will be further developed, efficiently implemented numerically, integrated into an advanced software package and applied to challenging vibro-acoustical situations in an industrial context. The focus will be on mechanical and acoustic wave problems ranging from acoustic radiation in small scale plant machinery to vibration dynamics and vehicle noise in large built-up structures such as cars and airplanes. Joint efforts by the two full partners, the University of Nottingham and the SME inuTech (specialised CAE) will lift this new, revolutionary method from its academic roots into the sphere of industrial applications transforming it into a powerful tool for solving engineering problems in the mid to high frequency regime. Associate partners from the academic and industrial sector will support the efforts by giving expert advice and by providing experimental data and facilities for testing purposes.

Keywords: structural engineering,engineering mathematics,vibration engineering,computational mathematics,software engineering,applied mathematics
Money, Liquidity, and the Aggregate Economy (MLAE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last few years, Professor Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton) and I have attempted to provide the bare bones of a simple, unified theory of money and liquidity that can be integrated into the rest of macroeconomic theory, staying as close as possible to the standard competitive macroeconomic framework. But there is a lot of work ahead. The bones have little or no flesh. Here are some of the major puzzles that are outstanding. Why is it that small adjustments to nominal interest rates by a central bank appear to have such significant effects on the real economy? Why can there be financial instability, even during periods of monetary stability? What are the deep sources of a financial crisis? Has it to do with contractual incompleteness, such as lack of indexation in debt contracts? What externalities may be at work? Is there scope for intervention, to encourage new forms of financial contract, such as dequity which offer lenders the same control rights as debt but afford the same degree of risk sharing as equity? Through what mechanism do financial crises spread, both across markets and across countries? Does contagion occur through price effects alone (e.g. falls in the values of collateral), or is the primary channel of propagation through chains of debt and default? How and when might monetary policy ameliorate financial crises? And how does this role for a central bank connect to its role of lender of last resort? As new financial instruments emerge that substitute for fiat money, what is the future of central banking? More generally, how should monetary economics tie in with the economics of payment and settlement? Inevitably, it is difficult to prescribe where our research will take us. Not all of these questions will prove amenable to being answered. It may be that some alternative line of enquiry opens up unexpectedly.

Keywords: money,liquidity,aggregate economy
Collaborative research and development of green roof system technology (GREEN ROOF SYSTEMS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1185261.0
EU funding (EUR): 1185261.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In the last 20 years green roofs (vegetated layers that sit on top of the conventional roof surfaces of a building) have become relatively commonplace in Germany, Austria and Switzerland because of their role in urban stormwater management. In particular, the so-called ‘extensive’ green roof technology (very lightweight, low maintenance, vegetated roof surfaces) has been adopted widely because of its capacity to be ‘retro-fitted’ onto existing buildings, or incorporated onto new buildings without the need for major structural modification or support. Specific benefits of green roofs include: a) Overall reduction of rainfall run-off and attenuation of storm run-off; b) Summer cooling and reducing the urban heat island effect; c) Contribution to biodiversity e.g. ground-nesting birds; d) Improved quality of life for urban citizens; e) Extended roof life: a roof life is at least doubled with the addition of a green roof. This project seeks to establish a long term partnership between a leading commercial provider of green roof technology (Zinco) and an internationally leading research institution (University of Sheffield) through a collaborative programme of research and development and a suite of knowledge transfer activities. The project brings together established academic researchers with technicians, engineers and marketing specialists from Zinco each with highly relevant expertise in key areas. There is a balance of longer term and short term staff exchanges at different levels throughout the programme as well as recruitment of experienced researchers to fulfill particular tasks within the collaborative programme. This innovative programme of interdisciplinary research is targeted to fill a research gap that is constraining the development and exploitation of urban green roof technologies in the EU.

Keywords: integrated management of water,urban water management,flood prevention,pollution prevention,landscape architecture,environmental technology
Radio technologies for short range gigabit wireless (GIGARADIO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1305749.0
EU funding (EUR): 1305749.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The GigaRadio IAPP will establish a partnership between Infineon Technologies Austria AG (IFAT), the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and DecaWave. ECIT is a cross-disciplinary research institute and incorporates a globally recognised research group in microwave and millimetre wave technology. Infineon is a top 10 vertically integrated semiconductor company. DecaWave is a fabless semiconductor SME that is developing semiconductor solutions for short range wireless communications. The GigaRadio project will undertake research into technologies for wireless high speed data transfer between devices at 60GHz. Each of the project participants has complementary capability within different elements of wireless transceiver design. ECIT is a recognised leader in microwave front-end circuit design and antenna design. Infineon is a recognised pioneer in novel semiconductor materials, devices and packaging for wireless communications. DecaWave has extensive knowledge of the baseband and MAC architectures of short range wireless communication systems and is an active participant in the standards activity for 60GHz Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). The combined capability of the participants represents significant synergy in the field of 60GHz transceiver design and this will be reinforced through the secondments of staff between the industrial and academic partners. The research and development activities will deliver novel front-end technologies which will be commercialised by the industrial partners. These technologies will enable the widespread adoption of high data rate communication at 60 GHz and with an initial application focus on domestic distribution of uncompressed High Definition (HD) video content.The key technical output from GigaRadio will be a pre-commercial 60GHz transceiver system demonstrating short range communication at 3Gbps.

Keywords: radio,60ghz,gigabit,wireless,high definition,video,microwave,wimedia,uwb
“C-E-E-S” (Citizen oriented Evaluation of E-Government Services: A Reference Process Model) (CEES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Lebanon,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 374155.0
EU funding (EUR): 374155.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The research program aims to develop a process model for the measurement of citizen satisfaction index for e-Government services. The aim is achieved by the knowledge exchange program between two academic partners (Brunel University and American University of Beirut.) and one private sector partner (Turk Satellite or TurkSat). The large bureaucratic public sector structures are often unable to embrace change and are grounded in years of tradition thus, there is not the environment for innovation or established tools to measure satisfaction and this sets benchmarks for performance improvement. As a result, there are research initiatives to develop a citizen satisfaction model (CSM) for e-government services. However, existing researches are focusing on the specific CSM model and do not suggest a systematic process which can be used for the developed CSM model by e-government system managers. In addition, these CSM models have been developed separately in different countries based on their own requirements. Furthermore, the processes used to measure the CSMs in different countries are different from each other and this makes it difficult for the other e-Government stakeholders in different or even the same countries to benefit from their experience. The aims of the C-E-E-S project are to develop a reference process model and a scientific evaluation framework to measure citizen satisfaction on e-Government services. This will be a harmonized and standardized process model which could be used by other e-Government implementers worldwide. The idea is to develop a reference process model for measuring citizen satisfaction on e-Government services and to allow other e-Government stakeholders to use the reference process model and the benchmarking outcomes from the evaluation framework to project inefficient e-Government services for further improvement in their designs. Total 72 researcher-months will be exchanged among the partners to complement their knowledge.

Keywords: electronic-government systems,customer satisfaction index,information systems evaluation
Towards a European Network of Excellence in Biological Dosimetry (TENEB)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Fission/fusion cross-cutting actions
Destination: Cross-Cutting Actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2009-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 76869.0
EU funding (EUR): 47868.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years a number of accidents have occurred that show the necessity to be prepared for a possible large-scale radiological accident or a terrorist attack, where the casualties will be members of the public. The accident may likely have an international scale and the radiation exposure can range from very low to substantial. An important initial step in the medical response to large-scale radiological accident is the triage of patients according to the severity of exposure. Here, an essential tool of doses assessment is biological dosimetry. It allows confirming or rejecting the doses suggested by the clinical triage. In Europe there are several laboratories with considerable experience in biological dosimetry. Each laboratory can easily perform biological dose assessment for incidents involving a few people. However, in a large-scale radiological accident or terrorist outrage the number of people that may need to be screened could easily exceed the capacity of a single laboratory. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop a European network of laboratories involved in biological dosimetry in order to be prepared for a radiological mass casualty. It should be mentioned that biodosimetry networking has already been recognised as a sensible and worthwhile emergency response capability in several regions of the world (USA, South America, Canada, Japan), however, not in Europe. The objectives of this CSA-SA is to define the framework of a NoE in biological dosimetry and to perform a feasibility study to determine its viability. The final report will be accompanied by statements of intent from the key organisations committing themselves to sustainable integration of their research in the area of biological dosimetry. The report will form the background to the consideration of including such a topic in a subsequent EURATOM WP with the expectation that a credible proposal would be received

Keywords: radiation accidents,terrorist attack,triage,biological dosimetry,networking
Ultrasound activiated nanoencapsulated targetted drug delivery and tumous cell poration (NANOPORATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2071718.0
EU funding (EUR): 2071718.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Clinical drug delivery (DD) remains a problem of heightened industrial and academic interest. The proposed partnership seeks to embrace the problem by exploiting the unique expertise-base spanning the industrial research and academic pratners. We will provide inter-sectoral training of mulit-disciplinary researchers and create a novel new DD modality that addresses the key critical needs for non-invasive therapy via intelligent generic targeting and with intrinsic flexibility in drug choice. An essential simplicity to the present approach is that it takes strands of intrinsically safe technologies, and marries these into a powerful amalgam that offers true power and enhanced versatility. Chief amongst the areas of research are: (i) A generic encapsulating technology [CapsuTech - industrial partner] that will vector active anti-cancer drugs to a tumour target; (ii) Remotely triggered drug release on demand by externally focused ultrasound energy [development by industrial partner Insightec](iii) Enhanced drug uptake through the parallel disruption of cell membranes by the action of ultrasound on commercially available microscopic bubbles [sonoporation - University of Dundee]. The Dundee Group, who will lead this partnership, has made significant inroads to fundamental understanding with this latter strand. Moreover, the partners have gone to great lengths to factor in a level of training that also embraces existing trends for image guided intervention: in particular with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The project objectives we have realized are fully compatible with MRI technology and indeed, this prescience endows the overall scheme with significant added value. We anticipate that this synergistic and intra-sectoral multi-disciplinary research partnership will create significant momentum, enduring relationships, visionary researchers and a roadmap towards significant European market share, as well as delivering on truly excellent scientific objectives.

Keywords: health sciences,anticancer therapy,oncology,medical sciences,pharmacological sciences,biomechanics