Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Neural bases of behavioral choices and sequences (DECISIONSEQ)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-26
End date: 2020-12-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is essential for survival across the animal kingdom to make appropriate choices depending on the environmental context and the internal state. Nevertheless, how decision-making is implemented in the nervous system by specific circuits remains a significant gap in our knowledge. Many actions are physically mutually exclusive so competitive interactions must exist to enable the selection of one behavior and concomitant full suppression of all alternatives. Often, behaviors are not single actions but multiple actions organized into sequences that allow the animals to achieve their goals and mechanisms must be in place to regulate the transition between the behaviors in a sequence. Here again the network architecture underlying the generation of action sequences is not known with synaptic resolution. The difficulty in determining the detailed network architectures underlying decision-making and sequence generation is primarily due to the challenges in mapping connectivity between neurons with synaptic resolution and establishing causality between neurons and behaviors with cellular resolution with the model systems used. We propose to study circuit mechanisms of selection, repression and transitions between actions and fill the above described knowledge gap. Our multidisciplinary approach will combine neural manipulation during behavior, electron microscopy (EM) reconstruction of neuronal connectivity with synaptic resolution in the tractable model system, the Drosophila larva with modeling and quantitative behavioral analysis. We aim at determining with unprecedented resolution the network architectures and circuit mechanisms underlying competitive interactions and sequence transitions. Determining basic principles of behavioral choice and sequence implementation in the tractable genetic model system will lay the basis for future investigations in larger, more complex systems.

Keywords: behavioral choice,behavioral sequences,neural circuits
Uneven lives: female economy, migration patterns and citizenship in Early Modern Italy (FemEcoMig)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FemEcoMig aims to study the connections between migration patterns and female property, work and social networks in Early Modern Italy: it focuses on domestic and international migrations and on female migrants (and their families) who moved to the duchy of Savoy-Piedmont during the period 1650-1800. The project aims to change the common narrative on the history of migration by bringing into the topic a range of historiographical problems that are often considered characteristic of the history of women. It will inquire into the role women's paid and unpaid work and into the use of female property in settlement paths; it will also tackle the extent of female social networks and their use to access to urban resources. The second objective is to analyse the connections between female migration and the achievement of naturalisation. This section will investigates foreign women applying for naturalisation and the reasons for their application. The project will tackle the contents of the grant, and the conditions in which citizenship was enacted and will inquire into the links between migration and settlement paths, economic activities and family strategies. Data will be collected at the National Archives in Turin: two databases will be set up (one for female migrants, the second for people asking for naturalisation), and a sample of migrants drawn from the databases will be the object of biographical reconstruction in notarial deeds. The research will be conducted at the History Faculty of Cambridge University and at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure. The candidate will receive high level and interdisciplinary training to improve skills in data analysis. She will benefit from the host's organisation experience, discuss the qualitative and quantitive analysis of data, the methodological approach and the historiographical problems with the supervisor and other specialists, and improved competence in migration history and women history.

Keywords: migration and women,women work,women property,social networks,kinship,citizenship,naturalisation,women history,history of migration,labour history,migration policies,early modern italy
Smart Renewable Energy Manager for the Industrial Prosumer Market (SREM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The progressive reduction in price of renewable energy and energy storage due to technology innovation and production enhancements is revolutionising the energy sector by turning the traditional centralised power system into a new decentralised one. Commercial and industrial (CI) consumers are increasingly implementing distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar photovoltaic (PV), local batteries and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in their facilities to lower their energy cost, increase security of supply and decarbonise the economy.By implementing an increasing number of DERs, CI consumers become prosumers (producers and consumers). Prosumers must manage their own generation, storage and consumption. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop energy management tools able to cost-effectively integrate and operate generation, storage and loads. Moreover, new opportunities to make profit arise with the implementation of DERs (especially from the potential of the pair distributed generation plus storage) regarding the traditional scheme.SREM is an innovative Smart EMS specifically designed to fill the need to automate the management of loads and the increasing number of DERs in the CI market. Its differentiating and proprietary algorithms aim to achieve the highest financial return (15%-30% energy savings). SREM has been developed by Effinnova Management (Effinnova) a Spanish start-up company that is providing substantial economic savings through energy management services to its industrial and commercial customers and that has noted its customers urgent need to develop new energy management tools to integrate a growing number of DERs in their facilities aiming to reach economic gains, facilitate its operation control and increase the security of supply. The benefits that this technology will bring to the market will make the proposed project profitable with a ROI of 7 over 5 years and a payback period just above 2 years.

Keywords: prosumer,smart energy management system ems,distributed energy resources ders,renewable energy,energy storage,pv generation
BIOMECHANICAL AND NEUROMUSCULAR RESPONSE TO TENDON TRANSPOSITIONS IN RAT (MUSCLE TENDON TRANSF)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tendon transfer surgeries, performed in a wide variety of patients (e.g. cerebral palsy) are aimed at improving gait or upper extremity function. However, results of these surgical interventions are not fully predictable and do not always meet the expectations. Force transmission via connective tissues at the muscle belly surface (i.e. epimuscular myofascial force transmission), as recently discovered by Huijing and Maas, is expected to play a major role here. Previous research has focused predominantly on optimizing acute effects of transfer surgery, but knowledge about the adaptive processes taking place after surgery that co-determine success of the intervention, is lacking. Therefore, the objective of this project is to assess the biomechanical and neuromuscular response to tendon transpositions determining the long-term result of the surgery. In addition, the effects of adhesion barrier application are studied as a first step aimed to prevent scar tissue formation. The central hypothesis is that relocating the tendon as well as part of its muscle belly leads to adaptation of muscle and connective tissues, as well as to adjustments of muscle activity patterns. Following m. brachialis (BR) tendon transfer in rat, in vivo muscle function will be investigated (Aim 1); adaptation of intra- and extramuscular connective tissues will be quantified and effects of such adaptations on force transmission from the target muscle will be measured (Aim 2); effects of an adhesion barrier on the formation of connective tissue at the dissected muscle belly surface and on the functional outcome will be assessed (Aim 3),. This will be the first systematic study of tendon transfer addressing the postoperative adaptive processes over a wide range of organization levels. Knowledge obtained will ultimately lead to improved surgical practice in tendon transpositions and other surgical interventions, to recommendations for therapy after the transfer and to better clinical outcomes.

Keywords: health sciences,tendon transfer,adaptation,myofascial force transmission,skeletal muscle,connective tissue,m. brachialis,rat,treadmill locomotion,sonomicrometry,emg,neural plasticity
Solvation effects on photo-induced Metal-Activated Oxidative-Addition Reactions of Hydrocarbons and Halocarbons (METOXAD)

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: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-07-03
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The role of solvation processes is fundamental to the understanding of chemical reaction mechanisms of importance in areas such as organic synthesis, catalysis, atmospheric chemistry and industrial processes. This proposal presents a systematic study of a solvent perturbed bimolecular chemical reaction. The comparison of the solvated reaction dynamics with existing gas phase data will allow the determination of the role-played by the solvent on the reaction mechanism. The photo-induced oxidative-addition reactions of neutral Group 2 Metal atoms with simple hydrocarbons and halocarbons have been selected for study in the presence of the solvent in this case inert rare gas solids. Specifically, the Ca + CH3F system has been chosen for examination as recently experimental data has become available for the photo-induced reaction, free in the gas phase and deposited on large argon clusters. Therefore the applicant proposes to study the fully solvated (matrix-isolated) reaction. Generally, oxidative-addition reactions conducted under solid-state conditions result in metal atom photo-insertion. Although fragmentation does occur, as in the gas phase, cage-exit is not favoured and fragment recombination processes dominate. Therefore following an identification of the reaction products and an assessment of the solvation effects in the solid-state using steady-state FTIR spectroscopy the dynamics of the excited state reaction will be investigated. The time-resolved measurements of a metal+molecule oxidative-addition reaction will be completed for the first time, using Step-Scan FTIR spectroscopy and the facilities and resources of the Low Temperature Spectroscopy Group at NUI-Maynooth. The study of reactions under these extreme states of matter (gas phase and solid-state) affords a unique opportunity for the development of understanding of solvation processes by the application of time-resolved experimental techniques

Keywords: physical sciences reaction mechanisms ands dynamics photochemistry,chemistry,physical sciences,natural sciences,solid state physics
Strengthening of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Institute of Turkey as a National Centre of Excellence through European Integration (UNAM-REGPOT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1065420.0
EU funding (EUR): 949999.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The newly established Materials Science and Nanotechnology Institute (UNAM) is the first national research institute of Turkey in the area of atomic scale materials and nanotechnology. UNAM is growing as a major research facility equipped with all necessary research infrastructure and advanced research tools to carry out forefront R&D activities. This advanced research facility is available to the researchers of all other institutions. As a centre of excellence, UNAM is expected to provide scientific advising for the state of the art research problems in nanotechnology. Through this project, the Institute can rapidly reach its full potential for research and technological innovation and emerge as an internationally competitive center, integrated firmly into the European Research Area. UNAM is recently established; despite wide recognition within Turkey, so far our exposure to the European scientific community has been limited. We strongly desire to improve this and develop connections to and collaborations with European laboratories, university groups and research institutes through mechanisms to be established in this project. However, UNAM currently suffers from a bottleneck in funding of travel, conference organization. In addition, UNAM needs to increase its PhD staff through postdoctoral and research scientist positions, since full faculty positions through the university are very limited. There is need for a number of trained personnel in high-technology equipment relevant to nanotech in Turkey, such TEM, FIB, lithography equipment. The proposed project will allow UNAM administration to offer internationally competitive salaries for young Turkish scientists receiving doctorates every year in the USA, reversing the brain drain, as well as young European scientists with technical expertise. The proposed project will be critical in overcoming all of these difficulties.

Keywords: center of excellence,multi-disciplinary,mobility,incoming researchers,dissemination,public outreach.
Effective methods in rigid and crystalline cohomology (EMRCC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 750000.0
EU funding (EUR): 750000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the project is to develop methods for computing with the rigid and crystalline cohomology of varieties over finite fields. The project will focus on two main problems. First, the fast computation of the Galois action. Second, the effective computation of the cycle class map, and the inverse problem of explicitly recovering algebraic cycles from Galois-invariant cohomology classes (c.f. the Tate conjecture). Research on the first problem would be a natural extension of on-going work of the Prinicipal Investigator and others. By contrast the second problem is entirely new, at least in the context of computational number theory. The overall goal of the project is to provide methods and software which will extend the range of application of computational number theory within the mathematical sciences.

Keywords: computational number theory,arithmetic geometry
Mothers, grandmothers and the evolution of prolonged lifespan in humans (HUMAN LIFESPAN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Neurosciences and neural disorders
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1143824.0
EU funding (EUR): 1143824.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose a novel evolutionary approach for studying ecological and demographic factors that affect senescence and lifespan in humans. Women are unique among animals due to menopause and a prolonged lifespan after last birth. Evolutionarily, the quest of everyone is to maximise grandchildren numbers. Hence, human women life-history is enigmatic. One possibility is that older women increase their fitness by directing resources to already produced offspring rather than having more. Thus, although women gain most grandchildren from own reproduction, they also gain more by helping offspring. This has fascinating implications. All animals must split their energy between reproduction vs. self-maintenance. Most continue to reproduce until death and produce maximum grandchildren by optimising investment between current vs. future reproduction. Human women must also optimise investment between mothering and grandmothering. How this is done and affected by ecological, social and demographic factors is unknown, but is essential to understanding the ecological and genetic basis of reproduction, senescence and lifespan. My project has 5 aims: 1. How does reproductive effort affect reproductive and post-reproductive senescence? 2. What proportion of grandchildren is gained post-menopause and how is this modified? 3. Is there heritable variation in life-history traits and their senescence, and how do genetic correlations affect evolution? 4. How do patterns of fitness acquisition account for menopause, prolonged post-reproductive lifespan and age of death in humans? 5. How does fitness maximization differ between men and women and affect their lifespans? The questions will be answered using unique data on three generations of individuals that lived before healthcare and modern contraceptives in Finland. The results will have important implications for predicting demographic structure and will appeal to a wide range of people within and outwith the scientific community.

Keywords: life-history theory,natural selection,reproductive success,human behavioural ecology,historical demography
Partial Behaviour Modelling: A Foundation for Incremental and Iterative Model-Based Software Engineering (PBM - FIMBSE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1366450.0
EU funding (EUR): 1366450.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Software systems are amenable to analysis through the construction of behaviour models. This corresponds to the traditional engineering approach to construction of complex systems. The advantage of using behaviour models to describe systems is that they are cheaper to develop than the actual system. Consequently, they can be analysed and mechanically checked for properties in order to detect design errors early in the development process and allow cheaper fixes. Although behaviour modelling and analysis has been shown to be successful in uncovering subtle requirements and design errors, adoption by practitioners has been slow. One of the reasons for this is that traditional approaches to behaviour models are required to be complete descriptions of the system behaviour up to some level of abstraction, i.e., the transition system is assumed to completely describe the system behaviour with respect to a fixed alphabet of actions. This completeness assumption is limiting in the context of software development process best practices which include iterative development, adoption of use-case and scenario-based techniques and viewpoint- or stakeholder-based analysis; practices which require modelling and analysis in the presence of partial information about system behaviour. This aim of this project is to shift the focus from traditional behaviour models to partial behaviour models – operational descriptions that are capable of distinguishing known behaviour (both required and proscribed) from unknown behaviour that is yet to be elicited. Our overall aim is to develop the foundations, techniques and tools that will enable the automated construction of partial behaviour models from multiple sources of partial specifications, the provision of early feedback through automated partial behaviour model analysis, and the support incremental, iterative elaboration of behaviour models.

Keywords: behaviour modelling,modal transition systems