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Sastravid - a new paradigm for the study of Indian philosophical texts (SV-RT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 736782.98
EU funding (EUR): 736782.98
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the present project is to transform the way Indian philosophical texts are currently studied. To do this we provide a philosophical analysis of a set of central works from the Indian tradition, a set well known for its demanding content and the conceptual complexity of the arguments it contains. This analysis will incorporate a set of cutting-edge methodological principles, the most important of which is the intricate interlinking of conceptual analysis and its textual basis. These principles will be encoded in a web-based electronic tool that will be developed during the course of the project. This tool, called Sastravid, incorporates an example of the new research paradigm and at the same time facilitates further academic research based on the same approach. Its aim is to provide a key that unlocks the contents of Indian philosophical texts by bringing together the information contained in commentarial works, both ancient and modern, in a way that makes it easily accessible from the text itself. Apart from structuring the works, providing commentarial background and linking texts to other texts the present project develops a radically new way of analyzing the text's conceptual contents. This analysis is linked directly to the texts themselves, which makes it easy to switch between philological and philosophical modes of research. This linkage between conceptual and textual analysis embodies a radically new way of thinking about Indian philosophical texts that is located at the very frontier of the discipline and has never been applied to the study of philosophical texts before. It pushes the study of Indian philosophical works beyond the domain of mere textual scholarship into the emerging field of research studying Indian philosophy as philosophy.

Keywords: asian philosophy,indian philosophy
Jews and Slavs in the Middle Ages: Interaction and Cross-Fertilization (JSMA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1043999.6
EU funding (EUR): 1043999.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The central purpose of this project is to bring down interdisciplinary barriers by showing how the Slavic and the Jewish heritage can each be approached as a unique repository of the unknown texts, traditions, and sensibilities of the other. By focusing on previously unexplored or under-explored medieval texts, I aim to reconstruct the Jewish and Slavic legacies, some of whose materials have been considered lost, while others were misinterpreted or neglected. This research project will resort to historical and philological techniques hitherto considered mutually incompatible in this field. The study intends to use methods of cultural archaeology to explore medieval Judeo-Slavic transparency. By cultural transparency we understand the mutual permeability of different cultures, which facilitates the exchange of ideas and genres of creativity between them. Cultural archeology involves methods of multi-disciplinary research based on the assumption that Eastern Europe constituted a melting pot characterized by an intensive cross-fertilization of cultural legacies. Cultural archaeology studies different historical, religious, and literary texts by looking at them as a palimpsest in which earlier texts and types of discourse come to the fore as shaped by their contemporary socio-cultural settings. The proposed theme has far-reaching methodological implications beyond the Judeo-Slavic cultural realm. This project will build a model of cross-cultural interaction to achieve a better understanding of the situations in which different faith-based ethnic cultures cohabit.

Keywords: jewish,slavic,east european
A Modular Nanosystems Platform for Advanced Cancer Management: Nano-vehicles; Tumor Targeting and Penetration Agents; Molecular Imaging, Degradome based Therapy (SAVEME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Russian Federation,Sweden,Austria
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13809085.64
EU funding (EUR): 10500000.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

SaveMe project will address current urgent needs for pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment by exploiting partners’ expertise and most recent research achievements for the design and development of novel modular nanosystems platform integrating new functionalized nano-core particles and active agents. The modular platform will enable the design of diverse active nanosystems per diagnostic or therapeutic application as defined by their active agent compositions. For diagnostics, superior tracers will be developed for molecular MR/PET and gamma camera imaging, enabling efficient diagnosis and guided surgery respectively. Novel functionalized nano-core systems will be conjugated with semi-confluent active shell layer. Three types of shell layers will be design: (1) novel iron oxide nanoparticles as advanced MRI contrast agents and/or (2) DOTA complexes for MRI (with Gd3+), or PET (with Ga-68), or gamma camera (with Ga-69); (3) Integrating within one tracer both iron oxide nanoparticles and DOTA-Ga-68 complexes for a sequential or simultaneous MR/PET imaging. For therapeutics, active nanosystems will be developed to deliver (1) therapeutic siRNAs or (2) anti-MP-inhibitory-scFVs. These non-classic anti-tumor drugs will be designed based on an extensive tumor degradome analysis for combining blockage of selective matrix MPs, thus preventing basic invasive and metastasis steps, with siRNA based neutralization of secondary molecular effects induced by the specific protease inhibition. Individualized degradome analysis will be developed for potential profiling of anti-MP and siRNAs based therapy per patient. To facilitate the above diagnostics and therapeutic effects, advanced tumor targeting and penetration active agents will be linked to nano-core functionalized groups, including a biocompatible PEG layer linked to tumor selective MMP substrate molecules and highly safe and potent novel somatostatin analogue peptides targeting SSTR overexpression.

Keywords: pancreatic cancer,mri,pet,degradome,sirna,sefv,sstr,targeting moiety,nanosystems
The here and the hereafter in Islamic traditions (HHIT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 978368.0
EU funding (EUR): 978368.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to write a history of the Muslim paradise and hell. Researchers (PI, RF and two doctoral researchers) will assess the extent to which Islamic traditions favour or reject a view of human existence as directed toward the otherworld. They will do so by examining a variety of intellectual traditions from the inception of Islam in the 7th century CE until today. The focus of investigation will not just be on the ‘high tradition’ of Islamic theology and jurisprudence, but also on mystical, philosophical, artistic and ‘popular’ traditions, thereby avoiding a monolithic, essentialising account of Islam’s attitude toward the hereafter. As has been argued, the relationship between this world (dunya) and the otherworld (akhira) is as important to Islam as the mind/body dualism is to the intellectual history of the West. However, no sustained effort of analysis has been made in modern Islamic Studies to reflect on the dunya/akhira relationship, and on the boundary that separates the two. This project will be the first comprehensive and systematic attempt in this direction. Five axes of research will underlie this endeavor: (1) the eschatological imaginaire, (2) material culture and the arts, (3) theology and law, (4) mysticism and philosophy, and (5) modern and contemporary visions of the hereafter. The project (proposed duration: 48 months), which is to begin on 1 March 2011, will be based at the Utrecht University and led by Dr Christian Lange (PhD Harvard, 2006, 70%), currently Lecturer in Islamic Studies at New College/School of Divinity. The research team will include one research assistant (100%, 45 months) and two doctoral researchers (100%, 36 months). Financial support is solicited to facilitate the survey of manuscripts and manuscript research in various collections in North America, Europe and Asia, and to help organise two scholarly symposia in Islamic eschatology and one comparative conference.

Keywords: religious imagination,theology,mysticism,philosophy,islamic art,high/popular religion,myth,manuscripts
European Cluster Assimilation Technolgy (ECLAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Austria,Finland,Russian Federation,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2045723.4
EU funding (EUR): 1577144.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The European Cluster Assimilation Technology (ECLAT) programme will provide an unparalleled space plasma physics data repository and software tools archive for the Solar Terrestrial Physics community, building on the existing European Space Agency's Cluster Active Archive initiative. The Earth’s magnetosphere is the best observed space plasma environment in the universe, providing a wealth of information on fundamental plasma phenomena, planetary magnetospheric structure and behaviour, the environmental impact of the Sun-Earth connection, and the operational environment for space-based technology. However, the sheer volume of data available, the wide variety of observational methods and measurement types – in situ measurements, remote-sensing observations, modelling results, on micro-, meso-, and global scales – means that fully exploiting this incredible resource is extremely difficult. The objective of this proposal is to upgrade an already-existing European Space Physics Data Centre, the ESA Cluster Active Archive (CAA), increase its data holdings with a wide selection of additional data and to develop software tools to facilitate data-mining and data-visualization, to provide a research resource to the space plasma community that does not currently exist. One of the key aims of the proposal is to extend existing European magnetospheric modelling activities for inclusion in the CAA, with the ultimate aspiration being to develop “reanalysis” and assimilation technology to marry model output with observations to provide a holistic, synoptic 3D time-history of magnetospheric state, which will provide a contextual framework for interpretation of all other magnetospheric data-sets.

Keywords: cluster magnetosphere ionosphere data-assimilation data-visualization data-mining modelling
Individual Life Chances in Social Context: A Longitudinal Multi-Methods Perspective on Social Constraints and Opportunities (LIFEINCON)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project focuses contextual factors explaining differences in young adults life chances in a longitudinal perspective. By life chances we mean the structural contexts influencing choices and behavior with consequences for education, labor market situation, health, and criminality. Such life chances are strongly and systematically influenced by social class, gender, and ethnicity. The dominant ways to study these differences are to focus socialization effects in the family and differences in human capital more generally. These approaches have been highly successful, but there is still a considerable part of it left unexplained by these models. Part of the reason for this is that they have taken contextual factors insufficiently into account. We propose a synthetic approach to the study of life chances that integrates the traditional models with a fuller focus on contextual factors neigborhoods and social networks in particular. The aims are to arrive at better specified models that will more accurately predict differences in outcomes, and to reach beyond prediction and to identify generative mechanisms causing the observed associations between explanans and explandum. The goal is to reach what Max Weber calls interpretative explanations, and in doing so we need to specify the sociologically relevant settings in which people find themselves. This social mechanism based approach to life chances necessitates methodological pluralism, in which quantitative and qualitative methodological techniques are combined. The project will analyze both large-scale random samples in order to generalize findings and do qualitative analyses of strategically selected small-n case studies in order to identify social mechanisms and understand the ways in which they operate in practice.

Keywords: life chances - neighborhood effects - social networks
Nanoparticle Embedded in Alloy Thermoelectrics (NEAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,France,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Italy
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4008286.34
EU funding (EUR): 2882506.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at developing “Nanoparticle Embedded in Alloy Thermoelectric (NEAT)” materials to harvest energy in the KW range. Thermoelectric Generators will help to recover some of the huge amount of wasted high-grade thermal power leading to significant savings in fuel and Green House Gas emissions. These innovative materials will be designed to perform efficient waste heat recovery in high thermal differentials provided by high temperature industrial processes and automotive engines. Conventional thermoelectric materials are toping ZT values of 1 since several decades. Recently, ZT values as high as 3 at 550K have been reported for thin film nanostructured materials. However, bulk materials are far from reaching a similar performance. NEAT is an innovative nanocomposite alloy capable of attaining ZT>3 at high and medium temperatures. The material concept is based on the joint optimization of nanoinclusions and grain boundaries in order to maximize phonon scattering at multiple length scales, without increasing electron scattering significantly. NEAT will focus on: - Mg2Si nanoparticles in n-Mg2SiSn alloy matrix, for medium temperature range (500-800K) - Ge and Silicide nanoparticles in SiGe alloy matrix, for high temperature range (900-1200K) - A graded nanocomposite of both medium and high temperature materials, for high thermal gradients accommodation. The concept achievement will require manufacturing process innovations enabling the inclusion of well controlled nanoparticles in a host polycrystalline alloy and the preservation of the initial architecture during the sintering. It will benefit from advanced theoretical simulation providing fundamental physical understanding, and materials development guidance. The demonstration of the nanocomposites thermoelectric performances in proof of concept thermoelectric generators and the assessment of its energy pay-back will unambiguously state the potential industrial impact of the project outcomes.

Keywords: thermoelectricity,nanocomposite,sintering,nanoparticles,phonon scattering,silicon,germanium
Rebalancing the brain: Guiding brain recovery after stroke (BRAINBALANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1344853.0
EU funding (EUR): 1344853.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Damage to parietal cortex after stroke causes patients to become unaware of large parts of their surroundings and body parts. This so-called spatial neglect is hypothesised to be brought about by a stroke-induced imbalance between the left and right hemisphere. Some patients experience a partial recovery of lost abilities, but the factors that drive this rebalancing are unknown. The research proposed here will overcome this bottleneck in our understanding of the brain recovery phenomenon, and develop therapeutic approaches that for the first time will control, steer and speed up brain rebalancing after stroke. To that goal, we introduce a revolutionary approach in which TMS, fMRI, and EEG are applied simultaneously in healthy human volunteers to artificially unbalance the brain, and then study and control processes of rebalancing. Because we are one of the few groups worldwide that has accomplished this methodology, and that has the expertise to fully analyse the data it will yield, we are in a unique position to deliver both fundamental insights into brain plasticity, and derived new therapies. In brief, we will use TMS to (i) mimic spatial neglect in healthy volunteers while simultaneously monitoring the underlying neural network effects using fMRI/EEG, and to (ii) determine which exact brain reorganisation leads to an optimal behavioral recovery after injury. Importantly, we will use cutting-edge fMRI pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms to predict which concrete TMS treatment will specifically support this optimal functional reorganisation in the unbalanced brain. Finally, we will directly translate these fundamental findings into clinical practise and apply novel TMS protocols to rebalance the brain in patients suffering from parietal stroke.

Keywords: spatial cognition,parietal cortex,tms,stroke rehabilitation
Causal Structuralist Ontologies in Antiquity: Powers as the basic building block of the worlds of the ancients (EARLYPOWERONTOLOGIES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1228581.0
EU funding (EUR): 1228581.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to bring about a paradigm shift in our understanding of how the ancients conceived of the universe and its contents over a period of 9 centuries, 600 BC to 300 AD. The driving research hypothesis is that the sole elementary building blocks of nearly all ancient ontologies are powers, from which all there is in the universe is built. Powers are relational properties which are directed towards an end (e.g. the power to heat); thus a world of powers is structured in a web of causal relations. What is revolutionary about such a world is that there is only structure in it; hence, causal structuralist ontologies underlie object-metaphysics or process-metaphysics, and worlds of being and becoming, supplying structures from which objects and processes are derived. Yet such ontologies have never been investigated about ancient thought. The project’s topic is new: ancient causal structuralism; the speciality is novel too, requiring targeted training of a team of post-doc researchers which will be provided by the applicant and collaborators. The innovativeness of the methodology consists in training ancient philosophy researchers to discern and identify formal aspects of ontologies at the very roots of human rationality – discerning how the ancients built everything out of power structures. The paradigm shift will generate new knowledge and understanding about the ancient accounts of the world; provide a heuristic vantage point for redrafting the map of the intellectual influences between ancient thinkers; stimulate fruitful debate; and inspire new insights into ancient thought that are literally unthinkable at present. Cognate disciplines that will be affected by the paradigm shift are such as: history of physics; of mathematics; of theology; ancient anthropology.

Keywords: powers,causation,relations,ontological dependence,ancient metaphysics