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'Dead End': An Economic and Cultural History of Japan in the Age of the Great Depression, 1927-1937 (JAPANGREATDEPRESSION)

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: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 549441.6
EU funding (EUR): 549441.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project presents an economic history and socio-cultural reconstruction of Japan in the age of the great depression; it is an attempt to demonstrate the depression&apos;s &apos;total&apos; or multicontextual implications by outlining different but complimentary views of what was defined as the depression&apos;s core problems (and their possible solutions) within different social classes and within different strands of thought. Seen in historical perspective, it covers the period from the &apos;ShMwa financial crisis&apos; (1927) until the outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937). The project consists out of three components: First, it addresses the macro-economic ideas in vogue at the time. It specifically concentrates on the personalities and roles of finance ministers Inoue Junnosuke  K© and especially Takahashi Korekiyo ØK/ (&apos;Japan&apos;s Keynes&apos;), who has widely been credited for smoothening the role of the global depression on the Japanese economy. The second part of the project rests with the origins of depression in Japan&apos;s official and semi-official colonies in 1927 and the role the latter played in fueling the later crisis on the Japanese mainland. The project investigates the role of speculation, and inquires to which degree the effects of depression were &apos;imported&apos; from the subsidiary economies of Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, and Manchuria. Third, as this project has a strong focus on the role economic realities were identified (&apos;semantics&apos;), it also develops a cultural history of the age of depression. The project identifies the rise of a new vocabulary and discourse in an era obsessed with the idea of an economic and moral dead end (ikizumari).

Keywords: financial history,monetary history,gold standard
The determinants of international migration: A theoretical and empirical assessment of policy, origin and destination effects (DEMIG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1186768.0
EU funding (EUR): 1186768.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main question of this research project is: how do migration policies of receiving and sending states affect the size, direction and nature of international migration to wealthy countries? The effectiveness of migration policies has been widely contested in the face of their apparent failure to steer immigration and their many unintended, perverse effects. Due to fundamental conceptual and methodological flaws, most empirical evidence has remained largely descriptive and biased by omitting crucial sending country and policy variables. This project answers this question by embedding the systematic empirical analysis of policy effects into a comprehensive theoretical framework of the macro and meso-level forces driving international migration to and from wealthy countries. This is achieved by linking separately evolved migration theories focusing on either sending or receiving countries and integrating them with theories on the internal dynamics of migration processes. A systematic review and categorisation of receiving and sending country migration policies will provide an improved operationalisation of policy variables. Subsequently, this framework will be subjected to quantitative empirical tests drawing on gross and bilateral (country-to-country) migration flow data, with a particular focus on Europe. Methodologically, this project is groundbreaking by introducing a longitudinal, double comparative approach by studying migration flows of multiple origin groups to multiple destination countries. This design enables a unique, simultaneous analysis of origin and destination country, network and policy effects. Theoretically, this research project is innovative by going beyond simple push-pull and equilibrium models and linking sending and receiving side, and economic and non-economic migration theory. This project is policy-relevant by improving insight in the way policies shape migration processes in their interaction with other migration determinants

Keywords: international migration,migration determinants,migration theory,migration policies,policy impacts
Towards a Unified Analysis of World Population: Family Patterns in Multilevel Perspective (WORLDFAM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1088904.0
EU funding (EUR): 1088904.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching aim of this proposal is to develop the conceptual and analytical instruments to establish a formal linkage between macro and micro level perspectives in demographic research, with an application to the study of worldwide patterns of family formation. Using census and survey microdata, we will conduct worldwide multilevel analyses that will allow us to investigate demographic trends at three levels of disaggregation: national, regional and individual. We will study the relationship between societal changes and three interrelated aspects of family formation: union formation, assortative mating, and intergenerational co-residence from the young cohort perspective. The societal effects will include phenomena such as educational expansion, women s economic activity, urbanization, as well as individual socio-economic characteristics. Analysis will be based on data from a vast new archive of international census microdata made available by the Integrated Public Use of Microdata Series international project (IPUMSi), with complementary use of Fertility and Family Surveys (FFS), Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) and Gender and Generations Surveys (GGS). The full dataset will amount to 124 countries, more than 1,400 regions and 305 million person records, statistically representing roughly 90% of the world population. This research raises complex theoretical and methodological questions. We do not contend that this project will be able to establish causality; rather, we will identify and illustrate differences between and within countries based on a rigorous and comprehensive set of variables exploiting microdata to develop systematic measures at different levels. Methodologically, the project will confront the challenges of combining datasets, providing meaningful measures of family formation, creating contextual variables, optimizing computational requirements, framing models that encompass different levels, time spans and regions.

Keywords: world population,family formation,census and survey microdata,multilevel models,spatial analysis
Professional Receiver via Software Radio (PRECISIO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,France,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-15
End date: 2013-04-14
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1484371.33
EU funding (EUR): 999466.5
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The PRECISIO project shall define, design, develop and validate a multi-constellation, multi-frequency GNSS software receiver targeting professional markets and applications. In parallel to the technical development, the project shall also carry out a business analysis and develop an implementation plan for a future software receiver product.

Keywords: galileo gnss gps
Bringing the Media Internet to Life (3DLIFE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,France,Germany,Switzerland,Greece,Korea, Republic of
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4087097.0
EU funding (EUR): 2978446.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

3DLife will integrate leading European research groups to create a long-term integration of critical mass for innovation of currently fragmented research addressing media Internet. The main objective of the NoE are: -To foster the creation of sustainable relationships between existing national research groups and to start development of a Virtual Centre of Excellence in the field. -To create sufficient momentum by integrating an existing large number of researchers and resources and to push forward new paradigms on 3D media communication and interaction over the Internet. -To influence European and world research agenda in several key aspects of 3D Media Internet. 3DLife aims at supporting the creation of a Virtual Center of Excellence in Media Internet and conduct cooperative research in the field. To achieve this goal 3DLife will integrate complementary expertise, enable resource optimization and sharing, and foster research in Media Internet technology. 3DLife addresses wide, Pan-European integration through dedicated activities aiming at sharing laboratory facilities, technological developments and resources, including people. To ensure this wide cooperation and to guarantee that the targeted integrative research profits from, feeds back into, and fosters links with research groups of the 12 new EU member states, a Pan-European Integration Board will be part of the project. The technical and integration goals will be influenced by two other external and independent Boards of Industrial and Scientific Advisors.

Keywords: 3d media internet,virtual human clones,3d virtual worlds,3d media processing,real-time interaction,3d virtual life and autonomy
EGNOS Extension to Eastern Europe (EEGS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Romania,Poland,Ukraine,Not available
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1365600.88
EU funding (EUR): 599944.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project pretends to prove that the EGNOS coverage area could be extended (APV-I 99%) to cover all Eastern Europe. Moreover, a SBAS signal will be available in Poland, Romania and Ukraine to demonstrate on-ground (at user level) that in fact the steps to upgrade EGNOS to provide such a service are ready to be implemented in the EGNOS programme. Both facts – proving EGNOS extension capability and providing an EGNOS-like signal in countries where currently there is no SBAS signal – are a remarkable step for the EGNOS strategy of providing service for all Europe. To achieve this main objective, two tasks will be developed: i. On the technical side, two fields of improvements will be evaluated: EGNOS extended coverage area with data processing improvements (without extra RIMS) on one side and with infrastructure improvements (addition of extra RIMS) on the other side. ii. On the management side, the necessary studies done by local partners (Romania, Ukraine and Russia) and supervised by AENA (the Spanish Air traffic control service provider and a leader in navigation service provision) will be conducted to conclude on the necessary steps to be taken for RIMS implementation in the extended region and EGNOS service provision. Even further and with the SDCM prime contractor as participant in the project, it is intended to study how EGNOS and SDCM could be interoperable, which constitute a second step beyond the state-of-the-art of the EGNOS service in the East. These studies will conclude in a demonstration for the overlapping EGNOS and SDCM area to make a practical interoperable exercise between both systems. In parallel and to promote EDAS for probably the most-promising GNSS market in Russia, the EGNOS RIMS data through EDAS will be combined with SDCM stations data to provide a high-precision position service. Finally, a study on the impact of Galileo in the scenario of EGNOS covering all Eastern Europe and EGNOS/SDCM interoperable will be conducted.

Keywords: egnos east eastern europe russia edas sdcm interoperability ppp demonstrations
Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Index-Based Insurance Schemes for Optimal Risk Management in Agriculture (AGINSURANCE)

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: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is well-known that agriculture is a risky business. In addition to the catastrophic events, farmers face double-risk by involving in production, namely output and price risks. Naturally, traditional insurance systems are developed to cover these risks: yield insurance covers the output risk and price insurance covers fluctuations in prices. Currently, as the European Union commission reports suggest, European countries offer mostly classical insurance systems. However, none of these systems offer enough coverage regarding farmers’ revenues. As a result, the cost of uninsured risk keeps farmers dependent on the government subsidies by shying them away from possibly higher-return but risky activities. This project aims to develop, implement, and evaluate an optimal index-based revenue insurance mechanism which will allow the agricultural households to manage and minimize their risks. The index developed will not be affected by households or the insurance agency, thereby eliminating the possibility of adverse selection and moral hazard. Unlike the current insurance schemes, the suggested innovative system will be market-based, self-sustainable, and easily scalable to the entire EU Region and the Associates. It will address both of the major risks faced by farmers while minimizing the need for government involvement in the market. Successful establishment of the proposed insurance mechanism will provide European farmers with the tools necessary to compete in the world markets. Soon after developing a feasible model, a particular emphasis will be put on outreach and education of farmers to make them familiar with basics of risk management and insurance. While the proposed scheme can easily be implemented by insurance agents, complex index-based contracts might stand as a potential barrier to create effective demand. An innovative financial education technique based on repeated games will be employed to familiarize agricultural households with financial concepts.

Keywords: microeconomics,agricultural economics,industrial management,agricultural insurance,agricultural finance,experimental education
Role of Arl13b in endocytic trafficking (ARL13B TRAFFICKING)

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: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To move cargo between specific membrane-bound intracellular compartments, eukaryotic cells have evolved numerous mechanisms of membrane trafficking regulation. We found that CD1a, an MHC Class I-like lipid antigen presenting molecule follows an endocytic recycling pathway similar to that used by MHC Class I and other cargo internalized independently of clathrin. In an attempt to discover new regulators of this pathway, we screened a shRNA library for changes in CD1a surface expression and we found that the small GTPase Arl13b could be involved in the regulation of endocytic trafficking. The knock-down of Arl13b caused the clustering of early endosomes and the accumulation in this organelle of recycling cargo, such as transferrin, and also cargo destined for late endosomes and lysosomes, such as dextran. Moreover, the recycling rate of CD1a was decreased when Arl13b was knocked-down. Together, these results indicate that Arl13b regulates a sorting step from the early/sorting endosome. Arl13b belongs to the Arf-like (Arl) family of small GTPases, which remains poorly characterized. By uncovering its function we will shed light on the regulatory functions of this family of proteins. Future studies will focus on finding Arl13b effectors, determining if Arl13b binds to the cytoskeleton like other Arls, and also establishing the role of this protein in the primary cilium, a structure where Arl13b localizes prominently.

Keywords: cell biology,membrane traffic,small gtpases,primary cilium,endocytic pathway
Energy Aware Radio and neTwork tecHnologies (EARTH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,France,Germany,Italy,Hungary,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Portugal,Finland,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14804805.0
EU funding (EUR): 9483512.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Telecommunication networks and in particular mobile communications are increasingly contributing to global energy consumption. The EARTH proposal tackles the important issue of energy saving by enhancing the energy efficiency of mobile broadband systems thereby reducing CO2 emissions. It is a highly ambitious and unique proposal, applying an integrated approach to investigate the energy efficiency of mobile systems. EARTH has mobilized a consortium of all major stakeholders with serious efforts committed to the development of a new generation of energy efficient products, components, deployment strategies and energy-aware network management solutions. The target of EARTH is to enhance the energy efficiency of mobile systems by a factor of at least 50% compared with the current ones. It will investigate the energy efficiency limit that is theoretically and practically achievable whilst providing high capacity and uncompromised QoS. The proposal is primarily focused on mobile cellular systems, LTE and its evolution LTE-A, where potential impact on standardization is envisaged but it will also consider 3G (UMTS/HSPA) technology for immediate impact. The tangible results of the EARTH project are: 1) Energy efficient deployment strategies, 2) Energy efficient network architectures, 3) New network management mechanisms, adaptive to load variations with time 4) Innovative component designs with energy efficient adaptive operating points, 5) New radio and network resource management protocols for multi-cell cooperative networking. The new techniques will be validated using sophisticated simulation tools and in a mobile network test plant. Technologies developed by EARTH will enable wireless communications systems with unprecedented energy efficiency, significant reduction in environment pollution and operating cost. EARTH plans to provide valuable and timely contributions to standardization, regulations processes and place Europe in a strong IPR position.

Keywords: energy efficiency,cellular networks,deployment strategies,systems and networks,lte,lte-advanced.
Testing and Correcting Programs with Applications to Codes (CORTST-PROGRAMS)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-09-21
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the main challenges of software engineering is verifying the correctness of software. In this proposal we focus on correctness of the code per input rather than full program verification. This methodology associates with every function to be computed a new piece of code called a checker, which given any possibly buggy program for the function and an input, “checks” whether the program on this input computes the function correctly. We further aim on correcting buggy programs using self-testers and self-correctors. A self-corrector that is given a potentially buggy program which is guaranteed to compute the function correctly on a random input, “corrects” the program on any given input. A self-tester tests whether a program is correct on a random input. The focus of the achievements in the field has been the design of efficient checkers (and self correcters/self testers) for *specific* efficiently computable functions exploiting either their algebraic or combinatorial properties. In recent works we have demonstrated relation between highly symmetric error correcting codes and testing and correcting. Moreover we managed to design checkers for functions characterized by their complexity. In light of the this new body of work we suggest to revisit the checking and correcting methodology, emphasizing a general error correcting approach and complexity theoretic approach, rather than a function specific approach.

Keywords: natural sciences,checking programs,correcting programs,error correcting codes,ldpc codes,property testing,graph theory,pcp