Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Power System Wide-area GPS Synchronized Monitoring with Phasor Measurements and Low-Frequency Oscillation Mitigation Analysis (PSWAMFOA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-06-14
End date: 2011-12-13
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 137147.09
EU funding (EUR): 137147.09
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Electric power is essential to modern society. Economic prosperity, national security, and standard of living depend on reliable electric power systems. But increases in open access transactions, heavy loading, weak connections, hidden failure in protection, and other unexpected events may cause the system to lose balance and even lead to catastrophic failures. To compete in the new global market, European industry must have a more sustainable energy system and increase the efficiency, flexibility, safety, reliability and quality of the European electricity systems and networks. Thus, there is the need for a new action to bring Europe up to date with the state-of-the-art power system measurement, control and protection ideas, methodologies, tools and techniques. As a new class of measurement, synchronized phasor measurements greatly elevate the availability as well as the quality of data and information useful to improve system monitoring, protection, control, and operation of the increasingly stressed power systems. The project proposed here consists of syncronized phase measurement and the study of low-frequency oscillation mitigation. The major objective of this project is to enhance the available knowledge and tools that will promote a better system-wide monitoring accuracy and devolop new control and reliability tools for electricity systems through the applications of synchronized phasor measurements. Therefore, the project which is of considerable importance in contemporary electrical science as well as for numerous technological applications will focus on the specific research topics as following: 1) Study on the method of optimal PMU placement; 2) An alternative for including phasor measurements in state estimators; 3) Synchronized frequency measurements under dynamics; 4) Study on low-frequency oscillation characteristics and mitigation method; 5)Adaptive out-of-step protection and control using wide area measurement.

Keywords: electrical engineering,wide-area measurement,pmu,state estimation,control and protection,synchronized frequency measurements,low-frequency oscillation
Constructing Users for Public Transport: The Case of Transantiago (TRANSANTIAGO2008)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-05
End date: 2011-03-04
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 136421.27
EU funding (EUR): 136421.27
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the search of more sustainable forms of urban mobility the increase in the use of public transport has consistently appeared among the top priorities of current transport policies of world cities. One of the key factors for the success of these policies is their capacity to attract growing amounts of people to use public transport. But until now these actual/potential users of public transport has received little attention both in academic research and in the design of policies in the area. In this context this research looks for contribute to the development of a specific research agenda on the users of public transport. Using a multidisciplinary theoretical framework the aim is to study in a comparative way the design and development of the user of a new public transport plan started in the city of Santiago, Chile in February 2007, called Transantiago. This plan had the aim of improve the use and quality of public transport in the city, but the results were exactly the opposite. Not only did the journeys by public transport become longer and highly uncomfortable, but almost every aspect of the new plan seemed not to be working properly. In particular this research project will study the development of the concept of the “user of Transantiago” and its implication for the implementation, and subsequent crisis, of the plan. The research questions are threefold. Firstly, to describe and analyze the multiple ways in which an “ideal” user of Transantiago was constructed inside the organizations involved in the development of the plan. Secondly, to study how the population who started using Transantiago interacted with this “ideal” user. Thirdly, to compare the Transantiago with other transport policies developed in the EU in order to extract some general conclusions about the role of users in public transport development.

Keywords: social sciences,science & technology studies,large socio-technical systems,transport,user,technology,design
Attention and consciousness in the brain (ATTENTION&CONSCIOUS)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165444.54
EU funding (EUR): 165444.54
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Most of the information that reaches our senses is unconsciously processed, affecting our behaviour but out of voluntary control. Only a small portion of our environment gains conscious awareness, shaping our “perception of the word”. Attention has been proposed as the mechanism that selects relevant information, prioritizing its arrival to a conscious state. Although the details are to be worked out, the orienting of attention seems to correlate with activity in large-scale brain networks. Whether the integrity of these attentional networks is necessary for conscious perception is still under debate. Converging evidence demonstrates that endogenous attention is dissociable from conscious perception. However, evidence from brain damaged patients suggests that some form of attention is actually necessary for a conscious representation of the environment. Damage of the right parietal lobe results in a syndrome known as neglect, which consists of a complete lost of awareness of contra-lesional stimulation. Deficits of spatial attention in neglect are not generalized, but concern foremost exogenous attention, with a relative sparing of endogenous orienting. This suggests that while endogenous attention might not be necessary for consciousness to emerge, some form of exogenous attention is a necessary condition for conscious perception. The main aim of our project is to explore the relationship between attention and consciousness and its implementation in the brain. This objective will be approached by using a variety of techniques. Our results will help us understand the neural basis of attention, consciousness, and voluntary control, which will directly apply in better diagnostic techniques as well as improved rehabilitation programs for brain damaged individuals.

Keywords: attention,conscious perception,fmri,tms
Food and Society in Mediterranean Prehistory (FOOD)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-28
End date: 2011-09-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180783.75
EU funding (EUR): 180783.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research reconstructs diet and economy as social relations in the later prehistory of the Central Mediterranean. Particular emphasis is given to the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age of Northern and Southern Italy. The principal technique used is isotope analysis of human remains; isotope data are compared with archaeological evidence of food production and consumption. Particular attention is given to the balance of animal and plant protein in the diet, the consumption of marine resources, and the consumption of c4 plants such as millet.

Keywords: archaeology,neolithic,bronze age,nutrition,food,isotopes,mobility,diet
Sokar and Nefertem chapels in the Egyptian temple of Sethy I in Abydos (1294 – 1279 B. C.) (SOKAR CHAPELS)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-19
End date: 2012-10-18
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172501.55
EU funding (EUR): 172501.55
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the south of Egypt, approximately 450 km from Cairo is situated the ancient town of Abydos. This important religious center was choosen by the king Sethy I to built his funerary temple. This monument, considered as a masterpiece of egyptian art, is though not entierly published. I suggest to study and publish a part of the temple : three chapels of the god Sokar and Nefertem. The first part of this work is archaeological and epigraphic. It includs making photographs and plans of the chapels showing the place of the scenes. After drawing the scenes, which have a characteristic style, an elegance of the art and an asthetic sensibility, I will present a description of the representations and a translation of the hieroglyphic texts. In the commentary, religious, historical and litterature aspects will be developped. What were the relations between the gods represented in the chapels and what were there place in the official religion of the country ? What kind of relation had the king with them ? What was the impact of these gods in the politic, particularly, after Akhenaton revolution (1355 – 1337 B. C.) ? The cult of the principal god, Sokar, will be compared in other contemporary buildings and in temples of the graeco-roman period. This reserach will show the evolution of the cult of Ptah-Sokar during the late period, the common aspects of his cult and his local forms in the chapels of Sokar in Karnak, Edfou and Dendera temples. Further information about the king’s titles will be gathered, which will provide historical information about his royal ideology, politic and how he restored the cult of divinities, venerated in many provinces. These information could enhance our historical knowledge of this significant reign of Sethy I. The organisation of these scenes will be studied to understand the beliefs and the point of view of Egyptian scribes. The study of the place of scenes on the wall could show if the whole represents a litterary composition.

Keywords: egyptology,ancient religion,comparative religion,araeology,epigraphy,ancient history
Organelle interactions in iron-sulphur protein biogenesis (ORG INT ISP)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 179649.73
EU funding (EUR): 179649.73
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Iron-sulphur (Fe-S) proteins are crucial to life-sustaining processes such as respiration, photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation. These metalloproteins contain ancient but versatile co-factors, called Fe-S clusters, consisting of iron and acid-labile sulphide. In plant cells, evolutionary conserved Fe-S cluster assembly pathways have been localized to the mitochondria, plastids and the cytosol. Whereas the last decade was dedicated to the characterization of individual components, we still do not know how the pathways interact in plants, although there is evidence for such interaction. In particular, deletion of the mitochondrial ABC transporter AtATM3 is known to impair plastid functions. In this proposal, I will address the relationship between the compartmentalized Fe-S cluster assembly machineries in plants. I will use both reverse and forward genetic approaches in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to obtain a map of the interactions between Fe-S assembly pathways. First, using selected mutants, I will assess whether impairment of one specific pathway affects the assembly of Fe-S proteins in other cell compartments. Second, to investigate how AtATM3 is involved in chloroplast functions and get clues about its substrate, I will search for mutations that suppress the chlorotic phenotype of atm3 mutant. Possible interactions with Fe homeostasis will also be investigated. This fellowship will introduce me to a novel model organism and new techniques, within a very successful Anglo-Saxon education model (Cambridge) from which I hope to take elements for my future research/teaching career.

Keywords: plant genetics,bioenergetics,mitochondria,chloroplast,assembly pathways,photosynthesis,respiration,organelles,iron distribution
Exploring Quantum Entanglement using Spins in Diamond (EQESD)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160595.46
EU funding (EUR): 160595.46
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to create and detect quantum entanglement between a single spin in the solid state and a single photon and in a second step entanglement between two distant spins. This experiment will be realized using Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, that are exceptionally well suited for this due to their very long spin coherence time and a strong and stable optical transition that allows spin-photon mapping. An NV center in a superposition of spin states will be optically excited, and the subsequently spontaneously emitted photon will have a frequency that is entangled with the NV center’s spin. This entanglement will be detected using correlation measurements, and thus requires high-fidelity coherent control and readout of single spins. Entanglement of distant spins will be realized via interference of indistinguishable photons originating from two distant NV centers. Successful generation of long-distance entanglement constitutes a milestone challenge for quantum information processing in the solid state. The proposed experiment combines state-of-the art methods from quantum optics, magnetic resonance and nanofabrication and provides an excellent opportunity for the researcher to deepen and diversify his experimental skills. This training will allow the researcher to reach professional maturity and carry out an independent line of research.

Keywords: quantum information,solid state,quantum mechanics,spectroscopy,electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,optical and dielectric properties
Evolution of plant volatiles manipulation by vectored pathogens (PLANT VOLATILES)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-12-25
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242916.29
EU funding (EUR): 242916.29
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many important plant diseases are vectored by insects, and the dependence of pathogens and insect herbivores on a common plant host creates the potential for antagonistic and mutualistic interactions that may have large implications for disease transmission. Pathogen-induced effects on plant traits affecting their suitability for herbivores or the cues presented to foraging insects are likely to be central to these interactions. Yet, the ecology and evolution of plant-pathogen-vector interactions is not well understood. A few recent studies have shown that virus-induced plant organic volatiles are attractive to aphid vectors, but broader implications for disease ecology and pathogen evolution have not been investigated. I propose here to explore the ecology of vector-borne viral and bacterial pathogens of the wild gourd Cucurbita pepo subsp. texana. Previous work in this system suggests that infection by an aphid-vectored virus, ZYMV, and a beetle-vectored bacterial pathogen, Erwinia trachephila, are dependent on the selective behaviour of their respective vectors. I will thus explore the effects of pathogen-induced changes in plant volatiles and insect behaviour, and their impact on pathogen transmission. I will examine variation within natural pathogen populations for these effects, to gain a better understanding of their adaptive nature and their consequences in pathogen epidemiology and evolution. I will also develop a second study system, involving the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and a whitefly-vectored virus (CaMV) to extend this valuable model to questions relating to plant-pathogen-vector interactions, which would greatly facilitate the elucidation of underlying mechanisms. The proposed work will be performed jointly at the department of entomology of the Pennsylvania State University, USA, a worldwide leader in the fields of chemical ecology and disease dynamics, and the laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution at Université Paris-Sud 11, France.

Keywords: evolutionary biology,chemical ecology,plant-insect interactions,plant-pathogen interactions,bacterial pathogens of plants,viral pathogens of plants,population genetics
Fedback in low mass galaxies at z>1 : a SIMPLE study (SIMPLE-FEEDBACK)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 334095.41
EU funding (EUR): 334095.41
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Current observations and models indicate that supernova feedback processes are important in shaping many properties of galaxies. In spite of rapid progress, our current knowledge of the physical properties of super-winds is still in its infancy: it comes mainly from few nearby galaxies or from bright ultra-luminous infra-red galaxies where the kinematics of the winds are inferred from the blue-shifted sodium absorption of the cold entrained gas against the galaxy continuum, i.e. along radial sight lines. We are studying low-mass galaxies &quot;caught in the act&quot; of producing super-winds half-way across the universe (at z=1) using the MgII resonance line in QSO spectra. A unique aspect of our project is that we are combining the 2D spatially-resolved kinematics of starbursts with the 1D kinematics of the absorbing gas seen along the quasar sight line. Our scientific goals, however, extend much beyond our sample. While at the outgoing host, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), working with Prof. C. Martin, we aim to combine our results on intervening sight-lines with upcoming surveys on radial sight-lines in order to put both in a unified context. This will give us constraints on the radial properties of outflows. In addition, given that our sample nicely fills unexplored mass and SFR ranges, we will quantify how the wind properties vary over a much wider range of masses and star-formation rates. At the returning host, the Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), the fellow will prepare, design and exploit the next-generation of feedback surveys using the wide field integral field unit, MUSE, which will provide unprecedented 3-dimensional data sets on thousands of faint emission line galaxies, and spectra of hundreds of galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-quasar pairs. In other words, the skills acquired at the outgoing host will be very valuable to exploit the MUSE instrument, which is one major training objective.

Keywords: physical sciences,astrophysics,cosmology
O2-Activation at nickel complexes and their use as catalysts for environmentally friendly oxidation technologies (NIO2ACTIVATION)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161563.92
EU funding (EUR): 161563.92
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the proposed research plan is the preparation of nickel complexes as catalysts for the oxidation of hydrocarbons using environmentally friendly oxidants like molecular oxygen (O2) or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The complexes will be prepared using highly robust nitrogen-based ligand scaffolds and carbene N-heterocyclic systems. Different ligands with different architectures (from bidentate to pentadentate) will be used in order to evaluate the most suitable scaffold for nickel and several substrates will be used in order to test the activity of the prepared catalysts in oxidation reactions of inactivated organic compounds. Moreover, their ability to perform stereospecific reactions using more complicated targets (natural products) bearing several non-equivalent C-H bonds will also be tested. This subject is specially relevant and interesting due to the importance of selectively incorporate oxidized functionality into organic frameworkds. The performance of asymmetric oxdiation processes may be achieved by the use of chiral ligands. Moreover, the active species implicated in the oxidation processes will be studied. In this sense, the preparation of nickel complexes based on carbene N-heterocyclic ligands may allow the access to low-valent complexes (Ni0 or NiI) which may be capable of direct activation of molecular O2 leading to the formation and detection of Ni-O2 species which may be responsible for the oxidation reactions. Relevant aspects to be considered are their electronic structure, the reversibility of the interaction, the basicity and electrophilicity of these species and their ability to oxidize organic substrates. These Ni-O2 species may possess different oxidation profiles towards exogenous substrates depending on the ligand architecture.

Keywords: oxygen activation,nickel oxidation catalysis