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Urban Cooling by Trees – Assessing and Modeling for Designing Sustainable Cities – COOLTREES
The first general objective of COOLTREES is to evaluate and model the evapotranspiration of urban trees in relation to their environment, and to link their role in the urban climate to their structural and functional characteristics via modeling by taking into account three different scales: the can
Upcycling of Plastic Blends via Reactive Extrusion – UpCycle
Plastics are light, tough, durable, and their processing energetically less demanding than most other raw materials. Yet, the current economy of plastics is far from being sustainable, with only 8.3% of the 391 million tons of plastics produced worldwide in 2021 coming from post-consumer recycled po
Up-to-date LLM for all – LLM4all
Large Language Models (LLM) of sufficient size exhibit outstanding emergent abilities, such as learning from their input context and decomposing a complex problem into a chain of simpler steps. Both these emergent abilities and the performances that have been published on many tasks tend to prove th
Unrevealing the neuronal circuits underlying chronic pain – PaiNetWork
The goal of the PaiNetWork project is to characterize the phenotype, the function, and the synaptic connectivity of the neural microcircuits underlying mechanical allodynia at the peripheral, segmental, and supra segmental levels, under neuropathic or inflammatory conditions. Behavioral results meas
Unravelling the Mars’ atmosphere Main Mysteries (MCUBE) – MCUBE
The M3 project is led by the desire to promote one of the most productive partnerships in the Mars exploration community and entertained by two laboratories in France (LATMOS) and Russia (IKI). These two laboratories are engaged together in the space exploration through ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TG
Unravelling signaling pathways involved in encystment of disease-causing amoebae – AmoCyst
Surviving when living conditions become unfavourable is one of the challenges that all living organisms face. Barricading oneself and going into dormancy are all reactions found in the animal and plant world in the face of environmental stress. These strategies are also found at the microscopic leve
Unraveling the pathophysiology of Bethlem Myopathy using a unique zebrafish model for the disease – FishandCol6
BM is a muscle disease characterized by joint contractures and muscle weakness worsening with age. BM results from mutations in genes encoding one of the three a chains of collagen VI (ColVI), a component of the skeletal muscle extracellular matrix produced by interstitial fibroblasts. A still unres
Unraveling the dynamics of bacterial cell wall synthesis and maturation at the nanoscale – NanoWall
The cell wall plays a major role in bacterial proliferation, survival and virulence. However, the molecular processes responsible for its architecture and final composition are still largely misunderstood. Peptidoglycan (PG) and teichoic acids (TA) are the two major components of the wall of Gram-po
Unraveling intra-pulse dynamics and fast energy transfer in silica glass - a pathway for smart processing using ultrafast lasers – INTRALAS
Ultrafast laser structuring is key to a new generation of material processing tools. This pertains to glass, with 3D processing capabilities into the nanoscale. Optimizable in yield and scale, smart processing concepts emerged using spatiotemporal beam design tuned to material response. This require
Unraveling complex nucleation pathways in natural and engineered cements – NUANCE
Calcifying organisms such as the sea urchin make use of amorphous precursors of CaCO3 during the initial times of formation of their shells and skeletons. This amorphous precursor strategy offers a cheap alternative through the free energy of formation pathway, because these solids are easily formed
