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STatistical Early WArning systems of weather-related Risks from probabilistic forecasts, over cities in West Africa – STEWARd
Africa, a better prediction of their impacts is of key challenge. This project aims to develop a forecast
Boost ecosystem services through highly Biodiversity-based Mediterranean Farming sYstems. – Biodiversify
. Three production systems covering a large land use area and a wide gradient of pedo-climatic conditions [...] Italy, Spain and Tunisia). Biodiversify will organise a network of eight case studies that will define key [...] and co-evaluated through participatory workshops. A gradient of HSD solutions based on spatio-temporal
Development and optimization of halophyte-based farming systems in salt-affected Mediterranean soils – HaloFarMs
soil and water salinization. The project involves a multidisciplinary and intersectorial R&D team, including [...] poorly valued lands, diversify the cultures with a set of traditional food crops, traditional cash crops [...] viability of farms and secure the incomes of workers in a socially and ecologically acceptable way.
Irrigation and Drainage monitoring by remote sensing for Ecosystems and WAter resources management – IDEWA
support a more productive and sustainable management of scarce water resources is considered a priority [...] availability and food production is critical for a human population in continuous growth. The issue of [...] poorly known or quantified, drainage actually is a key water flux controlling both the soil salinity
Ergativity and Information Structure: Comparing Chibchan languages – CHIBERGIS
research and collaboration of a network of French and German linguists sharing a common interest in the creation [...] Chibchan languages. The research goals include (a) a detailed structural investigation of the syntactic and [...] grammatical phenomena at several layers of the grammar. A challenge for the current linguistic research is to
Control of attention in children: Interaction of voluntary and involuntary attention – CAC
voluntarily focus on a task in the context of task-irrelevant background sounds or speech is a typical situation [...] The successful control of attention is based on a balance between two important aspects of attention: [...] children aged 4-12-years and adults as well as in a group of adolescents suffering from Attention Deficit
Holocene Hydroclimate and Carbon Cycle Dynamics in the Central Congo Basin – ORACLE
better understand a key region of the Holocene carbon cycle in the tropics, (ii) provide a detailed record [...] ecosystems are highly productive and constitute a critical component of the global carbon cycle. The [...] n associated with these swamp forests represents a major below-ground carbon reservoir of global importance
Open innovation Hub for Irrigation Systems in Mediterranean agriculture – HubIS
The project will adopt a participatory action research strategy by implementing a Mediterranean irrigation [...] potential. Modernization of irrigation followed a top-down approach not always adapted to the needs [...] performance gap requires inverting the process to a bottom-up interdisciplinary approach, in an open
From local diversity to transnational institutionalization: The emergence of the European Unified Patent Court – UNIFIED
The UNIFIED project pursues research on a transnational institutional convergence in the context of geographically and legally fragmented judicial practices in Europe. In particular, the project focuses on an empirical case of an emergence of a European institution in a real life, the European Unified Patent Court (UPC) that will be exclusively competent for patent-related legal disputes Europe-wide.
Unraveling the pathophysiology of Bethlem Myopathy using a unique zebrafish model for the disease – FishandCol6
Bethlem myopathy (BM) is a misunderstood and uncurable disorder characterized by abnormal contractures and muscle weakness. The BM results from mutations in one of the genes encoding the 3 major a-chains of collagen VI (ColVI), a component of the myomatrix, but the mechanisms of action have not been elucidated. Our working hypothesis is that muscle dysfunction caused by BM mutation results from alteration in muscle excitation and/or intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis.