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Fraud and Economic Lies: Information and Strategies – FELIS
Most recent progress has been made in the economic literature on dishonesty in three directions: the understanding of the importance of moral norms in individual decision-making, the conflicting role of opportunities provided by asymmetries of information and social preferences, and the crucial effe
Mechanics of ESCRT-III catalyzed membrane fission – ESCRTfission
The structural and functional basis of ESCRT-III membrane remodeling is poorly understood. To provide more insight we propose to pursue the following three objectives: 1. The first objective is to solve the structure of the repeating unit of the 40Å-wide ESCRT-III filaments at high resolution, whic
Secondary refrigeration application by CO2 hydrate slurry: from hydrate crystallization to their integration in cold storage and transportation processes – Crisalhyd
Cold production is a basic need of development in many fields (food preservation, chemistry, electronics, transportation, air-conditioning), but it represents an energy cost equivalent to 15% of the electricity consumed in industrialized countries. Including the direct impact of current hydrofluoroc
Multi-configuration density-functional theories for excited states – MCFUNEX
Time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT) is the standard approach for computing electronic excitation energies. Despite its success, TD-DFT, in its usual approximate formulation, cannot treat multiconfigurational electron correlation effects adequately and it completely misses multiple elec
Ceramic Optical Fiber for Laser Applications – FOCAL
Fiber lasers are expected to occupy 40% of the laser market within a few years against 10% nowadays. As a matter of fact, they enable i) higher compactness compared to classic bulk lasers, ii) beam transportation and iii) easier use through very good heat dissipation and vibration immunity. Even th
Graph Signal Processing – GRAPHSIP
Massive datasets have now to be processed in many different application areas. These data are often represented by graphs to encode interactions. When data vectors are associated with graph vertices, a so-called graph signal is obtained. The processing of such graph signals faces several open challe
Multi-Image Restoration and fusion: from Applied Mathematics to the imaging Industry – MIRIAM
This research program deals with the quality enhancement of digital images. Specifically, we consider the increasingly common situations where several acquisitions of the same scene are available, possibly through a video sequence. An issue of growing importance is to fuse these im- ages in order to
a Physical InterNet cross-docking hUb conTrol System – PI-NUTS
The PI-NUTS (“Physical InterNet cross-docking hUb conTrol System”) project contributes to the Physical Internet (p) field, which is an innovative paradigm, breaking with the usual approaches of current actual logistic systems. The aim of this new paradigm is to fight the unsustainability symptoms in
Structural geometric approximation for algorithms – SAGA
Combinatorial optimization arises naturally in a variety of resource management problems in public transportation companies, industrial manufacturing, financial and health-care institutions. Standing out are two categories of optimization problems, packing and covering, with applications in material
Representation and manipulation of highly detailed shapes – RichShape
In the context of computer graphics, this project aims to enhance the realism and visual richness of digital images. More precisely, our goal is to design novel representations for the efficient rendering of highly detailed 3D objects. First, the focus will be put on the representation of mesoscale
