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The space in between: where local meets global in human vision – WHOLESCENE
Vision has puzzled researchers for centuries and remains as enigmatic as ever. During the last seventy years, research has successfully pursued a programme structured around localized neural circuits. In behavioral and neural experiments, circuits are typically characterized using simple laboratory
Dynamic fragmentation with the cohesive Lipschitz approach – CLIP-
A Swiss-French consortium aims to develop a fast and scalable approach for dynamic fragmentation, which will be released as open-source software. Explosions and impacts result in the initiation of cracks that propagate at high speeds, coalesce to form fragments, that may collide with one another. Th
Superfast Photonic detection of Phage Lysis – SUPPLY
Multidrug bacteria resistance is spreading fast and, in the absence of new approaches, 10 million victims per year are envisioned by 2050. Phage therapy, i.e. the therapeutic use of bacterial viruses called bacterio(phages), is currently strongly investigated for its potential to stop bacteria whene
Ultra-Compact Non-linear Metamaterial Wave Processors for Analog Deep Learning – MetaLearn
Information processing based on tailored wave-matter interactions emerges as an appealing alternative to conventional digital processors in terms of speed and energy consumption, in particular for low-latency low-power Internet-of-Things sensors with artificial intelligence (AI). We will introduce l
Biological nanopore sequencing of long digitally-encoded polymers – 01Pores
Our society produces data at the impressive rate of few exabytes per day; trend that is continuously escalating creating for the future significant storage and archiving issues. At the current pace, supports based on silicon or magnetic tapes will become soon unsustainable, thus that new alternative
NMR Signatures of Platinum Clusters and Particles – Pt-NMR
Heterogeneous catalysis is a central science in modern society enabling a more sustainable synthesis and transformation of chemicals. Heterogeneous catalysts often consist of metallic species, ranging from isolated atoms to nanoparticles, often dispersed on a variety of supports. Among the various m
Redox-active benzylmenadiones against malaria and Schistosoma parasites – ROSaction
Malaria (MAL) and schistosomiasis (SCH) are infectious diseases of poverty of global importance. No vaccines are available and new chemotypes are urgently needed for the development of drugs to fight those two diseases. For MAL, caused by Plasmodium spp. parasites and transmitted by Anopheles spp. m
Essential Indexicality and Thoughts about Experience – EssInTEx
This project explores the relations between two central themes in contemporary philosophy of language and mind, mental indexicality and phenomenal consciousness, in connection with the mind/body problem. The thesis that there is indexicality at the mental level is the thesis that some thoughts, typi
Modelling and estimation of unsteady aerodynamic flow at high Reynolds number – MISTERY
In the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer, an increasing number of engineering systems experience aerodynamic unsteady flows, including wind turbines, helicopters, and air vehicles. Interactions with the turbulence in the atmosphere can lead to large load fluctuations, shortened lifetime and reduc
Metabolic imaging of subiculum in Alzheimer Disease – SUBLIM
The formation, storage and recall of memories are critical for normal adaptive functioning. Dysfunction of any of these processes is central for a variety of brain disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. One principle about learning and memory derived from studie
A reVised dATing framework for quantifying geomorphological processes during the AnthRopocene – AVATAR
Artificial fallout radionuclides from nuclear weapons testing and, more locally, from nuclear power plant accidents are found ubiquitously in the environment around the world and they provide the privileged marker candidates (“golden spikes”) of the Anthropocene stratigraphic layers. The onset of th