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Transformations in lifestyles in mediterranean countries : a sociological and demographic study – SODEMOMED
This programme examines the link between demographic transition and induced societal changes and how they materialise in the lifestyles of individuals, depending on their social characteristics, throughout their life cycles.
Dual catalysis for sustainable enantioselective synthesis – PLURICAT
The central goal of the PLURICAT project is the development of innovative approaches to generate and transform in-situ from the alcohol level, the carbonyl functionality required for an enantioselective aminocatalytic process. To fulfill this goal, the strategy combines two complementary catalytic systems, either organometallic and organocatalytic or purely organocatalytic.
Wide-Field Adaptive Optics Systems for Today’s Astronomy and Beyond future Instruments – WASABI
Our program aims at providing answers to key astronomical questions, optimize the use of the current AO-assisted instrumentation, and prepare the future generation of instruments. <br /><br />The project will gather worldwide experts in astronomy and Adaptive Optics, in order to greatly improve the scientific returns of current AO systems, and open brand new areas in the way to design, operate and optimize AO for the next generation of AO-assisted instrumentation.
SEAmount and FRONTal megathrust Tsunami and Earthquake Risk Assessment. – SEAFRONTTERA
A large gap of 500km along the Sumatra subduction zone, the North Mentawai segment, is ready to rupture. To correctly assess its seismic and tsunami risk, it is of fundamental importance to understand why frontal sections can rupture and produce large tsunamis, and what controls the lateral extent of earthquakes. In this project, we propose to model the physical requirement of frontal rupturing and the effect of subducted bathymetric features on earthquake segmentation.<br />
Multi-scale regionalization and monitoring of soil evaporation from readily available data and a mixed modeling approach – MIXMOD-E
The regionalization of current soil evaporation models is made difficult by a lack of either physics in experimentally derived models or data for calibrating theoretical models at the application scales. The development of a multi-scale evaporation model would have a range of applications in agronomy, hydrology, meteorology and climatology.
VAriability of vertical and tropHIc transfer of fixed N2 in the south wEst Pacific and potential impact on the biological carbon pump – VAHINE
The ocean provides many provisioning services, such as food, employment, water, energy. It also provides regulating services. The most important one is the regulation of climate. The ocean absorbs 2 P
Electrodynamics of the Pulsar Magnetosphere: Equilibrium, Radiation and Reconnection – EMPERE
Towards a better understanding of neutrons star electrodynamics and on its implication on low and high energy phenomena (pulsed emission, magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration) in pulsar winds and magnetospheres.<br />Study of the consequences of a strong magnetic and gravitational field on the dynamics of neutron star magnetospheres.
Heavy Photon Search at the Jefferson Laboratory – HPS@JLab
The Heavy Photon Search (HPS) is an experiment, beginning in 2014, which uses the high intensity electron accelerator at the Jefferson Laboratory (JLab), based in Virginia (USA). Its goal is to search for a new particle, outside the standard model, called «heavy photon« in the mass range from 20 to 1000 MeV.
Stimuli-responsive Polymer brushes for On-chip Cell adhesion control – SPOC
The goal of the SPOC project is to design and characterize stimuli-responsive polymer brushes that can modulate cell adhesion. The strategy relies on the conformation change of the grafted macromolecules, triggered by illumination at the proper wavelength, in order to control protein adsorption/desorption and hence cell adhesion. Such brushes will then be used to study and quantify adhesion properties of cells.
Liquid crystalline super-atoms – LC-SUPERATOMS
The goal of this project is to develop a method for producing colloidal particles capable to mimic atomic interactions, and then, to use these super-atoms to produce complex colloidal architectures.