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The social challenges of the quantified self
QUANTISELF is an interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Projects involving Enterprise (sociology, anthropology, information and communication science, ergonomics) that aims to analyse the role playe
The role of microbial biodiversity in the functioning of marine tidal flat sediments
Coastal tidal sediments are highly productive ecosystems at the land-sea interface. Their productivity is often dominated by microbial biofilms, highly diverse consortia of benthic micro-organisms, em
The role of Urban Educative Cultures on children’s behavior change about their daily mobility and urban lifestyle. Collection and spatiotemporal analysis of individual tracks location-based and enriched semantically
The role of urban educational cultures (UECs) in the evolution of children's everyday mobilities and living contexts. Longitudinal and contextual approach to study the evolution of children's mobilities and spatial experiences during the transition from elementary school to middle school. Development of a survey protocol and mixed data analysis (from GPS sensors, questionnaires, interview and observation data walk along interviews).
The potential impact of aging stereotypes in the assessment of memory deficits and screening for prodromal state of Alzheimer’s disease
This project tests the hypothesis that negative aging stereotypes implicitly permeate the clinical neuropsychological testing and thus inflate memory deficits in older adults, resulting in overdiagnosis in the prodromal state of Alzheimer's disease.
The multiple facets of wakefulness, control by histamine
Wakefulness (WK) is a brain functional state allowing vital behaviors and "higher brain functions" including attentional, emotional and cognitive activities. Present knowledge suggests that the mainte
The mathematics of segmental phonotactics
Languages differ widely for their inventory of phonological sounds. Optimality Theory (OT) models segment inventories through rankings of feature co-occurrence constraints (FCCs), which penalize certa
The landscapes of thirst: behavioural adjustments to face water scarcity in a changing climate
Climate change threatens the availability of surface water in many places. Water is essential to life, and most animal species need to drink, always, during some specific periods of the year, or durin
The impact of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) upon the epigenetics of mother and newborn infant and long-term risk of type 2 diabetes
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a form of diabetes that is first diagnosed during pregnancy and poses an important risk factor to the subsequent health of the mother and her developing child. A
