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Assessing the environmental sustainability of urban food supply through a lifecycle perspective – URBALIM
Feeding city in a sustainable way is one of the major challenges facing humanity. In order to meet growing environmental challenges, and societal demand for more environmentally friendly food products, emerging urban food supply schemes are praised. Based on profound changes in upstream (e.g. develo
Assessing the relationships between marine protected areas and invasive species – PAVIS
The project is focused on the relationships between MPAs and alien/range-expanding fish species in the Mediterranean Sea, and aims to answer the following three questions: 1) Do MPAs influence the expansion of alien/range-expanding species and mitigate their effects on native assemblages? 2) Can
Assessment of the effects of ionizing radiation in bees – BEERAD
The risk assessment linked to the radiocontamination of the environment after a nuclear accident is a major ecological issue but is still surrounded by controversial results and conclusions on the real impact of such events on flora and fauna inhabiting the targeted zones. Moreover, the potential un
Assessment of the pharmacokinetics parameters of an innovative easy to use ketamine sublingual gel formulation for psychiatric facilities – ASPIK
In psychiatric indications, ketamine is given through slow intravenous infusion over several hours that requires a dedicated nurse to reconstitute the appropriate individual dosage (usually 0.5-1 mg/kg) and a specific surveillance of blood pressure during the administration. A low-cost alternative g
Astroglial Kir4.1 ion channel deficit drives chronic migraine – KirMig
Migraine is the most debilitating of all neurological disorders, imposing significant societal costs. The majority of its clinical, financial, and emotional burden stems from chronic migraine. A key driver of migraine chronicity is central sensitization, which involves the heightened activity of neu
Asymmetric Catalysis Promoted by Sigma-Hole Interactions – ASYMHOLE
Asymmetric catalysis is the most useful way to provide enantioenriched compounds for various applications, especially therapeutic ones. Such catalysis mostly relied on metal-based catalysts. Due to toxicity problem associated with their use, organocatalysts have emerged as an alternative. Although i
Asymmetric synthesis of sulfinamidines – SulFourN2
The synthesis of bioactive compounds bearing unconventional functional groups and pharmacophores is a strategic task for pharmaceutical companies. In this context, the access to aza-analogues of sulfur derivatives is a great opportunity to obtain improved drug properties in terms of solubility, acti
Asymmetry, Reduction, and Quantum Field Theory - A Philosophical Investigation – ARQ
Quantum theory emerged over the past century as one of humanity’s most profound scientific achievements. Since its inception, it has generated extensive philosophical inquiry, as its conceptual structure challenges traditional views on the nature of scientific theories, the structure of scientific e
Asynchronous Decentralized Optimization of machiNe learnIng modelS – ADONIS
Machine learning keeps studying new problems that are large scale and whose size keeps growing: they need more data, require more computational power and models need larger hyper-parameter grid-search. This is particularly the case of deep learning models, which employ many ad-hoc engineering tricks
At the extremes of mental imagery vividness: a cognitive, neural and evolutionary investigation – IMAGINE
Close your eyes, and imagine yourself swimming in the sea.. In most people, the mental image of swimming in the sea is vivid with a high degree of detail. Mental imagery is referred to as the simulation of a perceptual experience in the absence of a corresponding direct external stimulus and ma
