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Contributions of Prosodic and Lexical Cues to the Decoding of Phonetic Information from Speech
A core aspect of language comprehension is the extraction of phonetic information from speech.This process is non-trivial due to the transient nature of phonetic segments and their...
Digital Glossary of Nuzi Hurrian
After centuries of research, scholars have deciphered most ancient Mesopotamian languages, but a few are still not fully understood. One of these last frontiers is Hurrian. The big...
Simon b. Semah Duran’s Polemic with Islam
Proposed here is a thoroughgoing analysis of the second section of R. Simon b. Semah Durans polemical work Qeshet u-Magen.The academic literature has much to say about the first se...
Glycomics of Residues from Plant-Based Beverages for Microbiota
The growing concern over the environmental impact caused by food industry waste, particularly residues from the production of plant-based beverages, has emphasized the need for mor...
Transformative Accountability for net-zero Transitions
Cities and urban agglomerations have set ambitious CO2 targets that necessitate a sustainable transition over the coming decade.Recently, the Commission announced a mission to make...
(Im)politeness and conversational humour in a multicultural society: Exploring new media and real-life contexts
In an increasingly interconnected world, harmonious intercultural communication is imperative, particularly within multicultural societies.This project aims to investigate the intr...
Memory and Archive Ontology in Digitalization of War Heritage in the Western Balkans
Memory and Archive Ontology in Digitalization of War Heritage in the Western Balkans"" (MARCH-ON-DIGIT) project aims to investigate the intersection of memory and archive...
Understanding how different condensin activities regulate mitotic chromosome folding in human cells
In human cells, the SMC complex condensin plays a significant and essential role in chromosome condensation, but there is conflicting data.Studies from other groups have suggested...
Properties of quantum gravity from effective field theories
General relativity (GR) has led to remarkable scientific progress, most notably with the recent detection of gravitational waves (GW). This success has prompted efforts to build ne...
Uncovering the link between bacterial growth and secondary metabolite dynamics in soil biocrusts
Bacterial secondary metabolites are highly valuable to humanity as antimicrobials. However, the antimicrobial discovery rate has been lagging behind rapid resistance development.Ou...
A Digital Spatial Approach to Decoding Domestic Art Display across Early Modern Antwerp Society
The SPADArt project addresses a significant gap in our understanding of early modern European art by reconstructing the private domestic settings in which artworks were originally...
Determining the mechanistic role of gremlin 1 in the profibrotic activation of monocyte-derived macrophages and in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
The problem: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare, progressive lung disease resulting in respiratory failure. IPF is irreversible and patient’s median survival is 3-5-year...
Salmon Time: A More-than-Human History of the Decline of Atlantic Salmon in Modern Ireland, 1853-1970
This is the first history of the decline of wild Atlantic Salmon.Wild salmon world-wide are in jeopardy, their existence threatened by a host of factors, from dams blocking their m...
Unraveling the Impact of Vaccination on Rinderpest Virus Evolution
Rinderpest virus (RPV) was historically one of the most devastating pathogens affecting cattle, with a global impact unmatched by any other livestock disease.Although largely eradi...
Chaotropic delivery of fully anionic oligonucleotides
Developing effective membrane transporters is a key challenge for the delivery of nucleic acid-based drugs.Despite the exponential discovery of such biomolecules with therapeutic p...
Advanced Butanol and Hexanol Production from CO2: Integrating Genetically Modified Clostridium strains in Bioelectrochemical Systems
The production of butanol and hexanol from syngas (CO and CO2) fermentation represents a significant advancement in sustainable chemical manufacturing.This project aims to enhance...
Women, Violence and the Control of Sexuality in Early Modern Western Mediterranean Armies
Women's presence in warfare and armies was commonplace in early modern Europe.Whether within armies, in transit areas, military lodgings, permanent military residences, or in...
Valuing the Wild: From Stated Preference Methods to Compensating Income Variation
Demand for endangered wildlife products is driving the illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, which threatens global biodiversity and has significant impacts on public health th...
Books in the Borderlands of the Iberian Worlds: Jesuit Libraries and Cultural Transformation in South America (17th and 18th Centuries)
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Society of Jesus played a key role in the evangelisation of Indigenous peoples, particularly in the borderlands of the Iberian empires, and...
Computational Study on the Performance of Iron-Polypyridine Catalysts in Artificial Photosynthesis
As contemporary society faces increasingly difficult challenges arising from climate change, devising means for the reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions has become a foc...