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Re-use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge: effects on quantity and quality of groundwater
Water is an essential resource for households, industry and agriculture. However, the pressure on (drinking) water supply for households, industry and agriculture, water quality and aquatic environments is increasing.
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Real-time imaging of fluorescence lifetime
The project proposes to research a next-generation imaging platform capable of revealing in real- time new and 1more accurate information related to a patient’s body and its diseases through an innovative time-domain fluorescence imaging (tdFLI) technology.
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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for the 6G revolution
The demanding objectives for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication networks have led to recent research efforts on novel materials and radio-frequency front-end architectures for wireless connectivity, as well as revolutionary communication and computing paradigms.
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Regulation of bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems
The genomes of lost bacteria contain a plethora of small operons commonly referred to as toxin- antitoxin (TA) systems. The toxin typically slows down or almost completely halts bacterial metabolism as a consequence of various kinds of stress such as food limitations.
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Reinvigorating participation and mediation in art practices
Arts are a reflection of the questions that resonate in a society and serve as dynamic spaces to challenge norms and inspire cultural and social change.
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Reinvigorating the EU-NATO Partnership
The EU and NATO exist in a symbiotic relationship: they represent the two side of the coin of European integration, namely economic integration and security cooperation.
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Remote actuation for wearable robots
Poor wearability in active exoskeletons and prosthetic devices is still a key issue. There are many aspects that can improve the wearability. One key problem is the weight of the actuated device. High weight leads to high reflected inertia, higher metabolic cost, bulky devices, etc.
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Rethinking personal income taxation in a digitalized world
In the past decade, the central focus of international policymakers and organizations such as the OECD and the European Commission has predominantly revolved around the restructuring of corporate income tax in a digitalized world, leaving individual taxation largely within the purview of domestic
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Rethinking public values across European dataspheres
The project investigates the potential of European dataspheres for integrating and fostering public values in a media context characterized by platform economies, datafication and a crisis of trust in the public sphere.
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Revolutionizing the treatment of inherited metabolic liver disorders through directed protein evolution technology
Inherited metabolic disorders of the liver (IMLD) are a heterogeneous group of rare diseases caused by a single defective enzyme in a metabolic pathway of hepatocytes. This often leads to the accumulation of toxic metabolites and the highly specific destruction of liver cells.
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