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The design, construction and exploitation of the R&D Field Lab `Einstein Telescope Pathfinder’
The next (3rd ) generation of gravitational wave detectors will make gravitational wave astronomy a fact. Indeed, with the current generation about one event a week is observed while with the 3rd generation this will be hundreds of events a day!
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The main research question for Brussels Center for Competition Policy
How can we advance national and European competition policies in a methodologically sound manner, looking particularly at legal soundness and consistency, the treatment of efficiencies and sector-specific considerations and political aspects?
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The molecular basis of neurological disease: structural and mechanistic insights in enzymes and signal transduction pathways implicated in neurological disorders
Enzymes play a central role in all metabolic and cellular pathways. The Versées lab therefore focuses on the elucidation of the mechanisms that underlie the tremendous catalytic power and regulation of enzymes and enzyme complexes.
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The new makings of law - on the cusp of legal practice and legal theory
This research will combine ethnographic research with foundational research in legal theory.
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The practical language of international law from Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) to Paris (1763): sovereignty and territory within and outside the Public Law of Europe
International legal history is a blossoming field since the initiation of the “turn to history” in international law. Whereas the study of international law’s past used to be restricted to published treaties and works of doctrine, the ambitions are more boldly stated nowadays.
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The Representation of Transcultural Space in Contemporary German-Speaking Minority Literature in Europe
The research project proposes to deal with the relationship between space and identity in German-language minority literature from multilingual areas such as South Tyrol, East Belgium, Northern Schleswig, Alsace, Silesia etc. written after 1989.
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The role of immune and endothelial cells in shaping a regenerative pancreatic islet microenvironment: 3D perspectives.
Diabetes is a pandemic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia. Current diabetes treatments strive for glycemic control but fail to solve the underlying beta cell defect.
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Towards a better understanding of the social dynamics that explain support for radical politics
Recent years have seen an increase in so called ‘radical politics’. Both at the left and right end of the political continuum ‘radical’ political parties have emerged and gained sustained electoral success.
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Towards dimensional assessment of personality disorders (and psychopathology): providing further evidence for the DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders (AMPD) or ICD-11 model for personality disorders (ICD-11 PD) in (older) adults
As an empirically based model, the AMPD and the ICD-11 PD model are more clinically useful than the categorical criterion-based DSM approach (Morey et al., 2014), it allows a more personalised patient approach by its ease of communication as the personality description can be communicated to pati
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Transnational Migration Streams in Later Medieval Europe: The Role of the Low Countries
The later Middle Ages has long been considered as largely irrelevant for the study of transnational migration streams.
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