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2013-05-17 - Sowing the seeds of growth in the Mediterranean

Agriculture in the Mediterranean is facing a number of challenges, including the management of natural resources, plant and animal health, and food security and safety. This situation requires an effort to better coordinate agricultural research in the ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Agricultural Sciences, Agriculture, Animal Health

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European Union

2013-05-17 - Research infrastructures get connected

A newly established network of contact points has facilitated linkages among research infrastructures (RIs) across the EU, opening the door to new, powerful synergies among researchers.To advance the European Research Area (ERA), the EU has established ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Infrastructure, European Union, Synergism

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2013-05-17 - Novel materials for next-generation energy devices

EU funding is supporting the development of novel energy devices (i.e. conversion, storage and saving) based on hybrid materials.Inorganic–organic hybrids are materials made from an organic and an inorganic material. When the organisation of individual ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Inorganic, Organic, Nanocomposites

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2013-05-17 - Preparing for the unknown

Throughout history, unexpected events such as the plague or a meteor impact have redefined evolution on Earth. New foresight studies will help manage changing realities and surprise elements in our future.What happens if Europe is severely flooded or ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Invention, Investigation, Ethical, Evolution, Futures

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2013-05-17 - Keeping traffic flowing in the Baltic Sea

Getting through the Baltic Sea when it is completely iced over is often requires extensive use of icebreakers. An analysis by EU-funded researchers has pointed to important steps that could significantly increase the level of service and even decrease ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Baltic Sea, Finland, Vessel

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2013-05-17 - High-throughput screening for toxic algae

Blooms of toxic or harmful microalgae, commonly referred to as HABs, represent a significant threat to fisheries resources and human health throughout the world. This necessitates the continuous monitoring of this phenomenon to avoid the potential health ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Species, Toxic, Algae

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2013-05-17 - Accurate predictions for better coastal zone management

Mathematical models have become indispensable in numerous fields. EU funding is facilitating increased resolution and accuracy of coastal oceanographic models for more robust predictions of future scenarios.In any field, the validity of a solution is ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Coastal Zone, Discharge, Interaction

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2013-05-17 - Protecting medical staff from radiation

Ionising radiation has important applications in medicine, both as a means for diagnosis as well as for therapy. To raise awareness of occupational radiation exposure of medical staff, an EU-funded initiative set out to investigate ways to estimate extremity ... [Published Cordis - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Radiation, Nuclear Medicine, Dosimeter, Consortium

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

2013-05-17 - Charting the scientific route to manned Mars missions

Space missions in Earth orbit have demonstrated the ability of humans to live and work in space for long periods of time. EU funding has enabled the development of a European strategy for reaching more distant targets.Scientists initiated the EU-funded ... [Published Cordis - May 17 2013]

Entities: Radiation, Space ENvironment, Human Spaceflight

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

2013-05-17 - Africa and Europe join forces against malaria

Combating malaria remains a serious challenge for the medical community. Researchers of the MALACTRES project aimed to develop sensitive tools for the prompt detection of malaria coupled to genetic markers associated with resistance to anti-malaria d ... [Published Cordis - May 17 2013]

Entities: Malaria, genetic markers, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Parasitism

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

2013-05-17 - Antibodies against cancer

European researchers have developed immunotherapeuticals that raise specific adaptive immune responses against cancer. Using our body's immune system to fight cancer is emerging as a potential treatment regimen.Cancer therapy remains a clinical challenge ... [Published Cordis - May 17 2013]

Entities: Antibody, Cancer, Tumor

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

2013-05-17 - Small non-coding RNAs implicated in cancer

European scientists in the field of cancer research have explored the importance of non-coding RNAs in tumour formation. Project findings have enhanced our understanding of cancer biology and offered new avenues for therapeutic exploitation.The discovery ... [Published Cordis - May 17 2013]

Entities: Cancer, Tumor, Enzyme

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The EU-funded "Pathophysiology and natural course of autoimmune adrenal failure in Europe" (EURADRENAL) project came to shed light on the mechanisms and genes responsible for disease onset...

2013-05-17 - Understanding Addison's disease [Published Cordis - May 17 2013]

...The EU-funded project "Design study of a European facility for advanced seismic testing" (E-FAST) addressed this pressing issue...

2013-05-17 - Ground-shaking research for Europe [Published Cordis - May 17 2013]

A conference entitled "Young People and Mental Health: Prevention and Early Intervention in Europe" will be held on 30 May 2013 in Brussels, Belgium...

'Young People and Mental Health: Prevention and Early Intervention in Europe', Brussels, Belgium [Published Cordis - May 16 2013]

...The robot is the result of the ESTOMAD project ( "Energy Software Tools for Sustainable Machine Design'), led by the Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre (FMTC) in Belgium. They have been looking at design approaches within sectors, such as agriculture and textiles, that are driven by performance and capacity, rather than energy efficiency. So the main goal of the project, with EU-funding of nearly EUR 2 million, has been to develop a methodology and related ICT tools to model, simulate, analyse and optimise energy flows and losses throughout the whole machine. Wim Symens, Technical Director of Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre says, 'We decided to build a badminton robot to demonstrate the new technologies we are developing. The reason we decided on a badminton robot is that we thought it would be a really convincing demonstrator; a real eye catcher. There has never been a badminton robot, and everybody can play against it.' He adds, 'We were able to cut down the energy consumption of the robot by 50 %.' What the team found from observing the robot was that energy consumption of installed machines can be incrementally reduced by punctual modifications, such as replacing standard electric motors with high efficiency alternatives. With new design schemes developed by the ESTOMAD team, machines are expected to have an average energy saving of 30 % over their lifespan. It is expected that the newly adapted technology will also help the car industry. This approach has previously been employed for products such as refrigerators and laundry machines. Industry has already expressed interest in performing this type of energy efficiency analysis. For example, one of the eight partners involved in the project is Picanol, specialised in high-tech weaving machine construction. It has reportedly cut the energy consumption of its existing machines by up to 15 % by integrating the ESTOMAD software into its production line. The ESTOMAD team believe that in the future engineers could use this software for machines even before they are built. Performing a virtual analysis at an early stage, they say, could provide a competitive advantage to industry. Tom Boermans of engineering solution consultancy LMS International, Belgium, another partner in the project, says, 'A virtual approach is always the preferred one. You can even simulate strange conditions; very fast or very high temperatures. In real life, those tests are very expensive.' It is thought that the badminton robot and the innovative software will help engineers of many different industries to cut down the energy consumption of their production line, making production more sustainable while reducing the costs of their end products."

Badminton-playing robot tests software designs of the future [Published Cordis - May 14 2013]