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- project . 2012 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: ES/J003093/1Funder Contribution: 343,605 GBPPartners: Cardiff University, Irish Language Commissioner, Welsh Language Board BYIG WLB, Commissioner of Official Languages
This pioneering study of the implementation of official language policy in Wales, Ireland and Canada (2011-2014) is conceived as an evidence-based contribution to applied public policy within an emerging regional polity. The role of the Language Commissioners as regulat...
- project . 2014 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: NE/M005879/1Funder Contribution: 51,988 GBPPartners: UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, University of Liverpool, NRCan, Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP), IFM GEOMAR
The Peru-Chile subduction zone hosts many large earthquakes. A M8.8 earthquake occurred in northern Chile in 1877, and since then, no major event had re-ruptured the area prior to April 2014. The 500 km-long zone has therefore become known as the "North Chile seism...
- project . 2011 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: EP/I031170/1Funder Contribution: 536,960 GBPPartners: University of Toronto, University of London, Autodesk Inc, Adobe Systems Incorporated, BBC, Harvard University
Current computer graphics techniques allow us to render almost any object at near photo-realistic quality. However, the standard approach necessitates that the user painstakingly specifies all aspects of the geometric and material properties of the object. This is time-...
- project . 2009 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: EP/G034303/1Funder Contribution: 4,569,560 GBPPartners: NTUA, European Centre for Connected Health, University of Cambridge, Titan IC Systems, University of California, Berkeley, ACIS, University of London, Intel Ireland Innovation Centre, Qioptiq Ltd, Royal Holloway University of London...
Recently the media has been awash with reports on the downloading and sharing of music files, a crisis which strikes at the economic viability of the entire global music industry. This is a startling reminder of the security challenges posed, in both the civil and crimi...
- project . 2011 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: NE/H021868/1Funder Contribution: 569,600 GBPPartners: Durham University, UWO, Opole University, UW, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic
The Cretaceous, 146-66 million years ago, experienced high levels of atmospheric CO2, and the warmest climates and highest global sea-levels in the last 300 Ma. On several occasions, the oceans became abruptly depleted in oxygen, so-called oceanic anoxic events (OAEs), ...
- project . 2012 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: ES/K001280/1Funder Contribution: 166,240 GBPPartners: National Institute of Economic & Soc Res, University of Strathclyde, University of Ottawa
Population ageing is an important challenge facing most countries in the world. The scale of the demographic change, which started in the 20th century and will continue throughout the 21st century, is dramatic. Over the past 50 years the proportion of the UK population ...
- project . 2011 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: NE/I006672/1Funder Contribution: 807,791 GBPPartners: University of Michigan–Flint, Met Office, University of Reading, CSIRO, EnviroSim (Canada)
PAGODA will focus on the global dimensions of changes in the water cycle in the atmosphere, land, and oceans. The overarching aim is to increase confidence in projections of the changing water cycle on global-to-regional scales through a process-based detection, attribu...
- project . 2014 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: AH/L013177/1Funder Contribution: 83,948 GBPPartners: High Peak Community Arts, Keele University, New Vic Theatre, UWO
This study explores ways of evaluating and enhancing the legacy of Connected Communities projects though a detailed investigation of the methodological approaches, cultural outputs and partnerships established in four specific projects funded under this programme. The s...
- project . 2012 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: EP/J012564/1Funder Contribution: 636,717 GBPPartners: University of Oxford, McGill University, IBM (United Kingdom), University of Liverpool, GWU
In March 2011, Japan suffered from its biggest earthquake and devastating tsunami. Severe damage were inflicted on its Fukushima nuclear plants and more than 100,000 people had to be evacuated after the radiation levels became unsafe. Workers were not able to operate on...
- project . 2011 - 2015Funder: UKRI Project Code: NE/I005978/2Funder Contribution: 278,079 GBPPartners: University of London, University of Birmingham, Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeonto, University of Exeter, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, NERC British Geological Survey, McGill University, University of St Andrews
The Earth is a truly remarkable planet. In addition to the physical processes driving plate tectonics, climate and ocean-atmospheric exchange, it supports an extraordinary diversity of living organisms, from microbes to mammals and everything in between. Such wasn't alw...
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