Host immunological characteristics and disease experience in past human populations (Duration: 2020-2024)

by CIAS Gestão | Apr 28, 2020 | On Going

Duration: 2020-2024 Abstract:  The project aims to investigate the relationship between chronic stress, age, health conditions, and immune status concerning the development and severity of syphilis in documented skeletal samples. It seeks to enhance our...

Demolishing the walls, Rebuild the city: Infrastructural Transformation and the Emergence of Urban Governance in Republican Canton, China (Duration: 2020-2023)

by CIAS Gestão | Mar 2, 2020 | Projects

Duration: January 2020 – June 2023 Abstract:  Coordinator:  Participants: Jun Zhang Partner institutions: Financial support: Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (RGC/ECS), Hong Kong...

New dimensions in forensic profiling: imaging burned human bones at IMAT (Duration: 2020)

by CIAS Gestão | Jan 16, 2020 | Projects

Duration: 2020 Abstract: Neutron imaging at IMAT will be applied to the study of burned human skeletal remains, for assessing heat-induced changes associated to alterations in bone ́s microcrystallinity. This work follows successful experiments on MAPS, TOSCA and GEM...

Shining the beam on bones: characterisation of burned and fossilised skeletal remains in MAPS (Duration: 2020)

by CIAS Gestão | Jan 15, 2020 | Projects

Duration: 2020 Abstract: Neutron spectroscopy is applied to study bones exposed to anaerobic burning. The results will complement previous data on skeletal remains burned in an aerobic setting, through INS, FTIR and Raman, and neutron diffraction, with a view to...

Surviving the ruins of hope: Life under China’s P2P financial collapses and trust restoration (Duration: 2019)

by CIAS Gestão | Jan 15, 2019 | Projects

Duration: 2019 Abstract:  Coordinator: Yichen Rao (CIAS) Participants:  Partner institutions: Financial support: Wenner-Green Foundation Reference: Gr. 9856