Widening the frontiers in forensic profiling: probing burned human bones with neutron diffraction (Duration: 2018)

by diogo.santos | Jan 17, 2018 | Projetos

Duration: 2018 Abstract: Neutron diffraction techniques are applied to the study of burned human skeletal remains, for assessing heat-induced changes associated to alterations in bone´s microcrystallinity. The results, coupled to vibrational spectroscopy data...

Assessment of health and social dynamics of human populations of the Middle and Late Holocene in Southern Patagonia: bone and dental evidence (Duration: 2017-2020)

by diogo.santos | Mai 17, 2017 | Projetos

Duration: 2017-2020 Abstract: The explorations of aspects related to the health of human populations of the past in Southern Patagonia from an ecological-evolutionary and biocultural point of view were initiated during the last decades. The general objective of...

Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries (Duration: 2017–2019)

by diogo.santos | Mar 23, 2017 | Projetos

Duration: 2017 – 2019 Abstract:  Coordinator:  Participants:  Partner institutions: Financial support: Collaborative Research Fund Grant, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, HK$6,626,216 (>€800,000EUR) Reference: RGC CRF HKU...

Integrating human omics data for discovering common susceptibility polygenic profiles for obesity (Duration: 2017-2019)

by diogo.santos | Fev 16, 2017 | Projetos

Duration: 2017-2019 Abstract: The main objective of this study is to describe low frequency alleles and copy number variations (CNVs) associated with higher obesity susceptibility risk, as it has not been previously detected, neither with GWAS nor with indirect...

Heat-induced changes in human bone probed by neutron vibrational spectroscopy (Duration: 2017)

by diogo.santos | Jan 17, 2017 | Projetos

Duration: 2017 Abstract: Neutron vibrational spectroscopy was applied to the study of burned human skeletal remains, as an innovative way of tackling heat-induced changes in human bone, which will have a significant impact in forensic, bioanthropological and...