Projects

(1) If I were you,U+2026 (2) I should (have) know(n). (3) If only she had listened. These constructions are counterfactuals. They speculate about an unrealizable state of affairs based on an unrealized condition. Every language has these expressions but in varying forms. Counterfactuals originate from formerly non-counterfactual expressions through semantic bleaching, phonological reduction etc. in a grammaticalization cycle. ...

Schistosomiasis is a major poverty-related disease, infecting more than 200 million people in developing countries. More than 90% of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by infection with Schistosoma flatworms that reside in the vascular system of the definitive host. Freshwater snails are the intermediate hosts of schistosomes and essential for the completion of their life cycle. Praziquantel is currently the only ...

This project analyses counterfactual constructions in the history of Ancient Greek (from 750BCE to 100CE). These counterfactuals are largely unstudied and more diverse in types than analysed before in linguistics. Previous research has yielded premature generalizations on the nature and evolution of counterfactuals. Therefore I will develop a quantifiable context-sensitive evolutionary model to provide an enriched diachronic typology of ...

The instructional methods of teaching structures to the architecture students are not well adapted to the design education. While instructional methods involve an engineering and formula-based approach, constructivist approaches such as experiential learning can be provided for architecture and design students to develop higher-order thinking skills on the behaviors of structures. Experimenting physically with the variations within a ...

FASTWATER focuses on methanol, a clean fuel, available in large quantities in most ports today and offering a pathway to a climate-neutral synthetic fuel produced from renewables. Methanol is suited for internal combustion engines, gas turbines as well as fuel cells. As a liquid fuel, it is easily stored on board, which is advantageous to ship design, and enables relatively simple retrofitting. Consequently, the EUU+2019s Joint Research ...

Injury-induced regeneration represents a self-preserving mechanism in most multicellular lifeforms Depending on the species, the extent of regeneration is highly variable Among metazoans regeneration is frequently restricted to tissue repair Contrary, plants display an unrivaled regeneration capacity that not only restores damaged tissues, but can also give rise to whole plant bodies, allowing them to survive severe stress conditions, such ...

Currently, agricultural land comprises about 40% of the worlds land surface, producing food for six billion people. Projections are that the global human population will continue to increase and a doubling is expected by 2050. This continued population growth is accompanied by a sharp increase in food demand, which has put a lot of pressure on the agricultural sector to increase crop yields. Pesticides have been increasingly used to help ...