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Managing Wetlands for sustainable Livelihoods at Koshi Tappu Nepal
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Funded by: The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
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A Study of the Aetiology & control of Rainbow Trout Gastro Enteritis (RTGE)
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Funded by: British Trout Association, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs and Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum
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Development of a landscape model for the control of Rhododendron ponticum
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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6th International Symposium on Monogenea
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Funded by: Royal Society
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Developing a scheme for monitoring sentinel farms in the UK Trout Industry
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Funded by: British Trout Association, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs and Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum
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Functional and psychosocial outcome in living liver donors and recipients in Scotland
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Haemorrhagic Kidney Syndrome
PI: Professor Hugh Ferguson
Funded by: New Brunswick Salmon Growers Association
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Developing Practical strategies for reducing the spread of harmful organisms during the transportation of live fish
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Funded by: British Trout Association and Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum
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Becca Banks Project
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Funded by: Archaeology Limited
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ABACUS Arctic biosphere-atmosphere coupling across multiple scales
PI: Professor Philip Wookey
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Developing an assistive technology for cognition: Guiding users through complex behavioural sequences
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Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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RTFS - Developing Control Strategies for Rainbow Trout Fry Syndrome
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Funded by: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs and Schering-Plough Ltd
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Mathematical models of the dynamics and control of parasites in fish populations
PI: Professor Rachel Norman
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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EMS Research Support: Peter Hinow
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Funded by: Edinburgh Mathematical Society
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Characterisation of vibrio sp in marine culture
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Funded by: Sea Fish Industry Authority
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Light Technology for Photoperiod Regulation in Cod Mariculture
PI: Professor Herve Migaud
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Papar Project
PI: Professor Ian Simpson
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Peat erosion and the management of peatland habitats.
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Funded by: The James Hutton Institute
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Support for radiometric data processing for UKSHS
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Environment Agency
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Evaluation of WWF African Bushmeat Initiative, West Central and East Africa
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: WWF International
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The timing of glacial/ interglacial environmental changes and climatic inferences from Fuego Patagonia South America
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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The use of Chironomidae larvae to define Holocene environmental change
PI: Dr Eileen Tisdall
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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NERC Blue Skies studentship
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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MRC - HSRC MOBILE - Collaborative Research fellowship
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Investigating the relationship between concentrations of od beta/gamma emitting radionuclides in the Ribble estuary sediments and consequential doses to people on house boats
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: SKM Enviros
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Biocomplexity in the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
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Funded by: Royal Society
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Study of the desaturases of omega- 3 highly unsaturated fatty acid (HUFA) biosynthesis in the Cobia (Raxhycentron Canadum)
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Funded by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Development of a National Strategy for Management of Bushmeat use in Gabon
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: Wildlife Conservation Society
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Biocomplexity in the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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The Influence of farming practices on bat populations within agricultural landscapes
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: People's Trust for Endangered Species / Mammals
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Estimating transmission parameters of Gyrodactylus: a key requirement for contingency planning
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Funded by: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
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SALMONPHARM
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Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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A Transcriptomic Analysis Of The Host-Pathogen Relationship In Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Of Atlantic Salmon
PI: Professor Randolph Richards
Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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The Influence of farming practices on bat populations within agricultural Landscapes
PI: Professor Kirsty Park
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Disease and stress resistant common Carp: Combining quantitative, genomic, proteomic and immunological makers to identify high performance strains, families and individuals
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Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Palaeoenvironmental analysis of soil samples from Hadrian's Wall Vallum
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Funded by: C F A Archaeology Ltd
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Palaeoenvironmental study of early Holocene human settlement on Stronsay, Orkney
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Funded by: Orkney College
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Reconstructing the Ecology of Lakes Impacted by Catchment Change and Eutrophic Episodes: Restoring Good Ecological Status in large shallow lakes
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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Warm water fish production as an income earning diversification strategy for a west coast based tourist enterprise: Feasibility Study and Initial support towards
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Funded by: UHI HI Links
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New Zealand as a Noah's Ark for the extinct UK bumblebee (Bombus subteranneus)
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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The Ring of Brodgar Excavation.
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Funded by: Orkney College
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Developmental changes in working memory during the period of middle childhood
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Climate Change, Land Management and Erosion in the organic and Organo-mineral soils in Scotland and Northern Ireland
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Funded by: The James Hutton Institute
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Aquatic microbial metagenomics & biogeochemical cycles
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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The Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) project: the hinterland (phase 2)
PI: Professor Ian Simpson
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Network of Distributed Sensors for Proactive Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines
PI: Professor KEN Turner
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Investigations at Pinkie.
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Funded by: C F A Archaeology Ltd
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Patient Safety in Primary Care Pilot: Project Evaluation
PI: Professor Vivien Swanson
Funded by: NHS Tayside
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Identifying & defining the bases of individual
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Iron Limitation: a Genomics and Proteomics Approach
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Investigating developmental changes in children's memory for past events
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Darwin Initiative
PI: Professor Katharine Abernethy
Funded by: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
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To produce a validated SOP for the rapid identification of Gyrodactylus salaris & its accurate discrimination from other species of Gyradactylus found, principally on
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Funded by: FRS Marine Laboratory and Centre for Enviroment, Fisheries & Aquaculture
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Testing Hypotheses About Cumulative Cultural Evolution
PI: Professor Christine Anna Caldwell
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Rainbow Trout Fin Erosion
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Funded by: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
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Metagenomic analysis of marine carbon-and nitrogen-fixers and their contribution to new production
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Sustainable Aquaculture in Europe
PI: Professor Trevor Telfer
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Landscape heterogeneity, soil ecology & environmental change : the Scottish Highlands & the Scandes Mountains as model study systems
PI: Professor Philip Wookey
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Blue Skies PhD Support Student: Ben Pears
PI: Professor Donald Davidson
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Developing Maternal Confidence in the Neonatal Unit: Which Infant Feeding Practices promote Self-efficacy in Mothers of Pre-term babies?
PI: Professor Vivien Swanson
Funded by: Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research
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Cognitive Electrophysiology UK Getting the most from studies of memory, language and attention
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Specialist advice to help develop a Research project on Scotland's Ecological Footprint
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Funded by: Scottish Government
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Analytical investigation and numerical approximation of hierarchically size structured population models
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Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Eurosoil 2008.
PI: Dr Clare Wilson
Funded by: Royal Society
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AHRC Study Visit
PI: Valerie Dufeu
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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The perception of temporal regularity across modalities
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Funded by: The Guarantors of, Brain
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Soil organic carbon and mineral stabilisation in paddy soils : field sampling in Sri Lanka
PI: Dr Clare Wilson
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Perceiving temporal regularity across modalities.
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Funded by: The British Academy
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Modern Human settlement in tropical South Asia: Micromorphology and microstratigraphy of two late Pleistocene - early Holocene rockshelter sites in SW Sri
PI: Professor Ian Simpson
Funded by: The British Academy
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A Chemotherapy Trial
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Funded by: Novartis Animal Health Canada Inc
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Cost Action 2102
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Funded by: European Science Foundation
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International Congress of Entomology 2008.
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Funded by: Royal Society
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International Congress of Entomology
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Funded by: Royal Society
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Development of soil microbial communities in volcanic soils- diversity and decomposition functions on chronosequences
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Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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The impact of waste disposal from the late Medieval Burghs on local soils
PI: Professor Donald Davidson
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Transcriptional control of polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis in fish
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Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Welcome to the Sahel.
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Funded by: Higher Education Academy
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Control of sex in Atlantic Halibut
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Funded by: Bodø University College
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Sediment Mobility in the Lunan Catchment
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: Scottish Environment Protection Agency
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SPEAR: Sustainable Options for People, Catchment & Aquatic Resources
PI: Professor Trevor Telfer
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Psychological factors which influence adherence to medication in stroke survivors
PI: Professor Ronan O'Carroll
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Population structure in the ciliate fish pathogen ichtyophthirius multifilliid (ciliophora) and its impact upon the host parasite interaction
PI: Professor James Bron
Funded by: The Fisheries Society of the British Isles
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Effects of habit fragmentation of the Population of Rare Bumblebees
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Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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Functional Characterisation of fatty acyl desaturase cDNA from sea bass by heterologous expression in yeast
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Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Banning Smoking in Public Places: The impact on not smoking, physical activity and diet
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Funded by: Forth Valley NHS Board
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Studentship - Research based monitoring of the channel morphology & stream ecology of the River Nith rediversion at House of Water Open Coast Coal Site near New Cumnock,
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Funded by: Scottish Coal Ltd
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Red blood cells & plasma highly unsaturated fatty acid & phospholipase A2 concentrations as indicators of cellular dysfunction
PI: Professor Gordon Bell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Sustainable Development of Cod Farming (NorthCod)
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Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Reproductive Ecology of Arctic Insects
PI: Professor Matthew Tinsley
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust
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Provision of a multiple discharge effect water treatment plant sampling project
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: SKM Enviros
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Examination of the life cycle of tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae
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Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Prospective analysis of emerging aquaculture systems in the EU
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Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Evolving a better composite
PI: Professor Peter Hancock
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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FISHINOIDS - Fish & Flavinoids
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Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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The Electronic Sales Engine - An artificial Intelligence based sales optimization system
PI: Professor Kevin Swingler
Funded by: Scottish Enterprise
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Managing Agrochemicals
PI: Professor Dave Little
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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