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Ancient History Encyclopedia is a non-profit community website that uses definitions, timelines, maps, illustrations, and articles to present ancient history in a very accessible way. The aim of this site is to promote ancient history, and to make it freely accessible for everybody. The website is built by the ancient history community, and every item is reviewed for quality.

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ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from nineteen European countries are members of ERCIM.

ARISTOTELE aims at relating the learning process to the organizational one as well as to the innovation process management. In the organizational contexts three main kinds of processes are traditionally identified: organizational processes (marketing & communication, human resources management, business), learning processes (group training sessions) and social collaboration processes (spontaneous formation of groups within the organization).

Desktop Grids for international Scientific Collaboration

Service-Component Ensemble Language (SCEL), developed as a multi-layer language for self-aware, autonomic service components (SCs) and service-component ensembles (SCEs) that integrates behavioural description with knowledge representation and reasoning about the environment.

plan to promote innovation as the key to create entrepreneurship in the cultural field.

MAJOR COMMUNITY NETWORKS & LEADING RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE Have joined forces

"PlanetData aims to establish a sustainable European community of researchers that supports organizations in exposing their data in new and useful ways. The ability to effectively and efficiently make sense out of the enormous amounts of data continuously published online, including data streams, (micro)blog posts, digital archives, eScience resources, public sector data sets, and the Linked Open Data Cloud, is a crucial ingredient for Europe's transition to a knowledge society. It allows businesses, governm"

the community for science education in Europe

"Nach Ansicht der Forscher könnte das Katechin in der Schokolade auf die Produktion des Hormons Cortisol und auf die Insulin-Sensibilität der Zellen wirken. Beide gelten als Faktoren, die an Übergewicht und Fettleibigkeit beteiligt sind. Aber wie Cuenca-García betont, heißt das nun keineswegs, dass jeder nun Unmengen von Schokolade essen sollte. "In mäßigen Mengen kann Schokolade offenbar durchaus positiv wirken. Aber übermäßiger Konsum ist unzweifelhaft schädlich", sagt die Forscherin. Für den gelegentlichen Schokoriegel oder das schokoladige Betthupferl spricht demnach einiges. Eine große Tafel oder mehr Schokolade täglich allerdings liefern so viel Kalorien, dass dann wohl auch die Katechine nichts mehr helfen. (Nutrition, 2013; doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2013.07.011) "

FuturICT will build a Living Earth Platform, a simulation, visualization and participation platform to support decision-making of policy-makers, business people and citizens.

"Users can cross-search and reuse over 23,618,232 digital items and 163,720,257 bibliographic records."

"The European Open Science Cloud for Research"