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FORURENS-Forurensning

The future role for Nitrogen in acidification; investigating the changes in N runoff using modeling, empirical and experimen......se 141498

During recent years attention has been drawn upon increased leakage of nitrate from mountain and heathland areas receiving high Nitrogen deposition. Increased leakage of nitrate may cause deterioration of drinking water, acidification of surface waters an d contribute to marine eutrophication. In...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Coeliac disease (CD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA); mapping the shared features in order to understand autoimmunity

There has been a huge advance in the understanding of coeliac disease (CD) in recent years. Our group has made several important contributions to this improved understanding. Research done by other groups has started to unravel aspects of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that at sev...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Strengthening human resources for health. A study of health worker availability and performance in Tanzania

Shortage of health personnel and poor health worker performance are among the most pressing problems of health systems in low-income countries. This proposal represents a strategic initiative to provide evidence that will be valuable in addressing these f undamental problems. The initiative is a ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Searching for effective HIV-prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa: focusing on local contexts

After 20 years of experience with HIV prevention, the number of people infected with HIV continues to rise, and there are still few examples of declining epidemics. Why have we not done better? This proposal is a response to the urgent need to document wh at works in community HIV prevention and ...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Studies of mesenchymal cell function during development and disease using transgenic techniques.

Cells interact with collagens using specific cell surface protein receptors belonging to a family called integrins. We have identified one collagen-binding integrin (alpha11beta1), characterized its structure and are studying its function using genetical ly modified mice lacking alpha 11 integri...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

SWACOM - Secure and reliable Wireless and Ad-hoc COMmunications

Research areas: - secure wireless communication - using eliptic curves cryptography - using identy-based cryptography - secure routing in ad-hoc networks - user mobility and service continuity across heterogeneous wireless networks - user authentication ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Skeletal malformations in farmed salmon and cod: a functional approach to determine causalities and mechanisms

Skeletal deformities cause severe losses both in salmon and cod production. This research platform aims to gain further insight into the normal growth and development of the vertebral column of salmon, and how current culture techniques may disrupt norma l growth inducing bone related pathologic...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

PRECARE: Conservation of cultural heritage - careful management of changes

PRECARE is focused on achieving knowledge to sustain management and conservation of cultural heritage as buildings and objects of art. The program has a special focus on documentation, preventive conservation and conservation through active use. PRECARE s ees one challenge in documentation of Sta...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

The future of Norway's natural and cultural heritage: applying scenario, foresight and forecast methodologies within an ecosystem context

In light of the increasingly diverse demands being placed on the natural and cultural heritage of Norwegian ecosystems there is a need to adopt new management systems that apply the body of scientific knowledge that is currently available. While the ecosy stem approach advocated by the Convention...

Awarded: NOK 14.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TU-Tungt utstyr

Replacement of Equipment for Protein and Small Molecule X-ray Crystallography

The application concerns REPLACEMENT of most of the central equipment for protein and small molecule crystallography in Tromsø. Present equipment has been used very extensively over (very) many years but is now worn out, outdated and becoming very diffi cult to service. The individual items a...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TU-Tungt utstyr

NTNU Nanolab: A Cross-Disciplinary Research Initiative Application for advanced scientific equipment

NTNU is the foremost contributor to technological higher education and basic research in Norway. In line with this it is important to be an active participant within nanotechnology. NTNU covers all relevant disciplines: biology, physics, chemistry, medica l technology, material science and techno...

Awarded: NOK 19.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORMNT-Formidlingsprogrammet MNT

Forskerfabrikken, en inspirator og aktør i forskningsformidling til barn i Norge.

Forskerfabrikken har nå i 3 år jobbet aktivt med formidling av forskning til barn her i Oslo. Samtidig har vår organisasjon blitt en inspirator og støttespiller for mange ulike aktører i Norge som ønsker økt interesse for naturvitenskap og teknologi blant barn og unge. Siden stiftelsen i 2002, h...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Quorum sensing and transcriptional regulation in Gram-positive bacteria.

The bacteriocin production in Lactobacillus plantarum is regulated by the pln regulatory unit which is a quorum-sensing based signal transducing pathway. Such quorum-sensing based regulatory systems are of crucial importance in regulating gene expression in bacteria in response to environmental c...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

TU-Tungt utstyr

High Sensitivity Differential Scanning Calorimeter for Food Science and Biotechnology

The study of protein stability and denaturation is becoming increasingly important in food science, biotechnology and biochemical research. Therefore, the Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Food Science (IKBM) at the University of Life science (U MB) applies for funding for a high sensit...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Application of genomics tools and resources to selective breeding for improved disease resistance and animal welfare in fish

Disease poses probably the greatest worldwide risk to the success of intensive aquaculture both through its effects on production and animal welfare. An animals resistance to or tolerance of disease can in some instances be improved through selective bree ding or with treatment such as vaccines, ...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Pancreas disease in Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout; pathogenesis and risk factors (187087)

Pancreas disease is an emerging viral disease that affects farmed rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon in sea water. In regions where the disease is endemic, the economic impact is significant. An expansion of affected areas and a few outbreaks at previously un-affected sites show the potential for...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Muskelstruktur og kvalitet hos kveite Tilleggsbevilgning til prosjekt 133849

Det viktigste formålet med oppdrett av matfisk, er å produsere muskel av høy kvalitet. En av de viktigste kvalitetsfaktorene for fisk, og da spesielt feit marin fisk, er muskelens sammensetning av lange og flerumettede fettsyrer. Prosjektet fokuserer på å oppnå en grunnleggende viten om sammenhe...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Functional Metagenomics to Study Prokaryotes from Arctic/ Sub-Arctic Springs of Hydrothermal Origin

The majority, in fact >99 % of the microorganisms on this planet have not yet been cultured in the laboratory and therefore have remained mostly uncharacterized and also unexploited for biotechnological purposes. Recent advancements in genomic technologie s, so called metagenomics, now allow to s...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Wireless LANs with High Throughput in Interference Limited Environments

In recent years, the data rate in wireless communications systems has increased by more than 2 orders of magnitude. The proliferation of wireless LANs has been an unexpected boom to the wireless industry, both for the equipment manufacturers, and for oper ators, which have created a wide network ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Progressive, modern production of juvenile Atlantic cod

High throughput, reduced generation time, rapid development, high energy diets, intensive feeding scheme (rotifers), high densities, heated water and photoperiod control, with constant light to enhance growth and accelerate development, are becoming key r equirements for successful season-indepen...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Alternative Treatment Strategies in HIV Infection - research platform with integrated biological and clinical objectives

By combining complementary expertise held by our groups and collaborators both nationally and internationally, we will coordinate development of a HIV clinical platform for translational research which is particularly important in HIV infection: Relevant animal models are unavailable, studies of ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Model-driven Multi-channel Mobile Work

The project is planned for 4 years from January 2006 and includes 3 PhD positions. The project leader is Professor John Krogstie (Norwegian University of Technology and Science), an established international authority on mobile information systems and inf ormation systems modelling. The two other...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Therapeutic approaches for the correction of misfolding mutations in pterin-dependent enzymes

Many inherited diseases are caused by the enhanced tendency of the mutant variant proteins to misfold and to either undergo proteasomal degradation or deleterious aggregation with plaque formation. For several of these diseases evidence has been accumulat ed that chemical or pharmacologic chapero...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Arktiske diskurser

Skildringer av arktiske eller subarktiske strøk og livet der utgjør et omfangsrikt materiale produsert både i disse strøkene og i andre deler av verden, f.eks. Europa og Amerika. Omfanget øker særlig i og med den systematiske vitenskapelige undersøkelsen av Arktis som er på plass etter romantikke...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ALDER-Aldersforskning

Assessment and treatment of older people at risk of falling

About 30 % of persons more than 65 years, and nearly 50 % of persons at 80 years and older fall at least once a year. Falls are the most serious and frequent accident among elderly. Successful prevention of falls and fall-related injuries requires use of valid methods to detect fall risk and to e...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

IKT, funksjonshemming og arbeidsliv (ref. 81145)

Prosjektet vil belyse følgende hovedproblemstillinger: 1) Hvilke offentlige virkemidler er utformet for å nyttiggjøre seg IKT-baserte hjelpemidler som kan fremme sysselsetting av funksjonshemmede i Norge, Storbritannia, Nederland og Danmark? 2) H vordan er diffusjonssystemet organisert i...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Wave and current loads on net panels and net cages

SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (SFH) has over the last five years developed a numerical model (3dNet) of a three dimensional net structure exposed to waves and current. This activity has been financed by the Research Council of Norway through two projec ts: 3 Dimensional netpen movement and moo...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The parasite fauna of wild and reared cod: transmission of parasites?

Parasites may move freely between fish hosts kept in net pens and surrounding wild fish stocks. The background prevalence and intensity of the different parasite species will determine the infection pressure on net-penned populations of naive juvenile fis h. Knowledge of the natural infection lev...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Akershus

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

SIP: Linked Issues as a way to Broaden Participation in the Climate Regime: Exploring the cases of air quality, and energy technology

The countries that are participating with commitments greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reductions in the Kyoto Protocol emit only 28% of global GHG emissions, and major, growing economies like China, India and the United States are not included. Thus, broade r participation in the climate regime is ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Foresight for Regional Planning and Sustainable Regional Development

The programme Foresight for Regional Planning and Sustainable Regional Development seeks to contribute to the understanding of the challenges and opportunities inherent in foresight as a tool for future studies in general, and for sustainable regional dev elopment efforts in particular. Although ...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

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