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Disentangling variation: A crosslinguistic investigation of bilingualism and non-standardization

Disentangling variation: A crosslinguistic investigation of bilingualism and non-standardization

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon

Grammatical gender represents an important area of research given the difficulty gender assignment and agreement poses to bilinguals at all levels of proficiency. As such, the objective of GenBiLex is to develop a comprehensive proposal of grammatical gender in the bilingual lexicon that includes...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Chip-based MUSICAL nanoscopy for imaging endocytosis pathways of phage viruses in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells

Research in biology is both empowered and limited by the fluorescence imaging technology, which has witnessed a huge leap in resolution limits through super-resolved optical microscopy or also referred as optical nanoscopy. Over the last few decades, numerous optical nanoscopy techniques have bee...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Divide and Collect: Understanding Method in Plato

Divide and Collect: Understanding Method in Plato

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Enhancing Seafood Ethics and Sustainability: A Values and Ecosystem-based Management Approach

Enhancing Seafood Ethics and Sustainability: A Values and Ecosystem-based Management Approach

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

High-Performance Indexing for Emerging GPU-Coupled Databases

Index structures are foundational to the performance of database systems and large-scale simulations. Even small advances in indexing can therefore have widespread, sweeping impact on both industry competitiveness and scientific productivity. The confluence of several hardware trends is setting t...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Taming Irregular Computations On Heterogeneous processors

In the past decade, more and more heterogeneous processors are equipping modern supercomputers. Unfortunately, despite the progress of hardware infrastructure, the utilization of heterogeneous computing is still relatively low in practice. The utilization mainly suffers from two bottlenecks: dist...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Linking micro- and macroevolution: macroevolutionary quantitative genetics of Drosophila wing morhology

Linking micro- and macroevolution: macroevolutionary quantitative genetics of Drosophila wing morhology

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Peptidergic Neuromodulation of Sensory Representation in the Brain

Animals interact with and respond to their environment by processing sensory inputs such as visual and auditory cues, touch, taste and smell. How an animal responds to sensory inputs however depends on its internal state (e.g. sleep, wakefulness, stress, fed or starved conditions), such that the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Functional dissection of the head-direction circuit in mouse retrosplenial cortex.

Functional dissection of the head-direction circuit in mouse retrosplenial cortex.

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Images in Exile:Gender and representations among Syrian Kurdish women in Norway

The project Images in Exile (IMEX) addresses the current refugee crisis and its implications for Syrian Kurdish women in Europe. It challenges images about Muslim women, who are often the subject of debates on the supposed dichotomy between an imagined secular progressive West and religious backw...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Hybrid Particle-Field Approach Including Electrostatics for Large-Scale Simulations of Biological Systems

Hybrid Particle-Field Approach Including Electrostatics for Large-Scale Simulations of Biological Systems

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Integrating Ecosystem Heterogeneity to Enhance ESM Performance

Integrating Ecosystem Heterogeneity to Enhance ESM Performance

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Competitive Advantage for the Data-driven ENTerprise

The notion of big data and its application in driving organizational decision making has attracted enormous attention over the past couple of years. Prominent examples of companies engaging in the big data paradigm have illustrated the potential in generating substantial business impacts and fund...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Software-defined Intermittent Networking

In the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play an increasingly important role, with a strong demand for robust solutions in extreme environments. The aim of this proposal is to develop a networking solution that handles the intermittent communication links that...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Analysis of sugar- and osmo-signalling mechanisms in cell wall integrity maintenance

Cell walls provide plant cells with structural support during growth and differentiation as well as with protection against environmental stress. Cell wall composition and structure is adapted to these functional requirements by a dedicated mechanism to maintain cell wall integrity (CWI). The ava...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Adaptive plasticity meets unpredictability: how do organisms cope with changing environmental variability?

Adaptive plasticity meets unpredictability: how do organisms cope with changing environmental variability?

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Blending Stoichiometric and Metabolic Theories from Genes to Populations: Resource Stochiometry and Temperature Effects on Consumers with Contrasting Life-history Strategies

Human-induced global warming and increased nutrient bioavailability are impacting on species evolution and ecosystem functioning worldwide. Single effects of each global change factor on consumer life history have been well assessed by the metabolic theory of ecology, and ecological and biologica...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Active implants: Engineering microstructures of functional ceramics for stimulated bone growth

The aim of this study is to develop piezoelectric ceramics for the use as bone replacement materials utilizing their piezoelectric behaviour to stimulate bone and vascular cell growth. The work is based on the finding that mechanical and electrical stimuli exert a strong influence on the osseogen...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Unraveling the ecology of a widespread fungal group by genomic, isotopic and physiological analyses

Unraveling the ecology of a widespread fungal group by genomic, isotopic and physiological analyses

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

GUideline Implementation with DEcision Support systems

Healthcare based on the best available clinical evidence can lead to better quality of care. Evidence-based guidelines are potentially important instruments, but clinicians often do not adhere to them. A computerised decision support system (CDSS) is a technology that uses patient-specific data t...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Repower Democracy: How grassroots energy initiatives are changing the face of democracy in Europe

When in 2013, a multinational energy corporation started to set up a drilling site in urawlów – a village in eastern Poland– residents sprang into action to protest the plans to use fracking (an unconventional method of shale gas extraction). Like social movements in the recent global wave of pro...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

Fusion of Alternative Climate Models By Dynamical Synchronization

Climate models of the sort used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) all predict global warming over the next century, but differ widely in their detailed predictions for any specific region of the globe. The state of the art is just to run the models separately and form a we...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Vestland

H20-MSCA-Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions

'Vetulae'. Depicting women's ageing bodies in 15th century Florence

This project aims to provide a holistic and comparative view of ideas and materializations regarding women’s ageing bodies in 15th c. Florence at the intersection of art, art theory, and medicine. Over the last few decades, studies on the biological, economic, social, and cultural aspects of agei...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2020

Location: Vestland