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PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Maal og Minne 2006

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Norsk folkemusikklags skrifter nr. 19-2005

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Awarded: NOK 15,000

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Tidsskriftet Collegium Medievale

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Awarded: NOK 45,000

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Injury in newborn infants. Basic mechanisms related to oxidative stress and bilirubin encephalopathy

In this project we plan to continue our long term studies regarding basic mechanisms of brain injury in newborn infants. We have previously shown that oxidative stress both in preterm and term infants induces long term potential harmful effects that may affect growth and development. As the f...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Tidsskrift for kulturforskning for 2006

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Rettsliggjøringens tvetydighet - om betydningen av økende rettsliggjøring for sårbare grupper.

Nordlandsforskning har i mange år arbeidet med forskning om sårbare grupper i velferdsstaten; personer med utviklingshemming, fysisk funksjonshemmede, personer med psykiske lidelser og sosialhjelpsmottakere. Gjennom en strategisk satsing ønsker vi å styrk e denne forskningsinnsatsen ved å løfte f...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

State Failure and Regional Insecurity: A NUPI and PRIO Strategic Collaboration Program

The project will bring together researchers from PRIO and NUPI to explore the linkages between state failure and regional security issues. The program will be founded on four case studies, focusing on Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgia and the Horn of Africa. They will focus ...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

A New Generation of Catalysts for Activation and Functionalization of Alkanes: Homogeneous Catalytic Testing

As a primary producer of natural gas, it is economically and socially important for Norway to develop a scientific basis for the utilization of this natural resource, as a supplement to its export. The NFR is in agreement with this premise, as evidenced by the support of three separate, yet inte...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Allopolyploid evolution in plants: patterns and processes within the genus Viola

This project aims at disentangling ?diploid? lineages in ancient polyploid groups using the genus Viola (Violaceae) as study object. Chromosome numbers, isozymes and our preliminary data on two low-copy nuclear RNA polymerase genes all suggest that the ma jority of temperate groups of Viola have ...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Do socio-economic community factors affect mortality in Norway? An analysis based on unique multilevel longitudinal data.

The intention is to find out whether community characteristics exert an effect on an adult person's cause-specific mortality, above and beyond that of the person's individual characteristics. The focus will be on socio-economic community factors, such as average income and education and unemploym...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Genetic basis and evolution of ventral plumage melanism in skuas (Stercorariidae)

The genetic basis of phenotypic change and adaptation is one of the major outstanding problems in evolutionary biology. Until recently it has been difficult to identify the genes involved, particularly in wild populations. The biochemical pathways of mela nin-based fur and plumage pigmentation ar...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Using Multi-Spacecraft Data from the Cluster Mission

In the proposed project we will utilize data from the four-spacecraft Cluster mission to investigate the magnetosphere ionosphere coupling through electric currents. Among the still unresolved issues we will address in the project work are: current gener ator mechanisms, current distribution, an...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Hormone replacement therapy, gene expression profile and breast cancer

The project is mainly a collaboration between the University of Tromsø and INSERM, France. We will pool together information from the E3N cohort of about 100 000 French female teachers with the 150 000 participants in the Norwegian Women and Cancer study , NOWAC, both started in the early nineti...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Did vascular plants and bryophytes survive the last ice age in Scandinavia?

Glacial survival versus postglacial immigration of the Scandinavian alpine flora has been debated for more than 100 years, and has recently received increased attention with the development of molecular tools. Many vascular plant species occur disjunctly on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean,...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Novel therapeutic strategies for immunostimulation in HIV targeting CD25+ T-regulatory cells.

Regulatory T cells (Treg) represent 5-10% of the CD4 T cells and are identified by constitutively expressing CD25. Treg are subdivided into naturally occuring Treg devolped in the thymus, and adaptive Treg that are induced in the periphery from naïve CD4 T cells. Naturally occuring Treg are intst...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

A homological approach to topological cyclic theory

The scientific focus of the project is on the category of Brave New Rings, or S-algebras. This is a topological enrichment extending the world of algebraic rings into a category which includes 'topological rings' like the sphere spectrum. The study of t hese brave new rings are important since ...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Signal evolution: adaptation and constraint

A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand what determines the reliability and flexibility of animal signals. We investigate signal evolution and signal discrimination in two contexts, mate choice and mimicry, with focus on how adaptatio n is affected by learning, plasticity, va...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

FRITEK-Teknologi

Cryptanalysis by Solving Equation Systems

The need for secure digital communication has increased a lot during the last decade. Various algorithms are used to achieve the security needed, for example encryption algorithms, message authentication codes and digital signatures. It is important tha t these algorithms are thoroughly investi...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

INTERACTIONS OF ARCTIC SEA ICE COVER AND OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT

This proposal seeks funding for a three-year postdoctoral position for Bjørg Risebrobakken. The aim is to better understand the natural variability of the Arctic and how Arctic processes interact with forcing factors and responses of the Nordic Seas and t he North Atlantic. Focus area of the stud...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Waves in fluids and solids

The project is concerted effort between research groups at NTNU, UiO, and UiB working in nonlinear partial differential equations. The aim is to use recent progress in the theory of partial differential equations to gain a better understanding of existing numerical methods as well as developing ...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Modeling Energetic Heavy Ion Reactions: Calculation of Measurables from Collective Models

The planned post-doctoral project is targeting studies of fundamental matter under extreme conditions by means of high energy heavy ion reactions. This field is of high priority of current international physics research. One of the largest CERN projects, ALICE, is addressing this subject. The Uni...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Norwegian Missionaries. Practice and Representation in the Formation of "Self" and "Other"

The aim of this project is to explore cultural and social transformations following the encounter between Norwegian protestant missions and the local communities where they worked. Much research done in the field of colonialism and post-colonialism mainly focus on the consequences of the Europea...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Spill, performativitet og nærvær. En undersøkelse av spillstrukturer i ny mediekunst (new media art)

Det siste tiåret har vi vært vitne til en vending innenfor samtidskunsten hvor fokus er forskjøvet fra verket som en mer eller mindre selvstendig presentasjonsform, til relasjonelle verkhendelser hvor kommunikative strategier settes i spill. Innenfor det digitale kunstfeltet er særlig ?nærvær? et...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Imagining the West: Perceptions of the Western 'Other' in 19th-20th Century Eastern Europe and Turkey

Ever since the Enlightenment, East and West have been the constituting elements of the most important single bipolarity in terms of which religious, national, and civilizational communities, major political and cultural projects/movements have been defini ng themselves and one another. While ther...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Cirrus cloud mimic surfaces in the laboratory: organic acids, bases and NOx heterogeneous reactions

It is proposed to investigate the mechanisms of heterogeneous reactions taking place between the important tropospheric constituents, NO2, NO, H2O2 and NH3 and certain simple carboxylic acids on water-ice surfaces. The systems employed will be relevant to the characterization of "missing" atmosp...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Styringsutfordringer i samferdselssektoren. Videreføring av 155682/V10

Transportsektoren i Norge og i andre OECD-land gjennomgår dels dyptgripende institusjonelle reformer i tråd med New Public Management, reformer som i følge kritikere, trekker i retning av fragmentering og dårligere vilkår for politisk styring. Samtidig e r det en uttalt målsetting å legge til re...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Applications of Regularized Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to gravitationally dominated fluids in astrophysics

Gravitation plays a dominant role in the evolution of many astrophysical systems ranging in length scales from the large-scale structuring of the universe, to the formation and interaction of galaxies, stars, and individual proto-planetary discs. With st eadily increasing resolution, observation...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Islamic clientelism: Hizbollah's patronage of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

This project seeks to analyse Hizbollah's (Party of God) patronage of camp-based Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. In post-war Lebanon (1990-2005), the living conditions of the Palestinian refugees have worsened and they now constitute a disenfranchised an d marginalised minority. During the same ...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Occurrence, dispersal modeling and toxic effects of a multitude of contaminants in Lake Mjøsa - a deep Nordic lake

The project will focus on the occurrence and fate of a multitude of pollutants in Lake Mjøsa. This deep fjord lake is the largest lake in Norway, and it has been supplied with a multitude of both classical and newly discovered, less studied contaminants. Recent studies have proved exceptional hig...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

BEDSAM-Bedriftens samfunnsansvar

International developments, dissemination and implementation of CSR in the Norwegian clothing sector

By a trial research design this project aims to follow the Norwegian branch organisations engagement in the national and international development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to study how these processes disseminates and influences the cl othing branch in Norway at the chain and ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Rogaland

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