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KREFT-Offentlig kreftprogram

Molecular and biological characterization of cancer metastases

Purpose: Metastasis is the principal cause of cancer death, and for most tumor types staging, prognostication and therapy is inadequate. Hence, new knowledge on how to prevent metastasis and identification of predictive markers is among the most important challenges in cancer research. Our strat...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

KREFT-Offentlig kreftprogram

Molecular alterations and targeted therapy in Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial carcinoma is the most common pelvic gynecologic malignancy. Methods for effective selection of patient at risk for metastasis, improved treatment for metastatic endometrial carcinoma and reliable predictive markers for response to new targeted therapeutics are urgently needed. This p...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Exclusion and inclusion in the suburb: The centripetal and centrifugal forces of locality and place.

Prosjektet har, i samarbeid med Akers Avis Groruddalen, arrangert en møteserie (6 møter) på Deichmanske bibliotek, Furuset, der forskere fra prosjektet har presentert sine funn for allmennheten. Flere av forskerne har dessuten deltatt på seminarer, åpne m øter og andre arrangementer der de har gj...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2016

Location: Oslo

ELSA-Etiske,rettslige og samf.m. as

Developing an ISO standard for nanotechnology ethics? A status report.

There is insufficient regulation of nanotechnology. Regulation of nanotechnology will be developed by national and international public authorities, but may also take the form of voluntary standards, for instance, as developed by the ISO. An advantage of the ISO system is that their standards ar...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Sino-Norwegian Social Policy Forum

Activities for which funding is sought: We are at this occasion seeking funding to support the organisation of two workshops, one to be held in Norway in November-December 2009, and one in China in April-May 2010. The main and most important activity of this Network cooperation has been the ann...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Studies on the implementation of treaties on economic, social and cultural rights in China and Norway (ESCR Network)

The primary aim of the project is to establish a network for research on the implementation of treaties on economic, social and cultural rights in China and Norway. The network will be based at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Invited partner s in China are the Chinese Academy of Soc...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

Integrerte Maskinerisystemer - Design, Modellering og Simulering

Skip og skipsutstyr til avanserte marine operasjoner danner kjernen i den maritime næringsklynge på nordvestlandet. Denne industrielle klyngen er verdensledende på utforming av komplekse og svært tilpassede skip og skipsutrustning til det globale markedet . Innovasjon, skreddersøm, nærhet til kun...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Møre og Romsdal

ISPBIOMED-ISP - biologi og biomedisin

Cancer and antimicrobial photodynamic therapy: Development of nanostructured drug formulations

The research project will focus on the development of pharmaceutical preparations for photodynamic therapy in the treatment of cancer (PDT) and bacterial infections (aPDT). Formulations will be developed by use of nanovehicles and biopolymers, with the ai m to increase solubility, stability, and ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Language revitalisation: attitudes, engagement and linguistic interaction

The Project examines the revitalisation of a North- and a Lule-Sámi variety in two communities of speakers from the perspective of linguistic interaction. It asks what speakers do with their languages and why their linguistic acts take the particular form s they do take. An important issue in the...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Sørsamisk stedsnavnseminar

Stedsnavnseminar skal inngå i et større kulturarrangement medio september på Snåsa. Saemien Sijte ønsker å etablere et permanent arrangement annet hvert år med forkus på forskning, språk og kultur. Dette arrangementet er det første. Seminaret ønsker å se tte fokus på og ivareta lokalkunnskap, tr...

Awarded: NOK 37,999

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Moral landscapes of public access rights: the role of government agencies in negotiating social inclusion and outdoor citizenship

Creating and sustaining 'cultures of the outdoors' are vital for encouraging participation in outdoor recreation and securing the social and health benefits associated with it. However, changes in the economy, lifestyle, demography and environment of west ern societies have both undermined and di...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Russia`s External Energy Policy: Paradigm Shifts within Geographical Context of Europe, Northeast Asia, and Central Asia

Despite variations in Russia`s approaches within each of dimensions - Europe (EU), Northeast Asia (NEA), and Central Asia (CA) - some common features allow analysis of three policy paradigms: liberal (adjusted to market economy principles) towards EU; col lectivist (informed by residual Soviet-th...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Visual Philosophy: An approach towards interpreting and mediating philosophical ideas through visualization

The growing importance of research in Art and Design creates a need for new forms of didactics and teaching and, as many practice oriented fields, these disciplines face such challenges without having a firm theoretical fundament. Theoretical concepts can not be identified by the properties they ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Verb movement and the left periphery A comparative analysis of Scandinavian and Romance languages

The post-doctoral project including the research period at CASTL, University of Tromsø, consists of a comparative approach between Scandinavian and Romance languages, based on both a synchronic and a diachronic study of syntax and the syntax-semantic inte rface of the languages belonging to each ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Cold tolerance in northern populations of semiaquatic bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha)

Cold tolerance is a crucial life history trait for temperate semiaquatic bugs. It affects mortality during overwintering, and also strategy of overwintering in some species. Especially in water cricket Velia caprai (Veliidae), a unique overwintering strat egy in Central Europe as both eggs and ad...

Awarded: NOK 22,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Victim-Offender Mediation with Young Offenders in a Context of Judicial Reforms in the Russian Federation

This project is focused on analysis of existing discussions/discourses within official, professional, academic and NGO communities about victim-offender mediation (VOM) with young offenders in a context of judicial reforms in the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to reconstruct a his...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

A Formalized Contrastive Description of Lexical Units: The Case of Norwegian Modal Nouns

The background of the research is the desirability of reusable lexical resources supporting natural language processing (NLP). The project aims on exploiting the process of creation of bilingual (and monolingual) dictionaries to create more universal and reusable resources, such that would be us...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

'Periphrastic passive and perfect in old Norwegian dialects'

The project deals with the form of periphrastic passive and perfect in old Norwegian dialects. They will be discussed together, because they underwent the same process of grammaticalization, which concerned both the auxiliary and the participle/supine: an auxiliary gained respect to another one ...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

De russiske samene og den institusjonelle samlingen av Sápmi

Som det presiseres i Program for samisk forskning 2007-2017 impliserer den samiske institusjonsbyggings- eller nasjonsbyggingsprosessen en viss institusjonell homogenisering. I tre av de fire stater med samisk urbefolkning har det nå blitt etablert ligne nde politiske strukturer for den samiske ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Problem of Method in Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'

My research project focuses on a problem of Wittgenstein interpretation that was coined (among other things) the 'Theory vs. Therapy debate' and was provoked largely by a fresh reading of the Tractatus proposed first by Cora Diamond in the 1980s and then further developed by a group of interpret...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Utgivelse av artikkelsamling om duodji: tittel: Duodjáris duojárat

Duodjáris duojárat er en artikkelsamling som berører duodji i ulike teoretiske innfallsvinkler. Det er en videreføring av doktorsavhandling: Duoji bálgát - en studie i duodji Kunsthåndverk som visuell erfaring hos et urfolk (Guttorm 2001) Målet med boka er å behandle det samiske kunsthåndverke...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Experiential Constructions in Indo-European languages from a diachronic and typological perspective

My research project in Historical Linguistics deals with a specific functional domain, i.e. that of experiential constructions, and how the main ancient Indo-European languages managed to find out appropriate morphosyntactic strategies to code these parti cular expressions. I am also interested i...

Awarded: NOK 46,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Navnekonferanse i urfolksonomastikk: Baikenamat eamialbmotkonteavsttain - Place names in indigenous contexts

Navnekonferansen i urfolksonomastikk arrangeres ved Samisk høgskole i Kautokeino høsten 2010. Denne konferansen er et viktig bidrag til nettverksbygging i urfolksonomastikk som det samiske navnegranskingsmiljøet ved Samisk høgskole har deltatt aktivt i på 2000-tallet. Navnekonferansen i Kautokei...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Teaching in science and indigenous peoples cultural identities

Identitet er viktig for læring. Dette har sammenheng med at læreringsarbeid alltid er knyttet til en kontekst. For å fremme læringsarbeidet må denne konteksten være gjenkjennelig for elvene og derigjennom og til en viss grad bygge på deres erfaringer. I d ette prosjektet vil vi bringe sammen i en...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Fire-spread modelling through plumbing shafts in interiors of buildings with the application of the Fire Dynamics Simulator software

My PhD research is focused theoretically on structural solutions of plumbing shafts, primarily in residential and civic buildings in terms of fire safety. Plumbing shafts are chimney-like spaces and they are used for vertical building services (sanitary p lumbing, wiring, ventilation etc.). In th...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Coping with risk in maritime logistics - Managing risk, vulnerability and resilience in maritime logistics chains

Objective of the project: to develop new competence that will improve our ability to approach, analyse and manage the risks and vulnerabilities that arise when ship-owners wish to take a more formal and comprehensive part in sea transport systems. The res earch tasks taken up by this project will...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Rapid biospectroscopic process & quality analysis.

A major challenge for the food industry is to increase efficiency and sustainability of production and at the same time maintain or improve product quality. Consequently, rapid sensors, in particular spectroscopic techniques, are increasingly applied in p ro¬duction lines for quality control and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Application of the Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) model to the numerical simulation of oxyfuel combustion

Oxyfuel combustion is a process of burning fuel in a boiler in a mixture of oxygen and recirculated flue gas, thereby eliminating the presence of atmospheric nitrogen in the flue gas. This allows for a relatively easy separation of carbon dioxide from the flue gas which is a prerequisite for car...

Awarded: NOK 22,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Mineral requirements of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae at first-feeding

Production of Atlantic cod has increased sharply in recent years, but production of juveniles is still a bottleneck in the production line, because juveniles of good quality have a great impact on the success in ongrowing, and because the present knowledg e is insufficient for optimal intensive j...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Remediation efficiency and ecotoxicological effects of zero-valent nanoparticles in polluted soils

Nanotechnology has a high potential for abating environmental problems through development of new materials for energy generation and storage, water purification and range of other environmentally benign applications. A new technology based on nanomateria ls that is emerging is the use of nanosiz...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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