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BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Sexual signals and life history trade-offs in guppy and sex-role reversed pipefishes

Sexually selected signals can be viewed as life history traits. In the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) and the sex role reversed pipefishe (Syngnathus typhle) sexual signals are well understood, but their relation to life history decisions remain unexplored.T he proposed project will test how life hi...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Effect of longitudial Marangoni waves on the surface wave signature of a film covered ocean

Thin surface films cover large areas of the ocean surface. They are of biogenic as well as of antropogenic origin,i.e. chemical breakdown of dead organisms or petroleum spills from ships or offshore industry. Such films have a profound influence on the sh ort surface wave climate of the ocean. Th...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Behavioural and genetic mechanisms of extrapair fertilization in bluethroats

Most birds are classified as socially monogamous, yet they frequently engage in extrapair copulations. In the bluethroat, females copulate frequently with neighbouring males with the result that around 30% of offspring are sired extrapair. The bluethroat is one of the few bird species in the wor...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Syn-collisional extension in the North Atlantic Caledonides

High-grade metamorphic rocks are commonly found in the interior of many convergent orogens. Plate tectonic processes can account for high- and ultra pressure (HP &UHP) metamorphism by subduction and crustal thickening, but the processes involved in the re turn of these metamorphosed crustal rocks...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Valg av beskyttelsesstrategier mot miljøstress: Betydningen av konkurranse om samme kjemiske ressurser

Organismer er utsatt for ulike typer stress, som ofte virker sammen. Enkelte av organismenes forsvarsmekanismer mot stress er basert på bruk av samme kjemiske ressurs, slik at det kan oppstå en konkurransesituasjon mellom mekanismene. Et eksempel på en sl ik konkurransesituasjon har man i organis...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Experimetal investigations into liquid crystalline phases in colloidal platelet systems

Experimental studies of colloidal clay suspensions and possible liquid crystalline phases as observed in a system of platelet shaped particles. The phase behaviours of hard anosotropic colloidal particles represent rich physical systems including the poss ibility of liquid crystalline orientation...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Structure formation and instabilities in granular flows

Granular flows are not described by any general continuum theory. The theory underlying granular flows and the computational models used to predict them therefore rely heavily on experimental validation in each case of interest. We have established close collaborations where simulations, experime...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Studier av transaktinidenes kjemi med SISAK

Prosjektet har til hovedmål å kartlegge de kjemiske egenskapene til de aller tyngste grunnstoffene. Disse grunnstoffene har atomnummer fra 104 og oppover, og er i vesentlig grad kjemisk ukjente. De blir fremstilt i tungioneakseleratorer. Det benyttes en a ktinide som target, og det dannes et elle...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BEMATA-Beregningsorientert matematikk i anv.

Hedonic models of fish behaviour

The project aims at developing a new method for modelling behaviour in an individual-based model. The method evolves affective responses to sensory information, and the organisms are capable of receiving several different kinds of impressions simultaneous ly (e.g. temperature, density of conspeci...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Model estimations of the present and future N2O emissions from soil plant systems in the north - feedbacks in climate change

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Nitrate reductase and the biological clock

Different transgenic and mutated plants altered in the nitrate reductase (Nia) genes or central clock genes will be investigated. The data will be evaluated with the help of kinetic/mathematical models to test for the possible influence of a centra l clock on NR expression as opposed to

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate from tree-rings of Scots pine in northern Norway - towards millennial series

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Cyanobakterier og cyanotoksiner i norske innsjøer - ny kunnskap som grunnlag for risikovurderinger

Cyanobakterier (blågrønnalger) forekommer i nesten alle innsjøer i Norge. Mange arter i våre vannforekomster produserer toksiner. Masseutvikling av toksinproduserende cyanobakterier forekommer særlig i eutrofierte eller middels næringsrike innsjøer, og me dfører risiko for giftproduksjon med kons...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Temperature Variabilities and Trends in the Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas Over the Last 50 years

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Boundary layer processes affecting dense water flow on a slope

Overflow at submarine ridges, and especially through channels is of the great importance for the global thermohaline circulation and interannual climate variability. Significant near-bottom mixing is usually observed within dense overflows from marginal s eas. These bottom-intensified currents co...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Population structure and dynamics of wadi trees - a contribution to future strategies for development and management of arid cultural landsc

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Elemental ratios in fresh-water plankton; implications for community structure and energy transfer in food webs

The transfer of energy through food webs will be determined by the "growth efficiency" in terms of carbon for the individual members of the foodweb. Recent studies have clearly confirmed that the elemental ratios of the food will be a major determinant to this energy transfer or "trophic efficien...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Carotenoids and reproductive performance in fish: gobies as a model system, Dr.gr.stip. og utenlandsstipend til Skottland

Prosjektsammendrag: This project investigates the role of carotenoids in the development of fish eggs and larvae. The eggs of many fishes are yellow-orange, due to the presence of carotenoid pigments. Such pigments cannot be synthesised de novo by the fish, but stem from the natural food of the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Functional genomics - protein expression and functions related to a protein, MepE, secreted from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath).

Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is able to obtain all its carbon and energy from methane. It is the main constituent of Bioprotein, a single cell protein product based on natural gas (Norferm DA), and represents. the first product to be commercialised fro m a methanotroph. Considering the low cos...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

NIBR - SIP: Nedbørfeltorientert forvaltning av store vassdrag

Programmet skal forene kunnskap av naturfaglig og samfunnsfaglig karakter. Økosystemperspektivet innebærer at naturressursene sees i sammenheng med kulturmiljøet. I dette ligger det blant annet at bruk, vern og forvaltning utgjør deler av et samspill som bare kan forstås gjennom tverrfaglig og t...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Stochastic analysis and mathematical finance

In 1997 the Nobel Prize of Economics was awarded Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, mainly for their work related to what is now known as the Lack-Scholes Option Pricing Formula. This formula has had an enormous impact on the research and practice in financ e throughout the world. Today it is said ...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IKT2010-Grunnleggende IKT-forskning

INSTANCE II - The Intermediate Storage Node Concept II

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Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IKT2010-Grunnleggende IKT-forskning

WebSys - Web-based Systems - Time-To-market vs. Reliability

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Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IKT2010-Grunnleggende IKT-forskning

ADIS - Adaptive Distributed Information Services

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Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

CGIAR-Internasj. landbruksforskning

Integrated Pest Management of the African Rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzivora, in West Africa

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Numerical simulation of coalescence in oil/water emulsions

The main objective of the project is to determine the role of surfactant molecules in oil/water emulsions. The emulsions in consideration may be stable or unstable with respect to coalescence. The study will include a combination of MC and MD simulations, where the MC part will be used to design ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Mesoscale structures and gels of biological macromolecules

The project is directed to providing a molecular understanding of the function of biological macromolecules and their assemblies at the length scales embracing the atomic up to macroscopic lengths; i.e. from the isolated macromolecule and their segments t o the form of a biomaterial. One of the e...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SUPKUF-Strategiske univiversitetsprogrammer KUF

Solar and Heliospheric Plasmas (SHP)

Solar magnetism lies at the root of most solar and heliospheric physics. The sun's magnetic field is generated by enigmantic dynamo processes in the solar interior, is organized into highly complex patterns of solar activity observed in the solar photosp here, dominates the structure of the oute...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SUPKUF-Strategiske univiversitetsprogrammer KUF

National Centre for Biosystematics

The current knowledge of species diversity is far from sufficient to meet the society's urgent needs for proper management of biodiversity and for identifying organisms that can be utilized in biotechnology. NHM has the scientific competence and the large st collections in Norway, and will integr...

Awarded: NOK 13.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Fødeatferd hos planktivor fisk og fiskelarver, effekt av lysmiljøet og turbiditet

Ved hjelp av prosjektet ønsker en å få frem både histologiske resultater og atferds resultater som kan kvantifisere den effekten endringer i lyskvalitet og -intensitet har på fiskers fødeinntak, og den effekt økt turbiditet har på byttets kontrast. Result atene skal danne grunnlag for å øke reali...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke