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FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Comparing tax policy change in Scandinavia: welfare capitalism reformed?

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse av bok om offentlige debatter om okkupasjonstiden

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Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

The area told as a story. An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information.

In modern European societies, maps are seen as the natural way to communicate about geography. This is different in other historical periods. In the project description I show some examples of historical periods in which maps are not used very much, altho ugh they are known. In my opinion, this l...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Educational standardization as global governance

This overall aim of this project is to enhance our understanding of the oft-used but vague term "global governance". It does so by examining educational standardization as a governance tool. The main assumption underlying the project is that it is politic ally and economically relevant what key d...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Dynamics and entanglement in quantum optical systems

Quantum optics deals with the quantum nature of light and its interaction with matter. Substantial experimental progress has been made in this field during the last thirty years, including demonstrations of quantum entanglement, squeezed states and single photon emitters. Quantum optical systems...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Electronic and electrical properties of carbon cone materials

The use of carbon structures, as carbon nanotubes, in coatings, electrodes, light-harvesting devices and sensors is a growing research field. Carbon cone materials are recognized as a novel type of carbon, consisting of nano- to micrometer sized particles with the shape of disks and cones. The ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - The politics of identity in post-conflict small arms strategies: a study of weapons collections in Cambodia and Kosovo

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - European and Arabic Traditions of Deliberation in Resource Management - Mutual Learning for Transnational Networking of Grass Root

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Publisering av doktoravhandling med tittel: Domstolskontroll med forvaltningen - En komparativ undersøkelse i norsk og tysk rett

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Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Individuation and the Shaping of Personal Identity A Comparative Study of the Modern Novel

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Awarded: NOK 78,283

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Petroleum related FDI, local conditions and poverty reduction - the Macae region of Brazil

The main aim of my study is to determine if petroleum related foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Macaé region of Brazil can be characterized as a "tool for poverty reduction". The theory section discusses FDI, local conditions and poverty reduction. Regarding the effects of FDI on host regio...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Differentiated Products Demand

Estimate models of demand for differentiated products, using a comprehensive data set on Norwegian car sales. Develop new methods and investigate properties of existing methods. Methods are important for competition policy.

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Shear-selection of galaxy clusters in the KIDS survey.

Gravitational lensing is an excellent tool for studying the mass distribution in the Universe, because it does not make assumptions about the nature or the dynamical state of the gravitating matter. In particular, lensing does not discriminate between the luminous and dark matter, and is thus a ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Heat Transferability in Nanofluids

The main focus of the present project will be to investigate the heat transfer mechanism in nanofluids and create accurate models to describe their behavior. An extensive experimental work combined with modeling efforts will be carried out to achieve a proper understanding of the reason why n...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

En korpusbasert studie av leksikalsk innsnevring og skillet "procedural/conceptual" mening i franske og norske originaltekster/oversettelser

Prosjektet har som formål for det første å undersøke pragmatiske prosesser som virker på ordnivå på fransk og norsk gjennom å fokusere på en pragmatisk prosess, såkalt leksikalsk innsnevring, der et ord brukes for å uttrykke en mer spesifikk betydning enn den språklig kodede betydningen. I litte...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

EUI - Early modern industry in Norway at the end of the 18th century?

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Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Reforming Water Rights in South Africa: Exploring the Process of Formalisation

Increasing pressures on water resources world-wide have led to a number of countries reforming their water policies in order to mitigate what is perceived as an acute environmental problem. Lack of water poses a potential threat to poor people's livelihoo ds, and also represents an obstacle to so...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

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

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Molecular Dynamics Lattice Gas

The aim of the proposed PhD project is to develop a simulation technique, Molecular Dynamics Lattice Gas (MDLG), for simulating chemical systems consisting of self-assembling molecular complexes and macromolecules. The vision is that MDLG will become a co rner stone in an effort to create a multi...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Domestic servants, criminals and housewives - Norwegian female migration to Amsterdam in the seventeenth century

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Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Demography of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa): impact of seed harvest and hunting on recruitment and population dynamics

The Brazil nut tree provides one of the most socio-economically important non-timber tropical forest products – the Brazil nut. These nuts are the only internationally traded seed crop collected exclusively from natural forests. Despite the economic impor tance of this species virtually nothing i...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Palaeobiology of Silurian and Devonian eurypterids and scorpions

Arthropods (crustaceans, chelicerates, insects and myriapods) are the most diverse and abundant group of animals on our planet today, and have been since the Cambrian. The most diverse group of chelicerates during the Palaeozoic was the aquatic eurypterid s, with about 300 different species. The...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Molecular simulation of droplet fusion intermediates

The main objective of this project is to improve the understanding of the molecular mechanisms that govern droplet coalescence and vesicle fusion. Droplet coalescence in oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions is crucial in many fields: A key challenge fo r the oil industry is to separate water d...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRITEK-Teknologi

Ph.D. at The University of Newcastle on Robust model predictive control

Christian Løvaas will pursue a PhD in controlsystems technology at The University of Newcastle. The topic of research, robustness in MPC, falls within the fascinating general area of control systems technology, which is an internationally recognized area of research at The University of Newcast...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Quantum Correlations for Secret Key Distribution

Quantum mechanics allows secure communication against eavesdropping. The security relies on fundamental laws of physics and, therefore, it cannot be broken by any advance in computational power of potential adversaries. The reason for this is that any att empt to eavesdrop on the signals will hav...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Rebuilding Somalia through Islam and trading in Dubai. Muslim women's strategies and identities in the diaspora.

As a consequence of the ongoing civil war in Somalia, there seems to be an increasing number of women travelling to the Gulf. Through trading in places like Dubai they provide for their relatives at home, and many seem to have taken the place of men as th e breadwinners of the family. Studies of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.96 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Credit for the Poor: Empirical Studies from South Africa

Credit is central to modern theories of economic development. Credit, along with savings, allows households to cope better with income that fluctuates over time. This is particularly important in rual areas, because of the insecurity and irregularity of a gricultural income. On a bigger scale, ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FARM-Farmakologisk, farmasøytisk forskning

Computer-Aided Design of Peptidomimetic Antagonists of the CXCR4 Chemokine Receptor, a Therapeutic Target for Oncology and AIDS

The G-protein coupled chemokine receptor CXCR4 is a biological target of medical significance both in oncology and infectious diseases since CXCR4 activation – among other things – is associated with tumor vascularization and metastasis. In addition, the CXCR4 receptor is expressed on CD4+ T-cell...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Magnetic activity of solar-type stars as an observational basis for theories of stellar dynamos

The study of magnetic activity in solar-type stars in imperative for understanding stellar dynamos and ultimately the solar dynamo and evolution. The Doppler imaging technique has been used extensively over the past two decades and provided important new knowlwdge of cool spots on solar-type star...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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