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YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Geochronology and paleomagnetism of Large Igneous Provinces: testing the dynamic relationships between plate motions and mantle plumes

The often cited links between LIPs and continental break up and mass extinctions have been proposed primarily on the basis of detailed studies of the massive volumes of flood basalts that are characteristic features of all LIPs, and which are documented t o have erupted within very short geologic...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Shedding light on dark energy

We propose to investigate the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe. We will attempt to clarify the nature of the dark energy which is responsible for this acceleration in a project based both on theory and observations - a rather unique collabo ration in Norway. Possible forms of vacu...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Space Research and Technology Development Program

This research proposal describes fundamental problems of ionosphere-magnetospheric physics which can be closed by the combination of detailed in-situ measurements by sounding rockets and continuous monitoring by remote radar and optical observations from ground. One problem complex is to address ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Processes in the life history and dynamics of managed ungulate populations

Populations of large mammals are strongly structured according to age, sex, individual attributes, temporal factors (climate and density) and spatial factors. A detailed understanding of the interactions between these factors, i.e. the life history, has p roven necessary to successfully predict p...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

KREFTSATS-Særutlysning kreftmidler, historikk

Genetic predictors of mammographic density

Mammographic density represents a strong and independent breast cancer risk factor, and possibly a useful surrogate endpoint for breast cancer risk. Mammographic density decreases when women undergo menopause or start tamoxifen therapy, but increases in w omen starting postmenopausal hormone ther...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Nye metoder for bekjempelse av kålflue

Norske kålvekstprodusenter står snart uten sine tradisjonelle og mest effektive bekjempingsmidler mot kålfluene, de mest alvorlige skadegjørerne i norsk grønnsakproduksjon. Dagens bekjempelse er basert på bruk av flere ulike fosformidler der samtlige blir ulovlige etter 2004 eller 2005. Mangel p...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Akershus

AREAL-Areal- og naturbasert næringsutvikling

Videreføring av "Konsekvenser for norsk landbruksbasert næringsmiddelindustri av WTO-forhandlingene - implementering av en eventuell avtale.

Nye landbruksforhandlinger innenfor WTO (Verdens Handelsorganisasjon) starteT opp i Geneve i begynnelsen av år 2000. Planen var at forhandlingene skulle vært avsluttet innen år 2002. Resultatet av disse forhandlingene vil ha avgjørende betydning for ramme betingelsene for norsk landbruksbasert næ...

Awarded: NOK 0.64 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

TU-HUM-Utstyr/databaser/samlinger - Humaniora

Etablering av en digital nasjonal database for stedsnavn, fortrinnsvis mikrotoponymer

Seksjon for navnegransking, UiO og Stadnamnsamlinga, Nordisk inst. UiB vil samarbeide for å etablere en nasjonal database for stedsnavn. Arbeidets første fase går ut på 1) å skanne det omfattende materialet på navnekort med tilhørende kart som i dag ligge r på papir, slik at alternativet sikres m...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Oslo

PES-EU-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (bedrift)

Forprosjekt for etabelering av EU-prosjekt: EURopean Performance requirments and guidance for ACTIVE ROOFers

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Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2004-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

AKSIO - Active Knowledge System for Integrated Operations

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Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Efficient reservoir characterization and production optimization using the augmented Lagrangian and level set methods

Updating of reservoir models with respect to dynamic data is a major challenge, which requires large effort from the field subsurface asset teams. Also, optimal use of available platform process capacities is a major challenge, especially for mature fiel ds with many wells, and for fields with n...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Fault Facies

The project work encompasses two stages, each covering three sub-themes/research tasks and requiring the integration of geology, geophysics, rock mechanics, mathematics, engineering and programming in order to succeed. Stage 1: As the fault facies (FF) project represents an entirely new concept...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Nye virussykdommer i lakseoppdrett

Norsk lakseoppdrett er i betydelig grad påvirket av sykdommer med uklare årsaksforhold, noe som presser næringens små fortjenestemarginer i negativ retning. I denne gruppe sykdommer finner en blant annet hjertesprekk (Cardiac Myopathy syndrome, CMS), hemo rrhagisk diatese (Haemorrhagis smolt synd...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Improved Oil Recovery in Heterogeneous Reservoirs

More than 50% of the oil is left behind after oil production is completed in most of the oil reservoirs on the Norwegian continental shelf. This is not acceptable in a global energy perspective. The single most important reason for such a low oil recovery is reservoir heterogeneities, i.e. varia...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Mineral phase transitions control on basin subsidence: The role of temperature, pressure, fluids and melting

The project focuses on studying and modeling the impact of metamorphic reactions within the crust and lithospheric mantle on the formation of extensional sedimentary basins. The volume changes of metamorphic reactions invariably cause changes in the bulk densities of lithospheric units. Numerical...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Singing Risers - National competence building initiative on turbulent flow for optimum flow control of gas in export risers and flowlines.

Floating production platforms in the North Sea and Arctic Frontier have experienced severe vibration and noise problems due to high frequency vibrations in flexible risers. This problem, related to large-diameter, composite flexible pipes used for gas ex port and gas injection, has been experien...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Three-dimensional numerical forward modelling of submarine massflow processes and sedimentary successions

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

AVIT-Avansert vitenskapelig utstyr

Avansert vitenskapelig utstyr: Digitalt røntgenutstyr basert på fotontelling

Utstyrsenhet 1: Prosjektet omfatter innkjøp av en ny type røntgendetektor som er utviklet til bruk i humanmedisin, og som er tilpasset til bruk på fisk. Utstyret er basert på fotontelling, noe som øker følsomheten og bildekvaliteten betydelig, og som till ater bruk av svært lave stråledoser. Denn...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

AVIT-Avansert vitenskapelig utstyr

Analyse av vitaminer ved hjelp av LC-MS/MS ved NIFES - ny instrumentering

NIFES er enerådende forskningsinstitutt som aktør på vitaminsiden i Norge, med akkrediterte analysemetoder for samtlige vitaminer (Standard Norge). Instituttet har her en viktig rolle som referanselaboratorium og kunnskapsleverandør nasjonalt og internasj onalt, blant annet til fiskeri- og helsem...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

TuMod, Integrated Turbidite Modelling

The best method for accurately representing the distribution of petrophysical properties within a reservoir is by representing the geometries of the facies and then populating facies bodies with petrophysical properties. Therefore, any future tools for mo delling turbidite reservoirs will need to...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

SNS-Samnordisk skogforskning

SNS-94 Estimation of carbon storage in forest biomass in the Nordic and Baltic countries - common methods, protocols and tools for ....

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Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Computing the mechanics of the heart

The goal for the project is to perform computer simulations of the mechanical behavior of the heart. This goal represents a number of challenges, ranging from matematical modelling of biophysical processes to implementation of complex computer algorithms. The movement of the heart muscle is a re...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Illict Images: Contemporary Art Cinema and the Limits of Transgression.

This project explores the forms and functions of transgression in contemporary art cinema, and attempts to come to terms both with the subversive potential inherent in this type of fiction and with the possibilities of emotional response that transgressiv e films elicit from the audience. By exam...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2011

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Virtual Outcrop Geology

Data collected from outcrops have long been central to our understanding of the shape and form of both sedimentary and structural reservoir heterogeneites. Recent advances in subsurface reservoir technology has allowed the representation of these entities in 3D within computer systems, which in ...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

An Operation Center for Design, Implementation and Testing of New Work Processes for Real-Time Reservoir and Production Management

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Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Evaluation of the Delta-K Method for delineation of reservoir structure - a feasability study

Conventional seismic imaging relies on recovering a broad bandwidth impulse from the target reflectors. The Delta-K approach, as pioneered in both radar and sonar imaging by Triad AS, offers the promise of improved imaging performance for both conventiona l and time-lapse surveys. A scattering vo...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Oslo

KIM-Kommunikasjon, IKT og medier

Convergence, Control, and Communications (C3)

Convergence and control may be said to be central features of modernisation processes. With this as a background the project will focus on the study of: issues of human and citizens’s rights such as freedom of expression, access to free information, and t he right to privacy; the challenges to th...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Optimization of harvested halibut by lowering maturation, increasing growth and improving flesh quality

The proposed project aims at optimizing conditions during the on-growing phase of Atlantic halibut and improving quality of the end product. The effect of photoperiod in combination with feed cycling on maturation, and the underlying endocrine mechanisms involved, will be thoroughly investigated....

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

AVIT-Avansert vitenskapelig utstyr

Ny DNA-sekvenseringsmaskin til NINA

NINA sitt populasjonsgenetiske laboratorium gjennomfører en rekke prosjekter som krever avanserte genetiske analyser. Prosjektene spenner fra begrenset dokumentasjon for enkelt-forskere eller lokal miljøforvaltning til store, internasjonale samarbeid fina nsiert av EU og NFR. I økende grad blir m...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Structure and Dynamics of Soft and Complex Nanomaterials

A nationally Coordinated Research Team (CRT) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) proposes to enhance further a research activity for the study of Nanostructured Soft and Complex Materials. The i...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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