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INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

JAPAN - Atmospheric teleconnections linking Northern Europe and the Far East: their dynamics and evolution in a changing climate

Low-frequency atmospheric variability can couple distant regions of the earth through teleconnection patterns. These are important for seasonal forecasting, as slowly-varying patterns may be more amenable to predictions and nevertheless strongly influence day-to-day weather. There is recent evid...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

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Kina - Geology, mineralogy and genesis of Au-telluride deposits, North China Craton

Detailed microstructural and mineralogical studies will be carried out on gold-telluride ores from the Dongping, Hougou and Huangtuliang mines, North China Craton. Both Norwegian and Chinese scientists will be involved in field and microanalytical work. T he results of investigation on these 'tex...

Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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Russia - billateral coorporation on ecosystem change in northern areas

Northern regions and bilateral cooperation with Russia is a major strategy at the Faculty of Science at University of Tromsoe. Recently a specific agreement was signed between the Faculty of Geoecology and Geography at St. Petersburg State University and Faculty of Science at the Unviversity of T...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA - bilateral cooperation on the establishment of the reference frame with a special focus on marine applications

A joint Workshop between NOAA and NMA with partners is to be arranged. The main objective is to discuss how to to improve the reference frame with a focus on marine applications. It is foreseen that the Workshop will result in application proposals to NFR , NSF, EU to study the determination of t...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Buskerud

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USA - bilateral research cooperation in the field of gastrointestinal tumor biology

Irvin Modlin, professor i kirurgi ved Yale University School of medicine, New Haven, USA er en av verdens fremste forskere på nevroendokrin tumorbiologi. Da Reidar Fossmark disputerte i 2004 var Professor Modlin opponent. Professor Modlin har vist stort i nteresse for forskningen som er utført ho...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA-The role of immunesystem (MHC genes) in mating behaviour

Scientific summary Mating patterns and life history trade-offs may profoundly influence population differentiation and as such the phenotype of individuals. In the sex role reversed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle) both males and females make adaptive mate ch oices producing high quality offspring, e...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Kina - nettverksbygging og utvikling av forskningsprosjekt innen produksjon av makroalger

Bioforsk har nordområdene som ett av sine hovedsatsingsområdene, og Bioforsk Nord har som regionalt senter i nordområdet, etablert en egen fagseksjon for bioproduksjon og økosystem langs kysten. Formålet med denne fagseksjonen er bedre utnytting av uutnyt ta arealområder både i sjø og på land i d...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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Russia: Bilateral cooperation on increasing cost-efficiency in domestic and industrial wastewater treatment in the Barents region

The Russian territories in the Barents region (Arkhangelsk and Murmansk oblast, Nenents Autonomus Okrug and Karelia and Komi republics) and Kaliningrad area have serious challenges with regards to the drinking water supply, domestic water treatment and in dustrial wastewater treatment. Though in...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - Bilateralt samarbeid om nedbrytingsmodellar for vegkonstruksjonar under ulike / endra klimavilkår

Statens vegvesen og NTNU er mellom anna gjennom Nordisk Vegtekniske Forbund (NVF utval 34) med i eit større nordisk prosjekt som også kan bli del av eit europeisk prosjekt for utvikling av ein felles nedbrytingsmodell for vegar. I dette prosjektet har No rge leiaransvaret. Her vil både materialm...

Awarded: NOK 48,666

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - etablering av samarbeid med University of California, San Diego School of Medicine: Alzheimer?s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Det overordnede formålet med prosjektet er å etablere et langvarig og tett samarbeid med en gruppe forskere ved Department of Neurosciences and Radiology, School of Medicine, UCSD, gjennom vår kontakt med professor Anders M. Dale. Av spesiell interesse fo r oss er forskningen som gjøres på metodo...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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Japan -bilateral cooperation for classification, documentation and promotion of high quality frozen fish.

The project has a background from a demonstration of quality advantages by freezing and transportation of fish from Florø to Tokyo at - 60 degree C, compared to standard freezing temperatures. Containers from Maersk, the ULT, for freezing and transportat ion were demonstrated in terms of quality...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Japan-bilateral-cooperation- The relationship between postpartum depression, breastfeeding, DHA and seafood consumption

Background: A healthy diet is important, particularly during pregnancy and the postpartum period.The prevalence of postnatal depression is increasing. There is a demand for empirical research that will generate knowledge about the stress involved in child bearing and postpartum period. Previous r...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Rogaland

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China, bilateral cooperation on fish vaccine development

China produces 550 tons of marine fish per year. The production is estimated to grow several times within a timeframe of 5 - 10 years. Bacterial diseases cause losses in fish farming. A long list of bacteria has been isolated, including vibriosis. The pro ject aim is to develop, document and lice...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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China-Norway: Bilateral cooperation on environment friendly production of maize for food and animal feed by use of biological control

This project will establish an important research collaboration platform between the Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research (NIAER), Norway, and the Institute of Plant Protection (IPP), Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JAAS) , China, in the area of biological contro...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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Kina - Corporate social responsibility in the Chinese and Norwegian clothing sector

In the project Corporate social responsibility in the Chinese and Norwegian clothing sector we want to investigate how corporate social responsibiltiy is defined in China and Norway and to study how international ideas of corporate social responsibility a re disseminated to the clothing industry ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Rogaland

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Japan - Etablering av prosjektsamarbeid mellom AIST (Japan) og NTNU

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) er med ca. 3000 forskere et ledende forskningsinstitutt i Japan innen naturvitenskap og teknologi. NTNU har en tilsvarende, men bredere fagprofil. Innen deler av virksomheten har det i mer enn 10 år vært et samarbeid mellom d...

Awarded: NOK 63,239

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization

Governments around the world are increasing their emphasis on all types of innovation. While the U.S. government has focused on the promotion of innovation and technology commercialization for more than three decades, European countries including Norway a re now following suit. Governments intr...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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JAPAN: Forprosjekt for fleksibel, adaptiv og intelligent automatisering ved hjelp av mikro- og nano sensorer

Dette er et forprosjekt for å etablere et prosjekt med NTNU og RTIM i Norge og Industrial Technology Research Center og National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) i Japan. Ny teknologi gir nye muligheter for automatisering so m er radikalt mer fleksibelt, rekonfigur...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Innlandet

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Japan - Cooperation in food safety and food chain traceability

Det siste året har SINTEF og Fiskeriforskning arbeidet med å etablere et bilateralt FoU-samarbeid innen mattrygghet og kjedesporbarhet med Japan. SINTEF deltok med 2 personer i rundebordskonferansen som ble arrangert i Yokohama i juni 2005. Kjedesporbarhe t fikk stor oppmerksomhet, men ble ikke u...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Saami phonology: Fieldwork and analysis

This project extends work undertaken earlier at UiTø looking into the complex phonology of Saami. The scientific study of Saami phonology faces significant limitations because published materials often derive from many dialects, and because many reference works only provide orthographic forms, e...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Kina - Strategies to increase disease protection in Atlantic cod

From a food safety and animal welfare perspective it is imperative to protect animals against infectious diseases. To develop efficient vaccines molecular tools such as gene sequence information must be found based don e.g. vaccinated fish that express pr oinflammatory molecules that play importa...

Awarded: NOK 52,000

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA - COOPERATION ON RESEARCH IN BIOENERGY INA/UMB: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AND POLICY MEANS

Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management at the University of Life Sciences at Ås, Norway, is increasing its involvement in research on renewable energy and especially bioenergy. Despite the focus on the need for more and renewable energy in Norway the last decades, bioenergy in No...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Akershus

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USA - Bilateral cooperation on functional analysis of PKCiota

The main topic of my work is the functional in vivo analysis of certain mouse mutants I have generated over the past few years. Doing so, it is of fundamental importance to interact with other scientific partners worldwide who offers me screening methods and lab expertise which is not available i...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - Bilateralt samarbeid om studier av mobilitet og biotilgjengelighet av kvikksølv i marine sedimenter med fokus på tiltak

Kvikksølv er en av de mest potente uorganiske miljøgiftene, hovedsaklig på grunn av potensialet for omdanning til metyl-kvikksølv, som er svært biotilgjengelig og giftig og som bidrar til akkumulering i fisk. I mange norske fjorder og havner representerer sedimentene et lager for kvikksølv og om...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - Computational Evaluation of Rupture Potential of Aneurysms

An aneurysm is a local enlargement of the artery. Rupture of an aneurysm is associated with high mortality, and elective repair is recommended when the risk of rupture exceeds the risk of repair. Currently, however, there is a lack of good criteria for pr edicting rupture. The present guideline i...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - Kill the messenger strategies in human pathogenic bacteria using RNase P, a molecular tool with an innovative therapeutic potential

"Kill the messenger"-strategies is a new innovative tool in functional genomic research of both bacteria and mammalian cells. This approach also holds promise for the development of a new class of therapeutics using RNA-molecules to silence unwanted gene expression in vivo. In eukaryotic cells di...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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USA - an open framework for future collaborative research in image guided surgery (IGS)

Applicant: SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology: Over 10 years of experience in the field of image guided surgery within the National Center for 3D Ultrasound in Surgery (SINTEF, NTNU, St Olavs Hospital) in Trondheim, Norway. The unique collaboratio n between scientists and clinicians withi...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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USA - bilateral collaboration on connective tissue and biospectroscopy

Meat and fish farming industries have both a great challenge in producing high quality food products regarding human and animal health as well as eating quality as textural properties. In food research, it is established that intramuscular connective tiss ue contributes to fish and meat texture a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Akershus

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USA - bilateral cooperation in dynamics and noise in nanodevices

We propose collaborative effort in studies of quantum dynamics and noise in novel devices for nanoelectronics, with focus on building blocks for future quantum computers ? quantum bits (qubits) and logical gates. The main obstacle in realizing quantum alg orithms is random time-dependent fields (...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

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USA - bilateral cooperation in the use of air bubble flotation in fisheries technology and related fields

Etablere samarbeid med Dr. Ira leifer ved Marine Sciences Institute ved USCB (USA), med tanke på anvendelser av bobler og flotasjon i fiskeriteknologi m.m. Samarbeidet det søkes støtte om vil foregå i Trondheim, i form av møter, diskusjoner og arbeidsgru pper for utarbeidelser av søknad.

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage