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IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Development and validation of CXXC5/RINF (Retinoid Inducible Nuclear Factor) as a prognostic and therapeutic target in leukemia.

CXXC5/Retinoid-inducible nuclear factor (RINF) is a gene located at the 5q31.2 chromosomal region, its function is not known but it seems to be involved in regulation of apoptosis and high expression is associated with chemoresistance and adverse prognosi s in human malignancies, i.e. breast canc...

Awarded: NOK 53,856

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Nanocarriers for new anti-cancer drugs

Problems of drug resistance and side-effects necessitate the search for new and more specific anti-cancer drugs, whether by chemical synthesis or by screening of natural products. This project aims to use nanosized drug delivery systems to ensure maximum therapeutic effect of anti-cancer drugs. ...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

The relationship between hyperoxia, oxidative stress and decompression sickness

Decompression sickness (DCS) has been recognized for over a century, with the main challenge being in the production of / generation of vascular gas bubbles as a result of gas coming out of solution upon decompressing from larger pressures than at the sur face. However, challenges still remains a...

Awarded: NOK 46,292

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Complex and Harmonic Analysis Related to GEnerating Systems: phase space localization properties, sampling and applications (CHARGE)

The aim of the AURORA project CHARGE is to join the efforts of mathematicians in Norway and in France that have had a major impact in the last years in the applications of complex and harmonic analysis techniques to results on the time-frequency localizat ion. The problems CHARGE members address ...

Awarded: NOK 65,947

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

CertiSkatt

The CertiSkatt project aims at launching a new partnership between two highly-rated scientific research teams from France and Norway in the area of Computer Science and more precisely the certification of Public Sector Informations, also called Open Data. The project will establish a formal coll...

Awarded: NOK 43,123

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Laser-induced break-up of helium and lithium

The study of fundamental breakup processes in nature is important and paves the way for further investigation of the role of correlation in few- and multiphoton multiple ionization processes in atoms and molecules. The investigation of multiphoton double ionization processes by first principles ...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Unknown Luminous Phenomena in Hessdalen Valley (Norway)

The subject of this proposal is a cooperation project between Norwegian and French scientists to study the luminous phenomena (LP) in Hessdalen Valley. Research into the LP in Hessdalen are progressing towards a better understanding of this mysterious phe nomenon, but further studies are needed i...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Østfold

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

The African Archive. It's content, context and connections

This research collaboration between the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Centre d Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf) in Paris. Bot h centres have strong competence in the r...

Awarded: NOK 34,850

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Real-time risk mapping for improving prevention and control of infectious diseases

The overall objective of this project is the development of a cutting-edge methodology for performing real-time, quantitative risk maps indicating probability of acquiring infectious agents in farmed animals. This method will subsequently be used for pred icting occurrences of outbreaks using pan...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Akershus

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Stability analysis and control synthesis for Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy systems: application to networked control systems

This research project focuses on a class of systems characterized by having components that communicate through a wireless sensor network and be composed of coupled subsystems that share certain variables. The behavior of these systems can be influenced b y the inherent problems to signal transmi...

Awarded: NOK 34,569

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Agder

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Behaviour of uranium-thorium minerals in the ultra-high temperature granulites of Rogaland

In the continents, the main radioelements, U and Th, are concentrated in a few accessory minerals, like monazite and zircon. The behaviour of these minerals through geological processes is in the centre of several important questions in geosciences: the h eat budget of continents, the geochemical...

Awarded: NOK 18,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Fidelity of a youth football coach education program in France and Norway.

The main aim of the project is to examine the fidelity (defined as how closely a set of procedures were implemented as they were supposed to have been) of an intervention aimed at enhancing young peoples' physical activity and well-being, via training of grass-root coaches of 10-14 year-old foot...

Awarded: NOK 48,694

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

IDOL: varIability moDeling & sOftware product Line

Developing software is a complex task. In addition to this complexity, nowadays? world is driven by high expectations expressed by end-users in front of software. For example, Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) must be adaptable to different contexts (e.g., desktop, tablet), and the running system ...

Awarded: NOK 19,872

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Enumeration using structure: algorithms and complexity

Enumeration is at the heart of exact complexity. The following question was already asked in 1956 by Kurt Gödel in a famous letter to John van Neumann: "It would be interesting to know, ... how strongly in general the number of steps in finite combinatori al problems can be reduced with respect t...

Awarded: NOK 60,295

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Nanoparticle trapping with plasmonic fibre cavites

New tools are necessary to manipulate objects on the nano-scale. It is far from obvious to pick up a nanowire and put it next to the transistor it should be connected to, even if you don't have big fingers. Optical waveguides have proven useful to trap an d propel nanowires, as Hellesø's work has...

Awarded: NOK 58,575

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Multi-scale deformation around magmatic intrusions in sedimentary basins

The goal of the proposed project is to address the mechanics of multi-scale deformation as a result of magmatic intrusions, and particularly sills, in sedimentary basins. Such deformation have implications at: (1) large scale, as sills lift up their overb urden, forming dome structures that can a...

Awarded: NOK 13,700

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Finger/fracture instabilities in selected glass/gel colloidal systems.

Clays, in particular the synthetic clay laponite, are commonly used as model systems for colloids. Clay-water mixtures are viscoelastic materials, and of particular interested is fingering (in clay sols) and fracturing (in clay gels) instabilities in the vicinity of the continuous sol-gel transi...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

A New Transport Framework for the Internet

The goal of this project is to start work on the design of an Internet transport-layer system underneath a protocol-independent API, that builds on the currently standardised transport technology, and that picks the best available transport protocols for a given application. Such a system should...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CONSTRAINED CONTROL DESIGN AND THE THEORY OF POSITIVE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

The object of the present project is to investigate the relationship between the constrained control design methodologies and the theory of positive dynamical systems. The attractive feature of positive systems in automatic control is that it extrapolate s the understanding of simple first-order...

Awarded: NOK 55,209

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Knowledge Gardening in the Web of Data

Cultural institutions have the crucial goal of storing, managing and disseminating knowledge about our culture to a worldwide audience of people. Museums, libraries, archives and other vendors of cultural heritage information are currently in the process of exposing their data as Linked Open Dat...

Awarded: NOK 34,992

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Impact of natural and anthropogenic stressors on physiological stress and telomere dynamics of raptor chicks

Ecotoxicology is faced with great challenges when trying to predict the impact of environmental pollutants on wildlife, especially in species at the top of the food chain that are concomitantly affected by multiple, ongoing changes in their natural enviro nments. A proper ecotoxicological risk as...

Awarded: NOK 12,738

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Ionisasjon og kvantekontroll i atomer, molekyler og graphene

I prosjektet tas det sikte på å etablere nytt samarbeid innen studier av molekyler og nanostrukturer (Rydberg atomer, graphene) utsatt for sterke og i noen tilfeller, kontrollerbare og korrelerte, tidsavhengige vekselvirkninger med ladete partikler eller elektromagnetiske felter. Det vil etable...

Awarded: NOK 50,504

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Collaboration between Nice and Trondheim to investigate the effect of neuromuscular activation strategies on muscle performance

Målet med dette prosjektet er å utvikle et solid og bærekraftig samarbeid mellom bevegelsesvitenskap i Nice (Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis; UNS) og Trondheim (Institutt for bevegelsesvitenskap, NTNU) på effekten av nevro muskulære aktiveringsstrategier på muskel...

Awarded: NOK 85,457

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Zinc-chelating disruptors of the casein kinase CK2

Dette programmet (ZINCK2) er knyttet til enzymet casein kinase 2 (CK2), som er et zink-avhengig enzym og en markør ved kreft og viktig for kreftcellenes spredning. Det ultimate prosjektmål er å studere om nye enzym-hemmere syntetisert i de to gruppene i L yon, Frankrike og Oslo, Norge, kan regule...

Awarded: NOK 93,118

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Groundwater modelling and 3D visualisation of Holmedal well field, Western Norway

The project aims at establishing research cooperation between, France and Norway in the field of modelling groundwater flow in fractured rocks. The research partners are the Université Pierre et Marie Curie Laboratoire Sisyphe (UPMC-Sisyphe) in Paris and the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) in ...

Awarded: NOK 9,834

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Characterisation of innate mucosal immunity during Cryptosporidium parvum infection

Newborn animals and humans are very vulnerable to infections via mucosal surfaces. Cryptosporidium parvum, a zoonotic pathogen that develops in the gut mucosa, causes profuse diarrhoea that can lead to death by dehydration. Due to the limited availability of drugs effective against the parasite,...

Awarded: NOK 10,825

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Efficient Algorithms for Graph Modification Problems

Motivated by the identification of some hidden combinatorial structures on experimental data-sets, graph modification problems cover a broad range of classical graph optimization problems, among which are edge-completion, edge-deletion, edge-edition or ve rtex-deletion problems. These problems a...

Awarded: NOK 95,323

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Stochastic bilevel optimization problems with applications to optimal planning in industry and services

The objective of this project is to set up a joint collaboration between NTNU and Universite Paris Sud in the development of numerical methods for solving an important class of applied decision problems, which are stochastic bilevel optimization problems. This class of problems has emerged recen...

Awarded: NOK 80,000

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

The Physics of the Thorium Cycle

Thorium is a significant resource that has the potential to be used in nuclear power generation in a way that can dramatically reduce the quantities of long-lived radioactive waste produced. We propose to use precise Monte-Carlo based 3D computer simulati ons to study the feasibility of incorpora...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

Experimental and numerical studies of friction

Developing a better understanding of friction is a significant scientific challenge with important practical applications. Through the proposed collaboration we will establish a collaboration between two research groups with complementary skills both work ing on friction: a group in Lyon, France,...

Awarded: NOK 33,568

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke