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PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Network for Psychiatric Epidemiology. Causes and consequences of mental disorders

Network for Psychiatric Epidemiology (NEPE) is a Norwegian network for mental health epidemiology aiming to run and facilitate research projects on causes and consequences of mental disorders. The present project will take advantage of the research possi bilities nearly unique for Norway by empl...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

The Norwegian Life-course, Ageing and Generation Panel Study (NORPAN)

Population ageing presents both opportunities and constraints. Maximising quality of life entails finding optimal fit between individual ageing and social environment. The growing population of older adults is likely to be increasingly heterogeneous, and their life situations more diverse. This ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Second International Conference on Imaging in Neuroscience

It is applied for a conference on imaging in neuroscience research in Tromsø 14-15/5 2009. The aim of the conference is to establish contacts between researchers, firstly at a national, but also at an international level. The conference will target areas that are relevant for ongoing research in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NEVRONOR-Nasjonal satsing på nevrovitenskap f

Interactions Between Evoked And Intrinsic Brain Activity. Electrophysiology, Hemodynamics, Behavioral Consequences.

This project brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of recognized researchers with a common interest in how human behavior is influenced by intrinsic fluctuations of electrohysiologic and hemodynamic brian activity. Intrinsic activity has only recently been recognized as a r...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Biomass allocation of individual birch trees along an environmental gradient,dr,gr,stip

Norway is committed to report emission by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gasses to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP). Carbon pools in forests are efficiently monitored by converting standard forestry measurements from inve...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Saccus vasculosus, neuroglobin, stress and welfare during slaughter of salmon

Slaughter of fish is not optimal from a welfare point of view. We lack understanding of the oxygen storage protein neuroglobin in the fish brain and the heme red proteins in the Saccus vasculosus. Present methods used to stun and slaughter fish: electrici ty, percussion, chilling and carbon dioxi...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

TVERS: Sustainable development indicators (SDI) in the context of the precautionary principle

The project is divided into four parts labeled as working packages (WP). They will, however, be integrated as the results of the different phases will be combined. The theoretical results of the first phase will be used in the more empirical discussions r egarding specific indicators, and this wi...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FORSKSKOLE-Forskerskoler

National Research School in Business Economics and Administration

Awarded: NOK 22.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2017

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty, disability and access to social welfare in the Peoples Republic of China

The overall objective of this project is to describe and analyse the links between disability and poverty as found in poor, rural communities in two regions - Gansu province and Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) - in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). By a pplying a grass-root approach, based on q...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Love on the farm: A risky business? Marital settlements, cohabiting agreements and divorces in family farms

A divorce or a break-up on a family farm is a complex process with potentially disastrous consequences not only to individuals and families, but also to the economic viability on family farms. This project is explorative as there is no research-based know ledge about the extent to and the ways in...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Effects of fish oil in functional food, capsules or fish on the N-3 in blood lipid and markers of oxidative stress in mice and humans

This project link nutrition research and medical research with food science and technology through the use of functional food, fish oils and fish (food). Currently there is a huge focus on supplements and functional foods, particularly products which are enriched with marine n-3 fatty acids. So f...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

11th European Conference on Traumatic Stress

NKVTS er tildelt arrangementet av ECOTS 2009 av European Society for Traumatic Sstress Studies (www.ESTSS.org). ECOTS 2009 er den største konferansen inne psykotraumatologi i Europa. Arrangeres hvert annet år. Målgruppen: forskere, behandlere, beslutnings takere, representanter for brukerorganisa...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for children: A study of process and outcome.

This study seeks to examine whether Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) results in better outcomes for traumatized youth than the treatment that is commonly provided in regular clinical practice in Norwegian Child Guidance Clinics. The fo llowing research questions are posed: Is ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Designing feasible and efficient climate policies

No policy can be implemented or sustained for any length of time without public support. Several important examples of failures to implement new Piougivan tax schemes bear testimony to this. In order to design Pigouvian taxes that are both efficient and f easible we need to understand why it is s...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

The UiB Nano Platform

The overall aim of this proposal is to create a regional and national nano-science infrastructure platform (tool platform) at the University of Bergen (UiB) centered on the development of nano-based systems for biomedical applications at the tissue/cell l evel and the application of soft matter m...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Identification of boar semen gender specific proteins and peptides

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Rogaland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Stimulating sustainable innovation in aquaculture

This project aims to explore the need for legislation to promote sustainable innovation in aquaculture. Breeding companies, marine bioprospecting institutions and investors in genetic engineering need protection of their improved genetic material to assur e revenues from innovation and investment...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

ALDER-Aldersforskning

Self-care and health among older home dwelling people in southern Norway

The project ?Self-care and health among older (65+) home-dwelling people in southern Norway? consists of eight studies; four among older people in rural areas and four among older people in urban areas. The goal was to explore the phenomenon of self-care among older home-dwelling people in order ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Agder

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

'High Frequency Wind Power'.

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Accounting for Cross Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence

The goal of the project is to contribute to an understanding of what causes cross country differences in intergenerational earnings persistence. I am developing a quantitative economic model to evaluate the importance of five possible sources of earnings persistence: the process, by which ability...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Socio-economic determinants of cancer: Twin, adoptee and family based evidence from the Cancer Registry of Norway

With increased availability of multi-generation cancer data, most studies to date on family cancer risks have been measuring the incidence of various cancers within families and found higher family risks for breast, prostate, ovarian and uterine cancer. L ess is known about the underlying causes ...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Entorhinal circuits and memory functions

Several decades of research has convincingly indicated that the entorhinal-hippocampal system is a key component of circuits in the brain mediating episodic memory. Using rats as models, we have learned how memories may become encoded, stored and retrieve d. Focus has been on the hippocampus and ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

EXPLORATION AND VALIDATION OF ANGIOGENESIS MARKERS IN HUMAN CANCERS

Activated angiogenesis and tumor-vascular interactions are essential for tumor growth and spread, and tumors may be treated by attacking their blood supply, as suggested by Folkman in 1971. Recently, anti-angiogenesis drugs have been approved for clinical use, but predictive factors to select pat...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2016

Location: Vestland

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Hepatocyte Growth Factor in the Pathogenesis of Multiple Myeloma

Since our publications in 1996 showing that malignant plasma cells (MM cells) usually express both HGF and its receptor c-Met, a growing number of reports have implicated HGF/c-Met in the biology of MM. For instance, high levels of HGF in serum of MM pati ents predict a bad prognosis and correlat...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Molecules for the future Novel enzyme activities from environmental libraries - MARZymes

Awarded: NOK 35.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Sorter av jordbær og bringebær som egner seg til industri (inntekt 193993)

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Byggesystemer med massivtreelementer

BAKGRUNN Massivtre er treelementer bestående av krysslagte lag av trelameller som er sammenføyet ved liming, treplugger eller ved hjelp av andre mekaniske forbindelser. Antall lag kan variere fra 3 til 9, avhengig av elementenes bruksområde. Det foregår n å produksjon av massivtreelementer ved tr...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

A multidimensional support programme for family carers of persons with dementia - a 18 months randomised controlled intervention study

Dementia is a devastating disease. It leads to helplesness, no cure exist and there is a need for good quality care to improve the patients and the carers' situation and to delay nursing home placement. Psychosial intervention programmes carried out by h ighly academic educated therapist have sh...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestfold

MAMMOGRAFI-Evaluering av Mammografiprogr

Benefits and Harms of Organized Screening for Breast Cancer

OVERDIAGNOSTIKK AV BRYSTKREFT Før det nasjonale mammografiscreeningprogrammet startet i 1996 fikk rundt 8 % av kvinnene diagnosen brystkreft. Etter at screening er innført i Norge får nå 12-13 % av kvinnene denne diagnosen når DCIS inkluderes. Nesten hele økningen på 4-5 % er i aldersgruppen 50...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

MAMMOGRAFI-Evaluering av Mammografiprogr

The Economics of Mammography Screening

I rapporteringsperioden har artikkelen «Expected ten year treatment cost of breast cancer detected within and outside a public screening programme» blitt ferdigstilt og sendt inn til European Journal of Health Economics. I artikkelen finner vi at forventede ti-års kostnader er 44000 euro, men de ...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Oslo

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