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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Wolf attacks on humans: summarizing the historical and contemporary evidence

The return of wolves is controversial across Europe. One of the issues behind the controversy is that people are afraid for the impact wolves will have on their personal safety. Are these concerns based on myths like Little Red Riding Hood, or are there e lements of truth in these old tales? The ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Anharmonic effects in linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy

The aim of the project is studying the computational possibilities for predicting Raman Optical Activity (ROA) and Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) spectra using an anharmonic oscillator model for small organic molecules such as cysteine and camphor.

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Combined effects of nanoplastics and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on zooplankton-fish interactions

Micro and nanoplastics in the marine environment are new environmental hazards whose pernicious effects on biota are still largely unknown. Recent studies have shown that these particles may be ingested by invertebrate and fish. Furthermore, these particl es have been shown to adsorb environmenta...

Awarded: NOK 38,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Use of Practical Constraints in the Design of Processes with Thermal Integration

In 2010, an excellent relationship of work was born between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Mexican University of Guanajuato (UG) when a successful energy recovery project was developed and applied to a fluid catalytic cr acking plant. The obtained scientific adv...

Awarded: NOK 77,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Modeling of malaria risk using hydrological, topographic, and climatic variables in Bangladesh

Malaria is heterogeneously distributed in 13 endemic districts of Bangladesh, potentially as a result of variations in ecological settings, socio-economic status, land cover, and agricultural practices. Malaria control relies in Bangladesh only on treatme nt and supply of bed nets. It is highly e...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Community dynamics of methanogenic archaea in a rapidly changing peatland ecosystem in the zone of discontinuous permafrost in North-Norway

Northern palsa peatlands and permafrost landscapes are already subjected to distinct geomorphological and biogeochemical changes due to the atmospheric warming as it is predicted to occur faster and stronger especially in the northern latitudes. It is als o known that these environments harbor a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Semantic complementarity and the use of the demonstrative determiners this and that in Middle English

Present-day English has two demonstrative determiners, that (plural those) and this (plural these). This denotes a referent close to the speaker (proximal), that one that is farther removed from the speaker (distal). The proximity difference is responsibl e for different, complementary uses in pr...

Awarded: NOK 25,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Validation of statistical oil drift simulations for the Barents Sea using surface drifter data

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no) has a portfolio of ongoing research projects related to oil spill modelling at sea. These projects would benefit from improved integration. The NorSpill project (PETROMAKS) will give a new oil spill predict ion system for Norway, while OilWave (PET...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Systematics and biogeography of Labrundinia Fittkau, 1962 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae): a morphological and molecular approach

The basis of this study rests on the examination of the type material of all previously described Labrundinia species (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae), including species deposited in national and foreign museums. Field work has been carried o ut in Brazil to collect more specimens an...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Comparison of properties of natural and recycled aggregates for ballast and sub-ballast

Proposed project deals with an assessment of possible utilization of selected recycled grained materials within the railway track bed. Geometrical, physical and mechanical parameters determined in compliance with European Standards will be used as a crite rion. The aggregates will be loaded by th...

Awarded: NOK 77,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

New parasites from old fish

Natural history collections preserve a record of biodiversity in time and space within their archives of carefully described and catalogued reference specimens. However, they also contain a further resource; the numerous poorly-known parasitic and symbiot ic taxa collected unwittingly and preserv...

Awarded: NOK 90,999

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

THE RIF WAR IN SCANDINAVIA: HUMANITARIAN ACTORS, DEBATES AND INITIATIVES (1925-1926)

The so-called Rif War was a harsh conflict that involved Morocco, Spain and France between 1921 and 1927. This conflict had a terrible human cost for all belligerents involved in it, especially for the northern Moroccan tribes of the Rif region. The estim ated total death toll amounted to several...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Strategies to increase DNA vaccines resistance to nucleases

The past several years have witnessed an increase in the number of reports tackling the use of plasmid DNA for gene therapy and vaccines. These are used as vectors, for the introduction of genes into the host cells, allowing this immunisation strategy to be more rapid, simple and to be able to o...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Resultatives with a Reflexive Morpheme

In this project, I plan to investigate (and propose a formal analysis based on general principles of natural language) the resultative constructions with a reflexive morpheme, of a type "Karl hostet seg til døren" in three languages (Czech, Norwegian and Northern Sámi). In particular, there are ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Socially and corticosterone mediated differences in individual helping behaviour in a cooperatively breeding bird

In cooperative breeding, helpers contribute to raising offspring that are not their own. Despite the success of theories such as kin selection in explaining broad patterns of helping, large amounts of within- and between-individual variation in helping ef fort remains unexplained. Much of this pr...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Validation of a GC-MS method for screening of chemically-induced modulation of steroid hormones in Ciona intestinalis

The ascidian, C. intestinalis is one of the most common modern urochordates that represent one of the closest invertebrate relatives of vertebrates. For many years, ascidians have been proposed as good experimental model organisms, due to the typical mosa ic development where embryogenic cell fat...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Real-time dynamics of thermal field theories at intermediate coupling

The goal of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is to generate energy densities and temperatures high enough to create a plasma of quarks and gluons called the quark-gluon plasma. For heavy-ion experiments to have the greatest possible impact on scienc e, it is essential to make as close a con...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Extension of the theory of monotone systems to cope with transmission delays. Adaptation of the predictive control design.

Monotony and non-negativity play a key role in understanding many processes and related physical constraints in biological and medical sciences as well as various engineering areas. Roughly speaking, the corresponding models are composed of homogeneous in terconnected subsystems which exchange va...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Frambringelsens estetikk. Lesninger av Knut Hamsuns Sult, August Strindbergs I havsbandet og Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks.

Dette prosjektet har til hensikt å undersøke hvilke aspekter som er mest konstituerende for skapelsesforestillinger rundt 1900, og ønsker ut over dette å lansere et nytt begrep i stedet for skapelse: frambringelse. Fenomenet "frambringelse" som viser tilb ake til det aristoteliske poiesis tar utg...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Photomedicine and photobiology of vitamin D

The main objective is direct measurements of vitamin D3 formation in vitro under sunlight and artificial UV sources in parallel with measurements of vitamin D3 generation in healthy volunteers using "vitamin D dosimeter" and additional physical instrument s. The most recent in vitro methods, whic...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Promoting Delusions of Control through Music-Making

Individuals recounting intense musical encounters commonly describe a feeling of oneness with others, their surroundings and the music, sometimes speaking of losing themselves in the moment or even becoming possessed by an external force. Such experiences , interpreted by some to be supernatural ...

Awarded: NOK 84,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Wittgenstein's Doctrine of Formal Concepts and Its Reinterpretation in Logical Empiricism

Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", one of the most influential books in twentieth-century philosophy, contains a paradox that outlines the problem of the logico-syntactic well-formedness of any categorial distinctions. It was not until most recently that the vie w that successfully handling this paradox...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Relevance of Cultural Differences for Swarm Branding: Reducing Skepticism towards Cause-Related Marketing or Cause-Related Branding?

Branding was the tool of the brand owner before the advent of social media and mass advertising used to profile a brand image in the consumers' head. Brand communication was monologic and the consumer was trapped as a passive recipient of the content. The development of social media has begun to...

Awarded: NOK 54,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Nanoparticle-mediated disruption of amyloid aggregates

The project aims at studying the interaction mechanisms of inorganic/organic nanoparticles with amyloid beta-peptides. Metal nanoparticles coated with photosensitizers will be produced and tested as aggregation inhibitors of amyloid-beta peptide, which ca use formation of neuritic plaques of Alzh...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

On the syntax of the Istro-Romanian dialect. A microcomparative view on Eastern Romance and Balkan Slavic

The project follows the trend of comparative studies that have received growing interest in recent linguistic research. The target language is the Istro-Romanian (IR) dialect, a severely endangered Easter Romance variety spoken in Istria (Croatia) by ca. 200 people. It is thus imperative to docu...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Burnout in Alzheimer's disease caregivers

Alzheimer's disease (AD) caregivers are a group particularly susceptible to Burnout. They are exposed to high levels of burden of care, a few receive adequate training to deal with the partient and the majority receive little feedback from both patient an d society. Furthermore, high levels of po...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Experimental evaluation of agile practices impact on team productivity

Agile methods of software development have become more popular since the early 2000s and, in some cases, can offer better results for software development projects when compared to traditional approaches. These methods can be viewed as a reaction to more traditional methods (known as plan-driven...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in a collapsing bubble

Bubbles filled with gas or vapour can emit light when collapsing violently in a surrounded liquid upon strong excitation. This is the case in single bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) which is a light emission phenomenon of stable oscillating bubble in liquid irradiated by a periodic ultrasound wave...

Awarded: NOK 45,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Modeling of the dynamic of polymer-glass fibers

Many high performance products are made based on reinforced materials by means of thermoplastic injection molding processes. For example, electronic devices and connectors used for computers and automobile motors control systems are usually injected with a blend of polyesters with glass fibers, ...

Awarded: NOK 93,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Detection of chromosomal aberrations as a cause of mental retardation using new molecular cytogenetic methods

In the last decade diagnostics and therapy of serious human genomic diseases were simplified by the establishment of new methods of molecular cytogenetics. Progress in human cytogenetics was triggered especially by FISH technique and its modifications, wh ich allow exact understanding of the role...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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