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FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Risk factors and pregnancy outcomes of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)

Cirka 1300 før Kristus var egypterne de første som beskrev sammenhengen mellom kvalme, oppkast og graviditet. I dag regner man med at opp til 80 % av alle gravide opplever kvalme eller kaster opp i løpet av graviditeten. Den ekstreme og alvorlige svangerskapskvalmen (hyperemesis gravidarum, HG), ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Research, social resources and health promotive interventions among young refugees

There is a discrepancy between the needs for mental health services among refugees and the utilization of these services. Therefore, the overarching goal is to learn more about how refugees make use of social resources for the well-being of their children . One objective is to investigate the rol...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

IS UBIQUITINATION REQUIRED FOR ENDOCYTOSIS OF THE EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR?

Over-expression of receptor tyrosine kinases in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family (ErbB proteins) drives carcinogenesis and cancer progression. This is due to growth promoting and anti-apoptotic signalling. Down-regulatory mechanisms are operating poorly in several cancers. This...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Haldbare plommer for jamnare tilførsel til marknaden, utviding av salssesongen og utnytting av eksportkvotar

Dei viktige plommedyrkingsmiljøa og omsetningskanalane har gått saman om eit prosjekt om å gjera plommene meir haldbare. Dette er særleg viktig med sterkt aukande mengder som ein ventar dei komane åra. Med meir kunnskap vil det vera mogleg å: 1. Halda at tende plommer i veker med stor tilførsle,...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

MAMMOGRAFI-Evaluering av Mammografiprogr

Evaluation of the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program

To provide a robust and comprehensive evaluation several complex methodological issues will be thoroughly addressed and discussed: 1. The low statistical power due to the small size of the Norwegian population. 2. The influence of factors other than scree ning on breast cancer incidence and morta...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SKOGFOND-Utviklingsfondet for skogbruket

Integrating Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) and optical data for forest inventory, Utenlandsstipend

This proposal concerns the visit at the Canadian Forest Service -Pacific Forestry Center (CFS-PFC), BC, Canada (CFS-PFC) for Ph.D. student Hans Ole Ørka. The visit at CFS-PFC is an integrated part of Hans Ole Ørka?s Ph.D. project. He will accomplish resea rch tasks on integrating remote sensing d...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Direkte produksjon av en sveisbar titan eller titan legeringer/kompositt tråd uten smelting

Dagens teknologi for å lage titantråd er slik at titan-svamp (sponge) blandes med legeringselementer og kompakteres til (briquettes) som sveises sammen til en stor elektrode. Denne elektroden smeltes om opptil tre ganger med bruk av svært kostbare vakuum ovner. Det dannes da en støpeblokk (ingot...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The ecology and economy of sheep production under climate change

Sheep utilize grass forage resources in landscapes too poor to use for more intensive agricultural purposes, and sheep husbandry is a cornerstone of the economy in many rural areas of Norway. Currently some 2.1 million sheep are released each summer onto outlying pastures. The predicted climate ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Active: Active materials for the in-situ stabilization of contaminated soil

We aim at developing and thoroughly evaluating an alternative, practical and cost-effective in situ method for reducing the risks of contaminants in soils. The proposed method involves the addition of materials that actively bind contaminants in such a wa y that they, in a durable manner, are imm...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Development of a fluorescence labelled agent for the detection of pre-cancerous lesions in the colon.

Colorectal cancer is one of the major causes of death globally and morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs can be vastly reduced if the disease can be detected more accurately at an early stage. Colonoscopy is a highly accurate test for detecting and d iagnosing colorectal cancer. However, det...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Breeding for improved fish welfare in aquaculture

Prosjektet er delt inn i tre arbeidspakker. WP1 tar for seg feltoverlevelse hos laks. Data samlet inn av avlsselskapet Salmobreed har blitt brukt til å estimere arvegrad for overlevelse i ferskvannsfase og sjøfase for Atlantisk laks. Datamaterialet inneho lder overlevelsesdata fra to årsklasser (...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Hydroids on aquaculture constructions in Norway (HYDROFOUL)

Marine biofouling is the undesirable accumulation of organisms on submerged surfaces. Biofouling poses a major problem for the aquaculture industry, because of its negative effects on farm constructions and operations, fish welfare, and the effects of cur rent antifouling solutions on the environ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Regulation of emotion in children with ADHD- a longitudinal study

We aim to recruit 30 children with a combined type of attention deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD) and 30 controls aged 9-12 years. The children will go through a careful clinical characterization, neuropsychological testing, MR scanning and measuring of ERP's. The participants will receive tr...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Early life, environmental and genetic determinants of weight-related disorders among teenagers in Finland, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA and India

The consortium aims to develop a series of studies of the genetic and environmental influences on health and behavior among adolescent children in Finland, Norway, and the UK (applying consortium members), in collaboration with other research groups worki ng with teenagers and young adults in Ind...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Changes over time in cancer survival and mortality in an ageing Norwegian population and the significance of sociodemographic conditions

The substantial increase in the number of very old persons in Norway over the last decades has had a marked impact on the burden of cancer in our society. This project aims to generate knowledge on changes over time in cancer survival and mortality among the very old, here defined as persons 75 ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Low salinity water flooding of North Sea reservoirs: Physical and chemical effects

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Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Rogaland

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Neurocognitive development in children born to mothers with substance abuse and psychiatric disorders: biological-social interaction effects

Mye tid og ressurser i prosjektet har blitt brukt til rekruttering og undersøkelse av deltagere. Dette er en spesiell gruppe barn, som det kreves stor innsats å få kontakt med. Likevel gikk rekrutteringen og gjennomføringen av undersøkelsene har likevel som forventet. Hovedformålet med prosjek...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

MAT-SLF-Matprogr.:Prosj.fullfin.av SLF

Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in the Agricultural Sector in Northern Norway (194866)

This project will focus on the consequences of climate change for agriculture, and the adaptive capacity of the sector to such changes. This topic is of growing concern to actors within the agricultural sector because of limited knowledge about the conseq uences of climate change and about how th...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

How to help when silence is not golden? A RCT study of children with selective mutism (SM) 3-9 years of age

Selective mutism (SM) describes inhibited, anxious and withdrawn children who are persistently mute in important social situations despite ability to talk. SM may cause great suffering and create problems, both socially and educationally, and problems per sist. SM is associated with social anxiet...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Pests and pest risk factors in Jatropha plantations in West Africa

Jatropha curcas is a shrub in the species rich family Euphorbiaceae, which has become extensively cultivated in various parts of the world, mainly for its high oil content, particularly in the seeds to be used in the production of bio-diesel. Being extrem ely drought tolerant, J. curcas can be cu...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2017

Location: Akershus

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Learning from different experiences: Multilevel governance of health and care services in Denmark and Norway

In the proposed study we focus on the multilevel coordination of policy-making and governance between national, regional and local levels of government. The study will concentrate on the relationships between central and local politicians, civil servants and health managers. In this way the prop...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Rogaland

IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

AAL - CapMouse - Development of a capacitive oral interface for elderly/disabled persons, integrated with a control device based on...

A consortium will be established consisting of Brusell Dental AS - project owner (Norway), Permobil/HMC-International (Belgia), PRO, Sweden and Stinct AB to develop a patented method to control smart phones, cell phones, computers and all electronic devic es with a truly hands free capacitive ton...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Buskerud

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Lung cancer - characterization of biological factors for use in diagnosis, prognostication and therapy

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death. Treatment results depend on stage, but are overall poor, due to the fact that most patients are diagnosed with advanced disease, but also lack of understanding of involved cellular and molecular di sease mechanisms. From 2005, all lung can...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia; prevention of the maternal immune response may decrease fetal morbidity and mortality.

Severe NAIT is present in 1:1,500 newborns and 1:12,500 newborns are reported to experience intracranial hemorrhage leading to death or severe life long disability. NAIT is in most cases (80%) caused by maternal antibodies reactive with the fetal platelet alloantigen HPA 1a. Anti-HPA 1a antibodi...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Effektivisert avl for bedre helse og sykdomsresistens hos oppdrettsarter - nye statistiske modeller

Tradisjonelt har avl for økt sykdomsresistens blitt basert på smitte-testing mot spesifikke sykdommer, der testen normalt stoppes i det 50% dødelighet er oppnådd. Dette har ofte vist seg å være effektivt i praktisk avlsarbeid mot flere sykdommer. Under en kelte forhold vil klassisk smitte-testing...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Møre og Romsdal

IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

Bokkjøp - Inclusive Buildings, Products & Services. Challenges in Universal Design

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Awarded: NOK 14,922

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Sensorer overalt

Sensorer blir stadig viktigere. Mange typer sensorer benyttes allerede og flere er i anmarsj. Vi har nettverk av sensorer som bidrar til overvåking av prosesser, selvbetjeningssystemer, klima, trafikk, kritisk infrastruktur, samfunnssikkerhet osv. Det er nyttig å ha felles grensesnitt. Vi trenge...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Lysberg, Magnus eon r øk kat 1

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Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

A novel approach to surfactant flooding under mixed-wet conditions

Traditionally, surfactant flooding has been a method for reducing residual oil after water flooding (Sorw), i.e. the target is oil trapped by capillary forces at pore scale. Field remaining oil saturation after water flooding (ROS) may be substantially hi gher than Sorw. The focus will be on ROS ...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Rogaland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Next Generation Robotics for Norwegian Industry

NextGenRob ? Neste-generasjon robotikk for norsk industri - var et 5-årig forskningsprogram der vi har utviklet ny kompetanse og teknologi innen robotikk for norsk industri. Prosjektet ble ledet av SINTEF IKT og ble finansiert med støtte fra Norges Forskningsråd og fra de industrielle partnerne S...

Awarded: NOK 28.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage