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PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Tidsskriftet Barn

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Biological bases of addiction: investigating norepinephrine and brain stress systems using PET in abstinent alcoholics

This project constitutes progress toward the specific goal of solving the complex biomedical problem of addictive behaviors. It will finance a Norwegian post. doc. (the project manager) to take part in an interdisciplinary research consortium at Yale Univ ersity on stress, self control and addict...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Kritisk Juss for 2008

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Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Publiseringsstøtte til tidsskriftet Namn og Nemne for 2008.

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Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur 2008

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Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Norsk tidsskrift for misjonsvitenskap Norwegian Journal of Missiology

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Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Tidsskrift for kulturforskning 2008

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

ESRF-ESRF – Program for synkrotronforskning

Synchrotron-based X-ray studies of sea ice

The goal of the present project is to utilize modern technology and interdisciplinary work to close a fundamental gap in the description of the medium sea ice. We will for the first time apply synchrotron-based X-ray computed micro-tomography (XMT) to obt ain a three-dimensional description of th...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

2nd generation Vaccibodies for infectious diseases

Aim: PI (Bjarne Bogen) and co-workers have recently reported on a novel vaccine technology, Vaccibodies, which appears very potent. The object of the present proposal is to further improve the design and immunogenicity of Vaccibodies (resulting in 2nd gen eration Vaccibodies). Background: New an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Regulation of competence for natural transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Bacteria that have the ability to take up naked DNA from the environment and incorporate this DNA into their genomes by homologous recombination are said to be naturally competent for genetic transformation. About 70 species of bacteria have been reported to possess this property. One of the bes...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

"'From the Frontiers of Writing': Ekphrasis and transgressionality in contemporary Northern Irish poetics"

Recently, Northern Ireland has appeared as a tormented arena of historical atavism, community conflicts and individual perturbation. The poets of the place, e.g. the 1995 Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, interact imaginatively with the many predicaments of t heir urgent situation. In their plurality...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Going Home to Fight? Explaining Refugee Return and Violence

This project examines why some returning refugees come to destabilize the peace process in their home country. Despite considerable literature on refugee warriorism in exile, there is no analysis of their role upon return. Likewise, the challenge of rein tegrating refugee warriors does not figur...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Diabetes and diabetes precursors: detection, classification, prediction, genetics, complications and prevention. The Tromsö Study.

The incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus are increasing in many populations, and diabetes is now one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. Diabetes carries a great disease burden in terms of morbidity, mortality and costs. Most cases are classified as Type 2 diabetes, which h...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Flammable Societies: The Role of Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility

Through the development of a series of comparative case studies in present-day Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union we propose to explore the way in which the current concerns for social responsibility in the international oil and gas industry are transferred into concrete s...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Effectiveness of group and individual treatment of childhood anxiety disorders in ordinary community clinics. A randomized controlled trial.

Anxiety disorders (ADs) in childhood are common, may cause great suffering, and may persist into adulthood. Few children with an AD receive psychiatric treatment for their illness compared to children with ADHD and behavorial disorders. Knowledge of effec tive treatments and predictors of positiv...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Suicidal behaviour in a cultural perspective

Although research on suicidal behaviour is quite abundant, we are still far from reaching a full understanding of the meaning(s) of such behaviour. In pursuit of this goal, we need to take cultural aspects into consideration. Two approaches to study the m eaning(s) of suicidal behaviour is to loo...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Conference: Genetic vaccines - benefits and challenges

The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board apply for financial support to arrange a state-of-the-art vaccine conference addressing the risks and benefits of new genetic vaccines, the need for these vaccines in developing countries and the regulatory chall enges Norwegian legislation puts on Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Decentralization as a strategy for resolving conflict?

For several decades governments in developing countries have placed spatial decentralization of responsibilities and resources to lower levels of government high on their political agenda. The principal objectives of decentralization have been down-sizing of central governments, responsive servi...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Rights, power and civic action: Comparative analyses of human rights-based approaches and civic struggle in development contexts

The purpose of this research is to improve our understanding of the interrelationships between human rights-based development and poverty reduction, on the one hand, and the forms and uses of power in developing societies on the other. It has a particular focus on how the empowerment of communit...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Payoff of Promises: Articulating, Negotiating and Implementing Wealth Sharing

Peace agreements offer an opportunity for poverty alleviation. Wealth-sharing is often part of the negotiations to end civil wars, but the outcome often disappoints, both the aggrieved who had placed their hopes in rebellion and the international sponsors of the settlement. This study focuses o...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Dietary antioxidants and oxidative stress: Novel technologies for assessing oxidative stress in blood samples

Oxidative stress is intimately involved in pathophysiology many chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cataract as well as neurodegenerative diseases. Oxidative stress is also central to the theory of aging. We ar e therefore investigating the role of die...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

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

Molecular therapy of maligngant glioma with lentiviral vectors and tumor infiltrating progenitor cells

The aim of the project is to establish a stable packaging cell line for lentiviral vectors based on bone marrow derived tumor infiltrating progenitor cells (BM-TIC) for the treatment of malignant glioma. In previous studies, we have shown that BM-TIC migr ate and distribute efficiently within mal...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

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

Frontal lobe injury and cognitive control

The main goal of this project is to investigate the neural substrate and cognitive mechanisms that are involved in a set of higher-order "executive" functions that are necessary for goal-directed thinking and behavior. At present there is no unitary model that accounts for all aspects of executi...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Impacts of Climate change and Energy Policies on the electricity Sector

Abstract: The electricity sector is and will be affected both by climate change and by climate change mitigation policies, and ICEPS analyses the effects of mitigation policies on the electricity sector. Building on, extending and supporting other projec ts, ICEPS examines the impacts of mitigat...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

The Effects of Labor Force Participation on Spouses, Children and Peers

Increased labor force participation has been an indisputable goal of developed economies. The main arguments have been that increased labor force participation promotes economic growth and reduces poverty. Surprisingly, despite the emphasis on increased l abor force participation as a policy goal...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY Svalbard Course 2008: A multidisciplinary science - management cross-talk course on IPY projects and sustainable management of Svalbard

The target group of the IPY Svalbard Course 2008 are executive officers and managers in Norwegian governmental administration and the industry, and the aim of the course is to give the participants an introduction to the natural conditions, history, polit ics, environmental monitoring, industrial...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Roehrich, Dieter daadppp 07

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Awarded: NOK 58,718

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Privacy-preserving seamless digital infrastructures

In this project we will work on security and privacy in the context of seamless digital infrastructures. We will study security protocols for a privacy-preserving mobile phone network and study general infrastructures based on transaction authorisation wi th respect to privacy. In order to do thi...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Channel 2 application for continuation of FUGE MIC Trondheim in FUGE II period (2007-2011)

MIC Trondheim wants to continue in the FUGE II period with MR as the core technology, and will expand in capacity with acquisition of new MR equipment, and expand the high-level competence necessary for offering a wide variety of methods tailored to the u ser's research tasks. A goal is to establ...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Barnehagen i endring. Inkludering i praksis

Norsk senter for barneforskning. NTNU (NOSEB) har i samarbeid med Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag (HiNT) etablert en tverrfaglig forskergruppe som skal framskaffe og formidle forskningsbasert og praksisnær kunnskap om barnehagen som en integrerende samfunnsin stitusjon og inkludering i praksis. Med f...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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