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YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

GENOMIC PLASTICITY

Directly turning a differentiated cell into a pluripotent cell would be beneficial for producing isogenic replacement cells. It would also present societal benefits by eliminating the use of cells of embryonic or fetal origin. Altering cell fate involves a reprogramming of nuclear function. We ha...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Inequality and the welfare state

The future of the welfare state is being questioned. Challenges include the increased scope for political conflict, driven by recent increases in inequality and social cleavages in Western countries, immigration, falling labor supply and demographic chang es. Understanding the scope of long-run s...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Rhythm In The Age of Digital Reproduction. Micro-rhythmic relationships in computer based, groove oriented music

During the past twenty years, the field of popular music has seen a remarkable increase in groove oriented music. The interplay of new music technology and African-American musical traditions seem to have been particularly fertile in producing new styles and new sounds. This project is aimed at e...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Moving Right Along: Expressions of Motion and Location and the Argument Structure of Adpositions

This is a five-year investigation into prepositions (like to), postpositions (like Japanese made ‘up to’), particles (like away), and the way that such notions are expressed across languages. It is well-known that languages vary dramatically in the number of adpositional elements they have; even...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Higher-order molecular properties of molecules in the gas, liquid and solid state

The project will lead to a code for the analytical calculation of higher-order molecular properties at the Hartree-Fock and DFT level of theory. Particular attention will be paid to properties in which there is an explicit dependence on the basis set. The implementation will help improve the app...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Political Institutions, Development and a Domestic Civil Peace

Creating democratic institutions is an often recommended means to prevent and to terminate civil war. Under which conditions and in what forms are democratic institutions likely to be effective in reducing the incidence/recurrence of civil war? The most g eneral hypothesis is that the chances of ...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Metallocorroles in catalysis and nanoscience

This project aims at exploring the potential of corroles and related ligands in catalysis and nanoscience. The project has both fundamental and applied aspects. With respect to the former, the project will focus on a detailed study of the scope of the o ne-pot corrole synthesis as well as on no...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Nonlinear partial differential equations: theory, numerics, and applications

The intention is to create an internationally leading research group at the intersection of theoretical and applied/computational mathematics, which will derive new mathematical and numerical results for nonlinear partial differential equations, with a strong emphasis on equations motivated ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Signal Processing for Inhomogeneous Random Fields

Radiation treatment of head and neck cancer must be suspended due to Candida infection in the mouth and throat. This is just an example showing the need for new treatment of fungal infections. The present project addresses these issues by proposing to ide ntify pharmacophores for antimicrobial ac...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

The geobiology of Arctic hydrothermal springs

The hydrothermal springs of Svalbard occur at the boundary between land and sea. This heterogeneous, photic setting may have given rise to communities and interactions that are more relevant to the origin of life than the dark mid-ocean localities that ha ve been more intensively studied. The Tr...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Learning in Markets, Strategizing in Markets (stip fortsetter 187034/v10)

Two branches of organization and strategy theory are now poised to explain the market behavior of firms. Performance feedback theory and heterogeneous diffusion theory explain how firms learn from comparison of performance with aspirations and from compet itors. The research opportunity is to ext...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Helga Refsum

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Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Identification of phenotypes and genetic susceptibility in severe mental disorders

Severe mental disorders (schizophrenia and bipolar/manic-depressive disorder) are major causes of disability worldwide, and rank as some of the most costly disorders to afflict humans. The etiology still remains elusive, but there is now overwhelming evid ence that genetic factors play a prominen...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Nanoscale Ferroelectrics for Oxide Nanoelectronics

The ultimate goal for the present proposal is to achieve novel materials with controlled properties for future NEMS and nanoelectronic devices. The proposal aims for a fundamental understanding of nano-sized perovskite systems and is based on exploratory materials research into artificial perovsk...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

The ethics of priority setting in global health

Background: It is widely acknowledged that the distribution of scarce health care resources should satisfy two goals: allocative efficiency and fairness. However, there exist little evidence and guidance on how efficiency could be incorporated with fairne ss. This is both a theoretical problem an...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2011

Location: Vestland

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Geochronology and paleomagnetism of Large Igneous Provinces: testing the dynamic relationships between plate motions and mantle plumes

The often cited links between LIPs and continental break up and mass extinctions have been proposed primarily on the basis of detailed studies of the massive volumes of flood basalts that are characteristic features of all LIPs, and which are documented t o have erupted within very short geologic...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Shedding light on dark energy

We propose to investigate the observed accelerated expansion of the Universe. We will attempt to clarify the nature of the dark energy which is responsible for this acceleration in a project based both on theory and observations - a rather unique collabo ration in Norway. Possible forms of vacu...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Computing the mechanics of the heart

The goal for the project is to perform computer simulations of the mechanical behavior of the heart. This goal represents a number of challenges, ranging from matematical modelling of biophysical processes to implementation of complex computer algorithms. The movement of the heart muscle is a re...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Fari Saatcioglu

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Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Arne Klungland

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Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Stefan Krauss

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Awarded: NOK 0.78 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Quantifying interactions among density, phenotype and environment on performance: an approach to understanding population regulation

Knowledge of how environments and phenotypes interact with density in determining demographic rates is valuable in population ecology, because this identifies how the strength and shape of density dependence may differ among and within populations. Anothe r issue relating to population regulation...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Kjetil Tasken

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Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Terje Johansen

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Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Space Research and Technology Development Program

This research proposal describes fundamental problems of ionosphere-magnetospheric physics which can be closed by the combination of detailed in-situ measurements by sounding rockets and continuous monitoring by remote radar and optical observations from ground. One problem complex is to address ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Processes in the life history and dynamics of managed ungulate populations

Populations of large mammals are strongly structured according to age, sex, individual attributes, temporal factors (climate and density) and spatial factors. A detailed understanding of the interactions between these factors, i.e. the life history, has p roven necessary to successfully predict p...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskning - Inaktivering av glutamat

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Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Toppforskningsprogrammets prosjekt ledet av Harald Stenmark

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Oslo

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