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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Bone loss and increased osteoclastogenesis

Bone loss being a type I risk in microgravity and here on earth with osteoporosis and ageing, should be given paramount focus. One of the best documented pathophysiological changes associated with exposure to microgravity is bone loss; bone mineral densit y (BMD) has been shown to decrease at a r...

Awarded: NOK 52,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Putting Policies into Practice: Examining Statoil's Policies and Relations with Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian and Venezuelan Oil Sands

As global demand for energy pushes the frontiers of extraction to unconventional deposits in sensitive locations, questions loom over what firms should be entrusted to exploit these resources. The Norwegian firm Statoil is in a unique position as it posit ions itself as an alternative to the non-...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

PharmaFate: Fate and Transport of Discharged Pharmaceuticals and their Metabolites

The aim of my mobility stay at Prof. Sebastien Sauves lab is to further develop experimental systems and theoretical models to accurately describe the environmental behavior of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in diverse aquatic systems, including po re waters. This will involve the integra...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Example choice and relevance intervention in teaching and learning mathematics and science

Many educators believe that making learning materials relevant for student's lives leads to student's engagement and better understanding of the subject, but experimental evidence to support that is still lacking (Hulleman & Harackiewicz, 2009). Professor Judith Harackiewicz and her colleagues d...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Extreme Events, Information and Dependence in Finance and the Environment

Extreme events and international spillovers are very compelling in 2012, whether caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes, or political economy such as Greek's debt crisis and uprisings in the Middle East. Inevitably, big disasters affect the econo mic sector. Climate change and financial ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Repair of brain energy failure through mitochondrial uncoupling

Deficient brain energy production is associated with aging and neurodegenerative diseases. The complex nature of these diseases and our relatively poor understanding of the molecular pathophysiology is today an obstacle for the development of effective tr eatment, but a key role is attributed to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Effect of screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy on colorectal cancer incidence and mortality

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death in the Western world. Norway is one of the countries in the world with the highest incidence of CRC. The reason for this is unknown. The Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Prevention trial (NORCCAP) is a randomised controlled trial performed i...

Awarded: NOK 0.33 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Enacting values: Practices of Co-modification

The aim of this mobility project is to study strategies of innovation, but with questions and methods developed from within STS. The empirical material that will be explored are innovation documents and strategies in aquaculture, with a particular focus o n the farmed development of new species, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Powering Global Development? The evolution of planning, monitoring and evaluation of Norway's development aid to the energy sector 1980-2010

A mobility grant will enable a 5-month visiting fellowship with the renowned Department of History and the interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the home institution of the applicant's acade mic co-supervisor, Professor Gabrielle He...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The causal effect of college quality on wages

During the second half of the 20th century, the educational level has increased substantially in all western countries. The educational expansion has resulted in a transition from an élite system of higher education to a mass system of higher education, w here being a graduate is necessary but no...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Mobility grant to George Washington University

My stay at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University (GWU) has multiple and intertwined aims. Firstly, the year in Washington, DC will allow me to focus on producing innovative research on Soviet and Russian politics that will deepen our kno...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS OF w-3 POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS: DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS

Project summary: 1) The first objective is to conduct biological evaluations at Harvard of the PUFA products prepared by the Oslo group. The biological significance of these compounds will be investigated during the applicant´s sabbatical period. The Ser han group has reported the isolation, str...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Visiting research stay at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC., USA.

This research visit at the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI) is an integral part of my phd. project. Prior to the visit I will have conducted and finished my fieldwork and data collecting activities related to multilateral organizations within th e agricultural sector. (For more details ...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Can simulation shed light on complex disease processes in cardiomyopathy? Collaborative extension between Simula and UCSD

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is likely more common than previously thought. This project aims to address the challenge of understanding these complex disease processes through the use of patient-specific, image based, multi-scale models. Specifically, th e collaborative visit will concentrate on...

Awarded: NOK 52,000

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Validating and improving satellite measurements of sea ice thickness and surface roughness using an airborne ice thickness sensor system.

The areal extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice is declining at an accelerating rate, faster than forecast by global climate models. Sea ice is an important indicator of climate change, a habitat for whales, seals, and polar bears, and is important the l ives of indigenous populations around the...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Tax Register Data for Audit and Tax Research

I am applying for funding to work on detailed Norwegian tax register data together with Professor Langli (BI). The proposed topics relate to (1) auditor independence and (2) tax avoidance. Research 1: Auditor Independence Using a New and Direct Proxy for Independence The external auditor plays...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Clinically driven Electromechanical Models of the Heart

This project is designed to help bridge the gap between the theoretical work being done at the Cardiac Modeling Group at Simula Research Laboratory with the clinical and experimental expertise at the Cardiac Biomechanics Laboratory from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). With ...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

High resolution three-dimensional micro-CT imaging of therapy induced changes in tumor vascularization

In the project 'High resolution three-dimensional (3D) micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) imaging of the therapy induced changes in tumor vascularisation' we want to quantify changes in the morphology of tumor blood vessels after treatment with a PI3-ki nase/mTor inhibitor. We will use two diff...

Awarded: NOK 66,000

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Influence of climatic fluctuations on Common Eider life history and population dynamics: variation in and between populations.

Arctic ecosystems are among the most severely affected under a warming climate. A good understanding of the consequences of climate change on Arctic species demography and populations dynamics is thus of paramount importance and urgently needed. Using lon g-term data sets on Common Eider populati...

Awarded: NOK 66,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Research visit to Stanford University for Ph.D. candidate Pål Næverlid Sævik

The mobile researcher, Pål Næverlid Sævik, started his Ph. D. at the University of Bergen on 1. sept., 2011. He has been working with analytical homogenization methods applied to fractured geological reservoirs, which is of importance for applications to petroleum engineering, groundwater flow, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Direct effects of sugar on development of cardiovascular disease

Based on epidemiological studies, elevated sugar consumption and chronic hyperglycemia is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, partly due to systemic effects such as insulin resistance in hepatic, adipose and muscle tissue, type 2 diabetes, obesity a nd/or hypertension. However, it has now b...

Awarded: NOK 94,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Norwegian and Sami support for the the World Council of Indigenous Peoples

My research in Norway would allow me to complete two essential chapters of my dissertation on the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), as well as improve the entire work generally. The first chapter would compare the support of two international development agencies - the Canadian Inter...

Awarded: NOK 83,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

International portfolio allocation

Trying to explain the current turmoil in the international financial markets many academics and economic commentators have emphasized that there exists imbalances in the global economy. These imbalances are present in trade with real goods between countri es and also in the financial markets. Nor...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Personal mobility grant, as part of a financed UTDANNING2020 post-doctoral project (#212260)

The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (NCCBD) and Vestfold University College (VUC) has received a research grant for the project The influence of child care and home environment on learning and social functioning in transition to school a nd early school age (#212260), which is p...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Nanoscale friction of lubricated rough and patterned surfaces

Short- and long range interfacial forces, and the properties of nanoscale liquid films, are of utmost importance in many geophysical applications. At the center for the Physics of Geological Processes (PGP), we have during the recent years made progress i n understanding microscale processes such...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Plasma wakefield acceleration for particle physics

The project I apply for is concerned with accelerator physics research for future linear colliders for high-energy particle physics, to be performed as visiting scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre, SLAC, California. The visit will be a co ntinuation of my research stay, base-fund...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Biosensing with single molecule sensitivity based on photonic crystal membranes

This application relates to a 6 months visit to Stanford University, which is a part of my, Jon Olav Grepstad, doctoral work. My supervisors are Johannes Skaar at NTNU, Aasmund Sudbø at the University of Oslo, Ib-Rune at SINTEF and Olav Solgaard at Stanfo rd University. In my doctoral work, I ha...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Innovation in Practice: A Practice-Theoretical Framework for Interpreting Service Innovation Endeavours

The purpose of this study is to contribute to our understanding of technology-based service innovations. The overarching research question has been: How can we understand service innovation from a practice-theoretical perspective, and in particular, how d oes customer practices induce knowledge f...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ocean dynamics and mixing processes at high latitudes

This application (PROCESSES) seeks support for a 8 month research stay abroad at Scripps Institute of Oceanography for Ilker Fer (I, hereafter). In PROCESSES, I shall utilize state-of-the-art observations and establish a strong international cooperation, with an aim to improve our understanding ...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ruin memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

Gjennom sitt forskningsopphold på Stanford Archaeology Center ønsker søkeren å bearbeide og publisere resultat fra sitt internasjonale forskningsprosjekt "Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past". En viktig milepel he r er ferdigstillingen av en antologi som ...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke