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UTISOR-Utviklingsveier i Sør

Change agents or cultural reproducers? A study of teachers' influence on school-based HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study will contribute to a better understanding of factors that influences school-based adolescent HIV/AIDS prevention. A broader perspective and better understanding on the importance of teachers’ role and the cultural context, will meet the needs that have been formulated by a number of a...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

RAMBU-Rammebeting.,styringsmul. og virkem. for en bærekraftig utvikling

Environmental aspects with leisure time consumption: Theoretical developments, empirical analysis and normative discussions

Prosjektet er delt opp i fire faser: Vi vil innledningsvis etablere en teoretisk plattform for studien hvor de neste fasene skal plasseres inn i. Denne vil basere seg på en teoretisk literatutstudie hvor hovedoppmerksomhetn er rettet inn mot forholdet me llom hverdagsliv og fritid under senmoder...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Funksjonshemming; forståelse, politikk og hverdagsliv

Prosjektet blir organisert som en serie delprosjekt, som bindes sammen i en matrise (felles problemsstillinger på tvers av delprosjekt). To av delprosjektene handler om europeisk og nasjonal politikkutforming. Begge retter fokus mot nye trender i politikk en, som reguleringspolitikk og antidiskri...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Non-hydrostatic Ocean General Circulation Models

The tendency for human to operate in deeper waters, the increasing awareness of coastal and marine management, and the necessity for accurate parameterisations of unresolved processes in climate models have moved the process studies performed with Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs) to high...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Generation, reproduction and birth outcome

Causes for disease late in life can be found in events around birth, but also in events before the birth itself. A huge interest in the determinants of birthweight has recently re-emerged due to consistent results showing increased risk of poor health out comes for individuals born with low birth...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Vestland

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Interactive effects of emotional valence and processing fluency on stimulus evaluation

Perceptual fluency is the subjective ease with which people can process incoming information. Several studies have shown that high perceptual fluency is affectively positive: experimental participants preferred stimuli that were easy to process. However, the existing studies with single exposure ...

Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Local adaptations in cuckoos and their hosts; a metapopulation approach: tillegg til 151641/V40

Coevolutionary dynamics allows revealing ongoing microevolutionary dynamics and adaptations. Interactions between obligate avian brood parasites and their hosts are suitable systems for the study of coevolution. Various adaptations and counter-adaptations have previously been described in both p...

Awarded: NOK 0.68 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Matematisk seminar

The project is a continuation of an earlier project with the same title (project number: 142392/V30). Beside more formal networks, all active mathematicians are members of informal international networks consisting of mathematicians sharing the same rese arch interest, working in the same field ...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Physical and chemical processes in a large magma chamber: The Bjerkreim-Sokndal Intrusion

Physical and chemical processes that take place in magma chambers are of fundamental importance for magma differentiation, mixing and contamination as well as the nature and products of volcanic activity. Despite considerable research effort over many yea rs there is currently little concensus am...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

FRITEK-Teknologi

Minimal Separators and Triangulations in Graphs - Algorithms and Applications

Research in minimal separators and minimal triangulations is undergoing an expanding phase, with several new researchers joining the field and exciting results published yearly. The applicants of this project proposal have been heavily involved in resear ch in several aspects of minimal separato...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

KULTUREN-Program for kulturforskning

The politicised cod - contested knowledge in troubled waters

Cod is the major whitefish stock in the Norwegian economic zone. It provides work and meaning for commercial and recreational fishers and for managers and scientists. Fishers have taxonomically differentiated between different types of cod while the gover nment until the late 1970s, dealt with on...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Scientific computing with algebraic and generative abstractions for geophysical problems

Computational modeling using partial differential equations (PDEs) is becoming an important tool for industry and research. The traditional methods for developing such models are time consuming and expensive. Newer methods exploting object oriented and ge nerative techniques are being developed, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Evolution of chloroplasts: addressing the genomic processes behind acquisition of secondary and tertiary organelles

The dinoflagellate chloroplasts (plastids) originate from eukaryotic photosynthetic endosymbionts. Rather than being derived from a single group (being monophyletic) the plastids of dinoflagellates are originate from several organism groups and are thus of polyphyletic origin. Most dinoflagellat...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

F-INF-Naturvitenskap, informatikk

Tableaux with Accelerated Search

Automated deduction in non-classical logics is an important field of research in areas of computer science such as software verification and security analysis. The project is in the heart of this field and addresses systems of tableaux. Among the virtues of this family of deduction systems are (1...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP): Norwegian Network and Office

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) was initiated in November 2003. Although the program proceeds the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), it represents a new program with new opportunities. IODP is designed around three platforms: A new riser drilling vessel that currently is under construct...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Determinants of spatio-temporal outbreak dynamics of Geometrid moths populations

The cyclic outbreak dynamics of birch forest Geometrids in Fennoseandia (in particular the two species; the autumnal moth and the winter moth) is a very well—known phenomenon both among scientists aud lay people due its severe, large-scale impacts on the mountain birch forest ecosystem. Still imp...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Mathematical Seminar at NTNU (Matematisk seminar ved NTNU)

The project is an important link in strengthening the international research network that the mathematics/statistics group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is part of. The grant will cover travel and accomodation costs for for eign researachers in mathematics and stat...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Perkowska, Magdalena, Polen, STP0405

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Awarded: NOK 47,000

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Biotechnological production of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and feed rich in PUFAs for aquaculture purposes

Thraustochytrids are a group of nonphotosynthetic, heterotrophic organisms, presently classified under the Stramenophila kingdom, together with the oomycetes and labyrinthulids. Members of the genera Schizochytrium and Thraustochytrium have been studied a s potential omega-3 producers for industr...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Norwegian Component of the Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (NESSAS)

The overall goal of NESSAS is to quantify the impact of climate variability on the structure and function of the Barents Sea marine ecosystem in order to predict the ecosystem response to possible future climate change and its possible economic impact. T he program will use past and ongoing proj...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Local knowledges in global communication: The impact of information and communication technology on the diversity of human knowledge

The research proposed herein investigates different understandings of knowledge and asks how they result in different designs for the communication of that knowledge. The research will locate this analysis in the area of social and economic development an d examine the impact of Internet-based kn...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

New process technology for production of hydrogen from natural gas

Specific research objectives within the frames of the proposed KMB project are related to developing process technology enabling new improved methods for hydrogen production, encompassing the following fields: - Selective oxidation of methane t o hydrogen (CPO) - Membrane stea...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Providing hydrogen for transport in Norway: A social learning approach

This project aims to develop systematic knowledge about non-technical issues related to barriers on the one hand and options on the other, which have to be managed as part of the implementation of hydrogen in the transport sector. It will be conducted in four stages. First, we will develop a theo...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-Strategiske instituttprogram

Internasjonalisering, migrasjon og medborgerskap i flerkulturelle samfunn. Videreføring av prosj. 150188/V10. Videref. etter søknad 177650.

Satsingen vil ha internasjonalisering og rettighetskonflikter som hovedfokus. De senere årene har det skjedd et stadig sterkere gjennomslag for internasjonal rettighetslovgiving i norsk rettspraksis. Høyesterett har i løpet av et drøyt tiår beveget seg fr a å gå ut fra at norsk rett forutsettes å...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Technology development for integrated SOFC, biomass gasification and high temperature gas cleaning - Up-scaling and long term testing

The EU strategies for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) involve an increase of the use of these resources from 6% (1997) to 12% (2010) and the Electricity from Renewable Energy Resources (RES-E) is subject to an increase from 14% (1997) to 22% (2010). A majo r part of this increase is planned to com...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TU-Tungt utstyr

Ekstruderingslinje

NLH søker delfinansiering til oppgradering av ekstruderingslinje ved Fôrtek. Ekstruderingslinjen er av avgjørende betydning for fôrteknologisk forskning og undervisning ved senter for fremragende forskning (Aquaculture Protein Centre, APC) og NLHs institu tter innen husdyrfag akvakulturfag, nærin...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Viken

TU-Tungt utstyr

High Resolution Hyphenated Mass Spectrometry System

The current application is for a high resolution hyphenated LC-MS and GC-MS system. Instrumentation, utilizing gas and liquid chromatographs, provide powerful analytical methods for separation and analysis of mixtures within the same system. Mass spectral data is now absolute requirement for sol...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

STORFORSK-Store forskerinitierte prosjekter

In the wake of colonialism. Norwegian commercial interests in colonial Africa and Oceania

Our knowledge about Norwegian commercial interests in colonial Africa and Oceania in the period ca. 1880-1950, has many lacunas. Very little is known about the extent of Norwegian trade, investments and activities in these regions, and the result has been a distorted perception of the Norwegian ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Incentive contracts in labour market equilibrium

The project examines the relationship between wage contracts in individual firms and the equilibrium in the labour market. We will analyse the interdependence between wage contracts and unemployment, human capital investment, turnover, and entrepreneurshi p. Much of the theoretical analysis will ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Oslo

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Participation in IEA Annex 16

Norway have been participating in in IEA Annex 11 (Cooperative Research on Polymer Fuel Cells). The second phase of this annex was terminated in December 2003, but a new Annex (Annex 16) has been established. Participation on the annex involves to parti cipate in meeting twice a year. Departme...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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