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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Reduplication and truncation in language plays

So called language plays or ludlings are characterized by phonological transformations of real words by inserting, copying or changing segments or strings of segments. In my Ph D. dissertation "Prosodische Morphologie in grammatischen Kunstsprachen des De utschen" (2009, University of Verona) mor...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The perceptions of international assistance in Palestine

The international community has been supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for more than a decade and half. During these years the Palestinian population received more than 10 billion USD in various forms of foreign assistance. The Palestinian living conditions measured by economic in...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

A Comparative Study of Electronic Records and Metadata Schemas in Norway and Turkey

Although it has been a long time since we had electronic records in our daily lives, the issues of identification of such records, their transmission, protection of their authenticity, and interoperability has not been clearly dealt with. The number of na tional and international studies in this ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Modelling and study of SAR signatures of sub- and meso-scale ocean dynamic phenomena

The general objective of proposed project is to investigate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signatures of sub- and meso-scale oceanic dynamic phenomena (IWs, meso-scale currents and fronts) in the Norwegian and Barents Seas with use of Envisat ASAR imagery , supplementary satellite data and ocean ...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Fluorinated chemicals in avian top predators of northern ecosystems: development of non-destructive biomonitoring techniques for PFCs

This application for a research stay in Norway is a spin off to an ongoing international project funded by the Norwegian EPA, aimed at investigating the impacts of organic pollutants and natural stressors on the survival and reproduction of raptors in nor thern Norway (RAPTOR 2015). The purpose o...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Anisotropic cosmologies and dark energy

The generation and formation of structure in the universe and the physics of the cosmic (CMB) are central in the understanding of cosmology. The large-scale structure and the CMB are the richest and most precise sources of information about our universe. Remarkably, recent cosmological data seem...

Awarded: NOK 84,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Investigating Isocurvature Perturbations and non-Gaussianities in a Two-Field System with Generalised Kinetic Terms

The physics of the very early universe is well described by the inflationary paradigm, a period of accelerated expansion of the universe driven by vacuum energy. Quantum fluctuations give rise to curvature perturbations that act as the seed for large-scal e structure. One of the simplest models o...

Awarded: NOK 45,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

New markets for Italian and Norwegian food products

The main objective of the project is to identify new trade channels for the Italian and Norwegian business which produce food goods. To do that, the study will be conducted in empirical way, using as methodology of study the customer satisfaction analysis . The research will involve the Departme...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Effects of fatty acids and phytochemicals on inflammation in APCmin/+ mice, a model of colorectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer is a common form of malignancy in developed countries, and its incidence keeps increasing every year. Many are the factors that contribute to its development. However, food habit seems to play a very important role in this type of cancer . Because of the importance on colorectal...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Life history strategies of Annitella obscurata (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) in Norway.

This project will serve to complement a study of Trichoptera in Sierra Nevada National Park, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Environment, from a faunistic, zoogeographic and ecological point of view, and applied to the use of these insects as sensitive of the global climate change. Trichopter...

Awarded: NOK 57,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Regional Integration in the Post-Soviet Space

My Ph.D. project touches the area of interdependencies, power-balancing structures and political intraregional relations between the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and the stability of the region. I aim to explore the dynamics of coo peration in regional organizations in the...

Awarded: NOK 57,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Haraga: Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration

This project is focus on the phenomenon of the undocumented illegal migration of young Moroccans, the so-called haraga, from Tangiers to Europe. Haraga mostly come from poor shanty towns located in large cities such as Casablanca, Rabat or Marrakesh: they use variety of methods to enter Spain an...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Acquisition and Analysis of Perfusion Imaging Data using Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The aim of the proposed project is to increase the diagnostic potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography when applying a contrast agent. The core application of the project is perfusion imaging, i.e. imaging of tissue perfusion para meters (e.g. blood flow, blood volume and...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Euchologion of Jerusalem: An Introductory Study of Codex Sinai Greek NE MG 53

The liturgical tradition of the first millenium Jerusalem Church is of utmost importance for any study of the history of Christian worship, in the East as well as in the West. The first scholarly investigations of this tradition appeared about a century a go, but a certain lack of Greek sources d...

Awarded: NOK 25,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Determination of in vitro biological effects of extracts from fruits and berries related to polyphenol composition

Epidemiological studies have shown that consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Polyphenols are present in especially high concentrations in peels and se eds of fruits and berries. During product...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Nanosyntax in the neurolinguistic analysis of aphasia: theoretical compatibility and possible diagnostic tools.

The primary objective of the project is to investigate the theoretical compatibility of the nanosyntax approach to generative grammar in terms of the current neurolinguistic analyses of aphasia based on generative frameworks. The secondary objective is to devise a set of cross-linguistic diagn...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

An Ethnographic Research on the EU-Driven Security Policies and Bureaucratic Transformation Efforts in the Everyday Work of the Police.

With the EU membership process, Turkey has been subjected to many diverse and contradictory policies in different areas, which affect the structure of the bureaucratic institutions and everyday life of the people. Therefore, it is not only important but a lso crucial to study the impact of these ...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Aural Sonology Project (Concrescence) for Ligeti's music. Aural perception, spectra, heterogeneous temperaments, harmonics

Ligeti's music is based on several aspects. Some of them are strictly connected to the music as heard. Works like "Continuum", "Chamber Concert", "Atmosphères", and many others are based on aural illusions. The ordinary ways of analysis are insufficient a nd inadequate to interpret the complexity...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Impact of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on Governance of Natural Resources

My PhD project aims to explain the relationship between governance strategies and conflict prevention. On a theoretical level, the project not only examines the question of what determines peace but also delves into the issue of how particular governance policies target certain instability-induc...

Awarded: NOK 45,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Genomics of the Heterobasidion-Spruce Interaction as a Tool to Understanding Host Resistance

Root and butt rot of conifers caused by Heterobasidion is one of the most important tree diseases in the Northern hemisphere. Despite the high impact of Heterobasidion, ability to control the disease in forests with a long history of management is very li mited. Traits associated with resistance ...

Awarded: NOK 84,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Low-energy effective field theory of nonrelativistic superfluids

The aim of the proposed project is to study the low-energy properties of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas of nonrelativistic particles using the modern techniques of effective field theory. While the physics of BEC and quantum liquids in general has been well understood for decades, onl...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Validation of a GC-MS method for screening of chemically-induced modulation of steroid hormones in Ciona intestinalis

The ascidian, C. intestinalis is one of the most common modern urochordates that represent one of the closest invertebrate relatives of vertebrates. For many years, ascidians have been proposed as good experimental model organisms, due to the typical mosa ic development where embryogenic cell fat...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Investigation of physical environment in West Spitsbergen waters

The project is focusing on comprehensive studies of physical environment in West Spitsbergen waters, which is of vital importance for understanding local marine ecosystem structure and functioning. Firstly, estimation of inter-annual variability of hydrog raphic/thermohaline characteristics in we...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The naturalistic accounts of moral normativity and their implications for applied ethics

The general aim of the project that would be conducted at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature of the University of Oslo is to evaluate some recent naturalistic accounts of normativity of morality and their implications for applied ethics, especiall y global justice. The first group of ques...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Extension of the theory of monotone systems to cope with transmission delays. Adaptation of the predictive control design.

Monotony and non-negativity play a key role in understanding many processes and related physical constraints in biological and medical sciences as well as various engineering areas. Roughly speaking, the corresponding models are composed of homogeneous in terconnected subsystems which exchange va...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Effect of plant protein substrates on CCK and its downstream signaling on Atlantic salmon

Replacement of fishmeal with plant protein meal has been the center of attraction for feed industries and nutritionists due to low cost and easy availability. Several observations confirm that high inclusion of plant diet induces growth depression, intest inal inflammation, and elevated levels of...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Win-win of biochar amendment in soil: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and immobilizing contaminants

Application of biochar to soil has recently come up as having great potential to sequester carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emission. Biochar also improves soil fertility, stimulating plant growth, which then consumes more CO2 in a feedback effect. Organi c pollutants strongly sorb to carbonaceou...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Detection of chromosomal aberrations as a cause of mental retardation using new molecular cytogenetic methods

In the last decade diagnostics and therapy of serious human genomic diseases were simplified by the establishment of new methods of molecular cytogenetics. Progress in human cytogenetics was triggered especially by FISH technique and its modifications, wh ich allow exact understanding of the role...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Art and sociality: mail art in the context of social art pratices of the 20th century avant-garde

In my doctoral research in History, Critic and Theory of Art at Barcelona University under Profesor Lourdes Cirlot Valenzuela's direction I carry out an in-depth analysis of mail artists' publications and interviews to build a mail art database that serve s to map those artists' network and to un...

Awarded: NOK 33,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

New Media Environment. Media Convergence in Time and Space

The aim of the project is the interdisciplinary characterisation of the media convergence process in time and space ? transforming human surrounding. This project is a sub-project in relation to the one I have been carrying out since 1.10.2007 in Poland, entitled Aspects of Convergence. New Medi...

Awarded: NOK 75,999

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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