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

Norway's Others: the representation of cultural difference in Norwegian Museums.

How are values, beliefs and assumptions about other cultures created and communicated in museums? How are objects embedded in specific narratives and how do these come to be validated and presented as 'authentic' and authoritative? A five months research stay at the IKOS, UiO, will enable me to ...

Awarded: NOK 84,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

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

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

Moral landscapes of public access rights: the role of government agencies in negotiating social inclusion and outdoor citizenship

Creating and sustaining 'cultures of the outdoors' are vital for encouraging participation in outdoor recreation and securing the social and health benefits associated with it. However, changes in the economy, lifestyle, demography and environment of west ern societies have both undermined and di...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Russia`s External Energy Policy: Paradigm Shifts within Geographical Context of Europe, Northeast Asia, and Central Asia

Despite variations in Russia`s approaches within each of dimensions - Europe (EU), Northeast Asia (NEA), and Central Asia (CA) - some common features allow analysis of three policy paradigms: liberal (adjusted to market economy principles) towards EU; col lectivist (informed by residual Soviet-th...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

'Periphrastic passive and perfect in old Norwegian dialects'

The project deals with the form of periphrastic passive and perfect in old Norwegian dialects. They will be discussed together, because they underwent the same process of grammaticalization, which concerned both the auxiliary and the participle/supine: an auxiliary gained respect to another one ...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Structural and socio-pragmatic aspects of Bulgarian-English code-mixing in some printed media

The current study aims mainly at examining the grammatical and the socio-pragmatic aspects of one relatively new bilingual phenomenon, English-Bulgarian code-mixing, or insertion of words from English into the sentence structure of Bulgarian, in some Bulg arian printed magazines. The study can be...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Studying Norwegian Free Improvisation

My purpose is to study the aesthetical specificities of Norwegian Free Improvisation and to include the data I will gather in a broad transcultural study on Free Improvisation in Europe. I am invited by the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, one of the g reatest music schools in Norway. I will f...

Awarded: NOK 34,000

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

Charterparty standard form contracts, international customs and lex mercatoria.

The project deals with the problem of the unification of private international maritime law by virtue of maritime international customary rules (lex mercatoria maritima), in the tramp market. The project I am submitting is intented to be the test of the g eneral theory developed, in summer 2008, ...

Awarded: NOK 25,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Stability of solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation

The Camassa-Holm equation, which is a modell for shallow water waves, has been studied extensively over the last 15 years. Recently, A. Bressan, H. Holden and X. Reynaud discovered a new technique that provides stability of solutions for the Hunter-Saxton equation, a related to the equation of i...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

European Existentialism and Postmodernism

The project emphasizes on a presentation of European Existentialism and its "clash" with Postmodern relativism. After the general description of the fundamental Existentialist concepts I will focus more on the relationship between Existentialism and Postm odernism. My target philosophers are Sart...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Rheological properties of lime based renders containing alternative silicate binders

My work deals with newly designed plasters, which should have properties similar to original historical materials. During my stay, I would perform research of the rheology and adhesion properties of lime based renders containing alternative silicate binde rs. I´m testing several different types o...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

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

The impact of the Anatomy Act in Ireland: Body supply, medical education and professionalisation in Ireland:1832 to 1921

This project studies the history of anatomy in Ireland (1832 to 1921), a much-neglected topic compared to the level and intensity of research on England. The Anatomy Act determined which poor bodies, and in what numbers, could be used for medical research purposes. This study will examine Irish ...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

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

Numerical modeling of fluid-structure interaction in human vocal folds

The project is focused on mathematical modeling of airflow in human vocal folds. It builds on the research conducted by both the proposer and the host institution. The proposer and the host institution hope to exchange knowledge and compare the results of numerical simulations of airflow in huma...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Research for Disseration Thesis

My project is focused on the research for my dissertation thesis, which I plan to defense at my home university (Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic) in June 2011. I started my Ph. D. studies in September 2008 and it is usual to study 3 years. M y stay in Norway and all information I wi...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Automatic extraction of valency lexicons from Latin corpora

The goal of this project is to create two new linguistic resources for Latin, namely two computational valency lexicons, i. e. dictionaries containing syntactic, semantic, and frequency information on the arguments of verbs. Valency lexicons distinguish t ransitive verbs from intransitive verbs a...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Glacier dynamics and volume change estimation using advanced remote sensing techniques

We propose to submit a research project to Research Council of Norway, Division for Science under its YGGDRASIL mobility programme in collaboration with host institution Northern Research Institute (Norut) Tromso,Norway and CSRE, Indian Institute of Techn ology, Bombay Mumbai, India. The effort e...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Crime, police corruption and development: evidence from victimization data

The proposal is part of the the NFR project no 178683 "Violence, poverty and police corruption" for the period period 2007- 2009. Jens Christopher Andvig is project leader. Involved researchers are me and Amit Shrivastava from the Norwegian Institute of I nternational Affairs (Norsk Utenrikspolit...

Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Dwelling with Power: an ethnography with Gwich'in Harvesters

The project concerns with movements and continuity of life for indigenous peoples, specifically Teetl"it Zheh Gwich"in, and critically asserts conventional ethnographic and anthropological research through focusing on "mundane" themes such as wood, trails , cabins, texts, and policies. Using the ...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Latin works of Ludvig Holberg

During my research stay in Oslo I would like to focus on the literary output of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) a writer, philosopher and historian born in Bergen. As I am a classicist, I am especially interested in his works written in Latin. This significant person has not been a subject of scienti...

Awarded: NOK 34,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Small rodents in a fragmented landscape: distribution and habitat dependent demography at different spatial scales

Small rodents are regarded as the heart of many northern terrestrial food webs and their characteristic inter-annual cyclic fluctuations in densities have long been recorded (since the 1920s). Recent indication of a long-term decline in some of the most a bundant vole species in boreal ecosystems...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Modulation of hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor isoforms and lipid peroxidation by Tributyltin in Atlantic salmon in vitro

Organotin compounds, such as tributyltin (TBT) are one of the main marine contaminants. They are used as antifouling biocides in marine paints for ships and are continuously released to the enviroment. TBT is a known endocrine disruptor, i.e. compounds th at disrupt the hormonal equilibrium in or...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Phylogenetic microarrays: A new tool for biodiversity assessment.

As part of an already running project "Phylogenetic microarrays and high-throughput sequencing: A new tool for biodiversity assessment in Northern Norway" (190265/S40), were we have proposed to improve the resolution of current environmental monitoring pr ograms (EMP), this application will focus...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Research Stay in Bergen

My current research field is philosophy of art, with particular reference to classic expressivists (Tolstoy, Croce and Collingwood). I am attempting to defend the notion of expression of the classic expressivists by relating it to the Wittgensteinian one and to give a global elucidation of the c...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Isolation and characterization of crocetin derivatives from wild Crocus species and alternative total synthesis of crocetin and analogs

Crocus sativus L., is cultivated in many areas of the Mediterranean region and South Asia for its red stigmas (style branches, commonly known as saffron). Saffron is used as food and beverages additive, is an important ingredient of Mediterranean, Indian and Chinese diet and has been used as a d...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools

The goal of the project is the definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools. The work will be mainly focused on two goals: A. Analysis of the telemedicine service provision model in the Nordic countri es to be applied in Spain The existing mo...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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