13,423 projects

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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Development of endocrine and digestive systems in marine fish larvae

Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Programme

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages - visit from Professor Jared Klein

PROIEL will be a close linguistic study of the language of the Greek text of the New Testament as well as its translations into the old Indo-European languages Latin, Gothic, Armenian and Church Slavonic. In its first stage, the project aims at describing and accounting for the so-called 'pragma...

Awarded: NOK 36,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Diversity and agronomical study of Jatropha curcas in East Africa at the CGIAR - World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi

Jatropha curcas has a large oil producing capacity. Lately in the climate changing world biofuels have regained major interest. This is leading to food or fuel discussions of which Jatropha oil is not subjected, because it is toxic. In many parts of Afric a this plant has been used in 300 years f...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

A petroleum geology cooperation between UTIG and UiS

Four main areas of research intend to be initiated during the visit of Dr. Paul Mann in Stavanger. 1.Petroleum Geology program, structural geology and subsurface interpretation, at the University of Stavanger: The design of a course in structural styles using subsurface data worldwide. We can be...

Awarded: NOK 95,000

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation

Climate change is rapidly affecting the natural world and will undoubtedly affect biodiversity, but biologists know very little about the effects of climate change on the development of new species. In this project, I will use mathematical models and comp uter simulations to study the effects of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Aerodynamics of bridge cables

This project focuses on bridge cable vibrations due to wind loads, more precisely on dry cable aerodynamics in critical Reynolds number range. The topic is highly relevant for major forthcoming bridges in Norway. The main body of the project consists of an extensive experimental campaign, to b...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Down-regulation of gene expression in Gram-positive bacteria using RNase P

"Shoot the messenger"-strategies is a new innovative tool in functional genomic research of both bacteria and mammalian cells. This approach also holds promise for the development of a new class of therapeutics using RNA-molecules to silence unwanted gene expression in vivo. We will explore and ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Ethnicity and mental health among youths: a longitudinal project

The research project will investigate social factors that may affect the development of mental health among youths from ethnic minority groups and from the majority population, with analyses distinguishing between the genders. Data will be collected in Dr ammen. Research indicates that perceived...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Exploring and expanding an understanding of Norway's entrepreneural history

Preliminary research suggests these non-conventional religious leaders and groups, being excluded from conventional forms of enterprise, were particularly attuned to new economic and business opportunities. We have focused on the idea of Israel Kirzner w hen he notes that entrepreneurs are espec...

Awarded: NOK 81,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Teamwork and incentives

Team production is one of the defining characteristics of a firm, and there seems to be a consensus that teamwork is particularly important in knowledge-intensive organizations. However, empirical findings suggest that the use individual incentives, as op posed to team incentives, is higher in kn...

Awarded: NOK 81,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

The State of Literature: Exploring Genealogy and Autopoiesis in the Work of António Lobo Antunes

I intend to investigate the role of autopoiesis - or self-creation - in the work of Portuguese writer, António Lobo Antunes (1942-). By borrowing a term from biology, my analysis is based on an aesthetic paradigm which enables us to approach literature as a composite body, or autopoietic system....

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Molecular interactions and signalling mechanisms of 5-HT4 and 5-HT7 serotonin receptors

The basis for the current project is observations in our lab indicating special properties of two serotonin receptors, 5-HT4 and 5-HT7. First, we have demonstrated that the 5-HT7 receptor behaves as if it were preassociated with G protein in the absence of ligand and reduces the signalling capac...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Protection of Civilians within Refugee Camp Environments: The Lawful Separation of Armed Elements

Det främsta målet med detta projekt är att systematisera skyddet för civila i flyktinglägermiljöer med utgångspunkt i flyktingrätt, humanitär rätt och mänskliga rättigheterna. En viktig del av detta skydd ligger i den legala separationen av väpnade elemen t för att upprätthålla flyktinglägrens ci...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

A Pilot Study to Develop a Model of Acute-on-Chronic Model of Liver Failure in Dog

Liver failure is a serious problem that carries a high mortality. Two common presentations of liver failure exist: acute liver failure (ALF) of previously healthy subjects, and acute-on-chronic liver failure of subjects with existing (cirrhotic) liver dis ease. These two presentations of liver fa...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Being Jewish and Arab: Nationalism among Mizrahim in a development town in the Galilee.

The research project aims to investigate the meaning and dynamics of contemporary nationalism among Mizrahim (non-European Jews) in a development town in the Galilee in Northern Israel. I am interested in the subjective element of attachment to nations an d ethnic groups by their members, and I i...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

Hiroshima: Representations of war in contemporary Japan

The main objective of this project is to show how Japan's many narratives of the bombing of Hiroshima in particular, and the experience of World War II in general, have contributed to a repression of other narratives, like those of Japanese wartime aggres sion. Narratives of Japan's war tend to b...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Kvinnelige godseieres makt og innflytelse i senmiddelalderens Skandinavia

Prosjektets utgangspunkt er kvinners generelle fravær i tradisjonelle framstillinger av politisk historie i middelalderens Norden og Europa. Gjennom å kartlegge og analysere kvinnelige godseieres sosiale nettverk, ønsker jeg å synliggjøre i hvilken grad o g på hvilken måte adelskvinner utøvde mak...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Synthesis of new alkylated and hydroxylated PAH-standards targeted for marine environmental monitoring of oil spills and produced water

PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) have been of environmental concern for decades due to their biological effects. Smaller PAHs and particularly their alkylated analogues are present in crude oil, and are released to the environment through oil spil ls and produced water discharges in oil p...

Awarded: NOK 62,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Maternal Corticotropin-releasing hormone levels during pregnancy and offspring levels of Adiponectin

Obesity and it's consequences are emerging as a prime threat to health in the western world. During the last 20 years the prevalence of obesity has increased in all age groups, including children. This has led the search for etiological clues. Several st udies have shown an association between l...

Awarded: NOK 33,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Investment and capacity development and regulatory compliance and enforcement in fisheries.

A Leiv Eiriksson mobility grant is requested to make it possible for Linda Nøstbakken to visit the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy of the University of California at Berkeley in spring 2008. Nøstbakken has been invited to stay at UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar fro...

Awarded: NOK 62,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Geometric changes of Austfonna and Devon ice cap

Arctic glaciers and ice caps respond faster to global warming than the larger and colder ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Their contribution to sea level rise over the next century may therefore be larger than from the ice sheets. Austfonna ice cap (Svalbard) and Devon ice cap (Arctic Can...

Awarded: NOK 73,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The 2008 Pacific salmon telemetry project in British Columbia, Canada.

The marine phase is assumed to have the major influence on variations in population abundances of Atlantic salmon. However, compared to the freshwater phase, knowledge of marine life-history is scare and completely lacking for most populations. In recent years, important information regarding mar...

Awarded: NOK 90,940

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

"'From the Frontiers of Writing': Ekphrasis and transgressionality in contemporary Northern Irish poetics"

Recently, Northern Ireland has appeared as a tormented arena of historical atavism, community conflicts and individual perturbation. The poets of the place, e.g. the 1995 Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, interact imaginatively with the many predicaments of t heir urgent situation. In their plurality...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Theology and Politics of Conversion: An Analysis of Translations of the New Testament into Indigenous Languages in Guatemala and Mexico

Translations of the New Testament (NT) into indigenous languages have been fundamental in the strategy of contemporary US Protestant mission aiming to convert native people of Latin America from their religion and Catholicism. The phenomenon of the dissem ination of Evangelical Protestantism thro...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Youth Exclusion and Political Violence

Recent academic studies have found that large youth cohorts, or 'youth bulges', under conditions of social, economic and political exclusion, increase the risk of political violence such as small-intensity armed conflict, terrorism and rioting. However, these large youth cohorts may also represe...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Mining as Development and Conservation: Changing subjectivities in Tolagnaro, Madagascar

This project aims to provide an anthropological analysis of environment and development issues in the context of an ilmenite mine in an area of Madagascar with endangered endemic rainforest and economic deprivation. The primary objective is to analyze loc al people's shifting perspectives on the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Hearing loss and tinnitus: genetic and environmental effects

Depending on the criteria used 1/3 - 1/6 of the population experience hearing impairment. Tinnitus is defined as the sensation of sound without any outer sound stimulus present. Environmental risk factors such as noise exposure are frequently described fo r both the diseases. A genetic component ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Biological bases of addiction: investigating norepinephrine and brain stress systems using PET in abstinent alcoholics

This project constitutes progress toward the specific goal of solving the complex biomedical problem of addictive behaviors. It will finance a Norwegian post. doc. (the project manager) to take part in an interdisciplinary research consortium at Yale Univ ersity on stress, self control and addict...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Making sense of a preposterous universe: Dark energy from extra dimensions

One of the most intruiging problems in modern cosmology is that of dark energy: Why does the expansion of the universe seem to be accelerating, when standard gravity is attractive? The absence of any kind of fundamental physical understanding of such seem ingly unnatural behaviour has led scienti...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Cultural sites, traditional knowledge and participatory mapping; Long-time landscape usage in Sápmi

This project focuses on alternative methods of documenting traditional land use in the wake of the new Finnmark act and current investigations regarding collectively- and individually rights to land in Finnmark. An important approach will be the use of SI T (spatial information technology) and GI...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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