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

Continental slope geomorphology: A comparison of Arctic and Antarctic margins Mobile researcher: Jenny Gales, UK

There is currently a distinct lack of knowledge of processes operating on high-latitude continental slopes. As the ice sheets play a pivotal role in the Earth-climate system, with the potential to cause major changes in global sea level, it is necessary t o understand how the ice-sheets changed i...

Awarded: NOK 40,500

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Samsvarsbøyning av adjektiv i norsk - kongruenstilegnelse hos polskspråklige norskinnlærere Mobile resarcher: Marta Olga Janik

Prosjektets hovedmål er å få større innsikt og forståelse for hvordan samsvarsbøyning av adjektiv i norsk som andrespråk tilegnes. Jeg skal undersøke læringsløyper og -rekkefølger av den adjektiviske samsvarsbøyningen. Dette vil bli gjort ved å analysere tekster og tester skrevet av polskspråkli...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

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

Biogeographical structure of the subarctic and arctic areas of the North Atlantic Ocean Mobile researcher: Reygondeau Gabriel, France

The objective of this proposal is to investigate the trophic web composition and dynamic of four biogeochemical provinces located in the North East Atlantic ocean. These specifics provinces, originally defined in 1995 using only environmental characterist ics, are selected here as they represent ...

Awarded: NOK 40,500

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Consociational Democracy and Nordic Differentiated Integration in the European Union Mobile researcher: Benjamin Leruth, UK

This project aims at providing a better understanding of the relationship between the concepts of differentiated integration and consensual democracy, by analysing the evolution of relations between the European Union and Nordic States, especially in the case of Norway. What kind of European int...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

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

The European Court of Justice and judicial lawmaking: Constitutionalizing Europe's legal order after the 'constitutional compromise'

The model of context analysis proposed in this research project offers a systematic analytical framework for approaching and assessing the role of law in Europe. It differs significantly from 'classical' rationalist, actor-centered, or interest-based expl anatory patterns in the way it takes an i...

Awarded: NOK 81,000

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Hydrogen and energy production through solid oxide reversible cells Mobile researcher: Gomez Gonzalez Sergio Yesid, Brazil

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are the most efficient (>60%) electrochemical devices yet invented for conversion of hydrogen directly into electrical power, without combustion and producing water as exhaust gas) [1]. Solid Oxide Electrolyser Cells (SOEC) c orrespond to the reverse operation of SOF...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

De polsk-norske handelsflåtens forbindelser i mellomkrigstiden Mobile researcher: Jordan Siemianowski, Poland

Mitt opphold i Bergen skal muliggjøre å forske mange saker som er knyttet til polsk-norske handelsflåtens forbindelser i mellomkrigstiden. Blant annet skal jeg forklare samarbeidet mellom Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab og andre norske rederier som var ogs å i Fri Stadt Danzig (FSD) eller i Gdynia...

Awarded: NOK 50,839

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

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

Wittgenstein on internal and external relations, and the controversy over monism Mobile researcher: Jakub Macha, Czech Republic

The aim of the project is to investigate an impact of the so-called controversy over monism on Wittgenstein's early philosophy and Wittgenstein's potential solution. The controversy over monism stood at the very beginning of analytic philosophy. B. Russel l and G. Moore revolted against the neo-H...

Awarded: NOK 67,500

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

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

Studies in the technical terminology of Greek papyri of medical content: The nomenclature and linguistic history of ancient drug containers

The research to be carried out during Isabella Bonati's Yggdrasil stay at the University of Oslo ultimately sheds light on scientific technical languages and their development from antiquity to modern times. Much as technical terminology has been transfor med over time, the technical vocabulary o...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

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

Prenatal exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds through maternal diet during pregnancy. A European study (NewGeneris)-

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzo-furans (PCDFs) and di-oxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are a widespread diverse group of persistent, lipo-philic hazardous environmental pollutants. For non-occupationally expos ed people, diet is the primary source of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

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

Enhanced Multiple Exciton Generation in PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cells Mobile researcher: Arivazhagan V, India

This Yggdrasil proposal asks for support for 4 months stay at NTNU, Trondheim for PhD student Arivazhagan V from Department of Physics, Karunya University, India. Arivazhagan V is studying for a PhD on solar cell materials, specifically synthesizing PbSe quantum dot thin film structures. These s...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Grunnleggende ferdigheter, språkopplæring, didaktisk kompetanseutvikling og pedagogiske praksiser i et russisk-norsk perspektiv

Doktoranden Ekaterina Egorova holder for tiden på med sin doktorgradsavhandling ved Herzen Pedagogiske Universitet, hvor hun forsker innenfor fagfeltet norsk som andrespråk. I forbindelse med arbeidet med avhandlingen, samarbeider Egorova med Jorunn S. Jo hansen ved HiOA, høgskolelektor i norsk. ...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

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

Nordic Regions of Culture: Intercultural links between Norway and Scotland in the Eighteenth Century Mobile researcher: Silke Reeploeg , UK

The history and culture of Scotland has been shaped by its relationships with other cultures across the North Sea - in particular with Norway. From a Shetland perspective, for example, an affinity with Norwegian culture has persisted throughout the 500 y ears since the islands' transfer from the...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Møre og Romsdal

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

The Norwegian Academic Novel Mobile researcher:Sofija Todic, Serbia

In the year 2011, Norwegian University was celebrating its two-hundredth anniversary. In connection to the jubilee celebrations, a lot has been written and said concerning the development and the history of this institution of higher education and its som ewhat isolated position in the society. F...

Awarded: NOK 40,500

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

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

Ph. D.-prosjekt: Fiktive verdener i Jan Erik Volds poetiske verker 1965-1995 Mobile researcher: Ondrej Buddeus. Czech Republic

Hensikten med prosjektet er å peke på oppbygningen av fiktive verdener, formale mønstre og diskursive spilleregler ved konstruering av det språk- og tekstbundne imaginære universet i Jan Erik Volds poetiske verker fra debuten "mellom speil og speil" (1965 ) til "Kalenderdikt" (1995). Denne analyt...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Innlandet

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

Breeding program of turbot Mobile researcher:Sophie Oesau, Germany

We welcome Ms Oesau from Christian Albrecths Universität zu Kiel to our group for three months. In her work at Nofima, she will perform genetic analysis of a data set of turbot, and write up the results in a scientific paper, which will be one of the pape rs of her PhDthesis. She will also visit ...

Awarded: NOK 40,500

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

NINA WUR partnership: Spatial ecological-economic modelling of ecosystem services, the case of Telemark province Mobile researcher:

The provision of ecosystem services (ES) constitutes a considerable part of human well-being. Both biophysical quantities and monetary values of ES are spatially explicit, but the role of spatial patterns in supply and demand of ES has not yet been studie d empirically. Spatially explicit ES valu...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

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

HACOSE - Multitemporal analysis of High Arctic Coastal Systems Evolution - Braganzavågen and Bjonapynten, Svalbard.

Proposed Yggdrasil scholarship creates an opportunity to shape the future of coastal research on Svalbard by training young researcher (Matt Strzelecki) in the leading Norwegian polar institution - University Centre in Svalbard and pursuing study along re presentative High Arctic coastal environm...

Awarded: NOK 0.31 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

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

The fitness cost of antimicrobial resistance: a bacterial perspective. Mobile researcher: Vera Diachkova, Russia

The relative and absolute fitness cost of resistance is a key biological parameter determining the rate of emergence and frequency of resistant bacteria in the community. The biological cost can be related to chromosomally localized resistance genes, or p lasmid-encoded resistance genes. So far, ...

Awarded: NOK 94,500

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Color and spectral imaging for cultural heritage applications Mobile researcher:Sony George, India

The main focus of the proposed project is to develop and evaluate novel imaging methods for cultural heritage applications, in particular for paintings. These methods will overcome the limitations of the existing techniques for color characterisation and accurate detailed analysis of the paintin...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Innlandet

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

The cinematic experience of temperature in contemporary Norwegian cinema, how climate shaped a filmography? Mobile researcher: Luis Antunes

This mobility project derives from an interdisciplinary PhD project that seeks to combine knowledge from Cognitive Neuroscience and Film Studies in order to understand how we perceive and experience films through the association of different sensory modal ities. It contributes to Cognitive Film T...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Advanced jacket models for offshore wind turbines with superelements Mobile researcher: Jan Dubois, Germany

The project studies the practical issues that arise when the superelement approach is used for offshore wind turbine support structures. Special care needs to be taken to calculate the wave loading correctly for joints that are represented by superelement s in dynamical simulations. The superelem...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Shale-gas system evaluation and organic matter characterisation Mobile researcher: Luigi Gugliotti, Italy

The purpose of my stay in Norway is to apply the modelling tool OF-Mod (Organic Facies Model) to reconstruct palaeodepositional environments of organic-rich deposits of the Streppenosa and Marne del Monte Serrone formations (Italy). This research will for m part of my Ph.D. project. The OF-Mod pr...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Philosophy of War Mobile researcher: Yuriy Loboda, Ukraine

Among numerous philosophic fields of research like philosophy of law, language, logic, mind, science, biology, history, society etc had emerged new discipline - philosophy of war. Though philosophers from Heraclitus to Bernard Henri-Levy were always inter ested in war and projects of eternal peac...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Bio-hydrogen production by sorption enhanced steam reforming of biomass derived compounds Mobile researcher: María Victoria Gil, Spain

The work to be carried out during the mobility stay is related to the H2 production from biomass derived compounds by sorption enhanced steam reforming (SESR), as an effective and promising route for direct catalytic conversion of biomass to H2 with high efficiency and high selectivity, without ...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Multiscale modeling of solvent effects on molecular properties in aqueous solution

The main aim of the project is to model the effects of the molecular environment on the optical rotation, circular dichroism and Raman optical activity spectra by means of a method that combines quantum mechanical calculations (QM) with both polarizable c ontinuum model (PCM) and polarizable mole...

Awarded: NOK 39,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

A multivariate analysis of social and intralinguistic factors of word order variation and change in Late Middle and Early Modern English

I would like to conduct a multivariate/logistic regression analysis of various social and linguistic factors influencing word order variation and change in earlier English. In my doctoral dissertation (2007) I dealt with some social (class, network, regi on), communicative (audience design) and ...

Awarded: NOK 39,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Dual-frequency ADCP measurement to quantify suspended sediment concentrations and to determine grain size distribution

The present project proposes to develop a new method to measure suspended sediment concentrations and their grain size distribution with a dual frequency acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). This is of high importance since sediments have a strongly negative impact on any hydropower plant. ...

Awarded: NOK 52,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Geophysical 3D Modelling of the Karoo Basin

No clear tectonic model exists for the Karoo sedimentary basin in South Africa, which is a possible host for Permian shale gas. The main aim of this proposed project is to create a 3D geological model of the Karoo Basin using geological information, magne tic and gravity data, and supplementary b...

Awarded: NOK 39,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

How To Persuade People of Gender Equality in Language: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Gender-inclusive language is a milestone in achieving gender equality. It proclaims feminization (using masculine and feminine terms) and neutralization (using neutral terms) to refer to both genders instead of using masculine personal nouns, since the ge neric use of masculine terms results in a...

Awarded: NOK 91,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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