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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Quantitative and population genetic models for the effect of escaped farmed salmon on genetic variation and fitness in wild population

The overall aim of the project is to advance the understanding of evolutionary and demographic effects of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon on wild salmon populations using and extending existing mathematical models. Artificial selection for increased gro wth performance in farmed salmon have led...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Driving forces in vegetation dynamics and their consequences for ecosystem services

This project looks at four specific human-related driving forces of ecosystem change that are identified as major threats to biodiversity today or are predicted to become major threats in the near future. These are (1) habitat change, (2) climate change, (3) pollution, and (4) invasive species. T...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

2nd generation Vaccibodies for infectious diseases

Aim: PI (Bjarne Bogen) and co-workers have recently reported on a novel vaccine technology, Vaccibodies, which appears very potent. The object of the present proposal is to further improve the design and immunogenicity of Vaccibodies (resulting in 2nd gen eration Vaccibodies). Background: New an...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

ASKeladden - Morsmålstransfer i norsk innlærerspråk. En korpusbasert tilnærming

Den overordnede og samlende problemstillingen for prosjektet er hvordan morsmålet påvirker tilegnelsen av norsk som andrespråk. Morsmålstransfer i andrespråkslæring har vært et sentralt og kontroversielt spørsmål innenfor andrespråkforskning. Prosjektet t ar sikte på å gi ny innsikt i hvordan mor...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Vestland

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Leonard. Stephen(UK), statsstip-utl-07/08

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Awarded: NOK 67,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Vibriosis and furunculosis vaccines for Atlantic cod: efficacy, protective antigens and specific immune responses

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is an upcoming marine species in Norwegian fish farming industry. Bacterial diseases as vibriosis and furunculosis, are causing problems and efficient vaccines will be crucial in order to develop a sustainable industry. Today, most cod juveniles are vaccinated against ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 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

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Prevention of cardiac inefficiency in type 2 diabetes by means of high-intensity exercise training

Type 2 diabetes is associated with altered myocardial metabolism, reduced cardiac performance and reduced cardiac efficiency (cardiac work per unit oxygen consumption). The long-term objective of the present project is to understand the mechanisms behind diabetic cardiomyopathy, an example of car...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Phenotypic heterogeneity of glucokinase-diabetes mutations: Studies of structure, function and regulatory mechanisms leading to treatment

Glucokinase (GK) is the major glucose sensor in the pancreatic beta-cell where it catalyses the first step of glycolysis. Mutations in human GK (hGK) can be inactivating or activating. Heterozygous inactivating mutations lead to a mild form of diabetes, M ODY2, while homozygous inactivating mutat...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) and the Modular X-ray and Gamma Sensor (MXGS)

The discovery of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs - Red Sprite, Blue Jet and Elves) in the late 80s have brought a renewed focus on electrical processes in the Earth´s atmosphere. A different type of flashes, the X- and gamma-bursts (TGFs) from the atmosp here above thunderstorms, were discovered...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

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

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Relations between Indigenous peoples and the state in Australia/New Zealand and the Nordic countries after the Second World War

Prosjektet er delt i følgende hovedtemaer. Social, economic and rights issues: The use and management of natural resources: a) Comparative studies of the development of traditional ownership of land, seas and other natural resources and b) Indigenous P eoples, multinational corporations and co...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Handtering av grasstrengen i totrinnshausting, for rask fortørking og god surfôrkvalitet.

Surfôr av god hygienisk og ernæringsmessig kvalitet er avgjerande for eit godt økonomisk resultat i norsk mjølk- og kjøttproduksjon. Totrinnshausting og fortørking før konservering kan gi betre kvalitet og lågare produksjonskostnader enn direkte hausting, og har gradvis vorte meir brukt også i N...

Awarded: NOK 0.63 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving barley yields in organic stockless farming systems through innovations in green manure management

Helårs grønngjødsel brukes for å bedre jordas fruktbarhet og sanere ugras. I Byggro-prosjektet har vi prøvd ut ulik handtering av helårsgrønngjødsel. Etter slått ble grønnmassen enten hakket og tilbakeført, fjernet eller fermentert i biogassreaktor og del vis tilbakeført som gjødsel til korn nest...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Animal welfare and energy production and account when utilizing locally produced wood chips and peat in circuit-based animal production

The ProLOCAL project aims at innovate technologies for animal housing and at the same time combining the hitherto mainly separated enterprises of forestry, animal husbandry, bio energy and organic farming. In today's animal husbandry there is a great dema nd for litter material. Litter and other ...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema

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Awarded: NOK 24,499

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Liminal landscapes - beyond the concepts of 'marginality' and 'periphery'

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Awarded: NOK 62,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Økt konkurransekraft i norsk produksjon av epletrær

Prosjektet 'Økt konkurransekraft i norsk produksjon av epletrær' har som hovedmål å utvikle forbedret produktkvalitet og kostnadseffektivitet i norsk produksjon av epletrær. Delmål i prosjektet er metoder for rasjonell oppformering av eplegrunnstammer og alternative produksjonsteknikker for å red...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Telemark

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Handel med oppdrettsfisk - hva er suksesskriteriene?

Prosjektet forkuserer på tre overordnede spørsmål.: 1) Hvilke grep har man gjort i eksporten av oppdrettsartene laks, pangasius og tilapia i det internasjonale markedet som har gjort at man har lykkes i å ekspandere eksporten både med hensyn til volum og marked? 2) Hvorfor har man ikke lykkes å f...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Plant metabolites for healthy plants and healthy people

Secondary metabolites are those that do not have a direct function in plant growth and reproduction. Because there are costs associated with the production of all metabolites, it is generally assumed that genes for secondary metabolites are passed on due to the evolutionary advantages they impart...

Awarded: NOK 16.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Neutral and Ion Dynamics in the Auroral Region

This project proposal concists of 2 subprojects. The aim of subproject A is to understand the physical mechanisms behind naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines (NEIALs) observed with the EISCAT radars, and flickering aurora. Recent advances in optical inst rumentation have revealed that auroral em...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Increasing wood deliveries and environmental quality

In 2006, the Norwegian government developed the strategy for increased annual harvesting of wood in Norwegian forests. Several analyses show that the strategy can be sustainably implemented. The annual growth of Norwegian forests has the last decades been considerably larger than the annual harv...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

The treatment of periodontal diseases, A randomized, blinded, four-arm, placebo controlled clinical intervention trial

Periodontal disease is a family of bacterial infections characterized by the destruction of periodontal supporting tissues. The bacterial flora at the diseased sites is complex, counting more than 500 different species in the subgingival dental plaque. Th ree main hypotheses exist for the infecti...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

GASSMAKS-Økt verdiskaping fra naturgass

New concepts for conversion of natural gas to liquid products

The proposed new GTL process consists of 1) converting natural gas to aromatics, 2) converting aromatics to napthenes and 3) converting napthenes to branched paraffins in the gasoline range. The process has a promising theoretical basis as compared to oth er natural gas to liquid fuel processes, ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

FORNY-3-Kommersialisering av FoUresultater

Tunnel Health Monitoring Procedure

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Economic Effects of marine fishing tourism - the case of coastal regions in Norway

The Norwegian fisheries authorities have stated that the lack of research-based knowledge on marine fishing tourism overall makes it difficult to decide on future management measures to secure a sustainable management and an economically viable distributi on of coastal fish resources between mari...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Investigate mechanisms of bone development in craniofacial structures of cod through pathways regulated by prostaglandins and retinoic acid

Abstract The development of craniofacial deformities is still a problem in the production of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and several studies show a link between the quality of the diet and the rate of these deformities. In particular has the levels vitam in A or retinoic acid and eicosapentaenoi...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Thalidomide versus Velcade in melphalan refractory multiple myeloma

Standard treatment of patients under the age of 65 with multiple myeloma is high dose melphalan followed by infusion of autologous blood stem cells (ASCT). Standard treatment of patients over the age of 65 is low dose melphalan and prednisolon. Most patie nts respond to this treatment, but patien...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Operational Aspects of a Uniform Seismic Sensor Grid

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Rogaland

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