7,959 projects

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Molecular analysis of a neuronal glutamine transporter, SA2, involved in transmitter recycling

Signalformidling mellom nerveceller skjer ved at kjemiske signalstoffer frigjort fra en nervecelle reagerer med spesifikke reseptorer på den andre og stimulerer eller hemmer dens aktivitet. Glutamat and GABA er henholdsvis viktigste stimulerende og hemmen de signalstoff i hjernen. De er oppkonsen...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BEMATA-Beregningsorientert matematikk i anv.

Reduced basis modeling of hierarchical flow systems

Reduced basis methods are particularly attractive to use in order to reduce the number of degrees-of-freedom associated with a given numerical approximation to a set of partial differential equations; the computational complexity can be reduced to a level where potentially very complex systems c...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Norsk medlemskap i International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Wind retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images for wind turbine siting

Offshore and coastal wind farms are becoming important sources of renewable energy. The power production of a wind farm is closely connected to its location, and the expected outcome is traditionally calculated from at least one year of accurate wind meas urements. A unique instrument for measuri...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Fluorinated ligands for imaging My-opioid receptors in vivo

Neuronal plasticity is an essential feature of the nervous system in the transfer of pain responses into a state of pathological processing. Indications of neuroplastic changes in the human central nervous system may be derived from positron emission tomo graphy (PET). Previous studies have shown...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

The effect of climate on seed renegation strategies: Population-scale experimental tests on four Veronica species

Seeds and seedlings are vulnerable stages in the life cycles of plants, and we expect strong fitness consequences of environmental variability on these stages. Climate has a major influence on vegetation, and in species with wide geographical or altitudin al distributions, the factors and process...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Biofilm formation in Candida albicans

Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen that causes life-threatening, systemic disease in immuno-compromised individuals, such as patients undergoing chemotherapy. Patients with catheters and joint replacements are predisposed to systemic fungal dis ease because C. albicans forms sessile co...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Metal Complex Catalysis in Conversion of Natural Gas to Value-Added Products

Today, Norwa's natural gas resources are mainly exported as is, with only a minor part being processed domestically into value-added products. This project is aimed at the development of economically and ecologically improved processes for converting natu ral gas into such products by use of meta...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Processes governing air-sea CO2 transfer; an improved estimate for the North Atlantic

The project focuses on the issues of accurate parameterisation of the air-sea exchange rate and small scale biasing of air-sea flux estimates, aiming to provide an accurate estimate of the air-sea flux of CO2 in North Atlantic, and its inter-an nual variability. The project intends to ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Organochlorine pesticides in Paleractic migratory birds in South Africa

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Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Akershus

EUR-SAM-Europeisk samarbeid

Posisjoneringsmidler EUs 6. rammeprogram

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Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo - Oslove

EUR-SAM-Europeisk samarbeid

Posisjoneringsmidler EUs 6. rammeprogram

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Awarded: NOK 10,000

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

The emergence of hierarchcal organisation in artificial life systems - Theoretical and meta-theoretical problems

The main aspiration of the field of Artificial Life is to implement life-like entities in agent-based computer models (ABM). Although relatively successfull in the past, the available models today still do not reflect the rich hierarchical organisation of real organisms (molecules, cell, organs.....

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Vestland

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Testing the cost-of-virulence hypothesis: Does a horizontally transmitted parasite have an optimal virulence?

Parasitism is a constant threat to human health, food production and wildlife conservation. Some species, or strains, produce highly lethal diseases while others are benign. Trying to understand the reasons for this variation in virulence is one of the ma jor challenges in epidemiology. In this p...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

EUR-SAM-Europeisk samarbeid

Posisjoneringsmidler EUs 6. rammeprogram

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Awarded: NOK 18,000

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

EUR-SAM-Europeisk samarbeid

Posisjoneringsmidler EUs 6. rammeprogram

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Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Experimetal investigations into liquid crystalline phases in colloidal platelet systems

Experimental studies of colloidal clay suspensions and possible liquid crystalline phases as observed in a system of platelet shaped particles. The phase behaviours of hard anosotropic colloidal particles represent rich physical systems including the poss ibility of liquid crystalline orientation...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Structure formation and instabilities in granular flows

Granular flows are not described by any general continuum theory. The theory underlying granular flows and the computational models used to predict them therefore rely heavily on experimental validation in each case of interest. We have established close collaborations where simulations, experime...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BEMATA-Beregningsorientert matematikk i anv.

Hedonic models of fish behaviour

The project aims at developing a new method for modelling behaviour in an individual-based model. The method evolves affective responses to sensory information, and the organisms are capable of receiving several different kinds of impressions simultaneous ly (e.g. temperature, density of conspeci...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Effect of longitudial Marangoni waves on the surface wave signature of a film covered ocean

Thin surface films cover large areas of the ocean surface. They are of biogenic as well as of antropogenic origin,i.e. chemical breakdown of dead organisms or petroleum spills from ships or offshore industry. Such films have a profound influence on the sh ort surface wave climate of the ocean. Th...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIOFYS-Fysiologiske og anatomiske fag

Valg av beskyttelsesstrategier mot miljøstress: Betydningen av konkurranse om samme kjemiske ressurser

Organismer er utsatt for ulike typer stress, som ofte virker sammen. Enkelte av organismenes forsvarsmekanismer mot stress er basert på bruk av samme kjemiske ressurs, slik at det kan oppstå en konkurransesituasjon mellom mekanismene. Et eksempel på en sl ik konkurransesituasjon har man i organis...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Studier av transaktinidenes kjemi med SISAK

Prosjektet har til hovedmål å kartlegge de kjemiske egenskapene til de aller tyngste grunnstoffene. Disse grunnstoffene har atomnummer fra 104 og oppover, og er i vesentlig grad kjemisk ukjente. De blir fremstilt i tungioneakseleratorer. Det benyttes en a ktinide som target, og det dannes et elle...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Sexual signals and life history trade-offs in guppy and sex-role reversed pipefishes

Sexually selected signals can be viewed as life history traits. In the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) and the sex role reversed pipefishe (Syngnathus typhle) sexual signals are well understood, but their relation to life history decisions remain unexplored.T he proposed project will test how life hi...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOEVO-Evolusjonsbiologi og økologi

Behavioural and genetic mechanisms of extrapair fertilization in bluethroats

Most birds are classified as socially monogamous, yet they frequently engage in extrapair copulations. In the bluethroat, females copulate frequently with neighbouring males with the result that around 30% of offspring are sired extrapair. The bluethroat is one of the few bird species in the wor...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Syn-collisional extension in the North Atlantic Caledonides

High-grade metamorphic rocks are commonly found in the interior of many convergent orogens. Plate tectonic processes can account for high- and ultra pressure (HP &UHP) metamorphism by subduction and crustal thickening, but the processes involved in the re turn of these metamorphosed crustal rocks...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Model estimations of the present and future N2O emissions from soil plant systems in the north - feedbacks in climate change

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Akershus

BIOBIOT-Biologi, bioteknologi, Mat. Nat.

Nitrate reductase and the biological clock

Different transgenic and mutated plants altered in the nitrate reductase (Nia) genes or central clock genes will be investigated. The data will be evaluated with the help of kinetic/mathematical models to test for the possible influence of a centra l clock on NR expression as opposed to

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Rogaland

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Cyanobakterier og cyanotoksiner i norske innsjøer - ny kunnskap som grunnlag for risikovurderinger

Cyanobakterier (blågrønnalger) forekommer i nesten alle innsjøer i Norge. Mange arter i våre vannforekomster produserer toksiner. Masseutvikling av toksinproduserende cyanobakterier forekommer særlig i eutrofierte eller middels næringsrike innsjøer, og me dfører risiko for giftproduksjon med kons...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate from tree-rings of Scots pine in northern Norway - towards millennial series

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PROOF-Langtidsvirkn. av utslipp til

Hormonforstyrrende effekter av miljøgifter i produksjonsvann fra oljeinstallasjoner

Prosjektet fokuserer på langtidseffekter av alkylfenoler som forekommer i produksjonsvann fra oljeplattformer på fisk og følger dermed opp nylig gjennomførte undersøkelser på torsk ved Havforskningsinstituttet. Første del av prosjektet omfatter videreutvi kling av metoder for analyse av alkylfeno...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Vestland