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VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

8th International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software

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Awarded: NOK 34,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies 2011

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Awarded: NOK 33,905

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The reading network in dyslexia

Developmental dyslexia is a common reading disorder, affecting 5-15% of the population that negatively impacts a child's ability to achieve literacy. Because the developing brain is so plastic, there are substantial changes that occur as a result of skil l development, which can confound attempt...

Awarded: NOK 46,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Life in Volcanic Glass: Characterizing the Formation and Preservation of Biosignatures in the Troodos Ophiolite

Microorganisms that inhabit subseafloor basalts have enormous effects on global geochemical cycling and may represent some of the oldest signs of life on Earth. This makes the study of biosignatures in fragments of ancient seafloor (ophiolites) an importa nt endeavor. Researchers in Bergen have p...

Awarded: NOK 74,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Pipeline conflicts and European energy security

The aim of this study is to analyze the potential for conflict and cooperation in Eurasian pipeline politics. The major oil and gas producer in Eurasia is the Russian Federation and with that one of the main energy suppliers of the European Union. In rece nt years, repeated pipeline conflicts bet...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Assesment of cardioprotection provided by intramyocardial or subcutaneous transplantation of human adipose stem cells overexpressing HMOX-1

Stem cells are currently explored as therapy against heart failure. However, several unsolved issues still remain, namely the survival of cells post-transplantation, the role of local environmental conditions on the fate of transplanted cells, or mechanis ms by which stem cells improve cardiac fu...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Cultural Transfer between Norway and Central Europe, 1890-1925: Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland

The project pursues a comprehensive reconstruction of the pivotal role of the Polish-German author and art critic Stanislaw Przybyszewski (1868-1927) as an influential mediator in the transnational European cultural field, who facilitated cultural transfe r between Norway and Central Europe, nota...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Role of Two Peroxisomal Small Heat Shock Proteins in Re-Naturating Oxidatively Damaged Proteins and Conferring Heat Resistance to Crop Plant

Environmental stresses, such as drought, high salinity, extremes of temperature (high and low), can significantly alter plant metabolism, growth and development, ultimately leading to the severe loss of plant productivity. At the molecular level, these st resses lead to the misfolding and denatur...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Visiting scholar at Chair of Public Economics, TU Dresden

I plan to spend parts of the academic year 2011/12 at institutions where I know researchers with similar interests, i.e., in development economics, international economics, and political economy. The Chair of Public Economics at TU Dresden fits this descr iption as Marcel Thum visited my departme...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Vestland

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

Neutralisation: phonetic or phonological? An acoustic and perceptual study of vowel harmony in two dialects of Hungarian

The aim of this project is twofold. First, to gather reliable articulatory, acoustic and perceptual data from Standard Hungarian and Slovakian Hungarian. Second, I plan to address two main theoretical questions. Does the lexicon contain only abstract phon ological representations, only detailed p...

Awarded: NOK 77,999

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

A comparative study of stream sediments in central Norway collected a quarter of a century apart: assessing anthropogenic impact

Stream sediments do not only provide an integrated signal of geochemical processes and erosional regimes occurring in drainage basins (Galy and France-Lanord, 2001; Vance et al., 2003) but they also provide a tracer for human influences (Walling, 1999). A comparative study of stream sediments fr...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS. Crisis and Nordic Identity

The contemporary world seems to be increasingly characterized by crisis, as is reflected in discussions about financial crises, environmental crises and crises of multiculturalism (Chorev and Babb, 2009; Fortier, 2007; Ahmed, 2000). Crisis is often seen a s a rupture in how things are and should ...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NOS-HS-Sekr. nord. sam.nemd. HumSam

EWS. The Nordic Baltic Small States: Perceptions on Economy, Security and Identity in an increasingly regionalized Europe

The two year project is based on a three-way relationship between three West Nordic universities: The universities of Copenhagen, Stavanger and Iceland; three research institutions in the Baltic States: The Institute of International Relations at Vilnius University, the Estonian International Ce...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

So Special, so Normal: An Analysis of the Voting Dynamics in the EP and their Macro-Level implications on the Democratic Nature of the EU

The key part of my research activity at ARENA (from September 2011 to July 2012) will be devoted to the investigation of the role of the national party delegations (NPDs) in the European Parliament vis-à-vis the respective parliamentary groups and to a th eoretical discussion of the macro-level i...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Fish Breeders Round Table 2011

Norway is world leading in fish selective breeding and genetics both on the research and applied side. Worldwide, fish selective breeding is still a relatively new research discipline and industry, where the exchange of information between research and in dustry is rather limited. We would like t...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Analysis of genetic diversity and population subdivision of Halys pit-viper (Gloydius halys) at the different spatial levels

Genetic diversity is one of the most important factors affecting viability of populations. Loss of genetic diversity can lead to inbreeding depression, reduction of the adaptive potential and weak tolerance of population to diseases, parasites and other s tressors. Thus, the understanding of how ...

Awarded: NOK 90,999

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Bioprospecting for drug and enzymes discovery from Antarctic and Arctic sub-sea sediments.

The aim of this project is to discovery new biocatalysts and drugs starting from Antarctic and Arctic sediment samples. To achieve the above aim several expertise in different research fields are required, and the proposed project will represent a necessa ry instrument to coordinate/integrate the...

Awarded: NOK 90,999

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Computational methods for submerged structures subjected to impact loading. Prosjekt stoppet.

From a design perspective impact and collisions may be classified as accidental loads, and these events are becoming increasingly important for engineering of subsea production systems. Because of the lacks in the existing design codes and the investigati on procedures related to submerged struct...

Awarded: NOK 25,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Mountain Forestry in the Norwegian Fjordlands: Impact, Economics, Policy

This short project addresses a significant problem being faced by the Norwegian forestry sector along the entire coastal belt. Almost 70 million m3 of timber are mature or are approaching maturity in steep terrain, with another 40 million m3 in the inl and region. Steep terrain harvesting mus...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Paraffin Gel Buildup and Rupture

The research to be performed is associated with a joint industrial project co-funded by the Research Council and industry which is titled:"Shut-in and Restart of Gelled Oil Pipelines: Software Module Development". Jamilia Safieva's salary will be funded b y the Yggdrasil program. Operating expens...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

EUI - 4. år - Shakos, slouch hats, and zouves

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Indigenous and Creole Subjects in Latin America. Homogenization, Negotiation and Subversion (16th.-18th. c.)

Latin American studies in Norway have a predominant focus on contemporary issues and circumvent the study of the periods when these conflictive societies were generated (the Colonial Period) and above the moments in which Latin-Americas countries adquiere d the status of Modern Nations (Independe...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-RWE-Musikksamarbeid Norge-Tyskland

Klaver - studier med professor Gabriele Kupfernagel ved Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler i Berlin

Jeg søker med dette om økonomisk støtte til å studere med pianist Gabriele Kupfernagel i Berlin. Kupfernagel er klaverprofessor ved Hochschule Hanns Eisler, og er villig til å gi meg en plass i hennes klasse på høgskolen. Dette innebærer ukentlige pianoti mer, samt deltakelse i klassetimer ol.

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Optimal Measurement Selection for Process Industries

Process safety, ensuring product quality, meeting environmental standards all strongly depends on the set of variables we select for measurements. This selected set of variables play a vital role in any chemical plant and the selection process itself is a difficult task due to technical infeasib...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Understanding and Improving Salt Tolerance of Rice

Intensive basic plant research mostly in Arabidopsis over the past twenty years allowed us to partly understand how a model species of molecular plant research (Arabidopsis) can adapt to and tolerate adverse environmental conditions. Plant researchers wor ld-wide are now confronted with the chall...

Awarded: NOK 90,999

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Influence of basal ice shelf conditions on ice sheet stability in Dronning Maud Land through radio-echo sounding and ice-sheet modelling.

Radio-echo sounding is a widespread remote sensing method used in glaciology to obtain a wide range of information concerning boundary conditions of ice sheets. Radar emits electromagnetic waves. They propagate through the ice until they encounter dielect ric heterogeneities. The central concept ...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Naturalising Content

I am applying for a grant to visit the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo from the beginning of September 2011 to the end of July 2012. I am currently a PhD student in philosophy based at the Arché research centre at t he University of St Andrews. While at CSM...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Double Degree NHH-University of Mannheim (two semesters at the University of Mannheim).

The NHH-University of Mannheim Double Degree programme is a study programme that enables students to study for two semesters at each institution and receive Master's degrees from both schools after four semesters. I am currently enrolled in this Double Degree programme, and right now I am in t...

Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Vestland

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

The Wittgensteinian notion of album as a paradigm of comprehension : a manuscript's study.

The Wittgenstein Archives are hosted by the University of Bergen. These archives are unique and have made an outstanding contribution to the Wittgensteinian Studies, They are part of the development of electronic and web-based editions of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, providing many scholars in tha...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

Metamorphosis of Norwegian Foreign Policy with Special Respects to Norwegian-Czechoslovak and Norwegian-Polish Relations, 1938-1949

In this project, my intention is to follow major developments which led to reconfiguration of the Norwegian foreign policy in the course of the period defined above. Relations between exile political representations of Norway. Czechoslovakia and Poland as three lesser allies of the anti-Axis coa...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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