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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Natural recovery of industrial impacted fjord systems

This project will focus on a researcher exchange between the Institute des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER), University of Quebec and the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). Both institutes are involved in long-term research programs related to contaminated sediments, ecological risks ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The Politics of the Fourth Estate: Understanding State-Media Relations in New African Democracies

I apply for this grant to support a two month stay at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen from late May 2011 to late July 2011. I am presently engaged in a study of state-media relations in new African democracies. The project addresses two key questions: First, why do governments int...

Awarded: NOK 33,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Green Solutions for Wireless Network Access

The services provided by information and communication technologies for the personal and professional activities in today's world have increased tremendously over the last few decades. However, the energy consumed by the telecommunication infrastructure t o provide these services has also corresp...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Efficient Security and Privacy Solutions for Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks

The goal of this project is to stimulate long-term joint research and PhD education cooperation in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) between University of Pittsburgh (PITT) in USA and University of Agder (UiA) in Norway. This collaboration wi ll be achieved through a series of joint ...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Safety Issues Associated with Antibiotic Resistance Hazards and Discovery of Safer Antibiotics Targeting Bacterial Purine Biosynthetic pathw

The rapid increase in resistance to current antibiotics strongly motivates the development of new antimicrobials with alternate modes of action. In eukaryotic systems, PurK and Class I PurE are substituted by a Class II PurE, which directly converts AIR i nto CAIR. Bacterial PurE and PurC also di...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

"The musicality of Cuban politics - and the politics of Salsa Cubana". Exploring the interface between politics and music in today´s Cuba.

This PhD project aims at exploring the relationship between rhythm structures, lyrics and political ideologies in today's Salsa Cubana. Following the ideological crisis of 1991 national patriotism and the ideas of the revolution have become increasingly s ignificant and have made an impact on mus...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Pharmacological fMRI and MRS of combined drug and cognitive behavioral training in children with moderate/severe traumatic brain injury.

Professor Robert F. Asarnow at UCLA has invited me to work in his lab for nine months collaboration on neuroimaging of pediatric TBI. UCLA is considered to be one of the most promising sites in the world when it comes to research on traumatic brain injur y, where most projects are a joint effort...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Applying a Civic Culture Framework to Local Policy Making

APPLYING A CIVIC CULTURE FRAMEWORK TO LOCAL POLICY-MAKING Civic Culture is presented as an overarching framework for the study of local government policy making. It is a means for understanding how policy-makers weigh the interests of different groups, govern the community, frame goals, engage...

Awarded: NOK 38,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Socioeconomic indicators of growth impairment among children in Haydom, Tanzania; Results from the MalED study.

Erling Svensen, PsyD, PhD holds the position as research coordinator at Haydom Lutheran Hospital, Tanzania and a position as post doc at Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway. These two institutions are part of the MalED network wh ich has been set up to investigate; The I...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Plasma wakefield acceleration for particle physic

The project I apply for is concerned with accelerator physics research for future linear colliders for high-energy particle physics, to be performed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre, SLAC, California. The research suggested, "Plasma wakefield acceleration for particle physics", is pa...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Science for sustainable fisheries: Population diversity and the portfolio effect in Atlantic cod

Many fish populations world-wide are overexploited and now facing the additional threat of climate change. Fish stocks have traditionally been managed as single homogeneous units, but increasing evidence suggests that spatial population structure exists a t the sub-stock level, characterized by s...

Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

"The World Opera System": Development of a prototype for a distributed opera stage

In the last decade, I have worked with several partners in Norway (Telemedicine / Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory) and Music Technology labs in U.S.A. og Canada (Stanford, NYU og McGill ) on making a distributed document lab, having human agents in differe nt sites connected to each other through ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Norway-Canada Research Collaboration on MBE and PLD

This project involves the mobility of two PhD students, two post docs, an associate professor and a professor. Three of them will visit the Norwegian university of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway and the other three will visit University of Albert a (UA) in Canada. Three research groups a...

Awarded: NOK 61,912

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Practices of Cultural Transmission during the Avignon Papacy (1309-1378)

The project aims at redefining some assumptions about a crucial period in European history: the Avignon papacy as a context for textual transmissions between different cultures of Early Modern Europe, between Italian humanism, Franciscan theology, and sch olastic philosophy. This seventy-year exi...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Tropical Climate course and research in order to increase subject expertise in connection with a Bangladesh climate research poject

Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR), Bergen, Norway has been awarded a prestigious project in cooperating with the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Dhaka. The title of the whole project is: Institutional support and capacity building for the study of, and adaption to, clima...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Studieopphold ved Rady School of Management/UCSD

Studieopphold i forbindelse med doktorgrad ved NHH. Hovedmålet med oppholdet ved Rady School of Management er i hovedsak veileding i avslutningsfasen av mitt avhandlingsarbeid, bygge nettverk, samt få internasjonal eksponering. I min avhandling er planl agt å bestå av tre artikler. Jeg vil her ...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Resources and peace: Power Sharing and Wealth Sharing in Post-Conflict Situations

I have been invited to visit University of California San Diego (UCSD) from January to May 2011 where I intend to mainly work on my PhD which focuses on how economic power as a result of resource wealth is shared in post conflict societies. It seems clea r that natural resources are relevant in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Molecular heterogeneity of breast carcinomas; clinical implication of tumor subclones.

Breast carcinomas are considered a heterogeneous tumor type both at the clinical, pathological and molecular level, and individual tumors can display a wide range of molecular variation. Recent work separating tumor cells into subfractions based on differ entially expressed cell surface markers h...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

In silico and in vitro search for potential multidrug resistance therapeutics

Multidrug resistance is a particular limitation to medical treatment of diseases related to the major causes of mortality globally, e.g. chemotherapy, antibiotic treatment and HIV medication. The project involves basic research on ABC transporters involve d in multidrug resistance combining theor...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Constructing Identity with L2: Pronunciation and Attitudes among Norwegian Learners of English

There is at present no official pronunciation model in the English school subject. There appear to be very diverse practices among teachers of English regarding demands to second language (L2) pronunciation. Pupils seem to have the impression that British English is the prevailing school norm an...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Investigation of oxy-fuel flame structure by laser diagnostics

The PhD project is a part of the BIGCO2 project coordinated by SINTEF Energy Research. The focus of this project is to study oxy-fuel flames whose reactants are methane and O2/CO2 mixtures, under standard conditions. The investigation will allow identifyi ng the difference with conventional air s...

Awarded: NOK 79,000

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Bedload Transport in Steep Mountain Streams: Integrating Field Measurements with Flume Experiments

Bedload transport has high importance within sediment budgets of steep mountain streams. The qualitative and quantitative monitoring of both bedload transport and of the active / mobilised channel pavement and channel banks is difficult and a big challeng e. A better general understanding of the ...

Awarded: NOK 67,000

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Theology and politics of conversion: An analysis of translations of the New Testament into indigenous languages of 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 from their religion and from Catholicism in Latin America. The primary targets of my investigation are the NT translated in...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Enhancing finite element computations on emerging parallel architectures

The project aims to address some of the challenges of using modern parallel hardware, in the context of advanced finite element computaitons. First, we will investigate the suitability of a number of programming models for exploiting the shared-memory par allelism inside a multicore-based compute...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Voicing the Voiceless: Two studies of international news journalism in a rapidly changing global news landscape.

I hereby apply for mobility grants to work in New York for the academic year 2010-2011, affiliated with the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU Steinhardt. At NYU, I will work on two research projects: Firstly, I aim to conduct fieldwor k in Al Jazeera English's (AJE) American ...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

From the New Left to the Far Left: West Germany and the United States 1967-71

Between 1967 and 1971 most of the new left movements of the 1950s and 60s went into a period of crisis and eventual self-dissolution. This rather abrupt process in turn proved the conception of an extremist far left, which was to become the stalwart featu re of leftist political action in the 197...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Measurements of Abscisic acid (ABA) and ABA-metabolites in plants developed under elevated temperatures and air humidity fluctuations

The project is an integrated part of the PhD program for PhD student Louise Elisabeth Arve. The PhD student will be hosted by Dr. Suzanne R. Abrams at NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute, connected to University of Saskachewan in Canada. The PhD student wil l get training in plant hormone profiling...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The centrality of aesthetics for Wittgenstein's philosophical thought

Ludwig Wittgenstein's (1889-1951) conception of philosophy, and its implications, are still the subject of a vivid debate. The aim of my project is to examine different key aspects of this conception in the light of his claim that that aesthetics in some internal sense belongs together with ethi...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Quantitative tools applied to stable isotope analyses and plant-herbivore interactions

The PhD candidate Marie-Andrée Giroux presents this application for a 12-month research visit in Norway through the Leiv Eiriksson mobility program. The candidate and her supervisors, Prof. Steeve Côté and Prof. Ass. Jean-Pierre Tremblay from Laval Univer sity (LU; home institution, Québec, Canad...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Human Ingenuity Research Project

Human ingenuity is defined as the aptitude and ability to solve problems through experience, with originality and imagination (Hansen, 2008). Using life history research instruments this research will explore the determinants of human ingenuity, particul arly those that can be traced, or attribu...

Awarded: NOK 59,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Telemark

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