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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

A circumpolar reappraisal - The legacy of Gutorm Gjessing - symposium oktober 2008

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Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

AMPERA- IMPLEMENTATION OF RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR OIL AND CHEMICAL SPILLS THE EUROPEAN MARINE ENVIRONMENT (RAMOCS) - ERA - NET

Objectives. This proposal establishes a multidisciplinary cooperation between leading European research groups of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA), V igo University (VU) and the Centro Interd...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Plant Innate Immunity: Genetically engineered Brassica napus MINELESS plants and its effect on insect and sulphur stresses

The ability to discriminate between self and non-self is a key feature of all living organisms, and forms the basis for the activation of innate defence mechanisms against attempted microbial infection. Interestingly, innate immunity in plants and animals shows striking parallels, suggesting tha...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Long term dynamic changes in an alpine-boreal watershed as reflected in the benthic fauna

When monitoring freshwater communities, we usually encounter problems due to our inability to separate effects of natural variation, sampling induced uncertainty and human impact. The aim of this study is to test species rich biocommunities for changes in vital parameters such as biodiversity w...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

The Function of Cyclin Dependent Kinases in the DNA Damage Response and Maintenance of Genome Stability

Project Summary Genome instability is one of the hallmarks of cancer. However, the mechanisms that protect the genome against spontaneous gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) are not well understood. In recent years several pathways have been identifi ed that protect the genome against sponta...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

Modul i IKT og tilgjengelighet (MIKT)

Med støtte fra Norges Forskningsråd (IT Funk) gjennomførte MediaLT i perioden 15.04.2007 ? 15.12.2007 forprosjektet Modul i IKT og Tilgjengelighet (MIKT-prosjektet), der hovedmålet var å kartlegge og legge grunnlaget for en sertifiserende kursmodul. anall ysen av fagfeltet i forprosjektet viste ...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Modelling ecosystems under climate change: Windermere as a model lake system

Climate profoundly affects ecosystem functioning, as well as human populations inhabiting and exploiting ecosystems. Hence, climate change is likely to have serious ecological, economic and societal consequences that it is urgent to investigate. Here we p ropose to develop a complete matrix commu...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

SYNKNØYT-Progr.f.synkrotron- og nøytron

Novel materials for hydrogen storage studied by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

One major unsolved problem for the introduction of hydrogen into the global energy system is effective storage of hydrogen. This proposal addresses novel materials for hydrogen storage and in particular aluminium-, magnesium- and boron-based metal hydride s. Materials with hydrogen contents highe...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Management of wild Atlantic salmon and escaped farmed salmon: Economic drivers, impacts and conflicts. (Other rel. subject: Samfunn)

Escaped farmed salmon has a number of well-known negative biological effects on the wild Atlantic salmon stock (Salmo salar), but also some potential positive effects as it may increase the salmon stock available for both marine and recreational fishing. The aim of this project is to analyse such...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - PhD-exchange for Hilde Cecilie Trannum

At Laboratoire d'Océanologie Biologique de Banyuls there has been developed a new experimental approach to measure sediment reworking rates in two dimensions with a high degree of time resolution. The technique is based on thin aquaria, luminophores, time lapse photography and image analysis. We...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Constraining total feedback of the climate system by observations and models

Assessing global warming projections on the basis of various future emission scenarios is difficult because a number of key variables in climate change are poorly quantified. In particular, the feedbacks of the climate system when greenhouse-gas concentra tions and aerosols are changing are not w...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Semi-semantic models for cross-sector portals

The project will address the following sub goals: 1) To develop open standards and tools that will lower the barriers of entry in the area of semantically enhanced portals and services and make it possible for small and medium sized companies and organiza tions to exploit semantic systems. 2) To...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2008)

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Awarded: NOK 39,119

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Sikker.info 2008 (Security Valley Conference)

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Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Innlandet

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Salmon and contaminants: impacts on insulin sensitivity and metabolic diseases

Although marine food has long been known to have health properties, its roles and impacts on insulin sensitivity and metabolic diseases (e.g. type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, coronary heart diseases etc.) remain still unclear and worldwide debated. Beside its potential health effects, rec...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Precise analysis of mass movements through correlation of repeat images (CORRIA)

Slow mass movements such as ice flow, landslides, rock mass instabilities, rockglacier creep, or solifluction are fundamental earth surface processes. Quantification and monitoring of surface velocity fields on these features is a crucial prerequisite for process understanding, numerical modelli...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate warming and insect outbreaks in sub-arctic birch forest

Population outbreaks in geometrid moths constitute the most pronounced disturbance factor in sub-arctic birch forest that sometimes leads to extensive forest death. We have recently made two discoveries that suggest that distinct, climate-change related s hifts in geometrid outbreak ranges are no...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessing the marine fish diversity of Jan Mayen and adjacent waters towards the 2010 Norwegian Red List

The recent version of the Norwegian Red List was published in 2006. Jan Mayen and its adjacent waters is the only Norwegian Territory in the Northern Hemisphere which is not included. An update of the Norwegian Red List is due in 2010, with the aim to inc lude also the area around Jan Mayen. Lit...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Hybrid Quantum Computers

Quantum computers can process exponentially more information than classical computers. So, whereas, classically, a 32-bit register can operate on one 32-bit number, a quantum counterpart could simultaneously process 2^32 different numbers by using quantum entanglement and superposition. But you ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Bioinformatics platform for the pharmacogenomic analysis of sequence variation in complex diseases

Traditional studies of complex disease and drug response have utilized a one gene one drug strategy. However because of highthroughput technology , the future trend of personalized medicine lies in understanding and modulating the complex responses involv ing many genes, their sequence variation ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

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

Measuring Genetic Mating Systems and Sexual Selection Using a Sex-Role Reversed Pipefish.

Summary The interaction between molecular biology and animal behaviour has sparked a new understanding of mating systems and sexual selection. However, controversies remain, and at least ten different mating system metrics have been advocated to best meas ure patterns of mating. One aim of this p...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Saxitoxin biosynthesis and genomics in organisms from two kingdoms - horizontal gene transfer or parallel evolution?

Paralytic shellfish poisoning is a potentially fatal affliction that results from the consumption of seafood or drinking water, which is infested with the neurotoxic alkaloid saxitoxin and its analogues (PSTs). Although PSTs are produced by a complex and unique biosynthetic pathway, distantly rel...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-JSPS-JSPSmobilitet fra Japan

Nasu, Hirokazu, JSPS-FY2008, long-term - Deformations of curves on a higher dimensional algebraic variety and their obstructions

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Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-JSPS-JSPSmobilitet fra Japan

Takemasa, Makoto, JSPS-FY2008, long-term - Single molecular studies on polysaccharide complexes

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Awarded: NOK 0.33 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Declining long-term trends in Atlantic salmon abundance: inferring mechanisms using catch data for Norway and Scotland.

Long-term time-series of Atlantic salmon catches for c. 250 Norwegian rivers (some spanning the period 1876 to present) and 48 Scottish rivers (1952 to present) will be subject to statistical analyses in order to deduce what regulates the long-term dynami cs of spawning populations. Preliminary a...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Models and stable isotopes to quantify sources of nutrients transported by rivers to the sea: atmospheric deposition, land sources

This project will examine scenarios of changes in nutrient fluxes to the sea from atmospheric deposition and land-based sources. Integrated studies will be conducted at two river basins draining to the Norwegian Skagerrak coast; the eutrophic system Vansj ø/Hobøl and the oligotrophic system Tovda...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Long-term effects of a biological invasion

Exotic species represent an increasing global threat resulting in ecological disturbance and biodiversity loss in natural ecosystems. In spite of recent emphasis on these problems, several aspects of introductions and invasions are still poorly understood . The present project relates to a non-na...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Environmental effects of the new low-calorie sweetener sucralose

Project summary. The project aims at understanding possible environmentally deleterious effects of the recenty introduced artificial sweetener sucralose. The registration of food-additives does not require any environmental risk assessment by envir onmental agencies. Consequently, there is...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

Ecological Processes and Impacts Governing the Resilience and Alternations in the Porsangerfjord and the Hardangerfjord (EPIGRAPH)

The Porsangerfjord: The coastal cod population in the Porsangerfjord has been at a low level over the recent two decades and low recruitment has hampered recovery. The kelp forests, anticipated to be important nursery grounds for juvenile cod, has been er adicated over the recent three decades du...

Awarded: NOK 15.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Down-regulation of gene expression in Gram-positive bacteria using RNase P

"Shoot the messenger"-strategies is a new innovative tool in functional genomic research of both bacteria and mammalian cells. This approach also holds promise for the development of a new class of therapeutics using RNA-molecules to silence unwanted gene expression in vivo. We will explore and ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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