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IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Identification of novel peptide ligand-receptor pairs in plants

Funding through DAAD will contribute to the two partners' joint aim of understanding the importance and function of receptor-ligand pairs in plants. More specifically we want to establish a collaboration combining the genetic approach of the Aalen lab, Un iversity of Oslo, with the biochemical ap...

Awarded: NOK 78,775

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Mathematical Programming for Generalized Turbo Coding Schemes

Modern digital communication systems require reliable transmission of information. A message being sent via a noisy channel is typically disturbed before arriving at the receiver side. Thus, decoding methods are needed to restore the original information. The efficiency of these methods depends ...

Awarded: NOK 40,700

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Biotechnological Application of Multidrug Transporters from Bacillus cereus for the production of Secondary Metabolites in Streptomyces

Bacillus cereus and Streptomyces are soil-dwelling gram-positive bacteria. The Bacillus cereus group of bacteria has probably the highest number of sequenced train. Today 85 strains have been sequenced, and we have analysed the multidrug transporters (MDR ) in these strains. Thirty MDR genes are ...

Awarded: NOK 12,628

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Coupling processes associated to stratospheric sudden warmings in middle atmosphere chemistry-climate models

This project aims to develop during the next two years a cooperation with the Middle Atmosphere group at the Free University of Berlin, to better understand the coupling processes between the stratosphere, the mesosphere and the troposphere, during strato spheric sudden warmings. More specifical...

Awarded: NOK 39,549

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Akershus

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Climate change related creation and up-take processes of naturally occurring halogenated organic substances in the Eastern Arctic MIZ

Established methods for the quantitative analysis of bioactive halogenated natural products (HNPs) usually originating from algae bloom events etc will be applied in the analysis of selected representative biota samples (ice algae ? ringed seals) from the Marginal Ice Zones in the Western Barent...

Awarded: NOK 27,928

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Akershus

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability teleconnection patterns during the last centuries

The signature of a low-frequency climate signal with a timescale of 50-80 years is present in instrumental data and proxy records across the Northern Hemisphere. These variations appear associated with pronounce Atlantic multi-decadal variability (AMV), a lso know as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Os...

Awarded: NOK 15,543

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Mutual knowledge building in power electronics for offshore wind generation with the focus on reliability issues and design solutions

Three researchers from SINTEF and NTNU applies for short stays at Technical University Chemnitz (TUC) over two years. Totally 13 weeks at TUC. Three German researchers from TUC apply in Germany for similar short stays at SINTEF/NTNU. Totally 18 weeks. T UC also wants send one Master student to ...

Awarded: NOK 67,405

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Developing methods for advanced modeling of sea ice physical properties

Fordelingen av sjøis på jorden er en nøkkelkomponent i klimasystemet. Den påvirker varme- og energiutvekslingen mellom oseanet og atmosfæren, strålingsbalanset, opprinnelsen av havsirkulasjoner og med partikkeltransporten også næringskjeden. Hermed legger de fysio-kjemiske vekselvirkningene i de...

Awarded: NOK 73,796

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Applications of geometric theory of overdetermined systems in differential geometry and mathematical physics

The project aims at investigating geodesics of Riemannian and semi-Riemannian metrics. We wish to achieve two goals: bound chaoticity/complexity of the geodesic flow and understand when it can be described completely. The latter means integrability of the equations and we wish to investigate exi...

Awarded: NOK 48,405

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Towards ``Explicit Modelling in DCE-MRI''

The Norwegian (Bergen) and German (Lübeck) partners intend to establish a joint collaboration project aimed at a computational model of kidney function using dynamic-enhanced magnetic resonance with possible future application in clinical practice. With the present proposal, we intend to apply...

Awarded: NOK 25,597

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Early Modern Cultural Change

The EMRG (Early Modern Research Group) in the Department of Modern Languages and Translation herewith proposes a joint exchange programme between Philipps-Universität, Marburg and The University of Agder (Norway) in the field of Early Modern Studies, but with possibility for expansion into other...

Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Magneto-Optical Imaging of superconducting iron-based thin films

The scientific goal of this project is a detailed magneto-optical investigation of iron based superconductors. Magneto-Optical Imaging (MOI) is a versatile method to probe critical current density profiles in superconductors. The technique is well develop ed and is capable of addressing a plethor...

Awarded: NOK 60,766

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

PAIN: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR TREATMENT

We apply for a grant from the DAAD and the Norwegian Research council (NRC) for travel and accommodation to discuss and develop common projects in the field of pain and treatment of pain between the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, a nd the University of Tromsø, Norway. Pai...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Multi-Angle On-Demand Video using Multiple Mobile End-Device Generated Video Sources

The cooperation in the SceneCollect project has the goal of combining the expertise of the Multimedia Communication Laboratory, Darmstadt University of Technology (KOM) and the Media Performance Group (MPG) with members at Simula Research Laboratory. KOM has investigated problems of quality-of-s...

Awarded: NOK 26,735

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Accurate calculations of higher-order molecular properties using modern hyper-GGA functionals

The proposed project focus on the development and implementation of reliable and efficient density functional theory approaches for the calculation of higher-order molecular properties based on modern hyper-GGA functionals and automatic differentiation te chniques. These modern approaches will be...

Awarded: NOK 52,082

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Modelling NAD metabolism and its connection to the circadian clock

Most biological processes require energy and are tightly regulated. Energy is extracted from food supplies and eventually transformed into ATP, the universal energy carrier of the cell. These pathways consist of many reactions which involve NAD or NADP, s mall molecules which serve as intermediat...

Awarded: NOK 35,141

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Molecular signatures of long non-coding RNAs in breast cancer patients

Of the ~3.3 billion bases of the human genome, only about 2% code for proteins and until very recently, the remaining 98% have been considered to be 'junk'. However, large transcriptomic studies have shown that around 90% of the genome is actively transcr ibed of which a significant fraction may ...

Awarded: NOK 37,386

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Multiscale modelling of deformation and failure in thermoplastic polymers

The two groups submitting this application; Institute of Mechanics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and SIMLab at Department of Structural Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), are both working on material mo dels for thermoplastics. The activity on ...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Nye veger i fremmedspråksopplæringen

Prosjekt "Nye veger i fremmedspråksopplæringen" Offentlige evalueringer og tilbakemeldinger fra tidligere elever har vist at elever i både Tyskland og Norge ikke oppnår de fremmedspråkskunnskapene etter endt skolegang som elevene selv og deres fremtidige utdannere / arbeidsgivere kunne ha ønske...

Awarded: NOK 23,607

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Oslo-Berlin Research Collaboration into Motivation in Schizophrenia

We will facilitate the study of dopamine, motivational defects and schizophrenia by establishing a collaboration between the psychiatric neuroimaging group at the Charite Hospital in Berlin (PI Henrik Walter) and the large ongoing Thematically Organized Psychosis (TOP) Study at the University o...

Awarded: NOK 58,200

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Dissecting the developing vestibulo-ocular reflex circuit: Pharmacogenetic and optogenetic manipulation

A fundamental question in neuroscience is how neuronal circuits are assembled during embryonic and fetal development. Critical features include the establishment of functionally appropriate patterns of synaptic connections and a proper balance between exc itatory and inhibitory connections. Senso...

Awarded: NOK 34,661

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Generation of monoclonal antibodies to Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), and Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) immune cell markers

English version We request funding from the IS-DAAD program to enable two members of our group to visit Germany in 2011 and 2012 to assist with the production of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against cod and halibut immune cell markers. The production of such mAb reagents will, for the first tim...

Awarded: NOK 17,045

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Authority beyond states: Legal, political and philosophical perspectives on international institutions

This project addresses the exercise of authority by international institutions: its features, its causes and effects, and its implications. The project has three primary objectives: 1)Substantive collaboration aimed at cutting edge research on these topic s. 2)To establish a German-Norwegian inte...

Awarded: NOK 64,170

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Obtaining efficient algorithms by input restrictions: re-drawing the borderline of tractability

One of the greatest achievements in theoretical computer science is the development of the NP-completeness theory, providing a solid and convincing mathematical foundation for the study of computationally intractable problems, that are abundant and ubiqui tous. Such problems are called NP-hard. D...

Awarded: NOK 59,994

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Molecular Identification of Porin Channels in Plant Peroxisomes by Electrophysiological Analyses

Plant biomass production needs to increase world-wide to feed the growing world population and to meet the demands for cellulose-based biofuels. However, plant photosynthesis is inefficient because it is accompanied by photorespiration, which releases up to 30% of fixed carbon as CO2 in higher p...

Awarded: NOK 13,257

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Rogaland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Determinants of Equity Judgements in Medical and Financial Contexts

The project is motivated by the question whether observed behavior of real economic agents when confronted with distributional dilemmata is consistent with allocation principles discussed and axiomatically analyzed in philosophy and social choice. We inte nt to study the factors potentially infl...

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

A Hybrid Approach to Motion Correction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Kidney - Self Navigation Techniques and Image Post Processing

Recent years have opened up the possibility to convert MRI data into reliable quantitative measures. Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI has proven to be a very promising tool for detailed spatial assessment of kidney function. In addition to explore optimal im age acquisition protocols, an important f...

Awarded: NOK 39,262

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Hybrid Systems Modeling and Analysis with Rewriting Techniques

The functionality of many modern advanced computer systems - such as medical devices, control systems, embedded automotive and avionics systems, Internet protocols, etc. - is crucially dependent on the amount of time that passes during/between events. Su ch real-time systems are often critical ...

Awarded: NOK 83,362

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

The role of integrins in bone homeostasis.

In the Gullberg and Eckes laboratories unique reagents to integrins have been developed which are now being applied to bone biology. The current application is aimed at facilitating a regular exchange between the laboratories to strengthen the just star ted project. As a starting point we have...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Stensvåg, Klara DAADppp 2008 Tysk-norsk forskerutveksling

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Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa