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HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The effect of dietary carbohydrates on muscle metabolism, connective tissue composition and fillet quality in cod (Gadus morhua L).

Post mortem softening of fish muscle and occurrence of gaping are major problems for the fish industry. Muscular connective tissue provides mechanical integrity, rigidity, and elasticity to skeletal muscles. Extracellular matrix (ECM) represents an import ant part of the connective tissue, and ch...

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

STACK TECHNOLOGY FOR CERAMIC PROTON CONDUCTORS

High temperature ceramic proton conductors (HTPC) are in principle superior to PEM and standard SOFC conductors for use in steam electrolysers and hydrogen fuel cells because of the water-free transport of protons; the steam used or formed is associated w ith the oxygen/air side, and thus, dry hy...

Tildelt: kr 16,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Multiple instruments and the design and implementation of effective energy and climate policy

This project analyses the economic consequences of using multiple instruments towards energy and climate policy targets. The project studies the main political causes for deviating from the simple cost efficient recommendations. A key objective of the pro ject is to identify effective policy meas...

Tildelt: kr 5,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Detailed studies on biomass gasification in a TGA coupled with advanced gas analysis

Conversion of biomass to a producer gas has many advantages. A gas is easier to handle and transport, it can be cleaned before combustion (i.e. compact cleaning), and it can then be used directly in e.g. engines, gas turbines and fuel cells for electricit y generation. Alternatively, it can be pr...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The nature, design and feasibility of robust climate agreements

This project aims to contribute internationally to the knowledge and understanding of the current climate regime, the climate negotiations, international environmental agreements more generally, and those aspects having to do with compliance, enforcement, participation, and regime design in part...

Tildelt: kr 7,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Twelve Step based self-help groups for substance related disorders

Substance dependency deeply influences peoples lives in complex ways. There is typically a need for treatment and rehabilitation in a long-term perspective. The public treatment systems have deficient capacity to give follow ups. This is particularly true for patients undergoing detoxification, ...

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Agder

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Pilot study: prevalence of alcohol and drugs at the workplace

Alcohol and drug abuse affects society in many ways, e.g., health, social relations, safety, and productivity at the workplace. Alcohol is more significant in this respect than drugs because the use of alcohol is common and accepted by society. Testing of oral fluid (saliva) may be used to dete...

Tildelt: kr 1,00 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2009

Sted: Oslo

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Hearing loss and tinnitus: genetic and environmental effects

Depending on the criteria used 1/3 - 1/6 of the population experience hearing impairment. Tinnitus is defined as the sensation of sound without any outer sound stimulus present. Environmental risk factors such as noise exposure are frequently described fo r both the diseases. A genetic component ...

Tildelt: kr 2,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2015

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Designing a Collaborative Approach to Reduce Conflicting Interests in the Management of Contaminated Marine Sediments (SEDCONFLICT)

In Norway, serious contamination of marine sediments has been found in more than 120 areas which has resulted in restrictions on the consumption of fish and fishery products in 24 fjords and harbours. Thus restoration of contaminated marine sediments is a national environmental policy priority a...

Tildelt: kr 2,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Public health without public trust? Governance of HIV/AIDS prevention in North-West Russia

The project examines the extent to which HIV/AIDS prevention in North West Russia is perceived and treated as a public health issue, requiring a broad, multi-sectoral response. Using multi-level analysis, the project studies processes and perspectives amo ng four types of actors: i) authorities (...

Tildelt: kr 3,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Salmon Market Analysis Modules (SMAM)

SMAM will be an integrated empirical modeling framework to estimate and simulate the effects of policy, economic and resource factors on the supply, demand, price and global trade of salmon. Based on this, we will also be able to predict future profitabil ity levels of the salmon farming industry...

Tildelt: kr 1,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2008

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improved control of Colletotrichum acutatum in strawberry and sweet cherry

Colletotrichum acutatum is an important fungal pathogen in many crops worldwide. In the Nordic countries it is of particular importance in strawberry and cherry where it causes blackspot and bitter rot, respectively. The disease usually appears very late in the season in sweet cherry, even after ...

Tildelt: kr 4,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving barley yields in organic stockless farming systems through innovations in green manure management

Helårs grønngjødsel brukes for å bedre jordas fruktbarhet og sanere ugras. I Byggro-prosjektet har vi prøvd ut ulik handtering av helårsgrønngjødsel. Etter slått ble grønnmassen enten hakket og tilbakeført, fjernet eller fermentert i biogassreaktor og del vis tilbakeført som gjødsel til korn nest...

Tildelt: kr 5,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Wireless Interference-Limited high-throughput Access Technologies and applicatIons

This is a continuation of the fruitful collaboration between TKK, LU and NTNU established in the WILATI project. The research on MIMO WLAN is extended to modem improvements, cooperative multiuser MIMO and spectrum sensing as well as new application areas, like localization. The clear trend in ...

Tildelt: kr 4,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Nutrient requirements of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae at first-feeding

Intensively cultured cod larvae, which are fed rotifers and formulated feed, grow slower and develop more deformities than larvae cultured semi-extensively with the natural diet, copepods. This shows that the present knowledge is insufficient for optimal intensive juvenile production. Suboptimal ...

Tildelt: kr 5,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - Radium in produced water - quantities and effects. Seminar

The PROOF-supported project "Radioactivity in produced water from Norwegian oil and gas installations - concentrations, bioavailability and doses to biota" will be finished this year. In this multi-disiplinary project several intresting results have been obtained as well as new methodology has be...

Tildelt: kr 0,20 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2008

Sted: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CARBON-HEAT- CARBON uptake and fluxes of water and HEAT in the North Atlantic Current

CARBON-HEAT is a three year project that will study a potential feedback between the ocean carbon cycle and climate change, relating to the flow speed and heat and carbon flux of the Atlantic water en route to the Arctic Ocean We intend to -Assess the de gree to which the Atlantic Water (AW) is ...

Tildelt: kr 4,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Vestland

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) study. A cluster-randomized educational intervention to improve GPs' prescription practice

The study will be employed as a cluster randomized study targeting 80 general practice (GP) continuous medical education (CME) groups (about 500 GPs) which will be randomized to recieve one out of two interventions - being controls for the other. Furtherm ore, an extended control group comprised ...

Tildelt: kr 4,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Arbeids- og bedriftsvandringer i et utvidet Europa: Inkludering i det gode arbeidslivet?

Tre år etter EU-utvidelsen ser vi at bedriftenes arbeidskraftstrategier er i endring, og at det nasjonale reguleringsregimet både på lov- og avtalenivå har vært og er under omfattende revisjon. Kunnskap om den nye arbeidskraftsmobilitetens former og omfan g, og ikke minst konsekvensene/responsene...

Tildelt: kr 5,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Oceanography and Match-mismatch

We intend to study ecosystem functioning using the match-mismatch hypothesis as a framework. The marine ecosystem chosen - the Benguela Upwelling - is an important fishing area and thereby also subject to anthropogenic constraints. The present proposal i s link to Mico project ES427093 that invo...

Tildelt: kr 0,41 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Effect of northern climate and postharvest conditions on health related properties of selected Brassica vegetables in Norway

Some previous studies have shown that certain vegetables grown at high northern latitudes with cool summers, long photoperiods and special solar radiation develop different quality than vegetables grown in the south. However, very little is known about ho w Brassica vegetables respond to differen...

Tildelt: kr 11,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COOPERATION IN NORTHERN RUSSIAN AND NORWAY FOR MUTUAL BENEFITS ACROSS NATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC BORDERS

The proposed cooperation project is linked a newly started IPY research project PPS Arctic funded by RCN which fucuses on Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resourc e components along and across the Arctic ...

Tildelt: kr 3,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Healthy cheese: Influence of milk fat components on microbial activity and development of bioactive components in fat reduced cheese.

Prosjektet SUNN OST har skal danne et kunnskapsgrunnlag slik at oster med redusert fettinnhold med gode sensoriske egenskaper kan utvikles. Vi ønsker å øke forståelsen av hvordan melkefett og fettkulemembran komponenter (FKMK) påvirker mikrobiologisk veks t og metabolisme i ost, utvikle metoder f...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Innovative and attractive fish dishes (188389)

Attractive seafood dishes for large scale production are in minority among the dishes served in institutional households and industrial kitchens of the HoReCa segment. The seafood dishes present are characterised by low quality due to improper handling, p rocessing, packaging, storage conditions ...

Tildelt: kr 6,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Survey Methods for Abundance Estimation of Sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) Stocks

Sandeels are small eel-like fish that is laterally compressed and without swimbladder that swim in large shoals and inhabit areas with specific sandy substrate into which they burrow. Sandeels are distributed in coastal and shallow open-ocean waters throu ghout the North Sea, but the geographical...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Arbeidsmarkedsmobilitet i de nordiske velferdsstatene og betydningen av de institusjonelle reguleringene på arbeidsmarkedet

Prosjektet skal muliggjøre norsk deltakelse i et nordisk samarbeidsprosjekt som skal sammenligne mobiliteten på arbeidsmarkedene i de nordiske landene (Danmark, Finland, Norge og Sverige). Fire former for mobilitet vil bli viet særlig oppmerksomhet i sama rbeidsprosjektet: Bevegelser inn og ut av...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

2nd generation Vaccibodies for infectious diseases

Aim: PI (Bjarne Bogen) and co-workers have recently reported on a novel vaccine technology, Vaccibodies, which appears very potent. The object of the present proposal is to further improve the design and immunogenicity of Vaccibodies (resulting in 2nd gen eration Vaccibodies). Background: New an...

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Going Home to Fight? Explaining Refugee Return and Violence

This project examines why some returning refugees come to destabilize the peace process in their home country. Despite considerable literature on refugee warriorism in exile, there is no analysis of their role upon return. Likewise, the challenge of rein tegrating refugee warriors does not figur...

Tildelt: kr 3,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Unravelling the Vicious Circle: Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Small-scale Fisheries

In this project we question how poverty can be alleviated through ecosystem-based management of natural resources. Alleviating poverty sometimes requires strategies which are inherently in conflict. This is particularly the case in economies based on natu ral resources. As one seeks to reduce pov...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Flammable Societies: The Role of Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility

Through the development of a series of comparative case studies in present-day Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union we propose to explore the way in which the current concerns for social responsibility in the international oil and gas industry are transferred into concrete s...

Tildelt: kr 4,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Vestland