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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Attitudes, values and beliefs in Tanzanian communities within two spheres: the way people discuss violence against women [...]

I plan to spend 5 months in the final year of my PhD at UW-Madison, USA. During this time I will be working on my third and final article, and both in need of and able to make use of input from the world-class research environments to which I have been i nvited at Madison. My Ph.D. research ...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The role of Alfy in neurodegeneration

The neurodegenerative disorders Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease are serious and fatal illnesses, currently with no treatments or clear diagnostic tools available. To be able to develop new drugs and diagnostic tools, detailed knowledge is crucial. Al though there have been a number of import...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Molecular studies of diabetes and pancreatic exocrine dysfunction

The number of diabetic people in the world is increasing rapidly and the term diabetes epidemic is being applied to describe the phenomenon. Some aspects of the disease mechanisms are known, but there is an urgent need for more insight which can facilitat e the development of treatment that addre...

Tildelt: kr 0,29 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Greenland ice sheet activity and surface hydrography during the last interglacial period

This application seeks support for a 5-month stay for Nil Irvali (a PhD student) to acquire and apply sediment proxy techniques for investigating Greenland Ice Sheet activity under past climate conditions which were, in many ways, analogous to our expecte d future. These records will be a vital ...

Tildelt: kr 82 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

How fossil fuel markets interact with climate change and energy security policies

A half year stay at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley would benefit the progress of my PhD as well as the PETROSAM project it is a part of. My PhD thesis aims to understand how fossil fuel markets interact with climate change and energy s...

Tildelt: kr 79 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Molecular alterations in metastatic gynecological cancer

Endometrial cancer is the most common and ovarian cancer the most lethal gynecologic malignancies. Improved treatment for metastatic disease and reliable predictors for response to therapeutics are needed. This project is an integrated part of a regional, national and international prospective m...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Flexible deontology

Deontology is one of the major types of moral theory (besides utilitarianism and virtue ethics). A standard charge (typically pressed by its competitors) is that deontological theories are rigorous, e.g., that it is morally impermissible to lie even to sa ve an innocent person from a murderer. Th...

Tildelt: kr 0,30 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Phylogeography of vent, seep and fall species in the North Atlantic

Hydrothermal vents are unique biological systems driven on geothermal energy instead of solar power. The vent fauna seems to be related to fauna inhabiting hydrocarbon seeps and whale- and wood-falls. New vent areas, representing a completely new biogeogr aphic region were recently discovered nor...

Tildelt: kr 0,32 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Parallel Metaheuristics and Cooperating Solvers for rich vehicle routing problems

This project is a 5 months research stay (sabbatical) in the period 1st of august 2010 to the 31st of december 2010 (5 months). My plan is to visit the research center CIRRELT in Montreal, with Professor Teodor Crainic as my main contact person. The foc us of the research will be on developing ...

Tildelt: kr 77 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Møre og Romsdal

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Eigedomsretten; eit grunnleggjande studium

Føremålet med prosjektet er for det første å analysera og kritisera den tradisjonelle norske framstillinga av eigedomsretten som eit "tomt koplingsord". For det andre er føremålet å analysera og kritisera den tradisjonelle norske negative definisjonen av eigedomsretten. Som eit alternativ skal ...

Tildelt: kr 87 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Paleocene/ecocene catastrophic events recorded by oceanic basins and global implications

Early Tertiary climate, and in particular the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), has been recently compared to the present day climatic conditions, due to the similarity in sudden carbon release forcing global temperature increase. Recreating the gl obal conditions from 55 million years ago...

Tildelt: kr 0,17 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Rights, Empowerment and Poverty: From Appealing Rhetoric to Implementable Policy?

The urgency of reducing world poverty requires innovative and practical thinking and the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development (HRBA) and the Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) are increasingly being considered by various organisations to be viable alternatives to conventional development ...

Tildelt: kr 0,48 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Conflict Dynamics and International Security

This project will develop a system for mapping international conflict. Working with Virtual Research Associates (www.vranet.com), we currently construct and distribute to the international research community a set of daily conflict measures that are used to map conflict globally (1990-present)....

Tildelt: kr 86 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Law and Economics

Research stay at University of California Berkeley (UCB) fall 2010 and spring 2011 1. Collaboration with researchers at UCB. Professor Richard Gilbert and professor Michael Katz have invited me to do research at UCB in their research group. My research interests overlap with their ongoing rese...

Tildelt: kr 0,32 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Faces within Faces

This application concerns a planned research trip to New York from July to December 2010 (six months). During this period I intend to work as a visiting scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to conduct research, particularly data collection, for my PhD dissertation. The study is roo...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Agency Conflicts and Auditing in Private Firms

I intend to provide empirical evidence on the role that external auditing plays in mitigating agency costs in privately held corporations. Using a very rich data set (obtained through special permission from the government) which allows me to partition th e sample in numerous ways related to agen...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Dynamic Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks

The goal of this proposal is to stimulate long-term joint research cooperation in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) between University of Minnesota (UMN) in USA and University of Agder (UiA) in Norway. This collaboration will be achieved thro ugh a series of joint research activities...

Tildelt: kr 43 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Agder

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Norway-Canada collaborative project between Brock University, Department of Chemistry and University of Oslo, School of Pharmacy

The purpose of this project is the establishment of an active research and exchange program between Brock University and University of Oslo. Specifically, the Chemistry Department and the Centre for Biotechnology at Brock University and the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Universit...

Tildelt: kr 31 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Developing push-pull strategies for pests in brassica vegetable crops

The project is designed to establish a collaboration centered around comparative studies of trap cropping methods to reduce injury to cruciferous vegetables in Norway and the Pacific Northwest of the USA. In both regions, organic production of these veget ables will require effective measures to ...

Tildelt: kr 19 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Nanoparticle Composite Films for Solar Cells

The cost of photovoltaic energy (PV) is today on the verge of becoming competitive with traditional energy sources (oil, coal etc). However, several achievements must be made before this grid parity is obtained and significant solar energy can be realized in the market. One such achievement woul...

Tildelt: kr 0,19 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Inversion of seismo-acoustic data for elastic properties of the ocean bottom

In the ocean, remote sensing of acoustic waves is the primary means to determine physical characteristics of the sea bed materials and the sub-bottom structure. Examples of remote sensing applications span a broad spectrum, including geotechnical site in spections for cable and pipe laying and i...

Tildelt: kr 19 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

How do Arctic rodent communities function: an analysis of individual specialization in herbivores

This is an application for a fellowship for Eeva Soininen within the Leiv Eiriksson mobility program. The suggested exchange is between the Institute of Arctic and Marine Biology, the University of Tromsø, Norway (home institute) and the Canadian Research Chair in Conservation of Northern Ecosys...

Tildelt: kr 50 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Functions of the dentate gyrus

The hippocampus is known to play an important role in various types of memory both in humans and rodents. The dentate gyrus is a sub-region of the hippocampus and one of two places in the adult brain where new neurons are continuously added to existing ne tworks. The function of these adult born ...

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Coping With Advanced Automation

A Leiv Eiriksson mobility grant is sought to allow Prof. Greg Jamieson to spend 5 months in residence at the Institutt for energiteknikk (IFE). The stay will allow for the acceleration of ongoing research collaboration on the effectiveness of representati on-aided displays in nuclear power plant ...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Østfold

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Fish peptides screening on obesity-linked metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk profile

Previous studies at Laval University and Nofima marine/University of Tromsø have shown that cod protein is a natural insulin-sensitizing agent that prevents obesity-linked muscle insulin resistance. However, the molecular mechanisms and the superior effec t of cod protein in comparison with other...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation in autosomal and X-linked genes by the Y chromosome in Drosophila.

In this project Drosophila genetics will be used to test the hypothesis that the Y chromosome effects on gene expression result from blocks of simple-sequence DNA in the Y chromosome that compete for DNA-binding proteins that affect gene expression. The aims and challenges of this work are: 1....

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Modeling neural mapping and remapping in the hippocampus

Navigation and memory for every-day episodes are thought to depend on the hippocampus and associated brain networks, supported by the characteristic properties of the underlying neural networks. Considerable progress in uncovering the neural basis for spa tial cognition in the hippocampus and par...

Tildelt: kr 0,23 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Identification of Host Proteins that Interact with the Glycoprotein of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus (VHSV)

1. Maureen Kathleen Purcell, Ph.D. Western Fisheries Research Center, Fish Health Section, U.S. Geological survey. Research Microbiologist. 2. Parent institution: Western Fisheries Research Center. Host institution: Norwegian College of Fishery Scienc es (Norwegian College of Fishery Science,...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Higher dimensional spacetimes characterised by their scalar curvature invariants

The project is related to classification of higher-dimensional spacetimes utilising their scalar polynomial curvature invariants. It involves the outgoing mobility of Prof. S.Hervik for a 3-month research visit to Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada to visit and work with the group led by Pro...

Tildelt: kr 86 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

New model of an interdisciplinary research on sustainable development in the context of the current environmental and economic crisis

We wish to apply for a grant towards a research stay at the Woods Institute at Stanford University, USA, in the period 1 March - 1 July 2010. The grant will cover travel and accommodation expenses, as well as an organization of a joint, UiO-Stanford semi nar in order to build a common research p...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

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