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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Quantitative Decision Analysis for Operational Directional Drilling and Geosteering Applications

Well placement and geosteering technology have been implemented for drilling operations worldwide. These implementations have generally been based on use the of real time (or near real time) downhole measurements that are relevant for horizontal well plac ement decisions in oil & gas reservoirs. ...

Tildelt: kr 94 000

Prosjektperiode: 2013-2013

Sted: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ritualizing in a World at Risk

This is a book-project at the interface of finishing-up research and writing draft chapters for a volume on ritual as a cultural ressource: how do changing conceptualizations of the nature-culture bond create new conditions for ritual pluralizations and h ow do new rituals emerge in response to f...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2013-2013

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Socio-Legal Studies and Adjudication of Social Rights

From the 1960s, American legal scholarship birthed three intensely-fought and rich debates over public interest or 'civil rights' litigation. The contestation centred on questions of whether judicial review was an appropriate means to settle conflicts ove r the content of human rights, what were ...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Merging food web contaminant empirical and modeling expertise: Visiting Researcher Dr. Jon Arnot

The iterative process of i) environmental monitoring, ii) model development, parameterization, and application (hypotheses generation), iii) model evaluation (hypotheses testing), and iv) model refinement is a framework that improves understanding of the bioaccumulation phenomenon. This process ...

Tildelt: kr 0,10 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Recycling of aluminum

Recycling of aluminum is a relatively new research area, and recycled metal is being increasingly used in industry. Recycling is especially attractive if the melt treatment does not degrade the quality of the metal. The main objective is to address future challenges in the areas of quality and e...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Mobility grant for Magnus Hatlebakk visiting Cornell University

Magnus Hatlebakk will visit Cornell Applied-Economics department for three months, September-November 2012. The purpose is to discuss the theoretical and empirical approach in draft papers that will be based on data collected in a number of projects funde d by the Research council of Norway. The ...

Tildelt: kr 51 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Workers, Firms and Social Insurance

The project will be part of my Ph.D. work associated with the Frisch Centre's project "Labor Market and Social Insurance in Norway" financed by the Norwegian Research Council's program Welfare, Working Life and Migration (VAM). Norwegian welfare and labor market policy is governed by two overrid...

Tildelt: kr 70 625

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Equitable access to primary healthcare in British Columbia and Norway: an exploration of policy and practice options

This is a mix method study that will include (1) policy and document analysis, (2) interviews with policy-makers and service providers; and (3) interviews and/or focus groups with representative of populations considered vulnerable, indigenous and those w ith documented inequalities. Norway is re...

Tildelt: kr 51 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Professions, legitimacy and evidence in transforming health and welfare organizations

In 2011 the interfaculty research programme Care, health and welfare launched a project on Professions, knowledge and users in transformation in the Nordic welfare states. Funded by internal strategic means it involves researchers from different faculties of Oslo and Akershus University College ...

Tildelt: kr 0,34 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Splice Variants And Non-Coding RNA Expression In Breast Cancer Patients With A Certain Type Of Mutant TP53

The proposed project aims to identify biological pathways specifically perturbated in patients with a certain type of mutant TP53 at both array and deep sequencing mRNA expression level: 1. Splice Variants and non-coding RNA expression in breast cancer: Using next generation RNA sequencing of 5...

Tildelt: kr 0,20 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Multi-scale modeling of nano-geological processes

Significant progress in many fields depends on the development of better tools to model pro-cesses that are coupled across scales. For example, we have made significant progress in fields such as fracture, friction, and mineralization processes, but furth er progress and under-standing now depend...

Tildelt: kr 0,38 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Thermal anomalies and gas-hydrate occurrence related to large fluid flow structure in the SW Barents Sea

This project proposal applies for funding for a personal overseas research grant for Univ. of Tromsø PhD student Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta to work on fluid/heat transport processes and associated hydrate accumulations using a novel 3D thermal technique de veloped in the USA. The Barents Sea is a ...

Tildelt: kr 77 500

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Online-learning Intrusion Detection Systems (OL-IDS)

Massive data, adversarial activities, changing environments and lack of real labeled training datasets are challenging the successful protection of computer systems and networks by means of IDSs. Solving these problems guarantees the efficiency and effect iveness of IDSs and thus contributes to p...

Tildelt: kr 91 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Innlandet

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Acceptability and Feasibility of Environmental Policies

The visit by Stephan Kroll to CICERO in the summer of 2012 will serve up to four purposes: 1) In the spring 2011, Dr. Kroll conducted experiments at Colorado State University. Tthey will be followed by additional sessions in the fall of 2011. These exper iments are part of a larger research agen...

Tildelt: kr 89 985

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2014

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Medication use in pregnancy with focus on attitudes, perception of risk and mental well-being

Depression is a common disorder during pregnancy and several studies have found maternal depression and anxiety to be risk factors for preterm delivery, low birth weight, operative delivery and admission to neonatal intensive care units. Studies show that pregnant women overestimate the risks, e...

Tildelt: kr 0,10 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Parallel Development and Syntactic Reconstruction: Semitic as a Test Case

The project revolves around the analysis of parallel syntactic developments in the Semitic languages, with a view of arriving at a realistic model of linguistic reconstruction (for details, please see the attached project description). While "parallel dev elopment" has been used in comparative li...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Improving the tool kit for honey bee (Apis melifera) functional genetics: improved understanding of the RNAi response

Agricultural systems around the world depend on honey bees for pollination services. Recent, unexplained declines in managed honey bee populations have highlighted the importance of greater knowledge about honey bee physiology, immunity and basic biology. The development of a technique to manipu...

Tildelt: kr 0,10 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

X-ray crystallization studies of complexes of pseudolysin with small molecule inhibitors for potential therapeutic applications

Thermolysin-like proteases are secreted enzymes that degrade extracellular proteins and peptides for bacterial nutrition. Pseudolysin, the extracellular elastase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is a member of the thermolysin-like family of proteases. Pseudolys in has been identified as a key factor in...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2015

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Motivation, incentives and contract enforcement

Economics is a science about human behavior, and incentives are at the very heart of it. An incentive is any factor that motivates a particular action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives. In the standard economic approach to incentives, humans are motivated by mo...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Rogaland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Environmental and developmental physiology in the Arctic: The green sea urchin as a representative of planktonic developing marine larvae.

The ease of availability and the ecological and economic importance of S. droebachiensis make this species an excellent candidate for integrative studies of developmental physiology of marine organisms in Arctic ecosystems. We propose to conduct studies f undamental to establishing the green sea ...

Tildelt: kr 64 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Snowpack stability variation on small wind effected slopes

This project deals with wind and rugged terrain being influencing factors of snowpack stability on a small slope. If a slope is unstable, it is likely to fail as an slab avalanche, which poses a threat to skiers and mountaineers. The best way to investiga te snowpack stability and its variation o...

Tildelt: kr 51 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Svalbard

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Benzene-induced lymphohematopoietic cancers in Norwegian offshore oil industry workers

The present project is a study of the relationship between benzene exposure and lymphohematopoietic cancers in male offshore oil industry workers. The study will be conducted according to a case-cohort study-design and will explore the dose-related risks of acute myeloid leukemia and other lymph...

Tildelt: kr 91 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Studying knowledge dynamics and learning in higher education

The research stay is devoted to the further development of a larger project I am preparing together with colleagues in the research group 'Higher Education: Institutional dynamics and knowledge cultures' at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Education. Th is project aims to conceptualize and empi...

Tildelt: kr 0,18 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Representations of Religion and Secularity in Women's and Men's lifestyle magazines.

My PhD thesis is a study of representations of religion and secularity in women's and men's lifestyle magazines published in the Scandinavian countries in 1988, 1998 and 2008. My theme of interest is religious change during this time period. More specific ally, my thesis centers on possible relig...

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

A joint effort towards understanding human neurocognitive development - Collaboration between UCSD and UiO

Rapid development of techniques for acquisition and analyses of MRI data over the last 10 years now makes it possible to study human brain development in vivo with high accuracy. This opens up new and exciting possibilities to understand the general princ iples of brain maturation, and how this m...

Tildelt: kr 0,18 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Scattering of Light from Two-Dimensional Randomly Rough Surfaces

A research program is outlined in which rigorous computational approaches developed recently by the principal investigators will be applied to the solution of several two-dimensional rough surface scattering problems of technological and basic science in terest. Two computational approaches w...

Tildelt: kr 91 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Regulation of a11 integrin: a promoter and focal adhesion study

Cells interact with the extracellular matrix via cell surface receptors called integrins. During the 10 past years we have systematically worked on one particular integrin that we have identified and characterized, the alpha11beta1 integrin. In 2007 we pu blished a paper describing a tooth erupti...

Tildelt: kr 51 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Filament Dynamics in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

The topic of my dissertation are investigations of turbulent motions and fluctuation-driven transport in the edge region of magnetically confined plasmas. Since early fusion experiments, one universally observes high fluctuations in the edge region of mag netically confined plasmas. In the outerm...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Advertent and inadvertent effects of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds and climate

Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions have been identified as key contributors to the current uncertainty in projections of future climate. This problem has been identified as one of the major puzzles driving scientific research today, and tackling it as a s ingle investigator is a daunting task. Su...

Tildelt: kr 0,19 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Viral mediated manipulations of beta-adrenergic receptor subtypes modulate fear conditioning.

Memories are formed through changes in synaptic transmission in specific brain circuits. Evidence points to amygdala, and specifically its lateral nucleus (LA), as a key site of synaptic plasticity underlying fear conditioning, a leading model for studyin g neurobiology of emotional memory. In fe...

Tildelt: kr 0,34 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

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