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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The implementation of team incentives

Team production is one of the defining characteristics of a firm. In any company consisting of more than one person, teams of workers have to coordinate their efforts to some extent in order to achieve the company's goals. The company must thus align ince ntives so that each team member finds it ...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Radiation effects in programmable logic circuits and SEU simulation tools

Programmable logic devices, and in particular SRAM based FPGAs, will experience failure when exposed to radiation such as ionizing particles, for instance protons or heavy ions. Single Event Upsets (SEUs) are a type of radiation effect corresponding to a soft error appearing in a device due to ...

Tildelt: kr 83 500

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Polarimetric Modelling and Analysis of Hard Target Detection with Spaceborne SAR

Norway has been a pioneering country to use SAR satellites operationally. ERS-1, ERS-2, RADARSAT-1, and lately ENVISAT have been used to monitor land and ocean. This has been a success, which is based on basic research that has made it possible to exploit satellite radar images very fast. Future...

Tildelt: kr 0,22 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Research Visit to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Marie E. Rognes

The project consists of a 5-6 month research visit to the School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMN) during the spring of 2007 as a part of my Ph.D. studies at the Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo. In parti cular, I am to visit Professor Douglas N....

Tildelt: kr 65 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The Primacy of Action: Technologies and the Lifeworld

This project investigates the question "how does information- & communication technologies shape the forms of learning and construction of meaning." This is handled by first claiming that it cannot be investigated without having a clearly defined general concept of technology; and then by claimin...

Tildelt: kr 70 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Is not a sin in one place a sin in another place? A study of pietistic norms in Norwegian- American emigrant environments

The title of the project refers to an episode when the Norwegian congregation was found guilty of sin by the British-Americans. This surprised the immigrants. After the Sunday service they danced on the church green as they used to do in Norway, with the pastor present. When they then were critic...

Tildelt: kr 53 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Doing research and collaboration on commercialization of university technology, sharing experiences and best practices

The project aims at increasing the competence and knowledge about commercialization of technology and university spin-offs by gaining better understanding about situations in which the research-based firm creation is the most effective way of commercializ ing university technology and strengtheni...

Tildelt: kr 67 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The Vedic Aorist and Diachronic Typological Changes in the Old-Indo-Aryan Past Tense System

In the present project I will investigate how the Vedic tense/aspect system develops through the history of the Vedic language. In the earliest attested stages of Vedic the verbal system has several traits in common with the verbal systems found in other archaic Indo-European languages, like for ...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Techniques of Ideation/Photographic Difference

The project is based on the hypothesis that there is an inner relationship between media technologies, thinking, and action. The project develops a theoretical approach that conceives of the media as "techniques of ideation", that is, as different ways of "thinking" and relating to the world. Un...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ecosystem-based management of the Barents Sea: benthic ecosystem modelling.

Despite efforts to adopt an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), traditional stock assessment tools are still the sole instruments used to manage the majority of the world fisheries. Recent efforts to develop multispecies and ecosystem models have been important in the debate on how to adopt an...

Tildelt: kr 67 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Atlantic Arctic climate system change

The research-mobility project on "Atlantic Arctic climate system change (ATLANTARC)" is a venture from Bergen, Norway to Boulder, Colorado, USA. The research will contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of arctic ocean-ice-climate variability in a key region through which the East Greenl...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Stress corrosion cracking mechanism

Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is a much feared degradation mechanism because the failure appears suddenly, with no prior warning and with devastating effects on installation and possibly also environment. Looking at time to fracture, one will normally f ind that the initiation period is more im...

Tildelt: kr 59 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Between the Still and the Moving: Towards an Aesthetic of Moving Images

Applicant´s name: PhD-stipendiat Eivind Røssaak (Associate professor at HiT, Bø, on leave) currently at Dept. of Media and Communication, Univ. of Oslo, will travel with his family to the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, USA, to do research on his PhD-project in close ...

Tildelt: kr 70 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2008

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

New institutions for environmental governance and the influence of scientific input

The overall objective of this project is to investigate whether and how the spread of certain new principles, norms and instruments of environmental governance change the conditions for competing knowledge producers to influence environmental protection i n forestry. Specifically, I will investig...

Tildelt: kr 79 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Research stay in the USA as part of my PhD project "The Destroyd Body", at Agder University College.

This summary describes both my PhD project and the parts of the project that will be worked on during my research stay at University of Michigan: My project deals with contemporary Norwegian literature and the image of the physical body that are expresse d here. My PhD project is part of the lit...

Tildelt: kr 70 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Agder

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Pain & Dermatology: A study with the aim of investigating the extent of pain experienced by patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.

Pain as a disabling symptom, and chronic pain as a disease, has considerable impact on the society and the individual that experiences it. Little is known about pain in patients with skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis - both when it com es to the extent of pain experienced, and...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2008

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Stanford visit - Learning from transdisciplinarity

The idea with this project is to be a visiting scholar at Stanford University in order collaborate with researchers at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. I will pursue my own postdoctoral project 'Learning from transdisciplinarity. Gen der and ICT as windows to understanding m...

Tildelt: kr 97 000

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

MCD and CD studies of di-iron cluster in R2 proteins of ribonucleotide reductases

The aim of the project is to investigate structural features of oxygen or electron reactions in proteins containing functionally important iron, copper, manganese and/or radical centers and some dinuclear iron clusters with mu-oxo (hydroxo) bridge. This t ype of di-iron cluster can perform severa...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Characterization of human protein N-terminal acetyltransferases and N-terminal acetylation

Even though blocking of the N-terminal end of proteins by the addition of an acetyl group has been known for more than thirty years, only limited information is available describing the mechanism and biological importance of human protein N-terminal-acety lation and protein N-terminal-acetyltrans...

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Advanced assembly & packaging of microsystems: Research term (outbound mobility)

This project will allow for a five-month researcher exchange from Vestfold University College (HVE) to Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), California, USA, in the field of microsystems packaging technology. Microsystems technology allows miniaturiz ation of sensors, actuators and electroni...

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Vestfold

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The impact of leadership cooperation on organizational performance

The project takes as its point of departure three general observations from the Norwegian cultural and organizational context : 1) management collaboration is a dominant norm; 2) leadership cooperation beneficial for organizational performance 3) Norweg ian leaders are increasingly operating in...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2007

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Visit, University of Pittsburgh

See project description

Tildelt: kr 39 000

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2006

Sted: Nordland - Nordlánnda

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Housing, Renting, and the Cost of Living

Shelter is the single largest expenditure for most households. Households can obtain shelter, or housing services, in two very different ways. This project will study differences and similarities between purchasing and renting housing services. We will co mpare and contrast the costs of housing s...

Tildelt: kr 0,23 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Scientist exchange between SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture and The University of New Hampshire (USA).

SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (SFH) have had contact with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) since the Open Ocean Aquaculture conference in 2001, where scientist from the two institutions first met. Despite maintaining contact over several years the scientific cooperation has so far been l...

Tildelt: kr 0,24 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Source rock evaluation and modelling in the Arctic Ocean

The Arctic is one of the few remaining petroleum frontiers of the world. Present estimate suggest that the potential recoverable hydrocarbon resources of the Russian offshore area alone are in excess of 100 billion toe, and the major part is within the Ar ctic shelf. During a recent assessment of...

Tildelt: kr 0,26 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Studying international regime effectiveness: the next step

Change in corporate strategies is a necessary condition for regime effectiveness in many environmental issue areas. First, companies are part of the problem. A wide range of global environmental problems - including climate change, ozone depletion, loss o f biodiversity, over-fishing and illegal ...

Tildelt: kr 0,24 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Young people, Television and New media: Interactivity and Aesthetics in Cross-media Productions - application for outbound mobility grant

In my PhD-project, titled "Interactivity and aesthetics in cross-media productions", I study how television for children and youth is influenced by media convergence and the subsequent divergence. The research questions are; (1) how are different media us ed in cross-media productions, (2) how do...

Tildelt: kr 0,24 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Innlandet

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

A Liquefied Energy Chain for Exploitation of Natural Gas, Capture and Injection of CO2 for EOR - Optimisation, Pinch and Exergy Analysis

The objective is to create an energy and cost effective transport chain for stranded natural gas for power production with CO2 capture including liquefaction and transport of CO2 to be injected in an oil field for EOR or an another suitable storage. The integrated liquefied energy chain consis...

Tildelt: kr 0,22 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

National Identity in Contemporary Norway: The cultural politics of immigration and integration

As a doctoral candidate in the Social Anthropology Ph.D. program of Harvard University, I am applying for a Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Grant to support a 10-month research stay in Norway beginning in August 2006. The purpose of my stay will be to participat e as a guest, Ph.D. student researcher wi...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2007

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Project "Gregory of Nazianzus on the episcopate." Studies at CUA, autumn 2006

Karl Johan Skeidsvoll is attached as a PhD-candidate under the NFR-financed project "Highways and Byways" ("Vei og Villstrå") led by professor Jostein Børtnes, and the "Programme for the study of Ancient Christianity" (PROAC), led by professor Einar Thoma ssen at IKRR, UiB. Skeidsvoll's doctoral ...

Tildelt: kr 60 000

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2006

Sted: Vestland