0 antall prosjekter

Dato fra ny til gammel

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Transglutaminase 2 as therapeutic target in celiac disease

Celiac disease is caused by an aberrant immunological response towards the environmental antigen gluten. Modification of gluten peptides (deamidation) by the enzyme transglutaminase 2 (TG2) is pivotal to initiate and maintain a pathological immune respons e. Inhibition of TG2 activity is therefor...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Disquietness in schools

Disquietness in Schools A Comparative Study of Primary - and Junior High Schools in Berkeley, USA and in Oslo, Norway. The principal objective of this project is to identify the normative basis for pupils and teachers in public schools who experience dis quietness during classes and to explore c...

Tildelt: kr 86 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

"Chanting away eye blisters...": Treatment as ritualized knowledge in black magic books

My current PhD project with the working title Chanting away eye blisters: Treatment as ritualized knowledge in black books aims to increase knowledge on sickness and treatment of ailments in Norway in the 17th, 18th and 19th century. The main sources are Norwegian texts from the so-called black ...

Tildelt: kr 56 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

"The Economic Effects of Democracy and Dictatorship"

The project will take place from January through April at the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, New York. This project is part of my doctoral work on the economic effects of different political regime types. This project will more s pecifically include novel work on the rec...

Tildelt: kr 43 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The role of monocarboxylate transporters in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common serious neurological disorder. Unfortunately, the treatment of epilepsy has severe shortcomings. Many epilepsy patients become refractory to the drugs available. In more than 40 % of cases, the disorder cannot be controlled by medicat ion, and surgically removal of the hippoc...

Tildelt: kr 91 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

From silicon raw feedstock materials to solar grade silicon: Understanding impurity flow and implementing removal strategies

Solar cell efficiency is limited by the presence of detrimental impurities, many of which are removed during an expensive silicon feedstock refining process (i.e., Siemens process). Towards developing lower-cost methods of silicon refining appropriate for the solar industry, we propose to study ...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Haas School of Business Visiting Scholar Program

I have applied for the Haas School of Business Visiting Scholar Program, and I have been invited as a Visiting Scholar from January 2010 to December 2010. This will be a part of my doctoral studies at NHH, and important in both allowing me to take courses from the excellent Haas PhD program and ...

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Cyclical Retirement and Housing Wealth Effect: evidence and theory

In the literature of macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, there is one broad topic about the interaction between idiosyncratic risk and aggregate fluctuations. I was inspired by this to study the response of households to exogenous aggregate shocks, in particular, housing price risk in this...

Tildelt: kr 0,18 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Dynamic MRI and microvascular exchange parameters

The application is for allowance and travel in connection with a six month sabbatical at University of California at Davis. The applicant has previously spent a 5 month sabbatical at UC Davis in 2005 and the collaborator there, professor F.E. Curry, spent a sabbtical in Bergen in 2007. Currently...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Variations in the trophic niche of an arctic terrestrial predator: large scale patterns and effects of competition

This is an application for a research stay as part of my current PhD at the Canada Research Chair in Conservation of Northern Ecosystems of the University of Quebec at Rimouski (UQAR), Canada. I seek support for collaboration with the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology of the University of ...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Walk this way. On affordances for human movement in architectural spaces.

The aim of the project is to identify architectural qualities (affordances) that influence our everyday experiences of movement. Creating affordances for movement is one of the most important elements of architectural programming for the built environment . The Design of Information Systems res...

Tildelt: kr 0,30 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2011

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Power, Knowledge and Complexity: An Anthropological Study of the United Nations and the Production of Peacekeeping Strategies

The PhD project, but also parts of the fieldwork have already been funded for by NUPI. This application only concerns the long term fieldwork within the UN DPKO's Best Practice Section and the stay at New School in New York. My primary focus as an intern will be to edit a handbook for the UN's C...

Tildelt: kr 0,19 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Utviklingen av norsk ytringsfrihet - et konstitusjonelt perspektiv på overnasjonal rettsliggjøring

PhD-avhandling der "rekonstitusjonaliseringen" som følger av den tiltagende overnasjonale rettsliggjøring, brukes som perspektiv på de spenninger som skapes i møtet mellom nasjonal og internasjonal rett. Spenningene er særlig synlige der overnasjonale ins trumenter, her Den europeiske menneskeret...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2010-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Life Course Epidemiology

This post-doctoral fellowship in Life Course Epidemiology that is being jointly sponsored by the National Institute on Aging at the NIH and the Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing in the U.K. This fellowship provides the trainee the opportunity to utilize one of the lead...

Tildelt: kr 0,26 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Russian federalism under Yeltsin and Putin: from centralized state to federalism - and back

In the course of only three years, from 1989 to 1991, Russia lost most of the territory it had acquired over the last three centuries. But even the greatly reduced post-Soviet Russia was neither ethnically homogenous nor territorially consolidated within its new borders. In what later was dubbed...

Tildelt: kr 0,19 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Identification of immune cells trafficking in gingival lymphatic vessels to afferent lymph nodes during development of periodontal disease.

Lymphatic vessels are made for transportation of tissue fluid, extravasated protein and they have an important role in the body's immune defense: activated antigen presenting cells enter the initial lymphatics and are transported to lymph nodes where they stimulate T and B lymphocytes targeted f...

Tildelt: kr 0,24 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages - research stay for Olga Thomason

PROIEL will be a close linguistic study of the language of the Greek text of the New Testament as well as its translations into the old Indo-European languages Latin, Gothic, Armenian and Church Slavonic. In its first stage, the project aims at describing and accounting for the so-called 'pragma...

Tildelt: kr 0,25 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ethical management of the Government Pension Fund- Global

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics program at the University of Oslo (Two and a half years, start June 2008). My post-doc project focuses on questions of complicity and co-responsibility and will in particular study the normative underpinnings and t he practical implementations of the ethic...

Tildelt: kr 0,27 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

A Shared Fluency Theory of Social Cohesiveness

The main goal of the theoretical part is to develop a shared fluency theory of group cohesiveness. This is a large-scale, long-term theoretical project, like the fluency and beauty project which has resulted in our article on the perceptual fluency theory of beauty. The core hypothesis is that ...

Tildelt: kr 0,27 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Long term follow up studies of newborns in Norway

During the last decades survival rates of babies with an unfavourable perinatal history like preterm birth, small for gestational age, abnormal deliveries, etc., have increased remarkably. Follow-up studies of preterm babies to school age have, however, s hown an increased risk of learning and be...

Tildelt: kr 0,25 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Science, Religion and Political Liberalism - A Critique of Political Liberal "Public Reason"

The project will result in a monograph of around 250 pages. The preliminary title of the dissertation is "On"Public Reason""- A Critique of Rawls' Idea of Public Reason. The dissertation will have an introductory chapter and three subsequent parts, each c omposed of two chapters. The introductor...

Tildelt: kr 96 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Organisational Fields Adapting to EU Policy

The Fridtjof Nansen Institute apply for a grant of 232 600 nok to cover the cost of Elin Lerum Boasson's stay at the University of California, Berkeley, August 2009 - August 2010. The stay is an integral part of the PhD-project 'Organisational fields adap ting to EU-policy'. Boasson have been inv...

Tildelt: kr 0,18 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Akershus

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

A longitudinal study of Depression, Functioning, Sleep Disturbance, Quality of Life and Fatigue in Stroke Patients

The incidence of stroke in Norway is estimated to be between 12 000 and 15 000 per year. Studies show that post-stroke fatigue, with or without depression, occurs in 30 to 68% of the stroke patients. Post-stroke fatigue is a common and persistent complain t viewed by patients to be difficult to m...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Buskerud

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Responsibility and fairness

Experimental economics has developed into one of the most productive and empirically relevant research fields in economics since the mid 1990s. The Nobel Prize in Economics 2002 was awarded Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith for their contribution to the field. An important contribution of expe...

Tildelt: kr 0,27 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Inequality, Risk Sharing and Marrige

This project is aimed at investigating the determination of individual's economic inequality over the life cycle. In particular, it will focus on the interaction among the individual decisions of household formation (marriage), household dissolution (divo rce), household savings and individual la...

Tildelt: kr 0,22 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Artifact Cancellation for Simultaneous Multifunction Proportional Control of Prostheses

The SVEN project produced results in the 1970's and 80's that are still among the best ever seen for simultaneously controlling multiple functions in an arm prosthesis. Their system used "crisp classification" of myoelectric (EMG) signals, and controlled multiple motors in an on/off fashion. Toda...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Brain dynamics of learning in children with specific language impairment (SLI)

Specific language impairment (SLI) is a disorder which affects about 7% of kindergarten children, and has wide-ranging educational and social consequences. The disorder is characterized as a learning impairment, but to date there are very few studies of t he actual learning process in this group....

Tildelt: kr 0,25 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Effects of a Computer-based Clinical Decision Support System for Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers and Undernutrition in Nursing Homes

The overall purpose is to gain a better understanding of health personnels use of computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSS) in clinical practice and the effects on clinical performance and patient care outcomes. CDSS used in this study is base d on two guidelines: Mini Nutritional Ass...

Tildelt: kr 0,17 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Agder

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Mapping Out: Cartographic Discourse and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

a) July-Aug. 2009. Reseach at the Special Libraries at Columbia University. - Map Collection (GIS): This library has an impressive collection of thematic maps drawn in Mexico during the 19th Century. I am especially interested in consulting the works of Manuel Orozco y Berra, Felipe Valle, Ign...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Develop the capability for assessing sandeels in the North Pacific and North Sea acoustically

I. The applicant, Espen Johnsen, will attend an experimental study in the Kodiak Island area, Alaska to measure the in situ target strength of Pacific sandeel. This will be an initial work in terms of developing an assessment program for the Pacific sande el. The field study will use the experien...

Tildelt: kr 0,18 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Vestland

1 2 3 4 5 13