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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Single Woman Abroad: Female Missionaries from Scotland, Denmark and Ireland in Manchuria at the turn of the Nineteenth Century

My project concerns the lives and work of Scottish, Danish and Irish female missionaries in Manchuria at the turn of the 19th century. I would like to investigate the changes of female missionaries' status in the mission society and their independence, th eir relations with male missionaries and ...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Moral landscapes of public access rights: the role of government agencies in negotiating social inclusion and outdoor citizenship

Creating and sustaining 'cultures of the outdoors' are vital for encouraging participation in outdoor recreation and securing the social and health benefits associated with it. However, changes in the economy, lifestyle, demography and environment of west ern societies have both undermined and di...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Russia`s External Energy Policy: Paradigm Shifts within Geographical Context of Europe, Northeast Asia, and Central Asia

Despite variations in Russia`s approaches within each of dimensions - Europe (EU), Northeast Asia (NEA), and Central Asia (CA) - some common features allow analysis of three policy paradigms: liberal (adjusted to market economy principles) towards EU; col lectivist (informed by residual Soviet-th...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Visual Philosophy: An approach towards interpreting and mediating philosophical ideas through visualization

The growing importance of research in Art and Design creates a need for new forms of didactics and teaching and, as many practice oriented fields, these disciplines face such challenges without having a firm theoretical fundament. Theoretical concepts can not be identified by the properties they ...

Tildelt: kr 99 999

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Verb movement and the left periphery A comparative analysis of Scandinavian and Romance languages

The post-doctoral project including the research period at CASTL, University of Tromsø, consists of a comparative approach between Scandinavian and Romance languages, based on both a synchronic and a diachronic study of syntax and the syntax-semantic inte rface of the languages belonging to each ...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Cold tolerance in northern populations of semiaquatic bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha)

Cold tolerance is a crucial life history trait for temperate semiaquatic bugs. It affects mortality during overwintering, and also strategy of overwintering in some species. Especially in water cricket Velia caprai (Veliidae), a unique overwintering strat egy in Central Europe as both eggs and ad...

Tildelt: kr 22 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Victim-Offender Mediation with Young Offenders in a Context of Judicial Reforms in the Russian Federation

This project is focused on analysis of existing discussions/discourses within official, professional, academic and NGO communities about victim-offender mediation (VOM) with young offenders in a context of judicial reforms in the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to reconstruct a his...

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Structural and socio-pragmatic aspects of Bulgarian-English code-mixing in some printed media

The current study aims mainly at examining the grammatical and the socio-pragmatic aspects of one relatively new bilingual phenomenon, English-Bulgarian code-mixing, or insertion of words from English into the sentence structure of Bulgarian, in some Bulg arian printed magazines. The study can be...

Tildelt: kr 81 999

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Studying Norwegian Free Improvisation

My purpose is to study the aesthetical specificities of Norwegian Free Improvisation and to include the data I will gather in a broad transcultural study on Free Improvisation in Europe. I am invited by the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, one of the g reatest music schools in Norway. I will f...

Tildelt: kr 34 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Euchologion of Jerusalem: An Introductory Study of Codex Sinai Greek NE MG 53

The liturgical tradition of the first millenium Jerusalem Church is of utmost importance for any study of the history of Christian worship, in the East as well as in the West. The first scholarly investigations of this tradition appeared about a century a go, but a certain lack of Greek sources d...

Tildelt: kr 25 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Charterparty standard form contracts, international customs and lex mercatoria.

The project deals with the problem of the unification of private international maritime law by virtue of maritime international customary rules (lex mercatoria maritima), in the tramp market. The project I am submitting is intented to be the test of the g eneral theory developed, in summer 2008, ...

Tildelt: kr 25 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Stability of solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation

The Camassa-Holm equation, which is a modell for shallow water waves, has been studied extensively over the last 15 years. Recently, A. Bressan, H. Holden and X. Reynaud discovered a new technique that provides stability of solutions for the Hunter-Saxton equation, a related to the equation of i...

Tildelt: kr 58 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Modelling and study of SAR signatures of sub- and meso-scale ocean dynamic phenomena

The general objective of proposed project is to investigate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signatures of sub- and meso-scale oceanic dynamic phenomena (IWs, meso-scale currents and fronts) in the Norwegian and Barents Seas with use of Envisat ASAR imagery , supplementary satellite data and ocean ...

Tildelt: kr 58 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The impact of the Anatomy Act in Ireland: Body supply, medical education and professionalisation in Ireland:1832 to 1921

This project studies the history of anatomy in Ireland (1832 to 1921), a much-neglected topic compared to the level and intensity of research on England. The Anatomy Act determined which poor bodies, and in what numbers, could be used for medical research purposes. This study will examine Irish ...

Tildelt: kr 40 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Rheological properties of lime based renders containing alternative silicate binders

My work deals with newly designed plasters, which should have properties similar to original historical materials. During my stay, I would perform research of the rheology and adhesion properties of lime based renders containing alternative silicate binde rs. I´m testing several different types o...

Tildelt: kr 58 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

European Existentialism and Postmodernism

The project emphasizes on a presentation of European Existentialism and its "clash" with Postmodern relativism. After the general description of the fundamental Existentialist concepts I will focus more on the relationship between Existentialism and Postm odernism. My target philosophers are Sart...

Tildelt: kr 58 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Aural Sonology Project (Concrescence) for Ligeti's music. Aural perception, spectra, heterogeneous temperaments, harmonics

Ligeti's music is based on several aspects. Some of them are strictly connected to the music as heard. Works like "Continuum", "Chamber Concert", "Atmosphères", and many others are based on aural illusions. The ordinary ways of analysis are insufficient a nd inadequate to interpret the complexity...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Numerical modeling of fluid-structure interaction in human vocal folds

The project is focused on mathematical modeling of airflow in human vocal folds. It builds on the research conducted by both the proposer and the host institution. The proposer and the host institution hope to exchange knowledge and compare the results of numerical simulations of airflow in huma...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Research for Disseration Thesis

My project is focused on the research for my dissertation thesis, which I plan to defense at my home university (Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic) in June 2011. I started my Ph. D. studies in September 2008 and it is usual to study 3 years. M y stay in Norway and all information I wi...

Tildelt: kr 70 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Isolation and characterization of crocetin derivatives from wild Crocus species and alternative total synthesis of crocetin and analogs

Crocus sativus L., is cultivated in many areas of the Mediterranean region and South Asia for its red stigmas (style branches, commonly known as saffron). Saffron is used as food and beverages additive, is an important ingredient of Mediterranean, Indian and Chinese diet and has been used as a d...

Tildelt: kr 55 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools

The goal of the project is the definition of a new paradigm of health care services patient based through the use of Web 2.0 tools. The work will be mainly focused on two goals: A. Analysis of the telemedicine service provision model in the Nordic countri es to be applied in Spain The existing mo...

Tildelt: kr 40 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Effects of fatty acids and phytochemicals on inflammation in APCmin/+ mice, a model of colorectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer is a common form of malignancy in developed countries, and its incidence keeps increasing every year. Many are the factors that contribute to its development. However, food habit seems to play a very important role in this type of cancer . Because of the importance on colorectal...

Tildelt: kr 0,15 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

An Ethnographic Research on the EU-Driven Security Policies and Bureaucratic Transformation Efforts in the Everyday Work of the Police.

With the EU membership process, Turkey has been subjected to many diverse and contradictory policies in different areas, which affect the structure of the bureaucratic institutions and everyday life of the people. Therefore, it is not only important but a lso crucial to study the impact of these ...

Tildelt: kr 69 999

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Latin works of Ludvig Holberg

During my research stay in Oslo I would like to focus on the literary output of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) a writer, philosopher and historian born in Bergen. As I am a classicist, I am especially interested in his works written in Latin. This significant person has not been a subject of scienti...

Tildelt: kr 34 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Small rodents in a fragmented landscape: distribution and habitat dependent demography at different spatial scales

Small rodents are regarded as the heart of many northern terrestrial food webs and their characteristic inter-annual cyclic fluctuations in densities have long been recorded (since the 1920s). Recent indication of a long-term decline in some of the most a bundant vole species in boreal ecosystems...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Modulation of hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor isoforms and lipid peroxidation by Tributyltin in Atlantic salmon in vitro

Organotin compounds, such as tributyltin (TBT) are one of the main marine contaminants. They are used as antifouling biocides in marine paints for ships and are continuously released to the enviroment. TBT is a known endocrine disruptor, i.e. compounds th at disrupt the hormonal equilibrium in or...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Phylogenetic microarrays: A new tool for biodiversity assessment.

As part of an already running project "Phylogenetic microarrays and high-throughput sequencing: A new tool for biodiversity assessment in Northern Norway" (190265/S40), were we have proposed to improve the resolution of current environmental monitoring pr ograms (EMP), this application will focus...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Research Stay in Bergen

My current research field is philosophy of art, with particular reference to classic expressivists (Tolstoy, Croce and Collingwood). I am attempting to defend the notion of expression of the classic expressivists by relating it to the Wittgensteinian one and to give a global elucidation of the c...

Tildelt: kr 70 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Automatic extraction of valency lexicons from Latin corpora

The goal of this project is to create two new linguistic resources for Latin, namely two computational valency lexicons, i. e. dictionaries containing syntactic, semantic, and frequency information on the arguments of verbs. Valency lexicons distinguish t ransitive verbs from intransitive verbs a...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Glacier dynamics and volume change estimation using advanced remote sensing techniques

We propose to submit a research project to Research Council of Norway, Division for Science under its YGGDRASIL mobility programme in collaboration with host institution Northern Research Institute (Norut) Tromso,Norway and CSRE, Indian Institute of Techn ology, Bombay Mumbai, India. The effort e...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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