425 antall prosjekter

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

Language as form of life and creative work. Aspects of the reception to Wittgenstein's late philosophy. Mobile researcher: Fortunato Emilian

The question is how can Wittgenstein's philosophy help to understand the social transformations, particularly in regard to work, of contemporary society - a society sometimes called postmodern, sometimes post Fordist, sometimes the knowledge society. Inde ed, many theorists believe that in this s...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Vestland

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

Pesticide sorption and effects of biochar Mobile researcher: Veronika Tatarková, Slovakia

The project "Pesticide sorption and effects of biochar" is a part of an important European Union`s project called Genesis. The Genesis project is focused on the investigation of behaviour of several pesticides in the environment, including their sorption, desorption, degradation in soil, transpo...

Tildelt: kr 81 568

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Akershus

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

Visiting researcher grant for Aziz Hakimi, at CMI Mobile researcher: Aziz Hakimi, UK

The proposed project would enable CMI to host Aziz Hakimi, PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London, for 12 months during the writing up phase of his dissertation. At CMI, Aziz would be part of a group of researchers and PhD candidates focusing on Afgh anistan and on peace and conflict researc...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Vestland

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

SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN UNGULATE FORAGING BEHAVIOUR Mobile researcher:Emmanuelle Richard, France

Deer allocate their time and use of available habitats to satisfy basic requirements for food, rumination, movement, social interactions, and rest. The majority of the day is spent foraging and ruminating/resting. Seasonal variation in forage quantity and quality is an important driver of these ...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Biogeographical structure of the subarctic and arctic areas of the North Atlantic Ocean Mobile researcher: Reygondeau Gabriel, France

The objective of this proposal is to investigate the trophic web composition and dynamic of four biogeochemical provinces located in the North East Atlantic ocean. These specifics provinces, originally defined in 1995 using only environmental characterist ics, are selected here as they represent ...

Tildelt: kr 40 500

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

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

Hydrogen and energy production through solid oxide reversible cells Mobile researcher: Gomez Gonzalez Sergio Yesid, Brazil

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are the most efficient (>60%) electrochemical devices yet invented for conversion of hydrogen directly into electrical power, without combustion and producing water as exhaust gas) [1]. Solid Oxide Electrolyser Cells (SOEC) c orrespond to the reverse operation of SOF...

Tildelt: kr 0,17 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Verbal morphosyntax in late Northern Middle English: the Northern Subject Rule and related developments Mobile researcher: Nynke de Haas,

This project aims to analyze newly accessible data on late Middle English (c. 1350-1500) from the point of view of variation in verb endings and syntax (word order). It focuses on the Northern Subject Rule (NSR), a pattern of variation in which present-te nse plural verb endings depend on the typ...

Tildelt: kr 40 500

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Rogaland

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

De polsk-norske handelsflåtens forbindelser i mellomkrigstiden Mobile researcher: Jordan Siemianowski, Poland

Mitt opphold i Bergen skal muliggjøre å forske mange saker som er knyttet til polsk-norske handelsflåtens forbindelser i mellomkrigstiden. Blant annet skal jeg forklare samarbeidet mellom Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab og andre norske rederier som var ogs å i Fri Stadt Danzig (FSD) eller i Gdynia...

Tildelt: kr 50 839

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Vestland

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

Prenatal exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds through maternal diet during pregnancy. A European study (NewGeneris)-

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzo-furans (PCDFs) and di-oxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are a widespread diverse group of persistent, lipo-philic hazardous environmental pollutants. For non-occupationally expos ed people, diet is the primary source of ...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

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

Studies in the technical terminology of Greek papyri of medical content: The nomenclature and linguistic history of ancient drug containers

The research to be carried out during Isabella Bonati's Yggdrasil stay at the University of Oslo ultimately sheds light on scientific technical languages and their development from antiquity to modern times. Much as technical terminology has been transfor med over time, the technical vocabulary o...

Tildelt: kr 54 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Oslo

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

Enhanced Multiple Exciton Generation in PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cells Mobile researcher: Arivazhagan V, India

This Yggdrasil proposal asks for support for 4 months stay at NTNU, Trondheim for PhD student Arivazhagan V from Department of Physics, Karunya University, India. Arivazhagan V is studying for a PhD on solar cell materials, specifically synthesizing PbSe quantum dot thin film structures. These s...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Nordic Regions of Culture: Intercultural links between Norway and Scotland in the Eighteenth Century Mobile researcher: Silke Reeploeg , UK

The history and culture of Scotland has been shaped by its relationships with other cultures across the North Sea - in particular with Norway. From a Shetland perspective, for example, an affinity with Norwegian culture has persisted throughout the 500 y ears since the islands' transfer from the...

Tildelt: kr 0,13 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Møre og Romsdal

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

The Norwegian Academic Novel Mobile researcher:Sofija Todic, Serbia

In the year 2011, Norwegian University was celebrating its two-hundredth anniversary. In connection to the jubilee celebrations, a lot has been written and said concerning the development and the history of this institution of higher education and its som ewhat isolated position in the society. F...

Tildelt: kr 40 500

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Vestland

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

Philosophy of War Mobile researcher: Yuriy Loboda, Ukraine

Among numerous philosophic fields of research like philosophy of law, language, logic, mind, science, biology, history, society etc had emerged new discipline - philosophy of war. Though philosophers from Heraclitus to Bernard Henri-Levy were always inter ested in war and projects of eternal peac...

Tildelt: kr 0,32 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Ph. D.-prosjekt: Fiktive verdener i Jan Erik Volds poetiske verker 1965-1995 Mobile researcher: Ondrej Buddeus. Czech Republic

Hensikten med prosjektet er å peke på oppbygningen av fiktive verdener, formale mønstre og diskursive spilleregler ved konstruering av det språk- og tekstbundne imaginære universet i Jan Erik Volds poetiske verker fra debuten "mellom speil og speil" (1965 ) til "Kalenderdikt" (1995). Denne analyt...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Innlandet

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

NINA WUR partnership: Spatial ecological-economic modelling of ecosystem services, the case of Telemark province Mobile researcher:

The provision of ecosystem services (ES) constitutes a considerable part of human well-being. Both biophysical quantities and monetary values of ES are spatially explicit, but the role of spatial patterns in supply and demand of ES has not yet been studie d empirically. Spatially explicit ES valu...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

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

The fitness cost of antimicrobial resistance: a bacterial perspective. Mobile researcher: Vera Diachkova, Russia

The relative and absolute fitness cost of resistance is a key biological parameter determining the rate of emergence and frequency of resistant bacteria in the community. The biological cost can be related to chromosomally localized resistance genes, or p lasmid-encoded resistance genes. So far, ...

Tildelt: kr 94 500

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Color and spectral imaging for cultural heritage applications Mobile researcher:Sony George, India

The main focus of the proposed project is to develop and evaluate novel imaging methods for cultural heritage applications, in particular for paintings. These methods will overcome the limitations of the existing techniques for color characterisation and accurate detailed analysis of the paintin...

Tildelt: kr 0,17 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Innlandet

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

Advanced jacket models for offshore wind turbines with superelements Mobile researcher: Jan Dubois, Germany

The project studies the practical issues that arise when the superelement approach is used for offshore wind turbine support structures. Special care needs to be taken to calculate the wave loading correctly for joints that are represented by superelement s in dynamical simulations. The superelem...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Clay in conversation: materials and artisan subjectivities Mobile researcher: Geoffrey Gowlland, UK

Increasingly, anthropologists are becoming interested in the non-linguistic, bodily, sensual and emotional bases of culture. In this frame of research, the anthropology of craft has had an important role to play, contributing empirically, theoretically an d methodologically to the question of the...

Tildelt: kr 0,16 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Oslo

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

Shale-gas system evaluation and organic matter characterisation Mobile researcher: Luigi Gugliotti, Italy

The purpose of my stay in Norway is to apply the modelling tool OF-Mod (Organic Facies Model) to reconstruct palaeodepositional environments of organic-rich deposits of the Streppenosa and Marne del Monte Serrone formations (Italy). This research will for m part of my Ph.D. project. The OF-Mod pr...

Tildelt: kr 54 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Breeding program of turbot Mobile researcher:Sophie Oesau, Germany

We welcome Ms Oesau from Christian Albrecths Universität zu Kiel to our group for three months. In her work at Nofima, she will perform genetic analysis of a data set of turbot, and write up the results in a scientific paper, which will be one of the pape rs of her PhDthesis. She will also visit ...

Tildelt: kr 40 500

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Bio-hydrogen production by sorption enhanced steam reforming of biomass derived compounds Mobile researcher: María Victoria Gil, Spain

The work to be carried out during the mobility stay is related to the H2 production from biomass derived compounds by sorption enhanced steam reforming (SESR), as an effective and promising route for direct catalytic conversion of biomass to H2 with high efficiency and high selectivity, without ...

Tildelt: kr 54 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Multiscale modeling of solvent effects on molecular properties in aqueous solution

The main aim of the project is to model the effects of the molecular environment on the optical rotation, circular dichroism and Raman optical activity spectra by means of a method that combines quantum mechanical calculations (QM) with both polarizable c ontinuum model (PCM) and polarizable mole...

Tildelt: kr 39 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

Dual-frequency ADCP measurement to quantify suspended sediment concentrations and to determine grain size distribution

The present project proposes to develop a new method to measure suspended sediment concentrations and their grain size distribution with a dual frequency acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). This is of high importance since sediments have a strongly negative impact on any hydropower plant. ...

Tildelt: kr 52 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

A multivariate analysis of social and intralinguistic factors of word order variation and change in Late Middle and Early Modern English

I would like to conduct a multivariate/logistic regression analysis of various social and linguistic factors influencing word order variation and change in earlier English. In my doctoral dissertation (2007) I dealt with some social (class, network, regi on), communicative (audience design) and ...

Tildelt: kr 39 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

Geophysical 3D Modelling of the Karoo Basin

No clear tectonic model exists for the Karoo sedimentary basin in South Africa, which is a possible host for Permian shale gas. The main aim of this proposed project is to create a 3D geological model of the Karoo Basin using geological information, magne tic and gravity data, and supplementary b...

Tildelt: kr 39 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

How To Persuade People of Gender Equality in Language: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Gender-inclusive language is a milestone in achieving gender equality. It proclaims feminization (using masculine and feminine terms) and neutralization (using neutral terms) to refer to both genders instead of using masculine personal nouns, since the ge neric use of masculine terms results in a...

Tildelt: kr 91 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

Potential impact of an oil spill on the wolfish species of the Barents Sea

The main objective is to study the sensitivity of the wolfish larvae/juveniles to crude oil and to compare the biological effect of mechanically dispersed versus chemically dispersed oil using sub lethal end points. In order to identify the toxicity of ch emically dispersed oil, we need to also e...

Tildelt: kr 65 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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

Retinal factors in motion processing anomalies

The goal of the proposed research is to investigate the phenomenon of "spatial suppression", a curious paradox of visual motion sensitivity in which normal observers fail to discriminate the motion of a highly visible stimulus. This counter-intuitive psyc hophysical effect is a potential clinical...

Tildelt: kr 78 000

Prosjektperiode: 2012-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke