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Bio-engineering multi-functional silvopastoral landscapes: A case study in Nicaragua

MF-Landscapes aims at understanding how to bio-engineer livestock production landscapes in Nicaragua, i. e. how to exploit new opportunities and solve problems within the domain of a multifunctional silvopastoral system (SP) that maximizes provisioning of ecosystem services and economically effi...

Tildelt: kr 5,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2016

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Identities in Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Language Shift in a Kven Community

This project examines changes in identity construction in a Kven community undergoing language shift by comparing and contrasting interview data from the same individuals from 1975 and today. This approach contrasts with the existing literature on languag e shift as the proposed project will be a...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Local literacies and community spaces - Investigating transitions and transfers in the learning lives of Groruddalen

The overall objective of this project is to increase our knowledge and understanding about key issues of transition between different contexts and levels of learning. Developments within the knowledge society, especially due to technological innovation, h ave intensified interest in the relations...

Tildelt: kr 7,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: Oslo

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Popular Representation in Africa: The politics of expectations

Democratic decentralisation and gender sensitive policies have offered a massive opportunity for political parties in Africa to mobilise support. As for instance, in Malawi in 2000, as many as 860 new political offices were up for elections as a consequen ce of democratic decentralisation. Democr...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Vestland

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Norwegian Dialect Syntax- NorDiaSyn: Grammatical variation - new isoglosses and new media

Prosjektet har hatt som mål å utforske syntaksen (ordstilling og grammatiske mønstre) i de nordiske dialektene. For at dette skulle bli mulig, måtte det anskaffes empirisk materiale. Dermed ble det gjort store dialektinnsamlinger både i Norge og resten av Norden, bekostet av de ulike forskningsrå...

Tildelt: kr 13,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: Oslo

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Palmyrena. City, Hinterland, Caravan Trade between the Orient and the Occident.

Palmyra i den centrale del af det nuværende Syria var i romersk tid en af de vigtigste karavanebyer mellem Occidenten og Orienten og kom også politisk til at spille en vigtig rolle. Man har i dag et rimeligt godt kendskab til selve byen, mens relationer t il oplandet og dettes betydning for byens...

Tildelt: kr 8,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Vestland

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Prehistoric human-animal practices: social life, land use and economic strategies on the farm and their reciprocal impact on natural systems

The project examines environmental changes in the past as a result of changes in terms of engagements between humans and the environment. The chosen period is the early Bronze Age, 2000-1600 BC. In this period, archaeologists observe a change in the archi tectural construction of settlements, as ...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Socio-economic determinants of cancer: Twin, adoptee and family based evidence from the Cancer Registry of Norway

With increased availability of multi-generation cancer data, most studies to date on family cancer risks have been measuring the incidence of various cancers within families and found higher family risks for breast, prostate, ovarian and uterine cancer. L ess is known about the underlying causes ...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Elites in an egalitarian society

Et sentralt spørsmål som prosjektet har søkt ny kunnskap om, er om Norge virkelig er et så «spesialtilfelle» når det gjelder klasser og eliter som populære mediale, så vel som faglig funderte oppfatninger og forestillinger om Norge som et spesielt egalitæ rt samfunn synes å indikere, og hva denne...

Tildelt: kr 5,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2014

Sted: Vestland

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Hansteen and the Observatory: The New Place for the Science of Space in Nineteenth Century Norway

Within Norwegian historiography, the role of the natural sciences has not been sufficiently taken into account when analyzing 1814 and the process of state-formation during the nineteenth century. This project will challenge such interpretations by focusi ng, first, on Christopher Hansteen, the m...

Tildelt: kr 5,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions?

Med hensyn til om stater bør ratifisere menneskerettighetskonvensjoner, er et sentralt funn at noen av de viktigste innvendingene ikke stå seg ved nærmere granskning. Hva gjelder populære diagnoser om et legitimitetsunderskudd, har vi funnet at flere av de bekymringene som får mest oppmerksomhet ...

Tildelt: kr 5,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2015

Sted: Oslo

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Music, Motion, and Emotion Theoretical and Psychological Implications of Musical Embodiment

This project aims to throw light upon both aesthetic and therapeutic/prophylactic dimensions of musical meaning; the primary objective being to increase our awareness and understanding of the positive powers of music in everyday life, as well as in crisis . A selection of CD recordings (programs...

Tildelt: kr 9,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Oslo

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The Future of Russian: Language Culture in the Era of New Technology

New media technology has radically changed the conditions of linguistic communication worldwide. In Russia, the technological revolution has taken place at a time of dramatic political and social upheaval, which further reinforces the process and its cons equences in several areas, including lang...

Tildelt: kr 10,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Vestland

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Political Parties and Democracy: Decline or Change?

We study the role of political parties in contemporary democracies. The main research question is whether parties have primarily changed or declined as organizations and whether parties' contributions to democracy are stable or in decline. Our focus is th e behaviour and inter-relationship of par...

Tildelt: kr 8,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Jesus in Cultural Complexity: Interpretation, Memory and identification. Towards A New Paradigm for Historical Jesus Studies

The project will develop intersectional approaches from modern gender studies into a methodology for a study of the Jesus movement, and analyse Early Christian texts that contain multiple identity indicators. In a criticism of the positivist approach in m ost historical Jesus studies the project ...

Tildelt: kr 5,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives

The issue of identity, or rather identities, has figured prominently in recent years in various disciplines in poststructuralist approaches to the discussion of the self and the other. A discourse unit that provides an excellent locus for investigating is sues of culture and identity is the narra...

Tildelt: kr 7,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Oslo

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The State of Literature: Exploring Genealogy and Autopoiesis in the Work of António Lobo Antunes

I intend to investigate the role of autopoiesis - or self-creation - in the work of Portuguese writer, António Lobo Antunes (1942-). By borrowing a term from biology, my analysis is based on an aesthetic paradigm which enables us to approach literature as a composite body, or autopoietic system....

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Oslo

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ASKeladden - Morsmålstransfer i norsk innlærerspråk. En korpusbasert tilnærming

Den overordnede og samlende problemstillingen for prosjektet er hvordan morsmålet påvirker tilegnelsen av norsk som andrespråk. Morsmålstransfer i andrespråkslæring har vært et sentralt og kontroversielt spørsmål innenfor andrespråkforskning. Prosjektet t ar sikte på å gi ny innsikt i hvordan mor...

Tildelt: kr 10,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Vestland

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Influence of the Matrix on Species Richness in Ugandan Forest Fragments

The power-law species area relation (SAR) has been used to predict that as the size of a habitat fragment decreases, the number of species supported by that fragment will fall. Despite the widespread usage of the SAR in conservation biology, the relation ship is confounded by a number of factors...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Vestland

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The Nature and Development of Language and Language Disorders in Children

Prosjektet, The Nature and Development of Language and Language Disorders in Children, er en longitudinell studie av muntlig og skriftlig språkutvikling i typisk og forsinket utvikling i overgangen barnehage-skole (4-9 år). Den består av to komponenter. Del 1 omfatter longitudinelle prosjekter, d...

Tildelt: kr 8,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2016

Sted: Oslo

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The Kola Birth Registry as a tool for populationbased studies of contaminants and influence on reproductive health and pregnancy outcome

A regional birth registry, compatible to the Norwegian birth registry, was initiated for Murmansk County in January 2006. The registry covers all 18 delivery departments in Murmansk County. The establishment of the birth registry has the potential of impr oving perinatal health and health care se...

Tildelt: kr 4,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

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Nye kjønn, andre krav? Likestillingens barn i skole og familie New world - old gender? Growing up in a gender equality era.

The project combines a cluster of 10 related projects studying boys and girls at different age levels and in the contexts of school, family and leisure activities. They focus on the relation between societal changes in gender and changes in the requiremen ts of skills and competence of citizenshi...

Tildelt: kr 7,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2014

Sted: Oslo

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Shared Content

Introduction to research Topic: Shared Content Speakers, more often than not, succeed in mutual comprehension despite a diversity of beliefs, intentions, interests, goals, audiences, conversational contexts, and perceptual inputs. Not only do we easily un derstand each other despite such differen...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2013

Sted: Oslo

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Arktiske diskurser

Skildringer av arktiske eller subarktiske strøk og livet der utgjør et omfangsrikt materiale produsert både i disse strøkene og i andre deler av verden, f.eks. Europa og Amerika. Omfanget øker særlig i og med den systematiske vitenskapelige undersøkelsen av Arktis som er på plass etter romantikke...

Tildelt: kr 7,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2013

Sted: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

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The Norwegian Peace Tradition

The main goal for this projects is to analyze the assumed peace tradition, whether such a tradition actually exists in any meaningful way, and if so how far back in time it extends. The goal will be pursued by means of eleven separate sub projects. Nine o f them are basically historical in their ...

Tildelt: kr 14,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2005-2014

Sted: Oslo