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Bilingual Experiences, Cognitive Ageing and underlying Mechanisms

The goal of the Bilingual Experiences, Cognitive Ageing and underlying Mechanisms (BECAME) project is to examine the functional neuroplastic mechanisms underlying mitigatory effects of bilingual experience on age-related cognitive decline. While evidence is available for structural brain changes supporting bilingualism-induced effects on cognitive aging (CA), functional mechanisms underlying such effects are not yet well understood. BECAME aims to fill this gap by investigating the trajectory of bilingualism-induced functional neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan (ages 18-85), crucially adopting an individual differences approach related to measurable degree of bilingual engagement. Importantly, although such benefits are thought to be rooted early in the lifespan, evidence for the timeframe and conditions of their early emergence is scarce. The choice of including the whole adult lifespan allows us to investigate these mechanisms and their emergence more directly from a lifespan perspective. I combine behavioral testing with brain recordings via electroencephalography (EEG). EEG is widely used in cognitive neuroscience to assess brain activity and the degree of communication between brain regions (functional connectivity) in response to stimuli and at rest. Combining behavioral and EEG modalities will allow me to test bilingualism’s effect on functional connectivity, as well as its consequences for functional efficiency, the minimum required neural activation to successfully perform a task. This will enable a detailed, evidence-based account of the protective effects observed in older-aged bilinguals, and how they are built from earlier life stages. By illuminating the relationship between multilingualism and resulting neurocognitive adaptations, BECAME will enable to capitalize on it as a health initiative, with manifold societal implications and the potential to be translated into actionable policies exploiting multilingualism to ameliorate effects of CA.

From the SEA to the SOLution. An integrative assessment of marine pollution in a changing Arctic

Marine chemical pollution poses known threats to human health and to biodiversity, ecosystem and societal services. The Arctic is a major sink of global mercury (Hg) pollution. Arctic sediments, sea and glacial ice constitute vast Hg reservoirs. Recent studies raise concerns about their increasing role as local Hg sources. In a rapidly warming Arctic, the consequences of potentially increased environmental Hg on marine biota remain unknown. The objective of SEASOL is to identify the pathway(s) of Hg bioaccumulation in marine food webs of the High Arctic Kongsfjorden (Svalbard). This changing glacial fjord is recognised as a ‘natural laboratory’ of climate change in the Arctic. The fellow’s earlier research has shown the sole measurement of Hg levels as insufficient to connect biotic Hg dynamics to environmental change, whereas the analysis of Hg stable isotopes proved to be a promising tool for source discrimination and biotic transfer. SEASOL will build on the novel application of stable isotope analysis to identify the sources of Hg within the fjord system and the pathways to Hg accumulation within sentinel marine species. On the short-term, the study will provide fundamental knowledge to help understand how emerging sources of Hg from rapid environmental change will impact Arctic marine predators. On the long-term, SEASOL will contribute to the development of early-warning, adaptive management strategies, including modelling, for mitigating the cumulative impact of pollutants and climate change on Arctic marine species. This multidisciplinary approach and the central position of the host institution (Norwegian Polar Institute) in the field of Polar Research will equip the Fellow with a broad set of new skills and lay the foundation for building her specific niche as a future leader in marine pollution science.

Reality-Connected Machine Simulation of Heavy Machinery

The RealSim project proposal aims to connect machine simulation to reality in the framework of heavy machinery, which is an interdisciplinary application. The results of this project are expected to optimize machine performance, accurately and reliably predict machine failure, and reduce overall development and operation costs, thus, serving the Europe’s priority of green transformation and the United Nation’s sustainable development goal 9. The RealSim project will close the gaps of: (1) Onboard estimations of force and pressure components of heavy machinery; (2) Estimating deformability, cylinder friction, leakage, and valve dynamics of heavy machinery using independent nonlinear Kalman filters; (3) Employing dependent nonlinear Kalman filters in state estimators of heavy machinery; (4) Tuning algorithms for the covariance matrix of plant noise in the state estimation of heavy machinery. 

I will consolidate and leverage my research career and position as a leading researcher in the field through integration in Assoc. Prof. Mohammad Poursina’s group at the Department of Engineering Sciences of the University of Agder (UiA), Norway. Here, I will acquire hands-on experience of working with actual mechatronic systems and develop efficient control algorithms. I will improve my knowledge of fluid power designing, control theory, instrumentation, and develop efficient coding skills. I will also develop entrepreneurial skills. The skills, knowledge, and international network that I will develop during this fellowship will put me in an excellent position to achieve my long-term goal of becoming a professor with my own independent research group at an esteemed university in EU. This fellowship will help me to prepare a strong ERC Starting Grant application in the future. It will also cater my additional goal of setting-up a research-related start-up in the future.

Algebraic Theory of Information Quantities

Information theory is a discipline at the intersection of statistics, engineering and computer science. As the study of information quantities, such as compression or communication capacities, information content or measures of statistical dependency, it is one of the theoretical underpinnings of data science.

Computational problems in information theory are highly non-linear. The goal of this project is to transfer state-of-the-art methods of computational non-linear algebra to information theory, to study the inherent algebraic complexity of information-theoretical problems and to provide tools for solving them in practice. The algebraic point of view has proven to be fruitful in seemingly unrelated areas, as witnessed by a surge of recent work in algebraic statistics, in particular on likelihood geometry. However, maximizing the likelihood function is the same as minimizing relative entropy — a specific information quantity. Hence, this project also aims at generalizing the techniques developed in likelihood geometry.

One focus is on the practical computation of information quantities using numerical and differential algebraic geometry. Such quantities are defined via non-linear optimization problems and we aim to pinpoint the algebraic complexity of these problems in instances of general interest, such as common information measures. The final objective is finding fundamental laws and limits of data science imposed by non-linear inequalities constraining the entropic region. These inequalities provide, by duality, universal bounds for many of the optimization problems studied in information theory.

Enabling the next generation in search of blood cancer cures

The CarrerasPathfinder program is new a world-wide unique doctoral program that covers the entire spectrum of research and innovation in blood cancers from understanding disease biology to the implementation of novel processes in the clinical practice. The program will fund 14 excellent Doctoral Candidates (DCs) for a period of 48 months. DCs will perform collaborative PhD projects involving associated partners from different sectors, countries, and disciplines through secondments. DCs will improve their research capacity and transferable skills through high-quality supervision arrangements and a tailored training program.

The program has been designed and will be hosted by the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC) which is the first European non-profit institute exclusively devoted to blood cancers. By answering the European needs for human resources, it is fully aligned with the 13 recommendations of the EU Cancer Board’s Draft Mission  and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan (2021). The CarrerasPathfinder program has a strong triple-I dimension of internationality, inter-sectorality and interdisciplinarity in training, networking, co-supervision and research. Its specific objectives are:
•	To develop an excellent doctoral program in blood cancer research conceived as a pilot for a permanent international doctoral program
•	To equip DCs with a unique skill set boosting effectiveness and innovation capacity. 
•	To promote DCs’ career development and increase their employability in different sectors.
•	To establish the IJC as a European reference for research and training in blood cancers.
•	To provide Europe with a new generation of researchers able to address unmet needs and societal challenges of blood cancers.
•	To contribute to structuring the European research area by collaborating and synergizing with other European key opinion leaders.



Renewable energy on the high seas – science-informed and indigenous knowledge-based recommendations for regulatory and governance challenges

The high seas are those marine areas under no State's jurisdiction. So far, all marine renewable energy (RE) activity is being conducted under State's jurisdiction. However, recent advances in technology are raising the prospect of carrying out RE activity on the high seas. Currently, only seabed mining activities in the Area have been regulated. The Area is the seabed and ocean floor beyond the limits of State's jurisdiction. From the legal viewpoint, the main gap is a lack of an international regulatory framework, informed by participatory mechanisms and supported by scientific evidence, for RE activities on the high seas, especially regarding their environmental and social impacts. 
The primary project objective (O) is to provide the scientific community and policymakers with science-informed and indigenous knowledge-based recommendations in support of the development of  RE regulation on the high seas. 
Two specific Os are set to complement the primary O, namely:
O1 To advance the use of systematic consultation processes that facilitates research at the crossroads of marine sciences and law. 
O2 To advance critical knowledge and understanding of environmental pressing issues comparable to the regulation of RE on the high seas, such as deep-sea mining in the Area.
A multistep innovative methodology will be adopted, by integrating marine scientific knowledge, consultative processes, and advanced critical research in the subject matter. A case study (interdisciplinary and participatory) involving marine scientists, indigenous and coastal communities and policy makers will be conducted onboard the Research Vessel KronPrins Haakon at the beginning of the project. The case study outcomes will be analysed through critical legal analysis to build a knowledge base for policy recommendations. 
The project will advance the PI’s career in an international research environment, allowing her to generate independent, high-quality, and reproducible results.




BOLD MINDS aspires to enhance the understanding of vulnerability factors underlying the emergence of borderline personality disorder (BPD), with an ultimate aim of increasing the potential for young individuals to receive early, evidence-based help when their mental health is at risk. BOLD MINDS will achieve this by investigating whether disruptions in two aspects of autobiographical memory (AM), narrative identity (NI) and involuntary AM (IAM), are associated with BPD features and problem behaviours in adolescents concurrently and over time. In doing so, BOLD MINDS will strengthen the understanding of mechanisms underlying the emergence of BPD in adolescence and lay a groundwork for developing evidence-based early interventions for BPD. While currently limited, the study of AM in this field is essential for two reasons. Firstly, because the aspects of AM under investigation, NI and IAM, are known to be involved in identity formation and emotion regulation which represent two key psychological processes that are disrupted in adults with BPD and are linked to problem behaviours such as self-harm and suicidality. Secondly, because promising research is emerging on the use of AM targets in the treatment of emotional disorder in adults, and provides a strong model for future treatment development with vulnerable adolescents. In addition, this timely research program aligns with calls from international organizations to prioritize early interventions to promote adolescent mental health. BOLD MINDS will adopt and adapt state-of-the-art ecological momentary assessment and analytical techniques and work at the crossroads of clinical and cognitive psychological perspectives, allowing for a multidimensional approach to understanding BPD vulnerability. Training-through-research and formalized training of the experienced researcher will prepare her for a permanent academic position and the founding of her own research lab specializing in AM and early interventions for BPD.

Borderline Personality Disorder: Memory and Identity in Adolescence

Multilingual Acquisition and Processing: Heritage Russian in Spain

Recent research highlights a need of deeper understanding of the nature of language competence and the development of this competence under heritage language bi- and multilingualism. Heritage speakers (HSs) is a population highly diverse in terms of their linguistic competence and its development. Multilingual Acquisition and Processing (MAP): Heritage Russian in Spain will provide an examination of Russian Heritage Language (HL) grammar in a previously unstudied socio-linguistic context focusing in particular on the patterns of cross-linguistic interaction at early and most unstable stages of multilingual language development. The overall research objective is to discover the patterns of language acquisition and language processing in order to find out how multilingual minds deploy their developing grammatical knowledge and how they detect and access the linguistic (morpho-syntactic) mechanisms from their two co-existing languages in real-time. The proposed empirical study will investigate the effects of linguistic proximity, individual experiential factors and the developmental patterns of cross-linguistic influence in child bilingualism. Heritage Russian in Spain will be studied with a focus on 3-7-year-old children in order to examine developmental trajectories in both languages. On the theoretical level, MAP will significantly contribute to the development of a model of heritage language grammar and add to a sub-field of multilingualism studies, Heritage Language Acquisition, by showing the patterns of cross-linguistic interaction at early stages of multilingual Russian-Spanish development. On a societal and education level, project findings will be relevant for policy makers, teachers, school principals and HSs communities in European countries. To date, most heritage language studies have focused exclusively on the minority language, MAP will fill an important gap by focusing on both languages.

WHeelchair Activity Monitoring project (WHAM)

Wheelchair users (WCU) are three to five times more inactive than the general population, leading to a high risk of developing preventable secondary conditions. Although physical activity (PA) guidelines have been specifically developed for WCU, we lack systematic approaches to implement them in practice, as well as valid algorithms to monitor PA change in WCU through sensor-based solutions. Accordingly, the overall scientific aim of the WHeelchair Activity Monitoring project (WHAM) is to advance PA research and practice in WCU by developing valid digital markers for monitoring of and providing feedback on PA, paving the way for implementation and intervention. I will accomplish this through combining the complementary research fields of 1) behavioural intervention studies focusing on increasing PA in WCU (core competence University of British Columbia, UBC; outgoing phase) and 2) sensor-based PA monitoring (core competence Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU; returning phase – consolidated by non-academic placement at Maastricht Instruments, which develop research prototypes including PA monitors). WHAM’s scientific aim is achieved through three objectives: 1) Measure the effect of a pragmatic exercise intervention trial on self-reported physical activity levels and cardio-respiratory fitness, 2) Develop valid algorithms for tracking PA markers in WCU, and 3) Co-create a framework that outlines how PA can be conjointly monitored and provided feedback on in WCU. This fellowship will enable me to become established as an internationally recognized researcher in the field of “physical activity and disability”, while bringing together ongoing national disjointed research activities in this field. Altogether, my overall ambition is to contribute to reducing inequalities in daily-life participation among WCU compared to the rest of the population.

Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

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Zeolites are the second largest class of industrial catalysts, and recent studies have pointed to a high potential for optimisation of such materials by a tailored synthesis approach. 
In this project, a rational approach will be taken to synthesise zeoli tes with tailored acidic properties and with a proper assembly of zeolite crystals (size and shape). We plan to use self-assembly techniques to vary the chemical composition, morphology and crystal orientation of medium-pore zeolites. 

A typical feedback  loop approach (iteration process) will be used for the improvement of zeolite molecular and microscopic properties with respect to their catalytic activity in methanol conversion. The self-assembly of zeolite nanocrystals and in contrast the use of "gian t" crystals will serve as a basis to develop peculiar zeolite catalysts, and we therefore seek to convert methanol into valuable C2-C3 olefins.

As part of the feed-back loop, direct exchange of information and ideas between the students working on synthe sis and testing of the materials is important. Therefore, we hereby apply for travel grants for one student from the Norwegian partner (this application) and one student from the French partner (parallel French application), so that each of them may spend  one month in the partner laboratory. Funding for the actual work to be carried out is already at place in each laboratory.

Design of environmental friendly catalysts for the conversion of methanol into light olefins and synthetic fuels

This research project focuses on a class of systems characterized by having components that communicate through a wireless sensor network and be composed of coupled subsystems that share certain variables. The behavior of these systems can be influenced b y the inherent problems to signal transmission: time delays, package losses, noises and uncertainties, among others. In many cases it is necessary to design decentralized controllers instead of a unique central one.
On the other hand, networked control sy stems (NCSs) are spatially distributed systems in which plants to be controlled, sensors, actuators, and controllers, are remotely positioned and communicate with each other through shared band-limited digital communication networks. Compared with traditi onal point-to-point control systems, the main advantages of network structured control systems come from their low cost, flexibility and easy re-configurability, natural reliability and robustness to failure, and adaptation capability. Consequently, NCSs  have been finding applications in a broad range of areas such as transportation networks, power grids, mobile sensor networks, water distribution networks, unmanned aerial vehicles and so on. However, there are also some drawbacks caused by the very natur e of communication networks such as transmission delays, packet dropouts, data quantization errors, data rate constraints, etc. Currently engineers, control engineers in particular, have to deal with many network-induced new and challenging issues arising  from analysis and synthesis of complex networked control systems. During the past few years, increasing attention has been paid to the study of networked control systems in terms of stability analysis, controller synthesis, state estimation, and performa nce optimization under various network-induced constraints.
However, analysis and synthesis of networked control systems are still in the early stage of development and many critical issues remain to be further inve

Stability analysis and control synthesis for Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy systems: application to networked control systems

In the continents, the main radioelements, U and Th, are concentrated in a few accessory minerals, like monazite and zircon. The behaviour of these minerals through geological processes is in the centre of several important questions in geosciences: the h eat budget of continents, the geochemical cycle of heavy metals, and the measurement of time in geology, i.e. geochronology. Two leading institutions in geosciences in France and Norway join force to address the mineralogy and geochronology of accessory m inerals in rocks that underwent uncommonly hot and dry metamorphism and now superbly exposed in Rogaland. The specific goals of this proposal are to exchange knowledge, meet in the field in Rogaland and provide an international environment for a PhD stude nt. 
The granulites in Rogaland are famous in that they formed in "ultra-high temperature" metamorphic conditions above 1000°C. They contain zircon and monazite with complex internal textures. These microtextures are attributed to a variety of post-growth  processes and complicate interpretation of U-Th-Pb geochronological data. We propose to study the transformations leading to these textures and to link them with the evolutions of pressure-temperature conditions, fluid activity, irradiation and petrology  of their host rocks. We will produce images and generate chemical and geochronological data at microscopic scale in monazite, zircon and their hosts, using microanalytical methods. The data will serve to solve a geological conundrum. The ultra-high tempe rature domain in Rogaland follows the contact of the Rogaland Anorthosite Complex in the field, and therefore it has been interpreted as contact metamorphism caused by anorthosite magmatism. However, recent data suggest that metamorphism is some 80 m.y. o lder than magmatism challenging this interpretation. The time relationship between magmatism and metamorphism will be established, as well as implications on what controls the heat budget in "ultra-hot" orogens.

Behaviour of uranium-thorium minerals in the ultra-high temperature granulites of Rogaland

Problems of drug resistance and side-effects necessitate the search for new and more specific anti-cancer drugs, whether by chemical synthesis or by screening of natural products. This project aims to use nanosized drug delivery systems to ensure maximum  therapeutic effect of anti-cancer drugs. We will benefit from two research groups who are leading in their respective fields: 1: The Translational Signalling group (TSG) at Dept. Biomedicine, Univ Bergen, working with leukaemia biology, drug targets and t heir effect on cancer cell signalling. 2: Institut Galien, Univ Paris-Sud (IGPS) who has worked with nanocarriers for decades, and is perhaps the leading institution in this field in Europe.
Specifically, the groups will work to enhance the bioavailabilit y of drugs with poor pharmacokinetics due to poor solubility in aqueous media. This is mandatory to demonstrate clinical potential of drug candidates. Also, a novel liposomal formulation carrying inhibitors of hsp90, which induces cancer cell death, will  be tested on a panel of cancer cell lines that can be transplanted into relevant rodent models of cancer.
The project thus takes advantage of the sophisticated drug delivery systems developed at IPGS, and the expertise in cancer cell biology at TSG. By jo ining forces, we believe that we will come closer to new therapies against cancer.

Nanocarriers for new anti-cancer drugs

Decompression sickness (DCS) has been recognized for over a century, with the main challenge being in the production of / generation of vascular gas bubbles as a result of gas coming out of solution upon decompressing from larger pressures than at the sur face. However, challenges still remains as to where the bubbles are formed, and which biological/physiological processes that are being altered as a result of the challenges when man submerges himself/herself in the water. Recently, new findings points at  the hyperoxia that the diver is exposed to as a releasing factor/trigger for inflammatory processes that precedes the formation of vascular bubbles/the reactions to the vascular bubbles. The present project will investigate whether the response to hypero xia might be masking a more subtle genetic response to diving and/or DCS by controlling for the hyperoxia during experimental diving.

The relationship between hyperoxia, oxidative stress and decompression sickness

The aim of the AURORA project CHARGE is to join the efforts of mathematicians in Norway and in France that have had a major impact in the last years in the applications of complex and harmonic analysis techniques to results on the time-frequency localizat ion. The problems CHARGE members address stem from applied analysis (PDEs, control theory, signal processing) as well as from recent developments in complex and harmonic analysis.

The main unifying theme of CHARGE is time-frequency localization. This is  an important problem in mathematical analysis with applications to signal processing as well as theoretical physics. The aim here is to obtain good concentration properties both in the direct domain (usually tagged as time) and simultaneously in the Fouri er transform domain (frequency). Of course there are strong limitation to this which can have various mathematical formulations and are generically named uncertainty principles (UP). There has been an important rebirth of interest in the UP in recent year s as it appears in many parts of applied science. As a first example, let us mention the blooming subject of compressed sensing in which discrete versions of UPs play a central role.
Another example comes from unique continuation properties 
of solutions  of PDE's. Here one typically assumes that the difference between two solutions of a given PDE (for example the heat equation) is small at two distinct times and one concludes that the two solutions are almost the same at all times (or even coincide).
As a  last example, let us mention the control theory of PDE's. The aim here is to obtain control of the solution of a PDE on a domain by fixing its values on a small part of that domain (or of its boundary). There are many approaches to such problems. It some  of them a key property takes the  form of the uncertainty principle (so called-annihilating pairs). The research started by some participants of CHARGE on UP gives interesting applications to control theory.

Complex and Harmonic Analysis Related to GEnerating Systems: phase space localization properties, sampling and applications (CHARGE)

The CertiSkatt project aims at launching a new partnership between two highly-rated scientific research teams from France and Norway in the area of Computer Science and more precisely the certification of Public Sector Informations, also called Open Data.  The project will establish a formal collaboration between the French CEDRIC-CPR research team (Conception et Programmation Raisonnées), led  by Professor Catherine Dubois (http://cedric.cnam.fr), and the Norwegian CERTUS research-based innovation center  (http://www.certus-sfi.no/) led by Arnaud Gotlieb, hosted by SIMULA RESEARCH LAB. The CertiSkatt project will initiate the development of a common platform for the formal certification of tax computations, in order to increase the quality of these critica l data and then facilitate their releasing and disclosing through the open data process. In total 9 researchers will be involved in this collaboration, among which 4 PhD students, 2 in France and 2 in Norway. The expected duration of the project is 12 mon ths, starting Jan. 2014. The project will be a starter for launching a larger initiative at the European level.

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The study of fundamental breakup processes in nature is important and paves the way for further investigation of the role of correlation in few- and multiphoton multiple ionization processes in atoms and molecules. The investigation of multiphoton double  ionization processes by first principles is a relatively new research field stimulated by current progress in laser technology, and it is becoming increasingly clear that multi-electron effects play a decisive role. 

The aim of our project is to pursue t hese investigations in the direction of more complex processes involving quasi-resonant excitation of autoionizing states (AIS) and/or doubly excited states. We will here focus on the processes of two-photon double ionization (TPDI) of Li and He. Prelimin ary studies of direct TPDI of He in initial excited states and Li reveal that this process is extremely rich in physics but difficult to calculate due to the presence of quasi-resonant excitation of AIS. Joining our expertise in TPDI and high performance  numerical computations, our project is to tackle the problem of direct TPDI of asymmetric configurations for two- and three-active electron systems submitted to strong and short (fs) VUV fields.

Laser-induced break-up of helium and lithium

The subject of this proposal is a cooperation project between Norwegian and French scientists to study the luminous phenomena (LP) in Hessdalen Valley. Research into the LP in Hessdalen are progressing towards a better understanding of this mysterious phe nomenon, but further studies are needed in order to fully characterize the properties of the LP and to find the mechanisms and causes behind this phenomenon.

The first records of lights of unknown origin in Hessdalen date back several centuries, and the  population in the valley still observes such phenomena at a regular basis. The luminous phenomena vary in size from a few meters to dimensions that are ten times as large. They are sometimes static, and sometimes moving at high speed. They appear unevenly  over the hills of the valley, and the duration ranges from a few seconds to about one hour. Optical spectra suggest that the emissions mainly consisted of ultraviolet irradiation.

A possible source of the luminous phenomena is the generation of low atmo spheric plasmas. Previously known sources of atmospheric plasmas are related to atmospheric electricity such as lightning, sprites, or ball lightning. However, the cause of the LP in Hessdalen remains unclear, and the properties of the LP need to be furth er characterized. 

Understanding these phenomena could contribute to a better insight into plasma physics, and it might provide knowledge that could be used to produce and handle high energy sources.

Unknown Luminous Phenomena in Hessdalen Valley (Norway)

This research collaboration between the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Centre d Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf) in Paris. Bot h centres have strong competence in the research on Islamic Africa, and particularly on the written sources to African history deriving from the Islamic and other scriptural traditions. Both also hold substantial collections of partly unique copied materi al deriving from different parts of Africa. These will form the core of the collaboration. Joint research and a series of seminars will particularly focus on three broad headings: 
1. Archives and libraries. What is the history of archives and libraries i n Africa? The researchers will address issues such as ownership, usage, location, cataloguing, but also the actual textual traditions in individual collections. 
2. Writing culture. What has been the culture of writing in times of changing religious and p olitical contexts. the participants will address issues of both materiality as well as text, and look at the arrival of Islam and - later - the emergence of colonial educational systems. 
3. Connectivities. How is a text collection influenced by other tra ditions? Researchers will focus on the translocal impacts on textual traditions (in the form of actual manuscripts transported from elsewhere, text produced elsewhere but copied locally, or impulses of translocal traditions emerging in locally produced te xt).

The collaboration will consist of visits which will focus on the collections in both places (Bergen and Paris). For each visit, a seminar will be held that will also be partly timed to co-incide with master seminars.

The African Archive. It's content, context and connections

The overall objective of this project is the development of a cutting-edge methodology for performing real-time, quantitative risk maps indicating probability of acquiring infectious agents in farmed animals. This method will subsequently be used for pred icting occurrences of outbreaks using pandemic influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 in swine population and salmon pancreas disease subtype 3 in marine fish farms of Norway. These two diseases have been selected as a model for diseases of terrestrial and aquatic anim als, respectively, given their importance regarding livestock economics and public health.
The real-time, quantitative risk maps will provide a precise prediction accounting for characteristics of diseases of interest together with current and historical  situations at the specific location as well as surrounding environment and evolutions of background susceptible population in a timely manner. Norway will directly benefit from the research findings. Methods developed in this project will also be applied  to animal diseases present in France. 
The research exchange will enable physical meetings between the Section for Epidemiology, Norwegian Veterinary Institute and the National Veterinary School (UMR ENVT-INRA 1225) of Toulouse, France. During the first p hysical meeting (one week), data sources and current methods for performing the real-time, quantitative risk map will be reviewed and discussed. Then, the pathway of data-flow and the structure for developing the map will be established. Expected outcomes  include innovative methods for real-time quantitative risk mapping of infectious diseases, and dissemination of the findings though scientific conferences and peer-reviewed journals.
A successful application for the Aurora mobility programme will enable  the initial development of the project, and strengthen the continuing collaboration between Norwegian and French research teams. Norway and France will both benefit from the findings and the knowledge exchange.

Real-time risk mapping for improving prevention and control of infectious diseases

New tools are necessary to manipulate objects on the nano-scale. It is far from obvious to pick up a nanowire and put it next to the transistor it should be connected to, even if you don't have big fingers. Optical waveguides have proven useful to trap an d propel nanowires, as Hellesø's work has demonstrated over the last few years. In this project, two different approaches to trapping nanoparticles with optical fibres will be coordinated and the co-operation will be of mutual benefit. Tapered optical fib res can be used to trap nanoparticles and position them in three dimensions, for characterisation, sorting or as building blocks. While Hellesø will focus on using a single fibre, Fick will focus on the use of two fibres. The aim is to develop the two met hods into tools for precise positioning of nanoparticles, for applications in nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology. It may be possible to use the methods to trap and characterize single viruses and strands of DNA.

The co-operation will give an opportunit y to work together in an international environment. In addition to the PIs, post-doc Jean-Claude Tinguely and MSc-student Petter Brox will participate from Norway and a PhD-student will participate from France.

Nanoparticle trapping with plasmonic fibre cavites

Cultural institutions have the crucial goal of storing, managing and disseminating knowledge
about our culture to a worldwide audience of people. Museums, libraries, archives and other
vendors of cultural heritage information are currently in the process  of exposing their data as
Linked Open Data (LOD) to encourage reuse of this information in semantic aware services
which utilize the synergy that can be achieved when combining and integrating complimentary
information resources. Linked Open Data is based  on the the standards and formats
that have been developed for the Semantic Web, but even though we have the technological
framework, there are many challenges that must be solved to achieve true automatic integration
and interoperability between a potent ially very large number of loosely connected
information sources.
The main objective of this project is to support the process of integration and alignment
of heterogeneous, but related information sources within the area of cultural heritage. This
projec t aims at proposing a novel communication protocol to support the process of semantic
mappings in order to ease the interconnection between a large number of semantic data
providers. The performance of this protocol will be evaluated and will be compared. 
The project includes partners from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Lyon 1.

Knowledge Gardening in the Web of Data

Ecotoxicology is faced with great challenges when trying to predict the impact of environmental pollutants on wildlife, especially in species at the top of the food chain that are concomitantly affected by multiple, ongoing changes in their natural enviro nments. A proper ecotoxicological risk assessment relies on the ability to establish links between contaminants (i.e., anthropogenic stressors) and natural stressors. Here we propose a project that will use avian top predator raptors, the white-tailed sea  eagle, as a biological model for developing new methods to understand how multiple stressors affect different markers of physiological stress (feather corticosterone, heat shock proteins [stress proteins], plasma oxidative stress) and telomere attrition  that underlies the mechanisms of ageing rates. We will use existing data from different populations of Troms and Finnmark (Northern Norway) collected within the frame of the RAPTOR 2015 project.

Impact of natural and anthropogenic stressors on physiological stress and telomere dynamics of raptor chicks

The goal of this project is to start work on the design of an Internet transport-layer system underneath a protocol-independent API, that builds on the currently standardised transport technology, and that picks the best available transport protocols for  a given application. Such a system should embody functionality like: ensuring downwards compatibility with legacy end-points, signaling of available protocols between transport end-points, and easing the traversal of middleboxes that block new transport p rotocols.

The project is a collaboration between a Norwegian and a French team of researchers, involving a total of 7 researchers for whom short research visits should be funded.

Both the French and Norwegian teams have a strong expertise on Internet tr ansport-layer and congestion control issues, but they also bring each specialist knowledge and experience on particular aspects of the project. The ANT project will thus offer both partners a formal framework to bootstrap and sustain a long-term collabora tion. This will reinforce our current research efforts in the field of Internet protocols, not only from an academic standpoint (publications), but also in terms of both departments' increasing focus on standards-related activities (IETF).

A New Transport Framework for the Internet

The object of the present project is to investigate the relationship between the constrained control design methodologies and the theory of positive dynamical systems. 
The attractive feature of positive systems in automatic control is that it extrapolate s the understanding of simple first-order systems, which are positive systems. Further, an interesting control design problem is represented by the need to guarantee simultaneously the closed-loop stability and positivity of solutions under positive initi al conditions. Recently, the dual comparison principle provided design tools based on a description of sets in terms of a finite number of generator vectors. This approach offers a new perspective for the analysis and design of interconnected and/or state  and control constrained dynamical systems.

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CONSTRAINED CONTROL DESIGN AND THE THEORY OF POSITIVE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

The goal of the proposed project is to address the mechanics of multi-scale deformation as a result of magmatic intrusions, and particularly sills, in sedimentary basins. Such deformation have implications at: (1) large scale, as sills lift up their overb urden, forming dome structures that can act as traps for hydrocarbons; (2) at small scale, as local damage such as faults and joints is produced due to the propagation of sills, potentially generating a connected fracture network that can channel fluids.  The physical knowledge of these processes at both scales can thus have major implications on our understanding of petroleum systems in volcanic basins, such as offshore Norway. This project proposes an experimental collaboration between researchers of the  University of Oslo and the University of Maine, France. We propose to conduct join experimental activities to study the mechanics of (1) large-scale deformation associated with sill emplacement through a 3D experimental apparatus designed in Oslo, and (2 ) small-scale deformation associated with sill propagation through a 2D experimental apparatus designed in Le Mans. The proposed experiments will lead to (1) a mechanical model of large-scale magma emplacement in sedimentary basin, and (2) mechanical cons traints on the local-scale processes governing the propagation of magmatic sills. In addition, the key objective of the proposed collaboration is to coordinate in a systematic manner both experimental approaches, in order to integrate the results at diffe rent scales into a single coherent model. This integrating approach is the key for up-scaling small-scale processes to large-scale processes, which is a major challenge for many processes in Earth sciences.

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