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FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

L-Ornithine and phenylacetate: A novel and effective therapy for hepatic encephalopathy

Background: The major therapeutic target for the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy is ammonia. Our extensive investigations in animal models and also in humans with cirrhosis support the view that the major organ removing ammonia in patients with cirrho sis is the muscle, converting ammonia to ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PLAN - Responding to Climate Change: The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway

PLAN is a coordinated, social science-based research project that analyzes the potentials of and limits to adaptation as a response to climate change in Norway. This four-year project will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of adaptation a s a social process, with an emphasis on i...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Exploring the chemistry of the heaviest elements with the automated liquid-liquid extraction system SISAK

The principal objective is to discover and probe the chemical properties of the heaviest elements known, the transactinides.. The transactinides can only be produced artificially, since their nuclei are unstable and will disintegrate shortly after they ar e produced. They are, though, a unique te...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

The Norwegian Cluster studies 2007-2009

This is a joint proposal submitted by researchers from the Universities of Bergen (UiB) and Oslo (UiO) and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) to support the Norwegian Cluster studies 2007-2009. A main theme is the reconnection process and the effects of this process as it can be...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

BepiColombo: MEFISTO: Mercury Electric Field In-Situ TOol on the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter

The BepiColombo orbiters to Mercury, the ESA Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the JAXA Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) makes observations of many sides of the planet possible; the interior and the surface of Mercury, the planet's magnetic field an d magnetosphere and the interaction betwe...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of dust related phenomena in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

The Earths middle, or upper atmosphere contain some intriguing phenomena, such as the noctilucent clouds (NLC) and the abnormally strong radar reflecting layers (PMSE) at 80-90 km height, the highest clouds in the atmosphere. These clouds increase in st rength and extent and it is speculated if...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Physical activity level, determinants of physical activity, physical fitness, fatness and health in Norwegian children

INTRODUCTION: The obesity epidemic in the Western World is well known, and even if the prevalence of obesity in Norway is much lower than in countries such as USA and England body weight has increased in Norwegian children during the last decades. Althoug h weight gain is a consequence of higher ...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Safety, Security and Discharge Control at Sea

The project aims at in depth studies of selected areas within a wide concept of maritime safety: Safety (average prevention), security (terrorism and piracy) and discharge control. The three areas raise similar jurisdictional and other legal issues, but t he law is not entirely similar, and also ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Improving Patient-Provider Communication in Cancer Care

Improving shared decision making (SDM)and patient-provider communication, and incorporating patients' illness experiences and preferences into patient care are high priority health policy goals. However, this is difficult to accomplish without methods and systems that assist patients in sharing ...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Pregnancies and cancer risk - a prospective study based on Norwegian register data

In this project, associations between pregnancies and cancer risk will be examined. Focus will be on cancer forms known to be hormone-related, and also on some cancer types with less evidence for being susceptible to hormonal exposure. Our study is based on information from the Population registe...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Vaccine development for HIV and influenza

Aim: Based on the vaccibody principle developed by us, we wish to generate novel vaccines for important infectious diseases such as HIV and influenza. Background: Vaccination has had an enormous impact on health and longevity of humans world-wide. However , for some important diseases such as HIV...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Comparative Ethics of War

This project aims to develop a better understanding of how just war theories have been assessed within the world's leading religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. None of these traditions are static; each has undergone significant transformations over...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRITEK-Teknologi

High-level Formal Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Hybrid Systems

The functionality of many modern advanced computer systems -- such as, e.g., wireless sensor networks, the Internet and other kinds of networks, and control systems -- is crucially dependent on the amount of time that passes during/between events. Furthe rmore, such advanced and often critical s...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Project IBISCA Investigating the biodiversity of soil and canopy arthropods

Project summary Arthropods of tropical forests constitute the dominant component of biodiversity on Earth and are essential for structuring terrestrial ecosystems. This project represents the first attempt to compare arthropod species richness in the soil and understorey vs. canopy habitats of a...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Characterization of Novel Amphiphilic Polymer Systems.

To gain a fundamental insight into temperature responsive polymer systems, we plan to carry out an extensive investigation on some novel thermoresponsive polymers. This project consists of three parts: 1. Shear-rate dependency of inter- and intramolecula r interactions in dilute solutions of amp...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Causation, dispositions and laws: A conditional analysis of causal matters

Some of the most urgent questions facing humankind cannot be answered until we understand causation. These questions can be environmental, medical or political. Does motoring cause global warming? Does smoking cause cancer? Did Saddam's actions cause the Iraq war? These are life and death issues....

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

The Tromsø Pain Study: Causes and consequences of individual differences in pain sensitivity

Human pain sensitivity is subject to very large inter-individual variation. It is known that pain sensitivity is heritable, but the genes involved are largely unknown. Hypersensitivity to pain may be an important risk factor in the development, maintenanc e and consequences of chronic pain. Reduc...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

Tissue engineering in bone defects: Development of porous copolymer scaffolds stimulating stem cell growth and bone regeneration

For the repair of bone defects, tissue engineering would be to combine cells capable of osteogenic activity with an appropriate scaffold. Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotential cells that are capable of differentiating into different type of cells dep ending on culture condition. The selectio...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Cellular responses to meningococcal meningitis

Meningococcal disease is a leading cause of meningitis and septicaemia worldwide. Among the serious consequences of meningitis are brain edema and disturbed neuronal excitability. These effects are often the direct cause of death. Despite the serious comp lications, the molecular basis for these ...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Statistical tools for studying genetic architecture

Advances in molecular biology have revealed that most phenotypes are controlled by highly complex and interactive gene networks. This complex genetic basis is, however, not reflected in the rather simple genotype-phenotype maps postulated in population an d quantitative genetics. These models are...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Inngår i 201779: Increased power and salmon production with Environmentally Designed Operation of Regulated Rivers

Mer laks og mer kraft ved miljødesignet vassdragsdrift: Formålet med prosjektet er å utvikle strategier for drift av vannkraftverk i regulerte elver som optimaliserer forholdet mellom kraftproduksjon og produksjon av laksefisk. Prosjektet vil også utvikl e kriterier for hvordan vannkraftverk, bå...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Maternal mortality and morbidity in Malawi and the Gambia

This project is an expansion and continuation of an already ongoing program in maternal health research in Africa. One focus is the Gambia, a poor, muslim West African country with high maternal mortality, but relatively low HIV prevalence, and Malawi, a similarly poor country in Southern/Centr...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Recycling of automotive aluminium

Nytt prosjektsammendrag: The global demand for aluminium and aluminium alloy products is increasing. When used in the automotive sector, this material can facilitate lower fuel consumption (less CO2 emissions), enhanced human safety and can easily be inte grated in modern low-weight, clean energy...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Study of cellular distribution and biological functions of neonatal Fc receptor in immune cells

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is the major class of immunoglobulins and the protein with the longest serum half-life. IgG is also actively transferred to the fetus, giving the full-term fetus IgG levels over maternal levels and protective immunity. The MHC class I related neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) is...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Quantification and Characterization of Microbial Communities in Air.

There is a serious lack of knowledge concerning the presence, activity and dispersal of airborne microorganisms. Most studies describing the prevalence of airborne microorganisms have only applied traditional microbiological methods and evaluated the occu rrence of culturable bacteria, which is k...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Study of entanglement and quantum information in condensed matter systems.

The quantum computer is a hypothetical computer that utilizes the superposition principle of quantum mechanics to perform certain computational tasks much faster than any classical computer can. Entanglement is one of the most curious phenomena in Nature, which involves the collapse of the quant...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Sequences and Their Applications

Sequences have numerous uses in modern communication systems. They have found ingenious application to error-correcting codes, cryptography, and in particular to the design and analysis of stream ciphers, radar systems, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and modern third generation mobile communi...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Distributed Renewable Energy Hydrogen Systems

Systems based on renewable energy (RE) sources with medium-term hydrogen (H2) energy storage have the potential to play an important role in various power applications. RE/H2-systems are well suited for high-cost applications, such as remote telecommunica tion stations and uninterrupted power sup...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Balance Management in Multinational Power Markets

Growing attention is given to the exchange of balancing services between control areas in different countries. It must be expected that the need for balancing services will increase due to rapid expansion of new renewable energy sources. By having a syste m-wide approach instead of a control area...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Sustainable Polymers for Solar Collector Applications

Previous results from the group have resulted in the first commercial all-plastics solar collectors. This success has been an inspiration behind the proposed new IEA-SHCP Task "Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications", now approved by the ExCo. The aim of the present project is partic...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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