I artikkelen beskrives og diskuteres to prosjekter der dramastudenter har produsert teater på bakgrunn av profesjonsstudenters praksiserfaringer, og de ferdige produktene har blitt brukt i utdanningen av nye studenter.
Hvordan studenter kan bidra gjensidig til hverandres læring, på tvers av
profesjonsutdanninger, fakulteter og faggrenser, er artikkelens problemstilling. Gjennom observasjon, filmdokumentasjon, intervju og skriftlige tekster dokumenteres det at studentene har opplevd prosjektene både som motiverende og faglig relevante. Teorigrunnlaget for diskusjon av
prosjektene er frigjørende teater og frigjørende pedagogikk.
About fifty larvae of Cephenemyia ulrichii Brauer (Diptera: Oestridae), some of them nearly fullgrown
third instars, were found in the throat of a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in June 2007 near
Helsinki in Finland. The parasite is considered to be host specific, occurring only in the moose (Alces
alces), and this paper is apparently the first report of a successful infestation in an aberrant host.
The red-listed, amphi-Atlantic sedge Carex rufina is highly specialized to certain alpine snowbeds, and threatened by current changes in snow cover duration and moisture conditions. Here we address its range-wide genetic diversity, history, and conservation using amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). Despite extensive primer testing, we detected very low overall diversity (4.1% polymorphic markers). Only a single AFLP phenotype was found throughout Norway and across the Atlantic to Iceland and Greenland, while another was found in Canada, suggesting glacial survival in one East and one West Atlantic refugium. East Atlantic C. rufina has probably been heavily bottlenecked in a small refugium, possibly situated within the maximum limits of the ice sheets. Its lack of diversity is likely maintained through local clonal growth causing longevity of genotypes. Habitat availability appears as the main limiting factor for C. rufina, and its currently occupied habitats need to be preserved to ensure its long-time survival.
Skandfer, Marianne; Grydeland, Sven Erik; Henriksen, Siv; Nilsen, Roy Anders; Valen, Christian Roll(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2010)
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Utgravningene av totalt elleve lokaliteter på Skarpeneset i 2008, med et begrenset tillegg i 2009, avdekket overraskende fire store, rektangulære tufter, mer eller mindre nedgravde i bakken, på to av lokalitetene. Tuftene er datert samlet til 7000 – 6500/6400 f.Kr. Det foreslås at de er rester etter hus med parvis skråstilte, takbærende stolper, uten markerte ildsteder og med minst to åpninger/innganger. Til tross for klare likhetstrekk framviser tuftene relativt stor morfologisk variasjon med hensyn til størrelse, form, grad og form på nedgravning i gulvet, konstruksjon av vegger, samt rominndeling. Markkjemiske analyser viser at enkelte av veggene ble brukt som avfallsområder (møddinger). Funnmaterialet var konsentrert innenfor og i veggene på tuftene. Harde bergarter, inkludert flint fra lokale morenemasser, kvarts, kvartsitt og chert, dominerer. Redskapsmaterialet består av avslag med ulike typer retusj, flekker, mikroflekker, noen få tverrspisser, stikler og bor. Flekke- og mikroflekkekjerner finnes i materialet, men vanligst er bipolare kjerner. Funn av en liten, slipt skiferøks og fragmenter av to andre økser kan muligens ses i sammenheng med påvist sekundær bruk. De resterende ni lokalitetene som ble utgravd i 2008 ga lite informasjon til kulturhistoria for Skarpeneset.
Hipfner, Mark J.; Blight, Louise K.; Lowe, Roy W.; Wilhelm, Sabina I.; Robertson, Gregory J.; Barrett, Robert; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho; Good, Thomas P.(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
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The recovery of sea eagle Haliaeetus spp. populations in the temperate northern hemisphere in the closing decades of the 20th century is one of the great conservation success stories of recent times, but the re-establishment of these apex predators in marine systems has had consequences for seabirds. Sea eagles affect seabirds both directly (by taking adults and offspring and by inducing potentially costly behaviors to minimize danger) and indirectly (by facilitating the nest predators of seabirds, mainly gulls and corvids). Repeated disturbance by hunting eagles has caused seabirds to abandon colonies and subcolonies in the tens to hundreds of thousands of pairs. In recent years, sea eagles have been widely implicated in local declines of surface-nesting seabirds in the northeast Pacific Ocean, the northwest Atlantic Ocean and northern Europe. The extent to which recent events simply reflect a return to a more “natural” ecological baseline as sea eagle populations recover from decades of persecution and chemical pollutants is discussed. We argue that there is need for a research effort to investigate the conservation implications of increasing sea eagles in the context of multiple threats to seabird populations.
The epidemiology of avian influenza viruses (AIVs) in gulls is only partially known. The role of the world's most numerous gull species, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), as a potential AIV reservoir species has been unclear. The prevalence of AIV and humoral response against AIV were therefore studied in a colony of apparently healthy black-legged kittiwakes breeding in a nesting cliff in the South West Barents Region of Norway (70°22' N, 31°10' E), in 2008 and 2009. AIVs were detected from the oropharynx and cloaca in low amounts, with prevalences of 15% and 5%, in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Direct, partial sequencing of the hemagglutinin (HA) gene revealed that the H4 subtype was present. In 2009, antibodies to influenza A virus were detected in sera from 57 of 80 adult birds. In contrast, none of the three-week-old chicks (n = 18) tested seropositive. Hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assays demonstrated that the adult kittiwakes primarily had antibodies specific to the gull-associated H13 and H16 subtypes, with antibodies to H16 being most common. These results support that the highly pelagic black-legged kittiwake is a reservoir of AIV. The serological findings suggest that H16 might be the main AIV subtype in the black-legged kittiwake. Further studies are needed to understand the ecology of AIV in the black-legged kittiwake and in gulls in general.