• The effect of drinking water quality on the health and longevity of people-A case study in Mayang, Hunan province, China 

      Lu, Jinmei; Yuan, Fuqing (Peer reviewed; Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017)
      Drinking water is an important source for trace elements intake into human body. Thus, the drinking water quality has a great impact on people's health and longevity. This study aims to study the relationship between drinking water quality and human health and longevity. A longevity county Mayang in Hunan province, China was chosen as the study area. The drinking water and hair of local centenarians ...
    • The Effect of LNG and Diesel Fuel Emissions of Marine Engines on GHG-Reduction Revenue Policies Under Life-Cycle Costing Analysis in Shipping 

      Taghavifar, Hadi; Perera, Lokukaluge Prasad Channa (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      The fuel life cycle involves different phases of extraction/refinery (well to tank: WtT), transport (tank to propeller: TtP), and storage where each of these processes can add a specific amount of emissions to the overall LCCA inventory. During the extraction or operation of machinery on the raw material, the released amount of GHG components is undergoing a change in the generated emissions per ...
    • The Effect of Risk Factors on the Resilience of Industrial Equipmen 

      Barabadi, Abbas; Nori, Ali; Mottahedi, Adel; Rahim Azar, Ali; Zamani, Ali (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-01)
      Recently, to evaluate the response of systems against disruptive events, the application of the resilience concept has been increased. Resilience depicts the system’s ability to return to its normal operational status after the disruption. Various studies in the field of engineering and non-engineering systems have only considered systems’ performance indicators to estimate resilience. Therefore, ...
    • The effect of temperature and digested sewage sludge cover over tailings on the leaching of contaminants from Ballangen tailings deposit 

      Lu, Jinmei; Leiviska, Tiina; Walder, Ingar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-28)
      Dry covers can be applied above tailings to reduce and prevent formation of acid mine drainage and leaching of contaminants. Efficiency of covers is affected by different parameters, of which temperature change under climate change context is one. Here, a laboratory column leaching experiment was performed under four temperatures, 5, 10, 14, and 18 °C on unoxidized tailings from Ballangen, Norway. ...
    • The effect of temperature and precipitation on the leaching of contaminants from Ballangen tailings deposit, Norway 

      Lu, Jinmei; Yuan, Fuqing (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Leaching and transport of contaminants from tailings deposit is a highly complex interacting system affected by a suite of environmental factors, among which temperature and precipitation rates linked to climate change are two important parameters. The climate change in the Nordic region is more drastic than other regions. In this study, a laboratory batch leaching experiment was performed on the ...
    • The effect of temperature on the leaching of Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni and Zn from tailings, Ballangen deposit, Norway 

      Lu, Jinmei; Yuan, Fuqing; Leiviska, Tiina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01)
      In this study, the effect of temperature on the leaching of Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni and Zn from oxidized tailings, Ballangen deposit, Norway, was investigated by a laboratory batch leaching experiment. The leaching was conducted at four different temperatures 5°C, 10°C, 15°C and 20°C and 2 precipitation rates of 8 mm/week and 20 mm/week. The leachates from six leaching cycles were collected, and the concentra- ...
    • Effect of temperature on the leaching of heavy metals from nickel mine tailings in the arctic area, Norway 

      Fu, Shuai; Lu, Jinmei; Walder, Ingar; Wu, Daishe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The leaching of heavy metals from tailings deposit due to the oxidation of sulphidic tailings and formation of acidic leachate is considered a high risk to the surrounding environment. Temperature plays an important role in the leaching of heavy metals from tailings in changing acid-based environment, especially in the Arctic area. To investigate how the temperature variation affected metal release ...
    • Effects of mooring line breakage on dynamic responses of grid moored fish farms under pure current conditions 

      Cheng, Hui; Li, Lin; Ong, Muk Chen; Aarsæther, Karl Gunnar; Sim, Jaesub (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-17)
      Due to the lack of sheltered area, Norwegian fish farms are expanding to more exposed and remote sites. The severe environmental conditions in exposed sites can increase the risk of structural failure during aquaculture operations. In the present study, the program FhSim is employed to conduct time-domain simulations to investigate structural responses of a single-cage and 1 × 4 multi-cage fish farm ...
    • The effects of uplift and erosion on the petroleum systems in the southwestern Barents Sea: Insights from seismic data and 2D petroleum systems modelling 

      Ktenas, Dimitrios; Nielsen, Jesper Kresten; Henriksen, Erik; Meisingset, Ivar; Schenk, Oliver (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-05)
      In the past three decades, the hydrocarbon prospectivity has been enigmatic in the southwestern Barents Sea as gas discoveries have dominated over oil. However, more recent discoveries indicate oil potential, especially in the Polheim Platform and Hoop Complex areas. Cenozoic uplift and erosion episodes are critical because they control the duration and depth of maximum burial of source rocks and ...
    • Electric Aviation: A review of concepts and enabling technologies 

      Adu-Gyamfi, Bright Appiah; Good, Clara (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-29)
      Electric aviation has become an important area of research following the rapid growth of the aviation industry, which directly corresponds to significant growth in aviation-related emissions. Despite the promising emission reduction potential of electric airplanes, several technological and regulatory challenges restrict the realization of this new regime of sustainable air transport. Significant ...
    • Emergency management competence needs: Education and training for key emergency management personnel in a maritime Arctic environment MARPART2-(MAN), Project Report 2 

      Borch, Odd Jarl; Roud, Ensieh (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020)
      This report focuses on competence demands among key management personnel responsible for maritime emergency response. The report has a special focus on competence challenges related to operations in an Arctic environment.
    • Endurance Test on Carbon Film Fixed Resistor under Escalated Voltage Stress 

      Yuan, Fuqing; Lu, Jinmei (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2018)
      Film fixed resistor is a basic unit in the electronic devices. As it is less frequently failed than other units such as capacitor, the reliability and robustness of it are less concerned both in the academics and in the industries. This paper investigates the endurance of the carbon film fixed resistor. The resistance shift and life of it under the escalated voltage stress level are the aim. A PCB ...
    • Enemy image? A comparative analysis of the Russian federation’s role and position in the leading national security documents of Estonia and the Czech Republic 

      Bartoszewicz, Monika Gabriela; Prucková, Michaela (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-14)
      States are security-seekers vis-a-vis ‘significant others’ who are cast as enemies in the international system. Usually, the study of the enemy image is connected with relative equilibrium concerning power capabilities. Less attention was given to a situation of a decisive power imbalance. Thus, a question arises whether such a situation will lead to a uniform enemy image? Concomitantly, what is the ...
    • Energy-Efficient Marine Engine and Dynamic Wing Evaluation Under Laboratory Conditions to Achieve Emission Reduction Targets in Shipping 

      Perera, Lokukaluge Prasad Channa; Belibassakis, Kostas (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-09-22)
      There is a requirement to comply with the forthcoming IMO & EU requirements to reduce ship emissions by at least 40% in 2030 compared to the 2008 levels. Such medium-term emission reduction targets can only be achieved by introducing novel technologies into the shipping industry. The SeaTech H2020 project (seatech2020.eu) introduces two main innovations that can support the same emission reduction ...
    • The European Union's responses to the COVID-19 crisis: How to fight a pandemic with the internal market 

      Tuominen, Tomi; Salminen, Mirva Miia Tuulikki; Halonen, Kirsi-Maria (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-26)
      In a liberalized market economy, states tend to purchase supplies required for producing publicly funded services, such as healthcare, from the markets instead of producing them themselves. The availability of critical supplies thus becomes a question of supply-side availability and supply chain management, and therefore their availability is conceptualized in terms of security of supply. The European ...
    • Evaluating the effects of watershed subdivision on hydrological simulation by SWAT model in an Arctic watershed 

      Bui, Minh Tuan; Lu, Jinmei; Nie, Linmei (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-04)
      The hydrological model SWAT is a state-of-the-art tool for environmental and water resources management. Like other semi-distributed models, the whole river basin in the SWAT model is delineated into smaller sub-basins prior to conducting the simulation. Watershed delineation is an importance step since it could potentially influence the modelling results. The present study aimed to conducte an ...
    • Evaluating Visual Saliency Algorithms: Past, Present and Future 

      Sharma, Puneet (Tidsskriftartikkel; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-01)
      With the introduction of compressed sensing (CS) theory, investigation into exploiting sparseness and optimizing compressive sensing performance has ensued. Compressed sensing is highly applicable to images, which naturally have sparse representations. Improvements in the area of image denoising have resulted from the combination of highly-directional transforms with shrinkage and thresholding ...
    • Evaluation of the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis data for hydrological model in the Arctic watershed Målselv 

      Bui, Minh Tuan; Lu, Jinmei; Nie, Linmei (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-13)
      The high-resolution Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) data have recently become an alternative input for hydrological models in data-sparse regions. However, the quality of CFSR data for running hydrological models in the Arctic is not well studied yet. This paper aims to compare the quality of CFSR data with ground-based data for hydrological modeling in an Arctic watershed, Målselv. The ...
    • Evaluation of the water quality at Bogdalen watershed near Kvitfjell and Raudfjell wind farm area 

      Lu, Jinmei; Bui, Minh Tuan; Yuan, Fuqing (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Wind energy is one of the important renewable energies that get fast development in recent years. The development of wind turbines can have potential environmental impact on the surrounding environment. Especially when the wind turbines are built near the watersheds, water quality in the watershed may be degraded. In this study, the water quality in Bogdalen watershed that in or surrounding Kvitfjell ...
    • An Evaluation on Diverse Machine Learning Algorithms for Hourly Univariate Wind Power Prediction in the Arctic 

      Chen, Hao; Birkelund, Yngve (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-23)
      Wind power forecasting is crucial for wind power systems, grid load balance, maintenance, and grid operation optimization. The utilization of wind energy in the Arctic regions helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions in this environmentally vulnerable area. In the present study, eight various models, seven of which are representative machine learning algorithms, are used to make 1, 2, and 3 step ...