Across the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), the Upper Jurassic organic-rich shales are considered the main source rock unit charging most of the largest producing oil and gas fields. However, despite its extensive distribution across the NCS, this source rock unit is overmature and spent in the deep Cretaceous basins on the mid-Norwegian margin and the SW Barents Shelf. Documenting the presence ...

<p>This thesis addresses various aspects of monitoring water quality indicators (WQIs) using optical remote sensing technologies. The dynamic nature of aquatic systems necessitate frequent monitoring at high spatial resolution. Machine learning (ML)-based algorithms are becoming increasingly common for these applications. ML algorithms are required to be trained by a significant amount of training ...

<p>Shipping has been recognized as the most efficient mode of transport, carrying over 80% of international trade volume. The shipping industry is at the beginning of one of its greatest energy and technology transition driven by decarbonization drivers in terms of stringent emission regulations and commercial pressure. Digitalization can enable the transition by leveraging Machine Learning (ML) and ...

<p><i>Aliivibrio wodanis</i> has been associated with winter ulcer disease outbreaks. It has been reported that <i>A. wodanis</i> may act as a secondary pathogen in disease outbreaks and pathogenesis. The culture supernatant of <i>A. wodanis</i> causes a cytopathogenic effect (CPE) in various salmon cell lines. Moreover, in an Atlantic salmon bath challenge experiment, <i>A. wodanis</i> alone produces ...

The majority of existing methods for machine learning-based medical image segmentation are supervised models that require large amounts of fully annotated images. These types of datasets are typically not available in the medical domain and are difficult and expensive to generate. A wide-spread use of machine learning based models for medical image segmentation therefore requires the development of ...

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is defined as organic matter that is smaller than a nominal pore size filter (e.g., 0.7 µm) that passes through during the filtration of aquatic samples. It comprises the largest reservoir of reduced carbon (700 Pg C) in the oceans. The DOM pool is in close interaction with all the elemental cycles and food chains in the ocean and is an essential component in the marine ...

Retten til helse er en grunnleggende menneskerettighet, men mange utfordringer står overfor de som ønsker å etterleve denne retten. Mangel på utdannet helsepersonell, økte kostnader og en aldrende befolkning er bare noen få eksempler på nåværende hindringer i helsesektoren. Å takle slike problemer er avgjørende for å gi pålitelig helsehjelp med høy kvalitet til mennesker over hele verden. Mange ...

The Arctic experiences faster climate change than the global average. Feedback mechanisms between the atmosphere, cryosphere and the oceans amplify the warming, and intensify the water cycle. Arctic precipitation is projected to increase because of enhanced winter evaporation due to diminishing sea ice, increased poleward moisture transport in summer, and increased atmospheric moisture content in ...

Natural products (NPs) have been the major source for the development of new small molecule drugs in modern medicine. Despite NPs being so prominent, marine natural products (MNPs) and derivatives thereof are hardly found in clinically approved agents. Therefore, using bioactive MNPs as structural guidance for drug development is a largely untapped source. The focus of the presented thesis is on ...

<p>The analysis of curves can be claimed to be the core of most scientific ventures. In this dissertation, we focus on the statistical aspect of this type of analysis. Here, the curves originate from health and food-related areas and include improvements in blood glucose measurements, classification of moles, measurements of parameters during liver transplants in pigs, and data from the monitoring ...