Popular culture provides a fertile ground for a host of narratives, symbols, and characters known from history of religions. Dispersed and consumed on a multitude of new emerging media platforms, these narratives, symbols, and characters become ingredients in artistic processes of imagination and adaptation where religion can be played with in a variety of ways. In these processes of production, ...

Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of ...

The main issues of accounting reporting regarding goodwill are whether a firm’s management reliably conveys their private information about future earnings, and whether they disclose value-relevant and useful information to accounting users. In the current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) regulations, the goodwill impairment test is based on management’s discretionary assessments. ...

Let S be a connected non-orientable surface with negative Euler characteristic and of finite type. We describe the possible closures in ML and PML of the mapping class group orbits of measured laminations, projective measured laminations and points in Teichmüller space. In particular we obtain a characterization of the closure in ML of the set of weighted two-sided curves.

Outdoor therapy and family-based therapy are suggested to be promising interventions for the treatment of mental health problems. The aim of the present scoping review was to systematically map the concept, content, and outcome of combining family- and outdoor-based therapy for children and adolescents with mental health problems. The Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and PRISMA guidelines ...

Recently, there has been wide agreement that WWIC information services for polar areas require further development in line with end-users needs (Dawson et al., 2017; Lamers, Duske, et al., 2018). Earlier studies found that forecasters and service developers have little insight into how their services are actually used, where, and in what contexts (Jeuring, Knol, & Sivle, forthcoming). To tailor ...

During summer, native anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and the alien species pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) now coexist in marine environments in Svalbard, following the introduction of the latter in the Barents Region. To investigate potential dietary competition between these two salmonid species, stomach contents from Arctic char (n=301) and pink salmon (n=28) were sampled from ...

Marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) may improve cardiovascular, renal, and mental health. No previous trial has investigated the effects of marine n-3 PUFA supplementation on quality of life (QoL) indices after renal transplant.<p><p> <i>Methods</i> - In this trial, 132 renal transplant recipients were randomized to receive daily either 2.6 g of marine n-3 PUFAs or an equivalent dose ...

The configuration of the marine-based NW Fennoscandian ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and deglaciation is reconstructed using detailed swath bathymetry and high-resolution seismic data. The investigated area covers about 10,000 km² of the continental shelf off Troms, northern Norway. Large scale morphology is characterized by cross-shelf troughs, coast-parallel troughs ...

Book review of Mark A. Waddell: Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), 214 pp.