Denne studien belyser krisehåndteringen i Troms politidistrikt underveis og i etterkant av den tragiske skredulykken 2. januar 2019 ved Blåbærtinden i Tamokdalen. Fire utenlandske skiturister omkom i snøskredet. Slike ulykker kan føre til kritikk mot myndighetene både underveis og i etterkant. For politiet var dette en krevende operasjon. De hadde ansvaret både for redningsaksjonen og krisekommunikasjonen ...

Svalbard er et lite arktisk øysamfunn som betegnes som et rotasjonssamfunn. Høy turnover av ansatte i Longyearbyens beredskapsorganisasjoner har gjentatte ganger blitt fremhevet som en utfordring for erfarings- og kunnskapsoverføring (DSB, 2016), og for kontinuiteten i arbeidet med samfunnssikkerhet- og beredskap. Etter det fatale snøskredet i 2015 ble etablering av en systematikk som ivaretar ...

Recent technological advances provide large amounts of data for epidemiological analyses that can provide novel insights in the dynamics of carcinogenesis. These analyses are often performed without prior hypothesis and therefore require an exploratory approach. Realizing exploratory analysis requires the development of new systems that provide interactive exploration and visualization of large-scale ...

Kvik is an open-source system that we developed for explorative analysis of functional genomics data from large epidemiological studies. Creating such studies requires a significant amount of time and resources. It is therefore usual to reuse the data from one study for several research projects. Often each project requires implementing new analysis code, integration with specific knowledge bases, ...

Chip-based Evanescent Light Scattering (cELS) utilizes the multiple modes of a high-index contrast optical waveguide for near-field illumination of unlabeled samples, thereby repositioning the highest spatial frequencies of the sample into the far-field. The multiple modes scattering off the sample with different phase differences is engineered to have random spatial distributions within the integration ...

One strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance is the discovery of new classes of antibiotics. Most antibiotics will at some point interact with the bacterial membrane to either interfere with its integrity or to cross it. Reliable and efficient tools for determining the dissociation constant for membrane binding (K_<i>D</i>) and the partitioning coefficient between the aqueous- and ...

Identification of the seed varieties is essential in the quality control and high yield crop growth. The existing methods of varietal identification rely primarily on visual examination and DNA fingerprinting. Although the pattern of DNA fingerprinting allows precise classification of seed varieties but fraught with challenges such as low rate of polymorphism amongst closely related species, destructive ...

In 1934, Frits Zernike demonstrated that it is possible to exploit the sample’s refractive index to obtain superior contrast images of biological cells. The refractive index contrast of a cell surrounded by media yields a change in the phase and intensity of the transmitted light wave. This change can be due to either scattering or absorption caused by the sample. Most cells are transparent at visible ...

Objectives: Chronic wounds are characterised by prolonged inflammation, low mitogenic activity, high protease/low inhibitor activity, microbiota changes and biofilm formation, combined with the aetiology of the original insult. One strategy to promote healing is to terminate the parasitism-like relationship between the biofilm-growing pathogen and host response. Antimicrobial peptide AMC-109 is a ...

A Lagrangian snow-evolution model (SnowModel-LG) was used to produce daily, pan-Arctic, snow-on-sea-ice, snow property distributions on a 25 × 25-km grid, from 1 August 1980 through 31 July 2018 (38 years). The model was forced with NASA's Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications-Version 2 (MERRA-2) and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ReAnalysis-5th ...