Fields like medical diagnostics, urban and industrial environmental monitoring or basic microbiological research greatly benefit from advances in chemical and biological sensing. These applications require rapid sample analysis, reduced needs for sample handling, or good sensor network. Such demands can be met with miniaturised sensors utilising methods which secure sufficient sensitivity and ...

We introduce the fully automatic design of a numerically optimized decision-tree algorithm and demonstrate its application to sea ice classification from SAR data. In the decision tree, an initial multi-class classification problem is split up into a sequence of binary problems. Each branch of the tree separates one single class from all other remaining classes, using a class-specific selected feature ...

For Norway to reach the emission limits in the Paris Agreement, a substantial amount of CO2 must be reduced. Road traffic alone accounts for a high percentage of the total emissions during 2021. This thesis will focus on electrifying the transport sector and analyzing charging infrastructure for heavy-duty electric vehicles. New charging infrastructure for heavy-duty Electric Vehicles (EVs) provides ...

Abstract The decreased ice extent caused by increased air and sea temperatures has led to a growing interest in the Arctic waters. There are different maritime industries that have plans to expand northwards for various reasons. First of all there are different developments in oil and gas industry in Barents, Kara, Greenland, Arctic sea around the coast of Canada and Alaska. New ship trading ...

Making energy clean, reliable and readily available is essential for fighting climate change and to supply an ever-rising global power demand. The aim of the study is to identify optimal locations for a wind turbine to be joined to a small-scale hybrid system at the main campus of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. To identify feasible areas for maximizing electric power production, techniques ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å karakterisere bølgeledere av silisium-rik nitrid, SiRN, med hensyn på koblingstap, propagasjonstap, tall på modi og feltfordeling. Det skal gjøres forsøk på å redusere tapet mest mulig ved å prøve ut forskjellige måter å koble inn lys og forbedre kuttingen av bølgelederene. Det skal også gjøres forsøk på å finne tykkelse og brytningsindeks på bølgelederene ved hjelp av ...

To better constrain the global carbon cycle fundamental knowledge of the role of carbon cycling on continental margins is crucial. Fjords are particularly important shelf areas for carbon burial due to relatively high sedimentation rates and high organic matter fluxes. As terrigenous organic matter is more resistant to remineralization than marine organic matter, a comprehensive knowledge of the ...

Dagens samfunn stiller store krav til organisasjoner og deres risikohåndtering. Med en økende grad av globalisering i verdenssamfunnet og med større usikkerhet, blir det stadig mer utfordrende å håndtere uønskede hendelser. Risikostyring og organisatorisk resiliens er derfor viktig for en organisasjon å kunne beherske og utvise for å unngå at uønskede hendelser fører til tap av liv, økonomi, materiell, ...

<p>In photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is used as the carbon source; indeed, most carbon atoms in the structure of a massive tree—the trunk, the branches, the leaves—originate from CO2. This insight has profound implications for chemical synthesis: complex molecular structures are built from something as simple and inert as CO₂. Scientists have long been fascinated by this concept, and ...