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    • A Scatter-Based Prototype Framework and Multi-Class Extension of Support Vector Machines 

      Jenssen, Robert; Kloft, Marius; Zien, Alexander; Sonnenburg, Soeren; Müller, Klaus R. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      We provide a novel interpretation of the dual of support vector machines (SVMs) in terms of scatter with respect to class prototypes and their mean. As a key contribution, we extend this framework to multiple classes, providing a new joint Scatter SVM algorithm, at the level of its binary counterpart in the number of optimization variables. This enables us to implement computationally efficient ...
    • Scenario Design, Data Measurement, and Analysis Approaches in Maritime Simulator Training: A Systematic Review 

      Munim, Ziaul Haque; Krabbel, Helene Luise Sonna; Haavardtun, Per; Kim, Tae Eun; Bustgaard, Morten; Thorvaldsen, Haakon (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-08-29)
      Developing objective assessment approach in maritime simulator training can be a highly challenging task due to the complexity of simulating realistic scenarios, capturing relevant performance indicators and establishing good assessment protocols. This study provides a synthesis of simulation scenario contexts, data collection tools, and data analysis approaches in published simulator training ...
    • Scenario-based modelling of the potential for solar energy charging of electric vehicles in two Scandinavian cities 

      Good, Clara; Shepero, Mahmoud; Munkhammar, Joakim; Boström, Tobias (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-19)
      In order to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, electric vehicles (EVs) should be charged using electricity from renewable energy sources. This paper describes a study of photovoltaics (PV) utilization for EV charging in two Scandinavian cities: Tromsø in Norway and Uppsala in Sweden, with the objective to evaluate self-sufficiency and self-consumption. The suitable areas ...
    • Schema crawled API documentation exploration 

      Bakkeli, Nicolai (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-12-15)
      Åpne API blir stadig mer utbredt som fører til at utviklere kan benytte mye tid i å lese dokumentasjon for å finne et passende alternativ. Tesen beskriver en design som kan benyttes for å danne et sett med hjelpemidler som har til hensikt å redusere unødvendige alternativ av API for brukeren. Dette gjøres via en web crawler som går gjennom API dokumentasjon samt en behandler av datamengdene som ...
    • The science case for the EISCAT_3D radar 

      McCrea, Ian W.; Aikio, Anita; Alfonsi, Lucilla; Belova, Evgenia; Buchert, Stephan C.; Clilverd, Mark; Engler, Norbert; Gustavsson, Björn Johan; Heinselman, C.; Kero, Johan; Kosch, Mike; Lamy, Herve; Leyser, Thomas; Ogawa, Yasunobu; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Pellinen-Wannberg, Asta; Pitout, Frederic; Rapp, Markus; Stanislawska, Iwona; Vierinen, Juha (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-29)
      The EISCAT (European Incoherent SCATer) Scientific Association has provided versatile incoherent scatter (IS) radar facilities on the mainland of northern Scandinavia (the EISCAT UHF and VHF radar systems) and on Svalbard (the electronically scanning radar ESR (EISCAT Svalbard Radar) for studies of the high-latitude ionised upper atmosphere (the ionosphere). The mainland radars were constructed ...
    • Science goals for a high-frequency radar and radio imaging array 

      Isham, Brett Cameron; Bullett, Terence; Gustavsson, Björn Johan; Polisensky, Emil; Brum, Christiano; Fallen, Christopher; Belyey, Vasyl; Parra-Rojas, Francisco; Norouzi, Leila; Stramkals, Arturs; Ökten, Mehmet Baran (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-01)
      A medium and high-frequency antenna array for radar and radio imaging of the ionosphere is planned for installation in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Science goals include the study of space weather, radio propagation, meteors, lightning, and plasma physics. Radio imaging is ideal for the study of stimulated ionospheric radio emissions, such as those induced by the Arecibo Observatory high-power HF radio ...
    • The Science of Sungrazers, Sunskirters, and Other Near-Sun Comets 

      Jones, Geraint; Knight, Matthew; Battams, Karl; Boice, Daniel; Brown, John; Giordano, Silvio; Raymond, John; Snodgrass, Colin; Steckloff, Jordan; Weissman, Paul; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Lisse, Carey M; Opitom, Cyrielle; Birkett, Kimberley; Bzowski, Maciej; Decock, Alice; Mann, Ingrid; Ramanjooloo, Yudish; McCauley, Patrick (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-18)
      This review addresses our current understanding of comets that venture close to the Sun, and are hence exposed to much more extreme conditions than comets that are typically studied from Earth. The extreme solar heating and plasma environments that these objects encounter change many aspects of their behaviour, thus yielding valuable information on both the comets themselves that complements other ...
    • Scientific literacy for fremtidens borgere. I hvor stor grad har norske elever oppnådd scientific literacy etter 11 års naturfagundervisning? 

      Olaisen, Sandra (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-30)
      Hensikten med dette masterprosjektet var å undersøke i hvor stor grad norske elever har oppnådd scientific literacy gjennom naturfag, ut i fra en hypotese om at naturfaglæreplanen ikke tilrettelegger i stor nok grad for utvikling av ansvarlige borgere. Dette ble gjort ved å undersøke elevers evner til å bruke informert avgjørelsestaking, argumentasjon og kildekritikk for å finne potensielle løsninger ...
    • A scientometrics view on sustainable development in surface mining: Everything from the beginning 

      Nouri Qarahassanlou, Ali (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-11)
      In summary, the study on sustainable development in the late 20th century aimed to balance economic, social, and environmental factors in open-pit mining. The study found that while mining has negative ecological impacts, it also has positive economic and social benefits. The study analyzed 77 articles and found a growing trend in scientific interest in sustainable development research from 1985 to ...
    • ScopeSense: An 8.5-Month Sport, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Lifelogging Dataset 

      Riegler, Michael Alexander; Thambawita, Vajira; Chatterjee, Ayan; Nguyen, Thu; Hicks, Steven; Telle-Hansen, Vibeke; Pettersen, Svein Arne; Johansen, Dag; Jain, Ramesh; Halvorsen, Pål (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-03-29)
      Nowadays, most people have a smartphone that can track their everyday activities. Furthermore, a significant number of people wear advanced smartwatches to track several vital biomarkers in addition to activity data. However, it is still unclear how these data can actually be used to improve certain aspects of people’s lives. One of the key challenges is that the collected data is often massive and ...
    • Scrape-off layer turbulence in TCV: Evidence in support of stochastic modelling. 

      Theodorsen, Audun; Garcia, Odd Erik; Horacek, Jan; Kube, Ralph; Pitts, RA (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-28)
      Intermittent fluctuations in the TCV scrape-off layer have been investigated by analysing long Langmuir probe data time series under stationary conditions, allowing calculation of fluctuation statistics with high accuracy. The ion saturation current signal is dominated by the frequent occurrence of large-amplitude bursts attributed to filament structures moving through the scrape-off layer. The ...
    • Screening and Design of Inhibitor Scaffolds for the Antibiotic Resistance Oxacillinase-48 (OXA-48) through Surface Plasmon Resonance Screening 

      Lund, Bjarte Aarmo; Christopeit, Tony; Guttormsen, Yngve; Bayer, Annette; Leiros, Hanna-Kirsti S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-05-11)
      The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a global threat that shakes the foundations of modern healthcare. β-Lactamases are enzymes that confer resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in bacteria, and there is a critical need for new inhibitors of these enzymes for combination therapy together with an antibiotic. With this in mind, we have screened a library of 490 fragments to identify starting ...
    • Screening of variable importance for optimizing electrodialytic remediation of heavy metals from polluted harbour sediments 

      Pedersen, Kristine Bondo; Lejon, Tore; Ottosen, Lisbeth M.; Jensen, Pernille E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-15)
      Using multivariate design and modelling, optimal conditions for electrodialytic remediation (EDR) of heavy metals were determined for polluted harbour sediments from Hammerfest harbour located in the geographic Arctic region of Norway. The comparative importance of the variables; current density, remediation time, light/no light, the liquid-solid ratio and stirring rate of the sediment suspension ...
    • SDiff(2) and uniqueness of the Plebanski equation 

      Kruglikov, Boris; Morozov, Oleg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The group of area preserving diffeomorphisms showed importance in the problems of self-dual gravity and integrability theory. We discuss how representations of this infinite-dimensional Lie group can arise in mathematical physics from pure local considerations. Then using Lie algebra extensions and cohomology we derive the second Plebański equation and its geometry. We do not use Kähler or other ...
    • Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present 

      Hoff, Ulrike; Rasmussen, Tine Lander; Stein, Ruediger; Ezat, Mohamed; Fahl, Kirsten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-07-26)
      In the light of rapidly diminishing sea ice cover in the Arctic during the present atmospheric warming, it is imperative to study the distribution of sea ice in the past in relation to rapid climate change. Here we focus on glacial millennial-scale climatic events (Dansgaard/Oeschger events) using the sea ice proxy IP25 in combination with phytoplankton proxy data and quantification of diatom species ...
    • Sea ice and primary production proxies in surface sediments from a High Arctic Greenland fjord: Spatial distribution and implications for palaeoenvironmental studies 

      Ribeiro, Sofia; Sejr, Mikael K.; Limoges, Audrey; Heikkilä, Maija; Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest; Tallberg, Petra; Weckström, Kaarina; Husum, Katrine; Forwick, Matthias; Dalsgaard, Tage; Massé, Guillaume; Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig; Rysgaard, Søren (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-23)
      In order to establish a baseline for proxy-based reconstructions for the Young Sound–Tyrolerfjord system (Northeast Greenland), we analysed the spatial distribution of primary production and sea ice proxies in surface sediments from the fjord, against monitoring data from the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme. Clear spatial gradients in organic carbon and biogenic silica contents reflected ...
    • Sea Ice Classification of SAR Imagery Based on Convolution Neural Networks 

      Khaleghian, Salman; Ullah, Habib; Kræmer, Thomas; Hughes, Nick; Eltoft, Torbjørn; Marinoni, Andrea (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-29)
      We explore new and existing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for sea ice classification using Sentinel-1 (S1) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data by investigating two key challenges: binary sea ice versus open-water classification, and a multi-class sea ice type classification. The analysis of sea ice in SAR images is challenging because of the thermal noise effects and ambiguities ...
    • Sea ice classification of TerraSAR-X ScanSAR images for the MOSAiC expedition incorporating per-class incidence angle dependency of image texture 

      Guo, Wenkai; Itkin, Polona; Singha, Suman; Doulgeris, Anthony Paul; Johansson, Malin; Spreen, Gunnar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-16)
      We provide sea ice classification maps of a subweekly time series of single (horizontal–horizontal, HH) polarization X-band TerraSAR-X scanning synthetic aperture radar (TSX SC) images from November 2019 to March 2020, covering the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. This classified time series benefits from the wide spatial coverage ...
    • Sea ice local surface topography from single-pass satellite InSAR measurements: A feasibility study 

      Dierking, Wolfgang Fritz Otto; Lang, Oliver; Busche, Thomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-29)
      Quantitative parameters characterizing the sea ice surface topography are needed in geophysical investigations such as studies on atmosphere–ice interactions or sea ice mechanics. Recently, the use of space-borne single-pass interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) for retrieving the ice surface topography has attracted notice among geophysicists. In this paper the potential of InSAR ...
    • Sea Ice Remote Sensing—Recent Developments in Methods and Climate Data Sets 

      Sandven, Stein; Spreen, Gunnar; Heygster, Georg; Girard-Ardhuin, Fanny; Farrell, Sinéad L.; Dierking, Wolfgang Fritz Otto; Allard, Richard A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-03)
      Sea ice monitoring by polar orbiting satellites has been developed over more than four decades and is today one of the most well-established applications of space observations. This article gives an overview of data product development from the first sensors to the state-of-the-art regarding retrieval methods, new products and operational data sets serving climate monitoring as well as daily operational ...