Small rodents are some of the most important elements of boreal/arctic food webs, where they play essential functional roles. Their population dynamics are characterized by large amplitude multi-annual cycles regulated by direct and delayed density-dependence. These drastic variations in abundance have deep cascading effects into the whole ecosystem. Hence, the study boreal rodent population processes ...

The impacts of oceanic CO2 uptake and global warming on the surface ocean environment have received substantial attention, but few studies have focused on shelf bottom water, despite its importance as habitat for benthic organisms and demersal fisheries such as cod. We used a downscaling ocean biogeochemical model to project bottom water acidification and warming on the western Eurasian Arctic ...

Boundary integral equations (BIEs) are used to model surface waves in a wave tank. Assuming an ideal fluid, the velocity of the fluid can be considered as a potential flow and be modeled by the Laplace equation on the domain. The domain in this case will be a section of a wave channel with an incoming wave from the right, a rigid bottom, a reflective wall on the right and a time varying surface that ...

INTRODUCTION: Respiration exercises are an important part of the pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients. Furthermore, there is evidence that showing feedback about their respiration pattern helps them to improve their breathing skills. This study tests the feasibility of monitoring respiration using the Wiimote's infrared camera and showing BPM (breaths per ...

In the past years the Norwegian PV market has grown substantially. The importance of data on how PV systems perform in Norway is therefore also increasing. In this thesis several Norwegian PV systems are analyzed mainly in terms of annual specific yields. The systems are located in western and southeastern Norway and near horizontal, tilted and vertical modules are looked at. Results show pretty ...

Microscopy is possibly the best tool we have to peer into the microscopic world to enhance our understanding of the usually invisible, but highly complex and vital events every moment taking place inside living cells. Microscopy is brilliant, but also has its physical constraints and technical limitations. Technical advances have in the last decade pushed optical microscopy past physical limits ...

Oppgaven beskriver et undervisningsopplegg som ble gjort i emnet funksjoner på en ungdomsskole. Undersøkelsen ble gjennomført med hjelp fra seks 10.klasseelever. Studien bestod av to intervjuer og et undervisningseksperiment. Det ene intervjuet ble gjennomført før undervisningen for å etablere hvordan kunnskapsnivået til elevene var og det andre ble gjennomført i etterkant. Undervisningen ...

The Eurasian ice-sheet complex (EISC) was the third largest ice mass during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), after the Antarctic and North American ice sheets. Despite its global significance, a comprehensive account of its evolution from independent nucleation centres to its maximum extent is conspicuously lacking. Here, a first-order, thermomechanical model, robustly constrained by empirical evidence, ...

For the past seven years, the TACOMA project has investigated software support for mobile agents. Several prototypes have been developed, with experiences in distributed applications directing the effort. This paper presents a new mechanism that supports implementing agent applications by creating troops of agents using wrappers. This solution requires little extra support from the agent system, and ...

With organizational environments becoming increasingly complex and volatile, the concept of “organizational resilience” has become the “new normal”. Organizational resilience is a complex and multidimensional concept which builds on the myriad of capabilities that an organization develops during its lifecycle. As learning is an inherent and essential part of these developments, it has become a ...