A comprehensive set of analytical techniques, encompassing geological, petrographic, mineralogical, and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic compositions, was employed to investigate a relatively poorly known pegmatite field located in Helgeland, North Norway. The Paleoproterozoic basement gneisses in the area have U-Pb zircon crystallization ages between 1870 ± 12 and 1811 ± 6 Ma, meaning that they belong to ...

Multivariate time series often contain missing values for reasons such as failures in data collection mechanisms. Since these missing values can complicate the analysis of time series data, imputation techniques are typically used to deal with this issue. However, the quality of the imputation directly affects the performance of downstream tasks. In this paper, we propose a selective imputation ...

Incoherent scatter radar measurements are an important source for studies of ionospheric plasma parameters. Data from the EISCAT Svalbard radar (ESR), which covers the polar cap and cusp, and from the EISCAT Tromsø radars, which covers the auroral zone, can be used to obtain information about the electron density, electron- and ion temperature, and line-of-sight plasma velocity. As the ESR started ...

Nutrition plays a key role in an athlete’s performance, health, and mental well-being. Capturing nutrition data is crucial for analyzing those relations and performing necessary interventions. Using traditional methods to capture long-term nutritional data requires intensive labor, and is prone to errors and biases. Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be used to remedy such problems by using ...

<p>The electric power system infrastructure is essential for modern economies and societies, as it provides the electricity needed to power homes, businesses, and industries. It is of critical importance that the operation of the electric power system is optimized to serve the electricity demand reliably and sustainably. Advances in machine learning and optimization have enabled the potential to ...

Stratigraphic sites in north-west Svalbard record at least six significant glacial advances in the last 200 Ky, and sediments deposited under locally high relative sea level during intervening interstadials or interglacials contain abundant benthic foraminifera. We present a biostratigraphic record from the Kongsfjordhallet site in the Kongsfjorden area that covers five high relative sea-level events ...

Streaming classification methods assume the number of input features is fixed and always received. But in many real-world scenarios, some features are reliable while others are unreliable or inconsistent. We propose a novel online deep learning-based model called Auxiliary Network (Aux-Net), which is scalable and agile and can handle any number of inputs at each time instance. The Aux-Net model is ...

This report focuses on competence demands among key management personnel responsible for maritime emergency response. The report has a special focus on competence challenges related to operations in an Arctic environment.

Ocean gateways connecting ocean basins are crucial for water and heat circulation, which influence global temperature, climate evolution and sediment distribution. While deep-water gateways have been a major research focus by the community, very little attention has been drawn to shallower gateways located on the continental shelves, where such circulation also takes place. In this study, we investigate ...

<p>Resolution in optical microscopy has long been limited to the Abbe diffraction limit, i.e. about 250 nm laterally for visible wavelengths on a very good microscope. In the last two decades several techniques have been devised to circumvent this limit: an achievement which was recognized with the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) was the first of these techniques ...