Studies have shown that the Sami culture of communicating about health can often be indirect and reliant on implications and hints rather than clear unambiguous statements. The style is described as “roundabout”, circling around a topic before closing in on it. Modern medicine typically values directness and unambiguousness in its mission of effective anamnesis and diagnosis. Due to these differing ...

Anthropogenic climate change is causing the Arctic to warm faster than any other region on Earth, a phenomenon also known as Arctic amplification. The warming and its consequences induce, amongst other things, a change in clouds, impacting their role in the Arctic climate by introducing a feedback. Clouds play an important role in the global radiation budget. They cool the surface by reflecting ...

The Pan-Eurasian Experiment Modelling Platform (PEEX-MP) is one of the key blocks of the PEEX Research Programme. The PEEX MP has more than 30 models and is directed towards seamless environmental prediction. The main focus area is the Arctic-boreal regions and China. The models used in PEEX-MP cover several main components of the Earth’s system, such as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere and ...

The future stability of modern marine-terminating ice sheets is of great concern as an increased rate of retreat might mark the onset of their collapse. An increased rate of retreat is accompanied by an increase in meltwater and sediment discharge at the ice margin which has prompted research to focus on the drainage system of marine-terminating ice sheets. Recent discoveries of eskers at water-terminating ...

This study investigates the temporal variations in methane concentration and flare activity in the Hola trough (offshore Norway) during May 2018 and June 2022. Between these time periods, methane seep activity exhibits 3.5 times increase, as evidenced by hydroacoustic measurements. As the seep area in the Hola trough is constantly within the hydrate stability zone, the observed increase cannot be ...

<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) achieved through, among others, β-lactamase activity, remains an ongoing challenge for the treatment of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-expressing bacteria, resistant to most β-lactam antibiotics, are of growing clinical relevance with currently no approved treatment options available. The most common approaches to ...

Precise optical alignment is critical for high-quality microscopy imaging, especially in custom-built systems. This guide details essential alignment steps, from beam path setup to lens collimation and centering, introduces key tools like pinholes and shearing interferometers, and advocates for a modular construction approach. This article aims to empower microscopy enthusiasts with practical alignment ...

Tema for denne studien er relasjoner mellom tradisjonell samisk kultur og kombinatorikk. Jeg ble inspirert til å skrive en masteroppgave om dette etter å ha sett et undervisningsopplegg som tok for seg bruken av tradisjonelle samiske reinmerker i matematikkundervisningen. Problemstillingen søker å identifisere og belyse matematisk tenkning innenfor samisk kunnskap om tradisjonell reinmerking. Dermed ...

Climate change can trigger climate tipping points, which are among the major threats to human society. Tipping points are thresholds beyond which a system undergoes abrupt, often irreversible, changes even if the external forcing is brought to a halt. Several large-scale elements in the Earth system are considered tipping elements with global consequences once critical thresholds are crossed and ...

The quantification of peak locomotor demands has been gathering researchers’ attention in the past years. Regardless of the different methodological approaches used, the most selected epochs are between 1-, 3-, 5- and 15-minutes time windows. However, the selection of these time frames is frequently arbitrary. The aim of this study was to analyse the peak locomotor demands of short time epochs (15, ...