The harsh climate of the arctic has always been one of the most difficult areas to drive cars in. The severe loss in traction due to snow and icing on the roads, has led to an increased risk of collisions. The winter tires for cars has developed through the years after their introduction in the 1930’s. There have been three revolutionary changes made since then; implement of studs, changing in tread ...

The Lyngen Nappe, an allochthonous unit of the Northern Norwegian Caledonides, consists of Greenschist-facies rocks overlying Amphibolite- to Granulite-facies rocks in the Nordmannvik Nappe. The lower-grade metamorphism seen in the Lyngen rocks juxtaposes higher-grade rocks both above and below. The nature and origin of this metamorphic break is investigated, specifically in the sheared rock units ...

Problemstillingen for denne masteravhandlingen er: «Hvilke matematiske kompetanser viser og utvikler elever på linjen for Musikk, dans og drama i et tverrfaglig undersøkende prosjekt innen musikk og matematikk?» Jeg har i oktober 2016 gjennomført en kvalitativ studie med min egen klasse, som da gikk andre året på linjen for Musikk, dans og drama ved Narvik videregående skole. Studien bygger videre ...

Denne mastergradsoppgaven er en komparative studie av tre norske lærebøker ved R1-matematikk. Bakgrunnen for oppgaven er hvordan de forskjellige lærebøkene velger å fremstille deres matematiske teori og deres oppgaver til elevene. Oppgaven begrenser seg til å se på områdene algebra og funksjoner. Problemstillingen er: "Hvilke forskjeller og likheter er det mellom tre ulike lærebøkers presentasjon ...

Using data from electronic health records this thesis aims to model and analyse health care services provided to adult patients with chronic conditions. Two aspects of health care services, with unique aims, have been examined. The first aspect is related to the aim of investigating factors affecting the patients' self experienced quality of the health care encounters with regards to satisfaction, ...

In this thesis work we develop and apply EOS formulation to three scattering problems: two of them are 1D problems and one is 2D. The first chapter comprises EOS formulations and numerical implementation for 1D scattering problems. Also in this chapter we use different numerical methods to solve test problem and choose the most stable and accurate method for solving of the given 1D problems. ...

In summer 2013 the WADIS-1 sounding rocket campaign was conducted at the Andøya Space Center (ACS) in northern Norway (69 N, 16 E). Among other things, it addressed the question of the variability in mesosphere/lower thermosphere (MLT) turbulence, both in time and space. A unique feature of the WADIS project was multi-point turbulence sounding applying different measurement techniques including ...

Mellin kind statistics (MKS) is the framework which arises if the Fourier transform is replaced with the Mellin transform when computing the characteristic function from the probability density function. We may then proceed to retrieve logarithmic moments and cumulants, that have important applications in the analysis of heavy-tailed distribution models for nonnegative random variables. In this paper ...

Lungs sounds has been used as a diagnostic tool for centuries. The usefulness of listening to lung sounds, or pulmonary auscultation, as a definite diagnostic method has been diminished by advances in medical imaging such as chest X-Ray, but these advanced methods also bring a higher monetary and time cost. In addition, when the severity of pulmonary conditions changes, audible symptoms change ...

We derive and validate averaged solvent parameters for embedding potentials to be used in polarizable embedding quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular property calculations of solutes in organic solvents. The parameters are solvent-specific atom-centered partial charges and isotropic polarizabilities averaged over a large number of geometries of solvent molecules. The use ...