Protein kinases play an essential role in plants’ responses to environmental stress signals. SnRK2 (sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 2) is a plant-specific protein kinase that plays a crucial role in abscisic acid and abiotic stress responses in some model plant species. In apple, corn, rice, pepper, grapevine, Arabidopsis thaliana, potato, and tomato, a genome-wide study of the ...

Fernando de Noronha (henceforth ‘Noronha’) is an oceanic archipelago of volcanic origin, located ~350 km off the northeast coast of Brasil (Fig. 1). The eponymous main island was an important midway port in the Portuguese exploitation of Brasilian resources during the 16th and 17th centuries (Lins & Silva, 2013). The island was also briefly occupied by the British, French and Dutch. It also ...

Denne oppgaven analyserer hvorvidt det er en sammenheng mellom ressursutnyttelse og ventetider ved sykehus. Casen for denne oppgaven er den revmatologiske poliklinikken ved Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge HF (UNN). Oppgaven undersøker om vi kan se en sammenheng mellom ventetiden og ressursutnyttelsen ved den revmatologiske poliklinikken. Data for analysen er fra 2019-2021, noe som gir en innsikt i ...

Shiroi Suna no Aquatope (白い砂のアクアトープ) is a new anime by P.A. Works that started airing in the summer season of 2021 (Fig. 1). In a broad sense (to avoid spoilers), the anime focuses on the daily life of the staff working in a small aquarium in Okinawa. Its official title in English is The Aquatope on White Sand and, from this point on, we’ll refer to it as Aquatope for simplicity.

The Covid-19 lockdown affected both the global and local economies and led to wage loss and wage inequality. This study explains traditional wage differences between women and men and examines the impact of the Covid-19 on women’s and men’s wages and working hours during the initial stages of the pandemic. The study uses differences-in-differences estimation. Yearly and monthly panel data from ...

Et økende antall kunnskapsarbeidere og IT-næringens mangel på arbeidskraft, foretar seg samtidig som vi retter oss mer og mer mot en kunnskapsbasert økonomi. Behovet for å øke forståelsen av ledelse og hvilke faktorer driver motivasjonen hos kunnskapsarbeiderne i IT-næringen vokser derfor også. Denne masteroppgaven er en empirisk studie innen ledelse og motivasjon, og med ledelse av kunnskapsarbeidere ...

2013 was a year of big changes for Anna.1 Throughout much of her career, Anna had worked as an ordinary public health nurse at the maternity and childcare centre in Bodø—a beautifully located and quickly developing city north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. In addition to being an experienced public health nurse, Anna was also proficient at using computer software—she, among others, completed ...

Purpose - This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police reform.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach - The authors studied how the position of police contact, a cornerstone of the recent Norwegian police reform, was interpreted and practised. The authors interviewed ...

Flood is one of the most damaging natural disasters as the recent floods have shown their serious impact on Pakistan. Flood control and regulation policies are essential to reduce the risks of economic downturn, a threat to human existence, and to sustain the ecology. The severity of flood catastrophe activities represents a constant and severe issue in the world. Floods are rising year by year ...

Trait-based approaches connect the traits of species to ecosystem functions to estimate the functional diversity of communities and how they may respond to environmental change. For the first time, we compiled a traits matrix across 11 traits for 28 species of Arctic ice meiofauna, including Copepoda (Subclass), Nematoda (Phylum), Acoela (Order), Rotifera (Phylum), and Cnidaria (Phylum). Over 50 years ...