The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic ...

The Norwegian coastline covers more than 10° in latitude and provides a range in abiotic and biotic conditions for seaweed farming. In this study, we compared the effects of cultivation depth and season on the increase in biomass (frond length and biomass yield), chemical composition (protein, tissue nitrogen, intracellular nitrate and ash content) and biofouling (total cover and species composition) ...

The present study addressed the possible effects of fishwort <i>(Houttuynia cordata)</i> powder (FWP) on Nile tilapia's skin mucus parameter, serum immune response, and growth performance. Three hundred twenty tilapia fingerlings (average weight of 39.06 ± 0.16 g) were divided into four treatments and fed four levels of FWP; 0, 5, 10, and 20 g kg⁻¹ for 72 days. Completed randomised design ...

I forordet til boka proklamerer direktør for Norsk kulturråd Kristin Danielsen at museer skal gjenspeile samfunnet, at de må bli mer demokratiske og inkluderende, at de må flytte blikket slik at forskjell, forandring og kompleksitet blir de drivende begreper. Det er all grunn til å lytte til direktørens krav, Norsk kulturråd sitter jo på pengesekken til museumsprosjekter og har bevilget midler blant ...

The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at night. The night is, however, a critical element of biological, chemical, physical, and social systems on Earth. Moreover, research into social issues such as inequality, demographic ...

Dette er det andre Faglige programmet utarbeidet av Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum. Et av de viktigste formålene med programmet er å oppsummere kunnskapsstatus for derigjennom å identifisere kunnskapshull. Dette er avgjørende for å kunne skape et grunnlag for å kunne gjøre prioriteringer og å utforme faglige strategier for forvaltningsarkeologien. Dette programmet skiller seg nokså mye fra det ...

As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread greening at high latitudes. This ‘greening of the Arctic’ is among the world’s most important large-scale ecological responses to global climate change. However, a consensus is emerging that the underlying causes and future dynamics of so-called Arctic greening and browning trends are more complex, variable ...

Mine tailings that were produced during the exploitation of the Ulveryggen siliciclastic sediment-hosted Cu deposit in northern Norway were disposed into the inner part of Repparfjorden from 1972 to 1978/1979. This study focuses on the mineralogy and geochemistry of the submarine mine tailings and underlying natural marine sediments from the inner part of Repparfjorden, as well as on the primary ...

<i>Objectives</i> - We compared the ability of physical activity and sitting time questionnaires (PAQ) for ranking individuals versus continuous volume calculations (physical activity level (PAL), metabolic equivalents of task (MET), sitting hours) against accelerometry measured physical activity as our criterion.<p> <p><i>Methods</i> - Participants in a cohort from the Tromsø Study completed ...

In French, the close vowels [i, y, u] are subject to alternation with the glides [j, ɥ, w] in given contexts, e.g. [myɛt] ∼ [mɥɛt] ‘muteFEM’ and [sye] ∼ [sɥe] ‘sweatINF’. Factors that have proven decisive for the selection of a variant are e.g. the inherent sonority of the vowel, its position in the word, and its left segmental context (see e.g. Côté, 2018; Klein, 1991; Lyche, 1979). Also, the ...