Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted in social distancing and through systematic, diachronic, ...

Crystallographic aspects of heterogeneous plastic flow during ductile tearing are assessed experimentally by combining in situ synchrotron laminography imaging of notched flat samples with a full-field measurement technique and numerical simulations with the crystal plasticity finite element method (CP-FEM). Advantage is taken of the plane strain condition in the region ahead of the notch root (i.e., ...

In September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern started the largest multidisciplinary Arctic expedition, the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) drift experiment. Being moored to ice floes at high Arctic for a whole year, thus including the winter season, the main goal of the expedition is to better understand and quantify relevant processes ...

Område for helsetjenester i Folkehelseinstituttet utførte en oppdatering av en oppsummering av skandinavisk forskning om konsekvenser av covid19 på velferd, likestilling, livsvilkår og livskvalitet.<p> <p>Metode - Vi utførte en systematisk kunnskapsoppsummering av typen ‘systematisk litteratursøk med sortering’. Vi søkte i april 2021 i ulike databaser og i grålitteraturkilder etter empirisk ...

Measurements of height-dependent electric field (E) and neutral wind (u) are important governing parameters of the Earth's upper atmosphere, which can be used to study, for example, how auroral currents close or how energy flows between the ionized and neutral constituents. The new EISCAT 3D (E3D) incoherent scatter radar will be able to measure a three-dimensional ion velocity vector (v) at each ...

This thesis examines the adaptive capacity of Longyearbyen, in other words, how the community of Longyearbyen can foresee, prepare for and respond to climate-related challenges. I chose a case study methodology since my aim was to understand Longyearbyen as a living space, and how climate change is experienced across the environmental, economic, and social sectors. I used qualitative methods for ...

Background: MBLs form a large and heterogeneous group of bacterial enzymes conferring resistance to b-lactam antibiotics, including carbapenems. A large environmental reservoir of MBLs has been identified, which can act as a source for transfer into human pathogens. Therefore, structural investigation of environmental and clinically rare MBLs can give new insights into structure–activity relationships ...

This study tests the stability of environmental preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) values using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) across three countries pre and post the peak of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A DCE eamining the public’s preferences for alternative environmental management plans on the high seas, in the area of the Flemish Cap, was carried out in Canada, Scotland ...

The red king crab (RKC, Paralithodes camtschaticus) is a highly-valued decapod species. Typically, RKCs undergo a period of live holding (LH), often without feeding, in onshore facilities, allowing for flexible management before export to destination markets. This study aimed to (i) gain information on the fatty acid (FA) profile of the cooked leg meat and raw hepatopancreas obtained from RKC harvested ...

Objectives - To observe changes in sleep from baseline and during an altitude training camp in elite endurance athletes.<p> <p>Design - Prospective, observational.<p> <p>Setting - Baseline monitoring at <500 m for 2 weeks and altitude monitoring at 1800 m for 17-22 days.<p> <p>Participants - Thirty-three senior national-team endurance athletes (mean age 25.8 ± S.D. 2.8 years, 16 ...