The main arteries that supply blood to the brain originate from the Circle of Willis (CoW). The CoW exhibits considerable anatomical variations which may have clinical importance, but the variability is insufficiently characterised in the general population. We assessed the anatomical variability of CoW variants in a community-dwelling sample (N = 1,864, 874 men, mean age = 65.4, range 40–87 years), ...

Antibiotic resistance is rising and we urgently need to gain a better quantitative understanding of how antibiotics act, which in turn would also speed up the development of new antibiotics. Here, we describe a computational model (COMBAT-COmputational Model of Bacterial Antibiotic Target-binding) that can quantitatively predict antibiotic dose-response relationships. Our goal is dual: We address a ...

Elevundersøkelser viser at elever i stor grad opplever prestasjonspress i skolen. Fokuset på å oppnå gode karakterer – for å komme inn på høyere utdanning, for å tilfredsstille foreldre, venner eller seg selv, kan medføre psykisk uhelse, frafall i VGS og i verste fall samfunnsfaglig utenforskap. Forskningen min prøver ut to tiltak som kan redusere elevenes opplevelse av prestasjonspress i skolen: ...

In A Woman in the Polar Night (Eine Frau erlebt die Polarnacht, 1938), Christiane Ritter, a well-to-do Austrian housewife, describes her experience as the first central European woman to overwinter on Svalbard (1934–35). Ritter’s prose is extraordinary in its lyrical simplicity, and in German editions the text is interspersed with her paintings of the scenes that at first were so alien and changing, ...

In this article that opens and introduces the special issue Conceptualizing the North, we present our theoretical rationale behind the conceptualization(s) of the north presented both in our article and in the issue as a whole, as well as our approach to the co-creative peer review. Through new material feminist understanding of the north, we acknowledge our kin both past and present, and unfold a ...

This article aims to answer two questions. The first is: What is a Sámi art museum? The second question considers whether there is no Sámi art museum, as assumed by the Nordnorsk kunstmuseum (NNKM) as the title of a museum performance and exhibition in 2017.<p> <p>To answer the first question, it is necessary to tell the long story of the Sámi cultural-historical museum in Karasjok, Samiid ...

The exploration of cold-adapted microalgae offers a wide range of biotechnological applications that can be used for human, animal, and environmental benefits in colder climates. Previously, when the polar marine microalga <i>Chlamydomonas malina</i> RCC2488 was cultivated under both nitrogen replete and depleted conditions at 8°C, it accumulated lipids and carbohydrates (up to 32 and 49%, respectively), ...

Breast cancer patients with metastatic disease have a higher incidence of deaths from breast cancer than patients with early-stage cancers. Recent findings suggest that there are differences in immune cell function between metastatic and non-metastatic cases, even years before diagnosis. We have analyzed whole blood gene expression by Illumina bead chips in blood samples taken using the PAXgene blood ...

Problemstillingen min i denne oppgaven, som er skrevet av en «Zainichi»-Koreaner og på norsk for min egen akademiske trening, er hvordan det arktiske samspillet mellom forskjellige kollektive aktører i det sør-koreanske og japanske samfunnet foregår. Casene mine er som følger: 1) Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) i Busan som tankesmie i det sør-koreanske samfunnet som koordinerende aktør og arena for ...

This study is based on a qualitative document analysis of the core curriculum and English subject curriculum. The motivation of this study was to contribute to the field of autonomy in language learning in Norway. As such, the aim was to gain insight into the curricula’s promotion of learner autonomy. Consequently, two research questions emerged: how does autonomy materialise and what characteristics ...