The future stability of modern marine-terminating ice sheets is of great concern as an increased rate of retreat might mark the onset of their collapse. An increased rate of retreat is accompanied by an increase in meltwater and sediment discharge at the ice margin which has prompted research to focus on the drainage system of marine-terminating ice sheets. Recent discoveries of eskers at water-terminating ...

<p><i>Background:</i> The current understanding of the menstrual cycle (MC) and hormonal contraceptive (HC) use in female athletes is scarce and the impact on training, performance, and recovery is inconclusive. Still, many athletes perceive MC/HC use and related symptoms to interfere with training, performance, and recovery. However, as most previous studies often include athletes from multiple ...

Cancer patients experience more frequently patient harm than other patients, mostly from systemic anticancer treatment. To reduce avoidable patient harm from modern anticancer treatment such as immunotherapy and targeted therapies, precise and clinically relevant measurements are needed. The study aims through three different sub-studies to develop electronic methods for measuring automatically ...

Thicker snow cover in permafrost areas causes deeper active layers and thaw subsidence, which alter local hydrology and may amplify the loss of soil carbon. However, the potential for changes in snow cover and surface runoff to mobilize permafrost carbon remains poorly quantified. In this study, we show that a snow fence experiment on High‐Arctic Svalbard inadvertently led to surface subsidence ...

This study investigates the temporal variations in methane concentration and flare activity in the Hola trough (offshore Norway) during May 2018 and June 2022. Between these time periods, methane seep activity exhibits 3.5 times increase, as evidenced by hydroacoustic measurements. As the seep area in the Hola trough is constantly within the hydrate stability zone, the observed increase cannot be ...

Avhandlingen undersøkte kamp- og treningsbelastning hos kvinnelige fotballspillere på toppnivå i Norge. Ved å samle data fra fire Toppserien lag over to sesonger, analyserte vi spillernes aktivitetsnivå i kamp og i typiske treningsuker. Resultatene avslørte store forskjeller i aktivitet mellom ulike spillerposisjoner, spesielt med tanke på høyhastighetsløp og sprinter. Videre kom det frem at ...

Objectives - The main objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics of patients receiving private community physiotherapy (PT) the first year after a hip fracture. Second, to determine whether utilisation of PT could improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL).<p> <p>Methods - In an observational cohort study, 30 752 hip fractures from the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register were ...

Given a set of synchronous time series, each associated with a sensor-point in space and characterized by inter-series relationships, the problem of spatiotemporal forecasting consists of predicting future observations for each point. Spatiotemporal graph neural networks achieve striking results by representing the relationships across time series as a graph. Nonetheless, most existing methods rely ...

Arctic marine ecosystems are becoming more boreal due to climate change. Predictions of ecosystem change focus mainly on Arctic inflow or interior shelves, with few comprehensive studies on Arctic outflow regions. During September–October 2017, soft-bottom communities were sampled and benthic ecosystem processes were quantified at 12 stations on the Northeast Greenland shelf (outflow shelf) and ...

In recent years, the energy efficiency of buildings has received increasing attention due to climate change mitigation goals, and higher energy costs. This paper explores the integration of 3D models, IoT sensors, Digital Twins (DT), data-driven modeling, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, to enhance energy performance prediction and optimisation in ...