This thesis is dedicated to study the main challenges that occurs when a new resource is to be made manageable, in accordance with the Norwegian principles of fisheries management and international obligations and agreements. The research object of this thesis is the snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio), and its current establishment in the Barents Sea. The study is based on theory of governability and ...

A compilation of seismic data has been used to characterize the Neogene – Quaternary sedimentary succession of the northwestern Barents Sea continental margin to better understand the paleoenvironmental evolution and the sedimentary processes involved. The Neogene strata are dominated by contourites related to the ocean circulation established from the opening of the Fram Strait connecting the ...

Intresset för sportfiske efter lax har växt och blivigt till en stor näring i Norge. I takt med högre fisketryck i älvarna samtidigt som antalet återvändande lekmogen lax från havet har minskat har C&R växt fram som en allt vanligare ideologi och förvaltningsmetod. Denna typ av förvaltningsmetod passar mycket bra överens med de tre grundpelarna norsk naturförvaltning bygger på, biologiska, sociala ...

This thesis is taken a deeper look at risk-taking behaviour regarding insurance choices and the possible explanation for why students expose themselves to the economic risk of becoming disabled. This thesis discusses some of the reasons why anomalies occur in relation to insurance choices. The students’ willingness to purchase disability insurance is investigated by the use of an econometric approach, ...

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Solar cycle and seasonal variations have been found in the occurrence of strong thermally excited 630.0 nm emissions in the polar ionosphere. Measurements from the European Incoherent Scatter Svalbard Radar have been used to derive the thermal emission intensity. Thermally excited emissions have been found to maximize at solar maximum with peak occurrence rate of ∼40% compared to ∼2% at solar minimum. ...

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised estimator of equivalent number of looks (ENL) that can be applied to an arbitrary image. It avoids the assumption that homogeneous speckle will dominate the investigated image that is followed by current unsupervised ENL estimators but not always valid, especially for the complex SAR scenes with high mixture and texture. Incorporating the statistical ...

We present a new approach for incorporating incidence angle derived synthetic aperture radar (SAR) brightness variation directly into SAR image analysis. This approach is unique in that the incidence angle dependency is modeled explicitly into the probability density function rather than an image-wide pre-processing ‘correction’. It can then be used for supervised and unsupervised image analysis, ...

The Lower Cretaceous succession in the Barents Sea is listed as a potential play model by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Reservoirs may occur in deep to shallow marine clastic wedges located in proximity to palaeo-highs and along basin margins. In addition, shelf-prism-scale clinoforms with high amplitude anomalies in their top- and bottomsets have been reported from reflection seismic but ...

<p><i>Objectives</i>: Explore the function of three specific modes of talk (discourse types) in decision-making processes.</p> <p><i>Design</i>: Ten real-life admissions of patients with critical illness were audio/video recorded and transcribed. Activity-type analysis (a qualitative discourse analytical method) was applied.</p> <p><i>Setting</i>: Interdisciplinary emergency teams admitting ...