The skate fauna in the northern Northeast (NE) Atlantic is poorly investigated, and misidentifications are common. Here, ‘DNA barcoding’ was used to analyse 105 specimens of 15 species previously reported from the area to investigate the occurrence of species. Of these 15 species, three were new to the region and confirmed with voucher specimens. Three previously reported taxa were not obtained from ...

There are several studies conducted on parenting stress, and the conclusion in the parenting stress research literature is generally that parenting stress decreases the quality of the parent-child relationship. There are however few studies on parenting stress comparing kinship homes to ordinary types of foster homes. The aims of this study were to measure parenting stress in kinship and non-kinship ...

Continued warming of the Arctic Ocean in coming decades is projected to trigger the release of teragrams (1 Tg = 106 tons) of methane from thawing subsea permafrost on shallow continental shelves and dissociation of methane hydrate on upper continental slopes. On the shallow shelves (<100 m water depth), methane released from the seafloor may reach the atmosphere and potentially amplify global ...

This paper studies thermally excited emissions in the polar ionosphere derived from European Incoherent Scatter Svalbard radar measurements from the years 2000–2015. The peak occurrence is found around magnetic noon, where the radar observations show cusp-like characteristics. The ionospheric, interplanetary magnetic field and solar wind conditions favor dayside magnetic reconnection as the dominant ...

Bakgrunn: Hensikten med oppgaven er å se om transformasjonsorientert ledelsesadferd har, eller kunne hatt noen betydning under fusjonsprosessen av to store organisasjoner med til sammen ca. 16 000 ansatte. Den har også som mål å finne ut hva som er viktige prosesser og mekanismer i det å utøve transformasjonsledelse i denne spesifikke fusjonsprosessen. Under fusjonsprosessen hadde den sammenslåtte ...

Fish farming is becoming an increasingly important part of the food supply for the growing world population. Uganda is one of the countries in Africa where fish farming is on the rise, largely dominated by Nile tilapia and North Africa Catfish. With abundant water resources, an ideal climate and a market demand for fish, the conditions for development of the fish farming sector are in place. In this ...

Jeg har i denne oppgaven tatt for meg tydelig ledelse og forståelsen av dette begrepet. Min interesse for dette begrepet knytter seg til egne erfaringer, populærlitteratur rettet mot ledelse som viser til at tydelighet er en viktig egenskap for ledere og det påvirker resultatene i organisasjonen. Hvordan dette gjøres er kanskje ikke like tydelig og klart. Jeg har tatt for meg tre hovedtilnærminger ...

This project is about how exposure to different cultural values can impact the indigeneity of women. It focuses of how the culture of the majority, which is mostly imposed on these indigenous women through education and tertiary institutions, impacts the choices they make, as compared to the expectations and obligations of own community. I am using the case study on one indigenous group located in ...

Tracking individual variation in the dynamics of parasite infections in wild populations is often complicated by lack of knowledge of the epidemiological history of hosts. Whereas the dynamics and development of Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg, 1957, on Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., are known from laboratory studies, knowledge about infection development on individual wild fishes is currently sparse. ...

Inspired by the sensory turn in the humanities, anthropologists have coined the term ‘an anthropology of the senses’ to describe the study of the perceptual construction and output of bodily sensations and sense-modalities (cf. Howes 2006; Nichter 2008). Starting from the premise that different cultures and social settings configure, elaborate and extend the senses in different directions, key ...