Lithuanians have quite recently, and increasingly, started to emigrate to Norway. Thus, knowledge of Lithuanians in Norway is limited. This chapter asks specifically how Lithuanian labour migrants’ translocal lives in Norway play out and are linked to life in Lithuania. In a study consisting of 26 semi-structured interviews with Lithuanians in Norway, 19 interviewees brought up a “fear of the Norwegian ...

Given the rapid increase of electromagnetic fields in our environment, the recent review paper by Belpomme and Irigaray (2022) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113374) is timely in trying to integrate and discuss the available evidence to understand electrohypersensitivity (EHS), also called idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) or symptoms associated ...

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have become a widely used tool to reconcile societies in the aftermath of widespread injustice or social and political conflict in a state. This article focuses on TRCs that take place in non-transitional societies in which the political and social structures, institutions, and power relations have largely remained in place since the time of injustice. ...

The bacterial magnesium transporter A (MgtA) is a specialized P-type ATPase important for Mg²⁺ import into the cytoplasm; disrupted magnesium homeostasis is linked to intrinsic ribosome instability and antibacterial resistance in Salmonella strains. Here, we show that MgtA has functional specificity for cardiolipin 18:1. Still, it reaches maximum activity only in combination with ...

Distributed systems have to live with weak consistency, such as eventual consistency, if high availability is the primary goal and network partitioning is unexceptional. Local-first applications are examples of such systems. There is currently work on local-first databases where the data are asynchronously replicated on multiple devices and the replicas can be locally updated even when the devices ...

<p>In Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN), disseminating data is crucial. Under energy constraints with limited communications capabilities, performing data dissemination is challenging. In such contexts, common data dissemination methods cannot be used. Nodes must rely on device-to-device communications policies to mitigate the impact of communications on the nodes ...

The concept of an ‘Arctic Pedagogy’ is enticing. Arctic branding sells: for example, UiT is not just the ‘University of Tromsø’ but also the ‘The Arctic University of Norway’. Moreover, research in Scotland as part of the ‘New Northern Pedagogies Project’ is now investigating “how the principles of Arctic Pedagogy can support teacher education provision across Scotland”. Such conversations invite ...

Bakgrunn: Rundt halvparten av seksuelle overgrep mot barn og unge begås av jevnaldrende, likevel vet vi lite om forskjeller i risikofaktorer og helsekonsekvenser relatert til om overgriperen har vært voksen eller jevnaldrende. Formål: Studien undersøker risikofaktorer, psykisk helse og livskvalitet relatert til seksuelle overgrep, og forskjeller relatert til om overgrepet ble begått av voksne eller ...

The widespread adoption of distributed computer systems, exemplified by plat- forms like Airbnb and Booking.com, has transformed homes into rental proper- ties and streamlined vacation rentals by offering comprehensive tools for listing properties, processing payments, facilitating searches, and enabling communi- cation. However, a critical gap remains: these platforms do not facilitate ...

We compare in-situ water volume measurements of mineral oil emulsion sampled from an oil slick in Santa Barbara, California, to acquisitions of airborne UAVSAR data acquired in June 2022. Estimating the water-to-oil fraction using the UAVSAR imagery, we find that low SNR in the co- and cross-polarimetric channels limits this capability above a certain oil-to-water volumetric threshold. Higher SNR ...