Kindergartens are institutional arenas for raising the nation through educating children in an every-day setting. With the implementation of the Framework Plan of 2017 (FP), the notion of “Sàmi culture” became part of the mandatory curriculum in all Norwegian kindergartens for the first time. All kindergartens are now expected to ensure that children develop respect for, and solidarity with, the ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the findings of a pilot study, which compares drawings of typically developed preschool children and children with autistic spectrum disorders in the same age. In the study the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT) (1926; 1963) was used. In this study, the auto-portraits of children from two groups were analyzed concerning such categories as line, size, colour, ...

13.3.2012 vart Sjamanistisk Forbund godkjent som eige trussamfunn av fylkesmannen i Troms. Godkjenninga innebar oppretting av ein sjamanistisk landsorganisasjon og eit fylkeslag for Tromsø kommune. I søknaden til Fylkesmannen går det fram at forbundet er særleg oppteke av å forvara den samiske og norrøne sjamantradisjonen. Forbundet ynskjer å opna for eigne sjamanistiske seremoniar knytt til dåp, ...

Global oil industries are moving from well-established economic centres to remote areas in the north. This paper addresses regional impacts, and links the analyses and discussions to theories embedded in Keynes inspired ideas from the 1950'ies of state opportunities to build growth poles in peripheries by governing entering industries. The article analyses changes in the North-Norwegian city of ...

Recent studies predict that the Arctic Ocean will have ice-free summers within the next 30 years. This poses a significant challenge for the marine organisms associated with the Arctic sea ice, such as marine mammals and, not least, the iceassociated crustaceans generally considered to spend their entire life on the underside of the Arctic sea ice. Based upon unique samples collected within ...

Natural scene classification, which has potential applications in precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, and disaster management, poses significant challenges due to variations in the spatial resolution, spectral resolution, texture, and size of remotely sensed images of natural scenes on Earth. For such challenging problems, deep-learning-based algorithms have demonstrated amazing ...

Xanthines such as caffeine and theobromine are among the most consumed psychoactive stimulants in the world, either as natural components of cofee, tea and chocolate, or as added ingredients. The present study assessed if xanthines affect liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSEC). Cultured primary rat LSEC were challenged with xanthines at concentrations typically obtained from normal consumption of ...

The dinoflagellate family Warnowiaceae has often been considered to include some of the most complex cells among the protists. The number of described species is around 40, but both the species and generic concepts are in need of revision. Warnowiaceans are often fragile and readily change morphology under the light microscope, and they are usually regarded to be rare. They are particularly famous ...

Formålet med denne studien er å få innsikt i lønnsomheten for landbasert vindkraft i prisområdet NO4 (Nord-Norge), og i den sammenheng undersøke hvilken betydning en innføring av ressursrenteskatt vil ha på næringen i form av fremtidige investeringer. Studiens problemstilling er derfor som følger: «Vil innføring av ressursrenteskatt for landbasert vindkraft påvirke investeringsinsentivene til ...

Fotball er en sport med mange fans, men har over de siste tiårene blitt mer og mer preget av høye overgangssummer. Konkurranse for de beste premiene er spisset enda mer. Dermed er overganger blitt en svært viktig del av fotballhverdagen. Når en overgang blir betalt, vil jo denne fotballspilleren ha en slags estimert markedsverdi tilknyttet seg. Dermed er problemstillingen for denne forskningen ...