This article contributes to Construction Grammar, historical linguistics, and Russian linguistics through an in-depth corpus study of predicate agreement in constructions with quantified subjects. Statistical analysis of approximately 39,000 corpus examples indicates that these constructions constitute a network of con- structions (“allostructions”) with various preferences for singular or plural ...

The 1918–20 pandemic influenza killed 50–100 million people worldwide, but mortality varied by ethnicity and geography. In Norway, areas dominated by Sámi experienced 3–5 times higher mortality than the country’s average. We here use data from burial registers and censuses to calculate all-cause excess mortality by age and wave in two remote Sámi areas of Norway 1918– 20. We hypothesise that geographic ...

Climate change may affect reindeer herding and the health and disease of reindeer in several ways. One way of mitigating such changes is supplementary feeding, both in corrals and by bringing fodder to the animals on natural pastures. Feeding, when the right feed and feeding regime are used, may compensate for the loss of natural pastures and increase animal welfare. However, feeding may also cause ...

En redegjørelse og vurdering av føringene som kan utledes av EMDs avgjørelser mot Norge i saker om adopsjon.

The years 2021-2030 have been declared by the United Nations (UN) both as the UN Decade on Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development1 and as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration2. As a crossway between those two major ambitions for the upcoming years, the present thesis aims at building bridges between the general law of the sea and the law of ecological restoration by examining the potential ...

Avhandlingens tema er avhør av mistenkte barn under 15 år. Med utgangspunkt i gjeldende rett drøftes hvorvidt det gjelder særregler ved avhør av barn under 15 år, herunder om det finnes en nedre grense eller situasjoner hvor barn under 15 ikke kan eller bør avhøres. I lys av dette, og ved å anvende rettspolitisk metode, drøftes avslutningsvis hvordan avhør av barn under kriminell lavalder bør reguleres.

Spionasje brukes i stor utstrekning blant ulike statsmakter for å oppnå en politisk eller økonomisk fordel. Oppgaven ser nærmere på hvorvidt ulike former av spionasje kan utgjøre et brudd på folkerettslige rettigheter og plikter.

Coastal environments are closely under the radar of the impact of climate change. Approximately 680 million people live in low-lying coastal zones according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from 2019.1 The report presents key threats to coastal environments that include permanent submergence, more frequent and intense flooding, loss and change of ...

Purpose The effect of high arterial oxygen levels and supplemental oxygen administration on outcomes in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is debated, and data from large cohorts of TBI patients are limited. We investigated whether exposure to high blood oxygen levels and high oxygen supplementation is independently associated with outcomes in TBI patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and ...

Progress in genome sequencing now enables the large-scale generation of reference genomes. Various international initiatives aim to generate reference genomes representing global biodiversity. These genomes provide unique insights into genomic diversity and architecture, thereby enabling comprehensive analyses of population and functional genomics, and are expected to revolutionize ...